Win Magazine Volume 10 Number 16

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THRU NONVIOLENT ACTION

Noarn Chornsky, Allcn Ginsberg, tnar-tl [(t':.itl;:;tte¡",
(tí'
Julius Lester, Ç¡¿çs Paley, Pete Stegcl'¿ì.¡l(l ;¡ l¡û:ìi
I I ryl
rcvoÍr
ri.iol
to'iiìa
ke
other raclicals r.utn., n,.,,í books
Pl-U S Anita l-lnff rrlan Wr ites Abo u t Â,t¡b ic's l)isletrt ¡ rc'lt';r: lir;r:
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AND Lessons r¡f the l'{r.¡tlsing Movetnctlt.

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us somc more history which is.very

imRor;.

tant. ". . .And A cautionary Note" I would
say is important-thank God-you put that
in there-l guess it really tied the whole
thing together.
Now lets have some more, more about
the history of our mer¡ more about the
history of our women. Help us. How about
an issue on man + woman +.marriage..You
know there are people walking ¿round on
this earth who desperately need your kind

oi

litcrature.

-SANDRA BATORSKY

It

is the nitty-gritty of sex which is
perhaps the moitieveäling aspect of men,s
õonr.iuurnrr"raising, and the WIN men
ate silent on this. Wñat âbout masturbation,
gang bangs, prostitution, anal eroticism,

attiiudesloward oral sex, impotence, norr
genital sensuality, male and flmale orqasm.

õircle jerks, conqûest, high school ana'*-"''
collegiate dating, abortion, breast fìxation,
peniJ size, etc.?
I think it is a good thing for straight
men to begin to explore th¿h minds and
bodies as a response to feminism and gay
liberation, but they have a long way to go.

4/11/74] y;rrüä",i,TJliJåJi:ï:Jffi titr
gay.
di, i u.ry good subject that should have
ä"i in"tuu"o in your Men,s Issue is the

. your
disappoints

speciar MEN issue [ìvrN,
me as male who is also
ove¡ the last few vears we have bean

;åä1?åïii:',:#,î?ii#,i,î',:

lî

nor¡existent as ever. without eve¡ mentioning faggotg Marty lezer. admits he.

didn't
lJcfore I say anything clse, I want to
for thc Mcn's Issuc IWlN 4llllj4l

say thanks

It's boautiful
Having saicl that, I want to make some
cÌiticisms" lJob Lamm's "Cautionary Note"
is about tho most important piece in the
s,holc issue, and you'vc stuck it at the end
as

if it's just

an aflerthought. The extent

"any women writerq poets, irr

see

tellectualg o¡ artists (they were ìhere- b.ut
..
I didn't se¿ them, i.e. take them seriously). . ."
Didn't he notice that
yu_gq:
a gay ghetto; Washington Square our c¡uís

G*"i:i:l

ing-

grðund?

.be ati*,inr.
the

"*iö

t,, ffi,,"iïiö#T:;*T"##lil,*
mean that men who find

femab;;;';ì'_"

n ho'" o,"*,,"r,'

ü

Ë;Ëþ.
f1rh

and ir vou wish celibate
--lï1-,ï31
roles of what it is to be a man or
or fag are a measure of tf*"iu ;;J

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themselves

,oo
ir¡

have reptessed over the years. This is a step

läi3,#:iïjiå,,åî:Tx'fj":ållå,.

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terms!), and ultimatety
-"'"ï
iilriä.rni"ur
to which thc Mcn's Movcmcnt is of, by, and
woman
-'*'
creating a new kind of social interaction
for uppcr midtllc class mcn is appalling to
between human beings so that the gay
rnc cven though I am oxtremely involved in
authorita¡ianism.
you¡..men" skirt sex like a disease: experience is not confined to dark alleys,
it and lovc its irlcas. Just ¡ead that piece you
urban,gay ghettos, smokey barg and, yeg
printcrl by Noel Tcpper! The whole article
obviously they are un.o*foriu6.
gay liberation meetings When men no
"ãi-'
is stifìingly hctcrosexual, cool bourgeois,
ceptualiiing tíremselves
rou"i Uáir*longer feel the need to affi¡m their straight", rîf,"fãi, ä?ä
pràferring
ancl gcncralistic. lt rcprescnts the worst
i."g. pã"f
"-it
ness, when "faggot" is not an ugly put"i
aspccts of rvhat thc Men's Movcment can
iheo¡ist ofreuoiuîion,
dowr¡ a lot of people will be happier and
gct into.
F-inalit,;;;iìäîäry not, about Bob
more free'
Lamm's õtãim ttrat ,.ri. i"r"irii, eö"
lror nrc, thc point of men's liberation is
-ALLEN Y9UNG I
Royalston,44A
liberation and men,s movements have been
to furthcr a social revolution by smashing
coopted. Has that argument ever carried
patriarcy antl the male sox role, We can
any weight against uioiker;s organizations
only bcgin to do that by giving up as many
t.t:uttt enjoyed your issue concerning
aniiimp-erialísts o¡ fltitJ Woiiãî""".""irf
rnalc privilcgcs as possible. Being cool and
*' Men's
-Liberation Affer reading about
Lamm might prontaUty ctreck i"t. ;h""-'
cornplaccnt irç I'm afÌaid, a distinctly
fo¡ the last few months I was
financial bãckãrs of frií o*"-ñ"* i"f,..f
dccadent, uppcr-class privilege. My dilemma
.Wopen's Lib
beginning to wonder if a male was entitled
for Social Research o; au";;r óolb;;.-in rny own lilc is how to unify the two
_CHARi'i õfriVelV to b¡eak out ofhis bonds also. Thanks!
t¡cnds of bcing radically antisexist but
_BRUCE CHRISTENSEN
also cxtremcly aware ôl the bourgeois lifeBoston, MA
Rochester, MN
stylc as opprcssive and horrible.
I have some uneasy feelings about the
I have always thought of WIN as a big
recent WIN Men's Issue. You obviously
hclp in trying to bring together these two
Reading Phil Berrigan's short article,
decided to exclude gay men from the issue,
typcs of raclical consciousness But the
[WIN, 4/1 8/74] on resourceful A¡nold's
acknowledging our prior cont¡ibution to
Inain articlcs in this issue didn't confiont
manner of dealing with prison violence
the pages of WIN. But on what basis does
it at alL That just reinforces people.s
brought back a memory still vivid in my
this exclusion occur? It is my belief that
criticis¡ns that the struggles against sexism
mind,
gay men, socialized as men ("making it',
ue only relcvant to upper middle class
I performed part of my alternate serat timeg often failing), would have some
pcoplc. I wish someone would write an
vice in the back ward of a state institution
thing to say about the male experience.
iuticlc dealing realistically with this prob.
for mentally retarded persons. The "in
You wrote that the issue was published
lcnr, ancl hclp people like me resolve our
mates" were profoundly retarded (Ie 0-2S)
f eeling of splitncss
adult males who had been grouped tògether
-JEI;F KEITH "to correct the dearth of creative response
by heterosexual men to issues raised by
Northhampton, MA
because of their purported aggressive and
the movements for women's and gay
hyperactive behavior.
Just a very quick letter to compliment
liberation," As a faggot, I feel I have to
The ward atmosphere was one of bedyou on your special issuo on Men. I was
say that the men writing in WIN didn't do
lam and random violence The badly underrccontly almost a statistic as a result of
a very honest job of responding to gay
staffed attendants relied upon fear to mairr
our patriarchal system- suicide-because
liberation. In fact, I wonder if any of
tain some degree of"law and o¡der", Vioof ignorance on my part. I'm not fully out
them have read any of our literature or
lations of any vestige of human dignity,
of nry ignorant bag but your article enlistened to us at all Joseph Pleck, for
regular physical brutality and sheer meantitled "My Malc Sex Role-And Ours"
example, says he was a failure in gym
ness were commonplaca
really got dorvn to the essence of the
class-but did he eve¡ get called..fairy"
I grew to respect greatly the rare staff
problem."Patriarchy, GUS & l" was running
or "tàggot". . .and what did such epithets
person who resisted this type of conduct,
a closc second to "My Male" since it gave
mean for his experience?
but more than that I admired the few in2 WIN

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appearance that he was retarded. He Was
-in excellent physical c he could not talk at all,'he could comj'
municate pretty well by gesture, and he
liked to keep himself neat- something
nearly impossible in the ward he was in and
a very ríue trait among his fellows. During
the summer months particularly, he liked
. to take à shower to cool down during the
day. Naturally, his wish represented'a break
in the wa¡d routine, and if he'persisted in
âsserting it with the attendants, he was
well aware that he'd get clobbered.
So the guy worked out a regular prâctice that not only got him his shower, but f'

thçy places of "rehabilitation" or "custpflial care" is a common one, .and the few

be

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"inmates" who manage "to get thet shit
tog'elher" are to be admired. -J. MURPHY
Cranston, RI

In your 3128174 issue on pg. 9 theie
is a very nice wood cut. However! If you
will look closely one of the banners

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says

"Socialsim means Brotherhood," What
abqut the sísfer holding up the whole thing?
_CINDY EDGERTON
Ambler, PA

Vol. X Number 16

May 2,1974

Vision and Steady Work: Some
Lessons for the 70's. . .

Robert

orroresmust ;::iî""ïiT:i""iiyi,J*:i"åñii,i"i
hea¡t of liberation-not onlv
:'--- "'

ho se be t w ee

This guy had no external indications in

."[äJ-"n,, movement is its aff'mation,
i.oär¿ in this case, of its predominanflv
;".ä;;*_"al nature. I don,t mean a dog_
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shit lrick-smeared from head to toe.
I guess the plight of the human beings
which society places in total institutions-

think of one of the "boys'' in particular.

our
and our failu¡es.
most crucial objection to the so_

a breaking down

roles between male and
t

ffiïii::î:Tffiffi #i"tråJf.,ff
ã"äii¡,1-r
growth

aþo prevented any attendant from laying
a fingei on hirn You guessed it-Arnold's

mates whose strength of spirit kept them
from being totally institutionalized'
Well as I said, Phil's article made me

Ross

Read Àny Good-Bgoks Lately?.,

Good-bye to AllThatAbbieSplitE: :. .. .. .*.,....."..
Anita Hoffman

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Dear Friends,

'Changes.

ERRATA: The photos with " Feeling the
Holes of Hundreds of Bulletts" in our
4118174 issue should have been credited

to Don Luce.
STAFF

PPS, We have come up with a painless way that people in the New York area
can contribute to this campaign. See p. 21 for details.

