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Volume 15, Number 1
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• Shuttle safety vs. P.R. • P.R. won
Those of us who are following the ponderous unraveling of what went wrong with the space shuttle Chal lenger are being rewarded with a wonderful sort of bureaucratic version of a mystery book. Mystery fans know the slow, tantalizing pace of getting closer and closer to the answer, all the while stopp ing off for frequent digressions concerning the character of the players. In good mysteries, the answer always lies in character.
It is not too soon to leap nimbly to at least one conclusion about the tragedy, and that is that it bears the unmistakable stench of public relations. We got a nearly perfect A. B. example of P.R. thinking recently · from George Hardy, deputy director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, when he said, "I believe that to sug night of the 25th," he said, "there on board" will make the 0-rings ge st that flight safety was dis were Congressmen who had come to work right. Or that no one will regarded or not prop erly regarded on Florida to watch the launch. Why, be blamed if they don 't. the night of Jan . 27, in my opinion, the Vice President was going to does a disservice to dedicated and fly in for it . All the media I think Fritz Hollings is right- committed professionals ." people were there, but we paid no the Rogers Commision is performing attention- -we did not launch." limited-scope investigation and, Now that 's one of those remarkable a as a result, will come up with statements we got to know so well That Moore would answer concerning limited answers. Unless Robert during Watergate--it not only begs the wrong date is telling, but Crippen, Sally Ride and the other the question, it starts an emotional Rogers did not follow up on that answer, astronauts insist on pushing it flare that goes off in another direc and Moore never addressed the ques- further, I think the official tion entirely. "We are insulted that tion of whether there had been pres answer to what went wrong with the you have raised the question," be sure on the 27th. comes the answer. shuttle will be cast in engineering terms. They'll say it was the Morton Thiokol engineers have test The failure to launch on the 25th 0-rings or the rocket skin or ice ified that their opposition to was followed by an ep isode on the in the seams. launch was overruled by their com 26 th involving the door to the And 'that will be another tragedy, pany management under pressure from shuttle. With the media looking for then we'll miss the opportunity NASA. Rockwell engineers have testi on, the door was discovered not to to learn something from this one. fied that they were deeply concerned work, a drill was sent for. The They can fix the 0-rings or the ski abo ut the "skin" on the rocket drill had no battery in it. or the seams, but we won't have boosters because of low temperature. learned how to deal with the P.R. Flight safety was in fact disregarded Not only were the press and the mentality that so afflicts these or not properly regarded, and as a politicians waiting, but NASA times . result seven dedicated and committed itself needed the P.R. of the professionals are dead. Teacher in Space flight to keep And I sit in my prison cell and up both its Congressional and wonder what's wrong with Amerika. All toilers in large institutions public support. Manned space Doesn't anybody care? It's all at once recognized the pattern de flights are not the most cost- there, right in front of your eyes. scribed by the Thiokol engineers- effecti ve way to explore space, and If I can see it from this 6' by 10', engineers and management, workers NASA is just as apt to get sliced I know you can see it. and foremen, reporters and editors, by the Gramm-Ruddman meat ax as field hands and straw bosses, anything else. Was there pressure A long time ago, Kris Kristoferson junior members and partners, sol to launch? Guess. wrote it in a song. He sang, diers and generals. Such an old Another aspect of character in this "You can waste your time a singin', story. But in this case the mys tragedy is the psychological pres to the people who don't listen to tery isn't why Thiokol's management sure· to go along that always plays a the things that you are sayin', went against its own engineers: why role in human affairs and becomes hopin' someone's gonna care, ••• was there pressure from NASA? particularly powerful in a te am and you can die explainin' how effort like NASA's. No one wants the things that they complain The answer is already visible, to be the asshole who calls it off, about are things that they could floating through all the testi who says, "We can't play." The be changin', while you 're hopin' mony--it was public relations, P.R. messenger who brings bad news. they will care •••" c. Kris Kristoferson, To Beat the Devil. The flight originally was scheduled One of the mo st famo us moments in for Jan. 22 through the 28th--it the history of the Vietnam War, Sure, I'm disgusted with Amerika would have returned by the night of that paradigm of folly, came when and Amerikans, but then again, I the President's State of the Union an imp atient briefin9 officer guess that's to be expected because address, in which he had planned asked David Halberstam of The New sociopaths do have trouble socializ to salute the Teacher in Space. In York Times, one of the first Ameri ing, don't they? an administration as utterly devoted can reporters to question the to public relations as this one, official line in Vietnam, "Halber I'll remain vigilant, my freak there was nothing coincidental abo ut stam, why don't you get on the team?" flag will always fly, but from here the scheduling. Failing a returned None of us wants to be out of step, on out, I'll no longer be : Robert shuttle crew, a brief live con the odd guy out, the only one who warren Cassity, 977 Camp Rd., nection to the shuttle in space in isn' t gung-ho. Salisbury, N.C. 28145-6004, but mid-speech would have served the I'll simply remain: the Prisoner in purpose as well. The engineers were willing to take Disguise. the heat, up to a point, but every When William P. Rogers, chairman one else wanted to be on the team. I'm gettin' old, but I'm still of the presidential conunission The trouble with the values of P.R. strong, and I love the battle. investigating the disaster, asked is that the wombats who dwell in that Jesse Moore, director of the John world eventually come to see reality son Space Center, whether there had as a stage for their stratagems. --The Prisoner been any special pressure to launch They think you can tell rubber on the night of the 27th, Moore's 0-rings to "Get on the team"--or response was fascinating. "On the at least that having "everybody Post-Amerikan April-May 1986 4 Is there a doctor in the house?
There are plenty of doctors around Their recent efforts in Winnebago and because of budget cuts. With the Granun McLean County for the elderly--if they Madison Counties helped raise the num Rudman and other cuts on the way, and o are willing to pay extra on their bill. ber of participating physicians 40"/o, health care costs continuing t rise, But when it comes to doctors who will thus opening new options in affordable it is predicted that the elderly 's agree to Medicare Assignment--that is, health care for the elderly. They also health care payments will rise, it is only billing the average rate set by plan to publish a directory of partici predicted that the elderly's health Medicare--McLean County physic ians pating physicians after the champaign care payments will rise at a rate come up with a meager 17% signed up. is over. about twice as fast as their income between now and 1990. Medicare Assignment means that a doctor Health care is one of the largest will charge no more than the reasonable expenses for the elderly, especially If you would like to participate in charge set by Medicare yearly, and also since many of them live on fixed this camp aign, call ISCOSCO·officer that the doctor agrees to do all the incomes. In the mid-196 0s, before Larry Yeast at 45 2-4540. The campaign billing, sending the 80% bill directly Medicare was introduced, the elderly is currently looking for organiza to Medicare and the 20"/o to the patient. paid over 25% of their incomes on tional endorsements of its effort . health care. Under Medicare that was Other phys icians might accept Medicare lowered, but it is now up to 15% again, --MgM payments, but often charge more than Medicare's "reasonable charge," leaving the senior citizen to make up the dif ference. They also often leave the senior citizen to do all the paperwork Voters say ''no'' and billing to Medicare, an added head ache in the day of complicated billing to middle school forms and nasty computers. Now that the middle school should embark on such a wide-ranging referendum is behind us and (one restructuring at a time when the In that list of 17% for McLean County hopes) temP,ers have cooled, we shou ld community is obviously in economic are all three hosp itals, a number of all pursue the issue that brings us and social transitions new indus chiropractors and gynecologists, together--an interest in ch ildren's tries and new families will be moving Gailey Eye Clinic and Stroink Labs- education. It was in a spirit of in and a new superin�endent has been but not one family practitioner inquiry and concern for education asked to take over this July . that Citizens for Quality Education J. It was not made clear why the problems presented by an inadequate Nationally, abo ut 33% of doctors and took form . This group of parents and residents did not organize itself in junior high school facility should medical establishments participate in be opposition to the referendum or to translated into wholesale reor Medicare Assignment, with the lowest any administrative body, but rather ganization. percentage in rural areas. in support of grod educational policy. The group felt District #87'' s middle Other concerns such as curriculum content, teacher training, placement Locally, doctors have little incentive school plan was not good educationai policy, and so we opposed it. of fifth graders with eighth graders, to do so. There is not a glut of doctors and actual costs were expressed by in town, and many doctors work part-time those people who chose to oppose the As the administration's campaign to · for the local insurance giants, State "sell" the middle school concept got plan . Farm and Country Companies, putting underway, some concrete issues were Are we satisfied with the status their required M.D . on assorted paper glossed over, minimized, or entirely quo? Certainly not. Improvements are work, thus profiting from their good left out of the debate. needed. Citizens are concerned, they old medical degree without ever looking 1. How objective was the informa are aware and they want information at a patient, or very few patients. tion provided on the middle school that they can reflect upon and act propo sal? Upon examination, this in upon. They want to work with the formation was found to be one-sided. board and the administration because To help increase the percentage of The administration's po sition would their goals are clearly the same. doctors who will conunit themselves to have been stronger had it offered But they want to function as informed 100% Medicare Assignment, the Illinois objective, even�handed evaluations citizens. It is the administration's State Counc il of Senior Citizens' of the middle school concept with and the board's responsibility to pros and cons . The idea should have Organizations (!COSCO) has targeted p�ovide rational, concrete, and un been to inform, no t merely to con is up to the McLean County for a camp aign. biased research. It vince. citizens to then act upon it 2. It was not made clear why we responsibly . --Lisa Ko ch Fa jardo
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In February, I heard the women at the on, left alone in even the most bank talking about Shonda Bvt:cher, careful home for even the smallest whose two-year-old child had just died amount of time? in a fire while Shonda was out of the house. I wondered about those women at the bank the next day, when state's The poor woman, they were saying. attorney Ron Dozier said he was they went on to talk about how they considering prosecuting Shonda Butcher knew it was "wrong," but they'd left for the death of her own daughter. their own children alone, too, and were just lucky that nothing awful had On Feb. 27, Dozier did take Shonda to happened. They said that sometimes the grand jury, and he indicted her you just had to do an errand--or visit for the felony of cruelty to children a neighbor--or even be out in the (see adjoining article) and garden for a while, really too far to endangering the life of a child. prevent every disaster that could happen to a two-year-old. Why? When local psychiatrists whose negligence sped the deaths of patients in the past year have never even felt the cold hand of the law (see Post 14: 9)? When white-collar men, including Richard Nixon, are set free after gruesome crimes because "they have suffered enough"? When an article in the Pantagraph the next month venerated a police officer who rescued a child from a fire at home and only casually mentioned that the parents (a couple) had left the children alone that morning? your absence because you may be having some pleasure? In the court of your Why? We suspect Dozier's class own conscience, you will be found prejudice and sexist puritanism. guilty, and that court will probably Shonda Butcher was away from home to hand you a life sentence of They talked about how their own make telephone calls (in our society, nightmarish remorse. mothers had left them alone at early lack of a phone indicates poor and ages. One said something about the lonely status) and to see her ex Ron Dozier should have stayed out of loneliness of being housebound with a husband. Dozier told the Pantagraph Shonda Butcher's life. His court of small child. All of them felt deeply that "one of the central questions the law has no jurisdiction in that sad for the woman who'd been gone at grand jury must decide is whether Mrs. ten: . weather, or shall in any other manner injure in health or limb, any child, Denny's 18.9% Moderately hydrogenated vegetable oil apprentice, or other person under his legal control, shall be guilty- of a Red Lobster 24.6% Heavily hydrogenated vegetable oil Class 4 felony. 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Market, Bloomington Call 829-0691 for more information While voting in the last primary in the 10th precinct (Bloomington) I observed a startling irregularity. ~WE ARE MCLEAN COUNTY'S ONLY FULL SERVICE, NON-PROFIT, Written directly in the Republican VOLUNTEER SUPPORTED RECYCLING CENTER voting booklet was the name of a write-in candidate. I brought this to the attention of the on-duty election judge who assured me that RECYCLE DRIVE DATES this addition to the ballot was April 19 May 31 July 12 inappropriate. I voted at 9:00 A.M. I expected later to hear or read � August 23 Oct. 11 Nov. 22 about how this irregularity was handled, but I haven't. Why? w --Carrie All drives are held from 9 a.m. - J p.m. at Sears, Eastland Mall parking lot and .the ISU lot at College and Main. Post-Amerikan April-May 1986 6 George Winston Letters performs Solo pianist George Winston performs at the Scottish Rite Temple at 8:00 Cans Fan Mail p.m., April 26, 1986. Dear Post Amerikan, Winston, born in Michigan in 1949, good as cash You're quite perceptive about the began listening avidly to music around Challenger tragedy in the March 1986 1960, especially to pop instrumental issue . The constant litany about the acts such as The Ventu�es, The at BIN libraries meaning of the tragedy voiced by NASA Chantays ("Pipeline"), Booker T and the MGs, Duane Eddy, Tiajuana Brass As part of National Library Week, leaders, Senators like John Glenn, your CANS are as GOOD AS CASH at Ronald Reagan, and the media has and others. In 1971, inspired by Fats Waller, he began working on stride and both Bloomington and Normal.Public been, "The conquest of space must go Libraries during the month of April . on. " blues pieces, as well as slower impressionist pieces. The CANS GOOD AS CASH program allows libra!'Y patrons with ?Verdue library I would like to hear public leaders materials to help their needy neigh say: "The heart of the tragedy is George Winston's performance on April 26th is a benefit concert for Clare bors by substituting a can of food the belief that the main purpose of for the usual fine paid on overdue technology is for conquest, that the House, and all those attending are asked to bring a can of food to donate materials. Library patrons with Great Machine is more important than overdue materials can depo sit Mother Earth, that fixation with to Clare's Food Pantry. Clare House is a Catholic Worker House of materials, along with canned good technology is more to be valued donations, at either the Bo okmobile, than the search for wisdom. " Hospitality which opened its doors in December of 1978 to provide free Bloo�ington Public Library or Normal shelter, food and clothing to women Public Library. However, the program Sincerely, is not restricted to library patrons Joseph L. Grabill and families in need in the Bloomington-Normal area. with overdue books; all patrons are encouraged to participate. Prisoner Clare House also sponsors s free soup All food items will be donated to kitchen in downtown Bloomington at the Clare House, Home Sweet Home Mission, Holy Trinity Parish Center. Loaves and the Loaves and Fishes Soup needs letters and Fishes provides a nutritious lunch Kitchen . twice a week for anyone in need and Dear Post Arnerikan, "also operates totally by donations and Clare House distributes food from volunteer help. Would you please put my name in your their "pantry" to J0-40 families daily. The Home Sweet Home Mission newspaper and forward me a copy of will meet the needs of tho se who your newspaper? grou come to them for help. Loaves and Support p Fishes Soup Kitchen provides My name is Clyde Byerly N26221, and . 