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Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam — Part 1

129 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 18, 1967 · Broad topic: Religion & Belief · Topic: Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam · 129 pages OCR'd
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4 r ~ . “3 oo ~ c t i CLERGY AND LAYMEN CONCERNED Clergy & Laymen Concerned was organized as Sstings! amermenmetya cammittesin aeamhar a nationa: Smerygency COMMITEE I December, 1965. CALC is supported by 43,000 persons, In giving reguiar visible evidence of its opposi- tion to the war in Southeast Asia, CALC 1S ENGAGED in a major national campaign via radio, TV, print media and focal organizing around 200 plants to induce the HONEYWELL CORPORATION to stop making anti-personnel weapons which are used in Southeast Asia. HAS INTEGRATED Unsel/ (a campaign mitiated by major advertising agencies to “Help Unsell the War’) into fs program. Through Unseli, radio, TV and print advertising is being dis- tributed to medra throughout the country. SENDS deiegations to the Paris peace talks, ~ and representatives to Hanoi to confer with the North Vietnamese. —— ae “PUBLISHES “American Report,” a unique weekly that covers the war in Southeast Asia, the movement at home, Third World politics, and the political implications of our individual moral and refiqiaus commitments. SPONSORS “American Report Radio," a corm- prehensive daily radio analysis of developments affecting our society, presented by experts in the form of 4-minute radio spots heard on nearly 1,000 stations across the country. PUBLISHES and distributes posters and bill- boards opposing the war. PUBLISHES and distributes books and pam- phiets on the war, with 125 titles now available. included are two which CALC authored, "In the Name of America’, a book on war crimes, and “Military Chaplains: From Religious Military to a Military Religion.” : a ~ mt ee Roser REP ORGANIZES conferences, national and local, wiih broad representation of the religious com- munity who are working for peace. , BUILDS demonstrations and activities around Christmas, Chanukah, Thanksgiving and other x religious holidays, involving people in a witness of their concern about the war and its victims. To a ee a f Ly . , HAS PLAYED an important role in the “Set the , Date” campaign, an inter-denominational move ., to end the war. It has worked with the People’s _ Coalition for Peace and Justice and other peace groups on major demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere. ——_ weet a HELPS to ‘support men of conscience who have — ij left the country and/or U.S. military service, \. and who presently live in Sweden. MAINTAINS a national staff of 18, and funds an additional 25 localiy-based field staff. es we ——~ "CALC's tuture needs and directions inciude: _} employing seminary interns to work on pro- grams relating to the war and religious institu- tional investments, work on a4 national amnesty _campaign, expanding tocal groups and field “staff, doubling the radio stations carrying “American Report Radio”, building a network of itd World correspondents for American Report ne newspaper. — ee The present and future program of CALC are evidence of the organization's ability to take leadership in the struggle against the war and to redirect our national energies. Past financial support to CALC has shown the public’s con- fidence in that leadership. Continued financial support is needed even more in the period ahead. Please use the coupon on the back to send your gift.
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