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s Hete too in Can'aäa, all the pblitic¿llv-' laborative" and seems in many ways as they are youn8, eldèrly, gay, female, I thought you would get a laugh out of conscious groups which are triine to outmoded as other political manifesta- non-white, poor, "useful" for corporate this quote, which comes from the House move on to the-next plane also seãm to tions of a few years ago. Is there any- profit-are attacts on the humanity of hearings on a new bill to control the - lose sight of that firsi essential-how thing worthwhile retaining from it? To üs all. However self-dessibed, radicals. release of new chemicals into the en- are we trying to change oui own Der- what degree do€s "A Fable" exptess who ignore any sspeçts oJauthoritarian vironment. A representative of Dow sonal valueJand metñods of worÈ in or- the feelings of those of us (I presume repreision-sexism, racism, classism, Chemical testiffed against the passage der tb put some meaning into our poiiti- including she, as.she is writing for I¡VIN) asèism, cÊpitdlism-are going to be of any such bill, saying, "If Dow pro- cal strategies. Alas-thls seems tô be who lived tlrough the Vietnam protests impaled by the need to-confront the duced a product we thought sevetly the last púoritv (íf considered at all) and are still living now? She doesn't viclous coñtinuance ofwhat they are hazardous to people, we would stop instead explore any ofthii. Several producing we are that kind of a ófthe ierv first. resultins ii the ..Fable",creators ofthe ignoring. -NoRMA¡lSo[Oll{ON it; same old little empire_builders rüshine are also members of Portlendr Oro.. company." rough-shod over others, and then " the \{ar Resistets and subscribers to lVell, it's true thot they did stop wonder WIN: It is not coincidental producing isn't it? ! why we can,t even Seem to set that she napalm, March 11,1976 Xll No;,9-"' to first basé. _CIIURE CULHãNE found herself at a benefit for this play BETTYGOîÎSCIAI,K /Vol. , and not another. ' N. Bunrabyr B.C. Ca¡¡d¡ We, WIN readefs ahd locate any otganiza- Tdlrhuroo, Flr. I am attempting to 4. Congressional Hearings i.:'liäì,1x1ç:ilf"îjåîf tions, committees or indjvidual persons . åïfr Íof in Garrett, Allegbny, lVashington, Highlight Amnesty Week Frederick or Montgomery Counties, 1.i Bgb.Pinkus' article in lleads & Tales lrma Zigas , Marvland who ate interested in I gave IVíII:I,2/5/761, incorrectly Box 211 Why lWon'tVote... Maybe r co-oidinating the Continental Walk as our address. Vlre would appreciate 6. am'disturbeo and offel{1d by A-nng, :niÍ#:Ti""1'ållf,ä; Allen Youiþ MorrissettDaviôon's review oimy plây,- ií"ï"rr. from the Md.8Pa. Iine near Hagerstown oublication of the correct bolnumber , " to lVashincton. DC. lor your readers' benefit.. "A Fable' ' lYlN, lI,/27 / 751, for m!' _JEAN-CIAITDE VAN ITALLIE 8. Burying War. at the Pentagon sake, hers and theolav's. ---õnúäil'."t,"å$å:tåî31,"- coNTAef: Mike Abell, 12801Twin- REYIEW & DIGESÎ l[""* Parkivay, Apt. T-6, Rockville, -VEGETAnIAN Bud Day Her article is not'a rêview of her feel--- brook ,/t ings-to the play which she Mayland 20851. Oi call: (301)468-9392. Hrverford, ,'"hjiffii \ say;;ère 10Ì Findin'g Brotherhood in New Bq)d, but to other reviews. Iir her first Jergey / Dri Ralph H. Walker and last lines she says she had agoo¿' ' ' . Frequently omitted in discussing The Canadian postal strike has delayed experielce, that she went without pre- patriarchy is the oppression ofyôung 12. Finding the Whale's Magic my reply to Lariy Ericksons letter [WIN, conceptions, and that she urges other people which is basic to authoritariañ . Laughingbird l0/8/751. peopleto go. Evetything elsãin her þroõesses. Daily repression is inflicted . It should not only sound and feel article contradicts tåis. Her review is an on young people, who are relatively 14. Spanish Covernment Cracks strange for a pacifist (sic) to say that the ap_ology for her feelings and for the powerleãs'coñpáred to those- who åre Down on CO'S / Spanish .Vietna¡nese probably "çeuldntt have plry. manipulating them, with lifelong. Co n sci e ntou s Ob j ector s C rou p done it without us, ''' but it has to be the . _F_9n!mypointofviewthereshould psycfiiceffecIs; itisroutineforf,eople HISTORY most insolent show of arroeancei vet to ideally be no reviews at all. An audie4ce tointernalize their childhood feärs, and 17. Changes be disgorged from an insen"sitivity bred pets_on should come to a play ."grow up" to imitate the behavior'of and.feel' piece oïtle mindless, soul-less society of good_ot bad about it. Revieri,s aré t'o gef théir tyrânnizers. As long as authori- I burn a cradle in a of oak 20. Reviews r975 USA. people to cometo a ,,per- play or to tett thein tarian dynamics are retalned in I burn th.e unsplitable elm that died, Cover: Cotlective Potato Print by Those lucky, Iucky Vietnamese who to stay away. What her article does is sonal" dailv lives, similar dvnamrcs to are with the doors inside. Walls r have been spared so much; thanks to fill any proõpective âudience person bound to eiist in political Susan, Dwight, Mark, Murray with môvements flicker, the night our magnificent anti-war movement. the preconceptions she says she was and throughout the society; and Bob. One "fact". you omitted-how many fortünate nofto trauã, árd";hi"ir ¡fi " I feel thËre's unnã""iräw oofrÅioo pushes back with íts hard cold years could have been cut offthe war if conttaryto her stated reaction. when critiques ofpatriarchi, and sexism hands, its whitç moons; STAFF our movement really had it together, TheYillage Yotce in fact gave us a turn aroun-d and tâlk aboutihe need for bark and core crack, instead of all the scrambling in:fighting fave review,,but it had not men to become more or " " appeared "feminine" Dwight Ernest Bob Ereeston . to get on that ego-tripping t"rain. when she wrote her article. fnìtead tealize the "femate" in them. This catch on together. I burn notes i she Mary Mayo Mark Morris '¿. . I can only hope that any of our Indo.t read , an earlier feature article bv an seems remarkably similar to the cliched from the attic. Old tenants Susan Pines Murray Rosenblith. i china friends who may read this im- editor who hated the play and för assertion that feminists are tryingto turn yellow and gold; ' pressive list of "facts" will hold fast reasons to best known tõ hérself decided become more "masculine"-fohõn puff ';,!':.i; their compassionate understanding of to quote whole paragraphs of what generally ' loveletterg out like UNINDICTED that they are striving to do is CO.CONSPIRATORS human nature, and rþmember that not prticle and to respond to it rather than to to shake offthè oppression ofenforced the work of spiderS. I slip only is there a difference between "A Fable." roles such as pasõlvity and male-defined my rings in the fire: Jan Barry Lance Belville Maris Cakars" anti-wai activists and their respective I readher apologizing to the Vil"ge virtues. lcôefiting thä ideã iñat a Susan Cakars* Jerry Coffin* Lynne Shatzkin Coffin" l'm quick, but I get burned. Ann capitalist governments, but thëre are Yolce, of all places, for having liked gender is a synonym for particular Davidon Diana Davies Ruth Dear the Ralph DiGia* Br¡an Doherty also differences between anti-war ac- play anyway. She does more or less characteristics tacitly buys into the When night dies into smoke William.Douthard. the Karen Durbin* Chuck Fager Seth Eoldv Jim Forest tivists themselves. Vive la difference! same thingwith two other newspaper sexist stereotypes about supposed I scoop the ashes out and sift Lar,ry Cara . Joan Libby Hawk* NeilHaworth ^ ^ i.Crace Let me remind you though it hardly articles. tVtryt Why aoes she taÈe' innate qualitiä's of men or what lasts. I keep valuables, Ed Hedemann Hedemann .r needs saying-that no one recognized, whatever negative remarks other people women-equating certain human Hendrik Hertzberg* Karla Jay Marty Jezpr* appreciated and gave more heart-felt avoiding coals Becky Johnson Nancy Johnson Paul Johnson have wtitten and respond to themlatñer qualities wilth bio[ogy. , ' Alison Karpel Craig Karpél John Kyper ¡r. thanks, at every possible opportunity, than to the play itselff Further, she fol- As long as patriaíðhy exiets, oppres- like hearts. Nails Elliot.Linzer* Jackson Mac Low Daú¡ä McReyñolds. for the mòral and practicàl aid received lows the lead of the Votce writer sion wiil õontinue. Thii is also-üuê'of hinges, doorknobs, rings I string David Morris J im Peck Tad Richards she lgal Roodenko* Fred Rosen' from every corner of the world (not only quotes in refetring to "the text" but capitalism, racism .Nancy Rosen not and classism-and of around my wrists, wear them EdSanders WendySchwartz* MarthaThomases- . the Americans helped, you know) than to the author, to the "performance" but course all such oppressive dynamics are Art Waskow Allen Young Beverly Woodward did our Vietnamese, laotian and Cam- not_to the actors by naìne. The I into town. People look at me like only ohe intertwined. SoniËtimes wónder why 'Member of WIN Editorial Board bodian friends. Ho¡vever, they were ofthe twô characters in the play tliat she there is so often such emphasis on de- I am crazy, They forget. equally firm in their analysis (and his- mentions, the principal oneishe refers finingthe "primary óondadiction"; I'm tory, if not Larry Ericksori, will bepr to as "a youth" and "he, " seemingly sure ihis emþhasis springs largely from Box547 / Rifton / New 1 them out) that the war would eventually not having noticed that this role wal- justified angèr over ñaviñg continuous Kilgore Telephone: 91 4-339-4585 be won primarily by the dedication, skill played a -K. by woman, Tina Shepard outtages diõcounted as insignificant; WIN is published weekly except for the first two weeks and courage of.their own people, to- You will understand that to a olav- and vét it seems to me that ultimatelv- in January, the last week in March, the first week in gether with assistance from abroad. w{gJrt this is all maddening. Fu^fthär, we need to align ourselves with the June, the last two weeks in ,August, and the first two weeks in September by W.l.N. We should live so long as to see our "A Fable" is likely the last-of a genre situations of ail people sttugglit-rg Magazine lnc. with the own people support of the War Res¡sters League. Subscriptions are so well disciþlined, skilled started in the 1960s by some of tie against systemaiizeã victimization. The $11.00 per year. Second class postage paid at New and committed to the overthrow of our actors in "A Fable," Chaitin and mv- oñeoine multifarious attacks on vast York, NY 10001. lndividual writers are responsible for .own. monstrous