,¡ fntrn0{ìì i5-tfi rl I l-.. tii]{. n Y ?.327., {;l", ILtlFlÐ(!ì åvËt ttf{Ð HT 5 í1R î1H q4 t{å ,r Ronald Anderson, an ArmY deserter, was apprehended and arrested on Can¿dian soi! ù'bsequently dragged acros the border and eventually put in ltre FL Lewis (Wash' ington) stockade. This was in August He was ariested by the American agentg but,his arest was facilitated by the Canadian authorities I say this.because it is obvious that the National Clime Information Center Computer had Ro¡aldÌs British Columbialicense plate number on tap. R-onald was.dis .ou.r"d by the American border ofücers be' cause the Americans put his BC license plate number through the FBI computer' day, juice can by juice car¡ soda pop bottle by movement newspaper, she continues to feed her consumer habit and support the vicious system she says she's against Thecorporations are not evil beings with a will of thei¡ own They are creations and servants of normal people like us, the masses if you wil\ and the consumer lifestyle we follow. There'd be no aluminum cans and aerosol sprays if we didn't buy them. No trees would.be cut down if we stoped using virgin paper for printing our revolùtionary outpourings. But we do buy, usg and dis card, instead ofmaking the corporations Ronald wæ released from the US six days eat their waste. Ms Garson talks about us bei¡g the urbafter his.capture in spite of the Canadian t¡'ms of corporate ecoc¡ime, That's why re go"ernment and the US governmenl He was cycling can sometimes be a bummer. It ¡obs ieleased because public protest on both you of illusior¡ it makes you awa¡e of how. sides of the border demanded hisrelease' . _RICHARDMOORE' powerless you actually are.¡ how much a part BumabY, BC, Canada of the system you Íre! But the effort of re ' cycling is worth the knowledge gained (it's no g¡e4t effort just a few simple h¿bits). Re: Brian Doherty, "Bread & Roseg" WIN, Every can you throw into the recycle bag by 9119174. ' Piease" Just a note about yout rcview of Praírie the sink is a reminder of your efect on the olease do not write phrases like FÞe, IWIN, 9lt9l74l. '¿Since women are usually more sensible than world, of how you and the iiver and the sky First of all the quote " A single spark can metL . ." Pedestals are almost as uncomforand the factory are bne The consumer lifestart a prairie fire," is not anorL but Mao Tsetable and confrning as chainc Sory to die style is the pæsive life ôf the iictim. Re Tung Iì comes fiom a letter he *ròt" on anooint vou. but we women unfortunately cyclirig can be the first act of the ecorevolupes January 5, 1930 in criticism of certaþ only ttumatt'beings too. We're just as tionary. It shouldn't stop there simistic views then existing in the Conr "ió tä register for the draft and Íiake other likely munist Party of China" Roxbwy, MA such mistake$ given the opportunïilä,äri Secondly, the book is iow in print in an í'e' -¡ aboveground reprint from Prairie Fire Dis Nevada citY, cA The following ts ftom ø letter to a Incgl tribution Committee, PO Box 40614, Sta Boørd of the Selective Servíce System: tion Ç San Frahcisco, CA 941 l0 for $1.50 I am writing to return my dtafr cards to plus..25mailing. -SANDY'KOSOKOJF In her article in your Sept 19 issue' Barbara you and to inform you that I can no longer, Garson sayç "You didn't start pollution! I in conscience, cooperate with the Selective didrf t start pollution!" Obviously trua I Sewice System and the military for which agree that spending all your time peeling f m witing to inform you of a serious mis draft lãbels off bottles won't rtitum our land to its it was b¡eated. I can no longer carry a statement of fact in the Sepl 19 issue of with the di¡ectives of the comply nor card neghborhood average Youi feel state to been natural made overjoyed, IVIN. I've been Selective Sewice Systern To do so would be factory pollutes.mo¡e in a day than you can prou{, been inspired by everything else that to go against all that I believe and all thatf clean up in a year or ten But that's not I've read in WIN (my sub's about a month hold of value and would be a disserviCe tcÊ what recycling is aU aboÙt lVhât it's about old).so maybe I should've written earlier to myi¡elf; to my country, and to humanity. . . tell you thät, but it ain't my st:lle. Complairr is consciousness' an awareness sif who you in protest I am reti¡rning my d¡afr card áre whe¡e and are You ing about error is. o'amnesty" for uP no of Preiident Fo¡dls socalled . I refer to the short article by Samuel Ty' , I am sure Ms Garson has blÓwn mv brothers in othe¡ countries and his "free, factories o¡ otherwise stopped their protluc' son on page 6, in which our recent P.rqp. 9 i9 by that day an¿ absolute pardon" of Richa¡d Nixoru probable is fuil is mo¡e \fhat political tion re toughest characte¡ized æ "the my card to you as a showirig of I ¡eturn form measure in the nation" which "will solidarity of conscience with those who re put into efect enforceable lòbbying and fused to kill in a war which a majority of , campaign donation testrictions applicable to .:'.& the Ameiican people now admit was a "miv by was opposed'only and "the all lobbyists" l take" and wasì'motally wiong.t'Our system gròup, AFLCIO, Teamsters, largest teachers' I of equal justice under the law no longer'holds '- , "lili.jiiqo . Commonwealth Club Farm Bureau and UFWA,' further stating that 9's sripporters were Common Cause and Peoples Lobby' Also oppÖsed to 9 were the BaY Area KnowNine Committee, which warned against the fascist potential of this lengthy pioposition; and the California Peace & Freedom Patty. Mellow Dorrq the for4er statewide newslette¡ of the California Peace & Freedom Party analyzed what is wrong with Prop. 9 in their Apr/May 1974 issue. W For fu¡the¡ informãtion or comment þlease contact me, -WACCO ABI .{ u'ÍlË"iå:'"ïii Rega¡ding a blurb in "Bread, and Roseq tooÌ' Uy-Sdan Doherty [WIN, 9/19/74] abotrt the wa¡ resister who was arrested by US agents in Canada: 2 WIN ^ any meaning for me, and it is evident in the twã pardoni which President Ford has granted in the last seve¡al weeks 1) He gave a "free full, and absolute par.don" to â person who broke almost every one,of the hþhost laws of our land, includ-. ing his oath of ofñce to the Arirerican-peop-le; thãn he gave a conditional amnesty of the most naive nature to ?0,000 of my brothers . whose only crime was that they refused to kill others 2).He did not.even require Richard Nixon to sign a statement ofguilt or allegiance; he's asking 7Q000 of my brothers to sign such a statement, when the guilt of the Vietnam war is upon each one of us. 3) Richard Nixon is not required, in any way, to "earn his way back" to full rþhts in this country for the awesome c¡imes which forced him from ofrce; P¡esident Ford has stâted that many of my 70,000 b¡othe¡s will have to'¿eæn their way back" with up to two years of civilian seryice at a low wage. 4) President Ford said that his predecessor has "suffeted enough"; and he is totally urr awa¡e of the "suffering" of 7Q000 of mV brothers who had the courage and strength to stand by their.convictionç and who.have ' been bàr¡ed from their country by a system of justice which can be mánipulated by peq sons in high positions of power.to suit their own needs There is another ¡eason why I am return'.ins to vou my draft cards and why I can no liefs even to the point of martyrdom. I have beên taught that it is morally wrong. to force a person to go against what he considers moral and jusl The system you represent deñes this ir¡ dividualism. You grant lhe status of con' scientlous objector to thoie young men betwccn 18 and 26 who a¡e able to articulate thei¡ beliefs in a conüincing way .to you. As a resûlt, only tfe well-toido, educated are able.to escape from the d¡afl Many thousands of my brothers in exile left this coun- t¡v because their local draft boa¡ds did not bélieve that they showed enough reason or proof that they could not kill; many went to loãgeriooperate with you or the system pri¡pn I cannot condone a system that which you rePresent and uPhold. October 10,'1974lVol. X, No. 34 exióts on the premise that all men can and Tfuoughout the Indochina'war I have should be able to kill other men, unless they been a conscientious objector. The fil-e which ' cah+prove to their draft boa¡d that they canVã" ftuu" on me contairi-s reams and rãams of '4.,To Crae k Our Single Selves, An ' not I iannot condone a system whose sole itatementg letterg and reasons for my stan$. Exchange of Lett€rs |,Eq1bgro Derning prlrpose is to provide enöugh manpower to grounded in a religious stand for myîlordlt & Brad LYttle wredk violence and death upon other peo and ethical values Oir August 17, 1971 you ples world 1-0, recognizing,of in freedom, the the name of granted to me the status of 8. Wisconsin EcologY Threatened ãe, legally, as a conscientious objector to all justice, and world peace Borbord Miner I stand in solidarity iif:øäsciencä.with wrt attd killing. Let mqo(plain to you why I pooples status. this the the world who are op all in accePt longer can no 10. Radical Land Trust in West Virigina pressed, imprisoned, exiled and tortu¡ed.for To accept any classification would mean Paul Sqlstrofil their moral.and political beliefs, I only hoþe to accept the legitimacy of the system of 13. French Farrhers fi'ght Militarism they can find it inside themselves to "parconscriþtion ¡rnd the milita¡y for which it, Craig don" me for having taken so lorg to stand exists i cannot do.this I have been brought ¡ü, DEGEL thenr. up all my life to believe in the rþhts of in" þeside -JAMES t Director, Spokane Center for World 16. Exiles Reiect Bogus Amnesty I lack dividual conscience and have been told tha! 'r ' Justice and Peace Colhoun a person must stand by his "religious" be Simpson ' ..ì . 17., Changes 20. Reviews Cover: Paper cutting bY Mark Morris TRY TO REMEMBER Try to remember the 7th of December when death was chic and oh so'mellow Try to remember the kind of December whenfMarines ,were keen and Japs were yellow Trv to remember the 7th of December when Mars was 'd tender and callow fpllow 'ycíu remember then bellow Try to remember and if Bellow bellow bellow Bellow bellow bellow Try to remember when war was so tender that none was killed except the soldier Try to remember when life was so tender no guns were kept beneath your Pillow Try to remember when life was so tender c¡t¡es weren't embers about to b¡llew T¡y úo remember and if you,remerh6er then bellow Bellow bellow bellow Bellow bellow bellow Early in September its hard to remember ahho you know the shit will follow Early in September its härd to rernember without a clot the heart is hollow Early in September its hard tqremember the bombs of December that made us iallow I Early in September our wounds would remembe¡ and j bêllow Bellow Bellow Bellow Bellów bellow bellow bellow bellow bellow bellow bellow bellow. . . -Tuli Kupferberg STAFF Maris Cakars . Susan Cakars Chuck Fager . Mary Mayo Mark Morris . Susan Pines Fred Rosen . Martha Thomases UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS LãncG B€lvlll€ . Jarfy Cofflñ . Lynno _Coffln o¡anå Dav¡os. Ruth Deâr" Ralph D¡Gla. Brlðn oohorty . Soth Foldy ' Jlm For€st Lelh Frltz. Larry Gara . Nell H¡worth Eð.Hcdeman. qflce Hodeman . Mârty Jozor Bgcky Jotinson . Nancy Johnson Paul JohnÈon . Alllsoh Kffpel . Cralg Karpel lot Llnzer . Jullo Maås. .,-Davld McRey.nOlds Jlm Peck . Tad Rlchardt . lgal RoodenRo ì. Nancy Rooen.. Wêridy Schwartz BcÍorly Woodward Box 547 / Rifton / New York '1247',' Telephone 914 339-4585 i'4î' , . -' WIN l¡ Dublbh.d w..kly .xc€pt for th. t¡tsí two waak3 ln Jrnu¡ry. 2nd w..k ln.Mly. ll3t 4 wxk¡ ln Aug6t rnd tnr lârt wa.k ln octob.i bi th. WIN Pubal¡h¡ng Emplr. wlth.thc a¡pport of th. Wat R-¡3tar3 l-alguè Subsctlgtlon¡ llc ,¡7.0o par ya¡r. Sacond clú3 po3t.0. ¡t Naw 'Yorls NY lO(þ1. lndlvl¡lu¡l wrlt.E.ra r6polÈ ¡lbla-lor oolnlons o(Þra¡¡aal and lccurrcy ol fact¡ glyalL Sorry-manulcllpt¡ c.nnot ba rè turn¡rl unl¡¡ accomp¡nl.d by â r.lf.!ddr.