Berkeley campus community joined. Among its first actions, the Ad Hoc Commit-~ tee addressed the following:letter to the Polish government: ':5;.
"We the undersigned; who have protested and will continue-to protest violations of freedom-in our own country, and who are engaged even now in defending the civil<liberties of American dissidents:::. . such as the W.E.B.DuBois:‘Clubs and others who have come under government attack, are appalled that Polish citizens Hass, Modzelewski,:-= i... Smiech, Badowski: and Kuron have been sentenced to imprisonment for the exercise of political.rights which we regard as elementary. We protest this repression of freedom. We demand that the defendants be released..and that their politi¢al rights, including: their rights . to distribute literatune of protest and organize political opposition, be affirmed." = re DO LtLerro ny oad eh
Besides a large humber of-faculty members, the letter earried: the names of the following signers, with organizations listed -for..~., identification: Robert Scheer; Executive Committee--Berkeley W.E.B. DuBois Club; Paul Jacobs; Hal Draper; Steve Weissman; Jack.Weinberg; Michael Shute (Independent Socialist Club); Susan Pollard (Zmtn'1l Committee Vietnam Day Committee); Michael Lerner (Grad. Coord. :Com-. mittee); Savanah Bello (CORE); Saul Landau (Associate Studies on the Left); Jamie: Huberman; David Friedman (VDC); Bob Nakamura’ (SLATE); Martin Roysher; Buddy Stein (Students for a Democratic Society}3;. —: Randy Rappaport (VDC); Marvin Garson (Peace/Rights Organizing Committee); Susan Stein; Brian O'Brien (Pres. AFT Local 1570); Jim Glass~«. (Free University); Geoffrey White (Spartacist); Sol Stern (Edit. Bd. Ramparts);° Anne Draper; David Warren (Young Socialist Alliance); Sidney Ingerman (AFT); Ken Blum (Student Committee for Agricultural Labor );¢Jerry Rubin; Victory Levine (CORE); Joanne Landy (P/ROC); Joe Hacker (SLATE); Keith Nason (AFT);: Robert Novick; Earl Gilman (Amer. Committee for the Fourth International); Joel Geier (CISC); Bernardo A.E.Garcia (AFT); Michaei’:-R. Marrus; Beth Stapleton; Neal Blumenfeld (VDC, ACLU);.Norman Pereira;*Mickey Rowntree; David McCullough.(AFT); Frank Bardacke; James Burnett (Young Peoples Socialist League ); Lewis Rubman (GCC); ‘Eric. Levine (SDS); Barbara Gullahern; Gerald Rosenfield and others.