1 unches twice a week to anyone in I'm seeking correspondance. I'm meeting slated need. Together, these agencies incarcerated at the Joliet serve over 500 meals each week to Correctional Center. Thank you and The Depressive and Manic Depressive McLean County's hungry. I'll be waiting to hear from you and Support Group will present a panel your newspaper. discussion, "Is There Life After For mo re information about CANS Affective Disorder?" at the First GOOD AS CASH and other National Clyde Byerly Presbyterian Church, 108 North Fell, Libra�y Week events, call P.O. Box 515 Normal , on Wednesday, April 2, 7115 Kathy Carter--828-6091 or Joliet, IL p.m. For mo re information, please Ruth Cobb--452-1757· 60432 call 309/454-2740 or 452-7665 . . .. woN o�R 13Rt:.Ao••. &RADE oo o-RA•N-FED YE.S, �.., s1sTe:F- l'\AlfE. WAS ce trrA1111LY Dir:-ft:RtJoJT TttEN THERE W..1\5 OUR 51::.Tt:R llNl:> BRoTttER ...... 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Guide to (309) 454-7393 comedian will feature Dave Lippman, a He is songwriter from San Francisco. VINTAGE at a Illinois ·Auth CLOTHING very much able to help us laugh ors mark very painful situation. Please Blo omington resident, Dr . Ro bert will be an this on your calendar as it Bray, will pr esent "Reading A Read all important event that we should er's Guide," April 8, at 7:00 p.m. attend. in the Story Room at Blo omington Public Library, 205 E. Olive St., as --Tom Hensold part of National Library Week. GEORGE F TAS E FF Dr . Bray, a member of the "Read Ill Salvadorian, inois" committee, is the editor of -A ATTORNEY AT LAW Reader's Guide to Illinois Litera- General pro.ctice wifh emphasis South African ture. He will discuss how and why on this guide came to be written, and Criminal law and how it has opened up new areas of Civi I Rights. speakers exploration and study in bo th Illin ois literature and its authors, in 102. N. CENTER, 4!!! FLOOR, 82 q-4396 A student representative from the cluding local authors . University of El Salvador (UES ) and a former student from the Zululand Dr . Bray is also a published author, University ar e visiting cities and presently teaches literature and Business car d size around the United States between literary criticism at Illinois Wes ads March 9 and April 7. Julio Cesar leyan University. Sosa Dimas is a member of the $6 for individuals General Association of Salvadoran Whether you are also an "Illinois (businesses slightly higher) University Students {AGEUS ) and a Author, " or have a taste for local graduate student in psychology . history, come jo in us for this fr ee Don Ngubeni, a student activist program. A Gr eat Deal! working with the United Democratic Front (UDF ) affiliated student groups Fo r more information, call 828-6091. Call 828-2732 or was a law student but now lives in write P.O. 3452, Bloomington exile. They are speaking to univer sity communities about the efforts of students, professors , administra Summer jobs tors and workers to guarantee full 600 funding for their universities, an jobs will be available to econom end to repression against it, and to ically disadvantaged young people this Tiie bring peace and justice to their summer acrgss a 4-county area served lac:redlMe American· country . by the United Private Industry Council . Dna• (UPIC)...... Their visit offers Amerikan students A hilarious cartoon histor} a rare opportunity to meet students of the good old U.S.A. Young people, ages 14-21, may call for Ry Estelle from nations in turmo il and share Carol.Rhoda Grossman I and Bob Simpson information about higher education a screening appointment for the Summer : in these countries. Youth Employment Program (SYEP) at any one of the UPIC offices in Fulton, They will be presenting a speech in Mason, McLean, or Tazeweli Counties. the Center for Visual Arts, room 151 The primary eligibility requirement from 7!.30 to 9100 pm , April 5th. This event is sponsored by the BL7N CISPES . will be income in relation to family size. Screenings, which begin April ---CISPES 1st and continue through May 30th will be between 1 and 5 pm. A parent or guardian is required to accompany Illino applicants under 18 during the inter We needwn"ters! is Send view. your• recyc main pains ling week to the SYEP is funded through a federal grant P.O . There's a lot of garbage in Blooming totalling approximately $800, 000. UPIC �' Box 3452, ton-Normal and chances are there will has awarded contracts to four organi Bloomington, be a lot more of it with the business zations who will use the money to IL, 61702. and population growth expected in the place youth in temporary summer pos next few years. Environmental activ itions for minimum wage. ists and concerned citizens have seen recycling as a way of reducing All jobs will be at public, non-profit MASCULINITY FATHERING the garbage problem, saving natural worksites and will range from 15 to 40 MILITARISM HEN'S HEALTH hours a week for an eight week period resources and conserving valuable MEN & VIOLENCE SPORTS POETRY beginning landfill space. June 9. Workers will do ANTI-SEXIST POLITICS everything from cleaning parks and MALE SEXUALITY GAY ISSUES Operation Recycle will celebrate repairing school buildings to working FEMINIST ANALYSIS SPIRITUALITY Illinois Recycling Week (April 21- as interns for various municipalities. GAY/STRAIGHT INTERACTIONS 28) with activities designed to ANTI-SEXIST encourage more people to recycle: In addition to summer employment, UPIC MEN"S HISTORY special promotions during buyback will serve another 150 young people Interested? Readall about days, free trees for kids who tour through special tutoring classes for it in Cluu_rging Men- a nationwidejo lll"llillof the· anti-sexist academic credit and an employability the recycling center, and presenta men'.s· movement. tion of awards to some of the skills training session. R "And with a little help from our friends••. " Post-Arnerikan April-May 1986 10 Lawyer explains U.S. violations Contrary to what Reagan would have us for the duration of the proceedings, the UN charter, an agreement all believe, there are laws regarding no one defending the US is present in member nations of the UN have reached. human rights and rules of conduct in court. "If I can't win, I won't play" It is the document that she believes doesn't cut it in matters as serious armed conflict, and these laws have has prevented a third world war all been ratified by Congress. In a as our international responsibilities. these years. It basically states that speech made Friday, March 21 at the Karen Parker feels it is extremely no nation shall interfere with the International House of ISU, these likely that the court will find in self-determination of any other nation, laws were defined and interpreted for favor of Nicaragua. Possible sanc that all nations have the right to a gathering of over a hundred people tions against the US include enor sovereignty, that all disputes shall by Karen Parker. mous fines--both for the mining, the ' be brought before an arbitrating body Contra support and contempt of court to reach a peaceful resolution, and --and the loss of the veto power in that all nations are equal before the World Court the Security Council of the UN for law. As you can see, in regards to refusing to negotiate in good faith. Libya and Nicaragua, the US ignores Ms. Parker is an expert in inter the tenets of the charter. Karen national law, specializing in human presented the audience with this The