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/ I f { -:e: .\j -g; i " F i I I agree cprnpletelywith Marty Jezer's enoughtodeal with withoutthattoo.,, ' UNINDICTED afticle "The End of Do-Your-Own- And probably they did. Thev too were; products ofthat same sesreäated svstem CO.CONSPIRATORS Thing Ddmonstrations" [WIN, I and had no l0/14/76).Ironically, when I read it I basis on whic-h to"recogrii"e lan Barrv o LanceBelville o MarisCakars* these kids o erry o Lynne Shatzkin Coffin* had just finished participating in a as only kids, and no des"ire or ijusan Cäkars* J Coffin' mental energy to stretch Ann Davidon o Diana Davies Ruth Dear blatantly Do-You-Own-Thing demo: The their minds ' o William Douthard* around the problem. Raloh DiGia* ' Br¡an Doherty Continental lYalk bust at the-Pentagon. I Kaien Durbin* o Chuck Fager o Seth Foldy November 18,1976/ Vol. Xll, No. 39 (Lrtt} Integration ofretarded o r Hawk* would estimate at least half of us diãn't kids into lim Forest Larry Cara Jìan Libby "regular" class rooms for ârt, music and Ñeil Haworth o Ed Hedemann o Crace Hedemann even know people were being arrested. . Becky ohnson phys. ed and occasionally Hendrik Hertzberg* Marty J ezer* ' J In the planning session the eienins be- ' reading was Nancv lohnson t Paul Johnson ¡ Alison Karpel 4. The Women: lreland's Third Force / Charles O'Flaherty =I cautiously being promotêd o fore we were tõld by the organizerlthat bv thãprinci- Craig Karpel lohn Kyper . Eliot Linzer* I pal of one school Mac Low David McReynolds-' 9. Reconciliation and Vietnam Scudder H. Parker ' the only possibility-of arres-t was over the in which I taïeht. with iackion ' / the hesitant and sometimes co- i4arvMavo' DavidMorris' MarkMórr¡s* issue of whether we could walk in the reãentful TadRichards' tgalRoodenko* 12. AnOpen Letter to the Move ment / Mabël OodSà Ar¡Cade operation of some of the staff, l¡mÞeck' street. I felt that I was ordered around bv At the Êrädnor"n ¡ NancvRosen. EdSanders '14. same . Art Waskow Tax alk Susan Wilkins the marshalls and never consulted aboui time, in the same school, another wãndv Schwa.tt* Martha Thomases ' f / group was being segregated Beveriy Woodward anything. The organizers had six bull_ outofthe 16. Changes regular classroom: the *Memberof WIN Editorial Board horns; the least tñey could have done dyslexics. & I myself am in a here: 18. Reviews Marta Daniels, Sam Loveioy, Jean Pelletiere was to tell the rest olus that Deoole were bind it,s like the / being a-rgument of the general practitioner vs. WIN is published every Thursday except for the first Peg.Averill arrested, that if we waiteã tã;oin March, the second the specialst. Some gifteã Gp's can week in Januarv, the last week in them to come forward; if not. to stad week in May, the last two weeks ¡n August, the f irst two Peg handle anything. gifted Cover: Women's Peace Movementdrawing by Averill' back; It was chaotic and condescenäirrr. Some teachers weeks in Seótember and the last week in DecemÛb(by can too. Most teachers aren't Magazine, with the support of the War I hope we can learn valuable lessons - gifted. W.l.N. lnc. I Most of them have no contact ü¡ith Resisters League. Subscriptions are $'1-,l.00 per year. fromthe Clamshell Altiance andmake class paid ãt New York, NY 10001 and 503 Atlantic Ave. / Sth FI. iSTAFF people with handicaps, never mind Second oiostaee our future demonstrations disciplined additional ma¡l¡ne- òffices. lndividual writers are Brooklyn, NY 11217 PegAverill o Ruthann Evanoff anddemocratic. training in the kind ofelastic teaching or responsible for opiñions expressed and accuracy of facts -JEAN'EAGEN behavior that might have tobe practiied given. Sorrv-manuscripts cannot be returned unless Telephone: (212) 624 -8337 | Suõan P.ines o Murray Rosenblith IowaCþ, lA t,".Ë;1,:äì;'i,gi in an integrated classroom. ãccompanied by a self-address"O, 624-8595 Special thanks.to Stuart Katz I remember the anxiety, and e\¡entual anger, ofone teacher toward a girl who . was already legally blind and wóuld eventually have no sight. The teacher Once thete was a Unicell which knew couldn't handle the "problem" and lost I would like to take issue with parts of,the diversionary; whenwe have such abase a was a very important thing sight of the girl as a little kid. article by Rick Boardman [WIN, it becomes tiime to make (nonviolent) that Unicell . r to be. Its first act was to leap so high So I get to speciality schools, and have ll / 4 /761. I agree with Rick that we revolution, (more even than the JumPing no real handle on the issues here. What should not pfüicipate in elections now. In any case it is heartening to know bouncy in a single bound it cir- happens to all those graduates ofschools At present, minor parties, as they are that the svstem doesn't work. Bean's) that "-STEVEN SPACE, and, inevitably, its for the blind or deaf? What educational called, at best coridone the system and at JOSEPH BELLING cumscribed contents. excellence do they offer bv consresatins worst make the participants look silly. Keukauna' IVI54130 entire Unicell was so small that for fear it like kids and like úeacheritogeitrerin - People like Brother Kirþatrick and might get lost on its vast parabola it bor- one place? There must havebeen some- Margaret Wright are wasted as political rowed in a twinkling the vesture of thing to itfor ittobecome so popular. candidates. True they get some time to nature-stats, winil, oceans, trees. In But it does the rest ofus no góoã: out of air their views, for example the PBS 1t, way it accomplished a lot of shrewd sight, out of mind. No contaõt equals no . . .is acandidate, too," but this sefies ", investisatine. understanding. when they do they are put in the same Wheir Uni-cell came home to its point i There was a blind kid in that samé category with such as Lester Maddox of origin, it brought back with i! a'heap of at WIN as a combination news- town but not in the public schools. The and Lyndon Larouche. decisi-ons it had taken people aeons to md continuing state, town and parents paid for segre- ln this past election, my candidate, debate. reach, and not too many people at that rticle on gating him out. î didn't tiink the kiã Nobody, ivas phenomenaily successful "Handicapism" IIryIN, (at least not at fïrst). Unicell's biggest 6) stirred up some old feelings ih ought t_o go out of town and said so. If you in her and his campaign. Nobody won, have decision was that love and truth are the t former public school teacher a blind kid in town vou hire a over a majority of the people Iiving in'the it by which all the various trained teacher right heie in town, who US again. Approximately 80 million essentials iys incedible to me the segre- trip survive. perhaps moves up the ciniculurn.with oeoolevoted forthe various other candi- denizens within the cosmic "norrnal" kidsfrom "ab- fînd them," itwhispeied in its kids-words andconcept the kid thru the vèars and has ¡tshted äatês. This leaves about 150,000,000 "You'll kids to teach too. That (including cricket like voice, "in WIN magaziîe." ¡ to the school committee/ad- keeps tlíJti¿ in people who voted for Nobody _MARIQI'ITAPIÁTOV the mainstream of the cor¡imunity, in minõrs, non-voting adults, "illegal onlteachers/parents, not me. Tannersvllle' llY nedtobe a denial process in constant ccintact with other kids and as aliens, " and nou-citizens). Although ach: get these kids out ofview real to them as they are to him. Specialty this large vote fot Nobody is mostly be- ¡on't exist. It served to schools are necessäry given a soc'iety cause people perceived the two major t he curiosity, atbest, andthe, thatw<¡n't make the ðffortto do othei- candidates as two varieties of imbecile, it * I 'd contempt, at worst, ia the wise. They probably will always be is oartlv due to the fact that millions of ¡ol kids when they came in nçcessary. But an innovation on the local peãpl e äre f u nda me ntal ly dis satisfie d th the retarded, physically level-not necessarilv the one men- witli the way government runs peoples ,w 'ed, or emotionally handi- tio¡ed-could begin íntegration, could lives. s. A "special class" within a bring us back to reality, cõuld catch on. This leads me to believe that there is a ided some contact between An innovation in teacher trainins can good possibility that we will be able to I was happy to see Rick Hind's letter praising a New :s; the one could see that be a course on "handicapped kids.T' 6uild "a strong, independent popular the Coalition for Foreign Some Policè lL/4/76]. :ted. But with re gionaliza- innovation, huh? IfË üke beeinnins" base ofinstitutions and organizations. " ãnd Military [\{IN, + ol out of ten might have a beforethebeginning. O.T. progãms Here is where I disagree with Rick. He In my estimation the Coalition is an have_ organization fhe other nine schools are work,/stúdy time in hoipitãls for the that "untll such a base is excellent for promoting states built, just, ' 'don't even know that handicapped- Practice teaching could electoral activity should not be part of decent and humane foreign rela- ,, 'ds exist. And neither do include time in this setting, in àãdition to our work.' ' I think we should take the tionships.Iendorseitandencourage i lministrators or parents: the regular classroom. opposite view that we should especially readers who are not familii. with the t And so on. One more area our whole Coalition to obtainasam{/ } of the I ofmind. avoid electoral activity after we have es- I her response to the idea societSr needs re-training in. tablished a base. Once we have a strong Iatter's mailings. ,i popular base I think will be- DA¡ILAWRENCE :ebral Palsy or emotional -V.ROGERS elections MA t ¡lationwas: Ihave TfalthamrMA õome superfluous to the point of being Southl¡ncaster, I i Nov. 18, 1976 WIN 3 1

I i'-i,l | -. I '-^o'tt' i "'-¡'tl'a 'f ' ' The Women: lreland's Third Force

