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a X. 4? foe ; : i at Hs 0 O . ° ee . : dpeople doingany-—~ “~———* ws area, We tried to open an office L: Are the Seed peop T L: Have youhadany appearances a; ee ee AL ten thins te halafut savant ima. THING that 2D scapes ow aoe asa gine that they’re active, .—-—-, —_—._ a“ H: Yes, they are. ———an L: Are they numerous? [ don’t know anything about the Seed or- ganization, H: I's like the L.A, Oracle. That kind of paper, They’re very - concerned about the possibility of violence, They issued a state- meni saying that if people just ex- pected a five day festival of life, fun and flowers they ought to re- think it, That there is a chance of violence, | L: Are they cooperating with you? H; Oh yeah, they’re putting outa special Chicago edition for that - week, About ten thousand copies, with maps and everything, As is the Rat, WY, Ws puting Gut 100,000 copies, on such subjects as how to survive in Chicago. L: Is East Village Other going to do anything special? H: No, but I heard Ramparts is coming in and going to put out a daily mewspaper, There was someone here from them, looking for a printer, We'd also like to emphasize that there’s a 200, there’s a totem poie, iiicre’s pic- nic facililies, and that Lincoln Park is adjacent to Old Town, which is Chicago’s Greenwich Village area, We’re urging people to bring sleeping bags and to bring enough food to share. We're only working on one night of free food, that. barbeque night, L: Is there anything similar to the Diggers’ there? H; They have a Hip Job Co-Op, L: But they don’t feed and house? H: Nothing like L.A, or San Fran- . elsco or New York, L: Aré you celting any coopera- tion from Chicagoans? H; Yes, There's a guy from a food company who likes what we are doing. There are people who Treating their hoiisrs—ter: storage space for banners ana Cc. ee L: How about the media there? i; They're constantly: pestering i 7 wa on the media? H: Constantly, Krassner is going to be talking about it on the Les Crany Show in about a week, also the Johnny Carson Show, We’re on television every night here, We're trying to arrange a meet- ing tomorrow with Allen Ginsberg and Mayor Daley to talk about the permit, We also have somebody in the Iealth Departnient working on afoedstampprogram. There's a possibility we might get food Stamps, But people should come prepared to contribute, If groups from the L.A, area are coming they ought to notify us, We're still looking for Hugh Romney and Ken Kesey’s group, We’re print- ing up a whote map of Lincoln Park, It has pieces on it, like Church of the Free Spirit, Future City, Communications Center, Yippee Pentagon, Minstrel Area ‘Grub Town, Central Stage, Free Store. We Lope to have a free Store where people will donate bathing suils, soap, towels, food, We also have a hog farm, with the candidaie’s headquarters, L; Do you have any mimeograph machines or Gestetner? H: Yes. L: Why has comm so sparse? Why haven’ celved more information from you? . H: In New York we are twelve hundred dollars in debt, L: Have you received any money from anywhere? H: Not much, We’re having a benefit In New York in about a week, but we don’t think we'll re-. Pte ae tt Ceive Our wdisan L: It might be necessary tohave one in Chicago also to make up the deficit, Mf: That’ll probably go into bail — L; Do you have any [egateon- nections there, such as_ the ACLU? an H: Yes, the ACLU fs fillaga suit Tuesday. An injunction against the city to tet us use*the—perk Preteen the mark tart Hho nrah Tse ae = Seek (eek Fy UMS A Ys Jom is there’s atelenhone strike, So we've hed to operate from apartments and pnones that are already there, por L: Is there any talk of moving the convention out of Chicago? il; No, it’sallrumors, Thereare heavy preparations atthe Amphi- theatre, There are 3,500 guard troops now training, There'll be ynAthar RANK in Meant Dark Tha merece UY ate SLE AIA, ELE city makes no bones about releas- ing statements where they’re go- ing to jail everybody and all kinds of threats, But the thing that must be stressedis that {people aren't into that scene they are not going to be trampled on, Lincoln Parkis ten miles away from the Amphi- theatre, ‘The city liad to hold up people who stay in the park as a model of protest, They'll say, bey, look, these people stayed here, nothing happened to them, L: You say the Amphitheatre ts being prepared for security, H: Heavy security, Barbed wire fences, they're de-foliating the trees zroundhere, thoy’re knock- ding.cown abandoned buildings all “xtong~the highway. They--haver checkpoints set up ail atongMichi-” gan Bivd and Haisiead Street, L: Is the Black community active at tnis time, so far as you know? it: Totally unpredictable, We've talked to some groups and they’re ‘interested in coming to the park and participating, as well as some of the major bike groups here, the Outlaws, the Headhunters, L: How about the Black gang groups we've heard about? H: We've talked to them, but their position is they don’t care what we do, We've gotten very litQe feedback about what they’re going to do that night, or that weck, Just the Mississippi Free- dom Desnocratie Party is coming with a challenge, L: This we saw last night on television, They will come, and they'll probably pul on a demon- | stration, In fact they'll do more thin that, They'll demand being weatedin the convention,