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Volume 16, Number 3
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Page 3 "Domestic violence victims to have a place to turn"--New adminstration breathes life into anti-violence agency. I Page 4 !'Kaleidoscope bashing in Bloomington-Normal" --Critical ' review of news media coverage. ' Hell no,
Page 5 "67 arrested in suburban protest rally"--Secret operations revealed at Arlington Heights. I we won't go! Page 6 "Police pester Posters"--Post benefit gets unexpected guests. The rumors of the death of the Post. I Amerikan hav~ been greatly exaggerated. "Draft resister imprisoned ~or non-registration, activism"- The response we received was not only Non-registrant gets 3 years in Leavenworth. gratifying enough to make us believe I there really was someone out there who Page 7 "Everybody needs some body, sometime"--The in's and out's cared, but substantial enough to allow of organ donation. us to keep going for at least another year. Pages 8&9 "Michigan Womyns music festival"--Diane goes to Michigan and has a wonderful time. There are, of course, still plenty of tasks to be done, so if you meant to "Keep your hands to yourself"--Routine mammography can call and offer your help, please do. cause problems. The Post's schedule has been changed- Page 10 "Iran-scam explained"--Get the dope on Iran-scam. we'll be putting out a paper every "Pope go home"--Says it all. other month~ And during those months when hu~an resources are relatively Page 11 "Reagan's AIDS commission"--With friends like these, why do slim, the paper may be a little slim, too. we need enemies?· "AIDS needs aid"--Women don't read this! But we're still here, ranting and raving ~bout all the outrages and Pages 12-15 Community News, Classified ads and book review, "Sexual atrocities of the world around us; diversity: a better answer, For the love of animals. Thank you for still being there, too.
Page 16 The Underground Vegetarian --The Post staff
I The deadline for the next issue is I November 5. ------·------~-·------Good numbers Thanks Post Sellers Alcoholics Anonymous ••.••• ~ ••.• 828-5049 American Civil Liberties Union.454··7?23 Bloomington Housing Authority •• 829-3360 This issue in your hands is thanks to Clare House (Catholic Workers) .828-4035 BLOOMINGTON Bob, Bobby, Bumper, Cathy, Dave, Dave, Amtrak Station, 1200 W. Front Community for Social Action: ..• 452-4867 Deb, Diane, J.R., Jimmy, Joan, Kara, Connection House .••.•••.•..•••. 829-5711 The Back Porch, 402 N. Main Countering Domestic Violence .•. 827-4005 Laurie, Margaret, Marty, Melissa, Bakery Bane, 901 N. Main Dept. Children/Family Services.828-0022 Ralph, Sue, Sue, Susie, Val, Bill Bloomington Public Library (in front) Draft Counseling •..•.••••.••.•• 452-5046 (assistant coordinator),. Deborah Bus Depot, 5JJ N. East HELP (transportation for senior (coordinator), and probably others Common Ground, 516 N. Main citizens, handicapped) ••••.• 828-8301 we forgot to mention. Convenient Mart, Emerson and Main Ill. Dept of Public Aid .••••••• 827-4621 Front and Center Building Hit Shed, 606 N Main Ill. Lawyer Referral •..•••• 800-252-8916 Special thanks to all of you who Kaleidoscope .••••••••••••••.••• 828-7346 Hungry House, 103 W. Jefferson McLean Co. Health Dept .•••••••• 454-1161 responded to our pleas for ~ Law and Justice Center, W. Front St. Mid Central Community Action .•. 829-0691 Lee St, (100 N.) Mobile Meals .••....•••••.•••••• 828-8301 Main and Miller Streets McLean County Center for Medusa's Adult World, 420 N. Madison Human Services .•••••••••.• 827-5351 Mike's Market, 1013 N. Park National Health Care Services- Mr. Donut, 1310 N. Park abortion assistance,· 1-800-322-1622 Pantagraph (in front), J01 W. Washington Nuclear Freeze Coalition •.•••• ~828-4195 Moving? I I The Park Store, Wood & Allin Occupational Development ! People's Drugs, Oakland & Morrisey Center .•••••••••....•••••• 828-7324 I Red Fox, 918 W. Market Operation Recycle .•••••••••••.• 829-0691 t - Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main Parents Anonymous ..••...••••••• 827-4005 j When you move, be sure to send us your U.S. Post Office, 1511 E. Empire PATH: Personal Assistance Telephone j new address so your subscription gets · Help •••••..•....•••..••...••• 827-4005 (at exit) to you. Your Post Amerikan will not U.S. Post Office, Center Monroe or •..••••..••.••••••••••. 800-322-5015 i & Phone Friends •...•••.••••••.••• 827-4008 j be forwarded (it's like junk mail--no Upper Cut, 409 N, Main Planned Parenthood •... medical •• 827-4014 I kidding!). Fill out this handy form Wash House, 609 N. Clinton Washing Well, E. Front St. bus/couns/educ •• 827-4368 I with your new address and return it Post Amerij(an •..•••.••••••• 828-7232 to us, P.O. Box 3452, Bloomington, NORMAL Prairie State Legal Service .••• 827-5021 IL 61702. Avanti's, 407 S. Main Prairie Alliance ..•..•••••••••• 828-8249 Project Oz ••••••••••.•.•..••••• 827-0377 Big Rudy's, 107 E. Beaufort Name: Rape Crisis Center •••..•••.•.•. 827-4005 ISU University Union, 2nd floor Sunnyside Neighborhood Center •• 827-5428 Hovey Hall, ISU {in front) TeleCare (senior citizens) •.••• 828-8301 Street: ______Midstate Truck Plaza, U.S. 51 north Mother Murphy's, 111 North St. ·Unemployment camp/job service .• 827~6237 United Farmworkers support .•••• 452-5046 City/State/Zip: ______North & Broadway, southeast corner , UPIC •.•••.•..•.•••••• · ••••••.•.• 827-4026 White Hen Pantry, 207 Broadway I (in front) September-October, 1987 Community Action to run programs Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 Page 3 Domestic violence victims to h~ve a place to turn
Community Action has been selected by their families; We've also gained a Because over 95% of the victims of the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic lot of input from members of the domestic violence are women, the Violence as the agency to provide community regarding how best to provide shelter will house only female victims services to victims of domestic domestic violence services and are and their children. However, CDV will violence and their families in McLean incorporating this input into our also work with male victims on a non County. The program will officially planning." residential basis; begin September 21st. According to Jewel, community support Long-term goals for the program include Services are temporarily being provided and an adequately trained staff will initiating comprehensive programs to with supportive services from PATH and allow CDV to assure victims of domestic preserve/re-unite families afflicted by other local social service providers in violence and their families a safe, domestic violence. "A real need in addition to two full-time CDV staff. supportive place to turn when they are this community is supportive services Emergency housing is temporarily being in need. for the abuser. Without working with provided in local motels/hotels; the abuser too, the problems of CDV will provide emergency housing, domestic violence will only continue," When Community Action begins its ·legal advocacy, and other support according to Jewel. CDV hopes to program September 21st, it will be services to victims and their children. initiate a comprehensive program within called "Countering Domestic Vioience" The program also plans to develop the next year. (CDV) to more clearly represent the monthly support/informational meetings services which will be provided. to victims and their family members. For more information, call PATH at (309) 829-4005 and ask for someone from Jewel Beal, Countering Domestic Community Action's Countering Domestic Violence Program Director; is confident The shelter will allow the families Violence Program. that CDV will be there to support those time to work on the problems associated in need. "Throughout the past few with their experiences with their --MM months, the community has responded to abuser. the emergency needs for victims and Countering Domestic Violence There is CDV w-ish list needs your If you have any of the following items; supp_ort! they would be much appreciated by support If you are in an abusive relationship, Community Action's Countering Domestic or know someone who is, Community Violence Program and its clients: Community Action is enthusiastic Action's Countering Domestic Violence about meeting the challenge of Bunk beds--to provide housing for a Program is here to provide you with assisting those in abusive situations. larger number of victims of domestic We ar~ committed to providing victims information regarding your options and violence and their families; provide necessary supportive services. and their children with the options For furtQer information, or just some Sewing machines--for women and available to them and allowing them one to talk to about your situation, children who might have an interest to make their own decisions in a call PATH at 827-4005 and ask to speak in sewing and/or a need to sew their supportive, nonjudgmental way. with someone from Community Action's own clothes. Countering Domestic Violence Program. We cannot, however, successfully TV set/VCR--for educational programs reach these goals without your help. for children and adults as well as With limited funding available, we staff training. are in need of volunteers to assist Typewriters--for staff. in providing support services to CDSV/YWCA victims and their children. Picnic table. shutdown If you have a special talent that Outdoor chairs. you'd like to share with others on It took a long time to get CDSV out of a ·periodic basis, or would like to the hands of YWCA bunglers, and I for Lawnmower, garden tools. volunteer your services by assisting one don't know why. Mark Silverstein with meal planning/preparation, or Outdoor swing set. and I, in March 1985, wrote a collection public relations (to mention a few), of articles about the agency's outrag Ch1ldren's toys. please call PATH at (309)827-4005 and eous mismanagement (P-A Vol. 13 #10). ask for someone from Community Action's Through interviews with paid staff, Vacuum cleaners. Countering Domestic Violence Program. volunteers, clients, and the township supervisor, we exposed the YWCA admin Office !?Upplies. istrator, Jackie Macy, as a boss who fiddled not only with the books but Anything else you might th1nk of to add with women's lives. It was June 1982 to the safe, supportive environment of when the funding agency, Illinois a home. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, yanked the service from the Y's pur • view. t••••••~!i•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• CLIP & SAVE •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••!•
In our stories, we detailed how Macy ran an unsafe house for battered women, demeaned volunteers and staff, i: ~ ~~Operation i. withheld and read client mail (which she insisted on having .sent to the Y), i .._ ·. • Recycle !i lied about CDSV directors' salaries (funds which disappeared), and bullied ! ~ OPERATION RECYCLE i Pantagraph editor Bill Wills into DRIVE DATES i squelching an expose of CDSV. Loose All drives are held 9am • 3pm ,.•• about training and confidentiality, Macy was tight with a buck, crossing at Sears (Eastland) October 10, 1987 ! out paid hours on staff time sheets November 21, 1987 : and designating them "volunteer" hours and ISU parking lot January 16, 1988 : as well as cutting off rides to bat • (SW corner 'College & Main) February 27,1988 i tered-women, telling staff to "hand : April9, 1988 : out bus tokens." • : May 28, 1988 ~=• • l: By the time we finished our extensive • •• : ~ interviewing, I was disgusted so heart-' • ·1: ily with Macy that I gave her a nick . ,.~ name even the Post wouldn't use. Ima : Call 829-0691 for More Information ;; gine that. .: ,.~ . ~ --Phoebe Caulfield : ~ • A ·------·································································································~ Kaleidoscope bashing 1n• Bloomington-Normal
