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"hcaii" or "leacler" of the party" All of us
trorn Tejas to Qrlil'as, trom \\rilshillgton to
Ncu, Yoik are organiz-ers
ol thc
plLrt-v.
hch
statc lntl cach tqgiott or localc u'ithin cach
state rlctermine ri'lutt thc party is to be, lr'ho
runs. horv tltey run, ancl rvhen thr:-v rltn. lt
T'cjas. our Rua Urtitla l'arty requires:r-erflling
fcc for public olfico, our ilectitrgs are in
opcn conventions and bi-ltngual; our "politicos.. atc trnancccl by thc comtnunit-v cntir*
ly, and cannot spcnd any perst.rttal moncy;
our "politicos" canrlot run for otllcr.- more
than tu,icc ancl our canclitlates for oillce are
selected, intewicr.vctl, altti ttominatccl by thc
lo cal Ch ica nrt co m rnn nit,v*-u' iclc organizatio Its
in a ioint session. Thc I{aza [Jnicla Pertl'by
itself has no mcmbcrship. Tht-, Ilaza tir.ritla
Party deper.rds cn Chicano rnoney, Oricancr
people, ar.rd Chicatto votcs.
lbr thesc rcasons wc havc not lost an r'lec
ck:ctior.r in Texas to date. \Vc have lolrr \{ayors (CotLrlla, (il stal City, &iti Juan, and (hrrizo Spnngs): I Cbuntv Cornntissioner (a
IJros'n E:rct in Lr 9l1e (bunty): 2 school
boarcl majoritics ((t),stal City and Ashertol),
antl scvcral seats on ot)tcr scllool boards (Ll
and accuracy
oi thcir storics.
-JOSE ANCIEL (lLlTll-llRI Z
SOITTII TLXAS ORGANIZITI{
It's about tinro pcriplc started speaking up
in bchelf of Abbre ilofl}ran. I tlon't knorv
tlie tacts of his case rvith Tom lorcedc. Br:t
both of them ancl no brothI've rvorkcci
"vith
er shouki havc
to take the shit that Abbie
has been taking frorr |orcade anti lits fricnds.
I'm surprised \\rlN has given lbrcaclc (and
N{rchacl []'orernan) so rnuch space to attack
Abbic. Nlaybe tll:-v'vc nothing better to do
rvith thcir time, but u,c'vc slrpposcclly got a
rcvolution to ruake. Antl noiv tltey've suckecl
me into it, rvlien. good 1ord, I'vc got bctter
thir.rgs to clo. Ihckgrounci: liorcacic camc to
Ncu, York to takc ovcr the Lhdcrgrouncl
Iless Sl,nriicatc (u,hich u,as prctty trttch a
paper organization) bccause no onc elsc
rvantcd thc iob. Hc generatcd a lot of cncrgl',
produccd a ncu,slctter or turo, rnarlt' rnany
prorniscs
to
LrPS nrcnrbcrs
(like WIN) antl
producccl prctty mr-lch nothing. UPS is stili
eviclc'ntly a paper organization usclul as lar
as I can tell only to give ltrrcadcr a lcttcrhcecl
blirluerquc) rcgarciing the l{aza Llnida Party.
arr.i r brr;.'irr tltc nrov.'ntr'n(.
tlle
authclr
of
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to
bclievc
havc
reason
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About tri,o ycars ago l'orcade offcrccl
Jo1la, I;r llyor, fulgeu,or:cl. Crrrizo Springs,
(irnsitto,
pcclazo
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un
these articles is Cnrlos
I)t'l lLio, (btulla, []ecvillc. Taft, lialfurrias, ln(l WIN and othcr UI'S publications a publishing
honrbrt'quc tti patttalottcs ticnt' ltara litttl:rr
cleal in rvhich hc pronriscd to protlucc n sc'entl olhcrs). Lr 1972, tve rvill u,in in various
su nonrbrc.
ries of "Bcst Of......." books lor thc unclcrcounties in Texas and clcct thc tlrst Raza
fhc latcst ol thcsc articlcs appcarcd in a
grountl prerss. Hc claimcd to have a pr"rblishc-r
Unida candiilatcs for Shcriffs. Tax Assessors,
"rac1ical" gringo publicailon callctl WlN, \bl.
and cvcrything arrangctl, all s'e nccclccl to do
Cbunt) Attornc)'s, &unt], C'otnnlissioners,
VII. No. l:1, Scpt. 15, 1971, pp6'11. trncler
rvas protluce a manuscripl. lioolishl1,, (cvclt
Justicc of tlte Pt:acc. ancl Cbustables.
the titlc "la l{aza Dcsunirla".
'Ihc author(s) of tltis vicious article also
then u,c rliiln't quite believc him) IlLul JoiinI fec1 that I must rcpucliatc tlitr stupitl,
sor.i, N{aris (}kars ancl nrysclf put togcther a
contcncl that thc I'brtl Iburtdatiolr crcate(l
lalse, and vicious allegations rnaclc about our
"Best ol WIN", riclivcrecl it to Iiorcade on
thc Southu'est (buricil of La l{aza rvho ir.r
political party. I louri.leiL thc part)' in (i1stimc ancl rvaitecl for 1hc book to nraterializo.
tal Oty.'Icras ot.t Januarl' 19, 1970 at a cont- turn crcrtctl the Nlcrican Artrcrican Unrty
It ncvcr cliri. AItcl ncjthcr did au cxplanatiotl.
Cbuncil in Srn .{.tttot.tio, Tcras. u,lticr)r luntlcci
rnunity mccting of 390 (approrinlate) ClliIt sccms typical of thc \\,ey Iiorcltclc lvorks.
ricatt Youth Orgatrization
thc Nlcxican Atne-l-hcy
canos at tire 9rlon (irntpestrc. \\/c hntl just
Lots of promrses t)r.lt nothillg of substancc.
argui. that Conlrlissionvictoriously cntlcd titc school strikc antl u ctc lbr $I0.000.00.
er Albcrt Pena recruitctl us (NlAYO), irlstruct- ls therc an1, publicatior.i or lttovemcllt orgrtrscarching for political llternativc. Or-rr lkrza
izrtion thtt lras had positrvc or usclul tlealcd us. ancl l'rnancetl us to trttvcl across tltt:
in South'ferts tcltr:s r.ln agricultural labor
ings r.r,rth liorcuclc or LIPS'l I u,onrlcr.
statc.
acmss the UniLcd Slates as a livclihoocl. Our
liorcacle seems to bc approching this tnatThc truth ol the rnattcr is that N'IAYO rves
by rnicl'April and
migrant pcoplc lclvc Tcras-['his
ter frorn titc stancipoint of a bookkt-cper.
u,as orglnizccl in l9(r7 and rvc organizetl thc
fact dcnies
retLrrn in curly Novenrbcr.
OK. That's a nccessar)' occupation antl or.tc
N{cxicln Ancrican Unitl' Cbuncil. Only latcr
us signiticant participrtiott itt thc scllool
did N'lAtJCl alllLiate with thc Southu'cst Cortn- of thc nrost courilgcous lrcoplc l've evcr
in,\pril.
boarcl elcctions on thc tii'st Saturtlal,
'Iuesclay'
cil. NIr\YO in 1968 obtaincd $3,800.00 fronr knou,n in tlte movemcnt lunctionccl nrost o1'
in
municipal clcctions ort thc tirst
the tinre in thc rolc of movctne nt bookkccpthc N'IALi(. Our [untling u,as tcrtttittated beAprill l)ernocrat or l{cpublican prinrarics the
But hc rlid othcr tliings. \\rhat's I orcatle
llr.l \rtirr,l:rr ttt \Lr):.rtr,l .rtt1 1'1r'.111.1. .,ru11- ceusc o1' our tnilitatrt antl political activity ill cr.
clonc othcr tiran u,hccl ancl rleal in h1'pc'l Ab&rlrth Tcrls. Wr'rvcrc instrumcntal itl crcatty district, or -statc coitvcrltiolr or rltu-ofl ubic has alu,a1,s becn an activist on thc run.
ing 39 school slrikes in Tcras. Both trlAYO
1e ctior.r.
N'[onc1,'s gonc in ancl ou1 of his pockcts likc
,ri,l tlr. ltazt L,niclt Ptrty' hltvc not rcct-iverl
Jhe lcl (hicanos tlut lrc arrlttntl to vcttc
Iglitning. l3trt he's not gottcn riclt on thc
an1,fundirrg troin tltc [rord lior-tntlation sitlcc
1ail rriscrabiy at clc'chng or bcing clcctt'rl to
that tirrc. \\'c tlon't ttecd tltc liorcl lioutrr-llttion. rurovcnrcnt, though soltc havc. Abbic's u'ritoitice in any party at arly tirllc. (bttsctlucntten a lot of stufT for WIN ancl anyone s,ho's
fhc sle nclcr in "la I{aza L)csunitla" articlc
1),, our peoplc are l'accd u'ith tlie choicc ol
reacl hinr knori,s his st1'lc. Abbie rvrote
rtrlL: lltrrt 1',(,0 ri.illr (lti,:rtt,, ( rrll'\'iuu\the lcsst'r of tt,o cvils in Nttvctttbcr.
ncss irrotluccd a rcbcllion against the DcnroSTLAL THIS ilOOK. It's prctty eviclent tcr
1hc llaza lJnida Rrrty. ort thc otltcr hattc],
anyonc tanriliar u,ith tltat st! le.
cratic llrrt1,l'htclt rcsultcc'l in lltc victory of
by-passes all this lcgal proc!'ss ol (hicano cNrrrt. \\ I \ lt;rr :rlro lir crt r'\. e..ivr' 'nrrr'
liberrl llcpublicart Joirtt Tort'er to the Senate.
lirnination uncl plants the lllrzl Unida canclito Nlichael liorcnrln u,hosc association u'itli
John Tou,cr is lar fronr bt-ing a libcral Rcpubdate in a scpllatc coir.trnn on tltc Novctnbor
tht nrovcnrent (a liinr:c orte at thal) has beerl
lic:rn hc's a lacist, bigotctl, racist gringo.
ballot. The gringo ntust nou, split himself inas publicist. N'lcaning, that s'hrlc Abbic u,as
]hc articlc also states tltat u'c havc tricd
to cither llcpublican or l)ctttocrat s'hilc our
u,orking in thc strects, takirtg risks, antl gctfor
lLur can bloc vtrtc lbr [{aza. Obviousll', a po- rrnsr.rcccssiully to corttc ittto Neu'\lcsico
ting Iiasslcd by the govr-rnnrcitt. ctc. lioretttitrt
thc past thrcc 1,cars. Tlic Raza Uliicla Party
liticat nrtnority of,10 por ccttt cottlcl dcfcat
N,as sctting up press confcrctlccs lor rock
lus not cristetl 1'or thrce lrctrs. \!'c clon't
nr.r cvcnly split 60 per ccul grit.tgo rnqoritl'.
stlrs rnrl other coLtirter-culture Vll's. I kttort,
cor.rrrr into any place. Thc (-hicano CottttnnllYct, thc author of " Lr IUza Desunitla"
it1, arrivos at tlte altcrnativc of the Raza Lhida bccausc as a nrovLrlucnt jor.tntalist I rvas rvith
insists that thc l{aza Lhrida Party is a lbrd
pl'ty by crpericnco and frustration. This hirs Abbir.: in thc streels ancl also attorttling prcss
lioundrtion fitrancctl oircration lor thc clcc
6ccn tirr: casc itr Coloratlo, Orcgott, Qrlilornia. conlercnces. I never sari, l'brcrnan lt a clcmtion of lbbby Kcnncdy in 1972. They clainr
on stratio n.
thc plot rvas ltatchcd in 1964. \\'ltirt ntind car.t .tuizona. \Vashington, i\lichigan, Nerv York,
\\'hat does all this havc to do \vitlt the isrnrl Tcras.
corrcievc that prccisc presidcntiel plans erc
sr:c at hancl'l Legall"v, I tion't knorv, rnuch
The lbza UnicLa lhrt1, is part of a ntass
laid 8 ycars in arlvattce'l Bettcr -vct, whlLt
less carc. But Abbic has risked ntore thltlt
nlovcllcl)t that Chicanos llavc lnainteitlctL
nrinri can bclicvc that thc llaza Llnitla lltrty
nrost people lor u,hat thc tnovenrcttt bclieves
fbr ycars. Thc party is comrnittcd to sr.lcial
favors thc l)cnrocratic ll.rrt.v'l Il rnytliing. tltc
in. He cleservcs criticisnt lbr u,hen hc's crrccll
changc. 'Ihe P.irty is contnrittod to clinlilratRi,t.r I'rri,l;t l\rt] rl.'slror \ Illa De tllo\'r.lti.
but that criticisnr sltoulil come lionr pcoplc
and tc'oRrrt1,, (rvitncss thc Nov. I 6. I 97 1 Scnatc clcr- ing ther gringo politicalll,, socially,
rvilling to share thc risks rr,itlr hinr; tion-t
tion in Ils Angclcs). by srvinging traditionaliy nomical11'. At this point. thc Raze Lltiida lhrcomracles, in other u,ortls. ttot front conrnen
loyal D:nrocrat votcs ovcr to Rtza llnida Par- ty is crcating ,A.ztlen tlrrough ballots. Wc havc and hustlers n,lto arc using the tnovcrrcttt 1br
not clismissed thc possibility of carrying lorth
ty.
our prolrrar11 ol sLrlt (letcrmination by bullcts. somc kind of private fintasy trip.
Anothcr frlsc rcport b1, the unsigncd
kt mc say sonrcthing rnore about Abbic.
I ask you to print this lcnsthy letter for
author(s) is tlrat I)r. lincsto (lalarzl is tht:
the benctlt ol thc Chicanc rcadcrs. Ilopefull-v. We rvent through a lot of shit togethcr. lrlou,
hcad of thc ltaza fJnida Party. llurtht'r. that
er Porver Da1'. throrving nlolroy il\\'a)' et tllc
thc nrisinforntctl and thereforc dangcrous
the sccontl NalionaL Raza Unicia lhrty ctltlfcrStock [.xchangr:, all kinds of Yipprrc things.
"gringo" ratlicals rvill chcck out thc valiclity
encc \\ius heltl in San Atrlottio. Thcrc is tlo
Tliere has bccn a datrecir.rg and l)lse series clf arttcles conrir.ig r-tut o1' Neri, Nloxico (,\l-
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Chicago.
I'm pretty sour on the movemetlt,
expecially on movement heavies who carefully cultivate revolutionary self-images. I
trust Abbie, maybe not to keep a careful account of petty cash, but to be risking his
neck along with everyone else. If Abbie is an
elitist (as people charge) it's because he's got
a brilliant head and gave the movement a
much-needed zap ot.creativity. He never demanded people follow him, but they did and
for good reason. He's nevet asked others to
take risks he himself wouldn't take.
One exarnple is the Grand Central Yip-ln
fiasco, which he didn't plan but (along with
Jerry Rubin) got blamcd for. Grand Central
was no place to hold a demonstration and
when tlie police started to get vioious thete
was no escaping. It was a trap. In the middle
of the violence, Abbie and Anita Hoffman
were trying to organize people to sit-down
so as to stabilize the situation and cool thc
policc out. A beautiful idea, the only tactic
ihat could havc salvaged an impossible situation. It didn't work. Freople were too frightened ot too overwhelmed by the rhetoric of
'militance to accept such commonsense nonviolence. Abbie was the only Yippee heavy
to be with the people in the thick of battle
and to try and exercise leadership' He really
impressed me that night (and other times)
because it took courage for him to advocate
nonviolent tactics when nonviolence was so
generally being put down by the more-miliiant-than-thou revolutionary leadership. It
of Abbie to be in the middle of the action and to offer a commonsence
olan of action evcn though it was an unponuiar. Maybe that's why he came to bt' considwas characterlstic
ered a "leader."
I haven't seen Abbie in about three ycars.
know about this letter and it's a
jnto Anita
drae having to write it. I oncc ran
on 5t. Mar[s Hace and told hcr rbout oul'
farm in Vermont. She saitl that she and Abbie hoocd to set out of thc city somcday.
too. I{ov thai Abbie has "rcsigncd" from thc
movement (I guess I have also), I hope thcy
make it. They won't find much rhetoric in
the sticks; but neither will they find tnoveHe doesn't
ment hucksters and conmen. They might not
even find The I\4ovement. But they will tlnd a
lot of goocl people still workilg 1q9!iLsJ,- .MARTY JEZER
the shlpe of Anierica.
VERMONT
My articie (WIN, Nov. l) on the "people's
courtr'convened to settle the dispute between Tom Forcade and Abbie Hoffman was
commented on by two letter'writers Fbrcade
himself and a fornter non-associate, Michael
Forman. Forman is some kind of miniature
entrepreneu: who operated with some success on the fringes of "hip culture" a t'erv
years ago-ht betrays his vintagc by reterring
io me as "poik," a practice which taded
from the chr.rts some time in 196X' My only
contact with him before this proceeding was
back in '69 when I sent Concert Flalt fublica-
beth arnold
lance belville
cliana davies
ralph di gia
jen elodie
leah
fritz
elliot linzet
iackson maclow
dick margulis
david mcreynolds
jim
self.
I won't load you down with a point-by
noint relutetion vou don't rcmember the
uhat thcy said point-by-point anyway, tltank
heavens. I{ather, I will simply ask that you
believe me when I characterize their lctters
as two shott-weight loatls of gerbil mung, and
ancl off'er the follorving tcxtual comparison
between the -cade and -man wings of the l;or-
family:
t-crtle: ) "ln e Der'cnrbcr issue oI WIN'
Karoel had an article entitlcd "Steal This Court,"
C"r.t." which containetl a st'rics ol'lies wlrich
KarpcI knows to be lics. Michacl lrorman's
anrier in the Junuary issuc covcrs some ol
these. In the Januarv issue of thc ACLU newsIetter. I(aroel ltarl a l'urthcr arhtle which rcpcuted sumc ol'lllcsc lics. lbr cxalnplc, Karpcl slatcs thlt Hofl'ntun eanlc to Ittt'bccluse
continues on Page 33
4:
tad richards
On to San Diego?
fled rosen
nancy rosen
mike wood
peter kager
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STAFF
levitsky
Tom lLrydcn on thc War in
lndoch ina
peck
dorothy lane
burton
8s00.
