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I would like to take this opportunity to
respond to Jim Peck's brief articlc on
military dischargc codes which appeared
under "Changcs" in the April l 8 issue of
WIN. While the Pcntagon, due to public
pressure, has "officially" endcd its rcpressive
practice of placing dischargc classification
(SPIN) codes on dischargcs, the issue has
by no means been resolved. The goverr
ment's latest concession to growing demands
for just treatment of veterans is nothing
more than a publicity stunt to "pacify"
veterans and diffuse the issue.
While it is t¡ue that vets with undesirable
spin codes can now be issucd a new set of
tlischargc papers without thc code, it should
also be noted that employers are well aware
that all discharges issuod prior to this alleged
"policy change" do have codes on them. Any
vct filing a job application who submits a
ncw set of papcrs minus the code will thers
by bo notifying his prospective employer
that he was originally assigned a negative
classification Additionally, many vets afe

completely unaware that such codes even
exist in the first place.
Regardless of whether a vet is issued the
ncw discharge which automatica.lly omits
the classification, o¡ gcts a new set of papers,
this system will still be in effect covertly.
Rather than just having a code number, all
permanent military, selective service and
Vetcrans Administration records will now
have the classifications typed right on them.
There is no reason to believe that the new
system will be any more "secure" than lhe
one it allegedly replaces. Just as agencies
and employers have ready access to information contained in the SPIN codes, it must
be assumed that they will also have access to
information sto¡ed under the new sy.stem.
It should be noted that these classifications are arbitrarily assigned at the whim of
the commanding officer and that there is
little concern for due process. Thus, years
later, a vet may find that his inability to

ter Soldier Organìzation (VVAW/WSO) is
setting up discharge upgrading projects
throughout the country and is demanding
a retroactivq single type discharge for all
veterans. This would necessarily involve the
issuing of new discharge papers to a//
veterans and the elimination of any farm
of discharge classifications.
VVAW/WSO will be sponsoring a
National Amnesty Demonstration in Wash
ington DC from July I to the 4th and one
of our demands will be.the single type dis
charge. Other demands include Honor the
Agreements/End all Aid to Thieu and Lon
Nol Decent Benefits for Vetq and Kick
Nixon Out. All organizations and individuals
who suppórt these demands are warmly encouraged to join us in our demonstration in
Washington.
-DAVID ROSS

secure a decent job stems from having
pæsed out movement literature, an act

John Kyper's review of Allyn and Adele
Ricketts' hisoners of Liberation in the
April 18, 1974 issue of WIN largely accepts
the authors' highly favorable perspective on
their experiences in post-revolutionary
Chinese prisonq and goes so fa¡ as to com-

which might earR one the classification of
" homosex ual- subversive."
To focus public attention on this issue,
the Vietnâm Veterans Against the War/Wirr

Burlington, VT

Dear Loyal ReaderE
We were all sitting around the other day, trying to get a line on this week's
fund appeal (yes, this week's. . . .and every week, taking up valuablell/lN
space until $20,000 turns up in the mail).TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!? ARE YOU DREAMING? Well, we must be awake, fellow travelers,
bêcause last week alone we raised $2,167.76 which brings the total so far to
$5,052.00, most of it ¡n straight contributions, some of it in 200 issue renewals ($20 for 200 issues), some of it in pledges of monthly or quarterly
contributlons, and some of it in ticket sales for the gala l'!lN WINE TASTING
PARTY (see ad p. 30). And if you, gentle reader, can think of stillanother
way to add to the total, please send it in. Anyhow, we were all sitting around
when the phone rang and we thought it might be Liberated Portugal asking us
to come over and run a few workshops, but it turned out to be the printer "
asking where the check was for the.last issue and we said well, uh. . . .
So seriously folks, we need the twenty thousand to get us out fo debt
and propel us forward into bigger and smaller things. What debts? you ask.

What things? Well,
We owe the printer $4,076.20.
We owe the envelope maker $838.59.
We owe I BM (for the composer) $¡t Z.I O.
We.owe the computer serv¡ce (for subscriptions) $351.35.
We owe ourselves $347.72 in back wages. And that, as they sayr is the unkindest debt of all since all we get around here is an average of g52 a week.
And these are iust some of the bills.
We don't owe our writers anything because we don't pay our writers-anything. But we'd like to. And we should. Likewise our artists, photographers,
guest editors, etc. And likewise ourselves a l¡ttle better. But mainly, we'd all
like to sleep a little easier, knowing that WIN Magazine that beacon in the
struggle for Peace and Freedom Through Nonviolent Action, will be free to
learn and grow, alter and illuminate, and pursue its happiness for 200 more
issues.

So fork it over comrades, and return this page to combative, stimulating,
warm and friendly letters.
Thanking you in advance' I am

Very Trury yours,

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Fred Rosen standlnq at the very portal of
the WIN Publ¡shing Emplre. Photo by Susan
P¡nes,

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coisiderable
rathe¡
Robert

ThBre a¡e certainly morally acceptable
mend Chinese prisons to us as
elements of"thought ¡eform?' that can be,
improvements on US varieties. A
difrerent assessment is contained in a number and have been, successfully adapted for use
in norrprisor¡ nor¡coe¡cive contexts (e.9.
of other first-hand accounts, e.g,
Jay Lifton's Thought Reform: The Psychology . group therapy) with valuable results But
of Totalism based on in-depth intewiews with prison-any prison-is neither the only place
a number of Western and Chinese ex-prisoners nor tlçrbest place to find tru-th'
MARIAN NEUDEL
leaving China, apd the motétecent
Chicago, IL
of Mao by Bao iìuo-wang and
ChelminskL
Somè coriections on your-little blurb
These less favorable accounts are
under Dove T^Ies 4ll8l7 4 on the Women's
.trinsically more believable than the
-History Library-That's the first one, we'te
which pràises Chinese prisons. Surely
not Berkeley Women's Research Center, but
now enough testimony concerning
in many different countries has accumulated . Women's History Library. Ancl its not
to iustify the most extreme skepticism when "voluntee¡s around the country," but
an"ex-prïsoner w¡ites in praise
"volunteers/rorz around the country."
(peoplg have to do the work here in
captorì. In this case we are told of a
- Berkeley in the library. . . .)
tern ttrat arrests people and holds
So,, anyway, thanks lor the blurb.
without charge aid without trial for
period totally indefinite in extent.
-MICHELE
Berkeley, CA
iystem makes extensive use of
Constant efforts a¡e made to break prisoners
Sometimes you run the oddest stuff. Why
psychologically. Physical hardship is in
all this commentary on the NCLC-if it is
óases extreme. In order tol'obtain
true, it would seem a case of the less said
prisoners must Confess to
the better.
accusations, and to express acceptance
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Then there is Ed Murphy's
the regime,s supfemacy. ls this really
improvement ovér the American penal system? I4l l8l74l on political campaignc I find in
it a great longing to discover means of
Some seem to think so, Not.long ago
reaöhing all those people who all our radical
came across an account of a recent visit to
endeavots seem to pass by. And I can cerShanghai prison The Americ¿n
tainly'sympathize with that. But I find
describedìome thieves who had been
prisoned for seven years as lookinþ
nothing about the essential question fgr . -.. -'.
radicals who would engage in the bourgeois
unhappy. Still he lauded the vi¡tues of
political process; does not our fresence
placq comparing them most faverably
merely teni to legitimize a fraudulent sys
their ccunterparts in the US whe¡e the
terh which gives people the illusion that
inmates, deprived of the opportunity
they have some control over their lives?
benefit from Mao's generosity, spend on
Whe¡e a very few own allihe "property,"
average, only two years for burgla¡y and
'thfee for robbery, sentences considere'if" and decide what to do ryith it, elections are
an afterthought in whicfi people can only
rather long by European
I do not know how to explain American reâct to decisions already taken, can nevel
initiate. When did we ever vote to beconie
I radicals' persisterlt inability to maintain
overwhelmingly dependent on individually
critical perspective on institutions in
tries likã Chjna or Cuba, bût I am convinced "'owned auto transportation-and so prey to
the manipulations of the oil corporations?
that this failing should be ove¡come. It
Since this is so, I, for myself; feel called
detrimental to our movement and
upon to stay out of this meaninglesg
tutes a kind of
-DAVID F. GREENBERG mo¡ass and try tq make my contacts with
people in the slower, more frustrating ways
New York, NY
we 4re developing-picketing, leafletting,

hisoner
Rudolph
inone
by
prisons

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syv.
them
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The
informe¡s,
some
releasq
preposterous
of
an
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author
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article

etc.- .

John Kyper's review of hisonërs

of

Liberation, in your April lSth issue, really
appalled me. It seemed to be premised on
the notion that the Chinese prison/"rehabilitation" system is okay because (1)it
works, and (2) it turns out good-thinking
people, whereas the American prison/"re-

habilitation" system is evil because it doesn't
worlç or turns out bad-thinking (or nonthinking) people. It's okay, in short, to put
people in cages or even keep them "shackled
for consiitant lying," if the end result is
truth.
It may very well be that the Ricketts
achieved important growth and self-underof
standing during their imprisonment.
"Lots
people do. That's no recommendation for
prisons, of any political variety. G¡owth and
self-understanding are good things, regardless
of how they are achieved. And imprisonment
and coercion are bad things, regardless of

their results"

Everí úheir I'm being critical, getting.
WIN ë¿ich week does cheer me up.

