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Beloit—All over Wisconsin, students are and networking. attendance to speak to the activists on Supreme Court decision which recognized becoming more and more politically active. Laura Telwerp, campus organizer ofthe women's rights and activism. that the Constitution protects the right of From issues such as sweatshop labor to Planned Parenthood chapter at the University "The right to take care of our own bodies women to choose abortion, said Berceau. corporate control of universities to diversity of Wisconsin-Madison, attended the is basically the right to privacy. It has fallen .Over the last decade, the Supreme Court and women's issues, students are organizing. conference because the issues were important on deaf ears in our assembly. We can only has granted states more power to place That is why some of Wisconsin's student to her. hope this will resonate with the public. The restrictions on the procedure. leaders took part in the NARAL Foundation "Freedom to choose what I want to do battles need to come from you and all Olenchek and others stressed that the need pro-choice activist training here June 3-4. with my body is a fundamental right," said women," said Representative Terese Berceau for abortion won't go away until the United NARAL's stands for the National Abortion Telwerp. (D-WI). Berceau represents the 76th States can achieve two of NARAL's goals: Reproductive Rights Action League. Jennifer Olenchek, president of the Assembly District. better access to more effective contraceptive NARAL's main goal is to help find sane, Milwaukee chapter of the National "We need to let women know what is options and better access to other kinds of workable answers that will ultimately reduce Organization of Women, agreed. going on with issues that affect them. Media reproductive health care and information. the need for abortions. It focuses on "To be pro choice is to believe that women isn't doing it. We have compromised too "Being pro choice means working toward contraception, reproductive health care and have a basic right to control their own bodies much on the right to control our bodies. a world where all women's reproductive sex education. and the right to decide for herself when and Respect of rights should not mean a lack of options-whether its motherhood, abortion or "NARAL's focus is not just the issue, but whether to have a child. It means believing rights for women," concluded Berceau. adoption-are safe, legal and accessible," said the skills to organize. Organizing gives people that women are moral decision-makers. It Currently, the women's movement is at a Olenchek. a sense of their own power, changes the means believing that women can decide on crossroads, argued many ofthe speakers. A In the two decades before abortion was balance of power, and makes concrete their own, based on their personal beliefs, woman's right to control her own body and a legal in the U.S., nearly a million women each improvements in people's lives," said Paige health and life circumstances, and without woman's right to privacy are under attack they year sought out illegal abortions. Of those Shipman, a regional organizer for NARAL. government interference whether or not to said. women, 10,000 died and tens of thousands The activist training, which took place at have an abortion," said Olenchek. Many are not aware that events are were mutilated each and every year. Abortion Beloit College, focused on education, Elected representatives were also in happening today which could seriously must remain legal or women will die," building strong leaders, organizing, lobbying, threaten to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Olenchek concluded.
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Can universities form an alliance between be looking for part-time work or internships education and big corporations, without any during their undergraduate studies will be US. and II repercussions? The University of Wisconsin- placed in temporary positions. By John Catalinotto Milwaukee School of Business thinks so. When asked what was the best benefit of Following the local and national trena of the contract with Manpower, Krejci New York—A panel of 16 judges from Taken together, the judges decided, public institutions signing contracts with large responded: "The nice thing about Manpower 11 countries at a people's tribunal meeting in each single part contributed to construct a corporations, UWM and Manpower, Inc. is that it will help students who want to New York June 10 before 500 people found proof that beyond a reasonable doubt signed a partnership in May. relocate. Manpower will be of tremendous U.S. and NATO political and military leaders proved the guilt ofthe accused, just as the This contract will give Manpower the help to those students. Also, the employment guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in proper placing of single tiles can build a right to supply the UWM School of Business to relocate upon graduation. This relationship the March 24-June 10, 1999 assault on that mosaic. Administration with services such as on-site will elevate our career services to a new level." country. The witnesses described how NATO career guidance, job information, and career All this comes with a price, however, Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey forces used the media to spread lies to development programs. The company plans according to Lawrence Soiey, Professor of Clark, the lead prosecutor at the International demonize the Serbs and their leadership in Tribunal on U.S../NATO War Crimes Against order to prepare public opinion to prepare "What it [the UWM-Manpower partnership] represents is an erosion ofthe power of academics and the academy to determine the cumculum." -Lawrence Solev
on designing a training program to teach Communication at Marquette University, and students "the skills that will help them succeed author ofthe book, Leasing the Ivory Tower: in the classroom, and, ultimately the work The Corporate Takeover of Academia, a force," according to the press release critique of corporate and university announcing the partnership. connections. Critics of this contract say that it is a "What it represents is an erosion of the conflict of interest, since increasing corporate power of academics and the academy to Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and the International panel of judges at the involvement in universities seriously determine the curriculum. This policy seems U.S./NATO War Crimes Tribunal - June 10,2000, New York Photo: Bryan G. Pfeifer influences what is taught and how it is taught. to be pandering to businesses that have Critics also question a relationship between exploitative policies. These companies Yugoslavia, urged those present and those for war. Then they showed the reai economic UWM and Manpower, because they say exercise inordinate power once they get inside they represented from the 21 countries and geopolitical interests of the imperialist Manpower has a reputation of exploiting the universities. Ultimately, their money participating to carry out a sentence of powers—the U.S. and Western Europe—in workers and weak labor laws. talks," said Soley. organizing a campaign to abolish the NATO seizing economic control ofthe area from the According to Greg Krejci, Career Services Throughout my university