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i rent one for 30 minutes for 10d (US) to ceptable to me as that of any nation I know, realizing take ajoy ride. that all natiôns have critical as the same claim made in Is the move back to NYC WIN Revision. So what do we car-less, some armed force. The motivation regard bike-less folk of all to the deaths of Vietnamese ism . . _. What of self reñancè? you (1) mean do?: Walk. (2) Use the generallv IJS adminishations to "destabilize" civilians as a resulr of US miiiiãrlãc_ you want to eat potatoes without adequate bus service. India is understandabie. Sure-you haüe to Indira's oo-t tion. _ntr¿Èdnïsinny growing potatoes? Were you left devia- get used to the sardine-pack position is a kaleidoscone . during ofbis Mú. Slnal, Ny tionists to your neighbors? Or what is rush hours and the noise from almõst business, little politicaf parties-of ,i the. major contradiction? Why not nqu{erþs¡, blasting buses that spew extreme right and (all, extreme left; Re: Allen Young's "Why I Won't China's tax systen¡. What dið get their oily fumes. rndeed, except the I from Moscow_oriented vote. . . " [wIN, 3/11/t76]. the hor.se's mouth? A Winnie ofao- rA,nd then just this morning, 180 plus the Gandhi a ÇPI) movement Young's purqoses aie 6etter achieved provalJ vehicle caravan inspired by J.P. Naravan. - of Air-flow trãilers by using the write-in option, rather -MARGIEEUCALÍ?TUSKansasCþrMo. pulled by gas-guzzlingCaddies and Some 207o ofthis niovement than have. by not voting at all. Mere apathy other biggies passed by on now s_plit off, I am reliably told (at the is their three .iTpJI disregarded by praciicinþ month swing through fourth world Gandhian Memorial Peaõe Foundation potrtrcrans. i Central America. One of the couples, staff reception, New Delhi) to follow -ARTHURD.PENSER I Vinova plea Hunt¡vlllei Alu I stopped to ask me for directions. When Bhave's last December 25 I I fïnished I had to board my bus with its to cease practising satyagraha against L government. April 19761Vol. Xll; No.l¿f I compesiones, market-women loaded the with produce and all. My tourist friends The United (Christian) Church of gave me that indulgent,sigh that said: India has declared support oflndira :k\/1x\,a r - .l I must be Gandhi's 20 Points with pleas for I "It tough." So much for well- E 'i* . wheeled Gringos. freedom ofthe press andspeedy trial of lrr-.F Fifteen minutes later another Grinea political prisbners, Dear WIN Reader, - just The fascist organizations India I who arrived to do missionary worl of are 4. How and Why 26 Men Died in Next_week ygu receive your by chance asked me: "And how do you large, wealthy, well established and . ryil! special 10th arinivers¿iry Scotia Number One David issue of lt / manage to get along without a car?" menacing. One, the RSSS, {eliberately WlN. will have twice as many pages as usuat and Morris _BERNARDSI]RVII organized Gandhi's assassination. As a will cover a two week period, after whiih'wð will take our sometime student of 10. Operation Namibia Escalates San Salvador, San Salvador Chile and a visitor regular spring þreak. So you'll have plenty of time to read Like Ed Arszman's "Bèating the there October-December 1972 I can ac- the big issue while we get WIN shifted to ñew york. Nonviolence / Martin Prior : cept Indira Gandhi's fears of a similar System by Bicycle" [\{IN, 2/5/761,1 Yes, WIN is 10 years old-and perhaps younger than 12. Thinki.ng About Two Women bicycled the streets of downtown Indy Just now I can't find Larry Erickson's fate. ever ¡n the sense that we on the staff are - ' Sandra Adickes whên I was teaching there in a Centei- letter [WIN, t0/8/751, sol can only .In sum, I think we should support her agaín Cþ High School in the early '70's. To respond directly to Claire Culhane with energy and be careful tlÍat õur reorga.niz¡ng ourselves around our work-ãnd, what with 15. ln Memoriam: philOchs cross this sprawling, but level City that [wrN,3/r1176]. criticisms remain always constructive. the still s.kyrocketing.costs of production, in wórse shape _RICHARDPOST 16. Changes measures 12 miles by 12 miles would Years could have been cut offthe war f inancially than ever before. This time of year (between qe gotten easily take an hour with no strong head if had together in oqr opposi- , auoquerNy -fund appeal mailings) is usually lean for üs and the move is 19. Reviews wind. But in truth, the "Home of the tion instead offighting and ego: placing tripping. Admitted. And an additional burden on us. But since we believë 500" is a car owner's dreamtown: had each of us Despite,my enjoyment of Swept Away, Cover: Dr:awing by Peg Averill / Art been willing work that WIN's chances of improving and surviving at t_his time there's parking ever¡nvhere and never a to longer and risk with the reservations expressèd in mi' for the People / LNS. more, more yet are greater in the city, we are going ahead witñ real traffrc jam. Small chance his time could have been reviéw of it, I too would ärgue with ' our movine cut offthe war. plans even "Committee for Zero Automobile Marty Jezer's rapt reviewõf Sovon though the staff is [again) behind in salary and- Growth" will grow there. In contrast,- But, intended or not, Culhane's letter Beauties and his admiration of Lina our b¡lls are beginning to tower óver us once more: a take San Salvador where I now live and seems to bear the message, "It didn't Wertmuller's works. Althoush her The crunch is on. big test is whether make any .The WIN can work. It has a slightly greater difference. " Ahd I think that ambiguities appear to lean to"leftist t survive the month is a false and dangerous notion. The of May.-Your.help right now is ciucial. population than Indy's 750,000 humanism, I think the net effect of her courage and perseverence We need fr,lnds from you now to. squêezõ us through, and crammed into 1/8th of the area, ofthe Viet; films is due fot a hard reassessment. STAFF namese people is to be respected and we also need your helping hands. situated on the slope of'a great volcano I For those who read my laxpayers Ernest Mary by the same name. Perhaps 20% ofthe emulated. But all their dedication might Rebellion preface (ApriiS), have meant iõóírãcttn' , ******* Susan Pines Iand area is found in the neighborhoods little in the face of a nuclèar it was Beardsley Ruml, not Bernard of San Bendito and Escalon ãnd attack orother major US military Baruch, who introduced the pay-as-you- Murray Rosenblith escalations, which planned We have heard from some good women and men who are neighboring colonias where the were out go income tax withhotding. Wiile the and awaiting the word.from interes.ted in joining the staff . We UNINDICTED country's wealthy 2To live. People in my Nixon and plan is a main stumbling õlock to war won,t stop looking for Kissinger. It was neighborhood typically live in 1-2 room because of wide op- tax resistance, it is not insurmountable the right qqf,son till we reach a final decisiori. So ¡f yõu have IRATORS position to the war that the war toll was rffIN "apartments" with average occupancy for readers-baruch as they are editorial skills and the desire to work w¡th WlN, doir,t be Jan Barry . .LanceBelville ¡ MarisCakars* held at that shockine. horrifvine level o of three people per room. So where do with chutzpah in the name of shálom. shy. Write ul qn{ tell us about yourself . See the SusanCakars' JeiryCoffin* instead of being incieased man! 3/15/76 Lynne Shatzkin Coffin* ¡Ann Davidon ¡ Diana Davies you store a bike? And where do you times. _A¡INDAVIDON issue job you Crediting the anti-war movement in for the description. may not know it, Uui WIN Ruth Dear . Ralph Dicia* . Br¡an Doherty keep it safely once you get to where - Heverford, Pa. William Douthard* . Karen Dúrbin* . the US with the.victory of the Viet- wants you ! Chuck Fager you're going? And how-do you negotiate Seth Foldy . J im Forest ¡ Larry Gara namese people, which they won at so ¡ i the footpaths that are like laddersãnd I was puzzled when you (apparently) Joan Libby Hawk*. Neil Haworth Ed Hedem4nn price, Grace Hedemañn . Hendr¡k Hertzberg* . Marty J ezerr where20To of the Citv's oooulation dear a would be arrogance, but to Saxe espoused the cause ôf Susan BeckyJohnson o Nancy.Johnson o Paul Johnsorl live? And where do yóu frn.i ttre SgO to minimize our impact leads to misplaced o [WIN, 7/10/75]-now, also supporting Our new address as of May 1 will be: Alison Karpel Craig Karpel . John Kyper buy a_bike when people despair. :ItIEILF'tlLllGm Elliot Linzer* o ackson Maclow o 90% of the live David Fine IwiN, 2/ 19 / 761 w-ith the J David McReynoldst- on $120.fi)/year? BerkeleY' CALIF. DavidMorris r Jim Peck .. TadRichards imolication ihat he was one of those 503 Atlantic Avenue (fifth floor) o ¡ My concerned parents, lgal Roodenko Fred Rosen* Nancy Rosen who live in a responsible for the AMRC bombing' it Broqklyn, NY 11217 Ed Sanders ¡ Wendy Schwartz* r Martha Thomases small town in upstate New York, even Indian politics forced me into a dilemma aooì"".. that vou are not so much in Art Waskow o Allen Young r Beverly Woodward offered to put me on No phone yet bud it will soon be listed *Member wheels-two, until I went th erc lot 2Yz months. Press fävir of "Peace an{ Freedom Th-rough with information of ,WlN Editorial Board (they're (under without motor retired on Social control and mass arrests of satyagrahi Nonviolent Action'i as you are of any W!tl, g{course). Do drop by if you are in the neigh, Security)-two months ago. I wrote held without trial for months are in- "þolitical act" (like b.orhood. We'd like to me_et & tálk witli you. Don,t forgei. 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Magazine, lnc. with the support of the War (2) a small contingent of cops who ' Indian, is ðefinitely opposed to Indira, a violent act, reqardless of the bomber's Cratefully , Res¡sters League. Subscriptions are $11.00 per year. pedal the streets wearing helmets and as is our State Denartment. Her foreisn intent. Callins tïe death of Robert Second class postage pá¡d at New. York, .NY 10001. (3) " lndividual writers. are responsible opinions guns. Kids in my neighborhood who policy is and always has been as . is as hypo- Mary, Murray, for ac- Fassnacht anY'accident" Susan, Dwight expressed and accuracy of facts given. Sorry-manu- scripts cannot be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. Printed in USA 2 WIN April 22,1976

April22, '1976 WIN 3 '' ln Memory öf Dennis Boggs

