THE INSIDE: THE FULL STORY OF STOP THE DRAFT WEEK DAYS WE SEIZED THE STREET IN OAKLAN
COPS "ARMED MERCENARIES/' SAYS EX-COP
- By Steven Lindstedt when they said it was a war and the $5500 to $220 and I was soon bailed out, The police across the nation are rapidly people out there were the enemy. Perhaps I now await trial. becoming militarized; they are preparing I sat alone in a tiny celL The mono I had gotten too involved with the people That particular Tuesday' will not be for battle. Urban police forces have in tony of the concrete was broken only by that I encountered. Perhaps I felt too soon forgotten. It was a radicalizing day creasingly employed military tactics and the steel bars of the cell door - beyond much or questioned too much, Whatever and an enlightening day. Old illusions give military equipment. They feel that their that, another concrete walL I had been the reason, I never Q1lite made it as a way to new perspectives -: the image of position in the community has been threat charged with a felonious assault upon a policeman. the police as community servants has been ened. They have reacted by resorting to police officer. Only four weeks prior, I The four weeks that had passed since replaced by an image of armed mercen more frantic and more oppressive ways of had been a city police officer myself, leaving the force now seemed like a life aries. maintaining "order." ...... in Berkeley. The transition had been time, I felt no commonality and no com total. In months prior, I had arrested mitment to them. TtJey were strangers, offenders and now, I had been arrested; As the morning progressed my estrange I had peered into cells before and now, ment was to be turned into reluctant in IN THIS ISSUE I was on the inside, peering out. volvement. The transition would be com The ranks of police had filled Clay plete. Street earlier that· morning. Opposing About two hours after the police had them, a street full of demonstrators, I cleared the street in front of the induc BARRICADES IN OAKLAND - p. 3 sensed that today (fuesday) would be tion center, Barbara and I were watching different from Monday. Barbara and I had a group of demonstrators as they blocked decided not to risk arrest, but merely to traffic. We saw a commotion behind a bus INSIDE STOP THE DRAFT WEEK - p. 4 observe the demonstration. It was in this and began crossing the street to get a bet role as spectators that we sought a safe ter view of the activity. A lone Oakland "MILITARY HISTORY OF STOW" - p. 6 vantage point in the parking lot opposite policeman came walking back from the the induction center. A loudspeaker blared front of the crowd after his unsuccessful a warning and thEm, more distinctly, came attempt to disperse the demonstrators, ANTI-DRAFT AND WOMEN - p. 11 a sharp order:" 'MarchI" Without warning and without provocation, The police moved forward, at first the officer started shoving us with his pushing and then hitting. Clubs were night stick. I was able to step aside, but ARAB-ISRAEL - p. 10 swung above police helmets and came Barbara was hit in the back, Trying to pro crashing down amidst the demonstrators, tect Barbara, I attempted to step between LADO IN CHICAGO - p. 16 The police were not selective, both men her and the officer. She turned around and women, young and old alike felt the and was struck in the forehead by the riotsticks. The crowd broke easily;, the officer's night stick. At this point, I be THE MOVEMENT PRESS BULK RATE gan grappling for the officer's club. LJ. S. POSTAGE police could claim total victory for this 449 14TH STREET battle. PAID CLUBBED SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 94103 S2M Fr..nclllCO, Calif. STUNNED Permjt '''0. 8603 A squad of eight or nine Highway Patrol I was stunned, bewildered. I could not men were suddenly on top of me. I was believe what was happening. Tears sud clubbed and knocked to the grou~, I curled denly flooded my eyes; I held Barbara up and attempted to cover my head, Still tightly and we turned away, unable to I was clubbed and kicked. The police watch any longer. grabbed my feet and dragged me down Was it true? Had I been a policeman only the block, past the police lines. four weeks before? Had I been one of Some 34 hours later, the charge was re them? It was true. Perhaps I had not been duced froma '-felony (assaulting an officer) a "good" policeman, but I had been one to three misdemeanors (including resist of them. Perhaps I had neve\- believed it ing arrest). The bail was reduced from P~E2 '....1....111111111111..1111111111111111 ...... 111 ..11 ....11111111111111 0 EDIT RIALS AND LETTERS 1111111111111111111111 NON-ZIONIST JEWISH VIEW CONSIDER DIRECT-ACTION TACTICS
Dear Editor, started Is["ae I put into the field twice Dear Editor, The violence that occurred last Tuesday, the soldiers as all the Arabs combined, especially against those who sat-down I write this letter in response to that not to mention the substantially better Now that the immediate exigencies of (as in Los Angeles in june) stemmed in by Naomi Lauter because I believe she equipment, Israel talks of the 50,000 unity which dominated "Stop The Draft part from the' 'mixed", confused nature speaks for a large percentage of liberal Egyptians in the Sinai, but always knew \Veek" have dWindled, it may be per of the demonstration, and the scattered and progressive jews and because I think that they could put 150.000 Israeli's missible to voice a few criticisms from isolated nature of the sit-downs, These she clearly places many of the points of against them, Egypt knew that they had the ranks of the demonstrators, In par were often surrounded by police and an enormous debate going on in the no chance at that time, \Vitness what ticular, whilsr recogniZing the personal n,ncealed from view, The somewhat pro left jewish community. And I think that 50,000 couldn't accomplish in Yemen, committment and courage of many of the vocative nature of the self-defensive and there is an enormous stake,' both to all You will find many jews, closely con leaders, one may I think express some, re-ab::;orption taerics announced for the the movements that we participate in nected to their people, who ha\ e for the misgi\'ings about their tactics. monitors led to their line, and the stand and support, and to that humanist, pro entire history of Modern Israel fought In their quite sectarian opposition to ing demvnstrators !Jebind, being driven gressive tradition which has made it the policies of its government, The war pacifism, the leadership was led into back 011 rop of those Sitting against the worth being a jew for so many genera has somewhat sIlenced this argument. It refusing to consider certain direct-actiun wall of the Centel-. This in turn led to tions. For the events of the Middle East is terribly difficult to turn against a tactics (often associated with pacifist the indisaiminate cluhhing of those who have provided the wedge for deep political brother, against your' people, in their protests) on their merits. For example. were trapped there, who fell or who inro.ads by the Republicans and also by the time of crisis, whatever your opinion the possibility of massive civil-disobed remained ::.ittin" in small groups, These Far Right. And I do raise that as a of the cause and justice of that crisis, ience to shut down the Industion Center events cannot be compared with a solid, bogey-man. I dread the image of the sur My heart is full of anguish over the was never seriously contemplated, and clearly demarcated sit-down blocking a vival of the state of Israel requiring crimes of my people of the United States, the si.t-down tactic, even when used, was street from the outset of the demonstra·· that the jewish community of California I condemn the leaders in Washington, discredited both before and afrer Tues tion. adopt as spokesmen Reagan Murphy, But I cannot tear myself from my rela day's inevitable fracas, The major argu Yorty, and Chuck Connors, as they did tives and neighbors who put those terrible ments deployed against such tactics seem at the "Save Israel" rally in Los Angeles. people in office. The strongest weapon ed to be - a) that such demonstrations OPPORTUNISM I think that the modern history of Israel of the Imperialists is the call to patriot required a discipline and committment In fact one may detect a certain op may be creating a Jew that I don't want ism. But it is the highest patriotism to re that was not available - b) that large portunism by the steering committee in to identify with,. SO,let us debate para nounce your own, if conscience dictates, numbers would be reqUired to block the combining thus violent self-defense and graph by paragraph, (an old jewish cus streets around the center effectively non-Violent sit-down tactics, This may tom,) so that' the people who read this LAND c) that people were no longer ready to have placated, and thereby recruited, paper may know us better. be politely led-off to jail like "sheep the maximum number of demonstrators, While I don't have a copy of the "Move If you knew jewish history, you would to the slaughter" - d) that a sitting but it placed those who sat-down in peculair ment" editorial on Israel before me, I know that political Zionism, from its crowd would have invited and been more jeopardy. It is even more dishonest to am quite familiar with the SNCC pOSition, inception in the late 1800's, proposed a vulnerable to police violence than a stand then use this experience to further dis and as a Secular jewish School part jewish homeland as a theocratic state, ing one (ruesday has been cited as a proof credit a tactic whic, seriously planned, time teacher in Jewish history I agree That is a state of, by and for Jews, pat of this). might have closed the Center for longer, substantially with it. I further believe that terened after a contemporary understand and either have minimized (there was the histery of modern Israel is a repeat ing of ancient Jewish custom and tradition, probably a limit to the numbers the of several of the worst episodes in jew Unfortunately, the above, not mentioning DIRECT-ACTION TACTICS Oakland authorities were willing to arrest) ish history. (Which also concerned the Arabs, assumes that they do not exist in In response to the first two objections, or violence, or, given enough people. •'recapture" of Palestine from the na the particular piece of land, Or if they it is quite clear that there were both both. tives. ) do exist, that they must be dealt with, The numbers and committment throughout the I\Iaybe we can honestly consider this for history of modern Israel is a long suc week; it is true however, that a success December 4th, or whenever the next act cession of such dealings, The result was ful mass sit-down would have required of mass-resistance takes place, For it FEELING FOR ISRAEL to build up a sea of ha;:red which con prior pledges and training session for par would be disastrous for the movement if There is no queStion that I have a stantly threatens to drown IsraeL The ticipants, As for the third point, this the Stop the Draft week leaders were life long, deep feeling for Israel, as Germans lied about almost all of what strategy of confrontation could have been to' continue to delude themselves, and does almost every jew in the world, they blamed on the jews, The Arabs are quite different from Monday's "smooth" others, about the nature of their follow ':I:ionist or non-Zionist. Which has made correct for almost all of what they say, demonstration were groups of twenty were ing. This has so far been transient and most of us patsies for the "threat of Israel has displaced and appropriated so easily shifted from the doorways, and unorganized; no democratic nexus or being pushed, into the sea" argument. the land of one and a haIf million people, politely walked to paddy-wagons, A large organization was established between In spite of the Arab bombast, in spite If they did not intend keeping it, let Sitting crowd pledged to non-co-operation leaders and led; above all the follOWing of the constant threats, in spite of the them place it in escrow with the UN (Le. at least a thousand at each 'entrance) is overwhelmingly NON-violent in any continuous harrassment, the "threat of or somebody. If they are going to keep would have presented the police with a meaningful sense, When violent seIf annilation" is hogwash. The Israeli it, as they are undoubtedly going to do difficult dilemma, Either they could ar defense and other tactics were suggested leaders knew it. On the day the war with what they won in •48, let them rest very large numbers (one can remem few responded; of over 330 arrested dur pay for it at least, They do not con ber how long it took to shift 800 people ing the week only a tiny fraction were sider either idea worth talking about, from Sproul Hall) or disperse a peaceful, engaged in physical retaliation to the In effect, they have fought for land, disciplined sitting crowd with force, As police. When (on Wednesday and Thursday) NOTE FROM whatever the public pronouncement, for the objection of vulnerability, in my the rank and file took over, the pre No, as a jew deeply bound to his experience of many kinds of demonstra ference was for non-Violent tactics. The UNDERGROUND people and to their traditions I do not tion, here and abroad, (and in spite of surrogate of defensive barricades on Fri believe Israel has a right to exist at Selma) police are less likely to attack day, was not a step toward street fight Dear Friends: the expense of one and a haIf million and club a sitting crowd than a standing ing, but an expression of this same spirit, Now that you have had Oakland and a Arabs. If it could not be done except one, the division between aggressors and ,of " anti-violence". The fortuitous pu few other places, it seems appropriate to at that price I would rather it not be sitters is just too obvious to the press . licity (injunctions, the Res'istance, and raise the question of what you will do with done. Because that price is changing and public. When violence IS used a line joan Baez) which increased Tuesday's your suggestion: Nobody Go, You showed the jews of Israel. They are proud of of sitting monitors is just as able to numbers were no substitute for a demo the public the Armed Force on which this their militarism, discriminatory against protect itself and people behind it as a cratic grass-roots organiZing (there were war' and this country are based, and many the darker skinned, racist toward the standing line, I have also seen mass sit incidentally, Significantly more black demonstrators saw that successful illegal downs used successfully against mounted people involved with the ReSistance, which activity is what makes the public pay for CONTINUED ON PAGE 14, police and dogs, HAS begun to organise). Nor can we its immorality. But you did not stop the depend on charisma and manipulation as country's induction processes, substitutes for leadership. We have to The point now is, to put together the idea BUILD a movement of resistance to the of getting away with breaking the law with draft. the idea of not accepting induction, So DEFEND HUEY NEWTON! far anti-draft workers have been stopped Huey Newton, the Minister of Defense torney, judge, Jury, and hangman. Yours in solidarity over the question of what to offer men of the Black Panther Party for SeIf We do not know what happened that morn Nigel Young they encouraged to refuse the draft, This defense, lies wounded in a hospital bed. ing. We do know that Huey Newton cannot Berkeley, Calif. is because they have thought that prison Five cops are in the room with him, receive a fair trial. No black man accused is the major alternative, and because they five more are outside the door, and of killing a white cop has that chance THE MOVEMENT is published have thought in terms of an organized un ten are down the hall. He has been accused anywhere in this country. Add to this the monthly by The Movement Press, derground as the only alternative they of murdering one Oakland policeman and fact that the Black Panthers have openly 449 14th Street, San Francisco, could create, wounding a second. challenged the racist nature of .,law California 94103, 626-4577. Two years ago I refused induction, was Already the newspapers and other media enforcement" and justice becomes a EDITORIAL GROUP later arrested and had a trial date set, in the Bay Area have signed, sealed and mockery. joe Blum Buddy Stein Since then I have met a number of men delivered Huey Newton. With little evid THE MOVEMENT asks its supporters Terence Cannon Penny Taft mostly black men - who have the same set ence cited, they have proceeded to play to contribute to the Huey Newton Defense Bobbi Cieciorka LincQIn Bergman of new or altered identification cards I their multiple roles of prosecuring at- Fund. Karen Koonan jeff Segal carry. 