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why people protesting nuclear powergot ¡nuch a subject for day-to-day discus- t' so worked up about things like vege- òion. It was the fortnight-loirg occupa- tarian food, shoes, or segregation by tion ofthe armories that made this hap- sex. Such secondary issues simply rein- pen; a premature release would have- LETTERS forced (as Marty Jezer pointed out) the circumvented it. stereotypes held bv many Americans of It may be ourfaultthatthere is very the occüäiers as spoiled iriddle-class little awareness oftotal nonviolent non- hippies ùho were^out for a good time. cooperation as a pressure tactic-but the The camp¡ign at Seabrook may well pre- physical or non-physical, in achieving fronting us. He does not mention that They did nothing to extend the positive confusion in the armories over this issue vent the construction of a nuclear plant ãny intermediate end. This is not pos' many in the movement are concerned outreach effects ofthe occupation and of is multiplied many times by the confu- at thntsite; but at what cost? The tactic sible. All of Gandhi's campaigns were with conversion; an effort notjust to stop many groups' work over mâny years in sion outside. By hassling over petty plairned-that of occupying every bit of carefully built upon this principle. As and reverse the arms tace, but to solve buildiñg public consciousness on the issues, we perpetuate our isolation from landlo that construction is impossible- lóng as we seek to resolve conflict by many of the problems it either causes or nuclear oowef issue. the general public, from the people we promotes as we simply open the way for that go unsolved because govern- Thá oioblem outside the armories was mustwin over if there is tobe any real rJÐlJ2 legitimizes and coercion a coeicion, ofthe valid means of imposing the will of one further conflict, and further coercion. ment's preoccupation with itself andthe not, as'Ed Hedemann suggests, a ques- meaningful change in this country. In a ' group onto another. This, by definition, This I believeto be the coreof Gandhi's multi-national corporations. tion ofthe definition ofnonviolencé or of society which permits A,tticas and is violence, whether or not a hand is message, and his challenge rings clear. By not,noting the connections between ¿ Gandhian acceptance of suffering fol- Wounded Knêes and the jailing ofihe raised or a blow is delivered. _MARKSHEPARI) all issues the movement concems itself lowing civil disobedience. It was not one Wilmington 10, which buitds tñree new Serious students of Gandhi's writings SanDlego, Callf. with, Scheiner comes off as one who of the political consciousness of the in- hydrogen bombs every day; which ac: luly 7, 1977 I Yol.Xlll, No. 24 will recognize this. He consistently op- might very well claim that feminism, matesin not having an overall ideoþgy quiesces in torture in Chile, South posed the use ofcoercive obstruction. In Everv vear I am struck with how little world hunger, concern ovo¡the Middle or an awareness oftheir powertoforcb Africa, and elsewhere, protesting over one such instance he wrote, "Is there receñt fiction appears in the WIN spring East, concern about fatmworker condi- their own release. It was, rathet, the McDonald's hamburgers is ridiculous. It 4. Howthe Right Watches the Left,, realty any difficulty about regarding a book poll. For those of you who do not tions, but view of Seabrook as perceived by mil- is not the way to reach the vast majority Harvey Kahn & Eda6ordon livingwall of pickets as n¿kedviolence? consiãer such things overly frivolous, I divert mofe lions of Americans whose information of our potential supportefs-the people 10. Union Activism: TheGreen Bans , tffhat is the difference between force would recommend Ratnerts Starby Don issue of nuclear disarmament. wasfiltered/distorted by the mass who eat McDonald's hamburgers. used against a man wanting to do a Delillo (Knopf 1976). A very funny and will grant Scheiner the fact that if we media. In this view, the occupation/ The great strength ofSeabrook is in its JackMundey particular thing, and force exercised by provocative éxploration into the purpose have a nuclear holocaust, we won't be imprisonment was a total and duration. Clamshell and its predecessors 16. Changbs ínterposing yourself between him and òf lansuaee anãcommunication. To me, around to worry about any ofthese unqualified success. Any actions ofthe have been fighting the planf for fi ve and in- sortruefully missedby the members of yea¡s, and The 18. the deed?" ("Picketing, " Nonvlolent it's rdmaiÍ

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The would-be leftist US Labor Party, armed with made the several hour driveto Boston and met with conspiratorial slogans and time-tested tactics have them as planned. "These very well informed exposed themselves at last as voluntary intelli- gentlemen felt that the planned demonstration on gence analysts and ultra-conservative, proto- April 30, 1917 atthe site of the Seabrook Nuclear fascist informers for state police agencies. Sixteen Power Plant is nothing butacoverforterrorist pages of documents recently obtained from the activity, " read the beg i n n in g of the entitled " i n- New Hampshire State Police by the Clamshell Alli- telligence report" Buxton f iled on April 14. "The ance reveal close collaboration on at leasttwo oc- method of operation will bethe same as recently casions between New Hampshire State Police and used at a bloody anti-nuclear power plant demon- the USLP, otherwise known as the NationalCaucus stration in West Germany. The support for this of LaborCommittees. terrorist group is based on the east coast, and is a J ust one month after the largest occu pation/ essentially the same networkwhich worked with protest of a nuclear power plant in the US, the the Fourth of J uly BicentennialCommittee, and is Clamshell Alliance has pried from their lawsuit nowworking with the Clamshell Alliance." documents showing the sources of the police's More than coincidentally, only a few days before i ntel I i gence i nformation. I ncl uded were four pages the Buxton report was f iled, an FBI informant f iled of "intelligence reports" filed.by New Hampshire what appeared to bea routine report with the New State Police lieutenant Donald Buxton outlining his Hampshire State Police. This one page document, meetings and conversations with Boston Laboi part of what the Clamshell Alliance received from Party members Craham Lowry and Larry Sherman, the State police, was atelephone call from the both f ull-time Party açtivists whq have run for pub- Portsmouth off iceof the FBI relating "thatthe New lic off ices; f ive pages from the USLP publication Yorkofficeof the FBlhad information from an Co u nte r i nte I I i ge n ce f ull of typ i cal U S L P con s pi rã- informant that attended the March 26th meeting of torial harangue, and another six pages of docu- the J uly Fourth Coalition in New York City. The in- ments from the sophisticated right-wing Informa- formant revealed that the Coalition endorsed the tion Digest, a recently exposed newsletter, circu- scheduÍed April 30th sit-in and encouraged their lated to exclusive audiences of private corporations members to take part in the demonstration. He ad- and goverirment intelligence agencies. Alio re- vised that the Coálition predicted a "violent en- leased by New Hampshire was a page-long report counter with the police" when the police attempted from an FBI informant concerning a Marcñ J uly to remové the demonstrators from the area," read Fourth Coalition meeting in New York City. lt is the bulk of the report the informant filed. ln effect, clearthat Covernor Meldrim Thomson of New the USLP reinforced, and carried further the FBI Hampshire and that state's police used these docu- intel I i gence i nformation of a few days earl ier. Both ments to target the Clamshell Alliance as a "cover the FBI and the USLP were watching the J uly for terrorist activity. " Fourth Coalition , both made the link to the Clam- Detective Lt. Donald Buxton was instructed to shell, and both saw violence asa logical extension contact Sherman and Lowry at their Boston USLP of that relationship. Most importantly, the FBI headquarters. The next day, April 13, Buxton documents prove continuing efforts by the government to spy on the Left. Harvey Kah n wor ks with the Repression I nforma- What many and most movement people are tion Proiect. Eda Cordon is a coordinator of tþe relieved to pass off as craziness, can be and is Cu i I d I nvesti g ative Crou p. translated by the NCLC/USLP into believable and