With over a decade of sporadic paid: every "newsworthy" hearing found the pros and cons publicity, local child care agency administrative/legal hassle that the fairly evenly divided, but you Kaleidoscope once more hit the Cen agency had suffered (some of which wouldn't know it from the way the tral Illinois media this summer. were characteristic of child care and media reported the event. Tnose How it was covered and how some of social service agencies everywhere) teevee news reports that covered it th8 area's more press-conscious was talliedc~up. The list looked only had footage from the morning, mouths responded to the latest impressive until you realize that when CATC dominated. The burst of Kaleidonews is a story in (1) it covered fourteen years of Pantagraph's front page coverage itself: one of reactionary ongoing activity and (2) there was was even more slanted~ opp0rtunism, political hucksterism nothing else to compare it to. With "KALEIDOSCOPE SUPPORT DIMS," the and just plain creepiness, of kids the focus off big money sources like headline trumpeted when a full day's reduced to stereotypes and c.ross- Scott Center and with other agencies attention of the event showed a the board labeling that showed nobody like MARC scrambling to disassociate more complicated picture. But then, in a good light. themselves from K-scope's complicated pictures have never been "delinquent" label, it's not likely the Pantagraph's strong suit. For over a decade K-scope has been the comparison can be made. a presence in Bloor~ington-Normal. Much of the negative testimony A non-profit organization, the agency But then, fairness and understanding against the agency at the hearing has operated group hv·mes, supervised isn't what the latest bout of could be typed into one of three foster families and independent Kaleidoscope bashing is about. categories1 (1) old stories by living arrangements of adolescents Kaleidobashing is about fear and members of CATC; (2) slices of and children. The bulk of these attention-seeking. When one of the vendetta by disgruntled former clients have been wards of the state agency's group home clients was employees (two from the past two brought into the community by the arrested this summer for alleged years; one from an employee of Department of Children and Yamily sexual abuse, the media-hungr·y fourteen years ago); and (3) the Services, children removed from their flocked to be seen castigating the sadly strange. In the case of the families due to abuse or neglect or Big K. Ron "I'm A Judge Now" Dozier last consider the testimony of a legal difficulties, classed as put gavel in mouth by blaming the single woman who lived on W. Jeffer emotionally or behaviorally dis~ agency for importing troubled youth son several blocks away from one turbed as a result of their lousy into our spotless community. In a of the agency's group homes and family experiences. speech before a House investigative •.came home one evening to find an subcommittee he all but attributed apartment window cut out. This At one point in its history, Kaleido a rising crime rate to Kaleidoscope's poor frightened soul doesn't know scope had the reputation of taking presence alone. who cut her window but is certain those kids that the rest of the human it must've been one of K~scope's services system had rejected, those The bashing got especially vigorous group home kids. After all, nobody kids who had gone through the system at the abovementioned subcommittee else in the area gets in trouble so much that they were cannier than hearing, convened by Demo represent with tl1e law. any bureacrat when it came to living ative Curran in the name of the House in the loopholes. Within the past Subcommittee on Child Welfare and And then there was the discharged few years the agency has tended to Protection in the wake of this group home night staff who whined shy away from the more "hard core" summer's big news arrest. Present to the subcommittee that the non cast-offs in the face of community were ~embers of the deceitfully named denominational agency wouldn't let complaint. To some local vocals, Community Advocates for Troubled her,. "put Jesus in•" though--like mayoral blowhard Jesse Children, a group formed after last Smart--the phrase "Kaleidoscope kid" year's major incident and a regular To be sure, some of the criticism has remained synonymous with presence (especially photog founder leveled at the agency has been just. "delinquent. " Ken Kashian) on page 2 and 3 of the But it's been surrounded by so much Pantagraph. hyperbole and dunderheaded politiciz That perception has been fueled by ing that it's quite a task both media and police treatment of Especially canny in their use of the separating the sincere from the • K-scope clients over the past year. media (word has it the group was reactionary. This much is fairly Since summer '86, when two Blooming coached for their subcommittee test obvious: provincial pleas for ton group home residents invaded the imonies by local politico Jerry protection from the "bad kids from apartment of an elderly lady, news Bradley), CATC members timed their upstate" are going to fall on deaf paper attention has been focused on hearing appearances for maximum ears when you're talking to state the slightest misdeed of any kid in teevee news exposure, dominating legislators. After all, the kids the agency. Where regular community the first two hours of public have to go someplace in the state; adolescents (or, indeed, clients at time just before lunch when the bulk the days of shipping problem kids similar residential agencies such as of the media folk packed up their to Texas have passed. Scott Center) could be assured of a equipment and left. Never mind that degree of anonymity when they screwed most of the group members' plaints But then Kaleidobashing is more about up, K-scope found their every fumble were over a year old and had already rumor than it is reality. It's about scrutinized. been addressed by the agency--the Ron Dozier testifying about "imperiling group trotted out their stories his political career" the first When the Pantagraph printed a review ag~in. time he spoke out against the agency. of "problems" between the agency and (Ron Dozier, Friend of the People vs. the community, it became clear that A strict tally of the full testimony Political Monolith Big K.!) It's undue special attention was being offered the day of the subcommittee about Pantagraph editor Bill Wills defending the selection of embittered former K-scope foster parent Scott Richardson as the paper's 'Scope reporter on the grounds that his personal experience gave him "special insight" into the story. (Geez, you'd think those guys were the Post Rape Crisis Center Amerikan or somp'n!) It's about a police/court system that's gotten so reactionary that Kaleidoscope clients are being so labeled in their of Mclean County first brush with the law--and finding some of their basic rights getting somewhat abbreviated in the WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VPLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER process. ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. But perhaps hysterical rumor FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE ~ongering i~ wha~ you should expect VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION AND 1n ~ commun1ty w1th no difficult kids SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. of 1 ts own, eh? If you want to talk to. one of us --Denny Colt Call PATH 827-4005 and ask for the
ROpe Crisis Center Page 4 Post Amerikan VoL 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 19tl7 Page 5 67 arrested in suburban protest rally
Introduction: On Saturday; August 22, Many people carried crosses emblazoned actually occupied a base, a_conclusion a large protest rally and demonstration with names of civilians who have died beyond our wildest expectat1ons. And took place in Arlington Heights, in the Central America wars. Fake the gates seemed to be in our control: Illinois. Five hundred activists from wooden coffins bore slogans. Ladders we opened them up or shut them down, all over the midwest gathered at the for use later in fence climbing were whatever was appropriate; Arlington Heights Army Reserve Base to disguised as litters for "dead bodies" voice their disapproval of activities during the parade. We were held for many hours in the there, and the effect of those Arlington Heights police station activities on the U;S. war in Central awaiting bond hearings. At least 60 America. The operations at this base supporters gathered in the courtroom to have been cloaked in secrecy for years; encourage us. We missed the it has never participated in the opportunity to sample the local prison traditional "open house" event on Armed food, since the police forgot to feed Services Day. us. I was one of the last to be released, at midnight. We joked about Through intensive efforts, activists being on a "hunger strike" saying, "We and investigative journalists learned refuse to eat until you give us food!" that the base is the training camp for at least two major military covert At one point I had been taken from my operations: The 12th Special Forces cell to appear for a bond hearing, but Group (Green Berets) and the 305th then together with six other women I PSYOPS Battalion (Psychological was returned to our cell without the Operations). The Special Forces hearing; We figured out that it was Reserves function as counter-insurgents .. Sure. we cun b,lnw UJl the wortd. but if the Russiun& Ct~n blow till the world twice, we're l!oncrs" because we were "uncooperative." I had and "counter-terrorists." They learn only answered the questions about my interrogation and sabotage techniques name, address, and social security as well as the usual jungle warfare, The scene at the fence went on for a number. I did not answer the whole and funding for their training has long time--at least two hours. Our array of other questions for the "rap increased 400% in the last six years. supporters were singing songs, chanting sheet": birthplace, religion, marital peace slogans, hanging anti-Contra aid status, job, etc; Others did not give PSYOPS is an even more diabolical cog banners on the fence. We also correct names and such. in the war machine and is a critical scattered "Grand Opening" leaflets onto part of the strategy known as "low the base, with the Pentagon lesson The police station was in chaos--the intensity conflict." the purpose of "Utilization and Containment of Rumors" police officers really weren't prepared their operations is to destabilize for Latin American military officers on to d-eal with such a situation, populations, spread propaganda, and the back. We had initially wondered if 'especially all the paperwork. (They create chaos by turning citizens there would be more police than also were complaining about missing the against each other. They are also demonstrators: there were about 220 Bears game.) Some officers kept their responsible for infiltrating and police officers at the scene, complete good humor through it all, but others destabilizing protest movements in the with helmets and billy clubs and stocks 'were obnoxious. U.S. as part of the Reagan of plastic handcuffs. The Arlington Administration's desire to "cure" us of Heights police were supplemented with I had a ver"y disturbing experience with the "Vietnam Syndrome." The most officers from five surrounding one officer at the end of it all. recent example of their efforts is the communities. After I had received my I-bond CIA Assassination Manual prepared for (personal recognizance), the officer the Nicaraguan Contras. Sixty-seven people eventually climbed processing me saw I hadn't answered all over the eight-foot barbed wire fence, Because of the heinous nature of the the other questions. He really blew up or walked in at the end after the crowd at me when I told him I was not legally operations at Arlington Heights, a opened one of the gates. Folks from local Pledge of Resistance group there obligated to answer such questions. He Minnesota brought double-hinged ladders started shouting angrily at me, using organized a demonstration based on the for climbing the fence, with rugs on concept of holding an "open house" at vulgarities; I really thought for a top to protect against the barbed wire; moment he was going to hit me. the base and exposing their activities We had rope ladders to extend down the to the public. This became the other side, but the police kept regional demonstration described below Perhaps we need to think more about how throwing the rope ladders up again. So we can defuse such situations, how we by Cinny Poppen, Central Midwest Pledge we used the chain link on the other of Resistance Coordinator. can help the police deal with such a side to climb down. stressful situation that obviously is outside their usual training. * * * * * * * * Once I had dropped down inside the base, I was handcuffed and dragged away What happened August 22 is my idea of from the fence to a golf cart. I was Recently someone asked me (trying to harmonic convergence. One hundred then driven to a driveway in front of bait me) what would make the fifty patient, enthusiastic, committed, the east gate. We stood there for a demonstration successful for me. He and efficient people came on Friday long time (at least a half hour, maybe obviously expected me to say "numbers night to a final planning meeting. At 45 minutes). We then were put in a van attending, numbers arrested, press least half were from elsewhere in the and driven to the west gate. coverage." But as I thought about his region. The next day, 500 showed up question I realized that what I hoped for a rally filled with wonderful This is when the high point occurred for was a large group of people being music, inspiring speeches, and moments for me. I was in the third van to be able to exemplify what we believe is of quiet reflection. taken to the Arlington Heights police possible: that we can work together station. We realized when we got close creatively and resolve conflict in The rally featured many engaging to the west gate that our friends peaceful ways. speakers. Peggy Moore, director