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>> I mean, how can you write your mother and tell her,

you know, that her handsome, young, darling Marine, you know,

her hero is, you know, is anti-military, you know.

But I sit down and I wrote her a letter

and told her exactly how I felt.

And my mother wrote back and she said that she fully understood

and she was happy that I felt that way and--

that I was anti-military.

>> The way this war is we are really in a pinch, you know,

so why should we go on and put our lives down, man?

>> That was the alternative of either going to jail

or coming into service.

And so, I was left with no alternative but to be inducted.

>> I had just gotten out of high school.

I didn't have a job and no prospects for any, no money.

The Air Force came along and there I was.

>> Dreaming of going places,

meeting new people, doing exciting things,

ever thought about the Air Force?

>> May I call you Airman?

>> Oh yes, captain.

>> When I first saw you,

silhouetted in the car ,

silhouetted by the light from the radar screen.

Bringing in a crippled plane,

a whim of confidence weld through me.

And I knew that with you there,

IF1-11 would be a safer place to be.

>> Captain, I have a dream.

>> I have a dream, a big dream, a dream of democracy.

>> That's my dream.

>> And together, together we can help protect the free world

from unfair competition and ensure

that future generations will have a free world to protect.

>> Yes, sir.

>> They sent me to old school in the old Monterey.

I worked very hard and got my MOS.

Decoded those words say FTA, but what they mean,

hey, no one could guess.

Free the Albanians?

>> No.

>> Future Teachers of America?

>> No.

>> Who would write that on latrines.

Foxtrot, tango, alpha, help me, help me.

What does it mean?

>> Just a minute operator.

Oh damn, I don't have any change.

Excuse me, Private, do you have change for a quarter?

>> Oh, yeah.

>> Yeah?! You do not say yeah to an officer!

An officer is always addressed as sir.

Now, I learned that in basic training,

Private, and so did you!

You always address an officer as sir!

Now, I'm going to give you one more chance and I want to hear

that sir loud and clear!

Private, do you have change for a quarter?

>> No, Sir!

>> I went down to that base, they took one look

at my face then read out an order to Army.

I've said foxtrot, tango, alpha, free the Army.

>> I think I'm going to get me a watch dog.

>> What you need a watch dog for, Sarge,

you're surrounded by 250 armed men?

>> That why I'm going to get me a watchdog.

>> No Vietnamese ever ordered me to fight

and they never flew over my hometown to bomb me.

So, I have to say foxtrot, tango, alpha, free the Army.

>> Mr. President, there's a terrible demonstration going

on outside.

>> Ah, there's always a demonstration going

on outside, Pat.

>> But Richard, this one is completely out of control.

>> What are they asking for this time?

>> To free Angela Davis and all political prisoners

out of Vietnam now and draft all government officials.

>> Well, we have people to take care of that.

They'll do their job, you do your job, and I'll do my job.

>> But Richard, you don't understand,

they're storming the White House.

>> Oh, in that case I'd better call out the Third Marines.

>> You can't, Richard.

>> Why not?

>> It is the Third Marines!

>> Oh.

>> Down to the base, take a look at my face and read

out an order to bar me.

So, we said foxtrot, tango, alpha--

>> Say it.

>> Fuck the Army, and the Navy, and the Marines!

>> When I went into the Army, I thought it was--

well, since I had the opportunity to grow

up in a free society as in America, I owed my country

at least 2 or 3 years from my life.

So, I enlisted and we're sent over to Vietnam,

spent 4 months there in 1970 before I was 3 times

with Medevac out to Japan.

At the time of recuperating in Japan,

I started wondering just what the hell we're in Vietnam

for 'cause when you are taught about the communist monster

that you're over there to defeat.

When you get over there and you like see when you go to a villa

or something, they liberate a village, the people hide

from you and throw rocks and everything else,

bottles and all that to you.

But when the Viet Cong come to liberate a village,

the people go out there yelling, celebrating,

holding pictures of Ho Chi Minh.

And, you know, seeing things like this makes you wonder just

who this monster really is?

>> Come on now.

First, they draft your ass.

>> First they draft your ass.

>> And uniform your ass.

>> And uniform your ass.

>> And then they train your ass.

>> And then they train your ass.

>> I mean, they drill your ass.

>> I mean, they drill your ass.

>> And then they bust your ass.

>> And then they bust your ass.

>> And then they brig you ass.

>> And then they brig you ass.

>> And then they ship your ass.

>> And then they ship your ass.

>> And then they shoot your ass.

>> And then they shoot your ass.

>> Well, they could kiss me ass.

>> Well, they could kiss my ass.

>> And they could kiss my ass.

>> And they could kiss my ass.

>> My ass is mine, my ass is mine, and my ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> That's why I'm feeling super fine.

>> That's why I'm feeling super fine.

>> Even when my ass is on the line.

>> Even when my ass is on the line.

>> And that's why I'm smiling all the time.

>> That's why I'm smiling all the time.

Because I know they know I know my ass is mine.

You know, that might sound a little bit selfish just

like a synonym for selling out, but that depends

on what your ass is doing or what your ass is all about.

If you save your ass, but keeping silent about the murder

across the sea, if I was Vietnamese and you did that,

I'd say your ass belongs to me, but my ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> Echo, my ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> That's why I'm smiling all the time.

>> That's why I'm smiling all the time.

>> Even when my ass is on the line.

>> Even when my ass is on the line.

>> That's why I'm feeling super fine.

>> That's why I'm feeling super fine.

>> Because I know they know I know my ass is mine.

She had a job.

She had a boss.

He had a desk to run her round.

She thought that she could escape that job

by escaping her job, hometown.

She sail creek cross the ocean

but baby now she's really in a mess.

You see she gave her commanding officer a karate chop

in the chest.

And now, she's telling the whole world,

she's her own woman not your girl.

And since the very first time she felt free, she said,

"I know they know my ass belongs to me."

You know, some say the masses are asses, but I just come here

to tell you they are wrong.

You see, the masses have just been nothing

but asses leaning by the nose too long.

We've been busting our ass all evening and now I'm saying just

for me that my ass belongs

to everyone who's fighting to be free.

Yes, my ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

Come on.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> My ass is mine.

>> And if it's my ass, I've got to loose.

>> And if it's my ass, I've got to loose.

>> Where I'll be losing it, I will choose.

And since the first time I felt free, I said,

"I know they know I know my ass belongs to me."

First they draft your ass.

>> They draft your ass.

>> And uniform your ass.

>> And uniform your ass.

>> And then they drill your ass.

>> They drill your ass.

>> I mean, they train your ass.

>> They train your ass.

>> Then they bust your ass.

>> Then they bust your ass.

>> And then they brig your ass.

>> And then they brig your ass.

>> And then they ship your ass.

>> And then they ship your ass.

>> And then they shoot your ass.

>> And then they shoot your ass.

>> Well, they could kiss my ass.

They could kiss my ass.

And they could kiss my ass.

And they could kiss my ass.

And they could kiss my ass!

Yeah.

>> Attack Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea with 85 planes,

6 million pounds of munitions, 4,500 men.

