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quite disturbed by Mart¡¡ good I'm Jezer's luck in reading it. Not all ofus that that your idea of an April Fool's Day 'review of the film Seven Bæntþc are interested in political struggles have connEcarcN [IVIN, 4/1/7ó] wg,leftthe Jbke to forset to credit the letter to me.. ' 3/ 4/ 761, which allows writer/director had a "good" education available to us. I¡¡tl¡¡ue [WIN' cccond lotler or just coin"cid ence? Vzway thru reading Lina Wirtmuller the title !'one of the I hope that people will become aware of wrlûert¡ n¡me oft the letter w¡¡ wrltlen by it itsounded familiat' great filmmakers of our tlme",though this use of classism anil try to do some- ¡bout votlnc. Ih¡t CNrv CohofNew Yernon, NJ, rndnot coLT "her woddview is one of relentless thing about it. DeYORE -.LAY -DIÄNA by úrn Uonrn er ono mlght guos. Helo New Yenron, NJ despair. powerful filmmakbr, yes, . (Xovolrndr0hlo ".A lc wh¡t Clrv wroto to u¡¡ We a¡rologlzo. It rr¡3 an oraori not o but geat? Radical folk have long recog- Dear WIN Friends (& influence Your Joke. -WIN nüed that science cannot be neutral; it neichbors), Thanks fo¡ Printing mY eithqr serves the ruling classes or it leftãr in your April lst l-sue' but was (Ictters contlnued on P¡ge 20.) Your teaders serves change. Art is úe same, and I'm who are cotrcerned about Taration is theft. Government, acting in the growing disappointed that Jezer was enough useof torture throughout the name of "The People," has seenlt the world can f 'Swept away" by \{irtmuller's vision to add another country to to take a larse of incomes- their be uncritical of her ambiguity and oortion our 13 list ofoffenders: Uruguay. the most of us üorË for free.one day out of 15 1976 I Volume 12, No. situation hopelessness. Vïhen audiences receive there is not well k-nown, but is everv five. with the eòvernment extremelv serious. such a "stunning" dose ol"nopos- One out of everv5(X) confiscating our payi Yet we, the Counting Down... 4. UFW Works to Revive Farrn ciùzensjabout 5.000 in,all-is ' sibility of change," whobenefits? a people, in ùhose nãme this is done, re- Labor Boa¡d Neil Fullagar political prisoner, and torture is an I haven't seen Sevsn Bea¡des / ceive little or no benefit-in face we . integral þart of the system. (probably wonlÐ but I did see Wirti 6. Cairo Comm un iqu e / Steve often suffer direct harm-from the of a Tñis situation is tlie result of a ou'iet mullei's love & Analchy. It:too was government. Contemplating this move tq¡Brooklyn ha.s been something Pelletiere military take.over that grew out of the visuatly potent; I was strongly affected The States should be given J¡làmmà for ul. Many of thê resources that WIN needs are in Tupamaro problem United 9. Violence in the Cay Subculture of the early'70's. emotionally and also stimulated by its credit for consistency, at least. In the but we realli love living in the country. To try and The combined military-police force and ifrãôitv, Beverly Barr examination of personal vs. political past few decades "our" go-vernment combiñô the advantages of both, one of the f irst options we ex- the special "internal " laws and solutions and the uncertain value of has consistently supported the wrong 10. Labor's Struggle in Colonial powers that were established was to physica-lly move the fifty acre WIN farrh to New to deal mart¡ndom. But I came away feeling side in every human dghts sttuggle, óiored with the Tupamaros have continued long City! America / R.B,Sheetz overwhelmed, vulnerable, worried, less throwing its lot with the dictators who York past the actual emergency. Having just that the National Aeronautics and Space. 12. EÍchel Receives WRL confident about wotking creatively with encourage American industrial It io happens J ulius extinguished the Tupamaros, the explqitafion instead of with oppressed Administratioh'maiñtains the world's largest f latbed.tractor àt Peace Award Murray military prevaited the contradictions inside me & the / upon the President to peõples. At home people have con- Caoe Kennedv. lt is used to move 30 story-high Apollo rockets Rosenb/ith & Larry Cara extinguish the elected government. world. Psychicaily ripBed-off. I wouldn't argue in favot of simplistíc plots with sistèntly been harassed by the govern- to ihe launch þads. lt is big enough to carry the farm down to Procedures designed to be used ag'ainst crimes, 13. Continental Walk Reorganizes; good gals always winqing at least a ment for victimless cultural and the city five aires at at¡me. We wrote to NASA and inquired terrorists are now used against all political dissent and tryingto protect Enters Arizona moral victory; there is a certain courage citizens. our environment. about rent¡nb it. Here is what they replied: 'Political in confronting and expressing the ex- 14. Sittin' ln / MarkWeber detainees are tried throueh The government is consistent also in "We wouiã be pleased to arrange a rental for our under- justice tremes ofperversion and the military system, in whichihe violence that its failures at the few endeavors in utilized essembted Vehicle Tractor (US NASA #3-66; so far only 15. Changes fill our nightmares and "facts determining guilt or innocence our history. But which it tries to serve its citizens. Its for Apollo launchings and the last one was three years are ascertained prisoner the greater courage, it seems to me, used 17. Reviews through inter- be- remedy for all evils is the same; set up costs the rental rates would be rogation assisted by numerous and in- longs to those who do not lose their åeo), Baseä on operat¡ng one more bureaucracy to come up with a per disassembling the tractor, Drawing bY Peg Averill/ Art ventive methods of torture. Twentv-two faith/hope/love even þ these contexts, lãs.ooo houiwhich i-ncludes Cover: solution that makes the problém worse reassembl¡ng it; a basic 12 person for the People LNS. people are known to have died in tÍre tvho are able to seize dnd transform the and strangle the wotking class in red trañsporiing it to Rifton.and / process. The government, of course, and maintenance costs' errergy ofdestruction. To say "This is tape. operating'1'Pleasã ciew, fuel denies all. the suffering-which must not happen Bureaucrats tend to be very single- contáct us,at vour earl¡est convenience to ârrange the S.TAFF a Utuguay is the focus of a campaign again; these are the villians-and this is minded about their jobs. What is seçn dates of lease.'Be adviied that the tractor's schedule is open against torture. Additional facts about how we can avoid becoming like them." as the answer, will be forced dolvn dur off icially obsolete. " Dwight Ernest I MarY MaYo the onlv until I ulv 1. 1982 when it will become campaign can be obtained from There ate situations when it is throats long after it is proven un- - Mark Morris o Susan Pines Amnesty International USA, 2112 Ãt il',ut ór¡ée we figure it will only cost one hundred million enough of a struggle just to keep'alive wolkable or dangerous. ' Broadway, Room 309, NY, NY, dollars,to inove Murray Rosenblith 10023. one's faculties for observation, Ifyou condone the purposes your WIN! symbolization, expression, and there money is spent and ifyou condone the Unfortunately, it might takeus qu¡te a while to raise that UNINDICTED are works of art which inspire us not by government's''right" to take your much money,. añd we've already agreed to start paying rent in. money without (making you an CO.CONSP¡RATORS their specitic (often depressing) asking Brooktyn on May 1. Of course we cãn't move the farm; think of slavg then continue ' t'lt,í Charlie Finn's attack on Steve Trimm content, but as evidence ofthe in. unpaid ofthe stâte), Jan Barry o Lance Belville.¡ Maris Cakars* paying you the hole it would leave! o ' [WIN,3/18/76] is excessive. Trimm destructible human mind/heart/will. taxes, However, if disagree Súsan Cakars* JerryCoffin* with the government's racisL sexist, But we do need your help to move WIN's operations to LynneShatzkinCoffin' . AnnDavidon . DianaDàVies was basiçally right in his article [WIN, But these usually appear in quite dif- . . classist, ãgeist and imperialist policies, Brooklyn without fâlling in'to a hole financially' Even though we Ruth Dear Ralph Dicia* Brian Doherty 3/4/761. During the Vietnam War the ferent circumstances than Wirtmuller's . William Doutharcl* . Kaien Durbin, o Chuck Fager' it is time to stop paying for them. The cãn you spare a few bucks to beautify . . radical pacifist movement did let its lush, well-publicized features. I'm can't b;ing the trees, Seth Foldy J¡m Forest LarryCara CO's and résisters down. state can only opþress us if we supply it Wl N's-spirit? Joan Libby Hawk' ¡ Neil Haworth o Ed Hedemann afraid her nihilism is too fashionable to Brooklyn with CraceHedemann e HendrikHertzberg* . MartyJezer* Draft and GI counseling were ne-rrer the resources. bedefendeð on these grounds. Quitä a few of the witt farirlty have stepped forward to help Bécky Johiìson . Nâricy Johnson ¡.Paul Johnson given Should you be prosecuted (unlikely), . adaquate attention during the _JOANNACAZ'I)EN us move already. lf you are willing to become true "workers" Alison Karpel r.Craig Karpel ,ohn Kyper Vietnam lVar. And much of the refuse to recognize the legitimary of tax Elliot Linzer* o Jackson Mac Low o David McReynolds* Comlirldge, a postcard your name; address and . ¡m ¡ Richards exist was Mrsc. court-judge and prosecutor are the on May Day dróp us wlth David Morris J Peck Tad ' counselins that did lgal Rooclenko ¡ Fred Roseri* o Nancy Rosen a jury trial and claim phone get in touch with the details. movemenî oriented rather than client same. Demãnd and we'll ÈdSanclers ¡ WendySchwartz* . MarthaThontàses oriented. conscientious obiection to taxation. ***** Art Waskow . Allen Young ¡ Beverly Woodward '' Take all vour mohév out ofbanks and During the war I counseled a few *Member or other of WIN Editorial Board hundred CO's, non-cooperators, and contact Úar Tax Résistance you you have the groups which have experience in tax We are still looking for new staff . Do think GI's. Many of those in the most trouble and Box547 Rifton New York12471 (rouble In reading rffIN, especially resistance. skills that WIN neõds? A background.in fund raising / / would not have been in much if Telephone: 914-339-4585 the radical pacifist movement had been lVandachilds' article "Complacency in Sales tax cah be avoided for all goods copy-ed¡ting is particularly imþortant, along with other editorial providing adeguate and the Face of Patriarchy" l/2i,/761 and services, including utilities for skilís and almovement oriéntaiion. See this space in the WIN is oublished everv Thursday except for the first doing itsjo6 in [lryfN, in March, the second I usually can't getthrough the first which vou are billed. Deduct all taxes on you, week in'lanuarv, the last week clien-t oriented counselling. 3/18/76WlN for a more complete description. lf it's write week in May, thä last two weeks in Au8Ûst, the first two people amnest¡r paragraphs without aid of a dictionary. the bilí and send a covering letter ex- week in December by Lots of the who need and tell us about yourse¡f . w0eks in Seotember and the last the most would not need it if it was not This seems to me to be a form of plaining your reasons. The state is Dwightr'MurraY W.l.N. Maäa¿ine, lnc. with the support of the War without our co'operation; Susan, Mark, MarY, R(,sisters Lõaeue. Subscriptions are $11 00 per year. for our failure. lYe should put them classism which I think is wrong with bowerlèsi - NY 10001' state crumblesl Se

