J'j'
(announcer) This week of celebration
commemorating the 10th anniversary
of the war of liberation
is a time when all new yorkers take pride
in remembering the most peaceful revolution the world has known.
It is time to look back on the events of a decade ago,
to consider the progress of the past ten years
and to look foward to the future.
(Women singing) J“ ...Of america's mysteries that remain j“
j'j'
j“ we broke the hidden tyranny... j“
(woman) Hi, there.
This is Isabel from radio ragazza,
bringing you a little tune
that you'll be hearing an awful lot of these days.
From the makers of our revolution.
You might not be hearing it here,
but you'll be hearing it everywhere else you go.
Happy anniversary.
J“ ...We are born in flames j“
j“ we are born in flames j“
j'j'
j“ into the darkness of the coffins j“
j“ from the sadists j“
j“ open up... j'j'
(FBI agent) Adelaide Norris, 24.
She seems to be the founder of the women's army.
(Slide projector clicks)
(Chief) Her background?
Ordinary.
Uh, typical of a lot of blacks.
Mother a domestic... That's her on the left.
Her father died when she was a teenager.
Eight kids in the family.
Adelaide's the oldest, she helped raise the others.
Uh, these are some of them.
Always a jock,
good in track and basketball, goes to school nights,
works construction jobs during the day.
(Slide projector clicking)
Homosexual?
Yes, the women's army appears to be dominated
by blacks and lesbians.
Norris started as a radical separatist vigilante group
three or four years ago...
I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas or any suggestions
as to how we can keep this center open,
because for those of you who are working,
what this means is that you're gonna have to stop working
and stay home and take care of your kids.
No, it's gonna be impossible for me to stop working.
Highly impossible.
We have to figure out some kind of way
we can keep the center open independently.
J'j'
(woman sings) J“ ohhhh... j“
j'j'
good evening, this is honey
coming directly to you from Phoenix radio,
a free radio station.
A station not only for the liberation of women,
but for the liberation of all,
through the freedom of life which is found in music.
(Woman sings) J“ ain't no smiling faces, mm-mmm, no, no j“
(honey) We are all here because we have fought
in the wars of liberation,
and we all bear witness to what has happened since the war.
We still see the depression from the oppression
that still exists both day and night.
J“ I'll take you there j“
(honey) For we are the children of the light
and we will continue to fight.
Not against the flesh and blood,
but against the system that names itself falsely.
J“ I'll take you there j“
j“ oh oh, mercy... j“
for we have stood on the promises far too long now
that we can all be equal under the cover of a social democracy.
Where the rich get richer
and the poorjust wait on their dreams.
(Man, chuckling) Look at this sweet little thing
coming up the block here.
(Man) Hey baby, _ what's happening?
Where you going?
What are you doing?
(Man whistling)
What's the matter, you won't say hello?
Today began the weeklong celebration
of the tenth anniversary of the war of liberation.
Festivities began this afternoon
as organized iaborjoined forces in a parade up fifth Avenue,
commemorating the overwhelming victory
by the social labor party ten years ago.
Labor's abandonment of the old Democratic party
is considered by many
the cornerstone of today's liberation.
Setting aside for a while
the growing pressure of economic crisis,
labor spent the day in a celebration
ofpnde and accomplishment.
Mayor zubrinsky combined partying and politicking
when he addressed a throng of 150,000 marchers
at the parade's end in the central park sheep Meadow.
(Train rumbles)
J'j'
(woman singing) J“ headlines screaming and she's watching the race j“
j“ freedom backed our constitution j“
j“ never naked for a dance through his days j“
j“ talkin' about evolution j“
j“ she's got a black suit j“
j'and a red dress j“
j“ she's got a chest full of a poet's meds j“
j“ a hangover and her mother on the phone j“
j“ wake up wake up j“
j“ she isn't alone j“
j'j'
j“ manifest so strong in a tenement room j“
j“ talking 'bout a decoration j“
j“ war paint and feathers j“
j“ and all the young braves j“
j“ in an undercover nation j“
j“ she's got a Blackjack and the wings of a dove j“
j“ she's got an iron fist in a velvet glove j“
j“ she's just gotta picnic 'cause the rent was due j“
j“ wake up wake up j“
j“ would this be you? J“
j“ could this be you? J“
I'm gonna open this up now
to any general questions you may have.
Why is it called women's army?
I thought army's for the men.
Sounds awfully muscular.
(FBI agent) Hillary hurst, 26.
We figure her to be the acting leader of the women's army.
There's no actual political record,
but she's been instrumental in bringing the army
to large numbers of women
through induction meetings she holds around the city.
(Chief) What connection does she have to Norris?
(FBI agent) Well, she's not responsible to Norris within the organization,
they are in close contact,
but that may have to do with their lifestyles.
Is hurst in command?
That's impossible to say.
We're not even sure how the organization is structured.
All we know is that they're starting to appeal to women
who would've written them off as lunatics a few years ago.
President of the city council Ryan,
members of the board of estimate,
ladies and gentlemen.
As chief executive officer of this great city,
I am pleased, proud and grateful to you all
for affording this city the opportunity to share
in that which is the 10th anniversary
of the war of liberation.
The anniversary which heralds our society
as being the very first true socialist democracy
the world has ever known.
Ours has been the greatest cultural revolution
of all time,
through which we have wed democracy,
with its respect for freedom and individualism
and its abhorrence of all forms of communism and fascism,
coupled with the moral and ethical humanism
of American socialism.
(Fingers snapping) How does one illuminate a dark and lonely sky?
There's only one thing left to do
you gotta ram at the darkness with your rhyme
rhyme, chime stop on a dime
my love is yours and your love is mine
kick the stops out bump and grind
bojangle and shake till the hearts all break
how does one illuminate a dark and muddy sky?
There's only one thing left to do
you gotta ram at the darkness with your rhyme
j'j'
(all speaking Spanish)
(Woman speaks sharply)
(Woman shouting in Spanish)
(Man yelling)
(Woman struggling, screaming)
(Distant whistle blowing, struggling continues)
J'j'
(whistles blowing)
(Woman screaming)
(Whistles blowing)
(TV anchorman) Police have been puzzled in the past week
by what they describe as well-organized bands
of 15 to 20 women on bicycles attacking men on the street.
While these victims have claimed
that these incidents were unprovoked,
eyewitness reports have led investigators to believe
that these men may themselves have been attempting
to assault women.
However, officials have condemned
the lawlessness of such vigilante groups,
and ask for information leading to the arrest
of the women involved.
Maybe even their telephone numbers.
We'll have more information on the 11:00 report.
Now here's Linda with the weather.
Lesbianism and faggotism.
Niggerism, honkeyism.
You know, really,
that could have been the women's army that did that.
