From jdav@noc.orgFri Sep 1 11:59:16 1995 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 16:43 GMT From: Jim Davis To: pt.dist@noc.org Subject: People's Tribune 9-4-95 (Online Edition) ****************************************************************** People's Tribune (Online Edition) Vol. 22 No. 28 / September 4, 1995 P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, IL 60654 Email: pt@noc.org ****************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------+ THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE AND THE LEAGUE ONLINE If you have access to the electronic mail, you can receive the People's Tribune electronically. Electronic subscriptions are available at no charge. Readers of the electronic PT have taken the lead in sending out articles of the paper to other electronic mailing lists, news groups and bulletin boards on the Internet, providing the members of the new class a voice in this emerging medium. To subscribe to the electronic PT, send a subscription request via electronic mail to: pt.dist-request@noc.org The League of Revolutionaries for a New America also has a home page on the World-Wide Web. From this page, you see the current issue of the PT, access back issues of the PT and Rally, Comrades!, and download the major documents of the League, including the program, political report and bylaws. The page is under construction, so if you have any ideas, send them to league@noc.org. The page also includes links to resources on the Internet for revolutionaries -- if you would like the League to link to your page, let us know. The web page is located at: http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html +----------------------------------------------------------------+ INDEX to the PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE (Online Edition) Vol. 22 No. 28 / September 4, 1995 Page One 1. POLICE TERROR MUST GO! Columns Spirit of the Revolution 2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENTECOSTAL SOCIALIST The Future is in Our Hands 3. WE CAN HAVE RATIONAL HEALTH CARE -- IF WE REORGANIZE SOCIETY! What Society Could Be 4. THIS COUNTRY COULD HAVE DEPENDABLE RAPID TRANSIT News and Features 5. CRY OUT AGAINST GOVERNMENT ABUSE! 6. WORKERS LAMPOON STALEY, ADM AS 'HOGS AT THE TROUGH' 7. YOUNG PEOPLE ORGANIZE AND FIGHT BACK 8. TESTIMONY AT THE S.F. COMMUNITY SPEAK-OUT 9. SOCIETY HAS A DUTY TO PROTECT ITS CHILDREN 10. THE WAR IS ON! 11. CHICANO MORATORIUM 1970 - 1995: TODAY THE WAR IS AT HOME! Labor Day 1995 12. HISTORIC CHALLENGE IN AFL-CIO ELECTIONS 13. MAJOR UNIONS MERGE Focus on Hiroshima 14. THE DEBATE ABOUT HIROSHIMA 15. HIROSHIMA AND THE BLACK SOLDIER 16. CHICAGO RECALLS ATOMIC BOMBING AND VOWS: 'NEVER AGAIN' Deadly Force 17. SPEAK OUT AGAINST MURDER BY CHICAGO COP 18. HOMELESS FACE DEATH ON THE STREETS OF CHICAGO: FAMILY, FRIENDS REMEMBER SLAIN JOSEPH C. GOULD Letters 19. WHAT IS THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARIES FOR A NEW AMERICA? Announcements, Events, etc. 20. NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARIES FOR A NEW AMERICA 21. ABOUT THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE ****************************************************************** 1. PAGE 1: POLICE TERROR MUST GO! The police in America consider themselves above the law. Mark Fuhrman is not ashamed to let you know that. Fuhrman is the now-retired Los Angeles detective who has testified in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Fuhrman has been alleged to be a violent, evidence-planting, lawbreaking racist. He has been alleged to be hostile to interracial couples such as the Simpsons. In the trial, Fuhrman denied the allegations. However, it has come out that Fuhrman's views have been recorded on tapes of conversations with a screenwriter, Laura Hart McKinny. In his own words, he showed himself to be a violent, evidence-planting, lawbreaking racist cop. On one tape, Fuhrman bragged that he was the target of an investigation into the torture of suspects. Fuhrman also bragged of planting evidence, framing black suspects and perjuring himself in court. He said he used to practice karate kicks on African Americans. On these tapes, Fuhrman is not just speaking for himself, but for all police officers. He is telling us to our faces that "We cops are above the law," and that they can do whatever they want to us, including kill. Fuhrman's words should serve as a warning to the millions of us who make up the new class of poor people in this country. It's time to build a mass movement to turn back the fascism that Fuhrman and the police represent. There is a way that you can help: Join the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and help distribute the People's Tribune far and wide! For information on how to join the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, see story 20. ****************************************************************** 2. SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENTECOSTAL SOCIALIST [Editor's note: Below we print the latest contribution to our regular column about spirituality and revolution. We encourage readers to submit articles to this column. We would also appreciate any comments readers may have on the articles which appear here.] I was raised in the home of a Pentecostal preacher, who was the son of a Pentecostal preacher, and the grandson of a Pentecostal deacon. I am fourth-generation Pentecostal; not many can make that claim. My family is a piously religious bunch with a frontier mentality. By that I mean the Wild, Wild West. Perhaps you've noticed my last name is Earp. Wyatt, I am told, is a great-great- great-grand-uncle. I've yet to be able to verify the genealogy. Pentecostals are "holy rollers." Our Christianity is a wild, ecstatic pressure cooker of repressed anger and unsatisfied longings. Marx once described religion as the "sigh of the oppressed creature." Nowhere is this more true than in the churches I grew up in. We rant and rave about the evils of this old sinful world and how it beats us up and treats us mean and only Jesus loves us as we speak in tongues and pray for each other's healing. I was born in March 1963 in Abilene, Texas. A lot of stuff was going on back then. Vatican II was redesigning the worldwide Catholic Church and setting the stage for its shift to the left via liberation theology and the retrograde actions of Pope John Paul II. The nation was planning to conquer space and Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Washington telling the world about a "dream!" In November, JFK was shot. I was about 6 years old when I told my daddy that I was gonna grow up and become president and make everybody stop fighting in wars. My first political consciousness was pacifist. My father, a Humphrey Democrat, took it so hard that he harassed my tiny little mind until my head spun and I never again mentioned my hope that I could help the world become peaceful. What makes a grown man destroy a kid's dream? Of course, he later gave it back to me in a really bizarre fashion. Around 1972, my dad was pastoring an Assembly of God church in a tiny Illinois town of around 3,000 humans. There was a state university nearby and hippies began to flood into our town as the culture started to disintegrate into that mad era known as the '70s. I was blissfully unaware of some of this, but my dad tried an inventive tack in dealing with the hippie problem. He invited some "Jesus Freaks" from California to perform a series of gospel rock 'n' roll concerts in the little park near where the hippies had set up their "crash pad." Over half the town came to hear this