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About us Volume 14, No . The Po st Amerikan is an independent

...:ommunity newspaper providing infor- .• Page rnation and analys is that is screened out of or downp layed by establishment 3 LANDLORD 'S PROMISES AS LEAKY AS HIS ROOF news sources . We are a non-profit, Landlord sues tenant for his own screw-ups worker-run collective that exists as an alternative to the corporate media. 4-5 STATE 'S PANTY RAID IS A BLOOMER Decisions are made collectively by DCI, State 's Attorney Dozier & Pantagraph try probe, go limp ·staff members at our regular meetings .

6-7 HO PE , BONES , BREEDERS , BITS1*?1 We put out nine issues a year . Staff Local music scene reviewed members take turns as "coordinator ." All wr iting, typing, editing , photo- 8-9 WHAT 'S NEW IN FAS T FOODS? graphy, graphics, pasteup, and dis­ Eleven teaspoons of butter in every Hardee's Bacon Cheeseburger tribution are done on a volunteer Q) basis . You are invited to volunteer 10-11 SHUT DOWN THE ARSENAL your talents . :s People plan to shut down the war machine in the Quad Cities U) Most of our material and insp iration 12-13 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: PROTESTING CONTRA AID for material comes from the community. B-N protsters get one-block ride in paddy wagon The Po st Amerikan welcomes stories, .� graphics, photos, and news tips from 14-15 WITNESS FOR PEACE DOCUMENTS CONTRA TACTICS our readers . If you'd like to join us u. s. citizens witness death and destruction in Nicaragua call 828-7232 and leave a message on U) our answering machine . We will get . .... 16-17 U. S. PRESS IGNORES EL SALVl:.DOR AIR WAR back to you as soon as we can. The headline says it all We like to print your letters . Try to limit yourself to the equivalent of 20 VASECTOMY PAYS OFF · two double-spaced typewritten pages . Post reader has better vasectomy experience If you wr ite a short , abu sive letter, it ' s likely to get in print . Long, 21 ABORTION : A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW abusive letters , however, are not :5c More support for the right to choose - likely to get printed . Long , bril­ liantly written, non-abus ive letters AC LU JOINS GAYS IN STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY 22 may, if we see fit, be printed as AC LU says sodomy laws pain in the ass articles . Be sure to tell us if you don't wan� your letters printed . 23 PANTAGRAPH "MISSES" THE MARK Crisis workers' ability judged by sexist standards An alternative newspaper depends very directly on a community of concerned 24 THE UNDERGROUND BARELY people for existence. We believe that Introducing Stella and Blanche as t.hey cruise the local bar it is very important to keep a paper scene like this around . If you think so too , then support us through contri­ Classyfrieds .•.•••.••18-1 9 Community News •..••..lB-19 butions and by letting our advertisers My Sister TPR ••••••.•••4- 5 Cable Comix •.••••••.••6- 7 know you saw their ads in the Post Amer ikan .

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TeleCare (senior citizens) •.•••828 -8301 Upper Cut, 318 Kingsley Unemployment comp/job service •.827- 6237 White Hen Pantry, 207 Broadway United Farmworkers support •••••45 2-5046 (in front) UPIC •••••.••..••••.••••••••••••827-4026 •••••••••••• , Post-Amerlkan July-August 1985 Page 3 April fools Landlord's promises as leaky as his roof Never move into an apartment on April plumbing . Pr itts refused to listen Dennis a bill for $JOO for damage to first . Kathy and Dennis did, in 1984, to the description of the crawlspace, stock . When Kathy asked the owner to their regret. They learned another, and said there was no thing wrong with about it, the woman replied that Larry more practica1•1esson from their his roof. Pritts had told her that Kathy and experience, though . . • Never rent Dennis were re sponsible for all leaks from Larry Pritts . Meanwhile , Pritts had broken, without from upstairs . Pritts ' slander notice , several appo intments to fix campaign against Kathy and Dennis They first met Pritts in March when the railing, the light switch, and the made it harder for the owner of the they went to look at an upstairs front door lo ck , leaving Kathy waiting store to check the culpability of her apartment he had for rent . Kathy around for him all day . The broken neighbors, and made it easy for Pritts said he struck her as "slimy "-­ items never did get fixed. to pass off the problems onto Kathy well-capped teeth , a dark late­ and Dennis. summer tan in March (he owns tan­ New neighbors ning salons ), and wearing snakeskin The store went out of business within boots . The apartment wasn 't in bad In February, a new tenant moved in three months of opening, and the owner shape , though , and Kathy and Dennis downstairs from Kathy and Denni s--a lost her deposit, although she did both neede d a place immediately . children 's clothing consignment shop . ma jor renovations on the premises . The owner was very cool to both Kathy Kathy conjectures that the business The couple pointed out some problems and Dennis, despite a number of closed because the people who made to Pritts, including a broken stair friendly overtures on both their her pro ducts didn't want to leave them ra iling, a stairway light swi tch with parts . Kathy discovered that the in a store where water damage wa s such a short , and a front door lock that landlord had told the woman what a regular occurrence. the key wouldn 't open . Larry Pritts horrible people her new upstairs verbally contracted to fix all of Lawsuit/ these things before Kathy and Denni s moved in. Meanwhile , Kathy had been withholding rent pending the repairs promised. Flood Pritts filed eviction papers and a damage lawsuit for $1300. Among the Somewhat more disturbing was a large damages listed were the now infamous water stain on the bathroom carpet and 5' x 6' bathroom carpet, for which he -;. $125; plaster near the tub . Pritts claimed -- wanted approximately cleaning that the former tenants (his son and ,,.. charges, approximately $85, to clean daughter-in-law) had let the tub over­ a refrigerator Kathy had already flow. He insisted that there were no cleaned; about $55 to replace a 16" x leakage problems . 22" pane of glass that Dennis had already replaced; the $50 plumbing Within the first month, the bathroom bills ; and the $500 rent Kathy ha d floor flooded. Kathy said t8n to withheld until things were fixed. twelve gallons of water were standing on the floor . It was raining that The.day they moved, Kathy and Dennis day, but Dennis had been bathing, so cleaned the whole apartment-­ thinking he had let the tub overflow, vacuuming, scrubbing down the kitchen, Kathy just clea�ed up the water and and cleaning the bathr oom carpet. forgot about it. While they were cleaning , the landlord 'came in to change the locks , asked A week later it rained again. The '-,them when they were going to be done , bathroom flooded again. Kathy called 'and harassed them about rent again. the landlord to get a plumber. Three Kathy told him they would di scuss it days la ter, the plumber who put in the in court . t ree-year-old system showed up . � neighbors we re , that she should avoid In court , Pritts refused to settle or Before he even looked at the leak , he them at all costs, and that problems said, "It 's not our fault ," He then with the apartment were Kathy and drop his suit, insisting he was in looked at the now-dry bathroom and Dennis ' fault . the right and his roof wa s in fine told Kathy and Dennis to call him if shape , although Kathy and Dennis had two wi tnesses of the roof leak and the it happened again so he cou ld see it During one rainy day , Kathy went down­ wet. report from Urban Development to the stairs to drop off the previous contrary. Tenant detectives tenant 's mail in a pre -arranged place . While downstairs , she saw water coming Go home Kathy and Dennis decided to investi­ from the ceiling . She called Dennis The judge told Pritts four separate gate for themselves, since Pritts and two friends , one of whom was the times to go home and work this out out and Co . seemd so disinclined to do owner of a construction company in of court . Pritts refused, sticking to so . They found a crawlspace behind town , to wi tness the drip , which was hi s over-flowing bathtub story . the bathtub that went up to the roof . obviously coming from the leak above The wo od, plaster , and dry wall in the crawlspace . These witnesses turned out to be invaluable to the Eventually , Pr itts was forced to drop final outcome . his case . Kathy and Dennis pa id their lawyer's fees, Larry Pritts paid Urban Development court costs and his lawyer 's fees and After yet ano ther rain/flood cycle , dropped all damages, Pritts still 'Kathy finally called the Bloomington claime d he had been wronged and that Department of Urban Development . the damage wa s due to Kathy and Dennis After an inspection, Juanita Reese , _ having let their tub overflow. Develop­ Housing Inspector of Urban According to one source, Larry Pritts mant , told Kathy that the flashing has several other buildings under around the vent above the crawlspace the tar was absent in investigation by the Housing Author­ was exposed and ity . No doubt he is behaving as places on the east side of the vent , whenever the ethically toward those tenants as he causing the ro of to leak di d toward Kathy and Dennis and the rain came from the east or no rtheast , owner of the consignment shop below sending wa ter behind and under the them . bathtub . ·Kathy and Dennis said to tell you-­ Reese would not let Kathy see the never move into a place on A ril 1st. letter sent to Larry Pritts, however, p saying that it wa s private busine ss And stay away from Larry Pritts ' between thB landlord and Urban apartments . Development . the crawlspace showed considerable wa ter damage . Dennis, a roofer, Despite the letter from Urban Deve­ --Chris M. said it looked like wa ter was coming lopment , the next time there wa s a in from a vent in the roof above the leak , Kathy and Denni s were called at crawlspace . work at lO:JO pm by the landlord's secretary and told to turn off their Two months later it rained, and the water . The store downstairs wa s bathroom flooded once again. flooding . Although they were angry at being bothered at work , Dennis The plumber came in and caulked the went home to check . The water wa s bathtub fixtures. not on. The floor, however, was soaked. The landlord sent Kathy and Dennis a bill for about $50 for the two More bills plumber's visits, insisting the leak was because they'd damaged the The store downstairs sent Kathy and Page 4 Post-Amerlkan July-August 1985 Petticoat probe Sexy Lingerie State's panty raid is a

'bloomer "Call up (one of the other revealing lingerie that's for sale; and women) and make sure she's going to be there," the agent said. lingerie parties, in which a group of men contract for two or three employees If anyone got caught with their pants to come model the goods at a private Lacey made the phone cal 1 and was put down in the recent Sexy Lingerie bust, party. These, say employees, are under arrest. it was the State's Attorney, the usually bachelor parties , where the Division of Criminal Inve stigation, and models show and sell lingerie, flirt "I sa!:'. the man set up the party the Pantagraph. A rigged bust for and dance with the men, accept tips-­ himself. I was there," Lindsey says. pandering; a lying , coercive but don 't perform sex acts for pay. "Lacey never would have gone along if investigation; and incomplete , The parties are kind of a cross between she knew what was going on. At one irresponsible newspaper coverage holding a Tupperware party and hiring a point he asked , 'Will the tipping be combined to lead ci tizens to believe Fast Freddy's dancer. the same?' and Lacey just said yes. that Bloomington is rife with She didn't know he meant paying for prostitution, with the Sexy Lingerie Outside of work, the women behave sex." business at its center. however they wish. If they want to arrange sex for pay, it's strictly on She added , "If those guys call that The night manager of the business was their own. (The ones I talked to had Wednesday party 'investigation,' I'm arrested on May 30, "after arrangements husbands or boyfriends who would hit pissed. Taxpayers are paying for were made for Division of criminal the ceiling if the women were involved police officers to go get blow jobs." Investigation agents to meet a in paid sex.) prostitute at the business," according --Phoebe Caulfield to the Pantagraph. If a cocktail waitress at a bar turned tricks on the side, could the DC I bust 0 ' The next day , the newspaper elaboratea the bartender for pandering? Could a bit more, saying the bust came "after Dozier call all the other cocktail a policeman working undercover spoke waitresses prostitutes? In print? with her , arranging for a party at whic� prostitution was planned with According to Lindsey, a Sexy Lingerie other employees of the business." employee , on Wednesday the 29th, seven undercover agents held a party at the Ms. Grant, the night manager, was Holiday Inn with two women who they charged with pandering , which is "the hired for sex acts. The women said act of arranging a situation in which they made $460 each off of giving blow prostitution may occur." jobs .

She didn't do it. Unfortunately , the women also were employees of Sexy Lingerie. The men Employees of Sexy Linger ie called the said they wanted to have another party Post Amerikan and agreed to interviews the next night, but with one more about the incident and its aftermath. woman, suggesting Lacey (Grant) the night manager at Sexy Lingerie. The Their story is appreciably different women said to go talk to Lacey at her from the Pantagraph's. That newspaper job the next night. never attempted to get their side of the story, although it allowed Dozier At about six on Thursday, the agent to continually refer to the employees came in to ask Lacey to arrange a as "prostitutes." (No one was even "going away party" with herself and the charged with prostitution.) two women from the previous night as models. Lacey had no idea what kind of Sexy Lingerie sponsors two things : party the other two had done the night private sessions , in which a client before, so she agreed to schedule it. gets to watch an employee model the She thought it was a routine lingerie party.

