Transfer Amendment and Related Groups

Transfer Amendment and Related Groups re the Defense Budget

One tactic of the Left after the Vietnam War was to try to convince the American people that there was no threat to America from the Soviet Union, Red China, or worldwide communism in general. An approach they developed concerned a campaign to shift defense budget funds to domestic programs, a campaign which had many subgroupings to it but which ended up with what was known as the "Transfer Amendment" pushed by Communist Party sympathizer Rep. Parren Mitchel D-MD and avowed "socialist" marxist Rep. Ron Dellums D-CA in 1976.

The earlier CPUSA front, the National Center for a Drastic Cutback in Military Spending was one of the earlier organizations to promote this post-Vietnam disarmament line, thought it got its original idea from the Hanoi Lobby groups known as the Coalition to Stop Funding the War CSFW (1974-76) which then became the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy CNFMP(1976>).

An even earlier coalition aimed at cutting defense spending was the mixed liberal/marxist/communist/religious melange known as the Coalition for Budget Priorities in America, a group the illegally lobbied Congress despite its heavy church organizations membership and funding.

SAVE OUR COMMUNITIES WEEK: A CALL TO ACTION

In early 1977, a leaflet came out entitled "Save Our Communities Week: A Call to Action", which promoted the defense budget cutting line and the transferring of their funds to domestic programs. The complete front page text of this leaflet is as follows:

"President Carter's State of the Union Address and the new federal budget have disappointed and angered many of us. Instead of the promised new era, we get the tired politics of the balanced budget, with increased military spending and only token recognition of the American people's deepest needs."

MORE TEXT TO FOLLOW HERE

The following are initial signers of the Call to Action* (Organizations listed for identification purposes only)

• Congressman Parren J. Mitchell Parrent Mitchell - Representative D-MD 7th Congressional District, MD
• William W. Winpisinger - International President, International Association of Machinists and avowed "socialist}
• Dr.George Wald - Professor of Biology, Nobel Laureate, (Harvard University)
• Sr. Mary Luke Tobin S.L. - Director of Citizen Action, Church Women United
• James Balanoff - Director, District 31, U.S. Steel Workers of America USWA, longtime CPUSA front supporter along with other Balanoffs
• Dr.Helen Rodriguez Helen Trias Rodriguez - Founding Member, Committee to End Sterilization Abuse CESA
• Rev. [Ben Chavis]] - Wilmington 10 defendant; also United Church of Christ, NAARPR Vice-Chairman
• Abe Feinglass - International Vice President, Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, id. CPUSA; World Peace Council VP
• Anne Braden - Co-Chairperson, Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice SOCESJ, the CPUSA front successor to SCEF which was taken over by southern black maoists; id. CPUSA member
• Richard Pollock - Director, Critical Mass Energy Project, a Ralph Nader project; former New Mobe Committee member who later exposed the Communist control of that organization in a mea culpa article
• Congressman Ted Weiss - Representative D-NY, 20th Congressional District, NY; successor to the "Communist Party seat" of Manhattan long held by Bella Abzug; one of the most far-left members of Congress ever, besides Abzug
• Kay Camp Katherine Camp - International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF, key leader of the Hanoi Lobby and visitor to Hanoi and other Soviet front operations and meetings around the world
• Ron Young - Secretary, National Peace Education, American Friends Service Committee AFSC, also with Fellowship of Reconciliation FOR, both organizations being part of the Hanoi Lobby; Young was an avowed supporter of the Viet Cong
• Dr. Lucius Walker- Associate General Secretary, National Council of Churches NCC, leader of the marxist-oriented Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing IFCO, also part of the Hanoi Lobby, and later a leader of pro-marxist support groups for the communist movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua including Pastors For Peace and the Pastors Cuban Caravan or Pastors Caravan for Cuba {Died in October, 2010)
• Rebecca Doggett Andrade - Executive Director, Tri-City Union for Progress, Newark, New Jersey
• Ramon Jimenez - La Raza Unida La Raza, South Bronx, New York
• Richard Grossman - Coordinator, Environmentalists for Full Employment

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