ACTIVISTS’ GUIDE: CENTRAL AMERICA, WOMEN, LABOR, ENVIRONMENT, PEACE... I SOLIDARITY SUMMI:R I ’86

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Summer, 1986 Volume 11, Number 16 Published at UCSD 19th Year of Publication

AS MOVES TO SLASH INSIDE The AS ElectionsChallenges NEW INDICATOR BUDGET The AS Media Board met with representativesof the Yardbirds CentralAmerica alternativemedia on Monday,June 2 to determinehow much money to allocateto each newspaper.The recent Frats Shantytowns studentreferendum directed the AS to maintainthe Brin~Back Big Mac~ media’scurrent fundin~ level. While the budgetsfor most of the alternativemedia did indeedremain un- SpecialSection touchedor receiveda slightincrease, the new indicator II budgetwas slashedby 23%--almostall fromour printin~ New Indicator Non-ProfitOrg. budget--worsethan the beatin~it wouldhave received StudentOrganizations U.$.Postage UC San Diego,B-023 PAID from the infamous Fahlbuschproposal rejected by La Jolla,CA 92093 La Jolll,CaM. studentsand repealedby the new councilat theirfirst PermitNo. ~4 meeting(see inside). 3 2 From the Mouthof the Wolf: preventits recurrence. It is thefeeling of of the consequencesof blindlyleaping OPINION’. the majorityof Nicaraguansthat the intoa warin whichwe haveno justifiable Commentary: arrivalof U.S.troops is inevitable,and reason being involved.We can only the Sandinistaarmy is consequently speculatehow reflective this action is of Revolution in America preparingto defendtheir country from the Reaganscheme to escalatehis war Community Colleges Need Change foreigninvaders. and, in the meantime,misinform tbe Left Bantustans (’learcut issue~are rare nowadays,ol the State ot California’shigher Revolutionhas cometo the Americas. his insanewar provocationswill be Withthe aid of largenumbers of well- ncitizenryof thisnation of thesituationi We ha’.cone rightunder our no,cs, in educationsalary scale. The peasantsand workersin Central acceptedby enoughto pass the bill CentralAmerica. In SouthAfrica’s Bantustans, existing the Reagan administration.What wc armed,well-trained U.S. troops,the out localcommunitycollegcs, lhevat(’ The community colleges were Americahave finallysaid "No" to the beforethe Novemberelections. The FSLN flag in Managua flies ethnic and tribal rivalries are mustbear in mindis that allpeople have contrascould very easily entrench their goingdownhill la.~t, and tw(’att,~e Ol separated from the kindcrgardcn U.S.and its puppetdictatorships. This NextJanuary, though, there will be a proudlyover an embittereddemocracy deliberately manipulated by the a right to resist oppression and homelandin a long and unnecessary t!~ll~,ttl(3tltil~¢’lH(’ll[. through12th gradesystem more than a declarationof self-determination seeking peace. In Pan-American governmentas a means of controlling dominationwherever it exists,whether it new House. Its compositionwill be bloodbath that would decimate decadeago, on the ~av towardsjoining naturallyhas notbeen well-received in decidedby the extentto whichthe new solidarity,we must lay aside our the oppressedAfrican majority’. The is a patriardhalhousehold, a South Undergood naanagcment, I v, ouldnot Nicaragua,and, most likely,a large withthe state unixcrsity arm UC system, Washington, where methods of ideologiesand realize the real enemies of authoritiesin Pretoriaare wellaware Africangold mine, a bananaplantation ha’,eto tell\ou about their situation. onslaughtof Reagan’sramblings is portionof CentralAmerica, for years lhcyarc in limboand in needof help. maintainingthe "statusquo’" are being acceptedand will decidethe immediate the peopleof Nicaraguaare terrorist that such divisionsand conflictsare in CentralAmerica, or a Palcstinian IhcitBoard i)t I rustcc~and (’hanccllor even after the fightingstops.Reagan formulatedconstantly. counterevolutionariesand repressive crucialin maintainingI preservingl white refugeecamp in Southernl,cbanon. would ha~c intormcdthe community I hc State(’ommission on Review’ot the futureof thiscontinent. If thePresident maintainsthat a U.S.invasion will not MasterPlan holds to my formulations U.S.imperialism. minorityrule and slave-likeeconomic longago. I,et me exphtin. Moreover,if we allowourselves to be can drum up enough anti-communist happen. It is of coursetrue that much ot the on the needlor collegialautonom3 and buriedunder President Reagan’s recent ignoranceand prejudice to passhis aid exph)itationThe apartheid (which fragmentationattd atomizationot the I he inlormationthey had ~upte~scd Whyshould we believehim.’ ,"~cttitlE~ The peopleof the Revolutiondo need upgradingol thev,;.t’, the faculties arc delugeof propaganda,we willallow our bill,there will be verylittle to prevent meansapart and separate)system would progressivemovement in the I’.nitcd brokeinto the open on April31) ol thi~ aside any speculationsof Reagan’s our help to becomefree. Their freedom treated, plus strong ad~ocacx ol governmentto perpetuatea longhistory him fromescalating his private war with crumblerapidly if thevarious groups of \ear, ,ahcn 200 (’itxCollege students, militaristicnature, we need only to wouldbe hastenedby a diligenteffort on Statesis not of our ¢)~n doing and outreachand remedialprograms to deal of installingand supportingunpopular Managua. Africans,Coloureds, and Indiansfound intuit\itnd administratt+rs, in+. historic examinethe facts.For example,it is an ourpart to reflectupon the errors of our reflectsreal divisionsand conflicts withthe droppingenrollment. ways to work aroundtheir difference: show+or unanitnit.~,descended on the andrepressive regimes, the practice that Quitesimply, the counterrevolution-openfact thatthe CaliforniaNational governmentin Vietnam,Haiti and the withinour society. Nor should wc lorgct South African Bishop Desmond Tutu (economic,political, ethnic, ideological) the FBI’ssecret COINTEI,PR() war headquarters ol the (’otnmunit~ Such, in briefis my xcrsionol the ariesare fighting a war theycannot win Guard,which has a high percentageof Philippines,and can be expeditedby the calls,"backing the wronghorse." to challengethe regime’s ability to keep politicaldissent, the CIA’s surveillance (’ollcgcsto sa\cthe 250 classes to bc cut situation.Fhere is much to be done withoutconsiderable U.S. intervention. Chicanosand Latinos,is beingsent to combinationof an elevatedlevel of themdivided. This is why organizationsanddisruption of anti-~’argroups, and lromtheir curriculum. I heir capacit} to Iirst.the Boardol Trusteesof the San For example,the FSLN government A successfulrevolt requires two factors: the Nicaragua/Honduranborder for knowledge and understandingamong likethe ANC and individuals like Nelson theoverall role of staterepression and translerto uni+ersiticsand (’ira’s xcrx l)icgo (’ommunityCollege District in Nicaragua,the institutionreceiving armsand popularsupport. Historically, "training." thepeople of theUnited States and their Mandela are targetted by the needs an intusionof new blood.I am the majorityof Reagan’scurrent wrath, withoutthe approvalof the masses, governmentand actionto see that the defactomedia censorship in maintaining existenceas a comprehensivecollege The mainstreammedia has donelittle rt,ning for lrustec in DistrictA, which U.S.government’s role in supportingthe government-their goal is national muchof thisfragmentation. But neither werein danger.lhc groupbrought the was wellon its way towardsecuring its weapons can, at best, only secure to show that U.S.soldiers are already liberation and the democratic takesin l,aJolla, tlnivcrsity City. Pacific leadershipfor a short, tumultuous (’ontras ends immediately. The shouldwe foolourselves we oltendo it lrusteesaround, for the moment. role in CentralAmerica when someone seeingcombat. This kind of negative bloodbaththat has begunwith a whisper participationof all groups in thesocial to ourselves through unnecessar3 Theircollege is stillin danger,until it Beach and North Clairemont.Maryann in Washingtonsuddenly realized the periodof time.The Nicaraguanpeople publicity,if mademore accessible to the andpolitical life of SouthAfrica. Zounesis runningin DistrictC, covering willnot sway in theirstance; they are the neednot end witha bang. intoleranceand self-righteousness. changesfundamentally. Enrollment has obvious,that the overthrowof the public, would bring the war too the southwestand centralparts of San regime headed by Anastasio Somoza Sandinistas.They fully rememberthe Lookingat the movementfor peace Theseare indeedgrim times, and the beendropping for some fi+e years. Plant perilously close to home for our Beow l)iego. hellof lifeunder a U.S.-backeddictator andjustice in theUnited States, one gets mean-spiritedrightward drift of andequipment arc deteriorating, ona 17 was a people’srevolt. The response was governmentto allow;it wouldremind us predictable.The CIA ralliedtogether and will do ~nything necessary to the feelingthat the variousgroups and Americansociety towards repression at yearreplacement cycle. Because of an Next, wc need expressions of Young Brownshirts organizationshave been fragmented into homeand militaryintervention abroad (mtmodedcorporate adversarial style of solidarity.]here are three areas of actual some of Somoza’s well-known left Bantustansby some malevolent shouldbe reasonenough for us to work management, the faculty, though connection between UCSD and the supporters, numerous mercenaries, reactionaryCubans defeated in the 1958 spiritor force.Here one observesa harderto overcomeour differences.A devotedand able, borders on a stateof community’colleges: graduate students in Love processof singleissue "tribal" rivalry revolution, and some of the few firststep in thismuch needed direction alienationand apathy. teachthere, the college faculty teaches at Springtimefor Hitler?The resurgence fueledand reproducedby a sectarian Nicaraguansopposed to Sandinistas. ~ Or GIVE ME 71-/~ would be the development of a UCSD, and a great deal of work has of Nazism’sHitler youth?Well, not shop-keepermentality which says: "This progressivetolerance towards each In theireffort to run thc l)istrictlike The CIA then armed this motleycrew beendone by bothfaculties to easethe C~.[./~~,~ ~1~ exactly,but you might be wonderingjust is my turf,keep away." Here one hears corporation, the Chancellor and and turnedthem loose on Nicaraguato F "~’~’N~ ~"~ ~A~ ! other,and a conscientiousattempt to wayof thetransfer students. It wouldbe exactlywhat all those students (albeit back-biting and slanderous, ad- lrustceshave centralizedoperations, save the people from themselves, i~ buildbridges where barriers now stand. helpful,though, for behavioralscience male) are doing at campus functions hominemattacks which are predicated sappingthe colleges of theircollegial This meansgoing beyond the Bantustan andpolitical science students and faculty These counterrevolutionaries thesedays, what with their insignias and on the reductionof socialand political autonomy.When a senior and highly outlook,both at home and in South to takean interestin whatis goingon in (contras)are fearedand despisedin loud,militaristic preening. God only issuesto personalities.Add to thisthe respected faculty member at Mesa Africa.It meansmaking compromises, our community colleges, and their Nicaraguafor the thousandsof civilians knows,but it looks as if we here at refusalto discussissues openly and the Collegedied recently, the college could workingin coalitions,and forming progressinto the firmamentof higher theykill annually and countless acts of ~~~ UCSD are stuckwith them for a while. tendency to suppress perceived notlower its flag in respect,because the alliancesfor survivaland liberation, Chancellor downtown was away. education, brutalityagainst the peoplefor whose Now the question is, what do they connections (e.g., US policy in Afterall,it is Reaganand the people who best interestthey claimto represent. Departmentchairs cannot run their We need to, and can arrest their actuallywant? Nicaraguaand SouthAfrica) as wellas supporthim, not the poor,who should Consequently,the peopleof Nicaragua departmentslike at UCSD;their vital backwardslide, align them with UCSI) Therise of the fraternitysystem here contradictions(the non-reducibility of be tighteningtheir belts, havedenied the contrasthe opportunity autonomousdecision making power has and SanDiego State, in a triumvirateof shouldcome as no surpriseto anyone thevarious struggles to eachother) and --SidneyOre to establishany strongholdsin the beenassigned to a corpsof deans.The highereducation, and in the emergence you get a processof self-censorship countryside,and it is simplya matterof who visitsother college campuses these SidneyOre /s the New Indicator’.s latterchange galls the faculty most ofall, of whatwe can trulycall, "’a peoples’ days.There is a nationalresurgence of which reproducesand reinforcesthe time beforethis right-wingterrorist Inter-Tribalcorrespondent, morethan their position nearthe bottom university." fraternitylife, and it may be morethan officialcensorship of themass media and groupis crushed. just an educatedguess to say that Joseph Abrahams, MD However, the U.S. government will / Universityadministrations are often Candidate,Community College LETTERS" not allowswift justice to deala death much more amenable to having DistrictA, San Diego blow to the contras. From openly fraternitieson campus than shanty backingthe contrasfrom the beginning towns,if only for the most obvious A people s AS Budget to theminingofNicaraguanharborsto reasons.Nevertheless, it is interestingto II g id s pp Me di a J ~__~’._,~# q"d The purported AS President John respect the wishes of the students,C and O e e Pres ent u orts imposingharsh economic sanctions, the note that duringthe late 1960s and Reagan Administrationhas made it Riley has come out with his proposed increasefunding to organizationsand Collegeand umverstty newspapers are Therefore,1 supportthe journalistic through much of the 1970s, clearthat it willnot rest until it reaches fraternity/sororitylife took a serious 1986-87budget, and his prioritiesfor media. withoutquestion important to providing right to presentall sides of issues itsultimate goal in CentralAmerica: the nosedive in popularityacross the nation, spendingthe students’$500,000 leave The AS Councilwill be votingon its a perspective on issues that may knowingfully that a viewon a particular destructionof the FSLN government. andyou can fill in theblanks for yourself somethingto be desired.He’s given us a budget June 5th and June 6th at the otherwiseseldom or neverbe presented.issuemay not be consistentwith mine. Bring Back Big Mac Knowingthat the peopleof the U.S. do as to the reasonswhy it wasn’tcool to bureaucrat’sbudget; what we need now Student Center North Conference In a democracythe right to address Congruenceof viewsis nota majorissue notshare this self-serving ambition, the "pledge"during that period. is a People’sBudget for theAS. Room.At thatmeeting they’ll probably issues from any perspective is withme. The right to addressissues is! righthas taken it uponitself to"educate" Sucha budgetwould begin, of course, adoptthe bureaucrat’sbudget (though guaranteedby the first ammendement. George F. Yee themasses. Now, however,younguns who would Withoutthis right of address,democracy Rah! Rah! Rah! have been secretlyattending campaign by cuttingthe 516,500in stipendsthat you might want to show up and argue President. Underthe ironic and misleadingguise againstit), in essencestealing student as we knowit, is withoutpurpose. Well,! seethat in therecent round of functionsto re-electR. MilhousNixon goesdirectly into the pockets of the AS San Diego Miramar College of defendingdemocracy, Reagan and his in the interestof facilitatingthe feesfrom the purposes they’re intended arejoining up withorganizations which officers,as wellas the 520,000in un- supportersin Congresshave launched a elections,students narrowly voted (870 transitionto the new order,I offera for to linetheir pockets. It’s time to to 846)in favorof movingintercollegiate promisethem idiocy and all the beeryou neededstaff positions (they used to get massive,red-baiting attack on this modestproposal: Bring back Big Mac. question whether the AS can be can drink for four years. Mindless by on 1½); dumping the $14,255 country’ssupporters of Nicaraguan athletics from NCAA Division ill Bill(Big Mac) McEIroy put hisheart and reformed,and made to listento students. (whichbars athleticscholarships and narcosismay wellbe its own reward... budgetedfor Public Relations (to tell us justiceand thosewho, whileopposing soul into UCSD’spromising football or whetherwe’d be better servedby recruitment)to DivisionI (whichwould program(promises, promises) leading So on to thequestion of theday: What what a great job the AS is doing in the FSLNon ideologicalbasis implanted squanderingour studentfees); the ten doingaway with it altogether. necessitateusing student fees to provide to itssterling 0-8 record in 1968before is it thatthese guys want, and can they Mary Rose Avakian CHE CAFE by the right,are simplyagainst U.S. grandbudgeted to flyAS officersaround monetary involvement in Central athleticscholarships, more coaches, studentscruelly yanked the rugout from haveit withoutit beingat theexpense of recruitmentand new facilities).By thecountry; the 515,000 slated for the WORK PARTY: June 7-8; GARDEN: All Summer Americanrevolutions. To be dedicated under his feet by refusingto approve therest of thestudents (the majority). Sun God Fest (nothingbut a TG with somewhatlarger margin (922 to 657) athleticscholarships and a trainingtable Apologyfor Slur Call452-23"1"1 for info--Watchfor Summer Programs to theideals of democracy,they want us The answer can be addressedin two delusionsof grandeur);the tens of majorityfavored spending a largershare in the RevelleCar. BigMac thentossed parts. to believe,we mustblindly support the thousandsof dollarssalted away in of student fees on inter-collegiate Open Letter to UCSD Students and President’s proposal to send 5100 in thetowel, saying he wasn’tgoi,:g to be Firstly,one canonly speculate as to variousbudgets for "programmatic", athletics. Community, million to an unpopular group of partofa rinky-dink outfit. Ever since, he whatthese people are striving to achieve "developmental","unallocated", "sports haspined away with his fireflies awaiting We would like to apologizefor the terroristsin supportof theirefforts to Somemight argue that, in viewof the withtheir activities. The credos as stated activityboard" and otherslush funds; the chancefora comeback, to show that racistremark made by one of our guest thenew indicator thenew indicatoris a memberof the topplea populardemocracy. documenteddisenfranchisement of large by mostfraternities of brotherhood, etc. and the $18,250being off-loaded onto giventhe support,the confidence,the speakers.He yelled"Big, Bad, Black, Joe isofficially recognizedas a campus AlternativePress Syndicate tAPS). numbers of UCSD students in that are wellknown and don’tbear repeating Campus Activity Fees to subsidize Fortunately,thus far, we have not Watsonwhere are you?" newspaper of the Universityof Materialpublished in the new indicator is electionand thenarrowness of thevote trust of the campus he can win. He here.What is interestingto noteis how College Councils (which have copyrightedby the AlternativePress been deceivedby the propaganda.Over California,San Diego. The views (a mere 24 vote majorityfor big-time deservesa secondchance. often their "intentions"take such traditionallybeen funded out of vending If a critique had been made of expresseddo notrepresent those of the Syndicateand may not be reproducedfor seventypercent of peoplepolled recently profitwithout prior, written permission. athletics),the resultswere not truly Yes,I can hearthe grumblers whining convolutedpaths. Of particularnote is machineroyalties). Watson’shistory on campus,it might Chancelloror the Regents. opposethe direct funding of thecontras. havebeen appropriate at thetime, if it Permissionis granted for reproduction of (Throughthe CIA, millionsof dollars representative.But theAS and thefiats aboutBig Mac’s tenureas Chancellor; the willingnessof manyof theseyoung All told.out of a $527,750projected articlesfor non-profit,educational wouldbe quickto countersuch claims by about his efforts to crush Lumumba- "men" to oppress others either by had not been in a language that are covertlychannelled to them.)This budget5282,335 is slatedto feed the purposes. charging that we were sore losers, ZapataCollege, his purges of politically- implicitlybuys into a racistideology, wouldbe highlyencouraging if public obscenity,violence, persecution and any monstrous AS bureaucracy and its the new indicatoris a collectivelyproduced as a non-sectariannewspaper, the new spoilsports,unAmerican even. suspectfaculty, his attemptto destroy of severalother less than socially independentof context.We are of the un versity-.communitynewspaper, funded by indicatorpublishes articles from consensushad anythingto do with the various slush funds (and this is campusdaycare, the kangaroocourts, desirablemethods. In thismatter fiat position that Watson was hired as UCSD students,and distributedto San Diego groups:individualsholding different operationof our government. Farbe it fromme to standin theway generousestimate, as it doesnot include County college campuses and selected provostof Lumumba-ZapataCollege to positions.Accordingly, articles printed of progress,l,et the dreaded Tritons (or thecrushing of the StudentCooperative boys shouldtake heed in notingthat the575,000 slated for AS programming). community action:human services Congress.with few exceptions,has break up Lumumba-Zapata and organizationsand othersites. Subscriptions witha bylinedo not necessarily represent do theycall them Koalas now?) take the Union.But whatis all this besidethe many of our world’s most famous the positionof the New Indicator turnedits back on thevoice of thepeople That leavesonly $245,415for student promoted,over the objectionof the are $8.00per year. field;let the mightymollusks do battle reallyimportant things in lifematters tyrantsused youngpersons of similar organizations(which do the bulk of articlesand lettersare welcomed. Please type Collectiveand allcollective members are of Nicaragua,flying in the face of suchas a nationaltitle and a top-rank StudentAffirmative Action Committee, notnecessarily infull agreement with the withthe foe. And why stop at DivisionI? bentfor their own means, of coursewith campus programming), AS program- themdouble-spaced, with a 55-spaceline, and popularopinion. The contra aid package by ChancellorAtkinson to the position position(s)expressed. What UCSD reallyneeds is a top-rank footballteam? subsequentlydire consequences.But ming, and student media (including includeauthors)’ phone numberfor editing was actuallypassed in the Senateand of Vice-Chancellorforhis success in this consultations,as wellas suggestedheadline, footballteam. After all, us anti- Bring back Big Mac. Bring Back Big that has alreadybeen coveredin this KSDT and the campus newspapers-- sub-beadsor kickers,by-line, and photosor narrowly defeated in the House of particularjournal, so the pointshould endeavor. conlrtbu)ersand workers p,~, maryl~,nn,robyn, Americantypes have for 18 years now Mac. BRING BACK BIG MAC! excepting the UCSD Guardian--and otherillustrations. These details improve your Representatives.Reagan has responded alreadybe established. In the enunciatedform this remark submissionand save us lots of time.Send to: reggte,lelger, robin, leonardo, ulh¢. bar O, anlone. stoodin the way of UCSI)attaining its Yeeaaaah,Tritons! journals), even though all of the randall,francts, larr),, florence, lerr~,, mathe~,, crallL accordinglyby cajoling,primping and was nothingshort of racism. New IndicatorCollective, UCSD B-023,I.a transcendent mission a national referendaincreasing the activityfees Jolla,CA 92093.Phone: 1619) 452-2016.Or Irat3.~ue. Ii~a, brian, b~.ron, dan, ~arell, nancy,, pleading with House Democrats he nancy,,nell. mnnI~, susana, karla, and rohcr)Ihanx footballtitle. Its high time we stepped havemandated that the new revenuesbe bringsubmissions.by the officeat the Student thinkscan be forcedto betraythe desires continuedon page 7 OrganizingSupport Group, Center, Room 209, preferably at our lot aside. -- RobertEast dedicatedsolely to these purposes. of theirconstituents. It is notlikely that StudentCooperative Union scheduledmeeting titrm. Clearly.a People’sAS Budget would 5

