All language subtitles for Born In Flames

- This week of
celebration, commemorating

the 10th anniversary of
the war of liberation,

is a time when all
New Yorkers take pride

in remembering the most
peaceful revolution the world

has known.

It is time to look back on
the events of a decade ago,

to consider the progress
of the past 10 years

and to look forward
to the future.

* Of America's mysteries

* That we made

- Hi there!

This is Isabel
from Radio Regazza,

bringing you a little
tune that you'll be

hearing an awful
lot of these days,

from the makers
of our revolution.

You might not be
hearing it here,

but you'll being hearing
everywhere else you go,

happy anniversary!

* We are born in flames,
we are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* Into the darkness of the past

* Run the trains, all better

* Wooo

Adelaide Norris, 24.

She seems to be the founder
of the Women's Army.

- Her background?

- Ordinary.

Typical of a lot of blacks,

mother a domestic,
that's her on the left.

Her father died when
she was a teenager.

Eight kids in the family,
Adelaide is the oldest,

she helped raise the others.

These are some of them.

Always a jock, lived in
track and basketball, goes to

school nights, works
construction jobs
during the day.

- Homosexual?

- Yes.

The Women's Army appears
to be dominated by blacks

and lesbians.

Norris started it as a radical
separatist vigilante group

three or four years ago.

- I'd like to know if
anyone has any ideas or any

suggestions to how we can
keep this center open.

Because for those of
you who are working,

what this means is that you're
gonna have to stop working

and stay home and take
care of your kids.

- No, it's gonna be impossible
for me stop to working.

We have to figure
out some kind of way

so we can keep the center
open independently.

* I know a place

- Good evening!

This is Honey, coming directly
to you from Phoenix Radio.

a free radio station,
a station not only for

the liberation of women

but for the liberation of all
through the freedom of life

which is found in music.

* Ain't no smiling faces

We are all here because
we have fought in the wars

of liberation.

And we all bear witness to what
has happened since the war.

We still see the depression
from the oppression

that still exists
both day and night.

For we are the children of the
light and we will continue to

fight not against
the flesh and blood

but against the system,
that names itself falsely,

for we have stood on the
promises far too long now.

That we can all be
equal under the cover

of a social democracy.

Where the rich get
richer, and the poor

just wait on their dreams.

- Look at this
sweet little thing coming up

the block, yeah.

- Hey baby what's happening?

Where are you going,
what are you doing?

- Today began the week
long celebration of

the 10th anniversary of
the War of Liberation.

The festivities began this
afternoon, as organized labor

joined forces in a
parade up Fifth Avenue,

commemorating the
overwhelming victory

by the Social Labor
Party 10 years ago.

Labor's abandonment of
the old Democratic Party,

is considered by many
the cornerstone of
today's liberation.

Setting aside for a while
the growing pressure

of economic crisis,

Labor spent the day in
a celebration of pride

and accomplishment.

Mayor Zubrinsky combined
partying and politicking,

when he addressed a throng
of 150,000 marchers,

at the parade's end in the
Central Park sheep meadow.

*

* Wake up, wake up

* 'Cause she isn't alone

* She isn't alone

*

* Just got evicted
'cause the rent was due

* Wake up, wake up

* It could be you

* It could be you

- Like to open this up now

to any general
questions you may have.

- Why is it called Women's Army?

I thought armies
were for the men.

That sounds awfully masculine.

- Hillary Hurst, 26.

We figure her to be the acting
leader of the Women's Army.

There's no official
political record,

but she's been
instrumental in bringing

the Army to large
numbers of women

through induction meetings
she holds around the city.

- What connection
does she have to Norris?

- Well she's not
responsible to Norris

within the organization.

They are in close contact

but that may have to do
with their lifestyles.

- Is
Hearst in command?

- It's
impossible to say.

We're not even sure

how the organization
is structured.

All we know is that they're
starting to appeal to women

who would have written them off
as lunatics a few years ago.

- President of the
city council Ryan

members of the
board of estimate,

ladies and gentlemen.

As chief executive officer
of this great city,

I am pleased, proud,
and grateful to you all

for affording this city

the opportunity to
share in that which is

the 10th anniversary of
the war of liberation.

The anniversary which
heralds our society

as being the very first

true socialist democracy
the world has ever known.

Ours has been the greatest
cultural revolution of all time,

through which we
have wed democracy,

with its respect for
freedom and individualism,

and its abhorrence of all
forms of communism and fascism

coupled with the moral
and ethical humanism

of American socialism.

- How does one iluminate
a dark and lonely sky

there's only one
thing left to do

you gotta ram at the
darkness with your rhyme.

Rhyme, chime, stop on a dime,

my love is yours and
your love is mine.

kick the stops out,
bump and grind,

bojangle and shake 'til
the hearts all break.

How does one iluminate
a dark and muddy sky?

There's only one
thing left to do,

you gotta ram at the
darkness with your rhyme.

- Police have been
puzzled in the past week

by what they describe

as well-organized
bands of 15 to 20 women

on bicycles attacking
men on the street.

While the victims have claimed

that these incidents
were unprovoked,

eyewitness reports have led
investigators to believe

that these men may themselves

have been attempting
to assault women.

However officials have
condemned the lawlessness

of such vigilante groups and
asked for information leading

to the arrests of
the women involved.

Maybe even their
telephone numbers.

We'll have more information
on the 11 o'clock report.

Now here's Linda
with the weather.

- Lesbianism, faggotism,
niggerism, honkeyism.

- You know
really that's who's in

the women's army that did that.

- It couldn't have
been the Women's Army!

- It
sure could have.

- No!

They're not aggressive enough.

- They're
not aggressive enough?

What are you talking about?

- I told you Jules!

