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IN THE PROVINCES
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Vietnam Vets Get
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box 547
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lations in the South than in any other
section of the country and more
Southern men are drafted or conned
into the Army than are those from
other sections. The South has got to be
changed.
\)
To get things going officially we
called for a conference. God bless conferences. ln a very hillbilly setting,
tucked away in the mountains of North
Alabama, about fifty people from all
over the South Gathered on December
9,1 0, and for a couple of days thereafter, and somehow decided what to
do. Unlike most conferences there were
no scheduled meetings or speakers.
Everyone shared an equal importance,
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as
well
as
everything else.
and hypo-dermic needles. On the back
was a Ron Cobb cartoon and text which
read, in part:
"lf this were Vietnom, bombs not poper - would foll from the
sky. Artillery rounds, bullets ond
napolm not footballs
flv.
-
would
"Figures? More G.l. dead thon
everyone in Folsom Stodium. Look
oround. Vietnamese dead? Over o
million, nobody will ever know
the total amount."
On Nov. 24,fom Roberts, pilot, and
Curt Stocker, leafletter, pleaded not
guilty to charges of littering, flying too
low, and illegally turning the airplane
inside city limits. ln addition, the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration is charging Roberts with "careless and reckless
people
from
on April 5. On that day
flight" which could mean loss of one
the South will make it known in their
own communities that they are no long- or all of his pilots licences.
C.U. won, 52-1 7.
er cooperating with a political and social
-Joyce
lnstit ute I\4o untai n/West
system that is on a death trip.We intend
We decided to have Resistance Day
i)r
.l
to work for draft resistance, tax resistance, military resistance; with mothers
RESISTANCE DOWN SOUTH
Have you ever heard of the Southeastern Resistance? Of course you
haven't. lt was all just a rush we had
one night sitting on the front porch.
So we started presenting the idea to
other people and found committed,
beautiful people popping up all over the
p
lace.
Before I go further let rre explain
what all the excitement is about. The
South is, essentially, the military's major resource for manpower and public
support. There are more military instal-
MP WON-OVER BY WRL FILES
and church groups; and for anything
FOR CO DISCHARGE
else that we have the resources. An
"Well, I finally did it,"writes David
important job will be turning people on- Zimmerman, MP at Sandia Army Base
to ways to confront institutions and
in Albuquerque. "l filed my applicatlon
to get into alternative life-styles.
for discharge from the Army on the
It's going to be a lot of hard work.
basis of conscientious objection. lt was
But, what we get accomplished between one of the most signiflcant steps in my
now and April 1 5, and thereafter, could life.
mean a new South and no nuclear-mass"l owe quite a bit of thanks to all
world-destruction! lf you'd like to help the people at WRL. You've all been a
us do the impossible, just write the folsource of inspiration and courage. you,ve
lowing folks: Steve Flipps, c/o AWIN,
helped me think about war and my reP.O. Box l4ll, Atlanta, Ga.; Charles
lationship to it and provided publications
Moore or Dave Smith, 309 West Mt.
that enabled me to get more informaAve., Jacksonville, Ala.; Bill Gray, WRL tion to help me think. Thanks very
Peace Bus, c1o WRL, 339 Lafayette St., much for publishing my initial story in
New York, N.Y.; North Carolina ResisWRL NEWS and in WlN."
tance, P.O. Box 5404, Raliegh, N.C.;
ln that srory Zimmerman told how
Mike Kaney, Box 10342, Greenville,
on May 3 he was ordered to arrest WRL
S.C.; Fred lngram, 2000 34th St
Southwest demonstrators at the base
South St. Petersburg, Fla.
and concluded: "l'm sorry'l had to arSend money if you can't send yourresl them and I plan to never again parself .
-Charles Moore ticipate in a demonstration in such a
capacity."
,.P.
THE PLANE TRUTH
Vietnam Vets Against War dropped
LOCAL LIMITED DURATTON
23,000 "Blood Money" leaflets out of
PROTECTIVE
REACTION RAtD
a rented plane (they had been trained
"limited
in Vietnam to drop propaganda leaflets)
A
duration protective reaction" strike was launched early this
on Folsom Stadium in Boulder, Colo.,
at the Colorado University - Air Force morning, December 28,1971, by the
football game on November 20. Only a Direct Action Project of the Syracuse
Peace Council. The doors of the Air
few hundred leaflets made it into the
Force and Navy Recruiting Station
stadium because of wind.
were chained shut to prevent more
The "One Million Dead" bills feaSyracuse men from being trained to
tured Tricky Dicky Warmaker, bombs,
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carry out the Southeast Asian air war.
warmly when the service ended.
Although the many communities
which the pilgrims passed through
seemed unaffected by the long journey,
small groups of sympathetic peoole
This action protests Richard M.
Nixon's directive to again intensify bombardments of North Vietnam, which
have continued since the supposed
.l
bombing halt in 968, and have greatly escalated in the last few days.
To dramatize the realities of the U.S.
air war, blood has been spilled on the
doorstep and sensor devices were spread
around the.entryway. U.S. dropped
sensors to cover large areas of the
ground in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, transmitting signals set off by
anything that moves. These signals are
then transmitted to computers which
analyze and call forth varying types of
weapons, including bombs designed
only to penetrate human flesh.
This local "protective reaction strike"
has been carried out in a nonviolent
manner unlike Nixon's sfrike which
means death and suffering to thousands. This action has been taken in
solidarity with Vietnam veterans who
have occupied lhe Starue
of Liberl"y in
New York and the Betsy Ross House in
Philadelph ia.
Direct Action Project of the Syracuse
showed great hospitality and listened
and shared ideas with the pilgrims about
the present air war, resistance, and the like.
Yet, through radio and press coverage,
many people in the communities knew
of the pilgrimage, knew of its purpose.
Despite great passivity, many were reminded, in a gentle way, that the war
continues and true peace was not to be
found this Christmas 1911.
The story was completely different
at the U.S. Military Academy. The vast
majority of people there were keenly
aware of the pilgrims coming. The
military police were on alert in case of
trouble. ln earlier conversations with the
ministers, it was obvious that they feared
some sort of disruption. lnstead they
were faced with friendly young people
singing Christmas carols and passing out
roasted chestnuts. And, more importantly, they knew why we had come
to bring a message of peace and recon
ciliation.
There was another important value
in the pilgrimage. For the pilgrims, a real
community sprung up as they shared
SIXTY.SIX MILES FOR PEACE their journey with each other. And this
The Christmas Eve Candlelight Serloving community spoke more eloquentvice at the West Point Cadet Chapel began ly than words about the spirit of Christas planned at 'l 930 hours. The only unmas, the spirit of peace. The Christmas
usual event was the presence of 1 5 young Peace Pilgrimage, most of all, affected
peace activists sprinkled among the corr
the pilgrims themselves. lt brought a new
gregation. The young people, weaJing the strength and joy to their lives. They could
clothing of travellers, had just completed
truly say the prayer that was part of
a 66 mile walk from Woodstock, N.Y.
the West Point service: "For we, too,
to the Military Academy. They had called
it the Christmas Peace Pilgrimage and
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had begun their journey five days before
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from the village green at Woodstock.
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For each of the five days, they spent
r"-"ffr
their time walking, leafletting shopping
,
centers, and, in the evenings, talking
, t1t:;;E".:;tt
with people about nonviolence and peace
and sharing the joy of the Christmas'
,4i
Peace
Council
t'Yj
with them.
Fkrwever, the most irnportant event was their presence at the
West Point service. I-hving been granted
permission to attend by the Provost-Marshall
season
'.ffi
,iffi
are on a pilgrimage of the soul; we need
so much lo know your purpose incar-
nate in the mystery of this child. Amen."
--rACK Ril_EY
CUBAN FtLM FESTIVAL
At long last someonc
has the courrge
and patience to put together a Cuban
film festival. Scheduled to run from
March 24th to April 2nd in New York,
Americans will have their first chance
to see some of the best features and
documentaries from the blooming cuban
film industry. The U.S. lmmigration Service permitting, two leading Cuban filmmakers, Alfredo Guevara and Santiago
Alvarez, and two other men connected
with Cuban filrnmaking will be in New
York to participate in the festival's work
shops and discussion groups.
The bulk of the footage will roll at
Olympia Theatre, l07th Sr. and Broadway in New York City. Some showings
will also take place at the l\luseum ol'
Modern Art and on New York's Channel
13.
Admission price for the evening feature showings will be 93.00. The daily
admission price which includes all workshops and other activities as well as documentary showings is g 1 .50. A special
festival ticket is available for $25 which
lets you into everything. 'fickcts and
schedule information will be available
in February from The Cubarr Film Festival and American Documentai-y Films,
of the festival, 336 West 84th
Street, l!ew York City (10024), telephone
co-sponsors
(212) 199.1440.
The festival should provb to be a very
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(the pilgrims planned to attend even if
permission was denied) but told that
any sort of demonstration would result
in arrest, the pilgrims simply joined the
congregation amid a few surprised looks.
All the participants felt a real value just
in this presence and this was reinforced
by the many people who greeted them
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special event of interest to a wider audience than the hard-core film buffs.
As the festival sponsors point out," The
festival itself is more than iust the
tng of a group of films. Becau::
show-
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Ih.
character of the film work exhibited
and the presence of two controversial
and innovative filmmakers, the event
promises to expose the manifestations
of a culture and a society in change, and
a people consciously seeking a social
goal. The films in the program, although
all made by Cubans and dealing with
topics pertinent to the ideas of the revolution, cover a wide spectrum of interests and areas."
The Cuban film industry is very much
STENCILING AGAINST WAR
TAXES
We,ve been having a grand time
trucking arouncl Oenver, keeping one
eye out for the cops and the other eye
out for the mail people. We,ve been ex-
perimenting with ,,peoples communication.,' Armed with a 24 X 36 stencll
and a couple of cans of Montgomery
Ward,s 99cent spray paint, we have
stenciled scores of mail boxes, construction sites, phone booths, etc. with:
DISCONNECT THE WAR
WOMEN TAKE ACTION AT
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
We, the women at American Univer-
sity, had been struggling for a birth
control clinic on campus and, for the
past nine months, had been shoved
aside by the male administration. We
decided to act.
On Nov. 29th, 40 sisters took over
President Williams' office and waited for
hinr to appear. Brothers stood outside
in the hallway and supported our action .
After three hours of waiting, he came
unescorted. We advised him to sit down
DON,T pAy FEDERAL
pHONE TAX
and calmly discuss the matter with us.
He reluscd 1o dnswer any questions
The local morning paper carried
which we asked, so we refused him aca,/opage picture wi.ih a iavorable capa child of the revolution. Prior to.Batista's
tjon und description of one of the mail_ cess to his phone and did not allow
fall what filmmaking occured on the is-,
[J*.r, uno did it without having been him to ieave the room.
land was largely devoted to super-raunchy
Williams was flnally freed after affiir.O. Lately people have been
porno flicks made largely for export.
puinting over some of the stencils, and. bout an hour when the A.U. security
Since the revolution, one of
,Latin ,has :l;rl cop has asked one of our friends guards ripped out one of the doors.
America's most vital film industries
A1l of us were ordered to leave on the
if f.''. f.n"* anything about who was
developed there, however, surpassing in
threat of arrest. Seven of us remained.
,"aJ.orating gov,t riailboxes, but so
creativity and innovative spirit anything
The security informed us of our rights,
far nothing has happened in terms of
known in the larger Mexican, Brazilian anc
but they didn't include the right to
piosecution.
