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I wish to point out that the last two issues of The Tech, in articles about the demonstrations in Washington on January 20, have libeled SDS. I have called the printing of misinformation libel because in this instance the errors in question were presented as if they were the inevitable consequence of SDS ideology and the conscious intent of the SDS leadership. The two instances to which I refer are: 1) On January 16, 1973, The Tech in an article by Norman Sandier stated that SDS did not have a march permit & would march against police opposition if necessary on January 20 in D.C. and, 2) on January 23, 1973, in an article by Paul Schindler, The Tech stated that during the demonstrations on January 20, "the SDS" burned the Yippie (Zippie) RAT float. The truth is that: 1) SDS, whose "March Against Racism and the War" was called in September, indeed had successfully worked out a parade route with the D.C. police by late December & certainly had an approved parade route by January 6, 1973, well in advance of the January 16, 1973 Tech article (and Thursday article of January 18 which contained the same mistake). 2) SDS did not burn the Yippie-Zippie RAT float. Our enemies like to portray SDS as an organization which irresponsibly provokes violence for any reason or for no reason at all. Actually, SDS has always o pposed the sort of senseless provocations of which burning the float is an example; in Washington we wanted to draw attention to the growing anti-racist opposition to Nixon's government, and nothing could have been achieved by inviting a police attack. This contrasts sharply with the occupation of the ROTC offices at MIT last spring when we felt (correctly) that we could rally a great number of MIT students to support a real attack against MIT's complicity in the Vietnam war through its hardware weapons research & contracting, its officer production for that war, & its counter-insurgency work at the Center for International Studies. Paul Schindler failed to mention that SDS held an independent demonstration of 4000 black & white students and workers in Washington on January 20. Our main demands were to call for a stop to the racist attacks of the U.S. government on black & minority workers & to call for the UJ.S. to get out of S.E. Asia. We feel the U.S. has committed genocide in Vietnam through its saturation bombings of the North and the South as well as through its many other military exploits. Defoliation is one example of a tactic which has caused
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