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- 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 10 years

and to look forward to the future.

* Of America's mysteries

* That we made

- Hi there!

This is Isabel from Radio Regazza,

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 being hearing everywhere else you go,

happy anniversary!

* We are born in flames, we are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* Into the darkness of the past

* Run the trains, all better

* Wooo

Adelaide Norris, 24.

She seems to be the founder of the Women's Army.

- Her background?

- Ordinary.

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 is the oldest,

she helped raise the others.

These are some of them.

Always a jock, lived in track and basketball, goes to

school nights, works construction jobs during the day.

- Homosexual?

- Yes.

The Women's Army appears to be dominated by blacks

and lesbians.

Norris started it as a radical separatist vigilante group

three or four years ago.

- I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas or any

suggestions 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 stop to working.

We have to figure out some kind of way

so we can keep the center open independently.

* I know a place

- 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.

* Ain't no smiling faces

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.

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,

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 poor

just wait on their dreams.

- Look at this sweet little thing coming up

the block, yeah.

- Hey baby what's happening?

Where are you going, what are you doing?

- Today began the week long celebration of

the 10th anniversary of the War of Liberation.

The festivities began this afternoon, as organized labor

joined forces in a parade up Fifth Avenue,

commemorating the overwhelming victory

by the Social Labor Party 10 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 of pride

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.

*

* Wake up, wake up

* 'Cause she isn't alone

* She isn't alone

*

* Just got evicted 'cause the rent was due

* Wake up, wake up

* It could be you

* It could be you

- Like to open this up now

to any general questions you may have.

- Why is it called Women's Army?

I thought armies were for the men.

That sounds awfully masculine.

- Hillary Hurst, 26.

We figure her to be the acting leader of the Women's Army.

There's no official political record,

but she's been instrumental in bringing

the Army to large numbers of women

through induction meetings she holds around the city.

- What connection does she have to Norris?

- 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 Hearst in command?

- It'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 have 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.

- How does one iluminate 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 'til the hearts all break.

How does one iluminate a dark and muddy sky?

There's only one thing left to do,

you gotta ram at the darkness with your rhyme.

- 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 the 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 asked for information leading

to the arrests of the women involved.

Maybe even their telephone numbers.

We'll have more information on the 11 o'clock report.

Now here's Linda with the weather.

- Lesbianism, faggotism, niggerism, honkeyism.

- You know really that's who's in

the women's army that did that.

- It couldn't have been the Women's Army!

- It sure could have.

- No!

They're not aggressive enough.

- They're not aggressive enough?

What are you talking about?

- I told you Jules!

They're a service to the community,

they deal in child care and day care centers

and stuff like that but.

- That's not all they do, they do vigilantes,

they do violence, they could have done this easily.

- No, they're not aggressive enough,

they're not careless.

- Good evening, this is Honey coming directly to you

from the Phoenix Radio station.

We gonna let you know what going on, what's happening.

* Tell me why

* Why do they always try to put me down

* Slander my name all over the place

* What a big disgrace

* It's a crying shame again and again

* All over the place

* But I peaceful woman

* I don't believe in doing wrong

* Yes, I'm a peaceful woman

* I don't believe in doing wrong *

- Hey, why don't you leave the lady alone?

Is she bothering you?

The lady bothering you?

- What are you?

I mean, man or woman?

- Come on.

- Thank you.

- What the?

- Well, I wouldn't exactly call them terrorists,

although we do know that they're responsible

for those bicycle incidents.

- It's no big deal.

What is the problem is the vigilante sensibility.

- Procedure?

- Nothing premature.

Watch 'em, put some pressure on them 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 work-fair program.

They claim that women and other minorities

receive preferencial treatment in the real job market,

however human services officials deny that this is true.

Today's violence began when police tried

to remove demonstraters from the mayor's office

and it continued through the morning

as angry young men roamed the downtown area

indiscriminately destroying storefronts and cars

and attacking passers-by.

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 that

there are problems with the work-fair system

but stressed that he would not tolerate disruptions

that threaten the public safety in this city.

- Jim.

Meyers.

Adelaide Norris.

This is for you.

- This is pink.

- Well you know the pink slip means today is your last day.

- Is there no more work or?

- No, it means it's your last day for you.

I'm very sorry about it, but that's the way things are.

- Thanks.

- Good luck to you.

