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… IT CAME- FLOODING THE SCHOOLS, CRUSHING EVERYTHING THAT
STOOD IN ITS WAY, LEAVING IN ITS WAKE A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION,
HAVOC, REBELLION. IT RAZED CLASSROOMS; FLINGING TEXTBOOKS TO THE
WINDS, SCREAMING OUT OF TURN, LEAVING FOUL STAINS ON THE DESKS,
RIPPING THE FLAGS FROM THEIR VERY POLES. IT CAUGHT SCORES OF
STUDENTS, SWEEPING THEM ONWARD ON ITS HEADLONG COURSE, TRAPPING
THEM IN THE -~IRLPOOL OF ITS FRENZY. ADMINISTRATORS REELED,
CHOKING ON ITS NOXIOUS REEK, AS IT TORE THEIR OFFICES ASUNDER.
CUT SLIPS, TARDY SLIPS, SUSPENSION NOTICES, BAD CONDUCT MEMOS,
REPORT CARDS –ALL WERE SWEPT AWAY IN ITS CHURNING MIDST.
IT WAS.,.
THE
LOOK OUT FOR COMMIES!
They hide behind bushes, in garbage
cans, in basement cells, and in push
carts, churning out filthy, immoral
propaganda! You are now reading
filthy and immoral propaganda – great
ain’t it? This paper is funded by the
personal expense account of Mao Tse
Tung. A gracious gift of 5,000 yen
(2~¢) from Mr. Tung has made the publication
of this issue possible.
Thank you Mr. Tung! (By the way, he
is not dead!} The first issue you’ve
got to like. The theme is “Ain’t it
a fucking drag to be dead in UNl HIGH
SCHOOL?” Your mother hated this ish.
Homer “Hot Pants” Gantz hated it,
Doc, Junkie hated it too. What better
recommendation do you need? Huh buddy?
I thought so: All reet, get ready,
first take off your shoes and stay
a while, sit down , get stoned, and
wait, cause here it comes~
IT’S THE RED TIDE!!
1) If pigs as~<; for 1.0 .. you are required to identify
yourself.
21 Tne pigs can legally frisk you for weapon~, “bec.auM
you could be .a threat to tl’leir Immediate safety,” UNLESS
tl’ley feel an OD]ect ttlat could be o11 weapon tney cannot go
tl’lru your pockets wittlout ARRESTING you first.
3) You may b~ e:o:oectea to ACCOUNT for your pre~ence.
You shoula gi11e a SHORT explanation,
41 If pigs <;:ontinue to ask Quutions., you should uy, .. AM
I UNDER ARREST?”
51 11 they say YES, you should r.ay, “WHAT ARE THE
CHARGE$7″ The pigs are required to tell you the charge’>.
61 If they say NO, but continue to ask questions you
$hould s;ty, ‘”I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY UNTIL I TALK
TO MY LAWYER,. (even if you dOI’I’t ha11e one yet).
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STONED SCHOOL SPIRit
Howdy:
This is the first of my articles
for RED TIDE. It will tell about
dope, culture, and stuff happening
in our beloved school. Introduction
finished.
So, welcome to Uni High! Also,
welcome to Uni sober I As you may or
may not know, there is a thing called
Oppression – that seems like a good
place to start. there is Us vrs.
them. They are commonly known as
PIGS: Police, administration, some
fucked up teachers, and some fink
student Narks, lackeys, and all their
running dogs – love that rhetoric!
So make sure that you know who your
friends are. There are many people
who wanna bust you for some stupid
reason, mainly because what you are
doing (no matter what you are doing)
is ILLEGAL! So;
Keep a clean nose,
Watch the plain clothes,
You don’t need a Weatherman
To know which way the wind blows!
This weeks topic is Dope. If
you are new to Uni, there are some
things to keep in mind when buying
or using. Don’t get burned or busted!
If you smoke dope at school,
try not to hold when stoned or use
bubble gum or somethings weird like
Certs, so that Homer and his Henchmen
won 1 t getcha! Don’t use speed, reds,
or smack. Dig it, speed, reds, and
smack in any form, and what ev~r
amount, causes tmmeasurable and
irreparable damage to the life cells
of the human body, and all these
drugs are addictable. Their continual
use can only lead to a slow and
ugly death. Let me level with you.
I can dig that you think that school
When you get the hots for a
rock-star you get dem bad. There
~as a time when I needed a fix of
Mick Jagger to get through the day.
I would talk about him as if he were
immortal and I despised anyone who
laughed at him.