Forcade likes to go after people nobody
else would ever think of vitifying-his most
recent target in WIN was Mitch Goodmanboy, he sure destroyed N{itch Goodman,
didn't he? So lest the same horrible late beiall me as a result of l'orcade's wrath that befell Mitch C,ooclman, allow me to det'end my$
igal roodenko
nell haworth
marty jezer
maris cakars
gusan caka/s
rllow him io rip Abbie Hoffman off for
menlL
HOME FOLKS
marilyn albert
tions (i.e. Forman) my check for.a copy of
Hoff-man's WOODSTOCK NATION. C'ot the
cancelled check back, but not the book. Oh
well. I'ortadc cltosc me to sit on thc arbitration oancl and is piqucd that ol' thc tllrec justices^1. his pick hit ot the week, refused to
debbie loewe
mary mayo
brian wester
linda wood
CL,W2
peace and freedom
through nonviolent action
box 547
rifton, new york'1247'l
telephone
IN THE PROVINCES
jim gehres lbo\ 7477, atlanta.
91
4-339-4585
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mitlee of the San Dicgo
Convention Gralition
14: Allcn Ginsbcrg
16: David N4cRcynolds
19: Grig Krrpcl
25'. IBM and thc War
26: Changcs
30: Rcvit:ws
ga.
3O3O9)
wayne hayashi (lO2o kuqpohqku
e4,, honolulu, hi. 96819j
becky and paul (somewhere in new
mex ico)
alex knopp (36O9 baring, philadelphia,
pa.19104)
john kuper (24O kelton st., apt. 8,
alston,.mass 021,34)
paul oblucta (544 natoma, san francisco,
cal 94103)
lana reevet (charleston, west virqinia),
ruth dear (5429 s. dorchester, chicago,
il 60615)
paul encimer (712 w. 3rct. st., cruluth,
minn 55806)
seth toldy (2322 elandon dr., cleveland
heights, ohio 44106)
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Bill Gawlirrd
O:r thanks to Paul Johnson and
Kip Shaw firr hclping to bail us out
ol dif{'icultics on this issuc. And spccial thanks to Uill Crawf oid f
Volunre Vlll, Number 6
"howTomcruel
Hayden
A,r.ri.r', role in the war in lndochina may seem
wanton, aimless, insane, absurcl. But actually there's a
rationality to thc whole process. When that Air Force
gorcral madc thc infamous comment during the Tet
offensivc, that hc bombed the city of Ben Tie to save
it, lrc was spcaking f rom an underlying philosophy
thal guides thc U.S. war effort at cvery levcl. The destruction of'thc fabric of life in thc liberated zoncs;
thc killing and clisplacing of so many people is iustified
by thc corrccpt thal it is:rll irr rhcir Lrest irrtcrcst. Their
livcs arc thought to be backwarci, traciition-bourrd,
poor, lacking altogcthcr in micldle class opportunities
and possibilitics. Commur.rism is said to fced on this
backwardncss. W.rlt Rostorv called it oncc thc scavenger
ol'thc clcvclopntcnl proccss, l'ccding on pe-ople's outclatcd 1'cars.
Jhc roacl lo pt ()g,rcss, cvur if it bcgins in a bornbccl
villagc, thcn gocs to.r rctugcc c.rmp, is thc lorti to the
city, thc ro.tcl to urb;rniz.r1iorr, the road to a worlcl
lvhich is dcscribe.cl as ntorlcrn. A l-r.rnte has been givc.n
to this proccss by onc ol' thosc ltLlle.rous intcllcctual
slavcs o1'pow('r, S.rmLtcl Hurrtingclorr, lot mcr Ch.rir.rn.ur
ol- thc Cove.rrrrnott Dcpartnlcnt .lt Hurv.trcl, .r rtgular.
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government advisor on Southeast Asian policy, who
very often has formulated position papers on American
policy there.
ln one, written several years ago in Foreign Affairs
magazine, Hurrtingdon uses a phrase that names the
process, and he calls it: forced draft urbanizaion. ,,lf
the direct applicatiott of mechanical and conventional
power tokes ploce on such o massive scale"-that,s
bombing- "as to produce a massive migration from
countryside to city, the bosic operoting assumptions
trnderlying the l\hoist doctrine of revolutionary wor
no longer operote. ln the absent-minded woy the tJ.S.
in Vletnom may well have stumbled upon the onswer
to \/ors of nationol liberotion. The effective response
lies neither ln the quest for conventionol military victory" -l presume that that's johnson- "nor in tie esoterl c.d oc tri n es an cl
g i
m m i cks
of
cou n te r- i n su rge n cy
rvarl'are" -l suppose that's Kerrnedy. "tt is insiead
forcetl draft urbanlzotion ond modernization which
tnpidly brings the cout'ttry in question out of the phase
in n,hit'h o rural revolutionary movement con hope to
(lenerate suflicient strength to come to power."
Saigon is the denscst city in tlrc world,
with
new
mausoleums, where bodies have been removed to ollow
more room. Most have no work. The children run wild,
There is little food, little clothing to sustoin them, both
both physically and mentally. The areas thot thev liue
in ore breecling grouncls for disease, for illness, ond for
VC recruitment.
"
For those Vietrramese in the American controlled
The following article is excerpted from
the tronscript of .q television program, "Free
Time," on which Tom Hoyden oppeared on fanuary 18. This materiol, in expanded form, will
soon oppeor os o'book published by Holt, Rinehort and Winston. Our thonks to Tom and some
of the folks ot New York's Chonnel I 3 for their
cooperation in getting this together. -WlN
problems, such as garbage, which it has never had before. The city has had its population Increased by
forced urbanization from four hundred thousand peoplein 1962 to four million this last year. Danang from
one hundred twenty thousand to four hundred and
fifty thousand. Hueh, from one hundred thousand to
nearly two hundred thousand.
ln South Vietnam as a whole, a country which was
ninety percent rural in 1961 when Kennedy came to
office, it's now become sixty percent urban. ln Cambodia the process is happening even more rapidly. The
capital city of Mm Penh in 1970 had six hundred
thousand people. ln 1971, two million.
The Kennedy subcommittee in 1968 described the
lives of the people this way. "They sleep in alleys and
streets, in courtyards ond halls, even in graveyards and
areas, whether rural or urban, ther is another system
of domination awaiting them, once they have escaped
the bombs, once they have come in to the camps or
the cities. lrbw they have been drivcn, literally driven,
into what can only bc described as a Western style
market economy.
movitrg rap.lapanesc and Americ.rn corpot aliotrs lrc
-l969.
Econidly into Sr:uth Vietnam, espccially sirtce
omists and technicians are studying that cconomy, the
natural resources, the raw materials, the labor forcc,
and drafting plans for thc futurc. Even though investment is a pretty high risk, glven thc war, and evert
though, as one Amcrican planner says, the Anglo-Amcrican conccpt of the corporation has not yct madc much
much headway, these official rcports arc pilirrg up, and
they all point tr: at least a decacle of cconomic wcstcrnization.
These reports, for instancc, incluclc thc thcory that
Vietnam will supply the manpowcr, and thc U.S. thc
economic resources, to pursue thc war. Thcy havc bccn
done by Columbia cconomists working on contract to
the Statc Departmcnt; by David Lilicnthal, formcr hcacl
of the TVA, the Tentrcssee Valley Authority, working
for Johnson, and prescnting a thrcc-volumc rcport to
Nixon in 1969;by thc Asian Dcvclopmcnt Bank in Manila; by lapanese invcstmcnt groups; by American oil
companics.
And all of thesc reports, somc scmi-sccrcL, somc
loo?
the.lyhites'eyes
on the War in lndochina
5
not, most of them unreported in the press, contain the
image of the American technician and businessman,
off in Asia; symbolically he's pictured very often as the
the frontjer type spirit, the risk-taking businessman
turned missionary, showing peasants, who have been
farmers for a thousand years, how to grow rice.
Before going into these reports, these documents,
let me make one thing clear, and that's that the South
Vietnamese economy is a catastrophe. And this stems
from being the completely artificial creatjon of the U.S.
Just as the ARVN is a completely artificial, funded military creation of the U.S.; just as South Vietnam itself
is an artificial diplomatic creation of the U.S., which
was not supposed to exist after 1956, according to the
Geneva Accords.
The many signs and symptoms of the absurdity and
artificiality of this economy start, first, with the fact
of a manpower crisis. South Vetnam has the fourth
largest army in the world, seventy percent of its budget goes
for
defense.
Second, inflation. Consumer price index rises astronomically each year.
Third, the pervasive black market and corruption.
Ore of the reports, by a former head of the U.S. Budget &rreau, says it's generally acknowledged that Vietnam is corrupt, and this process may be irreversible.
Fourth, the fact that the Saigon government, according to these riports, essentially lacks a capacity to
collect taxes from its own people, showing the gap between the government and its population.
Fifth, and most clearly, there's an import crisis. Because of the war, South Vietnam, which once was an
exporter of rice, has become dependent on American
rice, particularly grown in Louisiana; has become a dependent importer of what was once its most important
product.
Say it another way. ln 1969 the total amount of
consumer goods imported into South Vietnam, in dollar terms, equalled the South Vietnamese gross national product. fut it another way. From 1965 to 1969
the exports from South Vietnam of goods out of the
country to other countries dropped from 40 million
to a pitiful, infinitesimal I5 million. \4hile the imports
of consumer goods, basically from .lapan and the United Statcs, rocketed from 250 million dollars worth in
1965 to nearly 700 million in the first year of the Nixon Administration.
American aid to this puppet regime, whose army is
supposedly Vietnamized, but whose economy is essentially Americanized, has been over the past ten years
'l
6% billion dollars, counting economic aid, military
aid, and infra-structure costs. The economic reports
gencrally acknwledge this crisis. But they bury its significance in a serics of glowing prolections, which read
like fant;rsics.
The first, shared by all the reports, is that the war
has been progressive tor the Vietnamese people, that
it's put fuuth Vietnam on the road to economic capitalist prosperity. Fortunc magazine, as lotrg ago as 1966,
was claiming that Soutlr Vietrram, if it's preserved from
Commurrism, has thr- potential to become one of the
richest nations in 9ruthc'nst fuia.
Lilierrthal, at a prcss confcrencc in I968, in relationship to his report, said that the Mekong Delta is tlre
most valuatrle piccc of real cstate that exists in the
worlcj. ln his rcport, hc clairrcd that thc physical destructiolr cJuc to thc- rvar in South Vietrrani is nrirrirnal,
ancl tlrat thc cconornic rvcalth of thc courrtr.v has incrc.rse'd.
Arthur Smithes, a CIA agent, and a former Director
of the Budget.&rreau, claimed in his report that'. "The
wor hos chonged the situation in ways which are dis-
tinctly fovoroble to developmenL"
You might wonder, what do these people mean?
They seem to mean, if you study the reports, first of
all the development of what's called an infra-structure,
2400 miles of highways, countless bridges, 600 miles
of railroad, 200 airfields, five of them big enough for
passenger jetb, six major ports capable of taking ocean
going vessels. The best infra-structure in Southeast
Asia, Fortune magazine calls it.
Second, these reports. seem to mean, when they
talk of progress, the development of a cheap labor
force with Western skills, because of the fact that the
Vietnamese have worked around the American bases
for so long. The Japanese business study calls this factor: withdut a doubt the greatest attraction for foreign
interests in investing in Metnam. And Smithes urges,.in
his repbrt, that wages be held down in South Vietnam
to encourage investment.
lnvestment, private enterprise, is the key to all of
these proposals. The tone for this was set by Ambassa-
dor Bunker, speaking February, 1971 , to the United
States Chamber of Commerce, Saigon branch. ln th-at
ipe""n, r..ported b, the State'Dep"artment, he cited the
growing possibility of what he called "an economic climlte thot foreign investors will find attroctive," Smithes
approves in his report of what he calls a necessary
"increose in the exploitotion of the Wetnqmese people."
ln the cities this will mean that banks, particularly
American banks, and corporations, both Japanese and
American, or mutually owned corporations, will dominate and control the labor market and the extension
of credit.
The lapanese in particular have come into the picture very strongly, because within the Nixon doctrine
they are slated in Asia, as Brazil is in Latin America, to
be the subimperialist power, doing certain tasks for
the Western market system.
So from 1960 to '69,the Japanese investors invested
four million dollars in South Vietnam. But from 1969
to 1972, they invested 32 million dollars. There's a
Toyota in the future of every Metnamese.
ln the rural areas, apparently the key to private
growth of the economy is the famous green revolution,
i,vtrlcn is essentially the use of miracle grain rice, socalled, and fertilizers to supposedly increase the output
of rice by the Vietnamese peasants, after they have
been expert rice farmers for hundreds of years.
What will happen in this process is an even greater
centralization of land holdings throughout South Vietnam, and a growing dependency on trade with the
United States for technological gadgets, like motor
pumps, and a dependency on American banks for credit. Because the motor pumps and the other equipment
necessary for building levies, for flood control, and so
forth, require centralization, require large savings in
order to purchase them and to gain credit. And U.S.
companies, by the way, will build this equipment,
build these motor pumPs.
Also there's an incredible hope for oil. Something
like the gold rush to California is gripping American
speculators in Southeast Asia, with respect to oil. The
Journal of Commerce last April, said that South Vietnam "Moy contain the richest petroleum deposits in
hutheost Asio." And other journals have said the deposits may rival the Middle East.
Since 1969 it's been no secret that therc's a big
scramble in Southeast fuia over oil. There are persistent
reports of secret negotiations between Saigon, the State
Department, and oil companies about oil leasing rights
off the coast of South Metnam. And it's reported that
35 billion dollars has been invested by the oil companies, simply in research and exploration off the coast of
South Vietnam, for the next ten years.
Ask yourself whether this means the United States
is getting out of South Vietnam. The answer of course
is that the United States is getting in. The figures vary.
Lilienthal in his report proposed 2/zbillion dollars of
U.S. direct military and economic aid to Saigon for the
next ten years. A Rand Corporation expert said that
was nonsense, proposed that it would cost at least twice
twice that. Neill Benoit, an economist at C-olumbia University, working on a State Department project, has said
said that the cost may be as high as 13 billion dollars,
9 billion.l military, 4 billion economic aid, just over the
period 970 to'75.'There's only 16/z billion dollars
for all the Sixties, so he's talking about nearly that
.much again for a five year projected American aid program.
lWho has told the American people about these reports? All these reports make two very important assumptions. The first is that the United States will win
the war. This is a fantasy. Lilienthal assumed that the
war would be over by the time he submitted the reporl
That was his problem. Benoit says, in his study, incredibly enough, in his study, that he makes the assumption that the'United States wil,l win the war in early
197 3, for the purposes of doing his study. He says,
otherwise doing the study would make no sense'
The other assumption I think is also a fantasy, but
it has a more ominous present reality to it, and that is
that a root transformation, a cultural transformation
in the attitudes and psyches of the people of Southeast
fuia can be wrought by the American market system
there. All of these reports talk about the laziness and
backwardness of the people, the necessity for attitudes
of industry, rather than idleness.
And Smithes sums it all up in one statement, that
a Fkrnda riding generation may be more capable of economic development than a buffalo driving one. What
he's talking about is what is called commonly the l-bnda culture in Southeast fuia, and particularly in Saigon.
A culture symbolized by the millions of Honda motorbikes imported from Japan, one million of them to
Saigon alone over the last four years.
There's a common saying among military men in
South Metnam that if you get every Vietnamese male
on the back of a l-krnda, the war would be brought to
an end. What does this mean?
Another official says that we can win the hearts and
minds of the people-abbreviate that to WHAM, it's
called WHAM- wc can WHAI\4 them with our ]-krndas
and our motor pumps.
These statcments csse ntially mcan that thc pcoplc
driven to the cities as rcfugecs will bc swept in an entirely new materlalistic valuc system, will bccome
turned on to Sony transistor radios, to Flonda motorbikes, to the whole Westcrn consumer culture, and
therefore be brought into the American way of life, and
and will leave behind their traditional ways, thcir cvil
ways, their Communist waYs.
Samuel Huntingdon again cntcrs hcre to provide us
with a political proposal for actually rigging thc South
Vietnamesc electoral proccss, which would complcment thesc cconomic plans that l'vc been talking about.
He prcsentc
7
cicty,
.l
a CIA fundcd opcration, carly in 969, which was
callcd "Getting Reody for fulitical etmpetition in gtuth
Vetnam. " I gucss hc supposed that the end of the war
y,1,1s O91h..ans in sighr, and he had rcad the article by his
lricnd Kissinger in F.oreign Affairs a1 the beginning of
thc Nixon Administration, which said that the United
Statcs is doing all right militarily, but it lacks a political structurc in gtuth Victnam. So hc proposed the
[irllowing'plan.
First, thar l"hc United Sl-atcs should definitely intervcnc in the politics ol'&ruth Victnam. He says it hasn,t
becn involvcd cnough bcforc, but since -l966 we,ve
pl;rycd ,rn activc rolc thcrc.
Sccond, we should l'orcc the NLF to play the game_
thal.'s the gamc oI politics by bombing itrem into it.
[1is phrasc is a littlc morc cuphemistic.-He says, ,,by in_
ducing subsLanl"ial migrat.ion to thc citics.,,
1-hird, wc should control the cities and trade, and
thc markcL and commcrcial systcm, and give the NLF
thc rcst ol' thc countrysidc. Because then the NLF will
bc rcduced to a scct in thc rural arcas. And the trade
g,oing on in and out oI thosc arcas will eventually un-
dcrmir.rc thc NLF appcal bccausc
of what he call: the
ncw ()pp()rtunitics firr cntrcpcneurship opened up by
thc Amcrican markct systcm.
lirurth, wc should rig thc polit.ical system, set up a
purliamcntary system that works to our benefit, given
Lhc lact that thc NLF will be the strongest force, both
in thc citics and the countryside, ancl given the fact
that thc pcoplc on Lhc U.S. side arc hopelessly fragmclttcd ;rrrd clividcd that's what he calls thcm, never
mcrrtionirrl3 that this may bc duc to the fact that they
havc [rccn lromttcrl into thc cities, and loss of their traclitional way ol lilc is the cuusc of l"hc fragmentation.
Hc ltxrks vcry l-avorably on the Cal,holics, who in
1967 in Srigon, with tcn pcrcent of thc population in
South Victnam, clccted 43 pcrccnt of the Senators in
thc clcction that ycar. Ancl hc hopcs that this can be
iluplicatcrl in luturc clcctions. Flc says thc best way to
rlo it
is through.r majority runofl'systcm, in which perlurps thc NLF, or somc othcr nationalist candidate, will
ll,ct lhc l.trB()st v()lc trltal ott thc llrst go around;but
thcn lvith pork [r.rrrcl inrlucomcnts, wc'll be able to
gct thc krscrs togctlrcr, .rr.rcl ir-r lhc runol.l'clcfeat the
rr.rlirrn.rlisl or tlrc NLIr r cprcrcrrtulivc.