• Dozier vs. Sexy Lingerie: Is there room 1n After DC I's pandering frame-up at Sexy "That was something,• she laughed. "We Lingerie, State's Attorney Ron Dozier Do zier ·m ade it cle ar that his goal was took the invitations during o�r lunch threw the town into a tizzy by offering "shutting the business down." hour , and within ten minutes after we immunity from prosecution to clients, walked back into work, the Pantagraph employees, and ex-employees of Sexy Sheree Wilson-Arteman, a Sexy Lingerie employee who deals with the business's was suddenly there, listening to us for Lingerie if they came forward to spill the first time." the beans about the operation before public relations , decided that's just what pe wasn't going to do. June 25. He told the Pantagraph that This wise publicity move got Sexy he had seized "boxes and boxes" of Lingerie 's point of view aired on TV She called a meeting of the employees records during the Sexy Lingerie bust (Channel 3 had almost a half hour on (and the bust of Imperial Escort and said , "We 're either going to get it), le ss biased coverage in the Service the same night). railroaded or fight. Let's fight." Pantagraph, and more time on WJBC. It people to the open In a Post Amerikan interview, she said, also attracted 25 In Pantagraph stories from the 13th to house, while an embarrassed Terry the 25th, these "boxes and boxes" of "I had to call Dozier's bluff. I knew Williams stood in the parking lot and threatening records repeatedly came up, he didn't have the cards." Ron Dozier stupidly refused to go, hounding nearly 30 people into contacting the State's Attorney to First she called WJBC's talkshow inform on themselves and each other-­ Problems and Solutions, frequently the and causing guilty, sleepless nights outlet for county conservatism, and for many others. defended Sexy Lingerie in a debate with oozier . Dozier said it would "take weeks for us to match prostitutes and clients," and "I said, 'If you've got the evidence, gave ever-growing estimates of the here I am. Come out and get me.'" numbers of people "targeted by the probe" who wouid receive subpoenas. Then she and the other women organized an open house for June 15, inviting The "boxes and boxes" cause giggles at anyone to come have cookies and punch

Sexy Lingerie, where the employees know and look over Sexy Lingerie so they· exactly what the agents seized: one could see what it really was. briefcase, containing one piece of Invitations were hand-delivered to Ron paper listing the employees' real names Dozier and Terry Williams (president of and numbers and several blank Citizens for Decency).

contracts. That's it. There aren't i' even that many employees. Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 Page 5 Repercussions of official moralism: it ain't pretty being called easy

Ron Dozier's moralistic attack on Sexy what they could and couldn't do, or Lingerie caused some changes around they'd cooperate when we told them. there. Several good, regular customers Now ..• well, there are more problems ." stopped frequenting the place, "at lea st for a while," said public On the positive side, Wilson­ relations manager Sheree Wilson­ Arteman cites instances of "undercover Arteman. "Now they're slowly coming public support." Sexy Lingerie has back, as they realize that Dozier benefited from "lots of private parties hasn't got big files on them." set up by sympathetic people" just to help the business in troubled times. Both Wils on-Arteman and another Sexy Lingerie had been advertising in employee, Lindsey , told me that there's the Pantagraph's classified sec tion been a change of clients since the uproar--a change for the worse. since the business opened . But when they called to place an ad in mid-July , Howard Duvall, head of classified , "These guys believe it's a whorehouse," said Lindsey. "They give us a lot more said, "We won't take your advertising." trouble. We just have to act like When Lindsey asked him why, he said, "I we're not scared of them and tell them don't have to give you a reason." to get out. Just keep telling them, and don't act scared , even if we're The Penny Saver , which has consistently scared to death. Don't show it." refused Sexy Lingerie's ads, then agreed to take one. Could this be... Underwear Wars? Wilson-Arteman said, "Up until the ( ' stink, there was not much problem with sexual harassment. The customers knew --Phoebe Caulfield \ "' . t------....:°<-�· .. �- '-· ·1/ l(· -"= / . .,rr- I I i' \. \ ,'\ '·/ ' ��

' this town for both of them? I saying, "I already know what's going on _, there ." ) Wilson-Arteman deplored the scare /'·r\ tactics Dozier was using; she seems protective toward Sexy Lingerie's customers. "We're talking about '�Af I ' ; married men; we're talking about men '�v high in the community; we're talking � Catholics!" she sa id. "Confession should have been lined up around the block every week." She insists on the legitimacy of the Rape Crisis Center business. "Yes , we are sexually oriented. Not physical, though, but visual. Men look at women's bodies at the Art Institute. Who knows what of Mclean County they ' re thinking?" •••••we. even sell a ' ·1ot of lingerie." WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR FRIENDS Although Dozier claimed that the probe AND FAMILIES. had identified 150 people to interview , by June 26 his claims about copious FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE records had weakened considerably. He VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION AND said "some of the people were SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. identified from records seized from Sexy Lingerie" and that an appointment calendar from Imperial Escort named If you want to talk to one of us some names. Call PATH 827-4005 So, what was in all those "boxes and boxes"? and ask for the

Crotchless panties? --Phoebe Caulfield Rape Crisis Center Page 6 Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 On the music scene Hope, Bones, Breeders, Bits!*?!!

Bloomtown's own That Hope is While Scott 's drums and George 's bass with the accent on the "manic. " an act difficult to categorize. It boomed out compelling beat-bars, Ed By the time of That Hope 's en­ is very easy, however, to enjoy. (high and smiling on the sheer joy of core, an altered cover of zz Top 's What these four guys do is basi­ it) evoked more sounds from his hyper­ "La Grange ," there wasn 't a motionless ally take a standard popsong format electric guitar than old Red thought toe in the place . and cram it to bursting with alarming possible, alternately plucking and It was an exhilarating night , dissonances, manic cross-rhythms, and poking, knocking and stroking his Ex- one that surely would have convinced the most skept ical that, although the country grows increasingly polluted , reactionary, and hypocritical by the day, and although people go without at home while tax dollars finance cor­ porate foreign wars, there is yet, and in wondrous fullness right-here-in­ Bloomtown, That Hope. Currently, the group is record­ ing a 12-inch in Champaign, a project certain to put Hope back into the dis­ criminating music fan 's collection.

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It was heavy-country mayhem went down when Charleston 's Recrea­ tional Bones took the crowded floor on July 11, a no-cover Tuesday night at it1... the Galery . The Bones are composed of two charged elements that clash and give tense urgency to their songs. There is : 1) singer/composer/harp ist Gary Hicks ' zoned-out vocal style--a curi­ ou� , compelling un- intelligibility

George that soulfully outlines some very dark Scoi;t Bass emotions: and 2) the three-piece band Drums Edwin behind Hicks--Ward , Eric, and Ronnie Dean Guitar "v"'ocals of the legendary and defunct Chas-town punks , DUI , on (respectively) bass, guitar anq drums. Together, Hicks and the Bones plorer into realms of feedback brilli­ schizoid, oft-inspired lyrics . strike a harsh musical juxtapose-­ Once you listen to a THATtune put HOPEance never-before-he ard by post-Hen­ between strict-time and slovenliness, dr ix ears! through That Hope 's angst-mill, or form and raw content; the band is sea­ And fronting this frenetic acti­ itness their ironic (almo st comic ) soned and tight, well-articulated be­ vity, bouncing about like a cowboy on elivery in person, mus ic never seems hind Hicks' slurred wordings , scat im­ methamphetamine, was the irrepressible , i te the same . provs , and autistic head and arm move­ adenoidal Dean, whose vocals can only The group 's July 12 gig at the ments. be described as "manic-depressive," alery was a great case in point . A little like early Jason and

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the Nashville Scorchers, Recreational much by L.A.'s Minutemen as they were ust 25th! Those who 've already witnes­ Bones take authentic country sounds and by the Clash or Minni-St . Paul 's Re­ sed a Specimens or Terrorist gig know-­ inject rock: but where Jason's Warner/ placements, this mighty trio packed there 's absolutely nobody on keyboards Percy rave is relatively minimal and their sets with all of the raving rage to compare with PJ . His band is tight pop, the Bones are a cohesive wall of that is oppressed adolescence (have you like granite, having finely melded fuzzed-up wail, much more metallic and been their age ? you'll know then what their big talents over the course of despairing than Jason . It was chilling gonads and growth-hormones can do to frequent coast-to-coast tours . This to witness their version of the old you) . · mu st-see act will be pushing their new gospel hymn "I'll Fly Away, " which was The Breeders wouldn't sublimate LP on Scab Records, Territory (for in­ their pubescent energy in sex--no . rapturous and hopeless at once . fo, 200 N. 3rd Ave ., Minneapolis MN Watching them perform, you had the im­ 55401) . So get Terrorized this month! The Recreational Bones are a press ion that all of their forces were It' s very topical. combo not-to-be-missed, one that would channelled here, into the music . It probably appeal to headbangers, south­ was an enervating thing just to watch **What do members of the Bloom­ ern-rock, and punk aficionados alike . them. town bands DiaTribe and Uptown Rulers Look for them to return to the Galery For all of the Sturm und Dranq do when their groups are no inore? the third week in August. in Breeder-music, it also had something Start another one ! It would be foolish of Spike distinctive among local punk bands: a That's what bassist James McMan­ not to have them back and e:xploit their social consciousness and conscience. us, drununer Ken Callahan, and guitaris vast appeal. In the title cut, for instance, of /composer Mike Goodrich are doing, their only release (a 3-song 45 on somewhere in the depths of Bloomtown­ * * * Nova available at Champaign 's Record Normal, Red hasn't yet sussed where . swap), there is this little morsel Word is though, this band is gearing­ In the same way that the break­ of un- subtle neighborliness: up for performance in the Fall '85 ISU up of England 's Clash has brought "Walking down the city street production of Sam Shepherd's "Tooth of forth wails of mourning from fans of People turn and stare at me . Crime, " an excellent rock & roll play music-with-political-integrity the I don't have hostility ·indeed! In style, it 's hard to pre­ world over, the imminent demise of I just smile and show my teeth ." dict how the yet un-named and fugitive Cham-Bana 's Breeders will no doubt It 's too bad the band is group will go, but knowing jazzman, un­ cause collective grief among the many splitting· up , but at least the Breeders earthly funkrnan James ' proclivities, �ans they've made in the little-over­ �· and gave to all who knew them a and also the folky blues and island two years they've played the Midwest. lesson in re-exitement . stirrings in Goodrich, Red would say This young trio (none of whom "Look Out!" A late August debut is is over 22) are about to part ways, * * * planned . with guitarist/angry young Andrew Van- * * * Dusen off to NYC, virtuoso bassist Ted ISOLATED BITS OF LOCAL MUSICAL IN- Purves set to do San Fran, and 17-yea:r- TEREST: old drummer Jonno Peltz headed for the **Make sure you don't miss That's it for this month . See Percussion Institute in At lanta GA. Minni-St . Paul 's PJ and the Terror- you at the scenes! --Red Newton The Breeders became the undispu- ists when they play the Galery on Aug- ted downstate masters, in their time, . of the ost- unk sound . Influenced as .& � ...... , . ,...... You can help the Post Public A id puts poor on wheels save $$$ on suppiies! Since July ;i Here's what you do: If you're sitting 1: 1982 the Illinois Depart- around and you notice any extra men of Public Aid has been offering Storm emphasized that the IDPA is /: � . not "purchasing" cars. They are i supplies that are just getting in the 'I assistance to i. ts AFDC/WIN partici- providing a portion of the "down I way, send a little care package our .•1f pants in obtaining an automobile . • payment. " The limit is $JOO . : ; way. We are not proud. 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Arby's There has been an explosion of fast Sausage and Egg Croissant has 42 food menu options in the last few percent les s sodium than Roy's Sausage years. From 1973 to 1983, Wendy's Crescent. International added 6 new items to its original 7, Arby's offerings grew from But the Arby's sausage entry has its 11 to 1 7, and the Jack in the Box own problems. It contains 645 mg of Restaurants' menu grew from 12 to 30 cholesterol, more than you would.get choices. Industry observers quoted in from eating two large eggs. The Advertising Age magazine see it as American Heart Association recommends nothing other than "a headlong rush that we eat no more than 30 0 mg of into new products ." cholesterol a day. In contrast, both Roy Rogers' Sausage Crescent and Ham Has America decided that it wants to Crescent sandwiches provide less than �at more nutritious fast food meals? 200 mg of cholesterol. Maybe so. Are the fast food companies repsonding with new products? Many Stuffed Potatoes. Have you ever split are. Is fast food on the verge of open a piping hot baked potato and becoming nutritionally respectable? proceeded to melt nine pats of butter Don't count on it. New items may over it? That's equivalent to the appear more nutritious, but in fact, amount of fat you get from the cheese many are not. topping on a Wendy's Cheese Stuffed Potato. This new item may seem a Wendy 's may be the best exam ple of a healthful addition to the fast-food co mpany with a split personality when menu, given the plain potato's it comes to nutrition. On the one impeccable credentials. But when hand, it sells a Triple Cheeseburger, Wendy's adds the cheese,· you get which we have nicknamed "The Coronary worst The slightly more fat and calories than ss Special." But recently Wendy's Bypa from a McDonald 's Big Mac . launched a new "light" menu. While A Closer Look of these "light" item s are some Wendy's Roy Rogers, Arby's, and others available elsewhere, the firm deserves Croissant Sandwiches. "Breakfast on a are exploiting the innocent baked some credit for promoting an entire grea se bun" is what you get with the ·potato for all it's worth. Served meal plan for people who "watch their new line of croissant sandwiches sold plain at Roy Rogers, the nutritious intake of calories, sugar, sodium, at Roy Rogers, Burger King, Jack in tub�r provides only 211 calories, fat, and cholesterol. " the Box, and Arby's. virtually no fat, and 65 mg of sodium (all but 5 of which the restaurant The fat in the plain croissant is adds automatically). But once these higher than you might expect: Roy companies pour on the che.ese, bacon, Rogers ' version has the equivalent of sour crea m, and chili, the calorie more than 4.5 pats (or teaspoons) of levels multiply 10-fold, and the fat butter. The toppings add insult to levels 100-fold. injury. Total fat in the Roy Rogers Ham Crescent Sandwich accounts for Sodium-watchers should take special roughly 67 percent of the 557 care to avoid Wendy ' s Bacon and Cheese calories, equivalent to 11 pats of and Arby's Taco-topped potatoes. Both butter. Then again, feeding us fat come with over 1,000 mg of sodium. may be Roy's way of making good on his And, while any appearance of broccoli advertising slogan, "Slow down." in burgerland is a welcome sight, After a breakfast like this, who don't bother to cheer over any of the wouldn't feel a bit sluggish? Cheese and Broccoli toppings now available. Instead of nine, you get Fat aside, this sandwich lists sodium five "to seven teaspoons' worth of fat; content at 1,192 milligrams (mg), an and instead of 590 calories, you get amount that falls within the 1,100 to 37 6 to 540 calories, depend ing on the 3,300 mg range recommended for an chain. entire day! Roy 's Sausage Crescent Fried Chicken for the '80s. Chicken McNuggets account for 10 percent of Health-conscious consumers can count McDonald's total sales, $750 million a other blessings. Salad bars are now available at Wendy's, Burger King, and Roy Rogers Restaurants. Don 't take these rare sources of vita mins A and C, folic acid, and fiber for granted. According to analysts quoted in Advertising Age, the high labor costs needed to maintain salad bars make them low-profit items, unless they're very popular. That means chains instal 1 them mainly to gain an edge on the competition. $ .49 WATERBEDS 28 Fortunately, salad bars are not the complete only nutritious newcomers. For the first time, we find chicken and fish starting at $1 that aren't fried, buns that aren't 17 all white, and salad dressings that FUTONS aren't too fattening. These signs of Twin $69 Full $ 9 Queen $ 9 progres s have taken place in just the 7 8 la st two years.