career, I have military pact. Balkans to the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Coordinator for the School of Business consistently seen fellow faculty members Ben Dupuy, former ambassador from Finally they demonstrated how Administration, Manpower will have an silence themselves to these golden cows. They Haiti, Rev. Kiyul Chung of Korea, and auto Washington rigged the "Racak massacre" and office in the school beginning in the fall 2000 are silencing academics who should be worker Martha Grevatt, who heads the AFL- then used the so-called Rambouillet accord— semester. This office will help supplement the criticizing these companies" added Soley. CIO's organization Pride at Work, read the in reality an ultimatum demanding NATO's already existing Career Development Center. Todd Price, Ph.D. in Educational three parts ofthe verdict. military control of all of Yugoslavia—to "Manpower will be on campus to provide Communication and Technology in the Participants taking the witness stand provoke the war. Taken together this all assistance to students who wish to relocate Department of Curriculum and Instruction at included eye-witnesses, researchers who proved a crime against peace. outside ofthe state, as well as assistance for UW-Madison, and current Executive Director visited Yugoslavia, renowned political and They also showed the use of illegal graduate students looking for higher-level of WYOU Community TV in Madison, economics analysts, historians, physicists, weapons, the purposeful choice of civilian careers," said Krejci. agrees. biologists, military experts, journalists and lay targets and the destruction ofthe environment Manpower will also provide specialized "Corporate input into the curriculum of a researchers. and the civilian infrastructure that add up to training classes "outside of the core public university is the serious problem. The Many of these witnesses have in the past war crimes. And the expulsion of hundreds curriculum," mainly focusing on computer way Manpower is getting into the school 15 months presented to audiences worldwide of thousands of people from Kosovo and skills. Krejci explained that post-graduate through 'outside the curriculum' language is a complete picture ofthe war NATO waged Metohija that prove crimes against humanity. students would benefit from Manpower's phony. Anything offered by the University is against Yugoslavia. For the tribunal, however, The witnesses' presentations were Professional Division, which focuses more on inside curriculum. There are always strings all limited themselves to a single area of accompanied in many cases by slides and looking for immediate full-time employment attached. Manpower expects to receive some expertise that made up a single part of the videos displayed on a large screen on the stage as opposed to temporary work, but still does economic benefit through the contract." evidence against the political and military ofthe auditorium at Martin Luther King Jr. both permanent and temporary to hire, See Msmpcwer paoe 14 leaders of the United States and the other according to Manpower. Students that will NATO countries. flfft Tri^iT^1 ITOft 14 June 88.8000 FEATURES Industries attempt In end music piracy ul wafer mar king By Jennifer Bales The Battalion (Texas A&M U.)
(U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, to one. This compressed data produces sound — not the elimination of piracy by infinite number of copies as long as they Texas — MPEG 1 layer 3 files, commonly that is almost indistinguishable from a CD's. professionals. SDMI intends to publish retain the original disc from which the music known as MP3s, are used by hundreds of With the pending case against Napster, guidelines explaining how digital music file was originally produced. Three additional thousands of people across the United States Inc., and the constant media attention to security tasks should be performed rather than copies are permitted from each copy stored and the world as a way of acquiring their digital-music controversies, there has been strict implementation procedures. on the user's computer. If the consumer needs favorite songs by downloading them to their pressure for all parties involved to find an On June 28, 1999, SDMI completed more copies, the CD can be re-copied. computers instead of paying the price of a amicable agreement. Phase I of the project which detailed initial A copy permission counter may also be store-bought CD. "We're in the middle of a 'never-never specifications for portable devices (PD). implemented. The usage rules will define Over 180 music and technology land' right now. We have large numbers of Popular PDs among consumers include how many times a file may be copied and companies have recently banded together to people breaking the law and saying they Diamond Multimedia's Rio 500 and Creative show the number of times the content was prevent the "pirating," or stealing, of music don't care," said Thomas Putnam, director Lab's Nomad DAP-3201. These PDs allow replicated. through this means by attempting to ensure of computing and information services at users to listen to digital music while away The user may "check out" the content a that only legal MP3s with a specific code, or Texas A&M. "We're hoping that somebody from their computers—much like a portable specific number of times, and the "watermark," can be played by software and comes up with something workable that CD player. identification associated with the watermark portable MP3 players. walks that fine line between allowing artists Phase I SDMI-compliant devices will will enable the file to play on portable devices This watermarking technique is called the to make money off of their art and allowing enable users to play both protected and installed on the user's computer only. With Secured Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). people to listen to the music and not paying unprotected music, meaning that MP3s this technology, SDMI is working to force The Motion Pictures Experts Group excessive amounts for it." created before the launch of SDMI all copies to be created from the original, (MPEG) developed a method of compressing SDMI resulted from a forum of more technology can be played on first generation decreasing the amount of pirated material. audio and visual content. The compression of than 180 companies and organizations SDMI-compliant devices. SDMI protocol merely creates guidelines data allows users to save space and time when representing various members ofthe music Phase II will begin when technology that for manufacturers to incorporate security dealing with large files. and technology fieldstha t have collaborated filters out illegally copied music is available measures when distributing digital music. Rather than working with a large file that Jo develop open technology specifications to device manufacturers. Music that is "My attitude is that the standard should uses between 30 and 50 megabytes of to protect the distribution of digital music. released with a watermark that identifies it define a technology that is neutral. It is up to memory, compression allows for the SDMI focuses its efforts on providing as SDMI-compliant will be the only filesabl e another layer to set rules about the use ofthe manipulation of data into five megabytes or rejcord companies with a way to distribute to be played by this technology. technology. SDMI is a technology platform less. MP3 utilizes the structure developed by high-quality music without allowing illegal However, PDs will also retain the ability where everything is possible, but it's up to MPEG to compress the audio portion ofthe copies to be spread among listeners. to play music that is unprotected, such as the society, not the technology, to decide what's data. However, watermarking is only a small current MP3 format, which was released right and what's wrong," said Dr. Leonardo MP3s work by compressing a track on a component ofthe solution. The primary goal before the implementation of Phase II. Chiariglione, the founder of MPEG and CD, creating a compression ratio of about 11 of SDMI is the prevention of casual piracy Consumers will be allowed to make an executive director of SDMI, in an interview with Wired News, an online news Website which focuses on science and technology issues. &mtg s 1213 N Water 223-3422 X Earn money and marketing "£D> experience! 