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-- November 1978-The Freedom fund, and that no written or oral agree­ Socialist Party and Radical Women are ment to return the money was ever ordered It) vacate Freeway Hall, their math or implied. headquarters and a popular center of political and cultural activity for more March 1985-Judge Terrance Carroll thana deCade. They launch an intensive rejects the FSP's requestfordismissal search for a new building and establish of the entire suit, but throws out the Freeway Hall Eviction Fund. Snedigar's charges of abuse of trust and violation of charitable solicitation laws. December 1978 - April 1979-FSP negotiates brief extensions of the evic­ May 1985-Judge Arthur Piehler or­ tion deadline with the new landlord, ders the FSP to tum over "all informa­ restaurateur llltu Haglund. tion previously requested and requested in the future" by Snedigar, including January - June 1979-FSP rejects as membership and contributor lists, in­ too extravagant Richard Snedigar's ternal minutes, and other conjidentiIJI offer to seU his house and donate all records. ' proceeds to the evictionfund. After his housemates agree to higher rent, June 1985-The grueling searchfora Snedigar refinances the house for new hall ends $52,500 and donates $22,500 to the eviction fund,

. Snedigar v. Hoddersen, with purchase of a build­ Hall Saga: At stake r.n b the Freedom So- ing in Seattle's Columbia City district. The Freeway ad arters purchased y h' h Snedi- retaining $30,000 to pay first mortgage, back taxes, and debts. August. October 1985-Snedigar et al. is a new he a~~ of an Eviction Fundbto; ;~us demands FSP meeting minutes refer­ y January 1980-FSP and RW gear up ringto hall search and the emergency. cialist Pa'!Y bYdm~oW he wants his mo!'e a~h~ newly re- for the administrative hearing in Clara September 1985-TbeFSP, with sup­ Fraser's sex and politkal itholbgy he wa.-JiOll!f1S, discrimination case against Seattle port from the National lAwyers Guild ~=e~:s~:!e~Wl:!e~ ':;;li:~~~~!~~h=' City Ught. Freeway Hall is the center (NLG) and the American Civil Uberties stored and remo of case support work. Union (ACLU), winsreversalofJudge Piehler's order from the Washington Febrnaty 1980-Haglund issues a State Court of Appeals. second eviction notice. But the FSP wins a temporary extension after adverse October 1985-Judge Robert Dixon publicity forces Haglund to relent. orders the 'FSP to turn over the minutes eitherto Snedigar or to ajUdge form August 1980-A city hearing panel camera review. • overturns the hearing examiner's favor­ able decision in Fraser's case. Fraser November 1985 - December 1986- Case Issues appeals to Superior Court. The FSP asks the state Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals to review September 1980-Sned~gtu resigns Judge Dixon's Qrder. An unprecethnted from the FSp, without exp/Qnation, 56 organizations co-sign an NLG • Violation of organizational privacy claiming that he has '~no disagree­ amicus briefthscribing the devastating Snedigar assumed that, as a major contributor to the FSP's eviction fund, ments" with the party and expressing effect any disclosure ofminutes would he had the right to dictate which building the party should buy and when. The good will. have on First Amendment rights. FSP, whose internal democracy is not for sale, rejected Snedigar's assump­ Thousands of people sign petitions and tions. Now, Snedigar and his lawyers seek to have the courts force return of February 1982-Baglund tries to dou­ write letters to the courts. But neither the contribution, which would effectively overturn the party's right to set its bk the rent, but the FSP holds down court wiu rel/iew the case. own policies and priorities. , the increase by documenting Haglund's Additionally, Snedigar's demand that the FSP disclose its internal documents failure to repair the building. April 1987 -Snedigar files a thfau/t motion demanding that he win without is a grievous threat to the party's political privacy. When hostile or even sup­ August 1982-Fraser wins in court even g(ling to trUdbecause of the FSP' s posedly neutral political forces gain access to a radical organization's private and is awarthd back pay and reinstate­ refusal to relinquish the minutes. discussions and membership records, individual members become targets for ment. Superior Court Judge Warren Chan harassment and candidates for the unemployment lines. The group's ability February 1983-Fraser is awarUd gives the defendants 20 doys to comply to organize is compromised and its survival jeopardized. attorneys' fees. or be held in default. And it doesn't stop there.,Were the courts to strip by fiat the FSP's privacy rights, this chilling precedent would swiftly threaten labor, civil rights, environ­ July 1983-Almost three years aJUr May 1987 -FSP attorneys discover mental, church, and all , community organizations. Who indeed is safe if the he severed contact with the FSp' that Snedigar's personal copy ofa Free­ judicial arm of government can arbitrarily junk the Constitution? Snedigar writes the party, accusing it way Ball Case deposition has been (If inventing the eviction fund as a given to a righ/wing employer. who "ruse" to bilk supporters. He demands is suing FSP attorney and defendant the dismantling of the fund and return Fred Hyde. (See "The Latest Round," of all contributions. p.3.) • Sentence before verdict The FSP refuses to comply with the order to disclose minutes, which may Jannary 1984-Snedigar files