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WITNESSING FOR AID TO VIETNAM
MORE ON ALTERNATIVE HEALTI.I CARE
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lovingly try to explain this anger to her and
related to it in a selÊcriticat way.

-siïw

ALBÞ:RT

Hurley, NY

! y.q qlad to

sèe Leah

Fritz's tetter IWIN,

101301751. I\e always felt that WIñ was
basioally a male supremist oriented maga-

This letter is promptetl by Leah Fritz's
editorial and Barbara Deming's a¡ticle in
iIVIN's October 30th iss¡e.
Feminist thought has been valuable to
me especially through it's exposition of
social roles; i.e., men can be sensitive,
women aren't necessarily passive, etc.
Ihroulh an increased understanding of
tþese conditionings and dialogue it is my
hope that a certain amount ôf crossþolliha
tion of the best will happen (is happening)
and that through this we will become more
whole, loving human beings.
I, for one, am not going to sit arôund
feeling guilty about being male, white,
"middle class," Americar¡ having 2 years of
college, or being heterosexual to boot.
people want to talk creatively atout irr
justices or prejudices I might foster by being
any ofthese things then I would like to
hea¡ them and to talk. But none of'them
are inherently evil in my opinion and it is a
waste to attack them. These things can't be
eæily changed anyway. I want to leam so I
can better live with my life. I don't want to
feel bad. Let's fpcus out energy in corr

gratitude.

Just read Barbara Deming's letter in Norr.
20 WIN and agree with her ccimpletêlythat a commitment to rionviolence requires.

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Sorry but I don't bêlieve Ms. Alperts friends
are really concerned with saving her life
First, I don't believe it's in any danger. The.
¡eaction of prisoners to the warning in Mldníght Specíal would be to shun Jane but do

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help.

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In St. Paul there

are

up to 100 co¡*

.ploints a week ßled in thacity attorney's
office, and around40 cases a week are
treated at the city-county hospital. Yet no
her no ha¡m. Sometimes snitches are killed
one knows exactly how many women are
in prison, but it is because they snitched in
being treated because hospitals are not rÈ
prison and not because ofwhat they did on
quited to record or report suspected cases
the streets, prison is filled with too many
of batte¡ed women as they are now re
small time criminals who made deals for
quired to do for cases ofchild abuse.
lighter sentenceg so in this way Jane isn't
Nu¡ses in pediatric departments have told
that unusual. Also, if Janers friends are.really us they have seen \üomen bring in physically
worried about her spiritual survival why do
abused children, and full ofbnrises and
they continue to write inflamatory letters
open wgunds themselves but no one pays
which can only sewe to intensify the anger
attention to them if the women do not ask
many ofus feel for Jane, not because she is - for treatment.
'but because
a feminist critic of the left,
Women's Advocates obtained a house
rightly or wrongly we think she has inlast Octobe¡ and from the day it opened it
formed on her sisters and brothers. Jane's
has been constantly filled to overftowing,
friends would serye her better if they
women and children arriving in the middle

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iÏÍ'î'f,iiffi;

Lexington, Mass.

Supporters of Kim Chi Ha (see

such.reflections. George Lakey's B'l article
and the discussion ofccndemnation of
sôme of Jane Alpert's actions were also
reflections I found helpful
, Fellowshíp h¿s been noting lately that
'US protests ágainst the Vietnam war were
not pacifist and I realize I've learned my
pacifism on UÞ'W picket lines rather than
in the anti-wa¡ movemenf or reading WIN
or even giving workshops to teachers about

working conditions that are diffrcult to

(Unifofm Code of
Military Justice) might better be handled

proqess under the UCMJ

,a grdøance procedure which has
impartial,arbitration as a ûnal step, and
which permits the grievant to be repfesented
in his complaint by a union or professional
organization of his choice.
The American Federation of Goverr¡
ment Employees (AFGE) deserves c¡edit for
proposing the ûrst step towards giving no*,
supewisory active duty enlisted personnel 41
organized voice in negotiating terms and
conditions of employmen! and.alsci the
chance to resolve grievances through a coÍÞ ,
plaint procedure. -JOHN L. SCRIPP III

through

þstice. Seeing the factual account of the UFW made me want mo¡eessays from white and minority radicals on
the impact of minority nonviolent movepeace and

Norfolþ Va

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Korea to send h¡m Christmas

Enjoyed WIN this year & passed some of

greet¡ngs. They should be addressed to him at Westgaæ

women-issues on to friends.
-the What
is the WIN position on the rap

Prison; Seoul, Korea and should
be mailed between December
10 and 15.

For all your reade¡s who want to know
how to use the Wom.en's History Library,
we are not dead, and we are appearing in
local libraries as fast as you can preszure
them to order ou¡ collections on micre
film.
The microfilms we have published'are:
lltomen's Health/Menøt Heàlth (13 reels
@ $32lreel), Women & The l-aw (40 reels

article IWIN, lll20l15l was timely arid,
important. Local ACLU military rights ex-

CDR-USN Ret

WlN, 10/16/75), have appealed

for those concerned by his case
and the fate of democracy in

just..fell into" the

magazines such as /t/ewsw¿e&, and TV stations have been deluging Women's Adve
cates with requests for interviews because it
is one of the few places in the country
where battered women can seek refuge, zuþ
port and help.)

Women's Advocates

-WLLIAM A. FRAENiEÍ

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from them.

Women's Advocates

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I have a it¡ggestion for ¿ new bumpår
sticker qhich perhaps somebody could
produce, "The B-t is A Bomb,'; If enor.rgh
us put it on our cars it might te of so"me

problem of battered women through ruÊ
ning a telephone information and referral
se¡vice for women. lt is something that cannot be "studied"-at least not uþ to nowsince there was no place to gather itatistics
Del Martin.is having a book published in
December and Betsy Warrior has a pamphlet,
; "Wife Beating," from her larger bookleÇ
Hqtseworkers Høndbook (Lately national

directions.
-MIKE BIRD
Minneapolig Minn.
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women. '-BERNiCE SISSON
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commitment to feminism. From wo¡kirig
with.Women's Advocates in St. Paul I have
experienced trst hand the deep violence of
men against womerL and that violence increases when women find an alternative to
the tenible abuses they and their child¡en
haVp rçgejV gd

perience in helping active duty enlisted with
their problems has shown a growing lack of
legitimate help by supervisbry and ofEper ,
personnel for those in trouble.
Further, many of lhp petty harassurents
and unfair persórinel practices or unusral

.NANCY EVECHILD
Minneapolis, Minn,

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The recent "Uirionization and the

in sleeping þSgs . .
The big problem now is getting fúnds to_
pay the mortgûgc on the house. Iiis the
ûrst place in the country that we know of
that has received private funding for rurr
ning the house and a grant on the down payment on the moitgage, but,banfts and
foundations are not into mortgages for
refuges for

zine. I'm glad its ûnally out in the open
Leah has been a clarifying force moie than
once fo¡ this rag-we all owe her a debt of

I wish the WIN would engage in more
rdection.on curtent non-vioJent action.
Some of the letter exöhanges have been

Milita¡y"

of the night, the floors covered with pcople

prochement between the Am. Republic-

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cans & China?
Unless you are Leninists & plan

to do
away with prope¡ty don't you ipsç føcto
support the nuclear family? What do you
have to say about the needs of children
for primal ties in the. age of dissolution of
family? Are alimonY & child support 4
.female sexist ripoff? Hope to find the
answefs in tuh¡re lVlNi -MICHAEL CORR

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nients on US politics and society; lifestyle
reflèctions from Ba¡ba¡a Deming [WIN,
10/30/7sl and Art Waskow ll0l23l 7 5l ;
analysis of peace and f¡eedom thru nonviolent action in the context of ideological
stn¡ggles; reflection on the long.range irn
pact ofcollectives on local neighborhoods.
I think my discontent with some of the
articles on human sexuality, the account of
Kurt Groenwold being tailed in NYC
ItÛlt6l75l and Karla Jay's ll0l23l'151 to
me unfunny description of herself as avictim with no appafent recourse but to
violence-is because all of these could form
worlshops in nonviolence ifthe editors pushed the authors and the authors pushed
themselves to be reflective of the ideals in
WIN's title. Such effo¡ts ón all your parts
would help.me grow more in my living out
my life nonviolently and,refining my pacifist

philosophical underp

in

nings

-MARy ANN' McGIVERN,

S.L.
St. Louis, Mo.

reel), and Herstory-women's. serials
from 1956 through June 1974 (90 reels @

@ $321

$28/reel). Please write to us for petitions
to take to your libraries to encourage'
them to make these microflms available
to everyone (enclose a selÊaddressed
stamped envelope and a donation).
Fïnally, our very latest publication- the
International Women's Year 1975 Supple
ment to olr Female Artists Past and
hesent ('74 ed.)-is now available for

$3.00, and the'74 ed. for $6.00.-LAURA X
Women's History Research Center, Inc.

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4. Witnessing for Aid to Vietnam
Jay Scarborough & John McAulitr,

6. Repression ln Britain'/ Joe Gerson

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7. Justice Departrnent Strikes Out in
Gainesville (again) | Neìl Fullagor
8. Responses to an Alternative Health
Care System. I Jim Scott &.'Claire Douglas
12. A Meeting.in Mexico City / Fred Hircch
14. Formula for Underdevelopment
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Deboroh Huntington
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5. An Open'Letter to American G ls in
South Korea and the Philippines
Jan Barry

17. Ctianges

19. Reviews
Cover: Sun Ship with Otter Markings.
Woodcut by Michael Corr.

Maris

When the campaign to raise $50,000 was launched in April we stated that
we needed to raise that amount thisyear so that we could begin 1975 with
a clean slate. lf we fail to accomplish that goal we will be carrying this year's
fund raising problems over ¡nto next year's problems, a situat¡on that would
makelife even harder than it already is.
For that reason we urge you, if you have'not already made a donation, to
please do lt now! F.or that reason we urge you, if you have already.donated,
to please cons¡der rnaking an additional contribution now!

Time passes too quickly. The temptât¡on to put something off for just
anôther day-with the result that we never get to it-is so greáL But tlie
printer and the telephone comÉany will not be put off. And, more importantly, the daily violence of this society will not be put off unless we do what
we know that we have to now!
Our deepest thanks to the many readers who have already iontributed.
W9 realize that in many cases even.the smallest donaticjn represents a real

sacrifice.

-WlN

r",n"í'rlål,ilrIiåi

Cakars

Susan Cakars

Dwight Ernest Mary Mayo Susan,Pinef
Fred Rosen Murray Roseñblith

UNINDICTED
CO-CONSPIRATORS

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Jan Barry Lânce Belvllle Tom Brucker .,;j a
Jerry Cofñnt Lynnê Shatzkln Coffin* 'i:,,::
Ann Davidon Dlana Dav¡es Ruth Dear : i
Ralph D¡Gla* Brian Doherty Wllllàm Douthard*
Karen Durþin* Chuck Fager Seth Fotdy
J¡m Forest Leah Fritz Larry Garð
Joan L¡bby Hawk* Nell Haworth Ed lledemann
Grace Hedemann H€ndr¡k Hertzberq*
Karla Jay Marty Jezer* Becky Johnson
Nancy Johnson Paul Johnson Allson Karpel
Craig Karpel ' J.ohn Kyper Etliot Linzer*
Jackson Mac t-òlw Davtd McReynotd!*
Davld Morris Mark Morris* Jlm Peck ¡1.'
Tad Flichards lgal Roodenko* Nancy Rosen
Ed Sanders Wendy Schwartz* Martha Thdmases
Art Waskow Allen Young Beveity Woodviard

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Member of WIN Eclltoriat Board

Box 547 / Rifton

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The following testimony
Clergy and Laity Concerned at the House Subcommittee on Commerce on Monday, November

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tay Scorborough.

