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In This IssueThis month we have two articles. on

Central America . SPC staffer AllenSmith interviewed incumbent U .S .Representative George Wortley ' andhis opponent in the Nov, election ,Thomas Buckel, about their view son Central America . Four area wom-en who recently returned from Nica-ragua share their impressions (andphotos) with us .

We also have a report this mont hon the White Train, a major metho dof transporting nuclear weapons o nthe West Coast . The status of th eNational Peace Academy is comment-ed on, and Gary Weinstein reflect son his experiences as an SPC staff-er .

Editorial CommitteeDeana Cunningham, Katie Froehlich ,Brad Bennett, Angus MacDonald ,Diane Swords, Bill Raleigh (obs . )

Production WorkersCorrine forgenson,Corinne Kinan e

Nick Catalano, Carris Lester ,Glenda Neff, Meg Morse ,Susan Tracy, George Wojtow-ycz, Susan Tracy, Alice Debner ,Laurel Moranz, Dik Cool, Sheen aVerity, David Takacs, Gregg Smith ,Kevin Senn, Cindy Sangree, Alle nSmith, Barbara Kobritz, Darrel lMarcy, Vince Sobel, Karen Mihaly iand the Editorial Committee .

Mailing Party WorkersAllen Smith, Katie Froehlich ,Amy Sheneman, Evy Smith ,Cindy Sangree, Diane Cramer ,Deana Cunningha m

Next Month'sNovember 12, 13, 1 4(Remember, we give work credit) .

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October 1984 PNL 51 1

COVER

The cover drawing was done by Nina Shifkoff, Ithaca N .Y.

REGULARS11 Book Review - Thoughts on Childrens Literature,,, By Ellen Douglas18 Report s22 PEACES

SYRACUSE PEACE COUNCI L4 House News8 It's Like A Relationship : Recollections After Four Years on Staff By Gary

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MILITARISM

6 For the Cost of One B-1 Bomber-A National Peace Academy By Ellenor OlsonDiane Sword s

12 White Train From Hell, Tracking the Nuclear Network By Pat Mannix

CENTRAL AMERIC A14 Central America After November By Allan Smit h20 rNicaragua Libre! By Karen Mihalyi

DeadlinesSpace Requests: Nov . 1stAdvertising: Nov . 7th

- The PEACE NEWSLETTER (PNL) is published 10 times per year (except January an dAugust) by the Syracuse Peace Council (SPC) . SPC, founded in 1936, is a nonprofit ,community based organization . The PNL is collectively produced by the Editoria lCommittee, workers and SPC staff. The PNL serves two functions : that of a paperoffering news, analysis and upcoming events ; and that of the internal organ of SPC, th etraditional newsletter role. We welcome suggestions and assistance of all kinds . The PN Lhas very reasonable ad rates; call or write for our rate card . Movement groups, pleasefeel free to reprint or use graphics, but please give credit . Profit groups, please inquire .The PNL is a member of the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS P .O . Box 1347, Aknsonia

Station; New York, N .Y . I6023) ; is listed in the Alternative Press Index (quarterly fro mP .O . Box 7229 Baltimore MD 21218) and is available on microfilm from APS .Subscriptions are $8 for the U .S . ; $12 for Canada and Mexico; and $20 for overseas. Theinstitutional rate is $12 . Free or donation to prisoners and low income people. You rorganization, co-op, etc . can receive 15-25 PNL's each month at a bulk subscription o f$25 -per year . Contributions to SPC beyond PNL subscriptions support our activis tprograms. PEACE NEWSLETTER/SPC 924 Burnet Ave. Syracuse, NY 13203 (315 )472-5478. Circulation : 5,000. Printed by Lakeside Printing, Skaneateles, N .Y .

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Syracuse Peace Counci lNews fromThe SPC House

Passed us by lately? A heavy wind took down thefamiliar sign in front of the SPC house . Paul Pearceis making the new landmark that will soon rise in it splace . We hope you'll join us on Oct . 23rd . to clea nup and winterize the house . Work begins at 10 a .m. ,come for any part of the day .

Carol has spent time lately trying to see AndyMager who is doing time for tresspassing at Griffis sAir Force Base . This process takes a lot of time andcan be very frustrating . Her experiences led us toask Jail Ministries to discuss this at the Nov . 12thPotluck .

We are sad that Radell has not yet joined, bu twe're hopeful .

The Middle East Committee continues its activi-ties with a meeting on Oct . 9th at 7 p .m ., at thehome of Lillian Reiner - 1009 Cumberland . Topicis the book From Time Immemorialby Joan Peters .All points of view are welcome .

Our staff and members keep in touch with worl devents by helping to plan and participate in event ssuch as Not in Our Name (Nov . 18 - 19th), and Oct .

4th voter registration drive (Columbus Circle) ; alsoNational SANE office called to tell us joyfully tha t

the MX didn't make it . Today the MX, tomorrow theReagan administration . See you at the election party !

SPCStatement of Purpose

The Syracuse Peace Council (SPC), founded in 1936, is an antiwar/socia ljustice organization . It is community-based, autonomous and funded by th econtributions of its supporters .

SPC educates, agitates and organizes for a world where war, violence an dexploitation in any form will no longer exist . It challenges the existingunjust power relationships among nations, among people and betwee nourselves and the environment . As members, we work to replace inequality, Alliances, Coalitions & Contacts with whom SPC works :hierarchy, domination and powerlessness with mutual respect, persona lempowerment, cooperation and a sense of community .

Present social injustices cannot be understood in isolation from eac hother nor can they be overcome without recognizing their economic an dmilitaristic roots . SPC stresses a strategy that makes these connectionsclear . We initiate and support activities that help build this sense o fcommunity and help tear down the walls of oppression . A fundamentalbasis for peace and justice is an economic system that places human nee dabove monetary profit . We establish relationships among people based oncooperation rather than competition or the threat of destruction .

Our political values and personal lives shape and reflect each other. I nboth we are committed to nonviolent means of conflict resolution and to aprocess of decision-making that responds to the heeds of all .

‘racuse Peace Council924 Burnet Ave.Syracuse, N .Y . 13203

(315) 472-547B Educators fo rSocial Responsibility ;

Joan Goldberg

673 – 108 3

Staff Collectiv eDeana Cunningham, Allen Smith ,Cindy Sangree ;

Nuclear Weapons Freeze :Nancy Tunnessen 458-626 6

Finger Lakes Peace Alliance :Cindy Sangree

472-547 8East Timor Human Rights Comm .

Mike Chamberlain 673-326 8Upstate Peace Network :

Virden Seybold

47-5-482 2Women's Peace Encampment :

(607) 869-582 5Syracuse Men's Group :

Paul Barfoot

446-812 7

SPC Collectives ,Committees 8s ProjectsNew people are always welcome to join any of these activities .Contact the person listed to find out what you can do .

Steering Committees :

Organizational Maintenanc ePat Hoffman, Brent Bleier ,Peter Scheibe, Allen Smith ,Margaret Palmieri ,

Tax Resistance Support Group :Peter Swords

479-565 8Friends of Central AmericaUnited in Support (FOCUS) :

Ron Shuffler

471-667 7Syracuse Cultura lWorkers Project :

Dik Coo l

SPC Projects

Program & EvaluationLisa Johns, Ann Tierney ,Carole Resnick, ElyseMeltz, Tim McLaughlin ,Gary Weinstein ,Cindy Sangree .