It has dropped more than 850,000 tons

of bombs on the people of Indochina.

In November 1971, 1,300 of its crew signed a petition

to stop their ship from going to Vietnam.

>> You all are not actually on Vietnamese soil.

It must be very abstract for you.

I mean, what the effects of an attack carrier have on the war?

What is it that started you all thinking, and how did you come

to understand the role that an attack carrier plays?

>> I suppose everybody always knows,

but they can rationalize anything away.

That's man'-- you know, that's the way his mind works.

>> Mike, you read the polls and people want us to get

out Vietnam and you see, the polls getting higher

and higher every week.

But yet we aren't out, you know,

and how can you rationalize this?

>>Yeah, we'll be off the coast

to Vietnam during Christmas, you know.

We'll probably send a strike off during the Christmas day

and so many sick lifers.

They'll go down and write Merry Christmas on a bomb, you know.

In a chapter, we'll make-- we'll try and rationalize it,

you know, and it's a big joke but it scares you.

>> You have to question and I always thought the question.

And the service won't let you question

because they don't have an answer.

They only have a rule book.

>> And I feel that by my speaking out, you know,

if I can turn just a couple people to start thinking

about it or even think about for a couple of seconds,

I've done what I'm supposed to do.

>> All right, all right.

Good afternoon, sports fans.

It's a beautiful sunshiny afternoon here

on the Mekong River Delta, where elements

of the 101st Airborne

with a crack North Vietnamese 7th regimen.

Both teams undefeated and untied so far this season.

Okay, and directly down on the playing area,

surrounded by trees with hills in the background.

Look up over those hills,

here come the cobra helicopters of the 101st.

They're straightening landing zones a 50-caliber machine

gun fire.

They go the mini guns.

And here come the down into the zone.

It will be the 3rd Brigade of 101st.

The boys come busting out of the helicopters,

firing M16s from the hip as they go driving on to set

up a line of scrimmage.

There's no sign of the Viet Cong, yet no sign of Charlie.

>> Wait a minute, Red, wait a minute.

>> There's Charlie.

Charlie there and he's got mortars.

I count mortars 1, 2, 3, 4,

5 rounds of mortar fire and 2.

Huey helicopters down

and burning the and heading for home.

The boy is 101st to dock in there.

Now Charlie, come out from behind the mortars with AK-47.

He's heading for the outside of the line, but the boys

of the 101st have laid up a wall of grenades, small weapons,

and machine gun fire, but Charlie driving on hard.

And look at those fireworks,

the best that American technological know-how

can provide.

Flash air, framework, beehive, there's pop the magic dragon,

36,000 rounds a minute.

The boy, they have 4 barrel shotguns.

And Charlie is slowing down.

He's bugged down.

He's stopped.

He's stopped.

He's stopped at the line.

He scrimmage, why do you think the action so far, Red?

>> Well Red, it looks like we're

in for a beautiful game here today.

Hope these teams in tip-top condition.

Boys on the 101st, looking really good out there.

Not that I'm trying to detract from the Viet Cong made

by the beautiful seasons.

I guess you know this Red, they are the home team here.

They seem to have a lot

of support here among the local fans.

>> Thank you Ed for that interesting

and colorful commentary.

Meanwhile, back on the playing field, there's a temporary halt

in the action of time out.

Well, the dead and wounded are being dragged

from the playing area.

Red, I see Lieutenant Colonel Slocum

on the radio down there and I think he's going to go

to the air for the next play.

I think he'll look for the bomb.

There they are from Carrier,

USS Enterprise 4F Atom Jets in formation.

Silver, gliding in the sunlight there,

up and over down they come.

There go the 20 millimeter cannon.

There go the rocket pods.

There go the only anti-personnel fragmentation bombs,

and I count 12 water buffalo down and kicking.

There they go around again.

They're coming in again for a second pass.

We'll watch for it.

Here they come.

Low, coming in, and here it is, it's.

Wow, right on top of the 101st.

There are penalty flags all over the playing area.

They're moving out now into orderly withdrawal.

And lying motionless

on the ground is Lieutenant Colonel Billy Slocum.

That'll be a fragging penalty

for the boys in the 101st.

And here's the hotline battlefield county

from the Viet Cong, 117 dead, 212 wounded.

For the 101st casualties, we're light to moderate as usual, Red?

>> Don't forget next week is all day.

We'll have veterans and survivors

from both sides of.

>> , a big one for the French.

Okay this is Red.

>> And Red.

>> Saying until next week.

When the great scorer comes to mark

against your name, he marks not that you won or lost--

>> But how you played the game.

>> So long, God bless.

>> God bless.

>> 1,300 on ship for all sea said,

"No to the Vietnam War."

>> Yeah.

>> Wake up, Admiral Zumwalt they're talking to you.

They're not going to fight your fight anymore.

We painted your boat head.

We polished your brass while you put the world into slavery.

Foxtrot, tango, November, free the Navy.

>> Once again, the current the temperature

on Okinawa, 66 degrees.

The news is next inside on American Forces Radio.

The time at the tone, 8 a.m. Picketing continues to increase

as more than 750 personnel are in 32 gates

to military installations as the first day

of the plan 2-day work stoppage got underway.

However, the have has been reported

and traffic continues to move slowly through those gates

with heavy picket activity.

>> And we are of course particularly happy

to be in Okinawa.

We all hope that by our presence here, the Okinawan people

and the US Military people can come together to see our show

with the understanding that the American GI is not the same

as the American Government.

The American GIs don't know why they're here,

don't want to be here, don't want to be in Vietnam or Japan

or the Philippines or Hawaii, anywhere in the Pacific Rim

or anywhere in the world where they don't belong.

And that they, like us and like you,

believe that Okinawan Land should belong

to the Okinawan people.

>> Probably, they will present Americans being here mainly I

had to say.

I can't blame them in a way.

When you see a base like this with all this land,

they could be using it for something else.

>> I think they ought to send us all back to States.

That's where-- we're part of the United States, we're supposed

to be standing up for that flag not some other country,

I don't think.

>> While here, the Okinawan people,

they're fighting in the streets.

They let us have our own republic

and we've had them for 25 years.

And before that, Japan had them.

Let them have their own republic.

>> Oh, I didn't know that, there's another--

>> We have to make an announcement, please.

We've just been figuring out what to do about the fact

that there are apparently several thousand more GIs

outside that can't come in.

And so, we're going to do a second show.

It may not be able to be the full show

because apparently, you have to be back in prison by midnight.

>> I'll let you all know that I'm really not a professional

and I'll pull out the words.

Yes, hey, you want me to hold that for you, man?

>> Yay, thank you man, I really would appreciate it.

>> This way.

>> I really do appreciate this, you know.

I've been in the same position

so many times,

>> Really.

>> chord.

>> I didn't write the chords down.

This is kind of about tonight what it's all about.

Let me tell you what this night is for.

They're going to try and stop the war.

They're going to sing their songs in there.

They go to Tokyo and try again.

So, let us listen, heed what they say.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

Come on everybody, let's get together now.