-JAN ADAMS

San Francisco, CA

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Electorial Politics: Ed Muþhy'for .
President, [WIN 4/ l8/741, left a Ùad taste
in my moutlr. He seems to have acted as
radical as possible within the electoral contexl He said he raised important issues,
remained uncompromised and reached
manf,rpeople. Yet I see a danger in what
Ed Murphi is doing for I believe his eÍforts
at electo¡ial politics are in tþe end countelproduotive.
I am confronted with simila¡ campaii¡ns
at home in SL Paul where a number of my
friends a¡e active in running a radical for
city council The idea is put forth by some
radicals that what we need is "good goverr¡
Letters Cont¡nued on Page 29

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16,"1974

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8 Years Before the Masthead.
David McReynolds

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Jenny Serruys

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Rogues Gallery.

A Day ln The Life-Part 1.. . . .

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Mortho. Thomases

A Day ln The Life-Part ll. r . .

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Mqris Cakars

Spring Farm Forecast. . . t ¡ . .
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has it been 200 issues? All rhe wav from
1965 r.o 1974! A. J. Musre lives on! I uuer.li rememDer several meetings held at 5 Beekman which,
as I
recall,-were brought together by A.J. and some of the
lltf t us, ro ser u.p some kin¿ of paiifist group in
New York Ciry. Ar that time the Commiftee for Nonviolent Action was still operating, and rarhãi than
give the New York group the titlé of either
a WRL
local or a CNVA local, it was called the New york
Workshop in Nonviolence.
. Certainly our intention was not to set up a maga_
zine, but a New yorkCity pacifìst action gioup.
fhe
group died, but out of it came an action b"ulletin
which became,.by January 15,1966, WIN_A pub_
trcatton ot the New york Workshop in Nonvioience.
That issue doesn,t even list a staff, iet ulonô .àitorr,
sponsorship, etc. There are only writers' names_
Marty.le!er, Donald Newlove, paul -back
Johnson, Eonnie
Stretch. There is a short note at the
wcicoming
home Jay-Moss, who has just served a nine mãnth
sentence for draft resistance.
The funny thing is it doesn't even seem that long
ago. The draft card burnings had started a ye;ar earlíer,
the.mass movement against the war *a, *éll ün¿er
way, so much had happened. . . .so much was still
to happen. . . .so many liyes were still to be lost in
vretna.m,.so many men still to be imprisoned or seek
exile. WtN came at a time of darkness anJ l.aeà when
we felt oür anger but also our powerlessnãsiin¿

!!V,Çoa,

it wa.s appropriate
:9Tgl"*
a tb pag.e-mtmeographed

rhat liltN began simply
bulletin, with an illuitiated
cover, no different from any of a hundred or perhaps
a thousand similar bulletins bursting into exisirn.. ,
around the nation as the grass rootibegan to grow,
as

eve.n.then, in that cold January
'fhere
is pain in glanóing thiough the back issues.
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old friends. Death. Lookiñg for the date when
WRL became.directly related ro WiN t Rná in my
random search Gary Rader, his siern Green Beret,
h¡s stern face, his burning draft card held in the
aír.
Rader, recent suicide, caiualty of peaceful
I he issue I want is October, 16,, 1967, when
"orUut.
WIN
announced that ,'beginning with this issúe, liltN
Magazine is to be publisheã by.the War Résisters
lTgve in,cooperation wjth the New york Workshop
rn Nonvlolence. .. ." and it is about that transition i
wânt to write briefly, for contrary to some assump_
tions, organizations can change and grow. CNVA had
-con" oyl.gj. þuslqe¡s, mergin! with tlnl. Wno woul¿
:upport WlN, which by now was photo_offsei1n¿
häd a growing mailing list-and deficit?
Some of us proposed WRL take over as co-oub_
lísher but wíthout any editorial control. The Executive
Committee was sharply divided. The staff was uñited_
this publication was the only pacifist thrust into the
youth culture, toward the yeliow submarines, toward
.ry1mcs,

4 WIN

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MNçÎHEA,D
Gordon moved on to become a follower of the
Guru Maharj Ji. People moved to the country, as
Marty did, and moved back.':WtN itself, in a decision
most of us bitterly opposed, moved to Rifton, a hundred miles away from our beloved smelly hellish
wonderful city. I think of the picnics uqthere at the
farm, think about the changes each of ú5 has been
throúgh-and I know tl-rat iiwe, who worked cldsely
with WlN, went through changes, so did each of you
out there, the readers who keep the magazine alive.
So much has happdrred sihce those early days. We
helped to topple Johnson from office and, even though
we often don't realize it, we (all of us, not iustlillN,
but the whole movement of which WIN was a part)
helped bring the direct American involvement in
Vietnam to an end. We have drunk beer togqther and
sometimes gotten drunI together. We have smoked
dope, been to the annual mass demonstrationslspent
time in jail together, somet-imes time in bed together.
We've tried to find out who we are without'forgetting
the need to change the socieTy around us. We have
been fucked up people in a fucked ùp society-but'.
we never have acce'pted our situation as natural or
inevitable. lt is Leonard Cohen's phr;ase that "we are
.Jeaning out for love, we'll leañ tlm,t way'forever."
Weãre bent in the right direction. We have suffered
heavy losses in these 200 issues. A.J. died. 1m Coleman died. Kenneth Patchen died. Paul Goodman died'
And ironically, in the 5Oth ,vear of the organization in
which they hóíped to fôund, Tracy MygáTt'and Francis
Witherspoon died. But I believe in compost, in organic gardening. The living spring from the dead and
their strength from what passed before.
' draw
.200 issues. My God. lt went so fast. We live in the
worst of times, the best of times. I simply can't feel
profound, as if 200 issues marked an end to something. lt's just a pause in the struggle. I wish we could
have,a huge party for all the,readers, all the penÞle
. who've wiiti.n, pasted up, stapled, stuffed, stamþed,.
änd worked on the magazine. All the thousands of us'
We are bent but not broken by all that hás pãlsed
through us, ov.er us, these past years. We are leaning
out for love, we'll lean that wa.y forever.
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Number 10 June

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AND WHOSE PICTURES WE WERE neLe

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iïäî,¿

amiabreroeachorherandsometimËiio;;;ril,;"_
ing volunteer waif who happened tã ,iurolr- ¡n
¡r.,
some att¡tude of helofulnesi or someone whoìs
killing rime untit a meeting.ãiwnl
tw.i ääì¡rr"r,
League). There are a lot of 'letterr tãJrrã

*

...-Yutilvl',.4lbert,-who

susan and Mary

oi""f,:,.i:,1",

,

to he ståéveJ;;;"" don,t mix Catifornia

much caughr on in
"tr.
å,i, degree.
-ouni",Now you,rè reädy to join in the good.
l?i'..r
ãi,í,ã;;;; peop,e working ,ñere

nái*-ài¿

ACO uleiltor.¡

.

urrrme you have rhe whote rhing down,
like

tino¡r,

iJ¡rÅ

.rf

Evervone prerers ro do it their own
inefficienr

dont ,r.ér. ti,ãir".r,Ë, o,

Jög:ç,

jiÅî)""
""¿
Mv experience working at wtN is by no means exrensive but I have round, in trre
cblifornia.

l,""lni'
*"t"r
you'

i;:;îxi!::i:;:r:,';yl:a:r';;:ii:xi::jli;'

îäÍ^|!2lt-ressionat
nves
¡n

Roqüesf Gn[leny

of a

is arways good

t¡.

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supp,yon hand

t:

ii'Jï,""?îïll,ll,ltiîbS.$itr,""r","#:,"ï,i"rJJ:
(!;;';ä.
lfl8htened by it) will all go en masse ro
ìi¿Ë iiury 1rno", rhe.carefut guidance of Mr. DiGia)

*#l#näfl*1i'r,x,t¿iy,!fr;^:[:i#!*nn, :;"61*,,,rïtËï,ii;,.ìhlgjiiJ*,i:,,J.
i;';;;;i;;

separafe from others.
¡vay of tieing or sleevins ana

i

ffi;'i;å;iiî..,
räãitv *"v

naf,pen iã

the most efficient but people
iusi ¿ont
any attention to me when I ã"óonstrãt.
rs

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ttËt io puy
,lr"rho¿

o,ålilFrTÏúifl,ïJLï"?å#,li"i""rJï,ixili:1",
ññ]iner or these men hãuå'Ju., deigned ro speak

;it; il

on the severar occasions t have met rhem so
_Jenny Serruys

I lefr them out.

