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Attica

By VVAW

Men may not get all they pay for in the world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the ocean without the awful roar of it's many waters.

This struggle may be moral one, or it may be physical one, or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. For power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Making the demand, that what VVAW is all about. In order to really make the demand we must be prepared to labor, to struggle, and to suffer, in solidarity. Brother George Jackson was assassinated at San Quentin, Brother Sam Melvile was murdered in the massacre at Attica, the brothers and sisters of Cairo, Illinois are under siege, Angela, the Berrigans, Hillard and others are in concentration camps. Huey Newton is awaiting his first trial, Leslie Bacon, Daniel Ellsberg and others are awaiting the their first trial, Carlos Feliciano is out on bail.

Every day the crimes against the people increase and they will continue to increase until we get our shit togerth get our shit together. We must learn that the interest of one is the interest of all. We must struggle in solidarity against the forces of racism and repression, we must rise up as one against the capitalist, imperialist, inhumanity of this facist government.

For in the end, as Attica so vividly showed, we will all be discovered by the troopers and we will either all be massacred or we will be saved.

Remember Malcolm, remember George, remember Sam, remember Fred, remember Martin, remember John, remember Bobby, remember Che, remember Ho, remember all our brothers and sisters, REMEMBER SOLIDARITY.