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IN THIS ISSUE:
ON THE MEAT BOYCOTT
MARTY
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'EZER ON SEXISM." READIÑG
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susgest and urge fhat at least those

nolitical change in this country, which has
6e"n so painfúl and slow, is by.some miracle
to'become easY and quick.
-soinsIñdeed,
the events of the past-v-ears and
u recent issue of yours [WIN, I 1/15/72]. .
suseests that many othErs ale awafe oI^ tms'
cãiT;rn a fe"ung itrat l've had for a loirg
iirnJttrat we haie never fully or properly
understood the meaning, purpose' and use oI.
nonviolence in this country. Most -ol'the '
Teoole who "adopted" it as a politicâl tactic
i"etiõ¿ to thiñk ôf it as a new kind of weai,äîå-".Uiið.tversion of ju jitsu or karate,

åî*ftú'å':t''t
;ñ;iídüñ;i-inÏa¡i. wJárã nãi ãoine
[rai-ôniV
victories
win
any
to
- fft"téir'"ðiïåi"e'
";;;;
a few very small ones. ",
-wüt-"ãtviõienõe
t";óh
î. Ë
;õã-tä*t.
;.; Ë;úi;"ü¿olot ur,.ä- i'ã;;tõ;;i
å;-'
;il'"h ;î;î;hãt'it"iìÑ¡u't.
from being
muih more that this, is keep us"btì;
ää;;fi;il;d;;,i-õi,äi.".ðuî äd;ñ"d;?,
'
;;ä:dõ;it, k"iî " äõ"iîirií¿i'Ë;it;ñ
besuperiority
õi
moiat
ffirñ''!-;ü;nís

it;rj;':**¿'th

;;ñ,ilË;ÉË;;häüüi'úiî;i-"-'
listen.
üó'äu"t
ä
q;äìif#lõ;i'ãnv
jiiitÌ'Tä;üî'
";ä;.;hiü'if.n;ä äË..";liliä;åTft
uofftnan' añarhave seen this as the wildest follv' But that onut"r'iit'iiu¿ìiiãliÄu6lã
the othcr hand there
is very much the posilion;;.';rälí!i;.i"r;':' ãüi*iõõòt¡ook).'On
,I
în"'é J ï,i ri.¡t io the. nun:-bãi oî pro1et¡ *: -Tï ilüîJJåT.îtfilti*:tr:l i,l Ji"i'iÌ;.
çrs that the Nixon administration would be yh-o T
most anarchists don't know thev afe'
[,ilffii;ilïirii¡î, ilhäiiirãää¡ãüivã rnáeed
anarchism" and in largc
the American propt" *outäüË;ää';;;¿t-^ i .ãiittti* "intuitive
are the real'anarchist
measuit ttt"t" people
there' The conscience of the Airerican
'
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:;*ã;;;;;'';
''
--Y AllcHEl{
oeople will not b,p appealeäfüi"dift
-^:-lf
oRE'
PoRTLAND'
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íñîäîtüiïiitäväãä'rt"iã to do or bittèrlv
oooósed to doi¡rs. The time has come to
2/73]
;í.r;-iõõf;r"Ñèlves and to get readv for
I think vour
-pointZappa reviewer [wlN'
of Frank's music (e.g,, kcv
a ldng,hard-winter.
missed the
-BOSTON'
---lOl!NI19!I
MASS' .frãng"t ur ¿annoyances" rather than effoit
to move beyond d¡eary ticky-tack predicta'
i

bility of most rock).

Zappa has grown increasingly towartl instrumèntal music, as in Grantl Wazoo albunr' '.

;Ë;;A;;;;banã

vou want' When it
"l¿õiirtiwtrat
. turned out, as it very rapidly did, that the '!
use of nonûolerice was ñot making opponents
behave as they were supposed to, but was in-

weapo'ns, less magical and presumably more
effective. The results we see belole us are
minority group communities, at least in the
cities of the north-I know less about tne
;ðrlh tearing themselves to piece,s, and
the eap betweðn these groups and those
oeoõté with whom they must make alliances
if tli"y at" to improve their situation grows
wider
- everv dav.
ihe time mav be at hand fo¡ us to under*t"n¿ ttrai nonviôlence is much less a magical
way of getting what you want than a way
of i,etraiine rùtrite vou are not getting what
vou want.á wav oi keeping up one's strengtlL
iesolutioí. morâle, staying power, while at
least not aãding to the delusions and terror
ãf tro.tr oooonõnts, In this connection, as

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posturings of Mick Jagger. (The lcss a
ias to say the more they rely on trappings--loud insiitent beat, ego-tripping around ntlkç
(ìod forbi:!
wires, iyrics, psychedelic garb.
*" st oút¿ bcludged purcly on our Music!)
.. Petsonally, I could nevÙr sec why anyonc
willingty choose to liston to Stoncs or'
even Beatles whcn they coulcl listcn to Don
Ellis or Sonny Rollins or John Klcnrmcr or
ú-iixi.p"t.d"r,-u, ¡o"" hcatls arc a lsupï:ll:.

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iouslot.

-:ALAN SWI'INSON

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to me that perhaps

itrã m"ost sisnificant result of the Montgomátu Uus stri-ke was that it b¡ough! to yirtually
nolhing the level of crime in the black community-, ln a word, it pulled the black communitv toeether' Since then, blacks and other

minoritv sroups. and lndeed many wnrres'
ñàve ratiiã¿ aròúnd the crv "Pick Up.The

.Gun!" But

the guns picked up have rn most

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.

"would

-

seems

.

group ;

civil riehts movement, gave lt up lor otner

it

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in my opinion,-Zappa, evenwith kaz'oos ancl
iattr, it in"omputoLiy superior to thc tlull

be'rs of oeople who had adopted nonviolence
æ a kinä of magic weapon' notably in.the

eoes^o'n

of Medioc¡atcs or'Ìctlus:

trium isi'heavy" on vocals. Thebcst-rock
(Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Soft Maòhine) inevitably movcs in this tlirection'

stead increasing their fea¡ and rage and mal(ine them even more intractable, large num-

iinie

;'"*¿+i,'i.i;,"*";e'n

tumping tãgéttrer tñe. pacifist and nonpacitst änaíctriõts (and wlN too)' . Bv doing
iliis rre .ãîi"pèat the old lie that anarchism
i-'-tuiiqtìy negative rather tlSn-Positive (true
fo¡ tnañy.nonlpacifist anarchists). But in
ia.ct ürc þácifisì ana¡chists are.probahlv one
of the m'oit positive and sociallv.creative
groups'öf ôe'oole there are. Thev are in the
iradiiion df Titoteuu' cÞfl¿i' and Goodman
pää'piå'iliäfitËv
most
and
oüselves
tween
and are notro be taken,lightly no matter
how small ther numDer"
to
of
a
mind
day
some
te
snõutd
secön¿, he equates an anarchist with anv'
I do not think that cunä'lìi,-ñi¿
wnî'ãàtts trimself oné; as if the word
gng
ì-.i¿
question
üãu"
*òîid
the
asked
been
no
mãànine; as if there were no anarchist
had
Russia
of
Stalirr's
citizen
ittiii:' doubly fatal because on the
iãã¡ii"ü'
by
they
could
"fiilitts'åï
that
have adopted the.word anardown or turn around ttrese Ëãvärnments." He one hand many
õrti'iro' its noiorietv who a¡c not in the

o-ppãrièìtt

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is the antsJ, loving papa. But it is_not.so'
part õf ttre mañÍ eirors are due tçhis

