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SYRACUSE PEACE COUNCIL Oct. 1974 SPC 70 0

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Dear Friend oPeace :

THESE A:'.E Ti YOU C .4NDO FOR PEACE . WHAT CAP; 'r'rL DO FOR

Write the Syracuse Peace Council; 301 Y .M C .A . Building, SYracuse ,

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'924 Burnet Ave'. ' AMNESTY Chris Murray 472-5478 SYRACUSE PEACE COUNCIL Syracuse . .NY 1320 3 "ANALYSIS" (monthly leaflet) Chris Murray 472-5478 A . _ ART/MOVEMENT 1975 (calendar) Michele Arsenault 479-051 7 Articles Upcoming Event s ATTICA Phyllis Skoller 476-2786 Dan Vasgird 476-341 4 B-1 BOMBER/G .E. PROTECT Pat Vitacolonna 446-7523 Congratulations 3 B-1 Rollout 2 0 B-1 BOMBER ROLLOUT PROTECT Chris Murray 472-5478 SPC's History 4-5 Week of Concern 20 BICENTENNIAL Susan Ashley 446-2429 Norman Whitney 6 Garage Sales 2 0 CHINA SPEAKING TOU R 478-2697 PNL History 7 Monday Potlucks 2 1 Doug Biklen and Sari Knopp Out of Sight! 9. ' "COMMUNITY" '75 DIRECTORY SPC Staff 472-5478 Advertising : Barb Kobritz and John Maddaus 472-5478 From Our Member Regular Features s 10-11 DOOR-TO-DOOR DISTRIBUTION OF ANALYSIS SPC in Pictures 12-13 Classifieds 23 ''Dik Cool .472-547 8 A Day in the Life. . . 14 Calendar 24 FILMS, TAPES, SLIDE SHOWS Ronnie Vitacolonna 446-752 3 SPC Organization 1 5 FINANC E Committees 16-1 7 Tom Diehl 422-3596 Pat Vitacolonna 446-7523 472-5478 Speakers' Bureau GARAGE SALES Sept . Marilyn Miller 1 8 Oct . Lila Walker 492-0731 Creating the Future 19 HERALD JOURNAL PROTECT Dixie Gage 474-3007 HOUSE REMODELING David Coons 472-9386 Murray 472-5478 Copy Deadline : Oct. 18, 197 INDOCHINA PEACE CAMPAIGN Chris 4 INDOCHINA PEACE PLEDGE PROGRAM Topple Simonfa y 637-862 5 The PEACE NEWSLETTER is the monthly publication o f INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF CONCERN (9/29-10/6 ) the Syracuse Peace Council . PNL circulation- 6, 000 ; Chris Murray 472-5478 Bob Russell 478-282 7 2, 700 mailed and 3, 300 distributed from over 70 out- LITERATURE ' Rick Slater 475-9491 Pat Sullivan 472-710 0 lets . VERY REASONABLE ADVERTISING RATES - Cal Carolyn Graydon 475-7888 l MAILING LISTS Marian Price 458-213 0 472-5478 for our rate card. MICRONESIA Jim Ellis 472-1884 September PNL Mailing Party: Gary Knoblock, Bar b MIDDLE EAS T John Maddaus 472-5478 Kobritz, John and Linda Maddaus, Marilyn Miller, MILITARY RECRUITMENT INFORMATION PROTECT Bob Nicholson 479-5844 Chris Murray, Linda Negus, Laura Riposo, Andre w NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS and John Sicherman, Gloria, Mike and Tom Whistler . Fayetteville-Manlius Toppie Simonfay 637-862 5 October PNL Production : Sally Brule', Pat Campbell , Liverpool Linda Negus 457-3508 Salt Springs Tom Diehl, Pat Durgin, Joe Horsington, Barb Kobritz , Westcott Sue Strunk 472-372 6 Linda Maddaus, Dawn Martin, Rick Slater . Ackerman Janet Bogdan 470-761 8 Valley Lila Walker 492-0731 NVS FILM S Glenn'Witkin 478-6107 Dik Cool 472-5478 PEACE NEWSLETTE R Advertising : Dik Cool 472-5478, Joe Horsington 469-7077 Distribution : Dick Kornbluth ' 478-174 3 Production : SPC Staff 472-5478 PHILIPPINES John Maddaus 472-547 8 PHONE NETWOtK Marilyn Miller 472-547 8 POLITICAL/ECONOMIC STUDY GROUP ' Marilyn Miller 472-5478 SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION GROU P Diana Ellis 472-1884 SPEAKERS BUREAU John Maddaus 472-5478 SPC MONDAY POTLUCKS Dik Cool 472-5478_ SPC PRES S 472-5478 Bob Nicholson 479-5844 Nancy Travers 478-2827 STEERING COMMITTE E Sari Knopp 478-2697 Lillian Reiner , 472-2406 SYRACUSE COMMITTEE IN SOLIDARITY WITH LATI N WE SIGNED UP . WILL YOU? AMERICA Bill Leogrande 472-6401 TEACHING NOTES John Maddaus 472-547 8 Enclosed is $5.00 Please send the PEAC E TEACHING THE INDOCHINA WA R NEWSLETTER to: Bill Griffon 696-8184 Dik Cool 472-5478 ' 1 Name UNITED FARM WORKERS SUPPORT COMMITTE E Paul Frazier 478-2827 Lipda Maddaus 472-5478, 476-284 1 Address WAR TAX RESISTANCE FUND Marge Rusk 476-7635 I "WHY THE WAIR IS_NOT OVER" SLIDESHOW Zip Phone # Soles and I ;untnl Barb Kobritz 4'2-87'3 2 SPC 924 Burnet Ave., Syracuse, NY 1320 3 $ . . . . 2 PNL 10/7 4

CONGRATULATIONS & BEST WISHE S Dear Peace Council Friends , Dear Friends, "If longevity is a virtue, then SPC is It gives us great pleasure to con- Congratulations on your 700t h to be lauded for this. . . if it is not, gratulate you on the 700th printing of . ! then clarity, persistence, and dedica- issue the PNL . We express our great ad- Sexism and wars exist in our soc- tion are all paths that lead to virtues miration to you for having understoo d iety because the system supports that you all must have discovered by at so early a date as 1936 that war values such as competition . power, now. . .but mostly, thanks for helping does not solve any problem, but con- ; and insensitivity. We to keep at least this one voice from aggression . h tinuously creates new ones crying out and this body from resisting feel good about our relationship wit On the day of your celebration, privately and in isolation . . . together you and support the steps taken by - Another Mother for Peace pledge s we can be strong, and SPC brings and the Peace Council to deal with sex you our continued support and send s ism. Ideally, in the future, such keeps up together." n s - ties will merge us all into the ,com- you our heartfelt wishes for succes in our common work towards a soci- Gary Eikenberry anon struggle of human liberatio n - AFSC Staff from a system that does not encour- ety in which all can live every where in peace and dignity, withou t age women and men to be warm and n open with each other. fear of war or violence, secure i , the knowledge that the resources o f Dear SPC Workers , In sisterhood and peace this planet will be used for the com- On the occasion of the printing The Women's Information Center of the 700th Peace Newsletter may mon good of all. I take this opportunity to praise all In Friendship, of your many, many efforts to mak e Dear Friends, Florence Ain Krieg e our local and world communities mor Congratulations are certainly i n places in"which to live . Rare- "Congratulations on your 700th PNL human order; the onlyjrobiem is whethe r , ly have I witnessed such an active to stress your special fall issu e anniversary. Your meaningful con- bustling group of people.workinq so tribution to our program and the en - (September) or your 700th issue, We hard towards such reasonable socie- s were -much impressed with the amoun t tire upstate New York region i tal goals as those of you at SPC. greatly appreciated. " of relevant information, on matter s Congratualtions on what you hav e national and international, packe d Staff of Syracuse University' s accomplished and N .O.W. wishes into the Sept. issue along with Program in Nonviolent Conflic t you all the best for the future . material useful to local organizers . and Change ' But that is only one issue, onl In peace and sisterhood, y part of the larger achievment. To Dear Folks at SPC , Betsy Kenn a have maintained a peace-oriented, NOW Newsletter Edito r Congratulations on the 700th issu e anti-establishment, lively loca l of the Peace Newsletter, perhaps th e news outlet over the span of time best such publication in all the land . "Congratulations on the 700th . We covered by 700 issues is instant Since we put out a publication our- wish you the 4nergy and'where-with- proof of dedication and conviction . selves we're very much aware of the all to continue the positive work We hope you'll take a moment off great amount of work and agony tha t you've been doing all these years . " to feel good about what you've done . go into an activity of this sort . But ' Glad Day Press, Ithaca Then do it 700 more times . it's vital work and needs to be done . In Peace, Keep it up. Bob Hoyt for the Staff Dear Peace Council People , 'Marls Cakar s of American Report for the WTN Staff During the years the SPC has bee n together the progressive movemen t has seen many changes . The past T ten years have been especially so . ABE'S DONU Against this backdrop it is so impor- tant that there be a constant force , SUPREME a place that can be there to foste r and support newly emerging struggles . Peos Prices o The Peace Council has been such a group, and their paper has helpe d (u serve this function . For this we o f Attica Brothers Legal Defense, Syra- A4R ~, . gene r cuse Branch, support and praise you AA efforts . w ...- Peace, s Attica Brothers Legal Defense E4et~Blvd. E.