¡¡.d Prlnt¡rl ln rU.g'A ¡tamp.d .nu.loDa WIN 3 I To Crack 0 nf Stngle Sehes AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN BARBARA DEMING AND BRAD LYTTLE . This post summer Brad Lyttte visited me one afternoon and we fell into a discussion of hotmosexuality. By! tlt9Wh.t it very wrong to deny homoiàiuols the¡r civll 1Ìghts, but at thot time stilt fett that homàsexual relatignships were substitute relotionships forrmed by peoplg who were unable to form satisføLtury hetero_ sexual relatioltships I argued that homosexuatity wos as naturol qs heterosexuality. Soon ofter, we exéhanged the following letters. -:AO Dear Barbara, I've been attempting to sort out our last discussion, understand what you w,ere saying, and clarify my own ideas. Before going further, thou-gh, with thii letter, I'd like to ask if you really want to discuss these mat- ters with me. Don't hesitate to tell me if you feel it,s a waste of time. That said, I'd like to put down a number of ideas in a somewhat systematic way. lf hu.ma-n animds possess a genital differentiation, obviously for purposes of sexual reproductiòn, it seems reasonable to expect them to have a corresponding and appropriate emotional differentíation. Hetero- sexuality would seem thg appropriate biological at_ titude. Ye.t,.l?.r99 numbers of human beings aren't heterq sexual. Why? There are traditionallv íwo piaces to for an explanation for feelings and'drives. One :eïcf is biological. The other is social. Gainess,r.r, to hdve no reasonable biological brisin. Whv should na_ ture frustrate the mechanisms of procreátion? A social origin for gayness seems much more likely. .. It would seem reasonable to believe that gay people ' have been effected in some way by socieiy áiiferåntty than heterosexual people. Before tal.king with you, I was inclined to regard gayness as a kind of ,,damage." your ideas havJled me to reexamine this notion. Gay people seem to be cãpä-ble of as full emotional satisfâitiori in their relationships as are heterosexual people. ln fact, it may be that.most gay relationships may be bettôr emoîionally, for they may contain fewer elements of oppression, " exploitation, and role playing. Since society rewards heterosexuality so highly, many of these reiationships may. be completely dominated bjr notions of ego satiisd faction, status,_and wealth. Gay pçople, however, would tend to have "purer" experiences, for they would seek each other out of genuine néed for each other, rather than for manipulãtive or abstract reasons. Consequently, the emotional and psycholosical benefits to gay people from their relátionships rñav be greater than those most heterosexuals derive. I'm inclined to this view because it tallies with a, number of my observationi. ,Radical politics is an ex_ ceedingly demanding field. To be sucðessful in it requires exceptional sensitivity to others, and objeo tivity concerning oneself. Some of the most successful people I know are at least oartlv sav. - Alsq I think of the recenr euv ,âliv in Sheridan Square for which I pròvided tñeiounâ system. The quality of speaking and singing-overall-was perhaps hlgher than atany rally l,ve ever attended, including civil rights rallies- Gayness didn't impair tÉe capaciiy of those people for feeling injustice,'identifying with each other, expressing thelr iäeas, and being crõative. lhere wasn't a stale or rhetorical word. Somqof the feelings expressed were bitter, but it was superb radi. cal politics. Now there have been many suicessful heterosexuals -in radical politics, too. But there are also many heter; sexuals who have been seriously inhibited in their ' .political activity by sexual damage. Simply being a "normal" biological heterosexual guarantees very líttle in terms of personality development Photo by Diana Davies , .,t. I ''-t. -.. ln regard to my notion about l'sexual damage-,1' I'm incllned to revise it this way: Gayness probäbly has a social rather than a biological origin. All human As you know, I've been reading WiiÚelm.(eich a great deal these days. I may have mentioned that I'm in almost complete agreement with the ideas he exfr"rs"s in The'Functlon of the Orgosry. Reich doesn't cleal at length or depth with gayness' indeed at.one time he eiþressed d'eep contempt for gay people' But there is nothing in his'ideas about sexual dynamics that condemnigayness, for gay people should be as. ãipaUte of "orgãstic potency'' as hetero-sexual. people' Oigasms aren'idepen dent on gen i taf ,differe¡ ti ati on, rat-her upon genital stimulation and friendship. Two sav peoòle riho love each other undoubtedly,could ñuí. A"äp.t orgastic experiençes than two hetero sexuals wtto simply engage in the qeproductive act" And all the psychologiial benefit that Reich describes as flowing from "orgastic potency," would come to sav oeoole as well as to heterosexuals. "- 'ieicñ's discoveries about sexual dynamics led him to believe in a generalized sgxual energy, w.hìch, if . beings are always sexual, and biologically th,ey may haveä slight teádency to a psychologica[ differentiatioñ thaf¿ói¡espondi with their genital differentiation. Social influences in infancy and.childhbod, which are yet little understood, mãy override the biological inclination and produce gay'ness. Gayness repreiehts neither a change in a person's sexual na: tu're, nor damage, it is siriply a difrerent form of ile- velopmenL Such a theory explains a number of phenomena in lf the-biblogical tèndenoy toward maleness or femaleness is only slight, then to maximize heterosexual differentiation, a society would have to invoke society. strong social con.trol. As you pointed out, that's what's happened. Heterosexuality is highly rewarded- Why do some people believe that this strong polarization, is desi'rable? ln some societies it is an advantage. Which ones? ln warlike societies. The "male" personality is created tci fi.ght. Gayness is always "put down" in. societies thái place a high value on military qtruggl-g, - . be they reactionary, as in fascist Germany, or revolutionary, as in Cuba and China. -' reteasea iñ orgasms led td"ñental health, but if damned up led to neurosis. These are Freudian no' tions too-a! least roughly. Reich then went on to try to generalize sexual enìrgy into cosmic energy, which heõalled "orgone energy," and here herleaves me, mainly, I think, because he began tospeculate too much, ând didri't have enough experimental evidence iutly to support his ideas. ln comparison with his later ideas'about orgone energy and metaphysics, his early ideas about a generalized sexual energy were rooted in cli nical observation' ihi;;"ii"" about a generalized sexual ènergy, leads to a corollary that Reich didn't seem to seeJhe sig' nificance of, that is that the energy doesn't necessarily have á male or female character. That's'obvìbus Ly thã consequence of a theory of unified se¿ual enerjy. What this means in regard to the question of gay' ñãss is that the male or female psychological aspects of a person's personality are.superficial in comparison to dre ferson's deeppr sexuality. Whatpver the cause, be it biological or social, whether I am a man or a woman'is liss important than that I am a human being caþab-le of love-sexual and orgastic loverin its . fullest sense. This brings us back to your statement that a gay relationship-should not be considered a "s€cond class" relationship. You are right' lt may well be a better relationship than most ñeterosexual ones. lt is inferior onÍy in that it can't produce children, and in the dawning age of test tube'babies, controlled genetics, . the agoñie; of contraception and abortion, how much of an iriferioritY is that? '*:ì\:ì,.--.. Gayness flourishes, and is accepted in societies that deemphasize war and emphasize culture and peace: classic Greece, and the American counter-culiure. Who regards gayness as "degenerate," and societies in which gayness flourishes as "deçadent?" Pêople who see life in term's of ruthless competition, and ul- timate violent confl ict. , . My own hunch is that in an unexploitative, peaceful society, without capitalist and militaristic institution5, most people would be heterosexual, because that's the biological inclination, but there would also be many gay and bi-sexual people who would be fully accepted. It also occurs to me that this line of th¡nking explains.why ancient and primitive societies, particularly agricultural ones (like that which gave birth to the Bible) so oppose gayness. Like the military, they needed bodies, children, to leplace those lost to epidemics and accidents, and to t¡ll the fields. I would expect that as the vulnerabitity of a society to natural disasters increases, as the death rate rises, the society becomes anti-gay. Our society faces disasters of its own making. Enforced sexual polarization contributes to our problems. The feminist and g¿y movements I therefore see as at the center of the struggle to avert moral brutalization and biological extinction-and I can write this as a pronounced heterosexual. Lovg Brad Dear Brad, Yes, I really do want to discuss "these matters" ' wíth you-sexuality. You write: " lf human animals possess a genital dif- ferenúiation, obviously for purposes of sexual reproduction, it seems reasonable to expect them to have a corresponding and appropriate emotíonal differentiation. Heterosexuality would seem the appropriate bio logical attitude." I don't,follow you here. Would you try to put into words for me what you feel to be the appropriate emotional differentiation? How should a man feel toward a woman, a woman toward a man? My own strong conviction is that this very belief that we should feel differently toward one another lies at the root of all our difficulties. Yes, the genital differentiation is for.purposes of reproduction, obviously. But what purposes would you say that the emotional differentiation serves? / would say that down through history the claim that there must be such a differentiation has served the purposes of male domination. Actually, later in your letter you yourself write in a way that plays down those socalled differences between us. Writing of Reich, you say, ,iIHis] notion about a generalized'sexual energy leadi to a corollary that Reich didn't seem to see the significance of, that is that the energy doesn't necessarily have a malê or female character." And you write: ,iWhat this means in regard to the question of gayness is that the male or female psychological aspects of a person,s personality are.superficial in comparison lo the person's deeper sexuality." I very much agree. And here is a question for you: Does this energy not have a biological source? I _ask this beôause you writé earlier in your letter, "Gayness seems to hãve no reasonable biological origin. Why should nature frustrate the mechanisms of pro-: creation?" l'll answer your question with another quer fion: Shouldn'f those mechanisms be frustrated rathei more often than they are? lsn't overprocreation a problem? And l'll answer it with a deeper question: ls the only reason for sexuality pröcreation? That's not Reich's view, is it? (You say that you find yourself "in almost.complete agreement" with him.) I've not yet read Reich, so let me speak simply for myself. I would say myself that òur sexuality is giveh us to that we can commune with one another-and with our universe. lt "cracks our single selves," I say in a poem I'll enclose. And for me this reason for its being given us is quite as primary as that of procreation. Without sexuality we would be impossibly isolated wíthin our individualities. We could not experience community, could not experience in our flesh the truth that we are, all of us, "members one of another," and of all that is. The sense of this is very labking in the modern worldbecause our sexuality is, yes, very damaged. Dama{öd, lwould say, by the attempt to split it into the so called male and the socalled female-the one sèx supposedly by nature dominan! the other supposedly happy in surrender-all possibilities of qommunion weakened by this lie. For dominance and submission can produce only distortions of communion. lf we can free ourselves of the will to dominate (or the willingness to submit), our sexuality allows us, i very much believe, to commune not only with other people but with the whole world of nature. You write that " Reich's discoveries about sexqal dynamics led ' him to believe in a generalized sexual energy, which, if fully released in orgasms led to mental health, but if damned up led to neurosis." I would express the same belief-except that I would leave out the words "in orgasms." The language of genital sexuality is a wonderful language for communion, but not the only language. There have been periods in my life when I ' have been, literally speaking celibate and yet in such communion with others that I felt no sexual frustration at all. (This \!as very much s'o for the months i was on the walk to Cuba, for example.) I know that others have had cbmparable experiences. I have just been looking through some of Rilke's letters and here is a sentence from one of them: "And I really believe I sometimes get so far as to express the whole impulse of my hearÇ without loss and fatality, in gently laying my hand on a shoulder." 