Antl, lirr.rlly, .rs il this wnsn't cnouglr, hc says wc
sltoukl crc.rlc ()ur own tlppositiorr 1o thc government
lh.rl wc'rc supportirrg in 9ruth Vietnam, just so the
NLF won'l bc atrlc to monopolizc thc opposition in
thc cilir..s. ln this rcg.rrrl hc says wc slrouicl look favor.rbly uptln Mcssi.rrric m()vctncnts, cults, I'anatical religi()us nt()vcntcnts, likc thc !rka Grkai movcmenL in
f.rp.rn, which hc s.rys ntry gr()w lrcgausc of Japanese
invcsl ntotl in Srigon, or thc Butlclliist movcment, or
cvcrr.r Pcronist nt()vemcnt, likc th.rt in Argottirra hc
lhinks shoultl [rc vicwcrl llvor.rtrly in 9ruth Vietnam.
It's h.rrtl l() sum.tllol'this up. But it's clear that the
.rir rv.rr is rrot lhe. orrly w.rr Anrcrica is carrying on in
9ruthc.rst Asi.r. Ilre rc.rl w.rr thcrc is not simply milit.rry, bul it's.r tttl.rl.rss.rult orr.r pcople, olt a culture,
.tttrl ot.t .r scrics ol rr.tlitlrrs.
I}c U.S. is.rtt.rckirrg.r peoplc in Vicrrr.rnr wilh a
vcry str()n!l irlcrrtity.rrrcl culturc, goitrg [r.rck ccnturics.
'l'hc
ollici.rls ol Nrrtlr Victn.rnr,.rrrcl ol thc Pcople's
Rcvolution.rrl, Gtlvcrnnrcnt ol S.ruth Viclrram, many
ol'them poc'ts.rntl intcllcclu.rls, likc' Hl Chi Mirrlr, lay
claim legitinr.ltcly to .r long .rrrtl prourl tr.tclitior.r of resistance tcl lore'ign invasion .rg.rinst the Clrinese, thc
French, the British, the .lapanese, and now the Amertcan5.
This constant history
of invasion has created a unit_
built on traditions of com-
ed, fierce nationalism that's
munalism in the villages, which make cooperative values much more natural than competitive ones.
One journalist has interviewed Vietnamese who are
just learning to read and write as adults in North Vietnam. Mt well acquainted with foreign words, he wrote
that they thought when they heard ihe word individualist, that it meant cannibal. They had shared work
together, lived together, and since time immemorial
had made common cause against natural catastrophe
and enemy attack.
. "The U.S. has chonged our society into o society of
bor girls, prostitutes, pimps, thieves, qanss of iuvenile
delinquents ond dope addicts, along wit-h int1nsifying
government groft ond corruption." This statement was
made by the president of the National Union of Students of South Vietnam.
There are 400 thousand registered prostitutes in Saigon alone. There are 250 thousand, by conservative estjmate, 250 thousand orphansof Gl,s- ln one day, in
December 1969,15 teenagers in Saigon committed suicide. There are 400 thousand politiial prisoners in
South Vietnamese iails.
The American CIA has set up a literary form of penetration and one of its latest magazines contains a short
story which contains the following little philosophy.
"llhot is hoppiness? No such thing exists. Only occeptonce is real. To occept, thot's all."
The NLF organizes around the slogan that in South
Vietnam, there are more bars and brothels than hospitals, more prisons than schools. The American goal in
Metnam is to make the lietnamese into a people like
ourselves. The Vietnamese call this becoming yellowskinned Americans.
This war is climaxing on the Asian mainland. But it
began a long time ago in the United States. lt,s only the
latest phase, you might even say, of a 500 year war between the Western settlers and the native inhabitants
of the lands which they have been seeking to conquer.
lf we use Vietnam as a mirror, we can see its origins in
the settling of the United States, in the genocidal war,
for example, against the lndians.
. Wlen Hubert Humphrey in 1968 spoke of spreading
the Great Society to Asia, while millions in Asia were
being displaced or killed-five million in South Vietnam
alone-it was no different really than those idealists
who came here to create a new world a long time ago,
and in the process deceived, manipulated, killed and
subjugated the native tribal communities.
Even our most progressive leaders, supposedly progressive leaders, ever since have combined this strange
idealism with genocide. Lincoln, for instance-and hi,s
only one example of many, many-fought and even
re-enlisted-re-enlisted-in the Black Hawk war in lllinois. Very few people know that.
The parallels between this war in lndo-China and the
Indian wars that America fought at its foundation are
absolutely uncanny. Anthropology tells us that the ln-
dians, in fact, came from fuia, explaining the similarity
ttii:"ffi',H:
tived in a rotat cutture, in harmony with
with the universe, close to their ancestors. They considered, typically, the earth to be their mother, and
the sun their father. The land and the water belonged
to cveryone. Am attitude very far removed from that
of the invaders. That attitude of the invaders being one
in which man is pitted against nature; in which the
land is divided into private property; in which competition rules the relationships between people.
Racism is a constant factor in the relations with the
lndians, and the relations with the Vietnamese' The lndians were considered savages, just as the Vietnamese
are considered dinks. VC, or Vietcong is a word developed by the Amerlcan Psychological War Department.
lis a derogatory word. Apache and Sioux were both
worcls that were invented by the French and by the
ffil'
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Americans, and which translate irrto something like
enemy, and were then applied to the tribes that thc
Americans opposed, and fought, and subjugated.
The massacres a hundred years ago at Sand Geek,
or at Woundecl Knee, which we know so little about,
are no different than those which we have learned so
much about in Vietnam, like the one at My Lri' The
cutting off of genitals, the cutting off of ears, the displaying them as trophies did not start in Vietnam, it
started in the lndian wars. The body count did not
start in Vietnam either, as we're remincled each timc
we see a cowboy and lndian movie, and see thal approximately one hundred savages have to be killed irr
each battle for five or six American bluecoats, rangcrs'
-Ihere's
a similarity in the role that tradc playcd,
in Metnam, the way l've lust dcscribcd it, thc Amcrican lndian communities became de pendcnt orr thc
Western economy and technology, and lost their sclfreliance. They acquired firearms and ammut.tition' 1-hcy
acquired farm equipment. The same process Socs olr
today in Vietnam.
The destruction of the food supply. The bisorl wcrc
killed on the plains for thc salrle reason that crops arc
sprayed and the land is defoliated in South \4etnam,
to deny the rice supply, the food supply to thc villagers there.
Forced deportation. Thc Chcrokec lndians, and every lndian community, but the Cherokees in parliculai. they were driven from their lands in Gcorgia by
Andrew jackson, after they did cvcrything possiblc ttr
assimilate into the American framework. And on thcir
long trail from Georgia to Oklahoma hunclreds and
tho.-usands of thcm dicd, and their cultural lifc, which
thcir larlcl, which
they farmcd, and whcrc thcir anccstors wcrc buriccl,
was bascd on thcir relationship to
was destroycd.
Crltural clestruction of all kinds. Thc brothcls ol lndian prostitutes outsidc thc stockadc ol thc wild wcst
are paralled exactly by thc shatlty-towlls tlf' prostiLutcs
outsidc Amcrican bascs in 9luth Victnam'
And drugs today play thc rolc that lircwatcr playccl
on the frolliier. Phony ncgotiations arrd talk ol pcacc'
The Unitcd States r.rcgoti;rtcd hunclre cls
throughout thc hisLory ol thc Ve tr.r.rm war, thc []nitcd Statcs has promiscd pcacc, bu1 has irrsistccl ()r'l lcl nl\
which amount to subiugatitln ancl surrcttclcr oJ it: op'
ol'thc victnam war arc c.ttsci.us .l this,
and arc unconscious, cvcn, in thcir languagc, .rtltl in
their practiccs, cotrscious atrcl ut'tcot-tscious both ol tlre
parallcls, thc analogics bctwcct't trtlw.ttrcl thc loutltlirlg
wars against thc lndiatrs.
Onc Victnamcsc ptlliticll lc.rclcr, Ior cxltnrplc, tluotcd reccntly in thc []rstotl Glollc, s:rid, "Yrttt turrrrrtl defeat the other siclc militurily uttless you clavrt!t tha
next 30 or 10 yeurs lo it' Yttu crttt witt il yrtu ltttlt
fighting lor u genarulictrr. Ytu simltly axtermirtutc rtll
the Vietnumese, the wuy yoLr killetl tha lrtdiatrs irr
Americu, artd therc tvill be tttt ntrtrc rtl tts. "
Thc classic trovcl ol thc Victtr.rt-n war, " llta t)trial
Americtut," lcaturcs,t hcro [ry thc tr,tnlc ol '\lclur [']ilc,
who upatcnLly is irr rc.rlity CIA gcllcr.rl, crtuttlct-ittsttrgcttcy cxp0rt l,rtrsil.rlc. Ilc's.rlwlrys rclttlitlg rr()vcls 'rirout thc wit'ttlirtg ol thc r,vcsl, ,rs lle pte p.trcr'l lor ltis
coming tc!t with tlte Chirlcse (-rrnlmutlisls.
In worcls, rl.tmcs, l;trrgu.rgc, the .rn,rlogy with tlrc lrlclians is tver prc\e rrt irl Viettllltn. \\'c h.lve gurlsltips:rtrtl
lrclicoptcrs lhat ;trc rlJmccl (.heycrlrlc, \lrih,rlvk, Ori-
'"Xill;.,
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nook, lriquois, Thunderchief. The bombing of North
Metnam was called Operation Rolling Thunder. Vietcong territory is called lnjun country. Men in their helicopters are said to be riding shotgun. ARVN soldiers
in charge of village security are called Kit Carson's
scouts. And Lyndon .lohnson made it all very memorable with the question to his men, "Are those just
words, or have you some coonskins on the wall?"
Even at the level of policy concepts, the analogy is
pervasive. N4axwell Tayior in 1966, before the Fuiibright
Committee, talking about a way to create security in
the villages, said "lt is very hard to plont the corn outside the stockode, when the lndions ore still around.
We have to get the lndions forther oway in mony of the
provinces to moke good progress."
lVbre recently, this last year, the director of the lnternational Voluntary Service, Hugh Mancke, testifying
before the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees, talking
about the fact that in three months 70 thousand tribal
people in South Vietnam had been relocated, talking
about the fact that by 1970, according to official U.S.
figures, at least one half of 1400 Montignard villages
had been relocated at least once, and then Vetnamesed,
as by the wife of former Ptime Minister Nguyen Cao
Ky, who moved in, purchased the land, and then began farming and lumbering.
lVancke, in his testimony before the Kennedy Committee, called this painfully reminiscent of the activities of American pioneers with regaid to the lndian
tribes. He said he spoke with a Captain Farrell, an
American advisor in Plaiku, who said, "The lllontignords have to realize thot they ore expendable. They
" This captain advocated large
resettlements, followed b.y saturation bombings. According to [\&ncke, in his testimony, the captain comparcd the Montignard problem to the lndian problem,
and said we could solve the l\4ontignard problem like
we solved the lndian problem.
All of this is very hard to summarize. The best single summary that l've ever seen, describing the process
that,l'm talking about, was written by the psychologist Carl .lung, when hc visited the Taos lndians in the
1930's, in New Mexico.
He had a conversation with an lndian, which he re-[he
corded.
lndian said, "Look how cruel the whites
loolt. Their lips are thin, their noses ore shorp, their
faces rtre furrowed ond distorted by folds. Their eyes
have a staring expressiott. They're alwoys seeking somethlng. The whites olways want something. They are olwoys uneasy and restless. lUe do not l
thinl< with their heods."
f ung askcd him, "11/ell, what clo you thitlk with?"
The lndiarr replied, "141e think here," indicating his
hcart. And thcn Jurrg wrolc clowtr the following in his
notebook. "For the first tinte ltt rny life it seemecl to
nte someone hud struck for me 6, plcture of the real
w4tite matt. lhis lttdiort lttrd touchecl our vulneroble
spot, ha(l trnveiled the truth to whiclt we are blirtd. I
telt risitrg withln me lil
smasltitrg irtto tlte cities of Grul, ottd the lteenly lncised
pit'tttres of /ulius Cneso\ Scipio Africortus ttr.td Pompey.
"lsttv'tlte Ronttlt eLt(lle on the North Sen, on the
barrks of tlte llhite Nlle. Tltett / sorr,5r. Augustltte trunstttittitrg tlre Christiutt creed to tlre Britons, ort the tips
of Rottrctn luttces. ,-|td CJrurlentutlte's ntost glorious
Irtrccd conversiort of tlre lteutltt,tt. Tlten tlte plllttging
ore second closs citizens.
and murdering bands of the crusading armies. And
with a secret stob I realized the hAllowness of thot old
romonticism obout the Gusades.
"Then followed blumbus, Cortez, and other conquistodores, who with fire, sword, torture, ond Christionity came down upon even these remote pueblos,
dreaming peacefully in the sun, their fqther, I slw, too,
the peoples of the fucific lslonds decimoted by flrewater, syphillis ond scarlet fever, carried in the clothes
the missionories forced on them.
"lt was enough, What we, from our point of view,
colled missions to the heathen hos quite onother face,
the face of o bird of prey seeking, with cruel intentness, for a distsnt quarry, o foce worthy of o race of
pirotes and highwaymen. All the eagles ond other predatory creotures thot odorn our coats of arms seem to
me opt psychologicol representatives of our true noture,
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Strangely enough, the movement in this country
might have a lot to thank Richard Nixon for. By handpicking San Diego for the Republican National Clttvention he may have created a situation in which onc of
our most pressing problems will be moved towards solution.
For years the rnovement has been living in a contradiction. We'vc argued that national actions are dcstructive to the more important work of carefully building
local bases for; long-range organizing. National action5
drain energy and mate rial rcsourccs frotn local work,
wc've said. \\b'vc cussed them out, year alter ycar. Arrd
we've kept organizing ancl tal
matte r that all our complaints about natiotral actiotts
arc perl'ectly true;national actiorts arc incscapable because there arc things that must bc resporlclcd to on a
national level, bccausc we h.rve to get a sct-tsc o1 t-rur
own power on a nationai levcl, ancl becausc lvc havc to
let the public see thc cxtcnt of thc movcmcnt ilcross
the nation.
We'rc faced with thc contradiction again tltis surnmer, around the Republican Convct'itiot't. Tltc clcllrtc
has already strrtccl in all thc familiar tcrms: On tlrc
one hand, thc movcmcnl mu\t suppL,r I lr.tssirt dcmottstrations in S.rn Diego irr ordcr io cottlrottt thc ptcscttt
"exccutivc ctinrnrillec o1 thrl ruling class" srt wc ciur
educale thc public about tlrc liir rvar, Nixorronricr, t'tt.
On tlre othcr hand, rvc can't g,o to S.ln Dicgo bcclusc
e111 lrl iorilics c.tli lur l,'trg r,rltg,',,t'l,rrli/ittt,.
But Sarr Diego promiscs to bc dill.crcnt than othcr
nalional actions in somc significant ways, and it's just
possible that thc movcmcnt may tind a way out o1'l-hc
contradiction there. We in thc San Dicgo Convcntiorr
Coalitiorr (SDCC) think wc can.
Wherr we lcarned thal" thc Rcpublicans wcrc comirrg
to San Diego wc rccognized that wc had l-wo choiccs.
We could opposc plans for anything othcr than local
actior-rs herc, or wc could cncouragc and organizc for
'fhc
national dcmonstrations.
llrst didn't sccm vcry
feasiblc. \A/c wouldn't bc ablc to discouragc cvcryonc
from coming to protcst at thc (bnvcntion; to try would
simply lcavc thc ficld to thc lnost advcriturist clcnrurts
-[hc
of thc movcmcnt.
sccond choicc put us right back
into lhc old ct-rntr.rdicli, rrt ,rguirt.
Maybc wc. f clt thc contraciictiorr parilcularly acul-cly
herc. San Diego is nol a "national" city, likc Washingtotr, Ncw York, Chicago and S;rt.t Francisco. Pcoplc lrcrc
aren't accustomcd to having thcir city used.rs J thcatcr
[or actions that arc mainly national in sig,nilicancc. San
Dicgt-r is a "local" city and pcoplc herc will respond tt-r
actions hcrc in a pcrsonal w.ry. lf thihgs wcrc to bc
donc hcrc which thorcughly cliscrcditcd thc movcmcnt
locally, no rrattr: r wlrat thcir c{{ccts nation;rlly, thcy
wouid b.low ap.trt yoar! ol good, p.rticnt work.
SI)CC camo togcthcr cxplicitly not just to plan anothcr national action, but to solvc thc contradiction.
Thcrc was gt.ring tr-r bc a natiottal actit.rn hcre in Augusl.
[]ow could rvc, as tlrc local movcmcnt, comc out ol it
;rt Icast intact, hopclully strt.rngcr?
Our answer is to integrate the two poles of the contradiction, rather than deciding in favor of one or the
other. We decided to try to use the action to strengthen
our own local base, and to organize nationally on a
model of an ad hoc confederation of many local movements. ln other words, we want to use local movements,
rather than national offices and coalitions, as building
blocks.
Strong local organization can give a national action
a kind of base that most previous natjonal astions have
lacked. lt can build upon on-site movement structures
that already exist, and add experience, skills, equipment and consciousness in both directions: to the national action for the extent of its duration and to the
local movement permanently. As an example of the
way the local movement is enriched we can point to
the increasing number of out-of-towners who are moving to San Dego to help us these clays.
Organizing from a local base contributes to the
movement's struggle against elitism and chauvinism by
puttjng an organization, rather than individuals, in positions of leadership. lt strengthens the real grassroots
nature of the movement in the country, where topdown organizing weakens it.
Also, organizing which builds on strong local movements around the country helps us carry out our real
job, which is to speak to the American public. We have
some very explicit analyses to get across this y-ear and
we can't do that without long-range, in-depth local
work. Even the organizers of Mayday, for example, say
that the content of Mayday did not carry well beyond
the immediate Washington-New York area.
This is as good time as any to respond to Sid Peck's
article, "Wlich Way the Anti-War Movement" (WlN,
Feb. 1). Sid is simply wrong about our goals when he
says that San Dego '72 is based on a "presidential
strategy," considering Nixon the key decision-maker
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and trying to direct so rnuch pressure against him that
he'll be forced to reconsider his policies. Sid describes
San Diego tactics as basically "apocalyptic, petty bourgeois, gui l t-induced. "
SDCC just put out a pamphlet for national distribution which analyzes our politics, strategy and goals. lt's
more than empty words. lt's a serious statement of intent, and it will have an effect on who comes to San
Diego and who stays away. The pamphlet says, "V\b're
moving against Nixon and the Republicans because
they are the present guardians of the interests of the
American establishment. They are the most visible,
tangible proponents of U.S. imperialism, sexism and
racism, and of the repression that underlies all that."