suit in May 1987 -Judge Chan signs the de­ result in a default decision. Snedigar could then, without having to prove a King County Superior C(lurt demand­ fault order, but refuses to file it until thing in court, try to seize the party's headquarters and defendants' wages, ing return ofhis gift plus interest and . the appeals court decides whether it bank accounts, and personal property. Such a penalty imposed before the lawyers' fees. He charges the FSP with will accept discretionary review of the issues in this case have been decided would strike at the heart of due process. fraud, undue influence, breach of constitutional issues in the case. contract, unjust enrichment, abuse of May 1987 -The FSP petitions the trust, and violation of the chari4zble Court of Appeals to review the case. solicitation /Qws. Snedigar moves to dismiss the FSP's • Treasury raid June 1984-The FSP defeats Snedi­ request for review. Normally, freely given gifts are irrevocable. But Snedigar wants back the gar's attempt to impound the eviction gift of $22,500 made to the FSP's eviction fund- ostensibly because the party fund pending outcome of his suit. June 1987 -Appeals court C(lmmis· sioner JoAnne Tompkins denies didn't immediately buy a new hall, but plainly because Snedigar no longer January 1985-1n oral thposition, Snedigar's motion to dismiss and sends agrees with the FSP's politics. Snedigar admits that the eviction crisis the FSP' s request for review to a three­ His suit threatens any voluntary organization whose existence depends on was real and ongoing, that he wasfree judge panel to consider on August 28. contributions from members and supporters. No group can operate for long if to contribute or not to the eviction She refuses to allow oral arguments. its treasury can be raided with impunity by disaffected former contributors. It's been a legal rollercoaster ride for Letters, petitions, pickets-and tbe the Freeway Hall Case defendants this 58 people who crowded the ~ourtroom spring and summer. In April, King on May 14-pJayed a large part in con~ County Superior Court Judge Warren vincing Chan to delay filing the default Chan found the FSPin default for refus­ and to recognize ing to tum OVer its minutes. Then in May, he signed but

the case's significance. When Snedigar's attorney, Thomas did not officially Wampold, denounced concern fQr First file the default order. Amendment issues as a "red herring," Judge Chan said he wished to provide Chan asked, "How do you weigh a the party an opportunity to request ap­ claim for $22,()()() against a claim of ' pellate court review of the case's crucial invasion of constitutional rights?" constitutional issues before default actu­ ally took place. Sinister partnership. Earlier in the Breakthrough! Until Chan, -no judge hearing, Carlson dropped a bombshell had even admitted these constitutional by presenting evidence that Snedigar is issues should be reviewed. However, colluding with a rightwing employer Chan refused to consider them himself who, in another harassment lawsuit, is or consider any option less drastic than suing FSP attorney Fred Hyde. default. Snedigar's personal copy of a Freeway Hall Case document was given to the Shortchange. The FSP imrhediately employer, Thomas Layne. As an ad­ petitioned the Washington State Court ministrative law judge for Washington of Appeals to review the issues that lie State, Hyde had ruled that Layne had behind the default order-and Snedigar' s discriminated against a transgenderal thing else he can lawyers immediately demanded dismis­ employee. Layne charges that Hyde, sal of the party's request. because he is a socialist and human . a e garnishments and any ost of them low- . On June 19, appeals court Commis­ rights activist, is "biased" against em­ cars, savIngs 'Jiw ! the nine defendant~ mil this before a tnal sioner JoAnne Tompkins rejected ployers and should be removed from his commandeer .ro orkers. He deman s a FSP refuses to Snedigar's dismissal motion and sent job. the FSP's request for review directly to Carlson herself was subpoenaed to income or ~etir~h: complaints,. becaus,e t~~utes and financial a three-judge panel to consider on Au­ provide Freeway Hall Case Legal Fund on the me~ts OJ mbership lists, mt~rna m gust 28. Nonnally, the court commis­ records in the suit against Hyde. She sioner hears such petitions with oral refused. Layne is also probing for the surrender Its !"e . dge's scrutiny. arguments, and either side can ask the membership and minutes of the Ad Hoc records for hIs, or a JU • panel to modify an adverse ruling. Committee for Fair Employment and Tompkins, however, shortchanged Open Housing, to which Hyde belongs. the process and ruled that the panel will The comrilittee is waging a tremendous decide whether or not to review the case battle against Mayor Royer's efforts to without hearing oral arguments. dismantle Seattle's job and housing Tompkins's rationale is that "the court anti-discrimination ordinances. at a glance system has been repeatedly injected into Layne's attorney works with the Jaw a seemingly endless series of mo­ firm of attorney Gordon Clinton. a tions ... " In other words, one strike and fonner Seattle mayor and ex-FBI agent. • Prejudicial stereotyping of radicals yOH're onto Freeway Hall Case defendants, who've Had Snedigar sued the Democratic Party he would have been laughed out This charge of burdening the court always suspected that the string-pullers of court. But the FSP has spent three years in