Win Magazine Volume 9 Number 40

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A Bill of Rights for Teachers
A Con Speaks Out
Art Waskow: lmpeachment and BeYond

PEACE ANO FREEæTI THRU NONV'OLEM ACTION

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Cooperative networks in places like MinneapolisSl Pau! Madison, Wisc., Berkeley,
Ann Arbor, are.impressive efforts, usually
including communes. Unfortunately it
seems like such integration of cooperatives
requires the presence bf a university, In urban areas communes iontinue to spring up
haphazardly, exist unplanned, and witñer^
sadly. The house we live in has gone throûgh
at least ûve years of alternating resurgence
and disintegration, and massive turnove¡ at
a staggering rate, Obviously, unless and un-'
til there is stability.and coordination, the
communal movement will be severely limited in its efectiveness. To achieve anything we must be much more conscious of
the political reasons fo¡ living together. A
common project is not enough: it is too dq
pendent on outside events, and the¡efo¡e

must be miserable to be a revoiutionary.
For a lifrstyle to be enjoyable is to affi¡m,
rather than invalidate, its wo¡th,
Damning communes for being white
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middle-class is too easy too, Are_we to forgo
liberating ourselves from the pain and irr
sensitivity we gained from our suburban
nuclear-family upbringings, just because that
is a privileged pairq more psychological than
physical? Reading Laing or Reich would
show that the family's subtlg pervasive
psycho-sexual repression is an inseparable
ingredient of state oppression
Thefamily translates state càpitalism
into vívid personal daily lessons. lt is the
econ^omic building block of the system, and
its oflhours schoolroonr It is in ihe family .
that children are trained to be good con-

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sumers. It is in the patriarchal family that
sexism is a powerful daily reality,

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temporary. Only a mutual understanding,of
reasons and goals will provide the strength
for a lasting commitment to group living
-MICHAEL BETZOLD

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thing must replace this structure, or any
"di¡ect" political efforts will eventually be
undermined. That is why finding a viable
alternative to the family is an essentia!
long-term political strugglg more than just
a fun way for middlqclass college students

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to live.
A failure to unde¡stand the importance
of collective living perhaps explains some of
the transiency in communes In most com-

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LETTERs
As a member of an urban commune
struggling through much of the same "pain
and confusion'? Paula Rayman describes in
her article "The Commune Movement: The
Need to Revolutionize" (WIN, 12/6/73), I
must comment on her analysis. The problems she portrays are very real ones, irr
herent in collective living. But saying that
attempts at communal living overemphasize
"self-centered" change at the expense of
attacks on societal oppression is falsely
dichotomized thinking, We make a profound mistake, and doom all our efforts,
if we persist in seeing personal libe¡ation as
divorced from revolutionary social change.
Ms Rayman states that many of us did
not fully understand macro-political op
pression when we came to the communal
movement as a simple, apolitical "alternative", a response to personal pain. This
is probably truq and I find it hard to imagine how to gain real knowledge of oppres
sion without feeling it personally. Each of
us becomes most keenly aware of oppression where we are personally touched by it,
and it has touched us through our upbringing in sexist, racist, capitalist families
While studying the causes of oppression
is necessary, it takes a great deal of abstraction to "fight câpitalism" at the societal
level First one must learn to act collectively;
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and in order to do thiq it seems necessary
for us to work out why our socialization as
individualists makes it hard for us to live
and wo¡k together. Many political cadreg

after all have been ripped apart by interpersonnal squabbles To try to repress or
minimize such difrculties and their sources
would hardly create a more human type of
politics Coming to terms with "the contradictions within ou¡ personhood" is indeed an essential task, not a diversion from
true political goals
The goals of co-ops enumerated by Dave
Wood in his articlq "Working in the Coops:
Cooperation or Cooptation?", in the same
issue of WI\ can apply also to housing
cooperatives. Providing necessities at low
costg building self-sufficient communities,
and beginning to construct an alternative to
the economic system based on familiesthese aÌe th¡ee levels at which cooperative
communes work. Wood emphasizes that
these are the ways in which co-ops join personal growth and political struggle. Simi
larly, a cooperative commune conscious of
these goals is a place where people are living
politically, not a place where they are hiding

from politics.
There is the danger that living communally may make us happier, but does happi
ness necessarily deflect us

from our

goals?

munes there is, as ys. Rayman dóscribes, an
appalling lack of genuine and enduring
mutual support. When the going gets tough,
the group falls apart. Why? Having been
raised as privileged, educated, mobile people, we want to leave all options open, We
are afraid of commitment, especially commitment to something which may fail Thus,
many people dabble in group living, always
being careful to leave themselves ¿ way out
(maybe that reassuring thought of eventual
marriage). This "experimenting attitudp" lå
dooms the communal experiment because a
commune, to be a real alternative to the
family, must be stable and enduring, The
acid test, which most communes fail miserable, is whether the house is a safe and de.
pendable enough environment in which to
raise children. If not, it's not much more
than just another tidbit we homeless people
sample in our increasingly fragmented, irnpermanent world.
Learning to concern ourselves with
others' needs, as Paula Rayman says, is the
key. The dish-washing dilemma, far from
being trivial is an excellent example of the
task we face in overcoming our socialization.
Most riren because of years of being sewed
in a family and maybe a university, will go
to great lengths to avoid kitchen responsibility. At first there is resentment over
doing the group's dishes. Why not make it
less painful-assign everyone their own
plate, cup, and silverware, labeled with
their name, just like in the army? This
would help maintain the secure feeling
that the cleanliness of my dish, and by extension my health and survival, is not up to
someone else. After months of dirty dishes,
eventually someone makes the suggestion
that the house should hire a maid or pay
someone to be the commune's housewife.
Becoming responsible is not easy after lifelong training in irresponsibility.

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We received word last week that Gary
Rader committed suicide about a month
ago while

in a state mental institution in

Missouri. Igal Rodenkoo visited him there
earlier and said that Gary was looking forward to an early telease. Gary, of course,
went from being a resewist in the Special
Forces to the Resistance wh'en he burned
his draft card (in uniform at the Shedps
Meadow, April 15, 1967.) He then was active in New York and CADRE, Chicago,
and also w¡ote occæionally fsr WIN,'His.
talk to thetroops, spoken againsiäbaci the Pentagon during the Octobe¡ 1967 con-

frontation, was printed in the Resistance .
issue of Liberation, Novembe¡ 1967 and is,.
a classic ofits kind. In it Gary spoke to the:
soldiers about his life and what moved him
to leave the military and become part of the
movement. But more than all of this, Gary
was a warm, gentle soul with mischief in his
eyes and the gift to atrect deeply all who
knew him. He was a friend-even at a distance-and I'll miss him. -MARTY JEZER
New Yo¡k

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Hey, I liked the "GUM' article by Maris
Cak¿rs [WIN, lU22l73'l.It certainly was a
welcome retef from some of the tendentious
leftism that appears too often in WIN. More
and more, articles appear in WIN that a¡e
.r¡pre interested in raising questions rather
than in closing subjects" Hooray!
'' ,But Mr. Cakars reply to the absolutely
appalling letter by Marilyn Albert was dis .
turbing. I tirought the réply equivocal on the
political and social ho¡rors that abound in
the USSR. All ofa sudden, letter and reply
taken together, I thought about canceling
nry subscriptiorl Hah!
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Well, Mr. Cakars, I likeil what you originally had to say and I urge on you the courage of your.uncertainties, the compasúon of
¡,our actions. More leaflettinr,

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Minneapolis, MN

of information on how to
take the proper steps to file civil suit against
a city and its police depattment which have
am in need

flagrantly violated my rights, I am presently
inc¿rcerated in a federal prison camp, convicted on a charge which involved obvious
entrapment, and need this info¡mation to
¡ help gain my freedom and prove my in-

December

My.warehouse was forcibly entered by
police without a search wanant, I was.
physically abused by these policemen, personal property was destroy-ed, and I was imprisoged without being charged with a c¡ime.
At this time pictures were also taken and
used later by the federal government to entrap me on a charge òf distribution of narcotics I was finally,charged with possession
of onehalf of a gratn of marijuana which
these policemen said they found ln my watehouse. Considerable amounts of próperty
we¡e ¡emoved from my warehouse by the
police and never retu¡ned, and I was never
given à list of the confiscated materials.
As you ban.see, many of my Constitutional rights were violated. I am determined
to prove my innocencc Please send me any
and all information that you can concerning
.procedure for filing civil suit, requesting
'trial transcripts, arrest informatiõn and
policé reþorts. If you. can not send the
'rebessary information, bookg etc., plCase
nolify r4e as to where I might acquire'them, '
-CHARLES M. MATGE

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Vol. lX Number 40

A Magnified Model of Life Outside.

