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The Battle of Malville-An Eyewitness Account
Bangor Summer o Hiroshima o Occupying a Live Nuke

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After the defeat ofthe gay rights
ordinance in Dade County and
subsequent actions ofAnita Bryant to
take hér bigotry nation-wide, I wondered
what actioñs would be taken by the gay
activists to counter this. I have heard
about demonstrations against her
speeches and would notþresume to tell
säv activists what to do on a national
level. Personally however I am offended
that the Florida Cittus Commission has
retained het as their spokesperson and
have writtento them lo inform themthat
my family would be boycottingFlorida
orânge juice products until such time as
she was remóved from that position.
Aooarentlv others have done the same.
I'irinot suíe ifthis is aviable strategybut
if IVIN readers wish to make theirviews
known the address to write to is: Florida
Citrus Commission, 1115 E. Memorial
Blvd., PO Box 148, Lakeland, Florida

33802.

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_Btr,LKAISER
Waukegan'Il.

I'm enclosing a copy of the pto-Anita
reolv letterfrom the Citrus Commission
*Ëiõtt th"y r"nt to me by mistake:
PS:

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This is to acknowledge receipt ofyour
letter resardins our contracted sDokes'
nerson Ãnita Bivant. The volumê of mail
ii support as weil as opposing her posi'
tion órrecludes a personal response'
In^soite of national news störies to the
contrary, I am pleased to inform you that
the Floiida Deþartment of Citrus' policy
recardine Ani[a Btvant has not wavered
frõm whJt it was inianuary. What Anita
Brvant does in her private iife is her
chóice. We see no ñeed to change from
our established marketing progtam at

this

time.

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Since a boycott against us is

being

camied out by those who wouldhave us
terminate our contractwith Anita Bryant
you can voice your support by asking for
ând using Florida citrus products.
Thank you for writing regatdingour

spokesperson,
Sincerely,
Edward A. Taylor
Executive Ditector

results, even
was a

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multitude if he chose to.
Yet, there always will be loners on the
periphery of any movement or party'
Îisteiingonly to their own drummers'

and whõcannot be persuadedto merge
with the sroup. Thèv should be supported, o-r at lèast tolerated. It is possible
thatJhe beat one of them hears, may
very well become the sounil of the

futúre.

-EDFEDER
BtonxrNY

We are trying desperately to find a
doctorto ivor-k in oir Community Clinic'
Because ofthe prejudice against poor
Chicanos they ñave to travel over 1(X)
iniles for medical care. Though-we are

offering $33,000'fi), malPractiÛe

insurañce and benefits itis not easy to
find the kind ofdoctorwe need. Perhaps
some of vour teaders will be interested.
A eooä "team'' is develoPing here
arouñd Alfredo Figueroa. Alfredo is an

irrepresible enthuiiast, bursting with

ideâs and energy. He has respect for
oeoole. inteeritv, smarts and
^p"tôeu"tan"-e. The powers have notbeen
ãble to buv him out, run him out or
murder hím. And they have tried all

thiee.

In addition to the Clinic there is an
alternative bilingual grade and highschool. a dav carè center, an adult education progiam and hopefully we will be
working oñ housing starting tþi. T"llr .
The UFIY has won every election in thls
valley and will have five contracts soon.
Our friendly power company is trying to
build a nucleãr plant here. lVe are
organizing locally.
This is ãn exciting place to work.
Interested doctots should contact
Alftedo A. Fieueroa, 7 14-922'2582 or
Box 910. Blvtñe. Ca. 92225.

_EDWARDL.XEHOE
Blythe'CA

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At this time of the year, with
varsaries of the bombings of Nagasaki
and Hiroshima just passìng, and with
movement activity (in the larger sense)
across the countrY moving towards
stronger anti-nuclear power and towards
stronãer disarmament activity I believe
we shãuld also take a look at the his'
totical and psvchological basis that lend
hiehlv to thã Ëirth of-the "nuclear age. "
"Foi manv of us in the movement, when
someone nientions the word "holo'
caust" we are inclined to think of images
of a fire-ball sweeping ovetHiroshima
and Nasasaki. But what of an earlier
holocau"st? What of the nearly seven
million European Jews, Catholics,
Gypsies and-" undesirables" who suf-

feted beatings, deportations, and
executions at the hands of N aziGer'
many? We examine the Japanese holo'
caust because we are living in the
country that developed, built, and
dropped the atomic bombs on Japan'
Whãt roll though, did we play in the
EuroDean holocaust? Why do we remain
silenf one short generation after the

most brutal acts by a "civilized"
countrv; one ofthe most widesPread
brutal âcts in recorded history? The
answers do not come easy, thejrnever
have. Questions mustbe asked.
Before the Allies became actively in'
volved in W\{2, móst maintained strong
diolomatic and business relations with
Nåzi Germanv from 1933 on to each

monev to leave the US during wartime),
the Stätè Department continirally stalled
through-out the length ofthe war' Not
until t'Ée formation õf the War Rèfugee
Board in 1944, was there any effort bY
any agency or department ofthe US
goveinment to help with the problem.
Even then the State Department did
their best to stall relief efforts. What it
took was the efforts ofthe French AFSC
worker Roswell lvfcClelland who aided
thousands in escape efforts and with
foods and various needs thatthe International Red Cross refused to supply to
Concentration camp victims throughout the war.
Written off and abandoned, no
country or agency with the power aided
those in need ofhelp and rgscue until
(the late hour oÐ 1944. No country wo¡uld
grant the needêd asylum needed for'' n
fhose who might escape on their own.
Their fate had no place on the agendas of
the Bie Three. Or did it?
Whãt role did the silence of nations
olav in easins the wav for America to
ãesirov two J"aoanesé cities and those
living ín themf What role did this play in
allowing the US and the USSR to buildup nucléar armaments and power plants

to.the levels they are now at? What role
dld the silence ofa generation ago play in
the continued silenèe ofthe present?
Whv does it seem we forget so easilY?
There is so much absurdity in this
world that we try to fight it. We attempt
to fieht an enemv called indifferenceforgËtfulness. But we do forget' There
seems to be a movement toward forget'
fulness. Has the idea of holocaust-past
and oresent and future-become so
routïne? Do we so wish not to believe in
the oast events that the present and
futu^re events become reìorded as nightmares? But what we don't say ahd what
we don't do carries weight' Such a
silence relays a state of mind and of
heart; the state ofthe world.
The world has never before been in
more danser of self-destruction then
now. Nevãr before have we had so many
possible means of doing awaY with
õurselves.
Shall we keep quiet? Shall wè remember the past anil its hand on the present
and future? I must ask you, my friends'
as I continually ask mYself.

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TheBattleof Malville-An Eyewitness Account

Pierre Radanne
9. Bangor Summer: Crowth &
Community Action
Shelley.Douglass
12. Hl ROSHIMA: Never Again !
Nata/ie Shiras
14. Occupying A Live Nuke
. NormanSolomon

Cover: Anti-nuke comic strip about a
character named CecilC. Addle

drawn byCollins.
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Averill o Pat Lacefield

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asainstthem.
-Whenthe Ällied Powersbecame activelv involved in W\Y2, information
aboút the full dimension of the "con-

centrationary phenomenon' was made
available through sources working
through the neutral countries-this
inforrñation was then turned over to the
Allied eovernments. Whenever the
Allies r"eceived information on the situation ofthose sufferingthe lash ofNazi
Germanv. thev checked and
double-õheckéd the information; it
always proved to be ftue. But still no actioniwêre taken. Many times during the
earlv vears ofthe war, rescue efforts
werä åossible: the World Jewish
Coneiess. the Swiss, the International
YMõA alí set-uD rescue efforts; all they
lacked was the ñeeded funds' The Allied
sovetnments claimed that supplying
Fescue funds would be a violation of
"Economic W atfate" efforts and would
take awav ftom the fighting efforts. In
the US, the United Jewish APPeal had
raised the needed funds, but while the
Treasury Department issued a license
for overieas funds transfers (such a
license is needed for large amounts of

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16. Changes
19. Reviews / Wendy Schwartz &
Henry Bass

country's deciaration of war against
Germany. When Hitler and the National
Socialist Party came to power, foreign
diplomats began relating to their home
offices the atrocities against Jews,
Catholics and others: their home offices
took note but little more. As stories begar
to run aiross Europe and the United
States, citizen groúps andthe press
oushed their eovernments to take some
iorm of actionl at least in protest. They
did not. Why? Hitler, Goring, and
Goebbels all noted that their earlier ac'
tions deoended upon world reactionif
thev weie to continue. Goebbels knew
and as the nations of the world
continued to take no action he and Hitler
used that very fact to propag anóize

Sept. 22, 1977

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Dear readers:

THE BATTLE

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Photos by Malville activist Georges David provided

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by Anna Gyorgy

On August 6, as we in the Clamshell Alliance and
manv otller people and groups across America
remémbered the bombing of Hiroshima, Pierre
Radànne was writing this report on the demonstra'
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the S upèr-P hoe n ix f ast

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in Frlnce. This demonstration has become

a

watershed in the European anti-nuclear movement. Itwas the mostviolentYet; one manwas
killed and over 100 people iniured. The truth of the
slogan on one of thei r ban ners wa,s revealed once
asãi n : NUCTEAR SOCI ETY, POLICE SOCI ETY.
"
The demonstration was internlztional. People
came f rom all over Europe to help stop this proiect
which threatens the ent ire contifÍènt.
Europe has been rocked by this demons tration .
Ihe press there is Íull of stories and analyses about
Malville. Andfor once, a European anti-nuclear
action got national news coverage in this country as
.