The

hearÌiç

that anything has happened in Sduth Vietnam to
justify the imposition of the embargoes. To me-and
to the Vietnamese-it smells of vindictiveness.
Since I don't feel the restrictions should have been
imposed in the first place, I naturally favor lifting
them. Not only do I feel that these restrictions are
wrongper se, they are also, I feel, contrary to the best
interests of the United States. Oil exploration and
exploitation must cease due to impositions made by
our own government, before the oil companies have
_.
- had
a chance to discuss the matter with the South
Vietnamese. The restrictions on mailñuü rãnv
Americans, as well as tens of thousands of overseas
Vietnamese, who would like to contact relatives and
friends in that country. The restrictions on travel, be
cause they are so easily circumvented, serye no purpose other than to express the official hostility to the
new government. Finally, it is obvious that these actions by the US government simply make more difficult the efforts by Congress and private groups to
seek information on the Missing in Action. lt is thus
in our own interest to normalizè relations with the
two Vietnams; such a step will be supported by all

uiere held on

the Blngham amendment on lifting the trade embargo against Vietnom.

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee:
My name is Jay Scarborough. t am a student at the
law school of Cornell University. I have lived in Vietnam for a total of seven years, frve of them as an
'Englísh
teacher and most recently as a prisoner.
dlong with 11 other foreígners, including seven
Americans, I wæ piøked up in Ban Me Thuot on
March 12 this year and detained by the communísts
until October 30. For much of this time (five months),
we were held together with 700 captured offcers of
the South Vietnamese army; for half of these five
months we actually lived in a village near Pleiku. lt
was thus our lood fortune to obserye the daily life of
people, to observe the treatment given to the officers,
and to have frequent personal contact with North

Vietnamese officers and troops. Through the wives of
tlre captured officers, who were allowed to pay
private visits to their husbands, we kept abreast of
developments elsewhere in South Vietnam.
During my five months as a captive in South Vietnam (followed by two and a half'months in North
Vietnam) I neither saw nor heard anything that
would warrant the hostilit'ir shown by the USA to the
new government as expresóed in embãrgoeiãn trade,
travel, and rnail. The captured soldiers were treated .
humanely; thero was no physical or ment¿l torture,
no denial of the essentials\of life-food, clothing, housing and medical care. There has been no "bloodbath";
if there had been, we would not only have seen it but
also heard about it. The villagers were free to make a
living as before. fhe depopulation of the large citíesa necessity under any regime in South Vietnam-is be
ing carried out gradually and, as I understand it, voluntarily. I have not even heard ofthè expropriation of
American property-what l¡ttle there was-of any
Americans who stayed behind. ln short, I cannot see

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On Monday, November 1Oth, demonstrations were
held in 45 cities to protest Ford Administration '
ããniui or'."Þoit iirånretit'rat would'allow the '
American Friends Serviæ Committee to send reconstruction aid to Vietnam.
On Friday, November 14,Secy. of State Kissinger
AFSC the

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The Vietnamese communists repeatedly expressed

to me their desire for normal relations with the United
States; they were willing to let bygones be bygones. I
think this is a remarkable attitude on the part of a

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told a Congressional breakfast group that.the government had reversed the decision and would grant

patriotic Americans.

people who have suffered as much as the Vietnamese
have,.due to our erroneòus policies. Vietnamese of all
ranks.spoke to me of their warm feelings of friendship toward the American people. Evidence of this
was the good treatment that we foreigners received
while under detention. Our release, we now know,
was a unilateral act on the part of the Vietnamese, and
not part of any quid pro guo. Whether it was a disinterested gesture or not ldo not know, but it would
be useful to interpret our good treatment and subse
quent release'as a gesture of reconciliation on the part
of Vietnam. Such a gesture demands a response, and I
can think of no better response than the removal of
restrictions on normal intercourse with.the two Vietnams. lt is my fervent hope that this will happen soon.,

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appears that the Administration was not only

responding to public pressure (including critical
editorials and Congressional opposition), by baoking
down from an untenable'position, but was also trying
to head off the growing sentiment in Cbþgress for
legislation which would have taken away administra'
tive power to deny such licenses in the future. Beyond
their specific effect on the Administration, the demonstrations revealed strong grass roots support for
people-to-people aid to Vietnam.
The demonstrations were organized by the AFSC
as an "Act for Friendship" with Vietnam. They
provided an opportun¡ty for Quakers and others to
show their solidarity with AFSC's decision: for
reasons of conscience. They could ship aid despite
the risk of prosecution under the Trad'1ng with the
Enemy Act. During the preceding month some 2500
persons donated over $30,000 for non-licensed goods,
thereby assuming symbolic complicity (and possible
legal responsibility) with AFSC. Xerox copies of
their donor's forms and checks were turned overto
local US attorneys and presented at the White House.

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vigil in front of the Whlte House proteCtiirg'denlal of €xport l¡censes to
for materlal.aid to Viotnam. Photo by Terry Koss.
P.eoplè

Events in Washington included a march to the
White House and a vigil there by 250 persons, including 80 high school students from Sandy Springs, Md.,
Friends School. Participating in Monday's vigil was a
delegation representing six religious bodies, who were
refused an appointment in the White House. The dele
gation consisted of Atlee Beechy, Mennonite Central
Committeb; Wdlace Collett, AFSC; James Hamilton,
National Council of,Churches; Jeanne Marshall,
Counsel on Church and Society, United Presbyterian
Church;Pat Patterson, Board of Glôbal Ministriesl
United Methodist Church; Louis Schneider, AFSC;
and David Taylor, Church World Service.
The AFSC was surprised and pleased at the
response nafionwide. Participation, contributions,
and media coverage all exceeded their expectations.
Several cosponsois for the Bingham Amen{ment (to
'end the US embargo of Vietnam) were found during
the visits to Congressional offices that followed the
White House vigil. The license issue exposed the petty
vindictiveness of post-war Administration policies
towards lndochina. People were shocked when they
heard AFSC had been licensed to ship rototillers anil
fishnets during the war, but waô n<ìT licensed to do so
during peace. And no one could understand why the
AFSC was not permitted to ship yarn for children's
sweaters but was licensed to ship $200,000 worth of
powdered milk for the Vietnamese to make into
condensed canned milk.

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The government's reversal should be seen as a real

victory for the goals of the Friendshipment campaign,
but that is only the beginning. *John McAuliff

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WIN
Drawing from LNS.

Photo by lrene Johnson/LNs.

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THE TRIAL OF THE BWNIC 14

,oE GERSON
The British Withdrawal from Northern lreland l4
(BWNIC 141are 14 pacifisrs and anti.mititarisis
charged with conspiring to viofate the lncitement to
Disaffection Act of l9j+. pat Arrowsmith, who was
jailed last year under the same act, had beón arrested
again-this time under the Prevention of Terrorism
Act! Six others have been arrested undér the lncite
ment to Disaffection Ac! bringing thetotal to24.
Repression is in high seaíin ¡oiyäla engiinã,
toc{sed upon BWNIC much as it was here against the
Chicago 7 in 1969.
The British Withdrawl from Northern lreland
Campaign was founded in'1973 by peace activists
who had concluded there could be no military solu.
tion to the civil war in Northern lreland. Many of
them had lived in the boroughs of Derry and beifast
and had observed the war firit hand. Others had been
active in the Campaign'for Nuclear Oisarmament in
the early '60's and looked more deeply and skeptically at political and military questioni raised by tiîe
war than did their fellow citizens. And some were
people who, after watching the situation in Northern
lreland deteriorate over the years, had come to the
same conclusion themselves.

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Joe Gercon is o formèr stoff member of the
Resisterc I n ternational.

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The campaign began in 1973 when more than a
hundred people-journalists, welfare workers, peace
workers, m i n isters, en tertai ne rs-issued a shfemen t
giving theír analysis. They called on the government
to set a date to bring the troops homg tó end internment (the imprisoning of people without trial), and
to sever the national ties between Britain and ñorthern lreland.
..During the next two years leafletters showed up at
military barracks, pardes, and recruiting displays at
town markets with news for discontented soldiers.
Their leaflet, entitled "Some lnformation for Discontented Soldiers" advised soldiers that there were
provisions in the law allowing them to be discharged
for being conscientious objectors, that there were
provisions for hardship and health discharges, and th¿it
i-! was possibl.e t9-Þuy rheir way our of rhe=aimy. (The
British army is different from its American descendent
in this way, and in the fact that, many of its recruits
have signed on-'out of working class ghettos-for 15
yearsl) The leaflet also providòâ infoimation on how
one could leave Britain for Sweden, but pointed out
the possible penalties for AWOL and desertion. The
leaflet concluded with the names and addresses of
counseling centers-much the same as American leaflets did during the lndochina war.
As 1973 became '1974, every Brjtish sqldier had
done a tour of duty in Northern lreland. Some had
done two or more, and their morale was low. Unlike
1969, when they first came to protect Catholics from
Protestjrnts reactingagainst the Civil Rights Move
ment, British tlgopl were no longer popular with any
portion of the Northern lrish community. Since in- ',
ternment had been initiated, Her Majesty's forces
were used primarily against the Catholic population_
not to protect it. Their lack ofenthusiasm reflected in
increased AWOL & deseition rates for their ,,work"
grew out of their experiences rather than from leaflets_which they may have stumbled upon.
Simultaneously in London and other British cit¡es '
public support for the war began to decline. ln addition to the articl9s appearing in peoce News and the
work of.BWNlC, a "Troops Out" movement was

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der Trots ky ite I eadersh i p-wh i ch

held mæs,rallies and generally atteùpted to chadge
and mobilize public oþinion. people tired of the

"Troubles" and of bombs placed ín subways, streets
and'stores and began to yonder if any setíóment
,Continued on page.16.

BWN lC 14 support demonstration in
front of the British Consolate ¡n Los
Angeles. Photo by Joe Gerson.

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A federal jury in Gainesville, Florida, has rejected
drug and æsault charges against Scott Camii and co
defendent Larry Taylor. Camil, former Southeast
Regional Coordinator of VVAW and Gainesville
Eight conspiracy defendanÇ as charged with two
counts of assaulting fe{eral officers, two of possession
. of marijuana with intent to disffibute, and two of
possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Taylor was narned in the two cocaine counti. One of
the marijuana counts was dismissed before the case
went to the jury.
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, The jury deliberated about an hour and a.half be
fore acquitting Camil and Taylor on all seven counts,
following almost two weeks of testimony before
Judge William Sessions. Sessions was brought in from
Texas to hear the case because one of the two local
judges was a member of the prosecution team during
the Gainesville Eight trial and the orher was'the
presiding judge.
Camil was arrested March 31 by federal Drug
Enforcement Agency (OeR) omcérs William Porter
and Dennis Fiagerald. He suffered a gunshot.wound
in the back duríng the arrest while allegedly assaulting
the two agents. liugerald and Porter testified that
Camil had ¡ust delivered $2300 worth of cocaine,
was shown a badge and infor:med that he was under
arrest, aftgr which Camil attempted to take a gun
away from Fitzgerald and was "accidentally" shot in
the struggle. Camil said that the agents had produced
the cocaine and wanted to sell him some, then suddenly put agyl at his head. He tried to escape from
the car in which the three were riding but was shot
by fiÎøgerald who was behind him in the rear seat.
Camil.says that he struggled only to get away from
the agents who threatened him with the gun and
never identifi ed themselves.

Neil Fullogar lìved in Gqinesville and wøs prosecuted
by Jock Carrouth for draft resistance. He is now
studying political psychology in Berkeley.