They're a service
to the community,

they deal in child care
and day care centers

and stuff like that but.

- That's not all they
do, they do vigilantes,

they do violence, they
could have done this easily.

- No, they're not
aggressive enough,

they're not careless.

- Good evening, this is
Honey coming directly to you

from the Phoenix Radio station.

We gonna let you know what
going on, what's happening.

* Tell me why

* Why do they always
try to put me down

* Slander my name
all over the place

* What a big disgrace

* It's a crying
shame again and again

* All over the place

* But I peaceful woman

* I don't believe in doing wrong

* Yes, I'm a peaceful woman

* I don't believe
in doing wrong *

- Hey, why don't you
leave the lady alone?

Is she bothering you?

The lady bothering you?

- What are you?

I mean, man or woman?

- Come on.

- Thank you.

- What the?

- Well, I wouldn't
exactly call them terrorists,

although we do know
that they're responsible

for those bicycle incidents.

- It's no big deal.

What is the problem is
the vigilante sensibility.

- Procedure?

- Nothing premature.

Watch 'em, put some pressure
on them at their jobs.

Violence flared today
in Lower Manhattan

as youths in their late
teens and early 20s

threw Molotov cocktails

in an angry demonstration
outside City Hall.

The demonstration
began as a protest

against what the young men call

meaningless jobs given to them

under the work-fair program.

They claim that women
and other minorities

receive preferencial treatment
in the real job market,

however human services officials
deny that this is true.

Today's violence began
when police tried

to remove demonstraters
from the mayor's office

and it continued
through the morning

as angry young men
roamed the downtown area

indiscriminately destroying
storefronts and cars

and attacking passers-by.

Police spokesmen
denied accusations
that they overreacted

to the rioters, citing the
sympathy many officers feel

for the demonstrators' cause.

They claimed they
handled an explosive

and dangerous situation as
well as could be expected.

In a statement released
late this afternoon

Mayor Zubrinsky
acknowledged that

there are problems with
the work-fair system

but stressed that he would
not tolerate disruptions

that threaten the public
safety in this city.

- Jim.

Meyers.

Adelaide Norris.

This is for you.

- This is pink.

- Well you know the pink slip
means today is your last day.

- Is there no more work or?

- No, it means it's
your last day for you.

I'm very sorry about it, but
that's the way things are.

- Thanks.

- Good luck to you.

* At the new life we took aim

* We set the vast
conglomerates aflame

* The working class
avowed its name

* of America's
mysteries none remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint
stock companies

* Nor did their armed brutality

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

- We want a J-O-B

so we can E-A-T

we want a J-O-B

so we can E-A-T

we want a J-O-B

so we can E-A-T

we want a J-O-B

so we can E-A-T

we want a J-O-B so we can E-A-T

we want a J-O-B.

- As editors of
the Socialist Youth Review

we regret that many of the
construction and steel workers

laid off in the past few
weeks have been the women,

hired only last year.

the industries have been
overburdened recently

by the enormous number
of minority workers
who are applying

for a limited number of jobs.

Only a small percentage of
each group can be accomodated

in these trades.

The rest will receive
alternative placement

through the work-fair program.

We feel that women who
immediately cry sexism

are being selfish
and irresponsible.

Any move toward separatism,

the demand for equal
rights for one group alone,

hurts our struggle for
the equal advancement

of all parts of society.

- We have a right to violence,

all oppressed people
have a right to violence,

and I wanna tell you something,
it's like the right to pee.

You gotta have to
the right place,

you gotta have the right time,

you gotta have the
appropriate situation

and I am absolutely
convinced that this is it.

- Zella Wylie?

- Yes.

Currently at the law
firm of Wylie and Miller.

Although there was a move to
disbar her a few years back.

Now what's interesting here
is that the Norris girl

seems to be her protege.

Here's Norris with
Wylie's kid sister.

In fact, the women's
militia that Wylie formed

during the war liberation

may be a prototype
of the Women's Army.

We've got to considerate the
possibility that Wylie is using

these young women, who were
kids during the revolution,

for her own ends.

- The woman's
a walking loony bin.

- I was in Washington
when she was appointed

to AGW for workers
and consumer advocate.

The moment the
silly bitch gets in

she starts a class action
against the oil companies.

They threw her out on her ass.

- We want a job!

We want a job now!

- What do you
think you're doing?

Get this chain off here.

By the time my men come
here if it's not off

I'm gonna call the cops.

- We gotta work, you
guys work, we gotta work.

- We need jobs, you need jobs.

Some of us got fired off
this job, we want back on.

We got fired from jobs all over
the city because we're women

not because we
can't do our trade.

We wanna get back on,
we want you to join us.

We're gonna stop work now,
when we get back on that job,

work together, we'll
all work together.

- That makes sense,
I got no control.

- You can support us and
stay out here with us

until they let us all in.

- Yeah but if I don't go
in there I got no money.

- Yeah but remember we
don't have no money neither,

and we have family also.

- We know what you're
saying, we're all going on

this job together.

- The entire organization
which is represented

by this circle is about
1,000 individuals, women.

It's subdivided
into small cells,

each one of which
selects its own leader

on a rotating basis.

- How do they overlap?

- They overlap in this way.

After each of the small
cells has selected a leader,

about every two or three
months a leader is selected

from those leaders for
the entire organization.

And this is the problem.

We don't know how to find
out at any given time

who is in charge.

- Good evening, this is Honey

coming directly to you
from Phoenix Radio,

a station dedicated not only
for the liberation of women,

but a station dedicated to
sound off and defend all women.

We are here ready to
deal with every lie

that holds women responsible
for rape and prostitution.

The lies that hold our
sisters of the street

responsible for the harassment
of all women on the street.

