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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 MAY 15 MDM 2214 GROVE STREET, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA PHONE: 549-2172
ARMED FARCES DAY
Isolation is the name of the game. It's
the isolation of GI's from each other which
the GI movement is successfully overcom-
ing. Think about this. Isn't basic training
just 35 months of separating you from every
ana value you believe in? Tey force you
to compete against yourself, your buddies,
and your friends in other units. Not only
does the brass use jealousy, greed, pride,
and fear to force us to compete against ou
brothers. They're never above using racism
to divide us. What the brass calls a �?~race
riot�?T is usually the result of planned provo-
cation by authorities - lying white officers
telling their men that the blacks are going
telling their men that the whites are going
to beat their asses, and the lying black
officers telling their men that the whites
are going to jump them in their sleep. This
sick racist tactic proves just how desperate
the oppressors in this country are.
Another familiar isolating tactic is the
rotating workshift. Making a man work
from 7am to 3pm one week, and 3pm to Ilpm
the next not only keeps that man tired and
jumpy. It keeps him from making friends with
with the other brothers on his shift. The
brass is desperately afraid of GI's getting
together and building trust, because strong
resistance and solidarity can grow from this
togetherness.
Although spontaneous events are sure to
occur on SF Bay Area bases, the focus of
this action in our area is Fort Ord, training
center for 40,000 brothers enslaved by the
army and the national guard. Why Ord?
Bay Area military. installations, as we all
know, are close to choice liberty towns
like Berkeley and San Francisco. Assuming
you can get off base, there's always some-
place to go. So isolation from the 'subver-
siveT influence of the civilian world is al-
most impossible. Fort Ord, on the other
hand, is very isolated. Anyone with a
weekend pass heads either north for this
area or south to Los Angeles. Because Ord
is most isolated, civilians are most deter-
LEGAL INJUSTICE
Someone comes up to you on base and
hands you a newspaper put out by sailors,
yet not authorized by base command. Your
first flash is, "Can | be busted for just
accepting it?"
You've just arrived at SF International
Airport, ne someone gives you a stack of
Gl newspapers. You read one through, dig
it, and decide to pass some out on base.
Can you be busted?
You hear about a meeting sponsored by
a group called Movement for a Democratic
Military. Your chief has told you that
this is a subversive organization. You're
told that a film will be shown, a brother
will rap about MDM, and a Panther will be
there to answer any questions you might have
about the Black Panther Party. Can you be
busted for going to this meeting?
All these questions look like questions
of law. In practice, they're not. Actually
they're all questions of power. Dig it.
CATCH 22: the law is anything they can
do which you can't stop them from doing.
Here's how this works in practice. Take
the case of Roger Priest. Roger used to be
a journalist seaman apprentice in the Navy.
His crime: putting out a righteous news-
letter, 'Om', which told it like it is. His
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charge sheet listed two specifications in
violation of Article 82 (that he encouraged
brothers to desert and overthrow the govern-
ment) and six specifications of Article 134.
He could have been forced to serve thirty-
nine years if convicted of all charges. But
because his case was so widely publicized,
the Navy was only able to convict on two
specifications of Article 134, and his only
mined to break that isolation down.
If the government is afraid of the Gl
movement, they're twice as afraid of the
GI movement linking up with progressive
movements on the outside. Dig that the
American invasion of Cambodia, the US
war on Laos, the new bombings of North
Vietnam, and the killing of four Kent State
University students by the Ohio guard has
provoked both GI's and civilians to defy
the government. ROTC buildings have been
burned down across the country. Between
1000 and 1500 draft cards were turned in at
a single rally in Berkeley. There have been
three different reports in as many days of
GI's refusing to obey orders to invade Cam-
bodia. And there are rumors of a general
strike by rank and file members of the labor
movement. The whole country is enraged.
The big question is can the different move-
ments and organizations get together to
fight the source of their oppression, or will
they each continue to fight separately? If
we do continue to fight separately, we may
soon be fighting each other like at Kent.
There is no alternative. If we are to survive
and win, we have to do it together.
THE NAVY CAN'T
STOP ORGANIZERS
The US District Commissioner finally
dismissed charges against two MDM organ-
izers accused of trespassing on Treasure
Island. On May 3, Inspector Prettyman
had tried to give reasons why the two were
arrested and could produce no solid evidence.
On May 24, the Navy sent two Shore Patrol-
men into court, apparetnly the only witnesses
willing to testify against MDM. Inspector
Prettyman, who made the arrest in the first
place, didn't even show up in court this time.
The charges were so phoney that to be forced
to bring them up in court is humiliating for
the ~authoritiesT.
Although most Shore Patrolmen know that
they're being used the same as everyone else,
the two witnesses were apparently convinced
that they were helping themselves by trying
to get the MDM organizers convicted. This
was the tragedy underlying the case. One
SP said, "We're just doing our job." Some-
how these men must be made to realize that
a country of people who follow orders no .
matter what is a country of fascists. We've
already fought one war against fascism,
and if necessary, we'll fight a revolutionary
war at home against it.
_ The main accusation was that Stevens
and Csekey had been leafletting on the
base. Now even if this were true, only a
sentence was a bad conduct discharge. Rogerflpig could regard it asa crime. The leaflets
is appealling this.
"Wait a minute. | though the Consti-
they were accused of distributing announced
a crucial meeting for TI sailors. It is becom-
tution protected our rights to free speech and fling clear that the military authorities all the
a free press?" Well, as is customary with
the law,
First Amendment to the Constitution states,
"Congress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of speech or of the press; or the
right of people peaceably to assemble, and
petition the Government for a redress of
grievances." In addition, the right to
publish a newspaper is protected in a Dept.
of Defense communique ~Guidance on Dis-
sent', dated May 27, 1969. oUnless such a
newspaper contains language, the utterance
of which is punishable under Federal law
(eg 10 USC sec 2387 or the UCMJ), authors
of an 'underground newspaper' may not be
disciplined for mere sphccotice. " A DoD
Directive 1325.6 also covers legal rights
concerning the publication of political
materials or underground newspapers.
But Roger Priest wrote certain things in
his paper which some thought to be in vio-.
continued on page 12
you're right and you're wrong. The
way up to Nixon only care about their own
interests, not the men they are supposed to be
leading. This is why they are willing to do
anything to stop GI's from voicing their op-
position to the present policies of this nation.
GI's must get themselves together and decide
what to do, and this is the reason for these
meetings. It may not mean anything to the
fascists who are taking control of the country,.
but servicemen have a constitutional right to
assembly for peaceful discussions. The of-
ficers who interfere with these assemblies or
meetings are criminals who ought to be jailed.
Instead of putting these men on trial, the
courts are used to try whoever doesn't happen
to be in good with the authorities for trivial
offenses. This is the reason that we say the
system is phoney and only serves the rulers.
The failure to convict the two men led
to increasingly desperate efforts by the Navy
to keep'sailors out of touch with civilians.
continued on page 11
MDM NEWS
It's; months before they start to decay, and were greeted by another 250 demonstra-
FROM NAS ALAMEDA How about those goddamn stews and tors. One car with an "America - Love it
casseroles and other conglomerations? You or leave it" sticker was smashed, slashed,
never really know what (or who) is . them. ee and ince ae by the a? as :
: Speaking of undefinable cuisine, what is ried unsuccessfully to run into the crowd.
'Up ke es Se aaah eae pidatecdle cake? I've been asking this We arrived at the Court House without
appearance at NAS Alameda Sanding ~since those cold winter days in further incidents and the speakers mounted
ff ee ge erect Lakes. No one seems to know. It the stairs to the entrance. Ernest Scott, a
I'll digress The lifers confiscated all the "Must be one of the best kept secrets in the very binick ond very proud Brother Hom 36
ie Gane re an oa anticn baie: . Movement for a Democratic Military brought
ceeded to send an officer around ivin lec- NAS Alameda has its own particular Us Upon the nanpenirios of Seren Ine
se eitee dalitnen ; telling Hem g M b h culinary problems. How about the infamous December moratorium and also informed US
1 g them how bad fhe ~" th own salads' or scrambled egg shells of MDM's stand against the capitalist, imp-
paper was. They were told not to read it, sunny side up? erialist government of the U.S. I, David
and that if they did, to keep in mind that it
was a bunch of letving communists who had
published it. They did this only for reasons
of efficiency, rather than trouble everyone
The next time before you sit down to a Osborne, speaking for the American Deser-
hearty meal of barbecued fat ribs and meat- ters Committee told about how deserters are
ball jello, ask yourself where it will end? " intimidated by immigration officials when
: : ; 2 And if you answer this question correctly applying for ~landed immigrant' status, and
with reading the paper, they figured a brief your meal oll have been iscretaly smeared " how we are discriminated against by Royal
1s . s
intelligentT synopsis would do. on the seat next'to you. And if enough peopl Canadian Mounted Pigs acting as American
At VR-30, they threatened that anyone " answer this question correctly, there will be FBI agents. | ended my speech °y telling
carrying two copies (technically, if you're better food, mainly because it will be too the people that the only way to defeat our
7
carrying two, you're liable for solicitation) Saat time to the civilians | COmmon enemy (capitalism and fascism) was
was laiadicaely eligible for a bad conduct 5 ae a ee" pis Ela through struggle and pleaded with all the
discharge. brothers and sisters in the audience to
There's more. First prize for originality a a SEIZE THE TIME TO UNITE * SEIZE THE
went to the chief in charge of NAS Compart- TIME TO WORK TOGETHER * STRUGGLE
ment Cleaners. Chief Lunborg offered twenty TOGETHER AND OFF THE PIG TOGETHER.
four hours free liberty to anyone who brought F R ft) M VA NC 0 1 VE R
in, ~dead or aliveT, anyone of the desperados
who pee the paper. Right on, chief.
who clean up. But it's just a thought.