music and look at all the buzz. I remember this as a semi-utopia where me and Jesus and the freaks would talk about love and communes and God. My sublimated pacifism had found a real-world expression. Jesus as a radical counterculture icon was, and still is, my religion of choice. Since there aren't many churches that explicitly nourish that vision, least of all my father's, I had to do it in secret. Even today, most people don't "get it." As an early version of Generation X confusion, I can understand why so many who came after me are cynical. Only prayer and psychedelic ecstasy keep me feeling alive. I don't do drugs because I don't need them to reach altered consciousness. My Pentecostal background taught me other ways of "tripping out." I graduated from high school in 1981. My family was flat broke, a casualty of the '70s recession. Ronald Reagan cut off college grants and most of my friends had to go into deep debt to get through college. I tried and failed to get a degree in music. I was going to become a rock star for Jesus! I met my wife, a third- generation Pentecostal, and we married in 1983. We decided that since we couldn't afford college, we would join a Christian commune. We settled on one in 1986 called Reba Place Fellowship in Evanston, Illinois, where I live today. It was then that my childlike enthusiasm for Jesus Freak radicalism once again met the harsh realities of Reaganomics. I was mercilessly laid off from one job after another, even tried to finish my degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My major was no longer music but philosophy. I studied feminism and Marxism under an existentialist named Sandra Bartky. I did OK in philosophy, but found that my real academic prowess was in the analysis of social systems and thus switched to political science. There, my professor was a psychoanalytic neo-Hegelian anarchist named Isaac Balbus. By this time, my mind was becoming absorbed with the vision of social change that had come out of the '60s counterculture. Part socialist, anarchist, feminist, anti-racist, and slightly spiritual, this was more supple, politically speaking, than the "pure" Christian utopia that had been conjured in my childhood experiences. I probably shouldn't mention that I also suffered an emotional breakdown composed of post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression. Prozac and faith healing cured the depression. I'm still working on the PTSD. I dropped out of college for the second time, tried to become a researcher, and was laid off yet again. Now at the "wise old age" of 32, I am trying to hold on to the slim possibility that the madness that is destroying this world won't lead to Armageddon, at least not yet. I have a beautiful 9-year-old ecofeminist daughter and a 6-year-old clownish boy that I want to live in a happier time than I have known. Call me a dreamer, but I still believe that God loves human beings and that my visions about world peace can become real. So where am I going from here? Only the Universal Being and the Cosmic Jesus know for sure! Peace, RainbowFlames, StarGlow, and coolmoonbeams whisper their waves of subliminal magnetism into your fluid braincasings. Check ya' later! [Charley Earp is a writer living in the Evanston/Rogers Park area of Chicagoland. Please let him know directly if you wish to use this article in another publication, as he is retaining copyright for his own future use. He can be reached on the Internet by sending e-mail to visionry@interaccess.com] ©1995 By Charles Earp ****************************************************************** 3. WE CAN HAVE RATIONAL HEALTH CARE -- IF WE REORGANIZE SOCIETY! By Bruce E. Parry, Ph.D. It is technically possible to have free, quality health care for everyone today. The following things could be done right now with the proper societal organization. The reason they cannot be done is because they hit at the basic economic interests of insurance companies, hospitals, hospital supply companies, drug companies, corporate doctors, politicians and other special interests. Therefore, we need organized political power to force things to be organized in a rational way -- a way that meets the needs of the majority of society. The health care system could be run like the public school system is supposed to be run now. It could be free and open to all. Everyone could have a primary family or individual doctor they would go and see on a regular basis. Specialists, labs and clinics would be available for treatment prescribed by the physicians. If it were a public facility, the personnel -- from doctors down to staff -- would not be dependent on seeing lots of patients in as short a time as possible. They could actually take the time that is necessary to ensure that each person was treated properly. Similarly, since tests would not be cutting into insurance company profits, the tests that were needed -- rather than those dictated by some bureaucrat -- could be performed. And since two minds are better than one, readily available second opinions would mean doctors wouldn't have to run every test they can think of -- only those necessary. Instead of regular checkups and other preventative measures being seen as costs, a rational system would see them as cost-savers. Even classroom, TV and computer-net educational shows and infomercials could be part of a health-education, cost-cutting program. This kind of education would hit at the root of the economic interests of the alcohol and tobacco industries, the meat and dairy industries, the drug companies, the food processors and others who make money off drugging us, fattening us, thinning us, cholesteralizing us and otherwise abusing us in the name of profits. We -- the poor and working people of this country -- are in lousy health. Instead of blaming ourselves, let's put the blame where it belongs and solve the problem. A rational health-care system would do that. ****************************************************************** 4. WHAT SOCIETY COULD BE: THIS COUNTRY COULD HAVE DEPENDABLE RAPID TRANSIT By The Northeastern Baltimore Chapter of the LRNA BALTIMORE -- Many of us dream of a better life, a better world for our children and their children. We as revolutionaries know that a better life could exist, but it is difficult for us to see the path to get there. Sometimes we may feel defeated in our efforts or daunted by our tasks. This is why our chapter of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America has decided to contribute some articles about what the future could be like if we, the overwhelming majority of people, had control -- instead of the small handful of exploiters who do have control. For instance: What if the roads were not jammed with gasoline-powered, internal- combustion engines? The streets would be quieter. The air would be cleaner. Our money would not have to go to auto payments, repair, insurance and parking each month. We would probably get outside more for exercise, since being "out" would be more enjoyable. There are many things that would change as a result of the decrease in automobile use. The one thing that we would require, however, is a clean, efficient and dependable rapid transit system. The technology exists to have a transit complex in every city. We have the workers to build and manage this. We have city planners who could make sure that the people who have difficulty gaining access to transportation could have easy access. Other possibilities exist. Today, they may look like science fiction, but under a different societal structure, they could be reality -- things like moving sidewalks, monorails, electric or solar-powered vehicles. [Next from the Northeastern Baltimore Chapter of the LRNA: What if energy was free and ecology-friendly?] ****************************************************************** 5. CRY OUT AGAINST GOVERNMENT ABUSE! By Jan Lightfoot HINCKLEY, Maine -- Those who apply the law illegally rewrite the law, resulting in the invalidation of the actual law. Misapplication of the law brings misery and the loss of the "right to travel" to those who lack funds. In 1969, the courts ruled that the poor had a constitutional right to travel. A 17-year-old mother returned from Massachusetts to Connecticut to be close to her own mother. She was disqualified from receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children for a year because she traveled. