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"BLACK REVOLUTION ISREAL" STOKELY IN CUBA

By. Julius Lester,

Julius Lester was one of the SNCC representatives who visited Cuba along with Stokely Carmichael. In this .. article he talks about that SNCC REPRESENTATIVES TALK TO PRESS IN HAVANA. (l to r) George Ware, Julius Lester, Stokely Carmichael, Cuban visit. interpreter. (Photo: Felix Greene)

Stokely Carmichael's visit to Cuba The meeting was like a gathering of raised more comment from the press revolutionary who's who. Regis Debray's and Congress than word that Lynda Bird attractive wife was there, as well as was going to marry Mao Tse-Tung's son. Frantz Fanon's widow, Senora Che Gue­ To the right-wing it was all the "proof" vara, Wilfred Burchett, Felix Greene they needed that SNCC, Black Power and and a delegation from the National Front the rebellions were Communist and that of Liberation from South Vietnam. THE CORAL SEA indeed, as U.S. NEWS AND WORLD RE­ Stokely's unexpected appearance hap­ PORT "reported," Fidel himself was pened to coincide with the insurrection in behind the "riots." To the liberals Stoke­ Detroit and the analysis that he gave to ly Carmichael had, once again, hurt_the it and the other insurrections was par­ ASailor Tells THE MOVEMENT: "cause" of the Negro. And meanwhile, ticularly relevant in the over-all context Detroit, Milwaukee, and eight other cities of OLAS and played no small role in the were being devastated and it was too much final resolutions. OLAS, in brief, came for white America to deal with. Niggers, together to debate the future of revolu­ niggers everywhere. Some whites started tionary movements in Latin America and LIFE IS HELL wishing for the good old days when all what their approach should be - armed they thought we wanted was to, marry their struggle or struggle through more legal­ daughters. istic means. The Communist Party fol­ Stokely's visit to Cuba was on the lowed the Russian line and pushed peace­ IN THE NAVY occasion of the first meeting of the Or­ ful co-existence and a go-slow approach. ganization of Latin American Solidarity The guerillas were for armed struggle. By Mark K1<~iman (OLAS). Gathered in Havana were dele­ Cuba, of course, was the strongest pro­ ponent of armed struggle and stated its gates from some 20 Latin American coun­ I recently made contact Q. How many atomic weapons does the tries, as well as invited guests from the position unequivocally in the two opening Coral Sea carry? socialist countries (except China, who speeches of the conference delivered by with two men on the USS A. I can't tell you exactly how many, declined to come, saying that OLAS was Armando Hart and President Dorticos. It Coral Sea, a 68,000 ton air­ because I don't have clearance to not serious if they were going to debate was apparent, as the conference opened get near them. But we have enough the efficacy of armed struggle. When however, that to pass a resolution for craft carrier which had re­ to blow half of Asia off the map. they had concluded that armed struggle armed struggle was going to be almost turned from Vietnam and was the only way, G'hina would be happy as difficult as armed struggle itself. to attend and talk business.) Present was docked in Oakland. Both CASUALTIES also were observers and invited guests STOKELY MEETS PRESS m en were against the war, Q. Do you ever hear anything about how from Europe and a full contingent of and neither of them wanted many soldiers and Marines are killed? U.S., Latin-American and Asian press. On the opening day of the conference to go back for their second A. I can't give you any exact figures, but Stokely held a press conference. Hav­ I will tell you that the word that gets ing been swamped with requests for in­ tour of Vietnam, but the back to the States as to how many terviews, it was decided that he hold Coral Sea pulled out July Americans get killed and as to how an open-ended press conference - no many Vietnamese get killed is a time limit, no questions left unanswered. 26, and they went. This is bunch of bullshit. I've talked to Ma­ All press were invited, except for United part of an interview with rines while I was overseas and a lot States press. This was considered pay­ one of the sailors. more of them are getting killed than ment for past services rendered. is getting out in the official figures. The press conference lasted two hours I can't say whether it is more or less and forty-five minutes and when it was Q. When were you in Vietnam? than the number of Vietnamese. over, the press applauded. They had A. We deployed on July 29, 1966 and Q. Would you say that holds true for our asked serious questions and had received returned February 23rd, 1967. aircraft losses as well? lengthy, serious answers, and what they Q. How many planes were you carry­ A. Yes, when I came back no one ever had heard had been beyond their expec­ ing? knew how many planes the CuRAL tations. This was not much so that for the A. There were around sixty aircraft. SEA actually lost. I've never read first three days of OLAS news of the I never made - an exact count be­ an announcement in a paper about the press conference overshadowed every­ cause it didn't seem important. Dur­ number of dead pilots, so they must thing else. ing the cruise, 29 planes were shot not be telling them. And they have down. We left most of the rest in CIA people around in the shore patrol, CONTINUED ON P. 4 Japan, disabled by lack of parts or CONTINUED ON P. 11 mechanical difficulties. IMMORALITY OF PEACE Friends: What THE MOVEMENT does is im­ between American and Asian forces and SNCC AND THE ARAB portant, its coverage of what's happening against armed intervention in Asia by U.S. really comes from where it's happening; forces? Is not, then, the Peace Movement but, because of the Movement's impor­ accomplishing something of possible val­ tance, I worry about some of your writer's ue? -ISRAELI CONFLICT conclusions. I found julius Lester's piece It is true that if we don't have inter­ one of the two most questionable. national peace, we shall probably soon Does peace in Vietnam have to mean have no more oppression by Caucasians pacification by the military force of the - because there will no longer be any THE MOVEMENT would like to urge all those people outraged and indignant at the United States? lf theforeign militarywith­ people to oppress or to be oppressed. article in the SNCC Newsletter of june-July on ~'The Palestine Problem" to read it. drew, would not the people of Vietnam By the way, were the people of Spain again, thiS time in good faith, quietly and without malice aforethought. soon be able to establish a peace basedon or of the world benefited by there being We have read it many times. It is not anti-jewish. It does not characterize jews that people's conception of their own so few people (Lester calls them Ameri­ as a group. It carefully distinguishes between jews and Zionists: needs? Won't U.S. forces be withdrawn can liberals) ready to combat theSpanish " •.. several American and European jews, who are not Zionists aild cannot sup­ quicker if a majority bfthe U.S. population counter-revolution? port the horrors committed by Zionists in the name of judaism, have spoken out and favors it? Isn't it, then, a hopeful de­ condemned the Zionist distortions of the jewish religion •• :' velopment that more and more organiza­ Yours for a much better worId, In fact, the statements made by SNCC pale in contrast with the accusations hurled tions and publications come out for peace Tom Lawrence against the Zionists by anti-Zionist jews. SNCC knows deeply and well that a people are not to be j'udged AS A GROUP, but that the political actions of a STATE are to be judged, and if wrong, to be condemned. SNCC has never flinched from speaking its LETTER TO LBJ mind. President Lyndon johnson SNCC IS PARTISAN The White House Washington, D.C. The article in the Newsletter is partisan, no doubt about it. SNCC clearly supports the revolutionary aspirations of the Third World: and Israel, as characterized by the Dear Mr. PreSident: I remember, Mr. President, when you actions of its statesmen and military men, is opposed to these aspirations. I am writing you this letter in regard stood up in the U.S. Congress, and before We question the motives of those. Americ_ans who oppose American militarism and to your address'to the nation on july 27, the nation said, •'We shall overcome;'"' support Israeli militarism, who denounce johnson and acclaim Dayan(a military ad­ when you said that you were setting up a Ever since then, the decent people's visor to American forces in Vietnam), who cry out against the napalming of Viet­ committee to investigate the riots in the / been having a hard time throughout the namese and consider the napalming of Arabs "necessary:' United States. United States. Mr. President, if you want Mr. President, you do not need a com­ law and order, you should prove to the SNCC IS POLITICAL mittee to investigate riots, You know the nation that you do want law and order. trouble as well as I do. The trouble, Mr. Senator Eastland, Stennis, and the rest Time and again we have seen people angrily denounce SNCC and withdraw their President, is because the Negroes andthe of the Mississippi delegation should not support whenever SNCC has dared to make POLITICAL judgments, ·when it has decent whites is tired of the rich peoples be there. You had a chance_to prove to all attacked johnson's hypocrisy, denounced the war against Vietnam, supported the pushing them around. citizens of the United States that they have Arab cause, identified with LatinAmerican revolutionary aims. We suspect that SNCC Mr. President, you said that you wanted law and justice on their side when the is denounced because Americans fear a black political movement that is opposed to law and order, but it can not be law and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party the desires of America's political decision-makers. Political judgments are not the order as long as Senators Eastland, Sten- ­ had their Challenge. But instead, you and sole province of American whites. nis, and the rest of the southern senators the U.S. Congress seemed to ignore ·the The attack on SNCC's "anti-Semitism" can only be called hysterical. You who de­ .and congressmen say that the poor man do Congressional Challenge, The citizens of nounce black violence for liberation and support Israeli violence for conquest are in not count. Mississippi and the United States know a trap. You counter political decisions with slander, you label fighters for freedom Mr. President, I am against violence, why you did this. Because Eastland and but I must say, from past experience, that the rest of the southern senators have "outlaws!' You have lost you cool: you are afraid, Please think, please concentrate, the Negro do not have justice. Because, more political power, and I feel, and so Your souls and your lives and your freedom are at stake, Mr. PreSident, I was beaten in Maben, do other citizens, that you put this before Mississippi, along with three other guys. the well-being of the citizens ofthe United The F.B.I. came to the house and took States. statt>ments, but didn't anything happen. I went to Washington, Mr. President, ANOTHER REASON and talked to the justice Department. I IF YOU SUBSCRIBE gave them two names of the guys that Mr. President, if you are looking for beat us, and now, Mr. PreSident, you talk a reason for the riots, here is one: a about setting up a committee to investi­ Negro kid from Alabama got killed, fight­ gate the riots. Mr. President, you need ing for his country, and he couldn't be TO THE MOVEMENT, to set up this investigation to investigate buried in his home town. I am sure that the Ku Klux Klan ana the Citizens Coun­ you remember this. because it wasn't cils. nothing that the federal government could do about it. Because they didn't want to do PLEASE READ IT nothing about it. Now you're talking about justice for all the citizens in the United Last month we got three or four requests from readers to cancel their subscriptions. States, but we know that it's no justicefor This puzzles us. They don't say why. We assume it's because of SNCC's position on riots 11iE MOVEMENT Negroes unless they fight for it. But you and/or Israel and/or Cuba and/or revolution. is publ1shed monthly by are going to tell us that we are civil Why is it that when people disagree with us, they don't even want to read our point of The Movement Press disobedient because we try to take back view? Are they afraid to get it at their house? Don't they want to know what we are for, +49 14d1 street some of the things that the white mantook instead of only what the Establishment SAYS we are for? San Frandsco, CaUfornia 94103 from u!>' and from our foreparents over a We've decided not to cancel any subscriptions. Folks paid for them so they are going to 626-4577 hundred years ago. Because we are stillin get them. They can toss them in the wastebasket if they want to. But we don't believe slavery, like our foreparents were over in cutting off communication with people, not when the crisis in America is as tough as it EDITORIAL GROUP 200 years ago. is. mE MOVEMENT ain't so evil it can't be read. Terence Carmon Joe Blum Bobbl Cledorka Krts Dymond NOT GOING TO SIT STILL Mike Sharon Buddy Stein Brooks Penney Dave Welbnan Mr.. President, I've got to inform you Hardy Frye Karen KoonaD that the Negroes throughout the United SNCCRESIGNERS States are through taking it from the LOS ANGELES STAFF rich man. Because if he hits us or one Gentlemen: (himself a jew) who was called an anti­ Lou Gothard of our women, we are not going to sit The story in the S.F. Chronicle re­ semite by the same Zionists. 583-0968 still for that. garding Mr. Golden's w: hdrawal from I am of the belief that the statements Bob Niemann Mr. President, didn't no one- set up . your organization prompted me to write made by the above gentlemen is a stab 478-9509 a committee when Negroes were beaten in this letter. in the back of the Civil Rights Movement. 1657 Federal Ave. #5 jackson, Mississippi, by white cops during Unfortunately I have not read the bulle­ S.N.C.C. should be I a u d e d for its Los Angeles, Ca. 90025 a peaceful demonstration. tin to which Mr. Golden refers and would courageous stand against injustices per­ Mr. President, one girl lost her baby therefore have to rely on quotes that ap­ petrated against minorities, be they in during that time, because a police hit her peared in the press, expressed by another Israel, South Africa or any part of the OIICAGO STAFF in the stomach, but now, because the Ne­ dissenter, Mr. Bickel. globe. Mike James groes are hitting back, you wantto find out I assume Mr. Golden is'a Zionist I suggest Mr. Golden res e r v e his 4533 N. Sheridan Rd. the trouble. And on this committee, Mr. (since not all jews are ZionistS) and weaponry to combat racism in the right Chicago, W. 60640 President, you do not have any Negroes; therefore would be very sensitive about places. I would highly recommend for him 334~8040 . and I feel, and so do other citizens, that accusations of possible atrocities the to intensify in his own press the gospel of half of this committee should be Negroes. Israeli army may have committed in the the alliance of all minorities in our coun­ PORTLAND STAFF But we feel that you should reconsider that process of their military activities, and the try Uews especially) against the e v i I Bill Vandercook committee, and take that committee, and displacement of much r:Jf the Arab citizen­ forces, that wish to hurt the Negro Eman­ Susan Freshman bring those peoples that killed the three ry in the occupied territories. cipation. 1557 S. E. Henry St. civil rights workers in the State of Miss­ I have obs~rved during the Israeli­ Would appreciate receiving your lit­ Portland, Or. 97202 issippi, and bring them to justice. Arab... war Zionists gave monolithic and erature and the pleasure of joining your 235-1264 Mr. President, I could give you many unqualified support to the Israeli forces. organization. reasons why they are having all this And if some jews (not Zionists) dared Sincerely, SUBSCRIPTIONS trouble, but you don't need a reason, as much as cast serious doubts about the Bernard Gayman $2 per year, individual copies, because you already know. dangerous course Israel has chosen, they $7 per hundred per month. non­ also were labelled apologists for the cc: Mr. Golden commer-cial bulk subscriptions· Yours in Freedom, Soviets. I believe it was Mr. Alvah Bessie North Carolina Israelite Advertising: $4 per column inch Mr. Roosevelt Vaughn