It couldn't have been the women's army!
It sure could've.
No, they're not aggressive enough.
They're not aggressive enough?
What are you talking about?
I'm telling you, Jules,
they're a service to the community,
they deal in childcare and daycare centers
and stuff like that, but they...
That's not all they do.
They do vigilantes, they do violence,
they could've done this easily. Nah.
Yep. No!
They're not aggressive enough, they're not terrorists.
(Reggae music playing)
(Woman sings) J“ I don't believe in doing wrong j“
good evening, this is honey
coming directly to you from the Phoenix radio station.
We're gonna let you know what's going on, what's happening.
J“ ...Tell me why j“
j“ why do they always try to put me down j“
j'j'
j“ they slander my name all over the place j“
j“ what a big disgrace j“
j“ it's a crying shame again and again j“
j“ all over the place j“
j“ but I'm a peaceful woman j“
j“ I don't believe in doing wrong j“
j“ yes, I'm a peaceful woman j“
j“ I don't believe... j“
(train rumbling)
(Man mumbling)
(Indistinct dialogue)
Hey, why don't you leave the lady alone?
She bothering you?
Isthelady bothering you?
What are you?
I mean, man or woman?
Why don't you go? Thank you.
What...
(FBI agent) Well, I wouldn't exactly call them terrorists,
although we do know that they're responsible
for those bicycle incidents.
(Chief) It's no big deal.
What is the problem
is the vigilante sensibility.
Procedure?
Nothing premature.
Watch 'em.
Put some pressure on 'em at their jobs.
Violence flared today in lower Manhattan
as youths in their late teens and early 20s
threw molotov cocktails
in an angry demonstration outside city hall.
The demonstration began as a protest
against what the young men call "meaningless jobs"
given to them under the workfare program.
They claim that women and other minorities
receive preferential treatment in the real job market.
However,
human services officials deny that this is true.
Today's violence began
when police tried to remove demonstrators
from the mayor's office.
(Crowd shouting)
And it continued through the morning
as angry young men roamed the downtown area,
indiscriminately destroying storefronts and cars
and attacking passersby.
Police spokesmen denied accusations
that they overreacted to the rioters,
citing the sympathy many officers feel
for the demonstrators' cause.
They claimed they handled
an explosive and dangerous situation
as well as could be expected.
In a statement released late this afternoon,
mayor zubrinsky acknowledged
there are problems with the workfare system,
but stressed that he would not tolerate disruptions
that threaten the public safety in this city.
Jim?
Nice, spelled it right, too.
Marrs?
Adelaide Norris?
This is for you.
This is pink.
What does it mean?
You know what a pink slip means.
It means that today is your last day.
There's no more work, or is work over?
No, it means it's your last dayfor you.
I'm very sorry about it,
but that's the way things are.
Thanks.
Good luck to you.
J'j'
(woman sings) J“ I tell you I've played the game j“
j“ we set the past conglomerates aflame j“
j“ the working class avowed its name j“
j“ of america's mysteries that remain j“
j'j'
j“ we broke the hidden tyranny of (indistinct) J“
J“ nor did their hard brutalities j“
j“ ever bring us to our knees j“
j“ we are born in flames j“
j“ we are born in flames... j'j'
(chanfing) We want a j-o-b so we can e-a-t,
we want a j-o-b so we can e-a-t.
We want a j-o-b so we can e-a-t,
we want a j-o-b so we can e-a-t.
We want a j-o-b so we can e-a-t,
we want a j-o-b...
(Woman) As editors of "the socialist youth review,"
we regret that many of the construction and steel workers
laid off in the past few weeks
have been the women, hired only last year.
The industries have been overburdened recently
by the enormous number of minority workers
who are applying
for a limited number ofjobs.
Only a small percentage of each group can be accommodated
in these trades.
The rest will receive alternative placement
through the workfare program.
We feel that women who immediately cry sexism
are being selfish and irresponsible.
Any move towards separatism,
the demand for equal rights for one group alone,
hurts our struggle for the equal advancement
of all parts of society.
We have a right to violence.
All oppressed people have a right to violence,
and I'm gonna tell you something,
it's like the right to pee.
You gotta have the right place, you gotta have the right time,
you gotta have the appropriate situation,
and I'm absolutely convinced that this is it!
(FBI chief) Zella wiley?
(FBI agent) Yes,
currently at the law firm wiley and Miller.
Although there was a move to disbar her a few years back.
Now what's interesting here is that the Norris girl
seems to be her protegee.
Here's Norris with wiley's kid sister.
And in fact,
the women's militia that wiley formed
during the war of liberation
may be a prototype for the women's army.
Mm-hmm.
Now we've got to consider the possibility
that wiley is using these young women...
Who were kids during the revolution...
For her own ends.
The woman's a walking loony bin.
I was in Washington when she was appointed to hew
for her work as a consumer advocate.
The moment the silly bitch gets in,
she starts a class action against the oil companies.
They threw her out on her ass,
canned her at once.
(Women talking, overlapping voices)
Here he comes! We want jobs!
We want our jobs now!
(Women yelling)
What do you think you're doing?
(Women yelling)
Get this chain off here.
Okay, my men told me to come over... I'm gonna call the cops!
Call the cops!
(Women yelling)
No way!
(Fists pounding the truck)
Right there, stop, right there!
(Women shouting, voices overlapping)
What's going on?
We want jobs! We gotta work!
I got no...
We need jobs, you need jobs.
Some of us got fired off this job,
we want back on!
We got fired from jobs all over the city
because we're women.
Not because we can't do our trade.
We wanna get back on, we want you to join us.
We're gonna stop work now and when we get back on that job,
work up again and we'll all work together.
That's right!
That makes sense, but I got no control.
I just, uh, you know...
Good, then you can stop and work with us.
You can support us and stay out here with us
until they let us all in.
Yeah, but if I don't go in there I got no money, I can't...
Yeah, but remember,
we don't have no money neither,
and we have family also.
If I don't work, I got no money.
(Women yelling)
(FBI agent) The entire organization,
which is represented by the circle,
is about 1,000 individuals, women.
It's subdivided into small cells,
each one of which
selects its own leader on a rotating basis.
How do they overlap?
Uh, they overlap in this way.
After each of the small cells has selected a leader,
about every two or three months,
a leader is selected from those leaders
for the entire organization.
And this is the problem.
We don't know how to find out at any given time
who is in charge.
(Woman sings) Immm yeah, yeah, yeah j“
good evening, this is honey
coming directly to you from Phoenix radio,
a station dedicated not only for the liberation of women,
but a station dedicated to sound off
and defend all women.
We are here ready to deal with every lie
that holds women responsible for rape and prostitution.