. 2 WIN April 15, 1976 ¡pif"ìs, 1976 wrN election petition, UFW organizers were denied lntimidating workers in the field was also the access to the workers, and supervisors and guards order of the day. Over.and over they were warned voted in the election, all in violation of the law. against union activity. Workers known to be as- UF\ry \4brks to Revive The UFW was the apparent winner in the election, sociated with the UFW were sometimes fired, as but it has never been certified because of disputes at Gallo. Then eleòtions were challenged by the from both sides. growers, charging fraud and even intimidation ì Ther:e was a UFW contract at Callo which was against the Union. replaced with a Teamster sweetheart contract With so many of the elections contested, the Fìarm Labor Board when it exoired in 1972. The workers were not outcome of the voting is not ðlear. Of those the even informed that theY were being board did manage to certify before going broke, ' 'represente èl' ' bv the Team sters unti I they UFW won about half , covering twice as many noti'ced a deduction from their pay for Teamster workers as those won by the Teamsters. Nowhere dues. Last spring, shortlyafter passage of the did the workers choose the Teamsters over UFW ALRA, a worker at Gallo was electrocuted by a where they have had experience with both. piece of machinery which was prohibited under One needn't be a UFW partisan to be dismayed tne UfW contract becaúse.it was unsafe. The un- ' by the collapse of California's farm labor board. demanding Teamster contract has no safety The real issue here is very similar to that faced in havé right oroVisions and cost that man hi3 life. - Southeast Asia. J ust as Vietnaqnese the ' The abuses continued at other ranches. Re- to determine their own form of government (even oeatedly, UFW representatives were ntet by if they should make the "wrong" choice), farm- members of the far-right Posse Comitas, imported workers have the right to determine yvhat union, if by the growers to keep them out. Generally any, is to represent them. As things stand now, Teamster organizers were permitted free access to that right is being denied them, juít as the United the same fields. The farm labor board issued an States has used its military power over the years order for the UFW to be provided access, but the to deprive many people of their right to self- growers were able to get a court decree to prevent determination. its enforcement, and to prevent the sheriff from The initiative campaign does not make the boy-' arresting members of the Posse. Finally, the state cott any less important. lf anything, support is supreme court directed the police to arrest needed more than ever, because the boycott or- members of the Posse who threatened UFW ganization is disrupted as the staff of the union people with rifles and shotguns. focus their efforts on the initiative. rt .lt Drawing from the Call/CPF "t A REFRESHER COURSE ON THE UFW BOYCOTT "We need you to guarantee the workers' right NEIL FULLACAR to vote. Most of the things the union does are dif- ficult and this is no different. We're going to use Unable to get funds for operation of the farm labor people and time, because we've got lots of board from the California Legislature, the United friends." he added, going to be an have become a settled part cino, Garrett, Alta, C.V., Virginia Dare, Lodi. Farm Workers (UFW) have begun an initiative Quietly, "lt's The UËW boycotts interesting contrast: Our bodies and spirits lives over the years, lt is almost Ocean Spray Rose, Tres Grande, Cook's campaign to re-enact the state's farm labor law of many of our against their dollar bills and hundred dollar bills by now to pass by Gallo wines lmperial, Roam Reserve, Saratoga¡ Citation. and guarantee funds to implement it. The union second nature and thousand dollar bills." But Gallo and the other must gather 450,000 signatures in the next four and iceberg lettuce. Lettuce: companies come in many guises; and there are weeks to put the measure on the November ballot. After the passage last spring of the Agricultural lettuce which does not- recent additions to the boycott list. Here All iceberg head Republicans and some Democrats in the Labor Relations Act (ALRA), there was an some display the UFW eagle. lf there's any doubt is a complete and up-to-date list of the products legislature had refused to make a new appropria- optimism and sense of relief among members and' (many supermarkets rewrap the lettuce) ask to the UFW is asking you avoid: tion for the board, which ran out of money and supporters of the UFW. Boycott activities were see the shipping crate. ,. closed down in February, without major curtailed and the energy of the union was turned Wines: Grapes: weakening of the law. toward the elections which began last October. 1. AllGallo wines, which include the All domestic grapes which do not to about 300 supporters And many, whether, pro- or anti'UFW, were table Speaking enthusiastic following labels: Paisano, Thunderbird, Carlo display UFW eagle (check the shipping in Berkeley, Cesar Chavez said, "They kept relieved to see progress toward settling labor dis- the Rossi, Eilen Roc, Red Mountain, Triple Jack, crates here also). us have next week, then putes through an ordgrly process. But many of us telling we'd the money Andre Champagne, Boone's Farm, Spanada, We wait with were cautious in our Raisins and Prunes: next week, then the week after that. can't active the UFW Tyrolia, Ripple; Any wine produced in Time is running out. We're fed up optimism, that it is a long way from Sunsweet any longer. knowing Modesto, California. Allsunmaid and Products, politicians so we're coming to you, the passing f implementation of a walnuts. with¡the a law to tñe inal 2. All Franzia Brothers wine. including Diamond brand people." contract, and knowing that laws had been ignored 3. White River Farms wines: Tavola Red, Cheer up, you can stitt have ltalian Swiss a in legisla- and blood in past. He said the action of minority the shed the Winemasters Guild, Roma, Familigia Cribari, Colony, Cñristian Brothers, Paul Masson, using their votes, "to keep thousands from ture We were not excessively cynical. Almost im- Pierrot, La Boheme, Cresta Blanca, Mendo' Almatien and High Tor wines. Desk voting is not only ironic but a dam¡ shame." J. -News mediately after the law took effect last August, the Neil Fullagar is a free lance writer living in abuses began. At the E & J Callo ranch, some Berkeley, who writes f requently for WlN. workers were fired promptly after the filing of an

1976 4 WIN April 15, A¡rril 15, 1976 WIN 5 cheap. The tea here now tastes tike oatmeal (if Yoy vading Americanism. Under.his newpolicy of ' And the Stella beer was ex- conciiiation with the US, Sadat has opened the can ionceive that). at 12 piasters a bottle. Now the waiters,.; wav for the wholesale cultural imperialization' cellent . shäke the bottles on the way to your ' Ú,r*u* hotels abound now. (Theré were hardly orudentlv the monolith-Hilton and iable to c'oax a tittle head out of it, it:s thât stale- i¡uã yeárs ugo, lust ; "nvihäottea'r¿s.) Néw ónes like the bow-shaped at 45 oiasters a bottle. is the operative word now. When i Vái¡¿¡en. stuck out into the Nile on a promontory Coåsumerism I on Sharia Talaat Harb it's to Cracefully impressive on the out- vou see a mob eather ? I ôf no¿á Iéland. l'õoit"a plastìc shoes in l side, on the inside it's remarkable how the ä;äiËi;;;ii;";i I Ãrnã.i.un influence dominates. The coffee shop is the store fronts. I un- But I started by saying everything is now as it I oui" Hãl¡Aay lnn, Best Western'--same difference except for the over- ã"rnfòiiáUl s with form ica table.tops .and was then no t - American presence. Let me.explail. leátherette "'boothseats; waitresses in mini-skirts' But whelming '; l'lltake it point mõüitrik¡ng is the color of the.deco¡: brick red. Politicalli nothing has changed. griãi.ied inihe Meridien and the Hiltpn- Recently by point. 