r t .t, October 26, 197814Ot Count Every Single Ch¡ld-A Storyof Busing tf Corleben So/ I Leben: A Desire for Life ,..., t;ì:-:r. Ì".* t ? LETTERS Traveling home from the August 6th action at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (near San Luis Obispo), I was struck by a comment a fellow protestor made as I sat in a Mexican cafe along the route nérth. At a nearby table, someãne asked this person what he thought ofthe protest: was any optimism to be gathered from the rally and civil disobedience? He quickly remarked that it " "all depends on the coverage, Mv reaction was a mixture of unspok"en gloom and anger, and so I drank down another beer. Not expressing my feelings to that media huckster forced me to write this letter. WIN seemed like a good place to give my impressions' some space. \ The importance of the August 6th action can not really be measured by the weight the national media gives to it. The media's purpose is to control and package the news like cornflakes tbr commuters to read while on the trains to work. The day was really one of solidarity and acknowledgement-for civil disobedience protestors and supporters alike. In just one year's time the number of people willing to break the state's laws, precisely because the state continues to breech all sanity by developing nuclear power, has risen nearly ten-fold, As for the thousands who were at the rally, it may be said of them that they took the first few steps towaid active resistance. For undout¡tedly, many of last year's spectators became this year's CD protestors. Therein lies the importance and success ofAugust óth. So true to its nature, the media has not acknowledged this fact, nor has it felt a need to describe the abundant information that comprised the Alternative Energy Fair, that was also part ofthe event. From all the solar generators, windmills, and printed material that was set up along the beach site came a con- structive program for our energy development. Undoubtedly the event was a rewardlng for me. I was a stage monitor to be the rally, and felt in myfirst ln act which with the nonviolent have led me to and anti-nuclear movements in California seemed to be put in abeyance for the moment, I acted in concert with others, and with a sense of fulfilling some of my own conviciions. The scenario for the protest action called for the members of affinity groups ' to scale the fences with ladders. In a symbolic sense, those same ladders may indicate some of the lengths the Abalone 2 WIN October 26, 1978 Alliance must still travel in building its movement. For some of the day's program and politics seemed muddled, or perhaps not entirely thought out. ' Avowed socialist elements participated in the hction also, and that w¡s a irew development for me. Recl Abalones and the Peace and Freedom Party, along with a distinctly socialist affinity group, made it be known that some people would rather smash capitalism than atoms. It seems a bit incongruent for MarxÏsts to work with an Alliance of avowed decentralist principles. . Also of interest was one leaflet handed to me by an A.d Hoc Socialist network.lt spelled out, for the first time, a radical perspective on the nature ofenergy and jobs. Rather than just repeating the Alliance's demand (which has its roots in liberalism) for a labor-intensive energy policv, the leaflet attacked the very nature of work itself in America: the 40 hours ofmechanized routine and destructive production that is ever present in this system. Those who went to Diablo Canyon on August 6 surely want to see the antinuclear movement grow. One way for, that to happen is to maintain the decentralized nature ofthe Alliance and the type of action it had. Many affinity groups were formed. and it is my hope they stay intact. Tremendous growth and political work can be accomplished if they continue to act-especially in a spontaneous fashion. The gates of Diablo and the streets of California's communities will need persistent pro: tests if Diablo is to be stopped. -DAVIDPINGITO.RE SanTrancisco, Calif. I foùnd your Auguit I 7th Transportation Issue very informative. I'm sure many others besides myself appreciated the GM article, having been too young or non-existent at the time to realize what the company was up to. But I must respond to T. Beadle's Ietter (WIN, 9/28/78) in which he concludes that "In urban areas, the public had decided. . . that the public is better served by such a (automobile) transportation operation. Mr. Beadle supports his statement by " citing the underuse ofbike racks at suburban Philadelphia transit stations, It takes more than bike iacks to make cycling a viable means of daily transportation in urban areas. It takes a minirevolution, in which everyone's cón. sciousness is sensitized to the needs and rights of cyclists. In Ann Arbor, cycling, in conjunction with city and university busés, has increasingly become popular as a mode of transporation for many more that the students, due to local efforts at improving cycling conditions. Sidewalk bike routes with the curbs flattened (a city ordinance for the handicapped which vastly improves cycling safety). bike lanes ori major streets, bike route stop signs for motorists, racks at major buildings and bus stops-all these invite people to cycle instead ofclutter- ing the vicinity with cars. Most important is the sensitivity of Ann Arbor motorists, who are in the habit of watching out for cyclists and leaving room on the road for them. (l can personally contrast this to my cvcling experiences in suburtjan Philadelphia, where I was subjected to numerous instances of downright viciousness by side-pinching motorists.) We pride ourselves on our cycliig comnrunity, We even have a bicycle delivery service, "The Freewheel Express, ' ' which operates year-round t delivering anything from computer printouts to groceries. This type of energy-saving, constructive business could only operate in a supportive en, vironment. Transportation habits won't change unless we provide positive inducements inviting change, the most impoltant inducement being our attitude. -JANETSMARR AnnArborr Mich. As a personal anecdote, Delia AguilarSan Juan's "CIass Struggle on the Feminist Front" (WIN, 9/28/78)was interesting. But as mature social analysis it flopped. The main point that stared me in the face as I read her story was that when the federales adminster some social engineering, the "social change agents" must make sute that what is done will not offend the federales. In a quasi-democracy such as that in the US, with different pressure groups influencing decisions by-the federales, this is a very delicate balancing act. To conduct a seminar with papers and movies that stress themes such as the relationship between the oppression ofwomen pnd capitalism, to the exclusion of alter'nativc analyses, is simply too risky; Any participant might run to Congress and the entire program, inwhich the "social change agents" seem to believe and from which they seem to derive various benefits, could be challenged. What is so wrong with the line of analysis is this effort to blame it all on capitalism. Clearly China, Russia, Albania, and numerous other socialist countries experience extensive sexism. The Marxist idea that economics ac. counts for the superstructures of religion, etc. just won't do-different economic systems have very similar religious superstructures. Even in the case of the TISD;program Ms. Aguilar.San Juan described it was not caoitalism but the hierarchical structure arid the authoritarian character of socialist (as in ' 'having the social goal' ') bureaucratic program that accounts best for the situation (without knowing the case much .' better). .' Finally what is so insidious about the analysis is that it treats people as cogs in some mechanistic system where they could have no will, ergo no responsibilities of their own. Maybe indeed Betsy and Fanny were not very nice people. Is that impossible? Should we explain away Ms. Aguilar-San Juan's behavior-including her essay-as a mere event in the unfolding of history's dialectical developmenî? But then why is Betsy's or Fanny's event less important or lèss valid? By what standard do we consider Ms. Apuilar-San Juan's case a noble one while ñe regard Betsy's or Fanny's reactionarv? " _TIBORR.MACHAN