The Gainesville Iguana March, 2017 Vol. 31, Issue 3
Gainesville votes #NotNormal. This edition addresses and is dedicated to the Resistance to the roll-backs and threats to our Democracy and the March 14: rights of its citizens by the new administration . We like Powell, This self-serving narcissist whose fame, celebrity status and bombast seduced the media and voters alike requires thinking citizens to exert Ward, Arreola a moderating and countervailing participation in the affairs of this by Joe Courter country . As the world and many of us look on in horror, we must Election day is March 14, with early vot- realize it is up to us all to do what we can . ing through Saturday, March 11. We have been asleep too long, grown too trusting . No more. On the back cover of the last Iguana, we covered the upcoming City of Gainesville See pages 2, 4, 16, 17 and 19 . election. Regarding District 2 (NW GNV), we stand with Harvey Ward over Sheryl Eddie and the oft-arrested Perry Clawson. In District 3 (SW GNV), we are strongly with David Arreola against incumbent Craig Carter. At press time for the January issue, At- Large City Commissioner Helen Warren did not have an opponent, and we specu- lated a challenge might come from the conservative side. But now she does have an opponent in the person of Jenn Pow- ell, a young progressive woman who was a huge part of the local Bernie Sanders campaign. I still believe Helen is a decent, solid and thoughtful person, and have considered her a friend for over 30 years, but I cannot ignore the opportunity to elect a bright young woman with a strong working- See VOTE, p. 2
INSIDE ... From the Publisher...... 3 CMC Events ...... 7 Event Calendar...... 12–13 Editors’ Picks...... 19 Oral History ...... 20-21 RESIST! Directory...... 21-23 From the publisher . . Subscribe! Resist, reclaim, move forward The Gainesville Iguana When last I wrote one of these, it was two weeks before the inauguration of Donald is Gainesville's progressive Trump as Pres #45. Now it is over 40 days later, and we have seen a nightmare Cabinet events calendar & newsletter. appointed, an unhinged press conference, rollbacks on Court cases on voter rights Individuals: $15 and environmental regulations, and the sickening (or more if you can) reality that it is going to be a long haul. Low/No income: What you can However, also there’s an invigorated anticipation Groups: $20 at the level of activism and resistance which is manifesting all over the country. This issue of the Gainesville Iguana Iguana provides some viewpoints on coping with and P .O . Box 14712 fighting back against the coming reactionary period, a Gainesville, FL 32604 A small section of the back wall at First Magnitude Brewing Company shows some of the dozen sign-up tables offering ways period which will span beyond any impeachment, as Comments, suggestions, contributions for people to plug in to resisting the Trump administration agenda . This celebration of activism was part of the Women’s March Mike Pence would not be much relief from the attacks (written or financial) are welcome. To Florida event on Sunday, Feb 26 . Photo by Luzette Kincaid . on our hard fought for rights and liberties. list your event or group, contact us at: It was an obituary in the Sun which caught my eye (352) 378-5655 and gave me focus. Brandy Wight had died peacefully GainesvilleIguana@cox .net Women’s March Florida is a in his sleep at age 101, only 3 months from turning www .gainesvilleiguana .org grassroots progressive mobili- 102. Brandy and his loving partner and husband Bruce Joe Courter facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana zation network inspired and cre- Blackwell had been together over twenty years. They The Iguana has been published ated by the women who brought were occasional attendees at Civic Media Center movies in the past few years, and I monthly or bimonthly by volunteers always had a great conversation with them. It is great they and so many others got to about the Women’s March on for 30 years . Circulation for this formalize their relationship thanks to social advances in recent years. issue is 4,500 . Washington. When I look ahead at the coming years, I think of them, their now state sanctioned UPCOMING EVENTS: love, and wonder if there will be attempts to un-do that hard fought right. Publisher: Joe Courter March 13: Next General And as well, I think of the love of immigrant families that may be split apart, the Meeting strained love of families in economic hardship because of loss of healthcare, the Editors Emeritus: distress of minorities subject to growing racism, and the loss to our future quality of Jenny Brown Speakers and check-in with life as pollution restrictions are lifted and climate change is ignored. We have gains to Mark Piotrowski action groups. 6:30pm at First be defended, and advances which still need to be fought for. Editorial Board: Magnitude. There will be setbacks we can be certain. Recriminations of how we got here are not Pierce Butler March 14: Pay Equity Rally useful; there will be a good percentage of Trump voters who will be having voter’s Joe Courter Time and location TBA remorse as Trump's actions or in-actions affect their lives, and continuing to blame Beth Grobman and shame them will not help anything. Jessica Newman Learn more at: We need to learn what got us here, and try for counter-measures that will involve Production work & assistance: www.hearourvoicegnv.org organizing others as well as organizing ourselves. It means becoming more active and Joye Barnes and on Facebook at: developing a higher sense of civic involvement, trying to take on the entrenched power Jenny Brown www.facebook.com/wmflgnv structure which control our elections, including voting rights, gerrymandered districts, Lesa Holder or email: and the high cost of campaigning which gives big money a commanding voice. Julie Matheny [email protected]. Does each of us have to do all this? No. We each have our lives to live, and around Carolyn Salt me I see people who have upped their activism to a stress inducing level. You need to Jeremiah Tattersall strike a balance, do what you are good at or develop skills which are useful and you Distribution: From VOTE, p. 1 can tolerate committing to. Joe Courter class outlook, and we would encourage The huge Washington DC Women’s March was a real catalyst for bringing people Bill Gilbert voting for Jenn Powell. together. Seeing the big turnout at the follow-up Women’s March Florida celebration Sam Madeira on Sunday, Feb 26 at First Magnitude, with signs all along the wooden perimeter Jack Price The people of Gainesville win with fence, was a really welcome sight. Anita Sundaram either Helen or Jenn; they are both great human beings who care deeply about our Individual actions are fine, but joining an organization – and the Resistance Contact us if you can help with community. movement has gathered and spawned many – can give that human connection that distribution in outlying areas . can sustain political commitment. Plug yourself in in whatever way you can. See Additionally, speaking of bold young wom- suggestions at facebook.com/wmflgnv and/or https://www.resistancecalendar.org/. Authors & photographers have sole en, Layla Ruffino is on the ballot for elec- credit, responsibility for, and rights tion to the Micanopy City Commission on And I know it is asking a lot, with all the horror we feel at national politics, but our to their work . that same March 14 election day. She would own mini-Trump and right wing gang in Tallahassee are in their Legislative session in March. This gang and their