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For the last five years, our crab, uh our uh crab harvest has been diminishing. You know, quite mysterious. I don't know what the figures are, but you know, the crabs that you buy down are fishing war. A lot of them will come from the northwest now

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because our crabs have died and no one knew why and now we know why. Thanks to the University of California signed it. It's DDT DDT is destroying the capacity of many forms of marine life, including the crab to reproduce. And uh high concentrations of PDT have

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been found in, in the most remote Sierra lakes in the wilderness areas. Um You know, it's pretty interesting. You can be posted, you can be busted for LSD, but no one's busting anybody for DDT. And we don't even have a choice about being poisoned by it.

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The other surrealistic events, the Marin County thing where a lovely woodland stream is invaded by chainsaws bulldozers and concrete mixers and people didn't even know about it. They find out that their backyard stream is being converted into a concrete ditch by the Corps of Engineers. The

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only way the thing gets stopped is by putting their bodies between the chainsaws and the trees. Yeah. Few other items that come closer to the issue because, see, I think the issue is that while your parents and my generation, you know, that went to college during

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those placid Eisenhower years, uh, well, we have been busy tending our lawns, making money, getting ahead in the job paying our taxes, buying new cars and new ranch houses. Much of America has been plundered, polluted and paved over and often at public expense, you know, who

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is the public at this? Most Americans have just been too busy, I think with, with their own uh affluence to be concerned with and to notice the steady destruction of our public environments of our comfortable old neighborhoods like the south campus of our cities, of our

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parks, our open spaces, forests, lakes, streets and beaches and this seems to be the be the real problem. Our public agencies, our public agencies have enriched private pockets uh while acting in the public interest and uh you, the California water plant, some of you may not

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be familiar with this. Some years ago, the public voted several billion dollars to take water from uh from the uh northern Sierra areas down to the Mojave desert. Well, that's not a bad idea to use water, but who gains by this of desert land that's worth

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50 to $100 an acre will be worth three or 4000. And it's all those are large land holdings. So the Chandlers and the hurst and the Bank of America and uh agribusiness and others gains at public expense. And the university are precisely the same in this

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situation. Let's ask the regions to make full financial disclosure about their personal holdings in land, particularly particularly at Irvine and Santa Cruz, you know, you know, huge public investment. And let's also ask the Chief Administrative Officers of the various campuses for a full financial disclosure of

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their personal investments. We may find out some interesting things um because every time major public investments are made, for example, building a new campus at Irvine, you know, how does the thing work? The Irvine ranch has a lot of property, you know, it's not worth too

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much. So they, so they sell it to the university, some of it and huge public investments are made there, you know, roads are built, sewers put in and a and a community is created at public expense. And then the Irvine corporation or private speculators say in

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the case of Santa Cruz skim the cream off of that because they're the ones that benefit them because their value of land goes up. And I think it's the issue of of it's the issue of public investment and how it's used that is really the issue

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of people are because one of the issues certainly because I think the university dis dis misused its public trust and has many cases misused the public trust by not, by not using land in the uh the interests of its users and enriching and uh either consciously,

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well, we don't apply any motives to it but, but private pockets are, are enriched on public investments. Now, I like to introduce somebody else who knows quite a bit about this. Uh He's informed me that uh he's just been, he was issued an injunction yesterday not

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to speak, not to speak. This is Bob Greenway, Vice Chancellor for academic planning at Santa Cruz. He's, uh, been fired from his job as of July 1. Maybe Bob can give us a little more insight into the old, working, the lowest present to you today. Politics

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of ecology crowd pleaser. Um, you, you know, my credentials are relatively OK already and I probably should put well on the head, uh, because I don't know exactly what I'm going to say. I'd like to, to make, uh, some kind of an existential statement, uh, you

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know, sort of like coming to Broadway to be invited to speak at Sprout Plaza, even lower Plaza. And, uh, you know, one doesn't always know how to react if it's this, uh, this heavy kind of a thing. I'd like to tell you, uh, I'd like to

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tell you something about where I'm at, what I'm doing and what I think, uh, we ought to do. Um, I feel clean in the first time for the university. Uh, I have a statement uh, a court order that says plaintiff, the regent's defendant Robert Greenway. And

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I feel clean in the university for the first time this year since I've been here. I'd like to make four quick points. And then I them a little bit. I think we're seeing the full glory of Regan's politics, his ethics, his morality in the past two

