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prisoners' demands. And General English empire out of a part of Ireland, government had broken down." After Glover's assessment appears more and which continues the struggle 65 rescuing the hostages and seizing power accurate now than ever:"The IRA years later to establish the republic from the "unfriendly" Amber Zimbabwe: campaign ... is likely to continue while which those leaders envisi0ned.A government, US. troops would remain Thatcher's Pvrrhic Victorv.. . the British remain in ." republic where "The right of the people on the island until new elections were of lreland to the ownership of lreland ... held and a pro-U.S. government was The New Civil It might be useful. not least of all for is sovereign and indefeasible." U.S. threatens to the London government. to reflect on installed. In another part of the scenario, 1 The English government won a U.S. military forces were invited by Service another instance in modern lrish history when an apparent English victory turned victory in the hunger strike, albeit with invade Grenada Azure to neutralize the guerrilla forces. Ends into something else -- the I916 Easter the anguished assistance of some of the 1 Rebellion. hunger strikers' families. But Margaret After seven months and the loss of ten IRA support, the hunger strike has once Thatcher and her cabinet may well live to That rebellion was crushed - utterly. see the day when Padraig Pearse's words prisoners' lives. the H-Block hunger more sparked the flame of resistance in Though the rebels managed to seize strike was ended on October Northern lreland youth. will be fulfilled, when "Out of the graves several key buildings in the capital. they of patriot men and women will spring 3.According to a statement released by The lrish Republican movement has failed to hold them for even a week. The the prisoners. the decision of relatives to reportedly raised more money since the leaders -James Connolly, the great Irish living nations." mantime exercae" slnce World War 11. authorize medical treatment for hunger hunger strike began than at any point The operation, slated to end October IS, target of which was the fictitious eastern one country." McKenzie also whites. At the time of Zimbabwe's April socialist; Padraig Pearse, the President Caribbean country of "Amber and the strikers who had lapsed into a coma since 1972. This situation prompted of the Provisional government; and five Raymond McCreesh Parrick will range froq the South Atlantic, emphasized the role of the exercises "in 1980 independence, a total of 3000 made continued protest impossible. Northern lreland Minister Adam Butler O'Hara Joe McDonnell Kevin Lynch through the Caribbean, to the Baltic Sea, Amberdines." The reference is to protecting Atlantic sea lanes which are Africans and 7000 whites wereemployed other signers of the Proclamation of Grenada and the Grenadines. "Amber" I 's intransigent to tell the Los Angeles World Affairs Kieran Doherry Martin IIurson and involves over 120,000 troops, 250 indispensable to U.S. oil and bauxite in the civil service, out of a population of Independence -- were shot, one by one, is described as being encouraged by shipments." I policy thus won an apparent victory in Council:"I sincerely hope that the people during the month of May. Thomas McEInw Michael Devine ships and 1,000 aircraft from 14 7 million Africans and 250,000 whites. I the bitter struggle over political prisoner of the United States ... will desist." But as Ni siochan goo saoirse! participating nations. The Caribbean "Country Red" (assumed to be Cuba) The adversary relationship The civil service is now 58% African. At I But out of that crushed rising came the "to export terrorism to various countries the "permanent secretary" level, there status for Irish Republican guerrillas. In one member of the republican -Eton Wolf phase of the exercises, coordinated by promulgated by the U.S. against the I liberation army which would drive the Rear Admiral Robert P. McKenzie, in the Caribbean Basin and to engage in Caribbean country was clearly expressed are 13 Africans and 17 whites, and 43 I an unambiguous statement issued by movement pointed out recently. newly appointed Secretary for Northern "nothing fills the coffers like an Endish commander of the Caribbean 'anti-Jemocratic activities."' Amber is by both President Reagan and Vice- Africans and 41 whites at the "deputy Ireland, James Prior, the government appeal not to support the IRA." Contingency Joint Task Force at Key also claimed to support a guerrilla President George Bush during their permanent secretary" level. affirmed:"There will be no question of a West, Florida, was conducted at Vieques movement in "Country Azure"-a small campaigns, when they promised to Implementation of Robert Mugabe's In recent years, public opinion in Hunger Strike Chronology island with an inadequate police force. political or military system of England has consistently opposed the Island and Salinas in Puerto Rico and "teach Grenada a lesson." The PRG has presidential directive on the correction administration or any return to Special occupation of Northern Ireland. The MARCH 1, 1976 -- English government ends "special category" status for Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from August The exercises began August 9 with a since turned to the Socialist of racial imbalance in the civil service has Category status." The hunger strikers latest poll showed that 63% favor a troop political offenses committed after this date. Prisoners who already have this 9 through 21. dawn parachute drop of over 350 troops International for support. Further not been as painful as expected. Africans were beaten. Their efforts to win withdrawal.The hunger strike has. in political status are unaffected. (Over 300 prisoners in Long Kesh still have These exercises have provoked fears of the 75th Ranger Battalion based in evidence of U.S. hostility toward have been replacing whites who have restoration of political status. which the addition, smashed one of the key "special category" status-only yards from where the hunger strikers died. This among progressive Caribbean nations, Fort Lewis, Washington. The night Grenada, the PRG has noted, includes voluntarily left the country, unable to government had revoked in 1976, were a elements of the government's continuing status includes: including the small island country of before, the para-troopers flew non-stop efforts to exclude Grenada from reconcile themselves to majority rule. from California's Norton Air Force Base Caribbean Development Bank funding, failure. war effort. I) right to wear their own clothes-not prison uniforms; Grenada. Maurice Bishop, Prime Older whites have retired with their to Florida, approximately the same daily spy flights over the island, and the usual compensation. But from another vantage point, the Ever since 1969, when the troops were 2) right to freely associate with other prisoners; Minister of the left-wing Grenadan victory won by the Thatcher government government, stated in a message to distance as between the Rangers' base open presence of mercenaries in Miami, Standards and efficiency have not deployed on the streets of Northern 3) right to refuse to do prison work. and Grenada. To prepare for the drop, Florida who publicly claim to be training may itself prove fatal to English interests Ireland, there has been a bi-partisan foreign heads of state and international suffered in this transformation. Unlike in Northern Ireland. SEPT, 1976 -- Ciaran Nugent refuses to wear prison uniform (symbolic of new organizations in late August that the combat support troops landed during to invade Grenada. Cuba and other African countries, Zimbabwe was agreement between Labor and "common criminal" status). He is left naked in his cell except for prison blanket, the night in the western mountains of Nicaragua. , For one thing. the government was Conservative parties not to debate the Peoples Revolutionary Government fortunate in having had a large number thus the term "blanket man." (PRG) was "absolutely convinced" the Vieques, whose terrain is similar to the Grenada has recently responded to the of university graduates abroad at the stunned by the level of support which the issue of Northern 1reland.During the mountainous regions of Grenada. hunger strikers received, both in lreland hunger strike, and, it could be argued, as AUGUST, 1978 -- Archbishop Thomas O'Fiach visits "blanket men." Describes maneuvers were in preparation for an increased danger with the mobilization time of its independence, may of whom conditions of "almost unbearable filth." "One would hardly allow an animal to imminent U.S. invasion of his country. Heightening the parallels between of a large civilian militia. Although the had a great deal of working experience. and elsewhere.Bobby Sands. a member a direct result of it, the Labor Party Grenada and the fictitious Amber, there of the lrish Republican Army (which the publicly disavowed this bi-partisan remain in such conditions. Let alone a human being," he comments. Prisoners Grenada has been the subject of various PRG considers that the U.S. actions In the country as a whole, one-third of have begun "no wash" campaign to protest brutality of prison warders destabilization efforts since Bishop took is an area on the southern tip of Grenada pose a "grave threat to our country and skilled white workers have emigrated, English government terms a "terrorist" conspiracy of silence and called for an called Amber, close to the site of a organization), was elected to the British eventual troop withdrawal from ("screws"). Because of their , prisoners are denied radio, tv, office, including an invasion attempt by to the peace and security of the entire and their positions have been taken over mercenaries, a sophisticated bomb military outpost and a future Caribbean," they maintain the "the by skilled Africans who previously had Parliament from his prison cell during Northern Ireland. reading and writing material. and are confined to their cells 24 hours a day. international airport. the strike. Sands' victory, and later that OCTOBER, 1980 After failure of mediators (including now Cardinal O'Fiach) attack aimed at the entire cabinet during Grenada Revolution will continue- always been classified as unskilled. Margaret