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the newscene.NAS Alameda, the wonderland ofidiocy, can be defeated my friend(or maybe we can injure the idiocya little bit anyway). Yes, I feelour problems have been solved orpartially so, at least. The answerof course is organization. The veryreason the Navy defeats and frus-trates you is they're organized. Butthings work both ways, and the bestway to defeat an organization is withanother a sepia ecOf course we'll be the underdogsfrom the beginning, because peoplewon't join us to avoid the draft andwe won't have the power to inductanyone in the event of a war. Butit's the American way to pull for theweaker power--look at the popularityof Ronald Reagan.It is well known that Americanslike to gamble on a sure loser. Justask the Koreans or the Cubans, or theVietnamese. So maybe with a littleluck we can sway the American govern-ment to appropriate men and money tohelp us fight the U.S. Navy.At first we'll act on the smallproblems of Alameda. Maybe you'reone of those who has had his walletstolen from his gym locker so manytimes that security has a permanentsupply of I1.D. cards on file for you.Well that's easy to solve now thatwe're organized. First you have torealize that the reason the lockersare being broken into is becausethere's no one watching the store.Well, they do hire a guy to watchthe olockers but since he's a mercen-ary he pays little attention to hisjob. So what you do is take a fewbuddies over there with bags of ba-nana peels, dirt and other assortedgarbage, and jam as much of this shitas you can into different lockers(since he doesn't watch what comesout of the lockers he won't noticewhat goes in).. After he's cleanedall the lockers he'll be wary of peo-ple in the ldcker room, and your be-longings will be protected.This is all fine and good, butmaybe you don't go to the gym. Maybeyou just drive off base and get has-seled by some power happy Marine be-cause you tried to drive off in yourdungarees (though Marines can leavethe base in fatigues).It's no problem, we're organizednow remember, can you imagine thetraffic jam caused by fifteen ortwenty cars trying to turn around atthe gate. Not only will it alertthose oin power" of their stupidity,but it'll make an asshole out of theMarine.Maybe you live in the barracks andevery week you get sheets with bigholes in them. That's a snap, every-time you get sheets with holes inthem, rip them in half and fold themup before you turn them in.for sure, you won't have to worryabout that particular sheet anymore.Because of lack of entertainmentdo you go to the club, only to listen °to the Fruitgum Stompers do "live"versions of Neil Sedaka's greatesthits. This is easy, now, that were.organized. Everytime they sign ashitty group like this to play,getsome friends and go to the club.Everytime they perform one of thesegems, you and your friends "raiseyour beer glasses to the sky" andSing, it doesn't matter what, justas long as it's loud, off-key andOne thingnot the particular number being per-formed ;It's easy to solve our problemsnow. I'll bet you can solve a fewof your own, already. Just rememberall you need is organization, andkeep in mind that the Navy attemptsto do things logically and ends updoing things illogically. So if wedo the most illogical thing we canthink of the two illogics will cancelout :ZERO) And we willIron SerotumYes, the pinko, radical, dirtyhippie, commie, subversive, God-less atheists have finally landedat NAS Alameda and docked at T.I.So you thought you'd never have toworry about us, huh? Well, we'rehere to rob you of your old falsesense of security.Wno are we? Well, we are theguy who sits behind the typewriterin your office, the guy who dishesout your beans in the BOQ, we'rethe guy who fixes, i doesn't fixyour propellers, we 're the guyswho lick your heads clean... We'rehere to start talking at you, andat you, and at you until you stop,look,listen and change. Why arewe doing this? Maybe, it's the$192 a month for an E-4, maybe it'sthe shitty barracks, or it could bethe food that Congress thinks issuch great quality. But, there'smuch more to it than that. ~Theparanoia barrier - we want to breakthat one. Why should we be afraidto speak our minds? Why should webe afraid every lifer is watchingus like some SS trooper? Why shouldwe be afraid to exercise the samerights that we're supposedly def-ending for the rest of the nation?Moratorium Day - that's our day.We didn't vote for the Congressthat enacted the draft. We didn'tauthorize the Baines and the Dickto call us to the front to fight anundeclared war. We're powerless -that's why the mahogany polishingbrass in Washington made us fightour brothers in Viet Nam - they did-n't think we could hassle them likethey do to us. WELL, BROTHERS, thatday is ended at T.I. and Alameda.We're nere to get our thing toget-her. Security is in nunbers, right?MDM has an office at 2214 Grove St.in Berkeley, along with the Berk-eley High School Student Union atthe Student Research Facility. Wehave a defense committee of civilianattorneys available for you, if youget busted for doing your politicalthing. Give us a call at 549-2172or drop by the office and rap any-time, we're here to help you.NAS ALAMEDA'S MICKEY MOUSE FAN CLUBThe Alameda Naval Air Station brassis sponsoring a Mickey Mouse Fan Club-or so it would seem. Navy guys areused to being exploited to walk aroundand pick up shit off the decks (that'sthe floor and ground to you crabs).In the Army its called Call, in civ-ilian life its called "Keep AmertcaBeautiful". In the aviation Navy ,its called F.0.D. Walkdowns--F.0.D.for Foreign Objects on Deck, a typ-ical navyese inflationAmerica Beautiful". In the aviationNavy, its called F.O.D. Walkdowns--F.O.D. for Foreign Objects on Deck,a typical Navyese inflation of ter-minology.Well, its been going on for sometime, but none of the brothers reallysaminded taking a walk around the hang-er in the morning. After all, itwas a good way to clear your headfrom being drunk or stoned thenight before. Not to mention thesunrise. But one of NAS Alameda'ssafety officers decided we hadn't bbeen picking up enough butts, boltsand roaches fromthe runways. Sothis lifer Lt. Commander, who's beenpassed over for promotion so manytimes he knows he's a dolt, decidedto be creative. And this word waspassed at morningT quarters one day,"We're going to have you men put allyour F.0.D. in this green bucket wehad made. As you can see, the canis inscribed ~One Day's F.O.D.'