öomê tind of foolproof wav of maki-4g voçr

massês

the lamp arm blocked off

I

teliãte in nonviolence stop using the

word "revolution." It is unwise and selfdefeating to continue to use a word which con' '
tó ttre people we are trying to win over
"ãvs
thó exact oipoôite of what we intend it to
méan. an¿ ii unwisely encourages those who
use the word to believe that the pro.cess ot

stairs down inside

il

enemies, As someone who cho3;ï

B.iååtþtÏtf.T"
an anÍuc
neighbors.
""
3/U?31 to be offensivelv
""ä:ïT;ï'fä ;ì;üË;i6A
iä." u"ry anarchism twrN,iuú
The tone of
enors.
óf
àno
pattontünd
"f
The
magic
in
this
country.
toush times
the piecè sãemed to be based ori his feeling
;"åä;äñ;;üäî.|äìliot eoing to soften
i;iüãt'an ana¡ctr¡st is]a socialist who hasn't.
ihïffiä"Ë.''ï;îi;ili;ili,""""î;ö;"gn,
grown-uo vet. Throughout one is struck by
or
Asiá
*uiií
going
turn
them
ogninri
to
not
f,'."qöfiåti¡"-¿esc¡tó anarchism'with'' i
pöfå,äiïirãiother
theexploitationof
soinc to cure them of racism or sive them *otot t'ïåüi"t'*î;;¡';;iiôil';'¡¡iiinitive"'

4^!^h.

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ln the mid-'60s when I had recently left single life in
New York for child-raising in the academic suburbs, I
returned to see Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Burstein's Window. (This was just at the time that
Lorraine lay dying in a hospital, and her ex-husband
Bob Nemiroff was trying to keep the play going.)
There was a cry raised in this play which caught me on
several levels: "l ain't going to have the white man's
leavings in my house no more!" lt struck me then
that the things black people know about white people

men.

are similar to the things women know about
Just as black people have often been non-people to
whites, who have known them mainly in subservient
roles, so women have been known primarily in sexual
and domestic roles by men whose "real" life is in of' .
fices, factories, clubs and bars.
One way in which the play's cry reached me was

through my white folks'guilt. I'd grown up in a fam;
ily which, while not rich, did indeed hire black peopl'eespecially women-for household work and gave them
our "leavings". My mother was a gentle and good'
hearted person who certainly had no intention of ex-..
ploiting anyone; in fact she would sometimes keep
help when we no longer needed or could afford it, so
that the person-usually a black woman, though a few
times black men or, once, a white couple-would have
employment. She gave them things because we had
them left over (despite being passed on thrôugh eight
children) and because the help needed them. We were
caught in the trap of master/servant, have/have-nots,
as much as they were, and we did not f now what else
to do except give them our "white man's leavings".
Another way in which this cry reached me was
thisl through the '50s in Paris, Washington, and New
York, various affairs had left in my apartments a resi-

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due of ties, socks, once a wristwatch. (There were also
more traumatic "leavings": several pregnancies.)
Most of my women friends were in analysis those ddys,
convinced that the reason we were not married was
because, for various neurotic reasons, we were hot
able to accept our "roles". Jobs were hopefully interesting stopgaps until we were able to get ourselves
straightened out and stop getting mixed up with neurotic men who would do us no good. "Mr. Right"
was some nice guy we had been ignoring because we
were trying to hurt ourselves by competing with bright

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or talented or competitive, women-hating men.
Some of this may have been true, explainable in
Freudian terms of our early relationships with male
and female parents, siblings, etc.-but not all. Were
we really grieving for a penis-or was it that we began
to observe very early that little boys were treated differently in terms of freedoms and expectations? I
knew little boys who would put oranges in their shirts
to see what it was like to have breasts, as well as little
girls who held wieners to their crotches to see what
that was like. But more significantly, I sometimes
heard my mother sigh heavily and say things like
"man's work lasts from sun to sun, but woman's work
is never done," My mother "âccepted" her role; for
all her 40 years of married life she was primarily a
housewife and mother. Her only rebellions were small
oneì: sometimes playing the piano late at night, reading George Bernard Shaw, voting secretly for Norman
Thomas. When my father died on his 80th birthday'
a good stubborn man who had been a lifelong Baptist

and a staunch Republican ever since he had le,ft Virginia-l rememberreading my mother a little ítem I
ttad come across about how every woman breathes a
rískr of both sorrow and relief (oi words to that effect)
wien her husband dies. I recall that my mother, who
was truly devoted and aggrieved, still let a small, rue'r
ful smile escapg.
Certainiy I absorbed, somewhere along the line,
that having a spouse and houseful of kids to care for
was hardeion a woman than a man, though my father
was very much a family man and had no social life
outside the family and church. Sometimes he would
even make breakfast or do dishes, though when we
had a woman to help, the cooking and cleaning up
were usually done by her (älong with my motller and
us younger þirts¡. siitt my father ruled the.roost, and
oui l¡verwere arranged around his naps and teiîpers.
The patterns sinðe then have not chlnged drastically. Therole that most women-still pla!, in.marriage .
or out, is to accept and live off "white men's leavings".
This is not to say that there have not been deep love
relationships, admirable partnerships, considerate mutual respect and sharíhg among many couples. Nor is
it to say that there have not been many "bitchy" domineerin! women and manipulated, "henpecked" men;
but even these reversals are symptomatic. For wo'
men whose households and personal needs have'been
taken care of by servants, the "leavings" mpY be mainly psychological-the man's tiredness at thti end of the
day, his lacÈ of comniunication. (lf the woman also
wori i t in¿'ot bond-if nõt a source of tot¿l disruption.)
For the single female, the "leavings" have been usually in ttirmsãf the kinds of iobs avàilable:-secretaries,
stenographers, "gal Fridays" (remember Fridav, Robinson Ciusoe's versatileblack servan[?); cleaning women
' and factory detail workers; wai.tresses'and cashiers;
teachers, babysitters, companions. The "leavings"
are also þsychological: the waited-for telephone call,
the man-depêndent'social life; and quite physical as
well: dirty dishes, ashtrays, socks, etc..
Men are not to be blamed for this ahy more than
my mother is to be blamed for giving black servants

oúr family "leavings". lt has been built into the system, and the noblesse are iust as harmed by it as the
obliþes. And, of course, it is changing. Women and
blaãk people are being sought out as academics, executives on certain levels, etc. Women and black people
are found more often in bars, government off¡ces, ahd
other places which were formerly almost eÍölusively
white male. Men are even found more frequently in
kitchens, doing housework, taking.care of chjldren'
But the blaðk women still line the bus stóþ in the
evenings along the str'ing of suburbs where.l live, going hoñre froñr their domestic jobs and toting bags of
"ùh¡te man's leavings". And white women still sit
in these suburbs woñdering how to make the best use
oi óui t¡me (other than cleaning ou.r own.houses)
when our huibands are at work and the children at
tttroòt. And single women still wait for thoSq. pþone
calls from men (Íor dates or jobs); wait for the beginning of the affaii or the end of it; wait sometimes for
u t""u.ng" that can seldom be theirs-the eiposure of
the Muísa who has used and discarded them, or whom
they've walked out on if they're lucky, telling the
roild *hut he's really iike (as in Barbara Bick's canJ¡J i'Anatomy of an Affair'i in the oct' 1972 MS\.
I was simiÉrly tempted to write a kind of expose