'l'n197O, a protracted period.of a week's excursion to Tunis' The luxury Nasser, after I *ãnt on tenable mili- Hotel: brick red. Colort\dVestern. demoraliling slipóage into a barely Africa - of power in his lmperialism brick red-something like that. tary position righted the balançe missiles, , órr businessmen are everywhere' making i taväi. He impoited Soviet SAM 3 ' n ul I ifyi n g the I srael is' up-til l-then deãls. Standing around in hotel lobbies, la.ughing- dramatical ly' si¡premacv. Nasser appealed for l" ãifaUte, with Eeyptians bowing endlessly like irnouestionéd air L go bargaining table funnv storkloys that perch on the side of a negbtiations thinking to to the ií'roie lsraelis dug their' ãlass duckíng their beakó. There's money to be w¡Ih a hand worth olavine. T'he and tiyinã to avoid talking till ñiãde evidently-otherwise we wouldn't be here' heels in stalled, I in favor again. such force. they had the balance their I in extraordinary ac- But one hears from the Egyptians that our ld ¡s the same now: Sadat's I complishment of crossing the canal and blasting i presence already is pollutihg the delicate ' all time is l äcolosv-all unwittingly to be sure. Americans the myth of lsraeli military might for ': forgotten. The lsraelis' stall fortime again, , needäãcént places tolive. And in the scramble to o ç up their arsenal. ThqY-. a set down on the'better lodgings, in the class dis- *oiking feverishly to build ir trv to o6tain the látest fresh-off-the-drawing-' 4 iricts of Mahdi, Zamalek and Garden City, {r (such to put the Americans, in ðompetition with the Saudis, have board eqúipment as laser bombs) t a disadvantage. bid the "key-money" rates all the- way up: Egyptiañs"ln once more at I Syrians we.re at each commun foi a flat in Zamalek, if the stories are to lgOg, the Egyptians and caro t $200,000 is other's throats. Syi¡an fire-eater Nuraddine Attasi be bélieved. For middle'cläss Egyptians, this a , i He. disaster. was the champion of the Palestinian cause. t l al most preci pitated World War I I I tryin g.to-bai I t I talkéd wr'th a lawyer living in a flat downtown, ¡ ihã Þali:st¡niäns out after Hussein's Black Friday i ge, More ,l smack downtown in Cairo. Low-voltage, sinister The More Things Chan the lighting, dank rooms by Amerlcan standards. But, crackdown. Then an unknown Syrian.airfòrce : Attasi by refusing to hã assuîed me, at l0 póunds a month, paradise for commander, Assad, balked They Remain the Same nim- if ne moväs, "kéy-money" willautomatically orovide Svrian tanks with aircover. : - relieved Nasser, who knew the go to 1OO,OOO Egypt¡an pounds. "l'll die here," he Í-hisl-'mônseli " , lsraelis came in, lays. "But what about my daughter.who wants to Arabs couldn't háck it when the at Cairo ui ttr"y def initely would,if the Syriâns entered 'ì:,., mârrv?" She's an architectural str,¡dent ' :'l Thus I remember the shock I experienced at the Univérsitv. She and her fiance face the truly JóräãÅ- ¡n stieneirr. and Sidat subsequently did the impos-. lulv 4th celebration at the American lnterests terrible oiospect of having to live in Babaluk, or Assad -S".i¡on by patching up the centuries-old Egypti4n/ of the Spanish Embassy in Cairo.. (The grlaq, the réal baladi qualters-like Spanish sible STEVE PELLETIERË Svrian'einnitv, pleienting a two-front war to the SDân¡sh Embassv was our embassy, really' We Harlem, I guess. A losi of status that would aétonished lsiaelis in October 1973' Alter Sadat's East? ¡liit ¡t but turneá it over to the Spaniards when destrov them. What is the current situation in the Middle of the Sinai agreement, he and'Assad, - ãur p."tun.e in Egypt became a distasteful The'scandal is added to by public awareness acceptance reminded of the old CBS program,'"You Are on at least, are bitter enemies. l'm proóosition to the Ñasser government.) I that top administrators in Sadat's government are the surface There." That's how the Middle East appears to of Now, the Syrians pose as the champions of ttre years' ieniutU"t walking into thé inner court yard of the makin! fortunes renting out whole strings r" no*, returning after arí absence of five the cash Palestiilians once again, no compromising with i'.. em bas sy to f i nd th ree-stories-h.i gl'¡ American äpãrirñents all over the city. Then, with w:hen I was here last,. studying at ln the matter of the on-going ln igég-tg7O, gód-awful huge things, the biggest theü build apartment buildings' the Zionist enemv. Úniversity of Cairo during the flags, Syrians, and Assad tne nmér¡can I evèr saw, let down from the top- The class of entrepreneurs Nasser hated, Lebanese troubles, the Bombing," the nrñei¡õan flags leader of the lsraelis' "Deep Penetration Flags and wé all thought he'd dPstroyed, is particularly, have displaced Sadat as by today's most balconie;s facing on to the court. congenitally, ÃmÀr¡èan colony was small, miniscule i Arab forces. evervwhere. and six-backs of ice-cold Budweiser bac[ everywhere dr,ivi n g g I i sten i n g ch rom um One didn't boast about being an - was Nasseronly who had the p.eltige standards. and frankf uiters and buns-for maybe 80 or 100 ãñ¿ piurtél-hued Mercedes. ostentatious wealth. l" i96õ; ii in those days. ln fact one didn't show Palestinian/J ordanian fight-to-the- Ãr"iicun Americans, all there were in Cairo in those days. Theée professional s cum-entrepreneurs to cool thé f in thatone. The , the lag at all. at that partv remained distinctly aooarentlv are the class Sadat feels he neéds. death. Sadatwas a no-show Wð Á-er¡dans the Lebanese afternoon,.as if all that fh'ev definitelv are in the ascendency now. The Syrians waded right in to frustrate IN uneasy throughout the temporarily. Amerftanism invited retribution from the signs of fellah-favoritism that were remarkable riþht wing strategy- but only Uiutãni the rightist Falange forces.of cairo mob' under Nasser are gonq. itre t¡g-trt betweän Chamou-n and Gemayel against the Palestinian/ an What a change today! Americans eve1ywhere. It used to be that one could count on the tea: bloc is hardly settled. Chamoun seemsto Not just physicãlly present, there's an all per- good Malaysian tea was always plentiful and leftist

l(pril 15, 1976 WIN 7 6 WIN April 15, 1976 ff 4. li of males neatly ignored. Heterosexuals can-not yet need,,?I BEVERLY BARR accept that lesbiãris do not want, de,?ir9,,ì,,; havemiscalculated badly. He was president in../ Orie hears Zionists ciaiming that in the eveht of males. ..,¿ì ì ' much we may wish to deny it,'vio; , 1958 when the United States obligingly saved þis, war the Egyptians are a minus quantity: they Due to a certain shyness the least But however ll'llus.9 it will not disappear '.' skin, sending in the US Marines. Ch-àmoun seãmb haven't the arms to fight. And yet I remember antagonisticword i can thinkof), very few non-gay lence among us is there, .- a myth. Like " to have been unaware that in the era of detente " that in 1969 the Zionists claimed the Egyptians- read the gay press' ln ou.r g,ay simolv because we wish to explode i"oít" éier cetto in fact, âlthough'r I I e w r i te r s cgm p I ete I y ;t;th;, ¡t rrär e.o¡naiiie Kissinger no longer ôommits the Marines. not couldn't , but wouldn't f ight. They were u r"i i in ti m a ny exce nt il,i b-r [i " in espousing partition seems be ci r cl es,. ar e d e a I i n g. w i th this has'been twistèd by heterosexist bias. Chamoun's strategy thought to too inept militãrily. Nevertheless, rl n oi i a"v õ i ¿ â desighed to get us physically i¡to Lebanon. the Egyptians fought relentlessiy, to surprising' ^vtuture of the nonv¡olent Fact #1 is that lesbians do fight over women. issues cruc¡ál to tlte we,don't Partition Lebanon up between good effect. article is prirtted with permission Many oï us prefer not to admiiit because -carving iläîãi"äÃt.ìhis'i every bit as bloody and' Christians and Muslims-suits US and lsraeli Where does this leave the US? ln the middle of öom m u n itv News,. Febr uar v 21, 1 97 6' I t see ii. But it is there, ;;;; ö;i painf What was dis- foreign policy'perfectty. How? The Pálesfinians theÞrost god-awful mess since Vietnam. the complex relatrcnshtp o¡ nomo- ul as f ights b.etween men. deals wiih women. Heterosexists call for a secular state. How embarrassing for . From tñis vantage point t read the hawkish to violenèe in oursoc.ietv' is.ryy sincere iorted is whi we fight over - iã"rãiiiv $ not imitating them if the only truly secular state in the Middle statements of politicians like Henry Jackson with ihare ¡twith the readers of WIN in order say we fightto imitate men. We are åã;Ëõ ús with littlé East, Lebanon, collapses in a welter of religious, growing alarm. lt is as if the 1973 war never hap- and to help us mén, buisociety as a whole. Those of i" iãiõk" the patriarchal ' animosity. A divided Lebanôn would cast doubt on pened. The Zionists and theirfriends in the , *orld^eaningtuldiscussion w{tere nonviolent solutions to or no consctousness are imitating , ãføiiø i This structure the practicability of a secular Palestine. So far the United States seem to beable to discount all Young itructure that permeates our lives. îoltl¡rl ur"possib/e' -Allen is PLO has refused to be baited into accepting reality. ¡t. of "get whatevei I can, however I can," violence. lt ; partition. (lt's worth iemembering that the two ' I had an example of this wrong-headed thinking in our society is usualft characterized.by defe-ñded by the patriarchal resþonse: Violence our posses- areas of the Middle East where fighting is most expressed to me here by an American, pro: ilght¡ng over possessiohs. One defends his is men who'have taughç us to hoard rnãl"t have taught us and fierce are colonial implants: lsrael, a lsraeli, who claimed the Eeyptians are not an ag- theãther åg gress ively attacks, desi ri n g sions and our loves, iince they Jewish ;;.t\L will take it enclave; Lebanon, a Christian one.) gressive people. He had witnessed a motorist take for his own. Men fight over wornen shown us every day that someone else- [frãitt,¡Áâ óf us into ' Where does all this leave the Pàlestinians? a pôke at a traffic cop. Police who came to their ä*ãttlv the way they fight over things. We are ã*ãu if oottibl'e. Às lesbians, those \ tells us to live, Arafat seems increasingly afraid his movement comrade's aid seemed unable to restrain the ãoñi¡¿"r"4 cháttel when foueht over, desired for violéncé imitate how society into a gay micro- will be co-opted by the Syriäns. He is moving infuriated motorist. "lf that was New York," the our qualities and characteristics, certa¡nly not our building our own interpretation The bounds of society.are still toward the Eþyptians trying to maintain an inde- . American said, "the cops would have beaten that rninds or independent spir¡ts. lt is interesting-to- . iosm oipatriarchy. lesbians fight since even that is safer than nothing at -pendent -Íñã bargainin! position. guy bloody right there in the street. The iee that heterosexual society claims followed', tiiãluïto¿¡ilãated by Syria and Jordan, Egyptiansaretoomild. Can'tfightawar.", ãuãr*o."n iust like men, but gay men are not ---'Factall. ' is less and less violence proposini¡ a federated state including Palestinlans "Aren't yotr forgetting," I asked, "they almost accorded that image. We are pictured as one f2 is that there ¡esbians. Soon there will be almost none. to be formed when the lsraelis give up the West whipped the lsraelis ln 1973:" He ignorêd me. butch--riamjninglhis fighting another ad infinitum. Uetwãáli i Bank, seems not to appeal to the PLO at all. "The Egyptians lack discipline," he said. "Y, ou myth by itself, it is plain that BecauEe ñow, with raised consciousness,.more pit lesbian against and rirore lesbians are truly feminist' And to be .' I This is thè dilemma of the Palestinian move- can't