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• -NO w( fini In reference to Chris Kraus· s · •Store­ There are. however. two crucial areas jumped on the "factionalism" story, and cor front" and Tom Yemm's review of this in which the Coalition for headlines about the "split" anti-nuclear 40, play (WIN.ll/22179). I would ques­ at Seabrook's break with some oft he un­ movement were soon selling newspa­ wh tion how useful theatre that ignores stated rules of anti-nuclear organizing pers from Portsmouth to . ye< art. technique. dramatic tension and seems to have inhibited Murray's fair That we succeeded in attracting almost . pacing. and language can be in making judgement of o,ur organizing efforts. 3000 occupiers, and in maintaining a SOl any sort of political point. Art encom­ These are the issues of our own expec­ sufficient degree of nonviolent solidarity rna passes more. and demands more. than tations for actually occupying the Sea­ to completely suspend construction for We didacticism. A play should be a play. not brook site and that of the degree of sup­ three days, attests both to the fallacy of a polemic. port in th~ Seabrook area for the occupa­ the charges levelled against the Coali­ to~ It is undoubtedly valuable for the tion effort. tion and to the strength and resiliency of in1 workers oflocal1-S to learn their union The October 6 direct action was ini­ the direct action anti-nuclear movement. eve history. but this production was like a tially conceived shortly after the Three As the first concerted, non-symbolic I private joke. I spent my time trying to Mile Island accident this spring, during attempt to stop construction at Sea­ go figure out what people were laughing a period ofunprec~dented unity among brook, the occupation created a high is at. "Ip-group" art seldom transcends its anti-nuclear activists. Participants in level of excitement around town, es­ own natural audience, and "Storefront" two Clamshell Alliance conferences pecially among those older townspeople did not. -ELINOR NAUEN : demonstrated an unusually high level of who literally have no place else to go New York, N.Y. agreement on both the nature and should a Three Mile Island-type accident Hurray for Daniel Berrigan's letter necessity of an occupation attempt, occur in Seabrook. Many of them had (WIN .11 / 8/79) opposing your insulting although many believed that such an come to despair that Clamshell was cartoon about the Pope's anti-abortion occupation would take as much as a year dying, or was no longer really committed mass. Although I am not a Catholic. I. to organize. to stopping the' nuke in their backyard. too. find such bigotry irresponsible and There were many times the number of For them, the occupation was a new sign totally out of place in a so-called pro- active organizers for October 6 than for of hope, and an event which spurred into gressive publication. , any previous Clam action. and over 100 various degrees of activism many people Like Berrigan, I find abortion a' 'right''' potential affinity group preparers at­ who had n·ever before eyen expressed which is not appropriate to our set of tended Coalition training workshops anti-nuclear sentiments to their neigh­ values. Even if the fetus is not consi­ early in September. Several other·factors bors. dered a • 'person'' in the same sense as also contributed to the belief that we For many of us, the experience of an adult woman, for example, it is still a would be able to gain access to key working with the mem1:5ers ofthe Local life. True nonviolent ideology demands construction areas and maintain a pre­ Alliance and the Newburyport Clam respect even for prenatal life. sence there for a significant duration. shattered once and for all the myth of Abortion does not "solve" the social The major factor that prevented us Seacoast people's passivity that was and economic problems which face from realizing this goal, in my opinion, used to justify the transformation of the women of our generation. At best, it only was the existence of active. organized planned June 1978 action into a legal serves to accomodate these injustices­ opposition to the occupation effort from rally. The Newburyport group. most of thus making meaningful reform, in the within the anti-nuclear movement. whose activists live within five miles of long run, so much harder to achieve. While many groups came to Coalition the Seabrook nuke site, consistently Isn't it time you presented an article meetings through July and August to sided with the more "militant" forces on abortion from, say, a feminist-pacifist express concerns about our approach to within the Coalition in strategic and tac­ , had their concerns met and tical discussions. And Seabrook position (or at least a fair, two-sided ha dialogue)? How about it? decided to continue working with us. residents revealed to us that their with­ other individuals, carrying little or no drawal from the 1978 action had less to a~ -ELIZABETH MOORE w Palmer Park, Md. firsthand information about our prac­ do with fears of violence than with their tices, undertook a concerted campaign to unwillingness to face high level State ca ye Thank you very much for Murray Rosen­ publicly discredit the Coalition for Direct repression to support an action that had blith' s article on the October 6 occupa­ Action at Seabrook. The result ofthis been designed to provoke mass arrests tion attempt at the Seabrook nuclear was that most of our organizers around without seriously attempting to stop power plant site (WIN, 10 / 23179). It is the country were compelled to spend construction. Our experiences in one of the only pieces to have appeared most of their time answering rumors and Seabrook over the past year suggest that anywhere tfiat accurately describes the defending themselves from the most anti-nuclear activists serious about in­ action's nonviolent nature. Despite a vicious of slanders, rather than helping volving older. more working-class degree of police repression not exper­ more people to prepare for the people in our efforts need to seriously ienced by any predominantly white occupation. Few experienced activists · consider raising. not lowering. the level movement in this country in many years, were frightened off by accusations of ir­ of militancy of their actions. Ritualized and despite (or possibly because of) the responsibility and "violent" intentions, displays of civil disobedience have no lack of guidelines ofbehavior, specially­ but many declined to participate in historical precedent in mainstream designated peacekeepers or a central­ organizing for October 6 for fear that culture, whereas direct actions to take ized Training Committee to oversee the they would thus be choosing sides in a control over the decisions that affect our process of preparing occupiers in great war between anti-nuclear' 'fac­ lives can inspire and involve people of all nonviolent responses, a high level of tions." ages and personal backgrounds. nonviolent solidarity was maintained As October 6 neared, the media, both -BRIAN TOKAR throughout the four days ofthe action. mainstream and "alternative," quickly Cambridge, Mass.