There is no sleet or hail and a kind of weather now.

So, if you'll stand up tall now, stop the war is what to say.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

So, let us listen, heed what they say.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

Tomorrow's going to be a brand new day.

>> I don't want nobody over me.

And I don't want nobody under me.

Insubordination.

somewhere in South Vietnam.

>> It's time to go.

>> Okay men, ten-hut!

Ten-hut! Oh, come on guys,

just a little ten-hut here, just a little ten-hut.

Know what, anything.

Come on, would you pay attention just a second.

Ten-- just a second.

Just-- can you please just a minute just--

>> What's happening Jack?

>> Oh, glad you asked.

The colonel has given us an order.

There's a half-track somewhere out there in the boonies

and we need 7 volunteers to go out there and bring it back in.

>> Sorry Jack, there ain't no more volunteers.

Anybody seen any volunteers?

All the volunteers were shipped out.

>> Oh, shut up.

>> Yeah.

>> Oh, but this is a direct order.

>> And you are very direct and sincere person and we would love

to help you, but we can't.

>> But this is our last half-track

and we got to save it.

>> We're really sorry about it, Jack.

But there's just nothing we can do with this track.

>> I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.

>> What?

>> You know what you want.

This time, I will even let you take your rifles with you.

How about that?

I'll get them out of the safe, huh?

>> Bullshit.

Last time you said that, you didn't give us no ammunitions.

You can take your rifles stuff and.

>> Hey, do you play Blackjack, Jones?

>> Well, I once in college, I played.

>> Smoke this, it came from my gun.

>> Oh.

>> I got this letter I got a ride home.

You see?

>> And see, I got to take all these knots

out of my dental floss, you know, I'm very busy.

>> Oh, I'm sorry.

But this is our last half-track and we got to save it.

>> You don't understand, Joe.

We ain't going.

>> I think I'm beginning to understand.

Get me the colonel.

Oh hi, colonel, sir, how are you?

Yeah-- well, sir, I've been talking it

over with the guys here and they respectfully decline

your invitation.

Yes sir, I know it's your last half-track and you want

to save it, but it's my last ass and I want to save it.

>> Now you know just how it's going to be.

I'm so glad you've got respect for me, insubordination,

yeah, insubordination.

>> -- glad to see him.

I don't have to know his name.

>> Yeah.

>> Just the fact that he's black.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, we know we got a common ground.

We got a cause to think.

>> All right.

>> When you tried, when you go-- what is--

when the court martial about.

>> Like in the Marine Corps, the Bloods--

especially on the bases, they get--

they've been going to jail for ,

the coward, their handshake.

Well, this is the way we greet each other.

This is the way we greet each other.

They've been going to jail for doing it, so just for doing it.

>> Yeah, and Vietnamese, these-- beautiful.

>> Hello.

I'd like to sing a song that I wrote about a young,

black soldier who refused his orders to kill in Vietnam.

He was placed in the stockade

and he gave an interview to the press.

And among his reasons for doing this,

he said that he thought the war

in Vietnam was an American war of aggression.

He thought it was a racist and genocidal war.

He said he doubted very much if America could bring equality

and democracy to the yellow people of Vietnam

when they've never brought equality and democracy

to the black, brown, red, and yellow people of America.

And he thought that before we begin to preach

and leave our country to spread the word, that we better clean

up our own mess at home.

And this song is called, "Soldier We Love You."

I read that you took a stand

and refused to kill in Vietnam.

You said no man was your enemy,

what he's fighting for is to be free.

Ghetto streets lead nowhere, and ghetto cries fill the air.

Uncle Sam's in Nam to loot and rob and people starve

at home 'cause there's no jobs.

Oh, ain't it hard to smile sometimes?

I know it's hard to smile sometimes.

Soldier, we love you.

Yeah, soldier we love you.

Standing strong 'cause it's hard

to do what you know you must do 'cause it's true.

Yes, it's true.

They locked you up in their stockades.

Yeah, they locked you up 'cause they're afraid.

That you would rap and spread the word,

but you can't jail truth, it will be heard.

Oh, ain't it hard to smile sometimes?

I know it's hard to smile sometimes.

But soldier, we love you.

Yeah, brave soldier we love you.

Standing strong, yes, it's hard

to do what you know you must do 'cause it's true.

Yes, it's true.

And soon there will be others too,

who refuse to fight and stand with you.

Yes, they'll raise their fists high in the air,

say we're not going anywhere.

Oh, ain't it hard to smile sometimes?

I know it's hard to smile sometimes.

But soldier, we love you.

Yeah, soldier we love you.

Standing strong, yes, it's hard

to do what you know you must do 'cause it's true.

Yes, it's true.

We love you.

>> Thank you.

Thank you.

>> It's when you refuse to put your man

in your back pocket with you, when you got certain principles

and beliefs that you refuse to go back home but anybody is

when you die.

>> If you're a certain type of person considered

by the military as being subversive or radical or so,

if you're a certain-- if you're that certain type of person,

you commit the same crime that somebody else has committed,

you're likely to burn more than he would because they're trying

to make an example out of you.

>> Myself, I won't put you all.

E4, last month-- they asked me a question

about the black convention they're supposed to be holding--

they're supposed to be holding, okay?

I told my opinion and how it felt towards the black

convention and what a black man is trying to do.

Thus, they put me up for do not recommend for promotion.

>> They just want you to be a little robot.

You wind them-- they wind you up and they want you to do the job

that you're supposed to do.

They don't consider you as a human being.

They don't want you to be an individual.

Anytime you are an individual, they slap you

around 'till you get back in line again.

>> More brothers are coming into the service every day

and more brothers are leaving.

The brothers are leaving before they come it.

There's got to be a reason why.

>> join is green motherfucker

and they'll find out just where it's at.

>> No work for a black man, no kind of place

in a white man's world.

Yeah, we just started, and then deal with it.

Well, people over there are our brothers.

>> That's right.

>> We don't believe in a third world.

>> We went down there for democracy, right?

And what do we get?

It's a force, a one-man election.

Look at the 50,000 people who died for a one-man election.

>> Just like it says on the back of my jacket.

We shall be free, our systems will die with us.

>> Let us see it.

>> plans to following gates from 6 a.m.

to 7 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday.

The Machinato Service Area gate, Naha Air Base gate,

Naha Military Port gate, Kadena Air Base gate

and the Machinato-Naha Housing Area gate.

>> The is the most largest union of the Okinawa.

And this union organized by all the Okinawan employees working

in the US military bases and the category for employes are now,

there was working condition and very low wages.

For instance, our category for employees and the average wages,

the minimum wages is still on the 37 cents per hour.

>> We shall not, we shall not be moved.

We shall not, we shall not be moved.

Just like a tree that's planted by the water,

we shall not be moved.

We shall not, we shall not be moved.

We shall not, we shall not be moved.

Just like a tree that's planted by the water,

we shall not be moved.

>> We're here to support, show our support for the struggle

of the union, the all military union

and the Okinawan people's struggle

against the US military bases and for the American soldiers,

the grants, we want to just say that when you go back

to the states, you'll be facing unemployment,

control over labor, wage freezes, which is the same

as the struggle going on here.

