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Many of the demands that emerged in the Attica rebellion were first raised in July in a tough "manifesto" sent to Oswald and Rockefeller by a group of inmates called "the Attica Liberation Faction." The paper labeled Attica a "classic institution of authoritative inhumanity upon men," but added: "We are trying to do this in a democratic fashion. We feel there is no need to dramatize our demands...
Some of Barr's notions show more passion than thought. What, for instance, is a "dangerous child"? And some of his ideas about sex sound as if they came from a manifesto issued by a corporate state. Still, he is eminently readable and endlessly provocative...
...then directed 15 other children in a zany sequence of trick photographic effects. Elated at his success, he has stopped playing hooky and begun doing serious work. For a paper on Russian political attitudes, another boy has just finished reading piles of newspapers, Doctor Zhivago, and the Communist Manifesto. Last month a group of girls got credit for organizing 30 Wilde Lake students to spend five days as tutors at a nearby elementary school...
...More Panic. For some men's libbers, a limited solution to their anxiety seems to lie in a partial retreat from women. Males, says a manifesto in Brother, must stop "salivating at the sight of women" and further develop their relationships with other men. Bob, a professor of philosophy at Portland State College, notes that in his group, the men have become close friends and now "touch each other more." Michael, more to the point, admits that at his meeting, "choking and gagging on the very word, we named the secret, shameful desire/ fear: brother-love, homosexuality...
...manifesto has had other unintended results. The black church itself has split over Forman's tactics, which point inevitably toward black separatism. B-shop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has attacked the manifesto, while the National Committee of Black Churchmen has served as a channel for funds to B.E.D.C. And indirectly, Forman gave the Jewish Defense League its push into prominence: the league's first widely publicized action was its unasked-for "protection" of a New York synagogue supposedly threatened by Forman-like black disruptions...