Number 1, December 1, 1968 VENICE, California Copyright 1968 10, 000 copies FREE to Venice residents x EDITORIAL v This paper is a p>oem. It is Our subject this issue is Any reader cah contribute in the first of a series. Your par Venice. Our purpose is to ere- some way to our next poem. Any ticipation will decide how often ate a community. Venice resident may join-in our we appear. We would like to give you a collective staff decisions by This paper is a poem for the new poem every day. We hope to rowing to our next work meetin people. We decided not- to sell do it, for now, every two weeks. on Sunday, December 8, 8 p.m. à*t 1727 W. Washington Blvd. To vol it to some of you, but to give * • it to all of you. It is a poem Beachhaa.d is a non-profit en unteer by phone, call 399-7681. .for all the people. terprise produced entirely by The next poem you read may be It is also a paper made -by volunteer workers. Every resi^ your own. people who love to make poems dent of Venice is invited to and dig doing a newspaper which join our endeavor and help tcT de is also a poem. cide the outcome of each issue. Free Venice1.
Venice, 1924, looking down the canal which is now Main Street. VENICE-OF-AMERICA ^
by JANE GORDON the La Ballona Township (now they broke ground on August 15. called Santa Monica, Ocean Park, 1904.. He conceived and built Venice, Del Rey, Palms, Culver all the unique Venice Features — • Next time you're in the Post City, etc.) was inhabited .by a the canal system, the Venice Office -- standing in line at 10 lot of sheep and U17 humans. Pier with its.auditorium and its of 5, right? " With half of Ven Santa Monica was developed roller coasters, .the St. Mark's ice lined up ahead of you, like first, and Kinney was one of man- Hotel, the Ship.Hotel and Restau you're- sure they'll clang the y businessmen responsible for rant. At the same time, he was» window shut just as itl^ about its rapid growth around the turn just as thorough in planning pun- your turn, the hand clutching of the century. He also did a lie facilities for his city- the unstamped letter narrowly es lot for Ocean Park, conceived streets, electric lightings com caping the guillotine — so the and built the Sawtelle Soldiers' plete pas and water systems, next time you're standing there Home (now the V.A.), and laid schools, p^rks, hospitals, etc? in line,Nfantasizing, check out the way for the P.E. Fed Cars to It werçt up, incredibly fast. the man on the wall. Not-em thé come out to the ocean. People stopped laughing, and Wanted poster; the^-orre in the mu But nobody was ready for his started buying in. Statistic: ral up on the "1^-ft-hand side as Venice-of-America. He envisioned in a period of 2 weeks in Novem you come in. His name is Abbott a sea-side resort, just like the ber (still '190«O,' $386,.000 were Kinney, and he's our Founding Fa one in Italy, complete with ca spent for. lots in the Venice ther. The first man to do "his nals and colonnades, singing gon area. own thing" in Venice. And he doliers and all manner of de Kinney lavished his city wit really did the whole' thing. lightful divertissements. They amuWments and attractions. A • called it "Kinney's Dream*" and 3efore Kinney began doing Ven were sure^-it /wéuld never come miniature railroad.ran through ice, the whole, area was empty off. C • rain part of town, there WAS marshland. • As a matter of fact, the "Race Thru e Clouds" ride, in 1880, the year he first came So he took* his men and mules, foe" eniçe Midway (along ücee to California, this arexa and all his vision and 8 fortune, and Con zed ba: ">age y X * v. v VENICE SÜRVIVÄt COMMITTEE \ . by JOHN HAAG in the future in dealing with "^ ,, \ , r A ., "The only real The Ve/iice Survival Committee public servanervantt s who think they ^"'^/f^Rcft Love is the love was formed on February 7, 1968, are our masters. It is also a for God- " after a meeting of about 150 Ven sign, as is this newspaper, that ice residents heard descriptions the Venice community finally isi - , . of violence, insults and unjusti emerging and getting itself to-f^i' &ce*nhr*nt k/*.lk fied arrests by Los Angeles Met gether. ro Squad officers called in to Meher Baba augment the regular L.A.P.D. for &2->&? Bookstore ces that occupy our community. A 2700 Pacific Ave demonstration at the Venice po Venice beach. lice station and police observa Jvrniliift, tion • patrols by VSC members caused the withdrawal of the Met ro SqjfSKi and a temporary reduc tion/of police harassment.\ IZ77 */• - VENICE At the trial of one of those PEACE arrested in February, a Metro AND "Squad officer said under oath FREEDOM that his orders were to "clean PART up the hippies." The Venice po lice still have those orders and 7 West have called in the Metro Squad ashington Blvd. several times recently to help. Venice, Ca. 90291 In August Venice police of (213) 399-7681 ficers increased their harass ment and intimidation along the meets 8 p. m. Ocean Front Walk. As a result, Wednesdays the VSC was reactivated. The VSC printed membership cards for use V^ïpoc*£T as identification in encounters with the police and distribute a . pamph.le— t explainir som• e of t:«e laws and practices most of ten uVe^d by jrolice- for harass ment purposes. ~ Renewed attacks by the Metro THE POT SHOP, COLUMN RIGHT Squad on the Venice commuait - 324 Sunset Ave. Venice PHIL CHAMBERJUf^ TRIP demonstrated how little prepared CHRISTMAS SALE This firLt column is dedicat the Survival Committee was to Dec. 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 ed to Jim Cayton, who turned me cope with the problem. Meetings Noon to 9 pm 396-3303 on to the meaning of art in Ven with the police proved to be a Mugs, Casseroles, ice. The day I met him he was waste of time. On the other hand, Bottles, etc. resting on a boulder. He'd been active recruiting has trou it in stoneware digging holes in his lot at Park VSC membership to more than 'ßQ and the Boardwalk, in which he'd persons, and a first meeting of sunk logs more or less vertical attorneys and law students pro NORÄGAS BAIL BONDS ly. Elsewhere, lengths of log duced the beginnings of a pool weri» mounted horizontally. As I of legal talent available to the watched him resting the handle Committee. y PRO>**T A CONriDCNTIAL of his shovel between his legs,I \ ^HABLA E6PANOL The VSC is now collectif) re realized the category of activi ports "of police abuse, including ty that had arrested my trip a- illegal entry, searches without HOUR long fhe ocean front was ''sculp warrants, threats with puns, in tor at rest." I got him into a sults, beatings, false arrests rap in which he revealed to me and thefc of property for "evi L DELIVER TOO! his source of materials, and the dence." Anyone who knows of- such price of his lot, but not a peep incidents should pet in touch could I coax from him by'way of with the VSG. The reports will* Pizza. „Dogs. . . , an over-all explanation of his be used to document.' lawsuits a- Burgers Sandwiches meaning. Naturally, I split gainst the police. call for complete menu wonderinp about the guy. Was he Forty members of the Survive] serious? Does his creation have Committee met on November l*»th A k W Root lieer artistic meriu? My wonderings and demanded that Captain Robert on the beach led to raps with other artists killings, Commander of the Ven 3015 Ocean Front Walk -Venice who crossed my path, raps in
ice police "cease at once his* • which the subject of the "Park practice of c^llinp in the Me tn This issue of Beachhead is ded Sculpture" inevitably switched Squad" or face a VSC .demand for icated to all our departed Drothers, to the need for. the painter»in his transfer out of Venice. The livmg and dead, who have loved Venice to bring his own work in VSC also demanded access to the enice, and in particular to Abbott to the out-of-doors, where, like police blotter; access tje^ny Kinney, Ron Boise, Stuart Perkoi'f, the Park Sculpture, it could be member who is jailed and jiames Maurice Lacey, John Thomas and experienced., Hence was it that of all police persoi>nel- ancf paid Jimmy Morris. To those who read, I conceived sculptural happening agents irr the Venice area. Ex greetings! '.»re would welcome you and hit on him with a proposal: pecting no response to its de "Could we use your Tot for an mands", the VSC is preparinp to- art show?" Without a flinch he carry out its program Without po drawled, "jf course. It*s an ex lice cooperation. cellent idea." The sound of his A VSC meetinp on *iovr er 21, voice seemed to imply I had attended by about 55.persons, de found the meaning of his work. cided to sponsor a December 1st More about the show next edition. Family Reunion and Picnic in i'he FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD For now, get yourself together Westminster Park "to celebrate is published at 1727 W. Washington _ an entry. If-you want to assist the withdrawal of the etro Blvd., Venice, California-90291 Tele Jim l.i setting the show up, con Squad"- from our" community. All phone: 399-7681. Circulation this tact him at 26% Pcjrk Court. Venice residents were invited tç^ issue: 10, 000 copies.- Copyright 19681 Tripping on to the Venice lit the park and police were invited Staff for this issue: Dora Bayrack, erary scene--I just split from a to take the day off. Virginia Bohannan, Phil Chaf iberlin, reception thrown by George Smith The growing.numbers, activity Rick Davidson, Carol Fondilier, Jane to commemorate the publication and determination of the * Venice- •Gordon, Jay Jamieson, Anna Haag, in 6,000 copies of.the first Survival Committee indicates John Haag, Mary Kerbret, Phil Mel- quarterly issue of "Beyond Bar that it will be more effective nick, Bill Olive, Jerry Wells. oque," an anthology of nascent literary trends headauartered at 1639 West Washington Boulevard. Vietnamese and 500 college stu As things stand now, we, the Repartee from many well-wish dents. Right? Well, this cop residents ofv Venice, have noth ers attended the service of cham car pulls up. It's about ? A.M. ing to say (about "our" police, pagne punch and hors d'oeuvres The Crown is closed and a lot of who are h^re'd, trained, assigned \ .in the magazine's glossy store spade cats are lounging around-- and commanded by downtown Los front gallery. The scene might just rapping—Yhese cops get out Angeles. Ditto for school teach as welJT have been in Greenwich --everybody against the wall—ex ers and administrators. Village as far as Venice writ I cept the spade cats. They make Venice poets don't read in ers go, since none contributed them Me on .the sidewalk, hands to the first 65-page issi»e. Lee the Pavillion since their poems clasped behind their heads -- no must first be approved by the Balan,"Beyond Baroque"'s manager, reason. Los Angeles Board of Recreation would welcome poetry, fiction, They run makes on all of us and Parks. Venice teen-agers and commentary from our Venice and- we wait there for forty min don't dance in the streets be writers. utes ^3ee, at least. Then a-cop cause their dance must be permit For closers we'll throw in a comes up to me, makies remarks a- ted in advance by . the Los Ange brief side trip into the ugly. ' bout my long jhair. Dip? I mean les Police Department. We don't •Last Wednesday night Velma they were comin' down real hard plan our own community because Croghan went out her door of the on everyone--verbally and physi plans are made for us 'by the Los Casa Loma Apartments at 101 Dud cally. But everyone 'seemed to Angeles Department of City Plan- ley onto Pacific Ave.\ to re know this was the ^ime to cool ninp, and we don't even get to trieve her kitten. Turning into it. I mean no one answered back. vote on their plans! Rose Court, the 5'«+" nurse with Like we were dead. And they *"Free Venice" means that we flowing red mane was stopped in wanted us to say somethin' back. intend to create our own communi her tracks by a heavy-breathing They kind of suggested to the ty with our owr.' t^uuMpfffllént-what sinister presence. This stocky black guys that they would be ever form that Say take--our own tnan asks her where her pussy is, rousted again if they had balls to come down and lap up some schools, parks^pibraries, hous and stares at her like a hypno ing, and culture. "We" are all tized robot. Thelma fears the booze at the posh and elegant Crown, dig? "*; of us who care enough about Ven- man's eyes, and back-steps into ic- to want to live here, work the shadowy alley.. She is star I mean like it happened a- here, create here, lie on our ing into his facj until the time bout two months ago. All I re own roach--here. he comes down on her with bare member is that those cons didn't Three times this year the Los fist and fang. This beast pins look any older than 20 . or ?h-- Angeles police have told me and her o*own with arms behind, rains and, they acted like they were/on a lot of my friends, "If you fist-falls all over her face and a traininp . exercise like in xhe want to stay out of jail, you eyes. Thelma Croghan fears for Army--you know, how to round up better get out of Venice." My .her life, fears as. she screams and bust a lot of people at once. home is in Venice. I choose to that she is already dead, fears And man, they knew how to do it. stay in Venice. The Los Angeles thà^the remorseless beating by *m solittin' for Jaoan in his victim collapse to the'earth two weeks man. Venice from Los Angeles. Much and escapes down Dudley. research remains to be done in Thelma Croghan advises if you such areas as identifying our have to go out at night, a bead by tax base, essential civic serv . chain about ' the bosom with a JOHN ices, alternative police systems, whistle on could make the dif HAAG patterns of property ownership, ference. ' city planning and a host of oth er subjects. Would you believe dancing in COP-OUTING our Venice streets? Non-violent The Free Venice Organizing by CAROL FONDILLER police? An art festival the Committee meets presently as a The following is a first length cf Ocean Front Walk? A part of Venice Peace and Freedom, hand report of a true incident. Venice radio station? Coopera Wednesdays, 8 p.m. at 1727 West The narrator prefers to remain tive, low-cost housing? An art Washington Blvd. As interest anonymous. cinema and sidewalk coffee house? grows, the Committee will become, Hey, man, what the hell can Experimental theater in the Pa an independent group run as its you do? I mean like the police villion? Schools . that could participants decide. Join us. come down here and bust. Like teach what the kids wanted to Free Venice! it's their thing, man sd I'm learn? Venice planned and run not political. I'm not Voing to by the people in it? A newspa get organized and go to ' commit per created by Venice writers? PEACE tee meetings and like that. Wow I do.- I used the recent elec AND — I^mean, look'-- a couple months tions campaign to raise the ques FREEDOM ago I "was down by Windward. . I tion of a campaign to free Ven COMMUN just stopped by to *get a candy ice from the City of Los Angeles, 4 coy}** touse ICATIONS bar and dig the headlines. You to free ourselves to create our know, bang, bang,, we got 5 , OQOv—own community. library and research center recotaeà êome$hc âvi 459-3093
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3WLmciF\c avenue • • VENICE -OF-AMERICA \ continued from front page n < • Front) with bingo parlors and ojtjjun n mil other .sorts of gambling, restau- rants-and theaters. The Venice a * Pier had all the features of a good amusement park (at one point there were 3 roller coast ers and also an impressive audi torium which was the scene of opjyiir DM3 VK oat? tip* ipi many important cultural events. Sarah Bernhardt performed there. Artists and scholars gathered for what Kinney called his Chat- auqua -- an assembly on culture. All Kinney's idea; all his doing. .to^mus i** inn* THVMI na The canals really had gondo las and singing gondoliers --im . o«a» i* QDip tjjn iyi iyii pa ported from Italy —' and people rode around the town in them. Rode straight up Main Street; it used to be a canal. The present traffic circle (surrounded by the Post Office, the Safeway 013*3 »t D£JV ^Î^Oyi«n M 11T *1 market and the Bank of America) combined with the present Safe 1*11116? 11« D"TT IVOHVfi^iP**lî O%D way parking lot used to be a % large lagoon. The water in the NlinWa f 9119131*1 IM nt^a i canals was clean and blue-- Kin ney provided for their mainten ÜDJVO 191 üoip iwuw-nyoKii tro ance. Special canal-clean.in? tools were invented to keep down / .DI7DJV3 nin'i !?trt EPD m va il« the kelp. / • *?MI |J9i iyii ooip liyi By lyiO, Venice's population * had grown to 10,000, not count- .Vx il« DSD D«n p'V* vtuyo tM"?a xin« the enormous crowds of visi- torV-frSsr al 1 over Southern Cal- •1*51* 1«11 J«** 1N11 f'13P H ,1*1« - ifornia. Doing better than"Dis f neyland, c. .OMiK Diva *•? oDpitn'vojiHva^V .lis Kinney died in 1919 and si>:% years later Venice fell into the 0P)"3 D£J«£73'V -T^3 ÜD3t?0 Ml D1V3 T*K clutches of the City of Los Ange # les. We're researching this . .DpjW7 ü*'pJ"E7 pM 01V3 Ml Ï7D3V0 11« period for the next issue and would welcome information from any- readers who know or remember This poern by Dora Bayrack of Venice tells how a any part of the story, CaZl me flower, like a person, needs loving care to survive. at 399-7681. For a full translation, we suggest that you ask one of our many neighbors who read the language.
XI FLEA MARKET G. Harmond, potter Antique Glotïiixxg etc. beyond BREAKFAST LUNCH 50c Up 95c Up baroque the first volume of the exciting yAJ-EX'S CAFE new quarterly anthology of avant-garde writing. NOW AVAILABLE - $1.00 - At bookstores, J )ÇU_E:X 6C MARY / y A.M. TO c P.M. or at the BEYOND BAROQUE GALLERY - 1639 West Washington Blvd. in VENICE. 823 OCEAN FRONT WALK. VENICE SUBSCRIPTIONS: one year (4 issues) : $3.00. Beyond Baroque Enterprises, Box 8062, Venice 90291. of living relative to the new plans. Yet, to many of Venice's minorities these are key factors If rents go up, some must leave. VENICE & If taxes go up, some must leave.. And if the cost of living in gen THE MASTER'S eral goes up (without considera RICK DAVIDSON tion), still others must leave. The dollar (with fear and greed The history of urban man is as the motivating forces) is the punctuated by his inhumanity to struggle. It makes little diff contemporary club that expels his fellow man which began, I im erence-to which minority one be our brothers from the cave. ag/ne, when'he first kicked his longs, for all in the way of the If America is tô^solve her ur brother from.the cave. The only speculator must-*go. "But wait I" ban problems, human concern must difference between-then and now 'we hear,"Our planning department "be built into the abstract de seems tq be that the cave has does consider us. They have pre signs our planners offer us. To grown, in size and ' complexi sented three ' plans for our con ward this end my next article Man is still keeping his brother sideration •. " The insidious real wiir be directed. ». from enjoying the warmth and se ity of this approach is that all curity that cave life offers. We three plans relate to physical £> ssaraaov MSN HHO SLLOM need look no farther than Venice planning: zoning, freeways, rap and its relationship to Los An id transit,. " parks and beaches, geles to witness our contempora but nothing is said about whom ry parallel. the plans are for--nothing. Not The planning de'partments^high one of the plans speaks to the way departments and politicians question: wno will live here to combine witn land speculators to enjoy and benefit from the plans? form the master planners- by whom There is nothing that talks local destinies ar& 'determined*. of rent; there is nothing that EARL NKWMAN The slogan, LL 30WEP TO THE talks of taxes, and- there is 1725 WASHINGTON BLVD. PEOPLE," symbolizes the- urban nothing that talks of the cost VENICI, CAUf. > -fa »»9-Î8G» Number 2, Season's Greetings» 1968 FREE VENICE, 1969 ' 10, 000 copies FREE to Venice residents
venice of los angeles the course of my venice by JANE GORDON . HUMAN EVENTS by VIRGINIA BOHANNA' History has ups and downs. FREE VENICE ART FESTIVAL - every MY VENICE is the ^s*fn worship- Venice started coming down after weekend thru Jan. 11 8 12, 10 AM. rituals of the seagulls...a tiny Abbott Kinney died. The powers till sunset, in the sculptured patch: "Please do not pick interested in Venice were at lot on Ocean Front Walk at Park these flowers; jhey are for that time divided into 2 main Ave. Artists, craftsmen: bring everybody." kittens supreme camps : those who wanted to ad art work for display. Everyone: in high windows on streets where here to Kinney's principle of ab come by for free coffee 6 raps. footsteps dance and houses are solutely no limits on business— For information - Fred Burkhart, alive and puppies joyously i.e., amusement concessions—and 807 Pacific Av. or call 399-7681. ignoring signs to fly laughing those who wanted Venice to be a • Los Angeles has now destroyed on the beach..firey western suns residential beach resort. the last surviving landmark on and crackling surf...bouquets of City mis^management brought Venice beach, the public rest- names (Breeze, Brooks, Sunset this division to a head. For rooms at the foot of Brooks Ave. Horizon) windows warm with one thing/sgol^ti^ans seemed to L.A. police claimed that "undes- color-messages beating from be helping themselves instead of irables" were using the facil- within and colored bonnets, serving the people (1922: City^ ity. Venice residents were not boots and beads, beards on sons treasurer vanishes with Venice's^- consulted. Free Venice.' Qf prophets centuries gone. >v> . . valuables). Also, many were dis • Children continue to play in a shawl, a tallith, a mezuzeh satisfied with public facilities. the "vest-pocket park" at Grand standing guard...corn and squash Motorists needed more streets and Howland Canals. Venice resi- which love brought forth from and parking. Population growth dents clearea the lot, raised ^sand, entwined with blue and" resulted in an overburdened sew money for playground equipment. gold and flame and passing er system. There were complaints L.A. city attorney has decided eyes, the shy, the calm, with about" the canals; since Kinney's not to prosecute for zoning v\o- question and greeting, velvet death, the shallow canals were lation. There are many vacant brown and crystal green, and left untended and tidal flow was lots in Ve;ice near where child- warming blue and deeply black... not adequate to prevent stagna ren now have only the streets to all mine-- all yours-- all ours! tion. They were declared a play in. Let's make parks.' Our Venice heart. health menace. So the argument shaped up— annexation vs. independence. In 1923, annexation to Santa Monica as well as to Los Angeles was to be' voted on. Nobody knew for sure w*ho was the good guy, which plan would be better. No plan*, got a majority. By 1925, the businessmen and other proponents of annexation to* LA had got them selves together. They argued that annexation would solve all the above problems and as an ex : i tra added attraction, - Venice would get in on LA's Chamber of Commerce, Board of Health, Pol ice force, water supply, etc. • That is, the .annex-ites were willing to allow their community Continued on back pace VENICE FAMILY REUNION & PICNIC, Dec. 1, 1968. Some of the more than COP- FRONTATIO 500 Venice residents who attended the event sponsored by the Venice Survival by. CAROL FONDILLER Committee listen to attorney Herbert Porter's advice on how to cope with cops Photo bv James Anderson The netf community relations officer of the Venice police met the harassment ofpeople on the always open and all he needed a~vocal, concerned and together beach, he stated he thought the was one documented report of pol group of blacks, browns, and .oth jeep^was used only in summer. ice harassment and brutality er minority groups that mak^ up In replry to a statement that it that included an officer's badge Venice at the Venice Service Cen was introduced in winter, he number or car number (although ter, Monday evening, Dec. 9. said he'd -have to look into it. he never quite said what he'd do Lt. Archbold told the group He was questioned on his opin with his one report). • He was that he had no intention of be- ion of the Metro Squad coming to told that police were . hostile coming a public relations offic Venice; he justified its use by and sometimes refused to give er for the police, but a liaison citing the high crime rate, stat their numbers, or threatened one between the people and the . pol %ng that burglaries were cut by with arrest, to which he replied ice . He stated that he knew very 16% after the Metro visit. that as long as one did not int little about Venice, but was. eag "Why were there unconstitution erfere verbally or physically er to learn. al searches and seizures on the with an officer discharging his When asked about the Desert beach and in the home? Lt. Arch dutyr a witness could stand and Fox Jeep detail on the beacfi and bold replied that his door .was Continued on page three PFP BEGAN IN VENICE I not in Venice. Peace and Free J by JOHN HAAG dom people, \on the other hand, • are active in several local or foaQpeers IT* Muffft/e rm^ One' *of the two political par ganizations and the PFP office lot» lUKI *t*VUtiGTOM ties that appeared for the first and facilities are being used by time on this year's election bal a variety of Venice groups. **IQ lot began in Venice, California. During the election . campaign 3SS2-ASP The first proposal for a nation this year, two Venice residents al anti-war political party to FMZM»1UKt be called "Peace and Freedom" were PFP candidates. We encour was dated April 24, 1967 and was aged the activities of the Ven mailed from 1415 W, Washington ice—^Survival Committee, advoc Blvd. When the Committee for ated a community newspaper and the Peace and Freedom Party Reg urged the liberation of Venice istration Drive was formed in from the City of Los Angeles. 1Z27 ^ ^ ' June, 1967, its first .headquar . PFP members believe that Ven ters was at that addre'ss. For ice residents should get togeth several months that was the only er and plan for our own future. office the PFP had. The only "master plan" for Ven ice that we can. support is a During those early days, peo plan drawn up by Venice resid ÏÏ ple up north tried to belittle ents to provide for our present our effort to get the PFP on the and future needs. AliriQU&JE»*t*V I [ ballot by calling us the "Venice registration drive." By mid-Oct We oppose any freeway through ober, the "Venice registration Venice. A freeway will increase drive" had spread throughout the taxes and rents by taking land state. Our headquarters had off the tax rolls. It will dis a. •» moved closer to downtown Los An locate many of us, drive some geles and our origins in Venice out of business and poison our were all but forgotten. Less air with smog. . The most likely than three months later we qual route would disrupt the cultural ANTIQUES and commercial development now OLD PRINTS ified for the ballot in Califor STAINED GLASS nia with 105,000 registered vot taking place on West Washington FRENCH CL0CK8 ers and our organizers were pre Blvd. and would place a perman paring to carry Peace and Free- ent wall between the black and don^ iLntaether states. white sections of our community. EMORABILIA In addition to a wide range We registered over 1,600. vot of economic and social services, ers in Venice— the highest con Venice PFP members have endorsed centration in Southern ^Califor and will work with other groups ŒaaacaiJtiaifi nia. We predicted then that to create a Venice Art Festival, within a year the PFP would be a film festival and workshop, an U-H3-Ï1T? the only political party still art cinema and sidewalk coffee active in Venice, and so it is. house, cooperative housing;, end The only political office now o- ilimibc's Hassle Castle pen is the PFP office, still on a community radio station. We W. Washington Blvd. advocate that Venice become an TIQUES independent city run »on the dem JUNK The reason we are stirl open ocratic principle of one man, DESIGN lANTIOÙESl is that we are performing serv o.." vote. Venice residents could, WEAVING ices for the people of Venice, if we chose, form our own govern while the other political par ment by 1970. B. J. BRENNA WALKER A. M. IÜNO ties have nothiiig to yoffer. 1353 W. WÄIH
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BUBBLE MACHTE The FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD VENICE by JAY JA MIES ON is published at-17 2 7 W. Washington L'.A.'s tearing down the pub- Blvd.i Venice, California 90291 Tele POTTERY Lie restrooms at Brooks Ave., S phone: 39 9-76 81. Circulation this GALLERY G. Harmond> potter 'Ocean Front Walk. As usual * the issue: 10, 000 «copies. Copyright 1968. L.A. Governers promise a bigger, Staff for this issue: Dora Bayrack, better, prettier-than-ever re Virginia Bohannan, Phil Chamberlin, placement building, next year Rick Davidson, Frances Dote, Amer 1«3i Washington Meanwhile, there are rest- ica Dunnavant, Carol Fondiller, Jane blvd . Venice, Calif handcrafted rooms in 2 bars, 2 restaurants Cordon, John Haag, Jay Jamieson, stoneware pottery and 1 coffeehouse --when they're Cindi Lee, Ed Mendelson, Diane open-- in the long mile of sand Powell, Bill Olive, Leonard Spear, between Rose and Windward Ave's. Jerry Wells'. Special thanks to Jack. • Oh".well:* Free Venice. L.A. Governers downvoted a This issue of BEACHHEAD is ded stock transfer tax, 9-1. * Then icated to all our departed brothers, shook hands with the stockbrok living and dead, who have loved Ven ers and bankers who contribute ice, and in particular to Eden Ahbez, their campaign funds_. ^ight of Bruce Boyd, Josh Gould, Taylor tne LAG'S are up fior re-election Mead, Rusty Penn and Alfonso Sosa. EARL MlWMAN next April. Rerilember it whe To those who read, greetings! We 1726 WASHINGTON BLVD. your sales tax goes up. ' would welcome you back.- rsmcat, CAur, M**U CYCLES & VENETIANS who likes to run his cycle in thing. Thev are roaming cyclists the dirt (brush) and is willing who take lgng trips (motor trips ) by LEONARD SPEAR to take a spill now and then as and who have found the joy of * \ he attempts more speed or more cycling -with fellow enthusiasts. Many residents of Venice, difficult terrain. We see them Cyclists often have a forbid both .rich and poor, have taken in the fields on Lincoln Blvd. ding look when properly dressed to motorcycles for pleasure and near Culver Blvd. and on the for the sport, but all the gear transportation. A student as East side -of the Grand Canal on is functional. The greatest dan young as 15 years of age can buy t£e Peninsula. Some of these ger is from a spill which can his wheels for $50.00 and visit cycles never see the street and happen to anyone. All cyclists friends or tour with . a girl are not even registered but in drive defensively and statistics friend or buddy at a cost of 30 stead are used in competition show that two out of three ac cents for a hundred miles of go. cidents are due to careless mot He can leave the smog behind and driving at breakneck speeds thru th,e "desert. J orists. The helmet practically take the Coast Hiway to Malibu v ensures that a spill will not be or the non-paying side of Zuma Another type of cycle some Beach--or wind the scenic routes times seen in Venice is the chop fatal and the leather clothing of Ma^libu and Topanga Canyon per. This bikè is low in the prevents bad scrapes. Boots aid with a stop at groovy T^apei Park. seat with high handlebars. The in shifting gears and are some These roads and wayside stops engine is powerful, well taken times dragged to maintain bal- are full of happy people who care of, and usually has chromed, ce. But the- gloves are just shiny motor parts. A long' safe wave and enjoy friendly chats. / r.the fun of it. Tne solitary rider may like to ty bar is located at the back to watch the sights as he sings at make feminine passengers feel If you want news about bikes the top of his lungs into the safer and is called a sissy-bar. and riders in Vrnirrf write the wind and the noise of the cycle. The riders are often members of BEACHHEAD. Serhaps the readers Then there's the "scrambler" clubs with scary names but they would like to^help organize a are just people doing their own Venice competition meet."
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* the case has been disposed ofv dropped or reduced, this is not •• take notes as near to the scene Many people replied that they likely to get coverage. She add as he liked. indeed complained, but never had ed that although a policeman How do police judge cases of they receitffc^ such a letter. To might get reprimanded, fined or police malpractice, and why. are prove thi s /point, Lt. Archbold suspended, it does not mean loss we not 'informed of disposition revea." ed fnat there were offic of his job; when a person is of said cases? We were told we ers on suspension, or just back thrown in jail, causing.possible could fill out a complaint form from suspension, at that time. loss of job and accumulation of at any police facility, and the He refused to comply with a re debts from bail and legal costs, case would be taken care of by quest to give their names, how the police take no blame for it. an internal system of judgment ever, indicating that it was not A meeting with some of the of public information. Ir other within the police department. A words, the officers could return ficers was requested, to talk black woman stated that in a after suspension and harass and over some of the same subjects. case she had been involved with, hurt citizens again, but citiz Lt. Archbold responded thaj of where police had- threatened to ens could not be made aware of course any meeting for a good arrest some young' black people the officers' former offenses. purpose was fine, but that he just for taking a survev on the A woman summed up the group's would not have his officers "vil- beach for the Servic€^^Center, feelings on this matter by point lified." The response was made she had' complained to ^very lev ing out that police are punished that be^ng made aware of com el of police channels and had re anonymously, while people who plaints , and conditions in the ceived nothing but a runaround. have not yet been brought to community resulting from police JSi. Archbold said that when some trial find their names in the pa action is not vilification. one files a complaint, he always
Dear BEACHHEAD, THE EDUCATION CADRE NEEDS I enjoyed myself very much at day. They didn't even answer me May I suggest that you hire more YOUR SUPPORT IN ORDEtf TO the family reunion that was held IMPROVE YOUR SCHOOL. . at Westminster Park. The child agreeable- photographers? Yours truly, • ren, the bands, and the people for information call were delightful'. But I want to ' Lucretia Naive Vermont McKiriney - 478-8241 know one thing. There were a lot of men who took pictures of P.S. I want to thank our Boys me. They were very nicely dress in Blue for defending the Park. !rJ*V£ ed young men. But they kept to I really felt safe with all emseives. I asked one of them -those police cars-around and the i \f they would send ^ne some pic blinking red lights gave it sort tures .(glossy 8,!x20") so I could of a Christmas atmosphere, don't tM**m have a souvenir if a beautiful ou think? "Specifically, since a large ment s oiÇ> city government should EDITORIAL segment of the Venice Community be made to authorize the forma \ subsists at the poverty level, tion >of whatever body is re The BEACHHEAD staff agrees any plans,^ graphic, written or quired in order to seek out and witJv the following statement dis verbal should attempt to solve solve the problems of Venice's tributed by the Venice Peace and Venice's poverty problems—prob poor. The findings of such a Freedom Party and the Free Ven lems which the Los Angeles Plan- body should be subject to the ap ice Organizing Committee at the u ning Department has admitted are proval of Venice residents only. two recent Human Relations Com beyond their scope, and thus the "Furthermore, until such a mission hearings on Los Angeles' reason why their specific plans body is formed, all plans should master plan for Venice : .for Venice do not deal with the be shelved and the present level "AN ALTERNATIVE poverty issue. of rents and property taxes "Generally, we believe that —^"Therefore, /if solutions are should be considered maximum. the basis of human dignity is beyond our Planning Department's This should continue as long as the ability of people to make ability, then the mayor, the cit necessary." the decisions that affect their y council and any and all depart Whether or not the Los An lives -- to order their own pri geles government approves, we vate lives as they choose and to should act now to create a rep- decide collectively with their presentative body of Venice resi peers on matters of collective dents to make our own plans to concern. meet our own needs. Free Venice I
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lowered hi>> voice and became VENICE A less comprehensible. To me, the following facts THE MASTER'S PLAN are obvious : RICK DAVIDSON' 1. All the poor people of Venice share the same hopes, fears and This article is the second in frustrations. a series, directed toward the WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE ? 2. The Human Relations Bureau is problem of humanizing urbaniza a public relations committee for tion. A series conceived as be Photobv^redBurkhart the mayor. ginning with the general and pro 3. The various departments re gressing to the specific. Logic Questions and statements were flect the desires of city hall. ally, Jehis article should still directed to the Commissioners (L.A. City Hall). the general, but due to and panel of experts ..who respond 4..The only way the poor minor the immediacy of the hour rela ed in- typical bureaucratic fash ities can fight city hall is to tive to the master pi^jn for Ven ion: "Sorry, I don't know about get together açid confront it dir ice, being prepared by the L.A. that. That's not under my de ectly—not through^, their bureau City Planning Department, the 2 partment." Mr. Mitchell, from cratic front runners. public meetings of last week the Community Redevelopment Ag It has also been obvious for should be mentioned. Meetings ency, proved to be the heavy a long time that Venice is prime set up by the Human Relations weight on the team wher. he sug land—too prime for poor people. Bureau (H.R.B.) for the purpose gested that the solution to Ven SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? * of discussing Venice's future ice's poverty problems lies with meeting has been called, for and who will be part oi/it. For a new HUD (Housing,and Urban De Thursday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m. those who were unable to attend, velopment) home improvement pro at the Westminster School, for they went something as follows: gram — a program ^ where direct the purpose of getting Venice's Most segments of Venice were loans are made to owners of four poor together--all the poor--so present. Noticeable exceptions units or less, for the purpose that a solid front can confront were marina, canal and-'peninsu of upgrading their property (all the mayor and city councrlmen residents. At the front of^fhe other HUD program are adminis with demands that Venice's pover auditorium (Broadway School) sat tered through local banks). But ty problem be solved here in Ven the Housing Commission of the the absurdity of Mr. Mitchell's ice-- relocation is not a solu H.R.B. and about the room was a thinking is seen when considered tion. If you feel that you have panel of experts: representa in the light of present and fut been down this road before, you tives from the planning, build ure densities of Venice. The are mistaken. Different little ing and safety, parks and recréa presentT-density is about 20 peo groups have gotten themselves to tion and highway departments. ple per/adre; the projected den gether from time to time,- but Max Mont, H.R.B. Commis'sioner, sity op one and one half to two never a united front. We are opened each meeting with an ex times that., or about thirty to calling all .the poor minorities cessive string of words aimed at forty per acre (an acre is ap-^ and all Venice residents who convincing the audience that the proximately 200 feet square). don't want to see Ocean Park's H.R.B.'s only purpose in setting The loud and direct spoken Mr. solution used here, to unite." up the meetings was to help the Mitchell, when asked about the To give up is to die and the poor people of Venice. The maj residents who rented rather than spirit of Venice is alive. Come ority was unconvinced. owned their home or apartment, to the meeting now!
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be too high for them to return. neighbors and ourselves-- will EDITORIAL Their own taxes will help pay have (maybe) four square blocks In the early I960's, a thriv for their forced removal from in the Planning Depar ing artistic community developed their chosen community. grand design. A laiçge propor along the Ocean Front including Now comes the City Planning tion of present businesses will several art galleries, studios, Department with a grand plan for also have to go. coffee houses and a bookstore, all of Venice which would drast This process has gone far This development brought visit ically change every existing enough. The people of Venice, ors to the area and increased neighborhood in our community. who have survived despite the ne the trade of many small busines Every neighborhood in Venice gleet and abuse of every-depart ses which have since disappeared. would be uprooted and something ment of the city government, de A building inspection program more expensive substituted for serve better than this and we instituted by . the City of Los what is there. The proposed mas will have better than this. Angeles, at the instigation of ter plan would displace at least We have the intelligence to then-councilman Ka'rl Rundberg, half the present population of know what we want, the talent to who was recently convicted of Venice,, leaving them no place to plan what we want and the skill bribery, destroyed the Ocean go except away. The population to build what we want. What we Front cô«miunityy^ About 25% of might rise, but it would be dif and the hundreds of others who ferent people entirely; middle have rejected the proposed mast the buila^tngS^c were destroyed. income replacing low income, Considerably more than 25% of er plan are demanding is time high income replacing middle in and resources to make '-pur own the population was uprooted^- come. The poor—our friends and many of them forced to leave the plan for our own community/"^ Venice area entirely. A good deal of property changed hands. I Matter Plan (reprinted by permission of Independent-Journal Newspapers) Many elderly retired persons were forced to abandon their homes because of repairs demand ed by the- city which they could j Venice Residents Win Delay not afford. Several of them died' Venice residents, under the ficials and organizations, the ing this week by Free Venice -chances of altering the pres auspices of Jhe Free Venice City PlanningCommlssionre- leader Hick Davidson who add ent master "plan suggestion. of heart attacks brought on by Organizing ff&mmittee, end versed its previous decision ed that any pian for the future Miss Gordon feels that if the the strain. Councilman Marvin Braude of denying a three-month delay of Venice should come from citizens of Venice come up An enclave of Black people Venice won the first leg of a and gave Interested residents the residents within the com with a good, coherent, feasi three-week battle with theCity until May 8 to prepare their munity rather than from the ble plan for the community, was removed entirely from the, Plann+ng Commission this suggestions for the commun Commission. city officials wilt be hard put beachfront by condemning every wees as city planners moved ity's master plan. Jane Cordon, another mem not to listen or at least con fodelay action on the proposed ber of the Free Venice Or sider their proposals. habitable building in which they master plan until May 8,1969. Petitions ganizing Committee, alsopro- posed at the meeting thai the In addition, the three month were then living. Galleries Due to strong opposition to Petitions containing some delay will give résidents a the immediate adoption of a 2,199 signatures of Venice Commission comeTo Venice closed, numerous small business May 8, making It easier for chance to solidify tbeirfeel- Venice master plan by resi residents were presented to Ings and support for deciding es were ruined and. whole neigh dents, businessmen^ city of the Commission at their meet- residents to attend although the city officials ruled that their own future and might at borhoods were destroyed. "usual procedures" would be least serve to put pressure on Nine years ago there was har followed. The dem and for local the city council in the event THE COURSE OF meetings was one of several that the planning commission dly a vacant lot within blocks listed on the petitions circu rejects the residents'propos- of the Ocean Front. Today only HUM AN\ EVENTS lated throughout the Venice als. community. Major support at the recent a handful of Venice's landmarks • At the FREE VENICE Art Festival the Petition signatures gather planning commission for the remain standing and whole blocks focus this month is on children. Crayons, ed by the Venice organizing adoption of the master plan group included 414 property came from members of the of beachfront are vacant lots clay and other materials are free and each owners, 19 per cent of the Venice Planning Committee. strewn with rubbish. Thanks to child gets a coloring book designed by Venice total. Among ihe property a group of beachfront prop"- owners were 21 who operate erty owners interested in de the City of Los Angeles. artists Freddy Freedom and Ed Newell businesses in Venice. Signers veloping a privately financed The City of Los Angeles spent Free milk for the children at the festival of the petitions amounted to shopping mall on Windward a million of our tax dollars on five per cent of the total pop Ave. during the second weekend of February was ulation in Venice and repre a Recreation Center which is donated by Walter Michel, Venice manager sented all areas of the com Attending the meeting from hardly ever used. It was poorly munity, particularly the Ocean Venice were Philip Carter of for Edgpmar Farms. The festival happens Front and Oakwood areas, Commonwealth United, Joy designed to begin with; many every Saturday and Sunday from 10 am. to however. Stanley Morehendof Action In potential uses are made' diffi dustries, John Flemmlng of sunset on the Ocean Front at Park Avenue. Nothing Definite Project Action, Robert Cas cult or impossible by the restr • Venice artist Bill Olive designed and gave to According to Miss Gordon, tile, Oakwood community or ictions imposed by the L.A. Dep the Newton-Cleaver Defense Committee a silk no definite meetings have been ganizer who flew back from a scheduled as yet to organize Chicago training institute to artment of Recreation and Pa/~ks screen poster honoring Huey P. Newton on the feelings of the community. attend the meeting, Morris and, of course, many who might his birthday this month. Proceeds from sale It is instead hoped, she says, Rosen of the Israel Levin Sen have used it were -driven out of will help defend Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, that individual communities ior Adult Center, Marguer and neighborhoods will gather ite Buckley and T«o Tlm- the are^by the building inspec Black Panther Party leaders under indictment together to decide what is mtns of Neighborhood Legal tion program already described. • because of incidents started -èy the Oakland best for their area and what Services, Earl Newman, na they would like to see In tionally known poster design Yet the master plan labels that police. Bill's poster will be displayed through cluded in tbe master plan. er, John Haag, co-chairman out California. % Following Individual meet of tbe California Peace and hulk our "community center," Freedom Party and Ray Valle • /^r-rfie request of the Venice Survival Com ings, then, conferences would Today, before the property be held to consolidate the of the DSC School of Social assessment district in the canal mittee, Venice attorney Paul Abram defended needs and desires of the res Work. Ü of a group of 14 Venice residents tried last idents allowing them to select area has even been made into law a community plan which would city money is being used to des month on charges resulting from a mass be best for tbe area as a troy houses there. Not ..one penny arrest by the Metro Squad of the L.A. Police whole. Department. All 14 were found not guilty. Although it was Councilman is being- spent to help the dis Braude who moved lor tbe placed people find other quart Six other' VSC members arrested in January three-month delay to allow tbe were released and charges dropped due to community "a further oppor ers. Before that operation is • tunity to explore tlieplan," completed, not one person now Paul's efforts. Miss Gordon says she has no renting in the canal area will • Twenty FREE VENICE Organizing Com real confidence In Braude* s mittee activists rode to the L.A-. Planning apparent Interest since he has still be there. Their homes will made no effort to seek the Commission meeting on January 30 in a bus opinion of the community in all be destroyed or remodeled donated with driver by the Pacific Scenic Lines . forming their own future. and the new scale of rerijts will of Venice. continued inside As far as the community's ^^Ofcoursê^^whên one makes a ties in this matter. Expectorât law of this nature it becomes ing into the ocean will be con *ra I. by DAVE MURPHY necessary to define the appropri sidered aiding and abetting. During and following the rec ate sanctions to be used agairtst ent stora the waves carried away the sea if it continues to flout large amounts of beach sand. the law. The birthday of Black activist and This of course is devastating to It has been suggested that if historian W.E.B. DuBois will be cele the entertainment value of the the sea continues-in its current brated by a block party on Sunday, Feb beach areas. It has been sugge unlawful acts that it be incarc ruary 23, from 2 to 6 p.m. Centered sted that ^sufficient precedent erated; we can build a big wall around 22 Thornton Avenue, the party has already been established to around the sea and force it to will include, refreshments, dancing, suggest the appropriate correct stay where we want j/t to. If ive action. A law should be ! Movement films Si rapping with Black the sea rebels against this hum Panther Party leader Shermont Banks. passed making it illegal for the ane treatment, then war may be sea to carry away more than 3 Proceeds from donations will benefit come necessary. We may have to the BPP. Call 399-6462 cubic yards of sand per year. go all out in our pollution ef This, of course, would solve forts. the problem. As to the preced Of course, all good citizens Free Pap tests to detect cancer will be ent for this forward looking of Venice will support this mea offered at the Venice Branch Library, 610 legislation; one need only look sure. The Venice Internal Secu California, on March t between I and 4 pm. to the laws making it illegal rity Affairs committee will take ,by special arrangement with the American for hemp and poppies to grow. evidence as to Un-Venice activi- Cancer Society.
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-il J / ••.•'• • x ' '/' ' s~~&SËk FLEA MARKErig Tetc . fa! • '•' • • '• COMPOSÉ • •• nirlud ••. tl u and l gton tovri urn and this and thi> and «•. • •- Ideal for offse! priming of menus, fetters, small and display ads. pamphlets, brochures, books, etc. Call Virginia Cook, 396-6551 or 4734791 or MEHER BABA BOOKSTORE stop in at the BAYR0CK Publications offices at 2700 pacific avenue venice, California 1639-41 W. Washington Blvd., near Venice Blvd. working in what they now called tellectual activity, frankness, a book revieew their Community of Work. By 19U6 communitarian responsibility,etc By-J»^f WELLS they grew to 90 employees des all .help to determine the social None of the current programs pite the destruction of their or value of each. Women and child for reducing unemployment—inclu iginal factory during the war. ren are also considered in this ding black capitalism — gives The success of the Community rating and are paid accordingly. hope of changing the basic fact of Work didn't simply mean one The.communitarian idea spread of life for all working people: man getting rich. They bought a rapidly. Domain Ott vineyards that all jobs eventually turn us 200 acre farm where they took became a community of work. So into dumb robots. Our hopes of turns enjoying the healthy coun did thg milkmen of Geneva, Switz. becdming creative, informed, hap try life one month a year. This erland. Five boiler workers in py adults are usually smashed in was in addition to a month's va Marseille set up a shop in an the daily grind to pay the bills. cation' a year. An increase in old submarine yard to produce A truly Free Venice would dev production didn't mean laying leather goods. By the mid-1950s elop new ways of working that people off work. ' Instead, the there were over a hundred commu would eliminate the drudgery and work week was reduced for all nities of work throughout West alienation of work and enable us and the extratime gained was ern Europe. to develop all the creative pot used togethjer', in educational You can read about the Commu entials that are within us. A classes, soccer, singing, or nities of Wonk in the book ALL wild dream? whatever they wanted. THINGS COMMON by Claire Buchet In . 19H0, Marcel Barbu, a Neighborhood Groups, smallest Bishop (Harper £~ Bros. Publ.). French worker and watch-case mak and most important unit of the Eric Fromm's book THE SANE SOCIE er by trade", decided to change Community, bring together fami TY also contains a discussion of that „dream into reality. Barbu lies who live in close proximity them in the chapter entitled offered to teach several . un to discuss the activitiesVof the "Roads to Sanity." skilled workers the watch-case Community. Minutes, are / tà^cen, After that, why not organize trade. The workers agreed to suggestions and criticisms made, our own communities of work in search with Barbu for a new way and they are sent to the elected Venice? Do we have the courage of working in which the "distinc Chief of the Community. The Nei to turn our dreams into reality? tion between- employer and employ ghborhood Groups also organize ee would be abolished." mutual aid activities such as ba CO-OPS FORMING: They set up their first shop- by sitting, care of the sick,etc. , photo-lab for those interested in in an old barn and were soon sel The members of the community lab & equipment ling their product to watch manu are paid for their social value . apartment living (complex) facturers. Together they devel as well as for the work they do. » Venice school oped a common ethical basis fo'r The degree of friendliness, in- interested, call 399-7681 HMMMM| graphic design faff co*C£t7S,P*0GGAMS & SPCC/Al £l/ErYrs ******PUBLIC ELECTION printing facilities 'A" the BOARD OF DIRECTORS ^••1 "74 9«c6 "»ampto. rrW«ey of the VENICE HEALTH COUNCIL WU f\ T.. T-o S . So.— B«.,.., a. .. >oz>2 I BROADWAY SCHOOL AUD'ITORIUMI T,..~=s. CR..-. ... *.6C75 1***1015 Li.-coln Blvd. Venice**** I EX6-5270 .dfcj^fi- Jra»vlcJiLmiau -|o6& mmdîc I **?***• kitchen table art service Signed articles in BEACHHEAD profit in that all money contri The F-REE VENICE BEACHHEAD are entirely the work of indivi buted is used to cover the costs is published at 17 2 7 W. Washington dual writers and do not necessar of production and distribution. Blvd., Venice, California 90291 Tele ily reflect the views of the Each issue of the paper is de phone: 399-7681. Circulation this BEACHHEAD staff. The staff is livered free to 12,000 Venice issue: 12, 000 copies. Copyright 1969. open to any Venice resident who residents. Your copy cost us a-, Staff for this issue: Shlomo Bach- wishes to contribute time and ef bout 2t and hours of volunteer' rach, Dora Bayrack, Virginia Böhan- fort to produce and distribute labor. If you want this unique non, Kandy Broatch, Fred Burkhart, the paper. • - community^ paper to continue, Rick Davidson, America Dunnavant, Contents of each issue are de please offer your help by call Jane Gordon, Anna Haag, John Haag, cided collectively by the staff ing 399-7681, or send a check to Nancy Lacefield, Jean Levitan, Phil for that issue. The paper is non BEACHHEAD, 1727 W. Washington. Melnick, . 1 v X
OAKWOOD PIAYGROUND ACTIVITIES EDUCATION CADRE ors, some since October. If you now offers a complaint center to all can spare two hours a week, and 767 California Ave. 399-0162 Oakwood parents 8e students who are are at least sixteen^ years old, not satisfied with our local schools. why not help a ch>ld? Contact Slim-n-Trim Mondays Open 9 am to 5 pm, Mon. tljru Fri. Mrs. Virgie Smith at 451-9747 or (Adults)....., 1 10 am. for information caU 392-5540 after 2:30 pm, 399-4276. Or come Dance Class Mon. & Wed. to the State Service Center at (5 yrs. Si over) 4 pm. TUTORS ARE NEEDED 324 Lincoln Blvd., between 2:30 Pre-school Wed. 7 Fri. and 6:00 pm. The Venitee Educational Center (3 to 5 yrs. ) 10 am. Peter Kahn 451-9747 399-4276 Teen-age Dance Thursdays operates a tutorial program al 8-10 pm. lowing students experiencing dif contact Miss Ponder ficulty in school to obtain help. VENICE DRAFT INFORMATION CENTER The primary objective of the pro is located at 73 Market Street, Little Major League Baseball - 1969 gram is to aid each child in/ ov Room 2, upstairs front: the old All boys ages 9- 12 are eligible ercoming his particular academic Kick-a-poo Logan Building. Hours problems, with special emphasis are: 7 to 10 pm Monday through Dates for registration: placed upon developing a' close, Thursday; Saturday 1 to 5 pm. 2 Saturdays in Feb: the 15th & 22-nd personal relationship between Call 399-5812 for appointment. 3 Saturdays in March: 1st, 8th, 15th \ tutor and child. The group will attempt to aid in Any time between 1 p.m. and 4 pm. There are presently thirty answering your questions on the contact Mr. Peoples student applicants awaiting tut draft. Is/there a draft on you?