about a high-level CIA offcial whose dealings with a
publisher ñad recently put his name in the news. The
brief encqunter we once had was revealing I thqught,
about the man-woman relationship as well as about
men with that kind of power. He had taken me home'
(l don't, in fact, remember whether we h4d had a,date
òr met át a gathering) and, once in my apartmeñt, had
srabbed and pushed me forcefùlly toward mf living
ioom couch, suddenly a terrifyilrg lunatic with whom
I could not reason. His hands gripped my arms so
that I literally could not move, and I was not flatteréd
but furious. Finally-pacifist that I try to be-l put
my foot up against his groin and pu-shed. This seemed
to get the message across,,and he left angrily, in suddeñ disbelief. This is the first and only time I ever'
kicked a man in the vital parts, but-the only alternative seemed to be submission to a vjcious rape. (Later
on. a buxom young Virginia belle whom he apparently
found to be a-williñg receptable often came limping
into the actors' studio we both attended, ðomplaining
to me of his fierce ardor and her sore anatomy.)
When I read, after moving from Washington, 9f
'híds ex-wife's mysterious murder, I couid'only think
of that mad attack; and when I read of his most recent
activities on behalf of the ClA, I wröte out all .Êhis
about him, and more, saying his name-but like black
people who have scrubbed all the dirty line-n and
heard all the family quarrels and maybe suffered a
rape or two, I decided not to air it (until, in a less di'
rect way, now). Maybe I feared repercussions, maybe
I expected people not to beli,evç, qr.maybe I assumed
that a lot of men act this way and a lot of women
kn would have the same variety of hangups arid power
drives, given the same sick opportunities; and maybe

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I even felt a touch of pity for him, much as it scares
me that all that power is in the hands of this man and
people like him, and has been so destructively used.

lf black people's dreams are sometimes of sexual
conquest over whites, as they would understandably .be (and hence the stereotyped fear among some 'whites), women also have such fantasies. My own
literal dreams have several times been about reaching
powerful men in this way. ln the'50s I remember a
vivid dream in which I was Stalin's mistress, and more
recently I have had two sensuous dreams about Henry
Kissinger. (While I've never dreamed about.kidnapping þim, I did think it might be fun to write a film
script along these lines, with Henry K. played by
Woody AlÍen:) l.n mywaking life I consider both Stalin and Kissinþer fö be dangerous and manipulative;
but in my dream t'hey were gentle, passionate lovers'
Thqu8h the dreàlnsanno{ed me,.they also left a warm
gþw,, Jo.usp sex as.a way of defeaTing power seemed :
i¿ me demeãning, even on the part of an irresponsible
id, On tlÍe other hand, perhaps it was rather ennobling
to endow these men with the loving quality brought
forth by my dreams. Like the black folk who, once
aroused to their oppression, wavered between Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, women are caught
between conflicting desires to love our oppressors,
iand to expose and destroy them. The fìrst is often
considered soft-like women; the last, hard-like men.
But there is black and white and hard and soft in all
of us. And like the black folk in Lorraine Hansberry's
play, we cry in outrage that we ain't taking no more
white man's leavings-and then, out of habit, or neces¡
sity, we take them.
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Marilyn Albert:
THE-ENEMY, Felix Greene, Vintoge poperback, $1 ,95,
Subtitled, "What Every American should know about
lmperialism". A comprehensive, readable, and personal
basic definition of imperialism and how it works,
well-documented with a thoughtful criticism 06 the
revolutionary movement in the United States..

Iateþ?

THE NEW RADICALISM, ANARCHIST OR MARX.
tST?, Gil Green, lnternationsl Publishers poperback
(New Wort¿), $2.45. A discussion:of the Left, with
èmphasis on youth, and its two basic trends, anar-.
chiim and Marxism, from a.Marxist perspective- Very
readable.
HI STORI CA L MATE RIA LISM A N D MATE RIA LI SM
AND THE DIALECTICAL METHOD, Uaurice Cornforth, Little New World Poperbocks, ÍÍ65 and $1.45'
These two little books provide an excellent basic ex'
olanation of dialectical and historical materialism, the
icience which is the basis for all Marxist theory' Presented in non-technicãl language and illustrated with
examples and applications.
THE AIJTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEXUALLY EMAN.
CTPATED COMMUNIST WOMAN, Alexandro Kollontoi, forward by Germoine Greer, Herder ap.d Herder,
$5.95. Kollontai was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution and a good friend of Lenin, and was
in the forefront of the struggle for women's emancioation there. She was the first woman ever to be
äppointed an ambassador tb a foreign country. This
book is à personal outline of her life, her advanced
views on sexuality which were a subject of controversy in the U.S.S.R., and is amazi¡gly applicable for
'women on the. Left todaY.

AWAY WITH ALL PESIS; AN ENGLISII SURGEON
IN PEOPLE'S CHTNA 195+1969, Joshua Horn, Mon'
thly Review Press, $6,00, Totally absorbing account
of Medicine in China by a British surgeon who spent
fifteen years there working with the Chinese people.
world
ln the rapidly changing situation that today's radicals face it's necessary to respond to the
from
around us with ror" tl.riniuit .rot¡ons. Éroblems and opportunities have to be approached
(and obshould.
whv
That's
analyiis.
and
ttrougnt
vou
io*" ioii of fiur.*ork-;dñ¡";r;il;n,
while'
,îálirfv àLii.uã Wf ÑNuguri"iuia it wouldilt hurt either to read a book everv once in a
Book
Survey.
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not-quite-annual
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letter which read, in part, "Although we
rhe21 people who respoirded to this suiv"y received ayear,
the fact is that the only real require'
t. iirt t"ri-t"ã uoàrr pubtished'in rhe last
you
and that might prove helpful to
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toi
struggl"
in
the
itt àf ,,
of the responses were virtually
some
quite
since
true
part
isn't
ments unedited." Actualiy'ttr" lort
of
editing had.to be done'
amount
a
certain
so
came
which
they
forr
in
ih"
in
¡g¡¡f
ü"iïãf
" 'in
of the panalrecommendof
members
"
lots
that
books
few
a
ói.uiåri ru*"y, rh;;. ;;. iL*âyt
THE NEW RADICAL'
Green's
only
three_-_Gil
mentioned
titlei
so
or
tn"
SO
out
of
time
ed.- tñis
ZONE, and Dennis
EROGENOUS
fUE
íN
ISM: Anarch¡st or NarxiitZ,-it'gr¡J Bengis'COMBAT
The Bible
twice
only.mentioned
were
they
and
repeaters
were
HoMoSEXUAL
Ãlirun;,
- recommended but wetre not sure if thãt counts as aeach.
recomdouble
and the Torah were also bìth
results, it must be that
from
such
diverse
drawn
be
all
can
at
unv
ron"ius¡ons
If
or
not.
n,''ãnJuiion
ihi;;iiit" rhe year for óommunism, iex and god. So what else is new?

THE AMERTCAN HEALTH EMPIRE, Healrh PAC,
Vintage Poperbock, irl.gS, Ra¿ital analysis and clear
explañation of the health crisis in America '- a real
eye-opener.

