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. . . . L- , P , ..- I ' 17 February ,1971 SPECIAL INFORMATION REPORT Demonstrations Scheduled for Spring 1971 Protests of the two major antiwar coalitions are beginning to f?cus now on plans for demonstrations in Washington eight days apart. . .. - Y.-. . '. At this pointthe National Peace Action Coalition, the antiwar manifestation of the Socialist Workers Party family,of organizations. is firmly committed to a protest demonstration date of 24 April. the past weekend the NPAC has advertised in the New York Times for funds and participants and has listed a number of prominent spon- sors. Although efforts have been and will continue to be made to Over bring together the NPAC with the CPUSA-influenced People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, it is not believed that a feeonciliation will be effected before the spring demonstration season. The PCPJ, inciden- tally, is the successor organization to the National Coalit?on Against W a r , Racism and Repression which itself was the successor organita- tion to the New Mobilization Committee. 'The names have changed and their goals have multiplied, but the leadership remains the same-- Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger, Sidney Peck, etc. The NPAC continues to adhere to the one-issue-at-a-time strategy demanding an immediate withdrawal of American participation in the war. Their house rule seems to be that any accompanying radical demand must be directly related to the war. The PCPJ, on the other hand, proposes a variet$ list that requires the Government to "set a date" for complying to their various demands. The demands of PCPJ are clearly designed to ekicit support from numerous factions of discontent in American society. demands are these: 1) that the U.S. set a date now for complete with- drawal of U.S. military air, land and sea forces from Vietnam, 2) that the U.S. set a date for guaranteed annual income for a family of four of $5,500 and 3) that the U.S. set a date for freeing political Their .. . . -prisoners. w . - - . .- .._ -. .. . . . .