t' ' f ebruary 19;.1976 / 30C Socialist Dilemma in Portugal;_ Farmers, Baitle Worldwide M¡l¡tary Expánsion;l Latêst News from thg ' - "'' Continental Walk; : FREEDOM THRU NONVIOI.ENTACTION . JI More Tqrror at Pine R¡dge Tû lrrt¡ Ht ïo0uffttJ S s ¡. SÅH 0F¡VT3r13"t3 uû f{üûilF'tr egee ^t-ItlJ 1 3 u ûï-¿¿ ( ¡ dresses for sqch publications. The only otiented systems like the.B.l,bomber , and nuclear. power plants? Do thev,sur. port life-oriented actions tike Frieird- ' shipment and.the Continental Walk? Samras would have us join her cause, but it is clear that the aïti-abortion people-not only seldom joined ours but were otten on the other side. The true sincerif of their self-proclaimeã fife orientation is questioñable. The polemicidevices used bv anti:ab-ortionists and incorporäted in the letter hardly deserve the bòther of rebuttal, but they should be noted. Agaitrthere is thç matter of redefining issues. Samtas would have it that the mÖtivatiôii òf the "war merchants" was population cóntrol: " We need war to control the massesl'l This would bring .'the anti-war issue within the parameters ofher gfoup's cause; but the Movement correctly identified the hawks'primary motivation as being imperialistic. The anti-abortion letter by Evelyn K. Samras of Gainesville IVIIN, I /29 /761 was so blatantly rhetorical that there might be a tendency lo disniiss it out of hand, but it brings up a number of considerafions which we should be prepared to deal with when confronted by such diatribes. Samras asked why the Peace Movement is not protesting the "killing" of "babies" by abortion as it had success- fully protested the "wholesale slaughter" of war.'This can and should be answered on several levels, but certain basic ideas should be kept in mind. 1à , ' A primary one is not to let yourself be defined by your opponents. In the first place, if she had been reading VnN tegularþ she would have known that WIN did give space to people within the Movement who were having second thoughts about abortion not so long ago. But they discussed the matter on an ethical level, which Samras did not. In the second place, Samras asks Movement people to join her cause and tries to guilt triþ us about it. "Where ate you now?" she asks twice, but we c'an ask with more relevance where the anti-atortion people were then. Did they get their heads cracked in Chicago or join the peaceful masses who marched in \{ashington and other cities? And where are they now? Do they fight the death penaþ or demand gun contro!? Do they oppose death- 339 SPeclaI Invosflgaúlone DepaÍrnentof the Alr Forcg \f,ashlngþnr DC Gary Wandachild " ^Ahon, Oh.44303. (ideñtifiable by referenceio DDIIR 1 lDec72), authored by our office on Okinawa. The report concerns the publication and distributlon on Okinawa of anti-war literature. The teport contained a listing ofthe ad- 'does male radicals has meant a change in substance without a corresponding change in style, that is, a redistribution of wealth and power without questioning the value ôf social relationships mediated by power or ownership interests, then those male tadicals will be at odds with the view that calls for elimination of all.forms of power andownership. Perhaps the men Wanda- , ú child criticizes are threatened by thoughts such as those of Peggy Kornegger: "Traditional male politics reduces humans to object status and then dominates and manipulates them for abstract'goals. | \{omen, on the other hand, are trying to develop a consciousness of'Other' in all areas. Humaulty Houeer 475 \lf. Market St. We see subject-to-subject relationships . as not only desirable but necessary. . . When we say we are fighting patri- I believe in presenting m¡'bieliefs as radically., cogently;. and, ündogmatically as I can. If p'eoplB trust me,'they will gcqept my having those bèliefs; ' Ai for action,'I would not feel comfortable asking someone' to"aid.me until I had'helped w:ith fheir problems and . GARTNER patriarchfarticle IWIN, I /22 / 7 61, ànd. at the same time by argüments bY . archy, it isn't always clear to all of us that that means fighting all hierarchy, all leadership, all government, and the very idea ofauthority itself. . .Challenging sexism means challenging all hierarchy-economic, political and personal. And that means an ânarcafeminist revolution. " [From "Anarchism: The Feminist Connec- , ' feminists and others against organized soortS. This readins ofhis article and ifie aisument occuñed,while I was , watching the Steelers/Cowboys football eame l/25. Did any of you argue ábout the merits,of watching that game? What ' has been resolved as a result? Was it ¿i eood eame? Can a 'radical' watch such' ã soec"taclelor be a fan? How about the' battle of the sexes? Is there a movemqnf analogy with groups & fans & taking th{ field and competing? How about cooperation? Is IYIN-ning possible in the-face of patriarchy? Will G.M.W.'s & Bob Lamm's article [WIN, l/29/761 help keep the WIN sub swimming with feniinist support? What is the real, svmbolic &^dmotv sieniflcance of thè ¿oïce-is not enough"---victory for the Steelérs? possible explanation for this situation. If revolution defined by most _CTAIGGIÁSSNER 650 0167 72, in the ment on an.effort to ì9pp94 tle Walk especially as it passes through the various com. muníties on route-to Washingtoh, DC. I would liketo hearfrom all interested persons in the Indiana, Ohlo, Michigan area who would like to help organizing in our areas in support of the Walk. January 19,1976. Included with their letter was the report: a Department of Defense Intelligence Information Report -WIN Face feminist _I'AI\ I was intrieued bv Wandachild's 10012 M: SCrui¡,HAItrìÆR -RIJDOLÉH Headquarúers Office of Nowweknowwherewewèrel stfo.and be thereto guide others. Some will find the most sensible.routes. , Palo AIüri¡ Ca.. The report does not contain any othet information which is pertinent toyour tequest. That is neither, tffIN Magazine, nor Maris Cakars are mentioned in our report in the FBI files; except for the address of WIN, quoted above. The d wrNT T a I to be a i in Angþla MAJOR CARLOS WLSON i 1 I i I being used to hire mercenaries for duty in Angola and.that the US government is not emfloyingcivilian Vietnam veterans as mercenaiies'in Ãngola, it has long been known in the vet communitv that their services as mefcenaries are eagerly sought by several CIA front organizationî. Rirgola is merely the newest contract. A.civilian helicopter.company in Oakland, ^ California, was recently picketed by the VVÂW afte¡ discovery that the f irm was a CIA front hiring vet helicopter pilots for duty in Southeast Asia anií other duty assignments. Journals such as Soldier of Fortune have featured articles on the mechanics of.becoming-a mercenary in Africa, comptete with addresses of where to write and suggestions such as, "Don't forget to list medals recèlved for Viet. nam duty." J ames A. Scott of El Kamas Enterprises in Anaheim, California, a former Speciál Forces veteran and CIA mercenary himself, represents but one of several CIA fronts hiring Veis for mercenary duty. And the hiring is hardly secret: Scott is quoted as saying that, ãlthough in the past contracts were made in an underground matter, demand for coYnbat experts for duty in Latin American, Rhodesia añd Angola has reached such a {,ä t .