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found Michael Ducey's çrticle,
"Understanding The Energy System:
Strategy For Activists" (WlN 12 / 2l / 7 8)
infotmative, though incomplete. Being
fortunate enough to have attended the
"No Nukes Conference" held in
l¿uisville, Kentucky, earlier this year, .I
hadthe opportunity to hearthe opinions
on the direct action issue of
representatives from anti-nuke and
pro-solar groups from every part ofthe
country. Theoretically, most agreed that
force is indeed the ' 'last recoulle, " but
on the other hand, one ofthe recurring
themes of the pro-nuke argumentbeing
that monies alteady invested make
abandonment of the projects
impossible, niany of the delegates feltit
followed that the non-civil disobedience
tactics held forth in this article lend the
nuclearindustry the time to continue
their investments thereby bolstering the
pro-nuke position. Furthermore Mr.
Ducey fails to give any credit to the civil
disobedience direct actions that have
largely been responsible for creating the
greater public awareness through the
attraction of the news media. For
example, the first publicized action
against the construction ofthe nuclear '
power pla¡t at Seabrook, N.H, was an
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occupation ofthe proposed Site by a
single farsighted individual. Each year
thereafter the number ofdirect activists
increased which eventually led to the
creation ofthe now large and influential
Clamshell Alliance. I wonder how fatone
person could have gotten using
persuasion tactics like those advocated
byMr, Ducey?
Also, the article in its section on
natural gas fails to recognize the
adaptability of methane gas to our
present gas-fueled appliances. Barry
Commoner, noted author and
spokesperson for the anti-nuke,
pro.solar movement has,pointed outthat
this very attractive, available and
abundant alternative could be utilized
during the transitional period between
our present use offossil fuels and future
reliance on solar and other renewable
energy sources.
\Ytile recognizing the needfor
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educating ourselves through "long
hours in libraries and seminars, " it has
been my experience when working with
grass roots organizations that without
the opportunity to use these studies in
direct personal actions, many potential
activists are Ieft frustrated by the
bureaucracy they are asked to persuade.
Even the Nuclear Regulatoty
Commission ¿dmitted that their decision
to reevaluate the Seabrook plant's
environmental impact was influenced by
the concern expressed by the
demonstrators.
I feel that a more balanced policy of
persuasion and direct action is what is
needed to bring about the safer and
saner use ofenergy.

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to death fot fatherland, free ente¡prise,
emperor or religion. The leader says do
and it's done. Some of these we understand or approve of; others we don,t.
Feeling threatened, Jones and his

lieutenants decided tokilll first others,
then their own and themselves. The
good citizens of Jonestown complied and
died-so did those who resisted. A few
deserters survived. It's an old story:
authoritarian leader, group obedience,
serving "the cause. " One person,s
"cause" is another's "psychosis.,'
Jonestownjust wasn't that extraordinary.
MORATQUEST

I have been

-JOELT(rÍ.GORE
BdtünorerMd.
Shepherd Bliss' self-conscious,

pseudo-poetic, murky meandering of the
mind (WIN 12/21/78)was à mystification and real disservice tounderstanding
the People's Temple and putting
Jonesto-wn in perspective. Bliss defers to
Jung (the concept ofthe "shadow")
and to V.W. Odajnzk, a Jungian explicator who comments on the "collective
shadow-the unrecognized,
, incompatible, and lnforlor slde of e rrce,
group or nation' ' I (My emphasis) In How
Muclc Ex¡reerol ldoae, Sidney
Finkelstein writes, "It is no accident that
the psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, who
worked in Germany underthe Nazis,
dtew heavily upon Wagnerfor his
theories of inherited myths and lracial
unconscious' as the dominantforceq in
the human mind."
If Bliss mrtst call on authority to explain authoritarianism, why not Freud?
"The uncanny and coercive characteristics of gtoup formations. . .The leader
of the group is still the dreaded primal
father; the group still wishes to be
governed by unrestricted force; it has an
exheme passion for authority. . .Even
today the members of a group stand in

ofthe illusion that they are equally
andjustly loved by their leader; but the
need

Anrlyelsof theEgo).
What happened in Jonestown was
tragic but hagically not unique. People
chose death for themselves and others
for reasons we don't fully comprehend or
agree with. Usually the numbers
involved are much greater, and in
modern history the perpetrators almost
invariably are governmental. Governments want a monopoly on.killing; they
get upset when anyone elsê tries it, So
it's normal good citizening to march off

feeling sorryt'or myselt

lately-my rent

is going up 17% in Feb.
ruary, over and above the 1070 increase I
received in June six days before Proposition 13 was passed); the buses (San
Diego transit) quit running on about half
the routes after 8 pm, and now service
has been reducedfrom 20 minutes to 30
minutes because of decreased revenues
from Proposition 13. My boss wouldn't
teimburse me and I couldn't afford to
take the time offso had to decline jury
dutythis week-something Ifeel is more
important to be part of. I feel partly deprived ofthis seasonal excitement; for up
until two days ago, I was studying for
and took the 16-hour, two day state architectural exam-a real mind boggler.
And I have two good friends whö-are
each goingthru very diffrcult separations and divorces ftomtheir spouses.
But-l Whenever a WIN Magazine
arrives at my mailbox and is greeting me
when I arrive home, rny spirits rise. IYIN.
is the kind of publication that not only
tells it right, but says it in a straightfor,
ward and loving manner. Your special
issues have especiallybeen worthwhild.
I want to thank you for the beautiful
example of commitment. It inspires me,
for there are so many less fortunate than
I. I want to wish you happiness and plenty for this season-and peace to us all in

the

future-it will come.

leader himself need love no one else, he
may be of a masterly nature, absolutely

narcissistic, but self-confidentand.independent. " (Group Pcychologr & the

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JPAT]THARilS
SruDlcgo, Crllf.

ln my article in WIN 11l19l7E entitled
"Gulf & Western: Profile of a Multinational, " I described the conglomerate's
operations in South Africa, Thailand, the
Dominican Republic, and New England.
In the foreign countries mentiotred, it is
cleat that G&lV has profitedfrom repressive, right-wing regimes which
provide a "favorable climate for invest-

ment."

ttrith regard to Thailand, I reported

that G&W had concluded an agreement
for a$90 million zinc mine andlefinery,

the largestforeign investment in Thailand. This came in the wake ofthe 1976

right-wing militaty coup which was
supported by the US government.
One month before my article was published, ho\ryever, G&lY stated that it had
completed the sale of Thai Zinc to a
South Korean company. My report
should now be seen in terms ofthe recent
history of this fast moving multination-

al,
Thailand, of course, is not without its
US-based multinationals. Castle &
Cooke, the agribusiness giant which
owns Dole pineapples and bananas in
the Philippines and Central America and
Bumble Bee Tuna (as well as mushroom
farms in the US), continues to profif .
from the pro-business climate in Thailand which once interested G&W. Castle
and Cooke's Dole division grows and
processes pineapple in Thailand, while
its Thai-Asia Steel Pipes Co., Ltd., a
55%-owned subsidiary, is one of the
principal pipe manufacturers in

Thailand.
_JOSEPH E. MTILLIGAIII, S.J.

I¿flnAmorlcoT¡skForco
Detuolt,Mlch.
Two book reviews in the 12/28/78issue
of WIN on technical subjects fall-in my
opinion-into the category of,disseminating false information to WIN
readers. It is further my opinion, as I've
stated befote, that technical effors on
our part ôetracts considerably'from our
credibility and also, mote or less, on the
validity of our decisions where out
limited efforts are best placed.
First, the Peter Biskind review of
Zapplng of Amerlco by Paul Brodeur is '
very nearly exactly backwards. That
book is essentially a hoax and was very
thoroughly reviewed in the May,l978
issue ofSpectrum (published by the
Institute ofElectronic and Electrical En-

gineers). Microwaves are electromagnetic waves whose frequency falls
between radio and heat. Infrared and
optical waves are of a higher frequency.
The only known direct health effect of
microwaves is heat. Given sufficient
power in waves, they can heat up a person's tissues without them feeling it.
Standing directly in front ofa
long-range, nàrtow beam, radar dish
might possibly cause internal damage
from the heat generated.However, in no
way can the energy content be high
enough from simply being in the vicinity
of aTV, radio, CB, rad¿r, satellitecommunication, or missile guidance systems
transmitting antentra as Biskind says.
Microwave ovens heçt food by having
that food at the centei ofthe oven where
the microwaves are focused-much like
a magnifying glass focuses optical light.