"Wolf"
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mpeãchment and. Beyônd.

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A Teacher's Bill of Righfs
Deena'Metzger

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Bradford Lyt!lç

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Changes.

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Reviews.

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the WRL Calendar-see ad ori
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s is the last issue of WIN for 1973.
takiriþ'a two week break so as to be
able to catch up on some of the wõrk not
We

directly related to putting out an

¡ssue

and, like everybody else, enioy the holidays.
We want to wish the best to all of our
readers and thank them for their support

through the trials of the past year. M4y
we move closer to our goals in 197.4::

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: --WIN

STAFF
mar¡s cakars, editor
susan cakars, staff
marty jezer, editoriâl asslstant
nancy johnson, design
paul ¡ohnson, assistant staff

mary mayo, subscriptions
susan p¡nes, composition

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illustrious establishments. "And now, on the w¡ill on
the left, we see the multi-colored graphics that have
done so much to improve the resiãent's atmosphere."
lf they're lucky they may get a glimpse of a few of us
"residents", blankeyed and morally castrated in exchange for a time cut or an extra privilege. These are
no mere 1'centers for rehabilitation" or floitered bird
cages; prison is Hell.

A Mnqruified Model of Life Ourside

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Twentv woolies
shufflíng ogoinst ihe wqtts.
Dancing sounds of urine,

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follow the keeper's foot$epl

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My eyelids ore fluid windows
thot smile at milky hopes,
I don't dare touch them,

By "Wolf"
I broke parole on the first of J uly, 1972, leavingbehind a $1.35 an hour job spray-painting metal desks
for shipment to California reform schools. My partner gave me up, my out-of-state license plates gave
me away, and by the thirtieth of the same month I
was again behind bars, my head forcibly shaved.
Con't put heod to pillow,
Bristles once were hair
Scrotch my neck.
Where are oll the pairs of hands,
That in their special moment
Of betonging to the "only one",
Stroked the hoir from my face,
And mode me feel beoutiful?
FeathersDrifting off the barber's chair,
II's hord to fly.
I spent months fighting the charges they had aMost were bogus or blown out of
shapg some the sort of laws anyone at any time could
be brought in under and tried. lt was like a rerun with
an underweight Brodrick Crawford¡ and yet all I wantmassed against me.

ed was to share my life and campfire with friends.
Half asleep I tossed and turned with memories. The
cell was hot and sticky. Paranoia.

Flower petals

w¡th the texture of o moment,

floot upstreom
ago¡nst o galvanized current.
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leave frngerprints

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on my dreoms,
After beating several cases I was pressured'into
accepting a so-called "negotiated" plea, and I'm presently serving my sentence in Oregon's version of the
model prison.
Sitting in the yard in "kill range" of four gun towers, my mind copes with the time by reviewing and rereviewing memories, revising plans for the future a
thousand times over, and working daily to sort out
my feelings. Where do jealousy, loneliness, possetsion, violence and nonviolence fit into my image of
myself? I tell this self to "flow with the current", but
watching my brothers individually man[pulated to the
point of their destruction, my heart cries out for me

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to do something, Anything. What can be done when
the administration has sold the inmate population on
the concept of every man for himself? This shoddy
article is.the result of my need to act, to communicote
with you some of the reality of a prisoner's existence.
The Oregon penal structure is representative ofthe'
"new wave" of prison reforms, and the new face of
repression experienced here can be found in a growing
humber of "liberalized" institutions across the coun-

lry,

The most apparent changes are the names. "Correctional lnstitutions".and " Rehabilitation Centers".

lnstitutional programs called "Help", "Start", and
"Seven Steps" (to what?). The wardens are "superintendants" now, making the public "aware" of the institutional face-lift by guiding tours of criminology

students, statesmen, and housewives through these

of what is áctually the conscíousness of the '
I would only like to try and
put into wotds impressions that have burned into

makings

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TIrere's a further division upon ärriving at our

castles

seen as nothing but the improper'channêling of the
very same drive on which our American systern depends to function.

A businessman, as opposed to a'"scùihmy hippie
or spik", may receive a wrist slapping for grazing
outside acceptable limits. ln fact he may be applauded for his ambition and "frontier spirit".
You've seen corporations breaking laws over safety
standards imposed on their products, or excessive
polluting of our environment, writing off the sub'
sequent fines as being cheaper than makihg the
legally required changes. ls there equality in iuch
justice?

The individual "law-breaker" who hãs been picked

out for arrest prejudice and confinement is considered "curable", in that his attitudes and desires
need only be rechanneled within specified lines, his
life of crime the result of ignorance or lack of a iob

skill.
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"mentally-disturbed" arrestee falls into the

second category, with such crimes as rape and mur-

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average man. Rather,

licing.

of detention. You never hear about this last
distinction, but the entire way in which a convict
is treated from the beginning of his incarceration
depends on which of three catagories he falls into.
First, a person who steals, swindles, forges' or
extorts on the understandable impulse ùf greed is
treated as a mere "law-breaker"; lawless greed being

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cause of his motivation and deep cynicismr He is
more often a political prisoner because of his nonbelief than his belief in any doctrine. He is made to
suffer more, and for longer lengths of time,.because
of his unwillingness to play the institutional headgames of "You've changed my life! I'm-a new perion!" Awareness of the subtle mechanics of either
'þenal or other social structures places one outside
the norm, against a .molasses background of sociali. zation and indoctrination beginning offici4lly in the
first year of school, and continuing throudti the
higher grades, the military, and the influence of mass
media. lt would be foolish for me to expound on the

together.
One is token out
to be shorn,
or butcherefl,
Nineteen woolies
shuffling agoinst the wolls.