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maris cakars, editoi
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jezer,
marty
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Cover: Photo by Karl Bissinger

already being advertized for the same night¡ and what with one thing and
another all our plans were d¡scombobulated.
So it is time to turn again to you for help. By now most subscribers will
have received our fund appeal letter describing just what a bad hole we're in.
lnitial responte has been very good, but ry.e have a longway
- ' to go
: before:
reaching tt'tr $ZO,OOO we urg;n1ly Áeed to'contiluç.
Our policy for years has been to keep thgsubscription price within the
afforãable rahge oi people with low incäÈrêi.'As the lettei explains, incomel ....
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Over the past year we have printed all sorts of stuff.which mai' haVé de'.
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Now is the time your contribution really counts.
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Allen Ginsberg

After scrambling to get the April 4th issue prepared in time for the bus to
the city (and the piinter) we sat down, tog exhausted to talk at first. Then
Marty puta record o,n the player and the phone rang. JrHi! This is Occupied
New Paltz calling!'i-A group of students at the college in nearby New Paltz
had taken over tie administration building and called usto ask if any of.gg, -'would care to come over and run workshops or something. Susan cpmmented,
i'And w. thought it was the apethetic 70's!l'
So while we sat discussing whèther or not we'could get up the energy for
this new adventure (we wound up visit¡ng them the following afternoon) the
conversation, as it often does, got onto our financial plight. Once again the
'. ,question of whether or not theprintèr will print since.we'couldn't send him
i check this.week came up. Maris was going to call.one subsbriber to ask for
, a substantial contribution to get us out of our present particularly tight bind
but the person he was trying to reach wasn't home.
We almost had a benefit lined up fol: the middle of April but f ust as things
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rVision
a
Steady

rk:
Some Lessons forthe 70's

eternity
ln the Greek myth, Sisyphus must spend. his,
a
mountain,lllp€'
up
a
boulder
in Hades pushing

back
Wf't"n f't. nears tñe crest, the great stone rolls
and.again'
again'
begin
''
åã*"
.
-" i"¿ he mustthese deñoralized
times-that efforts
ön. tãnt.s-in
wrest control of their
;;;;; men and women tofaceless
forces.of urban
"f
seemingly
the
ãå"Jüiä"ittãm
a sim.ilar fate'
to
conáemned
ãä;;;J stasnation are
and explode onlv
ouit¿
ä;äi bffi,I"i'päõürii '"ã'ev hopelessness' a funk
,n¿.t a ctouá of
;"
of
"' cvnicism.
íhät" prttations of energy- and despair present a
conirast to as recent a time as'l 96/' when

Ë;rff;;i"¿

stark

this countrv kept fire
ffi";;;l;terv major city innights
of anger and pride'
iong'*tt'"t
iñ;;;;
ffi¿.iì
no.m.ista ke'
cvc-les'
VäinËä ;;'not iãóàtit¡ue
.Make
eacl^infl*
revolt.are
poputai
åf
¿o*nt
;Ë;;;;;
what-came before' lt
enced-one way or another-by

tot"thin's like faith tosav this'

äT'"";'o'neiåtitt, evidencJthat the revolutionary
b,it lrt"i" is also some
And if so, it is here that we must
.i.li. ìi
to
"utulative.
Sisvphus.as a useless metaphor
fr,lvttl
åË'åã iñ.
"t
in'Ämerica' The Gre.ek scenario
iiíuution
;Ë;;;t;;;
pl
ät ;;õ ;ì*cã1, ex cit- Sisvphus wasn' t goi ng to
i

perio-d to another;
transference of eiperience from one
of com.mon
movements
ttr¡s sò in social

ä;;üüi;
interests') when
;ä""t;;Aiil roitt',"¡r own collective
the newspapers and the
;Ëi;;;ï hittori cal writing
markinË ot t-he breat upon
iiurar¡es are all filled with
üiJ'öi""¡i ¡i ãutv to lose the record of the struggles
älÊu,j''ut"". Ánd because it is easy.to lose them'
view each task as if it
precedent or tradiwithout
ong
entirely n.w

;;;;;;äñLi'.iãt.t¡t"s
**"'"n

tion to help'guide

o.ne's

work' This may lead to arro'

others' or
sance. an overweenlng refusal to lèarn from
errors'
avoidable
of
duplication
n"ó¿tttt
iã
.- sliãrtt popular strusg.les are not well-served by
deforrãi-mãaíu of tot*u-nl*tion or history., they
communlcatlon'
person-to'person
oend sreatly on

öìäËt'*ãttäti tåch younfer

;î;; ;;i;i'.¿;

ones about how the

pá'ånT;i;t¿h their children aboüt the

giåü
t"rtt in which thev participated'
'' -C"éàntty,"sa student at tÉe Univei'sitv of

ryi9hfc1 't

fad
inteivieweciã veteran of the Detroit automobile

organization of the uAw-clo' Here
tñe interview w¡th Jim c' who dis
at Ford's
;;tãä th;;;;iv union meetings of w9¡1, Thirtiesr
late
the
is
time
plani.
The
õ;;br;"
and
lile may have moybe 20 peop.le.a.t the me"eting'
o
conference
n¡m
cal
1ead9r'
ïi"'iåí¿ii, if vou wont io
irí¡m the coal mines down in Pennsylwnio
ø" introduced os Mr. Smith, ond he.would
'norï

ä;ì;;;úúìhe

ä;;;t*"îäm

;r;;;;r¿
'iii'äia

orgonizotion

¡, the lhnited Mine llorkers'
'
'i* *øîi,
He would be an older.mon than we
,àry
i*rt
';;;ld b;.: .'. I remember Michoel lloodman who was
io, us and he came from.t.h.e coal
a member of the Un¡ted.M.ine
was
Auí n"
L'
Wirpers. He wos an organizer sent out by lohn

inítitl
-minies åìstrirri

'i;;ì;t; irgii¡t" othõr industries And John L'
running
lliíti"l¡"i"d in the clo because-he-h9d.a
it
thousht
L
of
AF
orrout'
L
o'f
iiiä'rniïiitF
'*äi
those leoders' lieutenants
He sent out
in
ond those ore the people who addressed us
woutd
we
set ond
ihi'rr"i¡rii,îrã'tLiJií inä tnirgllivins: securitv'
better
o
for
i;;';i,-t;w"r" i"ò¿ra

of

t'óãïr'äum.

his,

øïtlîi

been
ríogrt, better co-nditions Because we hod

abused. .

By
4 WIN

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rt Ross

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we would be' ' '"
"He would be an older man than
organization of
ttre
ttr{i
t.iùni
it
s" iiv¡äs,l¡t ð^ut
D"pttssigl
9¡ land
the CIO did not pop out äf th"
Michigan
1199
th"tt,.at
Right
o*.
i"""-.l"t .f iftu
óf
e' face-to'
Å;;"" rt,-t;y;' j i'i c., ondgeneration mad

face, the link to the next. ,(The struggles sf the miners
paid off in Detroit as well.) This is an example of hisùorical continuity that worked. Our more recent experience is less successful-though c-ertainly not de'
void of the same general relations. Ône aspect of the
experience of the'New Left is an example,,Bf this.
ln 1 964 Students for a Democratic Society was
two years old, still small. lts view qf both the Communist and nonCommunist Left was comprêssed into
the notion that both were "Old Left," both preoccupied with issues which were irrelevant, practices
which were obsolete, theories which had failed. Based
on the experience of one of the chapters (at Swarthmore College) which häd engaged in an alliänce with
blacks in Chester, Pennsylvania, the organization
judged that mass radical politics could be'organized
amongst the poor people of Ameriga-both blacks
and whites alike. Community orgaffizing of 'poor
people became the strategic thrust of large and influential parts of the SDS leadership.
The resulting series of projects had originally been
funded by a granf from the UAW for "economic research and action." This was part of the continuity:
younger sons âhd daughters of UAW leaders were
members.of SDS, and through them there. was access
to and some iupport from this sector of the labor
movemenl But the lack of militancy of¡the contemporary trade unio4 leadership led the members of
SDS to look elsewhere than labor, elsewhère than the
traditional working class in its analysis of potential \
radicalism. Yet, as we embarked on community organizing in order to acliieve, in the words of a working
paper of that time, "an interra'èial movement'of the
poor,". we were warned that it is very hard, if not
impossible, to organize for political action the most
desperately poor members of.the sbciety. And we
were further warned by older leftists and trade unionists, that students on a summer vacation, or middle
class gradUates making an indefinite, but still temporary commitment to such organizing,;work, would not
be effective. And finally, we were told that our spartan
style of lifg with little or no money to support ourselves, crowded living conditions, añd intense, totalistic
preoccupation with the organizing projects would
burn us out, exhaust and disillusion us.
Nevertheless, in the summer of 1964, even as
thousands of white students were working with $NCC
in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, SDS-1n'embers
were worki4g in a number of Northern cities to orgànize what later became community unioñs.
It was a momentous time in the historyl of our republic. Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, three civil
rights workers, were killed in Mississippi; in August,
the Gulf of Tonkin nonincident occassioned a Congressional Resolution which Lyndor¡ Johnson used to
authoríze war in Vietnam; and LBJ himself ran a
peace campaign against Barry Goldwater. At the
Democratic Convention the Mississippi Frpedom
Democratic Party,' made up of integrated'bivil'.rights
challengers to the Dixiecratic regulars, was refused
seating at the meeting. Never again weteyouthful
civil rights militants to work so closellt with established politics.
Through that summer, students in SDS laboriously
made contacts in the poor neighborhobds in which
they had taken up residence. ln Chicago an effort was
made to organize unemployed Appalachian migrants.
Names were painstakingly gathered by leafletting at

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the office of the unemployment compensation bureau.
Then one of the proiect rnembers would visit the
person, trying to convince him or her that through a
united organization something could be done'to prosmall
vide decent jobs at decent pay for everyone.
'A
meeting would be called, and the stúðent ofgänizers l
would pick people up and biing them to it;'the meet'
ing would be long and frustrati¡g. As the hot months
wore on, the self-blame of the people emerged as
one of the largest obstacles to organizing. Too often,
the organizers thought, collective political actioñ was
made impossible by the peoples' feeling that they
themselves were responsible for their plight. To coun-.
"
teract this, the slogan was adopted: ln Unity There is

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Strength.
As the summer ended most of the project members went back to their colleges; the one or two who
stayed on felt that a different strategy was needed.
The transition, which was successfully managed only
with tremendous effort, resulted in the formation of
JOIN Çommunity Union, based in Chicago's Uptown
area: Even then, it was only years latei that the participants began to understand some of the truth in
the criticisms which had been,giVeri to the4, prior to
their effort. The consuming and-spartan existence
wøs conducive to burning people out; transient students do not make good or even adequate organizers;
the most desperately poor people ore frequently too
disorganized personally to sustain political leadership.

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The gap between the làst generation of organizers and
the present one had been so sharp that we could not
take their knowle_dge and use it. And this discontinuity
made our efforts fragile; five years later none of the
seven or eight projects were left.
Those were different, less mobilized times: but
another part of the lesson still holds. Outside of the
gleaming corporate world, where offce furniture
magically appears out of overhead budgets and dup
l]caqio¡ machinery blinks and hums likè figments óf
Buck Rogers' imagination, the work of organizing
and sustaining organization is painfully slow and hard.
But even when the right moment and competent
political work and a deeply felt issue do mobilize
people, as is frequently the case, the work is just

the system. to which even the landlord is enthralled.
Third, the tenants, movement, reminds us that
,

ordinary people can organize themselves, can devise
winning strategies, can advance their own cause. As
we move into the decade of the Seventies this lesson
is perhaps the most important. The temptation to

depend on ex.perts, sqcial planners, or government,
action to initiate social reform wilÍ be ãnd has been
very greal There is a fear of the mass of people in .
America, especialiy among the educated än¿ãfiuent.
Solid work in such movements as these makes such
fear foolish, evên mean.Many people of goodwill note the problems involved in these lessons, and they turn'their efforts into
more orthodox-that is, routinized and conventional_
channels of work. They work for this piece of legislatjon or that; they take up employmeni with this'public agency or that politjcal liberai,s administration;
the-y try to wring from the ,,system',-which they
claim they are "within"-the meliorating action whÍch
action-oriented popular movements havõ only partially won. They turn to the State: they worÉ ior reform.

they do not run high risks: they do.) And they have

tended to be open for volunt4ry participation in contrast to the specific need for tenants of a given structure to be unified. Thus, not only the most militan!
informed, enthusiastic þeople neêd be recruited-but
the least likefy tènant must be too. This requires intensive political work.
. Second, the tenants' movement is filled wÍth clasrc
reminders of the p¡tfalls into which organizing c,an
fall. Excessive legalísm can kill enthusiãsm; exlessive
rigidity around one tactic-the strike-can deprive the

tenants' group of some extremely potent auxiliary
t¿ctics. Utopianism, too, [s forbidden by a careful
reading of the economic situation in slum housing:
taking over ownership of even an abandoned building
requires greateffort and the mastery of coníplex programs to gain the capital necessary to run the building.
Study of this movement, then, is another reminder
that ch4nge sought on a small scale may, despite both
líberäl and conservative claims, be harder than change
sought on a larger scale. For many tenants, gaining
victory oúer the landlord in a struggle for power iJ
confounded or even useless because the real villain is

results

,

of reform which redistributes nothing tofhe

.

ooor but symbols ond slogons. Even while the

federal government, for example, is spendimg mÒney
on public housing, it is spending far more on,sub'
sidizing middle and upper,income housing tlirough
tax laws. Consciously or ñot, the reforms of the era
of Big Government have yielded free enterprise for
the pòor,. but a welfare state for the ¡¡ch.

