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Being an informer is a deadly serious offense against the people and 'the revolution. -Symbionese Liberation Army - June, 1975 BARC on Patricia Hearst 1 Hew World Liberation front Bombs San Simeon Castle .3 Bill and Emily Harris: A Political Statement 5 Joe Remiro and Russ Little's Trial Ends ...... 9 Attend the Trial of Eugene Allen and Ernest Graham. ,11 Analysis and Criticism of the Weather Underground: By Ken Como. ,.., .15 By Anthony Bottom, 22 Steven Soliah Stands Trial in Sacramento.... 24 Activity of the ITew Yvorld Liberation Front,,...... 25 K'wLP Communique: Scumlords ...... 26 KWLF Communique: FG&E. 33 BARC: On Reprinting Arias Instructions 36 The Urban Guerrilla: IT ov; Available 37 Emiliano Zapata, Unit Busts...,..,.,...,.,,.,.,., 38 Young Dragon, a Poem..,.,...,.., ».,,...... 41 ********** ****************** ***•**#**•************##*#•******* RSHSW YOUR SUB! For those of you folks who have been receiving Dragon since issue #1 or 2: it's really time to renew your sub- scriptions because this is the last issue you will get un- less you- do. Six more months oosts five more dollars, but if you don't have the money, or only pSrt of it, be sure to let us know anyway so we'll keep sending them. Many thanks.
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Xhe trial of Patty Hearst began January 2?^ in San Francisco amid. the worldwide hoopla of the "trial of the century," the grandstanding of millionaire lawyer P. Lee Bailey and angry resposes from the movement. It would be pointless to try to set the general context of the SLA, the media, or even to describe the circus going on in San Francisco. The point of this article is to respond to the many letters we have received asking, what about Patty and the Harrises — and to add our two-cents on the situ- ation. Prom September 18 until the start of the Hearst trial, speculation a- bout Patty's allegiance to the SLA and the people's movement has been abun- dant from all sectors. For several months it was unclear what course her defense would take, but the introduction of P, Lee Bailey into the case changed that uncertainty. Bailey would not be on a case where even a hint of principle, political or otherwise, was an. issue. Vfiien Bailey takes a case it becomes simply "Bailey1s ease." He runs the show, from •the media coverage to outfitting the defendant. That Bailey would push £or incriminating others still alive to save his client was and is a. cer- tainty. That Patricia Hearst has acted in complicity with the stategy is her conscious choice*, which we vehemently denounce. No one, revolutionary or otherwise, wants 1*0 go to prison for even a short stretch, much less for life. People who have been inside, write to prisoners or have friends or relatives doing time are especially aware of the conditions of prison life. Not wanting to go to jail is a natural feeling and we have no political sanctions against such an attitude. How- ever, when, staying out of jail translates out to snitching and lying in such, a way that it seems to implicate others who are still alive, the sit- uation becomes quite different. la her testimony so far Patty has mention- ed the names of 23 people who are living, some of whom she has implicated • in crimes ranging from the harboring of a federal fugitive to kidnapping, t>ank robbery and murder. It's clear that Patty is dealing fast and furi- ous, and will say anything tn secure her own freedom. Patricia Hearst is a snitch and should be regarded as such. The following is excerpted from a statement released- by Bill and Emily Harris on February 5, after the Hearst jury was sequestered (but before most of Patty's testimony). Bill and Emily have made it clear that they would never testify against Patricia Hearst. The Hearst machine marches on, convinced that their money and Influence is enough to cu!! the wool over the eyes of the American people and trick them into believing that the daughter who "disgraced" them and exposed them for what they zre, -was In fact brainwashed by revolutionaries. Now the Hearsts have singled out th.e two of us to justify their evil fabrication. We will not be characterized this way without a fight, and we beiieve it is only right that that fight take place in a courtroom in Los Angeles around the charges which a I! three of us face together as co-defendants. We do not want our trial here to begin before the end of Patricia Hearst's trial in San Francisco. We want to wait until she can be tried here with us. -••Out of this very complicated situation, what fs Patricia Hearst's role, both past and present? Well, we will tell you that she is far from the weak, hysterical, pampered flttle heiress that her family has tried to characterize her as. The Patricia Hearst we knew was Strong and assertive, making her own independent decisions. The relative smoothness of the whole evolution of her defense from the beginning until now can only be seen as an Indication of her willing compliance. People either stand fast or fat! when they are called to the test and Patrfcia is falling — falling for e game that is based on the ruthless power and priveiage of the wealthy. -••The SLA never had any Interest !n converting Patrfcia Hearst. In fact, they wanted her to return to her family, knowing that if she stayed, their own survival would be greatly complicated. The group took the position that if she wanted to stay, she must show that she understood the implications, was ready to deal with all the hardships that the lifr entailed, and was ready to struggle to become a revolutionary person. But she had seen a viable altern- ative to her previous life and ahe had already gained a sense of the warmth and humanity of the people she was with wbo were struggling to sehfeve that alternative. Eventually, she'wanted to be a part of It. The SLA understood that she would be a Stability in the eense that she was easily recognized, that she had many needs that would be a drain on the group at that stage, and that the heat would intensify rather than gradually diminish. It was ciear to the SLA that Jf she was not released, that heat would be augmented by the relentless efforts of the Hearst family to get back their "prized possession," Yet in spite of aS! these very real problems, Patricia's desire was based on a serious analysis of what was happening and the SLA felt that to release her would be to turn her out to the woives. So she stayed with them, based on her own initiative and free choice. It Is only now that her free choice has been taken away and that she has been convinced to save her own skin by negating these past choices and thereby evading the consequences. Of course, tojdo this, she must be willing to serve as a cooperative pawn of her family and to compromise everything that she believed in and lived for the last year and a half. The Hearst family has given the American people quite an education in the callous power and influence that the rich can buy. But no matter what the outcome of Patricia Hearst's present court battle, we know that no one has been fooled and many are enraged along with us that the Hearsts would fabricate such lies and expect a!! of us to fall for them. (full text available from MRC) —Emily and Bill Harris Los Angeles County Jail — 3 ~ HEARST CASTLE BOMBING
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1976 A BOMB EXPLODED BOH'T IN A GUEST HOUSE OH THE ESTATE OF THE TO USE VIOLENCE HEARST CASTLE AT SAN SUfflOH, CA., DOING WITH ME I) A EILLIOH DOLLARS DAMAGE AND CADSIRQ KO INJURIES. SAN SIIiEOK, THE HOME Of WILLIAM EANDOLPH HEARST, SR. IS NOW A STATE PARK. THE ACTIOE WAS CLAIMED BY THE CBKTRAL COMMAND OF THE PEOPLE'S FORCES, BBV/ WORLD LIBERATION FRONT, AND THE FOLLOWING CGIuMJKIiiUE, DEilAHDING THAT $250,000 m GIVER TO THE HARRIS DEFENSE FUND, WAS ISSUED. RANDOLPH HEARST, PATTY'S FATHER, IN- DICATED THAT THE EV/LI'"S DEMANDS WOULD KOT BE 1ST.
The Hearst's have a history of feeding off the poor! Their whole parasi- tic fortune has beon made at the expense of poor/ working people and. v;e therefore demand: 1. In. the interests of seeing justice furthered, contribute $250,000 to the Bill and Emily Harris defense fu^i. 2. Stop the lying that is designed to save Patty'and bury the Harrises. These Hearst vultures are completely out of their zainds if they think we are going to sit idly by and watch ruling-class justice score Ejicthtsr vic- tory at the expense of the Harrises. Everyone knows that justice is bought in this country and this is another case to prove it. This case also shows that justice does not stop at color, it stops at class and money. F. Lee Bailey is bought for Patty while in Los Angeles, Bill Harris is forcsd to be defended by someone who has said he does not want to defend him, and someone whom Harris says he does not to be defended by!'' Justice is bought I We are well aware of why it was decided that Patty was not to get out on bail. If she had, she would never have made it to her trial alive: Let's see if the pig Hearsts are equally wise by meeting our two just demands. If not, we will make examples of these ruling class bloodsuckers and. will call on all comrades/progressive minded people/poor people to make life - A™ miserable for. these deranged and degenerate Hearst parasites- at every turn they take! This ruling class "justice" has enslaved our ancestors and has enslaved us all of our lives. Under this order the poor go to prison, the p_oor get burnt alive in fires, and the poor suffer from poor or no health care. We say organize'. Unite1. Fight back! The bloodsucking Hearsts have 48 hours "to move on these just demands I We remind them that this is the easiest way. Hearst caetle will only be the beginning if our two just deiaands are not met: toward an order where justice means just that! A class war is tov/ard a classless society is toward a just new order and a new day; Organize and unite tov/ard total liberationl Easta la Victoria! Central Command - Peoples' Forces New World Liberation Pront -5- The following is a revised statement released by Bill and Emily Harris to accompany a $30,000,000 civil suit they filed in federal court against law enforement agencies for leaking prejudicial, distorted, sensationalized and untrue information to the mass media. Statement of Emily and Bill