Central America Committee :Allen Smith

472-547 8Disarmament Project '84 :

Gary Weinstein

472-547 8Middle East Study Group :

Brent Bleier :

479-539 3SPC Posters :

Dik Cool

474-113 2Syracuse Science Collective :

A . P . Balachandran 479-882 6Dennis Banks Support Comm . :

Jan Peterson

476-610 3Philippines :

Sally & John Brule 445-069 8

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Physicians for Socia lResponsibility :

Bob Kantor

473-580 0Upstaters Agains tCorporate Blackmail :

Jim Ellis

476-153 6Finger Lakes Milit )r yCounselling & Info . Center :Days: 789-7543/Eves: 587-951 2Friends of the Filipino People :

Jim Zwick

423-387 0Weapons Facilitie sConversion Network :

Andy Mager

472-701 0Ongoing Affinity Groups :

Information Call

472-547 3People for Animal Rights :

Linda DeStefano

475-006 1

Peace Newslette rDeana Cunningham, Kati eFroehlich, Brad Bennett ,Angus MacDonald, Dian eSwords, Bill Raleigh (obs . )

Book Review Editor :Carol Baum

472-547 8Distribution:

Andy Mage r

PNL Calender :Corinne Kinane 422-165 9

Front Room Bookstore Collectiv eCarol Baum, Katie Froelich ,Jean Wittman, Dik Cool (col-lective-member emeritus )

United Campuses Agains tNuclear War (UCAM) :

Tekla Lewin

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The SPC Pres sJeff Schwart z

SPC Potlucks :SPC Staff

472-547 8Upstate Resistance :

Andy Mager

472-701 0NVS Films :

Dik Cool

474-113 2Jerry O'Callaghan 425-701 2

SPC Film Committee :Margaret Palmieri 476-6906

473-435 0Jim Dessauer

479-597 7Local Weapons Facilities :

Carol Baum

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Syracuse Peace Counci l

Radell needs a home ! Shecan't join us because her pre -

paid living arrangements didn ' t

work out . Can you help? Do you

know anyone who can provide acost-free living place for thi seager intern whom we would

he peace council pageCSPC Post-Election Party

All of us hope Reagan and his cronies will not b ere-elected this November 6th . Most of us have al lworked hard on a variety of programs and project saimed at fighting his policies and achieving his defeat .Come together with other activitists in the Communit yas we wait up to hear the final results on many nationa land local races . Win or lose, this is not a night tospend alone. The Post-Election party will begin afterdinner at the Wescott Cafe around 8 :30 . Goodies andsome refreshments will be provided . A donation wil lbe requested at the door to cover costs and to benefi tthe work of the Peace Council - Look for poster sfor more details .

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Become a Part of the 50th Anniversary PlansOn September 10th a few of us met to start plans fo r

the Peace Council's 50th Anniversary, The Celebrationwill happen in January 1986, but it is important to star tplanning now. We're talking about happenings that needa lot of lead time, such as mime groups, a public art /photography show, star performers who have encouragedwork in peace and social justice issues, participationby other groups that we have worked with, etc . So com ehelp plan; come help us locate the time , places ,people . Next Meeting : October 30th, 7 :30 p .m .at the SPC House (924 Burnet Avenue, phone 472-5478) .

The Cash Crunch and SPCThis fall has brought with it the most serious SP C

financial crisis in recent memory. Its cause, whileexacerbated by higher staff salaries, lies primarily i na drop in contributions . Most injurious to our financia lwell-being was the failure of our annual anonymou scheck to arrive . Having received this donation of rough-ly $1500 a year for the past 5 years we had expected i tto have arrived by now . Faced with this shortfall, thesteering committees have decided to respond by planninga number of fundraisers (parties, musical benefits, etc . )and retargetting existing money to cover staff salaries .We are working on starting a tax-exempt educationa lproject which will attract some grant money early in 198 5To save money in 1984, we will combine issues of th ePNL. A combined Nov ./Dec . issue will be released mid -November . With continued support our regular publica-tion schedule will restart in 1985 . Word of our proble mhas gotten around ; many of you have contributed gen-erously. We thank all of you for your donations .

Here Comes Plowshare!The 14th Annual Plowshare Craftsfair is comin g

sooner than you think . The 1984 show will be Dec . 8thand 9th at the Plymouth Congregational Church . Thisis one of SPC's most popular events of the year, a tim efor people to come together and socialize, celebrat ethe Holiday Season, and support area craftspeople . Theevent is also SPC's single most important fundraisingevent of the year . Please mark your calenders now andplan to attend the fair . Lots of time and energy g ointo preparation; if you would like to help call th eHouse . See you all there

Save THURS . NOV . 8TH FOR THE NEXTCOUNCIL MEETING . Evening meeting . Placeto be announced .

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Come to Supper Again!Have you been hungry on Monday evenings ? Pot Luck

Dinners with the Syracuse Peace Council are back atthe same time and place . So, your Monday evening swill find you well fed again and sharing good conversa-tion with friends new and old on topics that you car eabout . Each 'Monday, beginning Oct, 8th, at 6 :00 p .m ,at the Friends Meeting House (821 Euclid Ave .) we willgather again to eat and talk and hear some friends sharean interest with us . Come join in . We want to see ourold friends and we want to meet YOU if you haven't got -ten to know us yet at the Peace Council, Our topicsin the near future will include a report from the Madr esponsored visit to Nicaragua and a discussion on Di sarmament and the Elections . Find the POT LUCK CALEN -DER elsewhere in this issue of the newsletter ,CHECK IT OUT, then come and CHECK US OUT .

Annual "Dinner" to Feature Harringto nThe Peace Council will be holding its majo r

political and social event of the Fall when we presenta talk by the noted author and socialist Michae lHarrington on defeating Reagan and building an Ameri -Left . This event will function as the normal SPC Fal lDinner, though food will not be served . There will bea wine, cheese and dessert social after the program fo rpeople to meet and talk .

The event will take place on October 19th at the Ma yMemorial Church and will begin at 7 :30 (sharp) with thereception immediately following . Cost is $4 - $6 .Child care will be provided .

Michael Harrington is America's most prominen tsocialist author. His works include The Other America,Socialism, and most recently The New American Poverty .He is a long time activist in the left wing of the Demo-cratic Party and is currently National Co-Chair (wit hfeminist Barbara Ehrenreich) of the DemocraticSocialists of America .


Militarism

For the Cost of One B-1 Bomber:A Peace Academy

The Concept of the Peace Academ y

Since childhood, we have all had aconcept of war . There are so manysymbols and gadgets connected tothe concept that any four-year-oldunderstands the chase, get the othe rguy, "shoot 'em up, " I win, yo ulose concept of war . Kids love thataction! In real life, of course ,real deaths occur .

Most people are at a loss toexplain peace . It must have some -thing to do with the absence of war .Or, as in "peace and quiet, " nothin ghappens . This is a false concept ,peace as inactive and war as active .

If the concept of peace illustrat-ed above were true, then our idea lof pea ce could be illustrated by th eElias Hicks painting of th e"Peaceable Kingdom . " The lion an dthe lamb shall lie dawn together i npeace . To be realistic, if a lio nand a lamb share the same compound ,the lion would have lamb chops fo rdinner . Lion wins - lamb loses .

Have you noticed that in thePeaceable Kingdom every anima lseems frozen? There is no inter-action among the animals . Is thispeace ?

The concept that one day ou rnatures shall be transformed and w eshall have worldwide peace is only

a hope . I have decided for mysel fnot to wait for a transformation . Iexpect to keep my personality wit h

all its faults . I'm not going towait for this boring type of peace .

We don't have to wait for peace tobe imposed on us by some heavenlysource . We can have it now .

How do we get there? ThroughConflict Resolution. As long as twopeople share the same space, ther ewill be conflict, but there doesn' thave to be war . War is a high-cost ,risky method of solving a problem .After all, the other side will probablyretaliate . In today 's world, th eother guy might use an atomicweapon. Risky indeed .

The human family is inherently

lazy . There is a less costly methodof solving problems . We will us ethat method . Because of the evolu-tion in social science and in the

labor movement in particular, we no whave many working methods of solv-ing conflict that do not requirekilling the other guy . It works likethis :

There are only four solutions t oa conflict: One side wins/the other

side loses . We call this win/lose .The other three combinations are :lose/win, lose/lose, and win/win .The flaw with war is it concentrate s

on I win/you lose . If it's a draw,

it's I lose/you lose .There are ways to achieve th e

I win/you win position. The diplo-matic corps uses them, as does amediator in a labor dispute . Weknow they work . Would conflictin gcountries use these techniques i fthey knew that they would achiev etheir "win" objective? Yes the ywould, because they are a lower -cost method than the heated, last -resort method of declaring war .Wars would get settled before the ybreak out .

Let us set up an institution toteach these techniques to tatesmen,world leaders, labor negotiators ,politicians - anyone from globa ldown to interpersonal relations .

The good news is that it ha sbegun. We call it the Nationa lPeace Academy Campaign . This isa campaign to establish a federa linstitution to teach these technique sto world and community leaders .Imagine the image of the Unite dStates in the eyes of the world whenthis institution is established . Wewill be making a powerful statementabout our commitment to world peace .

This does not mean abolition o fthe military but a change in it snature . It will be for keeping order ,just like your local police department ,rather than for offense agains tanother nation . The military backsthe campaign . No professiona lsoldiers want to go to war and bekilled. They want to serve theirtime and collect a pension .

For more information on th eNational Peace Academy Campaigncontact N-PAC, 110 Marylan dAvenue, NW . Suite 409, Washingto nD.C . 20002 . Telephone : (202 )546-9500 .