* At the new life we took aim

* We set the vast conglomerates aflame

* The working class avowed its name

* of America's mysteries none remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint stock companies

* Nor did their armed brutality

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

- 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.

- 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 of jobs.

Only a small percentage of each group can be accomodated

in these trades.

The rest will receive alternative placement

through the work-fair program.

We feel that women who immediately cry sexism

are being selfish and irresponsible.

Any move toward 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 wanna tell you something, it's like the right to pee.

You gotta have to the right place,

you gotta have the right time,

you gotta have the appropriate situation

and I am absolutely convinced that this is it.

- Zella Wylie?

- Yes.

Currently at the law firm of Wylie 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 protege.

Here's Norris with Wylie's kid sister.

In fact, the women's militia that Wylie formed

during the war liberation

may be a prototype of the Women's Army.

We've got to considerate the possibility that Wylie 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 AGW for workers and 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.

- We want a job!

We want a job now!

- What do you think you're doing?

Get this chain off here.

By the time my men come here if it's not off

I'm gonna call the cops.

- We gotta work, you guys work, we gotta work.

- 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, when we get back on that job,

work together, we'll all work together.

- That makes sense, I got no control.

- 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.

- Yeah but remember we don't have no money neither,

and we have family also.

- We know what you're saying, we're all going on

this job together.

- The entire organization which is represented

by this 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?

- 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.

- 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 the women into the street

as quickly as they force us out of the workplace.

- Valerie, our party has decided on an explicit policy

to integrate the individual into society.

In that light, we don't have any more use

for these antiquated notions of goodness and badness.

In other words there is 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.

- To rehabilitate rapists.

And they've been cutting back on everything else,

like the victims, you know, women, they've received nothing.

They've cut back so substantially that there's very

little left there, they can't service hardly anyone.

Even for other programs, you know, where a woman

has a emotional problems, there's nowhere for her to go.

So everyone is wondering where are we going to 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 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,

ready to escalate what we been doing

but the problem remains that our faces are known.

- So this seems to complete

the leadership of the Army.

It is not clear exactly how each of them fuctions

or what connection they have with Norris.

- This is Radio Regazza 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 'em 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 pulled before the revolution.

Remember, and I'm here to warn you, it's gonna happen again.

They're already starting the shuffleboard,

an 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 doogie 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 any more.

- Now I was thinking maybe it's time that you

did something to make the government more aware

of what you're doing.

Something enormous that would just bring a lot of attention.

- Look at this stuff, there's nothing here.

There's nothing here at all, there's junk.

- Hey, look, I went through everything, the place is clean.

- You're sure it's clean, you go through the desks?

- I went through everything.

- Rolodexes, names on the wall?

- Yes, look, obviously they're protecting themselves,

maybe we're gonna have to go through their houses.

- We gonna have to, because there is nothing here, no names,

no addresses, it's just crap, there's nothing to go on.

- Good evening friends!

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 Dunlop and Kathy Larson.

- Hi, aren't you from Phoenix Radio?

- Yes, I am.

- 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 even stopping you

is because 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, okay?

- What about questions of problems that we hoped by

now, by 10 years into the revolution,

we wouldn't be addressing any longer?

How do you feel about there are small groups here and there

that talk about how we still experience rape,

how we still experience prostitution in our society?

- I think the statistics will show you that the percentage

of rape and prostitution at this point is significantly

lower than it was in pre-Revolutionary society.

And that obviously it's an advancement, it's a step forward.

It's impossible to talk about the complete, you know,

abolition, because it's not the nature of this government,

they don't abolish.

It's a question of a gradual move towards something

and I think everything is sort of leading up to the point

Where those things simply no longer.

- 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.

- I'd like to ask, pick up on something 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 suspect that it will.

But that the attitude and the impatience

of some young women might be interpreted

as counter-revolutionary.

- Well there's two things I think about it, 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 demostrations has to do

with the fact that this group of women

have grown up within in the last 10 years

and have experienced this revolution as the status quo.

So it's really kind of a, I wouldn't care

to identify it completely as such,

but the situation seems to be kind of a gratuitous desire

for excitement and romanticism, and the idea of revolution,

which is constantly fed to you.

But yet the means of revolution are denied,

because they already live in a structure

which is prepared to give all that to these people so.

- So it's a certain amount of envy

of the experiences that I had and that you had.

- You think the group will make you strong?

- No, but they say there's strength in numbers, right?

- Who say so?

- Who said that?