Anti-War Action Committee Haymarket RALLY Shantytowns Ripped Down Centennial THE UCSD ABOLISH APARTHEID by Police;But Are Back Up Observedin Lastspring, at theheight of theanti- referendumfor its second action¯ During DIVEST apartheiddemonstration, the students of the nightof TuesdayMay 13 followinga Chicago UCSD overwhelminglyvoted for four showingof a videomade of the police FREE SPEECH IN BIKO PLAZA referenda:I) No recruitmentby the riotat Berkeley,AWAC built its first People from throughout North ¥ , military,the FBI, the CIA, or theINS on twoshanties in thecourtyard of theChe America and the world gathered in our campus or through our Career Care.These shanties were movedup to Chicago May Ist through 4th to THURSDAY, JUNE 5, NOON Planningand PlacementCenter¯ 2) UC themiddle of RevellePlaza (renamed by commemoratethe 100th anniversaryof BIKO (REVELLE PLAZA) Divestment from corporations and the demonstratorsBike Plaza) on the Haymarketevents, in whichChicago banksdoing business in SouthAfrica. 3) ThursdayMay 15atnoon, in responseto policefirst attacked and killed workers Speakers:Peter Irons, Dan Kripke,John Riley & More UC divestment from Los Alamos and a UC systemwidecall for actionsin and then spearheadeda nationalred Music by Attack Weavel& Josiah Livermorenuclear labs, 4) That UCSD supportof UC divestmentto coincide scare,ultimately framing eight anarchist be declareda sanctuaryfor refugees with the UC Regents meeting in labor leaders. (The repression of JonG. Murray,newly appointed President of AmericanAtheists, will be in San from CentralAmerica and that the INS Berkeley.UCSD was the last campusto Chicago’s revolutionary labor Diego June 13th to hold a preliminarymeeting of San Diego Atheists not be allowed to operate on our buildshanties. movement quickly became infamous interestedin establishinga San Diego chapter of AmericanAtheists. campus. On Friday May 16 at 2pm a permit world-wide,and May Day was selected If youare an Atheist,would like to seea localChapter, and are willing to in Aprilof thisyear, the students of authorizingthe shantytownwas signed as an international holiday workwith others of likemind toward that end, you areinvited to attendthe UCSD again voted overwhelminglyfor by Deanof RevelleCollege, Ernie Mort, commemoratingworkers’ struggles and meeting.Mr. Murraywill outline the requirementsfor a localchapter of solidarity to mark the Haymarket AmericanAtheists, discussing the "nuts and bolts"details of Chapter thereferenda. In the interveningyear, PeterRadcliff, a memberof AWAC,and organization.Members of AmericanAtheists are particularly urged to attend. neitherRichard Atkinson, Chancellor of PoliticalScience professor, Peter Irons. events.) Several commemorations overlappedin Chicago,ranging from an Thiswill not be a lectureby Mr.Murray, but will be an involvementmeeting UCSD, nor UC PresidentGardner, nor Thispermit allowed Shantytown to exist forinterested and concernedAtheists to meetthose of likemind in the area the UC Board of Regents nor the AS from May 15 to June 15. While no internationalconterence of revolu- andlay the foundationfor a viableand active local group. have done anythingto implementthese restrictionswere made for Shantytown tionaryunions hosted by the Industrial studentdemands. on the permit,an oral agreementwas Workersof the World,to a seriesof AtheistOrganizational Meeting The UCSD Anti-War Action reachedbetween Mort and Radcliffin concerts, exhibits and meetings Committee(AWAC) came together which it was understood that organizedbv a coalitionof liberals, force the administrationof UCSD and Shantytown would grow but that no tJCSD tears down shanties,but Stalinistsand socialdemocrats working Hanalei Hotel (Hawaii Room) major sleep-inwould occur. Rather, a closelywith the ChicagoMayor’s office. theadministration of UC to hearand act keeps its SouthAfrican invesments smallgroup of studentswould stay at the 2770 Hotel Circle North uponthese student demands. At itsfirst placed on Shantytownincluding no meetingAWAC decidedto focus on the shanties24 hours in orderto protect riday, June 13th, 1986 7:00 pm them. sleepingovernight. AnarchistsGather recruitmentreferendum for its first 500or moreanarchists participated in action.On Thursday,April 24, the first The expirationdate of the second This permitwas turnedinto the AS permitwas the administration’sexcuse a widearray of events,beginning with a SUMMER HOURS: anniversaryof the beginning of thesit-in officesat the studentcenter by Dan Shouldyou become lost, directions to thehotel can be hadat 297-1101--the for destroyingthe Shantytown.At 5:45 picketof theopening of an exhibitionat hotelcan not provideinformation on the meeting,which is listedunder at HL a rallywas held at thegym steps. Clark,a memberof AWAC, at 2:30pro am approximatelysix cops. and eight the ChicagoHistorical Society April 10-3, weekdays "Societyof Separationists".Information on the meetingis availablefrom Followingthe rally seventy people thatFriday¯ An hourlater, it hadbeen maintenance workers, trashed the 27th which slanderedthe Haymarket StephenThorne at 480-1247. marchedto the UCSD CareerPlanning mysteriously’lost’ by theadministration. Martyrsand anarchistsin generalas and Placement Center. Twenty-two Shantytownunder the directorders of The Food Co-op will be closedthe week of June 16 AmericanAtheists can be reachedat 2210Hancock Drive, Austin TX 78756. Laterthat afternoon Mort wentdown to advocatesof violenceand frustrated stude.ntssat-in and were violently evicted Vice ChancellorJoe Watson. Police the Che. He explainedthat the first ingrateswho failedto appreciatethe by UC policeunder the directorders of Chief. John Andersen,directed the permithad beenlost and askedsomeone acumen of the "successfulChicago Joe Watson.Two later sit-ins were also operationwith Mort standingon the to signa secondpermit. This permit was sidelines.Some people were still in the entrepeneurs"who reapedtheir fortunes brokenup by police. signed by Mort, Andrew Howard, and shantieswhen they started kicking in the from the most brutalexploitation and Following a meeting with the anotherperson -whom some speculate walls. repression of the working class. progressivefaculty organization which is was orderedto losethe initialpermit. Publicityfor this exhibit---cosponsored A half hourlater, a new shantywas Society In The Making forming around the issues of South The secondpermit was valid for one by thet’officiar’ centennial committee erected in the Plaza. Andersonand Africa and Central America, AWAC week from May 15 to May 22. in went so far as to claimthat the real lieutenant Dyer, confronted the Baltimore,Maryland-- decided to focus on the divestment addition,numerous restrictions were HaymarketMartyrs were the Chicago Rio de Janeiro,Brazil-- demonstrators. An agreement was Afganistan-- Threestudents at JohnsHopkins have been indicted police! Eight Americans and ten Argcntinians were Najibullahhas replacedBabrak Karmal as General for arson,conspiracy, and assaultwith intentto reached allowing AWAC members to arrestedby Brazilianpolice aboard a shipflying the Some300 anarchists.joined a spirited Secretaryof the People’sDemocratic Party. the murderfor their part in thefire bombing of shanties. placesigns around the campus,as long Ghanian(lag. The ship was loadedwith six tons of 600-person strong May Day march nation’shighest political office. Najibullah is the Acrossthe cottmryright-wing students have taken as no new structureswere erected. In weaponsand munitions.Apparently the arms had addition, AWAC members would be (along with IWW members, a RCP- formerchief of the secretpolice. The transitionof violentactions against protesters of SouthAfrican beenbought in Argentinaand wereen routeto Ghana. NBAU contingent,other local leftists, power was done under strictSoviet supervision. Apartheid.They have given no reason for these allowedto remainin thePlaza 24 hoursa ]hey had been paid for by GodfreyOsci, a rightest dayin orderto 0rotectthe signs. Despite andthe "official" crowd) so militantthat Severalstudent demonstrations were broken up by the actions.Most have not statedtheir position with Ghanianbusinessman. this agreement,three AWAC members itsorganizers took off half-way through. police.During the transferof power the Soviets respectto Apartheid.The studentsin thisincident were arrestedat 6pro Mondaymorning Chantsof "Educate,Agitate. Smash the disarmedthe Afghantroops and held tightmilitary Ihe armsshipment is suspectedto havebeen part of wereall members of theDelta Upsilon fraternity, it is forfalling asleep. State!","Huelga General, Revolucion watch over Kabul. a plotto overthrowthe government of FlightLt. Jerry notclear, however, whether the action was done as a Total","Less Work. More Pay, Fight Rawlings.Rawlings led a low levelof militarycoup Afterthreats era lawsuit improved the -- Los AngelesTimes generalfraternity policy. For the Four-HourDay" rang through againsta governmentfrought with inefficiency and University’sfiling system, enabling the --New York Times the crowd.Fhe AnarchistGathering got corruption,in 1981. His primarygoal has been to originalpermit to be found,sympathetic underway May Ist with a number of San Salvador,El Salvador-- eliminatethis corruption. professorsmet with Joe Watson who PresidentDuarte has announcedthat a thirdround workshopsaddressing such questionsas cavedin and removedhimself from the of talksbet.ween the FMLN and the governmentwill -IntercontinentalPress Workers Control.Anarchism and the promise forcing AWAC to negotiate be startedunder the auspicesof the Church.The Warsaw, Poland-- Environmentalmovement, Haymarket withthe RevelleCollege Dean. rebels,although lately overshadowed by the debate The Polishgovernment has arrestedthe leading 1886 (in which noted historianPaul Pretorla,South Africa-- Solidarityunderground leader Zbigniew Bujak. The A contractwas then negotiatedwith aboutthe contras,have continued guerilla war. The Avrich participated},AnarchaFemi- Whiteprotesters in SouthAfrica have taken up the Polishpeople have come out to protestthe arresten Revelle Dean Mort, and on Friday, governmentclaims that therehave beenfewer human- struggleagainst Apartheid and are gettingtreatment nism,Building the AnarchistMovement masse.Solidarity founder Lech Walesa spoke to rally AWAC built its firstnew shanty.The rightsviolations and that they thus deserve continued thatis usuallysaved for Black opposition to theBotha anda hostof othersrunning through the of 50,000 openly attacking the action of the secondshanty was builton Monday.and US monetarysupport. They have recentlyarrested government.Many of the white protesters are afternoonof May 4th. government,"The maniacs ... are still proud of certain AWAC urges all students,faculty and nine personsfrom human rightsorganizations and students.They carried signs disclaiming Botha as a arrests,of therepression of thespirit of freedomand staff to visit shantytown on Bike continuedon page 7 occupiedthe MetropolitanCathedral. The rebelshave "terrorist."Later, over I00 women protestors spread thepersection of groupsof peoplewho are free in their (formerlyRevelle) Plaza. On Thursday, presented various demands to stop the wanton out throughthe city to picketagainst new security tJCSD’sshantytown, before it was torn down under Vice Chancellor thinking.Do notbe afraid,the future belongs to you." June5th, AWAC is sponsoringa rally at governmentarrests and deathsquad murders, as well legislationthat gives the policebroader powers to Joe Watson’sdirect orders. The shantiesare up again. as to pull the countryout its currenteconomic Formerspokesperson of Solidarity,M r. Onyszkieicz. the plaza,they will be meetingat the US Accusedof arrestboth whites and blacks. explainedthat Bujak could be moreof problemto the shantiesSunday at 2:00to discussplans quagmire.Duarte has refusedto considerany of their --Near)’ork Times governmentin jail, publicizingthe govermenrs for a demonstrationthis month against proposals. Detaining1900 Vew)’ork Tinle.~ oppressionin theform of hisincarceration. AS Budget Hijinks Contraaid, and plans for the summer ¯ andfall. --New York Times Cubans Colombo, Sri Lanka-- As this issuegoes to press,the new funds set aside for equipment The left nationalistFamil rebel groupwho have indicatoris facing the now-annual amortizationand other expensesmust A coalition of human rights and beenwaging a civilwar sinceshortly after Sri Lanka Nicaragua-- attacksagainst our budget. AS President onicersretained, student organization comeout of thesefunds)¯ In addition, religiousgroups filed a complaintwith was made an independentcountry have claimed The Nicaraguangovernment claims it willnot sign John Riley has proposedan overall fundingkept at minimallevels. resoonsibilityfor thebombing of a militaryconvoy. two student organizationshave been the UnitedNations against the United theU.S. sponsored Contadora peace initiative because media budget somewhatsmaller than Allthis despite the fact that every hike [heattack killed I g soldiers. encouragedto apply for Media Board States today, charging that the it asks the governmentto disarm the people of lastyear’s budget despite the recent in campusactivity fees approvedby funding for what amount to student detainment of 1,900 Cubans at the Anotherbomb blew up in a bottlingplant and killed Nicaragua.The currentpeace proposal also stipulates referendum results in favor of organizationnewsletters, in a blatant students has been approved on the Federal prison in Atlanta violates eightpeople. ]he policesuspect that the rebelsare thatall foreign advisors leave Central America. Only maintaining or expanding media explicitcondition that the increased raidon mediafunds. internationallaws on humanrights. responsible.The rebels have not takencredit. CentralAmerican nations would sign the treat.,,, not funding(a referendumwhich we urged revenues be dedicated to student the[I.S.. The 15-pagecomplaint charges that New )or/, limes studentsto boycott,because it was Meanwhile,other organization6have organizations,media a:-,d programming. I.o~4n.t,,eh’.~ /)mc.~ biasedagainst student media). Riley’s receivedamounts substantially in excess Instead,the AS ha~ fh;utedstudent the detentionviolates human rights budget is based on enrollment(and ,,odesbecause it is arbitraryand because of the level approvedin last year’s wishes,diverting the vastbulk of the Washington D.C: USA-- hencefee revenue) projections assuming referendum.The Sun God Festival. increasedrevenues .nto its own cufiers. of theconditions in theprison. a slight decline in undergraduate Ihe MexicanAmbassador hil~ protested statement, essentiallya I-day TG is slatedto It is becausethe AS squandersso The groups filing the complaint ;tttackingMexico ill a recentSenate hearing tic ~a,d enrollment despite administration receive$I 5,000,substantially more than inch,de the I.awyersCommittee for Paris,France-- manytens of thousandsof dollarson its lhcradical organization Direct Actmn attacked the the statementswere "’at deliberate attempt b~ I’b;. projectionsthat 1500 or moreadditional thenew indi(at,,.:r can expect to receive HumanRights, the NationalCouncil of internalbureaucracy that it "cannot Intcrpolheadquarters. At 10 p.m.thc~ thoxc b’, ill ,i olficialsand legislatorsto accentuatethe existing undergraduateswill attendUCSD next for an entire year of publishing (’hutches and the American Civil afford"to fundstudent organizations carand qrallcd the building v~ith machine gun fire and mlsinlormationregarding the Me\leanreality.’" lhc yearthan attended this year. and rigidly (althoughsubstantially less than the new I.ibertiesUnion. and media at adequatelevels: their thrc~;in explosive de\ice. No role~;ts killed tn the %trite [)cpartlncnlhils refusedto an,v,er thechallenge applythe $1.50per student per quarter indicatorreceived before the deep claimsof limitedresources are nothing 1he United Nation’sHuman Rights ilitltck[)ircct ,Xctioll claims that it Xt- olk’, \t. ith the Red illld savs It ~lllCC, lltintlC to "Ct’11111,111[O/l! ploblcflls fundinglevel for studentprint media budgetcuts of the lastfew years}.The more than a shell game to divert Commissionwill consider the complaint ~llllkI%.1,,.’ti1111 I11 (iCllll;lll~, ’,t}till r¢l\ ." which received majority support massiveAS bureaucracyis slatedfor attentionwhile they line their own whenit meetsnext January. (somewhatarbitrarily decreeing that ever more funding, stipends to AS pockets. The New York Times 6 Second Election Manager 7 MacCroneAntics "’advisory"and that the council was not and environmentalquestions in the bound to go by the referenda.Warren Haymarket(cont’d) broadersociety (where, after all, workers Junior Senator Dave Mannheim, live and work). The final sessions Booted this Spring continuedfrom page 4 (cont’d) though,pointed out, as didother council addressed the pressing need for members,that the councilis removed continuedfrom page 6 improved communications and for Mismanagement fromwhat studentsthink and that one solidarity. Measures to improve Withthe installationof the new AS resolvedonly 3days betore polls opened, wayto gaugewhat the studentswant is May 2nd saw 400 anarchistsmarch communicationsamong revolutionary by referenda.Sixteen council members throughthe heart of Chicago,pausing at Councillast Wednesday evening, the AS theAS proceededwith the new election-’,. unionists worldwide within the MacCronethen physicallyattacked voted to repealthe amendment.Only targettedcorporate and governmental and the administrationare hopingthat When polls opened,a complaintwas limitationsof currentresources were Kroopkinby shovinghim withhis chest, one council member voted against offices. The highpoint of the protestsagainst this Springs’ elections approved for circulation among filedprotesting the decisionto close severaltimes, while placing himself nose- rescindingthe ’FahlbuschProposal,’ demonstrationcame when the crowd which have been gaining broader pollingplaces at thefour colleges (polls revolutionaryunions and rank-and-file to-nose with Kroopkin, repeatedly whichstudents opposed overwhelmingly ~urroundedthe IBM building,several supportin recentweeks -will subside. openedonly at the Gym steps).Byron groupsfor endorsementand action. screaming"Get out of my face."The in the recentreferendum. The one vote :lemonstratorssplit off at the South The Student Cooperative Union’s Morton,candidate for Commissionerof A.S.Council Chair interrupted, calling was cast by MacCrone.MacCrone had AfricanConsulate to chargethrough Organizing Support Group (SCU- Communications, argued that this for order and tluiet.Kroopkin then promisedduring the campaignthat he uxurystores shouting "eat the rich, feed OSG), however,has announcedthat it wouldnot only lead to a generaldecline askedMacCrone, "Can’t you ever sustain wouldgo by thereferenda results. :he poor"--anill-advised action which willcontinue its efforts to overturnthe in voterturnout, but would discriminate Delegates adopted the following a civil conversation?" MacCrone policeused as an excuseto arrestanyone statementMay 4th: "Workersall over controversialelections, and to secure againststudents from Third and Warren respondedby pushingKroopkin over a in the area caughtwearing anarchist new,fair elections in Fall. colleges(from whom Mortondrew most b the world celebrate the 100th $65 pottedplant, knocking Kroopkin to buttons.38 peoplewere arrested, at bus anniversaryof theHaymarket affair this of hisvotes). The Elections Commission The controversybegan over a new the groundin theprocess. They landed stops,walking to the train,talking to year.In 1886,like today, revolutionary refusedto hearMorton’s complaint, and Constitutionapproved in Winter,1985 six feet away, MacCrone on top of friends,or whiletrying to bailout other he appealedto the JudicialBoard. workerswere being attacked by theState by the AS Council. The SCU-OSG Kroopkin, and MacCrone began to victims.Several were beaten by police. andthe bosses because of theirdesire to Later in the meeting,MacCrone’s challengedthe new Constitutionas punch Kroopkin.Kroopkin at no time Only 2 of the Haymarket 38 were build a societywithout starvation, assault was questioned by Warren unlawful,citing the failureto convene MissinfVoters. Rigged Elections ProtestRising offeredany physicalself defense other involvedin theaction at thestores, the exploitation,oppression or inequality. disproportionatenumber of SUDS Senator Adam Torem who asked the requiredConstitutional Convention The SCU-OSGcharged, based on its The UCSD Guardian recently thanevading blows to his face. other 36 were simplythe victimsof a Theattending organizations on this last and the Chancellor’sfailure to set a supporters, ten SUDS candidates whetherit would be wise to appoint analysisof thecomputer pi ira-outsused publishedan editorialnoting that AS members,and membersof the new police sweep.Most were held for 24 day of the HaymarketInternational minimumvoter turn-out as requiredin securedrun-off slots: only two SUDS MacCrone President Pro Tempore. to determinevoter eligibility and the "’anotherAS electionis necessary...We indicator,attempted to break it up, hoursor morewithout food or waterin a Labor Conferencewould like to make all previousconstitutional referenda. candidatesmade the run-offsin the Torem remarked,"1 don’t know Greg officialvote tally sheets released by the cannotgo alongcheerfully breaking the pulling MacCrone off Kroopkin. coldcell without blankets before being everyoneaware of the fact thatwe are (Only 6% voted on the new secondround. Had pollingplaces and that well, exceptfor what I’ve seen ElectionsCommission, that the decision law and denying the rights of free MacCronecontinued to attack,lunging releasedon bail. One was deniedhis stillhere, still alive. The revolutionary Constitution.)Vice ChancellorJoe run-offprocedures not beenchanged. duringthe past three weeks, and tonight, to open polls only at the Gym steps democracy."The new indicatorhas also at any new indicatormember who came insulindespite repeated requests, as a workers’movement is not dead. Long Watsonrejected the challenge,and the the SCU-OSG contends, the SUDS andfrom what I’ve seen, ! don’tthink he caused a drop in voter turnoutthat concludedthat the new AS Councilis withinreach. Finally, MacCrone was resultof thismistreatment he had to be Live WorldLabor Solidarity!Workers appealhas been si’tingon Chancellor slatewould havc placed at leasteight would be able to handle different affected50% more Third and Warren illegitimate,and that new elections are restrained by several AS Council hospitalizedfor severaldays. Local of the World,Organize!" Atkinson’sdesk for thepast few weeks. morecandidates in therunoffs. people." collegestudents than Reveile stude,ats necessary.A hastily-calledrally to members.Kroopkin angrily denounced Chicagogroups have writtenthe Mayor The new Constitution,among other (comparingturnout in the April 8-9 The AS JudicialBoard has admitted protestthe impending seating of the AS MacCronesaying "That is not the way and Chief of Policedenouncing this changes,moved the electionsup from election,from whichWarren and Third that numerous violations of the CouncilMay 28th drew 40-50 people, one behaves in a University!"and politicalrepression, and demanding that Elections Codes and the AS New AS President,John Riley,was thetraditional third week of theSpring studentswere already disenfranchised at withhundreds r ore pausingto listento demandedthat someone call the police. charges be dropped.A class action Throughoutthe Conferenceit was quarterto the secondweek(coinciding Constitutiontook place, but has reiused confronted by MacCrone after the a rate2 to 3 timesthe rate suffered by speakersor pickup leafletsdenouncing The UCSD policewere called. Kroopkin lawsuitseeking damages for false arrest, clear that workers faced common to overturnthe elections on thegrounds meeting;MacCrone accused Riley of withfraternity rush)--a change that was studentsas a whole,to theApril 29-30 the electionsand callingon the AS tc demanded that the police arrest falseimprisonment, police brutality and problems and a common enemy, that the violations"could not be being "spineless"’and a cowardfor to cause major problemswhen first implementreferenda results. MacCroneon charges of assault and mistreatmentis underconsideration. regardlessof whichcountry they lived in, turnout);sufficient to reverse the results determinedto eitherhave been related to withdrawinghis appointmentto the implementedthis year. The AS has responded to such battery.The police indicated that since Other AnarchistGathering events and that internationalsolidarity and of some closeraces. In addition,the theoutcome of therun-off elections or media board. Riley told the new concernswith an open letterto the they did not witness the incident, includeda banquet,plays on thelife of directaction was desperately needed if Barred From Voting SCU-OSG contends, the decision to bc considered mismanagement." indicatorthat the incident,where Kroopkinwould have to makea citizen’s Emma Goldman, anarchist videos, a workerswere not to be crushed.A more Afterpolls closed on the April8-9 close polling places was in direct Chancellorcalling on him to recognize MacCronewas shouting in his face,was (Maiorit.vdecision in Swamw. Eh’,’tion arrestand remand MacCroneto their concertby local anti-authoritarian complete account of the Haymarket elections, the SCU-OSG was violationof AS Constitution and (’ommi.