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Summer 1987

Volume 16, Number 2

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I i The rumors you've heard are true Hard times at the Post Amerikan

In the last couple of years, the effect, the Post collective is August, we will have to decide number of hard-core Post staffers being cut in half, at best. whether the September issue will be has dwindled. Those of us who are an integration issue for the old still here have become increasingly The outcome of this is that we need and new Post staffers, or the final overbooked, both with the tasks of you. And without you, we will have issue of the Post Amerikan. those who left and with external to shut down. Without you, the commitments. September issue will be our last. Please call the Post for information about the first community meeting This year, we are reaching a crisis We're taking the summer off to if you want to work to keep it point. Several of our central regroup and try to drum up new alive. We need you. workers are leaving, and some others bodies and new energy. We'll be are profoundly burnt out and need having a couple of community --Chris, for the Post collective to pass on some responsibility. In meetings this summer, and then in

In this issue: Post Sellers

3 ..... ANTI-BASHING LAWS: BREEDERS RUN M1UCK BLOOMINGTON Gays need protection from assault; straights need Amtrak Station, 1200 W. Front contraception. The Back Porch, 402 N. Main Bakery Bane, 901 N. Main 4-5 ..• TALKIN' SANDANISTAN REVOLUTION BLUES Bloomington Public Library (in front) Our own Fred Jones makes good as revolutionary, movie Bus Depot, 533 N. East star. Common Ground, 516 N. Main Convenient Mart, Emerson and Main b •••• • NERVE GAS Front and Center Building One of the best-censored stories of 1986. Hit Shed, 606 N Main Hungry House, 103 W. Jefferson ? ..•.• FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS Law and Justice Center, W. Front St. Briefs ~bout snow leopards, grizzlies, condors, and Lee St, (100 N.) so on. Main and Miller Streets Medusa's Adult World, 420 N. Madison 8-10 •• AIDS Mike's Market, 1013 N. Park No, it's not about helpful assistants. Mr. Donut, 1310 N. Park ·, Pantagraph (in front), 11-14.HAPPY BIRTHDAY! : 301 W. Washington Snippets from our first 15 years of publication. ,The Park Store. Wood & Allin :People's Drugs, Oakland & Morrisey 15 •..• SETTLEMENT LETS PEACE GROUPS IN HIGH SCHOOLS; ~Red Fox, 918 W. Market LETTERS 'Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main U.S, Post Office, 1511 E. Empire 16-l?.COMMUNITY NEWS: HANFORD CHEMICAL PLANT: CLASSY FRIED . (at exit) ADS: CABLE COMIX m.s. Post Office, Center & Monroe :upper Cut, 409 N, IVlain 18-19.THE NEW SOBRIETY Wash House, 609 N. Clinton No fun. Washing Well, E. Front St. 20 .... PERVERSE IDEAS; COORS BANNED IN BOSTON NORMAL Oppression and growth;_ beer and politics. 'Avanti 's, 407 S. Main ·Big Rudy's, 107 E. Beaufort 21 .... ERA; GM .rsu University Union, 2nd floor Equal Rights Amendment has real promjse; GM has Hovey Hall, ISU (in front) false ones. N!idstate Truck Plaza, U .. S. 51 north Mother Murphy's, 111 North St. 22-23.MANTRA MASH '87 ARTLUCK; PASSED NORMAL REVIEW ~orth & Broadway, southeast corner The local art and music sc9ne thrives. White Hen Pantry, 207 Broadway ·· (in front) 24 .... POST-AMERIKAN: SOLID PAST, SHAKY PUNCTUATION

Good numbers ._.. .._,_, __ ~-·-·-·-·~··:--·--·--·-·.._. .._,,_,~·--·-·-·.._ .. .--.. -.. -·-· Moving? Alcoholics Anonymous ...... 828-5049 Nqclear Freeze Coalition ...... 828-4195 American Civil Liberties Union.454··7.?23 Occupational Development Bloomington Hou~ing Authority .. 829-3360 · Center ...... •. 828-7324 When you move, be sure to send us your Clare House (Catholic Workers) .828-4035 Operation Recycle ...... 829-0691 new address so your subscription gets Communi t.y for Social Actic•n ..... 452-4867 Parents Anonymous ...... 827-4005 to you. Your Post Amerikan will not Connection House ...... 829-5711 PATH: Personal Assistance Telephone be forwarded (it's like junk mail--no Countering Domestic Violence ... 827-4005 Help ...... 827-4005 Dept. Children/Family Services.82R-0022 Or ...... 800-3 22-5015 kidding!). Fill out this handy form Phone Friends ...... •...•...... 827-4008 with your new address and return it Draft Counseling ...... 452-5046 HELP (transportation for senior Planned Parenthood .... medical .. 827-4014 to us, P.O. Box 3452, Bloomington, citizens, handicapped) ...... 828-8301 bus/couns/educ .. 827-4368 IL 61702. 111. Dept of Public Aid ...... 827-4621 Post Amerikan ...... 828-7232 1]1. Lawyer Referral ...... B00-252-8916 Prairie State Legal Service .... 827-5021 Name: Kaleidoscope ...... 828-7346 Prairie Alliance ...... 828-8249 McLean Co. Health Dept ...... 454-1161 Project Oz ...... •...... 827-0377 Rape Crisis Center ...... 827-4005 Street: Mid Central Community Action ... 829-0691 Mobile Meals ...... 828-8301 Sunnyside Neighborhood Center .. 827-5428 McLean County Center for TeleCare (senior citizens) ..... 828-8301 City/State/Zip: __ ~ ______Human Services ....••...... 827-5351 Unemployment camp/job service .. 827-6237 National Health Care Services-­ United Farmworkers support ..... 452-5046 abortion assistance, l-800-322-1622 UPIC ...... 827-4026 Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 • Page 3 Why we need anti.. bashing laws

Rick Garcia was buying a can of Laws serve a number of purposes-­ tuna in a supermarket when his and one of the them is symbolic. suit coat brushed the coat of the What this society needs is for man behind him. Gracia said, "Excuse more of its institutions to go me." Then all hell broke loose. on the record against anti-gay feelings and for the rights The man started screaming at the of gay people. Only a few com­ top of his voice, "You faggot, munities in the country have you homo. I"m going to bash your. anti-gay discrimination statutes; face in. I'm going to break your only one state (Wisconsin) has jaw. such a law. Garcia called police, who took the Sure, if there was more education man and Garcia to the police and awareness and across-the-board station. In the parking lot the enforcement of existing laws, that homophobe was still yelling, "That \-TOuld help solve the gay-bashing faggot. I don't want his AIDS." problem. It would also help if churches and politicians and That was the second attack that educators and judges and police Gracia experienced last February. chiefs and newspapers and rock He is the director of Catholic stars and professional athletes Advocates for Gay and Lesbian and other movers and shakers in Rights in Chicago, and his open­ When influential religious leaders our country would stand up for ness has made him vulnerable make remarks like this--and they gay people once in a while, and to the raving crazies who think do it all the time--they fan the come out in favor of gay rights. it's okay to threaten and beat flames of anti-gay prejudice and up on gay people. send a clear message t0 many But I don't see that happening. Amerikans that it's all right to In fact, it's currently hip to In early May, the National Gay knock gay people around. It's be anti-gay: one member of the and Lesbian Task Force released time we had some official support pop-rock group the Beastie Boys a survey showing the number of to counteract this vicious gay­ said right out in a recent inter­ complaints of violence it receiv­ baiting. view "I hate faggots." ed in 1986 more than doubled from the previous year, to 4,946 If we can get an anti-bashing from 2,042. law, I say let's take it. We need something. About 70 percent of the complaints involved insults or threats, but --Ferdydurke there were also "80 homicides in which the person's homo­ sexuality appeared to be a rei­ evant factor," the report says.

I I J I Because of this alarming I ' I increase in anti-gay violence, \ ! ( legislation has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly to allow a judge to impose a tougher sentence if the motiva­ tion for an assault was the sexual orientation of the victim. Re­ action to this and other anti-gay­ bashing measures has been swift and negative.

Newspapers, like the Bloomington Pantagraph and the Chicago Tribune, which usually have to be threatened with a cattle prod to print stories about gay people, lost no time in coming out against these laws. Their position is that an assault is an assault, and that we don't need special legis­ lation to protect gay people.

But it's curious that these editor­ ials don't say what should be done to stem the increase in anti-gay violence. They disingenuously recommend enforcing the existing laws against assault, without showin~ any awareness that it's They're straicht but rhey're very nice people. often the cops who are doing the fag-bashing.

It may indeed seem to many right­ minded people that we don't need any extra laws to protect gay Breeders run omucl~ people--that we just need better enforcement and more awareness. Rampant heterosexuality is The problem with that view is that thr~atening to bring down the objective disorder which is self- it ignores just how strong anti­ Republic. Breeder marines sell state j nrh1lgent. Although the particluar gay hostility is in this country. secrets to commie chippies. Breeder inclination of the heter'Osexual candidates sell out their campaign person is not a sin, it is a more or Most of our society's institutions supporters for another roll in the are anti-gay: the government, less strong tendency ordered towards sack. Breeder preachers sell their an intrinsic moral evil. Besides, it the churches, the courts (remem­ souls and their considerable treasures produces too many bambinos. (The ber the Georgia sodomy law?), the 'On earth to hush up the sin of medical profession, the schools. smashing commandments (seven and world population increases by 149 We need something official, on ten specifically). every minute: think about it.) the books, that says it is not all right to beat up on gay--­ (I used to think that PTL stood for While I myself deplore violent malice people. Pass the Loot, but I recently read toward heterosexuals, I must point that it means People That Love. out that when the government In April the newsletter of the Indeed.) · protects this kind of behavior, to so-called Moral/Liberty Federation which no one has any conceivable devoted most of its space to AIDS Can't these people control their right, then it is not surprising and homosexuality. The coverage sexual urges? I don't understand why when irrational and violent reactions 1ncluded this statement written the government hires straight people, increase. by Jerry Falwell: "AIDS is a or why we let them hold public office. lethal judgment of God on the It is obvious that they are a danger So, hey, if you want to bash a sin of homosexuality, and it is to the country and too untrustworthy breeder for Old Glory, it's no skin also the judgment of God on to be given any kind of responsible off my aspidistra. (And 'vhile America for endorsing this vul­ position. (Most of them don't know you're at it, get in a coupla kicks gar, perverted and reprobate the first thing about matching for Tammy Faye; anyone who wears lifestyle." fabrics with wallpaper, either.) that much make-up has got ~o be a drag queen.) Quite clearly, heterosexuality is an --Ferdydurke Page4 May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan

