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BLOOD SPILT ON DOW See Pages 2,3 ItAUidoscopE JH milwaukee, Wisconsin member; underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) Vol. II, No. 10 (#35) Mar. 28 - Apr. 10, 1969 Paine, the Boston Tea Party, Ho, who have crossed state lines with Che, Fidel, Huey, Eldridge, intent to create civil disturbance: by Jerry Rubin Lenny Bruce , Walter Cronkite, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the This is the greatest honor of and last but not least — Richard late Marilyn Monroe, rock bands, my life* It is with sincere hu­ J. Daley* the President of the United mility that I accept this federal I realize the competition was States, and Joe Namath. indictment. |f It is the fulfillment fierce, and I congratulate the And you know who else is of childhood dreams, climaxing thousands who came to Chicago• guilty? The hippies who dressed years of hard work and fun. I hope that I am worthy of this in psychedelic Indian clothes, 1 wish to thank all those who great indictment, the Academy boarded British ships, and threw made it possible: my mother, my Award of Protest. tea overboard in 1773! They father, brother, wife Nancy, Wi thirty indictment I join the crossed state lines with intent to Stew and Gumbo, Spartacus, Tom list of outstanding world figures Contd. pg. 3 •ifcsso* "asar,' ^A^SE 2 TMfch^8l»*»7^rtl&^);! 1969 1^??DO$COPE An Open Letter to the Corporations of America IETITS from the Washington 9: Today, March 22, I969, in the Washington office of the Dow Chemical Company, we spill human blood and destroy files and office equipment. By this action, we condemn you, the Dow Chemical Company, and all similar American Corporations. We are outraged by the death-dealing exploitation of people of the Third World, and ; of all the poor and powerless who are victimized by your profit-seeking ventures. Con­ sidering it our responsibility to respond, we deny the right of your faceless and in­ human corporations to exist: you, corporations, who under the cover of stockholder and executive anomymity, exploit, deprive, dehumanize and kill-in search of profit; you, corporations, who contain (or control) Americans and exploit their exaggerated need for security that you have helped to create; you, corporations, who numb our sensitivity to persons, and capitalize on our concern for things. Specifically, we warn you, the Dow Chemical Company, that we will no longer tol­ erate your refusal to accept responsibility for your programmed destruction of human life. You, stockholders and Company executives alike, are so willing to seek profit in the production of napalm, defoNants, nerve gas, as in the same spirit you.co-operated with the I. G. Farben Company, a chemical manufac­ turer in Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. You, who without concern for development for other nations or for their rights of self-determination, maintain 100% control over subsidiaries in more than twenty nations. You, who, in the interest of profit, seek to make it the military interest of the United States to suppress the legitimate national desires of other peoples. Your product is death, your market is war. Your offices have lost their right to exist. It is a blow for justice that we strike today. In your mad pursuit of profit, you, and others like you, are causing the psychological and physical destruction of mankind. We^urge all to join us as we say "no" to this madness. (Signed) Rev. Robert T. Begin Rev. Bernard E. Meyer Rev. Joseph F. O'Rourke, S.J. Rev. Michael R. Dougherty, S.J. Rev. Dennis J. Moloney Mr. Michael Slaski Sr. Joann Malone, S.L. Rev. Arthur G. Melville »- Mrs. Catherine G. Melville (see story on page 3) Campus Spring Offensive In i High Gear By Jeff Gerth developing: r is i ng militancy at aratism of blacks broke down. locally oriented, the student body cial roles, they challenge Ameri­ On Nov. 6, 1968, the San black universities and the emer­ Much like African revolution­ is drawn from a less prosperous ca's entire social and economic Francisco State strike started; gence of organizational forms(us- aries, Nkrumah and Kenyatta, economic background and the pre­ structure and the function of the over the next four months it help­ ually Black Student Unions) for third world revolutionaries in the vailing philosophy of education is university as a means of produc­ ed to precipitate the largest con­ blacks at white campuses. Black United States have begun to use generally much less touched by tion within that structure. As the centration of nationwide student campuses, starting with Fisk and their Western educations to be­ "liberalism" than that of the elite student movement begins to ques­ revolts in American history. Texas Southern in 1967 and cul­ come liberators, not oppressors of schools. tion its privileged