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title: U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! Stop racism! Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, Washington, D.C.
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sds-us-out-of-se-asia-inauguration-day-1973/
description: A typed protest flyer calls a national demonstration on Inauguration Day and lists five demands, from ending the Vietnam War to ending the wage freeze.
section: Collection
---

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# U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! Stop racism! Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, Washington, D.C.

A typed protest flyer calls a national demonstration on Inauguration Day and lists five demands, from ending the Vietnam War to ending the wage freeze. Its text applies the label "genocide" to U.S. bombing in Vietnam and extends it to policies at home, quoting General Curtis LeMay's "Bomb 'em back to the Stone Age" as its lead evidence. A boxed notice announces a local march on January 5.

- **Date:** 1973
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Students for a Democratic Society (New York)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Nixon Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nixon-administration)
- **Leader:** [Richard Nixon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=richard-nixon)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Event:** [Vietnam War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=vietnam-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015649987/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
U.S. Out Of S.E. Asia Now!
STOP RACISM!
INAUGURATION DAY
JAN. 20  WASHINGTON, D.C.  NATIONAL DEMO   SDS

DEMANDS:
1.US OUT OF SOUTHEAST ASIA NOW,STOP THE RACIST BOMBINGS
2.RESCIND THE TALLMADGE AMENDMENT(FORCED WELFARE LABOR PLAN)
3.END THE WAGE FREEZE
4.STOP THE GOVERNMENT THEORISTS-MOYNIHAN,BANFIELD,ETC.
5.SUPPORT THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

"Bomb 'em back to the Stone Age,"said General Curtis LeMay about the Vietnamese people a few years ago.We thought it could never happen.The present crew of U.S. rulers prove us wrong.More bombs are dropped over Vietnam every day than were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki all together.The Vietnamese people are the pawns in the U.S. government's racist drive for economic and political control of Southeast Asia. We call this GENOCIDE!

SDS has been organizing this demonstration against genocide for the last few months.This genocide doesn't stop with the war in Vietnam,but it is seen in every aspect of the U.S.government's policies abroad and here.Two weeks ago,over 30 Attica inmates and ex-inmates were charged with dozens of counts of every conceivable charge stemming from the Attica rebellion.Not one cop,official or governor was charged,even though Rockefeller ordered the cops to murder prisoners and hostages.

Nixon says the wage freeze will be with us for a long time to come.His rich benefactors are so happy about denying workers their just salary,they've decided to make the freeze permanent.

At Southern University,2 black students were murdered for demonstrating against University racism.

DEMONSTRATE against the War & Racism
Columbia Sundial  Jan.5, Fri. 3:30  march to 96th St.
call: Janet 364-1768
Sam 693-6705
```

Typewritten body text is small and read at 1024 px; spacing after commas follows the original, which is often missing. The last two lines are hand-written. The 'V?etnam' spelling in one line reads as 'Vietnam'.

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