REGULATING THE POOR, THE FUNCTIONS OF

PIJBLtC WELFARE, Pivenand Cloward, Vinnç '
Paperback, $2,45. Provacative analysisof thg vúelfare
ryrt"m, aíd ho* it serves the larger social, eiönomic
and political order.

f

Stanley Aronowitz:

HARRY BRIDGES: THE RISE AND'FALLOF RADtCAL LABOR tN THE IJ.S., Chorles P. Larrowe, Lawrence Hill, $2.95,
PATHWAYS TO MADNESS, Jules Henri, Doubleday,
$8.9s.
VtStONS OF CODY, Jock Keruac, McGraw-H¡ll, $8.95.
Sue and Henry Bass:

TWENTTETH CENTURY PACIFISM, Peter Brock,

Von Nostrand Co,, poperback $3'50, The best introduction we know'oÎ to modern pacifism. Highly readable. Thoroughly researched.

BELLEVUE tS A STATE OF MtND, Anns Barry, Har'
court-Brace, Inc., $5,95, Berkely, Í1:25' A penetrating
account of Bellevue's "violent ward" by somebne who
knew it as a patient.
BACKPACKER, $6 per yeor for charter sub.scription'
(4 issues) of new nngozine for the backpacker. The
iirst issúe, which is just out, is excellent. .lt is expen'
sive but it will probably save you money in the long
run by helping you avoid'rhistakes ìn equipment buying etc. lt is beautifully produced'
Noam Chomsky:

LIMITS

PÖWEN: THE WORLD AND UNITED
FoREIGN PoUCY, Joyce and Gobriel KoL

OIÈ

sfnf es

ko, Harper

,

&

Row, $'15.00.

:-.

BAKUNTN ON ANARCHY, Sam Dolgoff, editor,
Knopf, $10.00, paperbock, Random,, $1 .95'
VOICES FROM THE PLAIN OT JÀNS: LIFE UNDER
IUAR, Fred, Branfman, editor, Harper &, Row,'

AN AtR
$'1.9s,

Fred Cohen:

t

WRITÌNGS: ROSA LUX_
SELECTED POuNCN
EMBURG, Modern Reoder Paperback Service, Íl 1.50,
Monthty Review (poperbock) $3.95.
. THE

A

RNHETTER A FFAt

R,

Neil Sheehan, Random

House, $7.95,

IUROR No.4, Ed Kennebock, Norton, $6.95

_ THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF NEW YORK
STATE SPECIAL COMMISSION ON ATTICA, B0ntam'

ATTICA

Barbara Deming:
TOWARD A R-ECOGNITION OF ANDROGYNY,
Carloyn G. Heilbrun, Knopf. Perhaps because the
authór presents a viewpoint I have lately arrived at
rnvsolf :':"Our future salvation lies in the movernent
óãlãi¡ãt¡on. . . we (must) rree ourselvés from t6e priso¡fof gender and, before it is too
latê. deliver the.world from the almost exclusive con-

;i;;'¡;"-"'*Lãi

impulse."
trol of .the'ma5culine'
L'
'ry'\ì
.

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NEED,FOR ROOTS: PR'ELÙDE TO A DECLA_.,
.THE
-NIIION
OF DUTIES TOWARD MANKIND, S:MONC
Weil, l:larper & Row, $2,25' This book was written
in1943, ic, is perhaps not fair to list; but, rereading
it, I found it full of rel.evance for Americans at this
point of history. lt seems to me'also curiously akin
to the third book I would list:
)

oF possrss toN ts A DlsEAsE wlrH
Hoyden, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $1.95.
Tom
THEM,
Weil's book was written at the request of the Free
French, who asked her for a report on th-e possibilities of bringing about the regeneration of France' "ln
order to love (ãur country)", she writes, "we must feel
that she has a past; we must love the part that is inwlN

rue

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art¡culate, anonymous, which has vanished." Tom
Havden. í feel. makes the same point implioitly, and
Ée reluter what white Americans have been doing in
".
lndochina to what they did to the American lndians,
he too, grapples with the "terrible responsibility" of
"refashioning the soul of the country".

fim Forest:
THE PATH OF RETURN CONTINUES THE
Thich Nhat Hanh, Hoa Binh Press, $1. ,
J)IJRÑEY,
-1047
Av.. NYC 10025 Amsierdam
'l-iänÏl;
õñé bï (lídtirãnílieaaíng poets, as well
Ñh;t
as a leader of nonviolent movement there. (See "Only
the Rice Loves You," WlN, Dec. 15, 1972.) This
is a play

ltvlartin Duberrnan:

ARMED LOVE, Elia Katz, Holt, Rèinhort, & llìnston,
t:

$5.9s.

COMBAT lN THE EROGENOUS ZONE, lngrid Bengis, Knopf, $6.95.
HOMOSEXUAL, Dennis Altny4n, Avon, f 1.65,
Of those published earlier, far and away:
POST-SCA RCITY ANA RCHISM, Murroy Bookchin,

Ramports, $2.95.

Chuck Fager:
The works of Jacques Ellul have been the most important reading of 1972. Two of these were just pub-

ters

or meditation,

AIJTOPSY OF REVOLUTION, KnoPf, $8.95.
THE POLITICS OF GOD,AND THE POLITICS OF
is a Frenchman, prd'
fessoi and theologian, who has been through the
French Resistance, Marxism, straight politics and religíon in the course of developing the most challenging analysis of our society and its development that
I ñave eñcountered. He is not always an easy writer,
and I found AUTOPSY somewhat difficult to get
¡nto, so new readers should be warned; but the book
is worth the effort. Moreover, his approãch to religion
in POLITICS takes some getting used to; but once
you get the hang of it and realize that he's not some
fundãmentalist nut, his study becomes very productive.
For the third book of the year, l'd have to list
Ellul's Number One source, which is the BIBLE,
Even if it is regarded as no more than the basic docu'
ment of our civilization, it is worth coming to grips
with if you want to understand,our civilization enough
to change it; and read with the ins¡ghts that Ellul can.
bring both from and to ¡t, the BIBLE can become con'
sideiably more than iust a volume of historical interest.

MAN, Eerdmans, $2.95. Ellul

you prefer.;

th.e

have

ln what probably

four

pacifists equally housebroken, a la Billy "
One of the most important un-housebroken,

I

think.
Well, that should be enough. Everything-l mentioned
is nów, so ¡t falls within your strictest definitjon of

purpoie. Not that I'm usually so obed.ient. lt just

irapþens I'm exceedingly happy with these.
Wait wait

wait. One more. How could I forget!

SLEEPERS lOtNtNG HANDS, Robert Bly, Harper &
Row, $2,65, You may not live long -enough to see
agairi such incredible poetry. Even if Jesus.and those
oihers were right and we have a chance to have per-

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living.

But no book has ever really truly raised my consciousness. My favorite and most,influential work is:
A CHTLD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, R.L. Stevenson.
After that, LTTTLE WOMAN, Lo!,n 4lSqt!;.F!Er.^
Atlen Poet short stories and THE D¡ruNe Y)UNG

Begun immediately after Dan. left.prison,,

ì

AllCøstanodaS books aregrand spiritual nourishment especially, THE SEPA RATE REA'LITY, Pocket
Books, $1.25.
,_ - 'ì
FEAST, True Light Beaver Co mm u nti' cif Wooditock,
Doubleday, $4.95. A solid guide to good alternative
':

A'HARSH AND DREADFUL LOVE, l|lllian Miller'
Liverwright, $l 0 which isn't much more than the
or¡ce of-roo-bond poper, really. lt isnT a ripoff com'
'mnv. A, hjstorv óf itre'Catnolic Worker, which hds
'oroíe¿
to be one ,of the few radical pacifist grotPs
ihat has been able to communicate to people many
oacifists.would write off without a second thought;
äesoite the fact that the CW has never ceased to des'
cribe itself as pacifist, anarchist, de-centralist, etc. etc.,
with most of the editors and activists going on pretty
regular prison sabbaticals. This is new,-ha-s nice pictuies, is pretty thorough, and is beoutifully written,
"l couldn't pút it down." True. I couldn't.
D CON Vt CTt ONS, MO DEST H OP ES,.Da n
House, í7.95. This isa conversaBerrioan,Rondom
-between
Dan Berrigan and Lee Lochwood. Main'
tion

combined

-'

Leah Frit4:
For the struggle, I would recommend:
A V\ND|CAT|ON OFTHE RIGHTS O.WOMEN,
Mory lUoolstonecraf.t, Norton, $ | .95.