j'. i ...... 1.. SEPTEMBER 1967 PAGE 3 I •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••f ••••••••••••••••••••• LETTER FROM JAIL CADRE

Dear Sirs: Gentlemen: After burning my draft card in uniform Presently 1 am in the San Francisco on April 15th, it became obvious that the County J ail, waiting to be sentenced on only reasonable thing to do with my life possession of two (2) codeine pills, with was to go full-time into the peace move­ two prior convictions, for which 1 could ment. I also realized that I was not in­ get five (5) to life. Can you imagine terested in simp.l y protesting the war; what_it's like to stand before a judge I was out to stop it. with the prosecuting attorney on one I have since been involved in setting side - and hoping the public defender up the first, real. live draft resistance is on your side - with two or three movement in Chicago. We call ourselves citizens in the spectators section - that the Chicago Area Draft Resisters (CAD­ is if it's a good day for tourists ­ RE). none of which could possibly be from - Our program is large and ambitious; your hometown, because you were born we are building a broad-based move­ and raised in "Watts"?, 1 must say ment, involving large numbers of people this creates a very foreign atmosphere; not simply to fight the draf , but also to it makes you feel like a forgotten son, work for the positive alternatives we no mother or father, not even a brother seek. The program emphasizes anti-draft or sister (if you know what I mean) and anti-war education among young men; present to encourage and wimess the it emphasizes non-violent direct action at justice, if any, that is about to be be­ military and Selective Service centers; stowed upon you. it emphasizes organizing around a num­ Days, weeks, months,. you've waited ber of draft counseling-draft resistance while the court remains in a quandary, centers being set up. The intent is to go about what to do with you, while you've out into the community to present our been watching Russian ballet dancers and message to young men, not to sit in our hippie after hippie (that'S those flower offices and wait for them to come to children from those middle class fami- . us. lies) get dismissals or receive pro­ I would like to appeal to your readers bation or county jail sentences. for pos­ for support. We desper!ltely need funds sessing and selling everything from LSD to support organizers and pay for office to heroin. and printing supplies. 1 wish you would tell somebody to We now have twelve full-time organiz­ come to court, and see for themselves. ers working without salary, and many Like some of the people over in the more part-time workers. We can hire a . Fillmore, Hunters Point and Mission dis­ great many more full-time people if we trict, the ones without jobs and nothing can get the money. to do and people like yourselves, if We are working closely with SNCC you're not playing golf that day or some": to recruit and support Black organizers body's " commjttee to help fill the empty to work in the Ghetto. There is a tre­ court rooms.' Actually any court day or mendous lack of knOWledge of simply the court room you choose to visit would legal alternatives to the draft among be appreciated, because I've got a brother Black youth in the Ghetto; some draft that's on trial every day .. counseling is now available at the SNCC I just thought 1 would let you know office. The problem is money: there are that there is justice in the court room, a dozen committed Black organizers we that is, if you can dance a beautiful could hire if we had the money. "Swan Lake." 1 hope this letter will en­ Contributors should make checks pay­ courage you and your organization to sup­ able to CADRE. and send them to our port and help fill the empty courtroomfor treasurer. David Greenberg, at 5120 S. justice. Harper Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60615. Re­ Sincerely yours ceipts will be mailed promptly.

Yours in Peace, Gary Rader

WHO NEEDS A REVOLUTION? WE DO!

RAISE PHONE RATE PHONE FREE IN CUBA

'~The Pacific Telephone Company con­ "The Cuban government is providing an tends its rate of return is now 5.1%. It is increasing number of free services to the asking the State Public Utilities Com­ public. mission for 7.9%. The difference amounts "Cuban propaganda repeats Priemier to $181 million annually that Pacific seeks Fidel Castro':"s May 18 statement that 'the to charge its customers. day will come when money, the vile in­ ''If approved, the new one-party resi­ termediary between man and the products dential rate for most residents of San he creates. will be eliminated.' Francisco would increase from $3.85 to "Yesterday Havana radio announced that $5.75 a month. Business one-party service henceforth local calls made from public would be boosted to $8 a month. telephones will be free inthe whole cOJ.mtry. ..Pacific Telephone official said that ,.Last week the government decreed that the increase is necessary 'to do the com­ funeral and burial services would be fur munications job that California needs, and nished gratis by the state. at the same time remain attractive to the "Medical and dental services have been investor' " free for years under the Castro regime." From the S.F. Chronicle fI"om the S. F. Chronicle same day COLUMBUS, OHIO

Dear Editors: Just a note to show my support of the a couple of abortive attempts. Never­ kind of reporting in recent issues of theless, fear of riots has won for WRO THE MOVEMENT. The excellent cov­ a few concessions from the welfare de­ erage of organization and exploitation partment and the cot,mty commissioners of Black people. Mexican Americans. rerently. Indians and poor whites not only shows Whites as well as Blacks talk about the class character of exploitation, and places to burn and loot when the riot therefore of radical change or revolu­ comes, and share a hatred of the sym­ tion, but also says a lot about the na­ bols of oppression and degradation. The ture of the individuals and institutions fact that Black and White often react which exploit us. in the same way to exploitation, of course, Most of the 25 copies of THE MOVE­ doesn't mean there is no racismor preju­ MENT I get each month find their way dice - just that racism is considered a into the hands of both Black and White "contradiction among the people" and people in the Columbus Welfare Rights ultimately even the racists are beginning Organization. Many of us feel a little to see that the real fight is against those left out since there have been no riots who oppress us all. in Columbus despite lots of rumors and Jim Buckley PAGE 4 THE MOVEMENT SEPTEMBER 1967 CASTRO ON STOKELY &BLACK REVOLUTION

