stop rattling sabers in regards to Quemoy nam's Committee for Solidarity with the convening of a unification committee. The Roúk Donahue' r and Matsu, and should be concerned about American People Our churches paid the s letter I 12 | 26 | 1 4l ø members of this delegation agree with them. minded me of a certain the Chinese food shortage t¡avel costs,to and from Vietnam¡ the Conr tyþe of episode 9. is which used to attract the During the week of Thanksgiving a mittee for Solidarity paid our expenses It difrcult fòr an American to endure attention of foreigrìers in Vietnarn One group of students from New B¡unsvick while we were in the country. Included in the sþht of the re'sults of our bombing. We soon noticed had how the Vietnamese each Theological Seminary decided to leaflet our number was one person who speaks not rcalized that US Ai¡ Force planes þeople touched other æ they spoke, how about the issue of world starvation. I Vietnamesg one who speaks Frenc[ òne had created so many Viotnamese Coventrys they held hands, proposed and . , or,fhrng an a¡m a¡ound the shoulder of that we attach to each leaflet a . speaker of several Slar languages, and one D¡esdens. l their,companion as they walked down little bag of rice to be mailed on to President who has knowledge ofChinese and 10. We ihink the Vietnamege need Ame¡i. the road. This usually took place between men, Fo¡d. We passed out 1,000 of them at five Japanese Between us, we had approximate can help. Church help they can and will or'between women- usqally younger ones. diferent locations in and around New ly 30 years of experience in modern Asia receivg US Government æsistance they . :.At'fìrst thls would elicif the usual ir¡ Brunswick, NJ. We then distributed another Our travels in Vietnarh embraced two will not accept, as long as General Thieu's sinuáting rema¡ks f¡om the Gf q until af- thousand without riòe packets but with the provinces-Hai Hung in the northeast and Govemment bombs thei¡ territories using ., ter a period of time they would ¡ealize same thoughts And some of these were given Ninh Binh to the south-as well as the Ame¡ican planes and bombs, or destrqys , that there really wasn't anything all that out in other central Jersey communities æ capital area of Hanoi We were a¡eas under control of the Provisional , served by *qu"e,.f" going or¡ well. excellent interpreters supplied by the ConÈ .Rerrolutionary Government (Viptcong). would True enough- one soon learned to ap I like tq see a new rice sending mittee fo¡ Solidarity, took photographs at' 11. The two members of the deiegation campaþn c.enter preciate the Vietnamese charaiteristics of to around world sta¡vation will, visited churcheg coope.rativeg ., col. who have visited South Vietnam affirm that ' u/ârrìtth, f¡iendliness and the use of food as a weapon of wa¡ and farms, and cheerfulnesg ' lective workshopq museumg hospi. the life of o¡dinary people is freer, betier, acloser tie-in , despite the harrowing pattern of thei¡ lives. between the issues ofhunger t¿ls and schools, and conversed with more more decent,and mo¡e democ¡atic North, 3Q 1975 in ,t And when I returneil liôme a fanuary lVolume.,Xl, Number 3 and militarism, æ I understand the causes than 50 Vietnamese ranging from farmers in 1968, Vietnam than it is in the Saigon areas. game and problems to stem from the same to the Prime Ministe¡ whole new ball was in progress. Peo- 12. The Vietnamese we met made a clear ple \r/ere joining clubs, paying an 4. The Strange Case of Martin Sostre sot¡rces. We have.some óbservations and affirmç 920.00 distinction between US military policy wening just to sit in a Poul Mayer I ¡ealize,the limitations of communicat- tion make to our American darkened room in ' As the scissors editor of Peggy DufPs to people: , makers a¡rd the people ing with public ol[cials in order to inûuence/ of the USA" order to ¡each out and touch:dach.otlie¡. "Ko¡ea's Golden Opportunities" (WIN, L Bomb damage wæ incalculably worse 6. Lanzadel Vasto: Gañdhian Guru press¡re then¡. And I accept the tuth that These were ialled'leniounter groups." U16175\,I want to apologize to WIN than Ame¡icans.imagine Nöt only roads, , ANDREW GRUTKA, Roman Catholic Perhaps no othèr Pat Forren oower actually resides with the pçople-so dissimilarity between . ,. , ¡eaders for its brusk cut-anôpaste: the full bridges and factories we¡e destroyed. but, Bishop of Gar¡ Indiana. . it is only there that we shor¡ld concentrate North American and Indochinèse people sô:i Peace.P¡ess issue runs 26 pages and is an alsq in great numbers, churches, hospitalq PAUL 11. How We Cause World Hü*nger our ogrânizin!. Tö those ends I mention WASHBURN, United Methodist painfully hþhlights the pressinþ urgency to invaluable handbook on the south Ko¡ean schools, residential areas, even fa¡m vil. Wìlliam,Moyer and Pomela Hainës this idea in thê context of personal-(fasting, Bishop of Northern lllinois and President help preserve their sensitive culfu¡e from I situation lages. Obviously, some of the bombing vegetarianism) and public (active resistance, of the Board of Global Minist¡ies. ogr savage, alienated one-especially at this 17. Changes Two errors to be co¡rected in WIN wæ lVo¡ld lVar ll-style terror bombing and particularly, tax resistance) responsibility. JAMES GITTINGS, Presbyterian editor of very moment when the United States exce¡pt rather than Manchester, it wæ 1væ not related to tactical objectives The re .dD. Magazine ; 20. Reviews And as. an qrganizing tool, it has proven to Seventh Fleet is steaming towards their the London Guardían which quoted the construction tæk in North Vietnam is inr. PAUL GREGORY, be an e¡

which he never collected because of the sudtlen death cold-blooded beatíng of the guy in Cell no. 38. His , of the warden. Although a higher court unfortunately name is Sostre." His affidavit (which has iince then overturned some elements of her ruling, the riñging cost him his parole) also states his concern "over the . . words brief stand: has punished ' 1.1 of'her "Sostre been way guards plan anA plot how'best to kill' Martjn because of his legal Black Muslim'act¡úities. . .because. Sostre when he wins his suit to go into federal court." -. " I of his threat to fiie a, lawsuit against the war{çn. . .and t 'expressinâ'ñis During his second beating on frlov. 4 when Martin because he,persists in writing ánd mili- about this extraordinary procedure the prison."- .-inquired j tant and radical ideás in serSant spoke of "new orders from Albany." Tlilì STIRANGD \ ln addition to this suit hç has also Tought for . lt is hardly paranoid to conclude that thesthtd '1'. OA$D prisoners' rights to wear moustaches and beards, for prison system has decided to eliminate this defiant prisoners i' the r¡Èht of women to worship, and'has or- 'thorn in its vulnerable flesh through extra-legal ganized labor unions and strikos.at Auburn and Wal- methods if necessary. One need only consider how prisons. practically kill Martih has also filedsuit and many sadistic beatings a 51 year old man can sustain t practice brought to an end the degrading of rectål before eventually being crippled, brain-damaged or examinat¡ons every prisoner leaving 0ß ñ¡fRllN SOS'IIRD required of when even killed. Martin's trial on the assault charge is solitary confinemenl lronically þis cour.t act'lons have. scheduled tô begin in the far off wintry region of won this small sign'of dignity for every New York Plattsburgh, NY on Feb. 4th.,lf he is to be subiected state prison except the one in whicholft is now.con- 'to a rectal search before and after each day's' tifal one fined. His refusal to submit to these humiliatiñg can only guess at his chances for survival. searches (and his reluctance to shave off his % inch To add to the Kafkaesque quality of the case on beard) has led to his virtually 24 hour confinement ' [4ay,. 30, 1973 Arto Williarirs, ihe state's. chlef witness in solitary for almost seven years and also to his latest ¡n"the drig¡nal narcotics conviction recanteil his testi- indictment for "assaulting a prison guard." mony and admitted his complicity i-n the plot to .t. t. Because of his unwillingness to cooperate in his frame Sostre. While participating inä drug reha,bilita-' own dehumanization in this manner Martin has been tion program in California, Williams found that he i prevented from having visitors including lawyers and PAUL MAYER could no longer live qith his conscience. ln an af- '{' clergy and has even been denied needed mgdical care. fidavit filed with the court he admitteð that Martin -chlcago cross Eacñ'time that he is scheduled for a court'âppearance never sold him any heroin and that he gave him the Martin Sostre was born 51 years ago in New york MARTTN sosrRE, he is forced to submit to the rectal examination by a marked bills used in the conviction under a pretext. El Barrio of Puerto Rican and Haitian parents. 9ity's charges of arson and rio! while no mention was made group of guards often armed with clubs numberin! up All of this notwithst¿nding'fudge Curtis of H9_{ropped out after two years of high school. John ln of the sale of narcotics. to 16 men. On eight different occasions Sostre has (a liberal judge who often gave resisters 1952 he was sentenced Buffalo draft to six to '12 yTars in Attica for Since Martin's original g50,000, been brutalized by one of.these "goon squad$." lt was possession. . bail was set for he suspended sentences) ruled that Williams' testimony ¡arcotics This was the beginning of hís sÞent after being assaulted and examined by a seven man political the eight months before the trial in jail and there was "unworthy of belief ' and that "there is no reason awakening and activity. While in Attica he prevented was was from adequately preparíng his case for squad on May 19, 1973 that he indicted on three not to believe the þolice officers." All of this in the joined the Black Muslims and studied law. Martin be- which he acted as his owir couirsel. (R Aõfato counts of 2ryd degree assault, although he was forbid- face of the fact that one of these "police offcers" came a brilliant iailhouse lawyer and won a.suit ¡uOge suggested to Martin at a bail hearing that he oúght"to . .den to appear before the grand.jyiy.. Under New York Sgr Alvin Gristmacher, who was William's mentor in against NY State demanding religious services for.Mus- npek¡ng, - get his baíl and witness costs frôm thtviet- Penal Law Sostre could be sentenced to life imprison- the frame up, has since been charged with the theft lims. When he filed a suit protestìng the all white \ Cong, and Black Power.") After a stormvii¡iidurine ment as "persistent felony offender" if convicted for of of heroin from the police láboratory. composition of the parole board he was rewarded by $10Q000 which he was gagged at several, sessions, ire was fourú t the third timd. câse Martin Sostre we have an almost having to serve the lull 12 years of his sentence, four ln the of :- guilty by an all white jury and sentenced to 30-41 On November 4th while on his way to and from a unbelievable combination of a man of extraordiñâiy of them in solitary. pre-trial years, later mercifully reduced to 25-30 years. (Geràl- heaiing that Martin was brutáffzed.twice in qualit¡ an almost demonic perversion of justice and Shortly after his release in 1964 Sostre went to dine Robinson served two years of a three year sen- this fashion. Hè wrote of this experience: general public or work in a steel mill and opened an Afl.o-Asian decencç and a apparently too blind revolu, tence for interfering with an ariest, and hei five chil- A gocin squod of elght guords presided over by Deputy tionary bookstore in too mesmerized by bread and cirçuses to either'see or the heart,of Buffalo's Black . dren placed were in foster homes.) Superlntendent Gord was woiting for me, I was e* do anything aboui the two. lf we'are able to allow ghetto. The store also sold African art objects and ,. . After an overnight stay at Attica where the blood corted tathe cloth¡ng room where the Superintendent this man and his sqfforíng to continue to remain in- records and quickly became a center iazz of reading of the victims of the . political 1971 riots had barely dried, demanded that I submlt to the rectol examinatlo,n. visible and forgotten what chance do the hundieds of and discussion for the young people of thã , , . , Sostre wãs hastily and fearfully moved to Green When I refused on the some grounds as l refused ln the thousands of others have who inhabit the cages and neighborhood. ln spite of FBI and local police harass..., Haven Correctional . Facility a maximum security ' box, Superintenden.t Gard ordered the goon squod to camps of America's prison system? ment, the bookstore served the needs of the local prison. Thus began pilgrimage . " his long and bitter of ottock me They all ottacked,me ot once fraln oll community. resistance CONTACT:' and suffering through the Ny S-tate frison sides After a ihort struggle,l was subdued, was lifted When civil disorders erupted in the Buffalo ghetto ' system. off the floor Qnd spread eogle while my face was Write: ludge.Robert J. Feinberg during the hot summer of 1967 the police unSuccess- , . Not long after his arríval he was placed in the , toward the floor. However one burley guard Who hod Clinton Co. Court.Hqqsg, fully attempted to implicate Martin in the uprising. ,,the "special housing facility"-known to prisoners as my neck in o choking ormlock persisted in sgueezlng . Plàttsburgh, NY Failing this, they secured therservices of the then'drug-. ' box"-for I' 13 rnonths on charges of ',practicing law with all his might Although I was totolly helpless the Demand .thât the assault charges be dropped, ln the addict and ex-convict Arto'Willíams in framing,sostre,',. . with-out a license,', for having mailed a legal ce"rtíficate. sodist-cpntinued to squeeze, totally prevent¡ng me ' eventof a'trial ask that Martin,Sostre'be kept in,çhe on charges of selling himrheroinr On,July 14, 196'1.