A BS U R

:

of the times I found my'

and

4

oeoole Christian or otherwise, was Thomas'Merton,
*ho *ut a poet and monk and who was imporrtant to
the Catholic Worker and the Catholic Peace Fellowshio. This is a brief introduction to h¡s-life and wiitine that is beautifully written and amazingly un-long'
winded. Not the pious kind of book that yot¡ m¡ght
think from the titie. Not that IRS-approved, wedding
cake-style religion,

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Top of the list is:
LtCIT AND lLLlCtT DRIJGS, Edward Brecker
the Editors of Consumer Reports, Little, Brown &
Co., $3.95. lt's impossible to have an intelli$ent dis'
cussion about drugi without having read this book.

PRAY TO LtVE, Henrl Nouwen, Fides Press, Íltlj;
A lot of pacifisti don't hold much stock in the Christiin r.ên.iind its people because Billy Graham owns a
coov of the New Testament. This is too bad. There

iot"

is a sign

..

,

self reading more bookithis year than in the previÔus

fì

Dan Berrigan , and a series of drawings by Vo'Dinh.

ly Dan.

8 WIN

ôrder.
Abbie Hoffman:

.r

iust been assa-sinated in the night.along the river bank'
îñ.u rt" picked up by a nun, Thich Nu Nhat Chi Mai,'
*tro lt"¿ Ëurned herself'to death in a pagoda a moirth
before. She asks them where they want to go. They
can so anvwhere they choose, see anyone they want,
do ühateúer they please. People will be reading this
and re-discovering somèthing about hope and sanity
centuries from now. There is an introduction by '

tôuches on-prison life, resistance, the Harr.isburg trial;
family life, ianity, insanity, survival, nonviolence, the
mystéry of poetiy. One of Dan's finest books, I

4

firç.

is dedic¿ted to teaching the good
life anä to opposing war, conscription, and an econômy based on Sr"eð and waste. Among other-things,
Sco'tt's autobiõgraphy demonstrates how muih a sin'
gle individual cãn ào to create the groundwork for a'
lust society within the environment of the cruinbling '

tion by one who

five charac'

är" young pacifists, all of them dead.. Four

"tr
Graham.

lished last year:

as

manent access to The Coinþlete Coltected Works of
Ewrybody; this book is splendid and miracülous. '
Poems. As good as the title. lncludes the poem ,
Blv so often røds for resisters at tr¡als around the
ôintry, "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last," which I
itilt *níl"ot read wiphout my lui¡gs antl eyes catchirig

A ROOM oF ON:E's OllN, Vtrginio lloolf, Horc:oltrt,

THE BEST ANQ THE BRI,GHTEST, David llolberstrom, Ranilom, $10, Shows exactly how the U.S.
lost the Vietnam War.

,

MONSTER, Robin Morgøn, Random, Í5.95.

POWER AND INNOCENCE, Rollo May, Norton,
$6.95. Gives some clues as the where the anti-war
movement might have screwed uP.

.

try FEAR AND LOATHING lN LAS
VEGAS,'Huntãr Thompson, Rondom House, $5.95.

For fun reading

This is fun can I do movies next year?

larry

Cara:
presumptuous to recommend books to
needs and point of view are so often
whose
others
different from mine, but l'll
;

; bit

trY.

FoR PEACE AND IUST|CE:

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.

AMER-

fACrylsMIN
tCA. 't914194l , Charles Chatfield, Qniv. of Tennessee

Preís, $'t1.95, Fills an imporqant gap in the"history of '
our peace movement. lf you believe thafä movement
wittrout a past has.no f-uture, this is a book you will
want to reäd.

.

BLACK FREEDOM: THE NONVtOttNT tAOU'-.
TIONISTS FROM I83O THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR,

Carleton Mabee, MocMillon, $9.95. Docume¡ts the
many contributions made to nonviolent act¡on by, the
abolitionists. These included boycotts, pray-ins, founding inter-racial schools, resisting the firgitive slave
law, and noncooperation with a government which

supported slaverY.
THE MAKING OF

A RADICAL: A POLITICAL

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Scoft Nearlng, Horper'Row, $6.
Summarizes a lifetime of useful insight and informa'

..

and THE AIJT)GRAPH HouND, John Lahr,'Knopf.

MAN'ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE' liliiliam Sarovan
read beftire I was 14, the year'l lost my faith in
-GodAlland
found mY love of humankind.

is

,

ships.

Brace Jovanovlch, $l .95.
i

It

Í

BATTLE lN THE EROGENOUS ZONE, lngrìd Ben'
gis, Knopf, $6.95. The best on interpersonal rêlation-

,

MartY fezer:
Has anyone else noticed that iust everyth¡ng good.-th4t
happens these days - and by good I mean lively, lib'
.'ératìng, spóntaneous, practical, helpful - sbems to re;
cal I so-meïh i n e that Po u l' Good ma n tal k ed about ? Any'
wav. I've deeñ.r.eadiirg and re'reading his books and i

woi¡i¿ I¡st all of theiñ as worth rèading. But his anarchistic nqv,eläbout city'life TllE EMPIRE CITY'
il ú;; óiëtììirructr forgotfen'¿nd shouldn't be'and
:¡if! ¡¡¿¡¡,tie wróte in GESTALT THERAPY (Vgt.umè ,
2J ii toush reading but it's dense with practical in'
síghts anã usefultheory about the connectedness of
self, reality, human nature and society. -'
Anotheranarchistic novel A HUNDRED YEARS
writer Gab'
the
South'American
by
OF SOLtTUDE,
rie! Garcia Marquez; Awn, $1 ,50,is fun reading and
explores the problem of civilization and what it,means'

tXTLAN, Carlos Casanado, Simon &
$6.95, Casanadars best and most disturbing
book atíout the teaching's of the Yaqui wiseman, Don
Juan. I found it disturbing because it shattered my

JOURNEY TO
-Shuster,

ikepticism about what Casanada calls "other realitiesi'
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(it shattered his, too), and because Don Juan's sys'

tem of knowledge is so much like the teachings of
other great wisemen that l've had to conclude that
the world rs indeed a mysterious place and l'm able
to grasp so little of it. . . Other books I've liked
recently are:

BLACK MOLINTAjN: AN EXPLORATTON tN
CONntlNtf Y, Mortin Duberman, Dutton, $12.50.
THE LANGI.JAGE OF CATS, Spencer Holst, Avon,
$1.6s.
Also there are a number of good revisionist histories
of the U.S. since World War ll which completely destroy the Cold War history we were (and I suppose, are)
brainwashed with in school.