gerrymandered majority need scrutiny and input from Cover drawing of iguana by Daryl be glad to get campaign support (as would Harrison . the other candidates) and, if you live there, voters as well. Huge thanks to all the citizen activists, union organizers and interest your vote. We endorse her and wish her the groups who try and ride herd on these slippery self-serving alleged public servants. Printed on recycled paper . best of luck in the race. D We are many, they are few. As Joe Hill said: “Don’t mourn, organize” D page 2, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 3 Our cynicism will not build a movement. WGOT-LP now on “We must learn that passively to accept an unjust 100.1 FM full-time, system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby Collaboration will. to become a participant in its evil .” by Alicia Garza asked them what brought them there. They said they wanted to seeking sponsors stand up for all of us. They realized that they, too, were under by Fred Sowder - Martin Luther King, Jr . This article originally appeared on Mic .com on January 26 . attack. They wanted to live in a world where everyone was Have you heard? “Democracy Now!” I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment valued, safe and taken care of. They were in awe of just how with Amy Goodman can now be heard that requires all of us to show up differently. many people were there, just like them, to oppose the values of each weekday LIVE at 8am on 100.1FM. President Donald Trump’s administration. They wanted to do It will also air at its 1pm slot, where it has On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, something besides feel hopeless. been for over nine years. With the cur- The Civic Media Center D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime. Participating rent climate in our nation, the fearless, presents: in the Women’s March — if you count satellite protests around That evening, I participated in a town hall meeting that drew more than 700 people and had more than 1,100 on the waiting list. unflinching journalism that “Democracy the country, the largest one-day mobilization in the history of the Now!” provides is more vital than ever. United States — was both symbolic and challenging. Those gathered were mostly white, though there were also people of color present. About half the room said that the Women’s March This could not have happened without the ANNE FEENEY Like many other black women, I was conflicted about was the first time they’d participated in a mass mobilization. They support of our listeners, business owners, in concert participating. That a group of white women had drawn clear were willing to learn about how change happens and how they and local musicians. Cosponsored by the Gainesville Iguana and inspiration from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and could be involved. And that was just the beginning. WGOT’s next stage of development will the Alachua County Labor Coalition Freedom, yet failed to acknowledge the historical precedent, come throughout this month as we begin Checking my social media feed that evening, I read comment rubbed me the wrong way. Here they go again, I thought, putting together a broadcast studio in the Friday March 10, 8pm after comment dismissing the march — an experience that was adopting the work of black people while erasing us. Civic Media Center. With this, we’ll be Anne Feeney is a legendary and award- transformative for hundreds of thousands of people. I wondered I’d had enough before it even began. 53% of white women who able to produce live, local programs as well winning labor singer, writer of "Have You what would have happened if, instead of inviting people in, I’d voted in the 2016 presidential election did so for a man who as carry CMC speeches and performances Been to Jail for Justice" and many other songs told people to fuck off and go home. Would they come back? aims to move society backward. Were white women now having live. We also plan on resuming our internet advocating labor and human rights. Did it matter if they didn’t? buyer’s remorse? Where were all of these white people while streaming as soon as possible. our people are being killed in the streets, jobless, homeless, over Anger has an important place in transforming our political Yes, this is an exciting time for commu- incarcerated, under educated? Are you committed to freedom for consciousness, and should be valued as such. The white lady with nity radio in Gainesville. everyone, or just yourselves? the pink, knitted “pussy” hat that came to the march was angry as hell when her future president talked about grabbing women This is also where underwriting sponsorship For weeks, I sat on the sidelines. I saw debates on list-serves by the pussy. Though she may have been sitting on the sidelines comes in. If you’re a local business, you can about whether or not to attend the march, the shade on social up until now, she decided that she was going to do something be our studio or tower sponsor for $200 per media directed at the “white women’s march.” Unconvinced that about it. Anger at the way America depends on immigrant labor month (or a co-sponsor with another local white women would ever fight for the rights of all of us, many yet forces undocumented immigrants to live in the shadows may business for $100 per month). Underwriting decided to sit the march out. lead them to join the movement. Black Americans mad as hell sponsors will receive announcements about Yet as time went on and the reality of the incoming Donald about the ways that this country strips us of our humanity might the goods and services offered by their busi- Trump administration sank in, something began to gnaw at me. join the movement, even though they didn’t before. nesses several times per week during pro- Do I believe that a mass movement is necessary to transform grams of their choice throughout the day. I agree with Solange when she says, “I got a lot to be mad about, power in this country? Do I believe that this mass movement Contact Michele LeSure at underwriting@ must be multi-racial and multi-class? Do I believe that to build and I have a right to be mad.” But that anger is not enough. It wgot.org for more information. that mass movement, organizing beyond the choir is necessary? is insufficient to build or take power. Anger will not change the fact that Republicans have taken control of all three branches If you’ve been a regular listener, you’ve If I believe all of these things, how do we get there and what’s no doubt heard a lot of music from my role in making it happen? of government and control both chambers of the legislature in 32 states. Anger will not stop vigilantes from terrorizing our various genres throughout our broadcast I decided to challenge myself to be a part of something that isn’t communities, and anger will not change an economy that deems day. That’s mainly because we’re in perfect, that doesn’t articulate my values the way that I do and too many of us as disposable. the middle of building up our program still show up, clear in my commitment, open and vulnerable to schedule to a 24/7 format while keeping WGOT-LP 94.7 FM people who are new in their activism. I can be critical of white More than a moral question, it is a practical one. Can we build much of our eclectic mix of music intact. women and, at the same time, seek out and join with women, a movement of millions with the people who may not grasp Gainesville is a college town without IS NOW white and of color, who are awakening to the fact that all lives our black, queer, feminist, intersectional, anti-capitalist, anti- a