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From: DR
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Subject: RE: Military Resistance 13L8: The Good Old Story
Just want to express my appreciation for your hard work and dedication to this project.
Maybe a few more people like you and Alan [Military Initiative Outreach Organizer] and
we would be just around the corner from victory! It is a one thousand mile "race" so we
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In Puerto Rico, things are coming to a point of confronting our colonial reality. This
despite over one hundred years of USA terror and "carrot" treatment. But there is still
much to do...
And in the USA a similar point of definition is apparently verrrrryyyy far off. But as you
know, sooner than later social consciousness takes a leap and the system is in crisis.
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Now The Prizes:
Prize #1: Clarendon’s Rebellion and Civil Wars
A Revolutionary History Classic Almost Unknown Today
In reviewing Trotsky’s History OF The Russian Revolution on publication back in the
1930’s, the New York Evening Post named this book one of the three classics of
“history-written-by-history-makers.”
It describes the great English revolution and civil war that began in 1640 and ended in
1649 with the beheading of King Charles I and abolition of Royal rule in England by a
republican government led by Oliver Cromwell.
Clarendon was part of that revolutionary civil war and he writes an insiders history.
Early on, there are his observations when the London working class, joined by masses
of “common” sailors, and “others of the lesser sort,” suddenly rise up from below, backed
by the growing merchant section of society, and march on the King in his palace by the
countless thousands, demanding their liberties. Thousands more join them there from
other towns and cities.
And that really is unknown history.
Clarendon was there, an eyewitness to it all and describes it beautifully.
As an example of his writing he says, about “common” people growing ever more fed up
with the King’s royal tyranny: “They treasured up wrath for the time to come.”
Of interest, Clarendon was part of the royal government that was overthrown. That said,
he writes unsparingly of the stupidity, greed, corruption, tyranny, and oppression of the
royal government, and how incompetent and ever-failing they were in the face of the
revolutionary wave from below that ate away ever more rapidly at Kings’ military,
economic, and social base till the King had no money left to pay his soldiers.
The revolution held the cities and ports. They were booming. The Kind could only hold
rural parts of the south-west and north. The revolution organized a new model army of
citizen soldiers and the rural poor. The King’s army, while he had one, was raised by
local feudal landholders, and made up of their servants, farmers, knights on horses, and
others attached to them by obsolete duties.
Clarendon, of his King’s gentlemen cavalry: “Whom only their Friends fear’d, and their
Enemies laughed at; being only terrible in Plunder, and resolute in Running away.”
Game over.
This is Vol 1, a 639 page reprint of the original, covering development of the revolution,
and ending with the King in prison. If you like it, Vol. 2 available on Amazon.
The inside of the book is untouched, a new copy. The outside cover only has some bent
corners now straightened out.
Prize #2:
A Radical History Classic:
Pete Seeger With The Almanac Singers
1955 12” LP
Back in the day when 78”s and 10” LPs were standard, and 12” LPs something new, this
was one of the earliest left LPs to appear, via Folkways records
Inside is an unmarked, fresh looking booklet about the contents, intro by Pete Seeger
and notes by Philip S. Foner.
The cover is also surprisingly fresh, preserved in a plastic sleeve over the cover. Splits
in cover bottom and top carefully taped over.
Suitable for framing; as for playing, who knows. No LP player here.
Prize #3:
Up South
Matthew J Countryman
Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle. The city was
home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice between World War II
and the 1970s.
Up South explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure of the liberal program of
antidiscrimination legislation and interracial coalition-building to deliver on its promise of
racial equality, and the subsequent rise of the Black Power movement.
In contrast to the top-down middle-class leadership of traditional civil rights groups,
Black Power in Philadelphia fundamentally altered the composition of black leadership in
the city to include a new cohort of neighborhood-based working-class and female black
community activists.
Large paperback; 410 pages, with photographs. 2007. Beautiful condition.