When Gainesville police arrived, the DEA agents
were none too pleæed to have an outside investigation. When the local officers asked for witnesses out
of the crowd; the DEAagenús remarked "we don't
need witnesses." Their attitude is understandable,
since the testimony of the three w¡tnesses to the
shooting while differing in various details, generally
discredited the story given by Porter and Fitzgerald.
Confronted.by the press with the existence of wit- .

to contradict the story told by the agents,
DEA Orlando office chief John LePore said a few
days after the shooting "l don't care how many
horseshit witnesses you comerp with."
As Camil's attorney LarryrTurner pointed out to
the jury, the case depended "pretty much on who
you believe." Apparently, the iury found it diffcult
to believe thç version offered by Fitzgerald, Porter,
Barbara lves Davis (another DEA operator) and US
Attorney Jack Carrouth, who also headed the Gainesville Eight prosecution. Several days after thd verdicq
the foreman of the jury told the local paper that it
was the jury's opinion that the shooting was deliberate and unjustified.
The local State {ttorney, who has put off presenting the case to the grand jury, fgr possible criminal
charges, for six months may nowbeimoved by the
federal jury's opinion.
"My days in court aren't over," Camil said, "but
my days as a defendant are. From now on I'm the
nesses

plaintiff!" ln additíon to the grand jury oroceediñgs,

Camil plans civil action against the DEA and its
agents. Alsq he and the other seven defendents from
the Gainesville Eight trial, along with two "unindicted
coconspirators," have a suit pending against John
Mitchell, Jack Carrouth, Guy Goodwin (the Justice
Department's con sp i racy special i st), Wi ll iam Stafford
(former US Attorney and now federal judge) and the
government itself. They charge that the prosecution
and the grand iury subpoenas which preceded it were
part of a conspiracy. to deprive them oftheir civil
rights. The ten ask compensatory damages of $10000
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friends rebuild an old house on a farm. Got a part
time job in the town pharmacy, realizedvery shortly
how important the field of pharmacy is and how
much I could improve the health of local folk. !n the
past, community phdrmacy = Rip Off. Started my
head going with some insight from a macroanalysis
seminar, decided I'd like to become inV'olved in or
start some kind of alternative pharmacy. The.
emphasis: com mun ication, education, qual i ty,
honesty. The idea of anextended health care collec.
tive is beautiful.
-Alan Miller
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Durango, Cotorado

RESPONSES

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As for falling into restrictive roles, an educational
and training program within a clinic would make for
job rotation. Anyone is welcomátó work in any
position as long as there is need for it and the þerson
is trained. We could teach each other. By offering a
limited but excellent program, the community'wìll
be able to look at the coop clinic (?)e¡d tell just what
it is. A problem of many alternative syTtems ás I see
them is that they try to offer too much just to attract
all sorts of people and end up being super nebu'lous
instead of realistic. l'm particularly strong on thìs
point right now having just experienced tñe downfall
of a community restaurant that had no one to manage
it, but had a million trips going at the same time.

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want to shore with readers selecüpns from some of the responses io our piece "Toward on Alternative Health Care System"
issue of lltN. 14)e were surprised by the large reactìon: for.stotistics freoks, there have been 67 letters, most
from heaith workers. Around hatf of thesè are in iraditìonal health roles (doctor, nurse, pharmacist, etc.) qnd half in alternative roles (acupuncture, herbs, community organ¡zing, etc.). Almostall ore positive and enthusiostic. lle've metwith several
of them, ond o reol neiwork seems to be growing, including o newsletter. lile've exerpted o few of the letters below to gìve o
somple of the kind of input we've been getting-we find it excìting-and hope you yvill t9o.,lrylfurther comments or criticisms
, ore'most welcome.
-f irnscott & Clâire Douglas (RFD 2, Box 65, Windsor, Vt. 05089)
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When I finish nursingschool I plan to practiceoutside
of our present health care sy5tem. Because the nursing
profession has beèn molded and manipulated by the
AMÀ hospital administrators, and passivity on the
part of nurses themselves, I see a need to create my
own role, define my own practice, and choose the setting where I will work. ln doing so I hope to work with
others to challenge the present health care system
(which is closed, hierarchical, and unresponsive to
consumers' needs) by creating alternative means of
delivering health care (which are patient centered,
serviced by a.team of practitioners, responsible and
accountable to the communitY).
The work involved in bringing about these changes
is tremendous but so very vital. I know that I cannot
work as a nurse in our present system so I am prepar'
ing now to work to change it. Working as a nursè's
aide for two years, I have learned a lot about how to
reform health care services in the hospital but not
much about how to institute preventive services with
a focus on wellness.
-Mauieen FTnnegan

Boston, Mass.

I am engaged in the preliminaries of that "expensive
nologically oriented " miseducation responsibl e

tech

for the training of medical workers. I think that the
best way (for me) to make these changes is to obtain
the education whiÖh is offered in these institutions,
thus enabling me to lawfully "practice medicine." .
With thiò legal permission one is free to forge a new
place for the doctor as healer and educator. My vision
of the healer is one involving orthodox and unorthe
dox (i.e. acupuncture, osteopathy, etc.) healingarts
in a cooperative situation.
-Glenn Dubler
Medford, Mass.
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. . .a brief history of my last few years, iust in time
and space, may give you an idea of where l'm coming
from. lt goes like this-'72 graduated from school of
pharmacy, interestêd in clinical pharmacy, research,
molecu lar ph armacol ogy-fac il i tator of d ru g i nfo

center-'73 work in radiation health, environmental
radiation. '74left esoteric pharmacy field and moved
near the town of Delaware Gap, Pa. to help somé

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:Jean Hooker

Athens, Ofrio

I work at the Beach Area Community Clinic, a
formgr "y,outh oriented free clinic" which is trying
to grow. We have a women's clinic, a general medicine
clinic, a counseling center, and a prevèntive medicine
outreach, health screening program. We have been
around four years now and see about 20,000 patient
visits a year for medical reasons alone. We have grown
from an all volunteer staff, to a paid staff of 30 (all
earning $700 per month for full time work, though
'many work only part time) and än annual budget of
$200,000. We have a small clinical lab, a large
pharmacy, and'good hospital backup. We still depend
on and atiractalarge number of volunteers (of whom
only a small number are from our patient population)
without whom we could never see as many patients.
Our patients a.re at least 50%lrom our local area
(there are 16 other community clinics in San Diego)
and are still about 7 5% between 1 5 and 30 years old,
though we do have a pediatric clinic and our outreach
program is expanding seryices to many older patients
in the area. About3/+ of our money comes from
government contracts, but we have enough other income to be relatively independent;
Even with all the resources we have and the
services we render, it is hard to call ourselves a
primary care center. The vast amount of illness that
we see is acLite care, one shot medicine, though we do
prevention, education and ongoing care through the
birth control clinic and the outreach screening pro
gram, and each of our components has a good follow
up system for important patients with serious prob
lems. Nevertheless, we are only open three or four
hours a day for MD type care, we have no extended
hours, nor are we on call for our patients except in
pre-arranged cases. Few of our patients are in family
groups, so that kind of care is not emphasized. The
point here is that we do what we can, providing a
huge amount of needed service, and yet do not even
approach the standards of a full time, full resource
health facility. We have a lot of medical tasks dele
gated to our own trained paramedics, but it still takes
¿ lot of MD supervision and time to be able to expand our services. lt is relatively easy to treat URls
Iupper respiratory-infections] and birth control questions by protocol Ia formal set of rules.that governs
the way something is treatedl , but relatively more

diffcult to train paramedics to deal with the chronically ill adult. lt takes more than we presently have.
Secondly, there is the process of our institution.
For at least a year now, we have been struggling not
only with our personalities and egos (l'm sure you
know what kind of individual strength it takes to join
an effort like this) but also with a way to get this
large group of people to work well togethet We have
both management and commuhications problems. We
are in fact worker (and not really b¡ard or community)
controlldd and we have standing finance and steering, .'
committees; there is no boss and no one who does nÇt
work with patients; we are decentralized i¡ì work col:
lectives in each component-and sometimes that
works and sometimes it doesn't. Remarkably, there is
agrezt deal of what I would call political awareness
and realization that we are trying soinething both
different and iconoclastic among us, but of course,

that doesn't minimize the fact that we all have different ways to approach the problems. Recently-we
have proved to ourselves that we can manage this
many patients and this large a budget, but unanswered
as yeJ ¡s whether this large a group can develop corn
munications mechanisms and build trust'sò that we can
work well together. We tend to enioy patient care
more than meetings and have yet to develop painless
ways of sharing and building beyond casual social
¡ntentction and occasional contemplation of our
problems. The point here is that it is diffcult to build
a collective large enougþ to provide a lot of patient
care and difficult to discern the balance between
service and

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f-mai ntenance.,

Thirdly, there is the financial thing. I have a lot of
familiarity with hospitals, insurance, and federal
grants, and I certainly feel that paying attention to
that arena for support is not only draining personally,
but likely to so compromise your ideals as to destroy
them. Health financing is so fucked up that you can't
get into it without selling your soul-income determinations, paper work, bureaucratic oppression.
Besides, there is little payment for the health maintenance that you really are best at. We have been
lucky so far to get county money (Revenùe Sharing)
with minimal hassle and little cooptation (though
there is some as we like to keep our tail clean whenever we advocate for change out there in the system).
On the other hand, even in our definitely wealthy part
of the country, it is difficult to see how our community and patients can support us, for even though
they give us some $25,000 a year in donations, they
are really fairly poor and oppressed too. I can get into
the idea of righteously having a staff of two people
for each job, but even with our relatively low pay
scale,

it

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will come

diffcult to imagine where.the

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resources
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Finally, I want to talk about the people ciut there,
the patients, their values and their att¡tudes. I don't
mean to pass the buck, but therein lies a real problem.
Our clinic is luckier than most-our patients are more
physical and health oriented than the general population, they are also less sick; there is a lot of transiency
here, but we are more of a community than many
other neighborhoods in this city. Nonetheless, on the
whole I think our patients prefer convenience to selfconcern, prefer acute care when they need it to
preventive concern, prefer to use us like a gas station
than to pay attent¡on to why we are there and tryto
help us grow, prefer to spend money on "real doctors"
and run to us when it gets too expensive, or run to
them when they have a serious problem, Of course we
are able to convey our att¡tudes and values to a few,
but the rest not only drain us, they contribute little
to the clinic. I think this is,the way it is generally
the US and though there are small groups here and
there who see through the crack to differenl more

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human values and habits, they are rare and rarely
sufficient to get a place like ours into the self-sufficiency stage. Sometimes I wish we were a church so
we would have a more understandable legitimacy to
try to get this important message ãcross.

eoff Gordon
San Diego, California

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I think free clinics and women's health centers arq
very important and can be very useful and viable alternatives in big city areas where there's room for a
wide range of health care set-ups, although they do, as
you say, seem to be "threatening to the organized
health empire." They give people söme kind of choíce
and the latter provide a large step for liberating
women by helping them gain, some control over their
own bodies. The thing I so li[e about your article is
that you r vision is wider than these. You wánt to
provide an alternative system for the care of the
whole person f or all the people of a whole community.
To me, this humang cooperative method of delivering health care can eventually spread to hospitals and
the rest of the "empire," brlt must begin in a small
community, one ¡n need of medical workers, where
(hopefully) comprehensive, preventive careican be offered to, accepted by,,and supported by the whole

community.
I agree that one should try to avoid volu¡teerism
and/or government or foundation (with a few exceptions) grants. The former is apt to result in too chaotic
an organization often weighted down by too much
superstructure. And the latter keeps one willy-nilly
within the system. But then, of course, comes the
huge question of whether one can.get enough community support to carry the efforf financially. Perhaps, this could be accomplished if one could initially
get together enough resources to start on a large
enough and competent enough scale that the con¡.
munity would immediately appreciate it and respond