2WIN November29, 1979 NOTES FROM THE COLLECI'IVE: A Small Anniversary

We were sitting around here finishing this week's WIN when I commented that this issue, number M~U 'story. and nti-nuclear 40. was the first WIN I worked on November 29, 1979/Vol. XV, No. 40 newspa­ when I joined the staff in 197 4, five Workshop In Nonviolence Francisco. years ago. :ting almost "Your fifth anniversary l Great!" lining a someone said, ''You should be able to Looking Back on 11 solidarity make a fund appeal out ofthatl" uction for Well, I believe I can. Kathryn Partridge and Jay J urie recount the assessments of some :fallacy of The first thing you might expect me of the organizers of the 1964 civil rights struggle in Mississippi. heCoali­ to say is that a lot has changed at WIN Page4 !siliency of in the last five years. The truth is that movement. everything at WIN has changed. symbolic Many fine folks have come and No Welcome for Nuclear Garbage 1! Sea­ gone so that the entire staff, save me, lahigh is different. When I first came to WIN Steve Hoffius reports on the closing of nuclear waste storage wn , es­ our surroundings were the bucolic facilities and proposals to make every state responsible for wnspeople farm in Rifton, NY. Atlantic Avenue disposal of its radioactive garbage. Page 6 ;etogo is not exactly bucolic. In fact, I think peaccident there were more trees in our old yard \ 1emhad than there are on the entire length of Review :II was Atlantic.) But it is a bustling commer­ cial street, and a major subway stop Denise Levertov's latest collection of poetry, Life In the Forest, is committed reviewed by John Cort. Page 8. 1ackyard . brings visitors from literally all over anew sign the world to our office. · purred into Nothing stands still; and certainly 1anypeople not at WIN. I'm sure the next five Sittin' In :pressed years will see all sorts of changes. ~ir neigh- Maybe I'll be gone and one ofthe An evaluation of the relationship between means and ends in civil other folks here now will be writing to disobedience actions by Shel Horowitz. Page 10. :nee of you as the "grizzled old veteran," or the Local maybe I'll be writing about all the tClam changes ofthe past ten years! Changes myth of But no matter how things change, I 1atwas trust there are two things about WIN News Shorts & Events. Page 11. lion oft he that will carry on. One is our service 1alegal to the movement for nonviolent social ~ -most of change. Those of us on staff are dedi­ f milesof cated to continuing WIN's tradition Cover: Photo by Wide World tently as the major voice for the movement "forces that seeks to bring the world a future ic and tac­ without war and human exploitation. k The other is your support. If you eirwith­ haven't responded to our recent fund STAFF: Susan Beadle*, Connie Blitt, 1auri Lowell*, Elinor Nauen, d less to appeal, please do so now. Think of Murray Rosenblith*, Mary Jane Sullivan*, Dan Zedek*, Mark ith their what a loss it would be if someone Zuss* *Member of Editorial Collective I State can't sit down and reflect on WIN five that had years from now. s arrests ostop WIN Mapzifte/503 Atlantic Avenue/Brooklya, in New York 11217. Telephone: (212)624-8337 ggestthat tiJ.:::zj,h bout in ­ lass UN INDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS •riously WIN Milgazine (I)SN 0512-5375) os pubiished every , the level Thursday except for the first two weeks in January, the first week in April, the first week in June, the last Sllndril Adickes • J 11n Barry • Lance Belville • Karl Bissinger • Maris Cakars • Susiln Cakllrs • Sybil 'tualized two weeks in August, and the first two weeks in Sep­ Claiborne • jerry Coffin • Lynne Shatzkin Coffin • Clay Colt • Ann Morrissett Davidon • Ruth Dnr • tember by W .I.N . Magazine, Inc., with the support Ralph DiGia • • K11te Donnelly • William Douthard • W. 0. Ehrhart •Robert Ellsberg • • Dwight of the War Resisters League. Subscriptions are S15 Ernest • Ruthann Evanoff • Chuck Fager • Jim Forest • Larry Gara • Steve Gulick • Ed Hedemilnn • per year. Second class postage paid at New York, NY · Grace hedemann • Marty jezer • Lynn johnson • Paul johnson • john Kyper • Linnea Capps 10001 and additional mailing offices. Postmasten Lacefield* • Patrick Lacefield* • Michael Lardner • Elliot Linzer* • jackson MacLow • David send form 3579 or other ·address changes to WIN, McReynolds* • Mary Mayo • David Morris • Mark Morris • Jim Peck • Spsan Pines* • Igal 503 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217. Roodenko• • Vicki Rovere• • Charlie Scheiner• • Wendy Schwartz* • Lynne Shivers • Craig Individual writers are responsible for opinions ex­ Simpson • Martha Thomases • Bart Victor* • Art Waskow • Susan Wilkins • Van Zwisohn* s. pressed and accuracy of facts given . Sorry-mllnll· TOKAR scripts c11nnot be returned unless llCComl)llnied by ll • Member of WIN Editorial Board ae,Matss. self-llddressed, st11mped envelope. Printed in USA