- I think I got enough strength right here,

I think I can back my own self up.

- Anyway, I'm telling you, they gonna come

and take you out the houses.

You watch, you see.

- Gonna take you out your houses?

- Yep, take your kids away, they gonna do some funny shit,

you'll see.

- Well you gotta be prepared for it.

- Yeah, right!

- That's what women gotta do, get her mind together

because her mind is not together.

- So how you get it together unless you come together?

- Yeah you gotta come together.

Personally you gotta come together,

before you can go any group, you gotta come together.

- Right okay but then after you do that

can you join the forces?

- No, I'm not gonna join nobody,

I got my own forces.

- Oh see, yeah, yeah, right, right.

You know what you sound like?

The rest of them.

You sound like the rest of them, you know, you do.

- Go ahead and join, do whatever you wanna do,

let me do whatever I wanna do.

- Alright, cancel that, okay?

Cancel that.

- I'll do what I wanna do.

- Of course.

- And you do whatever you want to do.

- And that's what's everybody else is saying.

- If you feel you're gonna be stronger

by going into the Army, right?

So go ahead.

Nobody's stopping you.

But try to make me join, I don't wanna join the Army,

I feel strong just as I am right now,

I don't need no back-up.

I don't want nobody backing me up.

- It's not a gang, it's not a gang.

- You wanna tell me what the army did?

- What'd they do?

- This girl got raped over there on the West Side,

you know what they did?

Came running up there on a bicycle

blowing a whistle.

You wanna be part of that Army?

- Now wait a minute.

- Go ahead.

- Now you know sisters don't feel that way.

- No, no, no, that's what the Army did, ask them.

If you don't believe me you go and.

- I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about

a different one.

- Oh nah, it's the same Army.

That Army is not mature enough to hang out with me.

- With bicycles?

And whistles?

- They're not mature enough to hang out with me.

*

* Of America's mysteries

* None remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint stock companies

* Nor did their brutalities

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* Into the darkness of the past *

- 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 are separatist.

You can't even see how it's affecting you.

You know, 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 now than they were before,

it's not gonna happen overnight.

It's important that the party remains 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 daycare?

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 going to write about it,

at least come out

- 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 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, 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, 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, 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.

- 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

than a group of women of here--

- You heard my story about the division, you know,

they always talk about unity, we need unity, unity,

but I always say if you were the army

and the school and the head of the health intitutions

and the head of the government, 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.

If you're having a meeting and everybody's all, you know,

gussied up.

- At this point now 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.

- What took you so long?

- 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 passers-by.

Protesting what they call racism in work-fair,

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 work-fair 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 on sex

as opposed to race or class.

- Also, their politic is seems is just based on

spontaneous reaction to any kind of oppression

without bothering to analyze it first.

- Yeah, but I mean 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 just think it's gonna be a difficult task

to try and get all the women to think along that same line.

Because the reality of having to deal

with taking up arms, Adelaide, is really having.

I mean, 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.

*

* Just got evicted 'cause the rent was due

* Wake up, wake up

* Would this be you

* Would this be you

* Alright

* I know a girl who used to think

*

* Don't say nothing

* The hurry and the hurt

* They got only one thought left

* One sun

* Undone

* Only one place left to run

* But it's changin'

* It's all changin'

* It's changin'

* Watch it change

- 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 attention.

She's organized the underground radio,

and she's now got international contacts.

- Good, good.

I've got an idea if we know what she's doing now,

we'll be knowing what the Army will do

in six month's time.

- Throwing off their veils,

thousands of Algerian women poured into the streets

to protest the execution of a woman

Lila Kalo, by Moroccan troops

fighting to regain control of the Western Sahara.

Lila Kalo was a leader in a takeover

of the Western Sahara five years ago.

Miss Kalo, who visited the United States

during the transition at the unofficial invitation

of Zella Wylie became an outspoken critic

of the party after Ms. Wylie was dismissed from her post

for alleged counter-revolutionary 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.

And we'll turn the people against us.

Every time we shoot, you shoot somebody

be it a man or 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.

- She say that she is very happy to meet you.

She's asking if you are Zella Wylie's friend.

- Yes, I am.

And could you ask her does she understand

why I'm here to see her?

- 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.

- If you want to help us, you know,

you could come all the way to the Sahara,

and walk with the

and then you will have much more opportunities

to understand our struggle there,

and then maybe when you come back

you can help better to show to your people

what our struggle is.