-Ellenor Olson

The History of the Campaig n

When America was a new country ,someone had the idea that theDepartment of War should b ebalanced with a Department o f

Peace . That was in 1793 . The ideahas been in the air since then, but

until quite recently has made no

progress . Now there is a propose d

Peace Academy - and perhaps thi s


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idea's time has come .The Peace Academy would b e

initiated at the cost of $23 million

in federal funds for the first thre eyears . After that, it would cos tabout $20 million annually. Thechief co-sponsor of this bill in theSenate, Senator Spark M . Matsunaga ,D-Hawaii, reminds us that at thi scost, the price of one B-1 bombe rwould keep the academy going fo r20 years .

The U.S . Academy of Peace hasalready passed the Senate as a namendment to the Omnibus Defens eAuthorization Act for fiscal 1985 .The House-passed defense bill ,however, has no similar amendment .

Some reservations

Many of the arguments agains tthe academy are easy for peaceadvocates to dispell : How it woul d

• save money rather than waste it ;coordinate efforts of universit y

• peace programs rather than duplicat ethem ; educate policy-makers rathe rthan displace them.

Other concerns are more difficult :• the academy is to be autonomou s• from the federal goverment, but th e

board of directors is to be nominated

by the President . Members will b efrom the private sector and must beapproved by the Senate . Should weface more time with Mr . Reagan ,wouldn't this mean another militar yacademy with a name as euphemisti cas that of the Department of Defense :The National Peace Academy Cam -paign acknowledges this concern andexpects more revisions before pass -age .

Another concern is the Cam-paign 's dissociation from disarma-ment groups and insistence that i twill complement, not conflict with ,the military establishment . Whileit is understandable that the Peac eAcademy needs broad support, thi sposition makes one ask what w ewould be getting in the name o fpeace .

Funding is ' another question .Money is to come from the genera lgovernment budget . Does this meana further drain on social programs ?Shouldn't funding come from th emilitary budget which will save b ythe work of the Peace Academy ?

Finally, a primary Senat esponsor of the Academy, Jenning sRandolph, raises questions abou this commitment to peace by his votes

Militarismon the B-1 bomber and MX deploy-ment .

Against these reservations ar ebalanced all the excellent thinkin gthis institution embodies and apotential to make "all the differenc ein the world . " Helen Caldicott ,Coretta Scott King, and Mar kHatfield support it . The Women' sInternational League for Peace an dFreedom and SANE have endorsed it .Apparently what this institution call sfor is not our blind support, but ou refforts to make it what it is intende dto be .

The Status of the Campaign

The Defense Bill is now inConference Committee . House andSenate members must come to agree-ment on what is to be included. Thequestion of including Peace Academ ylegislation could come up at an ytime . The best way to support th eAcademy now would be to write t oSpeaker of the House Thomas (Tip )O'Neill and Maj ority Leader Ji mWright a sking them to encourag eConference Committee members t oretain Peace Academy legislation i nthe Defense Bill .

-Compiled by Diane Sword s

a Takes Roo

Nonviolence in the Bia ;

August is seldom chosen a sthe month in which we turn ove rthe soil and plant our seeds .However,this past August,approx-imately two-hundred people fromthirty states and four countrie s

gathered together to plant seeds ofhope which will grow into a maturenonviolent movement in the Unite d

States . We met at the Storm Moun-tain Retreat Center in the Blac kHills, South Dakota, on August 5- 9for a national networking conferenceon nonviolence . Remembering Hiro-shima and Nagasaki,we focused o n

nonviolence in terms of roots an dprinciples ,power and empowerment ,strategies and goals -- the "roots " ,"shoots", and "fruits " of the grow-

ing,living movement .We attended plenary sessions ,

• large group gatherings ,discussionand caucusing groups,workshops an dfield trips . We joined daily in smal lworking groups building On trust and

familiarity to articulate the majorthemes of the conference .

The conference closed with acreative act of resistance on on ehillside at the end of the main runwa yof nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base, aSAC base and home of B-52 bombers .We toiled together to construct thre elarge circles -- the peace symbol,theenvironmental sign,and the LakotaSioux medicine wheel of the fou rsacred directions . We worked, sang ,danced and created ritual in dedicat-ing our efforts while the bomber sroared overhead .

The nonviolent process we use din organizing and facilitating theconference was, not without tensionsand ambiguities,but it was encourag-ingly successful .I was recharged by

the energy,dedication,militance,andradicalism of nonviolent activist sand educators and was reacquainte dwith the spirit and energy of nativepeople . I explored ritual and celebra -

tion and the necessity of developin gsmall, committed spiritual-politicalgroups for study and support,ritua land celebration, strategy and action .

My most important image srelated nonviolence to the stage sand seasons of growth . Not onlydo we need to get in touch withthe limits and potentialities ofthe roots, shoots and fruits ofnonviolence, but the flowerin gseason has its own rhythm .. Move-ments for nonviolent social chang emust experience dormant period sof winter before they bea rfruit . To understand the powe rof nonviolence, we must under- _stand the power of natural change ,the seasons, the elements, theweb of life . We must reclai mthe calendar for peace and forthe earth by creating ritual onnatural holidays . We must nur-ture each other as stewards ofthis new planting .

-Brad Bennet t



"It's Like a Relationship. . ."Recollections After Five Years on staff

by Gary WeinsteinWhen previous people have left

the SPC staff, I always felt ther ewas a hole, an emptiness . I won-dered, "Will SPC be able to carryon? How will we do without her orhim? " It was like a relationship . Imissed their presence and wonderedhow we'd cope .

I felt many contradictory things a sa staffperson; pride, frustration ,fulfillment, anger, appreciation, fa-tigue, loneliness . The positiontook everything I could give it . Italso gave me everything, at one timeor another ; arguments with co-workers, empowerment at fightingback, joy at being effective, frus-tration with membership, pride atserving the peace movement . It waslike a relationship . I stuck with thecrap because I was committed andbecause I placed the higher purpos eabove my passing emotions . At thesame time, I have difficulty imag-ining a more meaningful, satisfyingjob to have had the privilege to work .

But again like a relationship, attimes, you choose to move on . Iwas tired of struggling at subsis-tence wages, tired of the anxiety ,tired of leaning on family an dfriends . Tired of not really bein geconomically self-sufficient, tire dof not having health care . Tired ofthe occasional humiliation of tellin gsomeone my wage and seeing the mreact with disbelief or derisive

humor . I thank my family and m yloving friends who assisted mewhile I was a movement worker .

So in leaving the staff my memo —Iles become evaluation and my eval-uations become proposals for chang eand organizational development .SPC must work to raise the wages o fstaff to respectable levels . Wemust provide health care for staffand treat them with the respect the ydeserve . All of us, as SPC member sare responsible for this happening .But I'm convinced it will only happe nwhen we broaden our race and clas sbase, that is to say, when SPC in-cludes as active members people ofcolor and a wider range of working

Gary was a member of the SPC offic e

staff for the past five years . He

is currently looking for work in the

social work field .


class people . Only through in-

creased and broadened membershi pwill we be able to muster the finan-cial resources to pay staff bette r

and assure their continuity . Andonly through some redefining of whatthe "peace" movement is, will weaccomplish any of this .

In 1979 when I first began to work

fulltime in the office, I had a fever-ish urge to be at the hub of activity ,to serve the movement with my whole

self . Having accomplished that, Inow want and need a change . Inleaving staff I plan to become a lit-tle more like the people we are try-ing to reach . Being more distan tfrom the hub - being just anotherSPC member - I hope to serve SPC i n

a new way .My five years were intensive . I

forged a political identity and gainedmany, many political skills . M y

predecessors taught me a great dea land I saw the organization mature .But, I have a long way to go . Sodoes SPC, and so does the move-ment .

I discovered, for example, tha thaving an ideology is disparaged by

too many activists . Marxism, how-ever, helped me acquire a worldview ,a system of thinking, a methodolog yby which to examine and solve the

ro immense political challenges we

confront . It is a means by which t ofight back and transform the funda-

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Yet, I have realized that this dee psocial change will not come aboutwithout a protracted, not-nice strua -' gle ; a struggle to be gained, a sMalcolm X used to so eloquently say,

by whatever means necessary .And I am worried about where th e

peace movement and SPC are heading.A Reagan reelection spells unmiti-

gated disaster . It means that give n

four years to organize against the

crimes of Reagan, we had still failed.

We're doing something wrong . (If

Reagan is defeated, we celebrate al l

night long . Take me to the nearest

party . )In either case, we have questions

to face: Will the peace movement

retain its tendency to be insular ,

self-congratulatory and self-right-eous, or will we broaden our race ,class and international con-sciousness? Will we continue to bea too-closely-knit society of refuse-niks, annoyed at people who don ' tagree with us, or will we see the"peace" movement as a social jus-tice movement demanding an entirel ynew set of property and money rela-tions in society? Can we begin t ouproot our unaware racism? Will ou rcommunity be a shelter, a retreat, ahiding place or will we boldly reac hout beyond Westcott Street and be-yond our patterned ways of organi-zing to include labor unions, Blackleaders and even Third World coun-tries as part of the peace movement ?