college radio station and part of our WGOT 100.1 FM FULL TIME do not, in fact, matter, without compromising my dignity, my imperialist ideology but know that we deserve a better life and mission is to help fill that void. We also safety and radical politics. who are willing to fight for it and win? offer Spanish programming including Gainesville’s Progressive Community Radio Station WGOT, formerly a limited access low-power FM station, If there was ever a time to activate our organizer super powers, news (Informativo Pacifica) and music In the end, I joined an estimated 1 million people who participated (Noche Latina, Sabado Musical) and plan is now on the air 24 hours a day at 100.1 FM in the Washington, D.C. march and the estimated 3 million who this is it. I’m not going to argue that black people or other people to expand that as well. Check out wgot.org for upcoming events and a detailed schedule. marched around the world. I have participated in hundreds of of color need to stop holding white people accountable. White demonstrations, but this was one of the first times where I didn’t people are not going anywhere, but neither are we if we don’t If you’re interested in helping us further our Questions? Comments? E-mail us at [email protected] know or know of most of the people there. start to think and do differently. mission, follow us on Facebook for more details on our meetings and benefit shows, Sandwiched between other protesters like a sardine in a can, I Hundreds of thousands of people are trying to figure out what it means to join a movement. If we demonstrate that to be a part as well as how you can help us meet our spoke with demonstrators in the crowd who said this was their goal on our GoFundMe campaign, which first time participating in a mass mobilization. I saw people for of a movement, you must believe that people cannot change, Democracy NOW! that transformation is not possible, that it’s more important to be we are quickly approaching, thanks to you. airs Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. whom this wasn’t their first time at a demonstration, but who D thought that the days of protesting for our rights was over. I See CYNICISM, p. 6 Thanks for all your help and go low! page 4, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 5 From CYNICISM, p. 4 Pivot Toward War: right than to be connected and interdependent, we will not win. Civic Media Center Events If our movement is not serious about building power, then we are US Missile Defense & the Every Thu Weekly Volunteer Meeting, 5:30-6:30 pm just engaged in a futile exercise of who can be the most radical. Fri, Mar 10 Anne Feeney Concert, 8-11:30pm Sat, Mar 11 Reggae Revival Concert, 9pm-midnight This is a moment for all of us to remember who we were when Weaponization of Space Mon, Mar 13 Monday Movie Night: Black Panthers we stepped into the movement — to remember the organizers 25th Annual Space Organizing Conference & Protest and the Last Slave Plantation, 7-9pm April 7-9, Huntsville, Alabama who were patient with us, who disagreed with us and yet stayed Wed, Mar 15 Music Show: Sleeping Pills, EW, Pumps connected, who smiled knowingly when our self-righteousness The Global Network’s 25th anniversary Space Organizing and Curleys, 9pm-midnight consumed us. Conference and Protest will take place on April 7-9 at the Fri, Mar 17 Flower Power Consignment Shop Grand I remember who I was before I gave my life to the movement. home of Redstone Arsenal and the Space & Missile Defense Opening!, 2-6pm Someone was patient with me. Someone saw that I had Command, also known as the “Pentagon of the South.” Mon, Mar 20 Monday Movie Night: Assaulted, Civil something to contribute. Someone stuck with me. Someone did The effort by the Trump administration to develop and deploy Rights Under Fire, 7-9pm the work to increase my commitment. Someone taught me how the next generation of Star Wars weapons will increase global Tue, Mar 21 Honoring Carol Thomas, 7-10pm to be accountable. Someone opened my eyes to the root causes instability and cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. The US Wed, Mar 24 352 Creates, 8pm-midnight of the problems we face. Someone pushed me to call forward Space Command has long maintained its mission is to create the Thu, Mar 25 Wild Iris Free Store my vision for the future. Someone trained me to bring other technologies to ‘control and dominate’ space and the Earth below Tue, Mar 28 Ebony Minds - The Remix, 7-9pm people who are looking for a movement into one. – ultimately on behalf of corporate interests. At this conference, Wed, Mar 29 Women’s History Month Involvement Show citizens will learn about these issues and become involved in the case,10am-1pm No one is safe from the transition this country is undergoing. international movement to keep space for peace. Fri, Mar 31 Artwalk-Survivors of Violence Art Show, 6-10pm While many of us have faced hate, ignorance and greed in our Huntsville is the headquarters of the Space Command’s directorat daily lives, the period that we have entered is unlike anything for “missile defense.” Huntsville is also the manufacturing site 433 S. Main St. that any of us has ever seen before. for the PAC-3, SM-3 missile defense (MD) systems while the We can build a movement in the millions, across difference. controversial THAAD is built in a nearby community. Gainesville We will need to build a movement across divides of class, race, Fees: Registration for the conference will be on a sliding scale gender, age, documentation, religion and disability. Building between $25-$75 (pay what you can afford). Lunch and supper on 373-0010 a movement requires reaching out beyond the people who April 8 are included in the registration fee. More information is at: Park just to the south at SE 5th Ave, (see sign), or after 7 pm at the agree with you. Simply said, we need each other, and we need http://www.space4peace.org/actions/GN%202017%20 courthouse (just north of 4th Ave), or GRU (2 blocks east of CMC). leadership and strategy. Conference%20Brochure.pdf. see civicmediacenter.org for updated information, events We can tell people a hundred times over that because they haven’t Housing: A block of rooms at the Springhill Suites Hotel (745 been here, they have no right to be here now. But I promise that Constellation Place Dr) in downtown Huntsville has been reserved the only place that will get us is nowhere. D for $99 per night (up to 6 persons per room). Contact us for details on reserving hotel rooms). The hotel has an airport shuttle from the Huntsville airport. The Lowe Mill meeting location is five minutes from the hotel. Limited home hospitality will also be available on a first come, first served basis. For more information, including speakers and sponsors, go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1814332122171382/ D
~ 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 Thursday Gainesville Language Exchange (with $3 domestic pints and $5 tankards) Sunday Now "Nerdy Sunday" with an ongoing in house D and D game Other groups interested in meeting up for other RPG, table top, or video game tournaments