SantaBarbara, Callf. I want to thank W.D. Ehrhartfor his review ofthree books by black poets in the September 28 issue. He asks what we cañ do about apartheid in South Africa and refers to the '-'Dear Swarthmorean" letter from President Friend who denlores racism in S. Africa but decides ãgainst divestment of stock in Amerþan cómpanies with subsidiaries in S. AfriCa. I, toe, received the letter. I enclose a copy ofmy reply in the hope that, ifpublished in your magazine, other Swarthmore graduates may want to remind our Quaker college that it has a tradition to affirm: a tradition of peace and justice and brotherhood more precious than the 18 percent return from corporate investments in s' Africa' -MÄRyByE Doylestown, Penn. Dr. Thçodore Friend .Swarthmore Collegre DearDr. Friend: I want to thank you for your recent letter to me. It clarified a point I had wondered about: the extent ofSwarthmore's encouragement of student invcilvement in political matters. I would judge from your letter that you andlor the board of managers do not feel it is appropriate for siudeñts to concern themselves with the investment of college monies in multinational corporations in South Africa, although such investments support apartheiil. The withdrawal of funds frornthese corporations is the hor¡violent action that black and white South Africans have called for as a first step towards the liberation ofthe black majority. In the light of John Woolrhan's question: "May we.,,try whether the seeds ofwar have anv nourishment in these our possessionsbr not?" I would hope that in response all members of the Society of Friends would consider the upholding of our testimonies to be of greater importance than the returns on our investments. Therefore I have decided not to contribute money to the college. And I want to express publicly my support for the students who want US business out of South Africa. Sincerely, Mary McCarty Bye UDI][2 Ocd. 26, 1978 lY ol. XlV, No. 36 Class of 1936 Thanks foi running Marty Jezer's "Who's On First? What's On Second?" article (WIN, l0/'12/78').It's really important for us to take the time to look at strategy from a relaxed position. All too often we jump right in and look at possible tactics-assuming orfotgetting the oveiall strategy, perhaps even the goals. I know this has been a problem for thé Philadelphia area Mobilization for Survival coalition, Zero Nuclear Weapons. And it can go even 4eeper with a coalltlon because sometimes the individuals' assumptions about goals andlor strategies are quite far apart. Yet, while there is no real substitute for long-range strategy building, and being clear on shared and divergent assumptions, I think Marty Jezer too .. quiçkly passes over the importance of "presencesl' and witnesses-of individual or small group actions that raise the issue (nuclear power, nuclear weapons, racisrù; bexism) in public places. They do draw attention to the issue, and they do serve as an energizing point for individuals trying to become or stay active. Strategy building and organizing are not always possible-for one reason or another, but raising the issue is, even in small ways. But, in the long run, the organizing is critic4l. Let's get to it! _STEVEG(ruCK Phlladelphla, Penn. 4. Gorleben Soll Leben: A Desire for Lif e/Craig Simpson 9. Count Every Single Child Story of Busing/ Thomas J . Cottle 12. Changes 14. Review/ Sybi I Claiborne Cover: Part of the Corleben nonviolent camp, ) ulV 1978. Photo by Hanna Kotowski. STAFF Susan Beadle o Patri'ck Lacefield Michael Lardner o Lauri Lowell Murray Rosenblith 503 Atlantic Ave. /5th floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Telephone : (212) 624-8337, 624-8595 UNINDICTED ðö:cõñsnnnroRs Sandra Adickes o pãg Belville Cakars BEENDOWNSOLONG Folks, we have to level with you. 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Subscriptlørs rrc Second class postage paid ôt l.lcw Yo*. t{Y lfxm üd ill.û) additional mailing offices. thr.wr lndividr¡l writcß .rr responsible foropiñions eiprersed md ræurrcyof given. Sorry-manuscr¡ptr c¡nnot bc lmr ¡¡tur¡¡d rnlo¡¡ accampanied by a self-addres.scd, strr¡pcd arwlopr. P¡lntcd ln USA October26. 1978W¡N 3 t Gorleben Soll Leben: A Desíre fo, Lrfn by Craig Simpson I I r-l kerosene lamp stood in the center bf the large L,[picnic table as 30or40 young Cerman antinuclear activists from Hamburg and Berlin held hands and linked arms to sing a new song against the nuclear waste disposal dump planned only a few m iles up the road. As each verse of the song progressed, two people holding a large cloth bannerwould unfold a new section with a picture depicting the words. I looked off through the camp and saw similar fires among thetents where people were sitting, eating, andtalking. A serene setting. This was the f irst evening of the annual Corleben nonviolent summer camp. I was suddenly aware that attention was being focused on me as Hanna, a friend and local activist with whom I drove from Berlin, told me, "They want you to sing an anti-nuke song from America." A bit embarrassed because I knew no Cerman (but mainly because I have one of the worst sìngingvoices in the Southwest movement), I dropped my \ inhibitions and attempted, "Nukie, Nukie, Halle! - Number One on the Cactus Alliance No Nukes charts. So went the last evening of my visit to Corleben and my whirlwind tour of anti-nuclear, anti-military groups in northern Cermany. I had come to share information on our movement in the ÙS and New Mexico and I left with a spirit of solidarity and an encouraging sense of friendship ned from another great international experience. The importance of linking the movement ' ägainst nuclearwaste disposal and reprocessing in Corleben and the movement againstthe Waste lsolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NewMexico, is crucial for the collapse of the nuclear; industry around theworld. So my informal visitto Gorleben had a special signif icanêe and rneaning for me. The nuclear power industry in the Federal Republicof Cermany (FRC, West Cermany) is as insecure as the indust in the United States but becoming a rs rap nuc West Cerm Craig Simpson is active with Citizens Against Nuclear Threats and the Cactus Alliance in Albuquerque, New Mexico. lujah I I I I L I t. I t. i' .' i ll 1l * Europe with nuclear capability. But because of the power. Atthis rate by 1984, Cermanywill be fears and strong disapproval ofthe French, agreesecondonlytothe US. The rootsof the nuclear industry there date back to the Third Reich and con- ments and compromises were made to have no nuclear weapons on German soil. This was only retinues in an unbroken linetotoday. luctantly agreedto bytheAmericans. ln 1955 the The Cerman nuclear industry was set up in the Federal Republ ic was al lowed open ly to build its late 1930's for the development of nuclear wea"Atoins for Peace" program which Eisenhower enpons, but most work went into production of V-l's couraged NATO countries to become involved in. and2's as well as the Messerschmidts and submarines that made rubble of many parts of London. Today the Federal Republic is the fastest Hitler's atomic industry never split the atom (and growing nuclear industry in theworld. lts enthusithere is controversy over whether they ever came , asm for exporting nucleartechnology has made it close), but it did irnportant and significant experithechief competitorof the United States. Since ments valuable to the future nuclear world pre-World War ll days, Cermany has wanted to economy. The program had many setbacks due to make its atomic industry independent (an idea the sporadic arrest and exile of its scientists which Nixon introduced in the US with Project lnDespite these continuous setbacks and the dependence during theoil embargo), Lacking program's supposed dismantlement after Na2i uran i um reserves of any con sequence with i n its Cermanywas defeated, the major scientists and own boundaries, the FRC has.sought alliances with f inancial and industria[ network which supported it South Africa and Brazilto exchangetechnology for resources in enriched uranium. Other nuclear allicontinued to operate. According to the Nuc/ear ances have been set up with lran and lsrael to exAxis, a book released in J uly in London about the FRC's atomic industry, "Professor