The Gainesville Iguana A progressive newsletter and events calendar May/June, 2017 Vol. 31, Issue 5

Update: Voting Rights Immigrants share stories of struggles Restoration Initiative Petition ballot language approved by Heidi Harris Women’s March members, working with Julie Thaler, continue to collect signed petitions for the Voter Rights Restoration Petition to be delivered to the Florida State House and Senate and Gov. Rick Scott. On April 20, the ballot language passed the state supreme court, a victory for this mea- Two speakers who moved the Immigration Rights Day/May Day event were recent sure that will help restore voter rights to immigrants, Norma and her son Eric . Speaking through a translator, Gia Del Pino Florida citizens. (at right), Norma spoke about her struggles in leaving a bad situation of violence and We have partnered with the Alachua Coun- crime in Mexico, coming to Gainesville and working multiple jobs to be able to get her ty Labor Coalition (ACLC) to structure and children to the U .S ., and now with the election of Trump, her fears . manage the process of gathering almost Nine-year-old son Eric spoke for himself in English about how the Trump campaign 800,000 signatures statewide. Together, we and election had sparked threats and bullying from classmates at his school, things have formed the North Florida Voter Rights like being told they'd call Immigration on him and his family . Madres Sin Fronteras Restoration Coalition, and will continue to representatives also spoke about their work and, as of press time, were dealing with de- network and join efforts with other activist portation situations going on in the Ocala area . Photo by m walig . groups across the state. For nearly 200 years, Florida has had some of the strictest voting regulations in the Madres Sin Fronteras fights racism country when it comes to those convicted by Gia Del Pinolead organizer with Madres Sin Fronteras — or Mothers See VOTING RIGHTS, p. 14 Madres Sin Fronteras Without Borders in English — has two In the aftermath of the Trump election a main organizing goals: INSIDE ... group of undocumented and semi-docu- 1) to create policy at the local level to From the Publisher...... 3 mented immigrants grouped together to protect our community from any and all Event Calendar...... 12–13 stand up to the racism affecting their com- anti-immigrant actions and Editors’ Picks...... 15 munities. After witnessing increases in Oral History ...... 20–21 bullying to their children and intimidation 2) to prevent deportations through the Directory...... 21–23 from their bosses they formed Madres Sin creation deep and lasting solidarity. Fronteras to demand their human rights. See MADRES, p. 4 Legislative Recap 2017: immigration, education, etc. From the publisher . . Subscribe! by Jeremiah Tattersall going into Newnans Lake and $500,000 coffers for buildings, and students who The Gainesville Iguana for a rails to trails path connecting High get vouchers to go to private school will Florida’s House, Senate, and Governor are On bending the arc is Gainesville's progressive all Republicans and thank God they don’t Springs to Newberry. Meanwhile SB 10, get a 14 percent increase in their funding. These are challenging times to make sense of. Last week we saw Trump fire the director get along. This last session had both losses which sought to stop the algae blooms in And the new “Schools of Hope” program of the FBI and also announce thousands of more troops to Afghanistan. Healthcare is newsletter and events calendar and defensive victories for working fami- Southwest Florida by creating a recharge has $140 million allocated, which will in the hands of the Senate. Each of these acts will impact lives Individuals: $15 lies. The overarching theme of the session south of Lake Okeechobee, was scaled allow charter schools to take over low and set off chains of events whose outcome we cannot know (or more if you can) was that of disunity and political bicker- back. Instead of fully funding the project, performing public schools. in advance. We are along for the ride, and it can easily make Low/No income: What you can one feel powerless. But powerless we are not. ing. House Speaker Richard Corcoran (R, we will now spend $1.25 billion to buy The good news is that there will now be Groups: $20 Land O’Lakes) held many bills and the polluted land from big sugar while simul- Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the phrase “The arc of the 20 minutes of required daily recess and Gainesville Iguana budget hostage, while Senate President taneously relieving them from liability to elimination of some standardized tests. moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Joe Negron (R, Palm City) and Governor clean up their mess. P .O . Box 14712 And HB989 passed, which allows parents This can make it seem like some preordained thing, like those Gainesville, FL 32604 Rick Scott did their best to save face. This is part of a larger story that includes to question materials used to educate their simple-minded bumper stickers around Gainesville that say Immigration: Florida Forever, passed in 2014 by more children. This will most likely be abused “If anything can go well, it will.” Comments, suggestions, contributions by reactionary parents who regularly at- Joe Courter (written or financial) are welcome. To than 70 percent of voters, which forced the Um, no, that’s not how the struggle for justice works. House Republicans wanted to the tap into tend School Board meetings to decry the list your event or group, contact us at: government to buy environmentally sen- Former president Barack Obama addressed this on May 7 at the John F. Kennedy the Trump xenophobic wave and attempt- teaching of Islam in history class. (352) 378-5655 sitive land. This year the legislature spent Presidential Library and Museum, where he received the annual Profiles in Courage ed to push through nine anti-immigrant $0 to do so and, instead, voted to spend bills this year, the most onerous of which Healthcare: award. Referring to the King quote, he said: “It bends because we bend it. Because we GainesvilleIguana@cox .net money cleaning up polluted farmland and www .gainesvilleiguana .org threatened to punish sanctuary counties, Legal medical marijuana, passed by voters put our hand on that arc, and we move it in the direction of justice.” eroded beaches. facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana which Alachua County is considered, with in 2016, required that Florida institute a Angela Davis popularized the phrase “freedom is a constant struggle,” and that struggle fines while deputizing all police as ICE Workers’ Rights: medical marijuana program. However, the to bend the arc toward justice is a battle with other forces which are pulling it in the The Iguana has been published agents. These bills were defeated because The Florida Legislature wasn’t able to de- state legislature couldn’t agree on how to other direction, or perhaps just trying to move forward a practice rigidly stuck. monthly or bimonthly by volunteers of the hard work from human rights activ- cide on how much lawyers should be al- do it. The House wanted to ban smokable Those working against justice are often not “hands” but forces of corporate greed, of for 30 years . Circulation for this ists all over the state and through the lead- lowed to collect from workers’ compensa- marijuana, and the Senate wouldn’t agree. an attachment to outmoded ways of thinking which value traditions of exploitation as issue is 4,500 . ership of the Florida Immigrant Coalition tion. The Florida Supreme Court ruled that Now the Department of Health will put in being “normal,” and of decades-old decisions and policies which created or stimulated Publisher: (FLIC). the current law with its low caps makes le- place policies, but the Florida Legislature injustice, exploitation, or other negative consequences. might call a special session to deal with Joe Courter Higher Education: gal representation all but unattainable for Take the immigration crisis as it manifests around the globe. People don’t just choose workers. A special session to deal with this this issue. Editors Emeritus: Santa Fe College got $5.4 million to ex- en masse to leave their homes; people would never do that on the scale we are seeing. might be called. The good news is that the seven anti- Economics and violence are strong motivators; you don’t want to see loved ones Jenny Brown pand the Blount Center downtown, a con- Mark Piotrowski troversial project under fire for gentrifica- Senator Keith Perry was finally able to choice bills filed this last year all failed. starving or being killed. The rapid increase in violence and war in the area of the tion. This is on top of $2.6 million it got pass his anti living wage bill SB 534. This Odds and Ends: Mediterranean Sea is a huge catalyst to what we see on our screens. What we see there Editorial Board: last year from the legislature and over $6 bill nullifies local ordinances that mandate is different than the immigration patterns we see in this hemisphere. Pierce Butler • Rep. Chuck Clemons (R, Newberry) million in private donations. They also got local hiring, higher safety standards, and Joe Courter carried water for Sen. Keith Perry and Here in the U.S., we largely see long-term impacts of U.S. government policies playing $5 million to hire and retain faculty and certified apprenticeships. After a lot of Beth Grobman got a GRU governance bill passed. out over generations. The 1960s “Green Revolution” saw corporate agriculture move staff. UF will receive $120 million more pushback, this bill was hamstrung so that Jessica Newman The bill forces GRU residents to vote into the Americas, displacing small farmers who then moved to cities. This impact in this year which includes funding for long it only kicks in when 50 percent or more of on a bill that would wrestle control Latin America was disruptive, and with exploding populations, migrations began out Production work & assistance: overdue renovations at Norman Hall and the funds are coming from state-allocated of our utility away from the elected of the cities and toward the land of opportunity, the USA. Wars in Central America Joye Barnes design work for a new music building. money, which will affect very few projects compounded this, especially in El Salvador and Guatemala. Gang activity in especially commissioners to an appointment Kentucky Costello in Alachua County. southern California saw recent migrants get caught up in the lifestyle, and then take it Bright Futures Academic Scholars Award board. Tom Hart State workers will now default into a 401k back home to El Salvador, resulting in more immigration to the U.S. will cover 100 percent of tuition for the • A proposed Constitutional Amend- Elizabeth Cori Jones first time since the recession. The catch style plan as opposed to the state’s pen- Trump’s crude response to immigration is appalling. These are times when we all need Carolyn Salt sion. This is part of a strategy to weaken ment would increase the non-school to put our hands out and bend that arc toward justice. We must build resistance, and is that all students will be forced into the homestead exemption by $25,000. block tuition program in which everyone the pension system so that they have an our city and county are shining lights by being welcoming and supporting the rights Distribution: excuse to do away with it in the future. If passed by 60 percent of voters in of migrants in our community. Seeing our Mayor and a County Commissioner jointly Joe Courter is charged for 15 credit hours a semester November, it would punch a $9 mil- regardless of how many classes they take. Currently nearly 60 percent of state work- reading a proclamation declaring May 1 Immigrant Rights Day in Gainesville and Bill Gilbert ers default into the pension plan and only lion hole in the County coffers, which Alachua County filled me with pride for our Blue Dot. We have elected a slew of really Sam Madeira Guns: 18 percent choose the 401k-style plan. The would mean lowering of services. It good people to our City and County government, but we citizens must both have their Jack Price is expected to pass, and cities/coun- A slew of pro-gun bills were filed, but bill passed in part because it was lumped backs when attacked, and be on their backs, challenging them to do better. Anita Sundaram tries are already implementing hiring most failed. Some of the worse ones were together with a $1,400 raise for more state freezes in anticipation. One thing highlighted at the May Day event was a new “tip line” initiated by the open carry, allowing guns in airports, and workers. Contact us if you can help with Trump administration. Called VOICE (Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement), distribution in outlying areas . the elimination of gun free zones at univer- Education: • The liquor wall is down. HB 423/SB it is a tool in building fear of immigrants. It has gotten little publicity amid all the sities and colleges. What did pass was an 1040 passed and will allow liquor to other “news” coming out of Washington (and most of what I had heard about it dealt Authors & photographers have sole expansion the state’s Stand Your Ground The Alachua County School Board be bought in grocery stores. with floods of bogus calls going to it about space aliens), but I cannot forgetCity credit, responsibility for, and rights will see a decrease of $27 per student Law. It will now be harder to bring some- • The Competitive workforce act Commissioner Harvey Budd’s (immigrant 1958) look of horror recounting just learning to their work . in funding. This