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that in a free America, all people have a right to travel without being penalized. This ruling removed residency requirements throughout this country. It influenced many areas of life including voting, health care and employment. To save money, Maine lawmakers passed a law making people who quit work without a good reason ineligible for General Assistance for six months. Today, the back-door denial of the right to travel follows this format: A married couple moves back to Maine. They are denied both AFDC and Town Assistance -- not because they traveled, but because they "quit a job." At first, even a mother who relocated to escape emotional and physical abuse was denied assistance. (She stood her ground and eventually received a month's help.) This is the back-door approach to the continued eradication of the constitutional rights of the poor. It is illegal and immoral. Those of us who are financially poor can no longer quietly accept the loss of any of our rights. We need to join forces and speak out, telling our stories in our local letters to the editor. [For more information, write to Jan Lightfoot at P.O. Box 62, Hinckley, Maine 04944 or call 1-207-453-2986.] ****************************************************************** 6. WORKERS LAMPOON STALEY, ADM AS 'HOGS AT THE TROUGH' Special to the People's Tribune DECATUR, Illinois -- Workers carrying a truckload of pigs decked out to represent A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. and Archer Daniels Midland, Inc. (ADM) appeared at both companies' headquarters here August 15. The workers, members of United Paperworkers (UPIU) Local 7837, were there to protest a range of subsidies both companies receive from the federal government, the state of Illinois and the city of Decatur. "We are here to demonstrate what hogs both Staley and ADM have been," said demonstrator Art Dhermy as the contended porkers grunted softly in the background. "Both these companies are feeding at the public trough and gobbling up goodies just as fast as they can get them in their little piggy snouts." He noted that both ADM and Staley are under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for possible anti-competitive practices in the corn syrup market. Staley locked out Local 7837's members in June 1993. The company's demands, recently presented to the workers for a vote, include 12-hour rotating shifts, which require rotation from days to nights every six days, the right to contract out every job in the plant, an immediate cut from 760 jobs at the time of the lockout to 349, and an eventual cut to approximately 220 jobs. An investigation led by Dhermy has uncovered the fact that the state had granted Staley a utility tax exemption in December 1992, upon Staley's pledge to retain at least 1,000 jobs in Decatur. Staley, reported in October 1994, employed only 851 people in Decatur and promised, in order to gain a state sales tax exemption, that it would retain 90 percent of that level. Local 7837's parent union, the UPIU, has filed a formal objection to the state utility tax break. "Staley had not preserved the jobs it said it would in order to qualify for this tax break," said Hermy. Dhermy also discovered that Staley has had its local property tax bills substantially reduced. "Between a reduction in 1986 of over 30 percent of the assessed value of the Staley property in Decatur and Staley's participation in an enterprise zone, this company has hidden its property tax bill cut by over $500,000 per year at the same time as Decatur homeowners saw their property taxes go up," he said. ADM also came in for criticism. "[ADM CEO] Dwayne Andreas is notorious for greasing the palms of politicians from both parties and then lapping up the goodies they throw him," said Dhermy. A report, published in Mother Jones magazine in January 1995, cited a $400,000 check delivered to George Bush at a fundraising dinner in April 1992. Andreas' contributions to the Clinton campaign during the same election cycle totaled $270,000. More recently, the magazine noted, Andreas has given over $70,000 to Newt Ginrich's GOPAC. According to this report, ADM benefits from the federal government's corn-price support program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sugar program, and the 54 cents per gallon tax credit the government gives to the manufacturers of ethanol for automobile fuel. ADM has approximately 60 percent of all U.S. ethanol capacity. Mother Jones estimates the value to ADM of this subsidy as $2.1 billion. "Staley and ADM begin by buying the corn at subsidized prices. Then they use the subsidized corn to make corn sweeteners, which are subsidized by the sugar program. Then they use the rest of the corn to collect the big subsidy for making ethanol. So goes life in hog heaven," said Dhermy. ****************************************************************** 7. YOUNG PEOPLE ORGANIZE AND FIGHT BACK By Sarah Menefee SAN FRANCISCO -- They're at it again, the Frank Jordans and the Pete Wilsons, with their attacks, their scapegoating and their attempts to divide. And they're creating a new movement of the youth. These young fighters are taking on the exploitive and unjust system that's trying to blame them for its own failures -- from curfew laws to the attack on affirmative action. They are high school students organizing to stop Mayor Jordan's propose curfew law (for 17-year olds and under), a sort of Matrix Jr., which would be used selectively to harass and arrest the youth of the poor, African-American and Latino neighborhoods. Which would drive another prison-bar into the police state the ruling class is building -- with our money -- for our children. Many testified to this on July 17 at a community speak out sponsored by Poder and attended by 22 organizations and more than 150 people, most of them young. They are college students organizing to defend affirmative action and demanding the right to affordable quality education for all. A thousand strong, they rallied July 20 outside (and within) the meeting of the University of California board of regents, where California Governor Pete Wilson was tightening the political screws, forcing a vote to kill affirmative action in the UC system. Fired up, a new generation of student activists marched through the streets demanding, "Education, not Incarceration!" vowing "No justice, no peace!" These young shapers of tomorrow are on the front lines of a growing, powerful movement that's about making a reality this demand for a social based on equality and the nurturing of everybody's potential and future. ****************************************************************** 8. TESTIMONY AT THE S.F. COMMUNITY SPEAK-OUT Jose Luis Pavon What it really comes down to --if I walk down 24th Street looking like this, no matter what I'm