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Tuesday, January 18, 1972
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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RADICAL GROUP
Ann A
By HOWARD BRICK
A group of Ann Arbor young
people have been attempting for
about a year to raise the politi-
cal consciousness of the city's
youth.
Ann Arbor Youth Liberation, a
group of some 35 young people
ranging from 11-19 years old, is
dedicated. to liberating youth
from the family, the courts and
the schools. The group func-
tions mainly in the city's high
schools and junior high schools.
The organization has drafted
a fifteen-point program calling
for an end to "adult chauvin-
ism", full civil and human rights
for youth, freedom for young
people to form communal rather
than nuclear families, and the
right to determine their own
education.
The group also calls for an
end to the male chauvinism, dis-
crimination against homosex-
uals and racism tley see in
American society.
Youth Liberation centers its
attention on what it terms adult
rbor youths seek
7iberation'
chauvinism, defined as "the way
people treat you because you are
young"
An organization c i r c u 1 a r
states: "We believe ideas should
be judged on their merit and
people on their wisdom or kind-
ness. Age in itself deserves no
recognition . . . age might once
have led to wisdom, but the old
men have proven themselves un-
able to deal with present real-
ity."
"If the human species is to
continue," it goes on "the young
must .take the lead."
Last year, the group applied
pressure on the city council to
abolish curfew laws forbidding
youth 16 or under to be on the
streets after midnight.
After a meeting with coun-
cimen in which the -group's
members voiced their com-
plaints, the council voted 6-5 to
reform the laws. Young people
between the ages of 12 and 16
are now allowed on the streets
after midnight as long as they
are not "idling, congregating or
loitering."
At present, Youth Liberation
is aiming most of its efforts at
the status of youth in local
schools. Students' Unions are
being established in most of
Ann Arbor's junior and senior
high schools.
Keith Hefner. a Youth Libera-
tion member who has taken part
in forming the new Pioneer
High School Student Union,
says the union's main goal is
"to insure that students get
proportional representation in
the school." Stud, nss should
have decision - making power,
he said, and should have more
voice in school affairs than
teachers, "because their (teach-
er's) lives aren't at stake."
Another member of Youth
Liberation, Martha Bowerman,
said, however, that no progress
has been made toward giving
students in Ann Arbor more
control over their own educa-
tion. "I also don't believe that
Pioneer II (the new experi-
mental free school) really meets
anybody's needs," she said. "It's
just a bourgeoisie, upper mid-
dIe class finishing school:"
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WASHINGTON (P) - The Sen-
ate will be caught up in civil
rights controversies with the be-
ginning today of the second,
election-year s,, ssion of the 92nd
Congress.
The issues of job discrimination
and school busing are at the top
of the Senate's agenda, with a
scrap over rights for women just
over the horizon.
First up in the House are com-
promise election reform and for-
eign-aid authorization bills that
the Senate passed before Con-
gress adjourned last month.
In a break with tradition. both
branches plan to swing into ac-
tion without waiting for President
Nixon to deliver his State of the
Union address Thursday to a
joint session of the Senate and
House.
In addition to any new pro-
grams he may present. Nixon is
expected to appeal again for wel-
LUNCH-D;
TUESDAY, January 18
U.M. INTERNAT
fare reform, revenue-sharing and, in the1971 session provides, as the
other 1971 proposals left dangling administration recommended. for
by the Democratic - controlled enforcement through court actions
Congress. rather than giving the EEOC
The first bill up in the Senate cease-and-desist powers.
would broaden the ban on job The fight over this bill is to be
discrimination and strengthen followed by another over a $23-
enforcement powers of the Equal billion higher-education measure
Employment Opportunity Com- to which the House attached anti-
m'ssion (EEOC). busing amendments that were
The commission, now limited to stricken by the Senate Labor Com-
the use of persuasion and concil- mittee.
iation in trying to prevent job Sen. Sam Ervin, Jr. (D-N.C.)
discrimination, would be empow- plans to lead a fight to put in
ered to issue cease-and-desist or- even stronger anti-busing pro-
ders. visions. An aide said Ervin's key
And the prohibition against dis- amendment would strip the fed-
Armnthryprohibtiesoagaind x-eral courts of power to order bus-
criminatory practices would be ex-in if they found that pupils
tended to include state and local were assigned without regard to
government employes and alsore s
employers and labor unions with race.jr
eigt o moe eploes r mm- Majority Leader Mike Mans-
eight or more employes or mem- field (D-Mont.) said that once
b rs. Only employei's and unions the measures are acted on he will
with 25 or more employes or call up a constitutional emend-
members are covered now. ment to guarantee women equal
Legislation passed by the House rights with men.
The House already has approv-
ed this but in the Senate. where it
SCU SSION was fatally filibustered in the pre-
vious Congress, it faces another
12:00 Noon stiff fight.
IONAL CENTER
In addition to the organiza-
tion's school program. Youth
Lib. ration is planning to start
cox:sciousness - raising sessions
shortly. The sessions will be open
signed to help young people
"find out what their family's
doing to them and what they
can do to stop it."
"The nuclear family doesn't
work . . . because it's built
around a society that doesn't
work. It's an economic institu-
tion in a dying economic sys-
tem," says Dave Kaimowitz, an
eighth grade member of Youth
Liberation now living in a col-
lective on Washtenaw Ave. with
some fellow Youth Liberation
members. The collective serves
as headourters for the or-
ganization.
The organization views the
nuclear family as unjust be-
cause "young people are now
consid,r d property to -be
molded in the image of their
narents," according to one mem-
ber.
Youth L beration believes
that yours people will be in-
strumentalinsconducting a rev-
o'ution in this country, "Youth
will make the revolution." they
declare. "Ycrth will keep it
young."
However members of the or-
ganization say that this does
not mean they wish to exclude
older people from the revolu-
t onary movement. "Youth can
lead, but there's no way they're
going to make a successful rev-
olution on their own," Kaimo-
witz said.
Kaimowitz said that most
people in the organization are
sociaits or anarchists. He de-
scaib'd himself as the latter,
,nd caled for social. organiza-
tion on n .dcontralized, com-
menity bas.
Youth Tbhration offers local
high school students other serv-
ices. includina the Cooperative
Hi-h School Tndependant Press
vr di-ate (CT-TIPS). which pro-
vide- help to students who have
ste rte*'0o' vrho wish to start
indoendpnt newspapers in their
hi-h sch^o's. and Freedom;
Peace. and Solidarity (FPS), a
biwe'ek'y newsservice providing
news and graphics for inde-
pendent high school papers.
The organization also prints
its own newspaper. Youth Ris-
na. and numerous pamphlets on
subjects of interest to youth.
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