.°We're putting it in front of theduty office and you men are to putall your F.O.D. in it rather thanthen dipsy-dumpster. It better befull after each walkdown, or we'llknow you guys aren't picking thestuff up". So the duty officer putsa full bucket of shit on this safe-ty officers desk every morning.The brothers tried to hold theirlaughter. Christ it was hard--afterall, this ding-dong had just gone outof his way to demonstrate to us howlittle he has to do with his time,what a child-like mind he has, andhow he gets his rocks off in themorning. He lives with the fictionhe's some kind of exec, when all hedoes all day is initial printed di-rectives and makes up the dumb shitsafety slogans in the POD--and runsaround on his lunch hour taking pic-tures of guys he thinks are "sluffingoff". If he isn't doing that, heStill finds time in his heavy sched-ule to order brothers to get haircuts.He wants every guy on the base tolook as much a freak as he does withnis butch haircut. He even tellsfellow officers to get haircuts--andyou can imagine how short those"good niggers" keep their hair.Seldom passes the day that Mr. Safedoesn't aggravate the sentimentsheld by. officer and enlisted alike-he's a baffon, who well could fitinto the role of Lt. Scheiskoff. inCATCH--22. The brothers at AlamedaSwear they expect this character tohold a parade any morning now.Page Two

BANK OF AMERMILLDALE BRANCH300 MAIN ST., MILLDALE, CALIF. 90054PAY TO THE ORDER OFCHARLES R. SMITHMARY D. SMITH1401 ORCHARD ROADMILLDALE CALIF. 90054it Ougnt to be ciear by now thatthe Amerikan military doesn't give adamn about a servicemen's Constitu-tional rights---especially, if by ex-ercising those rights he exposes themilitary brass and their co-conspir-"ators in Washington for what theyare.I am the editor of "OM, The Ser-vicemen's Newsletter""-the first anti-war, anti-brass paper put of by aNavyman in the U.S. Navy's long andinglorious history.I am also a member of the AmericanServicemen's Union; a group that hasbeen in the vanguard in the fight toobtain rights for G.I.s.As editor of the Washington D.C.based paper, I will be the first ser-viceman to face court-martial solelyfor statements written in a G.I. news-paper. For this dubious distinctionI presently face up to 39 years inthe brig and a dishonorable. discharge ..when tried by a general court-martial.Why? One reason is that I wasspeaking the truth about the Amerikanwar in Vietnam. Another thing; I_ never minced words about my disgustand contempt for the lying politiciansin Washington and the other war crim"inals in the Pentagon who give theorders, make the policies, gain thepromotions, the medals and the moneywhile our blood and Vietnamese bloodis shed to make profits for a fewand poverty for the many.The military, the government andthe war industries need the big liesto survive. How else do you thinkthey can get us to fight their warsand die for them?.Because I set out deliberately toupset the status quo and to bringabout needed discussion of issuesrevelant to GIs, the Brass and areactionary Congressman got togetherto say that I "went to far". Bycourt-martialing me the Navy willhave to trample the Bill of Rights,that historic document which is sup-posed to protect us from the govern-ment. And unless we get ourselves"together" that is just what they '11do.But, in fact, our rights have al-ready been trampled and are not worththe paper they are written on as longas the Pentagon Brass have the powerto arbitrarily decide and interpretin what manner and form those rightsmay be exercised.This has got to stop. The powerto determine one's own destiny is aninalienable right. Like one thatcan't be taken away from you.I was originally charged on June20, 1969, with violating 14 specifi-cations under four articles of theUniform Code of Military Justicebased on articles in the April, Mayand "om"Tiiwc Seqa119pca nfuv ur ie Lid sues OLIS 23456 7BGThey were as follows: Article82-soliciting others to desert inviolation of Article 85 and solici-ting others to commit sedition inviolation of Article 86. Article 89"disrespect to Gen. Earle Wheeler,Chmn, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Article92 - not disclaiming that my views werenot official Navy views. Article 134-conduct prejudicial to good orderand discipline (making disloyal state-ments"-8 counts), violation of Title18, Section 2387 (the notorious 1940Smith Act--intent to interfere with,impair, etc., etc., loyalty and dis-cipline, etc., etc.,--good for tenyears each).On August 28, 1969, I was orderedto stand trial. Some counts wereruled out by the judge then ruledback in by Commandant of the Washing-ton Naval District. This is beingappealed. A decision is expectedsoon""then a trial date will be set.My request that I be tried beforea jury composed entirely of E-2'sand E-3's was turned down by the Com-mandant and you know that being triedby an all-officer court is like beinga Jew tried in. Nazi Germany (or. ablack being tried in theT U.S.A.). 'The judge is a winner too.. Under -questioning from my lawyers he statedthat he did not believe that service-men had the right to publish materialfor or against the war.But all the charges and legalmaneuvering is just BULL SHIT; myprosecution was ordered by L. MendelRivers of South Carolina (a Congress-man who heads the House Armed ServicesCommittee, pushes the war, blesses thebrass in any way they ask, and who isa racist pig--Ed.).In a letter dated June 6, 1969,Rivers wrote Rear Adm. Means Johnstonthat my publication, "OM" "reflects agross abuse of the Constitutionalright of free speech"--that is, I hadpublished "Bobby Seale's Parable" inthe June issue of "OM".The parable tells of a thirsty manwho finds a stream, but it's full offilth. It seems that there is a hugehog "pissing and shitting in thestream...'' I attached a line at theend. ~L. Mendel Rivers, get yourass out of that stream. You hear,boy?"The Brass toadies of Rivers inter-rogated me on June 12, transferredme on June 17 and charged me on June20. Fast