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Berkeley Occupation Draws Wide Protest - -Story Page 13 TH£ A revolutionary campaign MILITANT for the French presidency Published in the interests of the Worldng People Vol. 33- No. 23 Friday, June 6, 1969 Price 15c Berkeley occupation draws wide protest - -Story page 13 A RELATIONSHIP. There's a relationship between the three smiling cause of their activities in GJs United Against the War in Vietnam. young men above and the California National Guardsman to the Under heavy pressure the brass backed down and these last three right. The three are (left to right) Pvts. Andrew Pulley, Jose Rudder of the eight were freed. (See interview with them p. 4) Meanwhile and Joe Cole. The picturewastakenshortlyafter they emerged from Berkeley students were distributing antiwar literature to occupying a two-month stretch in the Ft. Jackson, N.C., stockade. They were guard for~-e. including material on the Ft. J ackson 8. among the Ft. Jackson 8, the servicemen attacked by the Ar~y be- Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, June 6, 1969 From a political prisoner in Texas THE MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT SNCC worker Cuba, and there was no hostility. During the two days, $85 worth Published weekly by The MUitant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, of literature was sold. A big seller N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. letters Subscription: domestic, $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By first class mail: domestic fights frame-up was red flags with imprints of and Canada $10.50; all other countries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic Che Guevara; these flags were a and Canada, $15.00; Latin America, $24.00; Europe, $28.00; Africa, Australia, Austin, Texas special attraction because 10anti­ Asia (including USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles from our by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are ex­ You may be somewhat aware ROTC demonstrators were ar­ pressed in editorials. that I am engaged in a difficult rested recently for displaying a struggle to obtain justice and re­ seditious red flag. Vol. 33- No. 23 Friday, June 6, 1969 gain my liberty. I'm a political readers Lindley Garner prisoner, victimized for none other than organizing effective human This column is an open forum Unbeatable argument The closing news date for this issue was May 30. rights activities to cure the con­ for all viewpoints on subjects of spicuous and detestable ills ofthis general interest to our readers. is Arab revolution here on a U.S. campus than were taught only as a theory, no longer society. Please keep your letters brief. Where Johnson and Westmoreland for as fact, and only equal in empha­ During a six-month period I Toronto, Ont. necessary they will be abridged. their "counterinsurgency" effort sis to the Bible's seven-day-God­ was arrested numerous times on Please send four copies of the Writers' initials will be used, names 1 0, 000 miles away? did-it version. trumped-up charges. I am now May 9 issue of The Militant. Ter­ Six of the board's 10 members being withheld unless authorization rific! Because of the Middle East I seems that certain people have in jail, having been unjustly con­ a thing about spraying matter who drafted the report warned that is given for use. articles, which for argument's victed of an alleged sale of mari­ from helicopters; with General unless the report were placed into sake beats anything tendered by juana. The conviction was based "Zapp-zapp" Hollingsworth itwas effect and thereby a return to the opposition. These penetrating solely on the false evidence of one to the U.S. Supreme Court after "killin' Cong'' that he loved; with morality started America would news articles and analyses I re­ Houston city policeman who testi­ exhausting all remedies for relief Sheriff Maidgan, it's poisoning become a hedonistic society and in the state courts. All available serve especially for my Jewish fied that I "gave him one mari­ students and faculty. The Alame­ thus vulnerable for a communist funds have been exhausted in this "liberal" friends who still have juana cigarette." As a resultofthis da County authorities will suffer takeover. case and the numerous other Zionist illusions. (I'm Jewish too.) conviction, I was sentenced to 30 the same ignominious defeats as The report will go into effect in years in the state penitentiary. charges filed against me. If I am M.S. the Ft. Jackson authorities. This all public schools in California af­ I am advised that it will take to continue the struggle for human ter the board holds a public hear­ one or two years before the state rights and freedom, I must call on On