â"r , , - to his coidefendant. pon. -'from Wh ereu Martin frll ed,a. su i breathlng and my neck.añd throat, Al- jail-to dozen policemen t hurting country avoid daily bcatings. . i broke into the store; assaulted Mar- i. against Gov, , Rockefeller, the Commissioner of Cor- , though they performed the rectol examinatlon wi.thln' tin and Ger4ldine Robinson, a cler.k,and charggd him rection3 Write: Gov. Hugh Carey and the wärden for being placed in primitive seconds qfrer I was spread e,agle otr the floor they con- ExecutiveOfrcesr , ' .r,",', with selling heroin, and her with lesser chargesr The segregation without due process and for cruel and un- tinued to.hold me in that positìon for'o long tlme-' AlbanY, NY 'ì ì original indictment also included arson and riot, . . usual punishment. The case was brought before Judge probably upqn the signal or orders of Superlntendent charges which were later dropped, although they con- Constance Baker the Demand that the assault charges bè dropped; that . Motley, only Blãck woman'on" Gord. i . ' tinued to be.the "real crime-",of Martin Sostre. When the Federal the original narcotics conviction'be thrówn out of District bench, and much to everyone's I could, neither exhale nor lnhale, my lùngs ond '' Buffalo Police Commissíoner Fiank Felicetta testified . court; ihat the beatings be stopped; that M.S. be ' surprise she issued.what was to become a landmark throot,ulere burstlng w¡th excruciating pain-l wos on the Buffalo riots before the House Un-American freed. decision fór. America's prison population. deliberately being suffocated, I summoned øll my, Activities Committee 11 rhohths latel hè referred to She condemned the conditions in the 6x8 cell as , strength ta loosen myself from th¡s, deathgr¡p on my Come to ths trial in Plattsbqrg \Y on Feþ, 4 , Martin only in connectiön with the already : , l dropped i deh u man i zing degr adi-ng and, dangerous to san ity. throat, but'the grip tlghtened even r4ore. My hegd . For further: information & for, contributions which She also'ruled that before being pu1 in solitary ¿ 1' storted throb.bìng in pain, my vision started gettlng , are badly needed' contact: Paul Moyer teoches at New:Yark:Theo,lagicot , prisoner Semin-, has a right to legal counsel, witnessesand a dimmer ond I lost conscìoasness ary and frequently wrìtes for . , Martin Sostrê Defeñse Committee ftlNt ' hearing and awarded Martin $13,000 dân1age-¿ 5rjm ' Jimmy Sullivan, a recenüly released convict from Box No 839 Ellicott Stat¡bh '' 4 WIN Clinton Prison reports overheaiing guards "plot the Buffalq NY 14205

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violent-direct-action, nonpol I uting vegetariañ micro ¡ear Gandhi, but gradually he became aware that it cosm of the Good News now. Yet after spendi-ng part fell to him to spread the Gandhian way in Europe, of three days with Shantidas at four of his appear- Christianized in the form of the Community of the ances in Boston, I grew to regard his message as mixed Ark. ' ' and the man himself as troubling ìn ways he did not The convert to Gandhism outlines with zeal the intend. : , tr. lrgy u.ryd why of its workings,"occasionally addresping Along with his Cassandra-like power to make pee .hirirself to the West with its scandalous materialisrì: Lanza del vasto: ple believe the end may be near, Shantidas is the " lf people today are not convi¡iced of the unsatisfactory candhian curu possessor of a dry and amiaQle imagery. He is ielling nature,of a system which has led them from criiÌs t{. us that there exist offshoots of the Community of crash, from bankruptcy to révolt and from revolution the Ark in Canada, Argentin4 Morocco and Belgium. to conflagration; which spoils peace and makes it busy I Laugh-lines wreath his face as he says that maybe and full care; which t. of makes war a universal cataclysm, I haven't gotten further in the'US we do as I they "because disastrous for the conqueror as for the conquered; not wear turbans. lf we hád them, we would fiave which t¿kes the sense out of life and the value out of ! enormous success." Possibly, but more likely it's on effort; which consummates the disfigurement of the account of substantive political limitations,.ilTcluding' world and the debasçment of its inhabitants; if pqople abolition of nuclear warfare. They are continually the community's hierarchical naturq, ¡raditional re. .loday blame no matter whom for the great evils that rlgmonstrating ': the simplicity and practicalitv of áon- ligious forms and the male chauvinist'tendencfes of are overwhelming them and attribute the cause'of . PAT FARREN vio-lence in thought and deed and the way in which it Shantidas himself. them to,all and everything except the development of .rs lundamental to the dignity of man." It should be pointed out that these drawbacks are the machinq then one can only conclude that no one Shantidas has charted-his'spiritual and geographical not sêen as such by those who accompanied Shantidas. is deafer than the man who will not hear..l' '-sharitiöas 'creative journeys of the last four decades in 23 boõksif¡v; of They were familiar With his work, some of them had is a signíficant practitioner of The press conference was ten minutes late. Shantidas them are available here, four of which were réleased spent time at La Borie Nobel. They maintained the nonviolence, to be'listened to and lgarned froh as are, was.meditatin_g, his American editor, Toinette Rees, in November. Shantidas spent the month speaking low-key, deferential atmosphere surrounding him. But Danilo Dolci, Dom Helder Camarar"and Vinoh,Bhave told the handful of us standing theré adjusting our about the books and his philosophy in cities across his personal strength was noticed. Toinette Rees, on He shares with us in another of the new books, Gondhi eyes to the darkness of Bpston's Church of thã Cove the country. Effectivel¡ it was,the-Amerícan intro- her first meeting with Shantidas: "Around his neck to Vinoba: The New Pilgrimage, his knowledge of the nant Before he arrived she pointed out his new books duction to the work of acknowledged was a carved wooden cross. There was a feeling of pioneer of the Land Gifts Movemenl For four months ,,He "the leader of and instructed us how to address him. is referred the nonviolent movement in France." great strength and uprightness about him. This was in 1954, Shantidas travelled throughout the lndian to æ Shantidas. lt is the name given him by Gandhi He, perhaps more than anyone, has accomplished not a man one aigued with or disobeyed." countryside with Gandhi's spiritual successor, Vinoba, and means'Servant peace.' ít of But you mav call him a working synthesis of Gandhian activism and the Nor did Shantidas seem to be a man one bantered while he prsached.Bhu,Dan; fhe voluntary transfer of Lanza.del.Vastq ,L^Àri; too. Then you say ur you simplicity_ of New Testament Christianity. The Com. with, or readily bothered with needless follow-up land from the wealthy to the poor. Schocken Books would call Leonardo ,Leonardo."' da Vinci munity of the Ark sounds like a rural-coilectivg non- questions. A brilliant but conventional lecturer who did accurately calls the account remarkable "for its He had come among us now, moving softly for so not often abandon the podium. An aura of piety beautifully evocat¡ve descriptions of lndía-of travel, large a man. H'is brown hand-woven garments and poverty and power about him, the gentle-harsh father ling on foot from village to village through the heat, wind-blown white beard and mane rem¡nded me of told us softly that the only way tç survive the coming the plai,ns and the crowds-and for his reverent por- craggy peaks ánd Charlton Heston. .. , nuclear catastrophe is by nlaking a spiritual revolution, tra¡t of Vinob4 who emerges as a figure who em- Given the consecrated setting, the preparation and beginning with ourselves. The wise, truth-telling saint bodies the Gandhian principle of lovg jusßice and \ his large eyes so peacefully meaiuring'us,'we sat fac- whose message is harsh on heathen ears. nonviolence in the greatest measure." ing him, an attentive congregation. He ná¿ to help us Rarely do we confront one such as he in these get started. "Well, have you any questions, sentl; times of economic recession, personal,/epression and Herg months of medit¿tion permit the outsidè- knowledge of the inside, men?" Then he spoke in English'óf his deóa-des of the growing impression that we face léars of hunker' and the revèrss Shantidas dreams and work in France and in lndia, of study, ing down in a protracted struggle to survive. His story discovers that: "Nonviolence is both the newest and prayer and making nonviolence work. of an alternative that works is worth hearing. the most ancient thing; the most traditional, the most ,..i Shantidas told us of a revolutionary community of Shantidas has lived in the Gandhian manner since revolutionary, the holiest and the humblest; the people living simply in the country, producing mogt. his visit to lndia in 1936. He has written of that long subtlest and the most difficult, and the simplest; the of their basic food and artifacts, strâiing work-and one journey at 35 to the East on foot looking for the meekest and the most demanding, the boldpst and the ' another's.lives, venturing out as a body occasionally '¡clarity whose name,is Detachment" This;he found in sanes! the deepest and the most ingenuous." for disciplined, nonviolent action agaiñst the militai., the person of the man living{n the mud hut at Waidha, He goes on to chronicle Vinoba's life and to re- ists. Unlíke many of the spiritual seits in this country, and he has followed Gandhi's path ever sinöe. The produce some of his "Maxims of lndependence." , political conceins are vital at La Bôrie Nobel, the journal, Return to the Source, has sold more than a Several conversations between Shantidas and Vinôba 200ùacre farmland home of the Ark. This was going million copies since its publication in France in'1943. make more cor¡prehensible the continuinS practice on right now in southern France, and this mun wus It appeared in this country in 1972. lt docurlents his of Gandhism. l the leader of thís Community of,the Ark. determination to "find one solution to the many prob' Vinoba and Shantidas, two ínteinationalists, see .o powèrs Toinette whose disiovery two years Ago lems of our confused and war-torn time. Following the big in combat because of crucial lacks of . _R_ees, of '. the works of Shantidas led to somè of them being the precepts given by.his master, Ihe] asks for politics self-knowledge. "What neither ond side nor the other translated and published here, has written of thei-r' w¡thout violence, production without'machines, will seg" comments Shantidas, "is the relation of achievements. "Through fasting and public demon-, sgciety without exploitation, religion without intoler- .effects and causes between war and every species of strations Shantidas and his followers'have been instru- ance. His fundamental principle is to implant love and accumulation of riches-speculation, colonialization, mental in curtailing atrocities on both sides of the Al- truth, his method a return to the earth and to craft- centralization, mechanization, wages. This is one'of gerian.war, in closing the internment camps hidden manship, manual work and a simple life; the whole the roots of nonviolence which they lack. That is a.w.ay French ,why there are so many pacifists and so few i! the countryside, and in wìnrring the held together by an accent on the common: basis of nonviolent right of conscientious objection-for all Frenchmen. ' all religions." people. To call myself a pacifist it is enough to reject the effect, but be call I Their attentíon is now of course directed toward the Return to the Source is the most artless of the to able to myself nonviolent must also renounce the causes." books, almost a verbal slide show narrated by this Pøt Farren is editor of Peacework, the New Engtand reporter-poet-mystic-studenl lt makes I ndia more Vinoba asks Shantidas to explain more fully the peoce emotionally accessible than anything I have en- Community of the answers, movement newsletter of the American Fr¡en¿, LANZA DEL VASTO. Photo by tngberg crutnerì Ark He 'rTo do, one Service Commìttee. countered. Vividly Shantidas records his profound must first be. My ambition has not yet gone beyond emotional experiences, such as his first meeting w¡th setting up a sufficiently united and strong group for Gandhi. He ardently desired to remain there forever my,successors to be able to use; I want to build an 6 WIN