implications are serious, indeed. rights. Her presentation was analogy: Not only could we be stung for the relevant to the controversy of the Contra aid charge, US citizens would House/Senate debates over the Contra Imagine the government of Canada be paying the bill for fines, awards, Aid request Reagan is shoving down deciding that the US environmental and court costs, not to mention the the legislators' throats. Nicaragua policy is unacceptable. It hires loss of status in the eyes of the took the US to court over the mining mercenaries from around the world to world. We would join Iran in being of their harbors by the CIA, and a hop back and forth across our border the only country in contempt of court. decision has not yet been reached. to rape, torture, murder, and destroy We challenge our allies to stand by There is a current World Court order the means of subsistence of civilians us, even as \·;e abandon rule of law forbidding the US from assisting the in their path. They bomb some and settlement of dispute through Contras in any manner, along with an hospitals and schools to make sure negotiation. The US perpetuates state order the US complied with, which is that Ronnie is listening. Can you sanctioned terrorism through this to stop mining the harbors. When picture the reaction of the admini incident and through the recent both internal and international stration and the world? Lawsuits and violence against Libya. sources put pressure on Reagan to bombs of every kind would be flying in comply with the injunction, he pulled response. Speeches made about law and the US out from the jurisdiction of UN charter peace. Cries of injustice, retaliation the World Court. Too bad for Ronnie- beyond imagination. Why isn't the case had begun before his temper But the World Court was just one Nicaragua given the same chance for tantrum, and the decision is still aspect of international law that peace, self-determination, and freedom binding for that particular case. So, Karen touched on. She described that the US demands for itself? Contra aid from Illinois Pres. Reagan is requesting $100 of a population of just J million. million in direct military aid to In those three years the U.S. built the Contra forces to slaughter 11 airfields in Honduras 'capable . civilians and destroy property in of handling C-1JO troop transport Nicaraguao Also, Reagan is not planes and 6 military camps in satisfied with just spending our that tiny country. The militarization tax dollars {which are taken from of the region will enable the U.S. to the poor in this country ), he is conduct a full-scale war in Central now requesting that the governors Americao of 12 states send a total of 5, 000 National Guardsmen to Honduras . It is our duty to challenge and Some of these Guardsmen will be to stop the actions of our government taking pari in joint military exer if it is using our tax dollars to cises less than 50 miles from the terrorize and slaughter innocent Nicaraguan bordero This is an people , In fact, it is our respon action carried through the Penta sibility to challenge such horrors gon, without congressional over anyplace in the world, be it the sighto Only Gov. Thompson and other Phillipines, South Africa, Haiti, governors can refuse this misuse El Salvador, or Chile. To sit back of the Guard. in idle silence in the face of injustice is to contribute to the In the years between 1981 and 1984, perpetration of injusticeo Call 3,500 civilian children and teen Gov. Thompson, request that he agers in Nicaragua were slaughtered refuse to send the Illino is by our tax dollars in the name of National Guard to other countrieso 'freedomo' In those years too, 217-782-68)0 contras killed 7,391 Nicaraguans out --Tina Sipula · Jterbs · 5J1'es·Yr'uits · Vegetafies·J)ut s Thanks to all I think I can use one word to describe NATURAL FOODS- my feelings about the Central America Benefit Concert held on March 23--that is "grateful." I am grateful to the 516 N. Maia St. people who donated their time and efforts to make it all possible: the ·-DL.61701 coordinators--Diane Perris (who also supplied the P.A.) , Greg Coughlin, Common Ground has a.wide selection of wholesome foods, and Julie McDevitt: to all the natural body.care products, vitcunin and mineral sup musicians who donated their time and plements, and books for organic cooking.and healthy talents--Laurie Haag, Laurie Dahlberg, living. and Peg Wood, comprising Pop Smear, with guest Sue LeSeure: Mark Stairwalt, By selling many foods in bulk, Common Ground reduces your costs on nuts, flours, spices, grains, snack Mike Hogan, John Konya, and myself, mixes and many other items. You may also purchase comprising Bridgework: and Greg ju,;t the amount you need! Come see the gourmet Coughlin, Chris Lord, Bret Bradley, coffee beans and fresh produce section as well. Steve Remmert, and Tina Sipula, Experience a new and healthier way of life! comprising the Re-Sister Singers: to Virginia Pirnat for doing the an additional savings of 10% on all purchases, or advertising posters: to Spike for you may purchase a �iscount card for an annual fee · offering the Galery: and most of all of $10. 00. _..r--, to everyone who came to help support the BL/N Pledge of Resistance and ... JnO ... . sood�� S J.;C SUJVJ.5. SUJ1«1'�}{l Witness for Peace •. --Tom Hensold Post-Arnerikan April-May 1986 11 of international law Karen made clear to the listeners that then murdered. Though the term justi fies funding . Quote the El Sal it is not illegal to be communist , if "desaparecido" does not occur in the vadoran Archbishop , Rivera Damas , who that is any justi f ication for attacking conventions , there is a provision that is an eye witness to the bomb ing of a nation . It is not illegal to do states any practice that causes public ci vilians , as well as Archbishop Quinn. business with the Soviet Union or Cuba. outcry/moral condemnation is likely to Corne to the Bloomington town council It is not illegal to have weapons for be illegal. Dictators will constantly meeting Tuesday , April 1, 7:30, City national security and defense of think up new atrocities like death Hall Council Chambers , to vote in territorial integ rity . It is not squads and disappearances to terrorize support of declaring this town a - illegal to have designer glasses and people into submission , and this sanctuary for refugees . Write visit the cities of the nations of the provision allows for prosecution for Congress ional representatives about world . It is not illegal to pursue these new atrocities. the Contras, the plight of refugees , terrorists across a border after being and your desi re for peaceful settle attacked. She encouraged us to turn 4. Civilians have a right to flee ment of disputes . Corne to meetings to our representatives and our admini flying bullets , even if this requires to keep informed about developments stration and demand compliance with crossing one or more borders to find that affect you and your tax dollar. the law , and we need to focus on who safety . Governments and people pro the Contras are , what they do , and tecting these refugees cannot be leg al A strong stand for the international forget about Ortega for the moment. ly attacked or arrested for their legal process is a stand for world ORTEGA 'S NOT GETTING OUR TAX DOLLARS ! eff6rts . �t is even stated that peace , law and order . We can reverse there is an obligation to protect the trend toward barbarism and return Contras '1are mercenaries refugees until the bullets stop flying to civilization . or the threat of bodily harm is past . Reagan 's tactic of defining Central In Peace , Diane Speir Just who are the Contras? Because Americans as illegal immigrants B-N Pledge of Resistance they are based in a country other because they are fleeing his puppet than Nicaragua , beca�se they are made dictators is immoral and illegal. up of nationalities other than just Nicaraguans , because they are unable The prosecution of US citizens for Here are important addresses : to establi sh ground in Nicaragua for sheltering refugees is another viola a base due to lack of popular support , tion of law , and recently a judge in Sen. Paul Simon because they target civilians and non Texas accepted the testimony and Hart Office Building rni li tary facilities for attack. accord 462 arguments of Karen Parker in this Wash. DC ing to international law as defined in 20 510 matter. The defense has rested in the Geneva conventions , the Contras (202) 224- 2152 the Stacey Merkt/Jack Elder trial ; the are mercenary-terrorists . Interest