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zone off icçrs, a board in Maryland, New york acceptable scenar¡os fortheir political allies. And NCLC included excerpts from.the Information regional zones, national and in J ersey and in New State. of directors, LEIU exchanges infor- Law enforcement in the nuclear age, with the existence of nuclear Digest in its "intelligence" on the ClamshellAlli- bylaws-the off icials say he would tantalize mation and its now 225 members, with stories plots, power facilities, almost indefensible from ance is almost too good a link to justify claims about agents among ,police of violent and developed a any governmental bodies terrorists, the government and corporations' theii right-wing repressive politics, We knowthe above the scrutiny of reputation for intelligence bytaking information he which despite its willing rationalization is that no chances can be /:D. is connected to a right-wing intelligence monitor law enforcement often had learned from one department and relaying it to net- its budgets taken to protect these plants. lf the USLP cries workthat has been infiltrating awidecircleof illegal activities. Likewise, are hidden another. Rees has continuously percolated intèll¡- in the budgets of ¡ts members, with no review by gencethrough private public conspiracy, and promises aterrorist incident, the liberal and left groups in the United States since the and sectors. governmental bodies appropriating funds, authorities, both public and private, feel justif ied 1968. The network has tiestothe Birch ln 1968, he founded a New York Corporation, John Enforcement Assistance to take precautions, and be comforted and thankf ul Society, conservative congressman Larrv including the Law Ad-. National Goals, lnc., "to provide an investigative that ministration, acritical funding source, utilizing a service for various brarrches of goyernment and someone outside their organization has told McDonald ( D, Cedrg i a), the blackl i stin gbpera- which links the intelligence units, them to do so. tionsof theChurch Leagueof America, andthe data system i.e. prepare memoranda, reports, etc." National Goals red squad, f iles of nearly every major city in the published was The USLF has admitted that it has passed intelli- intelligence apparatus of the government at the /.D., which advertised in the alt as some in Canada. gence to other states in the past. Sherman, the levels. nation as well National Layrnen's Digest, a publication of the and Louise Rees have a long historyof Church League of Ameria, which Rees Boston USLP leader, recalled forthe Concord Fhe Information Digestisthefruitsof this in- John himself Monitorthat: movement disruption. ln 1968 they inf iltrated the edited in 1969-70. The Church League, a "the Labor Party has served before tel I i gence-gatheri n g a compendi um of gossi p, - radical New York Crazies; in 1971they joined the right-wing tax exempt black listing operation,,was as informers for State Police. He cited what he newsclips, innuendo, rumor, biased analysis, äñd Mayday Tribe and came to Wasþington DC forthe founded in 1937 called a 1O-page'mass.ive intelligence report, pre- outright lies, not to mention documents obta¡ned by Frank Loesch - head of the pared historical antiwar protests; lateíthey inf iltrated the for state police during Maine, New illegally through wiretap, surreptitious entry and lnstitute for Policy Studies and the National Peg Averill/ Hampshire and Massachusetts bombings in1976. direct inf iltration. The targets: iiberal and left ind¡- Liberation News Service , , Lawyers Cuild. While in DC, worked with Four men of a terrorist group known as the Fred viduals and groups, including politicians, John the anti-war Metropolitan Police, who paid the rent on a com- Hamptoñ Unit" have béen conrlicted for trans- and Third World political actlvists, lawyers, munity bookstore, Redhouse, which the Reeses porting explosives over state lines in connection writers and show business personalitíes. operated for almost a year with a dwindling group with the bombings." Occasionallythe authors willthrow in a right-wing of community people. The Redhouse, equipped The q.uestio_¡s_ar_e always asked about Lyndon paramilitary group like National . States Rights with mimeograph machineand many movement LaRouche, NCLCchairman, and his lovalfol- Party or the Minutemen periodicals, became a gathering place for DC lowing: Are they linked to intelligence agencies ? Thë known editors of th e Information Digest are activists. Also, around this time, the Reeses Or is it an intelligenceoperation in itselfãs Olaf John and S. Louise Rees, who publish the l:D.fro,m created another informatiori-gathering scam : Palme, former prime min¡sterof Sweden, once a row house on the fringes of Baltimore, Mary- charged? Afterclose CCERL (Coordinating Center for Education in evaluation of NCLC/USLp lànd's radical çommunity. lt is circulatéd to a secret disruption overthe Repression and the Law), which was advertised as last fouryears spanning mostof I i st of over 40 subscribers, i ncludi pol ng ice depart- arl organization to combat police repression, illegal the social change movement, and its attackon ment_s, private corporations, news media, even the. surveillance of protest groups, gr.and juries, moderate to revolutionary, intellectual and Readers Digest and a majortelevision network. political trials and to promote prisoners' rights and activi st, _envi ron mental i st to f actory organ izer, the Most government intelligence agencies, such as the abolition of capital punishment. CCERI¿ con- net result is that the NCLC/USLP appeãrs more the FBl, ClA, IRS and Nalional SãcurityAeencv. tinues to exist today as a PO Box in Mar:yland used thoro-ugh than any FBI informer, and effectively received complimentary copies, and thê riw, oft'en collect material is equalto an agent provocateur. While producing false to that then channeled into the a data was often indiscriminately incorporated t.D. intelligence information on theone hand, undeithe in domestic intelligence f iles on ind¡vidual'organi- ln J une of 1973, Yippie organizers were invited guise of "lett" political correctness, and dis- zations . The New York State Police took the by the Reeses to set up headquarters in the Reeses' crediting activists w¡th sham literature, screaming unevaluated information from the /.D., condensed DC home while planning and stashing forthe at picketers through bullhorns, harassing and referenced it in theirfiles andthen claimedthé Annual Fourth of uly Smoke-in. The Yippies organizers petitioning at unêmployment lines, they newsletter as a "conf idential informant" J immune wound up $200 short and the subject of extensive serve the provocateur function. from disclosure, when the State Off ice of Legis- intelligence reports, which later surfaced in heir Shortly after the famed documents became pub- lative Oversight began investigating police t i-ntelli- FBI dossiers. The Smoke-in was oneof seven lic, the USLP called a prqss conference in Concord, gence abuses. The Michigan State Police has New Hampshire to defend their relationship with further admitted to receiving the /.D. with the State Police. The Associated Press and four Congressman McDonald's off ice as the return. local medias showed up to hearthe USLP callfor a The Maryland State Police helped obtain a Balti- jury, grand federal and state investigations of the more Post Office box for l.D. inDecember 1924. Clamshell Alliance and ãll thèir friends. USLP The Reeses, with various aliases, were authorized Chicago prosecutorof spokespeople announced that "We are the leading to pick up the mail, along with Norpel, r..who Crime Commission, Al John J Capone counter-terrorist organi zation" and proceeded to until 1975 was research directorforthe Senate and couñsel for the Pennsylvania RaiJ- lay out the conspiracy: Clamshell Alliance was or- lnternal Security Committee, before which road -with other Christian stalwaits dedicated to John It has never been established that the house was keeping person ganized in part by ex-SDS members; the Weather Reqs testif ied on the Venceremos Brigade and New tabs on every "attacking and ridi- bugged, but at one point a suspicious roommate I i g Underground "terrorist" grewout of SDS; or from Left. According to Norpel: "Rees' infórmation was cu n a major doctri ne of Christian Faith or the gained entrance into the Reeses' perpetually American wayof another angle: Haymarket People's Fund gives invaluable to the intelligence communìty. . . I life." don,t locked room and found wiretapping equipment and moneytothe North East Prison Alliance, and think Rees got his information from federal A Church League brochure boasts that: "The arms. The police had John's permission to install "other terrorists" receive funds from Haymarket agencies. lt was my impression that the federal largest and most comprehensive f iles on subver- electronic equipment there and a key to get in. as well, therefore, the Clamshell Alliance is intelligence community was more dependent sive activity, with the single exception of the FBl, on They also rented and bugged an off ice for him terrorist because it has accepted money from the him than he was to are located in the Research Library in Wheaton, íll on them." use. Haymarket people. The Maryland and New york State police lnto these headquarters come thousands of and the Accordirig to a Reporf of the New York State At the press conference, the NCLC/USLP was Baltimore Police, are all members of the Law En- requests for original source materials and docu- Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis: J ohn ments part asked what was their relationship to the lnÍorma- forcement lntelligence Unit, established in 1956 bv from every of the Free World." lt goes ' Rees has worked hand in hand with police tion Digest. They responded bycalling the /nfor- police and sheriffs' departments across on to describe a 4O-year history of information- disgruntled with thecountry, astypicalof LEIU agents. Hetold DC mation Digestauthors-John and Louise Rees- the FBI for upstaging their intelligente work. gathering by "top Christian scholars, former staff police heoperated in Houston, on the West Coast, gressional "born again conservatives." TheTact that the Under an el aborate organ izational structure - four mem bers of Con investi gation commit- 6wail luly1,1g77 JulvT,1977 WltaT tees and intelligence . '-T divisions of Covernment . . member of the CP?" Wackenhut vice president hired and working under the direction of a National John Ammarell said. Wackenhut confirmed Rees, outpost t-,tlled the l-iberty l-rrbby, sells tlre USI-l)'s phoning of young lìcpr-rblican State Chair¡)er:rons (--arter board of lay and clerical leaders," the useof under- employmenf then, after the hearings, withdraw publ icat iort, " ¿rr.rd the Party of I ntern at ional in states around the country. coveroperatives who sat in on Communist and