The courts' supþosedly benign commitment to
the letter of the law, combined with aþsurd or op'
pressive stàtutes, has rendered additionäl power to
the more and morê reactionary enforcement agencies.
It is at the discretion of the offìcers whom to wield
the power of those laws against and whom not to. '
Rather than the officers' increased use of iudgement
lessening the occurance of cirdumstantial arrests, the
type of person arrested has become with more
regularity representative of an gthnic and cultural
minority. Found with the 1lwrong" color of skin,
hanging around the "wrong" kind of peop.le, or associatiñs oneself with the "drug culture" (meaning
long hair); is certain to attract discriminatory po-

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tions of the immorality and hyprocrisy of society, or

at least the bullshit behind administrative promises,
while perhaps recognizing some of the same in himself. The "criminat", then, is labeled a "threat to
society" not so much because'of his crimes, but be-

close,

Thirty-wott shadows
divide up the room
on the bosis of çquality,
Faces of silence

der for pleasure. This group is used as iustification
for the administering of mind-destroying drugs (such
æ Prolyxin), psychological lock-ups [see WlN, April
12, 19131 and other forms of subtle vindictiveness.
Many of these same weapons are systematically
used against the inmates who fall into'the third
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category. A righteous "criminal" someone with a
"criñináI" mind-may have.begun his confinement
as a "law-breaker". úe may cðine to recog¡ize'por-

me after seêming lifetimes iñsidè various walls and
barbed-wire fenðes. The "law-breaker" holds claim
to deviance resulting from his inability to reap the
rewards, both material and status, that are guaranteed in the great social promise, due to some racial,
. physical, or environmental impairment, or more frequently simply because there isn't as much room on
t'tre miltrty bíramid for peóple as there is for expec' .,'
tations..lt is sad to hear them tell you about.a boat. : :'
or a car they lost, as they fold up a Motor-Trend ad
like the snapshot of a distant lover. The "criminals"
deviance, on the other hand, is rooted in his decision
, that "there must be something more to life than
this," and his inability either to attain this some;
thing or to compromise it with existing laws and
norms. Prison serves to "protect" society through '.:'
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of "criminals", in'actuality
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.'extended
' pùnishing detainment
us for our potent¡al danger to techno. cratic vâlues and $tructures.
' lt's too eaSy for people staring at Bononza from'
time-payment;sofas to assume the world they.live
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. a.premisê that anyone demonstrating attitudes contrary to those found acceptable in this country
must logically have something the matter with
them. lt's no longer appropriate to use truncheons
and. steel-toed boots on us, b,ut on the pretext of
implementing a "cure", almo.st anything else goes.
The result is a Skinnerian lnquisition, complete
with "soft deaths," all for our "own good."
Anyone believed to have developed "criminal"
outlooks are seldorn allowed to take advantage of
any stock rewards within the walls, although a lot
of P.R. shit is laid out as to the "plentiful" home
leaves and other odds and ends. The "law-breaker"

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is able to benefit from somewhat more of these re-.
wards while being rechanneled through vocational
training, work projects, school, and more often farm
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or laundry jobs. The hope is, of course, that he will
eventually leavg having traded in his revolver or

forger's pen for a sense of responsibility, punctuality,
prescribed consumption and "healthy competition".
The term "programming" is theirs, not mine, but it
fits exceedingly well.
Control within the walls is maintained through
an intricate svstem of reward and deprivation. Like
the proverbial carrot before the mulel manipulation
is successful in keeping the inmates in a constant
state of anxiety, promising all sorts of goodies for
the desired personality crp-out, and frustrating us
at the first surfacing of an aberrant att¡tude. .
The guards maintain physical control, and their
cruelties are comparatively out-front and obvious,
but the real power source the inmate must deal
with is his counselor. Assigned to 120 or 130 cons
apiece, they attempt to determine the most effeo
tive method of developing the approved value system in each.person, duplicatíng as near as possible
the "modus operandi", the plastic regimen, of the

"free world".
ln Spite of the gun towers, closed-circuit TV, and
plentiful guards, Big Brother depends on a detailed
informant system for discovering where an-indivi-

The morning sun

aborts its light
in squares

on the surfaces of my

Acting as a lens,
the bors twist and Pervert
all our intentions and needs,

emptied in o line

of what they only pretended to
weren't supposed to

Foce

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hove,

see.

America,

you've got cold frngernails,

life merge into school, job, and police requirements.
Where the ex-con's "jacket" (his prison records of
psych-reports, guard analysis, and Jaycee participation) doesn't reach, civil equivalenis âre compiled
for identical reasons. Even when you're "free", the
state chooses to define not only behavior but appearance, cultural affliation, political views and consciousness. Nowhere is.the corporateAmerican stul
tification of character as severely felt as in the ex-

tended manipulations of parole.
Prison is nothing more than the greater society
intensified because of the close quarters and omnipotence of the prison offcialdom.
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Excerpts from o paper presented at the lnstitute for
Policy Studies Conference on the So¿¡ot Effects of
Impeachment,

Those of us aware for the first time of an inconsistency or hyprocrisy we can't explain away, are

The way in which impeachment is demanded will
probably have deeper political effects than whether
¡t actually takes place. Cornpare two almost polar
possibilities: On the one hand, if there is little popular action and the President is aqtually removed by
House and Senate action focused solelv on his most
egregious obstructions of justice whiÚ'simul.taneously
the Presidency is given added powers to control commerce, commoditigs, energy, wages-and therefore :
strikes-then the process leading toward Presidential
dictatorship will sirnply have been slowed, or redirect'
ed into seemingly economic channels. (For example,
imagine the possibilities of a Presidential board to
allocate scarce newsprint; or to allocate energy when
certain inddstries or universities are the basd of insurgency; etc. Already some political activitilts have
noted'that by January civilians may not häve enough
gasoline to be able Íó choose whether to mount a
large-scale demonstration in Washington, éven though/
because the military will have all the gasoline it re-

like'children running home to yell "Guess what t
know!!" Violence on our part is the result of this
excitement turned sour when the enlightenment
we've so desperately tried to share falls on deaf ears.
Violence reflected outward is the indignity and anger that keeps us ín solitary and leaves us questioning the morality of our own interests and acts. Vio
lence turned inward is sadness, depression, and de
featism. And neither form of yiolence is the stimulous for effective and positive change to come about.

They mixed us

half ond half with concrete,
and poured us ¡nto a foundation

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for the sex-wish of computers,
We

kíck out

to slow the hordening,
and they bitch:
"After all we've done

for

these people,

quests.)

is thot ony way
for them to oct?"

disarm the enemy it's necessary to penetrate his
many disguises. lt's imperative that we strip some
of the da-glow exterior from the institutions we
are forced to deal with, while recognizing the less
obvious institutional values that control so many of

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On the other hand, a massive public campaign for
impeachment which did not win removal of the
President but which did assert the right to strike
.,, . agai nst Cost-of- Livi n g Counci !. rva'ge. guide I i nes, w h i ch
demanded rpajor c-uts in military stocks of gasoline,
which created local and regional planning of the
economy, ed. would begiñ the piocess oi real reduc' tions in Presidential power that would prevent future

Watergates.

Written Easter, '73:
Bunny juice
on the wire mesh

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tie)-,

extend post my sight,
houses for programmed chickens,
Cages

the eggs created
moy be painted
somewhere beyond

program that can be pursued by local energies. On
the firstr

us,

24 hour
150 watt bulbs. . .
(Nobody knows the dorkness

until they've stumbled
in this light).
"Wolf" hit the roqd when he

wos thirteen

in I965.

He hos three rhore yeors to serue in an Oregon

penitentiory.

the cultural and psychological concomitant

of the historical process we have sketched out. Apathy
assists the Presidential-Corporate alliance in its militarization of the domestic polítical and eco¡omic proBut this apathy will not end so long as the'public views impeachment as a spectator,sportr+carried on
solely by a few great newspapers and Congress. Tl1erefore, every effort should be bent to energize grass;
roots political action on impeachmen! and"on a wider
program to deal with the underlying crisis as it appears
in people's own lives.
The program that accords with impeachment
should include, both program posed tÒ'Congress and '

rust-proof steel)Hairs dongling
from the crock in the door
that wasn't wide enough
(suicide honging

from the frfth

'i

Secondly, the growing sense of apathy and baffle'
ment among what used to be the citizenry can be

fives.

ln the fortunately few examples where the promise of yum-yums or the threat of solitary confine-

ment have been altogether successful, it is really
frightening Their spacey conversations are like lowkey commercials for used Ramblers.
When parole is ever realized, through proper actions or proper acting the requirements of prison

BY ARTHUR I. WAsKoW

(sweat! hot!)
model of life outside,

To stand a chance in any game, one must first
be aware of all the rules, implicit and explicit. To

on the back of my neck,
" your snitches weor the faces
of my friends
Five hundred food trays