Also, "Demonstrations in San Diego also give us a unique opportunity to develop the resistance movement
within the armed forces." And, "Masssive, nonviolent
de monstrations wi th d i verse consti tuen cy representation will have important effects, both directly on the
participants, giving them a new sense of strength and
unity, and indirectly on the millions who will watch
on TV." One long section of the pamphlet-the longest, in fact-is taken up with descriptions of SDCC's
relationsh i ps wi th vari ous consti tuen cies i n cl udi ng
workers, gay, ethnic groups, and women.
We're involved in building a movemen.t, rather than
doing apocalyptic politics and we're working hard to
establish links with a broad range of people (SDCC
sees the establishment of links among differe^! segments of the people as a primary task in the period ahead. We see our work around the Convention as an experiment in ways of doing that."), rather than trying
to reach only white radicals.
I think itfollows from all this that we have a clear
set of politics-very clear for a coalition, and that those
politics are not petty bourgeois or guilt-induced.
More important, we're not involved in ,,presidential
strategy" politics. We see the GOP Convention as an opportunity for reaching the peoples of America, not Nixon. The Republicans are just providing us with a theater we can use. Our clear message to the audience is
that capitalism must go, along with racism and sexism,
not that Nixon should be a better president or else be
replaced by a liberal Democrat.
SDCC agrees with Sid Peck's analysis that the U.S.
is now on the defensive in many important areas. This
is a result not only of certain international factors: increasin gl y successfu I th i rd-world iberation struggles,
the spread of nuclear weaponry, and the growing industrial strength of other nations, but of iertain domestic factors as well. One of these is the anti-war
only by that which is possible, not by that which might
be granted by the ruling class. The Platform is something local groups could use as a tool (much like the
.
Peoples' Peace Treaty) between now and the conventions in Miami and San Diego. The Platform would be
taken before both major parties which, of course, could
could not respond to it positively since they are bound
by the interests of the establishment.
That could be only the beginning of the platform,s
usetulness, for then it could be taken back to the pub-'
lic at the local level and used as a powerful consciousness-raising tool.
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movement.
The strength of the anti-war movement is one reason why the ruling class has had to change tactics and
come up with the "Nixon Doctrine," and its idea of
getting other people to do our dirty work for us as in
Metnamization. The Nixon Doctrine is not a particular
president's program so much as it is a new method by
the same old ruling class for trying to maintain a position of world dominance in the face of severe domestic
and foreign opposition. Visible opposition to Nixon as
the foremost political representative of the ruling class
is an essential part of any political program this year
to show that the people have not been fooled.
Those are our goals. The question of how to build
the confederation of local movements to carry out thoe
those goals has two sides: how we build our own movement, and how we feed into other local movements in
a way that helps them.
SDCC includes representation from virtually every
radical group in San Diego. lt includes groups doing Gl
organizing and counseling, local collectives, six alternative newspapers, representatives from the National Lawyer's Guild, the local VVAW, campus organizers, a stron
strong Women's Gucus, and people from many other
community, revolutionary, and social change organi-
'
Originally, SDCC hoped to convene a major national conference to draft the platform. l.n our current unsettled state we are holding off on this for now. Perhaps a San Diego united front will develop a much
more comprehensive strategy for producing what is
really a Peoples' Platform.
All of our other pre-Convention and Convention projects reflect this same concern for building an ad"hoc
national confederation of really strong local movements.
We think that this strategy represents a real hope for
resolving the national level/local level contradiction.
will be a very difficult lob and we realize we might
- lt We
fail.
feel it's worth trying something new though;
even if we lose we win.
lf you would like to get in on the action, either in
your own community or by coming here, or if you
want more information about SDCC, write the San Diego Convention Coalition; P.O. Box 8267, San Diego,
CA 92102, or phone (714) 234-8231 .
See you in August! (lf not before.)
The Communications Com mittee
San Diego Convention Coalition
zations.
We have been debating taking a new organizational '
form for the past week and right now we are in a state
of flux. Our original intention was for SDCC to be an
all-embracing coalition, involving heavy participation
by third-world and workers' groups as well as the white
radicals. We haven't been any more successful in bringing that together than the rest of the movement has
been.
We could have chosen to accept the fact that we
tried and failed, and gone on as an essentially white
movement, the way the mobilizations and other nation-
al actions have done. lnstead, we're struggling with the
problem. A plan that is being considered now is to try
to initiate the formation of several local coalitions of '
worker's and different third-world organizations. lf we
decide to try this and are successful, the present SDCC
will simply be one coalition in a united front of anywhere up to eight different coalitions: white radicals,
workers, chicanos, blacks, native americans, etc. A united front will be very difficult to pull off, but thc
extent of opposition to Nixon might make it possible
at this time.
Our pre-convention tactics have been planned rvith
the problem of feeding into other local movements in
mind. Our central project has been to organize around
a Peoples' Platform. We envision this as a statemcnt about the kind of world we insist upon living in, bound
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lTlII^lO eorlselousl^ress .Oe
lnvite Police Blue Helmeted
& Navy so sweet
Together guarding & organizing Rock Mantra Silence Festival
ONE DAY OF SILENCE (or more)
ONE DAY OF MASS MANTRA (Overcome, peace aChance, All the Hills
Echoed, Om's many forms & Fhre Krishna
Hum Hum Hum, Ah, Wow, Clr, all vowels
mobilized
mass
rhythmic behavior
American body sound
Folk chorale,
Alleluiah & Amen all kinds/)
oNE DAY oF STARRY RocK HIGH terrified genrle srars singing in rears & prayer
Sobs of Joyl
ONE DAY'S Sensitivity hrty Mela HOLYMAN JAM Encounter Session
Swamis Lamas Yogis Zen Masters Rabbis Amerindian Elders Ptiests
Fhtha Yoga Fxcercise Dawn & Evening Prayers
Discou rses Teach i ngs Advise ments Transmissions
lnitiations
Grouptouch-feel-crowd-consciousness
integration
Every tribe & sect their own cardboard/cloth castlech urch
Ashram & Foods
lnvite Republican Delegates
One day autos banned from Freeways, Festival throngs
throughout concrete troughs
oNE DAY LlsrENlNG To PoLtrtcs cANDTDATES Democrats & Etephants
Use
the police as yr friends & protectors as,twere Hell,s Angels
paid by state monies
Equal Desire End War
Work with their (your) (our) Desire
Accept Nixon, Invite Nixon-SAFE AS CHINAI SAFE AS CHINA!
(J. Rubin & Everybody Mao Tze Tung Lennon & yoko agreed
NON VTOLENCE)
Stop Nixon by Accepting him.
Pride! We take credit for Helping
elect Nixon?
Disgrace? Fb's OUR president, We Helped, Chicago 1968
(our scandal Karmic fault/credit
messed Democratic Party mind-)
18 Year-old Vote Be-ln
New Voters'Convention
"Dont trust anyone over twenty one"
Let the Children speak their cnergy
& work electrifying silent San Diego lsland
Food! Fantasy tents! & Gurus
each his own hut or Pavillion of Grdboard
Wndowsillsirr the moonlight
sirrgers in the allcy as on lessore Road
while girls dressecl in light blankets
dream
lbrth
Pole
God-
(Dtl rvc Bct to Acidress the Crltvention? Where's the
YAFS?
a dclcgatc
t+
of Young Amcr For Freedom witlr short
hairs
rr
sdr-rdreqo
Allen Ginsberg
& one long Conservative blonde
prince Valiant C,oy
& one black princeton prince to speak)
Blake's Christ the lmage, white robed
Radiant fine featured
Silken beard gleaming
starry symmetry
dazzling with powdered mirror_gl itter
rouge-cheeked with rosy thoughted
Pi
can see San Diego city
..OPENING
nkeY-
Bannered President of Universe waving in blue sky
visibre berow Evans-wentz's hory Mexic-Mount?
THE MOUNTAIN"
(i.e. Japanese temple dedication ceremony)
DEDICATION OF TURTLE ISLAND
(l\4aidu .lndians knew North America as Turtle
lsland)
to her peoples mankind. redwood, coyote
Cockroach & worm_
ONE DAY'S WORSHIP OF THE MOTHER
NATURE
Sunrise in her blue belly transparcrrt
Ecologic nominations & Endangere
Special,,
Mi nstrels strol ing, politicians discoursing
crossleg
on blankers at noon NO ALARUMSI
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No Fhrsh noise (but Rock Speakers?)
Helicopter Sticks waving noisy boys
P.A. System along festival lanes?
(Pornpeii,s marble_brick skeleton
Lo u d mou
rh
Sta
rs prcach
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n;T,if ilf--'
)
No:t,rlgi.r Nighr MrCk,sky lnvircd,
invite all republican candiclates
TV Grverage, li.ldio
"demonstrations in every home,,
APOCAI ASTASISI lr.rnsfornration of Satanic lorccs
r..,,,,
o,
r'i, l'il','J'[:;"J:L *,
(Make Big Speeches Accepting Nixon,s
Soul on Ear1h.
l(issingcr weeping wirh joy!
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ltnuary 1972
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I hopc to go to San Diogo Elcphanl Cr_rnvcnlion, h.rppily
ltut not'go
unless cvcryborly rcisprrrsibrc pr.miscs v.rvs p,sitiv.
ururE,y p,,ritii, y,,g;r
rcvcrs c,rrscit-rus & uac,,nsciaus lcl,nt rv.rnr
t,
a,nvi,lcac. r\LL
anyonr. get his hcad bustcd, my idiot account. Thcsc
writings arc
lyric 1or nrulac for opcn possibiliry. A. G., Scrrbc.
invitc
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begin with the reality of what will happen.
And that is, whether any of us favor it or not, there
will
be a demonstration of some sort in San Diego.
Such a demonstration is inevitable because people
live in
9n
Diego, many of those people are concerned
with the American crisis and the war in Vietnam and,
whether the convention was to be Republican or Democratic, those people would demonstrate. And because
San Diego is part of the massive Southern California
population center, such a demonstration would not be
a mere vigil-as was the case when Allen Ginsberg
joined a busload of pacifists to demonstrate at Atlantic
Gty way back in 1964, where Johnson was desigrrated
Kennedy's official heir. M, these are different times,
and I take it for granted that the Chicano community,
the blacks, students, religious leaders, trade unionists,
academics that all of these groups would form some
kind of "Southern Glifornia Coalltion" to mount significant demonstrations, to seek hearings before the
Platform Committee, and otherwise to make sure that
both the Republicans in convention and the nation at
large was aware
of their profound unhappiness over
the Nixon Administration.
I have no quarrel with such a demonstration and
it's not the topic of this piece. Such a demonstration
would not callon people from Maine to Seattle to come
into San Diego. I'rbr would such a demonstration call
for money or staff help from national organizations.
Southern California is rich cnough, talented enough,
and populous enough to mount a serious demonstration. I hope it will, and I know it plans to.
My only qualification herc is the word "serious". A
rock festival is not half so serious as a solid trade union
presence clenouncing the wage/price f reeze..lerry Rubin, God bless him, is not half so essential (even if he
lived in San Diego) as a solid presence from the vast
Chicano commur.rity in that arca.
\\hat baffles me is why the project ever got the attention it did, because it is, to use harsh terms, a thoroughly middle-class, elitist, and non-ideological substitute for serious politics. lt is the annual message of the
apocalypse. We heard it before, back in 1968, when
gctting to Chicago was essential to stop fascism. We
heard
it
most recently in 1911 when tens of thousands'
came to Whshington because the government had to be
closed dowrr and the power to do that rested in our
hands. Always the final hour is at hand, the proposed
action is not only essential but can actually stop the
war.
What did happen in 1968? The Chicago demonstrations almost certainly helped to elect Nixon, the man
we are told must be evicted. Things have gotten tougher
all over, what with conspiracy trials, an Administration
which has abandoned the minorities, and Supreme
Court nominations bad enough to chill one's blood.
But bad as things are, we do not live under fascism, if
so, it is a strangely permissive fascism in which mass
opposition movements stj I I function.
. I have some basic questions. First, is Nixon, the man,
the real problem? lf so, then the Vietnam war was only
an accident, its,continuation is at the whim of individual Presidents, and the talk before us is removing Nixon
the individual. This removal can be achieved by assasination, which I would hope and pray we rule out. lt
can be achieved by an Act of God, an event over which
we have no control. lt can be achieved by sucessful impeachment a most unlikely step for Congress. lt can
be achieved through revolution-an even more unlikely
step. C)r it can be achieved at the ballot box. There are,
really, no other choices. We surely cannot believe that
our armies, marching about the convention hall seven
times, blowing seven times upon the ram's horn, are
likely to persuade the Republicans within to deny Nixon the nomination and, perhaps, install Dan Berrigan
sann'ffiffi,*u*ffi
My cluarrcl lics clscwherc. lt lics with the slogan,
first raisccl on tlre Erst Grast, of "Orr to San Dicgo".
That slogan cnvisions .r n'urssivc asscmbly of people
who will asscmble 1.or n l'cstival ol. joy.rnd li{c and to
makc clc.rr tlr;rt Nixon h.rs l'ailcd us, ancl rvillgo by tlre
hundrcrls ol thtlus.rrrrls to dotor-rncc hirl, chccrfuIIy
nncl nonviolorlly. Rcnnic Davis lvas orrc oI thc tirst to
r.risc tlris slog;rrr, with f crry Rtibirt not l.tr behincl. Stcw
Albcrt gavc tltc thcory str()ng sLrfiporl \vithin thal
grouping rvhich ntight [rc c:.rllccl thc l\4ay D.ty renrnants,
or thc Tritrc. Thc thc-ory is tlt.tt Niron is.t l.rscist .rncl a
busturrl, tlrat il hc is tc-clcctcd tlrt rr.rtittrt rvillbc
plungccl inlo ol'llci.rl l.rscisnr, thnt this is our lust ch.rncc
to prcvclrt t hc nr-rclc.rr tlestrr-tclittn trl' lnrlo-Chirlt uncl a
ol'clorlcstic 1o ror dirr'ctcd .rg.rinst .rll r.ttlic.tl .rnd
libcral lirrccs. Tht'tlclc.rt ol Nixorr is intptr.ttivc synrbolizccl [ry thr. slog,.rn "Evict Nixon", this is our l.rst
charrcc to rlo th.rt,.rnrl S.rrr Dicgo is tlrr. pl.rcc to do it.
rcig,n
lto
in his place.
Therefore, if Nixon is the real problem and removing
hirn an absolute nccessity, I do not understand what a
nationwide demonstration at San Diego lras to do with
this. I ;rm willing to grant the most apocalyptic vision,
to subscribe to the tnost sinister view of Nixon and his
cohorts, and still fail to sce why a nalionaLclemonstration ntust occur in Sar: DiCgo, rather than Little Rock,
Wichita, or Spri ngfi eld.
lf onc really sccs Nixor.r as the target, then I suspect
that a rrational clemonstration in S.ln Diego irr which
Rennic Davis and Jerry Rubin play a key role will be
of cnormous hclp to Nixon. I clo not mean to pick on
Rennic lhe same r,vould apply to Dave Dellingcr, to
rlysell, to Gil Gree rr, or ;r nunrbcr of olhers. Ther e arc
times rvhen ccrtain rlclic.rl leaclers ncecl to keep out of
llrc spotlight becausc they rnake iclealtargets for Nixorr's hatclrctnre-rr. A very itxportilrt Southern Glifor-
nia demonstration can be simply dismissed or ignored
by concentrating on the "radical leaders from New
York" who have come to town. For this tactical reason,
if for no other, I urge East Coast radicals to stay clear
of San Diego, not to hand weapons to Nixon. Nixon
can use a nation-wide "On to San Diego" type demonstration, no matter how peaceful, to indicate that his
enemies are the enemies of the American people, the
enemies of law and order. Chicago '68 destroyed Humphrey's chances because it divided the Democratic Party-but 9n Diego '72 is more Iikely to unite the Repub licans.
lf Nixon were the realtarget, then I would urge that
people follow out the true logic of the "Evict Nixon"
campaign, recognize Nixon can't be evicted at San Diego but only in l,krvember at the polling place, and
then work like hell between now and Mvember to
round up every 1 8-21 year old voter, every black, every Chicano, every worker, to register them and then
to organize baby-sitters, car pools, phone trees, and
whatever else is needed to get those votes out and delivered on November 7th.
Of course this suggestion lacks drama. lt is far more
exciting to go to San Diego for a Festival of Life than
to get people to vote. And, after all, we l
to the question that, if the electoral process is a snare
and a delusion, and if Nixon must be evicted, then how
ETICOLARA.GED
do we achieve that? lVhat relationship does a massive
lrn Diego demonstration have to the ends we seek?
I know, of course, that San Diego fills certain needs-those wlro were too young to get to Chicago, too young
even for Mayday, want that baptism of fire of the mass
demonstration. San Diego tllls a need for some that is
far more important than whether Nixon is evicted or
elected the demonstration is a "rite of passage" into
the movement, an cssential step, ancl no political logic
will be able to answer this inncr hungcr.
My second basic question is whetFer we really want
to "evict Nixon" or, instead, to "evict the system". lf,
after ten years of struggle, our ntovement is still so
ideologically adolescent that it thinks evicting Nixorr
will achieve something, let them rally around the Democratic candidate, whoever that may be, hold their
noses and nrarch into the polling booth. But surely we
know by now that Nixon is rrot the problem and the
militaryi corpor;rte comple x is. We traded Kennedy for
Johnson and Johnson for Nixon and still the war goes
on. Years come and go, and the wJr goes on forever.
Yet every four years wc tind ourselves rclating to
Presidential campaigns even as we denounce all electoral action. ls not our real need arr organization of the
peclple, rooted in our towns and cities, planted like
seeds of life in our very neighborhoods? I nray indeed
vote for the Democratic candidate in Novembcr (and I
may not) but the real nccds cannot be ntet by existing
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parties. lf one does believe in radical change and if one
believes that can be achieved through the ballot, then
one ought to stay home and organize. lf one does not
believe in electoral action, then why San Diego? And
if one is an anarchist, why any relation to these ma$sive
conventions? Are these our conventions, these affairs
in Miami and San Diego? lf they are really our conventions then let us work inside that framework rather
than standing wistfully outside mounting rock shows.
But if they are not our conventions, then is it not time
we set about organizing conventions of our own, with
political machinery we help to create, designed to serve
our ends?