reaction time, huh? Thefucking Navy has never moved thatfast----except to screw a guy.At my Article 32 "grand jury typehearing," the Navy testified that ithad assigned 25 agents to follow meand harass me during my off-dutytime I nearly fell out of my chairwhen an agent testified that theLLNS . FSDOLLARSNavy picked up and fingered throughthe garbage and picked it up at myoff--base apartment.There has been a lot of supportand solidarity from many people inthis battle with Rivers and the NavyBrass.Union, the New Mobilization Committ-ee have agreedyto conduct massivedemonstrations to STOP THE TRIAL.The American Servicemen'sA lot more is needed.The solidarity of masses of peoplemoving against oppressive institutionscan be a beautiful thing to behold. Itis also a frightening thing-"-to ouroppressors.My court-martial could come inMarch or April or maybe later. Butit does not have to come at all.People rising up angry can change ttheir own destiny. If we get organ-ized we can win. (Disorganized peo-ple have no rights.) :But, if. it ~comes. the. trial couldT,be a.springboard for even greateroppositior to the war and the denialof basic Constitutional rights.I invite everybody to come andwatch the Navy court-martial theFirst Amendment. (Bldg. 200 on 11thSt.,.S.E. Just,.south of. M-Street,T.Washington, D.C.). Fun is guaran-teed to one and all. Our successdepends on what we do before, duringand after the court-martial.The Brass like to do their dirtydeeds where no one can see them. Itis. necessary to focus attention onthis trial and on all the injusticesthat have been committed by the Pen-tagon.The whole world will be watching---expecially G.I.s. Nobody likes tosee another get screwed--after allit might be them soon. Public expo-sure of this case can only increaseG.I. dissent. It just might be thestraw that breaks the camel's back.Hepression breeds rebellion.If you can't come to the trial,then organize wherever you are. Thepower is in your hands if you butrealize it. Don't just display it.Use it.POWER TO THE PEOPLEPage Three

Should theslaves to themilitary~WHAT MDM MEANS TO METhe Movement for a DemocraticMilitary (MDM) is presently a non-violent organization. The object isnot to violently attack the militarywith guns and munitions, but ratherto improve it with pertinent sugges-tions. As of yet there hasn't beenanybody able to submit pertinent sug-gestions without consequently martyr-ing himslef. That's the big problem,the paranoia that is always so presentand is always so enforced.The military tries to turn enlist-ed men "off" to MDM py calling it aviolent organization capable of wip-ing out you and your freinds, shouldsuch a need arise. Here's probablythe most violent organization in theworld (the U.S. Military) telling youto be wary of another organizationbecause it may be violent. Thiswould be most informative if it weretrue, but, since, the Movement for aDemocratic Military is non-violent,it is not only bad, but also a lie.Let's get back into same positivethings instead of rambling on aboutthe typical military "unchecked andunbalanced" system.If you should get into legal has-Sle in the mititary; webli: try=toget civilian counsel for you ratherthan let you fry with a militarylawyer who is just as paranoid aboutstanding by you as you are of speak-ing your opinions (in a military sit-uation).The main thing is communication,after all the future of the military(if any) is in our hands. We should~be the ones to decide if there is go-ing to be a need for the military in~our generation, and if so what partit will play. We're all agreed thatwe don't want to continue being theantagonizer of world situations andproblems. We have to start eithermolding the military in a positivedirection or doing away with it al-together. It is much to negative anorganization to serve anyone (otherthan the lifers) at present.It's up to you and me, and that'swhat we're here for, to take up theresponsibilities of our future. It'sabout time we started to accept ourresponsibilities and take the mili-tary into our own hands where it be-longs, since, in theory, the militaryis the servant of the people and weare the people...,or theitary theSlave oOthe people?Page FourTHOUGHTS IN A TIME OF ASSASSINATIONHere is a Vietnamese man. He doesnot speak your language, or share yourideals.Here is a black man who preaches anationalism you fear. How do you under-stand him? Jail him. Here is a childwith strange ideas. How do you listen?School him. Here is a man hungry forlife. How do you help him? Preach tohim. Here is a man who worships at hisown temple. How do you save him?Convert him.Where is the power of one institutiondirected toward enabling the young toreach their own goals. Where is thereone school erected to teach men to touchand to love and to live with and withinthemselves. We preach old gods andspeak the language of violence. We buildbombs that kill, cars that kill; schoolsthat kill, jails that kill, welfare programsthat kill, armies that kill, politics thatkill, If it is not that simple, sit inaYoom alone with yourself for one day andtell me the times in one life you havebeen murdered.Silence will bring death to this country.Young people want to love and will tellyou. Old people want to love and areafraid. The silent man each day lendssmall talents to the institutions he doesnot know, does not understand, does notlove. He knows it is wrong, but each daymore silence. There are no love places,no love patterns. Only dead gods. Youwill not turn men off of war until you turnthem on to living. You will not turn menoff of murder until you turn them on to§ speaking in another truer way, and givethem a man to listen.The only real revolution is the workingof responsible love in responsibly enablingcommunities. When we learn to descrythe violence done in schools and done inghettoes and done in houses and move tobuild instead of to sit or to lie or to sup-press, then slowly, one by one, the revo-lution will come in the slightly freeractions of each slightly freer man.The love cry of young people in revolttoday is, oI want to learn how." They donot always succeed. Who will teach them?The schools, the police, the government,the church, the corporate death? Be-cause if we walk as a moral silent