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IEGAL SERVICES - T. TIMMINS THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS m Venice residents fane Cordon and John There is', an office of the • Sam Anderson, a staff member at the Haag made an aerial inspection on February 9 L.A. Neighborhood Legal Services Venice Branch Library, 610 California, made of the oil slick coming down the coast from in Venice^ 1711 Bétcific,' Phone a special contribution to Black History week Santa Barbara. They were concerned about 392-4177. Ou?">€ffice is finan at the library by collecting photographs, bio. the threat of oil damage to the Venice ced by the federal government to graphical sketches and observations on Black beach and the failure of all authorities to provide certain legal services^ identity and development from artists and save any of the beaches so far affected. After for those who can't afford a law others active in the Venice Black community. the flight John issued a statement to the^nyss yer. We can only work on civil The display will continue beyond the original which said in part: rather than criminal cases. closing date of February 15 and then will 'The Coast Guard has been concerned Until now, we have dealt main remain in book form at the library. solely with harbors and marinas and their ly with domestic relations prob • Afore than 60 Peace and Freedom Party -»efforts have proved to be ineffectual anyway. lems, such as divorce, paternity activists from around the state met in Venice 'In Venice, we intend to save our beach. suits, adoptions, etc. We are Vve have discussed various proposals, including „„., ,5„ = -i,-.,« ~- » ,-,i _» ..,•»!. y andFebruary program I and for 2the to party.develop Plenarynew directions sessions a sandbag dyke below the high tide line, r now dealing more and more with * were_ held at ?*e Reredos beachfront n, theater hoses using seawater against the surface layer other types of cases - consumer and workshops were conducted in the hdmes of oil, ~ canvas or other material to protect fraud complaints, removing att and offices of Venice PFP members. Much the sand, and other kinds of barriers. achments or garnishments from of the discussion centered around identify 'Members of the Peace and Freedom Party payroll checks, stopping illegal^ ing community issues and producing action are prepared to work with anyone interested evictions, and protecting wel on them. The FREE VENICE project was in saving other beaches, in stopping perma fare rights. mentioned often as an example of effective nently all offshore oil drilling and in seeking In future issues I will ex community organizing. alternate metKods of public transport so as to eliminate the scourge of freeways, air pol plain some rights we should be • The as yet unnamed Venice street theater aware, of in the area of civil lution and social damage imposed on us by group gave its first performance before a depenjjnce on intentai combustion engines. ' law. captive audience at the PGP State Committee We are trying to reach more meeting on February 2nd} jTiei'r next action • The Maintenance Department of the L.A. people in the community by work will be on the street. Anyone- may join. Call • City Library System chose a day when the ing with service groups that are Lee Simon at 399-6462. Venice branch was closed to butcher six syca active in Venice. We have set up • A party for BEACHHEAD raised 142.00 more trees on the west and south sides of the a successful Law Student program to help pay the printing costs of this issue. library. The local staff was not consulted and with the cooperation of the UCLA Alan and Gwyn Gorg provided their house their request to save the 40 year old shade Law School, at the Venice State for the event which was organized by Anna trees was not acknowledged. Service Center, 324 Lincoln Blvd. 1 Haag. If you have a house that could be used This is a good place to go if for a party, call Anna at 392-2892. • FREE VENICE! you need advice or information about the law. Call 392-4811. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Arc you^i v in a rut- broke- out of work9- Do you : desire to better your financial , rtfioum fin«!* - MtNOfty HICHH H uiicz cA\ailna ÙLub che. position - desire to find true financial security ? ~fop C<»Go*ret ÇT/HK Contact: I «#. */•?? / riß tt zw**, z CUFF TORRENCE 392-2785 If comiwo m<9*. 7 H%* fitujiBtw JACK eu/oT MASTER'S PLAN (from'back page) but the by-products of the human i FIRE FLIES , Virginia bohannon children therefore schools; we us. So let us begin. are sometimes sick therefore In the next few. weeks, the O, free me from this fascination. hospitals; we are . religious Planning and Research Committee i It's not my wish to ' slave for ghosts. therefore churches; we play of the FREE VENICE Organizing I Or so-called men (I pay their, pay) therefore parks and beaches; and Committee will be calling on the i who make so-called fun of gutted homes we are many, many more• people. community to help formulate and j where children may have died. The common denominator is the we present to the Planning Commis ', What happened, man? The rest adds up to diversity. A sion our way of planning our com burning, man. It's burnt. city is the abstract because we munity:' an organic development humans are reality and all'build - of the very community the plan ings, streets and even flarks are is to serve. Phe responsibility is now ours. VENICE & THE MASTER'S PLAN ity, artd as such ourselves with RICK DAVIDSON equals-rights, fears, loves, and The L.A. Planning Commission be helpful^ but for the moment needs for a place to live and has given Venice three months to let us consider city planning as become. develop an alternative to their it relates to us, Venice, the Therefore, it is time that we, master plan. That isn't time to here and now. I think we can as the humans who create cities design a community in detail but safely'begin with the assumption by our being there, try our hand it is time to speak about basics- that what has gone before has at planning without shame, concepts. been insufficient, has failed to without fear, without worrying" City planning is not new to solve man's problem of living if we are qualified. The only man. Such names as Babylon, together in cities. That is, experience required is living Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Flor with all the titles, degrees and and the only qualification is ence, Paris, Washington, Letch- \ expertise, something is missing. the quest for human justice. worth, Welwyn, Broadacres, Bras That "something" is the WE of Starting with ourselves let's ilia as well as present day in cities: ourselves as neighbors see who and what our needs are. terest in urban re-building are we like, ourselves as neighbors We are family therefore places efforts familiar toi all of us 'we disagree with, ourselves as to live ; we are providers there and perhaps at a later time a neighbors we don't understand, fore places to worX ; we are look into past experiences will but always ourselves as commun-/ continued inside
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FREE VENICE Organizing Committee members Three Los Anfeles policemen assigned to Venice THE COURSE OF Verna Black, Jane Gordon, Ian Halsema, Jack Jack- spent some off-duty Mme on March 1 tluoicine eggs nowitz and Morris Rosen met on February 2i with at pedestrians on the Ocean Iront and then fired HUMAN EVENTS Councilman Marvin Braude to determine his. position seivral sltots that narrowly missed at least •iv fruiTf" on the master plan opposed by the FREE IT-NICH At press time the L.A.P'.D. was still rcfuGnç to reveal The Venice Health Council on February 17 elected group and to find out what action Braude will take the cops' names, but the Santa Monica F.vnJne Outlook 16 of the 21 member board of directors. Thirteen of to bring the City Planning Commission to Venice. reported that one of them, Ihomas E Stiften, fr -,-j those elected appeared on a slate endorsed by the FREE Mr. Braude declined to state his position but assured "32 12th. Street, Santa Monica, told thê~Th,th>ok that VENICE Research and Planning Committee. Five the• group without enthusiasm that he would ask the he and his accomplices 'certainly did nothing funda were nominated at the meeting: Marie Branch, Channa Planning Commission to hold its May 8 meeting in ^ mentally wrong. " Carder, Rick Davidson, Anna Haag and Peggy Simon. Venice, The FREF. Vl-NICE group calleafor "comprehensive Los Angeles police officers attempted to close health services adequate to serve au the people such A new committee for the FREE VENICE Art Festival down a party for BEACHHEAD on March 2. Anna as a free medical clinic, tow L.A. BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS VENICE benefits the 850 students received from the Music heard. The board called for a fuB hwestigatroa of and Phys. Ed. programs, the absurdity of sticking to Broadway school {unprecedented M its testify) to After a month of runaround, the Venice Educa tbe same student/teacher ratio whether the school is find out what we already and what they dmM already tion Cadre again went downtown to the I.A. Board in Oakwood or in Bel-Air, and the unexplainabie cut know. However this delaying tactic wdl tarty prolong of Education to get the 2 teachers (Phys Ed. & Music) back of 2 teachers from a ghetto school where 4th, the issue for the length of the one week study. All id at Broadway Elementary School. Approxi 5th, and 6th graders still can't read, write, add, or other community people that are also determined to mateJy 50 parents, students, and other concerned resi subtract. get these two needed programs back - and focus the dent_s of Oakwood were finally heard demanding a Although the community had no voice in the cut board's attention on the educational inadequacies that decent education for sur children with signs and voices. back decision which affects 850 of our own children, do exist in Venice should join the Venice Education Ten speakers and 40 supporters tried te reach/ the thrBG people on Monday certainly impressed the board Cadre at Broadway School parking lot on Monday. humane instincts of the board members, citing: * the that from now on Venice cares - and is going to be March 10, at 2:30 p.m. _ There are the lonely who have command WHEEL CHAIR CASE Of themselves and a little band. And the lonelvwho by birthright Search naKedfy for anyone to understand Atheist drool marble voice Inside the plastic rocket One way slump ticket on death road; Looked around the dome And found the written message I am my brother To end the aching of the voiceless atl alone. I am my mother I am my sister WHY CANT YOU HEAR ME I am my father His voice screamed - echoed I am my daughter I am my wife rjhmygodim blind I am my son I have to be. CENTURION'S COMPLAINT Tne crumbling buildings fall into the sea- * Building on top of building, lerfc^ Am^4 1 tell you Rome ain't what it used to be: window over window the town's got fat, the boys don't want to fight on an age-old, ageless beach of or want to fight for spoils; they've got in sight bright yellow and jazz some manor house or mansion by the sea. floating out over the sea MISSION TO THE EAST We don't know what we fight for any more: as time was, the farmers fought for their own farms; little children with angelic faces It's strange to feel tranquil, almost at peace now it's nobles' slaves we keep down by arms, pee up here above it all jsnugly enclosed, and lucky if we eat, outside the corps. «|1 over the beach our complex eggs tacked close behind the nose, We've planted the wide world with Roman graves ancMn^the mouths of frogs while shrieking bombers race us to the East. and still plow on; but can you tell me why and on the heads of babies with The clouds break up to show us bits of sea, the lordlings dance and banquet while we die? hair like peach fuzz the navigator checks our way to land, That Jewish cult that claims even the slaves the bomb release fits firmly in my hand: have souls is gaining ground, and no surprise it all seems ordered, just as it should be. you push a guy too far and he gets wise. For us so long familiar with the sky, (not thinking now that when our bomb-clouds rise, they II fuse the earn 4nd tear apart the skies) it's only natural that men should fly. How calmly, with a clean and shaven face. I ride the mission that may end the Race. darkness finished midnight awakened enchanted tiger nobie sunrise • conventional lazy tieaturas transformations, awake unkind but above all • slumber follows meadows. melancholy madness; fifteen futility underlies NUMBERS VENICE SUNSET inhibitions. incompatible - masks, costumes, Life is Numbered; The slow -morion .breaking of the waves Days are Numbered. tbe end - Spray hanging in the air After Death most beautifully r :!d suspended No Numbers. the decorated Bv the final Only Infinity. Rays There arc no Numbers in infinity manifest ' Of the sun No rime the graves of the living. 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Thè"s*aff it opan to any Venice retident who withes to contribute ' tim* and effort to produce ana aittribute the peoer. Content* of each ietue are decided collective)y by the staff for that revue. The paper it non-profit March 7 9 U 14-16: in that all money contributed U used to cover tha coca Äsh Grove. of production and distribution. Each haue of the paper It delivered free to 10.000 Venice residenti. Tour copy coat 8162 MELROSE A Vf. ua about 2 centi end hours of volunteer labor it you want IHM Ol 3-2070 aV and thit unique community paper, to continue, please offer your help by catling 399-7681, or send a check to BEACHHEAD Camp Hilitop 1727 W. Washington. The FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD 1« published at I727[. Vy, Washington Blvd.. Venice, California \lr adi cal film dialogues! 90791. Telephone": 399-7681. Circulation thit issue: 10,000 mondays - 8pm _J copies. Copyright 1969. 0 March 21-3 f^rt Collins Staff for thit issue: Virginie Bohe n non. Rick Davidson. also Carol Fondifler, Jan» Gordon, Anna Haag. John Haag. Ken Havens, Clndi Lea. . david-crittendon,dennis morgan < . About 100 Venice canal area residents gathered on March 2 to discuss their-pending dislocation. The Canal Emergency Action CoTnmittee will present the L.A. City Council on March 27 with an alternative proposal for restoring the canals with out uprooting the present residents. (Photos by John Heller. ) \ Washington Street. ;.ot tiiat we to leave Venice and without de EDITORIAL need a new ürie-e. The bridge stroying cur community. we have ia^c'crfectly adeauate. If the city and county want •.... taken over It's ttieUet set that neeus to spend 2 million dollars in : . el es in 192;ave their boats at the Most."' of the canal refusées The ,Canal area could become accr. One version has it will have tc leave Venice. The a beautiful community center no one will get into the pressure of ' all those people with.parks, schools, a zoo and canals unless he lives there or •looking for places tc stay will other public) facilities. • Around. ;an satisfy the . re at the force rents ut throughout Venice the canals there could be low- someone ir.s fe ex- and that's bad for all of us. . cost housing to accommodate the pectj The canals should ' oe re- present residents and others who the public and -paired.' They should be repaired would like to live,between the e pul )iic which the by the city which has allowed canal parks and the beach. In can a'. Vet, the -them tc ceteriorate for mere stead of yachts -for the rich,let -public . reffe pay for a than 1C .-ears. They should be us nave rowboats for children! repair-.- . : - .-.cut forcing anyone new . over Granc Canal at •—" THE FREE VENICE ftfiR CHHË NUMBER 7. MAY 1969 FREE TO VENI.CE RESIDENTS BULLETIN: SHOWboWN ON MASTER PLAN PUT OFF TO MAY 29 s «A* and , le THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS /. 'ettëce •A charge against Àant Haag of providing live The Venire Health Council on April 21st entertainment without a police permit at a party WELLS typewriter shop «liitrd Mike Stark of the Venice Survival to benefit BEACHHEAD was dismissed on April Committee to replace a member of the board 21et by West fc.A . Judge Barker. In granting the CLEANING AND REPAIRS of directors who had resigned. The board dismissal motion by defense attorney Paul Ab AT REASONABLE PRICES then elected rYgG Simon president of the ram, the judge commented that he did not feel t-ouneil. the situation described by police was the kind of . OPEN 11 to 6 •In the wake of the police attack on Venice thing the City Council meant to regulate by re- beaohgOfln, aliastily called meeting of commun- quiring cafe entertainment licenses. it\ actuals on April 21st decided to establish a •fThe Pcnmar Neighborhood Association meet eommunit) bail fund. A benefit for that pur ing on April 29th voted against any freeway in 2 539 LINCOLN BLVD. 390-1288 pose was held on April 2dth at The People/ \ i nit e and the Walrus on W. Washington Blvd. Venice and made several other proposals contra •> \ nice tin*: of attornio and residents on dicting L.A.'s plan for Venice. The group \pril 22nd resulted in coordinate« efforts hv joined with Citizens for Oakwood and the hborhood Leg«. Service*, the FREE VEN- FREE VENICE Organizing Committee in de ICE l.rjral Cornmitler. American Civil Liberties' manding that tile May 29 hearing of the Cit) Union and the West LA. publie defender *s Planning Commission be held in Veniee during office to defend the victims of police violence evening hours. (The demand has been ignored on the Venice .teach. Beside* individual de by the Planning Commission.) fense, n attempt will be made to prevent The Penmar group declined to discuss the pros* nitons hy challenging the police conten F.Y.O.G. policy by which each neighborhood tion that the April 20th gathering was an il should develop proposals for its own area. legal assembly. Victims, witnesses and volun The Various proposals would thçn. be coordin teer attornies should call 392-4177 (days) or ated and carried out by Venice residents, using 399-7681 (until midnight). their existing skills or producing needed skills VENICE KOSHER .MEATS • Rick Davidson, convener of the FREE VEN through training programs. ICE Organizing Committee and a member of the • A "No War Toys" sandcastle and kite festival 321 Ocean Front Walk community 'advisory board of the Neighborhood will be held on Sunday, Mav 11th. on Venice. Legal Services, was, arrested and beaten at the Beach at Brooks Avenue. Participants a/e im vited to bring -kites, shovels and friends. Balloons Veniee jail on April 26th by Eos Angeles police STRICTLY KOSHER SANDWICHES officer Howard Leader (badge number 4815). sand, sea and sun will be provided. Rick was driving through.the beachfront area • Venice PFP members announced that a state anih^ncirje wi|n a bullhorn that complaints of wide Peace and Freedom Party conference on Salami poliee vioIeTWe and other illegal acts were being organizing will be held over Memorial Day week Pastrami recorded at the office of Neighborhood Legal end in Malum. The conference will be educa Corned Beef Services. Immediate response by «immunity tional, emphasizing practical techniqes of'or- Chopped Liver activists resulted in Rick's release 3 hours after ganizing. For information call 399-7681 be his arrest. tween noon and midnight. Meher Baba has a John Haag, Venice communitv organizer and • On April 30th the Latin American Unity message for you. . . eo-ehairman of the California Peace and Free Council, a broad coalition of Latin American MEHER BABA BOOKSTORI dom Party, described Rick's arrest as "a direct organizations in the West Side area o|,tos An attack on freedom of speech consistent with po geles, declared its opposition to the proposed 2700 pacific avenue lice attacks on freedom of assembly accompan Venice Master Plan. The Council charged that venice, California the plan "will greatly accelerate the displace ied by brutality, threats, illegal arrests/lies hv . 1355 Westwood Blvd. poliee officials and theft of property by L.A. ment of low-income persons from the Venice 7 day I arc/? including many persons 0$ Mexican-Amer officers." noon to 6 prn •Members of the Venice PFP, Venice Survival ican descent." Säs^^ 10 to 10 Committee, FREE VENICE Legal Committee • Marina peninsula residents met twice in April 1 at the invitation of the FREE VENICE Organ- and the 1..A. Fret Press, staff agreed orfMay 3rd 8 to cooperate closely in planning future even izing Committee. They agreed with seven other 205 Ocean Front Walk"*^ ^ in \ eniee in order to prevent police attacks. neighborhood groups in rejecting L.A. s Master produce "peace and harmony" among partici Plan for the Venice community in favor of the •rJaetuwu, ^/jjjjuxdjjrnà, pa*! t.- and provide help to police victims. F.V.O.C. proposal for an alternative concept ran conccfi7s,f>raetoMs h SPECIAL CVEHTS •Anna Haag, chairman of the FREE VENICE in urban planning to produce a plan from the Art Festival Committee and a member of the present residents of the Venice community. Venice Health Council board of directors, was* They also rcji^led tile Anchorage Assessment bruised and arrested April 18th by L.A. police District plan, yrnhdi would make streets out of peninsula walkways. Two Two Si« SOUTH StOiRLr De.v« officers Jorfes and Flemming after she asked the BEVfBLY MILL,«. CALIFORNIA charges against several juveniles in custody at • A special board was selected in April to ad 00212 Rose Ave. and Ocean Front Walk. The juveniles minister the Office of Economic Opportunity TtLtPMONI CRIITVIIW 4.607S were released, but Anna was charged with inter grant approved for the Venice Commun.ty Im fering with an officer. She pled not guilty and provement Union. The 13 Venice residents who will administer the grant are: Carol Berman, will be tried at 8:30 a.m.. on May 26th in paperback Division 63, West .Los Angeles. FREE VENICE LaV'erne Brunson, Raul Cabrai, Erwin Campbell, attorney Paul Abram will conduct the defense. Fred Grant, Robert Hernandez, Sally Leffall, papaGrRUBrRe - More than 20 persons protested Anna's arrest Edward Medard. Ralph Mendozo, Bca Starbird, that evening. On April 19th, mon1 than 75 per Ted Trujillo, Albert White and E. Lynn Wil sons joined a rally by the Venice Survival Com liams. mittee at Rose and Ocean FronJ, then walked 2 • The Los Angeles City Council on April 17th oatlj^ miles to the Venice jail to protesl-fïôiice brutal stopped calling us "hippies" and started running M»«. w»n 1 ity and to demand the removal oj Capt. Robert for cover (see story by Jane Gordon). Sillings, commander of the Venice Division, • In their first skirmish with the Venice com Volunteers needed to help rebuild L.A.PD. Venice, Civic Union president Stan munity on April 20th the L.A.P.D. reported the Ash Grove because of fire l&oberts joined poliee observing the protest. tile following casualties. Venice Division: R.M. damage. Please call OL3-2070. • Members of the Canal Emergency Action Brodowy, G.P. BruBaker, O.P. Franklin, Thomas F*tf PRES* Committee, which won a 30-day delay and R. Griffith, Jack D. Hensley, Harry Nearing, fl£i)c« r.Jiuy elimination of peripheral property owners from we« YOU the Canal Assessment District, are now facing^ George Rich, Rex Roberts, Joseph Sachen, OUSTED? reprisals from (mostly absentee) landlords in the Samuel J. Thomas. Sgt. Thomas F. Thomson. -ii9u n. A form of retaliatory rent increases and evictions. Metro Squad: F.J. Grimes, RA. Rife, Duane The FREE VENICE Legal Committee has of À. Shrader. W.L.A.: E.B.Edwards. Many more, fered to defend residents from reprisals be- injuries were inflicted on unarmed beachgoers FREE VENICE buttons, who were not' prepared for the police attack. bumper strips and,extra cause of exercisin•ing political rights.* copies of BEACHHEAD instead of some lawyers and judges (hat money 1 FREE V SIC-SIC-SI•-si C available - cal];399-7681 can U* paid to go free sorrv iou class people \\ VENICE! fj vthy dont \ ou encourage youth io obey between noon & midnite M-hool authority. eiean. jiet hair cuts and shaves. that \ mi support. Soton (sic) leaving your «cave the running of I.,\. and Venice to paper were (âc) people don't ask you to. We have enough litter on our streets and vards llllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllillllilllll people that are more qualified i to do so if' your writers Merc so smart -win aren't the\ without your paper added to it. So let people BEACHHEAD staff for Ms nue: Virpni« holding publie office irl^t« ;ui of being top call you if they are low enough to have it in Bohannoil, Rick Davidson. Carol Fondillir. Jan.' I-H-i bit Hix crackers. Our Venice Polite there (sic) home. Mas C.n'd help von all to Gordon. Anna liaaj:. John llaa^. Ken Haven-. rod I on!*, uisli the\ had full authoril\ return to law abiding good people. You all K.n Ra\ Havens, Kirk Havens, Chock Jflypes, to punish the people who break the law arc being prayed for if it never does am good. Bill. Olive. Get well. David. Cwdu'% & sJ^inty't. Su»*/«« tBuiLUu "THI I BINES* THAT SERVICE aueiNKSS" roun COPY PRODUCT OWN DAV eia - 3»o-ô4e? "7-10 NIGHT 1023 W. WAIKINQTON BLVD. AT BROADWAY VENICE. CALIFORNIA *Oa»t »FLEA MARKET A.iitlo.\xe Clottiizig etc. 1335 w Washington tivti 282-£«P FiifiHiium &** /Z27 tf. * Victims of L.A. police ciot on Venice beach, April 20th. (Photo by Bill Daley) jewelry Hog Wild Weekend by Oaroi Fondiller Monday. A heavy headed hangover day. wagons are jammed with bewildered frightened clulbes «• furs People congratulating one another that they American citizens. Sirens, screams, curses, stayed out of jail, or were hailed out/People children crying for their mommies. The Ocean talk about' their experiences on llygwild Week Front stores close down...only ' the bars are end like Belair matrons discuss face lifts and open, and Barbra Streisand sings Don't Rain operations. "I was booked for inciting." On My Parade. 7 1/2 Washington Bl. "Glad to see you--we thought you were in Six o'clock. The beach is in suspended nice, Cal. 396-3216 jail." "Joe's in for failure to„disperse." The animation between sunset and dark. A chill talk is of lawyers and bail. wind curdles the hurriedly dropped objects on ' wè buy junk Broken bottles, crushed flowers, 'clothing tin' beach. A 4ifc guard truck drives down the we buy junk litter the beach and the ocean front walk. The beach, loudspeakers blaring "the life guards we buy junk police cars drive by slowly, like sated tigers. love everyone! Free Venice!*' And the litter It's trie Berries! I had a feeling it would end up'like this on lies 00 the Ireaeh; people lie ir: jail, and husbands, 1335Y* w. WASHINGTON B the preceding Friday, when' I witnessed tbe wives, parent.-, friends and lovers mill outside VENICE BY THE SEA Poliee harass eight young people anil take them the Venice Police Station that, still says City awa\. The feeling was further insensified when Hall, waiting for Monday. *> they arrested a friend of mine for interfering Q^pifasuœ cfJit with an arrest, when all sh? did was'ask what charges were Diese people arrested on. She Swas jerked to the ground, handcuffed and '&^U\JV%^ï shoved into a police car by 2 ven young very X fi&.P^ tense officers. VENICE IS MY HOME !3^* Wi$»»NrSToi (JLVD Saturday. 100 people marched to tbe poliee by Nancy LacefVeJd •Tè».lct.rr*1 A Venice Arts and Crafts Bazaar will be held Free welfare advice and counselling is bang •unday. Jurte 29th, from I to 5 p.m. at the offered by Raj Schwärt», M\ experienced wel Venice Kosher Meats »•nice Library on California at Electric. The fare worker. If you are having difficulty tazaar will include candles, pen and ink sketch- with your worker, or need information about .321 Ocean Front Walk >. !.'.itht'r. fur. jewelry, ceramics, Afro-lashions, filing, who is entitled to welfare, or what re tellings, sculpture, etc. For information i all cipients arc entitled to, mail your questions to IM-3W9, Rav Schwartz. 2324 Pacific Ave., Apt. 3, Veniee STRICTLY KOSHER SANDWICHES Tha Venice Survival Committee has started California 90291. Please enclose stamped en Salami TQ QQ atroli on tha beachfront to observe police velope with your address. Pastrami buses and provide information to help the-de- Venice film-maker Alen Gorg has offered to Corned Beef ense of police victims. Patrols with green arm- help produce e 16 mm documentary film on Chopped Liver ands, pads, pencils and cameras hegen the FREE VENICE activities. The production crew ocond weekend of May and have involved more is expected to include en executive producer, ban 20 Venice residents. To participate call director, two cameramen, a sound men, film 99 7681 or 396-7^87 between noon and'mid- editor and writer. Anyone with experience at light. one or more positions who can volunteer for a The trial of Anna Haag on a charge of weekend and spare time production schedule . nterfering with a police officer has been post- should cell 399 7681 or 396-6803. Als/needed »oiied to 8:30 a.m. on July 2nd in Division 63 are sound, camera and editing equipment; raw West Los Angeles. Anna is chairman of the film stock and tape; lab processing and sound flRSE VENICE Art Festival Committee and a services. Still photographers to cover FREE ne ber of the Venice Health Council board of VENICE events pleese call 399-7681 between lircctors. She was arrested on April 18th by noon and midnight. ..A. police officers Jones and Flcmming after Since the police club-in on April 20th the he asked the charges against several juveniles in FREE VENICE Legal Committee has had dif BREAKFAST ON THE BEACH custody at Rose Ave. and Ocean Front Walk. ficulty handling new cases. Volunteer attornies FROM 7 A.M. 'TIL NOON L.A. police officers driving «long the Ocean for both criminal and civil cases please call 399- -ront Walk on Jam 8th were puzzled by the 3 E»«. Beach Front Patio :heers of Venice beachgoers. Later they dis- illiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Home Fried Potatoes :ovored that a FREE VENICE bumper strip had Easy Come - Easy Go / seen attached to their car. °6l* Stereo Music (It is happening here) I Venice residents east of Lincoln Blvd. met on by G. Myrna Lissauer Three Eggt, Bacon or Sausage, Vlay 20th and formed Concerned Neighbors- Potatoes and Toast .... 1.10 Great CofleC well you got to know Lincoln Wajgrove Area to oppose any freeway with Ham .... 1.20 y*hrough Venice, aspects of the Master Plan for rt all comes down to ^*^ Venice which would dislocate present residents, easy come, easy po THREE EGG OMELETTES ind Unfair tax assessments. The group is study rn easy go keeps your mind in bonds, Cheese .... .75 ing ways to combafc^jrbitrary citations by the an where do you start a fire in the rain? Chill, Ham, or, Mushroom 95 "ity requiring home "improvements." For fur Custom (EverytSwia in the house) .... 1.10 ther information phone 392-2073. so many missing these deep cloudy days, A "No War Toys" sand castle end kite cast out of their own landscape- * Now featuring the PIZZABURGER * festival will be held on Sunday, July 6th, on taken to the sad steel-webbed places * Bring in this ad - get a FREE Venice Beech at Brooks Ave. Participants are from which only a small helpless part fr Root Beer with each Pizzaburger * invited to bring kites, shovels and friends. of them shall ever return. Balloons, sand, see and sun will be provided. A & W SNACK SHOP Send castles will be birtlt on the first Sunday these were the children ^ 3015 OCEAN FRONT WALK if each month through October. who never put you down, One door north of Washington Street never mode life a no return trip, at the Venice Fishing Pier help the youth of Venice have a summer project though at times they weren't quite sure where to go-- they always knew where they were and came. G Rant) opemraG AFRO AZTEC FEAST , THE WALRUS -1626 W. Washington Blvd. slowly the oasis turns back to dunes, This Saturday, June 14 8:00 p.m. where once songs like birds flew Donations - $2.50 ($1.00 with food donation) now only the vulture wagons roam, „ VENICE DENTAL CLINIC opening they're takin' away the strangers homes, Monday, 23 July. Call afternoons they're tumin' everythin' the color of their minds! for appointment: 392-4125 now white b unseen. Hack is king, summer programs for teens ' Sowaold has gone to bone, how qlue. has pone to stone, READ ANYONE? FORBIDDEN BOOKS' yan transparent is all that remains of our lost dreams, TAPE PLAY.' WIDE OPEN DISCUSSIONS an I plead to eternity, what comes after Venice Library 396-2469 610 California easy come - easy go? • ^ THE IDucle vervi TVlEATrC so l-ie» iSZXPfrUvX' 2539 LINCOLN BOULEVARD PHONE 390-1288 c^ BE-A-CHPiE-A-ID POLL fREf hCKO?: CLEANING AND REPAIRS f äu^tfl AT REASONABLE PRICES Pleasje satisy the curiousity of the BEACHHEAD staff by t-ect e^nnun I . , . . PORTABLES answering the following questions. Bring or mail answers to: MANUAL5 ELtCTR c Gwyndolin's - 427 Ocean. Front Walk . Art Festival - Horizon at Ocean Front Walk (weekends) itßb,hdauwjb%ija%ajLtfaiUv BEACHHEAD office - 1727 W. Washington Blvd. (12-12) 'What questions would you like to see in future BEACHHEADS? 1. WOULD YOU LIKE VENICE TO SEPARATE FROM L.A. AND BECOME ' Xrra* c-cwe£x>7i^ 4. SHOULD EVERY PERSON HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE FOR HIMSELF Gr RljarRG- ABOUT USING MARIJUANA? papa IF YOU WERE JUDGING THE VIOLENCE THAT OCCURRED AT THE FRKE PRESS CONCERT ON APRIL 20, WHO WOULD YOU FIND AT pacrj'Ä FABLT --THE POLICE OR THE PEOPLE? J iUuuöc's Rassle Castle (Photo by Bill Da OCSION VSC Polices Open House by caroi Fonder WEAVING "In case of illness or injury please notify by some policemen when L was sketching the the jailer/' The sign was dusty; the letters floor plan of the police station that says City Hall. I only wanted to see what alterations B. J. BKCNNA WALKEN blended with the battleship grey of the jail 13*3 W. «MHMS1DM •>.»«. Vt-iei. C*ur. *D2«1 • walls. The cell was bare of any ornamerlation would have to IK- made to turn it back to City except for a urinal glimmering pearl-like against Hall when Venice secedes from Los Angeles. ^ormcriü Illlllll.llillllllJjUlllfl.llllllllllllllllllllllllll Stoned articles V BEACHHEAD er» entirely the work of individual «Trims1 end do not necessarily reflect the vtamrs of the BEACHHEAD staff. The staff h open to any Venice resident who wishes to contribute time end effort to produce 'end distribute the paper. Contents of each issue ere decided collectively by the staff for that issue. The paper is non-profit in that all money contributed is «Mad to cower' the coats Of production and distribution. Each Haue of the paper Is delivered free to 10,000 Venice résidera. Your copy cost us about 2 cants and hours of volunteer labor. If you «rant •this unique community paper ts^flnsjnu«, please offer your help by calline 399-7681. or eend e check to BEACHHEAD 1727 W. Washington. The FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD ts published at 1727 W. Washington Blvd., Venice. California 9Û29I. Telephone: 399-7681. Circulation this issue: 10,000 copte». Copyright 1969. BEACHHEAD staff for this issue; Steve Clare, Rick David seta, Carol Fondiller, Jane Gordon, Pam Gould, John Haag, Ken^Havens, Ken Ray Havens, Kirk Havens, David Hirsch man, John Johnson, Boots Jones,, Richard McMilien, Ed Musgrave, Bill Olive, Christine, Shoemaker. , VENICE & Community Law Venice PFP Reports by Steve Clare by Terri Volpin THS MASTER'S PLAN The Venice Peace and Freedom club is per RICK DAVIDSON L.A. Neighborhood Legal Services Societv haps the most active club in southern Calif (LANLSS) is-facing a major crisis. While Pres ornia. Our vitality must be considered a reflec LOS ANGELES PLANNING COMMISSION cient Nixon Says legal services must be ex tion of the community to which we belong and TELLS \KMCE. "TOUGH!" Of course, they panded, the Office of Economie Opportunity the result of the hard work of local PFPers, said it in the more polite words of bureau- cuts Ihe LANLSS budget in half for the remain cspeeially John Haag, one of the party's found eraey..."Sorn - what von are fdring for if com der of the vcar. At least two community offices ers, a member of the Venice club, and current munity planning which we feel is important. must be, closed. Services must IH- cut in all re co-chairman of the California PFP. HIT we don't have the funds. Therefore wc maining offices. The Venice club has been actively engaged in approve tin* Man." VLAN"MLANLSr * S has refused to accept the cut of the struggle to thwart L.A. City government We tried to amend their motion to allow the these vital services to our community. The plans to destroy our community and replace it communitv to do its own planning, contingent Venice office is particularly active in the fight with more Marina or a Miami Beach. PFP mem on Venie<- •irttiiii! fhc m < vs.-ary funds else to .expand both the services and the partici bers have contributed substantially in motiv where...from the Federal Government, founda pation of the community in.the program. ating, organizing and publicizing opposition to tions, private, or community interests. Their LANLSS is only allowed to help individuals both the Master Plan for Venice and the Canal NO answer means tin- L.A. Planning Commis or communities in civil suits. This includes Assessment District. Recall proceedings will sion is not now. nor has it ever been seriously hit« fv-tcd in the preset! t-dav Venice commun divorces, fighting evictions, defending against soon be initiated by Venice PFP against Coun ity. Now the Commissioners have passed on suits and garnishments, etc. It is not permitted cilman Timberlake and/or hj^strcfessor for ad their responsibility to the City Council. to fight an arrest for drugs or burglary or any- vocating the passagcÇofthe canal project, the other criminal offense; it cannot even fig^tt a consequences of whicrNjvill be so disastrous for Wc lost a battle, hut the war's yet to be won. traffic ticket since this is a "criminal offense." both his constitueney^änd our community. We In fact, for all those present in the Commission However, there are some imaginative ways that will, of course, continue to fight these and any Chambers, even that battle was not lost. For the office may use class cases-cases to defend other attempts by those outside our community Veriice was united-not under the banner of in a single action a large number or group of to decide our future for us. "leaders," but united through common emo people whose rights have been violated. tions, fears, hopes, and'plans. THE PEOPLE Over Memorial Day weekend fourteen mem WERE BEAUTIFUL! On April 20, 1969, the police rioted in Ven bers of the Venice club attended a Peace and ice. Although LANLSS could not defend the So what happened: Tlie Planning Depart Freedom Conference at a camp in the Malibu ment offered Venice rezoning as a solution to 130 or more persons who were arrested. Marge mountains. Two of the six scheduled work community problems. We demand compre Buckley, Ed Halpern and Terry Timmins de shops were convened by local PFPers; commun hensive planning which at a minimum must in cided that since various community organi ity organizing by John Haag and media and clude: coWjnt>n-plans to reduce the number zations were demanding action on the issue, publications by Rick Davidson. Other work of educationally disadvantaged children; health- they could and would assist to the extent of shops included state and national organizing, ulans to wipejMit ill health; housing-increase their powers. Not finding another organization finances, and electoral issues for 1970- Plen tnK.supfl|v Vid standard of low and medium to assume the task, they decided to coordinate ary sessions Friday and Saturday evenings and income housing; emp/oymewf-reduee unemploy the defenses. Sunday afternoon w.ere devoted to workshop re ment and provide education, training and jobs; They found volunteer attornies, collected evi ports, panel discussions an NUMBER 10 SEPTEMBER, 1969 FREE TO VENICE RESIDENTS Me \ NO CANAL BIDS t Plan Jane Gordon The Master Plan for Venice, LA.'s plan for zoning, density and traffic circulation which will Contractor bids for the infamous Venice Ca end up by transforming Venice into an upper nal Assessment Dislrkl *nrr"scTieduled to be income/resort area, is still in the process (some opened on August 27AThe city fathers looked times called democratic) of being considered into their bag of goodiiùratid found...NO BIDS! for approval. It passed the first hurdle last May The largest assessment scheme in California his when the LA. City Planning Commission re tory, which would have used public tax money commended adoption. It is now at the second to help displace about 200 Venice families with stage, a subcommittee of tlie L.A. City Council out compensation, has beeji stoppet! -at least responsable for all aspects of planning. This until the politicians think up some new tricks. Manning Committee will eventually make a re The City has blamed the bad money market, commendation on the Han to the full City high interest rates, etc. for the lack of bids. Council. On Tuesday, August 26 a "public They failed to mention inflation brought on by hearing" was held before this Committee. Both the war against the people of Vietnam. They (photo by Bill Bdelen) sides gave evidence and reasons supporting their also failed to mention the protests of hundreds own poiitt of view. Venice Peace and Freedom Party members of Venice residents and the lawsuit filed by the I^ie mernbers^of the Planning Committee. took some time off from their community work Western Center on Law and Poverty to Stop the CouneSkw^^L^ftiardi, Braude and Nowell, were to support the anti-Vietnam war _demonstra- project. mostly quite patient -throughout the hearjjjg. if a tions at Century City on August 13 (see photo) The FULL VENICE Organizing Committee bit wooden and bored-looking at time«. and at San Clémente on August 17. Hundreds resolved August 27 to work with other Venice First Calvin Hamilton, the head oTlhc Plan of notices of the two demonstrations were residents to develop a plan Irtrteston-tion of the ning Department, made a very vague and unsat posted and passed out in the beachfront com Venice canals which would benefit the entire isfactory "presentation" of what the Master munity and among the 7,000 signatures on community without forcing present residents to Plan is—whitewashing the issues and half-answer anti-war petitions to warmaker Nixon were more leave Venice. ing questions. Braude then reminded the than 400 collected by Venice PFP members. "gentlemen" that all these nice people had come down.here to speak and should be heard before Cml Festival 9/13 it got too late. / People's Choice !byJohnBaag by George Metesky The opposition (that's us) got first crack. "Come float around the canals on the 13th." Rick Davidson announced on August 27iii reads tlie invitation to the Venire Canal Festival Our speakers represented virtually all aspects of his »tention to run for the 6u\ District Coun- - Venice, including Black people, Mexicans, "long- -a festival of "art. music, and life." Life in the cil manic seat vacated by the resignation of L.E. canals was recently reassured by the failure of hairs," elderly retired people, even several home Timberlake. Rick is a long-time resident of Ven- owners. There were also "experts" speaking on the Canal Assessment District to attract any an architect and active in community af bidders. This auspicious event in the Struggle of our behalf: lawyers, architects, city planners, - fairs. etc' Briefly, we all said that we were low to the canal area residents to keep their homes has He is a member of thé boards of directors of transformed tlie Festival into a celebration of middle income people of quite varied cultures Neighborhood Legal Services and tlie Venice and colors united, in our opposition to a plan victory over the .yacht-set who an" trying to Health Council. He helped start the Venice Sur move in. which is designed to raise property values at vival Committee and the. BEACHHEAD com the expense of our chosen community. We At the Festival, you won't find the yacht-set. munity newspaper. He is an active member of but the raft-set. Huge rafts have been con asked specifically for a delay of at least 10 the FREE VENICE Organizing Committee and months in order to find private funds for structed to carry people and drifting performers the Venice Peace afcd Freedom Party, both of around the canals. our community to make its own plan in* the which have already endorsed his candidacy. interest of people, not property. Venice artists and craftsmen will be demon Rick's campaign will raise the urgent issue of strating and exhibiting their art-sculpting, paint- Speakers in favor of the Master Han included community controlof community affairs. He . ing, throwing pots, square-knotting, and what members of the Venice Civic Union, the Marina will attack present procedures of the City Man ever. The poets from Beyond Baroque, dancers. Women's Chamber of Commerce, Venice Area ning Department and will advocate that plans for and a theatre group will be there. Realtors, a canal property owners' group and Venice, including canal renovation, should be de The initial list of musical performers includes several individual property owners, many of veloped and implemented by Venice residents. John Paul, who sings his own material to a 12- whom do not live in Venice. They had relative Rick, who has been a victim of false arrest string guitar, the Song of Earth Chorale, Brother ly little to say other than the Master Plan is im and police violence, will propose thai the police Nigel's Proxy Part), the Euclid Avenue Express, portant, good for "nrogre-ss," "better than no be controlled by boards of community repre and Kaleidoscope, liiere are other- who are not" plan at alt." Several had disparaging remarks sentatives, that police accused of crimes stand yet certain. about the opposition, alluding to "hippies" and trial like other citizens and that more limitations their "sex orgies.on the beach," ttaJFunwilling The artists and musicians will be located along be imposed on police action in tlie absence of Grand Canal and 28th Avenue (near Washington ness to "get up off their you-knoV-what" and citizen complaints. work, their living off the hard-earned tax money Street and Pacific Avenue). The Festival will Rick is opposed to-any freeway through Ven last for OPty one day, beginning at 3 p.m. of upstanding property owners-all of which ice and says that freeway building should 1M* gaye a good picture of their reasoning ability Saturday, September 13, lasting into the evening halted in order to develop a viable rapid transit when there will be films and a light show. ahd depth of analysis. After speaking, their system. He is opposed to further expansion of whole group filed out together. There are reportedly some sky divers who are the L.A. International Airport. He is working looking for jusl tlie right field and some resident After everyone who wanted to speak had on proposals to reduce smog and relieve proper witches who have something special planned for been heard, Bernardi thanked us all for ty taxes and home owners. the day. having ourselves so nicely and explained that As an activist in the FREE VENICE move The price is .right-FKKK. Food will be a no recommendations would be made at that ment, Rick supports the effort to make Veniee do4t-yourself picnic. time. He assured us that further discussion be independent from Los Angeles. Rick will need tween Hamilton's planners and the Committee lots of help in his campaign. Stop by his office VESIrPOCKET PARK NEEDS HELP would be held at future Planning Committee at 1727 W. Washington Blvd. between noon and meetings, which are open to the public. midnight or call 399-7681. Canal area children defended their park on August We still don't know what the three Council- 29 and 30 by stopping, two workmen from tearing down As we go to press, the Ran has been sent back the play equipment New owner of the property Charles men will recommend to their colleagues, -al (Amstein, had ssid the playground could continue if though experience indicates that they will go to the Planning Commission for another public liability were covered. Canal residents are now trying to along with the pressure from those who pay hearing, in order to conform to a new City Char raise about $300.00 for insurance. Send contributions their (campaign) bills-speculators, real estate ter amendment passed last May. The hearing ta "R.F.K. Vert Pocket Park" c/o Wade Alien. 211 How- and building interests-and £alT for adoption of will be September 25, time and place to be land Canal, Venice, or call Wade at home 396-3248 the Plan. f announced. Well let you know! or work 7724421. ( tÄ» a—*t eêtt Westminster Park belonged to the people for an after the music and the vibes. Music was provided by Brother for VCIU, Morris Rosen for the Senior Citizens, Fred noon. Sunday. August 24 the FREE VENICE Organiz Nigel's Proxy Party and Both AR, Inc., with the extra Manzanares fur BALA and John Haag for FVOC. ing Committee, along with Bay Area Latin Americans added frosting of the bongo-conga-tin-can-artists of Ven The highlight of the day was the launching of (BALA), the Venice Community Improvement Union ice. Venice's own discount moon shot. A huge red balloon (VCItl), and Senior Citizens of Venice, called a Corny Even the four speakers fit in with the day's vibes. armed with a Free Venice button, an induction notice, munity Gathering to get people and things together, and They were expressing the feelings of the crowd that and yarious other indescribable trinkets and messages, to talk about the Master Plan (see article on the Master Venice woul^ltey close together and would tight the was sent hurtling through space to show the folks at Plan's progress thru bureaucracy-land), people and the institutions that want to change the com NASA how to shoot (and save) the moon. More than 5ÖÜ Venetians came and enjoyed the sun. munity for their own ends. They were Robert Castile (photo by Sam Greenberger) Venice Free School Beyond Baroque 6S2 edited by George Drury Smith by Lynn A new free school is being formed in Venice. published by Bayrocfc Publications Shoemaker The school will be largely based on the book Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rear 1639 W. Washington Blvd. - Venice only music? A few poems make it, combining ing by A.S. Neill (must reading for everyone- 66 pages; SI. both "re-new" and literary merit. Parts of in paperback for $1.95). In this kind of school "Mornings in Venice." She polished but un the child is free to choose what he wants to "He" and "new.'* These words-these forces- ambitious work of John Tagbjabue. The power learn. The school exists for the children rather are at the center of Beyond Baroque 692, "Re- ful imagination at »work in "TThe Miracle Man." than trying to make the children confrom to »omeption of tlie universe." "Re-evaluation of And the sheer gusto and play of Arthur Phillip some impersonal structure that was designed for language." "New sensibilities..-new relation Boze's "Put Down." One pot* flashes out, his the administrative convenience of a machine that ships...new apparitions...new relevance." This work possessing all of these forces and more. feeds facts to your child like a computer. The is what "beyond* baroque" means. Ik sure to read Michael Dalberg's "Wolf Trap" staffs main responsibility is just to love and and "Manchurians Select God in a Yurt." And what it does. Just look at Arthur Tur help create an atmosphere where a child can ner's cover design. A design of red oil floating The prose lives beyond my expectations. grow without society's hang-ups being passed on golden water. What is imminent but not Frustratingly good. Having a poet's bias, I kept on to him. quite fully formed. Not until after much ex looking for one piece that 1 could criticize and priment and search. _ Experiment and search put down. I prodded myself. They can't all be There will be regular school meetings where it does—all of the type, graphics, designs, and good. But they are. Some aren't big like David problems can be discussed and everyone from drawing.-. From big type to small type, bold to Zack's fanciful "Woofy Tale Number Nine" or the youngest child to ,the most mature staff light, more type-faces than I've ever seen be- Henry Sheck's prose poem "My Machine She." person has an equal voice. Besides the usual twet n two covers. Each page, each layout^-irrP But all have life. Life because they arc well- academic classes, we can have any other classes experiment and search. From Ginger EggiestoVs rendered. Every word in place as in the sur we desire such as arts and crafts, sensitivity, negative drawings-life turned inside out ^or realistic parable by Florence Epstein called meditation, or nature. For more information is it?). To Lee Jennings' psychedelic leg-pullers. "The Family." Arid Mr. Porter, it's a marvel cali Zeke at 392-1464, or the WesJey-üouse at From Lee Hajari's geometries to Aron Tager's how you sustain your long "Senehem's Pyra 392-5540. And come to the first planning tin foil anffoceanic abstracts. The artwork mid." The old is transformed "atid lives as the meeting at the Wesley House, 617 Broadway, illustrates, deepens, intensifies the word. new. "Öeath is a Jewish Dancer." "Jacob." Venice, on Thursday, September 11 at 8:00 pm. And I can go even further. A re-conception, Too much of the poetry, unfortunately, needs a re-evaluation, a new sensibility does happen. illustrating, requires deepening demands intensi fro« S(9A(£$iiE& BillEdelen. You can sense a re-conception in Roth's "Grow fication. Without it. some poems would sink ing Up" or D«uvis' "Queen of a Very Strange into the old like Jaseha Kessler's 19th century Country." You can feel a re-evaluation emerging lines. Old. old, and unliving like Pelletier's "An by the rose: in the beginning in Metzger 's "What Rough. Beast." And you Oedipa! Tale.'' 1 would much rather read Coler can see the apparitions (frightening and beauti before the fall; from the seed of that tree idge or Poe. Or on the other hand, Unes may ful to old-Infected egos) in 'The Grotesque search their way into the new, but often not Agonies of Illumination." Beyond sociological (that tree): hallowed gut cry to freedom so much to re-evaluate language as to destrov Studies and psychological probings, a new warm . shaping soul both language and sensibility. Mr. de Bus. how red vision emerging on a golden field.. being resistance becoming 1 sweated over your poem, but I can make nothing of it except my own assemblages. Read it. " Especially the prose. Words are revolution Poetry must be both music and conversation. not dead. They can move us into the "beyond , (and Adam caued his wife's name Eve; Both at once-. Right. Mr. Druit? Then why baroque." because she was the mother of all living) N THE FREE VENICE QtaCHH Ë NUMBER It OCTOBER. 1969 10,000 COPIES - FREE TO VENICE RESIDENTS First Annual Venice Canal Festival by Robin Hembel The Venice Canal Festival of September 13 was conceived as a funeral dirge- It was intended to sho.v Los Angeles what a basically creative and productive community it was destroying by passing the Canal Assessment District and en couraging urban renewal for millionaires. How ever, when in the midst- of planning, no bids were forthcoming for the project, the Festival turned into a tremendous celebration: Theoret ically the Festival was apolitical. The actual event was planned to emphasize no political bias. However by its very existence, September 13 be came a significant political statement to main. both those for and those against the Canal pro ject, ^^eojganulcrs. of the Festival were at base the hard cbfe of canal renters and proprjetor(s) who had worked together previous! y^against the Assessment District. Representatives of News- reel and the Free Venice Organizing Committee (working for the same cause in this case, by accident rather than by design) added their con tributions. Weekly meetings were characterized bv confusion and repetition. However, some* where along the line contacts were made with artists and bands, barges were built, preparations for a monitoring system laid down and pub licity arranged. On Saturday. September 13 people began arriving before exhibits, but by 4 p.m. evcry- thing was in full swing. Along Grand Canal then were exhibits bv Guy jay (paintings). Bill Oli\< (drawings), Claire Falkenstein (sculpture*). Mil ibu Media (clothing wholesalers), Earnestine Ro- mo's son (paintings, sketches and sculptures). Arthur (a boy painter). Ron Martin and Roz (paintings), Bev Moio (paintings). Diane Powell (paintings and sketches), Charlie Hanson (stained glass), Suzan (dolls). Beyond Baroque poets (readings, live and taped), Carl Roles (leather), and Free Venice (politics). Along 28th Avenue, beneath the sounds of numerous jamming musicians, most of whom just appeared, and John Paul Lchto (guitarist and singer) were sculptures by Noel Osheroff, posters by Earl Newman,, metal etchings by Billy Al Bengston^ photos by John Heller, body painting by Emily Cordova, Indian artifacts by- some little man who just showed up, paintings (photos by John Heller, John Vickers, Mike Stark) by Linda Wargo, roaming astrology cards by James Palmer, paintings by Jeff Simpson, and VEST POCKET PARK SAVED AGAIN an exhibit, a mosaic and a spontaneous mural by by Wade Allen the children from the NightengahrSeTiool. Hie existence of the Venice Canals Vest Organizer* of the Venice Canal Festival wen- Barge rides were given along the) canal for the Pocket Park' was threatened again this summer kind enough to allow food booths at the festival children and occasional adults. Song of Earth when the private land upon which the park is as a benefit for- the park, and $105.00 was raised Chorale, singing from the barge was an excitingly situated changed hands. The new owner re in this manner. Miscellaneous contributions no«el and singularly ethereal experience. Venice quired an expensive liability insurance policy have amounted to $75.00 ~~- Library set up slides in the afternoon and News- to be taken out on "The property in order for Bill OHvc of the Free Venice Organizing Cam* reel showed films in the evening as well as sup the park to remain. Initial quotes on the in mittee donated the design and tabor for 200 plying moriitors. An unexpected addition to surance premium .were $400.00 and a fund- beautiful silk-screen posters to the cause, which the Festival was the pleasing lack of Law En-^— raising campaign was launched to obtain the have brought in $13H.OO to date making Bill one forcement Officers. • ... monev. of the main contributors to the park fujnd. In Between sundown and. films, perhaps the most cluding the previous park fund balance we new significant event of the Festival occurred. The on the floating edge of the barge, while the I have $440.00 with which to pay the insurance plan originally, was to put the ten to twelve dry ice sank into the water from the other end I premium, now set at $370.00, and to maintain organizers of the festival on the barge, line the and billows of mist boiled out into the night air I the present park facilities. Grand Canal with flares, and then tow the barge and the barge drifted in circles — but remained | It i> significant that the community has over down the canal between two rows of^ flares afloat. come this crisis without outside help. There i- while all aboard sang - rather Bergmanesque. All the participants, artists and visitors. secm- >till work to be done, however, since the park However, too many people got on the barge and ed to have a marvellously gay time enjoying the does require some upkeep. Those wishing to the middle float shipped water and began to canals. Altogether the Venice Canal Festival of I volunteer their services can call Wade \l|en at sink. In the end. one long-haired, long-bearded September 13 was a fantastic success. We hope I 772-4421 (work) or 3%-324i (horn.) for fur freak waving a flare, stuiubled1 back and forth to make it a community tradition. ther information.' N 0n and out of "Venice What WE Run Veniee .- Record-Sealing hy st™ a«« We«twood Blvd. by Sam Gn-enberger Tlie Man has done his best to provide us all This article is in resjyonsè to a question asked with records. And records, whether criminal by the BBACHHEAP staff to BEACHHEAD or juvenile, are hassles. Jobs are hard to find. 10 to 10 waders: Ij you bad a real say in running Car insurance goes up. Schools, especially high l , mo what would you do differently, and schools, don't dig them. And the military (if how? HV welcome and will try to print as you're so inclined) hates them, army excepted. many article* on this topu as passible (lim \ lot of people have such' hangups unncccs- itation: 500 uKtrds). the U.S. sarilv. Big Brother does provide. Records can . IK- sealed, and the remainder of this article will The dav we run Venin will \w the (lav HR9 deal specifically .with eligibility, process and ef "n turn to nature. We will show ih.it techno fects of sealing juvenile records. Hopefully» there logical progress and :\ life in accord with nature will be an article irrihe next BEACHHJEAD a- need not be niutuaih exclusive concepts. Our bout the sealing of adult criminal records. cummuniH will be baaed on (he concept that Any person in California can petition to have man M IB animal, and M auek, must dwell in an his juvenile record sealed if five (5) years have environment abundant in pollution-free, life- elapsed since he Jast came under the jurisdiction sustaining natural nsourees. \ of the juvenile court or if the petitioner is 21 Crime.- against the environment will be hein years or older, has not been convicted of any ous offends. No enterprise, whether private or felony or serious misdemeanor since his juvenile public, will be allowed to pollute the air. water escapades and can demonstrate to the satisfac or land. tion of the juvenile court that "rehabilitation There will be no internal combustion engine- has taken place." If the petitioner hasn't gotten permitted. Practical substitute power plants into any major hassles with the Man since his have already been perfected. No industrial last involvement with the juvenile court, chances wastes will be incinerated into the atmosphere. are good that the petition will be granted. No sewage will We deposited in the ocean, The procedure is a fairly easy one to follow^ nor will am oil drilling be permitted there or on There is no filing fee. And you do not need an Venice-Marina land. No chemical wastes will be disposed of in attorney (although if you can afford one he'd am manner deemed harmful to the environ make things a lot easier). First, the petition Club Service ment. Wc will encourage the development of must be filled out and submitted to the court. economical means of reducing garbage, paper, A hearing date is then set and the District At Auto Repairing bottles and other trash to their natural elements torney and probation officer are notified. The so that ihrv may be used in production or petitioner will be interviewed by the probation Southern Cal Auto Club returned to the earth. officer sometime before the hearing and at the All State Auto Club hearing he will be asked to make a brief report Venice 'will have a co-operative farm" where to the court. Usually the petition will be un organic fruits^vegetables aud grains* will be 399-7717 contested by the D.A. and the court will order _ raised for the pN^ilc-iv.Jb/use of health foods your record sealed, i.e. removed, as far as state 809 LINCOLN Blvd. will be promoted as a potential solution to the problem of feeding the masses. Experts believe f agencies are concerned. WELLS TYPEWRITER that through natural diet and proper eating ^Supposedly, your name card is removedJrom O&j/MtJOfeCV habits, Americans could obtain quite adequate the master file and put in a separate confiden SHOP nutrition from as little as half their present food tial file. The court supposedly answers all in PORTABLES consumption. quiries about your past record with tlie state We will respect tlie law of nature which tells ment that you have no record. The Department ELECTRIC us that animals need plants to survive and be of Motor Vehicles supposedly does not release BEB fDRTABLCB any portion of your driving record which has happy. ,Vegetation is important as food, as the ,2539 LINCOLN BOULEVARD PHONE 39CH288 major producer of oxygen in the atmosphere, been ordered sealed nor can those offenses be and also because natural, green surroundings are considered prior convicitons for revoking or FREE rtCKi/p! CLEANING AND REPAIRS suspending your '"^river's license. Last but not e DtL_^/fKl ; AT REASONABLE PRICES essential for the psychological well-lieing of an fuit fïr/Mflrt: „.