You have an African 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.

- Hello, Mitton here.

Yeah.

Adelaide Norris, that's right.

Automatic weapons?

Look, that doesn't cross-reference with Zella Wylie,

does it?

No.

No, that's for the Spanish Sahara.

- Okay, now what is this?

- This is a German Schmeisser.

- Okay, how does this come?

- This comes 10 to 12.

In a case.

- How many cases can you get me?

- About five or six cases.

- How much is it gonna cost?

- You'll have to talk about that later.

- I want to tell you I got,

I'm setting up a trip to the Western Sahara.

- You're kidding?

- No.

- You are kidding!

Adelaide!

- That's enough, turn it off.

Okay.

- But how can we help women

to understand the fact that we don't have

to be second-class citizens?

- Well I have an idea.

We should take all the women and make them men

and all the men and make them women.

And then the men can finally see

the type of shit that they put us through.

And the women, the women would benefit from it all

'cause then they can finally see the type of things

that they don't have to deal with,

the type of walls that they don't have to contend with.

- Maybe you're right.

We are involved.

It's all political, but then again, like,

we'd like to get more, you know, direct.

Like get out on the street and talk to these women,

and you know, 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?

- Yep.

So you know you get on out in them streets

and do what you gotta do,

and when I come back we'll start working together.

We can go from there.

- Alright.

- This is Isabelle on Radio Regazza,

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.

- What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

- These women were fighting with the men first,

with the men for territory for things

that seemed right at the time,

and then after the fight was over,

they were pushed back in the kitchens,

back in the homes, no,

and there's more women now that want a change,

that want to go for their own,

and to understand that this fight is not the right fight

and that the world is round and big and it's our world

and women can move free in the world,

and there's no need for territory,

and there's no need to sit in the home and be

protected by the men.

- We're fighting the same fight in America.

- Yeah, it is very good that you are here.

Because you're 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.

- We say the only armed activity we'll have

is against the media.

You know, like the television and radio stations.

- 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 for us.

And closing down the world on us.

- 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 some managerial positions.

- So in other words you're on a general

secretarial strike?

- Yes, that's what we're calling for.

- Alright, thank you.

Excuse me, secretaries

are not slaves?

What exactly does that mean?

- 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--

- You're talking about office wives?

- Office wives.

They expect a wife at home in the bedroom,

and a wife on the job.

We're expected to make his coffee,

get his lunch, do all these things for him

which is not your responsibility.

*

* Of America's mysteries

* None remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint stock companies

* Nor did their brutalities

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

- 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.

- 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.

Excuse me.

- 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 infusion

like lightning, and her name will be the manifestation

of the spirit in flesh.

- We got a report she's 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,

we had nothing to do with it!

- Clear out and try to cover yourselves.

- 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 of what the consequences of that will be.

- 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.

If you say the party does 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 counter-revolutionary,

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.

- Yes.

I most surely would love to talk to Mayor Zabrinsky.

Yes.

Why haven't you called me?

You know, it's not as if, you know,

I left a 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.

Now 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.

But every time a kid falls out of a tree

you're in front of a television camera.

- As editors of the Socialist Youth Review,

we've been troubled by the official reports

in 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's idealistic and separatist

views, however we respected her commitment

as a community organizer.

It is alleged by the government that Norris

was involved in arms dealing with the rebels

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?

- Did anybody see this in here?

Any one of y'all see this?

Check that out.

- What is this talking about suicide?

She was murdered or something?

- Nah, suicide, nah.

- We've got to 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

because they're gonna bury it if they possibly can.

- Message across the major networks,

because we have to reach the most people

during that one shot.

- See, if this is supposed to be an army,

and we need media, we need people

that'll 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.

- 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.

- I don't know, if we print it we'll only be

sensationalizing it.

- Yeah, but I mean the party is already

sensationalizing this woman's death

in a really negative way.

We could use those images to mobilize the women.

- Yeah, but we don't need to fetishize a dead body,

we can mobilize them in other ways.

- There's the Beretta.

These are nine millimeter shots,

it's a nine millimeter gun, semi-automatic.

The shells go in just like this exactly.

Now, to get it in, pull out the back,

and you snap it in.

When you're ready to fire, just pull back the trigger

all the way back.

Then you're ready to fire.