6 WrN Paper cuttlngs by Mark Morris journal Let me quote a passagè, too, from a kind gf natural with-the communion in wtr¡cfr he'describes a world which I would call sexual in a profound sense.' itì'e is writing of himself in the third person): ' "lt could have been little more than a year ago, when, in the castle garden which sloped down fairly ii".oív towards¡he sea, something strange ertuountered cusi-rim. Úalting up and dqwn with a book, as was,his less the more,or into to recline happened had t," iár. iñãúl¿er-trigfr fork of a shrublike tree, and in this posi' iion itme¿¡utely felt himself so agreeab,ly s.upported ånd so amply reposed, that he remainedas he was, *ithort read'ing, completely rçceived into nature, in an almost unco]iscious contempTatìon. Little þV littte his attention awoke to a fe'eling he had never.'known: ìt wus as thouÉh almost imperceptible vibrations were oassinq into him from the interior of the tree.''; 'lt b"t"ä to him that he had never been¡filled with more gentie motions, his body was being so-mehovü t¡eated fike a soul, and put in a state to receive a degree of inflr"n.t *hiah, giutn the normal apparentness of one's' physical conditlons, ¡eally could not have been felt at ä1.-. 'Nevertheless, côncerned as he always-was to ac- count to himself for precisely the most delicate impressior-1s, he insistently asked himself what was hapan exþening tó him then, and almost at once found he that himself, to saying him, that satisfied þressión he Laþr, . Nature. of got side to the other irad ' thought he could recall certain moments in which the på*Ëi ãt this one was already contained, as-ìn a seed' ile remembered the hour in that other southern garden (Capri), when, both outside and within him the .iv dt u'uiiã was óorrespondingly pres.elt, did not, so to speak, break upon the barriers'of his body,-but äUì"tt¿ inner an'd outer together into one uninteriupted spacg in which, mysteriously protected, only 'one single spot of purest' deepæt consclousness re' mained. That time he had shut his eyes' so as not to bei confused in so generous an experience by the contour of his 6ody, and the infinite passed into him so intimately from every side, that he co'qld believe he felt the liãht reposing of the already appearing stars within his breasl" sexuality, I would say, makes possible experithis-which I have known, too, and assume that you have known. Would you not agree that we lack fûllest mental health if we are not capable of this? Sexuality can dissolve the boundaries of our indi'. vidual selvei; it makes possible a deep relati-on with the rest of the world. Reason enough for being placed within us. That the act which can result in thè birth of new life results itself from this urge to touc,þ other iifr tnun our own is as it should be. But the creation of children is not the only reason for our sexuality' You write that "the biological inclination" is to be heterosexual. I would say that the biological inclinalìon is simply to be sexual. You write "A social origin for gaynesi s'eems' . 'likely." I would la.y tllata social uitotôt to force us to be heterosexual is ob¡ious' lf societv did not try to make us all heterosexuals-and üo"triuittlv were dispelled and, with it' the power inrqliti.t thai make most heterpsexual relalionships so diitorting my guess is that we would find ourselves ãuite natîralív attracted to either sex. lt would be a \ matter simply of which individual person awakened love in us' ört ences like Love, Barbara Spirit of lovi That blows against our flesh Sets i! trenbl-ing i Mo.ves across it ' as across grass Erasing every boundary that we accept And swings the doors of our lives wideThis is a prayer I sing: S4ve our perishing earth! Spirit that cracks our single selvesEyes fall down eyes, Hearts escãpe through the bars of our ribs To dart into other bodiesSave this earth! The earth is perishing. This is a prayer I sing. Spirit that hears each one of Hears 4ll tha! is- Listens, listens, hears us us, out- . ,i ',' ii . lnspire us ngw! ,". Our own púlse beâts in every strahger's throat, ' And als.o there within the flowered ground beneath our feet, And-teach u9-$ro.'listenj¡-r:.. : .- We can h.ear it in water, in'woòd, änd even in stone.. w. ur. .urih of this eaith, ancl we aie bone of its bone.'''' This is a prayer I sing, for we have forgotten this and so .1'., The earth is perishirg. Brod Lyttle is a peace activist currently working Ín Chicago. Barbarq Deming ¡s a writer ond activist, The poem gt the end of her letter 0ppeors in her book We 'Cannot Live Without Our Lives, Grossmon Publishers, 1974. wlN 7 Ì will produce 'l 60 tons of copper concentrate,and 840 tons'of potentiallv toxic wastes a day. Kennêcott will strip mine for 11 years and, if it is profitable will mine ..!: WIS'EON$,TN EEOLOEY THREATENED l don't expect to see any great impact on the community-either taxes or employwas less enthusiastic. " BARBARA MINER To somg Kennecott Copper Company is a fairy godmother, coming to poor Wisconsin to sprinkle it lightly with jobs and taxes. To others, it is a tornado which will whirl away huge amounts of high grade copper. Midarlikg the company will turn the copper into millions of dollars of profits while a ravaged state wonders what hit it. Kennecot! the nation's largest producer of copper, plans to start construction of Wisconsin's first copper mine in mid1976 or mid'1977.The mine is located near Ladysmith in Rusk County. Proponents of the mine hope it will bring much needed jobs to the small, sluggish town of Ladysmith and to Rusk County. Opponents of the mine say Kennecott will: -leave after 1l T.o22 years with no clear responsibility toward long term environmental effects. -pay minimal taxes while earning g5 million a year in profits. -exploit non:renewable resources before the state is able to develop a sound copper policy. While controversy rages and Kennecott calmly plans, many of the people in Ladysmith-who don't even know details of the mine-take a wait-and-see attitude. A woman in the local drugstore said typically, "l don't know much.about it. I haven't considered it cause I'm not that wellversed on it. I guess I'm in favor of it." Its not that Kennecott has been secretive, but they're letting the public hear only what the company wants. As Mike Jansen of Rusk County said, "People have not been educated to know the true impact of it all.'l For or against, Vera Jansen echoed evèryone's conclusion. "The only thing that's clear is that Kenne cott is going to mine." With the mine will come a few jobs and some eco nomic activity, and that makes most local.bgsínessmen glad. "Anything that brings somç money to the town-fine," saíd one. Another, while for the ming 8 WIN menLtt The mine will employ about 4G50 meñ locally. UnemploymenÇ averaging 8.6%and as high as14%in the winter, will go down to about7.1% as a result of the mine. The monetary impact of the mine is estimated at $1,750,000 ayeaï $1 million in salaries; $200,000 in goods and services; and the remainder generated by local spending. What's going to happen to the environment when Kennecott mines? Will the mine pollute the Flambeau River? Poison the local ground water? Drive away wildlife? These environmental worries can't be"corg: pletely soothed because no one knows the answer. "We just don't have enough data to predict'what will happen in 50 years," said Brent McCown of the lnstitute for Environmental Studies. He is especially worried about the lake created when Kennecott fills the used-up mine pit with water. "This body of water will be created principally âs a convenient dump for the toxic wastes created by the mine. An initially short term mining activity has the potential of creating a long term liability for whoever assumes resppnsibility for the area in ensuing years." Others are concerned that the highly toxic sulfide wastes may seep into the Flambeau River or the local ground water. Sigwald Ringstad of Ladysmith, who before he retired worked for the state in conservation, said, "'l'd bet a million dollars if I had it that some of those pollutants are bound to get into the river." Although Kennecott plans to build a 190 acre waste disposal area surrounded by a 60 feet high dike, 25 gallons of toxic seepage are expected. Ed May, Kennecott's representative ín Ladysmith, was asked if Kennecott would assume any long term environmental responsibility. He replied, "You asked a multi-million dollar question. lt's premature to say'this is what we do when we're thru."' Another Kennecott spokesman answered simply, "We endeavor to be a good neighbor: wherever we go." The mine will be a 55 acre 285 feet deep-open pit minq situated 300 feet from the Flambeau River. lt und'erground for another 1-1 years. Kennecott is coming. Although a second cafe might ooen and the Miner Theatre may start showing a Sundäv matineg don't eipect a new school or bqfter roádr. N.ith.r the city nor the school district will receive a cent in taxes fróm the mine. " l was wondering why Kennecott got into Rusk Countv-this is a small project," said Joel Schilling of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. "But I think I'm beginning to understand. Thg taxes are so small,' irl.v;ll"g.t a 6efter return here. li's a giant rip off." Íh. town of Grant, where the mine is located, will eet a little over $10,000 a year in taxes from the mine' ihe state will get about $375,00Q a year, andnRusk County will receive about $4,600 a yegf. Arizona, a major copper producingßtate, has a tax which brings in about two to three ¿nd a half times more revenue. Meanwhile, Kennecott will pay off their $15 million investment in two to three years and clear over 95 million'a year in profits for the rest of their stay. At least that's the best that can be figured. Ed May was asked what Kennecott expected in profits. He answered, " l'm sorry I can't answer that." lf Kennecott manages to pull off their great con job on the people of Wisconsin,.partial blalne will lie with state officials and legislators who let it happen. Although Wisconsin has potentially large reserves of high grade copper, there is no state policy dealing with .its extraction John Rigg, chief of the mètal mining division of the US lnterior Dept., predicts that northern Wiscon- !¡ sin and northeastern Minnesota will be the ,copper and nickel producing aread in the US by the largest year 2000. They are potentially the largest copper producing are.as in the North American continent. Al Gedicks, author of Kennecott Copper Corporo' tion ond Mining Development in Wìsconsin, fears that history may repeat itself. "Wisconsin's'horthern counties were once major suppliers of iron ore for Ameri- Copper mine and smelter ¡n Arizona shrouded in pollution. Photo by Cornelius Keyes/LNS. .t ca's steel mills. But half a century of mining activity has not resulted in thriving industrial communities; rather, it has resulted in widespread. poverty.and unemployment which has necessitated large migrations from the resion." ''' i'r.'