wtN 7 Ark against the Deluge of Fire which is approaching. will be attacked because they have it. lt will not be For the moment we are swimming against the wind used directly against those who do not possess iL" and tide. A number of people have been touched by well, did'helhink it is likely to be used at some the books and struck by the word, but few are those point? "Oh yes, it is verY likelY." who have risen _to follow us. A few dozen faithful, Itis l,larriors for Peace which may strike the most a few hundred friends are all I have been able to bring chords with Americans. With a craftman's precision I together." Shantidas is able to show how some of the nonviolent peace Tfe campaigns conducted by those friends theories have been made to mesh with praxis. He and followers of Shantidas are set down in Worciors states the simple truths with fresh forcg as in ex- of Peace: Writings on the Technique of Nonviolence. plaining how peace and justice are insêparable: Their "active nonviolence" has bèen instrumental in "Everyone knows that injustice makes peace impos- the anti-war movement in France since the mid-1950's. siblei, for injustice is a state of disorder which cannot Shantidas is a master of the strategy and tactics of and must not be maintained. lt asserts itself through nonviolent direct action, particularly as applied in op violence, holds sway through violence, and leads to position to nuclear proliferation. The anti-huclear the violence of revolt, which shows that if justice is presents 'case he for the edification of us, the potential the reason for peace, it is at the same time the cause victims, is as timely as it was 2O years ago. Hi exposes for revolution and war, acts that always draw their the pitiful, still-operative "balance of terror,' doctrine, justification from the defense or conquest of rights showing "how our economists, so precise and strict and the abolition of injustice." where expenditure is concerned, and our men of Persuasivel¡ methodicall¡ passionate in his use financg so attentive to gain, and our technicians, so of logic, he makes the case for living in nonviolence anxious about stepping up production, and our stateg as much as posìible. And like many other advocates men, fo.rever trembling lest the budget be in the red, of organized massscale nonviolent resiítance, he put millions and billions of dollars into the manu- emþhasizes the use of economic tools. The strike, facture of arms for the purpose of rendering them he reminds us, "has not only been the historical useless. What could be more reasonable? instrument of the rise of the worker in the West, but "Terror," he tells us, ',is the root of the obscurest it is the nonviolent weapon por excellence. purified forms of madness." and generalized in the form of noncooperation and .The cycle of protest to nuclear production is nor¡violent civil disobedience, it would suffice to perceptibly on the upswing in this country, and at an bring about the necessary reforms and at the same extended-Saturday meeting with two dozen peace time contribute to the maturity of peoples.', activists from the Boston area, the questionels re- On choosing targets, he said ¡n Boston, "Nonvio- Vlnoba, strtpped to the walst, oh the march; Shantldas follows him wear¡ng a strlpped þlanket. Photo turned again and again to the threat of Armageddon. lence without risk is nothing. lt is useless to do mani- þy Lanny Frledlander. S.hantidas made a nurnber of contributory obierva- festations which are not prohibited. ln our public directions are as apt f or'75 as when they were written way to help spread the message of Shantidas in this tions which flowed from his theory that ihe essential nonviolent actions we never really losg because the in "1945. The searcher for truth is admonished to car' country would be to gather together^the best of his harm was to have split the atom in the first place. spiritual events that take place are not reported as ry little baggage, to hearken to thþ voices within, to teachings. The result has been published as Make 'The worst evil is to have invênted part 'c'hoose it," he wrote in of the story, the reconciliations, conversions, thé óaih-most in accorif with the natural order Stro¡ght the Woy of the Lord. lt is the most Ghristo- 1 Worriors of Peace "The supreme sin, the worst sae illuminations and changes as ?Ì other of lífe," A televiiion of things. Of the importance of poverty he writes: centric of the works, sprinkled well with haunting rilege is to have split the atom. Nottring is more op talkmaster had asked him.about the negativity of th,e ,1 "Whoever is.riot stripped bare will not taste the poetry.and sparkling good sensç. The melange posed to'the creative ,,The act of God." very word "nonviolent " He had replied, nega- nakedness of things." Of profiî "Toilsome, badly- amounts to a cosmoloeical Whcile Earth Catalogug. Other direct action campaigns have come and tive is not in thef¡rst partof thatword. lt is in thé. paid work is not shameful;a big income obtained with shades of Adelle Davis and a pacified Godfather. gone, Community but the of the Ark maintains a violence itself." without toil is. lt is not shameful to beg; it is shame- Here the mysticism takes precedence, as the tactical prolonged opposition to the Bomb.',Each summer At the Saturday session he was asked one of the ful to profiL" side did in lUarriors of Peqce. We can reflect upon his we protesÇ" he said. "But with no effecl see I don,t tough questions, about the relationship of nonviolent But it is in Precepts that the sex-role traditionalism teãchings on Breathing Food, Speech, Haste, Medita' '. ,i how they will wake up before they wake up dead. activists to the armed liberation struggles in Third intrudes, in disharmony with the rest" The male is tion, Prayer, Fasting Play and Commerce, Cold, There is the work the of devíl there. World countries. People he knew, the questioner said, .fire, he says, the female water, The references extend Sickness, The Living Truth of the Gospels, Baptism you :. :i. "Even if are impatient about it, as we are,'what were concluding that sometimes violent revolution is beyond literary convention. Of the superiqrity of and Eve. He has Adam ioyously.hailing Eve; "You can you do? We know from preferable the beginning that in â to none at all. chastity as a life-choice, he writes: are the Life we want to drink together in this place tragedy such as thís the hero is going to get killed. "They (take power) with great ideas and then vio- : of exile. O Life! I take you in my arms again, and Nuclear war is exactly linked to Original Sin. Eradi- lence seems a very effcient way to them," Shantidas "One can possess u *otrn as a shipwrecÈed sailor from our vertiginous fusion will spring the cascade of cating nuclear war without eradicating all the misuse said sadly. " But it is a scourge. I think history shows .:, clings to a drowned man. the living from century to century. We are.already of science 'but and technology by the powerful and the that it is an illusion that revolution must be main- "To the chaste alone is itgiven to possessJove. death-stricken, love il stronger than death. DeatJr rich would impossible be tained by violence." is a bridge between yourself and the other.' has given Life its true name, whiih'is Love," gives "Love "God us graces and goods. We do the harm The questioner than spoke of the different direc- Chastity is the keystone ol the br¡dge. The simplicity of culture he advocates borders ourselves. ' lt is to be hoped that the survivors of the tions chosen by lndia and China over the years, and "lf it is strong enough, you can adventure out of occasionally on a neoLuddite view of science and next explosion will try another way," He pauses ståted the conclusion of an lndian friend of his that yourself; step by step, touch the top of the bridge technology. Voracious, he calls iq the beast that good "A little sense, though, would be enough to in China "the last 30 years have been better used and where the banks mee! and then, leaning over, see the rose up out of the sea. "Like hunger; its,curioùsity avoíd íL lf there is a gener4l conversion, if a man the future seems better there." river fleeing between the banks without uniting them goes seeking whom.to devour, grabs and reduces. comes forward, great Shantidas: . . Already there have been "l don't say not. But because they have . and carrying off the drowned from the two sides." Moreover, it panders to manls bestial cravings.and changes in our lifetime. The hippie movement and not followed Gandhi. They have abandoned his-ideals The male, he says, "is king by his right hand and capricious vices and enables the beast in him to pentecostal , the movement have both spread across in lndia. his head, His head darts the beams of a mane of ,triumph over all the rest and so become a scourge for the world. And from America. We must hope and Central to the inner-based revolution espoused by beard, . .He fights, conquers and builds under the the whole earth. Voracious is the Beast Science." He pray, never go despair, but on fightíng as íf we be, Shantidas is the process of conversion, "a turning sign of the sun. does not go to great pains to distinguish from the we going lieve are to win. Unless we give signs of around, bac( inside. As the Gospel says, becoming "She lies like the river. critique the harnessed, people-serving applications good 'technology will, we are useless workers whose efforts will like children. One of our principles is to be greater "The reversed image of things fills her with a mirage of be lost to the centuries.'!..',' than what you do, and be more than what you have.', of depth that hides her depths. ..She is rounded and Some of my long-standing unsetlled feelings gathering At another he had been asked what he He provides a guidebook for those who would journey closed upon herself, asleep to what is not tenderness. . about utopian communities were reinforced by his would say possession to those who felt that of the loward convers¡on, his Prlnciples and Precepts of the- She is sealed under the sign of the moon." descriptions of theArk. There is,a slight above'.the- Bomb was the best protection against its use. He had Return to the Obvious, Using aphorisms and homilies, Musing one day while waiting for a New York sub' battle tone; the sense that these folks have left the answered, "They are making their own destíny. They he directs the pilgrim toward self-knowledge. The way, Toinette Rees had decided that an effective sinking ship and are somehow going about reconstruc-

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tion on land within our sight while we thrash cease- common experiences of our sisters and brothers lessly abouL ln a section ironically called "Elements around us, and from ourselves. And that the struggle of Political Reconciliation" he writes, "Seeing that to change centuries of male sex-domination is central the social problem is fundamentally and definitively to our peacemaking and our identities. How did he solved by patriarchal order. . .we have no part to regard those lessons. play in the excitement that sweeps the mob toward T'You I shall never be able to do without leaders. A , .f.l bloody revolutibn. . . movement cannot go without a head. That does not "The aim of the order [of the Arkl is to create, diminish our ability to work with one another. A good within"the nations, little islands of perfect life. . .to father brings up his son to be a good father, and in multiply these little islands by emigrating from the obedience to a leader you gain a capacity for direct- Ilowrwê mother community and turning as many people as ing others and yourself. So that does not trouble me. possible away from the mad philosophies of furWr our "The revolt of women is one of the causes of the times, and instead of exciting them against one destitution of the young generations. They have had another, class against class, party against party, reli- no mothers. This generation is in complete disorder. gion against religion without knowing what may re- Their mothers were working somewhere and going sult from the shock, to unite and pacify them here about their affairs as their fathers. So between them and now, and oppose their peace to the agitation of there is no link the world." "ln our community, for example, men and \ryomen Shantidas is in many respects a transplanted are equally requested to give their opinions about forts into technical and agricultural assistance? Why Renaissance man, with attendant strengths and limi- things. Our decisions are made by unanimity. But WLLIAM MOYER AND PAMELA HAINES isn't the Green Revolution solving the problem? tations. He is able to construct a largely sensible the leadership of a community is always to a man. -.llpse are questions by people of genuine good- system from chaos. His vivid descriptions make the This is not in principle, but in facl" wiJll But they are the wrong questions. Theyãll lead An American nun viiiting Bangladesh recently found religious nuances of lndia palpably clear to the rela- As out-of.step and sexist as those views are, the to.d.ead ends. Although the approaches they suggest a starving baby on her dõorstep. After. a tiring and might provide tive newcomer. lt is generous of him to share the body of his work is of overwhelming importance, ànd some relief ¡n the shcfrt run. mællve futile day's effort to locate the family, she found a hunger spiritual bounty of his years of meditation. His it can be culled. Some of the chauvinism is undoubt- will still'be with us and continue tô grow. This æcond baby the next morning. Upon inquiring to synthesis of the spiritual, the political and the per- ably the product of his particular cultural framework is because they ignore some of the most basic causes I government and police authorities, she learned that if sonal holds up despite the fact that so much of the and and predominance of traditional religious forms. of world hunger which lie within our relationship to she kept tàking such babies in she would soon be poor explication is based exclusively within the Roman He is too perceptive not to change when further countries. Rather than ask how we can best give inundated, and there.wasn't food available to feed aid, Catholic tradition. Open-minded readers who share a presented with the facts.'lt is conceivable that a'fter we need to ask how we are helpingto cause them. Her only choice was to follow the authorities' belief in the sacredness of human life can readily the November trip some of the old views have world hunger, and then find ways to stop. Until we would advice-ignore the starving babies. substitute for such specifics. The hierarchical structure been moderated or discarded. I regard that as very address thisrquestion, those þroblems will continue This New York Timès story is indicative of condi- get of his intentional community is the product of a díf- likely. Only if Shantidas were seen as an omnipotent to