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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD
968 Valencia, San Francisco 94110 Vol 2 / Number 1 / Issue 6 January, 1971
, MA.D,
KINSTON, N. C;
JOIN THE
REVOLT!
The Marine Gorps Builds
Revolutionaries.
The Life of David Osborne
Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Jan) - David Osborne is one of
thousands of unwilling captives of the Marine Corps. He
is presently being held in the Pendleton brig facing a
general court martial for desertion, a charge which
normally results in a special court martial. oOzzie�, as he
B eniienbate is known, enlisted when he was 17. He's been fighting
Osborne? Talked ~So? He bc ns ever since. For starters, he helped get Marines at
Tan Sisous going causing troub e. Pendleton together around a paper called oAttitude
AWOE Ines yeas. Good thing Said he was on his Check : Once that was moving, he helped join with
; way back. sailors in San Diego to form Movement for a Democratic
. Military (MDM). When the shit at Pendleton got so bad
that he could no longer breathe, he led a group of fifteen
guys in a slave revolt, leaving the plantation behind for
greener and freer pastures. But when he decided to
return, he helped bring some of that freedom back to
the Corps by building up guyTs confidence in themselves
and in their power they shared as slaves to the Man. But
in December of 1969, someone turned up the heat on
Ozzie and he left to share his strength with ex-Gls in
Canada. In the year he was up there he worked a lot
with the American Deserters Committee and even
organized a march m Vancouver in support of the GI
movement. By December of 1970, Ozzie decided that
this visit was over, and that it was time to return to
Pendleton, join his friends and fellow slaves, and break
the beast from within. Bad luck would have it that Ozzie
got busted at the border. The Marine Corps says he
deserted because heTs a revolutionary. They got it
backwards. Ozzie returned because heTs a revolutionary.
His courage and determination are an example for Gls
everywhere. This is why the Marine Corps wants to put
him away. If you want to support Ozzie, fight like he
did. He'd like to get letters, too. Write him at P.O. Box
1356, Vista, California.
You Can Get $25
For a Deserter
This article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle of
Sept 15. We reprinted it in full so that all you ex-GI brothers
who are now underground can keep up on SamTs desperate
actions. Consider their problem: according to their figures,
since last year absentees are up 20% for the Army and 50% Washington
for the Marine Corps. Look at their answer: the computer
and the dollar. ItTs sick, but typical of military thinking.
riod when guilty of the uni-
The:Pentagor aid ves form code of military justice
as Sc S* : * ~
terday it will start using | OF Seeks asylum in a foreign
: ; : computers and cash re- * :
But the PentagonTs not stupid. Just desperate. ThereTs a wards in dealing with de-| A serviceman is considered
popular underground in this country that is daily harboring, " sertersandservicemen AWOL under the new rules
aiding, and abetting Glbrothers on the run. Like the slave who go AWOL. when he is absent without au-
: : pare : ~ srt ) ~ity for fewer than 30
underground railroad, itTs invisible to its enemies, but visible New regulations. signed vgs for fewer.. tha
to its friends. But this underground isnTt organized. There are
no lists, no tunnels, and no coded messages. Just millions of
people who have chosen sides for the GI and against the
government.
Oh yeah. Our counter-intelligence unit has checked Dept
of Defense figures. In the two months since theyTve made this
sick offer, they have no records of anyone turning someone
in. Maybe theyTd turn in their friends for $15. What they
canTt understand is that thereTs more holding us together than
money. ThatTs why weTll win and theyTll lose. ThatTs what
All power to the people�T is all about.
THE PENTAGON COFFEEHOUSE
ThereTs a place in Oakland that was built for you
by a group of your friends who you havenTt even
met yet. If you love your branch of service, and
dig hanging around base, then you won't dig the
coffeehouse. But if you think the beast sucks,
and would dig talking to people who feel the
same way and know what to do about it, make
it on down to The Pentagon Coffeehouse at 690
Seventh Street, Oakland. Call first to make sure
theyre. open: 832-0686. Free films. Free
dinners. Legal first aid.
August 24 by Deputy Defense
Secretary David Packard.
for the first time brought all
The regulations sel up a
($15 cash reward for the ap-
prehension and detention of
branches of the Armed | absentees. deserters or es-
U sain under ? unified oe 'caped prisoners. It also seta
tem for handling | deserters reward of $25 for anyone cap-
and those absent wane offt- ~turing and returning to the
cial leave (AWOL), a Penta military an absentee or de�
gon spokesman said. sestincate
Under the new rules, a de-| But Packard said no one
serter is classified as anyone| could receive both a $15 and
who is AWOL for more than | a $25 reward.
30 days, is absent for any pe- United Press
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At Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Japan,
32 Marines rebelled in the brig back in July. They held
the brig- for more than 14 hours by barricading
themselves against armed MPs. They revolted because of
brutality by brig guards, bad food, overcrowded
conditions and the fact that most brothers had been in
pre-trial confinement for months awaiting trials for the
ocrime� of having gone AWOL.
Thirteen brothers were picked out and made
scapegoats after everything had simmered down. Since
then, one brother, Pvt. Davidson, has already been
sentenced to five years in prison and a DD. On October
19, they dropped charges against three
brothers--Hermansky, Morgan and Johnson. Three other
brothers--Grief, Robert and Daniels--were released from
pre-trial confinement the same day.
Japanese civilians and other Marines stationed at
Iwakuni have been demonstrating to free all the
brothers. Some of the cases have been moved to
Yokusuka Naval Station. But there, as at Iwakuni, Gls
are organizing. At Ilwakuni Gls are putting out a rag
called Semper Fi. And at Yokusuka, brothers are putting
out the Yokusuka David.
The brass is constantly trying to smash Gls attempts
to organize by threatening them with long jail sentences.
But these threats have not stopped the GI movement.
The resistance to the lifersT rule has only grown. The
brass may put some of us away, but they canTt build
brigs and stockades to put us all away. They may win
some battles, but we will win the final battle.
For more information about the !|wakuni brothers,
write to: American ServicemenTs Union (ASU), room
538, 156 Fifth Avenue, NY NY 10010, or to Semper Fi,
PO Box 86, Chuo Post Office, Hiroshima, Japan, or to
Pacific Counselling Service, Ishii Building 6-44,
Kagurazaka-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
FREE THE IWAKUNI BROTHERS.
Rhode Island (August) - On a foggy morning in late Aug,
three sailors--David Rampton, Mark Vincent, and Tom
Tashey--and their friend Kate Gordon, split the Navy.
They made their getaway in a 1953 motor sailor called
~The SkunkT. It took the Navy $250,000 and one
destroyer-escort, 3 Coast Guard cutters, several aircraft,
Maine and Connecticut police, the FBI, and ONI to find
them. For eight days UA (uninhibited adventure) they
were charged with desertion and held for two months
pending court martial. On, Sept 20, Kate Gordon was
headed to the brig to visit her fiance, David Rampton,
when her car was struck in a head-on collision. The duty
warden refused to let Dave use the phone to call the
hospital. Hoosen, the warden, just said, ~ooMy heart bleeds
for you, Rampton.� Kate died the next morning.
Rampton and Tashey have since been released, but are
restricted to base. But as far as we know, Vincent is still
in confinement.
Newport, RI (Oct) - The USS Ingraham was scheduled to
sail to Italy when the Middle East Crisis was at a peak. A
few days before departure, someone opened a sea valve
in the after-engine room, and let in about a million
gallons of Narrangansett Bay, causing a three foot list.
Newport, RI (Oct) - Disgruntled sailors took a monkey
wrench to the wave guide on the surface search radar. It
was repaired, wrecked, and repaired again. Just before
the ship was set to sail on its next cruise, the whole wave
guide was torn off. Something that isnTt there can't be
fixed, right?
Cecil Field, Florida (Oct) - Five men broke into an
arsenal and made off with more than 150 pistols.
Anyone with more information should write us.
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Fort Meade, Maryland (Oct 20) - American ServicemenTs
Union (ASU) organizer Herb Blenner, was acquitted by a
special court martial for refusal to carry a shotgun on
~prison chaserT detail. He defended himself for more than
four hours. A dozen ASU brothers from his unit were
backing him up. Instead of taking the defense, Blenner
took the brass head on. He said to the judge, oMajor
Thompson, you have not been elected to your position
by the people by a democratic vote and therefore you
have no right to sit in judgment of anyone.�
San Francisco (Nov-Dec) - ScanilanTs magazine finishes a
four month battle to publish and distribute their issue
on guerilla war in America. The magazine was printed in
Canada because no printer in this country would do it.