ä"o';tli4ilti n sctrre¡ uer' recentl y stated that o pe n pit copper mining could turn the face of ìrorthern Wisðonsin into a "delashted moonscape" unless there is , planning. i:b million a year has beti:ñ spent by ,35 mi¡' long range Over i .: irig companies exploring for coppei in northern Wis-', co-nsin. Meanwþil'e, the state.is havi.ng trouble formirig a copper policy study committee. As the st¿te bumbles aiong in ignorance, Kennecott moves ahead confidently. it is öell expórienced in ôhanging r copper under the ground to money in the bank.. Kennecãtt owns four other copper mines in this country. It is perhaps most famous as the former ownéi of tÉe El Tåniente mine-the largest underground copper mine in the world-in Chile. Salvador Allende, the late president of Chile, estimated that Kennecott; alo¡g with Anaconda Copper Company, had taken $3;8b0,000;000 out of Chile on an initial investment of $10 million. Kennecott also hopes to mine,in'Fúerto Riçg-if they don't run into problems. A formerofficial of the Puerto Rican Mining Commission recently charged that the copper ore deposits in Puerto Rico are worth at least five times more than Kennecott and American Metal Climax are offering. He said that the copper companies h1d.Çoncealed the riçhes! veins in their negotratrons. Peabody Coal Company, which has 47 mines in this country and is involved in extensive strip mining in the East and West is completely owned by Kenne- cotL 'Passage of a low copper taxation bill rushed thru the state legislature last spring gave Kennecott the green light to go ahead with their plans, after Kenne- ðott thrlateneã to walk out of Wiiconsin if the bill were not passed. . Rep. Dueholm, chairman of the Taxåtion Committee, wanted to call Kennocott's bluff. "l didn't buy their threat then and I don't buy it now. A bill that big shouldn't go thru so fast. l'm a politician by accident. But I can smell something rotten and this stunk. What burned me up more than anything else is here's something that will deplete our resources and it goes through without proper action before any committèe."' Rep. M. Midge Miller, also of the Taxation Committeg said,i'Thê oblection I had was that I had no way of kirowing i;f this was a good or a bad bill and we had to makothe ¿cciftgl so.fasJ. I wanted to study it" mo.re.tt r ': The'bilì ðdls for a 1.5% tax on the value of the minerals taken from the ground. lt does not make Kennecott pay property tax on the copper deposit, stating, "the value of the mineral contents of such lands" is not to be taxed. The value of the mine-its expected profits-is between $40 and $70 million. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Sweda of Rusk County, ;was never publicly presented to the people of Rusk County. lntroduced late in the legislative period,.it passed about 2 am the last day of session. Borbara Miner is o ' journølÍsm student at the UniversÌty of Wisconsin and works with Community Action on Lotin America, o c0mpus based onti-imperìalist group. wtN 9 Radical Land Tiust inwbst '. Many of these indentured whites escaped before serving their full seven years, often ing the Appatachian móuntains tã uloiã enteri;*ïi-rr- PAUL SALSTROM ",nn.nallchian.plateau" of wesrern West Virginia ]!e rs geotogically distinct from the much higher Ap-pala_ chian mountains to its easL Once higherihãn the Himalayas, the Appalachian range nã, *"in áo*n over many million years to altitudes about 4500 feet above sea level and 2500 feet above the rivers which drain iL Not created by erosion, ttl, rnornü¡ns have. ' nonetheless been shaped by it. T.hi.r ex-plateau west of ihe mountains, on the other .h.and, has become a tortuous network of 'hollows and ridges due entirely to erosion. Neither it,, ,orntr¡n, nor the plateau have been glaciated for many millions of years. But baok when thl mountails ioaiåj'to Himalayan heights this ptareau to ilrÀiiwãüîas nat rano. uver the eons while torrents were lowering the mountains so drastically, the placid rivers to t'he west managed to incision their network of hollows only aboLrt 500 feer betow rhe originaily flutpi;i;il. Today the Appat ch ian pt aîeau éom prisãi iougn I v : western.West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. ôver two mílljon people call it home_anA w¡in í ieivor of_ ten.mtslng from the word,,home,'elsewhere in the United Srates. Bur unrit the 1970's rht;;iú;;';ü;ry of the region, with the exceprion of its liUãi iiruggleE has rarely amounted to morä than local iãlor. ño* ¡n the.wake of Black history and Chicano t ¡itãiv, a com. prehensive.approach to Appalachian frisøry ìíhnlt/ Henry Caudill,s Night Comes to ínle èumOen 9me¡sjnc. tands ts a good introduction to the region. Present-day residenrs of tne Âppáîáãüiun pluteau are almost entirely descended from the ree¡oñ;i lgth ce.nlyry settlers. There has been much rnoiine ãround within the region bur surprisingly l¡ttle in_miãrition from outside. And who were rñe'tSth centuiiiäti" they. come from ana wnaiiouia por_ -tl¡pZ,Wnerg.did srbry have attracted them to a wilderness of steep'hills and hollows? Did they perhaps nave some-visioà to fulfill? Neither the Declaration of lndependence nor the 'Ulaòt' Constitution curtailed the impor.tat¡on of slaves from Africa, and neither document cuiørr¿ iiì" irn:' portation of indenrured whires from rhe i"¡ì;;;i;f slums of England, Scotland and lreland. l;;i;" u pover,ty the-only escape from which was to piomíse your "benefactor,, seven years' labor as -t;iÅi f:l y o ul ocean passase. péopte, ienã¿îprepáyment dreds o1 thousands. 10 WIN r., rn. äi?.ìt. ottn.rr, who stayed and worked like honest folk. noìemeles ' tended to find themselves too poor as fréemen to buy either land or trade tools, and i.lrrti"tlv iäined the migration west beyond cívilization. ln 1799 while Jefferson and Company were maneuvenng tor power in Washington, a dissolute band of ex-indenturees was poling ñs flátboat out of the downstream current of the Ohio River, into and against the cuff.ent of a tributary called the Guyandottel penetrating what was then the wildernesi of nortñwestern Virginia" (Today Huntington, West Virginia siands at the confluence of those riúers.) Our bañd of neler-dowells found a few scattered lnâians, Cherokeés, who knew ingenious ways to catch fish but Uy anJ târge were so poor as to virtually starve every winter. From whar few remaini rheir laboróu, iiuli nuu, .left.pn papeç nothing suggests that these-påtò1. .ur. oeanng a vts¡on. I heir motive was escape from the net of a civilization which had consigneA tf.,rrn iá ,riliorn. Theh foremosr plan was ro groilenough corn ã i;;"' through the winter. Their liveliest fancy was tqgroyt enough extra to make whiskey. promisôuity was com_ mon, including incesl Bibles trickled inro rhe hills only larer. with the _ literate "preachers,, who could ,riá tÀrî.'öñ'urrtl.s were built last-long after the cabins and Uaini an¿ hg8.pen-not first, as some New Englanders can boast oÌ thetr forebearers' churches. The names of the men and women who first settled what is now Lincoln County, West Virginiá wãul¿, cause no surprise among préient-day re"sidenis-of the 991!ty: The fÌrst record, of a McComas, dates from years tatei an Adkins arüii¿ilL¿^v \1?P.::\ieral or. the- county's residents bear that name. ofórn !u!l oenrnct ttctit¡ous middle initials assigned by tÉeir local postmasters. . lh.es9 earliest settlers claimed for themselves and , their heirs the largest bottoms of nn" soii ãlonË *,. buyandotte River. Later waves of settlers too[to the rldge.tgns. Nor unrit after rhe Civit War à¡ã rnánv of the side.hollows, wirh rheir acre or two ãf Uåìtom_ fand bordering the creeks, begin to attractsettlers. Ëelore the Civil War all living was on a subsistenae ., basis.with the exceprion of a-few tu;t",,s;;l;.r_ chants. hven preachers weren't paid. And a mere one or two acres of good soil-all most hollows could ofli Ter-wasn't enough to support a farm with its animals; Tew enough farms fulfilled Jefferson's rur¿lr" ,äiil**' !! After the Civil War, money gradually begap changinethii picture, first t'hrough'tñe timber business' Timfirst üå? áóãåtòri didn't puy much, but tl*v we¡e lhe Io'oáv unvttting. Besides the regular iobs, they'd pay áóttar rór riding a raft of huge virgin logs down "oiã'u River îne +O or 50 miles to Hunting' ifi.õrván¿otte , to three days on the river besides the walk úãit trorr. ln the 1ti90's the coal operators and the ð & O railroad arrived together, but they merely oaised throueh Lincoln County up river to the famous ü;-tw; of Logan CountY. äoalfields -ni*t"t" natüral resource industries arrived-to be followed soon after 1900 by the natural gâs interestsuãrns oeople were increasingly drawn away. from the 'pãiiiätbtl"i fam i y ho mesteads. Bv estab I i sh i ng ho mes in the hollows they could commute out to iÔbs, still retaining enough leisure to cultivate the àcre or two a typical hollow afforded' of "Ë;ñ#;;Ãiåä¡ã"n"", "' bottõmland the. arriväl qt T9.""i i" the area was accompanied by the arrival of the orsanized church, the church as-.an'institution' l-rom õuiiW"t days,'if not before, iíìbst villages.had. inJrJ"¿ ; Communitv Church to which all local ChrisI iia¡i grãu itui"d. N om i nal I v, most of. these. :!Yt t¡tt were Ñlethodisl Around 1900 the Methodist hierarchi"s U"gun imposing "educational sttndards". on ilåã.ñ.it in thi reg'ón, ffiggering a mass exodus' i¡ãü ól in. d isgruñtl eá coñgregati ons even tual v sè9, pykil,q the end i;i;;Jñ "¡ añother Baptiit churches' This is. still the Bible äÌ;;lfi;¡ communitv é"U uriu zubtle demoralization haunts the churches ñãiJ .ltttr'tere in America. Few churches are full' "i I And yet, despite the inroads from outside äf thtt' i"it rtl"i*JTears-the arrival of various raw.material inJrrii¡"i and the sectarianization of the Christian carries ;;;;fd- scátch' I rish culture i n the.h il ls álät:"nä ór the few homogeneous survivals in the Ã*.i¡"un melting pol I have gone into deta¡l about better n"oäiiãrt¡"" histöiv because itn¡ntt [t explains' d ex plai n' cou isionarv v utt ãolt'"io i;e ;hä-;ñih v I Unlike previous outsiders, the hip.pies.(mani' of *h;;;;,iJ pref.r to be considered ex-hìppies).have [o exploit nor change the hìll peoplg¡.""iirl"i ".r" ;ñ;;;t;;;. t; i;i" them, and lãarn their wav"of life' it on to their heirs. and - idpass *ut only five years ago that.the first hippie set.tlers arrived ih l¡nioln Cointy, West Virginia-a small sröuo of Catholic Workers. Now in 1974 the county ãjo hifpie landowner.s,-and a comparable Ë|"ìåi"i "".i fo¡ iano. The pace- öf in-migratjon m¡-eureceáJ dno.rE 1sg¡oed lpctp?r z^\ou iq pnilqnqrl þri ulosutl eptslno aje s13?J1 eql Jo þoJql .uon ^lunoJ -o? leâJtpf u€lot^uou ul spuno.¡B)ceg q1!^À sl¿npt^tput pue sdno:E Áq pe1¡qequ¡ e.le 1sn.rj ,neu ai11 oi pareuop eJoit\ tl3il.l^1 pusl l?unuuor s13?J1 xls oql q?¿o 'tl e^?q plno^\ olpJ sv .lsnJlJopusl el¿ls 3 Jo Jo JelÆq3 ol .'ql?l eql lq peuq^uo s?/t\ erueJe]uoe lpu¡s e ,sec¡nós €È leJnlsN Jo Jeuotsstu,tuo] S? poll¿lsul s?/h u?uJ .tuiElau¡a s,eJooW LlrJV.JouJo^oÐ eJoJeq qeeh\ ^\âu l?Je^os 0g su?eu u qc.ns :pog Jq er?JE eqt /tg ^peeJl¿ 'euolp ^pu¡ uollo¿,ilnoo u?rll JâlseJ suuetu auos iq ùeqr e^ps uer ê^\ ssâlun .uollcn4sep u¡oJJ septslltq eqt a^es el?l ool uo/$.eq lll^i\ selrl?q unoc eLlI .Á1r¡ete¡¡r _ .ol slr oltdsâp 'paeco.rd or Eurddt.4s arrolp pu? sr¡u.¡ád eñï -s! ol-f_eeJo,1 tu¡ultud¡.¡ts-tlu? aql uo solqztr eql uJnl ol !l ÍEele.¡ls s.JouJâ^og eq1 ,Eurururdrjtrs o1 strlr.u¡¡ -#o setlunØ SS s.atre1s âql jo leqlo lZ pup ulóiutï p€r?lrep szq elnle¡sr8e¡ z¡u¡E.r¡¡ lse/y\ eqt ¡¿6 ¡ eculg 'strr¡.¡.led qrns onssr o1 ¡ete¡¡¡ eq p¡nórrr li sþunórs eùi 'edoln3 ur eu¿u elqelndal e oruelor^uou uelr8 'acueJ¡ Jo B0J8 1?r{1 ul lueuâ^oru rluqle u? pel?^rtrouJ pu? paueç8u¡l.t1s 'Xe1 uruàr3 eql pa4rJJal seq sluesead gg ¡ eseQl Jo rqEU eqt ez!lpeJ ot otuoc alq 1 'a7a7 aqtr ura¡doed 000'00t Jo uo¡lud¡c¡iled oqt Eutrl3l¿¡ lcez¡e1eq1 uo sÁrp ua1 ra1¡e rlng 'tur>¡¡u1 'tûr¡.ron 'e¡EEu1s lueire¡e.t.t¡ '¡¡zurs E s3/\{ < tl lqEnoqt I Pr?eq Peq I \>. 'apuo¡¡¡ aa¡1/uosslory'.Dl ap aþ! aql W!/r\ uo¡tcun[uoc ur dru¿c ìJo^r IUA\ ¿ eleurpJoo,r dleq ol tezJel ãt4I ot tues szrn ¡ ueqm lsn8ny-prr.u lltun 'pu¿l Jraql 01 sldua¡s .-uo os?q Eu¡u¡ej1 ?