theiroriginal verification by name, ãddress and Terroris¡l.1' The editorof the Lobby's publication, Not only is the USLP to be placeclon the rigl.rt, as leftist meetings around the globe and "who social security n umber. Spotlip,ht, agr(ìcs with what's in the USt,P publi- they tlrermselves have done. Tlre group also, fnrall ingratiated themselves with leftists that accepted Both John and Louisearecurrentlyfighting in cation. "Otherwiser we wot¡lrln't sell it! " ln another its hate propaganda, for all its verbaIand physical their volunteer help to work in various head- lawsuits against illegal surveillance f ileã by the inciclent, a st¿rfier of tlre Re¡rressicln lnforntation attar:ks on progressive political peo¡tle, and for all quarters. " lnstitute for Policy Studies, the Socialist Workers Project, a coalition of rese¿rrclrers, someof whom that ti¡ne that it trieci to maintain the "left cover" ln addition to the newsletter National Laymen's Party and the National Lawyers Cuild, on the basis publislrecl the NCLC: Brow¡tshirts ol the Seventies while working with the right, has to be called, ancJ Digest, the Church League þublishes Special Re- of their First Amendment rights as journalists. But pattr¡rhlet, rryas irr the DC USL P of f ice and over- rightf ully so, a classic proto-fascist organization in ports on groups, hearcl ¿ [-P ing tlre Senate various such as "Attorneys for, when'the Criminal Division of the J ustice Depart- rrrerniter brief lnternal the US political arena. The USt-P haS made alli- Treason'' a 70-page description of the National ment stepped in to represent them, the question SecLrrity (--oillrrrittee abor¡l the lnstittrte for Policy ances with "pro-development industrialists in the Lawyers Cuild and their:1973 Stud ies to rr an a¡rpoi n trnent to testify i Austin, Texas resounded: who actually controls and f inances the obtai before bus ness sector, promoted rapicl tech nolog ica I convention. That report is an expansion of the /.D. operation? the conrrnittr.r-'. growth, aclvocated nuclear power and stability in February 23 ,1973 editíon of I.D. ,large portions of Still unknown, too, isthescopeof the /.D. net- Since the Nover¡rber elections, the USLP has the economy. For a cletailecl analysis of which (the same material) were inserted into the work. John Reesoncetold afriendthatthere are six laurrchecJ an inlensive clrive to recruit support f rom NCLC/USl-P, order the f irst pamphlet by TlP, gress Con ional Record by arch-con servative Rep. couples around the country with a similar modus tlie traclitiorral rightist forces. Ihey have ap- NCLC; Brownshirts of the Sevenf ies, or the second Larry McDonald, who stores dried food in the attic operandi. Recent evidence points to a Connecticut proachecl the Youn¡4 Americañ's,for Freedom, the tocomeout soon, NCLCanr/ theFar Rif',ht lntelli- of his Atlanta home in case of communist invasion man and woman who have been exposed as paid American Consc.rvative-. Union; which has 100,000 gence Networks, publishecl bythe Repression or internal insurrection. More recently he has informants on the gay and prison movements in New merlbers, the Conservative Caucus, the Young lnformation Project, both available tl-rroì,rgh Box begun to cite the I.D. as his source, legitimizing its Hampshire and Hartford. ln the meantime, /.D. Repr-ibl ican National Federation, the Comm ittee 3278, Washington, DC 20010. They cost $1 each. intelligence in of a Free Congress, post the same waythe police have doñe. conti n ues.to be publ i shed sanctioned by federal, for the Sr¡rvival and others ln a September 24, 1976 Washingtan youngest - Ulackwel l, t he .rssi stant publ McDonald, the member of the J ohrl state and local police as well as the poweri of the Morton isher of the column on the USLP, Steven Rqsenfeld callecJ them Birch Society's National Council, is currently being organiTed right-wing. conservative newsletter known as fhe Right a "political menace" and suggested that their pat- investigated on charges of illegally stockpiling Theconvergenceof the l.D.,the FBl, the USLp Report, tolcl Zodiac News Service that the USLP tern "is familiar to anyone who has studied the rise guns and offering untraceable weapons to f riends and Covernor Meldrim Thomson would appear a representatives hâve been making nurnerÕus con- of Hitler." Many political observers argue against in the Birch Society. The tacts with conservative Republican groups in such a notion. But Society has defended real f irst. But close scrutiny opens up a Pandora,s ) like itor not, this band of zeal<¡us McDonald's antics in the past, and recently their box of intrigue and entanglements this sketch has recent r¡tonths, inclr.¡cJing the systematic tele- vigilantes is here for a while. magazi ne, Ame r ican Op i n i on, condemned attacks o,nly Íouched upon. The /.D., the Labor Party, and on McDonald's "patriotic" researcher Louise Rees the FBI for that matter, are facets of Far Righi and her husand, claiming there is a bizarre con- intel I i gence not I im ited by f unds, by outleti for spiracy involving then-President Ford, the information or boundaries to which'they must ad- National Lawyers Cuild, former Attorney Ceneral here. Lev.i, the Socialist Workers Party, J immy Carter, To many, it may be surprising to learn that andthe murderers of Chilean exile Orlando NCLC/USLP is actually allied with the organized Letelier, a fellow at the lnstitute for Policy Studies. right-wing. The NCLC, which began as añ ad hoc \ The National Lawyers Cuild, a major target of committee inside the SDS, split away over dif- the spy network, and NCLC alike, has established ferences in 1968. New Solidárity,was launched the Cuild lnvestigative Croup to unravel the host of that.year and is nowtheir twice weekly newspaper. interwoven alf iances tied into th'e Reeses and the The group remained small, and in "1923, began to I.D. For areport of CIC findings and analysis, write seek "hegemony over the left" with the use of 't to C lG at Box 1424 , Arlington, VA 22210. force, calling their 60 or so physical attacks in a six- find a Today we f ind the Reeses, under the name month period "operation Mop-up." Sincethen Seeley, living in Baltimoreand commuting back theirattacks have been infrequent, andtheir and forth to DC. Louise, who served as a researcher affiliations have been subject to question. for the House lnternal Security Committee until its Over the last few years, their attemptdd alliances demise in 1973, is now in the employ of Larry with the right have become moreobvious. ln a McDonald. Sheconducts her research from the campaign speech in Baltimore last year, Lyndon H. house which doubles as a commercial kennel LaRouche, eccentric chairman of the USLp and named Llareggub (Buggerall spelled backwards). presidential candidateon the't976 ballot in 25 She ís rarely seen although during their two-year states, stated: ''Our closest political all ies are the residence th'ere she did attempt gain a to toehold in Republican National Committee and the J ohn the lesbian community, while John, in company B.irch Society." The night beforethe presidential with known police and suspected agents, appeared election, LaRouche demanded durin! a prime-time randomly among community coalitions and TV half-hour that a nation-wide NBCãudience vote demonstrations. The sense in Baltimore is that for Cerald Ford. The USLPdelivered $95,000cash many people know the Reeses' story, but no one in a paper bag to pay for the time only hours before will confront them directly because of the fear of thetelecastto allowtheir leaderto insist, as the physical retaliation. John'is now masquerading as a many NCLCens do clailyon streetcorners, that freelance journal ist. He m4y also work for the thermo-nuclear war is months away. And when we Wackenhut Corporation, the th ird largest sneak by without catastrophe, we will know it was international security and investigative firm which the saving graceof the USLPwhich prevented it. has admitted in Congressional hearings to using There are many more examples that expose over information from Church Leagueof America andover again the USLPties to the right. A files- "Howelse can we find out if someone was a libertarian right-wing Capital Hill propagancla

SWlN J uly 7, 1977 )u\y7,1977 WlNg just in Australia. And Kelly's Bush was pariof his family, and not lust the workshop floor, not Hunter's Hill, a very fashionable old suburb of the factory. And they said, in words slightly morq polite, "Here's achanceto putyourtheory into Svdnev.'R Union Activism: bie millionaire developer had done adeal with practice." And we in the union said that, provided the staie government to knock down the bush land it's not just a handf ul of people who are calling for and build luxurious homes for the fortunate few. the ban so as to keeptheirviewof Sydney harboror And the middle-to-upper class women -all women something else, then we'll accede to the request' The Bans bv the way-calling themselves the Battlers for A public meeting was called. Morethan 700 Green people K'ellv's Bush wentthrough allthe normal peti- came to it, and we agreed to their request, I tioning to councils, to st-ate planning authorities, to saying that the ban would allowthem to have i but to no avail. Almost in desperation, gen ui ne partici pation in decision-maki n g. So we JACK MUNDEY the Prãmier, they came to me because they had read in the paper imposed the ban attheir requestto allowthem to thai I had said that unions in modern society must continue the negotiations for the retention of the The Australian green ban movementconsists of More examples: There was a strikeof the look beyond the hip-pocket nerve, must be con- bushlands as open space. workers refusing to build projects thatwould be students and staff at Sydney