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cprnpletelywith Marty Jezer's
afticle "The End of Do-Your-OwnThing Ddmonstrations" [WIN,
l0/14/76).Ironically, when I read it I
had just finished participating in a
blatantly Do-You-Own-Thing demo: The
Continental lYalk bust at the-Pentagon. I
would estimate at least half of us diãn't
even know people were being arrested.
In the planning session the eienins before we were tõld by the organizerlthat
the only possibility-of arres-t was over the
issue of whether we could walk in the
street. I felt that I was ordered around bv
the marshalls and never consulted aboui
anything. The organizers had six bull_
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enoughtodeal with withoutthattoo.,,

And probably they did. Thev too were; '
products ofthat same sesreäated svstem
and had no basis on whic-h to"recogrii"e
these kids as only kids, and no des"ire or
mental energy to stretch their minds
around the problem.

Integration ofretarded kids into
"regular" class rooms for ârt, music and
phys. ed and occasionally reading was
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cautiously being promotêd bv thãprincipal of one school in which I taïeht. with
the hesitant and sometimes reãentful cooperation of some of the staff, At the
same time, in the same school, another
group was being segregated outofthe
regular classroom: the dyslexics.
horns; the least tñey could have done
I myself am in a bind here: it,s like the
was to tell the rest olus that Deoole were
a-rgument of the general practitioner vs.
being arrested, that if we waiteã tã;oin
the specialst. Some gifteã Gp's can
them to come forward; if not. to stad
handle anything. Some gifted teachers
back; It was chaotic and condescenäirrr.
can too. Most teachers aren't gifted.
I hope we can learn valuable lessons Most of them have no contact ü¡ith
fromthe Clamshell Altiance andmake
people with handicaps, never mind
our future demonstrations disciplined
training in the kind ofelastic teaching or
anddemocratic.
behavior that might have tobe practiied
-JEAN'EAGEN
IowaCþ, lA in an integrated
classroom.
I remember the anxiety, and e\¡entual
anger, ofone teacher toward a girl who
. was already legally blind and wóuld
eventually have no sight. The teacher
couldn't handle the "problem" and lost
sight of the girl as a little kid.
So I get to speciality schools, and have
no real handle on the issues here. What
happens to all those graduates ofschools
for the blind or deaf? What educational
excellence do they offer bv consresatins
like kids and like úeacheritogeitrerin one place? There must havebeen something to itfor ittobecome so popular.
But it does the rest ofus no góoã: out of
sight, out of mind. No contaõt equals no
understanding.
There was a blind kid in that samé
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town but not in the public schools. The
at WIN as a combination newsstate, town and parents paid for segremd continuing debate.
gating him out. î didn't tiink the kiã
rticle on "Handicapism" IIryIN,
6) stirred up some old feelings ih ought t_o go out of town and said so. If you
have a blind kid in town vou hire a
t former public school teacher it
trained teacher right heie in town, who
iys incedible to me the segreperhaps moves up the ciniculurn.with
"norrnal" kidsfrom "abthe kid thru the vèars and has ¡tshted
kids-words andconcept
kids to teach too. That keeps tlíJti¿ in
to
the
school
committee/ad¡
onlteachers/parents, not me. the mainstream of the cor¡imunity, in
constant ccintact with other kids and as
nedtobe a denial process in
real to them as they are to him. Specialty
ach: get these kids out ofview
schools are necessäry given a soc'iety
¡on't exist. It served to
thatw<¡n't make the ðffortto do otheihe curiosity, atbest, andthe,
wise. They probably will always be
'd contempt, at worst, ia the
nçcessary. But an innovation on the local
¡ol kids when they came in
level-not necessarilv the one menth the retarded, physically
tio¡ed-could begin íntegration, could
'ed, or emotionally handibring us back to reality, cõuld catch on.
s. A "special class" within a
An innovation in teacher trainins can
ided some contact between
be a course on "handicapped kids.T'
:s; the one could see that
Some innovation, huh? IfË üke beeinnins
:ted. But with re gionalizabeforethebeginning. O.T. progãms "
ol out of ten might have a
have_ work,/stúdy time in hoipitãls for the
fhe other nine schools are
handicapped- Practice teaching could
'don't even know that
include time in this setting, in àãdition to
'ds exist. And neither do
lministrators or parents: the regular classroom.
And so on. One more area our whole
ofmind.
societSr needs re-training in.
her response to the idea
:ebral Palsy or emotional
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4. The Women: lreland's Third Force / Charles O'Flaherty
9. Reconciliation and Vietnam Scudder H. Parker
12. AnOpen Letter to the Move ment / Mabël OodSà Ar¡Cade

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would like to take issue with parts of,the
article by Rick Boardman [WIN,
ll / 4 /761. I agree with Rick that we
should not pfüicipate in elections now.
At present, minor parties, as they are
called, at best coridone the system and at
worst make the participants look silly.
People like Brother Kirþatrick and
Margaret Wright are wasted as political
candidates. True they get some time to
air their views, for example the PBS
sefies ", . . .is acandidate, too," but
when they do they are put in the same
category with such as Lester Maddox
and Lyndon Larouche.
ln this past election, my candidate,
Nobody, ivas phenomenaily successful
in her and his campaign. Nobody won,
over a majority of the people Iiving in'the
US again. Approximately 80 million
oeoolevoted forthe various other candiI

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Once thete was a Unicell which knew

diversionary; whenwe have such abase
it becomes tiime to make (nonviolent)

revolution,

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states that

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such a base is built,

electoral activity should not be part of
our work.' ' I think we should take the
opposite view that we should especially
avoid electoral activity after we have established a base. Once we have a strong
popular base I think elections will beõome superfluous to the point of being

Unicell was a very important thing

first act was to leap so high
(more bouncy even than the JumPing
Bean's) that in a single bound it circumscribed SPACE, and, inevitably, its

In any case it is heartening to know
that the svstem doesn't work.
"-STEVEN JOSEPH BELLING

entire contents.
Unicell was so small that for fear it
might get lost on its vast parabola it bor-

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rowed in a twinkling the vesture of
nature-stats, winil, oceans, trees. In
this way it accomplished a lot of shrewd

investisatine.

Wheir Uni-cell came home to its point
of origin, it brought back with i! a'heap of
decisi-ons it had taken people aeons to
reach, and not too many people at that
(at least not at fïrst). Unicell's biggest
decision was that love and truth are the
essentials by which all the various
denizens within the cosmic trip survive.
"You'll fînd them," itwhispeied in its

äatês. This leaves about 150,000,000
people who voted for Nobody (including

minõrs, non-voting adults, "illegal
aliens, " and nou-citizens). Although
this large vote fot Nobody is mostly because people perceived the two major
candidates as two varieties of imbecile, it
is oartlv due to the fact that millions of
peãpl e äre f u nda me ntal ly dis satisfie d
witli the way government runs peoples
lives.
This leads me to believe that there is a
good possibility that we will be able to
6uild "a strong, independent popular
base ofinstitutions and organizations. "
Here is where I disagree with Rick. He

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dissidence that might arise in the Catholic national i st nei gh borhoods. Most m i I itary observers
believe thatihey havethe strength to do so,. In any
event, should such a situation åbr occur, the
results would be absolutely horrifying.
For several years nowthere have been peace
groups working in Northern lreland, mainly in Bellast. Those thai still endure arethe Northern
lreland Civil Rights Association, PACE (Protestant

The recent women's peace marches that have
takgn place in lreland-in the Republicas well as
the troubled six counties i n U I ster - have aroused
the people of Erin as nothing else has done since
tens of thousands of peasants and landless woikers
swarmed over the hills toward Clontarf in 1843.
They had been cal led together to hear Dan iel
O'Connef l, The Creat Liberator. Man.y of the men
carried arm s - cl ubs, pitchforks, pi stol s, whatever
they could f ind. But O'Connell, perhaps fearing the
"risen people" as much asthe mightof the British
regiments, cancelled the meeting. ln bewildenI
mãnt andãespair, thepouerty-stiict en people
trudged back to their cottages, and many to their
deaths in the impending famine.'
The women in the foref ront today are not de-

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pendenton anyone person-politician, priest,
m in ister, or hero of the wars. Theirs is not a political movement, nor basically an econom ic one, nor
is it a national revolution. lt is a kindof a rebellion,
but a most unusual one: their weapons are the unhurtf ul ones of love and rationality. lt has profound
implications: it strikes at an eon-old dogma that,
under certai n circumstances

righteous-a group, atribe,

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to use force against other human beings, i.e., to kil l
those who oppose them, to imprison those who disagree, to ostracize those who are neutral. Despite
the ubiquitous presence of Provisional lrish
Republican Army (lRA) gunmen in the Catholic
areas and their threats to kill or maim those who
cross them, and similarthreats bythe Unionist

extremes in the Protestant districts, thousands of
women in Northern lreland, Catholic and
Protestant, have taken to the street demanding
that the killing cease. lt is an astonishing display of
courage. And organ izational skil I too.
A few facts are in order. Northern lreland,
referred to-somewhat pointedly by lrish Republicans-as The Six Counties, is not a sovereigrr state.
It is legally partof the United Kingdom of Creat
Britain and Northern lreland, though its legality is
often questioned by Republicans. Laws passed by
the Northern lreland Covernment at Storrnont may
be vetoed by the Briti sh government. The.
Protestants comprise almost two-th irds of the