Will we cling to the mistaken no-tion that our lifestyle is a means cfsocial change or can we risk examin-ing our judgements about how w ereach the people we're trying t oreach ?

And what happened to anger and

protest in our demonstrations? Whe ndid vigils become our reflexive re-sponse to everything? When didsinging and ritual replace chantingand healthy, empowered, vocal out -rage? Why am I at times uncomfor-table at our own public events ?

I think the peace movement i steetering on an historic brink of op-portunity . The next few years wil ldecide whether once and for all w eattain some measure of meaningfu ldisarmament or whether it remains ,our "vision," bur dream,. Thechoices I've mentioned above will i npart determine . It's in our hands ;staffers, membership, those not ye tconcerned, those who love our work .

If I've been critical it's becauseI expect and want the best from thi smovement . And because it's theleast I expect from people with who mI have been in a five-year relation -ship .


*DISCUSSIO NOF'EN TO ALL AT NO ADMISSION CHARGE FOR COMRADERIE, DINNER & DISCUSSION

*DINNER at 6pm (bring a dish or beverage to share )

Keeping the agreement that was made last Spring, at the Pot Luck suppers there will b etwo discussions on Abortion . The first one will be facilitated by Carolyn Wheeler and ou rold friends Scott Rains and Patti Narciso . Scott and Patti will be driving all the way fro mNorth Carolina ; come join us as they lead a discussion that will include the Prolifers fo rSurvival perspective .

Diane Chappell-Daly from Planned Parenthood will be with us for the second evenin g

in the Abortion dialogue, bringing especially the pro-choice perspective . 'We have not been

able to hear and formulate our own questions to meet our own experiences" . -- Mary Daly '

We will discuss the involvement of local candidates with disarmament and the question o fa third party candidate for President . We will consider ways to deal with these issues, becom e

involved, now in the pre-election days .

Join some of the women who recently returned from a visit to Nicaragua with the Madr eprogram . They have slides and information we cannot learn from our press about th estruggles of the people there. Karen Mihalyi, Martha Swann, Joni Meyer, andMaura McNulty will share their experiences and pictures from their journey .

Was the summer of 1983 the same as 1984 at the Women's Encampment for a Future ofPeace and Justice near the Seneca Army Depot ? Why did it continue a second year , and wha tabout 1985 ? Slides and discussion with Cindy Sangree and women from th eWomen's Encampment .

Jail Ministries workers have experiences to s hare with us about why it is importan tvisit those people locked away from society - important for those inside and for thos eoutside . They also will tell us how to arrange visits .

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Militarism

Utica Shoot ofWar Game 2 Begins:

Funds Needed for Third World Episode s

Final preparations for the shooting of the Mohawk Valle yepisode of War Game II are being made . Director PeterWatkins, who received an Academy Award for the 1965 Doc-umentary, War Game, describes War Game II as an attemptto deal with the nuclear arms race from a grass roots per-spective of families around the world who face the commo nthreat of Nuclear Holocaust .

In addition to three United States episodes, other epi-sodes are planned for Canada, Scotland, France, Germany ,Norway, Sweden, the Soviet Union, Mozambique, Japan ,Australia, Polynesia and Mexico .

The local episode will have three segments . First a dis-cussion with a Utica, New York family about the Arms Rac eand the many areas of life that the Arms Race affects . Sec-ond, an evacuation sequence will point out the flaws an dpanic caused by a mass exodus to Ilion as called for unde rcurrent Civil Defense plans . The third sequence will focu son a discussion of alternatives to the Arms Race, employ-ment alternatives being a major point of discussion .

Scott McDonald, local coordinator of the project and aProfessor of Film at Utica College underscores the globa lmessage of Watkin's concept : "A family discussion is th efirst priority in nearly all locations, these discussions wil lbe filmed and video-taped so that the families will be abl eto talk about not only their own responses to the issues, bu tthe' responses of everyday people in other diverse cultures .One important element of the film will be this commonalityof exchange on a global scale . "

In keeping with this concept of local ; grassroots effort _funding for the Mohawk Valley episode has been accom- -ished by local activities and a grant from the New York StateCouncil on the Arts . Watkins has completed a segment nea rLeningrad, "without the influence or control of local Part yofficials" and a segment in Sweden, where the National FilmBoard has given partial funding .

As the shooting of the local episode begins, Watkin sand Macdonald are requesting that interested persons in theSyracuse area begin an attempt to raise funds for Third Worl depisodes which are somewhat hampered in funding attempts .

Macdonald believes that the international, communit ynature of the film making will bring about a willingness toshare monetary burdens with those organizing the episode sin Third World Countries . " We would hope that you wouldwant to help us with the film . This is a community film, i na sense that few films ever are, and we need your support .

Working with people not so different from ourselves i ncountries circling the globe, well make film history . We'l lbe part of what may be the most fully international film eve rmade "

Those who are interested in fund-raising for further epi-sodes should contact the Peace Council for details .

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RegularsBook Review —

The Story of Ferdinand, by MunroLeaf, first published in 1936, is aclassic book for children in the mos twonderful ways : the text speaks to,rather than above or below, youn gchildren, the black and white draw-ings are full of expression and move-ment, the plot has action and sus-pense, and the character of Ferdinan dthe gentle bull, is sincere and con-sistent . The bonus is that this mar-velous story carries a strong pacifis ttheme . All the other little bulls helived with would run and jump andbutt their heads together, but no tFerdinand . He liked to sit just quiet-ly and smell the flowers . "This simple story touches on morethemes : the aloneness of an indivi-dualist, the concern of a parent fo rher child's happiness, and the cruel-ty of the bullfighting ritual . Child-ren 3 to 7 enjoy listening to Ferdi-nand, older children enjoy readin git by themselves, and adults simpl ysmile and nod as they read it . Ifyou don ' t have a copy of this gentl eclassic, please stop by the Fron tRoom to get one .

Sadako and the Thousand Pape rCranes, by Eleanor Coerr, is a new-er (1977) classic that touches all whoread it . Sadako lived in Japan from1943 to 1955 . She was a toddle rwhen the U .S . Air Force dropped a natom bomb on Hiroshima . She beganto notice the painful symptoms ofher radiation caused leukemia whileshe was running in junior high . Sad-ako's last days were spent foldingpaper cranes from her hospital bed inthe hope of fulfilling the old story a -bout the crane : "It's supposed to livefor one thousand years . If a sick per -

son folds one thousand paper cranesthe gods will grant her wish and mak eher healthy again ." Sadako managed t oto fold 644 . Her classmates folded 35 6cranes . All one thousand were buriedwith her .

In 1958, a statue of Sadako wa splaced in the Hiroshima Peace Par kand thousands of paper cranes areplaced there each August 6th (Peac eDay) . This story of Sadako's fina ldays of determination and courag eavoids sentimentality by weavingmoments of humor into the sadness .

Listening for 6-10 year olds ; read-ing for 8-11's .

Frog and Toad are Friends, b yArnold Lobel, is another newish (1970)'classic' for children . Its a warm ,funny and insightful book about th ecaring and loyalty that take place i na true friendship . It's divided intofive humorously illustrated storie swhich can be read in any order .Green-skinned frog and brown -skinned Toad are friends who hel peach other through such difficult sit-uations as waiting for spring after along winter and feeling embarasse dabout being seen in a bathing suit .The stories are easy to read for mos t7 and 8 year olds, while 4 to 9 yea rolds will enjoy listening to them .Nice for adult friends too .

Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin,by Susanne Bosche, is an Englis htranslation (1983) of a Danish story .Jenny is a five year old girl who live swith Martin, her father, and Eric ,Martin's lover . Jenny's mother, Kar-en, lives nearby and visits often .This book describes their activitie stogether as a family . The black andwhite photographs are clear an drealistic, showing some pleasan tscenes : Jenny shares breakfast on atray in bed with Eric and Martin, sh ehelps Eric fix his bicycle tire ; andsome unpleasant ones : Jenny crie swhen she has to leave her paints an dgo to the laundromat, neighbor Mrs .Andrews greets them on the way hom ewith " You gays! Why don ' t you stayhome so the rest of us don't have t osee you?" This last scene is use dto lead into a description of sexua lpreferences, using cartoon style draw-ings .

It ' s good to see the topic of ga yparenting in a book for young child-ren . Unfortunely, the text is ofte nawkward to read since this transla-tion

rt`f does not use enoug hcontractions to flow smoothly . For-tunately, the reader can change thi seasily enough . Suggested for child-ren ages 4-8 .