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to it.
I would like to see such a system concentrate on
health care as opposed to diseose careito keep people
healthy with their active participation in the process.
However, this doesn't obviate disease and emergency
care and one would hopefully have,some linkup with
facilities that provide these. And along these lines, I

would like to see this effort located in a'state that
doesn't prohibit either home deliveries or midwives.
-Jean Williams
Putney, Vermont

It

is my belief that you will achieve the greatest suc-

by going off in a dlfferent directiop from that
supported by traditional medical and dental practices
in this country. I think doctors are useless for illnesses; only for treating people who have been injured
in accidents they may have som,e value. I think, even
though there is still so little known about preventive
medicine via food, you could have great value if you
spread the word about the dangers of commonplace
"foods" sold in stores throughout the country. Also,
people need to be taught simple methods of testing
their own bodies so that they can detect incipient
problems. lt would be great if all people would some
day know how to recognize when their bodies are not
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quite healthy, how to determi ne what the problem is,
and what foods, or food suppl ements, to take to correct the problem.
-Sam Goldwasser
Sah Jose, California

it to the many who felt "left out" by not häving
sooner. With what

I work as an.orderly in a nursing home where physical
and emotional neglect of the patient is accepted practice for the sake of profit. I am young (19) and have

idealistic.
-lil ixi:,Il,",iffi,:

l've been involved w¡th health through some research I
did on the variety of health helpers for children (from
grandma to pediatríc specialties of various kinds). I
have also worked with several community groups who
took on "health" as an issue, and in general, wanted
to deal with it non-medically. Thus, for example, they
looked at and monkeyed around with traffic in order
to deal with child-health, or they worked on solarheated greenhouses in order to deal with nutrition,
etc. These kinds of responses are both more direct in '
terms of the determinants of "ill health," and also
empowering for the people involved. ln a sense, my
.. primary concern as I read through your article was
along these lines. The imagery (and possibly structure)
that is implied by "consumer," "producer," etc. tends
to worry me. lt woriies me in that it tends to imply
"healthl' is a commdoity, rather than a proèess; that'it
can be "produced" in a market or industrial sense; and
so on.

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is important to note that learning how to consume
modern medicine, becoming a professionalized clien!
may not improve one's health. lt may indeed work
against it, especially to the extent that acceptance of
modern medicine's theories of causation mystifies and
distorts. The most importznt sources of one's heolth
ore peripheral (and becorning more so\ to the operqnt
tkeories. Thus, being treated for a condition but not
being told how it really develops or could be fought is
producing false consciousness. Professionalized clients,
who come to believe in.their "seryices" rather than
their own resources, are both unable to defend their
health in the'future and unable to go anywhere but
back to their servicer if they have trouble. Medical
professionás complain a loi among theniselves about
how they really have no control over the processes
producing "sickness" and deäth, but they do not pass
this on to their clients. lndeed they rarely examine the
negative side effecûs of much of what they do. Pre
fessionalized clients are easier for the system to
ttmanagett
and ttserve.tt
Just as the "ideology of service" suggested above
can be used strategically to manage and control clients
by doing things "in their own ihterest," so too can the
alleged benefits of the para-professional movement
and efforts at community còntrol be deceptive. Paraprofessionals, for instance, become the feeders or the
front line of the professional system, offering the same
theories and expectations. The idea of justifying programs by means of lay participation, when "lay"

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Minneapol is, MÌnnesota

I heartily agree with you that our.heal'th care situation
is a perfect microcoqm of the repressive social relationships that charac.terize our society as a Whole. I also agree with your contention. . .that our remarkably

been told by people (mostly older) that my desire to
type of health care that emphasizes the
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effective medical techñology is the primary legitimating source of the exploitation that now occurs in
medical practice. lndeed, modern science ànd technique in general command respect for a'uthority much
better than any trad¡tional ideólogy ever has. The,undemocratic effects of purely teChriical solutions to
practical problems can be seen on several leveis in the
health care field, from personnel management to the
actual "delivery" of health care to the þatíenî . .We
can pluck medical technique out of it¡ present practical context of authoritarian social relätions ánii situate ¡t in a new practical abode of democratic social
relations. Medical technique can thus retain its effective
ness without being exploited.
This possibility of preserving genuine medical technique in a new, democratic social situation raises
another reservation I have about your plans. Your
creation ex nihÍlo of a democratic health care com.
munity in the idyllic countryside leaves many skilled
urban health care workers, not to ment¡on their urban
pat¡ents, in the lurch: "Living the revolution now'r for
most of us can only mean,living it right where we arc,
not in a romance or a pastoral myth. I work in a small
community hospital, but we experience many of the
problems you tâlk abouL I find most hospital workers
to be honest, sincere persons who don't need to be enlightened about exploitation, and who could utilize a
vast technical potential to satisfy human needs by
democratizing the institutions in which they now
work. . .
!.Ve need to start reaching a wider audience with

our ideals. There is much potential to work with, right
where we are. Hospitals, for example, claim to be "nonprofit" organizatíons: yet each year they contribute
millions of dollars in profits to the monopolistic food,
petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries. Last summer, hospital administrators across the country urged
workers to use political yower to remove price controls on hospital care, so that hospitals could peacefully coexist wiúr the other, decontrolled sectors of the
economy. Higher wages were offered the hosp¡tal
worker as a "reward" for his Isic] vote, and many
hospitals were saved from union organizing in the
process. What if hospital workers had instead used
their political powêr to control prices in the rest of
the economy, converting its profits into better wages
for themselves and lower costs for their patients?
:-li9n Lambert
Lewisburg, Penn.
When somebody requires eniergêncy care in this area
it takes (at minimum) 45 minutes for an ambulance
to arrive and about the same amount of time for it to
reach the hospital: Adults and children die before
they reach the hospital. The nutritional requirements
and awáreness in this area is often meager (one of my
students had raw, thawed frozen pizzaâs a holiday
meal since she has no stove at home). Like most other
rural areas we need accessible health care facilities.
Many of the physicians who serve this area are dying

or moving

awaY.

-Mary Lou

independent food basg b) the importance ofgood
food for health, including the whole process of growing and the greater values of doing health education
w¡th food rather than literature about food. The task
of showing the radical importance of health action is
a large one; easier at the level of challenging multinæ
tional pharmaceuticals and the "medical" establishment than at the grassroot home level of"healing in
the sense of wholeness, love ånd community,

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Dale,Detyar
Saskatoon, Såsk.

I want to write to tell you about the Green Mountain
Health Center, 36 High St., Brattleboro,.Vt, This is a
community héd th .center serving Bratdóborq Ér tney
and surrounding towns. The area has a very large youth
culture which, along wíth a number of older members
of the population, forms a broad base of supporL Essentially we are a struggling collective with pr,irnary
e¡nphasis on patient education, preventive medicine
ahd self-health. Various sub.groups are into non-western alternatives, women's health problems, etc. Main
actìvities include 1) Trvice weekly clinics (using our
own trained paramedics, standard treatments for common ailments and volunteer doctors); 2) Screrening
clinics (aimed mainly at the older population)forbreast cancer, breast self-exam teaching free PAP
smears, hypertension screening and referral etc.; and
3) Special Education Programi: a community college
course, self examination workshops at the women's
weekend, and whatever elsp pops up.
We startéd as d "free clinicr" now far past that. No
longer free: we support th.e operation by pat¡ent pay-

ments ($ or services), contributions, gifts from church
groups, a slice of the town budget (our gdtting the
selectmen's support wæ a big victory), various public
and private grants.
Lest this all sounds too pat, let me emphasize how
fluid the operatiôn is, we ¡ie whatever the community
of workers is and that seems to be changing from the
above to a more, dare I say-"radical" consensus.'
(Some things are fixed: our interest in helping people
to learn about tieir bodies and the commitmðnt to
low cost high quality care.) lt.seems like we are about
9O% of the theoretical model you described and some
folk¡ around are probably interested in becoming the
.rest.
:-,,Dr.
Ben Caseyf'
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Brattleboro, Vt.

Kearns

Middlefield, Mass.

ln your listing of reasons for being rural, I missed any
reference to a) the political-economic reasons for an

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refuæd to allow delegates to hear a letter ¡rom WFtU
calling for efforts "to come to an understanding on a
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common minimum Programme."
The German DGB always pressures for the re-af'
filiation of the AFL-CIO. Kersten says ICFTU,needs
AFL-CIO help'because 70% of the multinational cor'
porations are between Boston and Chibago." There
are signs that Georgo Meany toq is looking fpr a better international linkup. Many ICFTU delegates were
æked to come to Wæhington "as long as they were in
the Western Hem isphere neigh borh ood. ' Su rprisingl y,
quite.a few groups, notably the British TUÇ turned
the ¡ni¡tat¡on.
down
and thé increasing neod of ¡CFTU tq-meet
real world prciblems makes it ali the more difficúlt for'
the AFL-CIO to enter the world league without
embarrassmenl This was the first ICFTU C-ongress to
hear an open attack on George Meany. Br!1iS dele
sate. C.T.H. Plant railed against Meany's "isolationlst. . .stop the world, I want to get dq' policy. He
linkdd M-eany's poliiy with that of Gerald Ford and
said: 'tThe angry men of the AFL'CIO who lryIt
with resentment about the fact that the world is
;i;;il¡"-iñã thev can't stop it, should reconsider
their-attÏulde befbre it is too late."
juii Iror late it has gotten for the AFL-Çlo may.
be fudged by comparinã what TUC Secretary Len Murray'caÌís "M'èany'i poliðy of disaster. . .creating conditións that can léad io wár;'l w¡th the resolves voted by.
lCFTU. attack¡ns "escalaiion of military expenditurq"

and a score of unanimous, bored votes of conformity.

The managers of the Congress, mainly Otto Ker-

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'sten, General Secretary, guided the members smoothly over a variety of important issues. They approved
lengthy charters of generalized goals toward Legisla-

tive Control of Multinational Corporations, Economic
Security and Social Justice, Human and Trade Union

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Rights, the Rights of Women Workers, Rights

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Young Workers, and on Industrial Democracy. The
deep contradictions among the delegates remained
below the surface even as they dealt with such
charged issues as Chile, Spain, Portugal and the M¡d-

ît.