govef nments, self. This genre is now called "col- " nuäteis of people-whether because opinions expressecl and accuracy of facts given. Sorry- manuscripts cannot be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. Printed in USA 2 WIN wtN 3 T- I IIILLION FMEHItrRNS NEEtr RMNESTY ceive twice as many courts-martial as whites ãnd have twice as many bad discharges. Mayor Thompson ended his testilnony b| stating: 650,000 ì/ETEBF]{5 WITH LESS- More than 100years ago men foughtto'keep my THRN.HONOFRBLE OISCHFBGES people enslaved-inclu.ding Robert E'. Lee and I 3OO,OOO NON-FEE¡sTRñNTs JeÍferson Davis-:and weré subsequently given sbNA[ heARiruq zo,ooo ctvtl-tñN BE5|5TEF5 amnesty. A little more than'a y.ear agq Richard ,'..25,OOO DESERTERS Nixon's crimes were pardoned. ltwill bethe'., RES|STEBS t . {4,OOO trFFFT gravest iniustice if President Ford and the .:' pol T '\'., I,OOO,OOO Congress conti n ue N i xon's v i ndi ctive ici es toward those who opposed the lndoçhina War. * perspective provided -t Another for amnesty was by t .THEY sFItr NO TO Dr. Richard Harger, Associate Professor of Psychology àt J ackson State University. A former AMNE ,Air hhhlhhr Force intelligence officer with four years of ',HN uNJUsr wRR ) Vietnam-related service, he received the bronze medal with leaf cluster for combat t star and air oak ¡ in Vietnam. He pointed out that because he was a forner intelligence officer, he knew far better 5 than most how the American public wãs deceived about our country's military invelvement in lndo- \i SUPPORT china, and how that deception has sincebeen used to cloud the issue of amnesty. Deception during NRTIONRL the war involved misinforming the American people regarding the conflict ánd withholding in- o FMITESTY WEEK formation from them. Dr. Harger pointed out that the American public was, not off icially informed of by IRMA zqAS FEB. Z?.?,9, 197Ê our'bombiríg cartrpaign in Laos until 1970, tho it began in 1964; a f lagrant violation of the Geneva ' ' Poster from NCUUA/LNS Accords. He also stated that as early as J anuary National Amnesty Week has now ended, but the his claim, whi.le 1968, US medical officials in Saigon estimated that whites in the area got CO classifi- Selecíive Service that the Chairman of his local ongoing campaign for universal unconditional cations almost civilian war iasualties were occurring at the rate automatically, without a hearing. iboard was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, the amnesty.continues. Over 300 activities took place They sent the of about 100,000 a year. This estimate indicates now Mayor an inductíon order w-hile ' director replied that there wãs not anything itlegal q in 48 of lhe 5p states, and in Canada, France, his appeal was pending, a violation that civilian casualties were considerably higher of their own . about that and said itwas the same as a Catholic à England, Belgium and Sweden; ten governors and regulations. He received than the combined military losses of American three more induction being able tÒ make an.unbiased of a 20 mayors issued proclamations declaring classification and South Vietnamese soldiers. As we once again orders and was only able to keep his office by ewish rêgistrant. Natíonal Amnesty Week. One of the major ac- going to court. He was constantly harassed until J conside¡ the issue of amnesty, we have a moial Both Mayor Thompson and Charles J enkins tivities during the week was the J oint Hôuse/ the draft came obligation to ask, ' 'Whv?'' Why were so many in- to an end. agree that total and unconditiqnal amnesty is the Senate Congressional Conference on Amnesty Another speaker was Charles E. enkins, a nocent people killed and wounded during the that took place J only way to right the injustices heaped upon on Feb. 26th in Washington. Íhe nativ.e Mississippian and former SNCC organizer Vietnam war? "Whatever you may think of those ..i minorities and the poor. Any form of case-by-case 4 Fund for New Priorities initiated the conference who lived years who refused to serve in Vietnam, one thing ¡s for four with the constant lear of review would only result in inore injustices. They which was sponsored by Sen. Philip Hart imprisonment. clear: they did not take part in the atrocity." He .- ¿,t l: He also applied for CO status and stated, "The draft has never been and can never (Michigan) and co-sponsored by 34 members of was denied. ended his testimony with the following statement: :";',¡ He appealed the decision and lost. ln be fair and equitable. As an institution, it reflects the House and Senate. The National Council for 1969 he was ordered to report for induction and the worst in our society." As a combatà,nt in Vietnam, I was an instrument of Universal Unconditional Amnesty (NCUUA) rgfu¡gd; he was arrested in March 1970. During Mayor Thompson also spoke of other black a policy ol oppression and indiscriminate destruc- assisted in o¡ganizing and providing some of the the FBl. interrogation questioned he was primaiily people in Mississippi who were not as fortunate as tion. When lfollowed our country intothe jungles speakers for the conference. Among the partici- about civil rights He was activities. releaèed on he was. His friend immy Smith announced his oÍ Indochina, I began a lonìg and exhaústing pants was Bennie Thompson, Mayor of Bolton, bond and confined to the Northern District J of candidacy for Mayor of Port Gibson in 1970 and ¡ourntey, one which took me deep into the heart ot Mississippi. Mayor Thompson spoke of the in- M.ississippi- ln September 1970 'huma¡ the DA dropped immediately was sent an induction order. He, too, suffering. On that t leained well" justices of the draft from personal experience. His all charges because of Welch iournäy, , the decision (ihat went to court, but lost and was drafted despite the role of foreign taskmaster. I know how trying trouble.begi-n when he announced his candidacy conscientious objection could be based on moral medical evidence that he was unfit. He was dis- to dominate other peoples in other /ands Saps the for public office in 1969. Along with two other issues). This did notfaze the State Directorbf charged after 60 days of service because he was strength of strong men and strong,nations. black men, he was elected to the Board of Alder- Selective Service, who immediately reopened the found to be too ill. A young black man who was a Our military crusade against the Viet Cong and men. in Bolton, giving the board a black majority case. Charles go had to through the whóle ordeal high school classmate of Mayor Thompson's is in the North Vietnamese left us physically and for the first time. The old white power structure again, requesting CO classification, making knew that if they could remove him from exile in Canada because he refused to submit morally exhausted. To continge the Ford office personal appearances and appeals. ln J anuary when, as he put it, "The US government wanted Ad m i n i str ati o n's v i nd ictiv e cr u sade a gai n st those they could restore their control, because the 1971, he again refused índuction, was not arrésted mayor's me to forget the violence my people suffered in who refused to be agents of death and destruction office was still held by an old-guard white until J uly 1972. After a year of motions and hear- Mississippi and attempted to force me to serve. I in Vietnam will serve only to f urther divi.de and man who would have appointed his successor. ings the tríäl was held'in une J of 1973. He was refused to go to Vietnam when I felt my fight was degenerate us as a people. There can be no They tried to draft him. (He lost his teaching finally acquitted. Four years of Charlès, life was in Mississippi and instead went to Canada, as greater miscarriage of justice than to grant a tull deferment when he was elected to office.) H; f¡led spent fíghting his ríghts. for He stated in his many my fled the US on the Under- Presidential pardon to a former Executive for CO status. The all-white draft board refused testimony of ancestors Chiet "Had not my local board been ground Railroad over100 years ago." who commilted crimes while in oÍfice, and then to composed of a group racists, of I would have been Black people comprised only 12.60/o of the Armed deny.universal and unconditional amnesty to lrma Zigas is Chairperson of WRL and works with granted CO status when I first applied." When it Forces in Vietnam, but suffered 20o/o of combat those who refused military sèrvice in an immoral NCUUA. was pointed out to the Mississippi Director of fatalities. 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ì BY Allen Young The news from the New Hampshire primary just Socialist Workeró or the People's party are came in, and my first choice among the Demo- practically silenced. Third, the office of president crats, Fred Harris, received only 11o/o ol the vote. ; has been stripped of many of its powers-multi- I dqn't see much hope for the Harris candidacy, national corporations and sinister semi-secret and it's beginning to look to me that my choice in assassination-prone agencies seem to be making November is going to be between Ronald Reagan many decisions in today's world. Fourth, all of the and Hubert Humphrey. Yesterday, I discussed the candidates so fa¡ are straight white men'wearing a election with a good friend, a veteran of the 1968 suits and ties (thè unoff iciãl un¡toim oi tne pâtril $ I la ra Columbia University strike who lives here in the archy)-surely this says something about the a a I i I ._¡ .r Massachusetts countryside. He said that in a racism and sexism built into the svstem; r ¡ Reagan-Humphrey contest, he'd vôte for ln the past, a significant portion of the elec- Humphrey. His argument was that things are very torate-ranging from about2io/o to about bad now and anything would be better than the '4oo/o-has t' ábstained from voting in national W ¡a ! reactionary il domestic and foreign policy we have elêctions. We are generally led tó believe that under the Republicans. Another friend says he's these people are exhibiting "bad citizenship,', 5Ia( sorry he voted for Dick Cregory in 1968 when the that they are ignorant or lazy and irresponsible. tn choice was Humphrey versus Nixon - he says a f act, common sènse te//s us that this huge bloc oÍ victory for Humphrey then might have resuited at non-voters, whi le representing many different ! ¡ t a¡ least in more liberal Supreme Court appointees. kinds of consciousness, has in Common a visceral It. i I ¡¡ Well, those are some of the arguments for or well-thought-out contempt for the American Humphrey, and some people may find them con- politicalsystern as it now exÌsts. This contempt, vinc.ing (despite Humphrey's awful record on held