>> And we hope that together, we can unite the Okinawan people

and the progressive American people to rid your land,

the presence of US military bases.

>> This final load of maneuvers

because of condition agreeing the final performance

of the FTA Show will be held this afternoon

in the bordering opposite Ishikawa Beach.

The showed is scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Its limits are in prior to 6 o'clock in order

to allow compliance with condition agreement.

>> Since we see all the planes going over, since we know

about all these things, I don't mean to--

I don't have to read any statistics about the fact

that we are waging a genocidal war in Vietnam.

I think that everybody here really knows that.

I mean everybody knows that in really profound ways.

The fact is there are very subtle ways that genocide,

the killing off of a whole people is being waged all

around the world.

Sing the song with me if you feel

like you don't want to be a part of that.

This song says--

I heard a young boy say, no, no, no,

my dad's not hear today.

You see the police they came and they took him for a ride.

You see he was not fighting that war, you know,

the one they call the war against the boy

and he would not bow down to genocide.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down to genocide.

There was a preacher in Harlem who had 2 children,

both of them died within 1 year

because he could not get any heat

in his tenement during the winter time.

Reverend McPhalen's kids didn't get very old.

You see he got no heat and his kids got cold,

that's the second child he's had in one year that died.

You see next week old Bob Hope was making little jokes like,

"Drop the bomb.

Why don't you clean up the Hanoi-- I mean Harlem slum."

But we will not bow down to genocide.

Can I get a little thought?

Can I get sing.

We will not bow down, sing that, damn it.

We will not bow down.

Sing it now.

We will not bow down to genocide.

And if you tell the folks of what you know,

if you point your finger at the floor, you know, the graves

and the jails and the cannons will open wide.

But I got feeling, or feeling in my brain or feel it

like I've gone stuff rave insane 'cause I will not bow

down to genocide.

We will not bow down, sing it now.

We will not bow down.

Yes we-- We will not bow down to genocide.

Young Jay Moss would not fight the war

against the Vietnamese boy.

No, he would not-- he would not be a tool of genocide.

So they locked him in a cell.

It was in a southern jail.

But we will not bow down to genocide.

And it's not only in America's side that they try

to put a gag in freedom smile.

But that gag, it's wearing thin, this whole worldwide.

And there're a many men and women in jail for being

and for everyone who would be free

who would not bow down to genocide.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down, take this one out, to genocide.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down.

We will not bow down to genocide.

>> Does the show deal with the issues

like the racism in the military?

>> The show deals with the racism of the service

and we tried to, within our sketches and songs,

reflect the consciousness of these soldiers

that this is an overtly racist war

that we're involved in at this time.

>> We've come here and for the same reason

that we've been traveling for the last 8 months

around the United States to perform outside

of military bases to support the service women and men

who are organizing against the war and demanding their rights.

The material from the show was taken from GI newspapers

from among the 75 GI newspapers that are out around the world.

It's political vaudeville.

It is not racing any new issues.

It's just simply saying the people in the service.

We recognize that the majority of you are against the war,

don't like the kind of oppression you're experiencing

and we support your struggles.

How they struggle and in what direction is not up to us to say

to direct, to teach or anything like that

but it's their job, that we support them.

>> You have to remember, military law

and the constitution are two different things.

>> All of the brothers get

and all they get is a suspended bust.

No restrain in that.

Brother going up there, brother gets bust, restriction, barred,

you name it, they going to put it on him.

You know.

>> You can ask almost any first termer in Vietnam if, you know,

he thinks we should be there and he'll say no.

>> Man, they call you boy,

they call you niggas all day long.

You sit and smile there 'cause there's nothing you can do

about it.

>> I mean, you know, it's the refreshment is really

overpowering in the military.

>> I don't believe in this war because nobody wants this.

Nobody wants us in there.

So why the hell are we in there?

Never felt diviner than to be

in Indochina making money.

Major is a hobby and you're Indochina lobby like this sunny.

>> Cooperate, I'll give you quite a number of things.

>> The Air Force and the CIA and opium rings.

We'll be sitting pretty

as we call another city, ain't that funny.

The list of drinks gets shorter as we fight for law and order,

oh we're killing for peace.

We got a lot of bases and we're fighting

in more places as a.

The Army is dependable and we'll tell you why.

The soldiers are respectable, who cares if they die.

Never felt diviner than to find a fight

to China, ain't that funny.

You'll hear me say it.

Bomb another city today.

Oh yeah. Bomb another city today.

>> What's your husband's rank?

>> E1.

>> Come back and see us when he makes sergeant.

>> I can't wait that long.

>> Are you sure you're pregnant?

Have you had your test?

>> No, my tests are coming up in 2 weeks

but my pain is coming every 2 minutes so--

>> Ah, well, looks like acute appendicitis to me.

Evan, Evan, I take a-- oh, well.

Take-- go home and take 2 APTs and come back

when the swelling goes down.

- >> - I'd like to see Dr. - please.

>> Yes. Name?

>> Mrs. Van Calvin.

>> Well I'm-- I'm sorry.

The doctor is in emergency surgery.

The Colonel had a fit this morning and swallowed the flag.

>> Well, great.

There's been some misunderstanding.

You see my name is Mrs. Colonel Van Calvin.

>> Oh, right this way, Mrs. Sir.

Oh.

>> It's so nice to be a member of the military class.

All I have to say in war.

The natives cook and drive for me.

They want to stay alive for me.

To see servants on the program anymore.

>> Like I say, right in our base,

they send out a medical department every Thursday

or Friday and they check out the girls with venereal disease.

>> Yeah, but that's--

>> Yeah.

>> -- that's not the case of a people, of a whole race,

what is-- and they wouldn't do that.

They don't do that accept where there is an American base.

>> Exactly.

Now, they check these girls out.

The girl is clean.

They give her a little green badge to wear around the block.

>> But she doesn't--

>> Can you imagine--

>> -make any money?

>> Can you imagine this in United States?

Let's say I'm from New York, can you imagine

in New York the Filipinos have a naval base in New York itself

and their sailors come off and the American girls--

they check the American girls out for VD

and they grow-- I can't even see--

>> By retaining the country as semi-feudal,

only then can the Americans keep their raw--

can obtain raw materials from the Philippines

and at the same time, only then can the Americans put finished

products they have already produced from the United States

and dump it here in the Philippines.

That's why the necessary form of struggle

in the Philippines is no other

than an arsenal democratic revolution.

>> We see in the GI struggle in all parts

of the world, an identity of interest,

an identity in protesting and struggling

against American imperialism which we think has des--

dehumanized the American masses, which we think has imposed

on the youth, on the young people

of America what they do not want.

>> The Philippines doesn't realize its potential.

They can-- you know, they don't have to be pushed

around by the Americans, they don't have to be--

>> In fact, they're beginning to realize that.

>> Yeah, well I mean, the government, you know, maybe,

but the people are beginning to realize that.