The American Deserters Committee would
: : a M
The. danaeeiabegiteny atv Waves i. like to seize this time to thank MDM for
We'll help you catch ~em. he i ae a re their fantastic help in drawing the Left in
We'll close on a sorry note. The first initiated by the American Deserter's Com Vancouver closer together. MDM and es-
class lifer who confiscated all of the 'Bulk- mittee. The main theme was "support for pecially Ernest Scott were a great help to us
oheads' from the recreation hall was seen with 2nd solidarity with the Movement for a in the raising of the level of revolutionary
this particular armload, and taken in and yy pokentty : de a fee
questioned by Naval Intelligence. It seems wd Naa - se pts ) pets 1
they figure he was behind the whole thing. "fy wit 2 ie Sriig Pogaet 2
Who can you trust these days? the struggles of the brothers and sisters that ff AtL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
fight a common enemy. The parade route ae wee |
. was about two miles long. By 2pm approx- MDM i ~|
IRON SC ROTUM RA Ps imately 350 people were assembled and by "
the time we hit the Burrard Street Bridge we
had grown in numbers to approximately 500
FOOD at NAS ALAMEDA strong. Immediately upon our arrival on
the bridge, a cry rang out - "Seize the
The food at NAS Alameda is so bad that bridge, seize the bridge." And that, my
Gite ta Bxed elecwh f friends, is exactly what we did. We took
ar pee wy ns ee over all six lanes of the damn bridge and
backed up traffic for four miles. As we
turned off Burrard Bridge, we were greeted
by about 250 more demonstrators and the
consciousness of all the street people and
young working class people in Vancouver.
Yes, let's get the galley. It's about
time. Think of those rotten poor-boy sand-
wiches. Doesn't that make your throat dry? high intensity of emotions and good feelings
| think the galley serves them for economic were greatly increased and all the people
reasons. They serve them because they know began shouting "Seize the time! Off the
no one will eat them and they can cut corners pig! � together in four part harmony. From
by serving the same ones over and over again. there we advanced towards the courthouse
ANTI-MILITARY ACTIVITIES IA COMTWELVE AREA{U}
A. COMTWELVE INST 4400.14
Bi LKH FAD L-RECENT REPORTS INDICATE INCREASED ANTI-MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE COMTWELVE AREA.
THE MOST ACTIVE GROUP ITS KNOWN AS THE MOVEMENT FOR A DEMOCRATIC MILITARY. THIS
ORGANIZATION ADVOCATES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MILITARY SYSTEM AS IT IS NOW CONSTOTUTED
IT URGES ENLISTED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICES TO DISREGARD LAWFUL ORDERS
SCOOPS AND DISGUISES THESE SUBVEERSIVE INTENTIONS IN THE NOME ON MAKING THE MILITAYR MORE
EQUITABLE -
J's THIS ORGANIZATION IS BASED IN BERKLEY CALIF. AN AREA KNOWN TO HARBOR MANY SUCH
NAVY t SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS. TO THE PRESENT. THIS GROUT HAS BEEN MOST ACTIVE AT
x NAS AAAMEDA AND TREASURF ISLAND- THIS ACTIVITV CONSISTS OF DIDTRIBUTING THETR
NEWSPAPER "UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD� ON BSAE AND RECRUITING ENLISTED MEN TO BECOME
ACTIVE IT THE ORGANIZATION. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTS OF ACTIVITY BY ANOTHER
SUCH GROUP, THE ASSOCIATED SERVICEMEN'S UNION. THE ASU. HOWEVER. IS NOT VERY
ACTIVE AND IT IS DOUBTED THAT THE COMTWELVE AREA CAN SUPPORT TWO SUCH ORGANIZATONS.
3. ALL COMMANDS IN THE COMTWELVE AREA ARE TO BE ALERT TO THE ACTIONS OF THE MOVEMNT
FOR A DEMOVRATIC MILITARY. THE POTENTIOA FOR HARMIN SUCH A GROUP CANNOT BE
OVER-ENMPAZIED. ANY EVIDENCE OF ACTIVITY OF THIS ORGANIZATION OR ANY SIMILIAR GROUP
IS TO BE COLLECTED AND ROUTED THROUGH PROPER CHANNELS.
®. THE PRESENCE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS NEWSPARER ON MILITARY INSTILATIONS IS NOT
A VIOLATION OF THE MILITARY REGULATIONS. DISTRIBUTION.RECRUITING ANS ALL OTHER
SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE ID DIRECT POPOSTTION TO MILITARY LAW AND OFFENDERS SHOULD
BE CHARGED UNDER APPROIATE UCMJd ARTICLES. ALI. DOCUMENTED INSTANCEDS OF ACTIVITY
OF ANY OF THESE GROUPS SHOULD BF REPORTED TO THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE ACTIVITY
page 3 INVOLVEDFRO FOR FURTHER ACTION.
BT d133e
FROM TREASURE ISLAND
DAVID CHAPMAN WRITES
page 4
Treasure Island News, letter from Chapman
PRETTYMAN, HANDS OFF OR ELSE
Well, you've heard the old saying,
"it can't happen here". Look around you.
It's happening everywhere. | used to os a
person who thought the government was
all right. That is, until | joined the Navy
Ever since then, I've been trying to figure
out how a democratic country (that's what
| thought it was then) could allow such an
atrocity to go on. But as time crept on, |
soon realized that the government not only
did know, but apparently approved of it.
Of course, | had suspected this, but what
happened here on Treasure Island last Mon-
day undoubtedly proved to me that | am a
fool for putting up with all the bullshit the
Navy's been alying on me and everybody
else in the armed services.
It seems last Monday, there just hap-
pened to be the random locker inspections
of the administrative and restricted barracks.
The reason | say, ~just happened to beT, is
because on Sunday night, one of our brothers
did 'above and beyond the call of dutyT rip
off ole everlovin' himself, Mr. Prettyman,
for a five pound jar of pills. How many of
us would rip off a nark?
Can you imagine waking 9 in the
morning to a search party headed by Adolf
Prettyman and his Gestapo. Well, that's
about the best way to describe it. There
seemed to be more pigs in the barracks than
there were at Berkeley on April 15. Well,
the pigs were courting everybody out of
their racks and making them open their
lockers. And | guess a few of the brothers
hasselled them. When it was my turn to
open my locker, | figured | should stick up
for my rights. So | told the old man (a
first class about 50 years old) that | wanted
a search warrant with my name on it and
| also wanted to know what they were
looking for. The old man gave me one of
those evil lifer stares, and went and got
Prettyman, who, in turn, told the lifer to
go get the lawyer who was downstairs.
Well, when the lawyer got there, |
was informed that it was a legal locker
inpsection and that | could be placed on
report if | didn't open it. Besides, they
~would cut the lock if | didn't. So |
went along with them.
I"ve never seen anything as thorough
as this ~inspectionT not even in boot camp.
They checked the seams in my pants, all
my pockets, and even unrolled my dirty
socks. And all they came up with was a
match and some aspirin. Prettyman was
by lifting on the handcuffs. At this point, |
and a few more.
approximately 30 minutes.
my handcuffs were loosened. After this wait,
was informed | was being put on report for
nice enough to let me off the hook for them.
And he even asked me if | wanted his help
in getting me out of the Navy. | naturally
accepted. I'd take anyone's help in get-
ting out.
After they tore up my locker, | was es-
corted downstairs and told to leave the com-
pound. We then went and had several cups
of coffee trying to clear our heads. While
we were doing this, | remembered that |
hadn't been informed of what they were
looking for. | went back to the compound
and found out they were busting the restric-
tion barracks. | asked some brothers what
was going on. And they told me that they
were still looking for Prettyman's pills.
That's when | decided to try and write
a story for the MDM newspaper. | also
figured it would be a good idea to get an
official statement from Prettyman. | then
TIM AFFHOLDER,
TIM AFFHOLDER, PRISONER OF WAR
Tim Affholder, a 19-year-old GI from
Madison, Wisoncsin, was forcibly shipped
with his arm in a sling, to Vietnam despite
a recommendation for discharge by an Army
psychiatrist and attempts by two congress-
men to get a congressional hold. Prior to
being shipped, Tim tried to committ suicide
by slashing his wrists twice. A friend, in
a sworn statement, witnessed by an attorney
has testified that Tim was seen with his arm
in a sling and told his friend he was going
to the stockade. Instead of going to the
stockade, he was shipped to Vietnam on
April 22, at 6pm.
On April 14, Tim saw an Army psychiatrist
at Letterman Hospital who made an evaluation
which resulted in a Colonel's recommendation
for an administrative discharge,
On April 15, he was informed by Major
Finch's office that he would be placed under
observation for at least two days.
The following morning, April 16, he was
confined in room 136, building 794, pending
shipment to Vietnam. He requested a friend
call West Coast Counselling Service and
have them notify his mother and a congres-
sman that he was being shipped to Vietnam.
Civilian pressure and a suicide attempt on
Tim's part resulted in his being put back on
medical hold. He was still confinued under
guard,
On April 17, Dr. Imahara of Letterman
examined Tim and recommended a 212 dis-
charge. Tim still remained confined under
guard,
The following day, a call came from OAB
from a friend of Tim's saying that Tim was
again in danger of being shanghied. A group
of six friends went out to attempt to see Tim.
