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were A ee ee le TS oan hea sv, Be Pome et L: Are the Seed poopie doing my" thing that is helpful toyGu7? T inma- gine thet they’te active. .-——- Ht: _Yes, they are, ——> L: Are they numerous? T don't know anything about the Seed or- ganization. H: It's like the L.A, Oracle, That kind of paper, They’re very -concerned about fa possibility of violence, They issucd a slate- ment saying thatifpeople justex- pecied a five day festival of life, fuu and flowers they ought to re- think it, That there is a chance of violence, L: Arethey cooperating with you? H; Oh yeah, they're pulling outa spccial Chicago edition for thnt - week, About ten thousand comes, wilh maps and everything. As Is ihe Rat, N.Y, It's putting out 100,090 copies, on such subjects as how to survive in Chicago. L: Is Cast Village Other going to do anylhing special? H; No, but l heard Ramparts is coming In and going to put outa daily newspaper, There was someone here from them, loohing for a printer, We'd also like to emphasize that there’s a 200, there's a totom pole, there's pie- nic facilities, and that Lincoln Pavk is adjacent to Oid Tovn, which is Chicage’s Greenwich Village avea, Vere urging people to bring sleeping bags andto bring enough food to share, We're enly working on one night offrec food, thal barbeque night. L: Is there anything similar to the Diggers’ there? : H: They live a Hip Job Co-op, L: But they doa't feedand house? iH. Nothing like L,A, or San Fran- . cisco or New York. H; Yes, There's A suy from a food company who Hikes what we are doing, There are peepte who “‘aeaictistine their hocsescfo. storage space for banners and “rea ole see Nye eee I. low about the media there? Hi; They're constantly poskering a rea SRT RR eR RU, CO REE, WONT re EE wae L: Are you pelting any coopera- tion from Chiescoans? hemes +, Ls Have youhad any appearances on the niedia? H: Censlaally, Krassner is poing t@ be iaiking about it on the Les Crane Show in about a week, also the Jolinny Carson Show, We're on television every night here, We're tryitig (9 arrange a mect- ing tomorrow with Alien Ginsberg and Mayor Daley to talk about tre permil, We also have somelody in the Healt Depardaent working on afood slampprocram, There's a possibility we misht eet food Stamps, Dut people should come prepared lo contribute, If sroups from the L.A, area are conning they ought to nolify us, We're stilt looking for Hugh Romney and Kon Kesey’s group, We're print- Ing up a whole map of Lincoln Park, It has pisees on it; like Church of the Free Spirit, Future City, Cemmiunications Center, Yippee Pentagon, Minstrel Area, Grun Town, Contral Stage, Free Store. We Lone to have a free Store where people will donate cthing sults, suap, towels, food, We also have a log farm, with the candidaie’s headquarters, L: Do you have any mimeograph machines or Gesielner? H: Yes, L: Why las communication becn sO sparse? Why haveu’t we re- malien sd omer debe Poe BU EU PCa O Te Se Tee er te ee OIG ee Fees) you? H: In New York we are twelve hundred dollars in debt, I: Have you reecived any ioncy from anywhere? H: Not much, We're having a benefit In New York in about a week, but we dat think we'll re- ecive four Wnousand from Uthat, L: It might be necessary tohave one In Chicago also to make up the deficit, H: That'll probally yo into bail Te Do you have any Jefal ceo hectlous there, Such #5 the ACL? H: Yes, the ACLU ts filluca suit Tuesceay. An Injunction agalust the city to let us use“Unc-psck | - 5. ties at oO area, We tried ty open anomtign | “rscae ar the pars, but the prob Tvin fs there's alebentione strike, "So we've Tid lo operate fram “apartuents anc panes that are already there, L: ts there any tath of movin the convention out of Chieseot i No, iUsatlrusiors, Thereare heavy preparations atthe Anyhi- theatre, There are 3,500 puard tsoups now training, There'th be another 9,000 in Grant Park, The city makes nobones aveut releas- ing statements where they're co- ing to jail every body amt all kinds of tureais, Bul the thing thacmust be stressedis thalifpoople aren't fate that scene Gey are not going fo be tramptcd on, Lincoln Parkis ten miles away from the Amphi- theafre, ‘The eiiy iad to bold up people wio stay in the park as a motel of protest, They'll say, hey, look, these peopte stayed here, nothing happened to them, L: You say ike Amphitheatre is being prepsred for security, H: Heavy security, Barbed wire fences, they're de-foliating the trees groundhere, thes*re knock- dpc_dowa abandoned bulldings au SHES fad “Stong-"the highway. Theycheve~ checkpoints sctupalt along Michi- gan Blvd and Hatscead Sireet, L: Us the Biack community dive altais thas, so far as you know? H: Totaliy unpredictable, We've tatked to soine groups and they're interested in coming to pie parK and participating, as wellas some of the major bike groups here, the Oullaws, tie Headhunters, L: How abou the Black garg groups we've heard about? H; We've talked to them, but their position is they don't care what we do. We've cotten very little feedback about whattacy're going to ca that night, or that week, dust the Mississippi Frese dom Dewocratic Partly is coming with a challenge, L: This we Saw fast night on wievisien, They will cone, and they’ H probably put on a deman- eiratian fa facet testi da mere See sbi eig Wee ab UE ae ee then dae’, They") demand being ertadin the coenveatien, _ - ke EE Ae A NR A He el em ne meme a