will put us at $492 less one claiming self-defense to trial by shift- (HB623/SB666), which would of its existence when I was talking to him after the event. funding per student than the highwater Cover drawing of iguana by Daryl ing the burden of proof to the prosecutor. have added sexual orientation and mark in 2007–2008. But some students We need outrage to grow, we need to not turn away. We are waking up, and while Harrison . Environment: gender identity to the protected class humor and satire are having a field day (and I rejoice at this), this is dead serious. are getting more funding. Charter Schools D Printed on recycled paper . We received $250,000 to help filter water will have more money diverted into their See RECAP, p. 4 Resistance is growing and in whatever way you can, join it. page 2, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 3 From MADRES, p. 1 enough Trump delegates might have refused to vote for him to send Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup? the election into the House of Representatives, where the states With these two goals in mind we have met First Magnitude Brewing Co. would choose the President from one of the top three vote-getters with our city and county commissioners, Reprinted from Consortiumnews .com, May also reaffirmed the idea that Clinton got in the Electoral College. Upcoming Events school board members, and the sheriff to 10 special treatment because of her political demand action from our elected leaders. By Robert Parry clout, arguably the most damaging image The third-place finisher turned out to be former Secretary of State May 21 possible in an election year dominated by Forage Farm Dinner While we have received warm receptions President Trump’s firing of FBI Director Colin Powell who got three votes from Clinton delegates in Wash- voter anger at “elites.” Fundraiser, $75/seat, 5p-9p we still have a lot of work ahead of us if James Comey on Tuesday reflected a grow- ington State. The idea of giving votes to Powell was that he might we are to withstand the racism coming ing concern inside the White House that the Clinton herself has said that if the election be an acceptable alternative to House members over either Clin- May 26 out of Washington DC and Tallahassee. long-rumored scheme by “deep state” op- had been held on Oct. 27 – the day before ton or Trump, a position that I’m told Obama’s intelligence chiefs Artwalk Gainesville and shared. But the Electoral College ploy failed when Trump’s del- We are also moving to stop the separa- eratives to overturn the results of the 2016 Comey reopened the email inquiry – she live music by The Jazz Bandits, egates proved overwhelmingly faithful to the GOP candidate on tions of families by growing solidarity election may have been more than just ru- would have won. In other words, whether 6p-10p Dec. 19. within the greater Gainesville commu- mors. Comey’s actions were simply clumsy or possibly calculated, the reality is that he June 17 nity. Many of our members are undocu- The fear grew that Comey and other senior Expanding Russia-gate had an outsized hand in drowning Clin- Sea Turtle Conservancy mented mothers to children that were officials in the U.S. intelligence community Still, the effort to undermine Trump did not stop. President Obama ton’s candidacy, a point that Trump’s Jus- fmbrewing.com Fundraiser, 4p-8p born in Gainesville. Separating these had concluded last year that neither Hillary reportedly authorized an extraordinary scheme to spread informa- tice Department also noted on Tuesday in families not only hurts the children but Clinton nor Donald Trump was a suitable tion about Russia’s purported assistance to Trump across the fed- justifying Comey’s firing. is also cheapens our city by denying the future president, albeit for different reasons. eral bureaucracy and even overseas. full potential of our youth. In this respect I’m told that Clinton was seen as danger- Russia-gate Probe Comey, Brennan and Clapper also set in motion a hasty intelligence Madres Sin Fronteras is working hard to ously hawkish and Trump as dangerously And, we now know that Comey was lead- assessment by hand-picked analysts at the CIA, the FBI and the become a resource for those facing depor- unqualified, opinions privately shared by ing a parallel investigation into possible National Security Agency, producing a report on alleged Russian tation by raising funds and holding “know then-President Barack Obama. Russian collusion with the Trump cam- electoral interference that was released on Jan. 6. your rights” workshops. So, according to this account, plans were paign, instigated at least in part by a dos- Though Clapper had promised to release a great deal of the evi- While Madres Sin Fronteras is fully lead made last summer to damage both Clinton sier prepared by ex-British spy Christopher dence, the declassified version of the report amounted mostly to by undocumented and semi-documented and Trump, with the hope of putting a more Steele, paid for by Clinton supporters and “trust us” along with a one-sided analysis of Putin’s alleged motive, people we welcome all those who believe stable and less risky person in the Oval Of- containing allegations about secret meet- citing his well-known disdain for Clinton. in the spirit of human justice. Our weekly fice – with key roles in this scheme played ings between Trump aides and influential But the report failed to note the other side of that coin, that Putin meetings are in English and Spanish with by Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and Russians. would be taking a great risk by trying to hurt Clinton and failing, plenty of work for allies wishing to show Director of National Intelligence James Last July, the FBI reportedly secured a For- given Clinton’s odds as the prohibitive favorite to defeat Trump. their solidarity. To find out more follow Clapper. eign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant us at facebook.com/MSFGainesville. D Putin would have to assume that the NSA with its powerful surveil- When I first heard about this supposed ca- against former Trump foreign policy advis- lance capabilities would pick up a Russian initiative and inform an bal in the middle of last year, I dismissed it er Carter Page. Page was mentioned in the irate President Hillary Clinton. From RECAP, p. 2 Steele dossier and gave an academic speech as something more fitting a Jason Bourne In other words, the Jan. 6 report was not some careful analysis of the in Moscow on July 7 mildly critical of U.S. movie than the real world. But – to my pros and cons for believing or doubting that Russia was behind the prohibits their discrimination. In policies toward Russia and other nations of amazement – the U.S. intelligence commu- WikiLeaks disclosures. It amounted to a prosecutor’s brief, albeit Alachua County we have the Human the former Soviet Union, two apparent fac- nity then began intervening in the presiden- without any public evidence to support the Russia-did-it charge. Rights Ordinance, which seeks to tial campaign in unprecedented ways. tors in justifying the FISA warrant. We learned later that the report’s classified appendix included accomplish this goal. Before the election, people close to Clinton On July 5, 2016, Director Comey dealt a a summary of Steele’s dossier that was then briefed to President also tried to get the U.S. media to publi- • HB305 passed, which allows cops to severe blow to Clinton by holding a press Obama, President-elect Trump and to members of Congress, guar- cize the Steele dossier and particularly its review body cam footage before writ- conference to denounce her use of a private anteeing that its damaging but unproven allegations would finally anonymous claims about Trump cavorting ing a report. email server while Secretary of State as get widely circulated in the mainstream media, as indeed promptly “extremely careless,” yet he announced that with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel while • To conform with the U.S. Supreme happened. no legal action would follow, opening her Russian intelligence agents supposedly Court ruling, SB280 was passed. It to a damaging line of attack that she jeopar- filmed him. However, because media out- Hobbling Trump’s Presidency requires a unanimous jury vote to dized national security but that her political lets could not confirm Steele’s allegations So, going into the Inauguration, Russia-gate was dominating the sentence someone to death. status gave her special protection. and because some details turned out to be front pages of newspapers as well as the endless chat shows on ca- • Sen. Baxley stopped a slavery memo- Then, on Oct. 28, just ten days before the wrong, the dossier remained mostly under ble TV despite the fact that no real evidence was presented proving rial from being created in the Florida election, Comey reopened the investigation wraps prior to the election. Russia was responsible for the WikiLeaks’ posts – and WikiLeaks Capitol (HB27/SB1722). The proud because of emails found on the laptop of However, after Trump’s surprising victory denied getting the material from Russia. There was also no evi- descendant of confederate soldiers disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, on Nov. 8, President Obama and his intel- dence that Trump’s campaign had colluded with the Russians in has complained in the past about the husband of Clinton’s close aide Huma ligence chiefs escalated their efforts to un- this endeavor. “cultural cleansing” of confederate Abedin. That move re-injected Clinton’s dermine Trump’s legitimacy. The Obama But those suspicions quickly hardened into a groupthink among symbols and said “it just seems in this email controversy into the campaign, administration leaked an intelligence as- many Democrats, liberals and progressives. Their hatred of Trump age of multiculturalism we can cel- along with the unsavory issues surrounding sessment that Russian President Vladi- and their dread about his policies convinced some that the ends of ebrate everyone’s culture but mine.” Weiner’s sexting scandal, and reminded mir Putin had orchestrated the hacking of removing Trump justified whatever means were employed, even if voters about the sex-related scandals that Democratic emails and their publication by those means had more than a whiff of McCarthyism. • Some $75 million in tax cuts, mostly have swirled around Bill Clinton for years. WikiLeaks to undermine Clinton and help On Inauguration Day, many anti-Trump protesters carried signs to businesses, passed. Also feminine Trump. hygiene products will now be tax-free. To make matters worse, Comey closed the accusing Trump of being Putin’s boy. Sensing a political opportunity, investigation again just two days before The intelligence community’s assessment congressional Democrats joined the #Resistance and escalated their •• HB 221 preempts local ordinances the election, once more putting the Clinton set the stage for what could have been a demands for a sweeping investigation of any connections between that have to do with Uber/Lyft. D email controversy in front of voters. That revolt by the Electoral College in which See WATERGATE, p. 14 page 4, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 5 New Gainesville city commissioners sworn in by Joe Courter Thursday, May 4, was a day where the hard work of political organizing bore fruits, as the new and re-elected City Commis- sion candidates were sworn into office at a noontime event at the Thelma Boltin Center. New Commissioners David Arreola and Harvey Ward and returning commissioner Helen Warren Gainesville Roller Rebels Swamp City Sirens took turns recognizing their campaign staffs and laying out their versus hopes and ideals for their coming term to a standing-room crowd of over 200. There was much support among all of them for Fort Lauderdale Gold Coast Derby Grrls an active addressing of community problems of income dispar- Saturday, June 10 ity, improvements to public services, and an especially welcome call for closer cooperation between city, county and school Martin Luther King Junior Multipurpose Center board. Low voter turnout was addressed by Harvey Ward with 1028 NE 14th St., Gainesville • Doors open at 6 pm this story of his encounter with a potential voter while going Gainesvillerollerebels.com door-to-door in Northwood Oaks: Hi, my name is Harvey Ward and I’m running for Gainesville City Commission . Do you have a moment to talk? Sure, I’ve got time, but I don’t really care . There must be some city issues you’re concerned about? Nope . I don’t care . How about roads? Everybody likes to talk about roads! Nah . This went on for several minutes before he finally asked me, “What part of ‘I don’t care’ don’t you understand?” I didn’t want to tell him, “all of it .” The idea was totally for- eign to me . I was ready for people to tell me they preferred one of my opponents or that they thought I was a godless communist or that they had no tolerance for bald men or any number of things . I was not prepared for “I don’t care .” MAY I still don’t know what to do with that . Here’s what it has 19 A Tribute to the Music of the Greatful Dead helped me understand: The great divide in America . . is be- By the Couch Messiahs, The Shambles & Uncle Mosie tween those who show up and vote – who feel ownership in the system – and those who have been so disappointed so 26 The Nancy Luca Band many times they have given up and left it behind . Featuring Anna Marie Kirkpatrick - Classic Rock The heart of a democracy, and really a word that should be intrin- sic to it, is participation. Ward mentioned moving city elections to JUNE (African