by a massive number of the American Vietnam). Some people faced with a Humphrey- peopf e, has never been clearly and loudly articu- d Reagan choice may go to the Socialist Workers or lated. People's Party lines; these "protest votes" are I think 1976 offers a perfect opportunity for the , certainly a valid response to what Barbara Carson non-votgr's voice to be heard. Non-voters should ' once ' described 1,¡1*ur 1960, the Kennedv-Nixon be encouraged to understand their abstention as J¡ la election) as "a choice between shit or garbage." ' an important expression of a widespread point of Bqt at the moment, l'm leaning towãrd stäl view. The non-voter is not "apathetic"; he or she another response I see as valid, and in this elec- is usually angry and disgusted. That point of view tion year, I feel it is thè best response. I am re- should be explained to the public at largè. This ferring to abstention. Hell, np, I won't vote! year, the media are going to have to deal with There are many traditional "anarchist" argu- abstention because of the likelihood it will be the ¡ ments for not voting. The best one, it seems to largest in recent history. Ihe New York Times me, is that by voting you give your energy to the recently ran a front-page article in which leading- very system you oppose. Now, I am not against political scientists predict 50olo abstention. The Cartoon by overton loydlFifth Estate. the electoral process in principle. I think fhe professors acknowledged that people are / notion of making decisions thru a democratic vote alienated from the political system, but in the It is important, however, for contempt of the structures. One of the most.vyidespread is a fine one. Even so I feel much better about article, the fimes tended to obfuscate the reasons , current American political system not to be complaints of the American citizenry is that poWe-r voting in a town election, tho much of the power of for this alienation. interpreted as contempt for democracy itself , or is centered in Washington (or in state capitals). ' government ' town has been eroded by state and People who do not vote should be made to feel the end result could be grooming the people for Historically, the opposition to this centralization of '.,. national legislation. that they ar.e doing something valid and totalitarianism. lt is not the idea that "one vote power is one of the most important grass-roots ln the case of the US presidency, however, the important. Abstention will be made even'more doesn't countf 'or "voting is stupid." lt is impor- sentiments of the American democratic tradition. - electoral process cannoi honestly'be defined'as a noticeable if voters go to the polls and possibly fill tant to focus on the specifìc, reai reasons thatthe Too often, the Left has seen this only in tqrms of democratic vote. First of all, money plays too big a out other portions of the ballot while refraining vote is not truly democratic at this time-and this reactionary trends such as racist "states rights" role in the prócess, patricularly with-in the two from voting in the Presidentialcolumn. Ab- means focussing on multinational corporations, on sentiments. lt is important for people on the Left capitalist parties. Second, the media make impor- stainers should be encouraged to tell their friends the power exercised by millionaires and big to articulate a decentralist point of view that is not tant preliminary decisions as to who sþall be con- and neighbors about their choice, to write to their business in the two capitalist parties, on the reactionary or racist, one which defends the Bill of sidered a "serious" candidate-and stifling role of the commercial media, and con- Rights, in this way' representatives in Congress about it, and to write on but which also caters to the negds of local alternative slates such as those offered by the letters to their newspapers tinuing attempts to exclude women and racial peoplq who want to determine their own destinies lf a well-articulated, self-conscious abstention minorities from a major role in the political without interference from "specialists" in distant Allen Young lives on a Massachusetts farm. With proves to be a major factor in the 1976 election, process through intimidation and other means. capitals. Karla Jay he is co-editor of the recently published then it will play a majòr educational role in Abstention in the Presidential election will also Þ.S. November is nine months away, and I may gay anthology,.Atter You're Out. radicalizing people's view of the political process. give many voters a unique opportunity to express change ' my mind between now and then, but this their disagreement with centralized political is how I feel about the election at this time. 6WtN

g wrNz that the recent secret CIA funding of covert ' war- believe very designing, and fare in Angolawas not built upon*proper the building, possession of these weapons,is wrong . . . it mgans channeling or open discussion, nor d¡ä adrrinis- death for us and our children," The judàe allows BU,RYINC T[U[R tration falsifications reflect a commitment to truth. that digging a symbolic grave to bury a iymbolic Uncle hardly merits incarceratipn, but .. Our theme-DISARM OR DtC CRAVES-ie- Sam the offer of $50-$100 f ines is turned dowñ bv all nine ' flects the deep conviction of 55 vigilers (as well AÍ[TIIE PENTAGON as for.reasons of conscíence, since paying ihe f¡nes the many concerngd citizens we represent) thât would mean supporting tlÍe unjust system - i "secu-rity, at this inoment in the nuclear age, \' of:r so-called "justice." ' BUD DAY depends not on matching the USSR bombioi Ñãiiaui, fori ot ,r negotiate the formalitils, nuclear test for nuclear test, or counter- There þomb, frisking, and f ive locked steel doors to qualify as are over 50 giant steps leading from the force weapon for weapon, but in wórking for a Potomac-basin parking lot up to visitors in the dingy DC jail. I visit inmate number thèãwesome climate in which such weapgns have lesland less ¡ Pentagon.,How can I aþpeaicasual, when my rneaning.l' 157-719, Daniel Berrigan, also his brother Phil. heartbeat has Thru them I learn that Jim, Lee, Mike, Bob, and already ðoubled? Oné companion, ¿ Rumsfeld's response: he is "not available.,, . veteran o{ 'Our Brian are scattered in other-cells. (Jo and Beth are OraV-ins and tiger. cage demonitrations, counter-response: representing alt . the in the Women's Detention Cenler: across town). releases the tension by striking an absurd statuarú vigilers, 12 petitioners sit in on the pentagon posebn SCRUTINY? ln the manner of tÉ¡oral readers, - The 30-day "scholarship" in "the ho[e,'í,'çsll an empty garden pedeltal, wh.ile anoihãi,' steps, stating: "We are convinced this adminis- vigilers as block no. 1, with who has served extensive prison-time for anti-wai tration is showing an unprecedented willingness elaborate they address deaf official comes complete deadlock civil disobedience, s_ngps photo. ears: (around-the-clock lock-up), good food, roaches, his But anxiety to use nuclear weapons. . . and will use great r4ts, and blaring simultaneous two-channel Tou.rlts as I realize DOD cameras are already oî- secrecyto hide the implications of this policy from Rumsfeld has refused to give Americans a ficially recording stereophonic television. (Dan: "Thè worst part is our movement across the ex- the public and from the Congr.ess. . . The new choice in their survivalor dõath. pansiv-e gardens getting the commercials mixed up.") , and the VIP parking lot. I remind policy of Flexible and Selective Targeting Options Sorneone must speak the truth about counter- Between us, a sound-proof gilass barrier en- myself that the Pentagon is simply ai instrument encourages pre-emptive strikes and brings very force strategy. in the hands of a governmônt, forces the edict, "Don't touch !" "epitome of civilian of the close the reality of nuclear extínction . . . t¡m¡teä It makes the nuclear annihilation more feasible -the people, the system,l' as Dan had earlier deicribed it. designèd to defend us all. Or'is it? nuclear war wiil of necessity lead to all-out nuclear and more probable. Furthermore,12 '"Don't touch-be abstract, about Cod and death - days ago, our sisters and war. : . The new weapons systems under contract The Flexible Targeting doctrine rneans a deci- brothers and life and love. Don't'touch-make war at a of Jonah House did send by certified mail are not defensible in open controvgrsy. . ."only low sion to tight nuclear war, not to deter it. prepared distance. Don't touch your enemy except to lcar:efully letter to Defenie Secretary visibility can save th'em." Then, the punch line, Rumsfeld-along with Ford and D.onald destroy him." (No BarS To Manhood, page 16). Rumsfeld, requesting an audience. lsnrt requesting that Rumsfeld agree to open off icialiy Kissinger-are, in truth,'digging a rnass grave. proper a Touching by phone and facialexpression, we chat- that the channel? And, in keeping with the national debate on nuclear arms policy. They are, indeed, burying the liÍe and spirit of about specific matters. I am deeply moved by Candhian principle of open integrityãù tÍe core of Meanwhile, the silent vigiI contínues. I America. look Dan's serenity in this man-made cage. For him, nonviolent confrontation, didn't we-distribute 120 down the line: women and men, old and young/ Another banner is unfurled: CHOOSE THEN: press clearly the distant abstract concerns such as death releases yesterday? Not to mention the several people who regularly help feed DISARM OR DIC CRAVES.,The sit-in group 3ó0 or and life and national priorities and insane nuélear stands, locks arms to block entry to the Pentagon arms policies become primary and localized in and declares, "We will remain here until Rums- {,i, thought and action. feld agrees to initiate a national debate on nuclear ln this confessional setting, l'recall Dan's : policy, or has us arrested." Stalemate. chal- lenge to us all . . . . . "There is no peace because But, the intense drama is only.þeginning, as six there are no peacemakers." death figures, wearing deathly-white masks and black robes, begin digging with shovels in the garden lawn. Who is that helping them? The red-white-and-blue striped pants and tophat make clear his identity- Uncle Sam, digging his own grave. The rnourning vigilers move to a protective encirclement, but delay police vans only a few minutes. Nevertheless, before the arrests begin, Uncle Sam is "buried," complete with lyhite crosses and epitaphs memorializing "our childrén" and,"1ife on earth." Such a burial seems disturbingly appropÉiate, with Pentagon police as.honor guard, only a short distance from Arlington National Cemetery.