þqelxe o1 Á:e1l¡1ru eqt Eu llstseJ Á¡lue¡o¡rruou aJâ^\ oq^Ä eru?rj ^q uJeqtrnos u! ure¡d z..uo ¡o dno:t ¡¡erus e lnoqe sseJd âr?od u3îtJâtrlv €urçÁue ¡¡ 'e¡1111 t2- -- .---- NOSdt^ilSÐtVUf, ¡Ê qruo¡t srour¡ut tqftt ,,úislrvglg{ E slrJol tlew u' ç ^q 6ulMeto '- _a_ Eu¡ áes = ZI .lean Toulat, nonviolent strat€gist and theoretician, called'a'confet enoè in the Millau afea to support tlie farmers in thèi¡ decision to resist tire military. Many anti-war'and anti-milit¿rist groups came from all over France. The two main groupings in France are the theoreticians of nonviolent strategy and those involved in direct action and alternativès. Many nonviolent ac. tivities characterized the French 1 968 uprising of workers and students, which helped spread anantimilitarist attitude throughout France, especially among high school students..Then there are the en- vironmentalists who in the past few years have joined w¡th the nuclear disarmament movement to oppose French nuclear testing in the Pacific Finally there is Lanzo del Vasto, his 75-member Community, their followers and support communitiei. 'A conference was called to give support to the Larzac farmers in tþeir struggle. Lanzo del Vasto and Jean Toulat began a 15-day fast to draw nationwide attention to the plight of the Larzac The peasants first began by organizing letter campaigns. They mailed thousands of letters to the Minir try of Defense with the result that a Commission was called to investigate the camp extension. lt ruled that the peasants' objectives were "not in the public inter- esl" Other inquiries were promised but not held. tn July of 1972 the farmers held a hugedemonstration in the city of Rodez, which 15,000 attended. The Army began to adopt a low-key strategy of waiting to slowly obtain the land. A conservative member of Parliament who owned a gteat deal of acreagè in the area sold out entirely to the Army. The extension of bases throughout Southern France has helped politicize the peasants. Many bases had been extended on farmers' lands with promise of com. pensation but none came, and hundreds of farmers were left landless. The.Larzac has gradually become the testing ground, the point where farmers would take their stand. Íhe struggle in the Larzac has become more ånd more des perate and importanL The nonviolent strategy offered to the peasants by Lanzo del Vasto caught their interest when other chàn. nels failed. 'lWheat rnakes.Life, Bombs Kill', was a slogan used to show theír philosophy and tactics of resistance. They also became aware that the extension of the base might be used as a stockpile for nuclear waste in the underground caves" The base could be a take-off point for NATO in Southern France as the French military concentrated its bases close to the Mediterranean, making it{n access pointTor wars in the Third World. , To draw national publicity and raise national con. sciousness they drove sheep into the streets of'Paris and grazed them under the Eiffel Tower, saying this would be the only, place left for their sheep to eat if they were pushed off their land. In lanuary 1973, the March of the Tractors from the small city of Millau to Paris took place. As they passed through one town the police put up barricades, and peasants on the other side of town gave their own tractors, so the jouney could continue. Farmers and peasants gave housing and food showing their solidarity all the way té Par¡s. The Army first conceded shepherds the right to graze their sheep eight days a month on one side of the highway which divides the Larzac, and six days on the other sidg if they were to extend the base. Th.is ". :l was rejected: where would the sheep go the other half month? Then the Army offered to bring water and electricity to the Larzac on the condition of extension, This was also rejected. During pentdãoiiì gz3, the Larzacfarmeis and peasants announced the building of La Bergerie, a large sheepfold, holding over 300 sheep, in a small hamlet near the present Camp. The Army declared this project illegal but the peasants continued using stone from the old buildings in the hamlet and breaking the rocks found on the plain. A part of the Fiench public which supports the Larzac farmers began to refuse 3% of their taxes and to send that money for the building of the sheepfold ln August of "1973 the peasants invited the French public to seetheir Bergerie, A special call to workers and peasants brought 80,000 people from all over Fra,nce includíng workers of LlP, the watch factory which was closed by str¡king'workers and reopened under worker control. Winter was a waiting period-much work stops because of the harshness of the winter winds. The peas ants held together: they,started a school for their \ children an{ coopeirateä rnore than ever. The Army began to carry out other attacks. They . shot into the communal property; bullets and shells can now be found throughout the plain-inany have cut the feet of the sheep and caused physical damage. 14 wrN The frequent explosions scare the sheep and cause abortions. At night tanks have been driven aiross peasants' wheat and. potato fields, ruining-the crops. [Vhen the peasants protested, the army said they must file a complaint within 48 hours to get.çompensation. The farmers find it dlfficult to cheðk their. fields,that regularlY' - "On Jirne,8,'"1974, the peasants lathered the missiles, bullets-and bomb fragrrients found in the Larza'Ö in the central square in Millau. A few days later, on Júne 1 1, the army shot a 800 kg mislile over the canlqn Tarn where many of the pea'sants are living and camping' On June 20 an Administratiôn Tribunal in Toulouse announced that the expans¡on cvf the base was in the oublic interest and it should be done w¡thin tHe next year. A second fete similar to the one the year before was called by the peasants, to be,coordi/rated'by non-' violent groups throughout France. W.ogld they receive any support? Had the French public þlven up hope and turned their back on the peasants in bored"om? Those wgre big quèstions in my mind when I arrived this August to help with the War Resisters lnternational workcamp ih conjunction with the fete and the building of the Bergerie. I was a bit skeptical about demonstrationFl was used to those in which only 15 or 20 people would show up in Albuquerque. The weather was bad-rainy, cloudy and cold-and I was regretting not bringing warmer clothes. BUI two days later" the clouds left the Larzac and the teníperature rose to the 90's and l'00's. The sun scorched'like any New Mexico August day. Work began with hauling wood for tables, digging holes for the WC's, etc. A.desert plateau gradually became a temporary city. First'len tÞnts appeared of blue and yellow nylon cloth, then 100 of a variety of colors, then up to thousánds everYwhere-in canyons, on fallow fields, on top of rhountains, on army properCars, dogs, cats, children, poor,and middle class workers, peasants, young, old and middle'aged. 100 people grew to 10,000. 10,000 grew to 50,000. One French daily, Lo Depeche, reported 1 0p,000. Friday, as people poured in, politicàl discussions were held on fhe struggles of peasants, workers, immi' grants; on building communication and relationships with Third World struggles; on how to fight against the army and bourgeois "iustice." Movies were continu' ous; music came from guitars or record players; people 'were hawking political papers. One large gFeen tent had a huge reid'flag with tñe group's name and numbr'""' ous small flags blowing in the strong Ûi.nd. People pushed andìhoved to get the liferature and píctures of Marx, Mao, Lenin and Stalin; people behind the tables argued with passersby, The lnterhbtional, sung by what sounded like the Air Force Academy choir, blared out on loudspeakers, There were over 200 groups: the political Left in France, groups for' prisoner support, nuclear disarmament, Chile and Palestine, lRA, African liberation and many more., Peoplê wandered in and out eating bread,and drinking wine. One man without a stitch of clothÍng walked unnoticed through the crowds, women were without ._ tops; 'Onnobody seemed to mind. Saturday the sun was hot and bakeä the Souther,n French countryside. More people came; tlie cafs packed the twolane highway. Political speeches and ty. solidarity messages were delivered. The Socialist candidate for Presiden! M. Francois, Mifferand, attempted to speak, but was protested by Algeria¡ students who remèmbered Mitterand's sup ' .: . . I ' port for sending troops into Aigeria. Thp nonviolent planning committee saw the danger of the split in the left groups if he spoke, and linked arms, formi¡g a line of 50 people to block him from the stage, and also to form a protect¡ve link around him so he would nof be' ' hur¿ The peisints followed with a tractQr,to try and .. get him inio it for his protectign. Althoúgh it was only r press madð it front ,a minor incident, the conservative page news, ignoríng all peaceful ev€nts that occurred. - Saturdayãfternoon everyone ioined the farmers'in' a symbolic harvest in solidarity with the starving ped-' ple of the Sahel in Africa. A yourìg vr'oman leader of the 103 Larzac farmers gave a rouiing speech about their solidarity with farmers thoughout the world and t their'struggle against the military. At nigñt thele was music, lrish folkdancing änd more speakers. Thousands of people stretched out in sleeping bags and blankets to listen to the music and ipeéchãs dinieht . "' Sunday the largest cfowd marched, led by the tractors and the piasants families, two kilometers over ',.the d,arzac to a ltuge field. People joineÇ llands, ,s4ng àlid'chahttjd, waved flags and banners. As We reached the h¡lltop, I looked back and saw the crowds stretched far behinä'us. Below, the farmers'bágan to plour the fields-an illegal act of civil disobedience-to plant new life; an army helicopter and two planes hovered overhead;.and a'peasant sang a siìnple but powerful sbng of the struggle of his fellow workers, written in Old French, called "Life to Larzac." Thousands joined. in, perhaps tbe.most moving political demonstratiôn I had eve¡ participated in. The song gould be heard througlrout the canyons and the valley and at the Army Camp 1000 meters away. Have these actions had any effect? lt's very difficult to say. lt looks as if the Army will continue and may move to expand this winter, when resistance is always difücult. But the Army is losing much of its support from many parts of French society and the actions of the peasants have inspired a wide range of support- To -- ' :' the young French thè Larzac,peasants have expöseö the military's real purposes and inspires them to ex' amine their future, and resist the military. Larzachas given a motivafion, a hope; and a technique of struggle for workers, peasants and farmers aoross France. Non' violence has inspired them to lose their traditional fears, to beceme more politically aware, and to'fight t t against öppreSsion. What aþout the peasants of Larzac themselves-once apolitical, sep,arq[edr.pbor, in a dying culture, losing their sons and daugtrftrs to technology and urbanization? They have ünited, are now committéd to a long ' ter m figh t agàfiì!ì'th e''in iHtary,.pre ¿ev iv i n g th ei r . sdhoolsand-languagg are working cboperatively, ênd-"' ' -, perhaps most important-their children are staying to ': work the land, to build a future for their children on the Larzac. But national and international support is cruciaf, and it is hoped that groups can express their solidarity by publicizing the issue and by pressuring the Frenèh .government through letters and demonstrations, and .'.more. And then: Gardardem Lo Lorzac! The Larzae Will / Live! " R L-So ut h west, is.nòw Cra ig S i m pso n, for merl y w i th worklng with the lüar Resìsters lnternational in Bru* sles, which probably mokes him a reol "heovy." 