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Abbie Hoffman — Part 31
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We'll march out from the Washington Momment, the
Phallus on the Potomac, and we'll go into the streets
of Washington and into the offices and we plan to
do it and we plan to do it in the streets and we
hppe the people will come. We expect it to be the
most largest, the most militant demonstration, It's
gonna Chicago in August of 1969 look like a
YAF meeting. So there are over 300 groupa from
around the country that have been working out with
automobiles and buses that are gorma self-destruct
in the street.
“We'll visit J. EDGAR HOOVER and take a lot of
good pictures of him. Yesterday, as you probably
ow, they arrested one of the key organizers of the
Mey Day Demonstrations, LESLIE BACON, nineteen years
old, in connection with the Capitol bombing. LESLIE
was definitely not in the men's room in the Capitol
on that day, but somehow, the FBI, you know, has
managed to connect her in some way, but we think
it’s a direct attempt to cripple these demonstra-
tions. It’s no coincidence that it comes four days
before the climax of these demonstrations and it's
no coincidence that she has been an active organizer
and we have heard that the FBI plans to arrest a
mmber of pecple. They have been kicking in doors,
they have been putting guns under the chins of
people, they have been offering loads of rewards to
people to turn in their brothers and sisters, not
the kind of stuff you see EFREM ZIMBALIST carrying
out every Sunday night (illegible). (Voice from
backgrounds ‘Tell us something we don't know
already. |) I ain't got nothing you don’t know.
(illegible) What are you here for? (illegible)
“There are mumber of - there are things we can
do. First of all, we have to begin to understand
that the Vietnamization program is just a racist
policy of seeing to it that non-white people, ten
o one, die instead of white people and we have got
to guard against that and we are gonna say that,
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