https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/6594dd284560875c0e5c3714973c66c6.png 4740115b66a6e3f678fdbab98242fe90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newsletter with two photographs in the right-hand column: the first pictures a white woman standing up next to three other people, two Black, one white, with their names as follows in the caption: Judy Hand, Jennifer Henderson, Isaiah Singletary, and Tim McGloin. Underneath are three head shots of African American program speakers, side by side, with a caption that reads: Pay Bryant, Carrie Graves, and Rev. Fred Taylor. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document reprinted from Southern Fight-Back January, 1981 In the Heart of Military Country Fayetteville Citizens Talk of Peace Recently, people from 13 organizations in the Fayetteville, N.C. area spent a day talking about what excessive military spending is doing to the people of this country and what they can do about it. Included were people from civil-rights groups such as NAACP, SCLC, and the Association for Indian People; survival groups such as the local Hunger Coalition and Tenants Organization; peace groups such as the local Quakers; religious groups such as Urban Ministries; Senior Citizens Roundtable, and a number of individual activists. It was one of a series of workshops being sponsored by SOC's North Carolina Organizing Project on Human Needs and Military Spending, and was built around a format that SOC has used both in this state and elsewhere. The format is effective in bringing people information not available in the news media and in stimulating action. Here we summarize the Fayetteville workshop, with the idea that our readers may want to organize similar ones in their own communities. The workshop opened with a panel designed to provide in- formation. Anne Braden of SOC spoke first on the history of the arms race. “I’m not a scholar,” she said, "but I’ve read up on this, and we all have to do that The fact is that the arms race started in Washington, and we have to face that fact.” ‘POVERTY IS NOT AN ACCIDENT’ Next Jennifer Henderson of the North Carolina Hunger Coalition talked about unmet human needs in the state. "It’s not an accident that people are poor,” she said. “But poor folks are so busy trying to survive that sometimes we don’t have time to research and figure out what’s happening to us.” Judy Hand of SOC talked about what military spending (over 50 percent of each tax dollar we pay) does to the economy — fueling inflation, reducing the number of jobs, and eating up funds that could be used to meet people’s needs. Isaiah Singletary, of the Harambi Student Organization at North Carolina Central University, talked about draft registration and the need to resist it. Singletary, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, told of people “devastated both physically and mentally.” And poor people are always 214 times as likely to be drafted and sent into combat as those who are not poor, he said. ‘WHERE OUR REAL INTERESTS LIE’ Finally, Tim McGloin of North Carolina Friends of the Filipino People discussed international implications of the U.S. military machine. He told of his own education working in Southeast Asia in the 60’s, where a farmer told him: “If this world was a village of 100 people, six of them would be like you — white, educated, well-off. The other 94 would be hungry and illiterate. If I were one of the six, I’d arm myself to the teeth, because the other 94 of us are mad as hell.” That’s what it’s all about, McGloin said — and the real interests of most people in this country lie with the 94, not with the six. After the panel, there was a lively question-and-discussion period. Then after lunch, Pat Bryant and Carrie Graves, directors of the North Carolina project, explained its purpose, participants introduced themselves and described their work, and everyone joined in discussing how the war drive affects them, and possible methods of saying “no” in a collective way. Some of the panelists who presented basic information at the workshop (from left): Judy Hand, Jennifer Henderson, Isaiah Singletary, Tim McGloin Pat Bryant (left) and Carrie Graves, project directors, talk about organizing. Rev. Fred Taylor closes program. ‘WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ “It’s people like us here today who can get some things done if we join hands, it’s not too late,” said a tenant leader. Pat Bryant said: “We have to see that we have a common agenda; we can’t work in isolation from each other. Let’s ex- change information across organizational lines, and find ways to join in action.” Rev. Fred Taylor of SCLC closed the program. “We must remember,” he said, “that we are the salt of the earth — we who believe the hungry should be fed) and the naked clothed.” (SOC now has considerable experience in organizing workshops like the Fayetteville one and is in touch with a number of resource people who can conduct the basic panel of information. We also have literature on this issue and can tell you where to get more, if you would like help in putting on such a program in your community, contact the SOC office in Birmingham. Our North Carolina organizers will help you.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Southern Fight-Back article on the North Carolina Organizing Project on Military Spending and Human Needs Subject The topic of the resource southern organizing, North Carolina, anti-war, antimilitarism, Conference of Black Organizers, anti-racism Description An account of the resource Article on the work of the North Carolina Organizing Project on Military Spending and Human Needs out of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Southern Fight-Back, Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1981 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource political newsletter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1981, Reagan era, US South, North Carolina Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource From the War Resisters League Southeast Regional Office Records #5213, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.