The lies that hold our sisters of the street responsible
for the harassment of all women on the street.
The lies that push women into the street
as quickly as they force us out of the workplace.
Valerie, our party has decided... And it's an exquisite policy...
To integrate the individual in society.
In that light, we don't have any more use
for these antiquated notions of goodness and badness.
In other words, there's no such thing,
as far as our leaders are concerned,
as a bad boy.
These are just sick people.
They've succumbed to emotional illness...
Tons of money in that program to rehabilitate rapists,
and they've been cutting back on everything else,
but the victims, you know, women,
they receive nothing.
They've cut back so substantially
that there's very little left there.
They can't service hardly anyone.
And even for other programs,
where a woman has emotional problems,
there's nowhere for her to go.
So everyone is wondering
where are we gonna go from here?
Because we've been working out in the community,
we've been trying to educate people,
we've been pamphleting,
we've been going from door to door,
we've put out a lot of posters everywhere,
and we've gained a lot of support,
but on the other hand,
not enough attention has been drawn to the problem.
So the women in the unit met recently
and they are ready to move.
They're ready to escalate what we've been doing,
but the problem remains that
our faces are known...
(FBI agent) So this seems to complete the leadership of the army.
It's not clear exactly how each of them functions
or what connection they have with Norris.
J'j'
(Isabel) This is radio ragazza, bringing you the latest news observation.
There seems to be
some very peculiar things happening these days.
Angry, unemployed people are rioting in the streets
and the city is on fire with their rage.
Now what do you think the government plans to do
about this situation
besides beating them over the head with Billy clubs?
Do they plan to supply them with jobs,
with training programs,
or with decent housing?
Nah.
Uh-uh.
You know what they're gonna do?
The same bloody tactic they pulledbefore the revolution.
Remember, and I'm here to warn you,
it's gonna happen again.
They're already starting a shuffleboard,
to act on a grand scale where all the poor
and the unemployed will be shoved, economically,
into the ghetto.
And then what happens?
It's gonna be doojie time in the big city.
Our government is gonna flood those areas
with the best smack imaginable,
and it's gonna send everybody into a deep, narcotic sleep
where they will not weep or cry out anymore.
(Man sings) J“ ...When you're looking through the eyes of hate j“
j“ all your two-bit friends... j“
you know, I was thinking that maybe it's time that you...
Did something to make the government more aware
of what you're doing.
Something enormous
that would just put a lot of attention...
(Loud clatter)
(FBI agent) Look at this stuff.
There's nothing here.
There's nothing at all... it's junk!
Hey look, I went through everything, the place is clean.
Are you sure it's clean?
You went through the desk?
I went through everything.
Rolodexes? The names on the wall?
Yes... obviously, they're protecting themselves.
Maybe we're gonna have to go through their houses.
We're gonna have to, because there's nothing here.
There's no names, no addresses.
It's crap... There's nothing to go on.
(Women sing show theme song) J“ ...I love america... j“
good evening, fnends,
welcome to "the belle Gayle show."
I'm delighted tonight to be able to introduce you
to three enterprising young women who have,
as part of their work on "the socialist news,"
developed "the socialist youth review."
We have pat Crosby...
Hello.
Becky dunlap
and Kathy Larson.
Hi, aren't you from Phoenix radio?
Yes I am, yes.
Hi, I'm from the women's army.
Have you heard about the women's army?
Yes, I have.
Okay, what we're trying to do right now
is pretty much publicize it and make people more aware
of what's going on with the army
and what it entails.
My reasons for talking to you and stopping you is
I feel, in your position,
that maybe you can help us out in some kind of manner.
I would like to say yes,
but I'm working with some other women right now
and I wouldn't want to commit myself or them,
so maybe we can talk about it some other time, all right?
(Belle Gayle) What about questions of problems that we hoped by now,
by ten years into the revolution
we wouldn't be addressing any longer?
How do you feel about...
Oh, there are small groups here and there
that talk about how we still experience rape,
how we still experience prostitution in our society.
Well, I think statistics will show you
that the percentage of rape and prostitution at this point
is significantly lower than it was
in the pre-revolutionary society,
and obviously, this is an advancement
and it's a step fonnard.
It's impossible to talk about the complete abolition of it,
because this is not the nature of this government.
They don't abolish or... You know,
it's a question of a gradual move towards something
and I think everything is leading up to the point
where those things just don't...
Simply no longer will take place.
No, I don't wanna be involved
with the women's army.
It's all talk and no action.
It's all rhetoric.
I've checked it out and we're doing enough in the community
by putting out our music.
But by us coming to you and requesting some time,
obviously, we're attempting change.
(Belle) I'd like to ask,
pick up on something that pat said early on in our discussion,
about how the... restlessness is the best word for it,
because I don't think it amounts yet to a movement,
nor do I expect that it will...
But that the attitude, the impatience of some young women
might be interpreted as counterrevolutionary.
(Pat) Well, there's two things I think about that.
First of all,
because of the media, in a way, being what it is,
it's very dangerous to identify
a number of demonstrations on the streets
as the possible growth
of a new movement of women,
because I don't think it is that.
I don't think it will get to that stage.
And I also think that the situation
with these demonstrations has to do with the fact
that this group of women have grown up
within the last ten years
and have experienced this revolution as the status quo,
so it's really a kind of...
I wouldn't care to identify it completely as such...
But the situation seems to be a kind of gratuitous desire
for excitement and romanticism,
and theidea of revolution, which is constantly fed to you,
but yet, the means of revolution are denied,
because we already live in a structure
which is prepared to give all that to these people.
So, um...
There's a certain amount of envy
of the experiences that I had and that you had.
You think a group will make you strong?
No, but they say there's strength in numbers, right?
Who says so?
Who said that?
Wasn't that an old saying?
I think I've got...
I think I can back my own self up.
Well, I'm telling you,
they're gonna come and take you out your houses.
You watch, you'll see.
They're gonna take you out your house?
Yep, mm-hmm, take your kids away.
They're gonna do some funny shit, you'll see.
Well, you gotta be prepared for it.
That's what a woman gotta do, get her mind together,
'cause her mind is not together.
So how do you get it together unless you come together?
Yeah, you've gotta come together.
You gotta come together, that's right.
Personally, you gotta come together
before you can go to any group,
you gotta come together.
Okay, but then after you do that,
then can you join the forces?
No, I'm not gonna join them,
I got my own forces.
(Scoffs)
I have my own forces.
Do you know what you sound like? Honey...
The rest of them.
Go ahead and join.
Do whatever you want to do.
We have to.
I'll do whatever I wanna do.
All right, cancel that, okay?
I'll do whatever I wanna do
of course!
And you do whatever you wanna do.
That's what everybody else was saying.
