across the country, saw the freeze as primarily directed against the policies the simple fact that it is only the United States that deploy their Every demonstration for a nuclear freeze ha also shown by its banners, slogans and speakers, a natural tendency to oppose treeze America, and to counterpose to the billions spent on arms to the lack of funds for jobs replace The Soviet Union has declared its The inescapable logic of the freeze demand not the agree. of precisely the US refusal to back off on its plan to deploy the new and more Europe that guarantees the focus against US policy Will deepen.
It is true that the leaders of the Nuclear Weapons Campaign risk derailing the movement through policy of reliance on Democratic Party. At their annual conference last December, they ed a major campaign to support 'procances can stale. national elections in 1984. At the heart of their strategy will be a campaign to Ronald with presidential candidate of Democratic Party. But it is missing the point about the nuclear freeze movesimply reduce manoeuvre of the Democrat Party aimed to take the heat off Washington's 'real war' in Central America and done to hold the USSR solely responsible for the nuclear threat.
The ability of the anti-nuclear movement to organise as an independent. non exclusive campaign turnec towards involving the largest number people through mass action and mobilising around the anti-capitalist demand of: 'No nuclear weapons' directed at the US rulers will be the
a nulcear freeze will increasingly tend to give way concrete demands, such as no new missiles in Europe. Are the supporters of a nuclear freeze ready to 'freeze' the now existing Cruise and Pershing lI curope. Uoviousty not.
We know that there can lasting disarmament, no lasting security from the threat of nuclear destruction until the capitalist system, spawned the horrible possibility nuclear war, is eliminated. But saying for conspiracy.
We then arrest for trespass.
unilateral missiles in be no which has I WAS DOING a speaking tour in Michigan which included visits to an action at Williams International Corporation at Walled Lake just north of Detroit. They have a conmake a F107 turbo jet engine for cruise. Each engine costs $300,000. It was then I got arrested During the last blockade on Friday 2 December some supporters heard my name coming over the police walkietalkie with instructions to arrest me.
went through a fumbling charade of trying to hide me in the crowd and change my clothes! It was no good. A young Quaker tried to help me by taking me to his car, but I was grabbed from behind and told I was under It seems that the Sheriff's department had infiltrated the training sessions. Hitty one people were charged with conspiracy and trespass. I am the only person who is charged only with conspiracy. I did not take part in the blockade. My release was secured by raising two $1,000 personal loans pending two trials on three counts of conspiracy. Two of the charges carry one vear maximum sentences and the other 6 months maximum. If they were to run concurrently my maximum time in jail will be 10 months.
My crimes involve:
* Showing a film of Greenham about blockading, taking over the sentry box and celebrating. I joked about the film being dangerous material.
* Waving a Greenham Common fence around and describing action planned by Women Against Cruise * Generally ment and applause for what they were doing at Greenham.
offered words of Thomas it seems ther fiscate the Greenham film. many unanswered questions. fact that I Greenham women versus Reagan in the New York Federal Court have anything to do with all this? Or is it simply that Greenham women creatures and the US military must be protected?
The cases of all of us are to be held in two different courts, in Walled Lake and in Pontiac. appeal. In Walled Lake the prosecutor has gone over the top and has asked the whole bench of three judges to disqualify themselves, because of bias in our favour. They have refused and the offering encourage*There was a fourth way in which I • used the Merton There are am a blalnul the of police simply sharpen peace dangerous myself • Dul all are subject to Prosecutor is appealing to the Supreme Court of the state.
The arguments on my behalf will centre on the First Amendment rights to free speech and advocacy and opi nion is that they ought to succeed, but nothing is certain. One of the lawyers Bill Goodman described my arrest as an attempt to teach the peace movement make international links. Let's show them that what the New York were cas are one siannes case repression and police spying in the US in more than a decade will our commitment to making. Wittier souls than would probably quote things about exiles in a strange land at this point but I can only think of one suitable word. HELP.
Love and Peace, , Jean Hutchinson.
Greenham Woman Against Cruise. I. Leonard St, London E2.
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