January 1976
Viewed by an isolated and frightened government as a threat for having committed the political atrocity of surfacing the poor and hungry in America and surfacing the fact that they could be fed by the rich and powerful, we, like others before us who have attempted to expose the true nature of this country, have been subjected to a vicious propaganda campaign designed to discredit us with most Americans and sever Us from the growing revolutionary support base. Regardless of the shortcomings and errors of the SLA, the food giveaway program showed many thousands of people throughout this country and'the world that the SLA's commitment was in the interest of the people and further confirmed what has already been shown through out the history of people's resistance — that a determined guerrilla front can creatively relate to our needs. The failure of the FBI to capture us for over a year and a half not only exposed them as a domestic paper tiger, but revealed the extent and depth of our support in the community and the threat to the government posed by this growing base. It is for these reasons that the government, violating its own laws and rules, intentionally leaked false and misleading information linking us with numerous murders, bombings, robberies and conspiracies; all of which supposedly happened while we were dodging history's largest posse. And, of course, they have no facts to prove their allegations, nor__haji/e_j/e__becn__chargGd__or indicted for any of them. The FBI has also systematically, .leaked incorrect and misleading information to the mas? media/ regarding. £'3~o^lled evidence found in two "suspected SLA nafe-hous*«! « -6- p- -»-i"- ' i "•• -—•"-•-• — •— • ' —..I., — i.i .„...— ,. , , , , - , r ||M[| , --!-,„—rrrim,^TTir™inii~i— • niii.ii mi JJH.HI i u. i i, ,,u 'Much of this "evidence" has never existed and will never appear in court. The District Attorney's office in Los Angeles, the FBI and the LOS Angeles Police Department have consistently tried our case in the media.- In fact, the majority of the prosecution*s case has been detailed on at least two occasions over a period of a year and a half in the Los Angeles news media* The same tactic was used against Russ Little and Joe Remiro in their trial in Sacramento. The government's case was so weak that an up-tight jury» composed predominantly of government employ- ees deliberated for over 11 days before reaching a verdict. These innocent brothers were found guilty as a result of the hysteria generated by the mass media which was used by the prosecution to cover up the fact that there was no evidence linking them to the Foster assassination. For those people who have been mis-led and taken in by this campaign, we feel compelled to point out these factsi 1. We are not the New World Liberation Front or any other underground group, when this charge was made shortly after our capture ve could'only smile to ourselves knowing that comrades-in- arms in the underground would prove the absurdity of this fantasy by their actions. We were proven correct. Since our incarceration their actions continue unabated on an even more righteous level than before, we send our most heart-felt love and support to the revo- lutionary underground. 2. We did not kill Popeye Jackson and Sally Voye. Popeye was a friend of ours and in fact the SLA publicly criticized these murders as counter-revolutionary. 3. We did not murder a woman bank employee in Sacramento, Circumstantial evidence placing us in the Sacramento area a few months before this incident has been used to imply that we are res- ponsible for all of that area's unsolved crimes. The FBI has even gone so far as to contend that Bill Harris, himself, committed this murder, an allegation which they have not backed up with evidence jor formal charges, and which is, in fact, totally unfounded. There lib was no "unseat communique" taking responsibility for this crime, as vas alleged by the FBI through the news media. 4. We were not responsible for the assassination of the for- mer chief of police of Union City, California nor were we responsi- ble for the execution of the IAPD undercover agent, Edwards, as has frequently been alleged in various local and national news media. These allegations from police agencies were originally given front page coverage in newspapers and played over radio and television. When these ridiculous charges were eventually proven false, this in- formation was either hidden away on the back pages or not dealt with at all, 5. We have never put out a "death warrant" on a person named Haalik el-Maalik. In fact, we had never even heard of this person until we read in the newspaper that the FBI had found an "unsent communique" by the "SLA" demanding his execution. The unsent com- munique trick seems to be a favorite of the FBI, The fact is that a poor quality, xeroxed copy of a publicly distributed, fake "com- munique" supposedly issued jointly by the People's Forces and the SLA vas found among other papers in the house where Patricia Hearst and Wendy Yoshimura were arrested. This information, found in the inventory of items taken from that house, is a matter of public record, i-t had to be obvious to the FBI that this -was both a copy and a fake. We can only assume that disclosure of this document's presence in that house was intended to confuse the public and malign the SLA. 6, We would also like the FBI to explain why they said they found"40 pounds of explosives, bombs, machine guns and hand gre- nades" at the Precita Avenue house in San Francisco, They know per- fectly well that these things do not exist and that by telling such lies to the news media they would become sensational headlines. This imaginary evidence will not surface in any trial. 7, There has never been an SLA army of 200 in the California prisons and there is no SLA death list composed of some 130 names of «>.» -Tn." - —- XT•**•**-.j>-~<3tur\s HMI-* _ys* .jaf ^' ' Before their arrests, Little and Remiro did a lot of support work for prisoners in California. They subpoenaed several political prisoners to come to their trial and testify about the harassment of friends, families and other people who- did work on their cases. Through the testimony of these prisoners, Little and Remiro wanted to explain their distrust of police in general, and also to show how their political activities affec- ted their state of mind when the van was pulled over. Ruchell Magee was the only prisoner who made it to the courtroom. Be- fore the start of the defense's case, Magee was brought in for a hearing outside the presence of the jury, so the Judge could determine whether or not his testimony would be relevant. Before Magee came to court, Judge Bigelow ordered that he- be chained, hand-cuffed and shackled with a deputy standing next to him at all times. The judge justified such treatment by saying that "Mr. Kagee is known to have violent outbursts in courtrooms." Joe Berciro angrily protested this. Ks pointed out that when Sargeant Duge was on the stand and became insulted by a. question put to him on cross- examination, he threw a piece of v/ood against the wall next to the jury box, and no attempts were made to restrain hin. Nonetheless, Ruchell Magee entered the courtroom surrounded by extreme security precautions. Magee told the court that Heniro wrote tc him often at San Quentin and did work around his various cases. Remiro asked him if hie supporters ever had their lives threatened. Without hesitating, liagee. responded, !1Yes? definately. All the time." Despite constant objections by the District Attorney, the judge ruled that Kagee's testimony would be relevant to the defense. However, because of the extra security needed to keep Kagee in L.A., the judge ruled that he would have to testify right away or not at all. .This would mean that Little and Remiro would have had to call Kagee as a witness before they had a chance to lay the foundation for his testimony. They requested that Magee's testimony be postponed for a week, but the request was denied. Because of the atrocious conditions in which the prisoners who came to testify for Little and Eemiro were housed, the defendants withdrew their subpoenas and the inmates were returned to the state prisons where they are currently serving time, Both defendants acted as their own. attorneys throughout the trial, until the very en-d when Judge Bigelow revoked Remiro's right to represent him- self because of his use of "obscene" language on the witness stand, This action brought on a storm of protest from the defense, especially because the judge read his announcement from a prepared text in the presence of the jury, immediately following three full days of testimony by Remiro. William Gagen, Remiro's "stand-by11 attorney, accused the judge of try- ing to discredit Rerairo's testimony in the eyes of the jury, He told ro- porters that Judge Bigelow is inherently prejudiced against Little and Kemiro. Gagen made at least 15 motions for a mistrial on this issue alone and all were denied. Judge Bigelow said he did not want to hear the word "mis-trial" used in his courtroom. But he did hear.it on February 20, when the jury case 'back after three ¥/eeks of deliberations, saying they could not reach a verdict on Remiro and a mistrial was then declared. A. hearing has been scheduled for March 25, at which time it will be determined if and when there will be another trial for Remiro on these charges. Little and Remiro still have another trial to go—stemming from their escape attempt from the Alaiaeda County Jail in Oakland last year. -te.