decision reached will affect sanctuary Sen. Alan Dixon ingly , any nation found guilty of workers all over the US . The routine Hart Office Building supporting te�rorists can be held 316 deportati on of Central Ame ricans back Wash . DC liable for thei r actions , and like 20 510 into imminent danger:_ constitutes a the Nazi war crimi nals , can be prose (202) 224-2854 major war crime, especially with the cuted indefinitely. Individuals like strong evidence of immediate arrest Rep . Ed Madigan John Singlaub and Pat Robertson who of deportees upon arrival in their Rayburn House are involved in channeling money for 2312 countries . Of course we know what arms to the Contras could be hunted Was.h . DC 20515 occurs once an El Salvadoran is down in for the actions they 've Local Phone 662-9317 2001 arrested. - taken this year. Rep. Michael Barnes Wha t you can do Chai r - Appropriations Committee Human rights for requesti ng full hearing on April 15 marks the yearly report on human rights in El Salvador 'flw1Jgh Karen spoke authoritatively on human rights presented by Reagan 's Rayburn House thl'e �;N , her major focus is humanitari people to Congres� to qet funds Wash . DC 20515 an lat; . She pointed out that since released to the El Salvadoran govern Carter left office, the term "human ment for continued war on its people. B-N CISPES rights " has degenerated into a vague Letters to Congressional rep's demand P.O. Box 4041 Bloomington accusation thrown around during mud ing a full, independent , unb iased slinging sessions in the media . She invest igation of adherence to the said if activists must take trips to above rules is something we can do to B-N Pledge of Resistance Central America to do fact-finding , save lives today . Request tha� the 501 s. Main Normal 61761 they should kwc !/ the existing laws , UN report on El Salvador be presented , (we meet 7 pm every othe r Tuesday ) and document ·. lclations. Otherwise . and that the Reagan Hum an Rights they should clor,a.te the money that Appointee be banned . (Karen has worked If you wish to donate funds for would have been spent to an organiza with this woman and beli eves that she Karen Parker 's pro bono work , tion that will follow up on abuses will never go against Reagan's wishes. ) contact Di ane Speir at 829-39 54 and take them before the UN Corn- for more information. rnissioner for Human Rights and Request that internation al law hearings Refugees. Thanks to the folks at the be he ld , to explain the law to repre Post-Arnerikan for the support ! sen�atives and senators. Fi rmly point Central Ameri ca n rights out that 6,000 deaths/year isn't an improvement , that only a clean record Here are some of the laws that she menti oned in the course of her pre sentation that are crucial in Central America : 1. Civili ans are not to be targeted for attack , even if they are suspected to be subversive 0r symp athetic to rebel forces. The Re agan-speak term Wh en are FUZZIES or strokes no t "rnasa" for rebel supporter in El Sal enough? vador has no legal standing in inter national law . The Duarte government has resorted to eliminating civili ans in rural villages with air raids and ground attacks . 2. Hospitals , schools , farms , co- ops , and homes are not to be targeted for attack. In the recent bombing of a rebel hospital in El Salvador , our administration along with the Duarte regime justi fied the assault by saying the hospital wasn't marked . Both those parties incriminated themselves by admitting they knew it was a hospi tal before the attack occurred , and --A WORKSHOP THAT PRESENTS A THREE-PART MODEL OF THE SELF-CONCEPT THAT even so the law protects an unmarked PROVIDES ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE. hospital if it is established as such . The rebels have learned not to put --A WORKSHOP THAT TEACHES CONCRETE APPROACHES TO AND PRACTICAL STRATEGIES red crosses on hospitals-;-as that is FOR ENHANCING EACH COMPONENT IN CHILDREN , ADOLESCENTS , AND ADULTS , a guarantee for government attack. 3. Captured , armed comb atants have a Friday , April 18th right to be sheltered , free from torture and mental abuse, and have 10 A.M. to 4 P.M . their whereabouts declared to service agencies like the Red Cross . Until At Planned Parenthood/APPLES Conference Room the capture of Nedia Diaz before J18 West Washington Street, Jrd floor witnesses , in seven years of civil Bloomington (request a map if needed ) war the El Salvadoran government ((;)) claimed no prisoners. Karen asked the audience if they believed this was due to incredible ineptitude or Pre-register by calling Susan or Cathy at (J09 ) 827-4J68 that POWs were routinely tortured , Post-Amerikan Apri l-May 1986 12 What's wrong with this pict ure? On Monday March 24, the news was 2. Where is the film/photo evi 8. Why doesn 't the US follow the full of an alleged inv asion by dence of skirmishes between contras UN procedure for dispute settle Sandinista troops into Honduras and Sandinistas or Hondurans and ment in Libya? and the incident in Libya. Sandinistas? If casualties Before believing everything you occurred, where are the bodies? 9. Did you wonder how the first hear, ask yourself these questions ••• Libyan missiles missed? A reliable 3. What exactly are the casualties? source described the missiles us.ed 1. Who reported the Sandinista Contras say 40 Contra casualties com as short range ones, fired as warn assault? pared to 450 Sandinistas or 40 San ings, completely incapable of dinistas versus 350 Contras . leaving the 12 mile territorial water to hit US planes or ships . 4. Why did the Honduran president How many miles short did the Libyan Work·a·day deny the invasion until $2 million missiles fall? was given to him by Reagan? If it . with the people was such an emergency, why was he on 10. Why did the Sandinista govern his way to the beach for a break? ment continue to deny the border - crossing? Chasing terrorists across 5. Why would Ortega pull an "enor borders after raids is legal and has of El Salvador mous" foray into Honduras before a been done before in Contra clashes, Senate Contra aid vote ? without comment from Honduras . On Thursday, March 20, church, labor and peace groups across the country 6. If the contras are all over If you, too, see something funny in )oined to Work-A-Day with the People the border areas, why are Honduran this morass, and do not find logical, of El Salv ador . Work-A-Day is a soldiers being ferried in helicop satisfactory answers to your ques program sponsored by NEST (New El ters by American advisors (troops) ? tions, damn it, DO SOMETHING ABOUT Salvador Today) . NEST is a non IT! ! Leave the ranks of the ignor ant am the complacent and cause a profit foundat.ion that raises funds 7. Doesn 't the thought of a deliberate for specific projects in the war manipulation of American sentiment stink, 'cause you're stuck with the torn areas of El Salv ador . Groups by Reagan seem likely to you? After bill and it'll be the average person participating in Work-A-Day ask all, he lost in the House vote, the who'll be the victim of terrorist people to give one day's pay to polls were against Contra aid, a retaliation for insane US behavior help the people of El Salvador re Senate loss would tarnish his image in the world . build and replant in the areas even further. hardest hit by the bombing . --Diane Speir B/N C. ISPES coordif\Pted the Work-A oay project locally because we be Stop bombin lieve that material aid to victims g El. Salvador demo of the bombing in El Salv ador is a On Wednesday, March 18, B/N .CISPES Mainstream media coverage of the powerful way to oppose th� war our (with a lot of help from the Pledge air war in El Salvador has been government is waging in our name . of Resistance and students from the minimal . Pantaqraph coverage of Latin American Support Committee) the demonstration was the first To launch the campa1gn we sent out sponsored a STOP THE BOMBING OF time the bombing in El Salvador has press releases, mailings to churches, EL SALVADOR demonstration and been mentioned in its pages . ISU faculty and our own mailing list, balloon release . as well. as running an ad in the --CISPES Vidette . We hoped to collect $500 150 black balloons emblazoned with locally for Work-A-Day . We have orange STOP THE BOMBING stickers were Upcoming Events collected $350 so far with about released. The balloons represented $100 more pledged . the u.s .