~.~i,m,M;.I\ 23rdt In hisdissent, ,he net Council and impugning the "similar,but not as severe"as theearlier custody. Once in police custody, bands,and gatheringsat the Haymarket InternationalLabor Conference is approached by students who had ElectionsCodcs which require prior Board member I)a~id Grcenwald motives~1 the SCLI-OSGand othersin incident, and that he considered attemptedto vote but had not been protestingthe elections.They haxc MacCronewas issued a citationfor Monument (where the Martyrs are printedin theJune issue of theIndustrial approvalof such changes by the AS argued:"’It is a dangerousprecedent to MacCronewell qualified to serveon the battery,and released, after statements of buried) and Haymarket Square to Worker (available at Groundwork allowedto do so becausetheir namesdid Council. admitthat a con,,titutionalx iolation ha~, ’anlcascd a propaganda barrage media board (since MacCrone has notappear on thecomputer print-outs of denouncingthe S(’I’-OS(ifor scckin~ witnesses, MacCrone and Kroopkin confrontthe liberals and their efforts to Books) or from the lWW at 3435 In addition,in protestsfiled May 14th beencommitted, a~nd also ruleat the previouslyserved in thiscapacity) but registeredstudents provided by the theassistance of legalcounsel and other~ were recorded. whitewashthe HaymarketMartyrs. Sheffield,Chicago IL 60657. and 20th. the SCt;-OSGcharged the same tinlcthat the intcgrit.~ol the couldnot designatehim as his personal cashiers"office, even though their fees in order to more effectivelydctcmt The councilmeeting continued with Elections Commissionwith massive election goes unharnlcd." representativebecause of the assault. were paid for the Springquarter, lhe students’rights to ducprocess and lair MacCronebeing allowed to participate. violationsof students’due process Riley explainedthat MacCronewould InternationalLabor Conference OtherActivities SCU-OSG reports that students who rights, violation of the UC non- On Ma~ 28th. the ,ludicialBoard elections,and falsely charged that non- Thenew council’sfirst major act was be an inappropriate appointment Delegates from the Industrial Theliberals and others involved in the paid fees afterthe quarterbegan but studentshaxc been filing the elections discriminationpolicy, failure to screen removed Elections Manager Robert to repealthe Fahlbuschlegislation, consideringthat the MediaBoard rules Workers of the World, the Swedish "official", government-supported beforethe final deadlinewere thus S(’U-OS(; pollworkers for bias (indeed. Ripstrom officetot ~iolatingthe AS protestsand that the which had amended the Media Board on all thebudgets including that of the Workers Centralorganization(SAC), centennialevents sponsored a variety of deniedtheir right to vote,and charges seeking to reinstate the Student pollworkerswere largelydrawn from Constitutionin his conduct ol the charter,and to returnto theold media the SolidarnoscInformation Bureau, activitiesincluding concerts, art that this disenfranchisement fraternitiesand sororities, even though elections.This action was takenunder Cooperative Union as student charter--minusan earlieramendment new indicator.Many observershave IBM WorkersUnited, syndicalists from exhibits,a play on JoeHill (which had its discriminatedagainst low-income and Article III Section E of the new government,a chargethat the SCI~. (also authoredb’, Fahlbusch)which notedthat therecan be no excusefor the FrenchAnarchist Federation, the runcut shortwhen several actors walked ThirdWorld students. twoof theslates running in theelections were fraternity-backed),failure to Constitution,which provides:"Any OSG vehementlydenies. restrictedthe mediato 6,000copies per resortingto violenceto "settle"dif- WorkersSolidarity Movement of Japan out),wine and cheese receptions, a rally The number of students thus establisha Constitutionally-mandated electedofficer of the ASUCSDmay be The new AS Councilhas takenoffice. issue. Warren Senior Senator Dave ferences, and AS advisor Randon and the WorkersSolidarity Alliance in supportof Tribunestrikers (carefully disenfranchisedremains unclear; former electionscommittee, biased campaign- removedfrom office upon notice after a butthe questionof its legitimacy(and Friend,in a clearexpression of total Woodard has stated that MacCrone’s attended the 4-day Haymarket organizedfar fromthe printing plant to ElectionsCommissioner Michelle Bitto fundingprovisions, failure to resolve hearingbefore the Judicial Board, which whetherit willbe permittedto serveout disdainfor student opinion, stated that behaviourwas "inappropriatefor an InternationalLabor Conference,along insurethat the struckcompany would reportedthat some 1300 studentswere outstandingelections protests before shallbe thesole judge of saidcase and the1986-87 term) remains open. Appeals he felt thatpublic opinion was merely electedofficial." with observorsfrom the DirectAction notbe inconvenienced),conferences on affected,AS AdvisorRandon Woodard proceedingwith new elections,and shallrender the final decision of the are currently pending with Vice Movementof Britain,the SouthAfrican varietyof topics(at one I was forcibly reportsthat slightlyfewer than 650 arbitraryand secret changes in elections ASUCSD."(The Constitutionplaces no ChancellorWats..,l: ,,,d Chancellor Allied Workers Union and US and preventedfrom distributing leaflets in students (5.6% of enrolled under- procedures. restrictionswhatsoever on thispower.) Atkinson.in addition,the SCU-OSGis Canadianrank-and-file workers. Other frontof the hall advocatinga shorter graduates)were deprived of theirright to When the April 29-30elections were While the SCU-OSG welcomes any circulatinga petition to theUC student organizations sent messages of workweek),and othersuch events--all vote. What is clear is that the scheduled,candidates were informed indicationthat the JudicialBoard is bodypresidents council requesting that "" ° ’$K ~,.’Yl~ GROUNDWORK solidarity,including some that had unitedby theirattempt to portraythe administration and the Elections finallybeginning to takeseriously its theylaunch an openinvestigation into intended to participate but were HaymarketMartyrs as liberalreformers; Commissionknew of the problembefore that limited banner supplies and photocopieswould be made availableto obligationto enforcefair elections and theelection and refuse to recognizethe preventedfrom doing so by last-minute forerunnersof the AFL-CIO and the openingthe polls,but proceededwith candidates to compensate for the due process, it questions whether newAS Council.Whatever the final out- strikes,financial difficulties or visa DemocraticParty of today.Fortunately, the electionanyway. financialeffects of thenew elections. The scapegoatingElections Manager Rips come, the SCU-OSG will continueto problems. thispathetic whitewash was confronted (whoseterm, in anyevent, was expiring) pressfor free and fair elections at UCSD. SCU-OSG representative Jelger AS Council later decided to make Sessionsfeatured discussion on the by thosewho continue today the struggle Kalmijnfiled a formalprotest of the studentfunds availableto reimburse cansubstitute for new, fair elections. BOOKS strugglesof workers in Poland and foughtby the HaymarketMartyrs lO0 April8-9 elections on April14th, citing candidatesfor any receiptedcampaign Eastern Europe, South Africa and yearsago. the massivedisenfranchisment of voters expensesup to designatedlimits, but MacCrone Arrested at Bolivia,as wellas workshopsadd ressing As Louis Lingg told Judge Gary, and otherimproprieties. On the eve of failedto notifycandidates of thechange. suchquestions as repressionof thelabor respondingto his death sentence:"! the run-off elections--without AS ElectionsManager Rips testified movement, the challenge that new repeatthat I am theenemy of the’order’ conveningthe requiredhearing on the beforethe JudicialBoard May 21st that AS Council Meeting technologiespresent to workers,new of todayand ! repeatthat, with all my chargesand withoutaddressing most of a candidatehad to eitherattend the AS The incoming AS council’s hrst then arrtved, attemptmg to hand approachesto organizing,the global powersso longas breathremains in me,I the issuesraised by the SCU-OSG--the meetingin question,or ask the AS, in meetingturned into a brawl,as Muir MacCronean empty Coca Cola can, and 20-50% OFF BOOKS, PERIODICALS natureof capitalismand the need to shallcombat it... I despiseyou. I despise ElectionsCommission overturned the orderto learnof the change.Further- Senior Senator,Gregory MacCrone, telling MacCrone, "Greg, ! have a organizeinternational solidarity to your order, your laws, your force- electionand scheduled new elections for more, the SCU-OSG charged, the ap.oarentlyupset about members of the present for you." MacCrone asked RECORDS, POSTERS & CARDS combat it, and the need for proppedauthority. Hang me for it!" April 29-30.Presidential candidates ElectionsCommission arbitrarily and new indicatoropposing his nomination "What do you mean?" Kroopkin revolutionaryunions to addresshealth Greg Wilpertand Micki Archuletathen secretlychanged the proceduresfor to the media board, attacked new explained, "Trash. Garbage." Lotsof SpecialSale Books 50% off and safetyquestions on the shop floor --Jon Bekken protestedthe snap elections,arguing determiningwhich races would go to indicator collectivemember Monty MacCronethen asked "Why don’t you SALE RUNS THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 13th thatthey placed low-income candidates runoff--certifyingtheoutright election Reed Kroopkin. just throw it away?" Kroopkin orgamzatlonsseperate themselves from (whospent their available resources on. the collectivethought of the group? of ten candidatesin the April 29-30 MacCrone’s appointment to the responded,"Because it suits you." FRATBOYS: Young theinitial round of elections)at a serious (Surelysome hold opinions of theirown, electionswho wouldhave facedrun-off media board was opposed by new MacCronebecame enraged at thispoint disadvantage,as wellas imposingundue June 7--Book Returns: Come help send books back to the publishers. which are not endorsedby the group, challengesunder the procedures in effect indicatormembers on the groundsthat and said"You’re making me reallymad. Brownshirtsin academichardship upon candidatesand June 14--Inventory:from 9am until done. Your chance to come by and whichin factthey are probably forced to for theinitial round of elections.(The MacCrone had exhibited prejudice I feellike punching you right in theface!" campaign workers. The AS Judicial help take inventory.Closed for business,but bring a friend. withholdas a matterof course.) candidatesknocked out of the run-offs againstthe alternative media during his Kroopkinthen asked,"Are you looking Love(cont’d) Boardrefused to considertheir appeal. Theanswer as to whatexactly it is that by this change were predominantly carrpaignfor Muir Senatorby making for assaultcharges?" MacCrone loudly June 13--TGIF: Come by for refreshments and casual conversation. continuedfrom page 3 membersof the SUDS slate.) threateningstatements such as, "1 am responded,"Yes!" and lightlytapped Groundworks hosts TGIFs the second friday of each month. It would seem that bur boys in the fraternitiesare strivingto achieve goingto go afteryou guys relentlessly. Kroopkin’sshoulders saying "There!" fraternitieswant power. That’s fine, so appearsnebulous at thistime, although A Flurryof Protests STUDY GROUPS: A summer-long study group on Marx’s Capital; info: andreligiously." MacCrone then began to verbally doeseverybody else within reason. As to they(collectively) arenot off to a good Despiteoutstanding appeals lodged DiscriminatoryImpact Jelger 546-0833. A study of the theory and skills for decentralizing start in terms of publicperception threatennot only Kroopkin,but also the other issues they appear to be by the SCU-OSGagainst the April29-30 The combined impact of these groups:Criticism/selfcriticism, responsibility, and concensusdecision Morton, Kalmijn, and another new speakingon (possiblyonly in a tacit am~i.ga sizeableproportion of students improprieties,the SCU-OSGcharged, What appeared to touch off electionscharging that adequateand indi,’atormember, Dan Epperly,stating, making. Info: Roberto, 452-9625 sense),in otherwords their political on thiscampus. legal remediesto avoid the massive wasto unfairlybias the elections in favor MacCrone was two new indicator "Ifyou don’tleave, I’m goingto punch ideologies,one mightpossibly say than As to thesecond part of thequestion, mismanagementof the prior elections of the fraternity-backedPotluck and members, Byron Morton and Jelger you and yourthree friends right in.the SUMMERHOURS: Tues. - Sat., 11am to 8pm nobodyis reallysure. Are these persons whichis: "Can the fraternities have ’what had not been implemented,questioning Independents United slates while Kalmijn, standing behind him. face." reallythe sexist, egotistical, fanatical they want’ without oppressing the discriminatingagainst the progresive MacCrone became upset over their UCSDStudent Center, 452-9625 the impartialityand integrityof the typesthat they often portray themselves remainderof the studentbody. ~, the elections commission, and raising SUDSslate. In the April8-9 election, presence,rose from his seat, and to be?Are otherscorrect in perceiving answer from preliminaryevidence, despite the disenfranchise"nt of a demanded that they move. Kroopk(n continuedon page 7 massiveviolations of electionscodes-- themto be as oppressiveas theyappear unfortunately,would appear to be no. to be? Also, how do membersof such M. Offended 9 8

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]he North Americanlabor movement The Coalition of Labor Union early June. The AFL-CIO also has a In the middleof productionfor this IndicatorCollective is no exceptionto continuesto facedifficult times, with Women ((’I,UW)is planninga carpool Shell BoycottCommittee. For further issueof the newindicator, and oneday thatpolicy. only 18£,~of US workersin unions.A to LosAngeles on June17tohear ()liver information,call Carole at 583-2386. prior to scheduledbudget hearings Thenew indicator, since its inception concerted employers’ drive for lambo. President of the African The AmericanPostal Workers Union before the AS Media Board, Media twentyyears ago, has always been a concessions,which has seenunion wages NationalCongress speak on the anti- Board member Greg McCambridge newspapercommitted to serving the of San Diegowill hold theirNational andbenefits falling behind inflation, has apartheidmovement. He will be at the stoppedby the Print MediaProduction entireuniversity community. Our initial Conferencein San Francisco,August 9- createdgrowing recognition on thepart Trinity Baptist Church, 2040 West Center.McCambridge, also head of the editorial on September 30, 1966 J 16.]heir contract expires in July,1987. of rank-and-fileworkers and many JeffersonBl~d. at 8 p.m.(at Jefferson Inter-FraternityCouncil, and knownas explainedour intentionto functionin Forfurther information call 282-6891. union localsthat what is neededto Arlington).A contribution for gasoline a decidedopponent of thispublication, the traditionof collegenewspapers, combat labor’s current decline is is requested(negotiable). For info call The MusiciansAssociation of San attemptedto readcopy prior to it going reportinginformation of interestto effectivesolidarity (regional, national San Diego CLUW President l.inda DiegoCounty Local 325 will organize to press. He also attemptedto ask faculty,students, staff, alumni, and the concertsand performancesthroughout and international)and grassroots Moser at 447-1229or Vice President production workers a number of general community. We have never the summer. Their activities are mobilization.Major strikes such as the YolandaMiranda at 464-0408.In July, "Everydollar I have I owe to my questions,among which werequestions alteredthis objective. While there is no subsidizedby The Music Performance ongoing strike by more than 1,000 CLUW plans to have a speakeron the faithfulemployees. Now the turn- of their status in relationto the longer any publication at UCSD Trust Funds to the tune of 50e~. Co- Hormel mcatpackers in Austin, courtsystem, mainly on laborlaw and coatshave/o/ned a unionto try university, recognizedas the "officialcampus sponsorsor interestedparties should Minnesotahave made clear both the CaliforniaSupreme Court rulings. ]he to collectsome of them/" newspaper"--astatus previously held by contactJoe Pallazolaat 276-4324. INewspapers generally deny as a forcesarrayed against labor and the publicwill be invited.Call l,inda Moser both the new indicatorand the UCSD matterof courserequests by non-staff o| potentialfor mobilizingrank-and-file for timeand placeand details.Member The San Diego Community College Guardianat variouspoints in thehistory cut demandedby management.The San members to review copy prior to workersacross the countryto turnthe of the CLUW nationalboard, Nancy Houri)’Faculty Association will hold of the campus DiegoFlight Attendants are planninga printing,for both proprietaryreasons anti-labortide. Baker,is currentlyalso Co-Chair of the executivemeetings for strategyand rally at I.indburghField (San Diego and reasonsof freedomof the press reviewthroughout the summer.Contact airport) on June II. For more (especiallyfrom prior constraintby McCambridgeseemed annoyed that Donna Obata at 483-9710. informationcall Carolyn Elliot at 265- governmentofficials). While the new production staff did not want The Central American Teachers’ 9157. indicator has little concern with bureaucratspeering over their shoulders Committeeis collectingfunds to builda The tTnitedFarm Workersurge San proprietarymatters, the latter issue is of as they worked.Despite our ongoing schoolin Nicaragua.Celebrate the July l)iegansto hove’el!the tollo~ing greatimportance to thestaff and other efforts to recruit members from 19 NicaraguanIndependence Day. Join products:Table grapes. (’hiquita believersin freedomof thepress, nonstudentsectors, the newindicator is the brigadeleaving for Nicaraguaon bananas,.Armour meat products,BASF overwhelmingly a student run McCambridgeseemed particularly ,June21 and helpbuild a schoolhouse. Corp.video products, Red coach lettuce, publicationin serviceto the entire interested in whether some of the Anti-NuclearDemonstration For further informationcall Glvn Coors.Fabcrge cosmetics, tort ltoward volunteerstaff might not be currently universitycommunity. ]’he next day two Robertsat 224-7233. paper products,Holiday paper cups. AS Council members entered our enrolledundergraduate students, a For hundreds of demonstrators, Daniel Ellsberg,the man who made American Federation of Teachers Indiana desk co.. Brown and Sharpe curiousconcern comingfrom someone production facilities,harassing gatheredfrom severalWestern states, the Pentagon Papers public, made l.ocal1931 plans a ~umtncrrc~ic~ of the Mlg. (’o., I.ouisianaPacilic Corp. production workers until being whose own organization (the AS Saturdaymarked the beginningof an referencein a dynamicspech to theeffect Nan I)iegoCommunit> (’ollege l)istrict Mar~clPoultr\ (’o, Nixdorll-I.lo~,d Council)spends tens of thousandsof persuadedto leave.Apparently. Media anti-nuclear demonstration in of theanti-Vietnam War rallies on world budget.Contact I,arrx Sch~art,’ lor (’hain(’o. R,I Re\noldslobbacco (’o. Boardmembers are graspingat strawsin dollarseach year on salariesfor non- southwesternNevada, the site of U.S. politicsand drew an analogybetween moreinlornlation at 4f~4-7865. Sch~innBicxclcs. NCaittlc First National order to find some rationalefor de- studentsalone. (Not to mentionthe nucleararms tests. The well-organized Bank. %tellingRadiator (’o. and the fundingthe new indicator,despite th( Saturday’s protesters and their [he InternationalAssociation of additional $20,000 or so spent on protestcelebrated the extension of the predecessorsof theearly ’70’s. He then IroianI ligg;17t.’{’l~. |Ol lurthcr inlo. salaries/stipendsforAS officials).Also, repeated demonstrationsof supper1 Machinistsand AerospaceV¢orkers arc Sovietunilateral testing moratorium encouragedthe dozens of people who calllupc or Minnieill 428-3825. thereare several fulltime administrators from the studentbody in referendurr urgingcitizens to ~otctor Bradle~ and untilAugust 6th, and wasaimed at the anticipatedparticipating in a massiveact who overseethe Council;and they are after referendum,ad nauseum.Thei~ ()’(onnor.I he~ arc ~pon~oring ("tlrt’¢’r |-orIt+lorl’li~ltit+N t+tithe battlt: tolight teston June3rd, the twelfth by theU.S. of civil disobedience Monday by nonstudents.How many AS servicesand actualmotivation? They disagreewatt l)al .%’mmar in b;an Ysidro Middle plan’, to Ctlt -~[tlllCll[\L.d~C’~, ’,o~.~.:.lrdk since the announcement of the trespassingonto the test site and being enterpriseswould fall apart without their our politicsand do not want to fund Nchoolon .lunc6. ()n.Itiilc _~l. the\ lllillillltllll-V,.