Thoughts on Children's literature :What are the Stories We Want Our Children to Read

by Ellen Dougla sEllen Douglas is an early childhoodeducator with a strong interest i nchildren's books . She has keen wor-king with the Front Room Bookstorefor about six months - and we're soglad she is! Look for reviews ofbooks for older children in a fut-ure PNL. Enjoy .

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Feelings Alphabetis a brand ne w(1984) album "of emotions from i'½ t oZ", by Judy Lalli . Each letter of thealphabet has a two page spread, wit hthe alphabetical feeling word on th eleft and a quality photograph of achild or children expressing the feel-ing on the right . This is wonderful .Unhappy is so much more memorabl ethan boring Umbrella for U . Yucky..looks as though he's ready for a cu pof mint tea and bed . There's a goodmix of sexes and races in the photo -graphs .

This book would be excellent t ouse in a primary classroom unit onfeelings as well as to use readin gand discussing with children at home .I'm going to buy this copy, but wil lorder more for you !


Militarism

White Train from Hell :Tracking the Nuclear Network

by Pat MannixWe stood on the shoulder of th e

road in Amarillo, Texas, eagerl ytaking turns with the two pair ofhigh-powered glasses , trying to un-derstand what we were seeing, ask-ing questions one after another .There were nine of us-two fromRochester, New York, two fro mWheeling, West Virginia, one fromSante Fe, New Mexico, one fromChicago, Illinois, one from Lincoln ,Nebraska, and two (our guides) fro mAmarillo . We were all in Texa sattending the Clergy & Laity Con-cerned (CALC) National Assembly ,What we were seeing was the Pan-tex plant, the final assembly pointfor U .S . nuclear war heads and th ehome of the White Train ,

A grassy strip adjoined the road ;then came the fence, restricting aclear view of the activities withinto only the selected few . To fur-ther mislead the casual passerby ,the land immediately next to th efence was being farmed and th estraight rows of tiny stalks of cor ntried to convince us this was indee da scene of life . However, drivinga short distance down the road webegan to see the weapon storag ebunkers . They were a familiar sightto me as they were almost identica lto ones I had seen at the Senec aArmy Depot . Beyond the bunker ssprawled the plant complex itself ,a modern day dinosaur, daily manu-facturing its products of death anddestruction .

The Pantex Plant is located 1 7miles from downtown Amarillo .Built in, 1942 as an army ammunitio nplant, it was closed in 1945 andturned over to Texas Tech Univer-sity, In 1951, the Atomic EnergyCommission reopened it for the pur-pose of fabricating chemical highexplosives and assembling nuclearweapons . Since 1951, accordin gto Paul Wagner of the Departmentof Energy, " it has been operatin gthe way it is today," The contrac-tor in 1951 was Proctor and Gamble ,but since 1954, the plant has bee noperated by Mason & Hanger-Sila sMason, with corporate offices inLexington, Kentucky and executiveoffices in New York .

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The plant consists of 10,20 0acres, of which approximately 65%is used by Texas Tech for agricul-tural research purposes . It is al-most eighteen miles around th eperimeter . Interestingly, it i sjust about the same size as th eSeneca Army Depot ; which con-tains 11,000 acres, However, du eto the flat land, sparcity of build-ings away from the plant comple xitself and lack of appreciabl eamounts of high vegetation suc has trees, roadside observing i smuch more profitable at Pante xthan it is at Seneca .

It has been estimated that thre ewarheads a day are assembled at

the plant . The lethal dose of plu-tonium is provided by as little a s

0 002 ounce . The minimum critica l

mass of plutonium in a nuclea rwarhead is about ten pounds .That means that each warhead con-tains roughly 80,000 lethal doses

of plutonium . If three warheads aday are assembled here, the n240,000 lethal doses of plutoniu m-twice the population of Amarillo -

are handled in or pass through the

community every working day .Pantex is the largest busines s

employer in Amarillo . It is thelargest contributor to Amarillo' s

United Way . The company pro -vides liberal benefits (includingcancer insurance at reduced rates)

to employees . Economically ,work at Pantex is a "good job" ,For many, especially people of

color and women, it is the only job

available that pays better tha n

miaimt%m wage . But it is not a safe

job witk .acrldents frequent an d

radiat,iot► .n.onitoring almost non-

existent , 1Our main in4er"est on this trip t o

Pantex was not the plant itself, but

rather the presence of a major trans -porter of the genocidal weapons ,

the White Train . And suddenly

through the glasses, there it was -at least there some of it was . Ona track, outside a building identi-fied to us as "the storage building " ,in a high security area, sat seve ncars gleaming pure white in the set-ting Texas sun . We were told thetrain had been loading for two week sand a careful watch was being main-tained so that the alert could besounded once it left the Pantex plan tand headed for its destination .

It was interesting that, as wewatched Pantex and the train, secur-ity people within were watching us .

After we had stopped twice along th eroad, we were joined by two smal lsecurity trucks which came fromwithin the fence and proceeded t odrive past us, back and forth onthe highway, never stopping, neve rspeaking, only watching, safe -guarding the " safeguards . "

Even though it is estimated tha tthe White Train has been transport-ing nuclear warheads out of Pantexfor at least 15 years, it went virtual-ly undetected by peace activists un-til two years ago when it came to th eattention of Jim and Shelly Douglass .Already deeply involved in peac ework, and living on property adjoin-ing the Trident Submarine Base ,they staff Ground Zero Canterfor Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo ,Washington, Located right outsid ea gate to the Trident base, the Cen-

ter has been in existence since1977 . Here, they are engaged in"an experiment in the truth an dart of non-violence, " 2 Since learn-ing about the train from a reporte r

in December 1982, the Douglass e shave formed - and are the moving

force behind - the Agape Commun-ity; art' extended, non-violentcommunity of people living alongtrain tracks all over the countryand dedicated to the stopping ofthe White Train through non -violent resistance . Even whereno sightings have ever been con-firmed, in places like Cleveland ,Ohio, the Agape Community ha sspread, with people committed t othe belief that a spiritual forc eis capable of both changing indivi-duals and stopping the arms race .As Jim Douglass stated in a recentarticle in People Magazine, "Wewon't stop until the train is usedto take potatoes and fruit cross -country, and Trident subs are usedFor fishing and underwater tours "

The train itself is a sight onc eseen never to be forgotten . Theweapon-carrying cars are "pure "white, lower than average boxcars, each marked with the lettersATMX, followed by a number .These were the only cars we saw.The security cars contain turret swith armored flaps on the sides .These cars contain Department o fEnergy "couriers " armed withmachine guns, rifles and hand

grenades and trained to shoot any-one who threatens the train . Thereusually are between 8 to 13 wea-pons cars, three security cars andtwo engines . It is estimated thaton each trip, it carries between100 and 200 nuclear weapons .Since the Agape community hasbeen watching the train it has al -ways attempted to "sneak out oftown" in the dark of the night ,

leaving once as late as 2 :30 a .m.So vigilance is the watchword .

The movement of the train con-tinues to be very mysterious . Sofar the seven trips observed sinceDecember, 1982 have all gone toeither the Trident Submarine Baseoutside Bangor, Washington (fivetrips) or the Charleston Nava lWeapons Station in South Carolina(two trips) . But in years pastit has been spotted in two loca-tions in California - the SierraArmy Depot (the comparable WestCoast facility to the East Coas tSeneca Army Depot) and the Con -cord Naval Weapons Station . Thequestion now before the peac ecommunity is "where else does th eWhite Train travel?" Members ofthe Agape Community are eager to

Militarismestablish groups in New York Stateand determine if the train make sdeliveries to the Seneca Army De -pot .

Five years before his martyrdom ,Franz Jagerstatters, an Austria npeasant who refused to fight i nHitler's war because he believe dto be Nazi was anti-Christian ,had a dream which he wrote about ."At first I lay awake in my bed un-til almost midnight, unable tosleep, although I was not sick, Imust have fallen asleep anyway .All of a sudden I saw a beautifulshining railroad train that circle daround a mountain . Streams o fchildren and adults as wellrushed toward the train and coul dnot be held back . . . Then I hearda voice say to me : 'This train i sgoing to hell ."'3 Upon seeing th eWhite Train, all of us in the ca rthat day were convinced this trai nwas carrying hell to all of us .

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1 Pantex facts obtained from CALCReport, Steven Schroeder, May/June 1982 .