Hans Martin of change other val uable resources. K iel Un iversity, who elaborated counter-current The nuclear industry within the Federal Repubcentrifuge theory in 1939 and whose subsequent lic is growing with leaps and bounds. Plans include researches received top priority funding from the the construction of 50 nuclear þwer stations in the Nazis, published a major study on centrifuge gas Rhine Valley alone, a fast breeder reactor at Kalflow profile in 1950. ln 1949the war-time centrikâr, and a reprocessing waste disposal complex at' r f ugièts under Professor Croth were f unded to conCorleben tinue their experiments by Emerggncy Association Despite the rapid growth of the industry and its for Cerman Science. Groth is nowthe senior centriburgeoning prestige abroad as a key exporterof fugist in the Federal Republic.f ' n uclear technology, problems at home may destroy Nazi financial links tothe FRC's nuclear prothe industry. Of the 14 power plants already congram can be made. "The present day atomic structed, only f ive are actually f unctioning. There energy industry in West Cermany," according to are problems with leaks, faultyfuel rods, and much the Nuc/ear Axis, "consists of a tightly interlocked more. J une was an especially bad month forthem group of companies backed by certain major banks as three power stations suffered three accidents in which directly...was responsible forthe early sucless than ten days. The f irst occurred in a 800cesses of the Nazi nuclear project." The US helped megawatt reactor at Brun sbuettel, wherq tech n ii n sure the conti n uation of the Federal Republ ic's cians attempting to repair a ruptured pipe disatomic industry by supporting ånd aiding the covered a leak but underestimated its damage. An nuclear scientists and encouraging the FRC's adextrernèly serious leak was averted when the mittanceto NATO. America's main wish in thiS rereactor shut down purely by chance. The public gard was to build a strong anti-communist f ront in wasonly informed of this five days laterwhen an L 4WlNOctober26, 1978 October 26, 1978 WIN 5 anonymous tip to the press warned of the danger to the comm un ity. At the largest nucleai power station in Europe at Biblis, a leakage of radioactive water was found on a routine inspection in the reactor block. And just a few days later in Ceersthact, in the same state as Brunsbueetfel, a þull dozer severed an underground drainage pipe lead' ing from tlìe reactor. Two thousand gallons of ''weak" radioactive water leaked into the Elbe River. Two accidents in the same area created increased tensiòn about nuclear issues. ln March of this yeartherewas atransportation accident in the health resort of Bad-Sooden Allendorf in the state of Hessen (near the East Cerman border). A truck carrying nuclear wastes didn't quite make a turn and hit a house. The barrels of waste moved forward crushing the driver in his cab. He was quickly hospitalized and the incident hushed up in a few days time. As in the United States, waste disposalof nuclear materials is a key problem of the Federal Republic's atomic industry. Some construction of power stations has been halted on courtorder until thewaste problem is solved. Already90,000 barrels have been disposedof temporarily in mines, but a permanent solution must be found to savethe industry'. Both reprocessing and disposal in salt are the alternatives proposed (now becoming a heated international controversy). So, the Federal Republic's hope of a utopian solution is \ Gorleben. Corleben is a small community which can rarely be found on a mapr located in Lower Saxony in northeast West Cermany. The tiny hamlet sits on a land peninsula which pushes out into the Cerman Democratic Republic (GDR, East Cermany). On one side winds the romantic Elbe River, on the other the series of tal I electron ic fences, g uard towers, and mine fields of the CDR. This areaof Lower Saxony is one of the few areas of Cermany where there is some untouched natural beauty. This is the '.'Heide, " or moor, where there exists marshes, f ields, and forests unl i ke any other region of the industrial "model state" of West Cermany. Rare birds, plants, and other wi ldl ife abound in the area. The attraction forthe atomic industry isn't theterrain, thetall and beautifultrees, orthe rare birds. lt'sthe large salt domesthat lie fourthousand feet below the surf ace wh ich were once part of a prehistoricocean of the North Sea. Herethe FRC plans the largest waste depository and reprocessing complex in allof Europe. The planned site will stretch over 1 5 square kilometers. The entrance hall is forthreethousand tons of fuel elements. The reprocessing unit will hold 1500 tons of uranium undergoing the purex extraction process. The site will also have a waste treatment plant for high-level wastes. All this the industry claims is experimental - isn't it always experimental until they construct it? A private company, DWK (Deutsche Cesel lschaft f ur Wiederaufbereitung von Kernbrennstoffen), will do testing and construction. The Cerman word for reprocessing - literally means "removing worries." Corleben will be an Entsorgunspark, or. Worry Removal Center. ln the summ er of 1975 a series of f ires occurred in four places in the Lower Saxony.prehistoric salt sda. A short time later three of the f ire locations were coincidentally announced as possible waste sites. ln the Corleben-Cartow area, a large section of the forest was devastated wh ile local rõsidents fought to save it for almost a week. Now most people are certain the f ire was arson and many believe it was the government who lit the match. This area was chosen'finally and specif ically for many reasons. First, the FRC firmly believes that salt is the solution to their nuclear problems and that the domes in this area are the most suitable. ' Second, the population of the land peninsula is both sparse and conservative, with the potential for giving uncritical support to any government project. Third, becausethe site is surrounded on three sides by the frgntier, the area is easy to seal off in sentences incl udin g blackl isting and dism issal from schools or unions. The first demonstrators at Crohnde got 11to 13 months imprisonment. One denìonstrator, Cerd Schulz; got a22-month prison sentence by a l-lanover court in Aprilthis year for breach of the peace, res i sti n g arrest,'th reat of vio- .Entsorgung case of mass demon stration s. Related to th i s i s that if there were a major accident at the Corleben plant,75%o of the people affected would be in East Germany. CDR hasn't com plained because they are building a similar plant right across the river. Woode¡ constructions bu¡lt by anti-nuclear citizens. Photo by Hanna Kotowski, ln the other proposed areas demonstrations brokeout immediately. ln Unter Luhb, 100 kilometers f rom Corleben, a site was chosen. Almost immediately after the announcement of the plan, young people occupied the proposed site. Soon afterwards, farmers blockaded the roads in the area with their tractors to show support for the occupiers.,Unter Luhb suddenly became politically unsuited for the plan. But the people in the Corleben area weren't prepared for such a project to be forced on them. lt took them longer to meet and begin to organize. lt had always been diff icult for them to f ully trust outsiders and sometimes even people in outer villages and hamlets close by..The government quickly began spreading their propaganda, talking to local residents, takirrg local officials to La Hague reprocessing center in France, and setti n g a f avoïable pol itical cl i mate. But the growth of the anti-nuclear movement in West Cer- lence, and occupation of rail lines. Despite repression, the anti-nuke movement grows and continues to attract not only students and leftists but support in local communities. Burgerin itativen s (Bl) or citizen opposition groups are rapidly spreading throughout the Cerman state. Fifteen thousand now exist and most relate to issues of urban decay, highway expansion, community and housing problems and ecological concern s. ,The Burgerinitativen in the Corleben area is n1ade up of 250 farmers, local merchants and local A windmill at Corleben by Hanna Kotowski many has begun to touch even the isolated communities of Lower Saxony. Only a few years