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The newly formed group called Peace 1ncotpor.ated is promoting
tce Ne& York Summer Festival for-Peace at Shea Stadium on 6 August.
The same group helped coordinate the 8-hour 10116 Winter Carnival for -
Peace staged at Madison Square Garden last January. That event drew
2 I, 000 people and mired $60,000 for the Vietnam Moratorium Com-
mittee;
festivals in different parts of the country. One is already being planned
for Philadelphia on August 9. Admissiom charges for the Shea Stadium
affair will probably range from $5 to $10. The promoters idealistically
state that such events are the emergence of a new political force that
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tentatively plan to hold a series of simuar
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would be an alternative to street action for young people' ''It's a positive
states Philip Friedmann, one of the organizers.
.affirmation of love and the ability to d a t e change within the qrrtern,"
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Proceeds from the affair (after the promoters have pocketed their
profit) will go to suppart the candidacy of peace advocates in the coming
November election. A special committee which will decide to what
candidates funds will be given is being formed. Among those Cn the com-
mittee are the following: Princeton professor Jim Johnson, who was '
chairman of the Princeton Strike Committee; Marian Adelman, a lawyer
who was active in the Mississippi civil rights movement. between 1964-68;
Rev.. Richard Fernandez, executive director of Clergy and'laymen
David Hawk, formcr coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee;
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Reportedly, all per,formets have donated their tale* and amu<g those
who allegedly will participate arc Janis Joplin, Country Joe, Dionne
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Concerned about Vietnam; Stewart Mott, the eccentric philanthropist:
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. and Michael Brewer, an officer in the liberal Republican Ripon Society.
Warwick, Judy Collins, Steppenwolf, the cast of "Hair" and others.
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Col. 'Hassan'Jeru Ahmed-Bey, who heads the Black Man's Volun-
teer Army for Liberation, is planning a rally at the Washington Monument
grounds to emphasite the fight against the illegal drug traffic. The rally
was originally scheduled for 4 July, but was postponed due to the site
and date preemption by Bob Hope's Honor America Day. Cal. Hassan's
organization reportcdly has a national membership of 14,000 pcraona.
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The Black Man's Volunteer Army is particularly conccrned with .
the treatnibnt and cure of d u g addiction in the black commnnityr The
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organization h8s mt a degree of succeos in treating black drug addice'
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