Argentine industries.
control our own bodies. Therefore, we
We have gotten favorable feeCback,
New York may not be the only place
informed them that it is our right to
exciting
and
feel
is
an
that stenciling
and
these films will be seen in America.
have the birth control clinic on campus.
Lf"ctiv. way of commur.ricating (esl
Festival sponsors say req.uests are arWe were then arrested and three of
peciaily good in conjunction with some
ready coming in from other cities to
us
were dragged out of our "liberated
local project that otters an outlet for
move the festival there after playing
territory" into the security car to be
action having once read the stencil.
the applc'
taken to the local precinct. The people
- L.S.B. a.rio., wanting to express our own
our actlon outside the ofsupporting
exuberence about stenciling, we are
ANTI-WAR TOY LAW IN
quickly followed the car
fice
building
peowriting this in the hopes that other
CALIFORNIA
and blocked it by sitting in the street,
ple
the
country
will
design
across
stenDespite pressure from California's
allowing the three women to escape
cils and develop this form of commur.rsizeable toy industry, a bill prohibiting
from the car. The four women who were
ication. Remember: mobile tactics can
the sale and manutacture of war toys
still in the office were intimidated but
be
fu
n.
and "sadistic" torture toys passcd the
were finally released on the pretense
the
United
Against
War
state Assembly and Senate by narrow
-Stencilers
that thev were to be arrested at a later
margins and has been signed by Goverdate.
nor Reagan. The law takes effect J uly 1 .
lhe results of this action were f ive susPassage of the law climaxes a 6-year
pensions which rvere Iater recinded due to
campaign by Assemblyman John Burpressure f rom the univcrsity communton of San Francisco against what he
iry. V.P. Hodinl.^o sei up lhe University
calls "sadomachistic" toys. His bills inCourt
System to try the women, but
variably were killed in committee. The
the ludges dropped the charges. No
passed
one that was
is somewhat less
arrests were made.
stringent than'its predecessors, but
We set up our own clinic on the
nevertheless sets a precedent.
lawn of President's Williams building
One war toy, which Dan Adelmann,
and sisters and brothers stayed there
salesman in a San Diego discount
all night in the cold to show their suphouse toyland, described to a reporter
as one
of
his best selling items, at 95.88,
represents a Vietnam battlefield with
dead and dying soldiers, lying in tortured positions with ragged wounds.
"lf people don't want them, we
wouldn't carry them," Adelmann commented. Under the new law, he won't
be able to "carry them" after July 1.
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J.P.
port.
President Williams fi nally consented
to having some form of gynecological
services on campus next semester. Bu[
we have told him under what conditions
these services would arrd would not be
acceptable. We refuse to have our bodies and our lives controlled by these
nrale administrators. We will not com-
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"Give me your tired, your poor;
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!,'
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from the inscription in the
m{r
Statue
of Liberty
ln late January and early February there was
the first Winter Soldier lnvestigation, held
in a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in Detroit. ln mid-April the week-long "limired
incursion of the country of Congress," codenamed Operation Dewey Canyon
lll,
was
conducted by some 2,500 veterans of the
war in lndochina-l ,000 of whom made world
history by successfully "occupying" the Mall
in direct confrontation with the Administration.
Then in what Time magazine recently recalled
as "one of the war's most moving demonstrations," at the week's end some 700 of the
veterans threw their war medals into a rubbish
heap in front of the Capitol.
l97l also saw the national emergence of
Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert, a much-decorated
Vietnam war veteran (and the most decorated
enlisted man in the Korean war) who formally
charged two of his superiors with covering
up war crimes, praised the Winter Soldier
lnvestigations, and under intense pressure
resigned his army commission. There was
also Lt. Col. David Hackworth, the army,s
acknowledged "expert" on guerrilla war, who
had spent some five years in Vietnam, who
resigned his commission with a blast against
the Nixon "Vietnamizati'on" program, vowing
to work "outside the institution,, to help
end the war. Then, of course, there were
the "Pentagon Papers," dramatically released
to the press by civilian Vietnam war ,,veteran,,
surrounding metropolitan region. And two
in crew cuts and athletic jackets came, perhaps
to heckle, and stayed to grudgingly admit
their admiration and respect for the long-haired
vets'Statue of Liberty ,,caper.',
And on Monday, December 2Tth,thefirst
full day of the sit-in. another group of VVAW
members briefly occupied the Betsy Ross
House in Philadelphis (a move her great-great_
great-grandson called the vets,office to congratulate)
while out on the west coast another group
just back from Vietanm held a hospital ward
at Travis Air Force Base for several hours.
On Tuesday, a larger group occupied the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, resulting in g5 arrests.
Daniel Ellsberg.
197-l also saw a West Point graduate, army
major Joseph Westbrook, who had been decorated with three silver stars in Vietnam,
win a conscientious objector discharge during
his second tour in the war. 197.1 saw former
navy lieutenant John Kerry, another silver star
holder, achieve national prominance as a result
. of his testimoriy before the Senate Foreign
Relat ions Comminee on behalf of rhe 20,000member Vietnam Veterans Against The War.
The year also saw two critically-acclaimed
antiwar plays, written by playwright David
-l966
Rabe (a
Vietnam veteran), running
simultaneously at the Public Theater in New
York. lt saw the dedication of the Vietnam
Veterans Peace and Brotherhood Chapel in
Eagle's Nest, New Mexico--a father's memorial
to his buried son and all the other victims
of the war. And on Veterans Day 1971,
the year saw demonstrations in cities and towns
all over America conducted by the VVAW:
in many cases, supplanting the traditional
parades lnd memorial services.
But nothing seemed as symbolic of the
year:or as dramatic-as the "capture" of the
Statue of Liberty the day after Christmas by 15
members of the Vietnam Veterans Against The
And on Wednesday, yet another VVAW group
sat-in at the South Vietnamese consulate
in San Francisco. All these demonstrations
were part of the VVAW,s Operation peace
On Earth, which further included a campin and Christmas Eve services at Valley Forge,
and demonstrations in Chicago; Killeen, Texas;
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Yet by far the most dramatic of these
various planned and unplanned VVAW demonstrations over the "holiday season,, was the
sit-in at the Statue of Liberty. As the New york
Daily News accurately noted, there
was in it a clear-cut ,,clash of symbols,,, which
might best be termed ',the Spirit ol '71.',
Against the statue's famous raised light, the
vets had hung an upside-down American flag;
against the statue's raised arm, the vets posed
for pictures with raised fists. And against
Emma Lazarus' famous last stanza of her lgg6
ode to' the "Mother of Exiles,,, the vets profoundly contrasted their own exile from 1971
America.
As American let fighter-bombers once
again carried out 24-hour continuous air-strikes
on North Vietnam, perhaps the best statement
of why the 15 individual veterans had decided
to do what they did was made in this poem
by an air f,orce veteran:
War.
"43 hours! We held the Statue of Litrerty:
I don't believe it!" shouted one of the veterans
in a 33rd Street-bound taxi shortly after (under
threat of a federal court injunction) the group
finally gave up the world-famous monument.
Dazed by their "headline-grabbing,, succcss
(and lengthy lack of sleep), the various members
of the VVAW demonstration could only marvel
at the attention their Liberty lsland sit-in
had gained in the national and international
press.
"lronr
page in rhe (paciiic edirion) Srars
and Stripes! Front page in the New york
Times! Front page even in the Daily Newsl,,
exclaimed another of the vets. ,,Wow: that,s
reaching the people we wanted to reach-the
guys in Nam and the people at home.,,
Certainly the Statue of Liberty,,seizure,,
reached other Vietnam veterans. Two drove
into Battery Park Tuesday morning to offer
support, after hearing about it the previous
afternoon in Detroit. Two others showed up
trom Los Angeles. Others came from the
lle stand inside this stotue
my brothers ond
with
us
I
all who hove fought
and died
for their freedom
lle have leorned
lhal one cannot be free
if another
is a slave
ll/e have leorned
thot one connot kill onother
without himself dying
we shall
we sholl
we sholl
we sholl
not be sloves
not enslove
not be killed
not kill
ony more
freedom is universal
or it exists not at all
Daev shafran
on the thirty-eighth hour
of the rededicotion
of the Stotue of Liberty
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ln addition to Daev Shafran, at least
five others.in the group were air force
veterans, a new development in VVAW
activities which in the past seemed largely
to be carried out overwhelmingly by
army and marine veterans. With the renewed
bombing of the north, however, each
had his personal memories and therefore
an extra bitter taste of conscience to
live with. Bob Clarke could remember
the endless loading of bombs at an air
base in Thailand. jimMurphy remembered
his experiences in South Vietnam.
Lou Pichinson cried when he read his
statement at a press conference after
the sit-in. Bill Garvin and Gene Halpern
(one of the two original organizers of
the Statue of Liberty sit-in) expressed
similarly strong and emotion-strained
feel i ngs.
One of the vets, Mike Parker, had
been in the coast guard, stationed across
the bay from the Statue of LibertY.
Steve Juli, Andy lVlpllor, Tim Holmes
(who read his statement in Vietnamese),
Tim McCormick, and Don Carrico had
been in the marines in Vietnam. RaY
Grodecki (the other of the two original
organizers) and Paul Fichter were in
Vietnam with the army. Bob Barracca,
the 1 5th veteran, forgot to mention his
branch of service when (like each of the
vets) he read a personal statement to
the press.
The preponderance of the vets came
from small towns in New lersey. Others
came from Mass., Conn., upstate N.Y., Penn.,
Md. and Washington, D.C. All had met
at the VVAW campsite at Valley Forge
Christmas Eve. Only three or four had
known each other before. With them,
when they went out to Liberty lslanC
on the tourist boat Sunday afternoon December
26th, they tookWBAl correspondent Paul Fisher,
who for a time was identified by the
rest of the press as the mysterious l6th
veteran who "refused to reveal his identity."
Fisher slipped off the island late Monday
evening with the rest ol the press corps,
an exclusive radio "scoop" in his tape
recorder.
Meanwhile, back on Liberty lsland
the vets spent their last hours before
"giving up" the statue in putting back
the.lumber they had used for barricades,
cleaning the inside of the statue thoroughly
and washing the dishes and cups they
had used in a small workman's kitchen.
On a nearby blackboard they wrote: "Brothers
and sisters, thank you for the sugar and
coffee and food. We want you to realize
the importance of telling our brothers
of all races and colors and creeds (who)
are under arms but refuse to kill that
their Vietnam brothers support them
in peace." On a counter they left an
envelope containing five $.1 bills to
pay for the sugar and food and colfee.
On Thursday, Dec. 30, ten VVAW members
were arrested after a sit-in at a Boston marine
recrulting station, nine were arrested after a sitin at the Hartford, Conn. state armory, while 60
VVAW members in New York presented a l2-point
petition to the president of the Security Council
of the UN. On Friday, Dec.31st,6 VVAW members ended their week-long fast outside the Johnson
Memorial Library in Austin, Texas, while some
100 VVAW demonstrators held a midnight New
Years eve counter-rally in Times Square in coniunction with other New York peace groups.
JAN BARRY
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Time passes and we hardly notice it. lt
a year ago when I returned from
Hanoi carrying 537 letters from American POW's
to their families. ldelivered these letters to
Cora Weiss of the.Committee of Liaison with
was just about
wlrch*"ytl''e
onti-lnc[ ''
rro\errent?