-supplied bombs that the Saturday April 5 7:30 pm Duarte government has been using to CVA room 151 ISU IT 'S NOT TOO LATE TO DONATE A drive the civilian population out Students Strugg ling for Justice & DAY'S PAY ! Readers wishing to of the rebel controlled areas of Liberation present "From Soweto contribute should make your check El Salvador . to San Salvador" (see flyer) ·out to NEST and send it to B/N Saturday April am - noon CISPES, P.O. Box 4041, Blooming The air war in El Salv ador has been 12 8:30 pm - ton, IL 61702. 1:30 going on for over two years . Its Newman Center $3. donation results are 1.5 million external Non-violence Workshop Contributions are tax-deductible . refugees : 500, 000 internal refugees : over 6, 000 dead : and incredible --CISPES sufferinq . Petitions , Presence at B/N Post Offices EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ·.IN.· HOUSING IS YOUR RIGHT! If you feel you have been denied housing or treated unfairly because race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, ph ysical mental handicap, or because you have children under 14 or requ ir e the use of a guide dog, contact the Bloomington Human Relations Commission "Now this baby should get you. all the w;y ·, at through CentraI America ." · Th e Bloomi Human ngton Relatii::ilfS�tC'tmtm;ssion- is . here to assist and to help� · Wh·at's the meaning �f jeans? For one day in their complacent culture , so they planned a "Gay or ask them to think? What nerve ! lives , they had to make a decision Blue Jeans Day, " in which people And it certainly was not the point , that might affect the way their who supported gays or were gay wore as one Vidette columnist suggested , friends saw them forever. For blue jeans to demonstrate the fact. to use Gay Blue Jeans Day as some .6' once, those students and faculty � In order to ensure that the event kind of survey to determine how many � had to decide between comfort and was widely known to enough to make gays and gay supporters wore blue familiarity, and fitting into the point , GPA made sure that it got jeans. Too many gay people have too � "normal" society. And I don't think � lots of publicity. much to lose by coming out in the I talked to more than five non-gay middle of all that hysteria. I bet students who could see that point Once they got the ball rolling by more of the people actually wearing at all. All they could see was their putting ads in the Vidette and a blue jeans were gay supporters than fear of being branded different, and copy of the schedule in the Post, gay people. Gay supporters can they were angry , very angry, at GPA the right wing element at ISU helped. usually prove they 're not gay, so · for forcing them to make that deci The word was spread, like wildfire , they have a lot less to lose. sion at all. Between their business that anyone wearing jeans on that clas ses and their parties and sweet particular Thursday was queer or , Nonetheless, that reporter was right hearts, they had enough problems of worse, supported queers. The heck in thinking that the painfully tiny their own. They just want to be left lers were warming up their jeers, number of students and faculty alone--Why can't those gay folks just and harassment was in the air. wearing blue jeans on Thursday, be quiet and deal with their problems Thanks for the assistance , fellas. March 20 , was significant. He was themselves? only wrong about the nature of the Well, with all that publicity, GPA significance. The lack of folks Now, I won 't be so unfair as to say was guaranteed to make the point. in blue jeans that day does not show that- · those students ' problems aren 't The question : who got the right that there aren 't very many gays, or deserving of concern. But I'm point? The answer: hardly anyone. even that there aren' t very many appalled that they have so little con folks who have loved ones or friends cern for others that they can't be The point they got was that for one or family that are gay. What it bothered to try to see the point be day they couldn't wear their blue does show is the depth of para hind such an event. Unless they think jeans without reprisals. That' s as lyzing homophobia on campus and , for that gay people are so bitter that far as they got--most of them, anyway. that reason, I almost wish GPA hadn't they just want paybacks , and that The folks who wrote the Vidette , ,and done it. It 's just one more depress there is no point. the students talking furiously between ing thing to learn in a depressing classes, couldn 't seem to get past that age. Sorry , kids, it 's not that easy. inconvenience to the real point. How But it 's not that difficult, either, dare anyone make them uncomfortable --C hris M. if you look. The kind of decision those students had to make on one Thursday is made by gay people all . day every day. Most gays in our society have to regulate i:ot only . · ' dress, but language , emotions , points s ure 1 y some revelation is. at hand of view, sometimes even strong per- sonal values and morals. All GPA And what rough beast , its hour come �ti-�'i.�A� {J �l4�3�r� wanted was , for one day, on one round at last , slouches tow ard • tiny issue, that non-gay people see Bloomingt on to be born . ��\�1_,���£ff'il>�·�� how much it can affect your life to ����a19s never ,.��h � have to bend your view of yourself No , it 's not the second coming . -3�1:·:",,:,-:;-p;/����:i,�����e��-=:7."' ; to fit a public norm. . And & Elizabeth recently 101ned by It is in fact , the third annua l � lfas , nulwa1'cee 's rdllll drake s cot�. music, mvelll!nt Avant -Garde Arts Festival , in stallation, fi lm in Fre e-X 111prnv1scd 1, rrc-,t ISU's Gay People 's Alliance decided ���-� rULtured fome> . tapes .ivail.ih li· (last year 's Soiree Da Da Da , � . fronx exoxial great to try to illustrate the oppres eJ1t10ns . i><»tcr, , 84 ' s Eccentric Rites) . This year 's sion involved in being gay in this offering , the Mantra Ma sh , will � feature performanc e artists , poets , .,•• '.�. '""�-_.-...- i ANt/�isolationW� NF.W ARTS in WISCONSIN � Diesel Dick's * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * COMPL ETE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AUTOMOTI VE � WE SPECIALIZE TR UCK IN GM DIESEL SER VICE ***************** CA R REPAIR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FOREIGN � DOMES TIC ****************** FINEST GAY. ENTERTA\NMEN GAS � DIESEL lN CENTRAL lLLINOIS �·················· OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL 4A.M. PRESENT H\IS AD AT THE BAR FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONE PER 508 N MA DISON 9: 00-530 828-1714 CUSTOMER PER NIGHT Post-Amerikan April-May 1986 14 Remembering The growth of trade uni ons in the by was the McCormick plant , and as Bonfield wa ited until the mayor was 1880s led workers to decide to win the scabs left , the crowd began to ou t of sight , rounded up his men and shorter hours through collective ac heckle . Suddenly, the most hated po disobeyed orders by marching on the tion, forc ing the issue by striking . lice captain in the city, "Black Jack" rally . John Bonfield appeared with his The predecessor org ani zation of the troops , killing two strikers . By this time a light rain was fall American Federation of Labor (AFL) , ing , Fielden was finishing his speech the "Federation of Organi zed Trades Enraged by this attack , a group of and the crowd had dispersed , with on and Labor Unions of the United States work ers called a pr otest meeting for ly a few hundred remaining . Bonfield and Canada ," founded in 1881 , pa ssed the following evening, May 4, in Chi arrived , demand ing that the rally a res olution at its 1884 convention, cago 's Haymarket Square , near the disperse . Fielden pleaded , saying led by the Carpenters , that as of May city 's downtown . that it was almost over anyway . Bon 1, 1886, all workers should stop work field ordered again that it disperse . and honor the eight-hour day with The rally was poorly planned , and demonstrations , strikes and other ac when Augu st Spies arrived at 8 p.m. , At that moment , there was a high pitch tivities. ed whine followed by a large explo sion . The Haymarket bomb had been The na.tion's large st labor organi za thrown into the middle of police tion, the Knights of Labor , refused ranks . Only one policeman was ac tual to have anything to do with the move ly killed by the bomb , but in the ment . But workers across the country resulting melee, 176 police opened fl ocked to the idea and massive dem fire , killing four workers and six onstrations were planned. On May 1, more police and wound ing twenty oth 1886, 350,000 workers laid down their ers . tools , and almost 185,000 of them ac tually