People are like, "This is the whole-- this is whole movement,"

and a lot of GIs, you know, just--

they don't see or hear anything about it

but it's really there, you know.

The Filipinos were just saying, "We're not going

to take it any longer," and they just want to say no.

>> Because there are a lot of Filipinos

that don't see what's happening within-- in American military.

>> Yeah.

>> That's why it's really important for GIs

to see what's happening to the Filipino people

and for the Filipino people to see

that all American GIs are not their enemy.

The G-- that American GIs don't like to be here.

These are kind of things that you said are true,

would come as a surprise for them.

>> It's like-- I enjoy the work that I do.

I enjoy the work that I do and I want to keep doing it and I will

when I go back to the States.

But it's different when you're in a foreign country.

None of the guys want to be here.

There is a few of them but it's not

like they don't like the Philippines.

It's just that they're away--

they're 12,000 miles from home somehow.

>> Okay, how do you convince a city the size of Olongapo,

I don't know exactly the figures but 500,000 people whatever,

how can you convince them of the good intention of the people

or I can't say the people of the guys in the military,

I won't say the commander, I won't say the people,

the movement exactly, right?

Is that the answer though?

>> You can convince your people,

we'll convince our people, it's a deal.

You figure

out how, we'll figure out how.

>> I've changed over and I haven't been associated

with any-- you know, like any movement or really.

I just observe for my own opinion.

I was a silent majority until the night.

>> Protect Julie.

>> Yeah.

>> Get away from Julie.

>> No, no.

I'm nonviolent.

I'm nonviolent.

I'm nonviolent.

>> Pamela, Pamela come here.

>> But he is taking my passport and telling me to stand

over there and that they're holding us all

up for special inquiry and nobody else is obviously going

to surrender a passport.

So I'm just-- I'm very curious.

Are you getting through?

We're not getting through.

>> Jane Fonda arrived in Japan with a group

of 25 people and they have had difficulty

because of their arrival in Japan on a tourist visa,

the immigration authority had refused to allow them to come

into Japan and they are now judging the fact that whether

or not the visit to Japan is in order with their visas

which are only for sightseeing.

At 3:30, they had a press interview

and then they are appealing to administrative justice.

>> I'm in the power,

particularly the American military power

as well that's the Japanese government were so concerned

about the GI movement and the move-- peace movement in Japan.

And what they are trying to do is if the FTA Show comes in,

there will be a very, you know, strong uprising of the movement

and the Japanese Peace Movement

or the Japanese mass can really go together

with those concerned GIs and this they wanted to avoid.

>> There is a condition that they simply said they're going

to help us change our visas.

>> Where did you got that information?

>> This was called by one of the reporters

that has another reporter at the Justice Department who's been--

or I've been with all morning.

>> We're going to facilitate changing our visas

to cultural visas.

>> Fantastic.

That's great.

>> Out of sight, out of sight.

>> Move on over or we'll move on over you,

move on over or we'll move on over you.

Move on over or we'll move on over you,

for the movement's moving on.

I declare my independence from the fool and from the knave.

I declare my independence from the coward and the slave.

And I declare that I shall fight for right

and fear no jail nor grave for the movement's moving on.

Move on over or we'll move on over you, move on over you.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

Move on over or we'll move on over you

for the movement's moving on.

Many noble dreams are dreamed by small and voiceless men.

Many noble deeds are done the righteous to defend.

We're here today, John Brown to say, we're here today,

Medgar Evers to say, we're here today, Michael King to say,

we're here today, Malcolm X to say, we'll triumph in the end

for the movement's moving on.

One more time now, yeah.

Move on over or we'll move on over you, yeah, yeah.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

Move on over or we'll move on over you

for the movement's moving on.

Yes the movement is moving.

That's what moving

and the movement move.

And we're feeling moving.

And we're feeling moving.

I want to know can you feel it moving on.

>> Merry Christmas everyone

and now I'm glad that it's 38 brings a song.

>> And a 1 and a 2 and 1, 2, 3.

When I'm walking down the street and every man I meet says,

"Baby, ain't you sweet."

Well, I just scream.

Well, I know these guys are sick and think only

of their prick it ain't sweet on me I just feel good and mean.

They whistle for me like a dog and they make noises like a hog,

heaven knows they sure got problems.

I agree, I agree.

But their problems I can't solve because my sanity's above now

that I'm tired of bastards fucking over me.

>> When I go out for a walk and some guy he wants to talk,

my headache gets blocked and it gets a sore.

'Cause although I talk real fine that ain't quite is

on his mind I'm a pretty piece and he's just trying to score.

>> They whistle for me like a dog and make noises like a hog,

heaven knows they sure got problems, I agree.

Yiipee. But their problems I can't solve,

'cause my sanity's involved and I'm tired

of bastards fucking over me.

>> Well, I'm peacefully at work and I'm confronted by some jerk

who had some obscene quirk he must display.

So I know this dude is ill.

I can't help but want to kill any other man

who is standing in my way.

>> Now, I know that life is tough and to be a man is rough,

but I have had enough and can't ignore,

that their masculinity don't respect my right to be

and I solemnly do swear I'm going to war.

>> Now I sing this song in hope

that you won't think it's a joke 'cause it's time we all awoke

to take a stand.

>> We've been victims all our lives,

>> Now it's time we organized.

>> And to fight we're going to need each other's hand.

They whistle for me like a dog and make noises like a hog,

heaven knows they sure got problems, I agree.

But their problems I can't solve 'cause my sanity's involved

and I'm tired of bastards fucking over me.

Oh yes, I'm tired of bastards fucking over me.

Oh yes, I'm tired of fuckers fucking over me, yahoo.

>> In my last base, I know they came in

and we had-- we always had this big laugh meetings, you know.

And our last commander came in, I don't know if it was

on her own or I don't know, but she came in

and said we do advocate birth control pills so I would suggest

that all the people down, you know, and get them.

And it's like--

>> you're there to go to bed with the guys

and that's all you're going to-- that's all you're in for.

>> When we tell that to people who don't have any experience

in the military, they say we're crazy.

>> Oh, you're not crazy.

>> When we talk to the WAF at Mountain Home Air Force Base

who told us that the first thing that happened to them, they went

and they were taken to this-- the psychiatrist who implied

that they were there to service the men,

so that's why the WAF were there.

Free abortions without their--

their parents would never been told and they'd be sent

to travesty of free abortions

and here are your birth control pills.

And you tell that to someone on the outside

and they say you're crazy.

>> I really can't say with all the Japanese people thing

but I think if I was in a country and I lived here,

you know, I sort of resent anybody else coming

in putting bases up and everything else.

>> Oh, it's just a little accident.

It's hit by a land mine.

>> Before I got hit 8 months.

Yeah.

>> How did you get that.

Where'd you get that?

>> One of these.

>> Right. I didn't even see that.

So--

>> Good disguise, huh?

I guess it changes your life but you have

to keep on living, I guess.

But I don't know, it's been 2 years now and I guess,

well I don't do any squandering around the place.

I don't know.

>> Think you would have been wandering

around if you haven't been in Vietnam?