~igt:level,call !he Student moratorium. arrested,applauding their bravery. nonstudentmembership? It is general varietyof viewpoints.They will not fee UCSD policy to encouragecommunity secureuntil the only viewpointsthe? A San Diego group headed by Jim Of thethirteen San Diegans, one, Bill involvementin its affairsand the New readare theirown. Jacobsenof the Alliancefor Survival Phippsof Rebel Bakers,stayed to be ’Same Old Merchandise!" arrived at the demonstrationearly arrested.Phipps has longbeen involved Saturdaymorning after driving all night. in peaceactivism. Afterreceiving instructions at a base Theprotest of thelast few days is to be Vinko Globokar and camp, the thirteenproceeded to the followed up with future actions. demonstrationarea, where they were 1-hough,currently, no informationon greetedby a black,mushroom-shaped his_ Music incorporated them into one theseis available,it will be providedat a San I)icgois traditionallyan anti- [ask Force (in \VOlncn in Non- Occasionallythere is an outstanding balloon.The huge balloon provided lraditionalOccupations, which studies performance. shadefor dozens. labortown. But there is an activelabor performancethat somehowdoes not get movementhere, and numerouslabor- questionssuch as the stressof gender thepublicity it deservesand is quickly Experimentationwas the theme.The Despitethe intensedesert heat and relatedactivities in whichxolunteers can isolationon thejob. She can be reached forgotten. This year the music performancewas intendedto leave the uncomfortablemakeshift seats, the Impeach becomeinvolved. A list of severalSan at 284-4231. department produced such a audiencethinking: is it exclusively’ demonstrators’spirits remained high as Diegolabor-related groups follows. (If The San Diego-ImperialCounties performance:Vinko Globokar’sMusic music,or is it an ecclecticperformance of they were entertained by music ReaganRally you’regoing to bc in anotherpart of the Centrali,abor Council, AFI,-CIO will 201. With the resourcesof the music ideas representedin music?Can one promoting peace and denouncing country this summer, stop by the holdits secondannual Lahorcon/~’reme department geared towards the make music withoutsound? is it music militarism.Furthermore, speakers officewe mightbe able to put you in in NewportBeach from September9-12 preparationof thePacific Ring Festival, or is it theatre? The performance including Carl Sagan and Daniel in San Diego touchwith folks where you’re going.) at the BalboaBay Club.This is opento Vinko Globokar’sMusic 201 was an -~e~eatedlychallenged the sense of music Ellsbergentertained as wellas educated P-9 Hormel Support Group has union members only. The Central exampleof a superbperformance that and its limitations.One piece paired themasses. Respondingto formerU.S. Attorney formed to extend and deepen the Committee of the Labor Council didnot get the recognition it deserved. ProfessorGlobokar on trombonewith GeneralRamsey Clark’s article in the Carl Sagan, the noted MIT HormelBoycott and to raise money to representssome 100,000 families in the When a modern art form conveys a ProfessorCindy Earnest on frenchhorn. May 5 issueof Nationcalling for the astrophysicist,lauded the demonstra- helpthe Local P-9 strikers in Minnesota area, and will sponsorworkshops and feelingof being on the edge of the Connectingtheir instrumentswith a impeachmentof the president,a rally tors’ efforts to prevent a global hold out. Volunteers can pass out political seminars throughout the known,it capturesthe adventurousside gardenhose and specialvalves, their was held in Balboa Park on May 31, thermonuclearconflict and praised their boycottliterature at grocerymarkets comingyear. For moreinformation call of the individual.With that spirit, the individualsounds came out of the other 1986. Clark holds that President concernfor "planetaryhygiene," taking aroundtown. It is thepoint of viewof the Joe Francisat 291-4692. vieweraccompanies the creatorto a new musician’s instrument while they Reagan’s mercenary war against careof theearth to insurethat it doesnot Support Group that the strike has The ShellBoycott San DiegoSupport frontierof thatform. Vinko Globokar’s simultaniouslyplayed. Another piece, Nicaraguaviolates international law, the becomea desolatewasteland. becomea symbolof laborresistance to Music201 was sucha performance.This which was quite humourous,required War Powers Act, and the U.S. Committee of TransAfrica will be concessions.The SupportGroup works organizingpickets, leafletting and performancewas the world premierof thatthe performers stick their tongues in NeutralityAct. thel ntegralVersion of 55 peiceshe wrote and out when directed. Globokar word and to break down some of the in cooperationwith the InternationalBol’cotts ~/ Shell Gas Stations The Impeach Reagan Rally was Associationof MachinistsLocal Lodge from 1973to 1985. considers it good for music to be culturallimitations that accompany it. throughoutthe summer.The Committee sponsoredby CentralAmerican Student 1125 Education Committee. Contact is alsoorganizing a tripto Washington humourous,but that the humourshould Globokararrived at UCSD accepting ProfessorGlobokar, a residentof not obscure other aspects of the Action (CASA), a group composed Paul Pechterat 292-5150(Machinists DC to discussanti-apartheid strategies Paris,was at UCSDfor threemonths as a truechallenge for a moderncomposer. performance. studentsand faculty from six San Diego Hall)or at 282-4954. withthe CongressionalBlack Caucus in a visitingprofessor. He agreedto do the He had performedthese pieces with an areacolleges, including UCSD. The rally IntegralVerskm as themain project for Thisidea was evident in a piecebassist intimategroup of musicianswho love drew40-50 people and featuredan open sponsoringa UnitedWay DinnerDance both a graduatemusic course--music Mark Dresser performed. While he andappreciate this music form as much microphone, a band, food, and Cooperative Union’s Organizing 201--andan undergraduatecourse-- played, he discussed the muscles, as he. The challengehere was to adapt at 5150 Kearney Mesa Rd., the SupportGroup at 295-5850. informationtables. Speakers presented a Machinists Union Hall. They are music133. tendons and ligaments involved in thismusic to a largegroup of students,wide range of reasons why Reagan WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? The CorrectLine is a new graphics playing.The piece was very funny and holding a picnic for retired union and communicationsoutfit providing The class, and subsequent many of whom did not have a should be impeached--goingbeyond furthermoreallowed for an awarenessof backgroundin modern experimental membersat noon on June 12 at Missile low-cost services to progressive performance, were experiments in Clark’sreasons. the physiologicalaspects of playingto Park.On June13, from 6:00 to 12:00pm, communitygroups and individuals.It is themselves.There were 60 performers, music.The productiondisplayed some develop. awkwardness,but overallwas a great Some of these reasons included: the Machinistswill hold a fund raiser a union shop (IWW),worker owned and bothstudents and professors,involved Reagan’sterrorist bombing of civilian and educationalprogram and dancing operatedand organized as a collective.It in the productionof music whichwas Globokaris concernedthat his music success,especially as a learning experiencefor boththe performersand neighborhoods in Tripoli, Libya; andmusic for the HormelP-9 strikers at provides typesetting; computer originallytailored for Musique Vivante, hassocial and political undertones. This From P’,,,,,,,,,C",t ~ Gm"~.i....~ Reagan’splan to violatethe sovereign _ -- 6~,~ 5150 Kearny Mesa Rd--donation consultingfor small businesses,non- a Paris based group comprisedof 10 was not readily apparent in this the audience.Paradoxicaly, while the rightsof the Hopi and NavajoNations requrstedis $5 per coupleand $3 for profitgroups, social services and home production,but there was evidenceof it. lackof publicitywas reflectedin the performers.While most of the UCSD by forciblyevicting over 10,000 people ~ singles.Also, the Machinists are holding users; and many other graphicsand performerswere students,the members Especiallywith one piece,where three smallturnout, it allowedfor an intimate performance. Vinko Globakar’s fromtheir land on August6, 1986;and tell_. Of howthe good old un- ion llascome in hereto a Craftsand HealthUnion Fair this telecommunications-relatedservices. of MusicVivante are allaccomplishedin languageswere spoken throughtubes Reagan’sviolation of the preambleof summer.For more informationcall Pat Thegroup also seeks to buildsupport for improvisation, performing and into a box in which a fourth person productionwas a positiveexperience for the U.S. Constitution.The’latter Johnsonat 292-5150. progressivegroups and projectsin the composition--but they had never swung a microphone.The cacaphonyof the UCSD community. Hopefully, in argument holds that Reagan is S~n Diego area and works in performedthe piecesas a singlework. lanuguagescreated a new interpretationyearsto come,its successwill not be The InternationalFederation of consistently,at home and abroad, conjunction with the IWW General Subsequently,Globokar had performed of languageas a musicalform. Indeed, forgotten,overshadowed by the highly FlightAttendants will continuetheir throughhis support of capitalism,acting dwell.Which side are you on? Which side ~re vou on? Defense Committee.New members are these piecessuccesfully with a high throughoutthe performance,languages publicizedPacific Ring Festival. strikeagainst TWA. The nationalstrike contraryto the statedpurpose of the being admittedas workloadwarrants. degreeof musicalityand professional- wereintertwined with the musicto push -NancyFinch involvingover 6,000 employeesis in Constitution:to promotethe general defenseagainst a 44% wageand benefits For moreinformation call 483-4697. ism, but came to UCSD never having beyondthe limiteduse of the spoken welfareof thepeople. 10 11

Chicanosand others by implyingthat if eyelashes,a 20 inchwaist, and the $65-4 Community withequal levels of education-59% of Asians can make it, why can’t other whitemales with four yearsof college minorities.At the same time, the’ Women’s Groups Active ]akingcontrol of ourdestinies means Asian Americans makeover $10,000 a yearwhile the figure reactionaryclimate in theU.S. is leading more than buyingGucci handbagsand Centers& is only38.3% for Chinesemales, to moredirect repression against Asian pleasingour man. Self-determination Conditions in Asian American Americans.A shocking60% risein anti- in San Diego means findingone’s needs,desires, fightracist stereotypes communizes are substandard and Asianincidents was notedby the U.S. and limitations Co-ops potential,sorrows overcrowded. Unemployment in JusticeDepartment last year. The model religiousfundamentalists have taken The benefits of the women’s withoutthe dictatesof Cosmopolitan, Asian Americanshave been promoted Immigrant workers face the most communities like Los Angeles’s minority myth inflames the racist away a woman’sreproductive rights, movementof the 1960’sand ’70’shave Good Housekeeping,and Seventeen as the "modelminority" in majormedia gruelingconditions in restaurants, Chinatownis over 35%. atmosphereby promotingthe lie that taken a strangetwist--the liberated affirmativeaction quotas are takenaway Magazine to make more money by San Diegohas a numbert?[ coopera- coverageover the past severalyears. Butignoring these realities, the model Asiansare betteroff thanwhites--that womanof theeighties often equates with which lessenthe numberof women in tellingme "whenthe goinggets tough, tiresand communit.r(’enters which both provideinvaluable resources and an Some Asian Americans may have minoritymyth instead uses the increased theirso-called "successes" has beenat how to lose25 poundsin 2 weeks,how to "traditionallymale jobs" such as thetough go shopping."Real life lies not opportunityto get involved.Following thoughtthis was a "positive"stereotype, visibilityof the AsianAmerican upper the expenseof the jobs, housingand please your man in bed, and how to engineering,and more women commit in thefantasies of thetrinket producers aresome (?/ the grotq~s we’re in contact buta closerlook reveals it as a racist classes- developedlargely as a resultof educationof whites! preparea Dynasty-likebuffet when your slowsuicide trying to becomethe "ideal" who get rich by keeping women stereotypewith a divisiveand dangerous theinflux of Asianforeign capitalists to The modelminority myth is extremely executivehusband brings a few guys childlike. with: womanof six feet,100 pounds,2 inch impact. the U.S. over the paJt 15 years--to dangerousand must be stronglyopposed homefrom the office. But, we stillhave a Groundwork Books societyin which20% of all youngwomen presenta distortedpicture, by all.Asian Americans must renewthe l,ocatedin UCSD’sStudent Center, The myth that Asian Americanhave commitmentto work togetherand with sufferfrom life-threateninganorexia The modelminority myth is part and Groundworkoffers the bestselection of "’madeit" in U.S.society creates the otherminorities to fightfor justice, and bulimia.One out of threefemales leftbooks and periodicals to be foundin illusionthat any nationality can achieve I parcelof increasingattacks on minority and working people under declining equalityand neededsocial change. murderedin 1984was killed by herlover SanDiego, if notthe southern half of the the "Americandream." and thatfailure capitalism. While the Reagan Theahove article is a reprintlrom Unit.t’ or husband, and women earn 59¢for state. You’rewelcome to stop in to to do so is thefault of theindividual. administrationslashes social programs newspaper,published h.v the l, eagueOf everydollar men receivefor comparable browse,or to volunteer.Saturday June But a look at historyand today’s in ThirdWorld communities and attacks RevolutionaryStruggle (M-L), P.O. work. 7th they’llbe doingbook returns,the conditionsgives a verydifferent picture. the rights of minorityworkers and Box 29293.Oakland Ca., 94604. Many women deny the victimization 14th they’llbe doing inventory.Your [he U.S.has alwayspromoted itself to students,the rapidlygrowing minority WithinSan Diegothere are several of women on many social,political, help wouldbe appreciatedeither day. thepeoples of Asiaas theland of golden populationsare increasinglyaware of organizationsfighting for Asian- psychological,and economiclevels of Groundworksis open Tuesdaythrough opportunity.Yet, as U.S. imperialist society.They rationalizeor blind theirlack of politicalpower. Americanrights. Among them are the Saturdayfrom I lain to 8pro over the venturesin Asia expandedin the mid- The Chicano-Mexicanopopulation Asian/’Pacific student organizations at themselvesto actualwomen’s conditions summer. 1800’s,Asians were brought to the U.S. by saying"1 have never experienced has almost doubled since 1970, UCSD and SDSU. Both groups are On the secondfriday of each month as contractlaborers and werebrutally numberingnearly 18 million,while the. currently participating in the discriminationbecause I am a female--I (beginning June 13th) they’ll exploitedin the mines,railroads and am from a protectivefamily--I can AsianAmerican population I~as tripled Asian./Pacific Student Union, which sponsoringa TGIF with lightrefresh- agriculturalfields of theWest. The same accomplishanything that 1 want" or over the past 15 years, numbering along with ChicanoandAfro-American ments and casualconversation. Also shipsthat were used to transportAfrican "Thereare two types of women--meand approximately4.8 million.During the statewidegroups, is fightingagainst the duringthe summerwill be studygroups slavesto the Southbrought the first them--thosewho are stupidenough to late1960’s and early 1970’s the unified Cal. State requirments. The UCSD on Marx’sCapital (call Jelger at 546- Asiansto U.S.shores. effortsof minoritypeoples won major Asian PacificStudent Alliance (APSA) have unplannedchildren, who do not 0833for details)and CollectiveTheory educatethemselves in orderto moveup Once here,the Asianimmigrants were social advances such as the is currentlyfighting to maintaina and Skills (call Roberto at the ranks,and who onlywant to workin barred from owning land, becoming implementationof affirmativeaction, popularAsian-American Studies class Groundworks,452-9625). lower-statusjobs." citizens,marrying whites and bringing garmentfactories, domestic and service the unionizationof minorityworkers, as a permenentfixture, and to forcethe over theirfamilies. During World War industries,and other blue collar jobs. But everyday,for allof our lives,all The Lesbian and Gay Men’s and alsoplayed a majorrolein opposing administrationto hire a permenent II, 110,000Japanese Americans, 70% of Employersoften take advantage of their U.S. intervention in third world facultymember to teachthe class.For womenare the targetsof marketingand CommunityCenter, 692-4297. * NationalOrganization for Wolnen whom were U.S. citizens were immigrant status and lack of advertisingtycc, ons who thrive off *" OlderWomen’s League(OWL).298-0880 countries.These struggles also produced moreinformation on these activities, call (NOW).This is thelargest national women’s incarceratedin U.S. concentration backgroundin the Englishlanguage. A manyactivists committed to thefight for A PSA,at 452-2048. makingwomen feel inadequateand less * Associationof AmericanUniversity organizationand it hasbeen very active The Center provides individual Women (AAUW).Florence Young is the camps. blatantexample is the1985 case in which equalityand social justice. Withinthe Asiancommunity, there is worthwhileif theyare not as prettyor as aroundthe ERA. To be successfulthey need counseling,referrals to a widevariety of currentpresident: 298-1220. Thoughthe Asian/Pacificcomumties Indonesian immigrants were found ’blondas CherylTeegs, insecure that moresupport, please call 238-1824. groupsand services, and rentsspace for Today, the U.S. capitalistsare the Pacific Asians for the Rainbow someother woman will "steal" her man if * Battered Women’s Project. This have grownand developedover the last working in Beverly Hills homes as implementingstrategies to attackand (PAR),which came out of the Rainbow * PlannedParenthood. This organization meetingsfor abouthalf of the lesbian indenturedservants. she doesnot feelas "CamaySoft" or as organizationhas been instrumentalin and gay men’s organizationsin San 130 years, inequalityand injustice dilutethe movementsamong oppressed Coalition during the 1984 Jackson helpingmany abused and homeless women in offersinformation about contraception. seductivelyscented or as "Close-up- abortion,and parenthood. Call 231-6822. Diego.The Centeralso offers a drop-in persist.While the modelminority myth Asianworkers in urbanareas receive: people of color. Repressionis one campaign.PAR is presentlyworking radiant,"and then encouragewomen to the San Diego.Volunteers" as well as points out that Chinese American only 70-80~7~of the wages earnedby means,divide and conquer is another.In around issues such as attacks on enthusiasticinterns are needed to runthe * Renewed.]-his is a servicecenter for the centerand telephonehotline. purchasetheir unnecessary, artificial newscaster Connie Chung makes whites, and the majorityof Asian this vein,the modelminority myth is bilingualrights, and on Asian-American Hotline(24 hrs/day) and shelters, do office disabled.They have two phonenumbers: Volunteersare always needed with "necessities"for femininefulfillment in $600,000per year,it sayslittle about families survive on more than one used to split the Asian American educational issues. For more andlegal work, and serve as courtescorts¯ 293-3500and one for the hearing impaired, any and all skills.Phone monitors and self-esteem. 293-7757. Asian Americanworkers who made up householdincome. Even those with a communitiesalong class lines. It alsopits informationcontact Jan Takamaru266- Theretwo locations that can be contacted: drop-incenter monitors are examples. DowntownSan Diego at 234-3164and about 70% of all Asian Americans. collegeeducation earn less than whites Asians against African Americans, 2080. *SanDiego ll’o.len. I his is a community]’hose wishing to work on the AIDS ¯ I I SunshineVillage at 266-9056. basedwomen’s newspaper. The~ need people of eligiousr freedom. [Cor Native Projectcan call 543-0300. To participate Mormonscriptures teach that all"dark" * Businessand Professional Women. This tohelp them with running all aspects of paper in Concerned Citizens for AIDS Americans,religion is inseparablefrom suchas typesetting, layout, and taking calls. Indian Homelands Again racesare accursed!) communityservice club helps women of all Patients(CCAP), which providesin- sacredsites, and the land itselfis ages to get and maintain adequate If youare intersetd call Irene Weber at 234- * Relocation for the Navajo means homepatient support, call Tom at 281- regardedas holy. employmentby doingsuch things as helping 3644. thatpeople who once lived on theland in 6325or (in NorthCounty) Carol at 748- prepareapplications. Theycan be reachedat * United Domestic Women. UDW Threatened.by Greed completeself-sufficiency are moved to * The move, originallyestimated to 5235,or inquireat theCenter. involve3,300 people, and to cost $37 239-1607. organizesdomestic women workers to help With the advent of the arrival of * The Navajo, who are nomadic city suburbs. Often they speak no million,will actuallyinvolve 10,000- * CaliforniaAbortion Rights League. This them obtainand maintaingood working The annual Gay Pride Parade and Europeans,Native American Indians shepherds, and the Hopi, who are English,can’t find work, are forced to go conditions.They can be reachedat 263-7254. 15,000people and willcost a totalof issuehas taken several levels: I ) Combatting Festivalwill be held on Saturdayand have faceda longand bloodyhistory of village-dwellingfarmers, have shared on welfare,and evenlose their homes to thebombing of abortionclinics which have $1.5-2billion before it is over. * Women’sEquity Committee of the U.N. Sunday,June 7 and 8. The Paradewill oppression.They have facedactive and thisarea (JUA) for at least100 years unscrupulous loan sharks. Their notonly caused the destruction of some but Thisinternational women’s organization has beginat noon on Saturdayand will be consciouscampaigns of genocideat the peace. childrenare prey to alcoholism,drug alsohas raised insurance rates so highthat widelyattended congresses. For information followed by a rally and then the handsof theiroppressors. The Spanish, * Theonly serious conflict between the abuse and suicide. The older ones Pleasesee boxfor informationon how theclinics are often forced out of business, 2) call233-3970. openningof the Festivalfrom 3 p.m. Legalprocedures and legislative lobbying, 3) the English,the North Americans,and twotribes exists between their so-called literallydie of brokenhearts, you can help support the Hopis and * AhernativeVisions. A I’ is a UCSD until8 p.m.On Sunday,the Festival will the Mexicans,have all soughta "final Navajos. as wellas generaldemonstrations for a women’spaper that comes out on a quarterly "tribalcouncils." These tribal councils * Takingaway tribal land is a violation women’sright to choosehow to runher own run fromI I a.m.to 7 p.m.For further solution"to the "Indianproblem" at one basis.They cover a broadrange of topics as werecreated by the U.S.government to II I II II _ , ~ [ I life.For more information please call 223- details,call theGayzette newspaper at timeor another. rJuly8, ! 986 is the cut-offdate foj Hopi and Navajorelocation to takeplace. wellas providevital infomation on pertinent 296-6111,or Scene magazineat 692- regulatethe Native Americans. (The first 5566,ext. 996. The Hopi "tribalcouncil" is standingresolute, and the federalgo vernment eventsin thecommunity. They can always 9147.Volunteers are neededfor several Those of us who grew up in the U.S. "tribalcouncil" was appointedby the * CreditUnion for Women.This credit usemore help in all aspects oftheir operation rememberfrom school days the storyof Departmentof the Interiorin 1923--at has promisedto send troops to enforcetotal removal. unionis completelystaffed and run by aspectsof the Paradeand Festival.To andrequire no previousexperience with how the Dutch settlers purchased the request of Standard Oil--to womenfor women.The creditunion has runninga newspaper.Call 452-2016 and helpset up theFestival, call Karla at 297- optionsopen for internships, visit them 2217.To helpwith security call Wendy at ManhattanIsland for $24.00from the authorizedrilling leases.) No morethan To stop the relocation,Congress must repealPub|ic Law 93531. Every woman knows the constant leavea message for ,41ternalive I’i,~ion.