fight a war without discipline." societv is attémpting to one l the traps and ment, indeed the destiny of all movements, that Recently I iead in the lnternational edition of ánotfrer. We arä ridiculéd as less well-behaved feminist and lesbian"is to see all society lays down for us. All the I they exist only to be exploited by,the more the Herald Tribune aboui "lsrael's stunning ihan most minority groups, since blacks and roles heterosexist their status and pervert . .powerful. As the Syrians begin to talk confidently victory" in the 1973 War. Stunn ing victory. My àhicanor, etc'. do noi have images of constantly machinations to maintain l' ' laid bare. The whole patriarchal concep- in the namé oT the movement, we see the god! And yet politicians like Humphrey and Jack- being at ône another's th¡roats. Society is also ours are I we are, and how, since we ' tion of possessions And protection in Íelationships I Palestinians veer toward the moderate, Sadat- ion talk, with absolute disregard for obiective tryin-g to show how sick needs it? 1 Saudicamp reality, about giving the lsraelis the muscle tg fight so much with each other, we must be even is expo'sed. Lesbians are saying,.who l As we are For years the lsraelis and their supporters have have another go atthe Arabs. mîre s¡ck in bed. Thev attempt to demystify the What we also see are alternatives. butch or made much of the split in the Arab ranks. Everything-ís as it was then. The liraelis lesbian sexual act by turning pepple off at the finding our individual selves without r fem. the violence these roles bring also fades. We ' ' How ' the lsraelis ask, 'can we make a deal stalling for time, hoping to see J ackson or start. Of course,'this is also the ultimate attempt ,' 'havé conôepts to pattern with the Arabs when one the other side will dis- Humphrey or maybe a dark horse Church get the to compensate f'or lesbians. By making them into found better theonies and o¡. in fact, one step ahead avow ¡t?" For years this made sense, giving the nomination for th-e Presidency, and then sit back ouasi-males. it is easier to disregard their reiec- òr. *au societv on. We are, embroiled in a I lsraelis carte blanche to be unregenerate in turn- and collect their $3 billion every year for at least tions of malés. With that, lesbianscan be of thä iest of sôciety that is still to give nothing, to set up a status-quo claim to the the nôxt five years. And their geñerals plotrañd ' ridiculed for trying to be males, and their reiection tangle of rules aboút r'oles. ' t', : !! coriquered térritory. Then came the 1973 war and plan to really teach the Arabs a lesson next time. the Arabs got it together. But itls our, the Americans' future that's on the T For the lsraelis, the most alarming thing to line now. That's the oÍre thing that's very much come out of the war was the irrational behavior of changed. lt's hard to see how in the event of ' the lraqis-who jettisoned alltheir animosity anothgr Middle East war we could fail to be in- toward Eeypt and Syria to send their tanks volved Violence rumbling down the Baghdad/Damascus highway, ln the end, what's working against us Ameri- stiffening the crumbling Syrian line. Now, no cans is that both sides, Arabs and Zionists, are longer can the,lsraelis count on the Arabs not extremist to the nth degree-one wants to say I forgetting their hatreds in times of crisis. No ls- fanatical. Both sides hate each other with a bloody a raeli general dar'es constr.uct ascenario where the passion and will certainly destroy themselves if Egyptians would stay out of the next war, leaving that's the only way of destroying their enemy. the go It's a fight makes no sense, otlt of which n ' Syria and Jordan to it alone. that Consequently both sides have l?unched one of Americans can rçalize no advantage. We would do the most fantastic arms races the world has ever , better to cut off all-and I mean a//-arms to both seen. ln this, the Egyptians are at a disadvantage: sides and let them finish each other off with knives they're feuding with the Russians and are not if that's their compulsion. Perhaps that's un-

even getting spaÉe parts for the weapons they realistic. Maybe so. But,it's better than the : have. The Zionist lobby in the US fights selective pacificism I hear so many within the despèrately to block,thê Pentagon's incorporating advocating these days: All arms Eeypt into client Status. fpr lsraglis, nothing for the Arabs. That's corrupt.

8 WIN April 15,.1976 Drawing from Le Nouvel Observateur/LNs- dinner and drinking, which were often.supplied by ' rr. ¡.r.-:i British returned, but with more mên wlro broke up pieis gangs both at home and in the colonies. the employer. The workèr could not be fired with- ir.i t].' .'. å saw mill. The townspeople retaliated by opening Þr"rr ãanãs seized seamen on American ships out good cause. lf they were injured or sick, the .l¡ up on them with muskets' The- New Hampshire and streets. The sailors resisted by themselves or employer often had to provide medical care. This press gangs . iìì i: :- ligislature was asked to punish.the guilty with the aid of.townspeople. Virulent was not done out of charity or concern, but rather ,'a t' wõrkers^ but s¡nce manv of the legislative hurt Boston's trade in the 1740's, because many " for fear of a fine by a local'mag¡strate, who wanted' membeis and local iustices of the peaca were in seamen evacuated the port to escape the clutche* the money to come out of'the bossl pocket, not the happened. the gangs. On November 16,1747 several localtreasury. the lumber búsiness, nothing ever One of , millwas enough' hundred laborers clashed with a roving press The colonial leaders were to wrecked saw ouick establish or cartmen, as they were gang. The workers beat the sheriff who came to wage rates. The first wage law was established in Early teamsters ,' called.'were as troublesome as their modern day the press gang's aid, put one of his men in the 1630 by the Massachuseits Bay colony, who s. ln 1677 , when the licensed New town stocks, and then stormed the court hou3e. limited skilled workers to jh¡ll¡ngi'a day. õðr"iétpu.t two were ordeied.to remove dirt'from When the ni¡l¡t¡a refused to suppress the rioting wherever and whenever *áee iâws ñãie eitaU. Íãi[.ãit.un for a sum of qoney less than expenses workers the governor fled the capital. For 13 years lished they generally failed, was a ttt" rtiã"tt because there they struck. Seven years later, after the riot, there were no press gangs in scarcity of labor. lf an employer ä;ãïae;t, . didn't meet the cartmen again refused to remove dirt Boston, but other colonial seaports experienced worker's wage demands, thewBrker went where iiô"nr"ã streets, until the price-per load was press gangs and violent reactions to them up until they would pay. Later, colonial towns from the would be The strikers were fired'i-[hey goÌ their jobs 1775.' more- successful in regulating uooed. wages by setting agreeing to do their dúlty and þaying a To most the Boston Mássaçre was a blbody fees for workers doing quasi-Þubilc Uäöt after iotjà-pilois, f ine. clash between patriots and Redcoats, but in truth cartmen, gravediggérs, èhimney sweeps, ""¡i etc. a winter's day when Covernor Dudley of it was a clash between workers an.d moonlighting How was colonial labor organized? The *ur Massachusetts approached some carters. Thê sôldiers. lt was the practice of the British army to European craft guild system never caught on in sovernor ordered the carters to get out of his alJow their low-paid soldiers to takei jobs on their America. The Sparcity of labor encouiraged ap- ãarriage's wayi The carters refused and one told off-duty hours. Since times were hard and iobs prentices to bolt their seven year contracts and '1 am as'good flesh and blood as you. You scarce, it was only a matter of time before soldiers begin practicing their rudimentary skills else- ñir, go out of the way." The carters were arrested and workers clashed. The first maior fight took o where. You can't form a guild of may craftsmen, it released. pf ace in October of 1769, but the workers re- apprentices are passing and later themselves off as crafts- construction workers were another - treated when thé soldiers fired over their heads. men too. General militant labor grouping that was apt to strike fre- Priorto the Boston Massacre, brawls between ln The only formal labor organizations of this time ln 1741 Boston caulkeis refused to accept soldiers and workers became a daily episode : were mechanics' societies, which ouently. developed in paper money, which was not a stable or reliable throughout the town. most coastal cities 1725. after These sotíeties were of currèncy. They won, bec4use ships don't A gîoup of angry workers and seàmen attacked' merely protective or benevolent grgups, not ioim well without caulkinÞ. some Brit¡sh sentires with snowballs (probably unions.fighting for higher float wages. ). À group of Savannah house carþenters struck in rock-hard iceballs) on the evening ôf March 5, The lack of militañt labor organizations did not 1746 ovei low wages. The carpenters posted 177O. Earlier, there had been a quarrel between inhibit workers from assertinglheir rights. The ' signs, which proclaimed that the carpenters would workers and off-duty soldiers at a ropewalk (rope pilgrims were only in America for 16 yèars, when nol wôrk beiow certain wages. Colonial officials, factory). The order to fire was given and the workers struck. A band of fishermen on Richmond t ': who were often tolerant of labor's demands, did 'sentriäs did. The blood of 11 workers (three killed lsland off the côast of Maine Ameriea\ "mutinied""whèn nothing, but the British trustees of Ceorgia and eight wounded, two fatally) blended into the . their employer withheld a yeiar's wages in 1636. \ steppeã in and suppressed the strike. shadows on the snow. Crispus Attucks¡ a black Nathaniel Bacon led the rabble of . Virginia \ New York coopers (barrel makers) refused to seaman and the first tofail; Samuel Cray, a rope R.B. SHEETZ against thê planter ólass in.1676. Spurrel on by i walk worker; Caldwell, a seaman; Patrick : poverty, sell casks below-à certain rate. They were con- James Bacon's army of the poor sought to divide ! vicied and.tried for crimina! conspiracy with the Carr, an artisan; and Sam Maverick, a ioiner's I the land and property of the ricþ amongst Free laborers were those skilled immigrants who them- \j ¡ntent