won a shorter workday . The next day Chicag o was shocked and enraged . Labor lead ers , agitators and Chicago probably had the largest de immigrant workers were rounded up by monstrations . On that first May Day , police for int errogation and deten 80 , 000 workers marched up Michigan tion. The newspapers cried for re Avenue, their union banners and red venge . and black flags flying in the spring wind . Eight Chica go labor lead e rs , almost all of them from the anarchist sects , were brought to trial . They included Anarchy in the USA Albert Parsons ; Samuel Fielden; Chicago was a natural center for this Albert Spies ; two of Sp ies ' employ support , as its trade unions were ees , Michael Schwab and Ad olph some of the stronge st and best organ Fisher ; Oscar Neebe , a tinsmith and ized in the country . There was also yeast company owner ; Louis Lingg , a a small group of radicals, calling carpent er ; and George Engel , who oper themselves "anarchists , " who worked ated a small cigar and toy store . tirelessly for the ir ideals. With the support of immigrant Czech and German False accusations workers , these anarchists had a broad base in the city and could draw large Only one of the group, Ad olph Fi sher , crowds for their picnics and demon was present when the rally wa s plan strations . ned: Only Fielden was in Haymark et Square , speaking from the pl atform , The "anarchists" defined themselves wh en the bomb was thrown ; all others according to the writings of Karl had alibis and numerou s witnesses , as Marx , Michael Bakunin and Pe ter Krop they were in other parts of town . otkin. In a later day , they would probably be identified as rad ical On the next day , Novemb er 11 , 1887 , socialists . This philosophical back '· Spies, Fisher , Engel and Par sons were ground was tempered by the rough and one half-hour after it was to have hanged , with Spies crying, "There tumble reality of early industrial started , he found 2, 500 wandering the will come a time when our silence capitalism, with its boom and bu st streets . Spies directed the crowd will be more powerful than the voices cycles, that always left workers tee away from the center of the street , you strangle today" and Par sons tering on the edge of poverty. Their over to an alley entranc e, so the shouting , "Let the voice of the ideal was the 1871 Paris Commune , police could not claim they were people be heard! " when workers took over the city , and blocking traffic , and he began to they hoped for similar events in Am speak , sending friends to find other Illinois Governor Richard Oglesby had erica. speakers . been badgered by numerou s pardon seekers , including Samu el Gompers of Having experienc ed police brutality Those friend s found Albert Parsons , the young AFL , who rushed from New and hatred from the city 's establish the lead ing English-speaking anar York to ;3pringfield with "only the ment at every turn , the anarchists chist, and Samuel Fielden, a former clothes on his back ." Pardon senti came to see violence as the only way Methodist lay minister . Spies finish ment had grown as the outrageou s na to overthrow the capitalist order. ed his speech and turned the platform ture of the trial had become clearer They scoffed at trade unionists who over to Parsons , who then left Field and clearer , but Chicago 's establish ran for political office, as so often en to finish the evening . ment refused to speak , as Marshal they saw elections stolen or their Field and Samuel Armour both held out ind ividuals left powerless against Massacr in' in the rain for the execution and no one else in entrenched economic power . the bu siness communi ty dared to speak Chicago Mayor Harrison Carter wa s in against them . So these leaders organized Sunday the crowd . Seeing that all was peace "rifle societies" which practiced fu l, at 10 p.m. , he went around the In June of 1893 , a pardon came from shooting in the country on Sundays corner to the Des Plaines Avenue po Illinois Governor James Altgeld , a while picnicking, and marched with lice station , telling "Captain Jack" popular Democrat and himself an immi guns in parades. In their news that all was quiet and to send his grant . Altgeld condemned the trial as paper they wrote about the new inven men home . a miscarriage of justice and released tion, dynamite, and how it could be the great "social leveller" by giv� ing an individual wo rker a weapon equal to rows of police. Because of their outspoken stances, these in dividuals were known and identified by the city's police, establishment Rape Crisis Center and newspapers and were continually watched and condemned. Strikes and protests of Mclean County With the May 1 demonstrations , many of these labor leaders ( anarchists WE'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER and others) increased their activity as thousands of workers took to the ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. streets and new unions were being or ganized . FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION AND One of the longest running strikes in SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. Chicago was at McC ormick Reaper , where strikebreakers had replaced If you want to talk to one of us McC ormick 's molders . On May J, Augu st Sp ies, ed itor of the German Call PATH 827-4005 language anarc hist pa per Arbeiter Zeitung, spoke at a lumberworkers ' and ask for the rally with 6,000 in attendanc e. Near- Rape Crisis Center Po st-Amerikan Apr il-May 1986 15 Haymarket Neebe , Fielden and Schwab . Altgeld cage . Over 900 jurists were inter conspired with Lingg to insure that would also later stand against feder vi ewed , and those who sho wed the the state would not have the final al troops entering the Pullman slightest bit of neutrality or sympa victory over him . strike and these two controversies thy for the accused were passed over . meant that he would only be a one State 's Attorney Ju lius Grinnell told Haymarket al so became an important term governor . the jury , "Law is upon trial ; anarchy event in the lives of American is on trial ...They are no more gu il radicals . Individuals like Emma A monument to workers ty than the tho u sand s who follow the Goldman marked their radicalization them ...Con vict these men, make ex am from watching the miscarriage of justice in Chicago . The Ha �mar�et leg acy lived on , though ples of them , hang them and you save the agitation for the eight-hour day our institutions ." was stalled by the controversy . At Today a monument stand s in Forest the urging of Gompers and the AFL , At one po int , Grinnell asked that Home Cemetery in Chicago , erected in May 1, 1980, was set as a day for charges be dropped against Oscar 189J over the graves of the martyrs . worldwide agitation for the eight Neebe, who had little connection with Surrounding it are the graves of hou workday. May day , the Inter the anarchists. It was believed that other American radicals and Haymarket : family members , includ ing Lu cy national Workers ' Holiday , is the city's brewers want ed him on �arsons , Albert Parsons ' wife ; a also derived from this American trial because of his organizing of a former slave who continued organiza struggle , and in Mexico May 1 is beer-drivers ' union . But Gary re tional work in Chicago until the still known as the "Day of the fu sed, sentencing Neebe to 15 years 19JOs ; Emma Goldman ; Elizabeth Martyrs of Chicago ." anyway . Gu rley Flynn ; William Z. Foster ; and Ben Reitman . Joe Hill and "Big Bill " In Spies ' newspaper shop, police Five were sentenced to hang : Spies Haywood both asked that some of thei found flyers telling workers to come Fisher , Engel , Parsons and Lingg . ashes be scattered there . armed to Haymarket Square . Spies had Fielden and Schwab were given life radical Schwab and imprisonment . ordered the more The Haymarket tragedy and trial Fisher to destroy the flyers and not point out that red scares and mis to distribute them , but in finding Appeals and pardons carriages of justice are nothing new for them, the police had their basis in American life ; that those who a conspiracy trial . Despite numerou s pard on pl eas and an attempted Sup reme Court appeal , the struggle for a different vision of sentence stood . On November 10, 1887 , the world do so at risk ; and finally The trial , presided over by Judge that the establishment will never Joseph Gary , was a mockery of jus Lingg may have committed suicide when fail to single out the leaders of an tice. Gary invited young debutantes to a dynamite