Families
of
American Servicemen Detained in
Vietnam. ln addition, I brought back information from the Vietnamese concerning the where-
of I7 American military who were preto be missing in action in North Vietnam. The Committee of Liaison distributed the
letters to the POW families, made available the
information concerning the 1 7 men to the fam-
abouts
sumed
ilies who had initiated the [nquiry-and then convened a press conference to inform the publicr
about these matters.
A short time later, two events took place
which juxtaposed the incredibly difficult situation
of the movement a year ago. First, a New University Conference group in the Cambridge- Boston
area, led by Ethan Signer, a physiologist at MlT,
organized a community-wide teach-in on Vietnam
and lndo-China at the Boston University Law
School. Mosr of the speakers had recently been
to Vietnam. ln fact, Mort Stavis of the Lawyers Committee had only returned to the U.S.
about a day or two before the teach-in and had
to fly in flom Newark. ln addition to Mort
and myself were Randy Rappaport, women's
movement activist, lay Craven, B.U. student president who ,was part of NSA delegation to formulate the, Peoples'Peace treaty, Cynthia Fredrick,
of CCAS, vvho had just been kicked out of
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Chomsky shortly before leaving the country for
the trip to Vietnam. All of us felt that we had
an important message to communicate - - - - we
had every reason to believe that the war in lndoChina was going to escalate in the immediate
future. Two days later I saw Roz Zinn who.
told me that her daughter had attended the event
and thought it was about the best teach-in she
had ever been to. And, the friend who was
with her agreed that, indeed, it was a really
great teach-in! Too bad that only 35 to 40
people were there in that big law school auditorium, which could hold about a thousand pert
.sons.
A year ago today the movement was
really down. That teach-in brought it home like
nothing
else!
ust about the same time the Defense
Department announced that it had conducted a
raid on a POW camp in North Vietnam.
Defense Secretary Laird defended the action by
completely falsifying the information I had
brought back concerning the Whereabouts of the
17 missing Americans. lt was obvious that the
administration was pushing the POW issue to the
hilt. Public'opinion'was being prepared to
accept the use of "any means necessary" to free
the POW's. The Nixon administration was trying its best to whip up hysteria to support
soturotion bombing and o land invasion of the
North Vietnom. lt was also obvious that the
administration did not give a shit about the
lives of POW's. Rather, it was hell bent on
provoking on incident which would justify a quolitative escalotion of the war in the minds of the
J
Americon people.
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It was in the conlcxt ol'lraving
tirlnl;leltrtl
successful spring ollcnsive .rgainst ()v,jl !rite lntitig
odds that tlte Peoplcs Coalitir.rrr nrr:t irr Nlilrv,rukcc
last.l une. The nromortutr w.ls sfill on. ll *,.ii
an up time. []urthernrore, I,rbor peoplc likc
David Livinton, Moe lronct , and r\bc' I r'ingi,tss
rtstr
to trrri{y l,(,PJ .rirrl Ni,;\(.
They proposed a joint calentlo lor tirr. tall rvlrilh
they believed would elirninate r.livislvcncir iir thc
had taken the initiative
movement. The Peoples Ct;alilion
joint actions for local
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and regional nrass mobilizalions 0n NLrvt:rrrhcr (t.
ln addition, wc rvould plan sornc things of our
own. [:or instance, a lot oI lVlaytiay inlirs,t,',,',,,,
a repeat perform.lnce in Washingtt)n \()iilr) 1rntt. itr
October.
Speaking ol lVlayLlay, I rv,rs rrn tri;ri irr
Washington in mid thror-rgh I.r1c lrrlr,. ,,vith se vgt
other l'olks for having lcd thr: rlcrnolstr.rtirrrr
on thc steps oI thc C,rpitol last l\,l,ry,.5tlt I
remember catching a five rnirrrrLc spri:ci.rl n,Jw5!,r\i
sometime during thrr 1rial. l1 x,,rs ,l tlr ,rlt.rlir
announcement
by Richartl Nixr.rrr irt
announced that his t)ew q,lme pl.rir
ping pong in Pcking rrext sprirrg!
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pi.r1,
Nixon also hacl othcr ganrer irt rrrjrtrl il
his game plan. I his lvas il gJnte i-.tilr:tl lrrczin*
wages and steanting prolits. For ihc Iirsl lilte
in the history of the countr),, ecorrornic t.onlrols
were placed on wag,cs ancl prices tiuring Jreace
time. The corporatc stale w;ts now cviilr..nt rr,r
all to see. lhc goverlrment w.rs no\\, itcting ilirr:ciii,
and openly on bchalt of corporalc rve,tltlt.
ln thc face o1 this tri,o lolrl irriti,rrirL'
by the administration 1o [)rirrg rnort tr,roirs
home and to initiate "pe.ac:c" t,rlks rvitlr llrc
Chinese, what was thc respotrsc fl ont tlrc rrto!c,
ment? There was nonc
There was no asscssmenl ol thir intp,rct
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the initiative and they were going to go with it.
freeze policies. We should havc eonvcrrccl .lrr
A year ago last fall, the anti-war movement
emergency session of thc cooldinatin3 r-'orrinriil, c
was a downer. Well, lthink lcan explain what
to analyse the qualitativcly nelv political sitii.rirt,n
went wrong a year ago but my immediate task
which was re{'lectecl in thc ch.rnging ntor-rrl ol
is to try to explain what went wrong tiis_falL
the Anrerican people, w,lto v,ctr: Ltt((,1)liuLi t.
The point is that we have gone through hard
notion thttt the vtot wos tt'irrrlinq ilovt,rr. lr, -1,
times before and not all that long ago.
we moved ahcad rncchanicallv on llrc joinl r.rl.
It was only last January that we got our- endar built arouncl Oct.otter l.l .rnd i\ovr:rrrlr,-,r {r selves together and formed the Peoples Coalition
and squeezed in belwcen a !Vashington ilcii,rir
for Peace and Justice. ln alliance with the
scenario that lvas evidently desigrreci 1() |lei u\
Students and Youth for Peoples Peace (the long
on to the "road to San Diego".
name for Mayday), and the National Welfare
Given the reality of thc 1-rq1[11.-. t'lt()(){1. \.,,(.
Rights Organization, and the Southern Christian
did much better than J yeirr;rer,. il sucl) ronr
Leadership Conference, and the Vietnam Veterans
parisons are in order. "thc loe al h.rse rl rl, rr ,rAgainst the War, the Peoples Coalition put totorium actions around the c()Lirltr\,wcrc rnuch
gether a spring offensive that started protesting
better than we expccl.ed lhern i.o hr.'. Llt.,lr
welfare cutbacks in Nevada last March, showed up
Levering and Chris Meycrs ol i\FSC, rvlto rve rc
with poor peoples demands on Wall Street in early most responsible lor national coorciin.rlion o1
'l
April, and two weeks later turned D.C. into a
October 3, reportccl that actiorts tot.rii pl.rr-c irr
veterans encampment, a huge mobilization, a
many cities ancl areas rvhere we had Iittlc or rr,r
people's lobby-and exploded in Mayday. ln a
initial contact. Ihe November 6 rtrgional rnasr
three week period from April 18 to May 5, some mobilizations were gerrerally sntalier ttrarr rrrLt.,i,
17,000 people were arrested in the nation's
although 10,000 pcople participatecl irr thr-' l)e n',r,rr
capitol. lt was the most significant mass nondemonstration--and somc 200,0()0 pcrsons irr .rll
violent demonstration this country had seen in
came out on the strect LhJt tirst S.rt urrl.ry' in
the past three decades.
November.
.
t+
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he Washington action was
something
againl Fortunately, some of us were able
to prevail against a heavy cornmitment to direct
mass aclion becausc we did not think we coulci
move folks to Washirrgton for rhat liincl ol-heavy
scene. Rather, rvc urged ihal the Ar_lt>vt:r 22-2b
action focus on polilical erjucation. fo tire
credit of Peoples Coalilion rask 1orce, they 6ii6
shifl gears and concrrntratcci on orgarLizinq;1
Peoples (Grand .l ury) pancl un thc Niron admin_
istration. The Peoples [,;rne I was, in 1fect, a
three day citizens hcaring ori the state of nation.
It was the rnost sustainecl and powertui form of
else
e
political education that the movcment has ever
put together during thc past half ciozen years.
It did not hit the commercial rneclia but the
full proceedings have been preservcci on video
tape and has since been edil.ed fo,.use in the
peoples movement around the country. The
Peoples Panel was a trementjous success. Ihe
mass action which followed was initially cancelleij
by heavy rain--but should have been cancellecl in
'
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I
its entirety by bad political weather! Even
the
phone hook-up with Vietnamese in paris could
have been postponed to a ial_er time.
Washington action Lost the peoples
Coalition more than $40,000 and pur us inro
a rcally heavy debt situation. In addition,
a Iot
of folks were offended by an,,evict Nixon,,
slogan that nroveci everyone on to
,,road
to San Diego". Many forces within the
the peoples
Coalition felt that we should at least have the
chance to discuss this election year strategy
belore
we actecl upon it. A reasonable c.lcmand to be
surel ln short, once again it seemecl :rs though
a tight core of Mayday folks was going to rarn
its program through the Coalition,r],ld t,,run.,.
the tail thar waggecl rhe dog. And so, the
vibrations that c;rme out ol.the tvashington
act io n were bacl
I
During'fhanksgiving weckenrl, the peoples
Coalition convenecl a meeting ol irs n;rtional
coordinating cornmittee. The idea of this
rneerring was to lay out an analysis, map out.r pro_
gram, and work up a rrational structure
which
could move elfectivelv irr the pcriod aheacl. I
was one of sevcral persons tvho w;ts.tsked
to
a draft pr-oposal lor-an electioit year
of acrir.rn. ir4y pi ooos.rl di:alt wirh the
political analysis of the new hislor ic situatiotr,
a critiquc of the,,roacl 1.o San Diego,, linc, anrl
a ge neral program i'or. .rn clc( 1ir)n ve.rr activity.
A portion of the draft proposal loliciws:
subrnit
program
WHERE DO WE GO FROI\4 H[I{E?
One response
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lo Iittt.tt:ov,: rlLrestirtn ir
already undenvay. lt. se1,:, t h;rt the. ntovcmenI
shouid "gcr" on Lhe r.o,.ti.i tr: Stin Dicqo.
lL is
proposed that a millitln pe()ple rltgage in
u
i_ion
violent demonstration .r r rtrc H,.pLri, ir"..rn Nationa
Convention to "cyi11 t\,lix,rn,'1ronr the !Vhite
House. The roatj to Sait Diego, initiated at the
hearings of the peoples Grancl jurv, would
w nd
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its way throught the state wide presidential , printaries. lntensilied exposure rif thc f.r"audulent
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IISS. Cffistelliuon
Eight men of the "Constellation Nine" have been released from the United States
Navy witrr general discharges under honorable conditions. The metr also received travel pay and will receive various veterans benefits'
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Released with them was.l im Mohler, who was unexpectedly transferred from
Saigon after he organized an anti-war petition that gathered over 1,000 signatures
from G.l.,s in Saigon and stimulated other organizing efforts in Vietnam.
The men consid,er their early releases on general discharges a significant
victory. Apparently the Navy did not know what else to do with them, except rethe U.S.S.
lease ihem. They had continued to have an effect on the other men on
expected
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to spend up to a couple years in prison, though they were not necessarily anxious
about it or prePared for it.
The eight men released are Darryl Larrabee, Ronald McLeod, Charlie Andrews,
Scott Flannagan, Jon Obe, Charles Lawson, David Clay, and Jim Mikell' The ninth
man, Dan Hoig decided after taking sanctuary to sail with the ship, reportedly bevery
cause of incredible pressure from his family. The other men still consider him
sympathetic to the cause.