Formed in 1949, the ICFTU was a splinter group
that broke away from the World Federation of Trade
Unions (WFTU), then a four year old organization of
unions from east to west, reflecting the anti.fascist
unity of Wbrld War ll. ïhe breakaway wæ led by US
unions not long after the terrn 'liron curtain" had bê

come popular and the Cold War shivers had frozen re-

bt,hed hinsch
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The lnternational Confederation of Free Trade
Unions (ICFTU) came through its Eleventh Trienniel
Congress without an open fracture, but w¡th a series
of lightly patched cracks. The meeting drew to a close
after eight days, a minimum of 20 pounds of paper
per delegate, a virtual absence of open disagreement

re uillv

Fred Hlrsch is living ln Mexìco doing reseorch on the
lnfluence ond penetmtion of the AFL-Aþ ìn the
Iabor movements of Lotin America.

to Washington financed programs and pcilicies. Also,
for the first time in its 26 years, ICFTU invited observers from the WFTU to its Congress. Still, Kersten

Chile, during the Congress. They demanded the rs
lease of poliiical prisoîers andtried to make arrêngÊ
menß tó ænd a food ship to feed'Îhe familie"s 9f . ,"

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lations with the Soviets.
Many changes have taken place since that time,
but the ICFTU, with 52,000,000 members in 119 organizations in 88 countries, now led by West Europe
ans, is still second in size to the WFTU. Finding increased problems that cross national and ideological
frontiers, the European unions have'largely veered
away from Cold War concepts. Their experience in
WWll has made them partisans of detente, to the
point that they have even broken ICFTU guidelines,
building contacts w¡th left unions. This has resulted in
a pullout from.the ICFTU by an angry George Meany
and the AFL-C¡O, and led to the formation of the
European Trade Union Congress (ETUC), open to
both "free" and leftist unions. These developments
make the British TUÇ with 10 million members, the
most powerful single group in the ICFTU.
With a power:fu1 rank and file tradition and an effective shop steward system, the British union leadership holds very ôlose to the expressed needs ofthe
members at the point of production. British lêaders În
the Mexico Congress ioked bitterly about the "in.sanity"
of the AFL-ClO in "stoking up the Cold War."
They sent a fraternal delegate to Meany's rec_ent convention in San Francisco to give a strong pitch for
peace as a reverse taste of AFL-ClO medicine. Rather
than celebiate Solzhenitzin, the British have received
union delegations from the USSR and have signed
agreements for more exchanges,and cooperation
They have also spearheaded worldwide labor solidarity
in the face of fascism in Chile, Spain and Sôuth Africa.
Offsetting the leftward thrust of the TUC in the
ICFTU, we find the German DGB and som'e of the lnternational Trade Secretariats (lTS). Many ITS operations rel,y heavily on US State Department funds
channelled through AFL-CIO unions. The lTSs, like a
good number of Third World union leaders, who are
trained and sustained by a combination of AFL-ClO/
State Departmen t/mu ti nati onal corporate p rograms,
tend to stay conseryatively close to the paymasters'
politics. Despite such influences, the ICFTU has raised
a"radiçal" banner occasionally in its Congress.
Facing mæsive unemployment figures and the chal'
lenge of multinational corporate power to already
deteriorated wages, working conditions and living
standards, ICFTU repeatedly q4lls foi worldwide
labor unity. lndeed, Ottg Kérsten hal talks going with
the Christ¡an oriented World Confederation of Labor
(WCL) which inay unite the two groups. WCL and
ICFTU have had sharp conflicts in such places as
Latin America over the latter's regional subservience

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to the ICFTU. Meany put through a resolution which,
although it opposes the excesses of the Pinochet
government, cômplains that "free trade unionists did
ñot mourn ihe deþarture of the Marxist regime in
Chile." He also greeted two well known trade union
spokesmen for the Junta as obseryers to the conven' tioi, ginesto Vog"íana Eduardo Rios. Striking out
quite differently;-ICFTU sent a ligþtning delegation to

as a

"threat to wódd peacer" and demanding "work

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".Wh ile
Meanv cäls for increased levels of arms spending and is
a vanzuard defender of capitalism, ICFTU takes
anoth"er approach. They cite the fa¡lure of "the capitaliitrc an¿ läissez-faire náture of the.system" which has
"favored the stroàg over the weak," incieased the in. come gap and "cre-ated condilloris in which.the multi:
nationãl'companies co:ld expand uncontrolably. . .
The present pystem no longer adequately protects or
oromotes thä-inærest of workpeople in any state, be

iowards general and contpl àte disrymamen

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ot poor." ICFTU says the'¡basic-interest of
trade unión is to secure a more iust sÓriety' ' 'not
just to make an existing economic system work a little
more smoothly."
J.H. Pollydore, of Guyan4 was unusually clear.

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Evén more únusually, his remai'|. by the Congress. He said that in his country they "a.re
trying to dãvelop an ideology fitt¡ng to our economic
probÉms. . .ln 1957 our Constitution was susp-ended
because we were flirting with Communism. Well we
flirting with Commu4ism again and we hope this
' are
does not mean we will be disowned, and that we can
count on the ICFTU if we call for your assistance." He
described his country and unions as increasing their
"ties with Communist countriesr" saying "We will have
sreater contacts in Cuba where there is a need for
iorkers, where they have rid themselVès of illiteracy,
and where there is great satisfaction among the people."
Calmly and without hesitation, Pollydore declared
"Guyana has taken the road toward socialism. . .Our
position is based on the Marxist'lLeninist philosophy."
The words of Pekka Oiviq leader of the Finnish
delegation found a warm applause, referring to
parallel and ioint action of the ICFTU and the WFTU.
iesardins Chile, Spain and South Africa. He spoke of
i'tJiþ srral success of a qualitatively new expression of
,inter"national solidarity and of the wíll and ability to
act. . .Organ¡zations that represent different outlooks
and tendencies have been able to build common
fronts where the violations of human and trade union
üghts hut. been most blatandll

"The

convention action'of the AFL-CIO on Chile is
ât best hypocritical and a bit hollow when compared

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victims

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ICFTU also invited Luis Meneses, Secretary.Genêral
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of €hile's outlawed CUT, the labor backbone of Alin
the
obsorver
lende's Popular Unity, as a special
Clngress. Meneses cálied for,a worldwide- boycott
gooðs to and from Chile. ICFTU revised its draft reso
i-ution, making a boycott the main þoint. ln his speech,

of

Meneses declared:

"The Chilean tnde union

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-ment, faitlrful to its profound'concepts and p-rinciples
of Prilet¿rian tnternãtionalism (his caps.), rejoices
with the victories won by the people of lndochin4
Greece and Portugal, and st¡inds in solidarity with the
péople.and especiálly the workers who have fought so
welÍ and so hárd against lmperialism, neocolonialism
and dependency. . .We will defeat fuscism with the
united'action o? the trade union rnovement ahd, w¡th
the power of the prole-tariat, we will impose Liberty,
Justice and Peace.l' ICFTU rervard_eqlhgqt9:s1ge byúnanimously vot¡rig to forni "an ICFTU-CUT Coordination Committee. . .to give all possible moral and ma'
terial support to cuT for the development of strong
free and: effêctive trade unions in Chile."
One area in which ICFTU has been accused of
questiondble contåcts w¡th the US government is in
O R lT, i ts ln teramerican' Regional Organization.
Swedislr delegates in the Congress who refused to al'
low tlieir names to be used, criticized ORIT for its
domination'by the AFL.CIQ in violation of the
ICFTU Constitution, and for ORIT's failure to'ac'
cot¡nt for funds adequately: In a secret document that
was not released to the Congress, ORIT-is dealt with in
very hanh terms A working party of ICFTV Executive
Boård members has met to b"egin altering ORIT along
"regional, structunl, constiû¡tional, ideological and or'
gañ¡zational lines." Even ,ul¡o Etcheverry, leader of
ÓRlt, admits "We will have a rneeting soon in Caracus '
to dedide whether or not to continue as a Regional
Organization of ICFTU."
It will take some decisive and intelligent maneuver-

ing by.Genenl Secretary Otto Kersten to keep a
semblance of unity. lf ICFTU can't-resolve its contra'
" dictioni, the WFTU, with more than 200
the
for
will.be
waiting
members in 93 countries;
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affliites with open
læt
month,
ln its Generàl Council meeting
WFTU dealt with the very same challenges to work¡ng
people as did the ICFTU. The difference is basically
inud WffU includes all unions, mainly left¡st un¡ons
and those in socialist countries. lnstead of wdking
softly toward legislative negotiations with governments
and international organisms, the WFTU demands "a
policy of resolute action aimed at supporting worker
and people's strugglet for full political and economic
. indeoendence and the est¿blishment.of a new world
economic order." They top that off with a plea for
formation of "an inteinational organizat¡on that

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would includg all labor'unions throughout the world."
lf ICFTU ôair rulnlt some of its strong resolutions
for economic justipe and against multinational cor.
porate control and fascism, it can rema¡n a contender
in the complex international arena. But it could hit
the canvas if it spends the coming rounds waving olive
branches at George Meany.

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DEBORAI.I HUNTINGTON

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Corporate control of food production and distribution is an ever present factor in world hunger. Food
is produced for profit, not for human needs-or
wants-as seen by the proliferation of artificial foods
in our supermarkets. Even,more disturbing is the fact
that similar unnecessary, unhealthy food is exported
abroad, often'without concern for the nutritional
and socioeconomic results. Such is the case with
Çommercial baby formula
. Due to the rapid decline in the American birth
rate over the past decade, and to the ieturn to breastfeeding by many {merican mothers, the domestic
market for commercial infant formula has not expanded at the rate desired by the corporations. The
rebult has been a massive promotional campaign
launched by the major producers and directed
toward ùndermining the cultural and social values in
third world areas. ln order to create and supply
foreign markets, this high powered campaign (posters,
billboards, radio) wæ designed to convince people
that "West is best." Breast feeding is portrayed as uncivilized and archaic. The companies publish. "educational" literature and hold workshops on infant
nutritional needs. . .generally not even mentioning
breast feeding as an option.
The rewards gf the corporate campaigns were
noted in The New Yorh Tlmes last September. For
the past two years, Abbott Laboratories' multinational pharmaceutical division, Ross Laboratories
(SlMlLAC, ISOMIL), has had a J07o íncrease in
foreign sales as compated with a,lo-12% yearly increase ín domestic sales, Amerícan Home Products'
Wyeth Labs (SNA, 5-26)had sales worth 960 million
last year; Bristol Myers (Mead Johnson Labs),showed
great profits, and the Swiss-based Nestle Corporation,
which dominates35-40% of the world baby food
market, had sales of $300 million ln '1974. This expansion may be healthy for the industries, but proves
to be a formula for malnutrition for the children.
The change from breast feeding to commercial
'feeding is detrimental for both economic and
hygienic reàsons. A mother suffering from all but

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severe malnutrition is capable of nursing her child

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Deborah'Hunt¡ngton is responsible for Clergy and
Laìty Concerned's hunger progrom. Thls orticle
originally appeared Ìn the CALC Newsletter.
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at least the first six months. Her milþ aside from be
ing inexpensive and sanitary, providei the child with
the necessary antibodies for immunization. Com.
mercial formula is usually sold as a powder to be
mixed with water, and the bottles and ¡ipples re
qu ire steril ization. Pu re water, electricity, refrigeration and storage space are luxuries for most third
world families. Few households can afford more than
one baby bottfe. The bottles are frequently contaminated; the expensive formulas are watered down
so they will last longer-sometimes to one fifth of
their original strengih-and the child often suffers
from díarrhea or gastritus. Severe malnutrition and
death may result. According to a'1974 study conducted in Chile, the number of children who died
from malnutrition was three times higher among
bottle fed babies than among breæt fèd babies õf the
same age group. The drain oñ family economic re
sources is equally appalling: a study in Jamaica
revealed that90o/o of the mothers in'Kingston started
bottle feeding their babies before they were six
months old. Based on 1970 prices, it costs $73 to
feed a child formula during the first six montls. ln
'1972, 40% of the Jamaicans earned less than $1 1 a
week. Sjmilarly, in Nigeria the cost of bqttlefeeding '
a three month old infant amounts to more than 300/o
of the average Nigerian wage.
Corporations associate their names with the public health industry; and this identification is more
than incidental. . .Corporate promotional activity has
su þpl ied doctors wi th formu la-p rescription fcirms
that include the hospital's.name and the company's
directions. Corporatesalaried "mil k-nurses"-usually.
registered nurses employed by companies-vísit new
mothers in the maternity wards, and by means of
(unexplained) access to government and hosþital
maternity records, visit families in their homes. They
counsel mothers on infant feeding leaving samples
and brochures in their hands. The nurses' position as
health workers has often obscurred the fact that they
t
are first and foremost corporate representatives. .
Growing criticism of these practices by such
groups as the Consumers' Union, the lnterfaith Cènter on Corporate Responsibility, and the UN Protein
Advisory group, has led to several concessions by
some of the oompanies. Milk-nurses are now identified by the company logo on their uniforms; some
formula packages now státe "breast-feeding is the
preferred method"; and the companies presently advocate a mixed feeding, part natural, part commerci4l;
These measures do not undo the past damage, and
in most cases perpetuate it. Mixed feeding ultimately
results in dependency of commercial formula, be :
cause the less frequently a child nurses, the less milk
is produced by the mother. These concessions must
not obscure the.fundamental issue of economic and
cultural imperialism. Values which support consumption patterns economically unfeasible and nutritionally unsound are exploitive. As we become increasingly aware of the world hunger situation it becomes
evident that examples such as the above are by.no
means unique. When corporations will not take
responsibility for their actions, governments must
regulate their actívities. And when governr¡ents be
come weaker than the corporations, the initiative and
authori,tylies with the people. We can begin by
demandi ng changes.in corporate production and
distribution, and back up this demand by boycotting
the goods that they produce and export.