SETH FOLDY

DAVID HERRES

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JOHN GOODWIN

TAD RICHAROS

MARK MORRIS & GORDON CHRISTIANSEN

BRUCE & DONNA CHRISTIANSON
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LEE YAPLE

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RUTH DEAR

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BRADFORD LYTTLE
KAREN

BARBARA RUBIN
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DANIEL KARIN & RALPH DIGIA

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HENRY BASS

MAURY EN€LANDER

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MURRAY & JOEY BOOKCH

ALLAN SOLOMONOW

TULI KUPFERBURG

GRACE PALEY

LEAH FRITZ

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MATT LEIGHTON
RosEBUD Leie ¡tror.¡

MARGARET HAWORTH

STAFF_ELIZABETH ABERMAN, KARL BISSINGER, RALPH D¡GIA'
ED HEDEMAN, GRACE HEDEMAN, DA VID McREYNOLDSi JIM PECK"

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MARTIN DUBERMAN

GLORIA STEINEM

VALERIE & AJILLA HERRES

PAUL GOODMAN

JERRY ELMÉR

MARTIN MITCHELL

VICTOR, PAUL, BECKY AND CHR ts JoHñsoN

DIANA DAVIES

JIM FOREST

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A.J. MUSTE

NEIL HAWORTH
CARRIE RAMEY

GARY RADER

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CRAIç & ALLISON KARPEL

BURT LEVITSKY

JIM TODD
PAUL PALNIK
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IGAL ROODENKO

CINDY,KENT

LANA REEVES

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".üJBf:i?'J"tnnu t"" Gara; Jan Barry
Fäi,J,.öiðt¡ãii"ìn". ov Ann.Ph.illips¡_ D¡ana Dav¡es by Kay vån Deurs; J¡m Forest by Thlch Nhat Hânh; Gwen Reyes by Maury Englander

isai RãoAenxo by Bob F¡tch, Maier Vishner hy Kârl Bissinger, Jackson MacLow, copyright 1974 by Peter Moorè, Lana Reeves by
pãul coodw¡n, Wnl Staft by Bradford Lyttle, Johnson famity by Dudley DeZonia, PLACE Magazine'

ALLEN YOUNG

l4 wtN

JACKSON MACLOW

Paley, Tull Kupferburg, Paul Goodman'
The following were taken by D¡ana Davies! Kip Shaw, Barbara Dem¡ng, John Goodwin, Grace

JULIE MAAS

A'J' Muste' Burt Levitsk''

wrN ts

Fl

,

A

il

rhe Life

irrr

Pnnr I
Since I am the newest addition to life on
the farm,
was decided thar I shoutd
u¡ouiJÅui ¡t,,

it

*rii.

like. After ail, my view of things shãutd-Oä'å.

fresh and teast jaded. I shoutd;o;ic;

,ort

de;it;';rhers

--*"" "
take for granted. We,ll see.
You can loók at the staff-box in the front
of the
magazine and see what everyboOy,s
iitt.
ii, Out that
doesn't mean much. For one thing, the
title ,,editorial
assistant" mosrly means we coulái,i ir,¡nL'är
unv
other titte for thar person. This ii t .; ü
i.rtiv works:

pines does all
the typesetting. Every word
-Susan
yori have read in hrlN since tnô'fatt
f,ári.ãnJ¡,.,._
te,fi n gers. S h e atso,;; ;
sam p e
whrch she types labels. She,s at rhe
type_
l1lïij,-l9i
mach¡ne or a rypewritrer almosr all
her work:::rilg
Ing moments, and she doesn't even need glasses. -'-.

;;

i"il*f l':.:n?

-Nancy Johnson takes the tvp.

r

tÀiiíuìåïnu,

it in neat and úiteful ioturins, a¿¿s
graphics and tittes. and m-akes
¡t alt Iáoi<-liîå'ä-rnuguzine. She atso fi.ls ãrder.s for
fo;rc;rr"b;;;iri.k.rr,
and books, and knits. Now ttiat sôiír,e-i;
ñör,'rt,, i,
knitting less and sewing more.
set and arranges

. -Susan Cakars does the lay-out for the letters and
ad pages. She cloes cooyediting;;¡
This means she reads åli .itiár"r,

ilüiöì;s.

,p.ãiirräiå¿

_r::r-1.^tr,F,lirmar
tltteracy

:le fe.at
that

and.spelling so tiiat
rateS

yo, *ãn,t

of our writers. lt also

t now

means

she keeps tabs on how mucn money ii"roring
in
and going our, and hopes rhar ,orrño*l
ir.,.iäirø
wíll keep up with the iarter.
-Mary Mayo is the most organized person here.

^.

She ta kes care of s u bscriptionslîÁüi"iriilåi',
är.
than you m3y reatize. Sh'e has to be,;;å;ñ;j;;"ry
new subscriber,s name gets on tf,.
_ tf,ut

"ornpuîåi,

f-!is qersol wilt get WlN. She has ro be sure rhar re
newal notices go our at.rhe rigf¡r
timãs. SïJ hu, ,yr_
tems worked out for this, and"l
¿ãn;i uiálrrtunã,rhem. I do undersran¿ ttrât ir-si¡ã wliJåäi
ro l"uu.,
. we'd have to
hire three or fori p.opl, to ão all
the
work she does, and
probabtvTilr Joi,în,t g"t
i

t r ight.

Besides

at

have.

..

all.

lMafty

1!ey
I this,' sire{rh; !;;;'p;.;"freadér
we

Jezer does the Changes pages. He selects

the tittte goody news items

rioniãi.irrirt

sources and does the.lay_out for
this

working on a book abour rhe Fift,.r;;

pither ryp¡ng away furiouslv

goooy

,"rtián. n",,

;;ñjs'usualy

a woi\renls
mav have noticed that we are essentially
women
lay-out'
Changes
the
for
È"cept
¿,#Ñ;;.
deadline'
for
a
done
be
to
has
ä;ii ;d;"rk ihat
evervthing to mv own satisfaction'
wiä;;pì;iti
""piinãJt
how we"work if I take
l"u will undeistand
Farm'
We ha.ve 3
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the
at
a
day
inrãlgtt
uo,
uliLt to
l."r.îåîrã, í"Jiui, ur.'àìr.i.nt, uut enough we
å;;b;.'For example, Mondays and Tuesdays
the
äãíittiy p"t the issue togethe.r, so.it can be at
morning' wednesdav throush
we¿nes¿av
ãñ
;;'rtã;!
tïi¿"u. we take care of mail of all kinds '(bil1s, orders,
maill,;bïii;il;ôtices, sample copies, promotionweekare
Weekends
shitwork'
'
assorted
#JaiJ ã"
;;?1.;ime itr gardening and hikes through the'woods'
and the SundaY Times
.i"áíins
--órvi late,
usuälly begin around 8:30, depending,on
*¡rJrã'vo, are ãnd wtren Janis wakes uB' Maris will
or
Jrive tó get the morning mail, and if itß Monday
fråi¿uv]ft. also takes Janis to the babysitter's' Susan
c¿[áii.'Ñun.y and I do yoga for an hour, groaning
aij;#püi;ine un¿ tovinf it (we could all do full

þ'*;Ë

uepending on how vou feef rh¡r;;;ti;";iiiry.un
"r'irr¿¡"ã

be either discouraging o, inípiritionlì.'lrîou
n""¿
'äi"n
h is ror icat backgroü nd"
fo, ;;ilh i;;;

ro*

recenr ide¡riry crisis, n4arty ís.irrelrrron Jà',lr
iãio ro.
-rred Kosen doesn,t do much work on thi maga;
zine,irself (except rhe Men's issue). úe *iuúii.",
u,
mucn as any of us, and
some proofreading, but

$.o.e¡
his officiat work is estabtishins

Wiñ'üo[rlËär"auy,

W.lN publishing Empire *ïrr
iä'riù,
rnencfty neighborhood bookstore,""r"nã
and you;ll have
Fred to thank for iL
can look to the end of this article and see
_ -You
who I am (referring ro myself i" tfrã if,irã'pJiron
i,
lh.e

and inrroductioni ai [Ài, ,tug.
::::jil:g^: tfeeting,
I choose and tay_our the review pagès.
+f,:y^liiiq).
nts can ue a weekly moral dilemna,

as I trv to ,,
oatance good.writing, dive¡se opinions,
book3, måvies,
or whatever the readers mlght want to'tnowïUout, -,

onry beeã doing it ror a w-eek)'
who ur" up gather around the breakfast table
in il'rr ttort" and read the mail until 10:00 or so, discussing the various papers and who sent how much
money and which article and why don't we g.et more
free records and what's with the shortage of love
irti"ii, foi that mátter. By the time Janis lås spilled
three bowls of cereal on the floor, or by 10:00 (whichever comes first), we decide it's time to walk over to
the offìce in the barn and get to wor'k'
Nancy is usually finishe-d feeciing the chickens by
this time, and Fred is arriving'with his briefcase. ..
Maris decides whether today is to be Country-Western
or Golden-Oldies, adlusts Èhe radio accordingly, and
.evpryone settles áown to hie o¡,þ"el respectivè desks.
'Mail
is sortêd according to who has [o act on each
particular itém. Susan Pines is woken up (sometimes

ilä;;;Ë;;eia

u'ir*rpup"r.