University over the cerned.about issues of concern to the worker and The developer immediately announced that he socially or environmentally destructive. The green right of women to have their own course on social I ban movement marked the f irst time in indus- liberation, women's social libe¡ation. And the uni- trialized countries that a coalition of workers or versity authorities said, yes, they can have it, but unions has withheld,labor in the service of bioader only if the universityauthorities run it, and itwill community interestq. lt's the f irst tirne a union has not be solely run by women. A strike took place and demanded that government or private capital to bring it to a head-there was a lotof building I investments be made in ways that protect the en- going on that was needed fqr the commencement of vironment. lt's the first timä that unions started next year's university year-the Builders ' examining theendresu/tof labor-which buildinþs- Labourers were requestedto impose a bãn, which should be built, which products should be made. we did do. And that was the catalyst that brought it Unions have always been involved in the unem- to a head. And we had a signif icant part in winn ing ployment problem, but the green bans were the that strike. I first time that unions confronted.malem- So it was a union sliehtly different from the nor- ployment,-the whole issue of the social conse- mal union. t quences of labor, the nature of labor, and the end Havinj said allthat, we also had an environment productof labor. pol icy. At the time, Sydney was being overbuilt The union that started the movement, the with h¡gh-rise buidings. And there was a certain Australian Builders Labourers Federation, yvas not growing revulsion againstthis bywhat t callthe a tradesmenls union. lt was a workers' uriiðn and . thinkine segmentof society. Now in the late 1950s one with a history of corrupt leadership: the usual aird early '1960s, high-rises were thought fashion- \ thing-the union leadership working hand in glove ablé. The idea of 800-foot bui ldings goin g up ap- with management, blacklisting militant workers, pealed f irstof all to Australia's pro-American ' engag¡ng in thuggery, things that you know about. sentiments. Sydney becoming a mini-New York And we resolved when we broke through and won ' was somehow good; it showed "progress," it leadership in that union to preventthiihappening showed "development." But then, after a decade again to the best of our ability. of this, there was a very changed mood. We in the We fought for the right of women to work in the union put forward that this was crazy to have ten Austral¡an street murals m irror public sentiment. Beverly Woodward/War Resisters League. ' industry. lt had been an all-male enclave before m i I I ion square feet of high-rise space at the same : then, And we won that right out. time as there were bad housing shortages, when We engaged ¡n stop work to stop the Vietnam there weren't enough hospitals or schools or war and in fact led that campaign, where workers kindergartens. walked off jobs to join up with students and other Allthethings we considerto be socially bene- progressive citizens in huge rallies. And I think the ficial were being neglected. From an environ- "...Democracyis stop work to stop the war had an economic effect on mental pointof view it was wrong. And while high- every day democ- and on political parties I thg employers the two main rise construction employed labor to put up these . in our country. monsters, they are mainly capital-intensive. The racy; it is inter- ' Also, when a white South African rugby team high degree of mechanization that goes into toured Australia, we organized rallies against them putting up the slabs of concrete and glass means vening in the issues and took to the f ield and stopped the games on fewer actual workers. More workers would be in- occasion to hiehlightthe apartheid and how wrong votved and millionsof dollars spent in bringing that are of concern apartheid was. about a rejuvenation of inner city areas, which, like Ourunion had, of course, also donetheorthodox all city areas, are dying. to people." ' things. We had improved wages and conditions. So We put forward tangible proposals so as to re, wehadn't neglected the basics. And that allowed tain, if not increase, the numberof people invölved uitogo into more political actions. in actual building. But the end result of their labor would be much more satisfactory in the long term. Jack Mundey was head of the New South Wales It was ironic how green bans actually started. lt (Australia) Builders' Labourers Federation. This was a groupof women from Kelly's Bush-and a article orig¡nally appeared in Not Man Apart, pub- bush means forest although it doesn't mean that in lished by F r iends of the Earth. American - but bush is open forest land, rain forest

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would ignore that and use scab labor to knock down death threats and J udy, my wife, the same, and my mo're in actual nloneyterms had theybeen em- the bush. But unlike the US, we've g'tlt a highly son . Anyway, we got through it. .rioved on high.rise off ice block devèlopnient be- unionized organization; so we had a very strong We argued that we were putting forward alterna- ãuuie when you are putting up that sort of develop- position. We called a meeting in retaliation to his tive propositions for work. We were sayinl that by ment vou can afford to throw a few more crumbs to threat-we called a meeting on the biggest job of stopping high-rise destruct¡on of Sydney we were the wórkers. But there would piobably be more his in Sydney-a half-completed multi-story forcing the same developers to reinvest their workers working on renovating houses and bui ldi n g. And the workers voted that if one blade of money in areas of less profitability, butof more building flats and apartments than putting up high- grass i or tree was touched on Kelly's Bush, that social use-namelyflats and houses dnd ''-Therise buildings. half-completed bu i ldi n g woqld remai n haíf-com- apartments for working people. Therefore it wpsn't Rockã was theoppositeof Kelly's Bush. The pleted forever as a monument to Kelly's Bush. just a negative action. Roðks istheoldest partof white Australia; it was. Well, this action really set the cat amongst the Therewere hundreds and millions and where the convicts first camq and had to cut.into the chickens. All the developers and the government of thousands of dollars tied up. When the developers sandstoneto build. Theoldest hom,es in Australia , the day attacked us in predlctableterms: "this is realized that they couldn't break.us, they tried to ãi" ü¡ii down there rieht 6y Sydneü harbor. lt was a sheer anarchy" ; (imagi ne) " Bui lders Labourers bribe us. ln one particular matterthey cameto me neighborhood of people who serviced the city, intervening in what should or should not be built," /'usurping the powerof government"; and soon. We, inturn) saidthatwedonotbelievethat' unions must be conf ined to just electing off icials and being concerñed with wages and conditions. Of course, that's a basic role of unions. But unions also have a wider role. 1 , , We've-got the right to intervene in anything con- cerning the worker, and his or her and their families, orother people. We've gotthe right. And we don't believethat dgmocracy is castingã ballot for a government every three orfour year-. Democracy is every day democracy; ii is inter- vening in the'issues that are of concern to people. And if vúe are going to w¡thhold our labor so as to allow those people to der.nonstrate their opposition 'the tothe destruction of bushland, we th i nk that's üery much in order. Creen bans became very, very controversial in Australia. We were inundated with requests. And at the end of four years, we had imposed 42bans, \ holding up work, holding up$4 billion worth oT work. Now, I think the strength of the movement was that we never arrogantly or arbitrarily went around imposing green bans. We always imposed the green bans at the request of a very substantial ex- pres.sion of community desire. And we imposed the Peg Averill / Liberatioh News Servicd bans not as an end in themselves, butto illow and said, if you can see your way clear to get the people who worked on the docks, people who people in those areas to have a greater say and not .residents to allow $200,000,000 worth to be built, worked on the ferries; or worked in the city proper. ' just leave it to the bureaucracy or thegovernment you can havel0o/o of tþetotal proceeds. They put it Well, of course with the c'entral business district of the day to make myopic decisions that they might a bit nicerthan.that. They said¡ "We believe you Bptting smaller and higher, like everywhere else, regret later on. can't be bought, so anycharityyou nominate," this land became very valuable. And so the govern- The controversy raged about the role of unions in probably thinking of J . Mundey, Switzerland, "you ment of the day decided that it would push down all modern society. The governmeilt could have used can have 10% of the proceedg." And then I said, these homes añd bu¡ld f urther concrete, glass, and harsher methods on us -there were many threats look, the main thing is tq get back to the residenis. aluminum monsters. to impose new laws to prevent us from doing green They said, "Whythe residents won't move." Well; Residents of The Rocks came,to us and said, bans, to jail union officials. Butthegovernment I said, we're basing ourselves on the residents, on "We've lived here for all our lives; we lived here wasn't too sure of its ground and its support. And the community. And they said, "Oh come off it, for generations, and it should,be retained." lf there what happened then was that more unions became you can win them round." And then he gave ñe the is going to beany redevelopment, we should have a involved in envirorimental actions. ratiônale. He said, "Co tell them you've cutthis sa! in ñhat sort óf development-whether it's

