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laws relating to crimes without victims in which there is an unwilling injured party, ie. murder, rape, assault. 6) The total disarmament of all people beginning with the police. This includes not only guns, but such brutal devices as tear jgas, MACE, electric prods, black-jacks, billy-clubs, and the like. 7) The abolition of Money. The abolition of pay housing, pay media, pay transportation, pay food, pay education, pay clothing, pay medical help, and pay tpllets. 8) A society which works towards and actively promotes the concept of 'full employment'. A society in which people are free from the drudgery of work. Adoption of the concept 'Let the Machines do it'. 9) ... elimination of pollution from our air and water. 10) ...incentives for the decentralization of our crowded cities... encourage rural living. 11) Free birth control information.., abortions when desired. 12) A restructured educational system which provides the student with the power to determine his course of study and allows for student participation in over-all planning. 13) Open and free use of media... cable television as a method of increasing the selection of channels available to the viewer. 14) An end to all censorship. We are sick of a society which has no hesitation about showing people committing violence and refuses to show a couple fucking. 15) We believe that people should fuck all the time, anytime, whomever they wish. This is not a program to demand but a simple recognition of the reality around us. 16) A national referendum system conducted via television or a telphone voting system. .. a decentralization of power and authority with many varied tribal groups.

Groups in which people exist in a state of basic trust and are free to choose their tribe. 17) A program that encourages and promotes the arts. However, we feel that if the free society we envision were to be fought for and achieved, ail of us would actualize the creativity within us. In a very real sense we would have a society in which every man would be an artist. ... Political Pigs, your days are numbered. We are the second American Revolution. We shall win. Ylppie!

do it!... at the traverse

(farm) FOLLOWING last week’s Pig interview, we at Farm Studios set off to visit Pip Simmons' presentation of 'Do It’ at the Traverse. Like 'Superman', this was total theatre, only this time even more intense; one minute you're killing yourself with laughter whille the next you could be on the verge of puking. Central to the 'play' is perhaps the incessant ping-pong of four-way pisstaking which the group executes with its characteristic precision timing. The American 'Establishment' is depicted as clinging desperately to the 'Creeping Meatball’ concept and comic abuse is howled freely at anything which Drew Caidwell and the 'Scotsman might call 'bourgeois'. But the Yippies of our show, receive their share of criticism too. Add to this some freewheeling feedback between actors and audience and you can begin to

see how wide their scope for humour really is. One by one, Major Daley, Bob Pierson (the undercover man, Judge Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and, in fact, just about everybody is blown up larger than life, again and again the grop’s undoubted position as masters of the absurd. Tne group has been preparing 'Do It' for about four months now and the results do show that a lot of care has been taken in its presentation. There is a richness of variety in their use of the 'media' the most important aspect being perhaps, their music. Besides treating 'Blue Suede Shoes' with such tremendous enthusiasm that it sounds like its never been done before. Chris Jordan comes up with some beautiful sounds of his own. Although much of the melody and backing finds inspiration from those marvellous from those marvellous early 'sixties’, when Mayor Daley is casually mentioned as banging his cat, you know the lyrics don’t Now you know i know that good rock musicals have taken place before, but in 'Do It' the music really is only the beginning. The group chucks in so much that the action takes on the proportions of a theatrical spectacular. Nudity there are lots of goodies to go round: lights, movement, mood, costume, masks (one of which may have been modelled on Captain Pig) combine to provide a continuous energy to the stage floor. And the nice thing is that none of these devices is exhausted. Indeed the group consciously avoids boring us: in one of the hairy scenes, for example, Eric Loeb is quick to point out that he (along with his incredibly turned-on audience) Is bored with nudity. Pip Simmons has plastered impression after impression on a white canvas until there is nothing but blinding colour. This makes 'Do It' an exhibition no one should miss.