Thatcher is currently the -- an outdoor ceremony which injured 97 The professed reason for the invasion Forward Ever. Backward Never!" of his campaign manager, most unpopular English Prime Minister to resolve protest. seven prisoners announce hunger strike to death. civilians, and prolonged U.S. efforts to of Amber was the need "to rescue 20 U.S. (Based on IPS wires. Sept. 21, 1981.) (running to fill Sands' vacant seat on an since public opinion polls were first DECEMBER 18, 1980 Hunger strike ends after prisoners' representative H-Block platform),left no doubt that the -- economically isolate and weaken the citizens held hostage conducted in that country. The youth Bobby Sands receives 34-page document conceding prisoners' demands. country. negotiations with nationalkt community supports the rebellion in the streets of English cities MARCH 1,1981 After failure ofgovernment to implement concessions, Bobby - -- Republican struggle. last summer, and the 12.5% -- Sands announces fast to death. Three other prisoners -- Francis Hughes. necessary to 11~siateIran from the But not only in the northern six unemployment rate (highest in Europe) Opposition mounts aaainst Khomernr continued from page 3 counties did this support manifest itself. are indications that the present Raymond McCreesh and Patrick O'Hara -join Sands in following weeks. shackles of reactionary rule". Two other prisoners - Kieran Doherty government is nearing the brink.The APRIL 9 -- Bobby Sands elected to English Parliament. The NCR, along with organizing the Pesticide Controller and Paddy Agnew - were elected to the failure of Thatcher's domestic policies MAY 5 -- Bobby Sands dies. growing resistance of the people, has formed a transitional government. On Dublin Parliament. Doherty became the may well have been a factor in the JUNE I1 General election for Dublin Parliament.Two H-Block prisoners Demoted second Member of Parliament to die on -- - September 27th Masoud Rajavi decision to pursue a hard line on the Irish Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew --elected. maneuvering, the hearing, when it takes the fast, and Paddy Agnew is still prisoner issue. in The reactionary regime has also announced the program of the AUGUST 2 Kieran Doherty dies. More than 3000 people have been place, will only hear evidence relative to imprisoned in the H-Blocks. But perhaps an even more important -- arrested the elderly parents of Mojahed transitional government. The program the insubordination charge-ignoring executed since June 20th by Khomeini's covers the critical social, economic and The worldwide coverage of the hunger factor was the frustration the English AUGUST 22 --Michael Devine becomes tenth prisoner to die. Families of firing squads. Young revolutionaries are Masoud Rajavi the leader of the the more potentially damaging strikers' funerals, and the open presence have experienced in their 12-year prisoners have begun to authorize medical treatment to save prisoners'after they National Council of Resistance (NCR) political issues of a democratic culpability of the University. put in front of death squads by the revolution. Such issues as: of armed IRA honor guards- protected campaign to crush the lrish resistance. have lapsed into a coma. hundreds. The Peoples Mojahedin and a member of the leadership cadre of the PMOI. independence; freedom; self- In the meantime, Piper is continuing from the English army by the people- As General Glover's report pointed out; OCTOBER 3 -- Prisoners announce end of hunger strike. Blame clerical Organization of -.Iran IPMOI) office in his job of pulling weeds, picking up trash were evidence, as a London Sunday the 1977 reorganization of the IRA intoa The continuous increase in the determination of minorities within Iran's pressure on families for undermining their efforts. ~a&revealed last weik that 100 high boundaries; equal rights for women and and fixing sprinklers, etc., knowing full Times correspondent put it, that the cell structure (patterned after the school students, who were injured number. of prisoners has led the well that "everyone has their eyes on this "handwriting is on the wall" for Algerian model) has made them almost reactionary regime of Khomeini to turn men in every aspect of life; formation of during street demonstrations, and were peoples councils' for every sector of the case-especiallyoutcome of the CSEA"test case, to involvingsee the Northern Ireland. impenetrable.To a greater degree than hospitalized, had been taken to Evin stadiums and residential buildings into ever before. the lrish guerrilla force is Yellow Thunder Camp: prisons and to set up tents for prisoners society; fundamental land reform; The hunger strike and the deaths of Prison from their hospital beds and were abolition of all aspects of comprador health and safety of fellow workers and ten young lrish patriots were final proof "invisible." subsequently put todeath by Khomeini's outside of prison grounds. As of last students. month, more than 12,000 prisoners were bourgeoisie and other sources of that these were not, as the government When the occupying force cannot AIM Stakes Its Claims firing squads. dependency. -Victor Marti had insisted since March, 1976, being held and tortured under barbaric identify the guerrilla. the likelihood of "Indian people everywhere see in this To insure his rule Khomeini has taken A comprehensive discussion of the "common criminals." While the 3) Lakota spirituality is a constant and conditions (this number has reprisal against the guerilla's base of effort the first and best means of all possible measures of oppression. transitional government's program will prisoners did not succeed in winning ongoing aspect of Lakota life; all aspects undoubtedly increased since last support (in this case the nationalist returning social and community of traditional Lakota life carry a Besides the massacre of revolutionaries, appear in the next issue. restoration of the "special category" community) increases. Like U.S. forces institutions to the hands of the he has urged mothers to turn in their month). status-their sacrifice has gained the IRA spiritual significance on a day-to-day, or at My Lai, the English army is not traditional Indian people. For that even moment-to-moment basis. "deviated" sons; and for schoolchildren Amesty International (A.I.) has FREEDOM an extraordinary degree of legitimacy gunning down guerrillas; they simply do reason this project is one of the most to report. classmates suspected of recently reported that there have been Muslim Students Society FROM internationally. So surprised were not know who the guerrillas are. They progressive proposals to be received by Hence, the interrelationship between opposing the regime or sympathizing 1800 executions in the last three and a government officials by the outpouring are instead killing teenage girls, like the federal government in the last Lakota spirituality, activities of day-to- with its opponents. Khomeini's chief half months in Iran (600 more than that continued lrom page 3 RELIGION of pro-republican sentiment, that they Carol Kelly and Julie Livingstone or 29 century of Indian relationships." day life of the people, and the Black government prosecutor, Hussein of the whole world last year). A.1. has, hforaution P.8k.t attributed it to ''IRA propaganda." Hills, is a situation which exists in subsequently called for an end to these Letters... year old mothers like Nora McCabe. --Vine Deloria, Jr. Tabrizi, has ordered landlords to screen rather than to their own policies. perpetuity. The imposition of any other prospective tenants for "counterrev-lu- mass executions. It is necessary to note The hunger strike was a "golden condition upon Lakota people is to witness to an impressive curative track Send $1.00 to The gravest cause for concern in tionaries" and report any. g that the number of executions is close to American Atheists opportunity" for the Thatcher effectively deny them the right to London right now, however, is not The establishment of the Yellow "unusual" and threatened them with 3,000. record. A science without the slightesr P. 0.Box 21 17 government to engage the guerrillas in cultural existence. spiritual component will never international opinion, but the the kind of direct confrontation which Thunder Camp by Lakota people and "severe prosecution8'and confiscation of These executions have been aimed at Austin. TX 78768-21 17 continuing deterioration of English the subsequent filing of a Special Use The centrality of the Paha Sapa to their property if they rented to understand that a technology based on the IRA (like any intelligent. effective creating an atmosphere of terror and the incalculable anguish of billions of control in Northern Ireland. Already in guerrilla force) has always denied the Application with the Forest Service for Lakota spirituality is well-documented. opponents of the government. fear to prevent mass demonstrations. our fellow sentienr hei~gsis part ofthe 1979. Major General James Glover. in a occupying army in the field. construction of 83 permanent structures and is also in evidence within the text of While Khomeini's so called However, the tactic of the the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. the last problem, not the solution. Bur the total secret English army report, Thatcher's intransigence, then. despite within the Sacred Paha Sapa (called the '8revolutionary guards", are executing revolutionaries, in particular the PMOI, acknowledged that the IRA could not be Rlack Hills of South Dakota in the white formal and legally-binding agreement under the NCR, was a response of disregard for the indescribable tormenr 1929 Cable St Ocoen Beach : the cost --the loss of hi-partisan support. innocent people whose only crime has of our fellow beings that we arepresenr1.v 223-8826 defeated "for the foreseeable future." the improved IRA image, and the language) on April 4, 19R I, centers upon reached between the sovereign Lokota been opposing Khomeini's dictatorship guerrilla attacks on the regime's officials. three interrelated principles: Nation and the United States. This uncovering ar rhe VCSD med-research We an a non-profit workers ; Now the English security forces will be overwhelming increase in financial and oppression, they are also torturing This action has broken the atmosphere collective producing whole grain : faced with an even more determined foe. document, on a statutory par with the facilities renders such defenses as Mr. support for the guerrillas-- can in some 1) Spirituality is the essential suspected opponents behind prison walls of fear to such an extent that several Artids patherically glib and ineflectual. breads and other baked goods. For informed sources report that. sense be ascribed to the hope (which foundation of Lakota culture and life; U.S. Constitution ("the law of the with a ferocity unequalled even by the demonstrations have taken place in the : land"), guarantees the entire Rlack Hills When all is said and done, the terrible Visit our storefront or ask for us at : following the hunger strike deaths, the once again proved illusory) of dealing any setting void of this traditional Shah's notorious SAVAK agents. All stmts of during the last month. screamsfrom the laboratoriesare, in and your local health food store or co- IRA has experienced the greatest influx the IRA a mortal blow. spiritural centrality is not Lakota. region as the heart and center of the the prisons that were built by the Shah Despite the thousands of executions, Lakota Nation forever. The land was of themselves, irrefutable refurations to op. We support progressive : of volunteers in recent memory. 