CharlesO'FIaheryy 4veteran oÍthe lrish Section of
the lnternational Brigades during the Spanish Civil
War, is a volunteer for SANE ln New,/ersey.

population. The Unionists (Protestants) havq been
in control of the government since it was established. The Social Democratic and Labour Party is
the largest nationalist party, lts leadership supports the Peace Movement. The Alliance Party is
small but quite inf luentiâ|. lt supports the Peace r
Movement. TheOfficial IRA is Marxist and believes that this is not essentially a religious war,
and that the emities and divisions have been
fostered by the ruling class to keep the working
people at each other's [hroats. They still adhereto
thecease-fireof 1972, moreor less. Recently
another split-off has led to the formation of the lni8h
Republican Socialist Party. Thepurposeof the
Provisionals is to force the British out of Northern
lreland and then incorporate it into the Republic.
They reject Marxist rhetoric, but do not completely
disavow socialism. They are considered the
"Catholic" wingof thethreegroupsof the lRA. On
the other side, the Off icial Unionist Party is the
chief political repositoryof the Protestant majority.
Recently William Craig brokefrom the Unionist
Party and set up the Vanguard Party. Craig has
always been the leaderof the para-military Ulster
Defense Association. The Ulster Volunteer Force
.are another terrorist group. The Royal Ulster
Constabulary and the police have been neutral on
the sideof the Protestants on almost all occasions.
The British soldiery have taken over police duties
in many areas. The Protestants,have planned, at
least since 1914to be militarily strong enough to
,:e repulse any armed invasion from the Republican
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and Catholic Enlounter), the lrish Fellowshipof
Reconciliation, Pax Christi, the Belfast Councilof
Social Welfare, the lrish Council of Churches,
What Price Peace, the War Resisters League, and
the Societyof Friends (Quakers), who hold a
un ique pláce in the h i stoiy of I reland. Duri n g the
"Creat Hunger" in thé 1840s the Quakers were in
the forefront in bringing succor and hope to the
starving lrish, and several of them died at their
stationi, victiins of the endemic plague. Quietly
th.ev worked ánd quietly they went to their deaths.
C)n August 22 of this yearf a new peace force

emerged in Belfast which managed to bring 10,000
people, mostly women.; to the spot in the Catholic
iector where three children had been inadvertently
killed in a f ight a few days before between British
troops and an IRA Provisional. Betty Williams, a
vouns mother of two children had organized the
ially witn the help of Mairead Corrigan, the aunt of

"You can be scared w¡thout being a coward, can't
you?"
the slain children. The Protestant counterpart of
these extraordinary women is Saidie Patterson who
has been active in a group called "Women Together" since 1971. Beforetherally, Betty
Williams got a warning painted on awall near her

house in large

traitor;"

letters-"BetfyWilliams isa

Shã also received threats through the mail

and one day a mob of youngsters tried to burn down
her house. Her children have been hidden withr
friends. Mrs. Williams, in a NewYork limes report, admitted that she'was "scared to death." She
iaid that the death threats on her life had
strengthened her determination to continue the

campaign: "Wewill not be intimidated bythese
thugs any longer. l'm not going to hide out again,
even though l'm scared outof mywits. You can be
scared without being acoward, can'tyou?"
One week after this death-site rally, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan led 30,000 Catholics in
a march toward the Shankill Road Protestant dis-

trict. En route they were pelted with stones by
jeering bands of teenagers shrieking, "Traitors!

Protestant lovers !" But when the throng entered
the Protestant streets they were greeted by the
joyous clangorof bells from the Protestant
churches, and the welcoming arms of thousands of
women. Betty Williams, giving way to tears of
exultation, told the crowd that they had received
400 greetings from organizations all over lreland,
and eÎpressions of encouragement from 59 other
countries. Whilethis wastaking place in Belfast,
40,000 people (mostly women) held a similar march
in Dublin. Other marches and demonstrations took
place on this historic day in Lurgan, Derry, Cork,
Castlebar, Calway, Carlow, and in towns allover
lreland. The barriers and barricades separating the
two religious groups seemed-for the moment at
least-to have " . . . faded through the brightèning

air."

Another peace march occurred on September 4
when 30,000 Catholic and Protestant women , many
with their husbands and children, met on the
bridge that divides Derry City's religious communities. This meeting of hitherto bitterly
antagonistic people, may beof great significance,
even more important than the rallies in Belfast, for
it was here in 1972 that the Catholic-nationalists
while marching toward a qontingent of British
paratroopers were met with a murderous f usillade
that killed 13 demonstrators and left many
wounded. That was the end of the unwritten truce
between the British forces and the lrish
nationalists, including the IRA (Official), the
parent body from whom the IRA (Provisionals) had
split i4 1969. Thereafter the Cathol ic Bogside
district became a veritable battleground, starting
with a British Army assault on the barricades the
people had erected. The f ighting and turmoil
rapidly spread through Northern lreland. Fearful
of their lives, and also as a gestureof def iance,
Catholics threw up barricades all over the North.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary and the B Specials,
an auxiliary police, especially hated by the nationalists, stormed into the Catholic ghettoes,
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defenseless except for the IRA gunmen. lt appéared to be a particularly nasty sort of civil war as
it evolved into terrorist gang murders, reprisal

following reprisal.
An harbinger of the peace Movement of the
women had emerged in Derry City as early as1g72.
After a British soldier had kiiied a'Catholió youth,

theOfficiallRA,inreprisal,,,u"ecrt"à;;uúãrñe'
man from Derry who had joined the British Ârrni.

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That was the last straw for Margaret Doherty who
organized her neighbors to demonstrate their
anger at the Off icials headquarters. The Officials
who had previously supporied the nonviolent civil
rìghts marches and were traditionally responsive to
- -the rights of the civilians, declared aå"asä_f ire.
Nevertheless, when the television cameras
departed and the.publicity died down, the Dohertys
and their seven children were harassed so viciousív
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"There is no reason why
men shouldn't play a
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wherethey have lived quietly anà unrnolestàd.
With the rebirth of the peaceforces, Margaret
Doherty again came forward and she andã protes_
tant, Joyce Kelly, were selected as co_chairwomen
of the rally on September 4. protestants and
Catholics in two separate processions marched
toward each other on the bridge over the Folye,
s.inging and carrying peace si[ns, they met anã
threw their arms around eachãth'er, tears

streamingdowntheirfaces. ltmaybethatcen_

turies of bitterness and rancor were washed away
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, The Cork peace rally on October 2 in support of
the women of Northern lreland had as its hänorãd

guest a very brave man, the Mayor of Ballymena,
9"9rqq Sloane. Ballymena is in Ântrim, NärtfrãiÁ
lreland, where the women also organized a peaie
procession the same day. The Ballvmena Boroush
Council is seeking the resignation of the Mayor fär
"attending a Catholic masi last month.,, Thãre
were many men among the 20,000 participants.
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Sean French, sent a mes_

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while.Ralph Williams, Betty,s husband, led i'he '
parade in Ballymena. (One week later, ás a kind of
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known process.)
Earlier this year a tentative agreement was
reached among Catholic and Protestant political
leaders and Roy Mason, the Westminster-ap--.
poi nted Secretary of State, propos i n g secu lar,
national schools for all the childlen in the North.
This would mean that tþe government would
rescind the subsidizatioþ that it now gives to the
Catholic schools. The proposal was immediately
squelched by the hierarchy, warning Catholic
parents that they were not permitted to send their
children to secular schools, if Catholic schools were
available. They are widely available.
Most of the factories, shipyards and businesses
in the North are owned by the Protestants and quite
a few do not hire Catholics. Sometrade unions
dominated by Protestants bring pressure on their
owners not to hire Catholics and some Catholic
businesses will not hire Protestants. Catholics are
severely discriminated against in the job f ield. The
percentage of Çatholic unemployment is higher
than the Protestants. lt is a simple fact that there
are not enough jobs to go around-achronic, souldestroying condition. The Protestants' desire to
keep the "papists" out of theiri shops is, clearly
enough, a root cause for tl'ie continuing embitter-

ment.
The discrimination in housing, the result of
Orange political power, has probably enraged the
Catholics more than any other single factor. Prior
to the successes of the nonviolent civil rights
marches of Bernadette Devlin and the college
students of the late sixties
-the spark that lit up the
stark tragedy for the world to See- no one but
,1'householders" were permitted to vote in local

Collins, Chairmán of thä steering committee,
stressed the importance of womãn continuing as
the.main plank in the movement in the Northlbut
added, "There ís no reason why men shouldá,t
play a greater part to support them, but the
groundswell must come from the women.,,
movement grows. On the same day, October
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meeting.in
Birmingham called bythe'British
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Council of Christian Churches drewá,000 in the
pouring rain to offer their support to the women of
Northern lreland. The West Cerman Catholic
Women's Organization said thát marches will be
heldthroughout the country, and prayers will be
said in six bishopric capitalé for th'e success of the
lrish peace movement. Other rallies have been -

held.in Clasgow and Leeds. The /rish fimesreports
that leading the people in the Clasgow procession
were two women from Belfast, the peripatetic
Mairead Corrigan from Andersonvi I le,'and
Florence McCormick of the Shankill Róad. On the ,
same day Betty Willíams marched in Birminefiam _

merging Northern lreland with the ReBublic as
they are convinced such a union would lead to their
domination by the Catholic church. Their fears, it
would appear, are not unfounded. Since the institutionalization of the Free State the hierarchy has
effectively controlled education in the national
schools, banned books, plays, movies and the sale
of contraceptives; divorce is forbidden, abortion,
unthinkable, and, finally, the church has, down
through the years, fostered an abhorrence of sex
that is pervasive everywhere in the Republic. (But,
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grisly warning, eight bombs exploded in Ballymena. One woman was killed and fourother
persons were wounded. Th is atrocity was committed, presumably, bythe Provisionals. Afew
days later in Ballymena a Catholic man had
gasoline poured over him and he was burned to
death, presumably by one of the Protestant extremist groups.) Many Protestant clergymen have
been working for peace and the coming together of
the.sectarian groups as evidenced by the ringing of
their church bells as the Catholic marchers approached the Shankill Road area on August 28. But
the_Rev. lan Paisley and his followers are opposed
to the women peace-makers, and are, moreover,
opposed to the intermingling of the sects in any
fashion.
It is hard to f ind a Protestant who is in favor of

