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In no Bonnie Stretch case that we know of has a telephone company discontinued service, al­ Eric Weinberger though several have threatened to do so. The War Resisters League is MANAGING EDITOR coordinating the campaign. Paul Johnson The WRL now has the names of phone tax refusers in virtually every state EDITORIAL STAFF from Maine to Hawaii. J.R. Burkholder of Goshen, Ind., suggests that all phone Ofelia Alayeto tax refusers notify the President and their Congressmen about their Mary Christiansen act of refusal. Mrs. Betty Mitson, a widow living on social security David Herres income in New Oxford, Pa., has had her phone disconnected Peter Kiger rather than jeopardize her social security. Actually, the risk to such an income Eileen Morris is virtually nonexist­ ent, but Betty Mitson's sacrifice should make Bob Murphy us all reconsider how much we are willing to give up in the cause of peace. Dena Rubin Gren Whitman of Baltimore Mary Suzuki Lyttle reports: "After many letters, even a per­ sonal visit by a woman trying to collect, the IRS garnisheed my salary to NEWS EDITOR get 68¢-67¢ tax, 1¢ interest. I decided to go through the appeals pro­ Jim Peck cedure, drew up a long explanation of why I was refusing-with great em­ DESIGNS phasis on my conviction and the illegality of the war. Then two arm-wav­ Eric Hendricks ing boisterous sessions with the taxmen-and I expect they'll garnishee Guilio Maestro my salary again. Alan Brick and Dean Pappas were somehow scheduled for Peter Provenzale their first hearing at the same time. They showed up with about 20 wit­ POETRY nesses, passed out leaflets, talked to the employees, scribbled in the 'guest Jackson MacLow book'-Stop the War, etc.-and when the taxmen refused to allow all the witnesses into the hearing, Brick and BUSINESS MANAGER Pappas walked out." Jeannette Rankin, elected to Congress even before woman's suffrage, Susan Cakars and the only member of Congress to vote against both World Wars, has COVER joined the phone tax refusal campaign. So has Dave Dellinger, editor of Dennis Wilcher Liberation and chairman of the National Mobilization Committee. WIN is published twice-monthly (except July, Last issue we reported that the American Telephone and Telegraph August, and December when it is published Company maintains that there are fewer than 2,000 phone tax refusers. It monthly) by the War Resisters League in coopera­ turns out that that estimate is based on a sampling taken during the first tion with the New York Workshop in Nonviolence. quarter of 1967. In Hanover, New Hampshire, there are now ten times the Subscriptions $5.00 per year. Second class postage number of refuser~ that there were then. How typical is Hanover? -M.C. paid at New York, N.Y. 10001. Individual writers are responsible for opinions expressed and accur­ acy of facts given. Printed by Grindstone Press, ARTICLES THIS ISSUE: U.S.A. WIN is a member of the Underground Press Stop the Draft in Oakland: Dec. 18 & 19 3 Syndicate and Liberation News Service. Draft Resistance Roundup 4 A Pacifist Underground in Russia? 5 Christmas in Delano 6 ~ ~~<$Q~@6J)e The Israeli War-An Arab's View 7 A Greek Protest in New York 7 C» gJ) "Dear Mr. McReynolds" -Replies from Gis 8 'll~ ~ ~ ~ The Great Christmas Mill-In 10 Whither the Movement?-An Opinion 11 ~G 0 Is Nonviolence Relevant? 12 Marshals: Two Views 13 Mail-Order Drop-Outs: A New Project 14 A Primer for Revolutionaries 15 NEWS IN BRIEF 15 LETTERS 17 WRL's Tapes for Peace 18 2 The reactions of the various arms of the government to the pended on promise of good behavior for a year. Chances of demonstrations in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 18 and 19 have that clean year seemed slim after Oakland police made it clear been irr.ational and almost frenzied. While the peaceful sit-ins that they have identified previous civil disobedients and will went very much as planned, with about 290 persons arrested round them up at future demonstrations whether they commit on the two days, police and federal marshals conducted a se­ law violations or not. ri~s of incoherent harassments that involved the first arrests Long-time pacifist Roy Kepler was one of seven monitors since 194 7 of men charged with not carrying draft cards and nabbed for trying to keep the demonstration orderly. He was arrests of nearly all the head monitors, including seven who caught getting into his car three blocks from the demonstra­ had not committed civil disobedience. tion. James Sacco and this writer, two other head monitors, The marshals were roundly upbraided by U.S. Attorney were picked up at seven in the morning of the first day, al­ Cecil Poole who has to choose whether or not to prosecute most before the action had gotten underway and were charged five demonstrators dragged off from doorways when they with the same offense as those who had actually sat in door­ proved not to have their cards with them. One of the five, ways. Head monitor Shippee was nabbed on the draft card John Shippee, a head monitor for this demonstration, was not count; monitor Jim Black, who took over when others were sitting in and was apparently singled out, as were other head arrested, was grabbed three blocks away while walking with his monitors, because of the blue sash he wore to denote his role wife. She was not arrested, but my wife Dorothy Obluda was as a monitor. He is a member of the Resistance who has sent seized on Tuesday morning while standing in a crowd watching his card back to his draft board, and says he has no intention our teen-aged son carried off for blocking a bus. A few min­ of taking part in any deal with Poole to drop charges if he will utes before her arrest, a police captain said, "I see , Mrs. produce his card. Obluda, you're here instead of your husband today." Shortly These arrests were reported to have been made by acting thereafter, she was snatched under both arms by two men U.S. Marshal Trevelyn Blazzard, on his own initiative. Poole dressed as service station attendants, dragged to a patrol wagon later told newsmen, "From a sensible view, this is not the kind and charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. of offense that rises to the dignity of an immediate arrest. It's Alvin Wasserman, a San Francisco clinical psychologist, was similar to not having your driving license." also picked up for monitoring, and along with the six others, Another of the five was an attorney who volunteered a lit­ pleaded not guilty. Then in another of the many courtroom tle advice at the wrong time and left his card at home by mis­ dramas of the day, Judge Brobst mistakenly sentenced him to take. Two others got additional charges of assaulting a federal 20 days in jail before allowing him a trial. Wasserman was officer when they were grabbed by plainclothesmen who did freed when spectators set up a howl. not readily identify themselves. This tactic caused a roar of One young lady, Lee Zepp, who was in jail along with many outrage in the local liberal press, but the U.S. marshals, caught of the other demonstrators after the nonviolent action of Oct. in a position where no rational response is possible, have re­ 16th, drew gasps when she told the judge he was sentencing fused to back down. her to only 20 days when her repeater friends got ninety and Late on Monday afternoon, the marshals staged a short but that she wanted the same sentence as they were given. The dangerous farce in the hearing room of the U.S. Commissioner judge was flustered and refused to consider the novel request. in Oakland as the five were arraigned. Showing obvious signs The effectiveness of the protest must be measured now in of strain, the marshals terrified the crowded hearing room by terms of the reaction of the community to the fact that their shoving a gun into the back of a spectator just a few feet in friends have drawn long jail sentences at Christmas time. The front of the Commissioner and within inches of children a­ week's demonstrations ended with a tremendously impressive mong the thirty supporters of the Resistance men. One mar­ ceremony on the top of San Francisco's Twin Peaks at sun­ shal shouted, "If you move, you're a dead man," and five down on Thursday, Dec.
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