worse in the long run regardless of all the other tions on several continentb as the lcing-pred¡cted good ferent set of cultural assumptions and is no threat to culture-priest would these seríous errors be grounds - things that we do. This poper is obout how we crisis of worldwide hunger has ariived. A United others. for total rejection ofhis work. lnstead, I understand cause world poverty ond hunger and what we must do Nations repoit tells of imminent starvation of large But the sexism problem was not a it as an example of how the mantle of leadership can to stop it, matter of being numbers of people in 32 nations. Daily reports come ou courant of the latest ideological nuances. lt was a be an undesireable insulation from the new lessons ., 9f ma¡s hunger in such widêranging places as lndia, THE UNITED STATES' CONDITION basic belief in male superiority. Struck by the the people are learning Nigeria \ and Mauritani4 while food shortages have To understand *. repeated chauvinist references in his finally It is a serious hindrance, however. A 19-year-old how we help cause poverty.and hun- books, I helped topplegovernments in Ethiopi4 Niger and woman from Boston's' Nonviolent Action ger, we- must start, not with the condition of the poor raised the subject during the Saturday session. Community Thailand. Dr. Norman Borlaug Nobel prize winner was left feeling tha! just couldn't say him be- countries, but with the condition of the Un¡ted S-Ates. "l'm afraid they want liberation from themselves "l it to for highyield wheat and often proclair¡ed father of and from their freedom," Santidas responded, ','But cause the quest¡ons weren't being listened to, but W9 Rride ourselves on being the world leader in many the Green Revolution, believes that as many æ 20 i is things. We have the highest production rate in the why do we [sic] feel so oppressed? lt is because you that hierarchy thing the opposite of nonviolence. million people may die froni hunger within'the year. have no esteem for your roles. You are so Or if that's what it's really abouÇ I donlt want'any world. We also consume the most resources. Average really much Like the nun, all Americans have been stirred and more intelligent than we." part of iL" income in this country is now about 94500 for each want to help. Like the nun, our first gut reaction is to Do you believe in So the teachings may be for some few of the person, compared to per capita income in many poor equality of the sexes? "Yes, try to feed the hungry. Weekend fasts and marches to equality in in Outside is people all of the time and for all of the people some countries of merely $40 to $100. Wirh onlv 6% of love, union. of union; there raise money for the world's hungry are springing up of the time. There is serious reasons to doubt thaf the world's population, we use between 3O/o and 40o/o only an inverse equality. ls the heart equal to the throughout the United States. However, asihe move many Americans will seek passage on the Ark. ' of its annually consumed resources (for example, 42% mind? Nq it is inferior or it is superior, but it is not But ment of concern for hunger grows, wg realize, again equal. 85%of the work of'shantidas does contain the sort. of the world's annual consumption of alu;minúm,44% like the nun, that the solution is not so.simple and provocative, back-tothe-roots wisdom of 32% of the cobalt, 330/o of the cofper, "l always say that while women do not have the of that will our questions grow too. ^the -coal, first placg they have the besl They are the heart. help us learn to build seaworthy vessels of our own. I 280/o of the iron, 4O% of the molybdenum, 63d/o of How-much food is the United States moraJly r€: When you to reason the heart is wrong, It comes down to taking the blind spots for what , the natural gas, 380/o of the nickel, 33o/o of'the petro-, try with it or buired to provide to hungry countries? Wt¡itåie ttre when you try to love with the head is wrong." they are, lessons to be learned along with all the leum, etc.). While most people in tlit non.socialist it þonomic and political implications of massive food He was wrong now in that opinion, a woman in other lessons he has for us. world are hungry, we Americans overeaL And our aid? Doesn't the problem really lie with the lack of prevailing the group told him, those are the very preconceptions ideology supports,these Rorms. Not only do commitment on the part of poor countfies themselves ., women,are THE BOOKS OF SHANTIDAS ' have the highest production and consumption in , working to change. to increase.their own food.production? How rye can the the world, but our goal is to have them increase fastef "That is not the question," he responded. "lt is a' Retwn to the Source, Schocken Books, New Y ork, L972, problem be solved population at all when growth con- than anyone else's; the'sucoess question qf doing things that you can dö, that nature originally publishe{ 1943, 319 pp., $6.95, available in , or failure of oúr socièty tinues to.be so rapid? How much should wè in af- ' has made you fbr. I cannot do a baby. I am unfit for paperbacþ Pocket Books, $1.50. is measured,mainly by the level of our Gross N¿tional fluent countries decrease our own personal food con- . that work I con raíse children. And a woman can be hincíples and hecepts of the Return,to the Obvious, Product and its rate of increase. Our military leader- sumption in order to make more available to the is a soldier, bul . . Schocken Books, New Yor( 1974, orþinally published, Ship also clear, We spend the most money in the , hungry? Can'such a personal response make any dif- "There are a lot of mixtures in the head in these L94s, ls7 pp., $4.9s. world on military equipmen! training and personnel, ference anyway? Shouldn't we be putting our aid ef- matters," he concluded. Gandhí to Vinoba: The New Piþrimage, Schocken Books, , and-we are the biggest ieller and provider of military' One last question, said.the host, so I spoke of what New Y'orþ 19?4, originaily published 1956,231pp., $?,95. equipment to the-rest of the world ,Poor countr.ies i . get plies I had conpluded.were,the two great lessons the US lltaniors of Peøce: Wítings on the Technique of Nonvíelenee, more military sup from.us than from every- peace where else qombined. moVement had learned in recent years. That. Alfred .A,'Knopf, Inc., New Yorþ 1974, 226 pp., $7.95, . . we should not so much seek to follow leaders, available in paperbach $2.45. whether they'be Phil Berrigân or Doiothy Day or Make Sûa4ht the Way of the LorL. 4,lfted A. Knopf,.Inq., , When we speak of the poortcountries, we are speaking Chairman,Mao, but to discover direction from the New Yorlq 19'14,254 pp, $7.95. . .. , of that big sphere of the world consisting of the non-

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socialist nations dominated by the US and other major climactic changes caused by increased atmo- Such socially destructive oligarchical gdvernments that calls out for questioning, for refutation if pos- industrialized powers. popular western The most spheric carbon dioxide from energy production_and cannot stay in power without substantial military sible. Let us examine some of the arguments that euphemism used in labeling them is "the develoþing new threats to the earth's.continued ability to support support from the United States. Consequently, the will be made against iL nations." A more accurate-though certainly harsher- human life are coming to light all the time. US must maintoln a large military estoblishment,to Development term isrrthe never-to-be-developed nations." The con- ln order to maintain our costly style of living, the supply and train Third \,Vorld dictatcirs, to subvert dition of these never-to-be-developed nations is, by United Stotes heeds most of the resources of thä poor unfriendly populaß governments which migþt spring Many will say that "developmenf" is still possible. government now, fairly well-known. Most of their people are nations According to estimates, in tón up, and to interver¡e dírectly with our mil'ifáry when Too many people have inveSted too much in that be. years hungry: 6O% to 8O% ¿re malnourished and many are we will be importing 500/o of our raw materials, these puppet dict¿tors fail, or when unfriendly govern- ' lief to be able to give it up.easily, But the world is a starving. Most are unemployed or underemployed, almost all of which will come from poor nations. ln ments become too threatening to oúr intere$s. We very different place now from what it was when.the jobs - and those who have are likely to be working at '1970 we imported lOO% of the chromium rhar we have spent over $1.:l trillion for military purposes industrialized countries of today were developing.-. slave wages. Health care is hopelesíly inadequate, They had space to expand, they had an abundancê of electricity is rare, illiteracy is the norm, millions are natural resources at their'disposal, they had control of population crowded into festering slums, and is in- international finances and trade, and they had the This creasing inexorably. is the situation after the poorer countries to exploit for cheap labor and re- years "Decade of Development" of the sixties, after of sources. Third World countries today have none of aid and technical assistance from industrialized na- those advantages. Rather, they are still serving the programs tions, after innumerable crash to eliminate same role as cheap'iesource pools for the continued one or another of these problems, after endless discus- " development of the rich. The economic dynamic be- proposals plans sions and and of development tween rich and poor nations is such that the gap be- strategy by all the experts in the non-socialist world. tween them is ever widening æ is the gap between just Not only are these problems as bad after all that riçh and poor within the poor nations. During the effort but they have reached cataclysmic levels and developrnent decade of the sixties, for tixample, thg getting growing are rapidly worse. And with popula- developed natigns increased their income by $640 per tions, more and more people will be sharing them. capita, while the never-to-bedevelöped natiqns in, creased by only $40 per capita. ' PROBLEMS WITH US HIGH CONSUMPTION What development benefits that do accrue to the poor nations go It is awesome to think of the tremendous contrasts almost exclusively to their r.ich. The people between conditions in this country and in the Third standard of living òf most is either untouched or actually decreased. World. We need to move beyond that awe, however, Brazil, a country seen as a model for developmenù, is a good to an understanding of some of the links between the example. After five years with one growth two. There are a number of problems with the high of the h¡ghest economic rates in the Brazil's consumption of the United States which have direct world, economic minister estimated in bearing on the rest of the world. 1972 that only 5% of its population were better off a resulq Using the standard statistics that we, as 6% of the æ whíle 50% were in the same condition that they had been in five years world's population use about 33o/o af the world's re- earlier, and the condition sources, if only 2O% of the people of the world con- of 45% had eroded. practical sumed at our rate, there.would be absolutely nothing Another very limit to the potential for \ left for the remaining 80%. Another way of looking at modern-western develoþment of poverty-stricken one people countries'is the diminishing suppÍy of w'ôrld resources il _if out of every five in the world used ' resources at our rate, the other four would have and the decreasing capacity of the environment tö nothing. With a plane! game." support industrialization. lf the poor naticins become finite it is a "zero sum (r) More for us means less for the world's poor, z' "developed" overnigh! the world would soon be out of J Not only is it a zero sum game, butthe almost every nofÞrenewable resource, and several of total is c ..i o the earth's life support systems a ever growing smoller as the world runs out of its key would be sure to be tt destroyed. nonrenewoble resources, Statistics from such reputable 6 sources as the US Bureau of Mines and the United = Better Terms of Trade i." tt Nations indicate that many of our industrial metals, T. Many concerned Americans are joining along with petroleum and natural gas, will be ex- used,96% of the cobal! 