A thousand eyes
emptied of what they

i

o magnified

dual's head is at. Reflecting the attitudes of most
police departmerfts, thesp snitches are recognized as
the only way in which üiolations could be discovered.
Whenever snitching on one's brother hasn't become
a detached but permanent part of a con's character,
he may be convinced by someone with the appropriate psychology degree that a suitable reward awaits his disclosure, that tl1e "other guy" is already
informing on him, or that.it's "as good a time as
4ny to start demonstratin$ a willingness to reform".
Your helicopters perch

IMPEACHMENT

cell,

1. A Bilt to Enforce the Bitt of Rights, t/.tli.f,
would prohibit all covert military aciivity anrj ail
"war crimes" by detailed criminal statute; which
would prohibit all surveillance, informer-flacing and
similar activities against political groups, unions, etc.;
which would recreate the grand jury as a protection
against the Executive; which would protect the working press from subpoenas, etc., while at the same time
providing for broader public access to channels of de-

& BE\OND
bate-such as mail subsidies for small mag4zines,'more
access to TV time for dissident groups; etc.;,which
.would prevent in advonce such, ass,aults on the right of
assembiy as those by Rióhard baléy and Lyndon Jbhnson in Chicago in 1968 and Richard Nixon irï Waih:. '
ington on May Day 1971; which would prohibit the
use of Federal troops to break strikes; etc.
2. Statutory arrangements for elected, not Presidentially appointed, worker'consumer boards to review the pricing and production policies of m4jor
companies in the energy, food, transpor-t, and similar
ind ustries.

... . 3. Reassertion by Congress of its obligation to de'
bate on its own and decide issues of rationing, taxation, spending, etc., rather ihan turning these over to
the President
,, ;4. Creation of new mechanisms for ci-tizen and
Congressional oversight of Executive crime: provisions
for citizens standing to present evidgnce of crime an{
sue for redressi'special grand iuriës-and prosedütions,
stiengthening of the General Accounting Office; a
standing House Committee constantly hearing e.vidence and considering impeachments of Cabinet and
Sub-Cabi net off cers; etc.
ln the second area, local initiative, might come
the followi'ng"kinds of :aðtiôns. '
'.1
. City, state, and private-associational review of
all ties between Federal police and local " Red
Squads" in regard to informer-placing, bugs, etc., and
the.creation of watchdog groups constantly probing
telephone companies, banks, and other such centers.

'I
¡

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' ôf information often illegally surveilled by policy.

2. State and local entry into fields of industrial and
agricultural production to bypass the corporate oligopolies: thus, state purchase of farms to grow cheap.
food and state assistance to neighborhood food co'
ops to deliver it; state investments in solar and wind
,

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energy; etc.

All these approaches are based on the belief that
the only effective answer to an attempt a-t dictatorship is not merely lopping off the political head of
'.thè would-be dictator, but strengthening the demo'
. cratic institutions whose weakness has invited the bid
for dictators-trip; and.,tn the belief that a breakdown
iÀ:pãtiticat cierirðiiaÈy cannot be prevented withöut
curing breakdowns in economic and social democracy.
As for how tubègin the.çrg.ce$:-individual acts of I
. tqnely pitizgns, like. the flood òT teÏegrams after the ¡
"' Satùr'day niþhi mutsa"re, are Rot enõugh to create
new centers of local power.'lmpeachment, and a pro'
gram of democratic renewal, must become the focus
of thousands of town meetings all across the countrytown meetings at wo-rkplaces, union halls, synagogues
and churches, neighborhood community centers,
schools and campuses-all the places in which Ameriicans have and occaSionally use real power. To do [ess,
' to depend. on Congress alone to impeach the President
or the Establishment alone to force his resignation, is
to reinforce the apathy, the helplessness, and the de'
pendence on the Presidency to solve problems that
will put us back into some new version of Watergatewith or without impeachment.

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byÐee4aTMetzger
This is diffcult to write because it is written in th'e
middle of a change in ideation. To most people in the
small circle which I travel in, what I have to say is
axiomatic, obvious. We do not even think about it.
To others it represents, perhaps, a complete departure
from normal assumptions. Somehow I must traverse
that division. Bear with me. . .
I âm concerned with the right, the necessiiy, of.a
teacher to be a human being in the classroom-the
right, the need, the urgency to protect and sanction
new ideas, new ways of being.

For me the context of academic freedom is not
the need for intellectual exchange-l live in another
world-for me the context of academic freedom is the
dying of my students,
Our students are in jeopardy. Their lives are actually, literally, in danger.
The above is not an existential statement.
Anyone who thinks that the primary responsibility
of a teacher is to reveal the dates of Thermopylag
Stalingrad, Verdun, Hiroshima, Plain of Jars, rather
than to prevent those events-is not fit to teach.
The teacher is not and cannot be and must not be
"objective," "tolerant." What teacher is really distant
from his subject matter? Presents alt points of view?
ls reasoned, ímpersonal, unimpassioned? Who? There

isn'tonyone like that.
The middle of the road is a point of view. Tolerance is a point of view. Liberalism is a point of view.
So is removal, objectivity, distance, uninvolúment.
Distance and Detachment are strong political state
ments and attitudes (c.f. "the silent majority" c.f. the
Congress of Vienna.)

Ð

IË'çdÆ
!l (*+' Æy'
self. Not to admit or revêal one's point of viéw is far
more harmful to students than to declare it forth-

rightly. To hide is to ,'brainwash.',
To engage in political action within and without
the classroom is axiomatic. To live ifto be a political
person. Teachers who turn off their politics when
they enter the classroom turn off théir lives. A
dead teacher is a dead teacher. Dead teachers don't

majority. Democracy implies pluralíty. Aíl points of

vtew.

to

teach what people don't know rather than what they
do know-to teach the controversial, the ter:rifying
the taboo, the subversive, the dangeíous, the dârk;the

teach

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_speech incorporates the actuality that,,objeciivei'

"impartial" "centered" presentation of subject matter

room,

Simple ldeas:
The purpose of education is to learn how to live
one's life not how to earn a living.
To learn to live one must know more than those
things which are now considered proper to know or
to learn in school. We must go beyond the academic
and the vocational and the artistic.
To go beyond these is to be human in the classroom. ls to admit one's point of view. ls to reveal one

t,t

.\

a\

people.

ïVe need

We must change our language so that everyday

(and.l. may add, more successful indoctrination) priiticed by the math professor who only teaches máth
qh_an
þV the math professor who also teaches pacifism.
Alas for the success of the first. To divide the world
b.y subject, to distinguish between intellect and politics, between thought and action, between ideasand
implementation, between mathematics (order; structure,-axioms, elements, computers) and hístory and
life, is not only a political distinction but is a ¡iolitícal
açt, an ontology, far more insistent and formulative
fhan the political statement shouted in a crowded
theatre-" resist oppression. l,
Fundamental rights thèn-the right to utter a minority view-the r¡ght to act on a minority view, the
right to uttei and act in a minority way in the ciass-

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anything. :

Dead students can't learn anything. The primary
obligation of a teacher is to be á human being and
sllch lteacþer must-as a mother must-pres;ive life
first. The primary obligation of a teachei is toward
her students not toward subþct matter-þyalty is to

beautiful.
We must hire the communists, the fascists, the
anarchists, the pacifists, the alcoholics, the conservatives, the radicals, the wild-eyed, the madmen, the
poets, the homosexuals, the fetíshists, the vegetärians,
the hallucinaters, tìe priests, the women, thJdreameis,
the children, the visionaries etc. etc. etc. because we
need to cast l¡ght into the darkness. That is what
teaching is-it is going into the darkness, going into
the unknown, exploring ..

is indeed biased, highly biased. We cannot áfford to
continually reiterate the l¡e that only the stridently .
right or left are biased. There is more indoctrination .