page 6, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 7 Gainesville for the people: candidate statement by Jenn Powell working people are doing fine” in grocery stores, and at community centers, Candidate for Gainesville City Gainesville. But our high inequality, lack I choose to believe it can be done better. Commission At-Large of equal access to resources, and racial I serve on the Citizen’s Advisory Com- I’ve enjoyed raising my family in tensions define a tale of two cities, not of mittee for Community Development and Gainesville. But let’s face it, Orlando and college-town bliss. the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Graphic by Jacksonville are starting to creep in. Affordable housing is almost entirely non- Advisory Board for the City of Gaines- Sidney Things are moving fast, and a handful existent. We have bright and powerful ville. Their public meetings take place at are getting rich in the process. While educational institutions in our midst, but difficult hours when citizens who work Davidson on the one hand Gainesville champions our Commission has followed, instead of full time cannot attend. diversity, sanctuary, and inclusion, our forced, the issue of their greater sharing As Commissioner I will more actively in- City Commission is also very busy of our burdens. clude everyone in decisions about growth. April 1: Make noise for housing promoting growth that favors out of town Claiming things are fine when your Gainesville has a nice Commissioner. We by Jon DeCarmine developers and large corporations. constituents are struggling is not need an a more active one, someone who April 1 is the National Day of Action for Housing, so we plan to progressivism, that’s closing the door The way we grow must serve working answers every email, and who explains make some noise in Tallahassee to protect Florida’s affordable behind you. people, the environment, and our future contracts, finances, and services in plain housing dollars and fight laws that criminalize the homeless. generations of family, friends, and visitors We can rebuild, rehabilitate, and restore language to the public. too. We need progressive leadership that The goals are to stop Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to steal affordability in existing neighborhoods I honor my Sierra Club and North Central takes initiative and makes policy, not a from Florida’s most vulnerable citizens by taking 77 percent by moving corporate welfare into Florida Labor Council endorsements by corporate caretaker government. of housing trust fund monies and appropriate 100 percent of community programs. We can demand being an environmentalist who speaks the affordable housing trust fund monies for affordable housing, For almost three years now, my opponent more of UF, which is after all a public language of working people, and a work- with an increased focus on the housing needs of extremely- hasn’t done much of anything to try institution. And we are the public. ing person who defends our environment. low-income, homeless, and special needs households, and to GALLERY TOUR BEGINS AT 7 PM and improve the lives of our residents. This is not a pretty election, and these are not end the criminalization of the unhoused by supporting the Candidate forum after candidate forum I promise to listen, study, explain, com- easy issues, because this is not just a pretty campaign for the Homeless Bill of Rights. during this election she says she’s just municate, and lead. I need your vote, and town. Building Depot Park and a shiny new To help with this event, please contact Julie Matheney at julie. spent three years learning how government I need your promise to hold me and others Police Station do not excuse us from taking [email protected] or (352) 213-4184. D works and now wants an opportunity accountable. a walk through hard neighborhoods with to learn more. This is not a Community If you want to get involved, call or education course, these are our lives. the people that make this town work. text me at 352-215-2243, or write me My opponent says “the majority of As I have campaigned on city buses, in at [email protected]. D
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www.civicmediacenter.org [email protected] 352-373-0010 433 S. Main St., Gainesville 32601 VOTE ON MARCH 14 VOTE ON MARCH 14 page 8, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 9 Update on the Sabal Trail resistance by Panagioti Tsolkas From their statement: “We are taking ac- On Sunday, February 26, native activists It’s been a tumultuous time in the lives of tion against the Sabal Trail Pipeline be- from across the southeast joined STR or- ganizers in a sprited rally, which included pipeline resistors. cause we don’t need more energy infra- structure poisoning this land. The world a speaker, Eryn Wise, from the Interna- In the previous weeks the world watched and our future generations are at risk, so tional Indigenous Youth Council, which as the No DAPL camps at Standing Rock we are demanding the immediate halt to was a leading force behind the Standing came to a close in massive ceremonial this toxic project.” Rock camps. fires and attention was re-directed to- Days prior to this action, Karrie and Niko The rally also featured amplified drum- wards a mass mobilization for March were interviewed on a national activ- ming and singing, including the Honor 10 in Washington D.C. ist radion show, The Final Straw
page 10, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 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 Gainesville 4 All meets every #StopSabalTrail statewide Muslim-Christian Dialog, our local non-corporate stations, at www.’s wuft.org 7 Market on N 441 by 8 concert series, Artisans 9 Thursday, Eastside Commu- student walkout, 10 am - see Em. Mennonite Church (1236 and wgot.org respectively. WGOT is now a full-time Hwy Patrol Tues/ Thurs/Sat, Way (5910 Hampton St, Melrose), nity Ctr (2841 E Univ Ave), 5:30 sabaltrailresistance.org.10 NW11 18th Ave), 2nd & 4th Sats; 10 am. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– - –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– over-the-air broadcast at 100.1 FM. 8 am–noon.. Wednesdays, 11 am–2 pm. pm see facebook.com/GNV4ALL Labor singer/songwriter Anne The Resistance Training: An ACLU More info on local independent radio on pg 5. School Board meets 1st & 3rd Free confidential walk-in HIV CMC Volunteers meet every Feeney & singer/songwriter/ Town Hall, 2500 SW 2nd Ave, 4:30
Tuesdays, 620 E Univ Ave, 6 testing at Alachua County Health Thursday, 5:30–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pm. humorist Eric Schwartz in pm - find on Facebook–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– for RSVP info. On the music side of things, those on the east side or pm: see sbac.edu. Dept, 224 SE 24th St, 9 am–3 pm, concert, CMC, 8 pm; pg 5. .–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Stonewall Democrats, 901 NW Swallowtail Farm-to-Table Dinner w/ with antennas might appreciate the music on Jackson- M-F; & at Pride Ctr, 3131 NW ville’s public radio station at 89.9 FM, ranging from Anti-war signholding - 1st/ 8th Ave, 2nd Thurdays,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm. Justin Langer, 17603 NW 276th Lane, 3rd Tues, Archer Rd & 34th St; 13th St, 4–6 pm on 1st & 3rd 1993: Dr. David Gunn murdered by Alachua, 4:30 pm: Marzo acoustic to electronic, jazz and blues, in an eclectic and Thurs; info: 334-7961. Acoustic Blues weekly open mike “pro-life” protester in Pensacola. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pleasant mix in the evenings and night. 2nd/4th Tues, W. Univ Ave Cymplify (5402 NW 8th Ave), 6 swallowtailcsa.com/calendar.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & 13th St; 4:30–6 pm. Downtown Farmers’ Market pm. Divest & Disrupt - protest –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Passerby, Boxcar (Depot Park), 6 pm. Sabal Trail by closing Bank of –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY RADIO! every Wed, Bo Diddley Plaza EARLY VOTING for city elec- 17 VOTE!!! (111 E. University Ave), 4-7 pm; America accounts - see Itzhak Perlman & Rohan De Silva, Ig recommendations, pg 1 tions from now–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– through 3/11. Phillips Ctr, 7:30 pm. 14 Edible Plant Project, 2nd Weds. sabaltrailresistance.org.