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The article by Alan Tuttle and Bill Moyer
on Overcoming Male Domination in the
Movement IWIN, 11l10/77] was
superb. The article really hits the nail on
the head and echos my feelings. The
Movement and our society at large really
need positive, loving, courageous male
models as Alan and Bill provide.
Sexism and male domination can be
hard to see or face for many men. Butthe
time has come for a major èmphasis on
overcoming male power. So many of the
failures in radical groups and the Left
movement have been directly caused by
unaware males, dominating group
process and being unwilling to examlne
their oppressive behavior.
Just as I hope that no male \{IN
readers would knowingly use nuclear
power or act out of white racial power-I
urge these same radicals to rid themselves of male power,
Alan and Bill clearly outline the steps
men need to take to move awav from culturally induced oppressive befiavior.
Please-all men reading this letter,
examine your role within groups, in your
relationships to men and women and$o

your self. Seek support from other men,
form support grouþs within your radical
caucus and get in touch with all your
wonderful loving

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We are in the process of producing a
booklet on the nonviolent occupations of
Seabrook nuclear power plant site, using
a lot of WIN material for it and hope that
is all right with you.
I am following all the discussions on
Seabrook and the armories very closely
as I want to include evaluationð in the
booklet as well.
As we nonviolent people here have
difficulties in putting our case to most
people of the left, e.g. the various communist groups who rather believe nonviolence to be a burden, I would appreciate reactions to Seabrook by Marxist and
similar groups in the USA.
Some months ago you printed my
article on the anti-nukes village of
Grohnde which by now has been dissolved by the police. I feel I o*'e you
another report at least on that part, and
will try to do so, but not for anoìher three
to fïve weeks I fear. The new trick by
authorities is to burden the demonstrators and occupiers ofsuch a site with the
costs ofthe police. So for Grohnde the
202 occupieis (when it was cleared'by
police) are to pay around 3-400 dollars
and in Brookdorfabout 1,800 dollars
each. That seems an efficient way to
break resistance in damaging peoples

lifelihood.
The 10th of Nov. was more or less
another black day in thp anti-nukes
movement. Trade unions arranged a

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I enjoyed

your article on Workers'

Cooperatives in the Novembor 24 issue.

With a commitmentto nonviolent social
and political change, I'm enclosing my
check for a l-year subscription to IVIN.
However, I share a certain reluctance
that WIN's internal Israeli coverage has

been much too skewered to the left-I
suggest that WIN look towards a more
representative left as a spokesperson for
Israel-specifically Llova Eliav, Meir
Peid, Mattitiyahu Peled, etc. "New
Outlook" provides a good view of

progressive Arab-Jewish cooperation
and problems. Please be responsible and
don't pretend that a non-Zionist Israeli is
at all a good indicator ofwhat's hap'
pening in Israel. I've just returnedfrom
a year'p study in Israel and have seen the
place that non-Zionists play in Israel-

it's terribly negligible.

_DAVIDMILISTEIN
Vonlco, Cr.

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Workers' co-ops can provide increased
employment, participatory democratic

decision-making in the workplace, and
equality of income through worker selfowned, self-managed industries and
services-it's an exciting conceptl
I'd like to refer peopljwho wánt more
information on this to The New H¡r.
blngor, AJoumelof the Cooperatlvo
Movement, Vol. IV, No. 3, which contains four articles, an editorial, and a
reading list on workers' co-ops. Some of
the info¡mation in the NewH¡rblnger
duplicates that in the WIN article, 6ut a
Iot is in more depth, including an article
on a Farmworkers'co-op in California
and one on necessary conditions for
workers' co-ops to flourish.
The New Harblnger is a quarterly
journal, and would no doubt be ofgreat

interest to \{IN readers who are into coops. A sample isSue costs $1.00, sub-

pro-nuclear demonstration. While
40,000 participants were announced the
papers oftoday did not carry numbers,
and radio-news-speakers díffered
between 20 arid 40,000. As the purpose
of the demonstration was to call for
securing enough workingplaces the
Kraftwerksunion e.g. agreed to pay
transportation of 5,000 of its workers

plus pocket money each. (Kraftwerksunionjust announced that they are to
deliver four more nukes to lran.)
A,lso, it became known behind the
scenes that the union, together with
Arbeitskreis Atomenergie (a new get
together of nukes-industry), are each
paying halfofthe costs ofthe rally in the
big stadium in Dortmund.
Not long ago the Executive ofthe
Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund had
demanded a limited stop of construction
work on nukes. This demand has now
been changed. They now call for
finishing all plants under construction.
And contrarv to some earlier tendencies
the FDP (Li6erals) decided this week
that we can not live without further
nuclear oower olants.

To all those fighting aboltion, I'd like to
have you'experience óne year (or a lesser
time., ifyou can't take it) of living and

working with these unwanted children
and youth, Go with them through the
courts and jails. Broken homes and
failure in class ¿nd on playground are a
real part oftheir lives. Ifthey are not
wanted at home they will likely have
trouble on the job too, gianted they were
given a chance at some low paying
employment.
In the news recently are many cases of
child beatings and wife abuse. These will
demand more of our attention-and

taxes-in

the near future. These are

happening right here in our midst-not
some far away state.
Further; when abortions are not permitted, then the "cheap expert" is i
sought, only to result in untold sufferirigf
and deâth of the mother, in a high
number ofcaseS. (Your double standard
is showing! Why doesn'tthe father

pay

in mind or matter, spiritor social
''þreslige? " )
If you are so against taking human life,
what did you do about our part in our
wars-and weapons manufacture and
sales? What are you doing about ROTC
coming into our schools?
I would hope that each anti-abortion
person (man orwoman) is ready and
willing to give the necessary time and
loving care to find or furnish a home for
the uhwanted children-who,are not
responsible for their condition in life.
Adopted children in a loved environment
have a great chance to succeed-even
may have.their own happy home, some-

Dec. 15, 1977

4. Retaking the Trojan Nuke
Norman Solomon

day.

Let's be consistent and stop claiming
Christianity until we pour gréater efforts
into protecting human life at all levels
and for all peoples.

GEO.D.WEYBRIGHT
Syracuse, Ind.

/ Vol. Xlll, No. 43

"Bizarre" at
Trojan / Johnny Baranski
11. Cray Panthers Hold National
Convention / Ruth Dear
12. Training for Nonviolent Action
9. Legal Proceedings

Peter K I otz-Ch am

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16. Changes'
19. Tax Talk
20. Reviews

/ Susan Wilkins
/ John Schuder &

Chip Sharpe

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Trolan lIuke
by Norman Solomon

f t,n" second occupation of the Troian nuclear
plant is any indicatio!, we can expect .,
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i st ication f
authorities in their attempts to cope with the
growth of an anti-nuclear movement that is willing
and able to resort to steadily-larger nonviolent civil
disobedience actions. Forthe movement, this indicates the need for ourcontingency planning to become more extensive, our nonviolence training
more thorough, and our realization more deeplyrooted that anti-nuclear occupations have erYrerged
as a serious threat to multi-billion-dollar investments.
The 123 arrests in front of Trojan's gates the day
after Thanksgiving came less than four months
afterthe f irst Trojan occupation, when 82 occupiers
were arrested after blocking the plant's gates for 38
hours. This time the occupying group was more
prepared, our planning more coordinated; but even
so, we had underestimated the secretive f lexibility
of the government, which was unwilling to keep its
strategy static as it watched our numbers growing'
The first hint that we would be facing tactical
innovations came in the morningf as we stood at
our staging area a half-mile from the plant
property. Cetting ready for the march toward
Trojan, we heard throügh our lawyers thatthe
Columbia County district attorney,was offering us a
deal: citations and assignment of court dates oÍr the
spot at Trojan. As we discussed the offer in aff inity.
groups and then at a spokes meeting, there was no
énthusiasm for agreeing to treat the occupation like
a traff ic violation - W¡th i n half an hour the 123
occupiers had reached a consensus: lVo. We were
therétooccupy, artd we would proceed as planned.
We walked onto the Trojan access road at about
noon,'and divided to cover the four gates ' A seveninch snow had covered the area three days
èarl ier- western Oregon's large5t snowstorm i n
nineyears-but no snow was left on the ground as
we sat in frontof the gates, We unpacked as a
drizzleturned into a medium rain.
same voice that had awakened
' An hour later, the was
now back over a loudoccupiers in August
personnel" to
"unauthorized
ordering
¡peaker,
leavethe premises. About40 minutes later, the
second war¡ing came, Then the lines of state
troopers, thls time clad in yellow raincoats and
rainhats, marched forward and began grabbing
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occupiers. Some walked with police; ôthers were
- dragged across the wet cement. There were a
numberof detours through rain puddles.
We were taken to a striped police tent, photographed, fingerprinted, handcuffed with use-once
othrow-away plastic bands (everyone was handcuffed th is time, in contrast to August when on ly
men were), and loadedontothreebuses: two
yellow school buses and a gray bus with a"CD"
emblem on its side. The gray bus registration card
said it was owned by the Civil Defense department
of a nearby county; presumably it would be used to
evacuate the ar'ea in case of a nuclear accident.
"We say no to nuclear power," occupiers sang
on the buses. "We wantto build a bettertomorrow.
/Wesaynotonuclearpower. / lt'sour lives, and
we say no."
Rolling through the countryside, the land
seemed beautiful, but sorrowf ul as it surrounded a
nuclear plant generating so much radioactive
waste (about 1 75 pounds every day) . Cows grazed
in pastures along the roadway; I thought about the
.new studies confirming that routine radioactive
emissions from nuclear plants are poisoning milk
,and causing increased cancer rates.