10/74 PNL 3 38 YEARS IN THE STRUGGLE . . . spc's history

Birth of The Counci l The Syracuse Peace Council is known as th e oldest, continuously active locally autonomou s peace organization in the country . This is because in 1936 a Syracuse business woman, Lesley West , responded to Frederick Libby's Emergency Peac e Campaign by sharing his concern that mankind wa s headed for No . 2 in world wars . Mr. Libby wa s called, for the next 30 years, the Dean of the Ameri- can Peace Movement and in the thirties he was look- ing for communities across the country where th e roots of peace education and action could be en- trenched . Lesley looked around and discovered a Syracuse University English professor, Norma n Whitney, and a Baptist minister, Luther Wesley Smith who were alarmed and ready to throw their commitment into a peace movement. She dug in - to the pocket of her great coat and fished out a small change purse . Out of it came a hundre d dollar bill which put into creation the Syracus e Peace Council. The idea of Council took hold, a s the three met to draw plans for procedure, wher e representatives from civic groups and the Univer- sity would meet as a body to carry out project s Norman Whitney in the AFSC Peace Educatio n for peace education in Syracuse . However, one Committee office . and then another were frightened by the concep t and resignations were proffered until there wa s only Lesley and Norman left. 'Even the third a path around town and, with hat in hand, ha d founding member withdrew . waited on the thresholds of those who looked .like- However, the idea had caught fire in th e ly to contribute . Benjamin Shove, whose Hill s Quaker Meeting and Peace Council members were Building office was in neighborly contact with th e n enrolled. Small semi-monthly meetings feature d Peace Council,' had some peace thoughts of his ow book revues by Dr . Horace Eaton of the S . U. Eng- and was immediately intrigued by what he saw de- veloping in the same building . lish Department; Considered legislation ; worked over letters to the' press and government ; and kept in touch with the world of peace activity WWI I through the American Friends Service Committee . Although SPC was autonomous it maintained a A Succession of of Office s close relationship with AFSC, FOR and WILPF . Help came in literature, speakers and ideas . Be- cause AFSC was a founding organization of CARE , This was in the years 1936-39 during whic h the SPC office became a regionar CARE office . membership came from widening quarters an d Bringing refugees to Syracuse in the late 30's wa s "big time" was reached when an elderly Quaker a joint effort with FOR and involved meeting .trains offered the use of an empty office in the Hill s putting up the new arrivals, helping with the way s Building which he owned . There was a success- of living in a strange country, and being on call ion of these offices because as one was rented , for emergencies . Volunteers 'carried out the idea s another was assigned. The files, still'skimpy, of Norman's fertile mind and helped staff the of- the supplies, bought in small lots, and th e fice that by 1940 had become a very busy place . rackety typewriter and mimeograph machine wer e The State Fair booth began that year . picked up and moved into the next vacant office . And, to everyone's astonishment, a secretary , The war years had been devoted almost ex- Irene Ford, was hired . Norman Whitney, who clusively to refugees, relief, and the counseling never received a niokel for his thousands o f of conscientious objectors . Norman Whitney' s hours spent implementing his dream, had beaten Spectator Papers wree initiated within the office 4 PNL 10/74 SPC's History cone d Decision To Gro w and Lena Gray, who became secretary in 1942 , My first contact with the Peace Council was in was responsible each month for receiving the cop y September 1966, as an AFSC Peace Intern . I shared often written on backs of envelopes as Norma n a crowded one-room office in the University Build- visited Civilian Public Service Camps the country ing with Lena Gray of SPC . At that time there wa s over. The list of young men in prisons and camp s some feeling that SPC was a conservative influenc e who received the Papers grew as the war went on . which might bog down the work of AFSC so I wa s Of course, through all those years, the origina l hired for AFSC programming only. SPC moved t o publication of the office, , the Peace Newsletter, the Church Center in the Spring of 1967, and afte r continued with the help of the second secretary , the move, Annette Guisbond and then Phyllis Denno Aurel Coe. served as part time staff people . The AFSC-SPC week-end Institutes had begu n An early memory of SPC was the 1967 Birthda y in 1940 and continued until 1968 . Attendance Dinner. I brought a few "hot items" for a literature reached 200 at times. The themes were curren t table. Adelaide and Lena didn't think much of m y and there was always the devil's advocate to pro - display. It paled next to the Mildred and Norma n vide the "c&her side" to the assembled peace pro- Whitney spread . They sent me back for more lit- tagnonists. Literature sold by the bagful, and re - erature and over time I came around to their way of solutions and telegrams were sent to Congress , thinking . and action committees were formed . Between In- stitutes AFSC arranged three or four One-Day gath- During summer, 1968 SPC went through an eval- erings . uation period, deciding whether to fold or to hire more staff and try new program . This correspond- Monthly meetings were hela, as was an annua l ed with the end of my alternative work with AFSC . Birthday Dinner . As now, it was a time for report- The decision was to hire full time staff, largely o n ing and financial appeal . In 1958 the Annual Peac e the assurance of Ben Shove that he would under - Award was created with Norman Whitney the firs t write any deficit in the budget . I began work for recepient, followed in the next years by Lesley SPC Nov . 22, 1968 . West and Benjamin Shove. One of the first things I was involved with One very popular project was a film festiva l was setting up a speaking program in Hendrick s in the Museum of Fine Arts . A four-night present- Chapel. The title was Latin America--The Next ation of classic peace films and discussion at- Viet Nam? The two-page mimeographed PNL wa s tracted 100 people a night . being edited by Alan Peabody with a mailing lis t The Council survived the war and the McCarthy of 250. era with a minimum of scars because, I think, o f A lot of my time in the first few months went in- the leadership---pacifist, dedicated, determined, to a Conference for Church people . Out of this grew magnificent . "Speak Truth to Power" was th e a Good Friday Funeral Procession to Bury War. guiding principle and the Peace Council made it s point with power, for, thirty-eight years later , Mary Jane Hoffman began working on a half tim e we are here . basis. I was, sad to say, the Executive Secretary and she Adelaide Webster .was the just plain secretary, bearing the brunt of the office work . Jean Waldron began work- ing and eventually rook her place . I did counsel- Clinton Square November, 1964 ing work and was inclined to like demonstrations. Mary Jane and jean were strong on educationa l programs, State Fair booths, literature and working with churches . At the, time jean left Dik Cool ha d started to spend time in the office. He was-then living off his Bristol Meyer riches and looking fo r something worthwhile to do with his time . Even- tually Dik became a full time staff person . There were many projects and(activities through the years bat some hold special meaning. . .the Memorial Day reading of the names'of the war dead, organized by Pat Durgin ; the Moratorium march of 10, 000 in 1969 ; the early morning demonstration s at the induction center with the bus blocade in 1970. David Easter . 10/74 PNL 5 NORMAN WHITNEY: 'Is the fable her Jame, foible? (Buy and) trw read this tale o f the museum an d SPC CO-FOUNDER Yc.ri L Jim Haritha s in- and tke, terlaced with SP C ((ouse of and the Legion - naires and came to 73ca.u4 / and your own,conclu- Wtiman4y sion. How Norman would have laughed a t Only $1 .00 and all : prodeeds go direct - all the labels I think of placing on him ly to the ever need y s..11y arnCc' the unwaspish Wasp, Tower of Strength , SPC coffers . Man of Principle, Great Human Being . Yet he was all these things . When I felt beaten down by the Hitlerian atmo- sphere, sick unto death of the killings, I found peace and understanding in the Peace Council which he and Lena Gra y Norman Whitney guided so adeptly in those days . Never stuffy - it was an experience to hear hi m do his "ABC" sermon in which he explod- SPECTATOR PAPER S ed all the phoniness of sactimoniou s The Archives division of the George Arents ' religion. Yet, when he he was near Research Library at Syracuse University , Fort Dietrich on a Sunday he would find on August 21,1974, opened a new collection : his reli g ious expression in picketin g the papers of Norman J. Whitney. that factory for human 'destruction. The collection itself is conhprised of auto - I always felt safer in an oppressiv e biographical materials, correspondence , society when Norman was here . He printed materials, writings, and miscellan- helped me to grow in strength as he help- eous material. Some of the more significant ed so many others . Thank-you Norman . correspondents in the collection includ e Lillian E. Reiner 'A. J. Muste and Bayard Rustin .