The lies that push the
women into the street

as quickly as they force
us out of the workplace.

- Valerie, our party has
decided on an explicit policy

to integrate the
individual into society.

In that light, we
don't have any more use

for these antiquated notions
of goodness and badness.

In other words there
is no such thing,

as far as our leaders are
concerned, as a bad boy.

These are just sick people.

They've succumbed to
emotional illness.

- To rehabilitate rapists.

And they've been cutting
back on everything else,

like the victims, you know,
women, they've received nothing.

They've cut back so
substantially that there's very

little left there, they
can't service hardly anyone.

Even for other programs,
you know, where a woman

has a emotional problems,
there's nowhere for her to go.

So everyone is wondering where
are we going to go from here,

because we've been working
out in the community,

we've been trying
to educate people,

we've been pamphleting, we've
been going door to door,

we've put out a lot
of posters everywhere,

and we've gained a lot of
support but on the other hand,

not enough attention has
been drawn to the problem.

So the women in the
unit met recently,

and they are ready to move,

ready to escalate
what we been doing

but the problem remains
that our faces are known.

- So this
seems to complete

the leadership of the Army.

It is not clear exactly
how each of them fuctions

or what connection
they have with Norris.

- This is
Radio Regazza bringing you

the latest news observation.

There seems to be some
very peculiar things

happening these days.

Angry unemployed people
are rioting in the streets

and the city is on
fire with their rage.

Now what do you
think the government

plans to do about
this situation,

besides beating 'em over
the head with billy clubs?

Do they plan to
supply them with jobs,

with training programs,
or with decent housing?

Nah, uh-uh, you know
what they're gonna do?

The same bloody tactic they
pulled before the revolution.

Remember, and I'm here to warn
you, it's gonna happen again.

They're already starting
the shuffleboard,

an act on a grand scale
where all the poor

and the unemployed will
be shoved economically

into the ghetto.

And then what happens?

It's gonna be doogie
time in the big city.

Our government is
gonna flood those areas

with the best smack imaginable,

and it's gonna send everybody
into a deep narcotic sleep

where they will not weep
or cry out any more.

- Now I was thinking
maybe it's time that you

did something to make
the government more aware

of what you're doing.

Something enormous that would
just bring a lot of attention.

- Look at this stuff,
there's nothing here.

There's nothing here
at all, there's junk.

- Hey, look, I went through
everything, the place is clean.

- You're sure it's clean,
you go through the desks?

- I went through everything.

- Rolodexes, names on the wall?

- Yes, look, obviously
they're protecting themselves,

maybe we're gonna have to
go through their houses.

- We gonna have to, because
there is nothing here, no names,

no addresses, it's just crap,
there's nothing to go on.

- Good evening friends!

Welcome to The Belle Gayle Show.

I'm delighted tonight to
be able to introduce you

to three enterprising
young women who have,

as part of their work
on the Socialist News,

developed the
Socialist Youth Review.

We have Pat Crosby.

- Hello.

- Becky Dunlop and Kathy Larson.

- Hi, aren't you
from Phoenix Radio?

- Yes, I am.

- I'm from the Women's Army,

have you heard about
the Women's Army?

- Yes, I have.

- Okay what we're trying to
do right now is pretty much

publicize it and make people
more aware of what's going on

with the Army and
what it entails.

My reasons for talking to
you and even stopping you

is because I feel in your
position that maybe you can

help us out in some
kind of manner.

- I would like to say yes, but
I'm working with some other

women right now, and I
wouldn't want to commit myself

or them.

So maybe we can talk about
it some other time, okay?

- What about questions of
problems that we hoped by

now, by 10 years
into the revolution,

we wouldn't be
addressing any longer?

How do you feel about there
are small groups here and there

that talk about how we
still experience rape,

how we still experience
prostitution in our society?

- I think the statistics will
show you that the percentage

of rape and prostitution at
this point is significantly

lower than it was in
pre-Revolutionary society.

And that obviously
it's an advancement,
it's a step forward.

It's impossible to talk
about the complete, you know,

abolition, because it's not
the nature of this government,

they don't abolish.

It's a question of a gradual
move towards something

and I think everything is sort
of leading up to the point

Where those things
simply no longer.

- I don't wanna be involved
with the Women's Army.

It's all talk and no
action, it's all rhetoric.

I've checked it out
and we're doing enough

in the community by
putting out our music.

- But by us coming to you
and requesting some time,

obviously we're
attempting change.

- I'd like to ask, pick
up on something Pat said

early on in our
discussion about how the

restlessness, is the best word
for it, because I don't think

it amounts yet to a movement,
nor do I suspect that it will.

But that the attitude
and the impatience

of some young women
might be interpreted

as counter-revolutionary.

- Well there's two things I
think about it, first of all,

because of the media, in
a way being what it is,

it's very dangerous to
identify a number of

demonstrations on the streets
as the possible growth

of a new movement of women,

because I don't
think it is that,

I don't think it will
get to that stage.

And I also think
that the situation

with these
demostrations has to do

with the fact that
this group of women

have grown up within
in the last 10 years

and have experienced this
revolution as the status quo.

So it's really kind
of a, I wouldn't care

to identify it
completely as such,

but the situation seems to be
kind of a gratuitous desire

for excitement and romanticism,
and the idea of revolution,

which is constantly fed to you.

But yet the means of
revolution are denied,

because they already
live in a structure

which is prepared to give
all that to these people so.

- So it's a certain
amount of envy

of the experiences that
I had and that you had.

- You think the group
will make you strong?

- No, but they say there's
strength in numbers, right?

- Who say so?

- Who said that?

- I think I got enough
strength right here,

I think I can back
my own self up.