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Lasttimewehad beentakentoajail inthecounty¡

seat, St. Helen,s. Thistimethefirst partof the route
wa3 the same, but the drivers made a right turn and
took us through more farmland to the Columbia
County Fairgrounds, then through the barbed-

wire-topped fenceto

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building marked ".Fair

Pavilion."

Nortman Solomon is aWlN correspondent active in

lnside we found ourselves in a large eight-sided
room with cement floors and cement walls. lt was
easy to imagine bazaars, square dances, bake
sales, iattle shows, cat shows and the like. A
couple of dozen police were in the room; one of
them began cutting off our handcuffs. When the
last busload of occupiers emerged intq the room,
we applauded loudly, and chanted: "The Feople
United Will Never Be Defeated. "
The room felt spacious,'and our spirits were
high. Overhead, beaming down from the modern
church-style cone-shaped ceil ing, numerous
electric lamps sent down strong light. Some people
began playing volleyball with atied-up sweater,
taking turns being the netwith outstretched
arms. lt seèmed that we were going to be ableto
stay together, bask in oui unity, with those in position s of ' 'authority' ' forced to deal with us in 4
strai ghtforward manner. Th is turned out to be

the T roi an Decom m i ssion i ng Al

illusion

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Consensus amon g Trojan Decomm issionin g
Alliance affinity groups had previously come up
with positions on solidarity among occupiers once
arrested: "Noonewill leavethe jail unless we all
leave together, except in cases of personal need of
individuãl occupiers. Occupiers ref use to pay any
bail, with the option of changing the decision while
in jail. Occupiers will respect the right of any person who chooses to have bail posted."
Soon after arriving in the pavilion; occupíers reaffirmed those positions. lt had, after allthe
preparation, seemed like an easy occupation;
hardly enough time to get our feet wet'
Police askãd what would be our preference for
food. A good half-hour was consumed on th is
"issue,t in which time we decided we wanted to
eat food supplied by our support people, a request
which officials refused. We were asked if we wanted
chicken dinners, and they were sent in before we
had a chanceto formulate a group response' We
were f irst told that if we didn't take the food small boxes of Kentucky Fried Chicken -then it
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would be thrown away; later we were told anything
not taken by us would be given to others elsewhere'
We weretqid that whatever we didn't take within
ten minutes would be removed immediately; half
an hour latér the boxes of food were still sitting
there. Our energy was siphoned into discussing.
what stance to tãke on the offered food, proposals
for fasts, etc., when in retrospect there were far
more i mþortant th i n gs that needed to be d i scussed.
We were being lulled into a sense of security in
which we began to takethings more casually.
Soon after the dinner, we had an enlarged spokes
meeting attended by nearly all theoccupiers' lt was
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I ike the Kentucky Fried Ch icken dynam ic al
is
time.
th
ications
impl
serious
more
with
again,
Häving been informed of the possibi lity that we
could have a mass arraignment for all the occupiers
at once, we decided in favor of that idea; as soon as
we'd madeour decision, we learned that it was
irrelevant -the two county judges would be'arraign ing occupiers in side rooms off the pavi I ion in
groups of ten at a time.
, Oú,: sense of unity was very strong; our solidarity
þositions seemed very strong. We knew it was
quite likely that f irst-time occupiers with Oregon
addresses and there were over a h undred

occupiers in that category-would be offered per-

sonal recognizance. There was consensus on
refusing to sign any personal recognizance release
form untilthejudges would also release allthose
arrested - incl uding the seven second-time
occupiers and 13 out-of-state occupiers. Our
leverageon the situation seemed secure.
. And so it was hardly upsetting when the news

first cameoutof the initial arraignmentthat
second-time occupiers were being required to post
$500 in cash for bail to be released, and that out-ofstate occupiers were being required to put up $50
each. The state was putting our solidarity tò the
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test, and we felt sure it would hold. There was

lubilation.intheair'

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Suddenlythere was commotion next to one of the
exits in the Pavilion. Several statetroopers were
aggressively grabbing at a few people sitting on the
floor. ln contrastto the dragging of people away
from the plant gates earlier in the day;the
wrestling niotions of the police seemed to be swiftly
escalating
though the troopers were starting to

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attack selected individuals. .
Manyof the occupiers in the pavilion moved
toward the conf lict. An occupier suggested that we
get into aff in ity groups. A response insisted there
was no time for that, people were being dragged
out. Then someoneshouted "Sitdown!" ("ln any

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confrontation situation with 'authorities' it is
recommended that occupiers sit down," the Alli-

ancetraining handbook had said), and the
occupieri sat on the f loor.
Moments laterthe lights wentoff, and the huge
room went dark. There was a sense of freezing in
the tension; one unexpected event piled on
another, our situation suddenly feeling vulnerable.'
Spontaneously- in three months of planning sessions I þad never heard it suggested-a lbw chant
began filling the air: "OOOOOOOMMMMMM."
It seemed to steady the air. The chant faded out,
gradually softer. After perhaps 30 seconds of total
darkness (it felt much longer), the lights came on
partway; in the semi-lighttherewas an eerie,
irozen stillness, the unmoving figures of police
officers silhouetted against the bare walls. lncongruously, itwas as if we all were in atheaterat
the close of a scene, the house lights dimmedto reveal shadowed form with no detail, motionless.
When the lighis came backon, our immediate
situation became apparent-something noneof us
had seriously cdnsidered a real possibilityforcible eviction from incarceration as people
ref used to sign personal recognizance agreement
forms at arraignment. Meanwhilethe room was
filling up with state police. Within acbupleof
minutes there were 95 police troopers standing at
attention around the perimeter of the rooin, having
marched in with military prgcision, their rounded
wooden n ightsticks conspicuously strapped to their
sides.
The situation could have provided an interesting
backdrop for examining patterns of [iberalism Oregon after all has a reputation for being among
the most progressive states, and its governors in
the past few decades have been uniformly
characterized as liberals. But our immediate
interests were more than theoretical. Most of us
had the distinct impre5sion it was quite possible
that people would be beat up by the state's f inest'
The scenario, as I imagined it in one of my l:nore
" paranoid" and perhaps more astute moments,
cou I d run someth i n g I i ke th i s : Attem pts to evict
more people eligible for personal recognizance;