The,,Nine" refused to go to vietnam with their ship, the USS Constellation,
when it sailed October 2 and instead took sanctuary at Christ the King Catholic
Church in San Diego. After two days in the sanctuary the men were taken from the
church at 4:3O A.M. by 2l federal marshalls and Officers of Naval lntelligence. The
fedeial officials were reportedly so nervous about the affair that they entered declaring,"surrender or you will be executed!" when actually they meant to say "Surrendei or I will execute a warrant for your arrest!" One officer also was so nervous
that Charlie Andrews had to handcuff himself because the officer couldn't do it'
The sanctuary grew out of an eight-month educational project in San Diego
aimed at makingthe citizens of that city more aware of the role the USS Constellation played in the lndochina War. The project included a city-wide vote in which
45,060 outof 54,421 people that voted wanted the
Connie to stay home from the war.
Larrabee and Mcleod were transferred to Treasure
lsland Naval Station near San Francisco on October
29, where they officially finished their brig timer
The two were able to stagger their brig time at Tl
so that they could work with the peace Brigade,
Congressman Ron Dellum,s Office, the sanctuary
churches, and the Coral Sea crewmen during the month
of November. While on the base they also launched
an anti-war petition campaign which met with good
success, though many people who were sympathetic
did not sign because they said they were afraid of
reprisal
s.
The other six arrived at Treasure lsland on November
28 and were put in the brig there the next day. lmmediately they began going through discharge procedures
and were finally all released on December 6.
Lawyers and clergy working with the peace Brigade
and Ron Dellum's office watch-dogged the Navy,s
procedures and kept in touch with the men daily in
spite of the brass's increasing reluctance to let civilians
visit them.
The evening of their release there was much celebration as the Peace Brigade meeting for that night
turned inLo a big reunion and a party with homemade
music and homemade beer. people's Union folks from
Palo Alto and others who had worked on the Connie
oroject ioined in to make the whole thing joyously
warm and uplifting.
The following day the men held a press conference
to talk about their experiences over the last two months
The coverage was quite good, and even somewhat
sympathetic from many of the various media that were
there.
Soon after the men were off to San Diego where
they had another reunion with the folks down there
who had been involved with the project and the sanc_
tuary. Then most of the guys split for a while to their
respective home towns. Some plan to stay in their
home areas, while the rest plan to come back to either
the San Diego or San Francisco Bay Areas to work in
ongoing projects aimed at attack aircraft carriers
based in California.
For many of the people who worked on the Connie
Project, seeing these guys released was the culmination
for them of that particular proiect. lt was a moment
that they (as well as the men) had waited for, but had
not expected nearly so soon.
For me the incredible, but simple, strength that
these guys had was a true inspiration. They aren,t
hero-types, nor are they men to be idolized. They
aren't heavy politicos, nor overly intellectual. They,re
basically just average people who somehow found the
strength to make a courageous and moral decision
amidst death, destruction, and repression. That is
perhaps what makes them so beautiful and so important.
- STEVE LADD & RICK ECKEL
ON SANCTUARY
llhen you take sonctuary you know you
have no legol stond, Everyone who is ossocioted with it pretty much has to understond
that. This is especially true in our cose where
we were in the "Missing Ship's Movement,,,
and we knew we would be up for desertion.
We knew the federal morshals would be brought
in not just the local navy. We had to take
into consideration the charges we were golng
to be foced with. I myself expected ot leost
six months in prison, However, they hondled
it all on the ship. lle got thirty doys correctional custody. The novy used this to their
odvantoge. They really couldn't condemn us
for whot we did. Yet we did break novy low,
so we did hove to have some kind of punishment. I think we got off obout os eosy os onyone can expect to get off. Anytime you have
sonctuzry, you're trying to lay everything on
the line ond not trying to hide onything. lf
onyone goes underground, it more or less
looks as though you reolly don't want to foce
up to onything, thot you just wont to run and
withdrlw. ln sonctuory you ore not scored
to put your beliefs ond relsons on the line.
Everything is out in the open ond you con drow
public support. Underground you're just
0mong your personal friends, ond they're
the only ones who know it.
RON MCLEOD,
ONE OF THE NINE
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be said that because
of the protests the U.S.S. Coral Sea wilt
never by the same again. The depth of
feeling against the war on that ship witl pre-
It can safely
vent it from being as effective a fighting force as
it could be. For instance, the three officers frorn
the ship who requested resignations stated that if
they were required to sail with the shlp they would do so,
but woutd not be very effective officers because they did
not believe what they were doing. Likewise, many of
the men who were part of thestop Our Ship movement
(SOS) on board the Coral Sea decided to sail with the
ship because they wanted to continue organizing while
at sea. Slowdowns, strikes, or sitdowns are always
possibilities while the ship is at sea. ln f act, there are
various reports from Hawaii (where the ship recently
stopped on its way to Vietnam) that the SOS movement
on the ship is gainirrg more support.
As the project in San Diego to have the U.S.S.
Constellation stay home sparked the movement on
the Coral Sea, so has the Coral Sea proiect sparked
other movements on other ships. Soon it will be commonplace for attack carriers, destroyers, or other such
ships to have strong protest and resistance movements
on board. The eventual outcome of these movements
could have a powerful effect on ending the war and
curbing American domination of other counl.ries.
ln terms of civilian support, the project excited
and reenergized a worn out anti-war movement. The
Coral Sea pro,ject generated an enthusiasm among antiwar people that hasn't been felt for quite some time;
during this period of the movement it is incredible to
think that over 1,000 persons were dedicated enough
to show up at a support rally at 5 A.M. on a cold, darK
Monday morning. The demonstration proved to be
the largest and most enthusiastic rally ever at a U.S.
Naval base to oppose the war.
The Dramatic sleps that the sailors have taken in
leading the opposition to the war have given new hope
to people who were previously without hope. The
proiect also pulled together people of varying political
perspectives who have never been able to work well
with each other.
One extremely concrete result of the proiect is the
organizing of ongoing sanctuaries within the San
Francisco Bay Area. Also, the support given by the
Berkeley City Council to these sanctuaries, as well as
the provision of a sanctuary facility by the City itself,
is a stand that is already having nation-wide ramifications. lt is by far the strongest stand any city has ever
taken in regards to the war, and it certainly reflects
how deep and urgent feelings are about ending the war.
Hopefully, other governmental bodies, churches, and
other agencies will form sanctuary caucuses across the
country. Soon, perhaps a strong nationwide network
of sanctuaries will exist.
7L
One other important aspect of the project
that for most of us it was our first real
organizing to support men in the military. We
were quite unfamiliar with the different
approaches and organizing styles that we must use.
Subsequently, we made many mistakes. Yet I am
confident that because of our work on the
Coral Sea, we have learned much that will help us with
future G.l. support projects. That chance to apply what
we have learned is right at hand, too.
ln our own backyard, docked in Alameda, are two
more attack aircraft carriers: the U.S.S. Hancock and
the U.S.S. Midway. The Hancock is scheduled to leave
about .f anuary 12, and the Midway is scheduled to
leave in about four months or so. Already men from
both ships have begun organizing on these ships despite Naval repression, and they have contacted us to
help organize civilian suPPort.
The movement on these carriers is significant not
just because the men who are fighting the war are
taking the lead in opposing it and in fighting their own
oppression. lt is significant also because of the increasingly major roles these attack carriers are playing in the
lndochina War. While Nixon continues to withdraw
troops gradually and tells us that the war is winding
down, these carriers are continuing to fight the war
in a much less obvious manner 1'ronr off the slrores of
is
lndochirra.
(As this article is being mailed off to WlN, there
is later word of developments with the Coral Sea. As
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of late December, there are 3 men in the Treasure
lsland brig who did not sail with the Coral Sea. Of
those, eight turned themselves in to avoid desertion
charges, while five were captured' Speculation is that
there may be many more men in brlgs around the
country from the ship, but there is no confirmation
on that Yet.
(Of those presently in the Tl brig, three get out
on the 29th of December, with all of them having had
Captain's Masts in early December. The men do not
expect to be discharged like the Constellation Nine
men. They are not sure what to expect, but guess
that they will either be shipped back to the Coral Sea
another aircraft carrier, or will be transferred to another
Naval Base after they've served their brig time.
(Mail keeps coming in from the men who decided
to sail with the ship, and it indicatei that there is quite
a strong movement still on the ship. The men are
getting together and rapping with other guys who
might be sympathetic, and leaflets are occasionally
being distributed. There are also unconfirmed reports
of other more substantial actions by some men,but
word on that in more detail is at present not available.
(Also, demonstrations are presently being organized
by the wives of the men in the brig to support them
and keep public attention focused on them.
(Undoubtedly, the Coral Sea will never by the same
agai n...
)
-
STEVE LADD
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Ygrqfor t)egfreal-,
Gratitude to Mother Earth,
sailing through night and day _
9ysryr{cr
and to her soil:
rich, rare and sweet.
in our minds so be it.
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Gratitude to PIants,
the sun-facing light-changing
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leaf and fine root hairs;
stancling
still through wind
and rain: thcir dance is
in the flowing spiral grain.
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Air,
bearing the soaring Swift
and the silent owl
at dawn. Breath of our song
clear spirit breeze.
in otrr rnirrds so be it.
,:
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Gratitude to Creatures,
our brothers, teaching secrets,
freedoms and ways; who share with
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brave and aware.
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in otrr ntinds so be it.
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Gratitude to Water: cloucls, lakes,
I
rivers, glaciers;
holdirrg or releasing;
streaming through all
our own bndies salty seas.
I
in orrr ntirrtls so be it.
Gratitude to thc Sun:
blinding pulsing light
through trunks of trees,
through mists,
io
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warming caves where
and snal
beai"s
n
he who wakes us.
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in our minds so be it.
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Gratitude to the Great Sky
wh
beyond all powers
and thouglits and yet
within
us
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is
Grandfather Space.
The Mind is his Wife.
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Beginning on the evening of Monday, Dec.
.l
3, about 30 non-violence trainers from around
the country gathered in an informal conference
in Washington, D.C. to address many of the
questions presently confronting the training
community.
Since the first national conference at Pendle
Hill in 1970, several small training centers
have sprung up in various cities and communities
around the country, providing training in
diverse subiects: personal non-violence, com-
munity organizing, planning direct action, organizing, (or just surviving...) in schools, places
of work, etc.
the
Utilizing tools that developed slowly in
-l950's
and '60's around the civil rights
movement, such as role plays, situation games
and analysis, mock strategy games, etc. (many
not unlike tools now being used extensively
by the Pentagon) trainers work with groups of
people in simulating action and results, building
community, and increasing communication
and visions.
Although the conference was rushed to
an early end due to exhaustion and the departure
of large numbers of traineri from Philadelphia,
Chicago, and New York, we were able to confront many of the questions troubling trainers
at the conference. Where does the traing movement stand now? To what degree does the
0s
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Zietlow from D.C., Sandy Heller and Chuck
Noell in Phila., Charlie Walker (tentative) from
Haverford College and Heather Raitt, from
the West Coast, but presently in Philly.
We spent a long time considering the present trend of the movement, proiecting in
small groups in what way training and orgaiizing skills can be most effectively directed
in the future. A large amount of discussion
was centered around the questions of providing
people a chance to visualize control over their
own lives, an essential prerequisite to the organization necessary for non-violent revolution.
