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Re: CONNECTICUT CALL 10 ACTION In the sane article, CHARLES TURNER, executive director of NECAP, Stated that his group agreed te epinsor the meetitg because it feels that there ig? a relationship between the"eppression” of people in Viet Nam and tre Negroes in the United States. The organizaticn, NECAP, is a rilitant group cf Negroes and whites which has steged dezorstrations in Hartford during the past two years in which arrests have been made, Subseguentiy, NECAP officials haveclair:d police brutality took place during the arrests, but the clains have been determined to be unfounded, According to TRUSKOFF, as reported by the “Hartford Courant", the chief purpose of the all-day session is to provide an ex- change of informaticn among the groupe ¢. what is being done for peace programs, Workshop: will be planned to discuss Viet Nam and civil rights also. He stated that the workshop on Viet Nam is’ intended to discuss the history and future of Viet Kam and 15 not designed to express an opinion on the war, The “Hartford Courant" of July 5, 1965, carried an article which dealt with various civil rights groups that championed the Mississippi Delegate Challenge. 11 stated that DAVID TRUSKOFF, "whe was one of the people who made the long march Yrom Selma to Montgomery" was seekizg petitioners to back the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge to the Mississippi Congressional delegation at a civil rights rally held last May on the grounds of the State Capitol at Hartford. . ‘ » - . 1 . advised on August 23, 1965, he did not know at that time whether the sponsoring groups had been granted pormission to use the grounds. :