The Gainesville Iguana May/June 2012 Vol. 26, Issue 5/6

More than 6,000 tombstones lined the Elections Matter! north and south sides By Joe Courter of 8th Avenue near West Side Park during Dr. Martin L. King Jr. said in his Memorial Mile 2011 . “Remaining Awake Through a Great This year's display Revolution,” “One of the great honoring veterans liabilities of life is that all too many killed in Iraq and people find themselves living amid a Afghanistan will be great period of social change and yet set up from May 26 they fail to develop the new attitudes, through Memorial Day . the new mental responses that the Photo courtesy of new situation demands. They end up Gainesville Veterans sleeping through a revolution.” for Peace . Suppressing voter turnout is but the mirror image to ballot box stuffing, Memorial Mile: More than just a number same effect. Unfairly drawn districts, By Jessica Newman, Associate Member, Gainesville Veterans for Peace negative advertising powered by huge corporate donations, an election “6,402 Americans dead in Iraq and Afghanistan,” reads a headline. But few of campaign process that keeps many us reading the news have any concept of what that number actually means. It great potential public servants from is an arbitrary figure that is supposed to inform us, but really just misleads us. running, a news media focused on the 6,402 seems pretty low compared to the number of American deaths in past shallow and sensational, and a right- wars like Vietnam, Korea and World War II. It’d be easy to discount those wing talk radio industry all work to deaths if your understanding never went beyond the facts and figures. increase cynicism. These are forces This is why Gainesville Veterans for Peace will be displaying more than that put us to sleep. People died to get 6,400 tombstones from dawn on May 26 through dusk on Memorial Day on the right to vote, and now we have Eighth Avenue just east of 34th Street as part of their Memorial Day Weekend a majority of voters sitting on their event to remember those who have died in the wars in Afghanistan since 2001 See ELECTION p. 2 and in Iraq since 2003. Memorial Mile will line the street along Eighth Avenue just east of 34th INSIDE ... Street, where the Solar System Walk is located. This is the sixth year VFP Directory...... 10-11 has set up the display, and it is the fourth time that the tombstones will have Calendar...... 12-13 to line both the north and south sides of Eighth Avenue due to the increased number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr . Econ ...... 14 Oral History Program ...... 19 The visual impact of the tombstones conveys the reality of these numbers. Radio Programming ...... 20 Last year Memorial Mile was made up of more than 6,000 tombstones. This year more than 400 will be added, each one representing an American service Civic Media Center Events. . . . . 21 See MEMORIAL MILE p. 2 ELECTION from p. 1 hands come election day. It is not a healthy situation. Has Obama been a disappointment? Heck yeah. But do we give the steering wheel back to the ones who drove us into the ditch last time? Hell no! Three words: The Supreme Court. This is not a time to stay home to “send a message,” we did that in 2010; it wasn’t that the Rs came out big, it was the Ds who stayed home. I’ll take a disappointment over a disaster. But there are other reasons to vote, and that is the power of the vote locally needs to be ready to counter the attempted Republican takeover of the Alachua County Commission. Letter to the Editor The voting in the primaries takes place August 14. Good Greetings!!! The Iguana strongly endorses Byerly, Hutchinson and Iguana, Chestnut for the County Commission, and Wheeler for the District 20 State House seat, who faces a tough I’m writing to you from the lovely, if cramped, quarters Primary race. You can find links to the candidates’ info of a 7-by-9 feet cell at Florida State Prison. The reason through the Supervisor of Elections website. I’m writing to you is I think – and for what it’s worth, it (to think) is NOT something I’ve ever been paid to do – I If you’ve got the time or resources, plug in in any way you might have a sympathetic ear and powerful voice in you! can; there are a lot of really good folks in this town who participate in the electoral campaign process regularly. And As you likely know, “rehabilitation” is no longer a if you are a student, or a temporary resident, there’s been core objective in the criminal justice system. With the talk of suppressing your vote by some in the Republican elimination of resources for this erstwhile core objective, legislature. You are representing the future waves of many imprisoned citizens leave prisons in fundamentally students, get registered and vote! D the same state they came in. As a consequence, soon after release a significant percentage MEMORIAL MILE from p. 1 resort to their old tricks resulting in their re-incarceration – or worst. While the thoughtless among us may be indifferent, member whose life was lost. crime does NOT occur in a vacuum, which means greater Each tombstone will include the soldier’s name, date of society has a stake … death, age, branch of service, rank and hometown. They Having said that, I recognize the resources that have will be arranged by date of death. been cut from this previous core objective will NOT be Soldiers with local ties will have American flags placed restored. Nevertheless, the "rehabilitative" environment on their tombstones so that they may be located more of the Florida Dept. of Corrections prison system could easily. Veterans for Peace will have a list available on be more conducive to personal development if there were site at an information table to direct the public to specific greater incentivization for educational attainment. tombstones. Last year, people came to the Memorial Right now, there are NO awards (i.e., reductions in prison Mile to place flowers and other expressions of love at the sentences) for an imprisoned citizen who earns a college de- tombstones. gree through SELF-FINANCED correspondence courses; Parking will be available at nearby West Side Park. D therefore, many do not invest the time and money to this endeavor. This fact is unfortunate for both such an imprisoned citizen and society in general. What would change this dynamic, I think, is conferring awards for those who earn college degrees: 1/4 reduction in a prison sentence for an associate degree, 1/3 for a bachelor's degree, 1/2 for a master's degree, and 2/3 for a doctorate degree. With a change of this magnitude, far more imprisoned citizens would leave prisons not only with the title "ex- con," but also "college graduate." Sincerely, Jerry N. Alfred D

page 2, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida From the publisher ... Subscribe! If you don’t know, you can’t care The Gainesville Iguana ’m an admitted media junkie and proba- is Gainesville's progressive bly wouldn’t be in the position of writing events calendar & newsletter . this if I wasn’t. But for me it goes beyond Individuals: $15 Ijust trying to keep myself informed; I strong- (or more if you can) ly believe in giving other people the tools to Low/No income: What you can be more informed, too. Groups: $20 Back in 1977, UF Anthropology professor Iguana, c/o CISPLA Dr. MJ Hardman drafted me into writing P .O . Box 14712 the monthly meeting announcement for the Gainesville, FL 32604 Humanist Society of Gainesville. That grew into a newsletter of sorts and was then rolled Comments, suggestions, contributions into the founding of this publication in 1986. (written or financial) are welcome. To list your event or group, contact us at: The early ‘90s saw the initial meetings that led to the founding of the Civic (352) 378-5655 Media Center in 1993, and I was there, too, serving as its first coordinator, and still today am heavily involved as an active volunteer and Board member. GainesvilleIguana@cox .net www .gainesvilleiguana .org I jotted a quote from a speaker I heard on NPR last month on a piece of scrap facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana paper I keep handy in my vehicle, which I found a couple days ago. I did not note who said it, as I was driving at the time, but I thought it captured The Iguana has been published something very basic to me and my efforts with both the Iguana and the CMC monthly or bimonthly by volunteers (two separate entities that share me, I remind you all). It was just seven words for 25 years . Circulation for this but it captured the heart of my motivation: “If you don’t know, you can’t care.” issue is 4,500 . We live in an information revolution of astounding proportions, and the Publisher: responsibility is on each of us to pick from that vast menu the stuff we choose Joe Courter to put in our heads, the stuff that will shape our worldview and our interactions with the world. We still only have a limited amount of time to take in what we Editors Emeritus: do, and the temptation to choose, shall we say, empty calories is great. Our Jenny Brown mainstream culture spews a frightening array of crap at us that we internalize, Mark Piotrowski as a number of surveys amply demonstrate. Editorial Board: This severely affects our role as informed citizens in the process of our Pierce Butler participatory democracy. Especially now, with our political process so corrupted Joe Courter by corporate power, more and more people are looking to escape the bad news, Beth Grobman and get sucked into all kinds of readily proffered distractions. Jessica Newman Folksinger Roy Zimmerman has a new song out which really resonated with Production work & assistance: me (find him on YouTube). Called “Hope, Struggle and Change,” in its very