The Protestants' desire to
keep the "papists" out of

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cause for the continuing

emb¡tterment.
election s, hence it followed, that the Catholic poor
who did not own their homes, especially in the
cities, did not qualify to vote. With the advent of
British intervention that has been changed.
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pers¡sted for centuries. The old tenements are cold
and damp, and the unemployment rate is the
highest in the British lsles, reaching, for example,
40 percent.in West Be.lfast, a Cathoäc area. Mány
of the inhabitants, if they have a few pence to
spare, are likelyto seekoutthewarm blearof the
pubs which are-apparently by divine
separate Protestant and Catholic institutions. On
the stonewall around a â.ravéyard there is the folf-o.ry¡lg slogan paìnted, wry and terrifying: ts There

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Life Before Death?
. Every day the ki I I i ngs and destruction go on , but
there wâs an ominous change in the newspaper
headlines on October 11: LÈADERS OF P'EÁCE
CAMPAICN ESCAPE MOB tN BELFAST. Forthef irst time in centuries the Protestant and Catholic
housewives in Belfast are visiting each others
homes, having tea together, gett-íng to know each
ojhel talking about theirchildren and the dangers
they face and the tragedies that have befallen some
of them. (A friend of mine, a Calwayman, recently
visited Belfast and walked all around the'city and'
said that he could not tell the Protestant chilären
from the Catholics. He wrote: "And the children of
both faiths . . . they are so sad, so brave and thin
and beautif ul, it would break your heart to look at
them. ")
. The march of the peace-makers is an enormously
important event. The power and practicality of

tt.

TwelveNorwegian newspapers had banded
together to collect the
equivalent of the Nobel
Peace Prize money for the
Women's Peace Movement in lreland.
nonviolence may spread around the world. The
lrish Times reported on October 18that 12
Norwegian newspapers had banded together to
collect the equivalent of the Nobel peaõ prize
money forthe Women's Peace Movement in lrela¡{ fh.e-l.lorwegians. said that Betty Wiltiams,
Mai¡ead Corrigan and Ciaran McKeown had béen
nominated for the Peace Prize, but the nominãtion
had arrived too late to be consiäered for this year,s
price. Ciaran McKeown is a young Belfast
journ al i st wh.o.h as written a pam p-h let accl ai m i n g
thevirtuesof the nonviolentappioach tothe '1
p-roblems that beset the North'ern communiiy and,
indeed, similar problems elsewhere in the wôrld. ',
. .He works closely with the women's movement.
They believe that their demonstrations mav have
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reperoussions throughoutthe wortd. They âre not J
reticent about it: they hope to help save the world ì
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killing.
An ominous forecast of what may come to pass

occurred in Belfast on October 23 when 12.000
Peace Movement people marched in the fieezing
rain from the Protestani Shankill Road into the
Catholic areato hold a meeting at Falls park. Á
grolvd gf 3,000 women and youì!sters organized
þy the Provisional I RA attacked them at tñe park
with stones and mud or anything they could lay
their hands on. Many heads weiè cracked andiO
peace marchers were hospitalized, including
Canon Padraig Murphy, à prominent Cathoäc
clergyman, and Ciaran McKeown.
Betty Will iams, Mairead Corrigan, Saidie
Patterson J o.yce Kel ly, Florencd -Mcögrm ick,
Margaret Doherty and other leaders of the
Women's Peace Movement, and their husbands
and their children and, of course, Ciaran
McKeown,rnay be murdered at ány moment now.
They are quite defenseless, excëpt ior the support
of women and men around the wórld.

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Reconci I iation,and Vietnam
SCUDDER H. PARKER
On Wednesday af -ternoon,Oct.2V,l was folding

diaperswhen I gotacall from Dði Luce, informing:
methat I was going to Montreal the next day to visit
with Venerable Thich Mandala, a Vietriamese
Buddhist nun, and Vice Presidentof the Association of Vietnamese Buddhists in France,
Mandala had been inviied to visit the United
States by PaulQuinn-J udge, who had worked at
the AFSCQuang Ngai Rehabilitation Centêr, and
is now a consultant to the AFSC lndochina
program. Paul had hoped that Mandala, who
visited Vietnam from May 22 through J uly 15 could
speak to members of the US peace rioú"ment about
accusations that there was substantial denial of
human rights and suppression of religious freedom
within Vietnam.
ln Toronto, Mandala had applied for a visa to
visit the United States, and after a bit of off icial
checking and shuffling she had been told that since
her.passport was f rom the Republic of Vietnam,
and the US did not recognizethe Republic of Viôtnam, it was,not possible for her to enter the United
States. And so, the following morning I drove from
St. Johnsbury; Vermôntto Montreal.in the very
strange situation of having to leave my own country
to discuss with a Vietnamese religious leader,
questio.ns of."religioús liberty" in her country.
For three hours, Ed l-azar (Þeace Education
secreiary, New England AFSC), Paul, and l, and
(via questions relayed by phone) J im Forest of
FOR, questioned Mandala in detail about the
situation of people in re-education camps, the
status of the Third Force and religious freedom, the
circumstances of the immolation of 12 people last
November in Can Tho province, and the wäys the
revolution was changiñg life in Vietnam.
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H, Parker is the NewEngland Regional
Field StafÍ PersÒn for Clergy and Laity Concerned

Scudder

ln his article: '{Vietnam: Unif ication Without
Reconciliation" in the October Fellowship maga.zine, Jim Forestsays:
Wars, even those won by groupsfighting the most
' savage lniustices and
a.nimated by the highest
ideals, do not produce peacef ul societies. Civil
wars, no.matter how badly they are infected by
foreign intervention, do not lead toward civil '
tolerance and understanding. Victors may sþeakof
reconciliation) but they insist o n orthodoxy.
J im describes this insight as having been for him a
relearning of "the truth on which pãcif ism is
anchored. " lt is clear that for J im and for mani,
others this truth is not simply a conclusion frcj¡m
historical observation, but a f undamental articlqof
faith. lt is, indeed, an articleof faith on which nìy
own pacifism has been nourished and sustained as \
well. But having met and spoken with Mandala, I
feel that a simple applicatiòn of this "truth" to the
situation in Vietnam may in fact be a violation of the
true spirit of nonviolence.
At iis most rrpóiitiiáif evel, the assumption tljrat
"violence breeds violence'1 can mesh very easily
with the deep "anti-communist" and "antiradical" patterns of responsewhich are ingraihed
in many of us so that we readily accept as "lact"
rumors and unsubstantiated reports which f it our
preconceptions lAfter a very caref ul study of the
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t, wh o were artis ts, m u sici an s, p ai nte r s, go to
work in the new economic zones. They are f iehting
another enemy-that is suffering and starvation.
They only askachancetochang,e itbecause in their
heart.they do notwanttokill; they only wgntto protect life, promote life.
Many Vietnamese mothers losttheir sons, their
husbands, their fathers-tfrree ge nerations lost in
this war, and in many cases the enemy American
p i I ots, captu r ed by the Pop u I ar Forces wer e g iv e n
to those mot hers, to look atter them. And these
mothers had great love for those people , because
they considered thatthey were iust victims too.
So the nonviolence has to be used wisely-f rom
the first step , no exploitation, no do,mination Írom
tfre first step , no capitalism, no rgcolonialism from
the Íirst steptt and then there could be a real non-

irst has to do with the effect of the revolutlon on,
the lives of the people:
have aconsciousness. . . now the people, they
'they

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govern thernse/ves,
they Íreed thernse/ves,
and they govern the community. There is a kind of
penetration and harmony in each Vietnamese to-

'dav

because we fee/ we belong'to the community

and the community belongs to us-one is all,' all is

one.' W e ca n not descr i be how d ilf e r ent th e V i etlramese way of tiving is to the people of the lJnited