When my passion for him subaided
and I thought it was time to
mellow out, instead of fantazing
about Mick Jagger I would wait outside
the Troubador for 4 hours just
to make sure I would get the best
seat at a John Sebastian concert. I
would literally go bananas when John
Sebastian acknowledged the fact that
I brought him some flowers (or some
such shit) after waving in his face
till he noticed. But why should I
get so hung up on the way he said
thank you? Because he’s a rock
star? Big deal. Or because he
meant so much to me. Then why did
he mean so much to me? Because I
can relate to him? I can relate to
my friends too. So what makes him
special? It’s the way I related to
him. I could make up all sorts of
fantasies about the way he was, never
having to worry about having my
myth about him destroyed because I
didn’t know him and· never would. In
essence I immortalized him (and many
others) to the point where he could
do no wrong.
is fucked up – it ia! I can also dig
that you can’t take it any longer,
but if school can fuck you up that
much, then take all· the money that
you would use on your habit and get
rid of the problem at the source,
which means, ·
~ THE MOl1!£RFUCKING ~!!,!II
For real, speed, red&, and smack
are really fucked up. There is a
myth that is perpetrated at all levels
by the government, the media, and
the schools (namely your health
class). The mytb states t~e government
is really concerned about the
evil of hard drugs. This is
Bullshitl And this is why: Hard
drugs have been in the ghetto for
many years. Black and Chicano people
have been dying off from junk for
years. Why then, only in the past
few years, has it become a problem?
It is because the white middle-class
youth are now becoming addicted.
quantities of pills without preacriptiO!
UI, which are smugglecl back _into
the u.s •. and sold at very high street
pricea by the pushe,a,
(3) N:LJ:on is giving a lot of lip
service to his plan for cutting off
heroin at the source, which means buying
up all of the opium fields in
. Turkey. Doesn’t this gesture make
Tricky Dick look like the good humanitarian?
This is a bluff. While
Nixon is burning crops in turkey, and
the smoke is covering everything, the
shit is secretly being smuggled in by
planes flown by the CIA into Amerika
from S.E. Asia just chocked full of
processed opium (Herion)! Ain’t he a
little d*Vil: The PIG! Let’s stand
up and cheer for Nixon’s anti-dope’
program. And yes, all you GI ‘s in
the back, let’s hear it from you.
What? What’s wrong with them? They
have all O.D.ed?!?! Oh, shit, what
will Martha Mitchell say? (Not much.)
Now the politidans are screaming What this means is that Bad dope
about the drug problem. This points will passify you, shut you up, fuck
out well the inherent racism within you up and eventually kill you! I
the aystem. would bet that some self-styled
If the government is 80 ton- authority figures and, administrators
earned about hard drugs, why don’t stay up every night praying that you
they cut it off at the source, which become a psssified student; harmless,
means; innocuous – dead. You would just sit
(l) The police should be chasing there in yourseat quietly and
the real criminals, the MAFIA, in .. : “Behave”. “Dead” people do not ask
stead of users of weed and political embarrassing questions in History or
people, like John Sinclair, who they English class. “Dead” people do what
gave a ten year sentence for giving they are told in P. E. “Dead” people
two joints to a Narc. the reason perpetrate what everyone hates and
that the police are not busting too what those of you who are alive and
many big smack dealers is because the thinking are trying to overcome and
MAFIA has paid off many of the govern- overthrow. Dead people help keep the
ment and police officials. pigs in power. Junkies break down the
sense of unity and solidarity that
starts to build up between students in
struggle when he has to rip you off in
the hall for a fucking fix. Junkies
fuck over our people when they have to
be goddamn narcs just to save their
fucking asses from being busted. A
junkie thinks of one thing: ~· ••
(2) How come there are no laws
passed to put a quota on the amount
of pills (Barbiturates and Amphetimines)
produced by the big drug
manufacturers? It is a common
practice for drug companies to have
plants in foreign countries to manufacture
the shit, because there are
less restrictions on obtaining huge
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I began to realize that I w&a
fucking myself up and dreaming of
people who didn’t exist in the form
that I made them to be, and it vas
harder than shit to get out of doing
it. 1 had to realize within myself
that because a person can write good
songs it does not put them beyond
co~ -t ‘cl o’C\ ~~e )
Girl.s~eometimes use rock-stars
as substitutes for emotional, neecta.
Feel lonely? Listen to Neil Young.
Feel like no one understands you?