- AND PRISON REPRESSION Since Nov. 27, 1973, the California prison system has adopted a new policy of repression. It has struggled to become Aiserika's most blatantlv, overtly, fascist concentration camp system. And it has done well. Kany of you may ask why this has come about. So, let us return to Nov. 27, 1973 and briefly look at the events of that day.,. On this day—Nov. 27—a guard was found dead'in fracy. Shortly after- wards, Eugene Allen and Ernest Graham were picked up and subsequently charged with slaying the guard. Ray Procunier, then the director of CDC (California Department of Corrections), ordered a major lock-down of four prisons—Polsom, Soledad, San Quentin and 1'racy. Prisoners, mostly blacks, ware locked up ir. the various isolation-segregation holes all over the state. Prisoners who were in the holes already were sent to various holes— back and forth. Ernest and Eugene were at the mercy of the GDC... Although the death penalty didn't go into effect until Jan, 1, 1974, Judge James Darrah of Stockton Superior Court ruled in '73 that the death penalty was constitutional and .rould apply to these black .prisoners case! A legal struggle ensued, but the state disregarded the "law" in order to . please the prison system and help them in their plot to murder Eugene Allen and Ernest Graham. A change of venue was vehemently denied—even after a nudge mads a statement in court to the two Tracy Brothers that,they did murder th.e guard. In Oct. '74, the brothers went to trial in Stockton Superior Court. In ITov. »74, the trial ended in a hung jury. And a change of venue was fin- ally granted. During the trial, very,very few people attended because the CDC had effectively cut Eugene and Ernest off from the outside world. Some people ',7ho did try to attend and demonstrate against the fascist plot were run off by a phalanx of machine gun wielding -fascists. Theterroristic- gestapo atmosphere of the court room and streets surrounding it made one think of German occupied Poland during the war years. And, no one likes •so have machine guns pointed at them...-Eugene and 3rnest go back to trial on Karch 8th, 1976 in San Francisco Hall-of Justice. The atmosphere will be fascist and terroristic again, but we .shouldn't let the guns of the fas- cists frighten us into not attending the trial. Just like the San Quentin Six trial, the trial of Eugene Allen and Ernest Graham is a very important trial. We cannot allow them to be railroaded to death! A lot is at-stake—the lives of these two men. So, attend and demon- strate and show your solidarity. In the last two years the CDC has inven- ted a new propaganda line to isolate prisoners from the people: Prison "Gangs". First, any time prisoners get together on the yard to talk and its over four people, its called a "gang". Any prisoners who are political or revolutionary are called gang "leaders", etc. The state fears prisoners who "stick together, simply becxiase this unity of prisoners prevents? the guards from killing or beating prisoners at will like it used to be1. Being cowards, the guards tremble at the very thought of unity among prisoners in general, blacks in particular.- Recall how they panicked at Attica and murdered prisoners and guardsI In order to help murder (legally) Sugene Allen and Ernest Graham, the CDC has accused them of beine the Black Guerrilla Family. Is this i: Hgung» or a revolutionary organisation of "political" black men? This question should be asked. Also, if you could manage to see a list of the people accused of being in this group you will immediately notice that you've been reading a "political" history of people and not just a prison record. 3u~ gene and Ernest are both political and are working to bring people together in unity—both are very beautiful people—and the CDC has been plotting against them for a long time, before the case. Eight now, they're being isolated from other prisoners and any black prisoner who is their friend' is.labelled "B.C.P.", with.no proof, whatsoever. Ihe hole is full of alleged gang members. The Key; 1,'aoie for the warehou- sing is "Security Housing Unit". In SHU, prisoners do years for such small things as tearing up a state sheet or cursing at a guard. This SHU is not -14- to protect prisoners from so-cs.lled gangs, it is to protect guards from prisoners they walk onl The atmosphere of the SHU is one of fear and terror..,2he guards cone to work each day as if they were.going to a front- line battle. Every guard who works -in the SHU is taught that inmates are animals and should be treated as such, This breeds conflict. $he SHU is run on an "indeterminate" sentence policy. Por each offense you're given a minimum and a maximum time date—but this doesn't mean you get out of the hole. If the CDC feels you're a threat, you don't get out. This is the present situation in !Tracy as well as the other major prisons in Calif. The death of the guard is the pretext used—but revolutionary ideals and, a refusal to be docile slaves are the real reasons behind this repression in prison. Two black prisoners are being railroaded. CSC in- tends to use theia as an example of what happens to prisoners who stand up against the Amerikan brand of fascism. If we look at pas-t events and whats been happening to people inside and outside, we can see what is coining. Attend the trial of Eugene Allen and Ernest Graham on March 8, 1976 in San Francisco at the Hall of Justice. SAVE TWO LIVES'. •—A Comrade at Tracy Prison ********************************************************* * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *****************************************-**** ************ This section consists of responses we've gathered from our correspond- ence to some of the issues recently raised by the Weather Underground Or- ganization. Most of the following comments refer either to the WUO's pa- per "Politics in Command," which was reprinted in Dragon #5 or to their article "The S.L.A. and Armed Struggle," which appeared in issue #4 of their quarterly magazine Osawatomle (available from BARC or from the John Brown Book Club, P.O. Box 22333, Seattle, WA. 98122). The \Veather Underground Organization is one of the oldest and most widely known revolutionary underground groups in this country. Since 1970 they have been responsible for more than 25 armed actions against agencies of US imperialism. They have also created the book Prairie gire; the Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism. Host recently they have print- ed and distributed Osawatoaie, a magazine which combines theoretical arti- cles with anti-imperialist analysis of current happenings around the world. They have stated their program to be as follows: "Kobilise the exploited and oppressed people to wage the class struggle against US imperialism, the common enemy." We have the greatest respect and support for the WO, despite the dif- ferences we sometimes have with theza on specific subjects (as we do with just about everybody). "We hope that this section will be only a begin- ning in our printed dialogue about the \VUC, and we invite our readers to contribute to its continuance. The John Brown Book Club is planning to include in their reprints of Osawatoaie a section for discussion of issues raised in the magazine; they can be contacted for further information at the address printed above. * Jan. 19, 1976 minor aspects of either spot. But, I Comrades, never forget that We Learn By Doing. This is in reference to the Theory only takes one half-way, with- criticism "Araed Struggle and the out practice it is empty, we also S.L.A." written by Bernadine Dohrn learn that in practice, mistakes are for the V/.U.O. made. If Bemadine had chosen to ana- I have a high regard, ^and love, lize these mistakes, along with their for both the the S.L.A, and the W.U.O.; own, to help comrades keep from mak- altho I don't always agree with some ing the same, I could readily under- stand that. But I've read and re- ed underground, they v/ere involved in read her criticism, and althc I don1t the Prisons, forming study groups disagree with, the main thrust of the there, and in the community, involv- text, I surely do disagree with the ing themselves in many aboveground application of it to the S.I.A., it struggles, doing things such as the just doesn't fit, Christmas packages they sent to con- I've watched and analyzed closely victs in the Prisons, many of whom the words and actions of the S.L.A., they didn't even know (such as myself) and to say that "the S.I.A. place the who wouldh1t even have received a military in command of the whole package otherwise. Their active sup- struggle" is erroneous on its face. port of strikes here at Polsom A-C It's obvious that these comrades and San Quentin A-C in Oct. and Nov. all had, and have, a strong political of 1973. Their offer to help com- understanding and awareness, and rades pay for broken sinks and toi- their actions were firmly based on lets that got smashed during the Pol— politics. 3!hey were and are very a- som Strike, because the Administra- ware that there is Ro Separation be- tion had "frozen" their trust ac- tween Politics and Armed Struggle for counts and wouldn't let people order the guerrilla, it is a unity; One. from the Prison Canteen unless they Armed Straggle being a natural out- paid for the damage. That kind of growth and extension of their poli- support, given or offered, speaks tical thought. It would appear from loudly. Bernadine' s statement that because the fhe action against Poster and 3.L.A. picked up the gun and chose to Blackburn (the latter name is appro- confront the ruling class at a more priate) only points out that what is direct level, that she confused this sound theoretically doesn't always with a militarist tact5 instead of come out that way in practice. Again, Action based on solid Political this is how we learn. But. sake no ground. Also, that there is some mistake, Poster was a black Judas kind of separation. Again, for the goat, leading his own people/children guerrilla there can be no separation. It's true that a "Military without Politics is useless" and to finish that, it's just as true that that "theory without practice is useless." 1'he S.L.A. v/ere in close touch with the People, and they were in the process of building and sinking their roots deeply. Before they were forc.