After a short delay Tim was brought over for
the visit, and although he had had �,�ars of
being shangied, all appeared to now be okay.
On Monday, April 20, Tim called
West Coast Counselling Service to say he
wanted to see his lawyer immediately. Un-
able to contact the lawyer, four counsel lors
went out to see Tim as they had done on
three previous occasions. They were falsely
told that Tim was being looked for, and
while waiting were apprehended by the MP
and forcibly removed an the base without
legal cause.
On April 21, Attorney Michael Kelley
contacted Oakland Army Base and forced
an admission that there had been no legal
basis for removing Tim's visitors. He listened
on the phone while Tim requested to see the
visitors and was told that they would be
allowed to see him. When the visitors ar-
_' rived, the MP's were called with no attempt
,. being made to contact Tim. They were
_ subsequently arrested and detained in jail
overnight without bail.
Meanwhile, the Army again attempted
to hijack Tim Ahholder to Vietnam. Since
this was being done without the knowledge
of his lawyer or civilian friends, Tim had no
legal recourse through which to protect his
medical rights and religious opposition to
participation in war. As a last resort, he
again slashed his wrist and was not sent to
Continued on p.l0
walked over to a second class guard who
looked like he was standing duty on the
restricted barracks, and asked him if | could
get a statement from the investigator. But
as some of you probably know, at certain
times, some lifers can't hear or speak. He
Ee completely ignored me. A few seconds
ater Mr. Prettyman came out of the office
inside the barracks, and | asked him if |
could get a statement from him. He said,
"Why?" and | told him, olwanted it for me
and some friends of mine (namely MDM and
the rest of the barracks). But before | cou!
say the rest ofit, | was notified that | was
being held for interfering with Prettyman. |
was then told to stand on the porch by the
second class who apparently couldit tdk or
hear before. | stood there for about ten
minutes wondering what would happen next.
Then Bml Dean and BT2 Blondin came out
and told me to put my white hat on and to
put my cigarette out. | had no objection to
this. So | bent over and started to rub the
flame of the cigarette when Bml Dean g
bed my arm and forced it behind my back and
put the cuffs on. When he got them on, he
forced me to run along with him. Have you
ever tried to run with a cast on your foot
while some pig's pushing you while he lifts
your hands up past your shoulder blades ?
Believe me, it hurts.
When we got to the patrol truck, heT
tried to help me in the back of the pick-up
let go with a few phrases like "you f-----3"
| was then taken to the
investigations office where | waited for
During this time
| was taken to the discipline area, where |
violations of Article 134 (obstructing justice)
and Article 9! (disrespect to a senior petty
continued on page 10
erested in black history, anthropology They kicked me out of the service,
and social science ... So what, you know? I serviced them
I asked him some questions, I always fools, and trained twenty-five dudes
felt you should ask people questions, I you know all for five level aircr aft
asked him, ~~What about all this stuff sheet metal mechanics, I know I got
NAACP is doing? Is it really helping my skills, and ITm a top draftsman,
jus?� And he blows it away, He says, But you see thatTs bragging, But I use
j~~No, because all that money theyTe my skills for serving the people now,
using theyTre wasting away to make Things ITve learned from Huey and the
some law. ThereTs already laws on Party, those are the most valuable ex-
athe books that should be enforced.� periences ITve had as a person, I
g Ane he cited all the 13th, 14th, 15th know Huey Eldridge, and all the Party
m@ Amendments and all these kinds of members, you know, I give a lot of
things that should have been enforced credit to all those brothers and sis-
cause theyTre our constitutional rights, ters who stuck with the Party, Where-
you see, So we have to exercise ver death may surprise us, we hope
those laws, And he talked about co- another will pick up the machine guns,
operatives, and what black people need In the future itTs whatTll have to happen
nowadays, They need cooperatives --- when fascism comes. We want to imple-
housing, marketing, what have you. ment these programs,
Huey was a cat who was interested
in life. One day I saw Huey come
walking down the © street barefoot,
WhereTs this cat been? You know, I'd
known him awhile, I said, **Huey
whereTve you been?TT He Said, ove
been down to Los Angeles, down south,�T
I said, ~~What do you mean with that getting hit by a Car to a cat: almost
raggedy T-shirt on?T He says, oITve. blowing me away with a shotgun, you
hitch-hiked some freight trains. Man, know --- a mistaken identity, If
ITveT split,� He was living in the death comes, death comes, Death is
world awhile, The cat read a lot of imminent, Like Huey Says, you can
Hemingway, He read all the philos- only die one time, so why die a thou-
ophical points of view. He learned sand times? I mean you donTt worry
BOBBY SEALE : Jame
®
S
oI like a lot of things you guys are "
doing. But why do you support Bobby ie
Seale?T? This is the voice of many
militarymen who havenTt bothered to
read our Bobby Seale column, Many
people havenTt expressed interest in
the article due to the violence usually
related to Bobby. This is the story of
a manTs reactions to a violent govern-
ment, the very same one you and I
are subject to, It seems tragic that
readers Can pass judgment on an issue
they refuse to read about. If it werenTt
for people like Bobby Seale, Malcom X
and M,L, King, this country may have
already been entrenched in a violent
race war, ItTs important to under-
stand the Panthers are not racists,
and not only appreciate support from
white brothers and sisters, but are
asking for it. The only enemy is a
racist government that controls your
,
= a
F .N.: How do you face death?
Seale: Well, ITve faced death a couple
of times in my younger life. Situat-
ions happen where I almost got killed
a couple of times, everything from
how to read by memorizing poetry, about it. You live and you fight and
He didnTt know how to read, so he used you struggle back, Y ou donTt want to .
poetry. And by focusing on the poetry die. DonTt get the wrong idea, Stup-
to understand words and stuff, he
yiearned the in-depth meaning of things,
You know, poetry gives a lot of in-
sdepth about life and society ... Huey
doesnTt read fast like a lot of people,
Huey reads very normally, But he can
get more out of one sentence than the
average of us can get out of a para-
graph, ThatTs the way I see him, you
iknow,
id reports, talking about Black P an-
thers might have suicidal tendencies,
Stupid. The thing is that we donTt
want to die, We donTt want genocide,
We donTt want to keep living in the
wretchedness of the ghetto, We donTt
Want cops brutalizing, murdering,
shooting our people down, We donTt
want this here, So you stop. You
stand up like a man.- ITm not trying
thoughts by controlling the news media,
This is the second installment of our
Bobby Seale interview. He was in-
terviewed in February at SF City Pri-
son by KQED, For those of you who
missed the TV thing, here it is in
writing. In our installment, Bobby
rapped about food, other brothers in
prison, solitary confinement, and how
he learned from Huey Newton how to
psych the pigs who tried to break his
body and spirit. Our interview picks
up with Bobby telling how he met
Huey Newton,
F.N,: When you first ran into Huey
Newton, what was it aboutThim that
made the two of you come together?
PRIEST VERDICT
US Navy Seaman Roger Priest was con-
victed two weeks ago in Washington of
opromoting disloyalty and disaffection" by
publishing the anti-war newspaper "Om".
The Navy court which convicted Priest
reprimanded him and ordered a bad conduct
Priest said he had ex-
pected a harsher sentence, but would appeal
"| view the punishment as unwar-
ranted because all | did was exercise my
constitutional rights," said the sailor.
discharge for him.
anyway.
Seale: The man was able to arti-
culate and make himself clear, A
brother, I call him:the brother, the
nigger, the black man ,,,
F.N.: WhereTd you first bump into
him?
Seale: At Merritt College in front of
a rally, It wasnTt a rally. He just
happened to be blowing to three bro-
thers and about two hundred people
crowded around after the rally and
was listening to Huey run it down,
I happened to walk up. I was just a
member of the crowd, I tried to kick :
off going to Merritt College to get me
an education, I wanted to be an en-
gineer, but it turned out that I got int-
He stated that the "Pentagon is scared
shitless" of any anti-military movement
among GI's.
"They are afraid that the rank
of servicemen will be 'infected' with 'sub-
versive' ideas like peace and freedom. And
they are right.
For right now the cancer
has spread throughout the body of the mon-
ster and soon the monster will die. :
F.N.: Well, a lot of black leaders
and black people, you know before,
seemed like weTre going through a
lot of changes, Malcolm X was a
pimp and a hustler, and all these
people, Who were you before you were
Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black
Panther Party?
Seale: Another brother inthe commun-
ity, I went in the service, I got
kicked out of military service cause I
got in am argument with a white col-
onelT who thought he was God, who
tried to mess over me and my drums,
I was a drummer, And my father
taught me to be a carpenter, ITm a
journeyman aircraft sheetmetal me-
chanic, LetTs see, What other trades
nave I got? ITm a general machine
operator, I know all kinds of magna-
flux and nondestructive testing for
machine parts, I used to work at
Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics ...
I'm a comedian. I used to be a
comedian,
F.N.: What kind of comedian?
Seale:. Punch-line comedian, I al-
ways Was a kid. man, You know, I
had a poverty life, But the group of
cats I was running around with was
always able to tell jokes and make
everybody happy. But it ainTt like
that no more, You donTt make people
happy by just telling jokes ...
(here F.N, asks Bobby if heTs played
night clubs. Bobby says yes, and then
goes on to describe the kind of jobs
he took, the kind of jokes he told.)
-e» But you canTt tell jokes about the
revolution, The revolution is real.
You canTt tell jokes about life all
the time, cause life is real, You've
got to solve it, I donTt tell jokes much
no more ,..
