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Show 35 By identifying these factors in his personal motivation, Smith also provided information suggesting the importance of Berkeley dissidents in the early stages of the movement. underground military press To better understand Smithts reflections motivations as an underground publisher, examine briefly the prior to The Ally's first issue, newspaper and its Marxist it is necessary to first for it in Berkeley nine months was the emergence of this political orientation helped motivate him to publish The Ally as, an own background of another nationally distributed underground military newspaper published tive to his on in that Smith said a sense, already existing alternative newspaper: Smith cited The Bond as the first an alterna- The Bond. nationally distributed underground newspaper aimed exclusively at military personnel during the Vietnam War. Published in Berkeley by draft resister William friends,l The Bond promoted the Callison and a organization of the American Servicemen's Union collective small group of bargaining agent, demanding the (ASU) as a would-be following: 1. The 2. Election of officers ,by vote of the rank and file. 3. An end to 4. The right of Black, Latin and other national minority servicemen and women to determine their own lives, free from the oppression of racist whites. No troops to be sent into Black, Latin or other national minority communi ties. 5. No troops to be used against anti-war demonstrators. 6. No troops to be used against workers 7. Rank and file control of court martial right to refuse to obey illegal orders--like orders to fight in the illegal, imperialist war in Southeast Asia. saluting and sir-ing of officers. on strike. boards. |