January 1 436 : First issue of the Peace-Newsletter . "Tn each issue of th e News-Letter we shall recommend one good book to read . This time it i s PEACE WITH HONOUR, by A . A . Milne, Dutton, N .Y . , $2 .00 . '~ f the COHSIJRTJUfr eit the sign of the dove 123 C. Water st. (across from Ciintpn Square ] consort t Um is open from 10-5:30 flonday -thru Saturda y the n 'CCatur n9 one al 9t s & crofts, end Suppoct► ni tire needs of ch tdrerl

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by Sally Brule ' rickety -rickety - tickety - tick art by Dawn Marti n There it'was, that rhythmical chatter permeatin g figures moving back and forth like the halls of the Church Center, rickety-tickety- automatoms . Conversations start- ~r_. . tickety-tick! people bustling, copy flying, noise , ing up, laughter to break the confusion, clatter - rickety-tickety-tickety- monotony and then a plea fo r tick! The Peace Newsletter was going to press ! quiet from the offices surrounding Such was the scene when SPC was housed o n the board room. A coffee brea k E. Genesee St. in 2 very small rooms . Then, a S and you realized 5 people wen t now, the PNL was that major monthly thrust, bu t home when you weren't looking . sophistication was not( yet 'a word in our vocabu- Finally the many stacks of ' lary. No webb press, no special variable spac- loose pages are reduced to man y ing typewriter but still the concern, the hig h stacks of stapled pages! Wha t ideal, the aim towards perfection and above all an accomplishment . The phone the congestion and the din ! rings, you tear across the hall to answer it and The office was staffed by Tony Avirgan, Sall y discover you haven't lost your intellect after all ! Brule', Debbie Burrows, Dik Cool and David Now comes the labels . Tear them, stick them , Easter. We somehow managed to accompdatt al l very good now try again, tear them, stick them , of us in 2 small rooms with 3 desks, 1 typin g marvelous! That part really hasn't changed but it ' table; 4 chairs and a'faithful Gestetne r took Marian Price to sophisticate ou r mimeograph . The weird was out to pul l sorting process . You wouldn't believe -in the margins on the typewriter for the that the crew capable of putting out the carriage could deala lethal blow a s pNL could sort the same PNL in such a ' someone walked by. All the article s backward fashion . Now, thanks to Mar- were cut on stencils (usually 2 hours ian, our labels are printed via zip code . past deadline time) and then the "print- They are sorted and counted before bein g ing" began . attached to the bulky PNL . But in our Bill Huxley came in to run the mimeo "primitive" days we didn't- do it that way. and free up staff people (to finish more All of our labels were printed in alpha - articles! ) . Bill and the mimeo became betical order only. So now the many inseparable, it went on and on into th e stacks of loose pages; reduced to many night . Well after hours one could hea r stacks of stapled pages had to be re- , Bill talking to '"Edna" only to realize his stacked into zip code piles! There ha s relationship to th e mimeo had grown to been a question as to which end of the the point where he pe sonalized the rickety- procedure was the most enviable . We had alway s tickety titan . worn out the first crew of volunteers and had to But even "Edna" had her breaking point an d get a new crew for the stacking procedure! ' with a sudden cry of disdain someone would cal l But it worked; membership grew ; interest in the Smith Bros . With a "Dave, I've held it togethe r PNL grew and it was always delivered to the Pos t with some masking tape and a bent paper clip bu t Office very shortly after, deadline time . it's not gonna' hold and we still have 4 reams t o Perhaps I lead you to believe it's a bed of rose s print! 'Can you come over?" "Edna" would b e now . Now the PNL is printed in 20 minutes at 7 repaired and coaxed"back into' operation and th e Advertisers on a hugh webb press in 2 colors ! situation was out of the 'holding Have you ever been to 924 Burnet Ave . at mid- pattern and into " go " once more . night or 2 a . m. or even 4 a .m . of the day the Once the pages were printed w e copy goes to the printers? I won't say it's ' moved across the hall to the board hectic but if you listen you can hear faithful ol d room for what was called a collat- "Edna" giggling in the corner. ing party. Stacks of pages were laid out in sequence , (usually) and then a dozen or so volunteers , complete with hiking boots woul d Since 1967 the mailing list has increased 1, 000% begin the trek . Back 'and forth , Copies are sent locally; all over N.Y. stiate; to back and forth, "no, don't sto p 30 other states ; Wash. D.C . ; the Virgin Islands : to read! " It was an"exercise to Canada and England. dull the intellect . Now don't mix up the order and make sure yo u staple it correctly" . On and on, 10/74 PNL 7

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OUT OF SIGHT ! It's always a delight to find in our mailbox greetings from , SPC'ers who have left this area ; We'd like to share with you these sketches (some first hand) of what some old friends ar e currently about . an extensive Urban Ministry pro - Jerilyn and Jim Prior Dominic DiToro gram on an ecumenical basis, an d have secured funding from denomi- Jerilyn, Jim anti their daughter have East Falmouth, Mass . nafional sources, local churches , recently left Oakwood School in and the Utica Youth Bureau . . .We Hello friends, Poughkeepsie for Barrow, Alask a have a TV rogram three Sundays • on the Artic Sea . Jerilyn brings he r i have received your Peace News - out of four called Dialogue, wit h excellent medical care to the people letter and also your request for a discussions on-religious and civi c there and Nim is doing anthropologi - few lines from former Peace Counci l themes . cal research . They expect to be workers like me . . . I am President of the Utica Com - there about a year. munity Development Corp., a non - Well, i am now teaching Art in profit housing corporation whic h Bob and Margaret Nixon , the,Barnstable School System o n has had serious problems now be- Winnepeg, Manitoba Cape Cod and am enjoying the chance . ing overcome, and which rent s to work with two things i really dig - about 25 apartments to lower in - Bob is working part time in recrea- Art and kids . .i paint whenever and come families . This corporatio n tional architecture for the Provinc e wherever i can. .although i am no t built the first modular structur e of Manitoba, and doing the larger actively involved in a Peace organi- in the city . part of the homemaking tasks . zation here i try to be personally a t For several years I have bee n Margaret is a nurse-clinician with peace with myself and others . . . Chairman of the Human Relation s a government-funded -free .please clinic . . . let me know if there i s . In this capacity, anyway Commission Son David is 18-months old . i can be of service to yo u during tense years in the recen t from here . . . past, I have been involved in medi- all good things to all of you , Martha Honey and ating some tense community situ- Tony Avirga n domini c ations, getting clergymen on th e l Gladys and Ralph Milliga n streets, and in working with loca Martha and Tony are in Dar es Salaa m - Roswell, New Mexico police and sheriff's depts . on in Tanzania, Africa . Martha is doing re - service training and basic police search for her doctoral dissertatio n Dear Friends , recruit schools . . on the role of Asians in east Africa , While I have ' been too busy to First let me congratulate you on particularly Tanzania . Tony is a' jour- activities , the fine work the SPC is doing . give major time to peace nalist for the news services and ha s . .Before we moved to Roswell , I have been able to keep those con- been a reporter for the Guardian . my wife, Gladys and I lived in Roch - cerns alive and before people ester. We never were active SP C through the media available to me . members but did come over to you r Sincerely, meetings many times and knew some Alan Peabody Rumor Has It .. . of the older Syracuse members . Norman Whitney was a good frien d of ours and got us interested in you r peace work . All through the years , we have been, reading with interes t your good Peace Newsletter . Our peace efforts here have bee n with our Unitarian Universalist Fel- lowship group and our next progra m will be on "The Ethical Aspects o f Amnesty" . We love living in the Land of En- chantment . Peace and love , Gladys and Ralph Milliga n Alan Peabod y Utica, New Yor k Dear Friends , Since August, 1968, I have bee n would not be what it is toaay nave gone into the Executive Director of the Coun- . . .a couple without whom SPC . on Syracuse's near westside . cil of Churches of the Mohaw k business on the corner of Seymour & Oswego sts d Valley Area . . .We have developed Would you buy day-old bread from this man? Photo by Alex Gotwal 10/74 PNL 9 . .. .FROM OUR MEMBER S persons who continue with their committment to Dear SPC, the cause, in spite of public disdain and persona l Last June , l was plunged into a plethora o f sacrifice . materials, processes, facts and ideas known as I have also seen the growth of the Peace Coun- the Syracuse Peace Council. For three months cil's sphere of influence and though this has ofte n I became a full-time' staff member. been tinged with controversy, it is still significant. Having been basically apolitical for my firs t Our community is richer for its existence. 19 years . it was almost certain that I would Sarah Edward s learn something from this association. But I Dear SPC, think the most important things I learned were at- titudes which will carry over to other areas of Over two decades ago, when I first came to life. This was the first situation I had ever bee n Syracuse, Peace Council was a place where a in where there was no hierarchy, where work wa s small group of people could come' together and totally collective, where, criticism was alway s share their concern about the ever-increasing vio- intended to help, not hurt and was accepted wit h lent solutions to world problems . It was a sense the same attitude. of community' for me in a community that was basi- I wish more people could have an experienc e cally conservative and acceptant of the status quo. like mine. If more of us were exposed to, an d Through the years it has been a forum for a adopted, the constructive attitudes which ar e point of view that could not be heard anywher e shared in the SPC office, we would have fewe r else in Syracuse, and a rallying point for actio n battles ahead of us in the fight for social justice . against the war in Southeast Asia . Barb Kobritz Annette Guisbond