When we occupied a job, we told everyone that deve I oper back f rom $400, 000, 000 to $200, 000, 000. .going to be medium density, or is it going to be now that the democratic decision has been made by Now, if you go further, you might lose the lot and be infill wherethe places are now really delapidated. the workers to go on str¡ ke, any employer that tries back with the $400,000,000. lf you settle forthe But we shouldn't knock it all down and put up high- to breakthe strike by the use of scab labor runs the $200,000,000 then it's a victory. ' ' So that's the sort rises.l' risk of what might happen to his property. And we of thing we are getti¡g into. Again our union tookthe position that ithad to be.' kicked down a few brick walls. Well, the papers just At times the green bans increased unemploy- the people who made the decision . Well , more than went off thei r brai ns. And they pai nted pictureis of ment. Butthen again, with the redirection of 1,000 people came to the f irst meeting where they Builders Labourers knocking down allSydney. And capital from private commercial building to private requested the green ban be imposed. this had a very detrimental effect, and thete was a housin¡j and flats, for example, it meant no real loss The growing diversity of people involved in re- lotof buildup against us, I received almost daily of employment. Our members would have gained questing the green bans was surprising-both the

'13 12WlN JulyT,1977 J uly Z, 1977 WIN in the city. The proposalthat Australia might get about Centennial Park, there might have þeen country on earth, with 90% of the population living the Olvmpic games in 19BB (to celebrate 200 years some argument about The Rocks, but this time the in eight cities. As a matter of fact, we have more of Austral ian ru le) rnoved the civíc fathers to sug- union has gone too far. The workers are drunk with than half the population in two cities. gest that we would build the sports stadia, power, and they've iust gonetoo far. We replied They were going to build this big power station gymnasia, and plenty of places to park the god Car that the people who will be displaced are people right near Melbourne. Environmentalists and citi- on this huge park. like you. if not you . They are people of the lower zeis opposed the nuclear station on a number of Again, an amazing varietyof people supported echelon in society; they are people that will be grounds. Firstof all, was theenergy really needed? the green ban and looked upon it as a legitimate Ãnd second, if it was to be built, it should be buílt . . . unions ¡n modern society must thrown out elsewhere. " form of protest and def inite action- including such We called a meeting of our members, and our elsewhere, on the coal f ields of central Victoria, look beyond the hip-pocket nerve, people as Patrick White, the Nobel Prize winñer; members voted not to demolish any house or any where it could create employment and would be the former Archbi shop of Sydney, Cardi nal C i I roy, building, flat, or apartment'in the proposed path of less damaging to the environment. That ban has must be concerned about issues of who normally didn't aiign himseif with tne eu¡taéls the motorway. That has now held for four years. held for two years despite very strong opposition. Labourers' causes, I can ãssure you; Vincent Cer- We're saying, can't we learn from the tragedies of And despitethe spending of millions of the public's concern to the worker and his family, vente, oneof our leading naturalists; and Harry Torontd, of Los Angeles, of Tokyo? The money that money by way of trying to state the case for the Miller, one of the entrepreneurs who is anything would be spent on an expensive motorway should state electricity commission. The ban has still held, and not just the workshop floor, not but a supporterof any union, let alone a radical be redirected towards publictransport. The ban and the majority of trade unions in the Victoria militant union. These peoplewereall saying, "We has held so far, even though the loþbying con- Trades Hall Council have stood firm. Theopposi- just t the factory. . . . We've got the want a green ban to protect this place for pos- tinues. The fight isn't over yet. tion has all this money, and yet the union move- terity." A green ban was imposed atthe requestof just right to intervene in anything con- There is now a movement beyond the men?has voted to retain the ban. avery big meeting. And such was theoppositiqn to Builders Labourers union. We now have 14 unions The government has threatened to jail leaders, the proposal that the government was foiced to . cerning the worker, and his or her in various parts of Australia that have engaged in conf iscate union f unds, and so on if the unions con- abandon it. . l some sortof environmental action. l'll justquote a tinue to stand in the path of whatthe government, and their families, or other people. Again, herethe union i,vasn't negative. We, couple of the outstand¡ng successes somewhat vaguely, calls "vital projects. " " didn't say that we wouldn't build'a sports stadium. Fraser lsland is the largest sand island in the The union responded by saying that if anyone is quite We said thät the siting was wrong, that we'd world. tt's on thê barrier reef off the east coastof fined or lailed, there would be a general strike. build the sports stadiüm elséwhere, brit not there. Queensland, which is in atropicalarea, tthas a Even conservative forces have questioned the wis- Part of the Botan ical Cardens was to be uhiquely beautiful rain forest and a very fragile dom of the government making threats like this. destroyed to make a car,park for the Opera House. ecology becauseof the sand formation. Dillingham ln Septembe r, 197 5,we were able to get through The Opera House had been built at a cost of $120 Corporation,.the multi-national, received the ri ght the Australian Council of Trade Unions (which is , million. Not that the cost is important, but I mean to go in and sand minethe island. Environ- the national congress of our trade union move- it's a fair bit of money to spend. ,And the builders meitalists argued that if this oecurred the sand ment) a resolution calling for the banning of the had forgotten about a place called a car park. They island would be spoiled forever. mining, handling, and exþortof uranium. ' at the eleventh hour, or should I say hypo- , .tþen {ecjded Dillingham immediately took up the usual For a while the campaign against n' ¡clear power thê eleventh-and-a-half hour, that they would cut critical hue and cry, saying, herethey are giving had been building up in Australia. And because of Anglican and the Catholic priests participated, : downthreelovelyoldfietrees, 140yearsold, spoil men work, and these men will lose work, and so on. developments here and elsewhere, well then, we the small en(repreneurs, the small togetherwith , the contours of the Botanical Gardens, cut into a The environmentalists countered by saying that in were f inding that there is a more serious ques- people \ business whose interest it was to keep the high cliff face right near the Opera House, and the long run, keeping the island as a haven for tioning of the whole so-called nuclear solution. small busíness in area because knew t the they that buildahugecarpark.' bushwálkers, for naturalists, woùld generate fai We were a bit surprised when there was such.an once the large buildings came they would have to Again there was widespread opposition that led more e¡nployment than allowing mining for a short overwhelming vote at the congress for the ban on move elsewhere. And then the residents took the to a big protest meetíng and to the Builders term. The mining would be capital and energy in- the m in i rl g. Dãspite a chan ge in government si nce green initiative of countering the claims that the Labourers imposing â green ban. The Opera House tensive, would use very few actual workers, and vote, there has survived in Australia a strong just the bans were negative by coming forward with opened in 1973 without a car park. And it's func- would destroy a resource forever. The nearby city feeling that we should have some greater control plan theirown þeople's forThe Rocks, which tioned for the last three years without a car park of Maryboroügh on the coast would gain.more em- overourown resources. spelled out in detail what should be built in The quite successfully. A shuttle service brings Opera ploymentoveil5or20years if the island is undis- Rocks. Residents arguedthattheir plan would House patrons from anearbyexisting publiccar tuibed. Update create more work in the long run than if the high' park. An overhead walkway leads some 300 yards The trade union movement refused to take the rises had been built. (which isgoodexercise, anyway, formanyof the bulldozers over to the island. So Dillingham, to- The green ban ñovement has made its point. The The Rocks are still standing. lf the ban hadrt't patrons) tothe nearby underground railway gether with the government, had allthe rights, all green ban uranium mining is not just story of the on been imposed, that neighborhood would be a station. Nobody now would suggest that the the legal rightto mine. Butthe community-or a over yet. The Australian Councilof Trade Unions contínuation of the insurance companies, banks, Botanical Gardens be carved up for a car park. segmènt ofthe community, because part of the dropped the green ban on uranium mining in right down to the Sydney harbor. I cite these as examples of changed community community