>> No.

>> I want to read from a book, the book is called,

Johnny Got His Gun and it was written in 1938,

a year and a half before the Second World War was--

That's why I'm going to read.

It was written about an American GI who was sent to France

in the 1914, 1918 war to keep the world safe for democracy

and he got hit by a high velocity shell and they blew

up his arms and legs, everything, his eyes.

He didn't have anything.

He was kept alive like a fragment of meat

in the hospital in France.

And he couldn't figure out what to do with his life,

I mean he lived but, you know, he could tap

with his head and communicate.

But he couldn't imagine what use his life could be

and he gradually begun to discover that if people

around the world saw him, saw this piece of meat

that couldn't see or hear or speak or anything,

they would understand the futility and the horror

and the stupidity of war.

So he sent to his commanding authority and the government

and everyone and asked them if they would put him

in a glass box and send him around the world, you know,

so that everybody in the world could see him.

And in looking at him, they would understand

and then they would make all people come together

and all people would be free.

And he waited for the answer because he thought

that the government once they heard

that idea would be really eager and do it.

And the answer came back and the answer of course was no,

that he had to stay in the hospital,

that nobody could see him, that he just had to stay there

and he couldn't understand.

And then suddenly, he did.

Suddenly, he saw.

He had a vision of himself, as a new kind of Christ,

as a man who carries within himself all the seeds

of a new order of things.

He was the new Messiah of the battlefields saying to people,

"As I am, so shall you be."

And with it, he understood it.

He understood it now.

He understood everything.

He had told them his secret and in denying him,

the authorities had told him theirs.

He was the future.

He was a perfect picture of a future

and the authorities were afraid

to let anyone see what the future was like.

Already they were looking ahead, they were figuring the future

and somewhere in that future, they saw a war.

Now to fight that war, they would need men.

But if men saw the future, they wouldn't fight.

>> We thank you for coming to this New Zealand Today.

We're going to explain to you

of those audio guide the circumstances come

up with the bombing of Hiroshima.

Plans have at last conquered atomic energy, the third source

of energy for mankind.

However, the real first use of this energy lies unfortunately,

the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

>> For that all that sticks in 1945, 8:15 in the morning,

the old citizens, children, women, they didn't know anything

about that, it was a great massacre.

>> In general, the immediate damage caused

by the bomb may be divided into 3 types, the force of the blast

or the pressure wave, thermal flash heat, and the gamma rays.

The thermal flash envelope usually in flames

of extremely high temperatures emanating from the fire ball.

Numerous people, maybe 2

or 300,000 lost their lives or were injured.

>> This was the epicenter.

The explosion was about 2,000 feet above this park

and even this river, the water was boiling and still thousands

of people jumped in running away from heat.

>> In the left corner, you can see pictures of the atom bomb.

The upper bomb is the Uranium bomb named Little Boy

which was dropped on Hiroshima.

The lower is the Plutonium bomb called Fat Man

which was used at Nagasaki.

They weighed from 4 to 4 and one half tons each.

Their destructive power is equal

to 20,000 tons of TNT or gun powder.

>> Most of the people living in this city, they all dead,

almost half dead and gradually in 1 year, 2 year, 3 year,

everybody dead almost.

Even 2nd generation are going to die now.

>> This is Vietnam.

This is Pakistan.

This is every place to every--

the way that machines say

that this is all just--

>> Thank you for visiting this museum

and may your journey be enjoyable.

So good luck and sayonara.

>> Destroy each other

>> Wait a sec.

>> You want to fight them all but in Vietnam or you want

to fight them in your backyard.

>> What's been going on?

>> What's been going on?

>> Just some asshole like from, you know, right wing guys.

They may be just drunk, may be just drunk but you know,

there's a couple of them.

I don't-- I think it's a scattered thing.

>> I don't think they're going to try to come up on the stage.

But like if they just keep hooting,

I mean if I just disrupt our show, you know,

just verbally, what we should do?

Ignore? Just ignore?

>> No, no, no, no.

They have to go.

>> As much as possible.

>> But you can't ignore it truly.

>> My father was in the Navy and he was the only man on his ship

that did not learn how to swim.

>> Your father?

>> That's right, he's afraid of water.

>> He had to keep up that old--

>> Thank you, can we have the house lights up please.

Guys I'm sorry, you can't--

we can't do the show if you're going to be--

if you're going to do this so I--

you're going to have to split.

>> You want them if-- would you please tell them you want them

to go.

>> Out.

>> Out.

>> Get him out.

>> Get him out of here.

>> Get him out.

>> Out, out, out, out, out,

out, out, out, out, out.

>> Move on over or we're moving over you.

Move on over or we're moving over you.

Move on over or we're moving over you,

for the movement's moving on.

Move on over or we're moving over you.

Move on over or we're moving over you.

Move on over or we're moving over you,

for the movement's moving on.

>> -- for the movement's moving on.

>> No Vietnamese ever flew across the seas.

That's not-- Yeah, we're crazy.

No, no, no, no.

I want to sing mine first.

No Vietnamese ever sailed

across the seas and to flatten my city to save me.

Foxtrot, tango, November, free the Navy.

>> Don't ever send you off to war.

Don't miss to spend your fighting for.

Are they your friends who hurt your more?

Your fellow soldiers or the fucking war.

Red, brown, yellow, black or white,

only runs in the same old fight.

Without his fangs, the snake can't fight.

Resist the Army, refuse to fight.

Save our soldiers.

Save our soldiers.

Resistance, resistance, together we'll be free.

Save our soldiers.

Save our soldiers.

Resistance, resistance, together we'll be free.

Service wives and here we go.

We must learn and we must grow.

Join together, it won't be long.

Women together, we are strong.

Save our soldiers.

Save our soldiers.

Resistance, resistance, together we'll be free.

>> We got to save.

>> Save our soldiers.

>> I mean save.

>> Save our soldiers.

Resistance, resistance, together we'll be free.

>> Red, brown, yellow and black and white,

together we must just refuse to fight.

>> Save our soldiers.

Save our soldiers.

Resistance, resistance, together we'll be free.

>> We've got to save.

>> Save our soldiers.

>> I mean save.

>> Save our soldiers.

Together, together, together, together,

together, we'll be free.

>> I've seen.

That's right, I've seen Charlie.

Right there laying down as I walk by.

I looked in, he looks at me.

Couldn't , this man didn't do me nothing.

He can't hurt me in no type of way.

He hurt no my black people, know my families,

so why should I shoot him.

>> What do we come in the Marine Corps for?

All right, they said, we come

and uphold democratic government.

Okay, I don't see anything democratic about it.

There's nothing but capitalism, that's all it is,

and imperialism, that's all it is.

And I'd go, I feel all black men should be exempt

from a military duty anyway because--

>> I know.

>> I know.

>> The only place a black man should fight is

where he is being oppressed.

And I'm not being oppressed in Japan.

I'm not being oppressed in Vietnam

and I am not being oppressed in Pakistan

and I'm not going to Pakistan.

I go to jail first.

As far as being over here,

I'm here because we're not going over here.