maneach day to the grave, we can only teachour children each day the same. Andviolence on the outside is only the evidentresult of years of silence and violencewithin. When we end one silence, whenwe begin to move one person we did notunderstand, the revolution begins.Dead men need no mourning. Thedead in life need all the help they canget. (This was written by Craig B.Williamson, a Quaker, after RobertKennedy's assassination. It should beconsidered in it's historical context.)How do you speak to him? Napalm.THE HAIRCUI THROUGH HISTORY"Sherman, turn the 'wayback Mach-ine' to the period in U.S. Historywhen Thomas Jefferson was president,what's this! The men of the AmericanArmy are petitioning the president todo away with the 'new' short haircutlaw"."But Mr. Peabody, I thought thatthe military men always had militaryhaircuts"?"Not true Sherman, as a matter offact, the men of the U.S. Navy onceprided themselves on their long hair.That's why they have those flaps onthe backs of their uniform, they wereput there originally by the mén tokeep their hair off their uniforms"."But Mr. Peabody, why did theycut their hair"?"I'm getting to that Sherman, ifyou'll please be patient. You seeduring the period of World War I shorthair was 'in vogue', consequently,the military men ran off and cuttheir hair to protect themselves fromsocial ostracism"."But Mr. Peabody, the people to-day wear their hair long and the mil-itary men are ostracicized becauseof their short hair. Why don't theygrow their hair back"?"Because a very wise man in theannals of military history said,~that short hair is a vital way ofprotecting the lives of each andeveryone of the soldiers of today"."Who was that wise man, Mr. Pea-body"?"Why General Custer, of course,Sherman",TOO HASTY A WITHDRAWALAT THIS TIME COULD RESULT

PRISONERS OF WARMriest &SinclairEconomic desperation is forcing the gov-ernment to take fascist measures. to con-trol the people. The first step towardsfascism is the eradicationd political op-position. Frightening as it is, this isBobbySealeWhen Bobby Seale was in Chicagoon charges of conspiring to cross statelines with intent to incite to riot, he waskicked in the testes, beaten, bound,gagged, and choked by US Marshals.And when his mistrial was declared, hewas sentenced to serve four years oncontempt. Like in Alice in Wonderland,he got the sentence before the verdict,and in violation of the US Constitution(Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amend-ments) and a US Supreme Court prece-dent (a judge shall not sentence anyperson to more than six months~ withouta trial by jury).his interview took place while hewas in SF City Prison. oHe has sincebeen extradited to Connecticut, wherehe's up on Alice-in-Wonderland chargesof kidnapping and murder in the AlexRackley Cage gfe ine Pee eeeWhat follows is an edited version ofthat interview, A long, very personalsection has been cut because it's all aboutcooking and Bobby's favorite recipes. Forthose of you who cook, we might print aseries of Bobby's recipes later, Butwhere this version begins, Bobby is talk-ing about how he was brutalized and beat-en. A guard had slipped him a contrabandPanther newspaper, When the prison in-vestigator found that paper, Bobby toldhim that a guard had given him the paper,The guard denied it. For this Bobby wassent to solitary, and on the way, he waschoked and kicked in the groin four times.On top of it all, his legal papers wereillegally taken from him,Bobby talks a lot about prison andprison food, It might be the brig, Fearand paranoia? He raps about how Hueystood up to that, how people are dividedfrom each other, and what it takes tobring people together. This hag gotalot to do with Roger Priest. Roger'sup for 39 years for putting out a paper.Bobby faces the chair because the Pantherparty is fighting for a society that makessome sense, Both are prisoners of thesame enemy because they're fightingthe same war.The HoleSeale: . « Well, I woke up in the hole.And my throat, you know, it was hoarse.And you know what shocked me the most?When I came to, I couldn't utter a word.That's how bad they choked me. And Ialways had a tonsilitis problem, dig, Theywouldn't even let me go get a doctor....I couldn't utter a word. I tried to saysomething, and that shocked me, Ithought I wasn't going to be able to speakno more, man, That blew my mind,Pissed me off. And finally after aboutten minutes in there, I said, ''fhe's barelyhappening right in front of us. RogerPriest exercises his constitutional rightof freedom of press in order to expressthe. views.,of hundreds of thousands of GIswho are realizing that their leaders arecriminals - the.military calls this disloy-alty and is threatening him with thirty-nineyears in jail. John Sinclair organized hugecultural celebrations which repudiated thetedium and alienation of life under the mil-joints. And Bobby Seale, the chairman ofthe Black Panther Party is on trial for hislife in a racist court in Connecticut.On April 26, a cultural celebration inthe style of John Sinclair will be dedicatedto freeing Roger Priest and all politicalprisoners. Servicemen are welcome -enjoy the Berkeley culture instead of themilitary culture for at least one day.Commander Cody is the leading band.Wine, food and other various naturalitarized, fascist society - he was sentenced spirits will be in abundance. When weto ten years in jail for possession of twoable to clear his throat)'*. . And one of thecats Came back and asked me did I wantsome water, And I said, "Ya, I wantsomeé water." (very faintly).... and my- throat it swelled up, and I started running-o@ temperature..._ The hole has been declared uncon-stitutional by the US Supreme Court. But~they still use it, you know. They lie andSay they don't, but they do. They alwaysput cats in the hole, Always brutalizingthem, beating them. Like the othernight, you know the cat Raymond Scott?One of these black guards, he tried to goinTon Raymond Scott, man.T And brutalizethe:cat. Messing with him. . And then hewent and called out a bunch of other guardsand went in there, and they jumped.on him.About nine or ten of them. Beat the.catman. Beat him unconscious. ; .Well, back to the hole. The hole hasgot a hole in the floor. Just a flat hole,you