~. nativeinhabitants, making it one of the 15t~of thepeople turn out to datefor subconscious and sometimes and/orcall 280-1922. 284-1140.To work on decorationscall Write your senatorsand congresspersonand let them know your * BeachArea Women’s Clinic. This clinic biggestreal estate swindles in history. these councils:most nativesdo not overwhelmingfear of rape or physical * Coalitionof LaborUnion Women. This Tonyat 692-1947.The generalvolunteer assistshomeless and battered ~omen in the Whilemany of us feel that the Native recognizethe legitimacyof white- viewpoint.Senators Dennis DeConcini (Arizona) and Congressman coalitionserves as an umbrellaorganization coordinatoris Julie,at 280-2106. attackas she walksto her car in the beachareas. Call 488-8825. Americanland grabsare a thingof the sponsorednaiive councils that claim the Pete Domenici(New Mexico)have made moderateefforts to block parkinglot at only dusk,not eventhe formany women’s organizations in addition * Women’sInternational League for Peace Later this summer, on August 9 past, the fact of the matteris quite abilityto sellor leaseancestral land. the relocation.Urge your cogressional representatives to work with weehours of themorning. This constant to itsown activities. Please call 284-4231. andFreedom (WII,PF). This organization through16, Gay GamesII willbe heldin different. Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi fear, which men do not experieince, * Leagueof WomenVoters. The leagueof hastaken an activepolitical stand against them. San Francisco.The gamesinclude track traditionalcouncil of elderssays, "There make her reality and needs much womenvoters has taken a prominentrole the Apartheid,for the NuclearFreeze. Threecenturies later, most of us have Pleasealso contact the President and theSecretary of theInterior. andfield, swimming, soccer, volleyball, is no land disputebetween the Navajo different.One outof everythree women electionsproceedings of the United States in Nicaragua,andthe test ban. Please call them changedour consciousnessabout the and much more. For more information and the Hopi. ]he traditionalpeople See addressesbelow. willbe rapedin herlifetime, but only two organizingdebates as wellas election at 420-4453. AmericanIndians. We realizethat our themselves.They can be contactedat 235- on thegames, call 234-7738 or 281-8750 neverrecognized the tribal councils. It is Also, write the Big MountainLegal Defense/OffenseCommittee percentof rapistsare convicted. If this is * WomenCare. This is a centerfor women governmenthas historicallytreated 8683. or writeto 3003Beech Street, San Diego, the tribalcouncils and the big energy (BMLDOC)and ask to be on theirmailing list. Include your phone not oppressionthat faces all women whowant counciling as well as actualmedical themwith indignity and deceit, violating CA 92102. companies and the U.S. government irrespectiveof theireconomic class, * Lesbiansof Color.An activegay womens help.They need people who are willing to nearlyall our treatiessoon after we numberfor theiremergency phone campaign.If you can, send a organizationwhich can be reachedat 479- The Centeris alwaysa good placeto who are in disputeagainst the Navajos social status or educational spendextended periods of timeworking as signedthem. much-neededdonation. 5976. paidinterns. For information call 298-9352. contactto learnof eventsand projects as and the Hopis.The GreatSpirit didn’t achievement,then I am mot sure how Allthat is in thepast. Right? ...Wrong! theyarise. want the landdug up to createnuclear Pleaseact today!We cannoterase the bitterhistory of treachery one woulddefine "oppresion." * YoungWomen s ChristianAssociation Our Congress--whichrepresents you weapons... I callupon the U.S. and the againstthe original people of thiscountry, but we canprevent it from * Metro (United Methodists).This (YWCA). This large community and me--iseven today in the midst of Unfortunately,the nuclearfamily organizationhas beeninstrumental in GrassrootsCultural Center so-calledtribal councils to refrainfrom continuing. itonorable(congressperson’s name) communityorganization hasbeen effective in another land grab from Native BMLDOC oftendoes not provea havenfor women. providingshelters for homelesswomen. providingservices to economically invadingthe Big Mountainand allowthe UnitedStates House of Representative~ 2501N.4th St., Ste 18-19 Washington, D.C. 20515 Womenin the roleof housewife,without ThClseshelters provide a service that should disadvantagedwomen through shelters and Americans,this time lromthe Hopl ann traditionalpeople to remainin their Dear Friends in Navajotribes of Arizona. Flagstaff,AZ 86001 an independentsource of incomeother be considereda human-right, the right to otherservices. Contact Janet Blakeman at the Cause of homes." PresidentRonald Reagan Community Action: Phone602-774-5233 than that doledout at theirhusbands’ elter.Please call 234-3158. 239-0355. We can stop this tragedy from IMLDOC The WhiteHouse ~ * Relocationwas concoctedto benefit 1600Pennsylvania Avenue whim,have little control over the fate of We can use up more than a few words occurringif we act quickly.Here’s a bigmining interests; there are enormous c/oAlliance for Survival themselvesand theirchildren when the makingplans, hut whatwe needis help! Washington,D.C. 20500 summaryof the facts,and what we can coal and uraniumdeposits on tribal San DiegoChapter At Grassroots,our daily concern is with Honorable(senator’s name Honorable Donald Hodel husband is the sole source of food, alldo aboutthe situation. land,which will be availableto leasing ~.O.Box 33686 UnitedStates Senate housing,and all sustinence.And 38%of working,struggling and organizingin San Diego,CA 92103Washington, D.C. 20510 Secretaryof the Interior * PublicLaw 93-531,passed in 1974, by the"tribal council"once the lands are InteriorBuilding allfemales will be beatenby theirlovers our communities.We are askingyou-- ~hone619-275-1162 requiresthe Navajo to be forcibly vacated. Washington,D.C. 20240 or husbandsmore than once. especially if you have skills in removedfrom the Big Mountainarea of * Among the tiny minorityof natives Maybeit is timeto reconsiderif indeed accounting, graphics theater Thefolio wing is listo.[eongressmen.from the Southwest U.S.: Bill Lowry (CA), Arizona,in what is now known as the pushingfor relocationare severalHopi "you have come a long way, baby"when production and social change Joint Use Area (JUA) of the Hopi and Jim Bates (CA), MorrisUdall (A Z), Ron Packard(CA). DuncanHunter millionairebusinessmen, who were one examineswhere women stand today mechanisms--toserve San Diego next SidneyYaws (Chairof Subcom.on Appropriations).Pete Domenici(NM) Navajo land. The purpose of this educatedin white schools,are Mormon and where they may be in the future Theseare Senetors.frora the area." Pete Wilson (CA), Alan Cranston (CA), Barr.~ removalis to ameliorateso-called "tribal converts,and have abandonedtheir when the Reaganadministration and the ~Goldwater (A Z), Dennis DeConcini (A Z~ . warfare." ancestralspiritual traditions. (The 12 13 interventionis similarto the Soviet electionsin Nicaraguawere fair. With a believable reason for the. war on insteadof an upperclass is socialism. ,~+, theory in that areboth ,,o: The US War in program like the one above, the Nicaraguais the "thirdsalient fact’ Thisis what Marx,Engels, I,enin were blatantlyuntrue. There are three salient Why is the US Government tryi ng Sandinistasdon’t need to cheatin an above: Nicaraguais more democratic all thinkingof. The USSR and company 1actswhich d,rect,y contradict the Nicaragua(cont’d) electionto win.In fact,a part)’like the democracy" theory of than the US. Nicaragua is more arenot socialist. FSI,N would probably win a fair democratic because in 1979 the to ore rthrow the Sandin istas? interventionand hence’showthat this is electionin theUnited States. Sandinistasled a revolutionof peasants What the US governmentfears is the not be the motivation "for the US exampleof thesocialist democracy being However,campaigning and elections and workerswhich not only overthrew government’scampaign to overthrow collegestanding between the Nicaraguan built in Nicaragua.The profoundly publicto the miseryof theirCentral whichgive all the legalparties a fair Somoza, but put the government, Most people in the United States campesinos--madethe war a nightmare the Nicaraguanrevolution. people and the election of their democraticnature of the new Nicaragua American neighbors by ’red scare’ chance to compete for office were militaryand police in the hands of know that the U.S. government is for them. Further, conflicts and president.The termsof variouselected is inspiringworking people throughout wagingwar on Nicaraguavia thecontras difficultiesin formulating foreign policy, tactics. Thefirst salient fact is thatthe contras officialsrange from 4 to 5 years. institutionalizedin the electionlaws workingpeople (ending rule by therich). beingused to fightthe Sandinistas are This alloweda profoundtransformation theworld---literally. ! know it inspires in order to overthrow the elected and a strong anti-war movement at Thefact is thatthe SovietUnion is a In sharpcontrast to one-partystates adopted by the Council of State on the authorsand a growing number of led by the remnants of Somoza’s March 15, 1984.These laws stipulate to begin,putting the governmentand Sandinistagovernment there, and that homelead to thesearch for alternativehindranceto world revolution.Ever like the USSR, China and Cuba, there peoplein thiscountry because it shows, since the Yalta Conferencein which NationalGuard who seek the returnof a that no signaturesare requiredfor a economy under the control of the thiswill probably escalate into another methodsof domination. are manypolitical parties in Nicaragua afterall theseyears, that socialism is Vietnam war -this time in Central Stalin,Truman and Churchill divided up Somoza-likedictatorship. The first partyto geton theballot. This is in sharp averageworking citizen, instead of the The U.S.found old politicalmodels thing that directlycontradicts the all of which can and do engagein wealthyfew. possible,that it is possibleto havea America. However, few people suchas directcontrol unrealistic. In the theworld into spheres of influence.The organizingand propaganda.When one contrast to Californialaw, which much more democraticsociety in which ’defenddemocracy’ justification of war requires100,000 signatures to geton the understandwhy thier governmentis next periodthey allowedliberalism. SovietUnion has helpedto preventor of theauthors was in Nicaragua,he saw Becauseof this,Nicaragua is ableto theprofits which we allhelp to createare leading them down this hopeless smash revolutions. The destroyed on Nicaraguais the fact that the US ballot. maximizethe standardof livingof its which gave the impressionthat the governmment has repeatedly many peopleselling the newspapersof used to raiseour standardof living, path.TheU.S governmentoffers two revolutionof Greece, serves as an In Nicaraguaeach political party that citizens and give them much more Nicaraguanelites were running the overthrown elected, popular thevarious parties and bought several of insteadof makingan upperclass richer. mainjustifications forits obsession with show,even though the real power still lay exampleto revolutionariesthat the runs a full slate gets $600,000in freedomin politicsand in theworkplace governmentsof other countriesand them.He alsosaw a largebillboard on The US can be reliedupon to continueto destroyingthe new Nicaragua:l.The in Washington.The man that the State Soviet Union gave up being governmentfinancing to campaignwith. than in the US. The US government tryto destroythe Nicaraguanrevolution replacedthem with brutal dictatorships. the road from Managua to Masaya Nicaraguanrevolution is theforefront of Departmentchose for the taskof giving. revolutionarya long time ago. Its role in Allparties can solicit additional funding repeatedlypoints out that the FSLNis Some of the many examples include whichcarried an advertisementfor one untilit becomesimpossible to do so.We an attemptby the SovietUnion to take the impressionthat it was he who was Yugoslavia,after WWll,in Francein in Nicaraguaand abroad. Each party is led by Marxists.They hope this will all need to take the time to organize Guatemalain 1954, Iran in 1956 and of the non-FSLN parties. Reagan’s over Central America, and 2.The ruling,andnot Washington,was General 1968,in Chinain the1920’s, prove the givenan equalshare in 15 minutesof free make us think that the FSLN must have opposition to the US’s war on Chilein 1971.In eachcase a government claimthat political parties are not free to Sandinistagovernment is an oppressive AnastioSpinoza. samepoint. operatein Nicaraguais a hallucinationtelevisiontime daily and 15 minutesfree in mind a dictatorialUSSR-type of Nicaragua.This is not only becauseof dictatorshipand mustbe overthrown’to was electedwhich began programsto government.What they either don’t Somozawas appointedJele Director For years,the Moscow-linePSN in -in fact he has no way to know for dailyon eachof the16 state-ownedradio what the US government seeks to protectDemocracy in all the Americas. help its impoverishedcitizens (thus understand,or lie about,is that the Nicaragua opposed armed struggle himselfwhat Nicaragua is like because stations.Also, each partymay place destroy,but also because it is leadingus Thepurpose of thisarticle is to examine of theU.S.-created National Guard as its negatively effecting US corporate USSR is not run by Marxists,and that first Nicaraguan commander. On againstthe Spinozaregime. The FSLN he’snever been there! observersat each of the 5,000ballot into a new Vietnam war that would thefacts of thesituation and show that profits)¯ The US government then most of the Marxistpolitical leaders February21, 1934, after Somozahad was formedin 1961 and whenthey began boxesto ensurefair voting.All this extend from Mexicoto Argentinaand thesecannot be the reasonsfor thewar organizes,funds and arms a military The Law of PoliticalParties was were exiled or murderedby Stalin’s met with the recentlyappointed U.S. trainingfor guerilla warfare in 1963the clearlyshows that Nicaraguan politics wouldneedlessly massacre millions of on Nicaragua,and then suggesta much coup in the offending,"undemocratic" passedby theCouncil of Stateon August group.The Sandinistas, however, are led MinisterArthur Bliss Lane, Sandino PSN condemnedthem. It wasn’tuntil and electionsare moredemocratic than peopleand ruin the livesof millions more believable reason. Because a countryand leadsthem in overthrowing 17. 1983, after months of debate by Marxists,and their programis a andthree of his generalswere ambushed 1978, when most of the work had been in the US. more includingyou. Vietnamwar in CentralAmerica would the government.1-o show how the US throughoutthe country.(The Council of Marxist one. The goal of the and executedby the NationalGuard on doneand victor)’seemed imminent that What You Can Do needlesslymassacre millions of people governmentacts to "makethe world safe Statewas an assemblyof representatives So,oncloser inspection both of the Sandinistas-toput the economy and theirway from a ’reconciliation’meeting the PSN joined the FSI,N in armed twomain justifications given for the war There are severalways you can get ,andthis could easily include you, this for democracy",consider the case of of all the mass organizationsand the government of Nicaragua under the at theNational Palace. On thefollowing struggle.The SovietUnion may have analysisis notjust an academicexercise. Guatemala. capitalist’sorganizations, which was set on Nicaraguaare false.A much more democraticcontrol of workingpeople involved to help prevent the next daythe NationalGuard forces wiped out supplied weapons during the final Vietnamwar. The contraaid issue is Youneed to figureout for yourself what up afterthe 1979 revolution to actas a Sandino’sbase camp and the campaign insurrectionagainst Somoza. In 1950, JacoboArbenz won 72c’~of comingup againin Congresson June14. is really going on in the war on the xote in Guatemalanelections, and temporarycongress until one could be of terror began which restoredthe One descriptiongives only a glimpse Friendsof NicaraguanCulture, a local Nicaragua and why if you want to tookoffice as president.I,ike the rest of elected.)The Law of PoliticalParties conditionsfo r t he latin/undio(hacienda) of conditionswhich lead to a popular anti-interventiongroup, is organisinga survive the next ten years. To (’cntralAmerica, Guatemala was ,and statesthe requirements fora partyto be a system.The agrarianbourgeoisie now revoh: letter-writingcampaign to dealwith this understandwhether the ’Soviet threat in is.a pooragrarian society with a large legal one: "PoliticalParties can be issue;a demonstrationat the Federal Nicaragua"is an accuratedescription of pcasantr)owning xerv little of theland organizedfreely in the countrywith no thesituation ,its necessary to lookat the ideologicalrestrictions whatsoever. The Buildingdowntown on Wednesdaysat and 142 peopleor corporationsowning 4pm.Youcan get involedin the Anti- historyof the Nicaraguanrevolution to 98~;of theland. In orderto hclpallc~iatc existenceof politicalgroups or parties seethe pronounced absence of theSo~ let whichseek the returnof Som.,cismoor War ActionCommittee. They are having the sc\crc land shortageamong the a bigmeeting Sunday, June 8, at 2pro,at L~nion. Wc.II also see wh~ most pca~,antrx,the Arbcn/ go~ernment which advocatethe establishmentof a Nicaraguansdon’t like our government. similarpolitical system is prohibited." theShanties on RevellePlaza, to discuss nationali/cd20().000 acres ol idh’land howto fightconta aid,and plans for the By 1849 North .Americanspeculators o~ncd b~ the I~nitcdFruit Company. This clearly makes pro-capitalist Summerand next Fall. began to establish themselves in pa~.ingfor it ~lth25-xcar bonds. politicalparties legal, and several of Nicaragua:one went so faras to declare them registeredand campaignedin the Robyn & Craig lhclSgo\crnment outragcdbxthe himselfPresident a(ter invading, and November4, 1984 election. (ittlttcmalan gO\ cln nlcn I’,, callous reinstituting,,,la~,erv. A series of treaties In all,7 partiesrepresenting a broad made bv the Conscr,,ativeParty ot di~,rcgat-dtot the rightol the I nited fruit(o. to t+~,~nas mucht+l (iuatcmala spectrum of political tendencies Nicaraguatormalised I:.S. control~f ,~sit x\anted,regardless, ot the needs ol registeredand campaigned. Of these,the Ntcaragua. the population had the Central IndependentLiberal Party (PLI), the CommunityCenters In 1893, alter 36 years ol IntelligenceAgency draw up plans to ConservativeDemocratic Party (PCD) uninterruptedConser~,ative rule. a topple the Arben/ government. and thePeople’s Social Christian Party and Co-ops l.iberalrevolt led to theformation of an According to the March 4, 1963 (PPSC)are all pro-capitalist.The PLI agro-exportingbourgeoisie. When the Vew.~tveek.Eiscnhowcr, when reviewing withdrewfrom the electionsOctober Liberalsbegan makingdeals with the theplans, said: "1 wantall o1 youto bc 21st, saying the electioas were Japaneseand Britishin defianceof the damn good and sure you succeed." undemocratic.The PCD charged that Monroe Doctrine, Washington term by helpingout at the Grassroots headedthe dominant classes. No alliance In coffeepicking alone. 40~i ol gorkers The US government proceeded to the PLIwithdrew because of pressureto CulturalCenter in GoldenHills. Call intervened.In 1909,400 U.S. Marines was forgedbetween the dissidenturban werewomen and aboutanother 15ci young do so from the US embassy,and that supply their chief mercenary, 232-5009. invadedto protecta Conservativerevolt bourgeoisie,the peasants, and the small children¯It wasim, ariably piece-work. theytoo hadbeen pressured to withdraw GuatemalanColonel CastilloArmas, and ’Americanlives and property.’ This workingclass: it took25 yearsto regain forcinglabourers into 12-or 14-hour days in with weapons,equipment, planes and and denounce the elections as was only one amongst many other theSandinista initiative. These 25 years thescorching sun, beginning at5:30 a.m.. six undemocratic,but that they wouldn’t. OB PEOPLE’S CO-OP daysa week.Those lucky enough to find pilots.He invadedfrom Hondurason invasionsthroughout Latin America. In werea nationalnightmare of Somocista Therewere also three leftist parties other OceanBeach People’s Food started in semi-skilledjobs processing the crop would June18, 1954,overthrowing the Arbenz 1926,after years of constantLiberal terror:rape, torture, poverty, illiteracy thanthe Sandinistasin the elections. 