I said in the beginning that "On to San Diego" reflected "a thoroughly middle-class, elitist, and nonideological substitute for serious politics". lt is middle
class because it is calling upon the counter-culture to
make the revolution. The trade union m
they can from the political party they feel serves their
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olence may not be in their hands but in the hands of
Nixon's political high command which will decide
whether violence would be helpful to them and, if they
so decide, we will have provided tinder for their spark.
i repeat, so there will be no misunderstanding, that
I do not challenge the effectiveness of a Southern California project. lt will happen anyway, it can be positive, and I hope our people in that area work on it. But
a San Diego prolect is very different from the "On to
9n Diego" slogan which now rolls across the country,
a sad testimony that when we lack real direction and
program we reach out for a slogan.
The real, continuing, and haunting problem of the
movement is how to move American society from ,
"here to there", from repression to freedom, from racism to a culturally plural society, from the alienation
of the present to the meaningful participation of the
future. 9n Diego-if seen as a national project-does
not speak to that problem but simply repeats a pattern
we find convenient, the pattern of mass protests.
There is an inherent confusion in the project-particularly in the Tribal elements in the East and Midwest
who are working on it-because the organizers hold the
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interest best (a poor judgement, in my view-but it is
their judgement). The military, the large business interests, the Dixiccrats turned Republican those will be
irr San Diego, and it is to them we would be making an
appeal. And the project is elitist because it assumes we
can leap over the mirrority groups, labor, the poor generally, ancl speak in their rrame, evicting Nixon without
ever having organized a mass base. We are acting at
times as if lve represented a revolutionary movemcnt,
forgctting wc clon't have any real grass roots. And firrally it is non-idcological because it substitutes "evict Nixon" for any program of social change and for any effort to build a coulttcr-organization to the Republicans
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will be nor.rviolent ancl rvhile this was also the anr.rounced pl.rn for Ciric.rgo in 1968, I think it is more
earnestly mcant now. ftront my point of vietv I dorr't
think evcn thc rnost r-rr-rr.rviolent ol'clemonstrations at
San Dicgo is going to tunt thc. courrtry..rrourrd, and the
goveflrment lras .rn abundarrt fur.rcl of agenls rvhich it
lras used in thc p.rst to stir up tror-rble. lt is the intent
of those orgarrizing the proicct that it be non-violent-but I fear the ultimatc clecision orr violorcc vs. nonvir8
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the electoral process in utter contempt and yet find
themselves forced to organize within that context. A
number of those active in "On to San Diego" seem to
be saying "we ourselves will not vote, or vork in primaries, or be tricked into the system- so we are mountmounting this demonstration and hope it will perhaps
persuade you, the ordinary peasants, to do that voting
we refuse to do, that voting which alone can evict Nixon." lf this is a very unfair way of putting it, then I
want to know-and surely it is a reasonable questionhow we do get from "here to there". lf voting is useful,
why do we reject it? lf it is fraudulent, why do we go
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to San Diego and demand Nixon's eviction which translated into our time and place, means voting in November? Again, slogans are easier than analysis, one-shot
projects more exciting than buildirrg organizations. But
they are not, alas, substitr-ttes. We may find one day
that after ten years of turmoil and energy and work,
we have left nothing more than slogans, and brave veterans of a host of demonstrations.
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I, ,o, could materialize one "festival of life" anywhere you wanted to in this country, where would
you place it?
lf you answered Miami or San Diego, l'll say one
thing; you may have impeccable 1960's-style politics,
but you sure got weird taste in places.
The reason that the movements (for the time being
that's what l'm calling what used to be known as "the
Movement") "went" to Chicago (l say "went" because
if, say, Three Dog Night ever arrived in a park and saw
as few humans as actually were in Lincoln hrk back
uglier festival. Oh yes, the contradictions were exposed,
the cost of the war was roised, the war was brought
home-that must be why the new president's first act
was to withdraw all American forces from Southeast
Asia, huh?
Tlre fact is that
"Oricago" razed as much consciousit raised (cf. instant karma) and that, if you
think that it'll be important for you to be in grn Dicgo
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in 96X, they'd think maybe they'd arrived in the
wrong park\ was because Chicago was wired for video
that week, and it was thought that some of that vidco
energy could be ripped off and used to project the
contrast between "our" Festival of Life and their Festival of Death. After it became obvious that permirs
were going to be deniecl, it was just a question of whom
the TV audience was going to blamc for putting orr an
c) don't understancl how Amcrica
is wircd this ycar.
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ycar, shame on you! !\hat arc you paying your ag,cnts
for, anyway? You c's, let's have a show of hands oI how
how many of you can remembcr -fas!!'. how many
black pecrple dicd (clead dead) in thc "riots" thar accompanied the Miami convcntion? Hmm? Wircd as Miami was, thc imagc oi blacklash against thc Rcpublican
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incursion, which in fact made all "our" heroic ante-upping in Chicago look rather penny-ante, never came
would be big news. Man bites dog, as every icurnalism
across, did it?
Karmically speaking, we can't have a good time unwe're prepared to pay for it. But whom exactly do
we pay? The only recipient I can think of that makes
any sense is-the people clf lndochina.
I propose that, simultaneous with the San Diego
convention, us peace creeps convenea national Festival
of Life that specifically snubs San Diego both as a no-
My point is that, regardless
of how wella city
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wired, the networks got their paws on all the switches,
and nothing anybody gets on gets on, unless there's a
percentage in it for the networks. The Oricago "riots"
were sent out as part of the network feed because the
convention itself was a stone bore, but long-haired white
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torious naval death-staging arena, and as host to all
those porks on an |TT-sponsored junket. I further propose that us peace creeps invite the entire population
of America to join us in our revels of atonement for the
the hatefulness we have visited on the American and
lndochinese earth and denizens. And I further further
propose that we suggest that they will have a better
time at our Festival of Life for lndochina than sitting
like zomboids in front of their television sets flipping
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white kids running around bleeding picturesquely was
still something of a novelty. The Miami atrocities
weren't feed because the TV audience was bored with
blacks in generaland black riots in particular.
I submit that the bloom is off the rose of the movements as darlings of the media, and any scenarist for
San Diego or Miami who presumes that we'd have the
cameras on whatever we'd be doing there had better
be prepared to explain why we can expect better coverage irr 1912 than Miami's black got in 196X. We're
all media niggers now, c's.
Anybody who's talking about San Diego or Miami
is stuck in the time-warp of creating Sixties-esque media events. San Diego and Miami have significance this
year only to the medio ond the a's, b's, ond c's. Everybody else would be happier watching a football game
or lroogying, and
it
is to this huge constituency, i.e.
everybocly else, lhat I'd prefer to address our powers
of event-creatiorr. And instead of attempting to create
another Sixties-esque media evcnt, I propose that we
create a SevcnLies- ish rea lity-event.
Any remaining c's who woncler how people will flnd
out that such a reality-evcnt took place arc asked to
ponder the fact that they will find out what took place
by being there. Nhreovcr, for the benefit of shut-ins
(inclucling quadraplcgic Nam vets arrd Vietnamese kids
in U.S. hospita'ls h.rving their cyelids grafted back on),
therc will be media coverage of this reality-event. The
media will cover our reality-event because, unlike the
media-event conventions, the conclusic'rn of which are
alrcady foregor.rc to lrrybody who can add, at our rcality-everrt so met h ing v, i I I uct ua I ly occ ur!
The occurrcr.rce will bc as followst l4re lvill have a
gotrtl timc.
Now, with all tlrc. burnmers tlrat thc rncdia suppose
wc've becrr puntmcllcci by during thc last medi.r corr
(i.c. thrce years), orz' huvitrg a good tinte (for o chonge)
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the dial, hoping for an epiphanous penetration of a
half-hour of "All ln The Family" through the fascinating spectacle of some acromegalic hag calling the roll
of the states for the n-teenth time.
The proposal I am furthering will make "The Concert for Bangla Desh" (two live music shows and a
three-record set), which will raise $15 million for Bengali relief ($5 an album, estimated 3,000,000 albums)
look like passing the hat at the Cafe Bizarre in 1951.
lf the youth of America is prepared to pony up $.1 5
million for a people our air force has never dropped a
spitball on, how much is it prepared to cough up for a
people our boys have systematically been mashing to a
a bloddy pulp for (how many years is it now? seven?
11? 18? 26t)t??
Grtainly $150 million for openers, right? Which is
not a bad down.payment on the reparations we owe
that Iand, now that, despite our persistance in fighting
it, it is recognized even at the highest honky levels that
that we've lost this war. I mean, we were the first to
say the war was a ssfurgg of bat mung against the honor of this nation and the humanity of the lndochinese
people; wc were the first to say hell no we won't go;
we were the lLrst to say yoo hoo snookV'don't look
now but you lost;ancl now we mLtst be the first to orgctrtize the poymet)t of reparations to the righteous victors.
Getting back to that $15 million for Bangla Desh:
that was $15 million in medical supplies and food, with
with only George Fhrrison, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell,
and Eric Clapton as draw, Bob Dylan as deus ex Fourth
Street, and Billy Pteston as proof that that's the way
Cod planned it; and only in one city. And that was $-l5
million with only rock and roll. I propose that for the
Festival of Life for lndochirra, we can get everyone. I
mean, you know, everyone'. lames Taylor, Grand Funk
Railroad, the Rolling Stones, I could go on but the
point l'm making is that we're not talking about rock
and revolution here in Disney World, we're talking
about MONEY-a lot more money than you and I are
capable of imagining, for lndo-fucking-china-and thqt's
rock and revolution for sure. There isn't a talent operat-
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THE INDOCHINA MEDICINE SHOW
Monday: David Gssidy, &rttny Osmorrd, Bobby
Sherman, .lacksorr l-ive.
Tuesday: Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Led
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painters and sculptors, will spring for this in a trice, as
they have for lesser stakes when the chips were down
(i.e., art auctions f or Sundonce magazine, Earth People's
hrk, etc.). Maybe some of those peace-creep ex-pro
athletes on the West Coast could even scam a Superduperbowl for lndochina-the best collcge and pro players in the country butt heads (lotsa folks hungry for
any football at oll in August) to pay for new legs and
arms and faces for Vietnamese kids. Would it be too
farfetched to ask Muhammad Ali to stage an "cxhibi-
&owtr, Rlty Ci.rarlcs, Arctha
Franklin, lke & Tina Turncr.
Thurictay: The Rollirlg Stoncs, Lcon Russcll, l-'tccs,
Eric CIapton, Elton lohn.
Friday: Jamcs Taylor, Crrolc King, Gcorgc Fltrrilrtl'
Ravi Shankar, Paul McCartncy & Wirrgs, John [-ittrlorr
with Elephant's Mcmory, lbb Dylarr.
The other lour stratcgic krclttitltls (lirr lrrclochin;r
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tion" with, uh, say, joe Frazier a Fight for Lifc in lndochina? in the fucking Astrodome, with closcd-cir-
cuit feed to every town in America where pcoplc will
pay to see a battle between earthlings in which nobody
gets even napalmed? Use your own imagination. Minc's
beginning lo bogglc.
Oh, yes, rock shows. Not conccrts dances, only
dances, bccause we've got a lot of stiff ness 1o work out
of our joints, and I distrust any tnusic that docsn't gct
our asses in gcar. Not onc monster show in Ncw Vrrk,
but, say, five monstcr shows in strategically locatcd
placcs, each " lndochirra Mcclicinc Show" rotatit.tg
through all five pl.rccs, fivc chat tcrccl planckracls , rI pct formcrs and crer.v, so thal each placc would bc host tr.r
the five hcaviest corlsecutivc bills in cntcrtainmcnt history. For examplc, imagine JFK Staclium in Philaclcl-
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per Bangla Desh album to Columbia Records.
(Each of the networks owns a huge record company.
lf each of these three companies got a piece of the "lndochina lVledicine Show" album action, what conceivable inducement would those netlvorks need in order
to tear themselves away, every...so...often...from the
endlessly suspenseful Republican National Convention
and do a few sidetrars on the Festival of Life for lndochina? You don't suppose that the networks would be
prescient enough to see that il they diverted just a
teenie-weenie bit of the public's attention away from
the spine-tingling deliberations of the Elephantine party and did a little color on those hippies, yippies, and
anti-war demonstrators, they might stand to pull down
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Colo.;elc.
Shows at each location would be produced by the
heaviest profcssional concert promoters in the country -the Bill Grahams, Sid Bernsteins, Concerts Wests,
etc. The performers would donate their services and
pay for admission like anyone else. The producers would
would remit the entire proceeds, minus their own and
the performers'out-of-pocket expenses, to an lndochina Reparations Fund. Liaison with promotcrs would
be made by regional committecs of peace-lovers, who
upon themselves a tidy windfall of unadulterated moolah?...No, I guess no network executive could ever be
that crass.)
Each music show would take place within the context of five days of ceremonies. meditation, 4nd fasting, so we would need Masters of Gremonies for each
location--Allen Ginsberg? Dick Gregory? David Dellinger? Daniel Berrigan? Coretta King?
l'll spring for Allen Ginsberg's order of ceremonies
as propounded down the street here from this article,
only not in San Diego but in all flve strategic places at
once, and nrore:
Because l'm suggesting that what we need and I
mean we, us, you and me have need nf, biological,
spiritual necessity- is a Festival of Life for lndochina
not only in five locations, but in yet other, shall we say
tatticul, locailons...
...in San Francisco, a Festival of Life, in commemoration of the Human Be-in and the Haight-Asbury...
...in Chicago, a Festival of Life in comrnemoration
of the police riots of 196X...
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ancl rccorci rights to tlrc highcst bidclcrs, for.r w.tiver
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...irr i\'lemphis, [ct'ttl., a Festivalof ['ife itl contmemol thc nrurcler of Martin Luther King...
...in L-os Angeles, a Fcstival of Life in conrmemoration ol lhc rrurclcr of Robt-rt Kennedy...
...in H.rrlcnr, a Fcsliv;rl of Life itt contnrcntor.rtitttt of
or.rtiorr
tlrc rrurr-ler o1' t h ji N'hlik .rl-SlraLrlzz...
...in J.rckson, l\llss.,.r [:estiv;rItit Life in cr-rnrnrerrora{itrn o1'thc incorpor;rtion into l clanr oJ'Nlichael Schrver-
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murder of Medgar Evers...
...in Watts, a Festival of Life...in Detroit, a Festivat
of Life...in Newark, a Festival of Life...
...at fVlax Yasgur's farm, a Festival of Life...at Altamont Speedway, a Festival of Life...
...at Columbia University, a Festival of Life...at Cal
Berkeley, a Festival of Life...at Harvard, a Festival of
Lite...at San Francisco State, a F:estival of Life...at San
Jose State, a Festival of Life...at lsla Vista, a Festival of
Life...
...at Kent, Ohio, a Festival of Life...
...in Toronto and Vancouver, a Festival of Life in
honor of the amnesty our exiles may yet grant us...
...at Walden Pond, a Festival of Life in memory of
Flenry David Thoreau...at Fhrper's Ferry, a Festival of
Life in memory of John Brown...in Brooklyn, a Festival
of Life in memory of Walt Whitman...in Rifton, N.Y.,
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Five days in August. Gn you spare them? Can they
spare you? Can you spare yourself for five days in August
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owe those slants something, don't we. I mean,
we tried real hard, but it didn't work, did it? Sending
them money is a pretty paltry excuse for the genuine
article of surcease, isn't it? Radical guilt is to liberal
guilt as radical is to liberal.
-Where was l? Festival of Life telethons on all the
self-styled "progressive" and "underground" FM stations, more radical gelt for the lndochinese. Fbw about
we all wear ceremonial garments for five days? Special_
ly manufactured and sanctified Festival of Lite tor lndochina meatball-cartoon tee-shirts, a fin apiece and the
bottom Iine, off to lndochina with it...
We
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a Festival of Life in memory of A.J. Muste...
...at Wounded Knee, S.D., a Festival of Life in memory of the Dance- Look ing-at-the-Sun...
Wherever the smell of death lingers over this debased country, a Festival of Life to spray it away.ffffft.
You get the picture. I do, anyway. Whew.
For each place, a different and peculiar Festival of
Life must be invented, must be allowed to invent itself,
but I believe most would include music, singing, dancing, shouting, theater, films, eating, sleeping, playing,
fucking, praying, crying. There would be people selting
candles and people giving away candles and you could
take your choice. Perhaps a i0l-a-kiss booth with the
proceeds to reparations tor lndochina. Weird!
There would be people taking up collections and
making macrame and delivering babies and shouldering vans out of the mud and bum-tripping and being
asked stupid questions by pitiable reporters and building booths and handing out leaflets and twirling cotton candy and Scruggs-picking banjos and looklng for
their
up fights and...well, I guess in a Festival
bout everything that happens in life
each othcr with
Nikon F's and dealing dope and crushing bcer cans
and picking up garbage and chanting the namcs of thc
living and the dead and raising altars and cligging gravcs
and writing poetry and counting maney and waiting on
line to take a shit and arguing with cops and breaking
Remember how much troublc rock festival promoters had keeping gate-crashers away? From where could
their minions have summoned thc moral authority to
exclude someone just because hc had no money? I pity
anyone who tries to crash the gatc of a FesLival of Lile
to lndochina?
-you don't have $5.00 for reparationsyou
havcn't bcen
Ninety-one months of bombing, and
able to set aside 54and 4.9 mills a month? You'rc down
down to your last $5.00 in thc wholc world and if you
don't crash this fcstival now you will bc absolutcly dcstitute? Remarkable, in that there isn't a rcfugec in Vietnam who is obsolutely destitute... Let's say your sister
was being raped, would you donate $5.00 to rcparations for lndochina, if that would stop the rapist? Your
mother? Your wife? M? Okay you can go in frcc, but
Ah sure hope your karma's got gocld shocks!
A deccntralized polymorphous ad hoc cclcctic improvisational solemn joyous hallucination clf a Fcstival
of Life for lndochina. Every penny that could bc
squeezed out
of the cntire constituency of the
pcace
movements, including thosc who rclatc to thcm only
through the music thcy have hclpcd to inspirc, paid
into an lndochina Reparation Fund, administcrcd by a
board of directors whom wc can imagine if wc just
close our eyes for a momcnt together...therc. The
moncy to bc paid out in due coursc to intcrnational
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and national relief organizations and governments in
lndochina, not a cent to any government that has not
sprung out of the will of the majority, to any government that claims to rule half a country. Reparations,
'cause we, the United States of America and the peace
movements, lost. We didn't raise the cost of the war
high enough, so now we have to begin the hard play of
raising the cost of the peace. We didn't up the ante
high enough, so now we have to ante up $150 million.