Report from Nicaragua

Talkin' Sandanistan Revolution Blues

Post Note: In January, Fred Jones, long-time friend of the Post, made an extended visit to Latin America doing the foundation for a ceramics He returned just a few weeks ago, factory. They're trying to bring ana they have to get their arms from albeit a little worse for the wear back a lot of local industry. There's someone. Naturally, they get them (good luck with that hepatitis, Fred!), been a lack of development in their from Eastern Bloc countries, and since and brings us this account of his country and some of their native crafts they haye to pay for those arms, they stay in Nicaragua. By the way, look and native industry had been pushed set up trade alliances with those for Fred's motion picture debut in aside by manufactured products from countries. It inevitably move8 those "Walker" coming this summer to a outside. I also worked with a co­ countries, like Nicaragua, or, in the theater near you. operative that's involved with the past, Cuba, in that direction. agrarian land reform program. For four days I made adobe blocks that If the United States would cease I decided to go to Nicaraugua without will be used for a school building military aggression against Nicaragua any organized group, without any and eventually that would be used to and then make friendly overtures and affiliations, because I didn't want to build homes for members of the open up normal business relationships, get a guided tour--1 didn't want collective. I also volunteered to I think that Nicaragua would become a anybody to show me only what they work for a day picking tobacco in a true and dear friend to America. I wanted me to see. I had an invita­ resettlement community, which was don't consi~er them an enemy of the tion from the mayor of Bluefields in also involved in the agrarian land American people or American business. the province of Zelaya to come down reform. This was a group of about and work on a construction project seventy-six families. They have a The whole ~hree months I was down that involved remodeling an old tractor and an irrigation pump, which there, I never ran into anti-American building into a sports center for they have gotten through some kind of sentiment. I ran into numbers of kids--so they would have something to loan incentive. people who had a variety of opinions take their minds off the war. But about their own government and our when I got there the materials weren't In 1979 the Somoza dynasty fell, which government. But when people would there; there's a shortage of materials was a family that had ruled the talk about America, they would make a due to the war. country for close to 45 years. His strong differentiation between the national guard was overthrown with American people and the American govern­ I entered the country in February and him; and that national guard had ment. The American people were not I went to Somoto, which was the first brutally suppressed and tortured perceived as an enemy within Nicaragua· town that I came to, about J5 kilo­ people for years, which made them by the Nicaraguans, no matter what meters from the Honduran border. I quite unpopular with the people. So political persuasion they had. I just asked around to see if it was safe to there wasn't any real support for the didn't encounter that. I travelled stay in the park,.and the soldiers military. The organized resistance quite extensively and placed myself in and the police said it was fine--that that came to power in 1979 had been a variety of situations. met People in there was a military base right across organizing for generations; they had their homes. I could walk down the from the park, a school for young been fighting ever since the 1mpos1~­ street in 0omoto and people would say military inductees. The next day I ion of the Somoza dictatorship back "Hello" and ask me wh·ere- I was from; ran into all kinds of people who were in the thirties. This Somozan National they'd talk to me. there visiting their relatives. Boys Guard left after the triumph of the from 17 to 25 have to do two years in revolution and scattered all over the Often times they'd invite me in for the military and every 14 days the world, but mostly in Latin America. something to eat even though they were relatives were allowed to come visit In the meantime, while he was in exile, really poor and suffering. When the kids. I was invited to go in to Somoza was assassinated. people have something and can share the military base; got to walk on with it, that's something; when people my camera, was introduced to some of When the Reagan administration came to don't have something and they still the young soldiers and their families. power, they implemented a plan to share what they don't have with you, overthrow the Nicaraguan Sandinistan that's incredible. The people I During the day in the park I asked government and basically replace them encountered, from the simplest peasant around to find some of the locals whc with the Somozan National Guard farmer to educated people in Nicaraguan had actually participated in the because the Somozans would be more society, were telling me they don't Triumph--the Revolution of 1979--and receptive to multinational corpora­ want this war--"go back, tell the who could explain some of the local tions based in the U.S. Reagan also American people to try and stop the hi story. I wanted them to show me the imposed an embargo against Nicaragua government's funding of the Contras." kind of progress that's been made since to attack their economy. the revolution, and show me some of the Military actions mistakes, as well. I was given the I think that those kinds of policies names of two people and I went and do more to create the kind of govern­ I met people who were quite conser­ looked them up. I got to know them ment that Reagan says he doesn't want vative that ~asically support~d the over the next several days. One of Nicaragua to have. I think they put political ideology of the Contras but them was a member of the local junta more pressure on the Sandinistas to who didn't support the military (kind of like the city council) and move 1n that d1rect1on because they actions of the Contras. The Contras' he invited me to stay with ,his farpily. are forced to defend their historical military actions largely consist of revolution, both philosophically and attacking the simple "compasino" or Through him I got to go to different militarily. They can't buy or sell peasant farmers out in the countryside union meetings and I worked with a an~thing to or from the United States, In Somoto, I met a compasino farmer local union labor collective--car­ and his wife, who told me about one of penters, laborers and masons. I the neighbor families who had, just a worked with them for about a week few days before, been attacked by the Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page 5 acquire loan guarantees collectively the final product belongs to the ' individuals of the collective, and with the Sandinistas, and those who Contras. One night, the Contras they can market their own goods as were anti-Sandinista, but they were surrounded the house, which was just a they see fit. anti-Contra as well. stick house with a .tih roof, and they lit it on fire ... The whole family-­ Against the current Earlier on, the Contras tried more mother, fath~r·· and two young children-- direct military tactics--coming in all died in tnat attack. · The Sandinista government has made force from Honduras, making direct incredible progress in the eight years attacks. But they were losing very The statistics on who dies at the they've been in power. That's no heavily and were strategically hands of the Contras show that the small feat when you're just a tiny defeated. So they've adopted new largest group to be attacked is the third world country swimming against tactics. They'll infiltrate the compasinos, and then health care the current of a worldwide system. country in small groups of 5 to 10 workers, teachers, and students: all They've implemented literacy campaigns, people, staying in sparsely populated people who can demonstrate the progress public health care institutions, areas, and they will rendezvous at of the revolution. The Contras are construction projects, schools, and certain coordinates where air drops of not really trying to engage the sewer systems. These are things that arms and supplies will be made. And military. don't sound like a lot to you, but they'll attack their target and then they really are huge accomplishments break up into small groups again and I thihk one of the things the Reagan for them. sort of melt away into the jungle or administration is worried about is mountains. that the Sandinista Revolution will But even on terms of the basic neces­ succeed, and give an example of a sities, there is an incredible amount moderate revolution in this hemisphere. of suffering in Nicaragua due to this You have to realize these are people The Reagan administration cannot war. Shortages are everywhere, who have been struggling against tolerate that, because if one country because they lost access to the invasion from the outside and can successfully break away from this largest market in the world--the United oppression from the inside since the system of neo-colonialism that they're States, the world's supplier of food turn of the century. I spoke to trapped in, then other countries could and agricultural technology. But I people in the resettlement camps. One see that example and they might wouldn't say that we have driven a man told me how his daughter was possibly consider breaking away as wedge between the Nicaraguan people killed. He asked me to go back and well. and their government. There's immense tell my people to try and stop our support from the people for the government from arming the Contras. Under their new constitution, the Sandinista government, maybe made even Nicaraguan people have a pluralistic stronger by Reagan's policies. They I talked to another man who was 62 economy where they take some of the understand the shortages. Most people years old, He remembered when he was best concepts of socialism and free make the analysis "Well, the reason I a boy of ten, how his family fought enterprise and create a synthesis of don't have this is because the United a~ongslde Sandino against U.S. forces them. And if they can successfully States is attacking us." They have to when they had intervened before. He eliminate that conflict between east put over 60% of their economy into remembers his grandfather's house and west, or communism and capitalism, defense because of this war. That's a being bombed by U.S. planes. He then that's a very frightening thing lot for a small country. It's taking demonstrated against the Somozans in for the powers that be. They feel its toll. the 70's and he went to prison for it. threatened by that. For instance, He Bhowed me the scars on his legs after the Somozan dynasty fell, under I met some Vietnam vets in Guatemala where he had been tortured by the the Sandinista land reform system all who work or have worked as mercenaries. Somozan National Guard. And he says the arable land that had been held by They told me that they have a standing that if the U.S. intervenes again, the Somoza government was freed up and invitation to go down and train even though he's 62 years old, he'll redistributed to landless peasants. Contras. get out and fight. Every member of Many of these people operate within a his family had been personally free enterprise model, but they The Contras do not have the support of impacted ~y our support for the Somozan collectively pool some of their the local people in Nicaragua. In my regime. I remember him holding uP his resources. They operate within a visit I just didn't find any support granddaughter and telling me, "This is mixed economy. So although they for them. I found indifference, and I our future. This is our 1'uture." organize themselves collectively, and found people who were not enchanted --Fred Jones

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in the May 25. Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page7 For The Love of Animals

Snow leopard, grizzly, California condor, necessary for life, and feeding stations By the way, my Animal Villain award em­ Eastern bluebird - all seriously endangered, are appreciated. For birds such as wrens phatically goes to the W. Putnam, who not from poisons or guns or cruel traps. and bluebirds, housing provides sanctuary doomed his former faithful pet to untold The most deadly threat to their future is where nature is lacking. danger and loneliness. loss of home and habitat. There were once vast populations of Humans have I made an effort to rectify many animals, supported by a rich and boun­ ***************************************** of the atrocities they havevisited on entire tiful land. Man cannot usurp their place populations of wildlife. Bison once more without trashing the integrity of his own There is an unfounded rumor that this may graze beside pronghorn on protected grass­ existence. As another contemporary philo­ be the final episode in Post Amerikan lands. Moose are being transplanted to sopher reminds us, extinct is forever. We reportage. This would be a frigging moose-less Maine. Red wolves hunt the must regain responsibility before we are shame, for where else could I have spoken swamps of West Virginia. extinct as well. of my environmental and animal concerns?