of the outside had managed to keep it shut! National Guard information Suddenly Jim from Minneapolis jumped on Later we will evaluate the action in clearinghouse sponsored by St. Louis the hood of the squad car in front of more detail, but my first impression is Pledge of Resistance, detailed the ways us, and we all shouted with real that it was a resounding success: in in which National Guard exercises meaning, "The people, united, can never numbers, in press coverage, and most of support U.S. aggression against Central be de'feated!" all, in harmonic interaction. America. Merle Hansen, President of the North American Farm Alliance, told The van had to turn around and take us --Cinny Poppen how the plight of our small farmers is back to a room on the base, where we directly related to the were held for about an hour. So we Administration's policy of guns and no butter. And former CIA agent Ralph McGehee, in a well-received speech, Financial support for Bloomington 6 described the two main activities of the CIA (based on his 25 years with the Thirty people from the B/N Pledge of Resistance left until all were released, which finally happen "Company"): planning and carrying out took par~ in the Arlington Heights action, happened around midnight. covert operations against popular carrying a large effigy of Uncle Sam followed by foreign governments and causes, and The arraignment date has been set at Nov. 2, lying about those operations both here a stretcher with a body representing a Central and abroad. American peasant. The group also handed out • and a number of those arrested have decided to hundreds of soda cans which were painted red plead not guilty in the hopes that a trial can be The threatening clouds never spilled and black, and filled with rocks so that they used as a tool to raise ·public awareness about any rain; the sun continued to shine. made noise when shaken. U.S. involvement in Central America. We looked impressive as we walked from the park to the base, singing and Six people from the Bloomington group were The B/N Pledge is trying to raise a defense fund chanting with our banners flying, for the people who are going to trial. We also clowns dancing, drums keeping the among those arrested trying to enter the base. beat--colorful and determined. The They were charged with trespassing and were took out a $300. 00 ad in the Pantagraph to parade included an Uncle Sam from . held for ten hours in Arlington Heights before promote the demonstration. Because of the Milwaukee with chains coming out of h1s being brought before a judge. The group had costs and the small amount of time, money is fingers, dangling the Central American opted for bail solidarity, which meant that they urgently needed. Donations can be sent to: countries. A man dressed up as the refused to post bond, not wanting to put money B/ Pledge of Resistance Grim Reaper carried a sign "Contra Aid into the system. This also meant that no one 501 S. Main St. Dollars for Death." Normal IL 61761 Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 19e7 Post benet it review Page 6 Police pester Posters
Bloomington's police department was without a commercial club catering to Bands scheduled to appear in the next the special guest at the Post Ameri B/N's progressive art/music/politics month and a half include Mister Hand, kan's 15th anniversary celebration scene, Robinson's opened its door and Patchouli Scented Crazies, Sert Lorn held July 30th at Robinson's let us all hang out. The response Boon, Moment's Notice, Big Guitar, Cocktails and Ribs. Jesse's boys was tremendous. About 200 people Hip Pocket, and Mojo Stew. A benefit hit the scene at about 10:00, all showed up on a Thursday night in the for the Pledge of Resistance will fired up--and wanting to check ID's. dead of summer to support the Post, take place sometime in late October/ check out some new music and art, and early November. All shows will start Cops always cause the most trouble engage in some serious revelry. at 9 p.m., and cover charge will be at parties. $2. Now, remember, this is all on a The stage looked somewhat as follows: trial basis--if you want a culture in With an invented probable cause ("We Earl's Breakdown launched the night this town you have to support it. So had a C0ffiplaint") 1 OUr brave Ones in with a manic set of original songs, be there (426 N. Main, Blmgtn). blue scoured the crowd for underage followed by a rousing rendition of drinkers. This harassment was both "Ollie You Blow My Fucking Mind" by outrageous and unwarranted: Robin the Barely Brothers; Big Guitar son's doesn't let in underage drink played an absorbing piece written by Once again, thanks to all the per ers. That's why there's a doorperson. ensemble-leader Mike Hogan, after formers and others who contributed which Mojo Stew thoroughly shook the their time and energy to the P/A Of course, in Bloomington, police audience with their rockin' rhythm celebration/benefit. And thanks actions are always as comic _as they and blues for nearly an hour; and to the undercover policeman who are intimidating. These cops checked performance art group Audiovision of showed up that night--your $2 was some ID's twice, some not at all, and fered up a language/noise ritual, especially appreciated. even requested that a 40-year-old man whereupon Patchouli Scented Crazies, prove his age (he_just laughed). B/N's latest sensation, soared MJ through a set of their asymmetrical But they could find no underage Persian rock. drinkers. Grudgingly, they returned to their treacherous traffic beats.· Sounds like just what this often In the process, though, they com desolate town needed, doesn't it? mitted the most horrendous faux pas: Well, guess what: Robinson's is will Our special guests left without say ing to keep its doors open on Thurs ing goodbye! day nights to any sort of progressive culture needing a place to happen. The swine! Yes, the drought is over--if you want it. On Thursday, September 17th, Robinson's premiers its new format with musical groups Joe's Kitchen No matter--everyone who stayed had and Twelve Fishing Game. a great time. After more than a year Draft resister imprisoned for non-registration, activism
Anti-draft activist Gillam Kerley has Gillam Kerley is the only Amerikan in 1) Write Judge John Shabaz _(120 North begun serving a three-year prison term prisoh today for resisting draft Henry Street, Madison, WI 53703) at the Leavenworth Federal registration. Even his case officer protesting the severity of the term Penitentiary in Kansas. He was at Leavenworth had to coment, "Yo~ got and asking that it be reduced before sentenced and fined $10,000 for three years for that?" The judge's the late September deadline. Send a refusing to register for the draft. attempt to make a political example of copy to the CARD Midwest Office (731 But in handing down the sentence--the Gillam--in order to intimidate other State Street, Madison, WI 53703), harshest given a non-registrant since organizers--is th~ basis of which will forward it to Gillam. the Vietnam War--Judge John Shabaz applications to Amnesty International gave an interesting justification and the United Nations Commission on 2) Write your federal representatives, unrelated to the charge. Human Rights, urging his adoption as a demanding that they repeal prisoner-of-conscience. registration and resist further moves. He accused Gillam, as the executive toward reinstating inductions (US director of the Committee Against CARD has filed an amicus brief on the Senate, Washington, DC 20510 and US Registration and the Draft (CARD), of legality of the its activities, and is House of Representatives, Washington, "continuing crimin?l activities" in raising funds for Gillam's political DC 20515). "aiding, abetting, and encouraging" legal defense. With an assigned other draft resisters. prison typist job at 28 cents an hour, 3) Send a tax-deductible contribution he cannot pay for the $5,000 appeal to the CARD Midwest Office to help Kerley, 26, has been a law student and •costs on his own. with the Campaign to Free Gillam bookstore owner in Madison; Wisconsin. Kerley and CARD's general work against In 19e2, he was targeted for The Campaign to Free Gillam Kerley has the existing poverty draft and the prosecution as one of 18 vocal non received endorsements from dozens of pending compulsory draft; To registrants, and entered a plea of peace, ~ivil liberties, and social volunteer other forms of help, call "not guilty by reason of sanity." His change activists, former political CARD at (608) 257-7562. friends, parents, and community gave prisoners and draft/military resisters him their full support during the ups from around the nation and the world. --Zoltan Grossman, acting and downs of the trial process. At They see Gillam's release as a key to executive director of the its end, the judge decided to imprison stopping the momentum toward a new national CARD in its Gillam before a decision on his appeal. draft, and in asserting the First Midwest Office Amendment rights of anti-draft Now, the national CARD and its over 50 organizers. They also recognize that local affiliate groups have launched if military personnel levels are the Campaign to Free Gillam Kerley. further increased, it will make it A~ Gillam said recently in an that much easier for the President to interview from Leavenworth, "Given the intervene in Central America, the nature of my offense, the manner in Mideast, or elsewhere. Like Judge which I was selected for prosecution, Shabaz, the anti-war movement can make and Judge Shabaz's justification for an example of Gillam Kerley, but by severity of my sentence, there should winning his release from unjust be no question that I am being held as imprisonment. a political prisoner. What we a~e seeing, in this case and others, is CARD is calling for three courses of the criminalization of political action: dissent." Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 Page 7 Everybody needs some body, sometime If you're like most people, you whole M //o, 1/, llo .... dollars for a year's supply. For the heartedly support the idea that organs organs themselves, costs range from no longer needed by the newly deceased· 3-5,000 for a cornea to 30,000 for a go on to those unfortunates who do kidney to about 100,000 for a heart. need them. How much, though, do you really know about the organ donation Currently doctors are able to harvest process? organs from only about 10% of the available pool of donors due to lack Did you know, for instance- of consent. It is to be hoped that -That the recovery of viable organs the pending federal legislation can from donors is called harvesting, and .alleviate that waste of potentially that the medical team that recovers life saving organs. the organ is the harvesting team? -That organs are transported in ster In the meanwhile, despite the rampant ile Tupperware placed in Playmate profiteering by hospitals, organ coolers of ice? donation remains a worthwhile -That the only people not making money endeavor. Ignoring all the middlemen, from such transactions are the donors' it is still the gift of life from one families and the recipients? person or family to another and the only answer to many otherwise fatal Most people have vague ideas about illnesses. tragic deaths with silver linings. Desperately needed organs are rushed There has been a dramatic increase in If you wish to donate, do discuss your by relays of good Samaritans to the the number of candidates for organ wishes with your family--the next of seriously ill, usually the infant or transplant since 1980. That was the kin retain final say in the matter- child you saw on the news the week year that the immunos~ppressive drug and sign the back of your driver•s before. cyclosporin hit the market. The drug license. Removal of organs for has a great deal of success in sup transplant does not disfigure the Publicity does play a large part in pressing the rejection of foreign tis corpse. Your family could still have obtaining needed organs. Appearing on sue in the body and has made it pos-· an open casket funeral if they so the nightly news has proven to be an sible for many more people to receive chose. effective way of getting a vital organ and survive organ transplants. donated to the subject of the public What it all comes down to is- ity. For the recipient of a·donated organ, what have you got to lose? living can be an expensive proposit Desperate parents are often driven to ion. Cyclosporin can cost up to 5,000 --Ivan Offalitch parading their critically ill children before the television cameras in emotional appeals for help. Often it works and another family in the midst of their own loss reaches out to pre '!ent someone else's.
Generally, organ donations increase after such an appeal so that more than one person reaps the ben~~it, so to speak. Unfortunately, the most newsworthy candidates for donation--small, lov able children--aren't always the most needy. An appeal to the public can be a way of circumventing the list of the needy and cutting in at the head of the line.