- Anyway, I'm telling
you, they gonna come

and take you out the houses.

You watch, you see.

- Gonna take you
out your houses?

- Yep, take your kids away,
they gonna do some funny shit,

you'll see.

- Well you gotta
be prepared for it.

- Yeah, right!

- That's what women gotta
do, get her mind together

because her mind
is not together.

- So how you get it together
unless you come together?

- Yeah you gotta come together.

Personally you
gotta come together,

before you can go any group,
you gotta come together.

- Right okay but then
after you do that

can you join the forces?

- No, I'm not gonna join nobody,

I got my own forces.

- Oh see, yeah,
yeah, right, right.

You know what you sound like?

The rest of them.

You sound like the rest
of them, you know, you do.

- Go ahead and join, do
whatever you wanna do,

let me do whatever I wanna do.

- Alright, cancel that, okay?

Cancel that.

- I'll do what I wanna do.

- Of course.

- And you do whatever
you want to do.

- And that's what's
everybody else is saying.

- If you feel you're
gonna be stronger

by going into the Army, right?

So go ahead.

Nobody's stopping you.

But try to make me join, I
don't wanna join the Army,

I feel strong just
as I am right now,

I don't need no back-up.

I don't want nobody
backing me up.

- It's not a gang,
it's not a gang.

- You wanna tell me
what the army did?

- What'd they do?

- This girl got raped over
there on the West Side,

you know what they did?

Came running up
there on a bicycle

blowing a whistle.

You wanna be part of that Army?

- Now wait a minute.

- Go ahead.

- Now you know sisters
don't feel that way.

- No, no, no, that's what
the Army did, ask them.

If you don't believe
me you go and.

- I'm not talking about
them, I'm talking about

a different one.

- Oh nah, it's the same Army.

That Army is not mature
enough to hang out with me.

- With bicycles?

And whistles?

- They're not mature
enough to hang out with me.

*

* Of America's mysteries

* None remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint
stock companies

* Nor did their brutalities

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* Into the darkness
of the past *

- If we support a
single demonstration

by one pressure group,
it's separatist.

We risk splitting the party
at a time of major crisis.

- I don't understand
how you as women can say

that women's grievances
are separatist.

You can't even see how
it's affecting you.

You know, you're oppressed
too and it's pathetic

that you can't even see it.

- Look we know there are
problems, we're aware of that,

but things are so much better
now than they were before,

it's not gonna happen overnight.

It's important that the
party remains strong

so progress can be made.

- Better now?

You know the way my
mother brought us up

there were eight of us
and she took care of us

doing domestic work,
all by herself.

And abortions?

She couldn't even
think about abortions.

And daycare?

We took care of ourselves,
no one took care of us,

and there are plenty
of women nowadays

living in that same manner,

black women, Latin
women, young women

living in that same lifestyle.

- Okay, everyone had a hard
time during the revolution.

But if we remove the
only structure that
exists for progress

we dissipate everything, it'll
be worse than it was before.

- I knew you
wouldn't understand.

Words and ideas they just
don't get through to you.

Look.

If you're not going
to write about it,

at least come out

- Good evening, this is Honey,

coming directly to you
from Phoenix Radio.

And we're here today to let
you know what's going on

and where it's happening.

We have a special announcement
from the Women's Army.

They're having a
mass demonstration

in Washington Square Park,

and we urge you all to go out

and to support
this demonstration.

- Women must
decide our fate,

not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

Women must decide our fate,
not the church, not the state.

- 3,000 women.

And the thing about it
was these 3,000 women

were so separated, I mean,
it wasn't even unified.

If it was all together it
would be a lot different

than a group of women of here--

- You heard my story about
the division, you know,

they always talk about
unity, we need unity, unity,

but I always say if
you were the army

and the school and the head
of the health intitutions

and the head of the government,
and all of you had guns,

which would you rather
see come through the door,

one lion, unified, or 500 mice?

And my answer is 500 mice
can do a lot of damage

and disruption.

If you're having a meeting
and everybody's all, you know,

gussied up.

- At this point now I think
that, I really, really

think that 'cause I've
been seriously just

questioning myself and
questioning the abilities

and what I have and
what I don't have

and where I can go.

And I think it's that time that

we really pick up arms
and really be prepared.

- What took you so long?

- The economic sex war that
has threatened the city

in recent weeks erupted
last night as gangs of men,

mostly black, roamed the
streets, breaking windows,

looting stores, and
attacking passers-by.

Protesting what they
call racism in work-fair,

the rioters claim that
blacks are given meaningless

jobs that don't pay enough
to support their families.

Government officials
say the rioters will be

severely punished,
however they do admit

there are some problems
with the work-fair system,

and pledge that in the
future, priority placement

will be given to male
heads of families.

- I don't think we should
write about a group of women

who only emphasize
discrimination based on sex

as opposed to race or class.

- Also, their politic is
seems is just based on

spontaneous reaction to
any kind of oppression

without bothering
to analyze it first.

- Yeah, but I mean that says
a lot more about the way

we define what
constitutes the political

than any inability they
have to define themselves.

I mean, that kind of spontaneous
reaction is their platform.

They're linking their
experience of oppression

with an image or a
notion of a women's army.

They would find the
kind of dialogue we use

as prohibitive or as
a substitute for us.

- I just think it's
gonna be a difficult task

to try and get all the women
to think along that same line.

Because the reality
of having to deal

with taking up arms,
Adelaide, is really having.

I mean, whether we can
accept or be responsible

for the potential
violence thrust upon us.

From our own
violence thrust out.

- It's already happening.

It's here.

It's that time.

