Peace Brigade hits
the road for reform
Four members of the
Berkeley Peace Brigade were in
Lincoln over the weekend to
provide information about
Showdown- a national draft
resistance movement, and to
rap about nonviolent social
change.
The four-Marc Nevas, John
Jackson, Linda Klipper and
Cora Smith-Hall-are traveling
across the country in a
customized school bus
provided by the War Resisters
League in New York.
The bus has been converted
into living quarters with a
stove, bathroom facilities, a
small library of resistance
literature and six bunk beds.
Nevas and Klipper have
been on the road since January
and were joined last week by
Jackson and Smith-Hall. They
are making their way back to
Berkeley, stopping in cities to
rap about various kinds of
resistance and to judge the
political and social atmosphere
around the country.
THE BERKELEY Peace
Bripde, headquartered in the
California city, was organized
last October by ten people
interested in non-violent
alternatives to the violence in
the Berkeley community,"
according to Jackson.
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The group was very small
until a demonstration against
R0TC on the Berkeley campus
last April," he continued. "'We
held an alternative peaceful
vigil at the ROTC building and
disrupted the demonstration."
But the image conveyed by
the news media countered
what the Brigade stood for.
"It looked like we were
protecting the police against
the protestors, when that
wasn't what we were trying to
accomplish at all," said
Jackson. "We had a reputation
to outgrow so we started
pushing resistance which is our
main thing."
In June the organization
turned to alternative life styles
and education sessions as ways
to get their position across.
They currently maintain two
communes in the Bay Area and
are trying to get a day care
center started.
SMITH-HALL, a British
citizen, talked about the
feeling of trust among the
counter culture. "We leave the
doors of our houses unlocked
and don't worry about getting
ripped off."
She also talked of the
success of food conspiracies in
many communities. Members
of the counter culture are
getting together to buy food at
wholesale and then distributing
it among contributors.
The Brigade also publishes a
newsletter every two weeks.
Jackson handled the newsletter
until he joined the group on
the bus.
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to bring about the kind of society we want through radical cnange.
"A PAPER is a good way to
get people organized into
something where they can see a
product of their labors,"
Jackson noted, ""as well as
keeping them informed of
what's going on in the
community,"
Our main orientation is
that the Berkeley Peace
Brigade is not a one shot
thing," said Jackson. "For
instance, we've disrupted draft
boards in the San Francisco
area for the last four Tuesdays
in a row."
The Brigade will swing
through the southwest on their
way back to Berkeley.
Said Jackson: "What we're
trying to do is present positive
ways to bring about the kind
of society we want through
radical change."
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