{sñ
?{

frosh ever went through it, incidentally sending me
back to Blake, Wordsworth, and Goethe, for which l'm
eternally grat¿ful. His subject is the inevitable and
quite venérable Science/Humanities (&/or art, religion,
magic, Everything Else) dichotomy in the modern
world; his arguments are brilliant, his conclusions ex'
plosively so (bkay, I'm prejudiced); but his prose is unfortunately only very good classroom'lecture, at best.
His range, his optimism, and his purpose, however,
are really dynamic. Here's the best I can do in the
way of a total summary quote: (he's talking here
about a revolution in which the "rhapsodic intellect"
wins out and "what sort of political program would
,

follow from that?"):
"Nothing less, I think, than that we should
undertake to repeal urban-industrialism
as

the world's dominant style of

life.

:

HOME COMFORTILTFE ON TOTAL LOSS FARM,
by a bokers'dozen of Totol Loss Formers and a nonbaker's dozen of assortecì friends ond neighbors, Sot'
urdoy Review Press, $8.95. I probably haven't seen
everything published so far on dropping'out, the
country tiip, whatever-you-call it, but this is far and
away the most moving, honest, beautiful, graceful,
talented, and maybe-even-helpful volume I've 6ome
across. Those folks are the collective Laura lngalls
Wilders of the New Age, I guess. l'd say more; but
Wl N should be running my or Becky's review one of
these days, and I'd only wind up quoting her or my'
self.

WHERE THE WASTELAND ENDSIPOLITICS AND
TRANSCENDENCE I N POSTI NDUSTRIA L SOCI ETY,
Theodore Roszok, Doubledoy, $2.95. Deep wading
is the only phrase I can hit on to sum this one up; in
fäct, l've owed WIN a review of it for something like
three months, and have so far struggled through four
ponderous drafts without fair issue. (This mention i'm serving notice now - may be that review-) Ro'
szak took-nre back to college, put me through the mill
as tho¡:oughly and exhaustingly as any pimple'faced

CHEYENNE A(JTUMN, Marì Sondoz, Avon, $1.25.
This last is not a new book, merely the cl'osest to my
knowledge that any American writer has ever come
to llar and Peoce or Growth of the So¡1, Black Elk
Speokq Burry My Heort'at Wounded Knee, lshi, and a lot
of ottrêr very fiñe books about lndians have moved me
inexorably, inalterably and sometimes inscrutably, bût
this one does that, oll that,just incidenta!ly, 1-nd t¡
mean-while is a truly great book, an absolutely unforgettable experiencing of truly real and lruly known
individuals (several hundred of them), suffering,.but
incredibly gìorious, in the face of an overwhelming
and utterly implacable enemy (us). I've only jusf begun to understand what it's done and is doing to my
ãnarcho-pacifism, but it's a book that l'm sure will
go on teaching me.things for a good many years to
come.
Paul Krassner:
Well, now that l'm deep into Conspiracy Theory, l'd
have to recommend:
LANSKY, Hank Messick, Berkeley, $1.25.

GEHLEN:

SPY OF THE CENTURY, E.H. Cookridge,

Random House, f10.00

THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES, Louis Tackwood,
upcoming.

My own forthcoming book,THOMAS EAGLETON
SEAGIlLL, treats the same theme satirically; and
while I'm plugging my own stuff, l'd better mention,
since l'm under oath:
HOW A SATIRICAL EDITOR BECAME A YIPPIE
CONSPIRATOR lN TEN EASY YEARS, Poul
Krossner, Putnom, Í6.95, but waÍt till it comes

esd.

should.

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SidneY Lens:

ROOTS OF WA R, Dick Barnet, Penquin,

$1

.65.

Art Waskow:
lN THE RETGN OF PEACE, Hugh Nissenson, ForrorStrous-Giroux, $5.95. Eerie short stories that bring
profound relilious concerns face to face with modern

AMERICA lNC., Mintz ond Cohen, Dell, $1.50.
THE NEW RADICALISM: ANARCHIST OR MARX'
IST?, G¡t Green, lnternotional Publishers, $2'.!5.

life in America and lsrael.
THE MESS\AN\C tDEA tN JUDAISM, Gershom
Scholem, Schocken, $2.95. Historical and theological essays on .lewish mysticism, Chassidism, pseudoMessianic movements.

&.

G, $10,

STRIKE!, Jeremy Brecher, Stroight Arrow, Í3.95.

CAMPFIRES OF THE RESISTANCE, TOdd G¡II¡N,
ed., Bobbs-Merrill, $3.95, Still the best poetry to renew your courage with.

THE HIDDEN INJ URIES OF CLASS, Richord Sennett and Jonathon Cobb, Knopf, $6,95.

:

It just so happens, for once, that there were Íhree
books that really got to me and forced me to learn
some new things this past year, and two of them were
actually new books. Beginning with the most recent
and working back, theY are:

PAPERS ON THE WA R. Doniel Ellsberg, SÌmon ond
Schuster, $2.95. WIN réaders don't need.to be told
about this book. But if they haven't read it, they

JOHNNY GOT HIS GI.JN, Dalton Trumbo, Bontom,

AUGUST 1914, Solzhenitsyn, HCF, 5

from a nightmare."
Out of context, that quote can't possibly do the 492
pages justice; all I can say of the rest is, it's hard inieliectual slugging, but it's worth it. One nright wish
he were a worse teacher, and a better writer.

Paul .lohnson:

tional favorite:

Staughton LYnd:

We

should do this, not in a spirit of grim sacrifice, but in the conviction that the real'
ity we want most to reside in lies beyond
the artificial environment. And so we
would move freely and in delight toward the true postindustrialism: a world
awakened from its sick infatuation with
power, growth, efficiency, progress as if

opinions and nearly everyone will disagree with-some
of them, but he challenges.

out in paperback. Finally there's my alltime inspira-

THE TORAH, (That is the first five books of,.!he He'
- especially the translation of GENESIS
in the style of Buber and Rosenzwerg iust published

Mayer Vishner:
Anachron i3tic gutenb erg garbage q uestio n. We've
had this discussion before: it seems clear to me that
reading has less potential to teach than any other medium, and if it requirès an entire book to say, it may be
safely assumed to be not worth knowing.
Reading-room revolutionaries should take a trip,
talk to someone, fuck, boogie, come to life. Certain
progressive print

brew bible

i
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by Response Mogozine, Brqndeis l.Jniversity.) For
the first time in my life, I have been reading these in
the week-by-week order of Jewish tradition, and discussing/arguing/wrestling with the TORAH and my

comrades in Fabrangen here. The process is the most
important education I've ever had.

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Crumb's comics or

Allen Young:

HOMOSEXUAL: OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION,
Dennis Altmqn, Avon, $l .65,

Krossner's REA LIST e.g. - can be helpful, but tor
the most pärt, the trees have infinitely more to tell
us when they're alive.
rl

Èeverly Woodward:
THE Llli4tTs TO GROWTH, Donella H. Meadows et
al, l)niverse Books, $/.25' Ñobody wants to believe
tÉis book, not the conservatives, not the radicals, and

certainly not the liberals. (Perhaps thereare some
cherished assumptions and hopes we've all b-een
sharing all alongi) True or false the thesls of this
uoár. ñut'to beieriously considered. (Those'who'
would be interested in reading what was iliìd on this
tò.p¡c at a conference of mainly Eulo^p-ejìn youth ac'
tion erouos mav order the Winter, 1972, issuê of CONTACï fróm mefor fifty cents: Editór, CONTACT,
107 Corwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey 08540 )
STRATEGY FOR A LIVING REVO'LUTION, George
Lakev. Grossman, Mov, 1973), no prìce os yet. This
booÉ tras been arôund-in various mimeogr¡phed versions for a few years. But the latest and bêst version
is about to apptar in print. lndispensable for anyone
who believes in and wants to work for no nviolent rev-

'

LESBIANIWOMAN, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons;
Bantam, $/.50. These are two of the best books produced over the past year or two by the gay liberation movement. For a more complete list, send a selfaddressed stamped envelope to Gay Liberation Book
Service, Box4O397, San Francisco CA 94140. Contains many poetry books as well.

