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Africa. the Pan-Africanist Coneress of
Azania, the Black People's Coñvention,
the South Affican Students Organization
(SASO), the Colored Ljrbor Paity, the
òouth Áfrican Indian Congress, etc.. etc.
In the words ofNobel Prize lauteate
cnierAlUert Luthuli: "The economic
bovcott of South Africa will entail un-

LETTERS
This is in response to the letters fro-m Joan Cavanagh, et. al., (Letters, WIN
5 / I I / 7 8) conóerning abortion and the
Catholic Peace Fellowship conference
held in Amherst. Mass. on April lst'
This vear the Fellowship addressed the
ouesiions of rieht-to-lifè and disarmarirent. in an attëmpt to draw the connections between the two.
I would like to consider specifically
some of the questions raised in the

letter

sisned bv thè eleven women, but frrst I
wãnt to têll vou who I am' I am a woman,
a feminist, iomething of a closet anar'
chist (where I must remain until I get a -

bettei erasp on the facts invloved!), and
apainsiabcirtion. I will declare' at the
ottset, that I have sat'in in an abortion
clinic (althoueh not in the fashion ofthe
Pro-Life Noniiolent Action Project-

more on that later) and at the Pentagon,
Seabrook, and Electric Boat where the
Trident isieing built' The only differ'
ence I can see between my action in the
ctinic and my other "acceptable" (to the
oeace movement) actionsìs that in the
ötinic the violence ls occuring: it is not in
construction, it is not being discussed, it

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is haooenins.
I a'eiee thãt women are indeed victims. To claim that abortion is the solution îo that victimization is, however, a

classic example ofthe oppressed turning
on the even more oPPressed, the even
more helpless, theèven more vutnerable: theïnborn child. lt is a case of

"blamingthe victim," apositionwe

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f¡ersonnel and by the women and men in
ihe waiting room, I wanted, in some intangible way, to affect the "spiritus '
muñdi" which, right now, is a very black
ancl dismal spectre.
I hope what I am about to say will not
appeai unduly harsh: forgive me, I
cánnot think of another way to put it. It
seems to me that the logic which claims
that until we have a non-patriarchal,
non-nrisogynist society, the murder of
babies must be an option is as convoluted as the logic which claims that until
we have a peaceful world. Trident submarines must be an oPtion.
For years, we have been struggling to
get free of the system's solutions, we
ñave been digging to the roots, becoming radicãI: why, why, why dowe
now aðcept and even embrace, the sys-

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tern's offèring of abortion? Abortion is a
patriarchal solution: it operates on the
ässumption thatwomenãre responsible
for lheir pregnancies; that men and
communities are absolved from responsibility. Abortion encourages
iiolationism: it makes it easier for communities (and ultimately, the patriarchy)
to ignore what is happening. '.to refuse

resoonsibilitv. '

Éerhaps, as you say, sit-ins in abortion
clinics do nothing to dismantle the patriarchv. But certainlv, abortion doesn't
either. Neither the péople I know who
have had abortions, noi the people I
know who have sat-in, are happy with
what is. Surely together we can come up
with a new way: one that does not further
victimize either victim: the woman, or

ire put in constaritly, in re-gard to
rapc, unwairted pregnancy, etc. How,
the child.
thèn, can we turn and do the same to the
child in our womb? CertainlY, no one
would claim that the child is the root
cause of patriarchy? Surely no one would
Oh no! Could it be that in Jim Forest's
accuse tlie child of complicity in the systematic oppression of women? Surely no noble argument for nonviolent revolu'
tion in Sõuth Africa he denies us our
one woulå hold the child responsible for
most important tool in the struggle? No'
place
WhY
societY?
in
of
women
the
I am notïpeaking ofarmed conflict, but
to
die?
the
one
theri, is the child
Africa.
They sav that "it is simplistic to 'save' of the ecoiromic 6ovcott of South
Contrarv to the implications of his "The
one lifé anä notthe other.i'O, yes! I
Africa"
can't tell vou how much I agree. But they Nonviolênt Alternätive in South
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abortion
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iion. " Isnt that in direct contradiction to prive South Africa of all social legitimais suptheir previous statement? Aren't they as tion and economic investment
ported bv virtuallv every major black
they
Aren't
logic?
of
simplistic
euilty
i saning' ' onè life and not the other?
oreanization in Sóuth Africa and proviã'es Americans with their most direct
I, too, have doubts about the stYle of
leverase for the transfer ofpower.
manv abortion clinic sit-ins. I do not
Jimrs argument that "no consensus"
oneselfto
chain
in
to
rushing
think that
on
the ecoñomic/social boycott ofSouth
sensitive
most
an ooeratins tablè is the
Africa exists is tantamount to saying that
wavio deal úith a very sensitive issue.
the Montgomery bus boYcott should
Thé same questions can be raised, howhave been abandoned because some
the
Penat
to
actions
refèrence
in
ever,
blacks still rodè buses. In fact, nearly
to
experour
best
tapon: are we doing
everv maior liberation organization in
ieñce the sufferingìf a sister or brother
for
involved in a lifewõrk that is death'busi- South Afiica has called explicitly
foreisn economic withdrawal, including
ness? My action in the clinic was-a very
the A-frican National Congress ofSouth
quiet onð, almost unnoticed by clinic

women

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doibted hardshipfor Africans' We do

not doubt that. But if it is a method which
shortens the day ofblood, the suffering
to us will be a price we are willing to

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these statements for corporate withdrawal are explicitlv outlawed by the
"terrorism aci" ofSouth Africa. None-

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theless, pleas fot withdrawal are continuallv renewed.
Moräover, the demand for corPorate
withdrawal provides a constructive
route of actiôn tbr Americans whowish
to aid the struggle for majority rule-in
South Africa. The movement on college
campuses against university invest'
menis in coiporations activé in South
Africa is theiargest since the days of
ROTC. Unions ánd oensionfund
sponsors are being þressured by their
members to act similarly. Currently

underway is a boycott of American banks
with outstanding loans to the South
African government and corporations
with facilities there, as is a legislative
effort to disallow Export-Import bank
loans for American cbrporatè projects in
South Africa.
I strongly encourage Jim, and anY
WIN reader whowishes to learn môre of
the effects of Americãn economic involvement in South Africa, toorder
"United States Investinent in South
Africa, " $2.00 from the South Africa
Catalvst Proiect, 570 Oxford St., #E,
Palo Altc, CA 94306. Students inteçsted
in orsanizins their camþuses for
econömic wiihdrawal should also write
Catalyst. Care to take on your local
bank? Write $top Banking on Apartheid,
c/o AFSC, 2160 Lake Street, San Fran'
cisco, CA 94121 . Tojoin the ExIm bank
campaign, write the Washington Office

Africã, 110 Maryland Avenue, NE,
Washinston, DC 20002.
Our efrects are already being felt.
Many major universities are divesting
stocks or voting stocks against South
African investments. Citibank and
Chase Manhattan have agreed to no
more loans to the South African government. In the words ofbanned South
African journalist Donald lYoods,
economic withdrawal "represents the
last legitimate pressure that could save
the situation. "
Join us!
on

--SETIIFOLDY
Clevelond' Ohlo

I am sorry that Arnold Sacher is shocked

and embíttered by my argumen-ts that
Snuff should be cénsõred-. (WIN,
5/25178) (Snuffis the movie in which á
man achieves orgasm by

disembowellin gä womàn-the movie

whose promotiõn leacls the movie-'goerto expeìt to watch not a simulated act of

deadly sadism but

a

hearing, even

real one). Sacher

institutionalized
pornography is ña strong measure of
does ãcknowledge that

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3ociali-esitiñacv to the assault on

.omãnFitut

hË says

thai I make fear

"the onlv serious cónsideration" and
olav "faåt and loose with freedom of
ioeech." He is shocked' too, by those

riho would deny the American Nazi party
the risht to maich thiough Skokie' Illi-

noisjhome of many Jewish survivors of
the German Nazi terror. He sees a per'
vasive coniempt for liberty on the left'
now. Many, he says, would "put reac-

tionaries behind prison walls for merely
advocating their viewpoint on politics. "
He says. "l must resist a walk down the
road'
Stalinist
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Of course we must resistthatwalk.
But I ask Sacher, who writes of me with
such disdain, 1'She calls openly fb!state
censorship": does he approve oflibel
laws, and of blackmail laws? If he does.,
he too calls for censorship and should be
less ouick to cast me out with those
wordi. The issue surely is: what must we
censor, and what must we be ve¡y careful not to censor? The right to express
dissent I hold as sacred as he does. But
the right to libel I do not hold saüed.
And the ripht to threaten I do not hold
sacred. Bo"th Snuffand the projected
Nazi march throueh Skokie I would name
not spoken but drãmatized threats. lf
you wanted to stretch a point, you could

iay that a political statement is implicit
in êach thieat: "There is a master race; "
"Women belong to men-to do with as
they please. " But ifyou argue that this
implicit statement must be allowed its

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the effecis of a threãt is to-inhibit the free
soeech ofothers.
' There is little danger that the political
point of view implicit in Snuffwill lack a
hearing (the view thatwomen belong to
men). It is, after all, the point of view of
those who run this country. The real
danger is that those threatened by Snuff
will lack a voice. The intimidation of
women takes many forms ur¡der patriarchy; for the patriarchal credo-the
credo thatone is entitled to own another
human being-tends by its very nature
to assume threatening forms. And the
State, which is the product ofpatriarchy,
which exists to perpetuate patriarchy,
does little to protect women from any of
these assualts-whether the brute assáult of rape or battery or the more
sophisticated assault of, say, economic
discrimination. So-women live in fear.
And so there is a real danger that they
will not find their voiðes, that they will be

afraid tofind them. Too rtany \ütmen are
still afraid to allow themselves to thlnk
thoughts that dissent from the patriarchal view ofwhat our place is. They are
afraid even to admit to themselves that
they are afraid. For that is a dissenting
thought. The patriarchal myth is thatwe
are protected. Yes, I do give a great deal
ofconsideration to the. problem offear
among women. But I deny that this is to
play fast and loose with freedom ofspeech. The two issues-of terrorism .
and free speech-cannotbe separated.'