I can anticipate a panoply of obiections to the scam
l've outlined-the same rancid cannibalistic panoply of
objections that has mired our movements worse than
the mastadons in the La Brea tar pits. They, too,
\UHAT CAN A ?OO,R.C?IT1EP-
five days in August, 1972, to, as John Sinclair once said,
get out and dance without stepping on too many heads,
and create a scene that's more sexy and meaningful
and communicative than the Republiun Nationql C-onvention, how in God's Name do we presume to someday run this entire nation of interlopers on the continent of Mrth America?
l'il say this much-during quote 9n Diego unquote,
l'm going to be a celebrant at a Festival of Life somewhere on this depraved globe. lf it ain't here, and if I
don't see a hell of a lot of my friends and neighbors
humping the heat-rippled air in their full-tilt-boogie
tee-shirts and exchanging custard-sucking grins, l'm
cashing in my hippie chips and going for the price on
the d inosaurs.
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thought they had won out over the dinosaurs.
Some people will say the level of political commitment demanded won't be high enough. lt won't. Only
the price demanded to assuage our actual radical guilt
will be high enough.
Some people will say the music business poeple will
find some way to take their cut, just as they did on
"The Concert for Bangla Desh". They will. We'll simply
have to create something so big that however much
they rip off, there'll be so much more left for our purposes
that we won't
Some people
care.
will say, it's too apolitical, it doesn't
relate sufficiently to the conventions. You're right. lt
doesn't. lt will show the convention-al people precisely
how many people don't relate to them, and precisely
what it is that they don't relate to themover: the seemingly indefinite perpetuation of the war in lndochina.
This will put an end to the aerosol of rat-vomit the media are schmutzing the airwaves with, that for some
reason Southeast Asia won't be an issue in November.
lf you think that's too apolitical, then I corrfess I
don't understand why there should be free elections
in Vietrram, 'cause they'd be bound to be apolitical
too because they'd just be another set of elections in
which the fate of tlre people of Vietnam hangs in the
bala nce.
Some people will say, the whole thing sounds too
complex, it's an outasitc idea arrd all, but we'd iust
never bc able to get it logether.
Well, as Lord Buckley used to say, if you get /o it,
and you can't do it, well then there you jolly wellore,
aren't you?
lf we can't get our shit togetlrer enough to take off
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IBM's booming. Between 1960 and 1970, IBM's
fourfold. Even in the recession year of
1970, IBM's revenue reached a record $1 ,503,959,690;
its profits of more than a billion dollars after taxes exceeded those of any other industrial corporatjon. lt has
been predicted that if their pheonomenal growth rate
continues for another generation, "lBM will be the largest economic entity in the world."
A corporation of such proportions and power might
be expected to have a warm relationship with the Federal Government. Wthin the Federal Government the
biggest user of data processors-with 88% of the 5,400
Government computers-is the Pentagon. IBM dominates this market as it dominates the computer field.
IBM's Federal Systems Division handles many and
varied military contracts heavily emphasizing aerospace work. lt "concentrates on advanced technology
and systems for ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne information-handling and control needs of,the
U.S. Government," according to the corporation's 1970
annual report. ln 1964, I BM began work on perfecting
the bomb navigation systems of the giant Air Force
B-52s. lt has also worked on Navy aircraft, Titan ll and
Minuteman ll guided missile systems, and the Safeguard
ABM. Presently IBM produces fire control systems,
chemical retrieval systems, ballistic missile systems,
combat services and support systems.
ln early 1970, Melvin Laird appointed Gardiner L.
Tucker, IBM's director of research as Assistant Secretary of Defense. I BM is also one of a very few corporations represented on the Committee on Military Exports of the Defense-lndustry Advisory Council. This
Comrnittee acts as liaison between U.S. military contractors and the Department of Defense office of lnternational Logistics Negotiations promoting overseas arms
sales worth about $2 billion a year.
The Metnam War, of course, is most responsible for
helping IBM's ranking of nineteenth aniong the top
U.S. defense contractors in fiscal '71. Since 1969, the
U.S. Army has maintained a multj-layered data processing system in Vietnam, in which information is exchanged between the central Logist.ics Data Service Gnter and a series of outlying depots. Of the eleven American Air Force bases in Vietnam, eight had computerized support functions by the fall of 1 970. I BM equipment has, of course, played a prominent role.
As American ground troops are withdrawn and the
character of the war is dominated by the use of heavy
U.S. airpower, lBl\1 can look forward to bigger ancl
better contracts. (lt has been estimated that the Pentagon will release one billion dollars worth of computer
contracts by May.)
One of the advanced techniqucs which has grown
out of this situation is the electronic battlcfield. Elaborate sensors, cotrcealed over a wide area, send coded
signals to helicopters which in turn rclay thesc signals
to two lruge IBM 360's in Thailand. The computcr then
interprets the data and activates the most efficent
means of bringing dolvn a rain of destruction orr thc
source of the disturbance. f'his system dellnes anything
which moves as an enemy. This weapons systcm, in the
worcls of Sen. Proxmire, "cannot te ll thc cliflercncc
revenues grew
between soldiers and women and children'..Whole villages may be wiped out by seeding wide areas with air
dropped explosive devices designed to kill anyone who
ventures into their neighborhood."
ln his prophetjc book "1984", George Orwell described the war of the future. "War," he wrote, "is no
longer the desperate annihilating struggle that it was...
it iia warfare of limited aims. This is not to say that the
conduct of war has become less bloodthirsty or more
chivalrous.orl the contrary. . . but in a physical sense
the war involves very small numbers of people, mostly
highly trained specialists. The fighting takes place on
the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man
can anly guess
at."
The electronic battlefield in Vietnam today runs a
very close parallel to Owell's vision. ln this kind of
war, the human element is removed, the wagers of war
become alienated from the suffering and horror, and
do not feel the outcome or responsibility for their actjons. The technicians who designed and programmed
the computers perform no act of war, the man who
places the sensors doesn't see it operate. The man who
plots the strike never sees the plane which conducts it.
The pilot, navigator and bombardier do not see the
bomb hit. The damage assesor was not in the plane, and
and all the others who helped mount the raid never
participated in it at all. Vietnam veteran pilot, Jon
Floyd testified in the Winter Soldier lnvestigation "You
go out, fly your mission, you come back to your airconditioned hooch and drink beer or whatever. You'rc
not in contact with it. You don't realize at the time, I
don't think, what you're doing."
ln June, 1970, Thomas Watson, Jr., then Chairman
'of the
tsoard of IBM testificd before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on the war in Vietnam and contended that "we must end this tragedy before it overwhelms us." Yet Watson feels that for an American
company not to do business with its government and
refuse these war contracts would "be to foster anarchy." That decisions on "war and peace, national sccurity, and diplomacy must in the cnd, bc rcsolved not
by a few people who sit in corpclratc board rooms, but
by individual citizcns cxercising their rights through thc
political process."
How can we confront IBM?
A group of us in Poughkeepsie area have come up
with some ideas. Though not a full range campaign
plan, we hope it might be a good beginning. We will be
making a public witness on the lawn of IBM's main
plant in Poughkeepsie on South Rd. Come loin us in
eur "tent city" for a day or our full week vigil starting
S.rnday, April 9 and ending with a walk up to tlre
Poughkeepsie IRS building on Mill St. for a demonstration on Saturday, April 15. Come break bread with us
or ioin others in a veek long fast. Flelp us create a loving and sharing community on that lawn and iuxtapose
it to the purposes of death in which some other of
lBl\4's property and personnel are involved. For more
information write or call Mid-Hudson Nonviolence (bnter,192 N. l\4ain St., Poughkeepsie, New York, 914473.9102
-Feter Cunneen
25
changes
LEAFLETING IN BELFAST
"The leafleting of British troops in
Mrthern lreland continues," reports
John Ginter of lrish Action in the WRI
rest come directly from bases in north
Germany. Various groups have leafleted
troops based in England. But we feel
that untilsoldiers are confronted by a
Newsletter. "On Jan. 29, twelve persons battle situation, they do not realize that
participated in the leafleting of soldiers
they actually are expected to kill their
on duty in Belfast. The area covered was fellow men."
-.1.P.
was extended from our previous action
to include the Oumlin Road, Shankhill
Road, the Ardoyne area and also Flollywood Barracks.
"The majority of soldiers we met did
did not want to be in Northern lreland.
For me, the next logical step to this is
the soldiers not wanting to betpart of
Her Majesty's army. Meaningful dialogues were held with many of the soldiers we leafleted. One soldier whom
we met agreed f ully with the message
on the leaflet; another was attempting
to buy himself out.
"l-hrrowing tales were told to
IRA
INSIDEOUTSIOE
pACIFISTS
when we w
R
Lers,
let's heading: "An Appeal to End Repression and Bloodshed in Mrthern
lreland" and some of our other placards
which carried similar slogans. At any
rate, they seemed to approve our pure-
ly coincidental presence at the moment
of their demonstration and the fact our
ends are the same-even though our
means differ.
And speaking of nonviolence in con-
nection with the North lreland situation,
ved ii.tl ?i:ili::ff
:;;; lunch':'f,#il'*;?.)e#'
at BOAC Feb 2 f or our";weekly,
arri
hour demonstration against repression
in Northern lreland, we saw that inside
the office, eight uniformed members of
the lrish Republican Army (lRA) were
conducting a stand-in to protest the
killing of 14 peaceful demonstrators in
Mrthern lreland the previous Sunday.
Four police cars were doubleparked
at the curb, cops were rushing in and
out of the office and large numbers of
curious passersby stopped to gape. But
there was nothing to satisfy their curiosity-until we appeared on the scene
overall impression I personally received with our leaflets and picket signs. So,
was one of sympathy for our actions and 6p that day, our leaflets were grabbedand an ever-increasing frustration with up as though they were free dollar bills.
the situation. lt must be emphasized that We showed them to the IRA men inthat owing to our size we could reach side. Obviously, they couldn't agree
with the first paragraph's final sentence:
only a small number of the 20,000 to
30,000 troops stationed in Northern lre- "The guns and weapons of the British
Army, of the Ulster Volunteer Force,
land.
of the lrish Republican Army (underlin"A question often leveled at us is:
ing mine) cannot bring peace" nor with
'Why do you leaflet in Northern lreland
when troops are more easily accessible
our placard: "Armed Force Can't Solve
the Problems of Northern lreland." But
in England?' The fact isthat onlY 20%
more important to them was our leafof tt.re troops come from Britain; the
of
army discipline and lails and much information was gained during our conversations. Of course, we also met with
criticism and some hostility but the
us
press interview, acknowledged the im-
pact of Martjn Luther King Jr. and the
black freedom marches of the early
1960s upon young lrish activists. "We
were all going to college then, and we
saw those marches on television, and
we knew those people had the right
idea," Boyle said.
,.P.
VISAS DENIED TO CUBAN
FILMMAKERS
The Cuban Film Festival (see review
on p. 30) is gettjng the predictable static from the Gringo Department of State'
State. Alfredo Guevara and Santiago Alvarez, leading Cuban filmmakers, along
with two others connected with the Cuban industry have not yet been granted
visas to visit the United States for the
festival. A petition has been circulated
demanding that their visa applications
be approved. The petition has been
signed by, among others, Vincent Can-
by, Ossie Davis, Fay Dunaway, .lane Fonda, Norman Mailer, Jonas Mekas, Arthur
Miller, Estelle Parsons, Don Pennebaker,
Otto Preminger, Susan Sontag, Rip Torn,
Mt Hentoff, julian Beck and Judith Malina. Nb reply yet from State Department.
-l-ance Belville
FIRST DEMO BY
VIET STUDENTS IN U.S.
Thousands of students in South Vietnam have been conducting protest demonstrations over there but the first one
to take place in the U.S. was in New
York City Feb. 10 at the South Vietnam
Consulate. And it was such a novelty
that even the reactionary, mass circulation tabloid, DAILY NEWS, which or-
dinarily gives sparse coverage to
peace
demos, printed three photos of it.
The demonstration was a sit-in by 10
photo by: Bradford Lyttle
2L
Vietnamese students on scholarships irr
this country. After three hours, police
arrived to arrest them on criminal trespass charges, but by that time some 20
American peace people, including most
of the WRL staff, had mobilized with
placards of support outside the building. So, when the students emerged in
the custody of police, we had a chance
to shake their hands as they were escorted to the paddy wagon and to cheer
them as they departed for the police
statio n.
Their specific demands were spelled
ped-out a placard saying "Stop the
Killing. "
At the same time, she called out to
President Nixon, who with his wife was
seated up-front: "You go to church on
Sunday and pray to Jesus Christ. lf Jesus Christ were in this room tonight,
you would not dare to drop another
performed. For more information call
(212) 941'4671 between 3PM and 10
PM during weekdaYs.
By the waY, the OPen Theatre recently did a benefit for WIN at the
State University at New Paltz and it was
a fine show indeed. Our thanks to them'
-M.C.
bomb."
At the conclusion of the singers'
first number, Ray Conniff told the audience: "The beginning of this program
to
DYLAN ,lOINS GINSBERG
ON NEW RECORD
Allen Ginsberg is about [o release a
new record. What's partlcularly interestAccording to UPI: "At that the auing about that is who somc of the sideHuu An, Nguyen Thai Binh, Tran Vu
ciience shuffled and there were addimen are: Ed Sanders, GregorY Corso, a
Dong, Vu Ngoc Con, Nguyen Tang Huyen, Tran Khan Tuyet, Le Anh Tu, Ngutional groans, boos and the shout: 'You llbetian High t-ama lady, Happy Traum,
yen Hoi Chan, Doan Fbng Hai, Ngo Vinh ought to throw her out.' Martha MitMelor Sturva (lsvestia-a New York corchell cried out that the protester "ought respondent) and a yourlg feller named
Long and Nguyen thi Ngoc Thoa. The
to be torn limb from limb." Mr. Conniff Bob Dylan. The idea is to combine postatement explained: "We are occupyetry and music and this is done on such
ing this Metnamese property which has told Miss Feraci it would be better if
she left, and she did."
numbers as "Coin' to San Diego", a
been acquired at the cost of countless
.l
Later, the President gave Mr. & Mrs.
long piece about Bangla Dcsh, a numVietnamese lives. We demand: . The
immediate release from South Vietnam- DeWitt Wallace, co-founders of the
ber of gay liberation tunes, a William
rightist magazine, a Medal of Freedom
ese prisons of Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh (and
Blake poem and a mantra or two. The
other political prisoners). 2. The immed- Gtations, asserting: "They have made a
record will be released by APPlc.
iate resignation of Thieu. 3. The immed- towering contribution to that freedom
Sixteen records .Ginsberg's complete
of the mind from which spring all other works as read by Allen himself-.will be
iate dismemberment of the Thieu regime's apparatus of terror and represlibertiesi'
released in thc near future by Fantasy
M.C.
sion."
records.
f .P.
l.P.
out in a statement signed personally by
all 1 0 and their coordinator: Nguyen
.,CRUSADI
NG FORERUNNER
OF WOMEN'S LIB"
This was the heading over a 3-column
profile in the New York Times.lanuary
24of Jeannette Rankin, longtime WRL
member and Congresswoman who voted against both world wars.
"Today, at age 91, the former suffragette, lifelong pacifist and activist-has
the satisfaction of seeing the rest of the
world-at least the female portion of it
inch up to her and her ideas," writes
Nadine &ozan.
"She has never stopped agitating for
by herself and as a member of
such organizations as Women's lnternational League for Peace & Freedom, Another Mother for Peace and War Resisters League. And in.l 968, she led the
Jeannette Rankin Brigade of 5000 women to Washington to protest the Vietnam war." Asked if she has any regrets,
Jeannette Rankin said she would do it
allover again, except "This time l'd be
peace
nastier.
"
t.P.
PROTEST AT NIXON DINNER
HONO RI NG,READEBSD I G EST
As
white-tie ar.rd evening-gowned
guests assembled in the White House
State Dining Room for a dinner mark-
ing the 50th anniversary of the ultrarightist, rnass circulatiorr magazinc,
READER'S DIGEST Jan. 28, Grol
Feraci of the Ray Conniff singers whip-
was as much a surprise
me as eve[y-
body."
OPEN THEATRE TO PERFORM
The Open Theatre, one of the finest
experimental theatre companies in
America, is beginning a new series of
performances at their theatre at344 \N.
36 St. in New York. On March |J,18,
26, and2-7 "Terminal" will be performed. On March 19,20,24,and25 anew
show, "The Mutation Show", will be
WAR TAX RESISTANCE
CLINICS
Dave Brown of New England CNVA
would like to work with pcople throughout New England on setting up day-long,
half-day, or evening scssiotrs on rcsisting
war taxes. Thc purposc of a clinic is to
turn peoplc on to rcsisting war taxes,
either as a first stcp, or in addition to
McGUIRE AIR FoRcE BAse, z/26/72: sgt. Don Boyre argues with a demonstrator after the
arrest of.a vet for walking in tlre street 1tt vias tmposiibte td watk on the mud
cops said to use). Two,other peopte weie
also arrdsted witiroufwainins. ihEiS;'onstrabon
"rin"in"u't'ii,d""
was sponsored bv the phitadetphia Airwar project. Approiimiieiv iso'b.J[rJi'nJweo
up in
heavy rain (an hour,s drive f rom phila.).
story inO'in-oio ov flief genson
tl:
ii,
)l
att
itl
7a
other actions they are taking. A Clinic
can be combined with an Air War sl ide
showing, or it can be part of the followup after a showing, or part of the follow-up to most any action or event that
motivates people to take action against
the death machine. CNVA is developing
a complete Oinic program, including
songs, the slide show, sharing of tax resistance and Alternate Fund informatjon and experiences, discussion of tax
resistance in the context of a broader
movement for social change (e.g. as part
part of the anti-Air-War campaign), and
planning for tax resistance act.ivitjes in
the community. A Clinic would, of
course, draw on the knowledge and experience of local people. To set up a
Clinic, or for more information about
Clinics or war tax resistance, contact
Dave Brown, c/o New England CNVA,
RFD No.1, Box 430, Voluntown, C-onn.
06384, (203) 316-9910 or 316-0281.
-flave Brown
UNBTASED
The following two stories from Unit'OURNALTSM?
(UPl ) wire sered Press lnternational
vices, which appeared in the straight
press on two different days, speak for
entire animal population of a small
children's zoo was slaughtered during
the night by intruders, who maY have
been "psychos or crazed on dope", officials reported last week.
htrolman John Guarino said ears
were ripped off rabbits while they were
still alive. He said blood was smeared all
over the windows, animal ears Put on
'
door knobs and a sign which read
"Snack bar" was placed on top of some
mutilated carcases. "Some rabbits were
slammed against the building, breaking
every bone in their bodies and a few
were thrown on the roof." Angelo Val-
entino, the zoo director said, "l'm convinced it's a prime example of what
disorders at Kent State University, has
heen sentenced to six months in jail'
Rupe, 24, was convicted trlov. 30 of
interfering with a fireman during the. .
burning oi the Kent State ROTC building on MaY 2,1970.