10O% of the columbium, since 1945, intervening directly in Korea, Cambodia, Third World leaders in condemning y¡elds hausted in the next 25 to'100 years, even at present 94% of the manganese, 30% of the iron ore,9'l%'of Laos, Thailand, Lebanon, Cuba, Formosa, Vietnam the system that theni ever eroding ratei of exchange: while prices rates of use. And these statistics assume that the the nickel, 86% of the aluminum (bauxite), 4O% of and tlre Dominican Republic, while providing covert of raw ccim- modities exported by poor nations drop continuously, world's poor won't use any more than they do today. the lead, 98o/o ol the platinum ,100o/o of the tin, 6O% æsistance elsewhere, æ in Guatemala, lran, Bolivia, the prices of United States manufactured The high production, consumption and waste that of the zinc, 22% of the petroleum-mostly from poor Brazil, Uruguay. exports sky- rockel This system, controlled great extent .r typify modern industrialized societies are major nations. We ate also dependent on the Thir{ World for This situat¡on, in which the economic and political toã by, powerful multinationals in cooperation with the ;. causes of the ongoingdestruction of the earth's life , avariety of agricultural products, such as coffee, tea, orientation of'poor non.socialist countries is towar:d US bananas, cocoa, government, causes the poor nations to lose billions support systems, perhaps the gravest problem of all. , sugar, natural rubber, hemp. servicing the high consumption of the. United States of dollars)annually. ln one six year period, for exam- The imþact of just,210 mitliòn Americans alone, would and other indust¡ialized count¡ies rather than the Furthermore, the row moterials which we import ple, the trade value of an American jeep went from soon.strain the environment to its breaking point; the - needs of the majority of their own people, is the most from the Thlrd ll/orld must remaln cheop if we are 14 bags of coffee to 39. lmproving the terms of trade contribution of Third World peopler to going'to fundamental cause of world poverty and hunger. And be able to afford them in any quantity-wit- between rich and poor nations by itself, however, destrqction is minimal. The pr;oduction and"nii'ronmäÀtul use of we, by supporting the military dictatorships that keep ness the tremendous concern over increases in foreign would not do much to alleviate hunger and poverty. energy'has tremendous imþact on the environment, their people from consuming their own resources and oil prices recently. For massive supplies of cheap raw Fairer terms of trade would merely transfer The extent of harm done by Americans can be gauged them to political someof materials from these countries to be insured, their condemn repression æ well as profits by energy consumption the rnade off the Third World to rich people our rates: we use 33% of the sociàl order must serve the interests of the Únited poverty and hunger, in order to maintain a strong, petroleum, and American exporting corporations in those coun- world's 68% of its.n4tural gas, 44% of its States highconsumption economy here in the United States, and of their own affiuent minorities. Since the tries. ¡f there had been better terms of trade / coal, and most of its atgmic energy. One US citizen are a fundamental cause of that situation. for interests of these groups is at variance with those of Ethiopia during the past decade, the benefits mighî consumes, 22 times as much energy as the average ' the poor majority, who would choose to put their TNADEQUACY OF STANDARD SOLUTTONS have enlarged Haile Selassie's Swiss bank accoun! Chinese, and pollutes 50 much times as as the average resources to use for their own benefiq this social order There are no solutions to the problems of the world's helped purchase more military equipment and lndian,.E¡vironmental on the ' hazards horizon include nearly always takes the form of military dictatorships poor people wlthin the context of their present relo- sfrengthened his oppressive reg¡me, but few would nuclear and atomic radiatiph-from ençrgy bomb tests, fríendly to us rather than to the masses of their own t¡oryship to the United Stofes This is a frighteningly have trickled down to the needy. The representatives depletion of the critical gzone layer ,in the atmospherg people, definitive statement with sobering implications, one of poor countries ¡n the United Nations or at the

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wP expect the United States to be the World Hunger Conference are the domestic exploiters for domestic use is sold in the market place, at príces u Whv should Humanitarian Aid good Our history is one.of oPprgs- of their nations' poor. They want more foreign aid, often beyond the reach of the poorest , *oii¿;r Samaritan? aid comes out pollute.d af peoples from the American lndian.to the more foreign investment and better terms of trade The situation is bizarre. The hungry nations, with Even if,all governmental tñ;;f ioor at least there could hardly be p"uiunr And where will we get the will to not to benefìt their people but to fìll their own coffers many suffering from severe protein deficiency, use .oÅ. tn¿oitlle other, VËñÅ non- gover n men?l h u.man ¡ tarian World's starving peoples when we have strengthen their political and military powerr the¡r agricultural land to grow cash. r¡ rif p. Utems wi tir i"J ln.'frtltá and nonnutrítional sQme thad"i goes directly topoor people. Certainly noiy"tfed the 41 million Americans that President' T crops (such as coffee, te4 cocoa, sugar) for export to aid ' a¡id ssme lives are'saved,'but they says are ì the overfed nations, and supply us with much of the o*of t aíe fretped Ford hungrY? 8:r:å::ii;:ffi, rhat even rhough there are some ãr. å t¡"v fracïion of the population, and.pop.ulatign : protein that we usè to feed (mostly to fatten) our CHINA AND CUBA .;, to the potential for development, at least we are swallow up the impact"'ln additign' ' limits livestock We, in turn, use our prime agricultural land in"r."ttí further ' government powerful negative ettects ot ald, that we know of iust seem to.e.ñif 'l' doing the best we can with our massive to grow livestock feed, ten times more inefficient than there are subtle, but lf alt the solutions foreign part, from the state of mind that worse, then what can we possiblV i aid. But aid, for the most is also unhelp eating the grain directly, apd consume in the process most of them sóringing up makins things to the world's poor. All US gbvernment aid goes iorlhe¡r condition' ippioaching that question head o.n, let'ì I ful 1O% to '12% more protein than our bodies can use. The uiit"i- -Hãù the victims ããl eéiãti I through the minority governments aid blame the victims for zs% of the poor world which has to or affìuent of waste from the conversion of livestock feed into meaL ào"t humanitarian á[e a loot *'*" nations. They are in the business to help them- Educational..progåms imply tha! the end its poverty and hunger: the socialist jl those in this country.alone is equal ¡o90% of the world tt"irionO¡tion? ;;;"¡ to selves and the United States, and our aid programs are is caused ov på.ór. ¡'iliñ"iu"v-if onty'i-ley world] Cuba and China, for example, have back- protein oroblem I for the explicit purpose of furthering our own econom. defici¿ , ' be poor' Family similar to the present'day poor and Clearly, increased food production in Third World ñuã-t"i" .¿rcation'they'wouldn't nrorÀ¿s verv ic and political interests. (The Agency for lnternation- programs imply that.the ppor are poor be- 1 5 and 30 years ago they had countries through ¡mported technical know-how will planning ñ'rngtv natións. Just al Development fought the proposed ending of foreign hãve too many children, to ¡r{ve.it they basió problems that poor countries.are not solve a problem of inequality of that dimension. ãuurr ttí"y átiñt sut. lçarh ä poverty, u nem.ploy' aid in 1971 w¡th statistics showing how termination ñããltã títunge, to have rirore discipline,'to itr ugel i ng wi th today- hu nger, But the Green Revolution hasn't even succeeded on poor would hurt US business interests, exports and agricul- sãlf'nelp proiects assume that if the ¿ i! I próstitutio n, i nqq ual i ty of its own terms. Most of the modern methods that have ieitrniqu". r*ï ií"tt". iteracy, ture, how it would lose American. jobs abroad and iust haä more skills and ability to organize they per'- an super- pòoi, u ncontrol I ed po pulation been introduced by the industrialized nations require su rictr á '*áriJ";t probléms. oñe cannot.denv none of these are problg¡s in university contracts at home.) With such a combina- more land or capital investment than are available to t'ätiìò t-v eiä*di-vct Virtually are very real problems and thatthe ln-, todäy. lt is true, however, fhat there tion of interests at work, it is not surprising that our the vast majority. They tend, therefore, to be limited that these öruiân.íChina involved must participate in solving their too little democracy on the- national level , aid tends to help the rich at the expense of the poor. in use to the already rich and big farmers, enabling dividuals r-.ã*to ¡. problems, but the emphasis on personal change the political systems be' Even if the United St¿tes and other grain exporting thêm to become even richer and bigger. With bigger own in these countrieEìibut 3re îhese problems are socially (not in: than those in the "free t nations did decide to try to feed the world, they farmers putting more food into the cash economy, ¡t t¡Ji"ããi"c" uon¿ u doubt lesíoppressive t such as Haiti, Ethiopia; Brazil, couldn't do it for long Dr. Borlaug points out why: others are forced off the land and out of the markets, ;;;ld; óããt (orea,"ounttids the Philippines' and Angola to.name 1) world grain reserves are low right now; 2) even if into city slums, unemployment and even greater lndustrlallzed non' South soclal¡st natlons ''rii dó they compare favorably with there were enough food for export it would be impos povèrty. more technical side, á f.*. N'ot only On the switchingfrom (2oolo of World'S soôlallst natlo'ns seem have enough grain produc" (359o wqrl-d's- inost Thlrd World óountrieE but they to sible to transport of it; and 3) hardy native varieties of g'rain to hybr¡d, high-produo populatlon) of ' .Þcipulatlon). ði demócrãcv on'the local level, tjon could never keep up with the addition each year tion strains makes them more susceptible ;;ï;;il;l ;ro-óunt "miracle" United Stater- ln the of 76 million people in the world requiring 30 million to pestilence and often lowers nutritional quality in ãven in compariion w¡th thé there is-much inetric tons of grain. With decreasing availabilitÍ of the process. Perhaps even more dangerous ín the long *ortptuce and in the neighborhood, i"n decision-inaking, i nitiative, cheap oil-bæed fertilizers, growing dangers of pesti- run, modern agricultural methods, with their em- i"ä¡"ìi"ãi J"rii Jipation which most people in this cides, and increased susceptibility of monocultured phæis on machinery and fertilizers, build up a de- nevef- to be ""äì.äáétittip-qualities tô develop outside of "miracle" grains to devastation by disea3e, many are pendency of the agricultural sector in Third World dôvslöPed ð"ü"iivn"¿ iitdö opportunity predicting (45o/o . their fámilies and voluntary organizations' ,\ that the US will not even be able to feed countries on outside resources. They become in- populatlon) t its own population in the years to come. creæingly dependent on oil, at a time when it is rising Whrt is perhaps mcist amazing aboutihe achieve' Food aid from the United St¿tes has yet two more rapidly in price and due to disappe¡ir from the scene. mentS of these two countries is that they solved such t. with. long-range limitations. Dr. Borlaug and most othèr ex- altogether within 50 years, and on the Un¡ted Statel '. - , :. hungef and P-oveftV r *:::: massive problems after having severed relations - perts have logically concluded that an ending of hun- for machinery, seeds, and know-how. ' ¡, iii. the Uniód States--not only without a bit of our'help, World hunger and poverty ars found almost excluslvely seem to ger in poor nations requires thât they become self- Íia¡ oritv but despite our active iesistance' They didn't Poputation Controt åiñãnì' pâ"lle of the no nsoclal ¡st worl d-the' vaet to sufficient in food production. Many studies, howevêr, iti and the perslstent mlnorltv in.the rich need od'r hûmanitariàn aid or technical know'how have concluded that food aid has enabled Everyone agrees that population growth is a crucial "¡i'óðJ.ð"rñtrles grow thèir'rice, wipè out their disease or plan their American ,..4 recipient governments to put off hard decisions on problem that must be solved before poverty and lamilies; They have thrived without us. Their.popu' ' curbed and th-ey haven't even how to feed the¡r own population. As they post- r hunger will disappear. Population control programsi lation growth is being rél¡êf. ¡t seems tha't ' r', j'n poned action over the years offood aid, the gap be. ¡mported from the industrialized nations, howevei, . needed-oui emergenoy disaster in order tween their own food production and consumption. have drawbacks which parallel those of the Green poor people'¡eed less of us, rather than more, o.wn I i : needs grew to unmanageable proportions. Food aid , Revolution. The solution ís seen in terms of modern io solve thèir Problems. ' also has the effect of "dumping" food into the mar- technology applied through direct services-family We need the poor to stay poor because'we need . planning their resources at cheap prices. We need them political-. kets of the hungry nations. This tends to depress.the through birth control. Agaín, this approach ' prices and, therefore, the profits that farmers there bypasses the reality that soc¡al problems, even high iy oppressed and economic4lly exploited só.that their, th¿in their can get for that particular prop. After this happens birth rates, are sociolly caused. Almost every recent óvitnnionts can serve oùr interêsts r¿th.er '"Ì several years in,succession, their farmers stop-grgwing own.'so'thàt we can #;;;il';;;ãwl n¡en levels of that food and swítch to a rnore profitable crop-too, ;;*;ñbii;". Their'povertv and hunger can never be'' thev are'feleàsed from'that bondage ' often a cash crop for expor,f In this way, food, aid : US GoYonrf¡ent Will'Power'': alleviateil'until Conference, spoke' ' contributes to more hungqr in the poor nations.in the . ttt" Chinèt", at the World Food long run. not of the agricultu'^l techniques they used to suc'' world cessfully fee-d their 800 million pe9plg., but of thç The Green Revolution ' .,, need firit for a social revolution which puts Sovern' people. Feéd' With its narrowemphasis on.increæed producfion, the its ao ment and résources atthe ærviee'eif the ãnf' . : Green Revolution can never solve agricultural prob i"li-rlär'¡r;g¡v: iëquires a political changè before lems which are basically social. The purpose of farm- at thç thingelie.' '' ing in the nonsocialist, hungry nat¡ons, following the food wHÃr'Àm'eRtcANsMusT Do, US model, is to grow monet-to make profits for the ' eause ro rÑp,tÛoRLD HUN9ER AND PoVERTY land owners'rather thah' to grow food to feed hungry people. Most arable la¡d is owned by a ¡elative hand- No sensitive person can iust sit around waiting for ful of super-riçh people .whq grow cash crops for ex- poor and regardless oolitical chänee while people are starving, however, inæcurg of to afflu portfo <¡verfèd naiiontþçcauseilhat is wheie the tional background, h ãñà ;g rel iõf ls'si mþIe'cdrñpiirêö'to chan gin g socia I the havg,substantially profits iiu¡ .: highest profits are made And what food is produced rates than the more affuenL ' WIN 15

