University of Wollongong Research Online OZ magazine, London Historical & Cultural Collections 11-1971 OZ 38 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1971), OZ 38, OZ Publications Ink Limited, London, 48p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/38 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] OZ 38 Description Content: The aD y the Earth was Out to Lunch cover by Peter Brookes. Ad for John Lennon’s Imagine. The Scotland Road Free School IT underground history+ logo. Charges against STYNG. Chit Chat on Dress C18th enema graphic. Souvenir OZ obscenity trial programme ad. ‘Silly Sympathies’ cartoon. ‘Survival?’ ecology + flower graphic/Mick Farren on utopian alternatives. ‘Kisses: The wS eetest Kiss of All’ – Chris Rowley on the OZ trial and others. ‘It’s Just a Shot Away’ – from a drug treatment center in Vietnam. Demented Waving Brothers cartoon by Edward. Mike Harrison ad. OZ mail order. PC 49: The asC e of the Spotted Toad cartoon and poem by Alan Stranks & John Worsley. ‘Tough Shit in Bangkok’. Ad for Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros. Centrefold Stewart MacKinnon graphic. ‘Abbie: An Das a Fact’ – Hoffman attempts to refute charges made in OZ 36 that he stole most of the material for Steal This Book. LP reviews: Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Puple Sage, Jerry Garcia, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Traffic,o H wlin’ Wolf, Larry Coryell, Country Joe and the Fish, Daevid Allen, John Lennon. Film ad for Danish Blue. Ad for Nottingham alternative mag Third Eye. Robert Crumb strip cartoon featuring ad for IT. Full page William Stok cartoon. Full page ad for Hawkwind. ‘Fans’ – condemnatory letters from the mother of a 16 year old OZ reader and (slightly less so) two American women. ‘Penguinpower’ ad. Ad for Roger Zelazny’s Damnation Alley. Oxfam petition/ad. Dr J advice. ‘Captain Video’ From Larry Menkin, Free Video America, Seize the Media. ‘Poor Paranoids’: Rock by John Coleman. ‘Letter to the Lumpen’ from Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party. Velvet Underground LPs/tour ad. 4p Robert Crumb ‘Honeybunch Kaminski the Drug-Crazed Runaway’ cartoon. Lone Ranger & Tonto “I think they’re all bozos in this OZ” graphic. Back cover Bop Diddley Wah Wah Clang Honk graphic. Publisher OZ Publications Ink Limited, London, 48p Comments Please be advised: This collection has been made available due to its historical and research importance. It contains explicit language and images that reflect attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published, and that some viewers may find onfc ronting. This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/38 And now OZ 38 This issue of OZ has been brought We thank all those who've lent a Nothing in OZ is copyright. Just to you by the tender ministrations hand, especially the magnificent check our sources before reprinting. of that same band of pornfiends Barney Bubbles....and all other Printed and published by OZ as last time. our benefactors. Publications Ink Ltd.. joying themselves in a manner still Maintaining that this society "is the acceptance the people a ih ith e r 0 t of ® l only appreciated by themselves, and most chemically oriented, pill- area. It conscious one in history." Dr William larger figggjrrjj- - it is w ith these scenes s till fresh in your mind that you should all Abruzzi, the top medical man at osedj For everyone who might have been thank the Isle of Wight County Woodstock and subsequent festivals, o f & e \ missing the annual beano down at Council for their judgement tnat charges that the advertising and com­ the Isle o f Wight, and who weren't in insisting that no pop festival should munications media have contributed as I satisfied with Ricki Farr's perfor■> be held here this year. to a feeling that to suffer even mild mance a t the Oval last m onth, be This decision, it w ould seem, was discomfort is a sign of weakness or rev« glad o f one thing: absence has taken becuase o f the reluctance o f ignorance or both. "The self-deceptive theli schools. 