States-for example, the policeforce in

Vietnam

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today is not like the police force in the US. After the
revolution,and stilltoday, the students, the

e n I th e.wor ke r s vo I u ntar i I y became pol i cem e n
to help with transportation and traff ic problems, or
èven restore the security around cçrtain things
which were the property of the govbinment; They
did it themselves:, nobody forced them . They organized themse/ves in such kindsof groupsor áclivities to govern, andthen the government
* " P/ease con tin ue
I i te ral I y " r ecog n i zed " th em
this kind of work!"-so they became like a guide
for the needs of the society, so there is no kind of

wom

political imposing. The government turned the '
rightto live over to the people: "You have to
govern yourselves and organize yourselves harmoniously, in concord with the community and
worktogether." And each community has a representative from each familY . .
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availablä materiaton what is happening in Vietnam
I find the accusat¡.ons and allegätions tliai have been made to be often only loo-sçly doiumented and
from unnamed and unsp"äifiedlóur.ãi. oon,t we
owe it to ourselves and to the Vietnamese to be at
leastas careful in documenting the ,,abuses,, of
the revolution as we were in do"cum"niine th"
autom^ated air war, the phoe-níx p.og.aml the Tiger
c.ages? We were scrupulously caref ul then, even
though nobody woulcj have aigued with thé - -assumption that "war breeds violence.T,
, At another level, the assumption that any revo_
lution which establishes itself by militarv fórce will

inevítablydemand"orthodoxy,;mayacíually

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short-circu it.a serious and muóh-neeãed àisc'uss ion

of what is being,attempted in Vietnam today. lt is
not enough to spar over whetherl residents of the re_
education camps are "guest5,f , ,,detainees,,, or
a,yvhen beh ind
the fact of the camps i s a
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huge, immediate practical question. Civen ttiat thã
new govèrnmentdecided ndtto holdthe,,bloodi -

þut!ì" prescribedfor it by rh.e Rmericãlm¡l¡*y
and press-and given that there were two millión

men in th.e ARVN and police forces, tens of
thousands in the secret police, and îhousands in
many oth€r forms of cooperation with or prof iting

fromtheUSpresence-howshouldthenew government integrate them intothe life and *orkoi!
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people never went to re-education campsi another
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What are we to do with a passage like this? Do we
ignore it, because it doesn't f it oúr image of a
society which has gained its freedom by military
force?,Mandala was describing what was for her a
powerful and transforming experience. lt was disconcerting for me precisely because it was so immediate and real for her and yet it Violated so many
of my assumptions about what humans and human
institutions are capable of accomplishing. How

approximate]y 40,ffiO remain, for a period of up to
three yeprs. She said repeatedly thai the inteniion
and spirit of the camps was to ró-unite these.pedþte
with the Vietnamese family by giving them an opportun ity to ref lect on their pas[, on what they were
doing now, and on what they would do in the iuiure
tor themselves, their families, communities and

many of those assumptions are linked to my own
def inition of what pacif ism and nonviolence are?

The second area of experience Mandala spoke
about has to do with her assertion that the Vietnamese people's m i I itary defense of their country
was not a denial of ¡onviolence:
lf you read Vietnamese /iterature, particularly
f rom this war, there are many great works of Vietnarnese aut hors who became soldiers. We have a
tr ad iti on : bef or e we do someth i n g ver y i m portant
we describe our feellngs before taking decision.
Many of these wr iti ngs now prove that many, not
only young men, butwomen andchildren aswell

country.
Familiar euphemistic rhetoric? I do not know, I
do have a very deep concern for the situation of I'
these people, and what definition of politicalfreeidom will emerge in Vietnamese society. But the
words were not rhetoric when Manda.lâ spoke them,
and I cannot simply condemn what is hapþenlng rn
Vietnam because Mandala was not ableiò convÍnce.
me that our def inition of due process was being followed.in each particular. I urþe everyone whoñas

thought or spoken about "nonviolent revolution,,
to consider with real humility what kind of strategy
we would devise if we were in a situation of responsibility for effecting the ',nonViolent conversion,,
of thousands of people who had acted very destruc-

til'ely and needed to learn how to respect themselves and the demands of communiiy life.
ln the course of our three hours to$äther there
were two other areas of experience which Mandala
tried to communicate, which t felt our assumptions
about pacif ism and th'e natureof nonviolence made
it very difficult for us to hear. Because I have not
fully grasped them myself, I will nottryto describe
them, but will let Mandalaspeak for hérself . The

justwanted to defend the country and protecttheir
family, their brothers, sisters, father, mother and
themse/yes. So they ar e obl i ged, they are forced to
these things , but in fact, in their hearts they wantto
live beautif ully, and peacef ully with the skv, with
the clouds, the moon,thé trees . . . In thiscase we
cannot def ine nonviolence in one way. Our friends

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'mentiòn nonviolence-it js life itself , fullol love,
comp4ssio n,'and wisdom to live together in a cor-

rectway.
cannot believe that it is a defense of pacif ism or
nonviolence to ignore the truth of these words . Will
they open a pandora's box of " just war" justif ications? Perhaps not, if we work less to " justify" and
harder at "describing our feelings before taking ¡
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decision."
I hope that ín the coming year the nonsense of
discussing these things by phone, tape, letter and
article will be replaced by the freedom to deal with
them face to face in Vietnam and in the United
States. Our peoples have worked together to end
war there, now we must work together di I i gently to
build freedom and nonviolence there, and here.
File photo by Cora Weiss

from LNS.

An Open Letter to the Movement
This article was written as an open /etter to activists
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MABEL DODCE BRIGADE

meetings. Look into our tired eyes as we set home
f rom our jobs. Feel the stiff nes! of ten sio-n at the
back of your neck.
- Capitalism makes us iation ourtime, our
feelings, our joy. Knowing Third Worltl comrades
are under the boot of the System while at the same
time feeling we "don't have enough time,, to do
everything we need to do is a doub-ie-bind guaranteed to make us feel bad about oursetves. lìaving to
,

choose betwe-en going to our women,s group or
going to an African support meeting causes an
endless cycle of guilt and over-exteñsion.

Coing to a "Solidarity Rally" where we see the

same 200 faces over and over again is disBefore we know it, we are taking itout
.couraging.
'on
ourselves and on one another. Sma/l diffãrences

with our housemates, lovers, co-activists, and
those in other collectives become /arse diiferences.
Straight-jacketed by the System, webècome qur
own worst enemy and our harshest iudge. We rush
helter-skelter to and from meetings, to:and from
our jobs, our picket lines; and n"uä.'cjnlind t¡meto
"get down" with other sisters and brothers in the
'Movement, or with the non-Movement folks we,re

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Three asp-ects of this "bad process,,, three faces

of everyday life in theMovementwhich undermine

our.revolutionary energy are: (1) the low morale
and spirit we exude as individual activists; (2) the
lack of lespec! and cooperation we g¡ve to bitrãi

comrades and to different sectionsóf the Move_
menÇ and finally (3) our lackof a real belief in the
people, an overâll sense that we,re going to win.
The "remedy" for our low spirits ¡siultürál
revo.lution (in the broad Chinese sense of the term),
carried out both inside and outside the existing
radical network. Of course our protracted ,;cii",,
will come easier as the people more-and-more
begin tofight back in a majs way; but in the meantime we have a responsibility to nurture and
strengthen ourselves for thef uture battles that lie
ahead.
Capital ism mass-manufactures s ituations
which destroy our self-respectand our spirit of
rebelliousness. Wè are coñstantly bom6arded with'
contradictions in our homes, our workptaces, our
schools, our neighborhoods. We in thé Movement
are not immune to,!he political repression and the
emotional plague that has laid to iest everv radical
movement in this country's history. Observe.the
dead-pan expressions on comrades'faces at

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trying to mobilize.
No wonder working people and younger sisters
and brothers are reluctant to join our orþan ization.s, even though they agreé with oui;ãnalfsis.,,
Whileour words are painting atrue.descriptión of
what "liberation" means, ourfaces and the
character-armor of our bodies are giving awaf the
"secretl'that Movement work involves a reat
deal of self-sacríf ice and loads of bureauciatic
drudgery.
The cruel paceof Movement life maniiests itself
to others (themselves victimized by the System) as
sexism, racism, agejsm, classism, dogmátism, and
homophobia. Men don't have the time or energy to
read socialist-feminist writings. Women don,t-'

havethetimeto studythe hisloryof radical and

working class movements. Workplace organizers
are too tired to empathize with the strugg-ies of
youngel sisters and brothers on the campuses or in

the high schools. Radicalteachers and giaduatà
students have no time to do outside comìmun ity
work. Tenant's activi sts are too t r azzled to th i n k
much about lran, Chile, orZimbabwe. Coop
activists labor 50 or 60 hours a week, only tó be
berated by other-Movement folks for not "doing
any political work. " "Cetting on with businesst at
our meetings, we forget to sing, to hug one
another, and to go over personal problems or misunderstandings that aré holding us back. Meanwhile, to Third World comrades-, tothose locked
behind bars, or to those undergiound- people sufte_ring the heaviest repression
to have
-weweappear
"lostour bearings." After awhile
don't even
actually have to hear negative criticism from others
to feel guilty: we carry aiound in our heads a dogmatic, self-righteous monster who will never leius

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Pushed and pulled in all directions, no wonder
we feel we lack "theory." No wonder certain of our
ranks have joined sectarian organizations which
offer the security of a "correct line.'1 On the other
hand, those of us who ref use to compartmentalize

our lives, to separateour lifestylefrom our politics
must pay aterrible priceof pain and instability.
Tortured by our personàl-cultu¡al-sexual needs,
which we nonetheless refuseto repress, we
alternate between fegling optimistic one day and
pessimisticthe next; between short-lived moments
ôf cultural-political integration and hang-overs of
self and organizational guilt-tripping.
Of course this is perhaps overstating the situation. Some models of good Movement process afe
available for us to draw on: the practice of socialistfeminist groups and the activities öf cultural agitprop collectives. lt is tothese wings of the Move-,
ment, to these partially-repressed parts of ourselves that we must turn, if we areto launch the
ki nd of i nternal-external'cultural revol ution we
need.
The most vital part of the socialist-fem inist currenttoday is the insistencethat personal and socioeconom ic oppression are i nter-relati n g parts of the
same rotten System; and thatthis persþective must
be extended as well to our everyday lives in the
Movement. Techniques of "consciousnessraising" (to "speak bitterness" as the Chinese
say) are a tremendously powerful tool to overcome
self-hate, to raise energy, to clarify ideas, and to
"recruit" new activists. Unfortunately up untiI
now,.c-r forrhs have not been used enough by
mixed (male and female) groups. We must learn
from our sisters to human-ize, to woman-ize our
meetings and rallies. We must slow down enough
to share ou¡ life histories, our dreams, and our loys;
both among ourselves and with the working people
in qur tenants' unions, our coops, and our neighborhoods. Free associating from ourown fears to
the pain of others is the musical harmony of revolu-

tion.