to restrain trade and fined 50 shillings, apprentice, were dead. Their bodies were dumped selves. Unfortuñat:ely, Bacon :: paid their own pàssage to America, or indentured di"ed suddenly of which was to be paid to the church or charity. in a common grave. .".:'...;. dysentery and a plague of lice. The revolt was . servants who had finished their term of bondage, Organized workers were considered a monopoly ihð.;ôiàin-añd s¡x of his sentries were arrested "'.'i ' crushed. "The rebellion," said or the children of both these groups.. Out of the the report of the by mercantile capitalìsts. Those coopers who and tried. Four were acquitted and two were con- King's investigators," spráng from poverty colonial white population, the labor supply was the wbrked for the city were fired. Carpenters at the victed of manslaughter and branded on their and uneasyness of some of the meanest whose only 17o/o. Of that figure, free laborers composed Hibernia lron Works in New Jersey went on strike thumbs. Sam Adams and other patriot propa- discontent renders them easyer to be i less than 7o/o (1oo/o indentUred servants plus con- mislead." in 1774, because their wages were not p.romptly gandists took this slaughter and.used it to fan the h.is (Bacon victs). Airyone assqming that since the number of At trial Anthony Arnold ist) said that paid; flames of discontent. "¡f the king should deny to do me ríght lwould free laborers were so small, they would be less Free black wgrkers, like their chained brothers, Three years tater, 1773, thê Sons,of Liberty, an think no more of it to sheath my sword n his heart s.ignificant than unfree laborers (slaves included) also resisted . ln 1763 Charleston's black chimney organization made up of workers, but led by or bowels than of my mortal enemies." He and i3 wrong. !t was the unfettered, skilled workers 22 refused to work unless they were paid libèral merchants, crept up on ships moored at ir: others were hanged. sweeps who struck again and again at the mercantile more. Cleaning chimneys was a dirty and Boston docks and dumped their cargoes of tea Cold¡;t lurUãi *orkers chafed under the royat capitalists. ' dangerous (you had to go inside the chimney over-the-side into the bay. decree that set aside the best trees in the New iob What was the lot of the average colonial to clean it). The Charleston Gazette of October 19, On April 19,1775, workers, farmers and mer- England forests for Royal Navy masts'. a few worker? Everyone was required to work. The idle Quite 1763, a.nnounced that black chimney swqepers chants fired upon British troops at Lexington and were whipped or fined. lumbermen cút the trees as they liked. lñ 1734 the The working day began at "had the insolence, by a combination amongst Concord. '_i 5 am and ended at pm or from British investigated the lumber poaching and I dawn to dusk in themselves, to iaise the usual prices, and to The history of colonial Iabor and its part in the .' were shocked at the number of law evaders. The i the winter, a 75 hour work week. The worker had refuse doing their work, unlesi their exorbitant' Revolution is not wef l known. We're never told two and one.half hours off each day for townspeople of Exeter, New Hampshire, were breakfast, demands are complied with." Some historians who these namele'ss patriots are. ! asked to assist in the recovery of the royal timber. their act was one of the f irst genuine labor Hopefully, others will make the public aware of R.B. Sheetz is Pacific regional editor of the ln- They refused. Undaunted, the British went believe for because it dealt with high wages. " the hidden history of the other half of colonial ' dustrial Worker, the paþer of the lndustrial help elsewhere strikes, strictly and retlrned, but the townspeople Royal Navy had problems recruiting labor- indentured servants, convicts and slaves- Workers of the World. attacked - , The them and drove them away. Again the men for its year. / I " enough ships, so the British resorted to this bicentennial l i 10 WIN Apr¡l 15, 1976 Aôril 15, tgTo w¡¡,¡ tt

' rl mentation behind walls.and bars, often engaging This man þut the sign in front of his house in in work and hunger strikes. Watsonville, California and waited 2% hours for Walk was.also the to come by. Photo bv J .C. Stãii- _' J uljus eicþgl the organizer of the well. ulius Eichel Receives .Famiiies.which and Friends of lmprisonedCO,s, a group J met each Thursday evening ai New york,s Labor Temple. There, reiatives añ¿ tr¡enOs : WRL Peacê Award , jailed gathered oi'- resisters to exchange news, to-- send letters and telegrams of proteit toìnd govern ment of f icial s respon si ble for i n stances of brutality and other mistreatment of thã-' imprisoned men, and to ptan for action calling to at_ tention the confinement of war objãctärs and 8!:ë;fr&ii,l:,f :*"çiår:î:ür;:^,1r,;,0;o!, demanding amnesty for them. the War Resisfeis League During the war the Abs.olutist War Objectors dinner. "nr'ràiþ"är"'award Assocíation and the Families.and F.idãå-grä; AÍter a sqmptuous pot Iuck meal, Randy repeatedly yrged the immediate and uniänditionat presented Kehler release of,.all imprisoned this year's peace awardio war oU¡"ctðri.'Ä fter 1944 iuliús they circúlated. petitions tr,chet, organizer of the Absolutist War Objectors to the Érejideni an¿ 1; ' Association. Con g ress, beari n gf hat J.ulius was ¡mpr¡loiàd ili *u, deman d. I n Oitoiier, I 945, resisrance in both Wortd t ii¿ii." the Families and Friends group ¡nitiãiðã picketing of the White Hoùse.fär u.ñé-riy, an ac_ CONTINENTAL UIS..LK REORGANIZES P[:,:ßiit'"r:"H::;:,i?,,,:,r,x;llm?;;::f tion that continued for several veuir.'--'' funds to pay for í:, From time to time they undertook repaiisíoiiñãu:*i Ëíoiu, t special The Continental Walk entered Arizona unKnown vandals projects on behalf of all th.e on March The walkers decided to.stop ¡h lnd¡o, California, at the WRL office raised more" rgsijters iñËTËf n or' of 28. The number of long than outstanding individuals distance walkers hás bãän near the Arizona border, for a week to iurther $300 from people at th;di;;;r.'-''" like Corbetr didíiop, wfro reduced from over 7Oto25 practiced total noncooperation for the nrizona pàition straighten things out. During that time the _M.R. and f¡ñaliv won an of the Walk. They phoenix'on unconditional expect to reach walkers went through a , - release àfter.servine only á r¿,.iiñ'år AprilT. training session on the his sentence. on Lincoln,s issues, practiced role playing oñ how to speak birthãã.v, ïd+ô iÈ'åv'"' The V[alk passage to picketed the federal prison through Los Angeles was the press.a¡d reorganized thè long distance struc- J.ulius Eichel, who was jailed at óaïdú.u.'"' highlighted. benef for war resistance Connecticut, while resisters þV,a. it concert on Sãturday, Jure. At the end of the week the oiganizers and wortci war I insiãe thé---- þrisonr" atso March with .4gr¡lg aná-rà¡;*d ä;"siriår" ¡n demonstratód for Ç, Mimi Farina, Daniel Ellsberj ãnd a walkers chose 25 people to continue as long w,,Tf9Yur It, dedicated amnesty. prayer for peace the;;;ñ;;i,ïì*, r,i, The Families and'Frienäs by the J apanese Buddha Sãngha distance walkers into Arizona. They have fórmed . of lmprisoned CO,s monks participating in the Walk. also maintained a special trn¿ ioiãiJ¡-n'e"iesisters coliectives to coordinate food buying und pr"pura- i'"#:lf, ¿:ìH:î",'Ht".',åî':;; reteasect . On Sunday, March 7,3Om people gathered in tion, leaflets and literature, irli:'äiËl'l'i',ffi trom prison and in need of financial as_ finañceã, and com- srstance. MacArthur Park in Los Angeles to heãr David rnunication with regional tsoth organizations were represented on and national offices. lj:,,lf rn.sLommtttee . McReynolds talk about the coñnections between They have also formed groups main.principleü!iåiiilìii'*:',"'å"riiå:llff i*:" tor Amnesty for all Obiectors to peoples' study on the issues was totál oppositìón'---'i totv *ärl"'f .on_ War,and Conslri ption. lives and the issues of disarmament and of the Walk .tt, scription and regimentatión. '!s" rhe am nàstv ãrìuã ended social justice. on Lnnstmal DaI, 1.947 when president Itsofficial orgãn was The , Harry J ln Claremont the watkers joined Ab.so/utrst, a semi_ about fifteen 140 people for a qllneãcrqnþ¿ .t.ruman.pardoned hundred of thé community dinner.and a performaçce lTlllty, ¡ril"tiñ';ffi.,iå to the rrfteen thousand who had been by the Aik, rnterests of those with conscientious "'- imprisoned_foi--' -- a California guerilla theatre group. The Southern Christian Leadership ilñl* violatíng the Selective Service A¿i: Conference a,Bainst any form of war suruiiô.;;lt-cãîiaine¿ Local walkers from Riverslde met the main initiated the southern route of the WalÈ on Srn- cnleny The. support and inspiration which the Eichels news of war resisters. in federal prisons, march on the edge of town and all proceeded to day, April,4, in New Orleans. After a rallv with particular provide{ during the wàr years and ifie eniuing attention t" tt City Hall for speeches on the Walli,s themes. A teaturing Ralph Abernathy, this section óf the campaign gave them a very pTace their fight against *ur" unã öñilili";"iithe"rã*ËJ.ãniìnr"¿ 111]9r,ty special car caravan from San Diego joined the Walk in Walk set off to travel throueh Louisiana. side out_ rn the hearts and minds of all the Worlã War'll world by ref using u, *uiilo ,íUrñii iä ."e¡_ Riverside. The San Diegopeople had watked from Mississippi,.Alabama, Geoigia, North ánd South resisters. - ' the Mexican border to San Diéeo, where there Carolina ánd Virginia to meel the main r"outã- were local events on the Walk,õ themes inctuding walkers in Washington, DC in October. a talk by Dan Ellsberg. ***** The Walk stopped in Thousand Oaks. outside of Los Angeles, forthree days of speciat meetings. A rally at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons ptänt problems There were with many of the walkeis not tn tsoulder, Colorado on April 5, kicked off a having an understanding of the concepts of the- teeder Walk which will travel through Southern Embarrassment. We expected to have oictures of the WRL walk and the issues it was raising, noriu¡oÍànt and New Mexico

