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r-ô i ' .- Tile Long -Hot Summer . Our fund appeal mailing Èas beeô out for over six weeks now and we've received apþioximâtely õ3,000 from many of yog. We deeply thank those of vou who have been able to respond to our need. But it isn't enough. ln the past six weeks we've been able (barely) to meet bilts as they come due. Howe.veì, we'haven't made any progress aga¡nst l.uly 29, 1976 t Vol. Xil, No. 27 WIN's $16,0o0 debt. For all the back bills we've met, there are new ones facing us every week. 4. More Power Than We Want: J ult to print WIN costs $650 every week. Mailing each issue costs another , postage, electricity, Masculine Sexuality and $250. With salaries, telephone¡qffice rent, incidental Violence and all the other little expenses lüe have, WIN costs arouncl $2500 a week. / Bruce Kokopeli and And only half of that comes from the cost of your subscript-ion., George Lakey Most magazines operate like thaU only they make up the other half (or power 9. Repression Stops the Progress of more) f rom àdvertising. lf we were to let GE tell you hów good nuÇlear ' can-be-for you or Cl\trtell you how mùch you.¡eeded a new Cadillac, WIN Native Culture in Päraguay could È¡obáUly operate at.à profit. We could let Çqrger King tell y-ou how Leslie Ann'Brownrigg good a Whopper tastes and we might never havè to make a fund appeal 12. thanking amerika for rehabili- ãgain. But we won't because we'rè working for a world without nuclear LETTERS power plants, Cadillacs and Whoppers. That's our'way! tating me... / DanielL. Klauck ' Ann Boudreau, SF Sutro Bath rocks 1972. Photo by Bob Fitch So we turn to vou. WIN's subscribers, for the difference. You, WIN's 13. Song of the Revolution no. 42 are the people working in the movement for Ij¡ the artiCle*by Michael subscribers and côntiibutors, Beck I{hl and Tod reading a book issued by International working class" (emphasis added). of that movement. lt is one of the few Julian "Is publisñprs Social change and WIN is the medium Fns.rg{t' Lortugal-Mov_ing To.y¡S-- and authoreá by a member Clearly Uhl/Ensign are for ârmed in- regular links of communication beti,veen activists frbm coast to colst and Socialism or Fascism" 6/ 14. The Peciple for Self Management IlffIñ, l0/ 761, of Cp-U'SA,s Nationai Cãnimitt"e: suçrection, they are unhappy the many other countries. quote from a recent Conference Henry Bpss jþey book by Gil Wtrat an irony tt ài Wiñshãuld be in Cómmunists seem oriented to peaceful ln'WlN ri'ou can chart the progress of the Continental Walk as lt heads / Green to prove that the Portugese the position ofcondemnins the change, unhappy-I gather-that toward Wâshington. ln WIN you founil .leports on the Bicentennial 15. Changes Communist Party opposes "an armed Conimunists for opposineiiolãnt ¡n democracy survives in Portugal, and demonstrations ihat seemed so elusive to the maior news ôrganizat¡ons. 18. Reviews seizure 9Ípower" and that-it seeks revolution! Forturiätely, ãs noted, this is yet paradoxically forced to admit that Wl'N.you keep abreast of what women, blacks, native Ame¡:icans, Third instead-"a peaceful transition from one not WIN's positiòn, Uüt'roléivitát of thus far the Left-not the Right-has World people,old people, young people, gay people and others are doing to Coverí "i.he Provender Ethic. " slage oftþe revolution to the next." the authoriofthe a¡ticle. won in the electoral contests. create à Social system that extends security and dignity to everyone. ln WlN, Woodcut by Michael Corr (P_ottugel's The Rovoludon, Gll_Glqçq, Finallv, a cuciai problem is Mario question, then, is why ailvocate armed *ïrüI $1.75-from International Publishers, Soares' óállfoi a reiliJtiõllärit to insurrection (prematurely or otherwise) i."u",5 raise thé price; but even $11 isn't so easy to come þy in the¡g STAFF 381 Fourth Ave. South, ryyC). _ working class demands in order to move so long as p-eqce{u! avenues to chañge hard times for a good many of us. We don't want ever to þave to deny WIN a We've g.ot several ptot_lems her-e, the - just because they don't have money. Many people don't. People in . the ecoãomy ahead. I have many a,re open?.If the PCP is for peace{ul ¡ to anyone Dwight Ernest o Ruthann Evanoff foremost of which is that Uhl/Ensign reservationi about Soares prison get-WlN just for: theasking. Your contributions make it possible for us and tíre change, shouldn't that be welcomed? o Susan Pines weigh in as among the most naive Portugese Socialist pártv. buione of the _DAVTDMJRE_y-Ngrp!: io do that. Mary.Mayo political wtite-rs ever to ap.pear in IVIN. realiti-es of revolutionary ótrangJisäai NewYork, llY So while you're reading this think about how much good your contribution Murray Rosenblith First, except.tgr signed editorials, the revolutionary society must- can do. An extra $11 can help send WIN to a prisoner or poor person. An articles in WIN do not neggssarily produce-particïlarly iñ a country that extra,contribution wilr continue to bring to your door the news of how you UNIND¡CTED reflect the views of the editorial board. is dirt-pooi and facin! economic and others are building.new lives and nèw hopes. lt's not such a high price co-qoNsPl RATORS It is emphatically ctear that the editorial jiübi. One of Aleñde;storobl"-, for all that, is it? 't I was surprised to see another article board of wIN does not urge tle armg{- was that he was not aule orïiiling to *** t o MarisCakars'. " IWIN,6/10/76) by Michael Uhl and Tod lanBarrv LanceBelville ssizlre of pof-ei'ìlPortugal. Second, tf p"îptã õr¡irË to Susan Cakars' r Jerry Coffin' o Lynne Shatzkin Coffin' Ensign, the last one they wrote having Get ln On the fifth Floor o the PCP actually favors the peaceful producre.""ii;ii;;óti¡üã \{ithout"tËat Ëtear"r sense of Ann Davidon r Diana Davies RÚth Dear been so poorly done and obviously Raloh DiGia' . Brian Dohertv William Douthard' transition of the revolution from one. ãiscipline the way is open to the kind of WIN is persoñ primarily in and layout. o ' . wrong-headed; but I was most suiprised seeking a new staff to work {esign Kaien Durbin' Chuck Fager Seth Foldy stage to.thçnext, this goo¿ news, it is inflaiion Chile sa"w (vei, aided by CfA and pasting-up the main Forest o LarryGara joan' Libby Hawk' il to see the Uhl-Ensign article besidè We need someone to work in laying out body of Jim : not "authoiitarian and bureaucratic" as interventions) or thðtiá¿ ofchaós in the articles and the cover of the magazine. Diawing ability is not absolutely Ñeil Haworth t Ed Hedenlann r Grace Hedemann Uhl/Ensigrr_charge, but would something of quality on the same sub- Hendrik Hertzberg' Marty Jezer' Becky Johnson sugg.est economy whiótr inuariaUiy Aiifoses the necessary, but. it would be a big help. Prior experience in paste-up and o ' ' Karpel that the PCP had ject like Rona M. Fields article. Nancv Johnson Þaul Johnson ' Alison moved away-fr-om its pubric tõward any goverrimeni, Left or layout is necessary. You should be no stranger to-an exacto knife.. crah Karoel r lohn Kvoer . Elliot Linzer' position ..order.', Someone mis-identified Raul Resr admittedly Stalinist ôf the past, friehi. which will"eËtablish We're looking foi'a person with a movement background who is into non- -DavidMorrisiacklon Mac Lorir r Dávid McRevnolds' identifÏes hiln r Peck which had p_u-t itout of step with thé ñ,evolution is not fun and games and, the Ühl-Ensien article as violence, has the ability and willingness te work collectively and who is r MarkMorris. Jim , the owner of Republica who now edits Tad Richards.r lgal Roodenko' r Fred Rosen Spanish.and-Italian Communist Parties. if one is a Marxist, it is empñàticatty nõt willing to work long hours for meager (and sometimes irregular) pay. some newspaper while the Fields article Nancv Rosen i Eã Sanders wendy Schwart¡r But what fascinates me is the quote the distribution ofthe limitid Women, gay people and non-white people are particularly welcome. Other Thomases o Art Waskow' t Beverly Wooilward identifies him as the former Editor of Martha from Gil Green's book. I know and concentrations of capital as much as it is editorial skills would be particularly helpful. the Republica and a PS leader. Maybe 'Memberof WIN Editorial Éoard respect Gil Gregn-. He is one oltþ very aúñ;ãdnt;i;"rinht t";àet ¿ctuar lf you are interested in joining the WIN staff, send us a letter telling us fewmembersoftheCommunistParty needs. - - he is afl of these, but that is unlikeþ. about yourself and enclose samples of any Work you've done. Please don't Ensign don't 503 Atlantic Ave. l Sth Fl. USA wh_ose personal word I trust. But a One of the underlvins contradictions Uhl and show mirch re- forget to include ycur address and phone number so we can contact you. / gard for the democratic process get Brooklyn, NY 11217 serious Marxist would hardly expect Gil in the Uhl/Ensign päsit]on is ttraittref in Por- Please don't plan to visit until we in touch. Write to WlN, 503 Atlantic Green,.who is a member of the ñationâl ;dñìi i"¡h"ír;ñi;í"1-ËiiËäectoral tugal or for the intelligence of WIN Ave.-5th Fl.', Brooklyn, NY 11217. Telephon e : (21 2) 624-8??7, 624 -8595 readers because their article which is Murray, Mary, Ruthann end Dwight Committee of the Communist Party process has worked thus far, living itre -Susan, WIN is published every Thursday except for the first supposedly.q treatment of the political ¡n in first USA to trump-et tothe-world the news þarties of the Left 53yo oriñLiote,-an¿ two weeks ,anuary, the last'week March, the that the PCP f¡vored the armed seiz-ur,e parties dwells for the most part on tiny week in June, the last two weeks in August, ahd the then at the end of their articl,e, in áis- first weeks in September by W.l.N. Magazine lnc. good splinter groups that have nõ political two ofpower. There is reason to think cussins "the Far Left partiesánd with the support of the War Resisters League. Sub- . gylh relevance and maybe even eiistence. postage. the PCP 3ory woll frv-or rcdon-its groups-' they use the i'ntriguing scriptions are $11.00 per year. Second class rlarielv fttrase at New York, NY 10ü)1. lndividual writers are leadership has been hardJine, strongly beóause of the oaid oËm¡jf¡e - iesponsible for opinions 'éxpressed and accuraçy of Moscow-oriented. But whetheror not rdvoócy of rrmed lnsûr;ectlon by some facts g¡ven. Sorry-manuscripts cannot be returned the PCPfavgrs an armed coup, it i.< of the pãrties. manv elemãntìãf th" t"- unless accompanied by a self-addressed.'stamped en- extraordin¿rìty:raive to-think-the \ velope. Pìinted in USA actuat' ;ôi"tiðd"t-Ëd'Ë;"äfi;"aäãtoss of (Iætûere position of the PCP can be adduced conttnued oqp¡ge 20.) by _ prestige añd influence within the