1971as a smallbuying club situated in a commonlywork up to 18 hours,lheir pitiful government. What followed was a versusConservative battles, Sandino and diseasefor those who would dare wageswent on basicfoodstuffs sold at dictatorshipwhich murderedthousands These were: the NicaraguanSocialist shedbehind the OB Free School.It has launchedthe strugglefor national opposeU.S. interests¯ Party (PSN), the CommunistParty sincegrown into a bustlingnatural foods inflatedprices in the landowner’s store, the of peasantsand workers,in order to independence.May 4, celebratedas Dia Nicaragua (PCN), and the People’s storeserving people from all overSan The FrenteSandinista de Liberacion comi.sarialo,so that cotton pickers or cane firmlyre-establish the unrestrained reign de la Dignidad Nacional (Day of cutterswould often return homeat theend of Action M ovement-Marxist-Leninist Diego,as wellas our neighborsin Baja Nacional (FSLN) was formed in the of the landownersand capitalists-- At War in CentralAmerica National Dignity) which marks theseason locked into an endlesscycle of California. early 60’s. It recognizedthat only especiallythose from the US. (MAP-ML). And then, of course, Sandino’srecognition that both the debtto theiremployer. Outside the season, there’sthe Party whose presidential In the prolongedand often heated The Interfaith Task Force is a revolutioncould end the tyrany of Liberalsand the Co’hservativeswould therewas no otherwork. In 1973.cotton Thesecond salient fact contradicting candidatewon by a largemargin (60% of debate over the US-backed war in religious-orientedbody engaged in anti- Spinoza and th backwardness of REBEl. BAKERS foreverfight among themselves for the employedonly 25,035 permanent workers the U S government’s’defenddemocracy’ the vote), the SandinistaNational Nicaraguaand the atrocitiesof the interventionand sanctuary-support U.S.franchise, selling the sovereignty of Nicaraguansociety. The crucialperiod but202,295 labourers for the three-month justificationfor tryingto destroythe contras,little attention has been paid in pickingseason. At night,they slept in LiberationFront. The FSLN not only theNicaraguan nation to theinterests of was between1975 and 1978, when the Sandinista-ledrevolution is that recentyears to theeven more brutal wars The Rebel Bakeryis a local workers FSLN reassesed its revolutionary galerone.s.. sordid huts of unfinished wonthe presidencyand most of theseats collectivethat has been in businessfor 5 U.S. corporations¯He withdrewto a Nicaraguais more democraticthan the in congress,it is alsobigger than all of beingfought by US surrogatearmies in work. Saturday, June 7th they are strategy.They debated the role of the plankingin whicheach labourer occupied a years.We attributeour success to these mountainstronghold to forma guerilla United States.While there is press the otherparties combined. The reason Guatemalaand El Salvador.Hundreds sponsoringa programwith BillWalker, variousclass forces in society,out of coffin-likewooden box, two meters long by two reasons: armyand launchthe secondphase of the one meterhigh, withoutlight, water, censorship,one must keep in mind that fortheir solid popularity is their political of millionsof dollarsare spent each year Tucson Sanctuary case lawyer at 12 whicha new alliancewas formed.This civilwar. furnitureor sanitation,each serving as a Nicaraguais at war,and thatwhile the program.After the revolution,the proppingup theseregimes, and paying noon (USD Law School, Fletcher (I) The committmentto collective new alliancewas able to organizenot dormitoryfor up to 150worker. rightwing press is censored,it is by the for their bloody wars against the .Room, info: 698-1150)They can be organizationcreates an environment The U.S. inflictedheavy damageon only the peasantsbut also the urban Sandinistasled the initialtransfor- the peasantryby using sophisticated samecriteria that all media is censored. mationof Nicaragua.They launcheda population. phonedat 235-6057,or writtenat PO thatis bothstrong but yet flexible to the masses.When the Nicaraguanmasses, military technology including gas Nicaraguais in a real war withthe US massiveliteracy campaign, made health Box 8467, San Diego CA 921’02. obstaclesthat plague young businesses, led by the FSLN were finallyable to Followingis a list of some of the warfare and counter-insurgency (viathe contras )and,just like the US carefree, nationalized the land holdings suchas managerialproblems, long-term overthrowSpinoza on July19, 1979they wartime, it censors all military organizationspresentlr active in.lighting finances,and lack of dedicatedworkers. operations. They had previously and businesses of Somoza and his Friendsof NicaraguanCulture (459- had gone througha devastatingwar. information,treasonous support for the US interventionin CentralAmerica: deployedan excessiveairforce of 23 The Defend DemocracyTheory supportersand distributedmuch of the 4650)focuses its efforts on stoppingthe (2) The RebelBakers uses the finest Tensof thousandsof Nicaraguanpeople enemy, and false rumors intendedto contemporaryaircraft for air support of nationalizedland to thepeasantry. In the US war against Nicaragua and in ingredientsavailable for whole grain diedin battle. So muchfor the claimthat Nicaragua causepanic among the population.It’s Conservativeattacks on Liberals. is theforefront of "theSoviet threat to nationalizedbusinesses the workerscan acquainting San Diegans with the baking.All our floursand grain are complete hypocrisy for the US The CommitteeIn Solidaritywith the guaranteed organic. Rebel Bakers ’Neutralzones’ were createdwhere the The SovietThreat Theory take over CentralAmerica." Another (anddo) firethe government-appointed Nicaraguanreality. They can be written government to attack the elected Peopleof El Salvador(CISPES) is the answersthe publicdemand’--for achoice brutalityof boththe U.S.Marines and When you look at the historyof the justification given by the U.S. managerif theythink he’s incompetent. at PO Box 8305, La Jolla CA 92038. Nicaraguangovernment for doingthis, majororganization working in the San of productsmade withoutdairy, eggs, the NationalGuard becamenotorious. Nicaraguanrevolution,you don’t see the governmentfor its war on Nicaraguais Theyhave also made landlording illegal. becauseit hasdone the same thing in the Diegoarea to fightUS interventionin El oil,sugars and salt. ’Target zones’ where Sandino had USSR, but you see alot of the USA that the Sandinistagovernment is an All the rentedapartments and houses peasant support were destroyed by past! The politicalstructure in were purchasedby the governmentand Salvador.Their next general meeting is tryingto dominateNicaragua. One of oppressivedictatorship which threatens Saturday,June 14th at 10 am (3068 Central American Student Action Currently, the Rebel Bakers are burningfarms, livestock and cropsand Nicaraguais stmilarto thatin theUnited "rent"was fixedat 10% of the tenants’ theU.S.’s ’justifications’ forintervention democracyin allthe Americas, and it is NorthPark Way, S E I U office).They are (CASA) groups students and faculty lookingto fillseveral part-time positions puttingpeasants in concentrationcamps States, but there are important income.Also, the "rent"is reallya in CentralAmerica is "TheWorld-Wide theheartfelt duty of the US government always in need of volunteers and from six San Diego-area campuses. with peoplewho have collectivework where they died of starvation and differenceswhich give the average gradualpayment on the dwellingso that experiences and those who are Communist Conspiracy" led by the to overthrowthis dangeroustyranny of workingperson more freedomthan s/he members,and can be reachedby phone They can be contactedby callingthe exposure.Marine air strikescontinued. the tenanteventually owns his/her own sympathetic to whole-grainbaking Soviet Union. This claim ignores Marxist-ledSandinistas. Reagan and has here.Like inthe US, Nicaragua hasa at 231-4984,or writtenat PO Box5693, AssociatedStudents President at San The peasants’response was to swell indigenouscauses for revolution such as company paint the overthrowof the place.There are manyother things that techniquesand products.Political president,congress and supremecourt. San Diego CA 92105. DiegoCity College. the ranksof Sandino’sarmy and hatred theSandinistas have done which benefit activistsare welcomed. widespreadmisery due to famine,sub- Nicaraguanrevolution as the proudand In Nicaragua,all of theseare elected of the NationalGuard and the yanqui. humanworking conditions, slave wages. historicduty of theUS governmentin its the average working person in The Central America Emergency directlyby thepeople. This itself is more Chicanosin Solidaritywith the People Pleasecontact Lateef or Loraineat The incompetenceof the U.S. military diseaseand the terrorof deathsquads. role as a worldwide proponent and Nicaragua,but theabove list gives you Hotline(202-332-9230) is updated daily, 223-8826,or visit the bakery:Rebel directlydemocratic than the US system an idea of why the FSLNis so popular. of CentralAmerica (CHISPAS) can against an enemy with an intimate The U.S. government propagandists defenderof democracy. writtenat PO Box 8095, San Diego CA -and can be phoned24 hoursa day. Bakers,1863 Bacon,Ocean Beach, CA becausethe judgesare electedrather The popular program of the FSLN is relation with the peasants-- attemptto blind the North American 92103. This ’defend democracy’theory of thanappointed, and there’s no electoral alsothe quickest way to provethat the 92102,or phonedat 237-7022. 15 14 (S African) ANC Rep San Diego Peace Thanks UCSD for Support Groups Looking for Volunteers Sixtystudents heard African National Fowleralso spokeon the formation Congressrepresentative Trevor Fowler lastNovember of the Congressof South Sanl)tego is wellknown as a "’militaryshowing Br~,ken Rainho~t,a movie speakat UCSD’sChe CafeJune 2nd, on MII,ITARY JI’STI(’E attorneyswhen necessary. The Panelis African Trade Unions (COSATU); to~n". Thecity is verymuch dominated aboutthe deportationol the Hopi and theongoing struggle in SouthernAfrica. staffedby a groupof civilianattorneys, calledfor total sanctions against South b~ thepresence of the Navalbases, the Navahotribes at the I.aPaloma Theater legal workers,law studentsand other Fowler opened by thanking the Africa(including denial of landingrights on Jtmc 19th. In August, they are Have you ever heard that military ~iC’RI),the NTC, and the variousair justiceis tojustice as militarymusic is to students,who donate their time to runa Americanpeople, students, and UCSD to airplanes,a communicationsban, planninga picnicin commemorationof bases.Everyone in SanDiego is awareol music’? weeklyfree legal clinic and to do follow- studentsin particularfor their solidarity etc.),noting that in March Canadian Nagasakiday on the 9thof thatmonth. efforts,noting "The activity which you the jets screamingoverhead in the up work on a numberof cases. telephoneworkers for 2 daysrefused to middleof the night.Of the paradeof Generalmeetings arc bold the second For men and women in the military, have conductedin solidaritywith our The Paneloffers students a chanceto acceptor dispatchcalls to SouthAfrica; drunkensailors bumming beers off of lucsda3of eachmonth from 7 to9 pmat thereis a constantdanger of running struggleis deeplyappreciated and has afoul of the militaryjustice system. learn a great deal aboutthe military supportedthe shanty-townmovement; people at the beach. And of the 3052 ClairemontDrive in SuiteH. All ooostedthe morale of ourstruggle." Simpleacts that have little meaning in systemfirst hand. and to providevery -andurged people to becomeactive in the occasionalboom of a 30 milliondollar are welcometo attend. the civilianworld like beinglate for real help to the men and womencaught Althoughthe South African apartheid South Africa solidarity movement. jetsmashing’into the ground. The Committee Opposed to work,or failingto callsomeone "sir" or up in itslegal machine. The work of our regimehas killedmore than 1600 people "SouthAfrica belongs to allwho live in Militarismand the Draft is another Whilethe presence of themilitary is being found with a few marijuana volunteers can make a very real in the last few months, increasing it,"Fowler concluded, "Black and white, community group that has been ob~,ious,the impact it hason thelocal seeds can have disastrouseffects on differencein the type of dischargea numbersof SouthAfricans are deciding thereshall be housingfor all, education addressingall aspectsof militarism, economy is even more so. Convair, theirlives. Speaking out against military service-memberreceives, or whetheror thatthey can no longertolerate the daily forall... Power to thePeople!" includingthe impact it has on the GeneralDynamics, Cubic Corporation, policiesor abusescan result in legal(and not theyare to face court-martial,mr oppression that apartheid means. Fowler’sspeech was preceededby a economicand individuallevel. Working "Young people are saying, We can Throughoutthe summer,demonstrators will continuepicketing Shell ctc all havemajor contracts with the illegal)reprisals, and simply being on the whethera veteranwith a bad discharge slidepresentation and talkby a UCSD militaryand areessential components of with the Peace ResourceCenter, COM D canhave it changedinto one which won’t acceptnothing less than freedom and we medicalstudent who recentlyspent time stations,demanding that the companysever its ties to SouthAfrica. outswith an officercan be dangerous. the"military industrial complex." will be co-hostinga programcalled Thesimple fact of beinggay is grounds stand in the way of decentjobs and areprepared to diefor it," Fowler noted. in SouthAfrica, and by a deliciousmeal freepolitical prisoner; and Generating internationalaction against Royal for a discharge -and under some veteran’s benefits. Since much of Last year there was no new US preparedby membersof the Che Cafe financialand materialaid to SWAPO Dutch/Shell.You are urgednot onlyto militarylaw is adminstrativelaw, where collective.The day’s events closed with a circumstanceshomosexuality can result investment in South Africa, a and the ANC. boycottall Shell products--including non-attorneyscan representclients, non- developmentFowler attributes to the dance featuring reggae by local in other-than-honorabledischarges or Informationon the Conference-- Shellgasoline, motor oil, tires, and home courts-martial. attorneyvolunteers can also play a direct effortsof the divestmentcampaigns. musicians. sponsoredby a widerange of groupsand productssuch as flea collarsand air advocacyrole at hearingsand other In manysituations, legal assistance is Despiteefforts by the South African Join the SolidarityMovement individuals--isavailable from the freshners--butalsoto joinpicket lines at proceedings. governmentto claimthat apartheidis Sunday, June 9th the UCSD Southern California Solidarity variousShell Stations. Information on simplynot available within the military, and manysoldiers and sailorsmistrust The Panel has academic credit being abandoned and that a reform Coalitionfor a FreeSouth Africa will ConferenceOrganizing Committee at upcomingpickets is availableat 583- processis now underway--parroted by militaryattorneys even when they are arrangements with UCSD’s two meet at the Che Cafe at 2:00pro to 6569S. VermontAve.; l,os Angeles,CA 2386. academicinternship programs. Students Reagan and much of the media--’for discussplans for summerorganizing, 90044 (phone:213-778-5602). In San available.Yet few enlistedpeople have the black people of South Africa, thefunds to payfor private counsel. who wouldlike to work with the Panel and carpooling for the West Coast Diego,the Coalitionfor a FreeSouth TheIndustrial Workers of the World’s overthe summer, or for a longerperiod apartheidis stillvery much alive and The National Lawyers Guild’s RegionalConference in Solidaritywith Africacan be contactedat theJune 9th GeneralDefense Committee is urging of time,should contact the Panel at 233- well,and is takingthe lives of ourpeople MilitaryLaw Panelexists to helpsolve the StrugglingPeoples of Southern meeting,or at 544-1016(ask for Sue). thatpeople write P.W. Botha (President, 1701,or oneof the internshipprograms. on a dailybasis." "Apartheid can not be Africa.The Conferenceis being held this problem,providing free legal OtherActivities Union Buildings, Pretoria, South h.v KathyGilberd reformed,"Fowler continued, "It must June 27-29 at San Francisco State assistanceto many service-membersand The AFL-CIO, TransAfrica, the Africa)demanding that treason charges Chair.NLG Militart"Law Panel be dismantled." Universityand will include US and referringthem to qualifiedcivilian UnitedMine Workersunion, the World againstfour leaders of theSouth African The apartheidregime’s police can no Southern African speakers and Councilof Churchesand other groups Allied Workers Union--Thozamile longerenter many of South Africa’s workshopson: Labor’srole in fighting are sponsoringa boycottagainst Shell Gqweta,Sisa Nuikelane,Sam Kikine, townships--andeven some rural areas-- apartheid;Changing U.S. foreign policy; Oil. Royal Dutch/Shell,which owns and Isaac Ngcobo--be immediately exceptin large,military-style convoys, The role of religiousand community ShellOil, suppliesfuel to the South dropped.The four have been in an on because of the organization and organizationsin the struggle for Africanmilitary and policeand to the again-offagain trial for the past several resistanceof thepopulation. In response comprehensive and mandatory apartheidcommunity as well as co- months, charged with fomenting to this,Fowler reported, the regimeis sanctions;Ending cultural ties with owningthe Rietspruitcoal mine where industrialunrest and organizing workers establishingdeath squads to kill UDF SouthAfrica; Building support for the strikingSouth African miners have been withthe aim of overthrowingapartheid. activists;both to weakenthe movement women and children of Namibia and forced to work at gunpoint. South Furtherinformation is availablefrom and to create tensionsand promote South Africa;The studentmovement-- Africa’slargest union, the National the IWW-GDCat 3435 N. Sheffield,Ste. +\~a resultof thismilitary presence, Alihtari.smin our high .~chools." s~’hat can conflict. SanI)icgo has been at lessthan liberal tw dora’,Wednesday. ,lunc 25 at 7:30pm to~a.l he overall politicalclimate at WesternState [!niversity, 2121 San says,participation in thesekinds of Mexicangovernment and the State of thoughchanging is essentiallymuch l)icgo Ave in the Seminar Room, activitiesis "notjust somethingthat Californiato designa systemadaptable moreright wing than other cities such locatedin Old iown.lhc presentation Opportunitiesin Local hippiesand environmentalistsdo." to Mexicoto recycleTijuana’s sewage as San Francisco,or even i,osAngeles willfocus on alternativesto military intowater. These projects require some lotthat matter. opportunitiesfor the youth. COMD RecyclingReferral Services. which technicalexpertise, though. Despitethis fact, there are several publishesa monthly newsletter.To Environmentalism can be reachedat 222-1154,can use The individualwishing to volunteer organizationsin San Diego that are subscribe,send a $5 contributionto volunteersover the summerto helpwith for an environmentalorganization but attempting to defeat the growing them at P.O. Box 15195, San Diego, The issueof the environment,though eitherof theirtwo central projects: the distributedmore broadly than that. not skilledin thesetechnical matters militarizationof society. At the 92115.Their next issuewill consider notalways treated as a ’hot’topic by the driveto collectphone books in theNorth True,the federalgovernmeht allows could still find a home with the monopolycapitalists attempt to move differing views on motherhoodand major media, is of fundamental Countyand to tryto sellrecycled paper manya violationto go undetected.But it EcologicalLife Systems Institute, the countryfurther to the right,to temalenature as an argumentfor peace importanceto us all. Afterall, even to individualconsumers. Ms. Hay said is theprofit-seeking corporations which however.On the educationalfront, the developthe conditionswhere theycan involvement.Both sides of theissue will Republicansand the ownersof toxic that RRS volunteersmay help write do theactual damage, ignoring--or even Instituteis workingon a book project use military force wherever and be addressed. chemical-spewingindustries need a articlesto be sentto localnewspapers as coveringup--the damage done by their andneeds researchers. The projectis an whenever,necessary to holdtheir empire The Peace Resource Center was certain amount of reasonably pure a methodto increaseawareness of what toxicchemical-producing industries, it attempt to show how cities can be together,the workof the belowgroups formedin 1980 as a communitycenter oxygenand water to survive,despite RRS offers the public. Recycling is theprofit-seeking corporations which redesigned provesto be moreessential and needs to and clearinghouse of informationon theirseeming total lack of consideration to function more also are responsiblefor destroying ReferralServices occasionally works ecologically. be supported. peaceand socialjustice issues. Their For More Anti-DraftInformation for how their actions affect the with the UCSD RecyclingCo-op, Hay foreverthe naturalhabitats of many One of the oldest anti-militarismactivities promote non-violent environment. said. Other groupswith local activities speciesof wildlifeand the delicate organizationsin San Diegois the The alternativesforthe resolution of conflict. includeFriends of the Earthwhich may CCCO/Anagency for Militaryand Draft military’spromise of job trainingand ecosystemswhich form part of thegreat Anotherlocal environmental group is PRC workson networkingpeace groups be contactedat Box 6845,San Diego, Alliancefor Survival. The "Alliance" has Counselingis a tax-exempt,non-profit education.But the military is nota school. The ReaganAdministration has not chainof being. the SierraClub (233-7144). The Sierra CA 92106.Their contact person is Jeff also workedon other issuesas well. andis concernedwith teaching peace in The U.S.troops flying target selection exactlybeen a diligentprotector of the Clubis deeplyinvolved in a numberof organizationwhich for more than 35 years On the locallevel, San DiegoCounty Smith.Also active locally is EarthFirst Currently,they have been doing support San Diego County. The Center is missionsover El Salvadortoday were in country’snatural resources, of course,as projectsaround the county,such as hashelped people with draft and miltary has undergonecompletely unrestrained a militant,direct-action oriented work for the NativeAmericans of Bi~ currentlyplanning an operaat theFirst highschool only a yearor twoago. Your evidencedby the presenceof James attempting to preserve the Famosa problems.Over the past several years we growth in recent years, with North environmentalgroup with two area Mountain--who are facing forced UnitarianChurch at 4190 FrontSt. on havesent press releases to yournewspaper readersdeserve the chanceto consider Watt, WilliamClark and now Donald County being especially hard hit. Slough in Point Loma from contacts.To get in touch with Earth evictionfrom their native lands by the Saturday,July 19th at 3:30 pm. Anna development.The SierraClub has a wide aboutthese and other vital issues. We are whatit meansto themto fighton thefront Hodel,all of themsolid representatives Citizenshave become so fed up withthe Firstwrite: Claude Matthis, Box 311, government.The "Alliance"will be Bjaranson-Carson,Soprano, will be of bigbusiness and the developers, at the rangeof subcommitteesspecializing in nowsending you publicservice messages lines,what it means to risktheir lives or to extent to which their politician EncinitasCA 93024;or Ron Schneider singing,as willKaren Keltner, assistant designedto helpyour readersmake the take somebody else’s. A great Interior Department’s top post. differenttopics such as toxicwaste, air ’representatives"have sold out to the c,o IntersectionHouse, 5217 Linda director of the San Diego Opera. importan,decisions that face them responsibilityis on theirshoulders, and it Reagan’s first head of the quality,water quality,monitoring Proceedswill go to PRC. This group developers--whiledemanding virtually Paseo,San Diego CA 92115. concerningthe draft and enlistment. is vitalto theirwell-being that they realize EnvironmentalProtection Agency, offshoredrilling developments, etc. holds monthlyboard meetings,which nothingin returnin theway of lowcost The UnitedFram Workersis urginga Eachyear over 500,000 people enlist in this.Our responsibility is to providethem AnneGorsuch, was even sent to jailfor Separatefrom but related to the are open to the public, the first housing--thatthe issue of growth boycottof tablegrapes in an effortto end the military.Every male is requiredto withthe information they need to makean herpart in theEPA’s crimes against the Club’sactivism in theseareas are its Wednesdayof eachmonth at theircenter managementis currentlydominating not theuse of thetoxic pesticides Parathion, registerfor the draft within 30 daysof his informedconscientious choice about their environment. Single’sChapter and the many outdoor at 7pm. The PRC also publishes a onlythe San Diegomayoral race but the Phosdrin,Captan, Dinoseb and Methyl 18thbirthday. Military service is a real involvementin the armedforces. activitiesit sponsors.For example, the monthlypeace calendar.It includes The Administrationhas consistently County Supervisor’srace, as well. bromide.These 5 pesticidesare not only possibilityfor many people. It is We appreciateyour effort to provide Club has a lodge in the l,aguna dates of meetingsfrom all groups, attemptedto pushthrough plans to lease (Unfortunately,in the lattercase the extremelydangerous to farmworkers importantfor everyoneto haveadequate your readerswith this opportunityto mountainscomplete with most of the actions, events, workshops and vast offshoreareas along the western votersof the North Countyare being and the environment,they also pose a informationon whichto basehis or her seriouislyconsider these difficult matters, coastline to oil companies for comfortsof home. conferencesthat willbe heldfor each offered virtually no choice, as potentialhealth risk to consumers.The decisions. and ask thatyou run our publicservice month.For a year’ssubscription, send explorationand exploitation, despite the Republicanincumbent Paul Eckertis The EcologicalLife Systems Institute UFW asks that you boycottnon-union mesmgesfree of charge.If youwant more oppositionof local communities.The $5 to them at the center;5717 Linda The militaryisn’t for everyone. Each facingsix Republicanopponents.) (286-4301)is another organization tablegrapes until growers agree to ban information about the CCCO or the Paseo,San Diego 92115. Reagangovernment has as wellbeen the There is some room for optimismon throughwhich students can get involved the 5 most dangerous pesticides year thousandsof new recruitsrisk serviceswe provide,please cal or writeme. object of heavy criticismfrom the imprisonmentand their futures by leaving thelocal level, though, because students in environmentalissues locally. Jim Bell, currentlyused in grapeproduction and The Draft ResistersDefense Fund If you have commentsor suggestions Canadiangovernment for its failureto and any other interestedparties can the Institute’sdirector, said that his testgrapes for pesticide residues, as well (DRDF)is wellknown for theirwork beforetheir terms are up. Manypeople aboutthese public service announcements, deal effectivelywith the acid rain realizeonly after they are in trainingthat participatein directaction on the organization has two fronts: one as for donationsto helppublicize the supportof draft resisterBen Sasway problem. theycannot in good conscienceprepare environmentalfront. Several local practicaland one educational.The campaign.Information is availablefrom and other resistors. The DRDF has whetherfrom your readers after you print forand fightwars. Your readers who may But the environmenthas been under environmentalgroups are actively purposeof both theseis to promotea the UFW at: La Paz, Keene,CA 93570 tentativeplans for a presentationthat them or otherwise;we welcomehearing be consideringthe military as a waytopay attackon manylevels. While the federal involvedin such issuesas recycling, more ecologicallysound world. (805-822-5571). willprobably be dealingwith the issue of from you. governmentcertainly contributes to the energyconservation, monitoring air and the relationshipbetween American fortheir education or learna tradeneed Forexample, the Institute is presently And the San Diego Committee for Yoursin Peace, creationof a hostileatmosphere, the waterquality, clean-up of toxicwastes, policyin CentralAmerica and the draft more informationbefore they signup. working on an apartmentcomplex in OccupationalHealth and Safetycan be Lou Ann Merkle environment’s despoilment cannot proposedoffshore oil drilling,and the and registration as a tool for Theirfutures may dependupon it. l,indaVista, making it moreenergy and reachedat 265-2440(days) or 459-2160 2208South St. Philadelphia, PA 19146 simplybe dismissedas all "Reagan’s preservationof natural wetlands. And as intervention.For more informationon waterefficient. In addition, the Institute (evenings)and at P.O.Box 9901 I, San (215)545-4626 fault." The responsibilitymust be EllenHay of RecyclingReferral Services thisand other activities, call 282-9968. Most peopleenlist because of the is working in coperationwith the Diego,CA 92109. 