la

An pen Lettef to
Am e rican GI's in South '
Korea and the Philippines

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Thirteen ye¿rs ago, as a soldier in South Vietnam, I
arrived with ambitions to go to West Point and be
come the world's youngest five-star general. Ten
months later I left Òur late exotic Southeast Asian
"vacation landr" an adopted Vietnamese, the direction of my life distracted 180 degrees.
One morning (for instance), a "friendly" USarmed "ally" in downtown Saigon started to shoot
me and two buddies for trying to visit some friends
living on the other side of "his" barbed wire. Martial
law in 1963 SorJth Vietnam, 1 500 Gls sourly discovered, unmasked one of the most brutal police
states of the decade.
Several million casualties (including nearly three
million discarded US Vietnam'war veterans), $15G
billion and a dozen years' civil strife in America later,
our government's effort to maintain that, martial law
and its secret-police state is a nightmare which only
ended, at last, this past spring.
Many of you recentJy stationed in south Korea
ahd the Philippines have seen the face of martial lawdeclared in early fall 1972 in both places:that tourist
advertisements and recruiting posters seldom describe.
Some of you already have protested to our government some of what you have seen: and suffered some.
consequences

for it.

I want to join your outrage. No one enlisted in
the US military for the adventure, MOS or on-the.jobtraining of "propping up police states," protecting
torture-of priests, poets, political opponents-then
parading and saluting the torturers; Yet that, 365
days of a year, is what you do.

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When the G ls and veterans of Vietnam iealized our
real role, the war we were tricked i4to providing was
doomed. Sel f-organizations I i ke Vietriam Veterans
Against the War and many others-as well as some
500,000 "deserters" (or self-retired veterans) and the
staffs of some 144 "underground" Gl newspapersbrought,more troops home alive from:that insane
blood bath than did all the promises of two run out
of office Presidents, The préssures of the American
public's growing peace movement brought home the
rest, flags still flying.
It is time-long past time-we brought all the
troops, bombs, bombers and bullets home from
south Korea and the Philippines, too.
Even^should we miraculously blunder and avoid

another murderous'colonial war in either old battle
¡

zone, we cannot continue as the "green machine"
palace guard for those twin warlords, Marcos and .
Park.

Our first President, as you may have seen on a bar:
racks poster, put ¡t pretty well: !'When you became a
soldier, you did not stop being a citizen."
Two hundred lears ago, a lot of citizens in our

country rebelled in order to tell an English king that
they would rather die free than remaiñ a foreign

colony. Today, other patriots are risking their'lives in
south Korea and the Philippines to tell us "greensleeves" what our ancestors once told the redcoats.
Please join me and many hundreds and thousands
of others in America and around the world in an
American revolution bicentgnnial campaign to bring
the troops home from our Asian

empire.

).jß Barry
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Jan Barry was formerly class of '68 US Militøry
Academy; president, VVAW'67:71 ; coeditor Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by V¡etnam Veterans.

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REPRESSION

iÑ BRITAIN cont¡nuecl from page 6.

could be imposed on the people of Northern lreland.
What doubts existed were fully reinforced when
Ñorthern lreland Protestants staged a 100% successful
general strike, closing down all community services
and resources (including petrol and other energy
sources) in the summer of 1974.
,ln this atmosphere the "socialist" government of
Harold Wilson began to panic over the possible disintegration of public support for the war effor! andworse yet of the army itself. Military, political and
cultural ties had forced the British eiite to study the
collapse of American support for the war in SE Asia
and of the army itself. The government decided to
rally pupport and crush the opposition with widespread

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arrests and a show trial.
First Pat Arrowsmith-a long time peace activist

with many ties to Wilson's Labour Party-was
rested and imprisoned under the lncitement

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Disaf-

fection Act of '1934.The act was seen as'so threatening to civil liberties when it was first introduced that it
was barely adopted by Parliament. And when it was
adopted, it spawned the creation of the National
Council for Civil Liberties, the British cousin of the
American Civil Líberties Union. Pat was sentenced to
two years, but was released after nine months in prison
when her conviction was overturned on the basis of
technicalities. The governrñent then prepared its
hoped for coup d'groce, the arrest of its pacifist oppo

sition in its entirety.
There were late night knocks on doôrs as police
raided homes and offices. They took names. They
took piies of literature includihg hundreds of coþies
of the offending leaflets. And th ey took peop le for
interrogation. Fou rteen people, three women and11
iiren, weie arresteil for p ossessing or d istribu ting the
leafl et. Some were charged with the "crime'.' of

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JUSTICE DEPT. STRIKES OUT cont¡nuéd from page 7.

and punitive damages of 91,000,000 each, and ask for
an invêstigatíon of whether criminal charges should
be broughtagainst these officials and agáinst the
prosecution witnesses who purjured themselves during the 1973 trial.
The conspiracy case and the recent charges are not
the full history of Sc.ott Camil's harassment by the
governnient ln January, '1972,he was arrested on
kidnapping charges. The state attorney told the press
that he had been on an extension when Camil made a
ransom demand to his alleged victims' employer.
Within hours the employer flatly denied that such a
conversation had taken place. The charges were
'dropped. The following month he was busted on six
drug counts; Four were dropped before trial and he
was aquitted on the other two. Then in the summer
of 1972 he and the seven others were indicted for
cons¡iiring to violently disrupt the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. All eight were aquitted
in August, 1973, after the jury deliberated only three
hourS on a complicated, 18-count ind¡ctmenl

Nor have all the attacks been in the courtroom.
Twice, his house has been burglarized. While he was
preparing his defense for tlre first set of drug charges,
the office of his attorney, Carol Scott, was burglarized.
Early in the summer of 1975, the home of attorney
Larry Turner's law clerk wæ ransacked. ln each case,
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legal papers and notes for Camíl's defense were taken,
æ well as notes for a book he is writing about the
conspiracy trial. There is also the case ôf Larry
Turner's briefcase disappearing for a while on a flight
to Gainesville in 1973, a briefcase co¡taining of

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charged with distributing it. All were charged under
the lncitement to Disaffection Act and John Hyatt
and Gwen Williams were additionally charged under
the.Army Act for helping deserters flee to Sweden.
When the 14 appeared for arraignmen! they expected
the most they could get would be two years. But the
gqyernment surprised.them and changed the charges
to conspiracy, which carries inde.frnite imprisonment,
a day to life.
. lf the campaign had been something of a ragtagaf.
fair up to that point, it became a mæs movement in
its wake. People who had been vaggely sympathetic
reprinted the leaflet and disseminated it thrgughout
Britain. They handed it to all in sighf soldiers and
civilians when soldiers could not be easily found.
The 14 are still on trial, and will be for at least a
month as they present their defense and the jury goe¡
out to deliberate. f n their defense they will be talking
about Nuremberg and individûal responsibility, the
inherent limitations and faults of the government's
' Northerri lreland policy, the rights of soldiers to spedk
'and organize, and the rights of civilians to communicate with Her Majesty's Forces.
On September 29, the day the trial began, demonstrations of support were held outside British consulates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia
and New York. Letters have been writterÍ to British
governmeht offcials protesting the continued war in
Nsrthern lreland and the widescale repression in this
"Western Democracy. " Statemen td h ave beên pu bl ish ed,
and some people are writing about or talking about
the case and its implications for the future of democracy in Britain, Europe and the West. The results of
such work are always indefinite, but a recent letter
from John Hyatt indicated that support from all over
the world has forced the government to refrain from
making even more arrests.
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course, Camil defense papers. And the two FBI
agents, one admittedly an electronic monitoring I
specialist found in a utility closet adjacent to the defense conference room during the trial of the Eight,
heavily equipped.
And even when these cases are won, we still lose.
Most of tlre lastthree years of Scott Camil's life have
been spent, defending himself. And for each such
defence, the cost in energy, time and money is huge.
The choice of cocaine dealing for an accusation
can hardly be regarded as accidental, Remember how
much support and sympathy for Abbie Hoffman
evapolated when the specter of the dread cocaine was
raised? The same happened here. I called the VVAW
ofüce in Oakland after hearing of the shooting. Not
interested, VVAW policy is nõt to get involved in drug
cases.

The above is not meant as an attack on Oakland
VVAW, but rathçr as a demonstration of how we let
ourselves be smokescreened away from the true issues

by emotional triggers.
Scott's troubles are ,not over, even though his
acquittal was a very important victory. The IRS
promptly,put afreeze on his bail money for taxes allegedly 9wed, even though the money is not even
Scott's.'Scotttóld mq "Wè're $23,000 in debt down
heie." Maybe even more sobering is the comment of
Mike Oliver of San Francisco's Swords to Plowshares
project, who put up most of the bail: "The troúble is,
Scott knows this isn't the last time."
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CONTACT
Scott Camil, Larry Tay lor and the dgfense committee
can be reached at PO B ox 13179, University Sration,
Gainesville, FL32604.

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possessing only one copy of the leaflet. Others were

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HURRICANE CARTER TO,
APPEAL FOR NEW TRIAL

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Rubin "Hurricane" Cartei and his
codefendant,,John Artis, moved one

steo closer to a new trial in midNovember when the New f erseY Sute
Supreme Court decided to hear their
appeal. Carter and Artis were con'
victed in 1967 on three counts of

murder based on testimonY from

two witnesses who have since ad'
mitted that they lied forthe prosecu'
tion against each of them
"Thì State Supreme Court will hear
the appeal for a new trial in earlY
lanuary," explained Stu Ball, a ..
member of the legal team defending
Carter and Artis, "and probably.rule
'on the case by March:"
ln the meantime, variôus petit¡ons and repor'ts
are on the desk of New ferseY*
Governor Brendan Byrne asking that
a pardon be'granted the two blagk
men.

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Over a year ago, on October

29,

priions?"