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2 WIN J uly 29, 1976 deference produced by our habitual "siling up" the head! (Bulletin of tke Atomrc Scientisfs, of the situation. November 1975¡ p.17) part pre- - Penis size is of the masculine Masçutinity against men: the militarization of women. occupation, this time directed toward everyday life Men want to have large penises because size: power, the ability to make a woman "really Patriarchy benefits men by giving Ùs a class of feel it." The imagery of violence is close to the people (women) to dominate and exploit. More Power surface here, since women f ind penis size ir- Þatriarchy also oppresses men, by setting us at relevant to sexual genital plqasure. "Fucking" is odds with'eaçh,other and shrinking our life space. Than We Want: a highly ambiguous word, meâning both inter- The pressure to win starts early and never course and exploitation/assault: stops. lVorking class gangs fight over turf; rich Masculine It is this confusion that we need to untangle and oeóple's sons are pushed to compete on the sports understand. Fatriarchy tells men that their need iieldl. British military.officers,. it is said, learned.to Sexuality and for love and respect can only be met by being win on the playing f ields of Eton. masculine, powerfuln_and- ultimately violent. As. Competition is-conflict held within a framewQrk Violence of rules. When the stakes are really high the rules men come to accept ihis their sexuality begins to ' reflect it. Violence and sexualitytgmbineto may not be obeyed; fighting breaks out. We men support masculinity as a characte¡. ideal. To love a mostly relate through compet¡tion, but we know woman is to have power over her and to treat her what is waiting in the wings. John Wayne is not a violently if need be. The Beatles' song culture hero by accident. "Happiness ls a Warm Cun" is but one example Men compete with each other for status as mas- of how sexuality gets confused with violence and cul ine males. Because mascul in ity'equal s power, power. We know one man who was discussing this means we are competing fol power. The ulti- another man who seemed to be highly fertile-he mate proof of power/masculinity'is violence. A had made several women pregnant. "That guy," man riray fail to "measure up" to the macho Photo by. Bob Fitch he said, "doesn't shoot any blanks." stereotype in important ways, but if he can fight is logic sexuality. successfúlly with the person who chalfenges him girls, Rape the end of masculine theirefore, are encouraged to think'"nurse" Rape is not so much a sexual act as an act of on his deviance, he is still all right. The television and boys BRUCE KOKOPET¡ to think "doctor." violence expressed in a sexual way. The rapist's policeman Baretta is strange in some ways: he is and GEORGE LAKEY Patriarchy assigns a list of human mind-set-that violence and sexuality can go .bentle with women and he cried when a man he characteristics according to gender: women together-is actually a product of patriarchal loved was killed. However, hê has what are should be nurturant, gentle, in touch with their probably the largest biceps in television and he Masculine sexuality involves the oppression of : conditioning, for most of us men understand the feelings, etc.; men shóuld bê productive, proves he up toughs women, competition among men, and same, however abhorrent rapê may be to us ' weekly that can beat the com petiti ve, s uper-ration al, etc. Occupation s are homophobia (fear of personally. which come his way. homosexuality). Patriarchy, valued according to these gender-linked ' the systematic domination of womin by men ln war, rape is astonishingly prevalent even The close relationship between viòlence and charatteristics, so social work, teaching, masculinity does not need much demonstration. th rough unequal opportun iti'es, rewards, pun i among men who "back home" would not do it. ln \ sh- housework, and nursing are of lower status than, ments, and internalization the following description by a Marine sergeant War used to be justified'partly because it the of unequal business executive, judge, or professional foòtbáll gh who witnessed a gang rape in Vietnam, notice that promoted "manly virtue" in a nàtion. Even today expectation s' th rou sex role d ifferéntiation, i s player. \ the institution which organizes nearly all of the nine-men squad participated: we are told that the Marines are looking for "a few these behaviors. " Úhun men dð enter "feminine" professions Patriarchy is men having more power, both good men." Those millions of people in the woods they dispropof"tionately rise to the tôp and becóme They weresupposed to go after whatthey called a personally, and politically, than women hunting deer, in the National Rifle Association, of the chefs, principals bf schools, directors of ballet, Viet Cong whore. The.y went into her village and same rank. This imbalance power and cheering on the bloodiest hockey teams are of is the core of and teachers of social work. A man is somewhat instead of capturing her,.they raped her-every patriarchy, but dêfinitely not the extent of it. overwhelmingly men. excused from his sex role deviation if he at least man raped her. As a matter of fact, one man said Sex inequality cannot be routinely enforced The world situation is so much defined by patri- , dominates within the deviation. Domination, after to me later that it was the tirsttime he had ever archy that what we see in the wars of today is through open violence or even blatant all, is what is made love to a woman with his boots on. The man þdtriarchy all about. com petition between various patriarch al ru I i n g discriminatory agreements patriarchy al so platoon, a - Access to pciwerful positions by women (i.e. who led the or the squad, was actually classes and goverñments breaking into open con- needs its values accepted in the minds of people. 'those positions private. formerly limited to men) is The squad leader was a sergeant but he fl¡ct. V¡olence is the accepted masculine form of lf as many young women wanted to be physiôians was a useless person and he private take contigent on the women adopting some masculine letthe conflict resolution. Women at this time are not as men, and as manyyoung men wanted,to be part characteristics, such as competitiveness. They over his squad. Later he said he took no in the powerful enough in the world situation for us to . nurses as women, the medical schoqls and the hos- piessure give was against his morals. So instead feel to up qualities assigned to raid.. lt of see mass overt violence being waged on them. But pitals would be hard put to maintain the masculine (such gentleness) squad not to do because females as because those telling his it, they iS fact there; it is hidden through domination of health care; open struggle and the the violence in qualities are considered inherently weak by wouldn't listen to him anyway, the sergeantwent by the state and by culture. naked exercise of.p,ôwer, would be necessary. Little just its legitimization patriarchal culture. The existence, thereforê, of a into another side of the village and sat and life, open violence be- ground, ln éveryday middle class woman like lndira Candhi in the position of a stared bleakly atthe feeling sorry for tween men is of course rare. The defining char- Bruce Kokopeli girl, and George Lakey are members of dictator in no way undermines the basic sexist himself . But at any rate, they rap.ed the and actdristics of masculinity, however, are only a few the Cay Theory Task Group of the Movement for a structure which allocafes power to thcise"with theh, the last man to make love to her, shot her in steps removed from violence. Wealth, produc- New Society. Bruce part Pacif is of the ic Life masculinô chara4eristics. thehead. (Vietnam Veterans AgainsttheWar, . tivity, or rank in the firm or institution translate Community in Seattle and oÍ the collectivewhich Patr.iarchy also shapes men's sexuálity so it statement by Michael McClusker in Ihe Winter power-the capacity (whether or not exer- publishes into Morning Due, a men's liberation expresses the theme of domination. Nptice the Soldier tnvestigation: An lnquiry into American cised) to dominate. The holders of,power in even journal. lives Philadelphia Çeorge in the Life masculine preoccupation with size. The size of a War Crimes.) polite institutions seem tó know that'violence is at Center and is co-author of Moving Towadd a New man's body has a lot to say about his clout or his their fingertips, from reactions of college They junior iudging Society. would like feedback on this article. vulnerability, as any high boy can tell you. Psychologist James Prescott adds to this presidents to student protest in the 1960s. We Bruce:811 33rd Ave. E., Seattle,.WAgB112. Many of these schoolyard fights are settled by account: know of one urbane pacifist man, the head of a George: 4719 Sþringfieíd Ave., Þnitaaetpnla¡ PA who is bigger than whom, and we experience in What is it in the American psyche that permits the theological seminary, who was barely talked out of 19143. echoes our adult lives the of intimidation and. use of the word 'love. to describe rape? And callingthe police to deal with.a nonviolent student love 4 W¡N J uly 29, 197ö where the act of is completed.with a bullet in sit-in at "his" seminary!