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Food near the walls of the oven do not
tend to get heated very much and any
leakage outside the ovenwill have no

practical heating effect whatsoever. Improper triggering of electronic apparatus
(e.g. hedrt pacemakers) is the only
known detrimental effect of microwave
leakage.
It is important that we radicals recognizethe difference between tlle essentially hprmless effects of microwave radiation and the extremely dangerous
effects ofx-ray radiation which is also
electromagnetic waves, but their
frequency is much above that ofoptical
light. Ät these upper frequencies there
can be serious genetic and cell changes
which does not occur at the lower light,
heat and microwave frequencies. It
probably will take severãl years before
there will be general recognition of the "
serious x-tay hazard to operating
personnel by the surveillance equipment
in use at airports throughout the wodd.
All competent dental technicians leave
the room when dental x-ray machines
are turned on.
Second there is the Paul Johnson book
review Ä,uúo FEel¡ of the 19E0s byJack
Frazier. Here it is stated that methanol is

nonpolluting-which

Jan.25,1979

/ Vol. XV,

No. 2

4. W orker / Com m un ¡ty Ownersh

ip in Youngstown / Staughton

Lynd
12. Adventures

Nesbitt

with ATman/ Jo

14. Changes
16. Prison Notes/Larry Cara
18. Review/Demian
21 . Poetry / Steve

Lewandowski

Cover: A steel mill in Cleveland,
Ohio. Photo byCidne Hart,/
Liberation News Service.

is defïnitely not

true.All combustion fuels have the same

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pollution capability based upon
fundamental thermodynamics. The
reason fo¡ this is that the major
damaging pollutant from combustion
processes is niüic oxides which are
caused by liighiemperatute combustion

Patrick Lacefield o Lauri Ldwell
Murray Rosenblith

forcingtogether air molecules of

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nitrogen and oxygen. The high temperatures are required in the combustion to
obtain larger óutput energyfrom the fuel
and, concommitently, lower fuel consumption. It makes no difference
whether the fuel is hydrogeú, methanol,
or gasoline. The Honda Civic, for
example, can meet long-term NOX
(nitric oxides) standards but gets only 10
miles per gallon under those operating
conditions, as compared with the UCLA
hydrogen powered Jeep which also can
meet NOX standards but gets only nine
miles per gallon of hydrogen. Steam cars
fall into the same thermodynamic trap as
do electric when their electricity is obtained from a combustion source. The '
basic smog problem in all combustion
approaches is that air is generally used
directly as the oxygen source which
automatically brings in four tinies as
much nitrogen because air is essentially
20To oxygen and 80% nitrogen. The only
apparent practical long.range'smog
solution for combustion apparatus is the
elimination of nitrogen from the
combustion process.

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September 19,1977 , the presidents or the six
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Youngstown
Sheet and Tube locals in the
Mahoning Valley got phone calls at go,clock in the
morning telling them to be atthe companvoffices
atJ0. When they arrived, they were händäd a press
release that the company was'simultaneously þutting out to the media: Five thousand workers'ai the
CampbellWorks wereto be permanently laid off .
Many of the local un ion off icials felt a sense of
betrayal. They had been reassured up to the last
moment that this was not going to happen. t believe
they had been reassured by loãal ¡ndividuals within
the corporation who were themselves f ighting to
keep the Campbell Works aßve, and whó lost.
There was not a conscious deception, although it
seemed that way to many people at the time.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube has two mills in
Youngstown, Ohio. One is on the north side of
town. lt is called Brier Hill, and currentlyemploys
about 1,200 people. The other;on the south side'of
town, is called the Campbell Works: before the
shutdown, it employed about 6,500 people.
About 1,200 work there now. What was'shut down
werethe rolling mills ("hot strip" and ,,cold
strip") which make sheets of steel, for example, for
automobiles. The Campbell Works continues to

make seamless pipefortheoil industry. The
components fo¡,the pipe are made at Brier Hill and
then sent across the Valley for final assembly at the

CampbellWorks.'Brier Hill has been toldthat
within the next'12 months they will be shut down,
too, and the componentsforthe seamless pipe will
be provided from Jones & Laughlin's millãt'Alíquippa in Pennsylvan ia.
There doesn't seem to be any compelling
explanation for the timing of the decision tõ shut
down the Campbell Works rolling mills. lt was evi-

Staughton Lynd is general counsel for the
Ecumenical Coatition. This.article is based on a talk
he gave to'a group of Íriends. /t expresses his
personal views and does not repfesent the views of

theCoalition

During a period of two to three weeks there was
a series of mass meetings, especially in the south
side comm un ities that were most affected. The
southern suburbs of Campbell and Struthers are
entirelv built around thework at this mill.
Something likeTO%o of theirtax reùenues come
from it.
I was at one such meeting, in a high-school
gymnasium in Struthers. The meeting made me
want to laugh and crf and get angry all at the same
time. lt began as any high school assembly would
have begun, with patrioticobservances. Then one
politician after another talked for f ive or siÍ
minutes, demonstrating his or her concern. The
quiet couples in the gymnasium bleachers didn't
respond much. ltwas as if theywerewaiting for

portation to Washington in chartered buses was a
man named Cerald Dickey, the Recording Secretaryof Local 1462,the Brier Hill local, andthe initial
advocate in the Valley of worker/community

ownership. lt's peculiarly interesting that Cerald
should also have been the main organizerof the bus
carãvan to Washington bearing this completely
different programmatic approach to the problem. I
think his feeling still is that if was better to have
done something immediately", even if the wrong
something, than to havetaken the shutdowns lying

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petition expressed essentiallythe industry's analysis: faultine the J apanese and the federal government, rather thàn the corporation which made the
decision.
One hundred and ten thousand signatures were
collected on the petition in four days. The pefsirn
who did most to organ ize the petition and its trans-

dently made by the board of directors of the
conglomerate which acquired Sheet and Tube in
1969, the Lykes Corporation, at a motel nearthe
Pittsburg airporton Sunday, September-lg. On the
preceding Friday, the Third Circuit Courtof Appeals in Philadelphia held that steel mills in thä
Mahoning Valley should be required to meet
federal clean water requirements, setting aside a
contrary ruling by the Environmental protection
Agency (EPA). But it doesn't seem reasonableto
suppose that something as momentous as this
determination was made in three days. I suspect
the court decision was nothing mo.eîhan coincidence, and at most merely the occasion for a
decision which had already been made.
. T.here is.something significant aboutthe general

timing. AIlthe shutdowns in the steel indusiry ir¡
1977 occurred between August 1 and J anuary 1 .'
August 1 was when the new Basic Steel Contract
went into effect, and it was no longer possible for
steelworkers to exercise their limited right to strike
around local issues, at the expiration of each contract. (This right was in fact exercised by iron
workers in 1977 .) J anuary 1 , 1979, was when, according to the industry's interpretation at that
time, certain pension benefits negotiated the previous spring would go intd effect. The industry was
doing its thingafter apoint when steelworkers
could no longer take direct action, and before a
time when, as the industry then viewed the
Situalion, it would have been more expensive to lay
off a large number of people.
The f irst reaction to the shutdown announcement rias the preparation of a petition. At a meetin g of the central abor body on the even i n g of the
day of the announcement, the Steelworkeà union
strongly pushed for a petition to be taken to
Washinjton to makethree démands on the
government:
1. Stop the imports of J apanese steel;
2. Relax environmental iegulations;
3. Permit the steel industry to raise prices.
I thinkthere is very little argument nowthatthe
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someth i n g, someth i n g wh ich never materi al ized.
The speakers tended to make the most superf icial
analysis possible, for instance blaming everything

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on the EPA: "There have been no f ish in the Mahoning River since just afterthe Civil War, so why
should we worry about clean water now?"
ln those f irst few weeks there was a lot of
jockeying for position, each politician trying to be
the one around whom everything would cohlre. lt
was extremely demoral izing.