,April 15, 1976 WlNj 13, .\ ) AN ES Tn'n WAS WRL'69 BURGLARF to meet other caravans from the Centio de la Raza, a Chicano or- , AN FBI JOB? west and north at Fort Laramie, ganization, saíd that that group will stress the issue of the US government's violation of treaty LNS Burglariesl*Ji]!,ii;iri"!-",.,i,,hì:,:,#jii¡¿rillj,"."lrruif in NYC r il""" rights. - Bared" and miles*:r^ a.dav washington Ail OæAStOnr @tuMN otr romolEr{cE established ,,u .r"uiün=tiu"i*i". to reach 800 twrd contrlbutlons ore lnvltd fiom reders DEMO'SUPPORTS iä*,4 JAILED SPANISH COs riritual crisis of the Ameri- like their predecessors'in the fifties who üfrÀüil,$*'q;,k:'þ **¡,t ätr":fTfi il; ,ì the peace movement in apologized for American intervention, attempt to Wearing T-shi¡ts painted with {íþ ;t characterized by convince the peace movement to abandon its L::jiiiiiilii""ïiäií:''"""'Ë:itf;Tî;ii[xïtilirï""Jk", Too, Am A Conscientious . ir-,i The I have forgotten why I ever crucial role as an advocate of human rights in all same demand was ã;;; little more of our f;;"õ;- Objector," pacifist pickets ,1f.i plese¡ted to MayorBeame marched nations, on ;;ji"pi;¿";" ii *itt, ráá1., d;p;ñ;_ in front of lberia Air i the expressed purpose of , 2. THE TRIUMPH OF IDEOLOCY OVER March 30, the däy after disclos.ure täi death.,, Lines of Spain on April 2 pro. that the FBI ''ï¡A ition to war and a common HIJMAN V$LUES. As long as the peace Ínove- had burg.larized of- ""¿Viltr, sponsor of the action, testing the arrest and , Irt\i,/ rcauses of war, now fices of the SocialistWorkers... imprisonment of seven Spanish"rta in- ment heeded the charge of Albert Camus to build p.artv york . cnãiL"¿ that the government is o choose sides among the a world in which murder is no longqr legitimate, it in New 92, times within to COs (WlN, 3/4/76). \ri'!:l six years (1960-1966)., üi;'c ãr¡rináie t-lrã Inaiun rxample of this change of had a clear goal and the moral commitment to Repre- ËääL.rf,ip in the same way that Prior to the demo, a deputatiunì )ment was the article, sustain it. However, the idea thatthe peace presented at the Spanish Mission ngola" (WlN, 1 /22/76).. movement get into uniform by propagandizing for å:riiå'vn:''.t *iu'+iii:l to the UN a letter signed by 25 r,t" vith the following passage: socialist countrieó and their allies means the by the SWP to get a it*î+iii"l;*ii$*4lii", American clerics protesting the, i1 simple human values expressed by Camus and arrests and calling for observance a nonviolent movement in others have been replaced by a rather sophisti- iriåi'8å"rr"""'*!¡ili"l,ti***#i-***ilittnlg¡ of the UN Declaration of Humah ' 'for us to take a stand. we police cated ideology with the accompanying qualities of department a Rights. Sponsored b'y WRL, FOR " rom experiencing the agony these political te mythology and obfuscation. lt is mythological"be-" burgl and CPF, the demo was pa¡t of a" must explain the issues " i cause the act of propagandizing on behalf of any delivered to the mavor a,letter , transnational campaign for hat break through. the Cold äå,ì'i'n¿¡uns Association (SAIA) nation whether capitalist or socialist entails be- from WRL Chairwoi freedom of conscience initiated bv Soviet propaganda of the qualities War Resisters lnternational (WRi) : 'ess. stowing on these societies they neither )igi2pointineìúi,il"1iÅiÏi'rr Ëlg åJ!i',"'Jifililiiîrffi possess nor deserve. lt indulges in obfuscation " and the lnternational Fellowshio T:åiiå'fJ?ii#ålïïxl',î,?",, of Reconcilíation (lF.RIl¡p ds that the movement because apologetics involves the difficult task of :f.",äåf:i åil"li*iiïläË'- -"- "' " golan civil war and also explaining away with abstractions or generaliza- since,the only..thing stolen was ôur peck - , mernbership files (both cards ""iË;;van lof one of the combatants. tions the fundamental inhumanity of these and "ärifi;";t. will pause in i'il j ': ; demand are twofold: societies. addrêss stencils).". :l:j. About a month after t ,N REYERSE. ln tþe 1950s, Does this mean that the peace movement WRL ap- ä*n.u May 13_17 sponsored by 'als found the need'to "take should be neutral or passive? Hardly. lnstead, we , ilt,.,:l rey loined the CIA-funded must struggle to take a genuinely human stand- P¡l:"n'""?'".':îi.:ii:',åîiT'*"**"."f 'f t-Jiliiiäi"'*' SENATE TEADERS SEEK t,:: , or Cultural Freedom and not a stand for one combatant or class-iuled nation REvlslON OF 9-'!; REPRESSTVE,, i n9 and excuses for United over another; but a stand perhaps best expressed :ååi',".'f:'åfil [î,rt'',:î"å,jï FEATURES RËMAIN ,¿\, ruch places as Guatemala by Camus: further came of it. Tl "" [iç*¡ *tj*i,*:""î';"if, ln the face of mounting protests;: F. Stone, who refused to ^ ..- ffi against the S.1 Crime bill currendi ' .' rl servility were branded . . . att t ask is that, in the mids;t of a murderotus l,:::,:,ll:i#:,ï""å"itl[il:1"*rtiif :l:?l",:.:.î:ff.;:å,tå jl: 'a a¡a É¡¡a¡l ro¡in rrrifh +hic t^tnrl¡'l tAtA to.ôõ t¡ ¡aÍla¡l- ¡a mr r¡tlo, onÅ +n øaLa is greater pressure o ly being considered by thé Senatç". NYC-Cuban Poster Show, April' g reatly reduced con sum ption, democratic ptann i 5-May 7 atthe lnterchurch ne aimed at governing production by social arid e'co,loãi- ,1 Center, 475 Riverside Dr. cal criteria, production for social use rather than Mon..Fri., 9 am-5 Pm. private profit, waste elimination, recyclins o6alt re- NYC-Come to a Meeting on usable metal, glass and paper pioduétsr.añd prov¡- ì "suffering in Korea," Wed., sion of guaranteed minimum universal ierviies to : April14,7:30 pm at the Quake¡ the entire population. Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Pl. Qther.chapters deal with the nêed for a sensiti.ye (between body politic, resulting from ,; 2nd & 3rd Ave. and 15th decentralizing society so 7 and 16th Sts.). that no city is larger than 200,000, and wñs of soiv- Ii ing conf licts through nonviolent means. ,,îhe 'J 'ê Apri!10. A Walk new '1ø NYC-S.aturday, world order will not be.very orderly,,, in the authors, t" organizecl by the City Crisis ' - - I view, but they propose nonviolent iíeans for , ,t. Coalition to urge that tax money n resolving the ineúitable conflicts. A great deal of * Þw f lowing to Washington for more 'Ì':Í." thought.and study has obviously gonã into the r ï-i and more armarnents be returned È.; Ê ".i proposals.for alternatives:to I It þ war:-One example of a li .l ü l.rt, to the neighborhoods. Starts at i oE successful is,the noncöopera- l,o ,t 1:00 pm at East 4th west of 2nd "Ì St. tion by the Cermans in the Ruhi in 19Æ whén'ifwas I Ave. For information callWRL, occupied by French and Belgian troops. 228-0450. The.strength of.Moving Tóward a ñew Sôciety ties Cartoon by Bill Andrews/Daily World/LNS_ in its detailed analysis an-d specific propo3als foi ac- tion, The authgrs PHILADELPHIA-Thur:sd3Y, APri I offera "scenaliojT suggesting how 15, mid-day. Tax Day Action at the United States could undergo a fundãñlentai- tran sformat ion. There are twoãlternative con- lRS, Philadelphia Federal MOVING TOWARD A NEW SOCTETY Building, 6th & Arch Sts. clusions which ref lect a controversv in the lys.1nng_Gowan, George Lakey, William Moyer; movement: an electoral/political pärty The Sponsored by Philadelphia approach' ' to Senate bill, and its either already part of existing Richard Taylor change versus counterpart WTR/WRL, phone 567-7010. Kick a differently coordinated in the US House, HR repressive laws or are so clearly New Society Press / Philadelphia / 1976/ S3.S0 non-electoral movement structure. ro) 39O7, purports to be a moderniza- unconstitutional that the sponsors off of.Taxpayers Rebellion, B-1 This book is a revision ln considering the way in which fundamental_ 'e.e tion of the entire US Criminal know they would not be passed. Bomber leafletting. and expansion of Revotution: A P-resciption cha-nge could be accomplished, the authors cI Code. The bill has so many Qu.alçr for a Sick Society, which ãp_ agree re- NCARL warns that most of the pearèd ' with Andre Corz that is :'J pfess¡ve features in 1971and grew out of A euaköi Action it neceisary to work fõr that its crit¡cs. repressive features still remain in The Citizens 'revolutionar-y reforms, which include PHILADELPHIA- Group. Beginning with a list of criteria for a healthy i.e., "reforms which advaniél organized tabor ánu S-1 and emphasizes that at this ' toward a radicaltransforrnation iw groups, Right to Know about Nuclear s.ociety and-an examination of the symptoms of of society.,, The civil rights say that it ¡s stage, with the dissemination of criteria listed .:i:) Power demonstrates each Satur- disease in the Unite{ ltates, thi authors present a for such reforms should oróve of "unamendabler" meaning that no erroneoùs information that the Phila- practical value people planning day, 10:00 am-noon at the tl.etai led di ag nos i s of the enúi roÀ.è"tãl .iirË to sociãl change ac- attempt to liberalize the bill "controversial" features of S-1 ;'ú; tions: an t could 'delphia Electric Company's US corporations exploit the Third Wortd, and'our extension of people's power, the com- : s keep it from being a repressive have been eliminated by the information center in Limqrick, dqmestic problems. muñication to others of a goal for a new society piece ,,Exported 4nd.r;: of legislation. compromise, it is particularly PA (on the site of a nuclear Power The research which documents heightened consciousness. 1t I important that people write to . , T}e Under the Mansf ield-Scott þlant now under construction). Plague," the chapter which shows höw our economic experiences of a consíderable number of . their Senators saying know peopfe compromise, sections 1121-28 they For information contact4819 , system, and specifically American international who have lived and worked together at the would be deleted. These sections about the compromise and that Springf ield Ave., Phila., PA . investment, supports dictatorships around the Philadelphia Life Center have contribì¡ted to the make it a federal crime to disclose S-1 is still unacceptable. Mail 19143, (215) SAY-J OY-U. wg¡[d, decapitalizes Third Worlcj Countries, and in- thinking reflected in Moving Toward a New Society, classif ied government information should be addressed to your .crea-ses the misery of the people As a former short-term resiäent of the Life Center, who live in'these ,,liúírlg,f,.,