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l this policy in an article in its journal, which also Cause in a very important way-those gays do not a the/'should be participate in the control of women through very deep levels that Masculinity against gay men: patriarchy fights attacked lesbians, concluding that Patriarchy teaches us at jailor sexuality. Control through sexuality matters be- with other men (or perhaps rear guard action put in killed: we can never be safe cause it is flexible; it usually is mixed with love for the guard must be kept up lest The As children they played with dolls. As they grew with anvonel), Homoohobia is the measure of masculinity' and dependency so that it becomes quite subtle. and we be taken ad- to be óúirrli"t"uíl¡ty be exþosed deereå to which a man is thought to have gay up, violent sports horrified them. Ás was (Women often testify to years of confusion and confere.nce in expected, the passage of time and the custorn vantage of . At a recent Quaker fee'iings is the degree of his unmanliness' Because with only the faintest uneasiness at their Submissive philaðelph¡a group considered the listening mulattos oh the radio, they a discussion patriaichy presents sexuality as men over women of to loreign role in traditional heterosexual relationships and ãnd openness.in the s (El Caudillo, uairã of þersonal sharing ioart of the seneral dominance theme), men are became conscientiou obiectors role sex plays in that.) every case the women News, 11, the Ouaker Meeting. ln almost èãn¿¡t¡oneA-to have only that in mind as a model of f,ebruary 1975, excerpted in Peace July Now we better understand why women are in and the men opposed it' p. morãsharing sexual expression. Sex with another man must 1975, 5) general so much more supportive of gay men than "-duo.át"dby gender on lhat issue was predictable; is very A Thre Danish government, by contrast with Ar- óñidi;t mean being dominated, which scary. . non-gay men are. Part of it of course is that by our life experience of gentina, policies on gay p-eople. There rnen átu"co'nãit¡oned non-oatriaichal model of sexual expression as the has liberal heterosexual men are often paralyzed by fear. where personal ex- government persecution and all government .ãrlrl¡^itv to distrustiettings mutúality of equals doesn't seem possible; the ls no Never very trusting, such men find gayness one especially if men are present' to gays-except in the military and ñ;r* wilíhappen, transfer óf the heterosexual model to same-sex lobs ale open reason to keep up the defenses. But hetero- intimacy possible only service! Two places where the more ÑÀõtt tnen finsexism; we all have experienced its less open are passing the test today are mentary film Men's Lives a high school boy is äuãn't"n who ln fact, the worst thing you can call a man is forms such as put-downs and discrimination and load of anxiety about tomorrÔw' f interviewed on what it is like to be a dancer. While carrvins a heavy homos'exual. A man sõ áttacked must either ight we all fear its open forms such as rape and as- is a form of domination¿ no the interview is conducted we see him working Becáusé mascuiinity or leave the bar. sault. The striving goes on with a very demanding set of acrobatic one can really rest secure. Notice the importance of violence in defending out, Patríarchy, which links characteristics (gentle- you are actually willing to give up exercises. The boy mentions that other boys think forever unless yourself againsi the charge of being a " pansy'" ness, aggressiveness, etc.) to gender, shapes more secure basis for identity. or he must be gay. Why is that? the interviewer asks. and find a Referring to your income, or academlc degrees, sexuality as well, in such a way as to maintain are free and loose, he replies; they are not size of your car is no defense against such a Dancers male power. The Masculine Cause draws strength charge. Onty fighting will re-establish lespect as a big like football players; and "you're not trying to killanybody." from homophobia and rêsorts habitually to masculine male. Because gay appears to mean violence in its battles on the field of sexual behavior bring powerless, one needs to go to-the masculine Different kinds of homosexual politics, lt provides psychological support for the en different amounts of hostility, curiously ioutce of power - violence - for adequate def se' out military state and is in turn stimulated by it. Last yeär, the Argentinian government decided enough. That fact gives us further clues to to oersécuté gavs of a svstematic basis. The violence and female oppression. ln prisons, for Patriarchy and the military state for example, men can be respected if they fuck other Mínistry of Sócíal Welfáre offered the rationale paratlels powerfut institu- men, but not if they are themselves fucked. (We The between these two Both prefer more subtle means ' use the word "fucked" intentionally for its tions are striking. f ambiguity.) Often prison rapes are done by men of domination but insist on violence as a last resort. Both institutions provide role models for \\ who identify as heterosexual; one hole substitutes for another in this scene, for sex is in either case socialization: the masculine man, the feminine patriotic by an expression of domination for the masquline woman; the citizen. Both are aided mystique. other institutions in maintaining their i gion, sport. But for a man to be entered sexually, or tp use legitimacy- rel education, business, politics provides effeminate gestures and actions, is to invite attack The sexual of the family the power politics in prison and hostility outside. Effeminate gay psychological mcidel for the of the men are at the bottom of the totem pole because state. The oft-deplored breakdown of the family positive women, which is nothing less may, from this point of view, have effects. they are most like growing than treachery to the Masculinê Cause. Even Future Vietnams may be ruled out by the many gay men shudder at drag queens and unmasculinity of soldiers and unfeminine vigilently guard against certain mannerisms impatience of women. because they, too, have internalized the The business allies of the military are no doubt gets masculinist dread of effeminacy. appalled. The patriarchal family constant Braxton's report of prison life as a draft bolstering from that camp: family services ãre John private social resister is revealing on this score. The other in- traditionally the best funded of the promoted Feminine mates knew immediately that was a con- work agencies; business the John quite scientious objector because he did not act tough. Mystique consciously. The inteíplay at the top levels of the state They also assumed he was gay , tor the same reason. (lf you are not masculine, you must be a between violence and masculinity is becoming pacifist and gay, for masculinity is a package clearer. Political scientist Richard Barnet refers to ivh¡ch includes both violence and heterosexuality.) the "hairy chest syndrome" anÍbng National government A ticket of admission to Masculinity, then, is Security Managers in ägencies. sex with women, and bisexuals can at least get The man who ìs ready to recommend using that ticket even if they deviate through having gay violence againstforeigners, even wllere l¡e is feelings as well. This.may be why bisexuality is overruled, does not damage his reputation for not feared as much as exclusive gayness among prudence, soundness, or imagination, butthe man men. Exclusively gay men let down the Masculine who recommends putting an issue tothe UN,

Cartoon by BUS J uly 29, 1976 WlN 7 r]Us 6 WIN J uly 29, 1976 designated corners with thousands in varioús seeking negoti ations, or-ho,r ror of hor do- From all this it seems obvious'to us that the rors-,' currencies in their breast pockgts. ln addition, ing nothing'quickly becgmes known as "soft"" To struggle for a world without war mustalso be a 'Paraguay boasts a dictator, Alfredo Stroessner, be " sot t" at i s u n be l I i ge r e nt, com pass i o n ate, struggle'against patriarchy with its masculine ¡ who ilves in the Casa ' -willing to settle-th for less-or simply to be repelled character ideal and its oppression of women and Hammerschmidt (affectionatel.y known as the "Pink House"); by hom i ci de, ì i to be'-' i r r esponsi ble. t' lt rneans gays. Pacifist men, by rejecting violence, have pol iti cal pri soners galorei sadi stic tqrturer/i nter-. walking out of .the club. (Men and Masculinity by taken a healthy first step in dropping out of mas-- , iogators; and machine gunners, in nests atop most .f oseph Plèck and Sawyer p. 136) culinity. Some'have sought to compensate for that Jack public ' Last year's Mayaguez incident,'in which the US by being more rigorously "tough" in other ways buildines around the square of the capital, bombed Cambodia with no real effort at negotia- and by participatiirg in the oppression of women Asuncion. are some decent people in Paraguay, tions or other steþs, was a clear example. ln fact, and gays., Thii must stop. The feminist and gay There the regime, since the suspension òf civil it was so clear that Henry Kissinger felt impelled struggles are other dimensions of the same cause: though in1972, has driven many into exile.,Most to deny that the US response was to "prové our an end to violence. liberiies people eke out a living and are af¡;aid. The manhood." It seems eoually obvious that feminists and decent gays include, in our list of patriarchal Repression Stops walls have ears. must is Dr. Miguel state. The sexual politics One of Paraguayls decent citizens enemies, the military of part American, domination/submission is so reinforced by mili- the Progress of Chase Sardi. An anthropologist, an interest, scholarly at firòt, in the tarism that one cannot be eliminated without the Sardi took people of his country. Sardi''s studies of other. Masculinity and violence are so intimately Native Cuhure native lndian culture gained him an international related that one cannot be defeated by itself . in Paraguay reputation. As he came to know more groups and inäividuals, he felt he had to do something about Androgyny: new people for the new society the situation of the indigenous ethniC groups. Obiectivelv, thev have ño civilor land:rights, and I lf the masculine character ideal supports mili- until recentiy, véry little was known about the tarism, what can support peace? Femininity? No, cultures of these lndian groups. When the published ' for that character ideal also has been shaped by Handboøkot South American Indianìs a patriarchy, aád includes along with virtues such linguistic map of the continent in the late,'40's, as gentleness and nurturance, a kind of de- the-re was a biank space in the iegion of Paraguay. pendency which breeds the passive-aggressive Although Guarani, a native language, is official syndrome of curdled violence. along with Spanísh, and n¡any national ,l We are encouraged by the vision