University of Virginia Library

SSOC Meeting Here
Plans 'Radical Films,'
Military Workshops

This weekend, the University
Chapter of the Southern Student
Organizing Committee will be hosting
the Virginia SSOC State Conference
at the University.

Alvin Long, a member of the
SSOC State Staff, has estimated
that from 50-150 people will be
attending the conference. The conference
will serve as a preliminary
meeting for the National SSOC
Conference which will be held in
Atlanta on March 15.

SSOC programs for this coming
spring and summer will be discussed
at the conference. The public is
cordially invited to attend all
meetings of the conference.

Friday night, at 9, the conference
will begin with a discussion on
the media and the distribution of
radical films in Virginia. Following
the discussion, the SSOC will
present three films distributed by
Newsreel, a radical film distribution
firm formerly located in New York.

The first film will deal with the
Black Panther movement in California.
The second film will concern
itself with white youth activities
in Haight-Ashbury over the past
summer. The final film, smuggled
out of Portuguese-Guinea, will
describe the black peoples' struggle
for independence in that nation.
The films will also be shown on
Friday night at 7 in the Tuttle
House Lounge with a $0.50 admission
charge.

On Saturday, from 10 a.m. until
noon, two workshops will be held
on the grounds. One workshop will
deal with the military on college
campuses and will be held in 15
Cocke Hall. The other workshop
will deal with the problem of
students' rights and will be held in
114 Minor Hall.

At 1:30 p.m., a discussion will
be held in 15 Cocke Hall led by Al
and Margaret McSurely on the
Southern Conference Educational
Fund of Louisville, Kentucky.
These two organizers will discuss
Kentucky mining procedures and
their hearing before the McClellan
Committee planned for March 4.

Following this discussion, at 3
p.m., two more workshops will be
held. The first, on the problem of
the students and the community,
will be held in 15 Cocke Hall.
Representatives from ACT, a coalition
of poor whites and blacks in
Durham, North Carolina organized
to help break down the racism of
poor whites in Durham, will lead
this discussion.

The second workshop will be
held in 114 Minor Hall and will be
concerned with radical research.
Both workshops will also deal with
spring and summer SSOC projects.

On Sunday afternoon, at 4:30,
in the South Meeting room of
Newcomb Hall, the conference will
end with a speech by the representatives
from ACT on racism in the
white community.