was brainwashed by Dillineham propa- December'1976 butonly for one mine, the Mary The victory heralded a success for keeping a part values, The resident group action movement, the ganda- but a sufficient strength in the community, Kath I ee n and o n I y to f u I f i I I exi sti n g contr acts. of the inner low-income earners. Partof the citizens gained cityfor movement, has credence and þlus the union movement, ref used to give the The green- ban stilltheoretically holdsfor lurther agreement reached when the people drew up their power. The unions'green bans are far more island up. miningor exploitation oÍ uranium in Australia. plan for The Rocks specifiedthat a percentageof prophetic and more far-sighted than the governJ The government finally held an inquiry and con' new construction must be for low-income resi- , ment of the day. And that's won a lot of support cluded that Fraser lsland should not be mined. dents. This avoids the inequities that result when over the long term forthis type of action. Another outstanding victory is the nuclear power A long interview with Jack Mundey appears in the the regeneration of the inner city ends up bene- A networkof motorways was proposed for Syd- station which was to be built near Melbourne. Syd- Spring issue of CoEvolution Quarterly. You can g you ght groups, fittin those mi calI trendy or the ney that would have meant the demolition of 25,000 ney has a population of aboutthree million; Mel- order it for $2.50 from PO Box 428, Sausalito, CA professional m iddle professional, upper-middle homes. The.unÍon opposed the construction and bourne has a population of almostthree million. 94965. Not Man Apart is published semi-monthly comes back into the nicef renovated houses ¡n that supported the Save Þubiic Trantport Committee. This shows the concentration of people in a small by Frienls of the Earth. You can receive it either by part of the city. So it insured that there would be a Resident action came together tö oppose the areaof Australia. There is an illusion about joining FOE ($2Olyear) or subscribing ($1O//ear) socro-economrc mrx ¡n that area. demolition of these homes. Australia being a land of sheep stations and koala Write to:-FOE, 124 Spear, San Francisco, CA park Centenn ial Park is a of more than 40O acres The media conduCted a concerted campaign, bears and kangaroos, and soon. But really 94105. green in Sydney-the last remaining big area saying ther:e might have been some argument Australia, next to Singapore, is the most urbanized

1aw)N )ulv7,1977 J uly 7, 19ZZ WIN 1s armaments - n uclear or non- iexual attacks on mental patients, MEDIA, PA- The Brandywine nuclear carried aboard.)' lCirst- the retarded and prisoners will in- Alternative Fund will sponsor a overruns" have skyrocketed the crease. series of ''presences" in the del ivery price. Reti r:ed admiral But gay rights supporter Chester and Delaware county Elmo R. Zumwalt, formerchief of Senator Chester Atkins strongly areas during August 6-9, the'Hiro- naval operations has estimated the disagreed. "What someone does sh ima-Nagasaki bombing com- f inal costs at $300 million for each in their own home is none of the memoration s. Anyone interested ship. 28 fast-attack ships are under state's business," said Atkins. in participating çan contact BAF, S contract to be built and this class of ' lHomosxuality is not contagious. (215) 565-0247 or 565'1765. submarine is slated to replacethe People who want to work and can" 65 nuclear powered attack sub- do the job have a rightto work." NEW HAVEN, CT-National marines of older designs currently After a court suit in 1973,the Conference orr United States' in operation. ' federal government issued a civil Responsibility to Vietnam. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS EPA CIVES SEABROOK USS NEWYORK CITY The next launching, the USS service rule barring discrimination fueakers include; Don Luce, Cora MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS PLANT A GREEN Weiss, Cloria Emerson, Yale Law LICHT LAUNCHED AT GROTON Indianapolis is scheduled for J uly against gay people in federaljobs. FOR CONSTRUCTION School, Saturday, Spon- Well over one hunctred thousand 30. Protest actions are being The proposed Massachusetts July9; More than 75 peoplà from Connec- sored by AFSC, WILPF, Promot' people participated ín marches On Friclay, planned. AlfUord legislation, says Atkins, is a )une17,the Environ- ticut, New York, and Massa- -Glen ing Enduring Peace. For informa- marking the beginning of Cay mental weaker version of this federal Protection Agency an- chusetts gathered atthe main gate tion contact: Conn. Peace Action Pride Week on Sunday, J une 26 in nounced 2OOPROTEST 8.1 policy. The bill now goes to the the approval of the plans of Ceneral Dynamics-Electric Boat Coalition, 853 Townsend Ave., cities across the United States. for the cooling system pro- ATWHITE HOUSE Massachusetts House, where it is of the Division shipyard in Croton, Con- New Haven ,CT 06512. $3 regis= Estimates of the crowd in New posed nuclear power plant at expected to face an uphill battle. Sea- necticut, Saturday, J une 18, to 20Oopponents ofthe B-1 bomber tration. York City ranged f Representative Elai ne Noble, rom 50 to brook, New Hampshire. The protest the launching of the picketed the White House une 20 100,000 people. Public J sponsor of the recent bill, is the NYC Murray Rosenbl There was an Service Company of NH, USS New Yor k C ity eighth and called on President Carter to - ith speaks equally large march builder -the first open lesbian to be elected to a on "Fighting Nuclear Power in San Fran- of the nuke, can now nuclear powered submarine of the halt production of the $94 billion' , cisco state legislature. She has also and smaller, but wellturned resume full construction opera: Navy.'s new USS Los Angeles fast- weapons system. During his cam- Through Direct Action" atthe gatherings introduced legislation which would out, in Miami, Los tions at the plant site. Príorto the attack class. paign Carter made statements Free Association, 5 West 20th St., Angeles, make it illegalto discriminate Friday, pm. Chicago, Atlanta, EPA ruling, the company was Demonstrators from the non- indicating his opposition to the J uly 8, 7:30 For infor- Kansas ' against gays in privateemploy- (212) -0699. City, Providence, Rhode working undgr a limited permit. violent Atlantic Life B-1. But recent statements consti- mation, call 691 lsland, and Seattle. ln Portsmouth, NH, ment, housing and credit eligibili- theClam- Community -who have sustained tute what many of his critics call " a sAN LU|SOB|SPO, CA-The The New York march went shell Alliance, a coalition of ty, a bill similar to the widely pub- from 24 arrests durihg the past month turn around." Abalone Alliance is organizing a Christopher Street organizations opposed to the licized Dade Countyordinance de- in Creenwich during anti-Trident submarine ac- "Carter's B-'l decision will be an nonviolent direct action against Village'to Central Park. plant's construction, announced feated by Anita Bryant's "Save At one it tíons, sponsored the action. Leaf:- acid test of his credibility, his the Diablo Canyon nukeforthe point the march extended would continueto fight the plant Our Children" campaign in early forover lets warning "A Hard Rain (of priorities, and his strength of August 6 weekend. Area residents 27 blocks down Fifth Avenue. through nonviolent direct action. J une. nuclear bombs) is Conna Fall,, leadership in the face of Pentagon -LNS interested in participating in this Many of the marchers ln a statement released that day, carried were passed out to the people who and corporate pressure," said EVENTS and other anti.n uke activities in \ signs denouncing anti-gay the Clamshell asserted, "That thó activist attended the launching. Demo¡- Carol Ness of Clergy and Laity southern California can contact the Anita Bryant, such as Carter administration would allow AUSTIN, TX-American Friends "Anita-We strators carried black umbrellaÀ as Concerned, one of seven groups Alliance at: PO Box 1598i San Luis would rather f this construction to go Servicé Committee sponsors acon- ight than switch.,, ahead is a a graphic remínderthat an sponsori n g the protest. (805) ference on ''Toward a New lnter- Obispo, CA 93406. 544-7148. Several people carried signs declaratíon of war against the inlminent shower of nuclear poisons After the scheduled end of the natural national Economic Order: SANTACRUZ, Re- saying, "No More Miamis" re- environment and those exists as a result of nuclear arma- demonstration, 1B people sat-in on CA-The who are protecting Cooperation'or Conf rontation ?" ferring to.the recent recall of à gay dedicated to it. ments. the Wh ite House driveway to source Center for Nonviolence will ' "The Cartèr adm i n with speakers and workshops, Fri- rìghts ordinance; Bryant headõd istration Meanwh i le about 2,000.people f urther dramatize their opposition hold a series of "Conversations in underestimates day, J uly 29-Saturday, J uly 30. For the recall drive in Dade County, the streny'th of in the shipyard watched the USS to the weapon s system . They were Nonviolence" with lra Sandperl, millions people inforrrration, contact: Ken Florida. of in this cõuntry New York City slide down the arrestedat 3 pm. July14-23 and August 12-21. Ses- and around the world who do not Carpenter, AFSC, 600 West 28th sions will be at the Center, 515 ,ln San FranÇísco, the march building ways into the Thámes The groups sponsoring the rally want atomic power plants built and River. st., -102 {ustin, Tx78705. (512) Broadway; su g gested donation s stretched overtwo miles. The New York City mayor Abra- also requested a personal inter- who are willing to act on theircon- ham 47 4-2399. 