ì Police move in, arrest the diggers-yes, even the one in red-white-and-blue. Strange feelin:gs, l in this buy-centennial year, watching even Uncle I Sam be frisked, handcuffed and hauled off. The l Pentagon 19 were arrested, tried and given five-day suspended sentences. Reflection: "not availabie," no media coverage, low visibility trial, handbills persons dead. we offer to enter¡ñg and leavinc more of DC's hungry in a soup kitchen, a public The scene changes to the DC courtroom this entrance to the Pentagon.A hieh- theologian and two conscientious obieétors from the , ranking next Monday, as the White House Nine go on trial officer refuses my handbill-and I reflect another country, more veterans of the struggle to for a similar action last Thanksgiving. Statements end the war in Vietnam, a group of internaliõnal of intent make it clear Bud Day is former director of the East Lansing relations students. A póste"r ruádi, RUMSFËlD, again that concerned Peace Education citizens object to the Ford-Schlesinger-Rumsfeld Center. CAN YOU RISK COUÑTERFORCE TO PUBLlC preparation to fight "limited" nuclear wars. ','We SWtN WIN ' 'Uncle Sam " digs in r 9 Ir

' Many them sent a tingle of pleasure io rn, Things began to move after that. The cold of l've iust had an incredible experience! spiné. We all were in touch with this profound ' -rÉð luncÈeõn bulfet ryas excellent' I had int-eresting U-ihure for the confeien ce, Changing feef ing of suþport, concern and love that flowed -' mv tablé companions, two of whom were tor tne weekend of Januarv 23rd talk wittr Then, someone said, we stand M;;. ;it;äuteá of â Men's Croup in Marvland' among us. "Can ntv Com m u n itv Col I ege, h ad n' t iã"à:ii." I äi ärj ti i" e-t- öã, "ätèiáns our table, and we began and form a circle'ùvith our arms around gach g; i Ãnã. iácL Nichols ioined looked pa-rticu I arly prom isi n no " mportant a¡d everyone flowed into this circle of over io of a sense of who he is as a human other" narnãi/; that I recôánized. nñd it was.one of the a hundred men who;were at f irst silent, then drains Ë"¡-"*i."éi.ore g"th ãft".noon workshops were valuable, weãkends oî the winter and all mv sway, and then began to sing-and I äíà;; oi pa.i¡cular note was Perry Kaufman's.slide began to it home and the Plumbers hadn't Ur't remembered how suffused with love I had been as ;;;il"t; taoe sËow, "Crowing Up Male ln America"' lt *;t ät trit to flée that as to aitend the a Boy Scout, singing around that campfire, many- ¿;;;; öit mäde ouitê vivid the fact that to grow up in conference that I went. years ago when I had last been in touch with what --Ë.ìàãu À.ài¡ð" as a male is to grow up alienàted from featured speaker, Jack brotherhood really means. ' opened the one another and from our own selves' Ni.tràlr]au*oi""ãning's õf Men" Liberation, -"ú Finally, directly opposite me, the chain broke, that he was.gav *äï åi tñ" i"ig"-g.oup seision after supper .;i;;ú¿"- I learned as he talked rolling up on the rest of the authored I thai i learned thaia yóunÈ man l'd met earlier in and each end begah ãiäit'tãf*¡th his lover he had earlier poetry' we were all one great mass of men I one of my groups was read some of his chain until uor"- È un with You than Anvbodv which !o Ë'Ñä'h;d;i only gifted as a writer but that pressed together, touching one a4other:, hugging hãárd of but never read' And,. I felt he ánã if,"t hãwai,not l;;tt also. I had ã different sense of mv one another, kissing one anotherland I was near some of the anxieties of men's ñé i"áUr well ä¡U tóu.f, on : I you realizerhow sub- gav self *h"n I returned to the Holiday lnn that to tears when said, "Do it;ne another, whether or,straight, . ;;1";l''rg him. We stayed for a while at the versive this is? lf all'men got in touch with this i; il"i ihãt seemed tó bvpass mãnv of the usual óvén¡ng w¡th cash ba-r that had been set up for the conference part of themselves, how could they make awar?" ãnã then retired. We learned the next day that as And someone near me responded, "Yes, nobody the evening wore on, members of the group in- would come!" filtrated thé dance floor at the bar and that many There was still a Scramble to excha'nge'ad' danied, alone and together, ending with a big dresses, to seek out and give a last'hug to. people circle- dance. you'd come to know, or to many you'd only seen Sundav morning began late, but wa9 valuable' I ând not met. Several came up and hugged me attended'a workshbp entitled, "Gay Men-Do saying they just wgnted to thank me just for being i-hãv Ñeed to Be Lilierated?" and the conclusion thóreãnd saying or doing what l.had done; I *äitt'ui tft"V certainly do' By the time we met for cannot begin to recall them all. verv clear that the psychic energy lunch. it was And I drove home again w¡th a totaily new sense were relaxed, free, noisy, iãvel *as high. P'eople of who I am.and what it is to be a man, and the were a lot of last-minute almost rowdv. There early winter darkness and thq discovery that not of public expressions qÞqut ãnnõrn.".ents, a lot onlí had the plumbers not.fixèd mydriáhs, but añd I stood gP tp say "l just , inãiui¿ual expeiience, now the water was frozen as well couldn't dim the {\.4 to ail you straights that I think you are want tell glow I felt. tr borrowed a jug of water from the people!" That not onl.v got the.l3ggh ¿ãiitc""¡ ñeighbor to make coffee and knew I could deal but was also a kind of public i d trå,p-ed it would witñ the pipes later. I knew I mus[ record what Finally, Perry asked if we' ärf¡.rnãi¡on:for me. this incredible experience was like for me. ;did¡ikâto move into the Student Lounge whe-re *ãioulJi¡i-around in a circle and share some of At Burlington County Community College a lot is right to love o¡e ',i wtritha¿ come up for us during the conference' of men found out that it all 4 The cornmentspeoþle made were affir:mative, another. As I said to one of the men who had been sensitive, loving. Everyone who most frightened at the beginning and who was i- ] | Walker is Associate ProÍessor of supportive, Dr. Ralph H. having very pos¡tlv among those who came to hug me goodbye-still a I i r so Col I e ge shared indicated S iriá, Èd u cati on at W i I a m P àte n v statèment was of the kind that bit stiifly, perhaps, but nonetheless honestly- Woodcut from Motive/LNS "ro ey. He is a tounding member of the ãxperiences. Each óiÑé*lri.t ;'wo*, I I felt thât too! " "See, the sky doesn't fall down, does it?" Men's CrouP on camqus. ;J¿ó vã" irrink, veah t" --

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BY RRLP}I }I. IURLKER 10wlN lT -' I ,.

