@DROP CAP = AS OF THIS ISSUE THERE ARE TWO MAJOR 
CHANGES IN TWO OF THE AUTONOMOUS SECTIONS, THE ABC 
AND OGB PAGES. THIS IS THE LAST TIME THE ABC page will be 
done by NY ABC, which for all intents and purposes no longer exists.  
When we were approached , at the inception of the paper to write a 
prisoner support section there were 5 of us who were to work on the 
project.  For more than a year now I have been doing it by myself.  It's 
impossible for me to continue.  The production group will be including 
prisoner news in the paper, and I trust that they will do a good job with 
it.  In a few months I hope to be able to contribute to what ever they have 
going.  
Thanks to everyone who wrote, especially the prisoners  who took the 
time to contribute to the ABC page and the paper.  Input from prisoners, 
like Larry Giddings, and their supporters made the project more than just 
a sterile news sheet.  Also, thanks to everyone who responded to our 
requests for letters and calls on behalf of individual prisoners.
The second change is definitely one for the worst.  The On Gogol 
Boulevard section, edited by Neither East Nor West is gone.  The OGB 
page , which carried news and networking info, focused on the Ex-
Eastern block but also printed news on US political prisoners, Green 
movements in Cuba, etc.  OGB has always offered itself as a networking 
tool to Easterners and has run many documents and letters on their 
behalf.
The decision to discontinue the OGB section was reached by consensus 
at the recent Love and Rage Network conference in Atlanta. The feeling, 
as I understand it, was that the focus needed to broaden, from primarily 
Eastern news to more of a world view.  I agree that the paper should 
carry more global news.  But then why not have both?  If space is an 
issue, why not rotate sections?
The loss of OGB as an autonomous section of the paper is serious.
This is a big loss to the Easterners who used the page for out-reach; they 
were not given any notice as to the discontinuance of the section.  It's 
also a loss to the prisoner support groups who used the information , and 
the folks who put together the demo, strikes, and campaigns that got 
coverage on the page.
@BULLET = Neither East Nor West has a years-long history of prisoner 
support.
@BULLET = They organized demos at the Polish embassy in support of 
draft resisters.
@BULLET = They helped free anti-war activist & Moscow Trust Group 
member Nina Kovalenko from a Soviet mental hospital.
@BULLET = They campaigned for the release of Soviet prisoner Sergei 
Troyanski and US prisoner Rainbow Hawk, both arrested on fraudulent 
drug charges in politicized trials involving their Rainbow 
affiliations/Peace activism.
@BULLET = When several East German left-oppositionists, including 
Wolfgang Templin, were arrested, they immediately picketed the East 
German Embassy, in conjunction with protests in Europe, culminating in 
their release.

 Neither East Nor West is one of the few anarchist groups who have been 
around for years, consistently getting results through their actions.  They 
had access to info no one else had, and to groups no one else had contact 
with.  Their contribution to the paper was important.
The OGB folks will be contributing info to the paper in the future, but 
will no longer have autonomy, or editorial control.  They can't offer their 
contacts the use of the page space.
The cancellation of the OGB page was a mistake  I hope it returns.

[Note:  This article appeared on the ABC Page, which has been 
autonomously produced by ABC - New York.  ]

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