American Music Month) the fall as a means of both cost savings and greater turnout. This Little Jake & The Soul Searchers R&B, Soul seems like an idea with merit, but beyond elections and voting, 2 that participation is also needed for attending or at least paying 9 21 Blue w/Longineu Parsons & Ted Shumate Blues attention to the process of governing, going to meetings, com- municating with commissioners, weighing in on issues important 16 Wester Joseph’s Stereo Vudu Vudu Rawk, Ska to you. All three commissioners spoke of this, to be open to ideas and input, and keeping the tone positive and away from the recre- 23 A Tribute to the Music of Curtis Mayfield ational obstructionism which some citizens seem to practice. By Travis Atria & Friends Following the Boltin event, the new commission kicked off their 30 De Lions of Jah Reggae first meeting, and there they heard from County Commissioner Ken Cornell, speaking as a citizen and asking the Commission to move slowly and carefully regarding the lingering issue of JULY purchasing the Biomass plant. This is a huge financial decision, 7 The All American Song Fest: The High Nooners March for Science, Gainesville, FL, April 22 -- 800 to 1,000 people marched from the UF campus to the Bo Diddley Plaza in a and it is a good sign that the County’s voice is being heard, as A musical tribute to the American West - By Michael Claytor & strong demonstration of support for science, scientific research, and the scientific method. Paraphrasing one speaker: "It may sur- 30 percent of Gainesville Regional Utilities customers actually Friends prise you when I say I am not here to save the planet . I am a geologist, and this planet has been here long before humans, and will live outside city limits, We wish them wisdom in their decision 111 E. University Ave. All shows may be subject to change be into the future. I am here to save lives." Photographs by l.w. plympton. making. D page 6, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 7 Working Food Community Food Center supports Open House/Open Wings at Lubee Bat Conservancy farmers, food entrepreneurs, resilient food system In honor of Endangered Species Day, Lubee ambitious and exciting project – Working tor for food entrepreneurs that will help Bat Conservancy will host our Open House/ Food – will allow the organizations to expand local business ownership and Open Wings event, Saturday, May 20 from combine forces and provide a physical job creation for our region by giving 11am to 3pm. The entrance fee is $5/person, hub for efforts at the intersection of businesses the tools and support to de- and children 4 and under are free. Kitchens, Commerce, and Culture . velop and scale up their products and/ Guests will have a chance to listen to Working Food’s operation, referred to as a or services. educational talks, check out native bat houses, community food center, will support local • Cold and dry food storage and ware- talk to experts on installation and exclusion, farmers and food entrepreneurs, work to housing space that will provide existing and of course, view the beautiful bats playing with numerous toys. Great fun for all ages! keep Florida food in state and reduce and start-up businesses an answer to a by Maya Velesko food waste, and support the creation of a critical bottleneck for expansion and lo- Director Brian Pope will give a special Forage and Blue Oven Kitchens have been robust, just, and resilient food system in cal food utilization, and provide retail presentation on endangered species, wildlife working together and collaborating with North Central Florida. and institutions easier, less expensive trafficking, and the importance of preserving our community to support and expand our The physical space will house several access to local food products. animals and habitats. local food system for over five years. components, including: • Event and workshop space and pro- This family-friendly event focuses on endan- Their latest endeavor is no exception. The • A certified commercial kitchen incuba- gramming to increase food literacy, gered species, native bats, and viewing the security, activity, and community largest bats in the world. cohesion by making connections be- All proceeds benefit Lubee’s conservation and tween farmers, food businesses, and education efforts. The Facebook Open House/ individual citizens. Open Wings event page is at https://www. The name ‘Working Food’ represents facebook.com/events/408495889514803/). the core of their vision. By creating jobs, The event will take place at 1309 NW 192nd helping increase economic resilience Ave. in Gainesville. For more information, call through business ownership, teaching 352-485-1250 or go to www.lubee.org. D food skills to increase health and access, and by celebrating the culture, history, and foodways that make our region unique, we will “put food to work” for our community. Join Working Food at the County Com- mission meeting on Tuesday, May 23 to show your support for this critical project and to stand up for local food and eco- nomic justice for our community. D WE’VE MOVED! ~ We no longer have a Happy Hour ~ Tuesday Free Comedy Showcase starting at 8:30 Tankard prices are $5-$7 Wednesday Wine is BOGO (rather than half off) Weekly Foosball tournament with no entry fee and prizes for 1st and 2nd place (starts at 8pm) with $8 domestic pitchers for players

WE’VE MOVED! Thursday Gainesville Language Exchange (with $3 domestic pints and $5 tankards) Sunday Now "Nerdy Sunday" with an ongoing in house D and D game A destination game store and parlor. GALLERY TOUR BEGINS AT 7 PM Other groups interested in meeting up for other RPG, table top, or video game tournaments 4401 NW 25th Pl., Suite G, Gainesville, FL 32605 (access from NW 43rd St) 352-378-PLAY (7529) Find us online at gainesvilletabletop.com and Facebook Subscribe $30/year page 8, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 9 That may have been true 30 years ago, but in some communities, Debunking alternate energy denial: seven responses solar electricity is the same cost as coal generation (fossil fuels and nuclear would be far more expensive without their By Larry Behnke General Electric made 60 years ago still work. Some scientists government subsidies and tax breaks). But what is the added predict PV panels could work for 100 years; there are no moving Climate change denial has been around for years. But there’s cost of burning coal for electricity? Damage to humans who parts to wear out (although there is slight loss of output). You will another climate-related denial that is just as damaging: alternate have to breathe its toxins, as well as the heat of burning coal that never have to buy new panels unless you want to expand the size energy denial. You usually hear this put-down of alternate is warming up our planet (2016 was the hottest year on record). energy from utilities that fear loss of control and income as of your system, and it is easy to wire on new panels. Recent research by Bloomberg showed that new solar power people discover ways to produce their own power. “PVs don’t produce any voltage on cloudy days .” around the world is “robustly entering the era of undercutting Solar electricity is often the target for alt-energy denial. We’ve Yes they do, just not as much as in bright sun. My PV panels fossil-fuel prices.” heard for years, “It’s too expensive; it’s inefficient; we need fully charge my batteries by around noon or 1 p.m. On cloudy “The most expensive and inefficient use of solar is by one more research.” But the efficiency of PV (photo voltaic) panels days it may take until 2 or 3 p.m. to get a full charge. I know this individual;…” has increased as their price has dropped the last few years. More as fact from 33 years of checking my battery voltage. I simply people are buying them, while utility companies fret. push a contact button on my wall to see the voltmeter reading. I am one individual using solar electricity to pump all my water Over the past few months in our area, I have seen the following “Solar panels can’t move with the sun .” from a well. I use solar for lights, fans and assorted 12-volt examples of alt-energy denial, actual quotes from local officials. appliances. The cost of my PV system, figured over the years For more than three decades the Zomeworks Company has built an I’ve used it, is $8 a month. Does that sound expensive? I will comment on each one according to my experience as efficient tracker that moves panels to follow the sun across the sky a user of solar electricity to power my home with a system I all day and then repositions them for the next morning, all with self- I also use $5 a month worth of grid power (plus the customer fee installed in 1984. contained solar power. But my panels don’t need to move. of $20, and taxes) for my refrigerator, lights and TV. My house “Salesmen will tell potential customers that their panels will is wired for these two separate systems, so I am less affected “PVs don’t produce much voltage in the winter or when when the grid goes down during storms. save them X amount of money over a 30-year period, but the covered with ice or snow .” panels themselves are only warranted for 20 years . That means “…it is more cost effective if solar use is on a city-wide basis, the homeowner has to re-invest in new solar panels before they PVs actually work better in winter, producing more power when and most cost effective if a group of cities can employ solar have received the benefit of the utility savings.” they are cold (a balance to the shorter days of sunlight). That’s using the very latest technology .” why an air space between the panels and roof is important during Vietnamese writer to speak Only 20 years? Your car should have such a warranty! But that’s Solar is only more cost effective on a citywide basis for the utility hot weather (and why solar shingles are less efficient). Writer and illustrator Thi Bui, who has written the graphic memoir just a warranty, not the life of the panels. My PV panels have been company so they can sell solar electricity to their customers. The Best We Could Do, an intimate and poignant graphic novel producing more electricity than I can use for 33 years. The panels Ice and snow are no problem in the Sunshine State. If northern They don’t make profits when people have their own solar portraying her family’s journey from Vietnam during the war, will PV panels don’t slope enough, snow may accumulate. But a “power companies” on rooftops. rare covering of ice would still let enough sunshine through to be speaking and reading on May 30 at the Civic Media Center. produce electricity. Making electricity on site with PVs is more efficient than having to The event runs from 6:30 to 8 pm. transport it over long distances, losing power along miles of lines. “Solar is higher cost compared with other forms of generating This beautifully illustrated and emotionally evocative memoir electricity .” Not all utilities are in denial. According to Lynn Jurich, is about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. CEO of Sunrun: “Sunrun pays to install a solar electric system Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects on a person’s roof. There’s no up-front cost for homeowners. that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents They then buy the power from us, typically at 20 percent less the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South DRIVE THRU than what their utilities charge. We take care of the maintenance. Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building & CALL-INS Homeowners save money immediately. We’re in 12 states now.” new lives for themselves. Two locations: Of course our local utilities would rather have “solar farms” At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting that they can own and control to sell power to their customers 407 NW 12th St. to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it as they always have. As for cities being able to use the “latest means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed Open: Mon-Fri 7 am-10 pm 5011 NW 34th St. technology,” PVs themselves have changed very little over the gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Sat-Sun 9 am-10 pm decades. What has changed is that they are much more efficient Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous and cheaper than ever. I paid $260 for a 30-watt panel in 1984. roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With Now you could buy a 300-watt panel for the same amount. haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines Why do our utility officials tell us all these falsehoods about the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the solar electricity? Control and profit. They can sell electricity for meaning of home. a profit when they control the buying and selling of coal, gas, In what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen oil and nuclear. But they have not figured out a way to sell us calls “a book to break your heart and heal it,” The Best We sunshine, except with their own solar farms. Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding, and In the stock market fossil fuel has been among the worst provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future performing sectors, while investors are now piling more money while longing for a simpler past. into renewables, because that’s where the growth will come. “With great mastery of writing and drawing, Thi Bui shows the Economics will kill alt-energy denial. consequences of war lasting from generation to generation.” Perhaps our local utilities will someday work with their customers — Maxine Hong Kingston to promote and sell PV panels. But they are used to doing business “Be prepared to take your heart on an emotional roller-coaster their old way, so for now they will use alt-energy denial to dissuade journey with this thought-provoking account that completely us from installing our own PV power, using free sunshine. satisfies as the story comes full circle. Highly recommended for You can contact Larry Behnke at Lbehnke@windstream .net, teens and adults; an excellent choice for book clubs.” 386-454-3249, or P .O .Box 1311, High Springs, FL 32655 . D — Library Journal online (starred review) D page 10, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 11 magnet Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday magnet Domingo Lunes Martes Miercoles Jueves Viernes Sabado Radio Notes: Find schedules for WUFT and WGOT, County Farmers’ “Naborhood” Coffee Talk League of Women Voters Gun Rights open forum Open House at Lubee Bat our local non-corporate stations, at www.’s wuft.org Market on N 441 by 17 concert series, Artisans Annual Mtg & dinner, Trin- hosted by Pink Pistols, Civic Conservatory, 11am–3 pm: and wgot.org respectively. WGOT is now a full-time 16Hwy Patrol Tues/ Thurs/Sat, Way (5910 Hampton St, Melrose), ity18 United Methodist, 5 pm, $20. 19 see20 pg 9. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Media Ctr (433 S. Main St), 7 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