of androgyny, Paraguayani arè descended from lndians, those which includes a blend of the best characteristics LESLIE.ANN BROWNRICG nativè beoole who still live as culturallv beasts now allocated to the two genders: Centleness. lnciigenouó are widely regarded as saväges, and unfit for t I ntel I i gence. N urturance. Courage. Awareness of Paraguay is â South American country landlocked baptism feelings. Cooperativeness. Rooting one's sense of by,Bõlivia, Brazil and.Argentina. lt,is a buffer Sardi's first proiect was tó convince the piece.of land as a identity in being as well as doing, and not tying it territory, largely composed of a high dry steppe, government to'allóçate a definite a to ownership of people or things. lnitiative. Bg- the Chaco. where temperatures soar to 120oF and iefuge-reservation. Occasionally, bands friending persons rather than physical chdrac: ihé fauna íncludes corâl snakes âs fat as a child's decifnated by disease or territorial margination teristics. Sensuality, with appreciation for the ar.m. Down in the south of Paraguay, cattle are run fell t5elow thô viable population limit for súrvival Argentine by native means. Thè survivors would drift into erotic dimension of everyday life. . and merge with the herds of the growin¡i group Many of these characteristics are now allocated oamoas. Off in the west are the oil fields which Aiuncion to beg. Sardi and a of to the feminine role, which has led some men to þaraþuay wrested from Bolivia in a war between other concerned citizens spurred,the creation of a Part conclude that the essential liberating task is to be- tfrã iño rãpublics sponsored by rival petroleum "parque" on an iiland in the Parana river. (tourists watch lndians come effeminate. We don't agree, since to us companiei in the '40's. Paraguay picks up â few human zoo boated out to some desirable characteristics are now allocated dollårs taxing goods which move down the Parana màking native crafts which were offered for sâle), part to the masculine role (for example, initiative, iìuéiriorn eðií¡a aid Brazil, one reason whV part experimental farrn, US style resèrvation; park intelligence). Further, some characteristics are Brazil rushed to build a railroad to its western the functioned as an lndian orphanage. not assigned to either gender in this culture: mining district. But basically, Paraguay is a' Though its residents were of all chronologicäl having an identity independent of ownership of thievel'haven. / ages; they were cultural children in the people and things, for example. Women are ex- Paraguay has a cast of charactei"s which Párasuavân variant of Western civilization. párk more a decade pected to be as jealous as men, and as absorbed in qualifie"s it îor all thè outgroup stereotypes North ThË was established than people his material accum ulation or,consumerism. Àmericans witlessly apply to more innocent Latin ago. Sårdi's concern for the native and developed after that time. . l.' We invitp people to continue the exploration of, nations; hideway Nazis; Maf iosos directing the mode of working He I the world; appreciated theiigníty of lndian lifeways and Photo from Upt what a peaceful and sexually liberated'society will flow of herôin from Marseille to paternalistic be like and what kind of people will inhabit it. Let began to spurn ways of "helping An Angotan leader recently tried to touch the us allow our creativity to flow beyond the them. " He began to organize them for masculinity nerve in an appeal for US help for the definitions patniar:chy has given us. auto-gestacion : self-development. one of the anti;Soyje! FNLA, Holden Roberto told Newsweek Also needed are strategies for moving toward Jn 7972, there was a massacre of (12/2e/75): groups, The was similar to other the androgynous vision, which wil¡ show us how to the'Ache. çase ãaseå oi genocide and eihnoc¡de committed Most of the world is sniggering up itssleeye at change our organizations, campaigns, and I ife groups, in Paraguay, but in t America's,detente efforts and the way the Soviets styles. The authors are already clear that all of us against ñat¡ve not only jungle Colombia, pay Iip seryice to it while consolidating their posi- in this struggle have a lot to be proud of, and none the frontier zones of Brazil, ' Ache case, tion. Maybe, like the cuckolded partner in a be- of us needs to be guílt-tripped into changing. Let's .Leslie Ann Brownrigg is a freelance appl¡ed Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru. Butlthe of the New unlike othérs which were neveú known, reached tr ay ed m ar r i age, the U n ited States wi I I be the I ast all find the support we need to keep on growing. researcl¡ anthropologist and a member i to learn the truth. The future is our if we only claim it. World Resource Center in Chicago. the ears of Sardi, and othe¡: anthropplogists,

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ô. involved and Ngl.r, ¿LA deserving dissidents. Peripherally non-Paraguayans, publicized the case I However, that same month, the inter¡ogation/ ' ãõãiit¡.uip"rsons were roúnded up every week for internationally. The UN Commission on Human torture of Sardi began, and on February 23, Sardi iËerapeutìc imprisonment and torture' Rightspi"epared to make an investigation of and Mauricio Swartzman, a sociologist on the COLoË6¡A ñee¡itration of residence and of all house.guests alleged "genocide in Paraguay." The Ache Marandu staff , were removed to the comisaria làrñu¡rrã¿ with normal civil records weÍe fed into a | murders thus became a.Paraguayan My êi. septirna. The "seventh" is a prison which is known Éeú - analysis perfect for predicting the. ñ'åri n"t*ork . Fearing international condemnation, Paraguay as a dumping ground on the outskirts of Asuncion. Aoo( i;iÏ;; ó¡".;s of act¡vists of the Resistance'.B!ack- decided to polish its image. With this edge, Sardi Màny political prisoners have been held there for i;;ìi;; õeople from emplovment, plus. spiraling.. .): a vast project the native more than a decade. IL i;fl;titñ;iharpened the kirife at the throat of all conceived to organize junta's people of Paraguay and the climate of opinion Miguel ChaSe Sardi is accused of BBA7- ö't ii"uni. Bv i975, the Chilean terror wavered being what it was, he received international "subversion ." For months off icials Ë'kãã ; good Paiaguav followed its lead, without a CIA agent or a to the funding and the official,go ahead from between labelling him i"ãii¡ru ,ñtil there wãs án authentic threat The decided on the latter. more clearlv Paraguqyan authorities. communist. have ä¡liäi"?¡ãt government. Perhaps far - Although no specif ic charges have been drawn up, his mission of The project, called Marandu, extended legal öãîlJiãrãt Chase Sardienvisioned Paraguay claims to have proof of subversion. BoLlvlA people, the paranoid. and medical aid, Courses held out in the Chaco äiãánit¡-ng the native Sardi and another member of the staff arrested in state perceived the native communities relayed information on legal iÀåi¡nát¡õn of the Paiaguavân December, Marilyn Renhfeldt (who has been i amon g previouslv documentation, land tenure rights and labor laws, ;;t"iiiãi of modest d alõg ui:s released), co-edited a book Por la Liberacion del ar ethnic groups. and taught sanitary procedures and preventive ". äisoersed lndigena (Toward the Liberation of the lndigenous "'úi;;;i ¡s a non-violent activist, but medicine. Marandu lawyers brought charges , Chase 5ardí People). The book published texts of North and members of-groups Paraguayans who mistreated, maimed or hewa"s arrested along with against South Amèrican lndian statements, such as the ot murdered lndians. which advocate the violent overthrow Declaration of the Creat Sioux Nation Treaty i s m i I itarry govern¡nent : the primary liio"ttn".' lrente The objective of Marandu was Confereñce, and condemned the murder of Éärugrui" de Liberáiion (Paraguavan Front for organizing. "Dialogues" were arranged among ' Ayoreo and Ache lndians. The book is "proof" of Nãt¡õñal'l-¡Ueration ), Movimiento Popllar native groups which had never before sat down Marandu's "subversion. " ö;Ë;d; (Põpie;s ited Movement-Colorado together to discuss common problems,qnd. ruling political party from * * nìrà referilng to the common solutions. The meetings grew into a ;îùh th";o"vement splitJ,'and Movimiento de network of communication among native groups. ', öäiðäiðãð là Patria (Movément for the Defense Within Paraguay, an lndian Council (Conseio. Although at stake is the life and freedorn of larger issue of native ofthe Fatherland)' Lndigena) was formed_amo-ng the leaders of Miguel Chase Sardi, the the - extended beyond ", -seventeen people Like itr" repression has separate êthno-finguistic native of Paraguay is also involved. many p".aeuav's a former peoples, borders. Leandro Velazquez, groups. Some reprgsentatives were selected surviving indigenous they survive prisoner, was murdered in because they adapted their culture to a marginal þäiãEüãi'"nþtitical through traditional socio-political leadership na,'! anuary 23 ido territory where had been pushed by better Þðtãããt, Argenti ;.Bienven structures, and in those groups where the they Ëi¡ãäã ànJruue.to Alegre, exiled members of ,organized groups. Deprived of decent'land along traditional structures had degenerated, an the"ruting Colorado Party, were reported. election process was developed. The organization the rivers and in the rnore temperate south, and policemen within containerized in their nom¿dism by national kidnapped bv Paraguayan expanded beyond Paraguay into the f irst lndian Map from LNS. whereabouts are unknown' t boundaries, the people stripped down their Argeñtina and the¡r Pàrliament of the Southern Cone when 32 leaders wave of arrests, tortures and culture. They live largely on the move, trekkingr ihe recent of Paraguayan, Argentine,.Chilean, Brazilian and soil are reminiscent of the migratory cycles each year to gatheç food, rri¿ãti ãn foreign Venezuelan native groups met ¡n San Bernardino, through piecedent. Chile, at least, enjoyed hunt and fish, leaving gardens to grow and The reoressive state mechanism is so eff icient in Cn¡l"un iunta's Parag uay on October 12, 197 4. Thei r concl usion ç warm feelings of the Left return¡ng to see if the crop can be harvested Parasúav that virtually no internal political group tf,ä iãuuntuge oi the were published in the summer issue of Indigena, a ' progressive regime prior to game, fish and wild food is in ã position to defy the gov-ernment. The arrest abroad for tñeir ilst publication out of Berkeley, CA, carrying news of during the season of repression' The "Reig,n .:. scarcitt. of Sardi and the Marandu staff came in the context the coup and svsiematic lndian America. GPÚSR calls it, seems all I The Paraguaian economy has little use for of a massive round up of alleged subversives in ;i Tilå¡ iñ Ctt¡le, as The Consejo !ndigena of Paraguay formed a bäcause things seemed so November and December 1975. Amnesty