I got kicked out of the military ser-
vice after about three years andeleven
months in it. I was top honor man in
my tech school Class, and all this
kind of crap, I always went to the
end, I didnTt graduate from high
school, Three days before graduat-
ion they kicked me out, So I had to
go back to get my high school dip-
loma, ItTs always jam up, They try
to shove me out here, and I want to
go over there, to old counsellors, and
all that kind of crap, And you live
in the ghetto, and you're just normal,
Well, when I got kicked out of the
service, they gave me a discharge,
**HereTs your bad conduct discharge,
Seale. Y ou wonTt be able to get a job
when you get outside,TT I said. **~What!
Why there were no jobs out there be-
fore I come in here,�T It's funny,
but itTs true, So you live life and you
learn that you have to solve things
and itTs not a joke. Things are real,
you know,
to say that everything you do in terms
of fighting and killing is noble. ItTs
not, Sexual activity is more noble to
me, Between a man and a woman is
the most noble thing in the world
because that relates to life, Human
beings, produce, you produce, you see
what I mean? Whether you get preg-
nant or not, S�,�xual activity is the most
noble thing, But the well-to-do kids
learn to relate to the military,
3
F.N,: What about jail? 1 imagine
you had a very active sex life while
you were coming up,
Seale: Well, you know, my wife knows
that in my younger days I used to
chase a lot of chicks, Huey used to
chase them too. The brother on the
block chases chicks, you know, ThatTs
a part of life, And them sisters,
TheyTre beautiful, especially when
theyTre chasing the brothers, And you
grow up, and you get married, ThereTs
no such thing as an illegitimate child,
A person is a human being,
(ThereTs a relatively unimportant ex-
change here about sex and prisen which
has been omitted, But this leads
into BobbyTs personal conception of
struggle.)
-- If that cat out there asked me,
oo~What Ts the struggle all about,T* I*d
say, **I want to go home, I want to
eat some food, I want to have some
peace and tranquility. I donTt want
no cop breaking in my door inthe morn-
ing at three oTclock cause the Supreme
Court said, warrant or no Warrant,
you ainTt got no right breaking into
nobodyTs home at three oTclock in the
morning.T® If I decide I want to go
study, if I decide IT want to go make
love to my woman, thatTs where itTs
|
Eldridge told this cat, **I want to live
in a society one day where thereTs no
more oppressive social obstacles, to
the extent where a man and a woman
can relate to each other on the basis
of natural attraction.T® Now you start
talking about eliminating the economic
problems, political injustices and evils,
social injustices and evils. Think
about a black man and a black woman
trying to get along when they start in
to fighting each other over a ten dollar
bill or because he ainTt got a job or
he leaves his woman, ThatTs not a
man and a woman relating to each
other, You have to get rid of the
class society, This is what you anal-
yze, This is what you know,
F.N.: As it stands now, looking back
on your life .., do you consider your-
self a success in life?
Seale: How do you mean a success?
I donTt consider jail a success, In
continued on page 10
sabe
HOW WE LEARNED T
or, The Legendary Hospitalit¢
of the Vietnamese People : "
0 SUPPORT T
Two former Marines, John and William,
had escaped from a prisoner of war camp.
W'Iliam was young and John middle-aged.
They could both make themselves understood
in Vietnamese.
For many days, they rambled the sur-
rounding countryside in search of help. But
there wasn't a soul or trace of life. A
lunar-like landscape surrounded them. The
scorched soil on which they tramped with
their heavy bare feet seemed to have been
recently Sa turned over everywhere.
Here and there a swarm of flies bustled over
a decaying corpse of a buffalo. A putrid
nauseating smell lingered over the desolate
landscape. The silence and tranquility of
the scenery frightened our heroes a little.
But though tired, they were proud of the
good work that their friends had done. They
roamed about until midnight when they stum-
bled across a glimmering light which seemed
to draw them toward help.
lt was a miserable thatched hut made of
bamboo. They knocked at the door or at
something which resembled a door. Two
old pasty-faced peasants appeared. At the
sight of the exhausted men the door was
widely opened. Our heroes entered the
house. An oil lamp shed a glimmering light.
They discovered an old couple, still healthy
om
Again stillness fell upon the house. Appal-
led, our heroes discussed this astounding
conversation they had overheard.
John: "Surely it was a question of us. We
are caught in a snare laid by our endmies.
They would kill both of us. "
HE VIET
MESE PEO
;
E
T
j
A
ate
- mie
S o
the spectacle before them. On the wall hung
a portrait of Ho Chi Minh. On the table
there were two chickens already cooked,
one roasted, the other boiled, both flecked
with red sauce. The old couple, seated on
a bench, seemed to be waiting for them.
The wife said: "I hope you had a good
rest? ~You must be hungry. We have no-
and clothed in rags, but clean. They made
it understood that they needed rest
sleep. Without any question, the host
lead them into a room separated from the
first by a thin partition. They sprawled on
a plank bed. For silence followed and they
fell into a deep slumber.
As in a nightmare John started from his
sleep. Fran the next room a whisper came
He waked his young mate and
listening to the old couple they heard the
to his ears.
following conversation:
Husband: "Shall we kill them both
W; fe: oOf course, it's worth having both
killed."
Husband:
"How would the
Wife: "Chopped into anath stacks;
would give much juice. We sh
make a sauce. "
Husband: "The young would be roasted,
the other boiled. "
Wife: "You know, one is young, t
other enough old. "
Husband: "Let us sleep. We have
time. Early in the morning we sha
tackle it. "
be treated?"
and
superiors told us that
cannibalistic in some
John:
chopped. "
John:
oil
it
ould
he
my limbs ?"
enough
William: "Perhaps they want to eat us and
give the leftovers to their people. Our
such destruction by our armies, | doubt
they have anything left for survival. "
"These words stick in my mind:
roasted, boiled, and sauce, and
Williams: "We ought to flee from here. "
"I'm too tired and..exhausted to take
another step. We aren't armed and I'm
sure that we are surrounded by enemies.
We wouldn't get far away.
and pray. Our fate is decided by God.
And they prayed until sleep overcame them.
When they started from their sleep, it
was nearly midday. The elder touched his
head: "Am | living or dreaming?" The
ounger stretched his legs: oHaven't |
bean chopped into pieces? Have | got all
With as much tact as they could, the
two men slipped towards the door and opened
it. How they were astounded and struc
they may become
cases. Andafter small pieces to
John and Wi
~with tears.
Were these
Were these
Let us wait has done and is
thing left to offer
but these two chic
we should be peey
a
yeu after the last bombing
ens. Please eat them,
| shall chop it into
make it easier for you to use
chopsticks. Afterward, you will reach the
American area which is not far from here. "
lliams accepted the gift
and ate it hungrily, their eyes suffused.
tears of shame before such
high minded forgiveness and hospitality ?
tears of humiliation and
repentance for all the harm that the USA
still doing ?
Only John and William could say. They
said nothing, assuaged their hunger and
bid farewell to
February, 1970
b
their hosts...
Six months later, newspapers reported
that John and William had been wounded
in an anti-war demonstration in front of the
White House and jailed by the justice of
their government.
from Nguyen tuan Duong,
Paris, France
THE WALL
PHNOM PENH"For years, Cambodia has
been on the fringes of war. Now, the nation is
suddenly a full-fledged battleground. Cambodia
wasnTt warned, and it isnTt ready. Its future
now lies in the hands of others.
Yet all remains calm just a few miles from
the battle zones where U.S. troops are fighting
"and: dying"along with Cambodian and Viet-
namese soldiers. This French-style capital, just
miles from fierce fighting, remains sleepy and
serene. People here and in a number of provin-
cial towns and outlying army camps act as if
the war were several thousand miles away.
No one knows what will happen here. Presi-
dent NixonTs decision on Thursday to send U.S.
troops here to ~~clean out major enenty sanctu-
ariesTT could mark the beginning of another
major conflict or could be the key to ending the
whole Southeast Asian war.
If no one knows what will happen in the fu-
ture, neither do a lot of people here know what
is happening in the present. And they donTt
seem to care. Thirty-six hours after President
Nixon had made his announcement in the U.S.,
an important Cambodian colonel at a big com-
mand center didnTt know of the action. When
informed of it by U,S. newspapermen, he
wasnTt interested enough to ask where, when or
how the Americans had intervened, An intellec-
tual here in the capital was more curious. He
asked American visitors whether the U.S.
troops had come.to fight against the Vietcong
or the Cambodians. The local press made no
mention of the U.S. offensive here until yes-
terday.-
Scout-Like Enthusiasm
The peculiar reactions of the people here
are probably due more to innocence than indif-
ference, however. The Cambodians, who have
lived near war for so long, are surprisingly
naive about it, Indeed, the 40,000-man Cambo-
dian army, which has been mobilizing for war
for some weeks now, is enthusiastically acting
rather like a Boy Scout troop going off on a
jamboree.
Serious as the situation may be, the Cambo-
dian army seems like something out. of
oCatch-22,� or ~~Laugh-In.T"T The army is so
short of military vehicles that troops ride to
the front in Pepsi-Cola trucks. Short-range mil-
itary communications are conducted over me-
gaphones, and longer-range communications
generally are handled by runners who hitch-
hike along the roads between forward positions
and headquarters at Phnom Penh, Maps are so
scarce that in the midst of one battle a runner
was sent to the national archives to find some
map on which the battlefield could be located.
There was none.