-- activists who had grown politically dormant in the past years. Repeating the same steps taken for Armstrong's capture two years ago; the anti-war comm un ity formed a .Freedom com m ittee i m med iately following news of Fine's arrest. Wherl Fine returned tõ Madison five dayp fotl-rving'his capture, the committee, along with Fine's parents, Manuel and Ann Fine, had gãrnishdd enough support and testimony to persua-de Federal Magistrate'" '" ' Barbara ÖraËu to rearce uãil srré ãet itre f ieunã'at $30,000-a sum paid for by the committee änd a $25,000 mortgage on Manuel Fine's home. Magistrate Crabb released Fine on bail in the custody of J ames Roweri, once an anti-AMRC ac- Maior Ca¡los Wilson is the author of The TupaThe Unmentionables (Branden, 1974. ^Tritt @) , It is difficult to estimate the exact number of vets who have'been hired for mercenary duty because CIA f.ront companies contract in secrei, but a reasonable estimate is close to 125,000 over recent years for duty in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States itself . There are presently several húndred Vietnam veterans in Añgola,'with several hundred more scheduled for immediate departure. Denials by the White,Flouse and.góvernment âgencíes involved implies ihat; while such contractíng is not "approved" by thó government, no action is being or will be taken to stop the f low of vet mercenaries. Without doubt, the Vietnam veteran has beèn and continues to be the butcast of the ,70,s. ,¡Cl benefits" such as the educational bill, home loans and even hospital care at the VA hospital, are woef ully inadequate. Few vets desiiea delcome home parade,or even a simple "thank you,, for many ¡ecognize their error in serving in that unjustified war. But they quickly grow tired of hearing, "Serves them right."'Thev haveto hide the fact that they served in Vietnam if they want any chance for employment. $1200 to $1500 a month in mercenary pay becomes tempting under such rejectingconditions, especially for those long off the unemployme.nt benef it I i nes. and sti I I unem ployed. But I plead with all Vets not to forget the'vitál lessons learned from Vietnam, espeèiallv the lesson that "national interests" i4 that tiny nation meant the killing of old women anä-men, murder and even the wholesale slaughter of childrenl gang rapes, and the total destruction of a once beautiful land. "National interests,, in the case of Vietnam also meant the attempt to block the right to self-determination of the pe'ople of an entirenation who struggled for that very concept. Service in Angola will be no different nor will the return from Angola. The crimes against the people will be the same, âs wjll the crlme against yourself should you elect such duty. lt is not easy I realize for I too am a Vietnam veteran who múst go through the remainder of life praying and cryingTor forgiveness of my crimes. gut nõw is the time for the true test of the promises we made to ofrselves from Vietnam. RÅd for me, there is no unemployment period too long, not enough spit in America nor too many "Serves-you-right,, chants to force me to take up arms against thõie who struggle for self-determination. No offer of benefits can cause a change in my stand. t know tl.ris is equallytrue of lnost Vletnam vets, and I salute my sistêrs ánd brothers ryho share this stand. But for those who may find doubts, I plead with you to exercise your good judgement and reconsider; remember the promises to yourselves. lf you are approached by the "Merchants of Death,'¿ let the message ring loud and clear: There are still veterans whohave no price tag on their souls ! r-. o"u,d Fine. Photô froni , ass DRVID FINE '* i stant-to-the-mayor. fittã;Jutternpti tólecure retease met with iwo legal stumbling blocks. The first wãs'an attempt by the FBI and the US attorney to appeal Magistrate Crabbs decision to réduce bail. The other was a move by an office-sêeking District Attorney who had Fine rearrested on state charges only twenty minutes after he was freed on bail from Federal charges. The Magistrates decision, however, was upheld, and the state iudge-released Fineon $75,000 recognizance bond. Fine's release is his first legal victory, and one that lends strong credibility to an anti-war movement that for so long battled a system that perpetuated the war in Vietnam. Fine, a long-time activist with SDS both at his Wilmington, Del. high school and on the Madison campus, sgid that üii óõùtìããi peisôect¡ue hasn't alterda niuêtr during his life underground. "ln the era of Victory. of the Vietnamese, Americans no longer trust a governmentwhich waged genocide in lndochina ãnd has lied to the people about the war, Watergate and the ClA, among other things," Fine said. .'Due to this mistrust, and the lessons we learned in the anti-war movement, I feel there is great potential for significant social change in the US." The Fine defense will be under Atty. James M. CRPTURED N CRLIFORNN JAN FATLER J i I tivist, friend and co-worker of Fine on the UW student paper, the Daily Cardinal, and his wife, Susan McCovern, daughter of Sen. Ceorge McCovern. Rowen now works in Madison as t"Uî,i"' Five and a half years have passed since the August 24,1970 early morning bombing of the nr'my Math Research Center (AMRC) on the Univêrsity of Wisconsin Madison campus. Five and a half years, plus one long, political mitigation that ended in the conviction on second-degree murder charges of bomber Karlton Armstrong, presently serving a 23-year sentençe. ' Now, with theãrrest in California of David Fine, anothei trial is being readied in Madison. Twentythree-vear-old Fine is the second of four personÞ ¡nd¡ctéd by a Federal Grand J ury in connection with the AMRC bombing to be broughtto trial. The bombing-a political act in"protest of genocidal war research carried on by the centeriesulted in the accidental death of a'physics researcher, Robert Fassnacht, despite a prior warning asking policeto clear the buildine. The other tw-o persons involved, Dwight Armstrong, younger brother of Karlton, and Leo Burt, are still at-large. -f-¡nã, appearing considerablymore aged than the 18-yeâi-old boyish face that ha's for five years decorated the FB!-Ten-Most-Wanted list, was taken into custody by two Federal agents on JanuaryT,in San Rafael, Calif., where he had been livinÉ under the name of William James Lewes, and ðollecting unemployment insurance. Bail was initially set at one million dollars. . I The irews of Fine's arrest set a tremor of activity within the Madison community, bringing together left¡si splinter groups and drawing ouf anti-war 1 Shellow, an excellent criminal trial lawyer who has ' an Faller is a student and f ree-lance writer living n Mad i son, ùl i sconsi n. to his record the defense of the Camp McCoy Three and anti-wrar activist Father J amès Croppi. Facing seven state cha¡ges and five Federal charges, which could carry up to two life terms plus additional penalties, Fine has pleaded inno- ¡ cent. The Federal trial is set for May 17th. Local support for Fine has been heavy among community groups for whom opposition to AMRC war invofvement has become a cause. The Daily Cardinaldonated $5,000 to his defense and pledged full support. Fine, meanwhile, has reacquainted himself with Madison, and reintegrated himself into the community working hard to make his bail freedom permanent freedom. CONTACT: David Fine Freedom Committee Box 93 Madison, Wisc.53701 wlN9 Cartoon by Nuez/C.ramma/LNS. i t¡ the role of the Socialists: L I PORTTJGAT S POLITICAL DRAMA to'*n"n ist clilemma. These men, accorcling to CunhaRego, belong to the ClA. " l have never read betr i"i?Tutvsut'ót tf'" Portuguese situation than those macle bV the ClA," he said. "They are the ¡ srnartest nten l have ever met. Despife its image in the West, the Portuguese Socialist Party was not a powerf ul f.orce when the Ãi.ed Forces Movemeni, in rebellion against the .otot ¡ut wars in Af rica, overthrew the old regime ãÁ Árriil 25,1974. Cunha-Rego conf ided that the oortu ttaA otnlv 227 members at the timé' Yet he i,iãli-un¿ this is apparently the guiding concern ol ther Socialist leadership-that only their party. ;;,;i¡ ttr;" of f a f ascist reaction, like that in Chile' The Communist Party and the olÉer Iett groupings moved too fast, he stated, arousing and threatening the real right. Tl'Íis strategy of forming a center bloc in a polarizing atmosphere from a position of cirganizational weakness is what led the Socialist leãders to Kissinger's door, "The CIA has not been very active in Portugal, unlike they are in Spain," Cunha-Rego declared. (Since my meeting with Cunha-Rego, the Associ-. ated Press has reþorted that the CIA haS funneled $10 million a month since J uly,1975 through European Social Democratic.sources to ' Westein the Portuguese Socialist party.) He added that the CIA is "working very hard against Franco [This the cotrrrtrY Cr.