litigation. Why? Because strongly implies that the FSP' s defense behind Snedigar's suit are past and pre~ Snedigar and his lawyers play on anti-communist biases and stereotypes. of its First Amendment rights is some­ sent city bureaucrats out to bulldoze Wampold/Paiithorp characterize the party both as "a small declining cult" how improper. their FSP nemesis, take great interest in and as a Marxist Monolith whose "tight discipline" is rigorously imposed on a FSP counsel Val Carlson says in Snedigar's service to Layne and com­ zombie-like membership. Snedigar confesses that he was once a dupe of the response: "The courts could have set­ pany. Bolsheviks, but has seen the light (now that the price is right). Though their · tled this moJter••• by agreeing to hear What better illustration of the real, script is an old one, cribbed from the finks ofthe McCarthyite '50s, it's still the the legitimate constitutional claims, or witchhunting nature ofSnedigar's suit? tested means of pressuring the courts in political cases. by sending the case to trial with the protected documents excluded. We On to court! The August 28 court luwe every right and an obligation to date is coming up fast, but the defen­ defend ourselves with every means dants are not passively waiting to see if • Malice, vengeance, and greed available in court against a ruling tIuu it will bring default or the chance, at Feeding Snedigar's vendetta is the venom traditionally displayed against would deny everyone's First Amend­ IMt, to have the issues heard. former comrades by radicals-1urned-witchhunters. Added to Snedigar's hostility ment freedoms. Again, they have revved up with a is the antipathy of the Seattle city bureaucracy, which backs Snedigar morally "You don't hearjudges decrying the high«tane public pressure campaign: and, most likely, financially. number of appeals by convicted tnQSs gathering petition signatures, newen­ The FSP's high-profile pro-labor and affirmative action stance, its defense murderer Ted Bunily!" dorsers, and support letters, for starters. ' Individual and organizational e~dor­ of Seattle's Fair Employment Practices and Open Housing ordinances, and What price privacy rights? The sers now number well over four Clara Fraser's victory over City Light have earned the party the bureaucrats' FSP had spent 14 months trying to get hundred. Three of the latest include: undying hatred. the appeals court or the Washington U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr .• Then there's the enmity, and greed, of Wampold and Pailthorp, who are State Supreme Court to review the is­ D-Mich., a member of the Black Con­ willing to do the bureaucracy's dirty work and take their reward. Shades of sues. Like the higher courts, Judge gressional Caucus; Father William Roy Cohn and other hustlers who hounded communists during the Great Red Chan refused to consider those issues, Davis of the Christic Institute (a public Scare! and ignored all arguments that default interest law firm that won the Karen was an undeserved, brutal penalty. On Silkwood case); and the National April 10, he gave the party 20 days fS> Women's Studies Association. • Harassment of the defendants hand over the minutes or face default. All the case's thousands of supporters With backs to the wall, the defendants know that Snedigar's attack on radicals , It's no accident that Snedigar named nine individual defendants, including put their community organizing efforts constitutional rights is just a foot in the top FSP leaders, in his suit. With Snedigar, the political is also a personal into high gear. They quickly collected door against everyone's rights. grudge match. more than 4000 petition signatures urg­ So, it's on to court for another round His patently absurd and untrue charges of fraud and undue influence are ing Chan to reconsider. Over 100 sup­ of this epic Bill of Rights battle. The slanderous attempts to smear the defendants' reputations in the community, porters sent protest letters. On April 24, FSP defendants and their growing army while Wampold and Pailthorp aim to cripple the defendants financially by the Freeway Hall Case Defense Com­ of supporters are fighting on the side of grabbing their property. Obviously, Snedigar intends to humiliate, harass, and mittee held two protest pickets outside the angels. And they're not about to break human beings, as well as destroy the party whose politics they embody. the King County Courthouse. stop! nedigar's lawyers play on all the Stifled by Southern bigotry, Gloria anti-Marxist biases and stereotypes moved to Seattle in 1950--lured by the S in order to keep his bogus case rainy and cool climate-and plunged into alive in court, Chief among the civil rights and civil liberties organizing. Scoundrel stereotypes is their depiction ofthe FSP :In the '60s, she was one of the early e, defendants as a gang ofsoulless automa­ staffers of the anti-poverty program. tons--a maliciously McCarthyite carica­ Later in the decade, she helped launch ture of revolutionaries. the nation's first successful abortion Well, it just ain't so. There's not a campaign. Thanks to that effort, tlme Bolshevik Machine in the Freeway Hall Washington State won legal abortion bunch. Bolsheviks, definitely. But Bol­ sheviks who are people-concerned, committed human beings, on trial and in jeopardy because of their dedication to their beliefs. We'd like to lay the myth of the Bol­ shevik Machines to rest, and for good. Allow us to introduce the Freeway Hall Case activists.