ih" tor" terrible :: council to direçt the work of Marandu as of J une 1, these folks. Some outlying capitalists may take ' at least 200 persons were ËËñli;;iilãpóóiJor-cr,ilelRfte'vearsof 1975. The President of the Consejo Directivo them on now and then to work on farms or in tnternational reported The homes of many were stiuàel e, the oiganized.worki n g.class and thei r Indigena, Santa Cruz, was considered by processing plants. Rural.underemployment is the arrested or disappeared. Alberto i nstall a massive social only alternative status to being "marginal rà¡d"d and theii property confiscated. ãii iàiîei" ablelo the Marandu Project staff as the'final authority. tt'té top down, while ruled bv a tribes," as anthropologists used to note them ¡n ;;;;*;t frot Miguel Chase Sardiwas the executive director, ln sorne cases, if the wanted person could not be elected government-the famous i academic liferature. However, the cost of this coñ stitutional, carrying out the recommendations for action iorÃd. wives or other members of the family were to socialism." cheap laboi supply is ethnocide, the destruction of "peaceful'The road originating with the lndian cou¡selors. As of this taken bv securitv forces. There is a strong people Paraguay attract less attention the native people's lifeways. Coupled with not of May, the international funding-was to go directly ina¡cat¡on many'of the detainees, including are moré obscure and have been genocide, as massacre of the Ache, becausãi-hev to the lndian Council, the Marandu staffJhereby ' infrequent the and the infirm, have been :'' iom¿n, the etderly heel for a longer time' Repression , even the precarious survival of the native peoples under a heaúier becom i ng thei r employees. subjecied to þrture. (Al, 3/7 /76) has prevented the Paraguayans from forming ¡5:placed f urther in jeopardy. The loss is not only On December 1, 1975, the work of Marandu democracy. Paraguay, however, l,ives, but informatíon. W¡th the loss of each group Backward in most respects, the state of euen a bourgeois came to a crashing halt. Sardi and other staff is not,a state, to be put out of mind' of people organized as a whole culture, the species Parasuav is avant-garde in repression, quick to d¡stãnt members were arrested in a round-up of political iñ Ch¡le and Paraguay, as well ' loses not past also alternatives fo¡: its á latest techniques. Since the mid-sixties, Crri"nt conditions prior to a v¡s¡t from President ' only its but uãàóiit "subvers¡ye5l' i ps and Uruguay and Brazil, represent a stage of future societies. Lost also is such knowledge as self 1i n stitutional izi n g m i I itary dictatorsh . Ceisel of Brazil. The Marandu office was raided t from that outlined in the the esoteric ethnobotany of the native people, clamoed down on most Latin American nations; repressiõn extrapolated by police. Sardi's friends expected that the operative systems, not on their medicines which have proved the.sourcè for Ù.rn'ruu in197O, Chile in 1973. Paraguay got its S-1 b¡ll. Their's are round-up was routine security for a visiting paper practice in US client states' The hundreds of modern drugs. The depletion of í" 1954 and set up its secret police in the but in military dictator's benefit, andthat he would be Chase Sardi and other cultures works very much like the depletion of al "ò.ti-*oóoúlåtuá centers bv 19i2. ln 1973, the iunta of i¡tuat¡on of Miguel released when Brazil's master went home. Paraguayan prisoners is not ihsignificant; its natural resource. Once gone, always gone. bh i le i n stitutional ized a massive, systematic ln J anuary, the detained women members of partof survival' beyond specif ic repression of poiüiuãiuiolution is our the team were'released, giving renewed hope. * * * terroi, i stage

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10 WIN J trly 29, 1976 SONG OF THE REVOLUTION NO.42 your passport tð the border guards thanking amerika for rehabilitating me shot guns, everytime you hold out gas, and saving me from such a corrupt life, tear the breath tightens pistols, . . .thank you very much! and the wolf hunts grenades, and a light goes out Herds of pigeons and uniformed men a little tax dance maddeningly who point their rifles everytime You PaY on hot tar roofs at everyone the grass gets slcK get criPPled on low-b¡ri lt bui ldings other uniformed men, änã"torn"-girls except in gas behind high walls who hang-out together and die like workers (that job's hide the daylight) after woik, after the done, evervtime You vote prison inside the after they've done their duty for society, you úote for Your lailers somewhere inside the isolated city who drink bread blackens protecting the city and get disgustingly drunk together, äã'ñã 6iä¿ï [ids get the prongs with guard towers who gamble in a quiet tone (on the walls) with ieal money together, evervtime You sPeak your voice is bent with affliction that house who frequent vou árust ask if black kids aËigetting the prongs (ready to use at a moment's notice) x-rated, "art films" i,ãü rrtt ask if ihe in boots machine guns, making snide, sexist comments ånd the mexicans buried about the actors together, everytime you sleep between fine linen sheets who call each other drunken foul names together, full of scorched marks who smoke joínts "once in awhile- it is the bullet holes tust to see what in the universal brain ' it's like" together, who and joke together issue have laugh those who PassPorts EE about the prisoners usurped the land and the brains they put in the "hole" that daY BB because they: those who issue PassPorts suspected one of being drunk, are stealing my l.ife finding no wine, but and using my being "just 'cause he was actin' funny," for their doing caught a few.gambling those who issue Passports with cigarettes and matches, irn"l Lnã"i befóre and imptore lust to move from here to caught "one of 'em bastards" there looking at "dirty pictures" of nude women, and with gestures of falling rain 4Ê they heard one Drawing by Ceorge Crosz. It..È, thought and the corn dance calling a guard "dtrty names" not actuaiy sure, but ' J ii,i#;î:llff #?'*,1'f ;:iå,ìi3.ff :"'i'ff,Ï,,,.0,o,",lî:*[hîï"'d "what the hell, he's only a convict, to move from here to there if vou do not yet know what i am singin€ about. if he didn't do that, he did something else revolutionaries and poets and science that works for those flag poie turbines i|t"ö;Ë ,ìd ån¿ ii trr"v dont the he never got caught toî,"' : it tfrã Uu¿ grv aie telling them raided a cell : and caught a coupre wittt ends ;;g|;ïi*ätli;3as" i:ï,iïTåovie #H;r,irabre to yourcode crackers smelled like, those who issue passports you can decode art and abUse it tasted like, ;iiñ;úõ pãitrÇuiu citia glands gonads assholes i¡'ãirt bliã"oluiion ttto is hard to decode qualitv mariiuana"' where the spirit of romance can enter by those who issue pagsp-ort¡ busted a few raugh,"r':li þ,litJ and pull them out ;Åd d¡uid" the blacks from the white pretending have a good time to and the rich from the sore together no one is free until we are all free be free untilthere are no nations and classeó and cubans from kansana " . . . but it was just to keep'em in line, ñà;ai¡ can't let 'em get too friendly to line us against eachother blort tumsa hassa neeswa we dream of in permissi.gn gotta keep'em isolated and divided, without the love that between thäö;Ëäiããuiñã tt ghettos without " to count else they might organize and begin to ¡t is because nationalism forbids union the þeaiants are learning 'ìh;t is opening the gates question our authority and. . . tü b;;ii;äi;b¿i"¿ þrepared / anaichism pigeons The and the war r s,bu itt bv should be told $f"î[f; i;i,:iilitäf ll"S i#i,iîXlîìT;,å""'*" back olr ".".0 "The tar is hot, burdens wiðe planet of passage ¡t'll burn your feet, my hair is getting longer planet of people with long fly'way from here, because it is harder to cross borders halr border guard quickly!" but it is also my way now of saying tn" of sod . . . but who gives a damn about pigeons? i am beautiful ánd i am going to set thru ;ñiîh"tt.ïtl"r ö;ãn üaeated and man place L. Klauck i am also changing my clothing are not confined to one 27-Daniel mar.'74-p.m. so that you can look at me Eleck in the drum. . . border guard Julian Photo frcm Cay Liberator ãñ¿-È""ïitrãt ¡ not hiding mv arrow of love

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Rodden's argument is a standard one trade The People for unionists make against electoral workplace ' democracy. Until we begin to deal with this Self Management position seriously we will never convince the possible average trade unionist that it may be to demonstrations and internal people. Dellums also suggested Conference have both workplace democracy and independent DEMOCRA TIC CONVENT¡ON, suRvlvEs NEW YORK discord plagued Democratic at- itrat the United State-i should unions with the muscle of direct action. tempts to cãpture the PresidencY. reiognize the new govefnments of 'HENRYBASS Louelta Hanberry of the Office and Professional C¡TY The only breaks'in the Pre- Aneõla and Mozambique and Employees Union chided the other trade unionists plport'i ndependence for Puerto people dictable påtterns came during the su Over 400 attended the third annual con- for their lack of attention to the grievances of their Rico. The Demoôratic Partv ended its vice-presidential nom inations on ference of People for Self-Management (PSM), ' own clerical employees. Unions themselves, she the war resister New J uly 15. Black congressman Ron Fritz Efaw, ., held at the American University in suburban charged, âre no longer self-managed and should four day siege of York's i Square Carden bY Deliums of California and war elected as an alternate delegate Washington, DC, June 10to 13. (For earlier PSM return to being so as a prelude to fighting for Madison abroad in Eng- nati ng former Ceorgia- resister alternate delegate Fritz f¡om Democrats conferences see WIN Feb. 7 , 1974 , p . 19 and J uly genuine self-management in the shop. nomi immY Carter and Efaw had their names entered into laìd (see WlN, 7 /22/76), was 3,1975, pp.17 A 22.) ln several ways this con- The most interesting panel at this year's PSM Covernor J peoPle making nnesota Senator Waltdr nomi nation.. After a' seconding nominated so ference was the most exciting yet-particularly conference was the one conducted by employees Mi Mondale as candidates speech by R'èpresentátive John seconding speeches could raise because of the large number of union people and of the Rushton Mine of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. "Ftitz" of unconditional am: ' for president and vice-pr-e.cident. "'i Cônyers, Deliums Withdrew his the issue representatives of democratically organized Since 1973, Rushton has experimented with a high and The convention was a well ! name, noting that the De?rocratic nesty for draft.reìlsters enterprises who attended. There were repre- level of worker participation in organizing work. Ransom,ã gold orchestrated, boring event far dif- party shouldmove backtoward a deserters. Louise sentat¡ves from a democratically organized mine Foremen still have the authority to stop any star mother making the first 1968 and inoré equitable representation óf , in Pennsylvania, a pet food factôry in Kansas, and ferent from the PartY's operation they believe violates state or federa! gatherings where external women, minorities and young spepch felt that extending am- an insurance company in Washington, as well as safety regulations or otherwise endangers safety. 