know. Like they had the thing stoppedup. You can't flush it from inside. It'sflushed from outside, So I was in there -vabout half an hour or so, And it flushed,but it was stopped up. And the defecationand urine and toilet paper and all that crapcome all back up on the floor. And I'mstanding in two inches of water with def-ecation and everything in it, you know.There's this little porthole with thickglass on it, I'm watching to catch some-one passing, I try to bang on this door,but it's almost soundproof, ...And thosecats knew it was stopped up, They knewit. And it wasn't until late that night whenthe shift was changed that one of the guardsgot some human sense and was giving mesome food in a plate through the porthole.How Huey Psyched the PigsF.N.: What did you do to keep yourselffit, to keep yourself sane?Seale: You see, this is where you beat "the cats, See, when you're a revolutionaythey can't break the spirit that way, Thereal thing is you understand the psycho-logy of the cops. They are the ones whoreally can't stand to be in there. That'swhy they create that kind of thing, you seewhat I mean... ?Huey was telling me one time abouthow he figured this thing out. When hewas in jail a long time ago, way beforethe Party started, they put him in thehole cause he'd led a strike in jail forbetter food, you know. They give you acup of green mush and two pieces of breadtwice a day. So when they first comearound there, Huey said, "I'm not goingto eat this crap cause I was striking up-stairs for better food in the first place.What would I look like eating this crapnow ?"" So here, he threw this crap out.For two days Huey wouldn't eat. It sohappened that the shift changed. And thecat who came on night shift happened to bea brother who knew me and Huey very wellare together we cannot be repressed.from Merritt College....What it was, hewent and got some bologne and cheesesandwiches, and brought them down thereand gave them to Huey at night....Whenthey come down there the next day withthat green mush, Huey was doing push-ups. This cat did that for ten days, andit blew those cats' minds. . ..I got out of the hole cause so muchpressure was coming down on them upthere in that jail, you know, for putting mein there in the first place. Finally, thecat who gave me that newspaper admitted,"Oh ya, I gave the man a newspaper."Then they looked like a bunch of fools forputting me in the hole in the first place.They found out I was telling the truth....How Bobby Met Huey NewtonF{N.: When you first ran into HueyNewton, what was it about him that madethe two of you come together?| Seale: ~The man was able to articulateTand make himself clear, A brother. Icall him the brother, the nigger, theblack man 3...F.N.: Where'd you first bump into him?Seale: At Merritt College in front of arally, It wasn't a rally. He just happenedto be blowing to three brothers and abouttwo hundred people crowled around afterthe rally and was listening to Huey run itdown. I happened to walk up. I was justa member of the crowd. I tried to kickoff going to Merritt College to get me aneducation, I wanted to be an engineer, butit turned out that I got interested in blackhistory and anthropology and social sciere,I asked him some questions. I alwaysfelt you should ask people questions. Iasked him, oWhat about all this stuff NAACPis doing? Is it really helping us?T Andhe blows it away. He says, "No, becauseall that money they're using they're wast-ing away to make some law. There'salready laws on the books that should beenforced," And he cited all the 13th, 14th,15th Amendments and all these kinds ofthings that should have been enforced causethey're our constitutional rights, you see.So we have to exercise these laws. Andhe talked about cooperatives, and whatblack people need these days. ...He learned how to read by memorizingpoetry. He didn't know how to read, sohe used poetry. And by focusing on thepoetry to understand words and stuff, helearned the in-depth meaning of things.You know, poetry gives a lot of in-depthabout life and society. . ..(This is only the first section of theinterview. The other sections will beprinted in the next two issues)Page Five

Even though the repression againstthe Movement for a Democratic Militaryhas been very heavy in the SouthernCalifornia area the chapters in SanDiego and Oamp Pendleton, Oceanside,are moving on the offense.Each chapter has taken legal actionagainst the military or civil author-ities. In San Diego, MDM filed complaints for injunction and damages inthe U.S. District Court for the South-ern District of California. Theactions calls for an emergency injunc-tion to force the police to cease frommaking illegal arrests, entries intohomes and offices and generally har-assing the organization of activeduty G.I.s. Also the plaintiffs de-mand $100,000 each for previous actsof harassment.The defendants are 0.J. Roed, Chiefof Police of the San Diego Police De-partment, R.B. Jaurequi, AssistantChief of Police, Walter Hahn, the citymanager, and John Does (1-100), theofficers of the Police Department.Pendleton MDM filed suit againstBattalion Commander R.R. Miner forSlander. He accused MDM of respon-sibility for an elleged race riot onFebruary 13 at Pendleton. As MM nmmembers from Camp Pendleton havesince told this writer, the race riotcharges were totally unfounded. Theoutbreak occurred due to a racistattack by some white marines, but theblack G.I. who was attacked went toget some friends to get even. Manyof those .friends. happened to be white.That's what the brass fears, that ablack G.I. could call on whites aswell as blacks to fight racism. MDMsays fight racism through solidarity.In San Diego, MDM called attentionto the trial of James A. Brown, whohad been-in the, brig, for 203 days ofpre-trial confinement. without. anylegal assistance. He had been con-fined in maximum security; he hadbeen harassed and beaten by guards.People who came to his court-martialwere turned away, but MDM stayed out-side the gates of the naval base anddistributed literature and rapped tosailors about Brown's trial.At North Island Naval Air Station,San Diego, MDM is calling for a boy-cott of the enlisted men's club. ~Twoblack sailors got fired for verballysupporting a third brother