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CHARLES O'FLAHERTY dissidence that might arise in the Catholic na- campaign: "Wewill not be intimidated bythese going tional i st nei gh borhoods. Most m i I itary observers thugs any longer. l'm not to hide out again, The recent women's peace marches that have believe thatihey havethe strength to do so,. In any even though l'm scared outof mywits. You can be takgn place in lreland-in the Republicas well as event, should such a situation åbr occur, the scared without being acoward, can'tyou?" the troubled six counties i n U I ster have aroused - results would be absolutely horrifying. One week after this death-site rally, Betty Wil- the people of Erin as nothing else has done since For several years nowthere have been peace liams and Mairead Corrigan led 30,000 Catholics in of peasants landless woikers tens thousands of and groups working in Northern lreland, mainly in Bel- a march toward the Shankill Road Protestant dis- swarmed over the hills toward Clontarf in 1843. last. Those thai still endure arethe Northern trict. En route they were pelted with stones by They had been cal led together to hear Dan iel lreland Civil Rights Association, PACE (Protestant jeering bands of teenagers shrieking, "Traitors! O'Connef l, The Creat Liberator. Man.y of the men and Catholic Enlounter), the lrish Fellowshipof Protestant lovers !" But when the throng entered carried arm s cl ubs, pitchforks, pi stol s, whatever - Reconciliation, Pax Christi, the Belfast Councilof the Protestant streets they were greeted by the they could f ind. But O'Connell, perhaps fearing the Social Welfare, the lrish Council of Churches, joyous clangorof bells from the Protestant "risen people" as much asthe mightof the British What Price Peace, the War Resisters League, and churches, and the welcoming arms of thousands of regiments, cancelled the meeting. ln bewilden- I the Societyof Friends (Quakers), who hold a women. Betty Williams, giving way to tears of mãnt andãespair, thepouerty-stiict en people un ique pláce in the h i stoiy of I reland. Duri n g the exultation, told the crowd that they had received trudged back to their cottages, and many to their "Creat Hunger" in thé 1840s the were in 400 greetings from organizations all over lreland, deaths in the impending famine.' Quakers the forefront in bringing succor and hope to the and eÎpressions of encouragement from 59 other The women in the foref ront today are not de- starving lrish, and several of them died at their countries. Whilethis wastaking place in Belfast, pendenton anyone person-politician, priest, population. The Unionists (Protestants) havq been stationi, victiins of the endemic plague. Quietly 40,000 people (mostly women) held a similar march m in ister, or hero of the wars. Theirs is not a politi- in control of the government since it was estab- th.ev worked ánd quietly they went to their deaths. in Dublin. Other marches and demonstrations took cal movement, nor basically an econom ic one, nor lished. The Social Democratic and Labour Party is C)n August 22 of this yearf a new peace force place on this historic day in Lurgan, Derry, Cork, is it a national revolution. lt is a kindof a rebellion, the largest nationalist party, lts leadership sup- emerged in Belfast which managed to bring 10,000 Castlebar, Calway, Carlow, and in towns allover * but a most unusual one: their weapons are the un- 1Ð. ports the Peace Movement. The Alliance Party is people, mostly women.; to the spot in the Catholic lreland. The barriers and barricades separating the hurtf ul ones of love and rationality. lt has profound small but quite inf luentiâ|. lt supports the Peace r iector where three children had been inadvertently two religious groups seemed-for the moment at implications: it strikes at an eon-old dogma that, Movement. TheOfficial IRA is Marxist and be- killed in a f ight a few days before between British least-to have " . . . faded through the brightèning under certai n circumstances always - lieves that this is not essentially a religious war, troops and an IRA Provisional. Betty Williams, a air." righteous-a group, atribe, a nation; has the right and that the emities and divisions have been vouns mother of two children had organized the Another peace march occurred on September 4 to use force against other human beings, i.e., to kil l fostered by the ruling class to keep the working ially witn the help of Mairead Corrigan, the aunt of when 30,000 Catholic and Protestant women , many those who oppose them, to imprison those who dis- people at each other's [hroats. They still adhereto with their husbands and children, met on the agree, to ostracize those who are neutral. Despite thecease-fireof 1972, moreor less. Recently bridge that divides Derry City's religious com- presence Provisional lrish the ubiquitous of another split-off has led to formation lni8h munities. This meeting of hitherto bitterly (lRA) gunmen the of the Republican Army in the Catholic Republican Socialist Party. Thepurposeof the "You can be scared w¡th- antagonistic people, may beof great significance, areas and to kill or maim those who their threats Provisionals is to force the British out of Northern even more important than the rallies in Belfast, for cross them, and similarthreats bythe Unionist lreland and then incorporate it into the Republic. out being a coward, can't it was here in 1972 that the Catholic-nationalists in Protestant districts, of extremes the thousands They reject Marxist rhetoric, but do not completely while marching toward a qontingent of British women in Northern lreland, Catholic and disavow socialism. They are considered the you?" paratroopers were met with a murderous f usillade Protestant, have taken to the street demanding "Catholic" wingof thethreegroupsof the lRA. On that killed 13 demonstrators and left many that the killing cease. lt is an astonishing display of the other side, the Off icial Unionist Party is the wounded. That was the end of the unwritten truce And organ izational I too. courage. skil chief political repositoryof the Protestant majority. the slain children. The Protestant counterpart of between the British forces and the lrish A few facts are in order. Northern lreland, Recently William Craig brokefrom the Unionist these extraordinary women is Saidie Patterson who nationalists, including the IRA (Official), the referred to-somewhat pointedly by lrish Republi- Party and set up the Vanguard Party. Craig has has been active in a group called "Women To- parent body from whom the IRA (Provisionals) had The Six Counties, is not a sovereigrr state. cans-as always been the leaderof the para-military Ulster gether" since 1971. Beforetherally, Betty split i4 1969. Thereafter the Cathol ic Bogside It is legally partof the United Kingdom of Creat Defense Association. The Ulster Volunteer Force Williams got a warning painted on awall near her district became a veritable battleground, starting Britain and Northern lreland, though its legality is .are another terrorist group. The Royal Ulster house in large letters-"BetfyWilliams isa with a British Army assault on the barricades the often questioned by Republicans. Laws passed by Constabulary and the police have been neutral on traitor;" Shã also received threats through the mail people had erected. The f ighting and turmoil the Northern lreland Covernment at Storrnont may the sideof the Protestants on almost all occasions. and one day a mob of youngsters tried to burn down rapidly spread through Northern lreland. Fearful be vetoed by the Briti sh government. The. The British soldiery have taken over police duties her house. Her children have been hidden withr of their lives, and also as a gestureof def iance, Protestants irds of the comprise almost two-th in many areas. The Protestants,have planned, at friends. Mrs. Williams, in a NewYork limes re- Catholics threw up barricades all over the North. CharlesO'FIaheryy 4veteran oÍthe lrish Section of i least since 1914to be militarily strong enough to port, admitted that she'was "scared to death." She The Royal Ulster Constabulary and the B Specials, the lnternational Brigades during the Spanish Civil ,:e repulse any armed invasion from the Republican iaid that the death threats on her life had an auxiliary police, especially hated by the na- War, is a volunteer for SANE ln New,/ersey. öi South, while at the same time suppressing any strengthened her determination to continue the tionalists, stormed into the Catholic ghettoes,

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ir I defenseless except for the IRA gunmen. lt ap- merging Northern lreland with ReBublic as péared to be a particularly nasty sort of civil war as the it evolved into terrorist gang murders, reprisal they are convinced such a union would lead to their following reprisal. domination by the Catholic church. Their fears, it would appear, are not unfounded. Since the insti- An harbinger of the peace Movement of the tutionalization of the Free State the hierarchy has women had emerged in Derry City as early as1g72. "There is no reason why effectively controlled education in the national After a British soldier had kiiied a'Catholió youth, theOfficiallRA,inreprisal,,,u"ecrt"à;;uúãrñe' schools, banned books, plays, movies and the sale men shouldn't play a of contraceptives; divorce is forbidden, abortion, ' man from Derry who had joined the British Ârrni. unthinkable, and, finally, the church has, down That was the last straw for Margaret Doherty who greater part. . . but the through the years, fostered an abhorrence of sex organized her neighbors to demonstrate their that is pervasive everywhere in the Republic. (But, anger at the Off icials headquarters. The Officials groundswell must come withal, children are born, created by some un- who had previously supporied the nonviolent civil I known process.) rìghts marches and were traditionally responsive - to-- from women.' Earlier this year a tentative agreement was the rights of the civilians, declared aå"asä_f ire. reached among Catholic and Protestant political Nevertheless, when the television cameras leaders and Roy Mason, the Westminster-ap--. departed and the.publicity died down, the Dohertys poi nted Secretary of State, propos i n g secu lar, and their seven children were harassed so viciousív national schools for all the childlen in the North. th.at the.y had to move.to another part --'' oiihecüt This would mean that tþe government would wherethey have lived quietly anà unrnolestàd. rescind the that it now gives With the rebirth of the peaceforces, subsidizatioþ to the Margaret Catholic schools. The proposal was immediately Doherty again came forward and she andã protes_ squelched by the hierarchy, warning Catholic tant, Joyce Kelly, were selected as co_chairwomen parents that were not permitted of the rally on September 4. protestants they to send their and schools, if Catholics in two separate processions children to secular Catholic schools were marched available. They are widely available. toward each other on the bridge over the Folye, Most of the factories, shipyards and businesses s.inging and carrying peace si[ns, they met anã in the North are