1972 from the more usual counter-culture work collec-- Other than that, the role of the foreman is that of tives. The United Mine Workers, the an advisor and trainer. Since no two seams of coal Amalgamated Meatcutters, the Office and are alike, mining lends itself to permittinc WALTER LOWENFETS DIES Profess ional Workers, the U n ited Steelworkers, individual initiative. At Rushton miners are the United Auto Workers, the Hospital and Health Lowenfels died 7 he shared with ' allowed to'try out the techniques they think will Walter July .agreements'so Care Workers, the Office and Professional work best in a particular assignment, as long as at the age of 79. His wife, many. Employees union, and the Machinists and they don't endanger anyone by violating safety Lillian, died iust over a Year I last met Walter at a'May Aerospace Workers were among the unions requirements. Miners also rotate among various ago and they had been in- Day rally in Union Square-l represented. jobs. seoarable. Walter was a rare think it was in 1975-when The J une 11 business meeting of PSM was at- The effect on employee morale has been quite oeison, able to cross the the;National C¡ucus of Labor tended by only a few do2en people and practicalLy good, as ihdicated by the low turnover of i¡nes wb are supposed to ob' Cor4mlttees (alias the US people none of them were union or activists. The employees since the experiment began. serve. A member of the Labor Party) had threatened most important decision at the meeting was to Management retains control of safety in the mine, Communist Party, former to physically attack that a drop the word "people" from the organization's and the employees explained that.they and the editor of the Daily Worker, Communist rally. The PartY name. Several speakers contended that because of union wanted it that way. Only if m.anagem.ent¡ convicted (but fortunatelY militantsvere out, its name the organization has experienced some has control of safety can it be held liable foi per- not iailed) during the Smith regardless of age, and some getting difficulty in financial support from sonal injuriep. lf something goes wrong, the union Act'period of the 1950's, he of us who believed in the foundations and, more importantly, in attracting wants to be able to point the finger squarely at was above all else a poet. freedom of assembly were trade unionists. management, and it can do this only if management He walked into the also there.,Walter signed as The constitution-of PSM provides that has the authority to enforce safety regulations. Liberation office in the late a soonsorof WRL's 50th An' important questions be decided by mail ballot of 1950's, when I wasworking nivärsary, as an individual the membership. However, the sparsely attended At tast year's PSM conference, the women's there, and said he wanted to êndorser of the Continental business meeting voted 16 to 1 to drop the word caucus attacked PSM for domination by a male iake me off and see how the Walk, and in some ways was people from the organization's name and allow the academic elite. At this year's conference, these other half lived. He didn't 'as ' faithful a fellow-traveler membership to vote only on four alternative peoþle played i¡ttle or no role on many panels. mean the poorJhe meant of WRL as he was a loYal names, noneof which involves the subversive Hówever, they still dominated the business the Lett of which he was a member of the Communist word "people." Protests may lead to putting meeting. Some appear bent on turn¡ng PSM into part. And off we went to P"tti, it *"s a politicai con- "People for Self-Management" on the ballot after just another professional association, and the some cultural event. We tradiction-but Walter all, or there may be a write-in ballot for keeping. namg change proposed for PSM will be a large kept in touch over the Years. didn't find it a problem. He PSM's present name. step in that direction. He l¡ked some of the things . never gave up, though the Aslde from the business meeting it was a lively More than the name, also the character of PSM that t wrote, sent me coPiés . death óf Lillian was,surely a and interesting conference. Bob Rodden, special is being changed. Those whom these academics of his books and I once spent l crushing blow. He fought for president assistant to thè international vice of the call "the workers" will still be welcome in PSM, if a weekend with him and the poetry of soôial Protest machinists union, was the toughest member of a only because the academics need them as data for lillian at Cape May, New coming from the black com' Friday morning panel of trade unionists. He their studies. However, the original promise of When A.f . Múste' poems I Jersey. muniti. He collected I objected strongly to the schemes of management- PSM was that there would be nó d¡st¡nct¡on died Walter wrote a Poem we réfleciing the anger toward union cooperation in democratizing work proposed between the people involved in actual used in the WRL calendar- l ' the Vietnãm War. The Com' by other panelists. "When management and labor experiments in workplace democracy and those á moving tribute that leaPed munist Party lost a member, Walter Lowenfels. Photo courtesy of Manna Perpelett get in bed together," he said, "the workers get who write articles about these experiments. ln over all t'he political dis- t lost a friend, all of us lost a screwed." fact, a desire to encouragè participation by âgreements A.J. had with comrade. activists was the reason the word "people" was the Communist Party and Henry Eass is an economist and author of Beyond ' included in PSM's.name. Sadly, this ideal may .touched on the human -David Mcâeynolds Politics. soon be abancloned.

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I thê brutal , Harbor to protest the ship, which The Minnesota-Madison- o As ceremonv oarticipants which documents drugging of mental was used as a torture center - chicagobranch of the walk talked about ttie ¡ãeacú of cus- fàrced Metropol itan State during and after the brutal mili- started )ulV 14 with several days terf s downfall. Ameri- pãtients at-the theñative Angeles, and tary coup of 1973. of activities in the St. Paul- can demonstråtors marched up frãio¡tal near Los "lt happened in Newport. lt Minneapolis a¡ea._Tlre initialac- the hill singing ,,Custer Died For the ärugs' devastating side , LNS happened in New York," UPI tion was a vigil at Stillwater State Y-our Sini.t St-ickers.on many of effects. - quoted a Chilean sailor on the Es- Prison. the cars/owned by the demon- tÍ meralda as saying. ln a1974 The southern branch of the strators declared',,Custer Had lt EVENTS training cruise the ship also ran Walk proceeded through Selma, Coming." tt Demonstrations on ',å up against demonstrations in San Alabama and is on the road to Afterwards. the Native Ameri- CH ICAGO - I anniversaries of the nuclear Francisco and Portland, Orego_n. Birmingham. They expect to ar- cans held their own f irst "victory the r{ ^ bombings of Hiroshima and rive there on J uly 30 and hold a celebration." Austin Two Moons, å; -LNS 6 & 9, at the mass meeting at Sardis Baptist a descendent of the Sioux warriors Naeasaki, August ,t both daYs' }{ Church on August 3. Then they're who fought in the Battle of the Feðeral Plaza,12 Pm off through Cadsden and Little Big Horn, explained that no Sponsored by the Chicago/Mid- ft Walk Commit- CONTINENTALWALK Anniston, Alabama, hoping to lndian celebrationi were held west Continental i tee. For information, call REACHES MISSOURI; reach Atlanta, Ceorgia by Augr¡st previously becai.¡se the lndians 939-3347. z SQUTHERN ROUTE HEADED 20. " weie too afraid of reprisals from t EOR BIRMINGHAM' A new feeder route will,form in whites in the area. -LNS MEDIA, PA- Outdoor teach- oak Ridge, Tennesse_e.1"_?T1^_. EX-MENTAL PAT¡ENTS rally for disarm ament and'soc t'X The Continental Walk for Dis- a1d - through.centralVirginia meet 5íi-¡f.l lN CALTFORNTA justice featuring David armaruent and Social J ustice took fo¡ journey å the southern route lhg óövËriñffi'ööËËiöË McReynolds, Kay Camp the f ilm Fritz Efaw addresses the Democratic Photo by Crace Hedemänn. with ¡t the good wishes and ' '-.: into Washington in October. l^ :' ; "Nixon's Secret Legacy, ' and the enthusiasm of people in Kánsas --- ex-me.ntal patients nesty to all the men who opposed JURY RETURNS NOT În" Walkäreanization is $oT" ?9 Sweet Briar Folk Music CooP; this week and entered Missouri. walked into California Covernor the war in Vietnam will symbolize GUILTY VERDICT ON AIM fina;¿iai¡y ;tiaËó"J ài ulways. August 6, B pm at the Delaware At last report, the Walk wab near ' J erry Brown's off ice lune 29- America's sense of óompaision, MEMBERS iN CEONN RAPIDS Áni.ãñtÉOutións *oulã Ue Cor.rnty Courthouse, Front & and show that we've learned Warrensburg. andthey've been.thereeversince. lndian gi"ätllãpp.".iutãU.GñJVour South Ave. Sponsored by the something from our involvement American Movement After weeks of passing through Now in its third week, the sit-in (AlM) Robideau ãonàii'onito, fhe Coñi¡nilt"l Brandywi ne Alternative Fund. in Vietnam. aitivists Robert sparsely p'opulated areas with was organized by the Network Darelle received ver- W;tk;3jó Làtuvãtt"-'l- ii., Neù For information, call Rqn Kovic, a paraplegic veteran and Butler little support from local residents, 'dicts not guilty iLìü,'ñ7rooìl (21s)s6s-o247. from California made the second of on two counts the explosion of participation from i-TËXj ïå.fi,:ï':#å1il:. Rapids, I _"*" *.u speech recountinþ how after each of murder in Cedar - people in the Midwest gave ths Psychiatric Assault (WAPA) to MIAM¡ 5th Annual Hiroshima lowa. The two were bêing in - losing use of his legs in Vietnam, tried Walkers a real lift. Walkers at- Protest forced work in mental Memorial Service and activities, connection with the slaying of two potluck with hospitals and to demand the right events for the daY in- he vúas vilified and assaulted tended suppers local NATTVE AMERTCANS August 6; when he returned to this country FBI agents at the Pine Ridge ln- residents in many towns.'People to_refuse treatment. The sit-in clude: B:30 am-vigil on Brickell dian Reservation in South Dakota. CUSfen èËN- as an ardent foe of the war. joined the walk outside of towns & Biscayne BIvd; 10 am-demon- 'ROTESTrÊñ N rn¡- Cor-t'.rÈüõäÀr,oN a Efaw spoke last, withdrawing in1975. and marched in with them. !;:åi,åiå,",i:!lJ,ïfil;i"':"0 stration at the Federal Building; in cus- his name, but noting that a uni-. Both defendants remain Between Li ndsborg and:Sail na, Over 100 Native Americans women decided to remain in the 2 pm- leaf letting downtown; 5 pending versal amnesty rather than tlre tody appeals on other Kansas the Walk grew to over,50 walked in on a ceremonv in South governor's Sacramento office until pm-start of walk to a memorial them. Wounded limited one favored by Carter charges against peoplè. The Walkers part[cipated Dakota commemorating'the Battle -. they won a response to their de- service in Peacock Park, McFar- t