ago, the anti-n uclear movement was made up of a small handf ul of environmentalists, disenchanted leftists and a few fanatical -1975, when farmers and local scientists. But in people þlocked construction and occupied a proposed powêr plant site in Wyhl, the movement exploded. The Cermans moved to the foref ront of the no-nukes struggle in Europe with their large creative demonstrations th roughout the enti re countr.y. At Brookdorf in October 1976,10,O00 came and by FebruarY 1977 , 30 ,OOO. At Crohnde reactor site in March of that year, 15,000 showed up, with a small occupation site set up across the road and a barricade of the rai l roadtracks. ln J ulyof 1977,BO,OOOwentto Creyes Malville in France to protest the SuperPhoenix, a 12 hundred-megawatt fast breeder. One man was killed and many people injured. At Kalkar near the Dutch border, 50,000 arrived to pro- test the buildirìg of Cermany's f irst fast breeder. An estimated 20,000 people never reached their destination because of numerous arrests, searches and seizures, and detention by police from the state and federal governments. Trains were stopped and people were forced out of the cars into fields, then tied up and searched. Cars were stopped at numerous checkpoints along the way while tools, helmets, and anything construed as a weapon were conf iscated. The East Cerman government showed a rare form of cooperation with the FRG by ref using to permit demonstrators to cross the CDR from Berlin. The act'ivists were forced to watch the demonstration on TV from the walled city. lndividuals arrested for just being a part of one of these demonstrations áre facing extremell harsh folks with support for lawyers, scientists and technicians in the area. They areth'e keyorganization opposing the waste and reprocessing site. The Bl has formed alliances with anti-nuclear, environmental, and nonviolent groups all over the Federal Republic. Friends óf Corleben have sprung upìn manyof the major cities. This coalition of individuals and groups has come together to save and restore the remaining forest and to workto stop nuclear power allover Germany. Resistance took awh ile to form but has picked up in the last year. Actions and organizing have been creative and inspiring to anti-nuclear activists throughout Europe. Amajoraction called bythe Burgerinitativen in March of 1977 attracted an occupation while planted 40-50,009trees in the burned forest. Over the next few months, more and more people brought and planted trees and these have given a symboltotheir movement. Some groups planted trees and vowed to nurse the growth. Someof the 12,000atone demonstration stayed and helped to build a ch ildren's playground with several Shelters, swings, and an obstacle course for the chi[dren to play in. The day I visited Corleben in J ulythis year, achildren's daywas planned. Several hundred people walked, played, and talked in the area next to the highway that runs through the center of the burned forest. The Burgerinitativen and other anti-nuclear groups had tables and stands scattered through the playground. A bal I throw game allowed you to knock over a cardboard executive of thê DWK or a wooden anti-n uclear demonstrator. "The government has demanded that we take down the playground because it is supposed to be an obstruction to the environment, " Hanna from the Berlin Friends of Gorleben told me, "but we feel the waste site will cause more of an obstruction to the environment. " She laughed and walked to a table close by to look at literature and bumpers.tickers. Some thought the police would tear down the playground in a few days, but others felt it would be delayed for political reasons. I leftthe next day and have yet to hear. 6WlNOctober26, 1978 October 26. .1978 WIN 7 \ The Bl is also taking legal action in many forms. First, a court suit has been f iled both'to save the forest areas and to bring to a public forum the issues surrounding the nuclear waste site. Second, theyaretryingto buy upthe land. Theevening lar¡ived, the Bl lawyer had just tried to buy the land froin one of the local farmers. The f armer told the lawyer that if he had three m i I I ion marks with in f ive days, he would sell the land to the citizen's group ratherthan the goverhment. ln less than five days, the money was col lected by supporters all over the FRC. But the day the payment was to be made, the lawyer was told that the farmer had sold the land to the government only hours before. As the lawyer sat'in the pub talking lively and drinking a few beers he didn't seem discouraged. "lt showed that there's quite a bit of support from all over Cermany. That in itself is a sign of great optimism. " A Count in Lower Saxony seems determined to help in the struggle. He has appointed a commission or review board to study the Corleben site. lt is made up of Amory Lovins, theoretician of the soft technology culture, Alice Stewart of Britain who helped Mancuso in his studyof the workers atthe Hanford, Washington, waste site, Tom Cochrineof the Natural Resources Defense Commiftee, and New Mexico's own Charles Hyder who is a leading opponent of the Waste lsolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, and other leaders internationally known for their opposition to nuclear power. The commission will give advice and criticism to the state and national governments at the sites. The Bl is also encouragi¡g "green candidates." This is a newtactic by environmentalists in Cermany to run ecologists for off ice and force stronger political parties to take a stgnd on issues concerning the environment and nuclear power. ln some places the Creen party has gotten as much as 4O%o oî the vote i n local election s. Some youn ger activists are objecting to the green people and the emphasis on electoral politics because of the danger of losing,the base they have obtained and spending more time on the election than on the specif ic issue of the Corleben complex, =Despite the legalistic maneuvers by the Bl, most feel direct action will be necessary. ln J une this year, a national day of actions in support of Corleben occurred in 15 cities. Some groups planted trees, some held marches through citiesr ln Hamburg, over a hundred people lay on the sidewalk at the f ront entrance of the North Cerman electric utilities company and executives were forced to walk over demonstrators as thgy went into their death-promoting jobs. ln another community, a makeshift waste disposal and reprocessing site was set up in front of the off ices of the DWK. The area was gquipped with barbed wire, anti-nuke guards with toy rifles and rad-waste barrels glowing in the noon day sun. The actions got good press coverage and keptthe isque alive among the German people. This summerthe second annual nonviolentcamp was held a few miles up the road f rom the burnt SWlN October 26, 1978 forest in the town of Cartow. Last year eight thousand people showed up during the three week period and set up a tent city in the camping areas. At f irst local people were a bit reluctant to welcome this large inf iux of young people. But soon the -' activists were helping farmers bring in the crops and helping'locals with important community projects. ln the evenings, films and lectures were given as well as training and discussions on nonviolence. Each city coordinated their area of the camp. I arrived the f irst evening of the camp this year and gave a short talk on the anti-nuclear movement in New Mexico and what we are doing to stop nuclear waste disposal in our state. All the legal and creative actions and events haven't gonã without resistance f rom the government, the DWK, and the nuclear industry. The opposition is preparing for a long struggle against the no-n uclear activists. October is believed to be the month when testing on the site will begin and local residents feel this will be the beginning of permanent construction. Plans are being made to block testing and construction. Whilethe activists certainly hope for no violence, the opposition forces are plannin_g to promote this form of struggle. The DWK has employed a private detective f irm'with over,a thousand emplóyees to watch over local resi. dents. Some people have been followed, and spotlights have been shone on houses at night. Police in thelocal area are supporting