doing, I'm going to get arrested. The money given into the curfew should be given to recreation. A curfew law is something during the Nazi era. I'm not a piece of cattle to be pushed around by the government! Twiggy I think there should be a protest, that we're not going to allow this to happen. We have a right to be out in the streets! Jameel Patterson This curfew thing is like a slavery thing, to me. In the '40s and '50s it was segregation, trying to get people off the street. If you think this is the last thing, it isn't. Slowly they take all our rights. Theo Rodriguez We just defeated the curfew in Oakland. We dealt with politicians over there. We have to prey on their desire to get elected -- they're like car salesmen, they're just a joke. We can't rely on the politicians, let them speak for us -- we have to speak up for ourselves. Raquel, a member of PODER, People Organizing to Demand Environmental Rights I'm 15 years old, and I'm here on behalf of PODER. This curfew is just more of Frank Jordan's scapegoating to get votes and re- election. It will disproportionately affect members of the Mission and other low-income neighborhoods. It will scapegoat youth of color for social problems they didn't create. It will be enforced selectively: Black, Latino and Native American youth stopped and harassed. When I think of the curfew I think of a war going on between the police department and the community. Erick Encinas Rosas of Movimiento por los Derechos por los Imigrantes-Latino The curfew law is going to discriminate against the immigrant community, which is already being attacked on many fronts, including our ability to raise our children. If some kid gets picked up more than once under the curfew law, he can be turned over to the INS and even deported. All the money that would be spent enforcing the curfew needs to be put into programs in our community -- drug rehab, AIDS care, education. This proposed curfew goes along with Pete Wilson's philosophy -- build more prisons instead of schools. Naomi Ortz of Mujeres Activas y Unida I am a working mother of teenagers, and I don't want to delegate my parental responsibilities to the city and the police. I also lived through the curfew and saw that it discriminates. I don't want my children to be singled out. Children are in the streets for economic reasons, because parents are forced to work. It's an economic problem -- the only jobs they can get, if at all, are part-time or minimum-wage jobs with no benefits. Something needs to be done about this. ****************************************************************** 9. SOCIETY HAS A DUTY TO PROTECT ITS CHILDREN By The Editors "No individual is entitled to any assistance." That is flatly written into a Senate "welfare reform" bill drafted by Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas). It is the clearest expression from the ruling class of where the poor stand today under the rule of the rich. That is exactly what welfare reform means to Dole and his kind. Does Dole really mean "no individual"? Of course not. The wealthy and the powerful will continue to get their tax-paid "assistance." Dole, for instance, will get his free health care and his $133,600 annual salary. What he means is the poor mother with kids on AFDC will be denied the $400 a month that barely keeps her children alive. Twenty-three percent of America's children are living in poverty. In many cities, the rate is 50 percent or more. Can these children afford any further cuts? Of course they can't, and Dole, President Clinton, and the others who are calling for cuts know it. They know dead children will be a result. There is only answer to such a position as Dole's and the others. It is: Society has a responsibility and a duty to meet and fulfill the needs of every individual. The point is this government is about to knowingly act to cause the death of thousands of children. Wake up, people, this is first-degree murder! Our kids here desperately need our help against this form of murder from above. Our class of Americans in poverty has a responsibility to fight this cold-blooded bill proposed on behalf of the wealthy before it's too late. If we don't do it, who will? We owe no loyalty to a government or to a class which would starve babies. But to stop it, our class will have to organize. ****************************************************************** 10. THE WAR IS ON! By Barbara A. Bordner ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- So you've sat down and read all the bad news about welfare reform. You've read about how the politicians and their cronies are about to pass one of the most insane welfare bills since its beginning in the 1930s! Well, get a load of this! When the politicians pass such attacks on us, not only do they forget that our ancestors fought for all our rights to a decent job, with livable wages, and safe conditions -- free from "company owned" homes and "company owned" land. They forgot the reason our ancestors rose up in the first place -- out of frustration at being poor! What happens when you're frustrated? You want to do something. You're tired of cleaning up the mess that the rich people left us...telling us that hard times have fallen, and it's up to us to be "responsible" and pay off the debts they created! By cutting off our assistance! And if we don't like it we're no good, we deserve to work as slaves, and we deserve to suffer! And how when that doesn't work, we need "family values." And boy, they are going to give it to us! What the hell are these people trying to do, kill us? Let me tell you something. There are many ways to kill a person, and one of those ways is to keep you feeling down! For example: you heard the news about how the Listening House, a drop-in center for the homeless in St. Paul has to close because Mayor Norm Coleman and the city council don't want tourists to see the poor! They can't find another place to open. That's an attempt by the rich to hide St. Paul's poor! And these rich folks forget that we are a strong people and we have a history of coming together to fight their attacks! And man, that's what we need to do now! Our committee, the Welfare Rights Committee has been doing that, and successfully fended off the worst parts of Minnesota welfare reform bill. But the battle is not over and the war is on! Because we spoke, we made headway this year. That's why the police came and followed our every move at the capitol. That's why they tried to brake up one of our demos. That's why the news depicted us as violent people. That's why we got jail fines of over $1,500. That's all a part of the rich people's tactics. They forget that repression of a peaceful, nonviolent group only adds fuel to the fire! And we are not deterred, we won't be silenced. That's why we exposed all their rotten tricks, but in all honesty, for this repression to be killed and the war to be won, we need you! You are the most important person --your ideas count. They have to count, because if they don't the war is already lost. Won't you please come and learn more about us? ****************************************************************** 11. CHICANO MORATORIUM 1970 - 1995: TODAY THE WAR IS AT HOME! LOS ANGELES--As East Los Angeles prepared to honor the 25th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, police gunned down 14-year- old Jose Antonio Gutierrez plunging Lincoln Heights into a riot. It seems like history is repeating itself, but let's look more closely. The August 29, 1970 Moratorium was planned to protest the high numbers of Raza dying in the Vietnam War, and the growing cases of police abuse. In