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I one of disturbing the peace. Baskett waq horrified: I am ánnoyed, however, by Baskett's repeated as- "But that.would be.just another_way of pleading surances to the reader that he is "normal," and not guilty to the same thing, and l'd still be i'sex-obsessed." (He admits he is addressing his compromising rnyself. What about God? What about book to straight society, and like Leonard Matlovich, principle?" The lawyer assured him that "Cod and his outward straightness is part of his appeal') He .principle do not enter the courtroom," and that he makes few connections to the manner in which the ' had almost no chance of winning. court system treats poor and minorities, or to famous criminal -Still determined, he went to the Los Angeles Cay Eueené Debs' statement, "The Liberation Front and was referred to system is America's only working railroad." Alan Saltzman, 'Finally,iusÚce an attorney who had defended clients in similar cir- from my point of view as a legal'student, he cumstances before. Baskett appealed to the gay omits all citations from Coldinf s brief -damaging community for financial support with an advõrtise- ' the book's usefulness. merìt ¡n the Advocate-and received a disappointing But such flaws do not detract from its overall ex- response. ceitence. The challenge remains, as Baskett writes: The trial began with a procedural wrangle, and the ! There is much truth in the charge that "homosexuals I judge refused Saltzman's motion that the prosecutor t the treatmenttheY deserve. " By such a specify ùnder which part of Sectign 647a of the receive 5 charg,e I mean this: lf homosexuals before me, down . California Penal Code he was intëñding to the decades and centuries, had stood up and prosecùte-solicitation of a lewd act, of engaging in throueh their rights, the laws could h;ave been. lewd conduct. on later reflection it seem fouchltor "Only did to long ago- But.no, they hid, they squirreled me we had been fully compromised at the outset. ln iialnced themlelves away in society's næks and crannies, broadest terms, the prosecution had been given a thev disappeared intothewoodwork. And this wider than normal target at which to aim their given projectiles." ase-old fear of being'nfoundout" has society cãrte blanche to walk all over'them. , Baskett had to sit and listen to Lundberg telline John KYPer ' lies and half-truths. f{s 'íportra}ed me as a man on the make only for him, and desperately for him, as if he were the only other man on the planet that night. li lf it weren't so pathetically untrue, and so hurtful to my case, it would have been laughable." He also testified that Baskett had resisted arrest. ti raise public consciousness about the need to repeal a Whenever I meet a writer who omplains,of not be- ENTRAPPED Under cross examination, Lundberg contradicted t whole series of anachronistic and uniust laws. ing able to get I tell him or her to locate a Edward Eugene Baskett himself but it was to make no difference. Baskett þublished, Entrapped is Baskett's accour¡t of his fight on a , mimeograph machirie somewhere and become ex- Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill 11976 I 151pp., began to sense a new hopelessness from the air of principle. On March 27 ,1971, the author, a Long pert at usiñg it. ii hardcover / S6.50 the jury: ' Beach businessperson, visited a local gay bar and Learn how to lay out a page tastefully, with proper picked policeman, David a Severàl years ago I was refused employment at a up an undercover one Itwas as if they werewatching someonewrap up his borders. Boston state hospital because a nursing supervisor J ames Lundberg, to take him to his apartment. flfter garbage, as it they were above allthis and didn't Check out some offices and businesses where you patted on the stomach had discovered my homosexual¡ty. When I asked her Baskett Lundbe¡g whlle flriving really care to acknowledge that they were actually can scrounge free paper-at least paper that has was parked (actually, l'l why my sexual orÍentation disqualified me, she , him to where his car allegedly primary observers of one of the pits of activity a only bêen printed on one side. You can make the replied simply, "You are not suitable to work with where anotheryice squad officer was waiting), stran9e offshootot humanity inhabited. They were used side less distracting by mimeographing a half- grabbed young people." (That there were probably dozens of Lundberg arrested him. He Baskett by the much tæ good to be subiected to this. Their eyes tone or a fine pattern over the whole page. gay women and men who worked at her hospital had collar and started choking him: were turned away, almost glassened.'And then I Collate the pages; staple them together; now you evidently never occurrçd to her.) I was insulted by give What was really amazing, læking back at it now, realized that even Íthe ¡udgelwas caught up in the have a book. Put a price on it. Then mail or away her implication that I was a potential child molester, lil was the insta,ntaneous personality change that over- same huge embarrassment as the iury! free copies. Analyze'the repction to them. which I later wrote her, as absurd and.obscene as "is came this man at the moment he decided to Íly into *** are naturally He was eventually found guilty and given a $150 the superstition that black men Previously subdued and polite, t¡ewas not rapists." action. fine, plus $40 court costs. revealed as a rantirig, obses$ed homo-líater. JekVll Twenty-eight years agb I mimeographed 10O copies What personal vindication I could achieve, how- Baskett retained Saltzman's partner, Martha and Hyde.. . tl¡e closet case gone cuckoo. Sure, it of a banlo instruction manual. Three years later we system. The Coldin, for an appeal to Los Angeles County ever, would have tó be outside the he was acting purely outof duty, but I ran off 500 more copies. Three years later we pasted i;11 appeared Superior Court. Coldin prepared a lengthy brief full ACLU wanted the "perfect" test case for estab- up a dummy copy had 2000 copies run off by doubt itwas justthat.lt seemed he was proving it was un- and lishing precedent, and I couldn't afford to hire a of logical and legal arguments. "l thought photo-offset. Three years later we had to get 9000 something to himself . How could it be otherwise? No persuasive. This, myself, willcer- lawyer. I was almost certain to lose. ln the end, I deniably ltold more printed. By now it has sold several hundred iü cop ever ha.d a more docile subjectto subdue. Again, he was to be used my experience as testimony befote the Massa- tainly lead to my exoneration." thousand copies'and put our kids through college. need a gay police car,. disillusioned, añd the ludgement was upheld. A final chusetts Legislature on the for anti- As he was transferring Baskett to 4 **r¡ discrimination law. Lundberg screamed at his unlucky'captive, again appeal was lodged, to the US Supreme Court, which Edward Baskett's book is subt¡tled "an accused and again, you give me any trouble, l'll shoot ya. ' rèfused even to hear the case. (lt agreesto hear less "lf The proper use'of technology calls for flexibility. homosexual looks at American justice." He wàs Understand me? l'll shoot ya!" (Lundberg later than ten per cent of the cases submitted,to ¡t.) He There is a time for mass production, a time for humiliatgd, then outraged, by a brutal vice squad ied that he was not issued a f irearm for this had reached the end of his remedies. testif small-scale production. Seeger cop whom he had picked up at a Long Beach, Cali- duty.) By contrast, the other officer was almost a pil- Most men who are victims of entrapment face -Pete fornia, bar. lnstead of accepting the customary, lar of stability. Baskett was jailed for the night and public ridicule and the possible loss of their iobs. quiet_arrange- quiet arrangement with the prosecutor to plead then released on his own recognizance in the They are only too happy to make a - must be gúilty and pay his fine, he appealed all of the way to morning, angry and determined to vindicate himself . ment with thê proseòution. Edward Baskett I the US Supreme Court, losing at every step. But like .His naive idealism and faith in American justice commended for his courage in pursuing this case, John Kyper chroniclesthe gay mouementfrom his the Virginia sodomy law appellants whom the high was quickly dashed. An ACLU attorney counseled and then in writing about it. lt must have been very home near Boston, MA. Pete Seeger is an activist Court refused to hear, his loss may eventually help to him'that he could probably get the charge reduced to painful to admit, again and again, the naivete of his and folk singer. faith in the system. 18 WlN lulv 29. 1976 J uly 29, 1976 WIN 19 I