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changing the society for the better. I can think of nci struggle both because it would be ineffective and ln the book, Dr. better one-volume summary of where we are and because it is immoral. (Can one use killing today Tripp reyeals nothine äbout his "the politics of homosexuaiity," teads me to a cer= to own sexuality, though where we might be going, fiom an âr;;¿Jít;cìalist bring about a life-centered world tomorrow?) he dbes make thiíd-person tain conclusion: ln rejecting the role of a ând references to homosexual psych : " anti-militârist but non-dogmatic viewpoint. One omission is that the authors do not say very iatrists and. anth ro- mass-based social movement, Dr. Tripp would have ,r polog.ists. I can only Many of the insights in this boõk are not oãrticularlv much about how to build the mass movement they conclu¿è that he ii itrá¡gt i oi, it us believe thdt the future happiness of homosexuals; .new, he is indeed gay, that he but it has the virtue of tying them tógether intó see as needed for social change, but then there are stronslv fand erronãouslvl and our understanding of homosexu-alityitself, will ; belgye¡ that.tþis fact : qne highly reaCable book. A étrength of thie book is no easy answers tô this question. They is "irrelõvânt,, to his study.' be due to the efforts of friendly, sexless'sex do suggest This that it is based on a vision of a decõntratized, the need for continuing éducation, book is unusuql and has already been wicÍely researchers such as Dr. Tripp.. Îh¡s ¡s a benevolent forcoalit¡õñs,' for i praised by gay intelleËtuals precisel-vïecause social st and non-m i I itari st alteináiiváioihËexi sti ne the formation of netwolks of nonviolent revolu- it is á arrogance we can do without. pleasqnt sçrrprise for us ,,mãn system. tionary groups, for radical caucuses within estab- to find a of sciencei, Cõming on the heels of LauraZ. Hobsorì'à Coå-, so freeiof The authors analyze the environmental crisis and lishmqnt institutions, and for the formation of ,'al- anti-homosexual bjases. Likewise, many senting Adult, in which gay activism is also under- i l straight reviewers hate , the m.pl ications of Anìerican over-con sumption; ternative" organizations as well. this book and rerponA *¡th a stated, The Homosexual Matrix slrould not be ac- imperialism; and poverty and variety of homophobic cliches. cepted as a contributiþn gay inequal¡ty W¡th¡n ;he. Perhaps there is nq one best route to change. I to the liberation move- ; I use the word United States. They sketch the baiic outlines of a would advocate a combination of "intellectualé" advisedly in the ment. lt is in fact a subtle attack on the movement, lt three different ap- preceding paragraph., i, ,heàlthy economic system. The purpose of such a proaches: personal, socialand political. becaus.e I believeiÉat the is one thing for us to thank Dr. Tripp for his scholarly We must gay person, system, they should Iess ntellectual ly i ncl t t research and for maintain, be begin to live the revolution in our daily lives, chang- ?ye!"age .i ined, wi the influence he has àmong his find this book, with its scientific to provide adequate, economically ing our life styles and'consumption pátterns. We - manñer, unin-' professional peers (many of whom will doubtlessly 4simple, secure teresting, possibly irrelevant and frgybe , way of li,Íe far èveryone in the society, must also continue to develop a network even ob- continue to ignore him), but it is quite another thing in which there cooperating noxrQus. ' are neither rich nor poor, exploiter nór exploited, ¡of food co-ops, free schools, änd otÉer wor[er-con- for us to accept his distant,'aloof appraisal of homo- +iolled Dr. Tripp has written.a book that t would call sexuality. i _ where a.itftudes of cooperation and mutual aid,are alternative economic organizations. Finally, :fostered largely "true," but the basic truths contained in A friend of mine picked to the utmost,'where everioie-has a voice in we must continue a political struggle on many levels. it up my copy of The Homo- would seem obvious to the aware gay person of looked the decisions affecting them, and in which eèonomic This includes organizing neighboihood clubs'and the sexual Matrix and at Dr. Triôó's þicture on . 197Os. His careful cataloguing of effeminate jacket. photo ',activity is carried on ¡n harmony with enviroimeilal multi-issue action groups; a õontinuing campaign of types the dust The shows A man in his fifties, (Nelly, Swish, Blase and Camp) is pure pseudô- clad in a suit and hair requirerye1lr_, d i rect actiqn pol itical oÈpôs ition to the-bi g-busiñess/ tie, neatly tiimmed and - science-how can such 'ltypeg" be catalogued?l big government alliance; and also electoral politics at . combed, staring seriously with Îhe stem of his eye- Anyway, there was no parallel catalog glasses Their suggestions include guaranteed work, a the local level, running candidates for boarcis of edu- of rñasculine "casually" stuck in the corner of his mouth. I wonder : guaranteed minimum income for those whoican,t cation, city co.uncils, etc. lypes; so where Dr. Tripp is coming from. My friend said, "l can tell by this picture that I won't . ln that the author seems to reject work, and as soon as feasible the institution of free There are a number of contradictions within the the androgynous like this book." There is something awful and unfair ideal being favored by most judging gogqs and services (for example, free utilities, free book. One is between.the approach to change that rádical feminisls and aboirt a man by his appearance. And yet l:¡ gay liberationists, he holds on to patriarchal vþublic transportation, free milk ánd bread). favors a political party plus'd mass movqment vs. a values knew where my friend was coming from. The "body in his analysis of male homosexuality. The book successfully dernolishes the arguments mass extra-parliamentary opposition. The authors lndeed, for language" in that photo shows the opposite of Dr. Tripp "homosexual" is usually synonymous fqr m-any of the traditional "liberal', approãches to present argurnents for both, and leave the reader a with liberation. The words in the book, including,Dr. 'l "male homosexual.i' He does social problems. For example, government anti- choice because they themselves cannot agree. A offer some observa- Tripp's pedantic insistence on such words as the ;r poverty programs tions about lesbians; but these seem like won't work because manpower seco¡d contradiction is between their apfroval of the "asidés." verb "to fellate," confirms this gut level reaction..¡ I can only characterize my own response training doesn't create new jobs for poor pirsonsj principle of the guaranteed annual income as a to this Maybe Dr. Tripp will see the light and entitle his , book as "anti-intellectual," èven I quite , ' ! but determines which of the poor gei avaílable ¡obs. "revolutior¡ary reform," and their skepticism as to though am next book, Cocksucking Through the Ages. ambivalent about the anti-ihtellectual teñdency t o;The same goes for education. ("The United States whether such a measure would ever be adooted ex- iri -Allen Young my own personality. I has the best-educated poor people in the world,") cept at a low income level and with such strtngS don't like,the idea of sex' at- resêarch€rs, The authors oppose birth control as the "major and as requirements of recipients to work eve.n niçe ones like Dr. Tripp, making a lagheÇ ãt dirty career of scientific inquiry LANDFALL II primary approach to either curbing population jobs chosen for them by governmeirt bureaucrats. A irito the liVes of real 'BillVanaver growth poverty" homosexual people. I hesitate to reject scientific & Livia Drapkin or alleviating and show why birth third is between their discussion of poverty within The Barn, inquiry as a-rule,-we gay liberationists frequently l!i!_o_R9co¡ds, North Ferrisburg, VT control alone is inadequate. To achieve a better this country and their emphasis on the need for a 05473 like to cite the Kinsey report which provideð 11976 / $5..s0 society, they suggest the United States'must be de- lower standard of living for all who live in the invaíu- able statistical informatibn about prevaÈnce developed, and the political system of private enter- developed countries, to conserve natural resources th'e oi lntense is the word:for the music on this record. . prise homosqxuality in the US. But do ended. But that is a tall order, indeed. and live more simply. Conservative critics will argue we need sex Closely followed by eb/ectic. Creek songs are inte¡. researchers to validate our'existence? After reading tagree with the goals of de-developing and de- that there is no poverty problem because the pooi spersed with American couqtry & folk songs. the positive reviews that many gay intellectuals haüe militarizing the United States, and clian[ing from could live within their resources if onlv thev chose to lnstrumentation is varied, much of it lightning- private given this book, I suspect to social ownership of þroductive caþltal. live in the sane and simple life style the auihors that some do feel this need fihgered. ln addition to guitar, BillVanãver plays.. Other readers may agree with goals a's for validation. tamboura, laouto, lyr_a & tappan. Vocals ' these well. advocate for all of us. aie by _ Most disturbing for The question, however, is how to get-from here to Because it avoids much traditional left-wing , me is that fact that Dr. Tripp Vanaver & Livia Drapkin. Assisting musicians are (lt polemics has written the first major work on homosexuality'by there. is on this issue that manv of the jargon, this book should appeal to those not yèt com- Jay Ungar, fiddle & mandolin; Yorgos Kalogrides,. a sex researcher in many years, and yet , left have centered, with few positivè resutts. We mitted to the struggle for change, as well as to ac- simply lyra; Walter Zev Feldman, santur, daira; Abby refuses to discuss or acknowledge gay .need to be moretolerant, to ãllciw the possibility that tivistg. I hope it becomes a best seller, because ideas the role oi the Newton & Mark Estrin, cellos; Alfred Certler, bass. liberation movement in "t: ,:ûpproâch€s to change advocated by others mav'also joined to action can change the world. terms of its impact on homo- My favorite song is a surprise bonus (not listed on sexuals and on society in general. In fact, jacket), be valid.) The authols suggest that significant' Lindenfeld Dr. Tripp the Aunt Molly J ackson's "Coleman's change will not be attained by working through the -Frank serupulously avoids the word gay, which is the wòid Mines," sung unaccompanied bv Bill. Also con. .major parties ¡n the United States, partly becãuse of that most gay people (especiafiy gay males) prefer stantly