পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৭৮

642 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম ংবাদপত্র তারিখ News on Activities For Bangladesh News letter 21 July, 1971 Bangladesh Movement Chicago: No. 4 CO-ORDINATION BODY FOR WEST COAST BANGLADESH GROUPS With the beginning of the liberation war in Bangladesh it became necessary to find ways for coordinating and channeling the spontaneous patriotic responses of all the Bengalis. In order to arrive at some specific lines of approach for effective coordination and communication, a meeting was held on May 22, 1971 at San Francisco attended by the representatives of Los Angeles, Berkeley, Stanford and San Francisco Bengali residents. The following decisions were taken in the meeting: 1. The main coordinating body will be stationed at Los Angeles and will communicate with the other units of the West Coast at Berkeley, San Francisco, Stanford, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Denver (Colorado) and Tuscon (Arizona). It will also look forward to setting up co-ordination with more units in Hawaii, Dallas, and Pittsburg (Kansas). 2. Active communication with New York, Washington, Chicago and Michigan bodies will be maintained by the main coordinating body, and it will also convey the instructions received from the Bangladesh government to all other units of the West Coast. 3. All units will exchange information of interest amongst themselves and will pass on the news to local members. 4. A remittance of 5% of the total collections will be made by all the West Coast units to the Los Angeles body in order to cover the overhead expenses of publicity and other coordinating expenses. 5. Generally each unit will keep up the publicity campaign to expose the brutalities and the atrocities of the Pakistan army committed in our land, and promote our legitimate claims of Bangladesh to complete independence amongst the American public in general and the representative Americans in particular. 6. Statement of all collections of funds will submit to Los Angeles. 7. A master list of all residents and sympathizers will be prepared and the coordinators of each unit will send names and addresses of all such persons to the coordinators in Los Angeles. PUBLIC MEETING A public meeting will be held on Thursday, June 24 at 8: P.M. at Friends Meeting House, Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. The purpose of the meeting is to