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J3ARC Finances. ,..,,*......,*,"". ....... 1These Days (Introduction) ..,..,..2Statement from Bill and Emily Harris 9/29/75 . 5Wendy Yoshiinura, from Prison 9/22/75. .6Support from Martin Sostre 9/24/75 ..;... .7Network Against Psychiatric Assault: Demonstration........8Communique: George Jackson Brigade 9/18/75 9New World Liberation Front: Communique, Coalinga bombing.11Poem,....................................................14Front de Liberation du Quebec. 15Black Liberation .\rray: Open Letter to the

New World Liberation Front....,„.«,,,.«..,»,..,,,18Orphans of Aiaerika: Open Letter to -the JNWLP. ....*..*.«.* .19Pour Trials...*,««...«..«.«...*,.,•.......«.....,.«.«,««* 22Psychiatric. Assault.......,.«..........,........*»*,....*23Behavior Modification = Kind Control.,..................,25George Jackson Brigade Bombs Washington State

Department of Corrections in Qlympia,,,,..,....,.28

She third issue of OSAY/AIOI.JB, magazine of the Weather Un-derground Organization has been released. We understandthat John Brown Book Club intends to continue re-printingthe magazine. Issue #2 is still available from them at 300per copy plus 200 postage for 5 or less. Ordered in bulk•250 per copy includes postage. Their address is: JBBC, 6*07Greenwood Ave,, N., Seattle, Washington 98103.

BAY AREA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

BOX 4344, SATHER GATE STA.

BERKELEY, CALIF. 94704

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When we set out to begin doing Dragon, we de-

cided that two of the principles involved would bethat we would have to leave time and energy for ourother political work (so that we would not becomeisoiated from other aspects of the struggle) andeconomic (political) independence.

We find that we have rapidly approached our

limit. Each issue has cost about S140. Much ofthis goes for postage. At this rate, we need about30 NEW subscriptions per month to continue.Sales in bookstores .are about 50/issue, whichyields about S7.SO. We have received about 25paying subscriptions. In addition we have about60 free subscriptions- mostly to prisoners. Severalhundred unrequesfed copies of each issue have beenmailed to a list of people and organizations. Thislatter group we will send no more issues to unless

we hear from them.

Originally we had intended about 1000 copiesof 16-20 pages per each issue but have found our-

There are some things you just can't do by yourself

hi Joshua

selves with issues of 28-36 pages- still covering onlya small part of what we'd like to print. The time ittakes for typing, layout, mimeographing, collating,slapling, and folding is impressive. This must all bedone on lop of our other work— which in thepast couple of weeks included Icafletting, answeringletters, organizing a rally in support of SLA andoiher comrades recently busted, working with otherpolitical groups, and dealing with pig harrassment-includlng the arrest of three of our people onbullshit charges. We believe the the capability tocontinue these functions absolutely must be main-tained so that we do not become separated fromour "content"- so that we neither lose perspectivenor become "professionals", supporting strugglesfrom a safe distance.

We are trying to explore ways of involving morecomrades in Dragon. In addition we would like togo to paper-plate offset printing to save a lot ofenergy. This would cost us about S80 more permonth (16 more subscriptions per month). Ifwe do this we will maintain our capacity to go backto mimeograph anytime it becomes politically/econ-omically necessary.

So. 50 new subs per issue would cover costs.To do this means comrades reading Dragon mustshow it to others and ask them to subscribe. We can'tdo it alone. If this happens, after 6 months (300subs) we will still be giving away about 2/3 of ourcopies free.

Until now we have answered every letter and/or request for Dragon with a personal letter. Fromnow on letters which only request Dragon we maynot answer personally- again, a question of time.

We would very much appreciate a!! feedbackon this from everyone.

On September 18. three members of theSymbionese Liberation Army: T;>nia, Smiiy andBUI Harris .UK! j%vo other comrades, Wendy Yoshi-

' mura and Steven Sofiah were captured by thestate. Our S.L.A. comrades were sitcessflifl in li-ving undegro&nd for over a year s:\d a half des-pite a fanatically obsessed F.B.L search for themwhich cost over a million and a half dollars andinvolved the questioning of !CQ,000 peo-pk.We reaffirm our solidarity wifh the S.L.A. and areangered at their capture, although we know it willmerely change the arena of (heir struggle, not les-sen their ability to fight.

The media coverage of the events sur-rounding their capture has created an atmosphereof confusion and irrelevant speculation withinthe'community. With ail manners of reporters,psychologists, lawyers, and so-called radicalsbeside themselves with headline fever, the poli-tical context of the SLA has been distorted. TheSLA is no! a 'story' or a 'bizarre case'. The SLAis an organization which chooses to address tfiedie terromm of institutionalized poverty, neo-fascism in the schools, and. in general, the tyran-ny,)! a ruling class served by an inhumane bureau-cracy through the use of revolutionary armed strug-gle. Tins manner of resistance has historically beennecessary for any lasting revolutionary change andi! should come as no surprise that the Amenkanruling class is being so attacked.

Once again the psgs the Amerika andiJieir media have made (he mistake of confusing

the.i own prospective demise with that of therevolutionary left. V/it'i the capture of SLA mem-bers, the witch hunt for all leftists has drama-tically-intensified. Along with these comrades,Wendy Yoshimura was busted on a several yearold Berkeley charge of allegedly renting a garagewhere explosives were found. Immediately fol-lowing their capture Steven Sofek was arrestedand charged with harboring the SLA comradesand accessory after the fact (by virtue of harbor-ing) in the SLA Hibernia bank robbery. With thisas a base the dragnet began on three fronts. Firstthe pigs claimed that virtually every "unsolved"armed, action (and unidentified jaywalkers) on thewest coast were the work of the SLA : AH otherguerri/fa groups- including the New World Li-beration Frort. the Chicano Liberation Fron',the Red Gucriilfa Family., and the George Jack-son Brigade were axecely pseudouysxs fox theSLA. People were to conclude from this thai.with the capture of the "remaining'1 comrades,all of these groups had been destroyed. At thesame time the pigs hoped to such these croups,into premature adventuristic actions to show thatthey were stili around. As with most of theirother fantasies, this bore no fruit.

The second front on which the pigs at-tacked was a media blitz oflcafcs about variouscomrades who were rumored to be involved withthe captured sisters and brothers. These includedKathy and Josephine Soh'ah, Bonnie Wilder, Jim

Kilgore, and Margaret Turcich. Most of thesepeople have been involved in aboveground poli-tical work in the Bay Area and as such will beused as an excuse to further harrass the leftthrough grand juries.bust, and rumors. To thesecomrades we send our warmest, deepest love. Toall other sisters and brothers we say—let us learnfrom past mistakes and not piay along with theman's game of isolating these comrades so as tomake them easy targets for capture and/or exe-cution. The true test of whether we are seriouswhen we call each other sisters and brothers comesout in times of pig attempts at divisiveness.

The third aspect of the pig's attackwas/is against aboveground individuals/groupswith their initial thrust against those demon-strating any support for captured or wantedcomrades. Our own case is typical (and singledout only because of our familiarity with it!) Thenight of the capture of our five comrades, a car

We expect this kind of bullshit to increaseagainst all revolutionaries in the Bay Area. Suchwas what the pigs did after the capture of RussLittle and Joe Remiro when they went aftermany comrades, some with special vengeancesuch as (what was then) WAW/WSO.

The lesson to ail of us from both therecent past and revolutionary history in generalis clear: we must stand united; we must notcollaborate with the pigs or their media: we mustprotect each other. Any hesitancy on our partwill be interpreted by the pigs as a sign of weak-ness and will be chosen by them as a target ofespecially severe hassle and intimidation.

