Category - No 2

Explicit Operational Program (272)

Betty Zisk of Boston University* points out that having mastered an appropriate list of "buzz words" an apprentice author could achieve acclaim by his peers {and the public). This is useful information in these days of unemployment. DOD contractor employees (and others) might wish to change their field. Being experts...

Spring Action Calendar

April 19-23: Protests in Washington by 5000 veterans of the Vietnam war, sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Relatives of war dead and relatives of prisoners of war are invited to join in a march and ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Other activities indued a war crimes tribunal on the Capitol...

Statistics for the People

In 1969 major industrial polluters spent one billion dollars to advertise their efforts at pollution control-ten times more than all U.S. companies spent for air pollution control devices in the same period. (The Sciences, 1, no.1, Jan. 1971, New York Academy of Sciences) The U.S. has only 1.5 doctors per 1000...

Report from Berkeley SESPA

Students and staff at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Lab at Berkeley continue to press for the right to hold organized meetings at noon hour in the Lab auditorium. This seemingly innocuous demand has resulted in a seventeen-month controversy involving Director of the Laboratory, Dr. Edwin McMillan...

Insurgent Press Grows Among Scientists and Engineers

The following are a few of the publications we have received that are indicative of the growing social awareness among scientists and engineers and the failure of the professional societies and journals to provide a forum for the expression of technical workers' concerns about the social and political aspects of their...

Counterspy Committee an Opportunity for Peoples Science

There is no law prohibiting the detection and removal of phone taps, regardless of their so-called legality. "The vast majority of phone taps are planted without court approval anyhow," according to the Counter-Spy Committee, a group of electronic technicians and lawyers in Washington, D.C. who provide free detection...

Repression Hits the Liberal Fan

A note from Washington University in Saint Louis tells of the case of David Colfax. Judged according to the only standard that matters, his practice, David has been a tireless worker in the building of radical action and consciousness. In 1967, he initiated the campaign to have the American Sociological Association...

Polaroid Fires Workers — Struggle Continues

Since the American Physical Society (APS) meeting a number of developments have occurred in the campaign to force Polaroid Corporation to withdraw from South Africa. On February 9, 1971 Polaroid responded to the boycott called by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PWRM) by sending a memo to all its employees...

St. Louis Aerospace Workers Respond to Layoffs with New Organization

Known to outsiders as the home of Anheuser-Busch brewing company and the St. Louis Cardinals (owned by August Busch), St.Louis was once one of the most prosperous and bustling cities in the country. Deriving its wealth largely from railroads and the Mississippi harbor, it became internationally famous when the World's...