November29,1979WIN3 Ithough the Freedom Summer is past, the Freedom Fall is upon us," Georgia State Sena­ A tor told black and white college stu­ - dents, veteran-civil right,s activists, and others partici­ pating in the "Mississippi Freedom Summer Re­ viewed" symposium at Jackson, Mississippi, October 30to November 2. Fifteen years after the summer of Looking 1964, the theme of the symposium was to assess the events of that summer, when indigenous civil rights groups decided to bring a massive influx of predomi­ nantly white, northern college students to assist in the and the voter registration of black Back Mississippians. Then as now, the decision to import white outsiders stirred debate as to whether the publicity and protec­ on. tion afforded by the outsiders' presence outweighed the loss of control by local people. Willie Peacock, a former Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) activist, reported he opposed the decision Freedom then, and still does today. Paul Cowan of The Village Voice, who came to Mississippi as one of the imported white students, said whites did indeed disregard local conditions and denigrate local leaders. SNCC had originally voted against bringing in the Summer white students, claimed , former chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) . , SNCC coordinator at that time, by Kathryn Partridge and Jay Jurie objected to the decision, which had been made in his absence. The decision was reversed by the SNCC the nonviolent as the MFDPers membership on the basis of their tremendous respect saw the system was not responding to their call for for Moses, and "Freedom Summer" was underway. moral justice." Joseph Rauh, of Americans for Demo- (Moses had been invited to speak at the symposium cratic Action and legal counsel to the MFDP dis­ but was unable to attend.) agreed, saying the MFDP ''remade the Democratic All symposium panelists agreed, however, that the Party," and "the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is an out­ murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, growth of the MFOP challenge.'' The discussion was , and J am~s Chaney by the Ku summed up by Hazel Palmer, a grassroots black dele­ Klux Klan at Philadelphia, MS, in June 1964 irrevo­ gate to the 1964 convention: ''We tried every way we cably changed the course of events for the movement. could to get black people identified in this state. We The resistance of hard-core se~regationalists began are still on that today.'' . to crumble as national attention and pressure were brought to bear. The" great message" of the Freedom Summer movement, according to Jackson civil rights activist The groundwork was laid for the fall1964 challenge and symposium convenor Ed King, is "change is pos­ of the all-white Mississippi delegation to the national sible." Activist lawyer Arthur Kinoy expressed the Democratic Party convention. MFDP activists, in­ belief that this change was brought about by "the di­ cluding the late , had proven the rect intervention of the militant action of the people." disenfranchisement of blacks and the illegality of the Anne Braden of the Southern Organizing Commit­ white delegation by unsuccessfully trying to attend tee emphasized that every gain made by black people Democratic precinct meetings that summer in · has opened up more opportunity for all people, partic­ Mississippi. ularly the white working-class. "The challenge of The racially integrated MFDP delegation was poli­ the 80s is to stretch the society until there's room for tically outmaneuvered by Lyndon Johnson forces, blacks. Whites must participate because each gain who apparently feared MFDP recognition would serves them too." "cost Johnson the South" and perhaps the presiden­ tial election. The effort of the alternative delegation to The red-baiting initiated by the government Coun­ be seated was ultimately defeated. terintelligence Program (Cointelpro) combined with Southern activist Anne Romaine argued that, ''The the sell-out by liberal funding sources and moderate failure ofthe MFDP challenge marks the demise of . civil rights groups ''broke the civil rights move­ ment," stated Ed King . 1ay 1urie and Kathryn Partridge are activists ih Prairie Point, Mississippi. John O'Neal ofthe Free Southern Theatre agreed:

4 WIN November 29, 1979 Black nationalist students from Tougaloo College confronted symposium panelist Allard Lowenstein with allegations of red-baiting and CIA connections during the 1964 period. White students from Metho­ dist Millsaps College defended Lowenstein, setting up a separate meeting with him to discuss support for the Teddv Kennedy campaign . g , the first black to attend the Uni­ versity of Mississippi, was not invited to speak at the symposium, which provoked some degree of contro­ versy. In an interview with a major jackson news­ k paper, Meredith said he felt slighted. Symposium or­ ganizers claimed he was not asked because he was in- · volved in an earlier period than the symposium covered. · (} . The symposium concluded in the spirit of unity as seasoned activists and students alike clapped and sang along to the movement music of , Guy and Candy Carawan, Barbara Dane, Mary Travers, and Pete Seeger. Pete told the audi­ ence he hoped they'd be there in another 15 years ''to welcome the freedom singers from southern Africa.'' Comedian also performed. Country singer Anne Romaine brought the Southern Grass­ r roots Music Tour, which she organized during the Civil Rights era to bring traditional Southern music back to the community. The performances ranged 1rie from blues singer James Son Thomas to bluegrass; from Cajun accord ian to African-rooted fife-and­ ''The critical flaw of the movement was the belief that drums. 'ers the US could purge racism through reform. But the roots of oppression can't be ignored.'' Fannie Lou Hamer's impasssioned statement, "I mo- Other panelists took the view that though there is question America!" which expressed the grassroots still a long way to go, the basic goals of the Civil despair of the MFDP delegation when they were not ic Rights movement were won. This difference between seated at the '64convention, was inspiration to the ut- the radical and liberal elementsoftheCivil Rights symposium. Ms. Hamer's courageous spirit made her movement was apparent throughout the symposium. the" soul of the movement."

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d: • November29,1979WIN5 No Welcome for Nuclear Garbage