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- working-class white communities. Re several months, began the week quietly parking structure across the corner from jecting non-violence was seen as neces with a sit-in and support demonstration the Center, and waded into the crowd,. sary to reach them and to forge coopera at the Center. 129 were arrested. forcing the people down the streets and by Terence Cannon tion with black militants. (Those are The Resistance' had organized several clearing the area around the Center. the POLITICAL reasons for dropping hundred young men to turn in their draft Despite the heavy use of riot clubs and OAKLAND, CALIF -- From 5 AM Chemical MACE - a concentrated tear to 10-..30 AM, October 20>"10,000 people non-violence; the 'real reason was that cards that day, which they did at the gas in aerosol cans - the groups held held 22 blocks of downtown Oakland against the organizers were angry and fed up Federal Building in San Francisco. US with getting themselves arrested and Attorney Cecil Poole refused to accept firm at seve-ral intersections, blocking 2,000 police. traffic and tying up the police in a wide The cops were outflanked, outnumbered attacked and accomplishing nothing more them, but the box of 300 draft cards was perimeter around the area. Newsmen, and outrun. The people barricaded the than ineffective moral protest). dumped over his head. (Pooie described bystanders and white-clad medics with streets with cars, trucks, concrete bus the anti-draft activists as "rabble:' On red-cross armbands were clubbed and benches, potted trees, parking meters, ORGANIZING Friday Poole's government car was one beaten along with the deomonstrators. street signs, trash boxes and lumber, in of those pushed into the street in Oak 22 people were injured. order to block the buses carrying draftees Members of the STDW Committee set land, its tires flattened and used as a Police violence had been anticipated to the Oakland Induction Center. \ up and aided some community anti-draft barricade.) and preparations made, but many dem With cans of spraypaint they decorated projects, but the timetable forced on it At Berkeley High School 700 students onstrators were surprised by the fury public buildings and streets with anti by the need to plan for a specific action walked out on their classes and picketed of the attack. The STOW Steering Com war slogans and symbols. On the wall made it difficult to carry through on the Berkeley Selective Service office., mittee was split over whether to con of City Hall a large sign read, "First projects. The feeling of the planners was tinue the blockade the next 3 days. The Liberated Zone of Oakland:' that the angry tone of the week would THE "TEACH-IN" San Jose, Stanford and San Francisco It was the first mass white clash with make future organizing broader and representatives voted to continue: most police in recent 'years, the first anti easier. Now that the week is over, this The Berkeley Administration and the of the Berkeley group voted to stop. draft riot since the First World War. feeling seems to be justified: serious ASUC were in a bind. They had attempted It was decided to have only peaceful With the similar Pentagon action, it has organizing has been given new energy. , to take over the Monday all-night planning pickets the next two days. changed dramatically the peace, anti session and turn it into an academic Berkeley High School students staged draft and st\!dent movements. ONTO THE CAMPUS talk-fest. But when the, injunction was served on them they' locked the doors of a boycott of classes and joined the noon When school opened, STDW became the auditorium and lost any control over rally at Sproul Hall. COALITION a campus issue, particularly at Berkeley. the activities. 6,000 students attended the The UC Administration at first bowed to Stop the Draft Week began in the office organizing rally on the steps of Sproul student pressure and allowed them to use Hall,to learn the plans for the next day, of THE MOVEMENT last July at an WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY: a large auditoriumfor an all-night''teach despite the rumor that cops might be info,rmal meeting of anti-draft organizers in" and for organizing the activity. called onto campus to disburse' them. who wanted to move opposition to the war THE NON-VIOLENT HOUR The day before the "teach-ill" the Ala UC Chancellor Heynes 1eclined to invite On these days peaceful picketing and and the draft from the level of moral meda County Supervisors got an injunc the cops in:, he had learned from the FSM demonstrations were held in front of portest to a show of power. They de tion against the use of any university and Student Strike. the Induction Center. The monitors, rather cided to halt the activity of the Oakland property for "on campus advocacy of Those willing to go to the Center were than acting as' street leaders, merely Induction Center during the week of Octo off campus violations of the Universal divided into groups, and held more de kept the crowd orderly and aided the ber 16. Military Training and Service Act," tailed planning sessions with the moni This action was first seen as bringing police. together black and white organizers around , The students refused to let this stop ,tors and monitor captains. The mass of demonstrators accepted a common issue. It became clear after them. They came onto campus anyway, this without enthusiasm. Rather than being many attempts that black organizers dis- in the thousands. Illegal rallies were TUESDAY: MACE & CL~BS intimidated by the police attack, they trusted the idea of mass demonstrations held on ,campus before and during the were angry and wanted to take back the and felt that young white people were Week. Students brought loud speakers At 4 AM, the rented fleet of 20 bus~s streets. "Is this all we're going to do - not ready for clashes with the police. onto campus under guard and took them began to ferry the groups to Lafayette walk around the Induction Center 50 A•'wait and see" attitude was taken by away afterward. In retaliation, the Ad Park in Oakland, a staging area 7 blocks times 7" asked a demonstrator Wecl:'lesday. black activists, and attempts by whites ministration suspended all campus or from the Induction Center. to draw in blacks were resented and seen ganizations participating in STDW. The The Induction Center is in downtown as manipulative. result was larger meetings, held illegally Oakland, one block from City Hall, 5 FRIDAY: THE BARRICADES by illegal organizations using illegal loud blocks /' from the Oakland Tribune build "We're going back tomorrow, just like SELF DEFENSE speakers to plan illegaloff-campus activi ing. To the west is the West Oakland we did on Tuesday, only smarter," a ties. The momentum could not be stopped. ghetto, to the east the downtown shop Stop the Draft Week spokesman announced From the first, the STOW organizers ping and business center. in Berkeley Thursday afternoon. The rejected traditional pacifist non-violence The STOW Committee had expected Steering Committee reunited again around and emphasized the right to self-defense. the police to cordon off the area around this decision and prepared for the use The hard-core pacifists bro'ke, off and THE WEEK: MONDAY the Center."The cops, h~wever, allowed of tear gas and police violence. decided to t!l~let a seperate demonstra the groups 'to mass in the streets in The history of the blockading of the tiori on Monday the 16th at the InductioIi , Th~' 'Civil Action Day Commfttee, a' front and on the" Side of the building. Induction Center iii' spelled out in detail Center. pacifist-oriented group that has been hold At 7 AM, the police moved out from in the other articles in this issue. It Most draftees come from lower and ing sit-ins at the Induction Center for their field headquarters, a three-level is a proud story. Read on. .. PAGE 4 THE MOVEMENT NOVEMBER 1967 STOP THE DRAFT WEEK: be made here. In regard to the blacks; the speakers reflected the proper anti-im By Terry Cannon ·and jeff Segal, Stop the Oraft Week Steering Committee members. few blacks who came to Steering Commit perialist line (the PL line), no real tee meetings in july (having been turned organizing could come out of the week .. The political hassles inside a movement organization are rarely put down in print, on by the basic idea of STDW) couldn't This conflicted with the feeling of the except to expose or debunk that organization.. Public debate over the problems and understand who we were wasting so much original members that the ACTION of the mistakes of movement activity generally only occurs in the heat of battle and is carried time on the pacifists, who obviously •week was most important, and would define on in polemic for the purpose of winning political battles .. Rarely do we sit down afterward weren't in the same bag that we were the ideology of the movement by creating and publicly discuss the results in the hope of learning from our mistakes as well as our in. They decided that we probably weren't new ways of struggle. The original com victories, The Movement. feels that if we are going to start to treat ourselves, as a worth bothering with and left. mittee felt that organizing people to .'\CT movement, seriously we must begin to engage in real exercises of self-criticism .. The other result of this debate was a differently was the key. PL people wanted Without such self-criticism we are likely to make mistakes that could have been avoided vacillating image projected to the public. to get the largest number of people to if we were more open and honest, . As long as we were unsure if people were accept a corrlmon .slogan and intellectual The events of October 16 - 21 are among argument against the new position was ready for a really serious confrontation attitude. the most important in the white movement. that only the middle-class and pro- with the police state we neither projected What went on inside this effort is not fessionals could mobilize the strength to a clear image of ourselves and our unique; we hope others will profit by what end the war, and they would be alienated program nor provided people (and our SPEAKERS ha'S been learned. What follows is by rejecting non-violence, The Steering selves) with a detailed plan of action for At one point, when speakers for the an attempt to analyse the internal events, Committee's response was that the war the week. major pre-week rally were being nomi roughly in the order in which they occured, was not an isolated phenomenon but ende- nated, it was decided that speakers rep and draw some lessons from them that mic to the American social system; what resenting the white working class, the are applicable to the operation of future was needed was a movement th<:!t would STRUCTURE black co~munity and the univer~ityshould movement activities. last after the war in Viet Nam was over The loose structure of STOW made be selected, The PLers on the Steering and such a movement had to be based on such problems worse .. New people would Committee nominated a PL organizer of HOW WEEK BEGAN Stop the Oraft Week (STOW) began in anger, In late july a small group of militant anti - draft and anti-war or ganizers met at The Movement office in . San Francisco. The problem: to "do something" about the draft. They agreed on several things: new forms had to be found outside the tradi tional forms of moral protest demonstra tions. "We've got to go beyond The Re sistance," it was said. Young people were fed up with the draft and the war; they were not satisfied with the basic operat ing assumption of the anti-war movement at that time: that the existing channels of political opposition were sufficient to end the war and make changes in the society. That assumption had led to picketing, marches, peace candidates, complicity statements, draft - card burning and turning-in, and the backing of establish ment doves. Peace people felt alienated, a small handful inside an apathetic to hawkish population, They either played the num bers game: more votes and marchers meant a stronger movement, or thought in terms of "militant" protest such as draft card burning, which was no more than a symbolic act of moral indignation, Their aim was to change the minds of· those in power, not to stop those in EYEBALL CONFRONTATION at a barricade. Note the plywood shield in the center and the garbage can lid shield. Note power from operating, Militants formed also that the police are surrounded: this happened several times during Friday, unhappy caucuses inside liberal organi zations, being either ineffective or em the people who carried the brunt of the show up at each general meeting and raise working class whites, a black PLmember barassing to the larger group. They did exploitation -- poor and working class the same arguments that had been dealt and a campus PL person, without openly not feel safe on their own and looked for people, ethnic minorities, youth, etc, This with the week before. TheelectedSteering identifying them as PL When this was '4cover." meant speaking to them in a language Committee members represented a new brought out in the open, the PL people were Those who called for Stop the Oraft that they understand; which is not pacifism .. feeling rather than a specific constituency, forced to act as an open caucus, When Week agreed on some new ways of operat "Vo'hat about your violent plans?" ob The non-violent left and other groups were this was done it helped a. great deal ing. 1) They would not bind people to the jected a member of The Resistance, better organized than STOW, They spoke to clear the air. The objection here is not old non-violent discipline, It was felt "What violent plans?" asked a Steering for visible groups of people. The Steering over PL's politics but the way it,. and that if we were going to mount actions Committee member. "To have black Committee, operating only on th(;. assump most other left splinter groups, operate that began to seriously attack the power people participate," was the answer. tion· that people were ready for a new, in open non-ideological coalitions. They structure, the' 'iVlan" would respond vio When the· pacifists failed in their attempt militant action, was never, until the activ act as tight secret caucuses that try to lently, and we had to be prepared to de .to get STOW to accept their discipline, ities of Friday, October 20, on as steady hide their politics behind a many-faceted fend ourselves from attack, Self-defense a large number walked out and set about ground. organizational facade, This should not was stressed. 