We must rèmind ourselves that we come off as
veterans, as heavies to most working people and to
our younger contemporaries; who commonly
imagine that they can never be as "together" as we
are. We cannot allow ourselves to forget that we
are all severely damaged from having been programmed in this society. We and those we are
trying to reach,need empathy, we need nurturance,
we need joy. These are our life-blood as much as

"political program."

The way we carry out political outreach is just as
important as whatwe do. The subliminal message
we transmit to people is just as important as our
outward propaganda. And here we must draw the
line: everything that is not an energy booster is an
energy drain. Our lifestyles, our meetings, our
media, our bureaucratic responsibilities, our conferences, our leisure, must build us up at alltime.
Radical cultural activities are recently gaining
strength in our communities, and from the favorable response we've gotten seem to be one of our
best tools for multiplyingsupþort. Researching the
struggles of our people's history or carrying out
oral interviews are eniovable and enrich the

content of our media. Songs and body movements
enliven our meetings and our picket lines. Cuerrilla
theatre helps us capture the hearts and minds of
folks at food-stamp off ices, unemployment
centers, and outsideour schools and workplaces.
Murals are fun to produce and can catalyze a broad
cross-section in our neighborhoods. Techniques of
people's art and agit-pnop are as numerous as the
different types of individuals in our communities.
The artist locked inside each of our people is the

personaof liberation.
Only by uniting left and popular forces can we
create a more powerf ul presence in our base areas.
But f irst we must turn ourselves and our organizations inside out; place process on an equal footing
with program, before we advance ahead. To grow,

"outsiders must e4periehce us as a living,
breathing commuriity of resistance, solidarity, and
love. People will not perceive us in this light until
we stop being so hard on ourselves and oruother
comrades. Sectarian i sm, group chauvi n i sm, and
separatism are protective walls we throw up
against a cruel System which defoims even the
lives of those trying to change it. These walls will
come down on ly as we become more honest with'
ourselves and as we stretch our imaginations to
empathize with the pain and hardship of others (a//
other s, not j ust the particu lar segment we ar e " or-

ganizing").

lf an inner voice still tells you "But I don't have
time," justtry it. Read five pagesof Fanon or
Ceorge J ackson or a poem by Marge Piercy-with
real feeling. The artists and writers of the people
have much to teach us- if we listen caref ully. A

soulful discussion with a Native American sister, or
a Puerto Rican or Mexicano brother, or a
co-worker, or with our neighbors can go a long way
toward restoring our vitality. We North Americans
are still developing a love forour people. We will
knowwe'vereached this plateau when we start
liking ourselves, when we receive the support we
need from others in the Movement, and when we
wynthesize the life-giving insights of socialistfem in ism and cu ltural work i nto our everyday I ives.
The majority of the oppressed will respo¡d to us,
heart and soul when they recognize an unmistakeable strength and joy in our radical community. Non-Movement folks, on the üvhole, are at
least as crippled by capitalism as we are, in some
cases more so. Thus on ly a Movement that makes
cultural-personal revolution for eyeryone a
practical priority alongside its socio-economic program will succeed. Cultural revolution, the collective re-structuring of our everyday lives, is not
something static, a mere seizure of power. There is
only one reason for being a revolutionary- because
it is the best way to live.
Our historical and analytical models tell us that
the current crisis of capitalism will get yorse. As
this happens, and as the ruling class opts for a
police state (it already is a police state for many),
we'd better be strong and we'd better be united.
Otherwise the darker times that lie ahead may f ind
us packing up our ideals and hiding. Only a Movement that i ntegrates cu lture and pol itics, process
and outreach will f ight until death . . . and love until
victory.
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scope of j udicial competence, and
is no longer current issue. " (f rom
the opínion of J udge Tannenwald
in thecaseof John Egnal and

the list of WTR Centers in our last

column:PHILADELPHIA
WTR/WRL & THE PHTLADELPH IA ALTERNATIVE FUND
at 2016 Walnut St., Suite 300,
Phila., Pa. 19103. Phone 567-7010
or (even i n gs) \UAT -7934.
The Philadel ph ia Alternative
Fund, one of the oldest & most
active in the country has lent out
more than $150,000 over the last
five years. lt maintains a
contingency f und o125o/o held by
the Teacher's Service Organization. lt also lends 25o/otothe
Philadelphia's People's Bail Fund,
to use as their contíngency fund.

Claudia Ann Elferdink last spring.
John Egnal is a lawyer who has '
worked for the cause of war tax

resisters for many years. )
Thus war tax resisters petitioning tax courts are not even allowed to present their f ull cases.,
All they can do is argue that this

case is different from previous
cases, or that the courts'opinions
on precedent-setting cases was
faulty. ln some cases war tax resisters are asked to pay an addi-

lf we can't win and can't even be
heard f ully and are being
penalized for "disregardof IRS

at 100 High St., Brookline, MA
02146.1'm only in the WTRoffice a
couple days a week and I might,
rniss something that comes there.

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mean ing " Don't question

your orders"
-should we attempt
a class-action suit or what? lf you
are interested in pursuing these

questions, please write to

TAX COURT CONFERENCE

NE/WTR, Box 17 4MlT Branch
PO, Cambridge, Ma. 02139or call

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ANDACTIVITIES.

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The newlyenacted Tax Reform Act
exempts from I RS seizure $50 a
week in salary plus an additional
$15 for each dependent. lt also requires that when IRS asks third

tal k th is means the tax court com-

ing." Opíriions

court), unless it could prove that
such notífiòation would result in
material ínterference with its investigation.

are studded with

jewels like this : "Constitutionality

Church gave its support to wal'tax
resisters and passed a peace
resolution which included a call for
legal recognition of the First

denomination is not traditÍonálly
pacif ist, but holds that "what the
Christian may not do is to obev

persons ratherthan Cod, oroverlook the degree of compromise in
even our best acts, or gloss over
the sinf ulness of war. "
Following are quotes from the
Ceneral Conference peace

resolution:

"Christian teaching supports
conscientious objection to all war
as an

IRS COLLECTION CHANGES

parties (like banks or employers)
for information about a taxpâver. it
would have to notify the viitim

missioner Uudge) agrees with the
IRS that there is no point in
hearing arguments that have been
heard before and denied "stand:

The United,Methodist Church, the
country's second largest
Protestant denom ination, has
become the f irst major church
group to act on a national scale in
opposition to the present US policy
of torcing pacif ists to invest in the
ever-growiñg war ma'chine. ln
May a general conference of the

(A ieprint of a WASH I NCTON
STAR article on the Methodist action is available from the National
Council for a World Peace Tax
Fund, 2111 FloridaAúe., NW,
Washington, DC 20008; phone
483-3752. The Council supports
legislation to provide a legal alternative for taxpayers who oppose

war.)

Amendment rights of taxpayers
tional5o/o penalty for attempting to
who can not con scientiousl.y
bring to court issues and arguf inance mi litary programs.
ments they are presumed to know
The ten million member
have been denied previously.

Also added to the li-st is: Dan
Lawrence, 138 Prescott St., South
Lancaster, MA 01561. He has been
distributing his own homemade
tax packet for a few months now.
Another change from the tirst
colunìn: people should writeto me

NE/WTRand NYC/Wf,Rwill
sponsor a conference to deal with
the question TAX COURT:
WHERE DO WE CO FROM
.HERE? The hope is to bring together lawyers and other persons
concerned aboutthe short shrift
given to war tax resisters in court.
For: example, in virtually all recent
WTR court cases, the IRS has been
,granted their 1'motion for judgementon the pleadings." ln plãin

WORLD PEACE TAX FUND
SUPPORT

(who could contest the action in

ethicallyvalid position. lt

also asserts that ethical decisions
on political matters must be made
in the context of the competing

claims of biblical revelation, "
church doctrine, civil law, and
one's own understanding of what
Cod calls him or herto doì."

. ''We, therefore,

support all

those who conscientiously object:
to preparation for our participation
in any specific war or all wars; to
cooperation with military
conscription; or to the payment of
taxes for military purposes; and we'
ask that they be granted legal
recogn ition . 1l

I

do not support the prioritiep

of our government which

emphasize arms build-up at the
expenseof human needs,
Therefore, I have deducted from
my telephone

billthe

$

federal tax.
The federal excise tax on
phone service has been raised
and lowered periodically since
World War ll depending on our

country's mil itary involvement.
This war tax represents a con-

NOTE TO TELEPHONE TAX
REFUSERS

tinuing rel iance onmilitary
force tó protect American
corporate interests abroad and
therefore I can not in good conscience pay it.

