THE MOVEMENT WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300010065-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: January 1, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

Rennie Davis, leader of the anti-war
novement and one of the Chicago 7, is still
upping and organizing. He was sentenced
:o five years for conspiring to incite a riot
at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and
two-years for contempt of court by Judge
Juiiu ? Hsffman in Chicago. Out on appeal,
he is calling for a mass invasion of
Washington on May 3, if the Nixon
adna:nistration hasn't ended the war. He
uo..e at Towson State College in
' i:nore or. November 14 about the
C2:t :_....~ a..,'. : crT i' sit nation in Viet
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i photo by Robert Phelan;
to organize an election, where any "i John Froines was in Baltimore October the bank.
personality and any political force could be y 31 for the rally against repression, and was In the first case, the blowing up of the
represented, a free and open election. That interviewed by Robin Ellis, a member of IBM building, it is terrorism and I'in
election would choose a new government C; the videotape trey of Antioch-Columbia opposed to that kind of terrorism because I
Now it is my view that if the American ty think, just on a tactical level, as soon as
alit knew what was being said in saris { College.
public was acquitted of g one group becomes identified with
today, most people in this country would conspiracy charges in Chicago but was bombings, then the government or
embrace this proposal. sentenced to five ,months on contempt
provocateurs or . right wing forces,
.., ... ,
all
The conditions now exist for ending the charges. those different b pups can, in fact, carry
war in a way that would save face for the 0 E LIS: Do you see yourself as a movement out bombings and blame it on, for
United tates aov r~ me a r
gg s va,
00 1y,? /'281ErCIA-RDP88-01314RO00300010065X1mple, the Weathermen. And, in ,act,
does n~er1Q4il3t~irya, ?n a way FROINES: How does one translate one's carry out bombings which kill people and
that does not demand the overthrow of the ,
culture ?n?o an ation'? I have serious tarn people a ;ri: st you. And wa: we're
Su: on rehim.. ! doubts .'hoot f don't think it's a aheu is mass i:: t7 vcii7 r h' ??'~+
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Too long have we been molded and
manipulated, pushed and pulled by the media of
technocratic America - mass media not of our
making; media we have no access to; responding
not to us but to the priorities of another
generation, another culture.
The time has come to create our own.
In the Baltimore-Washington, area we are more
than 500,000 college and high school students,
plus countless drop-outs and non-students. If we
are serious about "uilding a new society, we must
act together - seeing ourselves not as members of a
since school or group, but as a community of
shared purposes and?goais.
We are energetic, hopeful, and driven by a sense
of urgency, but our efforts are isolated and
scattered.
We do not need an all-encompassing
super-organization. We do need a communications
system - to focus the energy, to bring people
together around common concerns, common
goals, to make our weight felt. Information is
power. We must control our own media; bend it to
our needs; make it accessible to everyone. The
counter-culture begins here.
The Student Advocate is a paper, a magazine, a
communications system for youth. It is not
another rip off rag after our money. The Advocate
is and will be controlled solely by ourselves.
We will not promote a particular ideology, but
present many. We will expose our audience to
ideas, suggestions, alternatives in politics,
lifestyles, education. We will serve as a forum for
advocates of everything from auto mechanics to
folk music, from mysticism to marxism.
Our goa', is to coordinate information and
facilitate a positive action - turn: people on, not
off
ff.
vl`e are not an underground. We will aim at the
student who doesn't read newspapers, who is
alienated by the rhetoric of the rnderg-ounds and
the bullshit of traditional, 'Objective' media.
We are not comaetna with pru'3ent media and
papers -- there are none like us. '\'!e are something
new.
The. Student Advocate will be distributed free
to students and sold on the street. We plan a
circulation of 175,000. We are looking to
advertising as our source of money.
Companies which sell products to young people
are 16-25, such as records, cars, stereos, books,`
movies, etc., will now be able to reach a very large
youth market in the Baltimore-Washington area.
This market wields a great deal of economic
power. These companies need us to buy their
products. We must recognize this and demand that
these products be advertised fairly and sold for
reasonable prices. Acting together, we can put an
end to dishonest advertising and rip off prices by
refusing to buy such products, responding only to
products advertised honestly and at fair prices. We
will refuse businesses the use of the Advocate to
exploit students, and we will encourage ors er
Papers and radio stations to co the same.
We must come up with $50,000 capital.
550,000 will print 12 issues of a 30 page tabloid,
75,000 copies, over a 6 month -period. in E
months, we will be self-sufficient, operating in the
black. Our first step is to incorporate and sefi
public stock.
NEEDED:
Journalists; artists; people ski:led in layout,
newspaper production, graa:r'cs, business
management, marketi;ic; investirators;
pihotograp:?ers; typists; organizers; `laur, ors.
People who have a message and want to get it
out to a large audience.
People at each school who will distrbute the
Advocate every two weeks and relay information
on student activities and reeds.
People w o see that we must build our own
media and communications system now.
JOIN WI T H US. The Student Advocate, 5970
Turnabout Lane, Apt. 6, Columbia, Md. 21063.
This is a sample issue of The Student Advocate,
10,000 press run. Staff, other than those a:ready
credited, was Peter i-ianrahan & Lynne Baughman,
editing; David Mitchell, photography; Pam Held,
graphics; Keith Harris & Paul Cheslaw, layout; The
When you have read this, pass it on to a friend. We need people to help us distribute
this sample issue = some copies to all schools in the greater alti~; ore ~'ashhtgton areas. if
you can help, call 3011 -730-9175 and asp: for Lynne or Peter.
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