Dear SPC , Dear Friends at the Peace Council , Frustrated after the Kent State murders, and A word on the meaning of SPC for me . . . it is many letters protesting the Viet Nam war to con- necessary, supportive, strengthening, and just gresspeople, etc., I was looking for people who about essential to have a group, locally situated, felt as I did. Through a friend, Ham Armstrong, . 'which feels as I do about the necessity of oppos- I discovered the Peace Council . I first attended ing the ever-increasing strength of the military i n finance committee meetings and then joined th e our national image . local chapter of CALC. The film committee grew out of my new inte r- The environment of Syracuse as a place to liv e with awareness would be damaged were we to los est and committment . We borrowed money from e a local bank and purchased three films. Project- you. Stay with us, please. ors, screens, etc. followed. Since there was no Chuck Durand space at SPC, the film committee operated out of our home . When the first bank note was paid , Dear Peace Council, with film rental donations, we took out a secon d loan and began again. The library grew and grew . One phase of the diversified work of the SP C And so did my friends in number in the Peace Coun- was acting as the local CARE office in 1947, a cil. Two years ago I was very happy to be electe d public relations seivice for which the Peace Coun - to the Steering Committee . cil received no remuneration . It was time consum- If the Peace Council and its many activitie s ing but extremely rewarding . and actions were not a part of my life, ther e ,Through the indefatigable efforts of Margaret would be a great void there. Noble, an S . U. student, large contributions from . many students wishing to aid victims of WWI I Ronnie Vitacolonne were brought to our office regularly . We were able to supply names and addresses of many Congratulations to the Syracuse Peace Council ! war-torn families in Europe, through the courte- I have watched the PNL grow over the years from a sy of the AFSC, to whom countless CARE pack - small letter dealing with a more defined view o f ages were channelled . Many school children peace issues to a colorful, challanging mini-news' - brought in ten dollars, invariable, in coins . paper covering the broader challanges of peace . Persons adopted families to whom CARE pack - For those on the periphery of the movement, th e ages were sent monthly for a long period of time . Peace Council stands as a constant challange to Many times it was our priviledge to have the indifference and apathy. I greatly admire those donors share some of the letters of grateful ap- 1U t'NL 10/74 From Our Members cone d Len; bills passed by corporate purchase; there preciation from their overseas "families" . was illegal bugging, breaking and entering; In appreciation of this humanitarian work , people were jailed when they resisted the mur- CARE gave the SPC a citation . derous federal policies ; the FBI was used to en- Lena Gra y trap the citizenry; the State Dept .j and CIA super- Dear SPC , vised the overthrow of other governments ; corp- orate profits increased; the quality of life de - Basically, the main thought we have whe n creased ; we became hawks and doves, polarize d thinking of the Peace Council is TRUTH . The about issues over which we had absolutely n o SPC is the one source in the area which speak s control. the Truth for the common person ; where one ca n That also was the decade in which my child- go to discuss all the issues confronting us ; dis- ren were born. I came to the conclusion that I , cuss the problems and arrive at an honest con- as one individual, had to do some work which clusion; the one group in the area with which w e might bring about some improvement (however can identify that works for "freedom and justic e small) in the world they were to grow up in . for all" the oppressed. Affiliation with the Syracuse Peace Council Hem and Miriam Bielin g afforded me the opportunity to work in a com - munity-based organization for the changes I fel t The decade of the 60's was a bewildering and were important . The goals of the Peace Counci l frightening time . We were waging war against a were world peace and human justice and thes e variety of countries about which most of us kne w goals were internalized in the day-to-day opera- little over issues which made no sense . This tions of the organization. The intellectual inpu t was the undeclared war which our leaders de- of each person was valued . .the routine chore s clared to be not a war at all, but which was caus- were shared . ing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Indo - Thus the SPC afforded me the opportunity t o chinese and American people . work in a meaningful way for societal changes . Our leaders withheld information; they lied to I felt such work was an expression of resonsible • us; sometimes their lies were so monumental tha t parenthood toward those children of ours born i n it was difficult to realize that they were lying ; that terrible decade of the 60's . they manipulated the press ; elections were sto - Pat Durgin

" SPC News: 3/25/49: "WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS . . SPC Summer L,teraiure Tabl e Child Welfare, $1,500,000 SPC News, April '38: From Norman Whitney ; Care of,Horses, Nat'l Guard only, 53,500,000 A national peace leader writes me, "Remember, there (from U.S. Dept . of Commerce figures) is no hope for world peace other than on the basis o f peace education and organization that is done in loca l communities--after all, they have the real key to the situation.

SPC News, 12/12/45: Tenth anniversary issue. "A thousand years from now, 1945 will be known a s 'the year of the bomb.' The people of the year 2945 will care little when World War II ended . . . but they will know that the trial explosion over New Mexico and the thundering death over Hiroshima ushered in a new age." i Hiroshima anniversary demonstratio n -oiumbus Circle, August 1973 , {

SPC News, Jan ./'38: Our birthday party was a great success; .the program com- bined entertainment with information (i t was too long, but we promise to guard against this next time) . _ Will we ever learn?? ?

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The Message of 197 4

Letter from Vice-Presicleni flixon ,to SPC" ' News Editor, 10/27/58: As I peiritedf out in my statement, a public officia l should welcome and encourage expres- 1 sions of public opinion by mail and other - wise. Public opinion in the final analysi s is the most powerful and decisive force i n a democracy and leaders who are unable t o gain support of a majority of the people fo r their policies cannot survive . ". . .What I as an elected official mus t do under the circumstances is fight fo r what I believe is right and leave the ulti- mate judgement to the considered verdic t of my fellow citizens ."

SPC News, April '36 : "Annual per capita costs : For friendly internation relations, 12 ; For war, $11 . 00.

SPC News, 11/15/51: WHAT PRICE VICTORY ? For after war, and after all , What is it people get ? But widows, wounds and wooden legs , And lots and lots of debt ?