"

Martha Thomases
{

and hours can be spent knocking on
her door trying to awaken her empty bed') The bank
deposit is made ready to'go. Susan Pines and Marty,
sitiing at one huge desk, are both typing away madly.
Sometimes, whe¡ I'm doing billing or trying to write
this article;l"li"tie't!ping too,'and sómetimes Fred
and Maris will ioin in, and the result is deafening.
Some people are reading articles from the manuscript
box, sgme people are telling Janis they don't have
now, some people are telling him
- timé t'o read to him
thev do, some are talking about what they did last
,,/ night, and some people are doing their previously
' described functions.
she's al¡eady up,

,t

with whar's in the fite and

fill orders and

t-he

"ró;ñ

ofipäär. I ufro

send our biils, bulonty-JÅ"íiirun,t
be avoided any longer.
.. -Maris Cakars iithe most important person here.
t, rurns on trre riä ø ì
¡
1'Æ:.1.T
ano
answers lai
the phone. With consultation,
"
"s,
he alsd.
cnooses and t¡tles articles, but this is

h,!ïãi"

not his main
function..His main functiôn, urc
rnu¡l
s"äiniif,,
lrwrce.a day yet), answering the phone, and keeþing
a. steady flow of wisecracks.-go¡ng
,o ,". aii påv atten_
tlon but don'r ger distractei ti;;;;i;;;;íiíoo,
or,
he's been doing it a long time and almost
ñ; i; p""

tect.

. .T.his is what we do. lt is not who we are, but then
this.ís an arricte, nor a book
ttãlI iã ËiJ ãtäil trr"

bookf Howevei, we aon,t utùåyi nJoir,ïn-Iñ"

rnueu_

zine. Because we ail tive together (ex;åpi'Ëiäj.'*r.,o
d

i'..), ;;;"ì,

;';

ålether,
Il":: Íi^: I :l I'9u
Lp
ptay.Monopoly
together, listen to records togãther, '
watch televisíon togethei, and go orii"óáruti*uv,
d

together.

"Very well,.', you

,,you

say.
all have things to do,
and that is as it shoutd be. But what-ii.äiivi"",
t"
know,. whar has been teeping me aï;¿;;;¿häi;ä,i
is
you. manage to get rhese thinss
done.
:,lt1otity, how
¡.9*jo you-mesh rhings so that I receive rhatlirtle

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Mary Mayo

ort ot mag¡c in my mailbox.every
week? Well, you

Matty Jêzer and 5u5an P¡nes

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I

any less than eight feet tall, lim going to be sorely
disappointed.
While the gossip is nice, it isn't the beit thing here.
The best thing is the geqgraphy. I must admit that
when I first gõt here ãnd-my car got stuck in the
driveway and had to be toied otît, I was somewhat
less than charmed. I was, in fact, struck by 4 huge
attack of homesickness for the suburbs. But now
that Spring is here, and I c¿n räsume my old girls' '
schoot habit of midnight walks through the Wobös,f'
with a faithful dog or chicken, it's alright. The fact,' '
that there are good people around to walk witli when
the dog is busy is even better.

Once.a week we have a staff meeting, where

try to all get together and find out whai ii gã¡ngwe
on.

thar we have no ;;n;; ;;ã ;;i1;'
.f
ways to raise ir. We atsó ú.,int'.ii¡¿iu, rol.
!ï,"1
We always learn

-l

or for issues (like the Men's lssue, and
this
2.?olh). we.aie.au urieÀi añd wì;¿;'(y.u
Ël_"Ij:l:
but.1t tf.e¡e meerings I rhink Marty es_
pectaly shines. We all.have our moments
of brilliance,
but Marry has rhe abitiry ro .rtiiufàïã
b"etiefs
vo,ü
before you consciously ieatize
whii väuîrl¡nt.
You may have noticed this in his wïitinglö
rnuvo.
he.just agrees with my optnton enough
so that I know
arutcres,

îî,y,llijì:

iii

he's always right.
. Dinners are long times to sit down and talk. Talk
about how indivídual lives are going, uUoriiurrr"
plans and pasr memÕries, an¿
tie iãioi¡i. iunt ri",

that bounce in-berween. Sor"iirri *"'iìl'"ü t"gether, sometimes the people ¡n the
llouie anà *¡e
people in the barn eat ieparately (N"*y,
Su*n'pìn",
and I líve in rhe barn, whìte the butuis,
Marty live in the house) and once u *rät fråä un¿

Pnru ll

mlii^A

The basic decision making at WtN is done at the
weekly staff meetings whlch usually take.place on
Weinesdays. No onã else is present at thesê meetings
' so itls up tb the eight of us to bring t-ogether the
àif.t.ni and somðtimes sharply cg-ñflicting ideas that.
result in not only the editorial contents of the magazine but also the many different operations that are
vital .to the publication'of a magâzine.
Actually the editorial decisions are probably the
'easies!. ln part this is a result of the fact that our

Jeise join
*Ëjåiîiriîrñ1.
ÌåTr,î:_o_!n:'I:gn
lrrer.
dtnner we play games, watch
"i tãitelevision, listeti to
r"ad, wrire,
:l"":t:l-:q
I?l!<, or if we feet exriavaganr,
go
to the movies or to O'Connor's
Bar.

Cakars

i

Yes,. we are busy in the mornings. We each have
our ambitions for the day's accomþlishments, and
even. on-those gray days when it takes an hour
to
,th.tnt( oï a reason
to get out of bed, this is the t¡me
when energ)¡ ís at it's highesL
.bank4t depos¡t
]1:30, I leave to go swimming and make thð
and see if there are any new comic books
at the newsstand. The others break iorJunch iometime around noon, I guess, and sit.around the table
until sometime.bcfore I get back. From what I remember of thar pre-äthletic tì-me, lunch
ur"
somewhat more coherent than breakfast,
"ãnuåiruiiån,
and not as
elabo-rate as dinner, which ís about ríght.
Aflgr lunch, Susan returns to her iypesetting
,,
(don't
know how she does it all day) ánd the rêst of
us come to the conclusíon that we are probably only
going to work for three or four more h'ours. so we
should get on wirh it. lf my box is very full. I'll ¡ll
orders, which usually points out the f¡í¡ng câbin.ts
to J.anis and provides hours of activity foî him as
well as a floor full of back issues. Or he will find the

When we are not wo.rking, therri aié'other
char*19 parricipare. (sometimes they párüciapte
::,TI
wnen we are working but they are not'supposed
to
ano we tove them anyway). Maris and Susân's
afore
mentioned two year old-son, Janis, is trulv un int"
grar part ot our community. Without
him, no one

pàtititt afe'pretty simiiãr, Probably

woutd have noriced hôt,;"tb;iäiiüiJ"r,
ut
the bírdfeeder at 8:30 in ine mãiníne, oi
;"moriz"¿
h.ere

Scray.b,tgd Esss Super uv

or. jãusi.

iå"ir'oij"*,
our ntdden talents. you would be impressed
"rt
if"vou
maly peopte here can r^ráíuiãrã *.i1,
I::y play
Py catch, and make noises like
oarK,
a truck.

...

t-ellow traveller and former staffperson Brian

Wester travels up here every weekend from
Jersey. I think he has to be here a certain åmoint

ñr*

of

Fred, Nancy and Jesse Rosen

William Burroughs said th4t.everyone is addicted
to sometiring. This is certainly true of .us' Nothing
so mundaneãs sex, dope, or cheap thrills. Yet we
each do'things that are inexplicable in sane, rational
terms, and wi do them regularly. Fgr.example, I go
swimming four or five times a week,.'ä mile each time,
and as a result my eyes are constantly bloodshot,
my hair looks like straw (on those rareoccasions it's
dry), my skin smells like chlorine, and. I have biceps
any'lock would be proud of. lf you ask me w.hy I do
thil.'I'd probably shrug and mumble, "Uh, it's too
coló to be bicycÍe weather

Yet'"

i"ei ó-Ní"ity's occasiõnal

dash to tlie store.,for a

Díake's Fruit PieZ Or the continuing jacks tournament in the barn? (Actually, that's part ofour attemot to rediscover our native women's culture') Or
Susån Pinos' full cookie iar? Or my 110 records (thatf s
counting two-record sets as one record and not countine whais still in Youngstown and.Oberlin and that's
aiairly strong habit) and perpetually activated stereo?

nap and the afternoon will proceed peacefully. Or it
i¡
nice day that you'{ just as soon play out_
;uch. 1
side with him. Once a week ís a graoceryrün, *hi"h
usually takes a fewJrours, and once a week ãn" *n
usually sit upstairs with the stereo on the pretext of

õt Mui¡t' freih peas with a bag for the she.lls? or
and faithful care of the þarden?
Ñ"niy'itonttant
'-óí"-ni."
living together like
of

c.leaning, or writing. lf a mailing has to go'out, or
the is-sue has to þer done, it ger; dong b"ut uiúaily
the aff.ernoons are not as active as the mornines.
.Mary may disagree with this. She and somJnoble
volunteer who knows how spend most of thiee days

thing about all

-us

ttrii¡i ttrit novi.. like myself can ke'ep up with
cossio froñl" the past ten years' lt's absoHtely las-

people I
ãinatìns. I have iearned more stuff about
people that I do
about
know
I
than
r,îo*
ãáñ't
tno*. ôi"utionatly, they all will.be.describing
left out
;ñ;;;tü;iãiiv üt¿ event' and I'll reel
iãr not being thére, and realize.thSiSl t,h: time, I

doíng the keypunching every three weeks, putting on
new subscribers and takíng off those poor öuls who
h3y:n'l renewed; Bur, as l1aíd, Mary'is the cluivalenr

ot thrce or four people.

wás 12 years old.
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i

So it is with us all. How else does one explain'
Monooolv sames that go on until 3:00 in'rhe morn-

box full of exchangc papers, and we will have ifloor
lutt ot somebody else's back issues. Or he will take a

Photo by Diana Ðavlês

i:

All I can say ls'

raul Jonnson

'r

-

.