- -17— into a cold fascist trap. "Pre-del- police propogandists got through yrf.J;.b. inquency" information for state corn- it, it was difficult for the people U; puters (building dossiers on the par- see it clearly and understand it. But ents in the process), police run cam- I was somewhat surprised to read that puses, special I.D. cards, etc. A part In the W.U.O. statement of Feb. pilot project, and forerunner, spon- 20, 1974 about "We do not comprehend sored by the I.E.A,A. that they would the execution of Karcus Foster, an-1 like to implement in all ghetto respond very soberly to the death of schools across the nation. The back- a black person who was not a reeog- ground and past and immediate actions nized enemy of Ms people," ji surface of Poster and Blackburn showed clearlv investigation of the months prior to who was pulling their strings and Poster's execution would've clearly that they were picked to implement' shown the Oakland community anger this program because of -their past over these proposed "programs" in the complicity with repressive school city schools, directed properly at tactics. .Children are the most Pre- Poster and Blackburn. £here were de- cious resource of Any Nation; if we monstrations and heated debates at don't protect them from this type of school board meetings, even the Black action Who Will? Poster is dead, Panther paper was editorializing Blackburn (a white) was killed also, against it and Poster, (Later to turn but he just didn't die, 2hat pro- around after his execution; and eulo~ ject of repression w^s quietly shelved gize this renegade.) Of course after and administrators in other districts the fact of his execution the propa- who liked the idea have also backed gandists turned it all around, give off it. At the time, theoretically the children a day off school and made it no doubt looked like the best move, them attend a sseEorial service that ws given all circumstances, but in prac- well publicized. The mistake was not tice, when the straight press and that he wasn't a judas goat, but in »| mAS MaW WE CANCeifigRKTE -18- not anticipating how police propagan— statements, declarations, and com— dists would turn it around and use it. ffiuniq.ues. It reached over the rele- But again, if we analyze it objecti- tively small radical enclaves of the vely, it did in fact stop and set back cities into the hands of People Every- repressive police tactics in those where, to the ghettos, prisons, cities, schools and many others, and it did farms, and middle class suburbs, every- make people aware of those tactics. where! The demand for Free Pood for Also the W.U.O. statement was indica- poor people in the Bay Area was a Po- tive of old locked-in liberal thought, litical Masterstroke. I could write as if they couldn't understand it be- a book analyzing this action. It poin- cause he was Black, and thus coiildn't ted out the stark reality of one mem- be an enemy of the people. Very ber of the Rich ruling class able to simply, they come in all colors, and feed tens of thousands of poor hungry that shouldn't even be a coasidera- people with little effort and virtually tion, except that he was all the more no real sacrifice, (tax write off.) dangerous because he was a black in These tens of thousands of peoples who a largely black community, thus, more defied Svelle Younger"s threats to capable of doing his dirty work. If accept the food packages, also accep- we are afraid to denounce, or re-cycle ted the S.L.A. psychologically. And traitors and pigs on the basis of skin poor, and hungry and people just barely color, or degrees of oppression, then making it, who watched the giveaway t we're in serious trouble. on I.?, or read about it in the papers Anyway, after that, the S.L.A, com- also identified with it. Many thou- rades kept on working, organizing and sands of People who hadn't besn reached building just as they had besn, and "before, were made aware, politicized which they undoubtedly planned on and activated in varying degrees, per- continuing, Political 'work, but the haps millions. She seed was planted unfortunate event of Russ Little's in the four corners, in nooks and and Joe Remirb's arrest forced the crannies that we usually don't see, rest to cut short this work and move People who don't go to the traditional underground. Yet they didn't stop, radical meetings and places, who've they translated their Politics into never gone to demonstrations, who've the clearest, most significant act of never listened to standard communist Armed Action that has Ever been put rhetoric because they couldn't under- out on this Continent. Millions of stand it. But they read, and listened People all across the land wanted to to the S.L.A., they accepted the free read what the Sit.A. had to say, and food, they looked at the stark reality it was there for thee. in all the news- of one ruling class Pat Rat, who had papers, pages and pages of their lived off the bloca, sweat, and des~ peration of the poor, feed those saors the pig press. I.;any of their so- poor people by the thousands. It called "radical" followers took the electrified and motivated these people same "line". But again, the words to loclc, read, and become more aware. and action of the S.I,A. reached It was Arsnect Action, translated from over these people, into the masses. a solid Political Strategy that did I too had to evaluate th-ese "move- it. Both as ON3, not one without the ment leaders" actions and any way I other. looked at it, they were incorrect, Another important thing that hap- and mislead is any good people. pened was that it left many of the 'I'm fully, painfully aware of the so—called ".movement leaders" and su- need for organizers and movers above- perstars who had been sitting on the ground, and certainly wouldn't put revolution, in the backwash of their any of then down for not physically own rhetoric. This was a very impor- participating in armed struggle. tant development. These "leaders" Abcveground political organizing is who supported armed struggle as long Strategic, and of the utmost impor- as it was Viet Kara, Africa or Brazil- tance. But if they support the anywhere, as long as it wasn't them, armed struggle against imperialism on their doorstep, here in the very heart of V.'orld Imperialism. They were finally forced to take a stand here. For some reason, many felt it threatened their status quo, and it definitely made them nervous, so they denied the coarades, denounced armed struggle here in the belly of the Monster with that "sane old Bullshit rhetoric and trashed the Sisters and Brothers just as viciously as - EO - in other countries and refuse to literally hundreds of pigs surround lend at least passive support for it a small house with six people inside here, then quite simply, and logically and fire thousands of rounds of they're Running on Pure Bullshit and nition into it, and tear gas, and are not to be trusted under any cir- finally incendiaries, (all v/ith no cumstances. There should be no se- regard for the people who lived in peration between armed and unarmed the area). And every person who- struggle, between the above and un- watched that house begin burning, derground. There are no "higher lev- with the comrades still inside and els" in that-sense, there is no still fighting hsd. to wonder and division. with the ex- think about Y/hy these people would ception of positive, comradely cri- lay down their lives and die by ticism {such as. the V/.U.O. has prof- bullets and fire without even attemp- fered to - he S.I.A. for the most part) ting to• surrender. there's a lot to be said for the old I would also like to point out . adage of "if you don't have anything that if it were not for the many good to say, don't say nothing at successful acts of armeji propaganda all." put out by the W.U.O., there'd be I would also like to point out precious few who would read what that the S.L.A. did not seek out armed they have to say. As it is, their confrontations with the police, but actions are newsworthy in the es- I certainly respect their choice to tablishment press and people have fight rather than be captured and to eome to expect to hear "(hy these die rather than surrender. They made actions were taken Jiy the W.D.O. a conscious choice, and stated, so be- The same goes for the beautiful way fore six of them were murdered in Los "Prairie Fire" popped up all across Angeles. I personally believe if one the U.S. one day. It made many peo- is in a hopeless situation, v/ith no ple want to read it, who ordinarily win whatsoever, its better to live wouldn't have, because the \V',U.O. to fight another day. Nevertheless, has established a certain amount of I can understand their choice, and credibility.and have captured the they even made a heavy political attention of people, not thru their statement v/ith their own deaths. words but thru their actions—which Millions of people watched it on in turn makes many people read what I.V. live, and in color—the real they have to say—which is the first Pig, the real S.T/.A.T. teams in ac- step! tion, not that Bullshit porpaganda I would also like to offer some fantasy they saturate normal T.V. criticism on the manner in which the programming vdth. The people saw W.U.O. writes their statements. If you're only trying to reach and talk move. I'm sure millions of people to people who are already aware com- will want to see it if its shown on. rades, I'm sure everyone in that spot T.V. and last, but certainly not understands you; But if you're rea- least, allowing captured comrades ching into the masses, then you'll to use it to help raise funds, who have to talk and write like common otherwise don't have much, or any, people in ways they can more readily monetary support would be sayin' a. relate to in their everyday lives whole lotI and understand clearly. If- they run In closing I would like to point up on words they don't understand in cut that the captured S.L.A. comrades every paragraph, chances are they have constantly upheld revolutionary won't understand any of it, and principlos, have never compromised chances are even