To counter the attempt by the pigs tointimidate the left and convince people therewas no support for the SLA, a rally was heldin Berkeley on September 27, to support theSLA and ail recently captured comrades. Spon-sored by Prisoner Support Organization, Nation-

with some members of BARC in it was stoppedand illegally searched by seven pig cars and anambulance, in downtown Berkeiy , In subsequentdays BARC members were followed: to their at-torney's office, stopped and hassled, visited byDon Jones (head fed in Berkeley), and finallybusted. This last occured when over a half dozenpigs (mostly from the university—their actionsbeing less accountable to the community, theFBI often uses them instead of city cops) cameto one comrade's home in the middle of theafternoon, poked around the house, crawledaround the bushes with walkie-talkies, handcuffedtwo women and took them away—the allegedcrime being one of posting iea1tes a week earlier.

al Lawyers Guild/Prison Task Force, UnitedPrisoners Union. Prairie Fire Organizing, Com-mittee, and BARC, this rally made a clear state-ment of support for guerrilla struggles as anecessary part of mass revolutionary work.

The prosecution of the remaining SLAmembers is being coveted by all manner offame-seeking D.A,s. The attempt to save facein the light of SLA success is nowhere clearerthan in the prosecution of Tania. In a curious(but not unlikely) combination of the Com-munist Party and the ruling class, a bunch ofmale lawyer heavies, fronted by Terrence Hal-Jinan set out to present Tania as a mindless, feeblelittle girl. This portray] of her, coupled with Hal-

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Jinan's statements that lie doesn't care whatPatty wants, that he knows what is best for heris blatant sexism. Her lawyers are following thetraditional pattern of the male power structurein trying to control and define women, tad) daywe are witness to a new effort on their part toisolate Taflia from all support, to sow distrustamong comrades, to prevent Tania from commu-nicating with the people.

The media ,as usual, has been doing thejob the pigs don't feet at liberty to do quite,soopenly. Straight and 'alternative' media foughtequally hard fo sea who couid get credit for pro-moting the "final 'executions. Both Time and

Newsweek ran pictures of Kathy Sotiali withstories that make the pictures SHOOT ON SIGHTwanted posters.

So where does all this leave us? Well,we feel that Bill Harris pretty well summed it upin his statement upon capture—"It ain't no bigdeal comrades. Long live the guerrilla!" Thereal test of the meaning of our comrades cap-ture and the new wave of repression will be theway the revolutionary community comes to -geflier to support, all comrades concerned, andthe way it utilizes the situation and specific

trials to educate itself and the community ingeneral around the politics involved.

SUPPORT CAPTURED COMRADES!SUPPORT HUNTED COMRADES!SUPPORT EACH OTHER!

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First Statement From Emily and Bill Harris

Since their Capture

t'd like to read a message from both Bii!and myself, to ail comrades, sisters and bro-thers. With the capture in recent days of sev-eral members of the revolutionary underground,the government h once again caught up in itsseif-styfed fantasy that the revolution is over,fn reality our capture is but one smalf incidentin the whofe web of historical events and peo-ple that are building for armed struggle in thiscountry. The government and its counter-intelligence agencies have spent over five mil-lion dollars and assigned 8500 agents to lookfor us in the past year and a half with the hopesof when we and a few others are locked away inconcentration camps the people's spirit of re-sistance wilt be destroyed. Anyone who hasspent much time m the communities, workplacesschools, jails and prisons knows that tfeis is no-thing more than a pipe dream. During the per-iod of the enemy's obsessive preoccupation tofind Patricia Hearst, the people's forces herein America have increased dramatically, andthe underground has grown stronger by build-ing its strength among the people. The warthat was brought home over five years ago ishere to stay. Since our capture the Hearst em-pire has once again put into motion all the po-wer and influence that blood money can buy.The two of us are the sacrifice this time, alongwith the millions of people who will have tostruggle against the pain and disillusionment:that comes from seeing a truly beautiful womanapparently manipulated to the point-whereHearst. Sawyers are denying her strength andcommitment

The affidavit that supposedly representsPatricia Hearst's position on the last year arid

a half of her life is part of a calculated strategyto preserve the long tradition of brainwashing,manipulation, domination and enslavement faythe rich. Who is brainwashing who? The Hearst-family and the entire ruling class of this countryhave attempted to brainwash the wor'.d into ac-cepting poverty, racism, sexism and other formsof oppression. Where brainwashing hasn't, workedthese same interests have engineered war, militarycoups, political assassinations, puppet governmentsand facist. regimes. As a woman i clearly see theaffidavit and the whole Hearst defense strategyas a cruel manifestation of a mate-dominatedsociety where women are defined by men as beingfragile, weak and unable to make decisions forthemselves. The team of rnaie lawyers is surroun-ding Tania, They seern to care nothing for heras a woman. Their only commitment is to rep-resent trie interests of the avaricious and powerhungry Hearst family. These lawyers are isola-ting Tania and attempting to destroy her strongsense of her own self-determination.

While at the San Mateo County jail i wasunder the constant eye of the deputies whosesole purpose was to protect Tania from rne. With-in days of our capture the Hearsts have definedme as the enemy of Tania, a woman I have lovedand respected for over a year. Now Bill and Ineve teen removed quickly to LA. as part of theHearsts' divide and conquer tactics. The attemptto brainwash Tania into becoming a loyal, upper-class woman or at the very least, to label her in-sane is not an isolated example. Each day myself

-7 -and sisters everywhere are forced to resist cruelforms of manipulation and they try to teli us weare not capable of being strong and independentpeople. The beautiful form of solidarity thatdeveiopes among struggling women is a founda-tion for our fight to be free, i want to send my

special iove and rage to ail sisters.The Hearsts are differentiating the two of

us from Tania. We are the guilty ones in their eyes,in the sense that we will never deny we are revo-lutionaries, they are correct, We have always beentotally aware of all the possible consequences ofbeing enemies of the rich and powerful. So it comesas no surprise to us to find ourselves locked in cagesas outlaws. We are strong and undefeated and areadjusting to the new arena of struggle. Our contin-uing determination comes from knowing that asone man and one woman, we have never beenalone. What we are part of is not over as somesuggest. But just in the fine and painful beginningstages.

We are prisoners of war in our own country-a situation which is neither unique, nor does it existin a vacuum. People are fighting for contra! of theirlives ail over the globe, and everywhere we see thatthis life struggle is focused against a common enemy-U.S. imperialism. It was only months ago that oursisters and brothers in Souteast Asia proved to theworld that this enemy is not only vulnerable butsubject to be driven from power and off the faceof this earth. This is indeed an irrevocable trendof history. Yesterday in Spain, five freedom fight-ers were executed by the U.S. government -suppor-ted fascist dictatorship. Their deaths will be aven-ged, and as such they are an inspiration to freedomloving people everywhere, 'Discover your humanityand iove in revolution. Pass on this torch.' Thatwas a quote from Comrade George. We send ourlove to all sisters and brothers. POWER TO THOSEWHO DARE TO BE FREE!

September 29, 1975

from prisonl\ l ike fivsl to express im warmest and deepest love to the Sisters and Brothers above ground.

under L-iiMmij, jails and prisons.i\ «aut them to know that tiot only lias this incident not broken my spirit hut I i'eei even more

sir tmi iK in my conviction, which is simply the justice for humanity. J have every determination!>! u'nuun strong in my will and conviction wherever !'l! be.

M\l iove and solidarity to my dear, dear friends.

Wemiy Yoshimura

Sept. 22, 1975

from Mar t i r i So si re

Greetings, Comrades on the Wesf Coast:

From the federal Bastille prison, inNew York City, 1 send you my revolts-.tionary kwe and solidarity.