by Steve Hoffius

the first of October, the United States had three restricted. "This phase-dow!"}," said the_governo~, commercial facilities storing low-level nuclear "will begin immediately and continue for approxi­ waste materials. By the end of the month, only mately two years, at which time we wi II receive about aone remained open . And that one had had its limit of 1h of the amount currently being buried there." In­ materials cut in half. It almost sounded.like a blow to stead of the previous limit of 200,000 cubic feet of the nuclear industry. waste each month, the amendment reduces the No­ Spokespeople for the nuclear medicine and nuclear vember 19791imitto 189,000 cubicfeet. In 26 months, power industries did, in fact, maintain that these de­ the facility's monthly limit will be cut to 100,000cubic velopments could cripple their activities. But instead feet of waste. The annual limit of 2.4 million cubicfeet of limiting the industries, a proposal has been pre­ will drop to 1.2 million cubicfeet by October 1, 1981. sented, with much support, that could provide them a Along with his announcement of the amendment, great boost. It would place at least a dozen waste stor­ Governor Riley expressed his support ''for a national age sites around the country. This move would make policy which puts the responsibility for low-level the industries involved less vulnerable to cutoffs at waste management on each state." He repeated this one or two sites, and would cut the costs of shipping position the next week in a meeting with NRC chair plan their wastes. Joseph Hen"drie, and before the House Committee on will. In addition,-Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Science and Technology. He gained Hendrie's sup­ Thei officials pledged in November to cut through existing port, and the interest of Committee chair Mike Mc­ arpo time restrictions in order to speed up licensing of new Cormack(D-WA), who said the proposal had merit. wast sites. These regional locations would present massive Riley rejected a bill introduced by McCormack that AI> new health dangers to tremendous numbers of peo­ would establish a numberoffederally-owned waste prob ple, and force the anti-nuclear movement to redirect sites. Instead, he said he wanted to see legislation re­ ties: much of its efforts. quiring each state to accept responsi bi I ity for the inga The first part of this scenario was triggered by Dixie waste generated within its own borders. Upon their dang Lee Ray, the former head of the Atomic Energy Com­ acceptance of this responsibility, Riley said he would AI mission and now governor of Washington . On Octo­ expect the states ''to get into compacts within states ofth1 ber4, Ray closed the Hanford, Washington, storage so we can have regional sites .... I think you'll end up ance facility, which had held ten percent of the nation's with 12 to 14 sites." thee commercial low-level wastes, because the site had re­ Such a move would radically transform the nuclear buriil ceived a ldrge number of poorly packaged and poorly picture in this country. Nearly all of the commercial from shipped containers. Within three weeks, Governor waste for the Northeast, for instance, is now shipped an Nl Robert List of Nevada shut down the Beatty, Nevada, or trucked down to Barnwell. This would no longer be "34n site, home of five percentofthewastes, when he dis­ allowed. an an covered that waste containers had been buried out­ Determining the sitesofthesewastefacilities will wall' side of the facility's walls. The only site still operating inevitably become a hot political issue. As Riley ad­ obtai was in Barnwell, South Carolina, where the remain­ mitted; "No state is going to develop a site unless it is shift ing 85% of the commercial low-level waste has been required to do so." But if Riley's proposal would lead thesl stored. to 12-14 facilities, then more than 35 states would still evaiL On October 31, Governor Richard W . Riley moved have the chance to dumptheirwasteson an unlucky Th against the Barnwell site. Unlike the other governors, neighbor, as they have dumped them on South Caro­ thed he did not close the plant, but announced that through lina in the past. And within those losing states, county thes' an amendment to the I icense between the state and officials can be expected to fight over which locality pres~ the operator of the plant, Chem-Nuclear Systems, mustwelcomethefacilities. , t es Inc., the amount of wastes allowed would be severely The battle will be com pi icated by the presence of vey . wastes from nuclear medicine and, to a smaller ex­ ber, 1 Steve Hoffius is a freelance writer in Charleston, tent, from the fields of industrial radiography. These exist South Carolina. industries produce a fraction of the wastes of power eart~

6WINNovember29, 1979 • 0~, xi­ bout ln- f No­ nths, cubic icfeet 981 . ent, ional I NUCLEAR WASTESf WE BURY OURS UNDER PLAYGROUNDS. Ross Beecher/WIN this plants, but they have few on-site storage areas and Despite developments such as this, Riley-with the wi II suffer soon ifthey have no storage possi bi Iities. supportofthe NRC chief-seeks to establish sites Their popular support-far greater than that of nucle­ around th~ country like the one at Barnwell. ar power'plants-willlikely be used to establish other c­ Still, Riley's proposal does not provide only bad erit. waste facilities. news for other states. The proposed move to regional Along with the sites, of course, wi II come the many 1k that dumps would certainly threaten a great many people laste problems that have been found at the existing facili­ and communities, however it would also provide an ties: increased nuclear transportation and the result­ ionre­ opportunity to organize against the nuclear fuel cycle. ing accidents, faulty packaging, accidental leaks, le The costs of waste disposal have for some time been their dangerous exposure of workers. described as among the "hidden costs" of nuclear would A recent incident in Sout~ Carolina suggests some power. Should the various states have to shoulder the ;tates of the problems. In late October, the Palmetto Alli­ responsibility oftheir commitments to nukes those ance, a South Carolina anti-nuclear group, revealed 11 1dup costs would no longer be I 'hidden . Nuclear rmwer' s the existence of a possible fault in a Chem-Nuclear true costs, as well as its dangers, would be more uclear burial trench. The group released a copy of a letter apparent. from NRC official Richard E. Cunningham which said rcial In addition, the move to regional sites will make the an NRC geologist earlier this year had studied ipped issue of nuclear safety, especially waste manage­ ''34mm slides taken about two years earlier showing gerbe ment, of more widespread grassroots concern. Com­ an anomaly that appeared to be a fault in a trench munities around the country regularly refuse to allow swill wall '' at the waste site. ''Duplicates of the slides were obtained and show that a fault with about a one-foot garbage dumps to be located nearby. Will they be rad­ more willing to welcome nuclear garbage? !SS itis shift may be present but the quality of resolution in dlead the slides precluded final determination and In September, the issue of low-level commercial rid still eva Iuation .'' waste disposal was of primary concern to residents of ucky The Alliance called upon Governor Riley to close the three states with waste sites. The events of Octo­ Caro­ the dump until tests could be conducted to determine ber have pushed the issue onto others I especially county the seriousness of the possible fault . The NRC ex­ Congress as well as local and state officials around the country. If they are unabfeto come up with a solu­ ality pressed I ittle concern, but officials eventually visited the site with representatives of the US Geological Sur­ tion-Riley's or any other-or if they refuse to accept the responsibilities becauseo(the dangers, the pres­ :eof vey. They looked around, says an Alliance staff mem­ ex­ ber, performed no tests, and ruled the problem non­ sure will be on the industries. f hese existent. The site lies near the largest East Coast The nuclear industry is dependent on someone ac­ lwer earthquake fault. cepting its wastes. Without that, they are finished. ·. • November29, 1979WIN7 R E v life in ta LIFE IN THE FOREST by Denise Levertov New York: New Directions/1978/135 pp./$3. 95.