2) The Sacred Paha Sapa (Black Hills) are crowded with political prisoners masses of demonstrators marched in the that gentleman's self-serving and groups with donations of labor, : It was, ironically, the determination of illegally seized by the U.S. government streets of Tehran chanting "this is the Just as in 1972. when the murder of 13 the Thatcher government not to grant has always been central to Lakota most of whom are teenagers and/or disingenuos logic. baked goods. etc. in 1877 after extensive gold deposits month of blood, Khomeini will fall". As L civil rights demonstrators by English political status which produced the spirituality, which requires the intrinsic relatives of known nvolutionaries who Steve Kowit, Coordinator Hours: 10-6, Sun-Fri were found in the hills. Mojahed Rajavi has said "The resistance # paratroopers caused an outpouring of martyrs to justify, in the world's eyes, the access to and occupancy of this area. are being held and tortured to reveal the 10-1. Saturday rn continued on Pate 9 whereabouts of the revolutionaries. is prepared to pay the heaviest price San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition a American Journal: laws, for example. He'll know how to Milton was warming to the task. I was make nature safe for profits again. In perspiring heavily. "More tea?" Rose time. we can just do away with the asked, pouring a cup. It was.piping hot. Students Demand an End to Racism Friedman equals Department altogether." "Enjoy." she said. "By the end of the year, at the latest," Milton suddenly stood up, waving his Dr. AtLinon: Reganomics Rose chimed in. arms and pacing the room. His words Several years ago, economists Milton returned from a promotional tour to "All those damned trees," Milton were hard to decipher, he was talking so The University of California, San Diego has reached a critical juncture in its the duty of recruiting and retaining Third World students to this campus-the and Rose Friedman wrote a book Chile and England, where their ideasare muttered, "taking up room. What do fast-something about letting the approximate seventeen year history. Educational Opportunity Program. This unit has been ineffective in both of entitled Free to Choose that laid the much-admired. They were polishing off they do? Nothing. With a coat of paint nursing home industry run Social Students at this campus have raised many issues over the years. Yet the its duties. This is evidcnt as the numbers of American Indian, Asian foundations for Reaganomics. Stripped a light lunch with Werner Erhard when I and a little toughening up, they can be Security. Rose smiled pleasantly and same issues and concerns still exist because of the University's continual American, African American and Chicano studentscoming to this University to its core, Free to Choose argued that arrived. converted to smokestacks. And those patted my hand. She gave me an neglect and outeght attack on the existence of Third World groups and decreases and the number of those students dropping out or transferring from government is best that governs "I hear the new tome is doing well," I groundhogs and squirrels. they can be autographed copy of Forced to Choose. interests. UCSD increases. We recognize that EOP is not solely responsible for this corporations least, and that if we just ventured. placed in productivejobs. Those whoare "He wants you to have it," she trend. It is the University which is to blame for the continual extinction of encourage top executives to become as American Indian, Asian-American, African-American and Chicano "Yes," Milton said evenly. "It's willing to work, that is." He arched his whispered, nodding toward her Third World students hen. However, given the proper resources, EOP can rich as they please, jobs will trickle down eyebrows meaningfully. husband, who had strode out to the students at UCSD have witnessed and have been made to suffer from and function to reverse this vicious trend. to the rest of us, and America will numbers one through fifty on the fight for survival in,the face of the institutional genocide which UCSD has bestseller list. Required reading for all "That's preposterous!" I objected. balcony. where he began addressing a 4. We Demand that EOP be physically separated from the Office of become bullish again. With the aid of a "Who ever heard of groundhogs digging small knot of well-dressed passersby. perpetrated against our respective groups. The dramatic decline of Third massive publicity blitz, the book became Americans, you know." World faculty and students, and the insensitivity of the University in Relations with Sehools-that the EOP Director be directly responsible for Anaconda and squirrels carrying Rose glanced at her appointment to the Vice Chancellor which the Unit is under. a bestseller. addressing our needs is evidence of this. "I know," I replied. "1 got a phonecall lunch buckets for General Steel? And, b0ok.A gentleman from the New York That EOP be directly accountable to students which it is supposed to serve. This year, the Friedmans are back ordering me to buy a copy, and hustle besides, who would just hand over the Times stepped briskly into the room. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges reinforced all of our with a follow-up to Free to Choose, and Therefore, the EOP unit will be made accountable to a Student Advisory here for the interview. Just what is wilderness to an anti-environmentalist? "Scotty," Rose smiled. The Times man concerns as they reviewed the campus and asserted that UCSD'sattrition rate Board (from the Student Affirmative Action Committee, aka SAAC) which just in time for the fall season, too. In Forced to Choose all about, anyway?" That's like asking the fox to guard the gave her a peck on the cheek, and joined is at a critically high level; that students suffer from insensitivity at a campus will monitor EOP and have decision-making status in its operation. The keeping with 1981's no-nonsense Milton puffed contemplatively on his henhouse." Milton on the balcony, where they devoted solely to research; that the faculy is not meeting Third World political climate, their latest is called current Director of EOP, in lieu of his past year's performance, shall be under pipe. ~osdestraightened her stockings. "Ah, but it's the fox that lays theeggs," lsla~pedthe high-five. My interview was students' needs; that campus housing is inadequate in supporting student a one year provisional status wherein after this time period, if he has not Forced to Choose. "The hot, new book "Simply this," he said. "That the time for rejoined the cagey Nobel Prize winner. over. you'll buy whether you like it or not." life-in toto-that this University too often neglects the quality of life for performed his duties sufficientiy, which includes being accountable to the coddling the non-productive elements in "It is?" I said. I rode the elevator to the lobby, and students which results in a low retention rate of Third World students. exults People, "from the fiscal fun society is over. Some people didn't buy Student Advisory Board, he shall be replaced. couple of the New Right!" "Isn't it?" he replied. "Well, no matter. exited to the bus stop, where I waited for The University has given too much "lip service" to our concerns with no real our thesis in the first book," he frowned. Just listen to these ideas for getting over an hour. "No more public transit, I met the Friedmans recently in their "Well, in this one. we prove once and for America moving again. How about action. Therefore, we have drawn up a list of demands that addresses the real As the Tenure Review Process is currently structured, there is no means by you know," the doorman in a nearby interests of our students and gives solutions to them. luxurious condominium atop San all that it's not enough to just let the appointing a New Jersey construction condo reminded me. "Oh, yeah." I which students are assured that we have a vote in the actualdecision-making Francisco's highest hill. Milton, who corporations make a few bucks; we have king with suspected mob ties to lead the started walking. "And no more left -Third World Student Groups process. This type of structure makes it possibleand probable that the student commutes to his job at the Hoover to let them have it all." Labor Department? And a doctor who's turns," he called out, as I made to cross concerns will be ignored. This is a totally unjustifiable system. As in the case of Institute-the think-tank inspired by the "How so?" I asked. crusaded against reproductive rights as the street. "They were ruled illegal this Dr. Emory Tolbert is more than qualified for tenure at UC San Diego's Dr. Tolbert, for students to have any influence in the process, we must resort president who led us into the last "Abolish government and let the Surgeon General? And the Disney History department. His academic research, service to the community and to extraordinary efforts and devote our time to assuring ourselves some type depression-was sitting