whopunched out a white lifer for callinghim a nigger. A shore patrol thenattempted to move on the brother,Alex Jordan, but he received the sametreatment when he tried to lift hisclub against Alex's head. Alex isnow being charged with various countsof assault. Last Saturday only sixG.1.s went to the base enlisted men'sclub. On a regular Saturday the clubis usually filled with at least 250sailors.The boycott will be sustained untilthe following demands are met (1) Firethe racist manager, Chief John Ryan;(2) Reinstate with back pay Tommy Shawand Johnny Jones; free Alex Jordan,political prisoner of American mili-tary racist policy; and (3) take thecontrol of the club out of the handsof the present management and turn itover to a board of enlisted men elect-ed by rank and file sailors.Various forms of rap sessions arebeing held at the Waiting Room, MDMheadquarters in San Diego. On Inter-national Women's Day, women fromWomen's Liberation came to talk,U.S. Wars on CoffeehousesEver since the rebellion in the Ft.Dix stockade last summer, the militarybrass, with the aid of local, stateand federal authorities, has steppedup its campaign to wipe out all pro-gressive G.I. forces. Needless tosay, "General-Admiral" Nixon and hishenchmen, Mitchell, Laird, etc., areon the side of the conspirators andare actually the real forces behindthe conspiracy to exterminate the G.I.Movement.Although this combination of crim-inals have at various times movedagainst individuals who have resistedmost of the repression has come downon the various coffeehouses projectsnear military: bases or headquartersfor active duty G.I. organizations.In early December the brass de-cided that it wanted to pldee theShelter Half near Ft. Lewis, Tacoma,Washington, off limits to servicemen.A national publicity and support cam-paign was waged by the coffeehouseStaff. The Army, due to people'spressure, decided to halt its inves-tigation indefinitely on alleged sub-versive activities at the coffeehouse.At the Ft. Knox Coffeehouse inMuldraugh, Kentucky, six of the staffpeople were indicted for "maintain-ing a public nuisance of all thegood citizens of the Conmonwealth ofKentucky", and "violating sanitaryconditions". Bail was set at $10,000.The grand jury started an investi-gation of FTA (the G.I. paper). Whenstaff people refused to answer ques-tions, four of them were jailed forThere have been raps on black liter-ature at San Diego State College.This last weekend, Jane Fondatalked with the G.I.s about her la-test experiences with the brass upin the state of Washington.On April 17 and 18, Preachermanfrom the Patriot Party will be hereto rap with G.I.s.All these activities must be tell-ing the brass something about the de-termination. of G.I.s. This will makethem more and more desperate in theirattempts to crush MDM. General Chap-man, Commandant of the Marines, hasin a press conference made it quiteclear that he was declaring internalwar against the Movement for ADemocratic Military.14+ it £VOLbPolice state vs. the Constitution. Which dde are you on?re ORES LOaAhorPA ncaa Re os rans tnetetttt AEos patient� an [oka SPY ans nme eeaanaanalna aein nnn onal ESRI ARA, wsae teeMet a :PRA osry. Soscontempt of court, and bail was setat $1500 a person. The state policecame into the coffeehouse every nightfor three weeks, demanding names ofthe people in the coffeehouse.The grand jury is to resume itsinvestigation.The Ft. Dix coffeehouse near Ft.Dix, New Jersey, got bombed and whenthe police came to investigate theyproceeded to smash things up in thename of "looking for clues".The Oleo Strut coffeehouse nearFt. Hood, Killeen, Texas, has beenthe target for vigilantes of the KuKlux Klan type. Last fall the staffand many active-duty G.I.s were head-ed for an anti-imperialist rally inHouston. Some of them never did makethat rally. Thery were on two occa=Sions attacked with firearms by theKlan. They found out later that theKlan had taken credit for the crime.Fortunately the shots only hit oneof the cars.Two G.I.s from Ft. Hood who wereorganizers have received heavy jailsentences. One, the first editor ofthe local G.1l. paper, called FatiguePress, got eight years on a frameddope bust. He served a year and ahalf in jail before a higher courtoverturned the conviction.In January 1970, the civilianstaff of the UFO coffeehouse nearFt. Jackson, Columbia, South Caro-lina, was busted and charged withoperating a public nuisance. Bailwas set at $7500 for the men and$6000 for the women (sho is pregnant).For this "crime", these staff peopleface a possible ten years in jail.Two days later the UFO was padlockedby state officials; a notice statingthat the UFO was being closed by atemporary restraining order on theground that it was a public nuisancewas placed in the window.The Home Front near Ft. Carson,Colorado Springs, has had FBI pres-sure interfering with its efforts.In July 1969, the landlord of theoriginal coffeehouse broke the leasethe day after being visited by theFBI. On December 11, 1969, FBI andmilitary intelligence visited theoffices of Peerless Graphics, theColorado Springs printer for AboveGround, the G.I. paper. A contractGame (continued on page eight) GiPage Six

The Bay Area Chapter of MDM payedits first visit to Treasure Island onMarch » in order to discuss condi-tions of T.I. with sailors stationedthere. Enlisted men voiced the usualcomplaints but also explained thatthe T.I. situation had changed con-siderably as a result of the brutalityhearings which arose out of the caseof G.I. Union member Pat Jones.Fat Jones was held at T.I. whilehe was pending trial for AWOL.. Hesuffered the pig brutality which manyAmericans are being forced to get usedto. But instead of suffering silent-ly, he decided to escape - which hedid. He contacted the SelectiveService Panel, a group of lawyerswho have defended many draft resis"ters and who have within the lastyear extended their help to: activeduty servicemen who resist militaryoppression as a matter of conviction.Don Jelinek took his case and as afirst step sought an injunction inFederal Court against the reassign-men of Pat to the brig. The FederalJudge didn't dare to interfere withthe military's fascist perogative todo whatever it pleases with those of~us who are inducted, and