¡s

I
I

more ìmpôrtant

is.the fact that aótually only three of us-Marty, Fredand myself-participate very actively in the.process of
searchíng out articles and making the.fìnal decisions
rb"rl *'n"rgoés into the issue añd what, regrettably'
will get left ðul (Except for Susan C. a¡d. Martha who
chooie etc. letters & reviews respectively.)
ln fact the final decisions on what goes into the
issue arèn't made at staff meetings at all. As editor,
I i¡t ¿owñ on Thursday or Friday and select one.qr.
two articles that will definitely go in uhless things
changè drastically over the weekend' Susan Pines can
ilràn-set them in iype before Monday when we really
' have to get down to it and turn a þile of manuscripts
and grapîhics into a magazine..On Monday l. make
n¡iti"tit¡ons and draù up a "master plan" of 'ùvhat '

articles will go what pages. This process is accomolished with-consultation with whoever wants to get
in on theact. (For example, Nancy may ask for more

ö"r
- i;; id ui¡ictc.dli" hãs good graphics for, etc.)

but of coursä nóthing is really final until the'
finished oroduçt-is delivered to the printér on Wednèsä^ï mðri inÊ;Beëause al"t;icles-turn out longer or
, .tnófter ¡¡¿¡ predicted or things cömc in at the last' r
minuie. adiustments are being made constantly' For
.*uroí.. as I write this article atlJ:15 on Monday
(even'editors miss deadlines) we don't know for sure
*hut oue.t it will go on since it's not yet clear how
long thJRogues' Gallery will turn out to be. lf it's
moie than seven pages we wìll have made all sorts of
cuts orrealignmentt by the time that you read this.
i" I don't always make these decisions. Fred had'the
' honor for the Men's lssue. Chuck Fager for the'Kid's
lssue. Of the matcrial from which the final selection is
made about half is solicited by us and half iust shows
uo at our doorstep. Actually the ratio of unsolicitedtó solicited manuscripts that come in is probably

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sor¡ething like.two to one but the unsolicited maqu-

people' making decisions
and uptight about hiring new

scripts have a rñuch higher chance of being ret:ecte¿

*nãn we absolutelv have to'
ãnfu
is.the
""'Å;;;;t
aspect of any discussion of staff

eqrly in the game simply because they verÇ oien
¿eal
wtrn toptcs that we have already covered or because
the topic is one that we consider Oeyonã thJpurview
of lillN,
What it boils down to is a fair amount of agony
each week because we simply haven't the spaËe
to
publish everything that we would like
to.
.Once the articles have been copyedited by Susan
C.
tovingly ser inro rype by Slrun p- ãÀ 'the tBM
.and
Selectric composer which we rônt for
SiOO-a monttl
from lBl\4 they go back to.susan C. to'be proofrea¿
for the firsr rime. Then they Bero Nancy üi¡"i. ,f,.,
again with consultation withlhoever isinterãsted, '
takes over and adds the appropriate grapfrrcs,-tays
them out and pastes them up.
Before the finished product is sent to the printer
everything is proofed again several times só-l
ion,t
know how come errors still appear ¡n orr-pueä.
Every Wednesday, while we are havine ãriìtuf
meettngs, the printer in New york City tãkes
the

staff and here everyone's upñ1n91out because not onlv do we havé
ls fundamentally an ìnsrlTficient
what
ori
to make do
but.for what are suppo\ed to be'

r"ililöJ1i't-*-thut

iti;iåääiv

¡

åiläfii;i;onev

i'l i::rl: if'å :"
ä'.t'i-, åfi H ir hru ; måî!1"
causes conflic! My.experience
arrangement
of
;itì;'iñ.
is nothing like a discussion
riäüä; that theie simply
whât mor¡ev to-create hostilitv'
liïîä'ir?"i" sß

set

And a-fter vears of living in "volunhave these shortcomings'
still
we
äru';oãuory
-' i *ãnt to emphasize that what I've brieflyoutlined'
was not alrr"rL irii'"-i¡tuaiion as it exists today'rlt
*äutiftut. There were times when virÜu{ly all'ediwere
iliat áecisions were made at meetings.- ThereCitv;'íir;;;ñ we still published in New Yorkwas
much
ül"i ttt" group involved in decision making

Illi'åii.iä

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larger,
beihr situation we have now evolved this wayneeds'

results of our labors and reproduces th;m;;;;
8,000 times by means or a'trigh ,pr.ã wËdãäLt

rurró it seems to work and meet most of our
Onã ttt¡ng, however, that seems certain is that.this
will all cñânse. Beiides, change has been one ôf the
'hallmarks
-'ÃnV*uVof WlN.
despite all of these problemg ñere w.e are,
and'productive, churning out the
happy
relativäly
'magazine
week'after week. As a matter of f.ac1, in case
voü haven't yet got the'point, we've done it 200 times

press.

The actual. press time iino'lone., thuñ hálf un
nour. I hen on I hursday the mailer who is located
on
the printer's premises addresses all those copiei
of the
magazine,.wlaps them, [rundles them, etc. ãñJáelivers
them to the Post Ofüce. By the way, both the printer.
and the mailer maintain union sho[ó.
Nancy Johnson and Fred Rosen

âlready. Wat¿h out

. The address labels that the mailer uses are printed
by computer, three issues worth at a time.
This means
rnar when a readgr sends in a new subscription
or

going to be

for the next 200. They

something

ì

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are really

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;h;;;ñïioi
ma[eiitrìï;;,

address change, in
wilt
'o.ð1äiÃ
nor be noted for rhree
weeks. ffris
a bit clumsy but rhe amount of rnon"y
itruJ'iqruu"
ovø gerting a new printout each week is àãni¡ãera¡le.
....gur experience has been that to get out an issue of
I,l I N
y.w ee k req u i res a f ai rly L ieh iãrr*'
.ev.er
spectattzat¡on and a regular routine and lluppose

.f

that we've sacrificed aierrain ãqlounï ef ipõñt"-ü.itv
and even democracy to achieve ihis.
Where we run into conflict and the staff meetings
get.longer
when we go beyond ih, i.rìir. ., i"
.is
rrytng fo develop a fund raising-calnpaign_along
with.the letters., benefits and everythinfelse
that,s
tnvotved rn such a campaign_or workiñ
out the de_
tails of a promotion ,u'n,päien ól" m;üi;;;il;"l.
change such as the decisionio become
u'*..[ív. w"
have no established procedure torã.iárölirf.,ing
ttrese
things so th.ings simpty don'r gei d;;;;;ã:'il;rr.
rnese are all very crucial matters, people piesent
their
forcef u ily. For exam pté,' *.;ue iprni'åuort
:¡jlonr
rnree.months trying to put together a new
brochure
descrìbing lillN, The end is noi yet in sisht.-'-. Of course rhe mosr emorionátt íaUéñ'ãLcisions

yith

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,,hirins,'

ne* rtu#unã, år.arionuIIV,

li::,T:_O:that someone
oectdtng
isn,t working out. Since we åil
live togerher (except for Fredf iaïiñe-roä".äñ."
on
snïr means tak¡ng them into our lives and our experience has been-as with all .orrrnãi
that sometimes some people just can;i tive'ríitn
"^périr.ntr_
,orn.
other people and the break_up can be traumatic
indeed
w¡th all kinds of names being'hurteà ¡i.[ãni'ior*,
and rnaybe even permanent ãamage. Sã W, äir *ury
Marty, Martha, Nancy,

Jesser

Marls' Janls' Frêdr Susa n,Mary and Susan. All staft

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higher yields for native crops. Rockefeller money
financed the research in special high-yiçld seeds that
were dependent- on chem ic al f ertiíizer ánA .neàvy mechanízation for productive growth. Thii proúided
an export bonanza for American farm equipment
manufactureis'and the chemical industry. gut the
increased yields were not consistent and now with the
fertilizer shortage, th,ese countries will go hungry.
Moreover, because of the requirements of the-Gieen
Revolution, traditional rural'living styles were dis
rupted and marginal but self-sufficient peaiant farmers were driven off the land. Dependencè on western

BY MARTY ,lEZER

technolog_y leaves them landless w¡th empty stomachs.
The US could make up much of the food defìcit.
Even wíth shortages in chemical fertilizer, the US has

Last years' fruit and vegetable harvest almost
came-up short and the surplus of canned fruíts
and
veg.etables as carry-over to this years'
traivest is at an
al ume tow. Seed companies are even reportíng
shortages of
pot ior-JrË àx pected
.vegetabIe- varieries.
to be.d.ear;the cost of seed has nearty-ãoubÈa;
not
surprising since Aroostock Cbunty, *¡,irf,

irpóliæ

Maine'i poraro crop, has ¡ôst Z,SòO iarms
stnce the war, and many of the remain'ing 'l.300
are
9.5% of.