You know, that's why it's such a disgrace.
If you feel you're gonna be strong
about going into the army, right?
So go ahead.
Ain't nobody stopping you.
But don't you try to makeme join,
I don't wanna join the army.
I feel strong just as I am.
Right, I do too.
Idontneed no backup.
No, that's not what it's about.
Idontneed anybody's backup.
It's not a gang.
You wanna tell me what the army did?
What'd they did?
This girl got raped over there on the West Side.
You know what they did?
They came running up there on their bicycles,
blowing a whistle.
You wanna be part of their army... go ahead.
Now wait a minute.
Now you know the sisters don't deal with it that way.
No, no, hey...
That's what the army did... ask.
(Adelaide) Oh, come on.
(Friend) If you don't believe me, you go...
(Adelaide) That's not the army I'm talking about...
(Friend) Oh no, it's the same army.
That army is not mature enough to hang out with me.
(Adelaide) With bicycles?
(Friend) They're not mature enough to hang out with me.
J'j'
(woman sings) J“ the working class avowed its name j“
j“ of america's mysteries that remain j“
j'j'
j“ we broke the hidden tyranny of (indistinct) J“
j“ (indistinct) J“
j'j'
j“ nor did their hard brutalities j“
j“ ever bring us to our knees j“
j'j'
j“ we are born in flames j“
j'j'
j“ into the darkness of the coffins j“
j“ we've thrown the... j“
look, if we support a single demonstration
by one pressure group, it's separatist.
We risk splitting the party at a time of major crisis.
I don't understand how you as women
can say that women's grievances is separatism.
You can't even see how it's affecting you.
You're oppressed too,
and it's pathetic that you can't even see it.
Look, we know there are problems, we're aware of that,
but things are so much better than they were before.
It's not gonna happen overnight.
It's important that the party remain strong
so progress can be made.
Better now?
You know, the way my mother brought us up,
there were eight of us.
And she took care of us doing domestic work all by herself.
And abortions?
She couldn't even think about abortions.
And daycares? (Scoffs)
We took care of ourselves.
No one took care of us.
And there are plenty of women nowadays
living in that same manner.
Black women, Latin women,
young women, living in that same lifestyle.
Okay, everyone had a hard time during the revolution.
But if we remove the only structure
that exists for progress,
we dissipate everything.
It'll be worse than it was before.
I knew you wouldn't understand.
Words and ideas,
they just don't get through to you.
Look, if you're not gonna write about it,
at least come out of class skilled.
J'j'
good evening, this is honey
coming directly to you from Phoenix radio,
and we're here today to let you know what's going on
and where it's happening.
We have a special announcement from the women's army.
They're having a mass demonstration
in Washington square park,
and we urge you all to go out
and to support this demonstration.
(Women chanting) Not the church, not the state,
women must decide our fate!
(Chanting continues)
Not the church, not the state!
Women must decide our fate!
Not the church, not the state!
Women must decide our fate!
Not the church, not the state
women must decide our fate...
(Drumming and chanting confinues)
Not the church, not the state!
Women must decide our fate!
Not the church, not the state!
Women must decide our fate!
3,000 women,
and the thing about it was
these 3,000 women were so separated.
I mean, it wasn't even unified.
If it was all together, it would be a lot different...
(Zella) You heard my story about the division.
They always talk about unity, we need unity, unity.
But I always say if you were the army
and the schools
and the head of the health institutions
and the head of the government, which would you...
And all of you had guns...
Which would you rather see come through the door?
One lion, unified?
Or 500 mice?
And my answer is 500 mice can do a lot of damage and disruption.
That's true.
If you're having a meeting and everybody's all gussied up...
At the point now though, zella, I think that,
I really, really think that,
'cause I've been seriously just questioning myself
and questioning the abilities and what I have
and what I don't have and where I can go,
and I think it's that time that we really pick up arms
and really be prepared to...
(What took you so long? Gaughs)
The economic sex war
that has threatened the city in recent weeks
erupted last night as gangs of men, mostly black,
roamed the streets, breaking windows, looting stores
and attacking passersby,
protesting what they call "racism in workfare."
The rioters claim that blacks are given meaningless jobs
that don't pay enough to support their families.
Government officials say
the rioters will be severely punished.
However, they do admit
there are some problems with the workfare system,
and pledge that in the future,
priority placement will be given to male heads of families.
I don't think we should write about a group of women
who only emphasize discrimination based onsex,
as opposed to race or class.
Also, their politic, it seems,
is just based on spontaneous reaction
to any kind of oppression
without bothering to analyze it first.
Yeah, but that says a lot more about the way
we define what constitutes the political
than any inability they have to define themselves.
I mean, that kind of spontaneous reaction, is their platform.
They're linking their experience of oppression
with an image or a notion of a women's army.
They would find the kind of dialogue we use
as prohibitive or as a substitute for us.
I think it's gonna be a...
A difficult task to try and get all the women
to think along that same line.
Because they're... (Sighs)
The reality of having to deal
with taking up arms, Adelaide,
is really heavy.
Whether we can accept or be responsible
for the potential violence thrust upon us
from our own violence thrust out.
It's already happening.
It's here.
It's that time.
(Woman sings) J“ a manifest so strong in a tenement room j“
j“ talking 'bout a decoration j“
j“ war paint and feathers and all the young braves j“
j“ in an undercover nation j“
j“ she's got a Blackjack and the wings of a dove j“
j“ she's got an iron fist in a velvet glove j“
j“ she's just gotta picnic 'cause the rent was due j“
j“ wake up, wake up j“
j“ would this be you? J“
j'j'
j“ could this be you? J“
.r all right .r
j'j'
J'j'
j“ I know a girl who used to think j“
j“ lonely-hearted hunter j“
j“ don't say nothin' j“
j“ the hungry and the hurt j“
j“ they got only one god left j“
j“ the son undone j“
j“ only one place left to run j“
j“ but it's changin' j“
j“ it's all changin' j“
j“ it's changin' j“
j“ watch it change j'j'
(FBI agent) Chief, the Norris woman is a problem.
She's becoming more and more difficult to keep track of.
At the same time,
she is increasingly hungry for media attraction.
She's organized the underground radio
and she's now got international contacts.
(Chief) Good, good.
Got an idea.
If we know what she's doing now,
we'll be knowing what the army will do in six months time.
(TV announcer) Throwing off their veils,
thousands of Algerian women poured into the streets
to protest the execution of a polisario woman, Lila khalo,
by Moroccan troops fighting to regain control
of the Western Sahara.
Lila khalo was a leader in a polisario takeover
of the Western Sahara five years ago.
Ms. Khalo, who visited the United States
during the transition
at the unofficial invitation of zella wiley
became an outspoken critic of the party
after Ms. Wiley was dismissed from her post
for alleged counterrevolutionary activities.