running thru my head is Livia's stirring ver, THE HOMOSEXUAT , the strong influence the rich have over both Reoub- MATRIX and, with the exception of one brief snide reierence sjon of Peggy Seeger's feminist masterpiece,''l'rn licans and Democrats. Replacing Cerald Ford liy C.A. Tripp to " 'Cay Lib' propãg anda," he does not even men- Conna Be an Engineer." McGraw Hill 1314 pp. /$10 tion the gay liberation movemeñt. He J im-ny Carterwill not alter the system in any måun- makes only - As always with Philo Records, the performers ,ingful way. What is needed, passing references-also snide-to the women'i have full (bravol). they suggest, ii a broad The author of thís book is a kindly sex researcher and artistic control Thè brilliant," scale opposition movement, though it is clear that some of Dr. Tripp's cluttered movement. They aréãivided as to practicing psychotherapist who has tearned that cover painting by Michael Horen suiis , whether such a movement best thinking comes from a feminist perspective ihat marvelously, as does the photo shöuld be assóciated witK homosexuals are human beings. He writes about us liner by Joet Cordon: a party, he (reluctantly?) adopts when convenient to him. Livia revolutionary third or should rema¡nái an with respect and a good-natuied disposition an¿ wìttr & Bill up to their shoulders in green water, Failure to mention gay liberation, despite such extra-parliamentary opposition. They rule out armed considerable expertise. r staring demandingly, imploringly into each other4s sub-chapter headings as "self-acceptance," and eyes, an image that suits their music. -Mark Morris ra wtñ epiit 1s, 1976 r.,:t April 15, 1976 WIN 19 ! Ì (Ietters contlnued from page 3.) he believe the acquired characteristic of I have been out oftown for several weeks 1 cowardice almost, but not quite, made it on the WALK so I haven't had the op- i to the jewish gene pool? And then portunity to review any recent issues of I attempt to check out many books fhinliing L¡ke A Woman ¡ again, (historically) unaware \ryIN. I am disturbed about the coverage which reviewed in WIN. Despite our is he that I are this "passive" people produced many you gave the DIABLO nuclear power 1 local (public) library's participation in a by Leah of theBolshevik Party's leading revolu- plant episode of the \{ALK. Your Fritz 'ii state-wide inter-library loan system, i wants to know some- Changes item 3/4/761says the :ii 'þooks not published by the major tionaiies? Or if he [WIN, i thing about resistance at public trials, arrested people were attempting to ob- \r/ith an afterword i þublishers are either very slow in ) he should check out the madcap, but struct the delivery offresh nuclear fuel. I reaching tne or are unavailable. principled behavior of Rubin, Hoffman This is totally incorrect. The intial ar- i Isn't this just another form of c€nsor. Barbara Deming I and Kunstler at the Chicago Conspiracy rests happened after two walkers t ship? Have other WIN readers had jews, - 1 Triil, all they risked a decadè in refused to accept company offered similar results with their public ' ;:: ¡ prison for their'resistance to authority. transportation to 4n area within the t tn compiling libraries? If Kehler is interested in a somewhat compound to hold an approved vigil and her essay s from the mid-'60's to the present, teah Fritz haii'¡ ) -CLARKNATWICKPaclffca, Callf. I i, less overtly political form ofjewish tried to walk there. P.G. & E. da.red expose the progress toward of her own intrepid sout. Eien I \ rebellion, he should read aboutthe responded liy charging them with très- when that journìey wound through false consciousness (as'in the earlier ! I.found Brian Doherty's brief but snotty marty¡dom ofLenny Bruce, who passing. As I understand it they then p¡eçe?, l which are vulnerably-and courag,eously-included), her own humor: çèmarks about the Patricia Hearst trial sacrificed everything for his ironic lied to the remaining group at the gate I and. humanity were irrepressible. And-the láter essays, on women and [WIN, 3/18/76] both pointlesb and in vision of moral truth. in order to get a police vehicle onto the l ...C\ violnence, and on feminiim vs. , poor taste. If Doherty knows something Finally, the behavior ofthe Rosen- grounds. When people found out they are a triumph'of consciousness, r endûrance, Iove and plain good tfie rest of us don't about what hap- bergs and Sobell must bejudged in the had been lied to they refused to let the writing. -Robin Morgan, I pened to Miss Hearst, I'd like to hear context of their time. They acted with van gut and were busted for resisting a i it-if he doesn't, he should shut up. .unmatchable idealism and courage in ê police officer and trespassing. Your This . . . collection of '10 years' worth of essays ! Gratuitous insinuations are an imþedi- 'period extends from oeace marches tó; when many non-jews andjews, Walk Update 13/LI/761says the arrests the sexual i ftent to higher consciousness, yoù ,revotution ro some of the øi¡tt¡anl and iení¡biã- anâiisãi ãi who once claimed to be progressive or generated a lot offavorable publicity for patriarchy i know? even revolutiohary, were becoming the WALK in California. Now I don't l've e.ver read.... Leah Fritz is one of the most impoñantt'hinkers, . Patricia unhappily, has to come out of the women's flearst, snitches, turncoats and in some cases know which establishment newspapets wfr ofnznacd by boboro derrrq movement,' and, hence, öút of the entirà already been found guilty by the public. outright fascists, doing this, not you were reading but the ones wp saw revolutionary struggle, -:Kaien Lindsey, Boston pioõi¡l It seems strange to me that a movement' So . because, they had, in any real werd pretty much all negative: bad in with so muih sympathy for other existential become disillusioned fact that according to local organizers it sense, Distributed by WtN Books and Free Life Editions Paperback, 160 pages, women victims of male violence (Joan with communism, but because they cost us considerable support in thê S3.25 Little and Inez Garcia, to name two) feared losing their jobs and middle class Saqla Barbara-LA area and did put us can't fínd itself able to be a bit more respectability. Far from being just pas- on the defensive having to explain what It sympathetic toward Patty Hearst: a sivejews, the Rosenbergs and Sobell really happened to the people we stayed Order from¡ (;r victim ofkidnapping, torture, and rape. offer both an example for, and ajudge- with for many many days after the wtN lv I've known women in situations similar ment of, their generation. Indeed for us event. The fact that very few perceived Published by winbOOks Box547 't to Miss Hearst's, women who were .r)j all, including Randy Kehler. the event favorably is a good indication Rifton, NY f 2471 ofthe bad press we did get, To be fair -STEWALBERTHurley, IYY I'd say the action did energize a good );. many ofour supportets up and down the coast but I would question the value of .9 I refer to the statement in Randy õ I something that turns on some of the ú We'll Give You the Shirt;; Kehler's review of Morton Sobell's On 6 t people who are already on our side and Dolng Tlme 3/18/76] that Jews -most { [WIN, iurris offthose we are trying td "obediently fïled into the gas = Off Our Backs chambers." reach. San Franclsc\or-BIIIIIIYERS Callf. õ Obviously, Kehler knows nothing of r Eo for Four Bucks. especially ifyou knew they had killed the courageous resistance of Jewish before? Wouldn't you do whatever they ' women and rhen in the Warsaw ghetto, ¿isked, say whatever they wanted you to Treblinka, Birkenau, etc. And he hasn't I know WIN is r magazine ofthe non- New! T-ShirtsfromWtN! say, just to stay alive and unharmed? It taken the trouble to find out. For WIN violent US left-but when you blithely is easy to be frightened when your life readers who are interested in learning drop a sentence like "The eastern Available ohly Yellow, ' rJ, about Jewish resistance to the Nazis, I provinces ofCanada would in with Blue silk-screened o¡ the lives of people you love are be an- des.ign, in Adult sizes Extra threatened. recommend Michael Elkins' book, nexeil'( [Blumenthal, \ryIN, 3/18/76], I Large, Large, Medium :-'In (Ballantine). and short, I would welcome a WIN Forged ln Fury can't fìgure out ifyou afe naive or un- Small, Childs' sizes Mediumlg-tO yeais old) and For me, reading Kehler's words is consciously citizens of the Empire. An Small (6-7 years old.) just one more bitter taste of the anti- atúempt at annexation might be more Jewish attitudes of so-called "progres- accurate-but to automatically infer the I Yes want a WI N T-sh rt on my backl have sive" success peopre. of such a move is to assume' enclosed $4 for each on . Total o.3f",.1î,ffi a) willing compliance with Ethan enclosed $ Please send me (mar k q Somervllle, Mass. Allen's century-old stupidity by Engliah uantity desi red) Canadians; b) an absence ofinternal Adu \4rhere is Randy Kehler coming from? civil war. A civil war could result from It XL Adult L AduIt M He writes in his review of the Morton I was deeply upset by the article [WIN, separatism. US invasions have been lr Sobell book On Dolngfime [WIN, 2/26/761by Albeft Axelrad, director of repelled three times-twice where I 1 Adult s chi d M live, in the peninsula. ch d 3/ 18/761, "4n historically persecuted the Hillel Foundation at Brandeis Uni- Niagara , I minority, did Jews have an almost in- versity. He did not clearly define his _I}R. MARYJAÑEMIII,ER Nam e: nate tenlency to avoid confrontation own position, but he used en{less St. Catharlnee, On.¡ Can¡da invective against people who took posi- with authority, to lie low for fear of Address making things worse?" This foolish tions that he considered different from What do you call it when WIN figures question is I believe based more on his own. So I had the feeling that he was out abrilliant new revolutionary way to Kehler's ignorance ofhistory, than on calling me names. Axelrad talks about a bring about a nonviolent world? zip: any mean motivation. But it surely is, in "route to change," and I believe there _IANMOFFATT ' some objective sense antí-semitic. are better routes than the one he Perth, Ontarlo, Canada Firstly, what does Kehler mean by follows. R. GOLDWASSER W¡N / Box547 / Rifton, NY 12471 the expression "almost innate?" Does -SAMUEI Sen Jose, C¡llf. WlNovation _WIN

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