Announcing Center for Science in the COMPUTER Public Interest's "1985 Best and Worst Fast Foods." DESKS starting at The worst $99 STOOLS Roy Rogers ' Crescent Sandwich w/Ham Wendy 's Cheese Stuffed Potato starting at $4.99 McDonald 's Chicken McNuggets Hardee's Bacon Cheeseburger McDonald 's Sausage Biscuit

The best Long John Silver 's Baked Fish 319 N. Main Jack in the Box 's Shrimp Salad St. Wendy's Reduced-Calorie Salad Dressings Bloomington

Honorable Mentions Arby 's Roasted Chicken Breast Wendy 's Multi-Grain Bun 828 77 1 - 3 -L _' s --___J _ n_ . ______a_la _ _ 'a 0 en Nutritional Contents of Selected Fast Foods - I Calories Fat Fat Sodium > (Pats•) (Percent (mg) CD3 ::::!. of calories) � DI fast foods? �-trilil�0�$��:�:<��:.:���:�r ,;(1,)t:;�i��i��-��1!C'.f�:t :J Hamburger 255 2.6 35 520 Chicken l'.kNuggets 314 5.0 54 525 year in the United Statts alone. But c.. Filet-0-Fish 432 6.6 52 781 ,c nutritionally speaking, Chicken Big Mac 563 8.7 53 1,010 -< McNuggets are flawed. People may I Sausage Biscuit 582 10.4 61 1,380 think they 're doing themselves a favor c> CQ by choosing chicken over beef. Of c course, that's true if you're ta lking Plain Potato 211 0 0 65 en about roast chicken without the skin, Potato w/ oleo 274 1.9 24 161 .... which is comparatively low in fat and Roast Beef Sandwich 317 2.7 29 785 saturated fat. Crescent Roll 287 4.7 56 547 ! Potato w/ Broccoli 'n Cheese 376 4.8 43 523 - Crescent Sandwich w/ Sausage But batter-fried chicken, like Chicken 449 7.7 59 1,289 CQ: Crescent Sandwich w/ Ham 442 7.5 58 1,192 CD McNuggets , is a different story. Fat co , supplies over half the calories in 1 Chicken McNuggets. One serving has Pasta Salad (1/, cup) 134 1.6 40 400 the equiva lent of five pats of butter , Chicken Sandwich on wheat bun 320 2.6 28 500 roughly twice what you get in a Taco Salad 390 4.8 40 1,100 regular McDona ld's hamburger. Broccoli & Cheese Potato 500 6.6 45 430 Moreover , much of that fat is Cheese Stuffed Potato 590 9.0 52 450 saturated , since the chicken is soaked MARl&"'?)'r1 ?1\1':i ' . with a frying fat made largely of beef :".1!;?'·�� Chefs Salad 272 4.2 53 517 ta llow. Chicken Fillet Sandwich 510 6.9 46 360 Shrimp Salad 362 7.7 72 941 The hea lth-conscious consumer ha s to Bacon Cheeseburger be wary of all chicken dishes 686 11.1 55 1,074 nowadays. Burger King has a Specialty ARD"s�:::''i.;�"���'4-i"�-���?,-_,-:;;;;�:_':-�7,,_ Chicken Sandwich made from "white meat Roasted Chicken Breast (no bun) 254 1.9 25 930 shaped into the likeness of a natural Broccoli & Cheese Potato 540 5.8 37 480 chicken breast." It is battered , Mushroom & Cheese Potato 510 5.8 39 640 breaded , and deep-fried in shortening (Fried) Chicken Breast Sandwich 584 7.4 43 1,323 that is approximately 93 percent beef Sausage & Egg Croissant 530 9.3 59 745 ta llow and 7 percent vegetable oi l. . ..· �·'"''!f•'!\!t"'"'"''�" ""'"�·�'+.,�·� ��;,\_-17;��r;_.:12\·������c�r<:d�·�-,��:;AW�� This especially greasy sandwich LOICl;_.,WWWl��,;--� Baked Fish w/ sauce · 151 0.5 12 361 contains enough fat to equal 11 pats Mixed Vegetables 54 0.5 33 570 of butter . Corn on the Cob 176 1.1 20 0 Coleslaw 182 4.0 7 4 367 Jack in the Box serves up a {fried) Fish w/ batter (2 pc) 404 6.4 53 1,346 Chicken Supreme Sandwich and a (fried) Chicken Strips Dinner , and Hardee's --'�J,;ifh��2· had a (fried) Chicken Fil let Sandwich. Veal Pannigiana 580 7.1 42 805 Of this sorry bunch, Wendy (fried) Bacon Double Cheeseburger 600 9.3 53 985 Chicken Sandwich is the least Specialty Chicken Sandwich 690 11.1 55 775 offens ive. By that we mean that it has not more fat than a McDonald's '" , � � Shrimp Salad (no dressing) 115 0.3 8 460 hamburger . Taco Salad 377 6.3 57 1,436 Chicken Supreme Sandwich Bacon Cheeseburgers. Hardee's Bacon 601 9.5 54 1,582 lii iioat.il'' �lli :"�����-- Cheeseburger manages to make its -..u� IU . &alll:l:�..-;;tt"'"':z'i�� ,.'""·�"'*'�''�'l\� regular cheeseburger look good from a Breast (Original Recipe) 199 3.1 53 558 nutritional point of view. The new Extra CrispyDark Dinner•• 765 14.2 63 1,480

concoction is essentially a bacon , •Pats-of-butterequivalent. A pat of buttercontains 3.8 grams of fat. lettuce, and tomato sandwich on a ••Includes drumstick. thigh, mashed potatoes, gra... y. coleslav;, and roU. Quarter Pounder with Cheese. The oversized burger , bacon, and added mayonnaise more than double the fat and calories of Hardee's regular cheeseburger .

When you take your first bite, savor the fat. There' s plenty of it. We counted the fat equivalent of 11 pats of butter. Now taste the salt: a Bacon Cheeseburger contains 1.074 mg of sodium. And finally, enjoy the appearance of your bacon. That 's due in part to sodium nitrite, an additive that may have created cancer-causing nitrosamines when the bacon was fried.

Hardee's isn't the only company to make Bacon Cheeseburgers. �ack in the Box , Roy Rogers, Burger King , and Wendy 's share the dubious honor.

Breakfast Biscuits. According to a 1983 survey, breakfast is the fast food industry's best performer. Between 1978 and 1982, sales jumped 53 percent, and the number of breakfast customers rose 32 percent. Why are so many folks eating breakfast out? ! Analysts give two reasons: more working mothers and a growing recognition that skipping breakfast is bad for you. Certainly, most good diets inc lude a hea l thful morning mea l. But if breakfast consists of a McDonald's Sausage Biscuit, you may be better off waiting for lunch.

Sixty-one percent of the 582 calories in this item comes from its fat content, the equivalent of 10 pats of butter. The McDonald's biscuit also boasts 1,380 mg of sodium. In fact, with its 1,949 mg, a McDona ld's Ham Biscuit has one of the highest sodium level s of all the fast foods we examined . Welcome back The Sausage and Biscuit has been a Hardee's staple for some time. students!· Unfortunately, the product is catching on. Roy Rogers recently added Egg and 105 Br�ay .• Normal Biscuit Platters to its lineup, offering customers not just fat and sodium but also the cholesterol they' jidn 't have time to cook at home. teach you p1a9, --Bonnie Liebman, excerpted from We ·to Nutrition Action , June 1985 . lheil sell yo,u the. rigl\t gu.itar._ @.�UITAR. (!!_ORlD - Page 10 Post Amerikan July-August 1985 Ro ck Island we apons plant large st in U.S.

Shut dopewnople starve around thethe world and arinvasion. seThis strengthensn theal US _ Rock Island Arsenal is central to everything that is wrong in the US and malnutrition grows in the US, farmers position for direct intervention to in the world: the mass-production of go bankrupt due to "overproduction" overthrow the Sandinista government of instruments of death whi le millions and low price. In other words, profits Nicaragua, crush the advance of the starve , escalating armed intervention and the "free market" dictate that FMLN in El Salvador, and head off the against popular revolutions in the farmers and workers ca nnot make the revolution in Guatemala. Third Wor ld, and rapid moves toward a very things most needed in the wor ld. nuc lear World War III. The Midwest Nuclear Warfighting Preparations. has the resources to feed itself and Communities such as the Quad Cities Most Ar sena l employees work for the much of the world and to manufacture are converted into military headquarters of the Army's AMCCOM : the machinery to grow that food. manufacturing sites. The live l ihood Ar mament, Munitions , and Chemical Instead , these resources lie idle. of who le cities is becoming dependent Command. AMCCOM manages computer on preparation for war. Many people inventory of all conventional, nuc lear Hundreds blockaded the Arsenal on June are coming to be l ieve that their and chemical munitions for the US 4th, 1984, shaking its complacency and future prosperity will grow from Ar my. It manages assembly and demonstrating the strengthening making weapons. But this will only be transport of the weapons. It plans opposition to the Arsena l and what it true to the extent that these guns for emergency airlift of weapons. And represents. Project Disarm again permit the US to fr eely exploit other AMCCOM runs several other Arsenals in cal 1 s for mass action to Shut Down the nations of the wor ld . the us as well as arms depots overseas . Arsenal on October 21, 1985, to The Ar sena l, then , is an essential confront and stop this military nerve Invasions , Occupation, and component in nuc lear warfighting plans center in the Midwest. Mercenaries. The Arsena l is the US that are based on the intention and military's la rgest manufacturing capability of a US nuc lear first Why shut down the Arsenal? arsenal. The $233 million Project strike . ReArm is designed to increase the Militarization of Society. Idle vo lume of weaponry available both for Mass direc_t action workers are competing for fewer jobs intensifying intervention and for all­ as the military expands. Human out global war . 40% of Arsena l arms We must take direct action to deve lop resources are being slashed, resulting are sold to US-backed regimes such as resistance to war. Direct action is in the devastation of Black, Hi spanic El Sa lvador, Honduras, Jordan, Saudi the on ly form of resi stance those in and other poor communities. The Arabia, and the Phi llipines in order power cannot ignore. They must divert Ph iladelphia bombing shows the to enforce US goa ls against the people energies to stop us. On ly through increasing willingness of the there. Ma chine guns and howitzers are collective direct action can we authorities to war against black used in US invasions of places such as deve lop the power to make the changes people. Harvester, Deere and Grenada and Lebanon. Arsenal weapons we need . Caterpillar lay off productive workers, are vita l to US war plans in Central leaving capacity unused in the America. Honduras has been turned Re sistance can begin anywhere. Midwest. Me anwhi le they maintain into a us military fortress: a,base Hundreds of thousands have not plants_ in South Africa where they can for the US-backed Contras , war registered for the draft. Hundreds of use virtual black slave labor. And as maneuvers, and a staging-ground for faith-based communities have defied Rightists plan In 195t, a junior senator from seeking "first preference quota " for III , which were exposed in a 1975 California, Richard Nixon, introduced its treasurer, Nicolae Malaxa . investigation report by journalist a private bill which would allow Ron Ridenhour, published in the alter­ Rumania Iron Guardist Nicolae Malaxa Bo th applications were personally native we ekly New Times. to become a permanent United States helped along by Senator Nixon. Both citizen. applications were granted. Ridenhour found that the Cable Spli cer exercises were de signed to train both The Iron Guard is a right wing Later Malaxa went to South Ameri ca to poli ce and the National Guard in the Rumanian para-military organization visi t other Iron Guardlsts and was techniques of establishing martial which kille d 10, 000 Rumanian Jews challenged re -entering the United law . The main part of the plan during a ·Nazi-backed attempted coup States by the Immigration and (according to an army report ob tained of the Rumanian government in 1941 . Naturalization Service . He was by Ridenhour ) was to gather intelli ­ Ni colae Malaxa wa s a member , ordered deported, but Malaxa appealed gence on "movement leaders " so that industrialist, and financial backer of the decision and won. they could be qui ckly rounded up if the Iron Guard. The leader of the and when the time came . revolt was Viorel Trifia . In 1952 Nixon's friend, U.S. Attorney William Viorel Trifia turned up in the United Rogers , affirmed the Immigration The 1975 article by Ridenhour on Cable States as a bishop in the Rumanian Appeals Board 's ruling . Senator Nixon Splicer also states that Army Orthodox Church . also invited Bishop Viorel Trifia to do cuments indi cate mo st police depart­ make the opening prayer at a Senate ments in California as well as many When Nixon's bill failed to pass, session in 1955 , from other parts of the country sent Nicolae Malaxa set up a dummy participants or observers . corporation known as Western Tube Between 1969 and 1972 Governor Ronald Corporation in Richard Nixon's home Reagan and the California National Cable Splicer was just one of ma ny town of Whittier , California. Guard encouraged close cooperation such acti ons sponsored by the Defense betwe en lo cal police and the military, Department nationwide . Between 1970 On May 17 , 1951, the Western Tube concentrating on special tactics such and 1972 the Connecti cut National Corp. filed for a "certificate of as crowd control, SWAT training , ma ss Guard and Republican Governor Thomas necessity to give war time priority arrest procedures, �nd intelligence . Me shill (who was later a�pointed by to its materials and personnel." The This was accomplished through a series Nixon as a federal judge ) ran a series company also filed for a petition of police/military joint exercises of "martial law war games" with state c�lled Operation Cable Splicer I, II , and lo cal police under the name "Table Top Exercises." As one part of Cable Splicer, na tional guard troops and specially selected police officers by the thousands from around California were given special RECYCLE training at the National Guard Base in San Luis Obispo , where the state and defense department had established the California Specialized Training Institute . One of the lessons taught THIS in a course at that institute titled "California Civil Disorder Management " was about implementing "martial rule ,"