It was iust an average, rainy winter day, With the TV on t worked and cleaned away. Then the'telephone brought the tragic news, How and Why The Mine, Scotia Mines, has blown today: Hurry, hurry get there,fast as you can. Some rnen are trapped inside that dark, cold ground. Look at the /ist of names, Oh, no, oh Cod, no; my brother is trapped underground. Oh, God, you know they cart'tbe alive. Hours have gone by-they are stilltrapped inside. 26Men Died No air to breathe, no help for their wounds. Oh, Cod, please let them'be found soon. fhen, thi*addest news t ever hope to hear. The words, "We regretto inform you, they are all dead." They're all dead, they're gone forever, a The anguished cries, the weeping, nothing will make it better. Thatcold, dark, gassy minetoothem away, n Scotia Number One They were all someone's father, husban!, br'other, ot son, And that Scotra coal mine tooktheir livei today, For allthose /ives SOMEONE mustpay. Written by: lva Stidham, sister of Dennis C. Boggs, who was killed in the March 9,1976, explosion of the Scotia mines. OCopyright lva Stidham 1976 began to travel around Whitesburg, the county DAV¡D MORRIS seat of Letcher County, five miles away. Company officials and Mining Enforöement and Safety Ad- intentions in passing the 1969 Mine Health and ground enquiny as rapidly as posdible, sd that the ministration (MESA) officials answering phones Safety Act are actively thwarted by the industry mine could be úorked again. There was an and relatives gathering, beginning the death, and industry-sympathetic buréaucrats in the incident wherg photographers from the Mountain watch only too familiar to people here in the tnterior Department; and Arnold Miller's Eagle and the Appalachian Film Workshop were .1, Southern Appalachians. administration, which despite its many sins of harassed by state police who didn't care for any The rescue teams didn't reach the bodies until , omission, is still committed to the coal miner's investigation other than the official one, but a for the six men working in a nearby section-and one o'clock in the morning, scattered from the safety. phone call from MESA officials cleared up thè protected --TÈí; from the direct impact of the blast- entrance to the working face of 2 Left off 2-South- isn't to say that there isn't äduep cynicism misunderstanding. (Whitesburg is the home of there was time to put on their self-rescuers, a east, their common grave. By three am, it was about these institutions and the persons repre- these two healthiest of Southern Appalachia's mask with a charcoal filter that allows for.up to an known that all the men in and around 2 Left off senting them; too many promises have been alternative institutions, who were also active in hour of breathing. 2-Southeast were dead, aå the bodies were carried broken. But careers were on the line and even the ôhronicling and investigating the Hyden and For this group young miners (average of age: out. By five am, the hearses with their police most self-serving of the Washingtonian overseers Buffalo Creek di sasters. ) 27),there were two choices. They could walk out escorts left the Blue Diamond property and turned are beginning to understand that their careers Therefore, when two dazed men stumbled out of the mine, or they could construct a barricade of into the hard-road, some heading ovei Black cannot survive too many unnecessary large-scale of the portal around midnight, it was even more heavy canvas "curtains," hoping the air inside Mountain on the steep S-bends of US 119 towards disasters; lethargy and complicity will not always diff icult to absorb the shock of a second explosion. would keep them alivè until a rescue team reached Cumberland, while the others headed downhill to be rewarded. A team of ten miners and three MESA inspectors then1. They chose to build the barricade, having nearby Whitesburg So cameras c-licked and:cameras whirred and had been underground on a routine shift, nevel received any training in what to do in case peñè¡Ls scribbled and tapes hissed while Robert repairing the mine roof and carrying out a There is a ritual connected With these large ex- -Barrett there should be an explosion. The barricade was and H. N. Kirkpatrick (state commissioner preliminary investigation. The $econd explosion not sufficiently sealed to keep out the carbon plosions and coal-related disastefs: denials of and J asper Cornett (Blue killed all but two of the men, who survived wrong:doing by company officials, the arrivals of of mines and minerals) monoxiiJe and other poisonous gases that circulate accused through the accident of being around a corner bureaucrats and the national media from Wash- Diamond Co. vice-president; and denied after an explosion. They lost the gamble and, one widowed women while laying cables for the next shift to connect. ington as the shockwaves spread through the and asked that the newly and the by one, died. mothers, sisters and Again there were the frantic calls and rescue communities where the familes of the newly dead newly shattered fathers, While they were dying, four-and-a-half miles brothers, daughters & sons wait until an enquiry teams running to join their buddies and the night from the portal where they had entered the men live-a ritual performed at Farmington in bottom be held . . . while people and was red with sirens. This time the rescue teams 1968, Hyden in 1970, Buffalo Creek in 1972 and could these their seam at 6 am, the organized chaos that always gathered at the houses food didn't have so far to go: the men had been at the Itmann in 1974. But this time it seemed like the other relatives with accompanies a mine disaster. erupted. Mine made ready mouth of 2.Southeast Mains when the blast hit public outrage at the needless deaths caused by a and sympathy as bodies were for rescue crews from Harlan County's big mines them. lt had been assumed methane gas production"oriented coal caused a faster, burial at funeral homes. that the raced to answer'the emergency calls from their industry had been response from of MESA and "liberated" by a continuous miner.and telephones and CB radios. Somehow the word angrier the off icials Thursday, the united Mine workers (uMwA) and the March 11, was an ordinary day: The the explosiorì had come from a spark set off by one ritual doesn't allow much time for corporate of the miners working 2-Left off 2-South- David Morris lives in V,lest Virginia and is working media. There were several reasons for this: a around grieving. Select teams of older and more ex- east, most probably one welding a section of track. on the 4th draft oÍ his novel about the National newly appointed MESA chief who had been a coal , 'perienced miners were underground, trying to No one expected an explosion without the mine Miners Union in Harlan, Kentucky during the miner and a foreman, named Robert Barrett; estimate the damage and carry out the under- being worked. ln the dark and smoke, with the 1931 coal strike. angry senators, who keep finding that their good April?2, !.WIN April22,1976 1976 WlN 5 TEGEND 05 gasès swirling and the thought'that 2-Souiheast IINE ESCAPE ROUTE èould blow again at any time, the rescue teams left without removing the bodies. HOIE RESCUE ROUTE No one could've been more shocked than the 2 bureaucrats, who were working through their routine and were so harshly interrupted. The IGNITION POINT EXPTOSIONS entire ritual was re-enacted. V{ashington that @ The order came down from VICTIMS OF AAARCH 9 there should be no more trips into 2-Southeast until the cause of the second explosion could be @ ,vtcfl,l s oF ARCH It J"turrn¡n"¿. This time, the min'ers who worked in ^ and around 2-southeast were asked what they thought could have been the cause of the second explõsion, and the story of Scotia No. One's bot- tom seam mine began to emerge. lt was a history that clearly showed that all 26 deaths could have

been avoided. &c)¿¿. While Virgil Coots, Jr., the 23 year old foreman, '1

was being buried in the Davidson cemetery il - Cumberlánd, and while services were being held at the Creater Mt. Sinai Church at Lynch for Lawrence Peavv (25), the only black miner, and as 44year oìd Earf Galióway's services were being t held at the Little Dove Baptist Church at \ Ovenfork, the order camethat Scotia No. One's Portol bottom seam should be sealed. As a fresh crew of l5 victims of miners began to build concrete block walls over Morch.9 explosion the fourteen openings, Larry McKnight (28) and t (30), who were cou_sins, were Roy E. McKnight-buried, t) eul'ogized and while Everett Scotty Combs Nantz (28), Larry McKnight's bro.ther-in-law, was being liurìêd a hundred miles to the south, in Tennegsee. 2. mine prevented any further The sealing of the LEGEND .deaths. lt also preùented any attempts to remove pdssible õ! OVERCASTS thé'eldven bodies and any further sroPPtNGs a investigation into tþecauses of the explosions. xxxx= BODIES / Thé f¡nãl off¡c¡al verdict will have to wait months .r-- RAlt TRACK I _ BEIT by MESA until the "evidence" can be evaluated unmtruED coAt t EFT To suPPoRT RooF officials and lawyers. However, investigations and ! interviews carried out by tocal concerned people have managdd to piece togettler a scenario that explains hbw 2-Southeast Mains turned into a "killer mine." The Scoti .a I I victims of Blue Diamond Corporation of Knoxville, . ' Mlne Mqrch I I explosion Tennessee, a company that has owned mines in Oven Fork, Harlan County, Kentucky since thd'1920's, bought A subeidiary of Blue Diamond cky the Scotia mine in J962 and began to mine the .Knoxville, Tennessee lmboden seah of coal. Because this seam is under That is, the water table, it is always '1gassy": the O ccrrt¡¡r ß{b r9'ó methane gas which might escape through porous stays in the For the 225 miners who worked e three shifts layers of rock above the watertable perfect attendance. However, it was leis careful sign a contract strike became violent when còãl seam. When mined (and in sections where at Scotia No. One, the biggest problem was always about insuring proper ventilation, Q more costly Blue Diamond brought in scabs. The strike endecl is a "methane feeder," a steady flow of " air." Because methane gas can easily be there and time-consuming matter. And sà{ety training in J uly, 1967, when the NLRD refused to gas into the dispersed with proper and vigorous ventilation, methane gas), the methane is released was purely voluntary, not mandatory, though if recognize the UMWA's claim of "unfair labor gas the miners knew that if there were enough " air," general atmoéphere. When the methane any of the young, untrained miners had wanted -oracticesl against Blue Diamond. 