this but havetold an angry public that they are looking for terrorists, a common etrphemism and rationalization in present day Cermany. ln Luchow. the largestvillage in the land peninsulã, a courthouse which was tò be made into a museum was abruptly announced to be the new barracks for the expandi ng pol ice force [n the area. The facilities will be ableto hold 100 pebple with room and board for residents for as long as 12 weeks. A squadron of border police are also being moved to th i s area. J ournal ists getti ng a tour of town off ices in Lunburg were mistakenly brought into a room not meant for visitors. ln it they found lists of names, photographs and maps pertaining to the Corleben resistance. lt seems they anticipate upholding the nuclear industry's intentions before , the issue is fully resolved. The more I talked and compared notes with the local leaders, the more I realized the importanceof both our struggles: our:s in the US and New Mexico to defeat the WIPP site a¡d theirs in Lower Saxony and Corleben to defeat the Worry Removal Center. A defeat of the waste plants in Cermany and the United States would buiy the nuclear industry forever. After sharing information, contacts, resources, songs, wine, and dinner, I believe that through our friendsh ips and solidarity in the US and Cermany, there is no way we can lose the battle. Please send your letters, banners, and íupport this fallto the Corleben struggle: Burgerinitative Luchow-Dannenberg, c/o El bholz 2, D-3136 Cartow, Federal Republicof Cermany. JZ ô by Thomas J. Cottle n in the middle of winter's night, when the Boston weather is at its coldest, Annie London swears shè can hear the motors in the old tire factory where her father worked. lt is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since those hot afternoons when her father showed her: and her brother J usty where he worked -when there was work. She smiles and shakes her head. Folks up here, she thinks, feel they got to fight the changes oía few black chi ldren com i n g i nto thei r school s, that's what all those folks call change? Taking a child from out of his neighborhood and putting him in a school a few miles away, that's what they're worried about? Those folks don't know what change. really is, or what busing's really all about. Annie London, now36, sees herfatherwalking slowly for a man his age, although still too quickly forhertwo little children to keep up with him. Her smallapartment isquiet; winter brings a peculiar night quiet. When Annie London was seven years old, she left Helena, Arkansas,, and traveled to a smalltown outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she lived in the homeof Hattie and Fred Simpson. Everyone in the London family called Hattie an aunt, although in truth she was merely a close friend of Annie's motherfrom childhood days. As herown daughter had died in infancy, Hattie was only too . Cottle is a fellow in the Af ro-American Center of Wesleyan University and lecturer in psychology atthe Harvard Medicalschool, and has Thomas J authored piece. a bookcalled Busing. fhis is a non-fiction happy to have ch i tdren ," h". ;Ï;';:l Ïi, ""0 Annie were Cod-sent, she said. Hattie's husband, known to everyone as Big Freddy, wasn't certain taking in other people,s ch ildren was a good idea. He acted stifily with the children, atf irst, but in tinie he began tosoften. The Simpsons never had much mòney, but Big Freddy found a few dollars to buy J usty a baseball glove, and a doll for his.new nine-year-old daughter. The years haven't dulled Annie's memor:ybf the gift in the slightest. ltwas a pink-skinned doll with red cheeks, blue eyes¡ and golden hair. "Looked just like me," she recalls, grinning. But the doll meant something special; Big Freddy had accepted her, and she now could ih¡nk of her mother without feeling terrif ied and lost. Until that rainy afternoon Big Freddy had arriv'ed with the two large boxes, Annie had thought about nothing but her mother. Every night she lay in bed alongside J usty, recalling the icene at the bus station. Again and again she saw her mother standing on the roadside, looking up at the tall bus and her children, waving to them and crying. Annie would begin to cry. Sometimes she began to shake and J usty would have to hold her arms tightly and tell her if she didn't stop making so much noise he,d call Big Freddy. J usty's threatwas enough to quiet her, for the children had learned early thát Big' Freddy was a man with a quick temper:. ¡ His anger came uhexpectedly, an explosion seemi n gly touched off by noth i ng at al l. He would come home f rom work, sit down on the old canvas chair and begin to drink f rom a can of beer. Annie would go to another part of the house, for Big Freddy didn't want anyone around in these timês. o.to¡elzo, t9z8wrN9 \ Then the explosion would be heard-swearing, breaking things, the beer can thrown against the wal l, cataracts of golden f luid stai n i n g the wal lpaper. Annie would hide somewhere, terrif ied but fascinated. She would see Big Freddy staring out the window, his shirt pulled open, his hand pushing gone blind "back his hair. He looked like a monster with rage. Yet strangely, as separated f rom him as she felt, she could understand his rage. She certainly never enjoyed his displays of anger, but she did feel somehow in touch with him, as though she could appr:eci ate that wh ich he sought to comm un icate. Freddy was either a supreme, spokesman of f reedom, or a sickening prisoner, Ãnnie would say years later, when she had become a teacher in Boston. "The man had spirit. The way thq country has it set up, black folks aren't supposed to have pride. They're meant to do their work and be so tired at the end of the day; therels no emotion left in them. lf folks are properly enslaved, theyoughtto just about make it home each night and not even think about the fact no one should be forced to live in homes like theirs, or eat the little bit of food they're supposed toeat. Country has it planned. They keep their slayes in the constant state of being spent. Everybody talks about black folks being oversexed. What a laugh! Nobody thattired all the time could be oversexed. lt's amazing that Big Freddy ever had the energy to bellow like he did. Maybe that's why I never felt I could hate him for his áisplays. He had a iotten temper, no doubt about that, but at least he showed us he was fu I I of feelings. lt's strangeto say, but Big Freddy gave me hope. I grew up in Arkansas learning that the way things were was the way they were supposed to be. Nobody though aboutchanging nothing. Bus came and took us to school. lf itwent5Qfeet, that was f ine. lf it went 50 miles, that was all right too. Everybody knew the school wasn't any good, but you went there. " First time I heard Big Freddy scream I ran off as fast as I could. Never heard temper like that before. But later I listened to what hewas yelling. That man wasn't screaming for personal hurt alone. Hewas screaming because theway he and Hattie and all of us were leading our lives was unbearable, and it always would be unless people got f urious about their conditions. Didn't matter what made him angry on a particu lar day. Point was that he was letting us know you could hear f ury and live f ury. lt could be part of the way you sing about the world, change the world. I like to think Big Freddy was making art, or at least f inding the force from which a person begins to make his art. "l rememberthatcanvas chair he used to siton. Chair had these big holes in the arm. Big Freddy, he'd sitthere and stick his fingers intothosecuts. I used to do it too when he wasn't around. I found those cuts again in the seats in the school buses. First in the buses I uied to go to school in and now in the buses that bring the ch i ldren to my school . 