14 WtN T ì systems. As a result, even thosc who see the need for What People Can Do both tend to put thcir energy into rcsponding to the I symptoms rathcr than tackling the causal social prob- One of the most important things we American can lcms. But if we understand the social problems clearly, do is to raise our own conscÌousnesses about our role we cân bcgin to isolate those ways in which this in_ the world. This is particularly needed on the issue .Ãr country must change, and some of the things that we of hunger since the myths are so misleading and J widely. good --,,. tþ can dq to move it in that direction. accepted. A rya.y to further develop your - analysis, vision and action ideas with your frien¿s or What the United States Must Do local organization is to have a study group such as a macroanalysis seminar that is designed to lead into A firsf thing the United States must do to help end action. world poverty and hunger is to stop supporting mili- lndividuals and groups can also work to achieve t tary dictotorships. We must end both our military the four broad goals for the US listed obove, through and economic aid as wcll as direct US military inter- usual political channels such as lobbying letter wr'ri- vention. ing, public forums, and the like. Americãn support of dictatorships can be opposed also by marches,:pres- Second, the United Stotes must undergo massive sure on the S-tate^ Department, the Pentagon, Congress FOR ' i We decided that the most consistent de-development. We must greatly reduce our consump. US MARINES TRAIN and fighting foreign aid. EUROPE well as other conditions iri violation of response at our sentencing would be a tion of material resources, perhaps by as much as DESERT WARFARE IN 8}o/o . De-development and re-development can begin tñe'UN Declaration of Human Rights. continued attempt to speãk truthfully to90o/o and do without many of our wasteful and en- According to recent French news re- yith personol chonges in our life-style, such as simply- The three blacks who were singled out to the iudge aboutour att¡tude to the vironmentaf I y'destructive techno logies. US are currently in' modern There fying living in community, and sharing resources wiih þorts, Marines as scapegoats maintained at the trial government and the court as its repre- just aren't enough in resources and environment for the neighbors. We can stop buy¡ng meat, grow more of our volved in desert warfare exercises that the demonstration;had been spon- sentative. poor worlds and future ¡fenerations unless we do, and own food, learn about nutrition so we can eat better Europe. A television newsclip aired taneous and not provoked by them, I was called first to the stand, and we can never be safe marines of in this world until we do. We and less expensively, eat less (and weigh less). We can January 7 showed 1,000 personally. The case gave rise to de- was warned that this was a sentencing, have in a land' learned the art of becoming rich, which is accord- simplify our dress by ignoring style clranges ãnd by the US Sixth Fleet involved mands for better conditions in the aimed and only statements pertl'ñent to that l ing to Gandhi, only on Sardinia's Mediter- "not the art-of accumulating much mending rather than throwing away. We óan also ád- ing operation forces, embodied in the Draguignan Ap- would be accepted by the courL As I future l money for ourselves but also of contriving that our vocate such public goals as mass transit while oppor ranean coast, and indicated that peal, which was widely supported by began reading my statement, I was in- place neighbors shall have less. . . it is the art of establishing ing cars and highways, and safer energy sourcessuch exêrcises would take in France. "the Left However, some used the case terrupted and reminded that it must the maximum inequality in our own favor."' ln order æ solar and wind while opposing nucle4r power plants. The program's news director said as an argument for abolition of the be pertineng to which I responded that maintain present show of the to ou.r overconsumption in a world We can also challenge the principals taught in main- the clips intended to "part armed forces Jim Peck what I had tosay was quite to the plans of scarcity we must spend billions on our military, stream education, especially economics, which advo- contingency openly recognized point of why'l had appeared in court propping up puppet dictatorships to protect our in- cate growth in economic consumption, militarism, by the Department of State as to be piivilege prepared ln this you ,,TL":J,fiffäJ:".ii,'åffiU[l$; terests and abroad. ln the future, as scarcity competition and unthinking patriotism and which' for all eventualities." cAN,r Lgo_L- comes by closer to home, we will find òurselves protect- perpetuate the myths of Ameriôan benevolence at case, ihe "eventuality" is assumed MOTI{ER NATU.RE einnient," I was cur on ãt *r,irr., ing this privilege, not only against the starving people most people to be a military invasion home and abroad. A recent investigation of a New York point it seemed pointless to force the of the Third World, but against each other, and the of Arab oil producing nations. All of these possibilites might seem like ordinary City abortion clinic turned up evidence issuq so I sat down. Joan-also was not threat of military dictatorship and repression will Other desert-warfare exÞrcises by and inadequate responses to the tragedy of starvation. thal the city clinip wæ selling abor- allowed to get beyond a few lines, as it come closer as well. US troops have taken place in the But any one person's response is bound to be in- tions to women vltro ¿¡¿ not need is impossible to not speak of the vie \ adequate. The power western partof the US and. at the comes from makíng the con- them. A female investigator for.the lence being committed by the US goY- r Third, we need to end the domination of our multi- I Foreign Legion base at LovoSanto in nect¡ons between our actions and the larger issues, ciiy's Consumef Affairi Department ern.ment around the world,.a¡.it is or,¡r natìonal corporqtions of the economlc and political Corsica, where US marines.and.Frencl;¡ 'the from knowing that we are part of a solution that has . bróught in a urine sample as requested. resistance to that violence whiCh put , affairs of poor nations. They need to own and con- legionnâires join in assault landing praé' :l:.. : directions and makes sense, and from working to- She ù.æ informed that tests on the us into that courtroom in the first t¡ol their own political and economic lives, to use tice. mar¡nes show the legion- gèther with others who are doing the same thing. "The that she was pla9.9' : their wealth and resoúrces to meet their own,needs. for urine sample showed ', The cou,rse of action that we have laid out as naires new tactics and techniques *.tt sentenced to two years ' Fourth, the United Stotes must re-develop, We öiéänãñi ï1.'".¡¡ni" i, now Oe"p in .. need necessary to end world hunger and poverty runs amphibious operations," explained supervised-.._Y-" probation, with the condi- to turn much of our present ideology and understand- iroübl" as the urine sample. did not -.' counter to many aspects of the accepted American Commander Gene Wentz, spokesper- tion^that we work.one.day a we.ek in ing of good and bad upsidedown.. Our society must be come frorn the woman but from a ..;; . way of life as well as to many of the most powerful son for the US Naval Command in an acceptable service situatìon, ,, based on minimum production, consumption and l'and ,male attornev. Of.eourse therè is that "for :f interests within American society, including the large Europo; the French show us the waste, with an emphasis on human development rather corporations, people, latest in commando tactics." ' -'-_Liñ""rt"r super-rich ând the poitícans -LNS :".ir¡u''iii" , -'- lndeþôndent p."tr this form of enforced "alternative than materialism. This would include: simpler life '.ri"t.. ' , they both supporl Consequently, socially concerned . service," as we consider the work -we (small is good; less is produc- styles little and better); people must adopt more powerful methodstof social CASE H IGHLIGHTS OPPOSI- are already doing to be the best serviçe tion for use by the many, than for prof¡t rather the change. We suggest that people learn and use the forms TíON TO ARMY IN FRANCE SFRVICE FOR AMERICANS y:.:gr]d possibly render t9 the coun- of the few; safer and more ecological products and . of nonviolent dlrect actlon that were used so creative-, A case which brought the slogan "Down í production methods; renewable energy sources; ly and effectively by the civil rights movement in the W¡th the Military" onto many Paris joan cavanaþh and r appeared li[ii,,i:ilTiJ'i;it"J"'i:li::fi8i?1 cooperation replacing competition; planning ror replao 1960's. prompted cept thís condition, it looks as walls and which protest sentencing in'United States.Distrìct thòugh .. . ing maikets. M¿ssive redistribution of resources w-ould We need be position not trapped in the of the demos in Paris and Malseille the first , Court for the Dístrict of Colqmþia Joan and myself Will be spending some:'.. be required along with guaranteed provision of'free visíting.nun in Bangladesh. All of us can act on world week in ended on the eighth before Green, for eur ac- few months as wãrds of the federal or low-fee services to meet basic needs (such as health January, Judle Júne povert)4 and hunger in our own lives and the world with one of the three black soldiers in- tion with two others at the V¡etnam governmenf Skrypeck" -., care, education, housing child carri) and -Hank decent em- around us. We need only.to have a clearer understand- volved being acquitted (Alexandre Overseas Procurement Ofüce in Wæh- ploymenL While having less conspicuous consumption ing of the basic causes óf the problem, a clearer vision Taurus) and the other two released on ington las.t 1Oth. Al.tlut *j we would have more security, mental and ecological luly !it9 WOMEN R ECTTE pEACE pACT not only of what we are agairist but what we are for, the basis of eight months already served destroyed files of,thatoffice, attempt- health, greater control over our own lives at home, öñ WHff ÈïOUSg êifbuNDS and a perspective on our own power that enables us in jail (Robert Pelletier and Serge . lng [o polnt out tne mtsuse oT rooo and freedom from being oppressors of poor people to acl Revet). foT peäce funds which were being On January 10, two young women and futqre generations. Simple living is not'poverty The qase was known as the Draguig- channelled directly into the military, began reading segments of ttte V¡et- living. ln fact, our happiness and sense of our own CONTACT: nan Threg because it arose from a sit-in police and prisons of Saigon, and' nam peace âgreement on the White greatly put worth can be increased as we aside our People ínterested in doing macro-analysis seminars, at Draguignan's town hall last Septem- which aie now'üsed morè indirectly House grounds in what they'called the heightened possessions desires for material and meet learning ábout nonviolent methods or groups, or any ber tenth by some 200 members of the for the sa'me pùiposes. We were con; start of a2Lday antiwar demonstratioñ. our real needs more directly by fqcUsing on our own of the other ideas suggested herein might write to 29th Artillery RegimenL The demon- victed on November 22 of lhe destruc- The protebtòrs', unhindered by human development and déépóning ourlelationships the authors at the Philadelphia Macro-analysis Col- strators charged that they had'been sub- tion of the property of a foreign guãrds arid Secret-Service agents, stoôd with others. lective, 4719 Cedar Ave., Phila",'Pa., 19143. jected to constant racist harassmént as governmenL rt the entrance of the mansion's East

