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interest among the people who desire them in politics: unless there is a growth in political activism, coalition and organization between now and November, 1972.

This a drive that must spring from a careful calculation of what is at stake and what the issues are: happen to be:

For too many Americans, an exchange of Presidents is nothing more than an exchange of photographs on the post office wall or a dormitory dart board; for Black Americans, the issue is whether we progress, run in place, or continue to slide backward as we have been doing since 1968.

Since Richard Nixon took office in 1968, we have spent billions more on war; over 2 million more Americans have been added to the ranks of the unemployed; 2 1/2 million more are on ever mounting relief rolls, inflation have ^has reduced our standard of living, and elitist, sexist and racist practices run ^rampant unchecked through public and private American life.

We will select a new Congress in 1972 as well. These for the most part must be new men and women, not the tired old faces of the past. It should be a Congress that would reject Nixon's family destruction plan, that would say "no" to more war, "no" to freezes on wages with nor freezes on profits, "no" to secret government, and "no" to preventive detention and no-knock justice.

Such a transformation can be achieved.

To do so, you must be prepared to confront some serious enemies.

These are not ^limited to the hooded midnight rider or bigoted Southern sheriff of