STREET
Ammunition is in short supply, and so re-
cruits, most of whom have never heard a gun-
shot before, are given only 10 bullets during
their weeks-long training. They squeeze off the
precious rounds with seeming reverence. Most
show surprisingly good aim, though one re-
cruit, using five of his bullets, misses his, own
target with four shots and hit a comradeTs tar-
get with the fifth. Nevertheless, he gets a pat
on the back and a ~o~not bad�T from Colonel Lao
Vacal, commander of CambodiaTs main camp
for noncommissioned officers.
The colonel, a small, plump and rather
pear-shaped man, darts about the sprawling
camp in a 15-year-old American Jeep. He is in-
ordinately proud of this Jeep and has mastered
all but the operation of its hand-brake and the
art of steering in'~reverse.
Recalling a Fine Meal
The Jeep is significant as a symbol, for, like
many of his brother officers, Colonel Lao Vacal
is resolutely pro-American. He speaks glow-
ingly of the year when he worked in the same
office as an American general who was part of
a U.S, advisory team that was here until 1963.
oHe was a fine general, the American general.
Ah, but I have forgotten his name. He visited
me for dinner once and we ate roast chicken.
Or was it roast fish? No, it was grilled fish.�T
JOURNAL.
Like many of his colleagues, Colonel Lao
Vacal proudly wears American Army fatigues.T
And he proudly announces that his trainees are
taught the American salute.
The young soldiers under the colonelTs com-
mand are kept busy most of the day, though
they take a five-hour siesta break from 11 a.m,
to 4 p.m. There are about 1,000 young men at
the base"mostly patriotic young volunteers"
and they spend some of their time learning to
assemble the baseTs 100 weapons, which in-
clude a hodgepodge of Chinese, Soviet, French,
English, Czechoslovakian and American rifles.
(~Are the U.S. rifles from World War II?� the
colonel is asked. ~~Perhaps from~World War I,�
he replies.)
They also are taught military theory and
tactics. ~Why do soldiers walk single file?TT the
instructor asks. ~~Because the night is black,�
a recruit replies, ~o~Why else?� ~~Because the
forest is dense,TT says another student. ~~Good,�T
says the satisfied instructor.
Aside fromT Col. Lao VacalTs prizec
Jeep and a baby blue Mercedes, there are only
three operative motor vehicles on | base.
There are several dozen Chinese, = iet and
American trucks, but all lack engines and
other vital parts.
page 7
TODAY CAMBODIA,
TOMORROW?
It's hard to rap about Southeast Asia
without getting tedious.
the war. In fact, 'troop withdrawalsT are
nothing more than the replacement of battle
weary troops with new ones - in other words,
troop rotation. The silent majority does not
understand that the war in Vietnam is not at
all separate from the US war against South-
east Asia. So when troops are taken from
Vietnam, they are just transferred to Japan,
Laos, Thailnd, Korea, Cambodia, or the
Philippines. This ruse is an old one. When
LBJ called for a halt to the bombing of
North Vietnam in November of 68, he or-
dered an intensification of the bombing of
Laos the very same day, and on a scale
even greater than the bombing of the North.
Just this month, Nixon dropped the lying
mask of peace-seeker when he ordered the
invasion of Cambodia and the resumption of
the bombing of the North. These are only
two examples of how the US government
is forced, in time, to trade one lie for
another.
But we GI's pay the price of Nixon's
lies. We can't be like the silent majority.
We can't afford to be caught in Nixon's
trick bag. We already pay for their mis-
takes with our lives and our peace of mind.
Five years of protest have not stopped
the war. So what is left that we, as Gli's,
can do which is still effective? For
starters, as military men we could refuse
war duty. This is the sticker. It can only
be effective if we have the courage to sa
no. It's not cowardice, as the lifers would
like us to believe, but heroism. We could
be instrumental in saving the lives of the
youth of Amerikkka. It's up to us.
But the problem is a question of power,
and like the saying goes, there's power in
numbers. In other words, ORGANIZE.
Organize to gain back control of our lives.
Organize to make the military a democratic
military, a military atitoted ts the pro-
tection of the continental United States
(not it's colonies), and NOT a military
which is the pig force of the world.
by Bobby Bee
But forgetting abast
it or ignoring it will not make it go away. At
this time, it's almost easy for the silent maj-
ority to put the problem aside. They seem to
believe that ~troop withdrawalsT mean ending
Dear Lrma
I've been wanting to answer your letter
but it's been difficult. | want to be able
to communicate with you on a very real
level without offending you.
I've long been in the anti-war movement
and you seem to be in the pro-war group.
After reading your letter a few times,
| detect no alarm that your sons are going
to be swallowed up by the military - or
have been already. When they are sent
overseas, will they go as missionaries to
convert the heathen or as professional kil -
lers to protect American corporations owned
mostly * those with great inherited wealth?
You must know that it's the latter.
Your Bob and Peter will be told that
they will be fighting for democracy but
fortunately most educated young people
don't buy that crap anymore. Look at the
record of the US government! Whenever °
democracy threatens to gain a foothold any-
where in the world, the US rushes in to
support the counter-revolutionaries, the
fascists.
That do you think of our professional
killers in Vietnam? In Laos? In Thailand?
In Latin America ?
Irma, let me tell you about Jimmy. A
few months ago | received a telephone call
from my friend Billie on Long Island. She
told me that her son, my friend Jimmy, was
killed in Vietnam. | knew Jimmy since
about 1958, and so it was a shock to think
of him as dead.
He was 20 years old and before going
into the Army, he was the youngest mana-
ger of a McDonald's hamburger place. He
thought he would go into the service and
"get it over with" and then return to Mc-
Donald's, But he came back dead.
| drove Billie to Pinelawn (in Farming-
dale) on a wintry day to visit Jimmy's
grave. All those young boys in their graves.
Acres and acres of them. So many graves
being dug. So many more yet to die. Poor
boys protecting the rich. Poor boys that
have been conned.
page 8
~aoe
Will Bob and Peter "get it over with"
like Jimmy? Billie was determined to
fight his being sent to Vietnam but her
husband opposed her. Her husband "won".
9 Some victory.
We've all been brainwashed for so long
in this country, told so many lies by the
prostituted media, that it's a real joy for
me to meet young working class people who
really know what the score is. They refuse
to serve the military monster. Some are
free as CO's, some are in jail where | have
gone to visit with them and some have now
gone to Canada. They are beautiful and
they are the hope of this country.
Did you read about the recently pub-
lished memo that Moynihan sent to Nixon
about a year ago? He said that the chil-
dren of the upper middle class will not be
conscripted. He might. have added fhat
they rarely serve in the armed forces and
when they do, it's usually in safe areas.
The danger areas are reserved for the poor
and the brainwashed.
Oh Irma, have! been reeducated! Do
you know by whom? By the US government.
Year after year, after year, the government
refused to enforce the bs against the rack-
ef�,�ers. So many union reformers. that | knew
in other unions in New York were also
doublecrossed, victims of that which the US
government produces best: Lies and violence.
Do you understand, Irma? People like
me are a threat to the rich people of this
country who own the US government. We
want democracy and can not be bought off.
lf we were to achieve democracy within our
unions, we would then be in a position to
demand democracy in our local, state, and
federal governments. That's why the ruling
class in this country always feels more
secure when people like me are murdered.
Yes, it's the ruling class and its puppet
US government that's responsible for the
Yablonski murders. They conspire to create
the conditions wherein working people turn
against one another. They know how to
divide and conquer, how to set whites aga~
inst blacks, a whites and blacks against
the yellow race.
If you have any doubts about my use of
the term "ruling class", read Lundberg's _
"The Rich and the Super-rich" and study his
references. But be wary of his politics;
he's obviously afraid of the next wave of
McCarthyism.
And now that Yablonski is safely dead,
the US Labor and Justice Departments have
@ hypocritically and belatedly decided to
ES � JAE support him by temporarily enforcing the
eH py
SG
laws of the land. nee dre obviously con-
fident that the next rebel to challenge the
corrupt Boyle administration can also be
killed. continued on page 11
DEMOCRATIC MILITARY?
-Men who prove too incoompetent,
either in job performance or leadership,
would be returned to the level at which
they were previously competant. This
would insure a much more efficient organiza-
tion, since at present if you are competetent
at one level, you get promoted to the next,
until you nietT a level at which you are in-
~competent, where you stay. You won't get
demoted except through glaring blundering.
So the organization gets stocked with dead-
wood at high levels.
(The following article by SFMFN Gary
R. Feichtinger B339456 explains how he
feels about a democratic military. This is
one of a number of views of how and why a
democratic military would operate. )
People ask me, "What do you mean by
a democratic military?" To me, a demo-
cratic military means, first of all, that all
the people in the military are agreed on the
necessity of carrying out whatever mission
is being carried out. This means a volun-
tary military.
As part of this, persons in the military
must be able to carry out political activity
and to stimulate thought and discussion on
their installation concerning national pol-
icies, especially defense policy. They must
must be able to refuse to partidpate in op-
erations with which they disagree And if
they disagree with the basic direction of
national defense policy, they should be
allowed to resign from the service. If this
left the military without enough men to
carry out an operation, or a policy, then
obviously that policy is not worth carrying
out. Once ona mission, however, instant
obedience would be called for.
Secondly, the men being led should
have some form of control over who is
leading them. Job competence and leader-
ship ability should be equal factors in pro-
motion. Job competence should be rated
by superiors, who inspect the job, and
leadership ability should be rated by the
men being led. Men who can get high
evaluations in both areas should be promo-
ted without a waiting period, as billets
become available. An officer corps which
truly enderstands all aspects of shipboard
life and which would deserve genuine re-
spect would be insured. There would be no
in a voluntary democratic military. A group
of people united to carry out an agreed-upon
mission can be counted upon to be disciplined
internally, particularly in areas in which dis-
cipline is a functional necessity. A good
leader with the support of his unit can
straighten out most problem types merely by
talking and reasoning with him. Continuous
breaches of discipline should be tried by a
jury of one's peers, as provided by the Con-
stitution, meaning those of one's own pay
grade, ae found to be unreliable or
unmotivated should merely be discharged.
