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WE. MEMBERS OF THE SPIRIT OF LOGOS, WHO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM THE HEROIN PLAGUE THROUGH POLITICAL

STRUGGLE, WISH TO MAKE A STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE SISTERS &

BROTHERS WHO MAY NEVER HAVE THESAMEOPPORTUNITY.

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• d r i v e Tiue narco-fcics t r a d e underground. I t was pure i y an attempt on the p a r t of the gov't, to c o n t r o l

* and of course TAX the s a l e and d i s t r i b u t i o n of the , d r u g * A d d i c t e d B r o t h e r s and b i s t e r s v e r e l e f t to

k i c K "cold** t u r k e y • The p i g s running t h i s country and no one

- e l s e are r e a o n s i b l e f u r the Plaguy which now touches ^ ~ e s almost e*eryunes l i v e s . I n 1^2^ a l l i/reatment

f a c i l i t i e s were c l o s e d down. A d d i c t s had to t u r n « to crime and i l l e g a l s o u r c e s to escape tue p a i n f u l ^ w i t h d r a w a l . The grdwing crime s y n d i c a t e r e a d i l y f i l

- l e d the aemand. Women were f o r c e d i n t o prostxtuv^iwu. 4 Men i n t o t h i e v e r y . The pxgs a i a succeea i n pusnmg ^ the drug i s s u e oux o i tne p u D l i c eye. Jiut -tne piaguc continued to grow. I t found a permanent nome amon^

• tne oppxessea i i l a c K aiaSfi>*;a», s p i e a d to the iAierbo tvicau immigrantiS and nan i-t nas olckctr a g a i n r e a r e d

*it»s_neau among tne oppres&eu white masses. Thou-. sanas Oi poor people, seeKiAg some K i n d of r e l i t d ! ^ f torn t h e i r scni^ence T;0 ametlUklcan p o v e r t y Have t u r n * i d to tli« l?uil>ig c l a s s pyift»«ii, HKHOI^. "

The scene above i s f a m i l i a r to a l l T.Y, f a n s . Th« famous "medicine wagon"is always shown as p a r t of the o l d v e s t . What i s not exposed how­ever i s the f a c t t h a t the m a j o r i t y of the medi c i n e b e i n g s o l d from the wagons and a c c r o s s t h ^ countor of hundreds drug s t o r e s c o n t a i n e d as high as 5-10^ n a r c o t i c i n g r e d i e n t s , liven thoug^i l i t t l e study had been done on the drugs, the gov't, s t i l l a l l owed them to be p a t e n t e d and s o l d . T h i s p r a c t i s e undoubtedly caused the add i c t i o n of thousands of unknovinj! v i c t i m s .

1840: This year brou^kt the i n v e n t i o n of the hypoder-n e e d l e . The age of modern a d d i c t i o n as we knoV i t grew r a p i d l y . The administering of drugs Ue came much e a s i e r .

1881-65= Theio i s no doubt t h a t r i g h t now a h e r o i n epid emic i s r a v a g i n g our b r o t h e r s i n Y i e t Nam. "SOLDIEiiJ iiICkNKiiJ"has f o l l o w e d american f i g h t i n g f o r c e s where ever they have gone, B u r i n g the c i v i l war, morphine poured a c r o s s the b a t t l e f i e l d s , 4^,U00 v e t e r a n s came home w i t h a j o n e s .

i h i r i n g the f o l l o w i n g decades, a d d i c t i o n spread to many poor and oppressed communities, Harlem's drug problem probably has i t ' s o r i g i n s i n t h i s segment of h i s t o r y . The alarm rang out a c r o s s th© l a n d , gust a s we have w i t n e s s e d i n the l a s t few y e a r s . S t i l l no a c t i o n would be taken u n t i l . . . . . .

1890 The c r y f o r a cure prompted the medical world to begin e x p e r i m e n t a t i o n and seek the "cure". Meanwhile many withdrawal c l i n i c s appeared a l l over the map. i sounds f a m i l i a r , does'nt i t ) With the same b e a s t s l o o k i n g f o r a c u r e , the same anim a l s t h a t by t h a t time had 4/*» of the p o p u l a t i o n s t r u n g out, i t i s no wonder t h a t i n . , ,