„„»,... imals. No more will trees, flowers, dirt and least, the FBI supposedly returns your finger ICS . PORTABLEb grass be indiscriminatelv covered with concrete prints in its file and likewise dummies up upon and steel. ,inquiry. Theoretically, no one can look at your yrßb.JladwwA, li/odtncutüyniv juvenile_J»Cord without your permission and a Technological advances, provided they are not X^Vo* COltcCtlSStXBIlAMS & SPCCIAL C VENTS court order. at odds with the needs of animal and plant life, will 1M* encouraged. With technology channeled If vour juvenile record has been ordered in the right direction, we can be rid of mechan sealed, you can say even under oath that: ical' chores and will IK* left, free to dig our 1) I have never been on probation as a ju fit T>oc£> Vfampte* rlçe-cif heal tin . tiappv. natural community. venile; But'first we must FREE VENICE. 2) I have never had a juvtayle record; 3) I have never been a waraiof the juvenile i.i'MOht CRWTVIIW 4-607B court; » j \ Jro^nd- xJUL-lcAi muiaK arms & the Man 4) I have never been arrested or taken into custody as a juvenile; paperback bv Carol rYu.diller 5) 1 have neve* had anv juvenile records dial: Strange «benefits may \w garnered by being a ordered scaled. papa:UBFR » good American citizen and getting involved in Clearly, to seal one's record is not the same as community affairs. Some of the benefits in to remove one's record, or to burn one's record. clude getting to sec the West-L.A. and Santa Once you are in the Man's file vou stay there, bad)^ Monica courtrooms and finding out where the somewhere. The order docs remove vour name 11317 mm nmviétm fclval wiitlg restrooms an. getting to know the bailiffs and from the prying eves of the lower echelons — all watching courtroom dramas (never the ones the people who normally hassle vou the most — vou're testifying for because-as a witness you insurance men. admissions men. business men must stand in the hall so vou.can't hear out and. most importantly, our minute men in blue. witnesses* evidence). near oiner max altman camera For further information, gel in touch with % I 8362 wilshire boulevard Steve Clare at 392-4563 or 399-7636. While waiting to testify outside tlhi e \\.L.\) *» J beverly hills • 653-9400 courtroom for \mia Haag's trial on July 31. Carol Bcnuan of the Venice Survival Committee, James Epstein in court as evidence uf Brodowv 's Jane Cordon/of the Free Venice Organizing talents. Among other respected, community ALL MAJOR PHOTO FRANCHISES- Committee and Mrs. Haag witnessed Officer people testifying to Brodowv's reputation in SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR VENICE PEOPLE. BRING THIS AD Brodowv. late of Venice now of Accident ln- Venice was Bob Castile of the Venice Commun 25% OFF ON ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT v estimât ion. doing some physical in\estigati"ii ity Improvement Union and Marge Bucklcv of 20% OFF ON QUALITY PHOTO PROCESSING on an already handcuffed man bv twisting hi» Neighborrîood Legal Services. The young man arm and dragging him along the corridor and was acquitted by the jury. Slonad arrJcta* m BEACHHEAD ara antiralv tha work down the stairs. Tlie man's attorney took ihe Next installment of the Brodowv saga comes of individu»! evrtttr. and do net nacaaaarth/ raflaet th« «<*W* names of witnesses and in September the wit of tha BEACHHEAD ttatf. Tha ttatf la opan to any Vanlea when. Ihe same witnesses testify against him in matd«m who wlahaa to contrlbuta tima and arffort to product nesses, were subpoenaed to testifv for another tlie case of the man being '"investigated" (mavbc and dittrtbut» th« papar. Contacta of aach daua.ara dackiad subject of Brodowv "s imcstinatory talents, a Brodowv was trying to find out how much pollactlvaly by tha «tatf for that lacua. Tha papar it non-profft In that all monav contributad ta uaad » '/covar tha coati young man who was arrested and beaten at the pressure a man's arm can take while handcuffed of production and distribution. Each ra.ua of tha papar It April 20th Free Press Club-in (remember the ajjd held by another policeman before the arm dailvatad fraa to 10.000 Vantoa ratldan«. Vour copy coal May issue of the BEACHHEAD, folks? The would break?) by him in the W.L.A. courtroom *• about 2 catita and noun of voJuntaar labor. If you want • AU unlqua community paoar to continua, plaaaa offar bloody head on tbe left belonged to the de. corridor. Heck, if this keeps up, Brodowv, who your halp by calling 399-7681, or tand a chacfc to BEACHHEAD fendant) — accused of felonious assault on Bro- has 3 civil suits and 10 criminal suits pending «727 W. Washington. Th« FREE VENICE BEACHHEAO it dowy andBittefoff (Metro Squad). The BEACH pubttahad at 1727 W. Washington Blvd.. " Vanle*. California against him, might be suspended from the force 90291. Taaaphon«: 399-7GBl. Circulation thit layt I0.0OC HEAD photo was used by Public Offender for thirty davs without pay! coplaa. Copyright 1969. X WnlKaii» (frtrn 'Tt'mltiihf/fui loeyonci toetröci'u.e THE COURSE OF stiowins Day.d A slnt(i(,r HUMAPJ EVENTS 1639 Put Wwqgton Blvd. Venice A consumer complaint -Center has been established Tlie combined shou of Ihe :Vul|iUire of Tom at the VC!U office, 565 Broadway. Consumer com fLEA MARKET Grant and Ihe paintings of Heverk Moio opened plaints may be made at the office or bv calling Laverne A.nticiu.eX:iotnijaéT etc. at the BEYOND BAROQUE GaUer) Friday, Brunson of VCIU at 399-7636. Feme' Roberts of NAPP 12SES -ow •vv&smn«TtoritaiVT Stone ujirc feel they were done by several artists rather than not available for the meeting. one. But, upon a closer examination of the Gwyndolin was evicted last month from her Ocean pottery . c/dS5es work, and a talk with Beverly, this gamut of Front dress shop in retaliation for distributing Free Ven gallery . ^ Cj&sh style and feeling not only makes huge sense, but ice literature and petitions. She will open a new shop /333 w tends to narrow, giving the viewer an inkling in October 8 at 406 Lincoln Blvd. Hours at the new shop we buy' to the mind of the artist. As she will tell yoif, will be noon to 6 p.m., Friday until 9. Telephone 392- we buy junk her urge to create arose out of a deep sense of 8446. we buy junk. lonliness, and consequently in her paintings (and Information about the Venice Credit Unï5r\C3n be It's the Berries! drawings) she examines closely the nature of obtained by calling Ava Banks at 392-4811, extension man, his moods, and his intrapersonal relation 258. ships. She comes to each painting with no pre Charles Lovett, proprietor of Bill & Totsie's antique conceptions, no theories of art bind her work, shop, photographed a police investigation being con- and the result is pure Moio; or should I say - ducted by Officer Manlove on August 11. Manlove re more accurately Moio's view of man. There IS antiqups taliated by issuing Charles a pedestrian citation. The *A« feeling here, and technique as well, and, if one next day Charles' daughter Linda drove him past the jjirturra will give to the work the time necessary* for scene of another Manlove ''investigation," which Charles understanding, ^eal communication. fr antra also photographed. Manlove retaliated by arresting It is interesting, and mandatory, to note that Linda. When Charles went over to the Venice station both artists are largely, if not totally, self- to inquire about his daughter, Manlove arrested him for Car/ Cola Custom Jrsrmng taught. It is not the watered-down intcllcctual- interference with an officer and disturbing the peace. ization^pfsome dusty master's theory that they Linda was released with a traffic citation. Charles will present, but two fresh and vital views of art. try to prove his innocence October 9 when he will be Both are residents of Venice, and have been tried in W.L.A. Municipal Court, Division 67 at 9 a.m. widely active in bringing a larger cultural scope to the community. Their art speaks for itself, and no review can take the place of actually THE PEACE MONGER SAYS standing before one of the paintings, drawings, Did know that tin- rich and superrieh BGLVROck or sculpts. The show WilDnwnain in the BE nri th war-making industries haw so far YOND BAROQUE Gallen/üirough the middle cheated tin- people an estimated !()() billion dol x*^ PUBLICATIONS of October. Why not stop by and touch some lars, enough mone> to boos! Ihe poveti) pro- PRINTINGV IBM »Selectric Composer rental humanitv? ^rarn. improve ever, ill-ccprrppcd school in tin nation, enough lo pa) back lor past wrong? 100 - $2.8oV and instruction. Your secretary donc In the Indians ami to improve Ihe filth) 1000 - $8.25^^an do work like thus on our The Day LA Did Pennants concentration camps the) live on coiled reser 2000 - $14.2,^^ machine in our office. vations, improve vasl thousands of acre? for by Ralph wildlife and about a hundred mon elcctcra>. Th« newspaper was. Ten type-styles «no m». !t+S%/&!'. 7« tribute to a Mr. Harrison and his ftaltnatt assoc Hut shhlih... if wc told ans of tlii^ wc might phone David or George at 396-6551 now! iates, employees of the City, who pursued diligently their duty and tore down those dangerous colored hurt their sensitive feeling- thai i- it t!u\ ever banners which decorated rhc canal area at festival time. had them in the first place hv Id l.nn.i Remember when the colored flags were flying ^e/y^^^y\ In dear old Venice by the shining sea, Now some consider flying flags a menace IIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Especially if they're flags of liberty • So now the pennants ate no longer flying The pennantants are properly chastised To fly a flag without the law's permission Is- something that is rude and ill adviser] BERCHHERD NJEÇS Now who are tenants to dispute these tenets From premises that's not their property. AHTiSTS ^EET/A/GC But tens»!* can become a landlord's nemesis. \JJHITERS (•«'•»v r-jrv/^y TELEPHONE 399.2350 Especially if they're fighting to be free 8WM 17Zf* WASHINGTON BLVp. CrHvrDOV/STC. (l737 VINIC». ÇAUF. Those folks who wear those long and ugly faces a free lid with every poster And try to force' their will on. you and me Especially when they think of other races. PrlOrOG-RfivHEkS yr.Uirr*»» Which chance has forced to live in poverty. EE RENTAL LISTING SERVK To them, CANALS are now a great Obsession 0/?>rRi BUTOi\S '">-—/r A shortcut to the lands of WEALTH and POWER If you have, know erf, or need To State and City Gods they make confession Acusssfor FiWr-a/srop Pa.rC'tS a room, apt., or house for rent The poor are in the way, so they must cower. llllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIII contact STEVE CLARE at Let's send them on a nice prolonged vacation BEACHHEAD staff fot) this issue: 399-7636 To a place where they are sure to have some fun A place that's sure to fit their haughty station Steve Clare, . Jane Gordon, Sara daily 9:00- 10:00AM Up the. ALIMENTARY CANAL, with rod and gun Grcenberger, Anna Haag, John Haag, Karen Thompson, Chris Shoemaker, Lynn Shoemaker. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Specie/£/ecffon Neighborhood / From a-concerned, slightly flipped out Venice Legal Bind resident. Wc can assume the following: l)The by Rick Davidson \ by Marge Buckley country is run by billionaires who have a vested 6TH DISTRICT COUNCILMANIC SEAT VA- interest in keeping the status quo. 2) They do C.tTFD BY THE RESIGNATION OF L.E. Venice Neighborhood Legal Services is faced not need people such as yogas and those who HMttKRLAKr:. with the problem of serving the poor communi grow their own food and make their own clothes. "So what's so special about this election?" ties from Santa Monica to Torrance, including And those who put their body first. Considering First, the establishment didn't want it. Theyi_ West Los Angeles, with a staff of four attoruies. these facts, how about some articles in your pa tried tu fill (he seal by appointment. The people NLS has been informed by.OEO, its funding per to help others to become hip to the real and said no! we want to elect our representative. agency, that legal assistance is to be directed to only Revolution which is to change yourself Second, il represents the next level of our fight solving the problems of poverty, not merely to first. serving individuals. to save Venice. We fought the L.A. Planning De For example, plastic food vs. natural foods. partment; we fought the L.A. Planning Com- . --ALS is proposing a new method of selecting Checking out the trash bins in Veniee reveals mifiBnni wc fought the Planning Committee of V clients. The office would spend its time: 1/3 on that the Hostess Cupcakes are winning out over the L.A. City Council...all of whom said NO to major cases and appeals to reform the laws, the apples. 1 would like to see information on our demands. Now we face the L.A. City Coun 1/3 advising and'representing community grass exercise such as yogas-and dancing. I dream of cil with no representation from the 6th Dis roots organizations, and 1/3 serving individual a free community school teaching such classes trict (1/3 of Venice) Third, it's a chance to clients with rent, consumer, welfare and police on the grass by the sea. Really, it's just too gain pouter sup|>ort. A chance to communicate problems. heavy for me to ignore. There are too many with people in other areas facing the same prob Clients would be referred through community/ plastic-eating people who are receiving synthetic lem: lack of representation, which equals pow- organizations under a quota system to be deter vibrations and actions. mined with the aid of the community advisory- fulrnimr m Tlie support is there, not simply Lastly and uiipniliiiirtyT vegetarianism over boards. Where possible, cases would be passed because our demand is just, but because it is cannibalism. Lowe info it. I'm not perfect but on to private lawyers and to other agencies. shared by a greater percentage of Americans I'm interested inVdping others get turned on. than any of us (on the right or the left) believe. NLS is asking the community to help decide Yours sincerely in the service of no zits, For it is not some absurd demand, some out how best to serve this area. A public meeting of cigarettes, bald heads and drooping stomachs. rageous request, some sick dream. No, it is no the community advisory bosxd will be held on Cheryll Pierce thing more than what was so beautifully ex Thursday, October 9, at 8 p.m. at the West 33 Brooks, Apt. 8 pressed at the Peace and Freedom Founding minster School, corner of Westminster and W. P.S. Will be glad to make a book hst and Convention: Washington Blvd. give specific information on topics. "77ie basis of human dignity is the ability of If you miss the meeting but would like to help people to make the decisions that affect their Neighborhood Legal Services work for the com We hope others who share Cheryll's interests lives - to order their own private lives as they munity, call 392-4177 or drop by the'office at will get in touch with her and with us so that choose and to decide collectively with their 1711 Pacific Avenue. some of her requests actually materialize in the peers on matters of collective concern." BEACHHEAD. We would like to be a forum So we are simply demanding the right of human ' for all those who have something to share with dignity. Which we translate into "community PLANNIN6 COMMISSION-REVISITED the community. But WE can't do it - YOU lxponfrpI.'*j»'* have to do it yourself! - the B.S. • ^•"^HrSfeçand who are you-" WelL.J'm one of by Jane Gordon the candidates. '"Oh! So that's why you think Due to a bureaucracy beyond our control, the itV such a special election." NoMixactly. "Well Venice conununitv was summoned downtown why are you running?" I'm an architect interest once again to talk about the Master Plan. It was ed in urban planning. I've lived in Venice since a repeat performance before the Planning Com '~Ks^mm 1961. I like Venice. Oh, as an architect there mission (they must IK- might) fond of our show arc manv things I would like to see changed. -or are they trying to wear us ou^. .). We had but that's physical designing — something you an extensive hearing before them last May, at learn in school. The most important planning is which time the», listened most politely and then IK-opIc planning. When you people-plan, unlike did what they had alreadx decided to do before dealing with bricks, concrete, glass arid steel, you the hearing: recommended adoption. VENICE FREE CLINIC mod work with those involved, "community V Knowing this in advanei;, the organized "op participation" some call it. But for it to be legit position to (he plan decided thai there would by Albert lamele imate il must include real community control. lw no purpose in mustering large numbers of *i have high ideals Charlie Brown. I v-ynt That'- my platform. y y*- people to go all the wax downtown during to make this a lietter world for me to live in." I plan llirough the use of this campaigned working hour.- on a week-day. That i-- a large Unquote, Charles Schultz. point out the failure of the present political and diffieull job. espcrialh when it's onlv for The Fairfax Free Clinic ideals move on. The structure of Los Angeles by putting forth i sys a re-run. So we chose a spokesman to let the Concept is to provide full medical care for all, tem winch gives real control to the. people. This Commission know thai Venice .i> not a troupe without consideration of ability to pay. And system is built on the concept of neighborhood of dancing seals, to perform for (hem at their now, at 905 Veniee Blvd. (162 steps from Liu- control groups which would form a community whim, that Venice's position i? already well« coin), this has become a reality for the people congress. The congress would direct the council doeumentedjn their records, and that Venice of the Venice area. man in his dealings with the city. Thus trans- i> still solidly) united in opposition to the Masler The Venice Clinic is guided by Dr. Steve feriBUig our free-floating politician intu an am- Plan and in/favoR, of making a plan b\ and for Rush (psychologist) and Laura Lowther (public pHryiag mechanism of the people. It is time to (he people who live there, not for tlie profiteers. health nurse) who received their education at give the power to the people. The importance of speculators and absentee landlords'who are hov both the Fairfax Clinic''and the County *s San Vi local nmtrol becomes even more important as ering greedily around the lucrative promises cente Clinic. we move toward regional planning. We must de implicit in the Master Plan. The Venice Clinic has only been open two velop a system of comprehensive planning which Specifically, the Veniee comnrunitj is asking weeks but the word is out and people have come demand.- an over-view, yet maintain the human for a ten-month delay in order to get funds from in. as many as 30 in a night. At present the scale through local control. Such an approach a source other than Ihr cit\ government, so that clinic is only open Monday through Friday, turns the political system into one .of education. the real work of creating a real community plan 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. but there are full plans for If the regional designers want something done, could be started. more hours as the need shows. they will have to educate the public in order to Naturally, the Commissioners talked about There is an initial staff of two doctors, two get it. 1 would like to see this plan tried on the how righteous they were and re-passed the plan, nurses, a nutritionist, a psychologist, a social district level, and expanded to include the unanimously. So what else is new? Nothing. worker, a community worker, laboratory tech entire city. The councilman elpriecl in the 6th We're still waiting to hold our big show for the nicians and related helpful personnel. All these District could put into effect sudh a plan. While full City Council. .We'll let you know when it people and^facilitics are there to provide general it would not be official at the city level, he will be; it might be entertaining. Meanwhile, medical care, lab tests, information on food i ould make it binding on him in his own dis one-third of Venice remains "unrepresented" coupons, counseling for_hängups. and referais trict. Let's see who is willing to enter into such in Council, due kjjhe vacant 6th District seat to hospitals for long term treatment when neces * a contract with those he or she is to represent. , (docs having a Councilman mean you're repre sary. sented? Ask Councilman Braude, who refused Medication is on hand to take immediate care even to present. Venice's position before the of all drug overdoses and bummers. Also, plans beachhead endorsement ; Planning Commission—with or without his ap are in the works for prenatal and family plan ning rap sessions. Rick Davidson's campaign for the Los Angeles City- proval). -This lack of representation might nul Council offers the opportunity to carry beyond our im lify decisions made regarding the area, opening As to general information, the clinic has four mediate community the issues in which BEACHHEAD up possible future law-suits on the eommunitv's community people acting as advisors and volun has been involved for almost a year. The staff of [>ehaif. teers, and the doctors have a "gentlemen's agree BEACHHEAD endorses his candidacy. We urge you to If you want to get involved in fighting the ment" with the police that the clinic will take vote for him if you live in the 6th District Wherever ' Master Plan, call the Free Venice office at care of its own. you live, we urge you to contribute time and money to .392-4:563. Keep trving. we're out a lot. Or Further questions should be directed to Chris his campaign and to do it now-wben it's needed. Rick's fljroc bv a Wednesday night Peace and Freedom ti (de Becker) Farliee. During clinic hours, the campaign office is at 1727 W. Washington Blvd., Venice. meeting or a Thursday night Rick Davidson for number is 399-7743. Telephone 399-7681. Help Rica to help all of us free -Citv Council campaign meeting. 1727 W. Wash The Venice Clinic is for the people, and all of Venice! ington Blvd. the people are welcome. THE FREE VENICE DER CHHË NUMBER 12 JANUARY 1970 10.000 COPIES - FREE TO VENICE RESIDENTS Venice Raided-VDC Formed On December 2 and 3 the Ve lished power. ic Ave, where we are_ja?esently nice police and L.A.P.D. "metro" In Venice, we as a community investigating açd documenting in squad swept through the Oakwood stand in basic opposition to dividual cases ryf police malprac community, arresting scores of both those interests and designs ; tice. That information is.being Venice residents and hassling and the Venice Division, as an used as the basis for scores of countless others. active agent of that power str civil suits against the police. The magnitude and scope of ucture, is attempting to~elimin- These suits are being filed in that assault, the ease and effic —arte' that opposition. small claims, municipal, superi iency with which ' the Man was The Venice Defense Committee or and federal courts; and infor able to move among us, his .disre has been created to help our com- mation about the procedures, gard, in fact contempt, of our cumity survive and to protect, costs, and appropriate conduct "inalienable" rights as human as it can, our citizenry from /a in court is also being provided beings and citizens of this coun hostile and alien force. to anyone who wishes to take try, once again remind us of our We have already begun inten such action independent of our impotency. sive training in the law, the own very limited resources. judicial system as it currently The success of the Venice De VE NO POWER. operates, and legal and extra fense Committee in these and ot legal defense against police op her activities it hopes to under v_^All of ou/ r political manèu- pression. Dan Lund, an attorney take will depend upon the supp verings, demonstrations, commun with the National Lawyers' Guild, ort, cooporation, and participa ity meetings, requests and de has helped us organize these tion it receives from the Ven mands have not changed one iota classes (he recently organized ice community. Anyone who would that ugly fact. and conducted a similar, series like to work with the Defense Clearly this problem can not for the L.A. Black Panther Party) Committee and all those with leg be dealt with in a social vacuum. and is providing lawyers know al problems or grievances again The political and economic inter ledgeable in these areas to lead st the Venice Police Department ests which shape police policy our discussion groups. After should contact us by calling 392- and dictate police conduct must completion of our training, we 4177 or by coming to our office be challenged. Recruiting meth hope .to organize similar groups located at (but independent of) ods and requirements, geared to oursaïves so that everyone in Neighborhood Legal Services, authoritarian, anti-social appli Venice will have the knowledge 1711 Pacific Ave. between the * necessary to defend themselves hours of 7PM and 12PM daily. cants, must be changed to att £fom the police. We intend to ract men interested in social 'publicize incidents of police The Venice Defense Committee service not social control. We harassment and brutality to make is not the answer; it is a re must'work for control, community the press, elected officials, sponse, a response by angered control, of the police and all and the police of Los Angeles and frustrated Venice residents. their activities in Venice. aware of their criminal activit The answer is power. Until then, we must learn to ies and our efforts to stop them. protect ourselves from at least the grossest abuses they have Our home bîse is at Neighbor and will continue to heap upqn hood Legal Services, 1711 Pacif VENICE DEFENSE COMMITTEE us. We must learn the art of legal and extra-legal self-def ense. We must create structures to contain, if not control the Man. i Lit man sivr then say tfkiraHiwan tum* to fc helped intc carriages, and The ACLU Complaint Center, lo cated at 617 Broadway, is one Uftc.i iW ditches and & have tfw such institution already operat tV5r platt everywhere Nafttty w ing in Venice. It's function is hcijvd me into carruiaes driver mud to attempt to provide legal coun puddm jr^tves mtaèestpfacj . cil for victims of police mal And aot't 1 a warnen 1 icok ax m* practice and to file official ' Livk at my arm' I (iavf pwnvd complaints with the Los Angeles a*tJpùnted andjathdred into Police Commission. A coràmunity far-ns,eirh4 no man annul(wadnu.. response to police oppression has been the recent formation of Andatnt I awo/rwn? lecufdazmw.h the Venice Defense Committee. .i*tdtat as muck (:>a. man when /"*- Tne Venice Defense Committee couU Aft it, and biar tiulash asneii has as its goal the protection 4 >id Amt [>l weman ? I fuwe horned of all Venice residents from thirteen chddrcn andern rlicm police malpractice. most aß s CALL TO ie-7-O A statewide Peace and Freedom Convention and Celebration will be held in Long Beach over the PEACE & I weekend of Washington's Birthday, February 21,22 and 23. The con vention will be open to partici PEACE AND pation by all PFP members, eith er voters registered PFP or per ftFRfEDOMiVy FREEDOM I sons active with the PFP who are disenfranchised by California's election laws. The convention will focus on F 4# January, 1970 the issues/and possible candi dates for the' 1970 election. Con vention planners hope that form proposals will be directed to issues pertinent to th\ 1970 election. Potential PFP-^candi- dates for statewide office will REGISTER NOW ! be invited to speak to the con vention. The convention itself Who will speak for you this The only voice for real change will decide whether or not to-en November? The Demopublicans will in the 1970 elections will be dorse specific candidates. A ten talk about applying band-aids to tbe Peace and Freedom Party and tative agenda for the convention a dying system. Conservatives its candidates. appears elsewhere in this issue. will talk about fewer social ser If you want that voice, you The time, place and other de vices and more police at higher will have to help. -The PFP has tails of the convention were de prices. Liberals will talk about no large contributors, no re cided by a statewide conference more but insufficient social ser turns from patronage, no profes of Peace and Freedom activists vices and more police. Both will sional staff. We are only as held in San Francisco over Than- tax workingvpeople pay the fea strong as the efforts of our mem Jcsgiving weekend. The conference bills. ~— *++S bers.- readily accepted the Long Beach Who will talk about the rape , Peace and Freedom is the only PFP offer to host the convention of our natural resources for pri alternative to the status quo in and set the February date be-^^ vate profit? Who will say that the electoral arena. Join us and cause of the three-day weekend our grandchildren are being rob help us grow. Project your voice which immediately precedes the bed of nature and life itself by into the 1970 election. period when candidates may file a system of production that Register Now: nonjination papers (February 23 feeds the stock market at the ex through March 20). pense of human survival? •4 f Who will point to the nation The registration fee for the al conspiracy to exterminate the convention will be $5. Black Panther Party and to crush Although all PFP members may all dissent in the interest of participate in the convention, a business as usual? Who will voting formula was agreed upon speak for the young whose cul to balance possible heavy atten ture is under attack and whose dance from areas near the conven lives are being channelled by tion site. PFP members from each schools and the draft into quick Assembly District will have a death in Vietnam and slow death maximum number~"of votes equal to in polluted cities? 4 plus one vote for each 100 votes (or major fraction of 100) who will speak out for the received by Paul Jacobs in that right of service men to organize district in the 1968 election. in- their own interest or the right of women to live free of For instance, PFP members the subservient role allotted to from the 23rd Assembly District them in a male-dominated society? in San Francisco will have a max Who will say that communities imum of 19 votes. Each person must control their police and attending the convention from take charge of their own affairs? that district has one/vote up to the maximum of 19. If more than Who will expose the program 19 attend, they decide among med inhumanity generated by our themselves how to distribute the foreign policy, all levels of 1.9 votes. policing authority and the very government programs both liber Convention planners doubt als and conservatives wish to that the formula will have to be strengthen? Who will speak for invoked. They adopted it to en the need of a liberating and re courage PFP members in areas dis levant education available to tant from Long Beach' to attend, all, complete health services, knowing that their votes will food and housing available to count even with heavy attendance all? s from the Los Angeles area. Who will say during election A major problem facing con time that the mere casting of a Candidates Wanted vention planners is getting word ballot will not do it, that the of the convention to members in radical changes needed in our" If yoir-a-re willing and able areas where no PFP activity now society can come about only to be a statewide candidate for exists. Publicity will be gener through dedication and hard work the Peace and .Freedom Party, or ated from the San Francisco, Ven — by organizing for change all if you know someone who is wil ice and Long Beach PFP offices. year round? who will say that ling and able, Jane Gordon wants The help of PFP members in other the system must change, not just to know. She is recording in areas is needed to get that' pub the faces in office? formation on candidate availabil licity into local and campus Republicans won't speak for ity to report to the February newspapers, to .radio stations you, neither will the Democrats. PFP convention. Please send name, and to members by mail and phone. They are part and parcel of the address and other relevant data If you will help in your area, economic and f-olitical system to Jane Gordon, Venice PPP, 1727 write immediately to P&F News, that is robbing and killing and W. Washington Blvd., Venice, Ca. 1727 w. Washington Blvd., Venice 90291. ;- Ca. 90291 or call (213) 392-4563. dehumanizing ITS all—at a profT N 'don't mourn, REGISTRATION DRIVE - 1970 REPORT JF'R.OJM: organize..." Peace and Freedom Party or "Register Now!" has again be phone number as well as pledges ganizers and activists from ten ton» the slogan of the Califor of work and money. Several new counties met in San Francisco nia Peace and Freedom Party, registrants are becoming deputy Thanksgiving weekend to plan a since the statewide conference registrars. The form also allows statewide convention in 1970. in San Francisco over Thanksgiv us to "register" persons under Between lively debates on the ing weekend. The conference ad 21 or otherwise not eligible to past, present and future of the opted without opposition a re vote. PFP, the conference decided to solution to initiate and assist The Venice PFP is planning a hold a convention in Long Beach a statewide voter registration xpilot project to involve those February 21, 22 and 23 and re drive to increase PFP membership already registered. A PFP member solved to initiate a registra stimulate interest in the Febru will take responsibility for con tion drive immediately. ary convention and get the PFP tacting each voter registered Time and place of the conven back on the streets. PFP in his precinct to tell what tion were decided easily. The Conference participants from is happening in' Peace and Free decision to open the convention Los Angeles, who introduced the dom and to ask pledges of work to all PFP members was especial motion, argued'that political and money. » ly pleasing to those who had conditions now are analogous to The registration drive is con hoped for an open convention (as 1967, when the PFP first regis centrating initially on rallies, opposed to delegated) in 1968. A tered 105,000 voters to win a meetings and campuses. As our workshopçjan—eofivéntion recruit place on the California ballot. force of active registrars in ment proauced the voting formula They pointed to the major par creases, we expect to cover shop described^elsewhere in this is ties' inability to express the ping centers, libraries and oth sue and recommended a registra rising anti-war sentiment or to er locations in the community. tion drive. guarantee, as the Peace and Free Any registered" voter is entit Disagreement continued all dom Party does, that all members led to become a deputy registrar. throughout the conference over may participate in the selection Contact your county Registrar of the question'of endorsing candi of platform and candidates. Voters for details. Start re dates at the convention. Those Although interpretations of cruiting for Peace and Freedom! in favor argued that endorsement the election laws differ, it ap would produce candidates respon pears that the PFP must get 2% sible to the party membership as of the total vote in one of the represented by the convention partisan races for statewide of Candidate Data and that an open primary lends fice to remain qualified for the The 1970 election in Califor itself to the candidate with the V^_ball SrfET COKTJF'HÎK.BÎKrCH: DAVIDSON CAMPAIGN TWO VIEWS discussion of. platform indi by John Haag cated' that pollution of the en Rick Davidson ran every inch by Ri*-k Davidson vironment, distribution of taxes, of the way in a non-partisan Peace & Freedom nominated El- the economic 'squeeze on working race for L.A. City Council. As a dridge Cleaver for President for people, rights of servicemen, PFP-endorsed candidate he start two reasons: First, he articu subservient role of women and ed out with a base of maybe 200 lated the people's struggle bet personal freedoms are likely to votes ih: a conservative district ter than anyone else. Second, be major PFP issues in 1970. The which includes only a small part the fact that he couldn't take conference passed resolutions in of Venice. office, if elected, symbolized support of the strikers against Rick got 950 votes, 4.1% in a Peace & Freedom's concept that General Electric, American In 5-way race^_-Pat Russell 0)f West change must come from every part dian claims to Alcatraz Island chester won with 43% of the vote of America - not simply by chang and the "Chicago 8" defendants and over $32,000 - according to ing names in the White House. against federal conspiracy char her report. She was the only Dem Change throughout America means ges. The San Francisco office ocrat running and had organized education - meeting, talking and was authorized to prepare a pe party support. convincing the silent Americans tition to U Thant, Secretary- of the realities of our struggle General of the united Nations, Rick won on the issues. If In running for L.A. City Coun that former President Johnson, Rick hadn't run, most of the is cil I learned many things that I President Nixon and other appro sues wouldn't have been there: would like to share. First, with priate individuals be tried by a community control, city p'ianning, in the Movement there are—a>*ro"se U.N. Tribunal for war crimes in police power, the war. He got who work in electoralpolitics Vietnam. all the candidates (except Small, and those who don't. JJach posi the admitted no-issue candidate tion is valid and -valuable and Not only was the conference of the great silent bovine ma we should not lose energy argu productive, it was also solvent. jority) talking about his issues ing with one another, but each Registration fees produced about whether they liked them or not, of us "get on with, it." Second, $100 over costs. The. balance understood them or not. many new and different k*inds of paid half the cost of this issue Rick did a good job. He was a people, including conservatives, of PS.F News. full-time candidate. Because the get involved in a non-partisan Since the conference the San campaign came on suddenly, he campaign. Third, in order to Francisco PFP reports that they had little help and even less mo meet the silent majority you are attempting toraise $3,600 ney. have to be invited.. .one real ad for statewide filing fees, of But there's another side to' vantage candidates have. which $900.is already pledged. the story. Rick didn't start with 0 votes; he started with In order to talk to "them", do-it-y *74t fated "rVamfitcm ßfyc**? Two Two ft m flrOuTM Bivin.v Dative »KVUtl-V KlL-Ltl. CALlfORNI* 372-.A8? 8021Ü TtLi^*»*40Ni CRiSTVH* 4-6075 X&X&L> Äo*-«L *2L*ùeAi papa, M &":<.,- 1Z77 */. ' - Yoatl) V Ml «ansa«h TELEPHONE 3SS.J3SB 1726 WASHINGTON BLVD. VSN1CK. paur. 1970 Calendars now available FREE RENTAL LISTING SERVICE marge buck ley & rick.davidson married on the venice beach 13 de"ember 1969 N HNICB HIGH $WOINTS CHAUEN6E ADMINISTRATION' \ _ Venice High School is get still a dress code. We are still dent Forum of- Ideas and BSU and ting it together. Students being told what we, can and can't UNAS are also under the thumb of there, like students in high wear to school, and we are still an oppressive administration. In schools and colleges all ov being treated as irresponsible stead of being exercises in de er the country, are demand and incapable of controlling our mocracy, they are examples of ing change. The institution own destiny. The reform in the paranoia. u which structures and con dress code is a form of tokenism, The time has come to stop trols the lives of millions a pacifier to calm the cry of fearing and start acting!! THIS of young people does not the students for freedom!! is OUR SCHOOL:: WE ARE HUMAN BE serve their needs. It is op We are required to pay $5.00 INGS TOO, ENTITLED TO THE SAME pressive; it is irrelevant. in ordere to receive i a school INALIENABLE RIGHTS GUARANTEED US It is designed to close'off, newspaper that has been heavily IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNIT not open,the mind; to stifle, censored. Every piece of written ED STATES OF AMERICA:: The time not encourage, creativity. material has to be submitted has come to unite under the ban It is designed to maintain for approval by an adult in ner of freedom let no man op and perpetuate the tradi charge-—not the students who press us in- our struggle for tions of an effete society. read it. freedom:i The kids at Venice High are On-campus clubs such as Stu I . moving. The following are reprints of leaflets written A funny thing happened on the by Venice High School stu Ocean Front Walk last wegtefHarv dents and circulated through Braude, our beloved councilman, out that school. was bicycling down r^s very own The BEACHHEAD staff en bicycle path, when—ne was accos courages and supports such ted by one of the beach front activities and will assist MILITANTS who asked him when the these students in any way we new bathroom would be opened. can. This leaflet was passed out 01 Marv rode on (but not right on) Friday, December 19, when an acting as if the beach front whi- Airforce high-flyer was al / tey were full of what ol marv is lowed on campus to recruit. full of ... OPPORTUNITIES IN THE MILITARY in other words kiddies 1. You have the opportunity NO RELIEF IN SIGHT of killing 1,000,000 Vietnamese EDITORIAL- civilö»AS_jsn/ir years. You have the opportunity of killing 500. The Free . Venice Organizing these areas, feel that the nro- defenseless men, women, And Committee, the Venice Peace and • posal should include the follow children in cold blood. £- Freedom Party ^and this newscaper ing concepts: - V-, You have the opportunity 2. during the past year have on- The election should cover the of making 4 million Vietnamese posed L.A.'s Master Plan for Ven homeless in three years. parts of Venice affected by the ice and have advocated that any original Master Plan--everything 3. You have the opportunity plan for Venice should be creat west of Lincoln Blvd. This area of seeing your best friends Kill ed by Venice Residents to serve should be divided into some 2 5 ed in defense of a corrupt and the needs of our present commun- districts of equal population. dictatorial regime. itv. Many different Veni.ce or-' Each district should elect 2 re 4. You have the opportunity gànizations have joined in this of risking your life to insure presentatives to the congress. effort - T Every Venice resident 14 years that the Saigon generals will Until recently all our ener or older should have a vote. continue to enlarge their Swiss gies have been concentrated on bank account. District representatives must y delaying the City's attemnt to live in the district from which 5. You have the opportunity remove us; now work has begun on of surrendering all your rights they are elected. Above all, a new phase of action - that of they MUST be responsible to the to free speech while in the mili creating a community planning tary. people "who elect them. This organization which would involve means consistently keeping peo 6. You have the opportunity the community in the planning ple informed of new developments. to speak on the campus of Venice process and relate to a staff of It also means following the in High School—while an anti-war planners and technicians. structions of the constituency, group encouraging resistance to The work is )atj a preliminary as opposed to just passing off the draft is being busted. stage: those irtvolVed feel that their own views as the views of LIBERTY AHD' JUSTICE FOR ALL funds are needed to do an ade the district. There must be fair This leaflet was written by quate job of organizing. There ly simple recall procedures to the Student Liberation Corps fore, the first task is to write back up the community's right to and will be distributed as a nrosposal, describing nlans for real, responsible representation. soon as Free Venice gets it involvincr the entire community, The congress as a whole would together enough to ruh it on which will be presented to possi coordinate local district plans, the mimeo. ble funding groups, foundations, supervise a staff of planners or On November 24, 1969, Steve etc. planner trainees, provide com Sheppard and .Shasta Hatter were The community activists writ munity-wide publicity and take suspended for distributing leaf ing the proposal include repre action on any community problems lets, legally, off campus. The sentatives of Bay Area Latin Am related to insuring the welfare charges were "disrupting ,^"fche ericans, Free Venice Organizing of present residents. A communi good and orderly conduct of the Committee, Israel Levin Senior ty congress of elected represen school." A law suit is being Adult Center, Operation SER, the tatives could be a powerful ve filed taking action against- Venice Canal Neighborhood Asso hicle for united community ac their unjust and illegal suspen- ciation and Venice Community Im tion. -». tion^ provement Union.. __Ideas brought Before an election could be This is just one example of up in preliminary discussion are held, there would have to be a student oppression, and one way drafted into concrete proposals three or four month period of of challenging it. There are tjy^a small writing committee and preparation. During that period other examples, such as dress then brought back to the larger literature would- be distributed code imposed upon students, re group for final approval. to every resident in the elec strictions on free speech, press, Briefly, the proposal will tion area to acquaint him with and assembly, the tracking sys call for a community-wide elec the purposes and procedures of tem which makes it impossible tion cf representatives to a com the election. By election day we for students to govern their own munity congress. So far, few de could know all the)district can destiny, to name a few. cisions have been made as to spe didates, their responsibilities On Monday, December 15, a re» cific powers and duties of the and where they stand on issues vision of the currently imposed congress or specific rules for to be faced by the congress. the election. Members of the dressOcode was handed out to Watch this paper for further girls*>\P.E. classes, providing Free Venice Organizing Committee, who have been responsible for ma details as they become available. for pants and mid-calf dresses. For information call 392-4563. Although this is a refcjrm, it is ny constructive proposals in aris.*^ / THE FREE VENICE CHHÊ Bctlaianou of inbrprnorutc DECLARATION OF FREE VENICE N ool, an obvious promotion for spying and informing on the comm by Jane Gordon by John Haag unity under the guise of "commun- Venici,e Peace and Freedom Par The Venice Peace and FreeBoir itv relations". ty members are* already working Party in response to a police Sillings' replacement is Capt hard on the 1^70 election camp riot on the ocean front on April Eldred M. Lembke, who was in ch aign. We have published and dis 20, 1969, called upon all Venice arge of the massive police act tributed statewide 2 issues of residents to stop • cooperating ions to suppress black and white Peace and Freedom News to tell with LA pcrlice until the follow students at San Fernando Valley people about the 1970 Statewide ing demands were met: 1)removal State College last year. His arm PFP Convention and Celebration of Caot. Robert Sillings s Lt. ed men still masquerade as stu vbefng held in Long Beach,Febru Allen Archbold from the Venice dents on that campus. The Devon ary 21,22,23. All Venice PFP cl Division, and_»establishment of shire Downs Rock Concert deLacle ub meetings between now and the a community board to control last summer was forceably disper convention will be devoted to di LAPD activities in Venice, or sed by Lembke's men. scussions on platform and candi complete withdrawal of LAPD from We should observe carefully dates as well as building camp the Venice community. We later before deciding that these per aign organization. supported demands for the remov sonnel changes will have any "ef f The Statewide Convention is. al of Lt. Tackaberrv & Sgt. Bab- set on police behavior. The LAPD open to all PFP registrants (al alonia. could have started by consulting so to PFPers not able to regis 9 months of protest, public Venice residents about the new ter because of age, felony con ity and pressure against police replacements'. The most important victions,etc. ) . The focus is on violence on the part of the Ven of our demands has not even begj 1970 campaign issues and program ice PFP and other organizations considered-that of a ccflrämjnTty and potential candidates for st of black, brown and white Venice board to control the pcUicies atewide office are invited to residents, have finally resulted and actions of LA policelntecupy- speak. The convention is being in the suspension and transfer ing Venice. This is the only held on the' CalState-long Beach of Capt. Sillings, the transfer— sure solution for police-commun campus, but participants should of Lts. Archbold & Tackaberry ity problems. We cannot cooper first register at the Long Beach and the suspension • of at least ate with police who serve .the PFP office where they will get 2 officers: Manlove and Edwards. interests of land speculators,re convention materials, voting car We want to explore what these altors, contractors and politic ds, housing information,etc. You changes mean before we accept ians, who all stand to make a can register in advance by send them at face value. Capt. Sill large profit by turning Venice ing S5 to Long Beach PFP, 605 ings will take command of the into an expensive tourist resort Redondo Ave, Long Beach 90814 Central Division-which may amou We must continue to work for (the $5 is desperately needed to nt to a promotion. He was not community control of the police cover expenses, but: don't- stay suspended for the abuses he and or we may never be free from dom away just becajase^ou're broke) . his underlings have committed ag ination by the likes of Sillings Several Venice PFP members ainst the people of Venice, but Archbold and Tackaberry. may be running for office in the for a technical violation of The Venice PFP meets every 1970 elections. First to decide LAPD procedures. As for Lt. Arch- Wednesdav at 8pm at 1727 W. Wash is Lew McCammon who will run for bold, he is off to Captaincy sch inqton Blvd. Telephone 392-4563. Congress in the 26th District ag ainst incumbent Democrat Tom Rees. Lew is also working on a court challenqe to the high fil &Reports hy Jane (AGAIN) ing fees required before candid The current Master Plan hear bout these corrupt men's power ates' names can appear on the ings (Jan. 13 and 16 and Feb. 3 ful roles in planning Venice. ballot. He contends that the fee 'as we go to press) before the The possibility of similar ille (ranging from $192 for Assembly Planning Co»giittee of the City gal speculation in Venice was to $982 for Governor) prevent po Council staiid out from the gene too abstract for the Committee or people from running and are ral hearing mish-mash in the (it also refused to hear about probably unconstitutional. ,grand finale-the full City Coun police harassment's role in rede Overthrowing the filing fee cil s^^pronouncement on Venice velopment plans.) One week lat requirement would enable many mo (keep a look-out for that one-we' er this same. Committee called re PFP members to run. It could re going to need you. Ask for a for Hamilton's and Pollen's res .also upset the established can day off so you can participate. ignation. didate-selection procedures of The Committee Planning con Even aside from their "extra- the major parties by encouraging sists of Bernardi, Nowell, and curriculer" activities, the down the poorer members to file. All our own Braude. They are neith town Planners have done a lousy those interested in being plain er planners nor Venitee residents. job. Professional planners as tiffs in the case are urged to So_ how can they maker recommendat well as local property owners call 392-4563 or come by the off ions to Council op tnfe Venice had to inform the Committee ice at 1727 W. Washington Blvd. Plan? simple-they take someone's about .inadequacies and ommiss- IMMEDIATELY! Venice PFP meets word for it. The Big Question ions. For example, Tony Ward, every Wednesday at the same add is : Whose word are they taking? local reactionary, explained ress. Obviously not the word of Venice that although the Plan calls for residents; the overwhelming maj widening Pacific to major high ority has opposed this plan loud way proportions, new structures and clear-and long (see past are still being built-"out to some can not afford bad health. BEACHHEADS.) yet the curbstone"- which will be if nixon refuses to help .then How about local supporters? quite costly to tear down. we must....if part of the - Realtors, Chamber of Commercites I'd say that even old Tony and community will not then and property owners interested his profit interested friends we must so it is up to in profits (but talking about know more about planning for Ven us. venice health council "progress".) Lately thev've ice than the Planners. I'd rath election..vote 16feb'70 at f been sounding unsure and disgrun- er take my chances'with the loc oakwood wesley house ted about delays, doctorings, al reactionaries on a one man- 617 broadvay at 7:30 pm and attempts at conning property- one vote basis in Venice, than votevotfevotevotevotevotevote less peons with (phojiey) pro- with the City's power structure ises of low-cost housing. They where nobody votes except tha might yet catch on that they're fat cat with the most dough. small potatoes in influence ped- So, when you figure out where dlino^irames downtown. The FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD the fat cats are at, you'll know Higher-up potatoes like Chief who has the Committee's, and the is published at 1727 W. Washing Planner Calvin Hamilton and ton Blvd., Venice, Calif. 9029L City Council's ear. Meanwhile, Yorty's Planning Commission pre some of us lean and hungry cats Telephone: 399-7681. Circulât sident John Pollen have consist are continuing to demand and ion this issue: 10, 000 copies. ently pushed this plan. The Com work towards a plan made' by_ and STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE: mittee couldn't be taking their for the community's present res Steve Clare, Rick Davidson, word: they're into conflict of idents^ To dp this we need your Judy Goldberg, Sam Greenberger, interest land deals in the Palm- help, not only at hearings but Flash Obelisk, Gene Oreck, dale area where the huge new air also in the community. Call Chris Shoemaker, Bea Starbird, port is planned. And yet Bernar Rick Davidson at 392-4563 if you Karen Thompson. di refused to allow testimony a- want to get involved. N KUffTI Of JME WS CL» ^^^ aw* âBmaUmêt by Bob Farlice paranoid ? / The Venice Boys' Club, after Is the community 'paranoid' On November 26, 1969/ I was one year of operation, is proud about the Master Plan? Council arrested and cited for a violat to announce openings in new man Braude says passing this pl ion of the State Vehicle Code. areas of activities and commun an won't make any difference. Ra Feeling that the charges were a ity participation. Under the ther than argue in a vacuum,lets bit out of order, and wishing to direction of Dave Mandell the look at street-widening, one ele protect driving privileges and club, up to this point, has been ment from the Plan scheduled to low insurance rates, I decided mainly a recreational facility, be adopted at the same time as to obtain justice by taking the but within the last month addi the Plan itself and implemented case to a jury of my peers. In tional staff has been added to immediately. the rear of the police unit at put into operation all of the First, Pacific Ave, will be the time of the citation was a equpment at our disposal. made into a major highway, which prisoner , a black brother, an We now have new programs in means knocking clown all those obviously important witness for arts and crafts, including cera multiple-unit structures built the defense, as, among other th mics, leatherwork and woodshop. close to the street. Widening Oc ings , the conversation between The arts and shop are under the ean Ave., which runs through the the- police officers in the car, direction of Romaine Harris, for Marina past the Canals,will wipe and what could or could "not be merly of Studio Watts Workshop, out lawns and bring heavy traff seen from that position, were and John Hunter. ic from the Marina. The old sha facts vital to /establishing We are now developing and ex de trees which line Rialto Ave. .guilt or innocence» At arraign panding new programs and desire will have to go when it becomes ment, representing myself, I Community participation from a secondary highway-not to get made, and was granted a motioi parents as from the kids, making people to the beach,as stated, of discovery-a court order regu-* the Boys' Club a functional but to get people to the Wind iring the Venice police to per^ community facility. ward Mall (the fantasy of a fev form the simple task of inspect We would also like anyone local businessmen, for which the ing ^heir daily log, and to fur who is interested in volunteer LA Planning Dept. spent 16 thous nish the name and address, or ing time or ideas to call the and tax dollars doing feasabil- whereabouts, of the unknown man club and takl to the staff about ity studies!). to the defense. The information his interests. As I stated These street-plans,(servicing needed was duly detailed and earlier, we are growing and need non-existent projectsjwould br sent to Capt. Sillings at the all the help we can get. ing heavy traffic and smog into Venice police station by certifi Hours of the club are from Venice and sharpen the existing ed mail oh Dec. 24, where the 3:00-5:30 and 6:30-8:00 Tuesday housing crisis, forcing rents up documents were received by a Mr. thru Friday . and Saturday from and pushing people out. We must E.C.Taylor, as Sillings' agent. 11:00-3:00. Enrollment is $1.00 continue our fight against the The information forthcoming from per year, and iaare lg^Sted at Master's Plan to destroy our com our protectors and servers to 210 Venice Way (acroW^from the munity. date?" Nothing. Anticipated compl Post Office)-; our phone is 392- iance with the court order, asid 6022. information forthcoming in time We are looking to increased -25*r for trial? Nothing, of course, participation and involvement of Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Sillings, as the Venice Community to further persons responsible for maintain solidify the future of Venice, ing the Money-Power structure in because our future lies in our Venice,jdan defy court orders as vouth. they see fit, with total im punity, thanks to their friends yj, High Places. MORAL: Might makes right. Papa.1 BC3 B7I/1CT6 & MA PO« W \ ROLL ON...... Rim ON m City Hall decided to invade on January 11, at aproximate- Venice on* Monday, January 19. :ly 9:30pm, police from the Ven Sam Yorty, erstwhile Mayor,and ice Division illegally entered his Anti-Narcotics Dope-Mobile the apartment of a Venice res were due to appear at the ident, illeoally searched that Pavilion in the early after apartment, and arrested the 11 noon. The Dope-Mobile arrived, persons present for possession Sammy never did. [of marijuana. The Dope-Mobile is a van The VDC-generated activity packed with 'information' on the ev • surrounding this bust had a not- ils 'of narcotics. Busloads of chil Iiceable effect upon the police, dren taken from school were brought Ito the Pavilion. Es- (while still in the prooess of corted by over a dozen uniformed and jplainciothes police. I illegally searching the apart- the children were presented the official City Hall line on Iment,.the police were interrupt- dope. By presenting spurious (Nurses claiming marijuana will pro led by .VDC members, notified of duce "addiction" and "withdrawal") propaganda to children pnd gull the best .by Venice residents. ible adults, the City is attempting to win a populace sympathetic Members remained to witness the to its "Narcotics Control" program. [bust, made certain ijci_£4HrCner ^sa^a» In preparation for the Dope-Mobile's appearance, the VDC police misconduct octSrured, then T*Jp wrote and distributed a leaflet, which on one side announ followed the police asSthey dro ced the event, and on the other side described the VDC's ve the victims to the station.' understanding of the problem of Narcotics Control. On Mon A demonstration was immediately day, at the Pavilion, VDC members discussed the problem oroanized by the VDC, and took with bystanders, gathered information, took photographs of |place in front of the Venice Sta- the police, logged badge numbers and names when available, Ition about an hour after the and again distributed the leaflet to the children, specta jbust. There was no let-up, and tors, and police. Leafleting also took place during the it visibly upset the cops. remainder of the Dope-Mobile's stay in Venice on Tuesday The continuity of activity, and Wednesday. The text of the VDC leaflet is as follows: l/and the speed with which a demon A NARCOTICS CONTROL - PROBLEM'OR•PRETEXT? stration occured threw the po lice off balance. The victims The people of Venice are constantly harassed, beaten, reported that the cops were lit- land arrested in" the name of narcotics control. This 'cru |erallv runnino into one another. sade' waged by- the LAPD against dope is obviously just a I The Desk Sot. ordered the doors ,tae.tio"äesighed to intimidate the people. locked, shotquns were broken out, Venice, the police-are charged with the task of re [ guards were placed 'on alert at moving the blacks, chicanos, and poor whites so that the redevelop all exits. In a final actöjDar- ment bulldozers can move in and carry out the dictates of the Mas anoia, the police spirited all ter Plan. Narcotics control is only a smokescreen used to justify the victims to Van Nuys, a move police oppression and disguise the real issue. totally unprecedented. The no- Community workers are not beaten or arrested because they use lice feared that the morninq dope, or even because the police feel that dope is evil, but be | would bring hundreds more demon- cause the activists stand in opposition to the designs of the rul rstrators in an attempt to free ing class. Poor people-black, brown, or white-are not beaten or !,the prisioners. ALL THIS BF- a.rrested because they use dope, but because they lack the resour I'CAUSE OF A DEMONSTRATION BY 50 ces to defend themselves againS't profiteers who would eliminate [PEOPLE !t them. The outcome of the case was We will not allow Sam Yorty to cloud the'issue. We willj I also affected hv VDC-community not allow the geaapppo tactics of the LAPD to be justified action. Of the 11 persons arres on the shaky grounds of narcotics controls The issues ted, onlv one still faces char- are economic, not moral or medical. There is NO JUSTI I eres. FICATION for the harassment of our community or the Power is never trained quickly beating of the people. Iwhen the opponent is. a well-org VENICE DEFENSE COMMIT. anized facist force. But power is never aained if the people do not organize themselves and str- All power comes from the people and never goes back to them. uqqle to take it. The conduct of the police was directly affected by the presence of community peo SuncLnj Monday Tuesinj Wct^sday IhursSay Tri the course of VENICE CAN«. SUIT HUMAN EVENTS by Marqe Buckley . by ARSAP As a result of Councilman Bra On February 16, "1970,Venice rallied to repel a threatened in The Venice Canals,_jaxrlected ude heeding the voice of the peo by the City for àO CONVENTION by Sandy Blixton The "spirit" of Free Venice prevailed at the John Haaq,. co-chairman of the PFP for Lt. Govern second Statewide Convention of the Peace and Free or, .Tack Hampton for Treasurer, Lew McCammon, 26th dom Party held Feb. 19(20 and 21 at Cal. State Conqre>*sional District, Jane Gordon, 28th Congre Long Beach, proving once and for all that Peace ssional District, Jill Lewis, 26th Senatorial and freedom is alive and wel^ in California. District (State Senate), Rick Davidson running for People from over forty areas in California as the 61st Assembly District. The candidates were well as Washington, DC and /New York comprised the among the 35 Venice PFPers who attended the con usual spectrum: from revolutionary socialists to vention. reform capitalists, Marxists, anarchists, pacif While reqistration since 1968 showed—an incrc'a ists /'"independent radicals of all kinds and lib -a» of 5.8% in LA County, it showed an increase of erals who were with us.because they share our pos 41* in Venice, clearly defining tho role Free Ven ition on the war. There were some new elements, ice has played in the past and ascertaining its reflecting chanqe in the-movement : ^libertarians role for the future. Venice people have been the who have broken from Younq Amcricansfbr Freedom, most active within the community.' We have demons members of the Cay Liberation Front, ecology ac strated at 'Sam's Place'(City Hall), rattling the tivists, and others relatively nev to radical pol C.itv Planning Commission; we have been and still itics. are fighting the Master Plan. We have been succ Several people announced their candidacies for essful in removing Cant. Sillings, Lt: Archbold, Statewide Offices at the convention, including and officers Manlove and Edwards frpm the Venice Robert Scheer, past editor of RAMPARTS magazine, Police neot., and OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY! We are on for U.S. Senate, and Marge Buckiey, Director of the Venice Health Council and into lots of other Venice N.L.S. for State Attorney General. Announ things. So; if you're sitting on the beach doing ced candidates for Governor included Ricardo Romo, nothing and want to do something, come over to the Chicano organizer for Union City, and C.T. Weber, vrp office, 1727 W. Washinqton Elvd.; We'll put PFP organizer from Lonq Beach. Other Venice can- vou to work. Meetings Wed's - 8:00nm. FREE VENICE icates for Statewide % Local offices include C letaevelopmerat VENICE & THE MASTER'S PLAN RICK DAVIDSON aaaaaeaaBaaaaaaa by Terri Volpin h meetinq is a meeting is a meeting a^id' by anv other name when The vision of the perenn: concerning the Venice communitv plan is a qame City Halllplays bulldoxer which urban renewal co with the lives Of Venice residents. Since we're not allowed to njures up for most people is les- plav their qame here's what it looks like from the side lines. s frequently correct. The govern ment -has finally found it more Feb. 3-2pm Planning Committee Hearirjg - LA Citv Hall: Old Marv expedient to play to demandé for (P.ràurte) oncned with a nonsensical statement about people who we 'citizen participation' & to att- ,_ re frinhteninq the elderly..some people, according to Marv, were empts at rehabilitation in place tellino the elderlv that rents were qoinq up,, the old buildings of bulldozer perpetrated removal- would be torn down, new and more expensive ones would be built relocation tactics. to replace them and that the", the elderly on fixed incomes, wou- The people with the bulldozer complex in the city of the anq- -Id be forced jto move.Marve said that to scare them old peonl- els band toqether under the name e vas a terrible thing,In the same breath he said that they,the of the Community Redevelopment elderly on fixed incomes, would just have to face reality: rent: Aoencvfof the Ctiy of Los Angel would he qoing UP, old buildings would have to make way for new es). The»' too have begun play- and more expensive ones and that they, the elderly on fixed in inq the rehab, qame. The Neigii- comes, would have to move. (He's a very confused man), Ixsrhood Development Proaram(NDP) tiernardi. Chairman of the Committee, said that he had visited ve is the vehicle bv which rehab, niee and esoeciallv nak'-rood an<7 couldn't understand all this tal- is attempted. Included in the pr k about that area. "It's a nice ghetto!" he said. ovisions of the NDP is citizen Then the political double talk began. Talk' aJ30ji£_£reévay locati participation on a relativelv in- ons, private development, street widening, industrial zonina,etc extensive scale. Another basic etc,etc. Their final act was to postpone the \farinrr. difference between NDP & conven Feb. 18-2pm Planninrr Committee Hearing - Citv-'flall: At this hear.