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Thanks to the work of Righteous Babe floyd by David Pirner of Soul Asylum fame. to deliver a tour-de-force version of do ri is a melancholy tale of Mr. Guthrie's Records, led by Ani DiFranco, the work of This song tells who the real outlaws are. The me. Here Di Franco tells the story of the thousands of miles of ramblin'. The women legendary folk artist Woody Guthrie has been words, "Now as through this life I've rambled illusions ofthe California Gold Rush as only here capture the sometimes lonely, but resurrected for another generation. I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob she could while laying down a blistering inspiring, life ofthe rambler of which they Four years in the making, 'til we you with a six gun some with a fountain pen," acoustic guitar sound. By the sounds ofthe consider themselves. outnumber 'em... is a live recording of will stay with you long after. It's worth the audience this was a showstopper. Spoken word contributions by Fred Woody Guthrie songs performed at the Rock Hellerman, Country Joe McDonald and the and Roll of Hall of Fame Museum Sept. 29, poem, born naked, performed by Tim 1996. Robbins, are a nice contrast to the music. The performance, recorded at the Craig Werner's spoken word contribution, it museum's Severance Hall, was a tribute to a ain 't about bein 'perfect, tells of Mr. Guthrie's man who defined folk art and never forgot o.W^m personal fight against racism and the vital his roots and allegiance to the working class importance of this amongst the workers. he spoke and played for. The evening wouldn't have been Mr. Guthrie, like Leadbelly and others complete without a few words and songs by before him, continued the truth-telling Mr. Guthrie's son and fellow traveler Arlo tradition ofthe rail-riding, rambling, story- Guthrie. Thanking him for his contributions gathering political acoustic-balladeer model," and for what he's learning through his work, as Ani DiFranco said upon release of 'till we Arlo paid tribute to his dad. outnumber 'em... "I began to realize some ofthe sacrifice This distinctive art form was evident at that a person has to make when you're dealing the tribute performance as some of today's with things like being free. Free in every best known artists did Mr. Guthrie's work moment to pursue and to be who you are. justice. There's a price that has to be paid for those Starting off with hard travelin' things." hootennanny, sung by all performers on stage, Arlo then led the cast of artists home with the night began with a spirit that flowed the revered this land is your land and the story throughout the performance. Alternately of 'til we outnumber 'em. humorous and serious, with an assortment of As the artists here played on they sang instruments tossed in, the tone was set for the the songs of the farmers, miners, sweepers, evening. smelters, children and the union men and Following this was some words by Peter women who have been stricken from the Glazer titled payback. Acknowledging that history books of this land. All those workers all art is circular and belongs to everyone, of all colors and genders who built and Glazer stressed that "the amount that we owe continue to build were able to speak through is all that we have" and said that the best those on stage this special and one-of-a-kind payback is to keep working. evening. Mr. Guthrie's friend and fellow traveler, Mr. Guthrie could pen the lyrics he did Ramblin' Jack Elliot, checked in next with a because he was a worker himself who took rendition of 1913 massacre. In stark, the beatings and indignities ofthe bosses and haunting detail, Elliot sung the tragic history who fought the cops and goons who worked of the deaths of 73 children in Calumet, for the them when workers tried to organize. Michigan-copper country as it's known. In The best tribute we could give to Mr. 1913 these children were trapped inside a price ofthe disc itself. Bruce Springsteen lit up the hall with his Guthrie and the others who play here and burning factory by thugs hired by the copper Billy Bragg tells Mr. Guthrie's stories of version of one of many hundreds of Mr. everywhere is to share these words and songs. bosses. They all perished. This song was Mr. how it's against the law for poor and working Guthrie's children's songs, riding in my car. As the liner notes say: "his songs belong Guthrie's tribute to those children and folk to live in a society where being poor is The song done Springsteen style, heard to no one and to everyone." Indeed. simultaneously a denunciation ofthe bosses, viewed as a character flaw. Bragg gets the once, is something you'll never forget. Play on. Share on. child labor and the system that put profits point across using blues infused melodies. The poignant and tender ramblin' 'round And organize. before people. Ani DiFranco steps up the the mic here performed by the Indigo Girls and DiFranco -Bryan G. Pfeifer Other standout tracks include pretty boy
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The growing monopolization ofthe media necessarily free from a society's dominant interests, who proceeded to discredit him via could such an analysis gain any exposure in and their promotion of the agenda of the interpretation and dominant ideology, the media. the capitalist media?" transnational corporations that own them are "Just as the 'civilizing mission' of Aristide emphasized "the great untold Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi wrote: analyzed in War, Lies & Videotape: How bringing Christianity to the heathen provided news story ofthe century: The poor are getting "How can we be free to choose if the media
