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w—_L:-The march to wherd?— hi: The International Amphithea- al tre, where the convention is, There ls definitely a march that the mobilization is planning. L: Those who wishtogo?7in other words it’s optional for those who wish fo go on the march? H: Al the events are uptional, of course, ; L: What are you going todo when you get there? H: They plan to have a rally and vigil, Our feeling is that people who plan to go on thst marchor lo participate in civil disobedience in downtown Chicago, as many groups are planning to do, ought to be prepared for a very heavy scene, There are ten thousand National Guard troops here, There’s an eight foot barbed wire fence with a mile circumference around the Amphitheatre and an- other fence within that. Very heavy scene. AUGUST 29th and 36th; We have unscheduled events, although we - plan to still be in the park, L: What events? H:; We’re unsure what's going to happen that night. We do have plans to do a death of Yippie ceremony, where we burn all the posters and buttons, etc, L; Is that like the decth of Hip- pie? Does that mean that Yippee is only for this occasion? H: Our message is that people are free, They shouldn’t have labels, L: But you’re not adopting the Free Man label that they are in San Francisco? Or are you? H: Well, birth of the free people, L: Well, thal’s sinfilar to the San Francisco event, But they are keeping the name Free Man, ‘ ew, a iw; We are working mainly on the ‘“erents of the firsl three days, and setting up inforn.ation bovinsand preparing maps and training ses- “—sten::, and all that, " by Yippie, and that will be the end ' of this event? H: Yes, L: Who else is coming besides Allen? That you know of, H; Sgt, Sunshine is coming. Burroughs, Genet. L: Genet? I dicn’t krow he was in the country, H: e's covering it for ESQUIRE, Krassner, of course, Ed Sanders is coming in tomorrow, He's the music coordinator, There are two groups of rock musicians, One group of about twenty bands is totally committed to coming, no mailer what, Another group often (which includes the heaviest . bands) is committed to coming only if we get apermit, They may be talked into coming anyway. L: Does that include the Air- plane? . : H: The Airplane never was com- ing in the {frst place, L: How about Country Joe? H: That would include Country Joe and the Fish, Arfo Guthrie fs in the second group, If we get a permit only, L: How about the United States of America? H: 'm not surve where they are, Ed's going to start the coordina- tion from here, They pledged to come, but we haven’t been in touch with them, It’s very difficult for us to give thein information, They always ask you is therea permit? Now concerning the permit sit- uation, We've had numerous dis~ cussions and negotiations with Deputy Mayor David Stahl, The city officials are very scared, They don’t know what the hell to do, and we just impressed upon them the tremendous number of people coming. L: number of BR: people? Concent . ™ a ee memes ee een “hat about the tremendous .- : number of people? ‘What word do Slecp in the park, We feel thai our you have ihat there will bea great Fran you'll have the death OF be those assumed from Mesta rt. that you could get torrther any~ where from two touirce thousand people in Chicago alone, fl; Yeah, they were at the rally yesterday, L; What about other cities, onthe East and West Coasts, H: Well, there are bike groups coming tn, I would expect 20-25, 600 people from New York alone, Every free bus is already booked in New York, L: Have you had any indication from the West Coast? H: A guy named Super Joe, the guy that put the flowers in the rifles at the Pentagon came in yesterday and said that a lot of people from Berkeley hau already Started out, We've gotten letters from L.A,, from the Coast and even from Canada that say they’re coming, Our fecling is that we won't get a permit, but that they will tolerate the event, L: How aboypt policing the event? H: We pian topolice it ourselves, That’s what the training session is about, L: Of course you'll have moni- tors, but did ihe clty express any view on this issue? H: They have not given us any real information, They're just trying to get information from us, L: Is Jerry Rubin well enough to attend? H: Yes, He'll be here intwo more days, I'll give you my own private number; 312 area code 327-9248, L: How about crash pads for peo- ple coming, Is there any arrange- ment of this sort? : H: = We're making arrangements with peopte thal live near the park for the housing of people who come before the 24th, After that juld rather have eVerybody strength is in numbers,tend-thet the police won't do anything If We had a rally yesterday, ttre are 2 lot of people thore,—. There were two thousand people. ;