over-the-air broadcast at 100.1 FM. 8 am–noon..–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Wednesdays, ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––11 am–2 pm. CMC Volunteers meet every Travis Atria, Heartwood Soundstage, Peace Poetry Contest Winners read, More info on local independent radio on pg 17. Anti-war signholding on hia- Free confidential walk-in HIV Thursday, 5:30 pm. UUFG, 2 pm - see pg 19. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7 pm; $12 adv, $15 door. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

tus through ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––September. testing at Alachua County Health On the music side of things, those on the east side or Stonewall Democrats, 901 NW Grateful Dead Tribute in Free Friday Jazz Bandits, Depot–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Park, 7 pm, free. School Board meets 1st & 3rd Dept, 224 SE 24th St, 9 am–3 pm, 8th Ave, 2nd Thurdays, 5:30 pm. with antennas might appreciate the music on Jackson- –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– concert series at Bo Diddley Downtown Edmondon at Heartwood Soundstage Tuesdays, 620 E Univ Ave, 6 M-F; & at Pride Ctr, 3131 NW ville’s public radio station at 89.9 FM, ranging from Acoustic Blues weekly open mike Plaza, 8 pm; see–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pg 7. (619 S. Main St), 8 pm. pm: see sbac.edu. 13th St, 4–6 pm on 1st & 3rd –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Cymplify (5402 NW 8th Ave), 6 pm. acoustic to electronic, jazz and blues, in an eclectic and Thurs; info: 334-7961. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ulisses Rocha Farewell Concert, PFLAG meets, United Church –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pleasant mix in the evenings and night. Hipp (25 SE 2nd–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Pl), 8 pm, $12. Downtown Farmers’ Market “Deconstructing the Beatles: (1624 NW 5th Ave), 7 pm. Rubber Soul” at Hipp, 8 pm - also Wayne Hancock, Company Man, Mayo–Junio LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY RADIO! every Wed, Bo Diddley Plaza 1717: François-Marie (111 E. University Ave), 4–7 pm; Wed 5/17, 6 pm.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & Thin Skins at Loosey’s, 9 pm. “Voltaire” Arouet Edible Plant Project, 2nd Weds. John & William Bartram talk, For more events, event details, and irregularly updated imprisoned in Bastille for –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nancy Luca Band with Anna 1865: Emancipation Proclamation Matheson Museum,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm, free. calendar entries, see www.gainesvilleiguana.org/calendar. satirical poem. Move to Amend meets weekly, Marie Kirkpatrick plays at Bo first read in Tallahassee. Pride Ctr (3131 NW 13th St), 6 pm. Tickling Giants screening & 1st 26 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Diddley Plaza, 8 pm, free; pg 7. Memorial Mile display opens - Sunday Assembly with Gvl 4 All meets, Buchholz HS Alachua County Amendment panel, UF Holland –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Humanist meeting (open to all), see pg 24.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ann Kinnebrew of Playback (5510 NW–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 27th Ave), 6 pm. Commission meets, Hall 382, 6 pm. Bad Jews opens (runs through 6/24), 27 21 22 23 UUFG (4225 NW 34th St), 6:30 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Theater, SFC Downtown (530 W. Restoration of Voting Rights plan- 2nd & 4th Tues, 9 am & 5 pm, Actors’ Warehouse (now at 619 NE 1st Wild Iris Free Store at Civic Media Univ. Ave), 11 am, 3rd Sundays - County Admin Bldg; citizens pm. Storytelling Meetup, topic: be- Ctr (433 S. Main–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– St), 2–5 pm. ning meeting, ACLC office (901 NW St), 8 pm; see pg–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 15. see sagainesville.weebly.com. comment, 9:30 am & 5:30 pm. liefs; The Bull (18 SW 1st Ave), –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 8th Ave), 6 pm. .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Armor of Light doc/panel –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– G’ville Downtown Artwalk 7–10 pm; Nancy Luca Band at Chiappini’s in 7:30 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Pit Bull author Bronwen Dickey, Violence Prevention Work- on extreme “pro-lifer” and Greens meet: call 352-871-1995 for 24 see pages 9 & 26, and Melrose, 8 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– downtown library, 2 pm. shop with Juliun Kinsey, gun control: United Church of Gvl A Chorus Line, SFC Fine Arts –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– artwalkgainesville.com. time/place updates. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Diamonds and Lust, downtown library (401 E Univ (1624 NW 5th–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ave), 6 pm. Hall, 7:30 pm,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– thru May 26. Porter’s Community Tour, starts Documentary TBA, Gay Movie Night last Fridays, Pride Company Man at –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– , . “Dismantling Racism” Open Poetry at Porter’s Comm. Ctr (512 SW Ave), 10 am–5 pm. series , every Thursday Ctr (3131 NW 13th St), 7:30 pm, $2. The Atlantic, 10 pm. Civic Media Center –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– concludes with final segment of Civic Media Center, 8 pm. 2nd Terr), 3 pm.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “TrumpDon’tCare” protest, 1818: Amelia Jenks (Bloomer) born. (433 S. Main St), Race: Power of an Illusion, Vets For Peace Memorial Mile setup Forage Farm Local Food Awards 7 pm. NW 13th St & 16th Ave, led by !! 1809: Chuquisaca 1878: Isadora Duncan born. A.C. Labor Coalition: 5:30 pm; Mennonite Meeting House (1236 begins at 11 pm - call 352-375-2563 to honoring Faith Carr & Jordan 25 Revolution ignites volunteer. Chuck Woods Memorial at NW 18th Ave––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––), 7 pm. Brown: 1st Magnitude Brewing Just Health Care meets follow- South American Wars UF Baughman–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Center, 10 am. ing demo, Mennonites, 6:30. of Independence. Flagship Romance in Jewelbox 3 1807: Former VP Aaron –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Living Wage Taskforce meeting, (1220 SE Veitch St), 5:30 pm: Concert series at Thomas Center Nat’l Gun Violence Awareness Day Burr indicted for treason. ACLC office, 5:30 pm. TOWEL DAY $75+ includes dinner, beers; pg 5. Pine performs, The Bull, 8 pm. 2(306 NE 6th Ave), 6 pm. observance, Kanapaha Veterans Me- Race Relations Round- Civic Media –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– UMMU by Tom Miller final Memorial Day Morning Thi Bui Graphic Little Jake Mitchell and the Soul morial park (7340 SW 41st Pl) w/ fam- Discussion Memoir table, sponsored by Gvl Center will be performance at Acrosstown 29 , Westside Park, 30 - author/artist 31 June 1 Searchers rock Bo Diddley Plaza, Free ily fun activities - wear orange; 10 am. (61928 S. Main St), 2 pm; pg 18. 11 am - see pg 24. of Vietnamese-US family Office of Equal Opportunity, closed for summer vacation June .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– See act.everytown.org/event/wear- history The Best We Could Do Thelma Boltin Ctr (516 NE 16th 1–11 (Open Poetry expected to Fridays concert,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 8 pm; see pg 7. The Repurpose Project Trash Memorial Mile takedown begins Ave), 4–7 pm. continue 1st & 8th). orange-2017_attend/6242.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Girls’ Rock Camp benefit, Loosey’s, Princess teaches kids crafts at before sundown: call 352-375-2563 to speaks at Veg For Life vegan potluck, UUFG, Civic SSJ Sierra 11 pm-2 am, $5–10: see pg 5.

(352) 378-5655 www.gainesvilleiguana.org Depot Park, 2 pm. participate. .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1st Saturdays, $2+veg–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– dish, 6:30 pm. Media Club Whether here or anywhere: If you appreciate this calendar, Documentary TBA, Civic Media Center, Mirror Image Studios - The First 40 please consider supporting the Ig meetings on please support live music! Center (433 S. Main St), $3-5 6:30 pm; 2010: Israeli commandos kill 10 hiatus until Years celebration: Heartwood Sound-

Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. Box 14712, Gainesville, FL 32604 Box 14712, Gainesville, FL Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. with a donation &/or subscrip- requested, 7 pm. see pg 11. peace activists aboard September. 21 Blue with Longineu Parsons stage in the Baird Ctr (619 S. Main tion: PO Box 14712, Gainesville & Ted Shumate MEMORIAL DAY Mavi Marmara in open sea. HURRICANE SEASON OPENS 9 get bluesy at Bo St), time tba. The Gainesville Iguana FL 32604. Diddley Plaza, 8 pm, free; pg 7. Documentary TBA at CMC, School Board - see 5/16. Cinema Verde meets Green Open Poets, CMC, 8 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Swamp City Sirens vs Fort Operation Catnip feral cat Cami Lundeen at Loosey’s, 9 pm. 5 8 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– There will doubtless be 7 Drinks, Market –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– St Pub, 5 pm. 8 Lauderdale Gold Coast Derby spay/neuter clinic, 8 am - see 6 10Grrls, MLK Ctr (1028 NE 14th St), ocgainesville.org4 . Gvl Citizens for Active Transporta- events scheduled that aren’t on Vets for Peace meet, 7 pm: call IGUANA Deadline for July- FULL MOON –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– this calendar at press time: Aug issue is July 5th; write doors 6 pm - see pg 7. tion meets at CIED (530 E. Univ 352-375-2563 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– for directions. Wester Joseph’s Stereo Vudu Nathan Hill, author of The Nix, Ave), 1st & 3rd Mondays, 7 pm. check various websites and list- Summer International Movies gainesvilleiguana@ cox.net or brings vudu rawk & ska to Bo Sea Turtle Conservancy fund- downtown library, 2:30 pm. ings, and support events in our call 378-5655 with events, up- Diddley16 Plaza Free Friday show, 8 pm. series opens at Em. Mennonite raiser at ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1st Magnitude; pg 5. 1989: Chinese troops crush Interfaith Alliance for Immi- wonderfully active community. dates, advertisements & info. BLOOMSDAY 17 Tiananmen Square protests. Church, Wednesdays, 7 pm. Girls Rock Camp Showcase, High 12 grant Justice meets 2nd Mons, County Commission Lost Springs Ocklawaha River Nat’l Equality March, Mennonite Meeting House, 6 pm. Grace Marketplace 3rd film & discussion, Matheson Dive (210 SW 2nd–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ave) - see pg 5. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– meets–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– - see 5/23. 23 Washington DC & else- 13 Birthday celebration, Trin- Museum, 6–8 pm. The Deadaires, Expert Timing, & 11 14 15 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– where: see gainesvillepride.org for Women’s March General Assembly, Just Health Care meets, ity United Methodist (4000 NW Trilogy School (8700 NW 23rd Ave), 1911: US Supreme Curtis Mayfield tribute by Travis Rayah at Boca Backyard, 10 pm. local plans. ACLC office, 6 pm. Court orders 53rd Ave), 11:30–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– am–1 pm. Atria & friends, BD Plaza, 8 pm, free. 1963: Vivian Malone & James A. 6:30 pm; see pg–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 14. 1381: Peasant Revolt takes “unreasonable” Standard Oil CMC Volunteers & Poets. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Hood desegrate Univ of Alabama. CMC documentary tba, 7 pm. control of London. monopoly to be broken up. Girls Rock Camp benefit, Edmonton, 24 Keep up with the CMC at Dikembe, at Loosey’s, 9 pm. civicmediacenter.org for events Sunday Assembly w/ Bob CMC documentary.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– tba; 7 pm. School –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Board - see 5/16. 1983: Edward Snowden CMC Volunteers & Poets. created after this calendar was Tancig - see 5/21. Art Walk Downtown every 18 19 Gvl Food Security Group 20 PFLAG meets: see 5/16. 21 born. 22 printed, and into the future. last Friday,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– starting 7 pm. FATHER’S DAY meets 3rd Mondays, Quaker Meeting 1900: Chinese launch Boxer SUMMER SOLSTICE 1898: US Marines invade Cuba. 30 Author S.W. Anderson House (708 NW 38th St), 7–9 pm. Rebellion against Volunteers & Poets at CMC. De Lions of Jah reggaefy Bo Diddley Tomato Festival,