For me, I want to rely more,
I want to develop more weapons
that have a real substantial debilitating effect,
but it's not permanent.
It's one year, it's two years,
it's five years, whatever.
I mean, even blinding someone for five years
is different to me than shooting them forever.
(Women murmuring)
And it will turn the people against us,
where every time we shoot, you shoot somebody,
be it a man or a woman or a child,
that's being affected,
that's causing sorrow, and who do those people look to?
They look to the women's army
and then the community can be turned against us.
(Door closes)
(Woman speaking French)
(Translator) She says she's very happy to meet you.
(Woman speaking French)
(Translator) She's asking if you are zella's friend.
Yes, I am, and could you ask her,
does she understand why I'm here to see her?
(Speaking French)
She knows why you are here and we're gonna help you,
but also we want that you help us.
Tell her thank you for her help,
and I'd like to know how I can help her,
because right now I don't understand how I can help her.
(Speaking French)
(Translator) If you wanna help us,
you could came all the way to the Sahara
and walk with the guerrillas.
And then you will have much more opportunities
to understand our struggle there,
and then maybe when you came back
you can have better to show to your people
what our struggle is.
(Woman speaking French)
(Translator) You have an Africa map here,
and I would like to show you
some of the geographical location of the Western Sahara.
You have Morocco here,
in the north of the Western Sahara.
(Phone ringing)
Hello?
Metone here.
Yeah.
Adelaide Norris, that's right.
Automatic weapons?
Look,
that doesn't cross-reference with zella wiley, does it?
No.
No, that's for the Spanish Sahara.
(Adelaide) Okay, now what is this?
This is a German schmeisser.
Okay, how does this come?
This comes 10 to 12 a case.
(Someone coughs)
How many cases can you get me?
Um, about five or six case.
How much is it gonna cost me?
We'll have to talk about that later.
(Adelaide on tape recorder) Do you know what I want to tell you,
I got, I'm setting up a trip to the Western Sahara.
(Zella on tape recorder) You are kidding!
(Adelaide) No, I, I...
(Zella) You're kidding, Adelaide!
You're kidding me!
All right, it's enough, turn it off.
Okay.
(Honey) But how can we help women to understand
that we don't have to be second class citizens?
(Adelaide) Well, I have an idea.
We should take all the women and make them men,
and all the men and make them women.
(Gaughs) Stop it.
That's right.
And then the men can finally see
the type of shit that they put us through,
and the women, the women are gonna benefit from it all,
because then they can finally see
the type of things they don't have to deal with,
the type of walls they don't have to contend with.
At Phoenix radio, right, weare involved.
It's all political,
but then again, we'd like to get more direct,
like, get out on the street and talk to these women
and just be right there.
Honey, I think that's wonderful.
But you know what?
I'm gonna be going away for a couple of weeks.
Is that right?
Yeah, so you know, get out on them streets
and do what you gotta do
and when I come back we'll start working together,
and we'll see if we can go from there.
All right, let's do it.
(Adelaide) I'm gonna beat this machine.
This is Isabel on radio ragazza,
station 2016 on your dial.
We are rebuilding a warrior nation of guerrillas.
We're going to redesign the mindscape
of an alienated culture.
We're gonna return to the spirit.
Welcome to new town.
J'j'
(Drumming, women chanting in foreign language)
(Car door creaking)
(Drumming, chanting continue)
(Women drumming, chanting)
(Drumming and chanting continue)
(Gunfire)
(Drumming and chanting continue)
(Strikers chant) Women and men, black and white
stay in trouble say fight
(woman chanting on bullhorn) Women and men, black and white
stay in trouble say fight
what do we want?
Union jobs.
When do we want 'em?
Now!
What do we want?
(Strikers) Union jobs!
When do we want 'em?
Now!
What do we want?
Union jobs.
When do we want 'em?
Now!
(Chanting continues...)
(Woman with African accent) These women were fighting with the men at first,
with the men for territory,
for things that seemed right at the time.
And after the fight was over,
they were pushed back in the kitchens,
back in the homes... no.
And there's more and more women now that want to change.
They want to go for their own.
They understand that this fight is not the right fight
and that the world is round and big
and it's our world,
and the women can move free in the world.
And there's no need for territory,
there's no need to sit in the home
and be protected by the men.
(Adelaide) Yeah, we're fighting the same fight in america.
(Woman with accent) Yeah, it is very good that you're here,
because you are telling us about your world,
about the women in your world,
but you must be very careful,
because the violence is dangerous
and there's not that many of you.
(Adelaide) You see, the only armed activity we'll have
is against the media,
like the television and radio stations.
(Woman with accent) Yeah, that's what's important,
it's the information,
because they've been throwing sand in our eyes all the time
and making us think that we have to fight against things
that were no threat to us,
and closing down the world on us.
(Women chanting)
Excuse me,
exactly what does this mean?
The “dead-end job”... What is that?
I've had my job for three years
and there's absolutely no opportunity for me
to advance to a management position and I'm sick of it.
And this has been going on for years,
and we're just tired of it.
We're walking out of our jobs
and demanding opportunities for advancement
to the managerial positions.
So in other words, you're on a general secretarial strike.
Yes, that's what we're calling for.
All right, thank you.
(Women chanting) Secretaries, not slaves, secretaries, not slaves!
(Women chanting)
(Honey) Excuse me?
"Secretaries are not slaves,"...
What does that mean?
(Woman) That means the fact that a lot of these bosses come off
with an attitude like you are his slave,
you are his wife,
especially if it is a white boss and a black secretary,
they come off with a very...
Talking about office wives at work.
Office wives.
They expect a wife at home in the bedroom
and a wife on the job.
You're expected to make his coffee, get his lunch,
do all these things for him,
which is not your responsibility on the job...
J'j'
(woman sings) J“ I saw you I played the game j“
j“ we set the past conglomerates aflame j“
j“ the working class avowed its name j“
j“ of america's mysteries that remain j“
j'j'
j“ we broke the hidden tyranny of (indistinct) J“
J“ nor did their raw brutality ever bring us to our knees j“
J“ we are born in flames j“
j“ we are born in flames j“
j“ we are born in flames j'j'
j'j'
(general conversation)
(Loudspeaker blaring)
(Chief) I want you to get a description
of every American Norris met over there.
Names and faces.
And get them however you can.
There's nobody here by that name.
Oh, there has to be.
We checked with central booking,
they said she was here.
Lady, I'm telling you, there's no Adelaide Norris here.
That's ridiculous!
Everyone told us she was down here.
Could I just look at the book?
She may have come in yesterday.
No, you can't look in the book.
I'm telling you, she's not here.