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– For more events, event details, and irregularly updated Pay Equity Rally - see pg 2. Open Poetry, every UF Women’s Studies 40th anniver- Reggae Revival Concert, CMC, 9 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Move to Amend meets weekly, calendar entries, see www.gainesvilleiguana.org/calendar. Thursday, CMC, 8 pm. pm. Alachua County Commission Pride Ctr (3131 NW 13th St), 6pm. sary celebration,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ustler Hall, 1-7 pm. “My Cuban Story” panel, “Stories from the Campaign –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Kanapaha Spring Garden meets, 2nd & 4th Tues, 9 am & “Dismantling Racism” 2nd & 4th 1074: Catholic Church excom- Home Flower Power CMC consign- Harn–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Museum, 3 pm. Trail” talk by Ken & Linda Festival - plants, music, auc- 12 ment shop grand–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– opening, 2–6 pm. 13McGurn, Fla Free Speech Forum, 5 pm, County Admin Bldg; Wednesdays, Mennonite Meeting municates all married priests. 18 Tommy - absolute last day to see citizens comment, 9:30 am & 1761: Spanish fleet begins siege “Pity for the Wild” opens - 3 Tennes- tions, plants, plants: KBG (4700 SW House (1236 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––NW 18th Ave), 7 pm. classic rock opera at Acrosstown Wyndham Garden Conf Ctr (2900 SW of British-held Pensacola.. 58th Dr), 9 am–5 pm, 18th & 19th, $8 13th St), 11:30 am. 5:30 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– see Williams plays, UF Black Box Rep (619 S. Main St), 2 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Women’s Day Speakout on 1991: Los Angeles cops video- ($5 for 13 & under). Mental Illness & community Theatre, 7:30 pm; through 3/26. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant #DayWithoutAWoman - corner of taped beating Rodney King. programs talk, UF Pugh Hall ST PATRICK’S DAY “Hemingway’s Cuban Son” talk at Justice meets 2nd Mons, Mennonite W. Univ. Ave & 13th St, 4–6 pm, !!Gnv4All Blueprint4- downtown library, 2 pm. 1922: Jack Kerouac born. Ocora, 6 pm.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– followed by march to City Hall for Spring Plant Sale, Fla Mus of –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Meeting House,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm. 16 Change education plan Food Truck Rally Women’s Trauma Health candlelight vigil. presented at Thelma Boltin Ctr Natural History (3215 Hull Rd), , live music, & DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS Women’s March general meeting, 1st 2410 am–5 pm, 3/24-25; flmnh.ufl.edu. Climb for Cancer benefit: High Dive Care talk, downtown library INTERNAT’L WOMEN’S DAY –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FULL MOON (516 NE 2nd ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Ave), 11 am. Magnitude, 6:30–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pm - see pg 2. (401 E. Univ. Ave), 6:30 pm. (210 SW 2nd Ave),–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5–10 pm. G’ville Record Fair, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Humanist meeting topic: CMC Volunteers, 5:30 pm. Cuban Film Festival opens at Hippo- Greens meet: call 352-871-1995 for –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2017 Conservation Steward Awards The Wooly (20 N. Main Operation Catnip benefit 15 Doctors w/out Borders drome, 6 pm (also 25th & 26th; see , 19 time/place updates.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Open Poetry, CMC, 8 pm. Prairie Creek Lodge (7204 SE County St), 11 am. night at the Hipp, 7 pm. (open to all), UUFG (4225 NW thehipp.org/cuban-film-festival);–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– $9. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Angola 3: Black Panthers and the AY Rd 234), 5:30 pm, $90. - see ∏ D 34th St), 6:30–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– pm. The Gulf: Making of an Ameri- 1988: Ronald Reagan orders Katie Grace Helow in concert at 1st Last Slave Plantation, Civic Media Civics Classes by Dr. 3,000 US troops into Honduras. alachuaconservationtrust.org & pg 10. can Sea talk by author Jack E. LawLawPalooza talent show, Magnitude (1220–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SE Veitch St), 7 pm. Center (433 S. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Main St), 7 pm. Donna Waller, Sr. Ctr Interfaith–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dialog, see 3/11. High Dive, 8 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––pm, $10. 352 Creates, CMC, 8 pm–midnight. Davis, Matheson Museum (513 E. 21 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Volunteers–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & Poets My Little Sister - A Very Dark Com- (5701 NW 34th St), Tuesdays, , CMC. Univ Ave), 2 pm. Sleeping Pils, EW, Pumps, & –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 23 Zach Deputy in concert at Ricky Kendall & the Healers, 25 Horticulture Students Plant edy play at Hipp 2nd Stage, 13th– 1:30 pm, through.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– May 9. Curleys, CMC, 9 pm. Heartwood Stage, 8 pm. Sale, UF Hull Rd Greenhouses, 9 am– “Remembering Slavery”, Harn 15th, 7 pm School Board Heartwood Stage (Baird Ctr, 619 Museum (3259 Hull Rd), 2 pm. meeting can- 3 pm; 3/25–26; –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Race & Policing talk, UF Levin “Dismantling Racism” S. Main St), 8 pm. Cuba-US Conference opens - celled for spring–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– break. Facebook.com/EHGSA.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– see latam.ufl.edu–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & pg 15. Author Ann Hood at - see 3/8.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Law School.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– talk, noon. 31 20 Politics & Religion talk, UF 22 Keep up with the CMC at Wild Iris Free Store, CMC, 2 pm. (352) 378-5655 www.gainesvilleiguana.org downtown library, 2:30 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, Tortoise at civicmediacenter.org for events “Give Springs a Break” college stu- Pugh Hall Ocora,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm. Sunday Assembly: Comm. Robert High Dive, created after this calendar was dent immersive camping event, Ginnie Housing campaign in CMC, $3-5 requested,.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7 pm. Honoring Carol Thomas: 9 pm. Springs, 3/31–4/2: bit.ly/2kZffJi or ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Tally - see pg 9. Hutchinson - SFC downtown (530 Gvl Food Security Group meets 3rd printed, and into the future. Apr 1 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. Box 14712, Gainesville, FL 32604 Box 14712, Gainesville, FL Iguana, c/o CISPLA, P.O. potluck & toasts, CMC, 7 pm. floridaspringsinstitute.org.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– W. Univ Ave), 11 am, 3rd Sundays Mondays, Quaker Meeting House Veg For Life vegan potluck, UUFG, - see sagainesville.weebly.com. PFLAG meets, United Church Women’s History Month Animal Science Grad G’ville Downtown Artwalk 7–10 pm 1st Saturdays, $2+veg–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– dish, 6:30 pm.
