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pu PR eS ert The press coverar@® sr our OFEN LETTER TO THE PEOK® yesterday was, with « singtc exception, that of TV and Radio Station KQED, a totnl distortion of our messurc, It appears that it ie necessary to kidnap a wealthy individual in omer to get a fair hearing. The experience of the last day has taught us again with sharp new clarity the extent to which the American people are systematically mis-informed day in And day out by the ruling class-owned media. The e@etablighad media seam to be truth-pmof; they filter every item of news through their own ideology and a mis- guided sense of "newsworthiness", 6o that even our messare, through selection, omission, and distortion (both intended and by pabit), was made to represent us as pacifists, anarcho-~syndicalists and/or anti-Marxists and in general as anything but w We are not pacifists, but we are not violenti ts either, We are not “anarcho- Byn¢dicalists" or "anarchists" «= our theory originates in Marx (NOT in Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc.), and in the outbreaks of reve lutionary practice by the Proletariat throurhout*the last-one-hundred years, Buch as the Paris Commune of 1871, and the Runpa: “ian revolution of 1956, in all of which forms of workers! councils were crtated, . -If the American and world public is ever fo“know what real} y happened and why it happened, concerning the. Foster assassination’ and the Hearst kidnaping so -that they — can judge for themselves instead of receiving pre-digested messages, ‘our original statement will have to be made Public, both uncut and with the present addition inéluéed, by the following media that distorted it yesterdays ~~ SF Chmnicle . SF Examiner . : r Oakland. Tribune Koo TV : ST KPFA Radio : _ Our original decision not to reveal the whereabouts of the SLA, Or our own, remains and will remain, We intend to reveal only WHAT HAPPENED, HOW IT HAPPENED, LA EMANCIPACION DE LOS TRABAJADORES SERA LA OBRA DE ELLOS MISMOS! ‘THE LIBERATION OF THE WORKERS WILL BE THE TASK OF THE WORKERS THENSELVES - (AND OF NO PARTY OR OTHER AGENCY IN THEIR NAME) we ee 104