*

* Just got evicted
'cause the rent was due

* Wake up, wake up

* Would this be you

* Would this be you

* Alright

* I know a girl
who used to think

*

* Don't say nothing

* The hurry and the hurt

* They got only one thought left

* One sun

* Undone

* Only one place left to run

* But it's changin'

* It's all changin'

* It's changin'

* Watch it change

- The Norris
woman is a problem.

She's becoming more and more
difficult to keep track of.

At the same time she
is increasingly hungry

for media attention.

She's organized the
underground radio,

and she's now got
international contacts.

- Good, good.

I've got an idea if we
know what she's doing now,

we'll be knowing
what the Army will do

in six month's time.

- Throwing off their veils,

thousands of Algerian women
poured into the streets

to protest the execution
of a woman

Lila Kalo, by Moroccan troops

fighting to regain control
of the Western Sahara.

Lila Kalo was a leader
in a takeover

of the Western Sahara
five years ago.

Miss Kalo, who visited
the United States

during the transition at
the unofficial invitation

of Zella Wylie became
an outspoken critic

of the party after Ms. Wylie
was dismissed from her post

for alleged
counter-revolutionary
activities.

- For me, I want to rely
more, I want to develop

more weapons that have
a real substantial

debilitating effect,
but it's not permanent.

It's one year, it's two years,
it's five years, whatever.

I mean, even blinding
someone for five years

is different to me than
shooting them forever.

And we'll turn the
people against us.

Every time we shoot,
you shoot somebody

be it a man or woman or a child,

that's being affected,
that's causing sorrow,

and who do those people look to?

They look to the Women's Army.

And then the community
can be turned against us.

- She say that she is
very happy to meet you.

She's asking if you are
Zella Wylie's friend.

- Yes, I am.

And could you ask her
does she understand

why I'm here to see her?

- She knows why you are here,

and we're gonna help you,

but also we want
that you help us.

- Tell her thank
you for her help,

and I'd like to know
how I can help her,

because right now
I don't understand

how I can help her.

- If you want to
help us, you know,

you could come all
the way to the Sahara,

and walk with the

and then you will have
much more opportunities

to understand our
struggle there,

and then maybe
when you come back

you can help better
to show to your people

what our struggle is.

You have an African map here.

And I would like
to show you some of

the geographical location
of the Western Sahara.

You have Morocco
here, in the north

of the Western Sahara.

- Hello, Mitton here.

Yeah.

Adelaide Norris, that's right.

Automatic weapons?

Look, that doesn't
cross-reference
with Zella Wylie,

does it?

No.

No, that's for the
Spanish Sahara.

- Okay,
now what is this?

- This is a German Schmeisser.

- Okay, how does this come?

- This comes 10 to 12.

In a case.

- How many cases can you get me?

- About five or six cases.

- How much is it gonna cost?

- You'll have to talk
about that later.

- I want
to tell you I got,

I'm setting up a trip
to the Western Sahara.

- You're kidding?

- No.

- You are kidding!

Adelaide!

- That's enough, turn it off.

Okay.

- But how
can we help women

to understand the fact
that we don't have

to be second-class citizens?

- Well I have an idea.

We should take all the
women and make them men

and all the men and
make them women.

And then the men can finally see

the type of shit that
they put us through.

And the women, the women
would benefit from it all

'cause then they can finally
see the type of things

that they don't
have to deal with,

the type of walls that they
don't have to contend with.

- Maybe you're right.

We are involved.

It's all political,
but then again, like,

we'd like to get more,
you know, direct.

Like get out on the street
and talk to these women,

and you know, just
be right there.

- Honey I think
that's wonderful.

But you know what?

I'm gonna be going away
for a couple of weeks.

- Is that right?

- Yep.

So you know you get
on out in them streets

and do what you gotta do,

and when I come back we'll
start working together.

We can go from there.

- Alright.

- This is Isabelle
on Radio Regazza,

station 2016 on your dial.

We are rebuilding
a warrior nation

of guerrillas.

We're going to
redesign the mindscape

of an alienated culture.

We're gonna return
to the spirit.

Welcome to New Town.

- What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

Union jobs!

When do we want 'em?

Now!

What do we want?

- These women were fighting
with the men first,

with the men for
territory for things

that seemed right at the time,

and then after the
fight was over,

they were pushed
back in the kitchens,

back in the homes, no,

and there's more women
now that want a change,

that want to go for their own,

and to understand that this
fight is not the right fight

and that the world is round
and big and it's our world

and women can move
free in the world,

and there's no
need for territory,

and there's no need to
sit in the home and be

protected by the men.

- We're fighting
the same fight in America.

- Yeah, it is
very good that you are here.

Because you're telling
us about your world,

about the women in your world,

but you must be very careful,

because the violence
is dangerous,

and there's not
that many of you.

- We say the only armed
activity we'll have

is against the media.

You know, like the television
and radio stations.

- That's what's
important, it's the information

because they've been throwing
sand in our eyes all the time

and making us think
that we have to fight

against things that
were no threat for us.

And closing down
the world on us.

- Excuse me, exactly
what does this mean?

The dead-end job, what is that?

- I've had my job
for three years

and there's absolutely
no opportunity

for me to advance to
a management position

and I'm sick of it.

And this has been
going on for years

and we're just tired of it,

we're walking out of our jobs

and demanding opportunities
for advancement

to some managerial positions.

- So in other words
you're on a general

secretarial strike?

- Yes, that's
what we're calling for.

- Alright, thank you.

Excuse me, secretaries

are not slaves?

What exactly does that mean?

- That means the
fact that a lot of these bosses

come off with an attitude
like you are his slave,

you are his wife, especially
if it is a white boss

and a black secretary,
they come off with a very--

- You're talking
about office wives?

- Office wives.

They expect a wife at
home in the bedroom,

and a wife on the job.