_BARBARADEMINç
Sugarldaf Key' Fla.

June 15, 1978lYol. XlV, No. 21
4. Thousands Rallyat UNon MaY
27 th / Pàtr i ék' Lacef i e I d
6. Bay Area Protest Draws Two
Thousand/M i ch ael Ber kow itz

8. "Therefore Choose tife Ïhat
Your Children May Live..."

BillFrelick
10. Taking the Message to the

Nuclear Pawers/Qavid
McReynolds
11. The lnternationalMobe Looks
to the Future / Peggy Duff
13. Scout's Honor inlran/Adam

Finnerty
16. Changes
17 . T

axTalk/Susan Wi lki ns
/ Elliot Línzer and

19. Reviews
Ranìdy

Kehler

Cover: Demon strators walki n g
down 42nd St. towardthe UN.
Photo by Grace Hedemann
STAFF
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Michael Lardner ¡ Lauri Lowell
Murray Rosenblith

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this space. Hoping that may be the reason many of yoù have yet to
respond, we'ró being just a bit more upfront and throwing in a staff
p¡cture as well. We"ll do anything to charm you.
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the religious "Mennonites for PeacQn" "J ewish
Peace Fellowship," and "Quakers for Disarmament.'' There was the Bread and Puppet Theater,
whose huge white birds on poles and giant hooded
spectres oJ death drew the attention of onlookers
who I ¡ned the streets to watch the march , more
than occasionally shouting out words of encouragement or aPPIauding.
.Thousands of demonstrators massed at Dag
Hammarskiold Plaza near the United Nations to
hear an afternoon of speeches and music from such
persons as Australian Bediatrician Helen Caldicott,
'Dave
Del I i n ger, Mobi I ization coord i nator Terry
Provance, Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, and manyothers. But perhaps the most
moving speakers werethose less renowned likethe
ten yeãr old girl standing onãchair so she could
reach the microphone and pleading that "the next
generation have a chance for survival . " Or 82 year

Ciant birrl, loanecl by the Breåcl and Puppet Theatre, soars in front of Crand Central Stat¡on, New York, during the I nternational Religious Procession, the
of a 2:day lnternat ¡onal Religious Convocat ion for Human Survival. Photo by Becky Cantwell.

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crosstown to the United Nations, it became obvious
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by Patrick Lacefield

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who turned out ¡n New Ydrk City on that day to call
for action towards disarmament it did much more
than revive "memories of thecivil rights and anti'
Vietnam War movemehts. " lf the roar of the crowd
in Dag Hammarskjold Plazawhen acti-vist Dave
Dellinger posed the question "Who says th-e peace
movement is dead?" is any indication, the4 the
movement is indeed alive and well and the success
oî May 27 was the beginning of the buildiñg of a
mass movement agaiirst the arms race, nucleâr
power and for a reordering of priorities to meet
pressing human needs.
The day began modestly enough with feeder
walks from several areas of the city to the main as'
sembly point in midtown Manhattan. Sponsored by

the march
Patrìck Lacefield is on the WIN staff and is on the
working committee of the J une'l2 " Sit-ln for

Park and thousands

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gathering in the-United States since agitation
around nuclear testing in the early'1960's, before
Amerièan involvement in a little-known count¡y in
Southeast Asia caused the peace movement to
divert its energies toward dealing with that quagmi¡efor nearly a decade. "lf onlyfivethousand had
come, we'd häve felt we suffered a real defeat,"
said Mobilization organ izer Dave McReynolds. " lf
ten thousand had come, we'Ç have felt we were
in the ball park. Butwith 15, wethinkwe scored a
major victory. "
The march to the UN was nothing if nofcolorf ul
and enthusi4stic. Over 500 J apanese, including
saffron-robed Buddhist monks and Hibakusha (Abomb survivors) led an international contingent
that includêd individuals and groups from over a
dozen countries (including Canada, whose Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau announced to the UN
Special Session the day before that Canada was
unilaterally phasing out its nuclear armed planes
and would not'produce nuclear weapons).
Participants f rom neárly 30 States of the Unipn
carried banners and signs ranging from "Pittsbqrgh Moþilization for Survival" and "Nebraskani
for Peace" to the more philosophical "The Frog
Does Not Drink Up the Pond in Which He Lives''' to

õld Masuto Higasaki, a Hiroshima survivor, who
described seeing bomb victims' skin "hanging like
rags" and lamented that his own children are even
toðay undergoing treatment for the effects of that
fateful bomb dropped almost 33 years ago.

Vietnam veteran and author Ron Kovic followed
Masuto Higasaki to the stage and, leaning forward
in his wheelchair, told the cheering crowd, "We
are here to tell our leaders that people come before
wgapons and power. lt istimetofillthe streets and
the universities once again... " Then he and
A-bomb òurvivor Higasakiembraced and Kovic
proclaimed, "We are symbols of the I iving death !
We are here to hold the leaders of this country

accountable. "
Standing on the rostrum decorated with photographsof Hiroshimaand Nagasaki, Rep. John
Conyers (D-Ml)denounced President Carter for his
Masuto Higasaki; an A-bomb survivor f rom Hiroshima speaks at the rally at
Dag Hammarsklold Plaza. Photo by Patrick Lacefield.

Some.of the thousands of "Nuclear
Photo by Grace Hedemann.

Victims" at the symbolic die-in, May 27.

refusalto attend the UN Special Session and for
sending Vice President Walter Mondale instead to
deliver a speech which focused moreon excoriating
the Soviets in Africa and on the US commitmentto
NATO than on the principles of disarmament upon
which Carter has lavished much rhetoric since
taking office. Carter's refusalto attend a Session
that he had urged other world leaders to be present
at and the tone of the US presentation infuriated
many nations atthe UN. His lame excuseof "not
having the time" mollif ied few, if any, since
Washington is but 200 miles away. Conyers read a
letter that he and 1B colleagues in the Congress had
sent the President asking him to reconsider his decision.
"This is important, Mr. President," Conyers
read, his voice building to a crescendo. "We plead
with you to [isten to the people who elected you.
Cometo New York, Mr. President. This is the most
important subject we will ever discuss-whether
we live or die. "
As Pete Seeger led the crowd of thousands in " lf
I Had A Hammer," a Mobilization delegation
walked to the US Mission tothe United Nations to

presenttensofthousandsof signatureson peti- ..t
tions in support of the Mobilization demands-zero
nuclear weapons, stop the arms racef f und human
needs, and ban nuclear power. For nearly an hour
and a half , they met with Ambassador Andrew
Young, who had watched the rally from a nearby
balcony and was said to be delighted at the massive
outpouring of support for disarmament. The cordial discussion aside however, Mobilization activists reminded Young thatthey would be backon
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Meanwhile, rn Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, the
rally climaxed with the soundingof an air.raidlcivil
clefense siren. As its shrill alarm sounded, echoing
throughor,rt the Plaza, thousands of people, each
wearing a tag iclentifying him or herself as a "nuclear viitim,;' dropped to the ground in a simulated
"clie-in. " A deathly silence fell over the Plaza as
Japanese Bucldhist monks beattheirdrums and
chantecl prayers for the dead and stark black and
white "No More Victims!" banners were unfurled
throughout the crowd' Afterten minutes, the
clrums ceased, the "dead" were resurrected and
the crowd ioined hands and lifted their voices in
song with Pete Seeger and all the other speakers
anclentertainers. The Spring campaign of the
Mobilization for Survival was at an end.
Walking home from the rally, I happened to pass
poster
commemorating the Special Session
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produced by the UN Non-Covernmental Organizations. "To disarm," it read, is, accordingtothe
Living Webster Dictionary , "to reduce to peacetime proportions, to deprive of means to attack or
power to terrify and to turn suspicion or hostility
intofriendliness." How much easier it isto definea
word than to bring a concept to f ruition. Perhaps
the best way to look at May 27 is as the first step in a
worldwide "Long March" to make disarmament a
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American Friends Service Committëe and other
well-established organizations turned out in good
n u m ber. Alon gs ide were you nger activi sts of Vietnam and anti-nuclear protests. Young and old,
male and female, but hardly black and white. Only
a scattering of blacks, Chicanos and Asians were
present.
' Still the parade was diverse' Marchers carried
f laes f rom various countries of the United Nations
Sòãc¡al Seision on Disarmament. Balloons reading
"Arms Raceor Human Race," varioús posters,
floats and banners were displayed. Among the
marchers were emissaries from J apan, clad in traditional garb, beating noisemakers and chanting as
they had in the Continental Walk' A huge,.inflated
globe was rolled along the rorrfe by sev.eral people' .
Óther marchers wore costumes, incf uding masks of
death. The entire procession was led by a lively
group of musicians who rendered a stirring version