.

But_our post-war history shows, especially in housurban quagmire, that fr:om
Washington to Manhatt¿n the goiernmentaf slructure
is incompetent. I do not mean that individuals are
stupid or venal-altlfough surely many are; rather, that
urban reform has failed and is failing to scilve problemç Name the program, and the dismal recoid can
be produced: public housing; urban renewãl: community action; model cities; where are the results
now that we need them?
ln23 yeaisthe public housing p.ograr has.i.aileå

jle
3¡d the attendant

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to construct the number of units projected for its
first five; those it has constructed äre'some of the
greatest disasters of social policy of the century.
Pruitt-lgol in SL Louis, Robert Taylor homes in
Chicago, these fortressôs of horror would be bad evån

Now it is an event oÊno srilail social importance
that liberal democracy. has become institutionalized
æ an ideology appending to the large publip bttreaucracies in Western Capitalísm. Since the New
Deal in this country, there have bedr relaqively clear
"Darties" in regard to the future of capitalism. Oneihe unreconstructed "royal¡sts"-has defended, and.
continues to defend the rights of capital in the face
of all social need. ifhe other, which has been ascendent since Roosevêlt is "enlightened" and understands
that reform for perservation is in the long-run interest of the royalists, as well æ in the short-run interests of vaiious affected constituencies who must seek
the power of the statb to compensate for the skewed
justice of the market. Those with this sécgnd.perspeciive, but withoutjhe personal ties or históry in the
lareô institutions of corporate capitalism, have tended,
toäluster around public bureaucracies: social wel'
fare, education, public health, etc. Rut'somewhereduríng the Second World War ühe reforming .zgal of
their constituency melted.'There is no social move'
ment of reforming liberalism. Left stranded, his'
torically, in charge of social-yrelfare institutions,
many oïçhgse adhinistratorl have "displaced goals"
thatis, they have co¡ne to see the survival of their
institulioni, 4nd the possibilities for careers like

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how presently disturbed are'the: urban managêrs'at
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sit-ini and tenanús' squat-ins. ':
ó"rpitt ir'" piiråiit, iñL ùni"tt"in[y of resulßul'
the diffculty and slowness of progredí the rôute to
social iustice and better life in the cities requires

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begun.

Consider the tenants, movement of the S¡xt¡es
and Seventies. Such a prodigious amount of energy
of hundreds of p,eople: passing out petitions, lear:n'ing
the intr¡cacies of housíng and legal codes, fighting off
eviction- notices, demonstrating at slumlordi homes,
contactírig the mass media to get a ,,mention" of the
struggle, running out at midnight to find a magic
marker to finish the poster announcing tomoriow's
meeting, and, after a while realizingthat very little
has been won, that life in the slum is still precarious,
dangerous, dirty, and depressing and that many poor
people are resistant to organizirrg efforts. So muóh
work,
little to show for it.
' 'Yet,sowherever
people are working seriously at the
grass roots in or for a peoples' movement, there is
much to be learned from their experience and much
that needs to be thoughtfully analyzed, recorded, and
transmitted. When we look at the tenants, movement,
a number of "lessons" emerge. Here are some examples;
-'First th.e requirements of unity and the compleiity
of the legal situation facing tenants require vast
amounts of work before a rent strike can be undertaken. This is important to notice because the experience of many actívists in the struggle for Black
Liberation and against the War in Vietñam has been
somewhat'differenL These have very frequently involved symbolic târgets in which the act¡v¡sts d'¡d
not risk everyday things-like eviction from their
homes. (This should not be interpreted to mêan that

. theirs, as the definition of the (incrementally) good
society. So, increasingly, this sort of liberalism is
bureaucratic in base, ãnd oriented to orderly.i¡stitutional functioning as content. Hôw far hêve.we .
come from the more or less humane ge¡esis pf this i
ideology? Cons,ider how ret¡ospectively sympathetic '
we
.r artw¡th the big auto sit'ins of the Thirtiesi and

and orivilege which caused the problems tä Uegin
with: Thetdo not represent the victories orJhe estab'
äif'r.nt óf popularly based \Ðower: They'are the

change that is initiated from the bottom, and that .
embõdies the power of masses of people, organized.
This preference for the rougher path of social move'
ments for positive,changes ìs not a product of tan. . ... trum or derangement, or even, as some commentators say, of "blúer díenation.i' lt is a choice'based
on experience.
Glancing over the tenants' movement, lh€n' qe
.'. ,Jrãve.seen some of the things to be learned from it;
ä-sorf of iearning that can be critical tó future move'
which neilected past experiqnce at their peril;
,ments
'and
we suggé3ted that despite the problems*êncountered by tÉã movement, activity like it which is based
on popülar organization and stçuggle by the ppople
affected is, in ihe long run, the better path to take.
But the reader may wonder at the tone, the use of
conditional terms, qualifiers, and the somewhat de
fensivçityle-ôf 'tl'rese éomments. Ahd the defense of
t'he value of the movement has been somewhat ab'.

stract,

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if retreating into generality protects from

an admission of concrete failure. The reasons for this
can be stated clearly, though: We get no guarantees

we undertake this kind of work. The tenants'
' .' when
movement is most probably both reformist-in the
sense

that it struggles for changes which turn out to'

be relati.vely minor-and a potent resource-in

that

:

if-they housed enough people.

Urban renewal has redistríbuted amenities from
low income residents to middle and upper middle income residents of the city; it has redistributed tax
benefits froin workers to the middle class; it has torn
down more housing than it has built; it has failed in
its own goals to attract middle class whites back to
th,e city despite the costs of thq attempt; it has contributed to crowding and the sfread oi jhetto neighborhoods even as it claimed to deter them.
'
The community action programs have been
stripped of funds aqd freedom, leaving some new
black leadership, but little in the wayóf service, or
help. lts successors,'model cities, invite residents to
participate in the deployment of funds too small to

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make a difference,
ln the meantime, as the tenants' movement is
sharply aware, the economics of slum real estate and
the soaring property taxes in the cities lead to abandonment of buildings, and make the profit in cheap
housing dependent on the neglect of maintenance.
lncreasingly, the cities become economic dependencies of the federal government, collecting points
of too many people with too few of the skills which
the economy is willing to compensate adequately.
There are those who will attribute these faílures

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to-technical matters; but this writer's judgement is
different.r Planning and reform efforts faíl-because
they are subject to the same dreary parade of power

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it trains people for the use of their own power. For
the sake of the latter, we engage the former.

.. When r,ye act in the present, we make tomorrow,s
history. Nor rhe hisrory of Hidtory_t¡," Aig D..irìons,
the Finland Srariohs, the Gulf of Íonkin_äther
we "
create the experience from which we and our successgr: .^1n sift.and sort, and from which the material
of
rnar Btgger History is made. We do small tasks
so that

-C,f.uj:r

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ones^will be possible. ln his recent essay on
Left, a veteran Communist organizer, Gil

l.*ex.pres:9:.a plr! of the
dilemma this represents

¡b-r:en

tor

radical:.',The fight for reforms, whether econom.tc or political opens the door to reformist
r.hlnktng: but to fail to fight for them closes
the door
to a mass movement." (Gil Green, The New Left:
Anarchist or Marxist? làternationãl publiiheis
Ny,
1.971.) The smail tasks may be ;ri.i/;h;
;;* ,utrrial for another Senator,s presidentiaí U*rnìåt;
out
they may, too train the oiganizerc of nr^t'yrui',
,p_
surge of potent rebell¡on.

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a.

Th9 big city newspapers record a steady percola_

tton ot tenants, activity; it is a movement at the grass
roots. lt is not what one would comfortably call
a
mass movement as ygt, or a revolutionary
one. lndeed,
one wonders whether we are straining reátity by
iso-

Iating-tcnan rs' struggles, analyzing tfrãm i.påratefy
trom the great movement for black liberatíon in
tire
cities. lt is, perhaps, best seen as a manifestation
of
D.tacK and mrnority and poor white restiveness
within
thesc ncw reservations called cities. yet there is
e.n9us! working class and lower middle class
Þar_
ticipation in it, and enough focat coniernãroln¿ tfre
problem of housing itself, for it to be discussed
in its
own nght.- I his is especially true if we keep the larger
context of the advance and retreat of the broader social movements in view.
Because so many of the tenants, unions have
been
organrzed by young leftists, it is critical to note that
tor a lew years there have been large groups of stu_
dent and former srudenr leftists whï üøeiritán¿ tfre
institutional and class isolation of their iamóis-Uase¿
move ments. Most successful on elite campuses,
the
student Left has been basically middle class in'back_
ground, and also in its style and concern. One
does,
not condemn it by observing, however, that a broader
soctat base is needed for change; moreover, the
re_
quirements of justice demand"it. for mani iåtirt

th:

,tr-

organi zi ng. of. renan rs remai ns a'sti aí"gy

!ì: puts
which
these radicals in touch with people r,ùiïh
y,lpT lf:y woutd not orherwise work; it Uüitas, ttr.y
soltd base for organization, rather than the
..I€€r,.â
"sentimental" or ,,symbolic" nature of much leítist
student agitation.
of course, is that a larger vision. or a
- The danger,challenge
fundamental
to existing poü"r, wiil Ëe lost
rn the complex minutia of everyday work. Many
former radicals in the labor movement, fó, ,iårptr,
seem to have traded in their radicalism in return ior'
a. sense of concrete accomplishment. yet,
if Green is
right, and I believe he is, tire risk must Ud tuten.
. The protections available to avoid the trivialization of tenant organizing-as any other area oisocial
struggle-are easier stateà than implemented. For
example, leftists say, usually to one another, ,,keep
politics up front;" ,,build consciousness aboit
capitalism;" "avoid overly technical, non_struggle
strategies." These are all even hardei to hee¿ ñ'nen
there ís a pause or a retreat in popular militinly.
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Then, it seems, all one can do is hang on, wait for a
more propitious moment.
ln modern America especially, holding to a vision
of popular democracy and econômic justice is made
ever so much more difficult by the safuration
of thè
culture with imagês of bogus freedom. Wt
tlurnun
freedom is defined as the ðhoice of auto colár,
"n style,
orvinyl rop, the political organizer ¡s facãã wíttr hoi
only the power of the economically privileeed and
the.poli.tically enrrenched; he faces, ioo, iËrltrr"
wntcn dtvtdes his constituency and weaí will.
Tom H.ayden's recent book on the lndochina war, for
exam.ple, is called The Love of possesi¡on, trà
O¡r_

ease With Them.

Given this situation,-the veterans of the New
Left,
the younger organizers involved in the tenanls, movément indeed, any radical or peoples' advocate must
do his or her work with great cale and foieìÀought.
ln.lhe currenr period, esþecially, the tempiaiioni for
dtfferent kinds of strategic excess are manv. The
problems of reformism ñave been mentiãni¿.
fhe
other temptation involves a kind of flight frðm the
through what is sometiñles called the
'.present_reality
new culture." Escaping from the oppressive present,
ll.eerng trom the historical ,,now," many former
ac_
t¡vists see the future of the new cultriJus tt,. frtrr"
of the revolution. Through orgasmic ,rii.. ,n¡nhibited sjyles of dress anã peqTonat r..taiio,irt,ipr,
and a refusal to be taken uþ in the mundanã concerns
of "stra.ight" society, these cultural revolutionaries
symbol¡cally choose to live in their version, of an
exotic new society, rather than transform ihe old
one.