Anything else is obviously detimental to
both sides.
There are two standard arguments
against a volunteer military. One is that
the military would become an uncontrolled
self-contained entity and could therefore
constitute an enormous threat to individual
freedom. Personally, | feel that this
statement accurately describes the present
situation in which the organization is run
oy pes who have lived their lives in an
undemocratic, unfree environment and
have accepted and supported the values
emerging from it. And they teach fantas-
tic numbers of young people these very
same attitudes. They have the means to
need for the artificial, forced respect which 9& all the manpower they need and the ~
the present class system attempts to main-
ceils
power to force these men to do their bid-
OY LS
OF VIETNAM
When | first went over there my MOS
was 0351 (106 recoilless), but they never
put me in a weapons platoon; | was given
0311 (grunt). We went on an operation
called "Virginia Ridge". On this opera-
tion | received two purple hearts in 25 days.
Normally a man who was a grunt would get
would consider that he had done his job
already. But when they started claiming
that my MOS was still 0351, they left me
in the field.
After this incident, | had a talk with
the sargeant and he guaranteed that | would
be pulled out when and if the Third Marine
Division went.� But when the president said
that he was going to withdraw the troops,
he didn't realy. They had boots that were
in-country two or three months who were
given orders for Okinawa. But the orders
also read that you would later be sent back
to Nam. The people back in the states
didnTt know that. The guys that they act-
vally pulled out were men who had done
10 orl 1 months out of a 12 month tour. Since
the traveling time from Danaang to the
states is about a month, they completed
their tour anyway. The boat that took the
Third Marnes home left the men who had a
lot of time to go off at Oki. When these
men were sent back they were attached to
the First, Fifth, Seventh, and Twenty-sixth
Marines.
| did not make the trip home with the
Third Marines. | was still in the 3-5 in
oee " %
3G .
An Joa. Many of the dudes in my unit were
denied R&R because the major operations
were supposed to be cancelled by Nixon.
But we were sent into the bush on an opera-
tion anyway. They call it a sweep, but it
was really of operation size. When a bat-
tallion goes out with all its men, it should
have all its security, its heavy weapons, and
stuff. But they took these weapons away
from us because we were not supposed to be
an operation. This caused many more cas-
ualties.
Really, the "sweep" was supposed to
last for thirty days but it was extended for
two stretches of five days. They tried to
make us feel as though we were treated
Discipline would be much less of a problem
|
Pcne
ding. Sure, we now have all kinds of
people in the military who are still civil-
ians at heart. But what control do they
have over what the military does, short of
refusing orders or mutiny, for which they
are ferociously punished?
A volunteer military with the present
un-free, undemocratic value system would
be a threat to a free democratic society.
This is why the democratic changes we are
asking for mustbe a part of any plan to
make the military all volunteer. Only if
the military reflects the values of the soci-
ety it is supposed to defend can we feel
secure.
The other standard argument is that a
volunteer military would not be able to
attract enough volunteers to defend the
country. To this | have one thing to say.
A society which the people will not defend
voluntarily is by definition not worth def-
ending at all. All discussion of a military
which respects the freedom, dignity, and
intelligence of its members and which meets
their material needs pre-supposes a suppor-
ting society which does the same.
page 9
good. When a general came out we were
given one quart of ice cream for every
five guys.
After that we slid to Hill 65. | wasa
guard at the gate. | would check the names
~of the Vietnamese women who worked
othere (all they had working was women;
they were afraid of the men). | would log
them in in the day and out at night, to
make sure that there weren't any civilians
on at night. | learned from this duty, and
from checking from friends on guard at
other times, that the men from $5 (civic
affairs) brought in civilian women to pro~
stitute for the officers and the higher staff
NCO's. We were told not to log them in
so they could stay all night. They were
also checked by corpsmen for VD. Women
who washed dishes in the mess hall were
actually if they refused to be prostitutes.
| don't know whether the men in 55
forced the women from the villages to come,
but | do know that they used to come back
during the day crying with tears coming out
of their eyes. When it was time for me to
leave Nam, one of the guards at the gate
who was supposed to rotate the first of
March had his orders to return to the rear
held up, because he disapproved of what
was going on and was trying to find out more
about it.
Throughout my tour, it generally seemed
to me like the VC and NVA let the Blacks
go light. | myself have been waved through
a couple of ambushes. The NVA would
send leaflets to black Marines to send back
word where they were, so that during Arty
or ground attack the brothers would not get
hit. Brother Duke
NEWS FROM THE |
INTERNATIONAL G.I. |
MOVEMENT
"1 will point a gun for my country
But | won't guarantee you which way. "
Woodie Guthrie
MANNHEIM, WEST GERMANY: About
100 GI's broke out of the Army stockade on
March 13, set fire to stockade buildings,
the stockade chapel, and some administrative
offices. While one group of prisoners fought:
MDM
ahs ee Bea group ran through cell *
ocks with keys, liberating other prisoners.
In the tockada yard, the rebels bul a oa put the PIG
ricade out of overturned bunks and defende =
it for hours against the MP's and German in the BRIG
army troops. All in all, $45,000 damage
was done. : s |
After the MP's finally gained control,
over 100 Gi's were put in "The Box" --- CHAM AN Shae
solitary confinement cells packed with over ya
six people in each. The guards turned off officer, in as much that | called him a
the heat and threw garbage and water onto s---head). They placed me in restriction
the men. The Brass tried to buy off some without a captain's mast or any other type
prisoners to rat on their brothers, but nobody of hearing.
squealled. Aoi oe ee oa pei pmay | er o
: captain's mast. awyer and | noted to the
McCHORD AFB, WAS HINGTON: Airman aL oes that my a ie ances present
First Class George Larkins began a hunger (my regular lawyer was at a court-martial
strike late in March to protest the hypo- and couldn't be there until that afternoon).
cirsy of our government in Vietnam, the At this point we recessed until 2:30pm. At
tyranny and repression brought down on that time, my regular Navy lawyer was there.
political groups in the US (especially the Captain's mast was held in Commander Reed's
Black Panther forty) and the racism per- office. When we entered, my accusers still
petrated by the military. weren't there. But we started without them.
w
FORT POLK, LOUISIANA: GI's imprisoned. ee ee uke naa one
in the slams ransacked the a aay and
set several fires in March. The rebellion :
united black, brown, and white GI's against Sea witiawaldng ae of the '
generally bad conditions in the slams and captain's office, | asked my lawyer why he
against heavy repression brought down on thought | was given a court-martial and he
anti-war prisoners. said that it was because the commander
couldn't get the witness he needed, namely
my accuser.
My lawyer later went in and asked if |
ould be let off restriction because it was
pretty obvious that | wasn't going anywhere
ith a broken leg. But that was denied
PHUM TASUOUS, CAMBODIA: Sixteen
soldiers in the American 25th Division ini-
tially refused to leave their rear area base
in South Vietnam and accompany their unit
on an invasion of Cambodia. All 16 finally
agreed to go to a forward command base in
Vietnam on the understanding that they
would not have to go across the frontier.
Of course, their commanding officer lied,
and eventually shanghied them to a village
four miles inside Cambodia. They are mem-
bers of A Company, Third Batallion, 22nd
Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Private
First Class Harry Veon, 20, of Darlingion,
Pennsylvania, said, "We have no business
here. We have enough troubles in Vietnam.
Sixteen of us refused to go. We just sat
down. Then they promised we wouldn't have
to go to Cambodia. They said we could work
~on the fire base in Vietnam." Since we re-
ceived this information through the media,
we have also heard of two other instances
of GI's refusing to obey orders to invade Ca-
mbodia. How many instances will we never
hear about ?
because ~he didn't want to leave things
the way they were. '
(an editor's note: at his summary
court-martial, David got a not-guilty on
the Article 134, and a guilty on the Article
91, disrespect. We can't help but wonder
what would happen if they tried to bust
everyone who felt 'disrespect' towards the
little dictator, Prettyman ?)
POWER David Chapman
Bobby Seale
f act, I know ITm not here because ot
something ITve done wrong, I know
ITm here because of something ITm
doing right against the avaricious rul- .
ing class which perpetuates racism,
whoTs been doing wrong against people
-- black, brown, yellow, red, white --
oppressed peoples, you know. I know
that. The fact that ITm in jail tells me
and lets me know that weT re onthe right
track for liberation, for freedom, fora
society that makes some sense, A SOc-
ialistic system of some kind where
the people have some power. Thenthey
can relax, ThatTs what I want to do
some day, you know what I mean? I
want to relax, That'll be when wehave,
when we all have, the people have
success, It wonTt be me alone, It
wonTt be Huey alone, It wonTt be EL-
dridge alone ,..
QUON LOI, VIETNAM: Séveral troopers
were recently court martialled at Quan Loi
headquarters of the Ist Air Cav Division's
3rd Brigade, for refusing to fight. During
the last four and a half months of 1969, a
total of 109 men in the Ist Air Cav faced
trial for the same offense. Division spoke-
smen point out that men who decide to drop
out of the war are a small minority. But
some observers feel the number is growing
throughout Vietnam as anti-war feeling
mounts back home and the US government
makes clear its interition to expand the war
i i ; . luded next issue
into Cambodian territory. Our next issue (concluded n )
martial." This pretty well shocked my lawyer
TAGE ON TIM
2:30 pm, the afternoon of April 22.