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Afterthe initial responseof taking the petitions
to Washington, the S'-"elworkers union did
nothing. Lloyd McBride, presidentof the union,
did not make the 75 míle trip f rom Pittsburgh to
Youngstown until the next April. There was a
vacuum of leadership.
ln fact, when people went down to Washington
on buses, McBridesaidtothem-Look, it's just
like a corner grocery store: when it goes bankrupt,
it goes bankrupt. There's nothing you can do about
it: that's the American way.
Then two th ings haþpened.
ln one of these large meetings, on the Sunday.
after the Monday of the announcement, somebody
got up from the audience and said, "Why don't we
buythe damned place?" Although I wasn'tthere,
it's completely believableto me, because I had
been involved in a lawsuit attempting to prevent a
small.steel fabricator from moving out of town, and
at a union meeting someone did exactly the same
thing.
Cerald Dickey,. just back from his bus trip to
Washington, picked upon this. He began a
one-man search, like Diogenes w¡th his lamp,
seekingalliesthroughoutthecommunity. He,
talked to everyone: other steelworkers, of course;
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the "old money" in Youngstown, the peoplewho
had originally started Youngstown Sheet & Tube;
the politicians. I remember a meeting of
steelworkers in my basement. The topic was,
"what should we do aboutthe shutdown?". Norbody had anything to suggest except Gerald.
Everybody brought up ancient wisdom about how
producers' cooperatives fai l, or turn i nto capital i st
enterprises, likd Amana Refrigerators; and about
how we learned back in the time of the Knights of
Labor that employee ownership is a typical
petit-bou rgeoi s panacea. Everybody ag reed, but
still, Cerald was theonly person who had any
notion about something to do. Things broke up on
that note.
Abou(the same time, two or three weeks after
the shutdown announcement, an aide to J ohn
Burt, the Episcopal bishop in Cleveland, started
making calls to Youngstown to see if there was
some way in which the clergy could respond to all
this.
The two key f igures in forming the Ecumenical
Coalition were Bishop J ohn Burt and Bishop J ames
Malone, the Catholic bishop for the Yoùngstown
diocese. Burt used to live in Youngstown, and he
and Malone had collaborated on certain things at
the time, such as Malone inviting Burt as an Episcopal to preach in a Catholic church, and seeking
racial equality. The two of them were picking up an
old .'movement" tie, in the same way that Car Alperovitz, Dick Fernandez, and myself, were picking up something from the past when we got
involved. (On November 21, 1978,Bishops Malone
and Burt jointly received the 1978 Thomas Merton
Award for their activity in Youngstown.)
A breakfast meeting was set up at the Catholiq
Diocese. lt included quite a representative group of
local clergy plus two outsiders; Richard Barnet,
from the lnstitute for Policy Studies, who was there
because he had been very active with the Episcopal
bishops during the previous year around urban
problems, and myself . I was there because by com.plete happenstance I had been asked to give a talk
on September'lB at the First Presbyterian Church,
on corporate responsibility. I had discussed the
topic with J ohn Barbero, vice president of the Brier
Hill local, and J ohn had convinced me that the right
line to push was that expressed by former Secre-tar:yof the lnterior Morris Udall in Ohio a few
weeks before: lf there was to be a technical rebuilding of steel mills, it should be in communities
where steelworkers already lived. (This is analogous to the approach to urban renewal which holds
that you can rebuild a neighborhood physically
without dispersing people.) Therefo¡e, we were
againstConneaut, the big "greenf ield" millwhich
United States Steel wants to build on Lake Erie,
and were for rebuilding the industry in places like
Youngstown and Pittsburgh.

When the YoungstownVindicator, the local
daily, appeared the next afternoon, "Layoff 5,000
workers at Campbell Works" was at the top of the

page, and "Calls for industny to rebuild where it
already is" was at the bottom. Thìs was how I became partof the Coalition.
At that first meeting, worker/communityownersh ip wasn't especially a focus. I remember saying something about it and there was a silence. lt
wasn¿t until a conference toward the end of October, when the Coalition f irst formally organized,
that itcommitted itself tothe ideaof exploring
worker/community ownership. That came about in
good part because of the support of the lnstitute for
Policy Studies (Marc Raskin in particular), of Car
Af perovitz. and of certain national religious personalities, who had been working on issues of
corporate responsibility. They picked up on the
idea of a com m un ity tryi ng to control its econom ic

destinies.

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Car wrote a very important memorandum for
that f irst conference. lt was short, stating that the
only way reopening the mill had any chance of
success was if it weredone not as a conventional

commercial venture, but as a kind of national dem-

onstration; a showcase, of awayto counterthe
e¡osion of the industrial base in the Midwest and
Northeast. He wound up quoting the Book of Acts.
Marc Raskin suggested what became a reality at
Thanksgiving, the drafting of a pastoral letter on
behalf of the entire religious community in the Valley, addressing the issues involved in the closing.
So the Coalition rather ponderously got itself
together and began to inch toward the notion of
worker/community ownership. There was quite a
tussle as to what setof experts it should lookto. lt
came down to a choice between Car on the one
hand, and the Western Reserve Economic Development Agency (WREDA) on the other. This was a

local economic analysis shop, very much geared to
the steel industry. ltwas seen as something of a left
v. right choice. The solution was thatthe Coalition
gave a modest sum to each, WREDA, the more ,
conservative group, was asked to do a quick preliminary feasibility study. Car was asked to do a more
exten sive study, si nce he was able to get $300,000
from the Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.
ln the meantime, Cerald was continuing to promote worker/comm un ity ownersh i p, and in particular, to pull together an action committee of steel=
workers . Th is com m ittee of about two dozen people
was made up of f ive out of the six Sheet & Tube local union presidents; a numberof persons who had been active inthecredit union, which wastheonly
Sheet & Tube-wide structure which had existed
previously; and several people, like Cerald
himself , who were union officers or senior grievance committeemen in their respective locals.
They invited meto meetwith them. Wefiled
National Labor Relations Bgard charges. We filed a
grievance. We drafted a letterto Lykes on behalf of
employee stockholders, preliminaryto fiIing a
stockholders' derivative suit. We had several
meetings in which the rhetoric was: Let's continue
to ask help from the District and national structures
of the Steelworkers union, but let's be readyto go
ahead on our own if we dón't get help.
This is very important, because one major criticism of what's happening in Youngstown is: Where

arethe steelworkers? Howcome it's all religious
folks? Hów comewe don't see rank and file steelworkers on television ? The answer is that the
District Director sent down a decree that henceforth he would meet regulärly with the local union

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pres¡dent:, and anything done bythem would be a
result of those meetin gs. Th i s noi on ly reasserted
the Director's controloverthe situatión, but also
tragically divorced the presidents from ihe people
around them in the local unions.
It was now November. The Coalition had been
organized, it was beg_inning to think about worker/
communityownership, and itwas moving in the
direction of feasibility studies. Absent ihl ¡ntervention of the District Director, there:wãuld have
been a coal ition of the organ ized rán [-ãÿ_ri t"
steelworkers and the clergy. ln fact there was a
meeting between thesetwo groups on the eveof
, the f irst Coalition conferencã.
. At that meeting, everybody wàs excited out of
their minds. You can imagine why fhe clergy were
excited about the steelworkers. Bui the steäwork_
:ers felt, after áll the politicians, each of whom
seemed to be grinding his or hór own axe, that here
were some.people who may be stupid or bumbling,
out who at least are not, in any obvious sense, self_
interested:
I should add that most of those laid off were
receivi4g, forthetime, supplemental unemploy_
ment bdnef its under the contract, unemployment
compensation, and something called Trade'Re_
adjustment Allowances. Allof this provided ap_
prox-imately a year's incorne for the tvpical laiä-off
steelworker, not dramatically less thân he or she
had made while at work in the mill. Those benef its
are now running out.
.. Ab.out this time Lykes and Ling Temco Vought
(LTV),.the
conglomerate which dwns ones

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merger without the conditions which the Coalition
had requested. (As this is being written, Senators
Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, and Edward
Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, have publicly ' ,
questioned Bell's decision. Metzenbaum asked
Bell to withdraw approval until the companies give
the Coalition a price for the shutdown facilities.)
Meantime, the feasibility study by the National
Center for Economic Alternatives proceeded. lts
preliminary f indings were annqunced in April and
the f inal results on September 14.To summarize,
there appears to be no question that if enough
money is spent in modernizing the mill, it can produce steel at á competitive price. True,Youngstown
is landlocked, in contrastto the steel mills along the
shore of Lake Michi gah. Bqt the same geograph ical situation which makes iT d¡ff icult for Youngstown to get iron ore also makes it diff icult forforeign
steel, brought in bythe St. Lawrence Seaway, to
reaçh Youn gstown. And the electric f urnaces. proposed by the study do not require iron ore and coal .
So it appears that geographical location is not the
critical element.
The critical element

is the lack of capital to spend
to modern ize these facil ities . l-ykes had reached
the end of its credit with investment banks. ln fact,
it seems quite clearthatthe so-called impending
failure of Lykes was nothing morethan a decision
on the part of banks which lend money to Lykes not
to extend their credit line; while investing in the
J apanese steel industry.
The feasibility study concluded that if enough
capital were plowed into the enterprise, if the open
hearths are replaced by electric furnaces, we could
produce a competitive steel product.

