DEMONSTRATIONS SET IN NORWAY
[The following letter was printed in the September 25 Progress Report of the Student Mobilization Committee in New York.
[The Student Mobilization Committee is coordinating activities for the October 21 antiwar mobilization in Washington, D.C.]
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DEN NORSKE SOLIDARITETSKOMITE FOR VIETNAM, OSLO, NORWAY ~- Hereby we inform you that we are preparing for great actions October 21 to show our solidarity with the Vietnamese people as well as the progressive groups in the U.S.
The Norwegian Committee of Solidarity with Vietnam is now gathering the following organizations to create common action to press our government to protest the American war on Vietnam:
Parties: Socialist Peoples party, Communist party, Youth Organizations of the Liberal party, and the Labour party. (The Labour party, which is the largest party in Norway, stated at its last congress its solidarity with the NLF [National Liberation Front], and demanded U.S. troops to get out. However, their principal line is not to cooperate with left groups in Norwegian political life, and therefore they are outside most of our actions. )
Student groups: Liberals, Socialists and Social Democrats, and independent progressive student groups.
Peace organizations: most of then, WRL's in Norway, WISP's in Norway, and other pacifist organizations.
A lot of trade unions are also stating their support of the action.
The students will arrange a meeting on the morning of October 21 at the University square; the plan is that a two-hour strike is to follow in most of the faculties. There will be, all day, all over town, stands spreading leaflets, propaganda materials and gathering funds for medical aid to the NLF.
This time in Norway there will be no mass rally in Oslo; we have decided to arrange this semester's great mobilization on December 10, the Day of Human Rights. But October 21 there will be protests all over Norway, in all cities and larger places by our forty-five local committees.
In Oslo the arrangements will conclude with a big concert and meeting in one of our largest halls, where our most famous writers, artists and musicians will demonstrate their solidarity. The action slogans are as follows:
WE DEMAND A CLEAR STATEMENT FROM THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT: SOLIDARITY WITH VIETNAM -- STOP THE TERROR BOMBING -- U.S. TROOPS OUT OF VIETNAM!