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lights going out again; people being clubbed; liehts
go¡ng õn wfuh bloodied people beihg removed; the
off ¡cãl story immediately stating that police had
found it necessary to subdue prisoners who were
caus i n g d i sturbances and/or ãttacki n g people. The
result: not only a cover-story, but also awayof tar-.
nishing the completely nonviolent public record of
Trojan occupiers, and diverting attention from the
nuclear issue.
No matter what the cause or source, it seemed
we could only stand to lose-physically and in
terms of public impact-from a violent confrontation . Many of us were well aware that our
nonviolent reputation as a group had a protective
effect in lessening the chances of overt pol ice
ag!¡ression, as well as gaining us added support
among the general population *ln a way, as we sat
on the pavilion floor, we seemedboxed in byour
own preoccupation with maintaining a nonviolent
image. The implicitthreatsof violence in the last
few minutes gave the state a leverage we hadn't
counted on; simply standing our ground had
alreády resulted in the beginnings of physical
aggression from police accustomed to looking at
intransigence as provocation for violence.
The di lemma was intensif ied by our fai I ure to
anticipate the possibility that someth ing like this
would happen. Prior to the occupation, we had
worked out consensus on many contingencies, but
this was not one of those contingencies. People
being dragged out of custody and evicted against
their wills was sómething that hadn't crossed our
minds as a serious possibility. For all our preparations, for all our cynicism about the corrupt
corporate-state processes, we had been naive. And
now, the sense of time pressure we felt (ùhich we
internalized as the state troopers surrounded us)
prevented us frorh considering our options rhore
dialectical ly than we did.
Meanwhile, the district attorney was telling a
reporter: "We feel they don't have a constitutional
right to stay in our jail."
We began to discuss our:options in theone large
group of ovgr 100 occupiers remaining -all the
while sensing that more of us might be dragged off
at any time, sorted and either put in jail (as had
already happened with a few out-of-state and
second-time occupiers) or evicted from the
premises (as had happened to most of the others
already arraigned). With the state already having
shown its wi I I in gness to physical ly force occupiers
into "freedom," the specterof our solidarity being
pried apart was upsetting.
Three proposals came under consideration: that
we (1) Refuseto move from the pavilion flodr, presumably forcing the state to either back down or
drag people through arraignments and evict the
total 103 f irst.time Oregon occupiers that way; (2)
Agree to a grbup bail arrangement that had just
been raised as a possibility in discussions between
Alliance lawyers, the DA and the judges; (3) Walk
through arrai gnments, phys ical ly accepti n g per-

sonal recognizance with the idea of regrouping
outside and planning other immediate actions,
perh aps i ncl ud i n g a qu ick re-occupation at Trojan
For the most part the discussion was fairly

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a fewtimes our pi"ocess broke down and
people interrupted each other. (Later self-criticism
generally agreed that we should have $otten into
aff inity groups, or at [east into one large circle
rather than the rändom seating we were in, though
the mood at the time was that we were vulnerable
to being dragged off at any moment without a
coherent understanding of common strategy under
the changed circumstances.) Problems with option
#1 seemed to include diver:ting the issue in the

sequential;

public mind (i.e., "occupying" an incarceratory
pavilion in addition tothe nuclear plant), and
risking violence we would probably be blamed for.Oötion #2 would mean giving the criminal iniustice
system money, a basically distastefulidea. Option
#3 would be a breach of jail solidarity, in which the
bu I k of occupiers would vol untari ly leave the others
behind.
ln the midstof the discussion, which turned out
to last about two hours (" lf we let all of 'em talk,

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welll be here until 3o'clocktomoriow," one newspaper reported quoted a state trooper as saying),
the Alliance legal team announced that it was
feeling manipulated bythe judee, and therefore
from then on would onlytransmit specific messages between occupiers and the judge.
Midway through the meeting, the
troopers-who'd been standing at attention in for-'
. mation around us-sat down in unison on folding
chairs ringing the room. This action brought irir,' mediateapplausefromoccupiers
A strawvoteofoccupiers found about 90 in favor
of option #2-simultaneous releaseof all123 :
occupiers i n exchan ge for the total contents of the
Alliance bail fund, $2,000. Eight people said thev
were opposed -that essentially we were backing
down in the face of intimidation tactics; " 1 can't
young
' stand for people to be namby-pamby, " one
woman said angrily. But after more discussion, we
had consensus for group bail.
It was a lou$y chõite; all the other options people
were willingto consider seemed worse.

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During mass arraignment in the large pavilion
room, an occupier asked the judge, J ames Mason,
who had ordered people dragged out of the pavilion
and ejected from the fairgrounds. Mason replied
that he had.
Anotheroccupier quicklyfollowed up by asking
who had decided that the lights beturned out.
J udge Mason said that the lights had gone out

"inadvertently," and thatofficials had been as
"scared" bythe event as everyone else. Back in
Portland a couple of hours later, an occupier who
had been among the f irst people arraigned
reported that she's seen a police off icer turning off
a panel of light switches, and that another off icer
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entered the room and said, " lt's all right now, you

canturnthembacko:

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Police conduct throughout the day hardly
seemed haphazard. There is every reason to
believe that the governor, liberal Robert Straub,
was personally calling the shots. (During the f irst
occupation, néwspapãr accounts later revealed, he
had decided when arrests would take place, using
his command of the state police as a levei against
Portland Ceneral Etectric Company's request for
more immediate arrests.) Oregon State Police
Chief Robert Fisher was present in the large
pavilion room, observing our lengthy discussion in
its entirety.
We were up against a state apparatus using
particular strategies to counteract us, alternately
offeri n g comprom ises and impl icitly threaten i n g

the useof violence.
Obviously the stakes are getting higher for all
concerned as the nuclear issue continues to

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intensify.
Within four days of the November 25 Trojan
occupation, a state legislator announced he was
drafting legislation which would make it a felony to
interfere with an operating nuclear power plant.
The ColumbiaCounty DA chimed in, complaining
that presently anti-nuclear protesters "know how
not tò put themselves in a position to be arrested for
anythíng except a Class C misdemeanor, namely
seéond-ãegree crim i nal trespass, pun i shable by a
maxi.mum penaltyof 30 days in jail and a $250
fine." Hetheorized that a new law might act as a
deterrent against future occupations by creating a
fetony withã penalty of up to f ive years in.prison for
"anyône who interferes substantially with the
operation of a nuclear power plant."
Other responses to the second occupation have
included: complaints from state and county
off icials about all the tax money it costs to cope with
occupations; the usualwell-f inanced refrain about
costs to electric ratepayers; a utility half-page ad in
both Portland daily newspapers within a day of the
occupation, proclaiming that "Trojan-is doing very
well indeed .' ' (' ' . . . there are those who seek very
high prof ile ways to express their concern and

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create headlines. , . . Trojan is a good, safe and
necessary power plant supplying a huge amount of
electrical energy to the people of this region . . ")
Working out of off ices at 215 SE 9th Avenue in
Portland as well as in several other parts of the
Pacif ic Northwest, the Trojan Decommissioning

Alliance intends to do a lot of community education
in the months ahead, A third Troian occupation is
now under consideration, with discussions centering around late spring or early summer.
A mass trial for the 82 people arrested at Trojan
in August is scheduled to take placethe week
starting December 12. Making use of a "Choice of
Evils" statute which proves for breaking one law
(in this case trespassing) as "an emergency
measure to avoid an imminent public or private
injury," the Alliance is attempting to put nuclear
power on trial. Two experts on effects of low-level
radiation, Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University
of Pittsburgh and Dr. Rosalie Bertellof the Roswell
Park Memorial lnstitute for Cancer Research in
Buffalo, have both agreed to testify in our defense '
So has a former director of the Oregon Department
of Energy, Lon Topaz, who was fired bythe
governor in 197íafter utilities complained that his
power was too low.
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The off icial court complaint we were each handed
during arraignment says we are accused of trespassing "against the peace and dignity of the State
of Oregon." Rlght belowthe accusation is the
signature of the superintendent of the Trojan
nuclear power plant, as if to conf irm the nexus
between government authority and the vicious
arrogance of capital. This is the situation we f ind
ourselves in: the state defines its own "dignity"Ss
identical to maintenance of corporate policies portending destruction of the human race.
As we trespass against that sort of dign ity at
Trojan, oneof ourfavorite songs- "This Land Is
Your Land" - includes a verse we learned outside

of school:

As / was walking along the highway
I saw a sign that said Private Property
B ut on the other side it d id n' t say noth
fhatside was madefor you and me.