'THE

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ÞRESS AND THE C)LD WAR, Jomes'Aronson,
Bobbs-Mernill, $8.04. lust out in a Beacon paperback edition. 'An excellent discussion of how anticommunist hysteria poisoned and blinded the America¡ people;.'-w¡th,.qpçcill attention to the press's com-

.,pficitv in the process.

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t+

t

olution.
BUtLD\NG THE C\TY OF MAN: OUTLINES OF A
WORLD CIVtLIZATION, W.Worren Wagor, Gross'

mon, $3.95. The latest in hip.thinking on how to

builá world political community. Wagar has lots of
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¡,!r^S

ll

THE MEANINC
OF THE MEAT BOYCOTT
sell at what the mark-et brings and hope to earn more
than their costs. The high price of meat stems from
the corn blight of two years ago and the heavy rains
of last year which cut into the supply of cattle feed
and thus raised its cost to the farrher. The Russian
wheat deal also cut into the supply of grain, and gave
Nixon a free hand in Vietnam. But of greater importance is the fact that American agriculture is coming
to be dominated by the big corporate conglomerates

by

Marty Jezer

Whenever people take direct action to affect public

policy it is a positive step. Who can say now where
the meat boycott will lead? Maybe nowhere. .But the
Montgomery bus boycott in 1956 began likewise as a
spontaneous, grass-roots action that grew slowly and
unevenly into the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Yet, there are a number of factors that, at this point,
make me uneasy about the boycott. The Montgomery action, as well as the grape and lettuce boycotts

of the Farmworkers, had a specific target. The meat
boycott is aimed at an entire system, which includes
small independent farmers, neighborhood butchersall of whom are hurting and becauseof their marginal
economíc position, vulnerable to a loss of income-as
well as supermarket chains, huge cattle ranches owned
by absentee corporate managment and packinghouses
that are also part of the corporate economy. These
industries can easily absorb the profit loss from a meat
boycott; indeed,-supermarkets lose nothing, they
merely sell more pasta than meat. But when agricultural groups like the National Farm Organization
(NFO) protests the boycott, consumers ought to listen. The NFO is trying to bring collective bargaining
into agriculture. lnstead of the "market" (which is
controlled pretty much by speculators and corporate
interests) determining the price that a farmer gets for
his produce (and the individual farmer can take it or
leave it), the NFO gathers together blocks of farmers
and says to the buyer, "we're bargaining for 100 farmers and we have 1 ,000 hogs to sell, let's talk price."
Such a marketing technique may not lower food
prices, but it'll help the independent farmer. These
small farmers are not making much of a profit from
the meat prices and of all the parties in the food business, they alone are not guaranteed a profit but must
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who co'ntrol the food from seed to market.
:
We need to look at agriculture as a whole because
the policies of the USDA (under both Democratic and
Republican administrations) have been to liquidate
the small farmer, destroy rural life and force people
(30 million in the past 30 years) into the cities where
they become automatons on dhe assembly line. Our
urban crises is tied directly to USDA agricultural policies. And the USDA (as well as other government
agencies, land-grant colleges, lRS, etc.) is also helping
the corporations gain control of our land at thè expense of private (or communal) decentralized ownership. lt would be tragic if the meat boycott ran its
course without the consumer learning anything about
where his or her meat comes from, without learning
anythìng about what is happening down on the farm.
A basic problem of the American left has been to
unite the farmer and the worker (and'the consumer)
together in common cause. During the Populist Era
and briefly during the depression, farmer-labor allirå
ances were created. But they never lasted and, as today, they fight each other while the large corporations,
with government backing, rip them both off. I woùld
like to see consumer grou.ps sit down with farm groups
like the NFO and discuss'mutual problems and needs
and what they can do to work together. I would like
to see selective boycotts against corporate agribusiness
conglomerates like Del Monte, Sun Giant (the Tenneco brand) and Bud Antle lettuce (as the Farmworkers
urge) which is a partner of Dow in seveqal agricultural en-

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an
.. FIVE YEARS
LATER, MY LAt..

dented number of air strikes continue
to be carried out by U.S. warplanes in

.

let where "Company C, with Captain
Ernest Medina in charge, killed 450 to
500 Vietnamese men, women and

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"Now, Mylai 4 ij silent, over-

grown - and easily missed, but for a
low-walled grave mound by the ragged
road.

"A quarter-mile from Mylai 4, a
dusty path winds through a village
where survivors moveij after the massacre. Here, cows nibble among broken
sandbags and wander through remnants
of shacks that were flattened by bombs
and artillery fire last spring. Désu{tory
rifle fire cracks not far away.
"The þeasants try to recäll the ex. ?c! date of the Mylai massacre aniJ '
how many died, but they have trouble
keeping their disasters straight.
' 'r tlt has happened so many times
so many soldiers, so many killings,'
rr
says a man'coming back from the
fields, on a bicycle pushing an irrigation pump.

"Not that

he has forgotten the day

Company Cattacked. 'Blood was
spilling from their bodies, running all
over the road.'he says."
- J.P.

deavors.

The itudy estimated that American
cows burp about 50 million tons of
Throughout the Vietnam War, the
hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each
Nixon Administration had insisted that year.
it had one legal justification for carryEpolog adds: "Th.ere prêsently exing out bombing raíds in Laos and Cam- ists no available technology for conbodia: Numerous administrative offitrolling these hydrocarbon emissions."
cials explained that President Nixon, as
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Commander in Chief of-the Armed
Forces, was bombing Laos and Cami
POT I.INKED
bodia to protect U.S. troops in Viet.,
TO LUNGCANCER ",
nam.

Now that the troops have left, the
feasons for bombing are somewhat
cloudy. The White House has declined
to'comment on questions about the
President's Constitutional Authority to

continue the bombing. State Depart'
ment official William Sullivan, with a
smile on his face, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "For now
l'd just say thejustification is the reelection of President Nixon."
ln the meantim'e, the State Department admits to working on a crash
program to come up with an exþlanation. How long will that take? "Well,"
said the spokesman, "The way government works, it will probably be a long
time."
'
- Zodiac

NIXON AND THIEU DINE
I{IGH OFF THE COW,DURING
NATIONWI DE MEAT BOY-COTT
''t'"/

The high cost of meat is not the fault of the farmer.
Our economic system, never rational or orderly, has
run amuck, and the little person, whether he be a
farmer, or worker, or a,much abused consumer' is gett¡ng hurt. Meanwhile, the large corporat¡ons continue
to rake off exorbitant profits. The farmer and consumer should be friends-

STATE DEPARTMENT
LOOKS FOR LEGAL BASIS
FOR BOMBING CAMBODIA
The U.S. State Department is frantically attempting to come up with a legal basis for the heavy bombing of
Cambodia.
A State Department spokesman

ììì' '

For o more detailed look into American agriculture,
see lillN's specìal "Deoth of the Arnerlcon Former"
issue (July 1972) ovailoble, while they lost, for 50(.

said that department researchers and
attorneys are "going through the laws
and working overtime" in efforts to
prove that President Nixon has the
authority to conduct an aerial bombardment of Cambodia. Although the
U,nitecl States ceased the bombing of
Vietnam in January, and the bombardment of Laos in February, an unpreci-

burping cdws.
According to Epalog, studies have
found that'Íen cows burp enoigh
gas in a year to provide for all the
space heating, water heating and cooking requirements for a small house." r

Cambodia.

a March 15 AP dispatch abour the haill-

children.