@

,tr'-Bï.#.

The only point of view the academics allow to be
expressed is the middle of the road point of view. They
allow it because itis the¡r point of view. Where is mine?
We have no democracy; we have a tyrannv ofthe
For a bill of rights then-first item: What needs
be taught is what is not being taught-the rieht to

.€rÞ

to

.

reverse our thinking.

The authority of the teacher does not rest in the
office. The authority rests inthe,jdeas which resj upon the life and behavior of the teacher. The life and
behavior must be visible. Must be capable of being experienced and evaluated by the student. The studént
"" 'must be eXposed to more thañ iñeré words.
ln order
tro learn the student must have the opportunity of ex. peiience. The?e can be no separation-there is no
separation-between what we say and how we are.
Consequently-we must destroy rather than create
distance. Teachers must create contact. Teachers must
remove podiums, destroy classroom walls, touch students, reveal their oùn inner lives, reveal their own
. external lives, must talk about their passions, obsessions, agonies, anxieties; politics, religion, lack of re
ligion, philosophy, sexuality, existence, abo.ut them- ,
selves, about themselves, about themselves, about ,
themselves-in order to talk about ideas-in.order to
present

ideas.

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BILL OF RIGHTS FOR TEACHERS
1. The right of a teacher to love a student.
2. The right of a teacher to touch a stüdent.
3. The right of a teacþer to protect a student.
4. The right of a tdacher to preserve the life of a stu-

dent.

,t

5. The right of a teacher to fight to preserve the life

of a student.
6. The righi of a teacher to lie, to cheat,:tefalsify
grades, statements, reports, to save the life of a student.

7. Th: right of a teacher to believe and act upon the
belief that the life of a student has more value than
the "word" or "recotdr" that life comes before language.

8. The riglrt qfa.teacher to be human.
9. The right of a teacher to have, discuss and act upon

poiitics.

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t

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10. The right of a teacher to be in the classroom what
he is in his outside public life.
11. The right of a teacher to ignore the artificial separation between class and life.
12. The right of a teacher to bring down the classroom
walls.
13. The right of a teacher to advocate.
ll.The right of a teacher to take part in, to lead,'io
i nitiate demonstrations.
15. The right of a teacher to have a political, social
ielationship with students.
16. The right of students to come to teacher's homes.
17. The right of teachers to go to'student's homes.
1 8. The right of teachers to refuse to coerce or bmbarras dr degrade students with comparative grading.
1 9. The right.of a teacher to speak, to sing, to dance.
20. The righfof 4 fe?öher to be arrested.
21'.The right of a teacher to do whar is within his
power to end. theibrutality of the war, the brutality,

of vision, the'brììuility of'b-eingwhich hut com" to óe
.." AYnerica. .. .
22. The right of a teacher to conspire ùo end the war.
23. The right of a teacher to conspire with his fellow
teachers, fellow students, fellow human mates.to resist and destroy brutality.
24.The right of a teacherJo do a{l the above and retain his teáching position.
25. The right of a teacher to do all the above and be
tronored for it.

"

Deena Metzger wos fìred from her job as Ênglish
teacher at an L,A. Junior College for reoding one of
lylr own poems to her English closs. Three yeors loter,
Feb. 1973, the Calif. Supreme Court ruled in her
favor.

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equipment, the Arabs might have won in a protracted
war.what they failed to glin in their fìrst onslaught.
Whíle in the end lsrael did gain the military upper
hand, the cost to her was tremendous-more than'
1,800 soldiers killed, and g2 billion worth of equip
ment destroyed.
On the other hand, Arab political gains in the yom
Kippur War have been very great. The obvious effeqttiveness of the Arab attdck, and later Arab tenacity in
the face of counterattack, helped restore Arab spirit
and morale.
Fully as important, the Arabs have discovered that
the oil they control can be an enormously powerful
weapon in their struggle against lsrael.They see that
if the US can be forced to have to choose between
Arab oil and military support for lsrael, she may drop

Protest Day" was organized by the

French Left, both parliamentary and

ES
CAM?A!GN TO IMPEACH
NIXON FORMED
_Responding to the call from the Wash-.

ington Area I mpeachment Coalition.
about 55 people from at least ig
met at Georgetown Universitv the"reus
weekend of December g-9 to'develop
a national impeachment campaign.

lsrael.

AN OCCASIONAL COLUMN ON NONVIOLENCE
E00 word contributìons ore lnvlted from readers

BY BRADFORD LYTTLE
A number of developments in the Middle East have
tended to create optimism about the prospects of permanent peace there. We have a ceasefire in the war,
and negotiations are underway to implement it.
Egyptian and lsraeli generals shake hands. ,Plans are
being made for permanent peace talks. Arab statements imply that they recognize the State of lsrael,
and now are concerned mainly that the rights of the
Palestinian people be cared for. Russia and the US
apply severe diplomatic pressl.rre to both sides not to
resume fighting. These developments may be interpreted positively by a world desperately anxious that
the Middle East conflict be ended, but they shouldn't
be allowed to eclipse certain realities.
People have asked why the Yom Kippur War started
The answer seems clear. Egypt and Syria attacked because they hoped that through surpr¡se, a vast arsenal
of new weapons, improved tactics, and better training
of the¡r troops, they could overwhelm lsrael's defenses
and destroy the Jewish State. The size and ferocity of
the attack, and Egypt's and Syria's reiterated call for
other Arab nations to join the struggle leave little
doubt that total victory was a hope. That hope came
far nearer to being realized than the world, and perhaps the Arab nations themselves, had expected.
lsrael's General Sharon, and other lsraeli political
figrrres, are already accusing the government of lsrael
oi i-'eing inadequately prepared fof the attack, and
have claimed that the Syrian drive into the Golan
Heights almost achieved a breakthrough. Certainly
the priority which lsrael gave to the Golan front during the first few days of the war, and the ferocious
fighting there which resulted in the destructiori on'
both sides of great amounts of equipment, gives support to this claim. Haifa is only about 90 miles from
the Heights, and had Syrian tank columns broken
through, lsrael's second city soon could have been under siege. lsrael would have been forced to devote
even more of her armor to the northern front, and the
massive Egyptian tank forces that had crossed the Suez
Canal might have been able to overwhelm the defenses
at the Mitla Pass and sweep across the Sinai. There
seems little doubt that during the first three days of
the.war lsrael's existence was imperilled.
Later, had lsrael not received massive US airlifts of

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Growth of Arab unity in creating and implementing the oil embargo, and to a lesser extent in the military struggle, may in the long run be the greatest Arab
gain. For if the Arabs can ever fully cooperate on all
fronts in the struggle against lsrael, the odds against
lsrael's surviving seem overwhelming.
. Looking ahead further, the Arabs can expect other

extra-parliam enlary, which called for
a General Strike and massive demonstrations.

Organizations represented ¡nòluãe¿: ¿
the New American Movemen! the ì
Peoples Party, the Women,s lnternational League for Peace and Freedom,
the War Resisters League, and youth
Against War and Fascism.
Most of the groups were promoting
petitions, letters and telegrams to Coñgresspeople. Several had organized
"town meetings" and rallies. ln philadelphia, five billboards have been
rented for a month at $1,250, which
say "lmpeach Him-Nbw, More Than
Ever". A new "Boston Tea party', was
planned for December 1 6, the 200th
Anniversary of the historic, Boston
ì
Tea Party.
The conference developed the folprogram for a nationar

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advantages.
pleas for disarmament
.bothDespite
sides can be expected

and arms embarþoes,
as quickly anã as'
heavily as they can. lsrael will rearm desperately, under the terrible spur of the memory of the Yom Ki¡
pur attack. Now, however, she will find the US more
reluctant to supply arms. lsrael may be forced to purchase arms of lesser quality and perhaps higher price
from Europe, and to manufacture her own. This will
further militarize and strain her economy and labor
pool.
Egypt and Syria, on the other hand, can expect to
receive huge weapons shipments from Russia as be-

to rearm

fore.

ln regard to direct super power military involvemenJ
in the Middle East, Russia, the Arabs strongest allyi n.
will be encouraged to build up her already formidable'
naval forces in the Mediteranean. After all, her side is
winning she has no oil to lose and perhaps much to
gain, and the Middle East is a short distance south
of her.