.But the flamboyance of rock music and the new
culture just doesn't speak to the needs of the
Þoor or
the hard-pressed lower middle class residents óf the
big cities. On the other hand, strict enforcér*t of
housing codes, or a f ve-dollar reductíàn in ir.t"*¡llr
not aff.ect the general conditions of urban life. The

ra_dicalism of the Seventíes, for which the .iperi.n".
of the tenants' movement óan be a fertile ü;;;;;--

must be balanced somewhere between avant_siide'
and exotic culture, and petty meliorism. ftii*ill
not be easy. The two poles seem to be relatôã: ín
desperate rejection

of reformism, the American Left

repeatedty fl¡rts with exoticism. Combining vision
with
steady.work; that is the task before us. fw".tvã y.ars
ago, when SDS wrote ¡ts port Huron Statement,
it,
ended with these lines: ,,lf we appear to see['iÀe
un_
attainable, as it has been saíd, tËtjn let ¡t ¡e [nown
ttrat
we do so to avoid the unimaginable."
. ln the decade that followãd, despite the rebirth of
American radicalism and rhe giowth of
ôopulii ,trug_
gles, the unimaginable trappeñed.
Àrãrii"i,år, in Viernam, committed barbaroúi act after UirUãróui
acr und.er three governments and in the face óf it,
,årt
uruve domesfic opposition to a modern foreign policy.
r en.years rrom now it will be
1994. By then, if the un_
attainable has not become more real, \iho lñows what
bestiality the unimaginable will hold.

Rob.ert Ross hos been octive in rodical politics
for
well over a decode. He now teoches soc¡oiogî
at Ctarp
Ulivglslty, This orticle is the foreiard-io'lZ'nirt,
un¿
the. Urban. Ftousing Crisis e¿. by

Stiinài aîìå'iordt

and qvqitqble from The New press, 9200 lsloñd
Lake

Rd,, Dexter, Michigon 4Sl 30.

lReadA

na
watch the show of the century.
WAR AND POLITICS, Bernard Brodie, Mocmillon,

From time to time, lUtN asks some interesting people
þ send a iist of books they'd recommend for movement folks to read, We o¡k for'three books published
during the lost yeor but ore glad to hear obout what'
ever impressed the responders enough to want to
share with othe¡s. This year we sent out o lbt of letrcrs to a diverse group, and we got oyer 30 diverse

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answers,

lf there is any trend ot all that can be seen in this
list, it's a fascinotion with background ond roots,
Now that people are reoching on understonding of
who they qre, they'seem to be looking at how they
got thot way, So there are lots of historicol books,
books about sociqlism and pacifrsm ond rodicolism
and stroight post-wzr politics. Also there ore lots of
spirituol books, on religion and mysticìsm and morolity. An/ there ore books about women aqd homosexuols, in all aspects of their lives,
But there ¡s littlg frction, and even less p:oetry.
Most of these books qre serious ond heovy, not at all
the k¡nd of book you would toke into the bath with
you, Not the sort you crin read o few chopters of to
relax before follÌng asleep at night, Perhaps next yeor
we'll osk for a doytime and a nighttime list.

dimrmarnent and arms contrô1, and o{ tþe.ories of

militaly strategy.

THE POLITICAL THEORY OF ANARCHISM, April
Carter, Harper' Torchbooks, I 971,.$L60.
For years I have felt that there was no adequate introduction to anarchism. This bqok fills that g4p. lt
is also essential reading for those who have read a
lot about anarchism already, since it covers many
issues more systematically than other books have.

FOR PEACE AN.D JUSTICE: PACIFISM IN AMERTennessee Press, I 971, Í1 1.95,
Although there are several good surveys of the peace

movement in the 20th century, this is the first definîtive history of any part of that period. Chatfield has
done an enormous amount of original research on t
'the movement in the first World War and the period
up to World War ll. He came up with thousands of
fascinating details-the intricacies of the struggle within the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the 1930's b.etween pacifists and violent revoultionaries, for example; and the fact that, at the age of 40, Richard Gregg
. gave up the practice of labor law to study agriculture
and work on a farm.
THE MORAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF
MAHATMA GANDHI, Raghavan N. lyer, Oxford
University Press, 1 97j,
I haveiead lots of books on Gandhi and believe this
is the best of the lot.-.lyer is fair and undogmatic. He

THE TALE OF KtElJ, By Nguyen Du (Trons' Huynh
Vintoqe $'1.95.
Sonh Thona).
"nãt¡onat
ãlassic (reviewed WlN, 3121 17 a);
Vietnam's
first available translation for Americans.
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE, By Arthur
Woley; Vintage í1.95.

Two-famousìollections (1919, 1941 ) of classic
Chinese poems, reprinted

Sue

& Henry

Bass

THE ALMAÑAC OF AMERICAN POLITICS-(|974)'
Michael Borone, Grant Lliifuw, ond Douglos Motthews,
Gambit, 1974, poperbock, Î6,95,
A giant treasury of information on the US Congress'
Detailed political profiles of every member oj,Congress and'the constituencies they represent. This
6ook belongs near the tv set of everyone planning to

\

lCA, University of

fan Barry

in paperback (1971) in
time for recent China boom; most of poems translated from Po Chu-i, twice exiled for critipizing T'ang
"golden age," Vietnam's most popular Chinesç poet;
other classics from 3rd century BC through.lTth cen'
tury AD.
UOUE FROM THE WAR: VIETNAM VETÊRAN$
NETTHER VICTIMS NOR EXECUTIONERS, bv
Robert loy Lifton, Simon & Schuster $8'95.
A study of VVAW "rap groups," and preliminary in'
vestigaiion into the psychology of warriors,and "antF
warriors"-soldiers turned against wâr-in light of the
American lndochina experience; Lifton is gifted at
shattering myths, including those of his own profession, in a career of searching America's colfisions with
Asia for the root truths.

973,

After reading this book I understand why Brodie is
considered Ámerica's greatest military thinker since
Alfred Thayer Mahan. There are many arguments in
.. this book that pacifists will reject but none that we
can afford to ignore. A brilliant and thoroughly entertaining discussion of American strategy in the last
four wars, of the causes of war, of the prospects for

stresses ttreliela.tions"ii i þ between Gand

h i'

imoral

a n

his political tho-ught but crìticizes Gandhians who
have rnáde axûgme demands on human nature as
thdugh tt''e öáiafiiun sfstern,.was..a sort of moral

d

,

;èórlü;i"ntorãõhirles ntlas course.

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LIVING HISTORICAL FARMS HANDBOOK, John
T. Schlebecker ond Gole E. Peterson, Smithsoniqn

lnstitute Press, I972;ovoilqble from the US Govern-

-

"

ment Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, 65d.
A historical farm is a museum opeñ to the public
which preserves the agriculture of a particular historical period. This book, first of all, is a guide to the
more than 50 historical farms and agricultural mùseums alfeady in existence in the US and Canadà or
in preparation. lncluded are a farm at Old Sturbridge
Village, Mass., that preserves the New England agriculture of 1840; the Berkeley Plantation in Charles
City, Va; Living Historical Farms, lnc., in Des Moines,
lowa, which when complete will consist of three historical farms representing midwestern agriculture in
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the 'l 840's, around 1900, and in 1970;and
the ranch
rnuseum at the University of Texas at
Lubbock. The
book also gives pointers ôn how t" *ì ,p
i,tistorical
farm, many of which are applicabie to ;tãriing
"
uny
kind of museum. tt is espeääilv sr,i.*jãn ilna_

raising.

Eric tsentlev
I do.read quiíe a few new books, but on ihe
other
hand nearly alway: find,or" oiä oått'or'oiner
moi"e
tmportant to me. This includes ofd books
I recliscover and old books I discover for ìhe
firsttime.
?ytl".e 1972-4,.the author who has most stimulated
me tnto rethinking certain fundamentals
is S.G.F.
Þrandon-all his books_nearly none of which
is easy
to gom_e by ín rhis freq rich lánd. probabiy,-üy
or7"!l1itr.yo_u c?.Lcer rire paperback;iri;i ãr n¡,
lEsus AND THE ZEA L?TS, Scribnii, g1o.bo
Day pubtished his ,íshàckiiet,ïRiÀt
quickty ter ir go ort ãi
bur
JESUS
öii'r,t.'

|l"jl.ll¿

"" or

My second favorite subject of the period_after
the
reassessment of Christianity_has 6een
women_and
I,he.reassessmenr of them.

written

fi

**rãìitlä';;;"

thar my topic'was gay tibeiiiion.l I huu.
oeen readtng all the books on thal I learn
more, on
cerraín books on *ãrLî, not
lp.T::r¡r"]ir\fr3f
atways books that deal with female homosexuáfity.)
one book has been a bridge.for me Urì*ããl'äv
t*o
subjects of religion and fJmíninitv, unã t¡,ii'*i,
r. lþipg{,wtslssus MARRTÈD?. Harper
\!!l!W
R2ry,$5.95.
A.mong rhe books on women I i¡ave
1!d
rearned a tot Trom I would put &rolyn Heilbrun,s
TOWARD A RECOGNIT.ION OF ANDNdEùNV,
îí,s,s very high. r^{s_o find mléir-eãíne ua"r
r.o stmone de Beouvoir,s SECOND
SEX, Môdern
h.ere

fyy!,
r,t s 4' e 5 whi ch ncidãñiai
v' leããs r¡ent
!! :[l G-,r
book on otd age_t can hardty biing myse'íf
llr:
l:i
ro wflre the misraken English title, TitE
$

i

r

CõUtjVe

OF AGE, Putnom, $'t0.00, wtrict¡ änlviù*årï,
,o
me Lom¡ng o! Age in Sqmoo. you can telflhat

any-

one thinks of women or of homose"uuts Oy
árting:'
how d'you like old women? n"* ¿,v*iilLãW
homosexuals? (Unfortunately, Simáne ¿r'SJuJuo¡r.
oron't.have access to much maferial on the latter
group.)

LT! þ_t me tecommend one ñeglected classic: THE
BRooK
or not, tt

ryE.RtrH by Georse
rs ¡n

Mi,r;;.

print_Liveright, 97.95.

^;'d,"újìeve

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new iournals: HTSTORY OF CHILDHOOD qUAR'
TER'LY, 2315 Broodway, NYC 10024, an! FEMINtST SîUD| ES, 41 7 Riverside Drive, NlÇ.1 0-0?5'
Both are only 3-4 issues old, and chock full of fasci nati ng históri cal/ psychologica l/anthropological
material. While on iournals, let me sound sQme
praise for GAY SÙNSHINE, PO Box 40397, San
.Froncisco.
941 40: for some time now each issue has
r.uiri"¿ un int"ñi"tl plionli tìt"rarvlse^uiil intèrl'
view with a gay arti;tithe one Allen Young did with
Ginsberg (Jan.i Feb. '73) is nothing less than a masterpiece.

Noam Chomskv
IYE^IWßTED ríntlW, Doug Dowd, WÌnthrop,

Ís.9s.

TH E A NA RC H I ST C O L LE CT t

Life Editions, tnc.
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fl!4o'r"

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pantheon,

FALSE PROMISES, Stonley Aronowitz, McGrawHilt, $1Q.00.
THEIW

AND

US, /ames Matles ond
James Higgins.
unpleasant to make invidíous dístinetions.
could easily name several others from
whñ'i;r;
learned a good deal.

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Karen Durbin

Barbara Deming

Michele Clark

Feminist books have meant the most to methis year..
Many more than three of them. But let me mention:

THE JOYFUL COMMUNtTy by Benjomin
Zabtocki,

THE

llns,!¡n,

f1.95.

SEX by Etizqbeth GoutlDovis,'Penguin,

$1.45.

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This is a book about the thriving Bruderhof
commune ín America, ¡ts history anã its prãseni.'eut
it
sheds a tot of tight on ail effortsäi-ã,iräînitv
uril¿_
ing why one wanrs ole, y!.ar
tñã'påvä#i *r.,v
intentional comm un ities ra I I apart.
"rÀ Asrti'Ãääing
g"g.tr, say, about China, I nniirreJ t L'ãÅãïitn u
reeilng of both envy and scepticism. Envy_because
I wanr ro be part of a joyful community so
much.
Scepticism-because l,m'not sure l;m aín
oi'*¡lling
to pay some of the prices.
SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK by Doris
Lessing,

A sister told me, " l've just read The First Sex and
I'm not a Christian any longer." I was surprised, read
the book, and am nõt a Christian any longer mvself.
BEYOND GOD THE FATHER, TOWARD A PHI.
LOSOPHY OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION, Mary Doly,
Beocon, $8,95,
As Mary Daly says, "if God is male, then the male is
God." Once one allows oneself to look atrthis truth,
one wonders and wqnders at oneself for seeing it no
sooner. (Daly writes, "Why indeed must'Gbd' be a
noun? Why not.a verb, the most active and dynamic

Knopf, î6.95.

of all-Being?")