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,Laughli¡, announced that they propoied
to merge.
ln the process of acquiring Sheet and Tube lnß109,
Lykes incurred a debt greater than it was able to
service. So the cash floW from Sheet & Tube that
should have been used to modernizethe facilities
was diverted to serVicethat debt. tn thi; iãnse ¡t is
1þsolutely true that the Lykes conglomãruié,iiLãA
Sheet&Tu.bedry. tt'snof aquestiónof simple greecl or m¡smanagement, but rather one of
the
over-ambition of the con glomerate.
. Similarly, the LTV corporation, at approximately
the sametime, acquired Jones & Lauehl¡n, and
encountered manyof the same difficrlt¡es. So
Lykes and L.TV proposed to merge, combining the
seventh and eighth largest steeliompanies iñthe
country into what would become the ihird.
This created a new situation, because forthe first
time it gave us some potentìal leverage. They haãto get government approval, not only because
that's required prior to any merger, but also
because when LTV acquired Jones & Laughlin, the
J ustice Department brought suit and u coñr.ni de_
cree was issued. The decree required LTV to get
government approval any time with in the next ten
years that it acquired ariything worth more than
$100,000,000. So LTV was doubly obligetJ to go to
the J ustice Department for clearånce.l
., Ald *9, therefore, were in a position to suggest
that J ustice require thenì, as a condition of dJ

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creasing competition in the steel industiy by merg_
ing, to enhancè competitiôn by creaiing á né*
ty in the Mahoning Valley. This was a perfectly"ntlconventional thing to request within the parame_
ters of anti-trust law. There are divestituiÀ d".r"",
which oblige parent companies not only todivest
themselves of subsidiaries, but to spend the money
on the subsidiaries that they should have spent

Such modernization would reducethe numberof

persons who could be re-employed to perhaps
3,500. But the fact of the matter is thatthe
youngest and oldest of the laid-off group have
tended to remove themselves from the situation.
The older people have opted for vatious forms of
early retirement. The younger people are leaving
for Houston. The number of persons actually interested in resuming their jobs and the numberof jobó
avai I able i n a more capital-inten s ive tech nology

might be roughly equivalent.
The feasibility study suggested that there might
be a debt-equity ratio much higher than is charac-

teristic of the American steel industry. What we
are looking for here is a maSsive role by the United
States government, either in the form of direct
grants and direct investments, or in the form of
loan guarantees.
The diff iculties arise on the marketing side. I can
rememberthe very firsttime I called Car and told
him a little about YouQgstown. We agreed that the
critical economic froblem would be selling. The
word "feasibility" has proved something of atrap
for us. lt's very importantto distinguish between,
on the one hand, the ability to produce something,
and, on thè other hand, the abif ity to sell it:
, Civen sufficient Federal capital., the projected
enterprise would have no difficultyon the
producing side. The problems are in,marketing,
and those problems are now made nluch more difficult bythe Attorney Ceneral's dedision. Had the
merger not been appróved, or had it been approved
with the'requ irement that'the'merg i n g com pan ies
assist this new enterprise, then we would have
been able to take over the customer lists, the

Above: Workers leave the Camobell p.lant. Righr:
A viewof the plant lrom a
street in Youngstown. photos fiom LñS.

previously, to buy the product of the subsidiaries
fora period pf years, to take a number of steps
which woul.d help the injured junior partner to
become independent.
The merger was illegalon its face: itwould unite

two steel compan ies making,the same products for

distribution in the same regional markets. Alt the
mills involved were in two ðircles perhaps a hun.
dred miles in diameter. One circlé incluããã tne
Sheet & Tube mills in youngstown, and the ones
J
-& Laughlin mitts in Ctevetañd, otr¡ó. ãñ¿ pìti;pennsyivania.
burgh and Aliquippa,
Theother
circles includedthe Sheet & Íube mill in East Chicago, lndiana, and the Jones & Laughlin mill in
Hennepin, lllinois,
The companies' defense to th is otherwise overwhelm ing case against the merger was that if one
or both of the coppanies are'aboutto fail,then ihe
r.ne!"ge.r should tie permitted, because it certainly
doesn't enhance competition to permitone ortwo
com petitors to di sappear.
The debate wentbn from November until J uneof
1978, when Attorney Ceneral Criffin Bellovãrruled
his own Antitrust Division and approved the
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internal markets, of a company which no longer
existed, namely, the Lykes corporation in the
Youngstown-Pittsburgh area. As it is, there will
shortly come into being a merged corporation
which is capable of producingihòse same products
'
for those same.customers. Rather than there being
. amarketing void waiting to befilled, there is avery
effective competitor.
The upshot of all thís is that worker/community
ownership can probablyonly make it notonly with
very heavy government f inancing on the capital
. side, but also with signif icant government procurements on the marketing side. The question
naturally arises as to what kind of entity we are
talking about. We're talking about something
equivalent to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Wg'r" looking for a commítment which says, itrs
right to put people back to work in this community
in the same.way that it was right to take electricity
to parts of the Appalachian mounta¡ns that
wouldn't otherwise have received ¡t. lt is a decision
which goes beyond the parametuir ãf *ñit *ìrlJ'
be commercially palatable. That,s where we are

lVrll he have
a frrture inthe

Valley?

has become clearer to all of us that"the United
States gover-nment will shortly be making one decision about the modern ization of the'steel industry
in the United States. Either decision would require
massive public subsidies. The alternatives arethe

" inf rastructure" (roads, rai lroad sidin gs, sewers,
etc.) would cost over $3 billion, or $650for every
man, woman and child in the area.
2. The Ecumenical Coalition seeks to modernize
the steel industry in sites where that industry already exi sts. We would modern ize the physical equipment while leaving intactthe traditional social
structure. The cost ofthis approach is /ess than that
of the United States Steel proposal: ari immediate
$15 million Urban Development Action Crant from
HUD, $300 million in loan guarantees from theDepartmentof Commerce, and significant (twoto six
percent of federal steel purchases) government
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following:
1. United States Steel proposes to create'a
completely new mill on the shore of Lake Erie at a
presently rural site. There would be grave environmental effectÈ. For instance, it is said that sulphuric acid would destroythe grape industry from
Cleveland to Buffalo. (Hence, Welch's Crape J uice
is reported to be a maloropponentof the plan.) A
consultant has estirfrated that creation of a'social

procurement.
The outcome remains to be seen

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now.

When Car first cameto Youngstown latein1977

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we had a wonderf ul discussion with a grot¡p of 25 or
30 steelworkers. People talked for three hours
about what role the workers should play and what
role the community should play, There emerged a
sense that it should be about half and half . lt

shouldn't be a wholly worker-owned enterprise.

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The workers would have their own parochial inter-

ests. But it certainly shotldn't be just a commun-

ity-run thing.

nce then ; the structure of the proposed corporation has evolved in a process of give-and-take-

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between the very different elements which make
upthe Coalition. The chairman of the boardof the
United States Steel has called what we suggest
"comm un i sm. " The vicg president of corporate
development for Republic Steelterms it a ,,socialist adVenture." Movement people, on theother
hand, are I i kely to consider the envisioned
structure hopelessly con servative, because of the
prominent ro!e assigned to þrivate ínvestors.
. Recently, two new dimensions to this long struggle have emerged.

First, the merger between Lykes and LTV was
consummated December 5,1978. (A resolution by
a Cathol ic order wh ich holds Lykes stock asked the
company to assist the Ecumenical Coalition in its
efforts. The resolution received over 47o/o support
from the Lykes shareholders.) Soon afterthe
merger was coinrplete, the new complny off icially
informed the Brier Hill localthattheir mill would'
bedown bytheend of 1979. Atumultuous.mass
meeting followed on December 15. Local union'
officers threwout suggestions which included
chaining themselves tothe machines and
occupying the plant. The idea around which
support cohered was that every effort should be

qging distributed by the Ecumenical Coalit¡on to ra¡se support
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and
money tor the workers in youngstown,
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made to prevent the physical removal of machines
whictr the company proposed to transport to
another mill, for use in making the same products
þy other steelworkers. lf I can presume to put the

feeling intowords, itwas: "shutusdirwn if you
must. But don'ttakethe tools of thetradefrom our
hands and puithem intoÍhe hands ofothers.,,

The Brier Hill meeting wasoneof thefirst steelworker gatherings ôince the original announcement in September 1977 which did notfocuS on
benefits. The sentiment seemed to be: We,ll
worry about benef its later. Right now we are trying
to save our jobs.
It would betechnically possible to expand the
Coalition plan for reopening the Campbell Works

Drawing by Peg Averill

ro as to provide jobs for workers displaced from
Brier Hill, too. Theelectricfurnaces proposed at
Campbell could make steel not only for the manufactureof rolled steel sheets, but aiso forthe
rounds assembled into seamless pipe.