refused togrant the injunction. But Jelinekthen obtained a restraining orderfrom Supreme Court Justice Douglas,and so the Navy was not allowed toput him in the brig until a fullhearing on the injunction took place.Meanwhile the Navy and Marine Pigsin charge of the brig ignored theSupreme Court, as fascists do, andcontinued to encourage the beatingof helpless prisoners. After all,if youlre a lifer, you need somesort of emotional compensation. ButJelinek blew their minds by collect-ing fourteen affadavits allegingbrutality and charging the psychopathsinvolved with contempt of court. Bythis time, the Federal Judge who hadat first regarded the whole caseas none of his business, hadbecome infuriated at the stupidityof the Navy for treating theSupreme Court order with contempt.Finally, the upper echelons ofthe brass sent word down threughthe chain of command to cease allillegal activity until the caseblew over, although of course theydidn't word the directive this way.From thereoh in conditions at thebrig and the holding barracksimproved quickly. This is anexcellent example of how the courageof a single enlisted man, when itis combined with professionallegal support, adequate publicity(The Chronicle was writing front pagestories on this case), and is sup-ported by other enlisted men in thearea can bring about inprovements inthe situations of servicemen.The military realizes this, anddoes not like to be forced to stopits abuse of citizen-soldiers.Therefore they do everything theycan get away with to isolate service-.men from civilians and servicemenwho are willing to help them.The MDM organizers had thisbrought home to them as they wereleaving the base. Four Shore Patrol-ers lead by a gung-ho lifer swoopeddown on them, placed them underarrest - without saying what theywere arresting them for, searchedtheir car, stole their property,seized leaflets announcing an MDMTLLEBUST!meeting, and took them down to theSP Station.Here the four men - Tom Csekey,Steve Rees, Tom Stevens, and anactive duty G.1I., Bob King - wit-nessed a ludicrous display ofmilitary paranoia. The situation wasall the more embarrassing because ofthe presence of enlisted sailors andmarines who were obviously ashamed ofbeing involved with their "leaders".First an officious CID inspector triedto impress everyone with his own im-portance. When he was laughed at "-no one could help it "- he began wav-ing his badge and screaming "Do yourealize your under arrest". Afterhe calmed down and went back to thepaperwork, a Navy officer began prat-ing about one of the books that hadbeen stolen out of the car, "Quota-tions from Chairman Mao", "Do you be-long to the party that advocates thisbook"?, he bleated. Its always hardto figure out what officers are talk-ing about but in this case it seemedapparent that he thought that anyonewho was interested in helping service-men must be a Communist on ordersfrom Russia. We can only guess be-cause when he was asked what he wastalking about, he began a sentence,got confused, and backed out of theroom.Once these two intellectuals hadretreated, there was time for a gooddiscussion between us and the enlist-ed marines still in the room. Likethe National Guardsmen called out toBerkeley, they..were unable.to,do-any"thing except follow orders, eventhough they had strong sympathieswith those that the military hier-archy regard as enemies. We learnedthat they were temporarily assignedto Treasure Island and.were tryingto somehow get into the Bay Area scenefor obvious reasons. Unfortunately,they were afraid to come to the MDMmeeting that Sunday, because at thismeeting, plans were made for. bringingservicemen to Provo Park for the cul-tural festivals sponsored by theWhite Panther Party in conjunction .with Movement for a Democratic Mili-tary. Hopefully, they have sinceheard about this through word ofmouth, which the military can't pos-"sibly repress. ,After a while the CID inspector,an ex-lifer named Prettyman, caughton to what was happening and orderedthe prisoners to remain silent.San Francisco Pigs showed up, tookthe three civilians to jail, and bbooked us on trumped-up charges oftrespassing. The next day we werearraigned before the U.S. Commission-~er who admitted that he regarded thecharges as "peanuts" and tried toconvince us to plead guilty. Thisis what the Navy wanted, since theyknew that having to admit to theirbehavior in a public trial would b-detrimental to their image.In order to minimize total jailtime, we decided that only two ofus would plead not guilty. The manwho pleaded guilty was then given athirty day suspended sentence for"peanuts". In a country where pigsare arresting innocent people forall sorts of trivial charges, a sus-pended sentence is not much of afavor, since it is likely to have tobe served anyway, and since it inter-feres with political activity forsix months.Bob King was taken to Oakland ArmyBase where he is stationed and placed:on restriction. Now since he had notbeen convicted of a crime, and sincehe was not likely to go AWOL, thisrestriction was blatently illegal,being nothing but punishment withoutdue process. When: he tnreatened tobring this out in court, the Armygot nervous and rushed an Article 15on him the morning that Tom Csekeyand myself were to go on trial.They had done nothing for two weeksand the timing of the Article 15,seven o'clock in the morning, showsthat they paniced at the thoughtof being exposed in court.But their fear was translatedinto vindictiveness, and Bob Kingwas busted from E-4 to E-2 and res-tricted for thirty days. This isthe typical pattern of military op-pression. ~ Lifers break their ownregulations, violate the constitu-tion, and mistreat accused enlistedmen -"- and then some self-righteousColonel deals out a vicious sentencefor some trivial infraction of someobscure rule. In this case, Bobwas charged with fraudulent entryonto a military installation. Therewas sone justification for thecharge. When asked who he was goingto visit, Bob, in a moment of bitter-ness gave the name of his cousin.His cousin had been killed in Vietnam.As always, that unanswered ques-tion haunts the minds of oppressedservicemen -" Who are we fightingforT; and who ~are weT fighting against?Stevens and Csekey went into courton April 