Amanda Adams clever Roy way, it addresses how in 2008 we left out that middle word which is Karrie Lyons-Munkittrick at the heart of how the process of making the world a better place happens. We need to know our history, recognize our rights and responsibilities as citizens, Joye Barnes and do our bit. Jason Fults James Schmidt The powers-that-be are happy to have us distracted, to not pay attention or Robbie Czopek know what’s going on, because there are a lot of us, and if we all started to care, they might not be able to just roll us over. Distribution: Bill Gilbert, Joe Courter, - Joe Courter Marcus Dodd P.S. - Subscriptions or donations are necessary for the Iguana to continue; please Authors & photographers have sole credit, show your support if you possibly can. We all really appreciate your support. responsibility for, and rights to their work . Cover drawing of iguana by Daryl Har- Mail checks payable to the Iguana to P.O. Box 14712, Gainesville, Fla., 32604, rison . Printed on recycled paper . or visit the “About” page on our website at gainesvilleiguana.org for more information. D www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 3 Why are we still in "Vietghanistan?" By Scott Camil, Special to CNN In late April, Gainesville Veterans for Peace president Scott Camil was contact by CNN for a response to the repeated cases of U S. . soldiers disrespecting the bodies of enemy dead, and following a taped segment with his comment, they asked him to write something for their “Opinions” blog . In the article, he refers to the process of dehumanizing the enemy and the way anyone who resembles the enemy becomes the enemy in the presence of such a wide cultural gap, if only as a reaction for self-preservation . The “rules of engagement” become second- ary to staying alive and keeping your fellow soldiers alive . Scott wrote: Re-Opened! “If we are going to talk about rules of war, it doesn’t make sense to start with the soldiers and Marines who have been put into that situation... Instead, if we’re going to talk about rules of war, we have to start with the powerful people who chose to “D’s”Remember Tee’s Your and Ancestors Ting’s put those soldiers there. The No.1 war crime is starting a war, because all other war crimes emanate from that first crime. Specializing in Afrikan & Caribbean Items “I have not been to Afghanistan, but there are some evident similarities between the war there and the war in Vietnam. BOB MARLEY TEES – AFRIKAN TEES – SARONGS MUDCLOTH – ARTWORK – POSTERS – ETHINIC BELTS Call it Vietghanistan. Both are wars of occupation. 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page 4, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida Selling media to the highest bidder A look at the face, power and money behind the sale of the Gainesville Sun By Emilio Bruna and Jack Price Dillard’s Hunt Transportation and Alltel. But their reach It seemed odd that, at the time of the holiday season extends beyond the Razorback state to the rest of the U.S. announcement, no one around here knew much about the “Witt” Stephens obscure Daytona Beach firm, Halifax Media Holdings, Witt Stephens was born on Sept. 14, 1907, in Prattsville, LLC, that purchased the Gainesville Sun and 15 other Arkansas, the second of six children. His father, A.J. papers (including the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the “Jack” Stephens, was a farmer and politician who served Lakeland Ledger) from the New York Times. two terms in the state House of Representatives from The face, power and money behind the Halifax Media Grant County, as would Witt 30 years later. Around age Group is arch conservative Arkansas billionaire, Warren 20, Witt begin selling belt buckles and other jewelry for Stephens, who, along with his brother and other family the National Crafts Company along with peddling Bibles members, is believed to be worth up to $5 billion. And, on the side. An “extraordinary salesman,” he soon became as is the case with many “humble beginnings to extreme regional manager for the company. riches” stories in two generations, the family’s path to great wealth is littered with questionable actions, close Witt returned to Arkansas about five years later and set up calls and hardball politics. a partnership with W. H. Thurmond in Little Rock trading A recent example: when Halifax bought these newspapers municipal bonds. Arkansas highway and road bonds, as well for $143 million, employees were given a “noncompete” as school, levee and other improvement district bonds were agreement to sign, stating they could not work within in default during the Great Depression and were selling for the following two years for other media companies that as little as 10 cents on the dollar. Witt was confident that were in a city with a another Halifax owned business. Yet, Franklin Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation Halifax retained the right to fire them. Employees who would ensure that government bonds were redeemed, so he didn’t sign were told they would lose their jobs. (Halifax invested in them. His intuition paid off when he sold the dropped this requirement after the Poynter Institute and bonds at a profit, accumulating a small fortune during one others questioned the legal and ethical ramifications.) of the worst financial times in modern history. Ironically, the righteous decisions of the most liberal President of the Another example: In Tampa, about 30 of former New York United States assured the financial foundation for the right Times Regional Media Group employees were laid off by wing and conservative Stephens family. Halifax, and given a severance only if they wouldn’t talk to the media about package details and would not make Witt expanded the investment business and acquired “disparaging” remarks about the company. major holdings in the gas and coal industries, railroads and Family History gold mining while personally, along with family members, Warren Stevens’ uncle, W.R. “Witt” Stevens, founded The acquiring an interest in many small banks around the state, Stephens Group in 1933. His father, Jackson T. “Jack” making it easier to market bonds and extend his influence. Stephens joined the firm in 1946. Jack served as CEO In 1956, Witt became president and chairman of the board of until 1986, the year his son Warren took over the family Arkla, leaving the investment company in the hands of his investment banking and brokerage business, which still brother, Jackson T. Stephens. After Witt’s retirement from constitutes the bulk of their wealth. Arkla, he returned to Stephens Inc. where he dabbled in bond In 2006, one year after Jack’s death, the family business trading and hosted locally famous “cornbread lunches,” at was split (as reported by arkansasbusiness.com). Warren which former political and business adversaries, journalists bought 100 percent of Stephens Inc. from the holding and judges shed their old grudges and swapped stories of company, the Stephens Group. election hijinks and crafty business deals. His cousins, Witt Stephens, Jr. and Elizabeth Stephens Campbell, bought the Stephens Group Inc. name and “Jack” Stephens formed a new entity to pursue private equity investments. Jackson T. “Jack” Stephens, Witt’s younger brother, was The families remain 50-50 partners in the holding born on August 9, 1923, in Prattsville. Jack attended company, now renamed SH Corp. The family tradition of Prattsville’s public schools and graduated from high school owning a multitude of corporate entities and employing at Columbia Military Academy in Tennessee. He began layers of active and shell companies makes it difficult to college at the University of Arkansas and later received find out the extent of their economic empire. an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in The Stephens family’s influence in Arkansas in business, 1947. One of Jack’s classmates at the Naval Academy was finance and politics cannot be overstated. The Stephens Group future president Jimmy Carter, who would receive strong managed the IPO for Sam Walton’s WalMart retail empire in support from Jack in later campaigns. Poor eyesight kept 1970. They were early investors and advisors for Tyson Foods, See HALIFAX p. 8 www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 5 Home Van needs water LOW COST PET VACCINATION With the heat of summer setting in, the Home Van is AND VETERINARY CLINIC seeking donations of bottled water. An alternative to high-priced animal hospitals The Home Van is a mobile soup kitchen and free store that goes out to homeless areas around downtown Gainesville twice a week and also helps out with Community individual crises going on in the homeless community between the two visits every week. VeterinarY In addition to the seasonal water shortage, the Home Van needs tents, tarps, bug spray, Vienna sausages, SERViCES creamy peanut butter, jelly, candles, white tube socks, every Sunday at the batteries and games. 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page 6, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida CISE study-in In late April, the University of Florida administration proposed drastic budget cuts - $36 5. million total - to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department (CISE), causing a wave of resistance (like the study-in in the photograph above) that brought the issue into the national spotlight . Students, faculty and others opposed to the budget cuts, which come from the Florida Legislature and are non- negotiable, called on UF to spend part of its $67 million available in reserves to solve the budget cut problem; as of press time, UF President Bernie Machen said the administration would consider using the reserves . Photo by Amanda Adams .