15o/o the mine was relatively safe. Many of the more þresent is undbr 41/z%o or over of the oxygen, extensive training, it would not have been avail- With only the Scotia Employees Association, gas. But experienced miners in'the area, though, preferred it's harmless-ârì odorless; invisible able. Escapeways were never explained. Use of the company unîon, to watch out for the mi.ners, 5-15o/o to work at lnternational Harvester's Benham mine when the methane gas level reaches , it's the self-rescuer was not explained. There were no Scotia quickly followed the pattern established by set it United Steel's Lynch mine, because deathly explosive. the slightest spark will and drills in case an explosion shot¡ld happen. other non-union coal companies and the large there wasn't any gas and becauge there wasn't as off. This negligence was partly possiþle because unionized producers I ike Consolidation much emphasisbñ production. (The Lynch and ' lt was well known that Scptia was a "gassy" Scotia was not a UMWA mine, where the contract (Farmington) and Pittston (Buffalo Creek). Benham mines prodúce for their parent mine. But the lmboden seaù is four to six feet specifies certain amounts of training and safety "Production" became the yardstick for all deci- producing companies and aren't under as much pressure to deep, and Scotia,soon began 750,000- instruction. Blue Diamond has fought off sions. So when it became apparent that Scotia was get the coal out right now.) 1,000,000 tons a year. ln 1971 and 1972, Scotia No. unionization for fifty years, the most bitter recent a difficult mine to keep properly ventilated ln order to keep the mine working at top 2 and Scotia No. 3 were opened in seams above round of struggle in 1965 and1966, when the without careful, expert handling of tt production levels, the Blue'Diamond Co. paid $62 the "air;" the water table. There was no problem with UMWA won a representative election at Scotia meant the miners would have to learn to work with a day and offered a ten percent bonus for monthlv methane gas. and went on strike when Blue Diamond refused to less "air. " øwin nprrlzz,.lsio April22,1976 WlNT Ventilation in underground mines is complex, tion, 2-Left off 2-Southeast, where the coal was ln essence, the "air" is blown into the mine by still four feet high, while arrangements were large outs¡de fans and then directed "inby" made to bring in a new continuous miner. (towards the working face where the coal is being Stoppers and curtains were set up to ¿Jirect air into mined) and then "outby" (back toward the mouth 2-Left off 2-Southeast and to keep aiÈ flowing of the mine). The "air" (like a body of water thr:ough all of 2-Southeast. lt was vitally important flowing through an underwatercavern) is that air be maintained inby the abandoned face at channãted thróueh a system of 1'regulators" the end of 2-Southe¡ast befbre it came outby 2-Left. (concrete doors that open and shut), "stoppers" The reaso'n is simple: methane gas tends to colleat passages, (concrete block walls that air c4n't penetrate) and in unventilated ready to ignite at the '': "curtains" (heavy canvas that acts l¡ke a slightest spark. temporary stopper). By manipulating the location Sometime in February, while laying new tracks of these, air can be directed with a fair amount of into Z-Left, a stopper was temporarily knocked' precision. down to make way for the tracks. lt was never re- When the entire qystem works, with a sufficient placed, although on the map of the mine shown to amount of air availa6le, there is little danger of MESA, it was still part of the ventilation plan. explosion, even in a gassy mine, because the con- There were rumblings of impending disaster. centrations of methane gas can be kept below Whenever air was rob6'ed from z-t-eft, the explosive levels. gas shot up quickly. According to March 9, 197Q: Relatives and friends of methane levels miners wait through a chilly, drizzly The system worked poorly at Scotia. There were the miners, readings of three, four and five per afternoon to learn if anyone su¡vived . citations by state and federal inspectors There was a blast, a the explosion. Photo by Helen frequent cènt weren't uncommon. W¡nternitz/Mounta¡n Eagle/LNS. for a variety of violations; ventilat¡on was the most small one, in February. lt wasn't reported'to common. The míne was closed down nine times MESA, as the lâw requires. since 1969, and each time ventilat¡on was a major On the night before the first explosion, there crimihal negligence on.the part of Blue mining experience , There is more than a fear of factor. . . as well as electrical violations, roofing was a sharp drop in barometric pressure, due to a Diamond/Scotia officials for the constant whitewashing; if it is determined that the Scotia/ violations and coal dust infractions. cold front. Thesé drops in barometic pressure violations and the inadequate ventilation- Barrett Blue Diamond Co. was negligent, it allows rela- "The expansion of the mine outdistanced the have a side effect of making it easier for.'methane went before a Senate Labor subcommittee thaired tives to sue for damages'and receive higher death pull ability of the single-fan system to enough air gas to be liberated. Several làrge mines were by Senator Harrison Wil liams to gxplain how such benef its. Scotia No. through," one inspector familiar w¡th warned, but Scotia was not. a disaster could happen seven years after the 1969 And saddest of all, there is a rumor that the year period quoted. One ovei its fourteen life was ' On the morning of March 9, a crew of men Mine Health and Safety Act was passed. men in the second explosion were not dead when "Expertly handldd, the ventilation system would began working in 2-Southeast, laying moretrack Ani nvestigation into ME SA inspections of the mine Was sealedzThere is no proof that the you have been adequate. I can't honestly tell that into 2-Left. The rails were hauled in by a loco- Scotia revealed that Scotia, which had originally men were dead, although it is likely. But that fact the company always had experts handling the air, motive which gave.off sparks whenever it was been on a special inrpecti on llst (called the 103 that the bodies were left behind not only prevents however." shifted in or out of gear. There was also an air (¡)), had been placed o-n. less emotional closure (as it did at Farmington) but A group of four miners, who'asked'not to be ' compressor on the locomotive, which was Sept. 15 and then talcen now is creating serious doubts about how the men a named, but who were,all Scotia No. One miners designed to keep up air pressure on the loco- The recom mendation th died. This anxiety will not be quieted until the told the story differently. They talked about how motive's brakes. lt was the sort of machine tlratl the Whitesburg field -at time that bodies are brought out, but it will be months air was "robbed" from one section to boost' turns itself on and off, in order to keep the air ventilation and other viol.ations at about before the "atmosohere" in the mine is anottrer sectión's air levels over state and federal pressure constant. lt was battery-powered and the same pace. Was there pressure on siabilized. Rnb beiore the battery of the air standards when lnspectors were present. "When sparked whenever it turned on. compressor runs down. an inspector was above you, you didn't have no There was trouble with the air. Virgil Coots, the As terrible as the deaths of the 26 men were- air," one said. "When you had good air, you knew foreman, called up the ventilation crew at some- and as un necessary-every other day, a miner is he was on your section. The air is divided up where between eleven and eleven-fifteen, lled or i s seriously injured by the same kind of evenly until an inspector comes. The mine is demanding more air immediately. Somehow, ce goofed up so bad, they can't vcntilate.." during the next fifteen minutes, the percentage of - Monday, March B, a federal inspector visited methane gas settled in the explosive 5-15%o range. Scotia No. One. He measured the air (cubic feet per There was a spark. 2-Southeast blew, killing the minute) and found'it under approved levels. Half seven men who had been laying track and the two mine all at one time so thàt air can't be an houi later, there was a comTortable margin of men who wereworking on ventilation for 2-Left. "robbed") would clearly have established that place, air in the same 2-Left off 2-Southeast. Then the six men at thè working face of 2'Left Scotia No. One has insuff icienivçntilation. But Where did.the air come from, so suddenly? The made their decision to try and curtain themselves Scotiâ No. One was never blitzed. The official inspector didn't ask. óff while waiting for the rescue teams. reason: there isn't enough money in MESA's system is perhaps seen more clearly in coal Forty-two hours later, the ten miners and three budget to hire all the inspectors;needed. And the mining country than anywhere else. Yet coal Now, weeks later, it's become apparent that there MESA inspectors stopped right at the mouth of coal companies resent this increased vigilance; compan y officials, wealthy enough, are also were several other questions that the inspector 2-Southeast to repair the roof . Almost half a mile incidents of federal inspectors being shot at or backed by the wealth of the oil companies who should have asked. lt turns out that a stopper away, there was another spark, most likely from mistreated are on the rise. own the largest coal producers, who also own the was supposed to help ventilate allof which the battery powered air compressor autómatically The panel chosen to conduct hearings in nuclear power companies, politicians, banks. 2-southeast was missing, which meant that.there turning itself on. Jt was as though the men were Whiteiburg April 5 and 6 became highly lf one bureaucrat in MESA and the UMWA wâs:a 1,800 ft. section of 2-southeast which was ' 'standing at the mouth of acartnon when it fired. controversial when it was learned both Barrett and were fired each time a miner was killed. . . if one .. scarcely, if at all, ventilated. This lack of ventila- H. N. Kirkpatrick (who were involved in the deci- .orpàny òfficiaLwere sentenced to life intprison- tion turned the far end of'2-Southeast Mains into a Two weeks later, there were still charges, counter- sions leading to the second disàster) would be on ment each time a coal miner was killed . . . this may gas bomb, waiting for the sllghtest charges and rumors. Barrett and MESA accused methane time the panel. The level of controversy rose when it be uñrealistic, but one reality is clear: there was spark. How did this happen? Blue Diamond of withholding necessary infor- was'learned a third panelist had connections with no need for any of the Scotia 26 to be killed. Who ln February, the coal seam at the working face matio-n including the'presence of the aii compres- the coal industry and a fourth had no actual'coal will pay the price of their deaths? of 2-southeast broadened to six feet. (See map). sor on the locomotive and not acknowledging that The continuous miner could only handle up to four there may have been one or more methane April22,1976 WlN9 feet of coal and was withdrawn to a new side sec- "feeders" in 2-southeast. There was talk of