10WlN October26, 1978 There isn't a bus in this country that doesn't have cut-up seats . They're always there, as if Big ' Freddy got to every bus in America and put them there himself . " l imagine anger in those cuts. I imagine black families yelling at the world that they've had it up to here with being given the junk of the country: the lousy schools, the rotten fruits, the burned-out land, the useless homes, even the tenth.class dope! I see those cuts and I hear Big Freddy bellowing his song. He justwantedtofight itout, find something he could attack and fasten himself to it. That's what it was all about, to f ight back. Because no matter what our lives were all about, the idea grew in everybody that we were being pushed down and nobody was around to push back. When noonewas home, Big Freddyscreamed. Thatwas his politics." Annie London saton awooden bench nearthe school where she teaches. "so letf s talk about busing," she said suddenly. " l was bused to school all my life; it's not anything new: When I say I went to school in bu'ses, I mean in the worst buses you ever saw. The question of the day was whether the bus was going to make it. Folks like us got used to it. We just assumed the buses would break down. Newbuses were used to take the white children to school. When the new buses got old, they used them to hau I black ch i ldren . American s had ways of recycling things, you see, even before the ecology movement: They just gave all the garbageto poor folks and blackfolks. When we gotthrough with them, they weren't good for anyone. "'l remember once, a bus broke down. J usty and me and a bunch of other kids, we were going to a segregated school in Harrisburg then. J usty hated the school. I don't think he was beaten up more than 300times. School didn't mind black girls being a little intelligent, butthey hatedthat J usty was smart. They also never believed he was shy. Theythough hewas alwaysthinkingof waysto make trouble. Once they called the police and had him arrested because they saw him playing in the boys toilet. J usty was in the bathroom trying to clean himself afteroneof hisfights. Hetold Hattie he was ashamed to go bàck into class with blood on his shirt. Can you see my brother standing at the basin washing his shirt in the middleof a school day, and for thatthey arrested him? Hattie said it was lucky he was only arrested and not suspended. And for the great privilege of going to that school, we got to ride the bus 50 minutes one way. "l'lltell you something else aboutthattrip. Cloverland was the street where they picked us up. The only problem was that Cloveiland was in the middleof wherethe colored people lived. Butthe people who drove the buses, they didn't like the idea you had to come down the streets where the colored lived. So instead of picking us upon Cloverland, they decided on Dalrimple Street, which was four miles from where we lived. So we had to get up at six in the-morning to take one bus so we could t I catch the bus to school. They chose Dalrimple Street because there was a police station where the school bus stopped. Wasn'tthat convenient? " lf that wasn't bad enough, this bus driver we had was terrified we'd do something to him. I never understood what he though nine and ten-year-olds would do to him or the bus. We were thinking how lucky we were the man was standing in f ront of the police station every morning waiting for us. As it was, the driver they had f irst ref used to drive to Dalrimple Street. So they had a black man drive it eight blocks to where this white man got in and drove us the rest of the way to school . I always wondered what the poor man who drove us the eight blocks did after he drove us? I also remember this white man, the regular.driver, used to park in front of the police station and pr:actically run out the door before anyof the children éven stood up. He must have been running away from some very scary fears. "Now, every morning I come to school and see the buses drive in and the crowds that wait for ' them. I seethe children getoff, everybody pushing and screaming, people waiting for something to happen. I see thse buses coming in as though I was seeing them and a movieof them atthe sametime. Every morning I seethe children coming off those buses, then I see my brother getting off too. I see him scrubbing the blood off his shirt, I see Big Freddy, I see my mother waving. You don't look at those buses coming in every day without seeing your whole life rolling in and rolling out. Nobody black sees these buses and doesn't think about how their kinfolk went to school, or didn't go to school, or weren't al lowed to go to school . I see buses comiñg and going and I see children walking along some Mississippi or Louisiana road, mile after mile, day after dav, and allof it leading to what? But those ch i ldren kept wal ki ng. My cousin Tarby Hunratt got hit in the head with a rock walking to school. Rock was so damn big ittooktwo boys to pick it up and push iton topof him. Savannah, CeoÉgia, 1951 . They shoved him into a ditch because they got scared when they saw how badly he was hurt. Bo.y lay there all day before anybody found him. Lost an eye, and his left leg and left arm were no goodto him becauseof the damage doneto his brain. "Busing's not the answerto allour problems, everybody knows that. But black folks don't have a say in this coùntry, we haven't a shred of power. Th is little period in history belongs to the buses. Next decadethey'll have more surprises for uç, more ways a fewof them willtry to help a fewdf us without upsetting them too much. That't the way it works: Keep the niggers in their place. My word, if you bus these little children around and they get a chance to see what they've been missing, they m ight try to start some revolution . Nobody wantS to believe that black families just like to have their children educated. lt{s always, wewantour children bused becauseof this political action, or that desegregation model. Nobody knows how rotlen the schools are in these poor communities. Black parents know. Hattie knew damn well what she was doing when she f ixed it for J usty and me to go to that other school in Harrisburg. And my mother, although she nevertalked about it, she knew our chances would be better in tþe North. I might haveended up cleaning toilets in Little Rock or Selma. But that was part of the nonsense, that it was always better in the North. Black folks though, tirey knew nothing was safe anywliere. lt's not better in the North. lt's only better where people work hard to give somebody else's child a chqnce. " Annie l-ondon was walkinþ home the long way around, making certain to pass the large housing project that occupied two city blocks. The grey bricks of the buildings made a collage of shadows. "How my mother believed in giving us a chance to get out. Shecould have kept us in the South. But she dreamed the big dream: Send thern north, give them the northern chance. The whole world thinks that women like my mother are good foronlytwo things, having babies and shipping theirchildren off to people who wi I I g ive them more opportun ities than they can. Busing is more than a political or legal decision. lt's people's lives. Busing is my parents, my work, the ch ildren I teach . lt's Big Freddy, Hattie, and J usty. He's a minister now, little J usty. Where does time go? Busing got hinr partwaythere. I believe he'd tell youthat. He'd saythat being in the best schools availableto us made a difference. You can survive eating the worst food, but you won't grow from it. You only grow f rom eating the best foods. " Annie London had reached the steps leading to the apartment building where she has lived for threeyears. "l'm thinking about a man whose name l'll never know. What did that man who wouldn't pick us up on Cloverland Street think about? I wonder, did he die yet, and if he did, did he die thinking the same things he thought al I h is I ife? l'd love to f ind that man and ask him, 'Can you look at me,.Mr. Man? Can you see l'm a woman with a real job, helping people, not just myown kind? Can you really see me without running away to that police station ? Can you see you did a good thing for us? And all you were was a bus driver, like all I am is a teacher. You know why you did what you did? Because the law told you that's what you got to do f ive mornings a week ancl lo and behold, if you, frightened or not, didn't do itt''' Annie London was grinning broadly. "The Lord said, 'Mr. Bus Driver, l've got a wonderf ul new job for you. I want you to deliverthose 12 black ch ildren to the Harrisburg School so they shall be free."Butto Cloverland Avenue, Lord?,,Well, Mr. Driver., since it's stillearly in thernovernentdays, l'll let you start your delivery on Dalrimple