NEWSPAPER It read : "No cons ti tu-i:ion, no Also your container glass, aluminum cans, bimetal cans, corrugated cardboard, statute or ordinance can authorize office paper and grocery sacks Martial Rule ; (it) comes into existence upon a determination (not a declaration) by the senior military Bring 'em in to commander that the civil governme nt must be replaced because it is no longer functioning anyway . . . . It Operation Recycle shifts control from civilians and to the military completely and without 1100 W. Market the necessity of a declaration, proclamation or other form of public 829-0691 manifestation. . . . There are severe convenient drop boxes Buyback Wed. & Sat. 9 am. - 12 noon 5 Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 Page 11 ...0 ober 21st

the authorities to give sanctuary to Re sistance is not only for already "I drove over Government Bridge , and refugees from US-sponsored terror in committed activists. We call on flood l ights were glinting off the long Centra l America. Small groups of youth , women, unemployed workers, strands of concertina wire. That was Christians , ca lling themselves Blacks and Hispanics , Quad Cities the same kind of razor-edged wire that Plowshares from the Biblical workers, farmers and all others stretched around Vietnam base camps injunction to "hammer swords ..• ," have affected by the militarization of like Lai Khe. I fear that Arsenal phys ically disarmed the instruments of society to join and/or support the Island will never again be the same. nuc lear war. Women have set up peace action. By concentrating our energies No longer will it be that big, green, camps outside military bases and on a single key point we can raise the friendly place ••..Ma ybe we've had it corporations to disrupt US nuc lear war stakes for the US trying to carry out good for too long." plans. Campuses have been shaken by its war plans . the anti-apartheid student movement. Project Disarm Thousands have blockaded federal and The Shutdown is a cha llenge to the c/o Disarm Now Action Group corporate military production and determination and creativity of all 407 S. Dearborn #370 transportation facilities. its participants. Within a set of Chicago IL 60605-1141 nonviolent guidelines we will use These actions are a good beginning, creative blockade tactics to stop Project Disarm but more is needed. They show the Arsenal workers from reaching Arsena l 9 0 6 w. 5th st. potential to deve lop the kind of island to plan and produce for US Davenport IA 52802 movement that can actually stop wars . 319-324-0800 specific war plans and can effective ly challenge the war machine as a whole. As one loca l news article said after \ June 4th: for martial law statutory limitations and pro cedural foundation), where they were Richard G. Lugar said, "The language requirements imposed by the Government . computerized and made available to of the pact exempts U.S. citizens who Code whi ch are no t present in a other police and unnamed right-wing may in the future be accused of ... Martial Rule situation. As stated political organizations . geno cide from the jurisdi ction of the above , Martial Rule is limited only International Court of Justice and by the principle of necessary force ." Since Ronald Reagan has been prote cts the 'supremacy of the U.S. president his administration has Constitution' from possible interpre­ This explanation was signed and imposed the following restrictions on tation by foreign tribunals ." approved by the man in charge of the civil liberties : institute , California National Guard Commandant Lo uis O. Guiffrida . 1. An Executive Order to increase the The Nixon/Reagan-packed Supreme Court ease of classifying documents . has attacked: Another Cable Splicer participant wa s an advisor to Governo r Reagan named 2. An Executive Order requiring 1. The Fifth Amendment (pro tection Edwin Me ese III. Meese is quoted in government employees with access to against self-incrimination); the Cable Splicer report as follows : sensitive information to undergo lie detector tests and sign agreements for 2. The Sixth Amendment (guarantee of "Finally , we need to improve our prepublication review. assistance of counsel) ; ability in the investigation, identification, and prosecution of 3. Renewed use of the McCarran Act to 3. The Fourth Amendment (protection those, particularly the leaders , who prevent "undesirable " political views against unreasonable searches and are responsible for the revolutionary from being heard by denying visas to seizures). activity in our state .... We have certain foreign visitors . to have even more maximum photo­ The Court has also ruled that the graphy, maximum evidence gathering by 4. Proposed restrictions on the Free­ presumption of innocence has "no ...de tectives and others that dom of Information Act bo th application to the rights of a pre­ normally do not get suited up for legislatively and through litigation trial detainee during confinement the conflict . . . utilizing them as by the Justice Department . before his trial has even begun, " and mu ch as possible in gathering evidence that a judge does not have to instruct so that we can successfully prosecute 5, Restri ctions on the exchange of a jury that a defendant is innocent those who are raging the conflict on scientifi c communi cation through the until proven guilty . the campuses and in the streets ." application of export control statutes . A jury may contain fewer than 12 According to the report the main key members , and a unanimous verdict is to the .Martial Rule plan was to gath­ not needed by a 12-member jury to er intelligence on "movement leaders " 6. Executive Orders that expand law convict a person . so they could be quickly rounded up , enforcement authority to conduct leaving the movements leaderless . political surveillance . Indigent defendants are no t entitled to free legal counsel as long as a To give some examples of some of the 7. Attempted restrictions of access to judge did not sentence them to jail . "revolutionary movements " Meese and nonclassified information by proposed Cable Splicer participants referred DOE regulations , coercion of authors Judges are immune from lawsuits to, the following is a partial list and writers not to publish, and resulting from the decisions they of targets of spying by the LAPD. threats to speakers at scientific make . The specific case involved a State legislators , city council mem-­ conferences. 15-year-old woman who was ordered bers , mayor and Democratic gubernator­ involuntarily sterilized, �ld she ial candidate Tom Bradley, the exe­ Just recently the Senate Foreign was receiving an appendectomy by Relations Committee recommended cutive producer of a local TV news authorities and her mother, and then program , several newspapers , Jesse approval of the United Nations treaty tried to sue after she became married Jackson's People United to Save outlawing genocide , but attached two and discovered she was sterilized. Humani ty (PUSH) , the National Org­ key restrictions that dilute the anization for Women (NOW ) , the Na­ purpose of the document . The Justice Department's Nazi-hunting .tional Council of Churches, the L.A. Office of Special Investigations has ·vanguard, anti -nuclear groups, and Under provisions negotiated by been under attack by critics demanding many other organizations , including a Senators Richard G. Lugar , Republican­ its dismantlement . There has of yet day care group. Indiana (the committee chair) and been no word from Edwin Meese III on Jesse Helms , Republican-North Carolina , ' whether or no t he will heed these The Los Angeles Police Department has the treaty 's applicability would be "special interests . " admitted turning their files over to limited and the United States could Western Goals (the John Birch Society refuse to be a party to geno cide --Richard Mote proceedings before the World Court . First for B-N------".".'P-os·t--A�m·-re ".".'ik•a•n-:J �ul:-y�- A�u-g•u�st�1�9�85:-:'P·ag·e�1�3, Page 12 P ost-Amerikan July-August 1985 Civil Disobedience: Protesting Contra aid

The action the demonstration the aftermath , , Justice Center we we re taken into sday, June 12, I was arrested reasons- -public awareness and- ing boxes and furni Hundman came in wi th police and told On Wedne · ture around . wi th six other members of the educa tion. Our decision to inform the Occasionally they came to the door to us that we had to leave because we the booking room where we we re Bloomington-Normal Pledge of police was based mostly on the fact look at us . We le t them know wi th were disturbing the other building individually asked a lot of Resistance for an act of civil that , with one exception, none of us a sign that they were free to leave tenants . We were given 10 minutes to standard questions whi ch were disobedience . The action was in had ever done anything like this the office but could no t re -enter . leave and told that after that time answered on a form . Some of us response to a call from the National before . This wa s a first for the At one point a worker tried to get anyone in the hall or do orway area were taken into other rooms to do this and then returned to the Pledge to pro test the up?oming Bloomington/N ormal authorities , and ba ck into the office, but after would be arrested for trespassing . decision on aid to the Ni caraguan we wanted to have some idea of how several attempts to pu sh through , she Our supporters left us to move the booking room . Du ring the Contras, which wa s due to be voted on they would respond . left angrily . demo outside with a final wo rd of questioning period our arresting encouragement, and we wa ited for the offi cers continued to joke wi th that day , and was in solidarity w�th We spent the next few hours singing many other actions acr oss the nation. arrest. us about our "criminal activi­ Our legal advisor, Mi chael Barford, songs and talking to the media people ties, " ni cknames, etc. eased our minds by describing the . who were there to cover the story . That ten-minute wa it wa s, for me at We de cided to stage a sit-in at our gave them press releases and state­ procedures we would probably go : We least, absolutely agonizing. Al­ I felt weird : although I was grateful lo cal IRS office on the fourth floor said_ , ments regarding the purpose of our of the Hundman Building as a means through wh en arrested. As I though I was aware of the possibi l­ that we weren't mistreated and I with one exception none of us had action. We also were kept in close action and were very cooperative . of preventing war taxes from bei g ities, I had no idea what was go ing appreciated their efforts to put us But I also have to think that the � ever been arrested for anyt hing contact with the demonstration out­ to happen. I was scared about being paid for that day . A demonstration at ease , I also felt qui te resentful . fact that we were all white , middle­ before , and we were all pretty side through our support peop le and handcuffed , being treated roughly, It wa s like our effort wa s just a big wa s also planned for outside the prospect. "runners"- Ple dge members whose job class, educated citizens ha d, sadly, bu ilding . nervous about the and possibly having to spend the night joke to them, some silly college was to keep us informed of outside in jail. more than a little to uo wi th our prank that they would rather not be treatment . That Wednesday morning we all met to events including po s sible police wa sting their time on. Those of us who had committed to action . We also go t lots of support solidify our plans and our commi tment . As it turned out , we were treated After our arrest we met wi th Mi chael civil di sobedience met extensively We also made ourselves T-shirts bear­ and encouragement from friends and 10 for several nights prior to the very well . After the minutes By the time we were ready for finger­ Barford to dis cuss our experience and ing the names of Nicaraguan citizens . fellow activists who would drop in to were up, Hundman came back and asked prints and pi ctures, we knew we were action. We had many issues to see us during our vigil. a future course of action. We In this way we felt we were indicat­ us what our decision was . We told going to be released on personal decided to plead no t guilty using the discuss, both personal and legal . We ing that the Contra aid si tuation · had all had training in civil him we were staying , and Sheriff recognizance bonds , which was a big ne cessity defense because we felt that involves individual human lives and We knew that the 'IRS office was Briennan told us we would be charged re lief, I wasn't nearly as scared any­ di sobedience pr ocedures several weeks no t just money and military maneuvers . already scheduled to clo se for the we did indeed commit a lesser crime · earlier , and we talked about our with trespassing . We held our ground more and just wanted to get out of in order to prevent a greater one . We spent a final few minutes in day at l:JO , and we were beginning to and at that point the police moved in. there . I wa s becoming increasingly strategy, trying to figure out the prayer/meditation for strength of wonder if an act of civil disobedience mo st effective way of making our One by one we we re told, "You ' re irritated by the remarks of the detec­ That concept is at the heart of every­ purpose and then left for the Hundman would be ne cessary . Maybe we would under arrest, " and at that point we tives and particularly by one officer statement . Building . just be able to continue our vigil thing we did that day. And if this got up and wa lked out . We were no t who ha lf-jokingly insisted that I defense is allowed in court (and it unt il 5:00 p.m. and go home . We handcuffed or tr eated roughly, smelled like marij uanna . (I was We decided that we would blockade the When we got there we were told by hoped fn_r this, not only because we may no t be) we will use our jury trial office door from the outside , letting although the arresting offecers kept wearing pa tchouli oil.) I don' t . in a sincere effort to educate and other Pledge members that the IRS ha� did no t relish the idea of arrest a firm hand on one arm . Sheriff even smoke. mari juana but it still people out of the office but not in. shut down their Bloomington office but also because we wo uld then be fre e enlighten a group of peo ple that may In this way we would no t interfere Briennan kept apologi z ing for "having made me nervous. otherwise no t open their eyes to the for "realignment of facilities." to do other civil disobedience action to do this ." with the workers but also would not Reali zing that this was an attempt to when called (two convi ctions would crucial issue of human rights viola­ A few of the members of the group tions in Central Amerika . We ask allow anyone to pay t �xes: We al�o thwart the action , we decided to be more serious than one). decided to release prior information We were escorted to the paddywagon made attempts to talk to the officers for your support. -proceed with the demonstration. We and as we go t in we could hear the about why we did wha t we did and the to both the media and the police about declared victory to our supporters Then at around ·1 :00 we began to no tice cheers from our fe llow demonstrators situation in Central Amerika , but the action . and to the media because we felt that the presence of two very suspicious­ across the street. We found it wi th little response . After prints Diane Perris our aim had been achieved. No one looking fellows in suits who kept amusing that we had to ride across and pictures, we were taken back to The media were informed for obvi ous would be able to pay taxes for the checking in on us periodi cally. One the street to the law and Justi ce the booking room, given arraignment day . of our runners came up and informed Center in a paddywagon , and the poli ce dates, and released. The who le thin g us that a paddywagon had been brought must have thought so too because they took maybe an hour . We then separated from our outside to the ba ck of the building . We kept joking to us about our long trip Protesters supporters and went to the office discussed the situation and re-estab ­ and "here 's the next stop. " I All in all the arrest wa s a lot where we sat in a tight row barri ­ lished our commi tment to stay . remember asking for a transfer. gentler on us than it could have been . Corporations need bucks cading the door . We saw a few work­ That can be explained in part by the ers inside , looking very busy shift- At about 1:40, bui lding owner Larry As soon as we arrived at the Law and fact that we engaged in a peaceful Dear Fri ends , aiding Earlier this month, both th: u.s� Senate and House passed l�gi�lat7on · the contras-: which provides both $27 million in The Dan Beaird Co . "humanitarian" aid, and f ?r . an end. to Papa Gino 's the prohibition of U.S. military aid To be or not be di·so bedient The Bollinger Machine Shop The decision to conunit civil dis­ The Washington Times to the contra forces in their attempt Burns Petroleum obedience was one of the hardest to overthrow the Nicaraguan govern­ countless variations for days before Avanti Energy Corp. ment. On June 12th, in an effort to dec isions I've had to make not be­ the action . until the last night in spite of the Caroline House Publishers Up Giant Whofesale encourage Congressional representa­ cause I was unsure of my co11UUitrnent I was still indecisive . united actions William H Gies Co. tives to vo te against this contra . - to the cause (far from it), but be­ of thousands of Sunland Industries , Inc . aid, Pledge of Resistance members .f om Adolph Coors Co. � cause of the possible repercussions so, why did I do it? What made me activists H. Boettcher Assoc . all across the United States part ci­ Home Interiors Gifts , Inc . � that getting arrested and convicted decide to deliberately take a step across the & pated in both legal p otests and in Pioneer Operat ions Co . : life and my career. The Viguerie Co. acts of civil disobedience. As OU could have on my that had the potential to endanger country . lf Federal Die Casti ng know seven mem bers of the Bloomington­ something very important to me ? International Collectors Co . I knew that we were facing a poten­ My conviction Spencer 's Inc . Norm l Pledge of Resistance were . McKee Bakeries arrest� ed for criminal trespass while tiallly serious charge--a misdemeanor My decision was based on a lot of also comes factors , but what it really boiled Amway Corp. participating in a si�-�n at the local at the state/local level or a felony from having Overcash-Goodman Enterprises down to at a gut level was a growing • IRS office, while additional Pledge at the federal level . I worried met some of TII Industries Mutual Broadcasting members passed leaflets out and pro­ moral conviction paired with increased about whether or not my job would be the victims System Quaker Oats Co. tested outside. Those arrested �ave endangered . But mostly I worried frustration over the ineffectiveness and realizing been released on personal recogni ance National Review � ab out the effect on my pro fessional of "legal" methods of calling atten­ that our Ser Vaas Inc . bonds, and are schedul ed for arra7gn­ tion to an urgen� situation . I have Saund ers Ind ustries ment on September Jrd, b which_ time credentials . actions down �he Saturday Evening Post lf been involved in the anti-interven­ Lincoln Log Homes the decision to plead guilty or not there are not tion movement for quite some time and RKO General Inc . guilty will have been ma de. I had recently finished 4� years of merely ab stract Wyman-Gordon Corp. school and a 6 month internship in have been in solidarity with thou­ political Suffolk Marketing sands of people across the country Hunt Energy corp. Plans for local Pledge fundraising the field of music therapy and had maneuvers but Tyndale House Press events in the coming months are in the professional certification . I in organizing, leafletting, phone violations of Irby Construction co. process. However, we are in need of calling, demonstrations and special Texas Steel worked hard to achieve tho se things human rights .on J1.1stice Oil Co. immediate financial support to help Kendavis Industries Inc . and they mean a great deal to me . programs . And these efforts have had the mo st basic cover the cost of printing leaflets, their effect. Polls indicate that Loctite Corp. mailings, and bail and fines for those So I imagined a scenario in which I'm level . I am Columbia Pictures Communications the majority of Amerikans don ' t want Cabot Corp . already arrested , and for those who app lying for the perfect job . It 's _ haunted daily Coordinating Consulting Inc . u.s. involvement in a war in Central may be arrested in the future. We are in an ideal city, wonderful climate, by the faces · J\!r. Steak Inc. now asking that each Pledge member Amer ica . Central Well Testing a setting exactly in my are a of of the . : Nimslo JD contribute $10 to help cover these interest, and pays an outrageous children Thornton Industries & Western Steel costs. We understand that some of us But the vo ices and efforts of the Petroleum Management burned by white Perry-Houston Interests , Inc . may not be able to contribute that amount of money. There I am with my people have little effect on the phosphorus and flawless resume , winding down an ab.,. _ Consultan ts amount at this time, so we ask that policy makers . The war machine keeps North American Coin & Currency Ltd. & everyone contribute whatever amount solutely brilliant interview in which the bod ies of rolling in Central America. The U.S. they are able and willing to par • pearls of wit, wisdom &nd insight are the tortured . � : Council for National Policy Be assured that any contribution is literally dropp ing from my mouth backed air war in El Salvador goes peasants . The much needed and appreciated. Hope to with effortless grace . Suddenly my unreported in the U.S. press. Chemi­ urgency of their Exec . Dir , : Woody Jenkins cal warfare, civilian slaughter and V.P, , Nelson Bunker Hunt see everyone at the next Pledge interviewer glances down at my app­ their cries meeting . Thank you: bombings,· outright U.S. violations lication and looks up at me in stark demanded to be of international law in an attempt horror . "But, Ms . Perris ," he/she met with The above corporations are represented. on the Counci l's Sincerely, to overthrow the government of Board Of Governors sputters, "I •.•I see that you've urgency another country--I could go on and Bloomington-Normal Pledge been - ARRESTED 1 " of ac tion . of Resistance on : our involvement down there is an Also , Soldier of �ortune magazine has been quite instrumental 501 s. Main St. This scene played through my mind in outrage and continues to escalate --Diane Perris in the giving of aid. Normal , IL 61 761 Page 14 . Post-Amerlkan July-August 1985 Witness for Peace documents Post-Amerikan readers may remem­ ber that several folks from B-N have traveled to Nicaragua this past year with a group called Witness For Peace. WFP maintains a continuous presence in Nicaragua, currently consisting of 30 North Americans, all fluent in Spanish, who coordinate the visits of the short­ term (2 weeks) delegations of other U.S. El Gavilan took thirteen year old Rosa­ Eulario was not at home at the time. citizens who have been coming to Nicara­ linda as his "woman. " His bodyguard The contras contented themselves with gua for the past two years . To date, regularly raped twenty year old Isidra. burning the local school before re­ 44 people from Illinois have gone with Natividad kept eleven year old Mirian treating . under her protection until the contras WFP, and another group of 19 Illinois­ Cora described the attack as They told ans is there as of press time. Of managed to separate them. two minutes of terror . Her mo ther, Natividad that she was to go to the course, thousands of people from the afaela Ramos Albasuga, 44, was killed other end of the camp to cook . � U.S. have gone to Nicaragua with many in the house. Her father, wounded in other groups since the overthrow of he foot , tried to escape and was shot "When I got there, they said , 7 Somoza. in t e chest as he ran from the house. 'We don't need any cooks . This is � Cora left breast was torn by shrapnel. what we want you for. ' And they sub­ � Through the contacts established jected me to their immoral acts. They H r right forearm was shattered by gUn­ by the WFP long-term team, ordinary 7 gave me to someone named 'El Crimi­ fire . She ran out of the kitchen door people from the u.s. have had an appor­ nal ' and he and two others raped me all 1utching her wounded baby and trail­ tunity to meet with representatives of : night ." ing her three other children . As she every aspect of Nicaraguan society. lay hidden in the woods, she realized Eleven year old Mirian was also Government officials, publishers of op­ hat h r son Eden, 2, whose blood and . being raped, passed from one contra to 7 7 position newspapers, members of the intestines were spilled all over her, the next . The following night they Sandinista party and many opposition was dead . parties, high-ranking church officials, didn't touch Mirian, but for Natividad it was worse than the night before . "I members of the grass-roots liberation Ten people were wounded in the didn't think I would li e, " she said . theology movement, Maryknol.1 lay-work­ v attack, including two of Cora 's sisters, ers, medical workers, teachers, labor­ After thirteen days , the women one brother, two sons and one of her ers, and campesinos have all talked were transferred to the community of nieces. about their lives and work in revolu­ Olia Olia, where they were separated tionary Nicaragua. She has spoken about the revo­ and raped again. They lived under the lution in terms only a carnpesino can constant threat of death should they fully understand . "We lived in La Aulo However, of at least equal im­ try to escape. por�ance is the daily work of the long­ for nine or ten years . Before that , my term team members to investigate, docu­ When the Guzman £amily was res­ father had four or five acres of land ment, and report attacks by the "con­ cued , they arrived practically �aked , in the mountains . He was very poor . tra" forces, those whom President Rea­ barefoot, with swollen bellies and He did not qualify for loans from the gan has called, in his most-repulsive health problems that included malaria. bank . After the triumph (successful distortion of American history, "the ouster of u.s. -backed dictator Somo- MATAGALPA: EVENING RAID BY THE CONTRAS moral equivalent of our Founding Fath­ za .in July 1979) , they began to form LEAVES NICARAGUAN WOMAN WITHOUT PARENTS ers." The contras are terrorists cooperatives and my father started to OR CHILD ••• trained, armed, supplied and protected be a member, nothing more . He got by the United States . Our tax-dollars two cows in a loan from the bank. " Cora lost her father, mother , buy their uniforms, foo anununition, and two year old son in the attack on and training materials -a:-such as the in­ the cooperative of La Aulo, 20 miles Cora reflects on those who kill­ famous CIA manual found last year . northeast of Rio Blanco , on May 17 . ed her father . "The children are not Their targets are rarely military, but La Aulo is a small agricultural com­ to blame . The mothers are not to almost exc lusively civilian. They di­ munity in a hilly area, w ich grows blame . If they wanted my father be­ rect their raids against isolated camp­ h rice and beans in addition to raising cause of the cooperative, they could esino families, village food-storage a few head of cattle . The contras had have taken him alone , directly, right ?" facilities, health and education work­ passed by two days earlier, looking ers, and agricultural organizers . Fol­ for her father, Eulario Molina Lopez, lowing are recent accounts of such acti­ 52, who was president of the co-op . vities as provided by WFP volunteers.