ò WIN April 22, 1976 tt individuals around the world to iojn them in a transnational action network. Then, in July, Operation Namibia organizers met at the WRL OPERATIO Triennial Conference in Holland and devised the strategy for the Books Project. NAMIBIA { They were not naive enough to exþect that a first action would cause any immediate changes. They hoped to plan an action,which would be both dramatic and symbolic, one which would generate world attention' and capture,the imagination,. while strengthening the morale of the Niimibians. ESCA One which, by deliberately acting upon the ATES conviction that South Africa has no legitimate authority in Namibia, would either successfully ignore that authority or, if-confronted by it, resist it in ways that would publicize the issue and build , i further support for other forms of resistance. Delivering books to Namibians seeins to satisfy all of these cliteria. The Iong voyage of a frail craft NON VI can be an effective symbol of determination -to LENCE biing to Namibians the knowledge kept from them and they have asked for. As a symbol of freedom of thought, books speak for thémselves. Many books essential to the development and pride of nonviolent was campaign unsustainable because nationhood are unavai lable. Ri gorously imposed MART¡N PR¡OR these efforts were largely ignored abroad and liberation of Angola and Mozambiquej newly censorship exists against any literature opposed brutally proximity repressed at home. For these reasons, the independent black nations whose is . to the political and,social policies of the South ln May, 1976, athirty-eight foot sail boat will South West Africa Peoples Oiganization threatening to South Africa. That pressure government, against works expressing or (SWAPO), African begin a 6200 mile voyage from Portsmouth, Eng- recognized by the UN as the legitimate intensif ies the danger of malor military inter- suggesting the equal rights and dignity of black land down the western coast of Africa toward a- voice of the Namibian people, renounced negotia- vention in southern Africa. Even without such people (South Africa banned Black Beauty several, harbor on the coast of Namibia (Southwest tions in 1966 and undertook armed struggle. major foreign involvement as occurred in Angola; .guerilla years ago, for the iryrplications of the title a]one), Africa), carrying several hundred books which Nonetheless, Operation Namibia believes that activity ând violent reprisals are likely to and against writings by exiled black writers, have been banned and withheld from Namibians nonviolence can be made effective through a escalate in Namibia, as Namibians struggle for politicians and churchmen of South Africa and by the occupying forces of neighboring South Af. con sistent bu i ld-up of i ntefvention: by concerned enough leverage to end white minority rule, which Namibia. powerful rica. Thè boat's international crew intends to "outsiders" ryho, under the watchful eyès of a is sustained by South Africa's modern Finally, South Africa cannot seize books and use deliver the volumes into the hands of Namibians world community, are less likely to bear the ter- war machine and which, in turn, is bolstel"ed by them for its own purposes'as it might other kinds rors hf South African repression than are those the military and commercial interests of the ' t who ¡equested them, without bowing to restric- of aid, for they rgpresent that which South Africa , who live helplessly under police United Western tions, control or interference from South Africa. its control:Mdre- States and Europe. has fought againstand distorted the most-the Thé Books For a Free Namibia project,.part of a over, the imminence of a bloody outbreak, which However, a violent campaign þy Namibians truth. lf the books are successfully delivered, is now apþarent, underscores against oppressors may contin ui n g tran snational campai gn Supporti ng the urgency for their ironically inhibit South Africa will have yielded one small measure g i Namibian independence known as Operation escalatin nonviolent. n itiatives correspondi ngly. support for their movement among those white of its illegal control in Nämibia. lf the crew is Namibia, represents an attempt to escalate non- Unfortunately, most people have not heard of Western nations whose sup-þort for black Africans prevented from delivering the booksl South Africa i Namibia and fewer are aware of its situation, even could shorten the conflict and whose support for violent difect action as an alternative to the will again have demonstrated its abhorrence of :.r 'mounting today. Ten year ago the United Nations voided South Africa would tragically prolong and level of military violence in southern truth ãnà its determination to limit the knowledge , :, ; Africa. South Africa's right to administer the League of f rustrate it. ln rebellion against white oppression, people it was mandated to guerrillas frequently portrayed an'd aspirations of the Launching a peace offensive is like undertaking Nations mandate over the former German colony are in the press as prepare for self-government. guerrilla warfare; it is a decision to achieve a of Southwest Africa. The decision was based on "aggressors." The threatening image of race realignment of power by non-negotiated tr€ârìs; South Africa's failuie to demonstrate any inten- warfare erodes sympathy for the rebels and plays CONTACT: As such, it.represents a conclusion that (a) the tion of allowing Namibia to develop into an inde- into the hands of white racists. Saving white pendent "humanitariah The'Philadelphia Namibia Action Group, a ' existing power relationship is intolerable and (b) natiôn. Political events elsewhere in a regimes is then labeled concern" collective of Movement for a New Society, i the changes deerned necessary cannot be brought Africa have consistently overshadowed it and the by Western nations. And, when guerrillas, having the is about by dialogue but only by actions which tend efficient propaganda machine of South Africqhas been spurned by the {est, turn to the Eãst for the American organizing center for Operation to destabilize and restructure the relationship. obscured it relentlessly. Even the war in Angola aid, they are "exposed'1and vilified as'"com- Namibia. lt is located at4&ll Springfield Avenue, ..- Operation Namibia was started in 1975by which came almostrto its borders has not given munist pawns," as we have seen recently in Philadelphia , Pa.,19143; lt is currently raising for Books people convinced that the continued occupation of Namibia a clear image in the press, and the shift Angola and previously in Zaire (the Congo). contributions and recruiting crew the for project Namibia by'South Africa was illegal, oppressive of attention recently back to Rhodesia has failed to A nonviolent direct action campaign can, on the a Free Namibia project. This is endorsed and intolerãble, and that effoits ãt n'egbliatibn had recognize the continuing tensions along that other hand, enhance support for the oppressed by by MNS, the American Friends Service Com- .drar-natizing proved futile, decéptive and serviceable only to border. the real power relationships of the mittee, and sponsored by thè A.J. Muste On August 31,1976, the latest deadline given by who exercises oppressive Memorial lnstitute, continuing South African control. Although situation, clarifying 'ln nonviolent protests, petitions and strikes by South Africa by the United Nations for complete violence and who suffers under it, and by demon- addition to contributing to Operation be Namibians within the country had frustrated and withdrawalfrom Namibia wjllfalldue and will strating that !t it not the violence of the óppressed Namibia, support{or Namibian freeilom may given (1) goods produced by South handicapped South Africa at times, a successful undoubtedly be ignored by South Africa as have which white South Africa resists, but the basic by boycotting all other deadlines. However, the pressure for human aspirations of black people. Africa or by multinational corporations situated in Martin Prior is active in the Movementfor a New change has increased immensely with the collapse ln March of 1975 the Philadelphia Namiþia Namibia and South Africa, and (2) by encouraging Society and Operation Namibia in Philadelphia. of Portuguese colonialism and the subsequent Action Crouþ, committed to waging a campaign of America¡ suppo-r! for United Nations sanctions ":.. nonviolent direct action, called on groups and against South Africa. 10WlN April 22, 1976 Ap1ii22,197ó WtN 11 T

advantage before self-assured, privileged New good feeling and respect for the Weatherwomen, Leftists. lncreasingly, I was drawing life and hope but challenged them to acknowledgg the SANDRAADICKES from the women's movement. Nevertheless, I domination of them by the sexist Weathermen. continued to maintain contact with the New Left She documented the underside of her life with j ln.J uIy,.1967, I attended the SDS sponsored Radi- through an SDS alumniorganization, the New Melville, making explicit what had been implicit cals in the Professions Conference in Ann Arbor, Uníversity Conference. At a meeting at Columbia in her eulogy-that she had participated in Mel- Michigan. I plots dò not remember -uãn of tÉã A¡r- University during the early 1970's, I participated ville's mad bomb because he had , . cussions held or resolutions made in those four in a workshop with women, who like myself, were threatened to leave her, and that the terms of her days; I am-clearer about some of the people who newly admitted academics on the junior faculty relationship with him were degrading as well as attended the conference-stellar maie rád¡cals: ranks. I listened to their discussion of ways to or- endangering. I supported her message to the brilliant, articulate and arrogant, sometimes ganize poor and working class women, and then I women of the left; her vision of Melville and the thinkinE paired with satellite women radicals who later as- asked, "Why aren't we organizing ourselves sexism of radical males, it seemed to me was sumed separate, stellar identities as feminists. around the issues of our job security and clear. But her anger because of what she had al- However, my