Editorial

EDITORIAL

BY THE EDITORIAL GROUP

DABISH / DUCHAN / MARSH / WHITE

People talk of the Warren-Forest community as it it really existed as if it was some tangible force. There was the beginning of a community here 3-4 years ago when there was a street scene along Prentis (remember the infamous "Rosemary", the "Vilante" and of course the Workshop?).

People would stand in front of their apartment buildings rapping with friends and even in bad weather the streets were full of people. Sure, there was a lot of bogus hype involved in living up to the TimeLife junkimage of a hippie but still a lot of people learned what it meant to be free even if it was freedom in a negative sense; free for the first time from the grip of Amerikan consumer death kulcher. But the people weren't ready for the repression that followed (at the first opportunity, i.e. the 1967 ghetto uprising). "I win love everyone, I will love the cods as they kick the shit out of me in the streets." And soon you are supporting the will of the people, which, as Brother Huey P. Newton, imprisoned minister of defense of the Black Panthers says, "is stronger than the man's technology".

In short that "V" sign means you are not revolutionary but a reactionary. In order to be a revolutionist you need to do much more than raise the clenched fisttyquineed to study, read, smoke a LOT of dope & feel good generally and set up and support your own culture. But that clenched fist is an indication that you are prepared to do. so 

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLF BLACK POWER TO THE BLACK PEOPLE STUDENT POWER TO STUDENTS PANTHER POWER TO THE VANGUARD

after the inevitable busts the streets had been regained by the forces of death. The lawn order freeks cruse down the streets and meet no opposition.

But now it's 1969. The rebellion, Chicago the bombings and New Bethel are all In the past. And the cops are no longer so smugly confident as thy patrol our streets They're scared. If you don't understand or believe the power of the people let me assure you, THEY DO! Yes, they're scared/scared of their fat authoritarian asses as they walk their beats, stiffly now two of them they don't dare travel alone. Clubs swinging nervously. They seem to expect the very next person they pass to attack them. You can feel the tension. The forces of repression are running scared because they're running out of time.

IT IS TIME TO RECLAIM OUR STREETS. TIME TO REGAIN CONTROL OVER OUR OWN LIVES. TIME TO STOP LIVING IN FEAR, TIME TO BE FREE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PLANET. Only then can we be said to have a true community.

If you wish to work for those goals, join us. But If hot, If you're only interested in acting out the hip/image then stay out of our way. Cause we've got work to get done. And asses to kick.