Currently, the United States has no organized or equitable system of organ distribution. A tangle of organiz ations actually compete for available organs to distribute. Often, money talks. Transplants of livers are prohibitively expensive; up to 200,000 dollars. Most hospitals won't even put a patient on the wait ing list without a substantial down payment. Some hospitals have been found boost The Post Amerikan's Soiree Francaise, held at the ing rich foreigners on the need lists Unitarian Church in July, was an unqualified success. because they make more from foreign Post friends got a chance to meet each other and patients than from Americans on Medi to enjoy the best French cuisine in the Twin Cities. care or Medicaid. Top picture: Happy, fulfilled diners. Bottom pic ture: Waiters, cooks, and kitchen help. Master In 1984 Congress passed the National chef Laurie Dahlberg appears close to center, with Transplant Act, making it illegal to apricot flan and triumphant expression. buy and sell human organs. Attempts by some doctors to start businesses devoted to the procurement of organs for transplant, frequently from over seas and not barring live donors, in spired such legislation.
Instead, to bolster the supply of available organs the U.S. qovernment is passing a law--effective Oct 1, 1987--that requires hospitals of all sizes to ask bereaved families about the possibility of organ donation or lose their Medicare reimbursement. Currently, many states, including Il., have already required request laws.
Such legislation has done much to in crease the supply of available trans plants but still leaves the final de cision to the donors' families.
Donation does not cost anything to the next of kin. The organization the transplant is going to--such as the Central Illinois Organ Donation Pro-' gram--picks up all charges after brain death except for burial. Those charg es are of course passed on to the re cipient. Keep .your han Mammography and According to Medical Self-Care According to the National Women's you, the consumer magazine (Winter 1981T~-;-··some Health Network Newsletter (May/June scientists have specul~ted that 1982), there is a concern "that. routine mammography of young women mammography detects non-infiltrating cancers or in-situ cancers that Woman, how can I exploit thee? Let me mg_y causE as rr.uch breast cancer as it detects. Mammugr2.phy has been shown remain latent for life." This concern count the ways: Carcinogenic make-up was first "raised when data from the to be mo~t.acc~rate in detecting .•. Birth control devices .•. PMS Health Insurance Plan study was drugs ... Mammography ••.. abnor~al1t1es 1n fatty breast tissue, the k1nd found in older women." reviewed by a National Cancer Institute appointed committee of Mammography? Yes, Virginia, It has little value for young women experts • · The HIP study, which forms mammography. The newest means of the basis for current recommendations exploiting women is by making money whose breast tissue is more dense and less fatty. The article goes on that high risk symptomless women off ~he fear of breast cancer and by should have periodic mammographies, sell1ng women a way of early detection to say that "routine mammography should not be performed on women was found to be severely'flawed. which, in some cases, can be dangerous. Among othe: findings, mammography Examine the Mother's Day weekend ad under 45 unless a palpable mass has been found in a breast or the was determ1ned to be an ineffectual which ran in the Decatur Herald (at means of detecting infiltrating right--the local hospitals haven't woman is at high risk for breast cancer." cancers. One cancer text acknowledged begun this, yet.) This incidious that is a small number of cases gift certificate purports to give In a Pantagraph Messenger article "Microscopic diagnosis of cance~ is your mother or other female friend not atways clear-cut." "peace of mind through mammography." dated July J, 1984, which announced that St. Joseph's Hospital would offer mammography screening, local doctors "Mammography has raised the odds for What is wrong with mammography? an equivocal diagnosis. Forty-eight After all, it detects potentially were asked at what age should sc~eening be ~one. "Barry Slotky of the 506 'minimal cancers' that were canc~ro~s breast lumps and it's safe. diagno~ed via_nationwide mammography But 1s 1t really ef£ective and is it sa1d the Amer1can Cancer Society recommends routine screenings for screen1ng proJect were later found to safe? There's quite a controversy be 'n?t classified as cancers' upon over what is the best method of wo~en approaching middle age. He sa1d many people are starting to a rev1ew by a panel of expert breast cancer detection. Other pat~ologists. Although all 48 were methods exist, but knowledge of them screen women about age 4o, and mammo grams are recommended annually for bel1eved to be minimal at time of is either ignored or suppressed. diagnosis, 37 received some form of wo~en over 50: Meng Y. Horng also These methods include ultrasound, ma~tectomy as the treatment." Aga.in, thermography, graphic stress tele sa1d the serv1ce was a good idea, although he does not send his th1s creates a feeling of loss of thermography, diaphanography, and control over one's body. tumor markers. (For more information patients for routine screenings." So some doctors in town are beginning on the pros and cons of each, see So if mammography is not the way to Medical Self-Care, Winter 1981, mammography screening at age 40 and· some are screening annually. detect breast cancer, what is? Other available from Normal Public Library.) methods listed earlier can be tried. - According to Brokaw Hospital • s Yet, as responsible women, we should Why can mammography be dangerous? take health matters into our own A mammogrnphic exam consists of two Radiology Department, a person will receive less than one rad of hands. That's right, Breast Self-Exam! x-rays taken of each breast, one from Parnp~lets e~plaining how to do BSE are above, the o-:;her from the side toward radiation per screening. But 'if a woman goes to a doctor who believes :ead1l~ ava1lable from various sources, ~~e center. The_breasts are gently 1nclud1ng the American Cancer Society. \.)_compressed w1th a flattening ~n routine annual screenings, she has devJ.ce to allow a complete picture. 1ncreased her risk of breast cancer. If she has had other x-rays in her However, many women fear ESE. Some As with any x-rays, radiation is used are_n't sure what a lump in a breast ~ifetime, her chances are further and this radiation can damage breast 1ncreased of having some type of should feel like. Some let their cells, possibly causing breast cancer cancer. Having to pay a yearly doc~ors "handle" it. According to years after the examination. mammography fee and later for a Med1c~l Self-Care (March/April 1987) maga~lne, a team of researchers possible mastectomy operation tends stud1ed the ability of 80 doctors to to make a woman feel angry and detect breast lumps in breast models. exploited, Michigan· womyn' Imagine 7500 womyn, from all states in As the numbers of participants grew, The concept of respecting diversity our country and from nations all over however, so did the complaints from meant that everyone could be the world, camping for five days on 200 nearby towns and some frightening comfortable with whatever her needs acres of wooded land. During their attacks, accusations, and invasions by were and was carried throughout the gathering, they will hear concerts by men in the area. The obvious solution Festival to include seating at the some of the finest womyn-oriented was to acquire a large enough piece of concerts. In this way a womon who was musicians in the world. They will also land so that privacy and security would a recovering alcoholic could sit in a participate in feeding, caring for, and be guaranteed, and the 600 acres were chem-free area and relax without the healing each other; in doing rituals purchased through donations, ticket stress of being surrounded by drinking. and going to workshops, in dancing, and sales, and Festival revenues. Choice seating was also provided for in making the music happen themselves. differently-abled womyn--no wheelchairs This year's was the biggest Festival at the back of the room here. (Can you And all of this will occur in such an yet, and the first one I've attended. imagine this happening at a regular atmosphere of love, cooperation; and It was an experience which truly concert?) trust that if one should leave her ·altered me as a person, and I'd like to wallet out in the woods one night, she share some of its finer aspects. The Festival is set up so that womyn would find it; fully intact, the next can participate in a wide variety of day at the lost and found. If all of Upon arrival, each womon goes through activities during the day, with the this sounds like a feminist/lesbian an orientation, which is very helpful main evening event being the Night utopia to you, then you're nearly because the scope of the Festival is so Stage concerts. The possibilities for right: It's as close to a womyn's large that it can be overwhelming. things to do during the day were so utopia as I've seen, and it's called During orientation, we learned about numerous that it was very easy to be the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; various aspects of the Festival. We overwhelmed. were also told that in order to make The Festiial, now in its 12th year, the Festival run efficiently, each First of all there were the workshops. womon was asked to work one four-hour Every day from 8 am to 5 pm, in 16 happens every August In rural Michigan shift during her stay; There were on the Land, a 600-acre wooded haven locations on the Land, workshops on hundreds of jobs available; from almost any woman-oriented subject very near to the Lake. The Land is garbage crew to sign language maintained by Festival founder Lisa imaginable took place, sometimes as interpretation. After signing up for many as 75-100 in a day. The topics Vogal and her partner Barbara Price our shifts we were shuttled off to our who; with the help of many others, ranged from new-age healing theories spend nine months a year organizing the chosen campsites. and techniques to crafts and dance to event. strictly lesbian issues, and I say "chosen" campsites because there spontaneous sessions were constantly I don't know much about the Festival's were nine separate areas to camp, being added. The amount of energy depending on what your needs and generated by all of these womyn history. My understanding is that the preferences were. This has to do with original idea was to create a womyn teaching,' healing, and sharing with one of the main themes of the Festival: each other was truly powerful. only space where primarily lesbian respecting and celebrating our womyn could gather together safely and diversity. There was a campsite for celebrate their culture. It started as differently-abled (special needs) womyn a relatively small gathering and the and one for womyn over 40. There were land was leased for the event. quiet sites, chemical-free sites, and a loud and rowdy site aptly named The Twilight Zone.
Page 8 Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 ds to yourself "The doctors were able to fihd only Where in Bloomington-Normal can_you Also, men get breast cancer. "Breast 44% of the lumps. Gynecologists get Mammacare training? At the cancer kills a higher proportion performed the worst, finding 40%; present tine several area doctors of men because it is rarely detected general practitioners performed the and nurses are being contacted by early and because men have less best, 50%." Further in the article, Mammatech Corporation to see if breast tissue between the tumor and it states that "physicians are not there is interest in Mammacare vital organs of the chest." committed to early detection of small training. A local women's health treatable breast cancers. Instead, consumer organization, Childbirth And a final note: BREAST LUMPS DO NOT they wait for women to co~e to them and Parenting Information Exchange ALWAYS EQUAL BREAST CANCER. with larger, less-treatable self (CAPlE), is looking into forming a detected tumors." BSE class. An additional note: Next issue, preventing breast cancer Mammatech Corporation will only send through diet will be discussed. Also, a thorough exam takes 15 to 20 its informational kit to doctors and minutes. "A study in Clinical Research nurses. (Does this make a woman Lastly, I must admit that I did not showed that doctors spent only an feel like she has no control over check the Decatur Herald on Father's average of 1.8 minutes examining both her health?) To get a kit sent to Day to see if a Prostate Cancer breasts." Clearly, there is a need your health care provider, call Check-Up Gift Certificate was 1-800-MAM-CARE with his/her address. for better ESE. A new program geared advertised ... toward training the woman to do ESE as And if any women out there would like well as training health care providers If you have a medical outrage you'd has been created. Called Mammacare, to start a true women's health center like to get off ~our chest, write: it analyzes a woman's breasts for and circumvent the status quo, Jeanne D'arc, c/o Post Amerikan, write the Post and let me know. tissue characteristics (fatty or P.O. Box J452, Bloomington, IL 61702. dense) and then teaches her research proven techniques on life-like, tissue-matched breast models. "Mammacare-trair,ed women can detect lumps as small as a pea." Doctors, ·~'-_-· ·. · Special marpinogi-ap,hy pil~e extended . ~-. nurses and medical students benefit from Mammacare sponsored training courses.