16 wlN WIN 17 r-- ,ï, been incidents over these sections, too). wi¡h Cuba because this was in our MAGRUDER SAYS PRISONERS Wing, about 50 feet inside the iron conlrining quotes from King's April, The US, and Venezuela, one of the The lmmigration Department has also "national interest." ln other words, be- MIGHT TRY TO KILL MITCHELL spike fenôe, reciting seven articles from 1967, speech againsr richest countries in Latin Americà, have come under fire for alleged racist oausg Bangladesh has nothing as valu- the Viðtnam wãr. Former Attorney General John N. the Paris Peace accords to tourists be- and expressing our opposition to Ad- .traditionally been allies. But the rela- policies. Twenty Haitians in Montreal able as oil to offer the US, it ¡s in the ginning Mitchell's life mighr be in danger if he the da¡ly White House tour. ministration attempß prepare the tions between the two countries have went underground recently, rather "national interest" to allow its people to were sent to prison and other prisone¡s The women, identified as Tesi American people psychologically for become increasingly strained due to than face deportation and probable to starve. At the recent World Enérgy Kohlenberg, New were allowed access to him, accordint of York and Rose another racist war, in an attempt to Venezuela'i rçcent independent stands death. : ¡, , Coæference in Detroiq Gerald Ford an- mary Bramble, US to -Magruder,Jeb Stuärt Magruder. of Baltimore, of the d get the country out of the depression. on trade, oil, and recognition of Cuba. Gays of Ottawa picketed the lmmi- nounced that the had never used I was released.from Bal ti more-Wash ington Com munity for 'The Venezuela government plans to gration Department and talked with food'ãs a political weapon. whó Kyper -Grapevine prison sovgn Nonviolent Action, did not interfere -lohn nationalize some multi-million dollar officials, and gays from throughout January S after serving months - with the tour¡sß who walked between US oil industry holdings in the coun- Canada petitioned the Department, to on Watergate conspiracf yFt),t ELA ATTACKS FORD charges, prisonerS might them. Desk Ezu try later this year. allow my entry and to secure the . AUTO EMISSIONS CAUSE said that some -News NOMINEE FOR AMBASSADOR -LNS hold Mitchell personally responsible Department's commitment to þress 4,000 DEATHS PER YEAR FOR HIS ROLE IN CHILE for their jail terms. GOVERNMENT LOWERS MICKEY MOUSE for changes in the law. So this rdcdnt Acçording to a report , AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC recently released " t *,inL tnïie ii no question that decision is a partial victory: GO has fhe Nationãl Academy SUGAR.WORKERS SALARI ES Election officials in New Braunfels, by of Scieñces, someone who had been Attorney ínvited me to come to Ottawa" and I autpmobile emis5ions At the.inst¡gation of the executive President Ford's nominee for US Am- Texas recently went to court to stôp a account for General of the United States, as far as probably will sometime in the spring. per year -branch of the colonial government of bassador to Venezuela came under new recount of the votes for Mickey Mouse 4000 deaths in the United ñany convicts are concerned, he is the Kygry States. Asthm4 emph.ysema, Puerto Rico, the House of Representa- fire in Caracas for his prior diplomatic in the race for county judge. The in- -John and one that put them away," Magruder primary tives recently amended Law No. 9Ç serv.ice in the Dominican Republic and cumbent was the only candidate on TWO FACES OF PEACE bronchitis were listed as the said. to farmworkers Chile. The nominee, Harry Slaughter- the ballot and a large write-in carfi. fatal diseases brought on by the emis- I think would be dangerous] "equalize" salaries by This summer, Washington cut off its "So Iit lowering those of the relatively more man, served in the Dominican Repub paign was started for Mickey. But the sions. for sonieone of that stature to have to , Food for Peace program for Bangla- highly paid sugarcane workers. lic just after US Marines invaded the election offcials ignored the write.in The report also noted:ihat.aUtp go to a regular prison úrhere there are desh because they sold gunny sacks to Senator and President of the Puerto island in 1p65 overthrowing Ju¡n votes in their tallies. ln their petition, emissions were responsible for, respira- inmates. . .who mightfeel very com' ,,Mickey Cuba, violating the US embargo. Short- Rican lndependence Party Ruben Bosch and installing the right-wing the election officials claimed, tory illnesses which cause a total of fortable in becoflring famqu,s eliminat- ly afterwards, President Ford said that per year. Berrios said this was the first time in Balaguer regime. Later, Slaughterman Mouse is not and has not been a resi-' 4,000,000 lost work days Egypt could get food and still trade in the ex-Attorney General.'f -LNS history the government has intervened was second in command at the US dent of Comal County for six months =LNS to reduce the salaries of farmworkers, Embassy in Chile just before the over- required by law. . .said Mickey { soine kind of bars?i' We could provide and that he will'oppose this plan. ln- throw of the Allende governmenL Mouse is an idiot, lunatig and a minor Martha Tranquilli, who fasted from PRISON NOTES an answer, but why ¡rssume thatany- dependentista Representative Carlos His nomination last month was im- and very possibly an unpardoned felon Christmas until January 3, wrote from one should be behind bars? Gallisa pointed out that this amend. mediately denounced by left-wing and is therefore, according to the laws federal .prison at Termínal lsland: ment is being passed while at the same politicál parties in Venezuela who ac- of the st¿te of Texas, ineligi6le to hold "My níne day fast ended today and tre ènaitotte Three are black activists t¡me the government refuses to amçnd cused him of being a CIA agent and office_." -Grapevine lfeelfine. . . ln two months I shall be convicted in 1972 in a North Carolina' playing the law which limits raises for public a direct role in thê overthrow 'back at work-recidivating. " court on arson charges growing out of . employeer This refusal is at the core of Salvador Allende. Criticism of LOOK OUT, TORONTO The peabe movement could use a a fire two years earlier which destroyed of the AAA strike. Slaughærman has now spread to all of lot more people with Martha's dedica- the Lazy B stables near Charlotte. At The amendment was passed by the Venezuelafs political parties, including I've won my case with Canadian lm' tion and sense of humor. their trial T.J. Reddy, a writer and and members migrations, sort of. After my deporta- Senate last week and in response the rank file of the ruling Brothers artist, James Grant, former PhD August, Toronto's Gay Alliance The Leavenworth have been sggar workers threatened to strike. Democratic Action Party. tion in stu.dent in chemístry and a community . \ my illegal sent to various federal prisons where On January 1 3, the Piesidént of the Toward Equality sponsored organizer, and Charles Parker, who wäs- : -h.¡erto Rico Libre at least two of ühem, Alfred .lasper.in Social Christian Party, lenezuela's entry to dr:amatize the iniustlce a'nd Reddy's assistant, were labeled-'(politi- Lewisburg and Jesse Lopez in A,tlanta,, second most powerful party, joined absurdity of the law (which.also bars Grant 1. KING'S B¡RTHDAY DEMON. were immediately placed in segregatiorir cal terrorists." was sentenced to '.,, ' the protest. epileptics and retarded-there have years in prison, Reddy to 20 STRATION IN BOSTON units. Such arbitrary use of punitive 25 and claim isolation should be protested. Letters Parker to ten. Supporters that . , : ln the years since his death, the were of a .. UP AGAINST THE BOYCOTT! of concern should go to Norman Cail- the three victims frameup i memory of Martin Lúther King has a case pending in son, Di,rector, Federal Bureau of Prís and now ¡s Superior :: , become the object of a denatured, As wehave noted before, Gallo Wineri'es, in an attempt to circumvent the Carolina to :',.. ons, Wæhington, DC and to the war- Court in North overturn' ' offfcial liberalism. Like Woody boycôtt of their producti by the United'Farmworkeri, have brought out two the convictions. The baóis for the new i ;'i dens of the two institutions. Guthrie, his radicalism has suffered brand new labels: Madria Madria S4ngri4 advertised by an elegant-looking hearing is disclosure of the fact that systemat¡c attempts at neutralization, I\'!exican woman who tells how her'rb¡other and father" make'the wine, ãnd Recent news accounts tell of the firing federal and state prosecutors made while the essential message of his life Josef Steubens, which tries to present itself,as a European wine. of a teacher in a New York State prison imprisonment of some lawbreakers; secret deals with two key withesses in is forgotten. The UFW is responding with a campaign to get the Federal Trade Commis- wherë 6O% of the prisoners sidlstepping the argument thát prisons the case, deals which included a pay- Maitin t-uther King's birthday is sion to investigaté Gallo for deceptive advertising practices, on the grounds are black Earl Schoonmaker, the donot rehabilitate, and pointing out' mentof $4990 to each (allegedly for now a state holiday in Mæsachusetts. that these commercials make no mention of the fact that they are Gallo wines, teacher, wæ also Grand Dragon of the that deterrence, and im- relocation).'Orie of the witnesses, whg ¿ "retribution, ' Gov. Michael S. Dukakis'addressed an that in fact Madria Madria Sangria is not made by the womanis fibrother and New York chapter of the Ku Klux mobil ization," aie also tradi tional'func' was then a suspgct in five unsolved ¡ offiôial obserúance-held at the Sheræ fzther," that in fact Steubens is not a European wine, Josef and lhat in fact Klan. An'investigation has revealed t¡óns of prisons" He argued for Jailing murders, was promised a w4iver of , , ... , 'those ton'' Boston hotel. the only reason these new'labels were brought out is to deceive people who that pr:ior to his dismissal Schoon- Í¡vho rape, r'ob or dommit burglary prosecution f,or probation .violation if Meribers of.the B

18.WtN wrN t0 the introduction and final chapter) and thus do not form a published Elsa's Housebook, sub-titled',a Woman's photoj r dimensions of these questions if there is to be any effective consistent whole. However, in sp¡te of these"{imitations,.the journal." A handsome paperback, at 5.95 for a book of challenge to establishment power-politics.. significance of an effort to exþlore alternatives to existent photogaphs it is accessibly priced, in line; no doub! with ' ' Last but certainly not least, it takes mdch courage to nation-state " r€al ism" prevai ls. D_orfman's (and her friendi') populist phílosophy. Nô artist write honestly, with genuine humanitarian caring on Middle For those of us in the United States, the book offers a of elitism, Elsa,Dorfman's first major book was not líkely East issues, as anyone who tries discovers. There are far toq lucid evaluation of the role played in tt¡e Mid-East by the úo be a $40 coffee-table item. few individuals who actively extend their understaniling and Soviet Union, and United States' governmenland corpora' The book is a fine introduction ro both.the lifã and thií syrDpathy to all the people in the Middle East regardless of tions.. Jon Kimche i¡ There Could Hove Beén'Peace indi- work There arp 80 photographs and an abur¡dant auto- their nationhood affiliation or cultural ethos. Too many ca.tes the great power these forces wield in Middle East af' biographical text. About one third of the photoeraphs are ,l position, American Jews accept the lsraeli-government as fairs. We need to more fully understaird how these forces of well-known poets. Ginsberg on þages t ö ttrroúgtr,e 1 | ' represented by Golda Meir, that a Palestinian as a people buttress repressive conditions in all Mid-East nations and should not be missed. Cre_eley is wónderful on 3ôth¡cugh are nonexistent: ,38. Olson encourage the myth that security rests ofì military strength. on 41 will live.forever as the giant that he"wa¡-.' . It is not os though there was o Palestiniøn people in Palestine We need to empower ourselves to act. As lrene Gendzier For.this picture alone, Charles Olson atkelleher's Bar, ìñe' considering itself os o Polestinion people and we come and ' states in her beautifully writtenforeward: book is worth buying Other picutres'too threw them out ond tooþ their country awoy from them. , . .sllencë today has beco'me the most effectit¡e kind of should not be missed. lt would be hård They do not ex¡st compllcity, If one rejects such passive collaboration, while to explain in a few words why "Harvey. Silverglate on Sun- The Zionist community thus rejects the integrity of a ocknowledging the l¡mitat¡ons necessarlly ploced on out- day Morning 1973" is agreat picture (Page29). The text describing picture is good ,,. Palestinian nationhood and dehumanizes Pal estinians i nto slders, then the search for truth remgtps the most effective that also a sample. . .A switch ,female faceless guerrillas. Palestinians, with the desperate force of weapon in the struggle for reconcilidtlon ond justice. on the usual combination-male þhotographer, lover," øV e a people demanding recognition, have adopted tactics that Paula RaYman Dorfman says, among much else. : can only deepen lsraeli-Jewish fears and encourage them . The text, brilliant and concrete at times, says important to support increasingly repress¡ve counter-attacks. lt is sad ELSA'S HOUSEBOOK things about the artist and her philosophy, but grows awk- that Palestinian supporters who usually speak for social Elsa Dorfman / Godine / Boston / Paper, $5.95 ward at times, as. spontaneity may (thougtr it rarely cloes in justice the photographs). Nevertheless, Elsa's Housebook ìs a very remained silent after the events of Ma'alot and Most of Elsa Dorfman's photographs are taken of her friends good introduction to an artist who.vlill be bettçç knowh. Nahariya" While it is necessary to differentiate between the when they are visiting at her house. The most extraordinary pro- More people should have a chance tö see her original prints, terrorism of an oppressor and the oppressed, uncritical things about the photographs are the character, emotion, i PEACE lN THE MIDDLE EAST?: REFLECTTONS which will affect our lives, t Arab supporters often fail to recognize that lsraeli-Jews per- if only we will oN AND NATTONHOOD and even spirituality that are consistently captured. Or '".n1,üHiì¡ff"ï, JUSTTCE (and in many cases, Diaspora Jews) feel strongly threatened haps the most extraordinary thing is the relationship be- Noam Chomsky With a forward by lrene Gendzier / I by possibilities of anti-Semitism and their resultant fears tween photographer and model, the t¿lent Elsa Dorfman Vintage Books N.Y. 1974 198 pp. $1.95 .: THE END OF INTELLIGENT TVRITING / / constitute a very real sense of repression. ' has to see, to lovq and even to select her friehds. respect the other Richard Kostelanetz Sheed,& WafC $'12.95 During the next few weeks or months all-out war may The refusal of each ndtionhood to At first one sees Dorfman's photographs as dark, casual, / I to an irresoluble conflict. To such a con. again come to the Middle East, the fifth time in27 years. leads "ineviably and almost messy. The borders of the printing frame are Noked power rules the moment, ldeas rule the ages. flict there can be no just solution. Force will prevail." People ¡n the Middle East are sitting, in Egyptian President visible and sometimes uneVen. This is all part of the arL James T., Farrell, mind, Chomsky suggests that an al- Sadat's words, '!On a powderkeg ready to explode." What- With the above in Many of her friends are well-known poets, for-she once ternative exists in the form of a binational socialist state. ever political differences stand between individuals,'there worked at Grove Press, and apparently her energetic spon- Hererorore rhis has been rrue. 13ut This state would insure that: poets r"'ï:ïfi;i1iffi is agreement that this next war will exact a far greater toll taneity and horiesty fit per:fectly with the of a new úe technócratic future? The possibilities of mass media each people wiit hove the to participate of destruction and death than any previous encounters., right ln self-govern- . {ife-style who published with Grsve. Ginsberg, Olson, gov'ernment make it an open question now. à menting notionol institutlons Any individuol.will be free to and Corso are among.her I The threat of attack on major cities, the bombing of the Duncan, Creeley, Snyder, best Giant electronic and communications corporations have ; Ð live where Aswan Dam and even employment of nuclear,v/eapons may he wants, to be free from.religious..control, to , subjects. Particularly in the photographs oJ Ginsberg one been voraoiously swallowing publishing companies. With ' i ' , define himself as a on Arab be no idle notion. Yet, as great as the shock may be when Jew, or something else. . ,.Thß feels the waimth of the photographer. Looking at the such new overlords as RCA (over Random House; Knopf,: the war erupts, few will be surprised if it occurs. Concerned society, in the former Palestine, should permit all PalestÍn- portraits of these men, whose personal!