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...would have been too damaging to the University to allow the Committee to take such action. It is essential to the preservation of this university that its image be one of whites and blacks in peaceful coexistence. For the future of the University, the OBU demonstrators remain, the WSA-PL demonstrators are dismissed...
...Weatherman communes, a girl walks up to a boy and says, "I'd like to sleep with you." They sometimes make love in the same room with other people standing around doing stuff. In PL, the movement people band together, as it were, to "fortify each other for the struggles." In some of the Boston Women's Lib communities they have been discussing what to do about this problem of sex. Some think they should get into lesbianism because not only does it avoid the repression of males, but a girl can be much more highly aroused by another chick...
There it was. Everything we'd heard from the steps of Mem Church and University Hall. Everything that PL has been ranting about ad nauseam. Al Vellucci was telling the people. But he wasn't telling them, he wasn't educating them, they knew it all. He was saying it for them. He was putting all their fears and anxieties into words. He is their man because he is the political expression of these people. He fights their battles for them, and all these people were cheering Al on as he denounced their common enemy...
After October, 1968, PL became more sectarian and critical of other radicals in the movement and around the world. Since 1966 they had withheld their support from the NLF and Ho Chi Minh because they had "sold out the people's struggle" by negotiating with the United States. Cuba was a petty-Bourgeois country. The line on Black struggles had also changed-all nationalism was reactionary and separate Black organizations were "Racist." Open admissions demands were reactionary since universities would only brainwash the poor (Had PL appointed itself the student part of the student-worker alliance...
...United States can no longer sustain the kind of control over world resources and labor that it has in the past and if internal tensions simultaneously disrupt the system, then it might be possible to radicalize the workers. Aside from being a longshot (but no longer than PL's strategy), the Weatherman proposal is the best argument yet for white radicals not to do anything...