! ( I was young in New Jerséy ¡n ihe lg+Os, in the when I waq youhg and devout. P.raying, the : : .grease and glare of gas station, drive-in culture. message cáme across pretty early in my life, The so-calleã real wórld often did not meet my didn't i'work" so if you absolutely had to be wish,for perfêction; r¡ùhen we walked through the religious, you better go off and keep it to yourself . cool green grass of the park, we held our noses to Feeling very small and timid, I prayed to myseJf keep out the stench of the chemical fumes from on the hot sands, and sang a soft, wordless chant. the nearby perfume factory. How could anything "Creat vyhales,r' I prayed'td them, have that was sold to smëll so good actually smell so worked for your protection, f.or your"'l tribes to . ;, bdd, we used to wonder. - flourish. I óome here peacef ully, loving you)^ So, to make the world of that industrial subuib wishing for your happy well-being. Please hêar I more truly beautiful, I conjured things up. Early my praler, ánd eift'riìó with a sigñt of you, ds a ( on, I conjured up a whalê. lt was night; billowing sign your \ 'clouds. of closeness."' moved across the sky lit by a full moon. The heat rose in waves froin the'sand. Time ¿ There, rising to sotne deep lunar pull, å great went by in a welcome monotony. I scanned the whale broke from the ocean, roared and arçed out ocean, and sometimes closed my eyeg. Everyth'ing: of the waters, throwing tiny boatsfull of whalers slowed, fell awa14. Finally, Íar off , the back of a high in the air. The whale was pierced by a har- , whale glistened for an iñstant in the sun,. then poon. lt was a blue whale, the biggest creaiure I lauÉhtngbird disappeared into the water. I jumped up, elated-. had ever seen or imagined. lts gigantic size and For a'minute, tears f illed my eyes. Then I sank awful plight amazed and sorrowed me. For years, down on the sand. I prayed more. I resolved to that scene was one of my closestcompanions. cälm myself , in'case the whale came.again. "This I longed to see a whale "in reality." Once, my is just you and me talking, whale." I said. " l am mother, brother and I went to the Museum of simple." . .Natural History in New York, where my brother An actual friendly encounter took placb Tirree whales curved up and slid bac[ into the , solemnly presented a curator with the collection of between a Right Whale and a woman water again. Af l I saw was the arc of their black : diver off the coast of Patagonia, South bones and semi-precious stones he had unearthed America. Draw¡ng by Tony Mqllin. backs, but it was like seeing something you've \ in suburban fields. There was a big, paper mache loved for a long time, at last. I peered into thê , rpodel of a blue whale there, suspended stiffly ocean as if it were my own eyes. "Whaf whales \ 'from the ceiling. are you?'-' t asked them. "Please show me yoyr After that I spent a lot of time imagining the form, thatil may know your tribe and keep thé room, in which it hung filling with water, the cords iight of you close to me." Something happened to which held it like a puppet dropping off; the the time, and ever'¡Tthing got very slow after that. creature quicken ing, swimm ing, turn ing, leaping Very slowly then, an incr:edibly beautifu[; huge through the dissolving roof to a metropolis now humpback whale rose vertically up out of the completely submerged-the vision of the great water, held, then slid down again. I heard my blue whale let loose! lt let loose in me a sense of mind saying, 1'J ust,once more, more slowly, q ' power. please whale." I felt myself click into afocus of , l'grew up. No whalês. When I moved to Cali- my da unusual clarity. I was very calm. When the whale fornia in the early seventies¡ I settled in a village her. " rose again, my eye was a fine lense. Time, it called Bolinas, Portuguese for whàle. There I met séemeã, had stopped entirely: To me, the whale 1' and became friends with Joan Mclntyre, a woman was very close; it apþeãied to be about three or . , : who was pondering how andwhether to starç an four feet away, though in "reality" it wàs way out .i organization to save the whales. I watched with ed with great joy.. on the ocean. But I saw it clearly, every detail of great interest as she put together Project Jonah Tokyo. lt was garish its form appeared with extreme precision. lts eye .;¡,.i with $20,000 seed money from the Point Founda. therei seemed to be between,"saving the whales" mechanical, fr:agmented. H looked into my own from an ancient,'wordless tl tion. Through her I began to learn aboutthe and just being in some morb natural rèlation to the out because of the pollution 'place. massacre of the great and small whales, began to world. like being in hell NoW I am reading this to my dpughter. She says identify again strongly with these intelligent; During this time, I was scheduled to got to Durihg that intense month of work there, the that it is a good story but some parts aren't true.' . pacifistic creatgres. I began again to see them as a J apan to work there,for the whales. ust before I idea that magic still moves in the world, even in What parts? I ask her. l'That part about flying," J I mþtaphor for.our present condition in the modern left, I went to play music for a Tibetan lama. that consum er science she tells'me. '¿l don't remember that." He / /étatistics/denatured " world, where all aspects of the natural world have seemed extraordinary to me, and seeing hifn craziness of Tokyo, sustained me. Still, I was ' "You wilt," I tell her. j' been regarded merely as industrial products. The made me feel happy in a way hard to describe with exhausted when I left Japan,'and decided to spend "r'ãðn;t ltl¡nt< si,'; ih" says to me. ' scene:from my childhood, of the great whale words. There were seven of us, even though the a few days in Hawaiito rest. So from the dark, Br.it I hope'she does remember how to get there,'-'' . harpooned against the night sky, came back to custom.is to go as a group of eight. As it was, gray, sRowy streets of Tokyp, I moved into the in her own visions of power, and to make them , me When Joan asked me to join Project Jonah, I everylhing felt perfect there. steamy, shimmerirtg greens and blues of Hawaii , real. I hope allof us do,'and soon. The emergèncq -' did gladly. A few nights later, I had a vivid dream. ln it I and itp bright, bright sun. of a world where no boundaries exist between . For a yêar, I coordinated an international was flying high over a vast, shining ocean, and my It was like a breãthtaking leap from yang to yin. what is natural and what is magic is so much.more childreÁs' campaign to save the whales; an èffort daughter was flying beside me. Far below us, .l lay on the hot white sandjlistõned totheãeliéate exhilerating, so much more truly en'ergetic, than which took place iñ many countries, inciuding whales began to surface. They looked like sperm rustle of the ironwood trees and watched the the linear, rational view that industrial homo Sweden, Australia, Cermany, Francel'Mexico, whales; their square heads and glearning black bright blue of the water stretching out to the sapiens câls reaiity apan and the US and Canada. Doing environ- bodies shone in the sun. At that moment, there horizon. J They'made a big circle mentalwork made me high; lfelt lwas acting was no separation between dream and reality, be- I took a plane to another: islartd and decided to healers ritual-makers positively in the world. Sittine inside Jonah'i of- tween me and whales, bètween my human self pray forwhales. tt seemed much more- realistic câtnei musicians, and my bird enibodiment. Something opened in than anything else I could think of then. lt also see? it rights itself now. Laughingbird, who used to be Blackbird, lives in me. When'all the whales surfaced, there were madg me very uncomfortable in some way. All my We attdãnced again. Itworked. Berkeley and last wrote în WIN about Tibetan seven. I remember counting them and turning to I feeling praying was good Buddhism (7/3/7s). life had the that outre, even lt came out of,.a feeling. 12 WIN ,y wrN 13 S¡nrnish 0r I llll,rlú 0l':toks h)rvll tln 0l)b ' At i:AO am, Sünday, February Ùth, six conscien- an alternate service. Discussion groups were himself a CO in Spain. A nonviolent activist and ln April, a court-martial sentenced Pepe to 11 lnternatisnal, monthi' imprisonment. ln May, two more COs tious ob,jectors werë arrested in a deprived quarter organized to publicize the problem.and contacts , member of War Resisters Pepe had -appeared: of Barcelona where they have been doing were made with foreign GO groups, especially in already been detained three tinlès by the police Jordi Agullo, JOC militant, turner voluntary community.service since /ast August as France. The Government refiliedto a fäw lettórs, for his activities as delegate of the Students' mechanic, and Victor Boj, a physics student. Jordi part of a civil disobedience action'to obtain saying that the theme was !being studied and Democratic Union. With his imprisonment began was sentenced to three years for disobedience recognition of the right to conscientious objection solutions sought." a vast international support campaigri, which had (p!us an accessory sentence to military service in a and to estab/ish a civilian service alternative to The situation was stable until a new letter-writ: been organized in advance. lt started with a disciplinary batallion in the Spanish Sahara and (a Victor's military seryice. This history of conscier¡tious ing campaign commenced in October , 1969, to "March to the Prison" walk from Ceneva to the Victor to six years for sedition. sentence obiectian in Spain was written by this group and denounce a situation of injustice that had been prison at Valencia) to request the liberation of followed a month spent in a lunåtic asylurn in a published /ast September by War Resisters lnter- completely overlooked. ln a pamphlet invfting COs. The march was led by fiVe Spaniards and ten cell for the violently insane. national. lt has been updated to.include recent people to join the campaign, various reasons ior people from other countries. More thân'7OO'ar- ln the summer a "poster cdmpaign" was developments. I g rived at the French-Spanish border where large going conscientious objection were isted - rel i ious, begun. lt consisted in out for a walk on Sun- ethical, etc. -and one of the points read, '11¡1s contingents of security forces were waiting for days in various Spanish towns-in couples or in errny, together with the church and the govern- them. The Spaniards were taken into custody and threes, Spaniards and foreigners-carrying Tho there is a long tradition of anti-militarism in ment, united with US inrperialism, maintains op- the others, who sat down in peaceful protest, were sandwich board posters requesting liberty of ex- Spain, it's been suppressed by the Franco regime pressive structures which prevent the develop- brutally charged by the police and forced to re- pression, a legal statute for COs, etc. Some cam- since 1939: Not till 1959 did the first cases of ment of justice and liberty." Two thousand léaf- treat. Hunger strikes followed, and also the occu- paigners were expelled from the country, others conscientious objection arise. Two Jehovah's lets were distributed by hand, and with this cam- pation of Spanish embassies in severalcountries. f ined or given prison terms of 3 days fo a month. Witnesses refused to wear military uniforms in paign as a basis, the first support group for COs Letters were written to the Spanish