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weeks in Berkeley. This is where Regan is at. Existentially. We can see it, We can see it more vividly than he could ever say it. Although he does say the same thing. Uh He and his men must be defeated by the people. There must be a

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defeat, there must be a defeat. Now, there must be a defeat of Reagan and his policies. Uh That's point number one point number two, Regan's men include the university administrators and I'd like to make this very clear, Regan and his men, the regents through the regents,

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the university administrators, most of them, they're serving as Conduits for Regan's philosophy. They're bringing Regan's philosophy into the Heartland of the university where it's about where this, this fragile Heartland of a university that we struggle with and have some caring for where it's being brought right

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inside of this, right inside of this university by Regan and his men and his men include the university administrators. Number three, the people include the Children and our women. And number four, we must defeat him in terms of a new ethic, the new ethic that this

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part represents and symbolizes so vividly. And I'd like to talk about that too. It seems to me that our dilemma is that we need space. We need physical space and we need psychic space in which to work. We need it in the university, we need it

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in the territory surrounding the university. And the great dilemma we face, it seems to me is that we have to fight for that. And so in fighting, we are in danger of becoming Regan ourselves. We're in danger of slipping to his miserable, of, of responding and

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fighting. We're in danger of slipping to his ethical level when we try to fight simply for the minimal space, not the maximum space but a minimum space in which to teach and learn and live simply to teach simply to learn, simply to carry on the, the

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academic enterprise. However intellectual you want to make that in order to do that, we have to fight for the space and that it gives us a very, very critical dilemma. It potentially puts us on a vicious circle. And I'm here to say that I think we've

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got to get off that vicious circle. Uh One of the ways we have to get up that vicious circle is the demand of our administrators. They say one thing whether they are for Reagan or against them. Now, I didn't choose this kind of polarization. You know,

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I'm, I'm uh only recently, I'm very nervous radical at that. I didn't choose this and I don't choose a civil war and I don't choose to fight it. Regan chose it either. This is his approach, this approach to space, his approach to planning his approach to

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an academic enterprise and he's been repressing it and coming down on it now for several years, every administrator knows that I've been to the administrative meetings, I've been to the chancellors meetings, I've been to their closed door meetings and I'm here to tell you categorically that

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they know exactly the danger. Uh last fall at the regents meeting in Santa Cruz when Reagan was attempting to pass legislation, which would have taken away even further the, the precious freedom, but a few precious freedoms are left. Uh President hitch turned to Reagan with a

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vein standing out in his neck and his face contorted with, with desperate of moderation uh and liberal concern. And he said, he said, Governor Reagan, if you persist in the path you are following, you will destroy the university as we know it. And he turned to

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him with tears in his eyes and they and pleaded with the government. This is the chief administrator of this university and the chancellors are in the same situation and they close their meetings, they wring their hands. Uh they are tortured. Then they are told by the

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people of on the one hand and the students on the other, they plead for mercy. They plead for understanding. I think that time is over. I'm sorry, it's over. But I think there is a polarization in the state and I think administrators, first of all, you

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must use their authority must, must, must act as, as humane and honest men and get right out in front about where they stand one way or another. Yeah. Now I know this is getting to be uh what I'm gonna say. Now, I suspect that many of

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you will be very naive, but I'm still very naive politically. Although I believe me, I'm learning very fast, but I still think that we don't have to follow Regan's methods in order to get the goal. I think I share with most of you the goal, I

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think we have to have a vision of not just one part but thousands of parts. I think we have to take every shred of university land that's not already built and make it a part. And I think we have to take other land. Now. Now, the

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thing I want to say about that is that I'm from Santa Cruz, you know, Camelot by the Bay. Uh I came to Santa Cruz. Uh I was told it was the most innovative university in the country. My job was to come as an academic innovator uh

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to propose uh a rapid even radical reconstruction of the university from inside. In order to save it. This was presented to me, you can work inside you can work at the university. Uh You can create new programs, I guess we can save the university by changing

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it radically. And we will show it Santa Cruz, we will show the rest of the city where we can do that. So there we are with our thousands of acres, there are thousands of empty acres, rolling uh pasture land, uh pumps of regular trees overlooking Monterey

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Bay. Uh There's a few black students in the university but we're working on it. I was told there's a few we were working on it. Uh The uh uh bay doesn't get polluted, but the university of course, can save the Bay somehow because we'll do ecological