3. Inspector Prettyman wasthe first witness for the prosecution.He claimed that the accused had notbeen read their rights because theyhad not been questioned. The reportsaid they refused to answer questions.He admitted that he had received acomplaint about stolen property andthat he had not bothered to investi-gate. He was visibly shocked by theimplication that he should use hisprecious powers to prosecute officersinstead of enlisted men and civilians.In the course of his testimony it be-came apparent that he was really notaware of what had happened. He fi-nally excused himself by claimingthat he did not write the report.All his testimony was dismissedas hearsay at this point and thetrial was put over until April 24,at 2 o'clock.This case is no different fromthousands of others, essentially.The court system is being used toharass those who uphold rights wonfor the people in a revolutionarystruggle two centuries ago. Thecriminal pigs who interfere with theexercise of these rights in orderto enslavement of allof us to theprofit-hungry rulers of this country.These pigs enjoy virtual immunityfrom prosecution. We are trying tobreak down the isolation of service-men from each other and from civil-ians. The military is using illegalmeans to try to stop us. They knowthat the strategy of imperialistdomination of non/communist countriesdepends on keeping us disorganized,terrified, and miserable. Our Free-dom and cooperation terrifies them.Page Seven

hat we're for &| COFFEEHOUSEwe're for itBelieving that ending the suppression of the American Serviceman isan important part of a largerstrugglefor basic human rights, theMovement for a Democratic Military pledges support for the self deter-"mination of all peoples.We are dedicated to using every means at ourdisposal to bring about a prompt end to the war in Vietnam, the exploitation of our brothers and sisters abroad, and thephysical and economic---of those in our ow land.serviceman. hasof himself and of peoplemaining silent, thedeep-founded rightfrom intimidation and oppression.We will be silent no longer.l. We demand the right to collectivebargaining.2. Extend all human and constitutional rights to military men and women.3. Stop all military censorship andintimidation:We demand the right to individualconscience--moral, political, orreligious.We demand the right to refuse polit-ically objectionable duty such asriot control and Vietnam duty.4. Abolish all mental and physicalcruelty in military brigs, correct-ional custodies and basic training.5. .We demand the abolition of thepresent court-martial system and NJP:All cases would be subject to auto-matic review by a board of civil-ians elected by military men havingone vote each.Trial by jury and court of one'speers by rank.Eliminate. physical-hearings and Non-judicial Punishment.Place the military judicial systemoutside the chain of command.6. We demand the equal to the feder-al minimum wage for civilians.repression--"-"bothWe feel that by re-contributed to the denial of thiseverywhere to live freeWe have been silent for a long time.{. We demand the abolition of theclass structure of the military.End saluting and sir-ing and specialofficer priveleges and segregation.End all rank priveleges.We demand the right for an enlistedmen's elected review board of offi-cers conduct.We believe that respect can only beearned on a human-relating-to-human basis.8. End all racism everywhere.Bring to immediate trial by the sys-tem described above, all officersand senior enlisted men who formentand exploit race tensions with themilitary.9. Free all political prisoners.In return for captured Americantroops in Vietnam, we support amnesty for Eldridge Cleaver, HueyNewton, the Conspiracy 8, and ourbrother war resisters at home andabroad.10. Stop the glorification of war nowprevalent in all brances of the mil-itary.11. Abolish the draft and all invol-untary enlistment.12. Pull out of Vietnam now.(continued from page six)had been made to publish the newspaper;the type had already been set for theissue. The next day, the printer brokethe contract, and subsequently, no printerin Colorado Springs would agree topublish 'Above GroundT,The Green Machine Coffeehouse Projectfound a place in Oceanside, California,near Camp Pendleton, but the day beforethe lease was to be signed the landlordbacked out. So now they operate out oftheir home in Vista. It has since Novem-ber been the headquarters for the CampPendleton chapter of Movement for aDemocratic Military (MDM).Vigilantes have taken shots at the placeand undercover pigs have constantly beenfound trespassing.The 'Waiting Room", San Diego head-quarters for MDM - has been practicallyunder siege by local and military pigs.The MDM headquarters have been brokeninto on at least four occasions up to thisdate. Since late December at least fiftyGIs, all members of MDM, have beenripped off: Most of these charges havebeen dropped, since no evidence couldever be found to constitute a violation.At Seaside, California, near Fort Ord,the ~Fort Ord Coffeehouse has only been inexistence about six weeks, but already hasreceived its taste of justice. The policehave been encouraging a group of bikersto start trouble so that they in turn couldclose the place down. The tactic has sofar been unsuccessful, but there have beensome close calls. The coffeehouse at Ft.Ord is also serving as lodgings for thenewly formed chapter of Ft. Ord MDM,All these coffeehouses in generalserve as places where GIs can learn moreabout the Movement, read undergroundliterature, start their own papers and builtheir own movements.brass calss subversive.This is what theSo be it.subscril2214 Grove StreetBerkeley, California94704Enclosed is $5 for a year's suphone:MORA TORIUMscheduled events for April 18: at ll ampeople are assebmling at the Panhandlein San Francisco (that's Oak and Baker).At noon the march starts to the Civic Center, where twoactive duty GIs are the featured speakers. Everyone come. Butif you don't like this schedule, then make your own and then do it!I'm someone who digs what you're doing, and can help with some breacI'm interested, and would like more information about MDMI'm a GI who wants to subscribe (it's free)I'm a civilian who wants to subscribe.Be there.address