1l I * April 19,1973 T IN THIS ISSUE: ON THE MEAT BOYCOTT MARTY i' ANN DAV¡DON 'EZER ON SEXISM." READIÑG EVERYBODY ON GOOD RADICÀL PEACE AND FREEDOM THRU NONVIOLENT ACTION 20d t'l t I I ¿(e' /\fl' 4{ r 14 lnÛ ûr .7r** r ,/' t cases been turned, not against their bufrasainst their nearest the bitch of bedloe's island of the your your tired shore your t¡red weighing 225 tons the homeless stairs up inside pleasures of gulls beside the golden door Vol. lX, No.10 April 19,1973 homeless people coming teeming copper the homelesp' to be free beside the golden door pleasures of gulls your huddled masses pleasures of gulls ¡ t¡fr refuse shore your huddled. masses to gauk copper i .fl¡,:itjj*mn l¡fr IV refuse t of your your huddled your tired of t masses your : send these teeming white stains Mav stro 4 White Man's Leavings Ann Morriset Dovidon . .6 The Meaning of the Meat BoYcott Marty Jezer 12 Read Any Good Books LatelY? . ....13 Changes Cover by f ulie Maas pleasures rules the harbour to be free we¡ghing 225 tons of gulls stairs up inside barton, vermont january 25,1972 the wretched tempest-tost to be free a female figure to be free send these -dick higgins ' ilt your huddled STAFF FELLOW TRAVELERS marls cakars lance belvllle dlana davles ruth deãr ralph d¡gia susan cakars nancy j ohnson Julie maas. máry mayo þrlan wester paul enc¡mer chuck fager seth foldy leah frltz gara larry nell haworth marty jezer bêcky johnson clndy kent ell¡ot llnzer iackson ÍÍaclow davld mcreynofds q€ne meêhan ñrark morrls iohn kyper ¡gal roodenko Þaul iohnson àtllson karpel cralq karpel p€ter klger alex knoPP ¡ people coming the lamp arm blocked off rules the harbour send these to be free dorothy lane robln larsen ilm judyPeck penhiter mlk€ stamm maftha thomases your huddled your tired the wretched masses g¡ve me a female figure weighing 225 tons ' pleasures of gulls the wretched my lamp box 547 rifton new york 1247"1 telephone 914 339-4585 we¡ghing 225 tons rules the harbour send these my lamp ffi u:ffi lltf Prlnt€d ln U'S.A. *$**,e.*p¿träål¡*îå*lffi stairs down inside rules the harbour rules the harbour stairs down inside susgest and urge fhat at least those nolitical change in this country, which has 6e"n so painfúl and slow, is by.some miracle to'become easY and quick. -soinsIñdeed, the events of the past-v-ears and u recent issue of yours [WIN, I 1/15/72]. . suseests that many othErs ale awafe oI^ tms' cãiT;rn a fe"ung itrat l've had for a loirg iirnJttrat we haie never fully or properly understood the meaning, purpose' and use oI. nonviolence in this country. Most -ol'the ' Teoole who "adopted" it as a politicâl tactic i"etiõ¿ to thiñk ôf it as a new kind of weai,äîå-".Uiið.tversion of ju jitsu or karate, åî*ftú'å':t''t ;ñ;iídüñ;i-inÏa¡i. wJárã nãi ãoine [rai-ôniV victories win any to - fft"téir'"ðiïåi"e' ";;;; a few very small ones. ", -wüt-"ãtviõienõe t";óh î. Ë ;õã-tä*t. ;.; Ë;úi;"ü¿olot ur,.ä- i'ã;;tõ;;i å;-' ;il'"h ;î;î;hãt'it"iìÑ¡u't. from being muih more that this, is keep us"btì; ää;;fi;il;d;;,i-õi,äi.".ðuî äd;ñ"d;?, ' ;;ä:dõ;it, k"iî " äõ"iîirií¿i'Ë;it;ñ besuperiority õi moiat ffirñ''!-;ü;nís it;rj;':**¿'th ;;ñ,ilË;ÉË;;häüüi'úiî;i-"-' listen. üó'äu"t ä q;äìif#lõ;i'ãnv jiiitÌ'Tä;üî' ";ä;.;hiü'if.n;ä äË..";liliä;åTft uofftnan' añarhave seen this as the wildest follv' But that onut"r'iit'iiu¿ìiiãliÄu6lã the othcr hand there is very much the posilion;;.';rälí!i;.i"r;':' ãüi*iõõòt¡ook).'On ,I în"'é J ï,i ri.¡t io the. nun:-bãi oî pro1et¡ *: -Tï ilüîJJåT.îtfilti*:tr:l i,l Ji"i'iÌ;. çrs that the Nixon administration would be yh-o T most anarchists don't know thev afe' [,ilffii;ilïirii¡î, ilhäiiirãää¡ãüivã rnáeed anarchism" and in largc the American propt" *outäüË;ää';;;¿t-^ i .ãiittti* "intuitive are the real'anarchist measuit ttt"t" people there' The conscience of the Airerican ' ' :;*ã;;;;;''; '' --Y AllcHEl{ oeople will not b,p appealeäfüi"dift -^:-lf oRE' PoRTLAND' ' íñîäîtüiïiitäväãä'rt"iã to do or bittèrlv oooósed to doi¡rs. The time has come to 2/73] ;í.r;-iõõf;r"Ñèlves and to get readv for I think vour -pointZappa reviewer [wlN' of Frank's music (e.g,, kcv a ldng,hard-winter. missed the -BOSTON' ---lOl!NI19!I MASS' .frãng"t ur ¿annoyances" rather than effoit to move beyond d¡eary ticky-tack predicta' i bility of most rock). Zappa has grown increasingly towartl instrumèntal music, as in Grantl Wazoo albunr' '. ;Ë;;A;;;;banã vou want' When it "l¿õiirtiwtrat . turned out, as it very rapidly did, that the '! use of nonûolerice was ñot making opponents behave as they were supposed to, but was in- weapo'ns, less magical and presumably more effective. The results we see belole us are minority group communities, at least in the cities of the north-I know less about tne ;ðrlh tearing themselves to piece,s, and the eap betweðn these groups and those oeoõté with whom they must make alliances if tli"y at" to improve their situation grows wider - everv dav. ihe time mav be at hand fo¡ us to under*t"n¿ ttrai nonviôlence is much less a magical way of getting what you want than a way of i,etraiine rùtrite vou are not getting what vou want.