91 0 reg i stration fee. q30-50. For information, contact mood in the BayAreawas some- Beame spoke dúrinj the view with President Carter. So far victions. " the Center at: PO Box 2324, Santa what tenser due to the recent launching ceremony andjoked that he has not responded to any of BANGOR, WA-The Pacific Life The statement, which was co- now he Cruz, CA 95063, (408) 423-1626. stabbing death of a city gardener, could "slip in andout of theircommunications.'-LNS Community is sponsoring a Sum- signed by over 20 environmental New York Robert Hillsborough. City without being mer long program, J une 25 - and groups I Hillsborough anti-nukq across the sgen." MASSACHUSETTS SENATE August 14, to build nonviolent We would particularly like to list was assaulted out- ' country concluded, "The fight Beame's jokes rang hollow events people are organizing '. side his apartment on J une 22 bv how- PASSES GAY RIGHTS BILt resistance to the Trident base at against the Seabrook plant and ever, around H irosh imaand Nagasaki four men who yelled, "taggot,, as to the millions of New York Bangor. For information on other nukes is not over..We will Cay rights legislation met with days. Many groups will bê spon- they beat him and a companion. City residents who have experi- Bangor Summer workshops and continue to do whatever initial success in the Massa- Police in riot gear were stationed is neces- enced cuts in vitalcity services or actions, contact, Bangor Summer soring actions relat¡ng to nuclear sary within the nonviolent frame-' chusetts State Senate J une 13, power get. along the march route, but unemployment as a result of the Task Force, PLC,61624th Ave. and disarmament. To there work to guarantee plant with a 18 to 17 vote in favor of a bill were this will city's deepening f inancial crisis; East, Seattle, (206)324-7184. your adtion listed in EVENTS, no incidents of violence. prohibiting discrimination WA not be built. " Newsdesk and whose tax dollars are used to against send iton a postcardto: Events, ln Barcelona, Spain, policL - homosexuals publ finance a record-high inilitary in ic employ- LACEY, WA-The WRL Annual WlN, 503 Atlantic Ave., 5th floor, broke up a march of 4,0Ò0. The ment. budget which is funding the ion- Conference at the Crinwood Con- Brooklyn, NY 11217. Be sureto in- march was to mark "The World Senate Republ struction a f leet icans led opposi- ference & Retreat Center, August clude time, date, place and the Dayof of of New York Cay Pride." TheCay City type submarines tion tothe bill, calling homo. 11-14. For information, contact: name of the sponsoring drganiza- Liberation Front an of Catalonia Originally the ship was est¡- sexuality "ancient disease,, WRL, 331-7th Ave. East, Seattle, tion. Don't forget to send an ad- sponsored the gathering. and asserting that gays mated to cost $180 million. (The if are al- WA 98112 or 339 Lafayette St., dress and phone numberfor lowed to work in Newsdesk cost of construction not including statõ institutions, NY, NY 10012. people to contact. 16WlN )uiy7,1977 Ju1y7,1977 YllN17 The threat to Bruce Baechler's sion, has quickly become an f reeclom continues. The f irst post- expensive nightmare. The New Vietnam war resister to be con- YorkTimes recentlycarried a story jailed victed and for refusing to on Butner which was headed "Ex- register, Bruce is nowon parole perimental Prison is Troubled'by but could be arrested and returned the SameOld Problems." The to prison at any tinre. After serving parole board has refused to nearly 14 months of a prison provide firm release dates for the sentence, Bruce was released. He Butner prisoners as the experi- does not acknowledge the right of ment envisioned, single rooms are the state to supervise his life and already being transformed into ref uses to cooperate with the doubles, there are no vocational restrictions of his movement which programs, and very few iobs, and parole involves. a preliminary At PRISON NOTES the warden opposes work release, hearing held May 18, parole study release and furloughs. The authorities decided that there was activists, who had been raising Times quotes one prisoner as "probable caLlse" to schedule a funds for legal help, werecharged saying, "This place plays tricks parole EISE. . . revocation hearing at a later with extortion, removed from with your mind. It's a farce, a $20 EVERYTH¡NG wolves-although some bite harder, some will take Daniel L. Klauck your date. Bruce has informedthe population and placed in solitary million flop." life. There are many high quality poems in this just ar¡thorities that he will not conf inement. This repressive King Publications, Washington DC | 1976 | f0lû.pp, I volume; there's no use talking about them; I wish coo¡rc,rate with this procedure. He move came after two hundred ln a ruling which theeditorof the ss you could read them all right now. is going about his l¡usiness as a Dayto n D a i I y News characterized These poems are weapons. Nonviolent missles that Marion general population, It would be a lie to say thet there is not one mediocre productive and useful person and prisoners as "astonishing," North Carolina succeed in shaking the objects of their attack and signed a petition de- poem in Everything else'. . . , but only one bad poem in it would be an outrage to send him J udge George Fountain dismissed raising the human sensitivity of both the victims and mandi ng i congressional nvestiga- a young poet's first book is nothing to be ashamed of , . back to pri son to serve another the Wilmington 10's requeót for a theofficialdom. An'd that's what poems should be: tion of the control unit, a move especially when a good number of the pieces here can yearof his sentence. This could newtrial. J udge Fountain did not marching music toward a new world. These poems, which was a response to a Chicago stand up strongl'y against the work of our modern well happen unless enough people believe that there was any substan- which were wrítten in prison, exist in the milieu of newspaper quote from Marion's masteri, Ci ns6eig ánd Ferl iirghetti. protest to the US Parole Board, 320 ' tial denial of constitutional r¡ghts, human existence and sharpen our struggles. They warden, whci was reported as " lf You Escape to Manitoba the Wolves' ll Cet First St. NW, Room 342, Washing- even though three key witnesses help uncover "the wolves" and build our solidarity as saying : "Main-line (general You" is a poem with that strength. lt works as a chant ton, DC 20537 which has the for the state recanted their testi- human beings. , population) prisoners havea love- with sound rolling over one another; it tumbles with authority to end j urisdiction, mony. The decision is now under The book is artf ully typeset and bound, but, mad- or to hate feeling about the control unit. repetition key words in phrases appeal. Meanwhile, of created from dif- quiteexpensive. poems generally President Carter, who could com-, They hate it for what it is, but they attorneys are perspectives. deningly, Books of asking North govérnor ferent lts theme is escape, but unfor- quite poorly, mute his sentence. love it because they would rather' Carolina's tunately cost a bit because they sell but $5 is to pardon the Wilmingtoñ 10. Let- steep and evên forbidding to so many folks who would \ Heavy repression has again hit not have anyof those men loose ters of support for such a pardon . love and use these poems. There is a reason though, prison.activist among them." The NationalCom- ¡ thewolves areeverywhere. . J ohnny Cibbs. After should be sent to Governor and a good one: King Publications exists for the sole put mittee to Save the Marion Brothers J ames he was into solitary and beaten B. Hunt; Raleigh, North Carolina. in the schools purpose of publishing prisoners work, and although badly by guards at Lexington he is asking people to demand a con- the institutes gressional some foundation money i s avai lable the tasks con - was f jail, investigation of this moved, irst to a county The J une 19, 1977 issueof Parade andcolleges fronting the publishers are monumental and expen- then Ft. new repression and also to write playgrounds to Worth, and finallyto Magazine includes dn excellent. on the sive. As Klauck's work shows, prison art is not some- the J udge J ames Foreman, US District Medical Center for Federal article by Donald Robinson on thecampgrounds thing strange, something freakish for sociologists and Prisoners at n gf Çourt, 750MissouriAve., E. St. Spri ield, Missouri. "The Scandalous MedièalCare in weird art critics, but dynamic creation right out of the Prison Louis, Mo 63112, asking him to officials deny he was beaten Our Jails." lt is mostly basedon a ?.il:",;:f!f:iif, veins of America. For America's sake it needs be rule for the prisoners in Bono ys. ' to at Lexington. claiming instead that current American Medical Associ- themorgues heard. he guards. Saxbe, and close the control unit. assaulted At lastreport at¡on survey of lail medical pro- and asylums Klauck's words arethe best: "l believe emphatical- ohnny was grams J in Springfield for The presenceof male guards in and quotes Joseph R. but hardly any are lelt in the forests ly in the universal power of poetry. ln its essential "psych iatric services, " an prisons Rowan, the di rector of the AMA,s and the oneswho are women's is acommon l truth, ln its abilitytotransform human suffering and ominous excuse which has jail programs: already cause for complaint, ranging from "The health care in well despair into a purposef ul restoration of the human been uied to deprive him of im- many localjails is so they carrY guns now violation of privacy to rape oi at- badthat it spirit embellished with a basic need to excellence. " ( portant documents sent . to him via tempted rape. Acting in a recent const¡tutes 'cruel and unusual man... And he's right. certified mail by Sister Evelyn punishment.' 