Listen to James Taylor. It’s not
bad to relate to the music you’re
listening to, it’s when you let it
keep you away from problems that you
have to deal with. When 1 would get
upset with the situation around me,
I would say fuck it and -go into solitude
with my records. The only
thing 1 had to relate to were.a·
bunch of songs that didn’t confront
me, they only offered sympathy. I
stopped developing within myself
because I wasn’t dealing with real
situations, with real people.
Conclusion (or beginning – you
decide), In dealing with rock-star
worship you have to know yourself and
be strong enough to catch yourself st
it and stop it. You also have to constantly
be defining and analy&ing bow
you look at people (rock stars in particular).
to clear things up a bit, I
am not saying that you should throw
away all your records and never relate
to singers again, just remember that
they are human. OUr culture b important
to us and we have unity with our
musicians, but if we put them on a
higher level it becomes imposaibla.
faults, and it took the help of my Power to the life culture, death to
brothers and sisters to reinforce me . the dealth culture.
and make me deal with my hero worship. -Heidi Ho-
JiAii . [ •
As time rolled on, I resliz’l!l
how fucked-up my attitude toward
Machismo (Macho) is a man who women. And the fact that I realized
Now 1 consider myself almost
non-macho. There are· times when I
joke around about things. If someone
aaka me if I want to go out for
dinner, I sometimes aay,”Why go out
for dinner when there are women here
to cook? After all, women were put
on earth to cook and clean the bouse
and please men.” Jokes such as this
prove that there is still some macho
within me which eventually will.·be
no ~!?.;’.’Ä!•
reata a woman differently simply be- it was one step toward solving the
ause he is a man, and he feels men problem. When a woman would come up
re superior to women. There are and talk to me, I made it a point to
·ariations on the personality of a look straight in her eyes instead of
acho, but the typical macho thinks her boobs. But I had to completely
,f women as a good-or-bad-ball, while rid myself of macho attitudes. So I
1e thinks of himself as a sort of
:uperman. Every man, regardless of thought to myself – why do I contow
liberated he may be, is a bit aider women inferior beings? Part of
h 1 the reason is that the women on T.V.
acho, and that’s something t at al (who show the other women how to act I know that the men at Uni are
1en should .deal .with. and dress) are pot:trayed as totally basically macho and that’s something
With a trace of drama in my dumb and helpless. And that’s what that must be dealt with now. And
eart, I look back a couple of years the problem is, the women who watch don’t give yourself any of that shit
, see bow I felt toward women. T • V • think they should act the same “I dealt with it yesterday”. If each
>ere is no escaping the fact that I way • The result is a bunch of man would just think why he considers
1s macho. When I talked to s girl, women act totally helpless (OH, women lower than him, and if be talks
didn 1 t really talk to .h!!_, I talked HA-YALP II) when there’s a man around about his reason with others truth-
, her boobs. Were they big or were just so he will come over and re- fully, he can work out and probably
l!ey small? If they were big, it was assure them, take care of them, and rid himself of the highly contagious
11 right – she could be my friend; finally dominate them. Hence another disease, MACHISMO.
>t if they were small, I would make fucked-up relationship is completed. Kris Pissed-Off-erson
note not to see ar be seen with herr————————–.;,~;;;.;;.;-.; __ _
gain. I would also take joy in a
l.rl with approximately one ton of
ike-up on. (Who really cares what
oey really look like as long as they
ave huge boobs and they look really
>od with make-up on?) Not her boobs,
er face.
This article ~s directed to all
.sters. And you know who you are.
.l women are sisters in oppression
•en though it’s a tragic fact that
,me women make themselves tools of
1e American beast, and we’ll someday
1ve to fight them. But, somewhere,
ren they know who they are. Look
cthin yourself, sister, and see bow
>U repress yourself, how society
•presses you.
How do you relate to your body?
:e you constantly holding it in
1eck, inhibiting any movements which
:e strong or vigorous or anything
Lse classified by the perverted
1erikan aesthetic as “unfeminine11 or
lispleasing”7 Are you never free and
>mfo~table inside your body, but alIYS
outside it, manipulating it into
10 strained and limited pattern you
•ve been taught?
Do you agonize because you think
>Ur weight is wrong, your hair the
~ong texture or color, your features
te wrong shape? Are you afraid to
•eat? Do you constantly spend time,
JUey, and energy on concoctions,
tercises, make-up etc. designed to
>rrect these supposed flaws? Well,
1st think about that. Think about
1ere your ideas about beauty come
~om.