Then the Canadian government seized almost every copy
under the War Measures Act. Although US Customs and
FBI agents tried to prevent small truckloads of the issue
from reaching San Francisco, some issues foung their
way to magazine stands. Many of these were confiscated
by government agents. By Christmas, both the Canadian
government and US officials were forced to release all
seized copies. The editor of this magazine may still go to
jail for printing interviews with members of sabotage
cells and not revealing his sources to the govenment.
USA (Nov) - During the month, two regional
conferences for the GI movement took place, one in
Philadelphia and the other in Chicago. Active duty Gls
and civilian project workers attended to meet each other
and share their experiences. Their successes mark the
beginning of a new feeling of optimism and power in the
face of a freaked-out military establishment.
Camp Lejeune, North Carolina (Nov) - About thirty
Marines, most of them black, refused to take training for
riot control. Because they were together, base command
was reluctant to push for a general court martial for
disobeying a direct order, and settled on placing them on
restriction.
F;
Tokyo (Nov) - oHow'd you like to hold up a slice of
bread, the only bread available, and count the weevils?�T
oHow'd you like to work 12 to 15 hours a day average,
sometimes 18 to 20, and get about two hoursT liberty in
seven months?� These statements were made by a group
of 75 crewmen from the USS Satyr when they talked to
San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Service reporter
Michael Berger. The ship is called the Green Wennie by
its 175-man crew. It functions as a repair ship in the
upper Mekong River. When the Green Weenie put in to
Yokosuka for repairs, the crewmen talked to a reporter
and also contacted the American ServicemenTs Union
(ASU) group there. ItTs a good thing they did.
Twenty-five were busted for dope, and ASU brothers are
now working on their defense. When the guys wrote
their Congressmen, all the politicians did was forward
the complaints to the Navy. That resulted in two
inspections and zero changes.
Columbus, Ohio (mid-Nov) - An Ohio State University
student was wounded when police and firemen broke up
a rally at a recent football game. The student was hit a
policemanTs .38 caliber bullet.
Cambridge (Nov 17) - Cops with submachine guns, shot
guns, and rifles, kicked down the door of the PeopleTs
Information Center (PIC) and busted seven people on
narcotics and gun charges. PIC is a political group
working with young people in the Cambridge
community. At the time of the bust, PIC was putting
out a paper and trying to build a food co-op and a book
store.
Dayton, Ohio (Nov) - Three active duty airmen from
Wright-Patterson AFB filed suit against their base
commander, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the
Secretary of Defense to get on-base distribution rights
for their paper ~Star Spangled BummerT. The paper was
started the summer before by the Wright-Patterson Gls
United group. Distribution on base has been denied
twice before because the brass considered it ~Ta clear
danger to the morale of Air Force members.�
Angela Davis salutes supporters as she leaves San Rafael courtroom, Ruchell Magee is in foreground, chained and
bound to his chair.
Make Your Own History
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r They'll Make It For You
Conakry, Republic of Guinea (Nov 22) - Portuguese
mercenaries, armed with US-supplied NATO equipment,
invade the free black nation of Guinea. The people and
government of Guinea have been aiding liberation
fighters in PortugalTs two colonies in Africa, Angola and
Mozambique. Portugal was denounced in the United
Nations for this invasion.
Detroit (late Nov) - The General Motors strike ended
after two months. No _ real gains were.won. The
management immediately raised prices on new,model
cars in order to meet new wage demands without having
their profits pinched.
Santa Barbara, Calif (late Nov) - The notorious Isla Vista
branch of the Bank of Amerika was bombed, but not
much damage was done. Over the past year this branch
has been burned to the ground by the people of Isla
Vista who are mostly street people and students. The
bank funds construction projects in Vietnam, and
provides financing for the landlords who were bleeding
the residents of Isla Vista for all they could get. Two
teenagers were caught, and their bail has been set at
$100,000 each.
Germany (Nov) - Black Sgt. Jim Hobson was the first of
ten men (nine black & one white) to go on trial on
charges stemming from a bombing incident last May.
The ten-day general court martial could have put him
away for 195 years. The charges were an obvious
frame-up, since Jim was talking about certain grievances
with the post commander when the explosion went off.
A lot of guys, black and white and brown, got together
around their friend's trial. So did people in his homé
town, ChicagoTs South Side. They put on a rally, wrote
letters of support, and even sold blood to raise money
for his legal defense. Because of this support, Jim was
acquitted of the heavy charges, but busted for missing a
formation. For this he was knocked down to E-1 and
forced to do 90 days hard labor. This incident and
others were discussed at a rally by over 1000 Gls on
Nov. 28 when Unsatisfied Black Soldiers (UBS) issued a
new oCall for Justice�T.
New Orleans (late Nov) - For a long time the city powers
have been trying to keep black revolutionaries from
organizing within the housing projects for better living
conditions. The National Committee to Combat Fascism
(NCCF), an organizing arm of the Black Panther Party,
was trying to do just this when 200 city cops attempted
to storm their headquarters. They were prevented from
doing this once when nearly a thousand residents of the
Desire Project stood around and protected the NCCF
office. But within a week, another raid caught the
people by surprise. Thirty-one were busted on heavy
felonies and one sister was shot in the chest.
Chicago (Nov) - Elementary school students publish an
underground paper at Phillip Rogers School. They call it
oThe Eye�.
Vietnam (Nov) - After a lot of ochicken shit�
harassment, Gls in the 173d Abn. just decided to run
their own lives. It started one night when an 11 o'clock
bed check was announced. To this a GI responded,
oSorry sarge, but we won't be able to make it; thereTs a
meeting for E-4 and below at 2300 hours.� About a
hundred guys turned out to take their grievances to the
CO. Seven were elected to represent the others in
negotiations. The colonel listened to their grievances,
nodded politely, and then signed transfers for five of the
seven. Word is back that these five have carried their
fight with them. This same unit also lost two lifers on
Oct. 29. These lifers had evidently been antagonizing
their men to the breaking point, even trying to volunteer
them for extra missions. One, a Staff Sgt. Reed, was
fragged in his bunker. Another, an unidentified platoon
leader, drowned trying to cross a flooded stream. The
men under his command refused to try to rescue him.
USA (Dec) - Several ex-Gls who worked in the field of
intelligence gathering testified that the Army spies not
only on anti-war civilians, but also on government
officials. Adlai Stevenson II/ is among the most notable
targets of MI attention. Newspapers across the country
came out with strong editorials condemning military
surveillance of civilian political activists. Laird responded
by directing MI, CiD, ONI, ASA, NIS, and the others
like them to report not to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but
directly to him.
Long Beach, Calif. (Dec) - Ten people of the Movement
for a Democratic Milirary (MDM) were busted and held
on felony charges for three days before the frame-up was
exposed. City cops entered the MDM bookstore with an
arrest warrant, and when they looked around they found
a jar of sulfuric acid (used in making hand-cast jewelry),
fuse (rope incense), and a shotgun (legally possessed).
Everyone was taken in, and the house and bookstore
torn apart. When the matter came to court, 75
community people turned up in support. Charges were
dropped.
Buffalo, N.Y. (Dec 1) - Three people who were working
on oCold Steel�, BuffaloTs underground paper, were hit
with Grand Jury indictments. They were charged with
criminal anarchy, inciting to riot, conspiracy, and an
assortment of misdemeanors. All charges stemmed only
from articles which had appeared in the paper.
San Francisco (Dec 1) - SaigonTs Vice-Tyrant Ky spoke
before the Commonwealth Club, an association of
war profiteering corporate business executives. Outside of
the hotel where he spoke, 6000 people fought police and
attempted to stone the hotel. People were especially
angry because a municipal proposition condemning the
war in Vietnam had just been passed the month before.
The crowd carried over a 1000 NLF flags in the
demonstration making it one of the largest pro-NLF
demonstrations ever to held in this country.
Chicago (Dec 4) - Over 2000 people, most of them
students who had walked out of high schools all over the
city, turned up at a rally to honor the memory of Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark. These two men were members
of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party who
were killed in their sleep by state police in a raid last
Dec. 4.
Salinas, California (early Dec) - Cesar Chavez, head of
the United Farm Workers, was jailed because he refused
to call off a national strike against lettuce growers. Three
weeks later he was released by court order. While in jail,
he remained on a hunger strike. Sympathetic hunger
strikes occurred throughout the state. A twenty-four
hour vigil was maintained outside the jail every day of
his imprisonment.
