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How to
overthrow
the U.S.
qovernm<
How to overthrow the government o
get out and vote. Want to be a revolut
vote. Want to keep America the same?
Why, in America we overthrow th<
every two years, often four and certai
we think we do. It's a permanent revol
must keep it alive.
Many people say why bother to vot
count, it's only one out of how many r
any difference.
That's what blacks thought for so Ion
back of buses, took dirt-paying jobs,
themselves be pushed, bossed and
country. Then they began to get ar
marching and they began organizing.
They began buying guns to change tl
a lot of buildings burnt down to the ?
buried six feet under the ground, the
into the ground and the movement nev<
They had another idea. They started
pushing to get people into the ballot I
voter rolls and blacks on the election ti<
Blacks started to vote. They started |
councils, blacks became Mayors, Cc
and things began to change. Slowly, su
long way to go, but, man, they began
started to vote. They were revolutions
? and it worked.
In the late '60s a lot of people felt th<
vote count? So groups like the Weath
teers of America and the Symbionese
dynamite and made bombs and th
buildings and people apart. Eventu;
apart too ? but they had voted and m
in the only way they thought possible ir
Why...why why why why why why w
people asking why. Why did they feel
to get heard, why didn't they trust t
they afraid of, what was it...what was i
They felt that in America there was
and nobody gave a good enough godi
about it.
All iU A? ? -1
mi uiey saw was an enirencnea
service that was neither civil nor a
stench emanating from Washington ar
lives was going unnoticed.
All they saw were too many people c
never seeing what was happening. I
what does it count, they were saying. <
millions, the guerrillas were saying,
playing follow the leader right up t<
Nobody was throwing the villains out
getting out and voting.
So, the guerrillas took to the street*
people's thinking, and a lot of people I
Congressmen were thrown out ol
decrepit) seats; Senators, instead of t!
reading the newspapers to see what v
year before the end of their six-year tei
The people were thinking and the p*
the powers-that-be were worried and
responsive.
tin?a J- 1?a _ - -
wiiai uo politicians campaign on ic
Washington and government bureauc
civil service, I'll respond...
Keep an eye on what is happening
toss old scoundrels out of office. Be
throw the government, don't ever let
fortable and secure. Keep them runnii
to the people. Don't ever let Americ
where no one listens or cares!
The politicians are sitting on a pow<
it!
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f the United States? ?
ionary? ? get out and
? get out and vote.
3 government at least
inly every six. At least
lution we have, and we
e. What does my vote
nillions. It won't make
ig. And they rode in the
lived in slums and let
hounded around the
igry, and they began
fie status quo. That got
[round, a lot of people
black man restomped
3r got off the ground,
people organizing and
box and blacks on the
:kets.
putting blacks on local
)ngressmen, Senators
ire, and still they got a
to chance The blacks
iries with their ballots
s same. What does my
ermen and the VolunLiberation
Ary bought ,
ey all blew a lot of i
ally they were blown
ade their voices heard
1 America.
hy why why...so many
they needed to destroy
he system, what were
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a monster on the loose
damn to do something
spoils system, a civil
service. An insideous
id polluting everyone's
aught up in patriotism,
've only got one vote,
f A Inl nf Alice qHH im fn
) But the people were
3 the edge of the pit.
of office, nobody was
5 and changed a lot of
>egan voting. Old time
f time-honored (and
he usual month, began
/as happening a whole
rm.
>nnlp u/prp vr*tino AnH .
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became, yes, it's true,
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>day ? I'll change the |
:racy, I'll clean up the
and don't be afraid to
a revolutionary, overthem
again feel comng
scared and listening
a degenerate again to
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Let me correct Lawrence ;
Lamo in ms assumption that th
the current fall from is
'morality" in our society is re
a recent phenomenon. sh
No oil, tl
To the Editor: f.*!1
I wonder if I am iustifipri in
cynical when I read that the m
campus issue of the month is wl
the residents of South Tower
South Building are going to park t
cars.
I believe I am justified, bee,
Americans are not facing reality.
The reality, as I see it, is that oi
become an extremely valu
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guzzling people on planet earth I
done nothing serious to curb
enormous appetite for nonrenew
fuels. We've simply been pla
games. For instance, since
we've switched to smaller cars
higher gasoline prices,
simultaneously consuming mor<
than ever before.
The Arabs might be setting us i
they pull a fast spigot job on us, th
certainly get us back for calling I
stupid as camels 13 years ago.