Street. But your son, when he gets old enough to do your job, will start from Cloverland Avenue. Fact, if we're still needing those buses, he'll go doorto door and pick up those children one by one. Oñe by one, with every single one of them being countecl. " October26, 1978WlN 11 are over 125 with new ones starting il l :l N {!! \ h å å A I ,â ã li â ;4 { d ü 200 PROTEST DC BAZAAR ARMS almostdaily. A keypartof this growth are the new regional groupings that bring together campus groups and community groups for joint action. The two strongest coalitions are in the northeast and on the weSt coast- utthis fallorganizing conferences are planned for the northSome 200 pickets marched in front east (New York), the midwest of thesheraton ParkHotelin sub- (Evanston, lll.) andthesoutheast urban Washington, on October 16, (Duke, North Carolina). theopening dayof.an armaments ln the northeast, some40-plus exhibit staged bytheAssociation schools and a numberof comof the US Army. Many of our munity groups are organized into placards, decorated with the skull the Nori-heast Coal¡tiõn for the and crossbones, said "Stop the Liberation of South Af rica Merchantsof Death." Acrossthe (NECLSA). NECLSAwasfounded street two demonstrators with. last spring and it immediately trumpets kept playing laps. T.hg launihedä wave of protests that demo was initiated by the Mobili- included sit-ins at Wesleyan, zätion for Survival Princeton, and Amherst, and mass olive green army buses f illed protests at a score of other schools. with men in military uniforms kept NECLSA has called a conferónce pulling up to the hotel. As early as for Novemb er 17-19 at New York 9:30 am the hoteÍ was crowded University in New York City to plan with men both in uniform and in this year's campaign. civilianclothes. lnsidewere50,000 Onthewestcoastthestudent groups are organ ized into Camsquare feet of exhibits by 87 war weapons manufacturers but not þuses UnitedÂgainst Apartheid onephotoofthewar-timeuseof (CUAA)which includesover20 theseweapons norofthedestruc- schools. CUAAcalledaseriêsof tion which theywreak. Loudspeak- demonstrations againstthe Bank ers blared out the eff iciency of the of America protesiing their loans various wares as though they were to the South African lovernment. selling vacuum c.leaners at some Five bank branches were briefly trade exhibit. I observed a display occupied, scores were picketed, of various types of machine guns. and protests were held at the anThree men were scrutinizing nual stockholder's meeting. them. Onerer.narked, "l bought CUAAalsocoordinatedthõfour this one f ive.years ago. " I looked at simultaneous sit-i ns at University him to see whether this was a joke of California campuses that won but it wasn't the demand for a special UC ReMy reaction totheexhibitwai: if gents meeting on ÙCtiestoSouth only Woody Allen would do a "docu- Af rica. mentary" on it! Total ridicule, I CURA is a member of both the feel, would be the most effective Bay Area Southern Africa Coaliway of exposing this arms bazaar. tion (BaySAC) and the Southern ¡:_ D^-r- California Southern Africa Coali-Jrm recK tion (SCSAC). BaySacand SCSAC plan to unite soon with several groups in the northwest to form the AN TI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT West Coast Southern Af rica CoaliFORMS REGIONAL NETWORKS tion (WCSAC). Together the two Cal iforn ia coal itions represent This fallwill mark a new stage in over 35 student, community, the studeñt anti-apartheid movelabor, church and black activist ment: regional coordination. Two groups that are involved in the years ago there werè only a handSouthern Africa issue. ful of colleges or universities with The major fall focus for the west anti-apartheid groups; now there coast is the Stop Banking on Apar12WlNOctober26, 1978 theid Campaign which has targeted the Bank of America for a November 1 7th day of protest that hopes to have 250,000 leaflets distributed at 500 bank branches to bank customers, urging them to withdraw their accounts to protest the Bank's loans to South Africa. Both Cal iforn ia coal itions have endorsed this campaign as have many important labor and church groups. BaySac has called a demonstration for November lBth in San Francisco that will include a march past the Bank of America corporate l-lQ, the South African Consulate, and the Federal Building. Whi le the other regions aren't as far along as the two coasts they are making remarkable progress. Especially strong is the midwest region which has'a conference scheduled for October 2O-22 at Northwestern Un iversity in linois. Hopefully this conference will bring together the two dozen midwest campus groups with the strong community groups in Chicago, Madison, and MilEvanston, II waukee. Newsdesk WEST GERMAN WOMAN SEEKS US POLITICAL,ASYLUùI Twenty-eight yearold West Cerman Kristina Berster was arrested J uly 16, 1978 at the US-Canadian border and, although technically charged.with violations of US immigration laws, has been accused by the Vermont media of "terror- ism" and "Baader-Meinhof gang" membership. These reports stemmed from information rèleased by the FBI and the US Attorney's Office in Vermont. ln addition, the West Cerman government plans extradition in orderto continue its silencing of individuals critical of the repressive measures in its court and prison systems. During the early 197O's Kristina was a stuclent activist at the Un iversity of Heidelber g. ln 1971, based upon information from a police informer alleging her involvement with a group preparing for guerilla activity, Kristina was imprisoned for six months without trial. Upon her release Kristina refused to be silenced a4d spoke out against prison abuse and rePressive legislative and executive enactments. Shortly thereafter, a trial was scheduled for the 1971 charges. The opportunity for a fair trial was non-existent given the police searches of defense attorney's off ices and exclusion from certain legal proceedin gs. Despite two recantations bythe star prosecution witness, the,court accepted his original allegations and found her guilty. Kristina began a f ive year period in the political underground. During this periodrshe worked as a medical assistant in a Thifd World country but neverwas involved in any kind of armed struggle. ' Kristina attempted to enter the US in mid-J uly in order to seek polítical asylum. She thought that remaining in Europe was far too dangerous given the coordination of police surveillance and search tactics, Attempts by other Cerman dissidents, such as Klaus Croissdnt in Paris in 1977-78, sawtheir pleas for asylum spurned and were returned to Cermany despite broad-based popu lar support. She now seeks assistance from Americans in her f ight to receive political asylum. lf returnedto Cermany, she faces at least two years in prison priortotrialunder conditions of sol itary confinement, psychological terrorism and physical and mental deprivation. Even individuals acquited of charges leave Cerman prisons nearly destroyed. Karl Heinz Roth, a Cologne physician, accused of membersh ip in a terrorist organization, spentat leasttwoyears in jail priorto his trial and eventual acquital. He was shot several times during his arrest and was refused medical attention. Even when he lapsed into a coma he was denied proper treatment. The politically repressive climate in Cermany and recent legislation acts allow discretionary and openended sentences for political activists. Accused are denied counsel of their choice and are forced to face trial with lawyers deemed " saÍe" by the courts. For more information on the - case, contact: The_ Kristina Berster LOS ANGELES, CA J onathan Defense Committee, Box 144, Kozol will speak about his new winooski' vr 05404' book Children of the Revolution : A -Newsdesk Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schoo/s on Sunday, October 29, 11 arp, atthe First Unitarian Church, 2936W . Bth St. For more information, call (213) 389-1356. ATLANTA, GA- Annual Atlanta Clergy and Laity Concerned Dinner with speaker Ceorge Lakey on Thursday, October26, 6:30 pm at St. Mark's Methodist Churih, ZBI Peachtree. Cost: $3.50. Call (a04) 377 -6516 f or reservations. AUSTIN, TX-CCCO will sponsor a training session for military counselors on Saturday, October ,9 am-3 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 3014 Washington Square. For more information, contact Ken Carpenter at (512) 474-2399. 