This included new training tools, such as the
'Utopia Gallery', and alternative institutions,
schools, courts, rlght on down to gasoline
coops and carpools, discussing in what way
new institutions fit into the movement for
a new society.
A leter from S.J. Avery in New York served
for the discussion of sexism in the
training community. Several hours were spent
in men's and women's caucuses to discuss
as a focus
the problems presented in the letter, and how
we can deal with our own sexism, a step very
important if we plan to contribute to the
building of a new social order.
ln small bi-sexual groups, we paused to
discuss our interaction (as men and women)
in training, and in community. Also, much
discussion centered on reducing the emphasis
society, (whether firm or crumbling) affect
inutopia
of
visions
our
should
how
on the'heavy' image, and the elimination of
and
training,
elitism.
fluence training tools? Should we be involved
The conference was helpful in providing
in training and action, or training/action?
of ideas and philosophies, in
exchange
an
within
problem
sexism
of
the
face
How can we
establishing a concrete network of training
the training movement?
and action centers, and considering the role
The conference took the first few very
of the trainer in the community and the national
firm
training
a
establishing
important steps in
movement. Another conference is being planned
network, providing communlcation, support
in the Southern California area in early April,
of new centers, the exchange of trainers to
of
'flow'
to exchange ideas on developing training skills
pick up skills and tools, and the
and tools, helping new training centers set
irainers to areas of high activity,(for instance,
San Diego this fall) to provide adequate training up, and to build more of the community spirit
felt by the participants in the Washington
resources for a swamPed area.
will
begin
for
trainers
newsletter
national
conference. (lt is also hoped that we will
A
be able to help trian large numbers of new
coming out of A Training Action Group in
trainers in the San Diego area during our.stay,
San Fransisco, to provide a free exchange
to deal with the large numbers of people exof local news, new training tools, ideas, and
pected in during the Republican Convention.)
questions that local trainers would like to
lf the WIN reader is interested in training,
present to the larger training community.
and would like to find out about the closest
A central collective to serve as the facilitating
training center or organization in her or his
body for a'skills bank', and other central
region, they can write Carl Zietlow, at the
exchange, such as tapes, video tapes, and other
Non-violent Training and Action Life Center,
media, maintaining a list of training centers
2121 Decatur Pl. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008.
and trainers, and helping coordinate the moveesalso
was
areas
ment of trainers to needy
SETH FOLDY
tablished, consisting of Peggy Ellis and Carl
SIIIT IIITS EAI\[ IN PIITTIPPINES
WAYNE HAYASHI
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"The creotion of history , . . is possible only
through power . . . But the use of power is politics . . . the new mon ond the new tomorrow
ore to be shaped in ond through on octivity
which is political in choracter . . . Politics is no
longer regarded os the activity of a few, the plly
of power omong elites. lt is the vocotion of mon,
becouse every man is colled to porticipate, in one
woy or onother, in the creation of the future,"
Rubem Alves
Brozilion theologian
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Political repression is running at high tide in the
suspension, legal challenges and defense in court, and
Philippines since the August 21 bombing at Plaza
rallies and communiques to educate the Philippine
Miranda in Manila during the Opposition Liberal Party's
masses and the world as to nature of the latest fascisProclamation rally in which nine people were killed
tic tactics by the Marcos regieme.
and hundreds injured. ln the hours that followed,
Eduardo T. Gonzalez, editor of the University of
President Marcos suspended the writ of habeas corpus,
Ph ilippines' newspaper Ph i I i ppi ne Co I leg io n, described
virtually throwing Manila into a state of martial law,
the current repression as "to keep the urban masses
while charging that "communists, Maoist revolutionpreoccuppied with their own civil libertarian problems
aries" were planning to burn down Manila.
and prevent them from concretely viewing the escalaln the days that followed,2T activist organizations
tion of fascist maneuvers in the country side."
were listed as "subversive" and legal authorities stated
ln a country that suffers from semi-feudal, semithat these groups were being used as "fronts" or infilcolonial oppression, corrupt government and where
trated by the Communists. Among the groups listed
80% of the people are peasants who are ruthlessly
were: (KM) Kabataang Makabayan Patriotic youth ;
exploited by big landowners, agrarian revolution is
Socialist Party of the Philippines; National Association
brewing in the countryside under the leadership of the
of Trade Unions; (PWC) Progressive Workers Council;
outlawed Communist Party and its effective military
(USTCLU) U.S. Tobacco Corp. Labor Union; Makibaka
- arm: The New People's Army (NPA). Armed struggle
Women's Liberation; (STAND) Students Alliance for
by revolutionary forces has been on the increase in
National Democracy; (MDP) Movement for a Democrarecent months, and the insurgents have consolidated
tic Philippines; and many other organizations that are
various base areas that they effectively control. The
either le{tist or progressive.
Marcos government with its C.l.A. advisors have responded
Mass arrests and detention has followed the suswith counter-insurgency operations in the rural areas,
pension of the writ. Soldiers have picked up and arwhile using legal repression in the cities, to isolate the
guerrila fighters from their urban supporters: students.
rested hundreds of patriotic and progressive leaders,
who have since been held incommunicado at the Camp
workers and urban poor.
Crame stockade in Quezon City.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has served
The morning following the Plaza Miranda bombing,
as ari ideological as well as economic bastion of
government agents ransacked the room of KM National
reaction against any move against the status-quo. The
Vice-chairman Cesar Baviera. That afternoon, KM
national democratic movement has regularly attacked
Secretary-General Luzvimindo David was kidnapped
what they term "clerico-fascism", and many of the
right out of the KM National Headquarters by men
leaders of Kabataana Makabayan (KM)
- the leading
posing as reporters, who had no warrant of arrest and
militant youth organization- are former seminarians
who threatened other KM members who tried to stop
who have broken with the Church to join revolutionary
them with M-1 6 Armalites and .45 pistols. Another
organizations. Such developements have great impact
example of the Marcos government's repression was a
on a country which is 90% Catholic.
raid that evening on the Philippine College of Commerce
Other Catholics and Christians have chosen to stay
inside the church, while participating in the struggle
a bulw.rrk of national dcmocratic youth activists where college president Dr. Nemesio Prudente and
for the national liberation of the Philippines. One
many professors and students were arrested. Subsecourageous action was taken by a group of such inquently, hundreds of others have been picked up,
dividuals, shortly following the suspendion of the writ,
when they signed a petition beginning: "Human liberaincluding news commentators, delegates to the Constition is the task of Christians". lt continued "We affirm
tutional Convention, seminarian students, and labor
the struggle for national liberation from political,
lead ers.
economic, cultural and moral structures of exploitation
The response of the national democratic movement
has been one of daily demonstrations against the writ's
as part of the total task of human liberation."
25
EQUIPMENT
A cheap (mine was 98 cents) plastic
Brewing beer, ale, or stout is an art. No question about that. One of the two or three most
venerable. ln fact we'll probably never know
which came first, fire or fermentation. Which
has been most help, or harm, is another good
quest.ion, but certainly civilization without eit'her is unimaginable. My theory of the rise of
agriculture is that stoned old stone-age man,
ur long as he'd decided to stick around one place
to keep an eye on his hootch works and his dope
patch, figured he might as well plant some food
crops too, and lasso a few wild goats . ' ' '
ln any case, as with any other real art, not
everybody can becotle a true master, but anybody can learn enough about brewing to get by'
As a matter of fact, making drinkable stuff that's to say,lOO% better than what you can buy
in this country - is probably easier than baking good bread.
You should start by reading a book that
tells you ten times as much as you need to know'
A fine one, in a 95 cent paperback available
from any home brewers' supply house, is Home
Brewing Without Failures, by a guy with the
nice name of Bravery. He's English, so you're
going to have to do some iuggling with lmperial
gallons and other unfamiliar measurements, as
well as with ingredients not readily available
in the US. I still recommend it, because he very
clearly describes several stages of brewing, from
the most purist (beginning with grains, not
malt extracts) to the simplest, and being English, he has truly catholic tastes in beers, ales,
and stouts. What's more, he throws in lots of
recipes for ciders and meads, which are also well
worth getting into.
Bravery's recipes, though, or anybody else's,
are just going to give you an idea or two' You'll
eventually have to make up your own, on the
you
basis of what you like and what materials
garbage
pail; a chunk of plastic sheet.ing big enough to
cover the top of the pail; an elastic band to
hold the sheeting snug around the rim of the
pail so gases can force their way out but air,
with its wild yeasts, can't get in; then a six-foot
piece of rubber tubing for siphoning (l bought
windshield-wiper hose, since surgical tubing is
can d
but
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getting hard to fing);and finally, as many screwtop (disposable) quart beer bottles as you can
+possibly lay your hands on (these will break,
and the seals on the caps will wear out, and
friends of course won't return them as pro-
good
mised, but good cappable bottles are expensive
failu n
as
and
heli, and disappear nearly as quickly)'
INGREDIENTS
(Remember, we're talking about a seven-toeight-gallon batch.) One three-pound can of
dirk malt extract, hops added (l use Pabst Blue
Ribbon with Lovely Lena on the label, because
that's what I can get regularly in case lots where
I live - it should be under $1.50 a can);five
pounds of brown sugar, or honey, or a com-.
bination of the two (this gives you about 5%
alcohol, which Bravery and I think is plenty
you con get it up to 15%, if you
like grain wine - honey, as well as being much
healthier, is a simpler sugar, and speeds the
whole process up considerably) ; about five
teaspoons of salt; a fistful of rosehips or a couple
teaspoons of citric acid; a liberal pinch of dried
hops (they never add enough to the extract oniy trial and error will tell you how much you
like), or, if you're as lucky as we are, a bunch
of wild ones that grow along the creek; decent
(unchlorinated if at all possible) water enough
to almost fill the plastic pail; and finally starter,
for
beer
-
which deserves a paragraph all its own STARTER
Take three tablespoons each of malt extract,
sugar or honey; then a pinch of salt and another
oflitric acid or half a dozen rosehips; boil this
all thoroughly in a quart or less water; cool to
lQo; add a vial of liquid yeast (in this case, stout
yeast), which, except for dried hops, is the only
thing you'll have to mail-order from a home
brewing and wine-making concern; cover this
liquor like the pail, in a couple of iars where
can find in steadY suPPIY.
Here's my own step-by-step routine for a
light stout that we've made something like fifty
eight-gallon batches of so far, with only one
failure (more about that later):
it'has room to double or triple in volume if it
wants to, and if you keep it in a dark place at
500-600, it'll last several weeks; the sooner you
use it, the safer you are, though' I know folks
who use ordinary bread yeast, and sure, you
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can drink the results and get drunk on them,
but 75 cents buys enough good yeast to make
good brew for years, because after the first
batch as long as you keep everything halfway
sterile, which is to say halfway airtight your
starter is simply the murky dregs in the pail after you've siphoned off the last batch. (That one
failure we've had: I think it was wild, airborne yeasg
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Okay, let's say you've got everything listed.
There's really not too nuch more to tell you.
Rinse the pail, cover, hose, and bottles with
boiling water everytime. Rinse the pail again
just before you start the next batch. (Use washing soda first if there's a ring.) Then dump in
malt, sugar, honey, salt, rosehips. Pour a gallon
or so of boiling water (in which the hops have
steeped for at least half an hour) over all that,
and stir until it's a smooth syrup. Now fill the
pail up to within three inches of the top. Cover
quickly. Put it in a place where the temperature
is going to be fairly constant for the next week,
500-750. (We keep ours near - but not foo
near, over 80o will kill the yeast
- our woodburning cookstove; that's not ideal, but it works.)