three years before the V.S. Supreme Clara Fraser, National Chair of the Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling. ··~.Y$~. <.i. ri ' . .•...... •...... ' . FSP, is a feminist pioneer who has kept In 1966, Gloria led a class at Seattle's Q~ .. ~I~Y9~if~lQ()tercedtOfnake that offer? Trotskyism vital by integrating the best Free University on Women and Society of the Old Left and the New Left. which brought together Old Left Trotsky­ A,.Nptif"l~!~Cl!'·' ...... " ....>...... > ". ...•.. . She was born in 1923 to radical Russian ists and New Left feminists. This class! Q.Oidn't.yotI•. YOUI'$e!f •. belleVe.t,natanemergenoy exi$ledatttlat Jewish immigrants and was raised in the showed the need for a mass anti-capitalist I .' . tl",~?:' labor-socialist movement. She joined the women's organization to build women's A,.Y~.L .. · Young Peoples Socialist League in her revolutionary leadership. teens. She helped form Radical Women to Q.W After graduating from VCLA in En­ meet this need. Today RW, the radical glish Lit, Drama, and Education, she mainstay ofthe feminist movement, is the oldest socialist feminist group in the V. S. Gloria became FSP Organizer in 1973 and remained in the post for five years, Fra... d,< ...... '<' ..••...•..... '.' • guiding the party's initial growth as a Q;oldYti9feelttlat thEl attainingof[oc~panCYl extttnsion$from the' national organization. landlorct81leviated the emergency tn any way? Her book, Socialist Feminism: The A. No. First Decade, details the FSP's record Q,l$lbereany ·ee~sedtQ A.No, Q. You ttlink the emerQency continues to exist? A. Yes;·

joined the Socialist Workers Party, worked in advertising, and organized department store workers in Chicago. She moved to Seattle in 1946; Blacklisted for her leading role in the 1948 Boeing strike . (she was an electrician), she still managed to find work and organize against McCar­ thyism in the '50s. G .The.devil.·'lheOFy After 20 years in the SWP, Clara be­ . ThcH'nasWarnpotd and came co-founder ofthe FSP and Radical Michelle' pailthOrp invOke Women. A tireless campaigner for Black antl.ra(1itat stereotypeS to and women's equality since the '30s, she . '..• '.. '. .' Qriveag.in$l hailed the upsurge of the '60s and '70s, rnfNclO·to new and became an acknowledged national from 1966-76, analyzes the political and local leader in the antiwar, human tumult of those years and the party's role rights, and Left milieus. in it, and draws the lessons of the upsurge. Clara became Education and Training Gloria manages the bookstore Shakes­ Coordinator at Seattle City Light in 1973. peare & Co. She is currently gathering She was a leader in the tumultuous City material for an archives on women's Light employee walkout the following history. year, and dissident employees sub­ Gloria likes gardening, travel, and sequently elected her to co-chair a worker­ music-from Bach to the Beatles to Bes­ management negotiating team formed to sie Smith. She loves movies, true hammer out an employee Bill of Rights stories; chocolate, actor Peter O'Toole, and Responsibilities. Management re­ the arts and crafts movement, and was fused to implement the bill, and in 1975, fascinated by the Irangate hearings. fired Clara for her role as employee leader and advocate of affirmative action. Clara filed a groundbreaking sex and political ideology discrimination suit Eldon Durham, a retired Pres­ against the utility, and in 1982, after byterian minister, was born almost seven mind-wracking years, she quarters of a century ago on a Kansas triumphed. She won reinstatement to her ranch. He taught school, worked on an old job, $135,000 in back pay and dam­ assembly line, dug ditches, and stood' ages, and $50,000 in attorneys' fees. the long unemployment lines of the Great _ •••••••••••••••-- ••- ••- ••-.- ••_ She retired from City Light in March Depression, all before he was 35 years 1986, saying she wished to "recuperate old. Managing EdHor Business Manager from years of forced association with City He earned a graduate degree in theol­ Robert Crisman Doreen McGrath of Seattle managers and lawyers." ogy while working in New York ghettos. STAFF Clara enjoys dining out with comrades Assistant Manager ProducUon Manager Andrea Bauer EdHorial Consultant Kathleen Merrigan and friends. She is also an enthusiastic fan Karrie Peterson and critic of the movies and the theater. EdHorial Boanl Yolanda Alaniz Production Design Clara Fraser Doug Bames Conan Gale Helen Gilbert Guerry Hoddersen Darlene Bassett Steve Hoffman Janet Sutherland Megan Cornish Burke Knouse Proofreaders Gloria Marlin was born in St. Louis Tamara Turner Susan Docekal Jane Rockhold Tamara Turner in 1916 and raised in Asheville, North Sandra Welsted Jonathan Foe Julie Cornell Carolina . ...------... She joined the Young Communist ...