¡n ha-Rego is a highly influential Socialist. He irlt'nt if ies himself as being on the right wing of the p arty During a four hour d iscussion at his home plained his strategy for I tì micl-september, he EX the party, which gener al ly has been presented in x 'rt- the Western Pres s as the democratic alternative to a Comm unist dictator ship . "My big disillusionment wi th America was K issinger, " he said "Mario Soares and l had twg meeting s with him in Washington.' ' The details of these encounters, one lasting 20 minutes and the other a half hour, were not publi cly reported. They apparentl v occurred in 1974 when Soares was Foreign M tn i ster Cunha-Rego states that al though he and Soares tried to exp lain to Kissin ger the n ecessity of Ameri can support for th err pos ition, he was " rude ." Cunha-Rego believes that the US Secretary of State was Person ally unimpressed with Soares and definitelY ml ffed that Portuga l's Foreign Minister did not speak Enelish. Kissinger told his visitors that he had met with Ceneral S¡rin ola, who had made a favorable impression because he is "a strong man " The Socialist pet itioners left the American caP itol in dismaY -lhere are,,however, Americans Pos sessing the Socialpol itical soPhi stication to comPrehend the Sirl Blumenthal is a contributing editor of the [J WIN I 11 I I I \ families are threatened by the expanslon. This struggle haS been well publicized on TV and in the pressln 1975 but nothing will bedone until the i976 elect¡on ' The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (a riew WRI section) is giving the farmers i: support. Several other,areas are threaiened by militar!' plans as Swedeh spends 10,000 million Krona on defense per year placing her third or fourth in defense expenditure per c4pita for nation states. ln Belgium a similar struggle has been going on for severàl years against a camp of 3,000 hectares in Marche-ån Femmne, a region in Southern Belgium which is best knqwn for its beautìful forests ãnJ iarrnland. Here 67 peasanEformed GACIM (Action Group Against the Militåry Cámp Con\ struction). ln 1972, after a meetirìg with the peasants the decided the Minister of the Army, carnp expansion was unnecessary becausÞ many bases in Belgium are empty and unused. When they called for support to save their land, many of the traditional peasant syndicates and trade unions refused. Because of the ecohomic situation in the rural area the local authorities and administration accepted, the base construction and iotA tn"ir land immädiaiely to the government (the same land they had previously bought by taxing the peasants). So legal and parliamentary actioñ was difficult from the very beginning. Direct action was necessary to make their plight 100 The orobleÀs of farmers and peasants are well- ' Lnovün ánd similar all ovêr thd world: state and toroorute land grabbing; the rising cost of seed, I a eoúipment, and= fertilizer; the difficulty of getting wäter and proper irrigation assistance ' . . Recentlv. however, farmers and peasants in many c'ountries ar'e facing a new difficulty, the expaniioì of mllitarv carñps and bases onto their land' i¡yrrãirr"i itll for a firing range in Sweden, a helicopter training base in Texas, an air base in Micronesia, or an urban guerilla counter-insurn"nìu bàse'in Southern Flance, the military of any ãounirv can, with little effort or parliamentary resistance. ûprootthose living in the areato carry their death dealing and death training. out - -Þðuiánts and farme-rs rarely have enough power or confidence to fight huge military power. When resistance does apþear, the government steps.in and promises comþensations which are sometimes ñôi Jelivered or are only token amounts..lf the . r"tittãn." continues thé government and the militarv will use anv means in their arsenalto win eipans¡on. Rurâl people with little support from ifrå outs¡Ue world br little understanding of the öoi¡i¡ãt ¡nuolved, give up, try to find a home close or move to a large city' bv -'Èo*"ue., in thelast sbveral years, more and .o,'ã farmers are resisting lanci expropriation by people äovernment and military. More and more to enemy an as military see the to ãre beginning their uäry suivival. ln some cases peasants are ôubliclv äuestioning not only why world powers *t o aré tälk¡ng about "peace and detente" should be incrãasing miiitary facilities and U"ã""ti.-U"t also wñv a miliiary should be nee$ed at aä, Pácifism is the logical extention of thèir' developing anti-militarism, so nonviolent i*¡riáäce-ttas become the technique of struggle' Sustai ned.nonviolent struggle by f armers the militarv has reachêd full reality only "nã¡ttrtl-ãrtuc plateãu in Southern France' ln other oñifrã ãt"ãipu¡¡umäntarv politics are being tried, in of üiiõt[ãtt, violent i'esistance. But the struggles ihose us¡ná either parliamentary politics or violence have-not continued or sustained their strugtói ã"ãitended period. -elËÀinã..ere in Västergotland; Sweden, the *¡lita.v obiainêd the lanä for extqnsion before the iô.ái péøe knew enough to organìze a campaign' . The exor'opriation was sanctioned by the governru"i á'i *äll as the military. Now the people in . ihái;;u are desperatelv tiyingto organize and , have hired the famous Swedish lawyer, Henning to work on their case. Siostorm. -'Âi stiiiineard (also in Sweden) a campaign has Ue"n ãoiná õn foi several yea.rs-tP stop a f iring. i"nn"-rrotñ beins construited. The range would amoînt to anothér 8,000 hectares on top of {,000 *n¡.ft the military aiready has in that area' Over , to o o q o Bv GraiÉ Simpson ,l I i I 1l Craig Siinpson is a former staft member of .the War Resiste r s I nter national. known. ín lgi zcAcl M members' chai ned t'hemselves to the parliament tq publiðize their çause. Soon afterward they turned their cows loose during a soccer match in Anderlecht Football stadium. ln \ 1973, during a-dock strike in Anvers, they showed their solidañty by sending farmänd milk products to the strike fund trying to gain a broader audience and support workers in similar situations. Their tast démonstration was held in May,1i975, when 900 people working against the 30 million Belgian Franc purchase of a fighter plane rnuËh"d w¡th dhe peasants in the city gf Mârcheen-Femmne to show joint support for their causes. The latest word, however, is that the peasants have just about given up. This happened for a variefy of reasons: the lack of support frorn a large cross section of the Belgian population, the pressures and intimidation by the government and the military to get off the land, a brqakdown in group unity, problems of ideological differences' , l¡ Texas, the farmers of Cattesville áre rel-ying aimost completely on mobilizing support in the Senate and Housé. The group formed to stop the expansion of Ft. Hood, the largest military trainin! camp in the world, is called "Our Land, Our Liües."'Îhe two div.isíons and helicopter brigade stationed there feel crowded. 25,000 hectares of land isn't enough; the army wants 24,000 more. "According to Paul Allen Williarns of theWar Resi sters Läãg ue South Central reg ion al off ice which is working to build support for Our Land-,. Our Lives, "Thõexpansion is unnecessary and is a further example of wasteful military çpending in addition to escalating the capacity for violence ard threatening our security.í' ; Our Land, Our Lives has gotten support from bank presidônts, the Çhambèr of Comr.nÊrce*and ' 'others who are working together to swing su¡iport of Senators and Congressfolks. The.group is inaking every attempt not to be red-bajted and has avoided making any strong anti-militar¡st state' * ments or seekiñg súpport lrom the pacif ist community. lh'ey arè now waiting for Congress's " ' response. . Across the seas in the Micronesian lslaù of Tinian, the US Air Force hàs been interested since uav, igzz in Luildine a huse $144.6 million milítary base and supply complex. "US Iand ræeds are extbnsive. . . so much so that we feel we should ácquire the Northern % of thê island for military puiposes. We feel we should 4!so ask ¡o acquire ihe Southern third, but would make this part of the island availablô to current residents fôr normal . , wlN WIN : áit¡u¡tiãJana cornrnrnüv iiiã," accotding to Frank Hayden Williams, chief American spokesman, ?s quóted in RECON (summarized from the Friends oÏ Micronesia Newsletter). "The'people of Tinian, many,of úvhom had préviously welcomed the proóóects of limited military presence on their island are 'visibly angry,' according to administration spokesman FrankChong. lmmediately . following'the announcement, signs opposing militarv plans began to appear. Former Mayor Joe Crúzsaid, 'l have always been quoted as being pro military, but moving San Jose'[where the en- : tire population livesl is ioo much: . .