141 WIN 15 Drawlng of Lanzo del Vasto by paul Bacon I -l EXII,ES REIECT BOGUS AIINESTY JACK COLHOUN Over the weekend of September 2'l-22 an lnternational Conference of Exiled American War Resisters was held in Toronto Canada. Although originally planned, when the groundwork was laid last spring, ai a small ' .delegate conference, President Ford'i Seþiembèr 16 "Amnesty" announcement transformed it into an event which attracted over two hundred exiles from Ontario and Quebec. _ Delegates were present from exile organizations in Sweden, France, England, and cities across Canada. Nine in all, they voted unanimously to boycott Ford's punitive earned re-entry program. provisions were made for those who wanted to challenge the program qpefly by r'efusing ro t¿ke any oath of allegiance to t]t" ql or to.pledge to do alrernative servicõ. They should coordinate their plans with the National C'ouncil for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty (NCUUA). It was resolved that those who challenge the program will do so "in the context of a campaifn for üniv"ersal, unconditional.amnesty and a campaigñ to end US ag-' gresston tn tndoch¡na. . Exile_organizations will work to make our rejection of Ford's program of'punishment clear and to ¡nform others of the boycott through boycott counselling.the mediE demonstrations, public meetings, and speaking tours. . The basic strategy adopted by the Conference was that the refusal of war resisters to participate in the earned re-entry program will make it ineffective as a means of settlirrg the amnesty question and will highlight continuing US interveniion in lndochina. Sim'ultaneous with the war resister boycott, active mobilization wil, be effecred within thé US ;;;;¡ i'r1ãliïues of the war and amnesty. The Conference also tackled the so-called deserter loophole. The Ford earned re-entry program as unveiled. so far by the Administration makäs it appear that deserters can get off easier than draft resisters. The, deserter is required to take an oath of allegiance to the'US and to pledge to complete a period õf alternative service, the length of which will be determined by the military. Spokespersons for the lustice and Defense Departments, however, have statód that there is no corresponding civilian law that could compel a deserter-actually to perform the pledged alterna_ tive service. lf this is the case, a deserter co'uld set an Undesireable Discharge from the military and t"hen ref_use t_o report.for alternative service, thus gaining freedom from. the military and from thé earneã ,"-rñtry program...Military counsellors are unsure as to whçther the socalled deserter loophole exists or whether it is a trap by.which.the Pentagon can bring further charges against individuals for obtaíning a diicharge by fr:aid- ulent means. Participants at the Conference agreed that the purof the loophole, if it exists, is io divide war re' srsters 4nd to defuse the-amnesty,movement. lt was also noted that even if a deserter completes the requisite alternative seivice and earni the speóial ll'Clemency Díschargg" all that would be accòmplished is ttreihit_ ing of the individual from one categóry of persons in need of amnesty to another: from ihat of deserter to, that of a veteran with a punitive discharge. The Conferehce concluded that the Clemency Di-scharge woulä. , i1fqc.t, be-jusr as punirive as, if nor á.r"r;;;;ïri";;h;; the Undesireable Discharge that might be þossible via the loophole. A Clemency Dischar:gi marks one for life as an lndochina war deserter. ihe recipient of an Undesireable Discharge or a Clemency Disbharge is ineligible for veteran's benefits. He also'faces a very bleak future with respect to getting decent iobs ór steady employment, because em ployers d isórim i nate strongly against veterans with lessthan-honðrable disp.ose chargei The issue of continuing US involvement in lndochina pervaded the two-day meeting. The Conference opened w¡th the following resolution passed by ac_ clamation: "Be it resolved that we, as Americans and former Americans, in resístance to the ongoing lndochina War, demand an immediate end to Americañ aid to the dictatorial regimes of Thieu, Lon Nol; and the reactionary forces in Laos. We also demand a strict implemen? tation of the Paris Agreements. "Be it further resolved that we wholeheartedl! re ject-the concept of punitive repatriation. For thóse draft resisters and deserters in exile and underground ín the US for the more than half a million Vietnamera veterai¡s with punitive less-than-honorable dis. charges, and for those with criminal records or subject_to prosecution because of their active opposition to the war, we continue to demand universai,'uncon- ditional amnesty. " ln order to make clear the anti:imperialist nature of the amnesty struggle messages werä invited from representatives of the Association of Vietnamese Patiots in Canada,_thè Toronto Chilean Àirá"i"tion, and the Toronto Committge for the Liberation of the Portuguese African Colonies. The Conference passed overwhelmingly a resolution expressing solidarity with these struggles for liberation. . Support for Vietnam-era veterans was shown by the passage of a resolution demanding a singletype discharge for all veterans, as well as décent Veteran Administration benefits for those with good discharges and.full benefits for those withless-thanhonorable discharges. (CONTINUED NEXT PAGE) loc!.p9lhoun is editor of AmexlCanada,o journøl published by Americons exited in Conada, ' . GRAY PANTHERS CHARGE AMA WITH PUTTING .ù; MONEY BEFORE HEALTH hoalth services should be available has in. I spent three days in Toronto as an illegal-alien, sponsored by the city's åïi#i . Gay Alliance Towar{ Equãlity (GATE). ts flnanced but preventive vis¡ts to the The Gray Panthers-.a national organi: The purpose of my visit was to dramadoctor are not. . . tize the absurdity and injustice of those zation of activist old people-staged a "Old,people, the poo6 and other protest at the American Medical AE sections of the lmr¡igration Act which vutneraÞre segmenß oflhe population discri mi nate against 1rcímosex ual s. sociationls. national"convention in bgcole. pawns in a- power strdggle, not For several years GATE and other Chicago recently. Led by Maggie Kuhn, peopte to þe served." _LNS gay giôúps have-l,obbied fòr Canadian founder of the Gray Panthers, the a change in.thè law. ln 1 966 a White group charged that doctors are putting sAM LOVE|OY FREED Paper on lmmigration had proposed the money ahead of humane care for the droppinþ of dll references tó homosexuLovejoy, aged. They presented a guerilla theatre Samuel accused of destroying ¡ ality. These changes were never enacted, production outside the meeting hotel a.weather tower as a protest against a even though the Omnibus Act in 1969 in which an actor symbolizing the qi.gno.¡e{ nuclear plant (See WlN, AMA-money overflowing from his 6126174) was acquited by a judge.-'; .. , legatized adul.É homosexual behavior. ln December another report reco'¿pockets-col lapsed on the sidewal k. Wednesday. mending changes in the lmmigration The medics rushed torhiq.side, Judge Kent B. Smirh of rhe Franksearched for his heart to no ävail; until lin County Superior Court orddred Mr. Act is due. Gays of/d'Ottawa has repeatedly requested to meet with in desperation they performed open l-ovejoy, 28 years old, cleared of a Robert Andras, the Minister of Manheart surgery. lnstead of a heart Íhey charge qf malicious destruction. The power and lmmigration, to obtain an discovered a wad of dollar'bill*' charge stemmed from the collapse of oficial commitment to the repeal of a SOGfoot weathèr tower on land in "To no small extent because of the 'Paragraphs 5(e) and (f). So far it-has, ,' ', mis,use of AMA powers, the United Montagug MA, selected for an ãtomic ' received only the evasive repl_y-\\gt.qf States. is the last industrialized nation plant by Northeast Utilities. enforçed. are course these sections never to have no semblance or beginning of,. granted on an The acquittal was But of course these sections ore oçan organized public health care systeä," apparent error in the indictment of .casionally enforced. Like the sex laws charged the Gray Panthers in a letter Mr. Lovejoy, who admitted having presented to AMA presídent Dr. Roth caused the tower to collapse. The (CONTINUED FROM PRECEDING PAGE) : by Maggie Kuhn on the podium of the charge alleged he destroyed personal AMA House of Delegates. On Monday, September 23, the, ..,;: '. property, but defense testimony in' The inadequacy of health care in steering committee foTNCUUA con- i' ii dicated that the tower was classified ',,' 'by ¡he Town of Montague as real ' the US is intensified for older persons vened ãt the conferencé site to meet ' because of their greater need tor mediarea. with exiles Toronto livine in the pJ:pertv. cal care. ln addition, the inflationary ,,4'¡oint ne*s .oñfer"nce was.held, in costs of health care are even more difwhich NCUUA expressed total support for ficult for elderly people to cope with the earned re-entry boycot!called tpHN SNEAI(S .*,.*-;.because most are on a fixed income. for$yrheexiles and called upon [hose A month ago I was depoited from Although Medicare is supposed to war resisters underground and in Ü$ Canada while hitchhikìng to Toronto. 1¿ke care of these costs, in fact it is At the Customs station on the Ont¿rio jails to join the boycott. ¡i. , hardly sufficient-doctors fees usually slde of the Niagra Falls Wh irlpool CONTACT: greatly exceed Medicare rei mburseBridge, I had made the fatal "mistake" AMEX/CANADA ment allowances; and preventive checkof dèciaring thirty copies of the Gay PO Box 189, ups, hearing aids, eyeglasses, dental Oommunity Newi thát'l war bringing Station P home many care services are care, and into the country (see WlN, 91191]n. Toronto, Ontario M5S 257 not covered at all. Equally important, I wæ deporteci i¡ri¿er Paralraph 5(e) C¿nada the Panthers stress that Medicare leaves ' -of the lmmigration Act, which Pro(416192+60"t2 elderly people completely powerless be- hibits the immigration of homosexuals sínce there is a total abfore doctors NATIONAL COUNC¡L FOR UNIVER. into Canada, and told I could never, sence of quality controls. Also lacking SAL AND UNCONDITIONAL AM, evgr enter the countrv again. I was NESiY are provis¡on making doctors accoun-threatened with arrest if I did. able to their Patients. 339 Lafayette St. This time Last'weekend Lreturned. íTô leave it Up to the New York, NY 10012 I flew, "disguisedi' by a iacket and tie (2"t2\22&1s}"t insúrance comPan ies to and a haircut I had no trouble getting äïli:i' i"¡åïîiTfil iisi :; I , . lN ¿ 16 WtN WIN 17 in most American states, they are violated all of the time. Their very unen- forceability guarantees that what little enforcement is made will be arbitrary and capricious. Victi ms are urrderstandably rel uctant to come forward with the evidence of discrimination. GATE knew of several such incidents. Now it had caught the government with its pants down; it had a victim who was willing to talk. GATE distributed a press release and the two major Toronto dailies picked up the story. fhe Star quoted an lmmigration Department official that my deportation was the first he had ever seen on the grounds of homosexuality. GATE then asked me if I would come to Toronto and surface. I would , be confronting the Canadian govern- ment with an embarrassing choice: arrest or deport me and call even more attention to a stupid law, or ignore my illegal visil After considering the risks, I decided to go. My visit was just one incident in GATE's continuing campaign to get the Canadian government to change its discriminatory immigration laws. Their chances of success are much greater than in our own attempts here in the United States, whose reactionary immigration laws still exclude individuals not only for their homoséxuality-but also with the surreal categorization of " suspected homosex ual.'l The same week that I was deported, American border guards in Washington state invaded Canadian territory to kidnap an American war resister exileil in Canada. The weekend that I visited Canada, the people from Amex-Canada were also holding a conference in Toronto, to respond to Gerald Ford's latest miscarriage of justice, "earned reentry." My own opposition to the Vietnam war did not cause me to leave the United States. Now, ironically, my legal status appears to be the mirror image to that of the resisters in Canada, waiting for a sluggish government bureaucracy to catch up with reality. -lohn Kyper AND MORE NEWS FROM CANADA Jackie Thomas, a gutsy drag queen in' Waterloo, Ontario, recently entered a "Thigh High" contest for the shortest hemling an event sponsored by the Engineering Society at the Univ. of Waterloo. After winning second prize, Thomas was disqualifi.