Before we learn to read, we
•men are bombarded by images of what
• are supposed to be. From billlards,
TV, radio, and magazines come
ossages carrying anxiety and guilt.
te perfect woman bas a radiant smile,
:tistic eyes, a perfect figure (and
1at changes from month to month), and
hairless body -but the hair on her
~d must be soft, shiny, manageable.
1e is always immaculately dressed no
ttter how many hours she spends in a
>t kitchen. She is always charming,
tt never aggressive; soft-spoken, but
mfident; and most important – she
; able to attract men. Now sister,
>u are not all of these things. No
>man is, nor should she be. But
1ch year you and your poor harrassed
lsters shell out millions of dollars
1 beauty products in a vain attempt
> resemble something which does not
<ist. Which is exactly the point. –
The huge amount of money spent by cosmetic
firms on advertising to make you
hate yourself is made back with a considerable
profit. And the Amerikan
capitalist mentality is such that in
order to make money they are quite
willing to ruin the self-image of
every woman in the country. And that
is cruel and deliberate oppression.
If you go to such lengths to censor
your body, just think of what you
do to your mind.
How often have you caught yourself
not expressing what you think,
because you know that the man you’re
with will disagree with you? How
often will you discard your innovative
idea for his familiar one in order not
to show him up? How often have you,
in fact, acted stupider than you
really are, because you’ve been told
that men don’t like smart women – at
least not smarter than themselves?
And men can oppress women intellectually
in a different way altogether.
And, this article does not excuse men
for doing so. True, they’ve been
molded by the same material conditions
that molded us, but they must struggle
just ss hard as we to overthrow that
conditioning. Which a lot of them are
slow to do, because in terms of material
things and social prestige they
gain from our subjection. In order
for them to become true brothers they
must consider us and treat us as true
equals.
Men can encourage women to compete
intellectually as well as
physically. Have you ever been in
relationships is disastrous. Every
individual born is crippled for life
from the moment he is exposed to
society’s influence. Female or male
they are robbed of a whole set of potentials
and bundled into a role
created for them. One half of our
society is taught to be servile and
over-emotional; the other half to be
domineering and emotionally underdeveloped.
One half is taught to be
oppressed, the other half to be the
oppressor.
Let’s examine what this does to
relationships. How do you relate to
other women? Does it shock, embarrass,
or amuse you to be called sister?
Have vou ever thought of any wo~n
that way who wasn’t your actual sibling?
Do you see other women as competitors?
Do you place any relationship
you have with a woman secondary
to one with a man? Are you afraid to
relate to other women sexually? Do
you see them only as obstacles to be
hurdled for the grand prize – a man?
How do you relate to men? Do you
really see them as simply other people
to be approached individually on their
own merit? Or as status symbols to be
acquired and exhibited? As superior
beings? As your whole basis for
orientation and thought ~d values?
Do you feel incomplete if you don’t
have one special man that you relate
to heavily? Do you feel guilty if you
are sexually attracted to more than
one man at a time?
Sister, fuck that shit. You are
a human being. You are not a helpa
discussion with a lot of women and
few men (or maybe just one), and the
entire purpose of the discussion for
each women is to impress a man with
her abilities? Where integrity of
thought is forgotten and you will say
anything, whether you believe it or
not, just so a man will think it’s
clever? All our lives we’ve been
taught that our mental life is to be
different from that of men, that it
only exists in relation to them – as
does everything else we do:
a meet, you are not a walking hole, you
are not a mysterious bitch-goddess,
you are not unfinished, you are a
thinking feeling unique human being
with your own set of abilities and
potentials just like everybody else.
There is no good reason on earth for
you to try and fit some plastic
movie-queen Miss Amerika image of what
a woman should be. You don’t have to
lean on anyone. Consider that for
a while.
Now all” this can’t be healthy.
The effect on individuals and on
You’re on your own. No one (ot\fJ
will think for you, no one will tell 0 1’\
you what to do. You are responsible ,!’~1-‘i’_
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)t>-‘l’d ~to’!Ä Po.3c .3.,…-…,.-~——————————– :hat really sums up what school trys By the way, to those of you who Coming back down folks, you must
😮 make you become. A very selfish have not tried weed, and to you who realize that we are up against a lot
‘ig • have not thrown out this paper because of shit at school, We are taught to
” … Junk is the ideal product …
:he ultimate merchandise, No sales
:alk is necessary. The client will
:rawl through a sewer and beg to
>uy .. , The junk merchant does not sell
liS product to the consumer, he sells
:he consumer to his product. He does
1ot improve and simplify his merchanlise.
He degrades and simplifies his
:lient. He pays his staff in Junk ••••
William Burroughs
~~
Now to good dope. Pot is fun.