www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 7 HALIFAX from p. 4 actions, political brouhaha, govern- States. By conservative estimates, he Jack from active duty in the Navy, but ment scrutiny and public scorn. is worth $2.8 billion, perhaps more. his brother offered him a job at what And, unlike the philanthropic view of would later become Stephens Inc., Warren Stevens many of the ultra-rich, his father be- bringing Jack back to Arkansas. Jack’s son, Warren, 54, took over Ste- lieved in leaving most of his fortune to his children saying, “I’d rather give Jack helped build the company into phens Inc., and Jack became chair- my money to my kids than do any- a diversified financial conglomer- man of Stephens Group Inc. Warren thing else with it.” ate, partnering with his brother to Stephens, who received a bachelor’s buy what would become Arkansas degree from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Business Warren’s good fortune prompted Oklahoma Gas Co. and the oil and him to state, “I feel I’ve got to make gas exploration firm that became Administration from Wake Forest University, joined Stephens, Inc. in my mark equal or better than my fa- Stephens Production. A 1990 feature ther,” and he has. in Fortune magazine told of how the 1981. In 1986, when Stephens Group Inc. was formed and became the par- two brothers had “built their family Jackson Stephens, Jr. business from a bucket-shop bond ent company of Stephens Inc., War- house into a full-fledged investment ren became its president after his fa- Jackson T. Stephens, Jr., Warren’s bank with $650 million in capital ther Jack stepped down as CEO. brother, worked for his father’s busi- ness, Stephens, Inc., from 1973 to 1983 at its disposal, enough to rank it In 2006, Warren acquired 100 per- 13th among U.S. firms.” in its investment and merchant banking cent of the outstanding shares. He areas. He is now the Director and Chair also owns major stakes in Oklahoma Jack also invested in a number of at Club for Growth, an ultra-conserva- Gas & Electric, Donrey Media Group tive political organization that supports community banks in the state, cul- (now Stephens Media Group), Alltel, minating in the purchase of Little right wing and Tea Party candidates for Bank of America and others. As a Re- public office. He is also the Chairman Rock’s Worthen Bank, later sold to publican, he supported Bob Dole in what is now Bank of America. His and CEO of ExOxEmis, Inc., a private 1996, Steve Forbes in 1999, and he biotechnology firm. He has supported private investments were spectacu- has supported Mike Huckabee. He larly successful, three of which gen- Tea Party extremists Jim DeMint, Mar- has been critical of Presidents Bill co Rubio and Sharron Angle. Unlike his erated more than $1 billion each in Clinton and Barack Obama. profits: Stephens Production Compa- brother, he had a long and adversarial relationship with former presidential ny, Systematics, and Donrey Media. As of September 2011, Warren was contender Mike Huckabee. Some of these banking and industrial the 459th richest person in the world, investments were the subject of legal and the 130th richest in the United The Stephens’ Business Empire These four family members are the principal architects of a business em- WGOT 94.7 LP FM pire that has grown to the top ranks Gainesville's Progressive Community Radio Station in terms of wealth and power, while WGOT is on the air: staying under the public radar. Their Sunday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. high level of success and power are Mon, Wed, Fri: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. - 5 a.m. indisputable. With so many different Tuesday and Thursday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. company entities in the Stephens fam- Saturday: 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. ily, keeping up with them and their ac- tivities is no simple task. The owner- Check out wgot.org for upcoming events and a detailed schedule. ship is not shared equally among all WGOT-LP is now streaming using Shoutcast. We are currently only family members in all the industries streaming during our on-air schedule but are considering coming up served, and a small number of minor- with an off-air schedule to extend our reach. You can find the WGOT ity owners exist, whose permanence stream under the Shoutcast directory. To listen from your iOS, Android, as “partners” is predicated on their or Blackberry mobile device, you can use any radio streaming apps such loyalty and submission to the wishes as Tune In. We are now listed in iTunes Radio under the Eclectic category. Direct feed at www. of the Stephens clan. wgot.org/listen/. 94.7 is a Low Power FM station with a transmitter at NW 39th Ave and I-75, so best reception is within 5 miles, but many people are able to pick up the station in their car. Even before the purchase of the 16 Questions? Comments? E-mail us at [email protected]. newspapers from the New York Times Co., Warren Stephens, through his ownership of Stephens Media, claimed Democracy NOW! airs a substantial presence in media, own- Mon.-Fri. 1p.m. & Mon.-Thur. 8p.m. ing newspapers, book publishing hous-

page 8, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida es, news bureaus, trade magazines and digital ventures. Ste- violations, as filed in U.S. District Court by the then Attorney phens Media publishes newspapers in Arkansas, Hawaii, General of Hawaii. Charges were dropped after a settlement Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ten- agreement was reached in 2000, allowing for the sale of the nessee, Texas and Washington. Some of the properties are Star-Bulletin to Gannett. According to the Wall Street Jour- sizeable and influential in their markets, such as the Las nal, Halifax “is shopping for more newspapers.” Vegas Review-Journal, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and the Ames Tribune. Today, the total stands at 98 publications. Upcoming at the Sun? There have been no major layoffs at the Gainesville Sun. Halifax Media Group Yet. The Executive Editor retired, and his position was filled Halifax Media Group was formed in 2010 from four entities: internally. There have been subtle conservative editorial de- Stephens Capital Partners of Little Rock, JAARSSS Media, cisions, such as excluding the Doonesbury comics referring LLC of Miramar Beach, Fla. and Redding Investments of to abortion, and some important stories have been buried in Daytona Beach. Its first acquisition was the purchase of the the inner pages, but so far no major signs of change in the Daytona Beach News-Journal for $20 million. (The paper, editorial views of the newspaper have appeared. Only time at one time, had been estimated to be worth $300 million.) will tell, perhaps with the upcoming electoral season. D Michael Redding, former Classifieds Department Manager of the News-Journal, was named CEO of Halifax Media.

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Get in ment; www.facebook.com/ufamnesty or of each month at 7: p.m. in the second floor touch if you’d like to help. gainesville- [email protected]. auditorium of the County Administration [email protected]. www.facebook.com/#!/ Building at SE 1st St. and University Ave. groups/143660782367621/ Bridges Across Borders Florida-based Office is at 901 NW 8th Ave., 352-373- international collaboration of activists, art- 1730, AlachuaCountyDemocraticParty.org Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for ists, students and educators supporting cul- Immigrant Justice (IAIJ) meets tural diversity and global peace. office@ Edible Plant Project Local collective biweekly to discuss relevant immigration bridgesacrossborders.org, 352-485-2594, to create a revolution through edible and issues and ways to bring political food-producing plants. 561-236-2262 education to the community through Citizens Climate Lobby (Gainesville www.EdiblePlantProject.org. workshops, presentations, advocacy and Chapter) provides educaiton and activist action. [email protected] or opportunities to bring abou a stable climate. Families Against Mandatory Mini- www.gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com Meetings are the first Saturday of each mums Work to reform Florida's sentenc- montgh at 12:30, usually at the downtown ing laws and restore fairness to Florida's Gainesville Women’s Liberation The library's Foundation Room. 352-672- criminal justice system. PO Box 142933, first women’s liberation group in the 4327, www.citizensclimatelobby.org, Gainesville, FL 32614, gnewburn@famm. South, formed in 1968, the organization is [email protected] org. 352-682-2542 now part of National Women’s Liberation. WomensLiberation.org Civic Media Center Alternative read- The Fine Print An independent, critically ing room and library of the non-corporate thinking outlet for political, social and arts Graduate Assistants United Union that press, and a resource and space for orga- coverage through local, in-depth report- represents all UF grad assistants by fight- nizing. 352-373-0010, www.civicmedia- ing specifically for Gainesville’s students. ing for improved working conditions, center.org. www.thefineprintuf.org. community involvement and academic freedom. 352-575-0366, officers@ufgau. The Coalition of Hispanics Integrating Florida School of Traditional Midwifery org, www.ufgau.org Spanish Speakers through Advocacy A clearinghouse for information, activities and Service (CHISPAS) Student-run and educational programs. 352-338-0766 Green Party Part of worldwide move- group at UF. www.chispasuf.org www.midwiferyschool.org ment built out of four different interre-