The US, however, will be inhibited. She will know
that the threat or use of her power on behalf of lsrael

always will jeopardize access to Middle East oil. The
Middle East is more than 8,000 miles awayí And rhe
US NATO allies are more and more opposed to lsraeli policies and to supporting lsrael.
The United Nations may be invoked to oversee the
ceasefire, and may be involved in the final peace agreements. But the UN histbry in-the Middle East hasn't
been one of tenacity in the face'of pressure. When in
1956 Nassar demanded that UN peacekeeping troops
be withdrawn from the Suez Canal area, the UN complied. Egypt then seized the Canal.
From almost every viewppint, the Arab position is
one of increasing military, economic and political

'strength. Current Arab openness to ceasefire and peace
negotiations may simply mean that they recognize
this, and believe their ultimate victor¡ within perhaps
a decade, certain. They therefore are willing to make
small concessions and appear friendly now to get the
lsraeli army menacing Cairo back across to the east
side of the Canal.
lsrael's projection is one of increasing mortal in-

security.

i:üll (when
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peachment.

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consrrrrp.opr.

home) Locât açrions

They will consult with ,,Working
Contacts", two people (one man, oìe
woman), from each "organically'determined collective" working for imThere will be a "Congressional Task

Force" to help develop strategy for
developing maxi múm Côngressional
support for i mpeachment.
Funding was discussed. The Campaign needs money, and W.iJl welcome

your contributions.
An office is being looked for. For
the time being for information about;
the,Câmpaign: Ted Glick or Kitty
Tucker, Washington I mpeachment Coafition, 2111 Florida Ave., N.W., Washirígton, DC; (202) 23+8007 , or (202)
291'-802Q, An "impeachment kit" is
available from tþe ACLU (22 East 40rh
St., NYC 10016).
-Brad Lyitle

OSLOSTUDENTS
DEMONSTRATE rhÞ
gl

-*ï.1:,ry41,!c

The country waS pärtly'paralyzedl
by strikes'that occurred'in all sectors,
including pubtic transportation, construction, education, mining, shipping,
gas and electrical power stationi and
the press. Massive demonstration took
place in all the major cities of France,
and Parisians had not seen so many r
people in the streets since the May
1968 revolt. ln Paris the demonstration started at 9:30 A.M. and ar.4 P.M.
rhany of the 400,000 demonstrators
were still in the streets. "
The French Left pioved on December 6 that it is capable of mobilizing a
good part of the population around
the various issues relatiñg to the international situation (energy crisis, Chile,
Greece, etc.) and the domestic sitúation (rising pricês, infation, the strike
at the Ll P factory, ongoing strikes in
the cement industries, in the French
ports and in a number of other sectors,
in addition to the traditional struggle
for powe¡ between right and left,-for
which the parliamentary left has been preparing itself over the past two years)
Also, on December 6, news that

Nixon had committed suícide was

I

re-

Dîi:T?:, 3:J::il"J:""1il?jlïÍü:ili:"i
said: "About

ur" åuo.Norwegian
l9l.:yfl-lltllltl-*!ltf
students d"t91slf!:9

in"congreisionat

*rï.ulå io veriry rhe facrs from noon
ro 4:00 P.M. As á resutt, tr,. pri.r'ái

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f,?Jflj¡'{_ïå.:î1"å*:å:l;íi;;
l;:il!:; e**i:*:.::tfli:,:,,,m
ii:iiå3li,!,iüi:1',:'",X3Tf:å';ä'
,,impeac¡l-in5;iËtc. - "" ''
of State Henry Kissinger, "ifr.r.ii
meetings", and

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zízi

some speculation rhat the
bliigii]t rumoiwas ,turred
by rhose wishing to
(who rilã
u qri"r kiling on the markei.
speech)- -È.,åpì"t
Tr"nilation s.ruü" jers¡
- --r
for

(when ionsi"ttp"äóiè-r,uu. ltjtl"c snowballs at the car
to'washingtoñ)
À"'låu6y-¡n;i lTPf.tuoot Thomas R. Byrne
&tu.rned
read.Kissenger's acceptance
\ach.dgy,sperini ciii*.""d
sional Diítrícts will send delegatiãni and jeering King Olav as he arrived
)an.

õl;r;r-

to lobby ¡n wirr''inei;":TËi;üb;i"s

witlbe,ímueinãiìvr;iñ"il¿i"ì

etc.

the.ceremony.

:

PRISONERS ASSERT RIGHT

atorchlight procession TO SIGN
rãårlå!, from
. 't'Tonight,-in
the University

FOR IMPEACHMENT

lquáre,'au^"'
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tut"fi"ãiJu;;;':::'"'
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crerñ;i
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'u'"
Marclí23 n tarserplinning confer- il:,::Not*"tian'vouth
ttò,0:^lo,^ ncl'ùiäîi" affirmarion of rhis coniñ the Midwãst to
'Pi:::f i"iïîi:fiãilJ:ü$'Jì'*i,
hi;
ilîîååï3f"e
Îi*i:i';';ht;il];i;;;i"e
that onlv the day before' we had rei'
;-oïn
HeiJeiðamarã,
April 1 S-May 7 Hopefully, a mass ac- llll: lt
rion in washingron romr'áuy or week- zilidn bishop combaning
:.tlï1i}lllta-ó't pãiit1o;bl;;i;
ultnat e",ãtiv;i'"i,ii"iv"oolJri'".fãi"t-"-t-*,r,¡p
ii:#ir$:Ë##:,;ïúXîi,1,,'."u
witrin iwo weeks we receivèd rrom
wioespneAD
srRtKEs
tN
ä lff#jlii,l|jil:ffü'":iffiit" FRANCE
codispoti seven and a harf fiiled-our
have
- irs headquarrers i"'w#i";iå".
rh;;;Ëåiir'ã óå,npuii"-ní¡r u, More rhan 400,000 demonsrrarors i,'"î'?il.tliijå;jïiåfiå"::å?'"t
initiated by a-tfree person staffinstreet theatãr,
, nmì^ì.t r^-r!.^^+i ^ prisRecentlv Dominick
C-odispoti, a -. . t000 t;rth;
Feb. 1-15 Regionat ,,tmpeach-ins
'
rãu. r a [Nà"îãv. ïr'ä ,1"¡"""i r'"riday :::1!e 9?r:vin8po,t","'*iin-ä11
,-;- '---'-'.
date for òelebrating Washington's birth'- gan;s. as 'Victory to the National
eraHon Front!'and'No t" W"i'piiæ+l$\,l.11ltt3"9nt by some of the prison offìday) A,,Day of Trurh,l Strong
'
to collect signa-.,
The dispaich o¡.a¡gi rnr'irion
atiíä, visiuiáaitioniin
Î1'j"'Í^tl?.1æmpt
on *'.
åäv,-wnìl'
throúghout *,"

;jí

be

;lJ**;¡äfTlåilffi;

cluding.Ted Glick, Kitty Tucker,
Roger Whitehead.