Media Monopoly Stifles Truth. a justifying pretext for imperialist conquest poorer; the rich are getting richer, at a pace injects us day and night with false This fascinating collection of articles, in the past, today the protection of 'human unprecedented in history." information? The media has developed an many taken from papers presented at a May rights' may be the cloak for a new type of This viewpoint is supported by Michael ideology of individualism based on destroying 1998 conference on the media in Athens, imperialist military intervention worldwide." Parenti in his article entitled "Media Evasion." the resistance ofthe individual. It glorifies the explores the way corporate news has become Johnstone points out that a U.S. public- He wrote that when addressing issues such individual, the star. It destroys the idea of merged with entertainment, public relations relations firm, Ruder Finn, "was retained by as increasing poverty in the developing world, collective resistance.... It divides people by and advertising, while all standards of Albanians and Croatians to advance their "little is said about how the social order is religion, ethnicity and race, under the idea of objective journalism are discarded. cause." organized and whose interests prevail. Let's difference, diversity and authentic identity, What are the consequences of media but it globalizes capital and profit under the monopolies molding people's perceptions of idea of One World and One Humanity." the world and of themselves for the purpose The final chapters ofthe book discuss low- of creating compliant consumers of both cost media alternatives such as video, radio, products and ideologies? How can the micropower radio and the Internet. exploited and marginalized fight back against "Capitalism has no solutions to the corporations that seek to privatize truth? horrendous social problems of hunger and Peter Phillips, assistant professor of unemployment of millions. Activist sociology at Sonoma State University and alternative media can be a powerful force if coordinator of Project Censored, wrote in they see themselves as part of the historic 1996: "Twenty-two years ago there were struggle," concludes Flounders. approximately 50 media corporations that This insightful book is highly dominated the U.S. news services. Today that recommended. number is less than a dozen." -Ellen Catalinotto Phillips also noted that 90 percent ofthe 155 people who make up the boards of ********* directors of the 11 media monopolies are white males, mostly men who inherited their Readers can get this book atlefibooks.com money. "Democracy to the media elite," he or by contacting the International Action wrote, "means freedom to economically Center at (212) 633-6646. exploit, freedom to move money anywhere #!Kfr§Nf Michael Parenti will be speaking at the in the world, and freedom to present their own University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ideological messages." Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 8p.m. in the Wisconsin Sara Flounders ofthe International Action Room ofthe student Union. The event is free Center stressed that those who have great and open to the public. corporate fortunes to protect also "control and own communication, information and culture." She noted that General Electric and Westinghouse, the two biggest military weapons manufacturers, own much of the U.S. media. "It is no accident," Flounders said, "that ^ these giant weapons contractors use the media stifles trutli as the public-relations arm for their primary product: war and the weapons of war." One section of the book addresses the The hidden stories say, we tried to explain that wealth and media's role in the war in the Balkans. In it, This book includes a chapter written by poverty exist together not in accidental Diana Johnstone of Covert Action Quarterly Jean-Bertrande Aristide, former president of juxtaposition, but because wealth creates Genetic deformity of a child of an Iraqi Gulf War wrote that "even journalists or media outlets Haiti. Aristide, elected by a massive majority poverty, an inevitable outcome of economic veteran caused by depleted uranium. that are characterized as 'alternative' are not in 1990, was perceived as a threat to business exploitation both at home and abroad. How FILM June 28,2000
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How about hiking to your nabe (old, Variety film-speak for a motion picture palace East-West especially for those readers only more familiar Russian, French (English subtitles) with "hood") to sooth your fevered brain after that compact, first four-week session? (A So you think you live in a repressive county bus ride is free [with U-Pass and I.D.] society, do you? Big brother, cops, military- if half of a round trip would ease calf strain industrial complex and all that? Get with it for those not living close to campus.) and view the true meaning of "repression" with this Oscar finalist (one of five). See if At the Downer... you don't feel just a little bit better, once you hit the sidewalk, about life in America, her Croupier warts and all. I mean, if it's such an evil place, places you'll see the real Sid and Nancy why do foreigners put their lives in jeopardy This is a guy film and a good one. The (Vicious and Spungen, to the uninitiated) just to reach our shores? (With a nod to Elian's before they left our midst. title's a French word from the world of mom.) gambling. It signifies a real winner; obviously a croupier works for the house. He's the guy Groove (or gal) who gets to spin the roulette wheel (Premieres June 30) and send the little ball on its roundabout journey. Also who deals out blackjack cards that always seem to add up to more than 21 "5 RBI." I think that's how Hank would for everyone except the dealer; in short, the like this film rated. Oh, sure, he stoically wore person who rakes in all those beautiful bets. the AL "Home Run King" mantle three times, '38, '40, and '46. But he focused on bringing Jack (Clive Owen) is sort of the male his mates across home plate, so '35, '37, '40 equivalent of the actress who works as a and '46 represent crowning glory years with waitress. But Jack's a writer, hung up for a 170, 183, 150 and 127 RBIs, tops for their hook to get his next book started and he's all respective seasons. man. His cool, slightly detached objective Film kvetches a tad much about racism observer of life and humanity is closely for my taste; also introduces Jackie Robinson associated with the young Sean Connery as and his humungous burden as the first black Bond. player in the profession. With such spiritual The sweet words here are "rave" and Try to anticipate that surprise ending. It's leaders as Father Coughlin (the '30s version "ravers." Pete Menting, former Post's Arts logical, even obvious. But I missed it, which of "Dr." Laura times three), spewing his Editor and Music Critic tells me the music is added to the fun. Croupier is definitely venom nationwide on radio waves, who all but passe. I would never challenge Pete's recommended for character action. needed racial slurs shouted from the stands? assessment but that didn't keep my toes from Indeed, the term "sportsmen" might have tapping to the soundtrack. Director Greg The Color of Paradise been coined specifically for Greenberg and Harrison opines, "Groove evoke(s) the Bossa Nova Iranian with English subtitles Robinson who bore up under the abuse. If community found in the subculture of Portuguese, Spanish, English (subtitles for two you want to see true hero worship—and raves.. .a film that captures the details of an deserving of it—this is the film to catch. former foreign tongues) "Rough enough for a kid, the growing up underground scene, immersing the audience Charming. Pure puff. Imitation Romance Because it's rare to find deservers on today's in a place many have not experienced. The process in an agrarian society, but a blind one Feature No. Million and Two. But so what? A diamonds. result is an authentic document of a time in to boot?" That's how I began my review in Rio beach sunset earned an audible gasp for And, let's admit