189R- ^^^^^^ intrfiduced by some f a n a t i c a l IvWU' group of s c i e n t i s t as a cure f o r morphine a d d i c t i o n . I T ' s use as a cure c o t i n u e d f o r the next twelve y e a r s . I n 1910, the addict i v e power, much more h e a v i e r than morphine, was f i n a l l y r e c — ognized . Tens of thousands of people were u s i n g the drug r e g u l a r l y * The events of the next few y e a r s brought s u f f e r i n g and p a i n to the v i c t i m s of the gov'ts, l u n a c y . I914 saw the adoption of the Uajrrison Act* T h i s s e r v e d no purpose but to

i The p i g s i n t h i s p i c t u r e are one-of the: ^ e a t ^ s t thj?eats to. poor & op^^reBised»peeple -the world over. They are the board of a i r am-e r i l L k k a — t h e corporation whose plane is are usecl to f l y raw opiuffl., SLorphine & heroin out of south B a s t A s i a to points a l l over the globe. Along with t h e i r c . l . a . thugs, they have man- p aged to r i p - o f f the dope trade trom a i l other competitors. Tloese s o - c a l l e d l e ^ a l husinoss aea» f i n a n c i e r a, statesmen, are d i r e c t l y respon­s i b l e f o r the wholesale enslavement &murder of heroin v l o t l m s , they oguld not do tHiS Wlti out the a c t i v e support of the government &law (Ka-iia) enforcement a ^ n t s on a l l l e v e l s .

With t h i s h i s t o r y to loolc a t , i t should oo-| me as no s u r p r i s e that liethiadone^lLw -aeing h i l ­l e d € 1 8 " t h e s o l u t i o n . I t i s 10 times as add­i c t i v e ^ i t c o s t s no more tliaa a penny per 10 10 m illigrams &, i s now being pold as lligkL aS a d o l l a r f o r 10 JLOt. Sake someone on a 120 llG a day dosage, f i g u r e out the p r o f i t the p i g s are making! i I

Wa» s t a t i s t i c s oa the f r o n t page only d e a l with c i t y run programs l a H.l.O, 'iaiere are scores of l i t t l e p r i v a t e c l i n i c s springing up a l l over the place .Or. iahn.who ran a West side c l i n i c , made 4 m i l l i o n d o l l a r s Defore ne was f i n a l l y closed up f o r c o l l e c t i n g money & medicaid, from the hrotliers & s i s t e r s i n n i s v i l e . V i c i o u s grasp. How there are c i t y , s t a t e Sb f e d e r a l programs springing up a l l over the country. This i s d i r e c t l y r e l a t e d to the grow i n ^ r e v o l u t i o n a r y consclousnesa among e z ~ v i c tims o f the h eroin p l a ^ e , i r a c y i s moving f a s t ^ ve n to oo»i>at i t J1

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Once ao^-in our people foiind out that there i s n e i t h e r j u s t i c e nor mercy f o r tlg^ poor and oppressed people of t M s country: that courts are not p l a c e s of equal r i g h t s but are designed to help the r i c h & persecute the poor.

The case i n point i s tlie d r a f t t r i a l of Pablo Yoruba Guzman, ^Minister o f Information of the Young Lords Party* He was charged with not re p o r t i n g f o r a d r a f t p h y s i c a l & not r e p o r t i n g fo r the d r a f t : a 2 count indictment which c a r ­r i e s a max, sentence o f 10 years*

Since he was being d r a f t e d t o defend h i s so-c a l l e d "Rights," i t might follow that he could use these r i g h t s i n h i s own defense. I t was obvious from the s t a r t of the t r i a l that t h i s was a c r o c k o f s h i t — t h a t he was not a fre e man i n a f r e e l a n d — n e i t h e r could he expect a f a i r t r i a l or any kind of j u s t i c e ! He i s a p o l i t i c ­a l p r i s o n e r & the f a c i s t s t a t e i s d e a l i n g with him i n aamanner that would make H i t l e r j e a l o u s I

The a l l white, middle c l a s s j u r y could not, by any s t r e t c h of the imagination be c a l l e d h i s peers (people of the same c l a s s , who come from s i m i l a r backgrounds as the defendent, who speak the same language k who, i n the eyes Of the law are considered best q u a l i f i e d to pafiS judgement) despite h i s r i g h t to have a j u r y of h i s peersl

Chief P i g C h a r l e s m e t z n e r , the judge, r u l e d that a l l testimony r e l a t i n g to Puerto Rico & amerikkkan persecution of her people had nothing to do with the case & so most of Yoruba's w i t n ­e s s e s could not t e s t i f y * The d*a* was geo« w i l son, r i g h t wing r e a c t i o n a r y & government goon. His only witness was a woman who works |or the s e l e c t i v e s e r v i c e but only r e l a t e s to the people of her d i s t r i c t as numbers & documents.