* To fulfill the need to be

* Who I am in this world

* Is all I ask

* I can't pretend to be

* Someone that I'm not

* And I can't wear a mask

* There's this need to be true

* To myself

* And make my own mistakes

* And I don't want to leave

- 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?

- Thank you, John.

President Metzger is expected to speak tonight

on the much-debated program of--

- Camera two, stand by.

Take camera two.

- Camera one ready.

- Camera one stand by.

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 forward towards a society marked by greater justice,

equality, and freedom for all our citizens.

- Hi, we'd like to deliver this tape upstairs.

- You have a pass?

- No, I don't have a pass but we gotta get the tape

upstairs.

- Without passes you don't take nothing upstairs.

- We're gonna deliver that tape right now.

Don't make a move and you wont get hurt.

- Come on, get in here.

Get in!

- I am asking your support for a critical part

of that program, which will affect the lives of

40 million of our citizens, American women.

- Alright, put it on VTR three.

- What the fuck?

- Hey wait a minute.

- Shut up, VTR three.

Just do it, move it, now.

- It is time to recognize her contribution in real,

that is to say economic terms.

- Excuse me, are you supposed to be in here?

- Okay, get ready to punch up VTR three

to program.

- Hey, who are you people?

What's going on?

- Hey, shut up!

- We'll provide women with wages for housework.

- Okay, punch up VTR three.

Do it, fucker!

- Ready on VTR three.

- Zella Wylie here.

- Alright.

- 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 is--

- This is a special news bulletin

from NBC News.

Four armed female terrorists broke into the news room

of CBS this evening during the live telecast

of President Metzger's speech on wages for housework.

- 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?

- Well the more 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, our job but mainly your job,

is to see that it can't be quieted,

that it can't be bullshitted out,

and then we make up the difference.

- If I may say so, this has been a very satisfying thing

because it is proof an ancient theory of Freud

that there is a primary female masochism, you see.

Deep ingrained rock-bottom sort of thing.

Of course you don't see that,

what you see are the secondary manifestations,

the reversal to that,

the secondary female sadism, okay?

- The secondary female sadism?

- Yeah, it's all these so-called pranks, I mean.

- You mean their deeper impulse is masochistic,

but 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 Wylie?

We're federal agents.

I have a court order for you.

For Miss Zella Wylie.

- As 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 Wylie, the Army exposed

government duplicity not only in the cover-up

of Adelaide Norris's 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

on 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 accomplished.

You 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.

- It's not only Adelaide Norris.

- 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.

- 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 gonna be cleaned out, we ain't gonna

be around no more.

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.

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 Regazza.

- 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 at any time.

So what we're doing, what we're aiming for,

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.

- Police were called in today

to investigate blazes that gutted two

female operated unlicensed radio stations,

Phoenix Radio and Radio Regazza.

Citing the recent backlash against women extremists,

officials say that the suspicious and possibly related fires

may have been the work of vandals.

Both stations were known for their radical political

broadcasts.

- Hi.

- Can I help you?

- Yeah, we're looking for Honey.

- Honey?

You know any honey?

There's a supermarket around the corner

'bout three blocks up, you can find all the honey you want.

- We were told to find her here.

- Told by who?

- A girl.

- A girl.

You know a girl named a girl?

- Look can someone please tell me

where I can find her?

- Honey's in the alley.

- Where, what alley?

- Around the corner.

- 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 real good.

Under one condition, that we work with the Women's Army.

- 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?

- We're 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.

Look at the reality of your lives.

We live in a fake socialist state.

One which exists in name only.

The government thinks that socialism

was instituted 10 years ago, after the war of liberation.

It denies the very basis of true socialism,

which is constant struggle and change.

Also in the war of liberation fought

a great and 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,

is 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.

- Hey we need some help over here!

* No woman no cry

* No woman no cry

* Don't shed no tears

* No woman no cry

* I remember

* When we used to sit

* In the government yard in Trenchtown

* Which I share with you

- Good evening, this is Honey coming

directly to you from the new Phoenix

and Regazza 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.

Now if you should lose our broadcast,

you may have to search your dial,

for Phoenix and Regazza are now on the move.

- Good morning.

This is Isabelle broadcasting from the new

Phonix Regazza 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 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.

It is all of our responsibility as individuals

and together to examine, 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 building 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 one-ness.

This fight will not end in terrorism and violence.

It will not end in a nuclear holocaust.

It begins in a celebration of the rites 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 Isabelle for Phoenix Regazza 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 which with

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--