The Gainesville Iguana (708 NW 38th St), 7–9 pm. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Involvement Showcase, Student Ass’n fundraiser, (1624 NW 5th Ave), 7 pm. 29 30 - note CMC “Survivors of Violence” Solar Solutions & Climate Gvl Citizens for Active Transporta- CMC, 10 am–1 pm. First Magnitude (1220 SE Veitch Passerby, Boxcar (Depot Park), 6 pm. Change Forum, UUFG County Commission show, 6–10 pm; see pages 9 & 14, 26 tion meets at CIED (530 E. Univ Ave), St), 6–9 pm. 1789: US House elects 1st speaker. meets–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– - see 3/14. (4225 NW 34th St), 2 pm; pg 24. artwalkgainesville.com.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 28 1st & 3rd Mons, 7 pm. Interfaith ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Dialog, see 3/11. Art + Feminism Alachua Co. Labor Coalition Gay Movie Night last Fridays, Pride Wikipedia Edit-a- SPRING EQUINOX 1870: 15th Amendment gives Gvl VegFest 2017, Westside Ctr thon, Harn Museum, 1–5 pm; bring meets 4th Tuesdays, Mennonite 1951: Ethel & Julis Rosenberg Ctr (3131 NW 13th St), 7:30 pm, $2. 8 Conspiracy Theories talk by African-American men right (1001 NW 34th St), 11 am – 5 pm; see laptop. UF law professor Mark Fenster Meeting House (1236 NW 18th convicted of espionage. to vote. Space War–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– conf - see pg 7. 27 1973: Last US troops leave gainesvillevegfest.com.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– hosted by League of Women Voters, Ave), 6:30 pm. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Frida Kahlo portraits - final Vietnam. Volunteers–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & Poets, CMC. 7 Stick Fly opens at Actors’ Ware- “Ebony Minds - the Remix” Slow Art Day, ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Harn Museum, 11 am. day at Harn Museum. LifeSouth (4039 W. Newberry Rd), “Fake News, The Gaines- house (608 N. Main St), 8 pm; runs 2 6:30 pm. (special gathering for people of Cinema Verde meets Green 6 “American Heritage River” talk on through 4/23. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– There will doubtless be color), Civic Media Ctr, 7 pm. Drinks, Market –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– St Pub, 5 pm. ville Sun and the Cuban War of St Johns River, Matheson Museum, 4
5 events scheduled that aren’t on “Bias on the Bench” talk, UF Independence” talk, Matheson columbinus opens at Acrosstown Rep Vets for Peace meet, 7 pm: call pm, free. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– this calendar at press time: check 3 Pugh Hall ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Ocora, 6 pm. Gvl Citizens for Alterna- Museum (513 E. Univ Ave), 6 pm, (619 S. Main St), 8 pm; runs through 352-375-2563 for directions. Gvl Roller Rebels vs Muscogee various websites and listings, and Small Business Law workshop, tives to Death Penalty free; see pg 14..–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4/23; pg 9. meets4 1st Tuesdays, Mennonite IGUANA Deadline for Apr Roller Girls, MLK Ctr (1028 NE 14th support events in our wonderfully downtown library,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm, free. SSJ Sierra Club mtg, UUFG James Taylor issue is Apr 5th; write gaines- tribute by Mike St); doors 6 pm, bout 6:30 pm. active community. Meeting House, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm. (4225 NW 34th St), 7 pm. Boulware & friends re-opens CMC documentary–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– tba, 7 pm. villeiguana@ cox.net or call 14 US Jews & Secularism talk by Free Friday concert series at Bo Did- Jest Fest free family comedy GCAT meets - see 3/20. 378-5655 with events, up- CMC Volunteers & Poets. March & clowning, Thomas Ctr (306 Dr. Kenneth Wald, UF Pugh dates, advertisements & info. dley Downtown–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Plaza, 8 pm. 15 9 IAIJ meets,–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6 pm - see 3/13. 13 NE 6th Ave), 11 am–6 pm - see Hall Ocora, 6 pm. Jason Hedges album release at If you appreciate this calendar, please 10 CMC documentary tba; 7 pm. Hamlet at the Hipp, runs gvlculturalaffairs.org.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– & pg 19. County Commission 1743: Thomas Jefferson born. Heartwood, 8–11 pm. consider supporting the Ig with a through–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5/7, 7 pm. Hudost at Heartwood Stage, 9 pm. 1849: Safety Pin patented. 12 1962: Rachel Carson publishes Whether here or anywhere: donation &/or subscription: PO Box 11 meets - see 3/14. 1971: Women’s March on Pentagon. FULL MOON “Dismantling Racism” - see 3/8. Silent Spring. please support live music! 14712, Gainesville FL 32604. From SABAL TRAIL, p. 11 Marker. While his act may have been We understand that there are complex Fake news, The The man who was killed was confirmed destructive to property, there is no evi- feelings among those who have been part to be James Leroy Marker, 66, of Cho- dence of it being physically violent. At of fighting this pipeline, and while we Gainesville Sun, koloskee, Florida. His actions disabled this point, the primary element of danger don’t wish to dismiss difficult conversa- several heavy machines and sections of in the situation appears to be in the police tions, we feel that focusing on honoring & the Cuban War pipeline with a high-powered rifle. decision to initiate a high-speed chase. the sacrifice Marker made to take a stand against this pipeline is of a greater imme- And lastly, while few details of Mark- The story is still unfolding and we know diate importance than debating the strat- of Independence that there will be more to say in the coming ers life are available publicly, we have egy, tactics or morality of his action. The Matheson History Museum is excited days or weeks, as family and friends come learned that he was known by friends as to welcome Paul Losch, Head Librarian of forward with stories of James’ life. a lover of the Earth and humanity, that he We send our sincere condolences to friends was a military veteran, that he participat- and family of Marker. If there is a public the George A. Smathers Latin American But we felt a need to acknowledge what ed in environmental/social advocacy, and memorial site or event in the future, we will has happened while the incident is fresh and Caribbean Collection at UF, to share that he was a father. do our best to let folks know about it. D a gem of fake news from the pages of The on peoples’ minds and questions are sur- Gainesville Sun, tracing Gainesville’s con- facing around his motivations, the value nection to the Cuban War of Independence of the actions he took and the response of law enforcement. on Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm. It must be noted that his action effectively From April to June 1895, The Gainesville disabled recent construction activity in Sun ran a series of reports from a “war a highly controversial area, mere miles correspondent” who was supposed to be from the crossing of preserves including in Cuba, but who was actually living in Pruitt, Halpata Tastanaki and the Marjorie Gainesville and fabricating the news. Carr Greenway, with sensitive wetlands and endangered species being impacted. These reports were picked up by wire This includes land which survived the de- services and were published in all the cades-long Cross Barge Canal battle, only leading newspapers around the country, to be torn up for this pipeline. as if they were real news. Pipeline representatives indicated they Eventually, the hoax was exposed in anticipated getting this section in the dramatic fashion. ground early this week, but will not be able to do so as a result of the damage. While the story has some aspects of an Second, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office amusing prank gone awry, it also offers a released an updated statement confirming lesson on how the public can be misled on that in the interaction with Marker, “no law serious subjects when the media are not enforcement officer was injured or fired at.” held to high professional standards. But we have not heard any statement Paul Losch is the Head Librarian of the from the Sheriff regarding plans to re- Latin American and Caribbean Collection lease dash-cam video footage that would at the George A. Smathers Libraries, justify