-' Felipe . :' : Atal.ig, a member pf the Congress of Micrciäësia '' 'sa¡d ñé doubted the people would allow themselves to become virtual peons on their own lahd, j. ,'l 'as US proposals would'have it.' ! points out that Palau from "Onä Cöngressman some of the proposed military uses for Tinian may, i:i: i be a 'smoke-screen' for taking attention away '.''li from Cuam and Palau. The US made public in August 1972, plans to take over 2ïo/o of Palau for a Maiine guerilia base, airfield and 'storage facili' ty.' Theie is almost universal opposition to bases on the part of Palauans." In Siotland there are pnoiests against Amqrican Polaris bases; in the South coast of England, i people have been trying for years to retrieve land .,. iakén from them bylhe mil¡tary in World War ll; and there is military camp resistance in several places in West Cermany. Fut the country where camp extention has become a major issue is France. The center of these struggles is Larzac, a large plateau in the Southèrn part of the country where peasants and farmers have been resisting the expansion of a French military training camp since 1970. The-ir, ' creative nonviélent acti-ons häve clven strengih , .' and encouragement to peasants fn Fontevraud, 12 :i' 13 i ,t Friche, and Riversalites to begin or continue '. ' resistahce. The Larzac peasanls have also supported people resisting construction of nuclear bower ólants and ski résorts in the same wäy. The Larzac'struggle has lasted longer and has been' ' much morel-uccessful because of : 1) their use of creative, imaginative nonviolent tactics; 2) the growing suppbrt of a wide variety of groups and individuals'lôcally, regionally, nationally and nôW internationally; and ¡Itheir continued and , developi n g anti-m i I itarist perspective. Whdn tñe Minister of Dêfenle in France an- ' 'nounced the intention of the government tô expand the small training camp on the plateaÛ fiom 3,000 hectares to 15,000 hectares, the. peâsantsof the region were unorganized andtconfused. While attemþting legal channels they met peasants from other äreai wñose land was expropriated by the - military,.,These peasants told of the government's ' picketing." "Who does Kissinger think he's fooling? Not the MPLA.' house and slightly inluring him, his wife and seven children, Cuiraud was at the point of fear ánà-àetoài. ána *às about to give iñ to the militarv oressure after f ive years of struggle..But thouiands of oeople from all over France éent chairs, tables, mattiesses, plates, and cups as well as monev and food. The 100 support committees throughout France held a national day of support for the Larzac peasants in almost every major city in France. Even one of the country's leading ln a nearbv church hall the marchers heard Wirk messages of iupport from local groups. Creetings were eichanged, poems read. The local committee-WlLPF, WRL and the lnstitute for ï the Studv of Nonviolence-had worked hard to provide more food than could be eaten and more rhe ConriNENTAl \\Alk im Pnlo Alro architects has volunteered to help rebuild the damaged house. Cuiiaud announced that he would stay because he saw how important his struggle was not only to the small group of peasants on the Larzac but to ir'ö"ehout'all of France. 'öuóóìã Nbw the Larzac resisters are not working against the military just to keep their land and sñeep as during the early stages in their strugþle. . February 11. The ContinentalWalk is proceeding from Castroville to Monterey, heading for Loè Angeles. Five Japanese Buddhists have joined the Wàlk as representatives of the Japanese peace movement and will continue with it to Washington, DC. The most serious incidentthus tar occurred near Cotati, Ca., when a shot-gun was brandished trom a passing truck. That area is the home of the rightwingvigilante group. Our thanks to Steve Ladd tor helping us to keep our r'eaders posted on the walk's progress and to Michael Berkowitz who filed this report from Palo Alto aÍter the Walkpassed ihrough on February 3. Posse Comitatus, a d,rt -wiN t Marchers at the National Day of Support Larzac, Paris, May ,1975. Photo by Craig Simpson. compensation promises that never came. They . saw quickly thàt no helpwas forthcoming from the authorities'. When Lanzo del Vasto began speaking in churches and community centers on the Llrzacabout nonviolence as a creative force for social change the peasants became interested. ln the following years the actions of the 103 p"ãruntr drew inlei'est and suppdrt from French beople in all walks of life. [See WIN 10 /1O/74 and 1/3O/T5.lThousands of people have become attiacted to their cause and related their struggles to the Larzac fight. Conservationists, opponents of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, tax refusers who give 3o/o of their refused taxes to ihe Larzac, pacifiõts and anti-militarists. Trade Unionists, peasant leaders, and a large group of leftist organizations have held solidarity actions. Outside support gives the peasants the encouragement to continue ¡n ¡ãid March, 1975 abomb went off at the door of Augusté Cuiraud, destroying a large part of the 14 WIN for They have come to see the military as an instrumeni of illegitimate power-as an oppressor and invader not-only on the Larzac but throughout France and in the Third World. They are now encouraging resistance to the military and some of the peasants have burned their military papers. They have also gone to other military camps and met peasants in the surrounding areas who want to keep their land. They have talked to them about nonviolence and the need for resistance to the military and have organized support for them from all over the country So a victory in Larzac could be important, not only for a small group of Franch peasants, but it couid give hope io peasants and farmers throughout the world as they str:uggle for a society in which they are no longer the victims of mass society and mass neglect. Demonstrations, vigils, letters to the French, President are all ways of giving support. But we also have to begin to make onã, two. . . many Larzacs throughout the world. * i ; . :4 iiterature than could be read. The march didn't seem to'be a singing : march-maybe a chanting march. The five' Buddhist priests had kept up a steady chant as they watkäd. Their presence was inspirational: l¡ a foreign land, unable to speak the language, they remaintd friendly, helpful and courteous. The Buddhists brought with them gleetings and a message of solidarity from the mayor of Hiroshima. At the evening meeting we were shown a film which documented the tragedy and horror of the .atomic attack on Hiroshima. How'ironic that the President who ordered the nuclear.bombing is now celebrated as a folk hero How sad that the current President has endorsed the policy of first strike. lf they could see the film, the destruction of human life, would they change their minds as march sponsor Daniel Ellsberg had changed his? The next morning the marchers tobk up the of- i fensive against the wçapons industry. The strip between Palo Alto and San Jose is so crowded with Depa'rtment of Defense welfare corporationS that it is a veritable research, development and manufacture shooting gallery. Continental Walkers and members of the Mid-Peninsulâ Reconversion Project walked through the early chill and fog to greet r¡iorkers with an informational piCketfas t-hey arrived at Lockheed's Palo Alto research facility. Next, busy intersections.and a; i large shopping plaza in an adjacent town ivere leafletted. And a huge model of the Trident was the center for a demonstration in Sunnyvale, where the submarine was designed. The march has gone now, headed South. But hopefully some oflts spirit will linger. The Walk i9:-' '; ' :': nðt a sixties counter-cultural festival. The constituency seems a little more maturef more experienced, maybe more committed, but also realistic. "Are you going all the way to Washington?" I asked one marcher. "Well; I don't know. f 'll try, l'll go as far.as I pan." The numbers, at least right now, are smallerthan expected. That may cha¡ge. But this is a time for winter soldieis. A time to iorge alliances and build, learn from 1, example and then act. We must push on international and national fronts, but not ignore com. munity and personal growth, as the halcyon sixties so often did. As the marchers filed away, I felt a strong urge to join them. Two miles. . .why I could walk for. . . But that would ignore the work that remains within reach, and that is one of the lessons of the march. Let us continue in their spirit. We may not all go to Washington, but then there is much to do in our own,neighborhoods, in our own lives. -Michael Berkowitz The Continental Walk