2) We were going to "shut ·organizing a separate demonstration for After a few weeks the coalition-of-or beallowed to happen, and when discovered the mother down," that was the important Monday, October 16. Others, who were ganizers idea was modified. Organized they should be forced to act in the open thing. HOW would be worked out as the tactically, but not philosophically, attach groups that were willing to participate so that all the members of the coalition organizing took place and was to be ed to non-violence, stayed in. It was agreed under the new discipline were 'asked to can make their decisions based on the subordinated to the main objective of that they could have "their own thing" elect representatives to the Steering Com true nature of the po litical debate. closing down the induction center for within STOW, but exactly how that would mittee. The second area of conflict came over as long as we could. work was never clear. preparations for self-defense .. It was felt A call went out to all anti-war acti by Steering Committee members that one vists in the Bay Area to attend a series PROGRESSIVE LABOR of the major differences between this of open meetings to work out the specific MIXED TACTICS The addition of representatives of en action and other demonstrations was tlit plans. At one of the early open general Many stayed in in the hope that they dorsing groups to the Steering Committee we were mounting a serious confrontation meetings a steering committee was could prove by example that their brought members of the Progressive to the draft system; this meant that we elected, In it were both on and off philosophy was better. The participation Labor Party (PL) onto the Steering Com were expecting the cops to act in a violent campus organizers. All agreed on the new of non-violent demonstrators on the mili mittee. The PL members, however, did 'fashion and that we had the responsibility assumptions. The group was seen as tant days turned out to be a severe not come to Steering Committee meet to provide some kind of self-defense a coalition of organizers, not of organi handicap. Most of those beaten on Tues ings as representatives of PL (nowhere in framework. The PL people were all in zations. day were engaged in non-violent sit-ins the Bay Area ,did Progressive Labor, as favor of a general line on self-defense and were not able to get out of the way an organization, endorse STOW) but came but constantly.opposed as provocative any of the cops. Others interfered with the instead in the clothes of "front" or development of that in terms of pro THE PACIFISTS building of barricades and hampered the ganizations--anti-draft unions, organizing viding equipment. This produced a con The view of the ·Steering Committee ran mobility of the action. committees, etc. Until this was laid out servative strain in Steering Committee directly counter to those who accepted a Future militant action Will, hopefully, in the open, it created a number of prob planning ·and contributed toward the gen non-violent discipline, The older leaders not attempt to "mix" self-defense and lems. They functioned as a hidden caucus eral lack of dear planning for the week. of the anti-war movement were pacifists non-violent tactics. The general feeling inside Steering Committee meetings and out of World War Il, the SO's and 60's. after the week on both sides was one of generated long hairy discu·ssions about the On the campus, political activists had friendly competition. The 'united front' ideology of STOW. The que s t ion of MANIPULATION been taking their guide from the civil idea seems to all to be impracticaL ideology was brought up over and over The basic problem in dealing with PL, rights movement before Black Power. The debate with the pacifists also added again but only in the context of choosing as well as any of the other left splinter The first big debate was between the to two other problems; our relations with speakers for rallies of slogans for groups, is their tendency to be very adherents of non-violence and self blacks and the lc;ck of clarity in project posters and buttons; never where that manipulative. The practice of waiting defense. General meetings turned into ing the actual plans for the week. These question would have had real content, until the last moment and then circulat heated arguments with the pacifists, The will be dealt with in more detail later; around the STOW organizing activity. ing leaflets undercutting or attacking the Resistance and faculty groups. A major however, a couple of comments should They felt that unless the slogans and activity is an example of this, as are the
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A POLI.TICAL ANALYSIS,. , from campus organizations at Stanford of mistakes that had been made in the and San Jose State (both largely rep planning (or lack of planning)for the week, resenting SOS chapters). Roughly half of Berkeley has a tradition of "demo the Originals came from the UC-Berkeley cratic" mass rallies on campus, in which c\lmpus and gravitated back there from people" decide" what course of action is to community and high school work they had be taken. The Old Guard relied ex been doing during the summer to give clusively on this, feeling that unless a leadership to the on-campus STOW Com large proportion of people assembled at mittee, The Berkeley PLers also returned a rally supported them through hand to the campus. votes, they couid not continue with the The other half of the Originals, who did week's actions. not come out of a campus base, not work ing out of a specific community but mostly out of The Movement office, were OPEN MIKE supposed to be building community contact Criticism here is double-edged. On the in San Francisco. This WIS only super one hand, such rallies are in actuality ficially attempted and those people grav not democratic but manipulative, and pro itated toward administrative positions, duce charismatic figures or the demand' handling coordination, tactical planning for popular speakers who can "sway the and public relations work from the San masses". There is a lot of jockeying for Francisco office. Because of the militant, the microphone at crucial moments at (he tight nature of the action that was being same time that an' 'open mike" provides an planned, the San Francisco half of the illusion of democracy. The open mike was Originals took on the job of cadre planners not the way to satisfy the needs of the rather than organizers; which produced students to. know what the Steering Com some serious strains within the Steering mittee was planning. It just added to the Committee. confusion since people were at those ral lies basically to find out what the hell TWO CARS AND A TREE FORM A BARRICAOE. Many black residents of the area' The Berkeley campus leadership, was going on. The only services the open helped block the streets. (photo: Jeff Blankfort). formed out of the FSM, VDC and 1966 mike provided were to give the complu Strike a<;tions (herein called the Old sive talkers a chance to mouth off and to Guard) has been around for a long time, provide an illusion of democracy for those attempts to gain control of pieces of the feeling that the dratt issue was a corn Berkeley is a tight community and out who needed it to cover the manipu action through surprise maneuvers. man one and that the militant tone of siders (not to be confused with non-stu-, lative deals. In a leaflet issued one day before the self-defense made cooperation possible, dents) are not exactly trusted, week began and circulated heavily on the This coalition existed only on paper, On the other hane; the lack of clear University of California campus, PL ac however, and the Steering Committee planning for activity after Tuesday pro cused the STOW leadership (of which they rigidly kept on trying to build it long INJUNCTION vided just the void in leadership that the were a part) of "white chauvinism," of after the possibility was gone, The injunction by the Alameda County Old Guard thought they had [he responsib "maneuvering to get the cops to attack The Steering Committee found itself Board of Supervisors prohibiting on ilitY to filL the demonstration," and of planning for in a box and did lIot have the political campus organizing for the assault on the The Steering Committee had not decided "pop-art guerrilla warfare." The charges savvy to get out. It had been advised by Induction Center, and the attacks on STOW upon a plan of action for the rest of of "white chauvinism", while putting a some local black organizl"rs that the best by Senator Murphy and others contributed the week before Tuesday and by the time finger on a serious problem, attacked the way to involve black groups was to bring greatly to the momentum on campus, This the first day of clashes with the cops Steering Committee for something that out a national SNCC figure, The national has been labeled "fortuitous" by some, but was finished most of the steering Com had been solved before the leaflet came SNCC office agreed to send someone; it is unclear when reaction by the forces mittee were either in jail or too .tired and out (and which will be dealt with later). however this did not work out, and real in power is fortuitous and when it is the overextended to work out any'clear plans. The accusation that we were leading lambs contacts with local black organizers were natural response to any militant threat to (One of the most serious deficiencies to the slaughter ignored the fact that meanwhile postponed until it looked very their controL stemming from this lack of planning was people were told to expect police violence much as if the Steering Committee was At any rate, it created a climate in the Steering Committee's inability to spell and be prepared to meet it. It is a curious depending on SNCC to get black people which many Berkeley students carne to out specific plans for self-defense. The 'accusation to come from the PLers since to the action at the Indu'ction Center, STOW rallies to find out what the ruckus responsibility was thus thrown largely they were the ones that argued against There was also a great deal of loose was all about. Many then carne down on on individuals to work out for themselves.) self-defense preparation in the Steering talk by Steering Committee members to Tuesday for the first militant action, This lack of planning and ~he reaction on Committee. The attack, in general, was the effect that if a strong SNCC per The violent attack on the people by the the part of }he Berkeley leadership led polemical in tone and was done to win son were brought out, the militancy of police caused a strong reaction at Ber to a hopeless split in the Steering Com political points, not to provide any reason the week would be insured, Many people keley and shook the confidence of the Ber mittee: the off-campus San Francisco able, concrete solutions to the many real associated with STOW were afraid that keley leadership (both OldGuard types and Originals, the San Francisco State PIers, problems that we had to deal with. Its white people could not be militant by a good percentage of original Berkeleyites San Jose State and Stanford wanted to basic purpose, obviously, was to gain as themselves, Again, we were operating on the Steering Committee). continue activities; the Berkeley Originals Many Old Guard members steeredclear much miEage as possible out of the action on assumptions alone and were getting and the Old Guard wanted to stop. The of STOW until after the injunction, and and to show what they consider just the the jitters that only a few hundred people Old Guard did not want to be placed in proper amount of ideological differences would show up. This feeling about white then moved in to the Steering Committee the leadership of a militant minority of iii order to recruit people with similar youth was shared by young black people. to preserve their status as campus leaders demonstrators. The majority of people when it wa~ clear that STOW had a strong criticisms of the activity. Mark Comfort, in Oakland, reported that CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 though East Oakland liked the idea of the momentum. This made worse a number week, they felt that when the cops at SUPPORT DEMONSTRATION tacked, the white kids would run away and leave the blacks fighting the cops. The UC campus PLers provided the The Steering Committee was accused second example of manipulation when of using the black community by planning they sent a large number of their mem rallies in the Oakland ghetto (which is bers (armed with bull horns) down to the right next to the Induction Center). Veiled support demonstration and moved it from threats were made that black youth in the decided-upon spot in front of the draft Oakland would attack the white activists for board (about 10 blocks away from the In attracting the cops to their community. duction Center) to the front of City Hall Finally, much too late, the Steering Com (a block away from the Induction Center). mittee agreed to move their rallies out The PLers thus moved into an area of the ghetto and to abandon the black of danger a large number of people who and-white-together bit and go it alone. had already decided they did not want This proved to be one of thE; group's to be so involved and did so without making smartest decisions. Tuesday and Friday that danger clear. The result was that proved without a