Skip to main content

Attitude Check (vol. 2, no. 4), 1970-06

 Item

Scope and Contents

"MDM to bust the chain" [cover art with reprinted memo from E.N. Snyder, area commander]; "People's Armed Forces Day" [1st annual Armed Forces Day, May 16, 1970, in Oceanside, California, included march and speakers including Brother Bull (Green Machine), Robert Bryan (Black Panther Party), Melody, Derald Duncan, Oscar Rios (Los Siete de la Raza), Tito Garcia (active duty and member of M.D.M.]; "The Dead Fish Award"; "MDM Calendar"; "Get Your Kicks With Nightsticks" [Camp Pendleton's "heavies" attempt to keep servicemen from attending May 16 march and rally]; "Pigleton Grapevine: Jesse and Rat are free" [Jesse, no last name given, wounded by shooter at the M.D.M house at 519 S. Freeman and prosecuted for desertion; Rat, no last name given, imprisoned for having possession of the Black Panther Paper; Tito Garcia imprisoned at time of article for speech at the 1st annual People's Armed Forces Day]; "21 Area Cooks"; "Do It" [cartoon of Nixon with gun to head]; "Barbers are peons too!" [Camp Pendleton barbers and Gino Moreno Enterprises contract offer]; "12 Blackmen" [James E. Williams writes of being sent to the brig on base on trumped up charges]; "Armed Forces Day: 24 Pig Bases Shot Down" [base closures across country during Armed Forces Day]; "Kross Kountry Kaos: Huey's Gonna Be Free; Crumbs Ain't Enough" [Huey P. Newton, 200 Japanese citizens demonstrate outside U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at Iwakuni, Japan]; "General Wheeler Sees Trouble" [reprint of interview in U.S. News and World Report]; [untitled writing on guerilla warfare with artwork by Emory]; "Letters to the Editor"; "MDM News"; "Crotchstopper's Notebook" [non-judicial punishment and Article 15]; "Jay King" [photo and description of undercover agent working for San Diego Police Department]; "MDM: What we're for & why we're for it"; "peon poetry"; "Semper Fidelis"; "Not Me Man I'm Not Prejudiced!"; "When Company A Said "No!"" [cartoon]; "The People's Brig"; "Babylon" [cartoon]

Dates

  • Publication: 1970-06

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Access to fragile originals is restricted when access copies are available. The Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room is accessible by appointment only, Monday-Friday, 8am - 4pm. Final requests for materials must be made one hour prior to closing. Please submit requests for archival materials at least 24 hours in advance of desired appointment. Materials requested over the weekend will be available on the following Tuesday at the earliest. Please note that Special Collections and University Archives observes all campus holiday closures as noted in the Library Calendar. For more information, please send an email to archives@csusm.edu.

Extent

From the Collection: 300 Linear Feet

Language

From the File: English