The purpose of this statement is two-fold. Fits?, it's to inform you that therecent visit to New York by comradesin the Prisoners of War Of Sense/DefenseCommittee resulted in valuable informa-tion exchanges regarding, the liberationstruggle on the East and West Coasts,It also welded another Sink lo the chainof revolutionary solidarity and communi-cations being stretched from coast tocoast. I t goes without savins?, that thischain extends beyond both coasts toour revolutionary comrades through-out the world who are also in rebellionagainst oppression. For the sake of bre-vity 1 won't go in to details here: I'llieave this up to our comrades of Prison-ers of War Offense/Defense.

The second fold purpose of this com-munication is to discuss the recent cap-ture of SLA comrades, the desperateefforts being made by the ruling classthrough ils controlled media to concealfrom the people the t ruth about theSLA. The recent capture of SLA com-rades must also be utilized to spur thecooperation and eventual federationwith our many revolutionary groupsof sincere comrades struggling againstthe same enemy and for the same ob-jectives.

We must point out to the peoplethat the cries of * brainwashed' and'drugged' to explain away Patty Hearst'srejection of her ruling class backroundand identification with the SLA mustsurely be the most dog-eared item in

the stock-in-trade propaganda files ofthe ruling class. This cry is raised au-tomatically whenever a person wakesup to the exploitive/sexist/racist natureof the ruling class. They invoked 'brain-washed' and 'drugged' when U.S. sold-iers captured during the Korean warwoke up to the fact that they had beenused as cannon-fodder/killers to furtherThe exploitive, economic/political ambi-tions of the ruling class.

'Brainwashed" and 'drugged' was a-gairi employed when captured G.I.'sof the Vietnam war arrived at the same

•8™"conclusion and denounced the war andU.S. atrocities against the Vietnamesepeople.

But the outraged cry of'brainwashed'and ''drugged1 must sound hollow andphony coming in the midst of t.iie cur-rent exposure of the use of LSD andother drugs, poison gas, and bacteria againstunsuspecting soldiers and civilians.bythe super cops of the ruling class-theCIA, The fact is that it is the ruling classand its functionaries who are the brain-washers, druggers, assassins, wiretappsrs,mail openers, burglars, torturers, kid-nappers and extortioners on a mass scale,Watergate, the Pentagon Papers* Atticaand the current C!A/F8f investigationsproved that beyond the shadow of adoubt.

Conversely, truth is our main weapon-this is the advantage of revolutionaries.All we have to do is continue to teil itlike it really is and back it. up will) re-volutionary deeds on all levels. The liesand deception of the enemy are spinningthe same web of defeat that trappedNixon and U.S. aggressors in,Vietnam.

Everyone knows that the entirepanoply of repressive/pursuasive measuresare being applied to our captured SLAcomradas: physical, prosecutorial, legal,psychological, psychottopic drugs, par-ental, etc. But regardless of whetheror not they are able to withstand thecoercive pressure-for being human thereis a limit to their endurance-we know!he truth:, we know our cause is a justone: we know that the world balanceof forces is steadily shifting more andmore in our favor; and that the daysof this repressive system are numbered--to be replaced soon by the egalitarian,society all of us seek.

Now is the time to close ranks, fed-erate from coast to coast and demonstratethrough revolutionary and political deedsour support for Russ, Joe, and the otherSLA comrades and the rest, of our guer-rilla forces.

With revolutionary love and solidarityYour companero in struggle,

Mart in Sostre24 September 1975

DEMONSTRATION HELD TO S3ROTEST USE OF PSYCHOA6GRESSIOW QH TANiA

On October 7, a press conference and demonstration were organized by N.A.P.A. insupport of Tania. The following is f rom the leaflet handed out to people at the federal buil-ding in San Francisco.

Since her arrest, Patricia Hearst's lawyers and family Iwe been trying to convince everyone that she is insane as aresult of her involvement with the S. LA, A psychiatric examination, apparently forced on her after s/w declared it a vio-lation of her rights, is being used by the media in *m effort to convince the public that anyone, who decides to bacotrte aguerrilla, m ihn U.S. today must be insane. The judicial. si'.««w then does not have to admit to revoking the right of thedesperately oppressed to resist with desperate means: it can merely order "treatment" for illness.

This is not (he first time iftyciriatrUte have claimed thai political dissent is a symptom of mental Sinesf. Jofyon West,a psychiatrist called by .fudge Carter to examine Ms. Hearst, has already gained notofisty through Ids public statementsthat those w/;o Jake pan in ghetto rebellions are menially ill 'Jolly' West considers himself an expert on so-called hippiesftviug in she Kaight-Asfibury, He believes that those w/io choose alternative life sfyfej do so became they are emotionallydisturbed. He. is perhaps best known for his attempts to st&i a Center For The Study Of 77i<? Reduction Of Violence atU.C.L.A,, based on his theory that crime is caused by an epidemic of mental illness rather than a response to intolerablesocial conditions.

jeorge

Thursday, September IS, 1975

At 9:15 this evening we placed a call to the Safe-way store at 15th & E. John and clearly told dieemployee who answered that "high explosives wereplanted in the store and would go off in 15 minutes-Evacuate the store!" Simultaneously, we calledthe newsroom of KING-TV and articulated thesame message.

At 9:30 P.M. the bomb exploded inside Safeway.There had been no effort to heed our warningand no evacuation even in process. Our warningprocedure was based on our own experiences andsimilar experiences of guerrillas in other parts ofthe country where injuries also occuredthe country where injuries have also occured. Weclearly realize that our attacks must be discrimin-ate and both serve and educate the every day per-son. We also realize that as the contradictionsheighten it becomes harder and harder to be apassive and innocent bystander in a war soon,

Our attack on the Capitol Hill Safeway hadtwo purposes: First, and foremost it was an act oflove and solidarity toward a courageous comradewho risked and gave his life in the furtherance ofhis political convictions. Second, the bombing wasin retaliation for the capture of four members ofthe Syivibionese Liberation Army,

We will not belabor the many ways in whichSafeway criminally exploits farmworkers and itsclerks, rips off the public through price fixing,and sells food poisoned by preservatives. Safe-way is no!: only an agribusiness, but its tenta-cles reads out through the entire world andsuck the spirit and blood of poor and oppressedpeoples. These crimes are a!! well documented andhave been the subject of numerous educational,marches, demonstrations, boycotts, strikes, andeven anti-trust suits.

Four days ago Po died while arming a bomb hehad planted behind this same Safeway. He died

because his oppression, today not just someday, was• so real that he found it necessary to risk death inorder to free himself.

We greive over the murder of this comrade; justas we have grieved over the murders and capture ofGeorge and Jonathan Jackson, the SLA, three dead"weatherpeople and countless other fallen warriors.But grief ss not enough. We must transform ourgrief into righteous anger and our anger into directaction.

It is clearly within the power if the left to forceSafeway out of the Capitol Hill Community, All thatis required is the will to do so. Using a combinationof both peaceful and violent tactics, people couldeducate and build toward a winning strat.eeducate and build toward a winning strategy. Pro-gressive forces would have to reach out beyondthemselves; talking to people at bus stops, goingdoor to door asking people about their daily livesand their problems, A program should be developedand implemented around their grievances. People-should be educated about, Safeway and the needfor selected violence.

!t is time that people start thinking in termes ofgaining control over their communities. A victoriousstruggle against Safeway— even if it takes reducingthose two stores to burned-out ruins- would be amajor step iti the direction toward people's power.

SAFEWAY OFF CAPflOL HILL!The George Jackson Brigade

WE CRY AND WE FIGHT

We have a right to cry for our dead,for every life is urmarnabiy preciousand the death of even one woman or one manwho loved the human raceis an intolerable loss.

Only the frozen robotruiers of Amerikkkahave no tears for human suffering.Only the fascists watch, gleefully when the people die.