á wav oi keeping up one's strengtlL iesolutioí. morâle, staying power, while at least not aãding to the delusions and terror ãf tro.tr oooonõnts, In this connection, as "' posturings of Mick Jagger. (The lcss a ias to say the more they rely on trappings--loud insiitent beat, ego-tripping around ntlkç (ìod forbi:! wires, iyrics, psychedelic garb. *" st oút¿ bcludged purcly on our Music!) .. Petsonally, I could nevÙr sec why anyonc willingty choose to liston to Stoncs or' even Beatles whcn they coulcl listcn to Don Ellis or Sonny Rollins or John Klcnrmcr or ú-iixi.p"t.d"r,-u, ¡o"" hcatls arc a lsupï:ll:. ':' B;\ì ",,. iouslot. -:ALAN SWI'INSON -llLooMFlljLlt;'N'J' to me that perhaps itrã m"ost sisnificant result of the Montgomátu Uus stri-ke was that it b¡ough! to yirtually nolhing the level of crime in the black community-, ln a word, it pulled the black communitv toeether' Since then, blacks and other minoritv sroups. and lndeed many wnrres' ñàve ratiiã¿ aròúnd the crv "Pick Up.The .Gun!" But the guns picked up have rn most ' . "would - seems . group ; civil riehts movement, gave lt up lor otner it ' - in my opinion,-Zappa, evenwith kaz'oos ancl iattr, it in"omputoLiy superior to thc tlull be'rs of oeople who had adopted nonviolence æ a kinä of magic weapon' notably in.the eoes^o'n of Medioc¡atcs or'Ìctlus: trium isi'heavy" on vocals. Thebcst-rock (Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Soft Maòhine) inevitably movcs in this tlirection' stead increasing their fea¡ and rage and mal(ine them even more intractable, large num- iinie ;'"*¿+i,'i.i;,"*";e'n tumping tãgéttrer tñe. pacifist and nonpacitst änaíctriõts (and wlN too)' . Bv doing iliis rre .ãîi"pèat the old lie that anarchism i-'-tuiiqtìy negative rather tlSn-Positive (true fo¡ tnañy.nonlpacifist anarchists). But in ia.ct ürc þácifisì ana¡chists are.probahlv one of the m'oit positive and sociallv.creative groups'öf ôe'oole there are. Thev are in the iradiiion df Titoteuu' cÞfl¿i' and Goodman pää'piå'iliäfitËv most and oüselves tween and are notro be taken,lightly no matter how small ther numDer" to of a mind day some te snõutd secön¿, he equates an anarchist with anv' I do not think that cunä'lìi,-ñi¿ wnî'ãàtts trimself oné; as if the word gng ì-.i¿ question üãu" *òîid the asked been no mãànine; as if there were no anarchist had Russia of Stalirr's citizen ittiii:' doubly fatal because on the iãã¡ii"ü' by they could "fiilitts'åï that have adopted the.word anardown or turn around ttrese Ëãvärnments." He one hand many õrti'iro' its noiorietv who a¡c not in the o-ppãrièìtt . ' is the antsJ, loving papa. But it is_not.so' part õf ttre mañÍ eirors are due tçhis öomê tind of foolproof wav of maki-4g voçr massês the lamp arm blocked off I teliãte in nonviolence stop using the word "revolution." It is unwise and selfdefeating to continue to use a word which con' ' tó ttre people we are trying to win over "ãvs thó exact oipoôite of what we intend it to méan. an¿ ii unwisely encourages those who use the word to believe that the pro.cess ot stairs down inside il enemies, As someone who cho3;ï B.iååtþtÏtf.T" an anÍuc neighbors. "" 3/U?31 to be offensivelv ""ä:ïT;ï'fä ;ì;üË;i6A iä." u"ry anarchism twrN,iuú The tone of enors. óf àno pattontünd "f The magic in this country. toush times the piecè sãemed to be based ori his feeling ;"åä;äñ;;üäî.|äìliot eoing to soften i;iüãt'an ana¡ctr¡st is]a socialist who hasn't. ihïffiä"Ë.''ï;îi;ili;ili,""""î;ö;"gn, grown-uo vet. Throughout one is struck by or Asiá *uiií going turn them ogninri to not f,'."qöfiåti¡"-¿esc¡tó anarchism'with'' i pöfå,äiïirãiother theexploitationof soinc to cure them of racism or sive them *otot t'ïåüi"t'*î;;¡';;iiôil';'¡¡iiinitive"' 4^!