The

J une 28th dèmonstration at Crenoble, featuring a banner which,reads "Rally at the Fast Breederof Mqlville.,,

rÊirìiË

well. Butwe didn't gettheft¡ll story.
Pierre's report should interest people who are
partof
, and interested in, the growing anti-nuke
'movement
in the lJS. Pierre Radanne speaks f rom
h i s ow n expe r i e nce. H e w as at M al v i I I e /as t s ummer and helped organize this demonstration. He is
an activist in the Friends of the Earth ecologY group
of Lille, an industrialcity in northern France.
Pierre came to this country lastfall and spoke atthe
Clamshell's Alternate Energy Fair at Hampton
Beach on October 23 , He told us then about the
g ef forts th at we r e taki n g pl ace i n th e
Uátville irea. He was also active in the municipal
e/ections in France last March, when anti'nuke
eco/ogists won between 10 and .1 5o/o of the vote

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nation-wide.

There are undoubtedly other impressions and
interpretations of yvhat happened at Malville ' This
one is offered to you for your examination, to
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di

scussion.

Anna Gyorgy

PIERRE RADANNE

the site of ¿i 1200 megawatt fast breeder nuclear'
reactor. The town is in a sparsely settled rural agricultural area. The plant is a joint project of France
(owning tralf), Belgium, Spain and ltaly. Right now
France has one smallfast-breeder in operationthe 250 megawatt Phoenix in Pierrelatte. lt is
similartothe Fermi breederthatwas built in
Detroit in the early 1960's and shut down after a
near melt-down in 1966.

France's Nuclear Ambitions
France has a giant'nuclear goal: to build the f irst
commercial sized fast breeder reactor in the
world
-the Super-Phoenix of Creys-Malvi I le. The
breeder's basic characteristic is that it transforms
non-f issionable uranium fuel into plutonium. This
tipe of nuclear plant is,thus far more dangerous
than others. The site was acceptable to the govern- ,
ment even though the major cities of Lyons and
Ceneva are less than 50 miles awaY.
The French nuclear program is one of the most
daring in the world. They wantto.have 200 plants
by the year 2000. lt is already the most complete
program:
The only large waste reprocessing plant for
water reactors in thb world is on La Hague in
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northern France.
o An enrichment plant that would supply the
nuclear fuel for 200 plants is under conStruction in
Tricastin. A second such plant is being studied.
¡ Although the Super:Phoenix is notyet built,
Electricity of France (EDF-the state utility that
controls ail electrical production) has already
ordered three more fast-breeders of 1800 megawatts for the site of Chalon-sur-Saone
Of all thecountries in theworld, France hasthe
most centralized industrial structure. Thib pattern
is well suited to centralized nuclear electrical
expansion. The Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
wli¡ch has a monopolyon all military and "peacefull'-nuclear research, the EDF, which produces
and distributes electricity, and the private sector,
which builds reactors (likethe Creusot Loire
Company), have closerties than similar interests in

other countries.
Extremely serious events have taken place in
France. The nuclear debate has never seen such
viglence anywhere else in the world. Vital

ñtichalon, a20yearold high schoolteacher, a
belieVer in nonviolence, is dead.
The battle of Malville was not an anti-nuclear
demonstration like all the others' Everyone involved esialated theirtactics. The pro.nuclear
forces, bythe natureof this nucJear project and
Francó's'enormous nuclear ambitions, and the
opponents of nuclear power in their preparations
for the demonstration, the political consciousness
of the French ecological movement, setthe stage
for the Malville conf rontation .
Escalation
A tittle village called Creys-Malville, on the Rhone
River betweén Ceneva aád Lyons, was chosen for

The Government Has Taken lts Stand
For the government, the Super-Phoenix is a project
whose success will determine the f uture of nuclear
power in France. ln effect, only the fast breeder,
which would theoretically produce its own fuel, can prolong the nuclear program when supplies of
uranium are exhausted. Forthe French government, giving up Super-Phoenix would be giving up
its bid ior f irst þlace among nuclear powers. For the
government, the moment of decision has arrived;
eitherthe projected program is followed, or some
of the plants must be dropped.
'Thè'government has chosen to follow its nuclear
program. As Pierre Fournier, an early nuclear
ôppónent has said: "Noone knows wherethey are

going, but they're going. "
- Long b'éforethe demonstration the government

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left itself no room to maneuver. The pol¡ce repression at Malville was its only answer.'
The Anti-Nuke Opposition and the Summer of ,76
On J uly 4, 1976, thírty thousand peoÞle demonstrated under the bright sun at Mdville. the
ecologists got on the site-without police violence,
and set up camp facing the plant under construction. For f ive days 2,000 ddmonstrators stayed

to follow the nuclear path. On that occasion he
.åãäih¡i r'istoric prönouncement: "crofoth is
¡nãisoãns¡Ule becf use we need growth !"

meeting. After J uly '76 an exceotional
"ambiance" was,fólt in the areá. And during the
following.year, 4nti-nuke activists and ihe lo-cal
committees worked together preparing for the
demonstration of J uly 31st,19Zl'.

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Pi"esidentCiscard personallv . .
i n stal ation s at P errel atte' The
of the Algerian colonial
aveteran
lsere,
åãïä-or. of
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threatened:
'-ihó
ór"tt (radio and especiallytelevision) chose
thls't¡me to editorialize, contrary to their usual
black-out of n uclear power news' Publ ic opi n ion'
*ãiUuing preparedi "nuclear power is indisoãnsible/; "the Baader-Meinhof gang will be
ihere. " f he sl ghtest i ncident was se¡zed.upon :

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TakingMalville

there organizing themselves for a long actión.
There were discussions at night. Slowìy, village
people cameto join the talks. On Thursdav
morning around 5 o'clock, the 2,000 demonstrators

Malville committees sprang up all over France.
There hád never before been ciemonstrations
against sych an important project. Following the
work donê during the summei of 1976, the dãmonstrators had more local support than had ever been
seen before. Organizers airticipated between
50,000 and 100,000 people on july 31st. And they
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Demonstrators moveto freethe bridge where police lines kept them from movins
doser to the site. Sign reads " Nucleâr Society, pol ice Society: Liberate thJ
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were evicted from their campsite by the police.
. On J uly l0there was a demonstrâtion'heàáã¿ nv
local elected officials asking thatthe police liftthe'
blockade which surrounded a three mile area
around the site. The march quickly took on a festive
atmosphere. A feeling of liberation was present.
Later on people returned to camp on local
residents' land. lt was quite latewhen the CRS
(French National Cuard) came: the campers were
in the middle of setting up their tents. They were
given three orders to leave. The ecologists then
improvised a nonviolent resistance. Seated in the
road, theywaited forthe policecharge. ltwas
violent, Thirty-seven demonstrators were seriously
injured. The survivors reassembled in the village
square. Shocked by the police action, the villagers
offered the demonstrators beds.
Because it was impossible to reassemble, the
ecolog i sts chan ged thei r tactics. I nstead of reoccupying,the site, they chose to spread out among
the inhabitants. Their goal was to help form local
committees. Within a month about 50 groups were
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Political tsolation: No Support From the Lett
From the beginning, the French Confederation of
Workers (CFDT- France's largest únion) and
certain political parties supported the demonstration, but they soon drew back. The CFDT and
then the Socialist Party (pS) publiclv announced
their ref usal to support ihe âät¡on, dischaiging
themselves of anv iesponsibilitv f'or it.
On Saturday, J'uly jOth, they ôrganized a discussion six miles from the siteied by socialist
representative Louis Mermaz. He said: ,,We are
certâinly not going tq receive any blows. . . ,, After
being dropped in this way, the eéologists were
disgusted. The left does ñôt understãnd the
politìcal danger of nuclear power
After the left's retreat, the government had been
given the 1'carte blanche', to strike. The ecologists
had no more support!
Public Opinion is prepared
The Courìcil of Ministers decided the site would be
defended at all costs by the forces of repression . At
the beginning of J uly, Þrime Minister haymond
Barre announced the government's determination

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when shov¡ng crowds broke awindowof the
rrioiésìal (atõwn nearMalville) Town Hall, the.
räãio tupo.ted that the Town Hall had been sacked
und th"Muyor's assistant beaten! Civen the forces
frásent, eväry card had been plaftd in advance.
The Demonstiation:

paired with a committee fromihe Rhone-Alps
region as well as a localcommittee. Thus thöy
assembled by region, with ecology groups fróm
each area being given responsibiitles for the
logistics and protedtion of the dernonstration.
But the most important thing was the demonstration's goal. By oiganizing a march with the
specif ic goal of ta[ nonviolent activists alike were preparing for a con-

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came.
ln nurnbers alone it was an escalation. The Malville action looked mo¡e like a battle than a demonstration. Croups from'each region in France were

frontation. The organ izers wantedto taÈe the Malville site to create such a shock that the government
. would be forced to cancelthe project. Tñe debate
between violence and nonvioienóe became a false
debate; the decision to occupy would undoubtedty
mean a violent confrontation. The government,s
attitude would determine events during the
demonstration.
. I1 a¡y cqse, the anti-nuclear forces could not pull
back. The Super-Phoenix must be cancelled. lt,'g
that or demobilization and defeat before the keystone of the nuclear program.

