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Even if you are willing to work twice as hard as any man, it is untrue unless you can 1) hire a more economically oppressed woman to do your shit-work for you 2) work out some kind of communal arrangement (difficult in most communities where people still adhere religiously to their notions of family privacy) or 3) make your husband or man share equally in tasks like cooking, cleaning and child caring (I defy the wives of most "emancipated" men to tell me this is easy...
After an hour, the Moscow agents decided to take Amalric to the capital, where he has one room in a crowded communal apartment. Protesting that he had a right to be present while his cottage was being searched, Amalric refused to budge. Two KGB men lifted him up by the arms and led him away...
...enemies are the national bourgeoisie and Yanqui imperialism," Toro announced to his "January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
...statement went further than that, to imply a bold definition of what it really means to strike for the original demands. We concluded that communal lip-service to the four demands didn't create strikers, particularly in view of the fashionability of verbal dissent. One viable strategy for fighting the strike, in fact, was to passively accept the demands while voting down proposals for their implementation...
...book's contents are divided into two sections. The articles in the first give brief sketches of the new life-style emerging in the East Village. They report on the actual manifestations of that life-style-the drugs, the communal living, the Be-Ins, the street life-as well as the community that was growing up around it and the key figures who were helping to bring it all together. Personalities now quite familiar stray casually across the pages-Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Country Joe and the Fish, Timothy Leary. Everything is new and exciting in McNeill's eyes...