May–June Western imperialists. reads from three of her nov- JUNETEENTH Plaza, 8 pm, free;–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– see pg 7. 25 28 : July 1 Mosswood Farm els, downtown library, 2 pm. 291972 US Supreme Court –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2015: US Supreme Court County Commission 1969: Stonewall Inn clientele fight says death penalty cruel Much Ado about Nothing opens at Store & Bakehouse on Cholokka Sue Foley Band, High Dive, 7 pm. 26 legalizes marriage equality. 27 meets - see 5/23. back against NYC police raid. & unusual (for 4 years). Acrosstown, 8 pm? - see pg 18. Blvd in Micanopy, 10 am. From VOTING RIGHTS, p. 1 Floridians – including more than one in five African-Americans in the state – Who is the on felony charges. Florida is one of three from the polls . Florida has the highest Women’s March states in the country which disallows ex- disenfranchisement rate in the country .” Editors’ picks: news that didn’t fit felons who have served part or all of their Resistance? Gainesville D Weekly Action Checklist for Democrats, Independents, and Republicans sentences the right to vote for the rest of The time is NOW to put this initiative be- By Women’s March Gainesville By Joe Courter of Conscience by Jennifer Hofmann their lives. fore the voters, but we need your help! In the Editors Picks on this page there Women’s March Gainesville is the Hofmann’s steadily updated list of constructive citizen actions . Scanning is a listing for a talk given in Chicago According to the Brennan Center for Jus- We are currently developing a tabling/can- official local chapter of Women’s through her online archives shows an intelligent, well-informed, and and hosted by Haymarket Books. tice: vassing calendar of events for those who March Florida, the originators of compassionate mind at work . (Thanks to Brigitta C . for the tip!) It features Michelle Alexander and want to help gather signed petitions toward the Women’s March on Washington https://jenniferhofmann.com/home/weekly-action-checklist-democrats- “Florida has one of the most punitive Naomi Klein, two leading thinkers our district and statewide goals and require- on Jan. 21. independents-republicans-conscience/ disenfranchisement policies in the country, ments. No prior experience is required, and and analysts of our time. It is about 90 permanently barring all citizens with We pride ourselves on being a we will provide training. minutes and well worth it. D Constituent Loses his Temper at Rep. Tom MacArthur over Health Care felony convictions from voting unless they non-violent organization with a This 11-minute video shows New Jersey voter Geoff Ginter delivering a individually apply to the state Office of Please join us in this effort! Sign up to get pro-woman, pro-community, pro- In her opening remarks Alexander passionate, eloquent, fact-filled denunciation to federal representative Tom Executive Clemency for rights restoration . involved by emailing: heidi.jones.harris@ sustainability, pro-love, and pro- questions the concept of Resistance as D MacArthur concerning the latter’s hypocritical rescue of Donald Trump’s This policy bars more than 1 .6 million gmail.com. diversity focus. applied to the opposition to the Trump presidency. She says she appreciates “TrumpDon’tCare” bill . [Note: raw language] We believe in art as a means of revo- From WATERGATE, p. 4 strument for removing Trump from office. how the term came into use, but then http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/05/11/watch-this-video/ or search lutionary change. Our organization is for “constituent loses his temper at Rep. Tom MacArthur” on Google or at Trump’s team and Russia. Their clear hope After Comey’s firing, from The New York she turns it around. a great place for first time activists as http://abcnews.go.com/Video was something might turn up that could be Times to CNN, the mainstream media was well as long-term activists interested Trump and his administration are really a exploited in an impeachment proceeding. filled with comparisons to Richard Nixon’s in getting involved with the local reaction, a resistance to the progress that D Should Trump Eliminate These Beautiful National Monuments? Here’s As the principal intelligence holdover from Watergate cover-up. government and our community. has been breaking out in recent decades. Your Chance to Weigh In by Rebecca Leber Resistance to Womens Rights, to LGBT the Obama administration, Comey assumed One of the few voices commending Trump We believe that the only true way to Trump has asked the Department of Interior to recommend which of 27 national an essential role in this operation. It would for his action, not surprisingly, came from rights, to Unions and the Fight for $15, monuments should be eliminated or shrunk, allowing them to be opened to make change is locally, since it’s the to Black Lives Matters, to Immigration be up to the FBI to secure the financial re- Carter Page, who briefly served as a Trump logging and mining . You’ve got until July 10 to tell them what you think . government that affects us the most, Rights, to Civil Liberties, to Single Payer cords from Trump and his associates that foreign policy adviser and has found him- http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/05/look-all-beautiful- and the one we can influence the most. Healthcare, even to Science itself. could provide a foundation for at least sus- self in the crosshairs of a high-powered monuments-trump-wants-review Our grass roots initiative allows Society is moving forward, THEY are the picions of a sinister relationship between counterintelligence investigation as a result. D us to be a people-powered organi- resistance trying to stifle progress, even Donald Trump is a Walking Disaster -- and He’ll Likely Win Re-election them and Russia. “It is encouraging that further steps toward zation. While we have structure, take us backwards. So while we Resist, in 2020 by Musa Al-Gharbi Trump may have thought that he bought restoring justice in America have been tak- we also know that every person know we are up against more than Trump, Even though most Americans don’t like Trump, he will probably be reelected some political space by complying with en with the termination and removal from involved is a piece to making this in 2020 says a researcher in the cognitive and behavioral sciences . Find out political pressure to fire National Security office of FBI Director James Comey,” Page movement historical. We are against a fear of change and a des- why he’s made this scary prediction . Adviser Michael Flynn on Feb. 13 over said in a statement. perate clinging to power and control. We http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/donald-trump-walking-disaster- what exactly was said in a pre-Inauguration Women’s March has several Action need to keep moving forward. D “Although I have never met President Groups centered around our policy and-hell-likely-win-re-election-2020 phone conversation between Flynn and the Trump, his strength and judgment in hold- areas, including healthcare and re- Russian Ambassador. Trump also got the D Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein in Conversation with Keeanga- ing senior officials accountable for wrong- productive rights; environmental Russia-gate pressure to lessen when, on Yamahtta Taylor from Chicago’s Auditorium Theater doing stands in stark contrast to last year protection; racial justice; immigra- April 6, he fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at A great nearly 90-minute video presentation and political dialogue by great when ordinary private citizens outside of tion reform; LGBTQIA+ justice; Syria over an alleged chemical attack. But thinkers Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein . Washington like myself were targeted for economic justice and labor; gun he soon came to realize that those respites https://www.facebook.com/haymarketbooks/videos/1473261219390785 D exercising their Constitutional rights. control and criminal justice; “boots from Russia-gate were brief and that an in- on the ground” rallies and protests; “Under James Comey’s leadership in 2016, cipient constitutional coup might be under- education; elections - national, state, way with him as the target. I was allegedly the subject of an intensive local; campus outreach; and more. domestic political intelligence operation ACRev continues However, if those coup suspicions have any Women’s March meets on the sec- truth – and I realize many Americans do not instigated by the FBI and based on com- pletely false allegations in a FISA warrant ond Monday of each month: for political revolution want to accept the notion that their country location and agenda information, application.” Alachua County Revolution’s purpose has a “deep state” – firing Comey may fuel please see: Trump’s troubles rather than end them. Yet, despite what Page and other Trump is to continue the political revolution North Central Florida’s Award www.hearourvoicegnv.org Bernie Sanders started, through effective Trump clearly is unpopular not only among advisers caught up in the Russia-gate probe Winning Community Theater Democrats but many Republicans who see may hope, the prospects that Comey’s fir- m.facebook.com/wmflgnv/ local action and is modeled after Our him as an unprincipled interloper with a ing will end their ordeal are dim. The near www.facebook.com/groups/wmflgnv/ Revolution, the successor organization to 619 NE 1st Street Gainesville the Bernie Sanders campaign. nasty Twitter finger. The Comey firing is certainty is that whatever Obama and his Instagram.com/womensmarchgnv/ www.actorswarehouse.org intelligence chiefs set in motion last year is sure to spark new demands for a special Twitter.com/WMFL_Gnv/ ACRev supports other local, progressive [email protected] prosecutor or at least more aggressive in- just beginning. and activist groups and hopes to identify and/or email vestigations by Congress and the press. Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke a new generation of progressive leaders Actors’ Warehouse entertains, inspires and fosters [email protected]. to fight for progressive change and help critical thinking through the performing arts Watergate Comparisons many of the Iran-Contra stories for The As- while bringing diversity programming, social justice to elevate the political consciousness. Although Democrats had condemned Com- sociated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s . Together we can do anything ... Join and public health to the forefront. ey for his interference in the Clinton cam- You can buy his latest book, America’s Sto- Us! We Need You. Let’s build this ACRev promotes local action and D peaceful movement together! D paign, they now are rallying to Comey’s len Narrative, in print or as an e-book . sharing of events through the www. side because they viewed him as a key in- acrev.org site. D page 14, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 15 WGOT-LP FM to hold volunteer information meeting By Michele LeSure seems more and more monochromatic pm for an information meeting about the WGOT Volunteer Coordinator with each new day, WGOT-LP FM volunteer opportunities we have avail- You’ve seen our logo and call letters reminds us that the spirit of community able. The meeting will be on Wednes- advertised in these pages for going on ten radio is still alive and well. day, May 31 on the second floor of the years now. WGOT-LP FM, in partnership That’s why we need the community’s Hardback Cafe at 211 W. University Ave. with the Civic Media Center, has been help to get us over the top as we begin Please call 352-519-4680 or email info@ broadcasting continuously since 2008. broadcasting 24/7 on our own frequency wgot.org for more information. Recently, you may have read that WGOT- of 100.1 LP-FM. Without volunteers, we Thank you for all that you do for our LP FM moved to a new frequency (100.1 couldn’t keep growing like this. community merely by reading The Iguana FM) and a new studio space within the Join us on Wednesday, May 31 from 7-8 each month. D space of one month; that’s a major leap in such a short period of time (not to mention the installation of a new antenna to help our signal strength). WGOT-LP 94.7 FM Now, we’re about to have another growth IS NOW event: a call to the Alachua County com- WGOT 100.1 FM FULL TIME munity for volunteers. Gainesville’s Progressive Community Radio Station WGOT, WGOT-LP FM is 100 percent volunteer- formerly a limited access low-power FM station, driven. Every member of the station is now on the air 24 hours a day at 100.1 FM gives their time to schedule, produce, and air a diverse line-up of programming in Check out wgot.org for upcoming events and a detailed schedule. Gainesville. Questions? Comments? E-mail us at [email protected] For example, Fred Sowder, a DJ at WGOT-LP FM, produces his show Hosted by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Gainesvillians joined labor and immigrant groups to celebrate “Stripped” early Monday morning so he International Worker's Day and Immigrants' rights . At the height of the celebration, Gainesville Mayor Lauren can get his children to school on time. Democracy NOW! Poe and County Commissioner Ken Cornell (lower left) jointly declared May 1 as Immigrants' Rights Day in During the week, he works full-time and airs Monday - Friday at 1 p.m. Gainesville . Photos by m walig . records interviews on-the-fly for the next broadcast. He and his wife, Michelle, are active and involved in the Gainesville Mon 1-2 pm Democracy Now! community, on top of everything else. So, 2-4 pm Cramela Mix Show Fri 1-2 pm Democracy Now! time-management is really the only skill 8-9 pm Malum 2-3 pm CMC/Counterpoise needed to volunteer at WGOT-LP FM 9-10 pm Noche Latina 3-4 pm Red Pony Music Hour (just kidding, Fred). 