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yo-ung people, gathered at the 4-H Center in Chevy
Chase, Md. for the second national convention of
Cray Panthers. I talked to Cråy Partthers from San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego,

Portland Scribe

Omaha, Baltimore, Austin, Washington DC,
Kansas City, Minneapolis, Madison, Miami, New
York, Vermont and Connecticut. lt was a busy four
iiays marked by hard work and high spirits. "We
will come out of this convention with renewed
bodies and spirits, marching, singing and raising
hell," National Convenor Maggie Kuhn told us at
the opening session Thursday night.
' That night Senator Pepper made an unexpected
appeärance to talk about his mandatory retirement
aci and to tell us that civil rights and anti-sexist
legislation had eliminated discrimination in these
aréas. There were gasps from the audience. Dr.
Paul Nathanson of the National Senior Citizens Law
Center made an excellent reply: Congress could
pass any numberof laws but unless it also

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appropriated f unds for enforcement and informed
peopleof
rights, legislation was meaningless.
' Friday'stheir
theme was health care, A malor focus of
the convention was on a no-fee national health
servi ce, com m un ity-based and tax-supported, to
be made available to all. Representative Dellums,
who wi ll rei ntroduce hi s bi I I ( H R 6894) to that effect
in J anuary, spoketo us briefly, pointing outthat in
.' 1976$14Obillion was spent on health care in the
US, even morethan was poured down "that rat
hole in Virginia, the Pentagon." "Yeryfewof my
colleagues willturn down socialized medicine at
Walter Reed IHospital] or Bethesdaor attendance
by the House physician, " he added. lt is the poor
and oppressed who are being denied decent health
care.
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Dr. Quention Young and Dr. Bernard Winter
elaborated on thistheme. Karen lgnaniof the
Committee for National Health lnsurance
presented a case for the Kennedy-Corman bill but
Cray Panthers registered overwhelming support
for Dellums' proposal.
Although health was supposed to be the main
Ruth Dear is the co-con venor of the Chicago Cray

Panthers and isact,ve in the Oak ParkWar
Resisters League.
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theme of the convention, the debate on a position
paper, " Econom ic Ri ghts-Econom ic Democ t acy,"
nearly stole the show, emotionally and controversially. An underpinning of GP program and
ph ilosoóhy is a commitment to social change.
Maggie Kuhn stated in herkeynote speech: "Cray
PanÌñers mustbe partof the action involved in
radical social change'r and the next day Michael
Harrington spoke on "Economic and Social
J ustice. "
However the attempt to formulate a program for
social change aroused intense feelings. There was

from a Farmer-Laborite from Minnesota to
go more slowly. Some newly recruited people were
a plea

ðrying as they tried to decide whether they.had
madeloo radical acommitment. ln the end, this
draftwas neverofficially adopted. lt isto be sentto
local networks for a discussion - partly because of
these reactions, partly because to socialists of all
stripes it seemed inadequate.
I n other resol utions the convention did urge that
taxation be based on high income rather than
property, that prof it-making organizations be
excluded from the deliveryof home health care,
and that Medicare-Medicaid provide home'
services for the chronically ill. A real f irst was the
resolution to make all pensions subject to cost of
living increases. Resolutions in supportof ERA, a
militãryembargoon South Africa, gun control, and
an end to proliferation of nuclear power plants
carried. A nationaltaskforceon outreach to
mi norities was establ ished.
Some of us, who found it hard to conceive of
being near Washington DC and not having a
demónstration, agitated a bit foronq. Perhaps that
is why on Monday, October 31, the day after the
convóntion, about 50 Cray Panthers were recruited
for a picket lineoutsidethe Chamberof Commerce
in supportof the bill foran officeof consumer
represeñtation . Feei n gs about th i s were m ixed.
Some participantsfeltthis had not been prepared
with the usual thoroughness, especially since we
were invited in and served coffee and anticonsumer legislation propaganda without having a
ready reply. Others, however, were extremely
enthusiastic about the action, feeling we were
carrying out Maggie's closing words to the
conveni¡on: "We areon a pilgrimage but also a
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[lru,n,nr tor nonviolent act¡on is enjoying a
in the
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power.
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Marty J ezer has emphasized in previous issues of
Wl N, organizers of the Clamshel I and other nonukes alliances are using training regularlyto improve on the "do it yourself " style that characterized many actions and organizing styles during
the lndochina peace movement.
Train i ng for nonviolent action was f irst conducted in this country by the Congress on Racial
Equality in the 1940's. Training was a basis of organ izingth roughout the civil rights movement,
where it was used pr,imarily to prepare activiqts for
protection in case of attack, but also to develop
strategy, leadership, and citi)en par.ticipation
skills. Training for nonviolentaction was
developed in the lndian movement for independence amon g saty agr ah i and has contin ued to be
important in the Shanti Sena movement in lndia,
preparing participants for reconciliation work
during inter-religious riots and the BengladeshWest Pakistan crisis, as well as for non-cooperation with the Stateof Emergency in1975-76.
Th i s past ) uly, 7 4 nonviolent activi sts, trai ners,
and scholars joined in an lnternational Seminaron
Training for Nonviolent Action (ISTNA) at Cuerna.vaca, Mexico. This was notthefirst international
conference for trainers in nonviolent action, and
nonviolent activists have convened regularly in
War Rési sters lnternational trienn ial s, Pax Chri sti,
and othei associations. However, lSTNAwas
signif icant as a gathering of the broadest representation of varying cultures and experience in
organizing and training for nonviolent action yet.
Conceived by participants at the lnternational
Conference of Peace Researchers and Peace
Acti vi sts in 197 5 an d organ ized du ri n g two yeärs of
work by Beverly Woodward, EIaine Lilly, and a
supportive i nternational comm ittee representi n g
five continents, the lnternational Sêminaron
Training for Nonviolent Action set out to be "a new
initiative of the international nonviolence moveinent to strengthen.the worldwide network of nonviolent action groups and to make f urther advances
in the f ield of training. "
Participants came from 32 countries;29were
from third world countries in Asia, Latin America,
and Africa, 23 were Europeans, 15 North Ameri-

cans; and '19 were women.
ln the first days, participants collected a listof
exþectations which ranged at least äs wide as the
original conferenóe purposes, for example:
develop an international exchange program for
trainers and olgan izers; discover how cultural differences among participants affect nonviolent
Peter Klotz-Chamberlin is the North American

representative to thelSfNA Continuation Com-'
mittee, and on the staÍf of the Resource Center for
Nonviolence.
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Story and photographs by Peter Klotz-Chamberlin

action; explore how Paulo FÊiere's pedagogyof
conscientization could work as an organizing
method in industrialized countries; learn howto
construct groups democratically and howto respect
and reflect human dignity in groups; find an issue
on which to coordinate nonviolent action worldwide; f ind ways for aètivists in the f irst and third
worlds togetherto build pressure for human rights;
learn experiences and nonviolent training methods
of others; identify different training styles; explore
rel ation sh i ps between nonviol ent activi sts and
social i sts; di scuss the struggle for dem i I itarization

and how it can be related to global change; explore
possibilities fortraining in nonviolent action on
issues which transcend national boun jaries, e.g.,

nuclear weapons and energy, imperial ism.
Despite a suggested program prepared bythe
conference organ izers, participants were nearly
unanimous in discarding theoriginal structure and
working long hours during regional cauiuses and
coordinating committee meetings (composed of
one representative from each continent) to
redesign the order and topicof workshops, plenary
meetings, and training sessions every four or, f ive
days. lt was a sure sign that responsible anarchism
is alive and kicking in nonviolent activists

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through-

The first workshops were attempts to inventory
skills and develop proposals among participants in
the areas of alternative education, alternative
econom ics, eval uation of train in g, comm un ity conflict, group dynamics, spiritual roots of nonviolence, and international peacekeeping. The f irst
few days, however, were largely devoted to communication difficulties-from the problem of ob-

tain ing volunteer translators for the many small
group workshops and meetings which formed the
heart ofthe conference, to the effort by all participants to clarifytheirown positions and understand the attitudes of otherson such issues as: Cän
tr.aining be separate f rom organizing? Do group
dynamics issues primarily concern dynamics
within activist groups, or between activists and
the state? What can the international nonviolent
movement contribute to the struggle for liberation

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situation s .
ln discussion of economics,lhe sharing of
perspectives at ISTNA enabled a remarkable
synthesis : the outl i nes for a decentral ist commun ltarian economy that makes sense for activists
working in awidevarietyof movements, from nonviolent land occupations by peasants in Colombia,
to decentral izi ng and redevelopin g industrial
economies in Europe, North America and J apañ, to
the Sarvodaya (con structive program ) movements
in lndia and Sri Lanka. Carl Zeitlow, one memberof
this working group, reports "We agreed neither
the capitalist northe state socialist systems have
adequately responded to issues of imperialism,
m i I itari sm, repression, forei gn trade, total itarian ism, energy con sumption, or the environment: What we need is a socialist system based on
local identity, local culture, and local resources."
What was inspiring to participants'from
industrial countries involved in these discussions
was the wealth of experience in a variety of third

world situations with communitarian socialist
economies. For instance, Fernando C. reported
that 800 cooperative businesses have been established in Colombia during the past f ive years, 500
of these on former large land estates seízed