There were 10 defence witnesses who, due to the judge•s r a c i s t r u l i n g ^ were only allowed to a t t e s t to Xoruba»s character as to "Truth & Honesty" & not r e l a t e to the p o l i t i c a l j u s t i f ­i c a t i o n of h i s actions*

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Dan Meyers, Yoruba's lawyer, asked the j u r y toopentheir minds t a a l l of t h i s & see the i n ­j u s t i c e they were being asked to bring about.

To me i t was obvious from the f i r s t day that they had no minds, no heart ^ no p i t y . They were only a part of the court which i n turn was part of the l a r g e r machinery of oppression which i s murdering poor & working c l a s s people the world over!

Yoruba was found g u i l t y & w i l l be sentenced on March 1«+,1972. on l e a v i n g ohe court house he s a i d that he was s t i l l b e t ter o f f than most poor & oppressed people since he had a l o t of support a t h i s t r i a l . He reminded us that there are s t i l l many lei^cU:, i^ierto Rioan & poor White p o l i t i c a l p r i s o n e r s being r a i l r o a d e d by the f a c i s t pigs l i k e h i m s e l f , they a l l need and deserve our f u l l support.

There i s a time f o r s e l l i n g t i c k e t s & a time f o r piping! How long can these i n j u s t i c e s go on? How much w i l l the people t o l e r a t e ?

our brave hcthors & s i s t e r s inTTCet Nam have shown us that the machine of murder can be stop ped by the people!

we can & mu^t destroy t h i s machine belore i t destroys u s l United i n the struggle we w i l l win!

PREB ALL POL IT ICAL PRISOWERS! ALL POWi)R TO THE PEOPLE! !

Steve Jochsberger.WL

Yoruba himself took the stand &, with t e a r s i n h i s eyes, gave evidence of the horrors of the amerikkan war i n V i e t Nam, the c o l o n i z a t i o n of h i s own country & the ways i n which h i s peo pie have been fucked over by the very same gov emment that now expected him to f i ^ t & k i l l h i h i s brothers & s i s t e r s ! Yoruba i s a v i c t i m of imperialism & c o l o n i a l i s m & yet he was expected to help t h i s country*s campaign of c o l o n i a l i s m & oppression i n Viet Nam!

1 was a Speed ?reaJc Tot 4 y e a r y ^ was forced by the f a s c i s t c o u r t s to go to a t . c , or j a i l .

For n e a r l y 9 months I was boxed i n the f a s c i s t r o b o t i z i n g s h i t house on Washington Ave, known as madman marvin* s machine of murder (Logos I I ) . T h e progress I made was such that I got high 6 hours a f t e r I l e f t & found myself maining coke smack & LSD which l never d id be­fore!

I»ve a l s o had f i r s t hand exper­ience with the fucked up courts. I Was sentenced to 3 months l o r pos­s e s s i o n of pot by a pig who didn»t know the d i f f e r e n c e between Methed r i n e & Methadone & who thot there was some kind of urine t e s t f o r weed!This ignorance of drug addic­t i o n i s t y p i c a l ofthe pig bastards who s i t i n judgement of oppressed v i c t i m s of the drug plague.

UP THE PEOPLE«»OFF THE PIG!! Brother Steve Jochsberger,WL

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Once a g a i n ve l e a r n e d we r o u l d n H f i g h t t h i s system by u s i n g the SO C a l l e d "proper procedure" of l a v . My mother always used to say, w h i l e I was growing up, "You c a n ' t f i g h t C i t y H a l l , " f e l l , she was r i g h t , at l e a s t not w i t h the system's t a c t i c s . L e t me t r y to give you a run down of what went down a t C i t y H a l l .

The S p i r i t of Logos (S.O.L.) i s a group of e x ^ a d d i c t s and a l o t of us came from r o b o t - i z i n g p l a n t s c a l l e d " t h e r a p e u t i c communities" (T.C) Ve ho^ve l e a r n e d a l o t from these p l a c e s . Some of us have spent up to 1 9 months i n a T*C. A T«C« t e a c h e s the w o r s t t r a i t s of our s o c i e t y on l y i n a c o i i c e n ^ r a t e d and i n t e n s i j f i e d iorm^ I t f o o l s and programs upper ^clafls v a l u e s i n t o the minds of t h i r d w o r l d ana poor w h i t e the h e r o i n plague.lou l e a r n how to game ( l i e ) to j r l o t i m s of s o - c a l l e d s t r a i g h t people, (people who haven't used u r u g s ) , and be a g g r e s s i v e to the poino of Fascism.Ve a i n ' t t a l k i n g t h r u our a s s h o l e s , be­cause we l i v e d t h r u and almost d i e d as a r e s u l t of t h i s b u l l s h i t . '