at other anti-nuclear demonstrations' As

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Bay Area Protest

I)raws2,000
by Michael Berkowitz

wêy to look at a demonstration is to consider
itasap iece, however small, of social change
May
27, two thousand demonstrators met in
On
San Francisco to take part in this change. The
demonstrators marched from downtown Union
Square to the city's Civic Center where they heard
speakers, participated in workshops and availed
themselves of information and literature at an
afternoon Peace Fair.
The morning march both reflected the subduecl
tone of the 70'i and harkened back to the exuberanceof the60's. ln thecourseof the long procession, there were many of the committed winter soldiers that have sustained the disarmament movementthrough periods when it was not necessarily
chic to be radical. Seniors and middle-aged
veterans of Women's lnternational League for
Michael Berkowitz is a writer and community
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ation,

õf "Th" People United Will Never Be Defeated" as
the march reached San Francisco's Civic Center
where the ral ly was held.
At the rally, the demonstrators were conf ronted
with a symbolic model of the deadly Trident submarine. Disarmament balloons were released; as

Hedemann.

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activist in Berkeley, CA.

the

marchers settled in, a series of speakers stressed
the importance of shifting America's priorities
away from arms and toward human needs.
Reverend Cecil Williams of the Glide Memorial
Church reminded the gathering that f unding the
arms race deprives people of iobs and basic survival needs. Williams pointed specificallytothe
United States' role in Africa. Two of San Franci sco' s S upervi sors returned to th i s theme as they
read a proclamation from the Mayor declaring May
27 as Disarmament Day and urging other mayors to
do likewise. J im Wood's UN Cantata, sung atthe
UN's founding three decades ago in San Francisco,
was sung along with the music of Victor J ara and

other soñgs of liberation bythe group Pueblo
Unido. Folksinging ,iazzand rock provided a nice
balance to the afternoon's speeches and workshops.

vivors aie supported by the J apanese government.
ln the United States, 82 million dollars has been
spent on researchìngthevictims, but nothing has
been spent f or medical care.
Following the speakers were a series of workshops, new games and a Peace Fair with booths
and entertainment. lnformation was exchanged on
the struggles for disarmament and social justice
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throughout the world, including the Trident campaign, the Longest Walk, environmental actions,
gay rights and nuclear proliferation. The afternoon
workshops were an excellent way to end a f ull day.
The sessions gave everyone a chance to partic.ipate
by exchanging views as well as information,
Listening to the dialogue was like getting a stateof
the movement message. One had to take heart as
Charles Schwartz, a Ùniversity of California physicist who had been arrested at a sit-in protesting the
un iversity's war weapon s research , patiently explained the potential compatibility of socialism and
ecology to a young participant who earnestly won-,
dered about "Red China and theother communist
countries. " One came away with the feeling that
there was much work to do, but m uch energy to do
it with.
All in all, the rally was a small piece of social
change as it provided a format for people to exchange information and.ideas, and maketheir
voices heard bythecommunityand local politicians. But to make for broader social change, more
is needed. The length of the lines of demonstrators

wending their way through the streets was impres-

sive. But more people are needed to make a greater
impact on the mass society. We must go f urther
outside our familiar groups and organizations, to
re-recruit the people who helped end the war in
Vietnam. We must reach across class and racial
lines to speak to our brothers and sisters who have
the same concerns that we do. Finally, we must
provide more concrete linkages from rallies to projects, so that a demonstration does not become an
end in itself . The occupations of Seabrook on the
East Coast and Diablo Canyon on the West Coast
th is summer provide j ust the opportunity. See you

there.

One of the most moving presentations was made
by Sheridan Tatsumo, representing Hibakusha,
survivors of the nuclear holocaust, numbering
some 200 now living in the Bay Area. The Hibakusha them selves could not be present due to their
medical condition and the hate mail and harassment they got after appearing at another rally.
Three of the H ibakusha had their medical benef its
terminated because radiation poisoning is not
i n surable. Tatsumo urged the aud.ience to write
letters supporti n g Con gress ional Bi I I s 51 50 and
8440 which would provide medical services to US

citizens who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when
the bombs fell . So far the American government
ref uses to pay for the results of the "lawf ul action
of the US government." ln Japan, the 350,000 sur-

Thanks to the multitude of folks who gave of
their time, talent and labor to make the May
27th Ralty for Disarmament an inspiring and
signif icant political event. A new beginning
has emerged. Accolades to all(each?) of you.

onward!

-Norma Becker

National Co-coordinator
Mobilization for Survival

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l.orn as far away as J apan and as near as the

South Bronx, religious people bythe
thousands converged on the United Nations over
Memorial Day Weekend to call for an end to the
arms race, nuclear technology and weaponry, and
the redirection of governmental priorities toward
funding human needs. The lnternational Religious
Convocation for Human Survival began Thursday
afternoon May 25 amid the rubble and burned-out
buildings of the South Bronx. The devastation of
urban decay caused by a militarized economy was
dramatically compared with the destruction of
cities in wartime. Ms. Fumiko Amano, a survivor of
the Hiroshima nuclear bombing, said the scene re-

minded herof Hiroshima. She joined religious
leaders of the South Bronx in building a "Monument to Life" f rom the garbage and debris on the
same Charlotte Street site where J immy Carter had
earlier stood and promised aid.
That evening, a Native American blessing
opened the Celebration of Life at the Stephen Wise
Free Synagogue. The tone of celebration provided
by such performers as Schlomo Carlebach, Suni
Paz, the Bread and Puppet Theater, and Allen
Cinsberg was interrupted by a moment of silence in
which members of the audience spontaneously
called out names of loved ones who were victims of
the arms race.
The fol lowing day, people f rom a wide variety of
religious traditions crowded into New York's

Bill Frelickis on the sta ff of Clergy and Laity Concerned and was program coordinator for the lnter'
national Re/igious Convocation for Survival.
SWlN J une 15, 1978

Church of St. Paul the Apostleto bring the united
voice of the world religious community to the government leaders of the United Nations Special
Session on Disarmament. Father Paul Mayer, the
convenor of the Religious Task Force of the
Mobilization for Survival, told the gathering, "J ust
as it has been said that war is too serious a business
to leave to the general s, so we say today that peace
is too serious a business to leave to governments. "
A true international spirit developed amonþ the
participants in the Convocation as Moslem and
J ew, Christian and Native American, Hindu and
Buddhist stood together in prayers for peace and
justice. They raised their voices in a united appeal
saying, "We need no leadertodef inefor us an
enemy, nor tp tef l us what we need security for and
defense agai nst. I nstead we aff i rm that our earth's
security rests not in armaments, but in the justice
of adequate housing and food, in the justice of
meaningf ul education and work, and in the justice
of an economic order that gives everyone access to
ou,r earth' s abu ndance. " The rel i gious community's call to action f urther declared, "We unite ourselves with sisters and brothers the world over to
join together in communities of resistance to the
nuclear threat. Before us today are set life and
death. We choose life thatwe and ourchildren may

off icial, Ambassador Ralph Harry, was also presented with dirt f rom Rocky Flats, Colorado, where
plutonium triggers are manufactured for use in all
of America's nuclear weapons.

Our past and our present were dramatically set
forth by the Religious Convocation to the government representatives to the U N. ln doing so, the
world religious community aff irmed that'our f uture
wi I I be the responsibi I ity of a committed movement
of everyone who is co¡cerned with the survival of
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huntanity as a whdle.

Survivors óf e A-Bom b dropped
thousan ds on
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on the human bosts of the arms
a Witnêss for survival in the south Bronx, May 25, p,articipants concl uded a ceremony focussing
raêe by bu ild¡ng a mon umeht to I ¡fe out of the rubble of the Soùth Bronx.