Americans were interested in an informational

th rou gh nonviolent occupation s,- Native American

workshop on the dangers of nuclear power in
preparation for the time when n ukes prol iferate
there. Plans for simultaneous actions in several
locaiities of the world against the worldwide threat
of prol iferating n uclear power Þlants were discussed, and an international newsletter for communication among nonviolent movements
opposing nuclear power was planned.
Human rights was the primary concern of athird
of th e conf erence participants. I n addition to worksh,ops on repression in the third world. role plays of
respon ses to pol ice i ntim idation, and presentations
on the international struggle for human rights, a
strong working groupformed in the Asian regional
caucus, which has since taken shape as the Asian
Center on Human Rights in Hong Kong, directed
by ISTNA participant Ruth Cortez. The Asián
Center was specif ically established to encourage
support for human rights struggles among citizens
of third world countries rather than relying on f irst
world initiatives for human rights, such as

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see the cooperation of church and state in

their

subjugation. Carl Zeitlow presentdd the nonviolent
cam pai gn strategy developed duri n g the Arnerican
civil rights moveiîent, in which sustained actions
create a crisis which threatens social institutions.
Berit Lakey and Christopher Mooreof the Philadelphia Lífe Center presented workshops on employing socio-dramas (roleplays) as training tools,
and on designing training programs.
The history and obstacles facing nonviolent

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'1950's, and continuing to offer constructive service
and social conflict resolution and advocacyof

human rights under the leadership of Narayan
Desai. Workshops gave participants an introduction to skills or methods they had not encountered
and an opportunityto learn howto present skills
which previously they had only experienced.
As participants cameto know someof the skills,
experiences, and interests ofothers atthe conference, working groups formed, manyof which
developed plans for projects to continue after the
cbnference at Cuernavaca. lt is these working
groups which indicatethe strongest forces which
took life at ISTNA.
Resistance to nuclear power was the primary
issue for 15 to 20 participants in their home
situations. Europeans, J apanese, North Americans and a resident of Australia shared experiences
and skill's used ín organizing and training for nonviolent actions against nuclear power. Latin

cultures in North and South America, traditional
village-based economies in Africa (such as that
being revived in Tanzania,), and traditional Asian
econom ies al I provide rich experiences of
econom ies where human beings are at the center.
The Alternative Economics working group at
ISTNA plans to edit a "Study Cuide on Communal
Society," to publicize experiences in communal
organization.
Training for nonviolent action was the topic of
several workshops and, during the last week,
actual training sessions. ln aworkshopon evaluation of training programs, exampleswere given by
persons who had conducted training in the North
American civil rights, peace, and anti-nuclear
movements, in nonviolent movements in lndia,
Cermany, and J apan, a nonviolent action collective
in France, and the land occupation movement in
Colombia.
Activists from Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil
described their use of conscientization methods of
political education with workers in cities and
peasants in rural areas, methods which were so
successf ul in the case of one organ izer-priest that
he was run out of an area when peasants grew to

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movements in South Africa were presented by an
exile from South Africa, Manob Mandal described
training programs which have been developed in
lndia since the time of Candh i, especial ly in the .
Shanti Sena, founded by Vinoba Bhave in the

Amnesty I nternational
Women convened regularly during the
conference to discuss experiences in nonviolent
action and in organizing for human rights of
women, and to share different analyses of the relationshipof women's struggles to movements for
economic, political, and cultural freedom. Severaj
women convened a plenary presentation and
issued a position paper declaring "it will be impos.
sibleto reach the goalof human dignity and freedom without engaging the creativity and perspective of women on all levels of the struggle," and
pointing outto men and women at ISTNA and elsewhere that "a movement that claims to be for justice and liberation must develop an understanding
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of the dynam ics and form s of oppression in its own
culture so as not to become an unwittiñg

accompliceofóppressiorr.",.,.

A working group on compiling case studies of
training and organizing experiences grewoutof an
evaluation of training workshops. Cuidelines were
developed for written h istories on the topics of :
toppl in g governrnents through nonviolent action,
specif ic nonviolent actions, nonviolent campaign's,
train ing in nonviolence and organ izations for, nãn_'
violent action
ln one of the f inal days of the ISTNA conference,
15 participants who considered themselves
tráiners attempted to outline directions trainers
mighttake in coming years. While no clear consensus evolved, the discússion was illustrative of
the range of erirphases held by vqrious trainers in
nonviolent action. There was one concern that
trainers and organizers focus energies on a
"majority issue," an issuewhich involves large
numbers of constituents; such as the civil rights
movement, or anti-nuclear power movement.
Another partici pant suggested that nonviolent
trainers can sense when a movement is readyto be
initiated and seekto influence a nonviolent direction frorn the start (as with CORE and civil rights),
or attempt to add a nonviolent perspective to a
movement already underwày, as Cerman nonviolence trainers are attempting in the anti-nuclear
movement there, which is gener:ally more difficult.
A European trainer suggested that lnstitutions
such as Folk High Schools (adult education centers)
are proper locations for tr:ain ing. A member of the
Philadelphia Life Center pointed out that that
center Was created out of the failure of the Martin
Luther King Center for Social Change to f unction
creatively in a university, andthat, whilecenters
fortr.aining are needed, it is importantthatthey be
independent.
Several issues were suggested as current hot
items for nonviolencetraining: the nukes movement, violence in the schools, and men and women
organizing against rape and personal violence.
There was the suggestion that trainer$ should
focus on sharing skills in a specif ic geographic
region, developing interest and experiences in
training among people there who can continue to
spread training ski I ls throughout the region,
regarding issues important to the region. lt was
suggested that case studies of past nonviolent actions and training can instruct us on current appliôations.of avarietyof training skills. Also, itwould
be good use of existing transnational networks,
such as Pax Christi, War Resisters lnternational,
and I nternational Fel lowsh i p of Reconci I iation, to
comm un icate trai n i n g an d organ izi n g experiences
through their newsletters, wh-ich circulate worldwide.
It was agreed during the last day's evaluation of
the I STNA conference that the group had been
remarkably congenial. No ideological or personal,'
differ.ences wrenched apart our brief international

North Anrerica¡r clailycaucus at ISFNA.

community. Vùu *"r" gratef ul for the all-to-rare
opportunity to meet with nonviolent activists f rom
repressive situations, industrial nation s, from
movements with a rich history of nonviolent action,
from various political and religious perspectives.
Certainly the rapport which grew during discussions, parties, excursions, arid meals together adds
an emotional dimension to the bonds whích nonviolent activists are developing around the world.
Such a successful international gathering can only
strengthen the reality of the transnationãl perspective which is central to the practice of nonviolence anywhere. Whether ISTNA will have been
the catalyst for f urther advances in the f ield of nonviolence training depends on the succesi of
projects which were conceived at ISTN,ô.
Readers of WIN may want to contribute to some
of these fol low-up ef forts. To contact th e As ian
Centeron Human Rights, write Ruth Cortez, Kiu
Kin Mansionl/6/F;566 Nathan Road, Kowloon,
Hong Kong. ln Latin America, contact Servicio,
Peru 630 5to P. Dpto. '19, 1068 Buenas Aires,
Argentina. ln North America, contact Beverly
Woodward, 148 N Street, South Boston, Massa-

chusetts, 02127 .ln Africa, contact J ames
Annorbah-Sarpei, PO Box 2996, Accra, Chana.
The transnational newletter on nonviolent action
lCai¡Ul nuclear power is being coordinated by
Daniel Wiener, Rutimeyerstr. 2O,4054 Basel,
Switzerland. The Study Guideon Communal '
Society is being edited by Piet Dijkstra, 2
Westerweg, Bergen, NH, The Netherlands. Case
studies gn nonviolence training and organizing are
bei n g col I ected th rough peter klotz-Cñam berli n,
Resource Center for Nonviolente, pO Box 2324,
Santa Cruz, CA 95063. A transnational ,,data
lgnk.'on training materials is being collected by
Charles Walker, Boxg2,Cheyney, ÞR lg¡lg. nor
turther information about ongoing work of ISTNA,
papers published for ISTNA,ãr cðpies of the
full report, contact BeverlyWoodward, 148
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whole but the school board is all
white. Black residents are currently demanding amnesty for the
boycotters and the appointment of
a blackschool board member.
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PHILIPPINE M¡LITARY COURT
SENTENCES MARCOS'
OPPONENT TO DEATH

Former Phi lippine Senator
Benigno S. Aquino, J r., the principal leader in the struggle againgt
the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, was sentenced to death by a seven-member mil itary tribunal in Manila on
November25. Aquino, who has
been imprisoned since his arrest in
197 2 f ollowin g Marcos' proclamation of martial law, was convicted
on what all

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consider to be trumped-up charges
of subversion and refused to recant, confess guilt or accept exile
even after a personal audience with
Marcos himself , Since martial law
was declared five years ago, only
one death sentencewas passed on
and that to a naråotics déaler.
Senator Aquino had been incarcerated for four years without trial.
Whether Marcos wi I I commute the
sentence is less than certain. The
execution of Aquino wouf d certainly damage prospects for f uture
American aid for the Philippine
dictatorship and. reveal the farcical
nature of the referendum on
martial law scheduled by Marcos
for December 17.
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TWENTY.TWOSEABROOK
OCCUPIERS GO DIRECTLY
TOJATL
Twenty-two people convicted of
occupying the site of the proposed
nuclear power plant at Seabrook,
New Hampshire, last spring were
sentenced to serve time in three
New Hampshire jails on December
1. They were among 82 Clamshell
Alliance activists who had previously been sentenced to 15 days in
jail and a $100 f ine. Although
many of those convicted spent
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PLUTONIUM IN THE
DRAINPIPES?

considerable time in the armories REACTOR-GRADE PLUTON¡UM
following their arrest last May and WEAPON DETONATED
had the remainder of their terms A nuclear weapon made f rom

suspendedbythecourt,many reactor-gradeþlutoniumhasbeen

were
time
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ref used. to. pay their f ine and
remanded to custody to serve
at the rate of $s/day. Amongst
22 sent directly to jail are
f riends and writers Marty J
Newsdesk
and J oanne Sheehan.