R e s i d e n t s who had completely b u i l t t h i s p r o -,gram had no say i n any p o l i c y governing t h e i r l i •ves i n |-0(^OS, The D i r e c t o r (Marvin tfienderdog) had other p l a n s f o r h i s v i c t i m s ( t h e r e s i d e n t s ) . HJLS p l a n was to b u i l d a syananoni^type empire i n L i b e r t y , N.T.—a l i l y - w h i t e , middle c l a s s commun­i t y , 1 0 0 m i l e s from the oppressed communities of N . I , C i t y with funds and s l a v e - l a b o r e x t o r t e d f r om the South Bronx( a predominantely B l a c k ik Puerto R i c a n community;.

The one i n c i d e n t t h a t h o r r i f i e d the r e s i d e n t s i n Logos was when Carmen Bodrigucz was murdered a t l i n c o l n h o s p i t a l . The d i r e c t o r (Marvin V e i n -s t i e n ) knowing her c o n d i t i o n s (asthma, bad h e a r t ) sent Carmen to t h i s n o t o r i o u s butcher shop f o r an abortion because i t was cheaper. As a r e s u l t of the r a c i s t mal—praotioo a g a i n s t T h i r d ¥orld peo­p l e a t l i n c o l n , she d i e d .

Nothing was s a i d or done by the s t a f f i n p r o ­t e s t of Carman's death. THis made c l e a r t h a t the Logos s t a f f d i d n ' t give a s h i t about r e s i d e n t s or the ;south Bronx C«>mmunity.

A l l Of the t r i c k s of the T.G, ( t h e r a ­peutic community) trade came o u t -dramatics, psycho-drama, te a r s , and phoney passions. Not one program could give an acc\irate account of t h e i r successes i n f i g h t i n g drug a d d i c t i o n . One p r i e s t who I know personally from my old neighbor­hood (Cambria Heights, Queens) whose name i s f a t h e r McVernon was there h u s t l i n g f o r drug prevention money. He knows nothing about drugs except What he read out of some b u l l s h i t _psych-book. The brothers and^ s i s t e r s m the neighborhooa a l l t h i n k he i s an asshole. What e f f e c t can t h i s man have? What a waste of funds by these

they d i d n ' t even know logos i s r i g h t - a c r o s s t h e s t r e e t . 5 0 prefesSiOMtlS--^ >* a i l i n e o l n h o s p i t a l , once a f r i l i a t e d w i t h logos, signed a statement t h a t s t a t e d logos' ineffectiveness i n s e r v ­ing t h e South Bronx oommunity. We hod l i s t upon l i s t of a t r o c i t i e s commlttod against the Brothers and Sisters i n logos. There was an account of approx­imately 5 0 0 people who have come and gone t h r o u g h t h e d o o r s of logOS Within l i years without being helped from the heroin plague. With a l l t h i s evidence the f o o l s on the board of estimate granted t h i s t o t a l f a i l u r e of a drug program $ 1 8 0 , 0 0 0 ,

The decision shows me t h a t t h i s c i t y i n no v^j g i v e s a s h i t about the murderous heroin p l a g u e t h a t i s k i l l ­ing o u r b r o t h e r s and s i s t e r s . They

Around 7 0 r e s i d e n t s l e f t logos i n protest o f the s h i t going down. The S.O.L, ( S p i r i t of Logos) was formed s h o i r t l y a f t e r w a r d s . We t r i e d t o go through the "proper, l e g a l pro­cedures" i n order t o expose the logos people f a c t o r y . We demanded t h a t i t be run by and f o r the community o f the South Bronx,

S e v e r a l weeks ago someone i n contact w i t h the board of estimates (the mayor and h i s f r i e n d s ) c a l l e d the Third World sec t i o n of the S,0,L. t o l e t us know t h a t open hearing.'^ concerning t h e f u n d i n g of a l l New York C i t y drug programs were being held a t c i t y h a l l . Logos was t r y i n g t o get 180,000 d o l l a r s f o r a barely used s t o r e f r o n t on Webster Ave. We knew t h a t t h i s was a fraud.

The S.O.L, went down t o c i t y h a l l t o expose how the c i t y govern­ment gives thugs, such as the logos s t a f f , money under the guise o f helplniT people.