We're expected to
make his coffee,

get his lunch, do all
these things for him

which is not your
responsibility.

*

* Of America's mysteries

* None remain

* We broke the hidden tyrannies

* Of reptilian joint
stock companies

* Nor did their brutalities

* Ever bring us to our knees

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

* We are born in flames

- I want
you to get a description

of every American
Norris met over there.

Names and faces.

And get them however you can.

- There's nobody
here by that name.

- There has to be.

We checked with central booking,

they said she was here.

- Lady, I'm telling you there's
no Adelaide Norris here.

- That's ridiculous, everyone
told us she was down here.

- Could I just look at the book?

She may have come in yesterday.

- No you can't look in the book.

I'm telling you she's not here.

Excuse me.

- And in the glorious age

a woman prophet will emerge

bearing fire and
a sword of light.

She will burst through
the age of dark infusion

like lightning, and her name
will be the manifestation

of the spirit in flesh.

- We got a
report she's hanged herself.

- Bullshit.

Where was her lawyer?

How the hell did this happen?

- I'm telling you she
got shuffled around,

the city cops had her,
it wasn't our fault,

we had nothing to do with it!

- Clear out and try
to cover yourselves.

- Yeah, but what
the hell do we do about

the Women's Army?

- I don't give a damn what
they're up to, drop it.

- In local news, Adelaide
Norris, founder of

the radical lesbian
Women's Army,

took her own life while
awaiting arraignment

in the women's
house of detention.

Police spokesmen report
that Norris was picked up

at International Airport
late yesterday afternoon

in response to a
request by the FBI.

She was to be
arraigned late today

on charges of conspiring to
transport arms into the US.

Norris is said to
have hanged herself

after writing a note,

in which she said
she would rather die

than spend another day
in a fascist prison.

More news in a moment.

- Mistake, it sounds
like murder to me.

- It wasn't murder, it
wasn't premeditated,

that's not party policy,
you know the party

doesn't operate like that.

But if you say the party
operates like that,

think of who you're appealing to

and think of what the
consequences of that will be.

- It's one thing to
suppress information

to diffuse attacks
from the right

but this is out and
out fabrication.

- The party doesn't usually
advocate this kind of tactic

either.

- The party never advocates
this kind of tactic.

If you say the party does
advocate this kind of tactic,

what is it you're saying?

What is it you're saying
about the revolution?

Are you saying that
Adelaide Norris,

who was probably a
counter-revolutionary,

knew more about the
revolution than the party did?

Listen, you can print
anything you want,

I can't stop you
from printing it,

but think about
the consequences,

and think about what
you're doing to the party

and what the party stands for.

- Yes.

I most surely would love
to talk to Mayor Zabrinsky.

Yes.

Why haven't you called me?

You know, it's not
as if, you know,

I left a message with
someone I never heard of,

it's not as if one of the most
important women in the town

has not been killed.

Now I don't understand you,

I don't know where the
hell you are coming from

that you can sit there
and let this thing

get glossed over and
covered up the way it is.

You have to do something.

But every time a kid
falls out of a tree

you're in front of
a television camera.

- As editors of
the Socialist Youth Review,

we've been troubled by
the official reports

in the death of Adelaide Norris,

the founder of the Women's Army.

Grave inconsistencies
in the police records

and in the coroner's report
have led us to believe

that Norris did not commit
suicide, but was murdered.

Assassinated, if you will,
for political reasons.

As party members and
editors of this paper,

we had objections to Norris's
idealistic and separatist

views, however we
respected her commitment

as a community organizer.

It is alleged by the
government that Norris

was involved in arms dealing
with the rebels

sympathetic to her cause.

If that was so, why wasn't
she allowed a fair trial?

Evidence clearly suggests
that she was murdered

by the police or by
government agents operating

outside any legal sanction.

When Norris returned
to New York,

she had no weapons
on her person.

Nor was there any proof
that she was successful

in her negotiations.

Did the party so fear
that she could rally

an armed group of women
that an assassination

was necessary?

- Did anybody see this in here?

Any one of y'all see this?

Check that out.

- What is this
talking about suicide?

She was murdered or something?

- Nah, suicide, nah.

- We've got to do
something about this.

- We've got to
get the story out.

We've got to make it clear
that she's been murdered,

and we've got to
cut this cover up.

We somehow have to pull the
cover off this whole story

because they're gonna bury
it if they possibly can.

- Message across
the major networks,

because we have to
reach the most people

during that one shot.

- See, if this is
supposed to be an army,

and we need media,
we need people

that'll get into a
news television center

and get a 90 second or
60 second message on

that will be seen
everywhere, you see.

Now that's the sort
of thing precisely

that we need to have done.

- Greetings, this is Honey,
coming directly to you

from Phoenix Radio, and this
broadcast has been dedicated

to Adelaide Norris.

Every woman under attack has
the right to defend herself.

And in situations where
we are constant victims

of brutality, we must
take on the whole armor

and defend ourselves.

And at this time
we must fight back

when and ever we are
unjustly attacked.

Freedom, you talk about freedom?

Freedom it's yours,
it's right here,

and it's your right.

They may label you,
try to classify you

and even call you a crazy bitch,

but don't flinch.

Just let them.

See, continue just
as Adelaide Norris,

exercise your rights and
your freedom is yours.

It's right here.

Black women such
as Adelaide Norris

may in your community
be amongst a minority

and be insignificant to many,

but just like the fuse that
ignites the whole bomb,

we are important.

Black women, be ready.

White women, get ready.

Red women, stay ready,
for this is our time,

and all must realize it.

- I don't know, if we
print it we'll only be

sensationalizing it.

- Yeah, but I mean
the party is already

sensationalizing
this woman's death

in a really negative way.