owned by the Protestants quite threw their arms around eachãth'er, and tears a few do not hire Catholics. Sometrade , streamingdowntheirfaces. ltmaybethatcen_ unions dominated by Protestants bring pressure on their turies of bitterness and rancor were washed away owners not to hire Catholics and some Catholic i n those tears . businesses will not hire Protestants. Catholics are The Cork peace rally on October 2 in support of , severely discriminated against in the job f ield. The the women of Northern lreland had as its hänorãd percentage of unemployment is higher guest a very brave man, the Mayor of Ballymena, Çatholic than the Protestants. lt is a simple fact that there Sloane. Ballymena is in Ântrim, NärtfrãiÁ 9"9rqq are not enough jobs to go around-achronic, soul- lreland, where the women also organized peaie a destroying condition. The Protestants' desire to procession the same day. The Ballvmena Boroush '*ið keep the "papists" out of theiri shops is, clearly Council is seeking the resignation of the Mayor fär enough, a root cause for tl'ie continuing "attending a Catholic masi embitter- last month.,, Thãre ment. were many men among the 20,000 participants. The discrimination in housing, the result of The Lord Mayor of Cork, Sean French, sent a mes_ Orange political power, has probably enraged the Catholics more than any other single factor. Prior Collins, Chairmán of thä steering committee, to the successes of the nonviolent civil rights stressed the importance of womãn continuing as marches of Bernadette Devlin and the college the.main plank in the movement in the Northlbut students of the late sixties spark that lit up the added, "There ís no reason why men shouldá,t -the stark tragedy for the world to See- no one but play a greater part to support them, but the ,1'householders" were permitted to vote in local groundswell must come from the women.,, I ^ The movement grows. On the same day, October grisly warning, eight bombs exploded in Bally- i \ a meeting.in Birmingham called bythe'British mena. One woman was killed and fourother Council of Christian Churches drewá,000 in the persons were wounded. Th is atrocity was com- The Protestants' desire to pouring rain to offer their support to the women of mitted, presumably, bythe Provisionals. Afew Northern lreland. The West Cerman Catholic days later in Ballymena a Catholic man had keep the "papists" out of Women's Organization said thát marches will be gasoline poured over him and he was burned to heldthroughout the country, and prayers will be death, presumably by one of the Protestant ex- theirshopsis...aroot said in six bishopric capitalé for th'e success of the tremist groups.) Many Protestant clergymen have lrish peace - movement. Other rallies have been been working for peace and the coming together of cause for the continuing held.in Clasgow and Leeds. The /rish fimesreports the.sectarian groups as evidenced by the ringing of that leading the people in the Clasgow procession their church bells as the Catholic marchers ap- emb¡tterment. were two women from Belfast, the peripatetic proached the Shankill Road area on August 28. But Mairead Corrigan from Andersonvi I le,'and the_Rev. lan Paisley and his followers are opposed Florence election s, hence it followed, that the Catholic poor McCormick of the Shankill Róad. On the , to the women peace-makers, and are, moreover, who did not own their homes, especially in the same day Betty Willíams marched in Birminefiam _ l opposed to the intermingling of the sects in any cities, qualify to vote. With the advent of while.Ralph Williams, Betty,s husband, led i'he ' fashion. did not parade in (One British intervention that has been changed. I Ballymena. week later, ás a kind of It is hard to f ind a Protestant who is in favor of I n Belfast, the m i sery and squalor of the poor has 6WlN Nov. 18. 1976 it I Nov, 18, 1926 ì WtN Z

I t,y rr'rj : ; pers¡sted for centuries. The old tenements are cold killing. and damp, and the unemployment rate is the An ominous forecast of what may come to pass highest in the British lsles, reaching, for example, occurred in Belfast on October 23 when 12.000 40 percent.in West Be.lfast, a Cathoäc area. Mány Peace Movement people marched in the fieezing of inhabitants, the if they have a few pence to rain from the Protestani Shankill Road into the spare, are likelyto seekoutthewarm blearof the Catholic areato hold a meeting at Falls park. pubs Á which are-apparently by divine fiat- grolvd gf 3,000 women and youì!sters organized separate Protestant and Catholic institutions. On þy the Provisional I RA attacked them at tñe park the stonewall around a â.ravéyard there is the fol- with stones and mud or anything they could lay f-o.ry¡lg slogan paìnted, wry and terrifying: ts There their hands on. Many heads weiè cracked andiO Life Before Death? peace marchers were hospitalized, including Reconci I iation,and Vietnam Every I I i . day the ki ngs and destruction go on , but Canon Padraig Murphy, à prominent Cathoäc there wâs an ominous change in the newspaper clergyman, and Ciaran McKeown. headlines on October 11: LÈADERS OF P'EÁCE Betty Will iams, Mairead Corrigan, Saidie ln his article: '{Vietnam: Unif ication Without CAMPAICN ESCAPE MOB tN -Mcögrm BELFAST. Forthe- Patterson J o.yce Kel ly, Florencd ick, SCUDDER H. PARKER Reconciliation" in the October Fellowship maga- f irst time in centuries the Protestant and Catholic Margaret Doherty and other leaders of the .zine, Jim Forestsays: housewives in Belfast are visiting each others Women's Peace Movement, On Wednesday af -ternoon,Oct.2V,l was folding and their husbands Wars, even those won by groupsfighting the most homes, having tea together, gett-íng to know each and diaperswhen I gotacall from Dði Luce, informing: their children and, of course, Ciaran ' savage lniustices ojhel talking about theirchildren and the dangers McKeown,rnay methat I was going to Montreal the next day to visit and a.nimated by the highest be murdered at ány moment now. ideals, do not produce peacef ul societies. they face and the tragedies that have befallen some They quite with Venerable Thich Mandala, a Vietriamese Civil are defenseless, excëpt ior the support wars, no.matter of them. (A friend of mine, a Calwayman, recently Buddhist nun, and Vice Presidentof the Associa- . how badly they are infected by of women and men around the wórld. ' visited Belfast and walked all around the'city and' tion of Vietnamese Buddhists in France, foreign intervention, do not lead toward civil said that he could not tell the Protestant chilären Mandala had been inviied to visit the United tolerance and understanding. Victors may sþeakof reconciliation) from the Catholics. He wrote: "And the children of States by PaulQuinn-J udge, who had worked at but they insist o n orthodoxy. both faiths . . . they are so sad, so brave and thin the AFSCQuang Ngai Rehabilitation Centêr, and J im describes this insight as having been for him a and beautif ul, it would break your heart to look at is now a consultant to the AFSC lndochina relearning of "the truth on which pãcif ism is them. ") program. Paul had hoped that Mandala, who anchored. " lt is clear that for J im and for mani, visited . The march of the peace-makers is an enormously Vietnam from May 22 through J uly 15 could others this truth is not simply a conclusion frcj¡m important event. The power and practicality of speak to members of the US peace rioú"ment about historical observation, but a f undamental articlqof accusations that there was substantial denial of faith. lt is, indeed, an articleof faith on which nìy human rights and suppression of religious freedom own pacifism has been nourished and sustained as \ TwelveNorwegian news- within Vietnam. well. But having met and spoken with Mandala, I . ln Toronto, Mandala had applied for a visa to feel that a simple applicatiòn of this "truth" to the papers had visit the United States, and after a bit of off icial situation in Vietnam may in fact be a violation of the banded checking and shuffling she had been told that since true spirit of nonviolence. tt. together to collect her.passport was f rom the Republic of Vietnam, At iis most rrpóiitiiáif evel, the assumption tljrat the and the US did not recognizethe Republic of Viôt- "violence breeds violence'1 can mesh very easily equivalent of the Nobel nam, it was,not possible for her to enter the United with the deep "anti-communist" and "anti- States. And so, the following morning I drove from radical" patterns of responsewhich are ingraihed Peace Prize money for the St. Johnsbury; Vermôntto Montreal.in the very in many of us so that we readily accept as "lact" en strange situation of having to leave my own country rumors and unsubstantiated reports which f it our Women's Peace Move- to discuss with a Vietnamese religious leader, preconceptions lAfter a very caref ul study of the t questio.ns of."religioús liberty" in her country. in For three hours, Ed l-azar (Þeace Education M¡litiawomen in tht north ment lreland. File photo f secreiary, New England AFSC), Paul, and l, and rom LNS. (via questions relayed by phone) J im Forest of FOR, questioned nonviolence may spread around the world. The r Mandala in detail about the of people lrish Times reported on October 18that 12 situation in re-education camps, the Norwegian newspapers had banded together to status of the Third Force and religious freedom, the collect the equivalent of the Nobel peaõ prize circumstances of the immolation of 12 people last money forthe Women's Peace Movement in lre- November in Can Tho province, and the wäys the la¡{ fh.e-l.lorwegians. said that Betty Wiltiams, revolution was changiñg life in Vietnam. Mai¡ead Corrigan and Ciaran McKeown had béen nominated for the Peace Prize, but the nominãtion had arrived too late to be consiäered for this year,s price. Ciaran McKeown is a young Belfast journ al i st wh.o.h as written a pam p-h let accl ai m i n g thevirtuesof the nonviolentappioach tothe '1 p-roblems that beset the North'ern communiiy and, indeed, similar problems elsewhere in the wôrld. ', . .He works closely with the women's movement. They believe that their demonstrations mav have . reperoussions throughoutthe wortd. They âre not J reticent about it: they hope to help save the world - ì Scudder H, Parker is the NewEngland Regional ifron¡thescourgeofwar,än¿uilìñ;ilseié;s Drawings by Peg Averill. 1 Field StafÍ PersÒn for Clergy and Laity Concerned I sWlN Nov. 18,1976 i \ \