The very essence of imperialist thinking is revealed in'what the imperialists publish. the war in Vietnam." for centuries practiced racism against Of course, we should state, to avoid any misunderstanding, so no honest person will mis­ lf the danger posed to this country the Negro population, now label as rac­ takenly think I am referring to him -(hat we know that, in spite of the infamous conditions depended on a U.S. victory in Vietnam, ists all those who struggle against rac­ that prevail there, there are some honest writers and journalists in the United States. I we could all die of old agel ism. am not talking about them. But thereare so many of the other kind that I am afraid some­ Observe how they express themselves, one may think we do not know how to distinguish between them. But here is a case which with what unbelievable exasperation, with expresses theessence of imperialist thinking. what contempt, they speak of "a Negro SNCC'S PROGRAM It is an article in TIlE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS entitled, "Stokely, Stay There." We firebrand," of "the miserable island," It is claimed that they have no pro­ would indeed be honored if he wished to remain here •••1 But he himself doesn't want to of "trampling underfoot." Because it gram. Well, that shows that often a stay here, because he believes that the struggleis his fundamental duty. But he must know . must be said that the imperialists are movement can begin before a program that, whatever the circumstances, this country will always be his home. annoyed by many things, but most of all they are annoyed by the ViSit here CONTINUED ON P. 10 The article s tat e s: "Stokely Car­ And in conclusion, after more of the of a Negro leader - of a leader of the michael, the Negro firebrand, is in Ha­ same sort of thing, it states: "While we most exploited and most oppressed sec­ vana, capital of Red Cuba, after having are busy in Vietnam, we can hardly tor of the United States. stopped off at London and Prague, and crush Castro - ahhough the Govern­ In the past few days, innumerable ar­ we suggest that he remain in Havana, ment could, and should, stop discourag­ ticles about Stokely's trip have been pub­ his spiritual home. ing Cuban refugees who plan Castro's lished in the U.S. press; some very in­ "As pointed. out, we urge Stokely to destruction." SUlting, others more SUbtle. They have remain in Red Cuba until this miserable Stop discouragingI Stop discouraging elaborated a whole series of theories. island is rescued from communism, and Cuban exiles who plan Castro's destruc­ Some say "Stokely is fooling Castro," then he can head for some other Red tion! Discouragement indeedI ..But let's "Castro is fooling Stokely," "Stokely country. lf Carmichael returns to the stick a reminder in Uncle Sam's hat wants to make him believe that he rep­ United States we think that the Depart­ to trample Castro underfoot with all the resents the Negro movement - the ma­ ment of Justice should throw the book force necessary to destroy his com­ jority of the Negro movement - and at him." munist regime just as soon as we win Castro is using him." Statements of that sort. From speech by major Fidel Castro Ruz, Prime Minister SNCC'S "RACISM" of the Cuban Revolutionary Government at the closingof the And they have gone still further. Some First Conference of the Latin American Organization of theorists have stated: "How strange that Solidarity (OLAS) at the Chaplin Theater on August10, 1967, this country is not racist, and Stokely is a racist ••• How strangeI How "Year of Heroic Viet Nam." (Translation of the transcript strange," Their aim is to create the Castro addressing aLAs. made by the Department of Stenographic Transcripts of the impression that the Negro movement in the United States is a racist movement. (Photo: Felix Greene) Revolutionary Government). It is logical that the exploiters, who STOKELY IN CUBA- CON'T. FROM PAGE 1 The following morning it was announc­ South America and get their guns out of ed that Stokely had been voted the status there and you'will see - nobody will lis­ of "delegate of honor" of aLAS, a status ten. But it is because of their guns that accorded no other individual. Later that people are forced to listen. day he addressed the conference, receiv­ ing a standing ovation at the close of his speech. (This speech is being published· GUERRILLA WARFARE by SNCC. Watch the Movement for news Guerilla warfare should never be dis­ of its availability.) cussed as to whether it's right or wrong. No one had anticipated the overwhelm­ It is the only way to stop exploitation and ing response that came from his appear­ oppression. To carry on a discussion of ance at aLAS. Least of all, Stokely. It whether it's right or wrong is to play the was thought that he would simply be game of the imperialists. When you are another revolutionary among the hun­ waging a war there is no right; there is no dreds there. Instead, he was the focus of wrong. It is just what you feel is neces­ attention, because of what he embodied sary to obtain your goal. And that is what - the spirit of Detroit - and what he had we must understand, those of us who are to say. "We are ready to destroy from in the oppressed world. the inside," he said in closing his aLAS Stokely at press conference. (Photo: Felix Greene) Guerilla warfare is where we are moving speech. "We hope you are ready to to in the United States. We are going to destroy from the outside." Few had ever him back inside the country should be proof play that game. And if you want to win a develop our urban guerilla warfare and heard someone from the United States enough that the U.S. is hurting becausehe's game, you've got to make the rules; if we're gonna beat them in urban guerilla speak thus and none had ever heard outside.whereever Arne I' i can economic somebody else makes the rules, they al­ warfare., because there is one thing that the such coming from a black man. And to power and political influence is, that is ways win. The imperialists have made the imperialists do not have. Their men do not prove that his words weren't merely the battle ground. Continental U.S.A. is rules of talk, so when you sit down to talk have the will to fight •.. words were the articles in each day's only imperia·lism's living room. The other with them, you can't possibly win, for they paper on the insurrections. Prior to rooms of the house are Latin America, always find a reason why they can't do this Stokely's appearance at aLAS, the pos­ Asia and Africa. And it's the house we're now, or why they can't do it then, and they INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE sibility of guerilla warfare and revolu­ trying to destroy. Not just one room. seem very rational. And you will sit there What we have not recognized in the past tion within the U.S. was a matter of in­ It was this concept and others that Stoke­ and try to reason with them on their ground, is that capitalism has become interna­ tellectual conjecture for Latin-Ameri­ ly discussed in an interview with Mario in their terms. But they can't do that. tional and that we are fighting international c an revolutionaries. Stokely made it a re­ Menendez of SUCESOS, a Mexican revolu­ In the first place, they have no right to capitalism and in order to fight interna­ ality and through his words the revolution­ tionary periodical. What follows are ex­ oppress people so there is no need to talk tional capitalism you must wage an in­ ary potential of blacks becarr.c real. The cerpts from this interview where he ex­ about oppression. They have absolutely no ternational fight. What has happened in U.S. ITess reported that Stokely had panded upon ideas expressed at the Havana right to oppress and to exploit anybody the past, for example is that if one nation issued a call for urban guerilla warfare. press conference: else. So to begin to talk about freeing was struggling, everybody wished that The reality was much simpler. Urban yourself from exploitation and oppression nation good luck but nobody saw it as guerilla warfare was developing. He was to the people who oppress you is to be part of this same fight, although they simply putting it into a political frame­ ON REVOLUTION ridiculous. It is like a slave sitting down could see that the same countries were work. Let me say very clearly that the only with his master, or talking to his master oppressing that country, they still didn't solution is black revolution and that we about when his master is going to let him make the connection in their minds that are not concerned with peaceful co-exis­ go free. That is nonsense! The master that was their common enemy. It is cry­ RECOGNIZE THE ENEMY tence. Armed struggle is the unly way, not has no business enslaving him. So what stal clear to us that we are fighting an It has been disappointing to iearn that only for us, but for all oppressed peoples does the slave have to do? It's easyI Get international structure that enslaves us some black militants have been mouthing around the world. up and kill the master, if the master re­ all.The only way we can beat it is to in­ the enemy's words and accusing Stokely People who talk about peaceful co­ fuses to stop enslaving him. That is the ternationalize our struggle so you'll have of having'joined the Communist camp'. It existence are talking about maintaining the only solution. an international power fighting an inter­ is disappointing to know that these mili­ status quo, because the only way that you national power. That is the only way we can tants would get caught up in the enemy's disrupt an imperialistic system is when win, because if we do what Che says we "trick bag" of Communism vs. De­ you disrupt it by force. You do not disrupt REACTIONARY VIOLENCE should do, that is, to create, two, three, mocracy. No matter what these militants it with talk. That has been crystal clear The reactionaries only stay in power many Vietnams, we will have them fight­ . may think of Stokely's trip to Cuba, it does to us. It has been crystal clear to us, by arms. That is the only way they stay in' ing on all fronts at the same time and not speak well of them to use the enemy's especially, because for 400 years the power. But they legitimatize their violence they cannot win. When we isolate the strug­ words and concepts and, at the same time, majority of African-Americans inside the and they tell everybody else violence is gle they can bring all their power on expect others to believe that they are part United States have been talkillg, talking and not the way. Take away their guns and their one country and once they do that, that of the black revolution. The talk of 'let's talking. And the reason is because when imperialist forces and see how many country is lost. lynch Stokely' that has come from the halls you talk you play the imperialist game. people would listen to them. Take away But they cannot fight us all at the of Congress and the press should be in­ They invented the game of talk and when their bases in Santo Domingo, take away same time. So that even if we do not have dication enough of the rightness of his you talk, you talk in their language. their bases in Venezuela, take away their the same goals, even if we do not have the visit to Cuba. The fact that the State De­ But now we have a new game, which bases in Brazil, take away their bases in same political ideology, we have the same partment is working night and day to get is called guerilla warfare. They cannot Chile, take away their bases all over common enemy. SEPTEMBER 1967 THE MOVEMENT PAGE 5 WAR. ON THE ARMY SEGAL ON THE DRAFT