page 10, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida lated social pillars, which support its poli- MindFreedom North Florida Human Sister City Program of Gainesville. tics: the peace, civil rights, environmental rights group for psychiatric survivors and Links Gainesville with sister cities in and labor movements. www.Gainesvil- mental health consumers. 352-328-2511. Russia, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, and leGreens.webs.com Haiti. Meets the first Tuesday of every National Alliance on Mental Illness month at 7:30 p.m. at the Mennonite Grow Radio Non-profit company that will (NAMI) Support, education and advocacy Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Ave- provide the opportunity for community for families and loved ones of persons with nue (across from Gainesville HS). For members to create and manage unique, mental illness/brain disorders. 374-5600. more information, see: http://www.gn- engaging, educational, locally-generated ext. 8322; www.namigainesville.org. vsistercities.org. programming to promote fine, musical and visual arts and humanities for the enrich- National Lawyers Guild Lawyers, law Student/Farmworker Alliance A ment of, but not limited to, the Gainesville students, legal workers and jailhouse network of youth organizing with community. growradio.org. lawyers using the law to advance social farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop justice and support progressive social conditions and modern-day slavery Harvest of Hope Foundation Non-profit movements. [email protected] in the fields. More info on Facebook, organization that provides emergency and or www.nlg.org search “Gainesville Student/Farm- educational financial aid to migrant farm worker Alliance.” workers around the country. www.harvest- National Organization for Women ofhope.net or email: [email protected]. Gainesville Area www.gainesvillenow. Students for a Democratic Society org. [email protected] NOW Multi-issue student and youth organization Home Van A mobile soup kitchen that meeting info contact Lisa at 352-450- working to build power in our schools and goes out to homeless areas twice a week 1912. NOW information, contact Laura communities. Meetings are every Monday with food and other necessities of life, de- Bresko 352-332-2528. at 6:30 p.m. in Anderson Hall 32 on the UF livering about 400 meals per week; operat- campus. ed by Citizens for Social Justice. barupa@ Planned Parenthood Clinic Full-ser- atlantic.net or 352-372-4825. vice medical clinic for reproductive and UF Pride Student Union Group of gay, sexual health care needs. Now offering lesbian, bi and straight students & non- Industrial Workers of the World Local free HIV and free pregnancy testing dai- students, faculty and staff. www.grove.ufl. union organizing all workers. Meetings are ly from 9-11 a.m. and 1-4 p.m.. Located edu/~pride. at the Civic Media Center the first Sunday at 914 NW 13th Street. of the month at 7 p.m.. Gainesvilleiww@ United Faculty of Florida Union rep- riseup.net. www. gainesvilleiww.org Pride Community Center of North resents faculty at Univeristy of Flor- Central Florida Resources for the gay/ ida. 392-0274, [email protected], Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Jus- lesbian community, open M-F, 3-7, www.UFF-UF.org. tice Organizing faith communities to work Sat. noon-4 p.m.. Located at 3131 NW together for immigrant justice. Meets 2nd 13th St., Suite 62. 352-377-8915, www. The United Nations Association, Gaines- and 4th Sundays at 6 p.m. at La Casita GainesvillePride.org. ville Florida Chapter. Our purpose is to 1504 W. University Ave. (across from Li- heighten citizen awareness and knowledge brary) [email protected]; 352- Protect Gainesville Citizens Group of global problems and the United Nations 215-4255 or 352-377-6577 whose mission is to provide Gainesville efforts to deal with those issues. www.afn. residents with accurate and comprehen- org/~una-usa/. International Socialist Organization sible information about the Cabot/Kop- Organization committed to building a left pers Superfund site. 352-354-2432, www. Veterans for Peace Anti-war organization alternative to a world of war, racism and protectgainesville.org. that works to raise awareness of the detri- poverty. Meetings are every Thurs. at the ments of militarism and war as well as to UF classroom building at 105 NW 16th St. River Phoenix Center for Peacebuild- seek alternatives that are peaceful and ef- at 7 p.m.. [email protected] ing provides innovative ways to resolve fective. Meetings are the first Wednesday conflict in Gainesville and provides of every month at 7 p.m.. 352-375-2563, Kindred Sisters Lesbian/feminist mag- serives like mediation, communication www.afn.org/~vetpeace/. azine. PO Box 141674, Gainesville, FL skill building and restorative justice. 32614. [email protected], www. cemterforpeacebuilding.org. 2603 Wayward Council is a not-for-profit, vol- www.kindredsisters.org. NW 13th St. #333, 352-234-6595 unteer- and collectively run record store, all-ages show space, infoshop, and com- Long-Term Care Ombudsman Pro- Queer Activist Coalition Politically munity center. Volunteer meetings are ev- gram needs volunteers to join its corps motivated activist group at UF fighting ery Sunday at 6 p.m. All are welcome to of advocates who protect the rights of for full civil and social equality for the attend. 807 W. University Ave. 352-335- elders in nursing homes, assisted living LGBTQ community. queeractivistcoali- 0800. [email protected]. www. facilities and adult family care homes. [email protected]. facebook.com/#!/groups/55568725618/ Special training and certification is pro- vided. Interested individuals should call Sierra Club Meets the first Thursday of WGOT 94.7 LP-FM Community low- toll-free (888) 831-0404 or visit the pro- every month at 7:30 p.m. at the UF En- power station operating as part of the Civ- gram’s Web site at http://ombudsman. tomology & Nematology Building, Room ic Media Center. [email protected], myflorida.com. 1035. 352-528-3751, www.ssjsierra.org www.wgot.org. www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 11 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Domingo Lunes Martes Miercoles Jueves Viernes Sabado Radio Notes: On page 20 within this Iguana you will Alachua County ! !Free confidential walk-in CMC Volunteers meet Mick Marino & the Nasty IWW Organizer Training, Comm spec. mtg, 10 am every Thursday, 5:30 pm. Habits (Rolling Stones tribute) CMC, 10 am–6 pm. find program listings or links to WUFT, WGOT, and –15 16 HIV testing at Alachua 17 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 18 19 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Grow Radio, our local non-corporate stations. Both ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– County Health Dept, 224 SE 24th Internat’l Socialist Org. meets at Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza, 8 pm, Blueberry Festival in Island Grove, 9 County Farmers’ Mkt on free. See ad, pg 9. WGOT and Grow radio are streamed on the internet, St, 9 am–3 pm, M-F; & at Pride Thursdays, 7 pm, 105 NW 16th St. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– am–4 pm: www.crosscreekfestival.com. N 441 by Hwy Patrol Tues/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ctr, 3131 NW 13th St, 4–6 pm on but with luck may emerge into over-the-air broad- Thurs/Sat, 8 am–noon. Greens meet, CMC, 7 pm. Hamlet and the Prince Formerly Food Not Bombs makes free vegan/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1st & 3rd Thurs; info: 334-7961. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– cast. WGOT is a shared over-the-air signal with two –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Known as Hamlet (final weekend) at Anti-war sign-holding on Icarus Project meets, CMC, 7 pm vegetarian meals Saturdays: prep starts churches, so it is not always on. WUFT-FM is, of Downtown Farmers’ Market –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Acrosstown Rep Theatre. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 11 am: [email protected]. break until late August. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– course, our NPR affiliate. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Open Poetry every Thursday at every Wed, Dtown Plaza, 4-7 pm; ! Dolphin Boy at Hippodrome Cinema - Hutch county comm. campaign meet & On the music side of things, those on the east side or The Invisible War doc on rape Edible Plant Project, 2nd Weds. CMC, 9 pm: Gvl’s longest-running check thehipp.org for show times. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– greet, with Brenda Bayne Trio, hosted with antennas might appreciate the music on Jackson- in US military at Hipp Cinema, Anarchademics, CMC, 7 pm. poetry jam, open to all; informal & ville’s public radio station at 89.9 FM, ranging from 6:30 pm, $7.50; cosponsored welcoming to both readers & by Wise Women for Growth: The Doris, 716 N. Main St, 7 pm; see ad, pg 17. acoustic to electronic, jazz and blues, in an eclectic and by Vets for Peace, Gvl Area listeners. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Mayo–Junio pleasant mix in the evenings and night. NOW, & Nat’l Women’s Lib. Jimmy Schmidt & Andrea Costello –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1717: Voltaire 1st imprisoned LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY RADIO! Bahrain: Shouting in the in Bastille. 