better that they their politics and have fought harder won't even finish reading it. Also, in a Motherfucker all down the rail- the masses in the U.S. have been road line. They continue to do so heavily programed against the words right now despite the fact that they communist- or coniuiunisrn, and if we have very little active support. use words and catch phrases that are Altho'. there are some righteous (but heavily associated with communist poor) Sifters and Brothers who are thought, people hear them and auto- not scared to work and support them matically turn off behind it, even with the little moans they have, tho' they are open to the very same Ehey deserve a lot more. thought when you talk about it in Whatever You Do Best, Do It In Unity! their language. And once you get . them open to it just a little, they Ken Como tend to seek out more knowledge—- Folsom Prison they become aware of the daily con- tradictions in front of them, where they were blind before. Also I would p.ike to compliment the W.U.O. on their very positive lJL£/ work, and especially their continued Success, even to the point of embar- rassing the P.B.I, so much they had to takethem off the "10 most wanted list". I know it isn't easy, but its showed us all it can be done, they Vj ft, shattered another myth. She making V! of the W.U.O'. film was a beautiful _ i In regard to a response/analysis/ dictatorship, belligerent nationism criticism of WUO's "Politics in Qom- and racism, militarism," then we rev- mand" and "Ariaed Struggle and the SLA olutionaries are indeed waging a soc- 1 hope to bring forth only reponses ialist struggle against a fascist to TOO poli/military stance: one, in capitalist system...should we wait regards to"Politics in Command" I until the S-l bill is passed to con- felt over all the work is very good demn it as fascist, a bill helped politics and precise in it's analysis •written by ex~Attorny General Mitch- except for in respects to its posi- ell, a Watergate casualty who had tion on fascism; my question is, once stated, "This country is going when do we "begin to prepare, propa- BO far to the right you won't even gandize and agitate around the con- xecognise it", TOO first contends tentions of fascism if not at a time when the LEAA is spending 4 million dollars annually securing its Nat- ional Police apparatus, when revela- lions of such police, F.B.I., C.I.A. ounspiracies are being exposed, poli- tical assassinations of movement lea- ders nationally and internationally, «fc.en the Defense Department, Treasury, JP.B.I. has a computer network which san give the White House access to 5 million people (called Interface- Message-Processor, or IMP), when S7«AI tsams have become a common part of police hardware and many metropolitan police forces have had C.I.A. train- that "Terrible fascist conditions ing in counterinsurgency tactics and. prevail for Third V/orld peoples liv- intelligence — all of this done to ing in the U.S.," then characterizes secure the present capitalist mode of. fascism as "intolerable prison life, production and institutions. On the Indian Reservations, mass deportation most part these are 'condoned and en- for Mexicans, widespread steriliza- zouraged by the so-called national tion without consent of Black and eourgeosie: if Webster dictionary Third World women," and then goes Adequately defines fascism as "a sys- further to state,"this is different •':em of government characterized by from characterizing the present stage of the development of imperialism as of the communities is a daily reality a fascist system, and therefore the and it's imperative that they know stage of the struggle as the war ag- •what fascism is and how tc combat it, ainst fascism"; does this scrand like In a highly technological society a contradiction? It isl Is U.S. im- such as this, fascism can be disguise: perialism fascist? If our definition in many forms to prevent any protest of fascism is correct, then U.S. im- and militancy to state control ana perialism is indeed fascism, and if power. Why wait until foot soldiers we are anti-iiaperialist we are also and check points are built in and anti-fascist, and if the imperialist around Black Third World communities war is waged by such means as "de- to start agit-prop and organizing ag- tente" (diplomatically, politically, ainst fascism, when cameras are on economically) do we not straggle every other corner and civilian against such effort(?), and if such (hippie looking and little old ladies "detente" reaches a stage of militant 2, ooking 3iales) dress police are pre- belligerency do we not combat such sent — isn't it our responsibility efforts(?). Mao said, "Polities is to expose such covert activity, to war without "bloodshed, war is pol- have ;che repression brought down in itics with bloodshed," anS so the such a way that the covert becomes genocidal efforts of U.S. imperial- overt in the eyes and mind of the ism within the country is indeed fas- masses ~~ did we not proclaim Eixon eist««»« WUO also states that "Based a pig long before the masses recog— OB the war against fascism analysis adzed his "oink" and in the same ro- of this period is a primarily milit- gards gain substantial support from &ry conception of the role of action,"the masses because of our arduous We will not be dogmatic in our mil- work and proclamation,.-,.. It is my itary conception if v?e should guard faith that in the same light this against police wanton murder of our country should be regarded as fascist youth and elders, or the sterilisa- and organized against as such, at tion of our women, we will not. be least we will consolidate our own dogmatic if we organize our people to forces against fascism^ and at best, defend themselves from such fascist expose fascist intentions of the gov- genocidal efforts and teach the masses erraaent and bring more peoples into that s-ueh acts are fascist. With a the folds of revolution, in our con- class analysis we will better isolate Mention for the dictatorship of the and expose those who uphold fascist proletariat. idealsf and organize defense efforts In respects to WO armed strug- how to deal with them; for Black and gle and the SLA, objectively Bernadine •Jhird Tfforld Peoples police occupation Dohrn made a concise analysis but -m~' there were areas that could possibly Political assassinations'in most cases be rehashed because of subjective will be committed without fanfare, conditions. As in the case of Jslarcus and it is the responsibility of the Foster and political assassinations,- above-ground political organs to ed- the military aspects of political ucate the.masses to the necessity of assassinations is difficult to ex- the armed action. I believe the press in political terms and for the fault lies here in regards to the masses. In most cases political fig- political consequences of the Pos- ures who are contrary to our purposes ter assassination. How it can be in revolution are very well padded argued that if the masses are educa- and insulated within the framework ted and understand the intentions of of the system. To expose such figures reactionary political figures it politically could cause greater secu- nullifies their counter-revolutionary rity to be placed upon them and make .work. This is possible, but it doesn't them even jnore difficult to reach, negate the threat this reactionary or The behind the scene activity of the his/her continued attempts to thwart counter-revolutionary work of reac- the revolutionary movement, and as tionary political figures would pro- the saying goes,"An ounce of prevea- bably take on a new guise and dif- tion is better than a pound of cure." ferent mold, but the same objectives, Struggle Straight Ahead, Since these reactionary political Anthony Bottom figures manifest counter-revolutionary B-39993 4-N-19 work, they are the primary target. oce0oooc>099ooeooGQceeo9eoo090o9OoooQQ Iliri MM rrfal in Si Jrial is scheduled to begin on .March 8th for Steven Soliah, a comrade who was arrested with Hearst, the Harrises, and foshimura on Sept. 18th, and was later charged with a bank robbery in Carmichael, California. Even though a recent defense survey indicated widespread prejudice against Steve in the Sacramento area, the judge in the case refused a change of venue motion. The prosecution has yet to come up with anything approach- ing convincing evidence, and pre-trial hearings have featured a parade of "witnesses" whose descriptions seem to be as stable as clouds in a high wind. The high wind in this case is the government's pressure to railroad another innocent person in order to scare us away from helping each other when we need it. Neither the railroad nor the scare tactics will work. We urge everyone to come to Sacramento for the trial and show your support, ' New World Liberation Front Steps Up-Activity?»*, • During the past month, the New unemployed and poor senior citizens. World liberation Front has stepped In their communique, they intensified up activity in three areas. They their campaign against slum landlords have taken responsibility for the and supported the demands of Tenants bombing of the Hearst castle in San for Action, a group based in the Hun- Simeon where reportedly 51,000,000 ters Point/Bay View Area of San Fran- worth of damage was caused, They cisco who are being "relocated" from sent a second coiamunique attacking their homes. slum landlords demanding that rental In Dragon #5 and- #6 we discussed dwellings in San Francisco be brought the Nw'LP1 s health strategy arid cam- up to code and that P.G.&B. pay 5Q£ paign against the San Prancisco of the costs needed to bring houses Supervisors who they were pressuring up to fire safety codes. In this into providing adequate health care communique they took credit for in the San Bruno jail. The JT.V1P three bombingst l.the house of Bea- gave the Supervisors three weeks to trice Present (who ovwaed the Gartland meet their demands. The deadline Apts. which burned down killing 12- has passed and"since that time, no 25 people) 2, "che car of Jack Osher- progress seems to have been made, off—a landlord and 3. P.G.