- tional projects is the method of inq the Venice Planninq Document v;as read. It was obvious by Que funding. Under a conventional or- stions from diffewnt councilmen that it was the first time they oqram, a lonq time is allotted learned what was in it. (Including 01'Marv). for planning & the execution of vO'.-ell questioned the City Attorney» about cit" Charter require the plans also takes a lonq time. ments renardinq the Plan. Nothing could be found, The entire project is funded at nraude, after taking credit for removing the oil wells, repeated its inception. V'ith NDP, fundinq his nonsensical statement made Feb. 3. is on a-yearlv basis & subject The committee felt that there should not be an industrial zone to evaluation of accomplishments in Venice..in fact, existinq industrial areas should be phased of the preceding year. Initial nut. All this is based on the concept that it's a residential co nlanïiinq time is - substantialIv mmunity. I am sure that PRESENT RESIDENTS of Venice would not reduced s, continues throuqhout like to see our local industrial friends kicked out of Venice. th>älife s>T the project - which Venice's half-couneilwoman, Pat Russell, sent her house lacke is aTsoSfrnsiclerahlv shorter-all to the hcarinq to explain that she was only concerned with the owing much more flexibility. commercial interests along Washington Street wrjsi of Linclon. what does all this mean for THAT'S ALL. Thanks alot Mrs. Russeli. (You, too, Curfis). Venice? r-irst of all, when the once aaain the hearinq was postponed until March 4. "aster Plan is approved S beoins Meanwhile hack on the beachhead the community fights on. There its march to the sea, there will is a move to get renters together to fight being forced out of bo extensive dislocation of res- their community. If voj» are a renter or home owner and feel that idetns-as we are all acutely aw vou have a right to a place in the sun and that you have a right are. Under these circumstances. to sav how vour communitv is run then write the BEACHHEAD. We the-CRA is supposed to be invol need vour help. BOWER IS WITH THE PEOPLE IF THEY BUT REALIZE IT. ved, dispensing assistance in fi- 'ndinq a new residence as well as I35S Westwood Blvd. monetarv compensation. However, CJDÄ'.ß «unions oc»nto6p7n'*l-»J ^J,'**a**** ,„ \ after-the-fact help is not what Yrîppy cloth« +V $**#* \ straights l the "enice communitv is aLl ab t ^^^&kJ4***»*± day. out; it seems to me we are quitc^ phone 392-.lino 12n-10nm gg| interested in remaining hero, al- thourrh T'm sure no one would ob Ituman runïîB sane and seem to want to under- ject to hetter facilities & bet cont. frm. pg. 1 stand the communitv. It's a long ter 'environmental conditions', ious of the dangers of auto poll- wait, bring a book, or talk to e.g., clean canals, properly mai ution, did their bit to keep the the friends you're likel" to see ntained: better trash collection; tWjW an OceTÄo Front Walk bv sett- and make there. Thev handle oth- better schools...it has been hin inq un impToinptu barricades ace- er problems besides VD and drugs ted that under an expanded fJDP ross the /!alk to discouraqe the Unfortunately the youth clinic project this could occur. I wou incursions of autos on one of imaqe keens awav older people an ld like to leave you with some the USA's last pedestrian refuge- d minority groups. It gets crowd verv direct comments from a fair- s. Unfortunately our police not- ed but more room is being added, ,lv important department head wti- ed .for their sensitivity took Free Clinic hours are from 6-10. hin the aoenc", made specifical this as an act of wild-eyed Anar Location 905 Venice Blvd. near ly in connection with Venice. He chists to prevent them from go Lincoln. pointed out that CPA did not wis- ing about their lawful business. Pretty Patty Russell stated h to take a 'leadership role' in Why, nothing could have been fur at a meetinq held at the Venice the "enice, communitv. In other ther from their thoughts! Service Center that she "really words, CRA would not_ try to in The Venice Free Clinic is a likes being in City Hall." itiate a project in Venice on groove for old and vouncr alike. other quoutes- "Ï really enj the pretext o.f removing bj-ight & Thouoh the County has a youth or ov being a woman..." and "Venice oroanize the communitv along li iented nroqram, it's a qas forr is an exot'ic district." nen it felt to be acceptable: ra the over 25 set. You are asekeda She was thrilled that people ther, reconnizina that there is minimum of questions, vou don't come to the realization that,"., Existing oraanization in "enice, have to qive vour riant name as C?.^vould be willing to, on the women are human heings,too..this rennest o* the community, provi lono as vou q"i-ve the same one ea- is an exciting development, de assistance that would presum ch time vou visit-no embarrasinq Gee, Patty,that"s qreat,thank ably he directed, controlled,and v. 'means' questions are asked, Ev- you for your thoughtful answers at least partiallv executed by crvthing is confidential. It's on the hurninn issues in Venice, communit» people. Another co'mmen- located .one block awav from the Your intelligence is matched on- t made at the sane, time back police station, but the staff is ly by Braude's courage. UP the previous one bv stating that oronertv ovners were not EARL NEWMAN the most, important consideration; IP*so* ca*ctxTs,pixxMAMS & SPECIAL CVEMTS rather, residents are of primary Muten importance, mhese are corcerfts with which <-e can all agree. Tt 74 9~é 9mmf*m /«Vcy might be worthwhile to consider Tatar» Two Si* SOUTH Bivilh.v OMVK action 'in the direction -which • rva>ni_r HiLAM. CAOPOttNlA B02<2 would oblige CRA to produce ace- -• Tati.«»!Ka»iat CRian-ic» 4-807I TCLCPMONl aaS-lSSS ordine to-these standprds. 178S- WAaODHOTON BLVD. PO DR. BRESLOW.UCLA »ROM PEGGY SIMON.VHC ^k NATIONAL. nXtbtft ASBOClATIt»! A. r. em-fioh cunt, from page 1 J r* BRANCH * tu IMBAKLADFRO DIS. NOBBW» COÛTA. CALtro! en and provided much together } I would like to communicate rSTAFF FOR THIS ISSUE: ness for the 60 or more people my ideas reqardihq health for Carol Berman,Steve Clare,Judy Gold from the black, brown, and white the Venice community. berg,Sam Greenberger,Lloydine Grl* communities who met. In the ab 1. Venice has no emergency facil ego,Anna Haag,Jill Lewis,Bill Mc- sence of Stan and his guard, bra itv. The Health Council has al- Comsey.F.Obelisk,Pierre,Rick,Rita, verv must have forsaken the val wavs considered that anv Dropos Chris Shoemaker,Teri Voipin,Sergei ient Marina. Another victory for al should include plans for such the People! a clinic. T intend to suggest PEACE & FREEDOM The Board is composed of 21 that the present county facility persons who are selected: 7 rep- in Venice be exnanded and given PARTY I rescntinq the business, profess additional personnel so that it \ ional, and propertied interests might be utilized entirelv for 7 representinq Community organ an emergency facility. Help us stay on 8:30 pm isations (includinq schools, ag- 2. We need an ambulance which the ballot. Hear iencies), and 7 from the commun will serve the communitv at no the candidates, MARCH 17 ity itself. In the first cateoor cost. \ and sign their y members elected were: Marie - 3. Could the university .begin to filing petitions. 8162 MELROSE Br/nc'v,PHD,UCLA School of Nurs train para-medical people from ing,' vivan Brown,PHD,psycholog the communi tv to take care of CAVAI, SUIT ist, Benjamin "nirh -r»TTnic;",ick the sick at home, to dispense nu continued from oaae one Davidson,»rchi teat ; Jim Freed,DDS tritional information, to aid ex UCLA Dental Schoop;Carl Strauss, pectant mothers. Can babies, in The gross inequities of this ".n. ,UCLA:Stanlev whitman,MD.nri-' many cases, be delivered at home' procedure, which demonstrated vate practitioner,and'Don Wrioht Fnqiand, Sewden and Denmark, as the Council's preference f_or ec educator. vou know, use this system. Isn't onomics over humanity, led to a lawsuit on behalf of those who In the second cateqorv: Carol this more feasible than trying Berman,Free Venice organizing Co- to accomodate more people than opposed the project but had no land to buy a voice. The suit, mmitteerMarqe Buck lev,LA Neighb we can ever hope to hospitalize? orhood Leqal Services ("enice); 4. Can we emphasize preventive filed by the Western Center on r .Law and Poverty, charged that' Bob arlice,Bo"s Club;Bill Kenn medicine rather than usina monev edy,Venice Skill Center :''1ark Mav- to keep the diseased and dving the City illegally limited the right of people to participate eda,VCTU:Morrie "osen,Tsrael Lev alive in tranic states of nai.n in Ccnter:and Dave Scheffier,"en- and miserv-usinq one dangerous' in the decision-making which af fects their lives. It also ac ire Defense Committee ("DO , Rep- druq after another to accomplish resentinn the community were Lyn this?« f- cused the City of using the dis guise of a 1911 Improvement Act BuschrBob Castile :Chino Melqosa; .- 5. We rteed*L^collective farm wh job to mask a full-scale "Redeve Sari Seelands ;Jeannie^.Pnrker ; Peg ich would supply a store operat lopment Project" (without comply a" ""imon and Bea StnrbiVd. ed bv the Poor, with as littc£e a ing with the stringent state law The meotinn was brief. Dr. St profit marqin as possible. We ne requirements that go with such a rause crave a short report on the ed to train some of the unemploy project.) current activities. Marge Buckl ed vouth in the area in farminq ey spoke on a recent meetinq be- methods, so that they may return The suit is called Appell y. City of Los Angeles. t"een various orqanizations wh to the city and help their neigh- ich are interested in fundinq bors olant their own 'kitchen' The Boxscore so far reads - People - 3,- City of Los Angeles foi iiossi-Pie meaical proqrams qardéns. Vacant lots could be le for the 'West Area'. Included we ased and utilized for qrowing fo - Zero. The p. City demurred (argued) re representatives of the LA Cou ods. nty Public Health Department, Such a farm will have these that .*.j invasion of the 'Plain tiff's rights had occurred) - OV UCLA,etc. The meetinn reinforced advantages: the arowinq feelina that the Cou 1. People's health will improve ERRULED. J(f& City appealed the lower ncil should stop fooling itself when they are supplied with free about ioint projects with anv of sh fruits and vegetables. Court ruling to the State Court of Appeals - PETITION DENIED. these organizations. Tt is onlv 2. Young adults will be employed beina used to orovide the 'commm on the farm, trucking, learning The City asked the California Supreme Court for a hearing - unity support' so necessary to agricultural methods, runninq any federally funded proposal's and operatinq thé store. PETITION DENIED. The effect of all this legal acceptance. Now is the time to 3. Yoimrr people will beqin to qet on with business & dust off think of alternative styles of jousting is thisj^- if the Plain tiffs can prove "Çheir charges the Council's proposal for sub livino. Existing in a crowded mission. Then,Rick Davidson gave city area may not be annealing (that they asked to speak before the Council and were denied) the a brief report on the newest pro to the people who have grown th ject he S Peqqy Simon are suqges- eir own foods. Court will hold the project's ap proval invalid and kill it. ting for Council Action \ EDITORIAL Thomas H. Thurlow, last Mayor of Venice, diet! on 'larch 7th Et /L:_.-'... . > of 93. iie fought ;allsi,t but losing battle against the annexation of Venice to Los Angeles in Octooer, I/'25.^^5»*. conrritte.' Suicide. That's what we called it, and that's What it was." In :n .,..'-.. Times MrtSTvTew ;. (t, said, "-. local government is more responsive, especially to small details than a Sown town City .."Within the next 10 tc 20 years, the entire Ocean Front will be a string of moäafr. a. art-.e-i.t build ings." The 3eachi;ead Staff urges a return to the 'good old days' of self-goverroxnt -;:' corrunity con trol. Here's to the memory of Mayor Thurlow and the future that holes ? RESPONSE TO MISS AWICA What can I say to cancel out the furies' stary faces stained to the outside window pane: some silver words to shut up in a quaint jeweled case against the full feared moon? leavinq on the sand iyr parables to scribe on parchment ' sanr'crahs a shell and to bind and chain within the temple walls? shadows of itself You must have known the homes of cods takincr out with it are wilderness. The oods to the sea are hollow eyed and silent the round-most stones drearino worlds whose saints break out and the many orains more of heaven, utter nonsense such as: pain of resistino is joy, resort to eesefts where they see .oarth it out, way out founds to mortal lauohter. r>t just under a star ^^i" The holy ones hold off the crov.ls with oracles I can see to understand the oift you have shadows in the trees to have the gift - iust darkening and swino in the corners with secret smiles where we .-.re (^h THE COURSE OF POLE OP THE CITY TPFES HUMAN EVENTS IN TUT r r-.- r-EVOLITION Wêf • "'. "- =>chhca.' : -.. ' -l : îs -i.ig »•a; - howling success. '. -': 325.ee ar.! sveryen« rjot *r- Paï«-n i t, -r. .. it's not enouqh Thenk you ""wyr. for the house. once a --'ear to curse sol or*r.lv anH rush Thank you 3.J. for the Pirr-:.. a Few twins th-rouch concrete; ' Srazie Anna for organizing \-. rh.-.r.1-: you Pc-tv 1c- for ler£3 t:.;.g and thank you Feo. le îor co: Lng. y should heat the streets '..etch, fer the r.ext Leaflet an- nsuncing another Seachhc-.' Pr.rty. cookies for orown-iuT.. Page's coffer- Cu , z hew C Kalaches, fruit-^i1 led holes, h-3D opened or.. Brooks jr>~ ûc: :. ore for each of our 5rther*ian Front '--'A. It is ; real's- over by r~--c, to dispenses /good v h-. •*• - all, with .excellent Coff •-, and is as trsevve been t-ivon now akirtr a. :tizir.g 'as his succul r.t, 'r'urable v.*hi te^^^^^^^^^^^^ r/€aty hamburgers, lie j.lar..s to Thev should (*a^^^^^^^^^^^m ^i1 : One •" ':. Sood I :. • ., Kight; : I ; :- . - -. --you : Anyone who haïs i 'large: nousVw that can be us« ' for Çeacrih. - •* :eh m to thei. ?^rtic= on w« era , call ."'• -- 763] and leavi - : : -' , ir: CI* ••.:'. • ar- ties and a c:"_..h.-^- rftv.FV9- "'• • Saturday . March 28 11:30 am, two members of BEACHHEAD staff out driving by the Police station noticed a uniformed officer pa trolling the arounds armed rfith now a rifle. , rr.r.t. on- pacre 4 • s IMPORTANT things If voujre really hung UP and can satisfy'the mystery requirements, The on the with their and Welfare is. good for a rent chit tïïëre way out of free* the for S70. with ^Chris, a $10 clean in the who to and to ing deposit(non-refundable), and a S2 kev fee vou can get a room, a in !'i his now a one bath, kitchen, when available at wav nut f fror the on the but the white house on the corner of tr-r kind of in thai he Brooks and Pacific. the wav of hi» and his You can also pet a S7 food or about some in/a when and this der...and $2 cash for carfare. Hnless you have vour own food th- you know his ilnoie eve lit up inq going - brown rice forever, oraanic only, or ripnle on the rocks-tuna fish and cottage che and shot up our happy home ese will satisfy vour protein re-\ in Venice Tennessee nuirements.You'11 need a can op- > ener and sooons. ' When things get a little bet I thouoht I would build ter, the magic mailbox, work?,or a little Venice here pregnant and on APDC, meals for with all the kids and dogs millions on Olvmnic Blvd. sell running down the beach 4 lb. cans of a protein food sup repeat a 3 way name of catch plement for $2.50 or a 24oz. can from one window to another dov-r, for 95 cents. Three ounces of to the little airl on the around this three times a day will give who hi«' the ball while the POLICE car passer vou three times you vitamin-ne eds and all vour protein."ix it I wanted to take poetry awav with ice cream or coffee, repla 'rom all those too tender emotions ce about a third of vour flour and delic.it-e plav with it when you bake and you've that kill the truth a manic formula for health. *r.r. ruck the nuts from life Just across from Westminster school there's'/) little thrift .lust tc he an honest trouhsdor shop next door to where the Soul reeordino nil that passes throürrh r* what I hear and know and sçe Spot used toS~ljo_:_^Th»Tv.qive away bottles of vitaminSFwith ouarter buvs. Every Friday new clothes from T'r sr tired of the CIA V, Sears come to the Sunliaht miss -or tired tired tired tonichyut ion on "ain and about 4th, and =o tired of the CIA sell verv, verv cheap. You children just be quiyut And that's all T'"1 goinq to tell vou. I ar so fuckinq tired of the CI/* , hove and qood luck in every Relieheeve he huh huh hoo ooooo thinq vo'u do for oood, Throuoh with the C T A sesame uhuh /?&/ J2&ssCé* ISLE OF DOGS BY JANE GORDON The Free Venice Organizing Committee today expressed their support and solidarity with the residents of London's "Isle of Dogs" community in a telegram. The London community's residents have barricaded the lone entrance to their peninsula and flattened the tires of London buses in order to prevent London's tax- collectors from taking money out of their community. "Venice- residents' are in a very similar situation," said Jane Gordon, FVOC member who init iated the idea of sending the telegram. "We are trying to .se parate the Venice community from the city of Los Angeles because we feel that the L.A. power struc ture is not responsive to the needs and desires of Venice resi dents, and yet they have complete control over Venice schools, parks, police, planning and rede velopment. We have absolutely no say in running our own community, and yet we must pay taxes to the city to perpetuate this situation" The Pree Venice Organizing Committee asserts that Venice residents would be capable of governing themselves both politi cally and economically but that cont. on oaoe 4 . N •V&-Z 2mc^m^s^ «A. anJouSc/Vifie* > A Free School sis starting .in Venice for kids three to six years SUPPORT BEACHHEAD PftTRONS old. In a "Free" or "Suitmerhill" school, the "teachers" are out t* discover and help meet the needs of the students. The kids will be free from adults' acting 'out their hang-ups on kids. How about your Josephs Records LTD babysitter? Is there any love there? In this so-called civilization, 2205 Lincoln Blvd.d blk K. of all but very few adults are daily acting out hang-ups on kids. The^ Venice Blvd.) Venice 821-1255 Venice Free school will stand for love and equal rights Tor kids, tool OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK It is a cooperative effort by local people who want ten groovy kids to work with, _and who are willing to work for less than your present M-F 12 to ^ nursery school," less even than your babysitter. They are looking for Sat,' 10 to 9 kids whose parents cannot afford expensive private nursery' schools Sun. 12 to 5 and cannot find a babysitter who loves children, or else are uneasy about the way their present nursery teacher gets uptight with the kid. The Venice school will offer the kids means of continual expression and growth: daily verbal discussion and joint staff-and-student-body meetings, field trips at least twice a week, to destinations chosen at the meeting, gardening and growing their own for hot organic lunches, ALL Folk, Blues, Rock experimenting with various plastic and paint media, working out hosti Pop, Soul, Jazz /except lities non-violently. And these people really do love children: Give imports, 45's, specially your kid a break. Contact Gwyndolln at 111 Wavecrest Avenue for more priced albums) information. 4.98 list (reg. 2.99) now 2.59 <; 5.98 list (reg. 3.99) now 3.59 sTrc* concrxrs^naifUMS et SPECIAL twtrs £<^.4tuU' ^roaDi?-it ior ?4^ rhe -er-herr- . Sfc Two Two •••> tovT. TaEi-Kf-HOraK CRnTviiar *-60Tf the minority, would K "•usole cell«. Hatch out f~r air-less twitrhin. Wouldn't it be sr-vtuir.^ ; ( -l-<> hintan race wei f i an a ^^ overcome hv euch unbearaïle tnrf uncontrollable love or each other that thev iust had te have areat orrries f love for years and years on enr that not written ur in he history hooka as "The I ovo of \Q7b" and : and "World Love II battf etc.,or "The Peace of 1*>R7 to 2013*, or how ai ut "The Civil T Love between the Ptatcs"? f this seor-s sill' to us, it means . 1 we've been conditioned to accept and understa death better 1555 Waatwood Bird. than life. BOOB to from art ra.../.. 10 to 10 «y "» "m"l7U-£.L day* Venice PFP Reports i DEL MOIVTE Veniee; iART BRONZE Calif! The Peace a Freedom Party is pretty well known for initiating law. : suits. The latest .one, a law suit which involves abolition of filing; Artistic Casting in LOST WAX: fees now required of candidates running for public office, was intri ; Our Specialty 399-3509: duced in Federal Court in February. The suit challenged the consti tionality of the filing fee on the grounds that it is like a poll HOSICI ANS * "Ou 1 tar* Ea ss »Drup-s * and that it prevents poor people from running for office. The sui Hard Rock/Hlues bump full- also claims that the political effectiveness of the Pea.ce & Freedom time effort if din new concpt Party and its right to'free expression is hindered by the fee. ouasi-polit, crrp. Contact The suit went before the Federal Court to secure a temporary re Dave 392-2077 /S92-2077 yessii straining order to enable candidates to get their nominating'papers without paying the fee, but it was not granted. A three-judge court ' turned us down as well, but Peace $ Freedom did not give up and took. the case to the U.S. Supreme Court which which, while turning down the request for the temporary restraining order, agreed to hear the suit in the future. March 20 was the deadline for candidates to file for office; all candidates who attempted to complete the requirements for filing made it. Their papers were accepted.at the Registrfar's office, thanks to- thé nominating parties which were held in Venice and at the Ashgrove . enabling candidates to get the necessary signatures for their peti tions. • , Some of the people running for office who live in Venice are Marge _ Buckley, Attorney Genefal; John Haag, Lieutenant Cove *to?S Trf.NC- ' #d S^th Congressional District; Lew McCammori, 26th Congre JiTïNl^ewis, 26th Senatorial District; SharJ. Neelands, 59th Assembly IBwtiUu it trict;^and Bob Niemann, 60th Assembly District. ^~-~ Ver»:« The candidates for state-wide office are Richard Romo, Berkeley, and •iarren Neilson', San Diego for Governor; Bob Scheer, Berkeley, for U.S. *rt-iU-e->a,i-r^ Senate; Israel Feuer, West Los Angeles for Secretary of State; and Jack Hampton, Santa «onica, for Treasurer. The Beachhead staff endorses these Candidates and urges people in cA'autical • Tor most people at the meet- 5. Community people were ask inc this was.a naive question. ed to serve in an advisory capac BRAUDE (?) Preeways are bad and they will ity after the building was near BY CAROL FONDILLER work aqainst them with anyone. completion and plans already for Councilman Marvin Braude stay Venetians will sinn and circu mulated. ~V . . ted that he opposed a freeway late petitions again. Hope 6. No Santa Monica or West' throuoh Venice "because it would snrinns eternal and all that. L.A. community people have atten destroy the diversity of the com Politics do make stranoe bed ded the Health Planning group munitv and ruin the beach,' at a fellows. We just want to know meetings. meeting on March 24. He nrqed Marvin's position and where his As president of the Venice people to sinn and circulate his ...ah,...head's at. Health Council, a community gro anti-freeway, petitions and write up, I would like to request a elected officials to oppose the Letter to: public hearing regarding the Sa- freewav. Los Angeles County Board of Sup ta Monica-West Los, Angeles Heal Maybe he oot the idea from ervisors th Planning Groups' responsiven the FJree Venice Organizing Com Gentlemen: ess to community needs. Because mittee who presented him with pe During the past month, the it is always difficult for poor titions containino 1 ,200 sionat- Venice Health Council has had re People to stay home from work ures that he said are stapled to presentatives at the meetings of and travel long distances with a file..:somewhere. Braude is the Santa Monica - West L.A. out private transportation, we still in favor of turning Pacif Health Planning Group. We have • are asking that the meeting or ic Ave into a mini-freeway. He made it clear that we feel that hearing . be held at the Venice seems unaware of the effect of the planned health facility at State Service Senter. the Marster Plan on the Canal and 25th and Pico will not 3erve the Sincerely yours, Oakwood residents. needs _&j>"ghe Venice Community, (Mrs.)Peggy B. Simon, Pres. VHC "Any plan is better than no (She community in this area with plan at all," he stated. He did theSgreatest health needs). The not favor a community inspired reasons follow: plan, however. People asked if 1. The facility is located 3 the freewav—were defeated by the miles from the largest poverty labor of present Venice resi pocket in the West community and dents, would they be deprived of is a few blocks away from two ho the fruits of their labor by mak- spital's and some 35 doctors.- JF AÄIS & GRATIS °l| ino Venice too valuable for the 2. Venice has 6 doctors for likes of them? Braude maintain 65,000 people. ed a discreet silence. 3. Only medi-cal patients will be accepted and we are most •*- W A1 Si **• concerned about the yeople who Girery Saturday <£ Sunday SOFTLr YELLING are not on medi-cal and emergen •&+•& Noon'til Dark! -ix*-fr cy cases. We talk softly 4. Only '^re-enrolled' medi THE PHENIX even when we yell. cal patients will be accented , 4044 Lincoln 'Blvd. Venice They know we are still lß\=£l ft BLOCK SOUTH OF WASHINGTON with them, , radicals. to disrupt; to destroy; too full to 'ieht to die to the last. too full of them are we (quiet liberals) u&u Tea, tharv know us too wel 1- - 2 REVOLUTIONARY PUPS better that we ourselves MALCOLM - black male as we go softly vellinc: CHE - brown female ip the revolution! 3-month-old shepards - ~ off the nia! , REWARD '__ iwearing flea collars) I right on Ht'EY! CALL: MAR(lE-392-4177; 396-6876 riaht on HiFi r-, is dead - ren>ember?) is dead - reperber?) rinht on revolution ! oftlv veils the estaM i sl-.r" ^«P eat/a/tyA/ writer and thesoien) and Spolin (she's into thea tre games), to bring people together, realize The radical change in social ideas and what themselves, others and everything around them. ever is causing a similar change in the arts, Everything we do is either created in workshop un therefore it is as difficult to describe the rev der the direction of Allan Mann or written by a olution in the theatre as it is to describe the member of the troup. revolution in the streets. It's a heavy trip, try The troup has been together for a year. It ing to assimilate new and abstract ideas into started in a storefront in New York's Lower East your physical and real life patterns. Even if you Side, had a theatre in upstate New York (where we believe emphatically in the ideas it's still dif did some straight plays, like The Balcony and our ficult to make a reality out of something that own version of "Alice Tripping in Wonderland"). has never been real before. Similarly the new We have played in hotels in the Çatskills, at the theatre is trying tagtet a new reality take its Woodstock Festival in, Whitelake, and at the Open place here. The outcome is an emotional theatre Theatre in New York City. The troup made it to rather than an intellectual one. An emotional re- Hollywood in October, where we performed at an sponce to the performance leading, hopefully, to after hours place. The Climax, as well as our own ^an intelligent reaction to the responce is what theatre. We've performed and will be performing ' Earthlight tries to get at.. The. pieces that'-we in various colleges in the country. do are abstractions of real situations leaving Now we're building a permanent home in Venice people feeling or possibly not leaving at all, at 1621 West Washington Blvd. If you're into help haying them join us and addirtg^their trip to ours ing build a theatre, restaurant, castle, or if and ours to theirs. you're into theatre, music or anything>come. We However Earthlight is a theatre rather than a perform on Fri. and Sat. at 8:30 pm and have open political theatrical organization like many of workshops on Sat. at U00 pm. There is also going "theatres of the revolution" are. We are not pri to be a Hatha Yoga class, given by one of the tea marily political, we are primarily a theatre. ' We chers from the Integral Yoga institute,every Thur use theatrical concepts, such as- Grotowsky (pol night at 7:30 pm. ) ish Theatre Laboratory). Antonin Artaud (French PEACE RALiy FOR BOBßy WftV LA 16 •BHij^HBBa««VH|BBataBBiaaaaaaaBaBBBBl EMBASSY AUDITORIUM 847 SOUTH GRAND STREET SAT. JUNE 13 at 8 pm ] N PTJKH THE LITTLE MARGE BUCKLEY by PUBLIUS PEACE i, Once upon a time, in a Dukedon called plotzville-By-The-Sea, FREEDOM 'which is à political approximation, there lived a people and sort of royalty as well. but mostly they were royalty, because loaders CANDIDATE chos? -the leaders, with lots of murubo jive and jumbo, shuck and FOR hype, plus sprinkling of the bread, and anybody who had a mind to ATTORNEY could be a part of this ceremony, which carue .to be known as the "11- ectoral Process". i- GENERAL Now, in this time that we are speaking of, there came to be suf fered a whole series öf misfortunes, catastrophes and calamities. So that all of the usual leadership,•in the ordered, natural, yes, and normal too, line of succession and-/or chain of command, were "co'ninunity control done in, in some shape or fashion» which means iis not relevant, at the bottom of the barrel, they hustled up a young farm-boy, and Pof community affairs" made him regent-of-the-realm, and sent him out i for fun and games till they called him for the coronation. In the mean time, the realm was to be ruled by the new Duke's ad visors, in his name, who always consulted him first, before doing EARL NEWMAN anything, and in the.manner prescribed by royal protocol. For this procedure, the Duke was provided with an ink pad, and the royal rub- Der stamp. Thys, when a matter of import was to te decided, it would be outlined in a memo, and submitted to the Duke, who natur ally, because he was of such a low class of royalty, was never tau ght to read. So the matter was explained to him. The Duke would then properly deliberate, and make his decision known by affixing to.said memo, the royal rubber stamp. Of course, if the Duke was in TCLtpMOHL aaa.xaaB the royal bed, or at the royal games, or in the royal call, the royal i7aar WABHIHOTON BLVD. rubber stamp could be affixed by the royal cook. The memo would then be forwarded to the royal advisors, for action that was called JfatuHJ^ bjOthe^nL* for by »diet of the Duke-. par cancJeprs^iKBJUMs & SPECIAL tue/m So it went along until close to coronation time, the royal advis ors making lots of acquisitions, also lots of wars, in the natf-> of the Duke, and the Duke playing their games, and then one day they came to him with a new game, which they called, "Put-Off-the-Coron- S if WHI Tlaa Two Two Biit Sotn-H •BVB**.V Oawvi atiön". The rules of this game were, as usual, presented to the • \ I ••VER1.V wii-LO. CJU.iPO»»N \ puke, with an explanation. The "Little Duke" was to be not only \| •«•»••» Dtvke (^f/p\otzville, but also East Plotzville, West Plotzville, and ^ T*L«»i*am Cnwrvifw 4-SOTI McArthur Park. Since this would take some time, the coronation A^^JtomJLieSUùei, -icefimuik would have to be postponed. But the Duke was ge-tting tired of these games by now, and had been teaching himself to read, and getting some ideas of his own a- bout decisions that were being made in his name. And one day, when ••frïppY clothe, f»r pajfi T rtraigfct» he was messing around down at the beach, wearing a false mustache, rea laoBB AVB.. VEPMCB. CPUPOMNIA aoaar ^afiaOl someone handed him a free newspaper, in which he read the following: J99-0132 J^2n-10om Knowledge is Power! Power to the People! to j>e continued Weatwood Bird. BOOB-to 6 pm ShS\Um HUMAN EVENTS cont. Their requests have" been grac £* «VaaiM 10 to 10 ment and Redevelopment, Bay Area ias ly grantee. Organizing tcw- tey* Latin Americans, Venice State aids a tenant? association con tinues . »""T". fil nrlSâ Service Center, and the People ANOTHER CHE IS MISSING, : Venice. The Los Angeles' County • More than 100 women from Sout :a grey-brown german shtjpherd pup" Recreation Department also sul hern California met in a Confer "female with black face.lost in- mitted a proposal for Venice. ence to Unite V'om.en the weekend the vicinity of Westminster sen.; Requests for Venice add up to o- of May 16 at Trade Technical Col ver $150,000. Funds available ..reward reward reward reward: lege in rlowirbown Los Vvjeles. 392-4177 , 396-6076 according to EYOA are $62,000. Women came to the conference Who will suffer this summer? from San "liego, from Orange Coun- • Recently, 75 families living .ty, and frjboi at least a dozen wo in the Lincoln Place Apts. on men 's liocrWtion groups in Los Penmar 'Ave. recieved notices to Angeles County. There was a wide fiasco move. The notices flatly stated range in age and political per that "these buildings are to be suasions. a very heavy resturant converted to adults only". The The conference began with a lunch raonday - friday tenants crimes then, were two get acauainter" meetinq, followed by the film, "Salt of the Parth,' dinner everyday fold. 1. They had children. 2. 4481 ADMIRALTY WAY They were not rich. Incensed, and then broke up into action or MARINA DEL REY. the tenants held a meeting at iented workshons. The workshops the Venice Library to organise were set up to isolate-problems, some resistance to management's and then forr>- groups committer action. Approximately 100 peop to working on solution?. G?utdl£&-ùlMàCte-£uf>plicZ-i' le attended, including a^manage One concrete result of the ment fink who took darwn every weekend conference was the form cSatua. (jticutiuE. CfOulU. ùcoit^ thing that was saicy. It was ation of action groups in the v lill W«4rll»4«,TOM ftO-Q. learned that a total of 150 fam areas of chilci care, women again ' &V>. — H3S6 ilies on Penmar had children and st the Southeast Asia war, and ä ,«6uld expect to get notices soon. women in education. Women inter A committee to carry on the' pro- ested in worTc*ng with any of the * COOPERATIVE te .t v5s formed. se groups—and in getting in tou The ' next day the committee ch with the women's movement in fn) nursery school^ met with the manager of the apts. Los Angeles—can contact the Wom CALL 397-6077 or 397-4327 who, very deyisively stated that en's Center, 1027 South Crenshaw; not everyone was recuired to Phone; 937-3964. paperback move and that all cases would be • A tenants' union is being for ...I: treated separately (contrary to med and attorneys are backina it. papa:-artier*» what was stated in the notice). .Meetings are everv Saturday at * If * t jmwêgm Our friend,* the manager was also ' 11:00 am at :iAPP,~1101 Washing very aggrieved that no ons had ton Blvd. Bring your bodies and spoken to him before going to your ideas; numbers are .critical. laaaal. the meeting. The more people .there, the more SSUA Currently, no more notices- chances of success. A union can STAFF FOR TliTS ISSUES have been recieved -by the ten succeed, and housing conditions Steve Clare, Judy Goldberg, ants and some havaj asked manage can be changed if people stop Pick Davidson, Far Creen- ment to be allowed to stav. complaining and start acting. bercrer tab for the construction of this trolled by local residents, both CANALS ÊATTLE ON private yaught harbor. property owners and renters. Un __ by Steve Clare We'll all have the opportun der this law any blighted -area ity to protest this now sceme can be mad> ^ renewal area by pe The Venice Spring Offensive since the city must hold MORF tition of, 20% of its residents (has bean launched; the battle PUBLIC HEARINGS; (By the way, and approval of the local legis for the canals is raging again. don't expect any of that promis lative body. Such a petition is You will' recall that the Canal ed opposition from Councilwoman now being circulated in the can Assessment District, a get rich Russell. She now supports the als and will be presented to the quick sceme concocted by absen project with.the condition that City Council at the next public tee landlords and downtown poli hearing on the canal project. ticians, was passed by the Los canal residents will be relocat Angeles City Council last May ed - something the city is re Who do our city fathers rep and let out for bids in June. quired by federal law to do any resent? Which plan will our ci THERE WERE NO BIDS and the pro way.) ty fathers approve? They have a ject came to a grinding halt. If_the project is to be stop clear choice - people or profit. Several factors were responsible ped! again we'll have to do it Any bets? for this temporary reprieve, not ourselves. Our city fathers have If you have not yet signed the least of which was the near stated that the qnly alternative the petition, or wish to holt, onanamous and vociferous opposi to this project is to fill in circulate same, call Charleen tion expressed by Venic* resid the "canals, but we will present Thygeson at 399-5327 (after 6 pm) ents. Another was the difficul a second alternative - a modest or Lea Culberg at 399-0608 (days) ty expected in selling the bonds redevelopment project controlled which were to pay for the con by a board elected by canal resi struction. This problem the ci dents and paid for with federal ty hopes to solve by reconstitut and state monies. The state leg* ing the project under a differ islature has recently passed a ent municipal ordinance (the 19- new law which provides for small 15 Assessment Act). This law |scale redevelopment projects con- guarantees the contractor his bread by obligating the city to pay any and all assessments MASTER'S PLAN opnt. which property owners within the' district may default on, i.e. be heard. There'll be a mobili the taxpayers of Los Angeles zation. Hope to see a full house. might be forced to pick up_the_ But FREE VENICE feels that it is not enough to just fight City Mall. We must build toward a bet— Iter conmunity. We have several project« in process: a commun ity canal nssosnment [.Ian, see [article this issue; a Venice Ten- rant' s Council/" for, information, call Steve CI-ire at\^3')2-4 177 ; and a construction project as *>USlc< the liver, kidney ailments, or follows - we are getting togeth— infectious hepatitis. Nope, just er Vrwice r^i-^en-tn with con thorazine,(no kick pad) a coun struction skills to assist in selor, and a JOB AGENT (!?r* . '•-ringing up to coHe sub-stan-'ar ! J 'lay be the powers that be - tomes now threatened with demoli don't really want low income "peo tion. This group is starting out pie to be healthy. After all if in the spirit of "barn raising" HEALTH SHUCK CONT. VOL.re sick, not fatally, just rojects of the ;a"it. Ve arc ail Dr. George Pritchard, L.A. Coun "feeling tired all the time", volunteers. Our main uiir..ose is ty Health Dept. you don't have the energy to to save Venice for the present Councilman Braude was not. pre ght their special interests. rcsidt'iits of Venice. Our first* sent and Councilwoman Pussell V Watts got their clinic by project is at 46:j How land» Can? .'.. sent The Ubiquitous Curtis Pos- some radical urban renewal in The city has been trying to dest siter as her deputy. Ke copied 1965. What will Venice residents roy— another ~.ov inoor o rent stru have to do? cture. The ovmer bars been fiyht- his boss. He didn't say a word ir.p th«.; for two years. FHEE '."•:'- -for health. (I mean you'd think IC!"* is contracting to bring it everyone would be for health!) u. to cor'e (furnish labor and ma The officials sho were there WNiiyjt tWtber..... terials) then lease it so it ionored a comment that the rea and Venice residents are, for the can be sub-leased as a community son that-the clinic was being house which will serve as head— moved out of Venice was that the most part, "peaceful and willing to turn the other cheek. Venice r-uarters for the neighborhood as low income people would not be sessment area (see article.) Ue here in a few years. landlords know this and use it to exploit their tenants. This know that if vre are to survive Indeed the Master Plan raises exploitation ranges from unreas then we, the community, must do its pervasive head again! onable rent raises without warn for ourselves what the City of Thouah the Fealth Council has ing to minimum, if any, mainte ;,os Angeles has never done and ijsked for the paltry sum of nance of the property these ten never plans to. We also under $200,000 for a mobile unit, they ants call "home". Landlords make stand that although L.A. refuses- were pooh-poohed in.a patroniz promises concerning rent levels to treat Venice an a legitimate ing manner, despite the fact community ,v»e rust see ourselves that over one million dollars and apartment improvements while v never intending to keep them. as such and act icco'rdingly. The has been spent on the PiptT "Clin- first act is nn» of self-preser ic" that will not be open twenty The above conditions prevail at the apartment building locat vation. 'This surr er we ho.-e to four hours a day and will have see not just the reconstruction no community advisory board. ed at 407 Ocean Front Walk. The landlord, Ray Robinson, is attem of old homes, but tlje rebirth of -Vhat we will get, whether we the Spirit'Of Venice - a spirit want it or not, is a drun abuse pting to raise^ents an addition al $60.00/mon. for some units, of brotherhood, trust, and peace clinic, i.e. a thora'zine dispen ...tprough vhich man helps his sary in Oakwood. Drue abuse while never maintaining th units as promised. The twist in this fellow' man to live and build a clinics are all the race. No nan jnade wor-ld eoual to the beau natter about the -commonplace of story is that the tenants, al though remaining peaceful, are ty of paradise nature offers hin.. burst appendixes, or wounds that Those interested and willing to haopen at nicht, the bricht refusing to turn their cheeks. They have organized a tenant un •helr>, olea'se call. Rick Davidson young men with their Sears manu »t 392-4177 or 399-7681.' factured, i.e. dye shirts, • and ion and are refusing to pay un their masters'denrées in public just rent. health prefer the exotica^of . The landlord has made threats some cool on an acid bummer. and offered many bribes, but the But even those poor souls won't tenants are strong and will face net treatment for thé auxiliary eviction' rather than have the price on their souls raised by complications of drurr abuse such >• 'A-AÏ'*: '*'a'-a'" *'i' 'a ' A "V '.JC_jL 'JL*>jJ as malnutrition, cirrhosis of one seemingly without one. s. U.S. INVADES CAMBODIA THE POTENTIAL PROFITS FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS IN CAMBODIA CAMBODIA: BACKGROUND TO THE WAR cash crops in rice pepper cotton rubber maize and trom resources: t lir Aim-Tie*,, invasion of Cambodia, Nixon said at hi» press conference?, hats definite «.oar-cheap manufacturing labor-oil tin etc. the same sort ot markets the U.S. has found in I military purposes: to destroy National Liberation Front babe* in Cambodia. But thefce from markets: • bases wilt be back in Üie hand* of tbe NIK within month* no matter what the Americans Thailand Indonesia and South Korea-industrial B accomplish in the next period. rnachinery, power generating machinery, cars and Wh\ ' Because the invasion is not himply a "brief surgical operation lasting ...six to tractors, medicines and pharmaceuticals, building eight weeks" as the White House has said, but part of a war that has Lasted nearly thirty construction, hotels and tourisnv-and all the vrars between the Japanese, French, and now American* (with their louai political cliques American-style needs created by huge profitable and like rhi.ii".-- in South Vietnam) on itne side and the people of IndoChina-thc Laotians, alienating cities like Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Cambodians, and V'ietnameac-on the other. Seoul, and Hong Kong. The reason American government.- from Ike to Nixon have comnutterf-tnls country to an increasingly obvious aggressive and unpopular war in Vietnam ts basically the same THE ECONOMIC BACKGROUND reason behind the government's Cambodian policy: to keep Asian markets open for The American invasion of Cambodia is related to the present and future American .American business. control of the Cambodian economy. Cambodia has been an agricultural country with rice An understanding of the history of Cambodia and the background to the invasion as its major product, feeding its 80% peasant population, its cities and towns, and serving akes us believe that there are only two chokes in IndoChina: invasion, or liberation. as the main basis for foreign trade. In 1960 Pnpce Sihanouk accepted a five year plan The American government knows thal\ if the National Liberation Front wins in based on American aid and American plans for development. In 1963, after 3.i0 million Indochina, it will serve as an inspiration for liberation movements throughout th. world. dollars, Sihanouk decided to refuse further aid because. America was demanding a larger role in the development plan. Planing after 1963 was on a project-by -project basis with THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND aid from japan, France, Russia, and China. ftlöst sectors of the economy were government owned and run by atop-heavy an-* In 1881 the French took over the territory' of (Cambodia. The entire peninsula of IndoChina was a French protectorate until the Japanese conquest in 1941. Tne resistance corrupt bureaucracy. In spite of it, between 1963 nnri_l'ï7f. il" -pfTirinrliliiirir for movements in Laos, Thailand. Vietnam and Burma united to sabotage and harass the industry and large scale agriculture were finished: roads aneUrani lines were finished that Japanese. When the French returned at the end of the war, the resistance movements in connected the country; the port, Sihanouk ville, was eniargeWor international trade; the the entire peninsula attempted to block French power. The main battleground was airport was expanded for international use; 24% of the budge't was spent on educating a chosen by the strongest of the resistance forces, the Viet Minh of Vietnam. managerial and technical class; and a huge dam, power and flood control project was started at Ptek Thnot which would eventually provide power for industrial development. In 1950 the Viet Minh set up a resistance government in opposition to Sihanouk who had been declared King by the French. France "granted" Cambodia independence in American^ttisinessmen had planned on the development of the whole Mekong River 195;.. and, defeated in Vietnam, withdrew from all of IndoChina in 1954. America took Basin-in Laos, Cambodia. South Vietnam, and Thailand-but Cambodia's refusal to join the economic and eventually military place of France in IndoChina. the World Bank and to use large scale American aid stowed down Americas plans for deve'opment of tlie entire peninsula. From T4 to ti.'i Sihanouk kept Cambodia-out of military alliances but neutrality became increasingly difficult after 63 when the U.S.sent heavy troops to South Vietnam At the same time Cambodia was in economic trouble because of heavy corruption, to fight the growing National Liberation Front. In 1963, when Sihanouk rejected piece-meal planning, and the drought and bad harvest of 1969. In the summer of t>9 Lon American aid, and stopped relations with tlie American government in 1965. attempted Nul, Sihanouk, Matak, and the other men who ran Cambodia were pressured into joining political coups were lucked by the CIA-financed and Special Forces-trained Khmer tbe World Bank in order to get loans; the condition for their joining tlie World Bank was Serei. the devaluation ef Cambodian money by 12J>%. When the Cambodian currency is devalued. American dollar» are worth more, can buy more, which means bigger profits for Khmer Sani (Whit» CafTabodiam) h a political group racruitad from tha 100,000 American investors. Presided over by Rotiert McNamara, the World Bank is a pool of rt South Vietnam, (ad by rich and middf» laval Cambodian money, mostly coming from tlie ITS* government, used to pay for public works, in ï South Vietnam who have ceooemed with tha Americans sines construction, transportation, water, ana power that are necessary to open up ..~w I960. Mc5l%f tha pmooM rslaaesrJ by tha new Cambodian regime ara Khmsr. markets for American products and investments. Sihanouk insisted on cautious development and in maintaining national control of banks, insurance, rice, rubber, and transportation. The coup throwing out Sihanouk in The Khmer Rouge is a liberation forcrce ^WorkinWoi g with the NLF and the North April 1970 was a reversal of Cambodia's neutralist policies. The ccmincy/, was opened to Vietnamese to clear IndoChina of American military and économie power. foreign investment. Banking and other government operations were given over to private business. The invasion was necessary to secure that investment. Khmsr Roues (Rsd CawnbodisnsJ is tha Liberation Front of Cambodia who» role, until recently, has been to defand the Sihanouk government against the attacks of CONCLUSION the American, and the Khmsr Serai. As Cambodia moved doser to the United •»" States in 1969 by joining the World Bank and the Intsmstional Monetary Fund, The battle lines in Cambodia, and in all of IndoChina, are set. Opposition to the war in «he Khmer Rouge began to develop independent activities in the cities and Vietnam is now opposition to the war in IndoChina. It is clearer than ever that thin war is counrryiide with a program of real independence through economic and politics] in the interests of tne'eompanics that profit from it, not the American people who pay • control by the people living in Cambodia over tbe if own resources. for it, nor Aie soldier» who fight it. By late 1969 tlte stakes were set: independence and self-d?termix>$àan or American The American government has been extending its battle lines into the black and brown do mina h m. Political neutrality that Sihanouk stood for. without ecoiiumic dependence, communities for many years: Now we see the same battle extended to white college was becoming an impossible feat. American political interests revolved around keeping all campuses. The threat that the Nixon government feels is not simplv mass opposition to of Southeast Asia, from Indonesia to Thailand, an open market for American profit the IndoChinese war, but a mass understanding that the battles for self-determination \ making. Local regimes from Thieu in South Vietnam to Suharta^itTlndoncsi^ and now to waged by the people in IndoChina are the same battle the American people must wage \ Lon i\ol in Cambodia are ready to do the American biddii against their own government: a government that represents corporations no* people; a government that takes care of profits but not human needs. This article was prepared by the LOS ANGELES POWER AND LIGHT COMMUN!CATIONS CENTER which is located at 73 Market No. 6, Venice 90291. —^'•8^ Over 700 anti-war protestors participated in a march and rally on May lu (Mothers Day,'.' ,-ne oanunatta- tion was called by the Venice Peace and Freedom Party "...for th,ose who wanted to sh$w their feelings against the war and couldn't gp down to Exposition Park on the 9th" according to Jane Gordon, PFP can didate for congress in the 28th District, and one of the speakers at the event. Lew McCammon. PFP con gressional candidate in the 26th District and Jim Berland for Movement for a Democratic Military were othe speakers, as were Mike Coffey, Stan Armsted, and Fd Ferrer, residents of Venice's Black and Browp communities. The best received happening of the afternoon was an unscheduled performance of EARTHLIGHT, a newly arrived theater group in Venice whose address is 1631 K. Washington Blvd im. »it tWIRll FREE TER! ERICKA irbntri THE ^* FREE VENICE ^^^^k CHtftfAD 18, NOVEMBER 1970 FREE TS VEMt, i iirflBiBEBTi » the course of Venice PFP Reports HUMAN EVENTS by Sherry Wilds Venice resident Marge Buckley, One of our local people,Teri It should be no news to any the Peace and Freedom Party can Volpin, is sitting in a Tucson, one living in Venice that our didate for Attorney General, won Ariz.jail. She'll be there until community has been s"ingled out more than enough votes in the No January, and possibly longer for repressive actions by the vember election to make the dif Teri is not awaiting trial. She establishment of Los Angeles. ference between the Democrat can hasn't been accused of any crime How many of us have been, or didate Charles O'Brien and Pepub- She happens to be an unwilling know of people who have been lican Fvelle vbunoer. t-*hile witness in a federal grand jury stopped needlessly by the police, Vounaer beat O'Brien by 90,258 investigation of the Weathermen. asked for I.D., searched il- votes, 174,560 California voters Teri was given immunity from pro lenally, and even questioned con desertsd "law ajid order" Demo secution, in order to circumvent cerning how much money we have crats lîi^—>*««rj«{blleans in favor a constitutional guarantee, in our pockets? Since when do of Buckley's "Power to the Peo which states that a person can you need identification, to walk ple" program. cC not be compelled to be a witness down the street? l-.'hy 'ate, peo Bucklev hit hard against the aaainst himself. The government ple so frequently nicked up on a use of dumdum bullets bv Califor hoped that by this maneuver that Friday night, at which time thev nia law enforcement agencies, in Teri would he impelled to be a can legally be held until Monday cluding the L.A. Sheriff's Depar witness against others. The gov without being booked or charoed tment. As a direct result, Bev ernment can keep her in jail in-- with anything? Why is it that erly lulls police were ordered definitely, as long as she re-. certain people known 'to be polit not to use them. fuses to give the testimony de ical and not afraid to speak out The "FT> candidate urcred decis manded of her. Anyone interest openly on the beach front are ive moves aaainst brutality, oer- ed in f-vritina to Teri, oj-ease continually harrassed by police? jury and the almost universal contact the BEACHHEAD. Is it a coincidence that the in nullification of people's Consti dividuals sellincr Panther papers tutional rights by police offic Local efforts to deal with or distributincr leaflets are the ers in the field. She advocated the^growing drug problem have re ones questioned and sometimes cracking down on corporate poll sulted in the establishment of a picked up and put in jail over uters, " increasing the legal night? Çhis is not a coincidence. half-way house, "Tuum Est" (It's These are all fascist tactics. rights of children, recognizing UP TO YOU). A L.A. County pro .the right to use drugs, legaliz So is the raid and the no-knock gram based around the use of the provision. ed .abortion and elimination of drug Methadone, as a non-debili obscenity laws tating substitute' for heroin. Unfortunately, these are the The vote for Buckley was the Those interestedTin the Tuum Est tactics many of us have grown hiohest for any PFP candidate program can .callr Jesse Pratt at used to. For we see it happening and represented 2.8% of the tot 392-773. The Methadone program on a broader scale throughout al vote cast in that race. Her will begin with only 20 addicts, the nation - the frame-up of percentage, along with the 2.4S but eventually will include 500. Bobby Seale, Kent State, Chicaao continued on page 6 continued on page 6 continued on page 6 AN ORDINANCE OF INTENTION ON THE VENICE WATER en time from their various jobs and other res WAYS PROJECT. That's the legal jargon for the ponsibilities, paid baby-sitting fees, gas,and shuck-hype pork-barrel boondoggle that the downtown parking to give the democratic pro City Council is attempting to impose on the cess a chance to work. We carried petitions, poor people of. this commyn-ity. We attempted signed by almost 80% of the canal area resi to express the way we feeiT about this proposal dents, directed to the council, asking that before the Finance Committee and again before the area be designated a renewal agency, in the Public Works Committee. We were not allow the manner prescribed by law. But ONCE AGAIN ed to speak. We were told to wait till it we were denied the opportunity to express our camerbefore the full council. We met with our views, as the Council went on to create the councilwoman, Pat Russell, requesting her to necessary machinery for the Bond Project that arrange an appearance before the Council and would make the canals a rich-man's playground, particularly to assist us' in presenting our which will be underwritten by "Mr (• Mrs Small- alternative to the multi-million dollarpror taxpayer"and which will foirce out the people ject that threatens to force poor people from living there now. But this time, when we were their homes. That alternative is to create a told "next time, come back next time". Rick renewal agency as per state code 33709, a new Davidson, community activist who was acting as section of the Health & Safety Code, recently our spokesman, wasn't buying it. On behalf of enacted. Instead we were shunted off-to the the community, he demanded to be h^ard. "Is City Clerk's office, to struggle ourselves this democracy?" cried Davidson. "All we want with the extensive red-tape -^hecessary to be is the right to be heard." Instead, he was ar allowed the privilege of speaking our minds rested, and taken off to jail. Rick is now a- before this body of our elected reps.. On Nov. waiting trial, on the charge of distnrbinq 16, we gathered in the City Council chambers. a public meeting. Sixty-people from this, community, who had tak JPTJKTHJ TH» i_ai'T"ri..Tn DTJICB: by PUBLIUS .- Cay liberation When last we left Puke," the Little Duke, it was later than you There are a lot of gays in think. For those of you who have lost track of him, our own dear Venice. In fact it's one /hell Duke is royalty, of the people and for the people, but of late he of a gay ghetto. The police-hate has been suffering pretty bad breath, and also bad karma. You've us. We're often remimded -of this probably seen hHm around: he has a beard, walks with a slouch, and fact when the LAPD sends in some clicks his heels alot. He is, in point of fact, the Duke of Plotz- of its graduates of the VICE ville-By-The-Sea, but.JEplks in Venice here (somewhat to the south SQUAD finishing school, those oh- and lee side of that principality) think he's very far out and are so-uptight sexual beings, to en roud to display one of several glossy photographs that depict- him trap the people in tea-rooms, in Cn various postures of significant leadership. They take public secluded corners of the beach, no.te of his royal carriage, instinctual good manners (he does not and when we openly express our fart or urp in company), that he eats his yogurt plain, and uses love for each other and go "top onJ.y/returnab_le bottles in the royal larder,and non-phosphate/deter less" at "kiss-ins" and "gay-ins. gent in the royal washtub.SSS$If you will recall, we lasfleft off • Gays are further oppressed by with a hell of a cliff-hanger. Puke was hard upon somet basic truths ihe monied interests like the that had to do with the way things are, and the way things ought to "Westwinds Bar' which is a' priv be. For those of you who are constant readers of this column, and ate "membership only" dance club. would like us to get on with it: form follows function, and this They,refused to give permission is a serial; so skip down a ways, as we recapitulate-. $5$S When to the GLF to use their -facili last we left Little Duke,the infamous Pul4e,he was traveling through ties last summer during the sun- on affairs of state, in his capacity as a sort of *-oad-show poten day afternoon "gaV days" on the tate. He hasn't yet been celebrated, ceremoniously elevated to the beach. It is owned byThil Ewing rulership, his by riahts of birth. So he was sort of marking time, an ex(?) -coo, who has been tak along with the rest of us, down by the beach front.when he was hand ing out of our community long. He hates us because to« ed a copy of this REACHEAD paper,several times removed. Which said, one ' (among else which that it said), KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, POWER TO THE of our slogans is "out of c PEOPLE. Now: dear Puke, whose own knowledge is largelv of proto bars and onto the beach:" the^ col, and the subtilties of pomp, was "ery much nonplused by this Westwinds will soon be liberateThde \ "revolutionary rhetoric. He was, nonetheless, (we'll say this for by the-GLF. They are racist. The Puke) at no time daunted by his encyclopedic ignorance, for he.was usual "nigger at the bari" one to act, and not to contemplate. Tearing the paper in-half, and We demand our freedom! We de then again in half, he dropped his drawers-and wiped his ass with mand our natural rights: We are it. "That is what I think of your COMMIE SHIT: "quoth Puke, our gay and we are beautiful! very own Duke. $$$$ Now, the freak who had been passing out the Local churches hate us. A paper, known to our readers as the bless-ed Feisty Freak, (say hi chrrch in. Santa monica answered to the folks, Freak!) was non-plused as well. For though he wasn't the speakers' bureau request by sure what a Commie was, he was sure he wasn't; or if - he was, what sending us a letter suggesting indeed it was he was. Rut one thing he was sure of: he didn't like we 'repent of our perversions,' Puke's menacing tonev "I ain^t no Commie:" Feisty attempted to ex renounce our beliefs, confess plain, very close to tfe-arSk^f Hé found this who.le confrontation a our sins ...or be damned to eter continued on page 5' nal whatever! Really, my dear! Gays simoly love other persons of the same sex'. The Gay Liberat ion Front says right on! We sup port the Black Panther Party. We are going_fö Kashinoton, D.C. on Nov. 27, 28, and 29, to help re write the Amerikkkan Constitut ion at the Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention which is sponsored by" the Black Pan ther Party. The remarkable tiling about GLF is that we realize the neces sity of survival due to the hea vy repression coming „down, and we are dealing with it. We rel ate to long-haired people, the funky people and the freaks, in their struggle. GLF/Venice has organized the following cells, currently in op eration: Agitprop:(agitation and propa ganda) artist, writers, photogs. Education: a political study group to raise political and soc ial consciousness. TURTLE BAY TRADING COMPANY General Me rchandhe Ior Special People" I Galle ry I Han der alls Self-defense: Instructions by qualified professionals in the 132? Wa,h:iKlan Boulevard, Venice, Calif 90291 I '2I.