1875: 1st Kentucky Derby run. 1048: Omar Khayyam born. Send-off (good luck in DC!), Civic For more event details and irregularly updated calendar entries, Dark, CMC, 7 pm. 1912: Studs Terkel born. 1954: Supreme Court decides 1872: Bertrand Russell born. Media Ctr, 433 S. Main St, 7:30 pm. see www.gainesvilleiguana.org/calendar. NAKBA DAY 1979: A. Philip Randolph dies. Brown vs. Board of Education. 1895: Augusto Sandino born. IWW Organizer Training Occupy Gainesville Day 223 - Alachua County General Assembly to CMC Volunteers meet, Critical Mass Bike Ride, Vets for Peace Memorial Mile CMC, 11 am–5 pm. check out their web site for Comm meets, 2nd & Save UF! rally at Plaza of 5:30 pm. 5:30 pm, UF Plaza of Americas. setup begins ~1 am; see pg 1. 20 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 21 22 23 24 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 25 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 26 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ongoing activities, support & reports 4th Tues, 9 am & 5 pm, Americas, noon. Humanists potluck picnic, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Essential Afrikan History work- Feminist Friday Happy Hour, NW Interfaith Readings, Mennonite Mtg Boulware Springs Park, 11:30 am. at OccupyGainesville.org, and thanks County Admin Bldg; citizens’ Stonewall Democrats, 901 NW shop # 9 at CMC, 7 pm. Grill, 5115 NW 39th Ave, 6:30 pm. House, 1236 NW 18th Ave, 2nd & 4th –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– to all the Occupiers! comment, 9:30 am & 5:30 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 8th Ave, 6 pm, 4th Weds. Saturdays, 10 am. Moyers & Company on WUFT- –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Open Poetry, CMC, 9 pm. Art Walk Downtown; many galleries –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TV, Sundays, 1 pm. Ballad of Joe Hill, CMC, 7 pm. Alachua County Labor Gvl Rootstriker Community & venues participate; 7–10 pm, last Florida Folk Festival, White Springs –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Party meets: 6:30 pm, 618 (new org working to get money Friday of each month. Fri–Sun - see floridafolkfestival.com. Fla Coalition for Peace & 1881: Clara Barton founds American NW 13th Ave; info, 375-2832. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Justice weekly potluck & Red Cross. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– out of politics) meeting at CMC, 1883: Brooklyn Bridge opens Gay Movie Night last Fridays, $2, Green Party Concert & Dinner, ecovillage tour, 4 pm: fcpj.org. 1916: 1st Daylight Savings Time “Back to the Basics” bus 7 pm. (cost: $16 million). 7:30 pm, Pride Ctr, 3131 NW 13th St. 6 pm, $7; Loga Springs Academy, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– begun as British war measure. tour by Revolution Books, 1921: Sacco & Vanzetti trial opens. 931 NE 16th Ave: see ad, pg 23. Wayward Council volunteer 1956: Bikini Atoll hosts 1st H-bomb CMC, 7 pm. 1941: Robert “Bob Dylan” Patchwork at Dntn Plaza, 8 pm, free. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– meeting 6 pm every Sunday, test. 2008: Bruce Utah Phillips dies. Zimmerman born. TOWEL DAY Lucero at DoubleDown Live, 9 pm. 807 W. University Ave. Food Not Bombs dinner & Wild Words, Wild Iris International Relations: CMC Volunteers meet, Climate Change Lobby meets Vets for Peace Memorial Books, last Tuesdays, Exit: Iraq & Afghanistan; 5:30 pm. at CMC, 12:30 pm. 28 movie (title TBA), CMC, 7 pm. 29 30 31 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– June 1 2 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Mile (NW 8th Ave open mic, 7 pm. CMC, 7 pm. Farm to Family Full Moon Concert 27 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Food Not Bombs Puppet Show Veg 4 Life 1st Saturday potluck, 6:30 between 23rd & 34th Streets). Kent State talk by Clyde Ellis, from Ft Lauderdale, CMC, 8 pm. opens in High Springs; see pg 7 & pm at UU Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– farmtofamilymusic.com . CMC, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– St: 375-7207; $1 + veggie/vegan dish. Open Poetry at CMC, 9 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7 pm. Repurpose Project open house every Gvl Roller Rebels vs Ft Myers Derby 1741: 13 black men burned at Keep up with the CMC at Friday, 6 pm: Satchel says it’s his fa- Girls, Skate Stn, 1311 NW 76th Blvd, stake (& 17 blacks, 4 whites www.civicmediacenter.org vorite new place in Gainesville: 519 S. 7:30 pm; adv tix $8 at Sweet Dreams; hanged) for plotting slave for events created after this Main St, www.repurposeproject.org. revolt in New York City. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– $12 door: gainesvillerollerrebels.com. calendar was printed, and into Little Jake & the Soul Searchers at Bully, Hipp Cinema, 4:30, 6:30, 1778: Voltaire dies. the future (also see pg 15). MEMORIAL DAY 1814: Mikhail Bakunin born. Downtown Plaza, 8 pm, free. 9 & 8:30 pm (runs through Thurs; (352) 378-5655 www.gainesvilleiguana.org Mary Leanna Zamora School Board meets Bully, Hipp Cinema, times vary: thehipp.org). Brownfields Redevelopment Veterans for Peace meet, CMC Volunteers, 5:30 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– celebration/memorial at Fla Workshop, 14565 Main St, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6 pm; 7 pm: call 352-375-2563 6:30 & 8:30 pm (see pg 15). 3 4 5 6 7 Icarus Project, CMC, 7 pm. 8 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Hairball 15 variety show at Villa East, Peace & Justice Coalition, 4-8 pm. Alachua, 8 am–5 pm: more info, www.sbac.edu. for directions. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Transgender Movie Night, 2nd Fri- 301 N. Main St, doors open 7 pm,

Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. Box 14712, Gainesville, FL 32604 Box 14712, Gainesville, FL Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. Sierra Club general meeting, Chloe at Women’s Movie Night, www.nalgep.org. days, 7 pm, Pride Ctr. show 8 pm; $15 (12 adv, from Wild UF Entomology Bldg rm 3118, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5 pm, 1st Sundays, Pride Commu- 1783: Montgolfier Brothers 1935: Harry Crews born. Iris or Pride Ctr). The Gainesville Iguana 1st Thursdays, 7:30 pm. Iration reggae, BD plaza, 8 pm, free. nity Center, 3131 NW 13th St. 1789: US Constitution takes effect. fly first hot-air balloon. 1944: 155,000 Allied troops –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Juneteenth Breakfast, Spring FULL MOON 1968: Robert Kennedy shot. invade France. Open Poetry at CMC, 9 pm. Natalie Riccio at CMC, 9 pm. Hill Baptist Church. If you appreciate this Silky Safaka Lemurs of Alachua County Democratic Exec. Comm. CMC Volunteers, 5:30 pm. Wester Joseph’s Stereo Vudu 16 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Bark-B-Que fundraiser for medical 10 calendar, please consider 11 Madagascar and Madagascar, 12 Comm meets; see 5/22. 13 meets, County Commission 14 Open Poetry, CMC, 9 pm. 15 (rock, ska, etc) at Bo Diddley supporting the Ig with a donation Lemurs & Spies; CMC, 7 pm. mtg room, 2nd Weds, 7 pm. Downtown Plaza, free, 8 pm. service dogs, with live music & food, 1963: Medgar Evers shot. 3251 NE 180 Ave, Williston, FL, &/or subscription: PO Box 14712, Whether here or anywhere: noon–4 pm. Gainesville FL 32604. 1991: 100,000 Madagascans 1964: Nelson Mandela 1966: US Supreme Court 1855: Robert LaFollette born. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– protest government. given life sentence. decides Miranda case. 1928: Ernesto “Che” Guevara born. please support live music! Vegan Dinner benefitting CMC, at

! Deep Green Resistance School Board meets Humanists meet, 7 pm, CMC Volunteers, Fast Lane (R& B/soul/funk), CMC, 6 pm. Workshop, CMC, 3–6 pm 1st & 3rd Tues, 6 pm. Unitarian Fellowship.. Bo Diddley plaza: free, 8 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5:30 pm. 171972: 6 burglars arrested 18 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 19 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 20 21 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 22 in Watergate complex. Environmental documentary TBA, PFLAGs (Parents & Friends Anarchademics, CMC, 7 pm. Green Party meets, CMC, 7 pm. 1812: Napoleon invades Russia. 23 Alternative Radio on FATHER’S DAY CMC, 7 pm. of Lesbians & Gays) meet, SUMMER SOLSTICE 1941: Hitler invades Russia. United Church of Gvl, 7 pm. 30 local airwaves on WGOT-FM Rad Dad: Dispatches from IWW labor film, title TBA, Art Walk Downtown; many JUNETEENTH Stonewall Democrats, 901 CMC 94.7, Saturday afternoons at 4 pm & the Frontiers CMC, 7 pm. NW 8th Ave, 6 pm. Volunteers, galleries & venues participate; 24 25 27 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 28 29 Sundays at 1 pm; best listening in NW of Fatherhood 5:30 pm. 7–10 pm, last Friday of each month. International Relations: State of –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– G’ville or in your car. zine launch, 26 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

May–June the Oceans; CMC, 7 pm. De Lions of Jah reggae, Bo Diddley CMC, 7 pm. IGUANA Deadline for July-Aug issue is 6/25; Doug Clifford Saturdays, 11 pm- write [email protected] or call 378-5655 See www.gainesvillebands.com Plaza, 8 pm, free - see ad, pg 9. midnight; WSKY-97.3; show repeats

