ACTIVISTS’ GUIDE: CENTRAL AMERICA, WOMEN, LABOR, ENVIRONMENT, PEACE... I SOLIDARITY SUMMI:R I ’86 0 Summer, 1986 Volume 11, Number 16 Published at UCSD 19th Year of Publication AS MOVES TO SLASH INSIDE The AS ElectionsChallenges NEW INDICATOR BUDGET The AS Media Board met with representativesof the Yardbirds CentralAmerica alternativemedia on Monday,June 2 to determinehow much money to allocateto each newspaper.The recent Frats Shantytowns studentreferendum directed the AS to maintainthe Brin~Back Big Mac~ media’scurrent fundin~ level. While the budgetsfor most of the alternativemedia did indeedremain un- SpecialSection touchedor receiveda slightincrease, the new indicator II budgetwas slashedby 23%--almostall fromour printin~ New Indicator Non-ProfitOrg. budget--worsethan the beatin~it wouldhave received StudentOrganizations U.$.Postage UC San Diego,B-023 PAID from the infamous Fahlbuschproposal rejected by La Jolla,CA 92093 La Jolll,CaM. studentsand repealedby the new councilat theirfirst PermitNo. ~4 meeting(see inside). 3 2 From the Mouthof the Wolf: preventits recurrence. It is thefeeling of of the consequencesof blindlyleaping OPINION’. the majorityof Nicaraguansthat the intoa warin whichwe haveno justifiable Commentary: arrivalof U.S.troops is inevitable,and reason being involved.We can only the Sandinistaarmy is consequently speculatehow reflective this action is of Revolution in America preparingto defendtheir country from the Reaganscheme to escalatehis war Community Colleges Need Change foreigninvaders. and, in the meantime,misinform tbe Left Bantustans (’learcut issue~are rare nowadays,ol the State ot California’shigher Revolutionhas cometo the Americas. his insanewar provocationswill be Withthe aid of largenumbers of well- ncitizenryof thisnation of thesituationi We ha’.cone rightunder our no,cs, in educationsalary scale. The peasantsand workersin Central acceptedby enoughto pass the bill CentralAmerica. In SouthAfrica’s Bantustans, existing the Reagan administration.What wc armed,well-trained U.S. troops,the out localcommunitycollegcs, lhevat(’ The community colleges were Americahave finallysaid "No" to the beforethe Novemberelections. The FSLN flag in Managua flies ethnic and tribal rivalries are mustbear in mindis that allpeople have contrascould very easily entrench their goingdownhill la.~t, and tw(’att,~e Ol separated from the kindcrgardcn U.S.and its puppetdictatorships. This NextJanuary, though, there will be a proudlyover an embittereddemocracy deliberately manipulated by the a right to resist oppression and homelandin a long and unnecessary t!~ll~,ttl(3tltil~¢’lH(’ll[. through12th gradesystem more than a declarationof self-determination seeking peace. In Pan-American governmentas a means of controlling dominationwherever it exists,whether it new House. Its compositionwill be bloodbath that would decimate decadeago, on the ~av towardsjoining naturallyhas notbeen well-received in decidedby the extentto whichthe new solidarity,we must lay aside our the oppressedAfrican majority’. The is a patriardhalhousehold, a South Undergood naanagcment, I v, ouldnot Nicaragua,and, most likely,a large withthe state unixcrsity arm UC system, Washington, where methods of ideologiesand realize the real enemies of authoritiesin Pretoriaare wellaware Africangold mine, a bananaplantation ha’,eto tell\ou about their situation. onslaughtof Reagan’sramblings is portionof CentralAmerica, for years lhcyarc in limboand in needof help. maintainingthe "statusquo’" are being acceptedand will decidethe immediate the peopleof Nicaraguaare terrorist that such divisionsand conflictsare in CentralAmerica, or a Palcstinian IhcitBoard i)t I rustcc~and (’hanccllor even after the fightingstops.Reagan formulatedconstantly. counterevolutionariesand repressive crucialin maintainingI preservingl white refugeecamp in Southernl,cbanon. would ha~c intormcdthe community I hc State(’ommission on Review’ot the futureof thiscontinent. If thePresident maintainsthat a U.S.invasion will not MasterPlan holds to my formulations U.S.imperialism. minorityrule and slave-likeeconomic longago. I,et me exphtin. Moreover,if we allowourselves to be can drum up enough anti-communist happen. It is of coursetrue that much ot the on the needlor collegialautonom3 and buriedunder President Reagan’s recent ignoranceand prejudice to passhis aid exph)itationThe apartheid (which fragmentationattd atomizationot the I he inlormationthey had ~upte~scd Whyshould we believehim.’ ,"~cttitlE~ The peopleof the Revolutiondo need upgradingol thev,;.t’, the faculties arc delugeof propaganda,we willallow our bill,there will be verylittle to prevent meansapart and separate)system would progressivemovement in the I’.nitcd brokeinto the open on April31) ol thi~ aside any speculationsof Reagan’s our help to becomefree. Their freedom treated, plus strong ad~ocacx ol governmentto perpetuatea longhistory him fromescalating his private war with crumblerapidly if thevarious groups of \ear, ,ahcn 200 (’itxCollege students, militaristicnature, we need only to wouldbe hastenedby a diligenteffort on Statesis not of our ¢)~n doing and outreachand remedialprograms to deal of installingand supportingunpopular Managua. Africans,Coloureds, and Indiansfound intuit\itnd administratt+rs, in+. historic examinethe facts.For example,it is an ourpart to reflectupon the errors of our reflectsreal divisionsand conflicts withthe droppingenrollment. ways to work aroundtheir difference: show+or unanitnit.~,descended on the andrepressive regimes, the practice that Quitesimply, the counterrevolution-openfact thatthe CaliforniaNational governmentin Vietnam,Haiti and the withinour society. Nor should wc lorgct South African Bishop Desmond Tutu (economic,political, ethnic, ideological) the FBI’ssecret COINTEI,PR() war headquarters ol the (’otnmunit~ Such, in briefis my xcrsionol the ariesare fighting a war theycannot win Guard,which has a high percentageof Philippines,and can be expeditedby the calls,"backing the wronghorse." to challengethe regime’s ability to keep politicaldissent, the CIA’s surveillance (’ollcgcsto sa\cthe 250 classes to bc cut situation.Fhere is much to be done withoutconsiderable U.S. intervention. Chicanosand Latinos,is beingsent to combinationof an elevatedlevel of themdivided. This is why organizationsanddisruption of anti-~’argroups, and lromtheir curriculum. I heir capacit} to Iirst.the Boardol Trusteesof the San For example,the FSLN government A successfulrevolt requires two factors: the Nicaragua/Honduranborder for knowledge and understandingamong likethe ANC and individuals like Nelson theoverall role of staterepression and translerto uni+ersiticsand (’ira’s xcrx l)icgo (’ommunityCollege District in Nicaragua,the institutionreceiving armsand popularsupport. Historically, "training." thepeople of theUnited States and their Mandela are targetted by the needs an intusionof new blood.I am the majorityof Reagan’scurrent wrath, withoutthe approvalof the masses, governmentand actionto see that the defactomedia censorship in maintaining existenceas a comprehensivecollege The mainstreammedia has donelittle rt,ning for lrustec in DistrictA, which U.S.government’s role in supportingthe government-their goal is national muchof thisfragmentation. But neither werein danger.lhc groupbrought the was wellon its way towardsecuring its weapons can, at best, only secure to show that U.S.soldiers are already liberation and the democratic takesin l,aJolla, tlnivcrsity City. Pacific leadershipfor a short, tumultuous (’ontras ends immediately. The shouldwe foolourselves we oltendo it lrusteesaround, for the moment. role in CentralAmerica when someone seeingcombat. This kind of negative bloodbaththat has begunwith a whisper participationof all groups in thesocial to ourselves through unnecessar3 Theircollege is stillin danger,until it Beach and North Clairemont.Maryann in Washingtonsuddenly realized the periodof time.The Nicaraguanpeople publicity,if mademore accessible to the andpolitical life of SouthAfrica. Zounesis runningin DistrictC, covering willnot sway in theirstance; they are the neednot end witha bang. intoleranceand self-righteousness. changesfundamentally. Enrollment has obvious,that the overthrowof the public, would bring the war too the southwestand centralparts of San regime headed by Anastasio Somoza Sandinistas.They fully rememberthe Lookingat the movementfor peace Theseare indeedgrim times, and the beendropping for some fi+e years. Plant perilously close to home for our Beow l)iego. hellof lifeunder a U.S.-backeddictator andjustice in theUnited States, one gets mean-spiritedrightward drift of andequipment arc deteriorating, ona 17 was a people’srevolt. The response was governmentto allow;it wouldremind us predictable.The CIA ralliedtogether and will do ~nything necessary to the feelingthat the variousgroups and Americansociety towards repression at yearreplacement cycle. Because of an Next, wc need expressions of Young Brownshirts organizationshave been fragmented into homeand militaryintervention abroad (mtmodedcorporate adversarial style of solidarity.]here are three areas of actual some of Somoza’s well-known left Bantustansby some malevolent shouldbe reasonenough for us to work management, the faculty, though connection between UCSD and the supporters, numerous mercenaries, reactionaryCubans defeated in the 1958 spiritor force.Here one observesa harderto overcomeour differences.A devotedand able, borders on a stateof community’colleges: graduate students in Love processof singleissue "tribal"