Î; .)!><'-- art of self-defense. Fund-raising: dances, rallies, are-dealt with craft-wise; there maybe a gay coffee house to Voices of the Past is verv little, I would go so raise bread. bv Bob Beaulieu far as t/r^say there is nothina Survival office:24-hour phone Beyond Baroque 701 is a vol striking} about how the poets han service, counselling, personal, ume of new,Venice poets. Of the dle the4r subjects. But the draft, VD, drug, etc. twenty presented, six are women, point of view, the tone, I found Womans Caucus: discussions and a higher than average number for - very strange. There is a stream, organizing around problems affec a higher than average dumber for of anger mixed with sentiment ting gay women specifically. this type of publication. There that' is reminiscent of the anary Gays are the most oppressed in Vil a great danger in reviewing a young^English poets of the Fif the society. We may well be the puB*iication dealing with new1 po ties. Lines like" most revolutionary! We are the ets to be over critical. It is militant arm of the Gay 'Movement. so easy to take apart, so hard "On the cover of Fortune was a We are organizing for the day to create. That being the case, face, strangely sliced in the when we will make the revolution. I will refrain from singling out Cubish manner; Come together! Call us at 399-76 individual poets or poems but in ' who was it, I asked—"Andy 81 for information concerning stead concentrate on the .total the dates and times for all com impact the book creates. Mellon," mittee meetings. Oh, I forgot... As. usual the major themes a name uttered in mingled awe we have a group of under 18-21- dealt with are love and death. and contempt, year olds too. What is striking is not how they continued on-o.3 i OAeaiarjte m*»~*>pw The great savior of life, coming to by Sharon Brannon the downtrodden poverty area with bac^ < .- pure food for the people, giving them an alternative to the polluted pulp "ITIIIU am i'i IMII in the regular market, syphoas the life blood from the poor in an explo itative feat inching up the national record and bridging to an all-time Voices continued from p.2 high the immorality that can be achi eved under the present profit system. Could eyes that glimpsed Alf Under the guise of a savior for your Landon see the inner light? health in a polluted quagmire is a Your Viet Nams take their ruthless money clutching desire1 to toll; take you for all it can get. but what of the ravages Even beyond the disgust of hoggish of those times when nothing profits made by Health Food Stores wonderful or crazy through offering an exorbitant alter (not even a catastrophe)" native to the paltry substitues for had any chance" of happening?" good food in the supermarkets is the clinching irony that in poverty areas lines /ike, where he can get away with it the" pig redoubles his exploitative thrust up "Now thirty years have pas on those least likely to resist. since Vmen posed The new Health Food Store on Paci for their own tribute fic Avenue is 30 to 40% overpriced as bribed, diffident, -w^ry as compared to a local supermarket and children. 25% higher than a Health Food Store*"" Form persists in rock, always. in Brentwood. A careful study was But who can remember made in which all items compared were that squatting at midday by of camparable quality - whenever pos highway's edge, sible the same brands were compared - gargoyle hunched, eyes half all products of the natural food var- / closed, ity, no preservatives, . flavorings, 'they turned their backs to colorings, sugar, ect. this their road." Think again before you're double duped. After reading through the vol ume I put it down with a sigh and thought how terriblv old and ITEMS NEW-PARS HUGHES LINDBERGS tired these people seem. Some thing is wrona, what ist »it? Stone ground whole wheat bread c 24oz- .59 24oz- .57 24oz- .59 There is humor, at least three Rye bread lib- .52 24oz- .53 lib- .52 or four poems are humorous but Chico San brown rice lib- .59 21b-1.15 even here the humor is of the El Molino brown rice lib- .45 lib- .42 Fifties. I know that sounds str Chico San soy sauce 8OZ-1.02 9oz- .98 ained, but there are such things Peanut butter 21b-1.79 lib- .69 lib- .79 as' literary jokes and the fun pfire strawberry preserves lib- .98 31b-1.25 niest poems dealt with a funny Wild organic honey /51b-2.40 51b-1.69 51b-2.46 man of the fifties, Wallace MacDonalds maple syrup 12oz-1.29 3 2oz- .89 12oz- .95 Stevens. Mayonaise 24oz- .99 ,7*ioz- . 59 24oz- .98 Beyond Baroque 701 has as its Saflower oil lqt-1.05 lqt- .69 lqt-1.05 cover title NEW VENICE POETS. I Soy oil lqt-1.05 lqt- .63 lqt-1.05 can not for the life of me see Pure apple cicer vinegar 'lot- .>5 lqt- .29 lqt- .69 anything new in lines like, « Catsup 14oz- <69 12oz- .49 Loma Lind vegéburger 13»soz-.75 13!soz-.73 "The shad» of ill-drawn cur Diet pack Chicken of Sea white 6!soz- .75 6^oz- 6»;oz- .59 tains hid his mind Campbells low sodium soups 8oz- .22 8oz- 8oz- .19 utensils smiled useless from Dietetic canned corn 8oz- .29 8 oz- 8Hoz- .23 their shelf Dietetic canned beets 8oz- .23 8oz- 8oz- .23 knife blades gleamed back Dietetic canned mixed vegetable 8oz- .23 8oz- ßisoz- .21 bare bulb insects, Canned pineapple - no sugar lltj4oz.75 llb4oz.4 lb4oz.49 everyone smiled blood Organic apple sauce» lib- .45 lb- .31 but only David could open El Molino whole wheat flour 21b .63 21b- .59 21b- .63 windows Toasted wheat gern 14oz .63 20oz- .75 air his houses Spaghetti lib .75 31b- .73 11b- .55 drink his mind a salt foam Mi-Del graham crackers lib .79 11b- .49 breeze Allergy free El Molino cookies. 8oz .47 8oz- .45 of eighteen years and promise" Sun dried raisins llb-1.05 21b- .69 11b- .55 If this keeps up Venice may be Unsulfured prunes lib- .75 11b- .59 invaded by literary archaeolo Alta-Dena sharp Cheddar cheese llb-1 llb-1.19 11b- 1.19 gist and then we will have our Alta-Dena mild Cheddar cheese- llb-1 llb-1.09 11b- 1.09 own death in Venice. Alta-Dena jack cheese llb-1 llb-1. 09 11b- 1.09 There are a few. voices that Alta-Dena cottage cheese 16oz- lpt- .39 sound a different note, and for Alta-Dena sour cream . 16oz- lpt- .55 those who would' like to find Alata-Dena butter 11b-1 llb-1.45 11b- 1.50 them, a volume can be obtained Hain Double B brand margarine 11b- ilb- .55 by sending $2.00 to: Beyond Bar Royal yogurt-plarn 15oz- 15oz- .65 oque 1639 W. Washington Biyd. , Royal fruit flavored yogort 8oz- 8oz- .36 Venice, Cal. 90291 Johnstons flavored yogurt 8oz- b Record Revi artist's itirui ty B° Beauueu by ^Dennis Reid tew Venice L.A. holds a great at "Bringing Itpftll Back Home" might traction for artists on the west have been the fritie of this album if jt coast. In the next few issues wasn't slrwwly used. flew Morning is of the Beachhead* I will inter largely * reminiscence of many old view them wherever I can find mornings in Dylan's hometown of Hibtir.g VT them, living on the beach soak- Minne-sotr and thereabouts. And it inq up Karma-; .stoned on cheap cones off nice end. smooth. Dylan re hr V nff nig Kansas grass - the stuff float laxes his voice end his listeners with ing around lately won't even some down-home songs, such as "Time TrsaHstfUIc^KaWlTi-a" * flush down the head - or jerking Pesées SiO--ly," and "Sign on the '«in- .BXs. fW^fC-Ave. off in. front of a picture of Ag- dov." "Day of the ^ocusts," "Went to new. . See theGypsy," end "Three Angels" are • N/e.r,'lcft fö Allan McCollum floated out of midwest memories in the vein of "Just the valley to the expanse of the i,ide Tom Thumb's Blues." Dylan is back ocean, took a deep breath, chok ed by a group of-fine artists; notatiy ed, and decided he had to paint. Al Kooper and vocalist Maeretha Stewart There is logic in all of that, Kooper's piano . playing and Miss .Stew »4 /Sri/» ofleatfier that can only be understood by art's background vocal on "If Dogs Ran one floating out of the valley, Free" »combine to help make this cut e 1512 Pacific Avenue Venice. taking a deep breath and paint standout -on the »lbum. Dylan has two ing, painting. "Lay Lady, i.ay"-type love sorigg. which na.iwth« Dropping down a token toke we were e very pleasent s^rprirTr"r"If not turnstiled into a Tolkien world For You" is e f=st moiHpg song with Dy and I let him rap as we rode lan blowing his harp orjjfc more, but the herd on artistic sensibilitv. auiet "The Man in Me" rivals "Lay :,ady ""v painting has always been „ay" in emotion and surpasses it in a tremendous amount of set up, beauty. Dylan plays the piano on this and then execution which always cut, as he does on' 7 of them 12 songs on takes about five minutes. The the album. "Three Angels" is more a set up is the dying of the can spoken poem than a s^ng. It shows a heretofore unseen side of Dylan which 3«a)-o4r vas, stretching, the taping it fT off and then the actual execut becomes him very much. "«interlude"-and 'So* PrTCtnCeVE. Vemce ion: putting the bleach on and "One More Veekend" sound like songs By then there is no way to reverse l»n had a lot of fun doing, "«interlude anything. That is one uniaue has a happy, caliiope-iike, bouncing thing about my paintings, thev rhythm, while "One More V.'eekend" con are designed to be executed in tains the funky rock sound which would stantaneously. Hv background is have made it a milljon-seiler In the in cooking and it is like cook '50's. "Father of Night" vis the last ing, in fact I think more in moralistic tone ending the " sibum on a cooking terms: you know, how to universal level. The cut which best cut up all your onions and cele sums up the felling of the album is, ry, prepare your meat, slicfc it, fittingly, the title song, "Hew Morn continued on page 6 ing." This song is one of the happiest -ongs Dylan has recorded,.and certainly reflects his ever-growing peace of mir.d -Casting Call- as he sings, "...so happy just to be a- "POOMBAH WARS" live underneath this sicy of blue..." So -am I. So win you be when you get 3men, 2women into New Morning. Sat.10AM-4?M Community t House 468 nov. 20-29 Howland Canal LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS dec. 1-6 (further info: SUGARCANE HARRIS "Course of dec. 11-20 -Human Events" FREDDIE KING /ferais issue) \ or call Ash&rove«. 392-4177 a 163 MEUOSt AVE ^•BBBaTOL 3-707OBB1 NAKED IN TOMORROW hippies s.aj.«'"«—v. in sandles, beards and long hair mass a happening , a psychedelic culture ' shades into a new high: a love in. ~*- -—-yet. no matter what the trubal rite mr. & mrs. public aren't buying - toov far out- - not bound enough with common sense like smog, freeway fatalities, hollywood politicians, Vietnam ) and absurd fears that are 100% common. FXTICBJ TKSC T TTTT .in j->TJ cbnt. from 2 mind blower, as he did not want to get anyone up-tight, only to afoove on love, and up the pig. So he flashed Puke the peace sign, gave him the finger, and ran like hell. Puke took out after him. "I'll teach you to nee on the f lag: " shouted PxUkè.$$$$Feisty got a good start, but as he was not in the best of shape "what with smoking and such, and in fact he was a fairly sorry specimin of phvsical good health. Puke was overtaking him, when suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed Puke, dearly-loved" Duke, and pulled him into an alley-way, where other willing hands sewed him into an Idaho potato sack. When night fell, all those willing hands carried him stealthily to the foot of Brooks Ave., where he was glued into •n rocking chair that had been ripped of from some elderly folk on a beachfront portico, but as the weather ha<3__been growing .cold, no body used it much,so it wasn't missed.?$SSNow,as this episode nears its thrilling climax, a pair of yellow trash cans, bearing the im - print of the Dept. of Parks and Recreation, with their, lids welded on, to create two primative but functional can-bouys, are lashed to the rocking chair into which the Little Büke, in his potato-sack womb, has been affixed. The\ moon was going down, as the mysterious force of Willing Hands that had abducted him completed it's ritual istic preparations, hitching up a shéep-dog and an airdale, to con vey him and his rocking chair toward the fast running s"Urf. Is this the LAST OF PUKE? Don't miss the next sensational chapter of PUKE, THE LITTLE DUKE : Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention The U.S. consitiution, a cele BHBlaeJMfc contribute their ideas and part of the World brated document of ' cherished icipate in discussions designed Fhiloaaphjr Psychology rights that are more imagined to create a document responsive afyatkiam than real (see A CLASS ANALYSIS to the needs of the people, that OPEN EVERY DAY II AJ*. - 12 PM. • 6St>J?ajf OF THE CONSTITUTION on the back is concerned with human rights, S5SS MEUtOSE AVE.. Tern page of thes issue) faces a ser as opposed to property rights. ious challange on November 27 Registration forms for indivi week-end, when a "Revolutionary duals 'and organizations may be , People ^»w^ 13S5 Waatwood BWtE > fSV, o« T»«-f will b« , ÇKuWft. *>, The 5 ILEA MARKET SfcA Ct-S CHfkt^etK / A-ntiovie Clottiin« etc. Liberate Th«»' - 1SS5 -w wa,slitriBtaon.lÄv«l ANENVflP* ^TIVAL THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY OF VENICE ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE FIRST ANNU Our hands are strong and wé. will row ashore AL VENICE FILM FRICASSEE TO BE HELD THURSDAY F Sister step aboard / RI DAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS NOV 26 2/ AND 28 ON Take your oar WINDWARD AV IN VENICE Let us blend our hands FILM MAKERS: THIS OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL WILL Mend/our minds BE A NON-COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL URBAN SOCIO With dancings and singings -TECHNICAL EXPERIMENT WITH THE FILMS BEING VIEW We are a merry band ED BY THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS LOCAL AND. NATIONAL - FILM DISTRIBUTORS AND CRITICS, CATEGORIES IN Come out from hiding and stand ^ CLUDE ALL SUBJECT MATERIAL IN 1(JMM SUPER »MM A Strong and able ND »MM AND HALF-INCH VIDEO TAPE. NOV 23 IS Ttf You can till the land E DEADLINE FOR ENTRYS. ENTRY BLANKS MAY BE PI Turn the machine back CKED UP AT 62 WINDWARD AV OR THE FREE PRESS BO And take your place in the OK STORES. government of nations FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL ' 392-5071 Standing in the .light you are no longer-afraid Unshackled, you see your face SPONSORED BY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMIT In your pure nakedness, you are*the sole source Of a self, that is your own TnE LOS ANGELES FINE »%1 cont. froml HUMAN EVENTS cont arttSt B UifUl cont. from 5 won by r.T. V'eber, the.ppn candi Requirements to participate are date fgr- State Comptroller, in as follows: 1. males between trim it, ana then at /one point sured that the Peace and Freedom ages 18 s 40. 2. a three year or you put it all together. If you Party will remain on the ballot more history of heroin addiction. are going to make something that through 1974. Five r>FP state 3. must be a convicted felon is going to be perceived instant wide candidates, polled hierher with no sicmificant history of aneously it should be produced votes and percentages than the abuse with other drugs or alco hol. 4. must be free of any oth instantaneously. And it is im best PFP showing in 1968, which - portant things be perceived in was 91,254 votes (1.3%) for P.S. er major phvsical or mental ill stantaneously. A painting should Senate. ness. For info,call Bill brooks read immediately as what it is. Other Venice residents who at 625-3212, ext. 387. The most beautiful things are ran as PFP candidates this vear A new theater is in the making. concrete, abstractions are not were John Haag, who received 101, The Alternate Group Theater will pretty at all. The nice things 476 votes for Lieutenant Gover be part of an oveirall concept) to to look at are natural objects nor, Lew McCamroon, with "> J5 be called Urpan Mternates, that or objects designed purely for votes for Congress in the ..6th will bring together artists of function, like work boots. I District, and Sari Ne'...'.ands, all disinlines under a single want my art to be highly con with 1,503 votes for Assembly in roof, as well as functioning as crete. I want as little ques the 59th District. PFP candida a social and" political meetinq tion as possible surrounding my tes who also made the "enice nFP place for the radical community. work. I wanJt it to be very ob office their headouarters were- The theater oxouo hopes to pro vious." -»(right on!) Jack Hampton, who won 118,078 vide some basic funds for this votes for State Treasurer, Jane project. They have scheduled 3 "I was sort of pop art orient Gordon, with .4,793 votes for Con original plavs, and are seeking ed because that is what gress in the 28th District, and other new plavs to produce, tho reading about when I started Bob Niemann, whose 3,158 votes they will not limit themselves painting and I tried to\ make for Assembly in the 60th Dis to new material. In their ad in paintings that looked like pop trict represents the highest per this issue of BEACHHEAD, they art paintings and to enlarge a centage of votes (3.2%) won by invite interested actors,writers -little drawinq on a large canvas any PFP candidate in the state. was very complex, you know, to directors—people who know light make a grid pattern, it is sort A voter registration drive led ing, can design or built sets, of mechanical and takes a lonq by Lew McCammon of the Venice have experience in graphic arts., time, it's a drag (pause, drawn, TP gained 748 PFP registrations or people who are just interest pause) so I bought an overhead since the June- primary election. ed, and would like to learn any projector. (wow, what a mind PFP registrations in Venice rose of these crafts, to come by and blower!) Right, and a photo-cop durina that period from' 890 to rap on Saturday, between 10 AM & ier and the photocopier made 1228. Py . election time, voters 4 PM at the Community House, 468 transparencies so I could make a registered Peace and Freedom Howland Canal, or call: 392-4177. drawinq and make a nhototranspar- throuoh the ^atetotater' 41,663 VENICE "i-TRIKA has taken the . encv of it, you know, all in a Despite a serîoîrVPLack of cam- matter of minutes and tnen mit paian funds and a virtual' black berth le^t vacant bv Earthlight, vfSc- are on tour (1621 w.Washing that in the overhead projectb*: out in the press and pre-elect and have the images I want, (ve ion poll, PFP candidates general ton Blvd). They feature light- shows , dancing to local groups ry ornaic) then I fell in love ly attracted votes amountino to with photocopiers and what thev several times the number of vot on Fri&Sat nites ($1.50 donation)- a folk nite on Sun. (.75). Power did. The way they brought every ers registered PFP in their dis thing to the same level, color, tricts. Marge Bucklev's vote and Lioht will show films on Wed nites this month, and other act all end up being black and white, wavas rimor e than four times the num so T got a lot of binary Yinq baver o f PFP registrants in the ivities and events are planned. Information: 399-9449. Yang sort of oairtings in which state. In a few Venice beach I would sometimes use images or front precincts PFP candidates Stoned ametaa m St^-'HHEAO an entirety th. wont collages and some random things polled more votes than their Pep- of lndhedut-1 wrttoni and de not neceenriry reflect th. vre*. like John Cage. Then after look ublican opponents. of the BEACHHEAD «raff. Tho naff h open to any Venice raeldont who vriahee to contribute time end effort to produce ing at those paintings for a The PFT< now looks forward to end Retribute the Merer. Contend of each laue ere decided long time I started to look at increasing its membership thru ooflectJvoly by tfje-ereff for thet neue. The pope. the images, not really paying voter reaistration, especially In dut ell money contributed ta uaed to COM, the much attention- to the canvas, 18 to 20-"ear-olds: participat of production end dtatrlbutlon. the concreatness of the painting ing in local non-partisan elect itself, then I realized that ions ' in 1971 and huildinn a nat STAFF FOP THIS ISSUE: what I wanted to do was (pause, ional PFP-for the 1972 presiden draw, pause) emphasize the con tial election. PTV members will jean alien, qlen baker creatness rather than the idea continue their involvement in bob beaulieu, sharon)bî;annon of the image, so I started to activities important to the com- ron- butler, mike cla/re \ leave little edges of the canvas muni tv. showing, the raw canvas (very The Venice PFP needs both mo Steve clare, rick davidson sensual) and dyed it grav. I ney and active members. Open ed ferrer, george gelernter wanted to present Very tactile, meetings are held everv Wednes judy goldberg, John hosken neutral ground, and then I dis day at 8 p.m.. at the Venice "FP rita narai, roslyn sieoel covered the stain painters like office, 1727 R. T-'ashinaton Plvd-. randy watsek Morris Louis. I saw how increda- bly tactile his paintinqs were government of "consensus" forces and now I am into a totally tac W cont.^ CUPP actively works to defend tile sensibility with my canvas. conspiracy~and~ on and on. the rights of anvone to be free Before the image was subordinate It is easy to accept these from harrassment because of his to the tactility of the thing, happenings with a shrug of or^ her political convictions, now I am trying to present a Ges "that's the way thinas are." îfresently Cl"PP is actively trv- talt of which the image is exact This is what the establishment yng to raise monev for legal de ly a function of the tactilitv wants. It is one thina to under fense and to educate people a- .of the thincr. Like this dyetî stand how the ' establishment round Pobby Peale, the Soledad canvas I am working on (draw, will react to .certain people who Brothers, Los Fiete de Lajjaza, pause) every element that T can demand radical change; it is an7 Angela' Davis, and the L.A. 18. pick out in the painting is a other thing to accept or remain The Venice chapter intends to re function of some other different complacent about the reaction of- late to bliese issues of local re element. I try to make a'gestalt the establishment. pression and harrassment. There in which you can't remove any- . CL'PP [Committee United for' Po is need for the alreàdv existing thing. If you remove.the dye, litical Prisoners) is starting a organizations in "enice to unite then, you have nothing but a chapter in Venice to trv to cop- around certain issues which aff blank canvas, if you remove- the bat' the tide of repressing which ect us all. '-'e must communicate bleach then you have no reason is threatenina all of our rights. with' each other and support each for the dye, if you remove the CUpP was formed in response to other in our common s trundle. canvas you don't have a painting, the. r.estapo-like raid on the "an If.s>anyone wants to relate to (very heavy) ther headquarters Pec. B, TOPP on anv level, the next meet- Today, the "anthers.. .tomorr ina is Wed. Hqv. 18 at Spr. For ••• could be any of us who t • •Ï further information call the Ba• Bae speak, or act .differently than COOT office - 388-76 65. wfaW&Qto, WHAT IS THE WUTAI^NDUSTRIAL COMPLEX? Old generals never die, but whit is worse they don't fade gwty either! Where do old generals go? Into the Elysian 5 Fields of "Defense*' Contracting. 2,100 retised high ranking officers are holding executive positions tnlbe top 100 war contracting firms. These 100 firms receive 68% of the Pentagon's business. The ten leading "defense" firms employ 1,065 retired officers. These ten firms ripped off 2S% of the war trade. Almost 90% of the Pentagon's contracts and 98% of NASA's are negotiated without competitive bidding. Cost increases above the original estimates on major weapon's systems usually run 100 to 200% higher than originally projected. How does this happen? Take the example of the five former Air Force officers who blocked efforts to cut costs on the Minuteman missile system. Then Vhey accepted executive jobs with the system's manufacturer, Autonetics Division, or with the parent company. North American Rockwell. Senator Proxnüre wrote to the Attorney General urging .him to take immediate action. Assistant Attorney General Wilson replied that the Justice Department had found no indication of a violation of the conflict of interest statutes. way. The Court did not even bot Lockheed harbors 210 retired officers - more brass than her to write an opinion, a tac any of the other defense giants. These include five former Thu5>- the courts are able to re tic which allows it "to indicate Air Force Generals and (because it has a major contract to tain a superficial consistency to legislative bodies, adminis provide the Navy with Polaris and Poseidon missiles) twelve when they hold that the first a- trative officials and the lower former Admirals and three former Marine Generals. 88% of mendment protects the "pure spe courts that they may proceed Lockheed's business comes from the Pentagon. ech" of pornographic trash i'n with abandon to deny the rights books, movies and magazines but of assembly and association to Genera] Dynamics employs 113 ex-officers and has $2.2 not the "conduct" of a community groups who threaten the ruling billion in defense contracts; Boeing Aircraft Corp. with 169 group which seeks to put serious class, while preserving intact ex-officers had $762 million; McDonnell Douglas Corp., political views before the pub the great fraud that the first a- 144, $S»4 billion; Narfh American Rockwell Corp., 104, lic by stapling leaflets to pub mendment protects these rights $669 rmif^mr^iierai Electric Corp., 89, $1.4 billion; lic utility poles. for all. The f-irst amendment be Ling-Temco-Vought Inc., 69, $758 million; Westinghouse • Despite these restrictions comes an emptier sbäll than It Electric Corp., 59, $251 million; TRW inc.^36, $127 (and deliberate governmental vio already is for anti-ruling class million; and Hughes Aircraft Co., 55, $286 million. lations of first amendment politics if it protects only in rights, which are not discussed dividual and not group express The nine major firms producing components for the here), group assembly has become ion. ABM system harbor 465 retired officers. These include more and more effective in mobil The Constitution, then, prom besides the above mentioned (McDonnell Douglas, General izing opposition to state and ises little and delivers even Electric, and Hughes Aircraft) Martin Marietta, 40; corporate power. In response less. There is nothing neutral -Raytheon, 37; Sperry Rand 36; RCA 35; AVCO, 23; and the courts have begun to limit or nonpolitical and therefore American Telephone and Telegraph, 9. S even the right to gather peace sacred about it. Like all laws, ably -for lawful purposes. The it is simply a set of rules re Now lets trace the careers of some specific officers. Supreme Court, for example, re solving social and economic con- i Major General Nelson M. Lynde Jr. was Commanding cently held that no substantial flicts according to the inter- \ Genera] of the Army Weapons Command from 1962 to fjtfst amendment question was pre ests of the dominant class« back-, 1964. He was responsible for the development, sented by a Philadelphia ordin ed by the organized force of procurement, and field service support of Army weapons ance which authorised the mayor that_class. But it should not and negotiated the initial contract for the M-16 rifle. Five to proclaim, at his whim, a be surprising that the Constitut months after retiring from the Army he went to work for state of emergency under which ion, framed by men of property Colt Industries, the sole supplier of the M-16. The M-16 he could limit, again in his un in the 18th century, serves the developed so many mechanical and financial problems that fettered discretion, the number interests of private property, it was investigated by Congress. It was called a "worthless of .persons wnts^could gather, e- which in the economic and social piece of junk" by the G.I.'s who first used it in Nam and ven peaceably/foi; lawful purpos conditions of today means the in the jam-ups and other malfunctions in combat endangered es, in outdoor places, whether terests of monopoly capitalism. lives. But the congressional sub-committed investigating the on public or private property. Movement lawyers, unless they M-16 somehow forgot to pass judgement on whether or not The Court upheld convictions for are to become, as one of them General Lynde's employment with Coll was a conflict of peaceful participation in a gath- said, "hypocritical apologists interest. In other words the congressional committee was erina of 100 (more than the 12- arid propagandizes of hope where too*scared to get down to the real nitty gritty. person limit the mayor picked) none exists," must try to demys to protest the recommissioning tify the law so that they do not Assistant Secretary of De/ense for Procurement, Thomas of a battleship, even though the reinforce the ignorance, the i- D. Morris retired from the Pentagon in 1968 and went police left undisturbed a crowd solation, the helplessness and directly to the vice-presidency of Litton Industries. In the of 10,000 attending the recommis- the powerlessness on which our last year of Morris' 'power as procurement boss, Litton's ioning ceremonv a few blocks a- oppressive legal system thrives. Pentagon contracts jumped from $180 million in 1967 to $466 million in 1968 - a 250% increase. In 1967 Litton was 36 on the list of top .100 defense contract or^ml 968 it became fourteenth. Senator Proxmire said, "SojMorris' vice presidency can be viewed both as a payoff tor the huge Pentagon business shifted in 1968 and as assurance of PECIAL imirjense^uture influence for Litton." Again the Justice Depaitrhent has not initiated any conflict of interest proceedings. rfc\ [vry book&r* Be 4îStW.»vJtors There are at least 2,000 more brass biographies that could be told, all with the same cynical plot - "From JF Military Academy to General to Defense Contracting In *£&*****%** Three Easy Steps or. How I Learned to Take Orders and fotioéù^ Make a Killing in Death." The preceding article was re printed from the first issue of^ \33SeZ Wat Wajhinitöv> - ' "TLITARY INTKLLIOEN-CE. :mce Tu€S-FW:N00H-9:oo SKT9e$w: *00¥-L* N •^HKLSUcMm-.  Glass Analysis of The %• ADDRESADDRE S VENICE POETS DEFENDED THE CQUkSE OF HUMAN EVENTS by I.vnn Shoemaker A new groufatomposed of local Dr. Brian Hilton, consultant Dear Bob, ( community peopw will bé . doing and lecturer on metabolism and Every time J read your review plays-at the Venice Pavilion The applied nutrition, recently con of the New Venice Poets, I get ater (at the. foot of Windward ducted a seminar arid class for upset. I don't think you've been Avenue). Works by G. B. Shaw, members and students of the.pro sensitive. I don't think you've Karel Capek, J. M. Barrie, Sean fessional schools at the UCLA Me been fair. Take your first quote, O'Casey, as well as several orig dical Center. for instance. The lines come inal works will be performed. Dr. Eil ton's message to the from the first part of "The Sold Actors, writers, directors, peo group, "Your Health and Ecology" ier With His Head Shot Off." ple to design and build sets, stressed the fact that the effic They may be "reminiscent of the ma"ke costumes, handle lights, iency of- the inner ecology of angry young English poets." I pass out playbills, and help in the body is equally dependent up don't know. I haven't read that form the community about their on proper~3igestion, assimilat many angry English poets. But theater are needed. Readings for ion, metabolism and elimination. read further. The second part of the first play are Sat. & Sun. Foods that effectively nourish, the poem is strong-full of twist- Jan. 8/9. A workshop that will lend impetus to the 'mechanisms ings and leaps. And the last be the decision making body of of the body permitting them to line (a subtle linguistic exper the group, meets on Tues, nigfits, operate physically, mentally, e- iment) is brilliant. Taken as a 7:30, in the pavilion, and is motionally, etc., at an optimum whole, '/The Soldier With His Head open to all who are interested. level. Shot Off" -is a powerful poem. The'phone there is 399-2775. Dr. Hilton will conduct a sem And your second group of ••••••••••••••PT****-** inar on Health and Nutrition at lines? I don't feel that-terrey"'re CINDY SMITH AND BRENDA BEVAN the Westminster Elementary 1950-ish angry or f&ll of unren- from Downey School on January 4, 1971 at dered feeling. The^ come from Your father has rewards out for 7:30 PM. Admission is free. "To the Monument for the Work your capture and detention. We Everyone is welcome. (Hopefully, ers." Krusoe is trying to por may be able to help. Please con Dr. Hilton, who is from New Zea tray the dignity of a group of tact Howard and Sue, 8-23-2649. land, will become a resident of "gargoyle-hunched" peasants. Op You visited after a camping trip. Venice) . pressed by men and the elements, We live by tbe library. Don't •••-^•••••••••••••••»r-*r the workers built a road. This get caught.' Stay free! in itself is meaningful. But in Its getting so you can't even /addition, they transcended their ••^•••••••••••••*** register people to vote these "oppression. They turned their Local efforts to deal with days. Jerry Wright, a deputy re backs on their road. Revolutions the growing- drug problem have re gistrar from Venice and a member, explode out of such turnings. I sulted in the establishment of a fortuitously, of the Peace and don't see the oldness. I don't half-wayVhouse, "jSPuum Est" (It's Freedom Party, was busted on the feel the tiredness of this poem. Up To YouP-arrtKjr L.A. County pro Santa Monica Mall, Sat., Dec. ,11, I see the shadows of Che. gram-based around the use of the for doing just .that. The charge drug Methadone, as a non-debili<£ was violation of municipal code But New Venice Poets is not a lifeless Marxist träer^ Of tatirig substitute for heroin. #6423 which requires people mak / Those interested in the Tuum Est ing money or soliciting funds course, there's humor irï the program can call Jesse Pratt at for cnarity to have a permit. book. Not the "ha, ha" variety. 392-7773. Needless to say, the city attor It's always subtle, twisted, bit ter, tortured. Look at the work The Methadone program will be ney couldn't prosecute. Also, of Jennings, Dashev, Salmins. gin with only 20 addicts, but needless to say, the punishment Add to this the linguistic exper everftually will include 500. for no crüne had already been in iments of Hirschman, St. Louis, For info, call Bill Brooks at »» flicted, FREE l\NGEL A »"d ALL OTHER POLITICAL PRISOHERS NIMBER 20, FEBRUARY 1971 nui te vfM« •Htftf.m lOOD FOR THOUGHT birth trauma . P F Poandidate a WINNER ? . by Don Lubin by Randy Watsek s Bob Wells N This is what happened* The Peace and Freedom Party is fi The FREE VENICE FOOD COOP is an ef Shawn slaviir^was pregnant, and to nally going into an election where fort of the people to form a food/dis realise all the beauty of the coming there's a real chance it might win. tribution organization which brings of their first child she and Terry de • This is the at-large election for community members into more -personal cided on a natural childbirth where Santa Monica City Council coming Map contact with each other rather than i- Terry would be at Shawn's .s^-de, to com next April. Jack Hampton, Peace & solation; uses relationship of cooper fort her and to share the experience. Freedom candidate for State Treasurer ation, trust, and love rather than sel Shawn would not be given anasthetics, in last year's election {he gc.t 125,- fishness, suspicion, and exploitation; since she and Terry, and many other 000 votes — 3 times.the statewide P&F aims at providing ourselves with what people believe anasthetic at child registration), has filed with 20 we need at lowest cost rather than im birth has detrimental biochemical ef others for 3 contested seats on the posing profit-making middlemen; and al fects on both soother and baby. Santa Monica council. There is no lows us to make our own decisions a- runoff — the 3 candidates with the bout food, taking Ulis power away from On the "• afternoon of Feb. 3rd Shawn igiant control-hungry institutions. anii Terry went from Venice to the UCIA most votes get the jobs. (There's Clinic Hospital. At first Terry was also a half-term 4th ^seat with sepa The coop now has weekly distribu allowed in the labor ooom, but when it rate voting.) tions of fruits and vegetables (organ came time for Shawn to be wheeled to Santa Monica P&F figures that 2' ic and inorganic) and dairy products. the delivery room an older doctor came slots will go to incumbents, with the Staples are available monthly: flours, in and ordered Terry to go to the ante 3rd sfeat up for grabs. Jack got 1,100 nuts, oils, dried fruits, brown rice. room, Terry went outside and hunkered votes in Santa Monica last November — New members are charged a $5 depos ^ down against the corridor wall. Be saw roughly 3 times -the number of P&F reg it so that weekly orqers need not be his wife wheeled out of one room and istrants there. With this base, and -prepaid. Prices are cost plus 5%. No into another behind a closed door. He with P&F volunteer support from out one is making any money except what we stayed in the hallway to be as near to side Santa Monica, Jack may have a all save. Each member is expected ß her as he could. head start for that 3rd open seat. do his share of the work, whether boo£<* >c Inside, Shawn was drugged under an- Anyone who would like more informa keeping, packaging, storekeeping, -er ^_J asthesia for the delivery. tion or would like to contribute time driving a truck. During the delivery the older doc- or money to Jack's campaign should con- Since we have become too large to tor. Dr. Welham, came out and said to tact-Ethal (396-2575) or Van (475-3495) function well as one group,, we have Terry, "Man, I thought I told you to split into three cells, each with its leave." own area of responsibility. There will Terry pointed out that he was not be monthly gatherings of the entire co intruding or interfering, and said he op. / felt it was his time and place to be If you would like to join, go to as close as he could to his wife until whichever cell you like at 7:30 any childbirth was over. Tuesday evening. After orientation, A few minutes later aa security take part in the regular meeting at 8. guard ordered Terry away. He sayd the The cells meet as follows: police would be called/^artd*" CONSTITUTION VOID ON VENICE BEACH ? * On February 4, the Parks and Recreayon Commission held part in any public debate...in any park in the City its second public hearing on a proposed park ordinance without a written authorization granted by the Board or which if passed would include the following regulations: its designated representative." "Except as,sf>ecifica 11 y authorized by written permit is- There was a small gathering to protest the ordinance ^out . sued by the Board of Recreation, and Parks Commissioners, spoken were Grace Simon, president of Citizens to Save Ely- within the limits of any park in the City of Los Angel sian^Park; Rick Davidson from Free Venice and Peter Voung, es, (this includes' Venice Beach, Westminster .Park and attorney with Venice Neighborhood Legal Services. Without Oakwood Playground) no person shall: (partiaT~list) exception the speakers attacked not only the lecality of 1. "Sell or offer for sale any merchandise, article the ordinance but also its real purpose. (Do you think the or thing of any kind or nature whatsoever..-." commission would refuse a permit for a Mayor Yorty benefit? 2. "Play or utilize any sound amplifying system ex How about an anti-war rally?) Only peter Young's attack of cept within or upon an area set aside for such the .ordinance for its absolute and total disregard.for the purpose by the Board." rights supposeoly guaranteed us by the U.S. Constitution 3. "...post, place or erect any bills, notice, paper caused the Commission to postpone passage of the ordinance or advertising device or matter sf any kind;" and take it under advisement." 4. "Enter or remain in any park between the hours of The City's attempt to deny our freedom of speech and 1:00 AM or 5:00 AM." right to assemble cannot be ignored. The Free Venice Organ In another section the ordinance states that izing Committee, Venice Neighborhood Legal Services, and "No person or group shall hold, csnduct or address any the BEACHHEAD are following the actions of the Commission. assemblage, meeting or gathering of persons, or make or iomewhere down the road, however, it may require the action deliver any public speectis. lecture or discourse or take of all People to defend our rights. N Ams FOR,'A RESURRECTED WINO "for drink is a form of suicide wherein the partaker returns to a new chance at life . . . " J.''."' from Counsel, by Charles Bukowski Venice.. .Menace?^.' Paradise? \ I have been here once or twice. Goddam idiot. Broken heart, broken dream I can see your stiff snadows. crayon or pen, I can see your songs crawling Venice I am home again. out from behind a rock. you resurrect . The water's sound is all around., in Venice. yourself and give the wind ""(The bathroom floor is flooded more in Venice.) your whiskers. Broken pipe, water type, real tragedy. You bastard 4f villages Venice, you are home to me. and red clay. The dogs eat hash, get stoned...and crash in Venice. Red baby-dolls dance I crashed here too, while passing through, my Venice from behind your eyes. Broken heart? Broken dream? crayon or^pen?... Dance and puke and Venice I am home again. stumble forward to bow in your breath. A Sesame Song If you approach and ask I'll give you a penny. Alms for the red baby-dolls. Alms for the resurrected wino. Idiot: Dionysus-of-the-idiots! This is a rallying cry In another world Y'll , There is no other way , touch your hair. / " S. k^4^rux_a\j_y Just to paint the scene now Is substance of another day. Idle muckers called city fathers Euphemistically Have decreed The usual greed concealed In hypoçritic terms They merely wish to uplift The^ejice cajatTIs That's theTr"M rojan horse "And they don't come bearing gifts Twenty six million is the squeeze SANDPATCH AND BROKEN WALL From our pockets, you bet >. But if beauty of scene Sandpatch and broken wall. v. Were their noble dream and desire Bright sunlight, broken brick — We would light the fires and dance Gat-toothed town beside the ocean However Where -To Be blows past To Have Beautified buildings and dressed-up canals Like a whiff of fog around the corner. Are not meant for the poor Cracked pane, still scrap of curtain - Their plan will sweep »* .And at'its edge, rampaging always. Tumultuous, The poor, the disinherited, the dissenting v from the scene Inevitable -*• Give them an inch to their design A surf like white lions -- They will take the body _, Venice. A clever ploy ^y . This- master plan (cUt u)«Hs To disposses us And once you see it You just shout no And together get ourselves together Like an army That fights for its territory Defends its right to life And Fight.' T\ ]\acLt%. J)rm-^x -OL-IUL s s»tra UTTIaB ÜU by PUBLIUS we love ^ When last we left our Duke, he was, so to speak, in the jaws of fate. More specifically, the jaws of Retch, a rabid dog, or particularly, his left buttock was; and the rest of him was sunk below the waters of Clap Canal, nose first. I- PEOfLt, PEACE, magine tKe-the scene. Feisty Freak, Marvin Mooch, and Hanna Hype, who happened be passing on their raft, after a futile attempt to save our Duke, were forced to give him up for lost. To worsen his predicament, Feisty Freak, 1n a vain at and the BEACHHEAD) tempt to dislodge Puke from his muddy tomb, fcr any rate, the hold of Retch, whose yellow, slimy, cruddy fangs were inches deep in the withered and emaciated flank of the aforementioned portion of royal Puke anatomy, swung his pole a POWER foa/VTHREE mighty turn, striking him a blow on his RIGHT Buttock, and opening a wound a foot or so long, from which what blood that remained in Duke's decimated car cass, began gushing out in geyser-like spurts.) Was this an accident of fate, or peNiaps did Feisty Freak still harbor some conscious or unconscious hostility to our Puke, the Peoples's Duke, for fucking him over? (see Puke, the Little Duke, part III, Sept. 1970 BEACHHEAD, or see LIFE, June 18, 1964, or' REDB00K, March 19- 39, or forget it). We can only conjecture. For *rho can know the heart'of another? Yet the result was as it was) whatever he intended, which was, as -fate or cir cumstance would have it, further worsening his situation. For at that moment, a peter noreen swarm of horseflies, drawn from their usual haunts by the smell of royal blood to collectively assemble upon his person (or that portion of his-person). Puke ' sy I via evelyn could well have screamed in pain, but for the fact that he could not scream, or iohn abraham talk, or utter any sound at all, nose deep in mud, although he made a most stren uous attempt to anyhow at least, give audible vent to his suffering. But all jack that he could manage was a kind of gurgling noise which produced a stream of bub- rachel les up.to the surface. But wait! Oh, joy, Puke fans'. All is not lost yet. At the same time and concurrent with the attack of horseflies, there wa'r'another Puke and his desperate situation, was now moving toward him. Fortune, or the Gods would grant to Feisty and his friends another chance to save him. As the LONDON B*RITCH£S raft approached what could be seen of Puke, Feisty Freak, Marvin Mooch, Hanna Hype, and Scab, a tabby cat of neuter sex who had jumped aboard down stream in pawto (on your ^(te pursuit of a rat who shall remain nameless but is also aboard, (more of that a/n- 1853 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica ~X on, pet lovers...) decided on a rescue plan and made- ready. At that moment, hard upon the stranded bulk of what was once a royal Duke, still unascended Puke, the gasp of-pain which he had managed to emit, transformed into a single trail of bu- NOW OPEN DAILY bles, burst to the surface. Observing this, Marvin Mooch was wont to comment thusTy^JliheJÄgger's had it." Marvin, were the truth known, spoke with some au- 100 copies 8 1/2 by 11 $2.85 _thorityTfoTMn his other life he had been Marvin Mink, a submarine corps offic er. The others, knowing this, deferred to his judgement; and the raft continued 1000 copies S 1/2 by 11 $8.25 on without stopping. All of w-is, however, was not entirely without incident, for Hanna Hype who was very nearsighted, attempted to read a sign that they were T passing on the bank of the Canal, but leaned too far over the side and fell over Bayuock Pr6SS v. 396-6551 board. The sign read: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, POWER TO THE PEOPLE. She -was pluck beyond baroque 1639 West Washington Boulevard ed from the drink, but by that time the raft was far downstream, and even Feisty Venice, California 90291 couldn't read it, had he tried, which he didn't. -* The Magic Theatre As for Puke, what can be said that has not been said? IS THIS THE LAST OF PUKE? Be sure to read this column,in the next tantalizing issue of the BEACHHEAD ! 1322 Pacific Ave. Venice, Calif, 90292 S Hut OUt continued from back had been at city Hall, which said that the house passed inspection! ofen w.*> rittst* according to officer Charles E. Mc The Community House is alive but clain, Rick had taken the time off his ^struggling. (We're still in debt and own wrist watch, while the time on the . need money to pay the rent). The house lobby clock was several minutes later, has been almost completely restored and after noon. NEITHER RICK NOR HIS and has recently been given approval fiasco FRIEND HAD A WATCH. for occupancy by the Building and safe The City Attorney offered no sworn a very heavy resturaot t ty Department. We just made the dead affidavit from officer McClain, and of lunch aooday - friday line — when the inspector came around ficer McClain was not present for ques for the final «heck one of the elect dinner everyday tioning. Had Rick's attorney the op ricians had toy sjtand inside the wall 44>r ADMIRALTY WAY portunity tp cross examine Officer fic- and hold'two yireà together. MARINA DU. RR-Y. Clain and other city officials under oath and under penality of perjury, it A Free Venice Food coop is operat may have been possible to show, on the ing now at the building - meetings are part of all of them, or some of them, Tuesday at 8 pm. A Free Venice switch complicity and conspiracy to keep Rick board, communications center, with in JHW-i .foop from running the election. Judge Stil- formation about medical, legal, employ Iwell denied Rick his day in court to ment, day care, counseling, and other OS>tri- fiLS.~Sak 6~V'30 present evidence and most important, resources in L.A., has also been start JjJuach.' ö«3> J030-Ä30 to cross examine witnesses. ed - volunteers call 399-2302. Other £80? mqJna$,s.riv3Sp-903& activities planned or developing in RICK PLANS TO APPEAL „THAT DECISION: clude a pre-school playgroup (call .Ml Stringed Instruments It's the same old story. Two years Judy at 821-2889) , a community lib ago 200 Venice residents were^^locked rary and a weekly lecture/discussion s IteiVuZ&bm&v Wtvtfap) s out o"f a public hearing at City Hall. series on a wide range of topics. They had come to protest the City's The Community House is open every plan for the Canals. day from'10 am till midnight. Come on ^L-ast April three oakwood residents over. Bring your instruments. (Bring * 1723 Washington Blvd I wete arrested for trying to inform the your problems, too—- maybe we can help) Jity Council of intolerable and con There's always coffee and sometimes a Venice 821-8514 tinuing police misconduct ir their com nosh. Everyone's welcome. munity. . v Band Crafted Dulcimers On Nov. 16 Rick was arrested for trying to present a community sponsor ed alternative to the City's Plan for the Venice canals. STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE Peter Armerding, Sharon Brannon Now the only candidate from Venice, Steve Clare, Rick Davidson, the.only candidate who opposes the de Rachel Drânow, Sharon Gold, struction of our community, the only Judy Goldberg, Jane Gordon, candidate who is supported, not by* the Don Lubin, spirit of Flash obelisk, interests of property, but by the Laura stenz, Bob wells people who are being • victomized by ANYONE INTERESTED IN WORKING those interests, has been denied even ON THE BEACHHEAD CALL 399-2302 the* right to ruri for pujclic office. '"• What kind of choice \s there now in April? THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS Peterwe miss you A place for animals to receive good cal rents forcing you to move out of care, regardless of the finances of your tacky little shack. Venice is missing a unique place. For tho^é of us who en the^péople who have them, is a matter What will be your reaction when 01' of public health and life. At least a joy a few beers, a place to Stan hits on you for Spare Change, relax, or a place to dance our- vaccination and animal care counseling Brother? service should^ be started and, if • selves to exhaustion, it's a sad funds perrhited^ more services could be Reuben is looking for a place to day. Peter's Bar has closed offered. Sharon Gold intends to get open a FREE ORGANIC RESTAURANT. He down and there is no replacement. one started. She's already informed would like a place up to $150. Please No bar anywhere could compare. the Southern California Veterinary Med keep an eye out. Call Reuben at 399- For even those who "hate bars" ical Association of her intentions. 6887 or4>all the FREE VENICE SWITCH Peter's was a haven. Peter, we She's presented a written proposal to BOARD at 399-2302. miss you. the Board of Examiners in Sacramento and has discussed the project with sev The bakery outlet at 405 Ocean eral local veterinarians. So far not Front walk,_near Dudley, was, almost closed la$t month. The King David Ba GRAND JURIES - much luck. It looks like the people learn how to fight them at are going to have to go it alone, as kery on Fairfax felt the outlet wasn't usual. Anyone who would like to help making enough money and decided in Jan please call Sharon at 823-5536. POWER uary to stop the operation. The,old- TO THE ANIMALS! \ timers of the ocean front look to the bakery for their traditional kosher baked goods, and the place is a commun ^'J^éiï Stan Roberts is Past-Presidnet' of ity focus for the whole P.O.P.end of the -Venice Civic Union, a right-wing the beach. Losing it would Rave been •.C? r property owners group - for years he's a blow to the community morale. For r>/f been trying to "clean up" Venice by tunately the King David people changed kw getting rid of "undesirables" - beat their minds for the time being, and 1* w- , - *#**• niks, hippies, longhairs, Blacks, Chi- the bakery is still open. Ti canos. "% Now Stan is coming on with a new Remember the Free Venice Art Feàti- gig - he wants the people of Venice to val? Every weekend two summers ago chip in S3,600 beyond his pension so Venice artists and craftsmen brought o - he can lobby at City Hall for the re-, their photographs, paintings, leather actionary Interests in Venice. crafts, hand made dolls, wood carvings, Thirtyrsix hundred dollars!!? It jewelry, macrome, all sorts of far out looks like, with the "desirable" specu stuff to the arches where the Gas lators moving in on Venice, 0V Stan House used to be. People got together?- can't afford to live here any more freaks and straights, ;ocals and tour than the rest of us. ists, young people and old timers, and, of course, those ever present Peace Gee, St&fl, if you/d liste'ned to 6 FREE VENICE frmSii^ht be living com and Freedom registrars. Good raps -- good feeling. Let's do it again. Any \2 - ^^ fortably in a well-built low-income residence without danger of astronomic one interested call Ken at 821-2889. THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL BOOKSTORE 1 13351!! w# Washington Blvd.,Venice 1 SEXIST JUDGE TURNS FASHION DICTATOR Venice, you wouldn't-« believe it! When Rick Davidson went on trial Feb. 17 in Municipal Court for "disrupting a City Council mee ting," Marge Buckley, his attorney, appeared in court wearing a sim ple black slack suit. Judge Dittmar's eyes met dead center as he yelled "Go home and get dressed in something suitable as female a- tire or I'll give yeu five days "in jail!" Marge left only to re turn with a staff of women attorneys ready to set the old judge right. He ran. After the humor passed they went on to trial. While Marge was zonking Judge Dittmar, a flying squad of subpoe na 'servers from the Free Venice Organizing Committee - beards, long hair', headbands, Free Venice buttons --was over at City Hall put ting the City Council up against the wall - before the afternoon was over every one of the 15 members of the L.A. City Council had been summoned into court to be examined in Rick's trial. At one point Councilman Wilkinson, ambushed by process-servers in the City Hall cafeteria, confirmed the suspicions of many people in his Dis trict by denying he was a member of the City Council. Thr/playbill for Rick's trial is as follows: EVENT: City's Version: City of Los Angeles Vs. Rick Davidson Reality: City Hall against FREE VENICE The Concentration Camp Law CHARGE: City's Version: Disturbing a public meeting Reality: L.A.City Council prevents over 75 Venice res The President is authorized," without further approval by Congress, to determine idents "from speaking against City's plan to destroy the an "event of... insurrection..." (not defined), and declare the existence of Venice Canal community. "an Internai Security Emergency." Then, "acting through the Attorney General" and the FBI. "is authorized to DATE: City's Version: February 23rd, 1971 apprehend and -.. detain... each person as to whom there is reasonable ground, to BELIEVE ... PROBABLY WILL engage in. or PROBABLY WILL conspire Reality: Until community control exists with others to engage in" certain future illegal acts. "Persona-apprehended shall be confined in.. places of detention." Public L»*^83. - am Bejgtaaj iv. PLACE: City's Version: Division 17, Los Angeles Municipal Court Reality: In the streets ' RESULTS: City's Version: "If they don't shape up we'll Jock them -aJJ up" Rea1ity: You can't jail the revolution CONCEPT: City's Version: If colonization is good enough for Nixon in Vietnam then it's good enoqgh for "Travellin' Sam" in Venice Rea-1 i ty : Venice symbolizes the need for URBAN LAND REFORM, U.S.A. FREE VENICE CONCERT "trt. Other Side'- SOIS Ocean Front MCLIK mm MARCH 7 , *-"tvrow/t^Ttoi- *'•^ " 2889 s POVERTY LAW RICK DAVIDSON - SHUT OUT by Marge Buckley -, Elections for City Council axe upon tical and economic restructuring which us again, and Pat Russell's 6th Dis returns decision making power and con Venice Neighborhood Legal, Services trict seat is one of those coming up trol to the people effected by those is trying to be a community ~ïaw office for grabs. On January 11, three people decisions. This means that the attorneys spend filed as candidates; Pat Russell,Frank January 30th, a Saturday, was the most of their time relating to communi Small, and Rick Davidson. last day for candidates to file nomi ty organizations and working on prob Russell and Small,, both from'the nating petitions at the City clerk's lems which affect the community as a Demopublican Party, represent the same office. The deadline was 12 noon. whole). Hopefully, this will help to old interests, have the same old posi Rick and a friend arrived at City bring about .jsome"meaningful change and tions, and use the same eld tricks and Hall and were clocked in at the main alleviate poverty problems! but realis rhetoric to create the illusion of lobby guard- desk at 11:55 AM. After tically, law suits can not restructure choice when none, in facf^ exists. being held up by an- identification the system which creates and maintains Both support airport expansion at West cneck they got to the 23rd floor as over 30 million of its citizens in chester's expense. Both ere advocates the City Clerk's door was shut in poverty. Most important, a community of the freeway mania which is sträng- • their faces. Rick was denied permis law office is based on the premise ling L. A. and wiping out poor communi sion to go in and file his petitions. that changes take place only when peo ties aüh over the City. Both support When they protested the Clerk told ple organize to demand such changes the City's plan to destroy Venice for them all they could do would be to •**" >nd that its role is to support such a West Coast version of Miami Beach, take it to court. f -eople's organizations. and, more specifically, the Canal Com „ The following Wednesday Rick and munity for a private yacht harbor. The Venice office presently has a his attorney. Marguerite Buckley, went staff of 5 lawyers, 2 secretarys and 2 Rick is a member of the Free Venice into Superior Court to ask Judge Park: part-time receptionists. All of the organizing Committee and Peace and Stillwell for a writ of mandate compel" Xayyers have special areas in which Freedom Party. He's been active for ling the City clerk to accept Rick "---they work. three years in the fight to prevent petitions. In the Judge *s chambers Diane Wayne has been working on the destruction of Venice. He's an they learned that the hour on the main school and juvenile problems, repre architect, concerned about and know lobby check-in sheet had been changed senting both Venice High and Morning- ledgeable of the urban crisis which is from 11-55 AM to another time after 12 side students.She presently is working shaking npt only Los Angeles but all noon. The City Attorney had an infor on the problems pf people in prisons. of America. Better planning, however, mal memo from the guard's superior, c. Tom Diamond, the ^landlord-tenant is not enough. Rick knows that the C, Terrell, dated four days after Rick expert, has several suits on appeal only solution to the problems destroy continued on page 6 challenging the unfair eviction sta ing the United States is a total -poli tutes which let people be.put out of their homes for no reason, and which gives them only 3 reason, ana wnicn Court summons, just daysX^to ^nsjitCr a lowed in any other t typ1 /1e0 othf esuit me. alHe- appeal denied also is working with the community to develop ah action to eliminate the "tracking** system which channels Black blcano youngsters out öf educa tion and into low-paying,dead-end jobs. Peter Young had been very active in police MrAblens, but it is now obvious that the' law is ineffectual in dealing with police malpractice and brutality. So, he currently is working with the Welfare Rights Organization in Venice, a vit^l area, especially now that Reagan and Nixon are attempting to cut welfare and turn it over to the states with no federal supervis*ion. Peter is also working with volunteer attorneys ano^Ken Cloke on freeing the "Venice rive". Ken has" specialized in military law. He has' written a manual on that subject and^ helped organize a panel of volunteer attorneys to take service- cases. Hè is now working on the problems that veterans have" with the Veteran's Administration. Marge Buck ley is the Director of the office. She has been active in medical problems of On Sunday, January 24, five Venice expectedly seized by federal marshalls the poor, and most importantly, in the residents were returned to jail in Tuc and FBI agents from their Venice homes. Save the Canals fight, including repre son, Arizona. The "Venice 5", Pam Don- The following morning, January 20, a senting the community in its legal al'dson, Karen Duncan, Lee Weinberg, Da support demonstration" of 75 people, fight to repair and maintain the Com vid Scheffler and Teri Volpin-were tak was held when Teri and David surrender munity House on Howland Ave. All the en back to serve out contempt senten ed themselves to federal marshalls at above has been possible because of the ces arising fron their refusal to test the Federal Building in West Los Angel sustaining member's of the staff: Doris ify before a Federal grand jury in Tuc es, (see photo) Conners, Jane Gordon, Diane Grabowski,. son. The grand jury is allegedly in and Carol Owens. — It is absolutely necessary that peo vestigate Weathermen activities in ple understand the purpose of this and the Tucson area. other grand juries which have "recently The necessity of dealing with com- They had been released from jail, been convened around the country. They mur.ity problems has become apparent on Dec.29, pending a decision on their are taking powers far .beyond investig when you realize that the federal gov appeal for reversal of their contempt ation into particular alleged crimes ernment has funded only enough lawyers sentences. The appeal argued that tiae., and abrogating supposedly "inalienable to handle approximately 5% of the cas- questions asked by the grand jury are Constitutional rights. These grand of poor people who need legal as- overbroad and infringe on the witnes- juries are being used in an attempt to ance. Tc help take care of indi sesJ rights of freedom of speech, poli intimidate all of us who are interest vidual problems, two law student pro tical association, privacy, and activi ed in fundamental social,change. They grams have been developed, one is lo ty, but delved instead into a broad are using their subpoena power, the cated at the Venice Service Center, range of political activity in the. power to jail, and the threat of -in 324 Lincoln Blvd. students are avail West Los Angeles area. Their appeal dictment to try to stop our activity. able without appointment five days a was denied.by the 9th Circuit Court on We cannot allow that to happen. We, week from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The the grounds that the appeal was an at must stick together and expose tbe other is at our office, 1711 Pacific tack on the grand jury system and grand jury system for what it is,.a Ave. Students are there from 7:00 pm therefore unacceptable, and that the witch hunt, an attempt ' to cast the until 9:00 pm, Monday through Thursday. issues raised were frivolous. An ap blame for the evils of our society up Admittedly this is not enough. .But peal is now being aade to the U.S. Sup on those very people who are strug don't blame the Legal Services office. reme Court. gling to eliminate those evils. Write your congressman,* Nixon, OEO and . The defendants were never notified For more information contact' the demand that more attorneys be iriade a- of the denial of their appeal. Three Midnight Special Bookstore 1335! West vailablë. of them; Lee, Pam and Karen, were un Washington Blvd. 392-7412 SPECIAL ISSUE: the war in indochina NUMBER 22, APRIL 1971 FREE TO VENICE RESIDENTS Grow up strong g-rou1 quick ray cKildrea Built sound like stone.,ivoTvsii keen tnj hunger Grow quick ray son and daughter Quick now, "hurry Vour strength, is the only roof That can sKdter -my dying Trien \JUL On. -tkls Land u5h.ere each, "bU.de of grass 8ac A. toot of soil Is humem flesh ' iHexe it rains blood ite Tnost flouer %o Uinh. "Long KNOW YOUR ENEMY N OPERATION TOTAL VICTORY The following article is a condensa CAMBODIA Vientiane, the capital, ot a pending CONCLUSION tion of the pamphlet Operation Total right-wing coup against him. Far Eastern Victory: February, If7l, Third Edition, The failure of Nixon's "Vietnam- Economic Review, February 6, 1971, If and when the U-S. invasion of published by the Pacific Studies Center ization" was dramatically demonstrated commented: "It is difficult to see how Laos fails, Nixon will be forced again to a non-profit cooperative research organ by the Cambodian Liberation Army the neutralist Souvanna Phouma could escalate or de-escalate. Nixon could ization. Mitten before the failure of the attack on Phnom Penh's Pochentong maintain his credibility or his position resume the full-scale bombing of North Laos expedition, the pamphlet sets out Airport January 22. Fifty men, aided by in the face of a South Vietnamese Vietnam. ... The North Vietnam a detaSed analysis of the course thé local villagers and airport^personnel, invasion. He might well have to give way ese, for the first time in the history of Doctor Strangeloves in the Pentagon destroyed 95% of the Cambodian Air- to thW rightist opponents who would the war, have publicly indicated their and White House might take in case of Force. More significantly, the bombings probably be more than keen to join apprehension that Nixon is planning to suck a military fiasco as indeed took of key installations within the city were Thieu and Lon Nol in the creation of a invade North Vietnam-an escalation place. For the complete pamphlet (avail reportedly carried out by a clandestine common Indochina-wide anti- that seems even more suicidal for the able in bulk), as well as other literature, network within the city. (Le Monde. 