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studies. And most people tell people, you know, everything was all set for a great liberal, moderate salvation of not only the university but the surrounding environment. I'm just here to simply tell you it doesn't work. The proposals we made for sharing the power through the channels,

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time and time and time again, were rejected by a very tight and nervous chancellor. Known to be a great liberal in his, in his youth, a very nervous chancellor who said I cannot do it given the political pressures in this state. This state does not allow

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me to do the things I would like to do. So. Once again, we have to ask of our chancellors and the administrators to say exactly where they're at and if they're not with us, they're against us, if they're not with Reagan, if they're, if they're not

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against Reagan, they're with him. And we've got to make that vividly clear for P on now. My vision uh, is idealistic but I don't think ridiculous. Um, I think we have to go Friday to the park and I think we have to, I think we have

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to go with our Children. I think we have to go with our women. I think we have to go with our neighbors. Uh I do not believe that the people of California uh have a strong hold on. Riga. Uh Again, I may be extremely politically naive.

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I think they are voting for Reagan out of fear and anxiety. And I think if they see that, in fact, there is a different ethic that's coming alive. If there's a different caring and a different kind of love and a different kind of community, they can

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form. And if this part can represent it and if they can see us go, doesn't have to be a weak thing that love and that, that kind of commitment can be, can be something stronger than the kind of stuff that Reagan is bringing down on us.

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I think we have to go with their Children and stand up next to the guns and look straight down them and say, OK, we've made our point. Now we're going to pull out the fence gently, of course, step by step piece by piece, we're going to

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pull it out. Go ahead and shoot. I think it has to be come to that. I think we have to say we're putting our bodies in the line. We're putting it peaceably. We're putting it in the nature of the new ethic and it's up to you.

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If you want to shoot, if you want to bring violence down and let the people of California see that you are engendering that violence not us. I think we have to hold that line. Finally, on a softer note, I'd like to invite you to Santa Cruz.

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We have 3000 acres. It's growing flat land, it would take them years to fix it. And I, and it's our land for dancing and for singing and for sitting down and for holding each other and for living and learning in the way that we want. Thank

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you very much Greenway from the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California. He just gave, I mentioned that there are about 2000 people, 12 listening to this live TN which we're bringing not you see, they aren't all bad guys, they just don't speak up enough.

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That's all next. I'd like to introduce, introduce a distinguished uh alumnus of this institution, Michael Rosman. I wanna try to say words of a somewhat different sort about the park and what's happening with it. One of the things that means the most to me is the

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two sets of words you've just heard by Mandarin Greenway. I know both of these men. Both of them are my friends. Before this incident, Greenway was a liberal administrator who did not believe in confrontations. And Mandarin was a liberal hip professor who did not mess with

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politics. And both of them have received from this profound education and thus are launched as they've been launched some time or otherwise on the same kind of educating and learning trip that these events put us on. And to me, half the preciousness of what happens in

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these times are the changes in growth that individual people go through as a result. That doesn't come out under the surface of descriptive political speeches and the exploitation of the action I got married about a month ago and both Vander and Greenway were at my wedding.

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It was a very fortunate kind of affair. We brought 100 people into the Sierras in a small part by a piece of ground. They made an altar and we joined together to make a ceremony and to try to understand what commitment between people means. And we

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made to me in this time, I don't know how much, I don't know how to speak of it to God. It was a very heavy event and that touch us in terms of what we do is growing among us, among people in this country and how

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we move it on to our own ceremonies and our own forms. And after it, someone who was there, a housewife who was literally that was married through a carpenter and so on. Wrote this very lovely letter, talked about the wedding, what it had given. She and

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her husband, many couples came away very heavily renewed from it felt like we had all gotten married together and then went on to talk about the people's party and he said it seems so some natural and logical and extension of the wedding. What we did there

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for a short time here being extended for a longer time. The first people coming together to build a thing and play in and be an expression of their joy and sharing. Um, she does not often write. She is not given to that kind of lofty phrase

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and in sentiment, but she said it all very beautifully. And she wound up saying I've never been involved in politics. I've never been one to get out and march for a call. But now I do believe that this was after, this was before all this dust

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started falling on heart. Now, I do believe that if they come with bulldozers to tear up the heart, I will be there with my two babies and sit in front of them. Yeah, I've known her for eight years and never been able to make any kind

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of political interest on her. I had to get married, you know, to, towards politics. But that's, you know, that's the thing these days, politics is getting very weird. Right. It's embracing a lot of things that we had too narrow, a vision to see about. I want