Yet the lessons of the past decades of As I said earlier, extinct is forever, and environmental rape have taught us nothing. ******************************************** while the Post could rise Phoenix-like in For centuries, people had, if not a part­ the event of such a demise, inertia is a nership, then an uneasy truce with nature. heartless anchor. Such a restraint can Nature stood strong against ineffectual efforts To Kris and Angie S. goes my Animal Hero hobble and trip efforts to start again. toward "progress." Hand tools and sweaty of the Month award. It began with the labor made little difference to nature's ageless usual tragic spring saga - Mother Bunny is For nearly a generation, writers of con­ vitality. slaughtered by a marauding mutt, leaving science (there's that word again!) have a nest of helpless babies. Seven tiny spoken their minds with one enduring With the industrial ~~volution, earth lost blind bunnies which need constant warmth hope: that they can make a difference-­ its advantage. The labo:o:· of many was reduced and frequent feeding. Enter our heroes. in attitude and action. That closed minds by machi~e horsepower, and nature quailed Armed with eyedropper and tiny nursing may open. That compassion might bloom. before a modern Prometheus. bottles, they battled to give these orphans a future. I have written from my heart on a very Eons of pristine grassland was furrowed personal subject, this abiding love and and churned by "sodbusters." Virgin timber As so often happens, one by one the babes respect for all life, and I hope that in were mowed from the lar,dscape to create died of the complications to which they doing so I have touched and made thought­ pseudo-grassland when the true had been succumb. It was certainly not for lack of ful some people who would not have claimed by corn and soybeans. Don't kid trying - multiple nightly feedings, heat otherwise known of the animal outrages yourselves, Illinoisans. Wild grasses pads, tears and prayers. and victories that occur daily. We her~ once billowed, taller than a man on are all soldiers in the battle against horseback. Streams were clear and sweet­ Kris could no more close her eyes to ignorant and needless suffering, and water. the plight of these innocents than I our strongest weapon is public aware­ could. There is at our new home the ness, for in darkness and blindness Many native species of the population -­ abandoned product of the previous .ten­ are the worst attrocities performed. furred, feathered and finned, woke to find ant -- a lovely spayed (and declawed) their homes defiled by greedy strangers. marmalade kitty. This victim of So it· is with the Post. If and when Native Americans had lived as stewards to thoughtless neglect does not deserve it dies, its enlightenment will flicker their world; enter the Europeans who con­ such treatment, for she was apparently out, leaving a dark void of ignorance quered and plundered. a pampered housepet and knows not the and misinformation. You know the Pan­ ways of the street. tagraph.doesn't have the desire (or-the A: yleasant trip to 1-.'ildlife Prairie ·Park guts) to address many of the concerns w~st of Peoria inspires both the optimist I ca~not close my eyes to her needs. of conscience that has always been a and pessimist,in me. One side mnurns all We feed her and give her water, but Post hallmark. thz.t has disappeared - yet there is an our owri.pets will not accept her in assurance·that there are righteous people ··their new home. If you have room in If you mourn the death of this "hippy" l~ft. your heart for a sweet little lady cat, institution, MAKE SOME NOISE! Call, please call the Post office and leave write, send a contribution, volunteer once an abandoned strip mine, left to word on the recorder for Becky. It your time. This open journalistic leach under sun and s~ow, the land was may be a while before I get back to you, forum could soon be barred to you, and reclaimed by a private party, seeded but someone checks messages occasionally that truly is a frigging shame. and sectioned, and tranformed into a and will pass it on. (Is this shameless haven of refuge. Native animals once solicitation or what?) again herd and hunt, swim and play and RAF m;ake love.

Spring and early summer are great there, when the foliage is still sparse enough to catch a glimpse of bobcat or cougar, the panting grin of coyote and wolf, often nursing their young. The elk calves and white-tail fawns bound through _,.. the tall prairie grass. And the wild residents, the squirrels, songbirds and • Jter6s • sytas ·:Fruits. vegetafles ·JJurs bunnies live as they always have. Crisp autumn and winter days take on a ( special poignancy. Fall foliage blazes over fields and ravines, and its leafy bounty carpets the paths. Snowy days are a treat, especially the sun-sparkled powder days. Otters toboggan and tumble, bison snort and stamp, and the laden boughs dump their loads on visitor and resident alike.

I wax lyrical. Wildlife Prairie typifies all that conscious conservation can achieve if one person just tries. Yes, it took vast resources in time, money and effort to build on the ruins of industry. But it took one person's vision to realize success. Sl6 N. Main St.

Active participation in the fight against BIOOIDinRton, UL 61701 habitat depletion is needed as well. The raze-and-burn method cF land management Common Ground has a wide selection of wholesome foods, is criminal. Hedge-rows and wooded lots natural body.care products, vitRmin and mineral sup­ must remain to provide shelter for wild­ p~e~ents, and books for organic cooking and healthy life. Interstate right-of·-ways, unmown l1v1ng. and natural, support countless residents (though I shudder at the thought of By selling many foods in bulk, Common Ground reduces them as highway victims). Warm days y~ur costs on nuts, flours, spices, grains, snack often bring hawks, hovering on the ~1xes and many other items. You may also purchase thermals, seeking hapless rodents. JU~t the amount you need! Corne see the gourmet Nature's ageless drama plays itself co~fee beans and fresh produce section as well out for a motoring audience. Experience a _new and healthier way of life! •

You and I can create suitable habitat, ·or an additional savings of 10% on all purchases, even within the confines of urban life. you may purchase a discount card for an annual fee Flowering bushes and fruit-bearing vines, of $1().00. --li tangled brambles and grassy tussocks provide shelter and. food for small crea­ tur~s and s,on&birds~ Fresh water is a SOOd1U11Y~ .. SJ7W).£ .. SU)TJ..J-5. SUJlUV-7}(\. PageS May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan AIDS: Present and past

The history of AIDS as a major ANTIBODY TEST RESULTS US denies public health problem is rather brief. Acquired Immunodeficiency Reactive* 4 of 75 (5.3%) Syndrome was initially identified in Nonreactive 70 of 75 (93.3%) The Pentagon has issued contradic~ the United States during mid-1981 Equivocable** 1 of 75 ( 1. 3%) tory statements as controversy 1when young, previously healthy men, grows over allegations of a bio­ with theretofore previously rare *Reactive-same serum sample logical warfare connection to AIDS. forms of pneumonia and cancer became reactive to two Enzyme-linked ill with these diseases. Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) tests On ~arch 30, the Soviet news agency and one Western Blot test. TASS repeated earlier reports of a In 1984, it was discoverd that AIDS study by two East German microbio­ is c~used by a virus. French **Equivocable-same serum sample logists, Jakob and Lilli Segal,· researchers labeled the virus reactive to two Enzyme-linked concluding that AIDS was caused by Lymphadenopathy Associated Virus or Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) tests a genetically-engineered virus. LAV while American researchers named and borderline reaction to one The Segals argue that the virus the virus the Human T-Cell Western Blot test. may have been created and spread Lymphotropic Virus, type III or accidentally by the u.s. Army's HTLV-III. In June 1986, the virus Biological Warfare Laborato~y at was renamed the Human Immuno­ It is the firm belief of AIDS Fort Detrick, near Frederick, deftciency Virus or HIV. Presently, experts that testing alone does very '·1aryland. According to this theory, it is estimated that 1 - 1.5 million little in preventing the trans­ the virus was experimentally inject­ people in the United States are mission of the disease. A major ed around 1977 into "volunteer" infected with HIV. focus must be placed upon reaching prisoners, who after several months individuals whose behavior places \vi th no symptoms, •.vere released and The history of AIDS as a local them at risk for AIDS. The goal of unknowingly spread the disease. public health concern is even more such program emphasis is to counsel recent. Communicable Disease Section and educate persons at risk with the The Soviets have also cited two staff began attending numerous AIDS intent of effecting changes in other doctors, one British and one related training seminars in 1984. community programs on AIDS reaching North American, who maintain the These seminars and training 854 county residents. During the HIV virus, considered by many to sessions, conducted by the Illinois first three months of 1987, twenty- trigger AIDS, could only have been created by laboratory splicing of two infectious animal viruses. However, the doctors, citing several medical journal articles, believe the AIDS virus may have been created in civilian, rather than in ,ilitary, laboratories en­ gaged in cancer research.

U.S. military and diplomatic spokes­ people have repeatedly issued heat­ ed denials of the Soviet charges, labeling them "an insidious dis­ ,..... information campaign." But in elaborating their denials most re­ i cently, Pentagon officials have admitted a Ft. Detrick role in AIDS ' research, and have also contradict­ ed each other.

The Philadelphia Daily News report­ \ ed on February 18, 1987, that Col. David L. Huxsoll, chief of the U.S. Department of Public Health and four AIDS-related programs have Army Research Institute of Infect­ other health agencies, assisted already reached 658 people. ious Disease at Ft. Detrick, told Department staff in learning more a Press conference his facility about the disease and implementation A counseling and testing grant had begun assisting the National of local programs. received from IDPH during October of Institutes of Health with AIDS re- 1986 allowed for enhancement and During August of 1985, the inevit­ expansion of counseling and testing able impact of AIDS was felt locally and provision of additional outreach as the first case was reported to activities in McLean, Woodford, and the McLean County Health Department. Livingston Counties. Efforts ar~ The local AIDS program was stepped­ targeted toward individuals with up in scope through numerous meet­ high risk behaviors including: ings and phone conversations with heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual the IDPH during October of 1985 to sexual contact with persons infected establish the McLean County Health with the AIDS virus or at risk for Department as an alternate antibody AIDS, IV drug users, hemophiliacs, testing site. Following Board of and those receiving blood trans­ Health action, the McLean County fusions prior to March of 1985. Much Health Department officially began of the additional outreach has been antibody testing and counseling on conducted by part-time personnel March 1, 1986. hired with the grant funds.

Under IDPH guidelines, antibody Further during October, a number of counseling and testing is conducted health care/social service providers on a strictly anonymous basis. and concerned citizens met to Clients are identified by number in discuss the need for a local task order to avoid compromising con­ force to establish, consolidate and fidentiality and creating barriers unite• community resources to address to access. Following is· a summary of the AIDS issue on a local level. As the first year's activities of the a result of this initial meeting, McLean County Health Department HIV the McLean County AIDS Task Force Antibody Testing Site. was organized for the purpose of addressing social service, medical McLEAN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT and educational needs within the HIV ANTIBODY TESTING SITE community. Through the Task Force, a March 1986 - February 1987 speakers bureau was organized to meet the community's need for PRE-TESfiNG COUNSELING SESSIONS informed local p~esent~tions on the topic of AIDS. Scheduled 94 Completed 83 of 94 (88%) Although McLean County has not seen Cancelled/ a disproportionate number of AIDS not completed 11 of 94 (12%) cases, the County may have experi­ enced four AIDS related deaths and TESTING revealed five positive or borderline HIV antibody tests through the Completed 75 of 83 (90%) alternate site. With such a small Not Completed 8 of 83 (10%) data base to review, few conclusions can be drawn with regard to trends. FINES GAY. ENTERTAINMEN POST-TEST COUNSELING We do know, however, that rates wil 1 double nearly annually unless more lN CENTRAL llLINOIS Completed 72 of 75 (96%) research and program efforts are forthcoming. OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL 4AM. Cancelled/ PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR Not completed 3 of 75 (04%) --McLean County Health Department FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONE PER \ CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page9 tAID·S bio war

search. "We are now looking at the blacked out. As the British ma­ the Federal Court for the Dis­ anti-AIDS possibility of materials gazine New Scientist of February trict of Columbia approved the at our laboratory," Huxsoll re­ 12 reports, "the copies of the settlement requiring all such portedly said. In denying the letter provide powerful evidence BW labs to prepare environmental Soviet charges, the official add­ that someone has tampered with impact statements within 21 ed, "Studies at the Army lab­ scientific data." Pasteur law­ months. One of the activities oratories have shown that the AIDS yers were preparing to demand to acknowledged to be occurring virus would be an extremely poor see original documents from Ft. at Ft. Detrick was the creation hiological warfare agent." No Detrick. of new viruses by genetic en- . further details of these studies gineering. were provided.

