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"WHAT'S GOING ON?"                        SMITH

end to your robbery of our paychecks and pocketbooks through inflationary and balanced budget-militaristic economic policies.

Yes, let us say loud and clear to President Carter and the Congress: We don't need a military rapid deployment force sent to the Persian Gulf-or the Middle East-or Southern Africa, Asia or Latin America. What we need is to employ people as part of a civilian rapid deployment force to be "rapidly deployed" right here in America-to build schools and hospitals and new housing and day care centers and perform other useful functions in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, D.C. and other cities in the U.S. America, we demand an end to your colonization of Puerto Rico and the continued bombing of Vieques Island and its people by the U.S. Navy! Your continued blockade of Cuba is stupid, unnecessarily vindictive as well as hypocritical. Why don't you blockade South Africa or Chile or other racist, fascist regimes which you find comfort in supporting?

Yes, sisters and brothers, we must say to President Carter and to Congress: Your budget priorities are out of order. You place profits before people. You place guns before vitally needed social service programs, and you are doing this deliberately and consciously by cutting out CETA jobs, food stamps and other essentials.

Frederick Douglass has told you and me that the "hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." What better way to do that than by exposing the plight of the Haitian refugees, who are starving in Miami and have not been welcomed here as have the Cubans? What better way to do that than by exposing fundamental violations of human rights in the U.S.?

I must say to all of you today that this protest will have little meaning if we do not leave here with a renewed commitment to bring back and revitalize the spirited and organized movement which characterized the tremendous protests and upheavals of the 1960s. We must march, we must organize and we must be more visible in the 1980s. We must strengthen our existing organizations, build new ones where necessary, organize networks and coalitions where possible and convenient. We must take to the streets and go into our communities and conduct political education and organize door to door, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, community by community. To bring about a new order of things in America is the challenge we face in this decade.

We cannot have justice and equality here at home when America is making preparations for war abroad. When the nation's vital resources are diverted towards war, our justice priorities at home are grossly neglected. We cannot have peace without justice, nor can we have justice without peace.

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