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Display at NYS Fair 197 Tax Week Demonstration, IRS Office, 1972

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A Day in the Life of the ,SPC Office avoid those "did you see. . .", how (Or "How We've All Learned did the meeting go . . .", "shouldn't The Phone Walk s To Lovs(I?)chaos") we respond to. . ." conversations 12 :48 - The phone has rung at leas t which frequently occur at this hgµr . 40 times by now ; latest calls include This article compresses a "routine " Fig Newtons Are I n legal referrals, amnesty speakers , day to some extent. The people , :37 - Chris Murray, somehow smil- film rentals and a friend of one o f mentioned are those who come into 10 ing after her 40 minute drive fro m the neighbors asking if we can give the office with some frequency . It' s Oswego, whisks in, grimaces at her them a message . The phone alway s unlikely that all of these happening s desk, checks out the coffee pot and rings more during meetings & lunch . would take place on one day . . .but announces that in stopping for cig- 1:10 pm - Barbara Kobritz, summe r some days it seems as though the y arettes Mark Liccione, our neighbor - work-study staffer, comes into work do. Not considered here are th e hood grocer, has told her he has fig on ads for Community 75 . The tre k generally more hectic "irregular " newtons in stock again! FN Freak s from SU behind her she begins to days - the 3 days of each month abound at the SPC office . quip about the need for more Ameri- when the PNL is typed, laid-out , 10:51 - Marian Price, who has bee n cans speaking Chinese . pasted-up, cut, stuffed, stapled, doing the awesome job of keeping u p 1:30 (early lunch day) -Bob, who ha s labeled and cursed, er, mailed rath- the mailing list for several years , lunch for a month, asks Marian if er. The Tuesday of these 3 days i s comes in with a box of labels and she'll give up the kitchen table fo r about 19 hours long since the PNL some hand-me-down clothes for th e lunch . Marian says no. Bob pro- isn't ready for the printers until 4 or kids at the Grassroots collective . ceeds to organize a sit-in wit h 5AM . We've tried to change thi s She takes over the kitchen table Barbara's help . Actually Maria n absurdity ; after you read the word s after relating several humorou s says ok and relinquishes 1/3 of th e below you may see why it hasn' t stories about life in North Syracuse . table so if your mailing label ha s been accomplished . 11:00 - Phone ; "Is Harry there? " mustard on it you now know why. •9 :07 am - John Maddaus, usuall y "There's no Harry here, sure yo u 2:15 - Sally Brule', ex-staffer, res- first one to arrive trods the newly- have the right number?" "Harry' s ident SPC punster and lay-out wom - . . green front steps (painted by jimm y not there?" "No, are you callin g an extra ordina ire, Dawn Martin, Holt) and grapples with the balk y PEACE, Inc? this is the Syracuse ' fabulous resident SPC artist an d lock. He enters, picks up the Post - Peace Council (desperately trying t o Michele Arsenault, ex-summe r Standard,. turns out the night light s put inflection on "Council" to dra- staffer, gather for a calendar meet- and settles down to quietly read the matize the difference)" ing with Dik. P-S. 11:09 - Glenn Witkin, working o n 9 :12 - Phone ; "Are you having tha t NVS Films, arrives with anothe r Junk!? That's My Des k craftsfair (Plowshare) this year? " orange crate and some old books . "Yes it's Dec . 7 & 8 " 3:31 - Linda Maddaus, UFW organ- He's bringing the remnants from the 9 :19 - Phone ; I'd like a price on 150 0 izer and part-time ACLU staffer, S. U. Draft Counseling office i n flyers ." "No one's here from the enters, unpiles her table of other installments . Film banter ensues . Press right now, could I have them people's junk in a firm, friendly 11:30 - The press is humming, the call you?" "Is red ink more?" manner and proceeds to start tele- mimeo klacking, typewriters are "Please, could I have them cal l phoning . clicking and the phone is buzzing . you?" 4:20 - People begin to float out. One person is working in the lay- 9 :31 - Dik Cool arrives, sorts The PHONE keeps ringing . The out room upstairs . through the little messages on hi s meter man comes in,reads the meter 11:55 - David Coons, SPC carpenter, desk and settles down to make-u p and the PNL and signs up for th e Susie Gaines, of the Syracuse Sun , , his never ending "list of jobs" . mailing list . and Joe Horsington gather to wor k 9 :48 - the mailman enters, say s 4:37 - Alex Gotwald, young SPC on the 2nd floor remodeling whic h good-morning and in the next breat h photographer, is observed bumping is almost done . They proceed up- "60 today" (postage for returne d down the driveway on his trusty ol d stairs, after some pleasantries with PNLs, 3rd class mail isn't forw'd) . bike . He's bringing the lates t the other folks, to add their pound- 9 :57 - Marilyn Miller walks in , batch of prints and checking to se e ing to the other din . Joe, before h e drops a pile of stuff on her cluttered what pics are upcoming . leaves, will also talk to Dik about desk and proceeds to the kitche n 5:12 .- Two people come in for litera- PNL advertising (I'll give em the ol d to check out the coffee pot (she & ture and a film. pitch) and will pick up his PNLs fo r Chris are the heavy drinkers) , 6:00 - The office is - locked with neighborhood distribution . 10:14 - Bob Nicholson, main person Bob, Chris & Dik the last ones 12:15 - Tom Diehl, Pat Vitacolonn a in the SPC Press recently, stride s out. Another exhausting, confus- and Derek Manier appear for a fi- through the office mumbling morn - ing but rewarding day has ended at nance committee meeting with Chris . in', ends up at the press and immed- SPC unless there's an evenin g They quickly decide to meet in the iately turns it on . He has been in meeting or Nancy Travers is goin g back yard and fix their own lunc h the office 14 seconds . Bob has re- to print or Ron Vincent is going to (maybe they all bagged it) rather alized that the only way to get a lo t print "All the News That Fits" or than try for such an early "formal" done quickly in the morning is to there's a mailing party or effort. 14 PNL 10/74 The SPC Staff. - A Working Collective Because collective working struc- How are jobs allocated? Each STEERING COMMITTE E tures are still rare and ours is so im- staff person has her/his own speci- The SPC Steering Committee, a group portant to us,'we have wanted to de - fic projects and committees -- norm - of 21 members elected by the Annua l scribe our staff organization to our ally determined by high interest an d Meeting, for 3-year terms plus the SP C members. This PNL issue has provid- current work load (or drawing straws) . staff, is the "overseeing" board of th e ed the opportunity. When David Eas- The lines separating program respon- Council. The Committee reflects a s ter bedame the first full-time progra m sibilities are carefully and clearly nearly as possible the entire consti- staff person, he assumed the officia l drawn. But this never precludes every - tuency of SPC . position of "Executive Secretary" . As one's contributing ideas, never inhib- Dave points out in his reflections o n its bringing a program road block into The Steering Committee members . a staff meeting. And no progra m help initiate and plan program, draw SPC (see p. 5), he was extremely un- s comfortable with the assigned office event ever takes place without a up formal SPC position statement e when required, advise and support roles. The staff expanded, and it be - strong sense of three other peopl r came very clear that the SPC staff ready to help, share the high vibes , :staff, and assume responsibility fo or pick up the pieces . such Council events as the Birthda y structure should reflect the goals of Dinner. Two important standing the organization . Reoccutring jdbs are rotated, like subcommittees function within this What does being a working collec- PNL editor (the entire staff is respon group: the Interim committee which tive mean? Simply stated -- there i s sible for production of the PNL - - plans the agenda for the monthly no hierarchy. Which means? Well , the editor keeps after "heads" and meeting (and doubles as the person- each person performs the whole variety gets it to the printers after the all- nel committee when the need arises); of tasks, from organizing a "Week o f night paste-up session), mailing and the Finance committee whic h Concern" to fixing lunch ; there is no parties, and relating to the. Steering keeps on to of the state of the Coun- specialization, so no one's work ca n Committee. Dealing with office sup- cil's coffers and projects fund-rais- be considered more important or mor e plies, mail, and the garbage is also ing events. Steering Gommittee pro- necessary. Oh there are times whe n rotated; housekeeping duties are vides a vital link between the staff a: the phone's continuous ringing prompts equitable assigned by room for rea- the community. the thought: "I could get more done sonable periods. if we just had a secretary. . .we could PRESS hire a male. . ." But isn't efficiency, Oh, there are problems . Society doesn't expect collective workin g ~, C high productivity at the expense o f In January of this year, SPC' s human relationships what we're fight- situations -- "What do you , mean there is no office manager?" -- o r printing equipment and the limite d ing? Not only does the overworked printing experience of a few people volunteer calling on the phone need a telephone caller insists on speak- ing to a male-type staff member de - were put together to form the SP C to discuss today's small victory or Press. Printers Terri Gill, Bob Ni- setback_-- I also need the suppor t spite the fact they want info on Marilyn's project ; there are few cholson, and Nancy Travers organ- gleaned from interacting with thes e ized and operate the shop, with the people. models; collective working does not not come to us naturally -- all sorts help of Dik Cool . Terri has since A "non-hierarchy" demands working of. hang-ups from our societal con- left the shop. The press was organ- at special relationships among the ditioning. (I fight a strong Irish ized for several purposes : to improve staff ourselves -- healthy dependenc e Catholic background and 15 year s the quality of SPC's printed material, and independence, being able both to of competing in GE) . We easily dea l to, free people involved in SPC pro- give , and receive constructive criti- with dividing our subsistence wages grams from the task of printing their cism. Once a week, the staff sits according to what each of us needs. own material (this benefit may have down together for many hours (some - But when there is only enough in the been negated by the time spent by times days) to brainstorm program , till to pay one person, no one is u p the staff answering calls about th e discuss administrative tasks, an d to taking it. press), to offer cheap, quality air a variety of problems -- from some - printing to other groups workin g one's not being on top of a projec t We , learn; we grow ; we'd have it for peace and social justice, and to who put the bread in the refridger- no other way. _ As I finish scrubbing to. provide the printers with sub- ator to lapsing into traditional sex the. toilet bowl, wash up, and rush sistence income for doing wor k roles . (Chris, you can lift that car- down to WSYR to offer our rebutta l they enjoy. The quality of our ton of books if you just concentrate . ) to Ford's "amnesty" for the 11 o'cloc k work has improved greatly, and news, I realize how much my con- the amount of work has gradual- Then there's the need for constan t sciousness has been raised -- at ly increased to the point where i t awareness that there is no one further least to the point that I'm paranoid provides one income . In its first up the line who will set the directjdn s over undermining our collective year, it appears the SPC Press wil l for the Council, make sure there' s sense by' having written this articl e be a permanent part of SPC'c pres- money to keep going . It has to be by myself. Chris Murray ence in the community. equally distributed responsibility, Bob, "1i^hol: c . . collective concern 10/74 PNL 15 Committees: SPC's "Spokes"people SPC runs on the work of its member s organized into the various committees . Without these efforts, the staff and th e steering committee could accomplis h very little . Imagine, if you can, a bicycle which has no wheels but rolls along on the axles alone . Progress is certain to be slow . But add the wheels and thing s move along more quickly . So it is with SPC and its committees . Or lets look at it another way . The committees are the means'by which SPC reaches out of the office and int o the community - the lines of commun- ication bridging the gap between them. There is no such thing as a 'typical ' SPC committee . From Amnesty to Attica , from Mailing Lists to Military Recruit- ment, from the Philippines to the Poli- tical/Economic Study Group, SPC com- ing the Indochina war or the Unite d mittees cover a wide range of needs Farm Workers . In each of these cases , and concerns. the objective is to communicate a mes- sage of importance on a peace/socia l justice issue, Standing committees include severa l which are likewise engaged in the pro - cess of communication, but which ar e organized on the basis of method rathe r than issue - e.g. "Analysis", film , literature, Monday potlucks. There are also several Committees whose purpos e is to help keep the rest of the organi- zation functioning - e .g. finance, hous e Political/Economic Study Group meets: remodeling. (1 to r) front: Joey Helms, Linda Maddaus, In addition, there are the neighborhoo d Gary Eikenberry. back: Erwin Reiner , s Marilyn Miller, Sue Strunk, Bill Griffen , groups, which perform a number of role h Lillian Reiner, Kathy Johnson. in their respective neighborhoods, suc * * * * * * * * * * * Photo by Alex Gotwald as helping financially with garage sale s Perhaps the most obvious distinctio n and helping in communication throug h among committees is between what ma y distribution of "Analysis" . loosely be called "program" and "stan- Besides the functions they perform, ding" committees . Program committee s SPC committees differ in a number o f include those dealing with geographi c ways. While most committees are fairly areas - e .g . Indochina, the Mid Eas t permanent, relating to long-standin g or southern Africa - a swell as thos e areas of concern, others - such as the dealing with some aspect of our own calendar committee - exist only lon g . suciety - e.g. the B-1 bomber, teach - enough to perform a specific task . 16 PNL 10/74