government, This, for nothing more than goin$ into the street the barracks. lt was an act so unimaginable in this 'country was formed in Valência. posters hung in Notre-Dame'in Paris, and peti- with a respectful poster. that the authorities did not know what to tions addressed (by the lntêrnational Commission É do with them. lhey were treated roughly in an at- ln April 1970, the Council of Ministers, quite As a résult of these actions, a second bill was '4. (and, of J urists, the Assembly of the Council of Europe, Ministers to Cortes. tempt to convince them and when they did not unforeseeably it seems, as a result of inter- - sent by the Council of the Amnesty lñternational, et a/.) urging Spanish f yield, national presiure from Amnesty !nteinational andl This bill was more carefully written than thq irst, . they were brought to trial. authorities to recogni2e the right of conscientioUs However, there was no provision military jurists) sent a.bill to the Cortes on but was equally def icient. Not only was conscien- in the code of f prêþared on the justice conscientious objection for religious motives. All objection.'ln Spain, a ile was tious objection to be limited to religious objectors, military fon those who iejected media, the bishops, other motives were excluded. The only exemption theme, which was sent to all but to those who were members of churches that recruitment. Quite arbitrarily;"article 328 on possible to was to be from armed service; the government members of the Cortes, etc. and it was specif ically forbid their members to bear arms. military disobedièncewas applied, and the get an unknown problem discussed at decreed that the creation of a special service was almost Objectors would still have to perform unarmed Witnesses were sentenced to prison terms of six street level. months to six years. When these sentences had impossible. Alternate service, then, would be in service in army units, As Blas Pinar (an outstand' been served, the men were once again taken to the army units, for a maximum period öf three years. ing f igure of the far right) said, "The humble atti- barracks and ordered to don uniforms. They would This bill, in spite of being a first step, was fâr from tude of the Jehovah's Witnesses is converted in not submit and were again condemned. This hap- satisfactory. Even so, discussion of the bill in J uly the Catholics into a subversive attitude. We are pened repeatedly until the refusers were 38 yeais 1970 was the occasion for a meeting in the best already accustomed to these movements of .Fascist school. opinion, not really in favor of conscientious objec- ,old and no longer subject to conscription, where- Terrible accusations against COs 'upon they were freed. were heard: "lf this bill. is approved, a crack will tion but rather against the. Spanish regime, so This dramatic situation was maintained for a long be opened in the.integrity of the Fatherlan{ and in nothing can surprise us. . " lt'was also said that time in silence, since Jehovah's Witnesses, con- the itate of equalitrT (ãic) bt all Spaniards."'One' the statute would turn Spain away from Catholi- ' sidering themselves martyrs and chosen by.their prosecutor, a military doctor, presented an cism ! An ex-minister of the Army called the bill a religion, did not denounce or pressure the afnendment in which he requested psychiafric diabolical Soviet maneuver. ln short, instead of government. ln addition, conscientious objection treatment for COs because most of them, he said, providing a civil service for the COs, the Cortes was a taboo theme in news stories and reviews were disturbed and paranoic, unsafe to contradict undertook a campaign against them. This was the and was virtually unknown in Spain. because of their furious tempers. ' reason for the withdrawal from the commission of member of ln 1967 , Friends of the¡Ark was formed in The bill was rejected by 21-9 with one Lt. Cen. Diez Alegria, a the High France. With Lanza del Vasto they organized a abstention. Nevertheless; it was an occasion to in- Command who favored the CO statute. Alegria's camp in Barcelona during the summer, where form Spanish public opinion on the issue. A pullout caused a minor crisis, and the withdrawal yoL¡ng students there discussed conscientious ob- current of clarification and information was by the government of the bill.. At the time of the jection in a new, fighting way, as a nonviolent ' begun. This bill was the first ever submitted by second bill's demise, there were about 200 COs in response to the militarization of our society. lt was the Franco government to be rejected by the prison, nearly all of them Jehovah's Witnesses decided to organize a dispatch of letters to the Cortes. (JWs). Ministry of the Army, requesting that the right to ln J anuary 1971, a new CO came to the front. That same summerr a naval corporal, J uan conscientious objection be recognized, along with Pepe Beunza was the first Catholic to declare Cuzman, removed his uniform and, handing it to

Pepe Beunza. Photo by Craig Simpson wtN 15 I 14WlN ,

his officer, said he no longer was willing to con- two years or more of service in the proposed corps tinue military service, ln Prison, Cuzman got to would be relieved of the obligation to perform know Jordi Agullo, and came to identify with our military service. ln order to lend credibility to this ideas.-The mäitary physicians recognized his un- petition, over 1,200 signatures were collected of suitability for service for medical reasons. those ready to perform a'minimum of one year's Nonetheless, he was given a three year sentence service. pro- for'-'TÏðiõllðwinãõctober disobedience. Pepe Beunza has traveled widely in Spain a general pardon was moting this concept, giving talks, coordinating t given, which freed Pepe although the others with local efforts. The Commission of J ustice and longer sentences remained in prison. Pepe was Peace has taken charge of the campaign, and as ordered to report to the barracks, but instead re- expected, the government has "acknowledged turned to Valencia where he began work in a night receipt" of our proposal and told us to wait. The PH¡LADETPHIA WOMEN" the real or. implied murder of audacity to stand up against in- justice. ¿ school in an outlying district. With the parish COs, of course, remain in their cells. SNUFF PROFITS women on film." lf he is guilty, then priest and some students a children's nursery was Last August in Can Serra de l'Hospitalet, one of The management agreed to America is guilty for 200 years of Philadelphia organized. From there, Pepe sent a letter to the the most impoverished sections of Bárcelona, a fèminists, coordi- . close the film the next day.'At no iniustice. " nated by DYKETACTICS!, â Caþtain Ceneral, explaining why he would not small group of COs, yoúng men of draft age, be- .time were more than fiveto ten ln a move to prevent his return radical report for military service. When he received no gan a project, attempting to supply services feminist lesbian col lectivç, percent of the theater's 1,20O to South Dakota, Banks said, shortened the run of the movie reply; he stárted to publicize the affair. When the nee/ed by the people of the barrio.ln a manifesto seats filled. Further, thousands of, "We're Boing to take ot¡r fight to from a scheduled matter was reported in the press it was seen as a issued on Christmas night, tþey summed up the "Snuft" passersby signed petitions of out- the people of California. Our im- three-week engagement to one goal public challenge'to military authorìty. Pepe was accomplishments of the f irst few months: rage. Many others calJed þolice, mediate is two million sig- and a half days. governor ieturned to prison on a desertion charge. ln' the district attorney, press and natures asking thê of 20 days of childcare in the neighborhood with the March, lgTi,hewas condemned to anõthèr year "SnuÍÍ" is a commercialization other media to register California not to allow my extra- assistance of more'than '100 children; the arrange- of a type of underground prono- in and thereafter to the Sahara disciplinary complaints. , dítion." Bankihas stateól iail ment of quarters for aged people and its supervi- graphic film in which the actual previously go batallion. Despite i nclement weather, that if he were to to sion for four months; collaboration with the adult murder The support campaign continued. Thq Faculty and dismemberment of DYK ETACTICS ! demonstration jail in South Dakota he, "would school, giving instruction in literacy and crafts- women takes place. According of Law of Valencia and the college of advocates, as to returned.the next day and did not not comeout alive." mànship; organizing a library; the creation of a straight press accounts which well as the Episcopalconference, all urged end until the box office actually lf extradition from California to kindergarten with the assistan ce of 25 children;. appeared in the New York Times passage of a CO statute. Activists in France dis- 'closed. At that time, 15 women SD is blocked, there is the danger and thè establishment of community places at the last iupted rail service between Barcelona and summer, the underground formed an affinity circle in front of that SD will attempt to get him .service of the neighborhood. films werè being made in Argen. - Ceneva, and a march on the Vatican.was the theater to bless each other and from Oregon,. if he can not block organized. Nevertheless, COscontinued to be ln the manifesto they pledged to continue tina and distributed in the US for all supporters. Those who had his extradition there from Cali- private showings treated with the customary harshness. working in the barrio for two years if not im- ' at $200 each. ciossed the picket line'or profited fornia. Denñis Roberts, attorney awaken The commerð¡al venture was in any way from "Snuff" were for Banks, said, "Dennis Banks I be 1973 a bi I I worse than its prisoried, trusting that their action "will n Decem r new - protested here betause,the film's jeopardy predecessors-gained final approval. COs were to and enliven many to defend the right of conscien- hexed w¡th bad dreams. will continue to be in in advertising made it uncleai' jurisdict¡on years' imprisonment; upon tious oblection." The manifesto concluded: For further information contact every to which he may d be sentenced to 3-A whether actresses in the film are '4. were d'eprived of all pol¡t¡cal riÉhts DYKETACTICS!, c/o Free . trävel voluntarily or involun- release, they We trust thatthe Íertile imagination of the" actually mUrdered. The ads are relations Women's School, Penn Women's. tarily." and barred from establishing working people will discover.other forms of strugfle fôr also racist, saying: 1'Filmed in with public bodies, state-subsidized groups, or Center, 112 Logan Hall, Phila- Brightman added, "What we'rê justice apart f rom those which now carry us South America where life is .'i asking the governor to local governments. Also, they were forbidden to delph ia, P a. 1917 4. Dyketactics! do is'to toward nuclear disaster. We trustthat respect and cheap! " - give sanctuary.to Dennis Banks. teach in the schools. Over 300 persons are now in collaboration among a,ll will lead to a soclety It was pointed out that when ln the ,ur, 269 yeârs, hundreds prison (most Ws) under this 'Law of Refusal to of J withoutclasses and without wars, to a societY of men attempt to act out the violent thousands of criminals from Undertake Mi I itary Service.' brothers and sisters. phantasies this type of film Europe took sanctuary in