came thrgugh Palo Alto this week. Down a part of Steinbeck's El Camino Real, the main traff ic route between San Francisco and San Jose,.California, marched almost a hundred women and men, children and adultS, whites and people of color. They moved deliberately. Past the golden arches and the gas pumps, the Safeways and the freeways; over the concrete, by the leveled orchards where now only apartment houses grow. People turned their heads,.read the signs, accepted literature.. Some honked, waved-other shôok fists. "You left wing communists! " screamed one irate man out of his speeding car's window. A marcher turned smiling to her companion: "Left wing communists?" The nieht was spent in Palo Alto, sharing dinners and conversation with families throughout the qommunity. News and views were'widerangling, the words reflected commitmènt, awarenesi.,"We're just going to Santa Cruz.l" (/ust one hundred\miles! ). "We took the kids out\of school for a week, took vacation a little early." "lf the [Cal iforn ia] leg i slature doesn't appropriate more money for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, .,u the farmworkers may have to take their struggle back into the streets-continue the boycotts and , 1 wtN 15 ChnN slTTtft'tfl ù: Ë t JAILED' " ti" AN OCC SIONAL COTUMN Ot{ NOf{V!OLEi{CE 800 word contrtbutlons øre lnvlted from readers MARIAN HENRIQUEZ NEUDEL pacifism in American physical force of fear, greed and bloody-mindedheés, andthe moral for'ce of pacifism. The police in Chicago in 1968 may have whistled "Hi-ho,. hi-ho, it's off to work we go," on theif way to the Hilton, as,one story alleges-but they also felt Bob is one of thre sPeake¡s. During his speech he says, "Lef's bring the goddman war ho¡e and begin they were defending a profoundly threatened way of life. Without that moral fervor, they might have been a lot less enthusiastic. And this in turn explains why so much attention is given to eúents that can be interpreted as badguÍ provocation-sometimes to thê point even of either rigging the event from behind the scenes, or fabricating it out of whole cloth (viz. the Tonkin Culf incident, the Maine, and the alleged Plot to Assassinate Everybody in Chicago in 1968). lt might also have a lot to do with the disproportioñate attention paid to black-on-white assaults and robberies, again often to the point of outright a,q fabrication. Such an emphasis requires a corresponding de-emphasis on our piovocative acts I (e.å. call¡ru off thè 1956 electioiis in Vietnam). ln sholt, good-guy violence not only facilitates dishonesty, it requires it. ln manycases, those at the top of viole¡t structures in this country have no good-guy illusions whatever, But therr find it convenien! tg use the moral fervor of those who will actually have to give up their money, their energy, their children, or their lives: and in order to do this thev must nourish popúlar illusions. Every way, in'cluding the "war on crime," must be made to look like a war even a pacifist could fight in. Then the pacifist who still obstinately and perversely refuses to fight in it must be discredited, portrayed as a blind idealist, or a hypocrite with some ulterior motive (like the secret hope that The Other Side dealing seriously with the Prob' iems which confront us here.". After his speech he is sitting on the grass with friendS when he is attaðked from behrind by six plaih . clothed òops. They start hauling him away, he struggles to get loose; initant rocks an.d bottles; instant attack by 100-200 riot police; instant riot. Sound , willwin). -.'itiói"î"."ntly, I of course, this whole s/et of fabrications hab become more transparent. lt is no indignation - never, plain ordinary blood-lust, greed, or even fear. On the level.of national þolitics, we have entered wars in the same spirit. Wilson and Lyndon Johnson probably felt it per. fectly consistent to avow peaceable intentións during their electioneering and then to go war a!most immediately afterwards because "they forced -Wh"tus." í; really äangerous about good'guy viol lence, of course, is that it harnesses both the 16WtN longer a striking revelation thât "fight¡ng for peace is like scréwing for virginity;" and "Father .Mother, the fighting chaplain" has become a butt of well-deservéd humor. But nobody yet has done a movie or TV show about the hundreds of un. known ex-soldiers who will never soldier again because they have seen human faces where faceless targets i¡sed to be. Until one of these hits the sçreen, we will still, as a nation, not have Iearned the lessons of Vietnam. Bob Canney ís now.doing time in t Florida for yet another of the police caused..i'riots" of the antiVietnam warYears. The:time is April 18,1970, Straub Park, St. Petersburg, Fla' Over 1,000 people are gathered from al'l.over Florida; the first state wide effort to protestthe war and a large scale joining of the anti-war and black movements' Photo of Märtin Sostre f rç¡n the Martiiì Sostre Defense Committee/LNS 'I ,\ MARTTN SOSTRE RELEASED familiar? Rally organizers believe provocateurs were Planted in the ðrowd.' The city council had oassed a citv oidinancé one week before the rälly making public profanity illegal. CanneY and , others were arrested and manY people got clubþed. His original. charge of profanity was droPPed but a felony resisting arres't '' chargq was kept. He was tl¡ed in Septlrgzo and sentenced to an indeterminate 6 mo.'to two Years : ' ge.mb]vryo.mgn Marie Ru¡yon old Daniel Berri*tro joined with Father chairDavis,as ossie and v"iL þan To Free people Committee of the in " oriSon.. ä"*¡i}-HueÏ Cã."tát iVait¡n Sostre. Nobel Peacé Prize Ãi'tñ. t.i"l ào defense wit- ì ' Christmas time. was liåur"d called on Andrei Sakharov winner hesses were allowêd by the iudeé i#iää;üå"i"'Ëi¡tãii¿ãiAuv, " 'because their names had nöt been I Martin free to Carev Covernor g, hJ ueãà rgzo. $;il" Ëãü. men submitted ten days in advance' rãiu¡nâ a21toEO year*Jentðnce Sostre " . ' iR the name of all world the women throughout and From 1970 until last fall there since his conviction ¡" f-.gOfiäi tfre for their imprisoned various appeals and reiecwere heroin.. räiãäi Srs "-'S,.rlpãä"tsoi conviction!' ' ". "f Sottte's clemency tions. ln addition, CanneY lost his -' job as an instructor at the UniMartin Sostre's str:ength and U¡i ¡íä"¿Là n-nesfv ¡ÃtË;äcarried him through versity of Florida. äiäi:',[hi;í''üä'd;i";"ã him a courase Canney was iailed Nov. 26, 1975 Ëiirõíul. of Conscieni;'';¡,t't-' eleven beatings in the New York over four Prison going to court for a "seni State system, after uut hi; ¿;i."i, iò; ilil;à;;t ä; ñ;ìd;;;;;äi W"ll àr-¡1uny years of solitary confinement and - tence reduction hearihg." Cannev's brothêr, retired US Air tã"eihe liom Rneela Dãvis manv death threats' ;i'd;; Èori"-Vaior Herbert CanneY of iã jËãn Þá-ri s"attru. NY-State As- Free Martin Sogtre St. Petersburg, telegrammed , :. wrN Maitin Sostre, the 52 year UläiË, p-¡"-öhi.un õ.ironur iåäã¡ìË¿-.-1"ãä"iîiärnÑ"* ' . ' 1Z ; . -l'.', ' -..? Cov. Reubin Askew asking that his brother be pardoned , or " at least given time to put his affairs inbrder, like they did with the Watergate defendents. " Unsuccessful attemPts have been made since to get him out on bond. The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. Mrs. Canney is asking Cov. Askew to empanel a grand jury to investigate the conspiracy of law enforcement agencies which set uP the original riot. Meanwhile, Bob's other brother, Vincent, was arrested in late Dec. for distributing "Come Unity," an underground paper with articles about his brother's case. A'defense committee continues to gain momentum and legal actions continue. For more information contact the Bob Canney Support Committee, PO Box'1463, CainesVille, Fla. 32û2. Write to Bob Canney, O27953, at Avon Park "Correctional lnstitution," PO Box'1100 Avon Park, Fla. 1 33825 - Bob Freeston NUCLEAR INIT¡ATIVE Californians concerned about the dangers of nuclear power develooment have succeeded in qualifying the Land Use, Nuclear Power and Safeguards Act for the November ballot. The initiative would forbid anY new cónstruction of nuke plants in California until 1) either existing federal law limiting the utilities' liability is changed or'the utilities agree to waive any limitations of their liability, and 2) a legislative de' termination has been made that the plants are substantially safe. Existing plants and those now under construction