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live."
The Religious Convocation then poured into the
streets of New York led by the Youth Choir of Harlem's Second Canaan Baptist Church. Cospel
singing blended with the chantof the J apan
Budclha Sangha as the procession passed through
Times Square on the way to the UN. There,
J apanese delegates presented rubble from Hiroshimatoan officialof the UN SpecialSession. The
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The International Mobe
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h" ln,"rnational Mobilization for SurÙival f irst
saw the lieht of day in a room iir the Masaryk
Ceiter opposite the Palais des Nations in Ceneva in
October 1977 .ltwas set up as a short-term international with only one purpose-to coordindte activiiiãs worldwide concerning.!he UN Ceneral Assemblv Spec¡al Session on Disarmament. With the
ru'opbrt of major peace internationals, the War
Res¡sters lnternational, lnternational
Confederation for Disarmarnent and Peace and lnternational Peace Bureau, anil of the United Movement against A and H bombs in J apan and the
Mobilization for Survival in the US, three coordinating centers were set up in Europe, J apan and
the United States and an editorial off ice to produce
a monthly news service with ICDP was established

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u nn8 the first week of th e Special Se ron
22 27 the Mobi zation fo r s u rvival 5e nt
delegations to the Missions of every nuclear power.
The most widely publicized viSit was on Saturday

afternoon, May27 ,with AndrewYoung. Theother
visits were also important, stressing our interna- ,
tional concern, a concern.underlined by the fact
that Peggy Duff of the lnternational Confederation
for Disarmament and Peacetook part in allthe
visits except the one to Andrew Young.
As the only person present at all six visits l've
' been asked to give some summary of the value of
such visits. The most important fact is that they
took place. The f irst week of the Special Session
was a hard week for any of the Missions to see us.
Yet each Mission madetime, and in each case the
discussions took at leasta full hour. The British,
while friendly, sènt the lowest level of off icial to
meet with us; the Soviets gave us Ambassador Victor Likhatchev of the Geneva Continuing Conference on Disarmäment; the Chinese designated
Counselor Chou Nan; and of course the US sent in
and much of .his staff . (Let me

chief ambassador
- the
underline that while the US government as a whole

had done a very poor job presenting its case at the
UN, Ambassador Young went out of his way to hold
open Saturday, to permitfull press coverage, and

to later walk among the crowd two blocks north of
his off ice. One might feel Young was seeking to
" co-opt'' the movement by his openness to it- but
I suggest his attitude reflected the concern of one
wing of the US government to help encourage ele-

David McRey nolds is convenor, of the I nter national
Task Force of the Mobilization for Survival and on
the national stafÍ of the War Resisters League.
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ments of the public that oppose the new Cold War).
Covernments do not liketoencouqage inde- -pendent citizen's movements. Thefactthat each
government met with us suggests none dared appear openly hostile to a developing titovement and,
¿ to a lesser extent, each might have hoped to influence us. lf the US is dividedon policy, I suspect
the Sovíets are also divided and moderate elements
in the Soviet leadership may desperately want to
encourage the forces of moderation in the US. The
Chihese visit was politically most important, in,
view of their very hard line in foreign affairs; the
. meeting would not have taken place if they had
seen the Mobilization as Soviet-oriented. ltwas'the
" non -al i gned". character of the Mobi l ization wh ich
made thÑisit possible -and friendlV. All six visits
were f riendly, but one expects that of di plomats.
Our side did, of course, raise the basic moral issues
with each Mission. But in each case we asked
specif ic hard questions of'policy-we pressed the
British and French to'consider unilateral withdrawal f rom the nuclear arms race, urged the
Soviets to give up the "Co-Chair" position in the
Ceneva Conti n u i n g Conference onrDi sarmament (avery sóre point to the Frencþand Chinese), and of
course urged a series of initiatives on the US.
Beyond that, little of substance can be feported.
We were heard out, but dld not sense any serious
willingness to move. The visits did establish two
very important things. One, the Mobili2ation for
Survival is strong enough to merit a fair hearing
from the nuclear powers. Two, the {elegations
made it clearthat we were initiating a process of

"independent diplomacy" based not on guni but
will become an increasingly
powerful independent movement of an international character.

on what hopef ully

in London.
ln the months that followed that f irst meeting,
the new lnternational organized and coordinated a
rash of meetings, conferences, marches, lobbying
of governments, tours of J aPanese survrvors

Peggy Duff is the general secretary of the lnter'
national Confederation Íor Disarmament and
Peace.

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(Hibakusha) in Europe and through the States and
many overseas delegations to New York, to take
part in the Mobilization activities.
The Strategy for Disarmament Conference organized by the lnternational Mobilization on May .
ZA and 29 opened up a new phase: the lnternational
established itself as an ongoing organization. lt
was agreed that it should continue as a coalition
coordinati ng activities on disarmament, against
the nuclear threat, and the arms race, and that
there would be new consultative centers in Australia, Canada, Scandinavia and on the West Coast
of the United States. The lnternationalMobilization for Survival News Service will become a
regular publication, on a subscription basis, and
will continue to publish all reports on actions sent
in by the consultative centers.

The Conference agreed on a program of action
for the coming year covering a wide range of activities. This will be published in the next issue of the
News Service and will be sent to all participants in
the conference. The Program includes support for
making the UN Disarmament Center a f ull scale
agency of the UN, like the FAO and UNESCO, and

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lnternat¡onal Mobi l¡zat¡on Representatives present U Nofficials w¡th disarmament petitions. From left; Barton Hunter, Fellowshipof
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for movements concerned wíth disarmament to
have consultative status with it. lt is proposed that
August 6, Hiroshima Day, should be recognized as
an international day of protest.
A variety of ongoing campaigns are suggested:
against foreign bases and missile guidance systems, against military alliances, for the UN to
monitor ancl register arms sales between governments and especially the sale of repressive-weapons to police and counter-insurgency forces, and
for campaigns against arms bazaars of which two
are planned in the States, in Washington in October and Chicago in February.
The Conference also agreed to support activity
around military camps, with sessions on alterna-

tives to military defense, to support individuals
who ref use military serviceorto paywartaxes, to
urge all governments to recognize the right to conscie'-ntious objection, and to investigate the use of
nonviolent and direct action strategies and encou rage tiansnational actions.
ln one way, the Strategy for Disarmament Conference was unique. lt seems to have been theonly
conference concerned with the Special Session
which invited speakers from non-aligned and
cleveloping countries (which initiated the Special
Session). Professor Smilja Avramov from Yugoslavia was one, Eqbal Ahmed of Pakistan another
and there was also Cu Dinh Ba f rom the Vietnamése Mission to the UN.

Scout's Honor in lran
byAdam FinnertY

ôt ometime within the next 12 months the

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parents of 2,S}OAmerican boys are going to
haüe to decide if they want their sons to help support the Shah of I ran .

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Theywill haveto rnakethis hard decision beJ amboree is going to be held
in lran. That country has been ruled dictatorially by
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavithrough the aid of
secret police (the dreaded SAVAK) and military
courts, and has been condemned by Amnesty lnternational as a "major violator" of human rights.
It seems iron ic that an organization that stresses
a high standard of ethics and ideals would be
sending an estimated 2,500 boys to a gathering
that, in the words of one humqn ri-Sh1s activist,. .
"wiíl be a publicity coup forthe Shah." Yetbehind
the irony lies the fact that the United States has
maintained a consistently supportive relationship
with the Shah - regardless of his repressive practices-ever since the CIA helped bring him to
power in 1953. " l think our delegation [to the
meeting that picked lran as the J arnboree sitel was
very aware of lran's status asa US ally," a'Scout
spokesperson told me candidlY.'
Atthetimeof thecoup in which the Shah took
power, he was seen bythe United States as a bulwark aþainst Soviet encroachment from the north
(as well as "communist" revolution from within).
Ìoday, the US f inds itself looking to the Shah for
suppllås of energy, for sales of arms and industrial
goods, for a military "counter-presence" to the
Soviet Union, and for supportof our peace initiatives in the Middle East.
Thus when the Shah visited the United States
last fall, J immy Carter-Christian, idealist,
Honorary Presidentof the Boy Scouts-stood
firmly and stoically alongsidethe "King of Kings"" '
on the White House lawn while hundreds of lranians in exile-maskedto prevent retributiondemonstrated on the sidewalk. There were clashes
between the demonstrators and a crowd of supporters who had been flown in bythe Shah's officials, and the tear gas that was used to quell the

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on Human Rights andheisapartof theMovement
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disttJrbances wafted across the lawn and brought
tears to the eyes of those participating in the cereryony. (See WlN, 12/1 /7T,foran account of the
demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco.)
I immy Carter may feel that he has to give tacit
approval to the Shah of lran in support of his
-broader" foreign policy goals but the Boy
Scouts ? The contrast boggles the m ind . Macleans
Magazine-the Canadian equivalent of Newsweek
or lime-found itself not a little shocked at the
prospectof Canadian Scouts attending the Jamboree and wondered aloud if the Scouts had lost

their "innocence."
. "lran inaytorture, murder, exile and unjustly
imprison, " Macleans commented, "but by Cod the
Shah sure throws a great party-so great in fact
that the Boy Scouts are quite willing to forgive his
indiscretions and hold their World J amboree in his
c{run$y next year. The scouts, including 1,500
from Canada, will have the run of a 2,000 acre site
replete with a man-made forest and lake,
brand-new dormitories, and f ive olympic-size
swimming pools. This prospect, apparentlv, is
enough to make a scout abandon a lìttle old lady in
themiddleof theroad."
The Fifteenth World Scout Jamboreewill be held
Iuly 15 to 23, 1979.An estimated 20,000 Scouts
from llBcountries will attend for a week in orderto
"exchange ideas, share in competition and fellowship, and spend a week together in fostering the
orlgoanß concept of a world brotherhood of
Scouting. " Those certai n ly seem I audabl e goal s,
and not surprisingly, the Boy Scouts have been
hard pressed to understand why they are being

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criticized.
"Scouti¡g is a non-political activity," stresses
Barclay Bollas, a spokesperson forthe Boy Scouts
nationaloffice in North Brunswick, New J ersey.
"Our participation in such an event should be a
positive contribution to good will and under-

standing.