The collected works of Denise Levertov will provide a future historian with a graph of American social his­ tory of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. From her early books and their primary concern with poetic form, such as the William Carlos Williams-influenced Here and Now (1957), to the beginnings of the expession of social awareness in the Eichmann poems in The jacob's Ladder (1961), to the searing political statement of life in America in To Stay Alive (1971), to the crushing poems of a marriage fallen apart in The Freeing of the Oust(1975), Denise Levertovhasexemplified in her life, and therefore in her poetry, the social growth, crises, and catastrophes of the past two decades. Her new book, Life in the Forest, continues to mirror the life of the society about her-a refocusing on the in­ ternal world and the interfacing planes of the poet and the world, while still retaining the sensitivity to and awareness of social injustice. She sees America less through the· eyes of a collective mass movement and more through the eyes of an individual seeking truth in a world of contradictions. Life in the Forest contains a number of the acutely political poems Levertov is known for-''On the 32nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Naga­ ,saki, " "For Chile, 1977," "GreetingstotheViet­ namese Delegates to the UN"-but to me the most powerful and moving poems are in the sequence of eight on the death of her mother at age 90. The poems evocatively cover the period from impending death through the death itself to the coming to terms with and acceptance of it. She speaks of the difficulty of finding a common ground with her mother, who in her last years had little relationship left with the world: I've taken the butter and milkjug back to the fridge next door-but it's not my place, visiting here, to usurp the tasks that weav~ the day's pattern. "The 90th Year" The image of her mother's garden stretches through se'lleral poems in the sequence: She tended the green garden she had made, she fought off the destroying ants, she watered the plants daily and took note of their blossoming. She gave sustenance to the needy. "Death Psalm: 0 Lord of Mysteries"

john Cort is a peace acti>;~ist who has gone to live in India . He frequently writes for WIN. Photos by Duane Michaels, from his book Sequences.

8 WIN November 29, 1979

--· ------~~~--~~------~~~- poem in Levertov' s sequence encapsulates these­ v [ E w S· quence succinctly: I thought I had found a swan but it was a migrating snow-goose. · • I thought I was linked invisibly to another's life but I found myself more alone with him than without 1n Forest him. · Twenty years in the making­ I thought I had found a fire less than a month to undo itself; but it was the play of light on bright stones. :.95. and those who had seen it grow, I thought I was wounded to the core living around it those decades, but I was only bruised. 1rovide a did nothing to.hold it. "Epilogue" :ial his­ >ooks and When they carried her past The title sequence of the book, "Life in the For­ as the on a stretcher, est," is the most reflective. It betokens a time of cen­ 1dNow on her way to the sanatoria, failing sight tering, of withdrawal-in mind if not in body-from social transformed itself into a mercy: certainly the frantic existence of the city: :ob's she could have seen no more than a greenish blur. "Death in Mexico" I too today, entof life the wind and the rain transforming shing I found the single most striking poem to be the long my house to an island, a bare rock in the sea, ingofthe ' 'Chekhovon the West Heath,'' written instead of a am alone din her prose presentation for a Chekhov Festival at Cornell and know I'm alone, owth, University in 1977. This poem tells of the poet and a silent within the gusting weather. des. Her friend (sister?) during the Second World War, read­ ''Letter'' ·rorthe ing the short stories of Chekhov while living in the the in- English countryside, away from the bombing of the "Life in the Forest" could almost be a translation of the Sanskrit term ''vanaprasthasrama, '' the third ! poet and cities: stage in a person's life when, after the sociallifeof a to and we were open to life and hope: it was that he . ica less householder, s/he leaves civilization for'' A house/of gave us, fallen leaves/among exposed tree-roots" ("Slow­ entand generous, precise, lifting us ly"). The sequence speaks of the need to find inner 1g truth into the veins of a green leaf, translucent, setting our heart's tinder alight, strength, the need to not be ''anyone else's center/of acutely sun striking on glass to release gravity," and to find "within one/a flexible steel up­ the32nd the latent flames. right" which is "theoutflying spirit's/vertical tram­ 1d Naga­ "Chekhovon the West Heath" poline" ("Movement"), giving one the freedom and Viet­ courage to truly communicate and touch and love . The emost The first five of tne poems about her mother, as well final poem," Magic," sums up the underlying mean­ as ''Chekhov on the West Heath,'' are all part of an ing of the perceptive searching that vitalizes all her ec~~:ms experimental sequence entitled "Homage to poetry, social and personal: death Pavese," in which Levertov intentionally tries, in her [: . own words, ''to avoid overuse of the autobiographi­ the clang of the be}/ of the swith deep world, unshaken, sounding ltyof cal, the dominant first-person singular of so much of the American poetry-good and bad - .of recent crescendo out of its wide mouth ho in her one note, orld: years ." The experiment is, in my opinion, an over­ whelming success. Ofcoursecompletelyob- continuous, ilkjug jective or objectivist poetry is impossible-the Hei­ gong yplace, senberg Principle operates as surely in poetry as any­ of the universe, neither beginning nor ending, where else. But the change of focus from the interior but heard (and in many poets boring) world of the poet to the in­ only those times we take ear" terrelation between the inner and the outer worlds, the cup a tid stroke the rim, rough subjective and objective, heightens the emotional impact of the poems by placing the emotions andre­ diminuendo, actions in a context the reader can grasp. only seeming The most obviously coherent of the four sequences to cease when we cease in life in the Forest is the sequence "Modulations for to listen ... Solo Voice," published previously in a limited edi­ "Magic" tion, which Levertov calls an "Historia de un amor." life in the Forest is a marvelous, meaningful col­ The sequence bears striking resemblances to these­ lection .. It is well worth the three-year wait since her es" quence" A Month in Summer" in Carolyn Kizer's previous book, and deserves any and all of the large Knock upon Silence-both deal with love, painful number of major I iterary awards critics over the years vein separation and the eventual realization that the sepa­ have consistently avoided giving Denise Levertov. ration was better than a continuation. The final brief · - johnCort