10-12 am Stripped 4-5 pm Alternative Radio 9-10 pm RAD Radio As Lynne Loewenthal, Director of Tue 12-1 am The Michael Slate Show 10-11 pm Big Island Mix WGOT-LP FM, reminds us: “We all have 1-3 am Ecstasy to Frenzy 11-12 am Departure lives, so we just do our best.” 3-5 am Jazzville 1-2 pm Democracy Now! In what, to many, are dark times, I think we Sat 12-1 am Malum 6-7 pm Afropop Worldwide can all take comfort in the fact that we’re 1-3 am Things be Blowin’ Around 7-8 pm Woodsongs Radio doing our best at any moment, which is 3-4 am Hippie Sessions 9-10 pm Hippie Sessions why WGOT-LP FM is so important to 4-5 am Woodsongs Radio its volunteers. At a time when the world Wed 1-2 pm Democracy Now! 1-2 pm Sábado Musical 2-3 pm Joe and Craig 2-3 pm This Way Out/ 5-7 pm Stripped Rootstock Radio WGOT-LP FM 8-9 pm Jazzvville 3-4 pm Health & Fitness NEEDS VOLUNTEERS 9-10 pm Pow Wow Show 4-5 pm Alternative Radio 10-11 pm Counterpoise 5-6 pm RAD Radio • underwriting • outreach 11-12 am Hippie Session 6-7 pm Sweet Retreat • fundraising • studio talent 7-8 pm Last One In • production personnel Thu 12-1 am Sweeet Retreat 1-3 am Cramela Mix Show 8-9 pm Afropop Worldwide Come to the volunteer meeting: 3-4 am Afropop Worldwide Sun 1-2 pm Alternative Radio Wednesday, May 31 4-5 am Big Island Mix 2-3 pm Heartbeattrue Radio Hardback Cafe, 2nd floor 1-2 pm Democracy Now! 3-4 pm Noche Latina 211 W. University Avenue. 2-3 pm Building Bridges/ 7-9 pm Cramela Mix Show For more info: Rootstock Radio 10-11 pm Informativo Pacifica / Music call 352-519-4680 or email [email protected] 3-4 pm Heartbeattrue Radio 8-9 pm EcoShock 11-12 am Spanish Music page 16, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 17 www.civicmediacenter.org coordinators@ Veterans for Peace announces public reading, reception civicmediacenter.org 352-373-0010 for Peace Poetry Contest, Peace Scholarship Awards 433 S. Main St., Gainesville by Gainesville Veterans for Peace Nursing Student Association. In that capacity, she helps to 32601 Veterans for Peace Gainesville Chapter 14 has announced the 8th build solidarity among student nurses across the state. She also Park just to the south at SE 5th Ave, (see sign), or Annual Public Reading and Reception of the Alachua County coordinates community service volunteering activities in the after 7 pm at the courthouse (just north of 4th Ave), Peace Poetry Contest and Peace Scholarship Awards. Relay for Life, March of Dimes, early childhood education and or GRU (2 blocks east of CMC). CAFE other important fields. Hayley has talked extensively at area On Saturday, May 20, 35 students from Alachua County schools schools about the need for great diversity in the field of nursing will read their peace poems aloud at the Unitarian Universalist as well as nursing as an occupation for minority and working Fellowship as winners of the 2017 Peace Poetry Contest. class youth. Hayley also regularly volunteers in academic

Civic Media Center Events OPPORTUNITY The eighth annual Peace Poetry Contest began in January, mentoring and after-school programs. Looking to start a little cafe, coffeebar, or inviting all K-12 students of Alachua County schools, both Molesha Perkins is a Santa Fe College Dual Enrollment student Every Thursday Volunteer Meeting, 5:30-6:30pm public and private, to submit one poem on what peace means to other such thing? who plans to obtain degrees in early childhood education as well Fri, May 19 Gun Rights Open Forum, 7-9pm them. A team of community writers and poets judged the over as chemistry to fulfill her dream of becoming a pharmacist. She 280 poems submitted, according to age group. Fri, May 26 Art Walk with Lizzie Lunior, 7-10pm The infrastructure for such a thing is in the is president of the local chapter of the National Achievers Honors From those poems, 35 readers were chosen to perform their Sat, May 27 Free Store at Wild Iris Books. 2-6pm Civic Media Center. This would be an in- Society and through this group she organizes community service pieces on May 20, and will have their winning poems published projects such as FarmShare, a USDA program which provides Tue, May 30 Thi Bui Graphic Memoir Talk, 6:30-8pm dependently-run operation, $200 a month in the 2017 Peace Poetry booklet. food to people in need. Molesha also rent, with an option to be open for evening Winners also receive a gift certificate to volunteers through her Girl Scouts troop both Closed for summer vacation June 1-11 events at the CMC. a local bookstore. locally as well as internationally on issues including homelessness and food security. Please support the CMC in whatever way Though this contest holds no formal Come by to take a look. Our hours are 2-6 position on the current state of world Molesha has been a leader in fundraisers to you can: volunteering, memberships, assist earthquake and hurricane victims in donations, ideas, and attendance at our Monday thru Saturday. affairs, we still want to honor the ideal Haiti. She recently helped to coordinate the events. Grassroots support keeps it going. of peace through the perspectives of young people. Peace is a uniquely MLK Month of Service at Duval Elementary human conception and affirms the School. human spirit. It is especially important This year’s reading will be held on to remember that peace is not merely a Saturday, May 20, at the Unitarian goal but a human right. In that spirit of Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville reflection, we are very pleased with the success of this year’s (4225 NW 34th St.), from 2pm to 4pm. The event will include contest. inspiring readings by the student poets and music by Cathy We would especially like to thank the many teachers who Dewitt. Refreshments will be served after the program. The encourage their students to participate every year, and to all of program is free and open to the public. the young poets who wrote such beautiful, moving poems. For more information on the 2017 Peace Poetry Reading Veterans for Peace will also be awarding three Peace and Peace scholarships, please contact the organizers at Scholarships at the Peace Reception. VFP created these [email protected], or 831-334-0117. D scholarships as a way to give financial support to students who are planning careers in pursuit of a more equitable, peaceful, and just world. The three selected winners have demonstrated commitment and leadership activities involving peace and social justice, conflict resolution and nonviolent social change. The winners of the scholarship are listed below: Natalie Davis. Natalie is studying nursing at Santa Fe College and is enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant program. She is an active organizer with the Rural Women’s Health Project, is heavily involved in the organization’s HIV/ AIDs prevention and treatment programs, and is a regional advocate for the National Building Leaders of Color program. Natalie has been a tremendous force in educating patients and health care professionals in understanding the causes of health disparities. Natalie’s long-term goal is to open a Community Outreach facility that will assist at-risk teens, homeless people and others earn their GED as a gateway to academic success and economic security. Hayley Mathis. Hayley is studying nursing at Santa Fe College and she plans to pursue a career in pediatric nursing. She serves as the recording secretary of the Santa Fe College page 18, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 19 those Shoshones down there. Then they Grandpa yelled at his son, “Don’t let them stick and do this. And cover your head. You History and the people who make it: Lilly Sanchez seen these Duckwater people camped [for take your gun away! They want to kill us going to have a gray hair if you touch it. I a] rabbit drive below Currant Creek, down all!” So Uncle Dick, that’s when he shot guess I touch my hair so much! [Laughter] Lilly Sanchez [LS], of Nevada’s Western LS: Yes. We had a lot of fruit trees, but most LS: The gophers, and the prairie dogs, the valley. Those soldiers come over after that guy that was on the horse, trying to Shoshone tribe, and her daughter Virginia of them dried up. We had a lot of plums, and we don’t eat mice because they’re VS: Didn’t you gather the wood? You had they massacred the people, and they seen pull him away and take his gun. He shot [VS] and granddaughter Cora Burchett [CB], dirty. [Laughter] They’re always into little piles? gooseberries. And rhubarb. Grandpa, he these people with their fires burning in the him and he fell. And the other one got were interviewed by Ryan Morini [RM] in something and eating dirty things. But works for most of the ranchers there, so valley, and they were happy. They had a scared, he took off and he fell into the LS: Yeah. Gather that, and just pile them December 2012 . you would eat gophers, chipmunks, he get plants from them. Grandpa grow scout, leader, he said, “Don’t bother these ditch someplace. I don’t know whatever up there. But the last pile, that’s what you This is the 40th in a series of transcript groundhog. Cottontails and jackrabbits. I a lot of vegetables, like carrots, parsnips, Shoshones, they never bothered anybody.” happened to him. take down to your little camp. For fire. And excerpts from the Samuel Proctor Oral turnips, green beans, potatoes, and what liked to go hunting. you don’t drink cold water. That would hurt RM: So if people called your grandfather History Program collection at the University else? Onions, garlic. He was good at it. I But the soldiers were going to get rid of inside of your stomach, they tell you. So you of Florida . VS: Tell him about the insects, Mom. “chief” sometimes, they must have really don’t see those kind of gardens anymore. these people in Duckwater. So grandma’s have to boil your water, and get it lukewarm. The family ate insects, like that June grandma went up on that big white respected him. Did they call him “chief,” Transcript edited by Pierce Butler . My Grandma Mary would give me the bug, and the ant eggs. or did they call him “taikwani”? That’s what you drink. And don’t eat red mountain above Currant Creek, Idjago’. meat, anything that got to do with meat. It’s LS: My name is Lilly Virginia Sanchez. little lard bucket—we don’t see those lard LS: Yeah, them little June bugs. They They walked up there, and my grandpa LS: They always call him Dupui, not good for you. Because you’ll be hurting I was born in Duckwater, where my buckets anymore. “Take this with you, and come in the spring. They’re little tiny was only two years old. They went up and “blackeye.” I think the white people start grandfather always lived, under the before your age. But those things, I think it’s beetles. We used to catch them and bring hide under the rocks. They could see that calling him chief. He said, “I’m not a gone. Nobody follow that anymore. willows. We never go to doctors those them home, and mom would roast them cavalry coming up the valley. They had chief! You know, I look after this family.” days, we just have our grandmother as a in a pan and put it in the oven. But we one young teenage girl with them after RM: Do you remember the nuclear testing? RM: How’d he get the name Dupui? midwife. usually killed it by pinching the head. I they massacred all the people down below. LS: I wasn’t there. People talk about it, LS: He was born with a birthmark, it RM: When were you born? thought they were good. Crunchy. You My grandpa and grandma always talk and said their gardens—I guess the dust or take the legs off. It tastes like popcorn. cover one eye. LS: 1923. about what happened. I was little, three or whatever came over. Killed their plants. VS: Locusts. four years old. I hear that all my life. CB: Grandma, didn’t you say he got that RM: What do you remember about the RM: Were you delivered by a midwife? name because his mom ate a bird? LS: Locusts, that’s what tastes like Grandpa and my two aunts went down to wars? WWII, do you remember a lot of LS: Yes, by my grandmother, Mary popcorn. But it tastes almost like a locust. the McGarry store. Someone told them, LS: Oh, when my grandfather’s mother was relatives going off to war? Blackeye. My parents was Agnes Blackeye They’re just little. “There’s a guys that’s been,” you know, pregnant, Sally, they didn’t have anything LS: Yes, lot of men went to it. Penoli, and my father was Frank Penoli. to eat, so somebody kill a butcherbird. It Yes, ant eggs. Grandma used to put them “hurting people.” Especially the women, RM: Duckwater’s got a long list of veterans. RM: Did your mother stay in a separate has black eyes. So that’s where he got his in the oven, the ant eggs, and use the they would just do anything to them. Was that a stressful time for everyone? Were house or dwelling when she had you? name, from the butcherbird. winnowing— the ant eggs would stay in Grandpa and his cousin and my two aunts, they worried about the troops? Minnie and Mary—those guys caught up LS: They followed their traditions. Move and the sticks and everything would fall RM: Did anyone still eat grass seeds and LS: They were worried about it. But I with them in Duckwater. things? out of your family home. They’ll put tent through the bottom. don’t know the worrying helped any. or whatever out there for you to have your We used to go fishing. Those fish were Grandpa had a son, Dick. Grandpa told his VS: Mono. Those little red seeds. [Laughter] baby. You stay there for whole month. go down where grandpa’s irrigating.” So I’ll good, the saibenkwi. They’re almost like son, “Go get a gun!” So he got his gun and And you don’t eat meat; that’s not good LS: But those are so fine! You have to get lot Search for “Lilly Sanchez” at http://oral.history. go and bring home the gophers. The gophers a trout, but have a little green stripe down went back. I guess my grandma trying to for your body, because you ache if you of it to make a meal. [Laughter] Lot of work! ufl.edu for the full transcript of this interview . get under and make holes where grandpa on the side. We used to eat a lot of meat. stop him, but he was on his horse. Got to eat meat when you’re having your babies. the wagon where grandpa and them were. People used to work so hard for their food. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is irrigating, so he kills them. I bring them Rabbits. Ducks. Prairie dogs. Gophers. A And you don’t go around to other people Those two outlaws were going around, RM: Did you have to do any other stuff, believes that listening carefully to first-person home, and grandma would clean them and lot of duck eggs, fish,guumbe . We don’t eat until month is over with. Then you go like get, I don’t know, gather sagebrush, or narratives can change the way we understand rats. No, no mice. They’re dirty. [Laughter] circle them, you know, scaring them. take a bath—well, we never had showers put them in the oven and roast them. anything like that during that time? history, from scholarly questions to public policy . Tules? We eat the soft part of the tules. Saip. This one guy, Jack Hooper’s dad, had a SPOHP needs the public’s help to sustain and at our house. We used to go down to the Me and grandma always prayed. Thank bullwhip. He was using that on them two, LS: I don’t remember. But you always have swimming pool, or whatever we call it, the Great Spirit for the day, or the night. That’s where they used to get it, above Little build upon its research, teaching, and service to keep them away. But they didn’t stop, sagebrush to bless yourself with. Bohovi. missions: even small donations can make a big and take a bath early in the morning so Warm Springs there. A lot of those have You have to pray before you pick anything so they seen my uncle Dick coming with You have to get up early, and don’t touch difference in SPOHP’s ability to gather, preserve, good roots that’s really white, and when you you’d be all clean to get back into your up, or gather food. You always pray to it. a horse with his gun. They went after him. your face. If you’re itching someplace, get a and promote history for future generations . D own home with your other family. Grandma was real good at doing things. peel it, it’s really good. I haven’t eaten it in But those plants. Most of them are gone. a long time, there’s no tules. RM: Was the swimming pool the warm clinic primarily serves residents of Alachua, springs up there? I can’t find them when I look. They dried So these cavalry soldiers or whatever— Bradford and Union Counties. The Clinic fulfills up—because we don’t have the weather that’s the time they went from McGill, Iguana Directory its mission with the help of a broad-based core of LS: Grandpa fixed it as little swimming like we used to. We had lot of snow and pool, where the water runs down the field other side of Ely. Two doctors, Indian volunteer physicians, nurses, dentists, hygienists, rain. But not anymore. doctors, could see what’s going to happen. Call 352-378-5655 or email [email protected] with updates and additions pharmacists and counselors. Located at 23320 N. there. It’s kind of lukewarm, where we all State Rd 235 Brooker, Florida 32622 352-485-1133 take baths. All the Blackeye family. We went to the public school, down on This woman and man went to McGill, the Irvin Ranch. We all moved down toward Spring Valley. There were people American Civil Liberties Union Currently no RM: What was your grandfather’s name? Readers: If there is inaccurate information here, alachuagreens.weebly.com, alachuagreens@ there in the wintertime so the kids could up there in the canyon, they warn them please let us know . If you are connected to an gmail.com, 352-222-3449 local chapter. For info on forming a new chapter, LS: Will Blackeye. People always call that the cavalry coming, going to kill them. organization listed here, please check and update or ACLU info, contact Jax office 904-353-7600 go to school. We walk across a field about Alachua County Labor Coalition meets And they didn’t believe these two people. so others can be accurately informed . or [email protected] him “chief,” but he said, “I’m not chief, maybe two miles to school. monthly and organizes to support local labor I’m just trying to lead my people.” That woman was a doctor, and man was Amnesty International UF campus chapter of RM: The whole family would relocate so doctor—they were strong, so they got Alachua Conservation Trust, Inc. Protecting and advance the national campaigns for RM: Why did they call him chief? you could go to school? North Central Florida’s natural, scenic, Medicare for All and a living wage. Contact: worldwide human rights movement; www.facebook. away. They went over to Spring Valley. historic & recreational resources for over 25 http://laborcoalition.org/, info@laborcoalition. com/ufamnesty or [email protected]. LS: Because he always have Fandangos There were some more Shoshones down LS: Yes. We have little mud houses down years. ACT is the 2013 national Land Trust org, 352-375-2832, PO Box 12051, 901 NW 8th Avian Research and Conservation Institute there, every fall. Where my sister lives, there, what we live in. It’s a one-room there, where they massacred lot of people. Excellence award recipient. 352-373-1078. Ave., Suite A1, Gainesville, 32604 (ARCI) is a on-profit research organization under the trees, people from all over come house. We didn’t think it was hard. They went down and warned, some of the AlachuaConservationTrust.org working to stimulate conservation action to save in September. They stay for five days, and people got away, but not all of them. Alachua County Organization for Rural Needs RM: Did you eat a lot of wild meats Alachua County Green Party Part of a (ACORN) Clinic is a not-for- profit (501C3) threatened species of birds in the southeastern they had their dances. when you were growing up? You Then they went down toward Cherry worldwide movement built out of four interrelated organization that provides low-cost, high-quality U.S., www.arcinst.org RM: Did you keep a garden then? mentioned the gophers. Creek, Railroad Valley, they massacred social pillars that support its politics: the peace, medical and dental care, and social services for Continued on next page civil rights, environmental and labor movements. people with and without health insurance. The page 20, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 21 Continued from preceding page education, guidance and support to anyone who Gainesville Socialists is a bi-weekly reading and our systems of government and impact public PFLAG (Parents and Families of Lesbians which celebrates life, meets the third Sunday of Citizens Climate Lobby (Gainesville Chapter) prefers to care for their own deceased loved ones discussion group. Meetings are open to all who policies (fairness in districting, voting and and Gays) meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month each month at 11 am at 530 W. University Ave. provides education/activist opportunities to prior to burial or cremation. www.finalfriends.org, consider themselves socialists, are interested in elections, e.g.) through citizen education and at the Fellowship Hall of the United Church of (Santa Fe College campus building in downtown bring about a stable climate. Meetings are on the [email protected], 352-374-4478 socialism, or are otherwise curious. Meetings are advocacy. http://www.lwvalachua.org/ info@ Gainesville (1624 NW 5th Ave.) at 7 pm with a Gainesville). There is a talk, music, sing-alongs, held at the CMC every other Tuesday at 8 pm, lwv-alachua.org programmed portion and informal meeting with discussion, refreshments and felllowship. See Wednesday after the first Saturday of each month at The Fine Print Independent, critically thinking [email protected] opportunity to talk and peruse their resource http://SAGainesville.weebly.com/ 12:30, at Vine Bread & Pasta place at 627 N. Main outlet for political, social and arts coverage Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program needs library. pflaggainesville.org. Confidential Helpline St. 352-672-4327, www.citizensclimatelobby.org, through local, in-depth reporting for Gainesville’s Gainesville Zen Center & Hostel A Zen UF College Democrats (UFCD) meets volunteers to join its advocates who protect 352-340-3770 or email [email protected] [email protected] students. www.thefineprintuf.org Buddhist community offering rooms to rent on elders’ rights in nursing homes, assisted living Tuesdays at 6:30 in Little Hall 121. 407-580- a daily basis. 404 SE 2nd St., 352-336-3613, Planned Parenthood Clinic Full-service health 4543, Facebook.com/UFcollegedems Civic Media Center Alternative reading room Florida School of Traditional Midwifery A facilities, family care homes. Training and [email protected] center for reproductive and sexual health care and library of the non-corporate press, and a clearinghouse for information, activities and certification provided. 888-831-0404 or http:// UF Pride Student Union Group of gay, lesbian, needs. Offering pregnancy testing and options resource and space for organizing. 352-373- educational programs. 352-338-0766 www. Graduate Assistants United Union represents ombudsman.myflorida.com bi and straight students & non-students, faculty 0010, www.civicmediacenter.org, 433 S Main counseling for $10 from 10am-noon and 2-5pm. midwiferyschool.org UF grad assistants by fighting for improved MindFreedom North Florida Human rights and staff. www.grove.ufl.edu/~pride St.,Gainesville, 32601 working conditions, community involvement Located at 914 NW 13th St. 352-377-0881 group for psychiatric survivors and mental health UF Radical Student Alliance A progressive Florida Defenders of the Environment works and academic freedom. 352-575-0366, officers@ The Coalition for Racial Justice gnv4all@ consumers. 352-328-2511 Pride Community Center of North Central grassroots organization that strives to combat to protect freshwater resources, conserve public ufgau.org, www.ufgau.org gmail.com Florida Resources for the gay/lesbian social justice issues on campus; core values lands, and provide quality environmental educa- Move to Amend, Gainesville is an organization Grow Radio Non-profit provides opportunities for community, open M-F, 3-7, Sat. noon-4. Located are transparency, democratic process, value of The Coalition of Hispanics Integrating tion since 1969, 352-475-1119, Fladefenders.org dedicated to amending the US Constitution community members to create and manage engag- at 3131 NW 13th St., Suite 62. 352-377-8915, each member’s input, and ability of any mem- Spanish Speakers through Advocacy and to establish that money is not speech, and that Gainesville Area AIDS Project provides ing, educational, locally-generated programming to www.GainesvillePride.org ber to assume a leadership role. Meetings at Service (CHISPAS) Student-run group at UF. only human beings have constitutional rights. toiletries, household cleaners, hot meals, frozen promote fine, musical/visual arts and humanities for Protect Gainesville Citizens Group whose 6:30 pm Tuesdays on campus, ufradstudental- [email protected] movetoamend.org/fl-gainesville food at no cost to people living with HIV/AIDS. enrichment of the community. www.growradio.org. mission is to provide Gainesville residents with [email protected]. Code Pink: Women for Peace Women-led www.gaaponline.org, [email protected], 352- PO Box 13891, Gainesville, 32604, 352-219-0145 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) accurate and comprehensible information about grassroots peace and social justice movement United Faculty of Florida, UF chapter Run 373-4227, Open Tuesdays 10-1 and last Friday of (v), 352-872-5085 (studio hotline) Support, education and advocacy for families the Cabot/Koppers Superfund site. 352-354- utilizing creative protest, non-violent direct action by and for faculty, the University of Florica month 5-7. and loved ones of persons with mental illness/ 2432, www.protectgainesville.org and community involvement. CodePink4Peace. Harvest of Hope Foundation Non-profit Chapter of United Faculty of Florida (UFF-UF) Gainesville Citizens for Alternatives to Death brain disorders. 374-5600. ext. 8322; www. org, [email protected] provides emergency and educational financial aid Quaker Meetinghouse Quakers have a 350- represents over 1600 faculty and professionals Penalty works to abolish the death penalty. Join to migrant farm workers around the country. www. namigainesville.org year tradition of working peacefully for social at UF. UFF’s origins lie in efforts by faculty to The Community Weatherization Coalition is vigils when Florida has an execution. Meets first harvestofhope.net, email: [email protected]. justice. Silent, unprogrammed worship Sundays protect academic freedom, defend civil liberties, a grassroots community coalition whose mission National Committee to Preserve Social Security Tuesday every month at St. Augustine Church at 11, followed by potluck. Visitors welcome. 