^h. wtN 3 ' I ln the mid-'60s when I had recently left single life in New York for child-raising in the academic suburbs, I returned to see Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Burstein's Window. (This was just at the time that Lorraine lay dying in a hospital, and her ex-husband Bob Nemiroff was trying to keep the play going.) There was a cry raised in this play which caught me on several levels: "l ain't going to have the white man's leavings in my house no more!" lt struck me then that the things black people know about white people men. are similar to the things women know about Just as black people have often been non-people to whites, who have known them mainly in subservient roles, so women have been known primarily in sexual and domestic roles by men whose "real" life is in of' . fices, factories, clubs and bars. One way in which the play's cry reached me was through my white folks'guilt. I'd grown up in a fam; ily which, while not rich, did indeed hire black peopl'eespecially women-for household work and gave them our "leavings". My mother was a gentle and good' hearted person who certainly had no intention of ex-.. ploiting anyone; in fact she would sometimes keep help when we no longer needed or could afford it, so that the person-usually a black woman, though a few times black men or, once, a white couple-would have employment. She gave them things because we had them left over (despite being passed on thrôugh eight children) and because the help needed them. We were caught in the trap of master/servant, have/have-nots, as much as they were, and we did not f now what else to do except give them our "white man's leavings". Another way in which this cry reached me was thisl through the '50s in Paris, Washington, and New York, various affairs had left in my apartments a resi- \^/*TE due of ties, socks, once a wristwatch. (There were also more traumatic "leavings": several pregnancies.) Most of my women friends were in analysis those ddys, convinced that the reason we were not married was because, for various neurotic reasons, we were hot able to accept our "roles". Jobs were hopefully interesting stopgaps until we were able to get ourselves straightened out and stop getting mixed up with neurotic men who would do us no good. "Mr. Right" was some nice guy we had been ignoring because we were trying to hurt ourselves by competing with bright MRny Lr'vr ncr by ßnn fllorrlset Dovldon 4 WIN : or talented or competitive, women-hating men. Some of this may have been true, explainable in Freudian terms of our early relationships with male and female parents, siblings, etc.-but not all. Were we really grieving for a penis-or was it that we began to observe very early that little boys were treated differently in terms of freedoms and expectations? I knew little boys who would put oranges in their shirts to see what it was like to have breasts, as well as little girls who held wieners to their crotches to see what that was like. But more significantly, I sometimes heard my mother sigh heavily and say things like "man's work lasts from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done," My mother "âccepted" her role; for all her 40 years of married life she was primarily a housewife and mother. Her only rebellions were small oneì: sometimes playing the piano late at night, reading George Bernard Shaw, voting secretly for Norman Thomas. When my father died on his 80th birthday' a good stubborn man who had been a lifelong Baptist and a staunch Republican ever since he had le,ft Virginia-l rememberreading my mother a little ítem I ttad come across about how every woman breathes a rískr of both sorrow and relief (oi words to that effect) wien her husband dies. I recall that my mother, who was truly devoted and aggrieved, still let a small, rue'r ful smile escapg. Certainiy I absorbed, somewhere along the line, that having a spouse and houseful of kids to care for was hardeion a woman than a man, though my father was very much a family man and had no social life outside the family and church. Sometimes he would even make breakfast or do dishes, though when we had a woman to help, the cooking and cleaning up were usually done by her (älong with my motller and us younger þirts¡. siitt my father ruled the.roost, and oui l¡verwere arranged around his naps and teiîpers. The patterns sinðe then have not chlnged drastically. Therole that most women-still pla!, in.marriage . or out, is to accept and live off "white men's leavings". This is not to say that there have not been deep love relationships, admirable partnerships, considerate mutual respect and sharíhg among many couples. Nor is it to say that there have not been many "bitchy" domineerin! women and manipulated, "henpecked" men; but even these reversals are symptomatic. For wo' men whose households and personal needs have'been taken care of by servants, the "leavings" mpY be mainly psychological-the man's tiredness at thti end of the day, his lacÈ of comniunication. (lf the woman also wori