Prize #4:
Secret Sanction by Brian Haig*
An Army lawyer is ordered to investigate the massacre of 35 Serb prisoners during the
Kosovo war. A Green Beret team is accused. Powerful forces high in the U.S.
government scheme to cover up the truth, threatening to ruin the Army lawyers’ career.
*The author, Brian Haig, is the son of General Alexander Haig, Vice Chief of Staff of the
Army [the second-highest ranking officer in the Army] and White House Chief of Staff
under President Richard Nixon.
Maybe that’s why his portrait of really evil leaders in the CIA, The White House, and on,
rings so true. He was there and saw that shit. Thinly disguised fiction.
Hardcover, 399 pages, perfect condition
Prize #5:
The 1775 Revolution Gadsden Flag
Cloth; Left side made for hoisting; Three Feet by Five Feet
Perfect
[Thanks to RL for donating to the raffle]
Prize #6:
May 1917: Russia
The War Bond That Brought On A Revolution
In February 1917, Russian workers and soldiers rose in revolution to overthrow a feudal
government that had dragged them into an Imperial War, World War 1, where Russians
died, at home and in the Army, for the glory and greed of the Czar, Emperor of Russia.
Having gotten rid of him, they thought the new government, led by Prime Minister
Kerensky, would stop the war. Instead, in May 1917, he floated the Kerensky War Loan,
gold backed bonds to borrow $188 million, to pay for keeping Russia in the war.
Seeing that nothing less would do, 6 months later the elected soldiers’ and workers’
councils organized a second revolution that wiped Kerensky’s government of generals,
war profiteers, crooked politicians, and capitalists off the face of the earth.
This is the Kerensky war bond for 1000 gold rubles.
P.S. They were purchased on 9.1.64 from (no joke) Carl Marks & Co., Inc., New York.
If you win one, you’ll get a copy of the bill of sale.
Prize #7:
“Paddy Lynch’s Boat Sung By Delia Murphy”
Fodhla Printing House, Dublin
Sheet music; undated; printing style 1860-1900 or so. The cover figure is in old dress.
Upper right corner ragged. Fragile, as you can see.
For a fascinating history of the song, and the author, go to:
https://books.google.com/books?id=U8eESFSaDAgC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=Colo
nel+Hugh+MacGrady&source=bl&ots=WfSorNbZjy&sig=lCr3CfK2iGgp018xyIfPDYi2WM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW8MnpsO7JAhXFfw8KH
e3cDRwQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=Colonel%20Hugh%20MacGrady&f=false
Warning: when the page opens, you must SCROLL UP ONE PAGE to the heading
“Thomas Lavelle.”
Prize #8
Classy Camp Stool
The Latest In Comfort For Those Hours Long Demonstrations Or
Whatever
Butt hurt? Tired legs? Sit on this collapsible, very comfortable camp stool.
Soft seat, tough metal frame, and lock supports keep it from dumping you.
When folded, goes to 81/2 x 11, paper page size, into zippered carry bag seen
above.
Zipper top with stitched carrying strap.
Prize #9:
Vietnam GI: Complete
A complete set of Vietnam GIs. The originals were a bit rough, sometimes a line at
the bottom gone, but every page is there. Over 100 pages, full 11x17 size.
Edited by Jeff Sharlet until his death (see below), this newspaper rocked the world,
attracting attention even from Time Magazine, and extremely hostile attention from the
chain of command.
The pages and pages of letters in the paper from troops in Vietnam condemning
the war are lost to history, but you can find them here:
VIETNAM GI
August 1969
Many good men never came back from Nam. Some came back disabled in mind. Jeff
Sharlet came back a pretty together cat—and he came back angry. Jeff started VGI,
and for almost two years poured his life into it, in an endless succession of 18-hour days
trying to organize men to fight for their own rights.
