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ItAUidoscopE milwaukee, Wisconsin./:!^ member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) ' liberation news service (l.n.s.) VOL. 11, NO. 14(# 38j^AY 23>1-JUNE 5, 1969 25< Che Resurrected IP. 6 - Jesus Christ PAGE 2 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEI High/ With a little help from our friends it's getting better all the time. This is the time of year when it all fits together, tight, Some are predicting a Raight-like summer for Milwaukee's East Side, and if we can avoid some of the hazards no one will believe what a gas it will be. The community is pulling itself back together, and plans left over from last summer-a switchboard, a free press, celebrations, festivals, a free store, and crash pads for runaways-are being re vived. We'll keep you posted and let you know where you can get what you need to survive. And Gunrunner Press will be publishing a book this summer chock full of tips on how to live and dig it; it'll be distributed free, and we'll let you know where and when. The Grant Park Spring bust-out Love Phase IV was better than anyone expected, and the next one, tentatively scheduled for early June in Washington Park, will be the best yet. Go, and take friends and family. Milwaukee needs you1. PEOPLE, the organization re sponsible for Love Phase and its' hitch-free joy, deserves your blessings. Twelve of the Milwaukee 14, the lot of them saints, are on trial as of this writing, and a joyous affair that is. If you haven't been there, and if the trial is still in progress when you read this, go and watch and learn what it means to be alive. Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, get back to where you once belonged. Good times! ROBB (E)r8i>9 SAWYER PRFSS Mt RlWTS RBEKVED ****•: Vista Works With Poor for Fun and Profit VISTA, already a dispersed and principals want to know, who the have done so long before the Of change by working within a bad ner core; but they don't want to disorganized middle class volun irnportant parents are, but only fice of Economic Opportunity of system. The black child is, of change this. They'd rather send teer program designed to help in order to hold on to their pow fered them money to do the old course, the guinea pig for all their juniors and seniors into the central city agencies rise to the er; and now they'll have VISTA's VISTA thing in a novel way. their experimentation. Some stu black schools to check things out. fullest level of their own incom to help them do it (that is, those Even the present VISTA Volun dents will really be I ieve that Meanwhile, the system grinds petence, is now seeking to move who don't- get their asses kicked teers in Milwaukee, who are be change is possible within the sys relentlessly on, adhering rigidly closer to the establishment. Their in). VISTA Volunteers ought to ginning to view the National pro tem and after they find out that to its tradition of segregation, and latest gimmick, "Operation be working with parents seeking gram as a means of perpetrating it isn't they'll resign in disgust standing firm in its refusal to let Bridge, " has been opposed by 29 to get meaningful power, not poverty have chosen to reject the or stay on reluctantly. VISTA the black community have any present and former Milwaukee colluding with those who wish to concept. real voice in the running of its Volunteers come and go; UWM is VISTA Volunteers. continue taking i t away. Even At a meeting held las t Tuesday, schools. The University, for all willing to sacrifice them so long In this program, officially call when they refuse to play the ad May 13, at Highland Methodist its pretensions to changing the as its relationship to the school ed the VISTA Teacher Training ministration's game, their free Church, they discussed the pro system, only succeeds in perpe Program, volunteers will be train dom will be extremely limited. posal and the implications of VIS system isn't jeopardized. tuating that system and saving it ed by University of Wisconsin- i Principals either cover up or re TA's coming i n at the behest of Of course, the black commu when it becomes vulnerable. The Milwaukee personnel to go into fuse to admit conditions which UWM and School Superintendent nity is getting screwed. The Uni VISTA Volunteers-to-be had bet ghetto schools to work as school reflect-badly on them. A vol Gousha to bolster his pet project, versity knows damn well that their ter get hip to this in a hurry. aides, "bridging the gap" between unteer not playing the game then the North Division sub-system. best students go to the suburbs to The University may fool their own school, home and community. becomes the "narrow minded They agreed to send a letter to teach and the most narrow minded students, but they won't fool the Curiously enough, they are to be idealist" who "falls to see the •the VISTA Regional Administra-* and naive ones end up in the in- . black community. directly responsible to the princi overall purpose" of the program. tor in Chicago asking him to re pals in the schools. The fact The real threat to change is the verse the decision to set "Oper that the principal is most often principal. Firing the principal is ation Bridge" in motion. the cause for the gap existing inconceivable, but firing VISTA's The university isn't quite so in Grub Bag: Story would seem obvious to any parent. undoubtedly is not, especially if conspicuous as VISTA about play Indeed, in communities where they start busting the professional ing the man's game. In tact they parents begin to attain power, bubbles of reactionary teachers are quite frank; a leaflet adver they often start by organizing to and administrators. In addition, tising the program reads in part: About The Sun have the principal of their dis their supervisors will be people "Through its (UWM's) involve trict school fired; but such ob knowledgeable i n the operations ment in recruitment, training and By Ita Jones vious things do not occur to VIS of ghetto schools, but who only in-service training, the UWM None of us needs to be told of the tremendous waste that goes on TA and the University School of offer more of the same. If they School of Education will use this in this country, or why it goes on. I'm thinking not so. much of the Education. Undoubtedly, many were seekinq change, they would opportunity to further its attempts cars and shoes which are made to fall apart, or the wheat and vege to revolutionize the undergraduate tables which are not grown, or the millions poured into destruction teacher training program. It will and death— because this wastage will be stopped only when the class VISTA's in effect, attempt to give the which presently makes World decisions is stripped of its power. Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 14, 1969 junior year in a relevant setting I was thinking of sunshine, which we waste by wrapping ourselves through this voluntary service. up in houses, and by shrouding entire populations in cities. Those who have reviewed the pro It is certainly sad that in this age and for several corridors of years posal are impressed with the fact into the past there have been people who have insisted that they were Mr. Charles Henderson, Vista Administrator that this VISTA program is quite Office of Economic Opportunity not animals. Even today many people don't realize that not only are Great Lakes Region different both in terms of orien we much like animals but we are also very much like plants. What 623 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 tation and operation from other takes place when a plant carries on what we call photosynthesis takes VISTA programs. This represents place in man also, since his body is able to make use of the ultra Dear Mr. Henderson! another part of a developing co violet rays. Vitamin D, produced in large quantities in solar.radia We, the undersigned, feel impelled to convey our opposition to operative* relationship between the the implementation of the Vista Teacher Training Program in the tion, has the function of fixing calcium and phosphorous in the bone North Division Subsystem. The decision of Great Lakes Regional the School of Education and the structure. This means that it only takes a small amount of calcium to proceed with this program appears to have completely Ignored Milwaukee Public Schools, (ita the extensive opposition to the subsystem within the black com to keep your bones strong if all of it is made usable. munity. Like the subsystem grant, the GEO grant appears to have lics added) Polar people, who don't each much milk or vegetables (a large source been secured with little or no prior consultation with the resi dents of the area involved. Such a program cannot be operated "The program was designed, es of Vitamin D), and don't get much sunlight either, are^ still nature's without deference to the community's expressed viewpoint on the subsystem. For Vista to channel volunteers into the subsystem sentially, for those college stu children and they don't get rickets (soft bones and teeth) because of is to further legitimize that program. As such we cannot sup dents who for financial or per the large amounts of Vitamin D they consume in the form of fish oil.

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