BATITAN : CAPTIVITY AND RAPE OF THE GUZMAN FAMILY .

The Guzmans, a farming family in a remote region of .central Zelaya pro­ vince, spent nine months as prisoners of the contras until their escape last month. During those months, Natividad Miranda Sosa, 45, and her four daught­ ers, ranging from eleven to twenty years of age, were raped repeatedly by contra soldiers.

The family's ordeal began on the afternoon of September 10, 1984, when a contra band arrived at their home in Cana Azul, about five miles northeast of Boaco .

Ramon Guzman Gonzales, 55, was away from home, visiting his mother . The women were forced to march for four days .

When they arrived at a contra command post near Silv a, the fifteen year old Aureliana was banded over to Gato ." a contra leader known as "El He raped her several times in the next took her with him to an­ two weeks and other ccmp near Aquas Calientes .

According to Natividad , Aure li­ ana was accused of being a member of a health brigade (which is true) and IN-SHOP therefore was punished . "Her torture ," her mother says with a blank 11tare , " took the form of rape and starvation ." AL�YS 8AR6A•NS The mother and the three other FoR daughters were kept in Silva, under a Cf�o� vilan ." contra leader known as "El Ga MvcH (t)oRe/ Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 Page 15

ctics Tonight on ABC­ Contra t a ... thecommander Bightline we of the upcoming have a very •.. invasion of My mother and child would not have special guest died. There would not have been so Bicaragua. many M>unded. But they are clearly beasts. "

To receive WFP Newsbriefs, write to: Witness For Peace 515 Broadway Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Please send along whatever money you can to help pay for printing and mail­ ing costs. Like every other aspect of the struggle against the Reagan adrnini­ stration ' s unconscionable war against the people of Central America, WFP op­ erates on next to nothing.

--Susan Heiser 1613 N. School St . Normal, IL

Anti-Apartheid � fi Acquittal of protesters sets . precedent

CHICAGO. The May 17 acquittal of eight passing to the issue of protesting There is a specific statute in Illi­ protesters, charged with trespassing ap artheid. "The victory was extremely nois law that excuses "conduct which in the south African consulate here, significant because it sets a prece­ would otherwise be an offense. II dent for others who may want to engage was hailed as a moral victory ag ainst if that conduct is believed to be ap artheid arid concluded a trial that, in civil disobedience against apart­ necessary "to avoid a greater public in effect, served as a forum for the heid, " explained Lewis Myers Jr. , an or private injury. " Free South Africa Movement. The case attorney on the defense team. also represented the first judgment The defendants said they were com­ on South African policies to come out The multiracial group of defendants, pelled by ·a "deep sense of morality" of the U. S. courts. all members of the Free South Africa to violate the city ordinance against Movement , had argued they were justi­ trespassing. Not only were their Utilizing the legal theory of "neces­ fied in trespassing by the "necessity" actions justified by the Illinois sity, " the defense lawyer changed the to help end the moral evil of the statute, their lawyers argued, but trial's focus from that of sinple tres- South African system of ap artheid. also by the established practices of international law, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Nuremberg Principles .

During the four-day trial, the jury YOU OPPOSED THE RACIST REGIME ARE TO of nine white!'I, two blacks and one IN SOUTH AFRICA? Hispanic heard arguments comparing And willing to commit some of your tim!' to supporting the freedom st ruggle in sou thern Africa. and tlw movement here to ap artheid to Nazism and charging the break all U.S. ties to apartheid'> Then we want you to join us. We are the U.S. Out of Southern Africa N!'twork. Our Network U. S. . with violating international law was initiated by the People's Anti-War Mobilization (PAM) and the All-Peoples Congress (APCJ. two of the major progressive for "aiding and abett ing" the regime activist organizations in the forefront of fighting Reagan's policies al home and abroad. Weare wo rking together with other forces opposed to apartheid in the hope of sustaining and expanding this movement . The U.S. Out of Southern Africa through its "constructive engagement " Network can provide fact sheets. literature and buttons. as well as other resources on southern Africa. We can also help to policies. facilitate those who want to be part of a national network for information and coordination of acti\"it ies. "We found that they acted out of neces­ Join the U.S. Out of Southern Africa Network sity, " said juror Catherine Zemke. "We were concerned that other people Wec all ourselves the U.S. Out ofSoutlwrnAfrica Network because ifit were not for the vast economic. military. and political collaboration between tht'U.S. and South Africa. the rac ist regime would probably not be able to perpetuate itself for long. might start trespassing, but we also The U.S. is not merely a casual investor in South Africa. it is a full partner with the racist regime. reapii1g the benefits of had to do the right ·thing. " apartheid. U.S. big business. the government and the militarywill do anything i n its power to bolster and secure white minority slavr rule in southernAfrica. That is why we l"t>rl t he movemrnt to get the U.S. out of South Africa is an essential part of the anti-apartheid st ruggle. Prosecuting attorney Gary Wallace in­ sisted that South Africa was not the issue. "This is a simple case of tres­ Break aD U.S. ties with apartheid! passing which is a violation of the More than 6.000 U.S. businesses and banks including every major corporation doesbusi ness in South Africa. with many city's municipal code. • • • South operating large scale operations then>. African policies of ap artheid are not

• U.S. corporations exercise vast infiuenct'over the South African economy. dominating key sectors such as the auto. energy on trial. " and high-tech industries. It is no coincidence that when the bosses close down an auto plant in the Midwest laying off thousands of workers that same plant re-opens in South Africa where the labor is cheaper and the profits more lucrative. But the defense contended that South • U.S. banks provide the loans that keep the apartheid economy going. African policies were, in fact, at the • $out h AfriC'a does more than a quarter of all its foreign trade with the U.S. heart of the trial. After establishing • The U.S. is South Africa's principal supplier of sophisticated technology without which the South African economy and that ap artheid is a "crime against military C'ould not thrivt'. humanity," for having encoded a system • Thanks to tht> U.S. the racist rt'gimt'now has nuclear lt>chnologyto threaten the proples of southern Africa and all ofAfrfca. of laws that allow "murder, extermina­ • In violation of both U.S. and International law. South Africa gets weapons and war planes from Pentagon contractors. tion, enslavement , deportation and