28 CHICAGO, lL Chicago Clergy and Laity Çoncerned dinner with guest speaker Pat Derian of the US State Department Human Rights Office on Thursday, October 26, 7 :30 pm, at St. J ames Episcopal Cathedral,65 E. Huron. Cost: $15. Call (312) 922-8234for reservations. FIORIDA- Caravan for a NpnNuclear Future, the first ma¡or Florida anti-nuke action, on November 11-16. The action will begin at the TLrkey Point reactor in Miami and pass through Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Cocoa Beach, Daytona and J acksonville, ending in Tallahassee. For more informatíon, contact the Conchshell Alliance, PO Box 43025, South Miami, FL 33143 (305) 253- 9458. HUNTINCTON, NY- Sr. Rosal ie Bertell will speak on "The Health Hazards of Nuclear Power" on Friday, November 3, I pm at St. Elizabeth's Parish Center. Sponsored by Long lsland Mobilization for Survival Religious Task Force. For more information, call (516)2612461. NEW LONDON, CT - Demonstration to demand " US Navy Out of Vieques, Puerto Rico!" on Saturday, October 2B atthe New London naval Base. For more information, contact the Puerto Rican Solidarity Comm ittee at (212) 67 3-0540. NEW YORK CITY- Discussion : "Who Owns the Sun ?: Big Business and Solar Energy" on Friday, October2T, B;15 pm at339 Lafayette St. Sponsored by Freespace Alternative U. NEW YORK CITY- "While There ls A Soul ln Prison...", a benefit graphics and poster exhibit by political artists for the War Resisters League runs October 19November 12, 12 naon-6 pm, at Callery 345, 345 Lafayette St. NEW YORK CITY Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Af rica confeience on di. vestment and anti-apartheid support work on November 17 -19. For more inforrñation, write NECLSA, c/o American Committee on Africa,305 E.46th St., NewYork, NY 10017. SANTA MONICA, CA- lsraeli peace activist J oseph Abileah will speak on Arab-J ewish reconciliation on Sunday, October 29, 1 :30 pm at Santa Monica Friends Meetinghouse, '1440 Harvard St. Sponsored by Committee to Bridge the Cap, Los Angeles FOR, and the Southern California Nonviolent Community. For more information, call (213) 479-7472. , WORCESTER, MA- Mobi I ization for Survival activist Sidney Peck will speak on "What ls the Likelihood of Nuclear War ln Our Ceneration?" on Thursday, October 26, 7:30 pm at Sprenant Hall of Quinsi gamond Community Col lege, Róom 120, at 670 West Boyleston st. / ' October26, 1978WlN 13 {:ç.qÇ !¡ ï íi'" T ¡ \ .- I most of them in polyester pantsuits, for all the world the epitome of conventional middle America, But appearances are deceiving, for once the story begins to as they were 40 years ago: smart, ' unfold we see thernheroic. brave, defiant and As they describe the terrible working cond¡tions leading up to the strike, we are shown footage faken inside the factories-workers on the assembly line, the inhuman speedup, the frightening machinery, the deafening noise. One woman tells about arriving at her shift and being told that someone has lost two f ingers. "The twof ingers were still lying on the machine,." she says. lt is "Modern Times" with the comedy leftout. When the men sit down, the women workers. leave the plant lest charges of sexual misbehavior be leveled against the strikers. They are assigned women's work, they cook huge cauldrons of food in the union kitchen, theycollectblankets. Then gradually, they begin to take a more active role ¡n union affairs. They join the picket line. Soon they are facing terrible dangers, tear gas, truncheons, the mounted police. ln the face of growing violence, they organize a children's picket line, they_talk to the police. The women are a humanizing force in a very dangerous situation. The f ilm cuts back and forth f rom then to now, with marvelous footage, great narrative skill. To listen to these aging women, to witness their pride, their excitement, their youthful energy, is a rare and wonderTulexperience. Oneof the keywomen, still handsome and vital, tells about her own role ¡n averting disaster after the National Cuard was called in. The strike has been going on for many weeks, the two sides tense, the situation extremely explôsive. The guards with their machine guns are lined up against the picket line. Reuther, in a truck with loudspeaker, has been roaming the streets trying to calm things down.'Our heroinegets up on the truck and calls on the women of Flint, Michigan, to join the picket line to protect the þ strikers. She is so eloquent, so persuasive, that many Photo from Chicago Historical Society/The Spokeswomãn. women step across the barriers. The audience at Lincoln Center cheered, my eyes f illed with tears. WITH BABIES AND BANNERS: These areour sisters. I thoughtof the many actions STORYOF THE WOMEN'S EMERCENCY BR¡GADE by women during the Vietnam War; I organized t Directed by Lorraine Gray thought of the women of lreland crossing religious Produced 6y Lorraine Gray, Anne Bohlen, and Lyn Goldfarb þarrièrs in an effort to end the slaughter; I thought of the women in ancient Greece boycotting their husWomen's bands beds for as long as they continued to f ight. lt is Story of the Banners: With Babies and th is sense of connectedness that is so exh i laratin g. Emergenôy Brigade, shown atthe Lincoln Center The women who made this f ilm - itwas directed by Film Festival, is a documentary aboutthe sit-down part Lorraine Cray and produced by her with Anne Bohlen strike of 1937 against Ceneral Motors and the Lyn Coldfarb-deserve our thanks for resurrecta reand film opens, played As the that in strike. ,women ing an important moment in labor history, but even union is taking place to mark the 40th anniversary of more for honoring these brave, resourceful women thai historic event. About eight women gather in a They are a powerful, if short-lived force, in the labor in the strike. whowere house to talk about their role movement. middle-aged and elderly, their hair tightly curled, The f ilm is available from New Day Films, P.O. Box Ygrk City in New writer Svb¡i Ctaiborne is a f reelance 3'15, Franklin Lakes, New J ersey ,07417 I . and has just joined W/N's 14wtNOctober26, 1978 editorialboard. SybilClaibornö PRODUCTS PEOPLE'S ENERCY- A No Nukes,/Sane.Energy 1.979 Calendar. 14 exciting, original six-color artworks by movement artists illustrating such topics asr Waste, Seabrook, Disarmament, Appropriate Technology, Energy Economics. People's Energy is also: an educational & outreach tool; an organizing and solidarity-building resource; a fun fundraiserl Orders placed by -l O/78-SOo/o discount, 40o¿ after 10/-l ,35o/o to proÍ it businesses; al I orders prepaid pleasê. $3.50 retail, $4 individual mail orders. Syracuse Peace Council, 924 Burnet Ave., Syracuse, Ny 13203 (31s) 472-s478. PEOPIES N ,,No Nukes SAVE MONEY! Activist - You'll love Set" of th ree buttons, two bumperst ickers $2.00Larry Fox, 139 Derby Street, Valley Stream,- New York11581. Dl SCOVE R our cu.stom-printed buttons, bumperstickers, T-shirts, balloons, frisbees, totes. oaiches. shopping bags, and hundreds of other proúen fund-' raisersandçonscìousness-raisers. 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Apply to: Executive D¡rector, RECAP, lnc., 34 South St., Middletown, NY 10940. THE STUDY KIT FOR NONVIOLENTACTION, produced by War Resisters League/West contains articles on the_theory and practice of nonviolence, both personally and politically as well as accountj of the successes and problems of contemporary nonviolence.,{rticles and pamphlets by Camus, Candhi, Cene Sharp, Barbara Deming, Vaik Morris, Ceórge Lakey and the WtN dõúble issue on Seabrook are to be found and rhuch more as wel L Send $2.50 per study kit to WRL/Wesr, 1360 Howard.St.., S-an.Francisco, CA 94103. Spec¡al rates are available for b.ulk orders, soorder thäm for your study group. teach-in, or classroom. Responsible, con s¡derate people to ioin now-forming collectively run natural foods resI a u rian t -coffeehouse. No ex perience n eces sary. Heav'f, long-term commitment. Pæple's Power Plant,43 South Washington St., Binghampton, Ny Kansas City Nonv¡olent Stud¡es lnstitute Book Store closed it's doors last year. 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