Mammacare's ESE differs from the American Cancer Society's method in I You ~,~~m&~~~~~,~~~"~f"~~: several ways. "Mammacare employs two ~. . gift of mammography until May 30. This gift costs only $50- a 40% savings. positions: first, a side-lying ~ Join the others who know that early detection is the best defense against breast cancer. position which exposes each breast's · Give a woman you care about -even if it's yourself- peace of mind through mammography. upper quaJrant where 50% of tumors Follow these 3 easy steps: occur; then lying on the back with 1. Purchase your gift card in ••••••••••••-•••••••••••-• the arm at a right angle so you can person (at the Out· 1 I want .to give someone peace of mind. I patient Registration Desk reach all the way up to the upper 1 O . I or the Life Center"' in I Chec.k for $50 enclosed 0 Charge $50 to my credit card: 1 boundary. The ACS says to put your ), by I Name I hand behind your head instead of at mail (use the coupon), or I 1 a right angle, but that squashes the by phone (call tissue and makes self-exam difficult." and use Visa, MasterCard I Sogna>u.. I For further· comparisons between or Discover). I 0 Visa 0 MasrerCaro 0 Di..:ove. I Mammacare's ESE and American Cancer 2. Schedule the mammogram I Can:! N~mb<. Exp ..arion Dare I So0iety's method, read Medical Self- by May 30, 1987. 1 I 3. Visit the new mammography I Send mammography gift card to: I Care (March/April 1987). -- suites at 1 Name 1 Center for I Add.... 1 Women" I Ciry Stan: ___ Zip___ 1
·------·Vt+AMember of_ the Voluntary Hospitals ot America System. s music festival And speaking of energy: The whole Acoustic Stage performances, running I got a good dose of what it feels like Festival was alive with an earthy; from 4-6, were geared toward to be gay in our culture, to have to spiritual power which was, I feel, storytelling, poetry, mime, and, of hide my sexuality, and it was no fun. I largely due to the concentration on course, a wide range of acoustic music. was irritated at first by the fact that ritual-making, chanting; witchcraft, All ritual gatherings also took place only "womyn's music" was allowed on the healing, and general celebration of the in the Acoustic Stage area. Land; because I felt that this excluded ancient Goddess religions. For me, it a lot of really good womyn musicians. was an experience of genuine spiritual Night Stage featured the top "womyn's But when I put this in the context of awakening as I began to learn about and music" artists such as Holly Near, our culture; I realized again the extent participate in the identification of Heather Bishop, and Rhiannon as well as of homophobic oppression. Our cultures wh1ch flourished before the more varied performances such as the commercial radio stations aren't exactly advent of Christianity. wild reggae-dance party performed by overflowing with gay/lesbian music; are Canadian dub-poetess Lillian Allen and they? Goddess worship and paganism celebrates her ban.d. our power to heal; nurture, and bring But precisely because I was in a womyn about peace on the planet. . To Unfortunately, many performances were only community, I experienced absolute experience all this in the company of rained out, but what I did hear was safety for the first time. What a joy thousands of womyn was an intense wonderful and inspiring. I also loved to walk alone in the woods at night experience which culminated in the seeing all of these womyn doing with complete confidence. As a fellow Harmonic Convergence Rituals. traditionally male jobs during the Festival-goer put it, "I nev~r realized concer.ts, such as climbing light what a haven Michigan was until I went For those who haven't heard of it; the scaffolding, running sound, and back out into the world and had to Harmonic Convergence, which began to swinging sledgehammers down onto tent start lowering my eyes in front of men occur on August 15, 16, and 17 and will stakes. again;" In Michigan; there was no take 25 years to complete; was reason to fear that a sexual prophesized by many ancient cultures Last, but not least, for the womyn who confrontation might be the result of such as the Aztec, Mayan, and Hopi; It were "born to shop," there was the looking too boldly into another's eyes. was seen as a crucial time for humanity Festival Bazaar, featuring the products marked by a sort of "shifting of the of over 150 artists and craftswomyn. Oh; well. All that's left to do now is cosmic gears." It is said to be a You could buy anything from records to carry on what I've learned and return, on a mass level, to the crystals to clothing to jewelry, and it experienced at the Festival, and dream peaceful; Feminine Ray energy and away was a real effort to conserve money! on about next year; from the Masculine; We at the Festival were lucky to be together at that time I'd like to end this article with some See you in August. to lend our voices and powers to the personal observations and insights effort. gained at the Festival. The most --Womoon Walking radical experience for me as a non And then there was the music. The lesbian was finding myself a non musical set-up consisted of three dominant member of a culture. In other stages: Day Stage; Acoustical Stage, words, I was outnumbered; In a and Night Stage• Day Stage, which ran community of womyn-loving-womyn, I had daily from noon till four, include~ a no lover, or rather I would have been wide variety of performances such as an outsider because of the sex of the dance, jazz, funk, reggae; and blues lover I have now. bands as well as huge percussion jams. These performances featured womyn artists from all over the world and were m personal favorites.
Post Amerikan Vol; 16; No. 3 September-October, 1987 Page 9 Page 10 Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 lran·scam explained Unless you were unemployed, sick, Bucket of Dead Worms in or a school teacher, you probably carrying out the Secret didn't have the time to keep up Plan.) with the hearings that were held for the last year or two by the So, now you are up-to-date with Congressional Committee for Droning everything that Congress took on About the Iran-Contra Scandal months and months of questioning Until Everybody Involved Is Dead. to learn. Of course, you missed So, as a public service, I am going the high drama of the actual testi to provide a summary of the entire mony when the Committee tried to affair, putting the events in trick the Reagan Administratior. .numerical order for your conveni Officials into revealing the ence and edification. There will Foreign Policy of the United be a quiz. States. 1. It all started when some But there really was no danger that Maniac Terrorists took some a witness would slip up and reveal American Hostages. the Foreign Policy because, as a 2. This upset Ronald Reagan, 5A-1-a. No, wait, sorry, Iran is Security Measure, the Reagan Admin who to the best of his re at war with Iraq, wr~ch is the istration changes it on a daily collection was President of country that shot one of Our basis. They also don't tell Mr. the United States at the time. Ships, naturally causing Pres Reagan, who would just forget it ident Reagan to speak out anyway. J. So naturally he sold weapons angrily against Iran, which is to the Maniac Terrorists in the same country he Now you can test your knowledge of exchange for Money. sold weapons to (see point 3 Iran-Scam= 4. This Money was funnelled- above). with the help of several 1. What is the Foreign Policy of Courageous Patriots, who re Back to 5A-1. The main point is the United States? Points ceived nothing for their that Col. North was merely will be awarded for originality efforts but a sense of trying to see that the Contras and. clarity. satisfaction and $8 million- had enough money to carry out 2. Would you pose naked for to the nearly secret Foreign the Reagan Administration's $500,000? Me, too. Policy Adventure Team. Secret Plan (shh!--don't tell) to overthrow the government of --Ferdydurke 5. This team was headed by Lt. Col. Nicaragua. Oliver North, who, with Fawn (With apologies, but not very many, Hall--who has been offered (5A-1x. The Contras have been to Dave Barry of syndicated news- $500,000 by Penthouse Magazine about as effective as a paper fame.) . to pose naked--occupied an office in the White House. 5A. North and Hall were in no way whatsoever connected with Pope gO home! Anyore Higher Up because it is a common practice for totally When President Reagan greeted Pope unofficial people (such as John Paul II in Miami on Sept. 10, the jewelry salesmen and marimba state of Florida spent at least $5.5 teachers) to have offices in the million for security alone. That's i11hite House. almost half the amount that Florida has budgeted for the entire year to 5A-1. Thus it was ~hat Col. North, acting completely on his own, fight AIDS--in a state that already decided to divert the Money to has 3,000 people with the disease. the Contras, who are at war with Iraq. The Pope's visit to the United States is clearly a political event. He has c6me to our country to promote his politics of oppression. John Paul Too wants to silence the dissents within his church and to peddle his repressive views on abortion, homosexuality, women, birth control, and other human rights issues. Now, a church has ai much right as anyone else in this country to try to persuade others that its way is the right way. But it shouldn't be given free prime-time ads by the government, and certainly not without first doing its duty as a citizen and paying taxes. When the Founding Parents proposed that church property be tax exempt, they meant the little white church at the corner of Elm and Main- newspapers. I didn't like the not the $25-billion portfolio of the original John Paul very much, and I Roman Catholic Church. sure don't want to see the sequel. Some people say we should respect the John Paul #2 is the head of a giant Pope and welcome his visit as an money-making corporation that ought to occasion for dialogue. To me, a two pay tax at the same rate secular thousand year dialogue is enough. The corporations do (or did, before RCC still hasn't forgiven Galileo (for Reagan). And the Amerikan people-- being right); they aren't about to • especially those of us who have been start talking to me. Besides, I'm not savagely attacked by the Pope's sure I want to be accepted by somebody henchmen--shouldn't have to subsidize who entertains old Nazis. the propaganda junkets of the Chief Executive Officer for Catholicism Inc. I'm also tired of hearing that the Pope's medieval bullshit is the "word of God." That's what they said about At the very least the U.S. government the Inquisition and the slaughtering ought to take a neutral stance toward of thousands and thousands of so the Pope's visit. But Amerikan called witches. The Vatican may have presidents, especially Reagan, seem to done away with the autos-de-fe, but love (or is it envy?) dictators- their Pastoral Letters and public remember that at one time or another pronouncements burn me up just the our government has supported the Shah same. of Iran, Somoza, Marcos, Batista, Pinochet, and the junta in El I want JohnPaul/JohnPaul to pack up Salvador. So it's no wonder that this his sumptuous gowns and expensive tyrant in a gold gown and funny hat jewelry, to put on his cute red shoes FINES GAY ENTERTA,NMEN has been hailed as a messenger of and hit the highway back to Rome. Let peace and love. (Under Reagan, him stay there with all those guys !N CENTRAL ILLINOIS Double-Speak has replaced English as he's been living with all these years. OPEN NIGHTt..Y 'TIL 4A.M. the official language of officials.) And when he opens his mouth to speak, PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR one of them should shove something in FOR A !)RINK. LIMIT. ONE' PER I'm tired of reading about John Paul it. CUSTPMER PER NIGHT II and seeing his smug smile and pudgy fingers plastered all over the --Ferdydurke Reagan's AIDS comm1ss1on• • There he was, the conservative Ronald --Theresa Crenshaw, a San Diego Reagan, making history by apparently physician and sex counselor who has becoming the first President to criticized condom use as "putting a appoint an openly gay person to a mere balloon between ourselves and a public post. deadly virus." Crenshaw reportedly supported the LaRouche-backed But