clearest memories are of the woman etffi"å'."JlTrul lowed to be done to her had resulted, it seemed to who shared a room with me in a University of *u, i g nored; suqh bou rgeo i s ser f - me, in a terrible distortion of her vision in another Michigan dor:mitory- Bernardine Dohrn. interest seemed to appear to theirl to be too area- By the end of the conference, I decided that reactionary to merit an attack. Their refusal to Don't send me any messages about Attica, she Dohrn was one of the brightest people I had ever respond to me did not trouble me-a year of told her sisters in Weatherman: "lwill mourn the about met. ln the meetings I attended where she was consciousness-raising had delivered me from loss of 42 male supremacists no longer." Melville present, hers were the criticisms, opinions and intimidation by the Left- but their stiff resistance and his 41 dead comrades indeed may have been analyses I found most valuable. I enioyed as much puzzled me. They-we-are workers, after all; male supremàcists and worse, þut they were the discussions we had outside the conference what, I wondered, was intervening between that human beings and the event of their deaths was sessions, for Dohrn provided as much revelation perception of themselves and the related need to and remains an atrocity, a brutal act of repression as rhetoric- Moreover, she was friendly; .she did struggle in their-our-own behalf ? by the patriarchal state. Alpert's denial of this fact not-at least in the short time I knew her, display I had the same sense of encountering self- is as lacking in humanity as Bernardine Dohrn's the wary, glaze-eyed two coldness that marked the denial when, in 1972, I read J ane Alpert's intro- endorsement of the Sharon Tate murders. personal style of latter-sixties radicals. I like her duction to Sam Melville's Letters from Attica, When Alpert emerged from the ordeal of lonely and admired her; she was the first woman I had which begins, "l fell in love with Sam Melville on outlawry, she still did not accept her responsibility ever met who was so strikingly a well-grounded a crisp September morning in 1968. . . " ln her for what had happened. I became appreþensive as political scholar and theoretiçian. memoir, Alpert referred to Melville as a life force I watched her talk to Barbara Walters on the I spoke to Bernardine once or twice by tele- figure: a powerfully built man, "the most dynamic Today show, glowing like a bride and describing phone¿fter she returned to New York, but t did man" she had ever met, possessing vitality 4nd her surrender to authority as "the happieit day of wofnen not see her again. And as the Ner,v Left divided ¡t- "innate strength." my life." She was idealistic about her return, self over increasingly isolated and incompre- As the relationship developed, Alpert, charged seeming to act out the fantasy of an errant hensible struggles, Bernardine Dohrn became with Melville's "exciting new vitality," permitted daughter being welcomed back by a loving father. more remote and rirythic to me. Her bizarre " I herself to be persuaded to give up her job, her The state will hot embrace you as a loving father, I endorsement of the Sharon Tate murders ("First apartment, her pursuit of graduatg education, her thought, but as a punishing one, for you werè they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the book collection, and ultimately, he'r personal and convicted of a crime, jumped bail, and the state same room with them, then they shoved a fork into political integrity. lt was distressing to read Al- will seek retribution for your defiance. the victim's stomach! Wild!) estranged her from pert's valedictory to Melville and learn that she Alpert's surrender occurred at a time when I my consciousness. Upon later because of her infatuation a was becoming aware of the lack of a realistic per- reflection, however,' was a fugitive with tlc ít has seemed to me that, as male radicals sought reckless, angry individualist who set bombs, not ception of themselves among feminists I knew in through violence to purge themselves of contempt in response to collective decision, but out of per- academic life. ln my view they identified too for their sissified, privileged upbringing, so sonal whim and pique. Denying to herself what strongly with the values of patriarchal institutions, Dorhn, by championing bestiality against women, she made plain to her readersrthat Melville was and ranked themselves and each other according was perhaps attempting to drive out a demon of a sexist and an adventurer, Alpert eulogized him to a traditional credentialing system. They were self-loathing. as a tragic hero and self-consciously bound herself lulled by a false sense of privilege; the ln this period I was distancing myself from the to a myth of iomantic love. i ndividual i sm of academ ic fem i n i sts prevented New Left, repelled by its machismo and class bias: ln the summ er of 1973, two years after she had them from making themselves politically With the diffidence born of my working class gone underground in order to avoid imprison- effective. I have been distressed by the racism and i background, I have always felt myself ãt a dis- ment, and one year after she had written that class bias that I heard and continue to hear ex- tribute to Melville, Alpert's "Mother Right'1 pressed in feminist groups, but the academy is my Sandra Adickes teactles at Staten tsland Com- statement surfaced in feminist publications. ln the workplace and I shall cgntinue to struggle against munity College. first part of her document, Alpert described her their elitist politics.

Woodcut by Kathe Kollwitz/LNS

12tNlN April22,1976 Aptil22,1976 WIN 13 Phil Ochs. Fhoto bY Diana Davies There's no place in this world where l'tl .. Neverthelers') t naue been angered by the tac- belong'when l'm gone i tics of left-identifying women who viotaie the And I won't know the right from the integrity of feminist groups by operating within wrong when l'm gohe them according to a secret agónäa and Ëporting And you won't f ind me singing oh this back to male radicals. I am tiredof the song when l'm gone Jacobinnical scorn which women of the left, in So I guess llll have to do it while l'm here imitation of their male mentors, heap on "bourgeoise fem in ists. " And I won't feel the flowing of the time I believe that the attack on J ane Alpert wâs when l'm gone most unfair. There was no evidence, after the All the pleasures of love will not be rnine swirl of petitions, for and against Alpert, that'she when l'm gone had collaborated with the FBl. I have discussed My pen won't pour a lyric line Alpert wíth a colleague, a woman I respect. She is. when l'm gone convinced that Alpert has collaborated with the So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here FBl, and has endangered the security of dis- sidents. "But Alpert refused to testify against pat And I won't breathe the bracing air Swinton," I responded; "swinton waikeã wh¡le when l'm gone ç Alpert does hard time." And I ôan't even worry'bout myäares t when l'm gone "She did not take a prinÒipled position," my be asked friend objected; " )ane Alpert is not my sister.',, Won't to do my share when l'm gone But I believe that Alpert, isolated and unsup- So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here p.orled as she has been (l know from my days as a civil rights worker how really frightening it'is 1o be And I wonlt be running from the rain alone-evein for a brief time-in prison; the gone Eernardine Dohrn at the last SDS national conference in when l'm Midnight Specia/ denunòiation of nlpeit to her August, 1969. Photo by David Fenton/ì-NS, And I can't even suffer from the pain fellow prisoners seems to me for that reason to be when l'm gone a gratuitously vicious action), has acted Can't say who's to praise and who's to courageously. I continue to think of her and wish blame when l'm gone her well. So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here t have continued to think of Bernardine Dohrn also, even though it has been almost nine years Won't see the golden of the sun since we briefly met. I would like there to be a when l'm gone time and place where we could be in dialog with And the evenings and the mornings will each other. be one when l'm gone Dohrn and Alpert, underground and in prison, Can't be singing louder than the guns , 1, seem to me to represent the outer reaches of the when l'm gone conflict which is disrupting the women's So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here movement, a conflict which has followed the Oh my.days.won't be dances of delight classic lines of a male power struggle. Feminist when l{m gone politics (even the caf I for the establishment of a And the sands will be shifting from my matriarchal society in Alpert's "Mother Right,, sight when l'm gone statement), are all too often based on a desire, not Can't add my name into the fight to transfôrm the patriarchal state, but to be aci- when l'm gone mitted into privileged it as a class. But women So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here who oppose the oppressive patriarchal state have seen themselves as able to do so only by allying And I won't be laughing at the lies themselves with Satanic male rebels. the cieai¡on when l'm gone myth dies hard, it seems; for we continue to be And I can't question how or when or why torn between god and the devil, our fathers or our when l'm gone lovers. Patty Hearst, Lynette Fromme and Sara Can't be proud enough to die J ane Moore have been recent actofs in this when l'm gone primitive drama. So I guess l'll have to do it while l'm here I believe this conflict is destructive to the in- There's no place in this world where l'll terests of women-indeed of whole I the society. belong when l'm gone believe that we need to understand ourselves ãnd And I won't know the right from the the processes, the motivations which have driven wrong when l'm gone women to the extremit¡es. Our vision of society And you won't find me singing on this must be holistic and utopian before we make.hãrd song when l'm gone choices and issue denunciatioÌls. So I guess lill have to do it while l'm here - Dohrn and Alpert represent the polar regions of the most.important political movements of my own by PhilOchs Phil Ochs committed suicide on Friday life. Neither extreme represents Written my complete Copvr¡ánt Barricade Music ASCAP morning, Aprilg in New YorkCity. He political statement j-that is still gut @ evolving. the was 35 years old. The entire WIN com- politics I am moving toward includes them both munity is deeply saddened by his /oss. and I continue to feel support for each of them.