Picking tea. File photo by Cora Weiss from LNS p f irst has to do with the effect of the revolutlon on, f ron t, wh o were artis ts, m u sici an s, ai nte r s, go to the lives of the people: work in the new economic zones. They are f iehting people, another enemy-that is suffering and starvation. . . . now the they'they have aconsciousness- Íreed thernse/ves, govern thernse/ves, They only askachancetochang,e itbecause in their they pro- they govern the community. There is a kind of heart.they do notwanttokill; they only wgntto and promote penetration and harmony in each Vietnamese to- tect life, life. 'dav Vietnamese losttheir sons, because we fee/ we belong'to the community Many mothers their husbands, their ge nerations lost in and the community belongs to us-one is all,' all is fathers-tfrree this war, and in many cases the enemy American one.' W e ca n not descr i be how d ilf e r ent th e V i et- p i I ots, captu r ed the Pop u I ar Forces wer e g iv e n lramese way of tiving is to the people of the lJnited by States-for example, the policeforce in Vietnam i to those mot hers, to look atter them. And these mothers great love for those people because today is not like the police force in the US. After the had , were victims too. revolution,and stilltoday, the students, the they considered thatthey iust So the nonviolence has to be used wisely-f rom wom e n I th e.wor ke r s vo I u ntar i I y became pol i cem e n no do,mination Írom to help with transportation and traff ic problems, or the first step , no exploitation, tfre step no rgcolonialism from èven restore the security around cçrtain things first , no capitalism, real non- which were the property of the govbinment; They the Íirst steptt and then there could be a violençe. Andthen may bewewillneed notto did it themselves:, nobody forced them . They or- js ganized themse/ves in such kindsof groupsor ác- 'mentiòn nonviolence-it life itself , fullol love, livities to govern, andthen the government , comp4ssio n,'and wisdom to live together in a cor- rectway. I i te ral I y " r ecog n i zed " th em * " P/ease con tin ue this kind of work!"-so they became like a guide I cannot believe that it is a defense of pacif ism or for the needs of the society, so there is no kind of nonviolence to ignore the truth of these words . Will political imposing. The government turned the ' they open a pandora's box of " just war" justif ica- rightto live over to the people: "You have to tions? Perhaps not, if we work less to " justify" and govern yourselves and organize yourselves har- harder at "describing our feelings before taking ¡ moniously, in concord with the community and decision." worktogether." And each community has a repre- I hope that ín the coming year the nonsense of sentative from each familY . . . discussing these things by phone, tape, letter and article will be replaced by the freedom to deal with are we a passage What to do with like this? Do we them face to face in Vietnam and in the United ignore f it, because it doesn't it oúr image of a States. Our peoples have worked together to end society which has gained its freedom by military war there, now we must work together di I i gently to force?,Mandala was describing what was for her a build freedom and nonviolence there, and here. availablä materiaton what is happening powerful and in Vietnam approximate]y 40,ffiO remain, for a period of up transforming experience. lt was dis- I find the accusat¡.ons and allegätions - to a tliai have three yeprs. She said repeatedly thai the inteniion concerting for me precisely because it was so im- been made to be often only loo-sçly doiumented mediate and real for her and yet it Violated so and and spirit of the camps was to ró-unite these.pedþte many File photo by Cora Weiss from unnamed and unsp"äifiedlóur.ãi. oon,t we of my assumptions about what humans and human from LNS. with the Vietnamese family by giving them an owe it to ourselves and to the Vietnamese op- institutions to be at portun ity to ref lect on their pas[, on what they were are capable of accomplishing. How leastas careful in documenting the ,,abuses,, many of- doing now, and on what they would do in the iuiure of those assumptions are linked to my own the revolution as we were in do"cum"niine pacif th" tor themselves, their families, communities and def inition of what ism and nonviolence are? autom^ated air war, the phoe-níx p.og.aml the Tiger country. The second area of experience Mandala spoke c.ages? We were scrupulously caref ul then, even about has to do with her assertion that the Viet- - -- Familiar euphemistic rhetoric? I do not know, I though nobody woulcj have I' aigued with thé do have a very deep concern for the situation namese people's m i I itary defense of their country assumption that breeds of "war violence.T, these people, and what definition of politicalfreei- was not a denial of ¡onviolence: At another level, the assumption , that any revo_ dom will emerge in Vietnamese society. But the lf you read Vietnamese /iterature, particularly lution which establishes itself by militarv fórce will inevítablydemand"orthodoxy,;mayacíually words were not rhetoric when Manda.lâ spoke them, f rom this war, there are many great works of Viet- : and I cannot simply condemn what is hapþenlng rn narnese aut hors who became soldiers. We have a short-circu it.a serious and muóh-neeãed àisc'uss ion Vietnam because Mandala was not ableiò convÍnce. tr ad iti on : bef or e we do someth i n g ver y i m portant of what is being,attempted in Vietnam today. lt is me that our def inition of due process was being fol- we describe our feellngs before taking decision. not enough to spar over whetherl residents of the re_ lowed.in each particular. I urþe everyone Many of these wr iti ngs now prove that many, not education camps , ,,detainees,,, whoñas are "guest5,f or thought or spoken about "nonviolent revolution,, only young men, butwomen andchildren aswell a,yvhen beh ind the fact , lpüso.ners' of the camps i s a to consider with real humility what kind justwanted to defend the country and protecttheir huge, immediate practical question. of strategy Civen ttiat thã- we would devise if we were in a situation of respon- family, their brothers, sisters, father, mother and new govèrnmentdecided ndtto holdthe,,bloodi sibility for effecting the ',nonViolent conversion,, themse/yes. So they ar e obl i ged, they are forced to prescribedfor it by rh.e þut!ì" Rmericãlm¡l¡*y of thousands of people who had acted very destruc- these things , but in fact, in their hearts they wantto and press-and given that there were two millión til'ely and needed to learn how to respect them- live beautif ully, and peacef ully with the skv, with men in th.e ARVN and police forces, tens of selves and the demands of communiiy life. the clouds, the moon,thé trees . . . In thiscase we thousands in the secret police, and îhousands in ln the course of our three hours to$äther there cannot def ine nonviolence in one way. Our friends many oth€r forms of cooperation with or prof iting fromtheUSpresence-howshouldthenew - ' were two other areas of experience which Mandala | tried to communicate, which t felt our assumptions government integrate them intothe life and *orkoi! about pacif ism and th'e natureof nonviolence made the nevy society? Mandala staiêd that most of theòãi it very difficult for us to hear. Because I have not people never went to re-education campsi another I fully grasped them myself, I will nottryto describe 400,000 have already been and returneä,ãn¿ j t-h"ì them, but will let Mandalaspeak for hérself . The I I 10wN Ñov. 18, ." \ 1976 , ¡ f t I t ) I I relax.' i content of our media. Songs and body movements An Open Letter to the Movement Pushed and pulled in all directions, no wonder enliven our meetings and our picket lines. Cuerrilla we feel we lack "theory." No wonder certain of our theatre helps us capture the hearts and minds of ranks have joined sectarian organizations which folks at food-stamp off ices, unemployment offer the security of a "correct line.'1 On the other centers, and outsideour schools and workplaces. hand, those of us who ref use to compartmentalize Murals are fun to produce and can catalyze a broad our lives, to separateour lifestylefrom our politics cross-section in our neighborhoods. Techniques of This article was written as an open /etter to activists meetings. Look into our tired eyes as we set home must pay aterrible priceof pain and instability. people's art and agit-pnop are as numerous as the try i n g to u n ite th e movement. f rom our jobs. Feel the stiff nes! of ten sio-n at the Tortured by our personàl-cultu¡al-sexual needs, different types of individuals in our communities. back of your neck. MABEL DODCE which we nonetheless refuseto repress, we The artist locked inside each of our people is the BRIGADE Capitalism makes us iation ourtime, - our , alternate between fegling optimistic one day and personaof liberation. feelings, our joy. Knowing Third Worltl comrades pessimisticthe next; between short-lived moments Only by uniting left and popular forces can we are under the boot of the System while at the same ôf cultural-political integration and hang-overs of create a more powerf ul presence in our base areas. time feeling we "don't have enough time,, to do self and organizational guilt-tripping. But f irst we must turn ourselves and our organiza- everything we need to do is a doub-ie-bind guaran- Of course this is perhaps overstating the situa- tions inside out; place process on an equal footing teed to make us feel bad about oursetves. lìaving to tion. Some models of good Movement process afe with program, before we advance ahead. To grow, choose betwe-en going to our women,s group or available for us to draw on: the practice of socialist- "outsiders must e4periehce us as a living, going to an African support meeting causes an feminist groups and the activities öf cultural agit- breathing commuriity of resistance, solidarity, and endless cycle of guilt and over-exteñsion. prop collectives. lt is tothese wings of the Move-, love. People will not perceive us in this light until Coing to a "Solidarity Rally" where we see the ment, to these partially-repressed parts of our- we stop being so hard on ourselves and oruother same 200 faces over and over again is dis- selves that we must turn, if we areto launch the comrades. Sectarian i sm, group chauvi n i sm, and Before we know it, we are taking itout 'on.couraging. ki nd of i nternal-external'cultural revol ution we separatism are protective walls we throw up ourselves and on one another. Sma/l