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An ExtraordinarY Determination

cation and organizing. We never heard nonviolent
demonstratois keeping violent ones f rom the clash.
Evervone would go as far as they could to stop
Suoer-Phoenix, with either violent or nonviolent
methods. All Sáturday we felt the same mood of
gravity: no þarty atmosphere as at earlier ecologicai demonstrations. At 10 o'clock the village
squares were emPtY
The Battle of Malville

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Sunday J uly 31

It rained all night. ln spiteof the weather, some
60,000 peoplefere there. Each of the four marches
leávingthe campsites was at least four miles long.
At 6 am another proof of the determinatiqn:
everyone got up without a signal and started

folding their tents.
At B:30 the marches left the vi I lages of Morestel,
Polevrieu . Courtenay and Montal ieu . They joined
up atthe villageof Fáverges. During the march
there was some yelling, but most demonstrators

By Saturday (the 30th) *".orid ulready feel that
lh¡sde-onótiation would be different from all
ihose before. At nightthere was a determination in
if,ã d"ron stratorsrCeneral Assem bl ies that had
never been felt before. There was a strong consensus that transcended the earlier disputes
between violence and nonviolence. Even the

demonstration's nonviolent majority thought that
the decisive moment had come, after ayearof educonfrontation had begun, and moments
More than 60,00O people assemble near-Faverge, two miles from nuke site. Theworstof the
later demonsiratois learn of the death of comrade Vital Michalon
.

bàck and let the head of the march turn back. But as
the assault raged on, the back of the demonstration
continuecl to aclvance. We regrouped in a f ield. A
second di rective cánte on ly those with hel mets
could proceed. Already- m'any "violents," armed
with slingshots and crowbars, had moved up to the
front lines.
It rvas not the demonstrators who caused the
assault, we fell into a trap. The march was cornered
in a funnel between woods and a lake. The assaults
tookplace at theother side of Faverges. From afar
it did not look very impressive because there was
never any actual physical contact between the
demonstrators and the police. The grenades kept
the demonstrators at a distance. Thè tear gas
grenades were quickly replaced by offensive
grenades which contained 90 grams of ,TNT. They
explode without schrapnel, but give a powerful
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As most of the march stood aside, the same
silence prevailed. There was nothing more to do.
Who started it doesn't matter. The orders of the
police were clear! At one point someone suggested
trying to get through another way, but it was soon
clear that it couldn't work. Once an ambulance
went through the march a bit faster than the others.
A ma¡ was holding up an intravenous bottle high
out of the window.
The retreat became more rapid. The atniosphere
grew heavy and it was.still raining. At4 pm people
started to leave. The thunder of the grerìades èdntinued. Across a corn f ield, waves of demonstrators
tried to go through the lines. Soon the Natíonal
Cuard would charge. They cleaned up the village of
Faverges, the fields, and pursued the iniured inside local homes. lt was at that point that Viial
Michalon was killed. He was killed by one of the
concussion grenades, not by a heart attack or
trampling, as were reported first by both French
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radio. lsere's Covernor J anin sang of victory and
congratulated his troops. The demonstrators grew
angry. What would the ecologists do now?

After the Demonstration
That evening on the radio, the government tried to
blame Cerman ecologists (about 1,000 of them) for
the violence. They tried to separate the "good"
ecologists from the "bad." Their arguments
quickly fel I apart. We can already say that th is
move was a setback for the government. The following Saturday, to save faèe and show their
determinafion, six arrestees were sentenced toone
and three month mandatory prison sentences;
some people because they had pocket kn ives on
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them!
The government had struck, what would the
anti-nuclear activists do? We could feel some

thrngs as people retreatecl. We feel a deep sense of
rebellion, ä deepened determ ination. Th is police
provocation will not remain without a response.
Some wi I I be tempted to use violence, bui few wil I
follow. Above all, the ecolog ists will overcome their
dissentions and create a political front of greater

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J uly 31st, 1977 will mark the date of a break
between the.group in power and the traditional left.
We tried to explain the danger thai nuclear power
represented. Many people listened, the parties did
not.
The repression will continue from now until
March' 7 B, the date of h istoric elections that wi I I
perhaps send a socialist-communist majority to
Parliament. Until then, the parties will fry to
eliminate the ecologists from the political scene. .
Obvious ly the ecologi sts are troublesome ! Since
the March '77 municipal elections, the ecÒlogists,
with their 10% of the electorate, are taken

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SHELLEY DOUGLASS

The Pacif ic Life Community in the American
Northwest/Canadian Southwest has been conducting a campaign of nonviolent resistance
againstthe Trident submarine and missile system
fo-r two and a half years. TheTrident, a f i rst-stri ke
nuclear weapons system, will have its home port at
Bangor in Washinlton State. lt will use both
Canãd¡an and American waters. The f irst Trident
sub is due at Bangor in late 1979' There will be
between 10 and 3Ó subs in the Trident system, each
carrvine 408 warheads. Each warhead will be three
to 1O tiñes as powerful as the bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
Thissummerwas b¡lled as "the summerof Trident" in Kitsap County, wherethe base is located.

seriously. The traditional party heads are worried.
The attitude of the government has been motivated
by electoral considerations: the ecologists must be
discredited.
ln fact, it is notthe ecologistswho are now
isolated, but the party officials. Wrapping themselves in virtuous and hypocritical indignãtion (the
traditional left opposition) or launching appealè for
f irmness willchange nothing.
The Socialist Party tried oñe maneuver. After
dropping the ecologists, they tried to recover
politically by coming to the defense of the poor
ecologists. Socialist Party leader Francois'
Mitterand has proposed a referendum on nuclear
poWer,.without getting involved himself, ortaking
a stand.
Other countries take note of anti-nuclear opposition and yield.to the most determined opposition.
ln France the government shows its rigidity. Foy'
two.years we have been saying that the French
nuclear program is the most dãngerous in the
world, given its centralization and desire for
power. Malville has confirmed this.
Now the French ecological movement appears to
many as an autonomous political movement. The
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The greatest eÍfortto build the Base would be
expended in this time. Pacif ic L'ife Community
decided that this was the time to make the greatest
effortto resist the Trident and to that end Bangor
Summer Task Force was organized.
The task force, after much searching, found a
vacant lot with some primitive buildings which the
owners were willing io lease to us in return for work
we would do on theþroperty. (Th is was a risk for
the owners, one of whom works for the Navy')
We issued an invitation to people allover the
United States and Canadatoioinus for a summerof
nonviolent training sessions and militant non-

ecology candidates will blossom in the March
national elections. Those who hesitated have now
made theirdecision. With Malville, as in May,
1968, a new split is revealed. As writer Serge'july
said in the August 1 edition of the newspapìr
Liberation, this is how political explosioni and

violent resistance ãctions. There were four training
sessions at our camp, stretching from J uly 6th to
August 9th. Each of them were exercises in confroñting both theviolence Úithin ourselves and the
Tridentl. We tried at tþe base camp to foster
egilitarian living; sharing cooking, clean-ing, child

births are created.