Over one hundred separate drug programs were down t h e r e , a l l h u s t l ­i n g , seaming and out and out l y i n g .

bungling f o o l s t h a t c a l l themselves our ^re w i l l i n g t o g i v e t h i s much money t o public servants' ASA without any proof of i t s s u c c e s s .

We sat p a t i e n t l y l i s t e n i n g i o t h i s To us, t h i s seems murderous, insane, s h i t from 10:00 a,m. t o 8:00 p,m. When and p l a i n fucked up, we f i n a l l y got up t o t a l k i n opposition t o the re-funding of logos, the board o f e s t i m a t e s g o t a l l shook up and t o l d everyone but the S.O.L. and'the logos

- s t a f f t o leave. They d i d t h i s because they recognize us as a t h r e a t . We are developing an e f f e c t i v e People's Drug Program instead of a program under the power of these incompetent f o o l s .

Addiction Services Agency (ASA) which i s the funding agency f o r some 2 5 0 separate programs has no way of evaluating t h e i r own programs. This statement came out of commissioner finney's own mouth, and he i s the head dude of t h i s r i d i c u l o u s agency,, A quote from the new york post stated "The o f f i c i a l ASA budget proposal r e ­ported a present budget l e v e l of $97,8 m i l l i o n and l i s t e d funding requirements of $ l / i 8 , 9 0 m i l l i o n f o r t h e coming y e a r .

w© had f i v e speakers from the S.O.L, li n f ^ d up, each w i t h evidence t h a t showed the p i t i f u l f a i l u r e of logos. We had n e t i t i o n s bv tenants t h a t stated

Next time we are forced t o d e a l w i t h these f o o l s we w i l l do i t on our terms. That means through the Power of the People, And we w i l l Win.

CITY

BROOKLYN THE SUFFERING OF WORKING CLASS YOUTH

IN EAST FLATBUSH(QUBNTiN RD, BERGEN BEACH)

I come from Brooklyn, near Ave N and Flatbush Ave. The neighborhood i t s e l f i s ra«ide up mostly of white working class people« I've l i v e d there since 1 9 ^ 3 ( a t t h i s time I was 1 3 years o l d ) , I be^an using drugs i n 1 9 6 4 . During t h i s period a num­ber of older brothers and s i s t e r s had been addicted f o r a t l e a s t seven years. This was r i g h t about the time the gangs were being diiSunified. A l l the gangs t h a t I can remember a t one time served as a model f o r young white working class people. But be­cause there was a need of the p o l i ­t i c i a n s and so c i a l workers t o stop the s t r e e t f i g h t i n g and stop the un i t y of the gangs, heroin began entering various poor and working class neigh­borhoods. I f e e l t h a t as times changed so would have people. I f most gangs had been helped t o see the p o l i t i c a l contradictions which r e l a ­ted t o t h e i r oppression, many of them would have re s i s t e d the heroin. Most gang leaders had a strong a b i l i t y t o organize,

Eventually most of the older addicts disappeared from the s t r e e t s . Some went t o a state p e n i t e n t i a r y , aome t o Synanonj but the ma j o r i t y of these victims of the heroin plaigue are dead.

By t h i s tine I had already s t a r ­ted high school, Most of the people t h a t I s t a y ^ w i t h were already i n t o drugs (psyehodellcs, p i l l s , h e r o i n ) , constantly t r y i n g t o i d e n t i f y w i t h the p r i v i l e g e d youth c u l t u r e . We did t h i s because a l l the other models whloh we oould look up t o had boen wiped out by the system. The p r i v i ­leged youth c u l t u r e I speak of were people who were not cornered i n t o drugs, but used drugs as a weekend enjoyment. Their f a m i l i e s had money and most of t h e i r futures had already been carved out f o r them (co l l e g e , business, profession). Working class youth had t o block out t h i s thought every day because they had nothing. So dirviPjs became a ha b i t . A l l of us t r i e d constantly t o l i v e up t o the f a l s e middle class values and Images (lonp; hstir, clothes, e t o , ) .