WOMAN-HATING by Ahdrea Dworkin, Dutton,

cetting around ro asking rhe quesrion,
l-oj_1e
comes up with a book addressing jusr'
iî:,t_.f^.-r.rjlc
rnar questton. I his one is about how a middle_'ciass
mother of four children, wife of a ¿oãtãi'"ãrnes
ro
terms with herself as woman and person
ai ,i¿¿t"age. Jt is v.ery heavy,-powerful, smart,ãnJ
on this list particuiartv oécauieifis
"n.àurug_
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$6.95.

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Tells (as The First Sex does) some of the story of the
long vengeful war that has been yvaged against women
since that.perhistoric time in which divinity was seen

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female and women, the first civilizers, were held in
awe. Woman-Hoting is the title the publishers gave
her book; she wanted to call it Freedom or Deoth'
The freedom she sees for us all (and what Mary Daly
sees) is "community built on (a new) ändrogynous
identity. . .lf we can create androgynous community,
we can abandon power altogether as a social reality'"
as

iåTr[qi!.'t

THE BOOK OF DANTEL by E.L, Doctorow,

FTRST

SEX AND TEMPERAMENT IN THREE PRIMITVE
SOC\ETtES, Morgoret Meod, Dell, 95(.
' ln this book, fìrsl published in 1935, Mead examincs
the sexual customs and gender-oriented 'bchavior patterns of three societies that might sound, depcnding
on your point of view, more liberated than our own.
, ,lt's still óne of the best and clearest cornqtentarics
around on masculine/feminine role differcntiation,
and it has some interesting things to say about aggression as well. Besides which, il'-s a vcry gobd rcad.
Gnf NOf t, John Gardner, Bollontine, 95(
The Beowulf legend told from the monster's point
of view. A novel aboui love and violencc, faith and
despair. I thought it was wonderful.
THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, Colin Turnbull, Simon &.
Schustert $2:95.'
An anthropologist's angry, painful account of his two
years with a tribe of starving people who live on thc
edge of a game preserve in Uganda. Lifc is crucl to

gt.50,

A novel about the son of pãrents who were élácø_
cuted for allegedly passing A-bomb secrets to
l¡e ,

Kusstans. I he book is not historically accurate.
it,s
not meant to be. lt is a painful book'to read. l'felt
like I couldn'r brearhe hatf the time I wåiiËäáing it.
put inro perspecrive a t"t of ,y it,ãughts
l_ol prt.i,
and
leetings on old left vs. new left. lt is one of the
first novels. I've read, maybe the only on., *1.,¡tf.,
reaily combines hístory and fiction_how ihe indiüiduat at a particular time in Ame.rican history is
changed,

questions about nature versus nurture as shapcrs of
human character and also about individualism versus
community as survival mechanisms. (lt's intercsting
to read this back to back with The Forest People,
, Turnbull's buoyant, loving study of thc almosl
idyllic life of a Pygmy peoplc living.in a Congolesc
rain forest. Also an S&S paperback')
PATHWAYS TO MADNESS, Jules Henry, Random

Mary Daly names this possibility (of which I dream,
too) "the sisterhood of man."
3 GUtNEAS. VirqÌnio Woolf, Harbinger, $1'95'
I can't help áo¿¡rU this 4th book fìrst published i11
1938. She said back then, in loneliness, wh-4t so many
women are saying now: "the public and the private
worlds are inseparably connected; the tyranrlies and
servilities of the one are the tyrannies.and Sgrvilities
of the other." How to break the old habits? Women
are "outsiders," she saw clearly (much as Mary Daly
sees this now), and only as we recognize and value
ourselves as just that can we help to þring into being
what is really new.

and moved by events. Novels like this aOãúnã in
orher
countries, but in the US it has been particuiuilu
¿ifficult to. wrire a good novel aUout hiiøiv7poíiü",
and ind.ivídual persons which also urrrrni,iïËäirt
vrewpornt on events and persons.

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Either I've been reading the wrong books, br 1973-4
hasn't been a year of much publishing inteie5t for
movement people. I did just finish read"ing an impressive set'of galleys'. D'olores Kloich'i'WOMAN I
WOMA N : ATTITU DES TOWA RD LESB I AN ISM ;
the book's due from Simon ond Schuster in June.
Jutiet Mitchel/'s new book PSYCHOANALYSIS ANI)
FEMtNtSM, Pantheon, price not sef, arrived a few
days ago uíO ¡uAging from the first 20 pages, it's a
major work.
Leaving the book world, I'd strongly recommend two

l,have been readingAnois Nin,s DtAR1ES, including
the new one that just came out (Vol. 5), ilarcourt,
Brace.&..Ja.noyich, 97.50, and am ,ouóá by rhem,
especially by.her exhortation to proceed fiom thé
?fgur. Also, Groce Paley's storiés ENORMò;US
CHANGES AT THE LA-ST M\N\JTE, Forror. Strou,
ag! _GipuL Í6,95 and George Lakey's STRATEGy

rOR A LIVING REVOL|JT|ON, Gíossman, Í2.95.
May as well get all our friends in'there.

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'Thè late anthropologist-turned-psychologist closely
studied the'lives of f-ve families, each of whom had
a child in amehtal'institution. The book attcmpts
to discover some of the ways in which thc family
drives its member.s ryad, and sincc thc familics studicd
.,arê prdinary and familìär-seerì'Lng it's a useful and. '
'faScinafín$ book.

Chuck Fager

Martin Duberman

Ann Davidon

the lk, and so they meet it with cqual cruelty''ì-urnbull's reactions to the lk are as much the subicct of
the book as the lk themselves. A sobering story of
humankind in extremis, the book raises intcresting

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My favorite-books list for 1913 books loc¡ks suspiciously like my list for 1972-it's dominatcd by thc
iur. urihot, the French sociolôgist and thcologian
locques Ellul. the two books from last ycar wcrc
oublishcd earlier in France, but only rccently tra,nsiated. Firstis HOPE tN TIME OF ABANDONM.ENT,
Seabury Press, $8.95, cloth' ln it Ellul Lrics t<-r rclatc
the sociological developmcnt as an cvangclical Protcstant. Thc combination is too rich and complcx to bc
set

out here;suffìce it to

say that thc mixturc is

dynamite. Ellul's sociology has bccn dcvoted t<¡
bringing out in stark and comprchcnsivc dctail thc
contours of thc Leviathan hc calls thc'[cchnological
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on the Human Environment. This isn't about that
gathering of state-selected heavies so much as the
others who came-scientists, the folk of the counterculture, gu.rus, nudists, students, musicians, farmers,
pacifists., clergy people, and those who war against
any such labeling.
Tom ArtÌn wrote this book. He came to Stockholm
his trombone. As Dorothy Maas has written of
his boo( he "also brought an äye for the pageantry
in all of its colorful and often absurd detaii.',"
The main event in the book is the Dai Dong alternative co nference- the conferen ce that hap-pened
just before the UN's event and which has iince been
recognized as being a far more vital and relevant
gathering it was occasioned by.
Blp"¡jlg^t!an.the
(The BBC 90-minute film documentary of the Uñ
conference ended up being half on the Dai Dong a!
ternative conference. Steve Roberts, the BBC direc_
tor, explained, in justifying his shif in tocus, ,¡óãi
Dong emerged as the sanest and most vital oî the
groups present and I think that this emerses in the
film and is given a perfectly valid emphasls.,')

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with

S.ociet¡ the institutional complex into which we are

all being.steadily and apparenily irreversibly absorbed.
Hts theology has been preoccupied with seeking what_
ever insights into this condition and resources fãr

dealing with it can be found ¡n the Bible_centered
tradition of his French Reformed Church.

This enterprise may sound ridiculous to secular
rladers, but it is not. ln fact, out of it has come some
of the most penetrating and healthy criticism of

recent radicalism, religious or not, that I have read
anywhere. Consider this quote about what he calls
the "conformity to tomorrow. lt consists in a
moderate opposition to the existing political power,
with the.espousal of the iãeäs and doerrines
lgC-lther
or
rhe.most sensìtivg the most visionary, the most
lppealing trend in the society. This is a'trend which,
from thc sociological point of view. is alreaOv
dominant, and is the one which should norrâlly b.
expectcd to win out. . .ln this way the political stand
has th.e appcarance of being independent, *t rrru,
in reality it is the expression of an avante-gurJ"

formist."
"onThat quotc is from FA LSE ?RESENCE OF THE
KIN.GDOM, Seobury, í4.95 ctoth. This book was
ongtnally written as a critique of the social activist
movement within Ellul's national church. But the
amazing thing is how much of both the general argu_
ment and the specific comments he makãs can be
a.pplied directly against most any recent radical ten_
dency one would care to name. Wflicn ¡s oÀe'of the
things I like most about his books: if his religious
outlooks are unusual and hard to get hold ofl there
is plcnty of solid application of itJn these voiumes
to kecp a reader turning pages and thinking.
of course, I can'r help bur mention
IipltY,
Enur's number

again

one source, namely THE BIBLE. ln

this year of our Lord, 1974, with'its particular set of
clrscontcnts, a thinking radical would again be sur_
prised to discover just how much of ít ivas focussed
rn on contemporary issues, for instance, how to shape
a genuine anti-imperialist struggle, and ñow to keep
a resistance movement togethèi. Ítre SiOte could fit
well into most any of our personal booklísts, t think.

Jim Forest

First, EA RTH TA LK.

Thís is, let me risk your judging me arrogant, the
most ¡mporrant pacifist book tô be publisheá in
several years-something I say despiie my awe with
Gene Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent'Action
George Lakey's Strotegy of o Living R"loiiüái'u¿
ftve or stx other recent books of extreme importance
to anyone concerned with nonviolent socíal 'change.
Earth Tqlk was occasioned by the UN Conference
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rl of the above are available through thç Fellowship
îi'ãeconc¡l¡ation, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960',
is $1'95; Path of Return. is $1 ; and The
ïioä¿rutt of VoDinh is Í4:' Add 10 percent fo¡

iorin ron

Fírst, Thich Nhst Hanh's THE ZATH OF RETURN
CoNl!!y.t!ES THE JoURNEX Thich Nhar Hanh, as
most WIN readers know, has been-though in exiíe
in Paris-one of the spokesmen for the VJetnamese
peace movement, so many of whose members are
in prìson. This play-meditation was occasioned by
the death of five village workers of the School of '
t
Youth for Social Services. One, Mai, had burned herself. The four others were taken oné night to a river
bank and shot to death. The play findsîhem after
their deaths. Mai comgs down tlre Saigon River in a
small boat, invites the four to come with her, and
offers to take them wherever they want to gó. The
conversation they share might be an occasión of
great_meaning to any reader. (Vo-Dinh did the drawings for the book, and the translation. There is an
introduction by Daniel Berrigan, who is again with
Nhat Hanh in Paris as this is written.)

Next, THE WOODCIJTS OF VO-DtNH. This inctudes
about a dozen of VoDinh's woodcuts. A few of
these have appeared, much reduced in size and suffering _ a los! of quality, in WIN and other pacifist

magazines. Readers may also recall his paintings,
several of which have been published as cards 6v
Unicef and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. My own
introduction to the woodcuts, a brief essay called

VIS1ONS OF CöDY,.lack Kerouac, McGrow Hill,

This was the year I discovered Jone Aulún. 1bàve
never been able to read Pride ond Prejudice because
the movie was so perfect. So I started with EMMA
and went onto PERSUASION andSENSE AND
SENSIBILITY. What struck me immediately was the
obviousness of her influence on Henry James, and
afterwards, the subtlety and delicacy of her perceptions. How she is able to transmit these perceptions
bv means of such unpretentious prose into our
ilockwork Orange world; how she is able to transcend the limitations of her circumscribed fÕmale
existence in pre-Victorian England to create cþaracters of universal intèrest and truth; how she is
able to give the lie to Herman Melville's dictum that
a major novel cannot be written about a môuse;
finally, how she so tidily ciicurnvented seemingly .,.
impassable barriers as if they Weren't there must
surbly count as a wonder in this world. ln spite of
a kind of skin-deep snobbishness ald a.classical sense
of the fitnesé of things, she is a fiäntle'joy to read
and learn frorh.