diffãrences need. against a cruel System which defoims even the with our housemates, lovers, co-activists, and The most vital part of the socialist-fem inist cur- lives of those trying to change it. These walls will those in other collectives become /arse diiferences. renttoday is the insistencethat personal and socio- come down on ly as we become more honest with' Straight-jacketed by the System, webècome qur econom ic oppression are i nter-relati n g parts of the ourselves and as we stretch our imaginations to own worst enemy and our harshest iudge. We rush same rotten System; and thatthis persþective must empathize with the pain and hardship of others (a// helter-skelter to and from meetings, to:and from be extended as well to our everyday lives in the other s, not j ust particu lar segment we ar " our jobs, picket the e or- our lines; and n"uä.'cjnlind t¡meto Movement. Techniques of "consciousness- ganizing"). "get down" with other sisters and brothers in the raising" (to "speak bitterness" as the Chinese lf an inner voice still tells you "But I don't have 'Movement, or with the non-Movement folks we,re say) are a tremendously powerful tool to overcome justtry it. Read five pagesof Fanon or trying to mobilize. time," self-hate, to raise energy, to clarify ideas, and to Ceorge ackson or a poem by Marge Piercy-with No wonder working people and younger J sisters "recruit" new activists. Unfortunately up untiI real feeling. The artists and writers of the people and brothers are reluctant to join our orþan iza- now,.c-r forrhs have not been used enough by have much to teach us- if we listen caref ully. A tion.s, even though they agreé with oui;ãnalfsis.,, mixed (male and female) groups. We must learn soulful discussion with a Native American sister, or Whileour words are painting atrue.descriptión of aqr. from our sisters to human-ize, to woman-ize our a Puerto Rican or Mexicano brother, or a what "liberation" means, ourfaces and the meetings and rallies. We must slow down enough co-worker, or with our neighbors can go a long way Three character-armor of our bodies are giving awaf . asp-ects of this "bad process,,, three faces the to share ou¡ life histories, our dreams, and our loys; toward restoring our vitality. We North Americans "secretl'that Movement work involves of everyday life in theMovementwhich undermine a reat both among ourselves and with the working people are still developing a love forour people. We will deal of self-sacríf ice our.revolutionary energy are: (1) the low morale and loads of bureauciatic in qur tenants' unions, our coops, and our neigh- plateau drudgery. knowwe'vereached this when we start and spirit we exude as individual activists; (2) the borhoods. Free associating from ourown fears to liking ourselves, when we receive support we - The cruel paceof Movement the lack of and cooperation we g¡ve to life maniiests itself the pain of others is the musical harmony of revolu- need from lespec! bitrãi to others (themselves others in the Movement, and when we comrades and to different sectionsóf the Move_ victimized by the System) as tion. wynthesize the life-giving insights of socialist- menÇ and (3) sexism, racism, agejsm, classism, dogmátism, and We finally our lackof a real belief in the must rèmind ourselves that we come off as fem in ism and cu ltural work i nto our everyday I ives. homophobia. Men people, an overâll sense that we,re going to win. don't have the time or energy to veterans, as heavies to most working people and to The majority read socialist-feminist of the oppressed will respo¡d to us, The "remedy" for our low spirits ¡siultürál writings. Women don,t-' our younger contemporaries; who commonly heart when havethetimeto studythe and soul they recognize an unmis- revo.lution (in the broad Chinese sense of the term), hisloryof radical and imagine that they can never be as "together" as we takeable strength and joy in our radical com- working class movements. Workplace carried out both inside and outside the existing organizers are. We cannot allow ourselves to forget that we munity. Non-Movement folks, on the üvhole, are at ,;cii",, are too tired to empathize with radical network. Of course our protracted the strugg-ies of are all severely damaged from having been pro- least as crippled by capitalism as we are, in some youngel sisters and brothers will come easier as the people more-and-more on the campuses or in grammed in this society. We and those we are cases more so. Thus on ly a Movement that makes the high schools. Radicalteachers begin tofight back in a majs way; but in the mean- and giaduatà trying to reach,need empathy, we need nurturance, cultural-personal revolution for eyeryone students have a time we have a responsibility to nurture and no time to do outside comìmun ity we need joy. These are our life-blood as much as practical priority alongside its socio-economic pro- work. Tenant's activi strengthen ourselves for thef uture battles that lie sts are too t r azzled to th i n k "political program." gram will succeed. Cultural revolution, the col- much about lran, Chile, orZimbabwe. ahead. Coop The way we carry out political outreach is just as lective re-structuring of our everyday lives, is not activists labor 50 or 60 hours a week, Capital ism mass-manufactures s ituations only tó be important as whatwe do. The subliminal message something static, a mere seizure of power. There is berated by other-Movement folks for which destroy our self-respectand our spirit of not "doing we transmit to people is just as important as our only one reason for being a revolutionary- because any political work. "Cetting rebelliousness. Wè are coñstantly bom6arded with' " on with businesst at outward propaganda. And here we must draw the it is the best way to live. our meetings, we forget to sing, to hug one contradictions in our homes, our workptaces, our line: everything that is not an energy booster is an Our historical and analytical models tell us that another, and to go over personal problems schools, our neighborhoods. We in thé Movement or mis- energy drain. Our lifestyles, our meetings, our the current crisis of capitalism will get yorse. As understandings that aré holding us back. are not immune to,!he political repression and the Mean- media, our bureaucratic responsibilities, our con- this happens, and as the ruling class opts for a while, to Third World comrades-, locked emotional plague that has laid to iest everv radical tothose ferences, our leisure, must build us up at alltime. police state (it already is a police state for many), behind bars, or to those people movement in this country's history. Observe.the undergiound- suf- Radical cultural activities are recently gaining we'd better be strong and we'd better be united. te_ring the heaviest repression appear to have dead-pan expressions on comrades'faces at -we strength in our communities, and from the favor- Otherwise the darker times that lie ahead may f ind "lostour bearings." After awhile we don't even able response we've gotten seem to be one of our us packing up our ideals and hiding. Only a Move- TheMabelDodge Br igade is under groundsome- actually have to hear negative criticism from others \ best tools for multiplyingsupþort. Researching the ment that i ntegrates cu lture and pol itics, process where in thiscountry. to feel guilty: we carry aiound in our heads a dog- people's history struggles of our or carrying out and outreach will f ight until death . . . and love until matic, self-righteous monster who will never leius oral interviews are eniovable and enrich the 12WlN Nov. 18, 1976 victory. Nov. 18, 1976 WIN 13

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There was a serious omission in of Vietnamese Wár isn't within l the list of WTR Centers in our last scope of j udicial competence, and i WORLD PEACE TAX FUND column:PHILADELPHIA is no longer current issue. " (f rom WTR/WRL & THE SUPPORT l PHTLA- the opínion of J udge Tannenwald DELPH IA ALTERNATIVE FUND in thecaseof John Egnal and l The United,Methodist Church, at 2016 Walnut St., Suite 300, Claudia Ann Elferdink last spring. the country's second largest Phila., Pa. 19103. Phone 567-7010 John Egnal is a lawyer who has ' Protestant denom ination, (A ieprint of a WASH I NCTON the useof thei.r incometax-but in or (even i n gs) \UAT -7934. has worked for the cause of war tax STAR article on the Methodist ac- I do not support the prioritiep most cases they do have more con- The Philadel ph become the f irst major church ia Alternative resisters for many years. ) of our government which paying group to act on a national scale in tion is available from the National trol over it. Fund, one of the oldest & most Thus war tax resisters peti- emphasize arms build-up at the opposition to the present US policy Council for a World Peace Tax Nowadays it seems the IRS is active in the country has lent out tioning tax courts are not even al- of torcing pacif Fund, 2111 FloridaAúe., NW, expenseof human needs, taking little or no áction to collect more than $150,000 over the last lowed to present ists to invest in the their f ull cases., ever-growiñg Washington, DC 20008; phone Therefore, I have deducted from ref used telephone tàxes in most five years. lt maintains a All they war ma'chine. ln can do is argue that this May general 483-3752. The Council supports my telephone billthe $ parts of the country,. Hgwever, contingency f und o125o/o held by case a conference of the is different from previous legislation to provide a legal al- federal tax. notices of tax due and "final the Teacher's Church gave its support to wal'tax Service Organiza- cases, or that the courts'opinions taxpayers who oppose The federal excise tax on notices before seizure" are still lt resisters and passed a peace ternative for tion. also lends 25o/otothe on precedent-setting cases was phone service has been raised being sent, and some seizures still Philadelphia's resolution which included a call for war.) People's Bail Fund, faulty. ln some cases war tax re- and lowered periodically since occur. The most common method to use as their contíngency fund. sisters legal recognition of the First are asked to pay an addi- World War ll depending on our I RS uses to collect phone tax is to Also Amendment rights of taxpayers added to the li-st is: Dan tional5o/o penalty for attempting to country's mil itary involvement. withhold it from income tax re- Lawrence, 138 who can not con scientiousl.y Prescott St., South bring to court issues and argu- This war tax represents a