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explodeã by the US. The successf u itest dispelled the notion that
plutonium generated in breeder
reactors or recovered f rom con-

ventional reactor f uel Would not be
pure enough for use as a nuclear
explosive. Disclosure of the test

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anarmoftheChesapeakeBay, whenSheridaJones, 17,was1orcompleted its 800 mile journey in
bidden to read the speech bythe
school superiirtendant who
less than 24 hours, being found at
4:00 PM (EST) on Monday the 14th characterized the famous oratory
as "incendiary" and having
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ln a bizarre twist to the Karen Silkwood case, attorneys for the KerrMcCee Nuclear Corporation say
they will go to court this week to
stop a former wo¡:ker f rom talking
about missing plutonium at one of

their plants.
Kerr-McCee lawyers say they

will request that the courts'issuË a
"gag order" against former plant
supervisor J im Smith on whatthe
attorneys say are ''national
security grounds."
The unusual gag order request
comes as depositions are being
taken in the $160,000
conspiracy and damage suit f iled
by the family of Karen Silkwood, a

former plutonium worker at the
Kerr-McCee plant in Crescent,
Oklahoma.
Silkwood was killed in a

mysterious car crash nearly three
years ago, At the time of her death,
she was reportedly carrying with
her internal Kerr-McCee documents relating to safety violations
and missing plutonium at Kerr- .
McCee's Crescent plant. The
documents were never recovered'
after the car crash, and Silkwood's
father has charged that the FBl,

Kerr-McCee officials and others
conspired to cover up the real
reasons behind his daughter's
death.

Former plant supervisor Smith,
in a startling admission lastweek,
stated in a sworn aff idavit that a
co-worker he identified as Cerald
Cooper was on two occasions asked
by Kerr-McCee off icials and

help divert high grade uranium
from government stockpi les.
According to Smith's deposition, Cooper had been asked to
take part in the scheme by a KerrMcCee management off icial

identified as "Robert Klause."
Shortly after Silkwood's death,
government i nvesti gators determined that 40 pounds of plutonium or enough to produce

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several nuclear weapons

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was

missing from the Kerr-McCee

plant. The company's otticials
continue to insist that the material
ìnust have been accidentally
poured down drain pipes.
However, Smith in an earlier
interview with Ro//ing Stone
magazine, stated he personally
had checked all the pipes and could
not f ind any trace of the missing
nuclear materials.
The suit by Karen Silkwood's
family is expected to go to court
before the end of this year. ln the
meantime, a numberof Silkwood's
former acquaintances who have
given depositions about the conditions at the Kerr-McCee plant
around the time of Silkwood's
death say they have been
threatened and followed, apparently in efforts to stop them
f

rom testifying

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Her Say

OIL BUSINESS MEANS
BIG BUCKS
The Energy Action Educational
Foundation has released a study
showing that prof its for the top 21
oil companies in the first six
month s of 197 7 were greater than
the prof its forthe same companies
for allof 1972.|n a period when
prof its for these cpmpanies were
increasing by 1o3o/o, earnings of
the average worker increased by
only 38.5% and the worker faced
energy price increases ranging
Írom77 .4o/o for gasoIine to140.4o/o
for f uel oil. For example, Socal (the
nation's fourth largest oil company) had prof its of $277 million
after taxes for the second quarter
of this year-a whopping34.5o/o
increase over the same period last
year and it seems on the way to its
first billion-dollar profit for a year.
- People and Energy

SWEDEN TOCANCELDEBT
OFPOOR NATIONS
Responding to persistent calls by
developing countries that the industrialized nations of the West
write off third-world debts,
Sweden announced last month that
it planned to cancel more than $200
million in debts owed by governments of eight poor countries.
"We are hoping to set an
example that will be followed up by
other countries," said Ola U llsten,

Swedi sh Min ister for I nternational
Development at the UN.

Sweden's action was immediately hailed by diplomats from
developing nations. lt follows by a
month an announcement by
Canadian Deputf Prime Minister

Allan J. MacEachen of Canada
that his nation was inthe process
of canceling $254 million in debts
f rom developing countries.
The Swedish debts cancelled
were from those countries least
able to pay: Bangladesh,

Botswana, Ethiopia, lndia, Kenya
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

-Fellowship
A TASTE OF THEIR
OWN MEDICINE
The FBI is reportedly trying to
track down and question a 29-yearold Colorado man who has been
mailing low-grade uranium waste
material to hundreds of America's
power elite.
The Village Voice reports that
Leigh Hauter has mailed the dirtlike material along with a cover
letter to members of Congress,
governors and leading business
executives to dramatize the
hazards of a nuclear industry.
The letter warns each recipient
that the dirt-like substance enclosed is a low-grade radioactive
waste product.

Hauter's letter also stresses that
the material was not stolen from a
guarded atomic site. He says he
gathered the waste in public
areas lying along streams, on
public roads and in fields near
where uranium mining and
processing are taking place.
The letter adds, "You have just
come in cohtact with radiation.
There is no practical means for

limiting access to this material . .
it is a necessary by-product of the.
nuclear industry."
Whilethe FBlhas been attempting to reach Hauter, hetold
the Voice by telephone from
Colorado that he has not gone
undergro-und. He stated: 1'ljust
thought this would be a great time
to visit a lot of my friends who happen to live in the remote'sections of
the Rocky Mountain region. "
,

-Austin

Sun

Dec. 15, 1977 WIN 12

MASS. GOVERNORSPEAKS
OUT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Michael Dukakis has joined J erry
Brown in the ranks of major state
Covernors vocally opposed to

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atomic energy." l don't see much
of a f uture for n uclear power, " the
, Massachusetts Democrat said in a
recent interview. "We haven't
solved the problems of radioactive
waste, and on economic grounds
alone, nuclear power is becoming
less and less competitive, more
and moreexpensive."
Dukakis was the only New England governor who ref used to send
state troopers to Seabrook, New
Hampshire last April 30, when NH
Covernor Meldrim Thomson requested regional help in arresting
more than 1400 nuclear opponents
who occupied the Seabrook
nuclear power construction site.
The mass arrests brought on a
un ique two-week mass incarceration in National Guard armories
across the state, with
accompanying'banner headl ines
around the world. " I was concerned, frankly, with the way the
process was being handled," said
Dukakis. "Confrontation, if not
provoked, at least was not discouraged by the off icials up
th ere. ' '

Dukakis' refusal to send troops '
and his subsequent criticisms
provoked further acrimony in the
long-standing feud between NH
and Massachusetts officials. lt
also raised the question of how
Dukakis would handle protests expected in his own backyard, at the
proposed Pilgrim ll reactor at
Plymouth. "We'll do everything
we can to allocate whatever space
and resources we can to make it
possi ble for them to have the
demonstration, and to do so in a
reagonable manner," he said.
"We would make every effortto

who is aware of her rights. He said

reactor would be built, he expressed serious doubt about the
2300-megawatt $2,5 billion plant
scheduled for Montague, a project
now meeting strong local resistance. " Citizenconcern and
citizen opposition could be very

that he preferred a:less informed,,
more "passive" person.
And last wqek the courts agreed
with Stahl. J ustice Edward J .
Creenf ield of the State Supreme
Court in Manhattan ruled that

important," he said. "l doubtvery
much that with some very strong
conservation efforts, and with the
development of iilternative
sources,of energy/ that we will
need further nuclear plants anywhere in New England, and that
includes Montague and anyother
site under consideration at the
present time. "

Having thus dismissed some
5000 proposed nuclear megawatts,
Dukakis expanded on his commitment to solar energy.' 1 I think

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conservation and alternative
sources are where we ought to be
moving," he said. New energy
systems must be independent of

"massive utilities or massive investments." A strong commitment to solar space and water
heating "could create as many as
11,000 new jobs in New England
during the next decade,'. he
added. "We have a long wayto go
before we in Massachusetts can
say we're doing all we can for

developing alternative sources of
energy.