it folks: We haven't youth culture history." Amen to that. Sure to the June 7 issue of The UWM Post. I reported its beauty from the audience as 40-ish Mary progressed very far on reducing, let alone jack up any post-exam lethargy. (No dancing that Paradise represents Iran's submission for eradicating, racism in the past 60 years. Ann (Amy Irving) took up cavorting with in the aisles, please.) Recommended...with Oscar consideration (it didn't qualify; nor did older Pedro (Antonio Fagundes). Well, it's Pete's music cue to those on the cutting edge. 47 others) but enough locals like both At theOrientaL. probably not an intriguing film for young Croupier and Paradise to keep them running The Filth and Fury Generation Xers, two old farts carrying on 8-1/2 Women extra weeks at this East Side venue. like teenagers. But if you want to see how, This is a Peter Greenaway film. If that Recommended with reservation: Not for Dedicated rock fans—particularly those quite possibly, you'll be behaving two decades doesn't tell you almost all you need to know, brain-fatigue sufferers. Requires alertness to specializing in punk rock—will have seen this from now, catch this one. No mental strain. let me tick off such titles as Cook, The Thief, read the subtitles. Otherwise it's a fine little film without any encouragement from me. For Guaranteed. (You may even laugh out loud as His Wife and Her Lover as one of his more human comedy/drama. those who meant to see it but haven't, the language instructor, Mary Ann, teaches notable pieces, if you weren't too offended; FILM June 212000 11 Now ploying... Festival ID prove experimental film isnl lame
and a later one, Prospero's Books (John not possible. Make do with what we've been On a warm night in Milwaukee you could Barber and Bogner have worked hard Gielgud in a reworking and updated version given. walk around some crowded festival listemng selecting a varied program from filmmakers of Shakespeare's The Tempest). You can to a bunch of crappy bar bands and spending across the nation as well as some from automatically assume male frontal nudity. Me, Myself & Irene too much for beer or you could watch two filmmakers right here in Wisconsin. And lots of it as, here, father and son get down Rather like the case of Dumb and hours of amazing films for FREE. And who One such filmmaker is Diane Kitchen. Dumber, the best part was the Coming doesn't like free stuff? Her film, Notch, is a quiet and captivating film Attraction. Being politically incorrect (it This year marks the 5th annual offended practitioners of psychiatry) doesn't that comes in and out of focus in the forest register with true Jim Carrey fans, especially Milwaukee Outdoor Experimental Film and on recently killed deer. The imagery when we're laughing it up. Count me among Festival, to take place at 9:30 p.m. July 15 in seems ordinary but yet you can't take your the offenders. Pere Marquette Park. eyes off each nuance of texture. As always, this festival is put together Laura Klein's film, Tender, is a strange Mission Impossible 2 (MI:2) through the support of the community and romp around and through doll heads, "Former Cruise outing (MI:1) superior by Milwaukee innovators of experimental fishbowls, babies, guts, and weird paper doll (there's not enough plot here to support the film. One major change in the festival is that animation. Half music video and half postcard to the bare facts. length of this film, hence action scenes are co-founder/filmmaker Kristie Reinders will home this film is the weirdest kind of "People go to movies," Dad instructs, in painfully lengthy)," is how I began my review not be helping other co-founder/filmmaker sentimental journey. a father-son talk, "to indulge in fantasies. We th in the June 7 edition of The UWM Post. 1 Stephanie Barber organize the program as she Making use of a super 8 camera, magazine live out ours," he boasts. And in 8-1/2 (tip of see no reason to alter that evaluation upon is attending grad school in San Francisco. cutouts, a soundtrack by Jad Phair, and an his British bowler to Fellini) Women, this further reflection. It's an action-packed, Instead, Barber is joined by Carl Bogner. edgy sense of humor is, (one of my favorite director does both summer blockbuster. That should tell you all Bogner is a film instructor at the University filmmakers) Martha Colburn' s Pervert in the I suspect Greenaway may be an acquired you need to know. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the director ofthe Pool. A film that is impossible not to love. taste. You either dig his stuff or you don't. Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, Other films include Julie Murray's But I've just decided to add a video cassette Special Event: One Night Only and curator of the ongoing film series at to my exclusive collection of (what I regard Milwaukee Premiere Domain (N.Y.); Scott Stark's What His Face Woodland Patterns bookstore. as) his best, The Belly of an Architect (1987; June 30, 2000 Sounds Like (San Francisco); Matt. in which Brian Dennehy reveals he might 7p.m. and 9:15 p.m. This year's festival will draw between McCormick's Vyrotonin Decision (Oregon); have the ability to bring off a successful Willy Times Cinema three to four hundred people. Some of the Megan Whitmarsh's Life of Yeti Loman, achieved years later in the recent audience might be well acquainted with (Sacramento), and a film by Barber. Broadway production of Death of a Wisconsin Death Trip experimental film while for others, this might It's two wonderful hours of one ofthe best Salesman). You can look at the 1890s photographs be their only exposure to the medium. A things happening in Milwaukee this summer. Michael Lesy gathered as he did his research medium that is art and moving poetry; not So, bring a date and a picnic and support not At the Prospect Mali., in Black River Falls, Wis. and later published, Tom Cruise hanging off a cliff. only experimental film, but your community. Shaft or you can see them come alive in this —Marisa Lange We have to thank someone for the tender outstanding documentary. No Waltons here. mercy of not screwing up a classic by filming No Little House on the Prairie either. 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Dear Editor, D.S. out of Colombia! In a recent letter to The UWM Post, Mr with the territory of a campus neighborhood, but they address neither the immediate source The United States aid package to Colombia passed by the Senate on June 21 is a declaration Jamieson, a letter writer, implied that I and other of war against the people of Colombia. It is an open admission ofthe hidden war that the "older residents" ofthe neighborhood south of ofthe problem which is binge drinking and the Pentagon and the CIA have been waging in Colombia for decades. campus "shouldn't have moved in" if we cannot operation of illegal taverns nor the long-term The legislation allocates $1.7 billion in "aid" to counter "drug traffickers" and other adapt to noisy parties. At least the editors of solution which is a stable yet diverse "insurgents." The Post in their editorial granted us the "right neighborhood of permanent home-owning Students on this campus and across the world were in the forefront of exposing Pentagon to live a peaceful life regardless ofthe fact they residents and student-age neighbors. Until and Whitehouse lies in the 1980s and before in regard to U.S. funding. Dedicated