ASK US TO PROVE ITS
RESOLUTION IS NOT PHONY
The National Council foÍUniversal
Unconditional Amnesty on November
'13 urged that the US prove its'UN

draft resolution fgramnesty by all
nations is not mere hfPocrisY, bY
granting amneåty here at home to

Vietnam war resisters.
ln.wires tci Ambassador Moynihan
and President Ford, NCUUA Nátional
Coordinator lrma Zigas said: "We
hope the US would set the first
example by granting unconditional
amnesty to a million Americans who
now suffer the legal and social coit' .
sequences of their opposition to the
US Government's official policies in
Southeæt Asia."
The Government's UN resolution
was initiated to counter a resolution
pæsed by the General Assembly condemnins Zionism as a fbrm of racism. '

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197d both Alfred gello and Arthur
'Dexter
Bradley, the only witnesses
against Artis and Carter, recanted
tñeir testimony. "l've been living
with that trial testimony for eight
years," said Bello, "and it was getting
io me." Bello also said that

saying "H.is extensive criminal
record hardly. adds to his trustworthiness as a witness:" Larner added that
"The court finds that Bello's recantation is simply unbelievabie."
ln the year since Bello and Bradley
adm¡tted they had lied]ù¡ds¡ ps¡¡çs
pressure during the trial, much attention has focused on the case. ln
the next few rnonths the campaign
to free Carter and Artis will continue as the Supreme Court considers
a new trial and Governor Byrne rules
on the pardon.
'€arter has made it clear, though,,
that his case will not end if he is.freed:
"lt is the racist system that put me ¡n
this iail," Carter said in a recent inter'
view. " l certa¡nly wasn't the first aird,
until some things change in this
country, I won't be the last. How
many Rubin Car,ters are rotting away
in America's
-LNS

he was,ln

County Jail when Police
learned that he decided to recant
and as a threat "l had ribs broken by
the poliie."
A check of local hospital records
by Newark Star-Ledger reporter Herb
f affe found that Bello was brought
in by county iail offcials for emergency treatment twice, several, weeks
apart, in the months preceeding his
recantation. After being beaten the
first time, Bello said one officer told
him, "maYbe You'd better think
whether you want to recant or not
ludge Samuel A. Larner, who
heard the original triple murder trial,
Passaic

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réfused to Srant a new trial based on

the recantations. Though he had
believed Bello when he testified
aeainst Artis and Carter, Judge Larner
dismissed the motion'for a new trial

$1 IN ALBUQUERQUE
A noontime rally in oPPgsition to

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Senate B¡ll S-1 drew 500 PeoPle to
the Civic Plaza in downtown Albuquerque Oct.29. The rallY was

sponsored by the Albuquerque Coalition to Stop Senate B¡ll S'1.
A UniversitY of New Mexico law
student, speaking at the rally, cited
provisions of the bill that would open

the door for the authorities to ban
this very kind of rally and arrest her
for speaking "We should never ever
let bills l¡ktth¡s cow us," she said. A
feminist sþeaker representing a ...
women'scontlngent called the bill
"totally u nacceptable."
Local Pressure from the state
American Civil Liberties Union and
fublic lnterest Research GrouP
(PIRG) recently caused New Mexico
Sen. Péter Donienici (R) and ReP.
Manuel Luian (R) to cbme out
against the'bill, aócording to a?lRG..

sõokesperson.

-The Guardian

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has b-een greeted with considerable

skepticism 6oth here and abiôad in.
light of America's consistent support 1
of military dictatorships and Fascist
t
regimes (óarticularly Chile)
political imprisonment, not to speak !
of torture and murder, are an integral . ,";.
part of the
-f im Pei:lör;

where ' i

system.

MPLA.SÚFPORT GROUP .
i
FORMED lN NYç
A committee in suPPort of the
Popular Movement for the Libera-

tion of Angola (MPLA) has recentlY
been formed in New York CitY to
p

rovide weekly, up-todate informa'

iion on the current developments in

Angola.

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Ciitical time for the future
of Angola," wrote the MPLA Solidaritv Committee in their introductory
látter. Sihce Angola gained independence from Poriugal on November 1 1,
Western backed forces have been mak'
ing raþid'advances to Prevent the
'¡This

¡s a

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progress¡ve MPLA from maintaining

its cqntrol in the country.
The Solidarity Committee's first

AIID

n0$Es,

¿?f

too

and political developments in Angola
and êxposing the escalation of US

intervention] We see this as a critical
first step in building solidarity be
tween the people of the United States
and the people of Angola in their corn
mon fight against exPloitation and
US imperialism.
To receive the MPLA SolidaritY
Committee's material, write to them
at 825 West End Avenu.e, APt 14F,
New York, NY

10025.

-LNS

EVENTS
NYC-Rally Against Senate B¡ll 91.

q.

'rr

Noon, Wed., Dec. 3 FoleY Square
(corner of Pearl & Lafayette Sts.).
Èponsored bY the NY Coalition to
Defeat *1,346 West 20th St., NY,
NY 10011.

BROOKLYN-BrooklYn WRL studY'
action group on nônviolentstrategy
and tac-tics continues Dec. 4, 8 Pm.
55 Pineapple St., APt. 1D. (8565069
or 596-9433)
BOS'TON-Congressman Mi chael
Harrington speiks on "The Cl¡A and
Ameriðan Fr'eedom" at the C
'muniw Church of Boston,

Morse

Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth
Ave., Sun., Nov. 30 at 11 am.
CAMBRIDGE-The Black Rose/

Black Circles Lecûres will be present'
ins Sylvia Kashdan, sPeaking on

"Libertarian tradition in Cubar" Fri'
dav nisht. Dec. 5, 8 Pm at MIT Bldg'
9, RmIt50, located at 77 Mass. Ave.
Stru ggle
Continues," 20th anniver-sary of the

IttOnfCOmERY-"The

non-violerit movement (Montgomery

bus boycott), Dec. 5-7. SPeakers in'
clude Coretta King, Dick Gregory,
lulian Bond. others. Contact SCLC,
äg¿ Ruuurn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA

30303 (404) s22-"t420.
18 v\llN

t"Ti,,

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lot of things going fo-i us
here iriAmerica that Yort won't find
We've got a

in too manY other countries. For
instance, thanks to our free enterprise syitem, people like Hillcrest

iì¡bl¡cát¡onsare allowed to make a
buck publishing pamphlets like "How
to K¡li" by one John Minnery. ln
Hillcrestts- most recent catalog, the
descriptiön of "tlow to Kill" says that
it's a book "for the assassin rather
than the defensive combatant . . . .
It's also perfect if You are a member
of a pblice swat squad. . . . .heavy on
knife work and hatchets but is also
verv thorou$ on PiPe weapons. . . . .
soód for thãprice." They also list
6ooks on how to make do it Yourself
bombs. such as The Poor Man's Jomes
Bond,ihich tells You how to make
one ór two ounces of nitroglYcerin,
mercury fulminate, TNT, tetryl and
oicric aôid. Most of the stuff is re
brints from army training manuals. lf
vou don't believe me, write for Your
ôwn catalog at PO Box 395, McDonald. Ohio 44437. You'll get an
idea of exactlY how heavilY armed

the right wing in this country really
is, anð, indeed, how crazY it is.Dãneeious kind of qazY. . . . .Seven
Dayí, the fledgling weeklY leftist

newimagazine; has Preview edition
number-four ready for your perusal. '
The cover story is on Portugal, and
the other stories in this issue, on
bussing Pat Swinton, ànd the New
York 6ankruPtcy round out an issue
with a lot of good political analysis
combined with sharp writing a¡d good
lavout. TheY're going to try to do a
toial of ten preview editions before
eoinx weeklY, so if Yould like to reðe¡vãtne next s¡x, send $6 to Seven
Davs.353 Lexington Avenue, New

vórti. NY 10016. lf You'd iust like
to chôck out this issue, send 'em a

buck. . . . .The E¿ist River Anthology,
an alternative Press, is collecting

erv

reading. . . . .People out on the west
coast organizing against the Trident
submariñe have put together a highlV
informative pamphlet on that subjecÇ
describing exactly what the Trident
project is, its environmental impact
andthe history of political opposi-

tion to the project. Suggested dona'
tion for the piece is 25f, and it's
available from the Pacific Life Com'
munity, clo 33"1 1 7th East, Seattle,

woMAN

is honest and probàbly rings an alftoo-familiar nóte in the

the reaction of the "reguenough ears of act!,1ls!s everywlere. -T_oo,
have been exposed to--their
p"i*üã'nà lar" inmatés is one many of-us
incredulity at.the.womeh's inÞntion to be arrested di'
minishes the gravity.ofthe act.lt's hard not to w¡nce at
"ì¡gñilfii'liiffii:
il;¡s;-ï;i
*õui¿ uã riy aãtle *r'tî i,ãriíø;.;';h;
passages, which. eloquently reduce an act of conscience
these
grf
ili
rt.t
compassion,
erudit¡oniinã
w¡s"
t¡ãr.
aiå, fa:€ene
from the theatre of the absurd. Howerre6 Kav
àor, ,t ã tðo expresses ahe td;¡;slóf ñ r"päúiäd;-d lo
Boyle offers no alternative to the middle clas civil dis.
. rooiríãir
¡n¿ãpåïå"iî. obédience
aiugtrters *rto'¡trusilã rór
gesture, leaving readers (and perhaps would-be
r
"n
n"u",.
they can "n¿
activists)-to Ppndgr whether one's cäuse can best be served
"r-h¡ru,
Woman, Kay Boyle tackles th¡s
ín fft" Unãergrouna
proulem or pareñt-child ínt"iauiena',rñce, ús¡hgcttar"ir.rt by behavior that is so little understood.
ln fact, Kay Boyle offers few answers to.the mañy ques:
whose act¡víties and commitments are as conteinpoá1, as
tions.she
raises. Athena'scxpulsion of the cultists who take ,.. :
their feelings are traditional. The book äpens as Àthenä, ¿
m iddle,ageð mother óf three daughters, ii Ueing arresæó over her house is a tentat¡ve step- toward- freedom at besü
for blocÈing an induction center.-A læôbtooming act¡v¡st, her primary concern is still whether she- is also casting aside i
rtr. non.tnãt.ss always had the moral and politicãl feelinjs her daughter wþg¡ ¡fe.thr.gws out her friends. Athena's 'l
second act of c¡v¡l disobedience as the book ends is even .. ,;
that finally led to hei act of civil disobedieñce. While onli
ãn. ¿iudtt"i ãan frllV sympathizã w¡th Àth.n"'s action, more an expression of submissio_n, for she is gacrificing her ';:':'í
freedon¡ again without fully undersland-ing the reaso¡s for
inottreräoes not oprñly nai¡ni opposite vilues. lt is the'
yorngrst dauglrter, m"iy moth.ist ipeJ¡ation. because she it or evaluating the effect of iL She is still trying to "take
part in contempoqfy acts of.fortitud-e, and gallantry, and
ís lastl who iia coátinuiírg rãut.u of'emotional pain for
i¡agelv.i'as shè.beliãves.the bearer of her name shoi¡l¿Arhena: she musr learn to"aCcepr rhe youngesfíl¡i; ;;
probably Kay Boyle-herself, the shean
"
,orrun. le¿ Uv a Nanson-like cultisi ln t-ne rlir.*-ãt1frr For Athena,cutand
the umbilical cord are. impossible to gr-eate:
uóót, *r'"" Áirí.n" iiì.rorized in her own rtomç-ãvî.i'- which will
' "\ -tryondy Schu¡artz '
daughter's fellow communards, her passive but const¿nt
anguish erupts into a more immediate fear for her physical
'-'
safety. While this transformation of feelings could be a
Wendy Schwarz is chalrwomon of the A.!, Muste
catharsis for Athena after the anger is over, she reverts back Memor¡at lnstitute.
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nature of US imperialism in'the'
Pacific, you should be conscious of
¡t. S, 107 would provide for the
dismemberment of Micronesia bY
creating a Northern Marianas Coûr
monwealth, thus insuring almost
perpetual colonial status for a
bolitically weakened Micronesia. At
present, the bill is stalled in Con- '
gress. To make sure it stays that way,
you should wlite your US senator
ioday (if you happen to be in a Part
.

ió.ÚS t"nutors-forget it if you're
in Micronesia, Puerto Rico, the

äffiJfrî;,iî?ü.,ië*';*ï:,lli'i',li'j:fi;ä,i, *o

The real Gift of Frepdom is a pair of shp¡rs sharp
to cut the umbilical cord that binds us io out.
our chitdren. tf such ,r,.ãü'õi¡rl,-ãnã

sassìnation Resource Lisf. lt's available from the Assassination, lnformation Bureau, 63 Inman StreeÇ Canr
bridge, MA 02139. . . . .Senate Joint
Resolution 107 is one that You
probably haven't heard much aboug
but ifyou are concerned aboutfhe

of the American empire,that allows

and soul alike.
lGy Boyle's appreciation o{ the.¡rön¡c and the absurd is
not lost in the seriousness of the arrëst scene. She notes
early that no blacks are in thepaddy wagon-and that the