14VllN April22,1976 April 22, 1926 WIN 15 a' SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL ln LaPlace, at the end of that fhe dooi" in an attempt to get in- WAIK FEEDER BEGINS tribal councilman from Wounded day, what began as a small rally side the lnformation Centèr and ' " àt Knee District; ¡,ur severely , developed into a large, give speeches c and movies and beaten by goons in front of the encouraging group of onlookers distribute anti-nuclear I iterature BIA Law and Order Blde,, âs and participants as Rep. Avery inside 4 . , the building. Two attempts dozòn BIA and FBI agenlé loolied; Alexander joined in the speaking were stopped by PECO officials on. A witness in the murder .; ,' and sínging. The rest of the weel blocking the door. they trial, To entèr, Änna Mae (Aquash) Picteau, was was devoted to workshoos and would have had to push and shove found dead oñ Feb. 24. T.he FBI mobilizing, then the Wãtk took to their way through the doorway, took chárge of the autopsy and the road again on April 12 to behind which were a score ôf ad_ burial, and ruled that the cause of Baton B9.uee. For the next month, ditional employees and sevérãf they will be crossing Mississippi, local police. death was "e¡posure." ln oútrage, her family exhumed her' ', and plan to reach Alabama around After a morning of leafletting ,' body, and a second autopsy, May 15th. im Peck/DAE and talking to visiters to the -f found Center and having extensive arranged by WKLDOC, that Picteau had been shot'to dialogue with PECO officials, the death with a .38 caliber revolver CITIZENS HAVE THE group left for the day. A story fired at point-blank range. When RIGHT TO KNOWALL somewhat favorable to the ."Srtn:. rvc con blorv up rvorld, but if thc the cover-up was made public AEOUT ATOMIC POWER demonstration's position was llu¡¡ion¡ cr¡n bk¡rv rip thc trvicc, rvc'rc with the results of the second published in a widely-distributed Cartoon from LNS. morning. The giant autopsy, the FBI counterattacked twin casings for the local paper two days later, and . Twelve walkers started from primary with a statement that AIM had containmenI vessels of another story and picture ap- a compromise. This conference government-supported violence I(enner,.with Bernard Lee, chief Ph i ladel ph had her killed f,earing she was an ia Electric Company,s peared in a Philadelphia weekly. would be in private, and B-1 op- on the reservation, and a organizer for the Southern atomic plant informer. Such a tactic is under construction Citizens Right Toknow will ponents feel that unless the controlled media blackout of Feeder, Rev. S.C. Harvey, New outside Limerick, Pa., loomed re- reminiscent of those used in the turn weekly to the lnformation Senate vote in May is overwhelm- I ndian struggles nationwide. Orleans SCLC Director, Leon large on New Haven Black Panther Party the hillside behind the Center. Bill Moyer ingly in opposition to the B-1, udge Bogue has consistently Wells, a blind, longtime activist long row - J case in May,1970. of customers forming a there will be no chance of actually attempted to deny witnesses their 5 trom Mississippi, Jim Peck, WRL human billboard along the For.further information, see stoppin g construction. right to representation by National Office Staff person, and wind-swept HOUSE PASSES WlN, 2-19-76, or contact Bruce country road. Their The Nationwide CampaigR says WKLDOC counsel on the grounds Hiroshi Sara, a Buddhist monk you AUTHORIZATION FOR B-1 Ellison, Carl Nadler or ack signs told the story: "Did that now the heat really needs to that the lawyers the "interfering J from Japan and the only person Know: BOMBER CONSTRUCTION Schwartz at WKLDOC Box2307 By 1985 85o/o of Phila's be put on the Senate to not only with the orderly process of , , committed to walk all the way Electricity Rapid City, SD 57701, phone (605) to Will Come From ln the most signif icant vote on reject the B-1 in the floor vote, but justice. " Later, Bogue refused to Washington Nuclear 348-5846. Plants?", "Did PE Ask military spending in years, the to reject it in the closed,joint con- appoint the defendants attorneys .Soon the walkers were You?" Ernest , "1976, Let the People House of Representatives cleared ference as well. of their choice, and appointed -WKLDOC/Dwight confronted by Kenner police, who 'Decide ('Liie About Nukes," and the way April I for authorized For more information on the local attorneVs not associated with asked them to leave thil highway. Deatþ: g. ' Why Should PE Decide?,, funds to begin construction of the fight against the B-1 construction, WKLDOC. One óf these court -t' While tee negotiated, the rest Thè.vigilers were part of the most expensive weapons syste¡n write to the Nationwide Campaign appointed lawyers admitted he sang "Ain't Conna Let Nobodv Citizens' . R¡eht To Know All ever conceived-the B-1 bombår. to Stop the B-1 Bomber, 235 W. was a neighbor and friend of one Turn Me Around," which About Nuclea-r ÉvENTS Power's attemDt to Although the B-1 stillfaces a 49th St., New York, NY 10017, or ,, of the dead agents, while the apparently convinced the police enter Philadelphia l[YC-"Forced-Labor Camps in the Electric Senate authorization vote in mid- phone (212) 371-7188. other told his forced client that he ¿ not to. After a slight delav, (PECO) People's Republic of China," talk and - thev Company's " lnforma- N-{iy, and money has not yet been -LNS disliked lndians, and hated the discussion, Freespace Alternate U, 339 were allowed to proceed.- tion" Center at the plant sight on off icial ly appropriated, th'e American lndian Movement. Both 23, .i The day ended with singing Lafayette St., Apr. 8:30 pm. of Saturday morning, March 1,1976. 210-117 vote April I rejecting an defendants are members of "We JUDGE RAILROADS NATIVE AlM. IrtYC-Debate and films ("Waìes of ShallOvercome" on the Citizens Right To Know amendment to delay construètion ','ì lawn Ârr¡eR¡cnns AccusED tN FBI , At the pre-trial hearing, Bogue Revolution," and "Decade of Achieve- .'i of the home of Gary Tyler,, (composed mostlv of members of of the B-1 until February oÍ 1977 is PINE RIDCE SLAYINCS refused to change the venue ment") on human rights in India. , : Black frameup victim on Déath' the Philadelphia Movement For A crucial. lt now appears likely that of the Row prison trial, or even to hear arguments Sponsored by \Yashington Square in Angola awaiting a New.Society) is trying to get construction of the first three Chapter of Amnesty International. Loeb The two defendants accused in the on the question, despite the newtrial. Then, unexpectedly, a PECO to tell the public as much B-1s, at a cost of nearly Student Center, 566 LaGuardia Place, $1 billion, killing of two FBI agents last precedent the Means-Banks Black State Trooper who hdd' about the dapgers of nuclear willbegin in November. of Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 pm. accompanied summer on the Pine Ridge trial being moved to St. Paul, and the Walk through energy as it presently promotes it. The Senate authorization vote IIYC-Lova Eliay,'Member Israel's Reservation go to tríal on APril 19 the dismissal of a similar case in the Kenner incident assertedlhat ln the lnformation Center, the on the B-1 bomber is due to take Knesset and Israèl's leading dove, "FoI in Rapid City, South Dakota' the "more liberal" eas.tern half he was on the side of the walkers, groups wants half the speeches, place in mid-May and Senator of ah Israeli Peace Initiative, Now!" SAJ,' Darrelle Dino Butler and Robert the state. Bogue also refused and had himself participated in gadgets, movies and hândouts io Ceorge McCovern has already to 15 West 86 St.. April 22, 8 pm. For more . t of- E. Robideau face not orilY double from (212)724-7000 freedom marches. He received be anti-nuclear and advocate al- fered remove himself the case, info call John Ruskay an amendment rejecting the counts of f irst degree murder, but enthusiastic applause. lt was later ternatives despite a stack of evidentiary ,NYC-Monday, pm. A and electrical conser- $1 billion needed to begin con- also a concerted government Apr. 19, 4 com- learned that he was materials documenting his 'memorative ceremony marking the 33rd the first Black vation as well. Citizens Right To struction of the B-1. Actording to thern their to be strategy to deny prejudice and bias against the de- anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Up, employed as a Louisiana ' Know believes that PECO has a the Nationwide Campaign to Stop a fair Constitutional rights to trial fendants, AIM (which he has rising will be held in honor of Jewish State Trooper. moral responsibility to tell the the B-1, the Senate stands a and effective assistance of counsel termed an organization of partisans, ghetto fighters and victims of Despite the fact that on the public all about atomic power and chance of passing the McCover.n The defense team from "hoodlums, "hotheads," and the Nazi holocaust. The ceremony will third day only seven walkers if the citizenry learned about the amendment " (near Wounded Knee Legal Defense/ "criminals"), WKLDOC, and be held in Riverside Park 83 St.) continued on, the group remained dangers, they would force an im- Since the amendment contra- Offense Committee has had to counsel TBOSTON-Sun., Apr. 18, Rabbi' enthus¡ast¡c, singing f mediate local WKLDOC Jack reedom moratorium on atomic dicts the House's previous combat tight Balfour at the Com- songs most an unrealisticallY Schwar:tz and Bruce Ellison. Brickner speaking of the day, energy. authorization, if it is passed, the bY munity Church of Boston's annual reminiscent court schedule imposed ln the meanlime, violence on of 60's freedom Alleyes followed a smaller Senate and House would go into a Federal udge Bogue, Easter-Passover Service. Apr. 25, marches. group J Andrew the reservation continues. Six as it walked up the path to closed conference to hammer out severe obstailes to pretrial in- FatherJames Sinnott, "Anothèr War in people have been killed in the past Korea?'l Morse Auditorium, 602 Com- vesti gations because of 16 WIN April 22, 1976 two months , and iack Steele, monwealth Ave.