For us, the life of each comrade is everything,and is always remembered.

Someone somewhere thinks today of every fallen comrade:of each of the thousands killed in 1927 at Shanghai,of the vanguard at Moncada.of the Vietnamese sapper blown up inside Bien Hoa,

Someone somewhere cries today for every fallen comrade:for Che and Tania,for Malcolm, George, and Jonathan.Fred Hampton, Sam Melville,Diana, Ted, and Terry,Sandra Pratt, Zayd Shakur, Twymori Myers,

The memory of our immortal sisters and brothershelps us ft) find our tears and rage.Today our weeping and. our anger are for Fahiza, Cinque, Mizmoon,Camilla, Willie, and Oetina, gone into History with the others.

Our grief is real, and it makes us stronger arid more human.Our rage is real, and ;t makes us righteous and powerful.We cry, but keep on moving, building, loving!We cry in the night and go see Ruche!! in tiie morning!We cry cry one day and defy the grand jury the next!In the dark of the night we put oui arms around our friends to comfort them,and. in the dark of the night we spraypaint with them!

We turn our grief for the dead into love of the livingand write a letter to Assata! (346 20th St., N.Y.)We cry for our comrades, and we step into their places!

WE CRY AND WE FIGHT!

"We Cry And We Fight" first appeared on a leaflet at eat S.L,A. support rally held Ju ne 2, 1974 in Berkeley. It

was re.fwi.nKd in SONGS OF RAGE (vailahle from BA RC) and was included in the preceding communique.

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• armed sypport for the sla

Sept 26, 1975We attack the blood-sucking oil companies

at Coaliriga in response to the capture of ourSLA comrades and we say that just, armedrevolutionary actions will continue to grow aslong as there's ghettos, barrios, Native Ameri-can 'kamps', drug addiction, unemployment,parrneceut.ica! 'legal' pill pushers, Mafia, CIA,customs, DEA heroin pushers, expensive,lousy, and even many times non-existent med-ical care, and nightmare ruling class concen-tration camps fufl and overflowing with poorpeople.

The ruling class jjarasit.es and their lackeyspush nightmare drugs{heroin, reds, yellows,alcohol) on poor people not only in their{Concentration Kamps but. out on the streetsand do so for two reasons1,

1) to keep poor people in a drugged thuscontrollable state. Neighborhoods such asWatts have been pumped with these drugs

whenever poor people struggle to rise.2} to finance pig operations both here

and abroad {such as the secret. CIA war inLaos) against poor people.

Not content with profit, they pass unjustfaws {such as pig Rocky's) against the vic-tims (local pushers/users-usuaily one andthe same) while the big pushers iMafta,CIA,DEA, customs, narcotic divisions) not onlygo free but are encouraged to continuepushing! And methadone— -meet your yov-eminent, pusher, A drug their 'tests' saidwas proven non-addictive now enslaves,as does heroin, many poor people...Chi-canes, Black people, and Puerto RScansin particular.

These greedy dogs aren't, content withjust mitking our lives miserable—on top ofthis, they tell us our children are stupidbecause they haven't (earned the irrelevantshit necessary to 'make high scores'. It'steen wed proven that children from the barrios,ghettos, etc, communicate, relate, play andcreate with each other better than 'highscoring' individualistic children of the pri-vileged class. Poor children's unity is a threatto this privileged class just as unity amongpoor people anywhere is a threat to theseruling class dogs. The systematic enslave-ment of poor people in general, 3rd worldpeople in particular will be smashed? Andthese chains will only be smashed by violentmeans.

The ruling class colonized Amerika onpoor people's enslavement, blood, misery,and sweat Our fathers and mothers grewthe food that fed this nation, they built therailroads and mined the coat. Why have thepoor, who have worked the hardest to buildthis nation received the least—mere crumbs!And many times death!

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try is and will be redefined by poor peopleto repface the ruling class power pfay lyinghistory that is still being forced on ourchildren.

We, the oppressed, must rise up againstthese ruling class bloodsuckers to gain con-trol over the institutions that are now con-trolling our fives. We vviii bvild an order thatdoesn't thrive on the suffering and butcheryof the poor here and all over the world. Wewifi put an end to this order that enslavesa fx>or person in some ruling class dungeon10, 15, or 20 years for 'stealing' $10 or $70while this same ruling cfass who profit frompushing heroin and blood the people of bil-lions in their oil and energy rip-offs not onlygo free but continue thsir lootings, plunder-ing and butchery?

We must build an order where technologyserves us a!! and not just the needs of adegenerate few to maintain their dog-cat-dogorder. We call on comrades to organize intosfru)!i ceHs, to keep their houses clean ofliterature and explosives, to organize with aprotracted war in mind, to analyze and learnfrom our mistakes, to push the struggle for-ward! If we are to expect a decent life forus and our children wo just rise and fight fork. By our acts we wiit smash the ruling classitiusion that there h «o way to effectivelystruggle for the liberation of oppressedt>eople here in Nazi Amerika. We will smashthis nightmare death order the ruling classimposes on us!

We are launching an attack against allmajor oil companies, ut.iiity companies andtheir top personnel who together drain thelife-blood of poor people. We wlH continuethese attacks unless they yeiid to the follow-ing demands:

For the neighborhoods of aii 98ay> Areacounties where poverty forces people tofive in dangerous, inhuman conditions {suchas Hunter's Point/Bay View, Filimore, Mis-sion, West Oakland, Richmond, E. Palo AltoE, San Jose, Union City)

To ail major oil companies we demand they.

1} have installed fire hydrants, spaced asthey are in ruling class neighborhoods.

2) install front and back doors and reliabiefire-escapes on ail buildings so f>oor peoplearen't consumed by ftre in their communities.

We are continuing our attacks against P.G.&E.and now demand that they

1) bring up to fire-code standards the wi-ring in all buildings in the above communi-ties.

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P.G.&E. can damn sure bleed people forthe electricity eomimj through these faultywires and for every fire caused by faultywiring in poor people's neighborhoods, wewiii bring smoke and fire to ruling classvipers' nests)

The oil companies and P.G.&E. have 72hours to respond to our just demands, IFthey fail to see the need to meet these justdemands we must stress that these blood-suckers will then soon he forced to livein armed camps protected only by their mer-cenary lackeys. They cannot protect them-selves enough! We repeat, 72 hours.

Patty Hearsts' actions indicate that, sine haslumped back into her nest, of ruling ctassvipers.

Their greedy dog-eat.-dog world is crum-bling. They cannot and will not stop therage and determination of oppressed peo-ples here ami around the world, W'rten we,the oppressed, stop these triad clogs., we willalso stop countless degenerate acts. Thesebutchers will be brought to justice. Theyhave only experienced a ripple of the ttdslwave of rage and determination of oppressedpeoples yet to come!

STAY STRONG TO STAY ALIVE

We send revolutionary greetings to all com-rades engaged in armed struggle and altcomrades trapped in ruling class dungeons.

Comrade Sule of the BI..A, we welcomed yourcomradely criticism.

Toward total liberation!Hasta la victoria!Unity in struggle,

Lucio Catenas UnitPeoples' ForcesNew Worki Liberation Front

Help distribute to barrios, ghettos, welfareunemployment, and foodstamp. offices, highschools and alf places where poor people

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finis is the first part of the Sept, 28 NWLFcommunique. The second part includesdirections for making explosives. We didnot include this for reasons of space; andwill print it in our next, issue,"!

'Let's stay up al! night,' you'd say,and we'd fill the table with beer cansuntil there was no place for our elbows.By two o'clock or so,when I conceded to your obviously greater strengthand fell into bed,we would have the past and the present all figured out.Perhaps you mapped your futures later at night, earlier in the morning.

I don't know.