• Tlw Pentagon and the CIA have extensivt' ties to the militaryand intelligence agencies ofSouth Africa. Tht>ywork together other inhumane acts committed against closrly against the freedom strugglt'. any civilian populations •••, " the

• Soul h Africa st'rves as a guard dog for U.S. imperialist intt'rests in Africa, using its superior economic and militarypower defense team argued that the Nuremberg to dt'stabilizt>otht'r countrit>s in tht' region such as Angola. Mozambique and Zimbabwe who are strugglingto be free from Principles hold all who know of s�ch U.S .. European and South African domination. crimes responsible for disobeying any and all laws justifying them. Support the ANC and SWAPO! According to Free South Africa Movement We support tilt' liberat ion struggle of the peoples of South Africa led by the African National Congress (AJllCJ. The ANC is waging an annt'd struggle against the racist regimt> through its army. the Spear of a Nation. and it also works in the mass members, jurors were chosen because of resi,,tancl' rnovt>mt'nt, and growing labor movement in South Africa. their ignorance on the subject of South The racist regime illegally occupies tht'country of Namibia which shares a border with South Africa. We support the South Africa. " The jury 's lack of knowledge West African Peoples Organization (SWA PO)of Namibia which has been leading the Namibian peoplt" in an armed strugglt' against South Africa's racist occupation army and puppet government. about ap artheid and South Africa was both depressing and encouraging," said Alice Palmer, wife of one of the defen­ dants and active anti-apartheid organ­ D I/my organization want to join or affiliate with the Name U.S. Out of SouthernAfr ica Network. izer. "Depressing because it implies Address D Enclosed is a donation of $ to help with the work. that there 's a lot of ignorance out Clty/Stat_e /Zip ------· -- D Please send me more information. there, and people should be better in­

Phone ----��--·�------�formed. But encouraging in that when they do learn about it they want to U.S. Out of SoatbenaNetwork/APC-P Africa All Organization/School/Union ------Nationaloffice: 19 West 21 Street. Room 703b do the right thing. " New York. N.Y. 10010 (212) 74 1-0633 Labordonated --from In These Times ------P•ge 16 ;o:i�e�ikan Ju-,y-A-ugu.t-198-5 - - r ----5---p- -,-8--5-5--i 9-n-0-,-85 -=��=-������ as the carpet., bombing of ing and ground sweeps. 1.- the Guazapa volcano at times Thousands more are being . . ••• I U literally shakes the resi­ wounded As best we can dences of the international determine, these attacks on journalists, safely ensconced civilian noncombatants in in the capital city. conflict zones are part of a deliberate policy •••to fo rce What is taking place, as you civilians to fl ee •••depr iving may have guessed, is a the guerrillas of a civilian I ••• "secret war. " A secret war population The cost of pur­ may be defined as a military suing this policy, in terms enterprise carried out by of human suffering, is beyond the United States and known measurement . And , of course, to its victims , intern ational it is a policy that flagrantly observers , humanitarian violates the laws .of war . organizations , foreign journal­ ists, and the domestic radical The March Americas Watch report community but, for reasons of am�lifies tQis picture , showing that colloective internal censor­ wh il e old-style death-squad activity ship, not reported in the main­ has abated so mewhat , terror bombing stream me dia of the Un ited and scorched-earth tactics have States. In this sense , the more than adequately substituted U.S. bombings from the early for it. Lethal U.S. high-tech 1960s through the early 1970s weapons now accompany the bayonet, of South Vietna m, Laos, and the machete and the bludgeon. Over Remember El Salvador? Cambodia were "secret," until cir­ one-fifth of the Salvadoran popula­ cumstances permitted this collective tion of 5 million are refugees, a How is it that over the past two censorship to be relaxed, though higher percentage than the corres­ years the United States has been in the case of South Vietnam much ponding figure in South Vietnam at organizing , supplying, overseeing of it is still in force. the height of that war . and in many cases actually exe­ · cuting the heaviest bombing and Witnesses to the slaughte r The report to the bipartisan caucus most ferocious aerial war ever puts the aerial war in its proper seen in the Americas and not one Anyone who doubts that such a war perspective. El Salvador - by which coherent report of the extent, is being waged in El Salvador should I mean the elite that seeks to viciousness or consequences of obtain two reports from Americas retain power - is now an aid ju nkie, this campaign has appeared in any Watch. "Free Fire" was published courtesy of the United States. The ma jor U.S. newspaper or magazine? last August; "Draining the Sea ••• " elite needs the war to get the aid appeared this March. Equally val­ that prevents the economic disinte­ The outrage to truth is barely uable is "U.S. Aid to El Salvador, " gration of the country (which would I credible. Mo st mainstream publica­ a report presented to the bipartisan otherwise be bankrupt), aid that tions are echoing the complacent Arms Control and Foreign Policy keeps it in power. Of the $1 .7 and ignorant words of an editorial Caucus by Representatives Jim Leach billion in U.S. aid that has gone to in The Christian Science Monitor and George Miller and Senator Mark El Salvador since 1981, no less than for May 16 which called El Salvador Hatfield. There has been some fine 74 percent has been devoted to war I "the one region in Central America reporting by Chris Hedges in � and war-related activities. An in which United States policies Christian Science Monitor and the increasing amo unt of the present clearly have been successful . The Dallas Morning !'ifil!§_, by Mary Jo $500 million annual stipend is used U.S. has backed the forces of moder­ Mcconahay for Pacific News Service, for the aerial war. The last thing ation ••• (Duarte) can be expected to and by Bob Ostertag in Alerts and the Salvadoran elite will ever progress with reforms ." The only The Guardian. So far as I and my want is peace negotiations . substantive achievement here is colleague Maura Sheehy, who assisted that the United States is getting in the research for this column, In October 1983, El Salvador's away with war crimes with barely could determine , that is more or military overseers in the U.S. a word of description or protest. less the full story for a nation Defense Department switched to Unfortunately, the U.S. left and of over 226 million people who se aerial terror after repeated suc­ left-liberal community, preoccupied journalists give each other more cesses by the Farabundo Marti with Nicaragua, has not mounted a prizes each year than the press of National Liberation Front. The campaign to disclose the atrocities. the rest of the world put together. basic techniques of the air war are a El Slavador is going the way of demolition and fragmentation; the Guatemalaa a monument to counter­ dropping of 500- and 750-pound iron insurgency of unimaginable brutality The compilers of "Free Fire" write bombs, many fitted with nose rods and a testament to the gutless that a to convert them to "antipersonnel " complicity of the U.S. press. devices; incendiary bombing, using thousands of noncombatants Israeli-supplied naplam and u.s.­ When the United States experienced are being killed in indi­ supplied white phosphorus; machine the first urban aerial bombardment scriminate attacks by bom­ gunning , with A-37 fighter bombers, in its history, courtesy of the bardments in the air, shell- AC-47s (those "Puff the Magic police force of Philadelphia, the news coverage was massive, the in­ vestigation assiduous and the indignation voluble. The nation .r. • • ·:Fruits . of El Salvador is no t as convenient JterGs syu.es vegetafies·JJut s for journalists as the state of Pennsylvania, but many U.S. reporters are based there and others visit it regularly. Since the middle of • 1983, an aerial war has been ( responsible for mo st o.f El Salvador's 500,000 internal refugees and for many of the 750,000 refugees outside the country 's borders. This was has almost entirely escaped the atten­ tion of the press corps, even when it reached a particularly savage level during that country 's presi­ dential election campaign of 1984. Almost as many U.S. reporters were. in El Salvador then as were in New NAT URAL FOODS . Hampshire during the primary season. It is as if 750-pound bombs were being dropped on the White Mountains , Sl6 N. Main St. the farmers of New Hampshire being regularly machine-gunned from the Bloomfugton,m. 61101 air and their families being mutilated and slaughtered, and th e Common Ground has a wide selection qf wholesomf! foods, press corps in Concord on primary natural body .care products , vitamin and mineral sup­ night said nothing about it. ·plements, and books for organic cooking and hea lthy living . ..

· War as op en secret By selling many foods in qu lk, Common Ground reduces As no ted in the September 1984 issue your costs on nuts, flours, spices, grains , snack of Alertl, The monthly newspaper of mixes and many other items . You may also purchase the Committee in Solidarity with ju,;t the amount you need ! Come see the gourmet the People of El Salvadora .coffee beans and fresh produce section as well. Experien�e a new and healthier way of life! In El Salvador the Pe ntagon has unleashed a counter­ ·or an additional savings of 10% on all purchases, insurgency air war on a scale you may purchase a discount card for an annual fee / never seen in Latin America ••• o f $10.00. � The fact that this unprece­ -r-, dented bombardment is completely absent from press accounts • sood-iuvy� ' SJnO).£.. SUJVJ5 .. SU}lU'V-1}(\. ',,-...... _, .. I is all the more astonishing ·------....._...... ______, ______, Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 Page 17 I 0 Dragons" of Vietnam infamy ), Huey and Hughes helicopters. A U.S. Eintelligence I s battal aion Iv based ad in r a i r war Honduras files OV-1 planes over El Salvador on frequent in telligence EL SALVADOR missions; their observations are IS NOTANOTHER processed by the Pentagon and fed VIETNAM.,, within two hours to the Salvadoran Air Force by the local U.S. super­ WHY THEY ARf.N'T visors. U.S. pilots oversee the resulting missions and frequently EVEN SPELLED take part in them. TUE SAME. I The bombing is indiscriminate, designed to terrorize the people it has not killed into taking flight . The Salvado ran Army contributes regular massacres, to accelerate this flight. In honor of South Lebanon in 1982, Colonel Sigifredo I Ochoa speaks of an "Israeli solu­ tion" 1 establishing free-fire zones which, journalists are told, contain SAL' VA -DOR 1 no "people, " only "terrorists." Conforming to this inhumanity, Ochoa's troops have prevented relief organizations from getting food ";I_ and medical supplies to the desperate victims trapped inside those areas . Ochoa is frequently given respectful I treatment by U.S. journalists because he exemplifies the younger, more efficient br eed of Salvadoran officer. forty years ago . Lies and silence �tates is repeating its The mainstream press typically . . achievements At all times the U.S. Embassy in in Indoch1na 1 bombing, shelling San Salvador and the Administration gives upbeat stories about President �atura�ion mach�ne-gunning, clearing in Washington have lied about the Jose. Napoleon Duarte's progress guerrilla territory" by spreading uses of its aid, the increasingly toward defeating the rebels. He terror. sion of the fifty-five­ is hailed for ordering the Slavadoran grotesque eva Air Force to avoid indiscriminate person limit on military advisors, Duarte: phpping for massacre s in combat and the bombing. In January, Ja mes LeMoyne the use of AC-47 of the Times provided a rate of fire of the guns installed !'ifil! � An· arti.cle in the St. Louis Post­ straight-faced account of such an Disp May se-­ in them, and about the war crimes atch for 12 by Ambro being committed. The facts are order given last fall, with absolutely Evans-Pritchard, Central America there. There are towns and villages no discussion of what the air force correspondent for the London in ruins. La Escopeta is a "ghost had been doing before that time and Specatator, pu� it quite simply1 town, " Chris Hedges reported in � whether the order had any purpose, stian Science Monitor for April or result, other than to be faithfully If the bright mood in the Chri transcribed by the U.S. press corps. 6. "Every structure appears to capital suggests that El have been hit at least once by a bomb In many reports, notably the admiring Salvador is returning to the and many show signs of being strafed ones by Edward Cody in The Washington �ol� of civilized nations, by machine-gun fire. •i According to Post on the "bigger, tougher" aid �t �s � consummate deception1 Hedges, parts of Cabanas province "trim" Salvadoran Army , one almost it is Ju.st that the war has look like a wasteland. Americas gets the sense that the war is wind• moved from assassinations in Watch observers have described ing down, that the "problem" has the cities to indiscriminate hearing the Salvadoran Army 's 105- been solved. And , as noted above , bombing in the countryside ••• millimeter howitzers blasting away the concentration on Nicaragua by The strict rul es about aerial through the night 'in indiscriminate the U.S. left and left-liberal com­ bombardment (Duarte) intro­ ' bombardment. Camps on the Honduran munity has contributed to this mood. duced last September are border are crammed with refugees. But an hour's reading of human scoffed at by the army high Where are the reporters to cover rights reports and some foreign command and particularly by these reruns of Guernica and journalism instantly attests that Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo, Cambodia? Instead, the U.S. media El Salvador is still a charnel the tough air force chief buries itself in self-serving recon­ house. The U.S.-backed forces appear That is the price Duarte has structions of wars fought ten and to be winning only because the United to pay to keep the loyalty of the armed forces and to stay in power. In other words , all the most ghastly I crimes perpetrated in Vietnam, Cambodia and Guatemala are being repeated in El Salvador. The super­ visory criminals are ensconced in the Defense Department and the upper echelons of the Reagan Admini­ stration, fully cognizant of what . the ir executors --Salvadorans working shoulder to shoulder with U.S. I instructor�--are do ing on the ground or in the air, bombing, machine­ gunning and massacring . All you I need is a complicit or cowed press and a mendacious State Department and the American people need scarcely know that repeats of My Lai and Operation Speedy Express are taking place not far south of Miami and are sponsored by their governll1 �nt . The story has only got worse s\nc e a House Commi ttee on Foreign Affairs report of 1981, which stated-1 Current (U.S. military ) assis­ tance, however, is being used for purpo ses abominable to any concept of democracy or respect for human rights or dignity. It is granted on the false premise that the Duarte govern­ ment represents a viabl e middle ground in Salvadoran political life and the civilian College & Linden government is both willing ...... and capable of controlling the ...... baser instincts of the military 'Tele.....-· whose arms maintain them in * QualityBicydes Ranges power. inAll Price · • Free Service Po1K¥witti kw Bicydes 454�1541 . * --Alexander Cockburn Parts. Accessories &Service for All Types Cal•••··...... -...... * JI DayW�anty Oii P.ejJairs From The Nat ion June 1, 1985 RALEIGH. • . SEKAI • MOTOBECANE • FUJI • TREK Page 18 Post-Amerikan July-August 1985