I think that everyone should try smoking
weed at school. I would like for
you to see what paranoia is. I would
like you to see what a bummer it is
for anyone to be stoned at school.
!he repression seems to come out a
little clearer. Shit! It’s really a
drag to be stoned and hallucinating
on Homer’s ugly puss! Or to be sit~
ting in his fucking office because he
searched you illegally and found one
goddamn seed in your pocket., By the
way, nobody can search y~u cept a
badge carrying pig. That s a good
thing to know. They may say that they
can, but you have the right to tell
them to fuck off, because they ~ B£1
lay a hand on you! Dig it? Those
pigs are tricky. They will lie. They
are good at it. They practice lying
more than you do to your_ parent.s.
~
L- kid … If.,.. don’t-your-…,11
t!IOIIn. nww .._. your mind unlocked.
it’s COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA and who compete with each other and to think
still have an open mind, you ought ta only of grades and other shit. FORGET
try a little marjwanna. All you have IT! Tell school that you are doing
to do is go to the front of the school them a favor by just showing up. lf
and ask the man with the trenchcoat. they can’t dig it, fuck ’em. Get a
and hat hiding in the bushes for a bunch of people together and print
REEFER. No, not that man, that’s the phony report cards and fake diplomas!
school Narc. Horrendous Homer! Oh Pass them out for free! Mess up
shit, busted a.s;ain! councelor’s records. End tracking
Seriously now, {that’s a switch),
weed and acid are ok in Homegrown’s
book. {Little Red one, that is.)
But one thing that you have to keep
in mind is, That you can’t be stoned
all the time, You gotta leave a little
time for when you smash the state!
Which means that you can’t shine on
other people while you are high.
Think about John Sinclair. Every time
that you smoke a number you should
think about him being in jail for the
next TEN fucking years of his life!
permanently – burn all the records of
grades, Let everyone have an equal
opportunity in this fucked up world,
lf you have a screwed up teacher, rip
off the roll book. No more grades!
No more school. Let us run our school
the way we want them to be run, or
they won’t run at all. Let us have
control over our own lives for once!
School is ours! We will take it because
it belongs to us!
Remember our three point program:
DOPE, ROCK & ROLL, AND FUCKING IN THE
Brothers and sisters. Next time STREETS!!!
that anyone is ever busted at Uni,
the fucking school should be shut
down! lf one smoker gets busted,
then we all get busted! Every single
Marijuana smoker should be in that
shit-hole of a principal’s office
waiting to be arrested for smoking
dope. Shit, 90% of UNI’s student body
and one third of the teachers will be
in Homer’and The Doc’s office lighting
up joints and singing about Acapulca
Gold and Hanoi Green.
PENTAGRAM
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Yippie!
Don’t fergit to S,C,O.R,E.!
Armed Love,
HOMEGROWN (Sometimes pronounced
Homer Groan)
As a matter of fact, all those
who wish to contribute any info, to
Stoned School Spirit about anything
relevent to school or society, and
even if you want to write a letter to
me saying that I have dropped too much
Acid, which 1 haven’t, just send it in
and we will check it out. We will
also make public the facts about any
harrassment, confrontation, or bust
by the pigs.
Circulate to educate!
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ions. A little frightening, isn’t o.d. W@~i’OO ~f}fl@®’ifD~G it? Well, it’s also very exhilarating,
once you let it happen. Try it •
Get to know yourself. Let your
body go free. Discard your fashionable,
uncomfortable clothes, and find
something you can run around in. Run,
skip, jump, sprawl around when y~u’re
tired; and remember only that wh1ch
is truly free is truly beautiful.
And let your mind go free. Free
it of all the bankrupt ideas that
have been layed on you. Grasp fo~
the truth with all the energy you ve
got. And don’t be afraid to see
yourself as you really are. Let your
feelings out – laugh, cry, guffaw if
you want to. Think all the thoughts
that you’ve buried. If you don’t
like them you’d damn straight better
find out, so you ’11 know what you
have to work wi t:h.
And definitely work with yourself.
Examine how you relate to
other people. Get to know your sisters.
They are not the enemy. Get
together with them, share and analyze
your experiences. And get to know
the men around you. Don’t be afraid
to confront them if they’re sexists.
That’s the only way that either of
you can be free to grow. See the
Amerikan values of possessiveness,
competition, manipulativeness, for
the perversions they are, and fight,
drive them out of yourself.
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in stock and on any order for any
ty.,e of ~usic! The more used
records you bring in, the b~tter the
d al – but onl ene to o cestomcr.