AnnaCyorgy lives in Montague, Mass., siteof
proposed twin 1150 megawitt nukes. She works
with the Franklin Counly Alternative Energy
Coa I iti o n and th e Cl amsh el I Al I i ance. She's now
writing a handbook on nukes called: "NO NUKES:
Everyone's Cuide to Nuclear Power'' which wilt be
out th ¡ s wi nter. An na and M arti ne P routy
translated this article f rom the original F rench.

cãre, an d oth er hou sekeep i n g. tasks- Deci s.ion s
weré made by consensus, and people tried hard
both to confront each other and to be open to conf rontation . We tried not to glorify civil disobedients at the expense of other people participating in
actiohs, but tö realize that everyoné played a vital
role.
In many ways, dealingwith our own s.e¡istt1^
laziness, selfishness, and generally middle-class
orientatíon was the most painf ul part of the sum-

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mer. Each successive session struggled with its
own special internal Tridents, and each. sess.ion,
throueh the pain of growth, became a close-kn it

community. Theltoriesof this growth arevery
oersonal, but thev result inthe political actions
*fr¡ct', grew from Bangor Summer. With all our
imperfãctions and mistakes, the summer became
something beautiful.
Our f irst training session was held in con junction
with the Fellowshiþ of Reconciliation's Pacif ic
Ñorth/Southwest Conference. Together we trai ned
for an.action reclaiming the Trident Base for the
human family.
On J uly 4 we conducted

a typically American
celebiatión: a family picnic. Only we invaded the
Trident base to try and have our picn ic on one of its
piers, reclaiming the land from Trident for the
ñurnãn family. Tivo hundred people metoutside
the base in small affinity groups to sing, pray, keep
silence, and post on the fence hand-lettered signs
of opposition to Trident.
Twenty-ei ght people, i ncl udi n g eì ght ch i ldren
from twoto 11 years old, scaled the fence and
walked ohe half mile into the base before being
stopped by security police. Nine peop[e rowed in
from the water side of the base. All of those
entering the base, exceptthechildren, were
arrested and held overnight in lail before being
released pendin g trial.
The ioint action with the FOR set the tone for our '
summér. We wanted to protest Trident as strongly
as possible, but with humor, love, and trust for the
people on the base. People forced by a war
economy to work on Trident are not the en.emy.
Trident,'and the systern is represents, is the real
enemy.
Oulchildren were included becausethey have
asked many times to be allowed to share our risks,
because wó trust the human beings on the base,
and above all, because they must have the rightto
speak out on their own f utures. The experience was
extremely positive for all concerned, largely because of the extensive role-play preparation done
beforehand, which included the children.
Having setthetoneof the summer with the first
large demonstration, we moved into the series of
smãl ler trai n i n g session s n umberi n g f rom four to
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people. The first session built a cardboard
shanty across the road from the base and established a permanent presencethere. Théy greeted
workers with signs and smiles when they came to
work in the mornings and left in the evenings. The
signs and the shanty were geared to emphasize the
stupidityof building Tridents while people starve.
Atthe end of the session, three woinen stood in
front of traff ic entering the base, blocking it for
several minutes. Thethree, two Americans, and
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stream of leaf lets. Signs greeted the workers in the
morning and spedthem homeward in the evening.
They made our opposition to Trident explicit and
aff irmed our solidarity with workers.
Humorous signs were particularly wellreceived. One series centered around the possi bi I ity of a slowdown : "Coof-off at work today :
make theworld a betterlplace! "; "Did you goof off
at worktoday? ls the world a better place?"; and
"Coof off today, QUlTtomorrow!" When we
f inally dismantled our shanty, it was replaced by a
sign reading, "We tookdown ouf base, now how
about yours?"
Worker response to our presence and our signs
has.been.very positive. Many workers and security
guards have talked with us and told us that they
don't like Tridenteither, but they feel they have no
other ch an ce for rnl'ork. Even some of the Mari nes
have taken to climbing the fence to get out of the
basetotalk with us. There is certainly a good
proportion of hostile people, but we found we built
far better rapport than we had hoped.

Earlyon in the summerthe base began to
respond tothis rapport. ln the second training session people leaf letting outside the main gate of the
basg, wherè we have been allowed to leaf let for two
and a half years, were arrested for trespass. lt soon
became apparent that ttre Navy intended to con-

sistently violate our f irst amendment right to f ree
speebh. ln less than a month 10 people were
airested for leafletti ng outside the gate of the base
One man was pulled fiom a public phone booth and
arrested for trespass. The phone hooth was
removed later the same day.
With these cohsistent leafletting arrests, Bangor
Summer moved into its final phase. On August 5 a
vigil line was'set up across from the main gate, a
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memorial serviceior the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
victims, and a thirty minute silence.
The task force and many participants went on to
the War Resisters League's national conference in
Lacey, Wash in gton, where train ing for civi I di sobedience was þart of the conference. The (raining
linked the WRL with f ive other groups, CreenDeace, PLC-Seattle and Vancouver, Bangor
'Srrnm"r, Crabshell Alliance, and Live Without
Trident, in the biggest demonstration ever planned
forthe Írident gãse. fhe demonstration, heldon
August 14, brought 2,000 people to the base to
paiñt, chant, and sing theiropposition to Trident.
Ïwo hundred were preparedto issue a "peoples" in junction against the Navy's continuing. arrests of
leâf letters. These people entered the forbidden
area and sang, distributed leaflets, and danced.

real ized ihat th i s cat-and-mouse could conti n ue

indef in itely and ended the civil disobedience for
the
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doesn't want to end, and is
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chuggi"ng forward into Bangor Fall. Hopes forthe
fall ãnd winter include:

:-flìorê demonstrations and arrests around the
civil libertiés theme, as well as actions against
Trident itself .
continuing community presence in the area,
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to kñow local people and trying to help
mobi I ize local oPPosition
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Saturday, August6: the Peaceful Passagel50
mile walk from Vancouver, British Columbia,
arrived at the base (minus Canadians barred f rom
the US as internal security risks) and presented a
child's coff in f illed with origami cranes to the
security guards. Randy Brink, a former worker at
the base, who is n'ow paraplegic, was arrested for

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August 23. Approxirnately 45 of them-entered the
forbidden area. This time, however, the guards
simplv closed the front gate Iike they did on August
1a ahd directed workers to a side gate. The leafletters also went around to this gate and the Naval
euards closed it. The workeirs were directed to yet
ãnother gate. The people leaf letting the base

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The Navy locked its gates and abandoned the area,
while over 500 people danced in the lib'erated zone.
The next day f ive people were again arrested for
leaf letting where the 500 had danced.
ln respõnse to the newest arrests, 150 people
returned to leaf let the base in a pouring rain on

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The dawn came slowlyon Hiroshima Day, August
6. in thecityof Hiroshima' A light rain fell, but
aíready thousands were gathering at the Peace
Park, siteof the centerof the atomic explosion
thirty-two years ago, forthe annual ceremony to
remember that day and to reaff irm that it never
happen again.
The ceremony was a moving experience. There
were speeches by Hibakushas (atomic bomb victimes) and the Mayorof Hiroshima, people laid
wreaths on the rhemorial plaque, a release of
thousands of doves into the air, and a chorus of
students who sang "No More Hiroshimas" joined
by the crowd in a surge of deep feeling.
Afterwards I visited the A-Bôlmb Museum in the
Peace Park. lt was a very heavy experience to look
at the pictures of the devastation and those who
suffered. I felt that I could not face the outside
world just then. When I came out into the hbt sunshine of the Park, a smiling J apanese woman
handed me a cold washcloth to wipe my sweating
face and a cup of hot green tea. Everywhere in the
Párk J apanese people were handing out cold washcloths and hot tea. All around I sawthe families
who had come for the day sitting with their picnics
under the trees wh ile the ch ildren played near the
fountains. I noted the somber remembrance of the
day as people laid wreaths at the memorial statues,
lighted incense) and tolled the peace bell. But I also
felt a happy mood in the air, one of getting on with

life, adayoff for playand a picnic. l knowthat if I
had not had this context of the J apanese people
reallycelebrating lifethere in the Park, lwould not
have wanted to stay in Hiroshima.

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pening across the US. British, West Cerman,
Australian, and J apanese delegates supported the
Mobi lization for Survival to the J apanese and
international prèss. The J apanesè and people f rom
other parts of theworld aretaking the Mobilization
very seriously as the primary way to stop nuclear
weapons proliferation and educate people about
the dangers of nuclear energy and weapons. They
are watch ing us closely and hoping for our success.
The last session of the World Conference was
held in the afternoon and resolved that the coming
year be " ayear of action for the elimination of

ñuclear weapons and to arouse publ ic opin ion" in
preparation for the United Nations Special Session
on Disarmamentto be held in the spring of 1978.
There were 15,000 people in the auditorium raising
their hand for peace. Only the J apanese really
understand the horrors of atomic bombing and
effects of nuclear radiation. Again there was
singing as the international delegates f iled out
amidst a great shaking of hands.
As evening drewnear, anumberof theoverseas
and J apanese delegates went upthe mountain to
the Peace Pagoda. lt had cleared so we could see
the whole city of Hirobhima surrounded by mountains and the lnland Sea and islands beyond. lt was
beautif ul . There was music to dance by and plenty
of food to eat. I danced away on top of that mountain and ate to my heart's content, so happy to be

alive.
It grew dark, and we joined thethousandsof
others again in the Peace Park where the rivers
f low together to I ght the colored lantern s. People
had madeand written on the lanterns the name of a
family member who had died at the time of the
explosion or since from radiation sickness. There
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are stillover 2000 Hibakushas every year who dieof
radiation sickness. The riverwas beautiful, lit up
by the colors of all the f loating lanterns. People lit
more candles and incense on the banks of the river
and sang. Children watched with wonder; we all
did. Many fam ilies rented boats to row through the
lanterns, relighting the ones that had gone out,
bumping into each other's boats, and laughing.

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At noon several of the international delegates to
the World Conference Against A & H Bombs held a
press conference about the Mobilization for Survival , led by the American delegates. We reád the
Call, explained the upcoming actions, and announced all the actions on Hiroshima Day hapNata/ie Shiras is on thestatf of AFSC's MidPe n

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California and is active with the Campaign to
Abotish Nuc/ear Weapons, affiliatedwith the
Mobilization for Survivat. She is on the WRL
nationalcommittee.