in his leather- morning. Only right turns now, if you sptains of industry command!" Milton organization to run the national parks- please." teaching ability are all undeniablymeritorious, and he isan invaluable asset to of influence. This problem must be corrected. upholstered chair, looking fit. Rose, in said emphatically. "We can get a man to give 'em more pizazz. It's all in here," he proper Republican fashion, sat I started up the block, thumbing UC San Diego. To attest to this, Dr. Tolbert has received the mass support of 5. We demand that a Student Review Committee be set up which will head Interior who's trained forthejob by smiled, tapping the thick volume in his students at this campus. In the past year, the Chancellor's Office has made demurely by his side. The couple had just fighting panty-waist environmental hand. "Both theory and practice." through my copy of Forced to Choose. have the charge of reviewing faculty tenure files, just as the Departments and taking only sharp right turns. It was a numerous promises for getting more Third World Faculty and yet there have Provosts do, and submit a recommendation which will be given full regard by long walk home. been no concrete results. We already have someone who is qualified for the Vice Chancellor and the Chancellor in the final decision. -David Armstrong tenure-Dr. Tolbert-and we refuse to accept the decision of a History Feminist Aesthetics Department which ignores our student input and denies our existence at this Third World students at this University need to have an identifiable One of the most interesting feminist of working. One of these is projects is Judy Chicago's "The Dinner University. central place where we can congregate. This is necessary for retention collective working; another is purposes. If we do not have a place where we can come together and help each by Victor Mitzman- Bloomberg Party." She has engaged the three levels cooperative working with a (1) We Demand that Dr. Emory Tolbcrt be given tenure! of society which I outlined earlier: More Third World Faculty in the Departments! other and meet each other, we are disregarding one of the most influential In the most recent issue of "The Like other movements, this one must leadership structure... I believe relations of production, social relations, feminist values imply that each The number of American-Indian, Asian-American, African-Americanand aspects of student retention-peer support. Ten years ago we had a college- Longest Revolution," Joyce Nower expose the matrix of oppression which and ideological relations. In every phase Chicano faculty at UCSD is an unacceptably low number. The decline of Lumumba-Zapata aka Third College-and it no longer represents our needs writes an excellent review of the CWSS occurs in the substructural, social- person grows ...I believe that of the project, the reasearch, the people have the opportunity to Third World professors has been perpetuated by this University's not keeping or interests. Thus, we are confined to small offices which are insufficient in First Annual Women's Juried structural. and ideological levels of workshops, the production, the struggle those qualified Third World professors who came here and by not replacing supporting the number of Third World students at UC San Diego. Exhibition in the Seneca Falls Gallery. I grow in the structures that I have society. The best work in this area is that for exhibition, the forms themselves, the those who were forad to leave with other qualified Third World professors. 6. We Demand a Third World Student Center Bdilding, urge people to read it. which demands acknowledgement, established. and those are project has necessitated a synthesis of the cooperative structures. I believe in Instead of trying to build upon Third World Studies and curriculum, the which will function as a Center where we can fulfill our organizational needs For a long time I have been interested accomodation, even capitulation by the struggle. From "The Dinner Party oppressor class and caste. In the 1970's. it, and I believe in it as a model for departments and administration at UCSD have concentrated on stripping and implement programs and services which will aid in the retention of our in the relations between art and politics. Project: An Interview with Judy achievement that can be used not away any substance that there was in vital areas. students, and in the higher awareness of all students. Thanks to a class offered by Moira Roth women in and Los Chicago": only by women, but by the whole 2. We Demand that there be more American Indian, Asian American, at UCSD in 1980, 1 began studying the Angeles demanded an end to the Accomplishment can take place society. issue from feminist perspectives. exclusion of women in exhibitions. The African American and Chicano Historians in the History Department. Campus housing at UC San Diego is at a critical point for students. As the Los Angeles exhibit of women artists on an individual level, a Feminist aesthetics is part of an One of each is not good enough. There must be at least two of each in this cost of on-campus housing rises and the available supply of it diminishes, we How could I possibly contribute to the cooperative level, a collective level. activist movement. Sexist oppression as Third World students face the possibility of being denied on campus discussion of powerful writers such as from 1550-1950 was an epic exhibition. department. We Demand that a Third World Faculty hrchCommittee be Some of the most insightful analysis has Feminist values, for me. mean the antecedes the formation of monopoly housing which will equate denial of attending school for many students. Many Nower? It is with hesitation that I put set up with the specific duty of bringing more Third World professors to this been done around this exhibition. Most possibility of pluralistic modes of capital as well as survives in state students cannot afford the costs of off-campus housing and there is a forward these notes, yet it is with operating. I believe you can have University. It shall consist of an equal number of Third World Faculty and notably by co-developer Linda Nochlin socialism. The feminist art movement is students who are paid for the time they sit on the committee, and shall work possibility that many students won't be able to afford either the new higher confidence that there is room and need collective values as long as unique in the self-conscious effort to for the contributions of male feminists. (1971) and critic Jan Butterfield (1977). everyone is in the same place of with the departments and the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs in cost of housing and the probability of reduced financial aid. This situation Unfortunately, though predictably, overcome the oppression on every level must be rectified. My perspective begins with development. That means at either achieving its goals. these efforts have not led to a breakdown of society. The movement deals with the 7. We demand that criteria be set up whereby those students coming distinguishing different ways of looking of the old boy network in the artworld. an early stage or a very advanced 'denial of women in history, isolation of at society. There is a substructural level However, it has become evident that stage, and we are not yet at an women in social and economic The Third World student groups on campus need a centralized academic from low-income backgrounds will have assured eligibility if. they cannot in which the relations of production and there is an ever growing and ever advanced stage of consciousness... structures. the subjective experience of center on campus with which we can identify and which can develop courses afford off-campus housing and assured the necessary financial support to live distribution are realized; this includes stronger community of women artists. For the intermediary stages I self-hate, the social experience of and curriculum that not only benefits us as Third World students, but all on campus. propose a whole variety of modes the technologies and environments of The present strength of the women's continued on page 9 students at UCSD. As was stated earlier, this University has stripped away daily life. There is a social-structural Third World Studies to a point where it is no longer meeting our needs. We 8. We demand amnesty for all students arrested participating in this level of political and economic relations; art community reflects the political- depth and sophistication -of the must work towards a structure which will maintain and strengthen our status demonstration. this includes kinship relations. labor at this University. relations, class and caste relations. There movement. The organization of "EXTRAORDINARY. alternative spaces and support systems A political epic, compassionate and as bitterly funny as a cartoon.. .a 3. We Demand that there be an Asian-American Studies Program, These demands are not new issues which weare presenting. We have voiced is an ideological level; this includes the for artists correlates with the efforts of big, fascinating risky film that testifies not only to Mr. Wa/da0sremarkable Black Studies Program, Chicano Studies Department. our concerns about the above for years. They are in full compliance with goals realms of theology and aesthetics. (Ash. vision, but also to the vitality of contemporary Polish life." 1972). women in other areas. Oftentimes. these Each of these shall have a full-time tenured faculty Program Director who which UC San Diego purports to uphold, and also the general goals of higher efforts are essentially intertwined. An -VINCENT CANBY. The New York Tmes is fully responsible for their respective programs, and each shall have a full- education. On every level, the issues raised by the example of this was a Los Angeles "A spectacularly incisive, gripping look at went Polish history. ' time office staff and sufficient office space. In addition, We Demand that the As Third World students, we feel no guilt or hesitation in demanding these women's liberation movement can strike -JUDY STONE. The Sen Fronc~scoChrontck women artists' project concerning media Third World.. Studies sequence be a general education rquirement for all four at the jugular of the various systems of proposals. We want them to be implemented. We do so as a historical attention of the "Hillside Strangler." co~~egesat San ~iqo. oppression. It is my interest in the Operating on a variety of levels. the uc necessities given to us by the founders of Lumumbr-Zapata, and as effectiveness of art as an agent for artists held public events and guerrilla conscientious students who realize that we must leave an open door for our Though all of these demands are retentive measures for Third World younger generations to follow. change that brings me to look at feminist theater which enhanced the public's as historically had aesthetics for guidance. awareness of the issues. They used the students at this campus, there is a unit on campus which hr Isolation of women in the family same media that was sensationalizing structure has combined with economic and trivializing the terrorism. and class oppression. One of the essences The ability to do such actions comes of movement politics is to overcome this from a history of building networks of mn4tnmmA frnm nmrr 1 hacknmund. The dc ,------tmands challenge the Diego Police riot team-make 34 misdimeanor, and have their records kind of isolation. politicized people. In California, this nature of UCSD as a research institution arrests.