!

What's the number one air polluter in
the United States today? Well, according to the Epolog, the official publication of the Environmental. Protection
Agency, the leading air þolluters are

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AND UNSAFE." This is the head on

NUMBER ONE

AIR POLLUTER

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For.weeks now the White House, in
sponSe to the fufor over rising

re-'

A Jefferson Medical College Researcher
claims that pot-smoking probably
causes lung cancer.

Doctor Wolfgang Vogel states that
just two joints may be the equivalent
ofa pack of 20 cigarettes in causing '
lung cancer to develop. Doctor Vogel
reports that the problem with mariuana is that most smokers not only
nhale it, but hold the smoke in their
lungs as long as possible in attempts
to get high. The resplt, he says, is
that just a couple of pot cigarettes
leave high deposits

of harmfùl'tai in

the lungs of smokers.
Doctor Vogel says that he came to
his conclusion after using exactly the
same test procedures that were used by
the Surgeon General of the United
States when the Surgeo¡ General
found that smoking c¡garettes probably helped induce lung cancer. - Zodiac
'

T"at ,.,' NEïV TREATS
'Jjå:åï;å'JïL"lÉtr;,'Ëliìff-"'"þõñ"'rtri-È*-eezen
dines on chicken ör ïish at'leàst two
lf you want to protect the potency df
your marijauna, try keeping it in the
or three times a week. Niion even
went so far as to say that eating fish
freezer.
was "pâtriotic."
The /ournal of the American Medi,flowever, on April I , the day that col Associotion reports that T.H.C., thè
co¡ôs..umers all over the country began active ingredient in marijuana and hasha meat (especially beef) boycott in
ish, steadily decomposes over time.
ffi 'ff

hopes of driving the high price of rtleat
down, Nixon and his guest South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu,
dined on roast tenderloin of beef -

The iournal reports that a stash'of pot
which was stored at room temperature
over a two-year period lost at least 1/6
of its potency. However, a comparable

of
st¿sh retained almost all of its potency
they when it was kept at temperatures below
had iceberg lettuce salad too? - LNS freezing.
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one of the most expensive cuts

beef. How would you like to bet

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LANDMARK
DECISION HANDED DOTI/N
Two newsmen with the underground
Los Angeles Free Press have won a
landmark decision.
The California State Supreme Court
has unanimously overturned the 1 970
criminal convictions of Free Press editor Arthur Kunkin and reporter Gerald

Applebaum. The two had been convicted on charges of "receiving stolen
property" aftei they published the
names and addresses of state undercover narcotics officers in the summer
of 1969. The names had been obtained by a state worker from a file in the
State Attorney General's Office.
ln its decision, the State Supreme

Court ruled that the lower courts had
failed to prove that Íhe Free Press was
aware of the fact that the list of
agents had been stolen when it published the article four years ago. The
high court labeled rhe Free Press's
action as "gross and callous irresponsibility," but it acknowledged that the
newspaper had the constitutional right

to publish the information.
The Free Press case had been widely
heralded as the "Pentagon Papers Case

of the Underground Media."

-

Zodiac

DEMONSTRATIONS

Journal and two TV stations - never
before had our demonstrations had
such

coverage! -

War Resisters League in Albuqueroue
has been carrying out a number of activities in support of religious and po'
litical prisoners in South Vietnam. The
The first event occured in early Febtuary ar Civitan International's "National Clergy Week" celebration held
in the Convention Center in Albuquerque. lnvited as speakers were such
pious and godly people as the top Army
and Navy Chaplains, the Air Force
Academy Chorale, and Bart Starr. We

weren't invited but came anyway

uP a model

almost 30 of us. We set
tiger cage, read the names of Vietnam-'
ese political prisoners, did a little street
speaking and approached clergy people
entering the hall. When we attempted
to enter to present the conference-celebration with a "Petition of Conscience," a confrontation ensued and
we got a little TV coverage. All in all
a successful event.
Next we planned an all night vigil
at the Federal building in downtown
Albuquerque in coniunction with demonstrations in Saigon by the Buddhists.
Very few people lasted the night through the rain, cold, and high winds
full 29 hours, see
- but we lasted theCongressional
aides,
ing two Senators;

Craig Simpson

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English researchers are testing a new
crowd-control weapon tþat induces
nausea and epileptic fits.
According to New Scienfisf Magazine,.this is the way the weapon works:
"A large group of protesters reaches
police lines. Suddenly, five percent of

the group has epileptic fits. Although
they see and hear nothing strange, the
rest feel a throbbing in the ears and a
flashing in their eyes, and possibly onequarter become sick. The group panics and diSperses."

New Scientisf explains that the new
weapon is based on the use of flashing
strobe lights, using invisible infra-red
rays, combined with ultrasonic sound

uniform on the military payroll. The
annual civilian payroll of the Pentagon
is more than $1 billion a month, which'
means that the average civilian working
for the Department of Defense is pulling down approximatelY $1000 a .-

mõnth.

-

Zodiac

Lt. Teri Pohl recently has been dis'.
charged from the Navy as a conscientious objector. She is the first woman
oficer that we know of and the second
woman of all services to win a C.O.
Teri began to fight back against the
military while stationed at Sasebo Naval Staùion in Japan. She was banned
from some of the shi ps that frequently
dock at Sasebo because she talked to
brothers on board about the war and

how to fight back. Her last fitness reoort commended her for professional
ikills and compassion for her patients,

but said she did not possess the "loyal'
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should."

When Teri's discharge came,

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to Long Beach NAS.
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CIVILIANS IN THE

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Can you guess which branch of the
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civilians?

Bglieve ¡t or not, it ¡s the military.
The Defense Department currently em'

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does any other federal department.
According to Defense Department figures, the Pentagon is now PaYing the
salaries of more than one million civilians each year; this is nearly twice the
number of civilians employed by the
second largest government employer,
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addition to the'2.2 million people in

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(a recent Reuters dispatch)

"The U.S. has supplied pink bidets
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federal funds for sewer and waterþro"
jects at home, reports Senator W.J.
Fulbright.
I "lt boggles the mind,' the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee said in making public an excerpt
from a government report on the shipment of bidets and other bathroom
fixtures to Cambodia as part ofithe
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PINK BIDETS
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population to feel "strange", usually
nauseated or dizzy.
One limitation of the device - known
as the "Photic Driver" - is that it is
only effective at night because of the
light rays.
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People's Bu
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WAVE GETS C.O.

waves which are almost inaudible to
the human ear. Studies have shown
that flashing strobe lights cause epileptics and and another four percent of
the population to have fits. The lights

and sounds

IN ALBUQUERQUE

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some clergymen and a lot of other
We even made a big section of
the second page of the Albuquerque

folks.

for

high-born and foreign-educated Cam'
bodians. . . . surely there must be many
other items with higher priority for
which U.S. taxpayers can be asked to

pay."'

For the many "low-born" Ameri'
don't know what a bidet is'

cans who

one dictionary defines it as "a basin on
a low, narrow stand for bathing the
posterior parts of the bodY." lt is
found in all luxury bathrooms in
France (and, of course, Cambodia used
to be under France).
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