Many telephone compan ies
The telephone excise tax refrequently carry refused taxes over
mains
a legitimate vehlcle through
to subsequent bills identified only
protest militany spending.
which
to
1'Balance
Previous
due
from
as
At the rate of Vo/o in 1975 this
Bill.'r Resisters should be careful
"tiny" tax netted the government
notto pay such sums, Also the
about $2 billion, and it is estimated
phonecompany may get confused
that in 1976the60/o tax will bring in
ând threaten interruption of
$1.75 billion, lt is reasonabletoasis
the
balance
serùice when
sume that since this tax has been
accumulated ref us'ed taxes rather
but not discontinued. lt
decreased
than money owed for Phone
is
needed
to pay debts instill
so
can
bills
old
Save
service.
You
dtrring
the lndochina War.
curred
keep trackpf how much tax has
phone tax has been
Further,
the
into
run
if
but
been ref used,
You
this problem, remind the comPanY phased in and out ever since its inception in 1941 dêpendin g on
thatthe FCC could fine them for
particu lar: " needs, " most r:ecently
have
when
service
off
cuttine
You
oaid w:hat vou owe them. The FCC the war in Vietnam. lt is conceivivillconf¡rm this fact, which usual- able that the government,foresees
future needs which will again raise
ly straightens out the comPanY
thetax tol|o/o. Finally, since
promptly. Also, it is vital that You
send à srgned exPlanation each

55-6o0/o of all tax money

the useof thei.r incometax-but in
most cases they do have more con-

trol over paying it.
Nowadays it seems the IRS is
taking little or no áction to collect
ref used telephone tàxes in most

parts of the country,. Hgwever,
notices of tax due and "final
notices before seizure" are still
being sent, and some seizures still
occur. The most common method
I RS uses to collect phone tax is to
withhold it from income tax refunds or rebates. Even then you're
still ahead.
(This article on phone tax resistance is reprinted from à draft of

supplernentto ain't gonna pay
for war no more being preparted
by Minnesota WTR. Hopes are
that the supplement will be
finished in bookletform soon.)
a

-Susan Witkins

still goes

time voulef use the tax; either Your to military expenditures, taxpayers have no more control over
own lbtter or a Printed card, such
the
use of their phone tax than over
grouPs
offer.
WTR
as many

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was at leastone in mostof the
states traversed bv the southern
Continental Walk ând three in

shipped were left for the reader to
only guess at) of "Concussion
Bombs" is also being shipped to

North Carolina.

The second day out of New Orleans, wewound up in LaRose, LA,
at the home of Cary Tyler, a
frameup victim whose conviction
for shooting a white student, is
being appealed. We held hands
w¡th his motherand sang "We

ShallOvercome."
The three North Carolina
frameup cases are: the Wilming-

ton 10, sentenced to up to 36 years
for allegedly setting fire to a
,r
grocery store in which a man was '
killed; the Charlotte 3, also accused of arson and, most recently,
thecaseof Ronnie Long. Without

H . Rap Brown , former chairoerson
of the Student Nonviolent
Coordi nati ng Comm ittee (SNCC)
was paroled from New york,s
Creenhaven Prison on October2.l.
Brown had served five years of a
5-15 year sentence for ássault and
burglary. The sentence came fiom

a1971incident in a New york
lounge where Browñ and three

SNCC covVorkers were accused of
atta.cking members of a drug

a

,ìû

dealing ring.

Brown was scheduled to be
taken to New Orleans for retriat on
a1967 firearm possession charge
but federal authorities informeã

Brown's lawyer, Wi lliam
Kunstler, they would drop those
charges. However, Brown still

faces indictmentfrom 1967 in-cíting to riot and arson charges

sternming from a civil distuibance
in.Cambridge, Maryland aftei ã -rallywhere he was one of the

speakers.

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LUREIDA TORRES FREED
J ailed Puerto Rican activist

Lureida Torres was released
Thursday, October 28th after over
tour months in Federal custody for
refusing to cooperate with a grãnd
iyrV gonducting a f ish ing expãdi_
tion intothe Puerto Rican lnäependence movement in the United
States. Torres, a former New york
City schoolteacher and memberof
the Puerto Rican Socialist paiñ (PSP) had been called before a'
Federql Crand J ury in New york
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last J anuary which was invåstigatìng a series of bombings

documents he found while re_
searching legal cases.
including the February, 1ÞZS blast
Sheehan says that the first near_
at Fraunces Tavern in iower Manmiss occurred in 195g when radar
lqt1an for which a group called the i ncorrectly identif ied u .orn."iiial
FALN (Armed Forces oi puerto
airplane as an enemy supersonic
Rican National Liberation) had
missile. Defense insta-l làtions wènt
t*en credit. Lacking evidence, the on alert and
came within 56
FBI has been conduðting invesiiseconds of launching a full-scale
gations against independence
attack on the Soviet Union.
groups and individuals, operatine
The second time as no accidental
on the theory that if one böl¡eves in
mistake, but rather a deliberate
independence, one must know
vote by the US National Securitv
something about the bombings.
Council. During the Cuban À4¡si¡le
the grand jury expirõd on
crjsis of 1961, Russian ships came
^ When 2Bth,
October
over 250 peopte
within 50 miles of the Unit'¿d
gathered at 10:30 pm in front of the States. This
was a direct v¡élatíon
Metropol itan Correctional Center
of a US ultimatum forthem to stay
in lower Manhattan to greet Torres 48 miles offshore.
with a candlelight vigilãfter her
Sheehan explained that the US
release. Other inmates of the MCC National Security
Council voted
þdicated their solidarity with
unanimously to go on a first-strike
Torres by holding matclies to the
attack against the Soviet Union.
windows of their cells
According to Sheehan . the on lv
Torres may in fact again face
thing that prevented a'full-scalã
jail, for it has been theFBl,s habit nuclear
war was a veto by J ohn
to harass.previous grand jury witKennedy.
-primo Times
nesses who

refused to cooperate
with.th is illegal use of the þrand
jury by resubpoenaingthem to a

new grand jury.

prdect
-Grand Jury

WORLDATMOST DESTROYED
The world has come withín 60
seconds of total nuclear devaitation twice in the last 20 years. The
United States was the countrv that

almost pushed the button both
times.
According to Daniel Sheehan.
attorney for Daniel Ellsberg, hii

charges are based on top seiret

.

bodia, and Laos for very different

;the destruction of
human life. Now, the Middle East
is not full of heavy growth areas
that need to'be cleared for landing,
so one might on ly assume that
since it would only make a mess
trying to uncover oil it is going to
be used against people!
The Concuision Bomb is very
useful in a military sense, because
it leaves no materialwounds. Upon
explosion the bomb, which can
cover a radius of 500 yards, creates
a shock-wave powerfulenough to
collapse lungs, break ear-drums,
pop out eyes from their sockets and
fracture rib-cages.
reasons

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RAPBROWN PAROTED

lsrael.
TheConcussion Bombwas
originally designed to clear foliage
in a jungle area sothat rescue aircraft could land. During the war in
Southeast Asia it was used in
North and South Vietnam, Cam-

any credible evidence, Long was
convicted and got two consecutive
life sentences on charges of raping
the wife of an off icial of Cannon

Towels, the giant corporation
which dominates Concord, NC.
The jurywhich convicted him was
composed entirely of white
Cannon employees.
A sharp contract to these three
cases is that of Sandra Dupree, a
whitewoman in Scotland Neck, NC
where we walkers received our
most enthusiastic black com;
munity support. On March 11,
Sandra Dupree shot and killed
Harry Lee Dickens, ayoung black
man, claiming he had been in-

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CALIFORNIA WATKER
KILLED IN ACCIDENT

Larry Schoenthalwas killed in an
automobile accidént while hitchhikine in Oregon on September 27.
A native of the Los Arigeles area
and former resident of Santa Cruz,
volved in an argument with her son many persons had cometo know
(who later stated h'e never had
Larry during the California leg of
the Continental Walk for Disarmaeven seen Díckens). After conment and Social J ustice, and more
siderable protest action by the
recently, for his work in helping to
black community, she yas f inally
arrested and charged with f¡rst de- organize opposition to a nuclear
gree murder. She was immediatel! power plant in the San Luis
released on $75,000 bail. (ln North Obispo, Cal ifornia, area.
At the time of his death, Larry
Carolina history no black accused
was en route to the Pacif ic Northof murder ever has been released
west to visit the Pacific Life Comon bail.) Hertrialendedwith acquittal on J uly 10, as whites who
munity. A month before his death,
he visited with a nonviolent comfilled the courtroom, cheered.
_Jim peck munity in Santa Cruz which he was
.
considering joining.
Center
- Resource
CONCUSS¡ON BOMBS
. for Nonviolence
SHIPPED TO ISRAEL

TODAY's,,SCOTTSBORO,,
CASES
On October 26 there was widespreadmedia coverage of the pardon of Clarence Norris, sole súrvivor of the Scottsboro Case

[Changes, WIN 11 / a /76]. This
black frameup case of the 1930,s
became i nternational ly notorious.
Itis 451/z years since Norris and
eight others were busted on a
freight train and falsely charged

Buried deep in this last week's
newspapers, the wireservices carried a reportthat lsrael is being
shipped a "full fleet" (numbers
were left undisclosed) of F-15
fighter planes. Buried even deeper
was the real icing forthe arms
shipment cake. A sizeable shipment (again the numbers being

with rapingtwowomen.
Not mentioned in the coverage is
the fact that'a numberof such @ses are in processtoday. There

EVENTS
BOSTON
- Daniel Berrigan
speaks on "Resistance: The lssues
:

Now" at the Community Church,
Morse Auditori um, 602 Commonwealth Ave., Sunday, November
21,11 am. For information, call
(617)266-6710.

