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THERE ARE SOME TERRIFIC PRIZES TOO
[Photos Of Prizes Below]
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From: Kathy K
To: Military Resistance Newsletter
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Subject: Re: Military Resistance 14H3: The Dwindling Of Lashkar Gah
It’s been some time since I thanked you for your reports and analyses.
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You are one of the best.
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Date: Jun 9, 2016 12:54 AM
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From: DC
Date: Jun 9, 2016 7:07:22 PM
Subject: Military Resistance Newsletter via AS
Yea I've received the last two.
I like that the newsletter combines reports of war overseas with reports of the struggles against the police state.
Good articles.
You guys should come down to speak at Rutgers during the school year, we can organize an event centered around veterans and the struggle against imperialism. I think students may be receptive to that and I know the comrades will be.
Solidarity,
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[Prizes Shown Below]
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Now The Prizes:
Prize #1:
Capital In The Twenty First Century,
by Thomas Piketty
Hailed by some as the greatest review of capitalism since Marx published Capital, and criticized by others as an accommodation to reformism. “It is the economics book that took the world by storm.” [The Economist] “His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.” [Amazon]
A new hardcover copy donated for the raffle by BB. 2014; 685 pages; $39.95.
Prize #2: A So Rare Chunk Of Our History [1970]
The Original “FTA! Songs Of The GI Resistance”
“Sung by Barbara Dane with active duty GIs”
Recorded at Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
1970 Paredon Records LP1003; Brooklyn, N.Y.
With 16 page booklet containing “About the GI Movement” by Irwin Silber, “If This Be Treason” by Barbara Dane, “Barbara Dane: Singer for the GI Movement” by Howard Levy & and lyrics.
Carefully preserved, cover and disk are fresh and clean. Thanks to Vietnam Veteran and UAW Soldier of Solidarity Dennis Serdel for donating to the fund drive.
Prize #3: The Long Walk To Freedom
Runaway Slave Narratives
Their own words from12 runaway slaves, including Nat Turner in 1831, Harriet Jacobs in 1861, and Frederick Douglas in 1855
New, hardcover, 246 pages; 2102; $28.95
Prize #4: Crazy Shit Presidents Said
A Collection Of Quotations
Paperback 250 Pages. One cover minor nib; otherwise beautiful.
Examples:
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Isreal’s.” Obama
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.” Lyndon B Johnson
Prize #5: Forging Capitalism;
Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, And The Rise Of Modern Finance:
By Ian Klaus
Klaus describes the rat infested sewer of finance capitalism as it oozed up to rule the world, displacing the rule of manufacturing capital.
Many examples of these early, primitive frauds and con-games will show how far we have come in developing the more sophisticated frauds and con games that constitute modern finance capital. And some will seem very familiar.
Spectacular examples of fraud are presented in both highly readable and carefully reached and documented prose.
Hardcover, new, 278 pages; Yale U. Press 2014
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: Evil Force; NYPD 911
By Gail Brathwaite, 1997 Edition
[ONLY COPY MADE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE FOR YEARS!]
A simple, but powerful roll call of overwhelmingly African-American citizens of New York beaten, and/or murdered by New York City police, followed by a roll call of the names of the police who did it, followed by accounts of the victims and what was done to them.
The author’s relative, Wesley Brathwaite, a Vietnam Veteran and musician, had an eye knocked out and a hole punched in his skull by those terrorists in blue.
Paperback; 89 pages:
Special Interest Publishing Co.; Brooklyn, N.Y.
Fresh as the day it came from the bookstore.
Prize #8
Seize The Time: [1969 LP]
Songs by Elaine Brown,
Deputy Minister Of Information
Southern California Chapter,
Black Panther Party
[AGAIN, ONLY COPY MADE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE FOR YEARS!]
Song titles including Seize The Time, The Panther, And All Stood By, The End Of Silence, Very Black Man and Poppa's Come Home. Downbeat said of the album at the time, "Miss Brown possesses a pleasant, Edith Piafish voice, and her songs (she wrote them all) are proudly delivered hymns to the black man.”
Vault Recording Studios, Hollywood; Vault Stereo 131
The cover is scuffed, and one cover seam partially open; the LP is fresh as mint.
Thanks to Vietnam Veteran and UAW Soldier of Solidarity Dennis Serdel for donating to the fund drive.
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:
New Hooded Windbreaker In Defenders Of Wildlife Package
Prize #11: This Time Is Different
Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
Covering several hundred years of bursting bubbles, financial crises of other sorts, scams, Ponzi scemes, the book examines the ever recurring disasters, and how the repeat over and over again. Not a mere recitation of horror stores, but in depth analysis of how capitalism and crises truly are twins.
Hard cover; 463 pages; like new; Princeton U. Press, 2009
Prize #12: March Violets
Philip Kerr
Fiction about 1930’s Berlin, only not really fiction. The hero is a private detective forced out of the Berlin police by the Nazis, whom he despises. The brilliance of Kerr’s work is portrayal of how the Nazi tentacles slowly but surely spread everywhere in daily life. Thank of Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler with the bitter biting sarcasm that Berliners were known for and a look at politics from below, in the streets.
“March Violets” was what Berliners called those who signed up for the Nazi Party when it was profitable to do so.
Paperback; 245 Pages; new
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