July, 1970 police had murdered two undocumented cousins, Guillermo and Beltran Sanchez, after breaking into the wrong apartment and blindly opening fire. Sheriff's deputies, on August 29, 1970 attacked the Moratorium rally and provoked East L.A.'s largest uprising. The slogan of the day became: "The war has come home!" Now cops have committed another July killing raising tensions just before another Moratorium march planned for August 26. This may seem like the '70s, but today the only war we're fighting is the one the government has begun right here at home against its own poor. That's why 1992's L.A. Rebellion (after the Rodney King verdicts) spread to 30 American cities, each one full of poverty, homelessness and brutal cops. And that's why whites were arrested alongside blacks and Latinos in places like Long Beach and Hollywood. The 1970 Chicano Moratorium was about the government's plan to make Raza fight against the Vietnamese revolution. America's elite wanted them to stay inside the capitalist system, and thousands of poor Americans died over it. Today that same system is throwing millions of poor Americans onto the streets and replacing our labor with high-tech electronics. Step-by-step, our own government is preparing the police and prisons to make war on us, and prevent any revolution here at home. Another difference today is that we do not face the all white-male ruling class of earlier times. Los Angeles is now also home to billionaires from Japan and Mexico who work alongside the white rich to control things from Watts to Chiapas, Mexico. Protecting these capitalists nowadays are a black police chief, Willie Williams, and a Chicano District Attorney, Gil Garcetti. We must educate our communities to link hands the same way our enemies do. Unless we educate our communities, there is no future for millions of barrio kids like Jose Antonio. Even if they can avoid the police bullets, the only job they're likely to find is in the new prison factories like those in California where inmates make denim pants for $1 an hour, or in Texas where Wackenhut Industries has inmates building computers for less than the minimum wage. Meanwhile, their immigrant parents must search for jobs paying below minimum wage just to survive. This is the capitalist "free market" we hear so much about and that is what the Moratorium struggle of the 90's is about. When we join the marches and rallies, we must talk about these facts. As we hang out with our families and homies, we must educate each other. The Tribuno del Pueblo welcomes your ideas about how to do this. Write us. Together, we must prepare for this war our rulers are launching and figure out how to defeat them. Several members of the East L.A. chapter of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America contributed to the writing of this article. Reprinted from the August 21, 1995 edition of the Tribuno del Pueblo, the bilingual sister publication of the People's Tribune. ****************************************************************** 12. HISTORIC CHALLENGE IN AFL-CIO ELECTIONS By Richard Monje After decades of elections for the AFL-CIO national officers that have gone unchallenged, a group of international union presidents have put forward a slate. They have forced the resignation of Lane Kirkland. The slate for national offices has put forward a progressive platform of proposals to change the AFL-CIO from an institution of business unionism to an organization representing "a political movement." Kirkland's hand-picked successor Tom Donahue and his slate have been forced to adopt many of the opposition's proposals. Profound economic changes based in technological advancements in production are at the root of this struggle. Over the past 25 years, unions have been rocked by layoffs, plant closings and the coalition of business and government that have gutted the rights of workers. There is open discontent in the ranks of the unions. This is a polarity that arises from those objective economic and technological changes. This objective polarity expresses itself as discontent with the lack of a clear program. The coalition of unions that has put together the slate of John Sweeney of the Service Employees International Union, Rich Trumka of the United Mine Workers and Linda Chavez-Thompson has taken an important first step. They have recognized the need for change. In their platform they call for the change to be a part of the new AFL-CIO. The second step they have taken is a platform statement that begins the discussion of the tasks of unions within the economic changes that have taken place in the global economy. In recognition of the fact that unions must play a different role, it says: "The federation must be the fulcrum of a vibrant social movement, not simply a federation of constituent organizations." Whether this platform is just words or a real call to action is not up to a few international presidents. Whether it is an effort to corral the discontent in the unions and bring them into fold rests with the membership. The opposition slate calls for a restructuring of the AFL-CIO and for massive education of the members. This could lead to the development of a program that recognizes the source of the problem -- the capitalist system and its mode of distribution. It is not possible to know at this time whether this can happen within the AFL-CIO or if this election struggle will lead to a split at some level. However, those of us who have participated in the union movement welcome the opportunity to debate what role unions will play in the future. ****************************************************************** 13. MAJOR UNIONS MERGE By General Baker A new upturn in union mergers is creating mega unions. During the first two decades of the AFL-CIO's existence, from 1955 to 1975, 48 mergers occurred, compared to 45 mergers from 1975 to 1986 and 40 mergers from 1986 to 1994. In July, the United Rubber Workers union voted to merge its 98,000 members with the United Steelworkers of America, increasing its ranks to 565,000. On June 29, the 350,000-member Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) was born under a merger agreement between the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. On June 19, the Newspaper Guild convention voted to merge with the Communication Workers of America. The most recent announcement was made July 27. The presidents of the United Auto Workers, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Association of Machinists announced a merger which would create the largest industrial union in the country made up of 2 million workers. The unification will take place gradually over the next five years. It will begin to coordinate activity in such areas as organizing, collective bargaining, legal affairs, legislation, education and training. Although much noise is being made about the new vigor and strength in numbers and a new, fat strike fund of $1 billion, posturing will not win this fight. The UAW has been on strike against Caterpillar Co. in Peoria and Decatur, Illinois and the USWA has been on strike for 39 months at the Bayou Steel Co. in Louisiana. The strike fund money and pronouncements have not convinced the replacement workers to walk out. Nor have they weakened the company's resolve to continue to resist. The organization of the millions of workers in this country is one of the most important tasks before us. But in which direction will this organizing go? There are over 40 million unemployed workers living in poverty and 90 million people working full-time or part-time who are not organized into unions. Daily, hundreds