See, now oil is not only expei
but it also can be a threat to our e
economic system. And, for thai
* ENDANGERED
jtters to 1
on is <
ortion is not new to our a
5, in spite of the male v
orts to stop it. s
Vomen have always found
ys to accomplish their j
als, in spite of the rules c
d regulations 'of the ?
ablishment; this includes t
maging to prevent and
ort pregnancies when this j
s against the laws of God .
?ad:men) and man. (
fhprp has alwavs hppn an
derground of midwives
d witches and folk
idicine ready to help a
man rid herself of
egnancy. Even though
?se methods were not
vays safe, they were the
ly methods available. It
.tifies to the desperation of a
i individuals involved that g
iy would risk death to L
ort a pregnancy. t
So, the question at issue in \
e united States these days
not one of morality but
ality. Not whether women c
ould be allowed to have an c
hen war
ficials who run our {
willing to send youni
ling war. That's not hears?
ajor they have said, accorc
lere many news articles.
and I got news, too, for
heir South Tower and Sou
all others who war
provide more parki
ause dorm residents: I am
;n nr? MI
Ill VVUi iU ?V?I 111 SU yi)
1 has (jrive your private ai
malls or to Rosewo<
e oil Andrews. I am not gc
have war because I have n
1 war. War means blc
rable and limbs and watc
y?ng happen to you and y
1973, you get the picture?
and Now use women,
hut serious problem. Bi
e oil parking close to you
sure vour safetv fnrci
? / 1 "* c?
*P Instead of worrying
iey'11 par^ y0ur car, or ev<
hem around the city lookin
pleasure, your time m
isive more enjoyably sper
ntire short course in Karal
?f" self defense sport.
?
mm voter'
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the editor
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bortion, but whether she
/ill be allowed to have a
afe, legal abortion.
The original United States
aws against abortion were
stensibly to protect women
rom the unsanitary and
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uiacuc uieiuuus ui auuruuii
ivailable in the 19th century,
t also protected them into
arge families, since birth
:ontrol was also illegal.
Well, you say, that was in
he last century. We're much
nore advanced now. Women
ran control their own
iestinies and we don't need
o worry about unsafe
nedical practices. Although
here are safe methods of
ibortion today, they are no
;ood if we are not allowed to
ise them. Yes, it can happen
oday; it has happened; and
t has happened here in
Columbia, SC.
In 1978, a woman who
:ould not afford the abortion
clinic's fe? hf?rau?o h?r
, then n
Government are Look a
g Americans to your bo<
\y ? that's what healthier
iing to quotes in meter m?
Even il
the residents of if the co
th Building and automob
it to see USC it Up: $1
ing spaces for month ft
not 0f\\r\O trwfioM
. vu"6"1 ior tires
iu can ha ve oil to license t
itomobile to the $1 for soi
)d Drive or St. with tha
ring to fight in a treat me
o illusions about the best
>wing off heads and still
:hing the same Think
our friends. Do day...no
may be.
you do have a
it it you think about it,
r dorm will en- need ca
f v" . students
! about where to who ?
5n driving a car quite we
g for clothes ana . .
iay be better and canine
it taking a USC 1
te or some other
i
t
Medicaid would not pay it
died of an infection contracted
during a "kitchentable"
ooeration ? the onlv
one she could get. Why did
she die? Because the male
establishment took away her
power to choose ? not
between abortion and
pregnancy, for she had
already made the decision ?
but between a safe, legal
abortion and an unsafe,
illegal one.
The decision whether or
not to end a pregnancy is a
choice that can only be made
by each individual woman,
for in the end it is her life she
is dealing with. If we give up
the fundamental right to
direct our lives ? if someone
else can tell us to live or die,
we are no longer persons.
Ppnnlp u/hn havo nn pnntrnl
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over their own lives are
called slaves ? except when
they are called women.
Jean L. Cooper
librarianship
ome
t the positive side of weaning
iy from the automobile: a
body. Freedom from the
aid. More money.
[ it's all paid for, ask yourself
st of maintaining a private
ile is worth the benefits. Add
0 a month for parking, $30 a
>r insurance, $20 for gas, $10
>, on, maintenance, $5 lor
ag tax, $2 for parking tickets,
rority car wash. Gosh, ladies,
t kind of money you could
i or some other lucky man to
restaurant in Five Points ?
have money to dance on.
about it. It beats war any
matter how boring I or he
administrators, you think
too. Dormitory students don't
rs. I know many car-free
residing two miles off campus
i quite well. They also live
11 without war, too.
itart facing reality. What else
r? '
Herb Jacobs
health grad