will be Permitted to remain in operation while the consideration of safetY goes on, but will be closed down after five years if one and two above have not been met. Since tÈe AEC, the utilities and the nuclear industry advertised widely during the sixties that safetv oroblems were solved and there ¡i no danger from nuclear power plants (they now admit that 18WtN many claims were untrúe), all the initiafive demands is that they According to the suit, the local physicians have pressured three show by 1981 that they have ac- doctors to terminate their em- quit their $30,000 to $40,000-ayear jobs and'volunteered to work Tallahassee have definitely decreased over the year because of the women's health center. "lt is evident," Linda Curtis of ployment with the center, and I complished what they claimed they had in 1965. -NeilFullagar some of them say they would deny backup medical treatment for women in emergency situations. Many womenuse the ôervices THREE ENGINEERS offered by the Women's Choice SAY NO TO NUKES Clinic rather than the independent physicians. Even one of the opThree managing engineers at Ceneral Electric's nucle4r reactor' posing doctors has admitted that second-tri mester abortions i n plant in San Jose, Calif . have for the anti-nuke movement in California. Together they had Put in a total of 54 years with CE. They announced their decision at a press conference Feb. 2 in San Francisco. Cregory Minor, one of the three said: "My reason för Ieaving is a deep conviction that nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons present a serious danger to the future of all life on this planet." Dale Bridenbaugh, another, commented: "From what l've seen, the magnitude of the risks and the uncertainty of the human factor and the genetic unknowns have led me to believe there should be no nuclear power." Richard Hubbard, the third, remarked: "l am now convinced that there is no way you can continue to build (nuclear) plartts'and operate them without having an accident." Each cited different incidents or problems which led to their decision to quit. These included lndia's nuclear test, the health effects of radiation, the US decision to sell reactors to lsrael and Egypt and the severe accidental fire last year at the world's largest reactor complex in Brown's Ferry, Alabâma. _Jim peck FLOR¡DAWOMEN'S CIINIC SUES DOCTORS The Tal lahassee Femin ist Women's HealtÉ Center has filed suit against several local physicians whom Center members believe have conspired to put the clinic out of business and monopolize women's health care ín their community. the Feminist Women's Health Center wrote in the paper Herself, "that the medicäl community sees us as 'competitors' they would like to do away.with. Because this seriously endangers our survival, and therefore women's health in this community, wê have no choice but to view this as an attempt to seize control over womenls health care fortheir own prof it. "We have filed suit," Curtis continued, "because this -monopolistic behavior has expressed itself in a manner that not only violates our rights as women anci as consumers to own and operate a needed medical facility, but also we believe it violates the law." ._rilS 'to accept the contract, rêading specialists wrote up a statement on the lack of reading programs, atleast one burglary committed several years amongst the Arabs, by the CIA employees. I know them to be amongst the The Criminal Division is also most racist people on earth.This said to be investigating forrner and there was much all-around 'is particularly true of their atti' CIA director Richard Helms for heated debate. : tude towards Black people. No r po'S'sible perj ury,before the Senate "We didnrt lose on education one know'S this better than Black Forqign Relations Committee in issues," summed up;Wells, "we Africans living along the edges of just didn't gain. All along the 1973. the Sahara. The J ustice Department wiil union leadership had tolil us, Many Arab families that c{n afhave to hurry, however, if it wants ford to, keeþ one or two black 'we're standing firm.' They didn't to prosecute former director say, 'oh no, we're not going tg be slaves to do their menial labor. Helms on a possible charge of able to get this;' and so we were Sometimes they own an entire * authorizing illegal burglary; the all surprised by the terms of the family. I have seen iuch slaves five year statute of limitations for contract. ' ' with my own eyes. Once I pressed that charge expires some,time in The strike remained strong. an Algerian official for an exthroughout its eight weeks. Somq,' , Fe^.b¡uarv planation of the status of these . -tNS 93o/o of teachers and paraprofes- 't people, and he ended up describsionals stayed out èonsistäntty, ing a complicated form of indenand there were often more than tuied servitude. The conversation 1500 people at a time on picket broke up when I told him that it ELDRIDGE CLEAVER duty, despite massive fines levied was nothing but a hypocritical oN ztoNlsM on bpth the union and all form of slavery:' individualteachers. I have the deepest sympathy for Eldridge Cleaver, who has recently Fines against the union, returned to the US and is now in a the Palestinian people in their totaling $105,000 are still in efsearch for justice, but l, see no net California prison awaiting trial, fect, but Allegheny Court of Comgain for freedom and human dighas bitterly accused the Arab mon pleas J udge Donald Zieger people of being "amongst the nity in the world if power blocs, admitted soon after the,strike was most racist people on earth.'1 . because of their ability to underover, that there was no way that write sãgging economies for a Cleaver, who spent several the individual fines could be colyears in Algeria, condemned the season, are able to ram through lected. the UN resolutions repuþnant to campaign to equate Zionism with All 4,400 teachers and pararacism, declaring that "Jews have hu'man reason and historicalfact. professionals are now back in tþe The combination of Communist not only suffered partlcularly from , schools, but already, the Boarrd of racist persecutio¡r, they have done dictatorsh ip, theocratic Arab dicEducation has announced that tatorships, and economically more than any other people in there will be lavoffs-the rumored dependent Black African dictatorhistory to expose and condemn figure is 200- in the f uture. - LNS racism. ships are basically united intheir l opposition to the democratic Following are excerpts from forces inside their own borders. Cleaver's statement on Zionism This gives them a lot in common and Arab racism: J USTTCE DEPARTMENT WtLL and lots of room and motivation to Two aspects of the recent UN NOT PROSECUTE THOSE IN. wheel and deal amongst resolution labelling Zionism as , VOLVED IN CIA themselves. But it,is not a com-' racist both shocked surprised and ASSASSINATION PLOTS bination deserving of respect by me. Shocked becauseofall the The US government has decided people in the world, the J ews have people from Countries enjoying that proiecution of those involved not only suffered particularly from democratic liberties and traditions in CIA assassination plots in the racist persecution, they have done of freedom. lt is a combination past amounts to "a dry hole," acthat must be struggled against. more than any,other people in It mäy seemLrarãdoxical thåt I cording to one J ustice Department history to expose and condemn write source close to the investigation. these woids from a prisoir'* . racism. Cenerations of Jewish The CIA is known to have been social scientists anä scholars have cell in California. I am certainly not a stranger to racisìn- I have involved in assassinatiorl plots labored long and hard in every personally experienced it in the against at least three heails of field of knowledge, from anthroghettoes and prison yards of state: FidelCastro in Cuba, pology to psychology, to lay bare America. But I häve also perPatrice Lumumba in the Congo, and refute all claims of racíal insonally shared the experience of and Rafael Trujillo in the Dominiteriority and superiority. To concan Republic. demn the J ewish survival doctrine thousands of men and women now The J ustice Department says of Zionism as racism, is a travesty languishing in the prisons of Communist and Third World that it is still leaving open investiupon the truth. gations of more mínor CIA illegal countries. The cause of