-. - .- .- . expunged after an undetermined period history includes the Feminist Studio In order to make the connection and insist that UCSD meet its The 34 arrested students were charged of time. The District Attorny. true to between individual experience and Workshop, the L.A. Women's Building, obligation as a center for education. It is form, is playing "tough guy" in order to Cal Arts project "Womanhouse," the with trespassing and failure to disperse. ideological oppression, feminists have "UCSD 34" in this light that the Chancellor's refusal At a meeting on Octobert 12. Attorney "get his pound of flesh" according to developed participation art in Fresno State College Women's Art to even consider the demands must be Blevins, however Blevins feels that the Program, and San Diego's Center for On May 29th members of Third Clifton Blevins presented the latest in a "performance." The art is neither a viewed, and only in this light that it can series of compromises offered by the potential for a better resolution it. metaphor for experience nor a Women's Studies and Services. These World groups presented a set of be understood why he preferred to take "outright dismisal" is solid. projects build power through liberated demands to Chancellor Atkinson (see District Attorney. This offer according metalinguistic structure; rather, a space the action he took against the students. to Blevins is "worse than the ones is transformed, the artist is object and zones, autonomous territories. The page 7 for text of demands). These feminist movement may be unparalleled demands are significant because they On June 2nd 250 students assembled previously presented". The "offer" calls subject, the audience becomes object and Oct. 23 for a 6 month civil probationary period. subject, the community of the moment in that it is cultural workers that have Friday 7pm offer a systematic analysis of problems in the Chancellor's complex in support been most successful in organizing the facing students-not only Third World of those demands. After about 2 112 dismissal of one of the two original lives through the art. It is guerrilla TLH 107 Free charges on the condition that the insurgency in the aesthetic dimension. means to overcome organizing in almost students, but all students, and especially hours Chancellor Atkinson had the Spol~oredby: Committee For World Democracy and Third World Studks defendants plead guilty to any other (Rosler, 1977). any arena. students from a low-income UCSD police-with the help of the San continued from page 3 "...And the answer is not let's and the like. The question is, in the immediately send the faculty out for process of correcting these things, you The state was built by the University of California's incredible more teaching, and I'm disturbed that don't want to end up overcorrecting- contributions in terms of the aerosuace industrv... 70% of the entering students end up you don't want to be making changes, at going elsewhere, but its also not simply this moment in time, that are based on the answer that let's have everyone give understandings of ten years ago-or UC agricultural research is similarly shouldn't be done in the universities ... up their research-you just can't do it." something. and I just don't know." oriented. The UC system has developed But 1 think it should be a public matter as sukh wonders as the thick-skinned, to what's going on. There- 1 don't "1 mean it's just too vital an interest for "I believe people should have access, square tomato. However, the bulk of uc believe there needs to be any secrecy." the country for San Diego to stop beinga should have reconsideration, I don't research is into mechanizati~n~-~ith first-rank university." know quite what the procedures are "SOyes, I want to see a strong research here. I don't know quite-1 think, to the most of the research done at Davis and base here, but a research base is not- a~rmativeaction Riverside. UC agricultural research is extent that the faculty member involved can't exist alone, it also has to exist in a "I do believe. and my own experience wants it thoroughly public, again I just funded through a mix of state and very rich undergraduate environment. has made it clear, that there have to be increasingly-unionizedcorporate funds, and eliminateslabor in don't know the details. These are So I'm not going to say one or the other, incredibly strong committments to questions that revolve around specific if the times are tough the faculty, the affirmative action. and they have to be exchange for costs of higher energy choices and proposals. My general view students and the Chancellor are going to pursued yearly. And I've had that is, 1 don't want that, but if a person wants consumption. unemployment, more have to address those problems ..." experience in NSF of, I think, four years expensive food. and more food rotting in it-but on the other hand, there are the on the educational/research dichotomy with a really quite remarkable record. issues of letters, confidentiality of those the fields. and last year not quite being on top of "I strongly feel that this country's letters,and I just don't know again quite Aerospace research is primarily anti- things. and seeing that slip. I believe that what the specifics are on that ..." human. Work on war planes, capital- future is tied very much to the success of affirmative action issues have to really intensive space programs and the like do great universities like this campus. and have the careful attention of the "It's a brutal world for a young little to solve the very real problems that that .a component of that is a strong Chancellor. and I think the Chancellor assistant professor in this day and age. confront us. research program ... I think we've got a has to have responsibility here. On the It's a brutal, incredibly difficult world. marVelous system for the support of other hand, I don't know-l haveno way What's expected is almost unbelievable All these, and other Uc research such research, and 1 don't want to argue that in terms of teaching, in terms of research, as the CIA research at Scripps and the of judging how one should organize that we're in an excellent teaching-I know within this current framework ..." and I'm amazed at what's expected ..." UC nuclear weapons labs, do indeed there are lots of problems and keep America strong-at least certain "I don't want to respond in terms of tuition "Capitalism is an animalistic system patrrotrsm. trut, ney-rm conscrous, UUUIY, lrtrrr IJ u wur. DUI, uric ~~IIIIIU~I particularly problems here, but I'm not "I think this state has prospered by a people this time didn't sign up. AN that's of your people. And rather ;ban do that sectors of America. This. while humanist prepared to say that this country can Third (Lumumba-Zapata)College. I do where the individual tries to consume Jack-don't tell me to go kill no believe in gpecial efforts and special strong university system and that more than the-v produce. A ful;, Vietnamese. lacking is organization. you come and cheat. And what is worse, research, such as alternative solve its immediate problems by is that you cheat for aposition which you technology-to cite just one example- goals in minority areas..." + everyone should have access to that conscious individual must produce more "Once you jlght for justice and win q: How can students on this campus eliminating research and turning faculty in their lifetime than they consume. occupy as the result of the struggles of is neglected and underfunded. "One thing that worries me about that university system; and I think that battles, everybody, enjoys the benefits of struggle more effectively? the masses of your people." full time to teaching-but the issue is not tuition is a mistake." "People say they can'tjlght the enemy those gains. Consciousness always None of this should be surprising. just your education this month. the issue period (the 1960's and 1970's) is that I a: Don't let the enemy pull you into "All of you who come to this would have liked to have seen a much because he has the knowledge, the grows. Now, you have the peasantry, the struggle every time, on their terms. You That Atkinson would be pro-research, is the success of this country over the university and cheat. I want you to know larger number of minorities and women technology. Technology does not belong workers, and the revolutionary must decide yourselves when to be that you are making a serious mistake. I pro-monopoly capitalism and next 50 years, and that means the well- to the enemy. It comes from the people. intelligentsia that are necessary for the drawn into battle, how to fight, the antihumanist was to be expected given being of the world ..." drawn into the sciences, and I wish we want you to know that you have no would have worked harder at that Philosphically, I'm not This knowledge must be given back to struggle-for an IBM job, however, it is proper ideological struggle. Most of the the nature of those choosing him and the "I'm not prepared to say that faculty the people. Now, there is spontaneous the revolutionary intelligentsia that will understanding of the essence of life. I