North Philadelphia (Dec 8) - Over 3000 people marched
from the black community to City Hall to protest the
murder of an AWOL black Marine, Raymond Brooks,
who was active with the Young Lords Party. The rally
demanded the immediate suspension of the cop who
shot Brooks, and an investigation into his death.
Georgetown, S.C. (Dec) - Since early August, workers at
Georgetown Steel Company have been on strike. Of the
500 workers who have walked off their jobs, about half
are black and half white.
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Corpus Christi, Texas (early Dec) - More than 500
Chicanos moved into the streets of the city to protest
the murder of a Chicano brother by a city cop.
Tacoma, Washington (Dec 10) - A mistrial was declared
in the case of the Seattle 8. TheyT~re facing conspiracy
charges which grew out of a support rally in February
for the Chicago 8 conspiracy. When the mistrial was
declared heavy contempt sentences were handed down,
and the seven people were transfered to different prisons
throughout the country. They have been freed on bail,
awaiting their appeals. The eighth defendent has not yet
been caught.
Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Dec) - SA (Seaman
Apprentice) Randall Davis is proving to the US Navy
how he feels about the war and the military
establishment. For the first two weeks of December, he
hasn't eaten anything except for an occasional cup of
coffee or tea without milk or sugar. Davis says he is on
his hunger strike because he'd rather be dead than in the
Navy. The brassTs response was to pull Randy out of
Electronic Technician school and put him to work in the
Chief's Mess Hall serving food. Last we heard, he hasn't
eaten yet.
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Messhalls
Why is lettuce grower Bud Antle a friend of the
deadly Dow Chemical Company and the deadly
Pentagon(Dept of Defense)? Why is it that the United
Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) and Gls
everywhere are forming a united front to smash this
friendship?
Well, for one, Bud Antle Incorporated is the second
largest lettuce producer in the world, owning 43,000
acres of land. The UFWOC is boycotting all non-union
lettuce, specifically Bud AntleTs lettuce. The largest
producer of lettuce, Interharvest, already signed a pact
with the Farmworkers. This boycott has mainly been
taking place at chain supermarkets across the U.S. ItTs
similar to the farm workers struggle against the grape
growers which just ended last summer. Since business
went bad for Antle at chainstores, he has been selling his
lettuce to the military. Due to this, the boycott has been
extended to include the military. Brothers and sisters in
the military are refusing to eat non-union lettuce at
messhalls and are refusing to buy non-union lettuce at
the PXs.
The Dow Chemical connection comes through the
fact that they are leasing Antle 3000 acres of a 17,000
acre spread they bought from him when he was in a
pinch for quick cash. The President of the Dow
Financial Corporation, C.F. Weaver, is one of AntleTs
five board members. Antle and the Defense Department
are good clients of some of DowTs more lethal
herbicides. Antle uses the same chemicals in his fields
that have been used in the defoliation of Vietnam. These
herbicides have been linked to widespread birth defects
in Vietnamese children, and to diseases suffered by the
farm workers who. harvest AntleTs crop.
One of the reasons UFWOC is striking and boycotting
is because they want a clause included in their contracts
banning the use of DDT and related long-lasting
pesticides in the fields. Second, the UFWOC contract
offers a medical plan which will cover almost all migrant
workers. Also, UFWOC contracts eliminate the labor
contractor and substitute a hiring hall, seniority system,
and a grievance procedure to insure fair employment
practices. The average wage in the US for all farm
workers, including all year-around hired hands,
according to statistical data released by the US Dept of
Labor in 1967 is $1.33 an hour. The UFWOC is seeking
an hourly wage of at least $2.10. This is what they got
when they signed with Interharvest.
Some growers have signed contracts with the
Teamsters, but the people in the field want nothing to
do with the Teamsters. To use their own words, oThe
Salinas lettuce strike is not just another jurisdictional
battle between unions. Farm workers in Salinas are
engaged in a basic self-determination struggle. We want
organized strength in a union that is close to us and is
responsive to our needs and our hopes. We want a leader
we can trust. We believe in Cesar Chavez and the United
Farm Workers. Thousands of us have struck ranches with
Teamster contracts, which were negotiated by growers
and Teamster officials without our knowledge or
support. We are outraged, and we will continue our
non-violent struggle until we are represented by UFWOC
alone.�
The government has made every possible attempt to
crush the farm workers struggle, In September 1970,
Judge Anthony Brazil issued a permanent injunction
against all UFWOC strike activity in the Salinas area.
With the strike outlawed, the farm workers announced a
nationwide boycott of all non-union lettuce grown in
California and Arizona (85% of the nationTs production).
On October 6, Judge Gordon Campbell furthered the
governments efforts to crush the farmworkers
movement. He ordered the UFWOC to stop boycotting
Bud Antle. The UFWOC appealled the decision on the
basis of free speech, which is supposedly guaranteed by
the Constitution.
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No Lettuce
Gls know that these injustices are not something that
only farm workers experience. Gls know this from direct
experience with the lifers who constantly snap orders at
Gls and then court martial them for not carrying them
out perfectly. Whether itTs Gls being thrown in the brig
or stockade for demanding better barracks or ship
conditions, or whether itTs farm workers being jailed for
demanding more humane working conditions, we all
come up against the same oppressive boot on our necks:
the big corporations, the White House, and the
Pentagon.
The brothers and sisters in the ManTs military machine
will play a very important part in the success or failure
of the farm workers boycott. During the 1967-1970
table grape boycott by the UFWOC, military grape
purchases suddenly soared upward by millions of
pounds, with a 350% increase to Vietnam in one year,
and was also accompanied by purchases above prevailing
market prices. In 1969-1970 the Dept of Defense
purchases of AntleTs lettuce totalled 5,960,000 pounds,
$730,000 worth. During the first three months of the
lettuce boycott the PentagonTs purchases have soared
once again, 4,690,000 pounds, and Antle was paid
$750,000. On December 15, 1970, the brass bought
45,000 pounds of AntleTs scab lettuce to be sent to
Vietnam and paid him $2 per box above the usual
market price.
To fight the brassTs attempt to break the farm workers
movement, a campaign was kicked off to extend the
boycott to the military. On January 11, demonstrations
occurred outside 30 military installations throughout the
US. The UFWOC has filed a suit against Melvin Laird
and the Dept of Defense for being strike breakers.
Gls are planning many different things. At Fort Ord,
California, a mess hall boycott is in the plans. Also, a
fiesta with farm workers and Gls is being planned. At
many installations, stickers have started to appear which
urge military brothers and sisters not to eat or buy scab
lettuce. Rap sessions are set up, leaflets distributed. The
GI underground press which now numbers between 80
to 100 papers, is going to carry the development of the
struggle. The many GI organizations are going to move
in support of the farm workers boycott. All over the US
where there are UFWOCs, they are going to work with
Gls in their area. If nothing is happening where youTre
stationed, write 638 Oak Street, San Francisco,
California. Phone: (415) 864-5613.
DonTt wait for others to start boycott activity, but get
together with your friends and start it yourself. Gls in
Nam and other overseas areas should in no way feel
isolated from the stateside struggle. Stop scab lettuce the
best way you can. If you need more information about
the farm worker fight, write the above address.
On November 20, Cesar Chavez, head of UFWOC,
sent a telegram to Herbert Doan, President of Dow
Chemical Company, asking to discuss DowTs
involvement. Instead of a reply, he was thrown in jail on
December 4 on contempt of court. He had not
responded to Judge CampbellTs orders to call off the
boycott against Antle. The judge said that Cesar would
have to remain there until the boycott against Antle was
called off. In response to this the farm workers
announced that their boycott would now also include
products of the Dow Chemical Company, such as
SaranWrap, HandiWrap, and Dow Oven Cleaner. Picket
lines went up around many Dow locations around the
country. Dow knows what the unity of people can do to
their profits. Dow used to produce napalm for the
government. But enough pressure was applied by the
people and this forced them to give up their government
contract.
Because the great support that Cesar received from all
spectrums of American society, a higher court was
forced to temporarily set him free. A 24-hour vigil had
existed ever since he was jailed.
ItTs not difficult not to eat or buy lettuce, or to get
others not to eat it or buy it. The only healthy lettuce is
the one that has the United Farmworkers Union label on
it. LetTs mobilize.