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not expe_cted tolsurvive. The USDA boasls óf
cor_
porate,efficiency, but evid_ence ¡, uc"rmriãting
that
tne onty crops. c-orporate farmers are successfùl
at is
reaptng ïederal farm subsid_ies. Many of the
large
corporations that invested ìn rurrnìígln ih-"'t
op", or
big profits have been hurt financiiltlianJaiegeming
out of the business or, as in the case oi i"nÀ."o
un¿
Purex, cutring back. Éut th-ey ur" ããine ,ã'äily
driving many independent faimers of ine ùn¿ an¿
"tu,
rew new larms have come to fill the gap. Contrary
to
USDA propaganda, corporate agricuitur" tãi u""n
tow-ytetd¡ng and inefficjent. According to Eric
Thor,
an agricultural economist at the UniversityálCatitornia, "rhere is plenty of data to sh;; th;;Lä"
pgla,ttgjns have-higher production
costs and g-et "on
lower
ytetos than do farms where the operator pãrt-owner,,,
is
Big agriculture also lends to grunåior"
,¡stí[ås. ftre
ae. D ie I d r i n,

for

i/ iãiï

pou[ry larmers more than 20 million chickensi o uthern
due to
q g¡1,i-ci

l

insra nóe,

r"r"nt

contamination from this cancer-cauring
óison: Rachel
Carson wqrng{ asainsr Dietdrin ,àiãïñJn
lãL.u¿.
.
ago, but the USDA and the chemical industrv
dis_
missed her as leader of a ,,vociferorr, ,ìrinIJrrn"O,
of nat ure- ba lanc i ng or gani c-gár: den ins,' O ir¿_'

grou p

Ioving, unreasonab|e citilí:nr:f tnÃ"nã, Àäi"u'åu"

vinced of rhe importanr place
"onisrí*iiriul-ciem¡cats
rn our economy.,, Time has proveñ
"f Ms. Carson right, as even the USDA concedes;'but aeribusinàis
stilifights to expand pesticide ,âg".
On.a worldwide scale, depõndence on American
agricultural.technique ráses seriáui
órãOí.rrn'Sorc
year_s ago, the US exported
its so calied ,,Gieén Revolurion" ro Third Wortci natiáns with îhãir"äir"'"r

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the potential to grow enough grain to fìllihe void.
Americans utilize 2,200 pounds of grain per person.
(The Chinese utilize 400 pounds.) But over 2.000
pounds of that is fed to livestock for dairv products
and meat,
.and, i1 the case of. meåt, most of the pro_
tein value is lost in the conversion. Faced with the
reality of millions of people starving to death so that
American people can eat meat once a day, the USDA
and the food industry continue to push tÉ, .on_
sumptton ot.meat, and livestock feed_grains.
f9o9 shortages become commoñplace, the
. .^lr.
USDA insists thar rhe only way to aver? woilãwi¿e
is.

ro,increase ttre sizä (ana capitii¡råi¡on)
off the

:?ly3lip"
o1
ïarms, drive ,,inefficient" small producçrs
land, and in-crease dependence o" ä¡,.rniiái,

mechantzat¡on; in other words to insist on policies
"n¿
that have.already been shown ro fa¡t. lfr¡i i! tire
Vier_
.nam syndrome brought to agriculture. lf industrializa_
uon oT tarming doesn,t work, bring in even more
cnemtcals, m.achinery, and centralized control.
And
when..that still doesn,t work, blame the critics
who
lack the courage to ,,see it tÉrough;' i"¿
brár, f",
more of the same.
ís US ag.ricutture? The USD{ says,it
.^,.f_oy-:T.ient
taKes.one farmer to produce enough to foed
úore
rnan, 4u. tsut that neglects all the people
who provide
macntnery, luel and chemicals. According to Érofeslor John S. Sreinharr and Carot steinrrail'(writì"gî
Science, Magazine), industriatized foãäìvrìärni'
I i L"
ours tilke lrom f¡ve to te.n calories of energy
to pro,,primitivË;;'o:{riîunure,
duce one calorie of food. ln
one calorie of energy may proäuce up toïó
cãiories

ot food.

,With the high cost of machinery, fuel and chemi_
fuel, it would seem wise to break
wrth tndsutrialized forms of agriculture and return
Pjill::lt._farming, wíth mõre propl" á" ir,ãìund,
cqrs d.epende.nt-on

more ïarms, and maybe lower yields per acrq but '
more lood produced in the aggregate, a lessened
d.epend_ence on'scarce resources, ãnd
lower costs. But
the US.DA and corporate agribusineis ir,

"onöin"¿
glly yrtl growing corporate profits, not good.
plen_
urur rood o¡ the social welfare of the farmers,'e¡ther
nere or tn the hungry Third World.

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A repor:t on New York's parole system
PRISON NOTES
it
"oppressive
and
arbitrâry.';
!ry1d.ed
A Citizen's lnquiry on parole and
Criminal Justice, headed by Ramsey
Clark, issued the 367-page report which
potnted out that parole decisions ,,based
on an assessmcnt of an inmate's rehabilitation" are often incorrect and in
operation cruel_ ln summarizing the
suggestions of the citizen's group Tom
the ingredi ents for making the pnsons
Wicker wrote:
into
schoo ls for radical terroris m. Said
"Shorter sentences, with more cerSykes: " Large segments of pnson poputainty for the offender of his or her

exact date of release, alternatives in
most cases to imprisonment, a wider
variety of educational and job training
programs for those who do go behind
bars, less restriction upon and more as_
sistance for those coming back into the
community-all make more sense for
offenders and the public alike than the
uncertainties and inequities of parole as
now administered.',
.

ln

New YorkTimes column, sociolq
gist-Gresham Sykes commented on the
contemporary prison environment as a
breeding place for violent radical groups
such as the Symbíonese Liberatioñ
Army. A predominantly young and
energettc.convict population, including
a

many politically conscious black and
Chicano prisoners who have a keen
sense of oppression, provides some of

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AND LT. CALLEY. . . , .It

segms odd th_at a govetnment that shows
such comþaísion Iin the Calley casef. .
,can
maintain its ha¡sh line against even.or.

sidering amnesty for Vietnam-era draft
eyaders," edito¡ializes the Chi Daily News,
-'
4120. , ,, ...if Vietnam vets don't uídrrstand ce¡tain numbe¡s on their'discharge
papers, they are a code to personnel people.
,. , . ,262 means.bed wetter,' at5 t9b fát,
386 a shirker, 281 unsanitary tratits, ¿tOÁ
apathy. . . ." Jack Kofoed, 312 Miami
Herald , . . .NatL Council for Universal &
Ilncondition¿l Amnesty naw has its n,o. at
339 Lafayette, a new coo¡dinator (Jerry
Olsen), and a newsletter, Amnesty Upaâte
They'd appreciate volunteers. . ,'..piopte

for Amnesty, PO Box 8326, Louiwille, Ky,
willsend material on requesl . . . ,..They
need help and they're ou¡ own!" writes
Karl Bissing,er of WRL, asking support for
a Resìsters Scholarshíp Fund to ñjlp train

and educate ex-army, ex-prison resiiters

HERE & THERE: .,We are sending our
check in the amount of $6 to War Resisters
League. . ..This is the second do¡ation . , ,
received" . . .as a result of articlei in ftrliV
and other malazines about our newest adyenture, stamp collecting for economic
and
community development," _writes John
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and

their ideology are clearly capable'oi

during beyond prison."
[4eanwhile, some highly successful

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ternatives to prison are currently in
operation. ln Des Moines, loWa, a
co.mmunity correction program per_
m¡ts some who have been convicted of
serious offenses to remain outside
pr.ison, carry on their jobs and stay

with their families. Several women in
the program were convicted of manslaughter, having shot their husbands
in self-defense. The program costs less
than keeping the participants in prison.
and they avoid the embittermeni and '
trauma which so often results from a

prison experience. One citv councilman said the program "treats criminals
like cream puffs.', Yet the program, as

lJalmar of h)ork, Inc.,

652 S. Easr St.,

Holyoke, Mass, Meanwhile the city is
hassling them about building viohìionq a
day care licensg etc. . . , .Surrealist Suú
versive Robert Green of Chi. is in a Mexican
jail along with other US & Canadian citizens
as well as native Indians perhaps because
there is guerilla warfare in Chiãpas and

Oxaca. Messages of solidarity should go to
Green c/o Debra Taub, Lista de Corre-os,
Taxtla de Gutz, Chiapas. . . . ,Tom Smit
(C4. tSl is awairing trial at Cook County
Jait 2600 S. California, Tier A-1, No.
730649,. . . .This winter, pølo A'lto Inst.

for Study of Nonviolence closed its doo¡s
in orde¡ to consider institutional vs. in-

dividual.action, reflection and action, and
staying in touch with the workaday world.

Wendy Batson, Regina Capella, Robert
Cooney¡ Will Kirkland and Jacqueline
Peters plan to issueä May/June Journal
and_then???. . . . .If you're down (or up)
on Promoting Enduring peace for witÈ'
drawing its award to Berrigar¡ you,ll be
interested to know that Exec. Dir, Eme¡itus
Je¡ome Davis voted fo¡ Dan. He invites
l4]IN rcaders to participate in a July seminar
to Europe. (Friends House, ApL c.15,
San{¡r Spring, MD).

TO OEDIPUS, FROM MOTHER by Jocasta
Gyne, a book which was ñ¡st commissioned

REVIEWS

ln recent years prisons have spawned

many writers, and occasionaliy one of
them su.cceeds in what is always á highly
competitive profession. Such ii Miguãl '
Pinero, whose first play, ,,Short Èräi."