because the job market is excellent. I'm African organizations in this country are position he occupied. What is are doing too much research. I'm also against the draft... I do reaction against oppression everywhere. often betray the masses of the people. want you to know that you are talking about the natural sciences. One still segmentalized, working on welfore, disconcerting is his nationalism in an era not prepared to say that the teaching is as Intense, spontaneous reactions. They will not use their skills to help the thoroughly embued with capitalist of the problems is, for example, in the believe there are times unemployment. But you must see all when monopoly capialism is becoming good as it might be What worries me However, the enemy does not suppress struggle. They know nothing about the these things as part of an entire system philosphy. You are motivated by profit. ... social sciences is that we had quite a large increasingly transnational. about the future of this country is that, when a nation needs a us spontaneous!,: he supresses us 60S, but who teaches them history? Try which is theenemy, andtouch thesystem You sell yourselJshort as a human being number of women and minorities you know, all the efforts are immediate continuously. We must struggle against and put one of them on the back of a bus. at its root. We are working on making and exist on the animal level," The followiung quotes are A tkinson's entering the social sciences." military ... the enemy continuously. This can on1.v Once a battle is won, you cannot go Africa unr9ed and socialist, because remarks to campus media and the short-term, no one's looking at the long- term, future, and one component of that "Unfortunately, that's one of the be done throuah proper organization. back. It is an evolutionary process. Now, once it is unified and socialist. it will be A SUCSD on April 8.1980 afier he had long-term future is the research worst job markets at this point. Lookat, draft been designated to his job: you know, computer science. or generated in institutions like this, and I "Philosophically, I'm not against the on research could give you lots of examples: something like that-tremendous job market. So I don't want to see, I really draft. I do not want to see the military After years of hard work "It's one thing to have grants from the "Recombinant DNA, that's a term used as a basis of discrimination. I saw it department of defense and so forth, but don't want to see minority programs that that wasn't even known ten years ago. are in some sense defined as more closely in the period during the Korean war, it Grass Roots Cultural Center a reality its another thing to have classified and that's going to have a dramatic was clear what happened in the Vietnatn grants... I'm not so fond about a lot of tied with the social sciences. 1 mean, I Its been a long struggle, but after years community service project (including impact on the industrial base of this want to be sure there's a good war. I do believe there are times when a of careful preparations and hard work LQue Pasa? Sun Diego's Common classified research going on on campus. country, and that industrial base, if nation needs a military, and I do not that is something that I; I mean one opportunity-that we don't-that the Crass Roots Cultural Center is ral~ndarj a cultural oalc effort properly used, is going to be absolutely minorities don't somehow end up ip the want that military developed in a way aspect of research on campus is that it critical to the whole issue of that it can be used as a discriminatory ... social sciences when the access to a contributes to the teaching experience of strengthening, and I don't mean to seem procedure against the people who do not students, so 1 don't like that, the idea that broader range of activities might be simplistic here, the strengthening of the more desirous from their viewpoint." have money. or do not have certain somehow research is being done that ..." democratic process throughout the social backgrounds. It is the case that "What's my view about classified world. You know, research is just too tenure under certain conditions I might favor a research in general?... These are such critical to say 'Let's do away with "Student input on the promotion and draft, it's simply the case that complicated issues ...I dobelieve that this research and have everybody teach,' its tenure process is absolutely critical. and registration now I don't think makes country needs to do at times classified got to be a mix." I want to see it ..." much sense in terms of the logistics of research. I would generally argue that it "I don't have any views as to exactly putting a military together if we were where the student input should come, on confronted with war... I'm worried about continued from Dane 4 this campus, or in this process the state of the world ...I'm not ..." necessarily against ROTC on campus." "There's no question in my mind that Yellow Thunder cam^: there have been a lot of abuses in AIM Stakes 1ts Claims Iuniversities on promotion procedures The U.S. Supreme Court has recently Sapa is the center of the traditional form of geodesicdomes(18 ft. high; 44 ft. continued from page 6 recognized the government's land- Lakota spirituality. To p:event Lakota in diameter), incorporating passive solar stealing through its ruling that the occupancy in this area is to interfere with and primarily natural materials. All Feminist Aesthetics Lakota are entitled to monetary the people's right to practice their religion; all aspects of life are integrated second-class citizenship, to name a few. recompense in exchange for the land. AS The movement also deals with major a people, the Lakota have rejected this within this geographical location. Put another way, it is a question of whether forms of liberation struggle, creating offer; the Black Hills are not for sale. As direct antithesis to every identifiable the litigation continues, the U.S. or not the U.S. government wishes to knowingly engage directly in a policy of form of oppression. These antitheses maintains regulatory control over the range from powerful images of women approximately 80% of the Hills that are overt cultural genocide at this time in history. to powerful organizations of women. the federally retained. As it is antithetical to liberated zones of women have created traditional Lakota values to disturb the In addition to protecting the rights of alternative forms of experience and . -- - -- r----- sanctity of a relative's habitat. efforts to Indian people, the approval of the alternative relations of production. ~orationwhich sponsors an on-going reclaim the holdings of private Special Use Application could have far- Autonomous spaces for women survive landholders are deemed extremely reaching implications for establishing an in spite of the stress involved in being inappropriate. exemplary model community in terms of separate from and in opposition to the The issue is essentially one of self-sufficiency. In a country which intransigent power of patriarchical guaranteeing the Lakota people their claims to be ravaged by energy institutions. right to self-determination. Two shortages, such a community should hold great attraction, as nothing within One of the most interesting ~acks.Plans (or additional U.S. statutes protect the structures will have back-up heating consequences of this suwiveability is the religious freedom of Indian people. An the confines of the U.S. evenapproaches nester include energy self-sufficiency. The Lakota. in sources in the form of wood stoves infiltration into the dominant culture of progressive I897 federal statute authorizes the a truly subversive consciousness; a entertainers. accordance with traditional values, do and/ or fireplaces; no fossil fuels will be ---.~ - Forest Service to relinquish small not begrudge the passing along of the utilized. There is sufficient deadfall and subversive mode which can withstand amounts of land for the establishment of natural attrition firewood on-site for the trials and tribulations of longterm schools and churches to people living in clear advantage of their lifeways to their non-Lakota relations. short term use. More wood is found in struggle. It is an antithesis to conquest the vicinity of National Forest land. And abundance nearby and can be used and nihilism. The feminist aesthetic is a the 1978 Indian Freedom of Religion The application specifically outlines survival aesthetic. It is, more the construction of 83 permanent indefinitely without disruption of the Act guarantees Native peoples the access habitat. Two wind-driven generators importantly. a liberation aesthetic. buildings on 800 acres: 80 quasi-buried to sites, use and possession of sacred will provide electrical energy. There is homes with passive solar features, using *Rmnie. Suun and Rawn. Arlene. 