When the pail feels like 70o, add the starter and
recover.
ln a day or two, there should be creamy
foam on top, just like the head on a good mug of
stout. This will work flat in four to eight days.
Taste it now with your siphon stuck in under the
cover, or use a hydrometer (gadget for measuring
how much sugar is left as sugar - we find tasting
more reliable); if it's barely sweet (you,ll soon
learn exactly), go ahead and siphon into ,bottles, all but the bottom, which gets shook up
and poured into a iar for the next starter. lf it,s
not sweet at all, you've let it go a bit too lon$,
and you may want to add a couple of raisins
to each quart, so there'll be enough unfermented
sugar in there to ferment now, in the bottle,
and give it a head when it,s opened. lf you bot-
tle too soon (too sweet), you,ll know
days, because bottles
it in a few
will start to explode. All
you can do then is drink it, quickl
Practice is the only way l've found to be precise. lt'll take a while to discover what you like
anyhow, because chances are all you've ever
tasted is that hyper-carbonated, bodiless, tastIess pseudo-pilsner that the American brewing
industry has concocted and has the chutzpah
to call beer. Store each batch in a cool dark
place at least a couple of weeks. The longer the
better.
Now a tip about drinking: real brew is not
pasteurized and pressurized; there's going to be
a layer of yeast at the bottom of each bottle,
however careful you are with the siphon, and
you want it to stay there. So don't shake, and
it's best to pour the whole quart smoothly into
a pitcher (except for the last half-inch, of course),
and then drink from that. Don't serve too cold
that's another Americanism, developed probably
because there's no taste to kill in your neighborhood six-pack. About 55o is ideal.
Good luck, and if it turns out well, save me
a bottle.
-Paul Johnson
PS: The federal government apparently expects
people to apply for homebrewing licences. I'm told
they're free, and if the principle isn,t an issue
with you, okay, but I thought we fought a revolution and a rebellion about rights like that. Anyhow, as long as you don't sell your product, I
think you're cool.
Home brewing is fun ond rewarding but if
os Paul recommends, by reading
Bravery's Home Brewing Without Failures, you
moy get so confused thot you'll never get into
it. Not only does he tell you all sorts of things
thot you really don't need to know, but his writing style * combined with some far out Britishisms - mokeis it hord to figure out the things
thot you do wont to understand. Recently a
much better book was published by The Noonday Press of 19 Union Square West, New York
10003. lt's colled Brew lt Yourself ond it's written by a fellow with the unlikely nome of Leigh
P. Beadle. Beodle disogrees with Bravery ond
other outhorities on o number of points (tike he
doesn't believe in the use of sugor of ony sort,
preferring dried molt extroct insteod) but, as
for as the bosics go, he covers them cleorly, concisely and fully. I recommend it ond even ot
$1.95 it's o bargoin.
-Maris Cakars
you stort
first became a draft dodger by going to Vietnam as a war
correspondent) to be a iournalistic history of resistance
immigration to Canada. There is a lot of personal testimony
troritopf" who were involved in (and sometimes led) such
the
eventi as Chicago, the Presidio mutiny, the Sanctuaries'
I
1
Pentagon march, Vietnam and of course the exodus to
nearly
Canad"a. The interviews themselves, which comprise
verhardcover
the
price
of
half of the book, are worth the
is
available')
version
cover
a
soft
rion. (f am not iure if
journalistic
The maior weakness of the book lies in its
approach. The exile communities across Canada are covered
TH E N EW EXI LES
by Roger N. Williams
$9.50
Foster & Scott
by
Nelson,
Canada
in
distributed
- -"iHt-V
CAN,T GO HOME AGAIN
LiverightiN.r,iioir.l,+ot pp.,
by Richard L. Killmer, Robert S. Lecky and Deborah S.
Wiley
without too much penetration. Organizations and individuals
As such,
are quickly appraised without very much analysis'
chapters
closing
and
opening
in
the
history
the ietailed
too
might seem to some readers, even in the States, to be
"mainstream
a
and
much of an American point of view,
liberal" point of view at that. Perhaps this is why, along
book has received
with the hard-hitting narratives' that the
press'
so much attention in the American popular
(
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S
t
Pilgrim, 1'l 8 pp., $4.95, $2.95 paper
distributed in canada by Macmillan
These two books have been out for quite a while and are
Furthermore, three maior events have occurred since
even beginning to get a bit dated in sections. That the MoveMeasures Act in Canada
ment is finally getting around to dealing with the whole issue the book was researched: the War
afewparagraphsonthisat
Rogerspends
(October1970;
of ourbeinguphere,manyof usowingourradicalization
totheneedtomoveNorth,initselfsayssomething.
Roger's
book has received extensive treatment in daily newspapers
outside of t5e Greater New York area, (Washington POST,
posT-DiSPATCFi', etc.) many
Kansas City STAR, St. Louis
pages
book in their Sunday editions.
on
the
two
even spending
It is sometimes easier to deal with the naive mouthpieces
of the liberal media than with comrades in left-wing journalism
ln the November l5 issue of WIN an item in "Changes"
theclose) ;theCalleyTrial (-l 970-7-l);andthepublication
of the Pentagon papers (spring 1971)'
Canada
Many war resisters initially travelled north because
Act
seemed to offer hope for the future. The war Measures
April
until
Act
(which was extencled by the PublicOrder
only
iSU t)aispetted any such remaining hopes.. Though
provisions
by
physically
affected
way
any
in
was
on. i.r.rt.l.
place in
of the Act, the psychological effect on exiles took
october.l 970'
said,,onlyFrance, Canada,andSwedenopenlyproui.l. theyearfollowingtheeventsof
Papers validated the
Pentagon
The
and
TrLl
providld uiyim to Czech The Calley
asytum,, to deserters. e)iu-au- io,
was s:iying in the
un; Hunguriun refugees bulnever to Americans. we are here, substance of what the anti-war movement
gut reaction 1o
American
both draft resisters and military resisters alike, because we can States. The war resisters'typically
parallels
out)
thought
carefully
very
the War (.that is, not
often fit in easily under Canada's (rather objective, it must
American
the
to
happening
recently
been
has
just
happens that
that which
be admitted) immigration procedure. lt
the
people in a painful way. There is not much that is nr-w in
extradition of both deserters and draft dodgers does not
who
for
anyone
Exiles
New
in The
come under treaties signed by the U.S. and Canada, even the tape-recorded interviews
basic
reads about war atrocities, the stockade and subhuman
latest signed on Dec. 3-. This is where the problem comes in:
direct
point
is,
The
under
even
daily
quutliY
the
in
methods
fapers.
training
,uny ,iorf.ing-cluss deseit.ir iunnot
political
for they. lack the
contaclrvith the military or the draft forced some
Canada,s liberal criteriu io1. immigrution,
numbers
large
that
economY.
enough
(of the U.S.)
a*areness on potential resisters,
skills and education *t',i.t"r u colo-nial
And this is perhaps an important
a develop itself. And these are the very people which did somethingabout it.pages:
the resisters did not need the
these
in
".ijr
out.
to
make
ICongressman,Juf, ., - foint
the Taft amnesty proposal leaves
the condition of alternative anti-war movement to.realize that there was something
in. Of.,i"l proposed amnesty, with
servicetotheir.ornrrv,ioiaraftdodgers. Draftdodgers
No provision was made for
usually are middle
'tu"'
myself
deserters, wrro usuatty ar. *""rr.l"s class.] _people like
have the
we
for
Jtnt'ty
un
ntta
oo'ni
or Roger Williams
push us
middle-class education unJ *unn.r, which often
countries'
new
our
in
ahead of natives in the pecking order
operating
are
while
a
for
inixile
Those of us who f,uu. O".n
what
regardless of
under no liberal illusions about Canada,
!'uit.*rongwiththewar,and,amazinglysoperhapsto
many U'S' readers' most of those interviewed in the Williams
book knew little of the movement before confronted with
the war' This is where intuition came in' Regardless of
what the movement in the U.S. says of our taking the Middleclass alternative and going to Canada as a form of resistance'
we were all well ahead of our time in recognizing the moral
nature of the war and taking some form of action'
radicalpublicationslikeWlNconveytopeoplewithintheTheyCan,tgo!gl"Againwaswrittenbypeopleali
U.s.whentneyprintexcerptsfromTrudeauisinterviewsonactiveinCALCAV(ClergyandLaymenConcernedAbout
bias' Though
t-tt'' it"'u"' that the green berets for the vl"tnu') and as suih it has a liberal church
war resistanc..
,uat on spadina Ave' lrere in Toronto' many of the people interviewed in the book
astoo-good-to-believe.
TheyCan,tCoH"r.ffuin andTheNewExilesbasical- thosein TheNewExiles,theycomeoff
has been cleaned up and names
language
made-in-America
is
because
the
is
This
ly tell the ,u,r. ,rory,'ontyiccuR
each other' have been changed to protect the innocent' Also' TCGHA
The two uJir.t tlrnprement and contrast
are the same as
Green Beretsur.
version.
Both are similarly
personalities and interinterpretation.
and
history
;ith
';.';;J,
O.tw..n
(who
The New E^ite, *u, J.signed by Williams
views sandwi.f.,.O
2C
himself
zeroes in on
on" particular community, Ketchener.Waterloo,
which itself is a very stable small Canadian city which in turn
attracts an atypical community of war exiles. The church
s
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people were as much afraid
of Toronto,s exiles as Mike
Wallace was on his first trip to Canada for
CBS two years
ago. He interviewed only down in Kitchener-Waterloo.
. But this should not lead,one to dismiss the book by
Killmer et.al. This, the American 0".t, ,.Vi
a lot about
the Canadian situation- The final 20 pages'area
remarkably
comprehensive look (the book, in t tti piges,
is much slicker
and easier to read than the Wiliiams voiumej'at
Canadian
SHOTS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE UNDER_
GROUND PRESS
edited by David Fenton and Liberation News
Service,(LNS),
Douglas Books, 1971. $2.95.
Shots is a beautiful pictorial montage of people
in strug_
gle. The concept of struggle, fortunate-ly, is
a broad on.. il.
see young people fighting against teargas
and cops in the
streets
of Berkeley during people,s park. We see Guatemalan
nationalism
which,
incidentally
should be required read_
guerrillas marching along a jungle path. We
ing for every exile,s parents as well as
see the toothmovement people
brush rack and two dozen toothbrushes * of
lacking in understanding of this area and
a rural com_
t'he
state
of mind
mune. We see Black panthers serving food
and the future of those who have taken
at
their
breakfast_for_
part in the exodus.
children program. We see four gay r.n, .r, in arm,
particularly interesting the interpolation of
at a deofficial
lfoun!
monstration in Central park.
Canadian government
on
immigration
from
the U.S.,
Some of these photos will be familiar, you might
.fiSyres
since their categories don,t
even
fit those of*the age liability under say they're classics:
Huey Newton in jail giving the ,,V,,
the U.S. conscription system.