Judge Edwin Jones, who sentenced
Rupe, ipecified the sentence will run
concurrently with a 10-to-20 year sentence Rupe is to serve on a so-called
'unrelated' drug charge.
Coltege Press Service/LNS
HARRISON, NY (UPl)-Three teen-age
boys, the sons of policemen were ordered last week to undergo psychiatric
examination in connection with the torturing and slaughter of rabbits and birds
at a children's zoo. Detective Ralph Triano, Sr., a veteran of the town Police
department, said his two sons were
"young and not that malicious". The
father told reporters to "&ver the Vietnam war with the same roughness
they've given this case and not worry
about a few rabbits."
-FPS
HARRISON, NY (UPl) -Practicallv the
50% WOULD "FOLLOW
*
Jerry Rupe, the only person gonylc-t1
.l
ed by treal in connection with the 970
dope does to kids."
themselves:
SCOTT NEARING'S
AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
THE MAKING OF A RADICAL
KENT STATE CASE
DEFENDANT
GIVEN 6-MONTH SENTENCE
ORDERS TO SHOOT"
This is one of the disheartening revelations of a Harvard survey of public at-
WHY HE ENDOWED A
PEACE PROFESSORSHIP
"l started college at Colgate in 1917
and quit after six months to go into
the military service," said George Cooley in an interview lan.25 regarding his
$ 1 25,000 endowment for a professorship in peace studies at that university.
"l taught men how to kill with a bayonet and I was pretty good at it.
"But I feel in these tender years of
mine that the world has to find waYs
of solving its difficultjes in other ways
than slaughter. I hope that I might help
the study of peace catch on in the colI
eges.
"
Though peace studies are on the in-
crease at U.S. colleges, it is unusual for
a professor to be designated for this
professorshi p
titudes on the Calley case, conducted by subject exclusively. The
is
one of the
endowed
which
Cooley
longtime
by Professol Herbert Kelman,
to fill it
WRLer, Professor Rlchard Clarke Cabot frst. The professor designated
of
the
Christeditor
Geyer,
Alan
is
Dr.
those
of
third
A
and Mrs. Lee Lawrence.
*t.P.
ian Century magazine.
interviewed said they would not pull
Flow
situation'
the trigger in a Mylai-type
iutt come from the Press
Born in 1883, Scott Ncarirrg has lived
l-bwever 61% of the 989 Persons who
durir.rg onc of thc most clramatic and
underwent 40-minute interviews expres'
t
critic.rl pcritlds of modcrn history' For
sed the viewpoint that most people '
half a ccrrtury l.rc has been obscrving,
would acr like GlleY.
spcaking, arrcl writirrg about wtlrld eConducted in all sections of the
country only two months after Glley's
vcn1s, g;ithcrirrg matcrial through lirstlrancl corltacts, through travcl, cxtensive conviction last March, the preliminary
results wcre announced recently at the
reading atrd rcsearch.
' Hcre, irr his politic.rl autobiog,raplry, corrvention of the American Association
for the Aclvancement of Science in Philis thc summ,rry ol lris ltrrtg crpcricncc
adelphia.
puts it:
whiclr, as fublishers Weekly
reportirrg for Professor Kelman,
" n.lrr()ws dr,r m.rti
c.r
II
y
t lt
c g,cttcr't tit r n
gap irr this spirited and lucicl summing-
up of an unsclfish clcclicatccl lifer"'
pr8,cs
$2.45 paPcrb.rck
$6 clotlrbourlcl
or
Orcler l.rtlrn your local btlokshop
l-turIUTE'
INSTI
SOCIAL SCIENCE
046'12
Mainc
borsidc,
lrr
wl.to was
ill, Mrs. l-awrence commented:
"The fact that large tlumbers of people
arc sayitrg that what Crlley and his met.t
dicl w.rs 'irormal' lras broad implications
for stuclyitrg violellce irr the U.S. lt indic.ltcs that il'thc situatiorr is properly
slructured, large numbers of people will
will do lmltzitrg things."
Two thirtls
;f
those irrtcrviewed fa-
vorecl a U.S. pullout
from Mctrlam'.
-,.P.
Here! A new 25$ booklet
about the care and feeding
of FBI agents and
Federal grand iuries.
Highly recommended
hy Dr. Spock.
order the revealing new booklet "lt Could
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No
pnson notes
The argument whether to send Christto jailed resisters will undoubtedly continue as long as resisters
are in prison. lt has forced all involved
to do some hard thinking. Several peomas cards
ple reported getting friendly notes from
resisters to whom they sent cards. One
such correspondent wrote: "We received
responses from several of them. Origi-
cannot know whether or not the mail
room official is relling the truth, it might
might be good to return them with a
letter suggesting that if the person has
been released his mail should be forwarded, just as anyone else's mail is forwarded when there is a change of address.
One reason
it
is so
difficult to relate
nally, we had hoped that our cards might to inmates is that prisons are virtually
might cheer them up, but found to our invisible from the outside. They are often deliberately located in out-of-thesurprise that in many instances they
way places or hidden in other buildings,
were more hopeful and optimistic than
as are some of the smaller county iails
we."
and local lock-ups. Even ex-cons must
Apparently all who sent cards got
quite a few returned marked "not here" remind themselves of the problem the
or with a similar notation. We learn from prisons represent. One resister wrote,
shortly after his release: "And now l'm
from Suzi Wlliams that cards she sent
transcending myself back into polite '
to friends in Alderson (not resisters)
came back marked "released" when Su- society, I guess. lt has not been such a
zi knew full well they had not been recataclysmic change, actually. To both
leased. She returned the cards with a let- me and my family, it is almost as
though I was never really gone. The jail
ter to the warden, who then had them
delivered. Since those who send cards
time I did was simply swallowed up by
an unreal vacuum. From the outside,
prisons are truly invisible and easily dismissed."
Joe Gilchrist, who was released from
Milan early in lanuary, is working in a
home for adolescent boys in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. Before his release he was indicted again for refusing to testify before the grand iury investigating the
"Harrisburg Conspiracy" and he is currently free on his own recognizance.
-l-arrY
Ctara
dovetales
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Armed
with a statement that concluded "We
demand that the Senators from lllinois
go beyond mere expressions of pious
discomfort about the war . . .," 35 people from various peace groups, trade
unions, vets, etc. went to the offices
of Sen. Percy & Stevenson. C-ontrasting
receptions exploded a few stereotypes.
Percy's staff - two young women, one
black, one white - invited us in, took
notes, listed organizations. Stevenson's
all white staff ran interference before
ushering us into an adequate room.
Then a Mr. Flanagan took over to tell
us "what's wrcng with you people". He
was hostile, inattentive and interrupted
continually. C-oming out, several people said, "Well that was a political education." Until the next time. I bet. . . .
"One night a man dreamt that a mon:
ster was on his chest, choking him, trying to kill him. The man woke in terror
and saw the monster above him. 'What
is going
to happen to me?' the
man
cried. 'Don't ask me'replied the monster, 'it's your dream.' " Sidney Slomich in L.A. Times 10131111)... Michael Wayne Bronson, imprisoned at
the l\4edical Gnter for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, as a result of "nodding his head in a manner suggestive of
yes and no as if responding to Danbury
resisters on hunger strike in another
building, lost privileges. Fh is now petitioning for a court hearing and full
consideration of his rights. . .
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF
NONVIOLENCE, Box 1001, Palo Alto
94302, has a brochure that includes
spring programs dealing with land reclamation, mass media, mothers liberation, farm workers, sex roles, political vision, organizing. lf you write for
it, "send an extra nickle or so." . . . .
Emmaus,241 L 116 St., NYC, will have
a weekend on Practical Nonviolence,
April 7-9, and one on Vocations for Social Change, April 14-16 . . . Now with
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FROM CONGRESSWOMAN' EANNETTE RANKIN TO WIN: "Here is $5
WRL staff serving Texas, Oklahoma,
should be able to finC 1000 peo-pleyou
Arkansas and Louisiana is Tom Flower,
who can do thal. and so pay your
ex-Peace Ed. Secy. for SW AFSC. He
bills and keep going. I believe rny subcan provide lit. & films, assist in workscription is still current and I enjoy the
shops & seminars, draft & military coun- issues I get . . . . lf some of the oldies
seling, tax & draft resistance. C-ontact
but goodies can keep on truckin', mayhim c/o WRL, 832 W. Mistletoe ff2.
be others will eventually get the hang
of it."
San Antonio, Texas 78212. He'll travel
Ruth Dear
via thumb and would appreciate hospi-
z9
if ever, it
is an incredible portrait of the island.
it isn'[ sterile industrial-film-type footage. The warm
personality of the Gtban people pokes out at every cut and
pan. One of dozens of scenes come to mind: A small comBut
A review (sorta) of two fine documentaries
to be included in the upcoming
Ctrban Film Festival.
The Festival of Cuban Film scheduled for March 24 to
munity is having a communal coffee bean cleaning bee. Tables are set up and while musicians perform young and old
sit at long tables cleaning and separating the beans. One
young girl moves along the tables distributing more beans to
those needing them. The pride in her own, well-paded, warm
body is apparent and the appreciation of the local swains at
the table is also apparent.
Ap-
ril 2nd, mostly at Manhattan's Olympia Theatre, should bring
into life on
that interesting little island. At least it should if the other
f lms to be shown have half what two previewed here had.
Micheal Mayerson of American Documentary Films which is
some startling films as well as some fresh insights
sponsoring the festival invited journalists in several weeks ago
to view POR LA PRIMEIRA YEZ (For the First Time) and
DESPEGUE A LAS DEIZY OCHO (Take-off at 18:00), two
documentary films that were moving, stunningly photographed and suprisingly short on propaganda and long on human-
ity.
PRIMEtRA YEZis a little film about how the villagers in
a small Clban mountain community see a film for the first
tjme. The film is deceptively simple. The camera follows a
government mobile film prolection unit into the town where
it shows a film. ln a kind of semi-cinema verite style, a few
of the townspeople are interviewed about what they think a
film is. "They must be something wonderful," intones one
old lady, "all the city folks want to see them." Of course
there is a bit of the expected: "Under Batista, we poor people never could see films"
Then the camera focuses on the townspeople as they
watch a Chaplin film. lt is one of the most moving two or
three minutes on film that I can remember seeing. Eyes light
up, minds turn corners, you see before you worlds opening
up in the faces of the poor Cuban villagers. .lesus, I fought
back tears when I saw it and I fight them back now remem-
bering it.
LAS DEIZ Y OCHO is a far more complicated, overtly
political film. Directed by Santiago Alvarez it won first prize
at the New Delhi (New Delhi??) Film Festival. The film opens
with shots of the interminable lines for foodstuffs and consumer goods that the traveling "special" correspondents
The more you know about L-atin America, the more you
will get out of the film. One little thing that I noticed: all the
men working on the salt f lats have rubber boots. ln the prosperous and growing Brazil, I passed salt drying flats almost
weekly for the last two years and never noticed any of the
men wearing boots, although not to wear them means the
worker will acquire a hideous and painful skin disease and
very probably an early death. ln &azil, South America's fastest growing economy and an industrial nation already, the
bosies won't provide boots and the workers cannot afford
them. ln Cuba, which after ten years is still miserably shackled to its can-based economy, money is found to boot the
salt workers. This and literally hundreds of other tiny details,
too numerous to have been tricked up for the camera offer
an enlightening glimpse into what is happening in Cuba. lt
forces one to ponder the attitude of our government toward
it.
My largest experience in the Latin American film industry
with Brazil, which prides itself in having one of the world's
most courageous and vital batch of young directors. The Cinis
of Brazil (New Cnema) has carried off world prizes,
including a Palma de Ouro in Venice (Cannes?) and dozens of
ema Nova
prizes
from Edinburgh to
hundreds
San Francisco. I have seen literally
of Brazilian documentaries, including a number
made in secret and shown clandestinely for fear of government reprisals against the makers, and I have seen most of
the features made in &azil over the past seven years. But I
can categorically state that I have never seen a Brazilian film
with a quarter of the passion and real humanity of the two
short Cuban films I saw last month. I look forward to seeing
the rest of the films in the festival.
-Lance Belville
I
I
from American newspapers always devote such ample space
to describing. "No Fhyl" ("There isn't any!") is a phrase often
heard in C-uba. Then it shifts to prostitution-No Fhy! Beggars-M Fhy! Polio-No Hayl And the film is underway.
18:00, or six P.M., is the hour that voluntary work begins
orr the island. And interspersed with shots of work in the
farms and factories (mostly farms of course) there is newsreel footage of the revoluliorr and thc Bay of Pigs defense.
Men climbing itrto recently accluired MIGS are intercut with
men climbing otlto ttew trlctors atld harvestirlg equipment.
The message for the Cubarr viewer -for whom the film was,
of course, intended -is that lrard work is iust as important
to keepirrg the revolutiort alive as trattlefield heroism. For the
foreigrr viewer who (as in the casc of your humble reporter)
may not have beetr to C-ubl since the bad old davs of Batista,
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THEY LOVE IT BUT LEAVE IT:
AMERICAN DESERTERS
war
Res i sters,rr"T'"l,Tl:11 tub I i s her (
$ r .oo ;
(Available from the War Resisteis
i*gu"l-'
"lt
is a rebe/lion. Not only ogoinst this Governments
in Wetnam but also ogoinst the immoralitv anrJ
futility of wors and militorism os o whole. A, irr/tonce inside, or desertion, their reosons have gone be_
war
i
yond opposition to the lndo_Chino wor.,,
Desertion is not an easy decision. Besides the threat of
"military justice," and the stockade, desertion fru, ,"rni
Oi,
grace, dishonor and the possibility of a less-than-honorable
discharge whose effects might haunt an individual for the
rest of his life and make it.impossible to fi-nd work, housing,
or any.place of responsibility in society. Desertion in ,,time"'
of war" or in .r'the face of the enemy,,'carries the Oeath pen_
alty. Desertion, in essence, has come to be a moral crime.
This is why the issue of the vietnam era creserters has
becclme
such an enormous-political problem. A very significant
num_
ber ot members of the United States Armed Forces have
de_
serted anQ made. public expression of their moral opposition
to participation in the government's war in lndo_China. But
those are th^e current public issues. By now, most Americans
are aware of the argument. With conservative estimates
tl;;_
ing the number of desertions during the past decade
ar
problem concerning these-people. Few realize, however,
theexplosive potential in the futuie of the Vietna'm era
deserters.
Devi kasad, General Secretary of the War Resisters lnter_
national, has written a book thai is part of a worldwicle
cam_
paign on behalf of American deserters living
abroad. prasad
wr ites:
This book has been written with the irttention r.tf
infor_
ming people about the vorious aspects of clesertion
from the U.S. Forces and the situation regarcling U.S.
/lyrters, in relotion to various countrle.s oLttsi(le the
U.S,
But the-book, by necessity, goes far beyond this simple
state_
ment of purpose. lt is crucial to undersiand that, ultimately,
the message of the campaign and the book unJ tn" dcserters
themselves is that militarism, even with advaniing technokt_
gy,,is self-destructive by nature. prasad feels this
strongly,
a nd sa ys:
Lnck of discipline plus o high percentoqe
of clesertion
ancl reslstonce insicle the Ll.S. Forces
die siqnificont
powerfu/ proofs thot mtliterism iosiir,lf-ocrele,
nature, ond the more it ctclv0nces, tii
more its
built-in destrtictive forces ploy *ei, cjlo-iitic
rule."The
l4,tr should prove to be the lo:t thopter
in tht.,
fi,ylnam
ntsrory or war os i! is foutlht to.loy.
havc played a majoi rolc in this proccss.
_tneft..,9.t.rrers
mttttary, evcn with forced conscripl.ion, heavy propagan_
da and programs of token reform has not U!en lrrf
. to'sttip
the mandalla that [ras caused tens of thousands'of men
to
see resistance as an aftirmation of their human dignity.
\Ve
must, however, view thesc actions as the bcginnirig of
a crcative process, and if the process is t. co.tinLr"e th,r crcscrtion
must not bc the "final act.,,prasacl,s book,.rs rvcll .rs thc
on.d
o.ting
campaign, is meant to be an important step in continuing
this crealive process.
They Love it But Leave lt: American Deserters is meant to
educate people about the position of the creserters and
their
present status in the tew countries that now allow
them to
live openly. lt also discusses countries where deserters
are arrested, and outlines their official justifications for returning
the deserters to military control. There is also a detailed
dis_
cussion of the stati-rs of
bases its position on returning deserters to U.S.
control on
the NATO countries, Visiting Forces Act, while C_anada,
also
a NATO ally, interprets the provisions oi the treaty
differently and, as a result, has been ihe primary refuge for American
desertcrs.
Of course the most lmportarrt part of the book is the diswith the men themselves: Their thinking, their siiuation, the.ir hopes and prospects for the future. But a full future for the deserters is depen
the WRI
campaign is about. The campaign began in Octobcr,
1g11,
when over 200 world leaders, writeri, philosophers,
scienl
tists and.others signed an appeal to alj worlJ gtv"rn*"nts
cussions
thal read:
lle !he urrdersigned urge ttll government5 to give
osy_
lum ond oid to U.S. servicerien who have ,,cleserted,,
qn/^urge people everywhere to compaign on ineiiie
halfond bring pressure to bear on ihri gorernments
to glve asylum to these men.
This election year of 1972 promiscs to bring the problcm
o[- thc deserters into lhc politrcal Iimclight i.n r"hi, country,
hopefully aided by prcssuri tro, pr,,pti ,rorn,l th. *url,J
as well as the American people, who bear primary
responsi_
bility for the future of thc American ,jes.it.rs. Amncity is
not the questl'on hcre, fbr thcse men lccl no ncccl to bc lorgrven,, and right.ly so.-Acceptance of thcir
moral position
must be a conditjon for thcir repatriation. To clo this,
thc
military system must be placcd in pcrspcctivc. As pras;rd
writes,
By nature militorism is a negotion of humun spirit. lhe
more sophisticoted it becomes, the less it recognizes
human needs and volues. This is whot htts happenecl to
the U,S. military. With the collapse of its moral und
politlcol credibility it has itself collapsecl.
People should rcad this littlc book ancl cspre ss t-hcmsclvcs
on the issucs. Furthcr ingormation on thc book anri thc campaign are availablc from thc War Resistcrs Lcaguc an<.1 thc War
Resisters lnternal.ional, 3 Calcdonian Road, Lonclon W. l,
England U.K. Moncy is also urgently nccdccl Ibr thc campaign, and contributictns should be scnt to thc WRI
-)erry
Wingate
AN ESSAY ON BREWING.