&B, power The Supervisors cancelled their transformers. The bombs at the P.G.& participation in a public hearing on E. targets and at Present's house health conditions at the jail v/itfc. were dismantled by police before they the Prison Health Project saying that went off,however, the car bombing they refused to be intimidated by was successful. "terrorists". However, the PHP, a This was followed by another ac- community organization which has tion: cutting P.G.&E. poles and been involved with the health care -. severing power cables. So far, 11 issue at San Bruno Jail has decided power poles have been discovered in to hold hearings of their own soEe- Tiberoa, Ca. sawed part way through, •tiiae in mid-March. The NWLF warned workers to be care- The two moat recent KEL? communi- ful of all poles—some poles have ques follow, v/e offer our comradely been marked and some have not. They support in their continuing offensive.. have demanded free utilities for the The Gartland massacre screamed out the dehumanizing death-trap conditions we poor people are for- ced to "live" and many times die in. The cockroaches and rats we are forced to live with are but an extension of the scumlord leeches who feed on our misery. Hand in hand with these leeches are all the "officials" and their Watergate jus- tice. Their "due-process, 5-year delay" legal shit is just that; legal shit, with the end result being to BURN POOR PEOPLE ALIVE! The common bond between the Gartland victims was they were all poor! Fire doesn't stop at color or to put her foot out onto! age "-it stops at money! The same Beatrice Presant, owner of the is true for health, and Just as we Gartland, is typical of scumlords. say HEALTH SHALL AND WILL We aren't blinded by the fact that BE A HUMAN RIGHT, so we say she is in a wheelchair. We see that DECENT HOUSING SHALL many old people in wheelchairs AND WILL BE A HUMAN RIGHTS who are forced to live in deathtraps The first and most direct enemy of throughout the Tenderloin; an un- decent housing is the greedy scum- just reward for old, poor people lord. They don't care about poor who have worked hard all their people's lives or safety. If they lives and are now discarded. What did care, after seeing the Gartland could they do in a Gartland fire? massacre they would rush down Scumlord Presant was told time end take steps to ensure that this and again, either directly or unnecessary slaughter of poor peo- through the managers, of the dan- ple would not happen again. They gerous conditions in her buildings. would install basic fire-safety de- The city officials - in their feeble- vices, smoke and heat alarms, ass way - told her the same thing smoke barriers, sprinklers, fire- by issuing code violation citations escapes and emergency exits. and then condemning the building. But the "officials" turned their That woman at the Gartland apart- backs while scumlord Presant con- ment who fell back away from the tinued sucking money from her ten- window, consumed by fire that ants, not only in the Mission, but in could have been prevented, would the Tenderloin too. The Lassen have lived if she had a fire-escape Apartments she owns are no differ- -27- ent --68 code violations and 7 fires Rich parasites and their stooge in the past 2 years! enforcers prey on us at every turn We poor people have been telling in our lives—from our housing, ecumlords all our lives about to our utilities, to our health care, these dehumanizing conditions, to our food, to our air, to our but they have refused to move to minds and souls, driving us to correct them. Seumlords are early graves by fire, by alchohol, nothing more than buzzards who by heroin, by robbery, by prisons! prey on poor people, causing We must organize and unite the suffering, misery, and sometimes many to smash this death-order death, all for their personal greed. controlled by a greedy few I We will show these buzzards the 75% of the residents of San Fran- same respect they have shown poor cisco are renters, yet the laws people. WE ARE TAKING STEPS serve only the needs of the scum- TO PUT POWER IN THE HANDS OF lords. We see how long it takes TENANTS SO THEY CAN FORCE a scumlord to get a tenant kicked SCUMLORDS TO MOVE ON FIRE- out, and we see how long it takes9 SAFETY CODE VIOLATIONS. If to force scumlords to bring their scumlords fail to move on the buildings up to code. Ed Johnson just demands of the tenants, their even admits he hasn't prosecuted names will be put on the scumlords one scumlord in the four years he's list and they will be Subject to the been city attorney. people's justice. We will not burn alivei "Officials" have shown they will not prosecute the Gartland owners* We poor people will raise our liv- They have said the condition of the ing conditions through & united building had nothing to do with the front. SCUMLORDS HAVE A WAY deaths. They have centered all OUT - -TJIM^iEJ2J^SJJ£lLLX their blame on an arsonist (sick WITH A Fin^ofr TO CORRECT and deranged by this order) in an THESE DEATH-TRAP CONDITIONa attempt to cover-up their compli- Yes, it boils down to some of their city in this murderous act. money, or their sanity, safety, and lives. We'll see how much Clearly we will not get rid of arso- they love their money! We will nists until we change this dehuman- drive these greedy scumlords and izing death-order that drives peo- corrupt officials crazy and to ple to become deranged arsonists. their graves if they don't change Further, these officials, using the their ways and move to meet ten- media, have tried to mislead the ants* demands. public into believing only 12 people r@t -2B- died in the Gartland fire, when the DESTRUCTION OF OUR NEIGH - manager; estimates it's more like 25. BORHOODSTO SUIT RULING CLASS HIGH-RISE DEVELOPMENT These lies are told to try and keep SCHEMES. WE DEMAND, THERE- us poor people from seeing the FORE, THAT THIS $72,000 GO TO truth. But we know why our life DBF END TENANTS' RIGHTS! expectancy is one -half that of the Remove corrupt officials like buil- ruling class: it's because these ding inspector Frankoni, who owns parasites thrive on the misery, a building with 13 violations. These suffering, and butchery of poor "officials" have defended the rights people here and all over the of the ruling class to drain our world~-San Quentin, South Africa, lives for long enough. If the super- Mission, Chile, Fillmore, Rhode- visors allot this $72,000 to Frei- sia, Hunter's Point/Bay view, Haiti. .. tas, but neglect health care and housing for the poor, we will de - Freitas, DA and voice and defen- dare war against these upholders der of the ruling class, is asking of the ruling class and this death- for $72, 000 to counter the just order, WE WILL STRUGGLE revolutionary attacks against th© UNTIL GOOD HOUSING AND ruling class and their stooge en- HEALTH CARE ARE HUMAN forcers, We say the RIGHTS SHARED BY ALL PEOPLEl way to put an end to these attacks is to change the priorities In a communique that came out be- of city government, ' Serve the fore the Gartland fire, we pointed .vital needs of poor people and not out that many apartment buildings ruling class greed. were/are in need of fire-safety de- vices. At that time, we demanded We realize this means a complete that PG&E move to help correct turn-around for these "officials", these conditions. WE DO NOT EX- especially supervisors Barbagelata, PECT SCUMLORDS TO PAY ALL Tamaras, Francois, vanBeroldin-' THE BILLS AND WE WILL NOT gen, Mendelsohn, and Gonzales, STAND FOR "OFFICIALS" CON- whose campaigns were financed by DEMNING OUR HOMES SIMPLY land developers and real estate BECAUSE THERE ISN'T THE interests, and who continually pro- MONEY TO REPAIR THEM. mote high-rise development. They YOUR SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS - must recognize we poor people TAX THE RICH WHO ROB US! have a right not only to decent hou- sing, but also to our communities. These rG&Ii parasites have a long WE WILL NOT SETTLE FOR record of deceit, trickery and rob- DEATH-TRAP HOUSING OR THE bery. WHAT W E ARE DEMANDING -as- FROM PG&E IS BUT A CRUMB TO ANY/ALL THE EQUIPMENT THEY THEM, BUT LIFE FOR US. WE CAN GET AWAY WITH. The dam- DEMAND THEY PAY FOR 50% OF age that can be done is only as lim- ANY/ ALL NECESSARY REPAIRS ited as our imaginations. Clearly, TO BRING UNSAFE HOUSING UP it would be cheaper for PG&E to TO FIRE-CODE SAFETY STAN- pay 50% of the repai r bi 11s. Jl IEY DARDS. HAVE 48 HOURS TO MOVE ON THIS! If they fail to move, we then We realize that PG&E, because of urge all comrades and progressive- their size, will be slower to yield minded people to use their imagina- to our just demands than scumlords tions and let our voices be heard and corrupt officials. We urge all and our actons felt. We will not top PG&E officials to realize that burn, we will fight! it would be cheaper for them to re- pair our housing than it would be to We call on all tenants who are for- "buy protection" and repair shatter- ced to live in unsafe death-trap ed nerves and damaged equipment. housing in the Bay Area Co unite and We are prepared to drive them to organize. Your nearest community their graves! tenant's union is a good place to start. Within each building, tenants They are very vulnerable. Any should present a list of demands to person on the street can damage bring their building up to fire-safe- their trucks and cars by pouring ty standards. Tell your scumlord sugar or sand in the gas tanks. _To that tenantsjdji.have the power to blow up a car or truck, puncture the change conditions. If they fail to c^ag_tank with an ice pick or else move to fix up our buildings, get loosen the drain plug. Set a book their name, address, phone number, oj matches jwith a lit cigarette in business address and phone, car l^e marches (which will ignite when make and license, and any other re- the ciarette burns down and react? - levant information and give this to your community tenant's union. We S ills naics oot where foe gas |s leaking. It takes, will add these names to the scum- about 10 minutes fpy a non- filter; lord List as they are made public and revise and publish the list per- cigarette to bujrn 4ownT Practicg firsts Towers and generators in iodically. We urge all comrades ruling class/corporate/military and progressive-minded people to areas are also good targets. subject these scumlords to revolu- tionary justice. Names will remain on the list until these scumlords WE CALL ON SYMPATHETIC m.ove to correct these nightmare PG&E WORKERS •TO SABOTAGE conditions. xsecoooeocoooooeoaoooocot -30- • * * 1. Ben and Mel Swig -- inspiration behind Yerba Buena and the destruction of South of Market. See Yerba Buena by Chester Hartman and the Dec- ember 1975 edition of Common Sense. 