April22,1976 WIN 17 AFTER YOU'RE OUT A number of people jf on the stage and in serious need of Karla & Allen Young, editors if :îlåiiîiJj!,"t il":ïËË,TJ3,'gil:1T;ïilå6R Uontinental Walk Jay for PRISON NOTES moneyl Send a contribution to the Links / 1975 / 296 pp. / 94.95 paper larly in carrying over values from the dominant ¡ L Disarmament and Social model: the nuclear family-role playing J ustice National Committee to Free J.B. our,rela- ,rrr ge organizing support for Cary After You're Out is a collection of essays from the tionships where one person is more dependent than Johnson, PO Box 4713, St. Lòuis, quite good, a few L¿' I aylor, gay move4ent. Most are .l a seventeen_year_old Missouri6310B. liberation .the other. Or the emphasis on youth and beauty in ,, black student now on death row at ãró excellent, they/cover an irnmense range of topios the gay community. tj ôlgola, Louisiana, convicted of The Leavenworth Brothers are and raise many questions: they problemi of lesbians pãoóle who see ihemselves as gay and revolu- Í 7 I still facing killing a white high school harassment within the and gay men wo.rking'togetheri 1ngnogaryy vs' non- tionary must continually struggle against the cultural student. federal prison bi-sexuality and our V I system. The evidence used to Jesse monogamy, sexism and racism, values of straight society. As Karla J ay said in an J Lopez was given cgnvi.c! Taylor was highly ques_ ' an additional two own siereotypes of ourselves. Some are celebrations article in this collection. ã tionable, yet he faces execution years for assault because of an in_ ôf gay life and some are horror stories of unbeliev- It's been my experience thatsex is the last area in V May 5 unless public pressure ore_ cident involving a prison official ablè cruelty and homophobia. Some discuss legal I reconcile the difÍerences between t vents this murder in the name of who had testified against the and medical problems specific to gay people. which we our political ideals and our personal actions. And in no ,i the state. Letters of support mãy brothers, an incideñt which had Coming out is an important step, necessary to a ¡-rl i lr be sent to his attorney: jack all the earmarks of a set-up. 'process of growing self-awareness and self-accep- other area have I seen such hypocritical dichotomies H- ri between people preach and what they actually lt Peoples, 1006 Baronne blds.. ¡Os Alfred Jasper was finally ieleased tance of one's gayness. "Coming out is a great cele- .what tj il from segregation in do. For example, I know several men who decrv _B^a19pne St., New Orleans,-Lá. in Lewisburg bration of human freedom the ediþrs say the s/eep o nly with young 7O112; or to Cary,s sister-in-law. Amnesty lnternational continues but two months later he *as l.ã- introduction. But coming out is afteh all only a f irst ase¡t-,-bitinei tnàmteiues f Í 7 Mrs. M.J . Sims, 2677 Orchard tí1 its program for the worldwide turned and charged on a three- step. The importance of this book is that it deals with jy3?å5i.? ' "á"ii i o n t h o s e,o, nt Los Angeles, Ca. 90009. abolition of torture, with current count indictment with attempt to whât follows coming out. After you are out, you still fl"J'.l1i"iï :j Ë' uv!, is"w not gay (r emphasis on the incredible situa- escape and possession of a have to live and def ine a lifestyle. While coming out dictions. The essence of liberation legal i Word from that same Angola tion Uruguay, a country weapon. The judge is personally liberqting, it creates its own problems. I _in which threw out one ¡ Prison tells of medieval until a few years count and an jury after you come out to yourself and your :t'jlìi[:"":Ë!,îH::'åi';^:':$:lËif ,l3l,åïî,,, I cóndi- ago had a all-white For e¡ample, Ò tiÒns, so bad that officials are reputation as the most acquitted him on both the others, close friends, do you tell your family? And how do yo liberation from the destructive and inhuman values that world. To do that we must f irst destroy our il- under court order not to admit anv progressive nation in South . though two prisoners tried with do it? Do you leave your Cay Liberation on your of prisoners : ,lusions and myths of who we are. We have to build new until the living co¡_ America. Using the pretext of him were convicted. Both Jesse jacket, accidentally? Or do you say, "Mom, I have . own culture and create our own morality. And ditions.are improved. nngolã iJ combatting armed subversion, the Lopez and Alfred Jasper are now something to tell you about my roommate, Janie." ' our like are a good Kelly sti I I un bearably overcrowãed. military government is subjeciing in maximum security atMarion, And do you tell your employer? or feel rotten be- books this start, -Lorraine with inadequate medical facitities many peaceful dissenters to lllinois, without many of the usúal cause you can't tell your mother or your employer? headed by a single doctor who was savage torture. Amnesty lnter- .privileges which prisoners have in Rieht now I am in a living/working situation where convicted of malpractice in national has reliably documented general population. you can write I can-be completely out-but I remember the pain of After You're Out is Karla J ay & Allen Young's Florida, the food is of poor 22 deaths by torture in Uruguay. to them personally, and should being in the closet (and the anger at being f ired once sequel to their highly successf ul Out of the C/osets. quality, improperly prepared and For more information or to also write to Norman Carlson, afteil came out to an employer). I know that iust The earlier anthology is my favorite gay book, cap- he.avy on pork, which many of the contribute funds for this very im- Director of the Federal Bureau of anger is much better than pain andfear and I know turing the excitement of the radical gay liberation prisoners do not eat. Those in portant campaign write: Amnestv Prisons, Washington DC, thalt I never want to experienee the horror of being in. movement that sprang up following Stonewall. The *. maximum security and on death lnternational 2112 Broadway, protesting their being held in the closet again. Allen Young in his article, "Human new anthology ref lects a movement less visible, less -Þ , row are usually handcuffed and New York, NY 10023. , ísolation. ldentity and Cay ldentity" puts it this way: radical. I thirtk it pictures well the reality of today's shackled when they are out , gay scene, containing rnuch that is thotful & of Apparently The priceof suppress ing one's identity, the price of their.cells, where they Writing on theOp-Ed page of the officials at San provocative. lt's must reading for every gay person. are con- closetry, is a very high price to paY.'We have all fined 23 hours of New York Times, Kelsey Quentin believe that Eugene V. A major theme of the book is how lesbians & gay each day. This closet in one form or another, and we information Kauffman, a former correctional Debs' spirit is still subversive and known'the wor.k if at all. Or maybe it's just comes from öolonel g,ay . - is a men can together, ,,1 officer, reveals how prisons dangerous. When Alvin abhor it. The experience known as pride. Nyati Bolt, who also wrote; am insti- Stalcup of that l'm particularly attuned to this, since here at tutionalize the guards as Santa Rose, California sent a direct response to the dismal c/oset experience' serving a total of 45 years well as cöpy' WIN we've been grappling \^,ith the problem of how for the prisoners. crime of Armed Robbery the Kauffman urges of Debs' Walls and Bars (now The essays in this book strike a balance in to continue to include the wonderful writings & in- without people available parole or pardon. Louisiãna to "look beyond the guard in paperback through weighing how far we have come in the past few years sights of some of our feminist sisters (including re- problems WIN) mains the only state to see the inherent in to the prison library, it was vis-ã-vis our continuing oppression. The fact that Kai"la) who have doubts (or worse) about working with such incarceration, returned. sentencing for armed robbery. which include the A letter to Covernor more books by and for gay people are being pub- with WlN. The longest piece in the book is a discus- brutalization Edmund The population here at Angoia of both the guard C. Brown, Jr. brought a lished in itself indicates that we have, indeed, "come sion on gay men & women working together by and the inmate." The response from a counsel to consists oÍ 86o/o Blacks, 14o/o fault, he the a long way." Yet eVen in this anthology about being Karla, Allen, Rose Jordan & Morty Manford, all f inds, is the "basic character Department of Corrections which Whites. There has been, ancl still of out of the closet, one of the articles is written veteran gay activists. l'm not sure they come to any prisons themselves.', read in part: "Froin the samples ¡gmail attempts to bring about anonymously. We have to remember that in America conclusions-in fact, they more or less get in a of Mr. Debs'writings which you the-Supreme Unity here among all prlsoners. J.B. Johnson won a partialvictory in lcjTø our lifestyle is illegal, Court wrangle-but important insights are strewn along enclosed with your letter I must 29,1976 that states may bu_t so far things are hard, and ihe in February when th'e Missouri having ruled on March the way. The point is well made how difficult it is agree with the prison iibrarian prosécute people homosexual acts, a officials have many ways lo keep Supreme Court prevented St. for committing for men & women to work together-even in situa- that such writings could tend to when done in private by con- this unity from growing. There' Louis County Court udge Wil- even such acts are tion where everybody's struggling to.combat J incite certain of