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Wa 98112. . . . .lf youlre interested
in reading up on political àssassinations in the US for the last fifteen
years, you should ut¡lize the /4s-

richness of The Underground Woma¡ isn't limited ì
to its exploration of the parentåchild symbiosis. By placing
Athena in jail, Kay Boyle introduce¡ a political element

which also advances the lack-of'freedom theme. Athona's
pri'son experience is in part autobiognphical, and at ltasta
few of her compatriots are thinly'disguised, well.knoÛn
pacifists. lt is curious, then, that it is in her account of life
in iail that Kay Boyle's artistry is misplaced. The natural
poetry of her writing and the eloquence of her descriptionf
camouflage the unrelieved misery of the lives of the in' .
mates. For example, comparing a lesbian couple to Gertrude
Stein and Alice ti, Toklas asigns them an idéntity which
pîison regimen must surely strip áway. Howeveríthe v¡vid
descriptiõn of Athena's attempt to help dress a parolee,
who had gained 50 pounds during a year's imprisonment,
in the cloihes she wore when arrested is an especially
poignant'commentåry on how hard prisonilife is on body

Agitotor (eOs Norm Cummings St.,
history of the Catholic Workei move
ment. lt makes for some interestihg

"Our.purpose is to suPPort the
MPLA by spotl¡ght¡ng the military.

her earlier search for freedom had in fact been the ultimate
act of submission. And interestingly, Athena's insight is the
result of her understanding of her daughter's need to wor'
ship a "redeemer" who promises freedom but offers servi-

Lós Angeies, CA 90033), contains a

Mozambique.-

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information packet includes a recent,
first-hand report which appeared in
the London Obseruer on South Afri'
can troops which invaded Anggþ tofight MPLA; rhe bulk of MPLA Presi'
dent Agostinho Neto's address to the
Angolan people at the independence
cerèmony; and the text of a rePort
from a November 9 Conference of
. Natignalist Organizations of Portu''
guese Colonies which took Place in

poetry, prose, arù and photography bY
lndochina Veterans for an anthology
ent¡tled Dem I I ito riz ed Zo ne s. lt's
dqsigned as a companion to l|4nning
Heorts ond Minds, a-book tlrat WIN
readers should be familiar with. The
authors are having some troubltj
gett¡ng the word out to veteran artists
and writérs, so if you are one, or
know one, contact East River
Anthology-at 208 Dean Street'
Brooklyn, New York "11217.. . . .
Thq latest issue of the Catholic

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Panama Canal Zone, or Washington,

DC) asking him to urge that Public
hearinç be held in all Parts of
Microñesia so that the people affected
can be heard. lf you'd like to learn

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'mii'f,ililllilåiräti.i:i!ï"ff#3tålt"t,-sr.a,
Her

more about another alternative for
Micronesia inilePendence, You ¡
shou.ld contact the Mlcronesio lnde'
pendence S u pport Com m ittee,'1 21 2
University Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii

whole life has been sþent trying to live
by her father.
gp to lryIty,lplt^"::] goddess after whom she is

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pROpHET OF COMMUN¡Ty: The Romanttc

namer-mplied. bäì¡iíír-"iöuitav*l-andáuer
Eugene Lunn / Univêrsity of California
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LIIJ1ff : ï;t1å?'"i[ffiil1J åånLl""Jî'?i,i,::,: ffi :l'j;
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peace, Alhg¡a fulfilled her destiny. it is onty as she apLandauer to have appeared. With greatzeal, Lunn has col'
lected an abundance of data and facb about Landauer's life
oroaches middle age that she can analyze the cbnceots of
(1S7G191S)and work, which he iudges faírly. He shows us
ü.-"¿or and submission, confrontinsilì" postibiiitv äit
wrN. 19

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Landauer's two sides: the philosophiç-literary, and the social
revolutionary-fighter. Landauer emerges as Jew and German,
as socialist and anarchist. His socialism and anarchism can-

not be given a descriptive label. His intellectlral striving and
his social involvement at times reached the aesthetic.
Landauer began his career.as a man of letters with the
novel, The Death Preacherin 1893. ln the same year, he
took part in the Second lnternational Socialist Congress in
Zurich as a speaker for the Berlin Anarchists. He was prÈ
vented from giving his speech, but later màde it public. ln
"1895, he wrote an essay on '14 Means of Liberating the
Worrking Clæs." ln 1896, he went to London to the Third
lnternational Socialist Congress, which concluded with the
Anarchists being thrown out of the Socialist Party. ln 1901,
his piece, "Through Division to Community," appeared. lnbetween, he was ceeditor of the newspaper, The Sociallst,
one of the anarchosocialist papers which appeared from
1892-1894 and 1 89+1 899.

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The first years of the 20th century Landauer devoteá
himself to literary-philosophical studies. The resultlwas the
composition, "Skepticism and Mysticism," and the novel,.
Power and Authorìty., both of wh ich appeared in 1 903, as
well as the historical-philosophical study, "The Revolution,"
which Martin Buber brought out in 1905. ln 190$ Landauer and others established the "Socialist Bundr" with
which the material foundation for the new edition of the
newspaper, The Sociolist, was once again established.
As the danger of war threatened in 1911, in his piece,
"The Abolition of War and the Self-Determination of the
Peopler" Landauer called the German worker to a general.
strike against the dangers of war; This action was recofiÞ^
mended by the French and English delegates in the lnternational Socialist Congress in Copenhagen in 1910, but was
borrowed by the German Social Democrats. Landauer's antiwar works, published in 100,000 copies, were seized by tli'e
police, leaving only a part to be disseminated,by the author
himælf. The Socìølist appeared in publication in 1915, but

wæ forbidden the followingyear.
With the forced suspensiõn of his antimilitary propaganda, Landauer devoted himself entirely to his literary,
interests. ln 1916, in a letter to President Woodrow Wilson,
he proposed an international court which would control and
watch over armaments for all nations to prevent any militåry bu¡ld-up. Hôwever, Landauer was also keeping in mind
the development of a true people's federation, which would
not merely be a federation of states.
After the collapse of the German Regime had brought
with it a Social-Democratic rule in Bayern, the independent
sociâlist Minister:President, Kúrt Eisner, called Landauer to
Munich to work together for a new socialist order. Landauer
followed the call and busied himself with oiganizing a
revolutionary Soviet Congress in support of the anarchist,
Erich Muhsom, and the independent socialist, Ernst Toller.
The murder of Kurt Eisner signaled a call to the Bayern
Soviet Republic. Landauer was consulting the Head of Public lnstruction. He didn't consult long however. ln a revolutionary situation, contributing towards its apex, he did not
feel in conflict with his anarchist principals. On the 7th of
Apçil, 1919, he accepted office as revolutionary Minister of
Education. He worked out a basic reform for public instruction, which would be hailed by the progressive'forces.
lnstead of authoritarian direction, there would be free
cooperation between the Educational Council and the high
school students. ln the schools, the parent council should
consult with the teachers. The new system should not be
introduced in a dictatorial manner, but rather organized
from below. ln Landauer's conception, neither the State,
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Capitalism, nor the Church should or could be abolished

tf rouglr force;they had to be replaced by people,s organizations. A dictatorial cot¡ncil meant oppression of the péople.
lmmediately after the Russian October Revolution he
write, r'The Bolsheviks are working towards establishing
a military regime of the order the world has not yet ieen."
His word would prove to be prophetic.
Landauer's plans for reorganizing public instruction
could not be realized. Since úre Communists were on the
increase in his district of the new Soviet Republic, he left
on April14. The anarchist Minister of Education had only
remained at his post a few week. Fourteen days later, on
orders from the Berlin government executive, the Soviet
Republic wæ overthrown. Power celebrated triumph. On
May 2, Landauer wæ dragged out of his home.by the
victorious military, put ¡nto prison and literally kicked to
death by incited soldiers. A violent ending for an apostle of

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its participants" - Newswee k
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Debs In 1920 over 900,000 Americans
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States. Lunn indicates the influence which Landauer had
over the Jewish Socialists, especially on Chaim Orlosoroff,
the founder of Hoshomer Hazair, which still claims 75
kibbutzim in lsrael. The tsraeli Haluzim (pioneers).operate
in Landauer's memory. That Landauer stooil for agricultural
settlements has led to his being seen as regressive, as a
dreamer removed from progress. This is not so; he clearly
states that "The settlementg should only be training for jus
tíce and pleazurable work, not the means of attaining the

REVq LUTION AN D EQUI LIBRIUM
by Barbara Deming ". . .a series of
studies of nonviolent action and its
possibilities. , .my preoccupation over
the las! ten years." (Publisher's list price
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theory-the romanticist. Even in the title

he speaks of
Landau er's t' romantic soci al ism. " Lu nn's presen tation leaves

the impression that Landauer's socialism lies closer to a
naive romanticism than to a positive socialist reality. That
this is not so is proven by Landauer,'s strugglefilled life and,
his tragic death. The word "romantic," a synonym not bnlf
for idealism, but also for visionary, sentimental, utopian,
illusionary, dreamer and susceptible, fits Landauer as little
as Robert Owen,.Proudhon or Kropotkin.
Fortunalely, his socialism was of a different sort than
Marx's, Leriin's or St¿lin's. ln the second edition of his "Call
to Socialism," a half month before his violent death, he
wrote:
The poltticat revolution in which the spirit enters the government; the vigorous order, ond the determined success çan
change conditioni emanating from the imoginotion to make
the path free for socialism. But through decrees, one can engoge men at most ln state slwery to a domestic military. The
transformotlon of society con come only through love and
through work,

Augustin Souchy is a German Anarchist who participated
in the'Spanish Civìl War. He is the author of books on the
kibbutzin in lsrael, the Anorchist collectives ìn Spoin, and
other works.

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walkout of
1877, For nearly 50 years thereafter
Mother Jones òrganized, agitatéd and
went to jail on behalf of America's
working people. In old age she wrote
the story of her cnrsadeg in vivid and
salty language.
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goal." Landauer's free socialism was not of the present, but.
of the future
A word of criticism. Lunn always finds in his analysiswlrether it is of Landauer's literary work or his social

Present-day Rùssia, a military colossus of oppression, confirms Landauer's prophetic words. One could call Landauer's
socialism humanistic and ethical, but not romantic. Apart
from these critical observations, the book is recommended
as a useful historical document for ¡ts full collection of
materials and its broad description of the intellectual world
and the cultural environment in which Landauer lived.
-Augustin Souchy translated by Carol Lopate

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the 1976, pægg calgldar
and appointment book
of the War Reslsters Lcgl¡c
Creative nonviolence in America's past? Yes, even if "oñcial"
historians prefe¡ not to rgmember Mary Dyer, Adin Ballou,
Alice Paul, Cynts Pringle, Ioseph Ettor and Tracy Mygatt, We
are supposed to leam about Washington, Jackson and Grantbut not Jane Addams, Big Bill Haywood, A.J..Muste and (still
going strong) Dorothy Day: all those who da¡ed to challenge.the
stnrcû¡ral soundness ofthe nation's institutions, and who nor¡
viòlently carried on the impeùrs of the rer¡olution of 1??6.
The WRL's 1976 calendar (edited by historidn Larry Q¿ra)
helps to make the bicentennial a year of discove.ry of the tradi-

tion of nonviolent resistance.

Pl.rs ñalê ch€ctr påyåble to

lhlpr.nd conù¡bution! ¡F

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facing page of text and illustration. There is a listing of peace
organizations and periodicalg American and foreign, and a section of blank pages and advance appointments for 1977. It's 128
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Win Magazine Volume 11 Number 41

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1975-12-04