'The Di?m Pafly objects and the freedom to worship sufficient water to support a community Project: An Interview with Judy Chia#o." Chtyulis. X4. through ceremonies and traditional primarily local materials; I spiritual and continued on page 10 1977. rites. There is no question that the Paha 2 educational facilities facilities in the demand for a six-hour day at eight-hour economic crisis. to escalate its own pay to insure more employment and strategy from protest to one of Labor Organizes more leisure exemplifies a strategy of destabilization. offender." majoritv of demonstrators were destabilization. The transition from protest to Last July, sex discrimination became unaffiliah with any group, however, Against Attacks destabilization may occur in the next five Fight for equal pay for an issue in an AFSCME-led strike marching singularly or in small groups years, provided that the right's economic against the city of San Jose. Part of the of friends. The rise of the right is labor's principle Three basic fightback strategies are policies are given full expression short of equal work gaining settlement was a $1.4 million pay Speakers called on the audience to problem at this time and. in fact, it now being discussed in the ranks of war and that labor effectively organizes adjustment for workers in job redouble their efforts to suport local defines the threshold into militancy that labor--electoral, protest, and the mass sentiment of discontent that Marion Minichiello has been a clerk in Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King classificationv which were predomi- women's fightback organizations, and labor stands before in the 1980's. The destabilization. Key to any strategy is these policies will generate. With a war, Massachusett's Metropolitan District has denied the suit's charges. In a written nantly female. emphasized the importance of right (both the Reagan/ Moral Majority education, so education will not be provided it is a Vietnam-style conflict. Commission for 12 years. During that statement, he asserted that affirmative supporting ongoing solidarity work for New Right and the KKK/Nazi ultra- considered as a separate strategy. the timetable would probably have to be time she has trained five men for jobs action is a "top priority," and added, "I (Adapted from The Guardian) movements involving women who are right) adversely affects labor in three An electoral strategy would have extended to ten years. In any case, labor- rankedpromotion above herself. hers, but has been denied a can assure you that as long as I am struggling for liberation, particularly in ways. labor wait until 1984 to turn Reagan out centered community protest coalitions governor we shall spare no effort to El Salvador. can be a beginning to this organizing First, the right has targeted labor for of office for a Democratic substitute, or Minichiello has a name for her insure that all rights guaranteed to every The rally conclclded with a group build a third party movement with effort. In the process of fighting the problem, sex discrimination, and she is citizen of this commonwealth are demonstration of martial arts put on by direct legislative attack. The Reagan right, the issues of the imperialist uses of labor's support to field a more radical doing something about it. She and three protected." Amazon Kung Fu, a women's self- Administration, and its supporters, patriotic anti-communism, the alternative to the Democrats. other women-Adeline Wollins, Annie Over 1500 defense training group. The Women would like to roll society back to before unionization of more of the working However, a 1979 study by the the New Deal by repealing health and Hamot and Ruth N. Page-are the Take Back the Night Coalition may be Protest strategy options range from class, the utilization of the rebelliousness Massachusetts Commission Against march against safety, minimum wage. and collective individual plaintiffs in a class-action suit reached at Box 9.~10 the Women's mini-Solidarity Day demonstrations in of young workers, and how labor should Discrimination (MCAD), a state bargaining legislation. The right's anti- brought by the National Association of Building, 3543-18th St., San Francisco, every city when Congress considers the confront the ruling elite's attempts to agency, found that women then made up pornography union stance is expressed clearly in its Government Employees (NAGE) Calif. 941 10. 1983 budget this spring, through work militarize and reindustrialize American, 80% of the lowest job classifications but support of right to work and open shop against the state government. If Upwards of 1500 women marched, actions against specific pieces of anti- will need to be addressed in order to only 13% of the highest ones. People's World. laws. successful the suit will benefit 8500 chanted, clapped and sang their way labor legislation, to a comprehensive insure the success of this transition. ~'fing subsequently fired all thm The right's overall economic policies solidarity protest in support of the female state clerical workers. through the North beach area here Sept. Labor cannot afford to wait three When labor can conduct a MCAD commissioners--Chairwoman also attack labor. Reagan is the most PATCO strike. The last might consist of Massachusetts thus joins Connecticut 26 in the second annual Women Take more years to unseat the right destabilization strategy with growing Jane Edmonds, Samuel Stonefield and pro-business president in the White a one-hour sympathy strike by all Back the Night march. electorially. Building an effective third public support behind it, the right is on and Washington, along with the Alex Rodriguez. In February, King Sexual harass- House since Coolidge, and the most pro- workers in the AFL-CIO, the shutting Spirited demonstrators chanted party would take as long, and therefore the way to being checked. Historically, a California cities of San Jose and Los appointed Leon Brathwaite to chair the military president since Truman. down of one major airport every day by slogans such as "Women unite to take is as useless. The right's current attack period of liberal reform attempted to Angeles, as targets of sex discrimination commission. Brathwaite, a King loyalist, ment on the job Reagan's Administration, and its calling all airline service workers at the suits by public employees' unions. The back the night," and "Women united will will decimate labor unless labor fights coopt labor's militancy (Wilsonian had been head of the state's Office of supporters. see business deregulation targeted airport out on strike for one never be defeated." The action protested back now. Progressivism, FDR's New Deal) at such other suits have been brought by the Affirmative Action; in that position, he and military expendiatures as the answer shift, weeklong sympathy strikes by American Federation of State, County had frequently clashed with the ousted violence against women, singling out Sexual harassment has caused 10% of a stage. And historically, the ruling working women to quit theirjobs rather to the economy's problems. A small scale airline mechanics and flight attendants, While a destabilization strategy is and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). commissioners over their requests for rape and domestic violence in particular. national protests in Washington in ideal. objective and subjective factors elite's strategy of liberal reform failed to than put up with them, according to a version of what the Reagan The NAGE suit before the federal access to state affirmative action March organizers targeted the North support of PATCO, and an necessitate that labor adopt a protest stop labor's momentum. At the point survey by a professor at the Claremont Administration is attempting to do was Equal Employment Opportunity records. Beach area (the Times Square of San international day of solidarity with strategy at this time. The right is when labor's destabilization strategy Graduate School. Men who harass put into effect in England, by Thatcher, Commission (EEOC) charges that for 30 Meanwhile, AFSCME has filed a Francisco) because the high PATCO when controllers unions engineering one of the worst economic transcends liberal reform efforts, labor women sexually at work are few in with disasterous results-extremely high years Massachusetts has channeled number of EEOC sex discrimination conci-niration there of pornography throughout the world boycott U.S. disasters in over fifty years on its own, will reach another threshold, an retailers, srtip shows and massage number but chronic in their behavior. unemployment and equally high women into low-paying job suits against other states and cities, inflation rates. flights. and labor's protests must alert the historically dangerous one in the U.S. . .- . -. - .- . - .. - ..-. narlna nrnvidcd a nranhic rxarnnlr if They tend to be married, but vary inage. classitlcatlons. According to the su~t,the lncludlng LOS Angeles, san Jose ana r------r------r-- -- In an earlier study about three years ago, Finally, the rise of the right means that A destabilization strategy might general public to this fact. Alternately, Labor, from 1910 to 1920 through the the sexual exploitation of women. for labor to adopt a destabilization state has also favored male applicants Connecticut. The state of Washington 20% of the men interviewed did not state coersion and extralegal repression consist of a one day general strike of all IWW's destabilization strategy and from "We bvelieve the pornography strategy at this time would only provide for higher grade positions, and has failed was added to the list of defendants in consider demanding sex as a condition against labor will increase. The use of the labor called by the AFL-C!d, a vigorous 1935 to 1941 through the CIO's industry leads to violence against the right with a scapegoat to blame for its to post vacancy notices in order to keep early September; the union cited studies of employment a for,,, of sexual military to scab in the recent PATCO series of strikes around the nation destabilization efforts, reached similar own failures. And in point of fact. the thresholds. Historically, a combination women from applying for better jobs. from 1974, 1976, 1978 and 1980 which women," explained Melinda Dart of the harassment, but that figure has dropped strike is different only in degree from the demanding higher wages to offset NAGE is seeking immediate promotion uniformly showed that male employees Take Back the Night Coalition. "It's just subjective factor of working class of world war, patriotism and anti- to-- -'"-2% court-acquited murder. by Nazi and inflation and cuts in services, solidarity and millions of dollars in back pay for got from 22% to 35% more pay than like commercial media where advertising KKK elements. of communists in strikes by other public employee unions, militancy also prevents implimenting a communist hysteria superceded liberal industrial worker destabilization strategy at present. When women who have been denied women forjobs requiring the same levels is used to sell violence against women." Greensboro. The weight of the right, a revival of the CIO sit-down strike and reform to divert or smash labor's the right's catastrophic economic promotions by sex discrimination. It of skill, effort and responsibility. Parade participants included the San whether dressed in policeman blue or factory defense tactics, or a campaign of militancy. This threshold is nothing less policies take full effect, there will be than the threshold of revolution, and also wants the state to adopt an Winn Newman, AFSCME general Francisco chapter of the National KKK white, is coming down on labor work slowdown and sabotage. The affirmative action dan. ,,..,..I =.;A **~llthe job evaluation Orpanization for Women. Bav Area and labor militants. current