BANKS FREE ON BAIL- Pepe was finally freed in March 1974. Jordi, And, altho we do not deny the good will of thos;e inspires, lesbians become victims ,. America. Many of them were the Sahara. He refused EXTRADITION FOUGHT onc-e freed, was directed to who believe that the best defens e is arms, with as do oth'er women who are not murderers and thieves, while go, his own account a service, to and began of civil our actions we give a cry oÍ hope in a new world, escorted by men. Dennis Banks has been released Dennis Banks is neither." but without showing himself to the authorities. He preparing f tt¡e basis of which we ought to be rom About 35 protesters assembled on $5,000 bail by a San Francisco NeilFullagar is still at liberty, but is a fuþitive charged with now on. For this, we retuse to participate in mili- at 10:00 am, Wednesday (Feb, 4, Municipal Court. A federal desertion. tary service or on preparation for war. We begin- 1976), an hour befo¡e the film's hearing on extradition to Oregon, FLORIDA TE.ACHERS Here ends the first stage of our CO history. for ourselves-disarmament, which we hope will first showíng. Among where he faces federal firearms ,CANNEY SUPPORT Until now, COs have totalled more than 1,000 become universal . organ izations represented were charges, has been delayed until ¡¡ prison years (14 of them served by the nonviolent Wages for Housework, SHUN, in The mariifesto was printed in both Spanish April 5. He is to aþpear court The 46,000 member Florida Edu- -d. activists), 21/z in the disciplinary batallion Alexandria Books Col lective, ' . \eaß (Castilian) and Catalan. Tens of thousands were March 11 in San Francisco for a cation Association United, on Feb. and one month in a lunatic asylum. A hard balance Metropol itan Commun ity all over Spain. On the night of Febru- Church, hearing on extradition to South 24 pledged full support and sþeet for something as obvious as the right to àirtiiUrtéâ HERA feminist newspaper col- ary 8lh, the fi.ve COs who issyed the statement Dakota on ríot and assault resources to free former Uni- conscientious objection lective and the FreeWomen's and one other were arrested. We have the names charges. versity of Florida instructor Bob ln March 1974,Íaced again with silence and School. ln a press conference on year sentençe ' only of the f ive: Vicente Amurgo Galan, Ovidio Canney from'a two l paralysis, Wh i le demonstrators chanted, we were forced to start all over. An idea Bustillo Carcia, Cuillermo Louis Cereceda, Jesus February 20, Banks said that the he is serving for anti-war I I was proposed by Conzalo Arias (who had been the "The murder of women is.not struggle for the rights of Native activities. Vinas i Cirera and J ose Diez Faixat. Their fate I entertai nment, leaf lets were ) first poster-carrier, a participant in the 'March to " Americans will continue. Lee Canney, 47, was imprisoned j since arrest is not known the Prison' and who faced a possible 11 year distributed announcing DYKE- Brightmen, at whose El Çerrito after numerous appeals failed on a i sentence) for a "Volunteer Corps for Develop- TACTICS! intention to stop the home Banks was arrested last resisti n g a¡rrest conviction I CONTACT mènt." A petition was addressed to the govern- showing of "SnuÍf" and ". . .to month, told reporters, "He's stemining from a police instigated : ment, asking that persons of both sexes be Spanish Nonviolent Support Committee inhibit the yielding of profits to basically being charged with "riot" in a St. Petersburg park in ì I Trail NW monelrmakers who would sell us engaged in work of social, cultural, or medical 5021 Cúadalupe being an lndian, and having the 1970. -News Desk development. Persons committing themselves to Albuquerque, NM 87107 wlN 17

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The turn around came on Nov. an lrish Republican who died Feb' .inevitable conf lict between innate 25 when women and children 12 alter a 61 daY Prison hunger lealousy of people in love and , formed a human circle around the stri[e. Stagg had been imPrisoned Anarchist principle on next building to be bulldozed and since 19731or IRA activities. man-woman relationships. drove the operator away. ,ln NYC a march followed Since Zinn is a history professo?, Behind this act was an emers- memorial services. 3500 PeoPle there areno errors on that score. i ng community leadeish ip from the citv and surrounding The play spa¡s the'period from working to keep the villagers states marched uP First Ave. with the Haymarket f rameup.(1886) united. The people of the village- a lone piper leading the-waY' until Berkman's release fronl started making progress by -News Desk- prison (1906), where he did 14 contacting outside resources. A years for the attempted local farm ministry priest helped, assassination of Henry Clay Friclç ' as did a Legal Aid lawyer and a perpetrator of the Homestead Chicano member of the county NATIONALANTHEM IN Massacre and operating agent for Hun'¡an Relations Commission. steel baron, Andrew Carnegie. ñesr¡vll-l-E: THE RlcH I On New Year's eve 300 peoplé.; STAND FOR IT My only adverse criticism is marched to the home of one of the that the dialogue occasionally The Militant reports that after six but officers'of the Lemon Assri. in a verges on the corny, this months, Nashvi I le theaters show of solidarity. Later in the proves not too damaging. 'stopped playing the national me month the Lemo-n Assn.. accepted ln conclusion, let mention anthem before movie showings the offer of $80,000 for the village another.play, which had an un- because it sparked f ights between run Of,l Broad- consisting oÍ 181/z acres of land, fortunately short those who stood up and thoie who the family's houses and eight wav. I feel.this is imPortant to didn't. One manager said nearlY other buildings. The families mention, because it is a rarity-a everyone stood up in affluent prison play for-real and raised an $8,000 down payment which is areas of the city, while almost no and have to put large amounts of which avoids the sensationalist one stood up elsewhere. "l guess money into the village to fix up pitfall of representing the the more affluent sections of town and maintain sewer, plumbing prisoners as sex-ridden maniacs feel better about the country," he guards and electrical systems. and the as 100% ruthless - observed. Desk "pigs.'.'The play is Ronald Rib- Continental Wal kàis demon strate againstthe Trident Sub and Lockheed Corp. in The historic change was -News Sunnyvale, California. Photo by J. C. Stockwell. sumnied up by Mrs. Socorro mañ's The Poison Tred. Peck Lopez, who had lived in her house J'EMMA"-A PLAY ABOUT -Jim 11 years, "Never do I expect to GOLDMAN. . . pay CONTI own a house. Always we orily d NENTAL WALK UPDATE They infoimed the Americans of . . . and about hèr lifelong ù FARMWORKERS B UY VI LLAGE the rent." Desk progress on "The First lnter- -News comrade, Alexander Berkman, The Continental Walk has reached national Malch in Europe of Non'- After almost losing thråir just ended an unfortunately short Ventura, California, only a short violent i' ' CAIL TO BOYCOTT Antimilitarists. This homes,-81 California farm worker '-i run on Off Off Broadway. Too bad EVENTS distance north of Los Angeles. IRAN FESTIVAL march will be in three parts: families have bought the village that no way could be found to The Walkers have covered over . 1) uly 28-August'l in Northern prolong TO MICHAEL J they live in. The Chicano families The Committee for Artistic and the run so that others NYC-HOMACE 350 miles in four weeks. The eight Italy,2) August 4-10 in Eastern I N Memorial are citrus pickers in Saticoy, Cal. lntellectual Freedom in lran held could see this documentary about BAKUN -Centennial walker who were arrested at the France, and 3) August 13-17 on 1876-1976. Speakers include Sam who ar'e long term îesidents of a rneetini; Feb. .America's two most colorful El Diablo Nuclear Power Plant in the island of Sardinia, ltaly. The 26th at Columbía Dolgoff, Olga Lang and Paul Cabrillo village, "temporaryl' University. Among the speakers Anarchist activists! San Luis Obispo County have all principal part of the march is the Avrich. Friday, March 5,7 pmat housing built in 1936. were Ramsey Clark and Riza Its author, HowardZinn, known been released and have rejoined eastern France segment through to many peace peoplê Workmen's Circle Center, 369 8th The Saticoy Lemon Assn., Baraheni. Eric Bentley made an for his the Walk. The,arrests generated a Verdun, and will be organized by writings peace Ave. (29th St.), New York City. original owners of the houses appeãl to theatre people and on and civil rights, lot of favorable publicily for the IFOR and WRl. Eleven goals were did a beautiful job of condensing sought to kick out the residents musicians to turn down invitations BOSTON Dr. Richaid Levins Walk both in California and adopted for the march ranging into theater-time the - last Oct. 10. A state report had to the annual Shiraz Festival. atmosphere speaks on "science and the World nationally. -NEWS DESK from free speech for soldiers ãnd a of Emma's autobiography, Living earlier been issued citing Among those who have attended Food Crisis,'^.Súnday, March 7,at uniform CO statute, to unilateral My Life. He accomplished this numerous code violations in the the Festival in recent years are the 1'l am. March 14-Truman Nelson disarmament, conversion and through two ingenious devices: buildings. This, combined with Robert Wilson troupe, the La speaks on "Hard Times: cívilian defense. flashing onto a rearstage screen pro United Farrn Worker senti- Mama troupe directed by Andrei Strateg ies for. Pol itical & A car relay from West Cermany appropriate slides of the period ment in the village caused the Serban, Peter Brook, Crotowski Economic Survival." Sponsored to Ceneva, Switzerland, for dis. and representing the era's robber- owners to issue 30 day eviction and other avantgarde theatrical by the Community Church of armament is being organized by barons and their political stooges notices. Within a short time nine people. Desk Boston at Morse Auditorium, 602 the DFCIVK (Cerman) section of or ten families did move and their -News as masked men conspiring around EUROPEAN WALKS Commonwealth Ave. r the WRI for April and May,1976. houses along with the village a banquet table. The staffo of the War Resisters The relay is patterned after the, pre-school building were ln depictine Emma, Alexander WASHINGTON, DC-Fiscal Continental Walk except people and f nternational (WRl), lnternational bulldozed. their frieñds. Zinn averted the '77 National Conference to Stop will be driving in decorated habitual - Fel lowsh i p of Reconci I iation cars People were faced with cause-piay pitfall of the B-1 Bomber, Cut Military (IFOR), and lnternational instead of walking. nowhere to go and were drawn PEOPLE HONOR IRAMARTYR making them sterile, Spending, Meet Human Needs, Collective Resistence (lCR) sent a ln addition, a march against together by their common proletarian-hero stereotypes. He March 13,14 & 15. For more in- message of support to all the nuclear power is.being organized problem. They got encourage- Memorial services were held in shows, with humor and formation write to Fiscal'77 ,110 Walkers and organizers of the for the summer of 1976 in ment from the UFW to.ioin seven US and Canadian cities compassion, their human Maryland Ave. NE, Washington, Feb. Continental Walk. Scandinavia. -Ed Hedemann together and try to buy thb places. 28-29 to honor Frank StAgg, weaknesses - particularly the DC 20002.