Think back to your high school days. What happened
to people who talked back to teachers and refused to
kiss ass in the classroom? They got kicked out of class,
and were sent to the principal. If they gave him shit,
they got kicked out of school. In other words, that
person was isolated from the others because the people
with power in the school were afraid that that person's
rebellion might spread. The same thing happens on the
job when someone tries to build a union. TheyTre fired,
separated from the other people who work there.
In the Gl movement, the same tactic of isolating
friend from friend is used on three levels: (1) between
Gls who are already turned on to the movement and Gls
who arenTt yet, (2) between movement civilians and
their GI brothers, and (3) between different people
around the world who are fighting the American beast
and the Gls who are forced to fight them. When you
hear sweet songs about *T...hey people, letTs get together
right now...� or oT... break down the walls..."T, they~re
talking about breaking down this isolation and joining
with your friends to fight the Man.
ThereTs more to say about these three levels than
would fit in this entire newspaper. About how the Man
encourages racist feelings to keep us fighting each other.
About how the Man uses guyTs confusions about
communism to keep them distrusting the other people
who are already fighting back. About how the Man lies
about Vietnam, tells you that theyTre gooks and dinks
and slopes and commies besides, and thereby keeps you
confused and afraid so that you'll take orders and be too
unsure of yourself to tell the Man to shove it.
But this article is more about what theyTre most
worried about--the disappearing separation of the civilian
from the Gl. The news of the last two months is what
makes us think theyTre uptight about the collapse of
their walls.
Item 1: During the month of December, quite a few
bases across the country went on shotgun alert to
~~defend themselves against terrorist attacks by
Weathermen.� The real purpose of the alert was to get
enlisted men to fell that Weatherman was a threat to
them, but that they shouldnTt worry since base
command would protect them from any invasion of
young and wild freaks.
Item 2: In the last two months, both Fort Ord and
Fort Lewis have become closed bases. Gen. Pearson at
Lewis claimed this was necessary because of o~the severe
internal threat posed by guerilla-type terrorism on post,�
and referred to Weatherman and Panthers as the source
of this threat. In fact, the incidents Gen. Pearson was
referring to (a weapons, theft, ammunition thefts, arson,
and vandalism) were alluthe Worle.of Ft. Kewis Gls, who,
like the Weathermen and Panthers, were striking back in
the most direct way they knew how. PearsonTs real
problem is that he has ~Weathermen and PanthersT
stationed at Fort Lewis. The reason the base was closed
to civilians was to isolate Gls from a vital base of
support from the outside.
Item 3: In November and December, five movement
people from Los Angeles were hit with Grand Jury
subpoenas which required them to either testify about
their political activity or go to jail. Of course, the five
told the Grand Jury to shove it, so wound up in the
slam. Two of the five are with Support Our Soldiers
(SOS), a group which funds GI papers and projects. The
effect of the busts on SOS was that they had to stop
fund raising and begin building a legal defense. In other
words, it was a time and energy rip-off which isolated
Los Angeles from the GI movement. The people who
suffered were the GI projects which relied on them for
money.
Item 4: Fort Carson now has an experimental on-base
GI coffeehouse. It was started to try and get guys away
from the Homefront, a popular coffeehouse near the
base run by both civilian and GI revolutionaries. It
became a popular center for Gls who were working to
fight the Fort Carson brass.
The Pentagon is sweating it because they know
theyTre losing the key to control of the GI: isolation.
Man, if theyTve got you separated from your friends, itTs
much easier for them to scare you so bad that you'll
never stand up to their shit. To really understand how
important isolation is to them, think back to basic
training. You were isolated from permanent party
personnel. You were isolated from the base town. And
the town itself was probably way the fuck off in the
boondocks somewhere. This is what they have to do to
make you civilians into soldiers.
If you want to be a soldier the rest of your life, then
donTt read any farther. But if you're like most prisoners
of the machine and hate it with a passion, make good
use of the following advice. Wherever youTre stationed,
there are people living in town who will support you in
your struggle. Finding them is as easy as picking up a
telephone. For starters, check through the _ local
underground newspaper. If no GI projects are listed,
then talk to the people who put out that paper and
they'll definitely work with you. If the town has no
underground rag, contact the local draft counselling
center, peace center, or poor people's legal office. If you
are black, Asian, Chicano, Latino or Indian, you could
probably find a community organizing project in the
ghetto nearest you. To be sure you make contact, write
us and we'll put you in touch with people who will
provide local support.
No fence can separate ithe people from the people
ITTS TIME TO COMI
~~The moment has come when not only NLF
supporters but the entire Vietnamese people are rising
up against the US and generals Thieu and Ky... The US
has converted South Vietnam into a one way market for
their consumer goods. US blackmarket goods flood the
country. Vietnamese are forced to conclude that the real
aim of American economic aid is to force total
dependence upon the US .. . The US is trying to
transform Vietnam into an American type society . . . to
Americanize the Vietnamese to turn Vietnamese into
foreigners in their own country . . . the US is not looking
for peace, but rather forcing the Nguyen Van Thieu
government to try to achieve a military victory. Faced
with the threat of extermination by war the whole
population takes part in this struggle . . . They are not
working for the NLF or any particular ideology.�
The author of this statement is Ngo Cong Duc, the
manager of SaigonTs largest newspaper, TIN SANG
(Morning News), the president of the South Viet
Newspaper ProprietorsT Association and deputy for Vinh
Binh province in the Saigon National Assembly (he was
elected in 1967 on an anti-Vietcong ticket). He made the
Statement in Paris on Sept 12, 1970, and was
representing, among others:
" The Buddhist movement which demands peace and
independence, led by the United Buddhist Church.
* The Movement of Struggle of the Students, which is
inspired by the Student Union of Saigon and the big
cities, and which is demanding independent universities,
no forced military training, no forced recruitment into
the Army, and is opposing the policy of pursuing the
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* The Movement of Women, which is demanding the
right to life and a return to peace, and which is led by
the WomenTs Action Committee for the Defense of the
Right to Life.
oThe Movement of War Victems, which is demanding
food and housing, and which. opposes . the poor
treatment these victems have received from the US and
the Nguyen Van Thieu government.
oThe Assistant Archbishop of the Catholic Church.
o The Vice President of the National Assembly (H.
Van MInh). // ~
* The head of the Faculty of Liberal Arts (Vi Ba).
Since this speech, the growing hatred of Americans is
becoming more and more evident. The Vietnamese
people realize that without US intervention, the Saigon
puppet government would crumble. Alliances of
different groups of Vietnamese are being formed
throughout South Vietnam, and theyTre demanding the
withdrawal of American and allied soldiers as a first and
necessary step to stop the war. One is the Peoples Front
Struggling for Peace. It wants to bring together all social
and religious groupings, and calls for o~bringing about
peace on the basis of national self determination,� and
demands the oestablishment of a government truly
representative of the people of the southern part of
Vietnam in order to stop the war in line with the wishes
of all the people.�T
The groupTs platform is important because it demands
that foreign troops leave Vietnam, and that the two
halves of Vietnam be reunited. Other peace groups were
afraid to take this stand. What this means is that even
the staunchest anti-communist Vietnamese have realized
that their enemy is the puppet Thieu-Ky government
and the US government which props it up, not the
Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) or the
National Liberation Front (NLF) or the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
Another clear indication of the rising hatred of
Americans in South Vietnam is the massive
demonstrations aganst American occupation and
atrocities. On December 11, 1970, in the city of Qui
Nhon, and American soldier shot and killed a
12-year-old student, Nguyen Van Minh, who was sitting
on the fence at his high school waiting for class. The
murder of this young boy touched off days of rioting
and demonstrations by high school students later joined
by adults. For nine hours the studentTs bloody body was
carried around the city in a procession. The next day a
crowd of 4000 stoned some Americans, burned an Army
jeep, damaged several trucks, shouted anti-American
slogans and sacked JimmyTs American Bar. They also
broke windows at a hotel occupied by American civilian
contractors. The following day the city was under a 24
hour curfew, and American soldiers were confined to
their bases. US officials apologized for the shooting, paid
$170 for the funeral and $840 in compensation to the
boyTs relatives. At the end of the week, PFC Mathias
Yzaguirre Jr. of Brownsville, Texas, was charged with
negligent homicide.
Two things should be noted here: (1) the US
government thinks it can make amends for anything,
including murder, with money; (2) the US government
wouldn~t have done anything had the incident not been
publicized.