We could use those images
to mobilize the women.

- Yeah, but we don't need
to fetishize a dead body,

we can mobilize
them in other ways.

- There's the Beretta.

These are nine millimeter shots,

it's a nine millimeter
gun, semi-automatic.

The shells go in just
like this exactly.

Now, to get it in,
pull out the back,

and you snap it in.

When you're ready to fire,
just pull back the trigger

all the way back.

Then you're ready to fire.

* To fulfill the need to be

* Who I am in this world

* Is all I ask

* I can't pretend to be

* Someone that I'm not

* And I can't wear a mask

* There's this need to be true

* To myself

* And make my own mistakes

* And I don't want to leave

- This evening,
our regular programming

has been preempted for a
special presidential address

from the Oval Office.

Our Washington
correspondent Patrick McGee

has been standing by.

Patrick?

- Thank you, John.

President Metzger is
expected to speak tonight

on the much-debated program of--

- Camera two, stand by.

Take camera two.

- Camera one ready.

- Camera one stand by.

And, take it.

- My fellow Americans,
good evening.

I am speaking with
you this evening

to ask your support
for a program

which this administration
believes is a critical

step forward towards a society
marked by greater justice,

equality, and freedom
for all our citizens.

- Hi, we'd like to deliver
this tape upstairs.

- You have a pass?

- No, I don't have a pass
but we gotta get the tape

upstairs.

- Without passes you don't
take nothing upstairs.

- We're gonna deliver
that tape right now.

Don't make a move and
you wont get hurt.

- Come on, get in here.

Get in!

- I am asking your support
for a critical part

of that program, which
will affect the lives of

40 million of our
citizens, American women.

- Alright, put it on VTR three.

- What the fuck?

- Hey wait a minute.

- Shut up, VTR three.

Just do it, move it, now.

- It is time to recognize
her contribution in real,

that is to say economic terms.

- Excuse me, are you
supposed to be in here?

- Okay, get ready to
punch up VTR three

to program.

- Hey, who are you people?

What's going on?

- Hey, shut up!

- We'll provide women
with wages for housework.

- Okay, punch up VTR three.

Do it, fucker!

- Ready on VTR three.

- Zella Wylie here.

- Alright.

- We interrupt this broadcast

to talk to you about the
murder of Adelaide Norris

by federal agents.

- Go right ahead.

- They called it suicide,

but a lot of people
don't buy that lie.

She was murdered
because she stood

against the betrayal of women.

We're being sold down the river.

At home, at work,
and in the media.

And now the president
wants to pacify us

with wages for housework.

Wages for housework is--

- This is
a special news bulletin

from NBC News.

Four armed female terrorists
broke into the news room

of CBS this evening
during the live telecast

of President Metzger's speech
on wages for housework.

- The aims of the
revolution were to,

were the equality of
all men and all women

and all people.

We cannot have any selfishness,

we cannot brook any selfishness.

Insofar as these women
struggle for selfish ends,

for ends that are against
the aims of all the people,

which is embodied
in this government,

this revolutionary government,

those aims must be stamped
out and they must be

stamped out by any
means necessary.

The means that
are at hand for us

are the means of
the criminal law.

What these women have
done is utterly selfish,

it is utterly self-interested.

They are not interested in
the progress of all of us.

- Is there anything I can do?

- Well the more you can
do all that can be done.

The most important
thing of all is media,

our media.

The most important
thing is communications,

and your, our job
but mainly your job,

is to see that it
can't be quieted,

that it can't be
bullshitted out,

and then we make
up the difference.

- If I may say so, this has
been a very satisfying thing

because it is proof an
ancient theory of Freud

that there is a primary
female masochism, you see.

Deep ingrained
rock-bottom sort of thing.

Of course you don't see that,

what you see are the
secondary manifestations,

the reversal to that,

the secondary
female sadism, okay?

- The secondary female sadism?

- Yeah, it's all these
so-called pranks, I mean.

- You mean their deeper
impulse is masochistic,

but they fear to express
it in that fashion

and therefore are sadistic?

- That's right, there's a
terror of their own masochism.

- Miss Zella Wylie?

We're federal agents.

I have a court order for you.

For Miss Zella Wylie.

- As editors of
the Socialist Youth Review,

we would like to comment
on the CBS break-in

last week by the Women's Army.

In a videotape by Zella
Wylie, the Army exposed

government duplicity
not only in the cover-up

of Adelaide Norris's death,

but in the repression
of active feminism

with wages for housework.

We extend our
support to the Army

as a legitimate
revolutionary group,

because we also
believe that the party

has been undermining
the economic and social

position of women.

Our government, which
has prided itself

on being the first
democratic socialism,

is neither democratic
nor socialist.

In forming an alliance
with male labor,

the government has
reinforced the caste system

that has always existed
in this country.

Women fought the
war of liberation

with the expectation
that the government

would work beyond
reform toward a truly

egalitarian society.

Then and now, the
party has argued

that social
transformation must wait

until the country attains
economic stability.

But unless we struggle
now for our rights,

we will always be oppressed.

- I know one thing
you accomplished.

You made it impossible
for the party

to be able to keep you on
as editors of this paper.

You've taken a position
of considerable power

which you've had and
you've thrown it away.

And I also know that
you've taken a woman,

Adelaide Norris,
probably a malcontent,

and you've made her into a hero.

- It's not only Adelaide Norris.

- She's right, it's not
just Adelaide Norris,

there's all kinds of
other issues as well.

I mean, we can no longer
compromise our position

by continuing to work
for this newspaper.

- Wake up!

We're being murdered out
there in the streets.

And if you're gonna sit back
and watch it happen, sister,

you better get it
together and wake up.