16 17 [’S Mexicointernational border in San ! Afro-Americans Continue to Chicanos--A Nation Within R o.ja~,,265-6026. Str u g g ! e f o r Equ allty a N a t i o n education, the drop out rate for ?hisartich’ is an attemptto provide were deniedthat right.White racist Since theywere deniedfull and equal aboutover time: many argue that it will Chicanos and iatinos has likewise preventedthem from joining the middle decision,combined with recentattacks ("hi~’anois a termwhi~’h descrihe.~ peoph" winesort of historicalbackground on unions refused to organize Afro- participationin U.S. society, while kept onl.~ come about with the adventof increased.In addition,the latest classin thesame percentage as whites. by the Reagan Administration on (~1Alexican de.went who live in theU.S. the oppression faced hy A lro-- Americanworkers. Many unions,espe- removedfrom Mexico,the3 developed socialismin the US. In any case,the CaliforniaState education requirments As a resultthe AfroAmerican working financialaid, have drastically limited the Chicanois alsou.~ed to describea nation, ,4mericans.The article is designedonh’ ciallythe RailroadBrotherhoods, had Aztlan.which many peoplesay exists theirown distinct culture and identity. demands of the Chicano people are have been upgraded,along with the class,and lower class, was perpetuated. amountof Afro-Americans,and other cuttingof "remedial"courses and with a.~an outline,and is no wayintemled to "NegroClauses" which outright banned withinthe U.S.,as a nationwithin a Chicanoshave faced a ton~,history of being foughtfor every day by a wide The post-WWIIboom, which seemed peoplesaccess to highereducation. attackson CommunityColleges which hc a comprehensiveoverview of Aft’o- Afro-Americans from membership. nation.Chicano is alsoa politicalterm-- oppressionwithin the US. Eventoday, in arrayof organizations. to promise so much to everyone, Whilemany people recognize that the ha~e traditionallyprovided classes .4mericanhistory. Other unions claimed that Afro- one which acknowledges a distinct the supposedlyenlightened post-Civil Oneof themain battles in theChicano deliveredlittle to Afro-Americans.The totalliberation of oppressedpeoples will whichthe inferior schools in theChicano l here is an inordinateamount of Americanswere "unorganizable."In culture,history, and identity versu.s the Rights period,Chicanos, and other communityis the fightagainst racist rise in expectationsthat it created nevercome aboutwithin the constructs (,ommunitydo not meaningthat fewer ignorance over Afro--American somecases white racist unions sided with assimulationistterm, Hispanic.which oppressedpeople, are facedwith much immigration lav;s that various though,led to an explosionof Afro- of capitalism-sincecapitalism’s very and Ecwer Chicanosare enteringthe history.Much of thisignorance is dueto thewhite capitalist class against Afro- the powers that he have termed all of the same discrimination.Chicanos, reactionaryforces are tryingto shove Americandiscontent. Afro-Americans, existenceis dependenton the super- universities. racismand oppression,which denies Americanshence contributingboth to peoples~)f l,atinoor Spanishdescent. deniedtheir right to speaktheir native throughcongress, with the main one the further oppression of Afro- tiredof beingat thebottom of thebarrel, exploitationof oppressednationali- language,and faced with attacksoil being the Simpson-RodinoBill, which Organizationshave formedto fight that Afro-Americans even have a revoltedagainst their oppression. While The U.S.Southwest, which was stolen Americans, and their own since a ties nevertheless,important reforms bilingualeducation, have a highschool would prohibitU.S. employersfrom againstthese attacks. One of the main history.Many people are aware of only from Mexico following the U.S. dividedworking class couldnot, and the beginingsof the Afro-American can be made that will improvepeoples dropoutrate as highas 52q:.While in hiring"illegal aliens" (undocumented groups is the MEChA Statewidc]ask the lact that Afro-Americanswere revolt was initially peaceful,it lives,and contribute to therevolutionary MexicoWar of 1846-48,is a land of slaxcs,and thatthey becameequal in cannot,ever fully assert their class immensewealth and potential.Within San I)iegoChicanos make up anywhere workers).Many groupsargue that this Force for EducationalRights. Within developed,as theresistence against it socialisttransformation of society that I~65.and ’equaler’ during the 1960’s. interestas longas theyare divided. Witt" theSouthwest lie huge reserves of coal, from16 to 20c,:of thepopulation, hereat billwould provide an excusefor racist San Diego thereis the San Diego Raza developed,into a fullscale revolution. manyof us find necessary.There are, ¯ ~lro-Americansin the U.S.,though, the exceptionof a few unions,most copper, oil, uranium, and other UCSD they make up only 5of. companies to discriminateagainst EducationalRights lask force, which in The Uprising of the Afro-American withinSan Diego,several organizations haxefaced a legacyof oppressionthat is noticeablythe Industrial Work~,rs of the minerals.In addition,the Southwest is conjunctionwith similar Asian and people was an inspirationto other dedicatedto improvingthe day to day ir oI a magnitudeseldom surpassedin World, a revolutionaryunion that land of great scenic beauty. The Afro-Americanorgani,,ations, are oppressedpeople within the U.,":,., conditionsof Afro Americans.Among history.Few peopleare aware that soughtthe completeliberation of the mountains, lakes, and ocean views fightingagainst these racist attacks on Chicanos,Asians, Native Americans, these organizationsis the Rainbow Alricanswere victims of genocide, multi-nationalworking class, and not providefor a multi-milliondollar per ThirdWorld students. On June21. at the Women,all began to riseup againsttheir Coalitionwhich is a multi-national waged against them by European just reforms,the socialistAmerican’ year touristindustry all in all the East Los AngelesCommunity College, oppression. organizationfighting for the rightsof ~laxers,who in completedisregard for Railroad Union, and a few reasonfor the U.S.imperialistic take Chicano, Asian. and Afro-American Whilethe revoltsof thesixties and thosepeople generally excluded from the the livesof Africans,stacked them in "’mainstream"Unions, Afro-Americans over of the Southwestbecomes sell- studentswill be meetingto planout a seventiesdid leadto somechange, the politicalsystem. The Rainbow Coalition shipholds, like baggage, on topof each weredenied representation. This dual evident. strategyon howto defeatthe Cal. State hard won victoriesof that periodare is currentlyre-forming to take on otherin orderto increasetheir profit oppressionled to an understandable requirments,and to insurethat Third nowbeing turned back as theright wing, variouselectoral races and issues, for The U.S.-MexicanWar was one of the margins.Over the entire period of situationof distruston thepart of Afro- World studentshave accessto higher led by RonaldReagan, are seekingto more informationcall either Anson mostdisliked in U.S.history. [-here was slavery,which began in the16th century Americanworkers towards their fellow education.For moreinformation on the turnback the clock.The bourgeoisie, Pang, at 266-0902,or VernonSukumu, widespreadand quite vocalopposition andended only in thelate 19th century, white workers.As a resultof white San Diego Raza Educational Rights facedwith a decliningempire, is no at 263-1515. to it. Therewere even incidences where tensof millionsof Africansdied on the racismAfro-Americans were forcedto l-ask Force,and on the ELAC meeting, longerable to affordthe cost of social an entire detachmentof U.S. troops ships and plantations,of Latin and form their own independentunions, call HermelindaRocha at 283-0853. programsdesigned to betterthe lot of went over to the Mexican side and NorthAmerica. such as the PortersUnion, or merely foughtagainst U.S. troops. Despite the Anotherfrontier of struggleis the "federate"with the racistAmerican lowerincome people. In addition,they l he costfor the survivors of slavery internalopposition to the war,and the struggleof Chicanasand I.atinas against Federationof Labor. can no longerafford high wages, or For folks interestedin the anti- valiantefforts of the Mexicansto beat oppression.As a resultof theirrace and has beena high one.The continentof apartheid movement there is the backthe invadors, the U.S. Imperialists sex.women of colorface a double,and Atricais still scarredby European CampaignAgainst Apartheid, which has carriedforth with their criminal plans to usuallya triple(class). oppression within imperialism.People of Africanancestry a longhistory in San Diegoof fighting annex the Southwestin the name of U.S. society.As a result,women of in the Caribbean,Latin America, and for City,and County,wide divestment profits. color,and in this case,Chicanas and theII.S., too, are effected by theirslave from the racistSouth African regime. l,atinas, haxe formed their own past,and the ensuingoppression that The CAA participatedin the highly Of course U.S. Imperialistsand organizationsto address these issues. In iollowedtheir liberationfrom that succesfull October II city-wide their modern-day apologists argue San Diego thereis Mujer (Spanishfor "’peculiarinstitution". mobilizationagainst apartheid last fall otherwise.They argue that "Manifest woman), which is part of the MEChA After the U.S. CivilWar, in which and needsmore people to participatein Destiny"gave them the "right"to annex this important fight. For more half of Mexico’s territory. ]he StatewideRaza Women’sCaucus. Over Alro-Americans fought in large summerMujer will be participatingin numberson theUnion side in an effortto information contact Rhonda Guy at apologistsargue that the Southwestwas 232-6429. sparsleyinhabited, underdeveloped, and the Raza Women’s,June 12 meetingat lrce their peoplefrom the Southeren California State University at thatthe growingpopulation of the U.S. agrarianelites, Afro-Americans entered Bakersfieldto fimdize the group’s neededthe "breathingspace" that the a period,known as Reconstruction. Southwestprovided. purposeand tasks.They will also be ~h,:refor the first time they had rights. The Black Federation (at 4297 puttingon forumsand other activities in lhev were ableto own land,to travel Market: phone 263-8161) is The result of the annexationfor San Diego.For more informationcall ~herethey wished,and to vote.While networkingbody for differentBlack Mexico was disasterous.The young CanelaJaramillo at 457-3779. initiallythese rights where only on organizations. Also important is Mexicannation lost nearly half of its paper,with the advent of Federaltroops TransAfrica (583-2386) which richestterritory to theinvaders. For the Other organizationsactive in San on thescene to insurethat these rigts organizing anti-apartheidactions Mexicaninhabitants of the Southwest, Diego includethe ChicanoFederation ~ereenforced, and withthe supportof locally,among other activities;the the annexationmeant the loss of not (236-1228);Centro Cultural de la Raza Northerenelites who soughtto destroy UrbanLeague (4269 Market; phone 263- theirproperty but also the loss of Chicanos also make up a (235-6135); and the Commitee Latinoworkers. It is fearedthat these ~hatwas left of the Southerenagrarian 3115);and the NAACP,one of the oldest theirrights, cultural identity, and in ChicanoRights (474-8195). disproportionateamount of lowerstrata companieswill claim that they don’t elites, Afro-Americancivil rights andlargest civil rights organizations in manycases, their lives. workers,i.e., those workerswho are wantto takethe risk of hiringsomeone becamea reality.Over the course of the the United States. The NAACP is at mostlynon-union, unskilled, and low who could potentially prove to be Reconstructionperiod Afro-American 2857 Imperial Avenue, and can be With the annexation of the paid.Historically they have been faced "illegal".There are also other bills which Senators,Congressmen, and Govenors Afro-Americanswere not alone m benifits-or in the final analysis phonedat 236-9078. Southwest,many anglosbegan to flow with white racist unionswhich have attempt to revive the 1940’s style wereelected- as wellas sheriffs,mayors theirstruggle for liberation. There were unions.As a result,Afro-Americans, into the area-displacingand taking refusedto organizeChicanos, as wellas "Bracero"(temporary worker) program. and councilpeople. whites,Latinos, Asians, and others, who alongwith other oppressed people, are over the lands of the original Asiansand Afro-Americans.In addition While some may argue that these There are also organizations supportedtheir struggle, along with the facedwith worseningcondiditons. For inhabitants:the Chicanosand Native Chicanos,and Mexicanos,have been programsmay benefitMexican workers Withthe selling out of Reconstruction dedicated to preserving Afro strugglefor the liberationof other example,in the metropolitanDetroit American Indians. The original facedwith immigrationharrasment. whoare trying to survivein themidst of a though,the hard foughtrights of the Americanculture against the onslaught oppressed peoples. Some of these area-which has a primarily Afro- inhabitantsof the land were accorded jarringeconomic crisis, these kinds of Afro-Americanpeople were lost. In the of the commercalizedmajority culture. As a resultof the oppressionthat people, along with many Afro- American population --the infant lessthan second class citizenship within programsallow for legal ’slave labor,’ interestof cheapand plentifullabor, Amongthese groups is the BlackWriters Chicanosface within the US, their Americans, were members of the mortalityrate is worsethat in themost their own place of birth.Like Afro- sincethey permit employers to legally Afro-Americans were faced with a and Artists of San Diego, whose demandfor self-determination--which CommunistParty USA, which during depressed areas of Haiti. Afro- Americans,they were disenfranchised, exploit workers through extra-low system of outrightpeonage, thinly member’swork has been publishedand meansthe right of theChicano people to the1930’s and 40’s helped to createthe Americans, who were only allowed given the worse jobs, consignedto wages,worse sanitaryconditions, no disguisedas "sharecropping"or tenant producede professionally.For mor determinetheir relationship with the Sharecroppers Union, which was withinthe last 10 to 15 years,access to ghettos,or barrios,and were denied pesticiderestricition, etc. farming. Afro-Americans were higherpaid jobs, are now victims of last informationcall DarlyGrigsby at 283- oppressornation, the US is a basicand prohibitedfrom leaving the land of their comprisedof both Afro-Americanand education.At the same time, their fundemental demand that all Chicano groups are also fighting hirefirst fire. In additionthe Bakke 1486. language,religion, and culturewas formerowners. They were tied to the white sharecroppers.The CPUSA also progreessivepeople shouldsupport. againstthe fascist tactics of theINS. who land by way of laws passed in the was oneof the firstto acknowledgethe repressed.Out of this experienceof Whilethe demandfor self-determinationareused by the capitalistto terrorize oppressionarose the Chicanopeople. Southeren courts--which were existenceof the "BlackNation" within is immediate,its reality will only come Latino workers, and the Chicano controlledby the Southeren the South. Many Afro-Americans I,atino community in general, by elites. Vagrancy laws were passed which became communistduring this time, arresting,detaining, and questioning requiredthat Afro-Americans who were pushingfor both the right of theirpeople peoplebased on theirappearence. [-here unemployedbe employed,this usually to self-determination,andfor socialist have been many reports of Chicanos translatedinto a spot on the nearest revolution, which to them was beingdeported because they were unable plantation.It was not until the early 20th interconnected--therecould not be one to prove their Ii.S, citizenship.In centurythat these racist and draconian withoutthe other.They recognized that addition,there was therecent case of a la~swere challenged effectivly by such withoutmulti-national unity no one 13-year-oldMexican youth who was organizationsas the NAACP,the Urban wouldever be free. shotin the back by an INS agent(who I.cague,and othergroups dedicated to The Periodduring World War Two, was not prosecuted),exen thoughthe Afro Americanliberation. youth was on the Mexicanside of the andafter, saw little progress for Afro- Americans. While many Afro- border. WhileAfro-Americans were no longer heldin a stateof nearslavery, their plight Americansmoved to the Northin search Amongthe organi,,ationsworking on aas not improvedmuch. Many Afro of a betterlife, they were met with much this issueoxer summer is the National Americanssought a betterlife in the of thesame oppression that they faced in l)ax ol .lusticeCoalition, which is citiesof theNorth during the post-WWI the South. Afro-Americanpolitical comprisedol dillerenl(’hicano. and period,thereby joining the growing U.S. powerdid notexist in the Northjustas othernatmnalilx, groups, Ihc\.l)..I.(’ Workingclass. While white workers were in the South. Afro-Americanswere is ptlttlll~ 011 d nl;.llch. Oll ,luh4, to affordedthe benefitof unionizationto giventhe worst jobs, paid less, and put pl OIC’,I the t ¢ptessl\ t, ~ lCill inclll ~)1 bettertheir life, and as a vehicleto fight intoghettos were their children recieved MALCOLM X 1925 in11111~lilnl~,. [he ii111rch ~11he at lhc the capitalist,Afro-Americans inferior educations,all of which 18 19

LarryFiske: Rock’s Greatest Social Critic... Ihc album "Little Games" was "ThinkAbout It" has an incredible releasedin August 1967, and shows guitarhook, and Page’ssharp, biting. much creativitvfromthegroup,despite disjo,nted.,ightoning-speed,end ,me. Yardbirds (cont’d) In theprocess, I ~o,,, influence on some songs. The song ends under a few backwards hope some ot the mythology, Yardbird Ag i continuedfrom page lg s, a n Consideringthai Most gave the band tape loops, amd a serene harmonica ahistoricalism,and ignorance regarding onlythree days to recordthe album,the comesin on thefade. Absolutely unreal! Individualtalents sixties"rock has been exposed. Thisis thefinal installment (part 3) of match his originalityand dynamics resultsare splendid. LarryFiske’s in-depth retrospectve on achievedwith the Yardbirds. Based on their awesomelive shows, It is unfortunatethat the Yardbirds lhc )’arhird~output and significance "Smile on Me" uses a heavy is in no ~*avrellccted in thepopularity the Yardbirds. Tragically,there are no liveconcert the Yardbirdswere still popular in the x~ill probablybe alwaysremembered bongo/drum/bass rhythm to back mostlyfor its famouslead guitarists. lc,,clthey achieved. If theyhad solid Beck and Page TogetherLive recordingswith Beck or with Beck and Page’sfine blues guitar breaks through. U.S. and Europe. Because of Page’s Page with the Yardbirds that are talentswith using a violinbow to play Ilerc’sa lookat theenormous talents of management,a record company that Live, the band embarked on an The mixis a bit muddyand Relrs vocals promotedtheir records and better tours, Englishtour with lke and TiM Turner availableto hearor see.All that remains guitar,the group got into doing classical the otherfour members¯ are over-recorded."Tinker, Tailor, theywould ha~c achieved a lar greater and the RollingStones, who were going are some TV appearancesfeaturing numberslike the 1812 Overture,and berthRelL" lead singer, harp player and Soldier, Sailor" features Page’s levelol success. to meetthe same fate as theBeatles did a Beck. rhythm/leadplaying, and an eerie once performedfrom a vantagepoint at ~riginationof man~ of the groups the sideof the stagefor an hour-long lhev paid the unlorlunate year earlier.Jim McCartyrelates that violin-bowedguitar solo. "Drinking experimentalconcepts. Rell’s singing. the Stones"were quite worried."And The Famous Foursome Muddy Water" is notable for Page’s balletwritten by the groupin Paris. writingand powerfulharmonica playing consequences,of creatingmusic lar aheadof its timeand beingshunned for realisticallyso as theyhad to followrock Withan energeticPage taking over on excellentslide guitar work. Live Yardbirds ~crcthe nlainairing tortes behind the androll history’s greatest line up. hand. Shelley Hebcr. who was the it¯Jim Mc (’art,,relates, "’VCe reallx leadguitar, the band was now a quartet "No ExcessBaggage" features creative Regardingtheir last US tour in the Page describesthe dual lead guitar and woulddefinitely miss not havingan presidentol the Yardbirdsfan club missedout, just alter ~c splitthe ~hole riffsand timechanges, and somegreat springof 1968,McCarty says "’Weknew development within the band’s commented."’He was the heartand soul thingexploded.’" extrarhythm around for certainsongs bassplaying. "Stealing, Stealing" is a it wasgoing to be thelast one and all the framework, "As they were a really live.On theother hand, it inspiredPage pressurewas off. We even managedto L~Ithe Yardbirds". lhe Iollowingis a listol )ardhird hillariousjug-band number with a kazoo creative band there were obviously to developthe rhythm/leadstyle of play consistentlygood venues:it was influencesand accomplishmentsthat (lead,of course)to boot. The band PaulSamwelI-Smittl. bassist, xocalist. possibilitiesthat reallyexcited me. playing among other innovative almost entirely universities and changedthe rock world .lhcv remain the always wanted to record one comedy ~ titerand co-producer. Hc ga,,e the bass Nobodyhad done anythingapproaching mostinfluential and creatively energetic concepts. song. psychedelicballrooms. The then rats at guitarin rocka new’sphere ol reference what we wanted to do. ! mean we Epic/Columbiafigured that the band Epic had got wind of the break-upand Iromwhich to workby makingit a third andexciting band e~cr. "Glimpses"is a drone/chantwith immediatelysettled into thingslike wouldsoon be splittingup withoutBeck decidedto getthe last drop of potential guitar. InfluenceOn Rock stereoriffs on ’Over Under Sideways Easterninfluences, three part chorus, and releaseda Yardbirds"GreatestHits" profitout of us.To capit all,the Epic (’hri~l)reja." rhythm, lead, bass guitar, I. lhcpsychedelic music scene of thelate Down,’and all kindsof guitarharmonies violin-bowedguitar, noises, tape loops, album which ironicallyintroduced an sound team had no idea how to record ~ritcrand vocalist.His chunky rhythms sixties,was in actualitya borrowing ot on stage--everything fell into place very entirelynew audienceto the groupand 12 stringguitar, garbled literary passage, US." andsolid bass playing complimented the devicesthe }’ardbird.