By Mark Kleiman

Ken Epstein was one of the first or­ LAW· CHANGES, ganizers for the Berkeley Anti -Draft Union. When he had a physical last April, he passed out leaflets inside the induction center. When asked to stop, he refused. RESISTANCE GROWS When he was told to leave, he left. In June, his San Bernadino dtaft board declared him I-A delinquent and he was ordered Jeff Segal, National Draft for doctoral or combined master's-doc­ to report for induction on August 30. toral students who have finished at least This presented a political problem for Resistance Coordinator for one year. the union. Until this date, we had been able SDS, talks about the changes The law also provides mandatory de­ to say that none of our members had in the draft laws and about ferments for a course of graduate study ever been drafted. Also, Ken was the in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medi­ only one of over two dozen men who what's happening in the draft cine, osteopathy, optometry, pharmacy, leafleted inside to receive a I-A delin­ resistance movement around or in any other subjects necessary to the quent, so this could possibly be a test to see the country. maintenance of the national health, safety how we react. Finally, Ken is a good or interest,:' :The application of I-S(C) friend of many of us in the Union, and student deferment ONLY to undergrad­ we were determined not to let him go Congress passed a new draft law which uates who receive induction orders during without a fight. went into effect on July 1, 1967. While an academic year. The elimination of the Ken's position has been that if he's promising for months and months great Ill-A fatherhood deferment for all carry­ drafted, he'll go into the Army and or­ "reforms" and "democratizing" veryfew !ng a II -S which begins after 6/30/ ganize, but none of us have been too changes were actually instituted by the 67. And the placement of students in the 'happy about the prospect of his going in Congress. In what seems to be an attempt most vulnerable draft age group after If it could be helped. It was clear that to buy off students' dissent and minimize' their II-S's are up no matter what age something more militant than our usual the disruptive impact of the draft among they are. demonstrations would have to be done. economic classes that the Congressmen Besides the changes in the II-S Con­ We got the support from the San Fran­ think might cause them to lose elections gress specifically prohibited the institu­ cisco, Haight-Ashbury, and StanfordDraft they have provided for MANDATORY lI­ tion of a lottery without the approval of Resistance Unions, and set a demonstra­ S (student) deferments for all undergrad­ Congress. The extension of the time lim­ tion for 6:15 a.m. uates. Conditions for student deferments its for requesting a personal appearance are now: 1) a written request. from the or appeal from 10 days to 30 days (CO's student, 2) written notification from the still have only 10 days to return their AT THE CENTER university or school that he is persuing a application once it's been requested). There were about 40 of us there at BROKEN INDUCTION CENTER' WINDOW full-time course of study, which is defined The Justice Department advisory opin­ 6:15. By 7, another 50 demonstrators, by the school (this is usually fulfilled by ion in CO appeals has been eliminated; three Oakland police cars, a wagon, a schools filing SSS Form #109), 3) the which cuts the FBI investigation and Jus­ plain-clothes federal car, and a good off. One of the demonstrators had been courses taken are worth credits toward a tice Department hearing out. This will number of press showed up. When the pounding on the glass, around the door, degree, 4) the student is making"satisfac­ greatly shorten the time that CO cases first bus-load of inductees was herded and had put his fist through it. The Rent­ tory progress, which is, according to the now take. into the recruiting chamber without a a -Cop charged past me and grabbed the law the completion of at least 25% of problem, most of the cops left. As soon guy, determined to hold him until the credits needed for a four-year degree by as this happened, Ken got up on top of a Oakland cops could arrive. This clearly the end of the first academic year, 50% C.O. CHANGE car in front of the induction center and wouldn't do. I grabbed one arm of the by the end of the second year, etc. and In the section on CO's the part defining began a' rally. He read the text of' his cop, and Morgan grabbed the other, and 5) the student has not reached his 24th "religious training and belief" as "an letter to the draft board, stating that we pulled until he let go of the demon­ birthday. The academic year is defined individual's belief in a relation to a Su­ he did not expect justice from them, strator, who then split. The cop retreated by the law to be .a 12-month period preme Being involving duties superior to that he felt oppression must be fought to the safety of the induction center. When following the beginning of a particular those arising from any human relation both inside and outside the Army, and things cleared up, we discovered that course of study. . •• :' was cut out of the law. This was that his training as a member of PL there was a hole the size of a softball in done in an attempt to nullify ~he Seeger would help him to organize once he got the glass, and a lot of cracks. It looked decision but it looks like it will have no into the Army. Morgan Spector, from pretty good. TIGHTER FOR GRADS effect on the Seeger precedent since it the Union, talked about how we couldn't We resumed the picket line. There For graduate students things are a wee just eliminated the part of the law that let the Army push us around.' Ken's were no arrests, and Ken's induction bit tighter. The law essentially grants a made the Seeger decision necessary. induction really brought things horne to was delayed 30 to 60 days for security one-year deferment for present graduate Women may now serve on draft boards. us. There was a new feeling of militancy reasons. This may have been only a students. The specifics are: I)one year for which was reflected when Morgan said, small skirmish, but war has been de­ first year graduate students, 2) one year "We declare war on the Army:' clared, and we're gettin' ready. for master's candidates (or graduation WHAT'S HAPPENING The rally broke up, and when Ken whichever is first) regardless of year in Enough of that legal bull-shit, and on stepped inside the induction center, about If you have questions school, 3) one additional year or a total of to a run down of present anti-draft ac- fifty of us stood in the outside doorway five years of deferment after receiving chanting, "Hell, No, Nobody Goesl" Two about the draft, or would a Bachelors degree, whichever is greater, CONTINUED ON P. 9 soldiers carne over to close the door, like to know the address which they couldn't do because Morgan and I were standing directly in front of of a draft counselor in the doorway. The two soldiers then got your are a, send re­ GETTING TRUTH reinforcements in the form of three quests to JeffSegal, C/O more soldiers' and a Rent - a - Cop. A football skirmish-type pushing match de­ THE MOVEMENT, 449 veloped between those in front and the 14th St., San Francisco, INTO THE ARMY Authorities. We held our own for several minutes, when the struggle suddenly broke Ca. 94103 The BOND is a new newspaper for men them all over. (Remember, this is first in the sendce. It publishes uncensored class mail. Ed.) He did so reluctantly. news of the war, letters from soldiers, Names were taken of all who received reports on the cases of men who have re­ them. Some may have been opened. I was fused to serve in Vietnam and other in­ angry and upset; it looked like •.. we formation of interest to men in the armed were going to have a struggle just to have forces. the right to get our mail rather than have Published in Berkeley, California, The a chance to read the truth in peace. The BOND is mailed first class to protect the mail was to be sent to' our battalion S-2 men who receive it. The editors state that (intelligence section). The mail clerk got their mailing list is also carefully pro­ mad and said that this was all illegal. tected. They urge individuals to send They backed down ... So The BOND them names and addresses of servicemen went out this afternoon to all intended. - regardless of attitude to the war -to The NCO's and officers were very upset. whom they can send The BOND. They told people to turn them into the Letter response from the first few orderly room. Some did. But now this began issues indicates that many servicemen to stick in people's craw. THEY know that feel a great need for a source of un­ they had a right to accept or reject the biased news as well as the knowledge Bond as they felt and not as the army felt of the many other soldiers who oppose ... So the brass really hurt themselves the war. by trying to crush dissent. People have reacted and have been forced to take sides." ARMY RESPONSE The BOND is currently mailed free to The fourth mailing of The BOND in­ any serviceman whose name is received. cluded every Private, Spec 4 and Spec 5 Subscriptions for non-servicemen are $3 of an entire company stationed in Hawaii. for six months. The BOND requests: 1) A soldier from that company reported Articles, especially first - hand infor­ the response: mation on Vietnam; 2) Names and ad­ •'Someone thought it would be funny dresses of servicemen; 3) Funds. Send to Ken Epstein talks to demonstrators at Induction Center. Standing behind him is to give the company commander one. He The BOND, 2056 Emerson St., Berkeley, Morgan Spector. -:-eacted. He told the mail clerk to hand California 94703. WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT A HANDF~

We would probably never have know what they really w€

For m~ny years us black people have been trying to find a way another "leader": which side is HE on? to stop the white man from cheating us and beating us and making us pay him high rents to live in his run down houses, while he would just sit in his air conditioned rooms and ignore us when we would come begging him to lower his prices, fix up our apartments, A handful of rocks even brought Mayor Ivan Allen to I clean up our streets, and demand that his police stop beating arid Most of us would never get to see the mayor face t( shooting our innocent black people. Who would ever have dreamed wasn't for a handful of rocks. that a handful of rocks might be one of the most valuable things we have, at present, in our black communities? As a matter of fact most of us never would have eVE that the smiling white-haired hunky of a mayor (J For instance: A handful of rocks put Dixie Hills on the map. about another white man's store than about an innocent b No one had ever heard of Dixie Hills or Summerhill or Watts, be­ life, it it wasn't for a handful of rocks. fore a handful of rocks. No one ever cared about the problems in these black communities until, one day, a handful of rocks opened A handful of rocks and the city sends street sweepe everyone's eyes. Hills for the first time in a long time. Garbage collection

A handful of rocks brought news reporters and televisioncameras. For the first time, people were able to complain about problems in Dixie Hills to the City of Atlanta and to people across the country.

before a handful of rocks

A handful of rocks brought Negro preachers from all over the city and elected Negro leaders came to the community for the first time since people helped put them in office years ago. after a handful· of rocks

A handful of rocks and all of a sudden someone promis a lot of shiny garbage cans to the community. (We ha them yet).

A handful of rocks on Monday night and on Tuesday ill city sends gravel and a bulldozer to build a playground. a so-called "Ner:;ro Leader" This story is about the Dixie Hills community in Atlanta. However, the problems in Dixie Hills are not much dif­ ? ferent from the problems faced in Watts, Newark, Tampa, IL OF ROCKS • Cincinnati and many, many other ghettoes across the cO'un­ try, where up to now, black people have been forced to live and suffer quietly. re like: Because of a handful of· rocks, a lot more people in Dixie Hills are beginning to wonder: Why is EOA in a Black Community run by a HUNKY? And why is it staffed by people who do not really care about the community, because they do not live here? We have people who live in Dixie Hills who are capable of doing the work that they are supposed to do~

Because of a handful of rocks, people in Dixie Hills will no longer stand for outsiders cheating and insulting the community. Why should they continue to charge us high prices for rotten food. We could run this store ourselves. Prices would be lowered. Our people would manage it, and more black people would be hired to work in it. It would be owned cooperatively by the community. The profits would go into a community fund and be re-invested in other business ventures. Controlling our own businesses in our own communities is a first step toward achieving BLACK POWER for all our people.

ixie Hills. face, if it A handful of rocks on Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning someone offers to send the community some playground equipment.

n dreamed A handful of rocks, and presto! the city promises to build a special nes more road to Anderson Park. ack manJs A handful of rocks and busses arrive to take Dixie Hills children to Six Flags over Georgia and other places. ~s to Dixie improves: A handful of rocks and the community is suddenly offered 300 tickets to the baseball game.

A handful of rocks on a Monday and on Friday the city of Atlanta receives $4,500,000 (four and a half million dollars) from the federal government for job training programs.

The city also received $600,000 for "emergency" recreation, after a handful of rocks.

Just one week after a handful of rocks, the city began to lay con­ crete sidewalks so we can finally get out of the mud and dust.

The hunky who owns the Dixie Hills Apartments broke down and gave jobs to some of the young men in the community to clean up the grounds, after a handful of rocks. A handful of rocks is just a beginning. (As one man said, "If a handful of rocks can do all that, how much could we get done with a ton of bricks?")