i He also said, "I hope we will keeP uP 1. Produõtionism. The primary con- Thinking L¡ke A Woman steadv oressure on foreign cerns ofthese states are production- poveriinents, such as thóse in India and ist-the forced accumulation of capital by Leah Fritz ñ.ussia asainst repression and for the through economic development. This release oi political prisoners"' Certainly contrasts with traditional international we must, 6ut our réal pressure should socialism which is distributionist. It is with an aftêrword be directed asainst those distributionist in that it is a theory of eovernments:-such as lran, Chile, hutnan liberation based on a material BarbaraDemlng' Ãreentina, Brazil, South Korea, etc.- abundance, whëre our own tax dollars, corporations 2. Nationalism. For African "social- and qovernment bear direct ists" like Nyerere, Senghor, or ln f,er essays from the mid-'69's to the present, Leah Fritz has as well as for Cuban "social- çompiling respõnsibility for the tepression. Nkrumah daied expose the progress toward feminism oÍ her own intrepid soul. Even Finallv. in-a letter in the same issue, ists" like Castro or Guevara, thè earth (as Abbie Jááe Wells suggested that is divided into ptivileged and under- when that iourney wound through false consþiousness in the earlier (Iætters contlnued from 2.) Page lowering men's wages would stoP privileged nations. Privilege is pi ece s, w h i ch a r e v ü I ne r ab ly and cþu r agæu s I y i ncl udedl, her ow n h u mor inflatioñ. It would, ln fact' only increase õontingent upon industriat development and humanity were irrepressible.- And the later- essays, on women dnd In replv to Henrv Bass's letter [WIN' profits and I suggest Ms. Weils need and thè linelof international contest are violEnce, and on teminiim vs. socialism, are a tiumph of consciousness, fiñáncial page to discover drawn not along the confines ofclass, 7 i I / 7 6l^ abovtDavé McReynolds: self õnlv read the endúhnce, love and plain lr,lorgan ROA proletariat goodwriting. -Rgbin manasement is not an alternative to thiõ for herself' -PHYIIIS with the international socialism, but it is a form of socialism. Jollet' Ill' opposing the internatiõnal bourgeoisie, Those inexperienced enough to think btt along national lines with proletarian This . . . collection of 10 years' worth of essays extends from peace marches to that "self-managementl' is a good nations opposing privileged nations. the sexual revolution to some of the brilliant añd sèn3ible analyses ot replacement for the word "socialism" The last sentence of my contribution to Thus. Nverere ofTanzania has patriarchy l've ever read.... Leah Fritz is one of the most.important'tå¡nkers unions as "prongs" of shbuld know that broad sections of the your July 4 symposium [WIN, 7/8/761 describéd trade to come out af the women's'movement, and, hence, ciut of tl¡e entlìre we will will the nationalist movement which nust working class are irrevocably prejudiced was orinted as: "Whether revolutionary strugg/e. Lindsey, Eoston Phoenix againsfthe term "self-managementt " be oür decision. " The last sentence as I cooperate in the furtherance of the , -Karen The Chrysler plant where I used to. wrotè it was: "\{hether we will will be national interests. : The of work, for example, introduced a the decision of our free will." There is a 3. Voluntarism. ideology the Distributed by WIN Books and Free Life Edltions Paperbeck, 160 p.dca, 03.25 program they called level of meaning, implied throughout developmental dictatorships is funda: "self-management" under which they the piece, which is lost by your editing mentally elitist and voluntarist. come not tried to get the wofkers to take over downward. Here is the last paragraph Ideology and consciousness : Order from: from objective economic conditions as sôme of the headaches and ptoblems of concluding with the sentenôe asI wiote wlN envisioned by genuine international management, like didciplinè, it: Ave. (Sth fl.) so'cialists, but iather ftom a small band 503 Atlantic scheduling, and the like (as long as I am sitting here in the late-afternoon Published by winboOks partisans (Castro) or Brooklyn, NY 11217 production was not interrupted), but no glow over a place ofgreat peace and of disciplined from fundamental questions like work clarity. I more than wish, I more than "one pãrty systems requiring national (in conditions, quotas, etc. were allowed to hope, I believe that humanity and each confotmity" the words of one Afri- the workers. Ultimately the company of us were created not to self-destruct can "socialist"). not used the proqram to fool workers into but to self-sutpass. And I lmow ive each Thus we must oppose only given to American intervention abtoad but also o We'll Give You the Shirt 1 finishing up early, so that time-study and all have been the energy do ñ men could come along and set new this. Whether we will will be the thesedevelopmentaldictatorships t : ' production quotas on jobs. decision of our free will. which masqulerade as socialism.^Ëor d Off Our Backs = Can you imagine Chrysler _MIRIAM WOLF.WASSERMAN more detailed analysis see the follow: BlgPlne, Callf. ins: Ihe F¡sclet Porsuaslon ln R¡dlc¡l ô introducing a program called ö Four Buòks. Socialism? :JOIÍNACffR PoÏttcs by A. James Gregor (Princeton z for IVashington, DC University Press, 1974) and "African ô- Socialism, Socialism, anil Fascism" by Gregor in The Revlew of Polldcs Vol. New! T-Shirts from WIN! I noticed with interest Brian Doherty's .20, No.3, July, 1967. _MÀRKI¡YEBER In response to your excellent special comment IWIN, 7 / I / 7 6l that California ' Available only ín Yellow, with Blue silk-screened Brown is "bad, bad Evanevlllre, In. issue 7/8/761; Where dowe go Goúernor Jerry design, in Adult sizès:Extra Large, Large, Medium ltffIN, I wish y'all would run some , after the Bicentennial? : karma." I (S-10 year,s Brown. and Small, Childs' sizes \4ediuni old) and Walter'Lowenfels wrote: "The more substantive comment on of being a teally 5mal 6-7 years otd ) persisténce of terrorist guerilla activity He has the reputation good guy, politician; likely to leadl, sooner or later, to out- a'hew age" If Jan Barry writes about the slaves of is isincorrect, I'd like to find out Yes N -s have cries for a federal crackdorpn. Should this Thomas Jefferson and rightly so. Yet we wa nt w T h rt on my back! such a witch hunt occur, I doubt the more. have to go slowly when looking for the enclosed $4 for each one . Total enclosed $ -Btr,LMEACHAMAuetln, Texae government would catch many motes in the eyes of our great people. PI ease send me: (mark quantity des red guerillas; but I think it would sweep up Many ofour leaders have had one manv of the rest of us, and much else great vision, and we must honor them , Adult XL Adult L M thatis important to us, instead." This is It is not necessary to sympathize with forthat. \{e cannotexpect, evena _ _Adult not a prediction, but an actuality. the CIA or the class it represents in saint, to have all the viiions. Gandhi Through use ofthe grandjury, the order to object to the cafeless applica- had blind spotS concerning women a-nd government has used the excuse of tion ofthe term "söcialibt" to the the raisingõf children, and it is an often I lnvestigating terrorist activity to harass developmental dictatorships such as repeated õomplaint that many of the Name various mòvements and at the moment Cuba ol Tanzania (see: "Portrait of a mäle pacifist lèaders relegated the Lureida Tones,'a member of thé Puerto Deep Cover Agent" and "The New women to the coffee cuPs. Addressi Rican Socialist Party, is imprisoned for Venäetta Agaihst Cuba" IIVIN, Jeffersonwhosaid, "Neverwasso i jury I refusing to testify before a grand 6/17/761. much false atitÍmetic employed on any ' zip allegedly investigating bombings by the The emerging states of the Third subject, as that which has been em- I The PSP has repeatedly dis- World are nõt because they nations . . . to eo FALN. sõcialist oloved to oersuade to WIN Fl.] associated itselffrom the FALN but the lack both the conditions forthe charac, ioai," woûld be, if living today, hîrling I /'503AtlanticAve, [Sth grand jury is being ubed to harass and tetistics of a genuine international his barbs at the evils of racial ' Brooklyn, NY 11217 gather intelligence on the PSP, which is socialism. Instead, they substitute the FEDE! inequality. -ED !h, - fhe reason Torres refuses to cooperate' following: Bronx, l[Y

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From, lVednesday aftcrmüDn on Augurt ll tblough An hour a day will be set aside to give us a chance to Saturday afternoon, Auguet 14, tho llt¡r Ro¡laters get to know each other better and share ideas and con- Ieague wlll moet for.ow ¡nnud conferonce ¡t thc cerns in small groups Brandywlne Hllltop TMCA Gamp ln Ilownlngûown PA The conference ends with a plenary session Saturday (30 mlles from Phllrdelphle); rirorning, lunch, and recreation'and ein¡bits in the aftei- .roon. (No dinner provided unless you have made ad- There is more to America than plastic flag tapel pins, and vance arr_ang:eme¡ls.) Saturday evening through Monday more to its history than fifes and drums and guns and noon the National Committee will meet. Because anothei (and battlefields. The WRL Calendar of 1976 past years) group will be at the camp from Sunday on, WRL con- has illustrated how Americans have struggled and or- ference members (other than National Committee) may ganized nonviolent ways for many freedoms, still so im- ngt-stly_qt the camp but are welcome to seek hobpitality perfectly achieved; and how we are building alternatives with 1YRL members in the area. to produce, consume (or not), learn, live collectively and Write to the 1VRL National Offce for your Conference run our lives. brochure and registration form as soon as possible. The 1976 War Resisters League Conference will ex- Facilities are limited to about 225 beds. olus èamoins plore ways of carrying that tradition forward during the that accommodates up to lfl). Also let us kirow whaddisi present period of history. It is'a place where we can plays, slides, films, ideas, etc. you may have to share. demonstrate and reinforce some of America's alterna- tives to militarism, racism, sexism, consumerism. im- perialism, etc. Through discussion, literature, fitms, slide shows, exhibits (bring whatever you have), we will LOCATIONANDCOST together search for ways to help make "another America. " Alternative institutions and life-styles are as integral a Erandywine Camp is on a wooded hill about a mile froá part of a nonviolent revolution as is political analysis. We the center of Downingtown, which is just off the will have time and space for discussing and sharing these Pennsylvania Turnpike and on a railroad line that goes alternatives as part of political action. Some workshops directly to Philadelphia. By train or car it is about an hour will be scheduled, but participants are encouraged to frcm Þhiladelphial TtrerË are several large' central bring their own concerns and ideas. and set up work- buildings and s-ome smaller houses with bedrooms, baths shops. We meet together on a basis of equality to ex- and fireplaces. Campgrounds are ample and in the same change views,, share experiences and shape WRL policy; area so there will be no real division between campers .l We should all striye to.be participants. and not ob- and non-campers. (Campers will use plumbing that servers. adjoins the pool.) Recreation facilities include swimming, The conference will begin Wednesday, August ll, volleyþall. shuffleboard and other games. with registration and dinnei at ó pm. At I pm tñere will The cost for those staying in cabins is $31 per person be a panel discussion on alternatives-including femi- for 3 days (and 9 moals). Children ages 3 to ll'are nismi socialism and anarchism-and how they relate tp $20.50. and children under 3 are .50. pacifism. Panelists will be WRL people who have been Camping rates are on a scale-l night is $5 per person, working on these subjects, and plenty of discussion will 2 nights/$7.50, 3 nights/$9.50. Children under ll arc 2/s be encouraged. Workshops are scheduled for Thursday of tlie above cost. Tlie¡e are facilities for outdoor iooking. and Friday on the Continental Walk, War Tax Resistance Registration is only $5. and thc Tax Payers Rebeltion, Amnesty, the Middle DON'T FORGET TO BRING your guitar, harmonica. East. and the structure of the WRL. among others. canrcra, a frisbee and your swim suitl

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