November29, 1979WIN9 S I T T I N ' I N' Arrest: Means or End? he anti-nuclear movement must take a hard look The emphasis on arrest may also alienate working at its use of arrest. Suddenly, in the aftermath of class supporters who would participate in direct ac­ T Three Mile Island, a trend that was beginning to tion, but for the fear of getting busted. show itself in 1977 has become thebe-all and end-all These observations were catalyzed by the recent of anti-nuclear activism: getting busted. blockade at Wall Street-one ofthe most powerful po­ Arrests can serve some very real purposes. In the litical actions I have seen, incidentally. Although all Indian struggle for independence from the British, pub Iicity sent out by the organizers stressed that this and in the Civil Rights campaign in the American was to be a real attempt to shut down the Exchange, South, protesters frequently found themselves and not purely a symbolic action, the same thing was behind bars. T,his was in a very different context, evident: arrest for its own sake, without any purpose. however. Demonstrators were often carted away just I arrived at the corner of Wall and Broad shortly af­ for the act of handing out a leaflet or exercising their ter 7 am and took a position in the human barricade at right to assemble. In the South especially, local offi­ that corner. All of us there were committing civil dis­ cials attempted time after time to prevent any pro­ obedience. We were also very effective, and by about tests at all through arrest. 8:30 the cops had essentially conceded that corner. Furthermore, these actions were used to show that We held that corner until people stopped trying to the system came down hard, not just on criminals, but get through-about 2 that afternoon . At that point, I on ordinary people who wanted a better society. It went around to Broadway, where I had heard the showed many middle class whites some major flaws iri blockade needed reinforcements. I saw the sidewalks the'' American Dream.'' left wide open, and about a hundred people sitting in The 1977 mass occupation at Seabrook-which cul­ the middle of Wall Street. They were not blocking minated in 1414 arrests and gave rise to the current anything; the cops had closed the street to vehicular rash of civil disobedience actions-accomplished traffic long before the demonstration began. The pro­ quite a bit. Firstly, arrest was seen not as a tactic, but testers were, however, being carried off one by one to as a possibility; occupiers were prepared to stay on waiting police buses. Had they tried the kind of uni­ the sit-e for a couple of weeks in an attempt to halt con­ fied barricade that we had created a block away, they struction ' Secondly I the " bail solidarity" of arrested too might have " taken" the corner, Even if they were occupiers-refusing to leave until everyone was let still arrested, they would have been busted for a con­ go-calledthe State's bluff, and came with in inches crete action . of bankrupting the New Hampshire treasury. That night, the newscasts focused entirely on the Most importantly, the Seabrook arrests were wide­ arrests-and the fact that the Stock Exchange opened ly pub Iicized all arourid the country, and forced the is­ on time. Only one network(NBC) even mentioned sueof nuclear power-atthattimeopposed only by a that anti-nukers were there to make stockbrokers take small band of scientists and intervenors- into the responsibility for the human consequences of their in­ foreground of public awareness. vestments. And only the New York Times even men­ In fact, the very success of the Seabrook occupation tioned the several hun'dred who didn't get arrested, seems to have locked the movement into one tactic, but blocked the streets, talking to all who tried to get without examining its specific context. through their barricades. · Time after time, anti-nukers arrive at a power plant The Iifeblood of the movement has been its or other target, climb fences and jump into the arms of creativity and flexibility , We have always been able to waiting state troopers. This action makes no state­ respond to situations quickly and innovatively; we ment. The chance to put forth a powerful political lose this if , like the utilities who have so heavily in­ message-through gueri II a theater, for example-is vested in nuclear plants, we put all our eggs in one lost. basket,·and a basket with very wide spaces between When, after such arrests, protesters then refuse to the straws, at that. cooperate with the legal system, some media convey a We must not be wedded to a tactic just because it very negative image to the pub Iic . Some folks per­ once worked, but must use those methods most ap­ ceive no-nukers as a bunch of silly, selfish kids with propriate to a given situation. Getting arrested -or nothing better to do than tie up the courts. Like arrest, any other tactic-should not be seen as an end in it­ non-cooperation must be used in a specific context, self. If, at a given moment, the best way to further so­ and loses its legitimacy when used indiscriminately. cial change is through arrests, so be it . But this is not an all -purpose tactic that can be used indiscriminate­ She/ Horowitz is an organizer for the Gray Panthers in ly; a case could be made that arrest for its own sake Brooklyn, New York and works with the Brooklyn An- can even do the movement more harm than good. , ti-Nuc/ear Croup (BANG). -She I Horowitz

10WIN November 29, 1979 ' N ? • c ing !C- SHUT DOWN MARION PRISON Audrey Aronson Myers of the were ki lied . Seventeen of the pri­ National Committee to Support the soners have been charged with lt The largest prisoner rights march Marion Brothers (NCSMP) attack­ murder and face the death penalty ilpo­ in recent Midwest history was held ed US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Di­ if convicted. The other 14 are all in Chicago, November4. Three to rector Norman Carlson for "imple­ charged with lesserfelonies. The his four hundred black, white and La­ menting genocidal policies in con­ rebellion resulted from over­ :e, tino demonstrators from all over trol units like Marion's." "He crowded conditions at the prison. vas the Midwest grabbed the attention calls it 'retribution and incapacita­ Trial dates haven' t been set. lse. of Saturday shoppers in the down­ tion' in his introduction to the 1978 For more information, contact: at­ town loop area. Federal Prison manual," said November 3rd Coalition, c/o eat The march started at the Everett Myers. ''And that: s exactly what NCSMB, 4556A Oakland, St. lis­ Dirksen Federal Building, the site the BOP is doing at Marion-inca­ Louis, M063110; (314)533-2234. out of the soon-to-be argued appeal of pacitating people and bringing . -NCSMB a major lawsuit against the long­ harsh retribution on them." She to term control unitattheMarion, Il­ urged the crowd to join the Nation­ .,I linois Federal Prison. As the crowd al committee in Washington, DC, gathered, attorney Michael "Next sprfng, when we're going to tlks Deutsch, a lawyer representing take our protest right to the do9r­ in prisoners at both the Pontiac and step of the Bureau of Prisons." Marion prisons, told them, . Other speakers at the rally in­ "We're here today to tell the Illi­ 1r cluded-former Marion Brqther nois state government that we're lrD­ Shahd Faris, Khalid London and going to fight them every step of ~to Mrs. Harvey of the Pontiacfami­ 1- way to stop them from execut­ lies and friends group, and Anne ey ing 17 Pontiac prisoners and giving Braden of the National Alliance ~re life sentences to 14 others-and Against Racist and Political Re­ n- we want the federal government to pression. Braden called for black­ know that we want the notorious white unity in the prisoner rights Marion control unit shut down movement. "Without inter-racial 1ed now." unity, we cannot succeed," she The march culminated in a rally said. Singing was provided by at DePaul University Law School . Iowa political singer Geoffrey Mor­ The first speaker, attorney gan, who sang a number of anti­ Chokwe Lumumba, told the crowd prison songs. of 400 that "It's the state of IIIi­ nois, not the Pontiac Brothers, who The Marion Federal Prison are to blame for the deaths of the replaced Alcatraz as the maximum­ three guards during the rebellion security prison in the US . The to there in 1978! The state over­ long-term control unit, an indefi­ crowded that prison and let the nite solitary confinement unit, is Marchers gather to support Marion and Pontiac conditions deteriorate to such a the Bureau of Prisons' special lock­ Brothers. Photo by Abbe Sudvarg/WIN. level that the inmates had no up unit for activist prisoners in all choice but to rebel . Put the state on federal and many state prisons. DEMAND JUSTICE trial and Jet the Pontiac Brothers Federal Court-rulings have said go free!" Lumumba went on to torture methods have been used in On Tuesday, November 27, Jean urge the crowd to demand that the unit and that it has been used Fabre will go before the Military Governor James Thompson and "to silence prison critics ... reli­ Tribunal in Paris. Fabre, General state law enforcement officials gious leaders ... economic and Secretary for the Partito Radicale, drop the indictments because of philosophical dissidents." in Rome and elected member of '~the tainted testimony against the The 31 Pontiac Brothers have the War Resisters International, brothers." He said the testimony been indicted on felony charges was arrested at Orly Airport, Octo­ against the 31 prisoners had been . stemming from the July, 1978, in­ ber 18, for resisting military obtained by means of bribes and mate rebel Iion at the Pontiac, IL service. coercion . State Prison, in_which three guards His arrest, for all those who un-