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to say something about property because when it comes down to that the park is a matter of property or not so much in property as of attitudes to property, everybody knows for a and not only just the property in the blank, you know, but what can

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be done with real property with real open space? What new can be made to grow, whether it's an open space in the Sierras or in the middle of the city? The fact is that we've got something new inside ourselves and we're coming to be able to

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put it out and make it grow into new things and we're trying to do it in open space, we can leave both physical and psychological. The reason that the university brought up that piece of property was to stamp out the Telegraph Avenue culture was to stamp

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out territorially the growth of a new thing in in the middle of its Heartland that was specifically stated in fact, in the regions arguing the original rationale about see hippie concentration and rising crime. That's something else I want to put parenthesis in here that nobody's mentioned

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about that rising crime bullshit when things first started coming down in Berkeley, when the first cop harassment of young people started on the Avenue in 66 something called the Be Be Better Berkeley Committee formed in response after people started making protests enough, the police department issued

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a report on South on major crime in the south campus area. You see, and it said that this was an area of rising crime. I was a graduate student in math and statistics before I cut out of the university and I had the honor of working

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for the BBC to analyze this report and the report was a clock. Do you understand when you corrected the statistics for the general crime increase in the whole city and the changes in population density in the south campus area, crime in the south campus area, major

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crime which is cars and petty larceny auto or over $50 larceny was had increased less in the south campus area than it had citywide in the last five years. It is on that line report and that lying statistic about the arising crime area that the police

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department justified its harassment. The city government has justified its attitude towards the area, the regions and the local administration justified the purchase of that piece of land, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. That's how it comes out. And I think one thing that is terribly wrong

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with this university itself is that for all our fine social scientists and all our fine statisticians, nobody in the university tried to take on that important and make sense out of it or speak against it so much of the intellectuals, the property was taken to stamp

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out our culture. On the other hand, we've got a very heavy territorial imperative work. There was that original script. What, what was that? A starter field? My God. That used to be a soccer field. It's really true. And now it's Zeller Back Hall. Do you know

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what the Zeller Back corporation does? No, no, it doesn't make paper. That's the intermediate part. That's the detail. What does it do? It turns trees into money. Oh, ok. Ok. We had a piece of territory. It was not property, it was territory on which we exercised

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what we understood then of our lives and our culture. For six years, we first migrated from there to there and it was called the place where we put up our tables. You know, remember those dear bygone years before FSM they took it away, we went to

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get it back. They put a police car on the campus and we claimed a piece of territory there with our bodies to express out what we were. That piece of territory. That center of campus ever since 1964 has had the following character that's been tested time

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and time again. It's been tested in the BC days. It's been tested in the cent time. It's been tested now, it was tested during the induction center days. That territory is so important that between three and 8000 people will defend it with their bodies against gas

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and culture. And whatever else comes down to be able to use it. We've never argued the legality of it, the property for us to meet in the territory for us to meet in that we need to make the community meetings in times of crisis that are

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central to the LA culture, that's not property, that's territory to be used. Starting in 66 when people started growing long hair and when the joiner of the cultural movement and the political movement be began to become evident, we started claiming territory out on the street. The

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first time was April 66 B DC rally. And at night trying to use the street in sympathy with striking Saigon students in Berm or something. You know, it was one day soon after that, they went in to try to use the street for festival and now

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linked to the park. There's been this whole period in time, five years in Berkeley, when increasingly we've been seeking out pieces of territory that we have to have to express ourselves out in our culture. And it is on that Reprisal that for tearing down those buildings

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and now stamping out the park in the university focuses black clothes with a pole. It's about that piece of property. I started on it, which is where we got married and the hills it's called, I'm sitting in your person. We whom you call Indians once walked

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these foothills of your fair Sierra. If the granite dirt shifts beneath your foot. Like an echo on this path of falling p knots still and always lie like friendly torches to the night unlit. Don't be afraid the last black bears are gone from here. Their survivors

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have made their treaty with garbage and antibiotics. We cannot use their eyes. The mono we lodged in the burial mounds is almost exhausted by catalogs. Soon all you will find of us will be scattered. Obsidian flakes of the bulldozer mounds, too small for a necklace or

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a trophy. And the red flame struggled this late awake with the black after century shock, crashing against concrete walls like desperate pew salmon upward in search of the lost current of freedom. We will not reclaim this land that we never owned. Our late sons will be