"

He and other Scout leaders emphasized

that the holding of

in lran did not imply
support for or endorsement of the government.
a J amboree

Cod, " said one Scout leader in philadelphia,
"why don't they leave the kids alone?,,
But Amnesty lnternational sees the issue in a
different light. The Nobel Peace prize-winning
orþanization has sent delegates to observe triãls in
lran. They have received numerous letters and allegations of torture, of midnight arrests, of people
just "disappearing" into the Shah's prísons. Their
conclusion: that lran is a "highly repressive,, state
which does not respect human rights, and that the
Boy Scouts should have the country for their international meetíng 1'changed to one with a better
human rights record thañ lran." The USofficeof
Al intends to write to local Scout organ izations to
ask them to support a change of venue. The Canadian chapter of Al has already done so, and the
response from the Scouts was a decided "no
change."
''The f act that an organ ization as prestigious as
the Boy Scouts would meet in lran wìll betãken as a
sign that things must be improving," says Larry
Cox of Amnesty's NewYorkoffice. "lt will be a'
propaganda victory for the government.,,
Mr. Cox stressed that the Shah was attempting
to upgrade his public image, not through reforms-as Al andthe lnternational Commission of
J urists have recommended-butthrough manipulation of the media. " He is attempting tó convey
the impression that things have gotten better, but
the situation has not improved; there are cosmetic
changes, but no substantial change has taken
place."
Amnesty lnternational, andother human rights
groups with an eye on lran, are concerned that ¡nternational meeti ngs by human itarian organ izations will help supportthe Shah's desired image,
and erode pressure on him to change. They point

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would be surprising indeed if those countries .
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would feel happy with a change of location on
"human rights" grounds.'
The issue, however, is not goingto g.o aryay.
"Liberty to the Captives," a Philadelphia-based
h uman ri ghts organ ization (Box 12236, Ph i la., PA

country.

But will the Boy Scouts respond to the plea? The
answer is not clear. The organization is obviously in
position'. The past 14 J amborees have
' an awkward
all managed to be held in countries that- at least at
the time of the gathering -were not considered to

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oAàs w¡ttr what the Scouts supposedly stand for.
Were the US and Canadian national Scout or.ganizations to ask for a change-of location, or to

ãiscourage thèir members f ronT attending, they
would riskoffending other Scouting countries who
would feel they were "politicizing" the organization. And with other large Scout organizations including the dictatorships in the Philippine5 (1.8

lran is a respected memberof our association
which adheres to the aims and principles of
our world organization. As a memberof the
World Association of Cirl Cuides and Cirl
Scouts we are not in a position nor wouldwe
try to alter the decision [to hold the 23rd
World Conference in lranlmade atthe last
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-BarbaraG. Hayes,
Chief Commissioner,
Girl Guidesof Canada

arrival of death.
...The whipping stopped. They picked up a
pairof tongs, gripping andtearing myflesh.
They began compressing my f ingers in a vice.
They said they were going to pullout my
nails, but they did not do that. Perhaps they
did not want to leave any permanent proof of
their crimes.
- Personaltestimony of Ashruf
Dehquani, an lranian woman who

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By wearing the uniform, Scouts can give
strength and courage to each other by
standing together for some things that are

A persoñ who doe,s not enterthe new political
party and who does not believe in the three

cardinal principles which I referred to, will
have only two choices. Such a person belongs
in an lranian prison, or if he desires, he can
leavethe country tomorrow without even
paying an exit fee.. . . . .. FJe is not even an
lranian, and he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punish,able according to

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law.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

proclaiming the formation of.
a one-party system in lran, 1975.

The situation in that country disturbs me
gÉeatly. ...1 knowthatthere aretens of thousandsof politicalprisoners in lran andthat

izi n g a nation al cam-

are violated all too often . I am distressed that
the United States continues to support such a
repressive government.
- Representative Don Edwards,
Chairman, House Subcommittee on
Civit and Constitutional Rights.

The pain grew more excruciating, more and
more difficultto endure. ...There was noway
out of the agony. I really felt that. There was
nothing lcould do.
I was like a mother delivering a baby. The
pain is there and goes on. Nothing can be
done but wait for the birth of the child. And in
that situation, the birth of the child was the

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paign to get the US Boy Scouts to boycott the
gathering. Richard Taylor, a spokesperson for the
group-and a former Scout- says that his group is
asking former Boy Scouts and Cirl Scouts to contact
their local and national chapters to protest the
gathering. LTC also intends to contact churches on
the denominational and local level, and askthem to
put pressure on the Scouts to amend their plans.
"All of the churches havetaken very forthright
stands on the human iights issue," Taylor says,
"and this is a clear ettrical question that comes
down to the very personal level: Would you want
your son to support the Shah oÍ lran?"

be hiehly repressive. But lran is clearly and currentli a country whose behavior is completely at

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million Scouts) and lndonesia (also 1.8 millionJ-it

out that the Boy Scouts are notthe onlyorganization to aidthe Shah unwittingly: lastyeartFte lnternational Union of Child Welfare Agencies met in'
lran, and this Septemberthe Cirl Scouts and Cirl
Cuides will hold an adult-level conference in the

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right. That's what the uniform really means
-thatwe are bound together byour beliefs.
So that is the challenge to you. To stand up for
what you think! To do that where everyone
can see you! To help your Scouting brothers
take an open stand by taking it yourself .
-The Scout Handbook
Many methods of torture are alleged to be in
use, including both physical and psychological, butthosewhich are mentioned mostfrequently are: beating of the feet, weighted
handcuffs, insertion of electric cosh or bottle
into the rectum, and placing the prisoner on
an electric grill which is thenleaTll"rn"t¡on"r

theciviland human rightsof lranian citizens
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DEEP ¡N THE HEART OF TEXAS
An estimated 200 people attended

AIM ACT¡VISTS SKYHORSE
AND MOHAWK ACQUTTTED
AFTER yEAR-LoNcinl¡l
Native American actívists Richard
Mohawk and Paul Skyhorse are
free- but only after spending
three and a half years behind bars

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and in the courts fightíng murder
charges. The morning afterthey
woh an acquittal and úrere released
u Los Angeles prison Mày24,
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Mohawk reiterated to'the
press his understanding of why the
government put them through the
longest pretrial hearings in California history and thenã trial
lastinþ over a year. He insisted
they had'been singled out because
of the¡r activity in the American
lndian Movement (AlM).
Mohawk had earlier told the jury

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very much the same thing.,,The
evidence will show that the FBI
seized qpon the unfortunate murder of (iabdriver) Ceorge Aird (in
October 197 4) by three other persons in the camp in which we lived,
and sought to tie us, two AIM
members, to that murder in a continuing campaign to destroy the
political viability of the American

lndian Movement in the lndian
and non-lndian communities here
in Soufhern California and across
the coúntry. " After more than a
14ear of testimony and 10 days of
deliberations, the jury apparently
reached the same conclusion.
"The prosecution had no beI

ievable eyewft ness testimony

linking Sklyhorse and Mohawkto

the crime, " defense attorney Skip
Clenn summarized to the jury, ,,no
physicalevidence linking them to
the crime, no believable motiveto ì
link them to the crime, and all circumstances are entirely consistent
with their innocence. "

Meanwhile a string of evidence

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peoplegrrestedatthesceneof the' tactical nr.t"ur*"u
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carter AdministraùãÃ;l orãrr¡Àg
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an ung_olglnqrent made a cläar
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constantiyi'".¡"Ëïóïir:i;;;."_
inements which they can sell to
rniiìiury unA civilian leaders.,,,
'u, t

f

i_
cially.dubbed the Reduced_
R.esidual Radiation bomb. Designed to demolish military structures and. mounta.in passes. ordig
craters, the blast bomb is the
counterpart of the ne.utron bombit cuts down on radiation ànd
heightens blast effects

said.

