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“- ,orts “Continued from 2Ath Page ,,. "Phe three of us maxe more vemands/on.each ‘other than anyone ever has, even in the cell telore .*. , “Shere is no one for us to rely on or tap off of. It’s clear That conditions aren't going to fall inca our Ls PS and noth: ‘|:ing’s Going tobe easy... bar ; 1 "Rut what's tatked about and fourht about between tthese four walls don't amount 4a. . - compared to revolu. onary action. All nine of us were lotally cilierent peopie safter that kidnaping and dank rebtery." © . : * The'robbery referred to here is spnarenly the SLA “helst at the Hibernia Bank branch in Sen Francisco, April 215, 1974, in wtuch Hearst appeared, armed with an zuto- ‘matic weapon, Hearst, has Subsequently beea charged in eonnection with that erie, ; ae ." {2.°The Unree of us are lotaly different people after Lia, We're a loi'slronger anrl Lougher, hut we won't get any “sense of that until we give the izs another defeat thal &§ p yeach year they wish they could forget. & “The only way to build a revolutionary socicly and’ to' “become revolutionary peopie is to make the revetutien.-. IT. *And ihe anly way to make the eevolution is a((Emphasis is the SLA writer's} -- ae *Lat's do it, and when it happens, that will be Ube real +Calase for ecicbration." “ . . ae ee rr Pe ole rea mu i In anovher cocumént, apparently written by Emily toe-- $18, the *contradiction” (cit by women who considered! themselves radical feminists waging a guerniia war led by sexist mates emerges cleurly:. . The writer says: eta oath tt : e"The slrugglc against: sexism-in the SLA has gone VUnrough 2 prozess of evolu:ion. . : #- "The capture of our two comrades Little and Remiro on Jen. 10, 1974, pit us on the defensive. forcing several oth- tee comrades underground. Lae 4: Our changed situation competied us to piace primary Smportance upon obtaining survival sxiils and the atmos “phere became intensely mildary. ¢! : # -“Suruggies against sexizm cantinued on 3, ore-todne j ‘Jevel but these slruggies pist weren't as important as get. “+ ting the men-io teach us about weapons, . 10 FIG} eee on "6 o? ~ “AS women, our primary focus wes on Lecorning straz zt: female merrilizs, but, withoul reaizine it, our concept orf . pwhat a femete gueriila should be was Maleddelineg, ° 2% “Men phasis is that of the SLA writen ‘ »_ A mapr contradiction soon betame’cbvious ta ux, We Toe, “Were struggling lo Locome revelutinnaries, dut continuing to retaic lo each other ina reactionary way. <% 5 97 “Se hath ko expose this contradiciion and rescive jt, both among the women as a group and in tre cell as 4” whole, . a _ a TOT fee "In order to combat rexism, we began alteckinz two as- facts of our bourgeo:s contiicaing (nat make mele succes macy porsibie: 1) Concitsoning that makes exc'erive ces’ , snal relationships seem desirable (e.g. monogamy) and 23! Conditioning that mats peanie Ing oppressive Kex roles." - _ . lovestigators Leliove the! peciod of “evolctian® refer 2, to here was sav-ctine prior to Hearst's aotuction, per when the SLA was living underground in Concord. .: Tha writer continucs. , o +: oe “Zeta feel ‘comiorzable’ accep:-. ° * “On the collective level.our primary struzgts was ta) down monozams! fisic}} “personal roatonsins: preg haa break ‘while we hae some deerce of constiourress abou: Sve ways Of relaiing to meta, - : "This was particularly hand for the hetesmexus! woman® f. (flhost whore soxuul prefsrence was for vonens of Ga SE Chiesse $exp), althouzh Lecause of the heavy empaacis on: tha muitary and, tnerefere, ihe men, Gabi and Zoya werd havieg trouble, toa. in woe s (Gabi and Zova were the SLA names uted Perrech: vei , by Cainilta ail and Patricia "“Mizmoon” Sclivers, avowed. lovers acd lwo of the six wine died in the sneoteut : ‘Ancciles.}) . , tg TERE: ewe realized we had to smash the dependencies created? by mionogomial ((siel} personal sexual relatiorahiaz, and 4o~" do this we had to destroy monozamy in the cell” The battle thot ensued over sexism, the writer said, was é "one of the nest difficull and longest strugzita" the SLA: ever feces “hecaure, like racism. seaiem is a foundation ef 9 Cay:talist onpressioa.” : Moe et % ‘ in Leds,