cap planted in a cigar ex ploded in his face . The cap had pro emerging social movement and hope to sit around him to watch the trial , curtail that movement by pu tting which became the social event of Chi- bably been passed by a friend , who had them to death . --MgM Haymarket centennial With the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket Incident this May, a number of events are planned in Chicago to commemorate the event, incl ud ing conferences , museum exhibits and concerts . Here is a short schedule of events: MUSEUM EXHIBITS : On April 20 a Haymarket exhibit opens at the Peace Museum. On Ap ril 27 at the Chicago Historical Society, The Historical Society exhibit on Work in America ' which has been touring Europe for the past two years, has its American debut . PARADE : Pilsen, the Hispanic neigh borhood on the near we st side, will hold a Mayday Parade on May 1. CONFERENCE : On Saturday, May 3, AUTHOR'S RECEPTION : on May 5 at the Chic ago Federation of Labor , Guild Books on Ashland Avenue, with the University of Illinois ' Labor quires a free ticket to get in . Haymarket-related authors Carolyn Education Program and the Illinois For information on car pooling and Ashbaugh, William Adelman and Paul Labor History Society will co tickets call Mike Ma tejka at 309- Avr ich. sponsor an all-day conference on 828-4368 or 309-829-5885, or the Haymarket, with talks on its effects ILHS at 312-663-4107 . THEATER: A Latino play will be pre on the labor movement today and on sented on May 11. civil liberties . The conference, RALLY : on May 4 at the Haymarket at the U of I Circle Campus, re- ;•· the lOOth anniversary date . WRITERS : On May 15 the National Writers ' Union and "Art Meets Labor " will co-sponsor a discussion and reading on "Writers and the Labor Movement ." OF TIRED YOUR OtD RECORDS? CONCERT : Pete Seeger and Jane Sapp HAUL THEM ALL TO THE at the People 's Church on May 17. SLIDE SHOW : on Haymarket on May 22 at the Chicago Cultural Center . FILM PREMIERE : on Haymarket by the Lucy Parsons Collective on May 25 . For information on these events call the Illinois Labor History Society at 312-663-4017 or Joan at Art Meets Labor at 312-643-3407 . --MgM ·\JEPAY MORE FOR YOUR RECORDS 103X E. MULBERRY. BLOOMINGTON. IL, 3Qq-827-0434 HOURS: 11-7 MON.-SAT. Post-Ame r ikan Apr il-May 1986 16 The Underground t Coo Barfly A o llJe (f6 l'e NOTE : Although we visited the Galery for a Barfly review last cil/e May, we felt that our space would of us only as "Spike " (you know, the be appropriately used to bid fare guy in the white shirt with rolled we ll to our favor ite hangout . just a couple free beers,. -"for the up sleeves, brown vest, and silver Look us up next month when we 'll pompadour ; the guy who seemed to be band and a little unsolicited and be heading for the country bars . in charge ; the guy who never seemed unavoidable fatherly advice from to be in a partic ularly happy state ; Sp ike . The point is this--you were By the time you read this, it will paid from what walked through the the guy who seemed to know it all have happened . On March 31, The door, and if nobody paid, nobody or think he did; the guy who owned Galery will have locked its doors got paid. and operated the Galery) , it was a Not even the doorman, if not permanently , at least unti i number of factors . Primarily, the because the band was expected to fall . That microcosm of the ISU frat party scene, the drinking pay him as well, or provide their counter-culture , one foot planted age , and , ye s, the changing times . own . But still , it was some place firmly in the past and one toe to play, and it was better than struggling into the future , will Let' s get serious for a minute . nothing, and often, it was a far piece exist no more but for memor ies and Frat parties? For those of you who better than nothing . For the listener, the padlocked door beneath a sign have frequented the Galery at any the Galery offered the best var iety reading, "This building for sale. " in town , from acoustic music to top 40 to noxious no ise to Southern But enough of this maudlin crap . rock to jaz� to just about anything Enough waxing no stalgic about how you could name . wonderful the Galery was and how sad .to see it go . Those of us who Let' s not forget downstairs at have been known to frequent the the Galery, where a small, cliquish establ ishment in the recent and time in the recent or distant past, band of regulars hung out nightly distant past have been performing have yo u ever seen a Greek scene to talk, drink, play pool, and watch this ritual for some weeks now, as happening there? The closest most rented movies on Sp ike 's VC R. If the news passed from the rumor stage Frat boys probably get to the the up stairs housed the counter cul to true fact . Many of us connected Galery is about a yard from the ture, the downstairs was home to a with the Post have spent many hours front door , tras hing the Post subculture . You could tell the Amerikan vending machine .-----cM:ind regulars--they were the ones who knew you, this is just a theory .) And all of th� lines to "History of the the drinking age has been 21 for a World , Part II" but laughed anyway . They were the folks at the bar whose while now-- too long to be used as an excuse . As for the changing times, heads turned in un ison to stare when well, there may be something to that . you walked in , and who knew everyone in the room but yo u. But if you So what are we talking here? We 're wanteq to stick it out, you could talking bitterness, hard feelings , become one of them . You could , and resentment , at least from the point if you could sit through multiple of view of this loyal Galery customer , showings of "Beatlemania" (not the this local mus ic ian , this member of real thing, but an incredible simu the counter culture . Bitterness lation) • that my favorite hangout is be ing cruelly stripped away, hard feelings Not anymore , though . Not after because as a music ian I have lo st Spike 's liquor license runs out on (and many dollars) within the usually the only bar where I can hear and March 31st. Where will we go , what fr iendly walls of this bar . I perform live music in Normal , and will we do? Frat parties? Rocky' s? personally had my first contact with resentment because Spike isn 't Rudy 's? Think again . A counter the Post Amerikan folks at a benefit toughing it out . cul ture without a hangout? Where evening at the Galery (then Fink' s) will we discuss revolutionary con in 1981 . We toughed it out . In the sununer , cepts such as "property is theft" when soaring temperatures and and "should we get another pitcher?" For some , the ir last experience staggering humidity made the un-air Mo st importantly, where will we hold at the Galery may have been the most cond itioned atmosphere ne arly our next benefit? C'mon, Sp ike , recent Post Benefit. But this is unbearable . In the winter, when it the Galery coulda been something , slipping back into self-pitying was too cold inside to take off your it coulda been a contender . We again . Yes , the Galery was often a coat" and gloves . We spent our just want the Galery to love us as wonderful place to go . For some of disposable income there , though much as we love it . Winners never us , the only place to go , and God drink spec ials were rare and none quit and quitters never win � When knows we 'll miss it when it 's gone . too spec ial . We sat through �count the going gets tough, the tough go But the Galery is letting us down less sets by countless bands , many to Frat parties . But we can wait. and laying the guilt on us at the of which were hideously bad, and Some of us remember Galery I, same time . And I for one refuse to we · gave Spike credit for at least Galery II, Galery III, Fink's, accep t responsibility for its demise . giving them a chance . Mickey 's, and now , the Galery again . You 'll be back . And we 'll be waiting . What then , or who , is responsible ? But chance was all it was, because .According to the man known to mo st the Galery offered no guarantees , --Stella & Blanche for less than the price of a cup of co ffee ... Check one _ Illy Sister , the Punk Rocker _ Post Amerikan Circle Size S M L XL you can help preserve freedom of speech , lively and robust debate , Name and the Post Amerikan way of life . Address Now isn' t that iust a little more important than fulfilling your caffeine drive? _ Send me a subscription, $4 is my donation to the Post Mail inunediately to : Name Post Amerikan 3452 P.O. Box Address Bloomington , IL . 61702