Because all your
babies and yourself,

you gonna be cleaned
out, we ain't gonna

be around no more.

Ain't gonna be
nothing, a wasteland,

a wasteland, sister,
now get it together.

It's time to fight.

This is for all the dead
heroes out there, yeah.

It's time to work some voodoo
on these motherfuckers,

sisters.

This is a message
to the Women's Army

and to women everywhere.

Wake up.

This is station
2016 on your dial,

if you can't find it then
you're in trouble, sister.

This is Radio Regazza.

- That each one of us is public,

that they have a file
on every one of us,

that the idea that each
one is working privately

is just a false one,

that they can pick each
one of us up at any time.

So what we're doing,
what we're aiming for,

what we should think
about aiming for

is that for at least
some length of time,

we have control of the language.

We have control of
describing ourselves.

- Police
were called in today

to investigate blazes
that gutted two

female operated
unlicensed radio stations,

Phoenix Radio and Radio Regazza.

Citing the recent backlash
against women extremists,

officials say that
the suspicious and
possibly related fires

may have been the
work of vandals.

Both stations were known
for their radical political

broadcasts.

- Hi.

- Can I help you?

- Yeah, we're looking for Honey.

- Honey?

You know any honey?

There's a supermarket
around the corner

'bout three blocks up, you can
find all the honey you want.

- We were
told to find her here.

- Told by who?

- A girl.

- A girl.

You know a girl named a girl?

- Look can
someone please tell me

where I can find her?

- Honey's in the alley.

- Where, what alley?

- Around the corner.

- Each group steals a truck.

Each group is responsible
for getting equipment

in the truck, then
we come together

and we're ready to
move from there.

- Sounds real good.

Under one condition, that we
work with the Women's Army.

- That's not a good idea,

there's too many people
involved that way.

- Listen Adelaide Norris
didn't die for nothing.

Okay?

She's worked her whole life.

That's what it was about, right?

- We're interrupting
this program

to bring you a special
message from the Women's Army.

And what's more, we will
continue to make this kind

of direct action until
everyone understands

and is prepared to do
something about the way

the government has
betrayed women.

Look at the reality
of your lives.

We live in a fake
socialist state.

One which exists in name only.

The government
thinks that socialism

was instituted 10 years ago,
after the war of liberation.

It denies the very
basis of true socialism,

which is constant
struggle and change.

Also in the war of
liberation fought

a great and egalitarian state.

Why then does the
government attack women,

putting them out of their jobs

and relegating them
to secondary positions

in the home?

The media, the tool
of the government,

reinforces their position

by promoting images of
women as wives and mothers.

We are surrounded
by the very images

our mothers fought to destroy.

Decades of women's
work for socialism,

for freedom of choice,
equality of opportunity,

is being swept away.

Once again we are
placed outside politics.

It isn't only women
who will suffer.

You know the way this
pattern continues.

Blacks, Latins, all
ethnic and social groups

will suffer as the old sex,
race, and class divisions

reemerge.

There can be no true socialism

until we are all
represented in government.

We demand a quota system
which is truly expressive

of our numbers,

and we will not stop
fighting until we get

proportional representation
in government.

- Hey we need some
help over here!

* No woman no cry

* No woman no cry

* Don't shed no tears

* No woman no cry

* I remember

* When we used to sit

* In the government
yard in Trenchtown

* Which I share with you

- Good evening,
this is Honey coming

directly to you
from the new Phoenix

and Regazza Radio station.

A station not only dedicated
to the liberation of women,

but a station dedicated
to deconstruct

and reconstruct all the laws

that suppress

and oppress all of us.

Now if you should
lose our broadcast,

you may have to
search your dial,

for Phoenix and Regazza
are now on the move.

- Good morning.

This is Isabelle
broadcasting from the new

Phonix Regazza Radio station.

I'd like to open up
by making a statement

on behalf of Adelaide
Norris and the Women's Army.

Her murder serves as a warning

for women everywhere
of the struggle we face

and the truth will be
heard and the story

must and shall be told.

It is not only the story
of women's oppression,

it is the story of sexism,

racism, bigotry, nationalism,

false religion and
the blasphemy of

the state-controlled church,

the story of
environmental poisoning

and nuclear warfare,

of the powerful
over the powerless

for the sake of sick and
depraved manipulations

that abuse and
corner the human soul

like a rat in a cage.

It is all of our
responsibility as individuals

and together to examine,
to reexamine everything,

leaving no stones unturned.

Every word that we utter,

every action and every thought,

we are all, women and men,

the prophets of this new age,

and for those of us
who would be safer

in the sensibilities of racism,
separatism, and martyrdom,

if you can't help us towards
building this living church,

then step out of the way.

The scope and
capabilities of human love

are as wide and encompassing

as this vast universe
that we all swirl in.

One for all, and
all for one-ness.

This fight will not end
in terrorism and violence.

It will not end in
a nuclear holocaust.

It begins in a celebration
of the rites of alchemy,

the transformation
of shit into gold.

The illumination of
dark, chaotic night

into light.

This is the time of sweet,
sweet change for us all.

This is Isabelle for
Phoenix Regazza Radio

signing off until tomorrow.

- But have we gone too far?

Is it time to ask if the
politics and programs

of yesterday's liberation

have become the
stagnation of today?

We cannot ignore the
monumental inflation which with

we are burdened.

Nor can we condone
the widespread abuse

rampant in our social programs.

At home, we are becoming
trapped in bureaucracy

and throughout the
rest of the world,

our influence wanes.

The management of
this station fears

that over-socialization has
transformed our democracy

into a welfare state.

If we are to survive our ideals,

we must carefully consider
their implications.

This, in the midst
of our celebration,

is the opinion--