research by chose to buy homes near the campus." Thanks MICAH intervened on behalf of "older" students and committed activists unearthed documents that proved the U.S. was involved in for that generous concession. residents, the University was characteristically funding right-wing paramilitaries and governments to crush resistance movements in Latin Both Mr. Jamieson and the editors take the insular and arrogantly detached from the America and elsewhere. simplified "airport" position: namely, if you immediate problem and the long-term solution. This "aid" to Colombia is no different. can't stand the jets, then don't live near the Since the May 4 meeting and an earlier face- Colombia is already the third largest recipient of military aid in the world. Up to 300 airport. It's the sort of profound logic I once to-face meeting between a few MICAH- Special Forces troops are already on the ground there. heard on a barstool at Axle's-or was it on a radio represented neighbors and a cadre of school NY Daily News reporter Juan Gonzalez recently exposed the role of U.S. Special Forces talk show? officials, including the chancellor, the in one ofthe worst massacres in recent history in Colombia, the 1997 Mapiripan massacre. According to this logic, my wife should not University has responded. Though the This confirms what groups like Human Rights Watch has confirmed as a pattern: the U.S. have planted flowers if she cannot accept having movement of universities is more glacieral than government has helped organize the Colombian military and their informal paramilitary units them pulled out and coldly discarded halfway seismic, the recent conversation among to target all those who are considered allies ofthe revolutionary movements there. down the block. Or my elderly neighbor should university officials, students, landlords, the city The U.S. government will stop at nothing to destroy the FARC-EP and other valid guerilla not have installed a metal handrail if he* could of Milwaukee, and "older residents" is a movements in Colombia. The U.S. government has stolen this money from the workers here not tolerate it being twisted and yanked out in a welcome change in the status quo. and is now set to hand it over to a counter-revolutionary government and armed forces, display of inebriated prowess. Or my neighbor's What Mr. Jamieson and the editors should trained by the U.S., in Colombia. child should not have used the sidewalk to walk acknowledge is the evidence presented by We must say no! No to another Vietnam! No to big oil and other corporations! No to her dog because she could not deal with the MICAH-that is, this neighborhood is currently money for war and not people's needs! motorcyclist who used it as a roadway and in a downward spiral as the number of owner- We must unite with our brothers and sisters in Columbia who are rightly fighting back frightened her to the point that she, not the occupied buildings decreases and the number against the U.S. and the multi-national security state. U.S. out of Colombia! cyclist, retreated to the street for safety. Or I of absentee landlords increases. shouldn't expect an uninterrupted night's sleep As the neighborhood and the quality of if I cannot tolerate a surprise smarter of housing deteriorates, there will be fewer Death Rom Warrior firecrackers, Tarzan howls, cattle hoots, a car permanent residents to insist that the municipal Murdered by the State of Texas 8:49 p.m. CT door slamming, bass-deep drumbeats from codes be enforced. Then, as more rats scour somewhere across the alley, two giddy co-eds among the alley-spilled garbage and more cars Some final words as reported by witnesses to the execution: tripping over a crack in the sidewalk, a football park on front lawns and more roof shingles flap "Black Power! Keep Marching! Get the tapes game in the street, breaking glass bottles, an in the rainy wind, passers-by will shake their of them pepper spraying and beating me and impatient car horn-and, yes, this list of heads and say with Mr. Jamieson: "This is where college kids live, it's right next to the school, publicize them! They are murdering me!" indignities is embarrassingly longer-at 2, 3, 4 anyone giving it any thought would realize this (To Lambert's side of witness chamber) "I did not kill Bobby Lambert.' in the predawn. is the way this neighborhood is." (To the People) "You can kill a revolutionary, Both Mr. Jamieson and the editors seem to acknowledge that these daily indignities come PhilBlenski but not the revolution. Keep Marching! Black Power!" The UWM Post invites readers to submit perspective pieces and Letters to the Editor. 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>Hi,K\, PERSPECTIVE June 08,2000 13 Lesbian, gay, bi. bans: much In be proud of Shah- Sankofa lives! By Elijah Crane By the International Action Center
It's Pride Month in the year 2000. Many grants many ofthe same rights and benefits What the execution of Shaka Sankofa (aka people are homeless outside their penthouse are taking the opportunity to review and to lesbian, gay, bi and trans couples as are Gary Graham) shows is what many have apartments. They are the ones investing analyze the state of the lesbian, gay, bi and afforded heterosexual marriages, though it known all along: that this system is inherently billions of dollars into building the trans movement. falls short ofthe right to actual marriage. racist, it is incurably barbaric. This shows repressive prison industrial complex to With good reason. Much is going on. The Many huge corporations have recently once again that capitalism has no answer for help satisfy their greed for more profits. These movement has achieved significant triumphs, adopted non- discrimination policies and working people or for young people. are the class interests that George Bush and and they are worth extended benefits to employees' domestic Rule by the rich... and the death penalty Al Gore truly represent. celebrating. But at the same time it's partners. GM, DaimlerChrysler and Ford— for the poor. Working people need jobs, health care, important to acknowledge the attacks, the Big 3 auto makers—are counted among This so-called "democratic" system is child care and education. And we're not challenges and state-sanctioned these companies. ruled by the rich, the bankers and the CEOs. going to get it from either ofthe big business violations these communities still face. This victory was won thanks to the hard- It's democracy for the rich — and the death candidates. There's an election coming up so While there have been some victories in fought struggle of lesbian, gay, bi and trans penalty for the poor. All this system has to that we can "choose" who will the struggle against the "don't ask, don't tell" workers and organizing efforts by groups like offer is police, prisons and more racist oppress us for the next four years. History military discharges, Pride at Work—the AFL-CIO's official repression, politically and economically, for has shown that independent mass movements Pentagon bashing of lesbians, gays, lesbian, gay, bi, trans constituency group. Less poor and working people while rich white win social justice, not capitalist elections. bisexuals and trans service people continues. inspiring is the news that ExxonMobil bosses men determine the fate of poor people like Build the movement against capitalism. It was less than a year ago, in July 