Don’t feel anxious about your~
self. We women have been taught to
badger ourselves about making a good
impression. But people only need to
do that if they allow someone else’s
opinion of them to be the only factor
in how they see themselves. Rely
on your own judgement. You know how
much you need to grow, what you know
and don’t know, Allow yourself to
express what’s really going on with
you. This is not to say that you
are alone, but that you should be
easy with yourself. Actually you are
not Rlone at all; there are plenty of
angry, strong, beautiful sisters and
brothers out there who are ready to
struggle with you .to !!_mash the oppression
going on inside and outside
yourself. But again the real impetus
must come from you. You must be
ready to reject the values imposed on
you for your whole life for no other
reason but that it’s bet;ter that
people should be free from psychological
and economic oppression,
instead of being constrained, dull,
starved, ·sick, and cold. It’s
worth it, The more you observe with
unbiased eyes, the more you realize
that the same system which fucks
over women is fucking over Poor
people, Third World people, working
people, asian people, Latin-American
people – in fact, everyone it can
get its hands on who. aren’t part
of the small group of rich white men
who own everybody else. Remember –
you really are important enough to
do something, your concerns can be
as lar8e as you make them. Dare to
struggle, dare to win. Dare to free
yourself.
Yours in love and struggle,
The Wicked Witch of Westwood
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SICK OF THE WAR? IMAGINE
HOW THE VIETNAMESE FEEL!!
~~· .”J chN i)cE
Ever since the Dow Chemical
Company stopped making napalm, I and
probably many other people thought
that the only thing wrong with Dow
Chemical was that it polluted the
environment and made a hell of a lot
of profits. Now, that’s enough in
itself, but I just found out that
Dow makes “AGENT ORANGE”, a defoliant
used in Vietnam to gas just about
everything. This is what the Vietnamese
War Crimes Commission has to
say about defoliants in Vietnam:
“Between 1961 and 1969,
1,293,000 people were affected
by plant killers. Those seriously
contaminated suffer from
such chronic ailments as blurred
sight, intestinal and lung disease,
and paralysisG
In the same period, U.S.
herbicides destroyed 13,000
square kilometers of cultivated
land and 25,000 square kilometers
of forest.
During 1969 and the first
nine months of 1970 over
1,836,950 hectares of ricefields,
crops, orchards, and forests
were destroyed by U.S. toxic
chemicals. Over 65,000 persons
were poisoned. of whom hundreds
were killed.
The villages of Long Dien
Dong, Long Dien Tay, and An
Trach In Bac Lein Province were
sprayed heavily with AGENT ORANGE
in 1969. Twenty-two women
miscarried, most of them in
their third or fourth month of
pregnancy.
Khanh Hoa, Quang Tri,
Tay Ninh, and Quany Nam
provinces were all sprayed
repeatedly in 1968-1969.
Many women bore children
that dt~d one or two months
later. Others gave birth
to deformed babies; they
all had similar deformities
such as distorted limbs,
extra fingers or toes,
heads either too small or
too large; most of them
died immediately. Those
few who survived, in addition
to their physical deformities,
have all suffered
severe mental retarda~
tion. 11
At an international science
coEference on U.S. chemical warfare
in Vietnam, held in Orsay,
France between Dec. 12 and 14,
1970 (the main concern of which
was to determine the long term
effects of defoliants on the
Vietnamese people and their
land).a North Vietnamese doctor
reported that a condition known
as “TRISOMY 21 11 is occuring more
and more often in pregnant women
from the defoliana.tad areas.
TRISOMY 21 is a condition where
due to age and/or the intake of
radiation or toxic drugs, homologous
chromosomes do not separate
correctly, resulting in
birth defects. In normal circumstances
it is usually found
in women 30 and·J5 years old,
but it is now happening in women
22 to 25 years old who either
lived or visited in the sprayed
areas during pregnancy. At the
VIETNAM
conference, the Amerikan Association
for the Advancement of Science reported,
but did not commit themselves~ as
to why the birth defect rate in the
sprayed areas was 64 out of 1.000
births, where in Saigon the birth d&fect
rate is 28 out of 1,000 births.
So from the people who love to
destroy- the U.S. Military High
Command and companies like Dow who
make lots of defoliants and money -the
Vietnamese people have gotten some
3.8 million acres of forestt ricefields,
and jungle turned into wastelands
along with a higher birth defect
rate in sprayed areas.
If we the people of the United
States had a real voice in what was
done in our name, would ~he war ever
have happened let alone Continue?