con- funds or rebates. Even then you're ''[ 11 Lancaster, f inance mi litary programs. MA 01561. He has been ments they are presumed to know tinuing rel iance onmilitary still ahead. distributing The ten million member his own homemade have been denied previously. force tó protect American (This article on phone tax re- tax packet for denomination is not traditÍonálly a few months now. lf we can't win and can't even be corporate interests abroad and sistance is reprinted from à draft of l' Another pacif ist, but holds that "what the change from the tirst heard f ully and are being therefore I can not in good con- gonna pay ,i Christian may not do TO TELEPHONE TAX a supplernentto ain't colunìn: people should writeto me penalized for "disregardof IRS is to obev NOTE ì science pay it. for war no more being preparted at 100 High persons ratherthan Cod, orover- REFUSERS St., Brookline, MA regs" mean ing " Don't question by Minnesota WTR. Hopes are 02146.1'm only in the WTRoffice - look the degree of compromise in a your orders" we attempt Many telephone compan ies that the supplement will be ll couple days a week I -should even our best acts, or gloss over and might, a class-action suit or what? lf you frequently carry refused taxes over The telephone excise tax re- finished in bookletform soon.) l the sinf ulness of war. rniss something that comes there. are interested in pursuing these " mains a legitimate vehlcle through Following quotes to subsequent bills identified only questions, please write to are from the 1'Balance which to protest militany spending. Witkins TAX COURT CONFERENCE Ceneral Conference peace as due from Previous -Susan i NE/WTR, Box 17 At the rate of Vo/o in 1975 this I 4MlT Branch resolution: Bill.'r Resisters should be careful NE/WTRand PO, Cambridge, Ma. 02139or call pay Also the "tiny" tax netted the government NYC/Wf,Rwill "Christian teaching supports notto such sums, sponsor a conference to deal 617-731-613.9. phonecompany may get confused about $2 billion, and it is estimated with conscientious objection to all war the question TAX interruption of that in 1976the60/o tax will bring in COURT: as an ethicallyvalid position. lt ând threaten WHERE DO WE the balance is $1.75 billion, lt is reasonabletoas- CO FROM IRS COLLECTION CHANGES also asserts that ethical decisions serùice when .HERE? The hope is ref us'ed taxes rather sume that since this tax has been to bring to- ANDACTIVITIES. on political matters must accumulated gether be made decreased but not discontinued. lt lawyers and other persons in the context than money owed for Phone of the competing is still needed to pay debts in- concerned aboutthe short shrift The newlyenacted Tax Reform Act claims of biblical revelation, " service. Save old bills so You can given to war tax resisters in court. keep trackpf how much tax has curred dtrring the lndochina War. exempts from I RS seizure $50 a church doctrine, civil law, and For: example, in virtually all been ref used, but if run into Further, the phone tax has been recent - week in salary plus an additional one's own understanding of what You WTR court problem, remind the comPanY phased in and out ever since its in- cases, the IRS has been $15 for each dependent. lt also re- Cod calls him or herto doì." this ,granted their 1'motion judge- FCC could fine them for ception in 1941 dêpendin g on for quires that when IRS asks third ''We, therefore, support all thatthe menton the pleadings." ln plãin . off service when have particu lar: " needs, " most r:ecently parties (like banks or employers) those who conscientiously object: cuttine You tal k th is means the owe them. The FCC the war in Vietnam. lt is conceiv- tax court com- for information about a taxpâver. it to preparation for our participation oaid w:hat vou missioner agrees this fact, which usual- able that the government,foresees Uudge) with the would have to notify the viitim in any specific war or all wars; ivillconf¡rm IRS that point to the comPanY future needs which will again raise there is no in (who could contest the action in cooperation with military ly straightens out hearing arguments that have promptly. Also, it is vital that You thetax tol|o/o. Finally, since been court), unless it could prove that conscription; or to the payment of heard before and denied send à srgned exPlanation each 55-6o0/o of all tax money still goes "stand: such notífiòation would result in taxes for military purposes; and we' ing." Opíriions are studded with material time voulef use the tax; either Your to military expenditures, tax- ínterference with its in- ask that they be granted legal payers jewels like this : "Constitutionality 1l own lbtter or a Printed card, such have no more control over vestigation. recogn ition . as many WTR grouPs offer. the use of their phone tax than over 14WtN Nóv. 18, 1926 ¡.lov. 1t,1976 wlN 15 I was at leastone in mostof the shipped were left for the reader to CH ICAGO - A concert i n celebra- states traversed bv the southern only guess at) of "Concussion tion of the defenseof the Billof Continental Walk ând three in Bombs" is also being shipped to Rights with Pete Seeger and Studs North Carolina. lsrael. Terkel, Friday, November 19, B:30 The second day out of New Or- TheConcussion Bombwas pm . A benef it for the Ch icago leans, wewound up in LaRose, LA, originally designed to clear foliage Committee to Defend the Bill of at the home of Cary Tyler, a in a jungle area sothat rescue air- Rights. For information or tickets. frameup victim whose conviction craft could land. During the war in contact the Committee at 431 S. for shooting a white student, is Southeast Asia it was used in Dçarborn; Room 823 (312)939- being appealed. We held hands North and South Vietnam, Cam- 0675 w¡th his motherand sang "We bodia, and Laos for very different ShallOvercome." reasons ;the destruction of NYC- KatÉerine Seelman, energy The three North Carolina human life. Now, the Middle East resource consultant, speaks on frameup cases are: the Wilming- is not full of heavy growth areas "Why Nuclear Power is Danger- ous to and àt ton 10, sentenced to up to 36 years that need to'be cleared for landing, You Your Children" Freespace Alternate U, 339 for allegedly setting fire to a ,r ., so one might on ly assume that Friday, November grocery store in which a man was ' since it would only make a mess Lafayette St., pm. For call killed; the Charlotte 3, also ac- trying to uncover oil it is going to 19, 8:15 information, (212)228-0322. Free. cused of arson and, most recently, be used against people! RAPBROWN PAROTED thecaseof Ronnie Long. Without The Concuision Bomb is very NYC A Bakunin Centennial last J anuary which was - invåsti- documents he found while re_ any credible evidence, Long was useful in a military sense, because Symposium will be held on Satur- gatìng a series of H . Rap Brown , former chairoerson bombings searching legal cases. convicted and got two consecutive it leaves no materialwounds. Upon day, Novembei 20 with two ses- including the February, of the Student Nonviolent 1ÞZS blast Sheehan says that the first life sentences on charges of raping explosion the bomb, which can siohs at 1 and 7:30 pm, at Hunter at Fraunces Tavern near_ Coordi nati ng Comm ittee (SNCC) in iower Man- miss occurred in 195g when radar the wife of an off icial of Cannon cover a radius of 500 yards, creates College,6Sth St., & ParkAvenue. was paroled york,s for which a group from New lqt1an called the i ncorrectly identif ied u .orn."iiial Towels, the giant corporation a shock-wave powerfulenough to There will be speeches by Paul FALN (Armed Forces puerto Creenhaven Prison on October2.l. oi airplane as an enemy supersonic which dominates Concord, NC. collapse lungs, break ear-drums, Avrich, Murray Bookchin, ack Rican National Liberation) J Brown had served five years of a had missile. Defense insta-l làtions wènt The jurywhich convicted him was pop out eyes from their sockets and Frager, Sam Dolgoff and Martin 5-15 year sentence for ássault and t*en credit. Lacking evidence, the on alert and came within composed entirely of white fracture rib-cages. FBI 56 Sostre followed by discussions. burglary. The sentence came fiom has been conduðting invesii- seconds of launching Cannon employees. Blaine Metcàlf gations a full-scale - For more information, call ' a1971incident in a New york against independence attack on the Soviet Union. A sharp contract to these three (212)228-0322. groups and individuals, lounge where Browñ and three operatine The second time as no accidental cases is that of Sandra Dupree, a on the theory CALIFORNIA WATKER SNCC covVorkers were accused of that if one böl¡eves in mistake, but rather a deliberate whitewoman in Scotland Neck, NC WASHINCTON, DC-Mark independence, KILLED IN ACCIDENT atta.cking members of a drug one must know vote by the US National Securitv where we walkers received our Looney of Strongforce (and a WIN something about dealing ring. the bombings. Council. During the Cuban À4¡si¡le most enthusiastic black com; Larry Schoenthalwas killed in an writer) speaks on " Restructuring When grand jury a Brown was scheduled to be the expirõd on crjsis of 1961, Russian ships munity support. On March 11, automobile accidént while hitch- Work" at the Wholly Bagel Cof- ,ìû October^ came taken to New Orleans for retriat on 2Bth, over 250 peopte within 50 miles of the Unit'¿d Sandra Dupree shot and killed hikine in Oregon on September 27. feehouse, Quaker House, 2121 gathered at 10:30 pm a1967 firearm possession charge in front of the States. This was a direct v¡élatíon Harry Lee Dickens, ayoung black A native of the Los Arigeles area Decatur Place NW, Sunday,. Metropol itan Correctional but federal authorities informeã Center of a US ultimatum forthem to stay man, claiming he had been in- and former resident of Santa Cruz, November21,7 pm. Sponsored by Brown's lawyer, Wi lliam in lower Manhattan to greet Torres 48 miles offshore. volved in an argument with her son many persons had cometo know Tzedek, Tzedek. For information, with a candlelight Kunstler, they would drop those vigilãfter her Sheehan explained that the (who later stated h'e never had Larry during the California leg of call (2O2)232-2856. $1 donation. release. Other US charges. However, Brown still inmates of the MCC National Security Council voted even seen Díckens). After con- the Continental Walk for Disarma- their solidarity WASHINCTON, DC- J oin sup- faces indictmentfrom 1967 in-- þdicated with unanimously to go on a first-strike siderable protest action