their use of deadly force against University of Florida. He is a graduate of Clark University and, before becoming a librarian, he was a Spanish teacher in the US, and an English teacher in Brazil. He has a MA degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida, a Masters of Library Science degree from Florida State University, and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Higher Education Administration at the University of Florida. The Matheson History Museum is loated at 513 E. University Ave. in Gainesville. Admission is free. Parking is available on the east side of the museum, at the Law Offices of Attorneys Folds & Walker, and the Kirby Smith Administration Building. For other events at the Museum, see Subscribe $30/year www.mathesonmuseum.org. D page 14, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 15 pieces doesn’t make them left. Everybody failures. Claim no easy victories.” Baker’s dictum that “strong people Black genealogies of power: who protests the curtailing of civil liberties It is going to take a lot of work to undo the don’t need strong leaders” was not just that effect [sic] them, ain’t left.” damage of Trumpism, as well as the dam- a rejection of individual, male-centered, Seven maxims for resistance in the Trump years Opposition to the excesses of brutal age of decades of neoliberalism. One must charismatic leadership. It was a call to regimes is not the same thing as pursuing celebrate the incremental victories that we do the slow and steady work of building by Dan Berger Power is the essence of politics. “With Wells wrote of Jim Crow’s most ghastly, emancipatory politics. Yet Balagoon’s may win – like the mass marches that have strong people. That meant sustaining power, the masses could make or routine crime. Lynching was more than This article was originally published caveat should not distract from the fact that greeted the first month of Trump’s presi- durable movements that recognize the by Truthout on Feb . 27 . This article is participate in making the decisions brute physical mob violence – it was also strength, humanity and potential of which govern their destinies, and thus the peddling of falsehoods as fact. Wells such opposition can be the building blocks dency or the court rulings staying the travel published in collaboration with Black of powerful movements. Popular refusal ban – without inflating their significance or the people who comprise them. That Perspectives . Read more at www .truth-out . create basic change in their day-to- led a distinguished journalistic career means not throwing people under the protesting the foundational lie on which of war and authoritarianism, of climate minimizing the obstacles we face. org . Author Dan Berger was a UF student day lives,” Stokely Carmichael (later bus because they lack citizenship, have Kwame Toure) explained of the Student white supremacy rationalized its violence, change and privatization, can offer the In moments like these, when countless and CMC volunteer in his earlier life . necessary starting point for social change. a criminal conviction, or, in a different Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s including the specious allegation of rape people are becoming politically active register, are new to activism. “Power concedes nothing without de- strategy in the early 1960s. that led to many Black men being lynched. Act with principle and integrity. “Hide for the first time, with all the messiness mand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one Make it beautiful. “When I dare to All politics is about power. We seek to Such lies, Wells repeatedly showed, were nothing from the masses of our peo- that comes with it, people can make one of his most cited speeches. “It never did be powerful, to use my strength in the mitigate, escape, or abolish certain forms designed to maintain brutal regimes. First ple,” Amilcar Cabral instructed his sup- of two mistakes: confusing mass outrage and it never will.” service of my vision, then it becomes of power; we seek to transform how pow- came power, with all its violence – then porters while leading the campaign to free with a developed left-wing alternative, less and less important whether I am Donald Trump inaugurated his first Black er operates. But power itself cannot be came lies. Telling the truth, therefore, Guinea-Bissau from Portuguese colonial- or writing off sectors of people afraid,” Audre Lorde declared. The History Month at the White House with destroyed or evaded. Political struggles means more than calling out lies. It ism. (whether political neophytes or those in Black lesbian feminist did not deny the a bizarre mention of Douglass that made are battles for power, and those seeking means appraising the power such lies are “Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they “controversial” categories) as hopeless. clear he does not know who Douglass to challenge racist and regressive politics designed to uphold. are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, Both are damaging responses. Ella See RESISTANCE, p. 18 was, what he did, or that the legendary must develop their own bases of power. Don’t look to the institutions of power to abolitionist died 122 years ago. Power does not respect morality. “When resolve the problems caused by power. While Trump’s ignorance is clear, Doug- someone shows you who they are, believe “O, let America be America again/ The How Trump is helping the resistance. Really. lass’s words remain a prescient example them the first time,” the poet Maya land that never has been yet/And yet of how the Black freedom struggle has Angelou advised. must be – the land where every man [sic] A Facebook post gone viral – by Susan Keller 14. White people in record numbers also finally understand thought about power. The Black freedom is free,” Langston Hughes offered in his I can't believe I'm saying this, but it looks like Trump is that Obamacare IS the Affordable Care Act. Appealing to the “better angels” or “com- poem “Let America Be America Again.” struggle knows power intimately, as it has mon sense” of those in power misses the actually making America great again. Just look at the progress 15. Stephen Colbert's "Late Night" finally gained the elusive needed to: both the effects of power from nature of power itself. Trump and his cab- Hughes’s poem centers on the contradic- made since the election: #1 spot in late night talk shows, and Seth Meyers is above and the experience of power from inet picks built their respective political tion of demanding “America be America 1. Unprecedented levels of ongoing civic engagement. finding his footing as today's Jon Stewart. below. How can it be otherwise? Slavery, careers on racist ideas and policies. Trump again” with the recognition that “America 16. "Mike Pence" has donated millions of dollars to Planned colonialism, segregation, policing, and oth- 2. Millions of Americans now know who their state and and his advisors lionize Andrew Jackson, never was America to me.” Parenthood since Nov. 9th. er forms of racism are power in and over federal representatives are without having to google. the slave-owning president whose geno- There are no halcyon days to return to, the flesh. At the same time, Black radical- 17. Trump has succeeded where thousands of history cide of indigenous people characterized no golden era when American institutions 3. Millions of Americans are exercising more. They're ism has developed its own power through teachers failed – now everybody knows who Frederick the early days of American populism. upheld universal, intersectional antiracist holding signs and marching every week. abolitionism, marronage, transnationalism, policies. They have been, and remain, 4. Alec Baldwin is great again. Everyone's forgotten he's Douglass was. feminism, labor organizing, fugitivity, and Their attempts to remake a whole political order have much in common with venues for necessary fights – both to kind of a jerk. 18. Melissa FREAKING McCarthy. other forms of communal struggle. defend existing rights and win new ones. the neo-Confederates who overthrew 5. The Postal Service is enjoying the influx of cash due to 19. Travel ban protesters put $24 million into ACLU Black History Month occasions a return Reconstruction and the neoconservatives Yet such fights are not calls to return to stamps purchased