doubt that white youths the members 'of- the support demonstra are ready and willing to clash with the tion got caught, along with others, in a police and defend themselves. As a result series of confrontations with the cops a new pride and energy has been given thus hampering already made prepara to them. They no longer feel in the shadow tions for self-defense and finding them of the black liberation movement. selves in situations they were opposed The result of all of this has been a to being in. new attitude by blacks, both in the com In spite of all of this, however, the San munity and in militant organizations. Francisco State PL group did an excellent There is a new empathy toward the white job of organizing for the week, and brought movement and a feeling that white people a disciplined, ready group to the action, are finally beginning to talk their language. They maintained their militancy in the face of vacillating Berkeley leader ship and argued constantly that STOW was, BERKELEY OLD GUARD in fact, an aid to campus organizing. STOW began as an off-campus actiVity. After school opened in September, this BLACK ANDIOR WHITE changed, and it found itself in the leader ship of basically a campus movement. Of PL's charges, the one dealing with When school opened, the Steering Com black-white relationships was the most mittee was composed as follows: the legitimate, From the beginning STOW original members who issued the Call, hoped to build a black-white coalition, INOUCTION CENTER MAIN DOORS, 6:50 a.m. Friday. (photo: Jeff the PI, members. and representatives Blankfort). PAGE 6 THE MOVEMENT NOVEMBE R 1967 POP-ART GUERRILLA WARFARE By J eft Segal of our own movement) did we PLAN for Four basic rules of thumb came out of and CARRY OUT an operation whose ob this general position. .,A primary purpose of this book is ject was the taking of contiol over one of 1) We would try to avoid getting ar to make available to civil and military the basic institutions of the society. We rested. We understood that merely being law enforcement agencies the most up organized in advance that manner in which in the area of the IC meant that we ran to-date methods of handling crowd and we expected to defend ourselves, and Che Guevara y.at~' BE FLEXIBLEI talkie operator and a runner. There were battle between the forces of the presently This then is an attempt to present to 't;~.' ,\t(~ constituted power structure and per>sons our comrades in the movement an analysis or groups who have taken the initiative of the specific tactics that were used in an attempt to take control for them and the lessons that we learned from 5t~~ ~:.,~ ~:~~ selves. lf the people succeed. law and our struggle. so that the next time all of order may be replaced by Anarchy. us will be more prepared than before. ----,-.~... -1 L ot>A; ,"~-"-" OL/..~ SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE TACTICS 6--- -.' ./ ' One of the basic propositions that Che presents in •'Guerilla Warfare" is that ~'I N.~ - -\ in all actions one's tactics must flow out of one's strategy. This became a key oper ating rule in the planning for STDW. Since our strategic goal was the closing of the This is a diagram of our communications Telephone link -- IC our plan was to attempt to do that with chain. Walkie-talkie link ---- a minimum of cost. "We hope that one of the accomplish ments of STDW wiIl be the development of a new kind of demonstration. Instead PRE-WEEK PLANNING substitutes for each of these people who of a fixed plan of action. we have at were trained as regulars. tempted to describe a set of alterna Before getting into the guts of the ac Besides the monitor squads there was tives which will provide the flexibility tivity, one clarification. This article is the Lookout made up of a chief lookout, only concerned with two of the five days of necessary to achieve our goal - closing (imported from Chicago) his beautiful, down the Induction Center - with a mi.n STDW - Tuesday. October 17. and Fri red-haired assistant, a walkie-talkie imum of arrests and police violence." day. October 20. The first day of the week operator, and 2 runners which was re was given over to the pacifists who held sponsible for general coordination of the an orthodox non-violent sit-in. Wednes street activities. There was also a first day and Thursday· were normal type picket aid station operatedby doctors and medical lines with small sit-ins connectea with students. them and have no utility to the purpose of MONDAY NIGHT this article. The actual planning for the "military" & IIBLOODY TUESDAYII aspects of STDW started about 3 weeks The final planning stage began Mon before STOW when we called together day evening on the steps of Sproul Hall about 50 people to a monitors meeting. of the University of California-Berkeley. There were 6 meetings of thisgroup. 'Here the bulk of the participants met to who were the people that made up our discuss the plan of action., (a group of monitor squads and acted as the skeleton about 150 came up from Palo Alto on structure for the action on Tuesday (some Tuesday morning as well as a contingent of these p~ople were also part of the struc of about 200 from San Francisco). ture for FTiday but the set-up was slightly It was at this time that the bulk of the different). participants were instructed as to the It was at these training sessions that we. general plan for Tuesday, were given developed our basic organizational struc information on what to do in case of ture and trained people in the skills that we arrests. and were divided up into groups needed (Le. operation of walkie-talkies). and assigned monitor squads. The groups In discussions before the week began it then discussed and asked questions until was felt that we had to break down the or thpv heQ'an to ship out at about 4 a.m. ganization of people being brought to the The approximately 3,000 participants IC to a number of groups, the minimum were brought into the area via rented size being 250. This was done for three buses and car pools, cleared themselves reasons: through the staging areas and proceeded 1) We felt, prior to Tuesday's action, that to move to the IC along their pre-ar the cops might try to break us up before ranged street routes at about 5 am: Here, we got near the IC and that it would be we received our first surprise. We had much harder for them to deal with a number expected to meet police resistance, in of small groups converging on the IC the form of cordons, at the intersections from different directions than one group around the IC. However, there was none, / marching to the IC. We decided on 8 groups and we were allowed to take the two (With one monitor squad for each group) blocks in front of the IC's doors (Clay since we thought that the cops would try between 15th & 16th and 16th betwee"n to cordon off the area instead of letting us Clay and Jefferson). The cops had taken get near the IC That was the maximum over control of the 4 story parking garage number of groups needed to cover inter on the southeast corner of 15th and Clay Here is a map of the terrain that we had to work with. sections around the IC (kitty-corner from the IC) as their head- NOVEMBElZ 1967 THE MOVEMEI T PAGE 7 quarters and stationed about 600 cops for quite a while and began to build a park benches in the middle of the block in it. They arrived just before we did,· whole new psychology th3t proved very so as to use the traffic on 14th to block We were unprepared for this particular helpful on Frid.lY. The second was the the traffic from coming down Clay. The tactic and ended up doing little else than building of a barricade to stop up traffic tactic of bUilding barricades and blocking filling up the large area 3round the 3 on 14th Street. up intersections was widely used on Fri doors with bodies until 6.:30 3m when the day. cops started to clear Clay, During the III! period of time between 5:00 am and 6:30 _ afilfil l_, 81; . VICTORIOUS FRIDAY am most of the activity took the form I _ ..... ~ of marching up ;lnd down in the streets. .~~ -- ; ~,: Most of the discipline from Tuesday chaining up the doors (which were very ------ remained the same for Friday. In jux ._------_-~------~ quickly freed after we .lost control of the ..... _. taposition to Wednesday's and Thursday's doors) and waiting for the cops to do \ •'peaceful" demonstrations, people were something. I going back Friday, "to do it like Tuesday, !, I only smarter !" However, two basic ATTACK i changes were made. The first was that Diagram of blocking of intersection. Sure enough at 6:30 ;lm a large seg we were going to eliminate, as much as ment of cops moved out of the parkirtg possible, the use of the Sit-down. The structure, formed themselves into a wedge second, and more important change, was formation and started to move down Clay a redefin Ition of our tactical focus. The crossing the intersection of .and Clay A group of people (With one of the focus changed from the doors of the IC and down the block to 16 and Clay. Here monitor squads) moved onto 14th from to the buses bringing the inductees in. was our first encounter with the cops and Clay and decided to try to block. up the It was felt that our real strength lay they won. The cops moved into the crowd intersection of 14th and Clay to prohibit in our mobility. We would bring our of demonstrators swinging billy clubs and r::- movement down Clay. They came up with monitored groups into the area around were spraying people with MACE. This produced the idea of building up a barricade using the IC and plan ahead for the dispersal. a lot of confusion in our ranks. People Groups would be assigned intersections ran into each other and many panicked. and attempt to block them up. We would The most serious problem that we had stop the induction process by fucking up at this point, however, revolved around traffic in downtown Oakland. We would the people who came down to participate not wait for the cops to come and beat in a sit-in. This was a group of people on us, rather, we wou'ld split from one who were tactically wedded to the form of inten;ection to another and reqUire the a non-violent sit-in and wanted to do cops to come out after us. They would that within our action. We had told them have to fight on our grounds instead they cou ld and sent them down to the IC of us fighting on the cops' grounds. early as part of a "peaceful" protest Firday morning people met directly group. This was contingent, however, on at Lafayette Square (staging area V). the possibility that only they would be There were ori Friday about 10,000 peo able to get near the doors to the Ie, ple. Once the people arrived in the park When everybody got to the doors of the they were divided up into groups, each IC it no longer became necessary for us with its own monitor squad, and oriented to use the cover of a sit-in to get people to the new battle conditions. This time stationed near the door and the sit-in people were more prepared to engage became an unnecessary tactic. the cops -- a good portion of the participants wore helmets of one kind or DON'T SIT DOWN another, most wore heavy coats, and people generally brought a wide variety These people reacted to the police of protective equipment. We also had on charge by sitting down and proclaiming Tuesday (see description at endof article), themselves a non-violent sit-in. This a large supply of aerosol paint cans for m0ant very little to the cops, who were painting up the streets, and a couple of after blood. They just stepped right into, old cars that people donated for turning on and over the people Sitting, Most of over in the interseotions. our injuries resulted from people sitting What we did not have was a communi down. One of our prime watchwords that cations system. The communications sys came out of this experience was, •'don't tem used on Tuesday was much too sit down." prinitive and, we decided, more bother The cops then proceeded to slowly and than worth without major additions of methodically clear larger and larger seg equipment. We will need this kind of ments of Clay and then 15th. They ended system in the future but will have to get up pushing us to 16th and Clay, 14 and ahold of much more electronic equipment Clay, down 15th to Jefferson and up 15 than we had. to San Pablo. WE TAKE THE STREETS We moved out of Lafayette Square at about 6 am and marched into the area CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
PUSHING A CAR INTO THE STREET for a barricade. Dig the altered street sign and the spraypaint can 'in the rear pocket. (photo: Jeff Blankfort). the police activity that have been prac tically unreported. 1) A good proportion of the police vio I lence came as a result of individual or small groups of cops flipping out (out of fear, hate, lust, etc.) and charging the people. Many people were attacked just --![ --p '![ because they were standing near cops. 2) The most difficult thing for people to handle and what caused mo'st of the fear ~]C~[~JJ on our part was the use of mace. People were unfamiliar with the small mace Shows our position ~ cans and did not know what was happen ing to them. Advance training in this area before cops mo.ved in, 'E would be helpful in the future. 3) The police seemed to have a beat-up Shows our posmon and disperse policy as opposed to an after cops moved in. x. ',',., 'lrrest policy. They had very little ability to •'take prisoners" and were more in terested in driving us off than arresting Once this was done we were left with us. the situation of a static perimeter around 4) Cops were very uncomfortable if there the IC. The cops stood on the inside was just a small number of fhem in an facing us and we stood on the outside fac area filled .with people. We found that ing them. The buses were finally brought they would move back to strong unit in, about 9 am, strafght down Clay St. strength and when one or two of them got caught in a group of people, they got out fast. POLICE BRUTALITY Two small scale experimenls were made while we were waiting it out with the cops Much has been said (and undoubtedly that proved significant for Friday. TIle will be said) about the police brutality first was that along about 8:30 a couple on Tuesday and there certainly was a great hundred people moved out into San Pablo de;ll of billy club swinging that day. How (which is one of the main drags in Oak ever, there were a number of things of land) for the purpose of blocking up thin~s of significance that came out of traffic on the street. This tied up traffic PAGE 8. THE MOVEMENT
The following article is by a group of young white or ganizers who plan to begin implementing this program in various cities across the country. The Movement prints it in the hope of stimulating 'discussion on long-range plans to fight the war and the draft and to effect basic social change. Next month we will print a critique of this plan by community organizers in Chicago. We hope other articles will follow.
