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; Peace Mobilization April 4 - 6,1969 a en ae Ne tae . At approximately 3:50 p.m. poaste Bayo was introduced as the first speaker at the rally. Bayo began her speech addressing the audience as "cOmpaneros | and stated that "we" the poeple of the third world, black, Puerto Ricans, the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America are angry and that these groups are suffering everyday tne consequences of the most brutal exploitation by American masters and that they had learned that they could not have peaceasw long as American exploitation exists. Inasmuch as American monopolists would not leave these countries voluntarily, Bayo stated that "our people learned that the only answer to a counter-revolutionary violence is revolutionary violence." She continued that imperialism is exposing itseif in barbaric ways in Vietnam and that the Puerto Ricans in fighting for the independence of their country fight the same enemy of the Vietnamese people and she expressed the solidarity of the Puerto Rican people with the National Liberation Front af Sovth Vietnam as the true representatives of the Vietnamese people and urged support for the demand of the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. She pointed out that the campaign against the compulsory draft in Puerto Rico has been very - successful and that for the last three years hundreds of cases of resistance have been postponed, and since the war in Vietnan, not one single Puerto Rican has been indicted in these matters and that thousands have expressed publicly "Hell No We Won't Go, tt She closed her saneech urging that the forces here todav wiser We wer wie 4S wEwwwen We Ewes died be “moved in a demand for community control of education, welfare and health; that black political prisoners be freed as well: as Puerto Rican political prisoners and that United States troops be immediately withdrawn from Vietnam and that Puerto . Rico be given its freedom now. Fi ap : ORS DR ot RR Rng. - PE 27 aan r en A characterization of the MPIPR-NYM is attached nereto in the Appendix. ; CONFIPRNTIAL : ee eee So oO er ere me eS go RR aye pening Sey ee nee ae my menee ee , :