That's the only reason I'm here now.

And I go, I feel all the brothers that's here today

and all the brothers that's all over the world,

it's time for you to wake up."

>> Yes.

>> It's time for you to do something about this man.

This man who'd been doing-- doing us too long.

>> general always.

He himself-- he was-- if you were ever going,

a lot of blacks movement went in there is.

He'd tell you.

He is from the south.

Like he-- like I was

to him the other day I said like,

Do you feel like there's any prejudice on this base?

He says, "Yes, I feel there's prejudice on this base

but like I'm trying to do everything

in my power to correct it."

And you know, me myself-- look I see with my own eyes and I hear

and I don't see nothing being done correctly.

I mean we just had a-- we had a CO that would come out

and tell you, "I don't like blacks," you know,

"I don't like blacks."

The name was Jones.

He general somebody, you know,

Lieutenant Jones his ass.

I hope he look at this film too.

>> Does people like Lieutenant Colonel ,

Colonel Calley, Sergeant Major--

>> I've got-- this is the first place I've seen where there's

so much unity within the blacks and the Puerto Ricans as one,

as a whole, because back in the world, if you're a civilian,

the blacks and the Spanish, they just cut each other's throats.

I went home, I leave, I pick this--

I had a suit and I had to come back.

As much as I hated to come back to base, but I just left

that 'cause there was no kind of unity.

They were at each other throats men.

>> and I'm willing to go back.

I'm going to go back but I got a job in those ghettos.

That's to try to get my brothers off the dope for one.

That's to try to keep my brothers

from killing up each other.

That's number 2.

Number 3 is to educate my brother.

That's what is happening in the world today.

Once I get them off that dope,

wants to stop killing up each other.

I got to educate them.

That's why I'm educating myself right now so that I can go back

and try to educate them.

>> educate yourself like I know from one thing

for him or one thing for me.

Like any book we read, you know, we got a dictionary beside us

in case we run across a word we don't know what it means,

we're looking it up.

Like hey, how many people can tell me what communism is,

you know.

Like a whole lot of people talk about, what, you communist,

you don't even know what it is, you know?

Socialism, revolution, freedom, blackness.

How many of you all--

how many of you the dictionary

and look at them words.

And before you can start revolution, you got to know

about Marx, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Che.

You got to know.

I mean like you just can't jump out and have a revolution,

like you can go a long with it and do what you know,

if you don't know it all.

But before you have a revolution,

you got to know the conditions you got to live under.

What you got to sacrifice for it.

That's why I want friendship.

I want brotherhood than revolutionaries.

>> Me-- me and myself what it all boils down to that situation

over there situation

under military bases all over the world.

It's just a reflection of what's happening back in the world.

You won't--

>> That's right.

>> You won't see a change here

until you see a change back in the world.

>> Yeah, you're right.

>>'Cause I-- that's what the power structure is back

in the world.

>> That's right.

>> Like I die-- if I die, that's for a cause I believe in.

I'm happy but I ain't going to just die by getting hit

by a straight bullet and don't know what's going on.

That don't pissed off, give me a cause that I can believe in

and let me die for that.

>> You know that you live and fight for that.

>> I once knew a man long, mean and tan, could pull a pig's eyes

out with a twist in his hand, respected women, was gentle

and wise, has sensitive eyes, strong, powerful thighs and lips

that spoke truth and never told lies.

This man was my hero, my lover, my friend.

All my life in his arms I could spend.

He would warm me and charm me but never would harm me.

Then one day came a knock on the door,

a messenger for him, a telegram boy.

It said, "Greetings, we want you to slave in this war."

To slave, to kill, to napalm

and worse upon this place we've laid our curse.

My man said, "Hey baby, come look at this shit.

Tricky Dick wants me to go make it here.

He wants me to leave you sweet sugar stuff and go to the Nam

and kill 'till he says no."

He said, "I'd kill for my mama.

I kill for you.

I didn't fuck with my clothes and the shit might get rough.

But to kill 'cause I'm told too, to maim and to burn

on this crazy motherfucker, I have got to turn.

Yeah, I'll join the Army, the platoons of the streets

with sirens and music to which we all pad our feet."

But my man was cool.

Didn't shout like a fool, he got real quiet

and went back to school.

He studied computers and lay back and dreamed and stayed

out the Army while he plotted his scheme.

Now, his little baby bro just back from the Nam,

had a drippy nose and a pet monkey named Sam.

He said, "Big bro, I'm ready 'cause I don't give a damn.

I've got to bury mean Jones and I'd rather die here

than far, far from home.

I ain't going to tell you that I came back the same

but demolition is my trade and death is my game."

The shit that they shot me has me drowsy and weak

but I'd rather blow a pig that."

My little baby bro drifted off into a nod

in floated my man's friend, Ichabod.

But something about him made your hair stand on end,

he could read your mind and probe your brain,

drink plenty wines and sniff a little cocaine.

He had a smile as soft as the gentle spring rain.

He said, "Brothers, I have come here from Tibet.

I've been meditating 10 years and I'm a neophyte,

yes I can make a helicopter fall from the sky.

With the wave of my hand,

I can make a tall building no longer stand.

I can dawn a cloak of invisibility slip

through a keyhole and walk on to see.

I have come here to join your group 'cause the pig

on my back porch too."

He said, "Greetings brother, we need you in this mess

but before you meet the rest, let me take you

through a little unity test.'

Now, I can exactly tell you what to do but there's the armory,

the rest is up to you.

Ichabod went into a state, as eyes clouded

over Ichabod and levitated.

He floated high above our heads and landed gently.

Off in the distance, we heard a muffled sound

and a flash-like reaction from an atom bomb.

Outside, we heard the rumble of a van heavily loaded

but not driven by a man.

with the short funky natural and a determent frown.

She said, "Brother, Brother Bod just called me

on a spiritual telegraph and asked me

to bring you the armory just for a laugh."

She said, "And I really don't think we need all these eat

but we could just give to the people in the street.

The sister was fine and attitude was clean,

and dressed very nicely and just a little mean.

Brother Bod straightened up, Ichabod closed

in to make she stepped back nicely and said,

"Brothers, please don't start that shit.

I will respect and cherish you as a jewel

if you just don't talk to me like I'm a fool.

I have a doctorate in astrology, mathematics,

psychology and Egyptology.

I'll come here to help you kill fear.

I am the center in the circle in the cycle of a spiral spinning."

>> Don't send another mother's son.

Set the date.

Set the date.

To risk is all where nothing's won.

Set the date.

Set the date.

The season of the sword is done.

Set the date.

Set the date.

The clock is full of death each day you wait.

Face it's much too late.

We've asked for lightning, will you set the date.

set the date.

The Nixon goes to Peking, hey and many jumped with joy

but the word comes from the horse's mouth

and the horses get annoyed and it says set the date

and you say set the date.

Can I hear you say, set the date.

You better say, set the date.

Can you set the date?

>> Set the date.

>> Can you set the date?

>> Set the date.

>> Now, set the date.

>> Set the date.