1 certainly not saddened the IOW res­ the promoter to provide the council illusion that these ills may be softened asjcma/ m ilj idents any. with suffieciently adequate informat­ or postponed by drug wage may be ffirmissivetl 'Even if the sun failed to shine, ion o f his intentions in time for the one of the chief unconscious motiva­ ijw em pjt even i f you found others at your necessary detailed preparations to be tions for the widespread use of eartsjrfimL favourite cafe table or picnic spot, made to safeguard the health and wel- dangerous chemicals," he write in even if the w ind blew too keenly far o f the Island, its population and "Win”. for sunbathing or too boisterously visitors. As experience has shown, fo r an enjoyable sail, even i f you pop festivals can only be made tenable did lose money on the fruit mach­ for those attending them, and, equal­ ines or grandm other on the front, ly important, although sometimes overlooked by their promotor, for no-one can deny that this bank ► ; xV.Vs^' holiday was decidedly more peace­ those not attending them, if they ful and enjoyable for the family are intensively organised with than those which have immediately proper attention being paid to each and every detail. preceded it. Do we really have a marihuana You can remember o n ly too well The Island's leaders are n o t men problem in America, he asks, or is it the problems which confronted you and women lacking in courage, and if their sustenancedepends on your something that is a result of excessive at the same time last year in conn­ concern over our youth — a furthering ection with the pop festival at Fresh­ support then you must be prepared of our own puritanical and hysterical water, when your transport, medical to ensure that they have it. Such legislation of people's individual and local services were stretched to issues are n o t decided by fa int hearts habits and excesses? breaking point, when your police o r dithering and tw ittering syco­ But there is truly an epidemic of force was quadrupled, and all be­ phants you can do well ” :thout. hard drug usage, the doctor says, and cause o f an 'invasion' o f people who, the way to deal with that is not with as events proved, came to enjoy themselves at your expense. That it ,ore policemen and more more policemen and more punish­ was an exercise by some to make ments but with programs of educa­ money need n o t be dw elt upon. tion, therapy and rehabilitation. B ut what a welcome cha nge "I submit to you that the kind this holiday has been! No fields of litte r to depress one, no nudery or of disillusionments that exist with what our society represents is a scenes o f copulation before the factor in drug abuse as we see it fam ily to depress one, no need o f financial assistance for the horizon­ today. Maybe not a conscious factor but at least an unconscious one. If tally inclined workshy, and no special indeed the human spirit is supposed cleaning o f the ferries. Nothing to be looking for meaningful inter­ but peace and contentment for you personal values, it isn't going to find a ll and another year's grace in which any in a society which is as detached to restore the damage wrought and alienated as this one is." upon your tourist industry. You Other Scenes. have ju s t seen what happened to the unfortunate village o f Weeley, A moving plea by a Navaho woman tionai when its people and local authority for the strip-mine operators to stop i\ 'm t children be t int l\th e The Scotland Road Free School: i Even have experienced their first ruining her land in the American ’i>9i and sixteen ye a southwest is reprinted in 'Conserva­ The school w ill be a com m unity ; > n> is to lower toe taste o f a pop festival. You saw school totally involved with its once again the dregs o f society en- tion News'. The plea, in the form of I 9 r end the scbmml an Arizona court affidavit by Kee environment. I tw ill n o t seek Shelton's mother, declares, when to impose its omtoalues, but translated: w ill have as its premise a total "The coal mine is destroying oui graz ing lands because the grass is being put under the earth and our sheep are getting thin and not having many lambs. The mine also destroys our springs and water holes . the explosions scare our horses. \aving school at 15. "The whites have neglected and \activity for thejiti misused the Earth .. our mother. 'hoof yriH b lf to.sim The whiteman is ruining our mother. I don't know the white man's ways but to us the Mesa, the air, the water are Holy Elements. We pray to Thel these Holy Elements in order for our needs suppi support people to flourish and perpetuate the o f all those i ! ideas well-being of each generation. and principle ost o f all "How can we give something of it needs mon value to Mother Earth to repay the Please w ill fW 4erestAd contact damages that the mining has done to The Scotland Roe nmumty Trust, her.