__ ... ______....;;... ______;... _____ ~C.72... League in her early twenties, but left after The Freedom Socialist (lSSN 0272-4367) is published quarterly by the Freedom Socialist Party, New Freeway the infamous Stalin-Hitler Pact, disgusted Hall, SOl8 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118. Phone 206-722-2453. b th C . t Part ' d b t f Subscriptions: I year$5.00(lnstitutions$1O.00),2yearSupponingSub$25.00, 3 yearSu staining Sub $50.00, y e ommums y s e asemen 0 5 year Sponsoring Sub $100.00. Add $2.SO surface postage outside the United States; add $7.00 for overseas political principle and by the entrenched At the onset of WWII, he gave up his airmail. Backcopies$.75each.lnAustralia: I year$6.00, surface mail; $IO.OOairmail. OIecks or money orders sexism of party leaders. theological deferment and risked prison to Freedom Socialist, P.O. Box 266, West Brunswiclc, Vic. 3055. as a conscientious objector. Southwest and Midwest, and eventually FS, and his work has appeared in such to attend meetings of the Feminist Coor­ Following the war, Eldon was one of in the Chicano farmworker community of national radical publications as the Guar­ dinating Council, a Seattle group formed the courageous few who spoke out against the Yakima Valley in Washington State. dian. McCarthyism. He inveighed against anti­ As a student and staff employee at the Doug worked as a Metro bus driver in labor "right-to-work" laws and fought for University of Washington in Seattle, Seattle for eight years and belonged to racial justice. He also opposed atomic Yolanda was active in the Chicano move­ Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587. testing and in the '60s marched against ment on campus. She placed feminism on His last big fight as a union activist before the war in Vietnam. "My hope," he says, the agenda of the movement, co-founding leaving M~tro was against the company's "is that I can stay around long enough to the Chicana/Latina organization MUJER. introduction of a two-tier wage system. see this system fall flat on its face." She also helped organize an indepen­ Doug became FSP Seattle Organizer in Eldon's daughter, Guerry Hoddersen, dent staff union-United Workers Union­ 1983, inheriting the search fora new is also a defendant in this case. The two Independent, representing low-paid party headquarters and presiding over the are probably the first and perhaps the only women and minority workers-and branch's mobilization against Snedigar father-daughter team to square off against served as the union's president. She and Co. Once the party was moved to the new McCarthyites. graduated in 1977 in editorial journalism. New Freeway Hall, he supervised the Yolanda joined the FSP in 1976 and massive renovations which transformed to clarify and unify feminist activities. quickly became a leader because of her the dilapidated ex-bingo parlor into the She fought to broaden the organization's theoretical acumen and outstanding will- sparkling and comfortable community focus beyond white middle-class Guerry Hoddersen credits the center it is today.: women's issues, _and argued for prioritiz­ Black civil rights movement with propel­ ing the concerns of women of color, ling her into political activism. She or­ lesbians, and poor working women. ganized against segregation as a student After graduating from law school in in North Carolina, then entered the Uni­ Sam Deaderick was one of the 1975, Val worked for eight years as Affir­ versity of California at Berkeley in 1964, earliest enlistees in the gay rights move­ mative Action Officer for the Bellevue, just in time to participate in the Free ment. Washington, school district. There she Speech Movement and in antiwar pro­ He joined the Gay Liberation Front in battled for equal opportunity in hiring and tests. In 1965, she worked for the Student Portland, Oregon in 1970, organizing for a multi-cultural curriculum. Nonviolent Coordinating Committee demonstrations, media speakouts, and Val entered private practice in 1983, (SNCC) in rural Mississippi, organizing educationals at high schools and colleges. fresh from success as co-counsel for Clara challenges to continued segregation in ingness to represent and defend the party's He also gained recognition as a movement public accommodations and to job dis­ program in the movements for social and writer and editor. crimination by white businesses. economic change. A firm believer in the In 1973, Sam became a mainstay at Guerry became Radical Women Or­ political integration of these movements, ganizer in 1973. Under her leadership, she has won national respect in political RW made the crucial transition from showdowns with separatists and anti-rad- being an organization made up primarily of students to one composed mainly of working women.