1999, that promptly revoked Mobil Corp.'s non Shaka Sankofa. What young people and working people Pvt. Barry Winchell, whose lover was a trans discrimination policy after the recent merger How many millionaires or billionaires do really need is to build a movement against woman, was brutally murdered as he slept in of Exxon and Mobil. Before the merger, you know of that languish on death row? Not this system — against capitalism—because his bunk at Fort Campbell, Ky. Mobil banned firings and other work-place a one. Prisons are concentration camps for it is beyond reform. We need to build a The June 17 Washington Post revealed harassment based on sexual orientation. It also the poor. Blacks and whites are murder different type of society based on meeting the that Washington-area gay bars are being extended some benefits to employees in same- victims of an equal rate but 82 percent of all real needs of people instead of profit for a infiltrated by undercover Navy investigators sex relationships. executions involve the murder of white few millionaires and billionaires. The under the guise of a drug-busting scheme. Not a single state in the United States people. Only six white people have been execution of Shaka was an attempt to kill the The article quotes a naval officer's allows same-sex marriage. Bosses can executed for killing Blacks since 1977, the growing anti-death penalty movement but this description of the tactic that these agents discriminate against lesbian and gay workers year the death penalty was reinstated atrocity will have the oppositeon the employ: "The informant will try to strike up in 39 states. In 18 states same-sex relations according to Amnesty International. The movement. a conversation and try to elicit the information are a crime. U.S. executes more juveniles than any The U.S. can no longer hide the fact that that that individual is a military member, and According to the National Gay and other industrialized country. it is the number one human rights violator in then you take that information, run their plates Lesbian Task Force, 1999 was just the second The real criminals are hidden on Wall the world. and try to confirm that information." year that more bills in support of lesbian, gay, Street. The Pentagon has never prosecuted bi and trans rights were introduced than bills They're riding around in chauffeured See Shaka TWPP 15 anyone found visiting a "heterosexual" aimed against the communities—288 to 178. limousines and trading billions in stocks while establishment. This shows how "don't ask, Women and trans people have been a strong don't tell" policy is a fig leaf for the source of grassroots organizers within this thoroughly anti- gay, anti-trans Pentagon movement. Lesbian marches have continued establishment. full steam in recent years. U.S. out of Vieques! Perhaps the biggest gain of the year for The firstrecorde d one took place in 1993 the lesbian, gay, bi and trans movement came before the march on Washington. The Lesbian The following is reprinted from a leaflet No! The U.S. has treated the nation of in May when the Vermont legislature passed Avengers, the ACT UP Women's Committee issued by the International Action Center Puerto Rico with the arrogance of an old a law allowing same-sex couples to enter a (www.iacenter.org) June 11 in honor ofthe colonial master. Nationalist hero Don Pedro partnership that is recognized by the state. It Gpg Pride H*P 14 New York Puerto Rican Day Parade. Albizu Campos fought all his life against this ______£3%f£___L domination both here, in the belly ofth e beast, The International Action Center salutes as well as in his beloved homeland. The rule the Puerto Rican people on the island and in ofthe Pentagon and Wall Street, that only see What, to a prisoner ,is the 4th of July? the United States who are marching today in Puerto Rico as a military base and a source of the New York Puerto Rican day Parade. We super-profits, must end! At a time like this, scorching irony, not constant victim. To him, your celebration is a stand with you as you fight for your rights as There are as many Puerto Ricans living convincing argument, is needed O! Had I the sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; a nation and as a people subject to racism, in the U.S. as in Puerto Rico. These sisters ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I your national greatness, swelling vanity; your police brutality and poverty in the U.S. and brothers love their homeland as much as would, today, pour out a stream of biting sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; For over a year, the people of Puerto Rico those on the island. But they have been forced, ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, your denunciations of tyrants, brassfronted have been united around the campaign to end by dire economic circumstances, to look for and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is impudence. To the slave your shouts of liberty the U.S. Navy occupation of the island of jobs up North. Vieques. This small island of over 9,000 needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, and equality are hollow mockery; your What do they find here? Poverty, racism people has become the starkest reminder of and police brutality. The family of Anthony but thunder. We need the storm, the prayers and hymns, your sermons and whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling the brutal reality that 102 years after the U.S. Baez and dozens of other victims of police thanksgivings, with all your religious parade of the nation must be quickened; the invasion, Puerto Rico remains a colony ofthe terror can speak volumes about the harsh and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, world's largest superpower. conscience ofthe nation must be startled; the reality that the Puerto Rican communities in fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy-a thin Never once has U.S. President Bill Clinton hypocrisy ofthe nation must be exposed: And the U.S. face. veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace listened to the will ofthe people of Vieques, And then there are the six remaining its crimes against God and man must be a nation of savages. There is not a nation on who have demonstrated over and over again Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners proclaimed and denounced. the earth guilty of practices, more shocking that they want the Navy out now. Never has of war, who face the most extreme form of What, to the American Slave, is your 4* the Pentagon listened to the will ofthe Puerto and bloody, than are the people of these repression locked away in yanqui prisons. of July? 1 answer: a day that reveals to him, Rican people, who demand to live without more than all the other days in the year, the United States, at this very hour. fear of bombardment, without fear of toxic See ViscysB pogs 14 gross injustice and cruelty to whichheis the -Frederick Douglas, July 5. 1852 pollution, with dignity an4 .respect. ...._. 14 June 28, 2900 CONTINUED... Manpower from page 3 Tribunal frem page 3 Prifle frryn pgge 13