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got excellent reviews after it openód ät

New York's Shakespeare Festival pu¡- .
lic Theatre Pinero, a puerto Ricàn,
began writíng and acting while doine a
five-year sentence in Sing Sing. His
flay,
which concerns the killing of ã sex óf- "
fender by fellow prison iñmates, grew
out of his prison experience. Sucñ
¿chievement provides clear testimony
to th€ strength of the human spirit
which on occasion Çan conguer even
the most oppressive enVironment. Re
joicing at such accomplishment should

never permit us to forget the many
others.wh_ose creativity was crushéd by

the hell of imprisonment.
-Larry Gaia

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lations have coalesced into unified
groups, such as the SLA, and thev

described by Judy Klemsrud in the
New York Times, has included about
a thousand offenders, none of whom
has physically harmed a person since
release, though about 1Sõ/o (as compared with 65% for imprisoned offendersì
commit new crimes. Those who designed'
the program recognize that imprisoni
ment does more harm than good and
that in many cases even serious crimes
are impulsive or not harmful to others.That is certainly a big step forwará.

by a publisher and then rejected because of
its insights, is available f¡om Underwate¡
Women of the 20th Century Renaissance,
PO Box 377, Piermont, Ny. . . . .Simone de
Beauvoir: "I was astonished. . . .when I
w¡ote the ,Seco nd Sex, to find that some
of my male friends were ve¡y angty at me,
fnr instancq Camus."-Interview in Feb/Mar.
Príme Time. . . . ,A Labor Spy,s View as an
Everbrite Scab, is an accounifrom inside the
sign co. of a Gmonth strikø Babyldn press
(a radical community print shop), 906 E.
Center, Milwaukee. . . . An Analysís of ow
AFLCIO Role in latin America, or Under
lhe Covers with the CIA can be orde¡ed
from Emergency Committee to Defend
Democracy in Chile; 316 S. lgth St., San
Josg CA. .. , Alternative Pubtßhinl Catlgctive, a gay anarchist collective, nãeds 6

fufl time pTpl_e
lt Unity press, 13 E. 17 St.,
NYC.. . ..DoIt-Now Foundation, NatL

Media Center, PO Box 5115, phoenix, has
sensible balanced mate¡ial on drugr . . .,,On"
thing about{ocking up a preacher is you give
hrm a câptive audience," saysStephen Gas
kí4 spiritual teacher of The Farm, a religious
community in southern Tennessee. He iJone
of four appealing a conviction for use of
marijuana for thei¡ own religious purposes
. . , .-.*There are no atheists in foi-hôte¡
who's got bettgr sense?',- St. fohn,s Bread,

-Ruth

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BOOKS
to relate one to the state in the way a deliberate act of
civil disobedience does. While using the later Tolstoy as his
apparent model, Sampson does not mention the distinction
that Tolstoy himself made between the coercive and the

THE DISCOVERY OF PEACE
R.V. Sampson
Pantheon Books, A Division
New Yor( 1973

of Random

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constructive aspects of social, organization. Although it is
not quoted; or iefeÉred to, by'sainpsòn, Tolstoy wrote in
his later life that the abolition of coercive government is '
decried by well-meaning people "who intentionally confuse
the use of violence by Government with various social ac-

This is a thoughtful and persuasive book that equates war ,
with the pursuit of power, and power with politics, and
seems to leave a person seeking peace and the good life no
chpice but to withdraw from all political activity.''R.V.

Sampson is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of
Bristol in England, and has a sour v¡ew indeed of politics.
..Whether a nation is capitalistic tr"cominunistic, democratic
or fascistic, the governing of some people (he says tnen, but
.l assume he inoludes women) by other people is to R.V.
Sampson an únmitigated evil, regardless of a person's good
- intentions or representative status based,on elections.
Sampson categorically states that wai is.due to man's
will to power, though he also accedes to Proudhon's view
that wir is dúe to eãonomic disequilibrium (perhaps
another way of saying the same th¡ng). He sees this power
as dependent on violence or the threat of violence, and
like Îolstoy in his later years he rejects such. power. One
distinction Sarnpson does not make, which I think is esó."iuttv importánt in this time of people-power'groups
lndian power,'Rid.power, etc.),
f*or"n power, black power,
power
over one's own life, and
for
struggle
the
is between
the struesle for power over other people's lives. Granted thi3
J¡stinctioî is often blurred in the workings oflistory, and
even more often than not those individuals or groups who
had little power over their own lives have ended up dom_inatine other people's lives. Sampson illustrates this last
pointî.ll in þassing mention of theeaily Christians, who
äeveloped their renunciation of the State into the Papal
Christian Chyrch. Yet
itrt. of the (once) all-powe-rful
Sampson's own frame of reterence appears-sómetimes with
ãñnoving absolutism-to be Christian. And the kind of
(stubbo.rn?), decenðnr¡riluñ he recognizes is principled.

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civil disobedience in relation
Samþson affirms nonviolent

to í-rl üit., which is certainly one of the most direct ways
life, yet at points he
åi irr.iii"í power over one's .own
passlvlty ano nonres¡stance, or else a
seems to be advocaïng
iãiäi*itnirwal from societv, neither of which wóul{ seem

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He says that what he means is this: "The abolition
of the organization of Government formed to do violence
does not at all involvè the abolition of what is reasonable

tivities."

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and good, and therefore not based on violence. . .On the
contîary,'the absence of the brutal power of Government '. :

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which ii'needed only for íts own support willfacilitate'a
juster and more reasonable social organization, needing no

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distinction that is lacking in Sampson'sanalysis,

violence.

back-

leaving the sympathetic reader floundering: retire to a
woodlcommune? become a hermit? follow a guru? (Ah,
but even there a hierarchy begins, and before you know it

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there is astructure cooperat¡ng or competing'with govern- :
ments; blàckjacking pie-throwers or burning people at the
stake.) For a pprson wþ may want to remain in present
society, bad as it is; Sarnpson (who presumably cooperates'
to somô extent with the university hierarohy of which he is
still apparently'a.p-qf.!) pffers little positive guide. Civil
disob,Jdiçnce regarding thê'militafy seems clear enough; but
whàt about taxes? (One wonders if Sampson pays his.) What
about the local police, courts, fire department, schools, etc.? .,. ,
.ì .
Should one try still to make them as good (or least harmful)
as one can, or should one simply refuse to have anything to
do with tJrem? Or try to dismantle them? Obviously every thoughtful person who accepts Sarhpson's rejection of the
statets war-making functions must try to work out as best
one can the rejection or mitigation of coercive violence on

other
- levels.

Fór a reader who comes to Sampson's book quitè unsvmpathetic, assuming the necessity of war and coercive
oãl¡iics in human a{lairs, there may be little here to convince the person otherwise, despite Sampson's careful, if
somewhat dogmatic, scholarship' lt is hard to imagine
Henrv Kissinger, pierced on the pinnacle of the pyramid,
lettin; himself think too seriously about Sâmpson's-and
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Tolstoy's-viervs of war and history. Yet in their theory of
frçe will and determinism they may not be far apart. Sampson supports Tolstcty's view--and Kissinger might well
agree-that the apparent leaders and "great men" are in fabt
less free than they often imagine themselves to be, since the
wills of all the ind¡viduals under them also shape events. At
the same time, the events determine the subsequent wills
and decisions of all involved, including the leaders; so
neither Tolstoy nor Sampson ever Èally resolves the free
will-vs.-determinism dilemma. Where Sampson does come
through clearly is his reiection of all war. which he sàys
Tolstoy had not yet resolved while writing Wor ond Peace,
and only comes to later.
Sampson painstakingly traces the change in attitudes
toward war from Joseph de Maistre's grim enthusiasm

through Stendal's, Herzen's, and Proudhon,s reluctant
acceptancq to Tolstoy's ambivalence (as expressed in l,lor
q$ Peoge) and fìnally (after Tolstoy's i'conversion,' at 50)
his total rejection of war and coercive power. For both
Tolstoy and Sampson this conclusion is distinctively
"Christian," hardly accounting for the developrnent of
símilar philosophies in such people as Gandhi and even
leaders as far back as the I ndian king Asoka. For the first
time in history, Sampson infers from his studies, sérious
thinkers and large numbers of ordinary people are rejecting'
thè concept of war itself as a way of struggling agaínst injustice and aggression. Sampson puts this struggle in religious têrms of good vs. evil, but externalizes thãse only to
the extent of recognizing that the individual must struggle
nonviolently against other individuals who try to coerce
him, i.e. the State. Otherwise, the struggle is an internal
one withín each person and his/her will to power.
A St¿te can never be justifiably defended against another
State, in Sampson's view, because the purpose of the State
is to seize power for ítself (mainly its elite, in the case of
oligarchies), and to subject the weak. This power "is not
only morally illegitimate but also morally self-defeating,"
he declares, concluding that "to admit no violence whatever
as legitimate is to repudiate all politics, all ppwer, and thus
expose to the l¡ght of day the unwanted truth that the
responsibility for ending the evils in the body politic rests
inescapably on each one of us, who can only confribute to
moral progress by mending his own life. Those who make
this truth clear are apt to experience difficulty in getting
their voices heard anywhere."
Fortunately R.V. Sampson has been able to make his
voice heard through the publication of this book and his
previous one, The Psychology of Power. No historiañ,
political scientist or philosopher worthy of the description
should turn a deaf ear to this study, or. to the considerations
about the nature of war and power which Sampson raises. I
would ask only that Sampson refine his somewhat loose
definition of power, substantiate some of his absolute
statements, and broaden his framework beyond the Christian one he espouses.
-Ann Morrissett Davidon
.