democracy Secondly, I am surprised that and freedom can best be served' açtivities, including the Agency's the Arabs would choose to eistabwhen men and women speak out 20-year program of opening lish a precedent condemning rac'foreign mail entering the US; against the forces that seek to ism because it can so easily and nullify them, even if this means more than 60 wiretaps and bugs righteously be turned against used illegally by the Agency; and them. Having lived intimately for speaking out from a prison cell. , t" EIGHT WEEK IONC PITTSBURGH TEACHERS STRIKE ENDS A miiitant, two-month long teachers' strike in Pittsburgh, Pa. ended suddenly J anuary 26 with a 1,4&6to 657 vote to accept the proposed contract and go back to work. . . l'lt was really a split vote," commented Cindy Wells, a first grade teacher active in the strike. "Almost.a third of the membership voted against the contract. We got a fairly good financial settlement, but we stood still on everything else. " "Everything else" included demands for more reading programs, smaller class size, and more job security for young teachers. During the stormy six-hour meeting in which teachers discussed whether or not . -News Desk Wll'\ 1(l sçem arbitlafy,.neither necessarily the most active nor the,best known., The-wqrnenas health book and periqdical ,liqt. is also'arbifr4ry, .incqmplete and much too brief . As an introduction¡ however, it would ,serve at least to jive you an idea of what the , Women's health movement was about. (The New Women's Suruival Sourcebook's sectiqn on . Women's health. i,s a much more comprehensive and useful listingof both groups and rgsourcês.,), Most groups listed in the 11 sections of Organizing .for Health,Care are not specifically involved in healtñ . l;, ' I i: , :': t | ! groups and centers.organlzing around specific concerns (such as,AlM¡ Black Panthers,' National Sharecroppers, Gr.ay Panthers, Daughters of Bilitis, etc.). ln the introduction the authors state they are not'. ..,trying to be comprehensive, but to "assist the people chal lenging outmoded and oppressive i nstitutions. " Their role is as a resource and'information tool and this they, have accomplished. . A warning,to readers of this as of other similar Source Catalog 3: ORGANIZINC FOR'HEA¡JTH CARE,aToolforChange The Source Collective Mass. 11974 / $5.95 / Beacon Press " ri' / . Boston, Orgànizing for Health Care is an excellent introduction to some of the political issues of health care in the US. The book is organized into 11 sections.ranging from "Community Health Organizi¡g," "Hospitals," and "Women's and Third World Health" to "Occupational Safety and Health," and 1'Health Financing and Planning." Each section starts with a strong analysis of the problems in each area, a platform for change and specific ways chgnge can be implemented. lt then lists specific groups, books, publications and audiovisuals concerned with the . *.i¡ 1 j ì l l I i I ì l 1i 1i rl I I same issue. The message of the book is that total restructuring of eur health services should take place in order to meet people's needs. The program the authorsl , propose, though, concerns local action. They emphasi2e change brought about by community action: local groups "rising up angry,'/{ doing Nader type research and then organizing, demônölrating, occupying, protesting, as.wellas gêtting power positions (on boards, in local governTenls, qtc,I and/or creati n g alternatives. This type of community action is, like the book, a necessary f irst step. lt advocates working both within the system, to make it more rational and responsiv-e, and outside the system, by creating.alternative models which do'serve people's needs in a nori-oppressive and humane way.'Both approaches may then pr:qvide models when (and if) national restructuring occurs. Thè strength of the book lies in its analysis and its program. The catalog within each section is less successful. Not meant to be comprehensive, it contains a scattering of representational groups and resources across the country-some radical, some liberal, some even government run. We were disappointed that in the area we know best-women's health-the book lists only six clinics and seven women's health collectives from among the hundreds across the country. Moreover; choices 20 wlN ', câ[€] they. are comm,unityaction groups, pressure social chang,erdireötories is in order:., , 1. J ust because a group is or is not listed one shouldn't assume that the group is therefore either good or bad or even particularly relevant. 2. There is a tendency to take groups a¡d projects at face value (the difficulty of knowing what eaih group in a particular city is doing let alone nationwide,'is self evident). Some groups are listed as having specific programs which in reality exist only on paper, and other groups are represented as they I , ideally wish to be rather than describing what,they are actually accomplishing and how they are in fact structured. : 3. One should allow for thectinstant flow and flux of community energy. What waò a specific grpugengaged in a specif ic program at the time of wriling (1974 in this case), may have changed structure, become regressive, been wasted by schisms and factions, been taken over by ánother group with a different agenda, or have died. The specif ic listings in Organizing for Health Care show actual examples both of social chânge within the health field and of groups worth investigating and joining. Minority groups make up the majority of the listings, all with similar agendas, which brings up the possibility of health care as a unifing issue. lhe mäjor usefuiness of the book though is-in its analysis and program. lt doesn't just complain but also points the way to change. BLUEPRINT FOR HEALTH: A Multinational Portrait of the Costs and Administration of Mbdical Care in the Public tnterest D. Stark Murray / Schocken Books, NY / 1974 I 97.50 Blueprint for Heatth is a usef ul primer on health systems in different parts of the world. The reference point is the National Health Service in Britäin, which Murray was involved in designing and in whose success he has a personal investment. He presents the arguments for a national health system (pointing out that the US is the only "major western power" without such a system), and argues for a comprehensive national health plan financed through taxation, rather than the insurance schemes used in several countries and proposed ínthe U5. Under an insurance system, doctors and hospitals continue to profit from illness, as they rendei a bill for services (usually only sick care is covered) which is paid wholly or in part by the insurance scheme. ln a complete system-'(or prepaid system) a certain amount of illness is planned for over the whole population, and health workers are paid by salary. Thus their.stake is in keeping peoplä well (less w'ork, same pay) and they are encouraged to attempt prevention, education, etc, The book gives a rundown of the systems in most European couñtries, as well as several Th i rd Worl d countries' ( unfortunately i gnoring the Chinese model which seems bv far tlie most successful in a country of limitddresourees). The analysis is rather superficial and the inadequacies of each country's health delivery system are poorly documented (with the exception of the US which is continually-and justly-found lacking). The book does not challenge the context of Western technological, industrial medicine, and does not address the overall political issues of power: of people over their bodies, of medicine as a reflection of ihe larger political realities, of the hierarchical nature of most health systems. A truly radical analysis of the health system would have to deal with these realities and suggest ways to change the system. HEATTH/PAC BUTLET¡N Health Policy Action Center, 17 Murray St., NY, NY 1CfÆ.7 I ç7.fn peryear A publication that has tried to provide a consistent radical critique of the American health system is the' Health/Pac Bulletin. Although their choice of issues has at times tended to be provincial, focussing on New York City and San Francisco (where the bulletin is produced alternately) rather than on national issues, Health/PAC has in general been a very good resource for political analysis of health issues particularly as they relate to institutions and empire : building. Two recent issues are of particular note. One, National Health lnsurance: he who pays