Hiroshima Day 1977 was oneof the most
meaningful days of my life.. ln the past I dreaded
the day because of the guilt and horror that was
associated with it. Now I have learned from the
J apanese people that the day can mean not on ly a
remembrance of the terrifying destructio¡ and
death of 100,000 people, but also the acknowledgementthat life goes on. We have much to learn from
the Hibakushas who suffered through that holocaust and are si¡ll suffering. Hearing their personal
experiences gave me such hope for life and such
faith in the spirit of people, lt also convinced me
that our work against and education about nuclear
weapons and nuclear power are particularly
important at this time in history, especially with the
realityof the neutron bomb. Wecan affirm life,
have faith that people can change, and work toward

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of "Cate 3." ttwas about4 p.m. We satåown and
unpacked. Each of us had carried provisions for
several days-a gallon of water, food, bedding.
"tt is amazing howeasythis is," an occupier
jotted in a notebook later that afternoon. "lt's just a
matter of hard work, and getting more centered,
and taking life more

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It f irst seeméd like a possible but diff icult dream
to occupy an operating nuclear power plant for the
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Several people began meeting about the possibility in late J une in Portland, Oregon, 40 miles
southeast of the Trojan nuke along the Columbia
River. We decided to go ahead, uncertain of the
numbers that would be blocking the gates on
Hiroshima Day, but certain that itwas a necessary
step.
We stopped asking people what they thought of
the idea, and publicly announced in early J uly that
it was going to happen August 6-a nonviolent
occupation of Trojan in an effort to bring about
immediate and permanent shutdown of the 1,130
magawatt nuclear plant which every year produces
32 tons of radioactive waste, including 600 pounds
òf plutonium. Forty people showed uþ at the next
weekly meet¡ng; when someone asked how many
intended to occupy August 6, most people raiseci
their hands.
Several weeks of intense organizing followed:
10,000 leaf lets distributed throughout the Pacif ic
Northwest, nonviolence train ing workshops, educational outreach, media interviews, formation of
aff inity groups (attendance of at least one nonviolence workshop was required for occupiers), and
many hundreds of logistical details. Soon several
hundred people were i nvolved i n active organ izi ng.
At one meeting a spontaneously mimeod sheet

quoting Mahatma Candhi madethe rounds: "One
has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions.
Inaction at atimeof conflagration is inexcusable."
And, "We are daily paying the heavy price forthe
unconscious mistake we made in mistaking passive
resistancg for nonviolent resistance. "

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dubbed' 'Cate-l ."Others turned right, walked
" recreation area" and settled in front

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A meeting of the nrinds- Portland CE company, State Police and an anti-nuke
occup¡er. Arrests were ¡n progress at the time.

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so we set about trying to meet our needs as a
commun ity of 90 people: basic phys ical comfort,
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The aff inity group structure generallv seemed to
workingwell, although problegrs beóame evident with long spokes meetings antJ absence of
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plans for certain contingencies. There were 13
f i n ity_g rou ps averag i n g about seven occu pi ers
each-Silkwood, Sunshine, and Trojan Herse
aff inity groups shared the main gate-and at times
issues were raised fairly quickly, discussed in
aff inity groups and brought back to spokes
meeti n gs for consensus decisions. I n th is way, for
instance, we decided to re-aff irm what had been a
somewhat vague assumption for rnany occupiersthat wè would let vehicles out through the gates
(while of course not letting any in). As several state
police cars exited the main gate Saturday night, we
sang "This land is your land" as they drove by.
We also decided on what structures would be OK
to build (shieldine the sun, but not acting as barricades), and "strongly discouraged" occupiers
frorn swimming. A few hours after arriving, two
affinity groups moved to cover afourth gate that
served as a railroad entrance through the fence.
On Sunday we arrived at contingency plans so
that if arrests were concentrated at one gateaf

which is what eventually happened-aff inity
groups from other gates would immediately move
to the gate where arrests had begun. Sunday afternoon we held workshops on nuclear power, nonviolence, alternative energy sources and yoga.
Publicly Portland Ceneral Electric Company,
which operates Trojan, was saying they wanted to
avoid a conf rontation. PCE and National Guard
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Occupiers gathered at a staging_area two miles
f rom the Trojan plant early Sãturday afternoon. Off
in the distance as we walked alqng the highway
shoulder was the cooling tower, its steam plume
rising toward the sky. Mostly we walked in silence.
As we neared the turnoff onto Portland Ceneräl
Electric Company's property, we could see the 600
people at the support rally f illing the parking lot of
the Trojan Visitors lnformation Center- informally
dubbed the Misinformation Center, closed today
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Norman Solomon is aWIN correspondentin the
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because of our action. Everyone who later talked
about those moments spokó of imm"ni" ,piiti¡r,g
feelrngs as occupiers.walked by the srppoiì r.ullv]
al ot us cheering each other.
The cheers faded and we were walkin g up the
narrow road , bounded by small, artif icial lakes
on
each side ; ín less than a quarter-mile we were
standing i n front of the main gate. Some aff in ity
groups moved to the I eft to cover what we had

As the second dawn broke forìrs at the base of the
500-foot cooling tower, we packed up our
belongings in the semi-darkness and sat down once

again. R't S:S0 a.m., 4Ominutes afterthe first
wãrn i n g, the truck carryi ng f loodl ghts returned
along wìth the loudspeakered voice warning us to
leave. At 6 a. m . state troopers formed in tines on
the other side of the fence.
We sang "We shall not be movedl'and "We
shall overõme" as we.sat in front of the gates. The
main gate opened, and troopers began dragging
people away, so that tlte largest operating nuclear
power plant in the U.5. coulcl continue its production of deadlv nuclear waste'
Sitt¡ne oñ bJl¡Ce buses whilethe on-site booking
i

Oc€up¡ers await on-siie booking

was completed, we watched vehicles entering
through plant gates for the f irst time in 40 hoürs: a
liquif ied gas truck, a maintenance truck and dozens
of cars f illedwith plant employees returning tò

work.
E ghty-two ot
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About 15 hours after our arrests for "criminal trespass," all B2 occupiers weie released at the same
time; we had maintained that none of us would
leave jail untilwe could all leave together. Seventy.
five people were letouton ',personãl recognizance,". and the other seven (from out-of-s1ate)
were released on $30 each for bail. We ail oteaded
not guilty and chose jurytrials, which are '
scheduled to begin óctóber2O. We intend to put
nuclear poweron trial.
.The next occuþation of the Trojan nuclear plant
wrtttmpp_eì the day after Thanksgiving- Novem_
ber25; 1977 .TheÏrojan Decommissioning Alliance (headquartered at215 SE gth Avenuõ,
Portland, Oregon 97214) is continuing proiesses of
nte.rnal group communication, outreach, media
contact, research, community èducation, nonvrolence training workshops and logistical brainstorming.
For so long now, the nuclear menace has caused
us anguish and anger and despair. Our hope is in
realrzrn^g that to do nothing is the greatestiisk of
all. As Candhi said, ,,Thelutureñilldependon
what we do in the present.,,
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18.435 ballots

plan to gradually withdraw US
troops from Korea over the next
f ive years has drawn a pledge of
support f rom 105 leading public
interest and religious f igures. ln a
letter presented by spokespersons
for the Coalition for A New Foreign
and MiIitary Policy to Administra-

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Ñ4eanwhile, out in Los Angeles,

ifornia, 300 women, reprea coalition of grouPs, have
oicketed the California Court of
nppeals in protest of a recently
handed-down court decision
overturning a guilty verdict on the
rape of a woman hitchh¡ker. J udge
Lvnn D. ComPton wrote, "lt maY
not speak well of the prevailing
standard of morality in society, but
women hitchhikers should anticiÁw,uur
pate sexual advances from men
who pickthem up." The decision
\*\--has led to a storm of protest from
groups and individuals who assert
that this decision declares open r i
season on women hitchhikers and
willencourage rapists. Moves are
presently underway to organize a
recall election similar to that in
Madison spearheaded by local