It may seem strange that the killing of this one boy
could bring so many people into the streets to
vehemently express their resentment and hatred of
Americans. But, oThe killing,�T they said, o~was like that
last drop of water in a full glass that caused it to
overflow.�
Most Vietnamese townspeople see you Vietnam Gls as
a ~~big foreigner who drives recklessly through town,
yanks the hair of their daughters, knocks hats off old
men, smokes marijuana constantly, calls them ~dinksT
and sometimes kills innocent people.� According to one
villager, Vo Van Ba, oAmericans consider Vietnamese
lives very lightly. The death of an innocent civilian
doesnTt really count much to them. The Americans used
to have fun by pulling our hats as they drove by. We
stopped wearing our hats. | was also stoned from time to
time, but that did not hurt much. We are like mice and
the Americans are like cats. We are their playthings.�
page 6
oPeople ask me who my heroes are. | have only
One - Hitler. | admire Hitler because he pulled his
country together when it was in a terrible state.
But the situation here is so desperate now that
one man would not be enough. We need four or
five Hitlers in Vietnam.� = Nguyen Cao Ky in 1964
The Saigon Pe
The Vietnamese can no longer tolerate this shit from
the American soldier as the following list of events
prove.
Saigon, Dec 14, 1970 - A wave of fire bombings
directed against American military vehicles led to travel
restrictions for US troops in Saigon. Military personnel
were restricted in traveling to official business and
American civilians were advised to ~keep their heads
downT.
Saigon, Dec 13, 1970 - Two homemade gasoline
bombs burst against US Army bus.
Saigon, Dec 12, 1970 - A soldier driving a jeep
suffered burns when someone threw a firebomb at his
vehicle.
Saigon, Dec 16, 1970 - South Vietnamese bombed a
hotel housing US officers and attempted to burn two
jeeps.
Saigon, Dec 17, 1970 - One of SaigonTs main US
military housing sections was bombed. A fragmentation
bomb was thrown into a group of American Gls. And a
35-pound explosive charge wrecked the lobby of Horne
Hall, a US officers billet about a mile from the scene of
the grenade attack.
ITTS TIME TO COME HOME AND FIGHT!
~o~The moment has come when not only NLF
supporters but the entire Vietnamese people are rising
up against the US and generals Thieu and Ky . .. The US
has converted South Vietnam into a one way market for
their consumer goods. US blackmarket goods flood the
country. Vietnamese are forced to conclude that the real
aim of American economic aid is to force total
dependence upon the US . The US is trying to
transform Vietnam into an American type society . . . to
Americanize the Vietnamese to turn Vietnamese into
foreigners in their own country . . . the US is not looking
for peace, but rather forcing the Nguyen Van Thieu
government to try to achieve a military victory. Faced
with the threat of extermination by war the whole
population takes part in this struggle . . . They are not
working for the NLF or any particular ideology.�
The author of this statement is Ngo Cong Duc, the
manager of SaigonTs largest mewspaper, TIN SANG
(Morning News), the president of the South Viet
Newspaper ProprietorsT Association and deputy for Vinh
Binh province in the Saigon National Assembly (he was
elected in 1967 on an anti-Vietcong ticket). He made the
Statement in Paris on Sept 12, 1970, and was
representing, among others:
o The Buddhist movement which demands peace and
independence, led by the United Buddhist Church.
o The Movement of Struggle of the Students, which is
inspired by the Student Union of Saigon and the big
cities, and which is demanding independent universities,
no forced military training, no forced recruitment into
the Army, and is opposing the policy of pursuing the
* The Movement of Women, which is demanding the
right to life and a return to peace,.and which is led by
the WomenTs Action Committee for the Defense of the
Right to Life.
*The Movement of War Victems, which is demanding
food and housing, and which. opposes the poor
treatment these victems have received from the US and
the Nguyen Van Thieu government.
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"The Assistant Archbishop of the Catholic Church.
o The Vice President of the National Assembly (Ha
Van Minh). II
* The head of the Faculty of Liberal Arts (Vi Ba).
Since this speech, the growing hatred of Americans is
becoming more and more evident. The Vietnamese
people realize that without US intervention, the Saigon
puppet government would crumble. Alliances of
different groups of Vietnamese are being formed
throughout South Vietnam, and theyTre demanding the
withdrawal of American and allied soldiers as a first and
necessary step to stop the war. One is the Peoples Front
Struggling for Peace. It wants to bring together all social
and religious groupings, and calls for obringing about
peace on the basis of national self determination,� and
demands the ~~establishment of a government truly
representative of the people of the southern part of
Vietnam in order to stop the war in line with the wishes
of all the people.�
The groupTs platform is important because it demands
that foreign troops leave Vietnam, and that the two
halves of Vietnam be reunited. Other peace groups were
afraid to take this stand. What this means is that even
the staunchest anti-communist Vietnamese have realized
that their enemy is the puppet Thieu-Ky government
and the US government which props it up, not the
Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) or the
National Liberation Front (NLF) or the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
Another clear indication of the rising hatred of
Americans in South Vietnam is the massive
demonstrations aganst American occupation and
atrocities. On December 11, 1970, in the city of Qui
Nhon, and American soldier shot and killed a
12-year-old student, Nguyen Van Minh, who was sitting
on the fence at his high school waiting for class. The
murder of this young boy touched off days of rioting
and demonstrations by high school students later joined
by adults. For nine hours the studentTs bloody body was
carried around the city in a procession. The next day a
crowd of 4000 stoned some Americans, burned an Army
jeep, damaged several trucks, shouted anti-American
slogans and sacked JimmyTs American Bar. They also
broke windows at a hotel occupied by American civilian
contractors. The following day the city was under a 24
hour curfew, and American soldiers were confined to
their bases. US officials apologized for the shooting, paid
$170 for the funeral and $840 in compensation to the
boyTs relatives. At the end of the week, PFC Mathias
Yzaguirre Jr. of Brownsville, Texas, was charged with
negligent homicide.
Two things should be noted here: (1) the US
government thinks it can make amends for anything,
including murder, with money; (2) the US government
wouldn~t have done anything had the incident not been
publicized.
It may seem strange that the killing of this one boy
could bring so many people into the streets to
vehemently express their resentment and hatred of
Americans. But, oThe killing,� they said, o~was like that
last drop of water in a full glass that caused it to
overflow.�
Most Vietnamese townspeople see you Vietnam Gls as
a o~big foreigner who drives recklessly through town,
yanks the hair of their daughters, knocks hats off old
men, smokes marijuana constantly, calls them ~dinksT
and sometimes kills innocent people.TT According to one
villager, Vo Van Ba, oAmericans consider Vietnamese
lives very lightly. The death of an innocent civilian
doesnTt really count much to them. The Americans used
to have fun by pulling our hats as they drove by. We
stopped wearing our hats. | was also stoned from time to
time, but that did not hurt much. We are like mice and
the Americans are like cats. We are their playthings.�
oPeople ask me who my heroes are. | have only
One - Hitler. | admire Hitler because he pulled his
country together when it was in a terrible state.
But the situation here is so desperate now that
one man would not be enough. We need four or
five Hitlers in Vietnam.� Nguyen Cao Ky in 1964
It has been my jmpression, after visits to Vietnam
that a majority of the people in Vietnam support
the guerillas in the countryside but do not support
Senator Stuart Symington (Mo.)
the Thieu government.
The Saigon Peace Movement
The Vietnamese can no longer tolerate this shit from
the American soldier as the following list of events
prove.
Saigon, Dec 14, 1970 - A wave of fire bombings
directed against American military vehicles led to travel
restrictions for US troops in Saigon. Military personnel
were restricted in traveling to official business and
American civilians were advised to ~keep their heads
downT.
Saigon, Dec 13, 1970 - Two homemade gasoline
bombs burst against US Army bus.
Saigon, Dec 12, 1970 - A soldier driving a jeep
suffered burns when someone threw a firebomb at his
vehicle.
Saigon, Dec 16, 1970 - South Vietnamese bombed a
hotel housing US officers and attempted to burn two
Jeeps.
Saigon, Dec 17, 1970 - One of SaigonTs main US
military housing sections was bombed. A fragmentation
bomb was thrown into a group of American Gls. And a
35-pound explosive charge wrecked the lobby of Horne
Hall, a US officers billet about a mile from the scene of
the grenade attack.
Saigon, Dec 20, 1970 - Angry students stomped into
the deanTs office at the University of Can Tho and
handed a note to President Thieu demanding (1)
oForeign soldiers end robbing and killing and absolutely
respect Vietnam's sovereignty, and (2) the Government
must make public its attitude concerning foreign soldiers
who slay Vietnamese.�
Saigon, Dec 29, 1970 - 100 students firebombed a US
Army bus in Saigon and then stoned South Vietnamese
and American military and civilian police until dispersed.