29 communist front." U.S. than the Laos venture. An ominous write Pacific Studies Omter, J963 Uni \ January, 1971). Thus, not only is more alternative at that point would be for versity Avenue, East Palo Alto, Calif than half the country and possibly 2/3 OPERATION DEWEY CANYON 11. Nixon to resort to the use of nuclear 94303. of the population (Burchett, Guardian, weapons. He could, for example, use 30 January, 1971) in the hands of the The- invasion of Laos is part of tactical nuclear weapons on the ["Ho The allied invasion of Laos begins the National United Front, and the rest of Nixon's overall strategy to "win" the Chi Minh"] Trail and undeMhe-PMZ to most critical phase of the war. If the the countryside only under nominal war. Nixon*s top advisor, Henry Kis isolate the NLF* permanently with a invasion fails it may well become a control of the US.-backed Lon Nol singer, wrote a key article in Foreign radioactive barrier^Burchett suggests tout of the Saigon forces it may be the regime, but even the capital is insecure Affairs, June, 1969. "Hanoi's strength," that the recently-ailnounced (New York last stop before the ultimate techno from both external and internal attacks. wrote Kissinger, "is that it is fighting Times, January 11, 1971) Saigon plan logical solution to the collapse of the The Cambodian guerrillas have increased among its owh~people in familiar terri to move 200,000 to 1,000,000 peasants 25-year effort to win over the people of from 3,000 before the coup [which tory ... Not surprisingly, Hanoi has (some of the most recalcitrant NLF Vietnam to the American order: nuclear replaced Prince Sihanouk with right- shown superior grasp of the local situa peasants) from nortnemmost South attack. The key to the present crisis lies wing generals] to a reported 115,000 tion and a greater capacity to design Vietnam to the south could be to create in the deteriorating political and mili guerrillas (Time, 8 February), who are military operations for political ends." an "evacuated" zone for nuclear con tary situation of the VS. throughout backed by possibly 35,000 North Viet But Hanoi's "superior planning can sub tamination beneath the DMZ (Guardian, Indochina. namese and NLF guerrillas. Even stitute for material resources only up to January 23). Such an escalation would though the NUF launched the daring a point... We are* so powerful that be consistent with the Vietnamization- attack on Phnom Penh, Sihanouk said Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us urbanization strategy. Recently there las. November that the capital will be militarily ... Since it cannot force our have been a number of indications that the last place to be liberated because it this is in fact an alternative increasingly .qthough^theiy'nad been relatively withdrawal, it must negotiate about would give Nixon the excuse to escalate it . . .'Unfortunately, our military likely to be tried as the U.S. political little ground ctwoat in South Vietnam the war in Cambodia (Le Monde, 4 foothold in Vietnam becomes smaller prior to the invasion, the political situa strength has no political,corollary; we November, 1970). have been unable so far to create a and smaller and its ntrhtary options tion is rapidly deteriorating for the U.S. fewer and fewer. ^-^ and for Thieu and Ky. The urban political structure that could survive opposition to the VS., led by the LAOS military opposition from Hanoi after we A récent article in the New York radical, powerful Student Union, is withdraw." Times may be a "trial balloon" to test gaining tremendous support from al In Laos, the CIA mercenary army of The failure to win in the political reaction and to prepare the way for most all urban grcjps and classes (even Meo tribesmen is the only effective sphere, the recurring*resort to techno public acceptance of tactical nuclear Catholic refugees from North Vietnam) fighting force for the U.S. lt is down logical solutions this his been the pat weapons. C.L. Sulzberger wrote on for their demands for total withdrawal from 70,000 men to 10-15,000, half of tern of Washington's imperial war effort November 15-a week before the raids of all U,S. personnel from Vietnam, for whom are CIA-imported Thai mercen in Vietnam. First, military advisors were on North Vietnam-that "Limited com withdrawal of U.S. support for Thieu aries. Now the average ige of the Meo supplied; then "strategic hamlets" were mitment to conventional defense is seen and Ky, and for immediate negotiations recruits is fifteen, and .st_ny of the units constructed; Mhen a full-scale invasion as increasingly outmoded and yet total with the National Liberation Front. are apparently considering defecting to was mounted; and when that failed to warfare is a dreadful absurdity ... Con the Pathet Lao. NLF strategy, it appears, has been to win the countryside, Washington turned sequently, the search focuses on a third return to small-scale guerrilla warfare fncreaanglvcjriiy an air war, the U.S. to a nightmare assault of terror and solution -between impossible nuclear and to intensive political work, rather war in northern Laos is losing. Now devastation, precipitating a massive exo disaster and unsuccessful conventional than large-scale military operations with the invasion of Southern Laos, the dus of the peasant population to the _ warfare. The answer may well lie in the which increasingly face mainly air. Pathet Lao in the nonh, backed by the urban centers. Professor Samuel P. field of truly tactical atomic weapons." power. The Mew York Times, 27 De North Vietnamese, have overrun the Huntington, a Harvard colleague of Two. weeks before Sulzberger's ad cember. 1970, reported that officials forward American city-base of Muong Kissinger and an important policy advi vocacy of a "third solution," the New say many NLF cadres "have been in Soui and threaten to take the two major sor, called this flight from terror York Times ran an article on atomic structed to 'legalize* to obtain legal CIAbases in Laos, Sam Thong and Lorijg^ "forced urbanization,'' and in it he saw land mines (recently developed for i d en tification papers, work among Cheng. Jf these bases are overrun, the Va neat solution to the impasse which NATO), whose uses seem rather more recognized political and labor groups only forces left for the VS. in the no/th Kissinger has described. Huntington said appropriate for severing North from and even run for office." will be the Royal Lao Government that the proportion of the population South Vietnam: "The atomic land The U.S. attempt to destroy the troops, a rag-rag army which rarely under Saigon's (nominal) control had mines could block a mountain pass .cadre infrastructure of the NLF with fights but rather runs opium and pilfers risen dramatically in the three years against attacking forces by contami "Operation Phoenix"-aimed at assas the American aid. (Prior to the invasion, since the massive American commit nating the areas with nuclear fallout and sinating 20.000 NLF cadres per year there were at most 5,000 North Viet ment of men and arms in 1965. "This by caving in earth and rocks from the has failed (New York. Times, 27- De namese combat troops fighting with the change, however, has been largely, if not heights ... in sparsely populated areas cember, 1970). Meanwhile, the New 50,000 Pathet Lao guerrillas.) exclusively, the result of the movement with relatively few avenues of invasion, York Times reported on October 19 The Royal Lao Government has as of the population into the cities rather atomic land mines could be an effective that a CIA study has provided evidence little say in foreign affairs as domestic. than the extension of the Government's weapon." that at least 30,000 NLF agents had The New York Times reported on Feb control into the countryside." (The That the United States is now on the infiltrated the South. Vietnamese gov ruary 2, 1971, that "In Vientiane, Laos, South Vietnamese urban population has brink of Using nuclear weapons in Viet ernment "in an -apparatus which has <Ç& military spokesman repeated his risen from 15% of the population to nam is-no more an occasion for wonder . been virtually impossible to destroy." J country's opposition to any incursion 50-60% in the last six years.) than that it has, already crossed the The million-man South Vietnamese [of U.S. or Saigon troops into Laos] As long as forced-draft urbanization threshold.of systematic war crimes as Army which the U.S. was to have "built but indicated that Laotian troops were continues to drain the countryside, defined by its own Nuremberg Tribunal. up">fi. the last two years, is the most in no position to do anything if one Huntington continues, "time in South Imperial war tends by nature to become unstable and dangerous force in South should take place," And as so often in Vietnam is increasingly on the side of genocidal war because it lacks the pop Vietnam, according to Vietnam observer the past in Vietnam, a potential peace the Government. But in the short run, ular base and raison d'etre of more Francis Fitzgerald: "Led by a corrupt settlement (in this case between the with half the population still in the conventional conflicts. Powerless to win and demoralized officer corps and de* Royal Lao Government and the Pathet countryside, the Viet Cong will remain a support among the Vietnamese and pendent on foreign support, it behaves Lao) which appeared hopeful in the powerful force which cannot be dis unable to garner the necessary troodfc no better than an undisciplined group of middle of January {Far Eastern Eco lodged from its constituency so long as from their own increasingly disaffected mercenaries, terrorizing the population nomic Review, 23 January, 1971) has the constituency continues to exist." people, the captains of the American it is meant to protect." The desertion been sabotaged by a VS. escalation.. The logic of Huntington's position, as empire must inevitably resort to ever rate is reportedly 15% per year(l2,000 But "neutralist" Prince Souvanna Noam Chomsky has observed, is that more powerful technologies of destruc per month. New York Times, 26 Jan Phouma's capitulation to the U.S. may "to crush people's war, we must elimi tion to stave off equally inevitable uary, 1971.. not bj, enough. There are rumors in nate the people." [See box on refugees] defeat. . LEAPS TO INEVITABLE DEFEAT CHWAERA BOUTIQUE BAYROCK PRESS unbelievably low prices 205 0t«nritrntWWk loo copie« s i '2 by il S2.8S Finn: 392-8701 cHotoaid St shorn. loot) copies ' " "' " $8.2S FURNITURE MART •UOn copies " " » $14,2S PHONE saa-2740 £48 WitTMmaTia AVE. iU:U INK at NO EXTRA U.AKi.l. eurtomfit VENICE, CAUF. poaai 1630 W. 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IX When the blastbird rose out of sight, it marked the end A man and a foe-man of one of many eras. are one. rN A man and a foe-man and a blas'tbiira X At the sight of blastbirds are one. flocking to a thrown switch, even the corps of diplomats I do not know which to abjure, would look back wildly. the elegant conceptions or the arrogant consumations, XI He flew over Connecticut the blastbird lifting in a jet plane. or just after. Once, a fear pierced him, in that he mistook VI Grid-designs squared the round view-screen the pattern of his squadrom-mates with inèistent plan. for blastbirds. The stardust^f the blastbird • crossed it,Cto and fro. XII The stars are receding. The mood J The blastbird must go searching. traced in the image a•near imaginable woe. XIII It meant profits all down the line. Stocks were rising -^ VII O spare, men of Princeton, " ~~* and would continue to rise. i why do you imagine stellar birds? The blastbird sat Do you not see how Che blastbird in the cotton fields. c peasantry wear of the 70's i&*ßtehuumei htdtbidàmntt I AQUARIUS & SCORPIO = *rsa#C<>lvce*7S,/* lunch woaday - frteUy Two Two SIM SOUTH BIVMLI Dnfvc • rvt*i-v M.U_«. cAt-iroRNt* tttsntr mrytof LONDON -Bumnes •021a •**• t .UWItt44.Tr WAT W«flNM: 1A»«A Cooc 213) 274-0078 WAfttMA ML MRT, f 1H"" ~1853 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica ^t THE SPOILS OF VICTORY Is Nixon's continued «arch for a military victory in Indochina being spurred by ihe recent successes in the FROM A VENICE DELEGATE THE STORY OF 0INH THI HUONG search for oil off the South Vietnamese and Cambodian coasts? by Judy Goldberg I was 17 months in Thu Due, which Currently, sixteen American oil com America's longest war entered its The story of Dinh Thi Huong of is on the mainland. There were 17 panies, along with two Japanese firms second decade this year and most of us South Vietnam is not such a pleasant prisoners with me, all naked, in a small and one Canadian company, expect to have successfully been able to put it out one. Mrs. Huong has spent almost 6 cell. We were kept tied at all times. begin negotiations with the Thieu-Ky of our minds. Somehow the war is just years in the infamous tiger cages of regime for seventeen major oil con an abstraction talked about in terms of South Vietnam. Her story is shocking, We were allowed qnly one piece of cession].. "body count," and no matter how and at the same time inspiring. clothing and no baths. When the women Many American statesmen and busi devastating the figures are, it still were menstruating they wese given no nessmen have long thought of Southeast doesn't seem real. The anti-war move i am a housewife. My parents died rag or bath to keep clean with. Asia as a treasure chest of raw materials. ment appears to have fizzled out and and my husband also. I have a 19-year- I was 15 months in Phu Loi. Here I "One of the world's richest areas is open we're all bored with," and frustrated by, old daughter. One of my elder sisters was tortured with electricity in the same to the winner in Indochina," wrote U.S. demonstrations. was killed by a shell: The other is work way as in Quy Nhon. They tortured me News and World Report just before the But for approximately 700 women ing in the Women's * Union for the until I was unconscious. No aid was al fall of Dienbienphu. on April 16,19W. from the western part of Canada and Liberation of South Vietnam (as is Mrs. lowed. 'Tin, rubber, rice, key strategic raw the U.S. the war came a little closer to Huong herself]. My younger brother '^Tiey also hung me naked from the materials are what tbe war is really home and became a littlcjiwre real. On teaches in the liberated zones. cell by my arms and called others to see. about. The U.S. sees it as a place to April 1st thelré was a women's anti-war My daughter is in jail now, for the They also forced water and salt into my hold at any cost." conference in \ancouver, where we met fourth time. The first time was when stomach and jumped on-it to make nîe Speaking in Boston in 1965, UW's with 6 women from Indochina two she was 13. She has suffered many tor vornit. ambassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot from North Vietnam, two from South tures. She was released the first time In the cell, my hands and legs were Lodge, extendettthat analysis: "He who Vietnam and two from Laos. after 11 months. tied. Even my mouth was shackled. holds or has influence in Vietnam can The second time she was detained in . There was a piece of metal around it. affect the future of the Philippines and a prison which was broken open by They would beat me and torture me Formosa to the east, Thailand and liberation forces, and sc she was freed. when .they pleased. • Burma with their huge rice surpluses to The third time she was^ kept four Before I was released 1 was put in a the west, and Malaysia and Indonesia months. The fourth time was in 1970. ward with other worhen, 500 in all. with their rubber, ou, and tin to the She is still there. There were three old women, 70, 73 south. Vietnam ihus-does not exist in a I myself was arrested in November. and 75 years old. The oldest two were geographical vacuum from it large 1955 and released in April, 1961.1 have " religious, so they were suspected of aid storehouses of wealth and population been in prisons throughout South Viet ing the peace movement [Note: the can be influenced and undermined." nam, but most of my time was in four Buddhists of South Vietnam actively American interests in Southeast big prisons: Quy Nhon. Con Son, Thu oppose the Thieu-Ky regime]. In the course of the conference we Asian oil dates back to John D. Rocke Due, and Phu Loi. There were also 6 children, from saw films a'nd slidesshowing the incredi feller's 1911 entry into the rich fields of 1 was in Quy Nhon for 16 months. newly bom to five years of age. They ble suffering our government has in the old Dutch East Indies. Competition There 1 was tortured many times. They had many diseases and they were alt flicted on their people. Over and over with the U.S. for control of the Indies' put pins under my fingernails, and hit skin and bones. Many died there of suf again we heard them reiterate that the oil was a major reason for Japan's strike them with wooden sitcks. When they focation from the lack of air. people's war is winning, with almost all at Pearl Harbor and its subsequent did this 1 was very painful. I was released in April, 1961 after of the people of Indochina determined invasion of Indonesia* jjhey put electrodes to my ears, my they found me not guilty. I had been to drive out the American invading fingers, my nipples, and my genitals. arrested because they had suspected me army. Once they tortured me until I became to be a member of the anti-American THE COST OF-THE WAR The part of the conference that will unconscious and left me in the room patriotic association. stay with me the longest is reprinted in According to the U.S. Senate until 1 recovered. They tortured me so I would admit Sub-Cornmittee on Refugees, this issue of the Beachhead. It is just They would force water mixed with my guilt, but I was innocent. They also 6,000,000 people in South Vietnam one of the many personal stories to salt and lime into my stomach and then tried to force me to salute the Saigon have been displaced since 1964. come out of a war-torn country that they would jump on my stomach »until i flag and shout slogans in favor of the Eight million people, out of a popu hasn't seen peace for longer than any of vomited blood. This was the water puppet government. But I refused, be lation that numbered approximately us has been alive 1 think 1 »ill never torture. cause of what the flag represented. 17,000,000, have been killed, forget the face of Dinh Thi Huong when wounded, maimed, displaced, of she recounted the horrors, or the faces They also tied my hands behind my 1 was so sick from lime to time that i rendered wards of the state since the of all the delegates. Dinh Thi Huong s back and hung me in the cell. I would would cough up blood. Before 1 "was start of the war. strength, her courage and determination become unconscious and pass water and arrested I weighed 49 kilograms [J08 relieve myself in pain. lbs.], I weighed 34 kilograms when I The. bombing of Cambodia has will live with me forever. My body became black and blue, and was released [78 lbs.). already "generated" more than a Inbetween our meetings with the 1 was paralyzed until six months after They released me in hopes my ex S million refugees out of a population Indochinese we had a chance to meet the torturing was ended. ample would scare my village. When I of 7,000,000. (The population of among ourselves to compare notes d was freed, my village gave me good care, Phnom Penh atone has swollen from about what's happening in our various I was kept in a narrow ceil 3 meters and 'l went through many hospitals. 1 600,000 to nearly 2 million.) communities. Two things came out of long and 1 1/2 meters wide [10 feet by five feet]. Fifteen to 32 people shared am better now, but my health has never The subcommittee reports that this: 1 ) we were better able to assess the my cell at different times. There were recovered fromwhat it was before my 200,000 have been killed by U.S. overall trends of the women's both men and women. We were all arrest. [Note: years later, her face still bombing raids in Laos, leaving movement, and 2) it became obvious to naked. seejns worn and drawn.) • 700,000 to 800,000 homeless refu us that there is a great need for a gees. communications network and a unified We had to eat, pass water and relieve Before my arrest, I was not very in women's anti-imperialist, anti-war move ourselves in the same cell. 1 was allowed volved in the struggle. But after my re What frightens the major interna ment. This became painfully clear to us no bath in the prison although I was lease 1 decided to join my people to tional oil companies is the prospect oï after hours of ugly screaming sessions there over a year. My hair was very long fight against the Americans and an independent Southeast Asia, devel with a group that obviously came to then and dirty and covered with blood puppets. oping its own resources for the heeds of disrupt the conference and to splinter from the tortures. its own people. As Southeast Asia's the already disjointed movement to suit We were fed rice only, sometimes • important natural resources include not thrit own political ends. We learned with salt. Sometimes we had- no food only oil, but also tin. tungsten, irpn, some good lessons from this conference for three days running. Every day some bauxite, copper, nickel, and rubber, and will hopefully apply them in plan of the prisoners in Quy Nhon would die. Mrs Huong charged that the so- . _Sputheast Asian development is not ning our next one^a women's con One day five people died in my ceil. called "Vietnamization" policy of the only possible, but likely, if current ference to organize a broad-based and They died at 5 a.m. but they were not Nixon government is based on attempts independence movements achieve vic unified women's movement to deal with taken out until II a.m. Most of the tt> frighten the people of South Vietnam tory. the war. I hope that other delegates like people who shared my cell later died. into submission to Ky s regime. myself coining back from Vancouver But America's great oil families, who ( Few of the prisoners there survived. Wc As an example of the swift growth of will be able to inject the ami-war stand to lose most if Southeast Asian oil called the prison a hell on earth.... The prisma during the '^Vietnamization" movement with some renewed spirit. . comes under Southeast Asian control, strongest men became sick after only a period /still continuing/, she cited Cay Anyone interested in working on this have a strong ally in the White House. few days of the tortures. Many of my Dua prison on Phu Quoc island In early new conference can call me-. Judy, at The Mêlions (Gulf Oil), the Rockefellers friends are surprised that I survived. 1967, Cay Dua had 2.000.inmates, but 82I-2J.Ü9. ' ' (who have large interests in all com Con Son prison was on an island. 1 by October of 1970, the number of panies that grew out. of the Standard Oil : POWS was I ept there for 13 months in a cave inmates had risen to 28,000. trust |. and other oil families contributed THE BIG LIE lined with stones, it was 2 1/2 meters Said Mrs. Huong, after finishing her some $600.000 to Nixon's 1968 Was created by the Joe long and 1 1/2 meters wide [around 8 sum; "The more barbarous the army is, presidential campaign. They need only Hill Collective and re feet by 5 feet]. The cave was painted the stronger the struggle of the people. remind him (hat his political fortunes printed in this issue black and haliad twpj smals l holes. There "Many women who are innocent rest upon the continued expansion of of the BEACHHEAD with were at difftrfesnfefeai timlimet s from 15 to 22 when they were arrested become active American corporate capitalism an ex prisoners then in the revolution after their release."" pansion fueled by Asian oil and Asian their permission. Much ou" revenues. thanks, love, & .warmth. s ^SPECIAL REPORT POWs - C THE BIG LIE Lately there has been a lot of publicity about Americans held prisoner of war.in North Vietnam. With Nixon escalating the war in the face of great public-opposition, the p.O.W. issue has become more than Just humanitarianism or concern for our boys. Itihas become a "big lie".— a campaign to confuse and scare us about the war and our "enemy". This pamphlet is being published to give you other facts and views on the P.O.W.'s and some ideas on how we can bring them an 6. DO ALL PRISONERS' WIVES SUPPORT THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN? / The fact is that many, if not most, of the wives ate strongly against the war and favor setting a time-table and getting out. This is not strange, «nee that's the attitude of most Americans, including Gl's returning from Vietnam. Mrs. Lynn denn, 25, wife of Navy Lieutenant Daniel Glenn, who was cajhyred in December, 1966, has said. "Airmen- my husband included- have bomberfschools, maimed women, killed children." Says Mrs. Frankie Ford of Orange Park, Fla.. "If it's true that they will not be released until the U.S. gets out, then why don't they set a date and get out now? TJiis war cannot be successful. Why should one more man die on the battlefield or in the prisons?" (Quotes from 7ïme^27>Is Nixon using the POW issue? 7.. IS NIXON USING THE P.O../. ISSUE? From 1965, when the.bombing of North Vietnam began, to 1968, when Nixon look This picture, distributed by "Concern For P.O.W.'s Inc. office, not much was heard concerning the prisoners. Early reports gave a favorable is a fake. It »as produced*in Washington by H. Ross picture of prisoner conditions in North Vietnam. (See article Treatment in North Perot using an arH©r=J«afid/props. Vietnam, pg. 2) 1. WHO IS BEHIND THIS "CONCERN FOR P.O.W.'S" CAMPAIGN? When Nixon took office, things changed. A barrage of stories started coming out of Washington. "Nixon directed his top officials to speak out on the subject JPOWsJ al Military and CIA men, among others. The POW campaign claims to be "non- every opportunity." (Time, 12/7/70) J v.. political." But the father of Carol Hanson (she's one of the campaign leaders) trained CIA agents like Gary Powers for U-2 flights (Sana Arm Register, 1/ 30/71). It's no Did the conditions of U.S. prisoners suddenly worsen? Was new information surprise, then, that Powers himself is now an active supporter of the campaign. In San available? According to the Christian Science Monitor, Nixon had a plan : to embarrass Diego, a leader of the "Concern" campaign is the son of the American Commander in Hanoi with a propaganda barrage on the prisoner of war issue. As the Monitor put it, the Pacific, Admiral John S. McCain. Another big "humanitarian" is H. Ross Perot,a "The VS. sought to put Hanoi dramatically in the wrong before world opinion on a billionaire supporter of Nixon, who has organized trips of FOW wives and families all sensitive issue like that of the prisoners... It is assumed that the whole prisoner issue is over the world, deliberately raising their hopes and frustrations without any way of troublesome for Hanoi." (11/27/70) ' helping them-only to get publicity. P They claim their campaign is a simple "non-political", "humanitarian" project- but, 2. DO ALL RETURNED P.O.W.'S TELL STORIES OF "TORTURE" > then why aren't they concerned about the U.S.'s and Saigon's prisoners being killed AND "BRUTALITY"? and brutally treated, or 211 of our brothers who are "prisoners of war" kept on the No. The horror stones come mainly from one man. Lt. R.F.. Frishman. While in battlefields and in the stockades by the same politicians and generals? Vietnam he said he was treated welMSee article inside.) But IWwas "debriefecr*-for two weeks after being released, and now tells stories about being kept in a-hot room with mosquitoes, the' way the Vietnamese live. He talks about "poor medical husband included treatment" , even though he was given an elaborate and expensive elbow operation by the Vietnamese. 3. WHY DQN'T THE OTHER RELEASED P.O.W.'S TELL GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT OR - THE NORTH VIETNAMESE? Some have tried. Michael McClure and George Smith, former prisoners of the N.L.F. said after their release that they were well-treated. "The United States has nothing to gain from the war in Vietnam, for the Vietcong are the people." The Army charged them with aiding the enemy (punishable by death) and kept them totally isolated for months on Okinawa. Finally, the charges were dropped for lack of evidence {New Xork Times, 12/1/65). Eight POWs besides Frishman have been released by the North Vietnamese, and most have been ordered by the Pentagon to keep silent-. they wouldn't make the claims about tortuic. Jon M. Van Dyke, a former State Department employee, interviewed Joe V. Carpenter, one of those released in 1968. He wrote, "Carpenter said he had not been tortured, in general,' he stated. 'My treatment was good.' When asked why the Defense Department would not allow him to speak freely even after the press conference. Carpenter responded, 'It's all part of a plan.' " ("Were They Tortured?", 77«? TVarion, Octobet 6,l969)Only "stars" like Frishman get the honors, paycheck, and permission to speak, while the others are muzzled and tve bombed schools, maimed threatened with courtmartial. . .-, f 4. HAVE THE NORTH VIETNAMESE VIOLATED TOE GENEVA women, kilted chidren. * CONVENTIONS? / On one point- they haven't allowed total inspection of their camps, since they ,8. WHAT'S WRONG WITH "TELLING IT TO HANOI"? . know Nixon will use^lhat information for commando-type raids, like the flop at Son (1) This creates a climate of hostility which makes peace negotiations, harder- Tay Individual msunces of rrastreatmenr may have occured. But, in general, the especialiy after, the peace proposals made by the N.L.F. at the Paris talks in October, treatment is humane- as documented by many non-communist Western rçporters- 1970. Nixon and his friends in the "non-political" POW campaign want lo hide this especially when compared with US. Army rrealment of its prisoners. Recently. from the American people. Americans saw a televised Christmas interview with nine POWs, they said they were (2) It floods Hanoi's limited mail facilities, making it hard for mail from POW well-treated and looked n:\New York Times, \212& 170) ^— famihes to get through. (3) It serves as a smokescreen for Nixon's continued escalation of the war in 5. HOW DOES THE U.S. MILITARY TREAT ITS PRISONERS? Indochina. After all, Johnson won by being for "peace" in '64, and then Nixon in '68 Compared to the few hundred held in North Vietnam- for bombing the country because he supposedly had a "peace plan." Now thai the generals and politicians who without even a declaration of war- the US. military turned over hundreds of want to keep the war going have played out their cards and carï't defend themselves thousands of "VC suspects" to the Saigon forces. Most of these are routinely tottured politically, they are trying to fall back an the old "big he" technique which they've and killed. Recently the horror of the Con Son "Tiger Cages" were exposed used to fool people before. Remember the phony stories of Vietnamese "aggression" (life 7,17/70). Turning prisoners over to the Saigon forces rs itself a violation of the and U.S. ^"victories" in the Tonkin Gulf, Khe Sanh. Hamburger Hill, Cambodia, and Geneva Conventions. With over two hundred thousand prison«« now in South Son Tay? Or how for five years now the war has supposedly been "almost over"? Vietnam the U S government has constantly violated both the letter and the spiril of (4 ) The campaign places the burden of guilt on North Vietnam, for shooting down the Conventions. And let's nor forget the hundreds of Mannes and Gl's in stockades and detaining the men who have practically destroyed their country- flying raids and brigs m Vietnam and elsewhere- put rhere for rhe "crime" ol resisting Nixon s war without a declaration of war, while we have been kept tn the dark. It's those who sent propaganda. (See article Con Son Tiger Cages, pf. 3) - ;. them in the first place, who profil from andkeep up the war, thai are the guilty ones. ' s \ facts and deceptions point cannot be separated from the need to anive at a pljjn for the withdrawal of US As the Vietnjoî war has become mcieasmgly unpopular in the US, Nixon has troops Traditionally, prisoners are only exchanged after the terms foi ending a war are sought 10 gam support fat continuing the war by manipulating one last issue, the settled. If some of the POWs have been there a "long lime" it is because the US lias POWs tPmoneivof Wai.i Over the past year. Nixon and othei pro-war figures have been waging war on Vietnam for a long time. launched ? multi-billion dollar "public lelations" campaign to convince Americans thai Through this issue, the US is diverting atiention away from the real atrocitia US pilot* captured in Vietnam are being treated barbaiically. L- committed by the US and the Thieu-Ky legime. For example, on December .Î, the "Public service" commercials, portraying the lonely men and playing on the Chicago Sun Times and other papers reported that Saigon "riot police beat anil emotions of POW families, have saturated the media. One spot features a child asking tear-gassed more than 100 women prisoners and threw lye or acid on the group." "plaintively, "Mommy, will Daddy be home for Christmas?" Bumber stickers reading Earlier this year, Vice President.Agnew refused to see or recejw a message from South "Have a Heart. Hanoi," are widely distributed. Bell Telephone, in a 4 state area of the Vietnamese (not NLF) mothers inquiring about the unknowlffale of their 80 children mid-west, sent out with its tegular bill this month [December, 19701, a post-card to be m Con Son prison. sent to Hanoi, demanding information about the POWs. H. Ross Perot, a millionaire supporter ol Nixon, has organized tups of POWs wives and families over the world- Clearly the Nixon government's interest in the POWs is political, not humanitarian. If it were humanitarian, why does it manipulate grieving families, increasing iheii Nixon ha* no intention of becoming the first US president to lose a war. In order to anguish' with unfounded stories of their torture and death and wild goose chases escalate the war, Nixon must arouse more emotional support for his policies and more around the globe thai it knows will build their frustrations? If it were Humanitarian, hate towards the Vietnamese people. By focusing public attention on the North why does it respond to the DRVs efforts to notify families of those who have died Vietnamese, he hopes to quiet cnticisrn of his actions and failures. Because people in the US know faile about the POWs, he has found that he can use this as a political tool with retaliatory raids thai endanger the possibility of families receiving more for manipulating oui emotions about the war. information? If it were humanitarian wAy is it not concerned with the tale of thousands oj" prisoners and innocent victims, in' ihe South? If it were humanitarian, why does it not end the war? ^^_ Before we can even hope to release the POWs and bring an rnft In Ufi rrrrfim ni" Vietnam, we must see and expose this distorted hale campaipa fin what it ts- g strategy for prolonging the war. \ -reprinted from off our backs December 31. I°70. were they tortured ? - Conhary to what ihe Nixon adnitntshatum would have us believe, most renonces have brought back favorable impressions about the conditions of prisoners in North Vietnam. And aside from ihe usual problems of being a prisoner anywhere in the world, the POWs have not given these tenoilers any evidence of biutalVlv and mistreatment. In the beginning of 1967, loi inslance. Rabbi Abiaham !.. Feinbcrg and Rev. AJ. Musie visited two captives in North Vietnam, These prisoners were un- named. Inn n is. HtV»wn that one was a Captain from Florida and the other was a Lieutenant lioni Kansas. Ihe Captain said, "f was ejected (Vom the burning plane expecting la be killed oi tortured, but instead...awakened in the care of a nuise." The lieutenant had ihoughuhal the Noith Vietnamese "would huiy turn alive" bin they had treated biro -'darn well." (Afcw York Titrws,Su\y 4,llX.X> Three pilots. Major Jaines F. bow. Major Fred Nealc Thompson and Captain Joe Victor Carpenler, were released by the North Vietnamese in r%8 (New York Times. August 5, 1968). Major Carpenler said, when asked about brainwashing, lhat he had not been subjected to any "psychological testing." Major Low lold «f die "active daily routine" of the prisoners thai consisled mainly of meals and exercise periods, Majoi Thompson described the prison food as different lioni American foods, bul said it was* How Nixon is using this issue became clear during ihe recent "raid" on a POW camp "substantial." He said he weighed the same as when captured. {New York Tumw Inly in Nurth Vietnam. The raid was justified by Defense Secretary Melvin ™ 4.1968. ^ response ,„ the DRVs |N.,„|, v,e,„a,n's| release „f names „f POWs whö wc de d SeMtt RC,a m ' iÎn advancA e an'"1,1d Ihe name s ''"'?'used a"s an excus"" e <•''•»»-•'-•"•"«•«.-hfor il . raid fanned rur.hei. while rhe ,a,d was supposedly ,„ „ce pnsonct., the government oZl^thi, 7 bcf"reT'1 """ ""• "V -W àem empty far three „»„„Its. Whar a,c ihe lacrs and fteeepttons upon wh.cl, the POW campaign is built? R* lh, number* g ,.,„ , ^ up Hi 1WK |970 . £ 'J h . ftnra „n „ , ,„h tm lhc,c wm |sa nicn ^ m m a)| s t V - Ir, OU,,.,, Un.d sa,d 2«», „, November.,, was .WW and on December ^70 „e As,a, and he pubhuty „„ the rssBe implies llial ,herc has been no emmumcanon »tL r'n",l". ;he' "" R? "* *** V'—- •"•« 'leased ™,:,, •h SS i ta'"ps and :: k""wn '" -* dcad'tre" lh' •*•"-*» «Hv claims ha, Ml p, „ts a,e missing „ve, Nor* V,,,nam, „ is reasonable ,„ assume ,ha m ™nZ?' J""U","'d ".' d'ld Whc" **«*«» •*» *»• d"»-- Ihe icmain 1 7 à EStaiÄsri" ^ 'T1"- *— - SEE Ihe POW publicity implies thai the DRV prevents communication on this issue, in fact, the DR> initialed setting up the Committee el Liason with l-annlies uf Service men Detained in North Vietnam, which has Us office in New York City JS a régulai channel ft» information about and communication with prisoners. There have been over 2.500 tetters received from POWs through the committee The men*can send and leceivel teilet J month JIHJ recede -i 6 ok pft^^fl'' evoty othei month. Further, about 40 of tKcTOWs have been visited jnd interviewed by tlie Western 'press in North Vietnam. Perhaps the most insidious claim made by the US is that ihe DRVs tiealment ol prisoners is "barbaiic", building up lacist images of orientais as siib-lmnijiT.. As we've already seen. most ot the discussion of torture has been based on the testimony ol one POW,U. Robert F.'Fii>hiiun iScv nsltde.POWs- TheBigl.ie.p^A) The US governmciil also disions ihe Situation by say trig thai Hanoi refuses lu negotiate on this mallei, first, ihis ignores the fact that nine men were released' through tbe peace movement and the possibility was open loi mure such leteases. but tbe IS government did hoi respond to this mutative. Furthci,* an exchange ol prisoners ria* cofiMsicntlv bee» a point in the Vietnamese peace proposals; but this i There is a strong bond between the Vietnamese and American Another flier who was interviewed in No.lit Vieitum IS hhjqi Kogei Dean Ingvaison, who made statements about the Notth Vietnamese people, lie staled. "It con son was a marvelous expciieuce. Il allowed me to undviMand and appieciaic ihe gnat spirit ol sacntice al this hetoic people." lie conltiiued. "Toward the Vietnamese we have been wrong and unjust and outs has been a teal i|jgiinimi .Hid a despicable one."./ (too*,July45Jt>o,»l \ Mat*» James F, and Captain Jiv Cjipentei. win» weie both released in h-mS, nude ti ger cages statements at Ihe ceremonies of iheii icIcjsC in Hanoi. Majoi Low said. " When I return to the USA I will explain the attitudes of the Vieiiumcse people and then great "Repu'svul.ilivcs Augustus H.iwkius and Willi.nii Andcisou visited t'dsi Son (South deleiinination in the tight ten independence and unification of Vietiuniigainsl the US aggiessoisrl believe llut llie VielnauK-sc people want peace and I .imceitam that Ihe Vietnam», accoinpainod by au aid. loin linking, and IW Luce, .1 Vietnamese LS people want ti un». We think we should woik KM such peace aiouud the world." »peaking social wotkei, ihey weie givey a loin ol the model pusoii conduioiiv. I he {New York Tintes, July 19,196S) camp commandant did his best lo keep the .wiet ol the cage-, bin ihe Msilois got Captain Caipentci also had stiong feelings abool the Vietnamese people. Ik'staled. thiough and entered two banacks-bke buildings e.ich was «.lean and bare »id had a 'My etiktirtMis lhis>day RM mexpiessible by winds. I owe this deep giatilude. lo ihe calw.dk ovcilooking a double u-w ol heavy, ciosslulclicd hat*, r\n tl.nkuig lotik people and tire government of ihe IViih^cialic Republic i-f Vielnam and to lite geueial picture», the wait*-« looked down into Hie itgei cages. IX-spiie then tiiiduigs. ihe pool teat deparluicni o( tbe people's army. ) have been able lo observe the official.70-page committee report bad only eight lines ou comblions in eivih.ui prisons dctcitniiialioii and unity of the Vietnamese people. 1 hope thai by my efforts, upon in Vieluaui and nude no icleieiice to what ihe congressmen s.iw. my return home, I will be able to iclay to lite American people this leeling ol "Chief American advise, on Vietnamese law .eufiHcemeui and rtnaoo technique is delermtnaltoii.... liiere is a stiong bond between Ihe VieiiiJinese people and ihe Fiaiik F*. f, 'Ki'd"> Wallon, g IOIUK'I LOS Angeles police oltuei who mice commanded American people stemming from (he levolûlions of both counliies." ( New Yiwl the Walls disincl. Ik' visits ton Son icgulaily and. m a signed s.alcinciil handed lo llie Times July FU^oX) visitors on the way theie.said Hie prison is 'a correctional insliluiion worthy ol Ingbet latmg than some prisons in Ihe United Stales ' l-ilei be KthJ lliein, 'This place is mo>e ;•:•:••.:.»»:.:.:•••:•:•:•:•: •:-:•:•:•: like a Hoy Scout iccieationai camp." After ihe cages were found,be said, "You have no J* iiglil to uileileie in Vietnamese affaira. Vou aien'l supposed In go poking ymu nose iiilo doois ihal aien'l youi business.' \ TfMhe bars cionclied llie piisoneis. Moie lliau halt oi Iheifi weie women. une gui was only IS. Ihe an was tout, ihe heal siiipclymg. |he hais weie enisled >hine, which the piisoneis say llie guards lip down on lliein m punishment. TuTumg then eyes ...ml choking Iheii lungs. All ihe piisoneis weie sick with I H open soies, eye diseases and iitilnuliilitm. Ihe sickest. Lnce says, lay on Die llooi while* olhers fanned liuin with odd bits id dofli. lew could stand the lesull, llie piisoneis claimed, ol being consi.mily shackled. One prrsonei said-lhey stole handliifls o| guv, lo eat oiijhc way hack on ihe way back Irom healings, and \naivd li/auls, l-ecihs and olhei insects and ate lliein alive, tilling oil .nul sliaiiug pieces." * -ailicle and ptwta hom Life, 7/17/70- ' : — LT. FRISHMAN-- -m- at *•• ~— LIKE A MAN FULL OF SIN.' And what about Ll. Kobeil l-'tishniait, the iti.nr who has made the uiaionty ol the >tateineiits llial tell ol loi lute and biulahly' the sKmes that he gave to newsmen. OIIOI In his "dcbneliiig."' do nol speak ol loilute oi siiflenng. Instead, they speak ol i nun who expected fhe woisl and not llie best. In an tutcivicw with Onantia I'albci. Ll. I iishm.in said. "7 was immediately surrounded bv the villagers. Tliey wen- terribly angry...And I thttuglit, 'Now they arc going lo *Är* /iK-.' They would haw been rigtil ij'tbey had. don't you time, so'' I liud destntyed their village and brought them death and^iiluipfnnesx I felt blx a man full of sin." Wlien asked how he was treated, Liislimaii icspoudcd. "Cimdl Real good... 'flic meal is greal...Ttiey give ou- (tlcnty of final, und it is goad. Thev couldn't treat me better. " About -,3? wai. lie said, "/ didn't knata natch ahmt this war. Just what ihev lohl mc: that North Vietnam was the aggressor against Ihe South and tltat if the Americans didn't sttw thcm...Now I kih>w the truth. Now I 'knote that the Americans were Ihe aggress*** in Ihe South, Uten- is no justification for that... A huit this fact, that this is T, I have no doubts. "(l.o*tk July IS. t'n.oi W v .P . .- SS What happened atlei the situation <>\ ihe (on Sr.n pnsoners was esruwcd*' A signed stalemciil was sniuggled oui id Chi lloa Prison, Souih Vietnam. ItHmg < Ich oui demands unsolved. OntAugust K, It» Nguyen lau ordered Ibcltustnts lo amtc into the cells and heal us with clubs.table leg>.mm o»ds, and HOU wtteds. ïbdy when hlood had sticained eimi.i*h did be oidci his DUDüCts lo ion %3à And what happened lo J)un Luce, the man who led ihe ( iingrcssnicn lo the "1 i^'ti Cages' ' "Soon allei ton Son made Worldwide headlines. l.u.e says his Inends tound theimclves being loUowed I» and horn Ins home m Saigon. Several weeks bçloflt Ins Souih VictnarnCSC pre^^ crcdenlials were due to expire, a government official 'old 1 ucc diey would nnf l>c renewed because he was no loiigvi 'irvclcome HI Saig'in...Luce's Vieinamese résidence visa expiies m I ebiuary. and sn lai the cmbavsy i.as^howTi no signs that it will help him to gt^j a new uncflNtvùtteek, U/2J/70) F there any wonder why reporter-, hesitate to send borne news horn Vietnam whi ii Ihe goveNimciil (Joesii'i bke'.' Oi that aller more than live year, id UtVCfUp blackoiils." and lies abuU| "pacitiealion, "clearing oui sanctuaries and supply Imc and ••Vielnami/alioii." boldly »nyhody lakes seriously whai Ihe government and thu big money media try lu ich u^ In the rtegotiations to end the Korean War, ThtT POW Issue delayed a set clement for 18 months. During,that . time the UN forces suffared 140,000 casualties (in cluding "9000 Americans killed.; Trie delay was due to a little p'abli r.i zed campaign of ' re-education' camps, designed to bring about mass defections fror; ' communism ' to the 'free world. ' Today trie CS gov' ; . is waging the same campaign in Vietnam. people stemming from the revolutions of both countries' peace with the Vietnamese people The present POW campaign overlooks the must basic fact about the war: both the majority of Americans and (he majority of Vietnamese are against US involvement in Vietnam. The Saigon regime is crumbling.. It has been marked by one military coup after another. The last elections were such a fraud that the candidate who came in second , for president is now in jail. Prostitution and Ihe black market are rampant in Saigon. Even with US aid, the Saigon government cannot icontrol the country. Only 10% of Saigon's soldiers stay in the army long enough to fight. On the other hand, since I960, when President Eisenhower himself admitted it, there has been little doubt that the Hanoi government represents and serves the people of the North. And now in the South there is a Provisional Revolutionary Government -(PRG) which claims to represent most of the people and countryside. The PRG has distributed the land to the peasants, set up schools and hospitals for people who have never had them before, and actually governs these 'liberated territories." The US claims, of course, that the PRG rules its territories throug/ the use of terror and force. But massive terror and fotce have not won South Vietnam-for the Americans or the Saigon generals. The PRG exists and functions in the face of constant bombing because it meets the needs of the people and has won their wide spread support, c—"—""" The role of the US in Vietnam has been a crime ajgywi humanity. The US military has made Vietnam a virtual testing ground for weapons- introducing new anti-people weapons such as napalm, phosphorous, fragmentation JOINT TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED bombs and sophisticated chemical and biological warfare Ifchniques. In 1968 alone, STATES. SOUTH VIETNAM AND NORTH VIETNAM , 302,890 South Vietnamese were injured by defoliant sprayings and 089. 300 hectares of land were ruined much of this damage is permanent. PREAMBLE: Be it known that the American and Vietnamese people are not enemies. The war is carried out in the names of the people of the United Slates and South Over one million South Vietnamese have been physically uprooted from their Vietnam but without our consent. It destroys the land and people of Vietnam. It homes, their land and their way of life. Many are put in "strategic hamlets." a nice drains America of its resources, its youth, and its honor. name for concentration camps, so the US Army can watch over and protect them. Others have been forced to take their chances in the cities. We hereby agree to end the war on the following terms, so that both peoples can Here in the US, tlie war has had a disastrous effect on the economy. Well over live under the joy of independence and can devote themselves to building a society half of the federal budget goes toward military ^spending; as a result in this rich based on human equality aqd respect for the earth. In rejecting the war we also reject country the schools, hospitals and welfare programs are all going broke. After years of all forms of racism and dgbrijni na^nigainst people based on color, class, sex. inflation, we are now entering a serious depression. Unemployment is up 45% in the national origin, and ethnic grouping wtrmi form the basis of the war policies, past and last two years- yet the cost of living is still rising out of sight.1 As a result, most present, of the Umted"States government. people's real wages or purchasing power has' decreased by 5% in the last two years. And, as usual, in the midst of this crisis, the profits of many giant corporations Y: TERMS OF THE PEACE TREATY continue to increase. The war has caused widescale discontent and revolt on most high school and college X.The Americans agree to immediate and total mtthdmrQl from Vietnam, and publicly campuses in the country. Even within the military dissenlion is massive. At home, to set tha 4ate by u&ich all U.S. military forces will be removed. National Guard units have refused riot duty; in Vietnam, whole companies have 1. The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U.S. government publicly sets a date refused to go into combat. More and mo** cases are being reported of Gl's killing their for total withdrawal: They will enter discussions tu secure the release of all American own officers. prisoners, including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam. £ There will be an immediate cease-fire between U.S. forces and those led by the The London Express has reported that as many as 60 American soldiers a week are Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. crossing over to the NLü In addition, there have been uncountable acts of sabotage of 4. They will enter discussions on the procedures to guarantee the safety of all , • PLEDGE. By ratifying this agreement, we pledge to take whatever actions are I appropriate to implement the terms of th,is joint Treaty and to insure its accepiance by I the government of the United States. I HEREWITH RATIFY THE PEOPLE'S PEAŒ TREATY: • NAME , •£- I PHONE J ADDRhSS . I CITY ZIP- what The obvious solution to the POW problem cais to end nthe wa r and negotiate the release of all prisoners. Since Nixon refuses to do this, but insists on escalating the war even \ P.O. box 6204, King St Sta further., the responsibility falls on us. the American people. toWgotiate our own peace treaty with the Vietnamese people. This is no easy step, no publicity gimmick for any politician or political faction. It i Santa Ana, Ca 92706 is something we have been driven io by long years of stalling and deception by one adminisrraliorf after the others , - L . , j Signing the People's Peace Treaty is not like signing just another petition to and the THIS POW PAMPHLET WAS PREPARED BY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF. war. Each person or group which signs pledges itself to nerton, al whatever level it feels THE JOE HILL COLLECTIVE OF ORANGE COUNTY, CA capable of, to bring the war ro a close and force Nixon to set a dale for total *> withdrawal. Joe Hill was a revolutionary labor organizer «ho fought in the This is nol just anothei "gieat event" aimed at making headlines and then being Mexican revolution of 1910 and as an IWW member took part in rev torgorten while the war drags on. ll is a real commilmem to steady work and action olutionary activity around Southern California from 1910 to 1913. and it is alive roday at the grass roots. Hill was. framed for rauçder by the state of Utah. Before he was We. in (he Joe.Hill Collective, are organizing peuple in Orange County lo shot by the firing squad his .last words werfe— endorse and implemenr the People's Peace Treaty. We discuss it in the factories where some of us work, the colleges where we study and Ihe neighborhood where we live. If " DON'T MOURtyORGANIZE you want to work on Ihe Treary. » would like more information, please contact m. P.O. Box 6204, King St. Station, ' Santa Ana, Ca._,;_92?06 JTTÎECOUH8EOF HUMAN EVENTS | IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIUillillllilllili A gay women s group is torming in Ihe Venice Fiee Theater (people's the Santa Monka-Venicc area. thea le relocated in the Venice Pavilion, WATERWBEDS Tne next meeting will be Thursday at the foot of Windward Street and the everting. 7:30, at 2817 1/2 3rd Street Ocean Front Walk. (upstairs rear), Santa Monica. You can Their current production "The call Heather for more information. "Adding Machine" opens Friday, April 392-8250. 9, and will run Friday and Saturday They can do their share for peace. It starts Take note of the Renaissance Pleasure nights for six weeks. Curtain time is right at home. Simply share, a water bed. Only Faire at the Paramount Ranch in Agora. 8:00 p.m. 49.5MT.ing) , a fuljl 9-10 inches deep. Or a spe It starts April 24 and runs every week Further activities are: cial at only 34.9S(King). Add a frame for 19.95 end in May. See you at the Faire. Children's theater, to be formed by aa+ Prepare the scene with: Carburetors, Pipes, The crunch of the speculators ripping children, 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. every Air chairs. Water chairs. Candles, Lights, & Pos off Venice has hit the trailer court that Saturday at the Pavilion ters. nestles between the dirt rampart of the General meetings every Sunday. Marina and Grand Canal on the south 12.30 pm., at the Pavilion TIE DREAM MERCHANT side of the Washington Street bridge. Drama workshop at 8:15 p.m. Safeway-Lincoln Square Shopping Center The residents have been given 30-day every Tuesday at the Pavilion 205 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, (394,-BEDS) quit notices by the present owners, with -Musical workshop at 7:30 p.m. Open 12:30-8:00 tf,W,Th,F; Pat 11:30-6; Sun 1-5 ihe deadline for getting out of April every Wednesday at the Pavilion Closed Tues. 31 st even though the residents had Readings are at the Pavilion on Satur •n promised a 90-day notice. days and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. the residents have formed a com For further information call Mardee BOOK REVIEW: ATWARWIIHASIA J*! (396-6846), Connie (396-5139), Carol mittee, and are asking foi an extension At War with Asia, by Noam Chom helpless peoples. Why docs the strongest (396-3852- before 12 noon) and Sandy. through the middle of June to permit sky (Pantheon Books, Sept., 1970), is a military power on earth inflict so much (821-2600). If no answerfs), come to the kids to finish school and to take powerful polemic. The theme is the all- evil on little peoples'? In Dean Acheson's the theater and rap and help it's your some of the pressure off the oldtimers. pervasiveness of American domination words of May, 1950. he said, *lt is the theater too, if you want it to be. who can't find other trailer courts to of Asia, not by butter but by bombs fundamental decision of American move to. Join the Save the Canals Committee, fragmentation bombs, phosphorous policy that the U.S. does not intend to The United Farm Workers union which meets most Thursdays at 8:00 bombs, napalm and more and more permit further extension of Communist (AFL-CIO) has asked the help of the p.m. at the Community House, 468 bombs. This disciplined, scholarly work domination of the continent of Asia or people of Venice in boycotting Safeway Howland Ave., al Eastern Canal. establishes beachheads of knowledge on the Southeast Asia area." markets .... Food Giant market, jusi just how the war in Vietnam spread to Chomsky wishes to clarify, expose up Lincoln Blvd. from the Sah rSTAFF FOR THIS ISSUE Laos and Cambodia, involving Thailand, and repudiate the necessity of wai store, has been the most cooperative Sharon Brannon South Korea and the- Philippines on a crimes justified by Americans in the chain to date in working with them. Brent Bryak^ master-to-servant relationship. name of fighting communism. Whjl the Mike ClareC- The bloody horror of this war in Asia U.S. really wants, maintains Chomsky, ** Tbe Free Venice Switch Steve Clare is lold in unemotional language by a is a permanent base in South Vietnam board needs volunteers. Rick Davidson linguist who knows how significant it is for economic expansion. This would If you can spare three Abe Dranow lo be exact and truthful. He documents explain the long, protracted war in hours a week, call 821- Rachel Dranow the sources of his factual material on addition to the remarkable resistance of 6101. It is located in Judy Goldberg the uprooting of the Laotian and South the Asians to il. the Conatunity House. Jim Somers Vietnamese people, the jailing of their At War with Asia (available in y oui Val Starr dissidents in primitive conditions (recall ,Venice library) is dedicated lo the peace Any individual, business or organiza Laura Stenz the investigation of "tiger cages'» by movement, which Chomsky hopes will tion in the Venice, Culver City and Rick Stenz 'ngressmen), the destruction of intensify its resistance to a war machine Santa Monica areas that needs odd jobs Randy Watsek vaätges burnt to the ground, the defolia hell-bent on destroying entire civiliza oi part-time workers should contact The Bob Wells tion of crops and the subsequent in* tions if they refuse to be subjugated. Southern California Community Service Articles and photos _ cidence of cancer and mental retarda Like a weapon, cold, blunt and painful, C o ni pan y. The telephone is (213) can be mailed to the tion in the children. It is a book with it socks it to your head. The reviewer 396-6266. the basic works of SCCSC BEACHHEAD, Box 66 4, strong indictment material against the suggests you read this rational, per is to seek out and secure regular pait- Venice, Calif. 90291 U.S., which has caused untold devas suasive expose of the Asian scene. And time jobs for persons who donate their tation in the killing and maiming of for those who â"re silent, she asks why. time and efforts to non-profit works. 