Cal

senting

S
SHOWDOWN ON THE
NEUTRON BOMB

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Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU
has charged that the mass roundup by police of demonstrators
during the Mayday demonstrations resulted in thousands of false
imprisonments, unnecessary
beatings, and violations of freedom of eipressí9n.
Under the original order, each
demonstrator was to be awarded

finally succeeded in evicting the
tenants, the commercial press has
for the mbst part presented the
President Carter is scheduled to
eviction as if "this is theênd of the
announce his decision as to
story. " But the evicted tenantswhether to deploy the neutron
mostof them retired Filipinôand
bomb in the next couple of weeks.
Chinese farm workers and sea
A relatively small, low yield
men-along with their supporters,
wêapon, the neutron bomb is deare still f ighting as if they mean to'
signed to kill persons by intense
win.
neutron radiation while causing
Over 1000 people demonstrated
minimum damage to buildings and $7500 in damages.
The ACLU rèports that out of an
in San Francisco's Chinatown
property. Whi le other weapons,
estimateó1200 protesters
August 6, two days after the evicsuch as the Trident submarine or
originally arrested by police, it has tion, with the demand to "Roll
cruise missile are at least as
identif ied about 970 persons who
Back Eviction, Stop the
sinister, the neutron bomb is parshould
be entitled to damage payDemolition. i' And the following
ticularly dangerous since it is tactical and more easily used and thus ments. -Straight Creek Journal Monday a group of.tenants and
supporters demanded that the citv
lowers the threshold for nuclear
EVICTED INTERNAT¡ONAI
buy the hotel and so save it for the
war.
HOTELTENANTSAND
tenants.
Act todayl Write President
SUPPORTERS CONTINUE
The spirit of resistance in the
Carter and urge that he reject deRESISTANCE
ployment of the neutron bomb and
wake of the long-threatened eviction was expressed byoneoract to put the brakes on the
Elderly tenants of San Francisco,s
spiralling runaway arms race.
lnternational Hotel, located on the' gan izer's descri ption.of the event:
'lMembers of theAsian ComWrite youi people in Washington
edge of the city's Chinatown, were
munity
Center, which occupies the
and urge that they support thé
bodily removed from their hómes
basement of the Hotel, werb some
Weiss Amendment to delete funds
by citypolice Au,gust 4, but on ly
of the last to be evicteci, ihelr fort¡for the neutron bomb f rom the
after 300-400 police were beateh
fications were so strong. When
budget.
-Newsdesk back f ive times by 2,000 suppolice f inally got them óut, thev
porters who stood four-deep with
held their heads high-becausb
arms linked.
COURT UPHOLDS
they're still going to fight.,,
The tenants' struggle to remain
MAYDAYCHALLENGE
in the Hotel has become the focus
-LNS
The Federal Court of Appeals in
of poor and minority communíties,
demand for housinÈ, as welt as a
Washington has upheld a lower
WOMAN LAWYER DEFEATS
symbol of reslstancC. their f ight
court decision, awarding damages
SEX|STJUDGE
tN MADTSON
to an estimated 1200 demonþ"qu.n nine years ago, when tñe
building was condemned and three ln the f irst judicial recalt election ín
strators who were arrested,
beaten, or detained by police on
tenants killed in an arson fire
Wisconsin history, Moria Krueger
the steps of the US Capitol during
started by the landlord.
defeated J udge Aichie SimonsoTn
.anti-war
The building's present owner.
" Mayday" demonstrain a special vote on September 7.
the Bangkok.based Four Seas
tions in 1971.
Simonson had come under f ire for
I nvestment Corporation, wants to
The appeals court, however,,
suggesting from the bench that a
have the building demolished and
ruled that the esti.mated $12 milteenage boy was reacting ',nor"develop" the property for its own mally" to an atmosphere of sexual
lion in damages which had been
purposes.
awarded by the jury after the
permissiveness when he particiThrough'the spring and summer pated.in asexualassault in a high
original trial two years ago, was
too high. The three-member apthe battle between the corporation
school stairwell. Outraged citi-peals panel has ordered the lower
and the approximately 30 i-Hoiài
zens led by feminist groups coltenants and thousands of supcourt to reconsider the amount of
lected enough signatures to force a
porters has been intensifyirig in a
damages to be paid.
recallelection. Mrs. Krueger, the
see-sawof eviction notices and
The decision was handed down
gnlV.wopan in the six-person race,
resistance rallies.
in a case resulting from a class-acf inished f irst with 27 ,244votes
Now that the corporation has
tion suit f iled by the American
with J udge Simonsoñ drawing
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1977

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feminists.

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tion off icials, the signers praised
Carter's plan to withdraw the
troops and also urged the removal
of all American nuclear.weapons
from South Korea and more Administration support for human
rights and civil liberties under fire
by the repressive reþime of President Park. Activists have sought in

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recent weèks to cut the amount of
economic and military assistance
to South Korea, albeit unsuccessfully, and have objected to Presi- i
dent Carter's promises of
increased US military aid to
assauge the opPosition in South
Korea and the US Congress to his
trooP withdrawal Plan 'Newsdesk

Newsdesk

PUERTORICAN ACTIVISTS
JAILED IN FALN PROBE
On Monday, August22, three'
more activists in the Puerto Rican

independence movement were
jailed on contempt charges for
their ref usal to testify before a
grand jury investigating the

FALN, an organization promoting
Puerto Rican i ndependence
through armed struggle. The
FALN claimed responsibi I ity for
two bombs which exploded in midtown Manhattan in August, killing
one person and injuring several
others. The contempt citations on
the 22nd brought to six the number

of Puerto Rican nationalist
activists jailed this year as the FBI
and other federal government
agencies have sought to tag all
such activists as terrorists and

harass their efforts against American domination of Puerto Rico.
Those cited añd ja¡led for contempt
have asserted that their only crime
is "upholding the dignity of

humanity; the rights of nations to
be independent, and the human
rights of people to think and
associate f reely.

"

MAYBE JOHN DENVER
IS BEHIND IT
WHEN THEOUTSGET ¡N
Former anti-war leader Sam
Brown has taken liis own steps
agai nst government bureaucracy.
Brown, nowthe direction of
ACTION, the agency which oversees the Peace Corps, was dismayed recently when he saw the
lobby of the building where
ACTION is located.
The Lobby contai ned ropes and

barriers to cordon off the public
and a guard behind a detrk.
Brown asked why the ròpes and
the guards were necessary.
He was told they were there to
keep "them" out, and that "they"
had tried to take over the building
in the past.

Brown

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m

mediately ordered the

ropes and guards eliminated. He

explained by saying that "'they'
are now in charge around here."

Zodiac News Service

- Newsdesk and
Grand ury Project
J

TheCity of Aspen has risen to new
heights in advancing its hippierthan-thou image. The latest aspect
of modern life to get the Aspen
touch is the lowly parking ticket.
Last month, the Aspen Police
Force began issuing mellow.discussions of the parking situation in
the town in place of the traditional
ticket. The chatty warnings, used
on lyfor out-of-town veh icleb,
noted that the car was parked illegally, " l , as a Poli'ce Off icer, "
the notice said, '1can give you a
ticket. . . but let's try something

different-

a location.

"The only way we're going to
get rid of the problem, " the Aspen
citation concluded, "is for all of us'
to work. . I am taking the f irst
step, and àm asking you to take the
second. ltwill work if we both try.
"Cive it a chance, okay? Have a
nice

CARTER'S KOREA IN ITIATIVES
BACKED BYf 05 PUBLIC
INTEREST LEADERS
Presf dent

Carter's controversial

"

some comm un ication.
The offender was thèn asked to try
parking in an unmetered location
and the warning notice suggested

day."

lf this approach doesn't work,
we suggest that Aspen import half
a dozen Denver meter maids to
exterm i nate the offenders .
The Straight Creek J ournal

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contact: Free Universi ty Network,
615 Fairchild Terrace, Manhattan
s 66502, (913) s32-5866

MEMPHtS, TN - PAX CHRtSTi
USA National Conference at the
Memphis Sheraton lnn, November
4-6. The theme will be "Nonviolence in aViolentWorld." For
more information, contact: Eileen
Egan, 426 E. 77th St'., New york
City 10021, (212) 838-4700.
BOSTON, MA- Speaker: REp.
ELAINE NOBLE at11AM, Sunday, September 25 at Morse Audi-

torium, 602 Commonwealth Ave.
The topic is "Human Rights and
the Role of the Church."Sponsored by The Community Church
of Boston.
ll

BURLINCTON, VT- Films for
Change Series presents "The Last
Resort," the Seabrook occupation
documentary, at I pm on Wednesday, September 28 at 90 Main St.
in Burlington, Admission: $1.25.
For more information, call
802-862-4929.

CAMBRIDGT, MA- Speaker:
Murray Bookch.in on "Ecology,
Organization, and Freedom," on
September30, I p.m, atMlT-105
Massachusetts,fve., Bui lding 9,
Room 150 in Cambridge. Sponsored bythe Black Rose Lecture
Series, for more info, call:617-

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547-5513.

CHICAGO, lL- Feminist
musician Holly Near & Mary Watkins in concert at 8 pm, Sept'ember
30, at The Peoples Church, 941W.
Laurence, Chicago. Admíssion is
$3 (in advance) or $4 (at the door).
Sponsored by Blazing Star. For
more information, call 342-2398.
CHICAGO, lL Chicagp area
Clergy and Laity Concerned Annual Dinner, with featured speaker
Sam Brown, antiwar activist and
director of ACTION. To be held on
Sunday, October 16 at6pm at St.
J ames Episcopal Church, 65 E.
Huron, Chicago. For more information contact Ch ic ago CALC, 542
S. Dearborn, Chicago, lL 60605.
Phone 312-922-8234.