I n a period of about • years I saw a l l of my fr i e n d s e i t h e r drop out of school, j o i n the service, or get worse o f f on drugs. These actions a l l mean death f o r a working Glass person. Since I've been clean from heroin (2^ years). I have been back t o my neighborhood many times. A l l of the people t h a t were not on drugs at the time T was-, are a l l addicted t o heroin. Some people are on metha­done and seem t o be holding a job ; but they are constantly having t h e i r dosage raised and often s e l l i t f o r some dope t o see i f they can s t i l l get high from i t . Other people that don't get high very often w i l l buy methadone r i g h t o f f the s t r e e t f o r a weekend high. As I go and t a l k w i t h these people they have a l o t t o say and admire me i n some respect because I was fortunate enough t o get out In timp. On th« other hand, I am alno c a l l e d a preacher. Because of r^.cisn people w i l l often say t o me "Revolu-t l p n IS a l r i g h t f o r the Blacks and

Puerto Ricans because tney are worse o f f than us". So i t makes i t very hard t o show people there i s common purpose f o r people t o unite around. U n t i l our group expands, there w i l l be nothing set up f o r these young W,C, addicts i n Brooklyn t h a t w i l l r e l a t e t o t h e i r needs. And I guess they w i l l see things as being very-hopeless u n t i l then. And i t hurtfs t o b e l i e v e t h a t the only a l t e r n a t i v e these people see t o the heroin plague i s the SYSTEM'S CURE — methadone.

The Struggle W i l l I n t e n s i f y

With Our Brothers And Sisters

On Heroin Peter Donnell White Lightning

THE LINCOLN LESSONS

DRUG SEMINAR AT LINCOLN HOSPITAL T r a d i t i o n a l l y drug seminars a t

Lincoln Hospital have been taught by various bosp©s of tho <iopartmont of psychiatry. Out of these bosses' mouths would flow the usual stream of i n s u l t s and slanders about v i c t i m s of the heroin plague—only i t would be dressed up i n the disguise of pro­fessional language. Junkies (•Inade­quate p e r s o n a l i t i e s ' ) are people who are i n d i v i d u a l l y responsible f o r t h e i r own s u f f e r i n g ('they have a character disorder and are anti-social') because they are e v i l and sick ('morally diseased*), and they can never (Change and be drug free (sugges­ted treatment I methadone ad d i c t i o n and various other experimental drugs)

Those who attended these former seminars were almost exclusively r e s i ­dent p s y c h i a t r i s t s . There were sever­a l reasons f o r thif s j

(1) Only psy c h i a t r i s t f ^ and psychi­a t r i s t s - i n - t r a i n i n g could understand the secret terms t h a t were being batted around and would al s o have 'in i n t e r e s t i n e x p l o i t i n g drug victims by making money o f f t h e i r s u f f e r i n g as ' t h e r a p i s t s ' and bosses of jkioney drug treatment businesses, (2) Workers who oome from communities t h a t are ravaged by the heroin plague could not r e l a t e t o the obvious l i e s about the nature of drug a d d i c t i o n , because these phoney theories f l y i n the face of r e a l i t i e s the workers witness every day, ( 3 ) Workers don't have the p r i v i l e g e of casually wandering away from t h e i r workplaces and attending a seminar. Leaving t h e i r jobs would e i t h e r mean being y e l l e d a t by a boss f o r being i r r e s p o n s i b l e , lazy,' e t c , or i t would burden t h e i r co-workers w i t h a d d i t i o n a l work.

White Lightning has been a leading p a r t i c i p a n t i n a new drug seminar a t Lincoln Hospital f o r more than two months. We t r y t o educate people t o understand t h a t the un­equal way our society i s organized and the oppressive way people are forced t o r e l a t e t o each other have created the conditions and reasons why the heroin plague con­tinues t o mur3er and destroy more 9.nA more of our people. We are t r y -i n t o cut through the fog and p o l i t i c a l l y created 'mystery' about a d d i c t i o n . By r e f e r r i n g t o our own experience we demonstrate t h a t addicts are v i c t i m s of an oppressive society t h a t has more regard f o r a new machine than i t s own or our l i v e s .

Our seminar has been very w e l l attended, c e r t a i n l y b e t t e r attended than other seminars t h a t are taught by experts r e c e i v i n g $5^100 an hour or $160,00 per seminar, (We receive nothing but a sense of s a t i s f a c t i o n a t our work because we do not q u a l i f y as p r i v i l e g e d experts and bosses.)

Our greatest aocompli*5hment has been confronting p s y c h i a t r i s t s anfl r e s i ­dents i n psychiatry about r e l i e v i n g workers of t h e i r work r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s f o r a couple of hours so they too could attend our senin?.r. One d i r e c ­t o r of psychiatry stood up and l e c ­tured us about how workers i n the department are a l l t^zy and lack i n g i n ambition. He said t h i s was the r e a l reason thpy wouldn't attend any seminars—not because they were a part of an exploited class.