The common factor uniting all com - mittees, whatever their differences, i s that they were created in order to mee t a need. The Micronesia committee, for example, exists not because the staff or steering committee identified Micronesia as a priority concern, but because some - ( 1 1 one in the community was concerne d (7j~P1L • / ' ., SNOOTY FOX about the people there and felt that a 3,•BEAUTY SALON ; committee related to SPC was the bes t 7-IL~~,,~~~ eve PHONE 472-6490 way to express his concern . Similarly, X507 WESTCOTT STREET,'' SYRACUSE, N. Y. k 'Tti~O t the Teaching the Indochina War Projec 9 f~ ~ ' s IUf l f •_ exists because some people becam e concerned by the way schools and text - books were misrepresenting what ha s happened in Indochina . The role of staff Zc yov c.o_n* "gek in these and other cases was to respond auto and {-a lk " - - in varying ways and to varying degree s z Co n - to the needs that were being expressed . .OfE REPAIRS . SPC's committee structure - a reflec- $ill'Duren tion of the interests of its members - ha s Umol)Euw& handy man changed over the years . What directio n this growth will take in the future depend s ca.tt "(Ot4colt eQai r"I,ZZT98T on the needs and concerns of the peace / Li social justice community in central New York.

House remodeling crew - Susie Gaines , Dave Coons, Joe Horsington - upstairs . * * * * * * * * * * * Photo by Alex Gotwa ld 1U/74 PNL 1 7

r _ y --7)fants Dbort :€Ltes Need A Speaker? Call SP C Cad ti 7rarrums Colleges, church groups and community organ- izations as much as 100 miles from Syracuse have often turned to SPC for worthwhile speaker s on peace and social justice issues. SPC is now forming a Speakers Bureau whic h will provide more information on what speaker s are available. It will also make the necessar y arrangements to bring speakers and sponsoring organizations together. Among those who have already indicated a willingness to speak are :

JIM BAGLIO: Jamaica, Aluminum Corporation s SARI & DOUG BIKLEN: China y eeC4 vlt-- RICK BOARDMAN : B-1 Bomber, Amnest DIK COOL: Conscription, prisons, Amnesty ~at Vistr1 .5ti-ret r - GARY EIKENBERRY: Non-violence —n5 racuse, .3 . 132w RICK FOGG: Educating for Peac e HARROP FREEMAN: Disarmament, Non-violenc e JOHN GALVANI: Mid East, Energy Crisi s NICOLA GEIGER: Japan, South Korea PAUL IRISH: Southern Africa, Eco-Justice RUSS JOHNSON : Indochina, Philippines LARRY LEVIN: Indochina & the U .S . Congress DON LUCE : Indochina, Political Prisoner s RAUL MANGLAPUS: U.S . & the Philippines DON PERETZ : Mid East, U.S . Policy in M.E . CHRIS ROBINSON: Pentagon, Volunteer Army KEN: 3IIERMViAi' ; t~cnnnrunity Organl 7irg IRWIN SILBER: Politics of Film, Marxism DOROTHY STEFFERS : Cuba, Women & Peac e BOB SWANN: Land Trusts, Eco . Alternative s LAWRENCE THOMAS : Puerto Rico, Latin Amer . NANCY TRAVERS : Political Prisoners in Viet Na m BILL WEBBER : Continuing War in Viet Na m GORDON WEBSTER: Religion & Peac e JANE WHITNEY: Human1Services v. Military PAUL & DEDE WILSON : Philippines RON YOUNG: Viet Nam

For more information about these and othe r speakers, call or write SPC, 924 Burnet Ave . , Syracuse, N .Y. 13203; phone (315) 472-5478.