2 Jim Douglass . Living at GroundZero

3 Quote from "Tracking the Whit eTrain", Jim Douglass, Sojourners,Feb. 1984 .

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1984 Elections

Central America After November?The Reagan/Wortley Pla n

We have all heard the proclama-tions from the current government that"No U.S . combat troops will be use din Central America ." Most of us want

to believe that, but we must remembersimilar unkept promises of our past .Viet Nam is only one example of th epattern of foreign military interven-tion that has characterized U .S .histpry. The facts clearly show thecurrent administration is planning amassive military escalation if Reaga nis re-elected . Already the U .S .advisors are directing the war in E lSalvador, and the CIA is creating awar in Nicaragua . The DefenseDepartment is setting up an illega lmilitary base in Honduras, which in-cludes a feild hospital with over 300 0beds, The The U .S . Air Force i sproviding air support and the Co ngress continues to send millions i nmilitary aid . The War is on . Over100,000 Central Americans have die din the current struggle to free them -selves from U .S . backed militarydictatorships, and the next step ca nonly bring a flow of body bags int othis country as well .

Amazingly, some in our governmen tfeel so secure they do not even pre -tend to oppose a greater U .S . militaryrole in the region . On May 23rd theHouse voted to limit the role of U .S .troops in the region to that of pro-tecting U .S . civilians, The measurepassed 341 to 64 . Our Representative ,George Wortley, was one of the few toopposed this safety measure . Even asymbolic measure designed to preventunneeded America n dead met with hi sdisapproval .

Earlier in 1984, it becamepublic that U .S . forces directly par-ticipated in the mining of Nicaragua n

harbors . This was an act of War I I na House vote again Rep . Wortle y

refused to join the majority in con-demning the illegal act . When con-fronted on the issue he responde d"They were very little mines . "

Since 1980 the U .S, governmenthas provided over one billion dollar sto the government of El Salvador, agovernment that has by the record o f

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its own Catholich Church been res-ponsible for the death of over 40,00 0unarmed civilians in the past 4 years .Rep, Wortley has backed every dollarsent u^~ opposed all sincere ettoi . sto tie aid to , .aman rights . The mone ysent is responsible for the prolongedCivil War and the deaths o fthousands of people

Ignorance is Not BlissWortley's stance on Centra l

America comes from an almost tota lignorance of the history and peoplethere . Only someone so misinforme dcould have told a group of concerne dcitizens in 1984 that "Somoza was th e

duelly elected government of Nica-

ragua ." ' Since 1981 the Reagan ad -

ministration, with the active supportof Rep . Wortley, has spent over 7 5million dollars to overthrow the cur -rent Nicaraguan government . Withthis money the CIA has created aprivate army of 10,000 men, most o fwhom were members of Somoza' sbrutal Army before his overthrow .Recent revelations indicate the CIAhas illegally spent millions more .

Yet the war continues with th esupport of Reagan and Wortley .

Administration issued claims con-stantly justify their actions by ref-erring to arms shipments from theNicaraguan government to the rebel sin El Salvador, yet there is littl eproof to back these statements .For three years the administratio nhas deployed the most sophisticate dintelligence equipment in Centra lAmerica . These include troops ,radar, planes and ships ; yet not asingle arms shipment has been un-covered, David MacMichaels ,former top level CIA analyst hasstated that the Reagan administra -tion is lying about the supposedarms flow to provide a justifica-tion for its real aim : the overthrowof the Nicaraguan government .

In four years the Reagan admini-stration has spent almost 2 billio ndollars in Central America and nowwants to spend another 8 billion i nthe next five years . Money to kil lpeople and to support killer govern-ments, while here at home neede dsocial programs are slashed agai nand again . Each week seems to bringa new revelation about increase dAmerican military activity in theregion and with each increase w ecome closer to committing U .S .troops to fight and die in Centra lAmerica . Headlines each day read :"U .S . advisors come under hostile fire,Defense Department fails to inform

Congress . ""CIA directed mining of Nicaraguan

harbors . ""Report indicates the Defense Depart-ment building a permanent illega l

military base in Honduras . ""U.S . manuevers to include 19 ships, .140 warplanes, and over 30,000 troops .

We cannot afford to wait unti lafter the re-election of Reagan an dWortley for the headlines to read :"103 Americans killed as kightingspreads ." For the sake of the futuredead and those already gone, wemust dump these people and theirpolicies.

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And The DemocratsLegeslative opposition to Reagan ' s

war in Central America is spear-headed by such proggresive Democra-tics as Ron Dellums and Ted Weis .However other members of the Demo-crstic party approach Reagan in theiranti-communist rhetoric and in theirsupport for even greater military i ntervention . Mondale has criticizedReagan's militaristic policies and hepromises to stop the covert war inNicaragua . Yet solidarity groups will

need to continue to put pressure o neven a new administration to with -draw its support of the Salvadoran"government" .

Tom Buckel is the Democrat runningagainst Wortley, the following is asummery of his views .1. He opposese the covert wa ragainst Nicaragua and will oppos eefforts tc continue it .2. He agrees that the Reaganadministration deported thousands ofrefugees from Central America whodeserved political asyilum and temp-orary visas . However he does not

favor a law to give all refugees fro mthe region such status but insteadfavors a individual case approach .3. He feels the current administratio nhas not emphasised human rights inthe region and he believes that humanrights and reforms must be tied toany aid program in the region . Hedoes consider the last El Salvadoranelection valid and believes thatDurte is a reformer who was electedpresident and deserves the U .S .' scontinued support .

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1984 ELECTIONS

A Tale of TWO Voters— or how four minutes can affect four yearsBack in 1980, a left-of -center

couple I know had an ongoing debat eover the issue of whom to vote for .Lil supported Carter, Bob support-ed Commoner . For months the debatevent on and after voting the couplediscovered that their discussion shad paid off . Bob had changed hi smind and supported Carter and Lilhad been won over to Commoner .

Every four years a similar debat eoccurs among politically activepeople . While most agree that th eelectoral process in the U .S . leave smuch to be desired ,the debat erages on whether one should voteconscientously for the candidat ewhose platform one most supports ,or should one vote strategically ,realizing that the two-party syste min the U .S . minimizes the effec tof third parties, thus nullifyinga vote for Sonia Johnson? Whileeveryone needs to make this decisio nfor themselves, there is a compro-mise available which helps lesse nthe anxiety involved .

Most people realize that thereare no guarentees in the electorial

process, campaign promises ar eeasily broken under the pressuresof current events and certain con-stituences . There are no guarentee sthat any candidate will follow acertain course . However, theconstituency which elects a certai ncandidate will have a say i ndeciding the policies of that can-didate . Reagan, the candidate o fthe far right and upper class peoplewill more than likely support policie sthey advocate, school prayer ,monetarist economic policies an dincreased defense spending .Mondale, if elected , will have adifferent constituency, unions ,social welfare groups, women an dblacks . While this doesn't guaren-tee his support for their causes ,it is a far cry from what wouldbecome of them under anotherfour years of Reagan . This is

the lesser of two evils arguementwith which we are all familiar:

It is not enough, however, forthis arguement to be swallowedwhole . The underlying reasonswhy we are constantly forced to

make this decision must be worke don,ana what better time thanduring a political season whe nthe attention of the media is focus-ed on politics? It is important forpeople to continue to demonstrat etheir discontent with the presentsystem eve n while working withinit . Long term goals must not besacraficed for the sake of shortterm victories . The present elector-ial system in the U.S . doesn' tallow for successful third part ychallenges, therefore, work to mak ethat alternative viable throug hmaking people aware of the problem .A vote for a third party candidat ewill not be likely to accomplishthis; media attention at demon-strations may have an impact . Don' tshy away from discussing the pro-blems with Mondales platform ;the Democratic party is not theanswer to all the world's woes ,but keep them in context . Whilehaving a Democrat in office maynot create Utopia, reelecting RonaldReagan would be a large step inthe opposite direction .

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Any Cafe regular is bound to have many personal memor-ies associated with the place . In my minds eye I can stillsee friends coming to show off their week-old baby . I seemy old Friday night cooking team accepting- well, actuallyinciting- a round of applause from the diners .

My business, On The Rise Baked Goods, started out ofthe Cafe . Even though getting it going was an uphill road, Tthe memory that comes back most vividly is a happy one- -quiet Friday evenings at the Cafe, friends talking and play-ing games at a table, while I kneaded dough behind th ecounter late into the night .

Over the years, thousands of hours of volunteer laborhave made the Cafe possible . Many people give of theirtime, not only because the Cafe needs them, but becauseit's fun to be there . Volunteers who are also members o fthe Syracuse Real Food Coop also earn coop work credit fo rtheir hours at the Cafe .

As with any community group, there are struggles .There is never enough money . Right now the Cafe owe sabout $2500 -- half of that to Niagara Mohawk . To put adent in the bills there will be a dance to benefit the Cafe .(see next column for details) As always,helping the Caf ewill be lots of fun!

