CHICAGO FESTIVAL JUNE 29
People's Bicentennial: A reawakening
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JEFF SORENSEN
Editor
PAUL HASKINS
Editorial Director
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Wednesday, June 18, 1975
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House probe imperative
IN AN UNUSUAL show of support and agreement, the
House voted 290-64 yesterday to reject the resigna-
tion of Lucien Nedzi (D-Detroit) as Chairman of the
House Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. The
committee was created to investigate charges of illegal
domestic and foreign intelligence activities.
Nedzi was criticized by fellow committee members
after it was revealed that he had received briefings on
CIA involvement in possible assassination plots and
illegal domestic activities; Nedzi had not informed the
committee of the briefings, and his impartiality as a
member and leader of the committee was vigorously
challenged by other liberal Democratic committee mem-
bers.
Supporters of Nedzi charged that one of Nedzi's most
vocal opponents, Rep. James V. Stanton (D-Ohio) sought
to gain control of the committee to use the investigation
to publicize his campaign for a Senate seat.
Nedzi claimed the inter-committee dissension had
undermined his effectiveness on the committee and
threatened the committee's elimination in purpose and
function. A resolution has already been introduced in
the House to abolish the committee and its investiga-
tion.
Internal committee bickering should not be allowed
to cancel an autonomous investigation of intelligence
activities by the House. The House of Representatives
provides more accountable representation of American
people than any other government body.
It is true that the actions of our intelligence agen-
cies have already been the subject of investigations by
the Senate select committee and the Rockefeller Com-
mission. Nedzi himself defeatedly stated that "to send
investigators out to plow the same ground that has al-
ready been plowed is of quesionable wisdom." If it is
questionable, the question must be answered in the af-
firmative. Perhaps repeated plowing is necessary to un-
earth what is buried.-
If the people's interests are to be served, the House
must be encouraged to retreat from in-fighting and
publicity-seeking, and regroup a committee that is more
concerned with thorough investigation of the murky
area of intelligence-gathering than with dubiously mo-
tivated back-stabbing in the committee room.
By MARY NASH
THE CRIMES of the CIA are beginning to get
some exposure, but it would be a big mis-
take for the people to rely on the criticisms of
the CIA made by the press and Congress, or to
expect them to come up with solutions.
The growing danger of an embryonic police
state can be seen in the drive for the can-
didacy of George Wallace, "Mister Police State'
himself. Not only does he get a friendly day-to-
day public relations buildup in the media; he also
gets de-facto support from liberals who prefer to
fret over the competition he represents rather
than to oppose his racist and anti-labor stand.
This danger can only be met by united people's
action. This is what the ruling class fears nmost,
as the Watergate revelations have shown. Such
action is the only way we can preserve and ex-
pand the limited democracy we have and pre-
vent renewed U.S. aggression against other peo-
ples.
Democracy from below. In their pious pro-
nouncements about the American revolution and
the Bicentennial, Shell Oil, Ford, Rockefeller and
Co. would like to have the Establishment get
credit for what are really the fruits of people's
struggle, usually against the will of the rich.
The Bill of Rights, the abolition of slavery, the
right to organize into unions, social security, civil
rights laws, even independence itself, started as
demands by the oppressed poor and working
people.
Even the middle class and the well-to-do lib-
erals who joined in these battles took them up
only after the people at the grass rots had stir-
red into action.
"The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated."
The main obstacles to a real people's bicenten-
nial, to defeating Wallace and to eliminating the
CIA are racism and anti-communism which divide
us and substitute scapegoats for the real enemy.
We must not allow these reactionary ideas to
divert us from our struggle for basic social
change, for a people's way out of the present
crisis.
~ Come to Chicago. On Sunday, June 29, a bus
will be leaving Ann Arbor to attend a massive
People's Bicentennial Festival in the 5000-seat
International Amphitheater in Chicago, scene of
the infamous 1968 Democratic Party Convention.
The People's Bicentennial Festival will highlight
the conclusion of the 21st Convention of the Com-
munist Party, U.S.A. and will focus on the peo-
pie's demands for peace, democracy and equal-
.ty
The Festival will be a big blow to those who
would divide the people's movements. In addi-
tion to leading communists such as Henry Win-
ston, Gus Hall and Angela Davis, speakers' in-
clude: David Martinez of the United Farmwork-
ers: Kathy Kelly, President of the National Stu-
dent Association, Bert Corona, a California Chi-
cano leader, Anne Braden, a southern white civil
rights leader, A. A. Rayner, a black former
alderman from Chicago.
Entertainment includes the George Freeman
Jazz Band (Freeman, a jazz guitarist, has play-
ed with Charlie Parker and has out two albums:
Birth Sign and New Improved Funk; Brazilian
singer Valucha; satirical comedian Bob Mc-
Donald, seen in this week's Jet Magazine; Anita
Satisfield and the Common People, a multiracial
folksinging group, and more.
The People's Bicentennial Festival will mark
a new level of unity of black, brown, red, yellow
and white, communist, socialist and progressive
activists from throughout the nation. It should
not be missed! Tickes are only $5, including round
trip sbus fare and festival admission. They are
available at Herb David Guitar Studio, David's
Books, Suguaro Succulent Shop, and the Dog's
Paw Shoe Repair.
Mary Nash is a member of the People's
Bicentennial Committee staff and Chair-
person of the Ann Arbor Young Workers
Liberation League.
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