2. Arthur Goldberg -- head of the bureau of building inspection (BBI). Arch enemy of tenants. BBI plays a critical role in the housing market. Ar- thur Goldberg lives in Marin County. 3. Redevelopment Agency -- destroyed over 5,000 units of low income housing in 15 years. Front group for the destruction of Yerba Buena and the Fillmore and Nihonmachi (where the fight continues under CANE, Citizens Against Nihonmachi Eviction. 4. Dr. Francis Curry--head of the public health department. Critical In evictions, he ordered the tenants at 333 Hyde Street Into the street. 5. Summit Land Company -- owns the Gartland Apartments under the con- trol of Beatrice Presant. 135 Cedro Street. 6. Orville Pratt — offices in the penthouse at 690 Market. President of the Apartment House Association, Top scumlord attorney said to have bri- bed Curry to condemn 333 Hyde for Jack Qsheroff, scumlord of 333 Hyde and owner of Sunset Carpets at the corner of Market and Van Ness. 7. David Finn — President of the Haight Improvement Association, a coun- ter insurgency front for SPUR, He hates hippies and blacks and has been instrumental in denying the community of the Straight Theatre and the Homeowners' Assistance Program, and in pushing the destructive RAP program. 8. N. Arden Denekas — President of the Richmond Planning Association and owner of 10 Lyon Street. Sponsor of San Francisco For, a right-wing group that pushed the anti-strike ordinances In November 1975. Close associate of David Finn; may also get money from SPUR. Lives at 1327 Cabrillo. 9. Anchor Realty — owner of large properties along lower Haight Street which figure strongly in the next big redevelopment push. Noted for especially poor maintenance practices. -31- ...scum lord list 10. Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley — large and notorious Haight scumlords. 11. Four Seas Corporation - Owners of the International Hotel. 12. Judge Wollenburg -- property owner and terrible Municipal Court Judge, especially against tenants. 13. Bay View Federal Savings & fx>an -- big owners in the Mission .mumd BART stations. 14. Landmark Realty -- fast buck artists, mostly in the Mission !>is(rk-f. 15. Pyramid Development Company -- represents development oi ilu- i i!l- more district. F leaded by PUC President M. Welum i'iynn 16. Ed Johnson -- Deputy City Attorney (See S. F. Kx;iminer, i -K>-70). 17. Arthur Evans -- Kxecutive Director of me San i-'r;ineisco ivik-wiop- ment Agency. 18. Wilbur W. Hamilton — Deputy Executive Director of the San Francisco redevelopment agency. 19. Robert E. Boldt — Assistant Regional Director of the Department of Housing and Urbaa Development. Offices in the Federal Building. 20. Pacific Gas & Electric -- see the S.F. Examiner (3-9-75) for informa- tion on PG&E executives. r For more information on scumlords, see the 1-15-76 edition of the S. F. Examiner or your Tenants' Union, ® -32- The NWLF claims responsibility Toward safe and decent housing for 3 bomb attacks in our struggle being a human right! to make safe and decent housing a Toward health being a human right' human right!! Unity in Struggle! jHasta la Victoria! On January 28 at 9:15 P.M. we Ixwnbed the home of scumlord Beatrice Presant. On Friday, January 29th, we bomb- Lucio ed the car of scumlord Jack Osher- Cabaitas off at !: 15 A. M. Unit On Saturday, January 30th at 1:30 A.M. we bombed PG&B, parasites of the poor, at their San Geronimo station in Marin County. 5 power Peoples' Forces - Lucio Cabanas Unit transformers came under attack. New World Liberation Front -33- PGandE COMMUNIQUE We will no longer live in these BE CAREFUL I dehumanizing conditions. These parasites are going to have to adhere to this reality! If they TO ALL PG&E WORKERS: Be don't believe us, we say: ask careful of any poles with a the supervisors I spray painted circle, they have been cut! Unite/Organize Be careful of all poles - re- gardless of painted markings - We must unite/organize, apply as they may have been cut too. pressure, attack, educate, and Watch for severed cables I study/analyze „ The only way we are going to get safe and decent housing is to use many PG&E is a known parasite of tactics, on many fronts, unit- poor/working people. We ing around our common goal. would like to remind PG&E offi- cials that there is still a peo- ples' demand that "has not been We call on all PG&E workers to met: sabotage and" destroy PG&E equipment until such time as FREE UTILITIES FOR ALL UN- these leeches get off some of EMPLOYED AND FOR THOSE their blood money that they've OVER 65 WHO ARE FORCED TO robbed from poor and working LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY people. LEVEL ON FIXED INCOME IN THE BAY AREA. Training Units It would be easier for PG&E to meet these demands and the fire-safety demands. Other- wise, they will find themselves We call on all NWLF Training with their health failing and Units to coordinate attacks driven insane. They cannot against PG&E windows in as protect themselves sufficiently wide an area as can be cover- for a sufficient amount of time. ed in San Francisco and Oakland. about the suffering and misery Attack! they create. We will show Attack all the smaller PG&E these scumlords how miserable offices and vehicle windows, it is to be driven out of house using sling shots. If you make and home! Their armed thugs your own, stiff, thick surgical cannot stop the rage and deter- tubing works well. Small ball- mination of an outraged, just, bearings of about one half inch united people! in diameter won't make noise, yet will go completely through We can pick our time, place, and will crack the window, a and circumstances and with a reminder for all to see and an united effort, we will drive inspiration for people wanting them to their graves unless to confront this beast. these 7 just demands are met. The Redevelopment Agency has 48 hours to respond to and Scymlords agree to meet these 7 demands. We issue a stiff warning to the If these demands are not met, scumlords of the Redevelopment we call on all comrades, and Agency in San Francisco for all people who are struggling their recent attack on the Comm- for a just order, to press home unity of Hunter's Point/Bayview. these 7 demands. Additional The community's 7 demands as information to help track these set out by Tenant's for Action buzzards down is forthcoming. are just! These officials are part of the NWLF scumlord list, derived They say: stop dragging us from the people! (TUG # 1) through this nightmare, forcing Our Struggle Continues! us from one barrio/ghetto to the I Hasta La Victoria! next (no better than the last) Central Command of the and destroying our communities, Peoples' Forces all for money! Our lives are New World Liberation Front more important than their money! February 17 1976 We will "relocate" any and all top officials of the San Fran- cisco Redevelopment Agency if Central they do not yield to the peoples' Command 1 just demands! It is obvious that these scumlords don't care SEVEN JUST DEMANDS 1. We demand that tenants tract that guarantees all who want to move completely conditions of the move in- out of public housing re- cluding rent, time periods ceive at least 14,500 in for relocation, moving ex- just compensation. We demand penses, and condition of all rights - and full com- housing, v/e demand that this pensation - under the Uni- contract be approved by rep- form Relocation Assistance resentatives of Tenants for and Real Acquisition Act. action and that it be ready and signed 30 days before 2. We demand that all ten- moving starts. ants wanting to return to Hunter's Point 17-A after 5. Vie demand that all mov- rehabilitation "be placed in ing expenses be paid before the same unit or area at the the move and v/e demand that same rent. We demand that no such compensation not be de- extra expenses be required ducted from our welfare when we return such as; se- checks, curity deposits, first and last month's rent,, or moving 6. We demand that eligib- costs. We demand that there ility to return to our homes be no rescreening of eligi- or other public housing be bility for public housing on recognized, regardless of the basis of the move, any back rent due, 3. We demand that all ten- 7. We demand that all neg- ants moving because of rehab- otiations be with Tenants for ilitation be placed in Naval Action and the elected repre- Shipyard Housing until we re- sentatives of that organiz- turn to our previous housing ation. or until such time as ten- ants who intend tc move out WE RiSSSRVE THE RIGHT TO ADD of public housing completely MORE DEMANDS AND CONDITIONS can find adequate housing. TO THIS LIST AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT "TARGET PROJECTS 4. V/e demand that all ten- PROGRAM" AND THE PLANS FOR ants receive a written con- OUR AREA. * * * ARMS liiiiicniis... We've received criticism from several sources concerning our printing instructions for making explosive devices (in issue #1 and as a supple- ment to issue #5). In fact, we ourselves v^ere uncomfortable with printing the instructions but didn't want to censor the underground (in both cases the instructions were part of IfWL? communiques). The criticism centered around the danger of putting these instructions in the hands of anybody who might read the paper. We agree, An integral part of any principled political development is the dev- elopment of the practical capabilities (skills) for implementing