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Hey Free Press, I just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your paper. I even enjoy the ads and have visited some of the establishments. I figure if they are wise enough to support real newspaper work then they must be OK. So far the massage, Scarecrow Video, and some of the veggie restaurants have been good.
In this last issue I especially liked the articles: "Why isn't there a single tenant on the city council?," "BGH manufacturer acting like a bully", "Temp Nation", and "Get your privacy the old fashioned way...pay for it."
I'll send in a check for the T-shirt.
Keep up the good work....
David Nettleton
Kirkland, WA

Civil Disobedience: Training for Bigger Things

Just a quick note, regarding the account of the march (WFP No. 14 Feb/March 1995).
It's interesting that the kind of actions you describe are actually on the rise. At this time, for the most part, these are polite, civil actions. But they are good background and training - a habit-forming dress rehearsal for unavoidable more militant actions which are sure to occur as the current crisis deepens.
I don't know what your background is, whether you are familiar with the radical actions of the 1930s (Labor's Giant Step by Art Preis). However, if you know what had to happen to the working people in this country before they got radical, you know that we are well on the way.
It is inevitable that when people are threatened, when their very survival is at stake, that they will rise up, and no silly police line will stop them outside a silly factory.
I am rather bourgeois; my family was not poor and my expectations for material success have always been good under these oppressive conditions. Yet I see the growing desperation, the need to work harder and harder for less and less. I would wish for a different solution, but those in power are not allowing for a compromise.
I hope you will continue to participate and continue to learn between actions.
I hope to meet some time on the line, fighting for the rights of human dignity. I'll bring the doughnuts.
Your immodest savant,
Keshav Lilburn Kamath

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