The second development is that representatives
of environmental and other groups wh¡ch oppose
the proposed "greenfield" United States Steel mill
at Conneaut, Ohio, have met with the Coalitipn. lt

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the lnternational League for
Human Rights, has joìned Am-

Chan

U9SUPPRESSION
OFA.BOMB TEST CANCERS

"You are in a very real sense
active participants in the nation's.
atomic test þrogram," wrote the
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
to residents of Utah and Arizona in
1955. "Attimes someof you have
been exposed to potentiai risks
from flash orfallout. You have ac- '
cepted the risk without fuss,

without alarm¡ without pdnic. "
TheAEC even encouraged people
from Utah and Arizona to come out
and see "history being made."
Now, 16 years after the tests
ended, many wish they had pan-

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icked, and are now "fussing." ln
September, 35 claims were f iled
against the government for f alloutrelated deaths. And in late
December, 100 more were filed
on behalf of 43 cancer patients and
the families of 38 people who have
died from cancer. Alltold, the survívors are asking for $1 million per
death for medical expenses and
economic and personal loss.
It4ore than B0 aboyeground nuclear weapon tests were conducted
atthe Nevada Proving Cround
from 1951 u¡rtil atomic testing

went underground in 1962.Virtually all of the tests spilled radíoactive fallout into the surrounding
area.

A buried US Public Health Service study dated Septembêr 1965,

just now receiving public attention, showed that f rom 1950 to
1964 there were 28 leukemia
deaths in southwestern Utah,

when statistically 19 should have
occurred. Seven people were diagnosed as having acute leukemia in
1959-60, fiveof them children and
teenagers who arc most vulnerable
to certain radioactive elements.
These grim findings were appar-

ently ignored by the Health Service and were never made pubiic
until this year. ln fact, according to
documents obtained by the Wash-

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nesty lnteinational in condemning "The Mexican government's
charges are nothing but political
the Mexican government for coframeup charges, " said Wirlter.
vering up thetxistence of
"Wç submitted a lot of evidence
hundreds of peopte "disap-

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murder of a librarian, wounded
rtwo cops, and robbed a bakery.

peared" (kidnapped;

ington Post underthe Freedom of
lnformation Act (FOIA), the
Health Service deliberately withhel{the study,
Besides this study, other documents obtained underthe FOIA
reveal that Utah off icials detected
unusual occurrehces of birth defects in fallout areas. According to
the documents, birth defects in
two Utah counties reached what
was described as a "marked pbak"
in 1958.
Following publication of the
documents by the Washington

Post, officials from the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare were "horrified" to learn
that such a study existed...Yet another federal study-put off due to
"lost interest" in probing fallout
related ai lments showed a
contínual increase in thyroid cañcer among Utah residents during'
1946-1969.
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MIDWIFE CLEARED
IN INFANT'SDEATH
Murder charges stemming from
the subsequent death of a California infant born at home have
been dropped against midwife
Marianne Doshi(seeWlN
10/19/78). Although the infant's
parents attested to Doshi's competency, when the infant died six
days after the home birth, the
midwife was charged with the felony.

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IMMIGRATION SERVICE
TURNS DOWN ASYLUM
REQUEST OF HECTOR
MARROQUTN
The lmmigration and Naturalization Service has ruled that
Hector Marroquin cannot have
politicalasylum in the United

States. ln

a decision dated
December 2 1, 1978, I NS district
director Richard Casillas told
Marroquin: "..; .you havefailedto

establish thatthere is
of your

a

likelihood

bein! persecuted in

Mexico. " The I NS turndown
means that Marroquin faces a
deportation hearing in late
J anuary or early February. At the
hearing, which is conducted.like a

scarriage of j u3tice,

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ART LINKLETTER: NUKES
DOTHE DARNDEST THINGS!

said-t rtar-

garet Wi nter, Marroqui n's
attorney. "The most amäzing
thing about it is that no justification is given bythe INS forfheir
conclusion. The tNS claim do have
'reviewed'thè more than 300
pages of documents and
testimony we sent them which
prove, beyond a shadowof a

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doubt, that Marroquin should get
asylum. But in their decision they

it ref ute a word of it.
1'They do say, however, that
their decision is based on the State
don

Department's'advisory opinion.'
The State Department opinion is
f ull of errors and distortions about
Marroquin and about repression in

Mexico."
The State Department opi nion
takes as good coin the Mexican
regime's denial th4t pol itical prisoners exist in Mexico. Howe.ver,
since that document was
published, the Mexican government has admitted that it holds
hundreds of political prisoners
(reported in the Wash ington Post,
October 31, 1978)'. Recently, a
:
prestigious human rights group,

proving thatthe regime accuses
political activists of crimes in order

to jail, torture and murderthem.

doesn't f it in with their preconican govérnment's wórd that
ceived notion that there's no
Marroquin was accused ot "ter'
rorism," and "subversion." The repression in Mexico,"
The INS decision acknowledges
police claimed he plotted the

dent leader, trade unionist, and
socialist who fled Mexico in 1924
under fear of death for his antigovernment political beliefs. He
was arrested by INS police in September 1977 and has been fightins
US government efforts to deport
him to Mexico sincethattime.
"This decision is an outrageous
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the

governmentterroristagency. ButthelNSandStateDepartment
Echoing the State Deîartment, refuse to admit this no matter how
the tNS dec¡sion acceoti the M"¡- ' nruch proof there is because it

trial, Marroquin will be able
appeal the INS decision to an
immigration judge.
Marroqgin is a2S-year-old stu-

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tortured,

and held in clandestine jails) by
Brigada Blanca, a secrei

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Ceneral ly an em barrassi n g
moment happens to onål person.
Occasionally two or three are
caught up iir the same faux pas,.
But rarely has an entire staff of
eminent scientists acquired a
collective red face as they did in
an incredible incidentthat may
well go down in history as the
boo-boo of the twentieth
century. lt involves our bigg'est
wartime secret, the..Manhattan .
Project, which was attemptinþ
to produce the first atomiç weapon. Thetime was eãrly in1942,
and the place was the University
of Chicago. Plutonium was
the necessary niaterial, and
almost none of it had been col-'
lected. Atthe costof millionó, a
plantto produce it had finally
been constructed on the West
Coast in a race against the
Nazis, who were known to be
conducting simi lar exPeriments. At lastthefirsttwo Precarious beakers of Plutonium
were delivered in utmost secrecy to the Chica'go group of
physicists . The entire staff was
notified to meet PromPtlYthe
nextmorning to discuss how
best to use th1 invaluable stuff
in various experiments. -.
That night, so l'm told bY a
veteran of the Chicago group' a
dilieent ianitor came through

theluards and locked doors
with-allthe proPer: clearances to
tidy up the iaboratorY' He dust-

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sinks, and poured down the
drain the contents of two beakers that sat in the midst of this
highly classif ied inner sanctum.
The next morning a popeyed
director announced to a horrif ied staif thatthe plutonium was
gone dôwn the dra.in , into the '

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sewers of Chicago! The janitor
was detained for questioning
whi le the scientists summoned

Chicago sanitation experts to
rush over with maps of the sewers-withouttelling them why. .
The main one from the lab was
hastily closed off . Then technicians began fôllowing the line
down the street for about two
and a half blocks, where the

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radioactive material was
traþped in a sluggish stream.
Now these top-level experts,
the world's f inest brains, began
carrying buckets of sewale back
to the laboratory for the delicate
task of extracting the precious
plutonium. Tothe relief of the
responsible off icials, the incident was kept qu iet, and the
radioactive material was all'recovered. The scientists showered, soaped, showered again,
then gathered to discuss the
next problem: what to do with
the shovels, pai ls, and other
gear that had been used and'
were contaminated by the plutonium. This was their f irst experience with the problem of
what to do with rad ioactive
waste materials that would have

half life of twenty-f ive thousand years !

a

that Marroquin has received
support f rom "socially prominent
i ndividuals and organizations" but
gives no weíght to such support.

Marroquin has received the
support of the 1.Ç million National
Education Association for his right
to asylum. He has gained the
support of Chicano, black and
women's organ izations and
others. Congressmen R.on Dellums, Pàrren Mitchell and John
Conyers have announced their
support for his case, as has
television personality Ed Asner.
-Newsdesk
The geiger-sensitíve junk was
lying in a small pile in the heavily guarded yard outside the lab
while the big brains struggled
with the questíon of how to
dispose of it. Meanwhile a junkman arrived, pildd everything in
his trunk, and drove out to the
city dump where he piled ilon
several tons of other junk from
that day's collection.
Láter that afternoon a s-cientist came dashing in with news
of the latestdisaster. The junkman was now detained

for

questioning while ihe harassed
brain trust put on their contamination gear and went out to find
the newly contaminated junk.
Hours later they brought back
sand piled up in the yard a
mountain of old tires, mattresses, bottles, cartons, and, of
coursef the original.shovels and
pails that caused all the trouble.
At last the meeting door
opened and the officer in charge
of the guard reported. The
United States Army had sent
over â detachment of soldiers

with a large-scoops steam shovel. They scooped up the whole
mess and drove out of the yard
and the lives of the scièntists. To
this day, ai my informant tells
it, they have never learned
where the junk went or what was
done to it. And they have never
asked.