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Burren in bleak breech bs modeled for novelty fashion, aspired to breed test tubes of our descendants of smallpox for trial. Closer to India. The path is yours soon. Only the earth herself will remain spinning beneath your foot in troubled life as you wander for once without

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arms and receptive, seeking the balance lost while the wall plant an oxides of the dark arrow of bride gather to suffocate to. Ok. I'd like to, uh, introduce Stanley Smart and his family. Stanley is a high Indian from a Dermott Nevada and, uh, he's in town

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for a case in which he was, uh, arrested for deer hunting without a license. Maybe he has something to say. About property rights. Well, I think uh Mr Lemberg here for inviting me uh gathered here today. And uh as uh he mentioned that uh I have

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been caught by the uh game warden uh last fall and we came through with our case where the federal government have proved that the Indian had a full title to the land, which Bandon has never um received any compensation from the land when white time took

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over this uh entire continent. So uh today, I, I am very grateful to our great spirit who looked down upon us as a human. How does the uh to the person that uh they do in format? And that means that the white man has used those

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methods using a kangaroo court uh to find in in people at various times in the past years that they have to pay 100 and $50 or $50 fine for what charges they had against him. But anyway, that uh I took his stand because I know that

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the Indians had some kind of a right that the Indians was uh entitled to their sovereign rights. And uh so we took a chance on that. We had a lawyer which was uh presenting me and uh my case and have won the case in April 1969.

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Uh As you may know that the Indians uh do not have the title to the land. That's what the White man thinks, but it's the uh, great spirit, which is the sun that's coming up every day and come over the northern horizon. That is the Indian

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has always spoken in their own language and prayed to our great spirit that, uh, whatever he wishes for that he have spoken to the spirit. And before the sun was opened again. And by that time, well, if you want to kill a deer that he had

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gone out to kill a deer, and he had that great spirit for those kind of a way to get his food for his family. And then, uh, the Indian life is that we have, that is we have the full power of the continent of the United

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States that we do have the power, which is not known to either humans or Indians ourselves. We do not know what powers we have under this great spirit. That is, we know that, uh, it's there to protect and also to place the ones who is helping

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him the right way, uh, to make, to survive on this land. And we know that he's there. He's here. He's watching us as if he's watching us today as the sun shines as you know. Uh, this is what we call our, uh, uh, what is, uh,

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known as our Jesus that is, it's known in other ways by, uh, Indian. But, uh, it's, uh, uh, white man's language that they call Jesus. We don't use those words in our own, uh, religious ceremony, prayer. But anyway, uh we are pretty close to God, whatever

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uh that is, we uh call him our creator. But he has created everything just like, uh you know, the people that was once was not humans, they were some sort of an animals like uh or either a rock or a stick, everything that right among the

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hills that they uh did uh speak the language what we speak now. And uh that was before the uh uh fire took over and uh have destroyed the entire earth that uh there was so much sinners at that time that the creator thought that he had

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to do away with all those things, bad things that had been done. So, so that's why he set the world on fire that uh to burn all the films away. But so uh the Indians was the survival of that time. That is uh we do know

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that the Indians have a spiritual way of knowing that uh whenever we don't, whenever we do uh come together that we don't go to hell. What like the white man knows. You know, we always go to our great uh uh great uh honey ground, happy honey

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grounds, what you would call it. And we have always been known that our spirit has carried it to us, carried us that place whenever we have reached our death. But otherwise we don't know nothing about the hell which the people have talked about that the white

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man's Bible that we don't believe in or we believe in what was given us down to us that we've been handed down. That is we do not preach from a book. We just preach from our open mind and deeply concerned from the bottom of our hearts

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that we do. Um That's what we believe in and we have asked for those uh powers to take a hold. And we have also prayed for the ones that are white brothers that have made 11 that has came across from the other overseas. And uh has

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talked about a treaty which was made in 1863 for the great uh chief chemo. And uh that he has made his words come true. All right. But the words that he thought he was gonna write down, he did not put it that way. That's where the

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treaty it comes. It's a peace treaty. All right. But it just pertains to more like to the land where the uh state laws would govern over the Indians when the time comes, when they have to look at it. But otherwise it's just a sheet of paper

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with black and white that uh just to prove that they have made some treaty, but it's not really that true. So that's why we have fought this case on our sovereign rights. But we do know that it's clear that uh that the white man has came