court order ons\\\u\\ona\ Fraser's suit against Seattle City Light. anunc Currently, she directs the legal fight against Snedigar. Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual The case is a high-pressure constitu­ Minorities. The following year he helped tional battle and there is work enough for found the Union of Sexual Minorities, an a battery oflawyers. But Val manages it icals at race, sex and lesbian/gay libera­ cheerfully, skillfully, and unflappably, as tion conferences all over the country. befits a winner. Yolanda is currently a member of the FSP In 1978, the same year Guerry became Secretariat and is National Coordinator of FSP's Seattle Organizer, FSP and RW the party's Comrades of Color Caucus. received notice to vacate Freeway Hall. Weaving together her experiences as a Fred Hyde was born in Oregon in Guerry directed the launching of a mas­ farmworker, human liberationist, and 1949 and raised on a cattle ranch. sive, protracted hall hunt while public Ml!fXist student of history, she co-au­ He graduated from the University of outcry kept the landlord at bay. thored a gripping history and pioneering Washington law school in 1975. While Then in 1980, Clara Fraser's suit analysis of the Chicano liberation move­ on campus, he joined the struggle to form ment, The Chicano Struggle: A Racial United Workers Union-Independent. He or a National Movement? anti-capitalist lesbian/gay group that was represented UW staff in front of the Yolanda currently works for Seattle's instrumental in shaping Seattle's gay Higher Education Personnel Board and Water Department. To unwind, Yolanda movement into a political force to be eventually helped win them a pay hike. goes to the movies-she's seen La Bamba reckoned with. Sam also organized sup­ four times-or dancing. On her agenda port for Seattle's landmark Fair Employ­ for the near future is a visit to Mexico. ment Practices and Open Housing ordi­ nances and spoke out against police brut­ ality in the lesbian/gay and people of color communities. Doug Barnes, a native Oregonian Sam co-authored the remarkable series born in 1953, gravitated to political "Gay Resistance: The Hidden History," radicalism in the early '70s when he which ran in the Freedom Socialist from joined the antiwar and ecology move­ Fall 1978 to Spring 1980. As an FS editor, against City Light provided the branch ments. In 1971, Doug moved to Wash­ he also covered international develop­ with new challenges, which Guerry met ington State to attend The Evergreen State ments extensively. with drive and elan. Her stewardship was College, where he also worked as an arts Currently, Sam works as a word pro­ indispensable to Clara's victory. technician. He organized on campus for cessor in Seattle. Off-hours, he enjoys Fred teamed with Val in representing In 1983, Guerry took over as FSP playing chess. Clara against City Light, which placed National Secretary, charged with com­ them high on the city bureaucracy's hate pleting the task of welding the party into list. This likely accounts for the current a cohesive national and international lawsuit against Fred by rightwinger force. This she is accomplishing, in the Val Carlson hails from Colorado. Thomas Layne. (See "The Latest Round" teeth of Snedigar's suit and Reaganite Her political roots are in the civil rights on p. 3.) assault on U. S. radicals. and student mobilizations of the '60s and An administrative law judge for the Guerry maintains a keen interest in early '70s. While attending Whitworth state, Fred is a member of Washington popular culture. A razor-sharp analyst of College in Washington State, she co­ Federation of State Employees Local 435 the trends, she delights in lampooning the chaired Whitworth's Human Rights and a delegate to the King County Labor fashion czars, Hollywood, and the "post­ Council, which fought for Black enroll­ Council. He won key labor support for feminist" media's attempts to shoehorn student and staff rights and for lesbian/gay ment and multi-ethnic education. Clara's case, and in 1984 sparked state women back into pre-'6Os subjugation. liberation. Val chose to emulate the radical attor­ labor council opposition to rightwing After joining the FSP in 1975, Doug neys who fought to end U.S. aggression ballot initiatives against abortion and quickly became a mainstay of the Free­ in Vietnam. She joined the National Indian fishing rights. dom Socialist. His organizing abilities Lawyers Guild shortly after entering law Away from the office, Fred likes to Yolanda Alaniz was born in Texas. helped the paper survive and grow in the school at the University of Washington strum his guitar and sing labor songs. He The daughter of migrant workers, she early '80s. Doug brought a natural talent in 1972. • has performed at labor rallies and count­ grew up in the fields and towns of the for graphic arts and photography to the As a law student she also found time less other public events. "Aecog .. . . ntzlng that 'A inJury to one' '. n all" th IS an injury to '.. e labor has come movement out strOngl . sUPPort of FSP's Y In defense of th . (a d elr . n Our) cOnstitu_ tional rights."

MiChael T IAI • wraske Business M Internationarnager PrOfessional Federation of Engineers L and Technical Seattle Ocal 17 Roger Yockey is a noted labor journalist and Chair ofthe Freeway Hall Case Defense Committee.

have never had any doubt about the importance of the Freeway I Hall Case. Nor have I hesitated in giving my full support for the defendants. A score or so years ago, I was a journalism student writing for the Marquette Tribune at Marquette University. One of my pieces blasted a film that glorified the House Un­ American Activities Committee (HUAC). My opinions brought down the wrath of McCarthyites on my head. Shadowy figures came around questioning my friends about my activities. A very nervous dean of the journalism school brought me into his office to ask if! was aware of "people with machine guns (!) out there" who might wish to do me harm. "The 25,000 members of It wasn't a pleasant experience. And it made me highly aware of the our organization cherish need to battle rightwing fanatics our constitutional rights who seek to eliminate freedom. Later, as a reporter, I learned that to freedom of association the jobs and physical safety of my free speech and privacy , and so we support the ' strong stand taken by the FSP ... in Snedigar v. Hod­ dersen~ et al " Vito J. Pitta President ' This statement by Freeway Hall New York Hotel Trades Council Case defendant Alaniz is extracted from an editorial first published in the Seattle Times, on May 14, 1987.