-from Oops! or, Life's Awful
Moments by Art Linkletter
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EVENTS

ATLANTA,GA-Don
Luce will speak on " lran:
America's New Vietnam" on
Monday, J anuary 29, B pm, at

Central Presbyterian Church, 201
Washington St. Sponsored by
Clergy and Laity Concerned. For
more information, call (404)
377-6s16.
BOSTON, MA- Daniêl Berrigan
will speak on "J onestown and the
Pentagon: The Stockpiling of
Suicide" on Sunday, )anuary28,
1 1 am, at Morse Auditorium, 602
Commonwealth Ave. Sponsored
by Communíty Church of Boston.

CHICO,

CA- Aconference

entitled "Feminist Visions of the
Future" will be held on March 2-4
at California State University at
Chico. Speakers, music, theatre.
Contact Cayle Kimball, Women's
Studies, CSU

Friday, ) anutary 26,8 pm at P.S.
41,116 W. 11th St., with Rick
Asplund of Americans for SALT,
Damian Housman of the Americair
Conservative Union, and Patrick
Lacef ield of the Mobilízation for
Survival. Sponsored by
Democratic Social iit Organ izi ng
Committee.
NEW YORK CITY- Reception to
celebrate þublication of Custave
Landauer's For Socia/ism on
Sunday, J anuary 28, 5:30 pm at
Freespace Alternate U,
Lafayette St.

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with WRL staff and local
members.
NEW YORK CtTy- Benef it
reading for the Washington 11 on
Wednesday., February 7, 7 :3O pm
at Loeb Student Center, La
Cuardia Place and West4th St.
Participants include Susan Sontae.
Cynthia McDonald, Donald
Barthelme, Kenneth Koch, Karen
Malpede and others. Tickets are
$25, $5, and$2, Sponsoredbythe
PEN American Center and WRL.

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NEW YORK CITY

- Bookshop and
Open House on Saturdays starting

February3, l-5 pm at339
Lafayette St. Socializing,
discussions, and rgfreshments

SAN FRANCISCO, CA- National
Lawyers Cuild Convention on
February 15-19 around the theme
"Attacks from the Righton Cays

andWomen," Formore
information, contact NLC, 558

Capp St., San Francisco, C494110.

lN: FirstMidwest

No-

8-11 at Roberts Motel, U.S. 20and
ClaySt. in Cary. Hosted by Bailly
Alliance. For more information,
contact P.O. Box 2427, Cary lN
46403 (219)938-3427 .

GREENFIELD,
non-payrnent

MA-

Tax

cl i n ic/workshop

on

Saturday, February 3, 9:30 am-5
pm. For more information,'call

(413)62s-6196.

NEW YORK CITY- Demonstration at Siting Board Hearing on
LILCO's application to build the
Jamesport, Long lsland, nuke.
Monday, ) anuary 22, 1 :00 pm at
World Trade Center, 24th floor.
For more information, call J ack
H

uttner,

(51

6)360-0045.

NEW YORK CITY-Dr. Michio
Kaku speaks on "The Dangers of
Nuclear Power,l' at J udson

Memorial Church, 241 Thompson
St., Wednesday, Jan. 24,7:3Opm.
Sponsored by the SHAD Alliance.

NEW YORK CITY- Debate on

"Disarmament and SALT" on
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tant. lf you are concerned, write:
Regional Directorof the United
States Parole Commission (Mrs.
Anita Kaslow), 330 Primrose
Federal

Nukes Conference on February

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ln October, Assata Shakur
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game, CA 94010.

The "Lucasville (Ohio) 14," who

government officials

are demanding that the US gov-

of desperate protest. The group
has recently announced the
formation of an lnternational

ernr4ent recognize their right to
renounce citizenship and leave the
country, have escalated their
protests. On December 1, 1978,
according to David Cattano, one of
the group, August Cassano at-'
tempted to comm¡t suicide by
slashing hiswrists, to protestthe
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US State Department's refusalto
meet the prisoners' demands.
Cassano

isthethird memberof thé

group to attempt suicide. ln a similar protest last year, Shirley Keller'and Cyndi Freeman tried to
burn themselves to death at the
Marysvi I te, Oh io, Reformatôry for
Women . ln addition to these attempted suicides, f ive members of
the group have cut off one or more
of their fingers and mailed them to

as

other acts

Committee to Defend the Lucasville 14. For f urther information,
contact Freda Rosen, lnternational
Coordinator of the Committee,
1133 Broadway, Room 517, New
York, NY 10010.
Early in December Odell Bennett appeared before tWo federal
parole examiners for a parole
hearing. Although the examiners
could not f ind that Odell was a parole risk or a threat to societyor
that he would probably violate a
law, they recommended that'he
stay in prison for at least another
four years. The reason was that
Odell was "unable to adjust to an
institutional environment. " Such a

oanne Chesimard) was

moved from the federal prison for
women at Alderson, West Virginia,
to New J ersey where she spent two
weeks in isotation atthe Yardvillel
penitentiary for men in order for
her to consult w¡th lawyers and
work on her appeal . On'appeal,
Assata and her lawyers decided to
raise numerous points of racism
and repression including an allwh ite jury, I ies by the state's chief
witness, open prejudiceon the part
ofthe judge, and apparent "dirty
tricks," including a break-in atthe
defense attorney's office. Assata
and her supporters believethat
only mass public support will
enable her to win her freedom, lf
you wish to share in this support
contact Assata Shakur Defense
Committee, 339 Lafayette Street,
NewYork, NY 10012.

udge Richard Owen re-

Çently ruled that there must be
some restrictions on the use of
male guards in the women's prison
at Bedford Hills, NewYork. Judge

for reg istration i nformation.
GARY,

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imprisonment were he on the
outside. He has already served
eleven years for a petty crime
against property, primaiily
because of his involvement in prison protest actions at Leavenworth
and Lewisburg. He is now in the
King County ) ail, Seattle, Washington, legal ly f ighting the government's attemptto send him to
the nefarious "Control Unit" at
Marion, I llinois. Although letters
of support for Odel l' s reléase\,vi I
probably not come in time to affect
the Parole Board's decision, visible supportfor him is very impor-

Road, Burl

-Chico, CA 95929

Hills against a very repressive ad' minstration.

decision is based on vindictiveness, since the kind of activity
Odellhas been involvedwith in
prison would not be a cause for

Owen said itwas not necessaryor
permissable to put a woman prisoner in a position where shq must
"risk being viewed completelyor
partially nude by a male guard."
During the day á prisoner should
have the right to cover the win.
dows of her cell for as long as f ifteen minutes. At night, when such
practice is not permitted, no male
guards should be present. For privacy during showers the judge
proposed the use of mottled or
smoked glass. The ruling conceded that normal privacy must be
abridged in prison in the interestof
security, but even Prisoners are
entitled to some PrivacY to Preserve "such minimum of human
dignity,and such quality of life as
remains possible." J udgeOwen's
ruling grewoutof a lawsuitfiled by
women prisoners two Years ago
when NewYork began assigning
male guards to the prison. The
December issue of Thro ugh,the
Looking C/ass (c/o CaYCommunity Social Services, POfux'2228,
Seattl e, W A 98122) contai

ns

an

up-to-date description of the
struggleof thewómen in Bedford

The New York T i mes Magazi ne lor
December 3, 1978 contained an ar-

ticle by Wayne King entitled "The
Case Against the Wi lmington
Ten," which seems to be an
' attempt to discredit those who
support the Ten as political i
priso¡er:s. The author does not
deny that the Wilmington Ten
were framed¡ but he ends his article with a quote from an unnanied

North Carolina radical, referring to
thecaseof Ben Chavis: "They
framed a guilty man.'a On the
other hand, J ack Anderson also
made an exhaustive studyof the
case and concluded in a recent column: "J immy Carter's charges
that other nations trample on human rights have a decidedly hollow
ring as long as the Wilmington
Ten's convictions stand, and Rev.
Ben Chavis remains ín prison.
Meanwhile, prosecutor (J ay)
Stroud has been promoted; he's
now an assistant US attorney."
The Lewisburg Prison Project is
an un usually effective organ ization formed in1973 in responseto
requests for help from prisoners on
many levels, from legalassistance
to public education and encouragement to others to organize similar projects. Among théiraccomplishments was a lawsuit re-

sulting in substantial court-ordered improvements in the hole at
Lewisburg. When the Prison off i-.
cials failed to comPlY with all aspects of the court order the project
renewed court Proceedings. TheY
are savvy to all the wiles of prison
administrators and deserve suPport. MembershiP in the Project is
$5. lf interested, write Lewisburg
Prison Project lnc., PO Box 128,
Lewisburg, PA17837.
AEai nst the W al I is a I i bertarian
(con servative, anti-state) publ ication which includes a free listing
for prisoners'in its "Pen Pals"
section. They will also send one
free copy to anY Prisoner who requests it. Write Ag ainst the Wal l,
PO Box 444,Westtield, NJ 07091.
Anyone i ncarcerated between
September 1 ,1978 and March 1,
1979 is eligible to enter PEN's
sixth annual writing contest for
prisoners. Cash awards of $100,
$50 and $25 will be given for winners in poetry (not to exceed 100
lines)and non-f iction (essay notto
exceed 5,000 words). Entries
must be submitted no laterthan
March 1,1979, in Englishonly,
typewritten or legibly hand written
onïVz" I11" papér. Writers
may submit only one entry in each
category and should keep duplicate copies of the manuscripts
submitted. All manuscripts should
be unpubl ished by any other than a'
prison publ ication. Entries should
be sent to: PEN Writing Awards
for Prisoners,4T Filth Avenue,
NewYork, NY,10003.
It is sometimes good to take heart
from those small victories which
the movement for peace and justice ach ieves from time to time. At
the beginnin got 1979wecan be
thankful that last year no one was
legallyexecuted in anyof the
states. Very often those off icial S
who work with men and women on
death row come to oppose capital
punishment. lt is the politicians,
convinced that publ ic opinion
demands vengeance, who keep it
alive. Mass opinion to provethem
wrong can have its effect. Therefore, all of us must redouble our
efforts to wipe out this relic of bar-

barism

forever'