Because of the lack of any information
about Tim or from Tim himself, we can only
presume that after returning to OAB, he was
not allowed to contact his friends, his fam-
ily, or his lawyer. From a report given by
a friends of Tim's on base, Tim was seen
wearing a sling sometime during the after-
noon after he returned to the base. The
following is an authorized statement,
witnessed PY attorney Dennis Roberts, by
Tim's friend at OAB.
- , declare the following: |
have known Timothy Affholder for the past
two weeks while we were stationed at Oak~-
land Army Base together. During that time
he was in a confused state of mind and very
nervous. | heard m the NCO's inthe |
Control Room thaT: twice attempted suicide
and | saw his arm idaged up and in a sling
yesterday, April 22, 1970.
On April 22, 1970, between 1400 and
1500 hours, | saw Timothy Affholder being
&scorted out of the Control Room between
two guards. He passed me and said, "They
are taking me to the stockade." Ten minutes
later, Lt. Welch came to Control Room desk
and said to me and the other guys who were
working there, "If anyone asks for Timothy
Affholder he is at the hospital. If any civ-
ilians come around, run them off.�
Last night another GI told me they were
shipping Timothy Affholder. This morning
| saw the article in the San Francisco Chron-
icle and felt information | had might be of
some use.
A few days ago, about Monday or
Tuesday, while on Control Desk, Lt. Welch
and several NCO's came in and told me and
that others that the people under guard in
room 136 would not be allowed phone calls
and we were not to make calls for:them, or
deliver messages out for them, that they were
not to see anybody. Timothy was one of
those under guard in room 136.
When Timothy Affholder was going out
the door between the two guards he slowed
down his walk to call to me that he was
being taken to the stockade. The guards
speeded him up. He looked very upset and
confused at that time.
| declare under penalty of perjury that
the foregoing declaration is true and correct.
Not having heard fom Tim for some time,
sympathetic persons went to the base for the
to see him or visit him. For example, Rev.
Philip Farnham and his friends, who were
attempting to visit Tim between 4:10 and
4:45 pm (shortly before Tim was shipped out)
were told by Captain Murphy that he
thought that Affholder was still on sick call
to Letterman at the Presidio (dr. above
statement: "If anyone asks for Timothy Af-
come around, run them off. ")
Shortly after this, it was learned
through the information office of the Sixth
Army that Tim Affholder had left Oakland
Army Terminal at 5:15 pm, April 22, and
would fly to Vietnam at 6pm. At that time
according to all information, Tim was
shipped to Vietnam from Travis AFB.
DISCLAIMER This paper does
not represent the views of the
US Navy. Neither do the views
of the Navy represent us. And
that goes. for the US government
too.
page 10
purpose of locating him. No one was allowed,
fholder, he is at the hospital; if any civilians
.
DEAR IRMA...
People of our generation, Irma, have
got to be re-educated or they may allow
their sons to be killed off in some foreign
country without one word of protest.
My own re-education has been painful
and almost ended in my being murdered. In
fact | might have been killed in the same
manner as the Yablonskis and for the same
reason. Did you read about them? Yabl-
onski wanted to reform the corrupt minersT
union and so he, his wife and daughter had
to be killed. The reformers Wilson & Green
of the paintersT union had to be killed also,
just like so many other working people in
this country who fight for democracy and
fair play. Would it surprise you if | told
you that | know who's responsible for these
murders ?
You'll recall that for ten years when |
was on Long Island, | was the most active
carpenter in America fighting the union
racketeers. When the Landrum-Griffin
Act went into effect in 1959, | hailed this
as a great blessing for labor that would en-
able the rank and file to have democratic
unions, free of tyrannical control. So |
challenged dozens of fraudulent elections,
the violence and threats of violence against
me and others "within the system" as the
say. | had to file appeals with the ane
quarters of the carpentersT union in Wash-
ington, that is with those who were the
architects of all union fraud. Then | filed
appeals with the US Labor Dept. and would
go into court, including the US Federal
Court in Brooklyn.
Irma, let me put it very simply. The
Landrum-Griffin Act gave us union carpen-
terms the right to determine our own dues
but the US Labor Department refused to
enforce the, law.-Why?. Because if we
working people were allowed self-deter-
mination, soon we might want to determine
our own taxes. Think about it. Some
socialist leaders in New York are running
for office on a platform of a 100% tax on
all war profits and a 100% tax on all in-
come over $25,000. What a revolutionary
idea for America. Some call it real "dem-
ocracy". Some call it "Power to the
FROM
CAMP PENDLETON
page 11
People". OK, let's say you think that
living on only $25,000 a year would be
too much of a strain for the ruthless rich.
So let's say there should be a tax of 100%
per year. Do you think that the Rockefe-
llers, the Duponts, the Mellons and their
stooges in Washington will allow you and
the rest of the people to vote on this? Not
without a revolution! This minority of
parasites will not release its death-grip on
the majority without a bloodbath.
Will they be able to enlist your sons to
protect their empire and their prerogatives?
Perhaps you're thinking that this is not
a very friendly letter to write to you after
five years of silence, but what-is more
important than keeping your sons alive?
And your future sons-in-law ? In a few
years, Vicki and Michele will perhaps be
married. So don't be offended by this
letter. | can't write about the mundane
things at this time. | must write about
what is vital.
People can become part of the fascist
power structure in this country without
realizing it. For a generation now, your
husband has been married to the Sperry
Gyroscope Corporation and so you have all
been married to the Amerjkan D2ath Ma-
chine. Had you remained in New York,
your sons might have attended Columbia U
and become part of the anti-war movement.
But since you've been living in Huntsville,
Alabama for the past five years, the head-
quarters of Dr. Werhner von Braun, | guess
you have all become "good Germans" or
part of the silenced majority, bought off
with the profits of death and the desire
for economic security.
I'm sorry your kids ever got involved
with the University of Alabama. | don't
believe they can be educated there, only
trained. You say Bob "enlisted" in the
Army? How horrible! And now he's at
OfficersT Training School at Fort Benning ?
That's sickening: And Peter's in Advanced
Army Reserve Officers' Training Corp ?Ugh:
Irma, | know you seem very proud of
your sons, but under the circumstances,
such pride is not justified. The only rea-
sons that any young man at this stage of
history volunteers for the US Army training
is because he's woefully uneducated or has
serious defects of character, or both.
Now don't be offended. Remember,
| want to keep your sons alive. Even more,
| don't want them to become hired assassins
for the Super Mafia that own the banks and
corporations of this country. These bastards
are killing off poor people throughout the
world who want to be free of the strangle-
hold of American corporations. They even
want to imprison some of the best people in
this country for having the "wrong" thoughts
in their minds as they cross state lines.
Irma, remember years ago when | gave
you some magadnes advocating the separa~
tion of church and state in support of the
First Amendment of the US Constitution ?
Remember how you hid them lest your
neighbors see them and cause you embara-
ssment? Well, please don't hide these
periodicals that I'm mailing to you; don't
hide them from your children because they
are intended to keep Bob and Peter alive,
healthy and out of the service of the god-
damn Amerikan Gestapo.
So please, Irma, run the risk of being
embarassed.
Love to all Dave
MP2
But these efforts are not going to succeed.
he American people are getting ready to
end the war, even if this requires a revolution.
he government is trying to manipulate the
roops into being used against the people.
If they are successful then we will be worse
off than the Germans under Hitler. We have
got to stop this from happening. MDM can
do this. If they threaten us we will ignore
hem. If they arrest us, we will expose them
or the pigs that they are in court. If, the
ry to kill us, we will kill them. We wil
ake control of our own lives. POWER TO
HE PEOPLE.
A little after midnight on April 29
about 25 active duty Marines from Camp
Pendleton and civilian GI organizers
were gathered in the staff house of
the Movement for a Democratic Mil-
itary (MDM) in Oceanside, Californ-
ia. They talked in small groups about
two successful meetings that had been
held earlier that evening. Most of
the marines had left and those pres-
ent were either on the civilian staff
or on the central committee of MDM,
At about 12:10, night riders directed
a long burst of automatic weapons fire
from a passing car at the house, In-
side, people hit the floor scrambling to
defense positions, -When the shooting
was over, pfc. Jesse Woodard (Shanti)
was lying wounded, hit by a 45 cal-
iber bullet.
The reason for the attack is not dif-
ficult to find. In its five months of
existence, MDM has attacked the mil-
itary more and more strongly at its
weakest point: its cannon fodder, the
common soldier,
MDM was formed in November by
Marines fromCamp P endleton and Sail-
ors from the San Diego Naval com-
plex. It has since spread to military
bases all over California, but at Camp
Pendleton MDM has grown to be most
strong and organized.
-In this base, young people from all
races in America train to be the shock
troops of imperialism. They are the
first to be called when the controllers
of this country feel their power threat-
ened by any otrouble spotTT that ap-
pears, From the Halls of Montezuma
to the shores of Tripoli to the bunk-
ers of Khesan, Marines have been called
upon to give their lives in insane
slaughter to put down oppressed people
who are fighting for their freedom,
In order to create such awillingmass
of oppressors the Marine Corps
reaches out to the most oppressed sect~
ions of AmericaTs young boys with
promises that they will be made men,
What happens, in fact, is that the al-
most unimaginable brutality of Marine
Corps training and indoctrination
creates not men but robots, But Mar-
ines still want to be men, and so they
have done the only thing that will
allow them to become real human
beings: they have joined the revolut-
ion and have begun to fight for their
own freedom,
In the preamble to its demands MDM
states: ~*,., We are dedicated to using
every means at our disposal to bring
about -a prompt end to the war in
Vietnam, the exploitation of our bro-
thers and sisters abroad, and the re-
pression -- both physical and econ-
omic -- of those in our own land.