our inmates to a long way yet go. remains the inmate-guard liam Corrigan from ordering him senting adults. So we have to sexism-without women being oppressed in a violence. They therefore would had ruled the systems. They are not allowed to to stand trial without William Even if the Supreme Court otherwise, hundred subtle & not so subtle.ways. not be appropriate in the prison remains identity is considered carry gu.ns any more but they still Kunstler, who heads his defense fact that our sexual Karla makes the point: library." The story was reported perverse and bv most people in this society. are used to beat, and in somó team. Johnson, whose earlier life ' immoral Women exciudingmen is differentfrom men ex- cases set-up in the Progressive, which com- Finally, an important aspect of this book is that it killings of other sentence for participating in a cluding women. . . because men excluding women mented: "Cene Debs would be so only details of gays by the prisoners for officials. . . so robbery was set not the oppression gay aside by the same pleased to know that he is still a reinforces our oppression. We don't oppress Angola is a long way from Missouri Supreme Court, males as able to exclude had to subversive force after 50 years- Lorraine Ke//v is at the Catholic Worker farm in they do us, so we shou/d be changing to the betterment of draw on his them, defense fund for this and so sad to see how little change Tivoli; Mark úlorris is Sorilewhere in New Mexico, butthey should notexclude us. those who stay here confined in struggle to get legal aid his of there has been in America." plu.mbing the mysteries of adobe. Ann Davidon That's true. Contrary to what I gew up believing, the cells and dormitory.,, choice. His case is in a crucial -- Larry Gara wntes frequenily tor these pages. what's sauce for the goose is not necessarily sauce 1E WIN April 22, 1976 APrí|22,1926 WIN 19 I These musings were precipitated by a play ! for the gander. The struggle ag4inst the oppression . at the oï women seems increasingly central to me. I wel_ Theatre de Lys called Medalof Honor Rag. (i almost I come this book's contributioñs on this subject. wrote "Rage," which seems more appropriate.) I at- Thinking L¡ke A Woman , About half the articles are reprinted from gay tended it because the National Committee for Uni- publications_& pamphlets. The'othert príntãd versal and Unconditional Amnesty (NCUUA) spon- .here by Leah Fritz for the f irst time. Space is carefullv"." divided sgred q benefit performance the day after the annual WRL (WRL 'between the writings of lesbians & gay men. A few dinner Chairperson and NCUUA director 1îl $/ith an articles_are anonyrnous, but most are 6y people who lrmaZigas presiding at both). Essentiallv there are afterword two are up fr.ont about tfreir gayness. The pôlit¡ci of all- characters: the white psychiatrist anä the black Barbara Demlng the articles is good: theyrre well chosen to-fiãló patient, D.J . (Thethird member of the câst; John radicalize gay readers who haven't thot thru the Yates, enacts a military guard but has no further'.' implications of the self ish, superf icial, wishv-washv function.) The psychiatrist (David Clennon) has been -'-.. compiling her essays from the mid-'60's tg present, Leah Fritz has attitudes & behavior of mûch bf ' called to the Valley Forge Veterans' Hospital to treat 'dared]n ¡he the eáv *o.id. expose prolress toward feminism of her own intrepid soul. Even : ' The first'of the book's three sectiois'is a special medal-of-honor veteran (Howard E. I the devoted to when that journey wound through false consciousness (as in the earlier first-person descriptions of gay lifestyles, selected Rollins; J r.) who is suffering from depression. The to pieces, which are vulnerably-and courageously-included), her own humtor richness & diversity. ln specif ic dialogue, unbroken by an intermission, is intense . +ory.Cay. ways it and humanity were irrepressible. And the later essays, on women anid details what it's like to be gay, both the pteasures & and authentic, yet not grim. lt is relentiessly en- the pains. gaging, with bitter flashes of humor sparked violënce, and on feminism vs. sociarism, are a triumph of consciousness, endurance, love and plain Morgan ln the second section, "survival in a Hostile naturally by the exchange, not dragged in for comic goodwriting. -Robin 'World," gay people write about their interactions relief though they have this beneficial effect. with the larger society. lt's mostly about homo- The 50-minute psychiatrist's hour becomes Ihis . ., col lection of 1 0 years' worth of essays extends trom peace marches to phobia-the. weird & vicious forms it takes; inspiring stretched to well beyond an hour as they pokeand the sexual revolution to some of the bi¡ll¡ant and seniible ainalyses of probe ways o'f combatting it. Shows how far we,ve come &- each other, like two different species caged patriarchy l've ever read.... Leah Fria rs one of the most importantthinkers how far we have go, together. Their verbal sparring is at times like the to come out of the women's movement, and, hence, out oÍ the entire still to ending with a useful wfr cftørw:rd ! bcrbcc danrç "lqçkgt Legal Cuide for Cay peoþ|e.,, choreography of agile boxers, sometimes like the revolutionary struggle. -Karen Lindsey, Boston Phoenix The last section, "Creating Community and chary approaches of two cripples. Cradually, by fits ;Helping Ourselves," deals with issues wíthin the and starts, they begin to reach each other, to expose Distributed by WIN Books and Free Life Editions Paperback, 160 pages, S3.25 gay world: gay therapists, racism, alcoholism & the themselves. We become aware of the veteran's Viet- like. A wonderf ul article by Charley Shively teils the nam trauma, his heroic act of mayhem in wild re- hassles'of v_enge for the incineration of the buddies in his unit; Order from: þvr Ê thé colleitively eciited a óroducãl wrN Fag Rag. Two horrifying articlei detail syñrptoms & the alternate neglect and recognition on his reiurn, the medal of honor for Box 547 dangers of venerdal disease (after reading them, I the actb that tore him from his Published by winboOks didn't even want to shake hands.) mother's teachings. Rifton, NY 12471 The only cr¡ticism of the book t have is the short The psychiatrist too reveals his own experience: as shrift give.n the p.roblems of aging. There is only one a Jewish child in Poland he had been artibrarily * brief article. lt's by an anonymous woman, Riki'. She saved while most of the J ews around him were .3 .t, identif problems murdered. We could perhaps believe his story Ð We'll Give You the Shirt ies the but doesn't go into them. better d Ways if he were played by á less WRSp¡sn she suggests for combatting them strike me as actor, but Då/id : ,: superficial (a Clennon eventually manages to compel one's belief, Off Our Backs at best nonprofit old-folks, home for =d lesbians)- From my vantage point the gay world if only by the nervous intensity of his own. Both o t ö ,: for Four Bucks. seem i n g actors seem fully involved in parts s nf uf iati ly _& sen seless ly youth-ôriented, their and Howard even more so than the general culture. Maybe in a Rollins, never in Vietnam himself, lives the role as if ù few years it were part of his own life. (Both actors, at the ' Karla & Alleñ will be able to deaiwith .tt New! T-Shirts from WlNt ageism as f ully & as thotfully as they have with the NCUUA reception afterwards, expressed strong wide range of other gay topics in this excellent book. feelings of identification with these demanding- ¡ roles. Availabte only in Yellow, with Blue silk-screened Mark Morris ) design, in Adult sizes Large, Large, Medium' Although their dialogue is more a powerful contest Extra and Small, Ch¡lds' sizes Medium (8-10 years old) and of rivals than a one-sided analysis, the end result is MEDAT OF HONOR RAG Small (6-7 years old.) Tom Cole not bloodshed but a tentative trust. But other chaotic forces past and present outside thei r cloi síered. Directed by David Chambers / Performed by David - - yest I want have hour prove stronger, and D.J . does not reti¡rn for his I a WIN T-shirt on mi back! I Clennon, Howard Rollins Jr., John Robert Yates / enclosed next appointment, moving on instead to his own $4 for each one. Total enclosed: i Theatre de Lys, Christopher St., NYC (ma¡:k quantity destruction. There is an anti-climactic quality in the ,l Please send me: desired) The more that communications increase, the more author's device psychiatriit I of having the step out- Adult XL we seem to be reduced to schizophrenic inner side the play to tell us this, yet it returns us to the _Adult L _Adult M dialogue. TV, movies, radio, newspapers, books, documentary reality. A neat and happy ending is not I mach i nes, mass mai I i n gs - everlth in g conspi res to written into that reality. _AdultS- _ChildM _Ch¡ldS assault us with more information and sensation than Tom I Cole, film and story writer who wrote the Name: we can assimilate. We begin to talk to ourselves, award-winning novel "An End to Chivalry," pains- sometimes the other self is in the form of a which, in I takingly constructed this moving dialogue Addres s psychiatrist, and even the psychiatrists break down. its necessarily limited and modest way, has more ln the midst of all this our breakdowns themselves power of truth in ít than most of the slick elaborate I are communicated to us, the sick are revealed as productions zip: of Broadway and Hollywood-a time- I healthy and the healthy sick, while society gets worn cliche which is alas, or perhaps hooray, still sicker and the media get I richer. applicable. -Ann Morrissett Davidon W|N / Bgx547 / Rifton, NY 12471 20WrN Aþr¡122, 1976

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