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ALL ABOUT ANGELA
For those of you who think you
know all about Angela. don’t stop
here. Read on brothers and sisters.
Angela was a philosophy professor
at U9C~L.A~s but not for long
thanks to the Board of Regents (more
commonly known as Ronnie and his
Regents). For they tried to fire
her, and put her on trial. Ronnie
and his Regents saw Angela as a
threat to the school because of her
support for the Soledad Brothers,
and for her being a member of the
Communist Party which they knew
Angela was tried with Ruchell
Magee, who was in the actual gunfight.
Angela’s defense felt thet it would be
better for her to have a separate .
trial from Ruchell because she would
have a better chance of getting
off (not offed). They reasoned that
it would be better not being involved
with someone who was obviously in the
shoot-out. Which is fine for Angela
but rotten for Ruchell,
Later on we see Angela in
trouble with the pigs again. The
hearing of the Soledad Brothers was
in progress when Johnny Jackson, a
brother of one of the Soledad Brothers,
and William Christmas drove
into the courtyard in a van. They
hurried into the courtroom and handed
guns to their brothers (and we
don’t mean siblings, honey!) A
shoot-out followed in which five
people were killed (the judge, two
guards, John Jackson, and William
Christmas). How did John Jackson Since Angela is such a fine
led to the corruption of the students.
(Is this any way to run a
school? You bet it ain’t!) At the
trial, Judge Jerry Pact (the judge
presiding) ruled in Angela’s favor
for he said that they didn’t have
any grounds to fire her. To the
regret of the Board of Regents,
Angela was legally entitled to finish
teaching the quarter. Microphones
were then planted in her classroom
and her lectures were taped
and sent to the Board of Regents.
But because of her influencial
speeches about communism, the
Soledad Brothers, and about U.C.L.A.
and revolution, Angela was not rehired.
have-come to see junior high
and high school as places where we
get a lot of conditioning. I can remember
in 7th grade finding out that
playing tomboys with other girls was
a phase. All the girls started wearing
nylons and always new, expensive,
uncomfortable clothes in hopes of
getting a boyfriend. Relationships
with boys were always so much more
important than with girls. When
you talked with girls, it was almost
always about boys and the experiences
you had with them. You were careful
not to tell the other girls too much
of what you thought about the boy for
fear the girl would tell him in order
to get in good with him.
The results of this are learning
not to trust other women and alWays
competing with them. This starts
around the time a girl is 12 and
grows more intense as you are growing
older. There is always this
feeling of losing your boyfriend,
then husband, then lover. “A woman
is only real when she’s in love. 11 is
a quote that haunts many women, and
so the endless covering up of your
body with make-up, with clothes, with
anything that will hide your so
called 11imperfections” fmd make you
look more like some plastic woman in
a fashion magazine. This problem of
your own individual self getting in
the way of what society (your man}
the fashion magazines~ the other
girls who seem to have everything)
is not your personal problem but
is shared by all women.
get the guns? Who did he get them speaker, she asked permission to be
from? The pigs say they were co-council for her defense; it was
Angela’s – that she gave them to approved. This was benificial for
John Jackson for the purpose of her defense. Something that was
freeing his brothers. determined in Angela’s trial was that
one of the fatal bullets embedded in
So once again Angela is in the judges’ body was fired by a guard.
trouble. A warrant was put out for There are also some repo~s that
her arrest but Angela was gonee She Angela was in the van, but there is
split to her parents house, traveled no proof.
from there, and was finally apprehended
in New York. The pigs extradited
her to Marin, to the jail next to
where the shoot-out occured. Angels.
was charged with kidnapping, interstate
flight, and most important
conspiracy to murder by contributing
the guns. She was held without bail
in Marin Courthouse Jail.
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The trial is still going on now,
and Angela has been held for over a
year without bail.
FREE ANGELA!
People have asked us if we think
Angela is innocent. We think that it
is immaterial whether Angela coD!IIIited
the crime she is accused of or not~
We feel all Black People’s revolts
– past and present – are justified because
of the blacks constant oppression.
Power to the People!
Love,
Sunshine Lady
&
Kris Pissed-Off-erson
out ,
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means your interpretation of the val- h thi d
ues society pushes and many women w en some ng soun s wrong to us,
never explore their own potentiaL by not being passive and perpetuating
This problem deals with all women sexism1 by fighting everyday, will.we
whether they get married or live on a free ourselves. Sarah Bu.llitt
commune where you are busy trying to
please 5 to 10 men, cooking, cleaning,
and sewing, while they do more challengig
and interesting work or play
their guitars or if you’re pretty
enough ey’ll take time out to ball
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Vol, ;1
THE STUDENT AND SOCIETY
From THE STUDENT AS NIGGER
——- by Jerry Farber
School is where you let the
dying society put its trip on you.