ã Uy ttt" år- ' barrassed engineers after her true sex was revealed. Her prize was demoted to an "honorable mention." -Gay Liberator I PICKET STEELWORKERS CONVENTION OVER NO.STRIKE DEAL have a union contract-the rest work at or near the federal minimum wage. Recently, Van Heusen has been Some 200 pickets marched outside moving the bulk of its production to Hong Kong, then Taiwan, and now South Korea, where it produces over 50% of its shirts. The average garment Atlantic City's Convention Hall, where the United Steelworkers was holding its convention. to protest an agreement worker in Taiwan receives 21('anhour with US Steel Corp, which prohibits and unionizing in both South Korea any strike, even after its expiration. and Taiwan is illegal. ln Taiwan, under The demo took place Sept. 23 under martial law, it is illegal for more than sponsorship of the Committee to seven people to congregate. Smash the No-Strike Deal. And within the United States, the The unprecedented agreement is company has told its emþloyees in the called the Experimental Negotiating South that it will move from there too Agreement. " Experimental," explains if the workers "go union." The ACWA a Committee leaflet headed Defend points out that this constitutes coercing the Right to Strike: ,,because if it works in steel, they'll try to push it on the workers and has filed charges of un-" other workers." The practical effect of fair labor practices with the National Labor Relatíons Board. the agreement is that employees of US -LNS Steel can't strike until 1980. MADISON TENANT UNION The United Steelworkers, since its SETS PRECEDENT IN OR. formation back in the 1930's, always GANIZING FEDERAL has had a very conservative, EstablishHOUSING PROJECT ment-minded top leadership. ln a major breakthrough in tenant or-Jim Peck ganizing, the Packers and Northport Tenants' Organization, a local of the BOYCOTT VAN HEUSEN Madison Tenants Union (M:IU), held a A nationwide boycott against the Phil- successful rent strike this past spring in which it won both of íts demands: a lips Van Heusen Shirt Company was recently launched by the Amalgamated binding grievance procedure, and Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). union recognition. The boycott falls on the heels of the It was the first time that a tenant recently successful ACWA boycott union in a Federal Housing Adminiagainst the Farah pants compåny, and strat¡on project has been recognized as coincides with a current organizing the legal negotiator with the landlord drive of Van Hêusen workers in Puerto over grievances. The MTU was also recognized as the "exclusive bargainipg Rico and the southern United States. agent for all tenants in the projeôt oVer As with the Farah campaign, most of rules, rents. leases, and conditio.ns of the workers involved are Third World, tenancy." Also being worked out is an and perhaps 75-80% of them are woagreement that will make union memmen, Union officials say boycott activities bership a condition for signing a lease in the Packers and Northport project are takipg place in sixty different cities The 280-unit low-moderate income' and the campaign is just beginning to project is only one victory among sevget off the ground. Many of Van eral for the tenants working with the Heusen's 1 00 retail stores are being picketed as well as several major deMTU, which has been organizing since partment stores which carry Van Heusen 1969. Five of the seven locals form'ed recently by the MTU have conducted shirts. Van Heusen, the world's second larg- successfu I or ganizing efforts si nce est shirt manufacturer, has been singled October, 1973, and collective bargaining agreements between landlords and out by the ACWA as the industry's "most anti-union employer" and a firm the MTU now cover 1300 people. The Madison Tenants Union sees believer in runaway shops. Union officials explain that 30 years the victory as a model for "other ago Van Heusen employed 3,100 union tenants who are looking more and more toward direct action to improve workers in six plants in New York and Pennsylvania. Today the company has the housing crisis tenants all over are closed down most of its northern plants facing We hope to build a memberbut has opened fifteen others in nonship that is large and strong enough to union areas of the South. bring rents down to a level that tenants can afford. A strong tenant's move"Van Heusen has gone to great lengths to keep the union out of the ment is needed to fight and overcome South," explains boycott organizer the absolute power of the real estate industry over the housing supply and Bill Patterson. Currently, ònly 900 of Van Heusen's 4,300 workers in the US. the prices we pay for it." . lated that Newton maY have left the coüntry. oesþite his disappearancg the Oakland police and courts have continued to put the pressure on the Panthers' Newton's bail was revoked when he did¡¡it show up in court on Aug.23, 'I and the party headquarters in Oakland, HUEY OUT'OF pledged as bail bond collateral, has AFTER BUST been placed in financial leopardy. Deluged by a massive police campaign Meanwhile, a Committee for Justice to discredit him, Huey Newton, a cofor Huey P.. Newton, has been estabfounder of the Black Panther Party, has' lished to press for a complete investigone underground. gation of the escalating campaign of Newton, 32, was last seen when'he harassmenL was released on $42,000 bail after his arA Black Panther statement, also rerest on separate incidents in which he leased Aug 23, said the Oakland PD was supposed to have (1 ) attacked a campaign against the organization and police offcer in Oakland; (2) shot a . ¡ cofounder Newton "began to mount teenage girl, and (3) pistol whipped hií in intensity following the powerful tailor. electoral race conducted by the Black Newton, who"was'convicted of a Panther Party in 1973, and the Party's 1968 slaying of an Oakland policeman expanding community service "Surin a gunfight and serv"ed two years in vival Programs," housed in its new Comprison before the conviction was overmunity Learning Center-'l turned, apparently had had a bell!-full The statement continued, "The patof courts and the establishment accordof false charges and arrests have tern ing to well-placed sources. Qontinued as the Black Panther Party The newest charges against Newton ñas built a growing base of support in are simply examples of police "harass. ment" of the Panthers, according to his prèparation for new (1 975) city elecattorney, Charles Garry, ,who has specu- tionl" Tenant and communitY organizers who want to know more about the MTU ánd its recent strike should write to: Helene Berman or .f eff Kannel, Madison Tenants Union, 953 Jenifer St., Madisoh, Wisconsin 53703. -LNS' SIGHT Two years have passed sinðe fhe US Supreme Court ruled that the deafh penalty as usually applied is "cruel and unusual punishment" Yet 1 57 "prisoners are currently under thë'death sentence and awaiting execution. The last person executed in the United States was Luis Monge who died in Sources close to the Panthers said that a fund-raising campaign is expected to meet the ba¡l bond collateral, thus protecting the organization's property. Newton, meanwhile, is not expected to re-emerge overground until the heat at the Oakland police s{ation'simmersr ' ' down. i '-SF Phoenix NO 1.D., NO',ROLLING PA?ERS Since laws against marijuana posiession don't seem to do much good towards curbing marijuana use, a MichigâD corr; munitirnas deðided to regulate the bu!ins of cisarette rolling PaPer. Itn. City Council of Madison Heights, Michigan approved a motion this week that rõquires purchasers of cigarette roll ing papers to show identification, and ai-so r'equires merchants to record the names of everyone buYing such papers. ' 'The measure was introduccd . bY Councilman Loren King, who saysthat the law is designed to discoûrage martiuana smokers, since theY are among the primary buyers of rolling papers' Failure to register as a buyer of the papers is punishable by a $100 fine and 30days in jail. -Straight Creek nals average about a year in prison forevery $10 million they steal. Edward Browder prepared the study and sent it to Jack Anderson who, after checking the data, published a summarY of it in his column. PRISON NOTES Another story published by lack An- derson reveals severe repression. in Cub4 incl uding after-midnight arrests, terrorizing interrogation and torture. After checking the accuracy of the charges as best he could, Anderson offered to personally inspect the pris. Colorado's gas chamber in 1967 for .r the murder of his wife and three of his children. Florida, where 30 persons await legalized murder, is the first state to reinstate the death penalty since the historic Supreme Court decision. Canadian prisoners working in prison factories will be paid the legal minimum wage of $2.20 an hour, according to a report in NCCJL Reports; When the pol icy goes into effect a third of Canada's prison population will earn the . minimum wage. The change is part of an overall program to improve prison working conditions. lf you are one.of the 14,500 persons arrested during the 1971 Mayday demonstrations your arrest record must be destroyed, to conform with a ruling by US District J udge Howard F. Corcoran, who also ruled that all bail money collected at that time should be returned. A recent federal study involving 50 f ederal judges in three states dramatically revealed how important it is that one who is accused of a crime come be- . rh:Jt'-ryilti:.. fil!å iï:ff1;#,?*ll'3|1åTi,n, rurr ?T:T:.yi:^.I- ;ïJå prisons. vre in"äärit,, rrr treme. ln a hypothetical case where a rore rhe riehr judee. senrences '. for rhe utïiòn official'committed loanshártcing Three hundred scholars from all over l and'tax evasion, one iudge suggestêd the world, including Noam Chomsky 20 years and a $65,000 fìne, another . and Howard Zinn, have signed a pro-orìly three years in prison,.