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Griffiss Outlaws ProtestSeveral dozen SPC activists and supporters went to

Rome, NY for the annual Griffiss AFB open house Septembe r8th. While most held signs and leafletted outside, 3 or 4

carloads went onto the base with buttons, banners an dleaflets, challenging base policy .

When Carol Baum and Allen Smith donned sandwic h

boards covered with "free peace buttons, " security immedi-ately encircled them and confiscated the buttons as well a sa cassette tape this writer was recording during the con-frontation. Bill Griffen raised the freedom of speech issu eand related Judge Conan's decision last year that politica lstatements cannot be forbidden at an open house on federa lproperty . There were no arrests .

While tens of thousands watched fighter squadrons an d

bombers, security people requested copies of the leafletBill was carrying and then confiscated the whole bundle .When 'Carrie Stearns and some Canadian activists unfurle da banner during a bomb-loading exhibition, it was immedi-ately taken down . But an Air Force poster (depicting aSoviet flag on the Capitol rotunda as the feared consequenc eof security leaks) also was removed after SPC members ad-vised security of its political nature .

Outside Mohawk Gate, a row of banners faced trafficall day, and over 1000 leaflets were given to visitors a tanother gate .

SPC will be in contact with base personnel and local

citizens through the year, challenging the ban on politica lstatements and the widespread belief in military power .Join us in disarmament and conversion work at Griffiss !

-Peter Swords

Dennis Banks SurrendersOn Thursday, Sept . 13, 1984, I was present in Rapi d

City, south Dakota, when Dennis Banks surrendered t oSheriff Dwayne Glasgow of Custer County, South Dakota .

Dennis arrived at the airport at approximately 10 :3 0a .m . carrying his 3-year-old daughter, Tokala, in his army .The Sheriff allowed him to speak briefly with the press an dgave him time to greet his friends who traveled to be wit hhim, including Chief Leon Shenandoah of the Onondaga Na -

After the bail hearing, Dennis was placed in Penning -ton County Jail in Rapid City . Attorney Joe Heath and Ivisited him there for about an hour on Thursday afternoon .He was in good spirits and was already making plans fo rhis next court appearance .

He asked me to send his greetings to his supporter sand asked that each of you write to Judge Marshall Young ,Court House, Rapid City, SD, 57701, on his behalf . Out-line positive things Dennis has done for the communit yand ask for leniency in sentencing him .

The pre-sentence hearing will be held on October 8 a t9 :00 a .m . in Rapid City .

Dennis' final word to his friends was, "Full SteamAhead!"

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Heidi Dann, a member of the Gree nParty Parliamentary Speakers Council ,said that seventy percent of the peopl ethere oppose missile deployment . WestGermans see the threat of nuclear war a sprimarily due to the actions and attitudesof the U .S . . Danielle Grundberg, Counc imember of END (Europeans for Nuclear

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Disarmament) pointed out that when the cruise is in place it will make a mock-ery out of arms control as this missile cannot be detected by present verifica-tion systems . Luisa Morgantini, Secretary of the Metal Workers Trade Unio nin Milan and a member of the Women's Peace Camp at Comiso, is involved i narms conversion work at her union . She spoke eloquently of the need to con-vert sections of the American economy to increased reliance on production o fcivilian goods . The three activists will visit cities in six states .

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Anne Montgomery and Christi nSchmidt -- Alderson FCI Box A, Al-derson W . VA . 2491 0

Patrick O'Neill -- unclear wherehe is at this time .

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by Karen Mihaly iIn August, Joni Meyer, Martha

Swann, Maura McNulty and my -self traveled to Nicaragua as

representatives of the Syracus eMADRE and Cultural Workers Pro-

jects . We spent a week on a tou remphasizing education and thenfor two weeks we were on our own .It was such a privilege! Thank s

to all who sent us off with fin-ancial and emotional support .Everyone is invited to a dessertpotluck on Sunday, Oct . 14th ,to see our slides and here moreof our stories . 7 :00 at the_

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We arrive in Managua, the sun just was setting, dar kclouds swirl over the airport . Inside, it's hot andstuffy . Sweat pour off me . We wait and wait as the ysearch through every inch of our bags . Through thedarkness, we are whisked into our air-conditionedwell-lit tourista bus . I feel so visible as we driveup to the Intercontinental Hotel, one of the two tall-est buildings

The other is the Bank of America .Much of the city was destroyed in the '72 earthquak eand Somoza bombed the rest before he left . Ther eare many tour groups and reporters here, the clickingof typewriters echos in the hall, Also lots ofwealthy and jet-set Nicaraguans partying, using thepool . Other Nicaraguans wait on us, clean our rooms ,carry our baggage . I don't want them to wait on me !And so much food . How ironic! and to think that Kat ywas worried that all we'd eat would be rice and beans . . .

The week was filled with a variety of meetings,visit sand information . We also took a two-day trip to Esteli ,a city in the north :The story of the Nicaraguans unfold and my heart is

opening . We walk around the muddy streets earl ythis morning . The people and children are friendly

and welcoming . Women and children carry - on theirheads - bowls of corn to be ground and dough to bebaked . Much of the city was destroyed during theinsurrection and most has been rebuilt . The citizens

of Esteli are known for fierce and stubborn resistanceof Somoza . Esteli is still at war . . .you can see it in thein the faces, sadness, anger, determination . Most

families have lost someone and are still counting thedead .

"What it looks like to you is that everything is goin gon in a day-to-day fashion . But what is really happeningis that women are preparing their chilldren for warn, " amember of the Christian-based community tells us . I am

moved by the deep connections between the grassroot sspiritual movement and the revolution and angered by adeep and ever-widening split between the Catholichierarcy and these radical people . "When there is death ,the men at the top of the church don't die," a pries ttold us . Then he challenged : "Being a pacifist thesedays in Nicaragua is not defending the gift of God . Howwould you react if it were you? "

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We visited schools, talked to educators, officials 'andclergy . We played with kids and had a tense dialogue withthe U .S . counsel general . We had a warm meeting withMary Hartman, a nun living in Nicaragua for 20 years wh oworks with prisons and the Human Rights Commission . Welooked into a steaming volcano! We did much more withthe tour . It was the two weeks spent on our own, how -

ever, that were the real heart and guts of the trip . It wasnot an easy transition :

Our first and only dismal day found us in a hospedaj eowned by a family who didn't like the Sandinistas an d

talked about Miami as a kind of heaven . We four were ina tiny room with a communal shower, gigantic cockroache sand lumpy beds .

Welcome to the Third World . . .simple living, poverty ,

flies everywhere . People staring as we go out to eat .

It does feel hostile in this place . . .and how can the y

not absolutely hate us? And yet, soon, during this ra-ther dubious meal, Josephina, 8 years old, shyly inches

her way to our table, big doe eyes friendly and open .

We converse, learning Spanish words, laughing . I ask

her about the Revolution she launches into it with abarrage of words and gestures . . .face tense, smiling ,

miming, she tells how they didn't have milk and howher uncle is in the hospital . The North America n

wages war, gives pain . She shows how her heart wa ssomehow hurt . Soon her family joins us . Then others .

People send gifts to the to b1e . We talk and talk .We are welcomed !

From that moment on we were welcomed, everywher ewith open arms . We rode the buses, hitchhiked ; andwalked our way around the country .

AMLAE, the national women's organization,generouslytook us around for two days .It was through these wome nthat we had our first meeting with the Mothers of Heroe sand Martyrs, the group to whom we later gave ou rquilt/banner, a gift from Syracuse women . The mothershave all lost children in the war . I sobbed and sobbed ;

as a woman took me into her arms :"Tell the mothers not to send their children here to

fight so they won't have to suffer like we have,"she said .

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Central America"Please know that we understand that it is not the Ameri-can people that are responsible for this . It is the America ngovernment . "

We were to hear this over and over again .Our experiences were rich and varied--from attendin g

Bible reflection meetings run by the Marynoll nuns inFundesi to riding on a flatbed truck with campesinos to abeach in Pocomile . We often shared the quilt and gav epeople posters and calendars, gifts from the Cultura lWorkers Project . And everyone talked politics . . .people onthe streets, children on the top of a muddy mountain, bu sdrivers . . .and not everyone agreed . There was dissensio nand dialogue . A taxi-driver said, "Reagan es el president eNumero Uno!" Martha talked to a young man who said h ewould leave the country if drafted and La Prensa newspape rdaily attacks the government . Yet, the majority of peopl ewe spoke to were strong and ardent supporters of the San-dinistas . And why wouldn't they be? The Somoza dictator -ship lasted nearly half a century . 50,000 people werekilled in that last seven weeks of the conflict . Most wer ein abject poverty before . Now they are not . Between 198 1and 1984, land reform benefited 30,963 families by providingthem access to land . This represents 41% of families whopreviously lacked sufficient land . We asked a man on aco-op farm near Esteli about the revolution . What did i tmean to him? He grinned, pointed to his bare, protrudin gbelly : "Now we have food!" People of the upper classe scomplain of not having luxury items, but the majority of th epeople are not hungry anymore . There is milk and rice andbeans and enough food to feed everyone, despite constan tattacks and trade embargoes engineered by the U .S .