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Gene'Sharp's THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT
ACTION (now available in a three-volume paperback

edition)

is a

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Allen Ginsberg

Leah Fritz

environmental fractures, nationalism, etc.
Too many books have been written on each of these
areas. The few that bring the elements together tend
to make it as boring as possible. Tom ArtÍì has
Tilag.ed to put the issues in away that makes it
diffìcult-to stop reading the book ônce it's begun. lt
is one of the few serious books that I've readîhat
allowed me some laughter, even joy.

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poslage and Packaging.

Against a background of comig bizarre and unlikely
the Dai Dong (a Vietnamese phrase meaning
..events,
" huge community"). conference expläred the major"
elements that have brought this planet of ours to its
present difficulties: militarism, economic injustice,

I also recommend two things, put out by the Hoa
Binh Press. I shouldn't. I am one of the ieveral H¿a
Binh Press editors and this probably isn't ethical..
But after all, this is WlN.

and includes such titles as Norman Thomas, /s
Conscience o Cri-àZ lwith much informatìon'ahout
World War I resisters). Aldous Huxley's Ends qnd
(9ans, ñ ; ñî';í'ttìtJ.¿ writings and. unp.ub- . ,
lished correspondence of Evan Thomas, edited Qy.
Charles ChatfielJ under the title Evan Thomas ond
the Foith of o Conscientious Obiector. This is an '
expensive set which should be placed in as many '
libraries as possible. Those of you who have beert' : '' "
searchins tår a iãns-óúiái-óril"t book mav find it :'
in this cõllection. individual titles are also available.

compendium of information which

is

indispensable foranyone interested in all aspects of
nonviolence, its theory and practice and its history.
It is not a book one can sit down and read through
quickly, but it is a basic reference work, one which

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no activist or student of the peace move.menL'should
be without. Sorgent, Í24.95.

John Swomley's LtÈERATtoN ETHtCs is espeðially
useful for thóse who question the relevahcé <ïf nonviolence to revolutionary and liberation struggles.
It supplements Bart de Ligt's classic, The Conquest
of Violence: An Esny on Wqr and Revolutìon,
which was first publiÁhed in English trarislation in
1937. Swomley's work includes analysis and comments of movements and actions occurring sþce
that time, and provides the same challenge to:theassumptions of the violent revolutionaries that the
writings of Fanon and Marcuse provide for-those of
us whõ endorse the power of nonviolence. Mqc-

Í8.es.

Tut wtto

B7YS, Wiltiam Burroughs, Grove

Piess,

$s.9s.
CL]TTI N G TH ROIJGH SPI RITIJA L MA T E RI A L ISM,
C!1.o1q¿airy T'rungpa, Shombqlo Books, f 3.,5!

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Marty lezer

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McGrow
Stineíy'A ronowit z's FA LS'E P ROM
of wôrkdiscussion
fiumane
and
intelligent
Hilt, irí an
!(e.rs"
i ng'ctass conscio"usness i n wh ich " the wor
not as "the people" or "the tnasses" but as-^
"tittg"
i"ui Iiu" human-beings.'Dougi Dowd's TH E TW ISTE D
DREAM, Winthrop,ìs a hisiory of American capitalism ancl makès real a subject more mysterious to
me than anything in Carlos Castaneda's books on Don
Juan, the Yaqui man of knowledge, a favorite in
- prevrous years. Doniel Aaron's WRITERS ON THE
,LEFT, Avon, 1961 $1,65 and Harvey Swados' STAND,
ING FAST, Ballantine, 1 970, ÍÍ .50, two older books,
new to mê, have introduced me to my radical roots
and speak to the present by describing the past. Kit:k .
Søle's exhaustive study"SDS, Røndom, $1 5'00 lays
out recent movement history and raises crucial questions that beg answers. Pqul Goodman's FI VE YEARS,
Random, $1.95, and Margaret Atwood's poetry
POWER POLITICS, Horper & Rowl, $2.95, contain
much wisdom. Atwood, has an eye for the absurdities
of human relationships that make me shudder with
recognitiõn.

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STUDY OF BtRD;SONG and BtRD DTSPLAY AND
BEHAVIOR; NWordA. Af-ryFt{gng" Dover paper- :
þqcks"'í4,Q0.and

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$3.50.

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IS REAUTIFUL: ECONOMICS AS IF
PEOPLE MATTERED, E.F' Schumacher, Harper
Torchbooks, $9,00'
SATI,JRDAY NIGHT SPECIAL, Robert Sherril,
Charterhouse, í7,95'

;MALL

mitlan, $2.95.
For a third choice I'd like to call attention, not to
one book, but rather to 328 which are included in
the Goriind Library of Wor and Peace' This remarkable set reprints significant writings about war and
peace from the Renaissance period to the present,

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They all hit me hard and taught me a great deal
about human beings, especially the fìrst two.

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BEYOND GOD THE FATHER: TOWARDS A
PHILOSOPHY OF t/lloVEN'S LIBERATION, Mary

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Gulik, Penguin paperbocks, g1,25.
Did I read this in the past year? Or the year before?
No matter-one ôf the neglected and great writers of
mysteries, the late van Gulik presents ariother in the
; ser'les of J udge Dee stories-the Sherlock Holmes of

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the T,'ang

Daly, Beocon Press, $8.95.

AMERICA, A PROPHECY, Jerome Rothenberg and
George Quasha, eds., Vintage, $3.95.

DIVING INTO THE WRECK, Adrienne Rich, Norton, $1.95.

fulius Lester
'lmportant

Ah, yes.
others.

Paul Krassner
PYGMY KITABU, Jean-Pierre Hallet, Random,
î1 0.00.

THE LAST PLAY, James Ridgeway, Dutton, $8.50.

HILLBILLY WOMEN, Kothy Kahn, Doubleday,
í7.95.

lN THE LIFE:

VERSIONS OF THE CRIMINAL

EXPE R IENCE, Bruce Jockson,

THE,ART OF SENSUAL MASSAGE, Gordon
t1l1þya
Murray Todris, Straisht Árrow, 93.95.

WHOLE GRAINS: A BooK OF QLIoTAfIoNs
elite.d øLn!! Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Links

Books, 93.95.
WH.qILY ROUND, Raso Gustaitis, Holt, Rinehort
and Winston, Í7.95.
PLAYING lN THE FM BAND, Steve post, Viking
Press, $7.95.

THE ANATOMY OF HUMAN DESTRI.JCTIVENESS,
Erich Fromm, Holt, Rinehart and lilinston, $t 2.50.
CENTER OF THE CYCLONE, lohn Liily,' JutÌan
Í6.9s.
WOMEN AND MADNESS, phyilis Chesler, Double_

day, $8.95.
7'HE

MAN WHO TIJRNED ON THE WORLD

aiçU, t Ho I I i ngshead,

A be tard, g

7. 9

5.

THE HOG FARM lN OPEN CELEBRATTON, Wavy
Gravy, Links Books, $3.95.
PLANET STEWARD, Stephen LeVine, l.Jnity press,
price not set.
THE I,VATERGATE FILE, Buschel, Ro\binsand
Vitko, Flash Books, $3.95.
SIXTIES GOING ON SEVENTTES, Nora Sayre, Mc_

Koy, $9.95.

ryl[E
Í 1.2s.

DOG, Romain Gary, New American Librory,

THE COLLECTIVE TJNCONSCIENCE OF ODD

B_/qryry\, Dan O'Neiil, Gtide, $3.95.

THE BIRTH BOOK, Raven Lang, Science & Behavior,
Í6.00.

Here are the "most meaningful" books I've read in

the past year:
THE ALMOST WORLD-Hans Koning's freeform
autobiography as immigrant and political activist.

Dial, $7.95.

ll4A UR I CE- E. M. Forster's long-suppressed gay

novel. Norton, $6.95.
PRISONERS OF LIBERATION-Allyn ond Adele
Rickett's firsthand account of Chinese thought

reform. Anchor, í2,50.
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Absolutely devaitating attack on the American
prison system. An imperative book, due out in'paperback this fall.
THE MELANCHOLY HISTORY PF SOLEDAD
PRISON, Min S, Yee, Harpe¡'s Magazine Press, $8.95.
The account, bullet by knife stroke, of the events at
Soledad which, beginning on January 13, 1970,"|ed
directly to the deaths of nineteen peoplç by August
21, 1971. As chilling and compelling asåny mysterybut more so. The falling bodies are rgal and inclúde
the Jackson brothers. The screams are not fictional
but still echo through the prison system. The blood
was not ketchup but flowed, from prisoners and

books that I'd like to share with

JOURNA L OF A SOL|TUDE bv Moy Sorton_a
record of the interior journey añd stíuggles of an
older woman and just confìrmed my f"ä¡ns itlut it
gets better (life, that is) as you ger ólder. iivou don't
lose tlrat capacity to struggle. Norton. $'6.9i.
A.SEPARATE REALITY and IoURÑEY To
LAry by Cortos Castanedà, 't ,ð"1ìvî.ulín,t
lxf
know where to begin to talk about the rn"uning ot
these two books for me and I'm relucanf io
i."or_
mend.them, because I think you have to be at a cer_
tain place in your own interiór journey to lñã* no*
to use them. They,re easy books to mísuse. Simon &

guards alike.

Shuster, Í2.95 on'd Í3,2s.

NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION bY ThOMOS
Merton. For those of us whose religiouíorientation
is primarily Christian, this book defines the contemplative life in a way that does not place one in that
false position of opposing contemplation and action. New Directions, $2.25.
And along that same line, I guess the most important book for movement-type people would have to
be RESISTANCE AND CONTEMPLATION bv
Jam^es Douglass. A very signifìcant book. Doubledoy,

Raymond

City,

ARE NOT SAVED by Debbie Louis. The
b.est book yet on the civil rights movement analyzirfg
the class structure w¡thin the movement and how
that influenced actions and decisions. A frank, sobering look at who we really were on one important

DESERT SOL|TAtRE by Edword

,ú
¿

Washington,

,,

This book tells you how to dehydrate fruit, vegetables,
meat and fish, and how to build your own food dehydrator. Published by the author, it is enjoying
.phenomenal success on the West'€oast. Available for
$4.25 postpoid (í3.95 retail) from Gen. MocMonimon
or Montana Books, I 71 6 North 45th St., Sëattle,.

in a Kentucky farming.community, his memories,
his old associatíons with friends, family and his .-

native land. lt's vintage Berry.
HARLAN MINERS SPEAK, REPORT ON TER_
RORISM IN THE KENTUCKY COAL FIELDS,
2l^9þg P_rçs: edition of Horcourt, Broce'oiiEiiat,

1932, $t 2.50.
An account of hearings conducted jn l-larlan Coq4ty
by Theodore Dreíser, Sherwood Anderson; John
Dos Passos, and others, inquiring into terrorist practices against unemployed mineri in Kentucky seeking
to organize. Extremely relevant now as history seems
to repeat itself in Harlan County through current
UMWA strikç at Eastover Mine.

M A N DA LA ;' J osei a rìd M ir ia m A rg

!4 Jch uster, 9 5 y',
THE BIBLE, parr.icularly The psalms.
And last, but not least, the RAND-McNALLy ROAD
A I LAS, most profitably read while driving across
country with no destination in mind and ño appointments to keep, except to see where some of thóse
lrnes.on the maps, particularly the ones without
numbers, lead to. But be sure to take along yourSelf
so you won't get bored. Rond, $2.95.
David McRevnolds

eOtO MLjRDERS, Robert

van

ue I les, S ha m ba

la

Press,-95.95.