Before the murder of Nguyen Van Minh, the US
Command suggested that Americans travelling in
Vietnam do so in twos. Now the buddy system is not
sufficient to make any travel besides official business
worth the risk.
The situation in Nam is tense. The Vietnamese hate
the US government but they donTt see the government.
They just see you, the American Gls. The reality of the
situation is what a GI in Qui Nhon said. oI! guess the
problem is they donTt want us here and we donTt want to
be here.�
It was in April, 1968, that I first heard a Vietnam
veteran describe a seek-and-destroy mission as o~seek-and-
avoid.T He said that most of the men in his company,
an infantry unit stationed near Danang, didnTt think
the war seemed oworth it� in terms of life, limb, and
disrupted youth. oOn patrol,� he explained, o~we were
supposed to go a mile and engage Charlie, right? What
we did was go a hundred yards, find us some heavy foli-
age, smoke, rap, and sack out.�
In the past two years, hundreds of thousands of
American soldiers have used this tactic. Refusal to take
part in combat has grown so widespread that it need no
longer be surreptitious. Gls leave their firebases with
impunity; commanders fear that court-martialing them
will undermine whatever remains of morale. Officers
and NCQs who insist on ordering troops into the field
are commonly o~fraggedTT"hit by a grenade rolled un-
der their tentflaps. Blatant racists are dealt with sim-
ilarly. Gls smoke marijuana freely, realising that a round-
up of potheads would deplete the infantry faster than
you can say Hatfield-McGovern.
The meaning of the GlsT reluctance to fight has
not been lost on the Pentagon, where the masterminds
are expediting the volunteer Army and planning an ever
greater role for the Air Force. But the American people
have long been denied the information that itTs their
boys, not President Nixon, who are cancelling opera-
tions.
In the October 23 issue of Life there is an illuminat-
ing piece by John Saar: ooYou CanTt Just Hand Orders,�
a portrait of a young company commander. We learn
that Capt. Brian Utermahlen, West Point 68, enjoys a
rapport with the men of his oexceptionally good com-
panyT because he hasnTt court-martialed those who re-
fuse to go to the field; hasnTt persecuted the blacks
(whose spokesman sympathises with the NLF and muses
about fighting for liberation back home); hasnTt busted
the weed blowers; did dismiss a zealous sergeant who
tried to enforce certain o~less urgent ordersTT; and man-
aged to lead a 1 7-day mission in which no one, friend or
foe, got seriausly hurt.
Perhaps the current mood of the Gls is just too
subtle"being neither heroic nor craven"for journalism
to evoke, and we must hope this war produces a novel-
ist who can give us the oAmerican Schweik�T so vividly
that his name becomes a household word and his vague
survival-politics come inte focus.
page 7
Or, maybe that mood could be conveyed through
a collection of letters Gls aré sending back from Viet-
nam. The ones to parents tend to be perfunctory and
reassuring; but those intended for sweethearts. kid
brothers, and buddies are very telling. This is what a
soldier stationed at Cu Chi wrote to a friend on
October 26:
oThey have set up separate companies for men
who have refused to go out to the field. It is no big
thing here anymore to refuse to go. If a man is ordered
to go such and such place, he no longer goes through
the hassle of refusing; he just packs his shirt and goes
visit some buddies at another base camp.
oOperations have become incredibly rag-tag; ve-
hicles donTt work for lack of maintenance: helicopters
are just falling to the ground: airfields are falling apart. .
Many guys donTt even put on their uniforms anymore.
| am almost always wearing a pair of keds, a blue tie-
dye shirt and army pants | made into cut-offs. I put in
an appearance at work sometimes to see if ITve gotten
any mail.
oIt used to be they could get a couple of months
of work out of new people but that is no longer the case
When new guys come into our company, we rap how
we've taken over and turn them on. Lately they have b
been segregating new guys, whom they call ~new meat.T
90th Replacement Battalion, the main processing sta-
tion for newly arrived personnel is off-limits. They have
barbed wire and guards all around it. You have to have
a special pass to get in. It is also the out-processing sta-
tion for men returning to the states. They have been
strictly segregated from the ~new meat.T When we have
new men come in, the Sergeant Major personally es-
corts them from Long Binh. They rush them through
processing, give big, lie-filled raps, and quickly send them
to the field. ...
oThe American garrisons on the larger bases are
virtually unarmed. The lifers have taken our weapons
from us and put them under lock and key. Theirs. One
black locked and loaded on the battalion CO recently be-
cause they were trying to send him into the field. About
10 other blacks backed him up. They just gave the guy
a 212 [discharge]. They have also been quite a few frag
incidents in the battalion... .�
President Nixon may claim credit for phasing down
the war; Congress may debate a timetable for pulling
out; but the fact is that rank-and-file Gls are ending the
fighting on their own.
"fred gardner/the new york times
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continued from page 3
Los Angeles (Dec) - In November in Tucson, a federal
Grand Jury had indicted Weatherman John Fuerst for
possession of explosive devices. John was friends with
many movement people in the Los Angeles area. Special
US Attorney in charge of the case, Guy Goodwin,
decided that as long as he was after John, he might as
well check out some of his friends. So Goodwin got the
Grand Jury to subpoena five people to give evidence
against John and to testify about their own political
activities. Two of the five are with a group - Support Our
Soldiers (SOS) which raises money for the G/
movement. Each of the five was given immunity from
prosecution. This meant that they couldn't take the
Fifth Amendment (you have the right to remain silent if
you think you might incriminate yourself; itTs the same
as Article 31). So when the five people refused to answer
questions, they were oin contempt of court� and thrown
in jail. Their sentence: 6 months. They stayed in the
slam for between one to two months, getting out only
because a Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco
decided that they should be out until appeal may
determine if the government will be able to use their
Grand Juries to lock people up in the future.
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New York (Dec) - Aretha Franklin says she stands ready
to post Angela DavisTs bail owhether itTs $100,000 or
$250,000.� oAngela Davis must go free. Black people
will be free. ITve been locked up (for disturbing the
peace in Detroit) and | know you've got to disturb the
peace when you can't get no peace.o
Washington, D.C. (Dec) - in February, three bills will be
presented in Congress that have to do with military
injustice. The GI Office has talked to Senator Sam Ervin,
the guy whoTs head of the subcommittee which is
directing the hearings. He has agreed to let the hearings
include testimony by Gls and vets and WACS/WAVES
Fort Lewis, Washington (Dec) - Early this month, Gen.
Pearson announced with much fanfare that as of Dec.
14, Ft. Lewis would be restricted to civilian traffic. He
said this was necessary because of o~the severe internal
threat posed by guerilla-type terrorism on post� (from a
UPI wire). At Lewis there have been an increase in
weapon thefts, arson, ammunition thefts, and vandalism.
By Dec. 21, cars not bearing post permits were being
stopped and checked at the main gate. But all cars were
moving freely on and off post through the other five
gates of Lewis. Our guess is that Pearson made his
announcement for two reasons: (1) to scare away the
regular GI from his civilian allies in the movement; (2) to
convince the general public that GI discontent does not
exist. It just so happened that all those fires and
weapons thefts were done by Gls, not the Weathermen
and Black Panthers that Pearson was blaming.
Marin County, Calif. (Dec 22) Angela Davis is
extradited through military channels from New York to
stand trial on charges of murder, kidnapping and
conspiracy. Committees to Free Angela have been
organized in 47 US cities and virtually every country in
Europe. Support for Angela is as strong as the support
Martin Luther:King had in the several years before his
murder.
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Spain (Dec) - The trial of sixteen Basque guerillas ends
with death sentences for six. Spain is faced with its
biggest internal crisis since the Civil War. Workers and
students have been demonstration since the beginning of
the trial. General Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain,
has made all demonstrations illegal. In a futile attempt
to pacify the people who threaten him, he l/ater
commuted the death sentences to life in prison.
Ft. Hamilton, N.Y. (Jan) - Thirty-two soldiers in the
26th Army Band stationed at Ft. Hamilton, New York,
are suing the Army to prevent it from transferring them
to remote outposts, mainly Vietnam, Korea and Alaska,
in retaliation against their antiwar activities. Major
General Richard G. Ciccolella, chief of staff of the First
Army, testified in federal court Dec. 22 that SP4 David
Cortright was a otroublemaker� and the leader of a
olittle gang� of dissidents at Ft. Hamilton. He said he
ordered him transferred to Ft. Bliss, Texas, because he
and other antiwar Gls were ~~weakening the general
morale, discipline, and effectiveness� of the 26th Army
Band. He claimed ignorance, however, of whether other
punitive transfers, five to Vietnam and three to Korea,
were also made to raise the ogeneral morale� of the unit.