West Coast, he has acquired a venerable printing press in
order to publish his work and that of other poets. Heroin
is the first book from his Neon Sun Press. lt is set in handset type and handbound in paperboards by the poet and
printed on a specially-selected heliotrope paper. Poetry this
special slrould be specially produced. Currently, he is printing a book by Seattle poet John Seely which is scheduled'

for Summer-Fall

distribution.

HEROIN
Clive Matson
Neon Sun Press ($2.95)
Distribured by B'ook péople, 2940 7th Sr., Berkele¡

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minds. Not in the part that counts, anyway. Most of these
types, particularly the college profs, lead dull, closed lives
anyway and don't have much to say. They are f ar removed
from, say, the street life that millions of people lead. Others,
up-yard 4spir-ing like dogged mountaineers,.thirst after the
cornucopia of the Sweet.Life like cured diabetics on a
sugar spree. They write with their eye on tin laurel wreaths
or invites to parties with the rich Gatsbys, Warhol's "beautiful acid people," publication inThe New Yorker or The
Coolidqe College Prometheon & Parnossun & Assistant
Assossin. Dull stuff. Dull, I say, dull, dull, dull. No wonder
almost everyone but the searchers and seekels passes by the
poetry racks in the bookstores.
Of cciurse, you sensed I was going to say that Clive Matson's third book of poems, Heroin, is not like that. Well, it
truly is not. lt is quietlyastonishing original, and rare. And,
most of all, although surreal, it is essentially real, growing
out of honest-telife experience. The title is not just another
attempt to cash in on the drug and anti-drug hysteria. Although it is difficult to realize wheri you read this transcen- r
dental poetry, Clive Matson spent years fighting the devouring demons of skagg and othér brews, walking lonely
streets in search of "the ultimate fix" (as Burroughs calls
it), or dreaming the dreams of the opiated-dark, pan-sexual
and hot. Now, having dropped all this for better things, be
hold The Poet, triumphant, in his quiet way and sharing the
experience with all and sundry. Heroin is The.Poet as hero,
as fallable human in search of the Secrets of lnternal Alchemy, mistaking the juice of the hypodermic fonThe
Elixir of Youth, The Fool of the Tarot transformed as you
read into The Magician. lt happens right before your very
eyes and that is a rare transubstantiation and transmutation.
What James Joyce would identìfy as an "epiphany." A
definite epiphany. An openning of the poets consciousness .
And, as a resulq of the reader's too. Communion time.
Clive Matson is a young poet who has lived in Berkeley
for the past five or so years. He was one of the poets who
develgped out of the activities of the Tompkins Square
Bookstore of New York's l-ower East Side in the late Six-..
ties. He is widely published in the poetry magazínes ofthe"
US and England. His first book, Mainline To the Heort was
published by Tompkins Square Press and, since, he's published Space Age via Croton Press. Since moving to the

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-Tom McNamara

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ment," a new face, or "the people" in
power. The "good" people (us) can do
much better running things than the "bad"
people (them), But this is backwa¡d thinking. Channeling peoples' hoþes and struggles through elections only destroys them.
Part of Ed's handout reads, "Vote for
Me*But Vote." Is he se¡ious? If so we
rnust object to this thinking that says that
voting per se is worthwhile in any way.
Voting only serves to help legitimize legal
robbery. It makes people identify more .'
closely with their oppression by giving
them deluded feelings of participation in
the managing of the affairs of society. Participation does not equal management. To
think that power exercised through elec.
toral ofüces can be used to everyone's advantage is naive at best. Politics is win-lose
folly, Majority rule. The lose¡s b¿ttle and
compromise the winners eventually. We
fuht for one pitiful.seat on ¡ome board
and waste our tesources.
If Ed is not serious with the phrase in
his handout then his candidacy is a joke.
But he writes about it in earnest. Elee

toral politics even mildly engaged in can
only reintbrce the way things are. People
have to change their own lives themselves,
representatives willjust get irr the way.
There is no government like no government.

-TOM

COPELAND
SL Paul, MN

On Dec. 15, L972, the ltalian Parliament
approved a law concerning conscientious
objection This law, clearly inadequatg {_. '

nôt iepressive, dóes not in reality recogniie
the right of conscièntious objectior¡ as
seen by its arbittary'application, and by
the fact thát many COs are currently in
prison-eight of whom are "guilty" of
having been late in presenting their claim
for alternate servicq
After numergus attempts we have finally
succeeded in submitting to the Pa¡liament
a draft of modificatiqns,of the law which
would effect the extension of the time
limit for the presentation of the claim for
e¡emption from military service, and the
¡elease of those COs who are in prison for
not having respected these limits
We believe that a strong pressure from
international movement and personalities
could help to obtain a speedy solution to
this problem. Send a lette¡ expressing your

concern for the imprisoned COs, insisting
that they be released ând that the current
proposals fonmodifications of the law be
approved and put into immediate efect
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adequate law. Address letters to: P¡esident
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della Repubblica, 00186 ROMA; and
President of the Defense Commission
lValter Garavelli, at the same address
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Reply,lo Wendy Schwartz (WIN, 4lLSllÐt
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On ianuary 3, lg74 occured a U¡"atyou
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wonder if there will be anv fùndâmental
character differences between liberated

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u posltiu" uìsion for ih" *"nti'.ouément,
Philadelþhia by the US Dist¡ict Court
focus of our own to take us beyond our
the groui¿ls that such collection
overdue respqnse,to women's liberatiþn and
gay liberation, realizing, of course,
a ¿e-ni¿ <ìf religious
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By being true to your convictions
three movements are interlocked under
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taking the consequences (and by that I don't Human Liberation Possibly Russ
riecessarily mean going to jail but possibly was touching on this conceþt with his term,
finding yet another means of
"malism," but he did no elaborate. In any.
IRS's claim) you will be more loving
case, submit this quqstion to the readership: r
considelåte toward your friends and
without falling into another, new sex lole
than if you ret¡eat-for we a¡e all weak
straitjacket, what qualities should we men
each of.¡ts Seeks someone strong enough
cultivate as truly male? -JOHN ASCENZI
,do what is right, regædless of the
Bronx, Ny
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forts, s.o that we oan lean on that person
follow to do what we believe is right also.
Let us help eacì other {9 w_þt 1v9_UeAs a stong supporter of WIN and ap
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article put forth the oft'lìeard generalizations about Arabs (they're mo¡e interested
humanity in the pócess-and which suggests in pushi4g. us into the sea than hun¡anitarian I
'concerns),'Ieivs (seen by otheis as victin:s
and describes the wal out (or one
and. losers) and pacifists (theil position
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against the military industrial complex is
Harvey Jackinq national tsland Þresí.
luxurious). I found no genuine tone of
of..ouibody-minds to heal us
"ap""ity psychic aná physica! is phenomenal understanding, no spirit of creative openess'
wounas,
no suppolt for nonviolence and nonviolent
ifwe let ihe healine proð.rs *ork I am
action The r4dical nonviolent press must be
coming awáre of tlie'depth oi fear we
consistent in the articles it promotes. During
carrv about. stronsest
Vietnam, Chile, Greece, etc., we did not enin our intimate anã needful relationshipg
courase those who suþported the necessitv
ou"r.o."
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of State violence. The same needs to +Pply- . , :
own fears il the orgaiism is allowed
to.the- Mid-East For one to say he/she
,Qhance. My belief Is that we as humans
is jn the peace movement (Kissinger
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irot yet aware of the depth of feelin!
Nixon say they ale for peace) means little
caring which is natural io ur; no, of-the
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credi6le fund of intellþence aiailable ir,r each unless their spirit promotes such
of us to learrç to grow,-and to free
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and to let oui childrengrow
My only criticism (and I have one) is
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I have just finished reading tþe art
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the articles in WIN's issue on.men are pointby Shalom Endleman in your April
ing to somelhing impersonally, soclologically- isiue, and am so impressód that i dropped
withinJhe conftnes of proper male social
euerútþing in orde¡ìo get this off to you
scientific-¡adical analysis models How about tìoday. .
males as þeople, their intimate struggles-we As a Jew (but not a Zionist) I havc read
hear them taiking abouî humannesq but
. ..ayidty everything that came across my path
felt littfe of that through the eSsayc My re '-* *æiícãrningl¡5¡¿itr,sspçcially after
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strugglç of meñ to tegãin thõir hu*an
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tivity. But for all the value of the points
raised and problems explored, I was still
(as you þredicted) baflled.
- A source of my bafflement: in our hopes
for a liberated society, what ûaits in a new
, man mþht be uniquely male? As we brothers
wo¡k on chipping away at the conditioning,

time I have been moved to write to "the

ll'dli".::f;öi'"'¡îïh,,prob,emsby
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