>> Now, we command you, set the date.

The table talks, have set the tone.

Set the date.

Set the date.

They'll send out all POW's home.

Set the date.

Set the date.

They'll scare our sons to save their own.

Set the date.

Set the date.

Stop one then no one should wait

for the dying each tomorrow is too late.

No more devastation can we tolerate.

Now it's set the date or abdicate.

Set the date.

Let this year marked the end of a world of Vietnam's.

Let this deliberate us from the shadow

of the bombs and set the date.

Set the date.

And set the date.

Set the date.

Can you set the date?

>> Set the date.

>> You better set the date.

>> Set the date.

>> Now we command you, set the date.

Now we command you, set the date.

You can't help the feeling of apathy back at home.

They think, well, this is--

really is a small faction of what probably people at home,

you know, consider malcontent.

But if they had to live this day to day,

they just wouldn't believe it.

>> They don't know what's going on.

All they hear is a propaganda from United States where,

"Oh they're a bunch of fuck ups," you know.

>> Anybody that's in front of 33 who was in Naha right

after President Nixon stated there were no nuclear weapons

in Okinawa sat there in front of our hanger

and watched 23 of them get towed by.

We sat there and--

>> -- Okinawa at that time.

I was stationed ammunition.

>> They took them up toward a superconstellation

and that thing pool around Naha 3 hours landed

and we counted them and they brought them back

to that goddamn island and they stick them on.

With this and on the radio, Nixon said, "Make no mistake.

There are no nuclear weapons there."

Man, I fuckin' saw them.

>> I they out to take some of these films and stuff

and show them in the Midwest

where these Joe college straight people see it instead

of on the coast where everybody is more open minded.

They got to start in the Midwest and change some

of the Mrs. Averages and Mr. Averages to our way of thinking

because that's where you ought

to start is what they work society people

in the Midwest, Missouri--

>> You're going down.

>> I am but I can't even go to my own house man.

They look out at me because I'm a short-haired long--

you know, short-haired communist doper

or you know, I'm a radical.

>> I live in one of the smallest places in the country,

man, Beaver Dam, Kentucky.

People are

on my side.

I want people on my side.

The letter said, "Well you should see what's happening

in the home you know.

People are changing."

>> That's where it comes to.

You got to get the people backstage.

Get the word in them, so they'll know because I've come

from places that I've been talk to people and they say,

"Well man, what's really going on."

You know, I don't hear what-- that's what it is.

No one really knows.

>> It is our responsibility all of us

from whatever country we come from to recognize

that although there are fewer grunts, ground troops, peons,

snuffies, whatever you want to call them in Vietnam,

fewer white American soldiers dying,

there are more yellow people dying than ever before

because of the defoliants that we're dropping, the chemicals

that we're using, the bomb tunnels that we're using,

the type of-- new kinds off sophisticated automated

battlefield mechanisms that are being put into Vietnam.

I'm sure that you all know that as well as we do.

Over 2 and a half times Hiroshima is being dropped

in terms of bomb tonnage on Laos, Cambodia

and Vietnam each week, 2 and a half times Hiroshima.

That's a terrifying thing to recognize

that there are babies being born with flippers instead of hands,

with soft skulls, with no tear ducts, with soft palates,

because the things that our government is dropping

on that country.

Their crops are being destroyed,

their animals are being destroyed,

their water supply is being polluted.

There are areas where people will never be able to live again

and it's our government which is doing it,

the American government and our names.

The soldiers know this.

The soldiers that are loading the bombs

and the planes know it.

The soldiers that are working on the flight lines know it.

The pilots know it.

The reconnaissance, the photo reconnaissance experts know it.

The men who are waging the war from Okinawa, from Japan,

from the Philippines, from Hawaii, from the attack--

nuclear attack aircraft carriers, they know it

and they're beginning to say no.

We will not load bombs anymore.

We will not kill Vietnamese people anymore

and we're beginning to ask ourselves why

and in whose interest are we here.

>> The following demands represent the feelings

of hundreds of Americans servicemen and women

on Iwakuni Base as well as the wives and families

of servicemen at these Base.

We can no longer remain silent about the atrocities

and injustice being perpetrated by the United States military

on peoples of other nations.

No other petty harassment, the servicemen and women are made

to endure day after day.

>> We demand an end to all of the discriminating policies

against persons because of their race.

>> We demand an end to all discrimination

against such as anti-war GIs

because they do not agree with US policies.

>> We demand that the Japanese people be authorized

to search Iwakuni Base to determine the truth

about nuclear weapons on this base.

>> We demand that no plane leaving Marine Corps Air Station

Iwakuni be allowed to fly to Southeast Asia

for any reason whatsoever.

>> We demand that Iwakuni Base be given back

to the Japanese people and stop being run

by the imperialistic American government.

>> We demand an immediate-- immediate and total withdrawal

of all air and ground troops in CIA from Vietnam as well

as in Korea, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines, Israel,

Cambodia, Thailand, Germany, England, Panama,

Guantanamo Bay--

These demands will be presented outside

in one corner each corner and this corner here

and the corner here by people.

If you do believe in these demands,

please put your signatures on them.

Thank you.

>> We're done with it forever and ever

because we are the living and we will not be destroyed.

If you make a war, if there are guns to be aimed,

if there are bullets to be fired, if there are men

to be killed, they will not be us.

They're not be us, the guys who grow weed and turn it into food.

The guys who make clothes and paper and houses and tiles,

who build dams and power plants and string the lawn,

moaning high tension wires.

The guys who crack crude oil

down into a dozen different pipes, who make

and automobiles and sewing machines and shovels

and airplanes and tanks and guns.

Oh no, no, it will not be us who die.

It will be you.

It will be you.

You who urge us on the battle.

You who insight us against ourselves.

You who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler.

You who would have one man

who works kill another man who works.

You who would have won human being, who wants only to live,

kill another human being who wants only to live.

Remember this.

Remember this well you people who planned for war.

Remember this, you patriots, you fierce ones, you spawners

of hate, you inventors of slogans, remember this,

as you have never remembered anything else in your lives.

We are men of peace, we are men who work,

and we want no quarrel.

But if you destroy our peace, if you take away our work,

if you try to rage us one against the other,

we will know what to do.

If you tell us to make the world safe for democracy,

we will take you seriously and by God

and by Christ, we will make it so.

We will use the guns you forced upon us.

We will use them to defend our very lives and the menace

to our lives does not lie on the other side

of a no man's lands set apart without our consent.

It lies within our own boundaries here.

And now we've seen it and we know it.

Put the guns into our hands and we will use them.

Give us the slogans.

We'll turn them into realities.

Sing the battle hymns and we'll take them

up where you left off not one, not 10, not 10,000,

not a million, not a hundred million, not a thousand million,

but a billion, 2 billion of us.

All the people of the world, we will have the slogans

and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns

and we will use them and we will live.

Make no mistake of it.

We will live.

We will be alive and we will walk and talk and laugh and sing

and love and bear our children in tranquility,

in security, in decency, in peace.

You plan the wars, you masters of men.

Plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.