,

and

marched in the streets of Þarís on De- 'Constitutional Right-prisoners peticember 6, protesting against rising
tion for Ñi"on', rrîpru"tÃ.1t.'; iÀ.
prices. TÉe Decembär Ë,,Nutionui
,toiy qrol.i nn¿iew-Smyrãr,-arputy

conilnuêd on page 14

wrN l1

state attorney general, as say¡ng thät
prisoners retain this ,'first amendment
.¡ight" to free speech and petition,

tions for an ex-servlce man or woman.
WRT: Angie O'Gorman and'Boþ

"however repugnantìhe matter of the
pet¡t¡ons may be." The case was brought
to him as a result of protest by the
prisoners' Legal Aid Clinic. Citing one
instance of harassment the newsfaper
reported that "one block officer is
known to have refused to circulate the
p€tit¡on in the maximum security section of the prison."
The story notes'that "The impeachment petitions originated with the War
Resisters.League, a New York City or.
ganization, which plans to forward
them to Cong. Peter Rodino, chairman
"Attica is My Lai is ITT is Waterof the House J udiciary Committee."
gate. . .Attica is Law & Order is Status
Our stack of signed pet¡t¡on blanks gets
Quo is every prison is every ghetto. . ."
higher and higher with each incomiñg
say Prisoners Against Poverty Racism
mail
Peck
-Jim
& War at Mass. Walpole State Prison.
They're asking fellow prisoners to boycott Xmas dinner and those outside to
NEWS ROUND.UP
donate to Attica Brothers Defense
Fund, Natl. Lawyers Guild, 23 CorParisian police had to use a bulldozer
nelia SL, NYC.
to dislarge 80 people stag¡ng a sit-in at
the Chilean Embassy in Paris, Dec.7.'..
"Throw the bum out!" North Country Peace Campaign, a task force of
The peaceful sit-in, lasting 90 mínutes,
the Minneâpolis New America Move
was staged to demand the release of
political prisoners in Chile, especially
ment, ís working "to both End Aid to
Thieu's Police State ond to lmpeach
Chilean Communist Party leader, Luis
Corvalan. . . .ln New York, on Dec.4,
Nixon." NAM believes that'"impeacha bomb destroyed the headquarters of
ing the President is but the first step
the U.S. Latin-American Justice Comto taking power from the corporate
mittee, which has been aótive in'raising
rulers of America." ln Oregon, the,
Portland Strike Suppqrt Committee
support for politícal prisoners in Chile
comes to a similar conclusion in a fly. . . .The U.S. Supreme Court by a vote
er entitled "Throw The etc."
of 63 (Douglas, Marshall and Brennen
dissenting) effectively repealed the 4th
Amnesty Notes: At the Nov. 10 lL
Amnesty Conference, Henry Schwarzsamendment by ruling that police had
the right to search anyone arrested for
child of the ACLU Amnesty Project
any crime, ln the pasq políce could
said Ted Kennedy pointed out to
Strom Thurmond that he wouldn't be
search for weapons only, and any other
contraband found, e.g dope, could not
sitting in Congress today if his grandfather hadn't been amnestied after the
be used as evidence. Under the new
Civil War. Tim Maloney of the Winni-'
law, police can arrest a person for jaywalking or for a traffic infraction and
þeg Committee to Assist War Objectors said skepticism among the resisdo a comprehensive search. Any drugs,
etc. found could then be used as evitance community is high. ln fact some
underground people didn't believe
dence in court on more serioùs charges
and would stíck even if the victim was
that the 6Gday period for obtaining
acquitted of the initial chargè. People
..landed immigrant status in Sept.-Oct.
was for real. He described how one
who hold in cars or on their person
person came out of the mountains, got
should take note of th¡s!. . . .Despite
the shortage of gas and oil, the U.S. is
his status, returned, and then 5 more
people came out. The 9 Canadian censupplying the Saigon militaiy regime
with 840,000 gallons of oil a day. ln
ters contacted 10,000 in those two
months. Both Maloney and Brian
addition, AID shells out about 980
míllíon a year to provide the Saigon
Adams of VVAW stressed the need
government with fuel for cívilian use.
for more meaningful action than simple legislation.. . . .A NationalCam. . . .And the AP reports of an FBI pro
gram-"too hot to talk about"-inpus Alliance for Amnesiy has been
formed since "not 4 single organization
volving the widespread use ofagentprovocateurs to infilitrate lefrist groups
is working to motivate campuses on
.the issue" añd wants you to keep in
and encourage them to undertake violence activitíes. The secret plan sup
touch (2'l 15 S Street NW, Wash. DC)
posedly was in effect from May 1968
.. . .. .CCCO hasa practical Guide for
to April
-Marty l.ezer the AWOL Gl which surveys the op

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leaves aside fpr salad, cut tho stem hearts out of the large.
Remove the bones and peels from the pot and add to tñe

Calvert are resigning from WTR staff as
of May. Bob plans to work to pay off
the debt and then work with the NonViolent Studies lnsr. Angie will help
start a Catholic Worker House. The

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future of WTR will be decided lan.11-

at a Working Committee meeting.
(Did they receive g for needed hospital
treatment?). . . .War Tax Resister Martha Tranquilli wrote WIN last month
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broth, spinach hearts, thìn sliced carrot, potato or onion.
-Also add a fist of clear bean or sweet potato noodles.,

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Change diapers and give the baby the
Boil
potaroes
till
the
are
sweer
aird
dóodle
ítiana parit'
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when pressed gently. Add diced tofu, large spiñach leäves,

bottle.

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.shoyu and boil till the leaves turn
tender.
Clean the sink while the baby f,lays with walnut¡and a

funnel.

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The small spinach leaves may be served with. lemôn juice,
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olive/sesame oil and sardines orsalty pinto beans æ a gãr-mql
n ish.. De pend i ng on amo u nts of. nood ies/potatoes, the

tried to answer all letters but
some people did not give full names &
addresses so she feels negligent in not
answering them: She ends: "To All:
she

maylmay not require ricelbread.
Cut the left over wine with spring

Love and Peace."

Staff Changes at WRL: Lynne
Shatzkin Coffin has left to resume her
education in prelaw. Jerry Coffn léft
last spring to take over as general manager of listener-sponsored radio station
WBAI in New York. Karl Bissinger
(formerly w¡th NY's Greenwich Village
Peace Center) is now on staff to work

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water.

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. As-an exercße, t w¡ll moke o lqymons attempt to criti-

ïise these meals,

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on amnesty fi fund raising. Giäce and
Ed Hedeman leave Austin, Texas, WRL
in January to work in the'National Of-

fice. Ed will do local organizing; Grace

special projects. Ralph, David, Jim and
Elizabeth go on forever. . . . .Exec. secretaries Bronson Clark, AFSC, and Al
Hassler, FOR are leaving, so both orgs.
are looking for replacements.
Well said: . . . . .One of the most
serious shortcomings of the left is the
quality of its propaganda.".Overb lown
rhetoric and political jargon are the rà
sults, says Political Education Pfoiegt
wh¡ih hâs issued readable, docdmäíted
reports on food prices, the energy crisis
and taxes with some suggestioñs for
action. Available from P.E-P., 654 Winthrop St., Cambridge, Mass. . . . Striking southern yoodcutters and haulers
ask us not to buy products of these
giant paper companies: American Can,
Scott, Masonite, I nternational, St.
Regis. . . . .National Conference op
Workers' Self-Managem ent, lan. 1 2-1 3,
.Boston. Contact Prof. David Garsin,
Pol. Sci. Dept. Tufts U., Medford,
Mais. . . .,Women's Graphics Collective, 852 W. Belmont, Chicago, has a
free cölor catalog of hand silk-screened
posters....'.New Day Films, P.O. Box
315, Franklin Lakes, NJ, is a distirbution co-op for films about womeñ,
catalog& brochure available. . . . .The
Sept. New Schools Exchange Newsletter has a natíonal 1973-74 Directory
of Alternative Schoolr (P.O. Box 820,

St. Paris, O.)
And for the new year, we r"¡t"rut"
"All the flowers of all
the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Now is the time for peace."
a WSP poster:

-Ruth Dear

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,Breakfast

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one onion and one carrot. Pour two thi¡'ds of the hot water
into your wash basin and place vegetables and boullion
cubes in the pots remainder. Shave, tlÍen use the soapy
water for a sponge bath. Water hardy window box weeds
with the "waste." Now onions are cooked.
Add roast buckwheat (kasha) or precooked noodles
(ramen) to the vegetables and steam. When 5oft add an egg
and
cover the pot for poaching. ln the case of kaqha, a'sliðe
.of
cheese will also melt nicely after the egg. þ4s.coagulated
(ne-eds salt and sage.) Eat from the pot añã wash thl pot

before the fats chill.