STAN PIETLOCK
sign, the entrance to the Fort Oix stotkaje *ith
it, inscrip_
tion "Obedience to Law ls Freedom,,, the burned
out shell
AIN'T GONNA PAY FOR WAR NO MORE
of the lsla Vista branch of the Bank of nm.ii"u.
by Robert Calvert
. This thoughtful, dramatic collection of pictures covers
published by War Tax Resistance
the period 1967-70, and just about everyone is there: peace
339 Lafayette st., ruyclooi'i-'
demonstrators, student strikers, Black panthers,
New york
128 pp., $1
City squatters, the young Lords, hippie communards,
milTo quote from Dave Dellinger,s preface: ,,Ithis book]
itant wornen, gay liberationists, Gls, Vietnamese guerrillas,
succeeds very weil. rt succeeds because it combines
morar
the Alcatraz lndians, G.E. strikers, and so on. lt,s
hard to
vision and unpretentious political wisdom;
respect for indi_
think of a significant sector involved in struggle which
vidual tbibles and inhibitions (brought on
isn,t
by society,s brainrepresented, though a few come to mine _
strik_
washing) with an awareness of the itrengths
Quebecois,
that come from
ing workers in Western Europe, Czech rebels,
Zengakuren,
collective action. lt doesn,t provide a for-mula
,seizing
for
Dutch Provos.
power,' but it does something far more
relevant: it shows
. These images of protest, rebellion and the dying Amerihow state power can be undermined and destroy.;,
;;;;;
kan order that is the cause of it all are a powerful
reminder
tralizes and restored to people.,, And Dave
Dellinger doesn,t
of the turmoil we have been living through. Shots is a help_
lie.
ful shot in the arm for anyone who is feeling low, gripped
Actually, Ain't Gonna pay for War No More is the
best
by a sense of purposeless or defeat.
work ever written on the subject of tax resistance.
lt makes
Shots projects a vision of unity, but perhaps the book,s
the Peacemakers Handbook obsolete and gives its
readers
greatest flaw is its failure to remind us that
this unity is but
pracilcal
more
information than they will probably ever
a vision. Right now, we stand divided and confused,
unable
need.
or unwilling to deal with the factors that divide us;
class,
Still, there are problems with the book _ and the
tax re_
sex, and. race, and, beyond that, general questions
of stra_
sistance movement in general which limit its potential
im_
tegy and tactics.
pact. For some reason that movement has
not been able to
These divisions among the people will undoubtedly
refind effective ways to connect itself up with the various
flect the way that many people look at these pictures.
people's struggles which are taking place
I can
all around; it has
imagine negative vibes in several cases: a freak looking
at
not even been particularly effective at relating
to the broad_
the photo of a short-haired G.E. worker, a feminist look_
er peace movemenr. ln reading the book you,d
hardly know
ing at the photo of a bare-chested male hippie
swinging a
that there was fitore to the movement than tax resistance.
pick in people's park, a gay liberationist finding
Eldridge
,,alternative
It's true that the recent upsurge in
funds,,sugand Kathleen Cleaver and their baby (the nucllr family
gests some progress is being made in
breaking out of that
all over again, and Eldridge the fag-baiter), Venceremos
isolation, there's still a long way to go before"tax
resisters
Brigade organizers unhappy with the presence of gay
and actjve duty Gl,s, for example, can see themselves
as
liberation, a pacifist turned off by the sight of guns,
a
part of the same struggle.
Weatherman turned off by the sight of people
the ,,V,,
iiving
One way that this isolationism is expressed in
the book
sign. And on it goes.
is through an over-technical approach.
Vast sections of it
The truth is that we have very little unity, and we,d
read like a bookkeepers manual, complete
betwith voluminous
ter begin to deal with that reality. Radical media people
references to the lnternal Revenue Code. lt
seems to me
tend to cover up the truth in the name of unity. For
examthat such information could have been better organized
ple, that rural commune pictured in the book
is located in
(as the book now stands it,s not easy
to Rna ttre answer to
New Mexico, but because the LNS staff (including myself_l
a. particular question), condensed
was
and shoved to the back of
working ar LNS then) believed thar hippie iomilrn., in
the book where those who were moved to do so
could refer
New Mexico contradict the needs of the colonized
Chicano
to it.
people there, we hid the whole truth, and just
identified
But
l'm
picking.
nit
pay
Ain,t Gonna
For War No More
.is the best
the photo as "rural commune.,, On a recent visit to
Hous_
book that we,ve got and anyone at all interested
ton, I learned much to my surprise, that the Chicano comor concerned about tax resistance should immediately get
munity there is quite conservative. ln the recent mayoral
hold of a copy.
election, it voted largely in favor of a very reactionary
-Maris Cakars
can_
x1
didate, while the more radical btack community voted al'
most unanimously for a liberal candidate. We often hear
about "third world people" but what do we know of the
contradictions that exist inside that category? How much
has been written from a revolutionary perspective about
conflicts between blacks and Puerto Ricans in New York
City? About the contradiction between gay people and the
Cuban government? Between ecologists and factory workers
?
thought, what the hell, a peek-at his Vietnam novel won't
kill me. But it nearly did; I sw-ear, it's the next worst thing
to a tour of duty over there. And it's not only the heaviest
book on VN l've ever read, it's probably the heaviest
antiwar book l've come across, period'
Or not quite period: by heavy I don't simply mean
moralistic, war-ls-hell, more naked and more dead than
anybody else has ever shown before. The Bamboo Bed
makes Catch-22read|kea dult sundayschool text' Let
Maybe some day when we understand how we are divided we can unite, and then the vision presented by Shots
will be closer to realitY.
Don't get me wrong. Shots is a far-out book, a real turnon. ln fact, it makes a really good gift for anyone friends,
lovers, sisters, and brother5, parents - who you want to
become familiar with these inspiring images. Get a copy of
Shots, too, for your place, look at the pictures, and think
about all that's been happening. But don't forget to think
about oll that still has to haPPen.
-Allen Young
THE BAMBOO BED
by William Eastlake
Simon & Schuster, l969
Sometime six or seven millennia ago, I remember revtcwing books on Vietnam for WlN. God, thousands of tlrcm'
else,
At.-least hundreds. l'd started doing it for somebody
'60's
of
the
for a sort of a living, back there at the beginning
wouldrr't
and
them
of
trickle
when there was scarcely a
you like to be our Southeast Asian expert??? oh yeah, and
piling
we also need someone to read all this stuff that's been
up on nuclear warfare, okaY???
That's actually why I wound up at the New York Wot'kshop
in Nonviolence as a matter of fact - all that scary stuff l'd
been reading - where Maris and Marty Jezer and a fcw other
folks and myself decided there oughta be a magazine like WlN"
Anyhow, in all the tons of stuff I read those years on
what was still very often called lndochina, what sticks out
now is one little paperback novel called The LBJ Brigade'
I can't recall who wrote it, I think Ballantine brought it out
in'66 or '7 , and it dropped from sight quicker'n you cor'rld
say Stephen Crane.
lt
was an awful
lot like Red Badge of
Courage, which didn't hurt it one bit' What did, I guess,
was the fact that not even most of the antiwar movement
was willing to imagine, at that point in history, that the
Vietnam thing was quite thot dirty, stupid, hopeless, and
flat-out insane. Why, the guy must've been sick, to make
all that up.
Well, we do learn, don't we? Sooner or later, everyone
must know, as the Poet said. Nowadays, I suppose it's a
commonplace, that we're stuck inside of Saigon with the
Little Big Horn blues again.
on
So all right, for a long time I didn't read any books
WlN.
editing
anything, because I was too goddamned busy
There went my one and only chance to be a Real Expert
on something. Too bad. Ever since l've avoided books on
the subject as adroitly as I avoid everything else in life that
could remind me of loathsome people I might have become,
instead of this wonderful fellow I am: there but for the
'grace of fool's luck and my own laziness, etcetera""
I came on The Bamboo Bed only after really enjoying
Eastlake's books on the American Southwest - Portrait of
an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses, for instance - and I
3o
try that analogy agaln: The Bamboo Bed is Catch'Z2
f unniest
as written by Lenny Bruce in the last, blackest,
couldn't
didn't
Bruce
even
that
Except
life.
his
of
months
know enough of the dirty, dirty shit; and Eastlake does' OId
solcliers do. Not many will tell you, though'
jerk to try
Having given it this kind of buildup, l'd be a
me
to summarize or describe, wouldn't l? Besides, it's as
outrageously silly as only us endearing little homo sapiens
can bI, and it cloesn't quote without serious loss in shorter
than 5b-page sections. So read it, if you're up to it, and
remember Iiat, if Custer diecl for your sins, so did Captain
Clancy. So did Christ and so do we all, sooner or later'
PAUL fOHNSON
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We lvenl down again later to cafoh
lTII.IAT MOST INFLU ENCED
anybody coming out that we might
ELLSBERG
have missed going in, but the guards
the struggling women on campus wheln an article in the New york Times
ther it is for the completion of the birth were waiting for us. The three of us who Magazine Dec. 12, "A Month ln.the
weren't actually registered were thrown New Life of Daniel Ellsberg,J. Anthony
control clinic, women's studies, or the
out, leaving only one inside. The rest
day care center.
Lukas writes that when he asked Ellsof us stood outside the doorway to
-Pam and Karen
berg what had changed him: ,,He mengreet the people there.
tions many of the things and people
The press people were very sympawe have already talked about, but graBANC'S I MPOSSI BLE MISS!ON
thetic, though we didn't get much
dually we move toward a conference
On November 9 about 200 people
coverage. A man from ABC said, "l'd
of the War Resisters League which he
gathered in Union Square across from
attended at Haverford College in Septhe St. Francis Hotel to protest Nixon's like you to know this is the finest,
most effective demonstration I have
tember, 1969 - just weeks before he
500 dollar a plate televised fundraising
ever
seen."
The
S.F.
Chronicle
had
a
decided
to Xerox the Pentagon papers.
speech/dinner being held there. lnside
"'There was this one young guy
the hotel four members of the Bay Area paragraph on us as did the Berkeley
Barb. They both ran the same
there - a Harvard graduate named
Nonviolent Community (BANC) held
paragraph. All that doesn't really matRandy Kehler. A very good-looking
a protest of their own.
ter, though. We weren't trying to make guy, very reflective, thoughtful, calm,
Working from the assumption that
the papers - iust reach the people who into the California culture as I was.
the best way to beat them is to join
were pouring their money into getting
them, but not too much, we had deThe last evening of the conference,
cided earlier to attend the dinner dressed Nixon re-elected. l'm confident that
Randy gave a talk about the peace
everyone who attended the banquet
as spectors of death, wearing black
movement. He talked of all the people
either saw us or heard about us. Nobody
robes and white-face make-up. We rein the movement who were going to
there stopped being a good Republican jail. Them, out of the blue,
served a room for the night of the 9th
he.;aid:
because of us, but they were directly
and spent the next week casing out
.1,;
;' : Sur-r,. o,ri;i; tC
confronted with their complicity in the
the hotel. The night of the dinner we
be joining them.' He was resisting the
war and they were forced to deal with
made fairly accurate maps of the imdraft and, sure enough, he was soon in
us in some way. That made it not only
portant parts of the hotel, and had an
prison. ISentenced to three years, he
a fun (and not-so-expensive) action, but
undercover agent, disguised as a tourist,
was released in December]
a worthwhile action as well.
giving us reports on crowd lnovements.
"Well, I remember thinking, you see
At about 7:00, after dressing in our
-Steve Lewis
this is our best, our very best, and we,re
Gentle
Strength
death robes, we rode the elevator from
sending them to prison, more important
.l .l
our room on tlre th floor to the sewe're in a world where they feel they
cond floor where the banquet was being
just had to go to prison."'