¡ies and philosophies Beginner Books, Ballantine and Pantheon) and ITT (over persons outside the Middle East are engaging in second- ions the r¡ght of return, along with Jews who w¡sh tò frnd we know something of already, we feel sometimes cor' Bobb's,Merrill, Theodore Audel, lntertec publishing and ,', ' guessing their place in.this nationol homelond. AII oppressive or dis- correction and augmentation of military probablilities; the people of the M¡ddle roboration, but usually also The Research and Review Service ot America, allvlã lt ¡- , ; criminatory structures should be dÌsmantled, photograph East w¡th their respective fears and prejudices.continue,to- our understanding. Dorfman's of W.S. Mer¡vin subsidiary Howard W. Sams & Co., lnc,, Publishers), pub- .. ., plod along separate, deadly pâths.' Chomsky goes on to describe the h¡story of 'binational- was a window through which I climbed into his difficul't lishing is plugged into the military-industrial complex. -." The Middle East has been a confusing and.d.ifficult.issue socialist efforts, relying agreat deal on Aaron Cohen's com- poetrY. The implications are vast; revelation & definition .:,t', . ', ' of the for those sçeking,humanitarian.goals justice. , prehensivè people unknown to us do much. anã social , book, lsrael and the Arab World, ' , Dorfman's portraits of ¿s new powei structure & its mechanics are neeïed. Therefore, i ;'lo Now, perhaps. mofe than evef, the question arises:, ls tlilere, There are problems with Chomsky's point of viéw and in lust as the poets have been photographed 'üvith lovq but Richard Kostelanetz' The End of lntel!¡gent Writing, an alternative.to the cycle of bloodshed? lt is clear that even the limítêil:space óf this review criticisms'will'just be briefly without fear or idolatry, so the other friends are both loved promoted as'la comprehensive essay on literary politics," an optimistic outlook bnly manages to postpone.thq war's mentioned. Ai Chomsky himself notes, the proposal fof a and sharply perceived. Some of Dorfman's fi-nest portraits might be expected to provide illumination. Unfortunatelg initiation. Bu! if there is any hopti of alternatiie, if will bindtionat socialist state is unacceptabie to tnç overwhelm- are of her lover, Harvey, and of the women in he-r life, her he does not d¡rectly concern himself with military-industrial emerge from activity spawned by thç kind of rationality, . ing majority of Palestinians and lsraelis. There is no reason mother, herrclose friends, the wives of her male friends. control of the wÒrd. He does, however, make an oblique questioning and courage evident in Noam Chomskyls new , to beliêve this will change in the near future, as humanitarian Dorfman soems to photograph women at their strgngesL reference on page 195: "The pánèñúsuper-complex co,uld i ppllection of article,s, fçace.in the M¡ddle Easi?, , . , : movements and tt¡e work of such men as lsrael Shahak are Some of the photographs of older women, whom I in my help its publisher in wav unprecedented beforel such as q¡b- . passing people, , ïhere ar.e,a number.of reasons'this book is impcirtant for quite isolated within the Mid-East and ieceive'little nourish- egot¡sm migtrt have dismissed in âS \{orrì:out lioizing Random House books over its NBC television:shôws. . , anyone concerned with'the.Middle'East (and who need not ment from the outside, häve shown me something new to resftct and, rnade me , , Given 'all this supporq it seems ungenerous to note,that booË .l be concerned today?), particularly'for.those of 'us,in the , ln regard to the historical roots of binationdlisrn,, Chom- conscious,of a serious preiudice. publishing might be emulating n.ewspdper and tèlevision ' in her photographs. United States¡ First, its rational tone,is all too rare during sky's' analysis inadequatel'y, questions the true intentions of Dorfman's house, too, is important .monopolies by eliminating the competition prerequisite to, -,, Middle East discussions. One may disagree with var.ious pre-State Zlonist leaders who publi.cly favored binationalsim. Her couch, her cluttered kitchen, her walls casually ex' 'free communication,' or that some of the same sular daddies points and conclusions, as,does thís reviewer,.but the,entire It remairls uñclear if leaders as Ben Gurion favo¡ed þina- hibiting her own and other peopleis art, all are portrayed qe {so profiting heavily from military.industrial imperial- book demands serious and careful reading. Next, the ques- tionalism in the 19301s due to strategic or,principled, çon- with sharp, unselfconscious perception. Dorfman's house is ism." Here ap elsewhere, Kostelanetz passes by instead of tion raised in the fofeward by lrene,Gendzier and,in the siderations. lt is also interesting that.Chomsky'r desoription lived-in. The phrase was nêver more applicable, Through éxplpring fu'rrher, yed rhis secrion, rni¡ilã¿ ,Ín. Liieiaiy- text by. Chomsky are those,most fundamental ,tot the con- . of kibbutzim lacks a critical edge. He ignores,the f¿ct that, ohotography Dorfman creates a very large and signifieant lndustrial Complex,'l provides useful.descriptions of the flict ,They question thg [email protected] the lsraelis and Pale .. frÒm their beginning, kibbutzim.accepted,polic¡er'that, iamily and engages all of itv members in an'artistic dialogue. increaóing eentralism in book publishirtg, the policies rel stiniansr,the çentral .figures, in the oonflict; the consequenoes inherently confl¡cted w¡th international-socialist aims; i.e. Elsa Dorfman is a matriarchal artist and not the f east ex' sulting from,its entry into the mainstiêam of US big buil. of Zíonist ideology, especially in context of the'A-merican r kibbutzirir acc.epted Jewish htational Fund policiqs whiah cellent by any means among.her often illustr¡ous friends.. ness, the tyranny of the rapid turnover principle and the forever excluded I have tried Zionist cornrnunity; and final,ly, the.role of the.superpowers Palestinian.rights to ,NF iand;, This Elsa Dorfman, whose work to sum- ' Big- Book syndrome, how writers are affected by these con- and United States'multinational corporatiorqs, lt is cr:itical The'book also suffers from th'e juxtaposition of,articles marize and whose life I have hardly øuched upon, has just ditions of competition, the breakdown of the traditional for thoughtful people to well-acquaint themselves with the ttrat were for the most part previously published (except for

20 vUN Wl.N 21 writer-editor relationship, ancl the role of paperbacks & text- the alliances binding a sociolqgically'defined constellation books as the tails that wag the dogs. of individuals are often more ìmplicit and possibly tenuous Fr6o It no t lnvoly€d but llmltod to 20 words. Otherwlso tl cvary I O words. i Kostelal¡etz' econom¡c analysis is shallow and sometimei than explicit, except, of course, when, as often happens, Bullctin Board misleading. He cites, for instancg the situation where "in- the allied writers are legally married to each other." . ept" publishers sell books "at several multiples of the physi- The New Review of Eoch Other's Books is by now an cal object's cost," without explaining the discounting prac- old joke among writers in the cultural capital, and literary EVENTS . r,ï, oPPORTUN|ilES , SERVICES I tices & other factors which actually make the profit margin incest is a problem worthy of public scrutiny, along with " relatively small. Likewise he states it would be "hard to the curious paradox of NYRB becoming a mini-conglomer- ANARCHIST LECTURE SERIES¡ Olsa ACUPUNCTURE TRAINING: Home Study DON'T nrF UflTHOUT A WILL! Wil I ..solzhênltzyn ând'Russlân prominent LanE-313t, Lltersture," Progiam now backed by optlonôl US FoR Ms PLUS.Attornev's lnstructlon-tZ oO imagine" a fiublisher today refusing a commercial ate itself (1.F. Stone, Kirkus). Yet whatever their foibles pm, Fr€espâc€ (r-ef u n_dabte). Jan I Alt€fnato u, semlhar sorles, Cllnlçally or¡entatåd course, Tony-Couege Cotione¡ D ept, ã¡ O, opportunity comparable to The Chopmon Reprt; onie re- and failures, Epstein, Silvers & Co. have contributed to 339 Latayettq, NYC. nonmedlcal termlnology. Acupuncture suÞ 52lO Patco Ptace, párX, ä¡ãryfaiq jected by Knopf. While it is all-toortrue that most com- literature and the Movemenl Are they really the enemy? pllôs, book* chart*'lnstrumênt* also avall- 20740. able. INSTITUTE, Box 219'W Torontq mercial publishing has no direct relationship tô literary And how much power do people like Plimpton, Pod- canada M6M 422. merit, it would be easy to imagine (nopf still rejecting horetz & Howe actually have? Kostelanetz sees them as PUBLTCATIqNS . , IMMERSION lN SPANISH¡ CUAUH. such a book. Such distinguished firms, of course, deserve to movers & shakers, but they don't even make the waves. . DISCOUNT BOOKS: HOMESTEAOINc/ NAllUAq a teach€rJ coltectlvq offers lrÞ be dhastized for itodginess, insufficient receptivity to dar:ing They are skilled at certain short runs and limited maneuvers' ALTERNATIVE LIVING, CHI LDREN'S, tenslve programs ln Spanlsh as a second ideas & unestablished writers. . like surfboarflers who merely ride a trend until it breaks. ¡ POETRY. Fr6e llst$ Ail publlshors. Speclal: ianguagq student-teacher fatlo rðn9-€9 . r'lnt€fnatlonal Dlrectory of Llttle Mag¡zlnes" fre¡n l!1 to 4r I ln a varlety.of programa Only briefly does Kostelanetz examine "the visionary as- The second part of the book surveys alternative media, (t¿[95 llst), $¿L20 postpal¿ Sprlng church Spêclal scholarshlp program for persons of sumption of corporate theory. . .that a marriage between the mentions multitudes of energetic little magazines and little- BookS Sprlng Churcl¡ Pennsylvanla 156çS Latln Am€rlcan descenL..Complet€ lnfor- publisher guide I mttlon: APDO C.26, Cuernavaca, Mcxlco and other media would beget an all-purpose com- known writers, providing a'lively to small press fei' OZARKACCESS CATALOG: B€at tho 'munications and education company," translating literary menl While this writer finds many of Kostelanetz' esthe.tic Dgprôsslon Homestead suwlval ln the Now Mldwêst rèsearch lnsfitute Seeks un- matgrials into electronic forms. This theory, which was of the technik/gimmick Ozårks. Organlc alternat¡vês to metropolltan selflsh, soclalllÊconsclouE non-car€er¡st enthusi4sms trivial and refleçtive chao6. t5 from OAC, Box 506T, Eureká MA.PhO Movement econômlsts, Þoililcat primary in the takeover of fjublishing firms.by the likes of mentaliiy of the general culture, he neveitheless calls at' Sprlng$ AtJ< 7273?. ¡clentlsts, êtc., who can ôet.þiióÉ oi ratse CBS & RCA, was "exposed as illusory'r in the 70's, he:con- tention to much vital activity, frsm Dsnald Phelps' For tundt Somþscholârly studlea on war.peac€ ENERGY: A TIME TO CHOOSe..One ot Íoconvofslon, etc. Read Gross & Osterman, tends, though it is more reasonable to assume that tran"si- Now to'Harry Duncan's Commington Press. The sgctions on tho most compr€hsnslv€ publlcatlons avålþ "The New Prof€sstonats" pø 3!77. Mtdwóst tion¡ were merely delayed by the sagging economy. Whiie it the underground do no! however; analyze the roles of such ablo on snergy resources for the future rnsfltuto, 1206 N. 6th st, 43201. tL25, Communlty Ecòlogy C€ntor, 15 remains uncertain whether books as be press power structures æ COSMEP or CCLM; nor does we know them will small Wost Anipamur Santa Barbar4 CA 931OL Teacher for altotnatlve school, ages ¿t-11. obsolete in the 21st Century, new forms growing from video the.author provide much perspective on the benefits and Bulldlng on fårrn Salârlos low. Llvlng sltua SOLAR HEATINc. f pot€nt¡ally disc microfilm will be ipportant in'publishing's future.. dangers of government-subsidized expression, a crucial issue Save on uel bltls. Heat tlon ¡vallable. 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