Fr.ee.

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CH ICAGO

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A concert i n celebra-

tion of the defenseof the Billof
Rights with Pete Seeger and Studs
Terkel, Friday, November 19, B:30
pm . A benef it for the Ch icago
Committee to Defend the Bill of
Rights. For information or tickets.
contact the Committee at 431 S.
Dçarborn; Room 823 (312)9390675

NYC- KatÉerine Seelman, energy
resource consultant, speaks on
"Why Nuclear Power is Dangerous to You and Your Children" àt
Freespace Alternate U, 339
Lafayette St., Friday, November
19, 8:15 pm. For information, call
(212)228-0322. Free.
NYC - A Bakunin Centennial
Symposium will be held on Saturday, Novembei 20 with two sessiohs at 1 and 7:30 pm, at Hunter
College,6Sth St., & ParkAvenue.
There will be speeches by Paul
Avrich, Murray Bookchin, J ack

Frager, Sam Dolgoff and Martin
Sostre followed by discussions.
For more information, call
(212)228-0322.

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WASHINCTON, DC-Mark
Looney of Strongforce (and a WIN
writer) speaks on " Restructuring
Work" at the Wholly Bagel Coffeehouse, Quaker House, 2121
Decatur Place NW, Sunday,.
November21,7 pm. Sponsored by
Tzedek, Tzedek. For information,
call (2O2)232-2856. $1 donation.

WASHINCTON, DC- J oin support actions for human rights and
an end to apartheid in South Africa
on Thanksgiving, November 25.
There will be a demonstration and
vigil attheWhite House, 9 am-2
pm, followed by a march to the
South African embassy and a vigil
there from 3 - 6 pm. For information, contact the Commun ity for
Creative Non-Violenc e, 1345
Euclid St. NW, Washington, DC
2oao9; (202)483-7611.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-The film
"Finally Cot the News" will be
shown, Friday, November 19, 8:30
pm at the Westchester People's
Action Coalition, 100 Mamaroneck
Ave; followed by a discussion on
union organizing with Debbie and
J im Hejl. Sponsored by WESPAC
and WILPF. For more information,
call (914)949-0088. $2, benefit for
WESPACandWILPF.

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AND MISSILE SYSTEM, ASlide Show
14O çf ides / 55 minutes / rental$10, purchase $50
The Whales' Tale Community, 211 Collins St.,

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purchase $375
New Day Films; PO Box 315, Franklin Lakes, N[07417
The letter-reviàw is to my Íirstcousin once-removed,
Elaine Eldridge. Elaine rejoiced atthe 1917 revolution in Russra and htas spent her 70 years working to
have its principles applied. While her loyalty cost ller
many acting lobs, it has won her many f riends and a
unique dignity . Her most recent movement post ,s
corresponding secretary for the New York branch ot
Women's lnternational League for Peace and

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felt, and the point at which I got goose pimples was .
the initial ovércoming of fear. Káthryn resiSts a neigh'bol's
eviction by being the f irst to step on the curb in
Freedom.
deïiance of a policeman's sawed-off shotgun. Sylvia
tells her co-workers to close their mangles and not to
open them when the foreman hurls curses. Stella and
her co-workers write a petition for safeguards after a
woman catches her hand in a sausage inachine. And
th'ey all stay with it, frorn the Depression through the
War and McCarthy (as a resultof whom one woman is
p.ublicly pilloried'by her union) through the Next *
Wars to the Women's Movement.
The music makes the heartand feet glad. lt seems
'
tofit
so well with the determined and radiant crowds
who pack the streets or packinghouse gates-together at last- much as we felt in those f irst big
marches against the Vietnam War.
The unions seemed able to absorb the few corrupt
operators. Perhaps the nt¡mber of decent chaps kept
them within bounds. When the AF of L becomes lazy,
Dear Elaine ,
willing only to organize crafts workers, the CIO arose
to organize everyone in an industry. Through one
you
about. On J une
At last I have something to write
thing and another, perhaps thewayof all,movements,
22, atthç Pacif ic Film Archive in Berkeley, afilm
we
have the unions of today, and none of the women
called Union Maids was shown. The maids referred to
has
a good word forthem. But none regrets her life.
are not domestics; rather "maidens," and the title
Kathryn Handyman (whose last name appears by
song is to a young woman who braües everything to
ariive at the union meeting and stick to the union. The chance in a clipping) says that her family never
stopped harping ather but nowthat she'sold and
f ilfn ¡s about three real women in Chicago: Sylvia, a
f
inds it diff icult to get around, they swarm. " See, we
bl{ck laundry worker; Stella, a Polish stockyards
you, with your brains you could have gone far,
told
poor
garment
workér.
wh ite
wo'rker; and Kath ryn, a
and this is where you are. " But Kathryn has a pride
After a brief vie-w of the childhood of each, we are
and a wholeness they cannot touch.
given pictures tlnd newspaper clippings oÎ the
Pete Seeger's singing is used, plus all sorts of
protest
it
narr4tes
how
of each woman. Each
seminal
glorious hortatory music. Union Maids is directed by
Marta Daniels is a member of the American Friends
J ulia Reichert, J ames Klein and Miles Mogulesque.
Service Committee Connecticut F¡eld Staff . This reReichert and Klein produced Crowing Up Female and
' vieworiginally appearedin Peacework. Sam Lovejoy
Methadone: An American Way of Dealing.
is a wel I known opponent of n uclear power pl ants,
Mogulesque is working on avideQ documentary about
Jean Pelletiere teaches bibliography atthe University theiecenf revolution in Portugal. Thefilm'hàs reof California. Berkeley. Peg Averill is a member of the ceived raves from Pete Seeger and Howard Zinn,
WIN staff.
among others.
-Jean Pelletiere
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be there for every other keel-laying or launching.
The Atlantic Life Community has counterparts on
the westcoast (where the Trident will be based and

where its missiles are being built by Loc(heed), called
the Pacific LifeCommunity. Andthere is athird sister
'group in Michigan called the Creat Lakes Life Community formecl to protest the construction of "The