The transfers occurred after a July 4 demonstration by
Military Wives for Peace, in which several wives of the
plaintiffs took part. Some of the soldiers had also signed
antiwar petitions. The court is expected to rule on the
suit within the next two months.
Washington, D.C. (Jan) - Five members of the Concerned
Officers Movement asked the Secretaries of the Army
and Navy to convene formal courts of inquiry into the
question of war crimes and atrocities in Vietnam. Their
letters included a 300 page transcript of atatements
made in December by 36 Vietnam vets testifying before
the Citizens Commission of Inquiry. The letter also
explained how war crimes are standard operational
procedure, and how they are approved at the highest
level of command and by the civilian leadership in
Washington. Telford Taylor, the chief US prosecutor at
the Nuremberg tribunal which tried Nazi war criminals,
also said that it was highly likely that high ranking
government and military leaders had committed war
crimes in Vietnam.
Quang Tri, Vietnam (Jan) - CID arrested four black Gls
in the fragging of two majors in an argument over loudly
playing hi-fi. This occurred at the base camp of the 1st
Brigade, 5th Mechanized Division, 404 miles northeast
of Saigon. Papers stateside featured the story on page
one, and magazines and newspapers everywhere ran
editorials about dope, low morale, and the running war
between enlisted men and lifers.
Washington, D.C. (Jan 13) Four Roman Catholic
priests, two former priests, four nuns, a _ college
professor, and a political scientist were charged by the
US attorney with plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger,
assistant to Nixon for National Security Affairs, and
blow up the heating systems of Federal buildings. As
ransom for Kissinger, the people were going to demand
an end to the war in Southeast Asia and the release of all
political prisoners. This case has all the makings of
another political frame-up.
who have been fucked over either legally or illegally in
the military. Any regular outrage is worth writing to
them about. Write to GI Office, P.O. Box 9746,
Washington, D.C. 20016, or phone (202) 244-2831.
Long Binh, Vietnam (Jan 14) - About 40 black Gls
marched from downtown Saigon to Long Binh
headquarters base on the ammiversary of Martin Luther
KingTs birthday. In thier statements, they expressed
support for Angela Davis, and an eagerness to return to
the US to join the black liberation struggle. Although
on-base demonstrations are illegal, this highly disciplined
group was able to march, make a statement, and still not
get busted. Unity was the key.
Poland (mid-Dec) Riots break out in northwestern
Poland. A movement of workers, student, women and
just about everybody forces the government leaders to
step down. New leaders come to power who promise
closer ties with the people.
Rochester, N.Y. (mid-Dec) - Eight more pacifists have
recently been jailed for destruction of draft files. The
eight, who call themselves the Flower City Conspiracy,
were given sentences of up to eighteen months.
Fort Meade, Maryland (Dec) - Gls there have managed to
crack brass control in SPB. Morning muster reveals that
about half the guys in each platoon are AWOL. Those
who make muster fall out in t-shirts, red hats, blue jeans
and sandals. The highlight of the month was when Co.
BTs barracks set itself on fire one night during the
weekend movie on base. No one has been caught for that
feat yet.
Okinawa (Dec 20) - One thousand Okinawans stormed
into Kadena Air Force Base, battling US troops with
fists, rocks, and stones, and set fire to a base school, a
guardhouse and 83 vehicles. The angry crowd swelled to
5000 as the fight continued into the predawn hours. The
incident developed over a hit-and-run accident of an
Okinawan by a GI.
ThereTs now a legal
office set up in down
town Saigon. TheyTre
all civilian attorneys
and theyTre there to
work with guys whoTre
being shafted by the
Man. Write them at
Soviet Union (Dec-Jan) Several Soviet Jews were
sentenced to death for their part in a hijacking attempt.
Eleven people were on trial of which ten were Jews. Dur
to heavy outside Soviet pressure, sentences were
commuted to 15 years.
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Bolivia (Dec) .~ Frenth*author, Régis Debray,T.who was? . f yea
sentenced. to 30 Vearsin: prison. fer alléged oguerilla mo NG
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journalists, Gl movement people, writer Mark Lane, Paul Newman,
Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jane Fonda
will be participating in the Winter Soldier Investigation, an inquiry
into US war crimes in Indochina. The investigation will also cover
inhuman treatment of American Gls by NCOs and officers. Vietnam
vets, inmates of military prisons, boot camp veterans, and victims of
racist oppression within the military will be testifying.
Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians will also tell of what
theyTve seen. They'll be speaking from Windsor, Ontario, Canada,
which is just across the river from Detroit, and they'll be linked by
closed circuit television. The Black Panther Party, Support Our
Soldiers, and the League of REvolutionary Black Workers are
co-sponsors of the investigation. The event will close with a dinner
joining Gls and vets with the Southeast Asian participants in
Windsor.
Your CO may have told you that you can be shafted for testifying
about war crimes. This is a lie. No person who has been discharged
from the Armed Forces can be prosecuted by the US military for war
crimes. The whole point of the thing is to take the spotlight of blame
off the individual scapegoat and place it where it belongs--on
mercenary officers, military strategists, and government officials. If
you chose to step forward and be c ounted, we'll try to cover
expenses. If for some reason you are unable to go, your testimony
can be entered in the form of a notarized affidavit.
Those interested should contact WSI at 156 Fifth Avenue, room
1003, New York, New York 10010, phone: (212) 242-5640. On the
West Coast, write or call WSI at 968 Valencia; San Francisco 94110, «
phone: (415) 824-1625. In the mid-west, contact WSI at 967 Emer-
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GATION
GI Refuses NAM Orders,
Goes AWOL And Tells Why !
In this interview, a Gl who went
AWOL rather than go to Viet Nam des-
cribes his reasons to reporters from
WILDCAT and the Movement for a
Democratic Military (MDM).
Q: Just before you got orders to go
to Viet Nam you spent some time in an
army stockade. Could you describe the
type of prisoners you found there?
A: When you first get to the stockade
they put you in a big holding cell where
they process the prisoners going in and I
noticed right there that the prisoners
were just like cats off the block -- lower
class blacks, whites, Puerto Ricans, Nat-
ive Americans and what have you. In
D-Block, the maximum security area
where | first was, there were a number
of cats who were in for drugs. But there
were guys there also who had been in GI
United (a GI organization mainly active
in the East Coast) and Muslims. There
were also a few guys being held because
they had applied for CO (conscientious
objector) status.
The first three weeks I was in there
there was a black Muslim minister who
would stand in the blocks and run down
things he knew about the war and soci-
ety, and guys would stand there and lis-
ten. But after three weeks or so they
took him to the hospital -- thatTs what
they do, they say that your mind is un-
balanced and keep you there- for
opsychiatric observation.�
Q: Was there a lot of talk about Viet
Nam?
A: That was mostly guys who had
been to Nam. TheyTd say things like My
Lai wasnTt the only thing that was hap-
pening over there. TheyTd say the. Viet-
namse army, ARVN, was really down
on its own people and things like that.
Q: What happened after you got out
of the stockade?
A: They shuffled me around from
platoon to platoon. I got transferred out
of one platoon because the white lieu-
tenant didnTt like blacks who talked
back. Finally they put me in the most
gung ho platoon in the company. I guess
they figured that would straighten me
out....1 got into a whole thing where |
would refuse to pull KP
duty. Then I noticed that things were
really happening in LA, Detroit, Chica-
go, and that the 82nd Airborne was pul-
ling alert a lot. All kinds of riot control
exercise too. And then they had this
moratorium up in Washington and they
spent the whole week getting prepared
for it. And my platoon sergeant gave me
the assignment of machine gunner on a
gun jeep, an M60. The Second Brigade
had already gone up to Washington, and
some other companies too. So we were
next. So I said to my sergeant, o~No
Way,� and the next thing I know I get
an article 15 for refusing to obey an or-
der. Theresome medics and others who
refused to go too, and they got the same
thing. .
But some of these cats, they really
wanted to go and break some long hair
heads. These were NCOTs and officers
and lifers. They want any kind of vio-
lence. Most of the enlisted men just sort
of go along with it, you know, the donTt
make waves kind of mentality.
Q: What kind of riot control did you
do?