The phenomenon of the mandala as it appears in

nature, human psychology, art, and ceremony of tribal

and folk cultures. ln the mandala, psychology and
r'eligion become the same thing. l'iorisider t"his book in-

tdispensible to my own increased spiritual and political
awareness.

Wqshington 98103.

TROPtcAL DETECTIVE STORY, Raympnd lllungo,
E,P. Dutton, $4.95.
This is my own book and a total failure âs â colrl:
mercial product-but I love it. lt illustrates a com'
mon insånity and paranoia which may follow five
:
years of communal living and acid.

Gurney Norman
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THE MEMORY OF OLD JA CK, llendel Berllt.
Horcourt, Brace, J ova novi ch,
This is Wendell's new novel. It's about an old mah

Grace Paley
DAUGHTER OF EARTH, Agnes Smedtey,
Feminist Press.
COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FtRS, Saro Orne
Jewitt, Grosset & Dunlop, $6.50.
THq 9DD WOMEN, George Gissing, Norton, $1.95.
And for the kids:
AND THEN A HARVEST FEAST, George Dènnison,
Rondom Hoúsei SJ,95,Fecause

Ume.

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Abbev.'if vou

feel.any kind of retationíhip
;ii ;¡rhí'h;; í;
euphemistically called nature,"rexperience ,àrné n"*
levels ot that with this book. A beautiful little book.

THE CHTNESÉ

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Spectacular subterranean p.arables.
DRY lT YOU'LL LIKE lT, Çen. Maclvlaniman, Fall

WE

þyçlÞy_ot'ç yho was there. Doubteday, $2,95,
THE lVIORNING COOL by Mary e nzaóetn W¡ther_
spoon-a novel about a middle-aged white southern
woman during the McCarthy eralnd her confrontatjon w.ith the meaning of her radical past. tt;s setdom that novelist's choose middle_aged women for
heroines, particularly ordinarv (qroi._unqroi"i -'
women. A really.fine, fine book.'MocMiltoÅ,- gO.gS.

Mungo

THE LANGUAGE OE ÇATS, Spencer Holst, newly
reissued by Avon pperbacks, $1.95,

$s,9s.

AND

S:?1 gn_o

John Kyper

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dynasty.

KIND AND USUAL PUNISHMENT, Jessica Mttford,
Alfred H. Knopf, í7,95.

it'ísprinf -planting .'

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ui.r¡ .,,- ''

Paula'Rayman

ISRA E,L'S POI-IT I CA L-M I LITA RY DOCTR I N E,
Michoel Handel, Center for lnternational Affairs,

Hqrvard University, I 973.
tlinJri an lsraeli-ÉhD, candidate at Harvard, has'
provided the first English survey of lsrael's military
doctrine within a political context. lt offers, in addition, a critical look at such issues as national
sepurity vs. peace and small states vis a vis the big
powers.

PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHIST, Alex'
ander Berkmon, Schocken Books,1970, $2.95.
An intense, beautiful autobiographical account of
Berkman's 14 years in the Western Penitentiary.
The cruel inhumaness of prison existence is iuxtaposed
with Berkman's growing acts of trust and love for his
fellow inmates.
WIN I5

RE VOLUTION A N D EQU I Ll B R I U M, Barbara
'1968.
Deming, originally in Liberatlon
of learning
beginning
stages
For thõse oi us in the
about nonviolence Deming's essay presents lucid in'
sights of why and how nonviolence is powerful. lt

Arthur Waskow
J

Beverly Woodward

E,WISH CATA LOG, Jewish Publications Society,

Í4.es.
A remarkable collection,of "how to do it

also shows that nonviolence is intimately related to
political, economic and social justice for the individual. This will be one of my perennials.

þwishly"-

how to pray, understand prayers, make a m'ezuztlì,
create a Jewisti Fellowship, bring the Messiah, ' :
liberate jewish women. Brilliant graphics:
BUSY B-EING BORN, Todd Gitt¡n, Stroight Arrow

Kirkpatrick Sale

Books, í3.95

STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE IJNITED

Poetry.
THE DYBBUK, Si Ansky, Liverighl $2.95.
A story of exorcism that hallows, instead of de- ,,
grading the human spirit. Wrítten by a Bundist
(Jewish Revolutionary socialist) 75 yars âBo. -+
Ought to be a

STATES, t973.
The Governments compilation of facts and figures
ab,out everything in this country from the median
family income in Vallejo-Napa, California, to the
number of nlilk cows in Connecticut, and I have
found it of surprisingly great value in getting a picture of the way this vast country is put together.
FA LSE PROMISES, Stonley Aronowitz's perceptive
look at workers and the ways they can, maybe, be

brought around to the side of the revolution.
And three books by Williom Domhotr, none of them
in the last year but which I've read and been impressed by in the last year, WHO RULES AMERICA,
Prentice Hall, Í2.45, THE HIGHER CIRCLES,
Rondom House, Í1.95, and FAT CATS AND
DEMOCRATS, Prentice Hall, i5.95. which toserher
supply a coherent way of talking about Ameriian
power structure, your enemy and mine, and an
enemy we've got to get to know.

And oh yeah, there was that really ímportant workwell cordially reviewed, anyway-on the h¡story of
SDS, by whatsisname.

lra Sandperl
The two bboks I would suþgest for your spring list
are: T!78 DISCOVERY OF PEACE by R.V. Samp
son, Pantheon, Í6.95, and HOPE ABANDONED'by
N. Mandelstan, Atheneum, ï12,9,5. The first is a
brilliant examination of power and the second is a
uniquely powerful presentat¡on of the absolute
necessity for the renunciation of all violence.

Pete Seeger

movie.

Just have two! FANSHEN,.ljt!¡gry Hinton, Monthty
$9vi9w,. ï3,35 and THE SiBERtANS, FartLy.Mowot,

LÌttle, í7.95.

Ellen Willis
SULA, loniMorrison, Knopt Í5.95,
A powerful, unsettling crypt¡c lyric/novel abouta
black rural community and the relationship between
two black women.
DANIEL DERôNDA, George Eliot,' Peter Smith,

Wendy Schwartz
THE INCOMPLEAT FOLKSINGER; Pere Seeger,
Simon and Schuster, Íl 2,50.
When I reviewed this autobiography for WlN, I
wrote that it should be read over and over. l,ve just
finished reading it for the third ti:"ne, and I agree
more wíth each reading that Pete,s own statem€nt
suits his book best: "like another sunrise, or another
kiss, this also is an act of affirmation."
THE OTHER ONE, Colette, Penguin Books, $1,65.
One indication of a woman's maturity is her ability
to understand the writings of Colette and to empathize with her characters. I've finally reached ,the
point where I savor each of her thoughts; there is no

other writer-contemporary or historical-who so
accurately captured the spirit of the female per.
sonality, in this, and in her other works.
:t
RED EMMA SPEAKS: SELECTED WRITINGS AND
SPEECHES BY EMMA GOLDMAN, Compited qnd.
Edited by Alix Kates Shulmon, Vintage, $2,45.
The consummate anarchist, Emma Goldman understood perfectly the machinations of American society
Her later writings, in which she tempered the violencô
of her rhetoric, are still, unfortunately, valid analyses
of òur government and wise and compassionate

'$5,00.

Really two novels in one-one of them a terrific
portrayal of a woman who marries for money-¡
study of power and powerlessness.
ANY OLD WAY YOU CHOOSE lT, Robert Christ-

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gou, Penguin, $2.50,
Best book of rock-criticism-cu
to come out so far.

Stopledon.

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DUODTCIMO TOMI

B@CIKS
RARE AND RACY
CRlnxy Essrvs,
CuRlous Eprtol.l¡s,

hcn¡ol¡¡-e

SL4LLS:
0ùl

Clru

rchya

rd il,'ø/ls.

Martha Thomases
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, Thomas Pynchon, Viking,
A book that assaults you from every direction. lt's
impossible to simply say what it's about, but there's
a

little something for everyone;

bananas, Pavlovian

psychology, nuclear weapons, sex, concentration
camps, lemmings, and more-all combined and
stirred to create a moving novel.
NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs, Grove, $1.25.
Finally got around to reading this one. Getting back

to basics.
Any and all things written by Dorothy Parker (Viking), Poems, short stories, essays and criticism. She
has an ear for what pèople mean despite what they
say. Although she wrote during the 20's, she described
the kind of games people are still playing with each
other.

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$4.9s.

mr

poprculture-theory.,,

And, if I can stick in an extra; for sheer fun, ODD
JAB/SlRlUS, two science fictión novels ity-Otaf

prescriptions for its ills.

7b

,

This isn't a book, but a new French qua¡terly journal with serious articles about nonviole¡rce theory,
as well as book reviews, news of the French'nonviolent movement, etc. Excellentand highly recommended to anyone who reads Freqch.,To subscribe.
send a check fbr 95.50 to: ALTERN,4TIVES NQNVIOLENCE, 22, rue de I'Eglise, 69003 Lyon Fronce. ^
(Make check poyoble to G. Didier.)
WAR AND MORAL|TY, ed by Richord Wqsserstrom, Wadsworth Publishing Co, $2.95.
For the philosophically minded a gooT collection of
articles on moral issues related to the problem of war.
The fact that it contains many arguments against
pacifism doesn't make it any the less worth reading
(though Marvesson's article is confused).
...
PHJLOSOPH y, M O RA L tTy, A N D I NTE R NA Tt ON A L
AFFAIRS, ed. by Virgtniø Held, Sidney Morgenbesser,
anQ Thqmas Nogel, Oxford University Preis, New
'

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r

Vork; T974.

Again for the philosophically minded. Articles by
Wasserstrom, Beday, Falk, Woodward (sorry qbou"t,
that), Morgenbesseí, and others. Discussion of topics
like selective conscientious objection, individual
responsibility for war crimes, ócocidq genocidg im-.
perialsim, and nonviolence.
THE .IOURNAL AND MAIOR ESS/ yS OF JOHN
WOOLMAN, ed. by.Phillips P. lnoulton, Oxford

University Press,' New'York, $ 1 0. 5A.
The Hopewell Friends Meeting in lndiana, to which
Peter belonged and true salt of the earth I have
learned, gave this to Peter and me when we got
married. lt ryas only this year that I got to reading it.
Refreshing and moving testimony from one of the
yorld's purer spirits.

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absuid they never even reached thê
trial stage, but they used up a lot of time andÌnoney,
and permanently weakened Abbie's health.
He estimates that he's been arrested 25,to 4O
times in his life and has ¿lways been vindicated. The
early arrests occurred in the 1960's civil rights tnîrches
in tviississippi; the later ones stemmed oul of the,þanthe bomb and the anti-war movements.
Abbie's political activities and continual strugglb to
test the limits of free speech have also brought him difficulties in getting his later books published. ln an
article coming out in the May issue of Harper's Abbie
describes his trials and tribulations in the publishing

cases were so

world. Because of IRS threatilof tax investigatiorTs of
publishers, no one would publish Steql This Book and
ÁOUie tra¿ to publish it himself-making no mone! in
the process, although his books have soldin the hundreds of thôusands. This pattern was repdäted witþ
his latest work, entitle d,'Book of the Month Club
Selection Again the IRS made threats and Abbie
spent monthi searching for a publisher. Which brings
me to the background of his latest entrapment.
Last year Adbie, america and I were living quie-tly
in my mother's house in the country. The birth of
our son, americ4 has put us through many changes.
We discovered that we must find new sexual and

,

parental roles, new modes of living in order tggrow
with america and not stiffle him with our own dis'
contenl We both becante more interested in the
problems of people over 30 and in new alternate
life-styles. We concentrated our ençrgies on our child,
our friends, our dog and our ivonderful vegetable
gæden. We needed money, howeiver,'and Abbie setout to write a sequel to Steal This Book entitled Book
of the Month Club Selection, After a,winter of searching,for a publisher, Lancer Boóks agreed to publish
Book of the Month Club Selection in the spring. He
was finishing the'book in August when he wás busted.