With a handful of rocks (or by any other means necessary) and a community full of people ORGANIZED and determined to deal "with hunkies and hunky Toms, us black people can move to get what we've been trying so hard to get for so long: freedom, justice and black power, through control of our own communities.

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For the sake of our children . .. PAGE 8 THE MOVEMENT SEPTEMBER 1967 REPRESSION VS. LIBERATION IN NASHVILLE

Clergymen, cops, and Congress trying Committee that, while MAC and OEO At­ The school headquarters at St. Anselm's and a Negro mother, the youngster points to place the blame for ghetto insurrec­ lanta office had approved the project, no displays hand-lettered placards reading to the white person as, the one he'd like tion on any shoulders but their own are 'government funds had yet been disbursed "Black Power," a map of Africa, and to resemble. We're trying to change this following a familiar pattern in Nashville. to it, pending further investigation. photos of Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap -- to help Negro boys and girls reach They are hunting for "agitators" and A week later John Vander Horst, Epis­ Brown, and the late Malcolm X. Some 50 the point where they can identify positively finding them in SNCC and even the OEO. copal Bishop of Tennessee evicted the Negro boys and girls, age 6 and 12, attend with people of their own race, to show Nashville police captain John A. Sorace school from St. Anselm's. Ten days after classes three mornings a week; other them reasons for being proud of their told the Senate Judiciary Committee that that George Ware of SNCC was arrested school activities are crafts work and heritage.', a Liberation School at St. Anselm's Epis­ in Nashville and charged with sedition. swimming. The school began as a SNCC project, but copal Student Center in Nashville was No white children attend, Rev. Woodruff was shifted in mid-June to the sponsor­ being used to teach black children "hatred attributes this to the fact that no white ship of the church. Reverend Davis, head of the white man". The school received LIBERATION SCHOOL families reside in the area. of the city's agency for antipoverty funds, $7,700 from the poverty program, he said. The Liberation School is headed by He told one audience, "behavior studies rejected the proposal for the school Next day the Rev. J. Paschall Davis, Fred Brooks, former chairman of Nash­ in ghettos indicate that, when you show because it "sounded racist because it was director of Nashville's Metropolitan ville SNCC. St. Anselm's and its pastor, a Negro youngster a picture of a white outlined as exclusively for Negro children Action Commission, testified before the Rev. James E. Woodruff, are its sponsors. child and a Negro child, or a white mother to teach them Negro history. MAC couldn't fund that any more than it could fund an exclusively white school to teach white history." When the •'exclusive" clause was modified, the plan was approved. Then FREEDOM FIGHTERS BATTLE Sorace made his charges and the reaction began. Bishop Vander Horst told a press con­ ference that the decision to forbid the IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA school to use St. Anselm's was reached because"it is the judgment of the Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee The following is a press re­ oppressors whose mentality has been con­ Revolution from bringing uhuru to the that the curriculum at the school ap­ lease from the Zimbabwe ditioned into expecting the oppressedAfri­ South. Our victory against their forces parently deals with and teaches something , cans to turn the other cheek under assault might not be easy and soon; but it is the African Peoples' Union (ZA quite contrary to our Christian heritage by White-man-boss. The enemy has ad­ duty of every revolutionary patriot to of reconciliation and love to the Lord. This P U) and the African Na­ mitted the ferocity of the encounters with spare no sacrifice towards bringing the Liberation School is not contributing to a tional Congress of South the Freedom Fighters; six - hour gull day of victory nearer. constructive and healthy relationship battles in which our men killed from We look to our brothers in independent among the people of the Nashville com­ ~fr~ca (ANC SA), dated forty (40) to sixty (60) Rhodesian and Africa and to progressives everywhere in munity." 1jlgust 19, 1967. It is fol­ South African soldiers have beenreported the world to intensify the anti-apartheid, Rev. Woodruff replied: "Our staff of over the radio. A ring of steel has been anti-colonialist struggle in their respec­ lowed by ~cerpts from an 12 Tennessee State and Fisk students thrown round the RhodeSian, South African tive countries. We rely on the moral and includes three SNCC members, four Epis­ editorial in Spa tli gh t on and Botswana borders called the "wind- ' material support of all those progressive copalians, and five who are nei!her SNCC S'outh Mrica, a, publication proof wall" to keep the freedom forces forces who strive to eradicate the evil members nor Episcopalians," he went on. at bay. But enemy casualties are growing sYStem of colonialism, apartheid andrac­ "I work very closely with SNCC because 'of the African National Con­ on either side of his embattlements. ial discrimination from the face of the these kids are doing what I think needs to gress. We call upon our people to stand firm earth. be done. Remember each SNCC chapter is and rally round their sons and daughters We call upon all Southern Africans autonomous, and makes and carries out who are doing battle in the forests to abroa,d' committed to the building of new Furious fighting has been and is still its own plans. I don't agree with every­ crush our colonialist and White racist societies on a non-racial basis in our thing Stokely Carmichael says, and I taking place in varioos l'ftrts 4 Southern oppressors. The White racist regimes different homelands to render maximum Rhodesia. don't agree with Fred Brooks all the time, have combined their military, police and and selfless assistance to the armed either. But I believe SNCC has the support From the thirteenth of this month, the intelligence services to stop the African struggle waged in the South. area of Wankie has been the scene of the of almost 100% of the students at these most daring battles ever fought between two universities." Freedom Fighters and the White oppres­ Asked what will happen to the school COPS HARRASS TO if sors' army in Rhodesia. Only last night OEO funds are denied, Rev. Woodruff the Rhodesian regime admitted haVing said, "We'll keep going somehow. We'll been engaged in a six-hour battle yester­ PREVENT RIOTS lower our sights and curtail where we have to, but we'll go on. The kids on the dav. In fact, the fighting in this area has By A. L. Lincoln on absurdly transparent pretenses -- a staff are willing to sleep on floors and been going on continuously for a full six Negro officer told them it was because eat only one meal a day. if need be." days. CHICAGO -- As 'ghetto rioting spread there were blacks and whites riding to­ Ware's arrest on August 22, under­ Both the Rhodesian and the South Afri­ across the country this summer and un­ gether in the car. On the same night lined the determination of the city to can regimes have admitted that South rest built up in the Chicago slums, the there were 30-40 people arrested in destroy pro-black organizations and pro­ African Freedom Fighters belonging to the Chicago machine acted with repressive several incidents on the South Side, in­ grams. He was held in lie\.; of $10,000 African National Congress have been in­ force ,and violence of its own. Mayor augurating the mass arrest phase of the bail. The courts refused to lower his bail volved in these courageous battles, fight­ Daley threatened to meet'the slightest police summer program. Individuals were and he was held in jail until a grand jury ing their way to strike at the Boers them- disturbance with full force and to have arrested largely to break up groups or refused to indict for lack of evidence. , selves in South Africa. the National Guard troops deployed within prevent them from forming -- not for We wish to declare herethatthefighting the hour. Instructions went out to the anything they had done or were doing, but that is presently going on in Wankie area police force, the prosecutors and the for what they or others might do in the later, it was clear that the police had no is indeed being carried out by a combined judges to deal harshly with "trouble­ future. evidence against those arrested. Some of force of ZAPU and ANC which marched makers". At the urging of the city prosecutor, the defendents, including 11 few who were into the country as comrades-in-arms on In the early summer the police ap­ most of those arrested were held on better dressed and morerespectable look­ a common route, each bound to its desti­ peared to concentrate their preventive blanket charges of Mob Action, Disorderly ing, were told by the prosecutor that if nation. It is the determination of these harrassment on individuals identified as Conduct, Obstructing Police Officer and they would plead guilty to Disorderly combined forcesto fight thecommon settler "leaders". These individuals were fol­ Resisting Arrest, in spite of the total lack Conduct the other charges would be enemy to the finish, at any point of en­ lowed, picked up and loaded with minor of evidence to supportthese charges. When dropped. Nineteen of them accepted this counter as they make their way to their charges. In particular, Obed Lopez of the the arrested persons appeared before the deal and traded an admission of guilt respective fighting zones. Latin American Defense Organization judge, he refused to hold a hearing to see for a $25 fine and their freedom. The In the fighting Front, the enemy has (LAOO) and, Frank Ditto of the Kenwood if there was probable cause for the arrest remaining thirty-five were returned to suffered untold casualties and as the fight­ Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) and ordered them held for trial two weeks jail with bonds of $5000 to $10,000 set ing continues, the Fighters are determined were victims of this harrassment and away; setting bonds as high as $50,000. arbitrarily and without hearing by the to inflict more harm without surrender. ended up spending-most of the summer in This pattern has been repeated several judge, in clear violation of the criminal After all, as comrades-in-arms, we are court. times over during the summer. On August code andthe Eighth and FourteenthAmend­ facing a common enemy, fighting for a Organizers from the West Side Or­ I, a crowd gathered following a shooting ments to the Constitution. The trial date common purpose, facing a common fate, ganization, LAOO and SDS were stopped incident in the .alley behind Big Jim's was set two weeks off and many who --- hence a combined force for a common Liquor St'ore at 67th and Cottage Grove could not possibly make the exorbitant onslaught against the enemy at every point on the South Side. By 7 p.m. most of the bonds were condemned to spend that time of encounter as we march down for the crowd had been dispersed by local groups in jail before their case was even heard. liberation of our respective countries. including gang workers, but the police At this point several groups of lawyers still arrested 54 persons during the even­ in the city became interested in the case. ing, many hours later and blocks away An organization called Citizen's Alert For the past three weeks our militants from the incident. Two boys working at a had been set up to handle the many cases have inflicted such heavy blows on the gas station across the street from Big of police abuses. Several law. students enemy that even the naked lies dis­ jim's were ~rrested without leaving their associated with Citizen's Alert and super­ seminated by Rhodesia and South Afri­ jobs. Their boss'was almost taken h when vised by attorneys from the Chicago Legal can newspapers and radio broadcasting he attempted to intercede with the of­ Services Project and Community Legal stations have sometimes been self-con­ ficers. Another man was on his way home Counsel -- two organizations set up in the tradictory. Government 1e a fie t s were from the store with some milk for his past year to handle legal work for slum dropped over the forests in the Wankie/ child, and another man was leaving a community organizations -- mounted a Dett area depicting two fake surrenders. house where he had just sold some in-, court suit for a hearing on reasonable­ The entire tone of the leaflet speaks of surance. Several YMCA and KOCO ness of bail. In the end the court did the despair and trepidation of the White workers were arrested even after they hold a new hearing and bailwas drasLically racist soldiers to face our men who strike explained that they were simply carrying reduced -- in most cases from $5000 and fast and with devastating accuracy bornof out their duties and persuading people to $10,000 to $1000 or $500. From the point a determination to meet rifle fire with go home. of view of the imprisoned defendents, rifle fire; to use force against force; and Each of the fifty-four was charged with however, the bail reduction was too little to return two blows for one, This has the same four offenses, including Mob and came too late: they had already been paralyzed the 'false valour of the White Obed Lopez being arrested at a welfare Action and Resisting Arrest. When the in jail for over a week and many were demonstration. (Rioto: Nanci Gitlin) cases finally came up for trial weeks still unable to raise the money to get out. SEPTEMBER 1967 THE MOVEMENT PAGE 9 RESISTANCE GROWS Con't. from Page 5 tivity. The summer began with most of the have generally followed a similar pattern. meetings, mailings and door - to - door in a large urban area has been to divide anti-draft activists refocusing their pro­ A union is set up with, at its core, discussions with guys on the I-A list, etc. the city into sma11 geographic areas grams from campus to community work. students, most of whom had been active in These activities, in most cases, are con­ (neighborhoods and draft board areas). There are now anti-draft programs in al­ campus anti-draft work. The union, at nected with such provocative acts as draft After the initial core of 20-25 was de­ most every major northern City and a base, is designed to (a) activate people to card burnings, induction refusals and dis­ veloped they began to send-off a few of number of cities in the south; such as, resist the draft, particularlY,by starting ruptions, and organizing people not to the full-time organizers out to the neigh­ Portland, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay with their own. relatiollship to the draft register. The acts of confrontation have borhoods to set up local cadres. These area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, and (b) act as a self protective agent for occurred both as local actions and are smaller "cells" would initiate program­ Denver, Austin, Des Moines, Kansas City, their members. They begin their activity being used as a part of such national ming in their own area and be largely Minneapolis, Chicago, Madison, Detroit, by organizing demonstrations around the programs as the End the Draft Week or autonomous, but would be in constant Cleveland, Cincinatti, New Orleans, At­ induction center for the area and simul­ the October 16 draft card turning-in. Out touch with the other "cells" and would lanta, Washington, Philadelphia, New York taneously setting up one or more service of this work there has developed numbers carry out joint actions at the induction City, Buffalo, New Haven and' Boston. centers. These provide a geographic base of different and imaginative ways of in­ center or where there were other city People have been working in a wide va­ for educational/organizing work and pro-· volVing large numbers of people in mean­ wide programs. riety of communities including white mid­ vide a matrix for plugging in draft coun­ ingful anti-draft activity. We will discuss In a new move in the development of dle and working class, Black, Puerto Ri­ selors who supply advice on ways of these programs in a future column. their draft program the SDS National Con­ can, and Mexican; all of them have pro­ beating the draft. vention passed a resolution calling for vided counseling services, most have been Then comes the development of a whole CADRE people to aid servicemen to desert. The involved in demonstrations around induc­ series of projectS designed to get the One of the most active and effective of resolution said, in part, •'SDS encourages tion centers, and some have also been in­ word out: leafleting at induction c~n­ draft unions has been CADRE (Chicago chapters and draft resistance unions to aid volved in a wide variety of other activities. ters, draft boards, on street corners, Area Draft Resisters) whu have found that servicemen in disseminating information Exclusive of local variations activities TV and radio interviews, speaking at the most successful way of organizing about conscientious objection and the w~__ advertisement in Vietnam, as well as aid them in opposi- tion and disrUPtion _ within the Armed Forces. We urge aid to servicemen who PROSPERITY wish to terminate their association with the Armed Forces by going underground. When Governor Paul Plans are now underway to implement Johnson heard of the this resolution and information that canbe /f)1a4£, '" made public will be available shortly. t est i m 0 n y telling of starving people in Mis­ issippi he had this to MADISON CONFERENCE The middle of August saw the gathering 1Vietnam war, anti-draft activities, and the Copies of the SNCC liberation struggles of oppressed peoples throughout this country and the world. Newsletter containing Anyone wishing to support the ABU fund "The Palestine Problem" drive is urged to send a contribution to are available from ABU Cultural Center, PO Box 182, Ber­ keley, Calif. SNCC, 360 Nelson St. SW, Atlanta, Ga. 30313 Copies are 20¢ each. advertisement --...;...