xperience teaches that for any one of us to make changes in E the world, we need the. help of others. And to get that help, we "Po . need the right to organize. lliShing th Experience also teaches that while asserting the r' e FSP for some people would deny us this vacy is unjust 19ht to pri­ right, many more will fight beside us to protect it. endanger the ~d would I come from a family of migrant everyUni rlghts of farm workers in the Yakima Valley. r'gh on, politi al . With help, I beat the odds against 1 ts, CiVil lib . c ,clVil racism and sexism, and attended the sOCial act' ertles, and . 10n or . University of Washington. There I ln Wash' gallization discovered that for many students lngton S and staff, the right to organize was the nation." tate and essential to our very existence. Ulti­ mately, I helped found a campus Leonard SL-I- . President ~ union for low-paid workers, mostly New York U . women and minorities. America rSity Central Now I am battling for the right of SOli::!;7 privacy. For the civil rights move­ ty C°lllInittee ment, for unions, for any group FREEDOM SOCIALIST 0 SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1987 7

right wing, and the bosses have been strong and relentless, and aimed directly at working people. But be­ cause the attacks strike at such a wide range of targets, they have calls and letters urging judges to rule served to revitalize the principle that in the defendants' favor. Increasing an injury to one is an injury to all. numbers of unions, civil rights The Freeway Hall Case illustrates groups, and community organiza­ clearly that if the defendants lose we tions know what's at stake in this all lose. But they are not going to case and will support the defendants lose-because they refuse to give up abridge freedom of speech by de­ through hell and high water. the struggle. manding public disclosure of the The attacks on democratic rights That's why I support the Freeway names of FSP members and by the Reagan administration, the Hall Case. What about you? supporters, financial records, and internal meeting minutes. No one can exercise free speech or assemble Case Coordinator peaceably if what they ~ay in their Karrie Peterson assemblies can be made known to (r.) has every rea­ their political enemies-who might son to smile, as she try to harm them physically, finan- and the Freeway cially, or otherwise. HaD. Case peti­ confidential news sources often de­ And in these reactionary times, tioning team pended on my refusal to name names socialists especially are jeopardized garnered over 500 signatures at Seat­ to anyone. My credibility as a repor­ by forced disclosure. tle's Black Com­ ter depended on it as well. It's not just their own rights, how­ munity Festival The Freeway Hall Case is all ever, but everybody's that the defen­ early in August. about resurgent McCarthyism and a dants are standing up for. This case Signers urged the refusal to name names. will set a precedent either way it Washington State The First Amendment says, "Con­ goes. And if the FSP' s First Amend­ Appeals Court to gress shall make no law ... abridg­ ment rights can be done away with accept review of " ing the freedom of speech . . . or by the courts, how can we say any­ the constitutional the right of the people peaceably to one's rights are safe? issues in the case" assemble and to petition the govern­ That's why the case has received on August 28. ment for redress of grievances." so many individual and organiza­ Yet Richard Snedigar and his tional endorsements, friend of the attorneys are attempting precisely to court briefs, signed petitions, phone

rights a double-edged sword to wield against civil rights organiza­ tions as well as radical political parties. If we refuse to disclose steering against prevailing political confulential information, our oppo­ winds-and even those that aren't­ nents will rob us ofour hard-earned privacy is crucial to the right to resources. But if we disclose [this organize without fear of harassment. information}, the enemies of civil The failure of Washington courts rights will use [it} to thwart our thus far to protect free association work." provides what a Black feminist and The social inequality the NAACP attorney, Flo Kennedy, has called fought in the' 50s is still with us, as "legal coverfor political witch­ is organizing for change-and, in­ hunting." evitably, attempts to smash such Puyallup Indian activist Ramona organizing. Hundreds of groups and Bennett, in an affidavit to the court, individuals have been dragged into explained why she too has refused court in efforts to shut them down to hand over organizational records: or shut them up. The sanctuary "It has been my experience that movement, Palestinian radicals in state or federalofjicers are most Los Angeles, Puerto Rican likely to abuse their authority nationalists in New York, and un­ against people from different polit­ documented and other immigrant ical, ethnic, or religious back­ workers are among the targets. grounds." But the dreams of all who work In another affidavit, Oscar Eason, to build "this country will not be Jr. , chair of the National Board of denied. I didn't come from the hot Directors of Blacks in Government, sun and dust of the Yakima Valley reviewed the NAACP' s successful to be told that my constitutional battle against disclosure of its mem­ rights are not as good as someone bership list to the State of Alabama "else's, whether because of my race, King County in the 1950s. Eason noted that a sex, or political ideas. I will not Courthouse, April 24, default ruling against the FSP would surrender the constitutional rights 1987. Angry picketers protest be "punishment for defending as­ that enable us to fight for our Superior Court Judge Warren sociational privacy rights" and dreams. Chan's default ruling against the FSP. would "give opponents of civil i Venceremos! 8 FREEDOM SOCIALIST 0 SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1987 , .