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and they are paying so many million dollars today for the land, uh, what was destroyed in the past, but we, uh, traditional Indians, we do not believe in it that way. We know that this is our mother earth that those things was made for food and

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not for trophies. Like, uh, what the sportsman, uh, use as, you know, in the fall when they go deer and they kill the deer just for the Aler that if they kill the deer for the, uh, trophy or whatever, uh, the, uh, prizes are for the

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biggest gain. But we use every part of the journey. And, uh, so we do know that this is Mother Earth that we really are proud of. That is we can go up to the hills and speak to, uh, the mountains and the mountain could answer us

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back in our spirit way. And so, uh, that is, we understand fully that, uh, you know, it's too bad that, uh, there are people, um, have, uh, betrayed the words of what their older, um, people have said before when they first took over the entire United

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States. But, uh, you know, our great spirit has looked down and he has shaken the ground with an earthquake. He has also flooded various areas around the country just to protect the Indians that he know that the Indians are harmless because they are holding up their

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feet. When the white man said, well, brothers, you better put down your guns. And so the Indians did and it's the white men that come along with their laws now that we're fighting with the paper and pencil against each other in a kind of a peaceful

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way. And that's how this case was. That is the Indians. They don't know this white man's law. We don't believe in that white man's law. It's the constitution of the Indians. Oh, that is, it's the constitution and the Indians, that's the way the law retains the

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supreme law of the land that we have our own laws. Our Indian has his own laws. You know, if I want to do something wrong that the great spirit has, will come down to uh convict me of my um wrongs what I have done. Otherwise I

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have always asked for a great spirit to guide me in those kind of a ways. If uh I needed help that I'd asked for a great spirit for his guidance to guide me through whichever way would uh make the best for our people. And I have

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represented uh my tribe. So I guess my two minutes is up and I thank all the people that's been Todd Gitlin, but that I guess I was invited to give you a major political speech. I, you're not going to first, I want to

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announce that insurrection city at Hurston Grab People's Park number 37 tomorrow night at seven, we'll have Mary Lou, the sister of Lean Salty Lazarus. Be Santa Coup and Arthur Rimba and Percy Thursday night at seven, I'd like to read two poems. The first is by a

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man named Black Elk. The second is by myself. Black Elk was a Sioux Indian died in 1950 and he wrote 80 years after his battles. Now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop. I know it was the story of a mighty vision

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given to a man, too weak to use it of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people's heart with flowers and singing birds and now is withered and of a people's dream that died in bloody snow. This is the last part of one of

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black elk's visions like I looked below me. When the earth was silent, there was thick green light and saw the hill and the grasses on the hills and all the animals and everywhere about me were the cries of frightened birds and sounds of fleeing wings. I

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was the chief of all the heavens riding there. And when I looked behind me, all the 12 black horses reared and plunged and thundered and their manes and tails were whirling hail and their nostrils snorted lightning. And when I looked below again, I saw the slant

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hail falling and the long sharp rain and where we passed, the trees bowed low and all the hills were dim. And now the earth was bright again as we rode. I could see the hills and valleys and the creeks and rivers passing under. We came above

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a place where three streams made a big one. A source of mighty water and something terrible was there? Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames, a blue man lived, the dust was floating all about him in the air. The grass was short and

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withered. The trees were welting, two legged and four legged beams lay there thin and panting and wings too weak to fly. Then the black horse riders shouted, ho hey and charged down upon the blue man. But we're driven back and the white troop shouted, charging and

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was beaten. Then the red shoe and the yellow and when each had failed, they all cried together. Eagle wing stretches, hurry and all voices of all kinds that cheered me. So I charged, I have in one hand and in the other was the bow that turned

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into a spear as the bay and I swooped down and the spear's head was sharp lightning. It stabbed the blue man's heart and as it struck, I could hear the thunder rolling and many voices that cried, unheeded, meaning I had killed, the flames died. The trees

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and grasses were not withered anymore and murmured happily together and every living being cried in gladness with whatever voice it had. And then the four troops and horsemen charged down the dead body of the blue man counting co and suddenly it was only a harmless turquoise.

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Ok. That was by Black Elk Sioux, Indian. This is all, all fences down something there is that doesn't go offense. And chancellor he spoke and he said the people want space, let them play soccer. It was the beginning. There is no, the University of California is

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armed and dangerous. Roger Hines and the regents of the University of California have their.