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Show MARCH 1968 UTAH FARM BUREAU Page 8 NEWS "TEN DAYS IN APRIL" (Continued from page 2) Clearly, such militant tactics are a great advance over Impotent dissent . . . What we need is a new dimension in the movement, which will enable us to confront the power structure in apolitical way and which can tie together our various actions and projects in a more effective political text . . . The movement in California has already won an incredible victory in this direction. Spearheaded by the same activists who organized the Oakland Induction Center the Peace and confrontation, Freedom Party has organized over 105,000 people across the state into local clubs. Most of these are new people, entering politics for the first time . . . The recent PFP Demonstration against Rusk in San Francisco was met by police blubs. In Oakland the PFP is working closely with the Black Panther Party in a campaign to save Black Panther leader Huey Newton, who is in jail on a murder rap for allegedly shooting a cop. In the subcellar at Weinstein Hall, the SDS plenary session was addressed by Jerry Tenney, who, a year earlier, was a main organizer of the SDS Radical Education Project regional conference at Princeton University. At NYU as at Princeton, Tenney urged SDS members to work for control over the universities. both occasions he told studIf as radicals we place ents, the question of control as the most important thing, the thing we have to ask for all the time is control. On Saturday afternoon, at the York University conference, a young woman declared she was protesting to educational authorities her dismissal last week from her teaching job at a BrookI was merely furnlyn college. ishing drugs to those of any students who wanted them she deand then called for a clared, cadre of SDS volunteers to meet with her and Harlem Black Power leader Florence Kennedy, to help educate some of my students. No sooner had she finished her remarks than copies of Spark -a monthly publication issued by SDS at Long Island University -were distributed in the subcellar. To make clear the origin of the there was scribbled in named, chalked Cyrillic alphabet letters on the subcellar walls and floors the Russian word for spark, which, pronounced phonetically in That was English , is eeskrah. the name of the Bolshevik publication edited by Lenin during his years of exile. In Spark, two full page ads are sponsored by the Old Left On New in New York City, to the cap April program. This amazing document runs as follows: The Financial District Festival gives us the opportunity to have an action whose anti-w- ar significance cannot be lost on those who are not yet committed to - or even aware of - a radical analysis while providing us with many targets appropriate to our own mode of action. The large number of corporate offices, shipping companies, banking institutions in addition to the Stock Exchange means that chapters can take actions against targets of special significance for their own local situations and still be part of a citywide demonstration. Columbia could burn Grayson Kirk in effigy in front of Socony Mobil ( or IBM or Chase Manjattan, for that matter), NYU could go to First National City Bank or any other target they find appropriate, and other chapters could pick from some of the other choice fruits that grow from the interlocking vines that creep throughout Lower SDS -- Manhattan. Artists and writers would have no probelm finding their own targets in the nerve center of the South African imperialism, people could do their thing at Chase Manhattan ... The Financial District Festival went on to discuss possible objections to the program as follows. The logistics of the financial district are those of Stop the Draft Week - people can be easily contained by the Blues. Response: Our aim is not to close down one entrance to one buildbut rather to occupy the ing, area and exploit Its many wonders. The intricate little crisscrossed streets of lower Manhattan can work for us In that context, not against (vix. Paris workers during the last three pro-Commu- from page to last. Also handed out at the SDS meeting was a research paper by the North American Congress for Latin America (NACLA), an organization which seeks to impair U.S. relations with its Good Neighbors to the South. NACLA is doing a smear job on every big U.S. Corporation with investments in Latin America and on our diplomatic missions to the area. first There is reason to believe that NACLA members are carrying out intelligence work Latin America and are in contact with Communist guerilla leaders there. The SDS newsletter Firebomb announced at the conference that a paper on Intelligence work, prepared by NACLA lst WILL BE DISTRIBUTED. But when the conference opened, SDS leaders at registration headquart'It was dscieed to ers said, withhold the NACLA paper because it gives away icc much. members generally are nc-their about disclosing shy For example, Steve schemes. Halliwell of Columbia University SDS, presented a written proposal for a Financial District Festival SDS c to raise consciousness aroudn the draft, university, imperialism, etc., can arise out of that involve- ment. Doubltess several important members of financial institutions mentioned in the foregoing proposal for a violence provoking in the financial disFestival either are on the NYU board of trustees or handle NYU's trict I want my boy to have all the advantages I can give him Are these trustees for university administrators to wash their hands of investments. willing Such as having to earn his own allowance by running er- rands, cutting lawns. Such as getting good grades in school to shirk all responsibility for getting them what takes place on campus or in because he wants to, and because he knows what it would do al supervision over student groups and to me if he didn't Such as being proud to be clean and neat and decent Was any such representative meetthe SDS at Such subcellar as standing up and standing proud when his country's present ing? To find out, I Inquired at flag goes by. the office of Chancellor Allan ,. Such as elder friends of his parents as "sir" Cartter of New York University, and "ma'am". addressing and was referred to Mr. Robert Such as having to earn his own way in the world and Terte, of the NYU News Bureau, who stated, It is not university knowing he has to prepare for it by hard work, hard study, practice to supervise meetings and sacrificing some of the pleasures and ease his friends may sponsored by duly constituted get from parents. student groups. These are the advantages I want my son to have, because The reply, in turn, raises the these are the things which will make him and subcellars? too-indulg- ent self-respecti- ng question of whether university self-relia- nt and successful. And that is the happiness Fighting the cops is not our aim, and that will probably happen. Response: Probably there will be some fighting, and we will have to be prepared to deal with that. But a highly mobile demonstration with more than enough ugliness to attack need not attempt to hold its ground in any particular spot. Wall Street Is an Old Left target and our analysis is lost on an action there. Response: No demonstration can communicate the true and complete content of the analysis of some of its most advanced participants - that is no, in the nature of a demonstration. This demonstration will probably be talked about outside SDS chapters as a demonstration at the Stock Exchange and many people will come just for that. But planned actions at a diversified set of targets has sn educational effect cn tr.e peocie who come just for the Stcck Exchange as veil o.s cn the paper-readin- g, ses. TV gazing mas- The important thing about the Financial District Festival is that it brings people together on the initiative of SDS; on going projects a Democratic Society as a duly constituted student group. Officially, SDS has moved from a policy of dissent to one of resistance advocated by SDS is illegal activity designed to destroy the existing university system and the U.S. government. If university authorities are willing to tolerate violent Statement from Warner & Sivasey want I trustees, directors and adminis- him to have. trators should tolerate Students for Monthly Review Press; the publi- cation is Cache County F. B. officers for 1968 are, Front: Edis Taggart, vice president; A. Alton Hoffman, president; Steven Bodily, secretary; Standing: Valdon Pitcher, Clair Allen, Seymour Nielsen and Lloyd Olsen, directors. Cleveland revolutionary groups on campus, then their policy Work is easier when you put a phone where supervision over student political and activist groups ought to I believe that unibe changed. versity authorities are abdicating their clear responsibility to parents and to the community at large by remaining in total ignorance of what is said and planned at such meetings. If members of Students for a Democratic Society are permitted of no to carry out their planned 10 day program of violent resistance In April, with accompanying bloodshed, then an outraged and angry American public will fix the blame where it belongs: on university administrators and trustees. The recent SDS regional conference at New York Univeristy was a disgrace to that institution and an outrage against the citizenry. 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