The brothers and s i s t e r s of Whi .e Lightning have been forced t o hear these words of contempt echo i n our ears a l l our l i v e s . We were t o l d t h a t by teachers, p r i e s t s , bosses, m i l i t a r y o f f i c e r s ; t h e r a p i s t s , p o l i c e ­men, doctors, judges, e t c . , e t c . We

I . WE WANT AN END TO THE USE OF NARCOTICS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROFIT MAKING OPPRESSION AND GENOCIDE BY CAPITALISTS.

Throughout the h l a t o r y up to the present* o p p t c s s l v c ( c a p i t a l i a t a ) govemmencs have used drugs as a t o o l f o r p a c i f i c a t i o n and extermination of those people t h a t are most oppressed,

l i . WB WANT AN END TO THE CONDITIONS T H ^ CAUSE OUR TOOPLE TO USE NARCOTICS. The reasons t h a t our people r e l a t e to n a r c o t i c s as a w a y of l i f e is ^ecAuflc t h e r e are a nindber o£ r e a l i t i e s t h a t are hard to d e a l With. Ex: Sexism, Racism, l i v i n g c o n d itions ( c l a s s ) e t c . We have been taught to t h i n k i n such a way, t h a t we don't see a s o l u t i o n to our problems. I n order f o r our people to stop r e l a t i n g t o n a r c o t i c s , these conditions have* to^ be a b o l i s h e d .

I I I . WE WANT ALL MARCOTICS PROFITEERS OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES. AS coBfuaed as we may be, we would not r e l a t e to a a r c o t t c a I f tney were not a v a i l a b l e t o us. The pushers t h a t p r o f i t from the n a r c o t i c s t r a f f i c a re backed by.the p i g s .

I V . WE WANT COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON THE TRUE NATURE OF NARCOTICS ADDICTION. ana of the ways of preventing our people from r e l a t i n g to n a r c o t i c s as a way of l i f e . I s f o r our people t o underitand the puspose of nar-eoeies i n our eoBBUBltles and hov the syseetB ve l i v e under d i r e c t s us ^ t w a r d s th's wa of n a r c o t i c s ,

V. WE WANT CCMMONITY-WORKBR-PATIENT CONTROL OF ALL NARCOTICS REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. Programs t h a t a r c s e t up to d e a l with n a r c o t i c s a d d i c t i o n , have always been run w i t h the purpose of p r o f i t making and w i t h the i d e a l s of who­ever i s running i t . The p a t i e n t s , workers, and the community have never had a say i n the running of the programs, and subsequently they do not meet the needs of the people.

V I . WE WANT AiiL NARCOTICS PROGRAMS TO TEACH THE TRUE NATURE OF NARCOTICS ADDICTIONS. PrograM have alwdyS r e l a t e d to therapy, uAually baSed on fr c u d . Therapy does not d e a l w i t h the problems of Th i r d World and Pobr White people i n t h i s s o c i e t y . I t docs not d e a l w i t h the r e a l i t i e s of n a r c o t i c a d d i c t i o n . , These things must be taught i n order f o r a d d i c t s to bye able to d e a l w i t h t h e i r problems.

V I I . WE WANT THE ELIMINATION OF LEGAL ADDICTIVE DRUGS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NARCOTIC ADDICTION, EX; METHADONE, HEROIN, ETC....

Making any drug l e g a l to deal with the problem of n a r c o t i c a d d i c t i o n iis only an open way of keeping our people enslaved by the government. I t t s not d e a l i n g w i t h the problem of the i n d i v i d u a l under the i n f l u e n c e of such drugs.

V I I I . WE WANT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL NARCOTIC ADDICTS AND EX-NARCOTIC ADDICTS TO BE RESPECTED,

N a r c o t i c s a d d i c t s ore the v i c t i m s of t h i s c a p i t a l i s t s system. I n t h i s soc­i e t y , n a r c o t i c a d d i c t s and e x - n a r c o t i c a d d i c t s are t r e a t e d l i k e b e asts. The pigs have been b r u t a l i z i n g them mentally and p h y s i c a l l y .

IX. WE WANT THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OP ALL PRISONERS BUSTED ON NARCOTICS 'OR NARC­OTICS RELATED CHARGES. ,

The government does not have the r i g h t to put n a r c o t i c a d d i c t s in eon-

e e n t r a t l o n camps f o r n a r c o t i c s or for crimes committed to support nar-. ^ t l c h a b i t s , becau8e*'they"are the cause of n a r c o t l s a d d i c t i o n .