There is a movement now in this country that it makes sense to describe as. a re- . sistance. What a year ago was merely a slogan has begun to take shape at induction centers, in the corners of small offices, in the character and style of increasing amounts of anti-war work and the consciousness of growing numbers of people that they can create a real opposition to the Johnson Regime. There is still a great deal of confusion . and groping. The resistance exists at the fringe -- on the edge of the student movement and the university community, at the margin of the poor and decaying communities where the offices and apartments of most of the resistors are to be found. This article outlines a program of resistance; it seeks to clarify objectives and describe a way in which part of the resistance can root itself in poor white and lower paid
INDUCTEES reading anti-draft literature, WE'VE GOT TO REACH OUR OWN PEOPLE -.• working class communities; it attempts in the name of the war effort, their wage 'most people's lives. Hardly anyone exists it, two things must happen. First, large to suggest the urgency, need and poten gains that will be erased by war inflation, in a lower class working community who sections of that movement must become tial for establishing those roots now. their checks that will feel hardest the does not have friends or close relatives rooted deeply, not simply in communities, squeeze of a war tax. And it is also the who are in the army or threatened by it. but in the lives and difficulties of people. WE CHOOSE RESISTANCE token programs of relief, job training, Coming into the community with a pro Second, it must get far enough beyond school improvement, and rent supplement gram that will help people deal with this the symbolism of protest to convincf> , Much of the anti-war movement, re that will be cut off in their communities problem, that will keep themselves or ITSELF (the people in it) that it can gardless of rhetoric, seems predicated because of the war. their friends or their children or their effectively combat and resist power. on the assumption that existing power is But it is here that the anti-war move loved ones out of the damned war, cuts We think the effort to make a base legitimate and that the regular channels ment has had least experience and least through to the very heart of the issue. for the movement in people's lives and in of political opposition are sufficient to success. Paradoxically, the people most It is a way of fighting back, a method its capacity to bring tangible, real gain end the war. For that reason it has brutalized by material and social exploi of self-defense, and it makes the oppor to those people mustbecomethe program concentrated on proving that there is SUb tation, the p eopIe pushed unceasingly tunity for opposition credible and com matic focus for large nurrbers of people. stantial, growing public sentiment against through the processing of school, military pelling. We must begin to develop an edge, a the war (tbrough large demonstrations, and job seem unmoved by the anti-war Unlike many issues, the draft is im sharpness, a clarity about our direction petitions, newspaper ads, referenda, etc.) effort. Partly this is explained by the portant enough so that people will take that can combat the current tone of and it has done this quite effectively. massive, unthinking, unchallenged racism a stand and accept the risks that that political indecisiveness that is so strong Its method has concentrated on anti and patriotism (anti-communism) which implies. It is only when an issue or inside the anti-war movement and the war propaganda and education and sym these communities share with the rest movement is so important that the good overwhelming sense of dissolution that will bolic appeals to power. Even the most of white Americaand which mustbebroken average American will take a stand against follow the end of the war. militant, civil disobedience advocates have if a movement is to succeed. But more his neighbor or his bowling team or the We do not claim the insight of ortho generally directed their energy toward important, we feel that these are exactly men he drinks with ,or works next to d
secondary roles in this society, roles by Karen Koonan and Bobbi Cieciorka which are perpetuated by the society. Any serious attempt to liberate the soci We want to talk about a couple of ety has to reject secondary roles for things: How the draft is an issue which women. As a movement, we can't talk affects women, and why women should about taking power over our lives while fight this thing which both symbolizes within that movement men still dominate and sustains our oppression. women. Men can't talk about self-deter- Because women in this country ARE 'mination and at the same time refuse oppressed--people in this country' are self-determination to women. That just oppres'sed, but women in special ways- ain'J freedom, ain't equality and ain't and we are oppressed, very directly, gonna lead to taking power. So, as women, by the draft. seeing this, we have a duty--which is to emancipate ourselves, NOW, so that THE DRAFT we can be fully functioning individuals The draft needs to be understood in in the struggle, able to act without rely the full scope of its coercive power. ing on men. Not only does it gobble up our young men, warp their minds and get a lot MOVEMENT WOMEN of them killed, it also controls how the rest of us will live in order to escape Even in the movement in the past we've its clutches. An official Selective Service .usually played secondary roles. We've System memo which we read recently been the typists and teachers, the office points out that procuring manpower for managers and cooks. We have not been the armed forces is only a small part projected as leaders or spokesmen: we of the SSS operation. More important have rareJy BEEN leaders and is the "channeling manpower through spokesmen. We existed to BACK UP the men and be .around for the social (the) deferments aspect of the Selective lives~ Whe~ Service System". The memo makes it aspects of their political we have participated equally with men, quite clear that this is very conscious manipulation. Time and again it com when we have led demonstrations, been on steering committees,' etc, it's been ments on "the ever increasing problem very difficult. We have to work twice (of) how to control effectively the service as hard as a man to prove ourselves of individuals who are not in the armed before we are accepted. We have to deal forces.•• Many young men would not have with snickering, being called "un pursued a higher education if there had .feminine" and just plain being ignored. not been a program of student defer ment. Many young scientists, engineers, Some of us have done these things; a lot!. of us haven't. tool and die makers and other possessors of scarce skills would not remain in their jobs in the defense effort if it were not THE WEEK for a program of occupational defer KAREN KOONAN, STOW Steering Committee member, briefs her monitor group before ments... Selective Service processes do In the Stop the Draft Week organizing, the Tuesday action at the Induction Center. (photo: William Wap,ren, Berkeley Barb). not compel people by edict as in foreign women faced the usual problems. Somehow systems to enter pursuits having to do there we were, doing the office work and acting like men. It has been the same added, particularly around the draft issue. with essentialitYJ and progress. They go the agit-prop theater. But some of us in ALL people's struggles for power - Woman have to become increasingly mili because they know that by going they demanded in the planning sessions that we in Cuba, in Spain, in Vietnam -- woman tant. We have to learnto assert ourselves, will be deferred, Delivery of manpower be listened to as political, thinking people, have participated as equals with men. to demand both our rights and our right for induction...is not much of an admin We came to realize that when the guys Battlefield conditions both allow and re to equal participation in the struggle. We istrative or financial challenge. It is joked or called us "ball breakers" we quire us to become fellow warriors. think the draft is a good issue for women in dealing with the other millions of could respond with "That's your prob During the Stop the Draft Week demon to work around. When the draft is under regist:-ants" that the system is heavily lem, baby," and it would be true; it strations we worked along side the men, stood as a coercive force which attacks occupied.•• wasn't our problem. We knew what we protecting demonstrators, rescuing people both men and women, and when it is In other words, that student deferment, were doing; we knew we weren't' 'trying from the cops, building barricades. Now seen in the context of our larger .struggle that defense industry job which seems to be men". If men were threatened by we all know that we can do those things for power to control our lives, it is ob like such a clever maneuver, has all women· acting as independent political people, it said something about their and that's a good feeling vious that women are just as involved as' been planned ahead. Where you work and men. We don't pretend to say that thiS what you work at and a whole lot of confidence in themselves, not about our feminity. increased militancy will be easy. The things about what ought to be your WHAT NEXT? system legislates against it. Our own PRIVATE life are shaped by the SSS • When the heat was on - in the demon What needs to happen next is that we. insecurities and the prejudices of our lurking in the background. strations - many of us participated, some as monitor captains. In the face of pos must extend the legitimacy for which we men increase the difficulty. But the stakes sible violence by cops there was no struggle so hard, the legitimacy to which are high. That ancient goal, freedom for' need and no time to worry about women Stop the Draft Week has in some measure all people, can only be attained when WOMEN women as well as men are free...... How do women fit in? Well, you notice that the memo doesn't mention them, That's because women aren't really im portant to the power structure which designed the draft. Those politics and those STANFORD ANTI-DRAFT MOVES ON economics can pretty much get along without women. And that's why woman are second class citizens in this country. By John 'Saari the' building and return it to student con men from these areas are more likely'to And that's why our status isn't going trol. However, the administration at Stan face the draft than students from an elite to change until the power structure is STANFORD, CALIF:- -- From the outset ford is composed of clever liberals who school like Stanford. Stop the Draft Week changed. Until changes .are made, women Stop the Draft Week organizers conceived would like to avoid a confrontation if at spurred much of this increased activity, are going to have to put up with second the week's demonstrations as an·impetus all possible. SDS hopes to make this con and several of the groups organizedto par fQr further anti-draft and anti-war organ class education, second class jobs and frontation unavoida"le, to bring the police ticipate in the week are continUing with second class ·wages. And something else: izing. Long before the end of the week, on campus because students are opposing day-to-day anti-draft work. .. Ain't nobody gonna make those changes Stanford S.O.S. and theStanford Anti-draft the war and to thus demonstrate the au Union had begun several projects to make FOR us. We have got to do it for our", thoritarian nature of this society and build selves. that hope a reality. These projects fall the first sustained mass movement at into two categories: campus projects and Stanford. community projects. The Anti-draft Union is increasing both RUBY DORIS ROBINSON WOMEN & THE WEEK 'fhe chief campus project, one that grew its campus and community activities, On We are tired of writing obituaries for directly out of Stop The Draft Week, is the Stop the Draft Week made us think campus the ADU is re-circulating its the wrong people, tired of repeating about broad issues. The. Week wasn't confrontation by S.O.S. of government "We Won't Go" statement that got over how fine and strong and beautiful are just another moral protest; it was the agencies and war corporatibns when they three hundred signatures last year, This the movement people who die. They hold job interviews on campus. In par beginning of a move toward POWER. year the statement will also be circulated die and are killed and eaten away ticular, the CIA is holding job interviews We learned that it wasn't just Stop the at several local high schools and at Foot by the pain of struggling against a Draft/Don't Feed the War; it was the beginning on Oct. 30th; andDow interviews hill and San Mateo Junior Colleges. The killer society. More will die, we know, really broad issues of power in this start Nov. 7th. The Placement Service, ADU also has several leafletting projects and may the strength of all'of them country, the need for self-determination where these interviews are held, is located centering around local teen hangouts, seep into those of us left living. The the need for people to control their ow~ in a small building in the center of campus, draft boards, and inductee departures for oppressors die at an old age and the lives. In other words, some pretty basic Last year this. bUilding housed the student Oakland. Finally, in the near future the liberators young. May we see the day changes in this old country.' And we controlled experimen6:t1 college which is ADU plans to begin anti-draft work in the when this is reversed. . thought about what that means for women not on campus this year because ,the uni white working-class areas ·around Fre The young years that Ruby Doris because it's a little different for u; versity could not find another building to mcnt. Increased anti-draft work at junior Robinson put into SNCC were not than it is for men. house it. lf the university does not cancel colleges and high schools and in working wasted. They have helped many thous the CIA interviews, SDS plans to liberate Some observations: Women do play class areas is significant since the young ands live and struggle. \ PAGE 12 THE MOVEMENT NOVEMBER 1967 THE POWERFUL DID NOT USE THEIR POWER
By Julius Lester
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The October 21st Confrontation with the Warmakers began slowly. The Lincoln Memorial served as the gathering place for the thousands who came from all over the country and there wasn't much to do during the morning except sit, stretch out, or wander around and look for those people that you only got a chance to see at demonstrations. All the radical organizations were there selling their propaganda literature, while miscellaneous souls sold buttons. The only excitement during the morn ing came when a Nazi tried to punch Clive Jenkins, the English union man, while he was speaking. The Nazi was immediately beset upon by several of the Mobilization Com mittee marshalls who seemed all set to "take care of business", but someone kept yelling, "Leave him alone! Leave him alone!" These ill-advised words were heeded and the proceedings receded to the tedium of speakers and speeches. When the march itself finally got underway, it was a rather somnambulent affair and it looked for a while as if the confrontation would take place between the marchers and photographers. The latter waited like the Alabama state police at the other end of the bridge, while the marchers slowly came toward them under a huge banner --- SUPPORT OUR BOYS IN VIETNAM. BRING THEM HOME. Behind them an all-American hero held his own cardboard sign high CONFRONTATIONS in the air to the right of Dr. Spock's For an hour or so the marchers stood head. Emblazoned therein crayon, impos eyeball-to-eyeball with MP's and Federal sible to be left out of any photographer's marshalls. It was obvious that the MP's picture was L.B.J. SUCKS. (The White were under strict orders not to disperse House has, as yet, made no comment.) the crowd, but to only act defensively. It After several delays, the march made its was equally as obvious that the marchers way to the south parking lot of the Penta were none too anxious to be aggressive gon, by way of whatseemedtobea country and get their skulls cracked. Sothey stood back road. It looked like a perfect set there calling the soldiers everything ex up for an ambush, but the armed guard cept a child of God. ain's of law and order were nQt apparent, Then, one contingent of MP's decided as they had not been throughout the morn they were going to take .control of the ing. Only when the march approached an area on the north side of the Mall. With underpass did a momentary chill come rifles pointed, they charged toward the over the crowd as people looked up to the demonstrators, and, it was here that the highway and saw a dozen or so Virginia demonstrators showed thatthey had moved state troopers lounging against the WEL beyond protest. When the Mp's pushed, COME TO VIRGINIA sign in fine southern they pushed back. Instead of backing up at style. The demonstrators remained on the sight of rifles pointed at them, they Federal property, however, and the local surrounded the MP's and several demon guardians of the law seemed