However, according to the New York The United States' historical use Times of April 8, a Pentagon re­ of biological and chemical warf~re port on AIDS only acknm.,rledges against so-called "enemy" coun­ Ft. Detrick's role in testing the tries has been well documented. drug ribavirin against AIDS, claim~ Among the poisonous agents unleashed ing that the lab "had no other in­ by the u.s. military were anthrax, volvement in AIDS research." The plague and yellow fever in North government document reportedly Korea in the 1950s, Agent Orange added that "the Ft. Detrick facility (a.highly-toxic herbicide) in Viet­ never conducted any experiments nam in the 1960s, African Swine with the AIDS virus in the course Fever in Cuba in 1970 and 1980, of its earlier biological warfare and dengue fever in Cuba in 1981.· research." Often these toxins were sprayed from the air; the African Swine What neit~er statement mentioned However, at that point Gallo and Fever virus was brought in on was that. Ft. Detrick's involvement the NCI agreed to settle the suit foot ty CIA-employed Cuban exiles in AIDS resaarch is not a recent de­ by sharing credit for "discovering" who infected pig feed with it. velopment. Since 1983, t~e the HIV virus with the Pasteur (See Covert Action Information "Frederick Cancer Research Facility' Institute. On March 31, U.S. Bulletin, Summer 1982). In each --the allegedly "civilian" part of President Ronald Reagan and French case many people became seriously Ft. Detrick--has done such w~rk as Prime Minister Jacques Chirac an­ ill and some died. More recently, part of the AIDS Task Force of the nounced the settlement, which Nicaragua has been investisating National Cancer Institute (NCI), splits the profits from HIV anti­ the possibility that the 1985 out­ directed by Dr. Robert Gallo. body tests between the two countries. break of dengue fever along its It was the first time Reagan had Honduran border may have resulted For years, t~is fact has been ever publiclv uttered the ,.,.ord· from the release of infected openly discussed, though not "AIDS" since the epidemic was mosquitos by U.S reconnaissance publicized, in Congressional named in 1981. The question of the overflights. budget hearings. It resurfaced the altered letter was never pur­ during the recently settled law­ sued. The East German study alleging suit against the NCI and Gallo by a BW ori~in to AIDS has been the Pasteur Institute in Parjs. The Ft. Detrick installation has covered periodically since 1985 Gallo, an award-winning research a forty-year history of biological by the international press, but scientist, was accused of using warfare (BW) research. In 1969, rarely by the U.S. mainstream Pasteur's specimens of HTLV-III President Nixon claimed that the media. However, after the re­ lnow called HIV) to falsely claim U.S. was ending its BW program newed TASS publicity on March credit for "discovering" the virus and Ft. Detrick would be con­ 30, the Associated Press put the and to claim the royalties from verted into a National Cancer story, accenting the U.S. denial, the HIV antibody blood test. Institute laboratory. But ~ re­ on its North American and in­ cently settled lawsuit by the ternational wires, and it was On February 9, 1987, lawyers for Foundation on Economic Trends, a reported by CBS on Dan Rather's the Pasteur Institute were to Washington-based environmental evening news broadcast. present in court two different group, forced the Department of copies of a letter sent from Defense to admit that secret BW scientists at Ft. Detrick to research continues at Ft. Detrick Gallo's lab concerning HIV virus and 127 other government and Continued on p. 10 research. In one version, cer­ university sites around the tain key information had been_ country. On February 17, 1987, Is AIDS a designer disease?

Un ti f:' r t he ,: u r r en t :.i S ad :n i n i s t r a t: i o n Maryland, a primary US Army bio­ killed 3,000 people, from pros­ biological warfar0 research spending logical warfare research facility. ecution on war crimes charges, in has increased 500 percent, primarily exchang~ for sharinq their research in thP a1·ea of genetic engineering T r1 e A l DS e p i de :n i c e ~~ l, r g e d f u l 1 - b 1 own data with their US counterparts. And of new disease organisms. in thf' three US cities with not long ago it was widely publi­ organ i zed gay co 1nm u n i ~ i e s before cized that the US Army's Biological At a Ho 1J s e Ap p r o p r i a ~ i on s h e a r i n n i n appearing anywhere else, including Warfare unit had in 1959 conducted 1969, the Defense Departmf:'nt's Bio­ Hait·i or Africa wher·e it is supposed dispersal tests with live germs, on logical Warfare division requested to have originated. This is f'pide­ unsuspecting civilians in the San funds to develop, throuq~ gene­ miologically absurd. Francisco Bay area. So we're not splicing, a new disease that would dealing here with people who care resist 'lnd break down 'l v·i,~tirn's Before dismissing the possibility about your health. immune system. "Within the next S to that a US Army Biological Warfare 10 years it would probably be facility would participate in gena­ The dangers of overpopulation have possible to :rake a new infective e i de , rem,~ 11 b e r t h a t t he en t i r e been exhaustively described for at micro-organism which could differ in st~ucture of the US military­ least thirty years. But the obvious certain important respects from any intelligence establishment was "solution" of population reduction known disease-causing organisms. completely overhauled and reoriented through •n as s ext e r mi nat i on s , and who Most important of these is that Jt with the importation of hundreds of rnight be pursuing that, has seldom •ni ght be refractory to the immuno­ top nazis into key positions been exam·ined. logical and therapeutic processes following WW II. There's no proof upon which we depend La maintain our those nazi s ever: o ave up the i r Evil is hard to confront, especially relative freedom from infectious longterm goals of-conquest and on the preposterous scale we have diseaie." (Sec "A Higher Form of genocide, just because they changed here. If we acknowledge the presence KilJing: The Secret Story of countries. Fascism was and is an of those who think their only hope Chemical and Biological Warfare" by international phenomenon. (See for survival of their kind is to R. Harris and J. Paxman, Hill and "Project Paperclip" by Clarence kill off two thirds of all the other Wang, pubs.) Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and kinds, and their ability to manage "Gehlen: Spy of the Century" by E.H. it, we then pretty much have to do AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981, 12 Cookridge, Random House.) something about it. years after the requested funds were appproved. Also, homosexuals were the first to --Reprinted from NOW WHAT, issue be exterminated in Nazi Germany, one, March-April 1987 ($2, It is significant that the "dis­ before the Jews, so fewer people $10/year) c/o Waves Forest, covery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) would object. PO Box 768, Monteray, CA 93942 was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, which After WW II, the US Army protected is on the grounds of Fort Detrick, the Japanese germ warfare unit, that Page 10 May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan

is-education Ignorance is fatal

As noted in the Pantagraph on Tues., eras than this. Telling teens to be thing to be uninformed and paranoid May 7, a number of AIDS-related bills good doesn't work. Preaching at them about. supported by the so-called "pro-family" is even less effective. or "right-to-life" lobbies carne up But it is, of course, only the bad before the Illinois House Elementary So, they're going to tell 'ern to keep kids who screw around anyway, and Secondary Education Committee on their pants on, and then they're going especially when they've been told the previous day. These bills would: to purposely undereducate them about not to. So, hey, they deserve it, "ban school clinics from distributing what practices are and aren't safe. right? God's punishment, right? contraceptives, require the teaching of sexual abst1nence until marriage, and prohibit the teaching of 'safe' (sic) homosexual sex practices."

On the bright side: the Committee chucked the contraceptive-related bills. Given the current political mood, that is no small victory.

The bad news: the bills requiring that abstinence be taught in the schools (HB1225) and banning safe-sex education (HB1226) went through, and will be corning up for a vote some time soon.

These bills successfully combine both the repression of differences and the short-sighted naivete that the "pro­ lifers" are so famous for. Let's look 150 B.C. PROGRESS? 1985A.D. at them one at a time, shall we?

So they want teachers to teach abstinence in the schools. And that's Let's face facts: there are no As Phyllis Schlafly's Springfield supposed to work--that's going to keep "heterosexual" and "homosexual" spokeswoman Kathleen Sullivan told the Pantagraph, "There isn't a kid post-pubescent teens, each one of them sex practices. Most sex practices a small vat of bubbling hormones, out can be, and are, practiced by people who is promiscuous who isn't sick in of each other's pants. Right. in all of the varying persuasions. So, "the mind or the body." And maybe to say that they're not going to teach she's right. But is that because Do you remember being a teen? Then "homosexual" safe sex to the kids seerris sex is inherently bad? Or because surely you remember the "it can't to mean they're not going to teach any people like Ms. Sullivan put so much safe sex. Period. happen to me" rationale that even energy into making kids feel evil and fairly well-educated teens seem to be ignorant about something that is, possessed of. Look at the number of Great. So the teens who've been told after all, a perfectly normal part to stay out of each other's pants, and of life1 teen morns. Look at the number of teen didn't listen (and don't kid yourself, pregnancies even during more repressive that's going to be a lot of teens) If we want to raise intelligent, won't have any idea what they can do responsible, alive kids, we have to safely and what they can't. teach them all that they need to know to survive and thrive, and we have to Health Dept. issues And since the emphasis is still on teach them how to make their own homosexuality, despite the rising deci'sions based on that information. number of heterosexuals who have policy gotten the disease from each other, Denying teenagers information crucial AIDS the kids who prefer the opposite sex to them, and then using that lack of will probably think they're safe. 'Til information to scare them into The Mclean County Board of Health, it's too late. Whoops. Sorry, kids. following someone else's decisions at its March 18th meeting, adopted a And the gay teens, who have enough is not only dangerous, to all of us, comprehensive policy regarding the problems already, what with homophobia it is also profoundly immoral. Health Department's role in the and their own hormones, have one more control of Acquired Immune --Chris M. Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The J-0-0 ... 0_0_( policy outlines the Departmen~'s emphasis in the areas of test1ng, U.S. denies • • • education and counseling. Continued from p. 9 High priority within the policy Over the years, gay newspapers .instigated cancer research exper­ statement is given to the Health have periodically speculated about iments and then spread with Soviet Department's ongoing effort ~o BW theories. So have some right­ complicity to attack the U.S. pop­ provide risk reduction edu~at1on to wing journals. In fact, the two ulation. Seale's theories have individuals exhibiting high risk doctors cited by the Soviets, John been publicized by Lyndon behaviors. High risk behavior~ Seale of London and Robert Strecker LaRouche's organization, known for include: engaging in sexual of Los Angeles, ironically hold ex­ its racist, anti-Semitic and anti­ relations with more than one treme right-wing views. They be­ gay views. partner~ certain homosexual/bisexual lieve that the AIDS virus, rather activities, and IV drug use. than being a product of U.S. BW re­ --Bob Lederer search, was engineered in Soviet- Reprinted from Gay CornmiPity News Other educational efforts are directed toward health care providers, emergency services professionals, law enforcement oersonnel correctional workers, ~uman ser~ice agencies, schools and the general public. Two items were added to existing Rape Crisis Center Health Department policies. First, the Board of Health approved the Department providing disease prevention devices, such as condoms, of Mclean County to persons counseled within its program. Second, the Board of Health WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER stated its intent to ensure the provision of other Health Department ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR FRIENDS services to individuals who have AND FAMILIES. tested positive for the HIV FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE antibody, and who qualify, so long VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION AND as such service provision does not SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. present a clear health risk to client or staff. If you want to talk to one of us The intent of the Board of Health's policy is to make a def~nitiv~ Call PATH 827-4005 declaration to the publ1c of 1ts crucial role in stemming the spread and ask for the of this deadly disease. The AIDS policy was adopted by unanimous vote of the Board. Rape Crisis Center Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page 11 15 years ot alternative news Welcome to our little town :&EING A LEFTIST DOESN'T "). All things Amerikan t-'\~AN AUTOIV\FlTICN.LY BUNG Singers. RGA11'1Si E..\I~Rc,'THitH:r, Y'kNOWl