Meanwhile, as the arms race
.onljnu", *ith ñ'i¿i;pån the
f,óriron, DOE off icials told the
,uU.o¡¡¡¡¡ttee tfre Uãóiiiment will
iãõu¡re $1 .5 billion to maintain its
,t ä.å rf irãt;;;;ö;;
produc_
i¡on ne*t f iscat yeailånlÅ..""r"
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finders to return them with the
time and location discovered so
that the range of radiation (f rom
daily emissions as well as possible
accidents) could be plotted.
After the rally the crowd drove
back to Ft; Worth to attend a series
of workshops, a strategy session
and the Texas premiere of the f ilm

"More Nuclear Power Stations.l'

-Jim

Korea

askedCongresstoapprovefunds Johnson

ror an atomic "blast bomb,,, off

K_ansas

in

and Éurope;;J;j;T.i'i;."
in iÀ; ;;.¡;¡.
*"ãõ"" if., ¡.d wortd
Berkeley is also promising to.have iiü"e.at¡on movements.
"ñ
Nixon or a "Nixon clone', on.hand WbiË:¿"*jpi"Vi"î
the military
tohelp promote the work. When signif icanc"
ofînãiããräà¿
ra¿ia_
askedwhätthatmeant,astore iü"b;b,;h;öõr'iäü¡nu¡¡u"¡.
representative said someone will
said its ¿eíàlopm-ent *¡liUe
be on hand t.o tell lies to their
ãð.iain to escaiite if," ä.m, l.uc"
customers.
since the Soviet Union *itt proU_
.
- Straight Creek Journal ably attgmpt to ¿uplìcaleine
weapon.
'
,,The
blast.bomb primarily re_
*cAR r R c v Es o K ro,, B LAs
E

the gates of the Comanche Peak
nuclear power plant construction
sité in Clen Rose, 35 miles Southwest of Ft. Worth. The plant is
40% complete and is expected to.
be the f irst nuke to beginoperation
in the state. The Armadi llo Coalition of Texas (PO Box 15556, Ft.
Worth, TX 7 6119) sponsored the

release of 400 helium-filled balloons with tags requesting the

- Liberarion News service l[?tåli¿;,:i's5åHJ
llå'.i":t
,,When
REAL HARÞ

with speeches, music, and picnic.
For more information, contãctthe

Dallas area. The rally included the

Marcy Eagle staff . At what level of
"Development of the blast"
government that choice was made bomb is paitof the overall
is unclear.
modernization of tactical nuclear

LrrERAruR

anti-nuclear
power rally in Texas on May 20th.
The gathering took place outside

Participants included citizens
from Austin, Houston, San Antonio and a dozen other Texas
cities as well as the Ft. Worth-

f

Scheinbeck

events
,

noon at John Redmond Reservoir

t'he f irst statewide

event.

.

EURLI NGTON, KS Demonstration against the Wolf- Creek Nuclear Planton Sunday, lune25,12

APTOS, CA-Women's Cathering
on Nonviolence and Feminism
with speakers, workshops,. entertainment, and more on July 7-9 at
Mo4te Toyon Camp. Costs are
$27.50 for lodging, meals, and
registration. For more information, contact: Women's Cathering,
c/o WRL/West, 1360 Howard
Street,. San Franci sco, CA 94102
(41s) 863-8641.

BOSTON, MA-Boston to Seabrook Safe Energy Walk will leave
Boston on J une 17 andarrive on
J une 23. For more information,
contact Boston Clamshel l, 2161
Massach usetts Ave., Cambridge,
M A O21 40 (617 ) 661 -6204.

Sunf lower Al I iance, 431 1 Holmes,
City, MO 641 10 (81 6)

753-5370.

NEVADACtTy, CA-War Re-

sisters League/West Reg ional
Conference will be held Ãugust
25-27 atJohn Wootman Schoot.
For advance registration and more

information,.contact: WRL/West,

1360 Howard Street, 2nd floor, San
Francisco, CA 94103 (415)

626-6976.

NEW YORK CITY- Nonviolence
training for New York City Seabrook occupiers will take place on
J une 17.18. For more information
on the sessions, contact the NY
Clamshell Training Committee,
c/o WRL, 339 Lafayette St., New
York, NY 10012 (212) 228-O45O or

write Peggy Weingard, PO Box
4793, Arcata, C495521.
SAN LUIS OB¡SPO, CA- Transm ation / restorat ion /blockade of
the Diablo Can'yon nuclear facility
on August 6-9 with energy fair,
legal rally and civil disobedience.
For more information, contact the
Abalone Alliance, 452 Higuerá,
Í or

San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

SANTA CRUZ, CA - Nonviolent
Organizers Training Session on
J une 17-30 in Santa Cruz. For more
information and registration, contact Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz,

cA95060.
SAUGERTIES, NY- "Say No to
Nukes!" Rallyon Saturday, June
24,1 pm. For more information,
contact : Blackbird Outreach
Group, 76 Crandview Ave.,
Catskill, NY 12414. (516) 943-2202.

624-8337.

NEW YORK CITY-Martha
Kearns will speakon "Susan Saxe
and Me" on Thursday, J une 15, I
pm, at Brecht Auditorium, 186 W.

4th St. Admission: $2. For more
information , call (212) 989-6493 .

€

NEWYORK CITY-Joseph
Fahey, Eileen Egan, and J ames
Finn will speak on "The Catholic
Church and Disarmament" on
MoniJay, ) une 12, 1 :30 pm at
Plowshare Coffeehous e, 777 UN
Plaza. Sponsored by Fellowshipof

Reconciliation.

Here's some War Tax Resistance
news from the West Coast and the

Midwest:

NEW YORK CITY Benef it for
Seabrook activities with David

-

Amram, Rev. F. D, Kirkpatrick,
Utah Phillips, andotherson Friday, J une 16,7:3Opm at Ethical
Culture Society, 2 W. ilth St.
Tickets are $5 ($3 .50 for students)
For more information , call(212)
222-9106.

Still Ain't Conna Pay Fot War No
Moreis still available from the
folks who published it in Minnesota last year. There are only about
200copies left, soorder now. The
price of the supplement is 501
each, with a $1 quantity discount
for each 20 copies ordered. Due to
a grant from the Bay Area People's
Life Fund, up to f ive free copies of

SACRAMENTO, CA-Peacemakers Orientation Program in
Nonviolence on J uly 21-August 4

the booklet can be sent to individuals and groups who cannot afford

at the Catholic Worker House, 243
Bay Drive. Cost; $3 pef day. For
more information and to register,

Minnesota War Tax Resistance,

to pay. For your copy write to:

c/o 122W. Franklin, Rm. 302,
Minneapolis, MN 55404..
June15, 1978W|N17

The Seatt/e Sun, Seattle's largest
weekly, printed a lengthy sympathetic article on war tax resistance in April. The writer of the
article interviewed Seattle area
resisters, Betty J ohanna and lrwin
Hogenauer. Hogenauer, who was
a CO in World War ll, served two
years in a "civilian concentration

holding

a cardboard neutron
bomb. Afterthe singing, theatre
and mailing of 1040 forms, the
demonstrators released a hundred
balloons with the WTR message.
One of the organ izers of the demo
said "We've told our neighbors
and the lRS, now let's tellthe
world. The last thing the IRS wants
is for news to get out that people
are protesting the arms race by not
paying war taxes. " For more information about th is newly formed
WTR group contact Bill Van Wyke,

camp" from which he went AWOL
andended up serving ten months
of a two-year prison sentence. He
went to prison not wanting "the
state to take my body for its diabolicaluse" and left it "with a
2222Fuller,#1207 , Ann Arbor, Ml
f irm conviction that they were not
4810s (313) 761-sOO7
going to get my money either. "
Karl Meyer recently sent me the
And he has refused to pay federal
following material which he
taxes since'1946.
thought might interest and amuse
Outreach of this sort is vitalto
TAX TALK readers.
the growth of the tax resistance
Karl was a member of the f irst
movement. The "general public" group ref using the telephone exseems much moreopen tothe idea cisetax and authorofthe first
of ref using some or all federal
leaf let promoting phone tax
taxes than it did, say, f ive years
refusal in'1966:
ago. The war has come home now
I told you that I have been rein the form of unemployment, inceiving /etters Írom IRS inquiring
flation, nuclear weapons and
about my 1975 tax returns. fhese
power plants prol iferating, welfare inquiries have come in the form of
cutbacks, etc.:, issues which many a series oÍ slightly diftering, and
peoplê who did not relate personprog re ss iv e ly mo re insistent,
printed Íorm letters, which
ally to the war in lndochina can
relate to directly now, because
number four so f ar.
they must. Big corporate gains are
fhe /RS mightf ind allof the
our losses and they really hurt.
answers to its inquiries in the text
Even Esquire magazine, (perhaps of a soapbox talk that I gave on
following Playboy's lead) has a
April 15, 1975 at a tax resistance
major article on tax "rebellion"
rally in the Federal Building Plaza
which Esquire sees as widepread
outside the main /RS office in
and cooking.
Chicago.
ln that talk I gave three basic
Another form of outreach, April
reasons why I had been atax
1Sth demonstrations, allover the
resister, atthattime, for fiÍteen
years:
country, whether low-keyed or
dramatic, were lively and effecllThe taxes / wouldbeexpectedto
pay are insignif icant to the govtive. ln Ann Arbor, Michigan, a
diverse group of 60 war tax
ernment, but are very valuable and
resisters and supporters gathered important when directed to the
at the Ann Arbor federal building
s m al I v ol u nta ry associ ation s Íor
peace and socialwelfaretowhich I
April 15th to "publicly¡ communally, and joyf ully" ref use to pay for give instead.
war. Clowns danced on the steps of 2lFor my own sake, Íor my own
the federal building while demon- life, it is importantthat I take a
strators handed out helium
stand, that I respect myself as a
person who can not and will not be
balloons with attached cards
reading "Say yes to life-Don't pay compelled to participate in the
war taxes. " A street theatre group murder ol other peoplethrough tax
acted out the options for the use of paid armaments.
tax money and demonstrators sang 3l For the Íuture of society it is impeace songs. A specter of death,
portantto preserve the tradition of
shrouded in black, stood to the side dissen t, d i sobed i ence and.resis.