W
We feel that by remaining silent, the
serviceman has contributed to the den-
ial of this deep-founded right of him
self and of people everywhere to 1
free from intimidation and oppress!
We have been silent for a long t
We will be silent no longer,TT
MDM armed itself with this state-
ment of political beliefs and a set of
12 demands which are aimed both at
alleviating and exposingthe daily screw
that is life in the ~*CrotchTT, and at
ending racism and the war in Asia,
Aided by a civilian staff of organiz-
ers called the Green Machine, MDM
went out to organize the people, In
its first month, 1,000 Marines and
4,000 civilians marched behind MDM
banners to support the Black Panther
Party and to demand ~~Bring our bro-
thers home now!TT and ~*Put the pig
in the brig.TT
Since December MDM has pulled it-
self into atightly structured or ganizat-
ion with collective leadership and a
firm strategy to organize Camp Pen-
dleton from the inside, Dealing with
racism is the key to MDMTs work,
The political direction of the organiz-
ation depends very heavily on thepart-
icipation of the Black Marines who,
along with a lesser number of whites
and Chicanos, make up the majority
of the leader ship a
As MDM moves on an area of the
base, organizers show the people that
the constant racial battles on the base
are almost invariably stirred up by
the officers and lifers to stop any
form of unity among the Marines,
The kind of power that develops through
solidarity between races is so strcng
that white guys tend to accept the more
~evolutionary third world leadership.
us in 12 areas an entire company
followed 1DM organizer and de-
manded to be arrested when a black
man was busted for calling an MP a
pig. The brother was released,
Through its paper, Attitude Check
MDM reaches about 8,000 Marines all
~ficers tell of the evils of
.CommunismTT,
~under Courts martial charges for such
offenses as being three minutes AWOL
over the country.
The advance of MDM has not been
unnoticed by the pig, All over the
base daily harangues by lifers and of-
**MDM
Every MDM officer is
and for distribution the Attitude Check,
Its offices, like those of almost all
the GI organizing projects, have been
subject to almost constant police and
terrorist surveillance and harassment,
The most recent shooting incident ranks
with the bombing of the coffeehouse
at Fort Dix as one of the most ex-
~treme incidents in the long line of
busts, raids and threats that, have
been used to try to intimidate the GI
movement,
MDM has decided not to be scared
off by grease-gun toting rightists, It
has called for a rally in Oceanside
to protest the shooting and to step
up its organizing efforts on the base
to counteract the fear and to build
on the anger created by the shooting
of one of MDMTs most brilliant speak-
ers.
MDM has decided to move on the of-
fensive and to build even more strongly
for the nationwide military demon-
strations that will take place during
Nine Days in May culminating on May
16 (Armed Forces Day), when civil-
ians and GITs from all over Southern
California will converge on Oceanside
to celebrate PeopleTs Armed Forces
Day.
we're for it
Believing that ending the suppression of the American Serviceman is
an important part of a larger struggle for basic human rights, the
Movement for a Democratic Military pledges support for the self deter-
mination of all peoples. We are dedicated to using every means at our
disposal to bring about a prompt end to the war in Vietnam, the exploi
tation of our brothers and sisters abroad, and the repression-""both
physical and economic---of those in our own land.
maining silent, the
deep-founded right
from intimidation and oppression
We will be silent no longer.
1. We demand the right to collective
bargaining.
2. Extend all human and constitution
al rights to military men and women.
3. Stop all military censorship and
intimidation:
We demand the right to individual
conscience--moral, political, or
religious.
We demand the right to refuse polit-
ically objectionable duty such as
riot control and Vietnam duty.
4. Abolish all mental and physical
cruelty in military brigs, correct-
ional custodies and basic training.
5. We demand the abolition of the
present court-martial system and NJP:
All cases would be subject to auto-
matic review by a board of civil-
ians elected by military men having
one vote each.
Trial by jury and court of one's
peers by rank.
Eliminate physical hearings and Non-
judicial Punishment.
Place the military judicial system
outside the chain of command.
6. ~We demand the -equal to the feder-
al minimum wage for civilians.
LEGAL COLUMN
lation of Articles 82 and 134.
busted for putting out a newspaper. H
busted for putting out a newspaper which
Roger wasn't
He was
said certain things. Because he was all
alone, because he wasn't part of a larger
organization of Gl's, he was easily picked
off. Roger Priest had no rights because he
wasn't with a group of people who were
strong enough to defend theselves against
attacks, legal or otherwise.
strong enough to defend themselves against
attacks, legal or otherwise.
Here's another example of the relation-
ship of law to power. Monday, May 4,
was a demonstration day at SF City Hall.
A photographer for the 'Good Times' tells
how a Tac Squader named Yeargain broke
his cameras and then began to search him.
"Yeargain's men began to search through my
pockets. The other officers looked on and
joked with each other about how well I'd be
~taken care of." | told officer Yeargain that
this was an illegal search and seizure. He
replied, 'You're damn right it is, and you
better shut up or we'll get more illegal. '"
The law is anything they can do which
you (or we) can't stop them from doing. So
there really isn't too much use in my telling
you that "mere possession of a publication
may not be prohibited ..." (Guidance on
Dissent). Even though possession of this paper
is not prohibited, even though it is your
personal property and cannot legally be
taken from you, you can still be put on re-
port or cited with an Article 134 if the Brass
serviceman has
of himself and of people
We feel that by re-
contributed to the denial of this
everywhere to live free
. We have been silent for a long time.
7. We demand the abolition of the
class structure of the military.
End saluting and sir-ing and special
officer priveleges and segregation.
End all rank priveleges.
We demand the right for an enlisted
men's elected review board of offi-
cers conduct.
We believe that respect can only be
earned on a human-relating-to-
human basis.
8. End all racism everywhere.
Bring to immediate trial by the sys-
tem described above, all officers
and senior enlisted men who forment
and exploit race tensions with the
military.
9. Free all political prisoners.
In return for captured American
T troops in Vietnam, we support am-
nesty for Eldridge Cleaver, Huey
Newton, the Conspiracy 8, and our
brother war resisters at home and
abroad.
10. Stop the glorification of war now
prevalent in ail brances of the mil-
itary.
11. Abolish the draft and all invol-
untary enlistment.
12. Pull out of Vietnam now.
feels like citing you. So don't kid your-
selves. Although you may have many
rights on paper, you have none in practice.
The only way to get the rights we all de-
serve as human beings is to get together
with as many brothers as possible and build
the kind of trust which everyone can count
on. No one individual should ever have to
stand alone as Roger Priest did. When one
stands to fight, let a hundred more rise with
him. When you get right down fo it, this
is what MDM is all about.
Although we understand that law
serves power, we'll soon be conducting a
legal class, designed to teach GI's what
their rights are on paper, what the laws
are, who writes them, how they are used,
who uses them, etc. The research is
progressing smoothly, and by June 1 we
should have found a lawyer to teach the
class. It's open to any interested Gl}.
WEST COAST COUNSELING SERVICE
Many servicemen are discontented with
their present status within the military,. but
unaware of existing alternatives.
Military regulations offer a number of
alternatives by which a serviceman can be
discharged, ranging from conscientious ob-
jection to physical disability. GI's can also
receive non-combatant status.
The West Coast Counseling Service in-
forms men of their rights and helps them to
obtain these rights.
OAKLAND at 1733 Jefferson Street at |8th.
The phone there is 836-1039
|'m a GI who wants to subscribe (free)
I'm a civilian who wants to subscribe.
Enclosed is $5 for a years subscription.
I'm someone who digs what you're
doing and can help with some money.
""
|'m interested and would like more
information about MDM
name
address
city state
Zip
MDM
2214 Grove Street
Berkeley, Calif. 94704
send fo:
549-2172
phone:
MDM CALENDAR
May 16, Saturday, is Armed Farces Day
Schedule - at 9:30am, come onto Fort
Ord to rap with GI's. At lpm, assemble at
El Estero Park in Monterey, for the Gl-led
~march. And at 4pm, the march will end at
Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) football
stadium. There'll be a rally there, and
speakers include Angela Davis (faculty at
UCLA, member of Che-Lumumba Club, and
Regent fighter), Micha Maguire (an ex-con
now with a group called Politiad Rights for
Prisoners, and the Soledad Brothers' case),
a speaker from the Black Panther Party, a
black Marine with MDM at Camb Pendleton,
and various speakers from Bay Area and Fort
Ord MDM. For information, call Bay Area
MDM at 2214 Grove Street, Berkeley
(549-2172) or Fort Ord MDM at 1540 Del
Monte, Seaside (408 372-8884). And if
you can't make it to Ord, do it wherever
Ou are.
MAY 23, Saturday, at 1:00pm we've set
up a meeting to answer any questions you
might have about the Panthers. A film will
be shown, and we'll give a short talk on
the history of the Black Panther Party, what
they are doing now, the repression they face.
That meeting is at our office, 2214 Grove
Street, Berkeley. For info call 549-2172
gMay 24, Sunday, at lpm we'll be meeting
with anyone who is interested in MDM and
has never attended a meeting before. We'll
explain what we're about, and you can ask
questions if you want. This meeting is at
2012 Pine Street, San Francisco.
SEE YO
: THENI
SAN FRANCISCO at 491 Guerrero Street
The phone there is 621-7035