On Monday, June 16th, at 2:45 pm, Jeff died in the Miami VA Hospital. He died of a
sudden heart failure, brought on by the uncontrollable growth of the cancer that had
earlier destroyed his kidney. There was no way to save him. He was only 27 years old.
Rather than wait for the draft, like so many others Jeff went RA. With dreams of seeing
Europe, he applied for “translator-interpreter”, and found himself at the US Army
Language School at Monterey, California. But instead of French, Czech or German, he
was assigned a strange language called “Vietnamese”--. Spoken in a country he couldn’t
even find on the map. For eleven months in 1962 he was drilled in Vietnamese.
In 1963 he was assigned to Army Security Agency, and left for his first tour in Nam.
Stationed in Saigon awhile, Jeff witnessed the ARVN coup that overthrew Saigon
dictator Ngo Diem. On his second tour his ASA unit was stationed near Phu Bai.
Engaged in top-secret work monitoring, decoding and translating North Vietnamese
radio messages, they wore AF uniforms and worked at a small air base.
But every time they went into the bars, every bargirl could reel off all the facts about their
mission. Speaking the language well, Jeff could talk to many Vietnamese about what
was happening to their country.
He spent long hours questioning ex-Foreign Legion men, who’d settled in Vietnam after
the French left, peasants, ARVN officers, students, and even suspected VC agents. By
the time he ETSed in July, 1964 he’d put a lot of pieces together.
Jeff went back to school, and got his college degree (with honors) from Indiana
University in 1967. During his “GI Bill years” he joined the peace movement, and
became chairman of his local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
But he had become increasingly disillusioned about the student movement, and
felt that its shallowness and snotty attitude towards other people made it
ineffective.
That summer he went to New York City to work with Vietnam Veterans Against the
War, and it was there that he decided to try to organize other GIs to fight the
brass. Jeff had won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study at the
University of Chicago. He enrolled and” picked up his check. From then on all his
time and money were sunk into starting a newspaper for servicemen.
After two years of endless traveling, fund-raising and writing, Jeff’s drive started to fade.
That restless energy that had brought him countless miles to base after base wasn’t
there.
After his last trip to Ft. Hood in the Fall of 1968, Jeff complained that he was really beat,
burnt out. We all agreed that he should go “on leave” and take a rest. It was while
visiting friends in Boston that the first really severe pains started. Jeff flew home to
Florida, and entered the hospital. From there it was steadily downhill all the way. The
removal of his left kidney, massive radiation treatments, drugs—nothing stopped the
growth of his cancer.
At the end he was weak and emaciated, without enough breath in his lungs to speak for
more than a few sentences. He said that he had many new ideas for our fight, but was
just too exhausted to talk about them.
Jeff was a truly rare man. He was our friend and comrade, and those of us who came
together in this fight will never forget him. VGI, the paper that so many readers called
“the truth paper,” will go on fighting.
Prize #10
Resistance In The Townships
Edited by Fatima Meer
This book can’t be found new on Amazon or anywhere else.
Published in Durban, South Africa, 1989, by Madiba; Edited by Fatima Meer, it
chronicles, city by city, the uprisings in the townships 1985-1988 that broke the back of
the apartheid regime.
With introduction by Barney Mthombothi, this is a unique chronicle of resistance from
below, well documented, and intriguing to see from the perspective of those who fought
for liberation.
Softcover; 274 pages, cover corners a bit nibbed.
The black mark on cover was added when remaindered.
Prize #11
A Simple Act Of Violence
Set in Washington, embroiled in elections, it follows Detective Robert Miller as he is
assigned to a murder case. Miller is dragged into the corrupt political world.
In this book is the well-documented history of Reagan-Bush's involvement in financing
international terrorism and domestic cocaine imports, especially the South American
connection. Not quite fiction, not quite not.
Paperback. 448 pages. Remaindered but new.
Prize #12
New. Paperback.
Warning: the writer would appear to reject voting for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
[END PRIZES]
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