(Officer) Excuse me.
(Wooden flute plays)
And in the glorious age,
a woman prophet will emerge bearing fire
and a sword of light.
She will burst through the age of dark confusion like lightning
and her name will be the manifestation
of the spirit in flesh.
(Women's voices echoing in their cells)
(Women yelling) I'm telling ya...
Come on, give me a cigarette, huh?
Hey sugar, you in the first cell,
are you all right, hon?
(Chief on phone) Before we knew what had happened,
we got a report she had hanged herself.
Bullshit... where was her lawyer?
How the hell did this happen?
I'm telling you, she got shuffled around!
The city cops had her, it wasn't our fault!
(Chief) We had nothing to do with it!
Clear out and try to cover yourselves.
(Chief) Yeah.
But what the hell do we do about the women's army?
I don't give a damn what they're up to... drop it!
In local news,
Adelaide Norris, founder of the radical lesbian women's army,
took her own life while awaiting arraignment
in the women's house of detention.
Police spokesmen report
that Norris was picked up at international airport
late yesterday afternoon
in response to a request by the FBI.
She was to be arraigned late today
on charges of conspiring to transport arms into the us.
Norris is said to have hanged herself after writing a note,
in which she said she would rather die
than spend another day in a fascist prison.
More news in a moment.
Mistake?
It sounds like murder to me.
It wasn't murder, it wasn't premeditated,
that's not party policy.
You know the party doesn't operate like that.
But if you say the party operates like that,
think of who you're appealing to
and think about what the consequences of that will be.
Well, it's one thing to suppress information
to diffuse attacks from the right,
but this is out and out fabrication.
The party doesn't usually advocate
this kind of tactic either.
The party never advocates this kind of tactic.
And when you say the partydoes advocate this kind of tactic,
what is it you're saying?
What is it you're saying about the revolution?
Are you saying that Adelaide Norris,
who was probably a counterrevolutionary,
knew more about the revolution than the party did?
Listen, you can print anything you want,
I can't stop you from printing it,
but think about the consequences
and think about what you're doing to the party,
and what the party stands for.
(Phone ringing)
Yes.
I most surely would love to talk to mayor zubrinsky.
Yes.
Now why haven't you called me?
You know, it's not as if I left the message
with someone I never heard of.
It's not as if one of the most important women in the town
has not been killed.
I don't understand you,
I don't know where the hell you are coming from
that you can sit there and let this thing get glossed over
and covered up the way it is.
You have to do something.
Well, every time a kid falls out of a tree
you're in front of a television camera.
(Pat Crosby) As editors of "the socialist youth review,"
we've been troubled by the official reports
on the death of Adelaide Norris, the founder of the women's army.
Grave inconsistencies in the police records
and in the coroner's report
have led us to believe that Norris did not commit suicide,
but was murdered...
Assassinated, if you will... For political reasons.
As party members and editors of this paper,
we had objections to Norris' idealistic and separatist views.
However, we respected her commitment
as a community organizer.
It is alleged by the government
that Norris was engaged in arms dealings
with a polisario rebel sympathetic to her cause.
If that was so, why wasn't she allowed a fair trial?
Evidence clearly suggests that she was murdered by the police
or by government agents
operating outside any legal sanction.
When Norris returned to New York
she had no weapons on her person,
nor was there any proof
that she was successful in her negotiations.
Did the party so fear
that she could rally an armed group of women
that an assassination was necessary?
(Honey) Did anybody see this in here?
Did any one of y'all see this?
Check that out.
(Woman) What is this, talking about suicide?
She was murdered or something?
She killed herself?
No, suicide, no.
Uh-uh.
We gotta do something about this.
We've got to get the story out.
We've got to make it clear that she's been murdered,
and we've got to cut this cover-up.
We somehow have to pull the cover off this whole story
'cause they're gonna Bury it if they possibly can.
We should cross the major networks
because we have to reach every, you know,
the most people during that one shot.
Well, see, that's the whole idea.
If this is supposed to be an army and we need media,
we need people who will get into a news/television center
and get a 90-second or 60-second message on
that will be seen everywhere, you see.
Now that's the sort of thing precisely
that we need to have done!
(Honey) Greetings, this is honey,
coming directly to you from Phoenix radio,
and this broadcast has been dedicated to Adelaide Norris.
Every woman under attack has the right to defend herself,
and in situations where we are constant victims of brutality,
we must take on the whole armor and defend ourselves,
and at this time,
we must fight back when and ever we are unjustly attacked.
Freedom, you talk about freedom?
Freedom, it's yours, it's right here,
and it's your right.
They may label you, try to classify you
and even call you a crazy bitch, but don't flinch.
Just let them.
See, continue just as Adelaide Norris,
exercise your rights.
And your freedom is yours.
It's right here.
Black women such as Adelaide Norris may in your community
be amongst a minority, and be insignificant to many,
but just like the fuse that ignites the whole bomb,
we are important.
Black women, be ready.
White women, get ready.
Red women, stay ready, for this is our time
and all must realize it.
(Man) And wrote the first almanac?
(Children shouting) Benjamin banneker, a black man!
(Woman) Who was the legendary hero
who helped establish the league of iroquois?
(Children shout) Hiawatha, a red man!
(Man) Who was the leader of the first microbiotic center in america?
(Children shout) Micho kushi, a yellow man!
(Woman) Who was the founder of the city of Chicago in 1772?
(Children shout) Jean baptiste, a black man!
(Man) Who was one of the organizers of the American Indian movement?
(Children shout) Denis banks, a red man!
(Man) Who was the Jewish financier who raised funds
to sponsor Christopher Columbus' voyage to america?
(Children shout) Lewis d. Santangel, a white man!
(Woman) Who was the woman who led countless slaves to freedom
on the underground railroad?
(Children shout) Harriet tubman, a black woman!
(Kathy) I don't know,
if we print it, we'll only be sensationalizing it.
(Pat) Yeah, but the party is already sensationalizing
this woman's death in every negative way.
We could use those images to mobilize the women.
(Becky) Yeah, but we don't need to fetishize a dead body.
We can mobilize them in other ways.
(Man) There's the beretta.
(Gun clicks, thumps on counter)
These are
it's a 9—millimeter gun, a semi-automatic.
The shells go in just like this, exactly.
Now to get it in, pull out the back.
And you snap it in.
Here.
When you're ready to fire,
just pull back the trigger, all the way back.
Right.
And you're ready to fire.
(Woman singsa cappella) J“ to fulfill the need to be j“
(water splashes) J“ who I am in this world j“
j“ is all I askj'
j“ I can't pretend to be j“
j“ someone that I'm not j“
j“ and I can't wear a mask j“
j“ there's this need to be true j“
j“ to myself j“
j“ and make my own mistakes j“
j“ and I don't want toleave".I
(TV announcer) This evening our regular programming has been preempted
for a special presidential address from the oval office.