by the ment and Social J ustice, and more Torres by holding port actions for human rights and cíting to riot and arson charges matclies to the attack against the Soviet Union. black community, she yas f inally recently, for his work in helping to sternming windows of their cells an end to apartheid in South Africa from a civil distuibance According to Sheehan . the on lv arrested and charged with f¡rst de- organize opposition to a nuclear -- Torres may in fact on Thanksgiving, November 25. in.Cambridge, Maryland aftei ã again face thing that prevented a'full-scalã gree murder. She was immediatel! power plant in the San Luis jail, for it has been There will be a demonstration and rallywhere he was one of the theFBl,s habit nuclear war was a veto released on $75,000 bail. (ln North Obispo, Cal ifornia, area. by J ohn vigil attheWhite House, 9 am-2 speakers. to harass.previous grand jury wit- Kennedy. Carolina history no black accused At the time of his death, Larry -NewsDesk Times pm, followed by a march to the nesses who refused to cooperate -primo of murder ever has been released was en route to the Pacif ic North- South African embassy and a vigil with.th is illegal use of the þrand TODAY's,,SCOTTSBORO,, on bail.) Hertrialendedwith ac- west to visit the Pacific Life Com- jury by resubpoenaingthem there from 3 - 6 pm. For informa- LUREIDA to a CASES quittal on J uly 10, as whites who munity. A month before his death, TORRES FREED tion, contact the Commun ity new grand jury. filled the courtroom, cheered. he visited with a nonviolent com- for On October 26 J ailed Puerto Rican activist prdect there was wide- _Jim peck munity in Cruz which he was Creative Non-Violenc e, 1345 -Grand Jury spreadmedia . Santa Lureida Torres was released coverage of the par- considering joining. Euclid St. NW, Washington, DC don of Clarence (202)483-7611. Thursday, October 28th after over Norris, sole súr- Resource Center 2oao9; tour months in Federal WORLDATMOST DESTROYED vivor of the Scottsboro Case CONCUSS¡ON BOMBS - custody for TO . for Nonviolence WHITE PLAINS, NY-The film refusing [Changes, WIN 11 / a /76]. This SHIPPED ISRAEL to cooperate with a grãnd The world has come "Finally Cot the News" will be withín 60 black frameup case of the 1930,s iyrV gonducting a f ish ing expãdi_ seconds of total nuclear Buried deep in this last week's : shown, Friday, November 19, 8:30 devaita- became i nternational EVENTS tion intothe Puerto Rican lnäe- tion ly notorious. newspapers, the wireservices car- pm at the Westchester People's twice in the last 20 years. The Itis 451/z years since pendence movement in the United Norris and ried a reportthat lsrael is being BOSTON Daniel Berrigan Action Coalition, 100 Mamaroneck United States was the countrv that eight others States. Torres, a former york were busted on a a "full fleet" (numbers - New almost pushed the button both freight shipped speaks on "Resistance: The lssues Ave; followed by a discussion on City schoolteacher and memberof train and falsely charged were left undisclosed) of F-15 Now" at the Community Church, organizing with - times. with rapingtwowomen. union Debbie and the Puerto Rican Socialist paiñ fighter planes. Buried even deeper Morse Auditori um, 602 Common- im Hejl. Sponsored by WESPAC According to Daniel Sheehan. Not mentioned J (PSP) had been called before a' in the coverage is was the real icing forthe arms wealth Ave., Sunday, November and WILPF. For more information, attorney for Daniel Ellsberg, hii the fact that'a - Federql Crand ury in york . numberof such cake. A sizeable ship- (914)949-0088. J New charges are based on top seiret shipment 21,11 am. For information, call call $2, benefit for i @ses are in processtoday. There (again the numbers being (617)266-6710. ment Fr.ee. l WESPACandWILPF. ll 16WlN Nov. 18, 1976

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I J GLOBAL TERROR: THE TRIDENT SUBMARINE be there for every other keel-laying or launching. AND MISSILE SYSTEM, ASlide Show The Atlantic Life Community has counterparts on (where 14O çf ides / 55 minutes / rental$10, purchase $50 the westcoast the Trident will be based and - The Whales' Tale Community, 211 Collins St., where its missiles are being built by Loc(heed), called Hartford, CT 06105 the Pacific LifeCommunity. Andthere is athird sister 'group in Michigan called the Creat Lakes Life Com- ì, munity formecl to protest the construction of "The This is a slide show about terror; This is a slide show IC Seafarer," an electrified, underground grid which about Trident. These are the f irst two sentences in the "ÀìltrTlsI will bethe of the new subs. One addi- new resource available to New Englanders about the triggerfinger purpose of the "Seaf arer" would be to provide $TRINE deadliest weapons system ever to be built on this tional umr rm$$ the US. lthas been called planet. The slide show is called Global Terror: The laststrikecapabilityforthe ,tllÍllfitll ìlll !¡il ]t hand from the grave. " This too is Trident Sùbmarine and Missile System. lt was put thê "last vengef ul presentation. lt's what makes this re- together by the Whale's Tale Commun ity of Hartford in the slide People need to be made aware of with the help of many peoþle and communities across source important. in its bountiful wisdom is the country. what the military- - ) need to resist it. UNION MAIDS rfrãpréé"ntation describes the T'lt¡dent'and pets it creating for us. And we 16 mm 45 Marta Daniels black and white / minutes / rental$50, .' in contex.t with past nuclear history and present day purchase $375 policy (present policy advocated by Ford-and J immy New Day Films; PO Box 315, Franklin Lakes, N[07417 nuclear Carter- is "f irst strike," an offensive use of NUCLEAR REACTION IN WYHL role in the The letter-reviàw is to my Íirstcousin once-removed, weapons). lt discusses theTridentrs 16mm / 15 minutes / rental $15, purchase $1fi) Elaine Eldridge. Elaine rejoiced atthe 1917 revolu- permanent war economy and its effects upon all our Green Mountain Post Films, Box177, Montague, MA tion in Russra and htas spent her 70 years working to iives. lt also suggests some ways of resisting the mili- 01351 and it argues have its principles applied. While her loyalty cost ller ,f tarism which pioãuces things like Trident insurrection brewing all over the many acting lobs, it has won her many f riends and a for peace conversion. There is a citizen's the f irst two sentences, world-against nuclear power and forthe environ- unique dignity . Her most recent movement post ,s felt, and the point at which I got goose pimples was It's a good slide show.,From . (There Perhaps the historical watershed of evolving corresponding secretary for the New York branch ot the initial ovércoming of fear. Káthryn resiSts a neigh- to the very last sentence isn't much of a choice) ment. 'bol's your is locked. Your mind races to keep pace tactics against the nuclear menac'e will turn out to be Women's lnternational League for Peace and eviction by being the f irst to step on the curb in attention plethora of facts, to the successful siteoccupation in Wyhl, West Cer- Freedom. deïiance of a policeman's sawed-off shotgun. Sylvia with the statistics, to absorb the quintessential: many was there that 28,000 people tells her co-workers to close their mangles and not to ' humanize them, reduce them to their [WIN 9/25/75).lt just a hank of skin said with absoluteclarity-with their bodies! open them when the foreman hurls curses. Stella and a face, a body burned to the bone or "NO" Usually, the moveþent spends its.time organizing her co-workers write a petition for safeguards after a seared and dangling from its human form, "The ef- rather than recordi n g the results of thei r ef forts. The woman catches her hand in a sausage inachine. And fectof fire upon flesh" as the script reads. Wyhl occupation was a limited exception to this th'ey all stay with it, frorn the Depression through the . Each Trident will span two football fields, weigh cost a 'understandable if lamentable rule, for there was a' War and McCarthy (as a resultof whom one woman is 18,700 tons, be larger than a destroyer and total \ recording what it would for p.ublicly pilloried'by her union) through the Next of $40 billion for the 30 presently requested by the lone I mm camera there * posterity (and us). Wars to the Women's Movement. Navy. Trident is the f irst weapons system designed ln what could only be called a metamorphasis, that - The music makes the heartand feet glad. lt seems for first strike capacity. lt will be composed of a new ' and two generations of missiles. lt 8mm silent, color footage has become an'important, tofit so well with the determined and radiant crowds fleetof submarines even little 16 mm film, Nuclear Reaction in who pack the streets or packinghouse gates-to- is the most expensive, most sophisticated, and most crucial weapons system yet to be created. Wyhl. From22 minutes of tattered, extremely rough gether at last- much as we felt in those f irst big deadly 4,080 footage, and with skimpy dollq¡s, Creen Mountain marches against the Vietnam War. Ten Tridents will be armed to annihilate one Post Films has constructed a 15 minute documentary The unions seemed able to absorb the few corrupt targets, with bombs f ive times deadlier than the revolt that succeeded. This operators. Perhaps the nt¡mber of decent chaps kept which incinerated Hiroshima. This system of of one citizen we have tremendously inspiring movie provides a perfect them within bounds. When the AF of L becomes lazy, weapo¡s is being built even though already capacity to destroy the world 35 times. There isn't model for similar efforts across America, just as Wyhl Dear Elaine , , willing only to organize crafts workers, the CIO arose the I the end spurred similar actions across Europe. to organize everyone in an industry. Through one the language to express, or abi ity to imagine ' At last I have something to write you about. On J une here. Nuclear Reaction begins in Wyhl's undisturbed thing and another, perhaps thewayof all,movements, result of what is being created. Right And right 22, atthç Pacif ic Film Archive in Berkeley, afilm and remarkable beautiful nature preserve; then we have the unions of today, and none of the women now. The nuclear threat this behemoth of megadeath called Union Maids was shown. The maids referred to in Apocalyptic quickly comes the arrival of nuclear construction at- has a good word forthem. But none regrets her life. represents can only be interpreted are not domestics; rather "maidens," and