there was no triumph in watching Proposition 64, which sought to the administration do something that quarantine people with AIDS in it so obviously found distasteful. California. And a few days after it was leaked that Dr. Frank Lilly, a known --Richard DeVos, the founder and homosexual, would be named to the president of Amway, who opposed a gay President's AIDS commission, Reagan related antidiscrimination bill announced the full panel. It's a introduced in the Michigan group undistinguished for any AIDS legislature. De Vos is on the board related experience, and it includes of directors of the Robert Schuller several right-wing members who are Ministries. His wife, Helen, served clearly antigay. as Michigan's head of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. Reagan lost no time in appointing a commission to deal with the AIDS --Penny Pullen, a conservative crisis--it took him only six years; Illinois state representative who The President had never uttered the sponsored a series of AIDS-related word AIDS in public until last spring, measures seeking mandatory HIV testing but he still vowed on July 23, the day for several different groups along he announced his commission, that "I with mandatory tracing of the sexual will do all that God gives us the partners of people with AIDS. Pullen power to do to find a cure for AIDS." represents the "panic approachn to Perhaps God could give him a wake-up dealing with AIDS. She is also a call. long-time backer of Ms. Schlafly; The Presidential 12-member commission --Cory SerVaas, conservative editor is supposed to come up with a "full .and publisher of the Saturday Evening fledged strategy for battling AIDS." Post. She is a strong supporter of The panel's report could well turn out Pat Robertson's presidential to be a right-wing attack on gay candidacy. people. Consider these members of the commission: The panel, which was not scheduled to ·meet until after Labor Day, has been --Cardinal John O'Connor, archbishop instructed to present an initial of the Diocese of New York. O'Connor report to the President by the end of is an outspoken enemy of gay people. October. A final repor~ is expected He denounced a pro-gay executive order by next July, which would give Reagan issued by Mayor Ed Koch, lobbied only six months to ~ake action on the against the city's gay-rights commission's recommendations. Given ordinance, and helped to devise the membership of the panel, the several of the Vatican's head-in-the adminstration's dilatory pace may be sand positions on homosexuality and our best ally. AIDS. --'Ferdydurke, with help from David Walter's article in The Advocate, Sept. 1, 198?. AIDS needs aid Reader offers help~ Reader turns red AIDS outbreaks in Africa correspond Dear Post-Amerikan, Post Staff, geographically to those regions in which female circutnsion is still Incredulous at the sight of a raised I finally found the kind of Marxist practiced, says anthropologist Uli fist (vol. 16, #2) adorning a news organization I've been looking for. Linke of the University of Cali paper sold-by-the-corner-box in I was beginning to wonder if there fornia. was a communist organization which downtown Bloomington, I snatched up objected to authoritarianism and a copy and read it on my sun-porch. torture while still being communist. Infibulation, the most extreme fe I was raised in this smug but male genital mutilation, includes pleasant town, yet somehow missed Fortunately, I came across News + the removal of the vulval tissues you during your first five years, Letters in Washington D.C. After (including clitoris and labia.) 1972-77, and I've lived in the the April 25 action I ordered subs The sides of the wound are sewn Eastern U.S. for the past ten. and constitutions from News+ Letters· together, leaving a miniscule open and the Revolutionary Communist ing the size of a matchstick. No Party. After reading the News * Yours is a valuable voice of sanity Letters Committee's constitution and anesthetic is used; the instruments on the local scene, and this one bylaws I knew it was my kind of are not sterilized. Sexual inter issue has done a lot to shatter my organization. I still haven't course is impossible unless the views respecting Bloomington-Normal's received my order from the R.C.P. vagina is re-opened, often forci seeming homogeneity (I.S.U. excepted bly, leading to hemorraging. There in par"t). My money order was probably lost in is not only chronic pain but also the mail. I'll report it lost or lesions in the vaginal tissue lead stolen this week. Hopefully, I can To find you, only to hear from your just get my twelve bucks refunded. ing to the presence of blood during own pen that you may not be with us intercourse. Anal intercourse is a much longer, moved me to write to Though I intend to be an active NLC common alternative. you at once. If you are still look member and supporter I will still ing for volunteer help, please call make an occasional donation to the An equal ratio of men and women make me or write to me. I can give of Post Amerikan. There is no love in my heart for Peyton Place, I mean up the estimated 5 million AIDS vic some time and talent. I'm not sure tims in Central Africa. The over Bloomington as a town,·but it is my how much of either, but I'm sure when home town and I feel the Post Amerikan whelming majority of western victims added to the work of others my own leads the fight for workers' rights are male homosexuals and drug users efforts would be of some assistance. in that city. who share dirty needles. Although I have only read what may be Yovrs in Solidarity, Women in Nigeria recently launched your last issue, it is obviously the Richard S. Mote a massive campaign to educate against excellent result.of many years dili genital mutilation. Donations and P.S. Thanks again for publishing the gent labor by ma~y concerned citizens thing I wrote against fascism and inquiries are welcome: of Central Illinois. More than I racism a few years back. would have imagined possible before Mrs. Hannah Edemikpong reading the Post Amerikan V. 16 #2, Women's Centre I have been moved by your attempt Box 185 Eket to advance through enlightenment Cross River State, (and some harangue) human civil Nigeria, West Africa ization in this bread-box of the world.
From: IAM Newsletter, Aug. 1987 I am,
TYPIST NOTE: Scott Oleson
Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 Dear Scott, We've been calling you. September-October, 1987 Page 11 Where are you? .------aookPage 12 Post Amerikan revievw------~Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 exual diversity: A better answe------~ In this time of AIDS and homophobia; punishe.d. Liberace died. Everything_ just struck there are saner; more humane voices me--we have an unrecognized berdache speaking--those of Native Americans in Instead, a nadle fills an important tradition that is simply waiting to be Walter L. Williams's The Spirit and role within~family and tribe. He realized! Yes, I know this way of the Flesht Sexual Diversity in helps with the upbringing of children; American Indian Culture (Beacon, thinking is hardly "Bloomington-Normal He is generous with his wealth to mainstream~" But go back through the 1986). those in need. A nadle is described list that describes the nadle's roles as hard-working; accomplished in the within his family and society. Read Among many tribes there has always arts and crafts, highly Williams's book; Think about Rock been a tradition of a third gender individualistic; and flamboyant; Hudson and other movie stars who are between men and women (known by gay; but are idolized by millions of various native terms such as nadle or His family furthermore enjoys middle-aged matrons; winkte; berdache is French). Both the increased prestige because of his person and society benefit when such tribal contributions; There he serves We as a culture have rock stars such differences from the majority are as a mediator between men and women; as Michael Jackson and Boy George- accepted as natural; Briefly; a His wisdom is consulted; and his people who may or may not be gay in winkte is a man who is androgynous imposing presence is essential at private life; but who celebrate (both masculine and feminine) in ceremonies. His sexual activity is androgyny in glitzy performances; behavior; and who has sexual partners also seen as a part of tribal life; of his same sex; (Williams also tells The present is too much filled with of women, whom he calls "amazons," who Of course, when Europeans came to this fear and hatred~ I do not want to sometimes fill this societal role;) land, they and their missionaries continue to live that way as a tried their best to stamp out such culture; Williams brings us voices we Unlike in our dominant Judea-Christian third gender traditions; We've need to listen to closely. culture, berdaches and their lovers inherited this legacy. are not considered "unmanly;" --No name ridiculed, pressured to conform, or But a month after I read this book; Community News Time Out. Black history project The Bloomington/Normal Black History proximately 100 community people and Project is presenting a major Program ISU faculty-staff are involved in for teen moms and Exhibit celebrating 152 years of planning this event. If you are a teen mom, or if you are a Black people in this area. The event pregnant teen, you probably need time will be held at the McLean County The effort is financed by the Illi out--time out from fixing meals every Historical Society (201 E. Grove, nois Council of Humanities and the day, time out from watching over your McBarnes Bldg.) on October Jrd from · National Endowment for the Human baby every minute, time out for you. 12:JO p.m. to 4:JO p.m. (Free park ities, Bloomington Human Relations ing in the Bloomington City public Commission, McLean County Historical Planned Parenthood's APPLES has just parking lot. ) Society, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the answer for you--Time Out; and Illinois State University. All of the activites are free. Ap- Time Out groups are starting at the end of September. The groups are open to any woman who is or was a teen mom. Encephalitis warning from yards and premises by discarding Time Out will provide a hot, nutritious In nature, St. Louis Encephalitis tin cans, old tires, bottles or any meal for the moms during the meeting, (SLE) is carried by birds. The other container that may collect child care at the meeting, and Culex Pipiens, or northern house small amounts of water. Stack pails, transportation to and from the barrels, tubs, wheelbarrels and vases meetings. There will be both afternoon mosquito, in turn, is the carrier of and evening groups. the disease between birds and hu upside down. Empty and clean wading mans. Although most people who have pools at least once a week. Provide Time Out wl11 help teen moms learn encephalitis recover completely, some proper maintenance of backyard swim about the growth and development of individuals may be stricken with se ming pools. their babies; how to balance a vere symptoms such as convulsions, relationship, a job, and a family; new coma, paralysis, or personality - Help protect yourself by using lib~ ways of feeling good about yourself. changes. Death occurs in approx era! amounts of mosquito repellant, especially when going outdoors af For more information about Time Out imately 1~/o of the cases. The Illi groups, call Cathy at 827-4368; nois Department of Public Health~ as ter dusk. The Culex mosquito normal part of its annual surveillance of ly rests during the day and emerges Time Out--it's free, it's fun, it's for wild birds, has found significant SLE around dusk to feed. you! antibody titers in birds in Christian County, less than eighty miles south Anyone experiencing a sudden onset of McLean County. of high fever, headache, or muscle ache should contact a physician Although no confirmed cases of en immediately. Subsequent symptoms cephalitis have been reported in of encephalitis may inciude stiff McLean county, the Health Department ness in the back of the neck, pro~ recommends that local residents take blems with muscular coordination, the following precautions: disorientation or confusion. For more information contact the McLean - Help eliminate Culex breeding sites County Health Department at 454-1161.