------''-- THE WHITE QQESTION "There are only two paths open to the white workers: with the boss, or with the Negro workers; abandonment of all claim to share in the shaping of our destiny, or . repudiation of the white-skin privileges for which we, in our very infancy, pawned our revolutionary soul." from WHITE BLINDSPOT, a contributio~ to the discussion of proletarian strategy, by J .H. Kagin Osawatomie Pamphlet No.1 (25 pages) Order from Box 667, G.P.O., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202. Price, 25 cents. PAGE 10 THE MOVEMENT SEPTEMBER 1967 CASTRO WILL THEY DIE? Con'l. from P. 4 HQUSTON -- Five black students from intimidate him on state property. He was is drawn up. But it'is also false that Texas Southern University, all members Douglas Wayne Waller, a veteran of the the movement has no program, What is of TSU Friends of SNCC, have been war in Vietnam, He was seized and happening is that the Negro sector of the charged with murder in Houston, Texas. arrested, and the students screamedtheir BERSERK COPS population of the United States at this The students are: John Parker, 20; Traz­ rage as he was taken to jaiL I watched the pathetic confusion that moment, overwhelmed by daily repres­ well Franklin, Jr., 20; Charles Freeman, I was one of the arrested Sunnyside followed. Over 600 policemenrandown the sion, has concentrated its energies on 18; Floyd Nichols,. 25; Douglas Wayne protestors. At the request of the mayor, empty street on the defenseless parking defending itself, on resisting, on strug­ Waller, 21. I was released at about 12:30 AM Wed­ lot side under the street lights. And gle. They have been chargedwith the murder nesday and rushed to the campus at TSU they loosed a saivo of shots that sounded But it will not be long before they will of Patrolman Louis Kuba on May 17 and where I was told a "riot" was bUilding like a hundred machine guns as over discover something that is inevitable ac­ assault to murder in the shooting of two up. I was asked to help prevent it. 5,000 rounds of ammunition were poured cording to the law of society, the law of other officers: forth. They were in each other's way. history. And that is that the revolution- . We reprint here from an articlewritten Young rookies who had never seen real ary movement in'the United States will by a witness, Rev. William Lawson, pub­ TOO LATE danger fired wildly. One policeman shot arise from this Negro sector, I;>ecause lished in the Houston FORWARD TIMES But when the squad car arrived, it was another. One went berserk and was taken it is the most exploited and repressed on May 27, 1967: . obvious I was too late, The city police had away in shock. They had been sent into sector, the most brutally treated in the "A week after the explosion of violence already assembled a show of force by an unshielded opening, and they leaped United States; the revolutionary van­ at Texas Southern University, many people blocking the street with scores of squad behind trees, piles of dirt, telephone guard within the United States will arise wondered what happened. It has been called cars, barricade style, and helmeted of­ poles '-- anything. They shot through from the most mistreated, the most ex­ a "riot" but most of the ingredients ficers with aimed guns were holding the windows in spite of instructions to shoot ploited and oppressed of the Negro sec­ of a riot are absent. There is no evidence dormitories in their sights, high, and kept shooting when students tors. of looting. There were no noticeable at­ I was led to Rev, F, D, Kirkpatrick, inside begged to be allowed to bring out The revolutionary movementwithin U.S, tempts at repetition. There was not even usually effective in commanding the al­ wounded Morris English, shot through a society will arise from this sector by Widespread resistance to arrest even liegence of the students, and Rev .. Earl wall while he lay on his belly. the law of history - not for racial rea­ though brutality by police was painfully Allen, a skilledprofessionalwho organizes sons', but for social reasons, reasons of obvious. communities for the Economic Opportun­ exploitation and oppression, because this Yet for some reason the full concentra­ ities Organization, All three of us doubted KUBA KILLED sector is the most long suffering and tion of police power was sent to a college that we could convince anyone who might Young Louis Kuba was one who managed oppressed - as has been the case in campus and ordered to attack its dor­ be prepared to strike back at the police to rush over into the safety of a concrete all epochs of history; as occurred with mitories like an enemy village. One man to lay down any weapons he might have, pit in front of the unoccupied Student the Roman plebians, the glebe serfs of died, at least three were wounded by Rev Allen pleaded with Police Chief Union. This was the haven where news­ the Middle Ages and the workers and gunfire, scores of others were injured by Herman Short to remove the showofforc-e men found cover. But in the disorganized peasants of modern times. the police. One dormitory was so plun­ from the streets and block off Wheeler volleys of fire from behind them, even This is a social truth, a historic truth. dered as to render it unfit for residence. Street from through traffic, Short was the pit was not safe. The young officer, Have patience, and from that oppressed 489 college students were arrested - the reluctant, but agreed to a kind of. com­ huddled against the empty building, fell sector the revolutionary movement will largest mass arrest in the city, but this promise -- he would not .block off the back into the arms of a newsman, fatally arise - vanguard of a struggle - that incident does not have the earmarks of a street, but he would move the barricade wounded -- and no one knows whose bullet will one day liberate all of U.S. societyI Watts, why has it been so reported? of squad cars, We then realized he was from the countless hail oishots hit him. The chain of events which made ugly only pulling them back to the adjacent The FBI has been to the spot still soaked history on that night have never been block; the guns were still very much in with his spurting blood, and they know it UNITY fully reported, because the victims and the view. did not come from a dormitory. There That is why we must reject ~ as in­ witnesses have not been quoted. That chain We looked desperately around for some are no rooms or windows on the east jurious and slanderous - the attempt to of events might cast blame on thecity students who might be leaders of the scared end of the dormitoryl· present the Negro movement in the United 'rather than on the students, and the city and angry boys milling around the lawns Shortly after 2 AM the main volleys States as a problem of racism. We hope does not want to bear on its hands the and driveways. and realiz.ed to our horror stopped. The police dashed into the dor­ they will give up the illusion that anyone guilt of the blood of young Louis Kuba..• that no existing leadership could be iden­ mitory with fire-axes and drawn guns. has deceived anyone. The drawing to­ tified. Most of the student leaders were The housemother had been forced to hit gether of the revolutionaries of the United in jail off campus. We cornered a couple the floor with all the boys when officers, States and those of Latin America is the EARLY PRO.TESTS of students and began to tell them the guns and dogs charged into the building. most natural thing in the world, and the Frustrated citizens in Northeast lie that Chief Short was removing the The police trampled over her body (she most spontaneous. And our people have Houston and in Sunnyside had been pro­ invasion force. But they knew better, is still in the hospital at this wr.iting) been very receptive to and very capable testing two completely separate conditions and somebody yelled, "Then we'll block and rather than use her passkey, broke of admiring Stokely for the courageous all day Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, the street ourselvesl" We turned des­ open doors with .axes, ripped doWlT ceil­ statements he has made in the oLAS Con­ May 16. Negro students expelled from perately to see big sheets of corrugated ing tiles, broke mirrors and brutally ference, because we know that this re­ Northwood Junior High School for fight­ metal being thrown out into the streets attacked students with clubs and dogs. quires valor, because we know what it ing with white students were not re-ad­ to obstruct cars, and behind us rolled means to make such statements within a mitted when the white students were; two large tar barrels from the construc­ society that applies the most cruel and and a long protested garbage dump near tion materials. They had been soaked POLICE LOOTING brutal procedures of repression, that Sunnyside had claimed the life of an 11 With' kerosene, and somebody threw a They saidthey were looking for weapons, constantly practices the worst crimes year old boy. On Tuesday afternoon stu­ match at the metal cylinders. It burst into but students' statements of loss listed against the Negro sector of its population; dents from city high schools and colleges flames... record players, band instruments, even a and we know how much hatred his state­ joined the citizens in both protests, ,, It was then that the''riot'· began. Chief 'little walkie-talkie in the apartment of ments will arouse among the oppressors. For Some reason Houston policefocused Short, without warning to anybody gave the housemother was snatched from its And for this reason, we believe that on the easilyidentified concentration of what must have been the most blunder­ styrofoam box and smashed. the revolutionary movements all over Negroes at TSU, Students already ir­ ing order of the evening. The brutalization of students -- I was the world must give Stokely their utmost ritable, yelled jeers at a groWing build­ He had not arranged to surround, the brutalized too, until somebody said, support as protection against the repres­ up of squad cars, Heavy weapons .and dormitories nor to demand evacuation of "That's Reverend Lawson." (You don't sion of the imperialists, so that it will police dogs were in evidence near Jep­ all occupants (a step invariably taken brutalize blacks you recognize) -- was be very clear that any crime committed pesen stadium. Some students threw a when an unknown number of armed and the order of the night. One young man against the leader will have serious reper­ watermelon rind at a parked squad car, unarmed people are inside a building). had his hand broken; a foreign student cussions throughout the world. And our The air was tense as the two police He had not arranged to use tear gas or who could not understand orders barked solidarity can help to protect Stokely's officers emerged and the students ducked other non-lethal means of control taking. at him was severely beaten and hos­ life. off the street -- all except one who But he gave the command to charge pitalized; many were taken to jail half­ claimed that city police had no right to the dormitories, and to shoot as they naked and beaten, pushed and shoved. U.S. REVOLUTIONARIES And this is why - because all these COVER UP inevitable events within the process are LIBERATION 15 COMING It became vital for the Chief of Police developing - revolutionaries are getting to prove that the decision was wise and together, internationalism is being prac­ FROM A BLACK THING was approved even by Negroes. And the ticed. We believe that the attitude of this Mayor has had to use the mass media U.S. revolutionary leader offers a great ...,;/ LOS ANGELES -A Western Regional individual and group. which attends is re­ to deny what many statements and photo­ lesson, a great example of militant inter­ Black Youth Conference will be held in qUired to present a position paper which graphs and the reports of the FBI will nationalism, something very character­ Los Angeles, November 23 - 25, with the outlines the group's history and ways in show: that the massive attack on TSU istic of revolutionaries. We undoubtedly theme of LIBERATION IS COMING FROM which the group could work with other was a panic action forced by clumsy sympathize much more with this type of A BLACK TI-IING. This conference grows black youth organizations. TI.ese papers leadership. And that the building up of revolutionary than with the super-theore­ out of a proposal at the National Black will also include criticisms; suggestions that force was originally designedto teach ticians who are revolutionary in word but Power Conference held recently in Newark and alternatives for the workshops at the a lesson to Negroes in Houston; that the bourgeois in deed. ~/ for a National Black Youth Conference conference. city is strong enough and determined This internationalism cannot be mere­ to be held in Chicago on December 24. Workshops topics include the draft, enough to crush any uprising. ly proclaimed: it must be practicedl And Regional conferences will preceed the political responsibility of black The tragic twist which took a man's the Negroes of the United States are national one. politicians, black ~ultural revolution, life was unexpected. ChiefShort's bungling offering resistance, they are offering Purposes of the conference are: 1. To black economics, role of black women, troops were very funny in the empty armed resistance. They didn't go around establish a national black communication and many others. street with their trembling hands and propounding theses, or talking about ob­ system; 2. To create awareness and pro­ Donations and people are needed to their extra ammUnition. But nobody laughs jective conditions before they seizedwea­ mote activity in the western states of. help promote the conference. Send dona­ -- nobody laughs at all. pons to defend their rights. They did Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, tions and requests for information to: Much will be determined by the courts not seek a philosophy -and, much less, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Western Black Youth Conference -- but the final price was paid by the a revolutionary philosophy - to justify and Oregon; 3. Establish operationalunity c/o Jahid students, whose chief crime was that inaction. with inner city groups; and 4. Define and 711-1/2 W. 49th St., Los Angeles, Calif. they had not dropped out of school before And we believe that if there is any present new meaningful alternatives as to 90037. 231-0339 the police attacked Texas Southern Uni­ country where the struggle is hard, where how to cast off the oppression as im­ or: versity. the struggle is difficult, that country is posed on black and oppressed people. National Black Youth Conference Rev. William Lawson the United States. Aud here we have U.S. To safeguard the conference from be­ c/o James Librud FORWARD TIMES revolutionaries setting an example and :oming just another talk session, each 627 E. 9th St., New York, N.Y. 10009 May 17, 1967 giving us lessonsl SEPTEMBER 1967 THE MOVEMENT PAGE 11 LIFE IS HELL IN THE NA~1 Con't from Page 1