quite content strators proceeded to lay sticks up-side to let Federal troops deal with them. the soldier's heads. One MP was jerked out of line and qUickly shoved into a corner and immediately beset upon. He PENTAGON PARKING LOT was quickly rescued, though, one demon At the Pentagon parking lot, the Mobili strator is now the proud owner of an 'zation Committee had arranged another MP's helmet. Other MP's had their rifles CONFRONTATION AT THE PENTAGON brief rally, aI)d, this was there the march snatched from them. Later in the day, began to lose its somnambulence. Few three soldiers "defected" and threw down marchers stopped before the platform their rifles, running into the crowd of that had been set up, but simple kept demonstrators, screaming "Protect me!" were empty and that only those troops now in the North. Every week and even strolling toward the Pentagon, whose walls The soldiers had never had to deal with inside the Pentagon carried loaded weap every day must see militant action tak loomed above the trees like a medieval such people as these before. When they ons. This is a great indication of how ing place somewhere in the country. Some fortress. A few stopped at the other end pointed their rifles menacingly someone cautiously the government moved viza cities are particularly vulnerable and of the parking lot where a group of hip came forward and stuck a flower in the viz the demonstration. It did not want to these cities can_be target areas for action. pies were casting out evil spirits from barrel. Others were Virtually deluged in a even risk a rifle going off accidentally Just as a group of young blacks dropped the Pentagon with chants and flag-waving. shower of flowers, but they stood there, or an MP breaking under the pressure out of school in 1960 to work full-time High above them, lining the roof of the rifles pointed, faces grim, with flowers as happened during the rebellions this for "the movement", now is the time for evil edifice was the Army, its evilness on their shoulders, flowers on their hel summer where soldiers disobeyed orders young whites to. involve themselves full undiminished. mets. When they put on their gas masks, and fired on blacks. But Lyndon Johnson time in militant action against the war. About the time the hippies really got they were booed and hissed. These were could not afford to do to thousands of It would be a tragic error to let the into their thing, a group of demonstra average American boys being' opposed by whites what has been done countless times _ momentum that is now evident stop. tors came streaking by with Vietnamese people who looked like their brothers to blacks. If he had done so, there would' And, at the same time, there must be flags flying in the wind. They looked like and sisters and the soldiers learned that ·ve been no confrontation. The Armycould' advances in ideological understanding. It French revolutionaries going toward the their show of force meant absolutely ve cleared the Mall in a matter of is not only the war in Vietnam that must barricades, which, in actuality, they were, nothing. They were being ridiculedby their minutes and only fear of the readion to be stopped. It is this country. One demon for their progress came to an abrupt own people. such a massacre restrained the govern strator cried out during a brief skirmish halt at a rope barrier behind which, ment. The next .time Johnson may not between demonstrators and the army: arms folded, stood military police. When STORMING THE DOORS give a damn what the reaction might be "Humanity is dead in America!"In the the MP's made no move to disperse the and he will unleash that might which the broadest terms, that is the issue. But group, it was apparent what the tactic of On fhe other side of the mall, demon Pentagon logisticaly calculates. humanity is not synonymous with flowers the day was going to be. Intimidate the strators had been amassing in the drive If and when this happens, the demon in the hair and bells on the feet. Neither marchers by a show of force, but use as way leading to the. door of the Pentagon strators must be prepared. A flower is a is it- synonymous with slogans on a picket little force as possible. After all, these and finally, they gave that one big push good weapon against a rifle when that sign or marching on the Pentagon. Whether were not a bunch of niggers. These were and broke the line of MP's and marshalls rifle is not fired. Bodies are good weap a country is. humane is directly related good, clean Americankids exercising their and with a great yell, ran toward the front ons when rifles are not fired, billy clubs to the economic and political system un right to dissent. Now, if these were nig door of the Pentagon. A great cheer went not swung with automated efficien1!y and der whose banner that country's citizens gers, we'd have cut'em off at the bridge up and it was a fantastic sight to see, tear gas used as if it were a squirt of live. It is not enough to be against the and whupped heads from can to can't, but there they were, stormingthe Pentagon nasal spray for head clods.·It was.a vic war in Vietnam, because next year one cause who gives a damn. If we get rough and being met by the U.S. Army. Some tory mainly because the powerful did not might have to be against the war in Bol with these kids, however, we'll h,ave got inside and were immediately pitched use their power. ivia, but it will be the same war. A war mothers and fathers from coast-to-coast out and down the steps. Time and time It must be remembered, too, that the is a war is a war when that war i,; fought on our necks. again, however, they broke the lines and demonstrators were to some degree im to sustain the present political and econ It was a good tactic and it almost ran, dodging billy clubs and rifle butts, mune from wholesale brutality because omic system. Place name is only inciden worked. Even though thousands of demon up the driveway and toward thatfront door. they were white. Whether they retain tal. strators wore cards reading "We don't It was obvious that this was a new peace their racial immunity depends upon the It is good that people are now so angry want violence" , thousands didn't wear any· movement. Few offered their heads militancy of their actions. If they become that they will storm the Pentagon. The cards and it wasn't a question of want willingly to the billy clubs. Many a mar a real threat to this country, they will next step is to let the anger come not ing or not wanting violence. It was simply shall swung his club and instead of hear not. The confrontation at the Pentagon only from what is being done to the that there they were, standing in front of ing it meet a skull, he suddenly found his shows graphically that the revolutionary Vietnamese, but. being done to all the the international headquarters of violence hands empty as someone tore the club potenti-a! of young whites, of which there people of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the massive granite walls ofthe Penta from him. After the demonstration, the have been many adumbrations, is no and to blacks here. And above all, it must gon didn't awe anybody; it made them Pentagon released "casualty" figures: longer simply a matter of conjecture. be realized that this government's very angry. 24 demonstrators, 23 Federal marshalls existence is a constant act of war against Once the March reached the south park and MP's. each and everyone of us. When this is ing lot of the Pentagon, the people took IN THE FUTURE understood, not only will the Pentagon be control of it. Without a blink of the eye, REALITIES OF POWER Now is the time for not only the victory ours; America will be, too. Then humanity they tore down the fence behind which in Washington, but the victories all across will be be born where it has never existed they were supposed to have remained and It was clearly a victory for our side, the country to be consolidated. Action --- the United States of America. headed for the steps and Mall of the but partially because the Army did not against the war must be accelerated, and This country belongs to the young and Pentagon. They weren't interested in civil unleash its power. The rifles that could've not confined to a day or a week out of we must never relent until control of it disobedience; they wanted to take control been fired into the air (or in a more a several month period. Just as the demon is in our hands! -.- of the Pentagon. horizontal direction) remained silent. The strations in the South were a constant Washington Post revealed that the rifles pressure. so mustdemonstrations become NOVEMBER L967 '1'1 IE MO VEMENT PAGE 13 WHERE CAL WILL MOVE By Morgan Spectur is to[311y and inextricably connected with that students are no freer than any other BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -I don't think that I have to point uut that Rerkeley is unique the fights for freedom now being carried residents of this oppressive system .. In among college campuses. ,'\lthough we have a repmatwn of being a radical campus, we on in the' 'outside" world We have learned deed. we see that we face a peculiar kind also' face the reality of being highly subject to pressure from rhe reactionaries on the that when students move against the system of oppressive system, Indeed. we see outside, Thus, although Berkeley was the rnajur 'focal puint for rallies and mobilization they meet the same oppressive force that that we face a peculiar kind of oppression during the week. many Berkeley students (myself included ,face campus discipline for our all rebels do, The students are preparing that is as odious as any represented by the on-campus activities during that week, are pressuring the administration tu cume to carry the fight against that oppression .. Oakland cops. As long as we are expect This problem, then, has raised an or- down hard un the cited students, Not That determ ination is already ha ving re ed to apply our education primarily to the ganizing problem on campus, The sevent\'- because we bruke campus rules, hilt be- sults on campus .. It means that: maintenance of this society then we, too odd students who were cited for speaking cause we bruke those rules in order to (1.' We still attempt to keep the CIA off are oppressed, at illegal r:allies have had to determIne achieve a politlcal goal which those men campus on Nov, 6 and 7. as a That brings me to the final point. which whether or not to press the fii':ht intu do not bellevein "[11atthepressureispoli- way of ;Jsserting our unwilllllssness is that I see many possibilities for pro another Free Speech Movement, or only tical may be eVIdenced by the fact that a to allow the campus to be used for grams that unify our separate movements, raise the free speech issue lI1sofar as it campus cunserv ative who violated the their ends, It is becoming possible for us to establish relates to our freedom to organIze anti- rules has not been cited, (2) Sume ASL,e Senators are demanding programs that make clear the connec war activity on the campus, The students also realize that it was not student control of the student fa tions that I mentioned earlier" Such ef 1 ,think that the tendency is toward the just our polltics, but the EFFECTIVE- cilities, and student control 'over forts as humaniZing the students and aid second of these two alternath es The rea- NESS of our politics that is stIrring the '\\'ho is allowed to interview on ing in the expansion of the involvement son for this is. 1 think, connected with a response, Because we sought to link the campus, (I1Jat would mean the end of the campus in off-campus radical pr~ re-definition of the student movement In campus with a dynamic series of demon- of Dow. the Navy. and CIA), jects are activities that can help to add order to explain that re-definitlOn. let me stratlOnS we brought the campus into the (3) Support of labor unions on cam a new dynamism to the radical movement qUickly sketch out how the campus has center of political confrontation, Thus the pus will increase. as it continues to develop in this country. responded to the outside politIcal press- pt-essure from the right (4) Drastic revision of campus regu The next year will be vital in assessing ure that is being applied, because out of This understanding of the social forces lations will be sought immediate the growth of the stLIdent movement in thiS that response is arising a new student at work here is what is behind that re- ly. with the aim of guaranteeing country. It will be important to see how consciousness that will insure that re- definition of our rno\'ement that I men- students tbe same rights on campus much of the excitement of Stop the Draft definition, tioned, For the first time since FSi\L a that they should enjoy ofL Week can be harnessed into meaningful It is clear to most of the campus that very important poinf has been driven horne (5) \Vhite radical organizing will ex work. Will campus organizations such we who are involved in anti-war organiZing to us, That is, ull-campus freedom does not pand from a solely "anti-war" as SDS be able to develop out of the are being victimized. for the first time exist in a vacuum, The lack of that under- orientation into full programs that many contacts that we made during the since 1964, by the outside pressure that standing in the p;Jst was what put the stu- analyze American Society, and seek week the nucleus of the kind of movement is being exerted on our campus by the dent mo\'ement into the bag of saying::" .\11 to change i:. we would like to see? California reactionaries from Reagan on the world may be in chains, bllt here on These are just a few' of the many ideas The problems are magnified on the Cal down" campus we shall be free Ilere we must that are coming out of the sua:esses of the campus, because we have a history of have sanctuary" week" It is important to note that most being a crisis-oriented movement. lf we POLITICAL PRESSURE of them revolve around the concept that can present a viable. meaningfuL alter it is possible for students to apply their native to what is happening, with a clear The Alameda Goard of Supervisurs. and OUTSIDE WORLD education in an effective manner against ly defined role for the student, we should the local dailies, have put a lot of POLI The developments of the week of the the syste(n" be able to create and maintain a powerful TICAL PRESSURE on the campus, TIley 16th have made it clear that our movement They revolve around the understanding movement on campus, .•'
involved as organizers that some of the Don't let your people hang around the office getting frustrated and tired with original organizers can set up another each other. Organizers should organize, union in another community. Therefore, WHITE RESISTANCE, Con't from p9 If a draft resistance union is effective, it is important that the group be run it may corne up against some police and access to reproduction facilties. AIso into the army" In organJZlng this kind so that everyone gets experience in run legal repression. One way to avoid some ethnic groups like the" Polish American of a group you want to find amI help develop ning meetings (rotating chairman), making of this is to plan for what leadership Center" should be contacted; send them someone whu will see themselves as an decisions about demonstrations, doing that does develop to leave the forefront literatLIre and speak to them if possible: organizer, and give him or her as much door-to-door war k, etc. Leadership of the project, openly at least, as soon use what tight non-establishment groups of the responsibility for the group as always develops, but new people must \ as there are others who can do their already exist. possible: Your purpose is to spread INTO be constantly trained to take over the work. They can go on to set up other Besides demonstrations at the induc the neighborhood, duties and roles of leadership. groups in other communities, or they tion center, try other things. lf there is Since the draft resistance group is an can move into other kinds of organizing a demonstration against the war put out attempt to reach into the community, it FUND RAISING -- say around control of the schools - your own leaflet explaining why the Draft must be run so that new community people and work for the union quietly" Police Resistance Union is against the war and Middle - class, professional suppar t can have an equal share in making de repression is often directed at the in why and how it is fighting the draft. groups can provide some money, so can cisions and corning up with ideas. On dividuals in the spotlight: if they keep Put out your own leaflet, explaining your peace groups" Fundraising letters should the other hand, you do have a political disappearing and new people keep turn own reason for support, in demonstra include newsletters, sample leaflets, etc" point of view and it is important some ing up as the leaders, the spokesmen tions of other kinds: welfare, housing, Try to get monthly pledges" There are times to just throw some people out of on picket lines, etc" the police will have against a mayor, for a police control usually organizations around like Viet the group. Use your judgement: groups a harder time. board, in support of black political pri nam Summer r') give a little seed money, have been nearly destroyed by going too soners. Anything to let people know that but