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September-October, 1987 Page 13 Vol. 16, No. 3 More Community News Post Amerikan School immunizations State law requires that children entering school be immunized The Health Department's Immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, per Clinic is in operation Monday tussis, polio, measles, mumps and through Friday, 8:.30 A.M. to 11:.30 Birth s~rvey rubella. A.M. and 1:00 P.M. to J:JO P.M. There is a minimal fee per immuni An independent survey is being con School code revisions, effective zation. Parents or guardians must ducted by CAPIE (Childbirth and June 29, 1987, require that all accompany their children and are encouraged to bring previous Parenting Information Exchange). children enrolled in school, in All local birthing women are invited cluding female students age ten immunization records. and older, provide evidence of to participate. The 2 page question immunity to rubella. If there are any questions regarding naire asks women what they like and the new regulations, please contact dislike, want and need regarding The rubella vaccine is avai1arle the McLean County Health Department birthing services. Questions cover through private physicians and the at 454-1161. the full range: prenatal care, labor McLean County Health Department. and delivery, birth attendants, and postpartum services for mothers and Pledge of babies. Final results will start to Health screening be tabulated on Nov. 1. Copies are available by calling Sue Frizzell, The McLean County Health Department Resistance/ will be conducting a health screening CAPIE Secy.-Treas., at 452-0310. clinic for senior citizens at the CISPES Heyworth Legion Hall on Wednesday, fall calendar September 30 from 9:30 to 10:30 am; Hematocrit, glucose, and blood pressure GPA Sept. 12 CISPES meeting, 7!30 pm tests will be provided to senior Stevenson 346 (ISU Campus) citizens 60 years of age and older. Donations are requested. fall schedule Sept. 17 Dr. David Linder speaks at Global Wednesdays Gay People's Alliance Review. ISU Walker Hall, 7 pm Meetings 8 pm with reception following at Newman Diabetes 112 Fairchild Hall Center, 501 S Main, Normal ISU Campus awareness group Sept. 2 Movie Night: "I Wanna Be a Sept. 24 Pledge Meeting at 7 pm, Newman Diabetes is an ongoing challenge both for the Beauty Queen"; Officer Center, followed by Central diabetic and for anyone close to her or him. Do Elections America Debate, 7:30, also at you wonder what you should do when your diabetic Newman friend/student/client may be going into a reaction? Sept. 9 Gay Gaymes Do you want to have your diabetic date over for Sept. 26 "Days of Decision" rally and protest supper but you're not sure what to serve? Has Sept. 16 Relationships: Why· They Work against Contra aid, Normal Post someone you love developed diabetes and you and Don't Work and How to Office, 10 am to noon wonder what that "means" for how they'll live Develop One their life? Have you picked up myths of what Sept. 29, Oct. 13, Oct. 27 CISPES meetings diabetes is or involves, and you want some Sept.23 Religion & Homosexuality accurate information?. Are you diabetic and Oct. 8, 22 Pledge Meetings, 7 pm Newman feeling isolated in your efforts to balance "normal" Sept. 30 Biannual Coffeehouse & life and particular requirements/complications of Poetry Reading Oct. 24 National Walk-a-thon for Justice your diabetes? and Peace with the People of El Oct. 7 History/Herstory of GPA Salvador, 10:30 am (Contact Come share your concerns! The ISU DIABETES and Homosexuals CISPES for more info) AWARENESS GROUP will hold its first meeting at 3 pm Wednesday, September 16, ll2 Fairchild Oct. 14 Gay/Straight Rap Nov. 3 Protest Jean Kirkpatrick speaking Hall. We plan to elect officers, brainstorm on at Wesleyan's Fieldhouse. topics of interest and activities for this semester, Oct. 21 Movie Night: TBA Contact Pledge for more info and start an information and support network. Students, faculty, staff, and community members Oct. 28 AIDS Discussion Pledge of Resistance--828-2507 are welcome! Interested but unable to attend? 829-3954 Call ISU Student Health Services, 438-5948, or Nov. 4 Coming Out to Family & CISPES --829-3701 Margaret Wolf, 827-0296. Friends
1.------Nov. 11 Multiple Oppressions and .,- . Violence Against Gays & • Jterbs • 5_!ic.es ·:Fr'uits. vegetafies ·JJurs Lesbians ( Nov. 18 Movie Night: TBA Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Break: No GPA Meeting
Dec. 2 Xmas Party
Dec. 9 Finals: No GPA Meeting
OTHER WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays--Support Group Tuesdays--Coffeehouse Thursdays--Happy Hour
S16 N. Main St. PARTIES Fri. , Sept. 18 Bloomington, DL 61701 Pink Lambda Lambda Lambda Rush Party (dress tastefully in pink) Common Ground has a wide selection of wholesome foods, natural body care products, vitnmin and minerai sup Fri. , Oct. 23 plements, and books for organic cooking and healthy Halloween Party living. • Fri. Nov. 20 By selling many foods in bulk, Common Ground reduces 60's Party your costs on nuts, flours, spices, grains, snack mixes and many other items. You may also purchase ju,;t the amount you need! Come see the gourmet POTLUCK DINNER PARTIES coffee beans and fresh produce section as well. Sun., Oct. 4 Experience a new and healthier way of life! Sun., Nov. 1 Sun., Dec. 6 ~~,~~-- ·or an additional savings uf 10% on all purchases, , you may purchase a discount card for an annual fee 1 For further information on any of the events, of $10.00. ~ ~ please attend a GPA meeting. Community people are welcome. L. ,-... • sood-u.roy~' S..tnOl:C • SU]VJ5.. SUJ1«111}(\, , ,...... __, Page 14 September-October, 1987 Post Amerikan Still More Community News Vol. 16, No. 3 APPLES Ben Linder peace tour here needs volunteers Dr. David Linder, father of Benjamin Linder, taking measurements when twenty contras APPLES--Planned Parenthood's will speak at Illinois State University, attacked. He was wounded before he was Adolescent Parent Program for Learning sponsored by Global Review on Thursday, Sept. assassinated at point blank range. Essential Skills--needs volunteers 17 at 7 pm, Walker Hall lounge, Normal, IL. to facilitate Time Out groups for Dr. Linder will be speaking about the US role Dr. Linder is appearing at ISU as part of the . teen moms. The groups meet weekly in Central America and events surrounding the Ben Linder Peace Tour, a national speaking and allow the young mothers a chance death of his son Ben. tour by the Linder family and US volunteers in to get together and talk about their Nicaragua who knew and worked with. Ben experiences and to learn new skills Linder. for their new roles as parents. Benjamin Linder, a 27 year old engineer from Portland, Oregon, was murdered by US backed Volunteers are also needed to provide Contras in Nicaragua on April 29, 1987, along The tour's goal is to shed light on Ben's life child care at Time Out meetings. with two Nicaraguan co-workers. He was a as a volunteer in Nicaragua, his assassination Child care providers not only give volunteer in San Jose de Bocay, a small village by the contras, and the significance of his the moms a chance to be by themselves, in northern Nicaragua, where he was designing death for US foreign policy in Central America. but they also give the children a space to play, learn, and grow. a small hydroelectric plant. The plant would have been the second built by Linder in rural The tour will also serve to promote the At every meeting, the adolescent Nicaragua. Linder was sitting by a stream Benjamin Linder Memorial Fund, which seeks mothers are given special learning to raise $200, 000 to help complete the activities to do with their children hydroelectric project Ben was working on at at home. These activities are de Income or- outgo? the time of his death. Donations to the signed to take into account the age Memorial Fund may be sent to the and development of the child, the Do your receive SSI and social Benjamin Linder Memorial Fund security? Is the social security ability of the mother, and the c/o PCASC PO Box 6443 desired level of mother-child office counting as part of your income interaction. APPLES needs volunteers money being withheld from social Portland, OR 97223 to devise activities for use both at security checks for a past the meetings and at home. overpayment? If so, you may wish to talk with Prairie State Legal The teen moms and their kids .are Services, 827-5021 or 1-800-874-2536. Evening given a hot, nutritious meal at the A federal judge in Springfield has meetings, and Time Out needs help recently decided that Social Security immunizations with meal planning and preparation. is violating the law when it counts money as income that you are not The McLean County Health Department Time Out needs volunteers to provide actually receiving. will be conducting an Evening counseling for teen moms, teen dads, 'Immunization Clinic at the McLean and the parents of those teen County Health Department, 905 N. parents. Teen pregnancy affects all Main, Normal, every th:i.rd Tuesday of members of a household, and the OR needs each rr,onth through December 1987. issues that the new moms, dads, and grandparents have are very ·, volunteers The times and dates of clinics are difficult--but very important. as follows: Want to do something about our Many teen parents must also learn to environment? Are you tired of the Sept 15 4:00pm to 7:00pm utilize the local social services. "throw-away society"? Operation Oct 20 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Most teenagers do not know what Recycle needs volunteers who can Nov 17 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm services are available or how to go give a few hours of time each month Dec 15 4:00pm to 7:00pm about getting help. APPLES needs to help keep our growing community volunteers to provide help for the recycling center on track. A parent or legal guardian must teen parents as they use the social accompany children and bring service system, and to help them Jobs available include helping with previous immunization records. assess their situations and the a Saturday buyback, loading trucks, services that might be most helping with public relations and A fee of $1.00 is charged for each beneficial to them. assisting with maintenance/con immunization. struction of drop-off sites. For more information contact McLean Training for APPLES volunteers is Give us a call to find out more. scheduled for September 22 and 24. County Health Department 1>51_1·-1161. If you are interested in volunteering Our number is 829-0691. your time, and if you are interested in helping teen parents, please call Cathy at 827-4368 to arrange an interview. You CAN make a difference. ---
Mother Murphy's In Bills killin' ya? Normal Is the · popular han-gout Do you live in public housing and pay too much for your utilities? If you for the deal finder. live in public housing, the housing If you only have a authority is required-to pay you a buck, you can "utility allowance" to help you pay for your utilities, if you have leave with an utility bills in your name. Sometimes album, which Is In this amount is not ne?rly enough to suprlslngly good pay the utility bills; If you are shape end usually paying more for your utilities than very popular · you receive in a utility allowance, curing Its ttme. you may wish to contact Prairie State Legal Services at (309) 827-5021 or 1- 800-874-2436 (toll free). rphy's specialize in used records and also sells The Bloomington-Normal Black silk screens, buttons end other History Project Cordially assorted i+e.m$ Ideal for the Invites You to Attend dorm room. It Is We the People: A Celebration located ot of Black History in Bloomington-Normal 111 112 N. Street. Program and Exhibits Celebrating 152 Years of History - Tim O'Brien Saturday, October 3, 1987 Entertainment Edito 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. ·Wit..DE.S1 Daily Vidette McLean County Historical Society FOA ·-rH£ WIDE.ST 201 East Grove Street SiLEC.TION llNO Bloomington, Illinois L.OW£ST PRJGeS Vol. 16, No. 3 Post Amerikan September-October, Page 15 1987 And Still More Community News Flu shots for elderly The McLean County Health Department Thursday, McLean County Health Dept. Wednesday, Gridley Community Bldg will be offering influenza Sept 24 90 5 N.' Mail St., Normal Oct 7 Gridley, IL vaccinations to senior citizens over 9:00a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 60 years of age at the following locations: Friday, Miller Park Pavilion Sept 25 9:30a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Thursday, McLean County Health Dept Thursday, McLean County Health Dept Oct 8 905 N. Main St., Normal Sept 17 905 N. Main St., Normal Monday, Chenoa American Legion 9:00a.m. - 11:DO a.m, 9:00 