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countered any resistance by the peasants. "What is happening," Rodrigo Ibarra told Socialist Action, "is that those peasants who fear that the contras will come and kill them are just picking up their belongings and moving to the closest village or town for protection. They are demoralized. They see no alternative but to turn in their weapons."

Ibarra also stated that the contras, whose Mya Shone/Socialist Action 330Rodrigo Ibarra supplies are running thin in some areas, have attacked peasant cooperatives and slaughtered their animals to feed themselves. "Yet despite these open violations of the laws governing their relocation," Ibarra continued, "the Sandinista leadership is still going ahead and disarming the peasants. This is an open betrayal of the gains of the revolution.

Meanwhile, top contra leaders have stated their refusal to turn in their weapons to the Chamorro government by the June 10 deadline. They are pointing to the nationwide strike by the public workers as proof of the fact that the Sandinistas have not been defeated and demobilized. Until that happens, they explain, they will continue to bear arms.

Opus workers against the students and faculty by suggesting that the quality of services will decline as the price paid for the workers' demand for liveable wages.

At the same time, the Chancellor threatened to reduce the enrollment by making admission requirements more difficult. Coming out of underfunded public high schools, many working-class students would be refused admission. In effect, working-class taxpayers would be paying for the college education of the privileged, while the future quality of life of their own children would be diminished.

This is yet another example of how the working class is forced to bear the brunt of the bureaucratic mismanagement and short-sighted self interest of the ruling class. Yet employers need educated workers; by cutting off the working class from quality education, the capitalist class jeopardizes its own future.

Tasso Geist, San Francisco, Calif (continued from page defense team brought in money for bail, the police and courts increased the amount that was required to free him.

Rallies of environmentalists and lumber workers have been held in support of the two victims in Oakland, Ukiah, and Fort Bragg, Calif. Hundreds of organizations and individuals who are outraged at this frame-up have sent messages of support.

Earth First! has put out the call for hundreds of students to come to Northern California this summer to save the oldgrowth redwoods. Preparations are underway for a camp to house 300-400 students. They compare it to the Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964, and stress its completely non-violent character.

Unfortunately, another parallel can now be drawn to Mississippi-the use of political violence. Recently, a logging truck drove into Bari's vehicle when she and several children were in it. Activists have received 37 death threats. And now, an antipersonnel bomb nearly kills Bari and Cherney, two key organizers Earth First! organizers are determined to continue preparations for the Redwood Summer. They hope the police frameup will backfire and that more students than ever will answer their call to save the forests. Several meetings that were set for Bari and Cherney will go on in their absence.

Contributions for medical care and defense can be sent to: Bari-Cherney Emergency Trust Fund, 106 W. Stanley, Ukiah, CA 95482. Telephone (707) 468-1660. Earth First! can be contacted in San Francisco at (415) 824-3841.

students in any way, were very reponsive. Faculty agreed to suspend classes or hold them outside or in their homes.

Ninety percent of the students struck classes the first week, and 80 percent the second week. After that, the Trustees announced that Mills would not go co-ed.

Mills has been around for 138 years-mostly identified as a school for privileged women. Recently, however, as a result of affirmativeaction gains, a more diverse student body has been recruited. Twenty-six percent are women of color. Because it is so expensive (Mills is a private college), 80 percent of all students get some aid, with 30 percent getting significant grants.

Although some Mills students have participated in clinic defense and Central American solidarity work, for most this was their first political activity. The saw the issue as a basic feminist one, the preservation of an educational atmosphere where women are encouraged to develop to the maximum of their ability.

At commencement, the students celebrated their victory. They struggled and they won!

C.B., City, Calif.