~had perfected easily.Very often ! wouldbow theguitar etc.An ultimatepsychedelic gem! hasbecome their largest selling album. "LiveYardbirds" was recordedMarch threelead guitarists. years carlier.We’re talking about andplay along with Jeff. I’d find that i GreedyEpic unknowinglydid the band Jimmy’s own "White Summer" is a 30, 1968 at the cold, unfriendly hundredsof bands,most notablxthe wasdoing what 1 wassupposed to, while Jim.ilc Carry." drums, percussion, writer some good for once. ¯ fusion of folk, rock, flamencoand Anderson Theatre in New York. "It JeltersonAirplane who studiedthe somethingtotally different would be and xocalist.Mc Cartywas a creative Anotherevent that stimulatedthe Eastern music, as the magnificent should have been done at somewhere group’ssongs comingfrom Jeff. That was all rightfor bandto continuewas their appearance in acousticplaying with oboe and tablas and imaginativetype of drummer. likethe Shrine in L.A.or theFillmore" 2. lheentire band rock scene of thelate theareas of improvisation." "Blow Up," which became a popular worksbeautifully. Final Comments said McCarty. sixtiesand seventies has its roots deeply Bassist/rhythm guitarist Dreja movie in 1967 and exposedmore people "Onlythe BlackRose" was writtenby The engineeringof the album was In conclusion,this article has embeddedin the ideasand sounds of the elaboratesfurther, "1 don’tthink Jeff to theirmusic. Without the benefit of a Keithand is a hauntingpiece. A tasteful pathetic;the sound mix is weak,the bass disseminatedand exploredthe workings }’arhirds.Agair, this includes hundreds could handle it. Jimmy could always hit,the band would survive the next year acousticlead and rhythm guitar sets the drumwasn’t miked for recording,Page’s of rock’smost musically revolutionary of bands with most notablythe Jimi turn out a good solo, but Jeff became and a halfon thestrength of theirlive stage for backwardstape loops and fuzz tone wasn’tfully picked up, and As with Beck, the Yardbirdsgave HendrivExl)erience and also Queen. very unpredictableand would try and shows. Keith’semotional lyrics and vocals. This blow Jimmyoff the stage.When it did the tapes were reprocessedto add Page the room to expand and Aero.~mith,Steppenwo!ll Blue Ol’ster Finally,there was a good switchin is anothergem. experimentas a guitaristas he developed workit wasincredible, all those riffs and clinkingcocktail glasses and other (’uhand others. managersto Peter Grant who knew all Thetitle track, "Little Games", has a the use of violinbow, sustainedfuzz alternatingsolos." artificialnoises. 3. [heinitial British invasion bands and aboutlife on the road.Unfortunately, niceherky-jerky rhythm, and its B-side tone,and crisp, speed-of-light lead runs. The dual Page/Beck guitar stage The group felt that the mikingand therealterwere greatly influenced by the theywere handedover to the"hitmaker""Puzzles"is a catchyguitar piece and He also acted as peacemaker and ’routinesattracted a new generationof mixingwas of inferiorquality and that band.We’re talking about the Beatle.~, Mickie Most, who had been good at featuresPage’s bowing and fast-fingered enthusiastto keep the band together. fans,and it wasoff to the U.S.to do a the over-dubbingdistracted from the RollingStone.~, H’ho and countless producingother acts. He did poorly, guitarriffs. With the typicalpoor Page’s Yardbirdcollaboration with disastrous"Dick Clark and a Caravanof overalleffect, and so didnot endorse the others. however,with the Yardbirds,and never promotion the album went nowhere. album,getting an injunctionto prevent Beck, along with "White Summer", Stars"tour. It wasfour weeks travelling showedup to theirlive shows. There was 4. The mostpopular rock groupof the Because"Little Games" was so rushed,it its release.The album has since been "Think About It", and "Dazed and around in a bus, doing two gigs in much animositybetween the band and seventies,l, ed Zeppellinwas lounded by wasn’tas developedas it would have releasedtwice, both times immediately Confused"are the best numbers he’s ever differentcities every night and making him. JimmyPage and wasinitially called the beenwith more time. recalledby Page. beeninvolved with. Thanks to Epic,the no money. Most used studio musicians on a New Yardbirds.Their first album was Dazed and Confused Despite the aforementioned entireYardbird era withPage hasbeen Beck Splitsand Gets Sacked coupleof songsthe band did notplay on out of printfor the lasttwo decades. heavily’influenced by Yardbirdideas, Meanwhile,all the problemswere problems, "Live Yardbirds" is a JeffBeck dropped out of the tourand justto geta hit.The songs were atrocious Onlyrecently the "l,ittleGames’" album conceptsand songs. After this initially takingtheir toll. The band detested Most showpieceof howgreat the band was live Original Yardbird albums and theU.S.later this year! wasfired from the band for unreliability. andcalled "Ten Little Indians" and "Ha andrare singles have been re-released on promisingstart, I, ed Z~7~pelin,along The combination of a lack of Ha Said the Clown."Outside of Reif’s and their record company,and were with Page. McCartyrelates: "The way withthe majorit.v of thelate sixties and bootlegssell for $25 or more.Instead I Take the taste test, 91X or KSDT, an importalbum called "Little Games." recommendthe followinglist of albums commercial success, intra-band vocals,the groupdoes not evenplay on upset over the rushed conditionsin we wereat theend, the four of us,was the seventiesrock scene became heavy- whichis thecutting edge of musicin San Page’s Commentary hostility,being physically sick, having a the cutsas theydissociated themselves recording"Little Games." Relf and best combinationwe’d had." handed,over-indulgent, egotistical and to check out. (Only recentlyhas the Diego?9IX playsthe same groupsover Page’s commentson the split are majorityof the group’smaterial been girlfriendin California,the competition from the songs. McCartywere getting heavily into drugs The album leads off with a pretentious. The corporate rock andover again, while leaving alternative telling:"Most (their producer) bad a lot with Page and this lousy tour all andit showedat someof theirgigs, as rambunctiousversion of "The Train mentalitytook over with all of its madeavailable again.): music for after midnighton Sundays Jim McCartyrelates, "! thinkSimon to do withthe Yardbirdsbreaking up... contributedto hisleaving. wellas wantingto musicallygo in a folky Kept A-Rollin’"and proceedsinto a repetitive,dull melodiesand insipid *** FiveLive Yardbirds - reissue when most people are asleep. KSDT (the band’smanager) must have wanted and led to the depressionof Relf and direction.Relf and McCartytold the blisteringmedley of "Mr, You’re A drum solos. *** TheYardbirds - Rogerthe engineer- (95.7,cable) plays alternative music all iJeck and the YardM-rdswere the to kill us off. We averagedfour hours McCarty.When it cameto thefinal split perfect match, as he was given the othersthat they were goingto quit in BetterMan Than I" and "HeartFull of firstmono and thenstereo versions. dayand night. College radio also doesn’t sleepa night.It was totallythe wrong early1968. it wasa questionof beggingthem to keep 5. New wave bands like Bhmdie. environmentto experiment,expand and Soul." Page takes off on some great havethose insipid, egotistical deejays, so thingfor us. To startwith, the other acts Theyreleased one last single in March, it together,but they didn’t. They just Pretenders,Fh,shtone.~, Patti Smith *** LittleGames - importreissue with develop.He revolutionizedthe approach guitarruns making effective use of fuzzy Group,and the Gangqf Four,have the prevalenton stationslike 9 I-Zlax.So as were peoplelike Gary Lewisand Brian 1968. "Good Night Sweet Josephine" wantedto trysomething new. I toldthem raresingles to modernguitar playing with his insane tone and wah-wah. Yardbirdsas a majormusical influence. the Songof Foursays, "take a tip,get Hyland--all reallypoppy; the audience had appealing acoustic and phased we’dbe ableto changewithin the group *** Any of numerous’Greatest Hits’ use of fuzz,distortion and feedback. "’Dazedand Confused"was originally hip," and turn on to KSDT. hadno interestin ourmusic at all.Also, electricguitars and the B side "Think format;I hatedto breakit up..." 6. Majorrock figures and influences, packagesthat includesongs from the Beck’spsychotic guitar playing ended a folk song that was turned into a Did you know that San Diego is we were playingall the wrong places. AboutIt" had the best solo of Page’slife. suchas DavidBowie, cite the Yardbirds 1966singles For YourLove, and Having the prevalentnonsense of faceless masterpieceby the band with bowed AfterLed Zeppelinwas formedout of becomingthe major mellow, psuedo- The tourmanagers were real fascists." The band was going to go out with a as havinga majorimpact on theirmusic. A Rave Up With the Yardbirds. musiciansand got peopleinterested in guitar and harp harmonizing and the New Yardbirds,and with that band jazz capital?Thanks to our assortment bang. Accomplishments the individualmusicianship within the Glimpses tradingoff licks, finally leading into the becomingincreasingly popular Page of yuppie sponges,who soak up the SUMMER NEWS AND TIPS band’sstructure. break where Page gets off the second saidin summer1969, "There’s still a lot I. During their heyday, they were latesttrend, radio station KIFM is now greatestsolo of his career. On the of magic attachedto the Yardbirds’ unmatchedby any group musically, San Diego’stop-rated evening radio Beck’s commentsabout his tenure technicallyand instrumentally.After The outrageousLos AngelesStreet with the Yardbirdsare tellingas he Zeppelinversion, Page’s guitar pJay~ng, name, and ! couldn’tbelieve it when stationm.By ignoringjazz innovators theirsplit, many bands came along that Scenewill take placeSeptember 27 and thinksthe time spent with them were his bowingand sound is not as dynamicas someonesaid to me thatif theYardbirds like Duke Ellington,Charlie Mingus, playedfaster and louder, yet few, if any, 28 in downtown LA. This eclectic mostconstructive. "All during that time hadstayed together a bit longer it could Charlie (Yardbird)Parker, Ornette on the Yardbirds’version. have matched the overall Yardbirds potpourriof music,dance, people, food, ! was just searchingfor myselfas a havebeen the biggestgroup ever. But 1 Coleman,etc. KIFM givesits listeners "OverUnder Sideways[)own" is done frenzy,angst, experimentation, etc.celebrates all the cultural diversity of q can see that might possibly have an innacurateand incompleteidea of player.I was tryingnew thingsto see more uptempothan the original,and thatcity. Every age, race and ethnicity is happened--ifwe’d stayed together." originalityor kinetics.Along with Jimi whatjazz is. what would happen." buildsto a stirringclimax. "Shapes of represented among the thousands MusicalMartyrs Hendrix,the Yardbirdslayed down the Commentingon an early 1966 U.S. Things"features manic drums and Page present.An additionalattraction is the "Our managementis quick to inform The ultimate irony was that Led mostcreative and bestsounding guitar tour, Beck notedthat some of the new creativelyusing wah-wah on rhythm. manybooths featuring ethnic clothing, me that we’re not here to educate Zeppelinbecame the biggest group of the solosin rockhistory. groups he had heard were, to his "WhiteSummer" finds Jimmy sounding beadsand jewelry,political literature people,"said KIFM programdirector ’70s,coming at the righttime when FM 2. "TheYardbirds were the best live band amusement,"thinking they were into liketwo guitarswith some great double and book tables,and everythingelse Bob O’Connor."Money is the bottom radio developed along with the that rock has ever witnessed.No rock somethingnew musically,but they’re picking. underthe sun. line,and commercialradio doesn’t take just doingwhat we were doingthree to corporaterock format.The Yardbirds outfit has ever matched the highly chances.It’s like a society,"O’Connor ’Tm a Man"closes the album,and has Last year I caughtStevie Wonder, four years ago!" Additionally,his were the true martyrs of rock and stylizedinnovated interplay that the continued:"We tendto be an extremely been turned into a dynamic MidnightOil, What Is This, Red Hot spontaneoustemperamental stage’antics becamevictims of theirown genius. Yardbirdspatented in 1963 and held upscaleprogram and there’sa slight orchestrationwith "RaveUp" galore, Chili Peppers.Fishbone, Minutemen, were not plannedlike the Who’s Pete Record companies had only just exclusiverights to untiltheir split in snobappeal. Our listenerslike to hang call and response between all and the MeatPuppets. There are always Townshendsmashing of his guitarevery begunto grantunlimited artistic control 1968/’said Ben Richardsonin Trouser out withthe sameupscale people." instruments,and someunreal screaming surprisesas the StreetScene has 10 show. Press.They rarelyperformed the same slideguitar work at theend. morefreely. Progressive rock was just stagesof continuousmusic: rock, rap, In contrastto this yuppie Spyro And finallycommenting on the split being discovered.But the Yardbirds song in the samemanner twice. reggae,punk, salsa, c&w, r&b, folk, etc. Gyroish garbage. KSDS-FM88, which from the Yardbirds,Beck said, "They A bootlegentitled "l,ast Rave Up In finishedtheir dynamic career when most Andthe whole spectacle is free!Here’s a broadcastsfrom City College,gives a were a tremendouslycreative group and L.A."from a coupleof monthsafter the heavyhanded bands were just starting. If 3. ]heclimax of the"RaveUp" where all festivalas hipas Woodstock,yet without healthydiversity in its programming. they placed a very high demand of AndersonTheatre gig showsfurther the they,as Pagesaid, held a whilelonger the the instrumentsjoin together on oneor abilitiesof thegroup. Highlights include the drugs and with the most diverse Althoughthey are also guilty of playing creativityon me.I hadto keepon trying band would have benefitiedfrom the twochords to playfast for minutes at a yuppiejazz, KSDS additionally includes a "Rave Up" version of the Velvet groupof peopleever assembled. to impressthem with my playingall the maturationin the industrywith its time was the forerunnerof punk rock. thelegends and pioneers. time." Underground’s"I’m Waiting For The emphasison greaterartistic control, The "Rave Up," call and response Needless to say, he impressed Man", along with a version of album-oriented music and live techniquesand guitarinnovations like The greatNigerian musician Fela Kuti everyonearound, especiallyguitar "Happenings10 Years Time Ago’* with performances. But the split was feedbackwere all Yardbirdcreations. hasjust been released from prison, after Pagedoing the sirenpart perfectly, as players."Beck’s work with the Yardbirds inevitable,as thevarious problems had Prior to his death, by accidental spending1% yearsin thereon trumped- Deejay Ron Salon gives a poignant wellas extendedversions of theirearliest permanentlyaltered the soundand role reachedtheir breaking point. electrocutionwhile playing the guitar, up chargesof smugglingcurrency out of critiqueof KIFM. "’Popularityvotes of leadguitar," said Ira Robbins, editor recordings.The playing is looser,yet still KeithRelf gave this statementon the the country."The most important thing aren’tnecessarily knowledgeable votes," greaton thisbootleg. It was the bands who had seen and of TrouserPress. Without that creativity studiedthe Yardbirds.career that learned band: "If I could put in one word or on my mindis to continuewhere I left he charges. "What KIFM plays is aroundhim, Beck has neverbeen ableto from theirmistakes and manipulationsphrasewhat the essenceof,he Yardbirds off,"said Fela. "1 am goingto continue contemporaryshopping mall music. It’s continuedon page 19 by their management and record was- oneword to describethe Yardbirds my ideology,my politicalviews, my betterthan nothing,but to me-it’s companies. -itwould be ’electricity’." music."Rumor has it thatFela will tour stillnothing." Chow till fall. 20

LibyaAccused of UrgingEnd to Violence Ever preparedto capitalizeon an opportunityto trashthe IRA, the British ForeignOffice has whippedoff a 7-page positionpaper entitled"Qadhafi and Irish Terrorism." Opening with sweeping,unsubstantiated charges of Libyaninvolvement in everythingfrom the Berlin disco bombing to the Workers’ RevolutionaryParty, the documentgoes on to spellout some of Qadhafi’s"terrorist" anti-British moves. "Sincecoming to powerin 1969,"we learn,"Qadhafi has had confrontations with Britain.Asearlyas December 1971, Libyanationalized the assets of British Petroleum...’"The ForeignOffice goes on to relateseveral instances where Qadhafi and the Libyan government expressedpolitical support for the IRA, "reportsallegii~g that Libyan financial aid was beim.;provided to the IRA’" which persisted(apparently without documentation),and advertisementsin Irishnewspapers otfcrmg teaching posts in I.ibya. After a few incidentsof muddleddiplomao, v, ild rhetoric,more statementsof s,,lidaritv 4nd I instancein DISORIENTATION MANUAL Planning Meeting & Social which~hak~ c’~ idcncc sccnls t/i ~,uppoit Tuesday,June 24th, 6"30pm,NI Office(Student Center, 2nd floor) lib\an in~otxemcnt ill providing x~t.’:.ipoilsIothe IR ,\ l:i~ ~,.’11 a’, allusions Interestedgroups and individualsinvited. Bring Ideas, Foodfor Potluck, etc. t,>incident, t+l I ib,,an’,talc it:iroiiMil against1 ib\:iii~ lit il/g ill I:nglandi. the lit,in’,olO,ldh,lli’, Ic.’FrOll,,t i,.tillpi.igt.’,, i,, Reagan Snake Oil ic’,,utnud~itll t Lidhall~3, illln12 the IX SeditionSells Soda d l!rili b’ thc tgxt i1!1r~L’C I ,t! ik+.’, Not Selling "’cli’\ idc,~ %Tc, t ,t’,c,,ircl i:~,,’,, ()+1c \Va~hinQt,m,qtlcial clcallx tl1.1111;1 II11 ;i [’1,1 n Uil(k" lit t’iilldlit’l" ill lic’lalld,ilid ill,Cilia’. 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In his recent book. couldlno~,+ dov, n ICBMs+~ith l)arih Summer Fun Vaderianetficienc,,. president David Vadehra, people Illiterate.4merica, he reportst hat hall ot I he good news Ior working-class responded"’because it showedthat they thisgroup cannot read at all.lhe other Duringthe last )ear, thousandsof parentswho can’t afford to sendthe kids couldforce change at a bigcompany. It halfcan read only up to an eighth-gradeuniversityscientists have signed a to summercamps is thata free,IO-day was a very satisfyingexperience for level.Yet the US Censusclaims that petitionrefusing to acceptStar Wars program is now available for "any consumers." 99.5%of allAmericans are literate. Why researchfunds on the groundsthat SI)I nondelinquent,healthy boy betweenthe It’senough to giveprotesting a bad theydidn’t get a 100%figure is puzzling. won’t work and would destabilizethe agesof 14 and 17." Theirliteracy survey required a written arms race.At MIT,40~b of the physics name. Butparents might want to thinktwice dept. had signedthe petitionby mid- Dollars& Sense response. beforeshipping junior off to camp.The Dollars& Sense April. Gregory Hall, manager of Cornell’s Facility for Laser "DevilsPup programis operated--asa public service?--by the US Marine Spectroscopy.reports signatures from Corps. Here’s how the program is 71% of the physicists.75% of the described: astronomersand 83% of the researchers US DairyFarmers in operations research/industrial "Uponarrival, the boys willreceive engineering. Marinehaircuts and areissued jeans, T- shirtsand bandanasto wear while at Move to NicaraguaCreated Equal The expertshave spoken.So why is camp.They will live in Marinequonset Congresseven botheringto consider huts, eat Marinechow and complywith Virginiadairy farmer Ben Laymanis Reagan’srequest for a $1.2 billion Good news in the fight against Marinehours and regulations. promisinga new frontierto farmerswho, increase--a32% boost--inthe 1987Star creationism:all new sciencetextbooks likehim, are being forced out of business Wars budget? "Their 16 waking hours are spent proposedfor next year’sseventh and by the farm crisis.It’s everythingan The Guardian under the darting,observant eyes of ambitious,rugged farmer dreams of: eighthgraders in California’spublic Marine instructors and camp sparselypopulated land, good soil and schoolshave been rejected by thestate’s supervisors. Should they act schoolboard for failing to giveadequate growing conditions,and a friendly discourteous(sic) this is alsohandled governmenteager for settlers.It’s explanationof evolutionand for being MarineCorps fashion." toodeferential to creationism. Nicaragua. Talk aboutchild abuse! Laymanis one of severalUS farmers California’sschool board voted The People working with Nicaragua’s Union of unanimouslythis fall to demandthat Farmersand Cattleranchers(UNAG) juniorhigh school science textbooks be starta dairycooperative in thecentral rewritten.Says Bill Honig, who ledthe Nicaraguan region of Boaco. In fighton thisboard, "We’re saying to the exchangefor the land, for which UNAG publishers,’Look, you may be worried Voiceof AuthorityRichGet Richer, aboutwhat special interest groups think is negotiatingwith the Sandinista government,the gringo farmerswill of the books,but you’vegot to worry Syndicated columnist William F Faster about the main event.’"Honig claims provideequipment, technical expertise, Buckley, Jr., commenting on thatthe publishershave tried to "duck The Federal Governmentannounced andtraining to theNicaraguans who join developments in the Philippines: in earlyMay thatthe personalincomes the co-op.The governmenthas agreedto controversy" by watering down the "Democracy,parlicularly in its currently wordsthey use to describeevolution. of Americansrose an averageof 5.3%in financehalf the costsof buildingco-op accepted,fanatical application (one- 1985,slightly outpacing a 3.8~rise in projects;such as a dairy,a cheese- Hopefully other states have the person,one-vote) is nothingmore than consumerprices and putting the national processingplant, a mechanicsshop and a politicalwill to followsuit and stop Westernsuperstition... We have imperial per capitaincome at $13,451.Broken veterinaryclinic. Layman hopes to raise panderingto the fundamentalistspecial responsibilitiesin the WesternPacific down by incomelevel, this meansthat the remaining$375,000 from private and intereststhat keep trying to give that have nothingwhatever to do with therich got richer faster than the poor religioussources in theUS and Canada. educationa bad name. civicprogress in thaicountry." gotpoorer. Sciencefor thePeople Mother Jones The Progressive IndustrialWorker