Post-Amerikan's Dw.ight prisoners trash for cash suffer in a smash coun_ty jails This is a warm note of thanks for Women inmates at Dwight prison for everyone who helped make the Great women are being sent to local county � Amerikan Garage Sale Gala a jails to serve the last one to three triumphant event in the annals of months of their sentences at a cost of garbage. We raised $1JO .OO which $J5.oo per inmate per day , because of will keep this trashy paper going severe crowding at the state institu­ for at least another week or two ! tion. But seriously, folks, it was a hit in spite of the difficulties posed Construction of 100 new beds has rec­ by the weather---Friday we were ently been completed at Dwight, but completely rained out and a hailstorm this will not ease the crowding , on Sunday signaled the end of the according to prison officials. A one­ sale. And while we appreciated year contract for the county jail beds Peace and every single donation of trash down expires in June , but it is expected to to the ugliest jigsaw puzzle, we 'd be renewed. like to present a few honorary awards nonviolence will to the contributors of the most Ironically, Illinois' prisons for men distinguished junk: now have more space than they need, and the IDOC has recently come under commemorate To Marita and Gil, for the most fire for exaggerating the crowding attractive trash, which the Post problem in 1984, in order to get money Garage Sale Staffers had to fight to build new prisons. bombings over. To Francis, for the mo st saleable item: a new battery­ The John Howard Association, a An invitation is being extended to operated mini-T.V., which wa s pur­ prison reform group , has received you, your family and friends to chased by the man who wanted to complaints of forced sexual lia­ join in the commemoration of the watch it in his car. (uh oh ••• ) sons between the women and county 40th Anniversary of the bombings To Bill M., winner of the "What is employees, poor living conditions , of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Aµgust it?" Award for the handy electric interruptions in school and job 6th thru 10th. worm shocker and a couple of other training programs , and other pro ­ things . blems . Assignment to county jails OUR GOAL IS TO UNITE IN A 5 DAY is involuntary ; women who have ob­ PRESENCE AT STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND Thanks everybody & jected have reportedly been punished HEADQUARTERS NEAR OMAHA , NEBRASKA by being lo cked in segregation. (HOME OF THE JOINT STRATEGIC TARGET PLANNING STAFF). --LVD Because county jails are organized as temporary holding facilities, they There will not be a specific theme generally lack appropriate long-term this year. We encourage you to be programming for inmates. School and creative in your expressions of Fellow traveller job training are minimal or non-exis­ peace and non-violence . For those tent , and physical movement is severely who wish to participate in, and/or limited. Not one of the county jails support non-violent civil diso­ likes left now holding women has facilities for bedience, there will be daily outdoor exercise or recreation. In an actions, "crossing the line," at Post-- effort to partially rectify such prob­ approximately J1JO p.m. Non­ I really enjoy your far-left lems , one county sheriff had the women violence training will be provided propaganda. I'd send more money but prisoners go out and wash all the by the Omaha group--the rest is up I've got an underground to run and county-owned cars in the parking lot to youl Bring your songs, dances I don 't have much left over . adjacent to his jail . Though it was and love to SA C headquarters anytime no doubt welcome relief, this hardly during these 5 days. I hope our freedom to present replaces the kind of real , construc­ an alternative view is never infringed tive training women should be receiving .· HOUSING upon. just prior to their release. "Truth­ - --Dave fully," one woman writes, "they say Mount Michael Abbey will be provid- Creator of the Dwight tries to help us prepare for ing hospitality for us again this Committee to Intervene Anywhere, our release, but so far, they have made year. They will provide indoor Box 40800, San Francisco CA 94140 it very difficult. " sleeping space, including beds for those who need them, and camping facil­ All county jails in Illinois are regu­ ities . No meals will be provided, but larly monitored by the IDOC Burea� of there will be some refrigeration Inspections and Audits. The Bureau's space. most recent audits give the county jails in question an essentially clean We feel there is a call for diver­ bill of health. 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MtA NT c I called Planned Parenthood and got lc the names of three urologists . Turned LIFE TO BE. c out I knew one of them personally !!!. .. ("a guy with 'German names '"). He is co ot, as your writers suggest, a CD � ... UI sexi, st asshole ," but he does tend to 131 ) express relationship ideas in terms of a bygone age . Your writer's VVll\1N1: description of him was unmistakable . t� It is a pity your writer was no t able & SON ' to get to know him well enough to overlook his coarseness and see his good heart . But I digress . We chose a do ctor on Franklin Avenue , partly because we didn't know him partly because he seemed very nic . and partly because he only charged� $175 (the cost may have been a larger factor than I'd like to admit ). It turned out to be worth every penny and quite a bit more . I shall refer to him as Dr . K. Dr. K sat us down in his office and answered both our questions very frankly and openly . He di d have a tendency to use medical jargon, but cardiologist added better than $100 one expects a doctor to do that . I've �ecessary evils . The Demerol was to the bill . I used to wonder why never had an anatomy course and still i�te�ded to relax me--instead I had some doctors did minor surgery at ho didn't have any trouble following what dif i ulty breathing. Oxygen was � � hospitals . Now I know: Dr. K had no he said. Then he took me into his administered and the nausea relented . way of knowing I would react that way examining room, checked me , and told They cut �ome Valium into the IV . I to the drugs . A small percentage of me to shave a small area on the chatt:d with the operating room people people just can't take certain drugs , anterior scrotum. We set a date, and and �i�h D � . K. I was . worried about and you can't always tell in advance that was it . There wa_s no mention of the inJection of local anesthesia into who they 'll be . (People who take payment in advance . the scrotum, worried about the ro ugh drugs recreationally please note .) beta�yne scrub, and irrationally One week later (I'd set a short date worried that he 'd start cutting before I went home around three in the after­ so as to have less time to chicken the lo cal had taken effect . no.on with an appointment to see the out ) I checked into Brokaw as an out­ cardi. ologist on Monday . He checked patient . They were a little concerned Dr. K has had a lot of experience and me out and said that, now that we know that I'd walked to the hospital , but I managed to accomplish all this with about my lack of tolerance for drugs , assured them I'd call a cab to get virtually no discomfort on my part . steps could be taken to prevent a home . Then they were concerned that There was no dividing curtain whi ch reaction should I ever need surgery I didn't have anyone there "with me ," would have prevented me from watching , again. It's something to keep in presumably to hold my ha nd, I gu ess. but I wasn 't really interested. Some­ , mind . I was determined that the operation one carving on my private parts be no big deal , and told them so . wasn 't an image I wanted stored in my Everyone involved in this operation subconscious . I requested he show me from the orderly to the cardiologist I had to take off everything including the rem oved sections of vas def�rens· to the nurses and Dr . K went out of my wedding ring and my glasses (I do which he di d. It was over their way to be ni ce to me . I have not like being without my glasses !) surprisingly fast. only good things to say about their and put on one of those drafty gowns . concern, _ their caring , their I was a bit nervous , but reasoned that My problems were not over, however . humanity . Wh atever one might say millions of other men had had the One of the drugs caused an allergic about Brokaw Ho spital as an institu­ operation and seemed to __get through it reaction that resulted in five hours tion, the people who work there are okay, so I would, too . of "tachycardia ," which means fast okay by me . heart beat . I lay in outpatient · I do not enjoy shots and do not like recovery while my heart hammere d away There was very little postoperative drugs , but they are sometimes at 160 beats per minute . The EKG and pain. I drove my 4-speed car that e evening (albeit very gently) and mowed t�e lawn the next day. Yes , � �ai�, but my philosophy about pain is if you can stop it, fine , but if not, don 't let it stop you . Just do whatcha do whatcha do . The mo st remarkable aspect of the VASECTOMY? operation is the effect it has on attitudes about sex . For years (I won't say how many years ) I've worried �bout causing a pregnancy, and it introduces a subconscious hesitancy to a kind of relationship that depends on "I would ... but freedom and spontaneity. And my wife haven't got has not relished the thought of being I pregnant . We have removed an unwanted the cash. " element of risk from our sexuality and the result has been (blush ) extremely positive .

Dr.K does not , alas , do va sectomies Planned Parenthood has for people who do not have children, for unmarried people , or for people money to pay for who are quite young . He was even hesitant to do the operation for us vasectomies until suggesting that we might want to wa t until our baby was a little older . I i December 1985 assured him that three children were quite enough , thank you . Anyway, it is a p fty his services are Call Janet at 827-4368 Monday through Friday, 8:30 - 4:30 not available to couples who do not want children and/or do no t wish to marry, as he is an excellent and compassionate do ctor. But it is YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR A FREE VAS ECTOMY! important to respect his right to be true to his own sincerely held ethics .

· The total cost of the operation was Planned Parenthoocf around $5�0. B�t the co st in money of Mid Central Illinois and the minor discomfort will be paying off for a long, long time . It 201 E. Grove Street, 2nd Floor Bloomington, Illinois 61 701 was really worth it . (309) 827-4368 --V .R.T. Post-Amerlkan July-August 1985 Page 21

FRANKLY, Abortion: A POLITE REQ.UEST SHOULD BE ALL THAT'S woman's NECeSSA RY/ ' Apoi nt vie• w of

Quite ap art from blowing up clinics and terrorizing patients, the ant i­ ment surplus cheese, a monthly allow­ abortion movement can take a credit responsibilities and, very often, ance so small it would barely keep a for a more subtle and lasting kind of checkbooks. Anyone who thinks for a yupp ie male in running shoes, and the damage: rt has succeeded in getting moment about women's role in repro­ contenptuous ep ithet "welfare cheat ." even pro-choice people to think of ductive biology could never blithely rt wo uld be far more reasonable to abortion as a "moral decision, " an recommend "adoption, not abortion, " honor the survivors of pregnancy at "agonizing decision " and related code because women have to go through childbirth with at least the same phrases for something murky and com­ something unknown to fetuses or men, respect and special benefits that promising, like the traffic in infant and that is pregnancy . we give, without a second thought, formula mix . to veterans of foreign wars . From the point of view of a fetus, In liberal circles, it has become un­ pregnancy is no doubt a good deal . But, you will object, I have greatly stylish to discuss �9rtipn _without But, consider it for a moment from exaggerated the discomforts of preg­ using words like "co lex� l• "painful" the point of view of the pregnant n-P nancy and the hazards of child­ and the rest of the mealy-mouthed person (if "woman " is too incendiary bearing, which many women undergo vocabulary of evas ion . Regrets are and feminist a term) and without quite cheerfully . This is true, at also fashionable, and one otherwise reference to its potential issue . least to an extent. In my own case, feminist author writes recently of we are talking ab out a 9-month bout the case of my planned and wanted mourning, each year following her of symptoms of varying severity, often pregnancies, I managed to interpret abortion, the putative birthday of including nausea, skin discolorations, mo rning sickness as a sign of fetus her discarded fetus . extreme bloating and swelling, insom- ­ nia, narcolepsy, hair loss, varicose tenac ity and to find in the hyper­ trophy of my belly, a voluptuousness I cannot speak for other women, of veins, hermorrhoids, indigestion and ordinarily unkiiown to the skinny . course, but the one regret I have irreversible weight gain, and cul­ about my ab ortions is that they cost minating in a physiological crisis But this only proves my point : A money that might otherwise have been which is occasionally fatal and al­ society that is able to make a good spent on something more pleasurable, mo st always excruciatingly painful . thing out of pregnancy is certainly like taking the kids to movies and free to choose how to regard abortion . theme parks . If men were equally at risk for this we can treat it as a necessary adjunct condition--if they knew that their to contracept ion, or as a vexing moral Yes, that is abortions, plural {2 bellies might swell as if they were dilemma, or as a form of homicide--:­ in my case) --a possibility that is suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, and whichever we chose, that is how not confined to the promiscuous, the that they would have to go for nearly we will tend to experience it. disorderly or the ignorant . In fact, a year without a stiff drink, a my credentials for dealing with the cigarette or even an aspirin, that So I will admit that I might not have technology of contraception are first they would be subject to fainting been so calm and determined about my rate : I have a Ph.D. in biology that spells and unable to fight their way abortions if I had to cross a picket is now a bit obsolescent but still onto commuter trains--then I am sure line of earnest people yelling "baby good for conjuring up vivid mental that pregnancy would be classified killer, " or if r felt that I might be pictures of zygotes and ova, and I was as a sexually transmitted disease blown to bits in the middle of a vacuum actually paid, at one po int in my life, and abortions would be no more con­ to teach other women about the mys­ troversial than emergency appendec­ asp iration . conversely, though, we teries of reproductive biology . tomies . would be hearing a lot less about am­ bivalence and regrets if there were not so much liberal head-scratching Yet, as every party to the abortion Adding babies to the picture does not debate should know, those methods of make it all that much prettier, even qoing on . contraception that are truly safe are if you are, as I am, a fool for short, Abortions will surely continue, as not absolutely reliable no matter how dinpled people with drool on their they have through human history, reliably they are used. Many women, chins . For no matter how charming the whether we approve or disapprove or like myself, have felt free to choose outcome of pregnancy that is allowed hem and haw . The question that worries the safest methods bec ause legal to go to term, no one is likely to me is: How is, say, a 16-year-old abortion is available as a backup to come forth and offer to finance its girl going to feel after an abortion? contraception . Anyone who finds that Panpers or pay its college tuition . Like a convicted sex offender, a - a thoughtless, immoral choice should murderess on parole? Or like a young speak to the orphans of women whose Nor are the opponents of abortion woman who is capable, as the guidance wombs were perforated by Dalkon shields promising a guaranteed annual in­ counselors say, of taking charge of or whose strokes were brought on by come, subsidized housing, national her life? high-estrogen birth-control pills . health insurance and other measures that might take some of the terror This is our choice, for biology will r refer you to the orphans only be­ out of parenthood . We all seem to never have an answer to that strange cause it no longer seems to be good expect the individual parents to and cabalistic question of when a form to mention women themselves in shoulder the entire burden of sup­ fetus becomes a person. Potential discussions of abortion . In most of porting any offspring that can be persons are lost every day as a result the anti-abortion literature I have traced to them, and , in the all­ of miscarriage, contraception or seen, women are so invisible that an too-common event that the father someone 's s illple failure to respond to uninformed reader might conclude that cannot be identified or has skipped a friendly wink . fetuses reside in artificially warm town to avoid child-support pay­ tissue culture flasks or similar ments, "parent " means mother . What we can answer, with a minimum of containers. throat-clearing and moral agonizing, When society does step in to help out is the question of when women them­ a poor woman attempting to raise rt must be enormously difficult for selves will finally achieve full per­ children on her own, all that it cus­ the anti-abortionists to face up to sonhood: And that is when we have tomarily has to offer is some govern- the fact that real fetuses can only the right, unquestioned and unabro­ survive inside women, who, unlike any gated, to choose not to be pregnant kind of laboratory apparatus, have when w'e decide not to be pregnant . thoughts, feelings, aspirations , --Barbara Ehrenreich, from The New York Times Page Post-Amerlkan July-August I 22 1985 1 ACLU joins gays in struggle for equality The American Civil Liberties Union the world ." today announced plans to establish a new project aimed at ending discrimi­ "As long as civil rights for gays and nation against gay men and lesbians . lesbians remain a gay people 's issue alone, it will be too easy for gays to The Lesbian/Gay Rights Project, located be isolated in their struggle to secure in the ACLU's national office in equality, " Dorsen added . "Antiquated New York, will begin by challenging sodomy laws restrict the civil rights state sodomy laws that criminalize and libert ies of many Americans, and homosexuality and attacking the various permitting such discrimination to con­ forms of discrimination that these tinue threatens the civil rights of criminal laws engender. all Americans ."

ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser ERADICATION OF SODOMY LAWS and ACLU President Norman Dorsen said that with the creation of the project The first priority of the ACLU Lesbian/ the ACLU would be able to take a more Gay Rights Project will be the erad­ aggressive and visible role in fighting ication of sodomy laws . Sodomy laws for equal rights for gays and lesbians . are used as the legal basis for police harassment of gay men, and to justify "Gay men and lesbians confront laws differential treatment of lesbians as and government practices that would well as gay men in housing, employment, long ago have been struck down as un­ and domestic relations (e.g. child constitutional if they app lied to custody) cases . Even where sodomy racial minorities or women, " Glasser OK ...YOU'RE GAY. DO YOU HAVE TO laws are not vigorously enforced, their ANNOUNCE IT TO THE WORLD? ...YES! said . "Laws in twenty-four states and mere existence defines gay relation­ the District of Columbia that outlaw ships as a crime, perpetuating common consensual sodomy are used as the legal myths and stereotypes about gay men justification for various forms of and lesbians, and inhibiting gay people discrimination, and force gay men and from living openly . lesbians to choose between suffering second class citizenship or keeping The ACLU, with the Lambda Legal Defense their sexual orientation a secret from and Education Fund, has already filed a legal challenge to the Louisiana sodomy law. The ACLU is now exploring the possibility of bringing similar TV {Gay) Guide challenges in Arkansas and Minnesota . While crime may be dominating prime­ How about a gay story between a minor The gay rights project will also target time television, so-called "crimes and a consenting adult? CBS's discrimination against gay men and against nature" are on the upswing "Welcome Back Bobby, " a made-for-tv lesbians in housing and employment-­ too. In the upcoming fall season, movie in post-production and slated with enphas is on education and the each of the ma jor networks has at for the '85- '86 season, opens with uniformed mun icipal services {police, least one series with a regular gay 15-year-old Bobby returning home after firefighters, etc.) . In addition, character . a summer love affair with a gay guy the project will pursue several cases in his )Os. Bobby 's dad thought his On NBC, "The Golden Girls" stars Bea son was away at a summer job in the in which local laws interfere with Arthur and Betty White in a comedy city. Wh en Dad finds out the truth , gay peoples ' First Amendment rights, series about four older women who the fireworks start. Bobby, by the including laws barring gay teachers live and play in Miami , assisted by a way , is also on the swim team. from "advocating" homosexuality in gay houseman. CBS contributes its gay the classroom . character in "Hometown, " an hour-long series, debuting in August. It is If you've lost interest in the pain­ based on "The Big Chill " (a movie that fully slow unfolding of the gay --from Civil Liberties, should have had a gay character) . romance on "Dynasty," or you think Spring 1985 ABC's answer to "Miami Vice"--"Holly­ Steven's lover, Luke , will be one of wood Beat"--will feature John the fatalities in the season-ending Matuszak, former linebacker for the shoot-out , you may want to switch to Oakland Raiders, as the gay owner of the daytime soap "Santa Barbara ," for a coffee shop. the gay situation that recently cropped up on that NBC show. Wonder On cable, a pilot for "First Intent," how long this one will last? a sitcom set to start up in August, includes a plotline in which the Finally, it 's goodbye to "Sara, " the owner of a football team is caught by likable Wednesday-night series that his wife in bed with the tight end . had a gay character. It has been A spokesperson for the Alliance for withdrawn from NBC's fall line-up . Gay and Lesbian Artists reports that And so it goes. Happy viewing. the pilot turns into a "nasty little show" as the wife threatens to reveal --Thanx to Steve Holley of her husband 's sexual interests unless The Advocate, June 11, he signs over to her the ownership 1985 , issue ; with of the team. This is a sitcom? editorial fiddling by Ferdydurke If you're CBS , how do you one-up ABC's successful "Consenting Adult"?

FINEST GAY ENTERTAlNMEN lN CENTRAL lLLINOIS OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL 4AM. PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONf PER CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Post-Amerikan July-August 1985 Page 23 Pantagraph the mark On Tuesday, July 2, Pantagraph readers us to believe that there are plenty of us she should use . Disastrous? Gimme were treated to a 20-inch article-­ others . The women in LeRoy must do a break. conplete with a 14-inch photo--on "mis ses"go stup id things every day just to page 5 of the front section on the help hurt strangers. But what can you 01 ' Devries does concede that "the sick women' s role in the LeRoy emergency do? You have to take what you can people they cater to -don't care if the squad . The squad is made up of 36 get . And that means you have to take squad members are wearing makeup and volunteers, 12 of whom are women . women who get themselves into predica­ have every hair in place" and that They do everything the male squad ments . "That appears to be the trend "some of the squad 's patients •••are members do, and then some . in mo st small towns, " DeVries tells on the verge of death .u But I bet, us, "where volunteers are few and men even on the verge of death, Devries We, the readership, were not informed are unavailable during daytime hours would care . as to what the tasks of the women to serve on the volunteer E>quad ." were, except in very vague terms . We Devries says that the people in LeRoy In the last paragraph and a half of know they drive ambulances and rescue "have accepted women as part of the the article, Devr ies gets to what vehicles, they are emergency medical rescue team. " But then what choice do should have been one of the main they comfort people. technicians, and focuses--what the women themselves see I'm sure there is a lot more to their as the most difficult ob stacle: jobs than that, but I have no idea dealing with a call from a friend or what it is . someone they know . Especially in a small town, that is an issue. If you know almost everyone in town, the call I have no idea because the article is likely to be at least an acquaint­ focused on how different it is for ance . It is a real problem . Though girls to do boys ' work . not as real, according to DeVries, as depriving your family of potato salad You think I'm mak ing that up . Okay, or going out without makeup . the article op ened with a touching story about how stupid women are . Perhaps the article offended me more Once one of the women ran out of the than_ it should have because I do cr isis house so fast she forgot to turn off the potatoes and eggs she had boiling they have? If girls are all you can on the stove . Not only could she get, you get girls, predicaments and have set her own ho use on fire if she all . hadn 't thought to call the police and have them turn off the stove, but her DeVr ies seems fascinated with the family didn' t have potato salad for shifts the women work--12 hours a dinner that night . Boy was her face day--and that sometimes women pull red . night shifts . "Sometimes that means getting called out of bed, and that It is an am us ing anecdote . I'm sure could be disastrous for women who it is one of the wo man 's favorites don 't like to go out of the house about herself. It is not appropriate without their makeup on or their hair for the op ening 6 paragraphs in an combed . " article headed "Women' s Role Integral to Emergency Squads ." Disastrous ? We 're talking here ab out women who scrape up the pieces of what Paragraph 6 goes on to say that no used to be a person from the concrete one remembers what the emergency was, of I-55, who take the charred remains but (and I quote Melinda Devr ies, the of humanity from burning buildings, writer of the article) "the case can who pick up the limp, lifeless forms be singled out as just one of the of somebody' s gramma who has just had predicaments women get themselves into a heart attack or stroke, who handle as members of a small-town volunteer the mangled remains of a little boy emergency team. " caught in farm machinery . And what is disastrous ? The fact that the Although we do not get to hear about women rescue wo rkers don't stop to use other predicaments, the sentence leads the 27 products Madison Avenue tells

intervention . Have done it for over - . 11 years . I've run out of the house with my shirt on wrong- side-out, with one black sock and one brown sock on . I've gone dressed to the teeth directly from dinner or a play. And nobody has ever cared what I looked like . Ever . EQUAINL OPPORTUNITY People in crisis care only that you are there, that you want to help them when they need help . Maybe Devries should talk to both the peop le who work

. . . HOUS� ING at and the people who have been helped by Pro ject Oz, the Rape Cr isis Center, the CHS crisis team, and other agenc ies If you feel you have ·been denied housing or treated in town who do crisis intervention . IS YOUR RIGHT. !_ , If she can' t believe that dying unfairly because . of your race,_ .·color, rellg1on, sex people don't care what their crisis national origin, ancestry or physical or mental workers look like, perhaps she wo uld believe that runaways, rape victims, handicap, contact the and suicides don 't care either . That nobody cares . Except DeVries . But I doubt it .

Either Devr ies or the Pantagraph Bloomington Human editorial staff or both should have taken a good, hard look at her article before they decided to run it and Relations Commission anger and demean the women rescue workers in LeRoy, crisis workers every­ . at where, and women in general. But that's obviously too much to ask . And besides, they did ask a woman 's opinion . They asked Devries . Th e is sioomington Human Relatiorts;�co1111nis· sion --Deborah Wiatt here to assist 'andto help. . mini -review the Cave the Ga lery The yy yyyy It's cold and It 's aw fully loud, but clean hot, but so is Underground and safe . the live mus ic . lc:=:D1�ic=�oc::::::::1u«===M��� Barfly YYYYY pure alpha YYY. some fun � YYYY groovy YYso-so y yucky Hey, fellow scene makers ! If you enjoy exploring the hot night spots from the However, our expedition to the Cave in the area--where else can you go sleazy to the swanky , trendy to trashy, also uncovered some glaring faults, to hear jazz, folk, country, blues, funky to flashy--then this column is which are mostly created by the physi­ punk, pop , rock, or heavy metal five for you ! Each month in the Post Ameri­ cal surroundings . As its name implies, nights a week? The quality of the kan we'll review t'WO of the many bars The Cave is a dim, nk,da subterranean bands ranges from fabulous to awful, in Bloomington-Normal in search of a room with cold, stucco-covered walls , but credit owner Spike for providing perfect night on the town . Of course, low ceilings and no windows . This a stage for local talent . And cover your criteria might differ from ours, makes the place very loud . The charges are reasonable--usually $2 but we 'll be looking at such things acoustics are such that the barmaid 's for a weekend night, less during the as ambiance, service, prices, parking, chuckle becomes a cacophonic chorus week . Sometimes they even book bathrooms and diversions . So hey, of cackles, which is constantly accom­ nationally known "cult" bands dudes and dude-esses, it's party time ! panied by the earsplitting din of (Shockabilly, Fred Frith, etc, ), and clanking bottles and glasses. This The Cave then the cover is a little higher . noise, coupled with an over-active There 's a. small dance floor (which, 150 8 N. Main St. , Bio om in gto n air conditioner, was enough to drive incidentally, has been known to The Cave Lounge , tucked away below us shivering back out to the sunlight, spawn knee injuries). Acoustics are Variety Liquors, is one of those to Life on the Outside. not bad, and best of all, if places that you might never venture band is too loud or too lousy, you into by chance . This bar came highly The Gal ery 111 E. Beaufort, Normal can always retreat to the downstairs recommended to us by friends who claim The Galery presents some striking con­ bar, which in itself is a nice place that it 's a good place to meet friends trasts with The Cave (not the least of to go for conversation and drinks . for drinks and conversation--perfect which is the change in terrq;>erature from We 've heard corrq;>laints, but we think for a discreet rendezvous or a great chilly to stifling) but a comparison the pizza is good . Drink prices are neutral ground for those discussions hardly seems necessary because the t'WO on the steep side ($1.25 for bottles about "the relationship ." It's the establishments are in different of beer) . There are also three pool type of neighborhood bar which features classes . While the cave is a chummy tables with plenty of room around cheap drinks (40, 50, and 60 cent neighborhood bar , The Galery is a real them downstairs, and one pool table drafts and regular happy hour specials) college hangout, where the clientele up stairs, as well as a few video in a clean environment where we irdos can change every night . One of this games . won 't bother you . They also serve bar's strongest points is that its Temperatur e soar s pizza and sandwiches, and have a few crowd is so diverse almost anyone could games (bowling machine , pinball and find his or her niche there without Sounds like this is the best place in video games) . fear of A) ridicule, B) danger, or town to go for live mus ic , eh? C) sharks . Oh, what a comfort it is We ll, don' t get too excited--there a Goin g spelunkin g to know that this type of solace are a·couple of really annoying prob­ The regular crowd of Cave dwe llers awaits you after having walked past lems with The Galery . The club up ­ appears to be a diverse mixture of the line of Philistines outside of stairs is quite small and a good band white and blue collars who gather Rocky 's, who (depending upon your on the weekend will have the place around the small bar for an after- appearance) are fond of calling out : jam-packed by 10:30. And in the work drink (or two , or five ) and a few A) "Hey Baybuh l", B) "Fag! ", or si.:umner months, those dancing, . laughs (very loud laughs, but more on C) "Get a haircut!" s�eating bodies make the already that later) . They casually observe stiflingly hot room intolerable . outsiders, but are not a snobb ish Anyway, The Galery has a friendly Hot is not the word for it. It's bunch . Pull up a barstool and you, atmosphere which is contributed to downr ight unhealthy . If the terrq;>era­ too , will soon feel welcome to join by waitresses and barpersons who are ture were attended to , this club the lively discussions of Cub scores pleasant and hardworking in spite of would be really nice . And just how and pseudo-sexual banter . The women 's the lousy tips . (They have our much can it cost for some system of bathroom is a clean, we ll-stocked two ­ admiration .) Besides the delightful ventilation? Maybe a fundraiser is seater with little privacy, but the ambiance at The Galery, its main in order "for the benefit of Mr. grafitti is enough to take your mind attraction is the live music featured Sp ike ." off all but the mo st pressing of life 's regularly. The Galery undoubtedly problems . presents the best variety of bands --Stella and Blanche

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