DEKALB, lL-The Fifth Annual
National Free University Conferencewill be held'in DeKalb,
October2l-23 at Northern lllinois
University. For more information,
18

WIN Sept. 22,

NYC- "Attica Remembered:
What the Prison lssues Are

Today," a panel discussion at 8
pm, Tuesday, Sept. 2Oat4}
Wash i ngton Square South,
Vanderbilt Hall-NYU, Room 110.

Sponsored by New York University
School of Law.

NYC-Annual Cuardian picnic on
Sunday, September'18 at Arrow

Park in Monroe, NY. Workshops,
sports, etc. Tickets $4. Fortransportation & other information, call
691-0404.

NYC-People's Free Film Series:
"Carnpaign '68, American Style,,
and "Modern Times,', on
W9!19s{ay, September2l atB pm
at339 Lafayette Street, NyC. Admission is free. Sponsored by
Freespace Alternate U n iveri ity.
For more information, call

228-0322.

NYC Speaker: Attorney Fred
Cohn on "ls There J ustice in
fmerica?" at8:15 pm on Fridqy,
September23 at Freespace :''

Alternate U, 339 Lafayette St.
NYC

- Cospel Benef it Concert for
Clergy & Laity Concerned
on

Saturday, September 2 4 at7 :3O om
at St. Paul and St. Andrew Un¡ted
Methodist Church in New york

City. For more information,
Sgllaç!, ç4LC, 198 Broadway,
NYC 1 0038 (212) 964-67 30.

OKLAHOMA CtTy, OK Second
Annual "Celebration of Nonviolence" on Sunday, October2 at
2 pm at Prairie Lady Music Hall,
1817 NW 39th St., Oklahoma City.
Sponsored by Community of J ohn
XXlll, 19 NW 16th St., Oklahoma
City

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3103, (405) 239-2023.

PHILADELPHIA

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pA-Meeting

of Philadelphia War Tax Resis-

tance/War Resisters League on

Monday) September 19 afZ:30 pm
at J ack Malinowski's, 606 W.

Upsal, Phi ladelphi a, CEB-2334.

PUTNEY, VT

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Clamshell Allíance

Fall Conference on Saturday and
Sunday, September 17-18 ai
Windham College in putney. Antinuke workshops, discussions,t
planning. For more information,
contact: Southeast Vermont Clam,

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(802)2s7-0072.

ST. PAUL, MN-Four-day
Training Program in Nonviolent
Social Change from September2lOctober 2 at the Twin Cities
Friends Meetinghouse in St. paul.
Sponsored by Plowshare Network
Organizing Committee. For more
information, contact: Nancy
Okerlund 612-825-8644.

SAVANNAH, GA Southeast
Movement for a New Society
gätheri n g on Septemb er 23-25 in
Savannah. For further information, contact: Mark Reeve, 512

LOOSECHANGE
Sara Davidson

Doubleday /1977 /$9.50

Maupas Ave., Savannah, CA
31401.

UT¡CA-ROME, NY i Org anizational meeting of area people
interested in forming a Mobilization for Survival group will be held
on October 1. For more information, contact: Barbara Stanford
(31s)797-4677.

WASHINGTON, DC Counter
Recruting Conference- on September 16-18 at the William Fenn
House,515 E. Capitol. Sponsored
by AFSC, Friends Peace Committee, CCCO and others. For more
information, contact Friends
Peace Com m ittee 2 15-241 -7 23O.

WASHINCTON, DC Episcopal
Peace Fellowship conference on
Nuclear Disarmament on October
1 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
Agenda includes presentations on
SALT Talks, moral theology and
nuclear war, the B-1 campâign and
resistance to nuclear war. Open to
non-Episcopal ians. For more
information contact Dana Crubb,
16600 South Westland Drive,
Caithersburg, Maryland 207 60.
WHEATON, lL- Rev. Al Schmidlein will speak on agrarian
socialism and his work in Tanzania
with President J ulius Nyerere on
Friday, September 23 at I pm at
1O7 W .lndiana, Wheaton. Sponsored by Peace & J ustice Center.
For more information, call:
682-3844.

ln the 1950's Rona J affe cornered the market on
books.a.bout young women. She wrote eminently

readable stories that evoked the correct mixture of
tears and laugllter, They crescèndoed, usualli with
the help of weddinþ bells, to a happy ending fór all the
characters whose high moral standards meiited them
such.
Then about ten years later, a new crop of women
writers began telling stories. These, however, concentrated almost solely on J ewesses and fucussed inward on the characters: instead of simply recounting
their activities in an interesting way, they described
their angst, aggravation, and anger in the kind of f ull
blown detail which makes the reader reach for a
Valium along with the heroines. The 60's novelswritten by Kaufman, Could, Roiphe, etal-dealtwith
the traumas of living the American dream as J affee
saw it and wished iton hercharacters. ln New York
Magazine Elin Schoen christenedthem JAWN-the
Jewish American Woman's novel. Though mostof
the books were not satirical enough to be taken as
serious social commentary, too f lip to even expose a
social problem, and too badlywritten to provoke
extensive analysis, they did earn a whole lot of money
for some women. Otherwise these hooef ul writers
would have been grinding out Gothici or, worse yet,
spending even more time on their osvch iatrists'
couches, regaling him (Codforbidanvof them should
trust a woman with their mishueos)
" with thetales no
book companY would Publish.
TheTO's brought forth a new and vounger wave of
women novelists, many published aé a relult of the
feminist publishing companies that cropped up to
give another sounding voice a chance to 6e heard.
Wendy Schwartz is a menlber of the Wln editorial
board who frequently reviews books. for Wt N. Sheiust
got a dog. Henry.Bass is tn u.onãä,¡ li¡r¡ns in Boston
who just movecl tnto a new /rouse.

These writers dealt honestly with their conf usions and
contradictions, producing books whose literary value
was subordinate to their cathartic effect on readers.
Marge Piercy, one of the few such writers commercially published, epitomized the mode with
SmallChanges, an epoch which traces the awakening
of several women (and men) to the women's movement. Piercy's is a brilliant, if f lawed, book which not

only offers support to struggling feminists, but
demonstrates mass marketabilityof a more erudite
genre.
Then along came Sara Davidson. A fairly good
feature writer for some respectable rad-ch ic magazines and a co.mpetent evaluator of social currents,
she realized that the public was ready for an amalgam
of the above-described genres, neatly blended in ã
Cuisinartfor maximum digestibility (and sales). Thus
we have Loose Change, the story of "three wòmen of
the sixties." They are J ewish native Californians, attending Berkeley immediately before the dawning of
the Free Speech Movement, free of f inancial worries
and attractive enough to never lack male companionship. They are based on actualwomen-Davidson
herself and two classmates-with details supposedly
changed only to protect privacy. Each conveniently'
chose a different path to follow so most readers could
identify with at least one of them.
. Tasha remained the straightest. She parlayed her
knowledge of art into a lucralive career in the jetset
w.orld of New York's Upper East Side gallerieS. And
she capitalized on her exceptional bea-uty to win a
string of attractive and creative lovers who
occasionally were loved by her as much as her dog
was. Tasha's portrait is the most shallowly drawn,
either a f unction of her personality or because Davidson is no more able to cope with such obvious
privilegethan am L sufficeto saythat Tasha got all
she wanted, once she f igured out what it was, with
nardly a ruff ling of her waist-length natural white-

blond'hair.
Súsie is the radical among the three, converted
overnight by,)eÍÍ, a charismatic campus leader. He
ta.ught her the antiwar and anticapitálist slogans
wh ich she trucked out during her intervie* ñitt'
Davidson to demonstrate aliunderstanding of the