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There'll be some changes in the for­ \Tho's nuking who. Bland economic mat of this paper now that millionaire forecasts are as dead as last week's Wig stands publisher Rupert Murdoch has bought mar1.ne. it for an undisclosed sum rumored to be as high as three figures. "Headlines ... you gotta grab the eye. You guys are way too downbeat. read the Post Murdoch himself could not be reached Look at this cover: nice graphic, because he was busy selecting the if you biz it up a bit with some "Babe of the Week" photo for the Times color, but the head is nowhere-- of London, but Q spokesperson for~m­ 11Revenge of the Cabbage Patch Kids. 11 said that the Post Amerik&n needed a I mean, c'mon! For something like number of style changes.-- this you need what we call a nut­ arabber: "Tots Slash Dozens in Toy ''First off,'' said lhe spokesperson, Orgy." See what I mean? Now that'll ''more color. Lots wore. Purple se11 papers." lettering will really grab the eye. i\nU pies, tons of pies.. So;nething to Post Amerikan staffers F'erdydurke, l1old the interest. We plan to run a Pho€be Caufie1d, und Marshall Law, 'ND: lltE ohu t u[ a naked narc, full front, picketing outside the paper's main Dll LIV-IIIT WHI.'- IIE'IJUIII\ every month, plus a Ms. Deme~nor on office, told this reporter that Lhey &Uflllt\ 5£L£CTE~ liND lllf llllllltE page 2. were considering founding a rivctl 15 l'.. '>TfD DOIHII.' pt1Llication of their own. ''And the format has oat to change. No more of this wimp~· cerebral junk. ''We're not sure what to call it,'' Why does Willi e _Wigstand read the Pos.t­ lf you're gonna talk politics, go said Phoebe. "Maybe the ~_!__Q.­ Amerikan? "For the polyester ads," tor it! Print the bQllsy stuff. Dctcrmined.11 ------··- ---- says Wigstand, 23. "The Post has Believe me, economic forecasts ~cn't always had the very best in polyester, go over. Dirt sells, man! Your "Or the Pos~ ~ail," said Ferdy. particularly ip ski masks. It's average Joe 'Liberal wants to know paying attention to the little things --.Scaramouche that makes the Post the best rag around .. " County jail warden tells reporter:

Why does ~ell-known capitalist folk­ s i nger Georgie Glop read the Post­ "If you print that, I'll cut your balls off" Amerikan? "For the bank ads," says Glop, 36. "Great insp iration, and I - E.S82. can use a lot ·of the i nterest rates in my lyrics." ''1cminine Falwell wants your baby! Hi-tech babies in ·Bloomington-Normal Urinary tract infections: .·no

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1':·1 Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page 15 Clinton creates Letter(s) need for vigilance Settlement Dear Post Amerikan, Search for Because Clinton was not preventert, family roots lets peace the best we ran rio is ~o start Dear Post Amerikan, Dlanninq nnw f~Jr vioilant watch1nq ~f Clinion. Just like at othrr In the early to mid 2nd half of the facilities, a near-accirtent or 1800's some of my ancestors' family groups into accident is inevitable. Wnen settle~ in Bloomington for awhile. e 'IOrk, fought with the alternative information on military Confederates in the Civil War and service. This settlement improves In solidarity, was killed in the 1st battle of their ability to take advantage of Sue Frizzell Fredricksburq in 1862. Jerry George that right. It also helps ensure ;nove d and r a i sed h i s fa mi 1 y i n the that the First Amendment rights of mining area west of Denver, CO. His student journalists will not be oldest son was named Frank Albert. trampled on by over-zealous school Anna eventually settled in Clear administrators. Creek Co, CO in 1365 as a teacher. She married Harry Elder and raised The case originated from a 1982 Feed bark her family in Denver. Ellen was decision by the Grossmont school raised by the A.C. Moore fa:nily, · district to ban paid advertisements married John C. Groves and moved to "by COMO from all nine of its high An unidentified reader sent us this Herkimer, NY. Albert Daniel came school student publications. COMO, response to cur well-loved "Your dog also to reside in Colorado, which v1as then known as the San Diego eats better than this hippie" ultimately building his home and Committee Against Registration and the subscription ad. raising his family in Fru·ita, CO." Draft (CARD)., had been placing advertisements in various school papers Ma n y of A. 1 b e r t Da n i e 1 1 s , J e r e :n i a h offering young people information on George Mahany's, and Anna Elder's their rights and options regarding descendents surely stil 1 live in draft registration. Denver and western Colorado, and so•ne of Mdry Call.~hans either in COMO brought suit against Grossmont in Illinois, Ohio, or Colorado. We need federal 'Court and requested a temporary everyone 1 s personal knowledge, old injunction while it waited for a trial. letters, papers, or pl10tos that .nay \------, Yes, I want to support a After this injunction-was denied, an Post Amerikan give us clues ta help us complete appeal was made to the Ninth Circuit I 0 Leftist propagandist PO Box 3452 this history and pinpoint this Court of Appeals. In June 1986, the 0 Gay activist . Bloomington, IL faonily's h•'qinnina<. in ],·eland. appell~te court ruled that the lower I' )){Deluded nut j~M"'"j h•rr·) 61702 I court had abused its discretion and 0 ~epressed fem~n~st· . . r - 7 i"a.., ... . { t' 0 Send me a subscr~tct~on, .,4 Please can any of you help Write that a preliminary injunction should ~'' 1 1"•j .~ i~r·~ 0 sen<.l me a Post .'\merikan or to: Lois N. Pope, 6310 Foothills, have been awarded. Punk Rocker T-shirt, $7 Farmington, NM 87401. Thank you v~ry S H L XL much. This ruling was based on the ' Q(Got no money, but I like you. court's determination that "mili­ r;., r~ .M..P"'"Ii"i Sincerely, tary service is controversial and Ncme • L ; 1 A L _ , t<.:: A Lois N. Pope political in nature." The court 01.'1 C:vy.\A,,,'r 1\~o;,..,r ~~'~"i .. ""'1'0"'~~ further stated: "Here, the school ~ddress C~ty state z~p I board permitted mixed political and commercial speech advocating military service, but attempted to bar the same type of speech opposing such service. The board has fail­ ed to advance a compelling gov­ ernmental interest justifying its conduct. Accordingly, the board violated the First Amendment when BE A STAR it excluded CARD's advertisements." Soon after the landmark decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the school district petitioned for an appellate court Turn heads rehearing, and the U.S. Justice Department--on behalf of the U.S. as you walk Army--moved to intervene in the case. Both the petition for re­ down the street! hearing and the motion to inter­ vene were denied. The settle­ ment of the case on April 6 re­ r-----cLIP-N-SEND•-----· moves the necessity of holding a trial to determine whether a 1 YES, I crave the fame and glory 1 permanent injunction should be I a Post-Amerikan T-shirt will 1 issued to COMO. I bring me! I can't live without I it. In fact I'll just die if I' I Besides granting COMO an equal I can't have a Post T-shirt! opportunity to place advertise­ I -:nclosed is my check for $6. 00, I ments, the settlement requires that the Grossmont school dis- · Thank,you. You've made my life ~ I trict provide all its journal­ I worth living again. I ism faculty advisors with a I Circle Size S M L XL I copy of the appellate court decision, that a copy of the I I decision be posted in each I Name 1 journalism classroom, and that I I, a memorandum be issued to all I Address. I principals in the district cancelling the original 1982 I ~ity, State, Zip I order banning publication of I Clip-n-send to Post-Amerikan, P. 0. I COMO advertisements. 1 Box 3452, Bloomington, IL 61701. I --Carol Jahnkow, Recon Network ------~ Page 16 May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan Community News

Summer camp teaches 650 summer jobs diabetes survival available for youth 650 jobs will he available to Decatur, IL--Camp GranADA is a summer economically disadvantaged youth camp for children with diabetes th1s summer across a 4-county area between the ages of 8 and 15 which served by the United Pri~ate enables the campers to enjoy the Industry Council (UPIC). · traditional camping activities, learn to establish good habits, develop . You.1g people, aJes 14-21. mav call independence, and receive education Oppression or s~op in for a screeni~g • on all phases of diabetes. appointment for the Summer Youth Emp~oyment Program (SYEP) in their ~he camp will be held August 2-8, a:.1<3 res1dent county UPIC office in 1s located at Western 4-H Camp on raising your Ma~on, Fulton, Mclean, or Tazewell ~ake Jacksonville, Illinois. The camp Coun~y. Screenings begin Apri 1 1 and 1s sponsored by the American Diabetes cont1nue through May 29. Association, Downstate Illinois blood- pressure? Affiliate, and serves children in With its complications, diabetes is : h C: P r i ~~a r y e l i ~ i b i l i t y r e q u i r e 1n en t , 79 counties. this nation's third leading cause of l~come 1n relat1on to family size, death by disease which affects nearly w1ll apply ~hen youth are screened, There is a weekly fee; however, some 12 million Americans. and a parent or guardian must camper scholarships are available. accompany applicants under 18 years Diabetes is a disease in which the of age. If you would like to sponsor a child ~ody ~oes not produce or properly use or would like further information 1nsul1n, a hormone that is needed to SYEP is funded through a federdl concerning camp, please contact the convert sugar, starches and other food gra~t totaling approximately affiliate office at 1-800-445-1667. into energy needed for daily life. ~?45,000. UPIC ha~ awarded contracts .J four organ11.at1ons who will use the money to place yout~ in . H~pert~nsion is more common among d1abet1cs than nondiabetics but the t em iJ or· a r y sum n; e r· p o s i t i on s for Close down diabetes may not explain it~ presence. m i n i mu n 'II a 9 e • The factors that contribute to non­ insulin-dependent diabetes and All jobs wil 1 be at public, non- P t~ c f i t yY I: t' k ~ i t p s 0 n rJ vJ 1 I 1 r ci!, q t:? r ,~ !) frl Hanford hypertension are similar, such as 1 1 J.. ~1 l~• hour< · ~I {) obesity and aging. .j \.r\ f~• ~~~ I< ~~ J il (' 1 q h t •!J :7-: f~ t( The Hanford nuclear reservation is r· r: r- ; r• d.. h ~ q ; n n i n q .J lj n e l S . \~ o ,.. 1<. c r s not producing plutonium .right now, \'.j '! 11 Approximately 58 million Americans 1 ~ n u t~ v ;: r y· t r.! i q f r o rn c 1~~ a n i ,, q because sloppy management and a d r· p r i ,-; g <, <.> ~ i ti i 11 q '· have an increased risk of illness P k s a n d r·, a ; c h o b u l near-accident forced an independent t o 111 n ,- k i n y ,;~ '-7. i n t e t~ n s f ::; r v a l~ i o u (~ - - and early death due to hypertension. panel to demand an overhaul and rn · i n i c i p (1 l i t i ~:. ~:, ~ inspection of the facility. Two of This represents more than one out of every four adult Americans. the six panel members recommended Tn .3d C! i t i 0 P t;) S U 'lHn t> f v· 1~1 ;-~ ; (1 v n:, l n t -·' ' . ) that Hanford be closed permanently. s u :n e you l be (~ n ( 1 J d 1 n Hypertension is abnormal high blood l h ": i 1 o e pressure--the pressure in the. arteries s p '" c I ,, 1 t u r oJ r i 11 g r; 1 il s s e s for Highly radioactive liquid and solid ·~l\~iJ j('llfl j C (('',)d i J:, Y'2r!;l:'d i .?; 1 "'el1d; nr! as blood passes through them. wastes and millions of ga1lons of 1 11 ~. ~ 1! c t i (; r: , :J n •1 a r (.~ ;ri ;1 l n y ii 1J i l l t :: low-level wastes contaminate the '-~~it..., tr"t1lrlllq