Óne judge'' '" test çQndemning lndia's treatment of politicaÍ prìËonèrs. The signers of the woúld give a oney"ã¡ sentenee ioj heroinîeller and ánother woirld händ protest said they "deeply deplore thât down ten years. Tom Wicker's column tens of thousands of political suspects .r.discussing the study was appropriately have been kept rotting in lndian jails entitled, i Roulette in the Couitroory." for.several years without proper trials, rdanorher , jl t1:ll f,i*:it¿:'"ifl,T"ï:,tî:1'"iffi,i*, double a prisoner -study lsland car_efully documents.the standard for white co!lar crimes and other offenses. The s1-udy shows that .while white collar thieves average a little more than two years in prison no matter what amount they steal, bank robbers who got away with several thousand dollars average 1 1-year sentences. Prominent white collar crimi- cJ'tJrture.,, Soviet historian Valentin Mor.oz was reported near death on the 67th day of his hunger strike in prison. Moroz served four years for "anti-Soviet propaganda" and then, after a year freedom, was returned to prison. of Larry Gãra WIN 18 WIN ' 19 erv who were involved. ln one passage, Useem points out that some women occupied leadership positions in the Resistance, but elsewhere, curiously, describes their status as marginal, and develops his analysis as if they did not exist.. I never got to know the draft resistance scene in Boston well, but it would be inconceivable to write about fhe groups I did come to know without saying a good deal about woinen's partic¡pation and experiences. Useem is not alone in this oversight; despite a few pages on the impact of women's liberation on draft.resistance groups, Michael Ferber and Staughton Lynd pay little attention td women inThe Resistance; indeed, the only úvoman mentioned in thê index to the'ir history is Dorothy Day! Fortunately Barrie Thorne's paper on women in the draft resistance movement helps to': remedy this omission. As,resistance groups différed, readers who were familiar with draft resistance organizations outside BoSton may quee tion an occasional point of emphaisis. On the whole, though, the analysis seems sound, and constitutes simultaneously 4 useful addition to the literature on social movement, and an important resource for war resisters' One hopes it will be : made available in paperback, at a more accessible price. -David F. Greenberg e coNscRtPTto N. PROTEST AND SOCIAL CON. FLICT: THE LI FE AND DEATH OF A DRAFT RESISTANCE MOVEMENT THE TROIAN HORSE: A RADICAL LOOK AT FOREÍGN AID Michael Useer¡, f ohn Wiley and Sons, New York, 1973 Pp. xiy + 329, $"12.50 'the Pacific Studies Center Steve Weissman and members of and the North American Congress on Latin America San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1974 250 pp., $7.95 cloth, $2.95 PaPer. For a period of several years, the precise dates varying with locale, a movement of resistance to the draft was a major component:of the anti-war movement. The rise'and swift decline of this movement is the subject of this valuable study by a young Harvard sociologist. To provide background, the author briefly describes the cultural milieu of the student movement on the campuses, as well as the Selectíve ServiceSystem and the effects ¡t had on different categories of draft-age males. Drawing on approximately 100 interviews with Boston'area resisters, field observation of the two Boston-based draft resistance groups, and a wealth of documents, Useem describes the diverse political backgrounds of those who became involved with the movemen! their reasons for participation, and the eÊ fects of involvement on political perspectives, friendship patterns, and career plans. The interviews accurately cap iure both the rewards and anxieties of collective risk'taking in a noblê cause. Considerable attention is given to the strategic dilemmas of a movement that sought to attractoadherents by inviting them to place themselves in jeoþardy of substantial prison sentences. Activists will be particularly interested in Useem's analysis of the organizational failures of the Resistance-its inability 4o maintãin its organizational integrity ai a single issue organization opposed to the draft at a time when op position to the war and the draft-was climbing-and its equal inability to ev-olve into a multiissue radical organization. lt bears kóeping in mind, however, that despite these organi' zaÍional failures, in other i"espects the Resistance wæ quite successful. True, it had neither ended the war nor the drafl Still, by the time most Resistance organizations collapsed, induction refusals were endemic, and support for draft resistance so widespread that sgpport organizations were not as' badly needed as they had been two yeârs previously. It is unfortunate that Useem chose to interview only men who peiformed some act of non'cooperation with the draft" as it would have been of considerable interest to .examine the experiences of the male cooperators who were active in anti-draft work, and the experiences of the women 20 WIN ii more than iust an empty epithet' For around the world, for everyone ex-and sisters bróthers our cept thôse belonging to the isolated elites, those pockets o.f vested interest itthe existing order, imperialism is an everydav fact of life to be contended with in bread'and'butter, lifáand-death terms. The Vietnam War, coups in Chile and "US imBerialism" I Greece, the intervention in the Dominican Republic, lhe tanks and police training for Pak Jung Hi-all these and more are not simple, isolàted incidents where US policy hâd some' how gone astray, where well-intentioned people werê not quitisensitive énough, or where "aid" had been too little or tbo late. But for many of us, and unfortunately this includes all too many radicals,:that "foreign 4id" is really aid is a myth that riies hard. A collection of critical studies, most. of which oricinallv aÞpeared in the Pacific Studies Center's Pocifìc Reseãrch and Empire Telegrom and NACLA's Latin- Amerlco Report, The Trôian Horse doQs an excellent ioþ.of debünking itre riyriad myths that confer legitimacy on the whole cyñical arrângement that goes under the absurd mala; , propism, "aid." it¡eró are twelve studies in all, gach of them giving com', prçhensive treatment of a different agency or program ' Ús "development aid." One piece each on: the Overseas. i (the lnternational .ì ,Developm-eñtCouncil, the Wôrld Bank Bank for neconstructionãn¿ ó.uãropmint -sic!), the lnter-i of national Monetary Fund, the Alliance for Progress, the Ford Fou ndation's prepschool i ng of the anti-S u karno p-re-cou p (1965) elite in lndonesia, the "private charity outf¡ts (such : às the'lnternational Resiue'Comm¡ttee, CARE and Catholic' Relief Services), postwar planning for Vietnam, Herbert Hoover's post World War I European anti-cornmunist cru' sadg -the Green Revolution, military aid, and 'rPolice for Íyrants," Each of them makes a comprehensíve whole, yet tÉe editorial fit ¡s so masterful that the progre.ssi.on from ône to the next is very natur4l; there is surprisingly little Aid : ' repetition or overlap. Taken together; these studies constitute an overwhelming indictment of the realimotives and actual practices of not only those who have been found guilty in many.another context (US-AlD, the Ford Foundation, Hubert Humphrey, LBJ, McNam7ra, George Maxwell Taylor, Walt Rostow, Geörge McGovern, the USIS, et al), but organizations not normally seen as sp clqiely tied tô narrow US,interests,'the "multilat'eral" agencies-the World Bank and.the IMF (both of them..esse¡tially American ECONOMICS AND THE GOSPEL Richard K. Taylor Ph iladel phia:. United Church Press 1973, pape¡back,125 pp., $2.25 It's common enough for radicals-especially Marxists-to . write off religious institutions as dispensers of spiritual t ' opium [o thipgople for the sake of social contrôl- Thè rådical traditiôn ifrat WIN is a paftpf, however, has,noted the other; prophetic side of religiôii, ín people íi.ke.thp. Rev. , creatíons. ) 'l ln "Building the World Bank" we read that as early AJ. as 941 American planners lvere already hard at work preparfor the post-War order when" it was foreseen, the US, would suddenly find itself Saddled.with a run-away wartime production machine coupled with a peacetimd market. Or, as Secretary of State Cordell Hull put it to Congress in 1943: ".. .when the fighting stòps. . .almost overy metalmaking plant in the United States, an{.many other factories and mines and farms, will be faced witr the termination of war orders, and will be looking urgently for mårkets for . their peacetime products. Foreign markets will be very'im-' port¿nt to us then and willcontinue to bè essential as far as anyõne can see ahead." Other objÞctives were no less imporønq among them the export of investment capital, and free access to raw materials the world over. l t was on the basis of such considerations that the first plans were laid for the lM F and World Bank in the White Plan of 1941 , which ultimately led to the July 1944 gathering of14 national delegations at Bretton Woods. At first Washington failed to win ' the support of Wall Streef but soon enough important concessions were made to American private capital, to the end that by 1945 private bankers had been wqn over. The World Bank was officially established in J une 1946. , The priorities of the Bank and the IMF are stability and deflation; before loans can be taken out by the undeveloped country, certain domestic co¡ditions must be met. lf .,. the necessary t¡""tut"t (specified.Èy.the IMF and World Bank) are taken, these will inevitably generate further un- I employment poverty and inequality of income levels. The resulting rapid deterioration of social conditions naturally arouses the discontent of the,unemployed and impoverished workers and farmers (an evèf-increasing sector of the population), thereby,feeding the call to revolution. ln having accepted the conditions for aid, the regime in power by this tinie is firmly allied with international capital, and this fact is not lost on the people (hence the term "runl ning dogs of imperialism"). lf the regime is to stay in power, it is only the use of force that will make it þossible¡ and again the regime must turn to its foreign friends for'police supporl "Police Aid for Tyrants," the last Sfúdy in the boolç tells how the US is only too happy to service.this need, largely viã USAID's Ofüce of Public Safety (OPS). Police officers from around the world are traiñed at the OPS's Offce of Public Safety in such things as.riot control, ing intelligence, ccimmunicatioris techniques,'torture-ei, râther, "interrogation"-techniques, and other such "hulnane , methods'of civil control." Advisors are älso senl as is specialized police equipment (tear gas, MACE,'câttte-prods, gas masks, shotguns, dum-dum bullets, walkip;talkies, jeeps, computerE and such sundry toys). "Total aid provided by rhe OP_S between t Se I and 1gí1 lamounred to 9282.8 milion, of which some twothirds was allocated to Southeast Asia primarily South.Vietnam and Thailani." The Tiger Cages at Con Son are but one examþle of the humanitärian lengths.to wh.ich. USAID is willing io go. Other examþles abound, and I wish there were the spaðe here to give dhem, even thg simplest treatmenl (ReaA the bookl): lñthe name of America is all this bad stuff coming down! -Lynn Miles ' : Now there are stirrings on the religious landscape6n the question of economics. The Shakertown Pledge, a new movement which includeS theologically conservative Chris-.. tians, calls for simple life styles uñ¿ ¿iitr¡Uutive iustice. Arird Dick Taylor's book Economics and the Gospel is sponsored by the Presbyterians and the United Church of Christ as part of their Shalom $eries. - Dick Taylor is an organizer who has been on'the national staff of SCLC'and is active now with the, Movement for a New Society. He has led canoe blockades of weapon-bearing ships bound for Pakistan and for lndochina, and is currently aid.ing a coalition of citizens groups fightitig the Phíladelphia Electric Company. He is also a sqcialisq a writer, a.fol¡nder of tþ.p Philat delphia Life Center, a father of two'children, and a deeply committed Christian. His book reffects all of this; his writing manages to share his pwn experience with changing life style and nonviolent action along with his theological studies and work in econômics The book is packed with statistics from straight sources, which makes'it a váluabie resource for all of us. lts style is cool rather than flamboyant and rhetorical. lt moves beyoríd I ] analysis of what is wrong with the US economy to what could be right with iL That emphasis on alternatives on.a macro level is refreshing and encouraging. . Each main chapter includes not only a definition of the problem and proposed solutions, bgt also some actions which can be taken. And the Biblical m¿terial is very helpful . ' to those of us wþo are out of touch with the claims of jus-- : ,' tice in the JudeoChristian tradition. The book is not complète. There is little on sexism and racism, on how women and minorities make this gconomy .' go. There is no reference to a coherent strategic framework , ; that gives the many action suggestions a cumulotive impact. J Like s.o many books, this one can leave us intimidated by :: , such a grim analysidand yet no strategy that promises a sùb-';.',.; ; -: stanJial way forward. Fortu¡ately, Dick is working on anbther book which does develop his action ideas and exi periences into-a full-fl egged strategy. , Altogether; thi3"adult primer on Shalom" is a solid i ' challenge for mainstream Christians and a handy sourcebook for acJivists. ;.¡;l *0. '.. .r.,.i;., ¡.,¡ _ -George'Lakey 1. j"¡ ROLI. YOUR , *i Muste. OWN ; ,: $3.95 -1'.: Jodi Pallidini and Beverly Dubin, grass, except the kind Roll Your Own isn't a book about ' that the tires of converted trucks and busses roll on. 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