X. WE WANT THE PIGS TO STOP USING DRUGS, AS AN EXCUSE TO INVADE OUR COMMUNITIES AND OPTOESQ OUR PEOPLE WITH THE BACKING OF LAWS. EX;, THE NO-KNOCK LAW.

The government has- been using drugs as the reason why there a r e so many p o l l c f I n our conm'nltles t h a t do not p r o t e c t our people , why they abuse many i n d i v i d u a l s , and why they have passed no-knock laws that are not «cd to a r r e s t n a r c o t i c p'jshcrs but to invade the houses of those people who are moving on the conditions that a t e oppressing our people.

X I . WE WANT SELF DETERMINATION FOR ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE. The problem of n a r c o t i c a d d i c t i o n cannot be solved u n t i l the people have c o n t r o l of t h e i r own l i v e s i n t h e i r own hands. This IS only p o s s i b l e u n d e r a s o c i a l i s t s s o c i e t y .

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wero f^ondemned by these pigr and the polltidAi ssysiem t o be found on a roof top w i t h our faeeg mashed i n t o the f l o o r , dflad of a narcotic ovor-dose. Our f a i t h , love and resT^ect i s unshakeably on the side of a l l oppressed and exploited p^opie^. We are f i ^ h t l a * hard f o r the rights of both the workers ana tne members of White L i ^ b t n l n ^ t o communicate and ^roup toe-ether.

A f t e r i s o l a t i n g the d i r e c t o r , people attending the seminar began t o move t o encourage the p a r t i c i p a t i o n of more workers. I t wasn't anythinf^ dmmatlc, but i t was a s t a r t . As a' re s u l t mary workers have started attendin<T the peminar r e g u l a r l y , M'Tiy of these same people have never c o n s i s t e n t l y attended any seminar sponsored by the department of psychi­c-try. More importantly, these worker? have contributed a frvea-'t deal t o im­prove the q u a l i t y of these seminars. Workers havp famil?o«5 vho l i v e i n commiinltips that are i n the d i r e c t l l t t ' * ' of f i r e o^ •'•he heroin pla;^ne, they nave a rp;*i stake i n combatti?VT

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people who havo a c t u a l l y suffered as a r e s u l t of I t . I n many ways they d i r e c t the seminar arvi give i t v i t a l i t y

b y t a l k i n g a b o u t s o c i a l ' r e a l i t y ?nd not the psyobiertrio buLlshit t h a t camo-fl^wf^*? the r e a l c l a s s privilefres a n d

o'^^»r';^sion of the prof^^ssion o f psychi­a t r y . W h i t e Liffbtnin/3r h^s 1 framed a great deal from the workers in the d e ­p a r t m e n t o f p s v o h i a t r - y ,

V'hite Lightning has several aims i n p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n the Lincoln drug seminar. (1) We wgnt t o edueat*^ and denonstrs-te t o as many people a? possible t h a t drug a d d i c t i o n i s a r e s u l t of conditions o-»~eAt'^d b y a s o c i e t y ba?;ed on oppr'^ssed r a t i o n a l i t i e s , classes, and sexes; and wr s h o w that a l l oppressed T>eople in a rea l sense are victims of the heroin nia ^ u e and must struggle together i n ellmin'^ting i t , ( 2 ) M c ^ s p e c i f i c a l l y , w e k n o w tbr.t a t

L i n c o l n H o s p i t-^l thi^rc i s a drup; p r o -

^fmin ti'Tt was created b y the e f f ^ ^ r t «i>vi s ^ c r r ^ i c e of many community j/eople.

T h i s program i s ffpnulnely strufff^llns:

t o s e r v e t h e people o f the South ijronx. ^ n y professionals, s o c i a l workers, and. w o r k e r s in th<^ department of psychiatry do not understand how every step of the way the Lincoln h o s p i t a l administra­t i o n and , l t s alllFJS have done a l l things pos-sible t o u n d e r m i n e and c r i p p l e the development of the people's drug program, V/e h a v e a t t e m p t e d t o s h o w

members of the department of psychiatry how combatting the h e r o i n plague l i n k s up w i t h t h e i r own i n t e r e s t s , andj par­t i c u l a r l y , how i t i s c r u c i a l t h a t they support the brothers and s i s t e r s who a r e s t r u g g l i n g so haid i n the Lincoln drug program.

Workers' support i s c r i t i c a l i n de­f e a t i n g e f f o r t s by the h o s p i t a l admini­s t r a t i o n t o destroy possibly the only people's drug program i n the United States t h a t has a community h o s p i t a l base and t h a t serves as a revolutionary model f o r a l l oppressed people.

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