a,m. - 11:00 a.m. Sept 28 Hall Chenoa, IL Some senior citizens should consult a Friday, Western Ave. Community 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. physician before being adminj_ster'ed Sept 18 Center influenza vaccine. For example, 600 N. Western Ave. Wednesday, Heyworth Legion Hall those who have a fever or feel ill; Bloomington, IL Sept 30 those who have received another type 12:30 p,m, - 2:00 p,m. Heyworth, IL of vaccine in the past 14 days; those 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. with allergies to eggs; and those Monday, Newman Center Monday, LeRoy Community Building with multiple sclerosis, previous S\"pt 21 501 S. Main St., Normal Oct 5 attacks of Guillain Barre Syndrome 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. LeRoy, IL or other recurring or persistent 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. neurological illnesses. A $1.00 Woodhill Towers Community Wednesday, Tuesday, Lexingtcn St. Paul donation is requested. · Sept 23 Room Oct 6 104 E. Wood, Bloomington Lutheran Church For more information on influenza 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lexington, IL vaccination, contact a physician or 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. the McLean County Health Department. Operation Recycle update "NEXT TIME ... TRY RECYCLING," read the banner which the environmental r~cycling," Operation Recycle Newspapers, container glass, activist group Greenpeace put Wlll be opening a new drop off plastic milk jugs, beverage along the length of the Islip, New location in the parking lot of cans and tin cans should be York, garbage barge. The barge the Western Avenue Community brought to the drop boxes in traveled thousands of miles this Center by late September. Funds groc~ry sacks or (in the case summer looking for a pl2~G to dump from the materials collected at of n<:lwspapers and plastic' jugs) its load of over 3000 tons of t~e drop-off box will go to help tied. baled garbage. flnance community center activities. The Operation Recycle buyback at The barge owners found no one will '1100 W. Market will remain open ing to accept its cargo and Other OR drops-offs are located 6 mornings a week from 9am-noon eventually returned to New York at 1100 W. Market, 501 E. Stewart through the end of October. where, after further delays, the the K-Mart parking lot (in the ' garbage was burned in an inciner back corner across from the auto Operation Recycle is McLean ator. The moral of the story is, motive department) and the Zayre County's only multi-material, "you can't throw anything away, parking lot, all in Bloomington not-for-profit community re because there is no away left and the JSU parking lot at Locu;t cycling center. For more infor on earth." and Main (near the football mation, call 829-0691. bleachers) and Hoos~ School in Operation Recycle is a part of For those who want to "try Normal. Community Acton. or the love of animal~...._ _ ___.. Welcome back, gentle readers, to helpless victim when faced by such this game are classified advertisers alternative press and all it has fiscal frustration. and animal exploiters such as to offer. After the Post summer pit-bull trainers and laboratories. hiatus, I welcome the opportunity Trapping is a very lucrative to speak with you once again on the business. For just a couple of hours Neutering is an investment in your struggle of animal rights advocacy. work per day during trapping season, own future peace. of mind. Your furry a full year's wages can be earned by friend will be more loyal and loving, Many news items have accumulated in anyone with a brace of leg-hold traps and less likely to stray. Mating my file (I seem to have been targeted and access to good semi-natural operas won't disturb your slumber as a soft touch on animal issues). habitat. Did you know that it is Finances won't be strained by the Some have made me smile, or legal to trap within city limits? A veteranary and advertising costs in thoughtful, and then some make me trap could be waiting out there for disposing of unwanted litters. sick inside. I am a squeamish your dog or cat, or child. Traps can soldier in this battle -- I cut out be set on your private rural property And the community burden will be and discard pictures of torture and without your consent. The law sets lightened. The McLean County Animal mutilation. But I cannot so easily limits on how far they must be· from Shelter, a tax-supported entity, excise the memory of these human habitation, but recent housed 2,408 animals in 1985, and atrocities. I am not suggesting that legisla~ion has been introduced to 1,600 of them, nearly 70%, were we remain ignorant of the world's decrease this distance. killed because no one wanted them. evils, but let's pack up those pustules and bandage the gaping lhe full length fox coat you just saw The A.P.L. low-cost spay/neuter wounds, instead of running for the on Wheel of Fortune took the prime program offers people of any income Nikkon. · pelts of 42 foxes •. If 3 times as level a once-a-year opportunity to many "trash animals" were caught to help break this shameless cycle at a A picture may be worth ~000 words, equal ~hat quantity, the old abacus greatly reduced price. but the pen can also paint a vivid shows us that 126 wasted deaths were picture. caused before the quota was filled. A certain faction of veterinarians Nothing is worth that toll in opposes the program on the assumption ************************************ suffering. that all those "bargain" surgeries are draining their co1'fers. :::>lnc e The fall fashion season is once more ·Beautiful people don't wear fur. many of these pets would not have upon us, and trappers everywhe.re are Faux fur offers as much style as the otherwise received attention, this preparing their grisly harvest for real thing, and at not so dear a , assumption can only be faulty, and fur-hungry consumers. Don't kid price. their motives invidious. yourselves; those spiffy raccoon and lynx and beaver duds came from wild ************************************ So, if you feel your pet is worth a creatures who may have endured respite from biological burdens, countless hours of agony in a steel On a more positive note, the Animal contact the A.P.L. Beginning October jaw trap. These are not farmed furs Protection League of Illinois is once 1st and continuing through the month, (just another example of "humane" again sponsoring a low-cost program registration will be taken cruelty), but the product of untold spay/neuter program for dogs and and appointments made. For more suffering. cats. Last year, nearly 250 animals information, call Teddy Johnson at of both species and sexes received 828-5371, Krystal Donovan at But what of the additior.al suffering attention by a local veteranarian, 829-9768, of Ginny Underwood at inflicted on the trappers' "trash" - and in so doing helped stem the 1-527-2627. those victims who are valueless. The burgeoning population of homeless and statistics are staggering. For every neglected strays. Pet ownership is a responsibility, target animal, three non-target and aren't your friends worth it? animals become trap fodder. Dogs, It is cruel negligence to allow your cats, hawks, eagles, all attracted pet to indiscriminately breed with no - RAF to that bait enticement, and totally regard for the consequences. The useless to a trapper. Imagine his product of such couplings creates a with thanks to anger at finding "trash" when he burden to owner, animal shelter and Friends of Animals expects furry treasure. Pity any community alike. The only winners in and the A.P.L. Page 16 Post Amerikan Vol. 16, No. 3 September-October, 1987 The Underground Vegetarian Kiku··A real restaurant comes to B·N
Raw fish. That's right. Raw fish. the center are the tables set up in pickled ginger, and wasabi (hot green That's what they've ~ot. Raw fish. the Western manner (i.e. with chairs) horseradish), and came with almundane By now, you are probably thinking and a Teppan Yaki corner for stir-fry tossed salad (an undignified bow to one of three things: (l) Who cares?, or tempura cooking. (Dead cow flesh American tastes) and excellent miso (2) Oh, gross!, or (J) Tell me more! steaks are also available here.) (bean curd) soup, If you fall into the first category, a pox on your firstborn for bein~ so In the back is a Tatami room--that is, The pressed sushi consisted of rice apathetic; if you fall into the second a traditional Japanese dining room pressed into small squares and topped category, a pox on your secondborn for with low tables, mats for sitting on, with wasabi and raw whitefish, while being such a jerk. If, on the other and movable ricepaper screens for the sashimi included raw tuna, salmon, hand, you fall into the third privacy. (Group reservations only!) cuttlefish, pickled Daikon radish (a category, then you are obviously a On the lefthand side is a Western mild Japanese white radish), and person with a sense of adventure, and style bar and a sushi bar (for the seaweed and was served with pickled a great deal of charm, wit, and adventurous--or the inebriated). ginger (hot!) and soy sauce. sophisticationL In other words, I Feeling both inebriated and adven like you. turous on a recent visit to Kiku's, We also ordered the following from we opted for the sushi bar. the ala carte,menu: California Bloomington/Normal's newest and most rolls (sushi rice, raw crab, avocado, sophisticated (and probably most Ah, the sushi bar. One of life's and wasabi rolled up in toasted sea expensive) restaurant is a pleasant little pleasures, it ranks up there weed sheets), cucumber rolls (rice~ change of pace from the run-of-the with playing snugglebunnies with cucumber slices, wasabi rolled in mill schlock this town has had to put your own special someone at three seaweed), and raw shrimp sushi (rice, up with for years. If Grand Cafe is in the morning. While you probably shrimp, wasabi). (Note for the faint considered by many to be the best can't play snugglebunnies at the of heart: fish can be either cooked restaurant in town (witness recent sushi bar, you ~get great sushi or. omitted entirely, although the chef letters to the Pantagraph), then or sashimi. For the uninitiated, may blacklist you, and for those who "Kiku--The Japanese Restaurant" may sushi is not (I repeat, not) raw just can't seem to master the art of just be the culinary Nirvana central fish. Rather, sushi is a Japanese using chopsticks, forks are available.) Illinois vegetarians have so badly word that refers to preparing rice been needing. In a town where lard, with a sugar/rice wine vinegar For those on a budget, be forewarned: dead cow flesh, and MSG reign supreme, dressing that gives the rice a special a la carte selections will cost you the simplicity and subtle flavoring mild tartness and crispness. The $1.25 to $2 for each piece of sushi. of authentic Japanese cuisine will rice is then prepared in a number of No one ever said sushi was cheap, but come as quite a surprise. (No different ways, often being rolled up considering that Kiku's imported a processed glop here, folks.) in seaweed (Nori rolls) or with raw chef from Japan specially for the fish cutlets. sushi bar, it's not such a bad deal. For those of you who have not yet As an aperitif, a Japanese Sapporo or had the pleasure of trying Kiku's, Sashimi refers to different types of Suntory oeer ls recommended, with hot or may be unfamiliar with the raw seafood prepared with pickled sake (rice wine) accompanying the meal. restaurant, it just opened in August vegetables. There are two menus- (Note: sake is potent!) on the northeast side of College Hills an entree menu and an a la carte Mall~-behind Rocky Rococo's and next menu, which shows pictorially each When you combine raw fish prepared to to Bennigan's. As the restaurant can type of sushi or sashimi available. perfection, vegetarian a la carte get crowded, reservations are (For those who read Japanese, selections, mind-altering alcoholic definitely recommended. there is also a menu entirely in Japanese.) beve:ages, pleasant companionship, and ~xotlc.atmosphere, you've got all the Upon entering, the visitor is greeted We chose seafood on a bed of sushi lngredlents for.a festive evening. by waitresses dressed in traditional rice, pressed whitefish sushi, and Kiku's offers all that and much more. kimonos; a Japanese rock garden and sashimi in a wooden bowl, (Price of And to hell with the cost. After all moon bridge provide the setting. On all entrees: $7 to $15, roughly,) you only live once. ' the righthand side is the register, The seafood over rice included raw Peace! where a waitress will greet you; in tuna, cuttlefish, shrimp, smoked eel, --Artie Choke Next issue: Dead Lobster
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