VINTAGE AND DISTI LLATIbN,
togcther with selectecl
REMEDI ES for HA|gg.Vq R, MELANCHOL|A,
OR HOW TO MAKE BOOZE
John F. Aclams
Doubleday and Company, $0.95 paper
Winc, bccr, mc;td ancl suchlikc bcveragcs'arc natural
It.rocis,
and it is plcasanl to sce thc American mrxrci of tt:mpcrancc-
rc[.rm suf licicntry rclaxcd to alr,w thc rcccnL r.rsh .f b..ks
tclling how [o makc thcm, of rvhich that unrjcr revrcw
is an
cxccllcnt spccimcn. Ihc .rction ,rl ycasl on \uRJr is .rs
salubri.us as it is,n f krur. Thc c,,nversi.n,rt ,rgiit,, alc,h.l
l-ry
yr:;rst is so c.rrclully rcgul.rtud lry nJturc
th"rt it stops at a rca,
son.rltlc human point rcg,trdlcss of thc (rmount o[.sug.rr
in thc
JI
,
spends money on public relations, and that retired officers
get iobs in defense industries. lt all adds up to a convincing
iase that the Pentagon is a menace, but much of the material in "...A look atihe defense budget" (part one) and "The
military-industrial complex and how it'works" (part two) is
anecdotal and doesn't help much in the way of a systematic
understanding of the problem.
Barnet's advantage over the rest of us is that he has workthe white bloom on the skin is itself the appropriate yeast.
puddle
grapes
a
will
the government, in the State Department and briefly
into
ed
in
falling
At the right temperature,
produce wine spontaneously. Perhaps that is where the whole as a consultant to the Department of Defense. His knowledge
of how the government actually operates comes out in his
business started.
proposals for change (part three), which I recommend. BarDistilled liquor is something else again. As it tends to be
be
better
lt
had
net thinks that domestic needs would be better represented
natural.
inbibed by Americans it is not so
when important decisions are made if the Mtional Security
treated as medicinal, and used in moderate doses for specific
diswere enlarged to include the Secretary of Health, Edpractical
to
disadvantages
Council
conditions. And there are other
ucation, and Welfare, the Secretary of l-busing and Urban Detilled drink, which includes brandy, whiskey, gin, vodka, and
velopment, and other spokesmen for domestic interests. lt
the like. Fancier equipment and more of it is needed. Besides,
could reguiarly review the competing demands on the budget
if we may postulate a continuum of legality, its production
production
of
any
by defen"se interests as against domestic needs. Barnet also
that
fact
is
is more illegal. Actually, the sad
wants to see a nationat commission appointed to prepare a
any alcoholic liquor is controlled by law, and everything but
plan for conversion to a peace economy. lt would ask local
status,
rewine, which thereby displays its superior social
governments to submit lists of local needs, and it would asquires the sort of commercial license only practicable for the
iist in retraining and relocating people who were released
large producer. I mean expensive, and often high-placed pofrom defense w-ork. Defense contractors would be required
litical buddies (for wine, a U.S. Treasury statement of intent
to prepare conversion schedules and to indicate which lobs
gallons/
you
200
can make
is supposed to be filed, and then
were presently dependent on defense work.
taken
to
be
seldom
seems
the
law
year/family). Fortunately,
l.low I don;t know whether it would work, and I don't
seriously for non-distilled beverages, where the taxman exif it's the best way it could be done. My point is simknow
you
ask-a
may
law,
(why
have
a
then
pects a smaller bite
ply
WIN readers ought to pay more attention to instituthat
very pertinent question).
which in the long run could have enormous
changes,
tional
Mr. Adams' book strikes this amateur brewer and vintner
hundred articles and.notes in the last
Ouiolsome
effects.
as the best all-around introduction to the idea of these prodealt with the war and the military
that
WIN
of
months
six
cesses he has seen (and bakers please note, you will makethe
I could not find a single one that
them,
against
actions
and
best bread you've ever tasted by using the yeast sediment you
in the government' The closchange
on
institutional
touched
you have left in your beer crock). fu for distillation, the deService prlcedure, one on
new
Selective
on
a
note
est
were
a
scription looks equally sensible and practical. Legally and ila couple on Sovernmenttoys,
and
war
ban
to
bill
California
legally, enough data is given to open a whole new world of
course demonstrations are
war.
Of
the
against
resolutions
al
yeast. lhe experience one can gain by following the book
a pressure tactii to get the President to stop the war, but
should enab.le him to make his own in many fields, or to turn
this is not the same thing as an institutional change'
with confidence to drier and more technical manuals.
Fkrw effective will our actions be in the long run? I notice
remany
includes
and
written,
The book is entertainingly
WIN
February 1 that "lt can safely be said that because
in
sults of practical research. One most interesting to this reprotests
the U.S.S. Coral Sea will never be the same
of the
vicwer ii the discovery that that execrable drink of Prohibia
new crew and the U.S.S. Coral Sea will be
Give
it
again."
tion times, bathtub gin, is really nothing but cane beer. You
Flow many people walking by the White
the
same.
eiactly
can make it too, but why try, given the availability of ingreyears
from
now will think of the 1971 Daily Death
ten
l-buse
dients and the case of making delectable items from malt
to get people to remember someway
only
the
About
Toll?
bcverages to honey mcad and onwards' lt is true that somemonument and bring in
a
national
it
into
is
to
turn
thing
times the author's learning seems out of place, as when he
actions can have imporour
Of
course
of
tourists.
busl6ads
insists on using the archaic Anglo-Saxon spelling wyrt for
long
term effects are hard to
the
but
effects,
term
tant
short
inor
beer,
that blend of malt ancl yeast which leads to ale
predict.
hard
to
and
see
steacl of the perfectly good and current wort, which basicalOnce an instiiution is established, it acquires a momentum
ly mcans plant or herb, and which amateur.botanists will
own. Take Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, home of the
iis
of
recognize'in such as milkwort or liverwort (another histori"guava" bomb and home of one of the leading military cencal n-ote on thc naturalness of brewing). At times the urge to
for the development and testing of conventional munite"rs
write qntertarningly lcads to frivolity, too, as in a mercifully
Back in 1949, someone had to decide that the newly
tions.
all,
shouldn't
slrort section on hangovcrs and their cure. After
Air Force needed its own munitions testing facilestablished
ar.ry food bc uscd with moderation and an eye to overuse?
had to persuade &ngress to appropriate funds
ity.
Someone
in
it
claims
But.rll in all, this is a book which does what
and sqmeone had to appoint a Commandfor
construction
practical irrstruction, and does it well, so why complain about
Once the thing got started, it kept on going and
General.
ing
trivia? Ancl it ortly costs rrirrety-1ivc centsl
wFile the rest of us are holding 66-mile hikes and setting up
Karl V. Teeter
peace booths at state fairs, Eglin AFB will be quietly turning
out
new weapons to use in Vietnam and to ship off to our
TI-IE ECONOMY OF DEATll
for t heir counterinsurgency operations.
allies
Richard J. Barrret
lbt that we should give up our Iocal actions and ioin the
Atheneum, 1969
government; I am simply saying that lve need to devote more
paperback, $2.95
more of our time to understanding how the government opcorre
as
p.lrts
rvill
this
Lrook
of
l'irst
two
of
tltc
much
Not
erates and looking into the possibilities for changes within
a surprise'to WIN readers wl.;o hrve becn keepirrg up with
the original "mash"-at around 10-15% of alcohol the veast
and any sugar which may remain are in equilibrium, and fermentation stops. This natural process is nowhere so perfect.
as with the grape (note French vinf vigne, English winelvine\'
the one fruit with sufficient sugar to produce a proper balance by itself (unfortunately, this is only true of the wine
grape-local indigenous varieties will not do it), and wher:e
the rtews. Thcy should krrow by trolv that the Perlt;rgotr
it.
Someone has got to do
it, and if r'vedon't, who will?
Eric Bokosch
continued from page
3
I was interested in setting up allernative dislrlb-ulgn, and that their dccision to givc rne
10.000 books Ii.e. sell]im 10.000 books
but let that pass- C.K. I was based on thisIn fact, as I\{r. Karpel knows very weli, I have
been a long and vocal opponent of so-called
alternative distribution... "
(-man:) "In discussion the project [with
Abbiel I suggested alternative distribution...
My feeling, in which Hoffman concurred, was
that Fbrcade would be an excellent editor
and even more important, had to be dealt
with if any altemative distribution was to be
achieved. lbffman felt that capitalist distribution was stjll a better idea. (i agreecl rvith
him)..."
you're
.. -By 1ow
"what
is
probably wondering,
this shit?" I answer this impoltant
question, I refer you to the article in the
March 15, 1971 issue of WIN in which [rorcade annihilated the vicious counterrevolutionary running dog I\fitch C,oodman: .,All
that society is is relationships (channels).
{rnd you don't change it by reinforcing such
channels. To put it another way, capitilist
publishing and distribution of books is like
the C,rand Canyon and radical hooks arc like
the water being poured in therc making rhat
Canyon deeper. Use your own channelsl"
And now. the part you've all been waiting for: an actual transcript of thal reprehcnsible section of my WIN article. the one with
the lie I know to be a lie!
"Abbie had heard that Tom, wl-ro was the
coordinator of the Underground Press Syndicate, was interested in publishing and distributing books through underground channels..."
Well there I am, caught in the actl Tom's
right-I did lie! In fact, to pave the way for
my vicious lie I cleverly lbrged an article under Tom's name in WIN vilifying Mitch C,oodman. Then I wrote a letter to thc editor of
WIN signed Michael Fbrman vilifying myself
while cleverly repeating the lie! Whai a liar I
am! Why, I'm lying righl now!!
The difference between me and the Rev.
Thomas King Forcade is that I dqknoiv rvhen
I'm lving while, I
"-,
n"j8iff,tt]
KAr{pDL
With the above two comments WIN closes
the dialoguc on this qucstion. It's been thc
nature of this controvr'rsy cvcr since wc
printed the first report in Novenlber tltat all
the participants have felt obtiged to rcspond
to any ald every statement, answer every
charge. Frankly, we're bored with the whole
thing by now and guess that our rcaders li,el
the same way. We'vc nevcr bcl'orc dceided Irl
close down a debate und hope ue'lt nrvrr
have to do it again, this thing simply has to
stop someplace. That's all, folks!
WIN
Jack Colhoun's thoughtful picce on "Amnesty for Exilcs" did not, I bclicve, do justice
to Scnator McC,ovcrn's clistinction betwcen
draft dodgcrs antl nrilitary dcsertcrs. \\thilc it
is true that Truman's individual consirterations of objcctors rlid not yield a satisfactory
result, NIr. (blhoun makcs lris first nristakc
whcn hc assumcs that a l\,lcGovcrn Adnrinistration wouhl bc rirnilarly rigorous in it\ ( onsi
ancl hc rvoultl bc s1,r'npathctic to tlrosc u hosc
convictions lctl thcrr outsitlc the parantctcrs
ol United
States larv, nrilitarl,or civil.
-l1tc
qucstion, as I sce it, is "ir lro arc thc
clcscrtcrs'}" Dirl they descrt hecause ol'thc
ir.nmorality ol Victnanr. or. rnorc broatlly,
bccausc
ol the irnnroralit]' ol thc
.,\rncrican
military'l Or, did they desert to avoid courtmartial for their own transgressions which
hacl nothing to do with thiwar? You can
not pardon all deserters rvithout pardoning
a number ol men whose desertion hacl nothing at all to do with the r.var and whci
might deserve to be punished for their misconduct.
I do admit that the McCovern position
has the single difficulty of being dependent
on fair administration. However, since the
Senator himself would have no difficult), accepting the chaiacterization of the war, of
the objections to the war. and of the ohiectors to thc war in N{r. C-olhoun's article, I
think that adrninistration woulcl bc fair.
In any case, our goal and our perspective
are thc same. The men who refuserl to tight
in Metnam or serve in the military becausc
of Vietnam were right, not wrong. They
should not be punished in any way fbr their
morality.
-MIKE SI{ATZKIN
DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR
McGOVERN IiOR PRESIDENT/N. Y.
I am sure the last thing WIN wants is an
extended controversy over home brewing,
so I'll try to be brief and to the point in
thanking hul for his piece on tlio sublcct
(WIN lreb. l) and N{aris for the PS, anrl ol:
fering some comments from another mcrc
cmatcur:
(1) tlops. Paul says get thc hops adtlcd
malt extract. I say malt extract is tho rcal
thing, hops extract is NG. C,et straight lnalt,
and use dried hops (availablc in bricks, 85
cents tbr 4 oz. brick).
(2) Yeast. Paul says usc the lecs tronr last
batch to yeast the ncxt. 'lhis may bc rvhy hc
had trouble with one batch. My suggcstion:
take a couple of ounces trorn his startcr bolorc brewing. usc (l('an vial antl kccp eool
(the startcr, that is) to makc ncxt startcr,
and rvild yeast will not givc troublc. Don't
throw out lecs! Use thcm to bakc broatl. itntl
obscrvr'hou your baking improvesl
(3) Bottles. Paul says usc scrow top tlisposables..rcmarking that rccap ltablc bottlcs
aro cxpensivc. I know that in sontc placcs tlrc
lattcr type arc littlc uscd, but woulcl notc
that rcturnable crown-cap bottlcs arc ntany
timcs strongcr (roducing lraul's broakagc),
can bc got in the l.ast at lcast fbr pricc of
the clcposit (10 ccnts a [rottlc), antl cappcrl
cheaply, wrth a crowtr cappcr which rvill tlo
tor othcr lirluids (sauccs, c.g.) you nlry wislr
to kcop.
(4) Wrich book to usc'l Naturally your
owrt cxpcricnec will Iclrrl you in yout rrrvrr
tlircotion, but hero ['m on Puul's sidc in rc-
garcl
to Maris'suggostion (Paul says llravcry,
phasize the importancc of this point. He suggests washing soda, which is great, and I'd
acltl, as usurl in such things, lots ol hot rcally hot wlter lrrtl rinsirrg.
Wcll, I'vo got otll:r ideas too, but no con-
trovcrsy. H:rppy brcu ing.
KARL V, TUFTER
Alter rerading A.llen Yourrg's reply to the
Venccremos &igade in thc lfeb. l5 issuc of
WIN, I f'elt compcllctl to state my hurnble
views on the revolution and gay liberation.
At thc ht:art of the revolution is the issue
of economics. I'hc Ilrigedo realizes this as cvitlenccd by thrrir worls of anti-irnpcrialisnr.
lJut rvhethor onc talks of imperialisnr or its
lather, capitalisnr, thc elinrination of thc op
prcssivc systr:rn is still thc objcctivc. Tlrc Brigatle knows this as tlo noarly all rcvolutionary groups. lllacks know that whcn chatel
slavery cntlcd economic slavcry began. Thcy
knorv how tho capitalist systcrn has fbrced
them into a colonial status in thcir own country. lllacks antl (hicanos both krrow how the
whitc capitalist's caste systcnr rvorks. Wonrcn
knorv how thc capitllist opprcssor has rclcgatcd them to thoir own tbrnr of sccontl
class sitizcnship all in thc namc of "putting
thcm on a pcdcstll."
All rcvolutionary groups lrlvc as their basis tho clinrination ol'sonrc lbrnr ol tlrc cconomic opprossion. All groups, that is, oxccpt
gay liboration. What is thcir basis lbr cxistcnce'l Accoptancc. That's all, accoptanco. Antl
acccptancc of what'l Notlring lcss than thc
proposition thnt scxually spcaking rclattonships bctrvccn nran antl tnan or wonran antl
woman arc ns normal antl natrrrll as thosc [rctwccrt wornan anrl rlurrr. This is rctliculous.
(bnsitlcr thc lintlirrgs of nrarry sociological
oxpe rinrcnts working with anitnals, I krnxlscxuitlity, it was lbuntl, was l)rcsr.nt to any tlcgrcc only whon sortrc socictal problcnr cxistctl.
fuc thc gays saying tlrut honroscxuality is
natural in hunrans l,lrcn it is rrot in arrirrrals'l
If so, rvhy'l I rnust agrcc rvitlr l.lklritlgc (lcavcr's ol'tcr.r t1 uotcrl sta tc nrcnt,'ll krrrioscxua lity is a sickncss, just as arc lraby-ilrltc or
wanting to bceotnc thc hcatl ol'(icnorll Mr>
t()rs.
"
Thc gays say, "llcy, look at us. Tlrc systcnr is opprcssilrg us too. [,ct us into thc rcvolution." '[hcn thcy r;ucstiorr anythirig lcss
than total acccptancc. I tlon't sce whcrc girys
any morc than an organizltiorr ol chiltl rrrol('str'r\. kI('l)l()nlirnilt s. gryrorrr:rrrilres, rrr
nyrnphonraniacs lrls any businr:ss irr a rcvolution lgainst I political systerrr.'lhcsc otltcrs
coukl.lust as easily nlrkc l.hc abovr statcntcnts.'l'ltcir Problcnr is ttsychokrgical not
politica l.
T)rc Ilrigatlc slys,
"lloruoscxuality in ('uba
pathology lctt,ovcr l'rrrrr tlrc tlccaHomc llrcrving, Maris lJcatllc, Ilrcrv lt Yourtlcnt l;ourgcois ortlcr." I rvoultl atltl that lrr>
sclf). To bc surc, llravery is l]ritish, ctc., but
rnosr:xuality in this country is a social psyon thc other hancl [Iatllc is narrorv untl tlogchosis ol'tlre prcscnt capitalist ortlcr.
'l)rc attc rn ptctl tlrfi'nsc ol' ray I ibcration's
rnatic, antl his book is part ot'a ltrornotiorr'
schcmc tbr a particullr brciving kit ol'a parrole irt tltc rcvolutiort anrl thc unwirrrrl)tc(l
ticular cornpany. Also, tastcs dit'lcr, anrl it
vcrbal lashirrg ol tlre llrrtlagc \\,hich Young
tlocs irappcn to bc thc llritislr u,lro altprcrvrotc is just an exalnplc ol tlre rlisrrrlttivcncss
t iutr' [rrervilrr.: Jll(l l)rvc ir rr(iltrr vlritjly ,rl
ol tlrc gays.'l1rey scrvc only as a lrinrlrancc
lloUOll\ rrn lrrcrrr rrillt lrorlV.
to tltc rr:al rcvolutiolary struggle t9 6vcrtlrrrll
Paul. tlocs spcak ol stcrilizatiorr ol all ctluip- tltc eapitalist cstal; lish
rrrcnt.
nlcnt, but bricl'ly, anrl it is harrl to ovcrcriI,,I)WAIt I) S. KASINSKI
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Win Magazine Volume 8 Number 6
1971-04-01