November29, 1979WIN 11 • derstand and share his commit­ proval of SALT II contingent upon ment to pacifism, anti-militarism a military budget increase of $7 WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS and nonviolence, should be the billion . beginning of a great national and S·109 requires immediate An important preliminary decision international battle for justice and induction of young people, while has been made by the Oregon to create basic conditions leading other conscription-related bills re­ State Office of the Bureau of Land to recognition of the right to total quire only registration . Although Management (BLM). It has pro­ resistance for any person against the latter sounds less ominous, it is posed eleven Wilderness Study military service. The Support a natural first step in conscrip- Areas (WSA) for southeastern Committee asks sympathizers to tion process. Some of the propo­ Oregon . The areas total 347 ,000 intervene in whatever way is sals include women, and most mili­ acres including parts of the Pueblo suitable and demand the release of tary and government leaders agree and Trout Creek Mountains, the Jean Fabre, who is in prison on that women will have to register Alvord Desert and H awks Valley. account of his personal gesture for and be drafted whether or not the The BLM announcement begins unilateral disarmament. ERA is ratified. HR4040 waives the a 90-day public review period dur­ November 12 has been recom­ Privacy Act to allow the Selective ing which citizen comments will be mended for a day of special pro­ Service to register people through considered before a final decision. test outside (or inside) the French school records, social security on which areas receive WSA status Embassies around the world. numbers and drivers' licenses. is made. Congresspeople who think it The decision-making is part of He can be reached directly at the politically unwise to support are­ an accelerated wilderness inven­ following address: Prevenue Jean turn to conscription are looking to tory which began dur ing the sum­ Phillipe FABRE, No. M689-140, natior\al service as an expedient al­ mer. An accelerated wilderness in­ Maison de Fresnes, Avenue de Ia ternative. Several variations on ventory is a planning process Division Leclerc, 94260 FRESNE, this idea have been put forward, which arrives at decisions sooner F ranee. Letters of protest and among them HR3603 and HR2206. than the normal planning process. support can be sent to President du Sponsored by Rep. Paul The BLM initiated accelerated Tribunal Permanent des Forces McCloskey (D-CA), HR2206, the wilderness inventories on 1.2 mil­ Armees, 20, Rue de Reuilly, 75012 National Youth Service Bill, gives lion acres of public lands, mostly Paris . young people a choice between south of Burns, Oregon. Thus, in -Newsdesk military and civilian service. Pro­ addition to recommending 347,000 ponents see national service as one acres for WSA status, the pro- . solution to youth unemployment, posed decision recommends that THE DRAFT IN DISGUISE while opponents reject it as a way 860,000 acres be eliminated from of slipping the draft in through the further consideration as wilder­ The US Selective Service System back door. Under current ness . · has been in "deep standby" for proposals, everyone who The BLM will eventually recom­ quite some time, but politicians val unteered for civi I ian service mend a status for each WSA to the . have introduced several bills in could be pulled into military duty Interior Secretary, who wi II re­ Congress to reactivate it. Senator in the event of war. It is also doubt­ commend to the President, who Sam Nunn (GA) is a leading voice ful that young people would ob­ wi II recommend to the US Con­ on the Senate Armed Services tain much meaningful vocational gress, which will legislate final de­ Committee for a stronger military training in a monolithic one-year cisions. and a return to conscription. He program. has gone so far as to make his ap- -Illinois Women's Agenda -The Desert Sage Illustration by Hans·Georg Rauch, from his book Battle Lines.

12 WIN November 29, 1979 YAREAS WHAT REAllY HAPPENED TO shopping services to help keep the veterans of possible changes in 1ary decision ROSIE THE RIVETER women on the job. their wives because they had )regon Sherna Gluck, coordinator of the worked for so long, and ads at the ~ au of Land A major Southern California study Oral Resources Center at Califor­ end of the war which promoted the t has pro­ researching women who worked ni~ State University at Long desirability of women moving to !SS Study during World War II in heavy Beach, reportsthatthe Women's suburbia and becoming part of the eastern industry reveals that at least half of Bureau of the Department of Labor consumer economy. 11347,000 these women had already been in interviewed 13,000women in the A 1945 article in This Week said, fthe Pueblo the labor force, usually at lower war production areas and found ''If we are to have an adequate tains, the paying jobs; that most of them that 80% of them wanted to birth rate, we must hear less talk vks Valley. wanted to continue in their _work; continue in the work they had been about women's rights and more nent begins that they took pride in the physical doing. about the duty to the race. Women period dur­ mastery of heavy equipment and She says, however, that her must give up their jobs. There is lents will be machines; and that the large study of wartime periodicals has other work for them to do, al decision. industiral firms sometimes disclosed that the army published women's work." WSAstatus proy_ided child care, banking an,d brochures warning returning -HER SAY /New Women Times