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The fifth annual "Art and Music shown in Chicago, Cleveland, New for the Rape Crisis Center" Yor~, Los Angeles, London, benefit will open with a recep­ Par1s, and Venice. His work is included in the permanent tion for local artist Nicholas collections of the Museum of Africano from 6 pm to 8 pm on Tuesday, May 19, at Illinois Modern Art, the Metropolitan State University's Center for Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in the Visual Arts. New York. Thirteen monotype prints by The Rape Crisis Center is a Africano will be given to people who make donations of $250 or not-for-profit organization more to the RCC. that provides trained counselors for the victims of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse· their Each signed monotype is families and friends; and,the different, and all were offenders of such crimes. It produced by painting dir~ctly also provides training for onto a printing plate, which then was pressed on Japanese rice hospital and law enforcement personnel, counselors, and other paper to make the print. professionals. It's public education program speaks to The monotypes will be exhibited high school, university, and in Gallery Two of the University adult education classes in the Galleries until June 14, after area, as well as community "Sorry r had-to drop your class, s~ butthe.1 cut my stlldent loan." which they will be delivered to groups and organizations. donors. The RCC can be reached 24-hours Africano is represented in New a day by calling PATH at 827-4005 York by the Holly Solomon and asking for the Rape Crisis Camp directory available Gallery. His work has been Center. The 1987 Camp Directory for children and teenagers with diabetes is now available free to the public. ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY The directory lists by state resident c~m~s sponsor~d ~y the Center for the Visual Art Gallery American Diabetes Association (ADA) aff1l1ate assoc1at1ons and accredited by the American Camping Association (ACA). Information on local day camps is also available. NI.CHOLAS AFRICANO The 50 camps listed in the directory passed a rigorous review Monotypes of both the ACA and ADA. Trained health personnel are on site, arrangements with local hospitals and medical facilities are Exhibition and Benefit Sale for in place, and other needs of this special medical population, The Rape Crisis Center of Mclean County such as nutrititional needs, are taken into account. May 19 to June! 14, 1987 Each year, approximately 100 children attend ADA camps in Reception Tuesday, May 19, 6- 8 p.m. Western 4-H Jacksonville. Information on the camping program, financial assistance "camperships," and other ADA services and programs are available by contacting the Downstate Illinois Affiliate office at 1-800-445-1667. Face behind the voice Chicago Blues Festival One of the most popular National Mayor Harold Washinqton has We!Jinqton ana Bi J ly Branch. Music Library Service narrators of talking announced a partial- list of head­ is scheduled continuously from noon books, Yvonne Fair-Tessler, will be line•·s for the Fourth Annual Chicdqo llntil 10:30 p.m. e.1ch of the thre~~ in the Community Room of Bloomington ~ l u e <; F e ~ t. i v a 1 , i n c 1 u d i n g ,J a :r: '=' s · days. Public Library Thursday May 21, 1987 ~ott~n, Johnny Guitar Watson, Albert at 10:00 a.m. ~oll1 ns, Ca•·l Perkins .1n•1 C 1 ar,~nce This year wil 1 host the return of :, a r· t e r . T h e f e s t i v d 1 d ,1 t e s a r c! the Chicago Blues Plate Special, the F r i day, June 5 , Sat u r· ..Jay ,June 6 food area which premiered at last Yvonne Fair-Tessler is presently a (" i . ' ' narrator for talking books, as well as an,d 1Un(ay, June 7. The wo,·ld's year's festival and showcased some a free lance talent and writer. She largest free blue'> fest iva~ wi! 1 of the city's most flavorfu-l street is noted for her narration of over i n c 1 u d ,, t h r e e •_; t a q '-" ,, a r " .o " f 0 r- foods. 100 books for the National Library Per f

I'M USf4JLL V AT WORK most utopian. So the current repudia­ EARLY 50 I CAN GET 011 THE 13uSE.S B' >ORt. lHE In the rush to saturate the airwaves tion of sex and drugs is one more re­ SCHJOL KIDS OCT ON with antidrug messages that forsake nunciation of the '60s, with its AND ALSO $:l I CAN realism for naive righteousness, we READ H'1 !¥\PER. promise to make ecstasy part of ordin­ can glimpse the coercion that under­ ary existence_ lies consensus. Just as business­ people are monitored by "activists," we are all under implicit observa­ Fit to print tion by hot lines any neighbor can dial. The president urges workers to We don't hear from the millions of report their drug-using colleagues, people for whom drugs and erotica are arguing that informing should be components of a productive life; this seen as "saving a life," not "squeal­ is not the kind of news that's fit to ing on a friend." Add to these vec­ print. We do hear from those who were tors of surveillance our own child­ endangered, and we see those who've ren, suddenly invested with the been destroyed; they are all around power to betray. No wonder there's so us, visible proof that the pursuit of eecstasy is a risky business. But a little opposition to the New Sobriety. program that focused on rescuing the afflicted would not have created such elaborate mechanisms of intrusion into our bodies and homes. Brouhaha For the New Sobriety has as its ulti­ mate aim the standardization of To separate what society says ecstasy. It is the psychic arm of about pleasure and danger from a cultural movement to reassert what we actually feel, we need to "values" - the codes of behavior and, underst~nd what the war on drugs, more significantly, social hierarchy the pan~c over adolescent sexuality, that were suspended, or at least mud­ consensus. The forge is fired with the anx2ety about alcohol, and the dled, in the '60s and '70s. As Rea­ anxiety, generated by media that un­ brouhaha over birth control have in ganism calls an end to racial and cover crisis after crisis. There's common, and why these issues are sexual mobility, as it restores the no time to stop and think: How ari~ing now. Ten years ago, we were dominance of family and corporate authentic is the state of emergency? up ln arms about additives and units over the individual, as it Is drug use really on the rise? (A pol~utan~s; ~oday, we're mobilizing affirms the power of religious ortho­ recent government study concluded agalnst 2ntox2cants and promiscuity. doxy over mode~nist faith in the that the use of all illicit drugs In the shadow of Chernobyl, that's heterodoxies of "identity," those except cocaine has remained stable--or quite a shift. emblems of inner autonomy--sex and declined.) Are teenagers drinking drugs- must also be brought under more than ever before? (A whole new The power of the New Sobriety lies in control. criminal class has been created by its ability to fuse groups that are recent laws raising the drinking age usually at each other's throats. America has always veered preci­ from 18 to 21.) Are kids having sex There has always been a connection pitously between extremes of sooner these days? (Or is it just between the counterculture and the hedoY).ism and frigidity, ecstasy that "nice" girls are now doing what evangelicals, in their common . and repression, anarchy and regimen- boys always did?) quest for a transcendental political .tation. As a culture, we dance reality, in their mutual mistrust of wildly round the maypole and then, rationalism, materialism, and liberal­ abruptly, try to chop it down. In Anthems of resistance ism. But who ever thought the Granola this sequence, one can glimpse as generation would come to embrace an clearly as in the political process a In the '50s, when the mainstream agenda in which sex and·drugs are culture was obessed with "jungle struggle between our abhorrence of proscribed? Who ever thought that desire and our urge to unleash it. music" and juvenile-delinquency, feminists who once insisted on their kids could cultivate another per­ right to pleasure would end up Ecstasy and violence, pleasure and spective in comic books, horror embracing the politics of safety? movies, and especial.l,y rock 'n' roll. danger- maybe they are inexorably Their adversarial nature inspired linked. If the New Sobriety In the roiling dialectic of cultural accomplishes nothing else it will my generation to resist, and po~it~cs, alliances are constantly ultimately to assert its own values. sh2ft2ng. But one thing about the lt might seem as if nothing could current critique that is unlikely to change is its association of sinful Pleasure and insurgency. That connec­ tion must be fundamental to the New Sobriety, because all the forms of pleasure under attack have this in common: They represent--at least in the popular imagination- a powerfully a~tisocial impulse. When we get hlgh, we really are withdrawing from ordinary social discourse. When we watch a porn film, we really are em­ barking on an interaction in which the rules of conduct are suspended. At their most profound, these alterations of consciousness allow us to regress to a state of infantile arousal in which the self is utterly omnipotent And this recovery of pure desire was an emblem of the counterculture at its force those who despise its grim be more of an invitation to resist commandments to reconcile the often than the parched rictus of Nancy warring imperatives of pleasure and Reagan urging kids to "just say safety. The counterculture fell apart no" but in fact, the capacity for before its moral impulses could be personal dissent depends on a institutionalized, leaving us free to culture of dissent. And one of the invoke powerful drives, but adrift most compelling aspects of the New AN]) ON THE STGHTH without a tradition to regulate them. Sobriety is its command of youth DAY [rDj) C.REAIE.D In the absence of community, pleasure culture. With the occasional excep­ TNDDDR SPDRT. .. '' went private in the '70s, and the tion of rap (a refuge for the earthy burgeoning commercialism of sex and perogatives of black music), there and drugs that followed is one reason are no anthems of resistance to the why the current backlash has such New Sobriety (and even rap artists credibility. The project now must be know enough about commercial sur­ to resanctify pleasure and all its vival to pv1t their shoulders to the implements - to produce erotica that antidrug campaign). commemorates the primal human act, to generate strategies for getting high The incredible speed with which that maximize revelation and minimize Madison Avenue, the networks, the dependence, to develop lubes and sports and music industries joined shields that free sex from the scourge forces to respond to the declaration of disease. Such inventions can of a drug emergency could only occur only be possible if we insist on what in a climate where the media have the New Sobriety denies: that arousal already been subjected to assault by and intoxication are fundamental human quasi-governmental "citizen's groups." impulses, not accessories to a life­ What with the monitoring of rock style. At the same time we need to lyrics, the picketing of movie houses, acknowledge what the New Sobriety and the threat to boycott convenience proclaims: That pleasure can unleash stores that carry Playboy, a distrib­ violence, and that attention must be utor, exhibitor, or programmer who paid. brazenly promotes hedonism risks the wrath of "activists" who are far --Richard Goldstein, for better organized and much more The Village Voice sanctimonious than those secular humanists who enjoy erotica. Reprinted from the Utne Reader, May/ June 1987.