Our Washington correspondent, Patrick McGee,
has been standing by.
Patrick?
(Patrick) Thank you, John.
President metzger is expected to speak tonight
on the much-debated program of wages for housework,
the first step in his economic recovery plan.
(Technician) Take camera two.
Camera one, ready.
Camera one, standby.
And take it.
My fellow Americans, good evening.
I am speaking with you this evening to ask your support
for a program which this administration believes
is a critical step fonnard
towards a society marked by greaterjustice, equality
and freedom for all our citizens...
Hi, we'd like to deliver this tape upstairs.
Give me your pass.
We don't have a pass,
but we've gotta get the tape upstairs.
Without a pass, you don't take nothin' upstairs.
We're gonna deliver that tape right now,
don't make a move and you won't get hurt.
Come on!
You hear me?
Get in... get in!
(President metzger on TV) Tonight, I am asking yoursuppon
for a critical part of that program
which will affect the lives of 40 million of our citizens:
American women.
All right, (cocks gun)
Put it on vtr 3.
What the fuck?
Shut up, vtr 3.
You can't do that.
Just do it.
Move it, now.
(President metzger) It is time to recognize her contribution
in real, that is to say, economic terms.
Therefore...
Excuse me, are you supposed to be in here?
Okay, get ready to punch up vtr 3 to program!
Hey, who are you people, what's going on here?
Hey, shut up!
(President metzger) ...That for the first time in our history,
we'll provide women with wages for housework...
(President continues talking)
(Gun clicking) Okay, punch up vtr 3.
Do it, fucker!
(President metzger) During the—...
(Technician) Ready on vtr 3.
(TV drones)
Zella wiley here.
All right!
We interrupt this broadcast to talk to you
about the murder of Adelaide Norris by federal agents.
Go right ahead.
They called it suicide,
but a lot of people don't buy that lie.
She was murdered
because she stood against the betrayal of women.
We're being sold down the river,
at home, at work and in the media.
And now the president wants to pacify us
with wages for housework.
Wages for housework isthe...
(TV announcer) This is a special news bulletin from nbc news.
Four armed female terrorists
broke into the newsroom of CBS this evening
during the live telecast of president metzger's speech
on wages for housework.
Holding technicians at gunpoint...
The aims of the revolution were to,
were the equality of all men and all women and all people.
We cannot have any selfishness.
We cannot brook any selfishness.
Insofar as these women struggle for selfish ends,
for ends that are against the aims of all the people,
which is embodied in this government,
this revolutionary government.
Those aims must be stamped out
and they must be stamped out by any means necessary.
The means that are at hand for us
are the means of the criminal law.
What these women have done is utterly selfish.
It is utterly self-interested.
They are not interested in the progress of all of us...
Is there anything I can do?
(Zella) Well, you can do all that can be done.
The most important thing of all is media, our media.
The most important thing is communications,
and your... ourjob, but mainly your job...
Is to see that it can't be quieted,
that it can't be bullshitted out,
and that we make up the difference.
Now, if I may say so, this has been a very satisfying thing,
because it has proved an ancient theory of Freud's,
that there is a primary female masochism, you see,
a deep, ingrained rock-bottom sort of thing.
(Sighs loudly)
Of course, you don't see that.
What you see are the secondary manifestations,
the reversals of that.
The secondary female sadism, okay?
The secondary female sadism?
Yes, all these so-called pranks.
I mean, they're...
You mean, their deeper impulse is masochistic? That's what...
(Scoffs) They fear to express it in that fashion
and therefore are sadistic?
That's right, there's a terror of their own masochism...
Miss zella wiley? We're federal agents.
I have a court order for you.
For miss zella wiley.
(Women sing) J“ the west is gonna perish j“
j“ the west is gonna perish... j“
(Kathy Larson) As the editors of "the socialist youth review,"
we would like to comment on the CBS break-in last week
by the women's army.
In a videotape by zella wiley,
the army exposed government duplicity,
not only in the cover-up of Adelaide Norris' death,
but in the repression of active feminism
with wages for housework.
We extend our support to the army
as a legitimate revolutionary group,
because we also believe that the party has been undermining
the economic and social position of women.
Our government,
which has prided itself in being the first Democratic socialism,
is neither Democratic nor socialist.
In forming an alliance with male labor,
the government has reinforced the caste system
that has always existed in this country.
Women fought the war of liberation
with the expectation that the government would work,
beyond reform, toward a truly egalitarian society.
Then and now, the party has argued
that social transformation must wait
until the country attains economic stability.
But unless we struggle now for our rights,
we will always be oppressed.
I know one thing you've accomplished.
You've made it impossible for the party
to be able to keep you on as editors of this paper.
You've taken a position of considerable power,
which you've had, and you've thrown it away.
And I also know that you've taken a woman, Adelaide Norris,
probably a malcontent,
and you've made her into a hero.
(Kathy) It's not only Adelaide Norris.
(Pat) She's right, it's not just Adelaide Norris.
There's all kinds of other issues as well.
I mean, we can no longer compromise our position
by continuing to work for this newspaper.
(Isabel) Wake up!
We're being murdered out there in the streets.
And if you're gonna sit back and watch it happen, sister,
you better get it together and wake up,
because all your babies and yourself,
you're gonna be cleaned out.
We ain't gonna be around no more.
There ain't gonna be nothing..., a wasteland!
A wasteland, sister!
Now get it together.
It's time to fight!
This is for all the dead heroes out there.
Yeah.
("Voodoo child" by Jimi Hendrix plays)
(Tambourine plays along with recording)
J“ well, I stand up next to a mountain j“
j“ chop it down with the edge of my hand j“
j'j'
j“ well, I pick up... j“
it's time to work some voodoo on these motherfuckers, sisters.
This is a message to the women's army and to women everywhere.
Wake up.
This is station 2016 on your dial.
If you can't find it, then you're in trouble, sister.
This is radio ragazza.
(Pat) What we have to realize is that each one of us is public.
That they have a file on every one of us.
That the idea that each one is working privately
is just a false one.
That they can pick each one of us up anytime.
So what we're doing,
what we should think about aiming for
is that for at least some length of time,
we have control of the language.
We have control of describing ourselves.
(Sirens blaring)
(TV reporter) Police were called in today to investigate blazes
that gutted two female-operated unlicensed radio stations,
Phoenix radio and radio ragazza.
Citing the recent backlash against women extremists,
officials say the suspicious and possibly related fires
may have been the work of vandals.
Both stations were known
for their radical political broadcasts.