:is part of ~ss inven- g the sum­ lderness in­ ·ocess nssooner CALIFORNIA ILLINOIS National Health Service, 9:30-4:00 pm., . 1g process. November28-Forum, "Nuclear November 28-30-"Harnessing Rein­ District65, 13 Astor Pl., New York City. lerated Power: How It Really Affects You,'' Be­ vestment,'' Conference on Urban Information: Gray Panthers, on 1.2 mil­ thany Church, San Francisco, 7:30pm. Neighborhoods and Displacement. (212)799-7572. Information: (415)982-5578. Radisson-Chicago Hotel, 505 North -Suni Paz performs, People's Voice ls, mostly -Forum, ''Transition From Nuclear Michigan Ave. Information: Ed Shurna Cafe, St. Peter's Church; 345 W. 20th . Thus, in Energy,'' Palo Alto Cui tural Center, or Joe Gardner, (312)243-3035. St., New York City, 8 pm. Admission: ing347,000 7:30pm. Information: (415)325-6049. $2.50. 1epro- . -Forum for a Nuclear Free Future with -Anti-nuclear teach-in, Park Slope ends that N,atalie Shiras, Scott Kennedy, Carol KENTUCKY Methodist Church, 6th Ave & 8th St., Brooklyn, 1-4 pm.lnformation: Brooklyn atedfrom Bowen, Sam Tyson; Stockton, 7:30pm. December 7-9-Mobilization for Sur­ Information: (209)464-2213. Anti-NuclearGroup, P0Box535, Van ;wilder- vival National Conference, ''Survival in Brunt Sta., Bklyn, NY 11215. November29-Forum, "Connecting the 80's-Building a Unified Move­ Nuclear Weapons and Power," Merritt ment," Louisville. Registration: $15 College, Oakland, noon. Information: more or less. Information: MfS, 3601 recom­ (415)849-2360. tothe Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Decemberl.:.:_Forum for a Nuclear Free (215)386-4875. omo Ire­ Future with Daniel Ells berg, Martha December 7-9-Meeting ofthe Federa­ who Henderson, Dr. Susan Lambert, David tion ofOHIO River CO-OPS (FORC) at Con­ Brower; University of San Francisco, NEW YORK the €ommunity Center, Wooster. final de- 9:30-5:00 pm. Information: November 27-Film, ''With Babies and Information: FORC Warehouse Collec­ (415)982-5578. Banners,'' and discussion; New Com­ tive, 320 Outerbelt St., SuiteD, Colum­ December 2-Leonard Weinglass will munity Cinema, 423 Park Ave., Hunt­ bus. speak on "The Human Rights Contro­ ington, 8 pm. Information: • versy At Home and Abroad,'' at the First (516)423-7619. Unitarian Church ofLos Angeles, 2936 November28-Jorn Vestergaard will West 8th St., 11 am. Information: speak on ''Recent Developments in the (213)389-1356. OREGON Scandinavian Criminal Justice System, November 27-Public hearing on with Emphasis on Alternatives to Incar­ · proposed wilderness study areas, Lane DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ceration," New York University, Van­ County Extension Hall, 950 W. 13th St., November 30-' 'Bank Campaign derbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq., New eugene, 3 & 7 pm. Actions,'' picketting at the Main Office York City, 8pm. November 29-Public hearings on of Riggs Bank, accompanied by coor­ -Russe11 W. Peterson, Memberofthe proposed wHderness study areas, dinated withdrawals and press con­ President's Commission to Investigate Oregon State Office, 729 NEOregon St., ference, 12:00-2:00 pm. Information Three Mile Island, will speak on" After Portland, 1:30&7pm. (202)546- 7961 or (202)223-0527. Three Mile Island-What?'' 7:30pm. December3-Demonstration in Support Student Union, Pace University, New of Sen. Hatfield's SALT II Amendment, York City (212)689-3493. PENNSYLVANIA steps ofthe US Capitol. Information: November 29-General Meeting ofthe November 28-Films, ''The Libertar­ (202)737-2780. Mobilization for Survival, 135 W. 4th St., ians," and "Puerto Rico: Paradise December 8-' '3rd Annual Salt of the New York City, 7:30pm. Information: . Invaded,'' Calvary United Methodist Earth Book Fair," All Souls Church, 673-1808. Church, 48th & Baltimore, Philadelphia, 16th & Harvard Sts., NW., 10am.- December !-Conference on theN. Y. 8pm.lnformation: Wooden Shoe Books 10pm. City health crisis and the need for a & Records, (212)569-2477.

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14 WIN November 29, 1979 80 years of political art in the US.

t:Jd.J IN, P-; ~~~ rt and politics were never more skillfully ~ · {::{ combined than in the works of the many {;r ~· {;r ~:( artists represented in this calendar! Spanning the century and a broad range of issues, it is a 80 years of political art 1 chronicle in pictures of peo­ --:'-.. . ples' struggles for peace and justice- suffrage, Jim Crow, the Trusts, the cold war, inde­ pendence movements from Na­ tive America to Puerto Rico, and more! 80 Years as an art book is a un­ ique view of the graphics of pro­ ...... gressive posters, broadsides and journals which have graced the sidewalks and living-rooms of the century, rather than its mu- •••••••• seums and fine galleries. Repre­ sented artists include Nicole Hollander, Faith Ringgold, Alan Cumings, John S. Pughe, Homer Davenport, Cliff Joseph, Johanna Vogelsang, David Bragin, Linda Lucero, Kenneth Chamber­ lin ; Brad Holland, Vera Williams and John Sloan. The calendar has 128 pages and it's wirebound for convenient flat opening. The date pages can be removed when the year is over, leaving a very ·unique bound volume for your permanent library. It makes an ideal inexpensive gift that will be used daily and remembered all year long.

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