Page 20 May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan Perverse ideas Sometimes the routine of life is medical care for everyone wno almost unbearable. Five days a week situation where society is footing requires assistance. In short, to the bill, the use of the resources there is the same job for the same guarantee every person some standard hours of the day. There is a safe will be that which most benefits of living comfort and stability. society and not necessarily what the ~lace to return to at night. There Well known and respected advocates individual would choose. 1s always enough to eat and drink. of such a system in recent times Occasionally the desire is pressing include Andrei Sakharov, Martin The presumed good to be achieved by to be free of all this comfort and Luther King, Jr., John Kenneth st~bility! to start now on some pil­ these increased restrictions on grlmage w1th only the provisions Galbraith, and Erich Fromm. individual freedom is the elimination of suffering and danger carried at that moment. It would be In the past few years East Coast tr~ly da~ger9us, but also truly in life. This may seem like a stupid city government actions indicate question, but is that truly good? st1mulat1ng. All of your faculties movement toward this type of would be totally concentrated on the Aren't the challenges and risks in present--keep your eyes open. Government. In 1985, Mayor Koch of life an indispensable part of it? New York authorized police and Tnat's what I was trying to show at Listen. How will I survive? What social workers to stop anyone who will I eat? Where will I sleep? Such the beginning of this essay: too an adventure would be like traveling appeared to be homeless on nights much stability does not enhance to another world. life, it stagnates it. For example what would happen to personal growth Living sometimes presents us with and integrity if one of Erich alarming challenges whether we want Fromm's prescriptions was applied? them or not. There are automobile He proposed in his book The Sane crashes, natural disasters seriou~ Society that, "Each indiv1dual can illnesses and catastrophic'economi~ act as a free and responsible agent turns. The Great Depression, for only if one of the main reasons for example, eradicated people's jobs present-day un-freedom is abolished: and life savings simultaneously. the economic threat of starvation which forces people to accept Today, many family-owned farms havP working conditions which they would been taken in foreclosures and still otherwise not accept." Fromm be more are threatened wi~h the same recommends that people allowed to fate due to economic changes. A esc~pe this "un-freerlom" by claiming group of significant numbers the 1 r g u a r a n teed mi n i mu ~~ 5 t a n d a r d o f believes that the Government should living. Such a program ~~auld remov~ enact laws and administer programs much of the risk of quittinq a job to st~p these foreclosures. the simply because you don't like it. basis of this conclusion appears to Which action requires more be that it is wrong for people to integrity? Quitting when you know lose their way of life due to forces some minimum inco:ne will still be beyond their control. The available to you, or quitting farm-owning families were workinq without such a support? just as hard and honestly as bef;re the economic turn. They committed no Looking from another angle at how crime. Therefore, society should not danger in life is necessary, permit cal.~·nity to strike them.~ consjder why the astronauts of today '! ·> . \ ' ' '.:; <' ,_ s,cr-:,adrnired. They are··'·vecause · ~ ~ __ He 7 I n t h e s am e wa y , · ma rry -a ~ ~ e e : th a 't t he •" ~ltllet r~alle cttos'~h to; r~:C;e tf~·ngers and · ~s,uffer-i ng i n·:order' 'to ;ro ll'd·w- the Gov~rnment should insur~ everyone aga1nst such disasters as job loss desires of their hearts. They are due to economic/technological not risking their lives solely for changes and serious illness. Som~ altruistic reasons. They have even think the GovPrnment should accepted a dangerous challenge provide some minimum of fond hecause of the opportunity it clothing, shelter, emolovmenf, and provides to develop and test their abilities to the utmost. "It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly anll comp1acently is not to live at all" (Jack London). Coors banned The more we demand Government to make our lives placid, to insur~ us in Boston against handicaps, against job loss, wh5n the temperature dropped below aqainst the infirmities of old age, Openly gay Boston City Councillor David 32"F. The person was then to be ultimately against all hazards, the Scondras announced that Coors Beer will offered a ride to a shelter. If the 1 ess free we wi 11 become and the no longer be sold at Fenway Park, home of person refused, a superior officer less rich our lives will be. Perhaps the Boston Red Sox baseball team. The o r s o c i a l ~~ o 1· k e x e c u t i v e c o u l d b e the course we should take is not move to ban Coors came as a result of consulted. If the superior ordered 3 t t e 111 p t i n () to pro v i d e t h i s negotiations between Scondras, Fenway it, the pol ice or social workers insurance, but improving our mental Park management and union representat­ could forcibly transport the person and bodily abilities for coping with ives. to a hospital for psychiatric hazards. It should be realized that evaluation. Later that same year, a suffering and danger are necessary "Boston baseball fans should not be sub­ federal district judge allowed the for life. Doe~ this sound insane? I sidizing a terrorist war in Central Ameri­ U.S. Government to close a decaying nope that r am not simply trying to ca," said Scondras, referring to Coors' shelter in Washington, D.C., only on makP an elaborat~ excuse for funding of the Contras, "nor should they the condition that it find new homes selfishness and cruelty. Certainly help support a family that is dedicated to for all the residents. it is perverse to recommend that attacking the rights of gay people, blacks, people be allo1~t>d to live in misery women and unions." Is this course of making the for their own good. But the response Government responsible for providing to human misery mu~t not be locking Last year Scondras won an agreement from everyone a minimum standard of ourselves into golden prisons. Fenway Park management to· severely res­ living really desirable? Consider trict Coors sales. This year's decision to what would be necessary to provide The quarrel is with those who ban the beer entirely is believed to be one such a standard. T3xes would see in sound public service of the single largest contracts Coors has increase dramatically. The some danger to society. In lost as a result of its alleged homophobic, Government bureaucracy would fact the public services are racist and anti-union activities. mushroom with the people required to one of the two great forces in administer the increased revenue. the fiscal system working for "Councillor Scondras has shown that to­ Any aid administered through the· economic equity and social gether working people, gay people and all Government is, of course, going to stability. those struggling for social justice can be regulated. One can see this even John Kenneth Galbraith win," said Dominic Bozzotto, head of Ho­ today. For instance, there are tel Employees and Restaurant Employees restrictions on what can be "The world's stable now. Local 26. purchased with food stamps. Medicare People are happy; they get payments are likewise contingent what they want, and they never Bozzotto went on to urge activists in other upon certain conditions and want what they can't get. cities to investigate beer sales in other regulations. Let's suppose a program They're well off; they're sports parks and arenas to see if Coors is created to guarantee everyone safe; they're never ill; is being sold; "Baseball is supposed to be retraining if their former job they're not afraid of death •• an all American sport -- with their record begins to be done by machine. Isn't And if anything should go of union-busting, opposing workers' dig­ the scenario of aptitude tests used wrong, there's soma. Which you nity and human rights, and funding 'ter­ by officials to "recommend" the most go and chuck out of the window rorism in Central America -- Coors does-, appropriate area of study all too in the name of liberty, Mr. n't deserve to be sold in any park in this believable? If employment is Savage. Liberty!" He laughed. country." · guaranteed for all, won't the case Aldous Huxley be one of Government assigning people to jobs and not individuals --Madame Bovary --MGt.f selecting their own? In any Post-Amerikan May-June 1987 Page 21 The GM odyssey: Lies, not.science

The adjoining ad is one in a series of Well, not to worry, because a bit "GM Odyssey" pieces now appearing in pop­ closer reading lets you know that this ular magazines like Scientific American. great invention is only a fantasy at GM, In an Orwellian twist, the advertiser anyway. "GM is working" to bring you improves its image by promising im­ Obstacle Detection for "cars of the possible advances in a future never to future." come. Most importantly, the promises Actually, GM is working on your mind's will not be remembered. tendency to reta1n an overall impression and forget the details. Since most of This ad shows a blonde, white child on us don't carefully think through ads a tricycle behind a car. The caption: like this, we're likely to remember, "The Ultimate Vision: Eyes for the "Oh, yeah, GM is doing all that high­ Back of Your Head." It implies, of tech safety stuff so we won't squish course, that the child has narrowly white kids and cute deer." escaped being squished. How? With the new radar technology from GM, which Yes, cute deer are saved in the next provided a WATCH warning on the dash­ installment of the GM series, which board when it sensed the trike. (Note adds an infrared monitor onto the the sample dashboard at the bottom of dashboard, thus showing the driver the ad.) outlines of two deer in the road ahead, otherwise invisible in the A quick glance at the ad and its text dark, rainy night. Will the driver makes GM look pretty good. After all, really be able to stop in time under squishing a blonde, white child would these conditions? be disconcerting to almost any driver. But one thought further and you realize It doesn't matter, does it? What mat­ that the driver's old-fashioned turn­ ters is the reading public's memory head, check-mirrors, honk, and scream­ that GM really tries to save Heidi and at-kids method would also work. Bambi, to make humane use of tech­ nology. Given that we all want to In fact, one thought further would make believe that technology has humane you wonder how much this radar tech­ uses, it's quite a gimmick. nology will add to the price of the family car. And whether it will indeed You can almost see the ad team slap­ alert you to every garbage can and ping their thighs and hooting when telephone pole in your vicinity~ Or, ~hey finally came up with the slogan: if the sensor only alerts you to move­ "The GM Odyssey: Science not Fiction." ment, imagine what your dashboard will look like when you drive on the freeway. --Phoebe Caulfield Equai Rights Amendment Returns for every dollar paid to a man. As many of us may already be aware, Elderly women dependent on Social the 200th birthday of the U.S. Security must manage on barely t\.,ro­ Constitution is being celebrated this thirds of the benefits men receive. summer. In the great celebratory Young women with a college degree tradition of the Bicentennial and last earn, on average, about the same wage year's Statue of Liberty festivities, as men with an eighth-grade education. our government will be spending And the list, unfortunately, goes on. hundreds of thousands of dollars to salute that document which guarantees With Reagan and his ilk in power, the fundamental rights and liberties these trends \'lill be difficult to of Amerikan citizens. But once again, .reverse--Phyllis Schlafly is even a legislators are going to be asked to member of the government's official stop ·and think about what is wrong Bicentennial Commission. But without with this picture, a picture that an ERA, these trends will be after 200 years, still doesn't impossible to reverse. The time has include over half of Amerikan come to include women in the citizens-women. Constitution.