"

Whether the Covernor will now
follow his rhetoric with a strong
budgetary commitment to solar
energy is another question, but he
has already stated elsewhere that
converting to alternative energy
sources might provide the state's
economy with a much-needed
business and employment boost.

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JUDGEOKAYS
DISCRIMINATION
Stanley Stahl tookone look at
J udity Pierce's application for a

work with the demonstrators and
to avoid, if at all possible, having to
arrest and to try the people in-

Manhattan apartment and decided
not to rent to her.

volved." Dukakis, who is facing a
stiff f ight for reelection next fall,

said. Nor is it because she's a
divorced 33-yearold woman. The
reason, he said, is because she is a
lawyer and "would be a source of
trouble to me as atenant." He explained that he didn't want an
educated, Black woman tenant

intimated that protestors might be
allowed to spend up to a month at
the plant site.
lndeed, although Dukakis said
he felt the proposed Pilgrim ll
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It's not because she is Black, he

"absent a supervening statutory
piescription, a landlord is freeto
do wlfat he,wishes with his
propertt' 4n.d to rent or not to rent
to any given person at his whim."
Discrimination on the basis of
occupation, it seems, is not technically against the law. Housing
activists fear that Creenf ield's
ruling, believed the f irst explicitly
allowing such discrimínation, will
set dangerous precedents eroding
the rights of tenants.
Creenf ield didn't stop at
legal izing occupational discrimination. "He [a landlord] may
decide not to rent to singers because they are noisy, or not rent to
bald-headed men because he has
been told they give wild parties,"
the judge continued in his ruling.
"He can bar his premises to the
lowest strata of society should be
choose, or to the highest, if that be
his personal choice. "
Contacted after the ruling,
Creenf ield explained the legal
philosophy of his rul ing. Basically,
he stated, property rights take

precedence over the rights of:
people. "You have a general
proposition of the law that anyone
has the right to do anything with
his property,"

he

s¡id.

mts
-Guardian

BALTIMORE, MD - Feminist
theatre with the Texas Boots and
Double J oints Theatre Company
on Thursday, December 15', 7 :30

pm at The Bread and Roses
Coffeehous e, 426 E. 31 st Street.
Sponsored by the Baltimore School

Thursday Forum.
BOSTON, MA-The Little Flags
Theatre will perform "The Furies
of Mother J ones" as a benef it for

the Mobilization for Survival on
Tuesday, December 13, 7 :30 pm,

at Morse. Auditori um,
602 Com_
monwealth Avenue. f¡.tuti
át gs
p9c| TaV be obîained at The

Mobilization office, 13 Sellers
5treet and Thomas More Book_
:torq,q Holyoke Square_both in
Lambndge.

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BOSTON, MA-J udge Marearet
rJurnham, the f irst Black woñtan in
Ma,ssachusetts to becom" ;i;&¿.

will speakon ,,New oireciùi.,ì]T'
Criminal J ustice,, on SrnJã"- "'
December'tB, 11 am at Vðis'J
Auditori um, 602 Common-*ããltn
Avenue. Sponsored by Community
Church of Boston.
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"
BOSTON, MA- " Hol iday Celebration of Life & Hope,,oÅ
Wednesday, December 21.7 om.
at the Church of the Covenânt
(Berkeley at Newbury Streets,
Boston). Sponsored by the Boston
Area Mobilizati'on for Survival. For
more information, call 354-0008.
LONDON, ENCLAND Assemblv
for Disarmament and Peace,
J

anuary 28 & 29, 1978, Camden

Centre, Euston Rd., London NW1
For information, contact: Secretary of the Preparatory Committee, Assemþly for Disarmament

.

and Feace, 29 Creat J ames St.,
London, WClN 3EY, England.

MAINE - The Mai ne Aff i nity
Croup I nformation Comm ittee
(MACIC), a statewide anti-nuke
coalition, will meet on Saturday,
December 17 ,10 AM, at the house
.'of Judy Barrows, 4A Main St.,
Camden, ME, For more informa-'
cal I (2O7) 938-2219.

tion,

NYC- Holiday gift fairof Cuban
arts and cr4fts, posters, records,
books and asundry other items on
Saturday and Sunday, December
10-1 1 at The Center for Cuban
Studies, 22OE.23rd Street, Bth
Floor, for more information, call
685-9038.

WASHINCTON, DC - Disarmament Conference with Sid Lens.
workshops, films on December'9 '10, Ceorgetown University. Sponsored by the Ceorgetown Vob¡lizationfor Survival. For registra-

tion and information, contact:
Ceorsetown MFS, 2 O'Cara Blds.
Ceorãetown Univ', Washington" '
DC

2OOS7 .

eO2) 62s-4240.

D

COURT NEWS
On December 2 Bob AnthonY
will be appearing in the US Court
of Aooeals for the third circuit in
Philääelphia. A Pacif ist and
Quaker for over 35 Years' AnthonY
ii appealing a1975 tax court decision'agaínst him. His case seeks
partícularly to test the constitutional issues behind the'196'l court
ruling on the A.J . Muste case that
payment of income tax does not
interfer.e with rel igious practice.
The Muste ruling has been cited
continually to short-cut the
hearing of f irst ámendment arguments by means of summary
judgements.
This br.ief also aims to promote
CO status for wartax resisters with
passage of the World Peace Tax
Fund Act. Congressional bills HR
4897 and S 880 introduced in the
House of Representatives this year
by Ron Dellums and supported by
23 other congresspeople would
establish the World Peace Tax
Fund.

AnthonYl5 legal brief includes
40 court decisions which support

his claim for exemption f rom military taxes 50 pages of legal

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argurnent and history of Quaker

pacif ism, 54 pages of photographs
and records of peace action against
nuclear weapons and the Vietnam
war, plus.20 p-a8eg from Anthony,s
tax court brief and 30 more pages
of supporting documents.
Carol Bragg of AFSC in Rhode

lsland and Louise and John

Runnings ín Seattle are also
planning to appeal tax court decisions. Carol writes that she hopes
to get help from the ACLU as well
as from individuals and groups
across the countrY. Let us know if
you can give support of any kind.

'Appeals are costly, time and
energy consuming.
ln New Hampshire last month
Shawn and Margaret Donovan
went to Tax Court. Shawn writes
"We presented a statement of
three pages which we both read
and then Margaret presented as
evidence a colläge of pictures
about the war. . . graphic photos of
the f inal days. Needless to say the
judge and I RS attorney were
stunned. . . and I think sobered by
the human face of the tragedy our
statement could on{y inadequately
talk about. "

THE PLOT THICKENS
Steve Gulick of Phila. WTR/WRL
sent us the following letterfrom
NY Telephone to a phone tax
resister who has been withholding

phonetax since1972.
Dear Mr.Williams,
I have been ùnable to reach you
concerning the correspondence I
received on August 22, 1977 regard i n g feder al excise tax,
ln order to qualify for exemption
you mustcontact:

PhitadelphiaWar Tàx
Resistance
War Resiste rs L.eague

20'l6Walnut Street
Suite 300
Phi I adel phia, Pa. 1 91 03
I hope this information will be of
help. Any question please call the
above tel ep h one n u mber.