Lunch
Fry some sesame seeds till they start popping. place one
cho (chunk) of tofu (bean curd) on a pláte. Sprlnkle wirh ,
katsuo (bonita) flakes, and add a bit of wasabi or horse
radish. Decorate the puddle with strips'of cucumber or.kolrabi. Serve with tea and segame sprinkled rice.

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Before she returns from work, place three öhicken backs,
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.nil9 {g9t or,a hog maw in two quarts of water. Bring to a
boil. Mince one half thumb of "jaw tsai" (Flonan hõt
pickled turnip) and add to the pot along with any organic
root peels found in the sink or such places. Let símnier for
two hours while mending button holes and making a window mop frorn old.diapers.
Take a bundle of spinach and while.washing carefully,
sort into big and small leaves. Setting the small (tender)"

Lunch: The tofu,salad lunch is,quite innocent provided
cooking ojl is free from PCB's oi other contaminents.

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Dinner:.The one pot dinner uEes fresh and canned (pickled)
vegetables. As meat goes, chicken backs are gratifyingly
lean, except for the cheeks of the tail. pohté peeÍingl'
make good broth and are traditionally used for making
ssurdough sta"Fter nectpr, but should be avoided by prãgnent women due tu cornplications which are rumoïi.ed"to'
occasionally arise from potato rust.
Throwing innhe.spirtaçþ- ¡te¡q q4rly but the leaves late
savps'vltamins ala Adele. Nôté afËo t'hat meat eaters mav
,whh to dróþ fn a few ounces of thinly sliced choicã mÊåtr
at the last minute. lf chicken liver or beef, it is tasty rare.
Eggs can also be stirred in at the last minute, but ifioo
rnanLpro_teins_and vegetables are used it will end tasting
ljke T.he Big M.ud1l. The one pot {inner may become your,
favorite exercise in cooking sequence and reiiculat¡on óf
flavor.
; Unfortunately the one pot dinner requires a whole afternoon of boiling/simmering. This is practical in farrnhouses,
restaurants or a large oriental household where the ,,kitchén
r¿nge" gbes all day long (Some Chinese, Russian and per-

sian stoves are also beds.)
_Howeúer the meal can't compete with the delicate and,
esthetic Japanesd rice/miso soup/fried dried or raw fish .

dinner for economy of motion ând leg work.
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ln the November 22 WlN, I reviewed Que Hocer, under
the heading "A Beautiful.Film." And here I come only
a month later with another one, "Zambizanga," which
opened at New York's Fifth Avenue Cinema November
22. Like Que Hocer, Tambizanga closed after a very brief
run, despite very favorable reviews.
, Also like Que Hocer, which is about Chile, Zambizanga, which is about Angola, is one of the very few examples of a revolutionary film which, at the same time,
is a work of art. No wondér, for it was directed by Sarah
Maldoror, who was the assístant to Gillo Pontecorvo in
The Battle of Algiers, another of the few, artistically
great, revolutionary films. One of her collaborators on
the screenplay was her husband, Mario do Andrade, a
leader of the Angola resistance.
Set in 1961, before Portugal's US-financed war to re.
tain its African colonies, the film unfolds the tragedy of
a young tractor driver (splendidly acted by.Domingus
Oliviera) who is unexpectedly arrested in his home, ímprisoned and tortured to death for refusing to divulge

the names of others in the resistance. His wife (equally
well acted by Elisa Andrade) sets out, her baby on her
back, to find him and visit hím in jail. But she never
makes it, because at each police station, she is rudely rebuffed and lied-to by the bureaucrats ín charge.
Filmed in excellent color, with a cast of non-professionals, Zambizanga gives you the feel of the country
and the people, just.as Que Hacer did in respect !o Chile.
It shows the life, the color, the music of the community.
Though it could not be shot in Angola, none of which
had been liberated at the time, it was filmed around
Brazzaville, which then was capital of the French Congo.
It received the highest awêrd at the Carthage (Tunisia)
Film Festival-and it certainly merits such recognition.
We are fortunate to get a chance to see it in the US, for
a

film from Africa is a rarity-especially one dealing

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Under these circumstances, lsrael seems to have
only three choices. One is hypermilitarization: complete subordination of her society and economy to

East.

lsrael would declare the historical right of the Jewish people to a homeland in the Middle East, a right
bâsed not on the imperialistic manipulations^implicit

in the Balfour Declaration, but upon the presence of
multitudes of Jewish families on Mid East soil for the
past two thousand years. The Middle East is the cultural cradle and homeland of the Jewish people, as
much as for any people.
lsrael would then announce the following program
for the defense of her culture and free institutions:

-Abandonment of military pov/er as a means gf
defense, and its replacement by nonviolent resistance

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-Disarmament. Deactivation of weapons down to
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-Assumption of responsibility for the Palestinian
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-Training of the population of lsrael in nonviolent

resistance defense measures. These would include

preparation for noncooperation, strikes, boycotts, etc.
-A call upon other nations to abandon military
power as.a means of defense, and to adopt nonviolent

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resistance as lsrael has.

three revolutionary documentaries shown November 1617 at the Washington Square Methodist Church in New
York. (the others were Tupamoros-about Uruguay-and
ln the Liberated Areas of South Vietnam.) Filmed in
1971 in the liberated area of Mozambique, it dep¡cts the
day-to-day freedom struggle against Portugal. lt is not a
masterpiece like Zambizanga, but it is of interest be
cause of its subject matter.
-Jim Peck

ethical insights and intelligence than is violence. This
harmony with humane religion and philosophy is perhaps the greatest force for its success, for it would
communicate with the intensely religious nature of
the Arabs, and perhaps fuse the spirit of both peoples
into a common prophesy of brotherhood and peace.
ln our centur¡ the Middle East could once again
give birth to a vision of néw life for all humankind.-

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A program of suicide for lsrael? Certainly far less
likely to be so than the policy of escalating violence
now being followed. Nonviolent resistance might
work. lt certainly is far more in har¡nony witþ Jewish

oppression.
'wíthln Portuguese
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military priorities; development toward complete

fascism, the loss of remaining democratic institutions
and civil liberties; ultimate reliance on nuclear weapons in a "Doomsday" posture.
A second is capitulation, abandonment of the
dream of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East.
A thírd is nonviolent resistance defense.
lsrael would adopt nonviolent resistance defense
for basically moral reasons. She would declare herself unwilling any longer to kill Arabs or any other
people in warfare, or contribute to the úaste of re,
sources that war and competitive arms entails. She
would point out that continuing violent conflict in the.
Middle East can only mean the continuing neglect of
the needs of most of the people there for education,. '
housing better medical care, befter food, and in gen- :
eral a more humane standard of living. lsraeli-Arab
enmity means continuing erosion of democratic ínstitutions by the spirit of militarism. lsrael would
point out that a nuclear confrontation with its threat
to all human kind was the logical consequence of con-

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