don't count on that. If the Draft far in either direction" COMMUNITY UNIONS you are on the side of the people and Resistance Union is going to have a real You, are a serious resistance: don't Let's be straight. What's got to be to let them know that draft resistance done is to get the people in this country is a legitimate and necessary way of 'vie W«nf 14 who neither support nor confront the defending yourself. government's misuse of power, MOVING. If you are good at skits, try to spring [RYGROlJWl To do that we've got to find issues on one up by surprise in a public place, the local level, in the community, around like a subway station or a supermarket, which people can demand control of what Pass out leaflets, talk to people, and the political machine, or a minority of , disappear. landlords and businessmen now controL If Draft Resistance Unions establish them SUPPORT GROUPS selves genuinely in the community and find the people there who will confront Draft Resistance Unions have found the government's use of poor and work it important everywhere to set up support ing people in the war, it may be possible groups among lawyers, doctors, labor to form a community union which ','!ill union staffpeople, and other professionals" try to take local power. They can help with property bond, with The war in Vietnam will be over some legal services, 'with publicity contacts day. There may be a lapse before the and with money" It has been worthwhile next one the government gets us into. to spend a lot of time with each individual We've got to be building the kind of in the support group, explaining your JOIN TI-lEATER agit-props to get playground in vacant lot. (photo: JOIN Film Co-op). multi-issue local control unions which perspective and activities in order to get will last and grow through that lapse, a stronger commitment from them, A base in the community, it must be sup vote on issues, discuss them until you or the American people will never have lot of men and women who have drifted ported mostly by the community. Don't can agree. All the pain of long meet a chance to run their ,own country: or away from the old left are anxious to be afraid to ask poor or working people ings amounts to a group which knows we will have to start from nothing again help new left groups" They are part of your for money: it's their fight they've got to itself well, holds together with a serious, to build a resistance to the next war. security, don't forget them. If it is pos pay as much as they can. People are human spirit, and any member of which While the war continues, conditions sible to get someone, a lawyer or the more suspicious of organizations that exist can step into a role of responsibility in poor and working class communities like, to organize that group with you, with no visible means of local support if someone else leaves. Fight for that are getting tighter. Groceries for a family do it. than of people who ask them for money kind of group, because people will want are costing $25 a week instead of $19. Organize adults to keep the young men to keep going. lf you do a good job, you'll to join with it:· there are not many'things Credit is getting tighter. Old credit liens in the neighborhood from enlisting or get supported. But you should also think' in this country like that. Stand by each still have to be paid, the rent has to be acquiescing to the draft. A mothers group, about trying to support yourself by having other. paid and babies are still being born. a group of veterans, a group of workers some members of the union take jobs and A lot .of groups already formed have Wages are not going up but taxes are, :..- any of these will be good at convincing bring home paychecks. Working will also problems with keeping people involved. to pay for the war" While the war con young men not to go, and probable better give you both roots and credibility in the Partly that is because some of them tinues less and less money wiil go into than someone nearly their own age: they community. are not in the community with the people urban programs, or poverty programs can speak from experience. they contact and so lose track of them, and grievances at the local level will grow Organize young women in a group to GROUP STRUCTURE and partly it is due to a lack of organi louder. We've got to organize now while keep young men from going and to sup zation and ideas for action, Set up func people are feeling the pressure of a port those men who refuse. Young worpen Draft resistance groups, especially in tions for everyone; apportion responsi useless and tyranical war and knowing can break through a lot of the _•• Be a the community, should see themselves bilities. Keep people on the streets reach CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 man" propaganda which lures young guys as trying to get enough community people ing people. if they have nothing else to do, • .. '.. "If .. ,\ .~ / ~ 'J" • PAGE 14 THE MOVEMENT NOVEMBER 1967 j POP.ART INSIDE STD-W Can't' from p 5 WARFARE at the Tuesday night U.C. campus rally find it comfortable there and who are afraid voted, after much pushing by the Old to test what they have learned in other Guard, to have only a non-violent demon parts of the country where the climate Con't from p 1 stration on Wednesday. The breakdown in supporting .left activism is much less right around the IC. We then held tight, planning allowed this departure from the pronounced. They tend to become very keeping the groups in as organized a avowed philosophy of the Week to occur. cautious and instead of becoming the manner as possible, until the cops started Once the vote was taken, the Old Guard. innovators on the campus wait to see to disperse us. Since we had planned for insisted that it was the responsibility of which way the wind blows and jump on this to happen we were able to move our the San Francisco Originals (the only whatever ship seems to be floating in groups out in good order and take up our members of the Steering Committee the right direction. That's a dangerous orearranged posts at thekey intersections present)to organize and lead the monitors thing that can happen to any of us if in the area. It was at this point that the for the next day. Wednesday's picketing we allow ourselves to be made "leaders" full character of the action began to was uneventful. and then make our identity solely de develop; for when the people got out to pendent on that role. these intersections they really came into LEADERSHIP their own. People were mad about Tuesday and the And thus it was that on Thursday the CONCLUSIONS brutality they saw and were determined people themselves decided. The major value of Stop the Draft to make the power structure pay for what A majority of the Steering Committee, week was that it discovered where people it did. They went into the streets and including people from the Old Guard, de were at. It tapped a source of energy, built barricades from whatever they could creed at Wednesday afternoon's rally that frustration and anger that has not been find handy -- benches, large potted trees, there would be no action on Thursday, that mobilized before. All over the country parking meters, garbage cans, and cars the week could be called off after 'the similar outbreaks have occurred: Mad and trucks (these were placed in the mid actions of Tuesday and Wednesday, as a ison, Brooklyn CO
This is why Nasser supported the Yemen which the refugees would be restored as ISRAEL, Con'l from p 10 republicans against the monarchists. who reqUired by the United Nations: "jews were supported by Saudi Arabia. woula- still be the majority in this new class in the East, as the Wobblies(I.W,W.) effectively allied with France. It at jewish-Arab State" in Palestine, but it were on the West CoasL (;See the paper tempted to return Egypt to a state of would be a Middle Eastern State not tied back autobiography by Mike Gold, JEWS colonialism by striking at the Suez Ca U.S. INVOLVEMENT to Western imperialism." WITHOUT MONEY). nal, jointly with Britain and France, in The Israeli conquest in june weakened That was just before the war, Today Most Russian and other European jews 1956, And yet there are those who sup Nasser, compelling him to come to an the situation is worse than ever, as dem stayed put in their homelands. They were port Israel against the Arabs on grounds agreement with Saudi ,1\rabia and pull onstrated by the sinking of an Israeli de much more influenced by Marxist than of its progressivism, out of Yemen. This is the prime reason , stroyer by a Soviet-made missile boat and Zionist ideas, although some tried to The highly-publicized communal kib why the U.S. supported Israel, and why the destruction of Egypt's oil refineries combine both. Lenin argued that na butzim farms comprise only 4% of the it has just resumed arm shipments both by Israeli shelling. tionalism in a dispersed people plays population of IsrateL Whatever the high to Israel and those Arab states that have into the hands of exploiters both of the social ideals of the people living in reactionary governments. Yet it was chief dominant nationality and of its own by them, their government employs them ly Saudi Arabia, which hets never partici RUSSIAN AID dividing the working class, and the solu as military outposts on the Arab fron pated in any of the wars with Israel. that There will be no more Israeli conquests. tion for the Russian jews was alliance tiers, It is like the Russian Tsars who is the source of the threats of extermina The USSR now maintains naval flotillas in with the Russian ethnic working class, converted communities of runaway serfs. tion which so unified the Israelis in the Egypt's ports at all times, A thousand Many of his fellow Communist leaders called Cossacks. into that empire's per war and gained them almost unanimous Soviet military advisers under six Rus were JeWish: Sverdlov, first President· manent border guards. support among the American and West sian generals are reorganizing and train of Soviet Russia, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Ka The total percentage of trade-union and European public, This plays right into ing the Egyptian army (Cairo dispatch, menev, (He himself was Russian). government-owned industry and enter Israel's hands, Clnd it supports the Arab San Francisco Chronicle, Oce 27, 1967). prise in Israel is little higher than in monarchies I Foreign l\1inister Abba Eban As condition for re-equipping Nasser's Italy ~Jnd France. ~I'hich no one calls said in a speECh on ,May 13th: •'The Arab forces, the Soviet Union has insisted that HITLER socialist states, \Vhen publicly or or states also are not anxious to exchange the pre-revolutionary military caste be It was Adolf Hitler, and not the Zion gauizatlonally-owned propenv is used to British colouialism for Egyptian colon thrown out, and be replaced by an officer ists, who populated Palestine with jews pursue a government policy of su'eng Ialism." (RAMPARTS, November. 1967, corps from the people. Nasser has agreed Six millIOn had been killed, Those who thenin~ PRIV:\TE pl·operty. that is state p. 97), But Israel actually supports Brit most willingly, survived had no reason whatever to trust capitalism. not socialism. And that is ish colonialism, Prime Minister Eshkol On the other hand, Moscow rejects the the West. which kept them in refugee Israefs policy having said on April 30th that he wanted Algerian and Syrian demands that Israel's camps and, in the case of the U.S", re Britain to stay in South Arabia and in Aden, conquests be freed by armed forces, The fused to re-open its doors to more than While King Faisal of Saudi Arabia said USSR wants no world war, restricted quota immigration, Nor did PROGRESS IN MIDEAST over SBC in May that his pOSition with Eventually, industrialization, education, they feel that the C,S,S.R. offered a so That is not the policy of ,\1geria, of regard to Israel was: "Extermination of reforms, and military recovery must nec lution, for reasons that were not very Syria. or of Egypt, No one Clrgues abuut Israel," the London SUNDAY TIMES of essarily make the combined revolutionary different, the fact that there is a true social rev'o june 4th quoted Nasser's reaction when Arab states vastly stronger than Israel, Having been the only people on earth lution in progress in Algeria, with a told by a Western diplomat that the gen- • as a mere matter of population, If Israel chosen for absolute extermination in this level of workers' cuntrol higher than eral impression in the West was that, surrenders its conquests beyond':t\le ar century, the survivors concluded that anywhere but YugoslClvia, In Syria all given the chance, he would massacre mistice lines of 1949, the USSR andbthers they could trust only each other. They major industry has been nationalized, every single Israeli: will insist that the Arab states recognize it moved to the only place on earth where As Egypt is the largest and most im fully. If not, the Arab states will at that they could build a state on that basis. and portant Arab state, let us look at it future date take matters into their own were assisted, at great and willing sac more closely, Six years ago, banks. i.n DESTROY ISRAEL? hands, and. Israel will ;be destroyed. The rifice, by jewish people throughout the surance companies. and 3.300 business "According to the diplomat, Nasser different pOSitions of Saudi Arabia and world and by others. The combination of establishments were nationalized, Tax was surprised at this" By •destroy Is Egypt, of the USA and USSR, make clear the understandable mistrustfulness of the laws maximized income at 5.000 pounds r.ae!' , he said, he meant destroy her as a that this struggle of national liberation vs, survivors, the fact that the only leader per year, and a quarter of all company Western-subsidized anti-Arab base in the imperialism is not one of race, color, or ship on the spot was Zionist, and that profits had to be distributed to workers. Middle East." And he went on to describe religion. .. the Arab leadership of that day was semi The next year, nationalization of foreign his' 'vision of the ultimate settlement," in feudal and no significant revolutionary trade was complete'd, as was heavy indus movement existed (neither Nasser nor the try and major mining, Consumer goods Algerian liberation movements had made were left in private hands, but the own an appearance) defeated what moves there ers are heavily restricted. Agricultural WHITE RESISTANCE, Con't from p13 were to make Palestine a bi-national state, holdings were limited to 100 feddans per their' own anger. We've got to get people pendent on a weekly or bi-weekly pay and led to the solution of partition by the family, As a result, there has been a-mas in motion. Draft centers, in the com check -- are against the war, Some are U.N. in 1947, sive rise of consumption by the common munity, can provide the beginning focus and some are not at alL, But the ones people. for that motion. who are ,against the, war are tied in all RIGHT TO EXIST sorts of human, life-style ways to the ISRAEL'S BACKERS TALKING TO PEOPLE ones who are not, to the super-patriots, As a left-Wing Italian journalist declared Eve'n men and women who are not Propaganda about the war is not splitting a few years ago, "Israel is the republic So Egypt, Algeria. Syria, are countries pan of the Labor Union movement or off a militant resistance to the war, but of the victims of fascism," It is that, and very well advanced in building socialism, who do not remember its struggle to campaigns against the draft ARE. The not Zionism, which gives it the right to Israel doesn't even talk about it any more. organize are close to the rhetoric of draft is an immediate issue: a man has exist. But the right to exist is not the right It listens to those who provide its money, •self-defense'. "Working people organized to act, his supporters have to decide .. to expand'into other people's territorY,as In August, sixty millionaires from all into unions because they were being used Finally, we got to give people the it has done in three wars, Itis not the right over the world, including 38 from the by bosses and companies' over which they sense that other people, LIKE THEM, to treat the native inhabitants as second U.S., convened in Tel Aviv to plan Is had no kind of controL They organized in other parts of the country, are be class citizens, and to use every possible rael'~ future. They told Israel to pull in to get a share in that control and they ginning to move. People moving on a local means to pressure them to leave, It is its belt before they would provide any got it. They also get their self-respect level don't find out about people moving not the right to refuse to accept the more, and, when they werefinished, Prime and a way of defending themselves." on local levels in other parts of the return of half a million refugees to their Minister "EshkoI was humbly mumbling. Those same men and women will re country, unless they burn up the city. own houses, olive trees, vineyards, sheep, he would give •most serious study' to the spond to draft resistance if it is put Part of our job is to build up a network It is not the right to pursue a vicious criticisms of the economy." (;San Fran to them with that same rhetoric. "We of communications, initially between local circle policy of urging millions of addi- . cisco