(Sirens wail)
J'j'
(woman sings) J“ don't tell me why j“
(balls clatter)
J“ they slander my name j“
(door creaks loudly)
(Song continues)
Hi.
(Honey) Can I help you?
Yeah, we're looking for honey?
Honey?
Do you know any honey?
Not here.
There's a supermarket around the corner, about three blocks up,
you can find all the honey you want.
(Balls clatter)
(Isabel) Umm... we were told to find it here,
told by who?
Agirl.
A girl?
You know a girl named "a girl?"
(Isabel) Look, could somebody please tell me where I can find her?
Honey's in the alley.
(Balls clatter)
Where?
What alley?
Around the corner.
(Gunshots firing)
(Woman) Aim.
Aim low on the target.
(Gunshotfinng)
All right, safety on.
Each group steals a truck.
Each group is responsible for getting equipment in the truck,
then we come together
and we're ready to move from there.
Sounds all right, sounds real good.
Under one condition.
That we work with the women's army.
No, that's not a good idea,
there's too many people involved that way.
Listen, Adelaide Norris didn't die for nothing, okay?
She's worked her whole life,
that's what it was about, right?
(News theme song playing)
J'j'
We are interrupting this program
to bring you a special message from the women's army,
and what's more,
we will continue to make this kind of direct action
until everyone understands and is prepared to do something
about the way the government has betrayed women.
(Pat) Look at the reality ofyourhves.
We live in a fake socialist state,
one that exists in name only.
The government thinks
that socialism was instituted ten years ago,
after the war of liberation.
It denies the very basis of true socialism,
which is constant struggle and change.
Wasn't the war of liberation fought
to create an egalitarian state?
Why then, does the government attack women,
putting them out of their jobs
and relegating them to secondary positions in the home?
The media, the tool of the government,
reinforces their position by promoting images
of women as wives and mothers.
We are surrounded by the very images
our mothers fought to destroy.
Decades of women's work for socialism,
for freedom of choice, equality of opportunity...
It's being swept away.
Once again, we are placed outside politics.
It isn't only women who will suffer.
You know the way this pattern continues.
Blacks, latins,
all ethnic and social groups will suffer
as the old sex, race and class divisions reemerge.
There can be no true socialism
until we are all represented in government.
We demand a quota system
which is truly expressive of our numbers,
and we will not stop fighting
until we get proportional representation in government.
J'j'
(woman) Hey, we need some help over here!
J“ no woman no cry j“
j“ hey, hey, I say j“
j“ no woman no cry j“
j“ don't shed no tears now j“
j“ no, no... j“
(engine starts)
(Gate rattles)
J“ hey, hey say, say j“
j“ oh, I remember j“
j“ when we used to sit j“
j“ in a government yard in frenchtown j“
j'j'
J“ log wood burning through the night j“
(horn honking)
J“ then we would cook corn meal porridge j“
j“ which I'll share with you... j“
(song changes)
(Sirens blare)
(Honey) Good evening,
this is honey coming directly to you
from the new Phoenix and ragazza radio station.
A station not only dedicated to the liberation of women,
but a station dedicated to deconstruct and reconstruct
all the laws
that suppress and oppress all of us.
(Honey) Now if you should lose our broadcast,
you may have to search your dial,
for Phoenix and ragazza are now on the move.
J'j'
(Isabel) Good morning.
This is Isabel broadcasting
from the new Phoenix ragazza radio station.
I'd like to open up by making a statement
on behalf of Adelaide Norris and the women's army.
Her murder serves as a warning for women everywhere
of the struggle that we face,
and the truth will be heard
and the story must and shall be told.
It is not only the story of women's oppression.
It is the story of sexism, racism, bigotry, nationalism,
false religion and the blasphemy of the state-controlled church,
the story of environmental poisoning and nuclear warfare,
of the powerful over the powerless,
for the sake of sick and depraved manipulations
that abuse and corner the human soul like a rat in a cage.
(Isabel) It is all of our responsibility, as individuals and together,
to examine and to reexamine everything,
leaving no stones unturned.
Every word that we utter, every action and every thought,
we are all, women and men, the prophets of this new age.
And for those of us who would be safer in the sensibilities
of racism, separatism and martyrdom,
if you can't help us towards moving this living church,
then step out of the way.
The scope and capabilities of human love
are as wide and encompassing
as this vast universe that we all swirl in,
one for all and all for oneness.
This fight will not end in terrorism and violence.
It will not end in a nuclear holocaust.
It begins in a celebration of the rights of alchemy,
the transformation of shit into gold.
The illumination of dark, chaotic night into light.
This is the time of sweet, sweet change for us all.
This is Isabel for Phoenix ragazza radio,
signing off until tomorrow.
But have we gone too far?
Is it time to ask if the politics and programs
of yesterday's liberation have become the stagnation of today?
We cannot ignore the monumental inflation
with which we are burdened,
nor can we condone the widespread abuse rampant
in our social programs.
At home we are becoming trapped in bureaucracy,
and throughout the rest of the world,
our influence wanes.
The management of this station fears that over-socialization
has transformed our democracy into a welfare state.
If we are to survive our ideals,
we must carefully consider their implications.
This, in the midst of our celebration,
is the opinion...
(Explosion)
J'j'
(Woman) J“ headlines screaming while she's watching the race j“
j“ freedom backed the constitution j“
j“ never naked for a dance through his days j“
j“ talkin' 'bout evolution j“
j“ she's got a black suit j“
j'and a red dress j“
j“ she's got a chest full of the poet's meds j“
j“ she's got a hangover and her mother on the phone j“
j“ wake up, wake up she isn't alone j“
j“ she isn't alone j“
j'j'
J“ a manifest so strong in a tenement room j“
j“ talking 'bout a decoration j“
j“ war paint and feathers and all the young braves j“
j“ in an undercover nation j“
j“ she's got a Blackjack and the wings of a dove j“
j“ she's got an iron fist in a velvet glove j“
j“ she's just gotta picnic 'cause the rent was due j“
j“ wake up, wake up j“
j“ would this be you? J“
j“ could this be you? J“
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j'j'
J“ I know a girl who used to think j“
j“ lonely-hearted hunter j“
j“ don't say nothin' j“
j“ the hungry and the hurt j“
j“ they got only one god left j“
j“ a son undone j“
j“ only one place left to run j“
j“ but it's changin' j“
j“ it's all changin' j“
j“ it's changin' j“
j“ watch it change j“
j'j'
J“ hut two three four! J“
j'j'
j“ hut two three four! J“
j“ come on j“
j“ will you stand by j“
j“ while you watch another brother die? J“
j“ will you close your eyes j“
j“ when you hear the mother cry?
J'getupj'
j'j'
j“ wake up, wake up j'j'