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- I .pi.-. t t control in the factory and community control in the cities, states, and in the national political arena. PJAM will also promote community control of f:s- *' >y tax r e f o r p , the oppression of women, 'tNixonomicstt, racism, etc. According to Michael Lerner, these programs will be put forward around a socio-political analysis which calls for the complete restructuring of economic institutions and attack &e established policies of health care, I. .. 6 a. r r . . .x It is felt that the New American Movement and other new, radical $?&-% significan't during 1972. The organieational brain trust of NAM is not yet 4%~. fully known, but if the remainder are radical thinkers of the caliber of . *- Lerner and Lynd, a controlled approach (the party system) may indeed . .+. hold the key to the decade of the 70's. When a radical political organiea- u-,F+; tion crumbles or the action tactic becomes unacceptable to the constituent .-<z- .: r r masses, it cannot be concluded that the disillusioned will henceforth- . ..*: , ;-- &..J . . 1 2 - *'=a. capable of shepherding the lost ones into the left-wing body politic. !€ ,$$ properly directed and properly paced, the New Americaddovement may .ef+. indeed-enioy coneiderable success in 1972. At the Davenport meeting the ;z economic and political life in America. political partie8 still in various stages of development, may be highly "lit &.:a- +A 43 . '&&? embrace the rational philosophies of the major American partite. The sheep are in the field add Lerner and Lynd regard themselyer : - - . .-- leadership rejected the propagandizing of a small group of Maoist Progres-,"k -. eive Labor Party type8 but encouraged the participation in NAM of the <t-b-: widest poesible variety of unhappy Americans. NAM is soliciting the oup- 3~ ** "1,". & ***** as well as youth. Most of those attending the Davenport meeting were in their late twenties and most were longtime new leftists. The developmen of the New American Movement will be followed closely in coming month Z ' L port of working people, housewives, older people, and street people, - . - .-.-.- , . . .