Chronicle, Aug. 13, 1967). are joining together to defend ourselves draft centers, so that people feel thaI tional jews to abandon their homelands So while there are parallels between and keep ourselves from being used in their people have stopped bitching and (which they won't) and come to Israel, early U.S. and Israeli history. there are a war which we don't want and which started moving. causing Israel to say it needs more Le differences as welL Israel is not econo we don't think ought to be fought. - bensraum (Hitler's word for space for an mically self-supporting. It is not quite a Dying is too much for the company to expanding population), which it then seeks . puppet, but those who pay the piper do call ask of us." "We have a Draft Resist- THE LAST THING to populate with still more immigrants. the tune. And for the U.S, military-indus . ance UNION." Anybody who has tried to organize in That has been the well-established pol trial complex, for the world empire of It doesn't make sense not to use our the U.S. knows ~hat anti-communism is icy of the Israeli government for twenty high finance (in which rich jews are a own revolutionary tradition. People with the strongest force holding a people alie years. Today the government is more tifty minority, but a loyal part), it is not only high-school educations remember nated from their government in support firmly in the hands of leaders favoring Israel that counts, but oil and Arab In more about it than most college stu of that goyernment. We can begin to that policy than ever before, The cabinet dependence. dents. "When in the course of human break through the anti-communism if contains the outright fascist, Menachem events it becomes necessary..." "This w.e begin to talk in our literature about Begin, whose particular terrorist group country was founded on the principle the way people live in Cuba and North massacred the population, including wom , OIL that sometimes it becomes necessary for Vietnam, in Eastern European countries en and children, of an Arab village in The two are inseparable. The Arabian a people to resist the laws of its govern and in all over the new revolutionary 1948, and who brags of that because it serv American Oil Company has the highest ment because that government does not third world countries. We don't have ed the purpose of causing Arabs to flee profit margin of any billion-dollar-plus and cannot be made to represent the will to defend Chinese communism, or any en masse. It contains the militarist, Gen. corporation in the world, One-third of all and beliefs of the people. We believe other communism: we simply have tc Dayan, who said in an interview with LE profits on direct foreign investments re this is such a time, We refuse to go..," bring people to a consciousness of the MONDE last year: "Of course we are al mitted to the U,S. in 1965 from the Bow many times have you heard some particular way people live in the coun lies and cooperate with the Western pow entire world came from Middle Eastern one say that •'there never was an honest tries Americans have been taught tc ers." The world policy of its ruling party oiL The gasoline for which you pay over politician". Let's consider the possi hate. We have to discuss, say, Cubar is indicated by a letter ,of the Chairman 30 cents a gallon costs one-seventh of one bility that they mean it. People being institutions for choosing leaders and di of the Committee on Foreign and Se cent to produce in Kuwait on the Arabian cynical about political leaders, about vot recting the economy and decide whether curity Affairs of the Parliament (Knes Peninsula. For every dollar's worth of ing, are just bitching. But when you link that amounts to tyranny. It is a tyranny seth), David Hacohen, in the semi-offic products derived from Middle Eastern that kind of talk to an act of resistance: we are fighting against, and if then ial daily DAVAR, May 24, 1966: oil, the governments there get about ten support of someone who refuses to go, it tu'rns out not be a tyranny in Cuba, or "The defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam cents and the Arab workers less than one goes past just complaining. The same China, then we don't have to hate thOSE would be the beginning of the end of the cenL thing goes for talk about "The working countries. ind~pendence of all the peoples of South The revolutionary Arab governments man gets the raw deal, the rich man But again, education doesn't mean any east Asia, and the dead end of the in wish to free all this from imperialism . gets the easy life and don't do nothin' thing if we are not involved in rea dependence and freedom of man all over and use the. total income to develop their for it." Well, it's a rich man's war struggles. The war against the Vietna. the world:' own countries. To do this. the Arab and poor and working, black and white mese people continues. Our governmen Israel also opposed the Algerian war monarchies and sheikdoms, chiefly on the people are getting drafted to fight iL is using and murdering our own people of na.tionaI liberation, because it was Arabian Peninsula, must be overthrown. Nobody has said that most of the people WE'VE GOT TO REACB OUR OW!' who work for a living -- who are de- PEOPLE. ... PAGE 16 THE MOVEMENT NOVEMBER 1967 INTEGRATED ORGANIZING by Noel Ignatin common problems. A slum building with the conditions of the poor, LADO people able that whites should not pour into an almost equal number of Puerto Rican suggested that the most effective action black communities (or brown com In Chicago a demonstration of the Latin and black tenants, as well as several would be to reject Romney, since he had munities) to organize. But thisshould not American Defense Organization (LADO) whites, a welfare office which hurls racist already given his answer, in Detroit, to be taken to mean that, at least under is in process at the welfare office. Awoman abuse at Spanish-speaking and black ap the demands of the poor. After some dis certain conditions, where people live to approaches one of the demonstrators and plicants, and which mis-treats white ap cussion the committee agreed, and drew up gether, that black, brown and white people tells her that she hasn't had anything to plicants (without the racial slurs) - these a press release which stated, among other cannot organize black, brown and white eat for herself or her children in several conditions are ready-made to teach every things, that they could not welcome pol people together, while taking into ac days and the welfare department is giving one concerned the need to organize'to iticians who, answered the demands of the count that each organizer has his or her the run-around. The LADO demon gether. poor with tanks and machine guns. When her special area of responsibility. LADO strators take up her cause and ~n her This commitment to organize the poor Romney arrived the press release was has not set the city of Chicago on its feet an emergency check. The woman comes of the area into one group does not mean distributed, whch,caused him to blow yet, does not have large numbers of suc to a LADO meeting the next day and that the Latin American Defense Organiza his cool and start shouting. The incident cesses to point to. But in certain respects, makes a short talk expressing her ap tion has become transformed into a ' I Poor received quite a bit of publicity, in Chicago LADO experience has indicated what can preciation of LADO and her willingness to 'People's Defense Organization", that it and the national press. While there has be done. .. help. Her talk is greeted by loud applause, has dropped its special concern for the been some negative response, and threats cheers and cries of Viva! problems of the Spanish-speakin'g people. of reprisal by the Puerto Rican uncle undertake~ The landlord of a rent-struck bililding It means simply that LADO has toms against LADO and other individuals, approaches the wife of one of the leaders to explain to all the poor of the area that the general reaction of the community has of the LADO Tenant Union in the building the first condition of a fight against been healthy. poverty in the Division St. area is the de STOP THE DRAFT and asks her for rent, saying that her hus TEACHING WHITES band hac promised to pay some rent and fense of the rights of the persecuted and oppressed Latin Americans, and their instructed the landlord to see her. The Among some poor whites, the harsh most immediate and obvious ally, the black FELONY ARRESTS woman replies that there must be some ness of their conditions leads them to seek peopl,e. Thus; when whites have come to mistake, since her husband is 'not a out LADO. As one of the LADO members 'LADO,they have understood that they are OAKLAND -- M<:>st of the arrests during coward, and therefore would not have 'put it, "There's only one train that's coming to a neighborhood group which Stop the Draft Week were misdemeanors, agreed to pay rent while a strike is on. moving on Division St., and if the poor is fighting in everybody's interest. ranging from disturbing the peace to The tWO incidents mentioned above are white people want to go anywhere, they've contributing to the delinguency of a minor typical of what might be expected from a got to get on the moving train." Recently (presumably by urging him to join ~e0 community group such as LADO, with one POOR WHITES a white woman, whose family was evicted, action. ) special feature: in neither of the two in Many radical organizers have noted the came to LADO because she had heard Several STOW leaders were arrested, cidents recounted is the individual Latin difficulty of organizing poor whites, and from some of her Puerto Rican neighbors however, on felony charges, carrying sen American. The woman at the welfare have pointed to a pattern of racial priv that LADO helps people". LADO movedher tences of one to five years. Robert Man office white; the woman who told off the ileges as an important cause of this dif furniture back in (postponing the eviction) del and Steve Hamilton, both of the STOW landlord is black. ficulty. The power structure is and helped her take suitable action against Steering Committee were arrested for At the present time, when radicals willing to offer certain privileges to any the landlord, who had acted illegally. .,assault on an officer." are considering all aspects of black group to keep it away from the Black It has not been a point of principle to Terence, Cannon, also on the Steering white organizing (together? separately? Uberation Movement. It is this contra insist on the use of only Spanish at all Committee, was arrested the Sunday be by whom?) the experiences of LADO in dictory presence of privilege together LADO meetings. The point of principle fore the week begap. by police who il this respect are worthy of study, with oppression that forms the back-drop has been that everyone should understand legally searched his car after a monitor LADO was founded in the summer of to any attempt at organizing non-blacks and take part in the meeting. On oc training session and found 29 sticks of 1966 following the Puerto Rican upris to unite with blacks. casion, where there have been large num wood to be used as picket sign standards. ing on Division St. The original or Where the privilege is least, the desire bers of English-speaking people at a Cannon was arrested on 29 felony counts ganizers were'several Latin Americans to struggle is greatest: thus poor whites meeting, and where all the Latins present of "possessing a lethal weapon." The who had lived in the community for years. joined the balck people in Detroit, and have been comfortable in English, the three were released on $3300 bail each. Today, a majority of LADO staff members, Puerto Ricans rebelled in Chicago and, meeting has been' corducted entirely in Though the charges' are false, the police both Latin American and white, are people east Harlem;, But fighting for one's in English. At other times, the meeting has are determined to carry through in prose who have lived and worked in the com terest, even to the point of rebelling, been held in Spanish while interpretation cuting, to intimidate future anti-draft munity for long periods. The purpose of is not the same as uniting with black to and from Spanish is provided for those protests. It may take several appeals the founders was expressed in the name people. who need it. Black people in LADO, who and trials to win these cases. they chose for the group. One of the main best of all understand the meaning of pillars of their program was to help the CLOSE THE DOORS destruction of a culture, are quite willing FUNDS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED FOR Latin American community in the area to put up with the inconvenience of getting THE DEFENSE OF THOSE ARRESTED identify its interests and struggles with Thus, one Puerto Rican young man in the meeting through a sometimes inept ON FELONY CHARGES. PLEASE SEND those of the Black Uberation Movement, the community said, "We can't unite with the Negroes. lf we do, we'll close one door translation. The same is true of the more CONTRIBUTIONS TO STOP THE DRAFT to ourselves." LADO's answer which advanced whites. What exists is not a WEEK FUND, 449 14th Street, San Fran DIVISION STREET cisco, Calif. 94103 sums up all resistance to unity with the language barrier, but a consciousness black people, both among Latin Americans barrier. \"!hen this barrier is overcome, The Division St. area, in which LADO probl~m. concentrates its efforts, is the landing and poor whites, is this: "Yes, there are language ceases to be i STOP THE DRAfT point in Chicago for most new arrivals 'two doors open to us. One is the door from Puerto Rico. Latin Americans of poverty and discrimination, destruc WORKING TOGETHER (mostly Puerto Rican, but also including tion of our culture and denial of our LADO experience points to certain les OO'1linicans, Mexican-Americans and Cu- rights, coupled with a few tiny privileges WOODY GUTHRIE ') make up slightly more than half to make us think we are better than the sons, which may be useful to the movement as a whole. It has now become indisput- , area's population. Black people are Negroes. The other door leads to full VVoody, folksinger, songwriter - poet, Ie!.' 10%, by rough estimate. The freedom. We can't go through that door lover-revolutionary, spoke and sang for rem? .,nder consists mostly of working unless we are hand-in-hand with the black himself far better than we can speak cla~s whites of Polish and Ukrainian ex people, and we can't be hand-in-hand with Wherever death may for him: traction (many who own their own homes them unless we take tbeir struggles as I write what I see, and many who do not) and a small number our own, even to the point of rejecting surprise us, it will be I write what I've seen, of southern whites. ' •our few miserable 'and degradi!1g 'priv welcome, provided that I write things that I just hope to see LADO found black, brown and some ileges', where they exist. It is exactly this, our battle cry, Somewhere farther along. times white people thrown together with that first door we mean to close, and that "I never would have craved to write second door we mean to open." reach some receptive so many balladsongs, anyhow, if I'd not POVERTY PROGRAM ROMNEY ear, that another hand been able to tell you what I think is wrong with this world we're living in." 1 don't think he meant it this way, stretch out to take up The most dramatic illustration of the but this is how it came out dept. growth of consciousness among Spanish weapons and that other Born to Win (Sargent Shriver on Merv Griffin's speaking community people of the need m en come forward to show): "The War on Poverty is doing to identify with the black people was the I had my fun and my troubles a great job. We had hundreds of boys intone our funeral dirge incident that took place during Gov. Rom I had my hard luck and blues who couldn't even qualify for the army ney's recent visit to Chicago. He had ar with the staccato of ma Been up and been down and been sober --now with the help of the anti-poverty ranged to visit one of the social welfare and drunk program we have been able to send chine guns and new cries agencies in the neighborhood, which iilso But I know that I'm not born to lose. 600 of these boys to Vietnam and six of battle and victory. happens to be the meeting groung of the have been killed already." urban renewal representation committee. Che Guevara Chorus: --Herb Caen, S. F. Chr~nicle, Oct During a discussion in the committee of Born to win. I know I'm born to win. 27,1967. how to utilize Romney's visit to dramatize It's a funny old world that I am in. I'll fight to change it like it ought to be. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••" ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Born to win. I know I'm born to win.
I had women all kinds and all colors In every land where I have been I sawall the people in trouble like me And I know that we're not born"to lose.
NAME You robbed us and beat us and bled us You worked us and paid us like slaves ADDRESS I know we're a-ll born to work and to fight And to win or go down in our grave. \(====~C~IT~Y~ ~S~T~AT~E~ --lZ!!IP~ __) -from BORN TO WIN by Woody Guthrie MAIL TO THE MOVEMENT 449 14th STREET SEND ONE TO A fRIEND' SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94103