I've seen you rushing down the ball;laughing through cigarette smoke;

dancing to Jimmy Cliff;perched on the stool, blinking and making deadpan jokes;discussing your families;making lemon pie and revolution from scratch.

I've felt all that electricity...

Some people actually know that they're alive.This seems to lead, nowadays, to their being

burned in their houses,or arrested (as in '-stopped/ but not always),or doped,or poor.

It leads to their having to hide, one way or another;their lovers or their faces.It leads to our having to fight. No way out, folks. Choose your weapons.

We've spent some long, sober nights this month.But I !s.now that you're all rightbecause I know your stubborn willfulnessand your integrity.

} watched you hone yourselves against the truthfor long enough to imagine how very sharp you must be by now.And we have a party line on the subject:we want you sharp, a .id ready, and scfeiy sheathed.

c'nd we love you.

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FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF STATE OF SIEGE IN CANADA

To most American comrades Canada is sort of a nebulously liberal place where a lot of men wentto get out of the army and where ihere is some kind of separatist movement among the French-speakingminority. Unfortunately, while we rightly pay lots of atlenlion to struggles f 0,000 vniJes from home, werareiy extend our internationalism to those sisters und brothers fighting nearby.

Exactly five years ago, on October 16, 1970 a state of siege/rnrmial law (call it whatever) wasdeclared under the War Measures Act and the illusion of democracy was shattered in Canada. The e-vents leading up to that and those thai followed are important not simply as a page of history but as :tnimportant part of an ongoing process. Though die Liberal "frendi-oricntcd" Trudeau government triedto claim that their actions were merely in response to the threat to law and order posed by some terrorists,in reality it was to ensure that the growing radicali/ation of the Quebecois movement was stopped andcontrol placed in the hands of bourgeois trench-Canadian federalists that the army was called ou ! andcivil rights suspended.

The establishment of the Front deLiberation du Quebec in the early 60's was a na-tural outgrowth of centuries of oppression andstruggle. I t was thcF.L..Q. that recogni/.ed armedstruggle as one necessary tool of liberation, I iwas also they who gradually changed the arenaof struggle in Quebec from one centered aroundquestions of whether control should be in thehands of the large French -speaking majority orthe Anglo minority to one of class economics-while retaining the analysis that Quebec wasessentially a colony within Anglo North America.

On October 5. 1970, the F.LQ. kidnappedJames Cross, the British trade commissioner. Fol-lowing is an English translation of most of Com-munique 1 , preceded by the English translationof part of a statement written the previous May,(If you want the entire statement and communiquewe'!! rvid you a xerox.'

Objectives1 We WArMT TO AMSWCR The challengeof the status CHM. We want to answer thechallenge of the businessmen who believethey can maintain (he current political andeconomic system by sowing (he fear of changecttnony the population

To the threats of the royal trusi we opposereal bombs

AH we are doing is answering their vio-lence with counter- violence.

We are defending ourselves against (heconstant attacks of the anti- worker. anti-Quebec forces that make up ihe financialinsulation;;, the big. companies, the cham-ber of commerce, etc , who ate all ni.-iin-untied by the Ltbeiat party and Trudesu-Botitassa2 WE Afi£ ATTACKING the economico-rQs)f>izniions thtn use puppet politiosns:vha spedk trench Hike Tiudetm Bcurasss-D/,'ipeaui to proteci thffir interests. ;tfnt .vilhwhom the people periodically have "dia-logue" m that phony exerc.-si' of democracy

3 WE 'ARE FIGHTING this clique o/ ex-ploiters \\-ho make up 'he capttjftst boargeotsie that is dominated by anglo-americanfinanciers, and with which some ambitiousFrench Canadians have been collaborat-ing.4 W£ ARE FIGHTING all forms of ex-ploiianon, (he most blatant being linguis-tic segregation, ihe necessity to speak two

languages because we are Queb&cois. Ourcolonialist bosses are responsible forthis.

5. W£ ARE FKiHJS^G ail sons of rac-ism, discrimination and segregation. We.are in solidarity with ah' struggles being wag-ed by people who are victims of americanimperialism. We support ihe struggle ledby those first exploited on this continent, the

fndiafts. We are in solidarity with the Ameri-can blacks and Puerto Riatns who are fight-ing Yankee capitalism.

6 WE AK£ WITH all workers who immi-grated to Quebec and with whom we wantto fight our common enemy, snglo-Americancapitalism We want, to wage the strugglefor national liberutiorf with all workers.7. WHILE SUPPORTING at! trade unionstruggles, the FLQ hopes unionized workerswill throw themselves vigorously into thesecond front. As noon as possible • workersrepresentatives must replace the people'sphony representatives in psrfiamertt. Whena real workers' party is created, (he FLOwill no longer have a reason to exist.

S. THE FI.Q IS flGH7lNG the owners ofthe .means of communication (moyen infor-mation) who ars trying to make us believethat the current government serves all ofsociety. The cunent government serve'sonly those who finance ft.

We are lighting these capitalists whomonopolize all the major means of informa-tion, and who are fry ing fo make it seemthat we are the enemies of the people: ofQuebec. It is up to the free intellectuals(freethinkingl to denounce this monopolyof information.9 THE flQ. IS JN solidarity with all que-becois movements that are militating forreal economic liberation of Quebec work-ers and are fight/rig for the political emanci-pation of Quebec. It will be independenceor destruction.

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Unfortunately we do not have the room to reprint the Manifesto,to describe the events whichfollowed, 01 lo further analyze the situation. We may do that in a later issue of Dragon, In any case, weencourage all comrades to study die history of Canada, Quebec, and the F.L.Q., aid integrate an under-standing of the situation up north today into our present analyses and struggles. There is much for us toiearn.

GREW LETTER TO THE

NEW WORLD LIBERATION FRONT

September 10,197.5

Revolutionary Greetings,

Having read your open letter to afi comrades trapped behind enemy fines, which appears to be an answer toa Setter from a prisoner so trapped we feel duty bound in the spirit of Revolutionary solidarity to offer somecriticism in relation to your open letter.

Sun Tzu said,"A!i warfare is based upon deception" and history has proven this to be correct regardless of sizeor strength of those engaged in war. If those who fight conventional wars employ deception as a tactic to confusethe enemy and those engaged in irregular warfare do likewise, then we must conclude that deception is a prin-ciple of warfare; "social practice is the criterion for testing the truth." To quote Sun Tzu further, "Know theenemy, know yourself and in a hundred battles be undefeated." Understand that, the enemy uses the same sourcesto gather intelligence as the Peoples Forces, so, if the people think you are targe, then the enemy also thinksyou are large and what is to be understood is there will be two different reactions to the same thought. On theone hand are the people who feel elated by your ability to attack at will undetected; on the other is the enemywho is demoralized by his inability to stop or capture you.. By appearing to be four units you employ one of thebasic tactics of the guerilla, appearing to be many places at. once. Now because you chose to be open with whyyou haven't made certain moves, it. gives the enemy something concrete in relation to your numbers.

When communicating openly like this, prudence dictates that we deal with theoretical aspects of the type oftactics to employ. By the example of your determination and love for the poor and oppressed it is just a matterof time before others of a like mind and politics are within your ranks. Remember it's quality and not quantitythat is the true mark of the guerrilla.

Your struggle is not in vain, neither do you struggle alone. At times it may appear to be other than that es-pecially to those trapped behind enemy lines.

In closing, I would like to say that those in (concentration kamps are not so much caught behind enemy lines asthey are in an area of encirclement, for there are no fixed lines in a people's war.

No military commander can overstep the bounds of his material conditions but within theirlimits must strive for victory.