the pol- itics. In the case of the armed revolutionary, this practical development must be undertaken with extreme care* As v«'e stated with the instructions we printed, we cannot attest to their accuracy. We feel that anyone con- sidering or working on developing the slcills of an armed revolutionary must have better sources for instructions. BRAGOK cannot function as an arms manual because it is beyond both our capacity and desire to do so. It is necessary to make certain severe requirements of armed (even potentially armed) revolutionaries: that they develop a fairly high degree BROWN SO YW AW Of YOUR TJM&, im TRACTIONS OF MS. WMfT TO TMflMK W/f9KWVR jW MS. FFQMM& IN NO WAY REMARKS FOUOMt® YOUR TO CAUFOKNIA., OFMQSTCAUflXWAt&t " . MINORtfY... Qmflffi. Mil 'if "i WM 37- 'of political sophistication; that they are developed in security practice to the degree that they can insure their own and other people's safety$ that they are developed in the technical skills of their "trade" to the degree, again, that they can insure their own and other's safety. BARG cannot see"to it that our readers develop these necessities. A little knowledge can indeed be a dangerous thing. Consequently, rather than be a source for insufficient (and possibly dangerous because of its insuf- ficiency) knowledge, we leave armed and potentially armed revolutionaries to other resources*. V/e hope that the process of our comrades' practical development will aid not only in the development of these technical skills, but, perhaps, will aid in the development of the wisdom and sophistication, an understanding of the protracted nature of our struggle, necessary for the survival and success of an individual revolutionary, or a group, or the entire movement. *Ihis is-not to say that we absolutely will not reprint anas instructions, but rather that we feel that we are under no obligation to do so and will make a general policy against such reprints. As always, anytime we edit a communique, we will state that it has been cut and will make the complete text available upon request. The Urban Guerrilla (TUG) is a new publication, put. out by People's Information Relay 1 (PIH-1). Its primary objective is' to relay informa- tion for the Kev/ World Liberation Front; j?US contains coi3aauniqu.es, ar- ticles and analysis. IDG is available from: PIR-1 423 Oak St. San Francisco, CA. 94102 Single issues (by mail), are- 350 -each., - ..Bu?k rate (multiple copies) are log/copy, plus postage. SUG is free to prisoners and those who can't afford it. 38 o ZAPATA JUSTS Tuesday, yebruary 17, Diana Lee later that same day. The Richmond Harmon and Laurence Alien Kisinger house was surrounded by 25 to 30 mem- were arrested in Marin County, CA., bers of the P.B.I, and Eichmond pol- and charged with assa-ult v/ith a dead- ice SWAT teams. Six people -were found ly weapon and firing at an inhabited in the house and booked on federal house. Details of the incident are chargea of "unathorized possession of very sketchy and as there is great destructive devices." The people ar- deal of federal interest in the case, rested were identified as: Janice Ma- press accounts provide little infor- rianne Orson, Stephen Robert Sciepes mation. Allegedly, the two arrested aka Lawrence Steve Barter aka Gerald, and two others (v-'ho escaped unidenti- Carolyn Jennifer Ann Williams, Fred- fied) were attacking a house in the erick Franklin Solkind aka James Pran- small tovm of Lagunit-as. V.'itnesses cie Garbien, Ellen Judith Kesend and heard gunfire coining front the four Alfonso Bico Garcia aka Jason Morrison and fire being returned from inside aka Daniel Greg Rico/Adornatto aka the house. The same witness then Chepito. Charles Bates (P.B.I.), said he saw the four people "dive in- best known for his patty Hearst Hunt, to a red van which Reeled out. like stated that 130-150 Ibs. of explosives, crazy," The van was stopped in a po- two revolvers and a sawed-off ehotcun. lice roadblock and Harmon and Kissin- Anthony Joseph Barker (David Miller) ger were taken to Marin County jail was arrested in the Oakland house and questioned for six hours by the where some explosive material and "ra- P.B.I, before being booked. dical" literature v/as seised. He was The quietness of the investigation also booked on the federal boiab char- (the arrests were not made public for ges and is wanted in Kadison, V.'is. on two days) indicated that the cops and assault charges. the feds v/ere still -on the job. The P.B.I, officials immediately an- first reports said that documents nounced that these raids had "broken found in the van led them to the dis- the back of the New World Liberation covery of t.v/o houses, one in Richmond Front," a statement they modified lat- and one in Oakland. The Richmond er v/hen those arrested were linked in house was busted early in the morning the media with the Eniliano Zapata U- of February 21, and the Oakland house nit. The Sapata Unit has taken credit .-39- for bombings of Safeway stores, PG&E tions. In addition, larry Kisinger towers, a branch of the Bank of Amer- stated, in an interview with a loca" ica and rip-offs of drug dealers. news station, that not all these ar- Media accounts reported that it was i rested were members of Hew Dawn. unclear whether the Lagunitas attack Out of this complicated situation was a kidnap attempt or an attack on there have developed two events \vhic_. drug dealers, although the latter seem very dangerous and very sei-ious: seems more likely. The P.B.I, is now saying that a v/ome., Those arrested have also been link- named Judy Stevenson who lived at liv ed to the New Dawn Party, an above- Ricnmond address tipped them off thf. ground Marxist/Leninist/lifeoist organ- the six people later "busted yjere nov- ization operating out of a storefront, ing into her house. The F.E.I. has in Berkeley. New Dawn supports the refused to say whether or not Steven- revolutionaiy underground and func- son is a paid informant — she is nov/ tions as a radical bookstore and in- in protective custody. formation distribution center. They Another disquieting report is that also publish a paper called The Peop- Alfonso Garcia (Chepito) has decided le United. Kisinger and Harmon have -. to turn state's evidence (SiF,_JBxa!H- also been linked in the press to the . iner, 2/26/76). Garcia was immediat- New World liberation Front, the most ely separated, from his companions af- active of the underground guerrilla ter the arrests, and has been booked, organizations in the Ba^ Area, under the cover alias of Jessie Cit~ She local and national media, rano, one of the many names supplied. caught, up in the Patricia Hearst tri- by the'feds. He has been-moved a- al and the latest "terrorist news11 round to several jails and his wher?--- has been filled with inaccurate, mis- abouts are unknovn, Chepito was a leading and wildly.hysterical infor- member of New Dawn, often taking a mation. The New Dawn/Zapata link is leadership role, It is unclear at being played up despite New Dawn's •this time whether or not. he too is a:: denial that, the organizations agent or a snitch, or if this is jus" are one in the same. While the two another media hype. groups have political and ideological Sifting through the media barrage ties there is no proof that they are is quite a task. The feds, police the same group, likewise, the Zapata and other officials carefully manip- Unit and the JJY/LF share a comon pur- ulate the flow of information to the pose and are both underground; how- media, often using "leaks" to publi- ever, they are two different organisa- cize unsubstantiated, and often un- 40- truthful, stories and accusations, has) serious criticisms, of the Zapata She information on these trusts should Unit, we feel that moat of the people be examined in this light. Further arrested (whether or not they are mem- confusion is created by the bungled- bers of the Zapata Unit) should not •up stories reported by individuals be cut off from the left community. assigned to look into "terrorist act- We feel that a clearer statement of ivity" and come back with a hot scoop: support must wait until VIG can deter- retractions of incorrect stories are mine who, if anyone, in the group is not common and certainly not consMer- an agent or a snitch. We hesitate to accept the straight media reports at . ed priority news items. .. face value until more substantive and Although SARC has had (and still reliable information is available. — 41— "In my lest letter I mentioned a Bro. that had a poem he wanted to send you, and told you he would write. He never will, he was murdered on this tier the next day (January 13, 1976.) Eis name was Van Purcell, and you ; can see where his head was at by his poetry." Ken Como, Folsom Prison _j|,l „— - r y r. — : ,» n..i/ me/v/w/p Young dragou, young dragon I eee you softly cry, what looks like bloodstains Splashing on the carpet of ray life I wipe your tears and ray hands become red I touch them to my lips and ny mouth becomes filled With the bittersweet taste Of my brothers and sisters lying dead I look up for something to v;reck vengence upon, And see only bars- and- concrete walls I look the other way and see a white porceline sinfi* V/ith shiney chroiae buttons reflecting distortion back at ma One button stamped with hate, the other stamped with cry And around then i see hot /and cold reflections Splashing crimson bloodstains on the carpet of In this nightmare i look.V ay woisan and her hands are bound-^ 1 look to my brothers'and Bisters, their hands too are bound^ And what only makes it worse y\ Is the look in their eyes and the muffled sound of their yqic| Crying out to me Whose hands are also bound And I'ja drowning in the bloodstains splashing round In the deep pile carpet of my life Then someone tells me brother, this is but A fascist plot to frj^hten off your revolutionary dreams So i agree to slake their fear-yet ]fnowijag wha*t-^i|ye see I gather strength to drink the clood Of revolutionary tears And bask in the comfort of the wars wet bloodstains Splashing softly On the carpet of my life . for WP 6/6/74 I