Sincerely,

K. Yevoli
Representative
Has ânyone else received these
stran ge instruction s ? !

-Susan Wilkins

Dec. 15, 1977

Dec. 15, 1977 WIN 19

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Passncrs: PREDICTABTE cRIsEs.oF

d.e m.b ry on i c ag a i n, capabI e oÍ str etch i n g i n w ay s
we hadn'tknown before. fnesesrlãdd¡ nsimay take
several yearsor more. Coming outof eaðh.passage/
though, we enter a longer anl mor" ,table' per¡oã ¡ít
which we can expect relative tranouilìtv antd asense of

ADU LT

an

LIFE

by Gail SheehY
Bantam Books / 1977

/

$2.50

Somewhere in Chapter 73 of passas esthe words on

equilibrium regained.

the page coagulated . BV the eÃã A"the chapter,
they had dried and flaked ofÍ. I'm sure they had as

THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMANITY: AGENTSOF
NONVTOLENT CHANCE lN AVIOLENT WORLD
by Marjorie Hope and James Young
Orbis Books / 305 pp / $8.95
Between an introduction in which the concept of nonviolence is developed and an epilogue in which they
look at the world f rom an early 1977 perspective,
Marjorie Hope and J ames Young, a wife and husband
team, have sandwiched in seven more or less
i ndependent chapters . The fi rst of these i s about the
Movement for a New Society and, in particular; about
the Philadelphia Life Center lvhich is at the hub of the
Movement. The remaining six châpters are devoted
to biographical sketches of contemporary leaders in
the nonviolent movementfor radical social change.
Founded in the early 1970s by a group of mostly
middle class peace movement and civil rights
activists, the Mo_vement for a New Society ís based
upon the concept of a simple life style in which
participants take comparatívely little in the way of

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material goods from the larger societywhile being
more f ree to organize creative nonviolent actions
designed to make f undamental changes in the way '
society functions. The authors trace the growth of the
Movement in the Philadelphia areawith emphasis
upon the chain of inodif ied communal houses in the
West Philadelphia neighborhood and the involvement of the participants in helping to solve immediate
critical neighborhood problems as wellas in working
for changes on thè national and world levels.
The detailed biographical sketches cover Lanza del
Vasto from France, Danilo Dolci from Sicily, Dom
Helder Camara f rom Brazil, Thich Nhat Hanh and
Cao Ngoc Phuong from Vietnam, Kenneth Kaunda
from Zambia, and Cesar Chavez f rom the United
States. ln addition to caref ully presenting factual
background material for'each person, the authors
have, in a straightforward and effective.manner,,trace
the development of the respective movements which
these leaders head.

W" l"urn about LanzadelVasto's 1937 meeting with
Candhi and the new name of Shantidas which Candhi
bestowed upon him. Shantidas's simple-life and
largely self-contained communities in France are
deJcribed in considerable detail as is the participation
of members of the communities in nonviolent action
John Schuder is a professor of surgery atthe University of Missouri and a long-time peace activist
Chip Sharpe lives in Arcata, CaliÍornia, and has
recently turned i2.
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Dec. 15, 1977

proiects against the f irst French atcjmic bomb, against
toncentration camps in France for the holding of
the legal
Algerians during the Algeria War, and for
'
recognition of conscientious objection.
Also inf luenced by Candhi, Danilo Dolci took a
somewhat different path as he successf ully organized
the vi I lagers of western S ici ly to stand up to the Maf ia
and to use nonviolent techniques to pressure their
government for an improvement in their economic

status.

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ln writing about Dom Helder Camara and his
struggle from within the Catholic Church for social
justice forthe people of Brazil, the authors vividly
describe the diff iculties in working forradical social
chan'ge or even for basic human rights in a land whose
government'is completely dominated by the military.
As Buddhist leaders, Thich Nhat Hanh and Cao
Ngoc Phuong attempted from both within and withgut
Vietnam to project a "third torce" into the Vietnam
equation and tó secure an end to the war by the establishment of a noncommunist democratic governm.ent
in the South.
As president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda is u4ique
among the leaders discussed in this book in that only
he heads a nation state. And, as the authors caref ully
pointout, his nonviolence has been a "relative non- .¡

violence."
Cesar Chavez and his long and nonviolent struggle
to organize the United Farm Workers union and to
make it an effective agentfor social justice in California is chronicled in considerable detail. The
important role of Dolores Huerta and others in

building the UFW is adequately reviewed.
But Struggle for Humanity is more than a series of
biosraphicãfsketches. Marjorie Hope and J ames
Young have visited, sometimes brief ly and sometimes extensively, with each of the leaders about
whom they have written. During theirvisits they have
explored the,features which the various movements
have in common as well as identif ied those areas in
which there are differences. Although they found a
certain world consciousness on the part of the leaders
and a general recognition that revolutionary chang-es
in society are needàd, they also found that not all of
the leaders have exactlv the same vision of a new
society as do the Movement people in Philadelphia.
On baiance the book strikes a hopeful note for the
future of nonviolent action. lt should be of interestto
tÀose in the peace movement as welt as to studenis
and others who are for the f irst time considering the
role of nonviolent action in causing social change.
,

-John Schuder

much tosay to rneas many of mv dreamsdo, butas is
ofte n tr u e w ith my f l eeti n e
rí,ü ¡ o d 7e am S, part
of me i s not ready to tal "l f i r st ü me, i lsicl
n. F õr the
have a sense of parts of myself chalteng¡ng and
struggling.to enlighten ot'her páì,rls. Tlis makes me
:

wantto be¡ngto keep a
iourná|.
is how lbegan myfirst journal. lwas primed
,Dy This
n,early two years of experiencing myself in an unramrlrar place, no longer abletddéfine myself by my
activism, by my ideolõgy, or even by my traits of peisonal ¡ty. The

identity cri sis of my teen s was solved

easily; for the next dózen years, úhrough marriáge,
fatherhood, family upheaíá1, ãí.'ã ã.rõrr-.ountry'
Iqyq, I remained the civil rights/peace activist that I
had decided to be. Now I f inJth"i ih"r" is more to
being me, and I am fascinated by it; no longer having
to take myself so seriously, I feeÍfreer to do' just thatfor a time.
fo Jfiaie with you this exhílaration of seeing the
bullding of experiences ahd layering of yearsland
especially the acceptance of temporary stages I
decided to write a review of passaces.
Beyond reporting that Cail Sheãhy's style is immediately engaging and that many oî us would wish
that her irr-depth interviews had inctuded some folks
outside of the heteroséxually ciriented and upwardly
mobile middleclass, I will notattemptto presentan
objective review. I read the book as an inner éxperience, slowly digesting the parts that spoke to me and
letting others slip right by. What might be most
meaningful to some may.have been ignored by me.
Thi.s, I believe, is the real value of the-book; not to
catègorize or'predict experiences, but to eúidãõñe in

. .. . . Being open to intimacy depends on a strong
idenlity, including afirm senseof our sexual ideltity.
Any time our self-imagg becomes s haky, as itdoes
duri ng.every passaget but particularty'in the passage
to m.i.dlife, w9 can expectour capacity'for intimacy lo
be disrupted too: lf we are to emergé from the
strug,gle as whole beings, our sexually ppposite side
must be made conscious. The magical powers
assigned to our partners must be given up, the
projections withdrawn. And if we do this enormous
work, whatthen dowe have left?
J ung ofters the best exp lanation:
Above àllwe have achieved a real independence
and with it, to be sure, a certain isolation .ln a sense
we are alone, for our " inner f reedom" means that a
love relation can no longer fetter us; theother sex
has /ost its magic power over us, for we have come
to know its essentia/ tra its in the depths of our own
psyche. We shall noteasily "fall in iove" for wecan
no longer lo.se ourse/yes in someone else, butwe
shal I be capable of a deeper love, a conscious devo-

tion to the other.
, lt isn't easy to grasp the connection, but it is one of
the central points of this book: How is'it that accepting
our essenfia I aloneness allows usto become more

lovin! and devoted? rt is because

,

ref lections of joy and of signif icance, of aðcomodation
to life's pace and of challenge. ¡
I hope that the following selections, from the
second chapter, from the "switch-40,s,, chapter, and
the concluding paragraph, will help give an idea óf
both the contèntand the tone.

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our Seeker a nd Merger se/yes.

"To be sure," says J ung, " ittakes half a liÍetime to
arrive atthis stage."
Thecourage totake new steps allows usto let goof
each stage w¡th ìts satisfactions and to find the f ieih
responses th at w i l l r el ease the r i ch ness of the n ext.
The powe.r to animate allol life'sseasons is a power

thatresides within

With e,ach passage from one stage oÍ human growth
to the next we, too, must shed a protective structure.
We are left exposed and vulnerable-but also yeasty

onry tnE

the dismay

realizing thatour safety does not reside in anyone else
emboldens us to fee/ security within ourselves. And
once our individuality is no longer endangered, we
can be more magnanimous in giving tq another. lt is
possible, at last, to çompose the dividedness between

us'

-chip

sharpe

The IWW: It's First Seventy Years, reviewed in
wrN [1211 /77lcan be ordered direct from the
lndustrial Workers of the World ,752W,Webster Ave., Chicago, lL æ614

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From Seabrook to the Sahara. From war
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It gives 50 dramattc, contemporary
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