for info on live music in G’ville. with events, updates, advertisements & info. 1880: Helen Keller born. Sunday nights 11 pm, WKTK-98.5. wages, and discrimination in wages. if benefits are available, like health insurance, they may require an em- However, each issue has its own ployee contribution or higher contribu- unique and specific additional factors. tion, higher co-pays and deductibles, Since the 1970s, the amount of in- and decreased coverage. Many of the come earned by a middle class family, jobs are not categorized as jobs at all. and what that income can purchase They are contracted out to independent has decreased like no other time in contractors that are not counted as em- U.S. history with the exception of ployees, and therefore not entitled to the Great Depression. From 1970 to “employee benefits.” 2010, the median household income In terms of pay rates not keeping in the U.S. went from about $43,800 pace with increasing prices or wage to $49,500 in constant dollars, an in- erosion, a major reason is the lack crease of just over 13 percent (U.S. What happened to the American of unionized labor and regulatory Bureau of Labor Statistics). Dream of a college education and policies that give employers far more home ownership? What these numbers don’t show, how- power over employees than ever be- ever, is that much of that increase went fore. In the 1960s, the U.S. private - Anonymous Iguana Reader to people at the upper end of the scale. sector workforce had a unionization Hence, folks in the middle either found rate approaching 60 percent. Today Another great question from one of our their real earnings staying constant or that figure is below 10 percent. readers. actually decreasing while incomes for Another factor that has driven down the top 20 percent of households were There is no one reason why the Ameri- wages is discrimination in terms of rising very quickly. can Dream of a college education or equal pay for equal work. The courts home ownership is beyond the grasp At the same time, the consumer price have been loath to enforce anti-dis- of middle class U.S. citizens. Instead, index, which measures whether pric- crimination laws. In the case of Lilly a number of factors combined to push es of goods and services are rising or Ledbetter, Ledbetter found out after most Americans out of the market- falling, rose approximately 450 per- many years she was getting paid far place for these two elements of the cent in this period. less than her male counterparts. The ideal middle class life style. U.S. Supreme Court ruled she had no Incomes stagnated for a number of rea- recourse. The court held that if the In general these factors are the drastic sons. What labor market economists company could keep wages secret decrease of primary sector jobs that call “Primary Sector” jobs have been such that workers did not discover the were filled by the middle class, new disappearing. Primary sector jobs are pay discrepancies within 180 days of jobs that not only require major pay jobs that pay a wage comparable to the taking the job, the company could le- cuts, but benefit cuts as well, wage average wage of all Americans, provide gally discriminate. erosion due to prices rising faster than benefits like health insurance, paid va- cations and sick leave, and have some Given that at least 50 percent of the form of pension or retirement plan. workforce are women, their lower Also, these types of jobs have a degree wages prevent them from becoming of mobility, so if you lose a primary sec- homeowners in their own right, or tor job, you can find a similar job at an- being able to sufficiently contribute other company or in another city. income to a family unit so that it can purchase a home. The loss of these jobs can be attributed to many factors. Outsourcing jobs to In short, the middle class has less eco- countries were wages are much low- nomic power with which to purchase er than the U.S., or contracting jobs a home of finance a college education. out to “independent contractors,” is a In the next issue of the Iguana, I’ll major reason. Many older production take a look at the specific factors technologies have become obsolete. that have developed recently, which New technologies and productivity make the American Dream so diffi- improvements have caused there to be cult to obtain. less demand for workers. Newer jobs in the economy are char- Ask Mr . Econ asks readers to submit their acterized by being at lower wages than tough questions about the economy and previous “primary sector jobs” and financial systems to gainesvillleiguana@ also tend to have fewer benefits. And cox net. . D

page 14, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida RIP Beastie Boy Civic Media Center Events - May/June By Joe Courter Every Thursday: Weekly Volunteer Meeting, 5:30 p.m. Artists in our corporate media cul- Poetry Jam, 9 p.m. ture usually keep in their place and Thursday, 5/17: Icarus Project meeting, 7 p.m. don’t step out of line at award shows. Green Party meeting, 7 p.m. There have been notable exceptions Saturday, 5/19: IWW Organizer Training: Day 1, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Andrea Costello and Jimmy Schmidt send off party, 7:30 p.m. such as Barbara Trent and Michael Sunday, 5/20: IWW Organizer Trainiing: Day 2, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Moore at the Oscars. Monday, 5/21: "Joe Hill," docu-drama on the life and work of IWW organizer Joe Hill, 7 p.m. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys Tuesday, 5/22 "Back to the Basics bus tour," Revolution Books, 7 p.m. was another, and thanks to Democ- Wednesday, 5/23: Gainesville Rootstriker Community meeting, 7 p.m. racy Now! on May 7, on the occa- Thursday, 5/24: Essential Afrikan History Workshop #9, 7 p.m. sion of his death at 47 from can- Friday, 5/25: ArtWalk with Billl Perry, Tom Miller and the Bill Perry cer, his 1998 statement at the Video Orchestra, 7-11 p.m. Music Awards was reprised. Monday, 5/28: Food Not Bombs: Dinner and a Movie, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 5/29 Kent State: A talk by Clyde Ellis, 7 p.m. Here’s the transcript from the VMAs; Wednesday, 5/30: International Relations - Exit: Iraq and Afghanistan, 7 p.m. rather prophetic stuff criticizing the Thursday, 5/31: Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs Puppet Show, 8 p.m. climate of racism toward Muslims and Thursday, 6/7: Icarus Project meeting, 7 p.m. Arabs, and the Clinton administra- Friday, 6/8: Music with Natalie Riccio, 9 p.m. tion’s then-recent bombings of Sudan Monday, 6/11: "Silky Safaka Lemurs of Madagascar" and "Madagascar, Lemurs and Afghanistan. & Spies" documentary film screening, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 6/13: Queer Reading Group, 7 p.m. Adam Yauch: “It’s kind of a rare op- Saturday, 6/16: Vegan Fundraiser Dinner, 6 p.m. portunity that one gets to speak to this Monday, 6/18: Deep Green Resistance Workshop, 3-6 p.m., many people at once, so if you guys Wednesday, 6/20: Anarachademics radical theory reading and discussion group, 7 p.m. will forgive me, I just wanted to speak Thursday, 6/21: Icarus Project meeting, 7 p.m. my mind on a couple things. And I Green Party meeting, 7 p.m. think it was a real mistake that the U.S. Saturday, 6/23: Citizens Co-Op Summer Survival Fest chose to fire missiles into the Middle Sunday, 6/24: "Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood" zine East. I think that was a huge mistake, launch event, 7 p.m. and I think that it’s very important that Monday, 6/25: AIWW Labor Film Series, 7 p.m. the United States start to look towards Wednesday, 6/27: International Relations: State of the Oceans, a great discussions nonviolent means of resolving con- event, 7 p.m. flicts, because if we [applause] — hold Friday, 6/29: ArtWalk, 710 p.m. on, hold on, give me one second here — because if we — those bombings 433 S. Main Street that took place in the Middle East were Parking just to the south at SE 5th Ave ., thought of as a retaliation by the ter- (see sign) or after 7 p .m . at the courthouse (just north of 4th Ave .) rorists. And if we thought of what we or GRU (2 blocks east of CMC) did as retaliation, certainly we’re going Check our website for details or events to find more retaliation from people in scheduled after this went to press the Middle East, from terrorists specif- www.civicmediacenter.org ically, I should say, because most Mid- (352) 373-0010 dle Eastern people are not terrorists. And I think that’s another thing that America really needs to think about, is our racism, racism that comes from the United States towards Muslim people an" award winning documentary" BULLYby filmaker Lee Hirsch and towards Arabic people. And that’s playing at the Hippodrome Theater something that has to stop, and the United States has to start respecting Friday, June 8: 6, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9: 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 p.m. people from the Middle East in order Sunday, June 10: 2:30, 4:30, 7:15 p.m. to find a solution to the problem that’s Wednesday, June 13: 5:15, 8 p.m. been building up over many years. So, Thursday, June 14: 6:30, 8:30 p.m. I thank everyone for your patience and info: http://www.thehipp.org/ letting me speak my mind on that.” D www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 15 Osama's almost letter to me by Eric Margolis a reputation for being fiercely journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave independent-minded and determined reported from Afghanistan, Taliban’s This article was originally published to get at the truth, no matter how tribal chiefs tried to oust firebrand Bin