18 WtN WIN 19 the Cold War and involving us in Vietnam,and their unbridled horses. And we kno* f.or the rock That sounds reasonable, but interminable paintings the ex- Eimilar imperialist affairs. of the Sahara that the horsemen of ancient pf anations of how women are less apt to have long- Lybia Under Johnson and Nixon a new crew came to h-ad mastered the same art. This does not term careers, are probably less athletic, less ambi- mean that saddles power. Detroit was out, Houston in; New York and bridles are simpty trouble- tíous, and less effective in dealing with the official ; some excess baggage Íinancial centers lost influence and public relations which a person ieárning world is something I hardly.,want to hear anymore. l' ri.de could easily men with marketing expertise came to wield execu- f-o do without. ln fact, in our äay a begin to feel like a woman activist who has been Degrnnrng tive power. Sale implies that the shift from Yankee to flcter needs a saddle and bridle as much as listãning to tales of endless ånd'overt sexis¡¡: a stu4ent " Cowboy was (and is) a matter of substance as well as of mathematics needs iciai.l., pap"i"ná ã enough,let's have some stories with nerve and- style. lãm less than sure. Certainly, the imperialist pencil. POIilER SHIFT: The Rise of the Southern Rim and spark.' logic of our economic system and foreign policy re- ln. the same way, it is only a relatiirely skilled lf you Its Challenge to the Eastern Estabtishment parl¡amentarian have been awake to the social changes in our mains unchanged no matter which faction is in who can conduct a larse_sized culture of the last decade you would be likely Kirkpatrick Sale meeting without to power, altho the tactical details do change to reflect a modified vêrs¡on ifïoberts, agree with most all that Biller and Meredith have to' Random House/362 pages/$l2.95 Rr..r/es of order sectional interests. Racism and s-exism are more o. tornà uqr"ilv iäü.ill.äøimat. lf say, but their rundowns on the current learning status of Power Shitt is Kirk Sale's contribution to our under- crucial to Cowboy politics, but the difference is only- to conduct a nteetine'on an anarchist basis fathers in mid-America wili probably tire you rather takes.time, think how standing of the Yankee/Cowboy theory of American one ot degree. Stuffed-shirt Yankee statists like'Wil- much lãneei it *iiiaÈefoi than anger or inspire you. I wouldn't argue with people to organize an ruling class politics. According to this iheory, Cow- liam Buckley may be more respectable than their entire .orñrrruniiu on them on almost any of their views, but I never felt anarchist basis. One "n þy po!iticlans and corporate interests are wresting right wing counterparts in the South, but in terms of of the beauties of ân anarchist that excited flash of learning as I read the book. - society is its simplicity. control of the federal government from the tradi- activ¡st politics they'd all fèel iomfortable if their But, to steal a ohrase from The authors did remind rñe of a great deal, how- Charles Olsen, creating tional Yankee financial interests of the Northeast. Bv shirts were brown. such a,oãËñii one of those evero and their insistence on father participation with simple things ' Cowboy, Sale means the upstart politicans and Because Sale is only dealing with ruling class con- that one leàrns last. _Xenry eass children is salutary. They write warmly'about how power brokers froni the states of the Southern Rim flicts, he does not explore the importance of Cow- we ought to take our children to spe us at work, and if (North Carolina, Ten¡essee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, boy/Yankee distinctions in culture and society. at all possible to help out; about involvingburselves Southern NeVada, Southern California and states Here, the conflict may be of greater importance. For, FATHER POWER intimately with their education; about including our Henry Biller and Dennis south.) Sale includes the Bay Area in the Southern if we are going to organize the kind of broad based Meredith children in many more adult activities so that they Anchor Press, Doubleday Rim; l'd perhaps ct¡t it off at San Mateo County. mouu-en"t thãt can ðestroy Yankee and Cowboy- I 1975 / $3.5O will not be locked away in "child ghettos," and power, have to find. ways of According to Sale-and the facts document his ruling class we will Here's a well-meaning book which could have an abo.ut discounting the question ofacademic lQ in people West with contention-the Southern Rim has been growing in uniting the from the North aòd effect on society at large. lt documents the ways that real-life situations. They insist on the basic posture power and influence ever since World War ll. lti those õf the Southern'Rim, and in turn, work thru the fathers are indispensable to their children and of fathering as a masculine abtivity: "As a fäther you economic base can be found in agribusiness (cor- contradictions of style and substance that now set us guides them toward developing their must recognize that interest in and deep involvement porate "father farming and landholding dominate Rim apart. MartY Jezer power,'/ the nurturingrforce of the energy and at- , with your children are legitimate masculine occupa- yèt states; they are not a factor in the Midwest and tention they dedicate to their kids. Biller and tions and are best for youi child's development." All Northeast), defense, advanced technology (an off- this is second nature to the fathers I respect and deal THE POTIT¡CS OF VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE Meredith make endless and valuable recommenda- shoot of aerospace, itself centered in Teiás and with regularly, though it is true that I live in the Etienne de la Boetie , tions, and their insights are obúiously founded on a neighboring states), oil and natural gas production, great personal midst of an alternative society which has been 4. Free Life Editions/41 Union Square West, New deal of and clinical experience. ' ..t real estate and transportation, tourism and leisure.: working over these questions fqr some time. lt never York, NY./19751i2'.9;SpaPer But it surewas hell on wheels to get through. lt's '- The rise of the military-¡ndustrial complex aftei , not a lively book and it's too realistic and attentive to occured to me to recommend Father Power to anv of World War ll, as a mahifestation of thä permanent Etiènne de la Boetie (1530-1566) is most widely main-line America to fire the irnagi¡ation of anyone my father friends because I felt they would haùe i¡ttle wartime economy, has benefitted the Southern Rim. remembered because of his intense friendship with with a radical lean. While the authois advocate to learn from the book. On the other hand, they are above all other sections, and cheap labor (i.e., weak Montaigne. Wheri la Boetie died from dysentery at change up and down the line, their basic premise is my compadres because they know òuch things'al- unions) has contributed to shiftin! the Amerióan in- the age of 36, Montaigne wrote of his younger that it is fathers who must change the most, that they ready, and it is true that all around us are fathers , dustrial base south. friend, "t was so accustbmed to be forever two, and must improve interaction with their children in order who could use a few shots out of this book to All this is a result of the growing influence of so inured to be neyer-singfe, that methinks I am but to defend them from the twisted, sexist society which advantage, if they could plod through the slow Cowboys in federal politics. The aisassination of half myself ." is around us. But the whole book is oriented to a ¡ :t: J FK, which Sale attributes -correctly, l,think-to a Only in the last century has la Boetie begun to gain world in which men don't show emotions, in which I felt most comfortable with the last chapter, which conspiracy of Southern Mafia leaders, anti-Castro recognition in his own right as a political fathers are feared by their children, fathers are less shows a nice estimation of fathering as a political act, Cubans (with CIA connections) and Cowboy in- philosopher, and even today he does not have the adept socially than mothers but deal better with the or at least as conducive to wider social powers: dustrialists, marked the end of Yankee ruld. LBJ was recognition he deserves. Perhaps this is because la business world, and fathers view their sons as self- A Man's role in his famity closely parallels his role in a tiansitionâl President who brought Cowboy ¡nÍlu- Boetie was a pacif ist and almost an anärchist. From continuation; in which mothers are less critical and society: skills learned in'one canSpply to the otlier. ence to the government for the first time. Under Machiavelli to Lenin, armed struggle and demanding of their children, mothers are little con- þolitical Society is a delicate system, often requiring a sensi-..' Nixon, Johnson's Southern tilt became a steep in- power have been the two sacred cows of western nected to the world outside family, and mothers the tive blend of protection, nurturance, and challenge cline. He tried to'institutionalize Cowboy. power the þolitical thought. ln questioning the merit of these do most all the childcare and child-related house- way that Yankee influence was integrated within the þU ¡he social father;iust so are children to the famity sacred cows, la Boetie is even today a heretic. work. father. federal government during the New Deal and post- ln this beautifully written essay, la Boetie con- I don't doubt that the authors have got the tag on war years. Nixon's ouster represents a sticcessful tended that tyranny a¡d indeed all forms of state the deathly majority of families throughout our cul- lf we can be responsable and imaginative with our Yankee counterattack, but the Cowboys have enough powerexist only because people continue to support ture. But when I read that "Exoectant fathers over- children, we're more likely to be so with the whole strength to get back into the saddle. them. The state, he argued, would wither away if whelmingly want a boy as theii first child and often society. -John Thorndike As a descriptive o¡¡er-view of contending powers people would simply withdraw their support. He said don't want to stop having children until they have a within the US ruling class, Power Shift is ãúaluable that states prevent this from happening by giving son." I wonder if I shoulð bother with this chapter. book. Yankee domination the federal bureau. book, of favors to the rich and by deluding the poor. Eariy on in the of course, Biller and Meredith Henry Bass is now working on an animated film on cracy has been previously documented by William 'La Boetie makes doing away with armies and other Pin most of us down: the hidden taxes Americans pay. John Thorndike Domhqff, C. Wright Mills, David Halberstam and repressive state organs seerÍr as easy and desirable wrote about being a single pareni, We shall be very realistic in dealine with the familv WtN 12/11/75. others: Yankees were wealthy, WASP, Harvard as shedding excess clothing. But is it that easy? Mgrty Jezer has recently completed todav. even to the point of offendiíe some who have The Dark Ages: grads,'corporate lawyers or members of Wall Street Sometimes the simplest-looking things are the hard- Life and Anti-Life in White what America from HirosËima , invgstment houses. The bes.t ¡deai¡zed views of the familv {hould be. Of and the brightest, as est to First : to learn. not downgrading ideals, only the Sit-lns:1945-1960. Halberstam called them, they moved in and out of Francis Parkman describes how easily the buffalo- course, we're those they are not realities. governmqnt during the past 40 years, orchestrating hunting lndians of the Creat Plains rode bareback on saying that Yet

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