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values that governed her life' susie married
J.eff in a
friends? lf so, notonly has she betrayedthat which
traditional ceremonv and reception, atienããá by;;r";r-i; ¿rå; ;bärt ;tJi ,iåi, jor.nurism. but
she had
tivesandfreaks.thatcrystati.b¿tnéòneo¡ng. '
äÈ";"1àlår-ålî;ä;öbackwardasweil.forifthe
dichotomv of her life ' wh¡lé r"urðriu¡"Ë to
's
J"eff
i;;;"r deals.with feelingi, the latter at least does not
ever-developing politics and increasing"comm.itment
.ãïäi rp truths.
to movement work, she tried to establish a middle- -"
iÀ
h"l" marriage to Michael becomes
class home, become a good mothàiiätheir son, and
"¡thàriärä,
rasciÀating
to
the
rËaåJr, ä, *" search f utilelv for its
'råÈän
sublimate a growing awareness or co.pietð f ri;ià'ity
¿;uîrå.,v¡.r,äìjïåJa weil-known FM áisc
that had characteriied her sexual t"iuiiãnrñip;ilh-'
in New yoik, onå-oitl.," breed who propered
Ë¿"ó
'rãnììiiu¡tv into asàíeãblãu.t
J eff f rom the time he def lowered her. When ihe
torr. His
finally left J eff, for all the reasons *r,i.r, t'rãu" bioken
Ë't*""" l".oi¿iãnãiãrÃ"..,"rs weremonologues
personal
up so manv ' 'ideal" movement marriages, susie anà
ãà'råiìlrv.r.rosen to
jrü ihËiiäñiååî,]il,'åi and
son returned to momm ie for some morã nurturing and
"uok" too much of the raconteur.
iJålinc_ *¡tl"rout exposing
f inancial securitv lf she and her parenis
h;ü;y?ä;
wi""i
was 20, li¡Ëd i;;t;;ing to him. Sara, though
diff icu lties becaúse of hei .ãaìãuiöåiiiic"s, they
iå"ài"l years older than t, also responded to.h is
remain unchronicled' similarly, her growing number
iãÅìii¡"itv- "psychological perception,, she called
of sexualescapades, asearchiáþfor6othorgasmand
it. Ã"¡snãrouñã'tËut;!åï . .hadaradicallydifrespite from loneliness, got only mild ,"p.-ãã¡, iiori;*"t
texture', from her past experiences, an
her parents who bankroli-ed them u"ã *å1.ornäa ñå.
oÏ#ruution
she went on to graphically substantiate.
back when she grew tired of the latesì mån. Despitã
suiu.ãu¡J¡,äirl spa.ea readers the
ir-Jo-bel¡eve
all of susie's seemingly thoughtless rutà-otp-tiËiãr,
ääñotion
of
lre," ¡nitìãiion ¡nto orul sex.)
""îïå;iñäiriáå'oii'iiåiïi,
it is she who emergeias the rñost directea anJir,ã--'
Michaet were his
most comm itted fem in ist' Perhaps it took all thã wilo n
urnârou,
experimenting to create a sense of purpose w¡thin hér ouibrrsts, eccentricities and a proclivity for violent
onu.öuiJänli'åescribe life with him as
and a selr-respect that doesn't n"eà a'i.'";;,t il;;;;h-'
ti;i;;";ibõ
äiu'iãtiiîä',}oi.uno. sti¡, sara pressured
ment. As.the.chapteron Susie conclucles, she ishi;
å
workinjrà ir,åJrîr,'iri"iãf";,;h" ñ;J]iiLpa,.ine
medical school, getting involved with'á-män whõ
refrsàd t" ¡;i,itã h;"r"p*Ëitar. o" her wedding day
respects her f reedom, and is h igh on the
särã *as afraid of two th ings: that Michael would run
accomólishmentsof thelastdecade. sheisa*otun'*hoñ;lJ ' õri¡rhenoticed*åt¡'uir,å?.dresserhadcutöff
"
-more
doRonaJaffeproudl
Ëä¡r'tr,unvi.rtãäir,äåäniîun.uahewoutdallow.and
lr rasha and susie embodv the extreme or.womenvi.r'uui*ã;iil4il;î;jiä $#ËälËliåiil,
growth in the 60's-70's, then Sara ref lects tr,e m iaãie
ËåTiå t" 1 ,,lunatii.;, iñä Juor"quent f ights, extraSexually liberated, career-oriented, chicly.rad.icSì,
Ã*iiä¡ affairs, separations and reconciliations, and
she seeks the f reedom of the " newi;;;; " white'
divorce are lively if painful to read. ls it too
retain ing what was best for the "old woman. "
"it¡Åãt" suggest thai ã gooa
ãiiågãntto
rule of th umb is that
lhus ðne irrorla
she uses her attractiveness to land good jãb assignnot marry an.'añ who calls a woman a¡
ments and get good interviews, drifrts f róm man to
cond"sceñd¡;ä;;;i;
ä. ä"i'l being too arbitrary?
-'Çr"å
man until she f inds one she can,t dominate and
Davidson,s writing is at times too precious:
märrieshim' lt'svaguelyevidentwhyirrétä["r."r- rr,ãä¿optrthespeakingslyleofthepersonshe,s
tain career steps, though cod knows how she can jus- ;;it;"g
äoout,
her characters, points
tify writing some of the pseudo-sociologicãl drì;;ih;r ilh';å"Lgrammar
"it;;'b;;iing
or jarring colloquialisms and
editorsthriveon, andstillmaintain heåvowed
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allegiancetothemovement' lnfact,oneof themost ð¡,îìììr.i¿buthasapenchantforclichesofthe60s
telling segments of the book is an aécount oisuiu;i' ãnà
irnitution.of the most pedestrian of the singer_
meetings with some Boston feminists. she is intenton ionÇw¡i1e¡s.
Her bãó[mðve*s quickly, however, and t
doing an article for Life about the burgeoning
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women's movement, and they are beñt on exþosing was anx¡ous
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terrif ied of havins th-e holes ¡n trt"iiriãáii" n"*
and partneiq'th" e¡. ilri,äp, I was looking simply for
identities exposed, The resulting articlä satiified no tË"
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oneexcepttheeditors:rhefeministsfeetexptpited irJr:iiìilãii¡g;.;yËntãrr"ìàt"Hollywood.
and sara th inksshe copped out bv omitting iþã;ãr
'ü;eiär, that the last page contained little tfound,
more than
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_ Wendy Schwartz
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wanting their less-than-athletically gifted kids to
play, saying, "That's not what Pop Warner is all
about. The kids want to win, too, and if you play
everybody and keep losing its demoralizing."
Surveys of the kids, however, show that they are
not so hung-up on winning. One study öf Pop Warner
football players showed that almost three-quarters of
them would rather see action with a losing team than
sit on the bench with a winner. And I would not be
surprised if lots of those who voted for the bench were
not-kids who knowfrom personal experience what its

lffii'.ït

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ball'.'anä'Ëäp Warner football have become little more
thil iË;Ïrsi runss in a-farm system of big time
athi.ii;;.

No sport is left unaffected; some com-

mrn¡iiãr even'have highly comPetitive ice hockey

leagues and swimming tournaments for four and f ive
year olds '
With the exception of theteaching of math'the
greatest failure of American education is perhaps
teach ing.kids sports. Sports ought to be a joy but
many kids develop a life long aversion tothem
becauseof the uptight, hyper-competitive way they
are taught by schools, little leagues, and overeager parents. Bill Musselman, former University of
Minnesota basketball coach, poste/ this message
over his team's shower entrance: "defeat is worse
than death because you haveto live with defeat."
Tutko and Burns show how this attitude has f iltered
all the way down to the ¡ire-school level. They back up
their argument with numerous quotations such as the
comment of a Queens County Little League off icial
who boasted, "This.is not an instructional league.
We're here to win."
Little League off icials even put winning above the
safety of the kids,. ln the late 1960's Dr. J oel Adams
studied the x-rays oÍ 162 baseball players between the
ages of nine and 14. All 80 pitchers, plus a few
catchers, showed some evidence of injuryto the
growth line of the elbow. To reduce the incidence of

like to spend whole games on the berich.
Despite the generally grim picture there are some
people working to put the f un back in kids' sports. Bdb
Cupp, who coaches a kids footballteam near Palm
Beach, Florida has adopted rules assuring that every
player gets to play part of every quarter. Positions
rotáte so all youngsters get a shot at a ball handling
position and everyone takes a turn as an interior lineman. Most revolutionary of all Cupp advocates more
games and fewer practices. On this Cupp said:
"(Kids) should be playing more and practicing
less, . . . playingthreèorfour games aweek insteadof
seven or eight a season. Practicing one-on-one,
hitting dummies-that's a drag. A kid wants to play.
Lord knows he's going to f ind less time for it later

on."

"Little Leagueelbow" Dr. Adams recommended
rules changes such as changing the method of
pitching or limiting pitchers totwo inningS per game,
butthe recommendations have been generally

ignored.
Perhaps the greatest harm done by kids' sports
programs is the psychological hurt to the poor kids
who are always lefton the bench bythe "winning is
everything" attitude. A Pop Warner football coach in
Los Angeles recently used only his best players in a
game and still lost. Afterwards he was confronted by
an angry group of parentç whose kids had not played.
ln an interviewwith LosAngeles magazine he
defended himself arrd attacked the parents for

.

Unfortunately, there are forminable obstacles to
ieform. H igh school coaches, whose.iobs depend on
winning, have come to use Little League and Pop
Warner as their farm system. With some justification
parents worry that if their kids do not start sports at
this level they will never catch up in high school. Kids
whose parents aren't pushing them get sucked in be-.
t
cause their f riends are playing
or beãause they

feel

they have to if they are going to haVe a chance to play
sports in high school.
Also, trying to reform kids' sports is a little like
trying to reforin the American Legion. Most radicals
and liberals wouldn't be caught dead at a Little
League rfreeting. The pricetheir kids may payforthis

lackof involvementcould be high. lf you wantto see
how serious the problem is read Winning is Everything. lt is calm and well researched and quite dis-

turbing.

-Henry

Bass

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on herselt, despite vears.of analysis the other women ln
winning is Everything Thomas Tutko, professor of
did not so throueh. or is it that sara choiè to k;;ö
at san J ose state, and wi¡iam Burns.
;;;;h;j;sy
herself h idden wh ile exposing the toiulesãi rreiio"iÀäi rports editor of Llfe, show how sports for kids

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