and if somebody gets too loud when me how bad it was, but I figured it When they had that fire on the DESERTION they're drunk the shore patrol hauls couldn't be iliAT bad, so I enlisted. ORISKANY that killed 34, they went them 'back to the ship and secures' My shore duty and school floated to gung-ho on the idea of fire pre­ Q. What do you think, now having to .their liberty. Vietnam the minute I got out of cautions, and they pulled a drill leave for another tour in a day? q, How did people on the CORAL SEA Boot Camp. on the men of the CORAL SEA. A. I've thought about going over the feel about the truces, say the last They set up the' same conditions. hill, and I've thought about 16,000 one on New Year's Day? NAVY CONDITIONS They shut off all the lights and had different ways I could get A. Oh, it was great! New Year's Eve observers standing around saying out. But the only thing they'ddo would we started and the end of New Year's Q. How are conditions on ship? where there were fires. Instead of be to put me in the brig on a ship, day we quit. They never once stopped A. You usually work 14 or 16 hours a 34 guys being killed, there were and there is no way of telling what the bombing. They loaded planes and day. They have it worked out. They 83, and 250 injured. Half the ship it would be like. When you're in the took off all day. figure if you work so damn hard all was burnt and it nearly sunk. brig, they just get away with any­ day, you just go to sleep; you're Q. What happens during a real fire? thing. They could put you down there not going to bitch about anything ­ A.. I don't know if any of you have and forget about you, and nobody ABOUTTHEWAR. • • and you get up in the morning and ever been on an aircraft carrier will ever know that they did it. They Q. How do you feel about the war, now, go back to work. And then they throw with solid steel around when the can beat you up and keep you awake having been over there? in these ridiculous watches so you lose lights have gone out, when there's for six or seven days at a time, A. Well, I'm tired of risking my fuck­ a little more sleep. By that time you no hatch to the outside. It's dark: just screaming in your ear. By that ing life for Johnson's bullshit. When just say, "Fuck it." When you come you can't see anything. They have time what kind of a guy are you, any­ you're over there, it seems like aboard the ship, you get this "dream little lanterns that are supposed to way. You're a jellyfish; you can't you're playing some stupid fucking sheet," where you can say whether go on automatically when the lights think. I was in the brig once, and game •.•I don't see why they keep you want to be a plane-puf:her, store­ go out. But for some reason none I could never take it again. So that it up, they should just get the hell keeper, or barber. And then they of them have been fixed in the last wouldn't be a real alternative for out. They've wasted all this time, put you where they want. Uke they eight or ten years, and only one out me. They've got everybody in the money, and lives for nothing. I don't just brought on 500 new guys. They of six or seven works. If you're not Navy afraid of what they'll do that want to go back. were quite short in G Division, which in the right place, it's all over. nobody really would start anything. Q. What made you change your feelings is ·bomb-handling. It didn't make any Last year there was quite a problem If somebody could start it, like if about the war? difference what people put down; they with men hurting their feet, They'd they could organize it, it would be A. Well, having been-t-over there, and wound up pushing bombs. drop bombs or heavy gear on them. all over with. The Navy wouldn't having had to put up with all the The men wanted safety shoes but know what happened. There'd be no­ bullshit the Navy puts out. the Navy didn't want to shell out the body left to run their stupid, fuck­ Q. Is there much opposition to the war SAFETY money for it. So after several hun­ ing ships. among the crew members? Q. How are safety conditions on board? dred people lost toes, they finally Last cruise there were four orfive A. Oh yes, quite a lot. Actually most. What safety precautions are takenfor gave in, Everyone still doesn't have attempts of guys trying to get out of of the crew isn't too morally con­ the men? them yet. the brig. One guy I knew personally, cerned, they just want out because A, They take care of that real welL You they really fucked him over. They they're tired of risking their lives should look up whether or not the put him in the brig on a trumped­ for some bullshit. All they want to do papers ever had anything about this LIVING CONDITIONS up charge. He appealed it, and got is come back. If Johnson suddenly accident that happened on the Coral Q. How are the actual living conditions? some officers pissed at him. So came up to that ship and said, "Well, Sea two or three weeks ago. I A. Well, we're stacked four high in they just kept him down there and if you don't want to go, just walk off, hear, this was some petty officer's rows of bunks. Uving that close kept fucking him over, Finally he 3/4 of the crew would leave and that mistake. He put this kid up there together, there's a lot of diseases tried to cut his wrists. When that ship wouldn't go anywhere. I even who didn't even know what he was going around. They've got it so you failed, and they were marching him think the pilots would do it too. Not doing. He didn't look where he was won't dare go down to sick bay, from one place to another, he triee all of them are gung-ho about fight­ going and backed into a propeller. You'll have to die before they let to jump overboard. ing for their country. He lost both his arms and half his you in the front door. If you have a Q. How long has the CORAL SEA beep Q. How do some of the olcer men, par­ back. He lived for about a day~ Last stomach ache and go down there, in port? ticularly the chiefs and officers feel cruise one guy lost a leg when a they'll say, "Well, you're just try­ A•. Since February 23. We went down about the war? plane ran over it. Two guys once ing to get out of work." So they'll to San Diego for two or three weeks, J>.. The lifers, which is the perfect term got blown off the flight deck. They put you on medical restriction which and have gone out for ten days at a used for them in the Navy, they go were near an elevator where a plane means no liberty - and you'll still time a couple times. in for so long that they are afraid was turning up. Often they try to work. The dental department's really Q. How many guys have gone' over the to go on the outside. They'll put up refuel ships or bring ammunition good. Instead of fixing your teeth hill during that time? with anything just to have a little aboard when it's really hazardous they just pull them out. It's quicker A. They make out a list of the guys security. to do so. They lost three guys during to pull them, I guess. They don't fill' who are UA (UnauthorizEd Absence) one operation like that and only found them well. After a few weeks the and the guys who are deserters. That one of them. Guys have also fallen filling falls out so you go back down list is single-spaced, and two pages HOW TO ORGANIZE? down hatches. At least once a day again and they say, "It wouldn't long. There are at least 100 guys on Q. What do you think would be the best you'll see somebody hobbling around stay:' So they pull your teeth. there. (There are 4000 men on the thing to organize around? the hangar bay with a broken leg ship. -ED.) A. Bringing the guys home would do itl or something like that. Q. These are guys who haven't been A lot of them, they have been over I wish rhey'd bring some inspec­ TURNING ON caught? there all this time, and they have kind tors on board from a civilian group Q. At Lemoore Naval Air Base in Cali­ A. None of them have been caught. of lost contact with what's been hap­ instead of the Navy guys who over~ fornia there have been a lot of guys Q. About how many guys have been pening over here, like with the war look hazards. The ship could fall turning on. Has this happened on the brought back or have turned them­ movement and everything. All they apart tomorrow but they'd never say CORAL SEA? selves in? really want is justto come home. Uke anything about it. They're using Oxy­ A. Let's put it this way: If everybody A. Not very many. In the Navy the rule me, I could probably hackthe Navy for gen Breathing Appratus units that on the CORAL SEA did it all at once is that if you go over the hill you the rest of my enlistment if I was have been out of date since World and decided that they wanted to leave, are UA until you go over the thirty­ staying over here and if I was able War II. We had 115 fires during the the ship wouldn't go anywhere be­ day limit. Then you're-adeserter. to get off at night and see what the last cruise. A fire is the most haz­ cause there would only be half the Once that happens they can hang your rest of the world has to offer, instead ardous thing that can happen on a ship crew on it. ass no matter what. Usually guys of getting stuck in Vietnam doing because they carry so much fuel Q. You'd say about half of the guys will go over for 29 days and then say, their dirty work for them. Three ­ and so many bombs. turn on? "Well, you can have me back for a quarters of the guys don't want to go Then there's the 'fog foam we use .A. Yes. The Navy has been trying to while." They get 30 days in the brig, back to Vietnam. That's why so ma'ny for electrical fires. When it sits make them drink, but their attempt lose their hair, go through hell, then guys go over the hill. If somebody around, the ingredients settle to the hasn't been too successful. The last go out and do it again. could organize them we could really bottom, so it has to be replaced two months that the ship has been Q. What are you going to do when you do something. every six years. We have some on in Alameda I will guarantee that there get back on ship? What organizing do Q. You enlisted in the Navy. What sort the ship from 1942 and 1946. We went has been a terrific increase in the you think you can do? , of things were you promised? Were around last cruise and marked every number of guys who have started to A. I'm going to try to talk to guys, but those promises lived up to? one of them with the date they should use grass. Now it's moving in to I'm not too, much on the organizing A. I think I have the perfect story for have been replaced. The markings LSD and in some cases, STP. The thing. I'd JUSt like to get the Navy in that. Probably everybody I've talked are still there, and they're still guys are actually happy for once. trouble. Maybe get a little light shed to or asked about got fucked in the sitting in the same place. This was They've finally found a way to for­ on some of the shit they're putting same way. You go to these recruit­ about six months ago. We're hoping get about the, fact that they are out. I'm just glad to fuck over Uncle ers - they place them around very that one of these days the Navy will stuck in the Navy and that they can't Sam. He just shit on my life, and now neatly - and they tell you how great decide to make it safer for us. get out of it. it's my turn. the Navy schools are. Well they do have good schools, but what the re­ ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• cruiters don't tell you is that it's harder than hell to· get into them. And once the Navy puts 'you some­ where, you can't do anything about it. You could put in a request to be sent to school, but they.just file it away and forget about you. That's NAME all. I've got a high school education, and couldn't afford college. Before I ADDRESS went in, I talked to this recruiter who told me that I could get shore duty and go to school. I had talked ~~~~~~~~~~~3_C~I_T~Y;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!S_T~_A~T~E~~~~~~~~~;}_Z~I_P~_=_~=_=_= to some guys in the Navy who hadtold ...... ) MAIL TO THE MOVEMENT 449 14th STREET SEND- ONE TO A fRIENDI SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94103 PAGE 12 THE MOVEMENT SEPTEMBER 1967