\

tance to the evlls of the rnassive
warf are states.
So I remained simple-minded,
ngle-m i nded and i ust pl ai n

si

stubborn.

Well, perhaps someone high in
the /RS building was listening to
me that day, three years ago. Perhapsthey thought lwas just
talki n g. Per h aps they d idn' t believe me. Perhaps they have spent
the three ¡zears since then clawing
through piles of canvas mail bags
fulloÍ tax returns, searchingfor
one that maybe came from me.
And yet, after checking their
records, after searching, after
severa/ searches, after much
searching, they still haven't been
able to locate my '1975 tax return.
All Ican say is, "Cood luck,
f riends, and keep on looking."

Karl has successfully resisted
payment of almost all federal incometax since 1960. From 196Bto
1970 he prevented withholding by
claiming suff icient numbers of dependents on W-4 forms. (Note: you
can now claim "allowances"
which are anticipated itemized deductions and as far as we know no
one has yet been hassled bythe
I RS for claim ing large numbers of
allowances). He did not filetax returns or inform the IRS directly but
was known in the peace movernent
as an outspoken advocate of war
tax resistance. (Heoncetold me
he felt that his ultimate prosecution by the goverrtment was chiefly
the result of his being such a

"blabbermouth. ")
OnApril15,1971, hewas
charged in Federal Courton five
counts of claiming extra
exemptions on W-4 forms. On May
21 the prosecution cited his long
record of convictions for anti-war
protests and read excerpts from
his Catholic Worker articles advocating WTR. He was sentenced to
two years and $1000. He was
released on parole after serving
nine months. The f ine was never
collected and Karl has persisted to
refuse to pay federal taxes ever
since. For details of this man's
long standing resistance seeAin't
Conna Pay For War No More. Karl
Meyer can be reached at 1209 W.
Farwell, Chicago, lL 60626.

-Susan Wilkins

BIOLOGY AS A SOCIAL WEAPON
Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective
Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapoli s / 1977
$5.95 (paper)/Available fromlscience for the People,
897 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

somes with aggression and criminality in the 1960's?
Do you remember proposals to screen the chromosomesof all newborn malesto determine, at birth,
which ones will grow up to become psychopathic

criminals ? Today, just ten years after the original
flurry of articles on XYY chromosomes, almost all
research in this area has ceased because it is now
clearthat the original association between XYY
Throughout modern history, when oppressed people chromosomes and aggression
was the result of sloppy
have struggled for their own liberation, theories have research and premature concl usions.
developed to "prove" that the oppressed are not
To effectively counteract racist and sexist ideology,
worthy of eq ual ity because of characteri stics i nnate to it is essential to understand the lack of scientif ic
their biology. These theories can be combined under support these ideologies have. Biology as a Social
the rubric of biological determinism. We have seen it Weapon is a powerf ultool in this struggle.
in various forms, from the "divine rights of kings"
through the race and lQ debate and the current popu- THE USE AND ABUSE OF BIOLOGY:
larity of sociobiology.
An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology
This book comes out of a conference on biological
by Marshall Sahlins/University of Michigan Press,
determinism held in Ann Arbor in1975 sponsored by Ann Arbor/1977 /53.95 (paper).
Science for the People. The papers contained in this
ìn1975, Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard entomologist,
thin volume (154 pages) cover a wide spectrum of
issues, including race and lQ, sex roles, aggreshad his massivetome, Sociobiology: The New
sion, the enúironmental crisis and sociobiology. Some Synthesls, published in a f lurry of publicity in both the
of the papers werewritten by people well known in
scientif ic and mass media. ln it Wilson tried to
develop a single theory of social behavior which would
their f ields (Richard C. Lewontin and Murray Bookchin), some by people less known and two are written apply to all animals from ants and wasps to humans. lf
hechose notto includehumans in histheory, itwould
col lectively (by'the-Cenetics and Social Pol icy. C roup
be controversial only among thoSe scientists who
and the Sociobiology Study Croup of Science for the
study animal behavior. By his inclusion of humans,
People).
Racist and sexist ideology has always had to invent Wi I son h as added the newest ch apter to the h i story of
biologically determ in istic ideology. Wilson and other
a pseudo-scientific basis to legitirnate itself . The
restrictive imm igr:ation laws of 1924 were the result of sociobiologists argue that genes play an important
part in the way we behave, and because genetics is
" scientif ic stud ies" wh ich "demon strated" that
not easily changeable, existing social relations and
Anglo-Saxons and northwest Europeans were
superiorto eastern and southern Europeans. The re- hierarchies are universal, natural and beyondour
intervention,
sulting quotas were with us untilthe 1960's. Forced
sterilization laws were based on the supposed heritaSahlins shows howthe mechanisms Wilson postunal
ity,
ism
mi
alcohol
kin selection and reciproc¿l altruism, just do no.[
indedness,
cri
lates,
feeblem
bi I ity of
operate in humans the waythey might in insects.
and other socially undesirable traits as well as
general ly accepted racist bel ief s.
Furthermore, the existence of culture, the cumulative
ln spite of the repudiation of these ideologies by
and noncumulative transferral of information and
most scientists, racist and sexist biologies die slow
traditions from one generation to another, operates in
humans to reduce or eliminate any effect genes might
deaths in the public mind. How many readers
have on our social behavior. Wilson's sociobiology is a
rememberthe news stories linking XYY chromowork of ideology, not science, which attempts to show
Elliot Linzer is writing a dissertation on genetics and that what is i s what ou ght to be. Sah I i ns correctly
ideology and is active in Science for the People. Randy demonstrates how Wilson's biology is used to bolster
Kehler is active inthe FranklinCounty, Massachuthe status quo by attempting to prove that western,
seft6 A/tern ative Energy Coalition, and served time
competitive; sexist, capitalist institutions are the
result of innate human characteri stics.
as a Vietnam draft resister.
$5.00

18WlN J une 15, 1978
June15, 1978WlN 19

THEPHOENIX

Spring
thing \
¡
sure,sheknewwhatshewouldn'tbe!Sh¿w;i¡d;'r \'.-inwestvúhate-lyandraisingfourchildien,the

What would she be ten Years f rom now? One

James Cooney, editor/Morning Star Press, RFD,
Haydenville, MA 01039/year subscription gl0,
ln the Editorial Noteof the Spring'26 edition of a
be.autif ully bound and printed little literary jou¡nal
called The Phoenix, editor J ames Cooney writes:

6

campaign?

\

B

ut pe r h a ps th e prof o u nd.l.y al te r i n g even ts now so

perceptibly, yet invisibly, clo,setothe upheaval will
usher in sudden astounding translormations rather
than immensechaos and grief . Perhaps these transformations are being heralded in the rnost unlikely
p/aces by solitary scattered humans such as Krm
Chi-Ha and Andrei Sakharov...
\\r',/4il/ü!if
Br8

Drawing by Bus.

have only one rtegative comment on The Use and
Abuseof Biology. lt was written in a hurry, to be
available early in the debateover sociobiology and
suffers from the haste in which it was published. I
would have appreciated it if some of the points were
discussed at greater length and the references were
I

more f ully documented.
Most of this book is easily understandable by anyone with a minimal background in anthropology and
interested in the sociobiology debate.

.-Elliot
20WlN June15, 1978

Linzer

The volume begins with seven poems by Kim
Chi-Ha, the imprisoned Korean poet now serving a
life sentence for speaking out against the tyranny and
oppression ofthe puppet South Korean government.
"Even my starving, sick, depleted body, burning
away in undeterred revolt, at the end it remains as
something to strike with. . . "
The Phoenix is primarily a journal of short stories,
and this issue contains some of the very best l've ever
read. Though none of the stories is typícal, Florence
Stevens' "American Migrants" is typically moving.
It's about a young black girl named Debbie whose
family has surreptitiouslytaken refuge in a rural, allwhite church.

