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actually doesn't look that good. Like I said, you know, we haven't suffered that much on the fast, but breaking the fast maybe made breaking the fast, That's about 15 minutes. Yeah, I think I think we were very, very food conscious, but you know, we pretty well

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forgot our own bodies and and I just got into the work we were doing besides the fast being as it is something in protest and kind of morning, I think there's a real ability for us to be able to do our work better and to really

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devote ourselves to the kind of things we're trying to do it against the war by freeing ourselves of at least one of our daily activities. It's kind of a sign that business is going on. But what happens to your perspective, accomplishing as much as you would

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without fasting being less frantic about using less energy? Do you think that your time sense and feeling sense is somehow distorted and you just think that that's what you're feeling when really your more debilitating? Well, I think that what happens is that your whole time orientation

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goes off because the three meal a day breakup is really kind of false structuring of the day, you know, you're sort of making it through from the time that's divided between breakfast and lunch or whatever and that without that breakup, you're much more aware of the

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things that you're actually doing in the day and how your day is actually being broken up, not meals or external things like this, but my accomplishments and failures and successes the fourth day with all the activities very little, very little game playing between amongst the fasters

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and I think this spread to the rest of the peace brigade and even some of the people on campus we've worked with a lot of people take a very cynical view of this kind of effort now, cynical in the sense of what we're trying to purely

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influence other people using a gimmick to influence others think they think you are irrelevant. Oh, I don't think so. And I think the reason, I don't think so is because of the way that we do do our politics were very careful to try to be conscious

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of the effect that the things we're doing is going to have on other people. And I think the fast has brought us into that awareness. Um, I don't know whether it's because our bodies are stressed and therefore we kind of share the stress of the oppressed

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people of the world or what. Um, but but we all have had this sense of meaning in what we're doing enables you to direct yourself more fully records, trying to do more worthwhile things, trying to help other people and so on, because you suddenly realize how

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much of your time you're thinking about and so trying to fulfill your own appetites instead. And so it helps you to direct yourself towards towards service and towards other people like four or five days, you almost automatically start forgetting your own, your own personal needs. You

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get very much into other people. Robin said it very well when she said that it's like going back to childhood and starting over again with the habits that you learned even sleep, you know, and where you live and everything becomes a little bit of relative. You

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don't consider them this withdrawal from the world. No, not at all. It's absolutely an increased involvement in the world of strike activity. All of us. I think most of it on the fast have been more active than a lot of, a lot of other games in

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the university community. We've been leafleting and pamphlets, calling people and doing a lot on the strike and I don't think the fastest agreed with that. I think it's, it's helped us to really direct all our efforts towards doing what we think is really important to do.

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A lot of people of my generation were involved in nonviolent movements and a lot of people feel it died in America was martin Luther king did it? No, I think all over this campus you see really a nonviolent revolution that is, people are, people are working

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in a constructive way to try and go out into the community and do a lot of things that hasn't reached any kind of completion or perfection, but people are really making an effort anyhow. Nonviolence didn't die. Just like Can we check with Jan 1st because he

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knows all about it, you know? Yeah. Let's see what kind of response you get. Are you people all students? Yeah, that's not surprising. Check their students. Okay. It's alright. It's really not bad, definitely. And no

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thanks. This is one of the rooms, one of the wheeler action centers as we call them. These are well, as you probably know, some classes on the university campus have reconstituted themselves. That's the word we're using. We like it because it's so flexible. Some of them

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are devoting at least part of their time to peace activities. The wheeler action centers are departmental are not tied to individual classes and they've divided among themselves different kinds of political political activities. Leafleting is the one that comes to mind for. Well, group six is one

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of the most interesting. That's the group that's making, having poetry readings. They're going to do a production of Winnie the pooh to make money. They're collecting books from faculty members from everybody around to sell them to. There's also a blood drive going on. We get 10

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$10 for the strike fund or the reconstitution fund for every pint of blood we get. So that's uh that's one we were stressing very much. We also have of course the community action program, which is probably involving the most number of people that is uh this,

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this room is doing the changing the school's program and that's primarily concerned with sending speakers out to the high schools and recently they just had a military, a debate with military. I think the army sent someone into the classrooms and, and one of our people staged

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regular debate. Mhm. I'd just like to stress how happy I am about the flexibility and the responsiveness of so many students and professors working together are working, as I said in this kind of departmental structure, all kinds of things are going on and all kinds of

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people are being responded to in some sense by what inevitably has become a structure. But we've tried to keep it as loose as possible. And we even invented for the sake of total inclusiveness, a group that unofficially called itself everything else. And just just asked for

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anybody's idea, mainly we're happy that all the students and all the professors are working together as they never have before. It's, it's thanks tv personality. Right here we are. Under the plane trees on the sidewalks of Tipperary. What's your name fred? What do you do for

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a living fred? Why are you here Freddy? Go away. Go away. Just, just suck off. You're wasting film. The thing is I know that, that the people that are behind this are ardently working for peace. And so I'm quite willing to go along. Yeah. Yeah. Mm

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hmm, organized by the political science department. That is people within the political science department And now we have support from draft counseling centers all over the, we just had our first meeting of the, of the class and this is to be a rigorous training class to

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train people to be professional draft counselors and over 300 people showed up, which is sort of a mammoth number. What are you going to do with 300 draft counselors if that many holes? Well, obviously we can't put them all here in Berkeley because that would probably

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not that many people who need draft counseling. We want to send these people out into places where there isn't draft counseling now, primarily black and chicano ghetto areas and into small towns all over northern California. How many blacks or chicanos showed up as as the counselors,

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Gi I don't have a number on that. I know that keeps his shop open for now. People can't do anything. Nixon could care less if you all shut down forever. No, If it makes people come first of all. Right, everybody remember, What do you

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say First of all? Right here. Only 15 cents. Mm hmm, mm hmm. I like it. Yes. Oh my God, first of all. Oh, man, Okay, Okay. Alright. Mhm. Yes, we

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were proud to be part of a new citizen, new kind of citizen approach to Congress. That is entirely unprecedented in the history of citizens actions in Washington and attempts to see Congress and get Congress to change its mind on the issues in general. We were distressed

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by the ignorance of some congressmen under the White house as to the seriousness of this kind of dissent and of the movement, which we feel a very important part of we made frequent attempts to impress them that this is an entirely different kind of student movement,

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an entirely different kind of sorry, uh, let me let me start that again. Why don't you stop? All right. We didn't talk to senator Murphy. We found it very difficult to see a lot of people. He's one of the people we had trouble seeing. He was

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only in Washington. one, I think one full day while we were there, he came in on Tuesday, any of the California congressional, What do you think Congress? What was the thing that stuck? Yeah, well, they're they're feeling just my impression was taped. Um, how is that

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a lot of debate on strategy? You know, whether or not this was a good strategic move. Uh, we felt that the question was not the war in Vietnam as much as it was a question of, what kind of country is this going to be? And and

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is this going to be the kind of the kind of nation that that we can be proud of? We can live in. And even more than that does the system does the american governmental system and all its high ideals and great principles really work when the

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people feel and have protested in the kind with the kind of energy and enthusiasm that we found in Washington, uh, particularly in students, but from people of all ages and all different kinds of occupations. When this kind of protest is going on, will the Congress respond?

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Will the president recognized?