After he was bailed out of iail it became apparent that
Lancer was bankrupt, so Book of the Month Club

Selection, as of now, still hasn't any publisher'
The book has a big chapter on DRUGS. Since he
needed a lot of information on the distribution, sale
and quality of illicit drugs Abbie gathered information mailed into him and also went out into the fìeld.
A street person himself, Abbie hung out arould dealers, narks, and underworld figures trying to pi'ece
tojether úh" drug tttn" ¡n otããr to úrit"e abóut it. t1e
gài tát" treavy iîtormation about the New YóîÈ
City drug traffc. He also got entrapped. The.po.lice.
have said they didn't know it was Abbie until the day
or so before ihe arrest but we know for a fact from
both a relative of one of the police offcers and other
sources that the police were watching Abbie continuously, They therefore had an opportg,nity to see
that Abbie was writing this book and had developed
contacts in the drug world. They obviously knew that
Abbie had sonie unsavory acquaintances and w4s
hanging around the drug scene. That made it easy to
entice him into that hotel room'
People say that Abbie must either be guilty or
very stupid to walk into sucþ a situation. He is not
tit has never dealt dlugs' Anvone who knows
;;ilît:
'hit í.no*t
that he has always had too many other
going
on to have the time forthe careful
activities
paranoid itate of mind characteristic of the drug
äealer. And money has never been a goal in-Abbie's
f¡iã. ln fact the onã time he reðeived alot of it (for

selling the screen rights to Revolution for the Hell of
lr) rríaonate¿ ¡¿-g"zz,oo0 to the Panther 21 Bail
Fund. The person he helped bail-out.forfeited the
uonã-"ltnóüÈfr-ñä wãs lâi.r acq uitted, so .we lost that
money-and never missed it because our happtness
has never been dependent on money.
.
We also know ihat Abbie isn't stupid, although
perhaps in this instance he was a bit naive. The
government has been harassing us for so many years
that Abbie and I have almost gotten used to it' The
only way to stay sane in that situation is not to become paranoid. We simply couldn't afford to-under
almost constant surveillance one would have to cease
to live. So while the threat of disaster has always
haunted us, we've refused to really believe in it. Until now.
The government seenls to be using the drug bust
of the '70s the way they used the communism bust
of the'50s. lt is the d¡rty trick of the decade; the
smear which frightens people the way communism
did in the'505. Cocaine is not a narcotlc but lt ls
classifiôd as one and considered a hard druÉ.-People
would have laughed if the government used marijuana to entratAbbie so they chose a drug whicho
still frightens people and has connotations of organized crime and big moneY.
Most-of Abbie's actions.and books have been
about testing the limits of free speech. That is what
led him intolhis latest mess. I believe and he believes
that he will ultim-ately be vindic,atqd. lt will be proven
that he is no criminal.
Oui little family has been broken up by the exi,

gencies of this nightmare situation. I do not know

lhut th. future

holds or when any of us will see

Abbie again. Perhaps

it will

be tomorrow or next

week, pèrhaps it will be years from now. I only.hope
fthat óne day america, Abbie and I will be re-united
in freedom.
Perhaps it Ís appropriate at this time to recall the
oseudonüm Abbíe used for his first book, Revolutiort
ior the Hetl of /f. Those of us who love him hope it
will always be an appropriate name for Abbie'
He called himself " Free."
-Anita Hoffman

I love Abbie Hoffmon, o brother
Subject of excessive aiarm and equol good humor.
t proy for the police chosing him.
t proy for Abbie Hoffmqa or tronquil'
I'contr¡buted eisoyi tö'h* defense fund'

"'.

AH

breothe ípatè"rnor< caltnl!.,.- '
T o þ' h eo vy m i I ito r y b u dg et $ t 00, 0i 0 0,-Ù00, 0 00'
This remoins problem of domestic police

Let

tis

. oggression ond dishonestY.

New York narcotics bureau is hordly so honest
that it hos c0use to complain ond build
up more imoges of oggression,

AH AH AH

Eãster blessings, Christ fugitive again.
Wherever Abbie is we hoPe he's haPPY,
we hope the police get happy, and the

And

judges get hoppy and Nixon gets happy
to be relieved of his ego and secrecy.

OM AH HUM

-Allen

Ginsberg

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JUDGE REFUSES TO
DISMlSS WOUNDED KNEE
CASE: TRIALS CONTINUE

øt^E u[fil

flßt u|^lt AE

"The many revelations of Bureau IFBll
brought this court to the brink of dismissing this case," said Judge Fred
Nichol, April 17, in his ruling on a
motion for dismissal in the case of
Dennis Banksand Russell Means. The
trial of the two national spokesmen
for the American lndian Movement
(AlM) had been interrupted for five
weeks for an unusual evidentiary hearing looking into governmental misconduct relating to the occupation of
Wounded Knee and the legal cases
coming out of it.

to the defendants,that defense com'
mittee members have been denied service in restaurants and harassed in the
streets.

0rl

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The.five weeks of hearings uncovered
a tremendous amount of evidence. lt
was revealed that the government had
inst¿lled not a tap, butan extension
phone to the phone in the trading post
used by those occupying Wounded Knee
It was also revealed that the FBI had
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At pretrial hearings in the first òf the
Custer cases¡ Vine Deloria, Jr. (author
of Custer Died for Your Sins) testified
about the 1868 Great Sioux ÑatioñUS Treaty. The defense has made a
motion challenging the jurisdiction of
any ôourt to issue indictments in the
case since, under the treaty, Custer is'
still part of Sioux territory. Deloria
explained to the court that the western
part of South.Dakota was granted to the
Sioux forever unless 3/4 of the tribe,s
adult males voted to chaiige the treaty.
Wuch a vote was never taken.

5,981 documents (each

from 1-600 pages long) relevant to the
which despite previous court rulings, had not been turned over to the

case,

defense.

"The behavior of the FBI in this

*rt(*t*
case

¡

is negligent at bes!" Nichol ruled; but
he refused to dismiss the case. How-

DOt? núr

oil lr?

ever, Nichol also said that "lf further
misconduct occurs on the part of the
government, I would certainly consider a renewed motion by the defendants,

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The Wounded Knee Legal Defense/
Ofense Committee is in dire need of
funds. Sçnd anything you can to

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REPORT FROM SOUTH.AFFTCA
News from The Africa Bureau

in Lon-

don describes what it is like tö have a
family in South Africa, a country de
pendent on American banking institr¡
tions and corporate enterprises for its
economic stability.
African women working on con-

cessed

Ch AN

iå','lìiJ,îö1å1i!ïl*ïffii'"ï1:, äif;lfii'iiil,iJ""rôi"'.:!T'l'?Í"{::
Ëliii''"îîl!('?fl"¡îJlîôïlll"lriril F'ñlivdi"iiiiäii:iiïì."":dli:î:'
:i','"'#::î"iä*?ï"i'i'H:iå:iü:
iff#;i,iåi:i"J#:iJ:|:iå',f;::il:i'
Delawàre in 197'1. The Rev,
holidays with you. And from an edi'

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While Means' and Banks' case is reuntil May 1, the other Wounded
Knee cases are starting up again. There.
'are approximately 120 other defendants besides Means and Banks and the
other 4 people charged with being
"leadërs" of the 71-day occupation
which began February 27, 1973. Those
cases are.currently being tried in Sioux
Fall, SD.
HoweVer, because the judge hearing
all of the non-leadership cases is from
Li¡coln, Nebraska, the rest of the
Wounded Knee'casês will be moved
there in less than.a month. Lincoln,
which has 200,000 people and is
larger than Sioux Falls, has a strong
lndian community..
Meanwhile, the cases coming out of
the protests in Custer, SD on February
6, 1973 are to start soon, not only in
Sioux Falls but jn Pierre, SD as well.

premises,
viç
oranyotþer.ho_t'sing timof afrar¡eup.Hehasalready tinueiobemade,-Federal Judge_Luther
The Black Sa¡h (a Caucasian women's. served six and a half yeafs of á ihrity- Bohannon recently ordered.thê State of
comm€nts on
year sentence and is now 51 years oid. Oklahoma to stop misçreåting inmãtei.-,
- resistance organization)
I the dggumg.nt: "lt illu'strates the hor' Íhp"Çommittee, desperately in need at the state ptison at MiAlesler and al-{'
ror of familiqs torn apart by the paói of iu.nds to carry the case tó tne US so ordered dn end to racial segregation
laws. Women who are allowed to_work . Couit¡of Appeals, asks',all people of
at the instittltiorl, ln California, US
on contract in Sandton¿nd. Randburg consclence to help save the iife'of this District Judge.stanley Weigel issucd a
are seeking this permission because political prisonerbf such great courage." iet of veiy cãmprehensive guideliiles
poverty and-unemployment in the
. Thoie who wis.h to expresi support o"r limiting a'local'prison's authorityio
Bantustans force them to mgvefa¡
provide funds should write thä'Com- r.nsor"mail and'reading materials. He
from home to earn a living for them' ritt.g Box 839, Ellicott Station, ruled that censorship ai practiced in ¡
selves and théir childrenl" -.
B;iidtá, new Vort 14205:
rhe Deuel Vocaù¡onål lnititution at
,
They must seek work in the l¡mited
Tracv was uninformed, c4pricious,
.r-_
ar.u, *h.r, they are ailówea to ãã. so Aqo$he¡ vicli.m of racisrn in.the courts jJú'iäirlå"¿ in violarion of rhe

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tracts as domestic servants within the
West Rand Bantu Adminístration
Board's area (which compiises a ponsiderable part of Johannesburg) are
being compelled to sign an official
document untertaking never to allow

'their children to join them on their

employer's premises. The document
also demands that the employee or
.worker give details about her chief,
:husband, and the number, names and
ages of all her children. Another portion of the document has to be singed
by the employer. lt states: "1. . .,the
undersigned, being the employer of
Bantu female. . .,accept it as a
specific condition of her employment

that

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she

will not

be allowed

to intro-

duce any of her children/dependants
into the prescribed area and that the
service contract

will

be terminated

if

she: (a) lntroduces her children/de
pendants into the areaior (b) fails to

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hostel

degree manslaughter and given a two
month suspended sentence.
The judge who will preside at the
çases to be tried at Pierre, jon Fosheim,
achieved a noteriety for attemptíng to
¡evoke the bail on a number of the
Custer defendants. P¡erre, with a population of 10,000 has been so hostile'

negligence and carelessness have

collected

reside in approved accommodation ThdMa¡tin Sostre Defense Committee Despite continued repression, some
whether it be on my own
continues to support Sostre as thé
smail gains for prisoners righ[s con-.

The protests followed the killing of a
young lndian man, Wesley Bad Heart
Bull by a white businessman. The
murderer was convicted of second-

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'äômestic serúanti in these areasã"ie in
prosecution." Colerpañ McCarthy
fact .married, ùith children living with qalled attention in the Washington
Post t9 the plight of the Wilmington
them, the authcirities are obliged to
act. . . ..ln the perspective of Govern- 10. Theirs is a very important case and
ghould get more attention from p,erment policy eaih successive step is
'r
in the movement for
relentíessly'necessary...." sons interested
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Millions of American dollars are in- social justice.
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vested in the South African economy.
lsn't it time again to look at the fundamentals of this policy?

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PR¡SON NOTES
Last word from the Leavenworth
Brothers Offense/defense Committee

that two of the Brothers, Alf Hill
and Alfred f asper, were convicted in
what can only be described as highly
is

prejudicial proceedings which included,
among othe¡ things, the same all-white
jury for both trials.
Martin Sostre lost another round in
his battle for freedom when Judge
John T. Curtin refused t9 overturn his
conviction and denied Sostre a new

trial. lt took Judge Curtin nine and a
half months to decide that the recantation of the state's main witness, Arto
Williams, was .unworthy of belief."

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by the Louisiana Supreme Court upholding the convictiôn of Mallie Léwís,
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