of those still working are being thrown into the ranks of the unemployed. How many of the proposed 2 million members of the new "mega-union" will still be working five years from now? The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures revealed on July 25, two days before the mega-merger announcement, indicated that the wages for union workers increased by only 2.6 percent over the year ending in June compared to a 3 percent increase in the wages for non-union workers. The continued loss of dues-paying union members coupled with the loss of the ability to win higher wages and compensation for its members over non-members may very well sound the death knell for organized labor as we know it. ****************************************************************** 14. THE DEBATE ABOUT HIROSHIMA Each August 6, the leaders of the country go through the ritual of explaining that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was justified because it saved American lives. They protest too much because they cannot solve the dilemma they created. If we justify the use of the bomb to save American lives, what prevents any nation from using the bomb to save the lives of their soldiers? What, then, prevents any nation from using the bomb should war become a serious threat? Scientists have proven that humanity might not survive a serious nuclear exchange. Yet, the politicians, interested only in re- election, bend completely to the force of reaction, sanitize the bomb and hide the horror and consequences of its use. It is frightening to see that the future of humanity is in the hands of charlatans whose only interest is the poll rating. There is only one serious, responsible and patriotic position. That is to apologize to the people of the world for using the bomb, and take the lead in destroying nuclear weapons. ****************************************************************** 15. HIROSHIMA AND THE BLACK SOLDIER By Nelson Peery We were at war with Japan. On the other side of the world, we had been at war with the Nazi and with Hitler. There was a difference. America was out to defeat the Japanese -- all of them. Most American soldiers never questioned the racism and chauvinism implicit in the difference. Perhaps the difference was accepted in the American mind because Japan attacked the United States and they intended to get even. But again, the fact that the Japanese were a different color than most Americans, and that this colored nation had dared to attack America might have underpinned and stabilized this thinking. August 6, 1945 is a date indelibly stamped into the consciousness of every soldier in the Pacific war. Every one of them can tell you where they were and what they were doing when they received the news of Hiroshima. I was a foot soldier with the 369th Infantry, 93rd Division. My regiment Ð indeed, my division Ð was a mirror image of black America. Our organization was composed of men drawn from share cropping plantations and black colleges and the industrial plants across the country. Segregated, very often mistreated by the Army and some of the white officers, we had but little enthusiasm for the war. We were more worried about the second 'V' when we raised our hands in the forbidden double 'V' for victory sign. The first 'V' meant victory on the battle front. That second 'V' meant victory on the home front against the second class civilian life we left to become second class soldiers. It meant victory against segregation, lynching and Jim Crow. This double 'V' symbolized the double life we led. We were soldiers from a democratic country fighting a war against a brutal, nationalistic, racist, fascist imperialism. We were also men whose lives had been cheated and distorted in a country that had held our forefathers in the most brutal and exploitative labor system the world had ever known. We were constantly oppressed by an army that codified and enforced the "common law" of Jim Crow that existed everywhere American power existed. We didn't like it and we rebelled against it in every way and every time we could. We did not think like white soldiers. What happened to them happened to them as individuals. What happened to us happened collectively. Our every thought about this country was filtered through the prism of racial oppression. Everything America said, we evaluated against what we knew America did. We were sure that our thinking was more honest than the thoughts of our white comrades-in-arms. This was the context for our evaluation of August 6, 1945. On that historic day I was on my final patrol. With the mission accomplished, our patrol was to rendezvous with the Infantry Landing Craft that would take us back to the safety of the perimeter. We settled back in the LCI with a ration of fresh water and moist, fresh, navy cigarettes. Then we began our infantrymen's grumbling about the war. "I'm going to ask the Colonel not to send me out for awhile," I mumbled between deep drags on the cigarette. "I'm getting a feeling that my luck is about to run out." "Don't none of you boys have to worry about going out no more," one of the sailors said. "Yesterday they dropped a new kind of bomb on Japan -- it took out a whole city." We knew about the firebombing of Tokyo and the near destruction of other cities with frightful loss of civilian lives. Like the rest of the world we accepted that this was a new kind of war -- a total war -- a war against civilians as well as soldiers. No one tried to justify it; they just did it. "You mean one bomb killed everybody in a city?" "Wiped it out. The war ain't gonna last long with that thing." We couldn't imagine such a weapon and didn't discuss it any further until we got back to our company. The men were ambivalent. On the one hand, after nearly two years of living and fighting in the jungles from Guadalcanal to Morotai they were ready to accept anything that would end the war and get them home. On the other, most of them were deeply religious and very conscious of the role of color. Naturally, this role of color extended beyond the way they were treated to the way the war was conducted. Our discussion about the bomb began on a religious and moral level, underpinned by personal experiences. "I don't think it's right to burn up all those women and children." "I know why they dropped that bomb on Japan -- they're colored, that's why." "Well, they sure didn't use it against Germany." There was some bitter laughter. No one had to say that white America had a double standard, and justice meted out to white people was different than Jim Crow justice. Our side of America was unknown to most white soldiers, a side of injustice, of mob violence and inequality. This was the real America. This was the America that incinerated a city of no military value. Small wonder we had doubts about the morality or wisdom of using the bomb. ****************************************************************** 16. CHICAGO RECALLS ATOMIC BOMBING AND VOWS: 'NEVER AGAIN' By R. Lee CHICAGO -- Hideko Tamura Snider doesn't need anyone to tell her what happened at Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. She was there that day, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on that city. She spoke this past August 6 at an event at the University of Chicago organized by a coalition of peace, human rights, environmental and religious groups commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Addressing nearly 2,000 people gathered in the university's Rockefeller Chapel, Tamura Snider recalled how "50 years ago today I was all alone, on foot, fleeing the inferno." She described how the