't suit brought by several women lt's a violation of the thewolves Everythi-ngelse. . .can beorderedfrom King Pub- Ancilla, who is a prison activist in inmates' prisoners on behalf of allfour constitutional rights. killing.us lications, PO Box 19332,Washington DC 20036. $5 Cincinnati. Those close to ohn are Furthermore, J hundred women prisoners at New it is a menaõeto the in manitoba and2ïl. for postage. Lee Webster deeply disturbed about his safety rest - York's only women's prison, the of us because they brínc their or pittsburgh and even fear for his life. Pressure illnesses out with Bedford Hills Correctional theñ." lñ oreastlesus arkansas should be put on the Bureau of response to Facility, Federal J udge Richard the scandalous situa- Prisons to get him outof Spring- tion, AMA is planning a Allof us sameexperienceevervtime Owen ruled that women prisoners national havethe we THE KABIR BOOK: Versions of Robert Blv / A field. accreditation system for jails, dealwith some or speakoutoñ have a right to privacy and that no bureaucrat, the stieet, Seventies Press Book, Beacon Press, Boston 1977 / male guards should be assignedto which includes regular inspections and although our experience may not be as unfree as I ncreasi ng support 71pp. w/illus. I û7.95 hardbound / $3.95 paperback among prison's of jail medical facilities by teams of Klauck's his words ring with brutal truth. Wolves are prisoners general the housing units. in the population vol unteer doctors. "We must stoo Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates; the new love for the Marion Brothers ' in that The new, experi mental federal taking chances with the health of Lee Webster resularly reviewspoetry forWlN. W.D. opensthem prison's long-term control prison unit has at Butner, North Carolina, jail inmates," Rowan said. ',For Eh r h art is co-ed-itor of Dem i I itarized Zones. and The sound of the gates opening wakes the be:autif ul brought new repression. On Fri- with its modern istic arch itecture, their sake and for ours.." ai,uthor of A Cenerat¡on of Peace and Rootl eis. S peci al. woman as/eep. day, J une 10, three prisonqr plush carpeting and color televi- Gara thanks to Paul Carroll for the time needed to wri'te the Kabir says: Fantastic! Don't let a chance like this go -Larry review. bv! 18wtN Ju\y7,1977 )uly7,1977 WaN19 to the spirit of Tasore's Kabir, Bly has given the poet Bly himself demonstrates a good deal of humility. Noting the problems of translating through what lndeed, don't let a chance like thís go by: a chance to His desire to make us open to everything, his eager- a voice to match t-he intensity of that spirit. languages, states, read, forthefirsttime in modern English,44of the ness to debunk traditions and break down the barriers What's more, Bly has madethe poems delightfully amounts to three-and-a-half he "if speaking Hindiwould liketo help me, l'll do beautiful poems of the lndian poet, Kabir. of total love are infectuous. Sometimes he speaks as a contemporary, both i n place and time..Mãkin g sub- anyone poems]over." Until'that happens, wecan still We.know very little about Kabir. Even his birth and man, sometimes as a woman; sometimes he assumes st¡tut¡ons such as "loaded gun" for "deadly [the poet Kabir as Bly has presented him death dates are beyond confirmation. Though Bly ' the voice of the Guest, other times the Secret One weapon," "horse-chestnut" for "banyan tree," ieadily enjoy the As Bly ¡5 ul every day for the gift" says tentatively that Kabir was born in 1398 and died "makes love" with him. Always, Kabirexults in the "student" for "sadhu," and "synagogue" for to us here. '.'gratef poems, grateful gift in 1518, other sources place his birth as late as1440, spontaneityof living: "kaaba." Blv lets us feel at ease in familiar sur- of Kabir's I arn equally for Bly's poems his death as early as1448. The circumstances and roundings wíthout damaging the essence of Kabir's. of rnaking the accessibleto me. They are Those who hope . f I events of his life have largely been obscured by to be reasonable about it f ail meantngs. thought-provoki n g, ul I of ife, O""r,,tj*. The arrogance reason legend and the'passage of time. of has separated us from that D. Ehrhart lave. We do knowthat he was probably raised as a Mos- **** lem in Benares, andthat, asayoungman, hefollowed lucky joy the Hindu teacher Ramananda, eventually How Kabir is, thatsurrounded by altthis he sings inside his own little boat. developing a following of his own. lncorporating ideas from the Hindu sects as well as the Sufi Moslems, he A musician as well as a poet, Kabir's poems ring t taughta balance between the ecstatic non-orthodoxy with musical imagery, with songs and dulcimers, .th of the Suf i's and the more sober classicism of the drums andflutes. But in the midstof itall, he knows '''i[ãkno*Hindus. that we can never really name the source, but on ly re- alsothat Kabir was clearly not a religious joice in its multiple man ifestations: " l know the sound ascetic. Supporting a wife and family by weaving, of the ecstatic f lute,/but I do not know who's f lute it Kabir says, "what is most aliveof all is insideyour is." The combination of confidenceänd humílity own house." Though he is revered as a saint by Mos- which Kabir exhibits is perhaps the most startling lems and Hindus alike, he would bridle at the dog- beauty of poems. Kabir is - thege one with himself , Leaving the Cuns Behind maticteachings since and still expounded in his with his irision of Cod, and with his universe. name: We do not knowrryhat any certainty, of course, what Lightsailswest; Kabir was really We are niþhtsails in across the Eastern Shore; Suppose y,ou scrub your ethical skin until shines, like. not even sure if he it actually wrote poems, we sai/ sout h past Turkey Point but inside there is no music, these or if they were written where col on i àl gu n r u nner s anchored. then what? ' down byothers from hisoral recitations. Theoriginal poems werewritten in Hindi and latertranslated into We sail south past Aberdeen He was a heretic, as free-wheeling and undogmatic Bengali. Much later, Sir Rabindranath Tagoretrans- where the modern merchants as the Quakers. "There is nothing but water in the lated the Bengali into the Víctorian English of his day. test the¡r latest wares;' job, holy pools," Kabir says; "l know, I have been swim- While Tagore did an admirable the English of his paèt Ceor getown, where the lady ming in them. " And like the Quakers, Kabir's search lime was, as BIy states, "hopeless" in conveying the loaded cannon with the trooqs; for understanding is a personal matter f inally radiance and vibrance buried beneath the surface of past Baltimore, where the British navy \ between Cod and each individual human being: Tagore's rather stuffy, preachy Kabir. burst bombs in air above McHenry. Bly, reading Tagore with deep respect and sensi- ¡ You will notf ind me in stupas, not in !ndian shrine tivity, has breathed back into Kabirthe lifethat we We sai I south past An n apol i s ; roomst nor in synagoguest nor . in cathedrals. , feel surely the poet himself must have possessed. pastthe river of the eastern Union army Friend, /isten: theCodwhom One I loveis inside. example will suff ice. where the Pentagon squais; past st. Michaels, wherethe hunters Desiroús of'avoiding the rigidity which comes of Tagore's Kabir: m an ned thei r d uckbl i nds with arti I I ery. dividing the total life experience into artif icial cate- s;Erle,;#rã of tove! gories, Kabir seldom even lath uses the word " Cod" Therein there is no asking and no not asking, Nightsai/s on, andwe saLilsouth ("We mustn't giveitaname,/ lest people silly start There one /oses one's self at His feet, past Norfo/k navy yard talking again about the body and the but in- soul"), There one is immersed in the of t/re seeking; toward open sea stead refers variously to " my ioy Lord," "the Teacher," plunged in the deeps of love asthef ish and bellies tull of Caribbean rum, "the Guest, " or "the Secret One. Kabir's perspec- " in the water. toward always-sun and always will i ng tive istotal: life, love, insects, plants, the seasons and The lover is never slow in offering his head for nut-brown women people I part stars, God, - al are of the one great whole his Lord'sservice. old Cornwallis dreamed of in the night which cannot be divided. before the m.orning, he surrendered. Kabir is not, however, primarily a religious Bly's Kabir: Ehrhart teacher; and he should not be read that way. Bly's The bhakti path winds in a delicate way . -W.D. afterward wisely avoids morethan a nod atthecom- On this path there is no asking and no not asking plexities of eastern religions and Kabir's place among The ego simply disappears the moment you touch him. them. Kabir is for us, as perhaps he was for the people The ìoy of looking for him is so immense thatyou of his own time, above all, a poet. And like all great justdive in, and coastaround like afish poets, he speaks to all peopleof all walks in in the water 'And alltimes. what a voice! Whether speaking of love, the tl anyoneneeds a hand, the'lover leaps up to offer his. eternal cycleof creation, ortheexcesses of thê yogies, K ab i r' s p'oems tou ch on th e secrets of th i s bh akt i . Kabir is always exuberant, his voice full of energy and While Bly is occasionally a bittoo hard on Tagore's joy and wonder- like a child on Saturday morning: language (l prefer Tagore's "Flowers bloom in clus- Doyou haveabodv? ters" to Bly's "When one floweropens, ordinarily Don't siton the porch! dozens open"), a careful reading of both texts would Go out and walk in the rain ! yield few disatisfactions with Bly's changes. Faithf ul

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