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> cr, wee ate ae. wig eesg cle ae oP as oe HT we . es ‘AR te: rat 2 By ats 64g Pare Bh. eames Met ley | f). " conPIPRYTIAL Peace Movilization April 4 ~ 6, 1969 At this point the audience took up the chant "Pree the panthera, (Obscene) the system," which was repeated several times. . Tie next speaker was Ben Ortiz who introduced himself as ‘Benjamin" and pointed out that this was supposed to be an anti-war rally, but said "We got a war at home let's deal with it. This is revolution. Let's deal with revolution at home." He stated that this was going to be a long summer and that something has got to happen this summer and urged the people when they left here to make a change to do something in going back to the colleges, the high schools, and the family and to do it "with a fist.” He said that they wanted to stop the war and to bring the troops home, that the war is in America and urged the audience to go to the White House and stated that "you put it up you can take it down if they don't change." At approximately 5:30 p.m., Ossie Davis made an announcement that there would be a party that evening on West 43rd Street for GIs and that on April 11, 1969, at 9:00 a.m. there would be a mass demonstration at 100 Center Street, New York City, in support of the Panther 21. He then paid tribute to the FAVPPC in arranging for this rally and said that there were an estimated one hundred thousand persons there at that time and solicited contributions from the audience on behalf of the FAVPPC and the other committees involved in arrangeng this demonstration. He then stated that music ,"to give money by" would be provided by Barbare\bane and Phil\Ochs. § /i/ 1 47¢D . s -20- ce em he ee ee me ee ae