position in so­ In the time since Nixon's elec­ minating with Howard and Tus- their people. The more elite a school, the ciety, " i t opens the way for the tion there have been 86 disrup­ kegee in early 1968(were de­ As the "gap between the students more geographically diverse the student movement to become a tive5 actions at 78 schools involv­ manding educational self-deter­ and the community has decreased, student body. With a greater social movement. ing almost 50,000 participating mination and an end to the train­ the potential for community sup­ percentage of the student body An attack on the elite univer­ students of whom over 2,000 have ing of "house niggers." The tre­ port of student demands has in­ coming from nearby communities, sities is an attack on the corpor­ been arrested. Underlying the mendous repressive reaction of creased. An upcoming report on non-elite universities invite more ations which run America:' the growing unrest on America's col­ those in power against these de­ the S. F. State strike commissioned community related protests than directors of the top twenty indus­ lege campuses are new develop­ mands for change (tragically sym­ by Rev. Charming Phillips found the elite schools. Thus recent trial firms as listed in Fortune ments: the shift of the black li­ bolized by the three deaths in that the "black community is uni­ antiwar protests have been at elite Magazine hold a total of sixty Orangeburg, South Carolina) did beration struggle from the ghetto ted against the college and the schools like Oberlin, Dartmouth, trusteeships at major universities. a lot to narrow the class sepa­ to the campus, and the expansion state administration.. .with com­ Washington University and North­ A recent Educational Testing Ser­ ratism between lower and middle of the white student movement plete support of the TWLF de­ western. It is also not surprising vice survey of 5,000 trustees at class blacks. from the elite universities to non- mands. ..and less than unanimity that third world students at Uni­ 500 schools presents the following elite schools. As Stokely Carmichael and Rap on the tactics being used*" versity of California at Berkeley profile of these businessmen pos­ The visible focus of the black Brown tried to radicalize middle Increased militance by blacks (most of whom are not from the ing as educators: liberation struggle has shifted from class black students, they began on campuses has been accom­ community) found much less com­ One third of them are over 60 the ghettos to the schools. in 1967, to organize BSUs on panied by increased white mili­ munity support than S.F. State years old. Over half of them The real meaning of this shift- white campuses. These organiza­ tance: stationary actions such strikers. Permanent organization­ have incomes over $30,000. Forty is the breakdown of class separa­ tional forms remained inactive for as mass sit-ins, resulting in mass al links between community and per cent think student newspapers tism among younger blacks and the most part, because blacks arrests (a la Columbia, Michi­ student groups are much more should be censored. Sixty-nine the spread of revolutionary con­ were isolated and not ready to gan, Illinois, CCNY) have al­ likely to form at non-elite uni­ per cent think campus speakers sciousness from the lower classes act. most disappeared, whole hit and versities. A good example., is the should be screened. Fifty-three to the middle classes. The ghet­ Within the space of one month run actions have increased. The nascent radical political organi­ per cent favor loyalty oaths for to riots of 1964-65 were a major (April 68) the black campus move­ notion of major actions taking zation of the Chinese-American professors. Only 15 per cent des- force behind-the increased black ment erupted, first at Howard, place only in the spring has been community flowing out of the S. F. cribe themselves as "liberals," (mostly middle class) enrollments then at Tuskegee, finally at Col­ destroyed: In February, 9,000 State strike. and half of the executives who at .white universities starting in umbia. people marched in sub-zero wea­ The expansion of the student are trustees agree that "running 1966.. The tendency for these The SAS (Students Afro-Ameri­ ther in Wisconsin. movement into non-elite schools black students to assimilate was ca n Society) at Columbia acted a college is like running a busi­ represents the beginning of a mass made easier by their relative iso­ spontaneously only after whites Non - Elite Revolt ness. " attack on higher education in lation at white schools from the had initiated the struggle and re­ But the trustees of America's Just as the black student move­ America:' ghetto community. Counteract­ mained a I oof throughout the strike.

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