women's helicopter thing is only a fad that we revolutionaries will put an ing. The report will require the in­ court of appeals in Austin will friends to aid me in this matter; clusions of religious training for hand down a decision in my case; otherwise the prospect of justice liberation end to. Boeing beware. J.A. children from kindergarten on up. meanwhile I remain in jail. prevailing in the end is remote. This will include slipping themes­ To this date the courts have Funds should be mailed and made Newton, Mass. sage into all history and civics You publish a fine newspaper Down with Darwin- failed to set bail, which would al­ payable to: Austin SNCC, P.O. courses. Training sessions will be which I have found necessary to low me to remain at liberty while Box 6272, Austin, Texas 78707. required for teachers of political maintaining a true perspective on back to the Bible my appeal is pending. I should be Brother Lee Otis Johnson science, history or social sciences, events; however, I do find one permitted to make bail in accord [Letters to Lee Otis Johnson can Berkeley, Calif. with the training for the teachers very large lack. I have found very with the Eighth Amendment: "Ex­ be written to the following address: Can God stop the hippie-sin-hu­ designed along the lines of the little in your paper regarding fe­ cessive bail shall not be required; Wing 3-D-2, Cell #3, 2310 Atasc­ manist-commie-drug take-over? Navy and Marine Corps charac­ nor excessive fines imposed; nor pota Road, Humble, Texas. male liberation. This is the problemperplexingthe ter-building booklets. cruel and unusual punishment in­ Editor] Both Marx and Engels have California Board of Education. The board will be recommend­ drawn many connections between flicted." An Oscar The Board is the official body ing to the state legislature a law A motion for impaneling a new the oppression of women and appointed by Governor Reagan making it illegal to teach human­ jury had been filed during the trial, other forms of oppression. to set policy and guidelines for ism as a religion or the moral since the defense showed that 14 for The Militant? Marx said, "Social progress can education in California. On May values of humanism in the or more members of the panel be measured by the social posi­ Brooklyn, N.Y. 9th they unanimously passed a schools. from which my jury was chosen tion of the female sex." This note is a request for a free massive, 81-page "Back to the Heavy emphasis is placed on were by their own admission, prej­ I hope to see your paper take copy of your newspaper, The Mil­ Bible" report to be used as the ba­ God, the Bible, J. Edgar Hoover, udiced, and only 10 challenges a stand on this important subject itant. I heard of this on a Barry sis for moral guidelines in the William Buckley Jr., two 100- were permitted. The motion was Farber radio broadcast, and I too! State's public schools. year-old books on morality and denied. am curious (not pink). M.N. Apparently America is faced the founding fathers of America. The jury heard only one direct Miss J. G. with an enemy that is undermin­ The board's position is sum­ accusation, made by Officer Billy [Throughout its history, The ing the children's morality, en­ marized in the following quote Williams with no corroborating Arizonans hear Militant has opposed the special couraging drugs, weakening from its report: "This moral crisis witness, that I gave him one mari­ oppression imposed on women God's powers, and preaching Hu­ is reflected in the increased use juana cigarette. YSA Cuba visitor in capitalist society and pointed to manism as a prelude to taking of drugs at colleges as well as On Oct. 10, 1968, at a hearing socialism as the goal that will over. Phoenix, Ariz. of sexual promiscuity, of illegiti­ for a new trial, the defense sub­ offer fmal victory to the struggle Dr. Hardin Jones, a professor Joel Britton, a member of the mate births, and incredible in­ mitted over 30 newspaper ac­ for women's liberation. In addi­ at the U. of C. and member of creases in crimes of violence, es­ Young Socialist delegation that counts and 12 TV film strips, all tion to news articles, our issue the 10-man board, predicted that pecially among teenagers. from the 16-month period pre­ spent a month in Cuba during of March 21 offered an analysis within the next few years, "half of January, had a busy visit to the "The staff feels they have devel­ ceding my trial, showing the bi­ of the question by Mary-Alice W a­ our young people between the ages oped the proper yardstick by Arizona State University campus ased atmosphere surrounding the ters, and a report by Linda Jen­ of 10 and 2 0 will be destroyed which to measure the valid and May 15 and 16.
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