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- “~ i s , oe QO ° . re . . edipeople deingany-" “————* wn area, We tried to open an office L: Are the Seed peop H L: Have youhad any appearances Pai ateeeeys oa atten ttint te halnfut ta vant ima. THE ts) 2D ait apa se ges & secre gine that they’re active, ..——_—. __ H: Yes, they are. —— L: Are they numerous? [ don’t know anything about the Seed or- ganizatton, H: Its Hke the L.A, Oracle. Thal kind of paper, They’re very - concerned about the possibility of violence, They issued a state- ment saying thatil peaple just ex= pected a five day festival of life, fun and flowers they ought to re- think it, That there is a chance of violence, | L: Are they cooperating with you? H: Oh yeah, they’re putting outa special Chicago edition for that - week, About ten thousand copies, with maps and everything, As is ihe Rai, WY, Ws puting oat 100,000 copies, on such subjects as how to survive in Chicago. L: Is East Village Other going to do anything special? H: No, but 1 heard Ramparts is coming in and going to put out a daily newspaper, There was someone here from them, looking for a printer, We'd also Like to emphasize that there’s a z00, there’s a totem poie, titcre’s pic- nic facililies, and that Lincoln Park is adjacent to Old Town, which is Chicago's Greenwich Village area, We're urging people to bring sleeping bags and to bring enough food to share, We're only working on one night of free food, thal. barbeque night, L: Is there anything similar to the Diggers’ there? | H: They have a Hip Job Co-op, L: But they don’t feed and house? H: Nothinglike LA, or San Fran- . elsco or New York, L: Are you gelling any coopers- tion from Chicagoans? H; Yes, There's a guy from a food company who likes what we are doing, There are people who restating their hodsra—te7: storage space for banners 70 c. + L: How about the media there? i: They're constantly: pestering _ “— on the media? H: Constantly, Krassner {s going to be talking about it on the Les Crane Show in about a week, also the Johnny Carson Show, We're on television every night here, We’re trying to arrange a mect- ing tomorrow with Allen Ginsberg and Mayor Daley to talkabout the permit, We also have somebody in the Health Departnient working on afocdstampproyzram, There's a possibllity we might get food Stamps, But people should come prepared to contribute, If groups from the L.A, area are coming they ought to notify us, We're still looking for Hugh Romney and Ken Kesey's group, We're print- ing up a whole map of Lincoln Park, [t has pieces on it, like Church of the Free Spirit, Future City, Communications Center, Yipnse Pentagon, Minstrel Area, ‘Grub Town, Central Stage, Free Store. We Lope to have a free store where people will donate bathing sulis, soap, towels, food, We also have a hog farm, with the candidate's headquarters, L; Do you have any mimeograph machines or Gestetner? H: Yes, Te Whe hae ramminiratian haan a OWE H ere a ee ae ET it era tt | ity ia sO sparse? Why haven’t we re- ecelved more information from you? . H: In New York we are twelve hundred dollars in debt, L: Have you received any money from anywhere? H: Not much, We're having . benefit In New York in about 2 week, but we don’t think we'll re- ceive four thousand from that. L: It might be necessary tohave one In Chicago also to make up the deficit, Il; That'll] probably go into bail — LC: Dio’ you have any [égateon- nections there, such as the ACLU? aan H: Yes, the ACLU ts fillaga suit Tuesday, An injunction against the elty to fet us use*the—perk Beemer the mark burt Pha nah for rerremeriat 2 Meat? Gray eenat it pie Jem is there’s atelenhone strike, So we've had fo operate from apartments and pnones thal are already there, L: Is there any talk of nioving the convention out of Chicago? il: No, it’sallruniors, Thereare heavy preparations atthe Amphi- theatre, There are 3,500 guard troops now training, There'll be andathar & ANA in Geant Tae Th. MeV a ade foe Py ELE city makes no bones about releas- ing statements where they're go- ing to jail everybody and all kinds of threats, But the thing that must be stressedis thal ifpeoplearen’t inte that scene they are not going to be trampled on, Lincoln Parkis ten miles away from the Amphi- theatre. ‘The city liad to hold up people who stay in the park asa mantel of protest, They'll say, bey, look, these people stayed here, nothing happened to them, L: You say the Amphitheatre is being prepared for security, H: Heavy security, Barbed wire fences, they're de-foliating the trees ground here, they're knock- ing cows abandoned buildings all "Stong—the highway. They--haver checkpoints sect upail along Michi-” gan Blvd and Haisiead Sires, L: Is the Black community active at this tims, so far as you know? tt; Totally unpredictable, We've talked to some groups and they’re ‘interested in coming to the park and participating, as wellas some of the major bike groups here, the Outlaws, the Headhunters, L: How about the Black gang groups we've heard about? H: We've talked to them, but their position is they don’t care what we do, We've gotten very ltde feedback about what they're Going to do that night, or that weck, Just the Mississippi Frec- dom Democratic Party is coming with a challenge, L: This we saw last night on tetevision, They will come, and they'll probably pul on 4 demon- | stration, In fact they'll do more thin that, They'll demand being seated is the convention,