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ee NSP, CESESS ahaa BREME, we Li The march to wherd? ™ Hi: The Unteynational Amphithoa- tre, where the convention is. There Is definitely a march that the mobilization is planning, L: Those wlowishtogo?in other words i's optional for those who wish fo co oa the inarch? : H: AH the evcnts are uptional, of course, L: What are you going to do when you get there? H: They plan to have a rally and yigil, Our feeling is that people who plan to go on that march or 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 Natlonal Guard troops here, There’s an efght foot barbed wire fence with a mile circumference around the Amphitheatre and an- other fence within that. Very heavy scene, AUGUST 29th and 26th; 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 ¥ipple cer emony, where Wwe buy a 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 Js 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? Hi: Well, birth of the free people, L: Well, that’s sinfllar to the San Francisco event, But they are keeping the name Free Man, “you-knew, ee is; We are working mainly on the ‘ wrents of the firsl three days, and setting up inforn. ation bovlneand preparing maps and training ses- Cet! Bot oThen you'll have the death oF oe eee 2 assumed from Me start, Yippie, and that will be the end of this event? H: Yes, L: Who else is coming besides Alten? That you know of, H: Sgt, Sunshine is coming. Burroughs, Genet, L: Genet? I dicn’t krow he was in the country, H: ets covering it for ESQUIRE, Krassner, of course, Ed Sonders is coming in tomorrow, He's the music coordinator. There are two groups of rock musicians, One group of about twenty bands is telally committed to coming, no maiter what, Another group often (which includes the heaviest _ bands) is committed lo coming only if we get apermil, They may be talked Into coming anyway. L: Does that include the Alr- plane? H: The Airplane never was com- ing in the first place, L: How about Country Joe? H: That would include Country Joe and the Fish, Ario Guthrie Is in the second group, If we geta permit only, IL: How about the United States of America? H: Tm not sure where they are. Ed's going to start the coordina- tion from here, They pledged to come, but we haven't been Intouch with them, It's very difficult for us to give then {nformation, They . always ask you is therea permit? Now concerning the permit sit- nation, We've had numerous dis~ eussions 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; What about the tremendous number of people? Whal word do you have that there will bea great number of people? ae me ’ that you could get torether any~ where from twa tothree thousand people in Chicago alone, H; Yeah, they were at the rally yesierday. L: What aboutother cities, onthe East and West Coasts, H: Well, there are bike groups coming ta, 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 indieaHon frém 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 cut, 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 abopt policing the event? H: We pianto police it ourselves, That’s what the training session is about. L: Of course you'll have mont- tors, but did (he clty express any view on this issue? u. Dh st _ H: They have not given us any real information, They're just trying to get information from us, L: Is Jerry Rubin well enoughto 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 people thal live near the park for the housing of people who come before the 24th, After that jild rather have eVerybody sleep in the park, We feel that our strength Is In numbers,*éni-tet the police won't do anything If H: We had a rally yesterday, there are a lot of people-thore, There wore two thousand people, el