Please send me a copy of the SPC speaker s ue5•,Wed. 7-10 p .n, . Eieneral Medic m e brochure // I am interested in (speaker or topic) i .1-3 rn . MonNorte.-Fr Avuilaile: for (date) Name Organization Address Zip City Phone ( )

SP C. : Creating the suture "The future is not the result of choice s SPC is all about. As our understanding of the socia l among alternative paths offered by th e economic and political forces that play upon us present, but a place that is created - - becomes ever more Sharpened (SPC,works as a de- created first in the mind and will, nex t mythifying adversary of the mass media and many in activity. The future is not som e times of the schools), we will be increasingly faced : place we are going to, but one we are with the question: "Can we continue to spend the creating. The paths to it are not found bulk of our energies confronting the range of socie- but made, and the activity of making tal problems that come at us at accelerating rates , them changes both the maker and th e or must we commit greater energies to identifyin g destination ." -- John Schaa r the basic causes of those social ills?" r I tend to see SPC as developing an integrate d The difference between SPC as a living, vibrant, moving struggling social organism and the anxiety-ridde view of these social problems and therefore n d projections out of the Future Shock world is SPC' s more and more towards integrated responses an e determination to create a decent society, not re- programs . For example, I envision SPC peopl helping themselves and others in our communitie s tionalize a bankrupt qne . I believe SPC will con- d tinue to move beyond piece-meal reforms that to see relationships between our private lives an patch up a tottering social order and toward pro- our public lives . As more people come to recogniz e grams that go to the roots of our problems . SPC our "private" problems as societal problems, a knows that peace is more than the absence of war ; growing number will enter the public arena and be- ; ; that peace (inner and outer) can only thrive whe n come activists, if, at first, only for self-defense . . " , the social group chooses equality over inequality , Alternative Institution s

justice over injustice and self-authenticity over As human needs are either unattended or sub- -t, alienation. verted by a system whose only concern is to creat e Action daied on Understandin g commodity-junkies, SPC members actively support- We look forward at SPC to playing ah increasing ing one another will create alternatives to tha t role in supporting individuals attempting to de- madness . Alternative institutions, alternativ e alienate themselves. The struggle of those wishing media, coops, real political parties, radical unions - to free themselves from all kinds of alienating , communes, tribes, etc . will be useful in breakin g repressive forces calls for doing; doing growing ou t old patterns and liberating people to create friendly- . to-humans, friendly-to-nature, peaceful life styles of analysis and understanding . OQr task will be to . Dreams? Of course . That's the stuff the Syracuse ; help each other resist the avoidance of that doing . Creating the soil whereupon individuals and the n Peace Council is, and will be, made of. In the years collectives of individuals (communities) can begi n to come, we will be breathing life into those dreams , to control their own lives will continue to be wha t to create that future . -- Bill Griffe n ict (lLt\<

,mie/Ke~iiMILtg olt'( Ilt ).. "''LaDID) AMIA-1))i) :(KI([tl~~c«_Jr~ou»»>a>»>,»~)p,►e 10/74 PNT . 19

ROLL OUT THE BOMBER ! TAKE PART IN SPC'S HUMAN AMATEUR MADNESS THEATR E

! 1 DON'T READ THIS ARTICLE UNLESS YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE! ti Street theatre is alive! ; Cast of thousands ! NEEDED: peasants, tycoons, generals, workers, politicians, brass band , rabble, rousers, prop people, leafletters and throngs . CAN YOU RESIST ? Tuesday, October 1, Be at SPC, 924 Burnet Ave ., at 8:00pm for importan t planning meetin g AMNESTY & FREEDO M AMERICANS VIET NAMESE Seven Viet Namese living in the U .S. face deportatio n the issues, and reach out to to the prisons of s . Viet Nam for speaking out about churches and temples asking the Thieu dictatorship . Draft/military resisters living them to 'adopt' a prisoner. outside the mainstream of the U .S . face conditiona l Volunteers attracted by the amnesty in exchange for saying tiger cage display at S . U . regis- they were wrong when they op - tration have already sent a fol- posed the war. Freedom fo r low-up letter to approximatel y political prisoners and univer- 550 people who, during the tiger sal/unconditional amnesty fo r cage week this summer, signe d draft/military resisters are th e petitions to stop aid to Thieu . intertwined themes of the Inter - This effort will go on beyond national Week of Concern fro m the Week of Concern because th e Sept . 29 to Oct. 6. cries of those in prison cannot SPC plans to distribute a n be forgotten after one week . "Analysis" leaflet, begin settin g Phone Bob, Chris or Linda a t up a public televised debate o n SPC - 472-5478 . GARAGE SALE Liverpool Valley you. ~~prectairi -the unique, Yfan the Visiona~r Lim is for .AN Sat. Sept. 28 Sat. Oct. 5 futi color r¢ pro uctinm . u have never sari from 11 - 4 from 10 3 gythtnQ rate them .r o v Sri tits 501 Second St. (Rt.370) 225 Maplewood Ave.

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OC 904ER MEAL 6:30 P.M. SPC PROGRAM 7:30 P.M. Bring food to share bread, casserole, fruit , MONDAY beverage, cookies or whatever . Place-set- tings provided. Everyone welcome! ! POTLUCKS 819 MADISON ST. tGrace Church - corner University Ave .

MONDAYSSEPT .30: JAMAICAN RESOURCES & U .S . CONSUMER S .Jim Baglio, a Syracusan recently returned Hon: working with the Sugar Workers Cooperative Council in Jamaica , will report on the relationships between the Jamaican and U.S. economics . Jim will emphasl.:e the a,q uol of Jamaican bauxite (from which aluminum is made), sugar and tourism by U .S. corporations and the effects this has on the American consumer as well as Jamaicans . "SIGABOY": STRUGGLE FOR JUSTIC E IN A PHILIPPINE BARRIO A few wealthy Filipino landlords and giant U .S. corporations control most of the good farm land in the Philip - 7 pines. During the 1960's, a rice-roots political movement, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) began-demand- ing real land reform. The film "Sigaboy" describes the growth of the FFF in the barrio (village) of that .name , including the supportive role played by an American Maryknoll missionary, Fr . Edward Gerlock . (Note: Sinc e this film was made, Marcos has silenced the FFF and placed Fr . Gerlock under house arrest. ) SPC FILMS PREVIEW SPC's Film Committee will be previewing new films for possible purchase at this Potluck . Planned showings : '"Viet Nam: Still America's War" This excellent film is an exposition of how the US government is dis - guising its active role in s . Viet Nam today ; interviews with Americans now in "civilian" jobs . (30 min) "Telford Taylor: On Viet Nam and Nuremberg" An interview with the Chief of Counsel and Repre- sentative of the United States for the Prosecution of War Crimes . color (10 min ) THE FIGHT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWE R Why bother? Discussions of health and safety problem s How? 9-Mile Point unit 2 intervention by Ecology of Oswego, and other approache s What alternatives? Wind, solar, changing levels of energy consumptio n Who sets the priorities? Project independents, Federal Energy Administration, rate payers ? Ruth Caplan and Sue Reinert, members of Ecology Action, Oswego, will discuss these points . Cooperative Organization in Chin a 2 011ie Clubb will discuss how the Chinese moved through various phases in the evolution of their cooperativ e institutions . Doug Biklen and Sari Knopp will share their first-hand observations of agricultural commune s 8 during their visit to China this past summer . A film or slides will be shown. This potluck is part of a continuing focus on collective/cooperative living . 0 MAN SO r EX ERcR '72-O 5 P-Qc AN D ,f‘ FERR T . li j)A/N77NG S INTERIO° 000R sa CON 7 RAC o 000 0 472-317 d O ia 10/74 PNL 21