OAKLAND -- Plans for a four-day seige of the Oakland Induction Center, October 16 - 21 "tLL, were announced today by spokesmen for National STOP THE DRAFT Week Com­ mittee. Compulsory conscription was labeled

to a criminal conspiracy against American youth that must be stopped." , "We have picketed, protested, leafletted and argued against the draft and -the racist war in Vietnam," said Terence Cannon, member of the STOP THE DRAFT Steering Committee. "There is only one way to keep young men from being shanghaied into the armed forces and that is to stop the draft from operating. We declare that we are opposed to the government's policy and will do everything we can to bring it to a halt. "In every brig and stockade in America are hundreds of Gl's jailed for refusing to serve in Vietnam. There is tremendous dis­ sent within the armed forces. Individuals are powerless inside a totalitarian army. We plan to create a base of power that will keep the government from forcing more young men in against their will." BY OUR DECREE Steering Committee member MorganSpec­ tor stated, "This week marks a declaration of war by us, the draft age men, on the Army: on the brass, on the generals and all the other old men in the government and the Pentagon who are happy to shed the blood of young Americans in military op­ pression against foreign countries and the urban centers of America. "Our participation in this week means we are no longer willing to accept the feeling that we are impotent over our own lives either ­ until we have been shot up in Vietnam or THERE WILL are too old for the Army to want us." Reverend Don Ganoung, speaking in sup­ port of the week's activities said, "A Christian now faced with the draft has two alternatives. Be drafted and be a potential executioner for Murder Incorporated, USA, BE ADRAFT or be imprisoned. Man cannot, nor a nation cannot, maintain sanity when these are the only consequences of a decision. Stop the war. Stop the draft." Ganoung, an episcopal priest, is the Oakland staff worker for the Right Reverend -C. K. Myers, Bishop of the HOLIDAY Episcopal Diocese of California. Another supporter of the action, Professor Franz Schurmann, Asian Studie,s expert at the University of California, said, "The United States is destroying a small people for rea­ sons that have nothing to do with national defense. It threatens to expand that war to satisfy the Pentagon's hunger for world domination. "Since no other country is willing to pro­ vide the cannon fodder for the Pentagon's THE OAKLAND appetite, it must be the young men of Ameri­ ca. Since the draft has become the instru­ ment to provide cannon fodder for an im­ moral and unjust war, the draft itself is immoral and unjust. The draft and ulti­ INDUCTION mately all of America's instruments of ag­ gression must be done away with. 'Other­ wise America will go the way of Nazi Germany." .. The committee also announced that they CENTER WILL will begin an extensive campaign in high schools and colleges in the Bay Area, using a mobile theater group and speakers to bring their anti-draft message to young people. "It is the young people who are under the gun, and it is the young people who will stop BE CLOSED the draft," a spokesman said.

Official endorsers of STO P THE DRAFT Week to date are:

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -_.--- (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), National Mobilization - Draft Re­ sistance Project, THE MOVEMENT (SNCC­ affiliated newspaper), THE SPOKESMAN (Hunters Point community newspaper), Oak­ land Peace and Freedom Center, Oakland Direct Action Committee, Alliance for Black Unity., Berkeley Anti-Draft Union, S.F. Draft • Resistance Union, The Resistance, June 23rd Movement, Marin County Vietnam Summer, Portland Draft Resistance Union, Seattle Draft Resistance Union, UnitedStudenr Move­ ment (high school).

FOR INFORMATION ON STOP THE DRAFT ACTIVITIES IN OTHER CITIES, CONTACT: PORTLAND: Bill Vandercook, 233-1264 SEATILE: Fred Lonidier, PO Box 713 STOP THE DRAFT WEEK COMMITTEE BOSTON: Paul Schacter, Chuck Isenberg, 5 Cadbury Road, Cambridge, 492-6700 449 14TH ST. NEW YORK CITY: Nick Salvatore~ 280 9th Ave, Maris Cakars, 857 Bway, 675-4605 MADISON: Draft Resistance Union, 107 State SAN FRANCISCO Street HFII Nn LOS ANGELES: Mike Klonsky, 663-9628 626·4577