on May 6, 2012 on Eric Margolis’ unpopular. Laden from their nation. blog, ericmargolis .com . Today, what’s left of al-Qaida numbers Why was I named in alleged al-Qaida The big U.S. news networks heavily no more than 25 men in Afghanistan, letters last week as a recipient for censored al-Qaida’s statements on according to U.S. Defense Secretary documents about 9/11? government orders, or misreported them, complete with fake videos Leon Panetta. Yet President Barack Al-Qaida was not founded by Osama of bin Laden. Obama cites the alleged al-Qaida bin Laden, as many wrongly believe, “threat” as the reason for keeping U.S. The report cites redoubtable British but in the mid-1980s in Peshawar, forces in Afghanistan and keeping writer Robert Fisk, the New Yorker’s Pakistan, by a revolutionary scholar, Pakistan under semi-occupation. That ace investigator Seymour Hersh, ABC Sheik Abdullah Azzam. was the real purpose for releasing News investigator Brian Ross, and me these letters. Al-Qaida has become an I know this because I interviewed as journalists who reported fairly and integral part of U.S. politics. Azzam numerous times at al-Qaida accurately on the region. Al-Qaida is being used as a bogeyman HQ in Peshawar while covering the All of us veterans have tried to anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. by America’s Republicans to defend report facts honestly and cut through bloated U.S. military spending and Azzam set up al-Qaida, which means propaganda from all sides. We have “the base” in Arabic, to help CIA defend torture as having led to finding all been strong critics of al-Qaida bin Laden. My sources tell me a huge and Saudi-financed Arab volunteers and terror attacks, but also critics going to fight in Soviet-occupied bribe led the U.S. to bin Laden, not of heavy-handed, often counter- torture. Afghanistan. In those days, the west productive US.. and western policies hailed them as “freedom fighters.” in the Muslim world. The Pentagon has been leaking so- called information claiming bin In letters allegedly captured by US.. As these letters shows, Al-Qaida Laden was planning a wave of terror special forces from bin Laden’s was never the vast, worldwide terror attacks just before he died. In fact, compound, Al-Qaida’s public organization that President George W. bin Laden had become an isolated, relations people cited me and 19 Bush claimed. As I witnessed, it was powerless jihadi living in retirement other western journalists as potential always tiny, no more than 200 men. when he was killed. recipients of new documents about Al-Qaida’s original goal was to fight the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. the mostly Tajik and Uzbek Afghan Why was he not brought back to the Communists and their Soviet masters. U.S. for trial? No surprise there. I’ve followed al- Qaida for the past 26 years as a writer, Al-Qaida became an ally of Taliban An open trial would have finally broadcaster and military consultant. in this anti-Communist struggle. allowed Americans to discover the My columns are read widely across But Taliban had nothing to do with truth about the crime of 9/11, al- South Asia and the Gulf. I have the 9/11 attacks. As the renowned Qaida, and anti-Americanism in the

page 16, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida Muslim world. Tragically, this did not happen. Dead men tell no tales. We still don’t know how much bin Laden was involved in 9/11, or if it was hatched in Pakistan. My own understanding is that 9/11 was planned in Hamburg and Madrid, and executed by mostly Saudi citizens. Al-Qaida lives on after bin Laden, but as a tiny bunch of western-hating militants with no power and little ability to stage major attacks. Violent anti-American groups from West Africa to Indonesia have adopted the title al-Qaida. For example, al-Qaida in Iraq never existed before the U.S. invasion. It’s like the slaves in the film “Spartacus” crying out, “we are all Spartacus.” These stepsons of al-Qaida are not centrally linked and have nothing in common except for opposing western domination of the Muslim world and espousing religious law. As U.S. intervention in Africa and Central Asia intensifies, so will they spread. It’s a perpetual terrorist motion machine. Columnist and author Eric Margolis is a veteran of many conflicts in the Middle East, and was recently was featured in a special appearance on Britain’s Sky News TV as “the man who got it right” in his predictions about the danger- ous risks and entanglements the U S. . would face in Iraq . His latest book is American Raj: Liberation or Domina- tion?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World . D

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page 18, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida History and the people who make it: Norman Markel Transcript edited by Pierce Butler they started to come back in body universe to have as part of my official bags. So I asked my draft board, they title, when I taught at State University This is the eighth in a continuing immediately gave me a school defer- of New York at Buffalo, assistant pro- series of transcript excerpts from ment. I thought I would become a fessor of psycholinguistics. Chom- the collection of the Samuel Proctor shop teacher. The counselor gave me sky’s psycholinguistics, he took over Oral History Program at the a program where I would take educa- the field. I no longer call what Ido University of Florida . tion and chemical engineering. I was psycholinguistics. Former United Faculty of Florida a very weak high school student and leader Dr . Norman Markel was I don’t think I ever had a chemistry I had a [US Public Health Service post- interviewed by UF emeritus history doctoral] stipend. I went to Philadel- professor Robert Zieger [Z] on phia to study with [Ray] Birdwhistle, April 20, 2009. the originator of the field of kinesics, non-verbal behavior. I spent about a I was born in Detroit, Michigan, in month there and it had two very won- 1929. My father drove a laundry derful effects: one was I learned a lot truck, for 35 years. He was involved about non-verbal behavior. The other in organizing the Teamsters Union was while I was there, also taking the in Detroit. The other thing that was same course was Alan Lomax, the folk important in my upbringing was be- song collector, which later ended up ing raised in what was more or less a with me working with him for about Jewish ghetto in Detroit. I remember eight years on folk songs. meetings in our house with the kitchen I was studying the development of in- door closed and cigar smoke coming fant vocalization to see if we can iden- out from under the door. tify kids who are going to have neuro- I went to public school. I had one logical problems, before they actually semester in Wayne [State U] when were sick. I was on with Lomax to I graduated and then I went off handle the non-verbal aspects of the to be an organizer for the Zionist sound. A man came there to a site vis- Youth Movement. course. I got a zero or maybe even it, Paul Moore, chair of the speech de- minus ten. I still didn’t want to go to partment at the University of Florida. I organized from 1948 to 1949. I Korea. I looked at what is the course I got a letter from him saying that they was sent to welding school in Cleve- that I can get the best liberal arts edu- were developing the Communication land, Ohio. We bought a surplus cation and have the fewest courses? Sciences Laboratory. There was a lot army jeep with a welding machine, And that was psychology. And that is of money for social sciences because and we took that to Israel. All the how I became a psychologist. Sputnik had gone up. They were able time I was in Israel, two years, I was to hire professors from engineering, a welder. And when I came back [I] The first class I had, the textbook was speech, psychology, linguistics, and it lucked out in that there were plenty 15 classic experiments in psychology. sounded very exciting. of jobs. We are talking about 1952 Wayne had a 15-week semester and every week we did an experiment. I now, and I started to work at Budd Plus after four years in Buffalo, loved it. So that is how I became an Wheel in Detroit, welding. which has a lot of more snow than experimental psychologist. I was a member of the United Steel- Detroit—they said Gainesville, Flor- workers. But the UAW had a fellow- In The New York Times I read about a ida, I didn’t know about rednecks ship for the children of union mem- conference putting together psychol- and all that. I thought I was coming bers, and I applied for it and I got it. ogy and language. They were going to to a suburb of Miami. I think it gave me $500 or so, which call it psycholinguistics. It was a com- was at that time quite [a] significant bination of pre-Chomsky linguistics You might say I was totally politically number. The first paper I wrote was and experimental psychology, which naïve. I had three small kids, and af- the struggle over the River Rouge was perfect for me because I knew ter four Buffalo winters, coming to Bridge when they brought out ma- Hebrew and knew languages. And Florida sounded really good. When chine guns and shot down the people, that is how I became a psycholinguist. I got close to Florida it dawned on the Battle of the Overpass. me I might have made a mistake. Re- [U. of Chicago] was one of the few member that Alachua County was the When I graduated in 1947 a lot of places that actually had a psycholin- only county in Florida that voted for my high school cohorts were the first guistics program. So I went to Chi- George Wallace. ones called up to go to Korea and cago. 