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Larry Gara

anuary 25, 1979

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lTlUSIC

with Willie and they speculated formiqg a men's arts than competition. People l'm performing with seem
task force, partly aimed at producing a record. J eff
more interested in me, than what I can "cutl' as a

Langleyofferedenthusiasmandencouragement.

lt

wasn't until almost a year later that Folkways said
that they'd press and distribute an album if thé collective produced the

tapes.

musician.Astheygivememoresupportforbeinga
human being, my musical abilities will just f low out of

that. As I relax I get more imaginative.
When I performed in high school, irl male rock
bands, lwasgettingsquashedallthetime. lwas

LargelythroughWillie'sletterwritingandpersistence,themen'smusiccollectivebegan.Thegroup scaredtodeath,'causeitwasacaseofwhetheryou.t
now has over 17 members f rom all gver the US, and could " cutiI" or not. My father was a musician and
has combined energies with Eix wo'men to create the that was his attitude too: "Can you cut it?"

album.

Kenny: Something really important happened, along
same line, for me. One of the many reasons why I
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Sordill, - wasn't enth usiastic when f irst join ing the collective
Michael Hussin, Ceorge Fulginiti-Shakar and Kenny was that I was af raid that a lot of people were going to
The following interview took place on August
1978, with four collective members: Willie

Arkin.

bebetterthan me. Everytime lheard someone play,

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Demian: when did the couectiüebegin to runction
Willie: The f irst time I think any of us acted as a col-

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ror a iot or the

reasons that Michael was just saying, because there

lectivewasinputtingtogethertheAprillstconcert. wassupportandtherewasencouragement. lfeltat

The people in Boston worked cooperatively, men

and

Demian: You knew a record was in the works and
concert was mainly to make money for it?

the

women , putting that

WATLSTOROSES:

SONGSOFCHANGINGMEN
A Men's Music Collective
Folkways/$S.50.
The Walls to Roses: Songs of Changing Men album is

ripe with political thought. lt is emotionally and
musically f ull and satisfying. The album presents us
with several f irsts and a dramatic departure from traditional male musical gr:oups.

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While women's recordings have been collectivelf
done for some time now, i.e. Lavender Jane, Berkeley
Women's Music Collective and various Olivia iecording artists, this is the f irst l've known of a male music

The musical styles run from folkie and night club to
rock and iazz, withtraces of Rich ie Havens and J immie Cliff in two numbers. lt is always fresh,
invigoratíng and thoughtf ul. The voices and lyrics are
diverse. The total resulting sound has an impressive
cohesiveness and emotional powerthat makes an

enviable first album.
To raise money for recording and transportation,
the collective put on two concerts in Cambridge last
collective. More importantly, it is a collective aimed at year. I enjoyedthefirst benefiton April 1, 1978. The
producing music that sþeaks to issues of sexism, and
second concert, on August 17, immediatelyfollowing
to men who are growing and changing and supporting the taping of the album, impressed me even more.
women's struggles. lt strives for a more positive viThe interpersonal energy of the performers was warm
sion of masculinity.
and friendly. This was the f irst time l'd ever heard
Thgsong "AreYou Karen Silkwood?" notonly
and seen men playing foreach other. l'd feltthis ocaddresses the danger of nuclear energy and corporcasionally among the women performers at women's
ate,/government ties and lies, but also frames the
concerts, bùt never before.among rrtêñ; The energy,
issue so as to express how Karen had to step out of the support and love given and accepted between memoppression of being awoman and aworker in orderto
bers of the collective putthem into high gear and was
collect evidence.
an inspiri ng model for the audience.
Several songs on the album claim the right to give
The collective credits the women's and gay
and get emotional support from other meñ. Nonlgay
libeîation movements for leading them to examine
as well as gays sing of helping each other's struggles.
the mean i ng of mascul in ity i n our culture. They trace
"The Matador" shows the folly of rigid male heroism. their immediate historyto the Third National Cath''Walls to Roses" soars with exuberance over learnering on Men and Masculinity in Des Moines, lowa, in
ing to be friends with father, women and other men.
March '77.Willie Sordilland Ceof Morþan (who has
"Sensitive Little Boy" satirizes the labels that are
been distributing a cassette of his musið) had played
forced on gay men and speaks out against role-playmusic there that spoke to the i ssues of sexism, men
ing. "Cay Spirit" is a celebration of f uture times of
changing, and men supporting women's struggles.
open love throughout the land.
They informally èontacted others after the conference
in an effort to make this kind of music more widely
Demian is a cultitral worker in the visual and peravailable.
forming arts now Iiving in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Another conferee, Ray Makeever, got together
copyright @ by Demian January 1979

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together.

Willie:Yeah.
Michael: And arouse interest in it and get more support.
Willie: Raise consciousness also.
Demian: How did you all meet?

the end that I was standing as an equal with every
other person . I haven/t felt that in the past. . v,vith
men.
Willie: The collective process came home strong to

meattherecording,choosingthesongs. ltalso
helped me with evaluating what kind of musician I
want to be, ar¡d how I can þest achieve my goals. lt's
given me energy to move in directions I wasn't
moving in before. To reach out with forms of music
Witlie: I met most of the collective members through that aré listenable to large numbers of people.
ads, but I introduced myself to Michael. Michael was George: The recording process took place Monday,
Tuesðay and Wednesday. Sometime Tuesday I
the only male musician l'd seen in concert who
addressedspecificallytheissueofsexism.lnbetween noticedthatlwouldlookbackatwhatwasgoingon
songs,hehadmadesomestatementsaboutwhatit andfeelthatlwasabouttocry. lhadn'tworkedwitha
- meaìttohim,asaman,tobeplayingmusicwith groupofmenbeforewhoindividuallycaredsomuch
aboutwhattheyweredoing. The realpersonalmotifeministwomen.
Demian: What is the main purpose of the collective? vation ref lected in the quality of the way we interacted.
The philosophy? Why do thealbum? .
--l,andotherpeople,wereconsistentlyputtingour

MicÉael:Wã'rãfirmíyiorriti"Jtooverthro*ingthe

two.
George: We started out, the first time we'd all seen
each other, with a general discussion of goals. But it
. wasn't like " Let's agree on goals. ''' lt was just,
"What are each of our goals?" There was a piece of
paperonthewallwhichwasfilledwithpeople'sideas.
Kenny: I think through the whole process there was a
patriarchy. (general laughter) ln about

(morelaughter)

lotof growingof people'spolitics.

a

year or

Formethat'sthe

testofagoodcollectiveprocess;onethatlseeas
having a lot of political input, as well as getting

energy right there. We had long meetings, over-extensionsandtoomanyrehearsals. Through itall,
people would agree on what they needed to do, give
each other hugs and strokes, remember how important this was, and go back and do it again.
My respect for every single one of the people that I

workedwithisincredible. lt'ssuperlative. ldon't
think l've seen such dedication to an idea, to a cultural
ideal,before,as.lhavewiththisgroupof men. lfeltso
supported.

some- Michael: I know how long it usually takes to put to-

:ñ'j"î'fiiiîifå;ir"il,iïüäil:i i"i:[:ifn"i3nt

i:i:ïÍ"iT1å1;,,n other peopre rd just never
thought of it. This changed everything. Thinking of people who never met before, but we had to go into a
myself aspartof awholeandnotfeelingisolated. l'm rtr.i¡oandrêcordit.Which¡¡"anrtherewerãnooptaking it more seriously, l'm putting more energy into portunities for mistakes.
it, so the qtrality is better
I th in k the fact that we had such a strong purpose,
'n',1å

Demian:Anyoneelsefindthathappeningtothem astronggoal,tookustoahigherlevelof abiliti. lt

too? A change musically or

personally?

being inMichael:
volved with both women and men, playing feminist
and anti-sexist music, has made me more conf ident
and safer about playing in front of audiences. 'Cause I
feel a great deal of support, caring and love, rather
I know that the whole process of

didn't feel like a drain to me. There were times when I
felt tired out, but I got by on four or f ive hours sleep,
for f ive days.
Willie: I think our inexperience is actually an asset,
because people who t talked to, who have more experience, said what we were going to do

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women/s struggles, it didn't make sense to not have
women involved in the production.
Willie: I feel that their actual involvement in the
album was.a much stronger statement'than any song
could have made in supportof women.