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CLASSIFIEDS RATES: Free if no money exchange involved (20 word limit) $ 1 for first 15 words, 10' for each additional word . DEADtIN'E: COMMUNITY DARKROOMS Friday, Oct. 18. PEACE NEWSLETTER circulation 6,000 . Syracuse University Union PLOWSHARECRAFTS FAIR and sale, SPC's popular holiday event, is in its 4th year. It's scheduled for Dec. 7-8. Craftspeople please submit entries tot Barbara Murphy, 110 Clayton Ave. Syr. 13207 . 475-148b . SOUVENIR "IMPEACH NIXON" buttons and bumperstickers- ho t items! Get 'em before the price jumps . 50C, 3/S1 . Also "IM- PEACH" bumperstickers available if you'd like to express your feelings about Ford/Rockefeller . Cityslick CAN YOU PLAY the "Star-Spangled Banner" on a brass Instrument ? SPC absolutely can not Roll-outthe B-1 Bomber without a military photographs by brass band! SPC needs you! Call 472-5478 to join this high - vibe project now . TOM KLINKOWSTE I N Need termpapers or thesis typed? Call Ellen Branagan, 633-9348 . Rates negotiable . Oct 1 Oct 20 REGISTER! ! There are b number of progressive candidates to vote for on Nov. 5. Registration dates : Fri, 10/4. 3-8pm ; Sat, 10/5 , 10-8pm; Thurs, 10/10, 3-8pm . (at district polling places) For more info, 477-728 1 Neededurgently: baby & children (up to age 12) clothing, blankets, baby food, sleeping bag for Native Americans at Eagle Bay. Deliver to Onondaga Reservation - Mud House (next to Council House ) Rte 11A. Call Chief Levi Hill, 469-8231 . Work for Ramsey Clark . Volunteers needed. Please call Clark Headquarters or Nan Dietz, 475-7960 . Feeling like a motherless child? Phone CONTACT 445-1500. We'll be glad to talk it over. "TheGoodFuture: Vision and Task" is the theme of a conference/ workshop of the Eco-Justice Task Force to be held Oct . 11-13 at th e Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1100 So . Goodman St., Roches- ter. Resource people will be Dr . Kenneth Boulding (U. of Colorado) and Dr. Richard Baer, Jr . (Cornell U.). For info, call John 472-54 7 PEACE CENTER COORDINATOR position open in early Oct . Intereste d people should contact: Schenectady Peace Center, 535 Schenectad y St. Schenectady, NY 12307. Phone (518) 374-356 1 Original glass paintings for sale! Contact Jimmy Holt 338 Green St., Apt 6 HATHA YOGA. 6:30 and 8 :00 pm, every Thursday, at Friends Mtg House, 821 Euclid Ave . Call 656-9107. ea-Euri WESTCOTT CAFE is now open. Hours are : Mon. -Fri. 7 am-5 pm . Sun. 11 am-1 pm (brunch) , and every night Sam -12 midnight . T The cafe is at 550 Westcott . Watch for a community meeting i n MIMEO & OFFSE the near future to explore possible directions for the Cafe to take. Kiddie Co-op (S. U./Westcott area) needs reliable volunteers. Call (daytime) 479-7924 . PRINTIN G NEWSPAPERS - Save them! SPC Will be having a paper drive soon . ISYOURGROUP COMMITTED to meeting social needs - or to rad - up to laral size ' ically changing existing conditions? SPC War Tax Resistance Fun d can help with interest free loans . 472-5478. ADDICTED to TV news programs? Put that time to ybod use! SPC needs more information about local TV coverage of our activities a s • Posters • business cardf well as other activities and issues related to peace and social just- 'ice'. We'd like volunteers to keep logs of each of the TV stations' . local news programs (6pm and/or llpm) for an initial period of • letterheads • news Letters three months. Call John at 472-5478 to volunteer . 'COMMUNITY '75 - SPC's annual directory of usefulbut hard-to- • envelopes • bumper stickers find information will be published in November. We're planning a n expanded edition (8 extra pages) with a new theme : "Syracuse I s For People" . Also an expanded list of community services . To make COMMUNITY '75 a financial success we need more advertising , Dej5n t Layout addble too. Ad sales will begin on Sept. 16. Call Barb or John, 472-547 8 to volunteer. PRICE CHOPPER had UFW grapes when they were available, but most masonab(e rates in central new york e is 'now stocking scab products . Support groups in several upstat discounts for movvetnent sy non- pro f i.t 9roufts Cities have been picketing PC to carry NO W. Coast grapes or ice - berg lettuce without the UFW eagle on the wrapper . Please urge Western Lights and DeWitt PC managers to tell the central offic e that youw .tnt them to honor the boycott. And write : Exec. VP Lewi s Golub, PO Box 1074 . Schencctauiv. NY 12301 Contact : SPC PRESS472-5478 In/74 ATT . 2%

aerie A o-CT S Films-SPC Benefit Liverpool Garage Sale i ; f k C '( ._ 81 Gifford Aud . S . U. 501 Second St .L'pool "Dr . Strangelove" Pet- (rt .370) 11-4pm . Dona - er Sellers, Geo .C .Scott tions needed! Call SPC at 7 & 10 pm. 1472-5478 "Requiem ForA Heavy- weight" Tony Quinn, Every Mon. S .African Lib Jacky Gleason & Mickey Corn-noon, 119 College P1 :30 pm . - Rooney, 8 N o 11) z oAle Internat'l Week of Con - SPC Potluck "Jamaiga n Roll out the B-1 Bomber/ "Sigaboy" (Philippine s "Sigaboy" (Philippine s Valley Garage Sale at at a i Resources & the U.S . .a. m tern for Saigon's Politi - Street Theatre mtg . 8 pm Film - See 10/7) 8 p m film - See 10/7) 8 pm 225 Maplewood Ave . from m rn cal Prisoners thru 10/6 . Consumer" . Jim Baglio, at SPC (See p. 20) at LeMoyne - AV Room , at S .U . Int'l Living 10-3pm. Donations need- e U a. 'a Food Co-op every Sun . who lived in Jamaica this Academic Complex Center, 401 Euclid Av . ed! Call 492-0731 . o . will lead dis - m 7:30pm, 550 Westcott . scuumsmsiorn Every Tues .Thresholds NYCLU panel discussio n 1973 - zee . WCNY-TV (Channel 24 ) WAER-fm 6-l0pm "Be ping . mtg.7 :30pm, 82 1 on "Sex Education an d Fonda . Tom Hayti,-r , "The Unquiet Death of have WCNY-TV (Channel 24 ) Ethel and Juliu for Modification" pane l 8 pm - "The Unquie t Euclid (Friends Meeting) Civil Liberties", 8 pm _ Hu')lv Sear & Je<=r- s discussion . Death of the Rosenbergs" at S .U . College of Law - Rosenberg "

NVS Films - Giffor d Every Sun. WAER-fm, 6-1 0 SPC Potluck : "Sigaboy " SPC Steering Corn . mtg. 197,3 - S, .no agarp,s t "As We Struggle Together " Struggle for Justice in a War Tax Resistance Fund Auditorium - S . U. - $1 7:30 pm at 924 Burne t . at Lillian Refiner's , naconda CoPPer c°- with Elena . Solidarit y Philippine barrio - wor k into "Grapes of Wrath" - 194 0 earaain " g ' Chile , news at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :30 . by the Fed, of Free Far - 1009 Cumberland - classic directed by Joh n mers to gain land reform . 6 :30 pm potluck suppe r Ford - 7, 9:45 pm . Als o - m 1972 .- F,1m "Plilihous e 6:30pm meal, 7 :30pm pro Mental Patients Lib Pro - Marx Bros Shorts 9 p 9 "Why We " shown at i=re : son - S p C gram, Grace Church, 81 ject-every Thurs . 8 :00pm only & Boycott Madison, bring food t o 1973 short by the Unite d bec'jop;` ',o at Univer . Meth. Church . share-open to all.' - Farm Workers in Calif . 13 1`i 1J5 16 A SPC Potluck : SPC Film Nov. PNL news deadlin e 1971 - Moritorfum Day Previews (consideratio n vote SPC sponsored vigil s for purchase) : "Viet Nam: Still America's War" & tax r. g nu et I ianvassinq vs, contin< - tef dless of r<3 ; - ing var . Spectre of D u "Telford Taylor: On Vie t Marine Recruiting S' .., Nam and Nuremberg " (See 10/7)

xi 2 Watch for the B-1 roll ou t Watch for the B-1 roll ou t Watch for the B-1 roll ou t watch for the B-1 roll out Watch for the B-1 roll ou t Watch for the B-1 roll ou t SPC Potluck : "The Figh t NVS Film : S. U . - Giffor d against Nuclear Power " 1971 SPC deiegatior. Auditorium - $1 - 19.72 - William Sloar "Husbands" - ssavete s 0 with Ruth Caplan & Sue Wash,,--DC to take p<: Goffin spoke on his ' Z Reinert of Ecology Actio n e Phase I of Nixon Ere - Nov. PNL mailing party study of male values an d- . c r, . Viet tiatn , how men do & don't relat e O a: e,co in Oswego . (See0/7) don Csampaign 5 pm at 924 Burnet P U > your help is needed! to each other & to women ; W a y Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk . ~ - 1 E z aw. n 's 27 2.8 2, 32 J ii MOVING? J ua m a Puerto Rican Solidarity SPC Potluck: "Commune s 'Pleas e Day rally in Madison Sq . & Cooperative Organize- send us your O m Garden in N .Y.C . - for tion in china" - 011ie people 3 ibcte :: new address' no info call Young Workers Clubb, Sari Knopp, Doug 3 weeks in in Liberation League at Biklen & film or slides advance . 469-6870 or 476-8048 . (See 10/7) . Post Office charges l0 C for the info. SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SA T