Partial list of endorsers of the FSP's fight for the First Amendment INTERNAnONAL Alliance for Socialist Action, Van­ member, U.S. House of Representatives and Congressional couver Branch, Canada • 11 th National Conference of Lesbians Black Caucus· • New York 8/Grand Jury 8/Defense Commit­ and Homosexual Men, Australia • FightlTijuana AIDS Organiza­ tee Against Fascism • Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid • tion/Gay Information Center, Tijuana, Mexico • International Les­ Janet McCloud, Northwest Indian Women's Circle,* Yelm, WA bian and Gay People of Color Conference, Los Angeles· Irish FEMINIST Clinica Eva Defense Committee, Los Angeles Republican Socialist Committee of North America • League for • Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers • National Wo­ Social Justice, Derry, N. Ireland • Pensamiento Critico journal, men's Studies Association • Northwest Women's Law Center • Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico LABOR King County Labor NOW, Seattle and Everett Chapters, WA • Radical Women • A Council, AFL-CIO, Seattle • New York Hotel and Motel Trades Woman's Place Bookstore, Portland, OR • Women Rising in Council, New York, NY • Washington State Labor Council, AFL­ Resistance, Champaign, IL· Women's International League for CIO • AFSCME Locals 2083, 2083-C, 3211, 3218 • AFT Local Peace and Freedom, Seattle • Gloria Steinem, co-founder and 3882, New York, NY • Cannery Workers Local 37, I.L.W.U., Editor, Ms. magazine, New York, NY LESBIAN/GAY Seattle • CWA Locals 7800,7901 • Independent Federation of The Dorian Group, Seattle • Freedom Day Committee, Seattle Flight Attendants, Bothell, WA • International Feder­ • Gay and Lesbian Peace Concerns, Los Angeles • Gay and ation of Professional and Technical Lesbian Union at NYU, New York, NY • Just Out Engineers Local 17, Seattle· Port­ • newspaper, Portland, OR • Mayor's Task land Labor Committee on Central . Force on Lesbians and Gays, Seattle America and the ,Caribbean, Portland, I t~. ·National Coalition of Black Lesbians OR • Service Employees International ~~ U4 and Gays • Seattle Gay News Union Local 6, Seattle • Ship Scalers O SOCIAL ISSUE Union Local 541, Seattle • United Ad Hoc Committee for Food and Commercial Workers Fair Employment and Local 1105, Seattle· Open Housing, Seattle Washington Federation of • Anti-Police Abuse State Employees Locals • e 0 Coalition, Brooklyn 341, 435, 843, 1488 • Palestine Human ANTlWAR Seattle Rights Campaign, Nonviolent Action Group· , Seattle • Father Guatemala Solidarity Com- "'• . • William J. Davis, mittee, Seattle • Nicaragua , Christic Institute,* tel Washington, D.C. • Task Force, Venice, CA LEFT African pr r Robin Stephens, disabled Peoples Socialist Party· rights advocate, Portland, OR Bolshevik Tendency • LEGAL/CIVIL LIBERTIES Committee for a Revolu- American Civil Liberties Union of Washington tionary Socialist Party • Fourth Internationalist Tendency • • Center for Constitutional Rights· National Emergency Civil International Socialist Organization, Seattle Branch • Line of Liberties Committee • National Lawyers Guild • Haywood March, Seattle Chapter • New Alliance Party • Partisan Defense Burns, President, National Lawyers Guild, New York, NY • Committee • Peace and Freedom Party of California • Socialist Flo Kennedy, host, "The Flo Kennedy Show," New York, Action • Socialist Labor Party • Socialist Party USA • Socialist Work­ NY ARTISTS, AUTHORS, PERFORMERS ers Party • Solidarity • Spartacist League • Workers World Party Gloria E. Anzaldua, Editor, This Bridge Called My Back, San PEOPLE OF COLOR Asian Cultural Union, New Francisco ·Toni Cade Bambara, National Association of Third York, NY· Committee in Defense of Immigrant Rights, Seattle· World Writers, * Philadelphia • Karen Brodine, poet, National EI Centro de la Raza, Seattle • Leonard Peltier Support Group Writers Union,* San Francisco • John Gilbert, actor, Seattle • • NAACP, Seattle Branch • National Conference of Black Law­ Regina Hackett, art critic, Seattle Post-Intelligencer* • Cherrfe yers, Northwest Chapter ., Organization of Asian Women, New Moraga, Editor, This Bridge Called My Back, Santa Rosa, CA· York, NY· Ramona Bennett, Puyallup Tribe activist, Tacoma, WA Esther Mumford, author, Seattle· Selma Waldman, artist, Seattle • John Conyers, Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives • Nellie Wong, poet, San Francisco· Merle Woo, poet, Berkeley and Congressional Black Caucus* • George W. Crockett, Jr., *For identification only

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