The Great Speckled Bird Jan. 26, 1970 Vol 3 # 4

Dear Bird People,

It has now been almost a month since I left Atlanta to journey north to Cambridge. I could no longer take the automated humanity-consuming life of Georgia Tech, I needed to get away and try and get myself together. I honestly hated to leave Atlanta at a time when the community and the Bird were starting to get things going, but the personal pressures were too much.

I find, however, after living up here how much better things were back home. It almost seems as if people up here have reached a sort of sophistication about what is corning down on us and around us in Amerika. Maybe it's because these people are the "old time" freaks who have become disillusioned or whatever they may want to call it. But they do not have the spirit and feeling of community and togetherness, such as I have seen in Atlanta. Maybe it's because the struggles are still so evident down there.

But I am not one to try and figure this all out. All I know is what I feel and I feel a longing to return to Atlanta. I have been able to get ahold of just about all the radical papers across the country in Harvard Square except the Bird-which is why I subscribed be-

fore I left. And it is a saddening thing-for the Bird is the most together of them all. Miller Francis is fantastic. I have learned more from his pieces in the Bird than I learned in a whole year at Tech.

A few suggestions and words of love and hope:

Please print the "Earth-Read Out" which accompanied the "Declaration of Interdependence" which you used as the center spread of one issue. The piece deals with the 4 changes needed to preserve our earth. Most of the other radical papers carried it. It's very strong. Gary Snyder wrote it I think. ,

Try and get The Whole Earth Catalogue available to the people in Atlanta. It may be there now, but I had never even heard of it until coming here. Or at least publish the address so people can order it. [558 Santa Cruz, Menio Park, California 94025. $4.50 per

issue.] It's really the most useful thing I have ever seen.

I plan to split from here about April after I've gotten some bread together and tried to get the Army off my back. I am looking forward to coming home to

share the summer days in OUR PARK with OUR MUSIC with OUR PEOPLE.

Love, peace, and luck,

Moe

P.S. Also why not publish a "Survival List" such as the Good Times has for services that people need. Also a list of important phone numbers (like Maddox's).

P.S. I'm gonna go catch the Allman Bros. in NY on New Year's. People around here saw them at the Tea Party and they really liked the band, but I'm still a Grease Freak!