War Toll, Chicago Seed (1972)

Mickey rocks the Nixon watch so you can know the time

Jackson State Killings, May 14-15, 1970.

JACKSON, Miss. (LNS) — Jackson police chief Pierce addressed the students. “Ladies and gentlemen, we have something to tell you.” He went no further. The police turned and began firing into the crowd of 200 students who had gathered on the campus of Jackson State College, Mississippi’s largest black university. A tape made by local TV recorded more than 30 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire as hundreds of rounds of ammunition were fired through the crowd into an adjacent women’s dormitory, suddenly spotlighted by huge police searchlights.

When the cease-fire order was given, two lay dead and dozens of wounded people lay scattered in front of the dorm and in the lounge inside.

Two dead. Phillip Gibbs, a Jackson State student who was walking with his sister to the dorm, was shot as he was leaving the building with his hands over his head. He died on the way to the hospital. James Green, a senior at nearby Hills High School, returning home from his nighttime job, was killed instantly as he stood across the streets from the dorm.

YOUNG LORD KILLED

Chicago (LNS) — 1969 — Manuel Ramos, a member of Chicago’s Young Lords Organization, was shot and killed by an off-duty cop on May 3. A comrade of Ramos, Raphael Rivera, was wounded in the incident.

The Shooting took place at a birthday party attended by a group of Lords, a radical Latin youth organization. Shouting in the street drew a number of partygoers to the door, from where they saw off-duty cop James Lamb waving a Luger. When asked to “take it easy” by one of the Lords, Lamb fired two shots, hitting Ramos in the head and wounding Rivera in the neck. Uniformed cops were on the scene immediately, and with the help of Lamb they arrested four Lords on charges of aggravated assault and battery. They then threw Ramos and Rivera into a paddy wagon and drove them to a hospital, where Ramos died in the Emergency Room.

At the bail hearing for the four arrested Lords, the DA came up with the incredible claim that a cop had been shot and critically wounded in the incident. Bail was set at $3,000 each.

Police have thus far refused to take any action against Lamb, though ten people saw him murder Ramos. On Monday, May 5, the Lords sponsored a memorial rally for Ramos. About 2,000 people marched through Latin and white working class neighborhoods, protesting the killing.

The incident is only the latest in a series of police harassments of the Lords, who have been organizing Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cubans in Chicago around such issues as welfare rights, local control of community planning boards, and Third World Unity.

Plastic Sex Melts. San Francisco Express Times (1969)

GRINNELL, Iowa (LNS) — Bruce Draper is a PR man for Playboy Magazine. He travels around to college campuses, selling the Playboy line and “promoting products for our advertisers.” When Hefner’s boy Draper came to Grinnell College, the local folk engaged him in naked confrontation. Ten students, six of them girls, took off their clothes to protest Playboy’s exploitation of the female body.

“Playboy Magazine is a money-changer in the temple of the body,” began their leaflet.

Draper, who is “manager of college promotion” for the bunny boys, was invited by Grinnell to speak as part of a “sex education” lecture series. He had done his thing, and was answering questions from the 100-strong audience, when the disrobing occurred.

Ten students made themselves naked while a male member of the crew strummed “You’ve got to walk that Lonesome Valley” on a guitar. They sat on the floor (the whole thing was happening in the lounge of a girl’s dorm), remaining there for a good fifteen minutes. One girl confronted Draper, asking him to pose nude for a girl photographer. The gentleman declined, saying, “I came here to talk, not to pose nude.”

The disrobing was sponsored by local women’s liberation and guerrilla theater groups. Their message was clearly presented in a statement issued at the speech.

“Pretending  to appreciate and respect the beauty of the naked human form, Playboy is actually stereotyping the body and commercializes on it. Playboy substitutes fetishism for honest appreciation of the endless variety of human forms.”

“We protest Playboy’s images of lapdog female playthings with idealized proportions and their junior-executive-on-the-way-up possessors. The Playboy bunny is an affront to human sexual dignity.”

Female fedayeen training in Jordan. Rat Subterranean News (1970)

Masters of War by Bob Dylan with photos of some U.S. masters of war.

Top right: Harold Geneen and three other members of the board of ITT. Bottom left: Robert Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board of RCA.

God Is Alive In The White House

Nixon photomontage by Christer Themptander for Liberation News Service (1972)

Before Whites Invaded…

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