Fire 81 Smoke,

Sula

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AW OPEN LETTER TO THE N.W.L.F. FROM ORPHANS OF AMERIKA

Orphans Of Amerika was vary glad to see a copy of your open letter to Grphansvand ,-BARC.We would (ike to respond to the points which you raise. We must criticize ourselves for responding toohastily and without enough care so your tetter of 6/27/75, The mistake was made of confusing possi-bilities and probabilities, thereby placing the wrong emphasis on certain statements/actions of yours.

We were not suggesting any further attempt at struggle between the N.W/.LF, and the 8ARB.Possib/y our phrasing was bad our intention was to say that whichever of the alternatives we saw wascorrect, the N.W.L.F. and the BARB (if anyone there has the integrity enough to care) SEPARATELYdo what was needed to insure security in each organisation.

In regards to Stansill and Walsh: it appears to us that Walsh clearly bears the greater responsi-bility, even though Stansifl was the person in charge of dealing with "news sources". Walsh is the resi-dent management; Stanstii was (until he quit because he found the position untenable) foreman/lackey,the front forth©-owner/managers with the responsibility without authority that such a position inevita-bly entails. We believe that had there been more emphasis on the owners, the stuff on Stansill andWaishwould not have stuck out so much. We fully agree with your analysis that frontpeopJe for the controllingpigs should be exposed and'dealt with, but always in a way that continually keeps before the people thatit is the less visible controlling pigs who are the main enemy, Again, we feel our response on the point wasnot clear enough.

In regards to positive support; our hesitancy on that comes from our belief that in most (thoughcertainly riot ail) cases, individuals have the right (and often the reason) to maintain as tow a profile aspossible.

We'd like to mention some more ofMax Sclieer's dirty dealings. On 8/7/75, theGeorgia Straight, a Barb type paper in Van-couver, published an article/intervicw withScheer, The fuli front cover headline states:"BOMB THE BARB: Revolutionary GroupThreatens Life Of Papers Founder". In thebody of the article it stales, "Scheer was onhis way up the coast when he read in theBARB that the New World Liberation frontthreatened to off the entire BARB staff."/"..."Directly after the last communique Schangreplied by publishing a tetter in the BayGuardian saying they should instead killMax Scheer and a few others." it aiso statesthat Schang was the one weak link in what isotherwise a perfect security set-up at the BARBBARB, arid implies the NWLF killed Popeye.

The STRAIGHT in the true tradi-tion of ijip bourgeois rn.edui, refused to dealwith the truth; within a wec'k of publicationthey received the real facts including copiesof the NWLF communique to the BARB andthe Schang letter which the BARB ownershad censored. Responsibility for not verify-ing the original story rests with the editor andowner/publisher Dan McLeod, a friend ofScheer; the responsibility for refusing toprint either a retraction or any of severaldocumented letters of correction is solelyMcLeod's. We feel as you do that those ina position of control/power who continueto deceive people and spread lies cannot, simplysimply be ignored but must be exposed anddealt with.

We would also iike to comment on sever-al other things at this point. First, your open fet-ter to aif comrades trapped behind enemy lines—in response to a fetter from Eddie Sanchez, Webelieve this is an important statement about thenecessity to avoid premature action, somethingyou have spoken of before. Your statements com-bining the need to understand that our struggleis a protracted one which must develops a securebase with the need to continue striking biowsagainst the enemy without waiting for some myth-ical time when everything witi 'fall into place' isof upmost importance. Adventurism and actsproceeding merely from personal feelings of frus-tration rarefy serve ?he interests of the commonstruggle. Without anafysis and patience we willgo nowhere. At the same time, sitting on one'sass reading one's favorite bible without engagingin practice to test out theory in the light of pres-ent reality is of iittfe use.

We believe the NWLF has succeeded ad—mirgfciiy in showing what a small group can dowhen it is together. We look forward to an ex-panded organization, know/ing that the desire forgrowth wilt always be placed in a context of se-curity,

There is one thing we would like to ques-tion — the statement The NWLF encompassesa)f armed units sharing the same goals, but thisdoes not mean that these units have found ways toreach each other.' We believe that this is not a

good organisational framework. To operate un-der one name, some contact must be maintainedand some process for making decisions in thecollective name must .be agreed upon. This maynot be very important tactically, but it is, we be-lieve, strategically necessary. Also, such a frame-

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work makes it more difficult for comrades above-ground and locked down to determine whether aspecific action or statement, especially somethingqualitatively different or from a new unit, does infact represent the N.W.L.F.

ft would appear (from our very limitedknowledge! that the experiences of the Front deLiberation du Quebec are relevant, it seems thatthe F.L.Q, was composed of cells whose contactranged from continuing through intermittent tonon-existent. At the time Cross and Laporte werekidnapped, there was apparentiy some difficultyin the F.L.O.. developing strategy and makingbasic decisions to deal with a!! contingencies. Tothe public the F.L.Q, was one, with each indivi-dual and cei! accountable for ait others. In prac-

tice, while accountability was usually shared, itappears decisions of very important consequencehad to be made without input from a!! ceils andwithout all celfe being notified of these decisions,

In recent weeks there have been a num-ber of communications we have seen or heardabout announcing new "units" of the NIW.L.F.Most of them, in our opinion, clearly, have pof-r'tics that run counter to certain aspects of yourpolitics —in tactics, theory, and security* Weconsider this to be a dangerously confusing si-tuation —for the N.W.L.F., the revolutionarymovement in general, and for those membersof these self-defined "units" who are seriousrevolutionaries.

credit:Shirley Lee

We wouid also like to comment on yourstatement of 8/25/75 concerning Popeye. We con-sider the information concerning your contactwith Popeye important. We would like to throwout a coupfe alternatives for your consideration:I / Popeye1? sense of security was often real bad;2/ Popeye's analysis was simply weak/wrong in anumber of places. The scenario you have presentedappears to be consistent with your experiencesand observations of Popeye. However, we wouldsuggest you consider other scenarios that includealternatives such as the above. Such would, wethink, be consistant with both your experience,our own, and that -of many other comrades.

Your actions against against the Emery-vile pig station, the Matin Kourthouse, Shell Oil/Coaiinga. and their associated cotrimunjqu.esare inspiringly appropriate. It ha certain measureof your success that such actions no longer receivethe same surprised reactions that they did a yearago. Unfortunately, there are many who s'di! viewrevolution as events rather than a process whonow ignore such actions because the "novel t"has worn off.

In closing we wouid like to express"our love and deepest appreciation for your de-votion to criticism/self-criticism. Without cri-ticism we would cease to grow; without self-critic tan we would wither.

GARY GARRISON ACQUITTED

August 29,Chicano activist Gary Garrison memberof the Crusade for Justice was acquitted of attemp-ted arson and criminal mischief. The verdict endedalmost 21 months of state harassment of this bro-ther around trumped up charges stemming from apaint store bombing in East Denver, .Despite asmear campaign intended to alienate the Crusadefrom she people, including, sensationalized mediacoverage and a change of venue from Denver toa city 70miles away where the Cliicanopopu-lation is less thai 5vt, she state's flimsy case couldnot influence a ju ry to convict. Thus anotherbrother is out on the streets 10 fight for she peo-

Carn.ero.ri Bishop did not fare so well in the courts.On September 20, he was convicted of threecounts of sabotage in a 1969 bombing of trans-mission lines, and was acquitted on a fourthcharge. Bishop is planning to appeal He faces a

CAMERON BISHOP CONVICTED maximum prison sentence of thirty years andfines of up to $10,000 on each guilty count. Healso faces charges in Rhode island of illegal posse-si on of firearms arid conspiracy, and a state chargein Colorado rising out of the 1968 occupation ofa building at Colorado State University.