A: You do marching wedges, march-
ing your flanks, fixing bayonets. YouTd
have guys on the other side simulating
throwing rocks and things like that. The
funny thing about it was that there was
no sure thing about who was supposed
to give the order to fire. That was really
weird.
At that time there was a lieutenant
who had been in the National Guard --
he was about twenty-nine -- and he had
been up in Berkeley, and that man was
really down on people, he was a very
fascist motherf---er. He didnTt have no
war stories about Viet Nam so he would
talk about Berkeley to fit in with the
lifer clique.
Q: What do you think would have
happened if you had gone up to Wash-
ington and there was a confrontation?
A: I wouldnTt have gone, But I think
the thing would have come down similar
to Kent or Jackson State. I mean they
were ready to do it. You see a lot of
GITs donTt really know whatTs going on
and they take what they hear from the
military and they believe it. And be-
cause of your isolated situation on the
base you rarely get the truth about what
is happening on the outside.
Q: How did you decide not to go to
Nam?
A: About three weeks before I was to
got to Viet Nam I was beginning to
wonder how I could walk into a war and
fight when I didnTt even know what it
was all about. People would tell me oIf I
were you I wouldnTt go� but nobody
would tell me why not. So I went to
Frisco to see my family. Then I went
and stayed with some other people and
I started reading, and the people I was
staying with didnTt say much but they
had all kinds of books. I read about Ho
Chi Minh first fighting the Japanese,
then. the French and now the United
States: And I said to myself, wow, this
war has been going on for so long and
the people there are fighting the US and
ITm going to go over there to take away
their freedom. Then afterwards, I real-
ized I couldnTt even serve in the mili-
tary, after all what was it doing for
Black people?
Q: What else did you read?
page 10
A: Well | read a lot of Black history --
which I never even knew about....Then I
started reading Marx, because I was
questioned one time on the base by an
officer as to whether or not I knew who
Marx was. And I didnTt know who Marx
was but that made me curious to find
out. Then I started to read about organ-
ization in Lenin, and MarxT Prices,
Wages and Profit, and I started finding
out that there was no way to change or
reform this society until this whole capi-
talist system was put down. I mean as
big as this system is itTs always going to
need colonial states. And itTs inevitable
that there will be peoplesT communist
revolutions, so the US is going to main-
tain its military machine ~to ~suppress
them.
So what ITm doing now is trying to
get my head together and my ideas
straight. I know one thing and thatTs
that ITm not going to be serving in the
military anymore. If anything ITm going
to try to organize against it.
Q: Do you think you'll be going to
Canada?
A: Canada, shit. I thought about Can-
ada. But I want to get into this national
fight, too. CanadaTs not the States, itTs a
copout. If you keep running to Canada
you ainTt gonna change nothing here.
FTA Iniormation
Pacific =.
Counseling
Service
Service
Many servicemen are discontented
with their present status within the
military, but.unaware of existing al-
ternatives.
MONTEREY, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN DIEGO
OAKLAND, TACOMA, WASH., TOKYO, JAPAN
Military regulations offer a number
of alternatives by which a serviceman
Unfortunately, we happen to be stuck with a government that has to
bullshit a lot to keep itself in power. ThatTs why the truth is our best
weapon. They fear it most. We've started a thing called FTA
Information Service which has collected information about the
things most often lied about: the Black Panthers, Cuba, the
economy, working peopleTs struggles, womenTs liberation, Vietnam,
you-name-it. Write to FTA Information Service, P.O. Box 3061,
Oakland, California 94609.
MONTEREY
288 Alvarado St.
(408) 373-2305
OAKLAND
1733 Jefferson St.
(415) 836-1039
SAN FRANCISCO
491 Guerrero St.
can be discharged, ranging from con- (415) 621-6635 TO pobtes Bldg. 6-44
scientious objection to physical disa- SAN DIEGO Kagurazaka
bility. Servicemen can also receive 1924 Island Shinjuku-ku
non-combatant status. (714) 239-2119 phone: 269-5082
The Pacific Counseling Service in-
forms men of their rights and helps LOS ANGELES TACOMA
514 W. Adams Blvd 917 Court C
them to obtain these rights.
(213) 748-4662
(206) 272-7744
short
shit
A Senate labor subcommittee headed by Senator Alan
Cranston reported that the G/ jobless rate is up at least
7%. A professor of psychiatry also reported that veterans
exposed to combat in Vietnam may require two or more
years to adjust to civilian life. oNon-adjustment� meant
Job instability, anger, resentment, alienation, alcoholism
and drug addiction. Welcome home, brothers, Welcome
home.
The Pentagon admitted in
hearings before a Congressional subcommittee that it
spends billions each year to arm foreign governments.
But it was unable to tell them how much each country
receives or the total annual cost of this assistance. In the
same week it was revealed that the Food for Peace
program was used by the Pentagon as a front to funnel
weapons into the government of the recipient country.
This is one more way that the Pentagon is gaining
control over American foreign policy.
The Pentagon has its people in Congress. Their strongest
ally was Mendel Rivers, a rich racist Democrat from
South Carolina. Unforunately, he died of old age before
angry veterans could get to him. Rivers made a military
installation out of his entire Congressional district. It
included a naval shipyard, a Polaris sub base, a naval
weapons station, an Air Force base, a Marine Corps air
stations, the Parris Island Marine Corps recruit depot, an
Army supply depot, and two Navy hospitals.
The Dept of Defense has been pumping millions of
dollars into the advertising business. [It seems they're
having problems recruiting. Only the best of the Madison
Avenue firms have been contracted to do radio spots,
posters, films brochures, and magazine ads. TV and radio
donate public service time, while magazines and
newspapers charge for page space.
When Bob Hope got back from his seventh psych op
mission to Vietnam, he said to a newsman that the
morale of our fighting boys in Vietnam had never been
higher. When Senator Allard Lowenstein heard that, he
cracked up and said that that was the best routine he'd
heard Hope do in years.
J. Edgar Hoover was quoted as saying that the FBI
recruited half its 1000 new agents from officers who had
served in Vietnam. oYou get a man who has been in
command of men and he has to use good judgment,� the
FBI chief said in an interview with Time magazine.
Whoever says that lifers canTt make it in the real world
has probably never run up against lifer-type cops and
agents.
page 11
Organized Opposition to the
Vietnam war by American Gls is
highlighted by the stubborn fight of
the Fort Jackson Eight in defense
of their civil rights against
harassment and persecution by the
army brass. The story of their
successful struggle is told in their
own words by the participants.
The Case interviews
Ne Tectia as Available at GRANMA BOOKS
Ft. Jackson | by FRED 2509 TELEGRAPH AVENUE
ARLEAD BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
Brothers and Sisters:
Up Against the Bulkhead needs a new name. When we started out we
were only writing for Navy people stationed in the San Francisco
Bay Area. But this is no longer the case. Over the last few issues it
has expanded to include all branches of the military. Also military
men and women stationed in all parts of the world receive the paper.
So a name appropriate to these changes has to be discovered. We also
want to be an ass-kicking paper. Kicking the ass of the oppressive
lifers, whether the lifer comes in the form of Richard Milmouse
Nixon or your 1st Sgt. You, the brothers and sisters who read this
paper, have to come up with the name because this paper is yours. So
give us the name with which we can put fear into those who
constantly try to mess over us, and bring strength to us caught at the
bottom.
The publisher is PATHFINDER
PRESS, 873 BROADWAY, NEW
YORK, NEW YORK 10003
oWhy of course the people donTt want war. Why should some
poor slob risk his life when the best he can get out of it is to
come back in one piece Waturally the common people donTt
want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who
determine policy, and it is always simple matter to drag the
people along. All you have to do is to tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger.TT Herman
Goering, German war criminal
Power to the People
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An Army cannot fight unless it can move men and materials quickly
and efficiently. In order to keep track of things, menTs records,
supply inventory, in fact, everything they need to know, is stored on
magnetic tape in computer data banks. These data banks, like all
pieces of complex machinery can be fouled up by the right thing
being put in the right place at the right time. If you canTt get around
to dumping iron filings into one of the electronic floor units, then
get a strong bar magnet and pass it across the faceof the magnetic
tapes which store all information. This does to tape what an eraser
does when wiped across a blackboard. A Boy Scout troop was on a
guided tour of some major corporationTs computer center. One
scout passed a dime store magnet too close to some tapes. It took
$100,000 worth of computer time to replace the lost information. If
you're lucky, the computer you hit won't be able to replace its
information at all.
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