Manpower is the largest non High School in Manhattan. This screen and other Washington-area activists This year the struggle against state governmental employment services was easily visible both to the judges, who sat worked to pull it together. An astounding violence^—especially police brutality and the organization in the world, with some 3,500 on the stage, and to the hundreds in the 20,000 women marched at that historic event. racist use of the death penalty—has been a offices in 54 countries, managing a workforce audience, many of whom stayed throughout Since then, annual Dyke Marches have significant current in the lesbian, gay, bi and of 2 million people. Over 2 million contract the nine-hour day. taken place all over the United States—and trans movement. The group Rainbow Flags workers service in excess of 250,000 clients in addition, pictures and videos were on in Ireland, Canada, Japan and other countries. for Mumia was formed last year to help save world wide in office, customer service, call display in the hall outside the auditorium, and the life of political prisoner Mumia Abu- center, information technology, engineering, documentary evidence was offered in books 'They say get back, we say fight back!' Jamal. management, industrial and special project or in research papers. Bashings and murders of lesbian, gay, bi It has since built into a broad anti-racist areas. Total 1999 sales totaled $11.5 billion, The International Action Center, founded coalition from the most activist sectors ofthe an increase of $1 billion over 1998, which and trans people have practically doubled lesbian, gay, bi and trans movement. Lesbian, ranks Manpower 174th in the 1999 Fortune by Clark in 1992, organized this final session since 1992, according to the FBI's own gay, bi and trans people also came out to 500 list. ofthe tribunal. There were also participants statistics. protest the New York Police Department But how does Manpower earn its profits? by those who had organized similar tribunal Anti-gay initiatives like Proposition 9 in killing of Amadou Diallo, and have been David Newbv, President ofthe Wisconsin hearings in Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, Oregon and Amendment 2 in Colorado also active in the struggle to stop the execution of State AFL-CIO, says Manpower basically Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Greece, where became pervasive in this period. In the days earns their profit by putting their temporary thousands declared U.S. President Clinton a after Amendment 2 was voted on, bashings Shaka Sankofa/Gary Graham. workers on the payroll of another company. war criminal last November in Athens. rose by 200 percent. These struggles capture the spirit of the They then pay their workers less than what In addition to the witnesses, there were But this rise in anti-gay lynchings did not chant that can be heard at many picket lines they charge the companies for the temporary also important guest presentations from push the movement back into the closet. After and rallies: "Gay, straight, Black, white, all workers. representatives of the governments of gay college student Matthew Shepard was unite to fight the right." "The AFL-CIO sees the use for temp Yugoslavia and Cuba. In addition, Ismael killed in Wyoming in October 1998, tens of Elijah Crane is a member ofthe New York agencies for temporary help, but it has Guadalupe from Vieques, Puerto Rico, thousands of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people based Rainbow Flags for Mumia. This article evolved into something else. Manpower is showed in a powerful speech how the practice and their heterosexual allies marched and is reprinted with permission from the June replacing union workers Companies such as bombing runs of the U.S. Navy against his rallied together in large cities, small towns 29 issue of Workers World newspaper Manpower explore the weaknesses ofthe labor (www. workers, org) small island laid the basis for U.S./NATG and campuses across the United States. And laws in the United States," said Newby. aggression around the world. this year when Paramount Television The point at which companies such as j According to the IAC organizers, total executives announced that they were going Manpower are exploiting the labor laws, j ghgkfr franpoge U. registration, including justices, witnesses and to air a national show featuring "Dr. Laura" according to Newby, is the following: Under Bush with the ruling class behind him can staff was 511. Schlessinger, powerful protests sprang up current labor laws, the temporary workers are execute Shaka Sankofa, but they can't kill his Invited speakers, witnesses and judges across the country, "Dr. Laura" is a pop- employees of Manpower and not the voice or his spirit. His heroic defiance and came from Haiti, Spam, Turkey, Korea, psychology talk-show host who uses her radio company they are working for Therefore, his revolutionary example will continue to be Puerto Rico, India, Germany, United States, microphone to spew anti-gay rhetoric. they have no right to organize or receive an inspiration to our movement. Long live Canada, Italy, Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain, benefits from that company. Often, these The demonstrations to keep her off the Shaka Sankofa! Belgium, Iraq, Greece, Austria, France, and temporary workers will not be allowed to television airwaves are growing—giving Turn the execution of Shaka Sankofa into remain with the company, putting them back Portugal. The U.S. government refused visas television executives and advertisers alike a summer and a lifetime of united resistance. into the temporary agency pool, creating a to four people from Ukraine, whose message pause in their decision to back her. Death Row must go! revolving door where they will remain was read from the stage. Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Converge on the Republican and temporary workers, having no rights to There were also representatives of the Stonewall Rebellion in New York's Democratic Conventions this summer to say organize under the current law. Roma people—often referred to by the Greenwich Village. Black, Latino and white Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! An example of this is the current derisive term "gypsy." Shani Rifati, a lesbian and gay people—led by trans Fight back against police terror! Microsoft Case. Microsoft employed RomaRoma witness who was bom in Pristina, youths—fought back against police Shut down the prison-industrial complex! temporary workers for years without allowing capital of Kosovo, told how NATO repression. End the racist death penalty! them to receive any benefits because they occupation has led to the expulsion of 100,000 Shut down capitalism! were temporary workers. Romas. He pointed out that the verdict "This is another way of getting around condemned the persecution of Roma people, equal pay laws," Newby concluded. the first time this has happened in any What does UWM think of the accusations international tribunal. Work , against Manpower in relation to temporary u Five different television crews taped the workers organizing for their rights and entire proceedings, including Serbian when you want, unionizing, exploitation of weak labor laws television and a three-camera crew from and the larger questions raised by Soley and Australia, as well as alternate media sources Price? where you want. Millennium Staffing can offer you the flexibility The office of UWM Chancellor Nancy in the U.S. like the Peoples Video Network. and challenge of diverse temporary work at Zimpher didn't respond to numerous Post convenient locations. 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