13S5 Wostwood Blvd. HASHER PHOTOGRAPHY Professional Candid Photography days children our specialty ! NtlMt20S OreuZ, Front WILJ> 392 6292 /In the Service of Their Country: War SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS IN LAOS AT THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Resisters in Prison/Trials of the Can- BOOKSTORE, 1335 1/2 W.Washington tonsville 9/Prison Notes, Barbara Blvd., Venice, paperback tides include: Demi il g The Indo-China Story, Committee of Concerned Asian ScholarsMr Her with Periodicals and pamphlets include: Asia, Noam Chomsky/ Vietnam: Inside Ramparts Magazine/The (treat South • Story. Wilfred C. BurchtujHo CJW Asian War (SACLA)/Viet Report/War Minh, lean Lacouuç/Ecocidejn Indo Incorporated, by the Student Research china, Weisberg/ Vietnam: Between Two Facility/Wemam.' A Thousand Years of Truces, LacoutreIVietnam, Viemam. Struggle, Cannon /Operation Total Felix Greene/f'ierniim." North. Bur- Victory Eebmary 1971, by Pacific che.it/The Second Indocltfha War, Studies Center, a free pamphlet with Burchett/77K" Vietnam Reader, ed. by background 3nd analysis of Laos. Raskin and baÜ/Laos: War. and Revolu tion. Adams and McCoy/77te Southeast Newspapers include : Asian World. Keith Buchanan!Behind the Unes, Hanoi, Harrison Salisbury/ South Vietnam: In Struggle, the Hell h a Very Small Place: Bernard offkia] organ of the South Vietnam Fall/Afy ljzi4, Seymour Hersh National Liberation Front. We - also carry various U.S. movement papers Paperback titles of the. struggles of which discuss the war and local area ) / American war resisters include: activities against war and oppression ' Trials of the Resistance/The Unlaw from Chicago to Portland to Atlanta THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL BOOKSTORE ful Concert (The Presidio Mutiny Case) and from N.Y.C. tu Isla Vista and L.A. 1335^ W. Washington Blvd., Venice \ s SIGN THE TREATY By John Haue, The California Peace & Freedom probably through the Provisional Revo jected the self-serving notion that the by officials and by the "news" corpora Party, circulating the People-to-PcopIc lutionary Government of South Viet-l U.S. government has any legitimate in tions, which are owned by the same Treaty of Peace between the people of riant ^~ terest to negotiate prior to total with people who produce helicopter gun- the United States and the people of . The open-ended PFP State Central drawal from Southeast Asia. After with ships, B-52's and airplane fuel. - Vietnam, has set itself the goal of ob Committee, which decides policy be drawal, there may be cultural and even Can signing a piece of paper possibly taining more than 25,000 signatures - tween statewide conventions, unani economic matters to.negotiate at the change all this? Certainly not, hut look more than the number of registered PFP mously adopted the treaty-aHts meet convenience of a liberated Vietnamese at the pledge that concludes the docu voters in the state by Sunday, April ing in Isla Vista February 14, 1971, people. Until the U.S. government re ment: 25th. This ù. the day of the community nuking the California PFP the first cognizes the independence and auto "By ratifying this agreement, we anti-war march and rally initiated by the political parly on the ballot anywhere in nomy of the Vietnamese people. North pledge to lake whatever actions are ap Venice PFP. the United States lo formally sign a and Southt< "negotiation" by the U.S. is propriate to implement the terms of the The Treaty affirms that the people of «reaty of peace with tlie Vietnamese merely a diplomatic extension of mili People-to-People Treaty and to insure America and the people of Vietnam are people^ tary force. its acceptance by the government of the not enemies, and declares that a state of Ratification.of the treaty by the Cal When we have signed the IreJty, United States." (Emphasis added.) peace exists between the two peoples re ifornia PFP was entirely predictable. what then? After so many petitions, ' If the present government cannot gardless of any actions or opinions of The Peace & Freedom Party grew out of demonstrations, self-immolations, tax accept this treaty, then we shall have to the Washington government. The a wave of anti-war activity and senti and draft refusals, what have we accom get a new Enyrmmrnf"Tr"thr present American people have full legal right to ment in 1966 and 1967. During the plished beyond clearing our own con military cannot tolerate peace, then we make this declaration inasmuch as the initial voter registration drive which put sciences of guilt for the daily body shall have tore^lace the present military Washington government started the war the PFP on the ballot, the one thing counts? Johnson was retired, only to be with one that will respect the people it and is carrying out the war in direct which the party stood for in contrast replaced by^Nixon, who can afford to supposedly defends. Since U.S. corpora violation of Article I, Section 8 of the with the existing parties of war, racism, remove U.S. ground forces because of tions are an obstacle to peace among the United States Constitution. poverty and pollution was immediate, technological "advances" in the capabil peoples of the earth, we will have to After April 25th people from the unconditional withdrawal from Viet ity for killing and destroying from the declare those corporations contrary to Peace & Freedom Party, the Free nam. The first PFP platform, adopted in air. The forced urbanization of the Viet our best interests and welfare, and Venice Organizing Committee and other Richmond, California in March, 1968, namese begun by Kennedy's "strategic therefore illegal and defunct. anti-war groups will continue circulating stated in part: hamlets" has progressed to the stage of Sign the treaty? Certainly. Then, the Treaty until the U.S. government "The Peace and Freedom Parfy sup mass refugee camps, produced by an air brothers and sisters, we may have to gives up its gçnocidal war of aggression ports the struggle for human liberation war which makes the countryside unin enforce it; by our actions, individually against Vietnam, or until that govern wherever that struggle takes habitable and attempts to kill anyone and collectively exercise our power to ment is replaced by another government place.... The war in Vietnam is not who tries to live amidst the devastation. make whatever changes in our society which act^-^fA^Jj^rwishes of the accidental; it is the logical consequence Ultimately we, too, are the victims. are necessary to make peace possible. If American people rather than on the of an imperialism which requires the We, too, die in Vietnam. Our taxes, a we don't win with our peace drive this wishes of the Pentagon and the corpora subordination of foreign resources, large portion of our daily labor, pay for Spring, then there will be a Summer Of tions. At some point copies of com markets and political structures to the the weapons used to kill Vietnamese, fensive and a Fall ÖTfonsive. If we don't pleted treaty petitions may be presented needs of American corporate property and for the troops from South Korea win this year, we'll build again next to Senator Fulbright or some other and profit.... We further demand the and other "allied" countries. We be year. And the year after that. Victory official with a position against the war. immediate withdrawal of all foreign come the LT. Calieys, dehumanized will be ours, and to the victors and the Ultimately, the signed originals will be armed forces from Vietnam.'* beyond comprehension; we are the vanquished alike the fruits of victory: delivered to the Vietnamese people, Since the PFP's inception it has re despised "public,'Hied to and deceived peace and freedom. ItlllllllllllllllllllllllllllilillllillllllllllllJillllMlllillllllllllllillillllllltlilllllllilillllilllllUlllllllllllllillilllillflllfliillllllitllllllllgMlllllltlllllll RUNNING DOWN THE GRAND JURY The break between jail terms has begun to come to an end for the Venice Five. (Pam Donaldson, Teri Volpin, David Scheffler, Karen Duncan, and Lee Weinberg). Teri was the first "witness" called in 'the Tucson federal grand jury's "fishing expedi tion" into the L.A. movement — but she was excu sed because her voice was completely, gone with -îaryngitis. On the 8th and 9th Lee Weinberg refused to tes tify on the grounds of her constitutional rights, because of the vagueness of the questions and the breadth of the investigation, and because her, po sition as a UCLA counsellor necessitated preserv ing the confidential nature of her relations with students. On the 9th Lee was. held in contempt and jailed for the duration of the grand jury, which is 18 months. ) The next day, Saturday, about 100 Venice people gathered at the Community House, 46 8 How- land Ave., to demonstrate their support for the Venice Five. Dave Scheffler, one of the Five, and Marilyn Katz and Sheri Swanhuyser, explained the case and provided background' information. A guerrilla theater group of high school students presented impressions of the grand juiry system. s HAMPTOI N GETS 10% April 3-4. 110 freaks, anarchos, com over the unrepresented minority and the Entertainment Industry Branch of mies (literally!), gays and women.oï all poor sections of the city as a tacit ad- the NAACP (of which he has been a colors and descriptions, fanned out missiop of this connection. member for 20 years), and the Gay Lib across Santa Monica. Their cause was Getting the word out, however, eration Front. Many liberal Democrats Jack Hampton for city council the first proved to be a problem. Billboard were turned on by the campaign's effort local PFP candidate ever in that town. companies which first agreed to rent to show how the war in Vietnam took The issues were drawn, despite the space to the Hampton committee sud money out of Santa Monica which efforts of Ihe establishment- to squelch denly refused to do so when they found otherwise could be used for schools. "tbeqi. Hampton's expose qf the tact out what his positions were. Two com -loW-income housing, or jobs for the that if the effort to have SM city coun- that the Santa Monica cops have been panies even refused to rent boards on unemployed. They phoned up in' re cifmen elected by district does succeed, using dum-dum bullets (soft, hoHow- which they hid unpaid tax-deductible sponse to a massive mailing of 5,000 let PFP will have little trouble winning its head slugs causing excessive tissue "public service" ads such as one calling ters and asked for PFP's advice on how first election by picking up the Ocean damage which have been outlawed for for the Viet Cong to release captured lo mark their ballots on other election Park seat. use in international warfare) as standard American pilots. (How about a Free race* and issues. The Hampton committee raised an ammunition for the past three years Angela billboard as a public service, you Results (aside from the building of amazing amount of money for a PFP made page one of the Evening Outrage. MFers?) an organization of several dozen Santa campaign (over $1,500-much of it in Chief Rhinebold denied it, but after ï^t being ones to take this sort of Monica people to continue movement $1 to Ï20. contributions), but some of Hampton produced the written records shit, the Santa Monica PFP group en work): 1,555 votes for* Hampton (vs. the pig candidates spent over $20,000 of sale from the manufacturer, the No. gaged the services of the Venice law col 467 for the local California Democratic each. Not bad for an office ihaLpays a«—* 2 SM cop admitted their use when No. I lective of Grabill, Nathan, Adelstein and Council candidate Baker and 715 for salary ind a maximum of $50 per week was out of town. Schwartz. Dave Grabill, who previously CDC 2-year-term candidate Monckton). reimbursement for actual expense>> worked with the Indian Legal Sen/ices Precinct breakdown of the results show This campaign really showed the ef Generally the response was good: at UCLA, requested the honorable judge great PFP strength in Ocean PanV^There fect of massive face-to-face precinct worst in some of the elderly retirement to issue a restraining order directing the Jack ran a close 2nd out of 18 candi work-of whkh we did more than any buildings where fear keeps doors companies to come across with the bill dates trailing only Nat Trives, a black other candidate with the possible ex chained, good in the family-owned boards. Grabill asserted that the bill ex-cop running with the backing of the ception of Trives. It also showed the home areas, and best by far in the boards belong lo the people since they police department, the Evening Outlook value of siarting very early to form cam ocean Park district (alias North Venice). impose on the people who drive along and the CDC (saying something both paign committees, raise funds, and Hampton's position on the abolition public highways and hence should be about Trives' positions and where many research the issues. of the police helicopter also heated up subject to some sort of fairness doctrine CDC types are at). Jack also ran well in We hope that all this can be put to candidate meetings. Critics charged that as radio and TV (theoretically) are. De the black areas (15%), probably as* a work on the'eampaign of Barrio Defense the mechanical vulture' actually reduced Judge, of course, turned thumbs down, result of the NAACP endorsement. Even Committee leader Julia Mount in the crime. Hampton agreed th»t while the but not* before panicky billboard straight, north-of-WUshire precincts in special election in the 27th State Senate SM air force might reduce crane-sel»^ companies began discovering all manner which extensive campaign work was District, stretching from Hollywood to what, at an expense io individual liber of billboards they could rent to us (too done gave Jack 8% of the vote. Where East L.A- In addition to the crucial poli ties, it did nothing to strike at the con late then to get the copy printed for the no precinct workers set foot, the result tical issues of the Barrio, this PFP cam ditions of racism, unemployment and boards in lime for the election). was usually closer to 2%. paign will also involve the issue of chi- \^ poverty that are the basic causes of Support for the campaign came from Hampton didn't win (he came in 8th cano and female representation in the crime. Hampton further cited the pre many sectors. Jack was endorsed by the out of 18 candidates: Santa Monica ain't presently all-anglo, all-male State dominant hovering of the helicopter Santa Monica Peace and Freedom Party, Berkeley-yet); but the results flo show Senate. HIN llllllflllllllillilirilllll iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi FOLKMUSIC is allva and «mi «I ctpe.jv fuss. ^a*c *V*> Oifl*r*n> 0.nn*>(. Every NK VB0.-S2.2S NON-ViO S3« McCibrtBfiitirSbp pSBor rngjn8^«&ny9pMQ36 CUIT*« . LESSONS CONCERTS . »ANJOS 3103 Pica «Iva. Saarta alaaica Pkoat: (|13) I2.-4497 HAL SHOP on CALL, our) RECORDED •MAGIC rOLKMliSC MESSAGE" 821-5400 or (213) JZ6-4M2 II EOMMEMORATION papa of the beautiful rising of the People oi Ireland in Easter Week of 1916 NatwiT. "" " bad) Sin nie man NEW LINE OF mini PRINTS aSUAAalap JZreatheiS custom sandals and moccasins i 1428 6tijST. SANTA MONICA \ 395-6895 7&g 0*7'%S% SWS 30,s 2JJfront walk e«t#it*iH»teMt xiteùf 396-5E97 IMAV PROGRAMS AT THE VENICE LIBRARVl Tuesday 4:30-5:30 Sesame Street 7:30-9:00 Family Films IFriday 7 4:00pm Dr.Seiiss Stories> Ve.nice Mime Troupe ISunday 16 2:30pm Play Venetians Blindl •Monday 17 7:30pm Black is Beautiful Cosmetology •Wednesday 19 7:00pm Teen Films •Friday 21 7:00pm • Tiny Tot Fashions •Saturday 22 10:30am Winnie the Pooh marionettes Ä Chicano Art Exhibit all month •Attention teens! Copy needed now for "Voices! lof. Venice" magazine. • \ MORE OF THE FOLLOWING DOTIRED OF DEMONSTRATIONS ? D Yes, yet another démonstration is the vote." The Provisional Revolu DEMONSTRATE coming up in April We are all tired ol tionary Government of South Vietnam, demonstrations; they seem to get us representing, then, at least 80% of the _J APRIL 24 Mass rally in San Francisco - P.A.C. nowhere. They *eem to be an exercise in people, has sent representatives to the 462-8188, OUT NOW 380-3912 liberal bullshit ("utility. proving nothing Paris peace talks. The chairwoman of but our own powerlessness. Say not so! that delegation, Madame Binh, has con J APRIL 25 Venice community walk and gathering- No one can accuse the Vietnamese of veyed* to us the desire of the people of see enclosed leaflet - PFP 821-8526 being "liberals." or media-onented bull Vietnam that we DEMONSTRATE! shit artists, right? The Vietnamese against the war. ^] MAY 3-5" People's Lobby in the offices of people fight with tanks, mortars, rifles, So why. should we get in the streets congressmen, corporations, mines, shit-covered bamboo slake traps, and protest the war? Because THE draftboards - P.A.C. *62-81t! lassoo snares, darts, blowguns, VIETNAMESE HAVE ASKED US TO spears • •. whatever they can gel their DEMONSTRATE!! National Moratorium Day - -campus & community demonstrations to commemo hands on to defend themselves with- SISTER BINH MAKES IT PLAIN including petitions, picket signs, rate Kent and Jackson State massac The Ann Arbor Youth Conference speeches and demonstrations' res and to demand à reordering of of the People's Peace Treaty received "Tired" of demonstrations? Well, the national priorities to meet -the the following direct request from Vietnamese people are tired,J/&. They needs of the people, No business Madame Binh, chief of the PRG have been ''denumstratina^IßEar deter as usual on the day PFP 821-8526 delegation in Paris: mination to be free in tw«ttynlve years j The Provisionary Revolutionary of continuous warfare, the mylst savage • H] MAY 5&6 Welfare demonstration to protest Government has appealed to peace- ihe world has known. Out of necessity the "possibility of mass layoffs of Joving people io initiate firm, broad they have* picked up the gun; yet they welfare workers and proposed cut and immediate actions, including defend themselvethen s with the pjiket sign backs. Demonstration begins at massive street demonstrations, to whereveer and wtfenevm^^ai tactic is noon May 5 and ends May 6, at the condemn U.S. aggression in Laos and still applicable. State building at 107 South Broad to check new plans to in%rade Laos. In his book. Mandate for Change, way in .downtown L.A. - Soicial Ser Cambodia, and North Viet President Eisenhower admitted: "1 have vices Union 483-8188 *S . nam. .. . The PRG calls on the never talked to a person knowledgeable people of the world to take actions in Indo-Chinese affairs who has not Armed Forces Day - Solidarity demon now to check even greater escalations MAY 16 stated that had free elections been held strations with anti-war Gl's at mi about to occur. There is a world-wide (in Vietnam in I u56. as agreed to in the litary bases - P.A.C. 462-8188 OUT news blackout and people must get Geneva Accords* the communist, Ho -* NOW 380-3912 the news to their communities. " Chi Minh, would have won over 80% of D RESIST THE DRAFÏ* D STOP THE WAR MACHINE Draft counseling is effective. It can obtaining a few weeks1 delav. Coun The "revolution of rising expecta bacteriologies! warfare. What's it all for? keep a man out of the armed forces seling is available in the are^'from the tions" that's fancy, phony sociology The biggest show of force in Vietnam but the individual needs to see the Venice Draft Information Center, 73 lingo to explain the discontent of the has become an international brutal counselor when he first turns eighteen. Market Street. No. 2, Venice, and from poor. This is supposedly the reasoning showdown without your consent or it not at eighteen, then as soon as pos Women's Strike for Peace. 5899 West befand the Federal government handing miirtT. It has ftd a war machine which sible. Once an induction has been issued Pico. Los Angeles. out crumbs in the form of anti-poverty has became the biggest bloodsucking there is"ittt!e a conselor can do besides projects to the ghetto. But we know colossus in all history. We pay it taxes, these projects came into being after the gel involved wilh the draft and give that WaUs rebellion. And now that the ghct- machine our labor. Some of us resist its K) Rfcs been quiet, these programs are bloodsucking, but more of us have to Toeing** curtailed. Last week Vice Presi take the lime to explain lo our neigh Q HOLD A WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION dent Agnew referred to such projects as bor who cry about war plants closing The atrocities carried out in the erans took part in The Winter Soldier being "worthless." And so there are cut dc vn and job layoffs how they must name of r_he American people in South Investigation, which looked into the backs in welfare and MediCal. and in res st the war machine They will answer east Asia by the military are only the nature of the Vietnam war, American Venice there are cuts in Training pro Hell, they have to eat and clothe a most visible aspects of a society based foreign policy and the day-to-day prob grams, a placement center, special li family. on oppression and exploitation. Viet lems we face in our workplace and com brary services, workers and materials for We will have to find alternative nam veterans have experienced U.S. for munity. They attempted to show the minority groups, legal-aid to the poor, means of feeding people. We must put eign policy in its most vicious form, the citizens of this country exactly what is and cancer detection tests for women. an end to our feeding of a war machine It would take peanuts to p„y for attempted genocide of a whole people. * going on in their name. The veterans that leads only to the graveyard for ihe every woma,n in Ghetto America to have This is most clearly seen by black and tame from all over the country to parti sons of the poor. Ghetto leaders must cancer detection tests. But instead the brown GIs who come out of the ghetto cipate and many came away with the find something else for jobless young money goes for public relations men tö 1 and barrio, where there already exists an intensedJesire to have local WSIs. men to do than to enlist in the army. sell us.new weapons systems to the tune "occupation army." Twenty Veterans from Southern Cal The community must fight to control of S31 million a year. It certainly would Active duly GIs stationed all across ifornia took part in the first Winter anti-poverty funds. The six cents out of take less than the one trillion dollars the U.S. and overseas are getting to Soldier Investigation, and they are now' every lax dollar'that is spent for health, that has been spent on obsolete gether. Some/flfe refusing orders, others working toward having one in the area. labor, welfare, housing and coqununity weapons since World War II to wipe out aie converting their life insurance lo be Since their return from Petroit they development is the most obvious way hunger in America. But what giant cor paid to peace groups, some are publish have been meeting with vets from all the government shows its contempt for porations are in favor of that? It would ing underground papers and starting to wer the Southland, getting testimony those it subjugates. Let's use our take less than S18.8 million to get some build organizations! Black GIs have and compiling an enortnrros amount of energies to spread the truth and resist decent housing for the ghettos to tear noted against racism on almost every' documentation. The nature of the testi the war machine and protest our com them down to be replaced by housing of military installation. Thousands of mony is oriented not only toward tell munity's cutbacks. fair standard. That sum has already been soldiers have left the country, others are ing atrocity stones but trying to show a Write to Mrs. Russell and Mr. spent on defective missiles scrapped and nowhere to be found. The military is total picture involving who gives the or Braude at the "City Council about ihe buried. Nerve gas is manufactured, slowly disintegrating, from inside and ders and whomakes the policy, etc. The library cutbacks. Write tg U.S. Senator stored and then finally buried in the outside pressure. testimony refers specifkiy to racism, Tunney about the Venice Skill Center ocean. Billions of dollars are spent on Coming out of the military are a KJOSCB, and another forms of oppres Training Programs cutbacks. this and other forms of chemical and growing number of veterans who have sion that exist in our society and are -already been activists inside the military magnified in th enulitary. Right now we and even a larger number who no longer are looking for vets who would like to believe in "the American dream." but participate and just .plain old people to aren't sure what to do ab#ut it. -help injnming it together. For more in D Don Y Mourn. OHGAHIZiU! Last February over 150 of these vet fo call Al at 392-4177 before 1:00 p.m. VENICE 5 TESTIFyiNG BROUGHT ARIZONA DYNAMITE INTO L.A. On April 6, 197if a Federal Grand Jury convened in Tucson. This was the second grand jury tube convened. Both were concerned with people and activi ties in the Los Angeles area and weie looking into charges of purchase of NUMBER 23, JUNE 1971 10,000 COPIES FREE explosives, their interstate iianspuria- tion, and crossing state lines to incite or promote riot, disorder, etc. ("Rap Brown" Act). The charge ofcojispiracy was also added The first gVanii jury had sent five people from Vaice to jail for civil contempt -reftTsuig to answer questions after being granted immunity-until such time as the grand jury would disband (maximum 18 months) or they agreed to testify. During this period, the Tucson Work ing Committee had been debating ihe issues presented by the grand jury and a possible trial. It came up with several criteria for making ihe decision of whether or not to testify. These criteria concerned: I) What information does the witness have; 2) What information does the government need. 3) What in formation does the government have: 4) Is there ajieed for immunity;51 How do others feel abouf being testified about. 6) What is obvioTsudj public in formation; 7) How to deal with the secrecy of the grand jury. A smaller security group, covered by attorney-client privilege, made up of the /Continued on page 6) Mass Canals Protest Set ïiwmym*JFàW # *r * * % x % \ For June 15 The controversy over the Venice Canals Waterways Project will come to a head June 15th in the chamber of the THE VIETNA MIZ ATI ON Los Angeles City Council. That is the day the Council has scheduled the Public Protest Hearing on OF OCEAN FRON^ WALK the 26-million dollar assessment district, \ by Helene Wolff J the largest assessment district in tbe On May 27. 1971, at a public hearing basis, as stated by Helene Wolff of Free and use ot airspace over speedway" and history of California. The property of the Los Angeles Ci ty Planning Com Venice and the North Beach Resident portions of certain streets between owners in the canals, who petitioned the mission, Commissioner David S. Moir Property Owners, that the two items Speedway and Paciffc (meaning that city to meet its obligations in repairing told William Heeb. of the Planning were of a piece, and dependent on each above the third story buildings could jut and maintaining the bridges, walkways Department, who presented a specific other. It became evident thai the only out over the street, forming tunnels); and banks and the canals themselves, plan for Venice's ocean front com people who wanted the freeze were the 4) acquisition by the city of air rights agreed several years ago lo be assessed munity, that he was horrified at the planners. It seems obvious that this on corner lots bounded by Speedway. an average of about S 10,000 per lot department's "grotesque plan" and pro illegal freeze was meant to keep costs Ocean Front Walk and the streets men above laxes to rehabilitate the area. posed that ihe Planning Department down when the time came for the city tioned above; and 5) "the vacation of Because the number of owners in the shelve it and go into the community 'to to condemn and acquire property for existing Ocean Front Walk with dedica assessment district has been constricted, find out "what the people there need widening the streets and walks as called tion "and improvemeni of a contiguous and because of delays, resulting mainly and want." fojHn the Specific Plan. strip of land io replace it, parallel to and from-the fact lhat the City Council originally authorized ihe project under Mr. .Moir took his -cue from the 23 C^The plan affects the area of Venice on the beach side of this Walk." founded by: the Santa Monica City the wrong law and had lo star! over Venetians who spoke to the commission The theme of "consolidation of pro- again, ihe minimum assessment is now (and twice that number who supported boundary. Washington Street. Ocean "perty" and "high-intensity develop Front Walk and property on thé north $20,900 per lot in the area north of them with their presence, applause and ment" runs throughout the city's ocean Washington Street und higher south of cheers).JEor those of us who have been east of Pacific Avenue. The Venice front plan- the city is deliberately acl- Master Plan adopted by the L.A. City Washington). With ihe steep increase in fighting* to "Free Venice" for many • -jug as the bulldozer blade, driving ihe Venice properly taxes ol last December, years it was an experience on the Council on October 14., 1970, calls for. people out of Venice and shoving the among other things, two initial pro- and the doubling of the amount of ihe fantasy level to find ourselves fighting small property owners off their land so assessments, a great deal of opposition for our community on the same side as * grams-the widening of Pacific Avenue, the place can be exploited for huge which had been previously designated as lo the plan from small property owners erstwhileToes. It was clearly Venice's profits by the speculators, the real is expected June 15th. (According to a day. Free Venice, North Beach REsi- a major highway, and a Specific Plan for estate sharks and the giant syndicates the ocean front area. feasibility study by the UCLA dent Property Owners. Venice Civic (hat are gathering alt the country's land Department of Land Economies, no one Union, property owners, renters, real and wealth into their hands can afford the present assessmeni unless estate people all spoke against the Major provisions of the Specific Pt an call for l)a freeze on new building • An LA- Ti mes article dated March they are in a bjackci where they could -freeze on new building and most against " 12, 1967. entitled "Riviera-Li ke Resort sustain a S90.000 mortgage). the specific plan. except for single-famjly dwellings until Pacific and Speedway are widened: Envisioned for Beach, quoted Dr. Fred Despite Mr. Moir's attempts al the E. Case, professor of business adminis In 'addition the Save the Canals 2r"thei, establishment of a funnel beginning of the hearing to keep the shaped arrangement of building setback tration and acting director of ihe Real Commit ice and the Free Venice people from speaking about the plan, lines" on certain streets between Pacific Estate Research Program at UCLA as Organizing Committee, groups that which was just being reported on. and- and Speedway, {thereby chopping off saying, if private investment could be serve as spokesmen foi the interests of stick Ëo the freeze, which was being perhaps fifteen feel from the front encouraged, "Venice, in lime, could ihe renters m die area, are organizing voted on* the people persisted, on ihe yards of area »houses! • 3 1 "*he vacation (Continued on page J) (Getttimted on page 1, FREE VENICE & TRAILER CITY people celebrate the collective health Community's first effort to-do what the City has refused^*© do for 46 years..SAVE THE CANALS photo by Ted Organ Sandv Nystrom, M.PH. fat Duncan. Ï. R,N.'and&>b Buker, M.D. Sandy Nystrom (a public health person), Pat Duncan (a nurse) and Bob Buker (a doctor) will be moving to , Venice in July to work together. We have been talking with ihe Venice Health Council. We have all lived or worked in Venice for two years. Whai we want to do is provide more health careJiir-'Veniee. How? \ \ There are at least two medical clinics (Youth Clinic and Venice Community Family'Health Center) open in Venice now. Also there are a few private doctors. But that's about it, and ii's-not enough. Also some people can't afford regular medical prices but could afford Hoy Sister tow cost health care. Right now they go to the "free" clinics (some ' clinics request a small donation) because that's Hey Brother all they can afford. This means people with zero money have to wail longer. We are set to disturb, stir and agrtgnf»S v We can help by running a health place ail those in Venice who say, "Noilt rme X (not a regular-type doctor's office but no. never." rhose who follow --the not a clinic either) where costs are kepi straight and narrow and have never low (small building, and all hearth gotten busred Tor anyrhing. They need workers, getting the same salary). We the experience of visiting brothers and hope we can keep the cost of a visit as sisters in jail. And for those who do low as possible and still stay open and understand and have felr prison chains. pay the bills -and make it so that poorer too many words should not have to be people can afford io come to us. spent on urging them to make the We hope also to develop a new prison visit with us next time. We cany emphasis m health care services, that is. out this trip during the daytime. preventive medicine and health Last month some Venice peopie . education. If we can teach people to visited the Study of Black Hisiory take better care of themselves, then the Group in C.R.C. Prison in Norco, an cost of being sick will be less- We want institution which is set aside for caging TRAILER CITY BARBECUES RADFORD people to be their own healers and" black brothers, supposedly for protect health experts. As many of these ing them from themselves and their>irug by Marge Buckley £_ services as possible will be free. habits. We brought books and news from Venice and rapped with rhese and/or developers consider providing a Why come io our place instead of a "free" clinic? Patients who need to be men. They undersrand the reasons for The threat of ihe Venice Canals new trailer park site. • their imprisonment, and their desire to On the May 1st deadline, the tenants seen more than a few limes need to be Improvement Project to canal residents seen by the same health people who srudy rhe history of their oppression is evident. Not so evident to many is the held a bulldozer party. Free Venice should be fulfilled. They need relevanr joined the tenants to make their stand know both them and their cases well. drama south of Washington Street Foi Besides this, any money above our -* books and art supplies to express their years, the slifihtly-past-its prime Trailer against the threatened invasion. feelings, besides warm contact to On May 5th at 6:30 a.m., process salaries and expenses will be used for City Park tips existed at the toot of community health projects. Our strengthen our common .bonds as sisters Grand Canal in the midst of ihe Assess servers arrived to serve the tenants with and brothers. evictions. Anyone who answered a door patients will participate in deciding ftow ment District. The trailers are older, the this money is spent. Write the Beachhead, P.O. Box 664, people a mixture of young, middle-aged was handed one, two or three sum 'We won't see patients until we have Venice Post Office 90291, for more info and old,-some working people, some on monses*!!' no one answered, the papers enough equipment and arrangements and your name and phone number if the welfare ^and some students. The Park were dropped on the doorstep or placed (like where to take peopie that need a prison visit is your thing. had a ceriain charm, even with all its in a door handle. -'hospital) io do a good job. But we do defects the flowers, the trees, the awn Immediately Marge Buckley of^. have a place-1625 West Washington ings and cabanas which the tenants, used - FOUND - Venice Neighborhood Legal Services Boulevard-and we are going to start to make the area homelike. filed motions to void half of the services fixing it up. One leather pouch with and filed answers for the rest. At the Rumors floated the Park was going We will be working with the Health contact lenses inside hearing, the judge agreed the tactics io be sold to a developer named Alan Council and patients we see to !ii all the Call Chris Shoemaker were" improper: the whole process had Radford. Radford talked about the de health care in Venice together better. 459-2487 velopment of the area all around town, to be repeated. at the City Council Planning Commis Settlement is underway. The first STAFF BOJtV sion, at local schools, assuring people of demand, the right to remain until the THE BEACHHEAD IS DISTRIBUTED FREE his support of relocation and his desire end of school, has been won: ail the steve clarre THROUGH ALL THE COMMUNITIES OF to see that the tenants would not be remaining tenants may stay until the VENICE. WE CAN ALWAYS USE HELP — hurt The purported owner. Polestar end of June without paying rent, costs Sharon brannon properties, was supposed to be the of suit or attorney fees. Additionally, a brent briack IF YOU'D BE KIND ENOUGH TO DIS villan, interested only in squeezing rent suit for damages on behalf of all the rick davidson TRIBUTE THE NEXT ISSUE IN YOUR out of the tenants, in fact, he rented to tenants is still pending and negotiations rachel dranow APARTMENT BUILDING OR ON YOUR a young couple momentarily expecting are in progress tç determine the mone george gelernter BLOCK, PLEASE CALL 821-6101 their first child in February of 1971. A tary value of the harassment and ex Judy goldberg month later, everyone got notices to penses of relocation. ralf Jennings vacate the property on or before May 1. Although the tenants may nol win 1971. beverly moio - their demand for a cooperative frailer suzy safford At a tenants' meeting. Radford camp to be established by Radford and jim somers admitied that he insisted the tenants be McLain. significant gains were made. FREE VENICE FOOD CO-OP: Meets removed. His actions became under terry slavin First., the tenants didyKtn some of every Tues, (new members 7 standable when it got out that .the their demands by organizing and work laura stenz .-30 PM) , Assessment l>istrici was scheduled for ing together. J milton takei 838 Superba Ave. (821-2889)., 468 passage in June or July. As the Canal Second, the nucleus of a county-wide randy watsek Howland Ave. ' 821-6101 Property Owners Association had trailer,tenants council has been formed. bob wells Breeze Ave. (392*7225) — take pointed out so succinctly: "If t)ur ten The Trailer City people have made & your pick. ants aren't there, you don't havfc to pay contact with Topanga trailer people VENICE PEACE S FREEDOM Meets them relocation." who are also being faced with evictions thanks to ouf mem block every Wed., 8:00 PM, 1727 IV Wash- The tenants did not take this attack by L.A. in its effort to "improve their ington Blvd. 396-6535 lyurlyùhgj down. They had all sorts of area by denying trafler park permits, s*^ distributors problems in relocation, small children, Third, although it can't be proved, old traders, pets and close ties with the fact thai ihe large property owners Venice. souih of Washington are talking about BAYROCK PRESS So with a little bit of help from iheir splitting ihe Assessment District at this friends, the tenants, under the leader time seems significant. ship of Dick and Eleanor Cramer and Fourth, free Venice reached out to copies s 1, : by li S 2. S S Chns Kirk, formed ihe Trailer City Park another part of the community. Trailer liiiiu copies M-^e I Teuants Committee and drew up a list City tenants began to fiy Free Venice -U-io co'pi os " " . " $i4,25 of demands, which included the right io flags and uear Free Venice Buttons. remain at the park umii aner school B-Mh Trailer City tenants and Free COIflRIH) l\K at V0 EXTRA IHANCr closed, assistance. foods to reto* benefited from working together 163B w WASHINGTON BLVD, end to the mtiraitfj isment. tö solve iheir common. problem, the VEwtc'e c-trroBM* »ox*i numteiiU; .. * if. the* Venice Canals Aj- p"ONt 3BO-eB6t beyond ba.pque sessmcm District. INJUNCTION SHOOTS DOWN CROOKED POVERTY ELECTION WATER BEBS by Randy Watsek screening interviews, then were disquali fied as candidates; 9) People who did I COUPON The people of ihe Venice community attend screening interviews said that PRICE INTERESTS YOU for Water Bed have been done in again, this tinie by they were dehumanizing; 10) The $24.95 the Economic Youth Opportunity EYOA kept changing election proce purchase Agency (EYOA) dures and requirements, thereby alien SPECIAL SERIES KIHG Tbe EYOA has 2 functions: I) to de ating and discouraging people from m L- Î39.95 termine what poverty programs are ac participating. cepted, funded and implemented in the communities of L.A. County and 2) to In Areas 8 and 10 there was only one Good until July 4th coordinate and administrate certain pov candidate. Sixty-three people originally erty programs. filed to be candidates in tbe ten poverty Blue^Paisley 10 ijich Deep Bed community elections; 39 were disquali The decisions involved in these activi v We carry Head Items ties are made by the 27 members of the fied. EYOA board. Nine members are ap The 24 candidates who were certified 9* DREAM MERCHANT pointed by participating agencies, 2 are by the EYOA had their petitions appointed by Mayor Yorty, 2 by the checked by the District Attorney's of Safeway-Lincoln Square Shopping Center City Board of Education, 2 by the State fice to validate the 100 signatures. Not 205 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, (396-BED8) *- Board of Education and 2 are appointed one so-called candidate had 100 valid Open 12:30-8:00 M,W,Th,F; Sat lly30-6; Sun 1-5. by the County Board of Supervisors. signatures. Tuesdays from 5-7p.ra. . - This amounts to 17 people appointed Tbe EYOA decided to go ahead with by agencies, people whose loyalty and the shuck election on May 18, 1971. energy is to their respective agencies, This was a deliberate, dishonest, act on •w to the people in the poverty com- their part, in spite of protest by the Master Plan as OenocidfiT like an arrow straight to the big woTa -Jnunitres. community representatives currently on by Robert Wells "WATTS." The other 10 people are elected äs the EYOA board. It is unconstitutional for a city +o community representatives from the ten Area No. 8, the Venice area, had 3 plan or zone itself so that all poor and Keep in mind that after the '65 different poverty areas of I.A. County. people, who were nol allowed to run in minority people are "zoned" out of burnout Watts was not rebuilt This year each area was supposed to the election: Mrs. Marie Banks, Mrs. town. This presented an obstacle to the deliberately'. Many of the "charcoal elect its representatives. This is what Catalina Cordova and Mr. "Wayne Wil well-dressed rulers who run Los Angeles. alleys" are still charcoal. Many burned happened: liams. They had already decided that all "un houses have been replaced with factories 1) The incumbent community repre Mrs. Levertice Lewis was the only desirables" would be pushed outside the ana warehouses. Residential areas are sentatives were not allowed to run for person allowed to run. She did not ob city limits, and "now to get away with it slated to become "industrial parks." At re-election. 2) The communities were tain her signatures personally as re they had to find a .way around the least S freeways are planned to go not informed about the function of the' quired, and 79 of the 100 signatures Constitution. through the South L.A. black com EYOA, the election, and the rote afthe vjSP invalid. * The way they found was sweet munity. n s situal on wou community representative; 3)Thereforefôre—1 *<+£ ^ * ' ld never have de Instead of planning all of Los Angeles at- Now, how far back from the airport 2 weeks was not enough time to obtain veloped if the EYOA were controlled by once, they would plan it "community did those engineers say their "indusjrial 100 signatures; 4) The registration was people who live in the communities, in by community," and then when ail the zone" had to go? Seven miles. A mile *_. changed during this 2-week, period-this stead of by agency people. community plans went together you'd wide and 7 miles back. Seven miles due meant potential candidates had to go Marge Buckley, of the Neighborhood have the overall Los Angeles Master east from the end of the runway takes back to the people who had previously Legal Service office in Venice, filed a Plan-so that by the time there was an you all the way to Avalon Blvd. Five signed the petition and registered to class-action lawsuit on behalf of the dis overall plan to squawk about, the more blocks and you leave the City of vote and have them sign the new forms; qualified candidates and the people of people of Venice, Watts, Bunker Hill, i L.A. and enter Watts proper. 5) The registration form discouraged the poverty communities of L.A. East L.A., Pacoima- all the people who • That's exactly what Genocide Sam people from participating m the election County against the EYOA challenging speak the wrong language, have the Yorty has in mind. Out! If you're gonna by asking people how much money they the validity of this election. ^ wrong color skin, and can't afford W00 burn his city and embarrass him out.' earned; if they misstated their income it On May 26, 1971, the EYOA com a month rent-would be long gone. Yorty has never forgiven black people was a felony, subject to a fine or 2 years munity election was declared illegal and make this look good, they w^eni for 1965. How does he make sure in prison or both if convicted ; 6) Filing invalid by Judge Wisot of Superior back East and hired a big-name city there's no more Watts riots? Easy-no petition's weren't available; 7) The Court, Division 65. planner, Calvin Hamilton, to head the more Watts, EYOA did not give complete informa How long will poverty agencies and f City Planning Commission-not to Besides being unconstitutional, this tion, but gave misinformation about the programs be allowed to manipulate-r^^ dream up plans, but to front for a plan qualifies under the 1948 United Nations EYOA and election procedures; S) control and exploit the people of the that was already made. In exchange definition of genocide. It's not surpris Some people were not notified of the poverty communities? they let him rake off little pieces of the ing our absentee Mayor is such a action, like buying airport land in Palm- supporter of the genocidal war against dale before the new airport was publicly other "undesirables" in Southeast Asia. announced. Here in the Venice part of Mrs. o'front hearing On Bunker HffisUie City destroyed Russell's district, the City fully intends (Continued from page 1} thousands of low-income dwellings oc to destroy all the low-income housing in cupied by American Indians. Chicanos, the Canals and replace it with a yacht become one ot the better, exclusive rollbacks in zoning. The ocean front Asians and others; high-rises are going club for millionaires. If that happens, areas in the country . . . Venice has area is presently zoned for high-rise. beautiful beaches, the climate is ideal up there now with apartments renting the oceanfront will inevitably turn into There was talk of banishing automobiles for $300 a month. Similar projects are the "Miami Beach" the land-hustlers ... if someone would only grab hold of from Venice and establishing a model set for poor and minority communities dream about the end of another com it. they could do something with it." pedestrian community. The article itself went on to say, "While all across Los Angeles all low income munity. (Literally the end for the old- Rick Davidson, of Free Venice, was police powers ... can be applied to in communities in Venice are scheduled to timers of Ocean Front Walk not dragged from the hearing room in dividual properties, only the availability be offed . "relocating" people is like transplanting of large parcels could make a redevelop handcuffs this Ebne. He drew some of the loudest and broad est-based applause The big push is taking shape right- flowers, and these old flowers don't ment feasible. This could be accom transplant- they die.) plished by condemnation procedures by from his neighbors for his visionary here in the City Council district of Mrs. federal authorities who would 'assemble architectural demands that Venice have Pat Russell. In the Westchester part of If the Canals and the beach go, rising properties' and then offer them for sale the best planning possible- not the her district the City Airport Commis rent and taxes will push the Chicanos for development by private enterprise." second-rate expediency-rflahning of the sion is bulldozing an entire community out of Venice into whatever other over Los Angeles bureaucrats). An important delay has been wen. to make an empire for itself. crowded barrios are left. The blacks of I want no less than/incorporation--! The thing that's really killing West Oakwood will be completely driven out Vi clones, however, brjng responsibility want Venice to be an independent city of Venice, and considering what's hap and the challenge of still more work. of its' own. as it used to be. I realize the chester, making it easy for the Airpori The people of Venice have foMâ Los whole city of Los Angeles would have Commission to move in, is aircraft pening in Waits and elsewhere, probably -< Angeles's plans to tum our city into a to vote to let, us go. But, I saw Mr. noise. Engineers fot/hoMhat when the out of Los Angeles altogether and, in Riviera-Like Resort" so far. The Ven- Moir's face change from apathy to planes come in to land the noise goes some cases, out of Southern California. Rehabilitation Program was deemed horror at the atrocity being coin.nitted over the threshhoid of pain. This is why it's so important for all a failuru e by the FHA as failing to drive on a community that wants to take care*-- So they made a recommendation. of us in Venice to fight against Mrs. the small homeowner out of Venice. of itself -to work with its areas of For the full width of the airport there Russell. City Hall, and the Planning Ground has not yet been broken to turn agreement and interest rather than to the canal area into a private yacht basin, should be an industrial zone back from Commission, and to support the battle continually fall for propaganda that tells the runways -factories, storage, like of the people in the Canals to save iheir tlie freeway-will not belch its way thru us we are divided by enmity and inimi community out of simple justice, be Venice. Wesî Washington still is zoned cal differences. Julie Mulvaney, the last that but nothing residential. to allow small shops. Oakwood has noj Venetian to speak before the Com Fold out your gas station street cause we want to save our own neigh' ' been further isolated from the- rest of mission, said Venice was together and map-it really helps if you can see this borhoods, and because the Canalsjare Venice by tricks of zoning. . . that, although-she had heard tbat Vene and not just hear it. L.A. International the place now where we can best fight We have won concessions, but ihe tians never agreed on anything, we Airport sits right on the water. Century this scheme of the' Los Angeles Estab philosophy aimed at driving the presert perhaps had just had bad publicity. She Blvd. (100th St.) comes out of the lishment to engineer a "Final Solution" residents out of Venice has not changea also said that we would be back. We 'middle of it. heading due east, ft you for its old people, its poor, and its There mu -talk Thursday _ Will' follow Century to the right it takes you minorities. assemble in Et Moni« and come to Verne* Free Venice "FOR YOUR EARS" to counter-demonstrate at what they by Lord John Rolfe Police Not felled the 'Red' march and rally. Since (The Sidney System) the PFP had agreed that tha event was Ecology Group WOODSCHTICK by the Credibility Robots; Good intended to be a peaceful community gathering to celebrate the signing of the The Free Venice Ecology Com Gap (Capitol). Will take you on^a per people's peace treaty with Viet Nam, the munity has been getting itself together verted parallel Woodstock. If you re Relations May leaflet caused consternation and fear of a and^we- need your help. We are trying to member Woodstock you will find an violent-confrontation. It seemed higher develop ways of raising the commun adjusted blow-by-blow in the form of a Be Possible political considerations had indeed -de ity's consciousness from the waste- festival for short-haired 'Pun-oriented dared no open season on anti-war rallies making, over-consuming, over-packaged The critique on Venice's Community before May 1. Publicity had stressed the adults. Tricky Dick is one of the star Welk end Gathering on April 25, which polluting system to a lifestyle in har peaceful nature of the event , bufoons in this no-star lineup. Get ready . deals with the preparations for it by the mony with nature. John contacted Morris Rosen of the for insanity on record. LA. listeners to FVOC and PFP end it's breakdowns as Oui first step has been a re-cycling analyzed by the peopie who signed the Israel Levin center and representatives of center at the Canal's Community House, the Credibility Gap might remember critique seems an honest statement by elected officials. They discussed measures 468 Howtand Ave. We are re-cycling tin this selection from>one of their regular people concerned about the whole Venice which might be taken to protect the and aluminum cans (preferably flat shows. In any case it must be one of community and the implementation of sensibilities and safety of the Ocean Front - community. Lt. West called the PFP tened), glass (sorted by color, metal their best. ideals and principles held by FVOC and PFP. The ideals and principles of PFP office and met with John there. The rings and fnps removed), newspapers The crew gets in' to Ted Kennedy, as Venice Division had also received the (tied securely in bundles). With addi members sometimes seem as numerous as well as taking on the whole broadcast its members, and the work styles of its Nazi leaflet .and was concerned that the tional help we hope to be selling up media on sideHwo, "Earwitness News." event be peaceful. From that time there centers throughout Venice. ^ activists continue to defy categories. John A copy of this cut should be sent to Haag makes nu claim that his work habits was coordination, communication and We realize that picking up cans and are governed totally by collective de- cooperation between John and the Venice every radio and TV station in the Division. bottles is not the answer to the ecology nation. It comes too close to what is - cision. Such an unwieldy mechanism problem, but a first step toward aware (which, after all, only yields the collective happening, from the war to commercials I consider it 'poor revolutionary judg ness of the gross waste produced in this decision of an elite few) for each working ment' not to tekejgfaiantage of any means society. Re-cycling is meaningless if we on pollution-oriented products. Hang action results in deadening ingrown dis avaiUolu to itnticalize or neutralize any don't confront the waste-makers- your head in shame, media, and laugh cussion and little action. human being. To pre-judge every Los business and consumer alike -with alter out loud, listener. PFP meetings, however, are open- native examples for healthy, ecolo WOODSCHTICK, a must in humor ended and grounded in the one-man/one- OPEN LETTER TO vote concept. FVOC, indeed, abdicated gically sound living. on a satyncal level. From a festival m a Lt. West and Sgl. Payne its ^responsibility to itself by failing to This requires nothing less than a hotel room to U.S. troops grooving on Venice Division, L.AJP.D. avail itself of this mechanism for collec massive effort toward redirecting pot. A fantastic album. tive decision-making. Political purposes, American values by education and ex channelling of organizational time, etc. Dear Sirs: - ample. We of the Free Venice Ecology. SPECIAL REVIEW: "THE regarding April 25 were decided at those Community will use our limited re PFP meetings. During the ten years that I have lived AMAZING BLONDIE" (Island sources toward this end by pamphlets John makes no claim that his com in Venice I have had many different and personal contact. We encourage all Records) munication add working arrangements experiences with the Los Angeles Police friends to reduce,{heir consumption of Remember Robin Hood and his with the police for April 25th were Department. Most of those experiences disposables, to reduce automobile driv Merry Men? A time of wondering min governed "by collective decisions, and the I remember as unpleasant; some were ing'and gasoline consumption (bike rid strels and cheery songs is brought back article dealing more specifically with that downright dangerous. The best 1 could ing is much more interesting), and to and his open letter ..to Lt. West and Sgt. describe as merely satisfactory. to us by the English group, Th* Amaz Payne is not an analysis of the facts of ^Nçreate usefuLjfenis out of things that are ing Blondie. Their muac will delight Last Saturday and Sunday, however, notnläii^HJcown away. the situation and contains misrepresenta your weary mind, and for talking or just tions your active and thoughtful cooperation More importantly, however, is the relaxing with whatever you relax with, Shortly before the 25th an American with the Venice Community Walk and individual's committment to learn frojrfT the music is great. Nazi Party leaflet was received by P&F gathering produced, in my opinion, a others, and to teach others in tum. u which indicated the Nazis planned to fine example ot-'thorough police pro we are to save what is healthy & vital in tection. For a few hours last Sunday 1, life we can only do it as brothers and along with hundreds of Venice residents sisters working together. Call the and visitors, could appreciate without Switchboard, 821-6101, or 396-9391. CUSTOM BUMPER STICKERS any irony the L.APD- motto, protect and to serve." TbO POOR TO LIVE HERE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? HAVE YOUR OWN PERSONAL MES I wish publicly to thank you for your by carol badiikr SAGE PRINTED. S2.00 EACH OR 3 FOR ?5.00. TAX AND help, which successfully averted a pos POSTAGE INCLUDED. SEND WORDING AND MONEY TO: sible disaster to many Venice residents, (To the tune of Woody Guthrie's including uninvolved bystanders. As you "So Long, It's Been Good to know, the day passed peacefully and Know You."} CUSTOM BUMPER STICKS allowed hundreds of us to share a truly Chorus: beautiful, celebration. \ Too poor, too poor to live here 1 think that all of us who were there boxl228 venice, calif. 90291 would agree that your help was as Too poor, too poor to live here important as our own preparations. 1 Too poor, too poor to live here hope that Sunday's experience can con- The land speculators are grabbin my home tribute io fuuher improvements in com So I got to leave Venice and roam. munications and relations between the Venice Community and the Los Angeles police. 1 used to live in the trailer court with friends and buddies I used to consort Sincerely, The rericwas cheap and the air was free John Haag But good sunshine was too good for me Angeles policeman as being totally a robot of the political establishment is to Cause I'm - chorus play a self-defeating game. Such a tack, while convenient for categorization, 1 had a pad un Howland Canal seems to negate die principle that human The place was good for my morale beings are brothers and sisters, none of us perfect automatons devoid of strengths As 1 was feedin the ducks one day and weaknesses, incapable of change. A big bulldozer tried to chase me away To credit the ruling class with having such a force at their command is only sensible revolutionary, thinking - as long as it is Cause I'm - chorus understood that it is a faceless force. To believe that the ruling class has such a 1 used to live in a house by the sea force of individuals at their command is But the Master Plan had no plans for me ridiculous. Michael Harmon, the PFP can didate for District Attorney in 1968, for Gold over people - the master's choice instance, became a Socialist while a mem f.-ôur councilmen heed the master's voice ber of the LÄPD. Granting an analysis that higher politi Cause 1'rn - chorus cal expediency desired that peace marches be allowed without police violence, it is logical to believe the police department They're gonna have a parking lot .would utilize men who did not find it And where vou live there'll be a vacht impossible to relate pleasantly to people who might have different life styles, I'm too poor to live by the sea ideas or beliefs from their own. That's what the system is trying to tell me We teach by models. Most of us wish for a society where there is cooperation and trust between the,police and the Cause I ch'orus community, rather than drawn battle lines. On Sunday, April 25, there was But hell no. we're gonna stay here such, rapport. The police were there to Heil no, we're gonna stay here protect. rather than to threaten. The Tl335 I 2 WEST WASHINGTON BOULEVARD' policemen involved, Lt. West and Sgt. Hell no, we're gonna stay here Payne, were sincere in their desire to in- •We're gonna stav here and we're gonna fight • VENICE • CALIFORNIA 9029! • 392-7412 * •*ure a peaceful gathering and proud of For a Free Venice that ispur right. {Continued next page i (Continued from page 4,' \ These commentaries on the April their part in it. To purposefully avoid 25th Venice Peace March speak only for thanking them pub+tcty because of a be the opinions of the people who've lief mar~thi peoples awareness of the signed them They are not statements of danger of the enemy would be dulled is any organizations these people may to dehumanize the situation. Rather, the people's dear* tor a society where the belong to. including the Free Venice public safety agency did. protect and Organizing Committee and the Peace serve us might be heightened - and its and Freedom tarty. possibility given more credibility. march, b) to announce the march; cl in John's open letter to Lt. West and Sgt. case people who were participating in Payne was not the result of any collective the march needed refuge fron\_lhe po decision, it "was an individual act. It was signed by no one but John Haag and bore lice those residences would be a refuge no organizational tide. It was an expres for the people. sion of gratitude from a private citizen to AJJ these actions by FVOC members two other private citizens. It, of course, took place approximately 10 days be was not written in a political vacuum - fore the April 25, 1971, political action^ and certainty was not without political Certain political qualities that are implications. Hopefully, and certainly in inherent in American society and in tentioneliy, these were positive and con America's actions and participation in structive. the Indochinese war weren't addressed photo; susan levine, le ine-tennen photography Helene Wolff to the April 25,1971 political action. made dope arrests in-other crowd situa cover men. We are not aware" that any America is a white male supremist tions {such as the Watts Summer Festi cops were eliminated in this way from society, therefore it is sexist and racist. val and Griffith Park Love-ins, etc.|, our march. 1 ) None of the speakers addressed and frequently the arrests were so pro 7 Our disagreement with John Haag Planning For themselves to the issue of sexism and vocative they resulted in split heads, come in relation to certain sentiments how it perpetuates the Indochinese war street warfareT mass arrests and worse. expressed in a letter he wrote after ihe and oppressive conditions in American There is always an element of un march to the Venice nnlirr. whrfrTrrr April March society. predictability in what will happen at «a reprinted in the Independent-Journal. In 2) There were no chieano and black march or demonstration; but while the the letter John complimented the police speakers who addressed themselves to police cannot determine in advance for their "active antfthoughtful co- • Described racism and how it perpetuates the Indo- what other people will do, they can operation with the Venice Community The Free Venice Organizing Commit Chinese war and oppressive conditions in determine what they themselves will do. walk and gathering," which he said was, tee (FVOC) and the Peace and Freedom And the decision as to whether they will in his opinion, "a fine example of Party (P&F) came to art agreement in ear American society. John Haag's analysis of the relation look for opportunities to provoke the thorough police protection.". ly March of 1971 to co-sponsor a march crowd to "riot," or whether they will and demonstration to be held on April ship between the community and the He said he wished publicly to thank ignore even felony violations in their 25. 