the piper lets the piper call the tune, a Health/PAC report by Louise Lander is a summary of the various proposals for a national health insurance scheme. lt is an excellent review of the current proposals and a devastating critique of their deficiancies. There is little discussion of viable alternatives. Nevertheless it is a clear and concise review and analysis of a very confusing group of proposals. The other, MCHR: An Organization in Search ot an ldentity by Howard Levy & Rhonda Kotelchuck, is an analysis aird history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR). This is valuable not so much from a health organizing perspective as from a movement political point of view. lt typifies many of the problems that bàset groups which arose duriñg the 1960s. MCHR started as an organization to prõvide medical presence during the civil rights work in the south in the early '60s. Medical presence at a 'wide variety of movement activities continued as an 'important function of many chapters. Though there were several exceptions, in general MCHR never developed a program of its own, but rather moved froin issue to issue with the rest of the left. This lack of an unäerlying politicalanalysis of.heatth issueg meant that local chapters_tended to wax and wané depending on what was happening politically in their .i arga, Another major problem in MCHR, ai iä somany movement groups, was political infighting and factionalism. Because it lacked a clear political stand, liscernable philosophical values and analysis, and long term strategies based on this analysis, it was' hard to know what, in fact, one was joining. This made local chapters open to takeovers, with the political "heavies" of the Revolutionary Union (RU) ' or the Communist Party (CP) insisting on.a certain. line and others therefore, finding it nõ longer useful and dropping out. .The national group, described by Levy & Kotelchuck as CP dominated, seemed always the weakest part of MCHR. The loòal groups, though, remained firmly decentralized; perhaps this rnade,them more vulnerable to take over, but it also assisted the positive accomplishments of the group. Local chapters were able to initiate programs appropriate to their areas, using MCHR as an umbrella organization, and ignore the rifts elsewhere and the unworkable programs decreed by the national off ice (such as the inopportune national health crusade of 1971). Out of these local efforts came some work of lasting value -. such as Boston's Patients'Rights Handboo[ and its "Politícs of Health" bibliography and the Occupational Health Project which is now in San Francisco. Health Rrghts News, MCHR's publication, has been suspended because of lack of funds and in' terest; few tr¿CnR chapters stiil furict¡on and many of these are RU dominated. However many lndividual MCHR people are still organizing local study groüps, forums and projects, using the name MCHR as a drawing card. The authors conclude: "those factors that have led MCHR to the brink of total .. ì ., afih¿ Þ¿oPl¿ t¡ho lvra*,¿ . ô€Drin Wì¡h ' a;u h^d ^ Ëcoàorch¿ t'i3ht îot¡t"'> WIN 21 :4 casional references to "Louisé" and the children, and one can only ássume that thè¡r view of the homqstead would be quite different..John Vivian never talks about'cleaning house or washing dishes or making the place look pretty. , One f.inal note there's'not a wor.d'in the boék. about the demon automobile. Tlìe hêcessity.bf a car ancl/or truck in country life, and the problem and cost of maintainin'g these vehicles,'is ohe of the biggest woes a homesteader faces. lt rner.its comÍnent and concern. -Allen Young demise" are f itS latter day contempt of democratic dissent, its disdain fqr theoretic3l perspective, i.t!' ' unwillingness to concretely añalyze its actiyities and its impatience with thë slow task of buildine bases." The analysis of MCHR that'leads to these, conclu. qions is uqeful to,anyone involved ¡n attempts at or: r ganization / movement br¡ i ld i n g, The u nan swered guestion, remains: How.do you keep peopletogelher to fight a common enemy and bring about social changê when it is so much easier to fight your friends? ,¡Claire Dquglas and Jim.Scott .distance he¡:è than merely resolution or will power; my daydreams are much too full of cuddly rabbits and Crandma Moses farmhouses to ever become a reality. I agree with E.B. White that "this is one farm on which there will be no culling. l'm Þutting the whole flock into the laying house. Those that like to lay eggs can do that; thô olhers can sit around the groaning board, singing and whoring." And, like White, the only way I could ever afford a farm would be to have a hefty outside income to support a very expensive hobby. Nonetheless, the one thing I do have in common 'yith genuine homesteaders is that I read books e .L *ftq ñ THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL HOMESTEADING John Vivian / Rodale Press / 340 pp. / $8.95 The author of this book believes that he and his family are "uniquelv prepared to face up to the severe economic, environmental, and resource deple- ¡ I 22 WIN .' Canada K7H 3C6 . ' Ehrlich's The End of AÍtluence? Or something purely recreational, like Raising Earthworms for Profit? I rea!ly ought to read Our Bodies, Oursefves. Maybe l'll be really practical for once, and order How to Earn a Living in theCountry without lïärr. I or Eastw¡nd community- located in Ozarkl. Seeking members. Promoting nonpunishing, nonviolênt egalitarian society. Growing quickly. Prdsently 52 members. 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For both types-dreamers and doers-Lewis and Sharon Watson have come up with a brilliant idea: the Earthbooks Lending Library. They have an annotated catalogue of ovér 300 inspirational books, everything from Sauna: The Finnish Bath to Starting Rightwith Turkeys. You pay a $5.00 membership fee, which is refundable when you cancel, and65l, for each book or magazine you borrow. They pay postage to you, you pay postage back to them','and you get about three weeks to read each book. lf you want to keep a book, you lust send them the discounted,price (based on wear and tear) minus 50é.ln fact, I suspect that Earthbooks is a better deal as a used book outlet than a lending library. Filline in the order blank is a real fantasy tr:ip. Should I get something heavy and responslble, like l'J ,; HELP! Sem ¡ narian, Mav' 7 6 gr aduàté, seeks opportun ity ¡n misrant m¡nistry and,/or commun¡ty organization and min¡strv in an urban setting. Exper¡enced ¡n both areas. ileolv to: David Toomey, 11ü) South Coodman St. ; itochester, N¡Ì( 14620, 7 16¿7 1.9439. NoNcoMPETtTlVE CAMEs for.children a'nd each other. Free adults. Plav toeether not aga¡nst "nn i;t ËF; Ë.1;,1;^-iårt¡.ãi, +, Perth.óntario¡ Some of us go back tp the land and some qf us have fantasies about it. I suspect there is a more profound ä styles."'Miáwesi lnstit+e, 1206 PRODUCTS EARTHBOOKS LENDING LIBRARY Swe'et, ldaho 83670 ' tion problems facing the world." That is probably true. "A hqmesteading family," asrJohn Vivian qb' serves, "can become almost nonconsumers of the . eárth's limited or nonrenewable resources." Like John'Vivian, I am very happy to be living in the country and to be involved in a homesteading experierice. The back-to-the-land movement is an imbortant political response to the existing mode of life in the U'n¡ted States, though most of the people involved think of themselves as apolitical. As a response to the competitive and destructive values of thii Eociety, homesteaders are engaged in an effort . that is at once decentralist, nonviolent (with the possible exception of hunters) and nurturing. Most of this book is in the "how to" vein, ahd since l'm not the homesteading veteran that J ohn Vivian is, l'm not really f it to comment on the specifics of his approach to beekeeping, grape-growing or skinning ràbbits. He offers a stuþefying panorama of the oossibilities of life on a homestead. This is a ûseful úolume; no doubt, and recommended for both pract¡cing homesteaders and for contemplators. As for you political critics of us back-to-the-land folks, I think that by reading a book such as this, you can at least respect the incredible amount of physical labor (productive and benef icial) that takes place on a farm such'as the Vivians' lohn Vivian is at his best when he shares his know-how, which is99o/o of the book. 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