The Mission's most prominent

In a meeting with members, DLM President Bob Mishler denied that the event would start the millennium and said they called it "Millennium '73" because the word "millennium" evoked the "vision of one peaceful world based on spiritual values".[29]
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The Mission's most prominent member was anti-war activist and Chicago Seven defendant Rennie Davis, who had first met Guru Maharaj Ji in February 1973.[30] Davis was appointed vice president of the organization a short time later and served as general coordinator for the Millennium festival.[6] His conversion was the topic of numerous newspaper articles, as it reportedly shook the New Left from coast to coast.[31][32] An energetic promoter of his new guru and of Millennium '73, Davis traveled across the United States on a 21-city tour,[33] speaking to what he said were about a million people a day through radio and television interviews.[3] He told people that Guru Maharaj Ji was the solution to civilization's problems.[3] Davis was not always well-received, particularly by his former comrades in the peace movement (one Berkeley newspaper had the headline "Rennie Unites Left – Against Him"), and was heckled at some of his appearances.[33][34] The Chicago Seven retrial was underway in the fall of 1973, and the judge gave Davis a dispensation to attend the festival.[3] Several associates of Davis from the left also attended, some as journalists.[35]


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