THE "STI FLING HYPOCRISY"
held. We stood silently behlnd the reln another part of the article, interOF NIXON'S AFRICA POLICY
ception dcsk wearing signs that said,
viewing Ellsberg in his home, Lukas
When Representative Charles Diggs
"Your support tonight helps the war go
writes: "From a nearby bookshelf Dan
Jr. of Michigan took the unprecedented plucks down
on," and "Can 500 dollars bring back
several books which he
action of resigning from the U.S. delesays have influenced his recent devel_
gation to the United Nations on Decemopment: Conquest of Violence: The
ber 17, he spotlighted what he described
C,andhian Philosophy of Conflict by
as the "stifling hopocrisy" of Nixon's
Joan V. Bondurant; We Have Been lnpolicy toward black Africa.
vaded by the2lst Century by David
The U.S. move which made the
McReynolds; The Politics of History
black congressman reach his final deby Howard Zinn, and, particularly,
cision was its approval of $436 million
Revolution and Equilibrium by Barbara
credit to Portugal, whose colonialist
Deming, whose title essay ends: ,May
war in Africa has been going on longer
those who say they believe in nonthan the U.S. war in Vietnam.
violence learn to challenge more boldThe big loan in return for the conly those institutions of violence that
tinued U.S. use of military bases in the
constrict and cripple our humanity. And
Azores amounts to "American partnermay those who have questioned nonship in the subjugation of the African
violence come to see that one,s rights
people," Representative Diggs charged
to life and happiness can only be
at a press conference followlng his
claimed as inalienable if one grants, in
resignation.
action, that they belong to all men.,,,
He also expressed objeclion to a
alif e?" We caught everyone complete-J.P.
ly off guard - so much so, in fact, that series of recent votes in the General
Assembly in which the U.S. either opby the time the hotel security guards
posed or abstained on resolutions
showed up we were safely in our room
criwith a six-pack of beer and a lot of ice
tical of South Africa's policy of white
promise our lights. We will continue to
confront any sexist mecsures against
t
)ld
cream.
racrsm.
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Boxg08g,Chicago,lllinois60690.inAshland.Sheisinhercell24hours
a day, except for one hour a week
Several men in Lorton Reformatory
when she is allowed to take a shower'
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he was faking illness' guards had dumped
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borrowing them tor years." . . . . Roch-
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People'.They
ACTION , i l-year-ota S,.'i"'it
st'' N'Y'C'
Revolutiongroup'rorlin Black-Humane
are reolly
at 133 Mercer
us to leave the sidewalk. I forget all we may
have said, but one of them knocked the leaf-
letters
Out of thc barrage of rhetoric that came
out of the Attica debacle, your article in WiN
was the most perceptive analysis I,ve seen
up to that all the appeals coming out irf these
prisons have been mainly directcd to the
people. I would tell you, we have been trying to forge these links since the first revolt
at the Tombs, in Aug. 1970, but thc same
spirit and themc has becn carried lbrth during all the New York State rebcllions . . .
the city-wide revolts in Oct., Auburn, Attica,
and a fcw others that were not publicized
( tilrnira, Comstock, Rikers).
The major failure of the outsidc move_
ment has been that they have not been in
contact rvith the mass of politically conscious rcvolutionaries that are in the prisons.
A fcw pcoplo are in touch maybc tvith a
brothcr here and thcrc, but thcre is no broacl
bascd mass
(within limits) communications
from thc outside to insicie max. And that
is bad because
it
kccps us tiom rcaching a
base that rvill give us activq support to our
struggle, and deprivcs the outsicle ofvaluable
inl'ormation that could be bcst utilized out in
mrnlmum secunty. We also sfagnate because
our intbrmation sources are limited and.restricted by thc goons, somcthing ivhich coulcl
be avoidccl, if lincs of comnrunication werc
opcrl.
This anomaly cxists not thru any fault of
our own, because we have bccn trying to
rcach people, cven rvith our [imitcd contacts
antl rcsources, but thosc in thc movcmcnt
havc not cvcn anslcrcd us. Apparcntly the
rcsponsibility was too rnuch. But rniracle of
miracles, wc seetrt to have a nuntbcr of pscudo-expcrts on thc prison qucstion, most
of whorn ncvor clid a day in jail, talking lor
us. Rank rctbrmcrs, acting as our advocates,
rvithout being askcd, and rvithout knorving
our program ancl thc worst part is that
whon wc try to contact thesc individuals
and organizations so they can move on somc
of thc problcms wc facc, thcy ncvcr answer!
If you are rvorking on thc prisoner/prison
question, and you have access to intbrmation
rvc nccd, can give us somc help in somc vital
areas, or if you are in contact rvitli practitioners rvho rcally wani to help us, thon get in
touclt with me, so that I can give you further
information. One dcmand we arc oushinc for
is Frile to a non-impcrialisl counlry l'or all
prisoners who rvish to leave Babylon.
Ricardo deLeon
"Attica Liberation
F
lets out of the hand of a demonstrator near
trying to pull down the sign
of the woman next to me and also the sigi
of her helmeted son nearby.
Both these demonstrators then began
attacking the two rnen, using their sign posts
(not light sticks). Two separate scuffles en_
sued, a man-man and a man-woman fight,
ending up about twenty feet apart. In both,
the demonstrators were using their sign-posts
against unarmed opponents. In the verbal
exchanges the issue of the pro-war film show
became lost in the violent attempts to protect
the siqns. ._
m^e,_then began
action"
The incident indicates we in the peace
movement are not much different at times
from society in general in our emotional attacliments to property, the society in and
of rvhich the Kerner Report concluded:
"Most deaths in the riots occurred in the
process of policemen protecting property,
not by attacks on people by rioters.', Thus
I lind perplexing such statentents as,.Some
property has no right to exist." People are
so close
to their property that an attack on
it usually
seems
like an attack on themselves.
FRANKLIN ZAHN
PON{ONA, CALIF'.
Joan and I were consistent readers of
WIN rvhilc wc workcd with ( ADRE in
Chicago and it rvas always iively enough to
continue to be enjoyed even thumbing
through an old issue. We haven't seenin issuc since nrc movod to our farm last June
and rvc'rc really too brokc to aftbrd a sub_
scription, but whcn wc began to think of
sharing this place with good people WIN pop_
pecl into mind as a potential means of con_
outside, offered us $2 tickets, tl.ren orclered
sent information with a minimum of rhetor_
ic, so that those affected and any others
interested in the question can make educated
decisions or judgments.
Reading the informational special issue
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cares to do so the unusual opportunity of
participating in an intensive international
discussion, formulation of policy, and plan
for action. This discussion will take place in
print in the subsequent issue of Amex, the
main purpose of it being to give as large a
number of draft dodgers, deserters, other
eriles from American militarism, and any
others interested, a chance to reclaim the
definition of these issu€s from the likes of
Senators Taft and McGovern, Congressmen
Koch or President Nixon.
DEE KNIGHT
PO.SOX 187 STATION D
TORONTO, ONT.. CAI,{ADA
Recived the three copies of WIN with
David N{cReynolds article on Vietnam, today. As I said in my last note, have reread
the piece; opinion it is a real ,.classic', _ al_
most like poetry.
Again, my sincere thanks for DAVID'S
DIARY.
_MARSHALL GROB
NORTH BEND. OREGON
tact.
We own a small, 16 acre, homestead in
middle wcstern Wesconsin, about 15-20
miles from thc Mississippi. We consider our-.
sclvcs anarchist in oricntation and commun_
al in habit and would like to share our place
either lbr occasional visits or for continued
living rvith othcrs. We're into organic gardcning, ecological sanity in living, craits,
and hand u,ork, and ways and means of hav_
ing city kids that wc know visit and live ivith
us. I have a draft case and rvill probably be
in prison shortly so Joan could really use
hclp in kecpirrg the place going.
We'd appreciate having this printed some_
rvhere in your magazine alld if any of you
arc ever in the area, write and we'lt se;d
directions, and you'can stop ty ina viriii.
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RT. 1 COCHRANE, WIS, 54622
Queens Section
"To most of those interviewed, the worrl
vr(}lcnce. mLant acls against propcrty, not
peoplc." A few days al'ter tliis news item in
WIN (Sept 1) I was in.a demonstration which
seemed to bear this out. It was
outside the
entrance tr: a showing of the John Wayne_
narrated film "No Substitute for Victory,
where a few of us with signs and leaflcti
rvere just gathering.
Two men from the pro-war show came
and the effect of which is destruction: of
countries, cultures, and all that is of human
value - including human life.
. I wish to alert your readers, and especia!
ly those of them who are draft resisteis ot
deserters from American foreign policy, of
the special issue of Amex_Canada magaiine
now available, which deals with thesJquesuons in dcpth. No edttorial position wiil be
taken, and the effort has been made to pre_
The question of humanitarian antl political asylum lbr American draft resisters and
military deserters is of concern to all of vour
readers and especially to those who really
are either deserters or dodgers. There are a
cr:uple of other approaches to the question
that are also important: amnesty and repat-
riation.
The subject is complex and of direct concern to all those who wish to see an end to
lhe prcsent American loreign poliey. for
which the code word must bc domination,
Dec. WIN atived 11129171. you are
getting that useful fact because the note on
the same page (p. 16, 121 ll7 I WIN) by Jim
Peck was so pathetic. Does he really think
"caring" = only "enthusiasm"? That all the
people who were ln on May Day in Washington (and elsewhere) now "don't care',, because they did not go to another D.C. demonstration. That hundreds of thousands stopped
"caring" about this ungodly war - in six
months! - ? - After, yes, our, too, Jim Peck,
years of also-going (to Washington), of alsowriting (to Congress, friends, relatives), of
also-not-paying-taxes (to the Penta.'eon), of
also-going-mad with the horror of our own
uncertainty and failure to stop the killing.
Perhaps JimPeck would be happier if he
tried finding out what those hundreds of
thousands are doing with their lives, not just
rvith their randomly chosen days when he is
in Washington. I hope he doesn't really think
that those of us who weren't in Washington
at his demonstration on Oct. 28, 1971, are
beyond hope in "sickness and corruption".
Nonsense! Ol course he doesn't. Yes, Jim
Peck - we care. Maybe some of us qgtrying to get at the war in new ways that's
OK. (sigh) We haven't stopped the killing it is NOT for not caring. It is difficutt. And
we're not all "young", so don't lbrget the
rest of us out here.
-JANICE GLENN
CAMBRIDGE. NIASS.
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THE1972 WAR RES]STERS LEAGUE
PEACE CALENDAR AND DATE BOOK
Local
This year WRL blends art and commentary to produce a
chronicle of women's thoughts on war through the years.
WRL Groups
CALIFORNIA
llRL Western Regional Office, g33 Haight St., San
Francisco 94117
D.C.
llashington WRL, peoce ond Freedom Through
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,
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in Nonviolence, Box 7477, Atlonta 30309
KANSAS
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4r9ng the women quoted are Jeanette Rankin, Sojournlr
Truth, Emily Greene Balch, Bella Abzug, Rosa parks. The
main emphasis, though, is on the women whose names are
not generally known, but who contributed heavily to our
continuing peace effort. We've tried to highlight the people
and ac-tion that escaped widespread attention, in an attempt
to indicate the scope of women,s humanitarianism despite the
lack of historical documentation of it.
Throughout the calendar also are reproductions of drawings, paintings, and woodcuts by women artists. Most of the
forty artists are contemporary and their work definitively
reflects the new feminism that pervades all of present culture.
The pictures complernent the accompanying comments
Box 2452, Campus Station,
The calendar is edited this year by a committee of women
closely associated with WRL. They worked collectively and
democratically to create a calendar that embodies the spirit of
equality in the women's movement in both the content and
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fhe
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in the social justice and peace movements
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