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o opponents in various ways. However, if your opponents are determined, this is pointless. It results in inefficiency because you have to cover up a lot you do from your members; authoritarianiem because you cannot tell your members what is and mistrust. In any case your opponents, if they are determined, will plant "informers" and/or modern electonic devices in such a way that your activities will be an open book,. You may aa well open the book rea what ia going on, svee'S. and be fully honest about your plans to begin with. You should try to plan tactics (to be discussed later) which do not depend on secrecy for their value, (7) Register or have records of participante in all projects wherever possible (a) in order to keep them informed prior to the event; (b) to find our if they have special skills; (c) to keep track of problems as they develop; (d)} to follow up later on for deeper involvement; {e) to inform attorneys or relatives in case of arrest, accident, and/or violence. Partici- pants in long-term projects should be insured if possible. (8) Participation in a project or membership in an organization should be conditioned upon acceptance of a written discipline, or upon some set of principles or constitution. No exceptions should be made. It is your job to educate people to the acceptance of your principles, but until they do, they stay out. Such principles do not have to be complicated or numerous. In this ‘ way you can cut down on misunderstandings, violations of lines of responsibility and authority, . avd thus limit the likelihood of violence because 26 of your own people losing control of a demonstra- tion or of themselves. This also helps the morale and public image of the movement, and gives outsiders a sense that the organization is some- thing special to which it is a privilege to belong. (9) Relations between persons in the group (also to be discussed under "Workshops"). will always be a problem to sorne degree. Boy - girl situations develop. Rules rarely work, so none will be given here, Sloppy public demonstrations of personal affection, needless to say, violate other aspect of most disciplines, and can be handled that way. Sloppy clothing likewise. (10) Psychological problems also arise. People join movements for all kinds of reasons, and the untrained person will rarely be able to distinguish "real" from stated reasons except in extreme cases. This does not need to become an issue until personal problems interfere with the working of the group. If at all possible a somewhat older person with experience in family situations should have the kind of leading role in the organization so that he can step in and give guidance without appear- ing to interfere in anybody's personal life or making the problem person feel pushed around. {1l) The white participant in civil rights activities, especially {although not exclusively) in the Deep South, faces a special problem: how to communica with and live with Negroes in a movement which is primarily of, by and for Negroes, and how to sur- vive in action. To varying degrees he may be treated as a second-class participant by Negroes, and frequently, though in very subtle ways. he Bi he called vet Prom et tetr iT) be CaiL6a MpVl by hie sinnaertty will prove is Sincerity, 27 | rs |