Another former fugitive. Pat Swinton, was acquit-cd Sept. 26 on conspiracy charges stemming fromthe bombings of Manhattan skyscrapers. Thetrial lasted only five days: the governments weakcase fell apart when John D, Hughey and JaneAlpert refused to testify for the prosecution. Boil,were cited for contempt of court . Pat told re-porters after the verdict,"...! have no respect forthe judicial system but i have for the 12 peopleon the jury who were not taken in by the lousycase."

PATSWfNTON ACQUITTED

LITTLE/REMIRO TRIAL

Joe Rerniro and Russ Little already sentenced tolife in prison are being tried on charges originatingfrom a Shootout with Concord police at the timeof their arrest, The court has ruled that ihey canact as their own attorneys. Trial starts in LosAngeles October 20 under strict security measures.

The poem in Dragon 2 from a. comrade in Wash -ington was written by Phillip Tucker, a brotherlocked-down in McNeil's Island Federal Prison.

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The fashionably liberal conceptthat "criminals" are "sick" has beenused by the state to inflict addedtortures on people in prison. Underthe guise of rehabilitation, priso-ners at so-called "medical facilities"(such as Vacaville in California)are being subjected to iobotomies,electroshock treatment, behaviormodification, and the continual ad~ministration of drugs. The purposeof this type of psychiatric assaultis to destroy militant resistancewithin the prisons by turning peo-ple into zombies; rendering thempowerless arid unable to effecti-vely deal with their oppressivesituation.

The prisons also serve as labo-ratories for further assault on thealleged "criminal mentality." Thesetechniques are also a fact of dailyli.f'8 for people locked down in men-tal hospitals. On the outside such'practices are cosunonly used againstgrade school children, especiallythe use of drugs,

Torture as a weapon of controland punishment is not new and itscontinuing use shows its effective-ness. Pritson officials will contin-ue the use of torture, but will callit other names to try to create ahumanitarian image. A prime exampleof this double-talk ia an offense

called aversion therapy. Here,«

drugs are used to produce terror,electric shocks are inflicted onthe arms, feet, or groin of.prison-ers; drugs are given that induce 15minutes to one hour of uncontrolledvomiting.

Lobotomies are surgical proce-dures which involve removing por-tions of a person's brain. It is

especlally used with "violent" pri-soners with the effect of turningthe victim into a human vegetable.

Electroshock treatment Is oftenused as a form of punishment. Itis a terrifying, painful experiencethat literally fries one's "brain asthe electric current passes through,Following the experience, peoplereport significant memory loss aadfeel daseij. for long periods after-wards. Studies have shown thatelectroshock destroys brain cells.

Punishment as therapy is accom-plished with tranquilizing drugs,fo immobilise a person against her/his will with drugs is violence;violence that can be carried outon a mass scale. Drugging is used-for the purpose of control? £orkeeping prisoners docile and quiet.The phenot'hiazin.es—thorazine,, pro—lixln, etc. lend themselves to pun-ishment and torture. If you don'tkeep in line, you have become athreat to their set-up. You aretranquilized to the point whereyou are unable to function. Phe—nothiazines cause such permanentdamage as 'blindness and brain in-jury.

Vacav'ille in 1970 began usingthe controversial drug succiny-choline in combination with "beha-vior modification. When the drugtakes effect, the person feels likeshe/he is suffocating and "on theverge of dying", f he doctor orattendant then proceeds to shout,„,„.

at the person, berating her/himfor supposed faults,

The power structure in Amerikarealizes there are committed, de~.terrsined revolutionary women andmen in prisons—some who have beenimprisoned for their politics,others who have been politicized bytheir experience in the joint. 2hestate has all types of methods to

attempt to control people by vio-lence: direct and subtle. Psycho-.fascism is not only a "prison prob-lem" but is being used to pasaifythe people's disgust with a systembased on imperialist exploitation,sexism, and racism. We must recog-..nize and expose the motives and.,workings of the state in order toeffectively resist arid eventuallytake power over our own lives anddestinies.

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This letter is reprinted courtesy of Network Against Psychiatric Assault.

:V.A,P.A,2150 Market St.

Dea.r Comrades: San Francisco, Ca.

As each day comes and goes now and more sophisticated forms of dehuman-

Ization, expoitation, repression, etc., are constantly being developed, bythe perpetrators of the U.S. neo-fascist capitalist system. Tims, it isessential we stop to analyse the new difficulties, problems and situations,we are faced with to determine a correct line of action. If not, we will,continue fighting against old. forms of exploitation.

Accordingly, we attempt to analyze the real concrete situation here at,the U.S. Marion Koneentration Kamp, In doing so, we are now able to seewith clarity the modified and. refined -techniques of behavior modification asthey are now being applied, to those prisoners who have been buried in theBEHAVIOR MODIFICATION CONTROL US ITS. and are gradually being released to thegeneral prison population, But their release is woven, together with variousconditions - conditions that not only restrict their activities and movement,bat also their basic and. human right of self-expression of thought,

They are constantly reminded, that the slightest violation of these

conditions will result in their return to the BSHAYiOR MODIFICATION COKISQLTTHXTS, Bi.it, as can be seen, they are being released front one form of behavior-

modification to a hidden-like-form of behavior modifcation which, in effect,is also designed, to break their wills and. dignity as human beings and reducethem to mere robots, Hence, the game—plan is quite obvious: Turn the en-

tire Marion Koneentration Kamp into one large BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION UNIT!These modified and refined behavior modification techniques have the

same degrading psychological effect as the so-called old techniques. The

new techniques are merely the old in. disguise. The effects are the saj-ae inas stash as the deterioration of intellectual and emotional capabilities are

often so great that individuals are no longer capable of realizing their owndeterioration or caring, as they are very subtly processed and programmed toaccept without resistance the authoritarian principles of prison administra-tors who, in reality, are nothing more than pawns who themselves have beenbrainwashed by the capitalist ruling class into believing that the Americanway of life is the best.

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Most recently the United Church of Christ's Commission, for Racialtice released their report of their findings of the Federal Bureau of Pris-ons' Behavior Modification Research Canter, soon to be opened.in .Butner,North Carolina, under the directorship of Dr. Martin Grader who, incident-ally, created and developed the Asklepieon Society here at Marion, which is.cased on behavior modification techniques such as Synanon—Group Attack Ther-apy and Transaction;*! Analysis in an Intense effort to turn prisoners againsteach other and to spy and report to authorities the activities of other pris-oners.

Dr. Grader was interviewed by the Commission for Racial Justice, and hiaresponse to many questions put forth to him by the various members of thecommission were often couched in generalizations and euphemisms. For in-stance, when asked what the mission of the Behavior Modification ResearchCenter would be. He stated: The mission of the center will be the treat-ment of mentally disturbed and violent offenders, for research leading tothe management and correction of such behavioral problems...and seriousdeviant behavior." He does not define exactly what constitutes behavioralproblems and deviant behavior. And despite his efforts to conceal the realintent of the .Behavior Modification Research Center, the commission wasstill able to gather sufficient evidence to conclude in their final reportthat the mission of the center is to remold and shape the thought process ofthose prisoners who speak out against the inhumanities of the prison system,

and that it be loft up to prison guards to .ci&flna what constitutes de-viant-behavior and select prisoners thay feel should, lav sent to" the .SohaviorModification Research Center,

As a result o.f sodifyiri-g.; and refining these JsSbiwior modificstior:. tech-niques, prison officials are new proceeding to present them to the public ashumane, in an eve:-.1 increasing effort to deceive the, masses 'fend ur.2cfMi>e thaIe,.v2l litigations novr pending in the courts o£ law.