This is a slide show about terror; This is a slide show
an electrified, underground grid which
about Trident. These are the f irst two sentences in the Seafarer,"
of the new subs. One addiwill
bethe
triggerfinger
new resource available to New Englanders about the
purpose of the "Seaf arer" would be to provide
tional
deadliest weapons system ever to be built on this
the laststrikecapabilityforthe US. lthas been called
planet. The slide show is called Global Terror: The
thê "last vengef ul hand from the grave. " This too is
Trident Sùbmarine and Missile System. lt was put
in the slide presentation. lt's what makes this retogether by the Whale's Tale Commun ity of Hartford
made aware of
with the help of many peoþle and communities across source important. People need to be
in
its bountiful wisdom - is
what
militarythe
the country.
creating for us. And we need to resist it.
rfrãpréé"ntation describes the T'lt¡dent'and pets it
Marta Daniels
in contex.t with past nuclear history and present day
immy
policy (present policy advocated by Ford-and J
Carter- is "f irst strike," an offensive use of nuclear
NUCLEAR REACTION IN WYHL
weapons). lt discusses theTridentrs role in the
16mm / 15 minutes / rental $15, purchase $1fi)
permanent war economy and its effects upon all our
Green Mountain Post Films, Box177, Montague, MA
iives. lt also suggests some ways of resisting the mili- 01351
tarism which pioãuces things like Trident and it argues
There is a citizen's insurrection brewing all over the
for peace conversion.
It's a good slide show.,From the f irst two sentences, world-against nuclear power and forthe environto the very last sentence (There isn't much of a choice) ment. Perhaps the historical watershed of evolving
your attention is locked. Your mind races to keep pace tactics against the nuclear menac'e will turn out to be
the successful siteoccupation in Wyhl, West Cerwith the statistics, to absorb the plethora of facts, to
many [WIN 9/25/75).lt was there that 28,000 people
' humanize them, reduce them to their quintessential:
said "NO" with absoluteclarity-with their bodies!
a face, a body burned to the bone or just a hank of skin
Usually, the moveþent spends its.time organizing
seared and dangling from its human form, "The efrather
than recordi n g the results of thei r ef forts. The
script
reads.
flesh"
as
the
fire
fectof
upon
Wyhl occupation was a limited exception to this
. Each Trident will span two football fields, weigh
18,700 tons, be larger than a destroyer and cost a total 'understandable if lamentable rule, for there was a'
lone I mm camera there recording what it would for
of $40 billion for the 30 presently requested by the
posterity (and us).
Navy. Trident is the f irst weapons system designed
ln what could only be called a metamorphasis, that of
a
new
composed
for first strike capacity. lt will be
fleetof submarines and two generations of missiles. lt 8mm silent, color footage has become an'important,
even crucial little 16 mm film, Nuclear Reaction in
is the most expensive, most sophisticated, and most
Wyhl. From22 minutes of tattered, extremely rough
deadly weapons system yet to be created.
footage, and with skimpy dollq¡s, Creen Mountain
Ten Tridents will be armed to annihilate 4,080
Post Films has constructed a 15 minute documentary
targets, with bombs f ive times deadlier than the one
of one citizen revolt that succeeded. This
which incinerated Hiroshima. This system of
tremendously inspiring movie provides a perfect
weapo¡s is being built even though we already have
There
isn't
model for similar efforts across America, just as Wyhl
world
35
times.
destroy
the
to
the capacity
similar actions across Europe.
spurred
the language to express, or abi I ity to imagine the end
'
Nuclear Reaction begins in Wyhl's undisturbed
result of what is being created. Right here. And right
now. The nuclear threat this behemoth of megadeath and remarkable beautiful nature preserve; then
quickly comes the arrival of nuclear construction atrepresents can only be interpreted in Apocalyptic
tempts; then the protesters, the police; and then the
welltaking
the
audithis
The
does
slide show
t'erms.
mass occupation. The narrative soundtrack mixed
ence from the drawings of Leonardo DaVinci to Hirowith music and some original Cerman protest songs
shima to Groton, Ct.
accurately describes and helps bring home the
This resource is of special importance to the New
feelings
and the spirit of the time.
England states, and particularly Connecticut, since
'
Citizens from France, Switzerland, and Cermany
Trident is manufactured at Gen. Dynamics, Electric
actually do "do it!" We can actually experience citiBoat Shipyard in Croton; a small shoreline town on
zens rising up to take control over the f uture life cif
the Southeast Connecticut coast. The campaign to
stop the B-'l Bomber is almost over and we must turn ' theircommunities. Afterl5 minutes lfelt like lhad
our energ ies toward res i stance of the Trident. To that been struggling along side my brothers and sisters in
end, the slide show describes the formation of a loose Europe for years !
And, of course, when 28,000 people go anywhere
confederation of peace groups and individualsfrom
together, they end up sharing'their food, sett¡ng up
around New England and the eastern seaboard. lt is
shãlters, producing cultul'al events-getting on with
called the Atlantic Life Community. This community.
I ife ! The ch ildren of the f ilm stand out for their zest
orotested the keel-laying of the f irst Trident (and
ôther fast attack subs built in Croton) and has plans to . and humor even in the midst of building a whole
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calibre of Barbara Dane, Pete Seeger, Rich
Parsekian, Bill Hereth, and groups & collectives like
San Francisco Mime Troupe, Alive & Trucking
Theatre, and Bread & Roses Music. A good cultural
worker most of all is never more than a breath away
or:ders
obey
using
to
begun. The police had begun ref
from what the people are thinking
to ãrrest; the order of the state was temporarily All this to say that Bernice Reagon is that kind of a
suspended by organ i zgd, nonviolent citizen s. Oh
justthinking
worker. Born in Albany, Ceorgia, she began
cultural
guess
geia
myself
litileexcited
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connecting her politics and her music in the early
about it!
sixties, continuing the role that Black culture has traThe environmental movement is a real movement
played in supporting people in struggle. As
ditionally
broad
gathering
the
supportfrom
level,
local
on the
a member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating
mass of people- i[ is they that rise up angry when
Committee's Freedom Singers, she directed her music
prof
mongers/
it
that can really see the risks over the
to the places and struggles in-which the Blàck liberabenef its. As one of the protest songs go:
tion forces found themselves during the mid-sixties.
we must protect ourse/Yes . . .
Her commitment to music as an educational tool
not tomor row-b ut tod aY !
to teacher (raining workshops, the developextends
which side are you on ?
mentof ayear-long children's Black history program
Nuclear Reac'tion ln Wyhl is a f ilm for this decade;
wh ich drew upon the resources of the Black comits message must circulate a lot if we're going to be
munity, and organizing the Harambee Singers, a
heretomolrow!
-Sam LoveioY group of Black women singers with a repertoire both
traditional and contemporary in African and US
protest songs. Besides continuing to perform and
write songs, Bernice Reagon is presently Vocal
Director oÍ the DC Black Rep Theatre. She is currently
performing as a member of the group's "Sweet \
Honey in the Rock."
Paredon Records, the alternative record company
which has produced this album includes an illustrated
pamphlet in each album which includes the texts of
the songs as well as biographical materials and notes.
ln Give Your Hands to Struggle, my favorite song of
her very exceptional album appears this way:

"freedom village." lt's just plain superto see "the
people" liberatlng something and, in turn, being and
äctine libeiated themselves . . . crops are planted;
communications, day care, education programs are

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It well may be the organizers and movement brass

who build organizational relationships and move the
strusele forward, but it is the cultural workers-that
movãñrent euphemism for artists, singers and entertainers-who give the struggle heart.Cultural
workers are educators and historians and visionaries
rolled into one-at their best, they explain the
present, point the way to a better f uture and demystify our past. Jo be an exceptional cultural worker
is no mean trick. lt takes a solid understanding and
involvement with the theory and practice of good
politics, strong and deep roots intothe community
plus a certain something, call it style or creativity,
that the average man or women cannot only relate to
but be inspired by as well. And an exceptional cultural
worker continues to look for better ways to reach
people,
dedication and commitment play a par!too.
' A few sonames
come readily to mind- people of the

You know the book, The Bible?

You read it and you will sde.
tt will surely come to pass,
This is how its gonna be:
fhose that were meek and hu r1tble
Would cometo gain the e7rth,
Them thatshuddered atthe bottom
Would r ise and r u le the war ld !
fhere's a new world coming. . .

Thev take a look, United
Of the North American

States

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The naüons of Asia and Af rica,
They' re taki ng over thei r I ives.
Iheiisters and brothers south of us
Are f inal ly getti n' wi se.

timel

There's a new world coming.
There's a new world coming.

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With yor.r ttrange mixture of wealth and hate,

ln a song like fhere's A New World Cóiming, she
combines ñreaningful prose with a very unique and
touching singing style, while in the more strongly
rhvthmic Wñy Did They Take LJs Awav? the Af rican
iníluence of iÉanan music is felt. Reagon's text note
explaining the roots of this song are almost as moving
and compelling as the song itself .
For thäse who have the õpportunity to attend one, a
Bernice Reagon concert is nbt to be missed, but her
album Give Your Hands to Struggle and accompanying notes makes a great evening of listening and

reãding.

-Peg Averill

iudge noted the speciÍiccharge'was a violation
oÍ the Niagara Frontier State Parks and Recreation
Commission's regulation that prohibits "acts that
serve no usef ul purpose. "
Clobe & Mail, August26,'1976
The

I$ewspoems

by Tuli KuPferberg

-Toronto

SONC OFTHE WARDEN

OF NIACARA J AIL

luP4-

"For instance TechnicalServices Divisionlof theClAlhasdeveloped an invisible itching p;6e¡der that drives its victim s wild
for about three dqys," he said. " My agents used a
lotoÍ it. They wentto leftist meetings and sprinkled
it on the seats oÍ toilets. " . .

New York

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Somethin from nothin leaves somethin
You gotta do nothin if you'wanna be with me
Somethin from nothin gives somethin,
a soldier in the war on ol' hiPPY.

,l'm

(Repeat till your stomach settles)

.

To a special friend: this song camefrom watchihe lou
react to the events in Southeast Asia during April,
1975.1think I got the line, "Everything Conna be
Turning Over" frtom you. The housewas in an incredible state of excitement, but it felt insufficient
just to watch. The end of the long liberation struggle

GIVE YOUR HANDS TOSTRUCGLE: The Evolution'
of a Freedom Singer

You won't be exempt this

2.

-Toronto

Star J ulY 7, 1 97 5,

The CIA was eating beans, parlez vous?
The CIA was eEting beans, parlez vous?
The CIA was eating beans
And put some itchY in Your jeans

by the Vietnamese people represents a decisive shift
of power and direction for the international world
climate. '.'New World Coming" was my way of saying

THERE'S A NEW WORLD COMING
Wordsand music: Bernice Reagon
There's a new world coming!
Everyth i n g's gon' be tu r n i n g over.
Everyth i n g's gon' be tu r n i n g over.

Whereyou gon' be standingwhen itcomes?

There's a new world coming. . .
1.

For lar too many years

I been march i ng, si ngi ng and talki ng.
Doi ni g th i n gs I thou ght wou ld make me f ree.
Wh i le peopl e hallway' rou nd the wor ld,

The CIA was killing Che, Parlez vous?
The CIA was killing Che, Parlez vous?
The CIA was killing Che

Lumumba, Trujillo and Duvalier
Hinky stinky CIA

marketing prog,rams . . .
New York Times, August 26,'1976

The CIA was beating me, parlez vous?
The CIA wds cheating you, parlez vous ?
TheClAwaseating Jew
Arab and Commie and Kikiyu
Hinky stinky parlez vous

SOME SUCCESTIONS FOR NEWAD SLOCANS

The CIA was awf ul mean, parlez vous?
The CIA was off its bean, parlez vous?
The CIA was quite obscene

4. Look for the cancer on the back
5. lf you'relookingforatreatment, notatreat. . .
6. Not a cough in a carload (a coff in)
7 Smoke, smoke- if you didn't smoke- someone
else would only smoke in your: place

Today the Congress raised its pay
Hinky stinky USA

Thev 6eei fighting, dyingand bleeding,
And now it seems that they are gonna be!

SIAY/NNEWYORK
After morethãn ayear of intensive studies oÍ ps5sib/e moves elsewhere, Philip Morris Inc., the
nation's second largest maker of cigarettes, announced yesterday that itwould notonly keep its
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Hinky stinky parlez vous

"Amerì" to that.

PHILIP MORRISWILL

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1. lts Tarboro Country
2. Call for Doctor Morris!
3. ln my throat I feel a lump. .

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l'd walk a mile for a hump

There's a new world coming. , .
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