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resolutions proposed at the State Meetings, too. Only one resolution, the one concerning lesbian rights, got into the final plan without being proposed by the Commission in the first place. The Commission wanted no changes in the Plan, and frequently shut the mike off as soon as a delegate uttered the word "amendment," silencing feminists and fetusfanatics alike.

Hours before the conference ended, NOW mobilized their people and steamrolled a resounding defeat for the "Women's Department" scheme. The bewildered Commission members seated on the stage called for a 10-minute recess so they could discuss in private how to proceed. The recess was also voted down, along with another Commission proposal that it be empowered to dispose of the unfinished business of the conference.

Researchers at Majority Report, a women's newspaper in New York, traced the idea for the conference to a plan conceived by Marilyn Levy, a staff associate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, for a National Women's Agenda that would water down all women's issues so that almost nobody could disagree with them. Levy admitted having planted the agenda-conference idea on the Women's Action Alliance (WAA), a project which at that time (January, 1975) was funded almost entirely through Rockefeller foundations and corporations. Levy said she later got WAA a $20,000 grant from the Rockefeller Family Fund and helped them get another $53,000 from other private sources to push the agenda and conference.

What did the Rockefeller Brothers Fund hope to accomplish by getting women to dissolve their diversification into one bland program?

Levy said they wanted women to get together "on priorities, not a minority something." By minority did she mean feminist? "Yes." Where would such a conference lead women? "One step farther, toward what I don't know but one step farther."

On July 16, 1975, the working committee for the National Women's Agenda met in Washington at the State Department to present the agenda to the Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year. They also made arrangements to work with the Commission's task forces drawing up an agenda for the National Women's Conference. Representative of the YWCA and other women's groups at the meeting objected to seeking federal money because it would be "too controlled". The dissidents were not invited to future meetings.

Bella Abzug, who introduced the bill in Congress originally asking for $10 million for a national women's conference, was at that time a board member of the Women's Action Alliance. Alliance founder Gloria Steinem and executive director Ruth Abram were both appointed to the Commission along with Carmen Delgado Votaw of the National Women's Agenda project, and Cecilia Preciado de Burciaga, also a board member of WAA.

Also on the Commission are: poet Maya Angelou who went to Italy two years ago on a Rockefeller Foundation scholar-in-residence grant, Audrey Rowe Colom of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Common Cause board member Ladonna Harris, United Nations Association board member Mildred Persinger, and Sen. Charles Percy whose daughter is married to a Rockefeller.

Votaw is also on the board of the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, which receives 70 percent of its funding from the State Department and AID, and the rest from the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund and other private sources. OEF was exposed in 1975 for collecting political and biographic date on Asian and Latin American women's groups for the CIA. Sixties veterans will recall that Steinem was the founder and director of

Independent Research Service which was funded by the CIA to write and distribute pro-U.S. propagandá at Communist Youth Festivals in Vienna and Helsinki in 1959 and 1962, and funded an anti-communist student group in Norway. Steinem's relationship with the CIA came to light in the course of the National Student Association scandal, in which the CIA was found to be controlling domestic groups through such conduits as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

One commissioner told a reporter that "half the volunteers' working in the Commission's Washington office were actually on loan from the State Department and AID. She said the State Department provided the Commission with "an incredible amount of assistance and advice, above and beyond what they were required to under the law." wonder the Plan of Action sounds like a peace treaty. treaty.

If all this sounds like a grand conspiracy theory of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, remember that in taking over the women's movement, the State Departmetn is really not up to any. thing new. The timeworn policy of diffusing and coopting succesful and potentially explosive moveDomestic ments is merely taking a new turn. policymakers may view feminism as dangerous to the economy, blaming everything from unemployment to crime on "women's lib," but the women's movement is what the State Department has been waiting for all its life.

Sexism is one of the few problems found in the Third World which cannot be blamed on imperialism, and AID has already funded the gathering of data on women's rights groups in less developed countries and has set up an office of "Women in Development." By controlling domestic feminist groups, the State Department has much to gain:

A. Discussions of "human rights" issues take people's minds off controversial subjects such as politics and religion. Betty Friedan called the conference "Jimmy Carter's Reichstag Fire."

B. Pretending to be concerned about women's issues helps the State Department con feminists into lobbying for foreign aid on the belief it's going to help women overseas. AID, State Department and Rockefeller people tried to launch a foreign aid lobby called Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Women as early as 1975, modeled after Africare, a similar hoax in which the State Department cons blacks into thinking foreign aid goes to help blacks. C. The popularity of the U.S. women's liberation movement rubs off on the U.S. government. Conference literature rewrite feminist history giving the government undeserved credit for the movement's accomplishments.

D. A troublemaking faction at home is effectively contained. The CIA targeted the women's liberation movement for its Operation CHAOS surveillance. Eli Ginsburg who headed the Manpower Division under the Ford administration said the women's movement was "bigger than commun. ism". NOW members complained that the women's conference was draining their energy and resources away from their priorities for social change. Some said they had to drop key lobbying activities.

Where does the "Plan of Action" go from here? According to the published rules of the conference, it will be presented to Carter who has 120 days to give his official reaction. But, he actually had much longer than that. According to a Commissioner interviewed while inebriated, the Commission wrote the report to Carter on the November conference... early last summer.

.. by Nancy Borman (edited from YIPster Times Dec.-Jan. 1977-1978)