Open Letter to the Movement
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'. I I i T l PEACE AND FREEDOM TIIRU.NONVIOLENT ACTION l , Reconciliation and Vietnam Open Letter to the Movement *.- { ç0 I +¡t Hü ¡ i".¡-H ûi\iv 13^'i 1J 1 ¡ 0 i'Juü l\ rr 1l ¿e ¿7 Årl-iu= I 3 {r qr / 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.