A new Equal Rights Amendment will be The struggle for Constitutional introduced to Congress this summer equality has been long and hard fought, with hopes of finally providing a and this new battle will be equally fundamental Constitutional guarantee difficult. The opposition is already of equal rights for women. In an era hard at work planting fear appeals in in which the Supreme Court has grown women have faced, economic the minds of an uninformed public. increasingly conservative, when the discrimination continues. But remember that the suffragists President appoints right-wing took 72 years to win the right to reactionaries to judgeships in the According to the National Organization vote. Justice will be ours in the lower Federal courts, and the Justice for \.Yomen, women employed outside the end--failure is impossible. Department plays fast and loose with home receive on average only 64 cents everyone's legislative gains, an E~A -LH is needed now more than ever. It is not a mere symbolic gesture, for in addition to the legislative losses Diesel Dick's ****************

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508 N MADISON 9:00-530 828-1714 Mantra Mash '87: "Art I uck" Well, it's been over a year since the The entire fourth and fifth floor mal, organized opportunity to share Galery closed. Bands have broken up, (penthouse) space was open for vis­ C?mes along. Why not make it a con­ performers and artists have left town, ual.artists to exhibit their work. tlnuous endeavor? Here's some sug·gest- . and the live art scene in Bloomington/ Art1sts from ISU, Bloomington/ ions: Normal has seemed more dismal than Normal, Champaign/Urbana, Decatur ever. With no place to exhibit or and Chicago showcased a variety ' If you're in a band, get out and play perform their work, it felt like our ?f Paintings, sculpture, and collage with different people. Look for music­ creative community had really dried up 1n the hallways, galleries and ians with an open mind, and keep one for good. studios. This created a w~nderful yourself. Try to play with people who and diverse visual experience to be aren't necessarily like-minded. It's Not so. As this year's Free-X Avant­ wa~ked through, around, and under. a great way to learn and create brand garde Arts Festival (Mantra Mash '87) Th1s area also featured a table of new sounds at the same time. proved, there are still plenty of small Press_offerings from Blooming­ creative folks out there with lots to ton, Charnpa1gn, and Madison. If you're a vi~ual artist, don't always offer to the artistic community. work alone. G1ve yourself some time They've just been all dressed up with , The Penthouse space was open .to per­ to paint, dra~, sculpt, etc., with no place to go. formance ~rt, drama, readings, oth7r people 1n a collaborative effort. and s?me lmprovised music of a more Don t.wo-;,ry about producing a piece Mantra Mash '87 happened on May 2, exper1mental nature. Some of the that ls gallery quali ty"--i t 's the again in the Eddy Building, thanks to highlights of the evening here were process that counts. the ho $Pi tali ty .·of, nost&; Larry, - ,~eth Murphy;, et a,l,, ·.doing ;thei'r liilar- ·· Sylvester and Mary Ann Dillman. The :ldus p.erforinanc-e ·"Why eJ.o ·I liv~ with··- ·:. Th€?~e same things hold tru~ for format for the Festival was much the -;,ats", Kelly Fr~zier's readings from writers, performance artists, same as last year's (that is, almost Faces Fauz Pax , and Aquatics Ever photographers, filmmakers, ets. A anything goes) with a few organiza­ T~rhish's "The Honeymoon Deconstructs." writer doesn't always have to sit tional additions: Programs and posters L1z Was and Miekel .And from Madison alone in his/her room to work, he/ for the Festival were available, as ~ake up Aquatics, and they were married she can write in collaboration with well as the first edition of PULP, a 1n Mad1son as a performance piece. a dancer, a dramatist, or a musician publication featuring poetry, prose, "Deconstructs" was their honeymoon to produce a piece of intensity and and artwork contributed to the Fes­ perf?rma~ce and featured tapes, im­ effect. Get the picture? Anybody tival. Out of respect for the per­ prov1sat1on, and audience involve­ can ~ake art. And everybody should be formers and artists involved, the ment. Other performers included look1ng for alternative places to Mash was made alcohol-free this year. Mark Stairwalt, Tood Garrison Ed present their work. And finally, due to the increased Ridgeway, the Patchouli-Scent~d number of people interested in per­ Crazies, Grudge, KJ Productions forming and exhibiting their work, and Schiz-Flux, who's slogan "F~ee I guess what I'm really trying to say the Festival was split into different the Genitals, Cage the Generals"" is that the Mantra Mash, as exciting areas of the fourth ana !'i !'th f 1oors. became very appropriate in their and fun as it is, shouldn't be seen Piece, "What the Hell is Going On?" as just a singular event designed to A large studio on the fourth floor bring artists out of the woodwork provided space for musical guests. The Festival also featured "Artluck", once a year. Hopefully, it will be A wide variety of sounds were ~n art exchange idea in which all seen as an inspiration to stay visi~ heard during the course of the persons attending the Festival were ~le and to try to build a network with- evening, from the tense dance/pop asked to bring in a piece of original 1n the.creative community, one that re of Diatribe to the atonal im­ art. These would be exchanged later sults 1n growth for everyone involved. provisations of Madison's Grace, in the evening. Unfortunately the joined by Pennsylvania avant-garde "Artluck" didn't really get or} the Anyway, next year's Festival should be improvisor Jack Wright and W. g~o~nd, probably due to lack of pub­ bigger and better than ever so start Germany's Andreas Stehle on saxo­ llClty and advance notice. Oh, well getting ready for it now. ' phones. (To give an idea of how better luck next year ..••.•• Wait a the Festival has grown, these two minute! Why wait till next year, 'Nuff said? were on tcur, heard about the Mash anyway? The whole point of the Fes- --Diane· Perris from people in Madison, and called ti yal, it~ reason for being, is to to ask if they could play!). Other br1ng art1sts out of isolation, and P.S.--Mark Johnson and I are beginning bands which kept the floor shakin' to encourage the exchange of ideas and to network with other artists in the talents. I think it would be a real area who are interested in collabora­ all night long were Bad Examples, tion and live performance. If you're Les Dix, Earl's Breakdown, 100 East, sha~e if everybody that partici- Mr. Hand, Toltecs, and Sert Lorn pated and attended the Festival now interested, give us a call at 829-4377. Boon's Festival of Love. crawled back into their own niches (i.e., bands, studios, classrooms, desks) to wait until the next for-

Page 22 May-June 1987 Post-Amerikan We always try to mention in the Thanks column everyone who has directly participated in getting the paper out. However, in light of the conditions at the Post, I wanted to add a special thanks. This issue I, as the coordinator, requested articles in advance of the usual deadline. The writers came through. So did those people who edited, proofread and typed a week in advance. Some of these folks have never worked for the paper before, but they gave hours of their time for this issue, easing some burdens for the rest of us. It is to these people and the people I have a few thoughts for the folks who came down and laid out the paper who are new and who are interested Obviously things are going to change that I want to say a special thank in becoming a part of the post. at the Post, but 1 cannot seem to let you. Getting involved with putting out the paper go, at least not without a paper might seem like a tremendous trying to save it. And there are I also can't forget those individuals committment of time and effort, but others who feel as I do. Others who who have been doing thankless, rou­ it does not need to mean total in­ feel we just have not tapped into tine, behind-the-scenes Post work for volvement on your part. You can that network of people who will help years. We may not see you often, but still help us by doing one task a little bit here, a little there, who you are terribly important to us. every six weeks, tasks such as tak­ feel there are those out there who What we need are more people like ing the paper to the post office, will come in and join us. We have got you. typing, buying supplies, etc. to have you if we are going to sur­ vive. Please think about it. If To those people moving or leaving We still, of course, need people to the Post Amerikan is as important to the Post in the near future I want write and edit articles, sell ads, you as it :i.s to us, call and let us you to know you will be sorely miss­ and do the actual lay out of the know how you can help support the ed. You have given years of time, pages. Lay out can be a pleasant longest, continuously printing, energy and creativity to the paper, experience, but it can become gruel­ alternative newspaper in the United and one of the reasons it has surviv­ ing if too much is done by too few States. ed so long is because of people like for too long. You lose talented and you. dedicated people that way. --Val ------Passed Normal Revie

Here's the recipe: take a bunch of ("the cassettes"), two more releases they're giving it the old college guys, feed them a steady diet of from Home Recordings/Fat Records, drop-out try. Zappa and Pink Floyd, throw in some Central Illinois' own alternative Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Laurie music label. "Passed Normal" (which is also Anderson, John Cale, Ornette Coleman, available in album form) is a and Dr. Hook. For good measure, Like many of Home Recordings' other compilation of local (including That nurture with beer, bongs and releases, "Passed Normal" may be Hope and Tricycle Thieves) and mushrooms, throw them in a room with living proof of that much over­ national (Shockabilly, Snakefinger, some musical instruments, electronic quoted remark by Andy ~Jarhol, you and Fred Frith) alternative artists, effects and a multi-track recorder. know, the one about everybody getting kind of the musical equivalent to Mix to taste. What will you get? famous for fifteen minutes. Well, abstract expressionism in visual art. Probably something akin to ''Passed maybe these guys won't get too Some listeners' first reaction Normal" and "Way Passed Normal" famous for these efforts but at least might be "shit, I could have done that myself," and that may be the case for a few of these tracks. These are the cuts that sound like your roommates after they have over­ indulged in the chemicals of their choice and begin reliving moments of all their favorite Queen albums Mother Murphy's In outside your Ledroom door at three Normal Is the most in the morning. This is the sort of popular hangout self indulgence best experienced in a chemically enhanced state of for the deal finder. lowered expectations and heightened If you only have a appreciation of new and unusual buck, you can experiences. leave with an album, which Is In On the other hand, "Passed Normal" suprlsingly good offers quite a few-selections which shape and usually are interesting enough or whimsical v~ry popular · enough, or have enough of that certain something about them to make .ring Its time. them worth a listen. I caught myself smiling from time to time, and Murphy's specialize even, much to my surprise, found my in used records foot tapping once. A warning to and also sell animal lovers--my dog was somewhat fisturbed by various electronic silk screens, noises contained on this album. buttons end other os!iorted itmes The bottom line is, everyone isn't ideal for the going to like everything contained on dorm room. It Is "Passed Normal" or its even weirder·, located ot less accessible sequel, "Way Passed Normal." A lot of people aren't 1 111 12 N. Street; really going to like anything on these two tapes, bu:l:. there is something here for some of us to enjoy. If you actively listen to - Tim O'Brien Madonna or Lionel Richie, forget it. However, if you are in an adventurous Entertainment Editor mood or just like something kind of ·Wt~D£S1 Daily Vidette wild and Y.7acky to listen to when you're high or even when you're not, FOA ·THE WIO£ST "Passed Nor~al" and "Way Passed Normal" could he just the thing Sillf.TION JtNO you've been looking for. J.OW£ST PRtGeS -LH Post-Amerikan--solid past,· shaky

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