In education, the illiteracy rate decreased from 60% t o13% and the number of students enrolled in secondary educa- start all over ." It will continue .tion rose by 53% in 1982 . There were no beggars for the usual

I am infused with the determinatio nfood, money or clothes . Instead, children everywhere asked the people I met .us for pencils, paper or pens .

People are hungry to read

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There is a level of popular democracy that is difficult

flooded with faces, shy smiles, laughing brown eyes .

for us to imagine . A voter registration campaign enlisted

. . .oh, these good, good people, so pleased with their

96% of the people . They are proud of this! I have no

revolution and process . Oh los Winos .

doubt that the Sandinistas will be elected in their Novemberhave a right to continue ?

election because Nicaragua is a country of organization s

facilitating the participation of every individual . There are

cultural groups, sewing, literacy and rehab organizations ,unions, political parties, cooperatives, block organization s

. . .on every level people are carefully creating their ow n

society .Everything the Sandinistas have tried to accomplish i n

the last five years has been restricted or in some wayhampered by the U .S . aggression . The United States ha slaunched press campaigns to distort the situation, release d"White Papers" about the alleged aid to El Salvador, in-voked financial and economic pressure to provoke economi cstandstill and used the CIA and other tactics in an attemp tto separate the people from the government and to creat edissension within the church . And the U .S . governmenthas, of course, supported the Contras .

"There was no waruntil the U .S . gave $19 million to the Contras, " said MaryHartman .

With such intense aggression and sabotage on everyfront, the Sandinistas face an enormous task . Yet theycontinue to maintain a position of non-alignment, t ocreate a mixed economy (70% of the land and businesse sare privately owned) and to pay back a huge nationa ldebt incurred under Somoza -- something not often done

in revolutionary developing countries .At this moment, their lives depend on Reagan military

logic, a logic that is dangerously heading toward direc tintervention . At this point, the U .S . is waiting for an yexcuse to march in . If Reagan is re-elected, he'll havefour more years to implement this policy .

Early morning, on the beach in Pochomile, the sun barel yup . Cane cutters walk along the water to work, swin gtheir machetes waving to me . A woman gathers shells .The surf is gentle, rolling, the moon above . Allnight I sleep fitfully, I think because I am awar eof the militia keeping watch . I start up once andsee a number of people with guns nearby, stark andsmall in the moonlight . I look out to see the horizonon this crystal blue morning . Can I see this giganti cU.S. warship with 80 planes? I remember Margaritasaying, "If 80 planes bomb us, we will be reduce dto ashes ." Nicaragua i .3 a small, small country !

I keep thinking of bombs dropping here . Wherewould people go? Where would I go? And my young -est brother . Will he be sent here to die? to kill my

friends?

I read in the New York Times of a book about BlackVietnam Veterans . One told of his growing political aware-ness, confusion and then refusal to kill an old man sit-ting in a doorway when ordered to do so by his commander .I think of the old people sitting in the doorways all acros sNicaragua . Surely, if the U .S . invades, poor people andpeople of color will be on the front killing the poor an dpeople of color . WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN .

But I do not return without hope . "What has starte dhere will never stop," Sr . Hartman told us . "It has bee na war of the poor . They understand that the process wil l

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The contras are being supported with more money thanthe total GNP of the country they are trying to reposess .They have wreaked havoc on the economy, devastate dborder towns and killed almost 2,000 people . Yet, they arenot winning !

The people are behind this unique revolution and the ywill fight, hard and long . As Sandino said, 40 years ag owhen the United States first invaded the shores of Nica-ragua ,

"They will leave our land without knowing themselves howto explain why they were defeated . . ." I1

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Pageants of ChangeHere they come, here they come !

I remember as a child seeing m yfirst parade . The anticipation,watching it pass, hearing it go offinto the distance as the next sec-tion came into view .

This first parade was on July 4th ,and of course was laden with sym-bols of militarism.

In recent years I have been ex-perimenting with parades and pag-eants as acts of social change . Inmythology and stories from aroundthe world the voyage/travel/ques tis a vehicle in the search for ans-wers/growth/ courage . Paradesand pageants have that sense ofvoyage: the parade passes by, th epageant travels to the audience .They can tell stories and are muc hlike watching a history unfold i nfront of the viewer .

This spring I designed a paradefor the Visions of Peace Festival .The parade told a symbolic, arch -typal story in three parts : Searc hfor the Future, Lost Hope, Plantingthe Seed of the Future . The paradewas a colorful event with 170 joy-ful people parading, and a goo daudience .

Working in Vermont this summe rwith the Bread and Puppet Theatrewere artist from Nicaragua, Guat-emala, and Puerto Rico . Togetherwe created a pageant on the strug -gles in Latin America and the lifeof Archbishop Romero . According topolice estimates over 20, 000 peopleattended the pageant in rural Vermont .

In Syracuse, we have just start-ed working on a winter pageant .Using huge puppets, masks andmusic we are creating a Christma sstory of beauty and political strength .We have room for about 50 peopleto help create and/or be a part of


on helping in this celebration, cal lGeoff Navias of the Open HandTheatre at 472-1777 or 474-4836 .

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the third World . Their goal is t oeducate Canadians of the conditionsin the Third World, and returnprofits in the form of developmen t

grants . They chose Nicaragua be-cause of its commitment to helpin gthe poor as evidenced by their nat-ional literacy campaign, the elim-ination of polio for the first time i nfifty years, reduction of the infant

mortality rate from 120 to 80 perthousand.

The local regional distributorfor the coffee project is FOCU S(Friends Of Central America Unite d

in Support .) The. last week of July ,FOCUS sent 1,300 syringes, fivedozen packages of sutures, surgica l

gloves and dressings to the Cente r

for Multiple Services, an organiz-ation which administers 45 rura lhealth care clinics in Nicaragua .FOCUS is also in contact wit h

Sister Barbara Ginter, who ha sworked in Leon, Nicaragua, with

the needs of students in a pre-school there . These materials wil lbe brought there with a Witness fo rPeace Delegation that is leavingSyracuse on November 1, to witnes sat the border between Nicaragu aand Honduras .

For more information on buyin gcoffee, write to Peter Wirth, 70 2So . Beech St ., Syracuse NY 13210or call (315) 476-3396 . Please senda stamped self-addressed envelope .

JAG Jilted

At Rutgers University, sixty lawstudents protested when the Judg eAdvocate General (JAG) interviewe dprospective employees on Nov . 2nd,1983 . The Rutgers Student Bar Asso-ciation had voted that the law schoo lshould uphold the rights of all indiv-iduals by denying access to any em-ployer that discriminates on the bas -is of race, sex or sexual preference .The army refuses to give equal opp-ortunity to homosexuals despitecontinuing protest . A similar motio nhad been passed by the faculty a tRutgers ; however, the Dean stil lallowed the JAG recruiter, sayin g"I don't think the law school is fre eto make policy on its own . The onlyway is to persuade the Board of Gov-ernors . . . " The Board subsequentl ydecided to admit the recruiters .

Law student Bill Sullivan said a tthe demonstration, "In my mind it' sa narrow issue . We have a schoo lpolicy which permits people to dis-criminate only if they have a narrow ,job - related criteria, and the Arm yhas not met any of the criteria . "

Across the Deleware, law studentsat Temple University and the Univ-ersity of Pennsylvania have bee nwaging the same struggle agains tJAG recruiters using different tac-tics .

A Philadelphia city ordinance for -bids employment agencies from as-sisting employers who discriminate .Students have filed formal complaint swith the Philadelphia Human Rela-tions Commission charging that lawstudents have been refused employ-ment by JAG because of their sexua lpreference . They are charging thatthe universities involved are viola-ting the city law by assisting theArmy recruiter.

The Army has more than 1, 80 0lawyers, an average of one lawyerfor every 430 soldiers . PresidentRonald Reagan's Justice Departmen tis expected to enter the legal fra yin support of the Army . A decisio nby the Philadelphia Human Relation sCommission is not expected unti l

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End of the Long March 1936

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