blast, heat and radiation of the bomb "struck down men, women and children in the same way -- stripping off their skin, burning deeply into their flesh, sucking out their eyeballs, popping out their bellies, penetrating into the marrow of their bones." The survivors, many of them sterile and horribly disfigured, "became outcasts, called 'hibakusha,' an unsavory label," she said. Her mother and other members of her family were killed at Hiroshima. "In my mind's eye, those who perished in the inferno still burn," she said. "I do not wish them to go on burning in vain. I want them to be the torch for the rest of us" in the cause of peace, she added. It was fitting that this commemoration -- one of many held around the world -- was held at the University of Chicago. It was at the university's Stagg Field on December 2, 1942 that Enrico Fermi and a team of physicists achieved the controlled nuclear chain reaction that led to the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki August 9, 1945. The blasts and fires killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki. Thousands more died later from radiation poisoning and other causes; by 1950, more than 300,000 people had died from the bombings. Though the U.S. government argues to this day that the bombings were necessary "to save American lives," the historical evidence "is overwhelming now" that the bombings were not necessary, said writer Studs Terkel, who was master of ceremonies at the Chicago event. Faith Smith, president of Chicago's Native American Education Services Center, described how uranium mining for the nuclear industry has affected Indian communities across the country. Indian lands hold 50 to 80 percent of the country's uranium, she said, and the Indian peoples have suffered for this; their water sources and land have been contaminated and despoiled, and Indian uranium miners and their families have suffered high rates of cancer and birth defects. Another speaker, Leo Seren, was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. "I regret working on the atomic bomb for all the horror and destruction it caused," he said, to resounding applause. Seren brought seven children to the stage with him, saying, "In our deliberations we must consider the effect on the next seven generations and all generations." He called for banning nuclear weapons and replacing nuclear electric power with solar and wind energy. The final speaker was author Kurt Vonnegut, who was an American prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden when that city was firebombed in 1945. Vonnegut wrote a famous novel about the bombing, called Slaughterhouse Five. The firebombing, which killed over 100,000 people, "did not shorten the war by as much as a minute," said Vonnegut. The bombing of Hiroshima was an "atrocity," said Vonnegut. And said Vonnegut, the bombing of Nagasaki three days later "proves to me that our democratically elected government has been and may still be capable of obscene, racist, high-tech, yahooistic, even gleeful massacres of defenseless civilian populations." ****************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------+ "Deadly Force" is a weekly column dedicated to exposing the scope of police terror in the United States. We open our pages to you, the front line fighters against brutality and deadly force. Send us eyewitness accounts, clippings, press releases, appeals for support, letters, photos, opinions and all other information relating to this life and death fight. Send them to People's Tribune, P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, Ill. 60654, or call (312) 486- 3551. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ 17. DEADLY FORCE: SPEAK OUT AGAINST MURDER BY CHICAGO COP We have said for many years that homelessness is murder because it represents a system completely separating a human being from the means of survival. In addition, in a society in which the police forces are increasingly acting above the law, to be homeless literally is to be marked for death. Such seems to be the case in the murder July 30 on a Chicago street of Joseph Gould, 36, a homeless man who sold the StreetWise newspaper and washed car windows for money. Gregory Becker, an off-duty cop, is accused of taking his gun from his car trunk, placing it against Gould's head and firing one shot before driving away. Becker has been suspended without pay, but is free on bond! That in itself has many people skeptical about how the system will treat this case, since others in Chicago who are charged with murder are jailed without bond. "It's doubtful unless there is an outcry from the public that justice will prevail in this case," said U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D- Illinois) at a rally outside the Criminal Courts building in Chicago, where Becker's hearing on the murder charge was continued to September. ****************************************************************** 18. HOMELESS FACE DEATH ON THE STREETS OF CHICAGO: FAMILY, FRIENDS REMEMBER SLAIN JOSEPH C. GOULD [Editor's note: Below we reprint excerpts from an article which originally appeared in StreetWise. StreetWise is a nonprofit newspaper published twice a month and sold by the homeless, formerly homeless and economically disadvantaged men and women of Chicago.] By John W. Ellis IV CHICAGO -- Homeless advocates are outraged at the recent shooting of Joseph C. Gould, homeless StreetWise vendor #1579, by an off- duty police officer. Gould was remembered by homeless activists and friends at a memorial walk and service sponsored by StreetWise on Friday, August 4. Several activists and community members expressed concern about the incident. "Becoming homeless for him was a death penalty," said Anne Holcomb, director of Interfaith Council, at the memorial service. "What happened to Joseph was not an isolated incident. People sometimes kick someone, not [only] while they're down, but because they're down." At a meeting, several StreetWise vendors expressed their concern that this case not be ignored because Gould was homeless and the alleged killer is a police officer. FRIENDS REMEMBER GOULD Joseph C. Gould, for some reason, enjoyed washing windows. Gould, homeless since 1992, usually earned his living by washing windows for several downtown businesses on a regular basis. Occasionally he would approach motorists with his bucket and rag and offer his services. When he wasn't washing windows, he sold StreetWise newspapers. "I usually knew him to wash windows for businesses," said Patricia Howell, Gould's cousin. Howell said that she saw and spoke with Gould at least once a week. "He did other odd jobs, such as painting, but for some reason he really liked to wash windows." Howell said that Gould was kind and usually reserved. "But he had a gift for gab," Howell said. "He would add a smile to your day and could definitely lift the spirits of a depressing day." Gould had a particularly comic relationship with his brother Bryant. "They would go at each other all the time at family gatherings," Howell said. Joseph Gould Sr. and his wife Barbara had four children: Allan, Joseph, Bryant and Gwen. (Joseph Gould Jr. fathered twin 4-year- old boys himself.) Allan, the youngest, died in a shooting incident with a Chicago police officer, according to Howell. "He washed our windows all the time," said Shelly Gulino at Old Timers, a restaurant at Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, where Joseph spent much of his time. "I gave him clothes and money. I talked to him like one of my own kids. I can't believe this happened to him," said Gulino. "Black men are