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www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 21 ORAL HISTORY from p. 19 So I come to Florida. They told me I can’t get paid until I When we drove down here I had a ’58 Mercury station signed the loyalty oath. Okay, so now not only I said I will wagon which was rusted out from the Buffalo salt so that be loyal to the United States and the state of Florida, but the first bag of oranges I bought in Georgia fell outthe I have to say if I have been communist and do I know a back of the car. In 1964 there was a riot in New York City, communist. I said, oh Jesus. What happens if I don’t sign a race riot. When we were in Valdosta I had a New York this? They said, you don’t get paid. So, I signed. license plate. The window was down and this guy looked Some professors in the law school are having a picket line in, and he said, hey guys, you sure know how to handle to protest the signing of the loyalty oath. So I go over to the those niggers up there. I am thinking, wow, what I am go- law school and outside was a group of ten or twelve bedrag- ing to say? gled-looking professors. I mean, we all looked like that; this I was treated very well by the University of Florida, until I was 1968. Jay Zeman from the philosophy department, big got active in the union. Then things started to change. and bald, comes up and says, how would you like to join the American Federation of Teachers? I was dumbstruck In the communication science laboratory, I had postdoctor- because I had never put together being a professor and be- al fellows working and I taught one or two classes. I had a ing in a union. So I came to a meeting. There were people lot [of] time to do research. It was very good academically, who were being oppressed on campus and it was totally by until about 1970 when I really became active in the union. bluster that we were able to protect people. Before we had collective bargaining [Rob Sherman] did I am not really good in negotiations. I am very good with collective bargaining by bluff. We’d threaten going to the our own people but not with the other side. Public em- Gainesville Sun. ployees couldn’t join the union at that time in the state of At some point it was discovered that there was a letter Florida. It was illegal. Nobody knew what collective bar- in my file not to give me any raises due to my union gaining was. AFT was helping us organize. We get invited activity and so on. to Tallahassee by George Bedell, chancellor of the board of regents. He gives us a lecture: why it is so inappropriate By the time I became active in the union I was already for professors to be in a union. I was sitting across from a full professor with tenure, so it was not like the young him and he starts to say, do you want to be in a union people, like [Ken] Megill who was threatened and actually with people such as truck drivers? My father used to be a didn’t get tenure. At that point I didn’t have anything to truck driver. And he keeps on pushing that point. I reached lose except salary. across the table and grabbed him. They never brought me again to a bargaining session but they used me as a threat. They said, we will bring in Markel. AFT were very good. We had a chapter; we had one black member, and his job was to recruit black football players. This was ’70, ’71, around the time the black students sat in. He was telling the black football players what [it] was really like for black football players at the University of Florida. Steve Spurrier changed that. But at that time it

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page 22, Iguana, May/June 2012 Gainesville, Florida was really back of the bus. Polish jokes, and instead of Polish was well worth anything, way beyond They kicked this guy out, and he is a people it would be the administrators anything I lost. member of the AFT. What’re we go- who were the objects of the jokes. [Since] I became politically conscious, ing to do? We organized a picket line I was president only before we had I have been trying to put together my in front of Tigert Hall. The Sun wrote collective bargaining. I had no release academic skills and my political skills. an editorial, how inappropriate [it] was time, and that is partly [why] you see My skills research-wise are on some for a professor to be on a picket line. my publication record going down. very detailed aspects of communica- This led to the dissolution of my first To this day, I never think I paid a price; tion, like pitch, loudness, tempo, inter- marriage because the woman I had I am happy I did it. The academic ruptions, and things that take a lot of married in Detroit knew me as a pro- accolades or financial things are so training. So it was hard to put together fessor and never saw this other [side]. minor compared to what I learned. I things I am interested in: racism and The black students sat in Tigert Hall and would’ve never met people in edu- sexism, how they come out. [UF administration] came to us. They cation or engineering or all over the The book that is now in production is couldn’t understand why every day the campus had I not been in the union, or called "The Five Vital Signs of Con- black students came they had a differ- the people all over the state, and not versation." Those are: How you ad- ent spokesperson. Being in anthropol- raised my consciousness about my dress somebody/what you call them, ogy and language I understood that for roots and the labor movement. That See ORAL HISTORY p. 24 these people, anybody could speak for the group. You didn’t elect a leader. My office was in the basement of Dauer Hall, and my oldest son went to P.K, the lab school. He used to ride his bike, and he comes to my office and says, Daddy, people are sitting across 13th Street [in an] an- ti-war demonstration. Father Gannon—he was still a priest at that time—is there and I am there and the National Guard is there. They come with this tank and stuff like that, and as we were negotiating, they started firing tear gas at the students, then water cannons. The campus had undercover agents all over the place. The students were in one of the large auditoria behind Tigert Hall. The next day most of them left but some would not leave. Here come the [campus] police in riot gear. It was me, Megill, and David Chalmers. They couldn’t care less, and then they started to drag the students out. The key organizers of the union came from the philosophy department and the College of Education, the division of philosophy of education department. I was the first president of the state UFF, and I had a VW bus which burned out at least one, maybe two engines going from Pensacola, where the University of West Florida is, down to Miami, driving around pro- fessors who are not light weight. And we went around the state. I would teach union songs. And I would take www.GainesvilleIguana.org Iguana, May/June 2012, page 23 ORAL HISTORY from p. 23 I was president but I decided to be a and what you self-disclose. These are professor so—would I be the presi- the two verbal things. dent of the local at the University The The non-verbal things are: where you of Florida? I said, okay, we have to sit, eye contact, and touch. organize the women and the minori- Gainesville ties, and we have to have a labor his- These are really the five vital signs of tory program. I said, unless we raise Iguana conversation. Now my next task, if I the consciousness of our members, live long enough, I want to link this to once we win collective bargaining (established 1986) a hierarchy. Capitalist society incul- they are not going to be interested. cates people with the dominant/sub- I met a lot of resistance: they didn’t mission type of world view, hierarchi- support me in that, and I resigned as cal. There is always somebody on top, president of the local in protest. always somebody on the bottom. This is expressed in these five things. I am still a member. One of the first groups that really joined, surpris- Here in Gainesville I worked on a liv- ingly enough, was the English de- ing wage campaign with Norman Bala- partment. One of the reasons was the banian, and I think we got pretty far. chair of the department was really Z: Yeah . It is not as ambitious as some bad, Ward something. So we said, people wanted it to be, but there is a come to the union. Everybody’s go- living wage ordinance . ing to have their own phone; they’re going to have a file cabinet, a chicken The head of the Greyhound bus driv- in every file cabinet. So they joined ers said, what are you doing at UF? I the union for their immediate needs, tried to put leaflets in the faculty mail and we had to raise consciousness boxes and they called the campus po- that there was here more than their lice. I told him the various things we immediate needs. were having, and he said, our bus driv- ers wouldn’t put up with that. The Gainesville Iguana We could get a hold of the salaries of is Gainesville's progressive everybody. I would take them to peo- An audio podcast of this interview ple, they would shudder. I discovered events calendar and newsletter . will be made available, along with that the equivalent professors at Florida Technical College [now U. of Central many others, at www.history.ufl.edu/ Fla] were making more money than the oral/feature-podcasts .htm . 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