Industrial Workers of the World more than enough desperation to fuel a labor's success at crossing the threshold turn toward militancy. this time around depends on how successfully the working class deals with significant information on San Diego's Organized labor, at this time. must continued from page 8 the issues raised in making the transition JOIN THE CHE CAFE COLLECTIVE power structure and people's focus protest on these economic policies a friendly, supportive community from protest to destabilization. Grass Roots Center movements. and in solidarity with PATCO, at the I same time it defends itself against the At present. labor stands on a UCSD Co-ops News Welcome Finally it's important to note that the MON THURS 10:30 AM 10 PM abroad and a racist, anti-feminist and right's legislative attacks. The right, in threshold that gives the working class the - - Grass Roots Cultural Center will FRIDAY 1030 AM - 5 PM anti-labor posture domestically, it is the coming years and as the economy choice between acquiescence or provide artists and people's located In the eucalyptus grove particularly important that the falters, will escalate its attacks on labor militancy. If labor chooses militancy, the s~~theast01 the Human!tlds Library organizations with a small meeting and and Announcements progressive community deepen its and labor protest into naked state working class may stand on another performing space. Films, poetry understanding and appreciation of our power, possibly even ultra-right threshold in five or ten years. That future readings, children's events, workshops, fundamental values and unity. TO terrorism. Labor can take the threshold will offer the working class the debates and much more are now being combat the onslaught of propaganda opportunity of this provocation, as well choice between socialism or barbarism. organized. from anti-human groups like the Moral as growing mass discontent with an Majority and the KKK, we need easy The cultural center is an enormous access to high quality, sophisticated task and a very real challenge for the Food Co-op peoples' culture. limited human and financial resources of continued from page 9 The Grass Roots Cultural Center will Grass Roots Events. Rut we believe the they attempt to make Indians act in ways most people, you probably creation of such a resource in San Diego serve a wide range of people and Yellow Thunder Camp: contrary to their religious, cultural, haven't. But, if you are not like organizations including minority and at this moment is not only significant but social, moral and educational beliefs. most people, you should come to labor groups, feminists and vital. However the effort can only Sincerity alone does not guarantee the one of the meetings of the environmentalist. civil libertarians and succeed with increased community AIM stakes claim success of any project and when that recycling co-op, (also known as religious activists, the lesbian and gay support. From the onset of the project is conceived and authorized in a "R Gang"). At our weekly meeting community, as well as innumerable expansion Grass Roors has calculated of 500 people. Should wells become distant place which has no conception of we organize the activities for the single issue organizations and concerned that financial survival will depend upon necessary, pumping will be facilitated by the people on the reservations, it following week and discuss what individuals. If this sounds like an building a core of 40-60 "sustainers". wind power and cistern storage. generally results in a waste of time, to do with the money wegenerate. Sustainers pledge $10 per month (or ambitious undertaking considering San It is understood by the applicant money, and people's lives This In the past, we have loaned money donate a lump sum of $100) to support ... Diego's extreme racial segregation and group that, under the terms of the Ft. proposal offers a realistic alternative to to student organizations,given the effort and in return they receive a 10% dangerous fragmentation-frankly, it is. Laramie Treaty of 1868. the U.S. all existing federal programs for parties and gerlerally kept discount on all sales items and a regular Rut Grass Roots genuinely believes a government is obligated to provide American Indians. It builds directly on ourselves entertdned. Join us. newsletter. multi-racial cultural center wi:h a free- materials requisite to the construction of the innate strengths of the traditional There's ~lentvof work to be done. flowing exchange of ideas among people Of course as we establish regular these facilities, as well as skilled laborers element of each tribe which has long ~olunt'eer*meetings every f can be built. hours for the Grass Roots Cultural sufficient to complete the project in a been neglected and shunted aside in GAY 0 LABOR 0 LATIN AMERICA ECOLOGY Center and expand the public reasonable amount of time. A tentative favor of assimilationist groups which In addition to the unique selection of MARXIST-HUMANISM 0 POLITICAL ECONOMY records. books, periodicals, posters and programming, there will be an unlimited compromise is proposed, wherein the promised much and delivered little. The children's materials; the Grass Roots amount of volunteer work. Just a few government shall provide the materials. proposal conceives of returning religious WOMEN MEN 0 BLACK NON-VIOLENCE Cultural Center will encompass our hours a week can make a significant and the Lakota Nation and its allies shall training, educational instruction, service project. Files on area meeting contribution to developing the center. provide the necessary labor. community organization, and legal and and performance halls. information on Join us today as we work to build a From the date of agreement with the political responsibilities back to the CHINA community fund raising and other people's cultural movement at the Grass Forest Service, a period of six months is tribal elders who have properly been the resources will be more accessible in the Roots Cultural Center. required to carry out the overall design designated by the Indian community to 1-5 to Gllmon W ot wccden public center. LQue Pasa? San Die~o's and planning, utilizing consultants. hold these responsibilities. It seeks to ART 1wtbfIcQe nght ~ntopoflmg lo? MEDIA Common Calendar (with a cultural During this period, at least two restore Indian community life and the General Store 452-9625 hotline. advance planning service and prototype underground structures will education of Indian children to their ALBANIA I YonM 11 aMpm spiritual base with teachings of weekly printed calendar) willcontinue to be built to work out flaws and train SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE ASIAN AMERICAN grow as the center becomes a tool for personnel to serve as supervisors. traditional beliefs and practices that informing the commuinity of activities Primary construction is to be completed emphasize self-sufficiency and Hours: Mon thru Fri 10 = 4 NUCLEAR POWER 0 MARXIST/LENINISM 0 IRAN within two years following the six- independence from all things except the and issues. HASSLES 0 YOUNG 0 CHICANC Rut the largest expansion of the month planning stage. creator and the creation." Located in Student Center LEGAL PEOPLE service effort will he the development of -Vine Deloria, Jr. MARXISM 0 NATNE AMERICAN ORGANIZING "The existing operations and svstems across from G.W. Books & Bike Shop the .Wortin Chancqv Research Section. - Lancaster Independent Press Still in its embrvonic stage, the research of federal relations with American 452-3932 KX>D US LEFT LIBROS EN ESPANOL section will grow to encompass Indians ...are an ahicct failure because d L LOMQSt~ries In Short CIA in Isolating Afgan Cuba Even after Reagan's statement At a two-day symposium held in the advocating U.S. aid to Afghan "freedom Senate and House Caucus Room in the fighter." the major nqedia in the U.S. did Capitol, politicians. scholars, and not examine CIA aid to the rebels. political activists Sept. 29 called on the Although the New Y ork Times described Reagan Administration to resume full the aid as the firs1t operation of this trade and diplomatic relations with rnagcitude "since th le Angola civil War Cuba. Several leading Cuban officials ended". in subse quent articles it were invited to the conference. including unqr~estioninglyaccc :pted replies such as former Cuban Ambassador to the UN "people donate it" when rebel leaders Ricardo Alarcon, now the vice-minister were asked where tlley get their money of foreign relations, but the State for weapons. Department denied them visas. In an excellent critique of U.S. Speakers including U. S. Representa- reporting on Afganistan. Jay Peterzell of tives Mickey Leland (D-Tx.).Ted Weiss the Center for National Security Studies (D-NY) ;Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Ct.); in Washington D.C..concluded in the George Pillsbury, a Minnesota state Columbia Journalism, Review that the senator and director of the Pillsbury press fails "to connect mounting Flour Milling Co; and Noel Blackman, evidence of a significant weapons supply director of the Assn. of American in Afghanistan with previous reports of e-, LI-a Bad- -- - Words------sea~ooa...... ~mponers, aescrmeaI .. I porenrla~. ..-I American involvement." He sites 3mug nur benefits of Cuban-U.S. trade if the Newsweek writer Fred Coleman's reason U.S.embargo was removed. why this is not happening: "Obviously, Censored U.S Rep. George Crockett (D-Mi.). people on this side (in the U.S.) don't Harmful Nearly One fourth of the who recently returned from a visit to want to give credence" to Soviet reports A group scientistshaveconducted a officials responding to a recent national Cuba, applauded the and attention about CIA aid to the Afgan rebels. study which 'Iaims that survey indicated that community I exhaust is good for the environment. they give ,,, the children... and the counter spy members have challanged One Or of complete absence of any racial or color they the books, magazines, and films in their difference.w Noting Cuba is a majority The study states that the nitrous libraries, according to a report in the oxide that is emitted from auto tail pipes Black nation, Crockett Post. of those as a major factor in U.S. hostility. actually controls pollution. Emission of challenpe9 resulted in some form of