the title tempts; then the protesters, the police; and then the Kathryn Handyman (whose last name appears by t'erms. The slide show does this welltaking the audi- song is to a young woman who braües everything to Leonardo DaVinci to Hiro- The narrative soundtrack mixed chance in a clipping) says that her family never ence from the drawings of mass occupation. ariive at the union meeting and stick to the union. The with music and some original Cerman protest songs stopped harping ather but nowthat she'sold and shima to Groton, Ct. f ilfn ¡s about three real women in Chicago: Sylvia, a resource is of special importance to the New accurately describes and helps bring home the f inds it diff icult to get around, they swarm. " See, we This bl{ck laundry worker; Stella, a Polish stockyards England states, and particularly Connecticut, since feelings and the spirit of the time. poor told you, with your brains you could have gone far, ' wo'rker; and Kath ryn, a wh ite garment workér. is manufactured at Gen. Dynamics, Electric Citizens from France, Switzerland, and Cermany and this is where you are. " But Kathryn has a pride Trident After a brief vie-w of the childhood of each, we are in Croton; a small shoreline town on actually do "do it!" We can actually experience citi- and a wholeness they cannot touch. Boat Shipyard given pictures tlnd newspaper clippings oÎ the The zens rising up to take control over the f uture life cif Pete singing is used, plus all sorts of the Southeast Connecticut coast. campaign to seminal protest of each woman. Each narr4tes how it Seeger's Afterl5 minutes lfelt like lhad glorious hortatory music. Union Maids is directed by stop the B-'l Bomber is almost over and we must turn ' theircommunities. our energ ies toward res i stance of the Trident. To that been struggling along side my brothers and sisters in Marta Daniels is a member of the American Friends J ulia Reichert, J ames Klein and Miles Mogulesque. slide show describes the formation of a loose Europe for years ! Service Committee Connecticut F¡eld Staff . This re- Reichert and Klein produced Crowing Up Female and end, the of peace groups and individualsfrom And, of course, when 28,000 people go anywhere ' vieworiginally appearedin Peacework. Sam Lovejoy Methadone: An American Way of Dealing. confederation New England and the eastern seaboard. lt is together, they end up sharing'their food, sett¡ng up is a wel I known opponent of n uclear power pl ants, Mogulesque is working on avideQ documentary about around called the Atlantic Life Community. This community. shãlters, producing cultul'al events-getting on with Jean Pelletiere teaches bibliography atthe University theiecenf revolution in Portugal. Thefilm'hàs re- the keel-laying of the f irst Trident (and I ife ! The ch ildren of the f ilm stand out for their zest of California. Berkeley. Peg Averill is a member of the ceived raves from Pete Seeger and Howard Zinn, orotested ôther fast attack subs built in Croton) and has plans to . and humor even in the midst of building a whole WIN staff. among others. -Jean Pelletiere Nov. I8, 1976 wlN 19 1SW|N Nov,l8, 1976

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t 2. You won't be exempt this timel just plain superto see "the calibre of Barbara Dane, Pete Seeger, Rich "freedom village." lt's know the book, The Bible? world coming. people" liberatlng something and, in turn, being and Parsekian, Bill Hereth, and groups & collectives like You There's a new You read it and you will sde. libeiated themselves . . . crops are planted; San Francisco Mime Troupe, Alive & Trucking There's a new world coming. . äctine tt will surely come to pass, communications, day care, education programs are Theatre, and Bread & Roses Music. A good cultural This is how its gonna be: @ April'1975 Bernice Reagon begun. The police had begun ref using to obey or:ders worker most of all is never more than a breath away fhose that were meek and hu r1tble to ãrrest; the order of the state was temporarily from what the people are thinking - Reagon is of a Would cometo gain the e7rth, ln a song like fhere's A New World Cóiming, she suspended by organ i zgd, nonviolent citizen s. Oh All this to say that Bernice that kind Them thatshuddered atthe bottom ñreaningful prose with a very unique and weli, I guess i geia litileexcited myself justthinking cultural worker. Born in Albany, Ceorgia, she began combines Would r ise and r u le the war ld ! while in the more strongly about it! connecting her politics and her music in the early touching singing style, . . They Take LJs Awav? the Af rican The environmental movement is a real movement sixties, continuing the role that Black culture has tra- fhere's a new world coming. rhvthmic Wñy Did people of music is felt. Reagon's text note on the local level, gathering supportfrom the broad ditionally played in supporting in struggle. As 3.' iníluence iÉanan of this song are almost as moving mass of people- i[ is they that rise up angry when a member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating The naüons of Asia and Af rica, explaining the roots ' as the song itself . that can really see the risks over the prof it mongers/ Committee's Freedom Singers, she directed her music They' re taki ng over thei r I ives. and compelling places For thäse who have the õpportunity to attend one, a benef its. As one of the protest songs go: to the and struggles in-which the Blàck libera- Iheiisters and brothers south of us . Reagon concert is nbt to be missed, but her tion forces found themselves during the mid-sixties. Are f inal ly getti n' wi se. Bernice we must protect ourse/Yes . . . album Give Your Hands to Struggle and accompany- Her commitment to music as an educational tool Thev take a look, United States + not tomor row-b ut tod aY ! a great evening of listening and extends to teacher (raining workshops, the develop- Of the North American clime: ' ing notes makes which side are you on ? Averill mentof ayear-long children's Black history program With yor.r ttrange mixture of wealth and hate, reãding. -Peg Nuclear Reac'tion ln Wyhl is a f ilm for this decade; wh ich drew upon the resources of the Black com- its message must circulate a lot if we're going to be munity, and organizing the Harambee Singers, a heretomolrow! -Sam LoveioY group of Black women singers with a repertoire both traditional and contemporary in African and US The iudge noted the speciÍiccharge'was a violation protest songs. Besides continuing to perform and oÍ the Niagara Frontier State Parks and Recreation write songs, Bernice Reagon is presently Vocal Commission's regulation that prohibits "acts that Director oÍ the DC Black Rep Theatre. She is currently no usef ul purpose. " group's I$ewspoems serve performing as a member of the "Sweet \ Clobe & Mail, August26,'1976 Honey in the Rock." by Tuli KuPferberg -Toronto Paredon Records, the alternative record company SONC OFTHE WARDEN which has produced this album includes an illustrated OF NIACARA J AIL pamphlet in each album which includes the texts of materials and notes. Somethin from nothin leaves somethin the songs as well as biographical New York . . "For instance TechnicalSer- ln Give Your Hands to Struggle, my favorite song of luP4- You gotta do nothin if you'wanna be with me vices Divisionlof theClAlhasdeveloped an in- her very exceptional album appears this way: Somethin from nothin gives somethin, visible itching p;6e¡der that drives its victim s wild a soldier in the war on ol' hiPPY. tt for about three dqys," he said. " My agents used a ,l'm ry EVERYTHINC CONNA BE TURN'NGOVER lotoÍ it. They wentto leftist meetings and sprinkled (Repeat till your stomach settles) it on the seats oÍ toilets. " . . . To a special friend: this song camefrom watchihe lou Star ulY 7, 1 97 5, react to the events in Southeast Asia during April, -Toronto J PHILIP MORRISWILL 1975.1think I got the line, "Everything Conna be The CIA was eating beans, parlez vous? SIAY/NNEWYORK Turning Over" frtom you. The housewas in an in- The CIA was eEting beans, parlez vous? ps5- credible state of excitement, but it felt insufficient After morethãn ayear of intensive studies oÍ The CIA was eating beans just to watch. The end of the long liberation struggle sib/e moves elsewhere, Philip Morris Inc., the put itchY in jeans by the Vietnamese people represents a decisive shift And some Your largest maker of cigarettes, an- GIVE YOUR HANDS TOSTRUCGLE: The Evolution' nation's second of power and direction for the international world Hinky stinky parlez vous yesterday that itwould notonly keep its of a Freedom Singer nounced climate. '.'New World Coming" was my way of saying iongrby Bernice"Reagon The CIA was killing Che, Parlez vous? world headquartersin New YorkCity, butwould - "Amerì" to that. Paredon Records / PO Box 889 / Brooklyn, NY 1f202 The CIA was killing Che, Parlez vous? euen expand its operations here. . . THERE'S A NEW WORLD COMING The CIA was killing Che Hatf the headquarters staff is involved in It well may be the organizers and movement brass Wordsand music: Bernice Reagon and Duvalier marketing prog,rams . . . who organizational relationships and move the Lumumba, Trujillo build New York Times, August 26,'1976 strusele forward, but it is the cultural workers-that Hinky stinky CIA - movãñrent euphemism for artists, singers and enter- There's a new world coming! The CIA was beating me, parlez vous? SOME SUCCESTIONS FOR NEWAD SLOCANS give the struggle heart.Cultural i n g's gon' be tu r n i n g over. tainers-who Everyth The CIA wds cheating you, parlez vous ? workers are educators and historians and visionaries i n g's gon' be tu r n i n g over. 1. lts Tarboro Country Everyth TheClAwaseating rolled into one-at their best, they explain the Whereyou gon' be standingwhen itcomes? Jew 2. Call for Doctor Morris! Arab and Commie and Kikiyu present, point the way to a better f uture and de- 3. ln my throat I feel a lump. . . There's a new world coming. . . stinky parlez vous mystify our past. Jo be an exceptional cultural worker Hinky l'd walk a mile for a hump a understanding and is no mean trick. lt takes solid 1. The CIA was awf ul mean, parlez vous? 4. Look for the cancer on the back involvement with the theory and practice of good For lar too many years The CIA was off its bean, parlez vous? 5. lf you'relookingforatreatment, notatreat. . . politics, strong and deep roots intothe community I been march i ng, si ngi ng and talki ng. The CIA was quite obscene 6. 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