Her mind drifted as she lay there enioyingthe
luxury of being the only person awake. She wondered
about the people of this church; speculated about the
new house; then fell to thinking of her own f uture.

of

197O alter 30 years spent

farming

of her mother, haphazardly married, Cooneys and their friends pãinstakingly secured an
havingonebaby aÍter another, growingfatandworn old press and began publishingonceagain. Theirfirst
out and grumpy, and always moving, moving,
creation was a bõund set of the 1938-40 volumes,
moving
which is still available upon request.
I can't end without mentioning the subsequent
MattieandStub, Debbie'smotherandfather, have (Summerand Fall,1977) issueolThePhoenix. The
searched all overthe countryside for a house, even a dedibation on page one of this unusual edition reads:
shack,torent-butnothingl'hoturnedup. Despite "ln honorof, andwith lovefor, LouiseMichel,
their Sunday rnorning disappearing act and the¡r at- Katherine Breshkovsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst
tempted vigilance during the week, the Tyson family - Toller, Emma Coldman, Alexander Berkman, and all/
is eventually discovered. The congregation is split
the others, known and unknown, who preceded us
with such grace and valor in the ongoing human
down the middle about what to do, and a special
parish ioners' meeting is called. Unbeknownst to
struggle for truth and f reedom" "
everyoner including her family, Debbie f inds a hiding While containing several excelleht short stories
placebehindadoorwithaslendercrackthrough - andawonderf-ulpoembyHarryMurtaghentitled,
which shewatches, withtrembling apprehension, the "Mary, Motheiof Jesus," thisvolume is primarilya
startling events which follow. Forthe unexpected collection of little-known prison writings, bythose
outcome of this sad account, you'll have to get your- whose names appear in the dedication and also by a
self a copy of this issue of The Phoenix.
contemporáry prísoner, J oseph Asher, who is curI wish there were space here to give you a taste of
rently corresponding with the editor from the bowels
some of the other delights, like the one about the
of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
young employee at the N iagara Mohawk power staNo prison writings l've read have come closer to my
tion, or the one about the old canal attendant whose own prison experience during the tndochina War,
granddaughter turns the tables on him, or the hilar- than the letters of Ernst Toller, a young Cerman
iousspoof aboutthetalking hgrseWhorides hiscow- socialistof Jewishþarentagewho,'tl:t1t1g,became
boyfriend intoaghosttown inhabitedbyuppity, an- thefirstpresidentandcommanderof thearmyof the
thropomorphic rats.
short-lived and brutally,decimated Bavarian Republic
Most of the stories in The phoenix are not the works of workers, peasants, and soldiers. Here's an
of well-known authors; in fact, many of these writers example:
are publ i shed here for the f irst time. Un I ike most
It is dreadf ul to be exposed day after day to the
literary journals, the selections in The Phoenix are
monotonous, constantly repeated noises of this place.
not chosen for reasons of literary style alone. ÄlFrom the cells above and f rom below and from all
though J im Cooney claims that each issue takes its
sides the so unds come to you. Noise in the corridors,
own form, clearly each is also formed by the consistent vision - at once angry and powerf ul, loving bunches of .keys iangling, cell doors with their heavy
iron bars slamming shut, rollcalls of names by the
and gentf e, of J im himself .
Because it is my good fortune to live on ly three
ryard9ns, the clomp of hob-nailed boots, or, more
d.read.ful still, the shuÍf ling of rubber so/es. Day after
houses down the ioãd from J im Cooney unã h¡r
family, l'vehadtheoccasiontolearnabitaboutthe daychainsof soundstrangleyouwiththeirdissonance.
historyof the journal. J im, at age28, and his wife
Blanche, at age 19, put out the l¡rst volume of poems (However). . .l would make myseÍf out poorer than t
and stories in 1938-settingthetype, printing, and am if I did notacknowledgethatimprisonmenthas ':
bindingbyhand-inWoodstock, NewYork. Dueto alsobestoweduponmehoursof fullness,of lisfening
'
ecpnomic obstacles that were largely the result of
to the inner voice, oÍ deVotion to that multitude of
their ardent opposition to World War ll, they were little things whose character and inner meaning and
forcedtoclosedowntheprintshopinlg40.Duringits beautyareonlyrealized,divined,seenandfeliøyu
brief , two-year life, however, The Phoenix gained a man who livesthe meditative liÍeof a monk. Beyond
sizeablefollowing both hereandabroad. Amongthe theprisonwallsthereistoomuch rest/essness;weare
early contributors were D. H. Lawrence, Kay Boyle, blind, we love too little, we do not'love as brothers or
with a great enough devotion. One life who lives in a
Robert Duncan, William Everson (now Brothe,
Anton inus), Henry Miller, and Anais Nin, the latter cell learns to know the b/essed depth s of the poúver to
\
two being published in America for the f irst time in love.
the pages of The Phoenix.
-Randy Kehler
be a replica

single issues $3.

On th i s S pr i n g even i n g i n th i s l¡ ast week of Apri t i n
this year of 1976 a gentle rain is falling here in West
Whately and the air outside is soft and warm and tragrant. Across the f ields by the orchard brook, peepers
are calling outtoone another in criesof pure iubilation: joyous hosannasovertheir resurrection and rebirth. Listening to them evokes a pang oÍ envy; then
deepening melancholy for envying so lowly and circumscribed a joyousness. Yet if one could only call
forth to one's fellow beings so confident anote?s
theirs at this hour in human history. tt's been so long
since any steadfast good news has cheered the human
scene. Here in tf¡is Brcente nnial Year with itsobscene
commercial hoopla in con junction with the obscenities
of another Presidentialcampaign, the year 1976
shapes ever more discernibly into the year of
America's great debacle. How can anyone imagine
the phantasmal farce otanother pre sidential

ln the

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,

J

une'15, 1978 WtN 21

Please send letter with resume to Edith Ceisè, lnterim Execut¡ve Directo¡, The Cray Panthers, 37m
,Chestnut'3ì ;, Plriladelphid, PÁ 19104.
FtFr.

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Getting Back
Our Lives

Altéinat iVé5?êsearclt group cútoff fronr the world
nq, Crinherg, C:C Central 1933. BuenosAires,.Argen-

tinaf lOlD).

FORTHF ocCINNINh J UNE
Alliance, 62 Con-

SEABRObK'78:
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Help - The Clanr shell Alliarrce clesperately needs
funds to hel p pre¡rare fr¡r the cr¡m in g occupat ion/
restorat ¡()n I une 24. We need thousands of dollars
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the
gress Street, Portsmoulh, N. H. 03801 . 32 pages including maþi, photographs anfl an educâtiorial text
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sERV¡CES

,l

The Brandywine Peace Cotrmunity and Alternative
Fund is a nonviolenl resistârìce commun¡ty (bolh
live-in and extended). We are working for peace.

disarnrament, andachangeof valuesand priorities
away from war and its preparation to an enrphasis.on
peace, social iustice, and people's needs.
Brãndywine sponsors educa{ional piograms, act ion campaigns; and publ ic demonstrat ion s in order
to highlight the moral, political, ancl econo¡nic imperat ive of disarrnanìent. Adclitional ly, the group is
making a positive statement with ¡ts alternative
funcl. Th i s fund, conìpri sed ef refused r¡lar taxes,
personal savings, and group deposits, makes
inlerest-free loans to soc¡al change and service
groups Iprimar¡ly in Delaware and Clrester Counlies, Pa). Contact: The Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund, 51 Barren Rd., Media, Pa.
19603.

LIVING ALTERNAIIVES
Novelist will exchange 2o hrs. weekly labor for
herrn it -sl yle roonr and hrarcl. Rocky Mt n . area. Felix
Singei, 1j51 Washington, Denver, CO8O.-ìO2.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORÏUN¡TIES

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PUELIC
The National Mil¡tary D¡scharge Proiect of the
ACLU Foundation will merge with the clinical program at American University effective J uly 1, 1978
and will continueto be involved in thefull rangeof
veteran's problems. Contact : National VeteranS'
Law Center, Washington Collegeof Law, Americ¿n
Univers¡ty, Washington, D.C. 20016.
Tlre new Spring/Summer Calendarof Events for the
Reir¡urce Center for Nonvkrlence i s now available!
Allthe informat¡on, times, and datesof majoractions, events, study groups, workshops, and
training sessions in nonviolence offered by the Resource Center äre provided in this full page, color
calendar. To find out more and get your copy, wr¡te

orcall the ResourceCeirterfor Nonviolence,
2324,Sant a

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PO Box

C.A95O63 {408) 423-1626.'

lf you are interestecl in disaimament, feminism, war
tax redslance, nonviolenceororganizing a WRL
local chapter and you live in the South then please
contact the new War Resisters League Southeast
Regional Office, 108 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill,
N. C. 27 51 4 (919) 967 -7 244.
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