Our schools may seem useful to make
children into doctors, sociologists,
engineers-~to discover things. But
they’re poisonous as well. They make
democracy unlikely. And it’s not
what you’re taught that does the harm
but how you’re taught. Our schools
teach”You by pushing you around, by
stealing your will and your sense of
power, by making timid, square, pathetic
slaves out of you–authority
addicts~
Schooling doesn’t have to be
this destructive. If it weren’t compulsory,
if schools were autonomous
and were run by the people in them,
then we could learn without being
subdued and stupified in the process.
And, perhaps, we could regain control
of our own society.
Students can change things if
they want to because they have the
power to say “no.”. When you go to
school, you’re doing society a favor.
And when you say 11no. 11 , you wi thold
much more than your attendance. You
deny continuity to this dying society;
you put the future on strike. Students
can have the kind of school
they want–because there isn’t going
to be any school at all without them.
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE TAUGHT THAT DOES
THE HARM BUT HOI< YOU’RE TAUGHT.
In fact, for most of your school
life, it doesn’t make that much difference
what subject you are taught.
The real lesson is the method, The
medium in school truly is the message.
And the medium is, above all, coercive.
You’re forced to attend. The
subjects ARE required. You have to
do homework. You must obser~chool
rules. And throug~, you 1 re bullied
into docility and submissiveness~
Even modern liberal refinements don’t
really help. So you’re called an
underachiever.
e • • instead of a dummy. So, they
send you to a counRelor instead of
beating you. It’s still not your
choice to be there. They may pad the
handcuffs–but the handcuffs stay on.
The true and enduring content of
education is its method. The method
that currently prevails in schools is
standardized, impersonal and coercive.
What it teaches best is–itself. If,
on the other hand, the method were
individual, human and free, it would
teach that. It would not, however,
mesh o”T!loothly into the mac.hine we seen
to have chosen as a model for our
society.
What is it that they’re teaching
~? Twelve years pitted against your
classmates in a daily Roman circus.
The game is “Doing What You’re Told.”
The winners get gold stars, affection.
envy; they get A’s and E’s, honors,
awards and college scholarships. The
losers get humiliation and degredation
Students ~e
politic~ I pRisoneRS
Why does the medium of education
effect us so deeply while its purported
content–the subject matter–so
often slips our minds7 This is partly
because the content varies from year
to year while the form remains more
Our schools make democracy unlikely
because they ~ rob the people,
who are supposed to be sovereign,
of their ability to will meaningful
institutional changes.
or less the same; but also because the The democratic ideal–to which
form–a structure of rules, punish- even the most conservative college
me.nts, rewards–affects us directly in trustees will usually give lip sera
real way, while the subject matter vice–means government of, by and
may have no such immediate grasp on for the people. It means power in
your lives. After all, don’t we tend the hands of the people. Our
to learn best what matters most? schools, however, remain less
Under a coercive system, it isn’t sui ted to this ideal than to an
really the subject that matters; what authoritarian society; they are
matters most is pleasing the authori- more effective in teaching abeties.
Those two are far from the same dience than in fostering freedom.
thing. Our textbooks may teach one kind of
The medium of schooling, by the political system but the method by
way,covers much more than assignments,
grading, rules, and so on. If how
you’re taught exerts a profound
effect, what about the physical environment?
What does a classroom
teach?
Consider how most classrooms are
set up. Everyone is turned toward the
scholar and away from the classmates.
You can’t see the faces of those in
front of you) you have to twist your
neck to see the person behind you.
Frequently, seats are bolted to the
floor or fastened together in rigid
rows. This classroom, like the grading
system, isolates students from each
other and makes them passive receptacles.
All the action, it implies,
is at the front of the room.
The scariest thing about a classroom
is that it acts as a sort of
which our schools c..perate teaches
another. And the method wins out
over the textbooks overwhelmingly. A
more substancial degree of democracy
will become likely only when we
understand that pOliti~9l freedom is
not merely a constitutiOnal matter;
it’s also a state of mind, which can
either be nurtured or blighted in
school..
But can you feel any of this? psychological switch. You walk into
Can you und~rstand what has been done a classroom; some things switch on in
to your mind? We get so used to the you and others switch off. All sorts
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