Walls to Roses collective members
Kenny Arkin (left), Michael Hussin
(right), and Ceorge Fulginiti-Shakar
(below). Photo by Demían.

Michael: I thinkwhatwe're doing is pointingtoadirection in the future. Men and women, straight and
gay men, straight and gay women, working
together to enlarge our vision of what human beings

Contact
Advance orders may be placed by sending a check

for $5.50 madeoutto "Wallsto Roses" toWalls to
Roses, 20 Highland Ave.;:Apt. #3, Cambridge, MA
02139.
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are and what we are capable of .
l'm looking forward to continuing the process.

aroundthis album. I seethatwhen thealbum ison the
streets, and people st4rt listening to it, there's going
to be awhole new process set ¡n motion. I hopewe get
feedback and criticism. l'm surethere's going to be
criticism. l'm looking forwar{.to allthat. I seethe album being the beginning of sôfnethinB.

Members of the collective are: Tom Aalf s,
Kenny Arkin, Blackberri, Ceorge Fulginiti-Shakar,
Jonny Colden, Eric Cordon, Christopher
Hershey, Michael Hussin, Charlie King, Jeff
Langley, RayMakeever, Ceof Morgan, Charlie

Murphy, Robbie Rosenberg, Fred Small, Willie
Sordill, and Chris Tanner.
Women who worked on the album are: Ci4ny
Bales, Marcia Deihl, Karen Kane, Cercie Miller,
Ellen Shub, and MarciaTaylor.

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We didn't know it was impossible. Also being sort
of f resh, we wanted badly to get our best down on the
record and capture the spirit of what we were feeling.
Kenny: Very important to th is recordi n g experience
was the work and how I sometimes envision the future; how l'd like th ings to be working together with
people fqr a purpose that I believe in. Most days of my
life I don't have the constant supportof people who t
love and who care about me surrounding me. i don't
have dhe constant visión before me of something l'm
tryi n g to create, Both were part of th i s experience,

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Michael: That's exactly what work should be about.
Kenny: One othertime I feltthis was the first occupation of Seabrook, two sprinþs ago. There were 2,0(i0
people on the site who were allthere for acornmon
purpose. This is what it could be like, we're doing this
together,this is what life could be like all the time.
There was a time outon the porch whèn we alltook
the picture (of the whole collective). We all started
dancing and singing.
Willie: One of the things we sang out on the porch was
a linefrom Charlie King's song: "You're life is more
than your work, and your work is more than your job."
Walls to Roses collective member Willie Sordill. Photo by Demian.

Demian: Werethere other issues that came up
besides work?

Kenny: Whatwas really importantto mewas working
with a Third World man. Firsttime I ever did that. lt
was a step forward for me, cutting through myown
racism. lt made a big dent, and that feels fineto me.
The supportthat manyof the non-gaymen showed
toward gay struggles made a big impression on me. ln
collecting materialforthe record Willie and several
other non-gay men said why they thought it was important to include gay material relating to the experienceof manyof usgrowing upandfeeling like

sissies.
Michael

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gay-

identi-

íed men who were out and strong about that. The

experience of being with them was important for me.
felt very close, and opened up parts of myself that I
don'tthinkcould have been opened up in anyother

context.
Kenny: Working with women felt easy, I didn't feel

likethere was

a

lotof struggle. I didn'tfeel timid. I felt

Broud of who I was and what I was doíng with this
group of men.
Willie: Gota nice letterfrom Cinny Bales, who played
electric bass on the album, talking about how good
she felt working with the men in the collective. She
wrote that she felt there wasn/t overt or subtle
sexism, and that was good to hear.
George: A collective decision was madeto actively recruit women for positions that we thought women
were not usual ly given, traditional ly exempt f rom,
like produceror sound studiolechnician. Also as paid
back-up musicians. Mostly through Willie's efforts
women were contacted who could do those jobs and
will be paid out of the advance orders.

Michael: Originallythere was some thought about
having the album with just men on it. We discussed
that and the women we knew felt that didn't seem
appropriate. Since this album was in support of
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lnsubordination
"You who don't believe me,
trysaying no.{'
Fired from a job again
because l'll sayyesorno
just as it strikes me,
not as

work&wonder
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l'm instructed.

The social worker shuff les the cards
I wish I could say he smiles but
he smirks. He says
"These are all possibilities,
now what do you want?"

lf this were a game t'd play
with the hand l'm dealt,
lf I could begin again, l'd work
with my hands toform my life.
Makè wood, earth, stone, fiber

Woke just before dawn 6:15.
Ribbons of light
stretched on the wall.
Worked nine hours today:
3 in the garden ðlearing

cutting & burning &
with my father painting
a building on Main street.
private garden
& public building
6

Came home & took a bathmuch dirt in the water.
White paint still catches
in my hairbrush.

into food, clothes or homes, no

Tonight i travel 25 miles

matter so long as it was well-made.
Things of real benefit.
Gotany job likethat?
The work is always there.
Sometimes we're paid oneway;
sometiines another; sometimes

to hear.a friend play music.

we have to pay. Take care
'of

Moving, listening I think
how lucky it is to have a body

-Steve Lewandowski

yourself. This istheway.
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campaigns, and public demonstrations in orderto
highlight the moral, political, and economic imperativeof disarmament. Addit¡onally, the group is
making a positive itatement w¡th its altèrnaiive
fund. This fund, comprised of refused war taxes,
personal savings, and groupdeposits, makes interest-free loans to social change and service groups
(primarily in Delaware and Chester Counties, PA.)
Contact: the Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund, 51 Barren Rd., Media, PA 19063.

DC AREA PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MILITARY
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WANTED- a familyto ioin us on 80 acres in northwestern Wiscon sin . We envision a land trust, rural
peace institute with local and neighboring urban
outreach, concèrning peaceful living styles, wartax
resistance, alternative energy, faithful vi sion. Send
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Bookstore nowopen: The Bookcase, 109 Mesa SE,
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PUBL¡CATlONS
For a bookentitled Radical Humor: An Anthology,
Tuli Kupferberg and Michael Brown are soliciting
suggestions and exam ples of radical (and anti-establishment) iokes, cartoons, aphorisms, "quips,"
quotations, songs, poem5, essays, stories, skits and
plays etc. etc. of all countries and periods. Please
send suggestions and materials to Tuli Kupferberg,

Wanted: Social change workers (various issues) to
live/work in Maine. Living expenses provided.
Share homestead responsibilities. I NVERT, RFD 1,
Newport, ME 04953.

210Spring St., NewYork, NY10012.

The Comm ittee on United States-Latin American
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Centrefor Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy, is
durrently searching for a new staff person. The job
concerns working with students, primarily at Cornell, and community people in developing educationãl program s around the current ¡ssues in Un ¡ted
States-Latin American Relations. A staff person
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Join Us in Washington on February 12
Unfurl the banner that was torn up in the USSR and
confiscated at the White House.
On September 4, seven Americans travelled to the Soviet
Union. They unfurled this banner at the Kremlin. They were
detained less than an hour, then released. llt the same time
eleven other Americans were arrested with thelr banner on the
White HoUse Lawn. They were jailed for two days and charged
with Unlawful Entry. After a seven day trial they were found

guilty' Now they face up to six months in prison.

On FEBRUARY 12 at 9:30 am in Superior District Court (500
Indiana Avenue, NW) the judge will sentence them. Come join
the eleven there. Help hold up the banner that was taken from
them. Whatever their sentence, we will carrytheir message on
to the White House.

At NOON we vi'ill rally in Lafayette Park opposite the White
Itrouse. We will ask the president to reply to out message NO'
NUCLEAR WEAPONS-NO NUCTEARPOIVERI Can he explain to us how the newly increased militarybudget of almost
124 billion dollars expresses his campaign dream of "eliminating nuclear weapons from the face of the e arth?" Many of us
will sit down and wait for an answer.
Buses will leaVe on Sunday and Monday. If you are coming
Sunday night bring sleeping bags or mats. Arangements are
being made for simple accomodations. Dress warmly (very),

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