702 and end racial discrimination at UF. www.UFF- is to improve home weatherization and energy Home Van A mobile soup kitchen going to and Medicare Local advocates work to promote/ & Catholic Student Center , 1738 W. University NW 38th St. Facebook/GainesvilleQuakers for UF.org, 352-519-4130. efficiency for low-income households through homeless areas twice a week with food and other preserve these threatened programs for senior Ave, 352-378-1690, www.fadp.org. events or request Meetinghouse space at www. education, volunteer work projects and community- necessities, delivering about 400 meals per week; citizens. We have literature, speakers, T-shirts. United Nations Association, Gainesville Florida GainesvilleQuakers.org. building. The CWC welcomes new volunteers to Gainesville Food Not Bombs Local chapter operated by Citizens for Social Justice. barupa@ Email: [email protected]. See national Chapter Purpose is to heighten citizen awareness get involved in a variety of ways, from performing of loose-knit group of collectives worldwide atlantic.net or 352-372-4825 Web site to join: http://www.ncpssm.org/ River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding and knowledge of global problems and the who prepare and share free, vegan/vegetarian, UN efforts to deal with those issues. www.afn. audits, to PR/Graphics and more. Contact: 352- Humanist Society of Gainesville meets at 7 pm on National Lawyers Guild Lawyers, law students, le- provides innovative ways to resolve conflict and healthy, home-cooked meals made from local org/~una-usa/. 450-4965 or [email protected] the 3rd Wednesday of most months at Unitarian Uni- gal workers and jailhouse lawyers using the law to ad- provides services like mediation, communication surplus with all who are hungry. Meals at 3 p.m. skill building and restorative justice. www. Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc. Non- versalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th St to discuss and vance social justice, support progressive social move- United Way Information and Referral Human- Sundays at Bo Diddly Community Plaza. Prep centerforpeacebuilding.org. 2603 NW 13th St. profit land trust working to protect Florida’s rural promote secular, humanist, atheist & agnostic social ments. [email protected] or www.nlg.org staffed computer database for resources and starts at 11 am. Get in touch if you’d like to #333, 352-234-6595 landscapes, wildlife corridors and natural areas. influences-www.gainesvillehumanists.org or face- organizations in Alachua County. 352-332-4636 help. [email protected]. www.facebook. National Women’s Liberation is a feminist 352-466-1178, Conserveflorida.org book.com/humanistsocietyofgainesville; gainesville- Samuel Proctor Oral History Program focuses or simply 211 com/#!/groups/143660782367621/ group for women who want to fight back against [email protected]. on story-telling, social justice research, social Democratic Party of Alachua County male supremacy and win more freedom for Veterans for Peace Anti-war organization that Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant movement studies, oral history workshops. Meetings held the second Wednesday each Humanists on Campus UF organization women. Inequalities between women and men are raises awareness of the detriments of militarism Justice (IAIJ) organizes faith communities to provides a community for freethinking, secular http://oral.history.ufl.edu and war as well as seeking peaceful and month at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the work together for immigrant justice. Meets 2nd political problems requiring a collective solution. Gainesville Police Headquarters on NW 6th St. humanists. Goals include promoting values of Founded 1968. Join us: www.womensliberation. Sierra Club meets the first Thursday of every effective alternatives. Meets first Wednesday Mondays at 6 pm at the Mennonite Meeting humanism, discussing issues humanists face of every month at 7 pm. 352-375-2563, http:// & 8th Ave. Office is at 901 NW 8th Ave., 352- House, 1236 NW 18th Ave. Gainesvilleiaij@ org, P.O. Box 14017, Gainesville, 32604, 347- month at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist 373-1730, alachuadems.org internationally. We strive to participate in 560-4695, [email protected] Fellowship of Gainesville-4225 NW 34th St. vfpgainesville.org/ gmail.com, www.gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com, community service and bring a fun, dynamic 352-528-3751, www.ssjsierra.org WGOT 94.7 LP-FM Community low-power radio Dream Defenders The Gainesville chapter seeks 352-377-6577 group to the university! Preferred contact NCF AWIS is an advocacy organization champion- station operating as part of the CMC. wgot947@ to create positive change by organizing creatively Gainesville Loves Mountains partners info: email ufhumanistsoncampus@gmail. ing the interest of women in science, technology, Sister City Program of Gainesville links Gaines- skilled young leaders who strategically confront in- gmail.com, www.wgot.org with Appalachian allies to end mountaintop com, alternative: [email protected], phone- engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across all ville with sister cities in Russia, Israel and Pales- stitutions of oppression through building collective removal coal mining and build a prosperous 561-374-3537 disciplines and employment sectors. Meetings are tine, Iraq, and Haiti. Meetings are the first Tues- Women’s March Gainesville meets on the second power, raising the consciousness of all people, and usually the first Monday of the month (except holi- day of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Mennonite Monday of each month: for location and agenda economy/sustainable future. We pursue *Indivisible Gainesville* is one of 5800 local operating with the genuine desire for “justice and days) from 5:30 -7:30 pm Millhopper Branch, Ala- Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Ave. (across from information, please see are on the second Monday policies to strengthen our local economy chapters of the national Indivisible movement, equality for all.” We are building the world we wish chua County Public Library. All meetings open to Gainesville HS). http://www.gnvsistercities.org of each month, see www.hearourvoicegnv.org; through energy efficiency, clean energy. working to peacefully and systematically resist to see. www.facebook.com/UFDreamDefenders/ public. [email protected] or www.ncfawis.org m.facebook.com/wmflgnv/;www.facebook.com/ [email protected], 352- the Trump agenda. We are a group of local Stand By Our Plan informs the public on crit- groups/wmflgnv/; Instagram.com/womensmarch- Edible Plant Project Local 100% volunteer- 610-1090, http://gainesvillelovesmountains. volunteers fighting against agendas of division, ical differences between the Comprehensive Occupy Gainesville is about engaging local gnv/; Twitter.com/WMFL_Gnv/ and/or email run collective to create a revolution through wordpress.com/ inequality, financial influence in government, Plan and Plum Creek’s proposal, which we do people in grassroots, participatory democracy, [email protected]. Together we can do edible and food-producing plants. http:// and policies that neglect to benefit all American not support. Alachua County’s Comprehensive Gainesville NOW www.gainesvillenow.org. diversity and dialogue; we stand in solidarity anything... Join Us! We Need You. Let’s build this edibleplantproject.org/contact-us citizens equally. indivisiblegnv.org. Plan is the best blueprint for future growth in [email protected] NOW meeting info with the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the peaceful movement together! the county’s unincorporated areas; it protects Families Against Mandatory Minimums Work contact Lisa at 352-450-1912 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rest of the people peacefully occupying public valuable wetlands,. standbyourplan@gmail. World Socialist Party of the United States to reform Florida's sentencing laws and restore Gainesville General Membership Branch space across this county and the the world. Gainesville Peer Respite A non-profit, non- com; http://standbyourplan.org/ (WSP-US) welcomes anyone wanting to fairness to Florida's criminal justice system. PO Union for all workers, regardless of industry, www.occupygainesville.org and https://www. clinical mental health community providing know more about Marxian socialism and our Box 142933, Gainesville, FL 32614, gnewburn@ trade, job, or employment status. Meets 1st facebook.com/occupygainesville Student/Farmworker Alliance A network of sanctuary and support to those experiencing efforts to transform the dog-eat-dog–Devil famm.org. 352-682-2542 Sunday of the month at 6 pm at CMC. Contact: youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate emotional distress. Peer Support Warmline is Our Santa Fe River and Ichetucknee Alliance take the hindmost world–created by capital- [email protected] sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery Final Friends helps families learn how to accom- available 6pm-6am, and we offer wellness ac- are two of a number of grassroots environmentalist ism into a democratically arranged world so- in the fields. On Facebook, search “Gainesville plish legal home funeral care as an alternative to tivities, support groups and brief overnight re- League of Women Voters of Alachua County groups campaigning to protect and restore the rivers ciety of equality at [email protected]. Upon Student/Farmworker Alliance” employing a commercial funeral home. We are an spite stays. Call the Warmline at 352-559-4559 Nonpartisan grassroots political group of women and springs. See: http://www.oursantaferiver.org/ request the Party will provide membership independent group of volunteers who provide free for support or online at gainesvillerespite.org and men which has fought since 1920 to improve and http://www.ichetuckneealliance.org/ Sunday Assembly, a secular congregation applications,htttp://wspus.org D page 22, Iguana, May/June 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org May/June 2017, Iguana page 23 Veterans display tombstones to remember fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by Gainesville Veterans for Peace Veterans for Peace will be displaying more than 6,915 tombstones from dawn on May 27 through dusk on Memorial Day on 8th Avenue just east of 31st Street as part of their Memorial Day Weekend event. This display is to remember those who have died in the wars in Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003. The tombstones will line the street along 8th Avenue just east of 31st Street, where the Solar System Walk is located. This is the tenth year VFP has set up the display, and in 2008 we had to cross over to the North side of Eighth Avenue due to the continuing number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans for Peace feel that these losses cannot be adequately understood with facts and figures alone. The visual im- The Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace sets up a Memorial Mile display on pact of the tombstones conveys the real- 8th avenue in Gainesville every year to remember those who have died in the wars in ity of these numbers. Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003 . Each tombstone includes the soldier’s name, date of death, age, branch of service, rank and hometown. They will be arranged Smedley Butler’s by date of death and theater of operation. ‘War is a Racket’ Veterans for Peace places American flags Memorial Day on tombstones of local service members and on those visited by the public. VFP discussion maintains a Directory at each end of the dis- hosted by Veterans for Peace, play, which allows us to help visitors find Chapter 14, Gainesville The Gainesville the loved ones who they have come to visit. Join Veterans for Peace member and Each year, people come to the Memorial University of Florida professor Paul Iguana Mile to place flowers and other expressions Ortiz for a discussion of Smedley Established 1986 of love at the tombstones. VFP cleans and Butler’s book War is a Racket on Memorial Day, 11am, West Side Park Gainesville's progressive cares for the tombstones year round and newsletter and events calendar tries to preserve messages that loved ones in Gainesville. have written on the tombstones. Purchase the book through Veterans Subscribe! In addition, we’ll have posters depicting for Peace Gainesville or access Individuals: $15 (or more if you can) the cost of war. the book online for free at https:// Low/No income: what you can www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/ Groups: $20 The Gainesville Veterans for Peace web D D warisaracket.html. Gainesville Iguana, P .O . Box 14712, site is at: http://www.vfpgainesville.org/ Gainesville, FL 32604 Comments, suggestions, contributions (written or financial) are welcome. To Have experience with WordPress? list your event or group, contact us at: Interested in managing the website and social media platforms (352) 378-5655 for a local radical newsletter and community calendar? GainesvilleIguana@cox .net www .gainesvilleiguana .org Then the Iguana needs YOU! facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana Email Jessica Newman ([email protected]) Current and past issues since 1996 and for more information. 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