labeled threatening and dangerous. And to be homeless just puts you at the bottom of the pit," Howell said. "But it shocks me that someone could blow him away. "He died trying to improve his life, with his bucket in one hand and a rag in the other." © 1995 StreetWise. All rights reserved. ****************************************************************** 19. WHAT IS THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARIES FOR A NEW AMERICA? [Editor's note: Below we print excerpts from a letter we received recently, a letter asking an important question about the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. Following the letter is a reply by Nelson Peery, a veteran revolutionary and a member of the Editorial Board of the People's Tribune.] Dear People's Tribune: By the way, in the new incarnation of the Communist Labor Party/National Organizing Committee known as the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, do you consider yourself an old-style Leninist vanguard organization? Are you explicitly Marxist? Is it a united front/people's front type organization that's open to revolutionaries no matter where they're coming from? A Reader THE LRNA IS AN ORGANIZATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES Dear Reader: Thank you for your letter. I would like to answer some of the important questions you raise. First, concerning the evolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. In our struggle to build a revolutionary organization worthy of the American people, we have been guided by the cardinal principle that organizations are either the subjective expression of an objective process or they are sects (or will become sects.) Now, so that this doesn't sound like sectarian gibberish, let me explain what we think this means. We proceed from an understanding that history is going somewhere. This separates us from most people who seem to think that history is going where the strongest social or political force is taking it. Where history is going depends on what is possible. What is possible, in the final analysis, depends upon the tools with which people create their means of life. By this we mean that a plow and a hoe cannot be the foundation for urban life and all that differentiates urban life from rural life. We don't believe that it follows from this that each stage of the development of tools automatically leads to this or that political order. It does determine what type of social order is possible. The point is that although decent people may long for a better life and strive for a better life, they cannot get it until the material conditions, especially the tools, change and thus allow for it. We think this has been proven especially vividly in the history of the South and the history of the African American people. No matter how consistent and bloody the struggle for equal rights and integration was, it could not be won so long as the African Americans were tied to the manual labor of Southern agriculture. Their experience proves that a slave cannot be emancipated unless that slave is replaced by more efficient means of production. All our organizational efforts have been guided by this truth. When we started in 1968 as the California Communist League, we were a small, local group of Marxists in Watts. At that time, financial investment and industrialization in the colonies was fueling the struggle for national independence of the colonies. At home, the mechanization of Southern agriculture was fueling the freedom struggle of especially the African Americans. At least partially understanding the opportunities of the time, we attempted to build a mass anti-imperialist movement with Marxist revolutionaries at its core. In this effort, the League became a national organization. Joined by a few local Marxist groups, it took the name "The Communist League." As the struggle and our growth continued, two very important organizations became close to us. One was called "La Colectiva del Pueblo." It was a very influential group of mostly young Mexican revolutionaries in California. The other was the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. We in the Communist League felt that if we joined with these two groups we would have a broad enough base to call a congress to form a revolutionary political party. This was done and the Communist Labor Party was formed in 1974. By 1986, we began to discuss the meaning of the new and permanent unemployment and poverty developing in this country. Little by little, we began to realize that the new poverty was the result of the new machinery, machinery that was no longer assisting workers, but replacing them. As we analyzed the experience of the African Americans, it became clear to us that robotics by replacing the workers is in fact liberating them. Robotics is making it possible to build a new world, a world in which the robots do the "work" and people set about the task of culturally and socially enriching their lives. So, we asked ourselves, what social force was going in that direction? As backward and disorganized as this new class of poor people was, it had to be the core of a broad social struggle for economic communism. We could not question the fact that the new demands for the necessaries of life -- whether or not there is money to pay for them -- were expressions of a movement that was objectively communist, whether the participants in that movement understood it or not. Here was the beginning of an actual communist movement upon which to build a communist political organization. Such an organization could not be Marxist, since Marxism is a theoretical current within the communist movement. For the same reason, the organization could not embrace any of the "isms." It had to be an organization of revolutionaries (practical as well as theoretical and ideological) whose goal was creating the political conditions for achieving the unstated communist goals of the movement against poverty and fascism in this country. Nelson Peery ****************************************************************** 20. NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARIES FOR A NEW AMERICA Humanity is being reborn in an age of great revolutionary change. The tools exist to produce all that we need for a peaceful, orderly world. For the first time in history, a true flowering of the human intellect and spirit is possible. Our fight is to reorganize society to accomplish these goals. Our vision is of a new, cooperative society of equality and of a people awakening. The revolution we need is possible. A great moral optimism is beginning to sweep this country as the poor, the oppressed, the decent-hearted, embrace this revolutionary mission and make it a reality. The LRNA is made up of those recently liberated from Black Belt plantations; those who teach and learn in the sanctuaries of the universities; those who live on and struggle in the cold, mean streets; those of the new poor fighting desperately to avoid living on those streets; the humble, determined, passionate fighters of the spiritual community; the veteran, steeled revolutionaries; trade unionists; those from the surging new movement of women. From all these tribunes of the people comes an outpouring of enthusiasm, tales of struggle and hope for the future. The League of Revolutionaries for a New America takes as its mission the political awakening of the American people. We invite all who see that there is a problem and are ready to do something about it to join with us. For more information, call 312-486-0028. Send the coupon below to P.O. 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