1971. police is an example of an individual the police for their help, "which sue-, actual presence in order to avoid trouble After this resolution, there were no political action that affects the lives of cessfully averted a possible disaster to is not a decision that is left /to the mechanisms developed by the FVOC the people of the Venice community. It many Venice residents, including uiiin- .individual officer on the spot. This is a and P&F to establish 1) a collective is an irresponsible action because I ) he volved bystanders. As you know," he decision made at a very high level within organizational decision of what were the did not attempt to consult with anyone wrote, "the day passed peacefully and the police department, by command political purposes of this political in the community; 2) made no attempt allowed hundreds of us to share a truly officers who are in close harmony, as action; 2) no process of making and , to have a collective process to get beautiful celebration. well as close actual contact, with the implementing coflNjjve ^rgamiBtional feedback on his analysis; 3) his analysis local and national political establish "I think that all of us who were there decisions; 3) no collective^Ktermina- doesn't relate to the everyday reality of ments. In other words, the police de would agree thai your help was as tions as fo what areas of activity, the relationship of the police and the cision on whether to keep a demon important as our own preparations. I collective organizational time and community stration cool or to provoke it into riot is hope that Sunday's experience can con energy would be channeled ; 4) no mech not a law-and-order decision, but a tribute to further improvements Sa^oom- anisms were established collectively by Randy Watsek partisan political decision. municatiuns and relations between the FVOC and P&F to generate full parti Sarah Brannon Venice Community and the Los Angeles cipation by anyone in the whole Venice Steve Clare Likewise, when the undercover offi police." community who wished to participate Rick Davidson cer at our peace rally in Venice asked John Haag, and certainly many in this political action. Bob Wells Jerry Wright to cool i< wirif the joints, others of us, long for a state of affairs in What followed after this agreement Don Woodland he was simply following a directive that which we could have decent and hu by FVOC and P&F to co-sponsor this had been laid down in advice by mane relations with some public safety political action was this: superiors high above him in the depart agency which did truly serve us and The FVOC abdicated its responsi ment. protect us. But John Haag's letter sug bility to follow through and implement Police Our brother in J^te Movement, John gests that on the basis of the April 25th , its political principles by not doing the Haag, of Peace and Freedom, has come experience it is possible to hope for above-mentioned five actions. Two of under certain criticism since the march such a relationship with the present those political principles were 1 ) collect 'Helpfulness* for having "cooperated" with the police police department, and that is mislead ively deciding and implementing any in the planning of the affair, and for ing, and to be misleading in a thing like* political actions it" has agreed to parti Seen A^ having supposedly "allowed" under this could lead people to serious per cipate in; 2) establishing mechanisms to cover cops to be on the march. sonal injury. The L.AP.D. behaved as it generate complete community participa Actually, all the plans were made on did in Venice April 25th not out of any tion in this^polttical action. Expediency our own initiative, with no consultation humane or decent sentiment, but from This created a void, a vacuum, that On Sunday, April 25th, the day with the police. After our planning was political expediency. And it is im allowed P&F to make a series of unila following the massive anti-war marches final'the police lieutenant, on his initia- portant to keep in mind who it was teral, authoritarian actions, such as the in San Francisco and Washington, more ftjVe. came to the Peace and Freedom expedient for: a political establishment letter written by John Haag to the than a thousand Venice people marched office, and John discussed the march that intends at one and the same time to police. These P&F actions took place in down Ocean Front Walk and around td Jwiih Him at that time. murder a nation in Vietnam and to a time period from early March, 1971, Westminster Park in an impressive and Prior meetings with the police have completely destroy the Venice com-, until April 26, 1971, when the letter peaceful demonstration of solidarity been characteristic of many, civil rights munity as it now exists, fcventually, and was written by John Haag to the police. against the war. and peace demonstrations (including the inevitably, that expedience will require FVOC's "only input into the April ... At one point in the afternoon, demonstrations in Chicago during the them not to cooperate with the people 25th political action was this: 1) an during the proceedings in Westminster Democratic Convention in 1968). In of Venice, but to attack us. Park, Jerry Wright of Peace & Freedom those situations where the police have nouncing the political action in the Free It is the duty of the radical, of the approached two men in civilian clothes had no independent intentions of pro Venice BEACHHEAD; 2) posting- of revolutionary, to keep this fact con sitting on the grass and said. "L.AJPJD., voking disorder, prior communication leaflets in the community announcing stantly before the people. To the extent I presume." has narrowed the margin of unpredict the action; 3) posting of political pos that John's letter interfered with ability that might otherwise result in ters relative to the revolutionary strug One of the men acknowledged that people's awareness pf the danger of the clashes not intended by either side. _ gle. 4) a collective determination by Ihey were in fact police. Once he did so enemy, it was a lapse of revolutionary FVOC and P&F that the political action h*> pointed out to Jerry (who was None of the plans for the April 25th judgment. belonged to the community, thus if an wearinjHTrnonitor s headband) that a Venice affair, nor any details of the The letter John Haag wrote to the order to disperse came from the police group pf people in the crowd was plans, were altered as a resuti of police (which never came about) that it was a police has been reprinted to clarify the smokitrg pot. consultations. issue and to 'provide the reader with com community decision as" how to relate to *"We don't want to go in there and As for undercover cops being "al plete information. Our purpose is to that order-and^Jhai P&F and FVOC arrest them." he told Jerry, "but we lowed" on the march, the police lieu criticize the analysis thqt letter exempli would participate in whatever decision can't let them keep doing it. 1 wonder if tenant did inform John Haag thai they fies and not its author, a brother, whom or decisions would be made by the .you fellows could do something aboul would oe there. This was something we /re respect but,on this occassion disagree community; 5) FVOC participated in all took for granted anyway, and which with. monitor meetings as monitors; 6) FVOC ii." „ Jerry relayed the info to John Haag, no one. including John Haag, could have rapped with community residents, whc done anything about in any case. The Bob Wells lived along the route of the march and and John got on thV-rmcrophone and asked the crowd to cool it. Apparently monitors group did agree that anyone Sarah Brannon the perimeters of Westminster Park who joined the march carrying a wea- Steve Clare ' about publicly displaying Free Venice the people did. since there were no arrests. • pon would be ordered to leave -a device ' Rick Davidson flags on their residences because : aj to which the Chieano Moratorium had show community support fee the Now, this sort of attitude is not Randy Watsek always typical of the police. Police have used - successfully to eliminate under Don Woodland . ••twood BWd. DRIFTWOODS RESTAURANT 7 «# 404 Wastwigton Street- Manna del Rev • 3 blocks east of ttie Pacific Oceon Mass Protest Continued (Continued from page IJ busloads of protesters to go to the City 59 city-owned lots in the area. ''Perhaps Council the day of the hearing. the most important thing to stress is' (Ir^^cîÊarfhtWtchcn Don Wc-odiand of Free Venice that city tax money is underwriting this characterizes ihe issue as a question oi whole project. If any owner default oç human rights versus paiperty rights. his assessments, the city has guaranteed JvjDîClrnelRknu "The big land speculators, working to make it up out of tax funds -and the through City Hall, are fixing to make a city itself predicts a 15% default rate. GocMs big killing in the canals, and a 'This becomes an arrogant kick in. community of people is going to be the teeth to the Los Angeles taxpayer destroyed so they can do it." The cäy •, when you realize thai after the project's Brrfxilainmcminialîtlj) canal redevelopment plan, part of the done the canal area will no longer be Venice Master- Plan, calls for the open to the average citizen. The public démolition of more than 20Ü sidewalks around the canals are going to low-income and middle-income housing be given to the real estate developers, units in the area, to be replaced by and the private property line will extend luxury canal-side dwellings, including right to the water's edge. With only a front-door yacht slips. The canals are to very few breaks, the private property OpenTuesdav-Satijrday'&xkfa)isfrom5* Dinner from b' Sunday be deepened to accommodate yacht will form a solid wall between the traffic, and the section or Washington people and the canals. What's more, /vfir %itiu i.iiff the mtok living the Good life; How to Live drugs, being physically active and learn Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, ing how to live on slim means. In their 1970. with introduction by Paul suggestions for liberation from the city, 'frifpY doUit! W f"f*^. Goodman the authors show how they had worked out a balance sheet. JSgM.m-0132 up- By now the need to escape polluted, Living the Good life is a must book dial eroded, corrupted, oppressive environ for organic gardeners, builders, rather gruberg ments is universal. How to do it and than destroyers, those who seek good Open til how the Nearings did it makes interest health, home food canners, nutritionists ing reading. The acid test for the valid and plain community people. In our 12 pm ity of the words of these old socialists is polluted social stream, where whole sun their own survival in. a rural Vermont some avenues of escape become ever less 12-9 community as their practical success in attainable, those interested in rural com uad) reaching healthy, ripe old age. munities or small communes like Skin It took twenty years of experience ner's .in Waiden Two or the Nearings' RELIABLE volunteers needed! (Have we got that much time?) for the Vermont Haven will find Livingthe for FREE VENICE SWTTCHBOARDi Nearings- tg, reach certain positive con Good Life requisite study. The books 3 hrs/wk call Jeff 821-2889" clusions of the importance of cultivating mentioned in this review on the subject HELP land without fertilizers, living on a vege of saner living for SURVIVAL are in" SWITCHBOARD PHONE 821-6101 HOURS lOAM-MjDNIGHT tarian diet, eschewing doctors and your Venice Public Library. 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Hazard Ptt (Soto NATIONAL PARTY The PFP National Organizing Com (Soto & Zonal Su.l 396-1040 The PFP National Organizing Com mittee, which works out of the PFP JUNE 15 - CANAL PUBLIC PROTEST HEARING. 10 A.M. et'L. A. City Hall. mittee has been working to build a nat office in Free Venice, is preparing to JUNE 20 - PFP 4» BIRTHDAY PARTY. 11A.M. to 6 P.M. Echo Park ional radical party in time for the '72 deliver to the Vietnamese people signed election. Besides reviving the PFP in originals of the Peopie to People Treaty JUNE 23 - VENICE PFP BIRTHDAY & OFFICE WARMING 8 P.M. Other states, the committee now has of Peace collected by the California PFP 1621 Washington Bl'. working relationships with the New and other anti-war groups. JUNE 30 - CARAVAN LEAVING FOR ALBUERQUE 9"A.M. 1621 W. Wash. Bl. Party in several states, the Wisj The treaties, will be sent to Paris, r JULY 2-5 - INDEPENDENCE DAY 1971 in Albuerque. New Mexico Alliance, the IndeuwiiiJeiH f,TjS Mexican where Jane Gordon, PRP candidate for NOTE: PFP MEETING EVERY WEDNESDAY 8 P.M. 1621 W. Washington Bl. Party, the Peop.e\Party of Kentucky Congress last year in the 28th district, and others. will präsent them to the negotiators from Norm Vietnam and from the liber The first nationafmeeting of the new ated South. coalition party is scheduled for July 2 INDEPENDENCE through 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The PFP expects that delivery of the treaties directly to the Vietnamese will A caravan to the meeting will leave from spark renewed interest in signing the Free Venice at 9 A.M. Wad., June 30. historic treaty. To join the PFP effort DAY 1971 The new and larger PFP office in for people's diplomacy, pick up treaty WILL BE CELEBRATED INI AGENDA Free Venice is seeking volunteers to forms at our new office at 1621 W. learn the skills of electoral and move JULY 2 4 3: , Washington Bivd. ment organizing. Anyone interested in The drive for treaty signatures will ALBUQUERQUE, N.M Workshops on J practical organizing work locally or any continue until no American men or organizing techniques where in the country should phone or dollars are being used to dominate the AT A 4-DAY CAMP-OUT, JULY 4: Drafting of write to the PFP National Organizing lives of me Vietnamese people. TO LAUUCM TUE platform for présentation Committee at the PFP office. citklUCfP rtCCClKltffp jf at a latar platform convention »aÎToitTi ^fc V^UL» 5: Discussion of draft TO BUILD A yf platform & nominatron of'Shadow MAT IOW AL jf Cabinet' for the National PBrty. CAD1CAL S EVteyOUE WELCOME pABTY V^ ONE PEStSOW - OWE VOTE FOB /CAR CABAVAW FCOM FREE VfeUICE TO AL6UO.UEEQ.U&, M.M. LEAVES 9:00AU MAY 23, 1971. An Armed Forces cere FBQM U»2t W. trVASHIWATOW RlVO. JUMS 50 MAY 29, 1971. PFP members from mony on Santa Monica Mall attracted Venice, Santa Barbara, L.A., San Jose equal numbers of military supporters, FOR MOBS INFORMATION CALL S2l-S5.2«o and Cotati are shown at a caucus with and anti-war veterans and PFP activists. New Party activists in Sacramento. venice of america a renewal area by petition of 20& of its residents and approval ot the local legislative body. IMPORTANT EARLY HISTORY Our petition has been signed and presented to the Council and is being studied by the L.A. Planning Commission. Also the "Venice of^Arnerica" was the vision and accomplishment of one Community's estimate of the cost of cleaning up the canals« man. Abbot Kinney. Kinney was a capitalist and a dilettante using ihe City's cost figures, with only the design approach being HEARING who envisioned an American Renaissance in Los Angeles and set changed-ts 4 million dollars, as opposed to $25 million, about in 1900 to plan a proper seat for that rebirth—a new world according to the City's figures. Venice, as beautiful and exciting as her old world counterpart. Construction of the canals, walkways and streets themselves PROTEST HEARING Final Protest Hearing on the Venice Canals . . . your began in 1904 and most were completed the following year. corrvnunity need* vou to tetl City Hall how you feel FOR INFORMATION, RIDES AND WHAT HAVE VOU, CALL Kinney died m 1920, leaving his son Thornton to watch over his THE FREE VENICE SWITCHBOARD. 821-6101, OR DROP about Venice 15 June, 1971, 10 AM. in LA.. 200 N. town. Pressure to create a more stable community, continual SprtngSt. for info. Call FREE VENICE. 821-6101. BV THE COMMUNITY HOUSE, 468 HOWLAND AVENUE, breakdown of public services, a siate-pyibe.trend toward progress BUT WHATEVER . . COME TO THE PROTEST HEARING ive reform and incompetent and offen unscrupulous municipal JUNE 15 . .. WtTNEED YOU . .. administrators (in 1922 thé treasurer absconded with most of the City's money) sir worked to undermine Thornton's influence end to build support for a movement to annex Venice to either Santa Monica or Los Angelas. In spite of what has turned out to be prophetic protestations that "ANNEXATION MEANS SLAVERY," Venetians voted m 192S for consolidation with Los Angeles. That mistake cost Venice dearly. Ignoring her pre-annex at ion promises to refurbish and maintain the canals, Los Angeles, rather, filled them in and paved them. Of the 16-mile network, only the grid of Grand, Eastern, Linnie, Carroll, Howland and Sherman Canals remain. In 1930 the city opened the area to oil companies, and soon the entire Venice peninsula became pock-marked with derricks RECENT HISTORY In 1961. canal property owners petitioned the City of Loi Angeles to create an assessment district to restore the canals The protect was to cost about $3.600,000. about half of which would be paid for by property owners within the district The city, naturally enough, was delighted by the idea and saw m this project just the tool it needed to effect its own plans for Venice. So what began as a modest restoration project was worked and reworked until it assumed, finally, its Breserit form-a 25-mil- hôn-dollar "slum clearance" project to spearhead the redevelop ment of the entire Venice area. The City Council has stated that the alternative to the canal assessi-riaci^djstrict is to f'l! m the canals The SAVE THE CANALS COMMITTEE has motivated a second alternative-a renewal area agency. RENEWAL AREA AGENCY The California State Legislature has recently passed legislation which provides tor small-scale rehabilitation projects to be initiated and controlled by residents and property owners of the renews! area Under this taw any blighted area can be designated PLATTER PUSS RECORD STORE Supports the Venice Peopie in Their Struggle to Save Their Community from Destruction - We urge you to go to the hearing ~7l PLAT TER PUSS offers a wide selection of -music and will buy and trade your Old albums. Stop in and investigate. We are open from 11 £~£l Ptatten POM, AM to 10 PM. daily; Sun. Mi 8 P.M. We're at 2204 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Mon.ce, tel: 392-6622. « ^ BRINGING THE WAR ON HOME 4 We are coming l Ulli!. Y 11JHIII!. In the early morning We are all coming down your Marble lane We are your Johnny Coming marching Limping ICHHË Crawling back Bringing the war on home We know who you are NUMBER .24, JULY 1971 10,000 COPIES FREE We have seen the truth i JAlong a thousand rice paddies At the barrels of a million guns We have felt the truth We have felt it cracking through our shoulders Cracking in its hot truth And we have watched it flow from Our brothers' bodies Red and thick Like your lies And we know who you are You cannot fool us With your plastic smiles You cannot trick us by your slogans You are the leaders You are the well fed You are the wise men With all the answers You are the untouched The celebrities of our nation Who played with our lives i You are the ones who sent us to die And we are the ones who never asked why You are the ones who taught us to kiiJ "PÂJÇS And jailed us for kiliing You are the ones who have disgraced us And we went down You have dishonored us To the p^ace By the thousands we have died for your greed Where Bill was buried And filthy ambition And there were flags all over the place We have lost legs I mean flags like a sea WHO IS RON KOVIC? And arms And flags like a crowd Faces and minds Flags like I never seen before ROM Kovic is a twice-wounded Viet nam veteran. This ex-Marine Sgt. (re For your greed Millions of them tired on disability) volunteered for two For your filthy ambition All standing so tall tours of duty in Vietnam. He won the Your slogans And blowing free and proud Bronze Star. Navy Commendation Your countless lies All in neat rows Medal and New York State Conspicuous You have betrayed us Service Cross. On January 20, 1968. he- For as far as you could see was wounded seriously enough to be And all our people So we walked among them confined to a wheelchair for the rest of We cannot be fooled by your lies Past Iwo Jima his life, thus ending his participation in And we have given all that men can give And all the other strange names this senseless war. Through this ordeal All of their bodies And the flags snapped against our legs he came to realize how wrong it would And all of their minds be for any more men to duplicate this Cracking in the wind horrendous experience not only of We have given them all And just up a ways Vietnam, but of the Veterans Adminis And we sit lonely Just past the bridge tration hospital. Licking our wounds Was where Bill was Lost in your pool rooms Just past the bridge Stoned in your forgotten allies That is what they told us Of filth and despair And soon we got up to the place Swept along in Sunday sidewalk rains And we were sure it was the place Past dreams made dark by your war The flags were new and clean And thoughts that slip the clouds The graves fresh Lonely down the lane The tin markers all in place We know who you are With death and We have tasted your bittersweet betrayal When the men put them into the ground And puke on lonely mornings And we looked a long time Puke your deceitful lies Before we found Bill On your lovely plush green rugs So we just sat there On your war Where they put him in the ground On your White House steps Just past the bridge We spit In a sea of flags Millions of them And then we got up And Pop brushed the'tire tracks That still held yesterday's rain He brushed them off the grave And we walked slowly back over the bridge SAUTA »MCA OFFICE Through the flags 1508 2nd. St. That snapped against our legs . . . Santa Monica, Calif. 90W31 (near Broadway) )ii ki Memorial Day, 1971 ph. (213) -+51 9281 OFF THE COCKROACH PFP IN HEW COALITION by Milton Takei and Peter Van Zant Showing people how to eliminate our If we want to get rid of a slum Between two and three hundred military, political and economic. disease-carrying cockroaches is im landlord, we must look to ourselves. If radicals and left-liberals gathered in 2. It proposes unilateral initiatives portant in our community. But it is also we want to get rid of cockroaches, get a Albuquerque over the July 4th weekend for nuclear disarmament of the important to show the relationship be one-pound can of POWDERED BORIC to begin forming a new national politi world. tween the cockroach and its human ACID (about 66cenls). Sprinkle it on cal coalition for the 1972 elections. The 3. Specific planks were included on brother, the slum landlord. the cockroach trails. (I used a salt city of Albuquerque was clearly expect racism and sexism, written by the As you know, it is easier to get rid of shaker, and labeled it.) In about one ing trouble from the convention, follow people affected. the six-legged insect than its two-legged week they will start to go and in three ing the recent riots there. The National 4. Removal of all laws against crimes fellow traveler. Of course, we must weeks you will have a hard time finding Guard was mobilized and the police withoul victims, including drug, ob eventually rid ourselves of both var any. were much in evidence. The police scenity, sex and gambling laws. ieties. Identify their trails by the little balls helicopter frequently circled the con 5. Direct actions against the giant corporations which rule America was Our slum landlords, usually living of cockroach shit, about the size of a vention site. The City had previously advocated in several proposed planks. elsewhere, have only one objective: to sugar grain. One pound of powdered made every attempt to force a cancel Ecology. Economics and Foreign make as much money as possible in the boric acid is sufficient for the average lation of the convention. Policy among them. One proposal in shortest time. And to do this, their home. People were there from the Calif the last-named plank was to support tenant/victims must pay, pay, pay. As they travel through the powder, it ornia Peace and Freedom Party (four the reclamation by peoples of other We pay with our money. We pay sticks to them; when they return to teen from Venice alone), other PFP countries of the resources now being with our misery. We pay with our their nests, they lick it off. . . then it groups, ex-McCarthyite New Party con taken by American corporations. health. And at times we have paid with kills them. I have tried it and it really tingents from a number of states and Regarding strategy, the Coalition will the lives of our children. If we don't pay works. several other state parties. Called simply fast enough to the bloodsucking land Keep the powdered boric acid la "The Coalition," this national group definitely be grass-roots, rather than lord masters, there are always the beled well and away from children. will be a locally based organization "top down." The Coalition will make police, our "protectors," to put a little Don't eat it; it may make you sick just containing both electoral and non- no attempt to control the activities of frosting on the bitter profit cake like any other insecticide. Happy electoral organizations. There will be the independent local groups, which will How can a sensible slum landlord hunting! another convention in November to retain their own names, It views elect exterminate the rats, cockroaches and approve a platform, select a shadow oral politics as not an end, but a other vermin, clean and light the halls, Ed. note; As for the two-legged cabinet and nominate a Presidential "vehicle to be used in implementing repair and maintain the plumbing, clean cockroaches, the next time one comes candidate. social and cultural change in America." the premises, etc., without reducing his around, sprinkle some boric acid on Other groups present included the It supports other kinds of actions such profit? He CANNOT. He is dedicated to him. If he doesn't go away contact the Wisconsin Alliance Party, a group work as demonstrations. It supports Venice- the proposition that his profit rights are Beachhead and we'll tell you some other ing on such projects as getting into local type community organizing, recognizing superior to our human rights. Profits methods.... governments, forming food co-ops, pro the need for counter-institutions like . first, last and inbetween. viding help for small farmers who are food and clothing co-ops, co-op child being pressured by large monopoly cor care centers and co-op schools. How porations and attempting to organize ever, the Coalition views electoral poli workers in the factories. The Florida tics as necessary, because decisions are New Party is also into heavy non- made through the electoral process. VETS ORGANIZE electoral organizing trips, but it caused Also, there are great possibilities for much controversy by mounting a heavy education, organization and mobiliza verbal campaign to draft Ralph Nader tion of people. The California Veterans Movement is for President. This proposal was voted A wide spectrum of radical political a group which was formed by veterans down by the rest of the conferees, who and economic thought was represented for veterans. We came about through a felt that building an effective national at the convention and was included in coalition of veterans groups throughout; coalition at this time was more im the platform writing, insuring that a the Southern California area. We of the portant than focusing on a charismatic variety of ideas and means for social California Veterans Movement feel it national figure who hardly qualifres as a change were included in the draft plat our collective and individual responsi radical and probably would refuse the form. Some people were most heavily bility to inform the American people nomination anyway. into ecology, some into economics and how our military policy in Indochina Individuals from Venice were able to other into cultural revolution. Views on and around the world affects everyone meet with people from Wisconsin Al organizing techniques ranged from that comes into contact with it. liance and International Socialist to building cooperative communities "to It is our purpose to organize as a share experiences. The Wisconsin Al worker organizing for class struggle to lobbying, informational body represent liance people were surprised by the decentralization of government. ing veterans and active-duty servicemen, similaiity between the things Free One of the most inspiring aspects of to help other vets overcome the dif As active-duty GIs. many of us saw Venice and Wisconsin Alliance were the conference was the free, uninhibited ficulties in dealing with the Veterans firsthand the horror, inhumanity and doing. Some people questioned the use expression of ideas by the delegates. Administration and to offer them a devastation produced by a war which is fulness of organizing in the community Committee meetings and plenary ses viable alternative to the American destroying not only nations, but entire as opposed to the factories. The discuss sions were marked by contributions Legion and VFW. We feel it necessary to peoples, as well. ion was very friendly and steps will be from many people, who did not allow reveal the deficient treatment that re As veterans, we now speak to taken to improve communication themselves to be intimidated into letting turned wounded veterans receive in the America, not only of these experiences, among the various groups. all the ideas come from the "leader VA hospitals, as well as the high unem but of lessons taught us by them. We ship." have learned that no smokescreen of Two major objectives were achieved ployment rate among veterans, the high If you want to be part of the talk about '"helping the South Viet at the conference: drafting a pre incidence of drug abuse and its cause, Coalition, call Venice PFP, 396-6535. namese'' or "containing Communism" liminary platform and working out stra the general feeling of alienation which a Or come to our meetings every Wednes can cover the fact that instead of aiding tegy for the coming months leading to veteran feels when he returns to civilian day. 8 pm., at 1621 W. Washington the peoples of Indochina, we are sys the nominating convention in Nov life and the still very real existence of Blvd. We will soon have copies of the tematically annihilating them. That's a ember. The platform was truly radical in racism and sexism within the military. draft platform and we welcome your far cry frojn "self-determination." a number of important respects: We as veterans want to make it known own ideas, changes or additions. Tn trying to solve these problems, we that we are completely against the use I. It calls for immediate and total are working directly with veterans with Of the P.O.W. issue as a political football withdrawal from Indochina and end drug abuse problems, with unemployed which the present administration is ing all involvement in Southeast Asia using as a rationalization to continue veterans, with active-duty GIs who feel our military engagement m Indochina. the immediate repression of the military system. We are going into the Veterans hospitals and working with the doctors and disabled vets. It is our hope that by Letter making the American public aware that these deficiencies in the VA system and to the Editor STAFF FOR THIS ISSUF: our society exist a constructivae change will be brought about. The DEVIL will sure laugh Joan Allen The struggle that the California when he gets all of you in hell Sharon Brannon Veterans Movement is engaged in affects where you belong- if God doesn't Brent Bryak all people, veterans and non-vets alike. punish you enough to get you all Steve Clare In order to accomplish our goals we on your knees to honor Him and Rachel Dranow need your support. do His teaching from the Bible. Judy Goldberg You may escape Court and Ken Havens Punishment here but God does Debby Rosenfelt Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll not accept Draft Dodgers and Susie Safford FREE VENICE FOOD Liars and Trouble Makers. Keep Milton Takei CO-OP: Meets every this paper, you should stuff iL in Bob Wells Tues, (new members your mouth to stop your tongue. 7:30 PM), 838 Super- Editor's note-Keep those ba. 821-2889, 468 HaMOTKR cards and letters coming, folks. Send all correspondence to the THANKS TO Howland Ave. 821- LinDflmflson Ann and Peter 6101 or 31 Breeze Beachhead, P.O. Box 664, Venice, 2917(TlRin STR€€T Calif. 90291 392-7225. ocean PARK, ca 90405 Tei_ePHQne 392-5668 FREE VENICE-BEACHHEAD, page 2 ON PRISONS WHY? Why. if current polls show that 73% of On June 5th some way-out things the American people are against happened in our part of the land. the war, does it still continue? Ex-prisoners attended a conference at East Los Angeles College on the subject Why does the cost of living continue to of prisons and who more than they rise while it gets harder and harder know what the score is? There were for me to find a job? many chicanos and blacks participating, Why is it that ten of the largest oil understandably, as they make up a companies pay no taxes while disproportionate part of the prison pop mine go up and up? ulation in this racist society. Why is my son sent away to destroy a Assemblyman Alan Sieroty spoke country and a people who are and introduced a number of important fighting for their independence? bills on prison reform. AB2701-4 would Why did the City Council, which is give prisoners the right to petition the supposed to represent me. vote to Adult Authority on loss of parole and plan my community without my not permit the prisoner's sentence to participation? run longer than the original sentence. Why can't I breathe the air, drink the Many other suggestions toward pri water or eat the food of my son reform were made. One suggestion country without fear of contamin was for the Adult Authority to be ation and sickness? broken up into community units and the community to go into the prison to As the recent New York Times Pen assist the prisoners. We here in Venice tagon articles have been revealing, FIVE have started assisting prisoneis. We have Washington administrations lied to the made several visits to a black prisoners people about why and how and when group at CRC in Norco and have re and where the\ made the war. ceived a warm response. We know the WEST SIDE COMMITTEE FOR job of fighting for community repre PEACE is a group of people who have sentation on the parole boards is a long, been asking these questions and at tough one and we need dedicated tempting to find solutions. We must also people. take the responsibility for helping to Presently we are helping in the sup make the peace. We are calling a series port of the prisoners' fight in any way of community meetings to discuss the we can. We are trying to publicize their war and the ways it affects our everyday lives and how we can bring it to an end. plight and their needs. The Study of a group to sponsor same. Anyone who Assemblymen: Black History Group at CRC has asked can help in this project, has knowledge North of Venice, West of Pacific Priolo The next meeting of the West Si de for community people with knowledge Committee for Peace will be held on of hidden funds or is interested in North of Venice East of Pacific of theatre and pla'ywriting to help the working on community representarion Sieroty July 20. Everyone is invited to come group, which is ready to put on plays. and start to build an organization in the on parole boards, please contact the South of Venice East of Pacific They also want to set up a halfway community that will work to end the Beachhead at P.O. Box 664, Venice, Waxman house for those being released. They war in Indochina and the crises at Calif. 90291. Don't forget to write your South of Venice, West of Pacific seem to get on well with each other and Assemblyman and Senator at Sac Beverly home. feel they can ccntinue to help each ramento to vote for Bills 2701-4 as well State Senator Stevens For more information and time and other on the outside. They need the place of meeting, call 821-1369 or as Bill AB58I, permitting prisoners to Their address is State Capitol Bldg. donation of a cheap rental of a house or 821-3254. receive uncensored mail. Sacramenti .Calif. 95814. *pahW EVERYTHING FOR THE ARTIST Pomeroy ART SUPPLIES I J/VC£A/Ö^ •5>f°ac/v ô/v&S PICTURE FRAMING PICTURES SopplfcSt Cords lïîè^~$«t fc TYPESETTINt; LITHOGRAPHY bead s / *°~ I 4T/«D* co*c*/rrss*ooMM* & SPCCSM svtMn V f&êl9J>Crp,jUb. LIS33 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., VENICE 300-0083 fiasco - MUSIC AND IN-1*PTTAINM»TMT «PKCIALJarro • Wf HMy rajsturant Iwholesome rice dinners from 5 PM lvneh aouday - trUmy Two Two Sill SOUTH •«VCMI.V Daiva dlmiatr •vu'jrd/jqr LONDON BWTCHCS afe • KvaU*l_Y MIUI.O. CPU-IPOMNIA •oari «•at ABMIPIALTY WAY Tala»m«a (A»«A Coos 3131 »74 607» 11853 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica* SSED CONDITIOnS ACROSS DOWN i n 1 I. TV "commercial for CIA starring Bill Cosby; 2 1. Central concept of capitalism. words. 2. — Otis, son of Johnny. You'll be buying his records one day. y_, 5. 502 "Oriental human beings" "wasted" here, u integrated lynching. 3. Degenerate form of intellectual humor enjoyed by 10. —balahap; Philtipine revolutionaries. crossword puzzle addicts. II. Two eyes and then another (warning: pun 4. What Chicken Little saw. (Careful.) involved). Or Office Of the Interior, (init.) 5. Early euphemism for black people. (Plural.) 12. Spanish bourgeoisie. 6. of oppression; you must know it's there before 13. "All Right, - , You Win," sang Joe Williams. , you can throw it off. 14. K -; fate of 50,000 young men from the' U.S. in 7. Chinese measure that is shorter uphill than Vietnam ... so far. downhill. 16. Crossword puzzle fan's caviar. 8. Article. 17. — boots; two boots linked by steel bar. Named 9. Center of the knQwn universe. after northwest U.S. state that makes its prisoners 10. Dull. wear them, supposedly to hamper escape. 14. Debt. '(Abbrev.) 19. No news is -. (Another atrocious pun; watch it!) 17. Expression of pain. 22. See 10 across. Dispersed, but still active. 18. Where Dick 'n' Jane don't play. (Plural.) 23. Something big money is covered with. 20. Political organization of the world's bravest people; formally founded on Dec. 20, 1961. 24. In other words. (Initials from Latin.) .21 iiH' : ''' 25. Em —. Originally abbreviation for siavemaster. 21. In Spanish it's y, in Latin it's - . Since it was the worst thing in the world to be, young 24. People are sluggish; chemicals are —. J{ black men took to using this epithet on each other so 26. Initials of revolutionary writer thought by some to - i j 11 as to be later able to shrug off the curses laid on them have been assassinated by CIA in 1960. (Wrote by the real mother —. (See DOZENS in the Wretched of the Earth. ) Revolutionary Encyclopedia.) 27. Good ol' John Wayne says men aren't supposed to la 26. Type face, in printing jargon. do this; it makes the mascara run into their makeup. 28. The enemy within. 28. John Wayne, underneath all the bullshit. 32. U.S. version of initials of one of the most 29. Estimated Time of Arrival. (Initials.) 30. Intimate circle. revolutionary lands on earth. 31. Last letter of this three-letter abbreviation being 33. Broken, in Spanish. (Masc. form.) 34. To be released from jail on this is the ideal. Legal held elsewhere as collateral. 35. Has plastic band. term. (Abbrev.) 36. Mad Russian (in 1917). FÄJSis VENICE BEACHHEAD page 3 Although the attack on the recycling center smacks of harassment, this is not the first center to be threatened by the City. The recycling center at the Wood land Hills Community Congregational Church was previously closed because n was out ol zone. This group attempted to work through the mayor's office and the City Council. A blanket zone variance for recycling centers reached the floor of the Council but failed, despite big promises from politicians. The City Council decided that each individual recycling center would have to get its own variance. However, to merely apply for a zone variance crisis S200, far beyond the means of any recycling center. What conclusions can we draw from the actions by the City? Our so-called This particular citation is only representatives are not going to be much part of the harassment that has help in saving our environment, unless been faced by Free Venice groups forced into it. For all the speech-making using the Community House. The about ecology, politicians are making it City has cited the Community clear that the environment takes a back House for holding public assem seat to the political harassment of un blies on the nrnnertv, ignoring the popular groups. In spite of pious state First Amendment right of as ments about enforcing the law, the City- sembly and the fact that similar will make the law flexible enough to political assemblies are held in satisfy corporate polluters, but nol en residential zones by Establishment vironmentalist groups. political candidates. The Free We must fight our battles outside of dinance. The Free Venice Ecology Com Venice Food Co-op has been the political system as it is now con munity, which operates the center, has charged with operating an illegal stituted. We must fight m the courts, luecided to challenge the city in the store, although it merely dis and if that fails, we must fight by other 'courts and is attempting to engage tributes food purchased col means. And whatever the future has in attornies for that purpose. lectively. It seems more than a store, we must have unity. Without i a hearing before the City Attorney coincidence that these actions on June 10th. Neighborhood Legal were taken at a time when Free unity, how can we defeat the powerful Services attorney Marguerite Buckley Venice was intensifying its strug weapons of the small minority who are The Free Venice Community House. aigued that the Community House was gle to block the Venice Waterways destroying the world? 468 Howland Canal, Venice, has re not "'storing" anything, but merely pro Project. This project would turn For further information call Don ceived a citation from the Department viding trash containers for use hv neigh the Venice Canals into a private Woodland or Jeff Lanzman, 821-2884, of Building and Safety, charging that bors . She added that 'he. re yacht harbor, eliminating the pre or Milton Takei, 396-6535. the recycling center on the property was cyclages were removed twice as often sent residents. THE EARTH BELONGS TO THE in violation of the City zoning or as the City picks up garbage. PEOPLE! Bad News for Ecology /when the FBI calls on vou Information is a crucial ingredient in some information which tends to im self and flashes his badge is to say, the fuel that runs the engine of re plicate you in (such and such) a bomb "That's nice, and if you have any ques pression. It is important for us to recog ing. If you could answer a few ques tions, I'll listen to them in my lawyer's nize that not all the information that tions, I'm sure we can straighten things presence. She (or he) is (so and so). So the cops obtain comes from bugs and out." Your mouth drops; your mind long." Don't let him in. Don't be afraid. agents. Sometimes we sisters and boggles: "Shit, man, 1 didn't do that!" Don't be tricked. Don't be arrogant. brothers of the movement supply the Suddenly you have lost your cool and Any talking you do may sound like sing information. you're only too glad to tell the cop ing. The history of struggle is filled with This is how it happens: Some of us where you were on Thursday night and cases of sisters and brothers sent to jail pi stared when an FBI ageni appeals at who you were with. Maybe that's all he and to death on frameups based on just the door. We answer a few "simple" wanted to know where you were and if enough circumstantial information to questions, because we are afraid not (x) was with you. And you've given him give a hue of credibility to the state's to -afraid of committing some crime by the information. Even two-bit gangsters charges. not talking. Our fear in this situation in grade B movies don't fall for that Another line of FBI investigating to distorts our judgment. There is no law one. anticipate is the visit to a third person- requiring us to talk with an FBI agent, Some others of us are not afraid a parent, friend or employer. Where no crime against the state when the when the FBI comes in fact, quite the possible, it is helpful to talk with some agent is brushed off and the door is shut reverse. We are so arrogant about our one likely to be contacted and let them immediately. However, a crime against wits and the feds' stupidity that we in know the best way to deal with FBI our people is done when we deal with vite them in to ask them questions to visitors. Bits and pieces of information the situation by answering any of the find out what the enemy is up to. Fat from nervous employers and upset feds' questions. No FBI agent asks idle chance. Our very questions give them parents may make up a mosaic of questions; there is no such thing as small information which they might never trouble for one of us. So try to antici talk with a cop. A long answer, a short stumble over otherwise. Behind each pate the problem and handle it ahead of answer, a truthful answer, a lying an question is a body of information which time with enough tact and humor to swer, any of these will supply some sort may well be revealed in the question ease the situation. of information which is of use to the itself or in a series of questions. Some of Somehow, along with everything else state. The FBI visitor may be out to our brothers have reported on an inter we must do, a balance should be struck make a case on you, or a sister or a view: "Man, was that a dumb pig. He between silly paranoia and naive ob brother, and you have "sung" if you say didn't know what he was looking for." liviousness. Long before we are ready, anything more than '"('all my lawyer. There are several names for that kind of the police are moving against us. The Goodbye." arrogance. state in its seriousness forces us to be Sometimes when we open the door What should we do when the FBI ever more sophisticated about defending unafraid and ready to brush the cop off, comes to call? It's really pretty simple. ourselves. Perhaps the first step in learn we get caught by an old interrogation Experience has shown that the best re ing about weapons is how to engage the trick. 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J / (NOPE'JT FREE*A**.****** VENICE BEACHHEAD* ****+*******************************&*+*+** page 4 wwwwwwww **************+*« m mmm^mmw-n by Rachel Dranow by Brent Bryak Our gratitude to all true patriots who Several weeks agu a storm broke out liberate secret documents like FBI tiles over the "Pentagon Papers," hitherto and Pentagon Papers in order to expose "secret" documents released to the the conspiracy of the power elite against press by a conscience-striken think- the people both at home and in Asia. tanker, "two invasions and 9,000 Amer Some of us knew the truth before it ican lives and hundreds of thousands of went dripping in Vietnamese and Ameri Vietnamese lives," as he put, after he can blood. But for some truth only first considered releasing the documents comes now. back m 1964. It it news to you that as early as 1954 the plan to intervene in S.E. Asia The Pentagon Papers are some 40 was already in effect? President Eisen volumes of such deathless prose as hower, together with Richard Nixon "Actum (3Hd) was specifically ap and their brainstormer. Allan Dulles, proved b> consideration ol' initiated the domino theory in Amer JCSM-42o-o4 . . ." It is difficult mat ican foreign policy. That meant that if "He look the wraps off our secret weapon!" erial to get into, you see. It is nothing they didn't stop "communism" in S.E. but 7,000 pages of sloppy mush, a Asia, all the countries would fall prey to bureaucratic quagmire of buck passing it, one by one. The Eisenhower Admin by soulless Doctor Strangelove types, istration helped the French in Indochina mad scientist/technician/politicians who and tried to disrupt the Geneva Con would probably faint at the sight of a vention. And after that President Ken real dead bod> covered with real blood. nedy, in 1961, continued working on Secure in their mental/psychic bomb the same anti-communist hysterical shelters, their While Houses, Pentagons, plot. He involved the U.S. in Indochina Saigon embassies and think-tanks, they by sending 13,000 advisers there and would rule the world through pulling urged Diem to accept American troops paper strings, sending inter-office mem to fight the "'Viet Cong." When Diem orandums that result in death for thou refused he was marked lousy and you sands of people. guessed it, assassinated. The phony stra "We," we have been told, "have been tegic hamlet program, another type of asked by the South Vietnamese people concentration camp deal for the South PENTAGON to aid them in repelling outside aggres Vietnamese, was the contribution of the sion" | from the northern half of their Kennedy liberals like Schlesinger and own country] . In private, however, Sec Hillsman, etc. retary of State Dean Rusk wrote a memorandum complaining of Is it news to you that after the PA P E R S '*. . . South Vietnamese popular atti Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines tudes which supported Hanoi's revolu Johnson, elected on a platform of end tionary aims. . ." (President Eisen ing the war, widened it? Back in 1948 hower admitted thai .NO', of the people LBJ was known to say, "No matter in the southern halt of Vietnam would what we have of offensive or defensive have voted for Ho Chi Minh had Eisen weapons, without superior air power hower's Administration allowed free try? And hasn't the lies of denying air North Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers America is a bound and throttled giant, elections to be held there.| impotent and easy prey to any yellow incursions over China's air space as well reveal that the air strikes then launched dwarf with a pocket knite." LBJ was to as the wholesale burning of Laotian. against North Vietnam were not the Dominoes, we were told, it's all a get his chance to take the "yellow Cambodian and Vietnamese villages last-minute "protective reaction" strikes gigantic domino game, the "fall" of dwarfs" into battle and attempt to brought lack of trust of government? Is they were supposed to be, indeed, the Vietnam to the socialist rule that the "bomb them back into the Stone Age." it news that U.S. corporate interests targets had been picked out months in overwhelming majority of the people seek the 1 5 million or so tons of oil off yearned for would inevitably lead to the Is it news to you that Johnson's Gulf advance. It was all a setup. And so it Tai-yu T'ai Island off Taiwan? Such "fall" of the rest of the Asian Mainland, of Tonkin Resolution was phony from goes, lie after lie after lie, all exposed in penetration is known as imperialism. then Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, beginning to end and just an excuse to two and a half million words, one for Now maybe we have a better idea of then Catalina . . . we're surrounded!!! send 400,000 more GIs into S.E. Asia? every human being killed by U.S. wea how the very rich corporate interests The Yellow Hordes of Godless Com And as our country went deeper and ponry and policy in Southeast Asia. engineer wars and how they use their munism, pant, pant . . . Now we find deeper into killing, destroying and Yes, perhaps we knew it all the time, instrument of racism to facilitate it. out the C.I.A. issued the President a maiming a civilian population in Viet not only those of us who knew of the Racism forces inferiority upon a people. report stating that "With the possible nam through massacres which became a My Lais before Walter Cronkite got the Would there have been a Vietnam War exception of Cambodia, it is likely that pattern rather than an accident and the word, but everyone who chanced to in a country white and European? And no nation in [Southeast Asia] would Vietnamese lost over 700,000 men, look up from their dinners at the TV set could the U.S. protect its power elite's quickly succumb to communism," women and children \ed. note this is a during Ihe 6 o'clock news, for the financial interests without military con shucks! "as a result of Ihe tall of Laos very conservative figure . . . | , the smokestacks of modern-day death quest when it fears so those "yellow and South Vietnam," to the people Pentagon expected China to enter the camps are visible all over the world. dwarfs" with their knives fashioned by living there. war just as they did in Korea. "We had Anyway, we finally all got the word; communism? never anticipated the tenacity of these .now let's act on it. We were told that "we" millionaire people," Secretary of State Rusk said. capitalists were sending troops to Viet "They had lost what was the equivalent nam "to permit the people of Smith of ten million people and yet they Vietnam to enjoy a better, freer way of fought on." Sucking Communist China life." Eisenhower, however, told a gov into the war was one of the key motives ernor's conference in 1954 that "we" for the American presence in Vietnam must "hold" South Vietnam because of and planning to destroy China with the "immense tin and rubber deposits nuclear weapons was being discussed in there," and in these documents a name the State Department and the Pentagon. less technician states that U.S. govern (Read James M. Gavin's book, Crisis ment aims in fighting on in Vietnam Now, 1968, for corroboration of this. were "70 pet. to avoid a humiliating He was a top Pentagon general.) Putting U.S. defeat ... to our reputation . . ." a stop to communism at the 17th Secretary of Defense McNamara said, in parallel in Vietnam, in Laos and crimp March. 1964, that ". . . the South Viet ing it in China was the application of namese conflict is a test case," that their domino theory. But some generals potential guerrillas in three continents were to come to understand that a were awaiting the outcome of Ihe Viet neutralist government was not com namese liberation struggle. Perhaps Pres munist and that a nuclear war with ident Johnson said U best when, on a China at the time was foolhardy. morale-raising (whose'.') expedition to a U.S. base in South Vietnam, he told the Is it news to you that in the name of Hoops thai "It's simple. We are 6% of saving Asia from communism the the world's population and the other bloody war went on and still goes on? 94% want whal we have, and we won't Yet the South Vietnamese people do let them gel it." not support the corrupt Saigon govern In 1939, ÜM German nazis dressed ment and the "Viet Cong" controls 5/8 up a lew concentration camp prisoners of the land so that the U.S. has to pay in Polish uniforms, then gunned them Thailand and South Korea to send down next to the Polish border and troops into South Vietnam and Cambo showed their bodies lo the press, claim dia? But to hold on to Southeast Asian ing that the invasion ol Poland the) set oil, just as the Rockefellers did back m oil a day later was simple sclt-dclcnse 1911 in the Dutch East Indies, the war from a supposed Polish invasion ol continues. Germany. Ihe American nazis lollowed Rightly does General Maxwell Taylor the same "provocation strategy" m se- deplore the release o\' the Pentagon curing the I onkin (mil Resolution ol secrets. "It will poison our country," he August. 1964 from Congress, by lalsely said. But whal of the killing and de claiming U.S. ships In have been at struction of life in Vietnam hasn't that poisoned the moral fibre of our coun- "What's so 'top secret,' Dad ... I've been telling you that for years tacked by PI boats coming out ol FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD page S dial gruberg 1355 Westwood Blvd. Open til Chimaera 7 day? »apa 12 pm Creative Apparel nooa to 6 pm . sun 205 Ocean Front Wi-ih 12-9 Phone. 392-8701 oath , wla »•••.«•«ZOS Oca/n Front WsOk 11317 oppresslon/represslon/repulsion we BUST Business by Brent Bryak by Rachel Dranow Repulsion is about what men do to daily, in this insane society, but how The bust business is a major industry that you are being searched without women. It takes you through the feel much harder it is on a woman alone. in these times and getting busted is no your permission. The lawyers will have ings of a woman experiencing the gen Alone in her apartment, Carol cowers in joyride. But getting busted does not to handle the rest. eral domination by men in all areas of her bed, in dread of that rapist who has have to be the end of your life, and with Unless it's for a noise complaint, the her being. been casing the homes of many of the a bit of know how, you can survive the police need a search warrant to enter The movie opens with Carol (Nancy? Women reading this review, watching experience. your house. However, lest you rest easy Pauline? Marilyn? does it matter? She is this movie. ... He strikes, and from California Law allows for "stop and in the confidence that the law is on all women) walking down the street, there on there is a flow of rapes and frisk." This means that a cop can call your side, you should know the reality running the daily gamut of stares and blood that had us all crying and gasping you to a halt, ask your name and ad of how the system works. catcalls all women face. and quivering with the unbearable ten dress and pat down the outside of your In order to get a search warrant, a A man in a bar sees her enter a sion that built up. clothing in search of dope, weapons, police officer has to go before a magis etc. In theory he needs "probable trate with a statement that a "reliable" restaurant and soon follows her in. She Carol loses touch with reality cause" to do this but he could easily informant has attested to illegal activity is in a daze in front of her full plate, Somewhere in here, for who needs such make one up. In practice, the police in your house. It is next to impossible unable to eat, discouraged, tired and reality? One or two rapes occur only in think nothing of putting their hands to check who ratted on you. disgusted. He approaches her and orders her fantasy (no, Charlie, no woman through your wallet. Because of this Once at the station house, you will her to leave and go with him to the wants to be raped. Honest.) but you you should not be carrying around info be asked all kinds of questions by the place he chooses to eat in: "You don't don't get hung up on the physical or stuff, nor your friends' names and cop filling out the arrest report. You have to eat that! I know a good place reality of how many times she was addresses. can refuse to answer all of them except where we can have steak. I'll buy it for actually raped-if at all-for Carol's for your name and address and that you. Come on," and he is genuinely whole life has been a rape. That is the should give you no hassle. You do not surprised when she doesn't rise and point of the whole film: some way, Washington, D.C. (LNS) A have to give any statement or sign any blindly follow him. He is born to somehow, the life of all women in this police trial board recommended statement you have made. Some people command, she to obey. Open rebellion society is one big rape. has been beat out of her through the April 7 that Washington, D.C. have gotten away with an alias. Rape is perhaps the ultimate crime, years, as is the case with most women; police sergeant John Latin Jr. be You may be stripped and searched because it takes the elements of the best the best "Fuck off!" she can muster is fined $900 and stripped of his and your possessions taken from you. part of life, two human beings joyously to give him lame excuses as to why she rank because he had tried to Get a receipt. And remember that any coming/Coming 2gether, and turns it all can't make a date with an obnoxious solicit policewoman Marilyn thing you say in the interrogation will around so that the best becomes the strange man. Finally she mumbles some Hershey while she was posing as a be held against you. When refusing to worst. If they can take away the best, thing he takes for assent and returns to prostitute. give information, do so politely and let they can have the rest. her job it slide Jf you are called a jagoff or ass We know, from observing other hole. Remember, your goal is to get in a beauty shop! Here is where In an arrest situation, be very cool societies in action, that things don't back out on the streets as soon as pos women go to beat nature. They have unless you and those with you have the have to be the way they are in this sible. Don't be fooled by the soft or come to believe what they have been situation in hand. Cops are armed and country, and we think that something tough manner of the interrogation. Let's told about their natural selves being should be considered dangerous. Keep like Repulsion is right on time. Every learn how to insure the safety of our ugly, saggy, smelly and oily. If they in mind that resisting arrest is a separate man should see this film and dig mouths and say nothing. want a man, or just to get some little himself. A recently returned visitor to offense, and that you can go down for it concession out of men, they must un North Korea told us that women can even if you beat the original charge. After the arrest report is completed, dergo hours of ordeal by indignity- safely walk down the streets of Pyong You do not have to answer any ques you will be given a chance to make from mudpacks and makeup on their faces yang, the capital of the north, at 2 a.m., tions except those about your name and one to three phone calls. Make the first like death masks. unmolested, while the streets of U.S.- address. False names have less of a one count by picking someone you can After work Carol goes home, where occupied Seoul, capital of the south, are chance of getting by if your fingerprints trust. Ask the desk officer where and she lives with her sister. Her sister has unsafe for a woman even in daylight. are on an arrest record somewhere, but when your hearing will be and make using the address of a "responsible" per spent the afternoon getting a fancy Repulsion is directly about the op 6ure whomever you call gets the infor son who you know will cover for you mation. Call Legal Switchboard at rabbit dinner together for her married pression of women by men, but oppress boyfriend. He struts in, an hour early. can keep your true residence a secret. 666-8437, a free 24-hour service for ion is oppression is oppression, and we "Forget that," he abruptly says, waving At a demonstration, submit to arrest bailbonding and other emergency serv are all oppressed, every single person at her labor. "I'm taking you out..." if you cannot get away. Trying to split ice connected with busts, or Venice who lives in this society, even some who opens you up to physical damage and a Neighborhood Legal Services, at Command and obey, command and think they are "above" it. The men who second offense. Hopefully you should 392-4177 (which has had its funds re- obey, and we ain't talkin bout no raped Carol were oppressed, too, can rabbits, neither. have been armed with phone numbers Stored for another six months), or the you dig it? They were born beautiful, for bail and legal aid. And in all but the After Carol's sister and boyfriend Free Venice Switchboard, 821 -6101. 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We home once a week for overnight travel work both as a referral service, to help lers, available rentals or room in your people in need and as a communications car for travellers, please give a call. center for people and the community. Also, If you have need of any of the As a referral service we try to help services we provide, please give a call. people with any possible need that they The Switchboard is run both physically may have. There are active Tiles for and financially by the collective volun rides, jobs, housing and crash housing. teer effort of the people. If you'd like For jobs and housing we try to connect to volunteer to help out, call Jeff at people with possible work and available 821-2889. The Switchboard is open rentals; and for crash housing we pro every day from noon to midnight at the vide overnight housing for travellers. Free Venice Community House, 468 For all other matters, the switch Howland Canal. The phone number is board has compiled into two large note 821-6101. books data on thousands of organiza We have created the switchboard as tions throughout the entire L.A. area so an alternative, an alternative way of we can refer people to the organization relating with and helping each other, an that could best help them. Within our alternative part of a new nation, made research we have tried to cover all areas neccessary by a government whose in that might be of assistance to people: terest lies in serving the rich, not the medical draft, abortion, entertainment, majority of the people. Venice musicians Pat Veitlin and Bonnie White will sing their own songs FREE on Saturday, July 17, at 8 p.m. at the Earth Child Designs, 1514 Pacific Ave. (near Windward). This is a rare treat. It's 1 1 335 1/2 WEST WASHINGTON BOULEVARD free! CONCERT • VENICE • CALIFORNIA 90291 • 392 7412 • mat BA.3.G& « INN •a» . • • ^ g»> a» • • W • I WATER~BEDS From $19.95 (king). 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