In bringing to li<ght these modified and refined behavior modificationtechniques, T.T; begin to formulate tactics that will result in victory.These tactics include educating the masses to these so-called new and soph-isticated forms of repression, exploitation, etc., so that they will alsoconcentrate thsir efforts to developing tactics that will place theza inpositions to eaerge victorious In whatever their plans may be to help atopbshavior modification,

If .not, the perpetrators of the U.S. neo-fascist capitalist system will-certainly succeed with their plans to turn all potential revolutionary-freedom fighters now in prison into mere robots, who will later be releasedto infiltrat.e movement organizations, 2hose prisoners who they will not bea tie to turn, into robots vail in all probability, never leave prison alive.Already wo are seeing,the brainwashed Asfclepieon Society aeabers being trans-ferred to other federal feoncentretion kamps for the purpose of implementingother alike behavior asodification prograas. And it will not be long before•these very same programs will be implemented across the nation for members-of society.

Only when we have succeeded in completely wiping out behavior modifica-tion, could we open up a new situation, paving the way for new victories foronr revolutionary-freedom fighters and the masses. To succeed, it is es-sential that we create favorable conditiozis for this bs.tt.le by launchingnumerous offensives on various battle fronts and by intensifying preparationson the Sutner Behavior Modification Hesearch Center battlefield,

Ihus, we jaust unite and siake a j'oint effort to STOP behavior modifica-tion before it stops us all. Our activities and movement are limited, larkwe are certainly making every effort to do what we can considering our cir-cumstances in here. We* IJJfee many out there, are on the path from whichthere is NO retxira. On this path, we will encounter many pains and suffer-ings. But these pains and sufferings will be soothed by the enormous amountof love we possess for those whom we struggle for and are prepared to makethe ultiraate sacrifice for: The oppressed peoples of the world.

We embrace you -with all our revolutionary fervor* threeMarion, Illinois

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— OLY1SPIA BOBBING -George Jackson Brigade

I, 197S, the offices of theState L>er<a.ettV(>,nt of Correati

in Oly>.ipia uere barbed*. The George JaaksonSri.aadi? claimed credit forand isc-tif'd th

for the bombing,following

There has been an ongoing debate recentlyover national and local law enforcement po-licies. On the issue of the criminal sen-tencing process, for exaniple, there appearsto be a conflict of< opinion between conser-vative lav and order advocate Bay ley (therecently promoted county prosecutor) and li-beral judge Horowitz. Bayley adopts a gettough attitude toward crime, the old lock"ejr up syndrome which has proven so ineffec-tive in the past. Horowitz, on the otherhand, says warehousing criminals is not on-ly ineffective, it is cruel, and suggests"treatirent" of the offender. Neither Bay leyor Horowitz deals with the type of hypocrisythat allows Nixon and gang to escape justicewhile the poor and confused are .made exampleof by the courts.

Crime is not some sort of a disease thatsuddenly Possesses an individual and causesthem to act criminally, and which requirestreatment in order for the offender to berehabilitated. Nor is crine a problem re-solvable by increasing the sentences of theoffender. Even' day prisoners are releasedfrom prison. Give tiieri longer sentences andpeople would still be leaving the prison ev-ery day; the only difference would be in thedegree of anger felt by the released prison-er. The anger gets taken out on the con-jpunity. The problem lias not been sojved,simply prolonged and aggravated, like theway lord deals with the econony.

Crime is the natural response for thosecaught between poverty and the Amerikan cu.1ture of greed, aggression, sexisns, and racismThe increasing level of crui>e is a measureof the sickness of our society; treating orpunishing individuals will have little effecton the rate of criiue. Sexual, aggression

against women, for example, has its rootsin the sexist attitudes of men. Rape isthe logical extension of the sickness ofviewing women as objects to be used or a-bused like any other possession. GaryAddison Taylor says .he hates women, Ihisis not surprising as sexisr: i? rooted inhate. The difference between Gary AddisonTaylor and the average sexist irale is sir -ply a matter of degree.

V.hat is going to stop crime is when peopleget together and drive our criminal rulingclass and its fascist government up againstthe wall. Crime will be eliminated whenpeq>le create a society based on hunan needrather than greed; a society in which ourchildren are taught that the object in lifeis something other than ir.akinj? a buck

or being sexy. Ihe Anierikan people sup-port the.most notorious criminals inexistence; U.S. imperialism. Our highstandard of livinc owes from the out-right plunder of the "free" world, esp-ecially Third World countries. We sharethe loot stolen from the mouths of hun-gry children in Africa, Korea, and evenhere in Anerika, and then wonder why oursociety is so violent. If people want a -better society, they can start by becomingactive feminists, anti-racists, and anti-irperialists. The .ruling class is white,rale, and imperialist.

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Notwithstanding tl\ rhetoric of thegreat debaters, the state's actual res-ponse to crime is to respond with terror-ism. Just as the recapture of the Kaya-guez was an iijtejrnational act of terrorism,so too is the "shooting of unarmed blackssuch as Joe iiebert. The national and stategovernjnents are so unstable that die onlyway in which they can maintain "order'' isthrough the selective use of terrorism.Those who maintain rule through the use ofterror are fascists. Revolutionary counter-terror is the appropriate response to fas-cist lawlessness."' .

Maintaining order*-is not only a problemof the urban and rural governments, it isa growing problem inside the nation's pri-sons as well. In an attesrpt to maintainorder within trie nation's prisons the gov-ernment has implemented the practice ofbehavior modification techniques on pri-soners who resist the coimand to be silentin the face of slaver)' .and mind torture.The effect of behavior rnodi fixation is togrant freedom to those who are dishonestand deceitful enough to routh the master'sline, and to punish with long term confineirent those who are politically orlegally active in trying to create a bet-ter society.

The ''treatment concept5' is a euphemisirfor psychofascisw. It consists of electro-shock, psychosurgery, massive drugging,averse conditioning, sensory deprivation,

- and more. Such practices have found theirway into the nation's schools, especiallyin high poverty areas. In fact, it was tostop such abuses that the Symbionese Lib-eration Amy executed school superintendentMarcus Foster.

In order to effectively apply thement concept, the Adult Corrections Division^,needs the power to move ..prisoners fromprison to prison (or hospital). The pri-soners at Walla Walla realize this fact,and in an attempt to limit the state'spower to transfer prisoners, they made thefollowing demands central to their struggle;beroand VI (k) That no member of the popu-lation shall e\'er be transferred to anothermental or psychiatric facility out of stateunless personally requested by the prisonerin writing. Denand VI (1) goes on to sayThat no member of the population shall e-

ver he transferred to another penal facil-ity in any location unless personally re-quested by the prisoner in writing.1'' Thesedemands were so irpportant to the prisonersthat they followed them up with the onlythreat of violence in the entire list ofdemands. VI (m) That if the foregoinginsistence indicated in itetrs (k) and (1)are not honored, the Resident GovernmentCouncil shall see to the destruction ofthe Washington State Penitentiary." Pri-soners also demanded the removal of thechief doctor, the head nurse, and the assoc-iate superintendent of custody. Mien neg-otiations failed, prisoners seized 8 wingand the hospital and used" hostages in anatterapt to push their demands forward.

Today is exactly six months from the fi-nal deadline prisoners set for the imple-mentation of their derxincis. .Not a singledemand has been met. Today's bombing ofthe offices of the Kashington State Depart-ment of Corrections is a measure of ourdetermination to see the implementation oftiie just demands of the kali a Iialla prison-ers. ' e of the George Jackson Brigade hear-by demand: (A) That the state give prison-ers tiie power to decide for themselves whe-ther or not they xvant to he transferred;(E) Stop the iso and threatened use of psv-chofascist tediniques on the minds of pri-soners and school children; (C) The re-moval of three administrators, Dr. Augustriovnanian, hospital surgeon, James Harvey,associate superintendent for custody, andMrs. tva Nelson, chief nurse. And (D)That the prison administration follow theResident Government Council's constitutionand otherwise follow the law (the R.G.C.iriust be penrittec! to exist).

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