by millions of people for letter and coffers in just 48 hours, enabling them to hire 200 more to how Black radicalism conceptualizes inaugurated with Ronald Reagan’s the past, to “restore faith” in traditional postcard campaigns. attorneys. Lawyers are now heroes. the issue of power. A diasporic political administration who undermined the gains institutions, as we so often hear amidst 6. Likewise, the pharmaceutical industry is enjoying record tradition built over centuries, the Black of the Civil Rights Movement. Trumpist attacks on the media, the 20. As people seek veracity in their news sources, respected radical tradition resists simplistic notions growth in sales of anti-depressants. news outlets are happily reporting a substantial increase They stand in a long line of white judiciary, and other normative branches of what power is and how it operates. in subscriptions, a boon to a struggling industry vital to supremacist reaction. And like their of liberal democracy. Rather, political 7. Millions of Americans now know how to call their elected our democracy. It has displayed a concurrent attention to predecessors, they will not be swayed battles are most effective when pointing officials and know exactly what to say to be effective. strength on the bottom and to weakness by moral outrage alone. Michelle to the world what could be rather than the 8. Footage of town hall meetings is now entertaining. 21. Live streaming court cases and congressional sessions from above. Here I want to complement world that was (but wasn’t really). Obama’s pithy, moralizing call to “go 9. Tens of millions of people are now correctly spelling are now as popular as the Kardashians. the efforts of contemporary organizations high” in response to Trumpist attacks Recognize differences, build allianc- words like emoluments, narcissist, fascist, misogynist, such as BYP100, the Black Alliance for 22. Massive cleanup of facebook friend lists. fails to grasp that the powerful do not es. “[E]verybody left of [Ronald] Reagan holocaust and cognitive dissonance. Just Immigration, the Dream Defenders, go quietly into the good night. Writer ain’t left,” former Black Panther Kuwasi 23. People are reading classic literature again. Sales of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and and organizer Mariame Kaba offered an Balagoon wrote in a letter from prison in 10. Everyone knows more about the rise of Hitler than they George Orwell's "1984" increased by 10,000 percent the Movement for Black Lives by anchoring alternate approach that concretized the 1983. Witnessing an earlier moment of did last year. after the inauguration. (Yes, that is true. 10,000 some of their historical forerunners. insights of the Black radical tradition. right-wing attempts to consolidate power 11. Everyone knows more about legislation, branches of percent. 9th grade Lit teachers all over the country are To that end, I present seven maxims She tweeted the following advice: “when from the vantage point of a prison cell serv- power and how checks and balances work. now rock stars.) they go low, you f***ing punch them in of power as a useful but by no means ing a life sentence for his revolutionary ac- 24. More than ever before, Americans are aware that the neck so they know you mean business. tivities, Balagoon insisted that the left need- 12. Marginalized groups are experiencing a surge in white comprehensive list for thinking about allies. education is important. Like, super important. the revanchist assaults now underway This is about power not affect.” ed to be constituted on bedrock principles of anticapitalism and antiracism. 13. White people in record numbers have just learned that 25. Now, more than anytime in history, everyone believes by the Trump administration as well as Authoritarian regimes run on violence, D the historic opposition movements now justified by lies. “Those who commit “Just because someone doesn’t want some racism is not dead. that anyone can be President. Seriously, anyone. gathering force nationwide. the murders write the reports,” Ida B. fool in Washington to blow the world to page 16, Iguana, March 2017 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org March 2017, Iguana page 17 From RESISTANCE, p. 17 GRACE houses 300th person fear that can accompany confronting powerful, oppressive regimes. Rather, Editors’ picks: by Jon DeCarmine she recognized that fear ought not to be a Julie and Art moved out of GRACE and into a place of their barrier to action. Lorde does not proscribe news that didn’t fit own last week. Tonight, they can cook a meal together. what that action should be, and I won’t D The First 100 Days Resistance Agenda by Robert They’re out of the cold (or the heat). They can plug in their deign to declare it either. Reich, Common Dreams phones without worrying about someone stealing them. And People’s capacity for risk varies widely We’re responding to Trump’s First 100 Day agenda there’s a door they can lock behind them. Tonight, they can – so does their involuntary exposure to with our own 100 days of resistance . Robert gives us 12 celebrate all of the little things we take for granted when it. The point here is not that one needs to suggestions . we’re used to having a home. take the most risky action imaginable in http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/06/first- We’re celebrating Julie and Art because they are the 300th all moments, at all costs. Rather, Lorde 100-days-resistance-agenda and 301st person housed by GRACE since we opened. It took asks us to not be cowed by fear. Acting, D “The Resistance Calendar” launched by Michael us about a year to house our first 100, and another year to in whatever capacity, with political clar- Moore house the next 100. This time it only took us 8 months to ity and collective purpose can itself be a A calendar updated daily where folks can find out what house the next 100. source of sustenance. anti-Trump actions are taking place where you live . Just Each of these successes is a story of GRACE, but more than Fear is real and understandable in the type in your city or state in the search bar, or type in the that, it’s a story of personal struggle, setback, and resilience. face of criminalization and other terri- date and see what actions are planned that day . Or add We provide the place to safely crash land, but each of these fying forms of structural violence. One your own anti-Trump event . stories starts and ends with the challenges people have to should not deny that fear. Yet we need https://www.resistancecalendar.org/ overcome, and the creativity and resourcefulness they stitch together to make it work. not be defined by it. D “The Answer to Trump” by Tamim Ansary Vision inspires people more than fear. Or, A discussion about our need for a unifying vision to Please get in touch with us to volunteer and help us get to #400 even faster: [email protected] or 352- as writer Toni Cade Bambara put it, the deal with our country currently sliding toward fascism . D task is “to make revolution irresistible.” Includes a shoutout to an old “Twilight Zone” episode . 792-0800 x104. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Partial as it is, this genealogy does not entry/58a611bbe4b026a89a7a284e provide a strategy for making sense of such a chaotic and uncertain time. Rather, D Listening to Trump by Christian Parenti it illustrates an orientation for how to ap- What did millions of voters see in Trump? His speeches proach it. It offers a way to cut through hold the answer . President Trump will propose raising military spending by $54 billion — a nearly the mire of half-theories and knee-jerk re- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/trump-speeches- 10 percent increase — and cutting spending for vital government programs . That’s actions, the confusion and demoralization populism-war-economics-election/ unacceptable . The United States spends $604 .5 billion on defense, more than the next that accompany authoritarian regimes. D Tracking Congress in the Age of Trump by Aaron 12 nations combined . Meanwhile, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty, we are It is, to be sure, but a starting point in the Bycoffe the only major country that does not offer any type of paid leave, 28 million Americans long struggles ahead. As a framework, a How much do your senators and representatives vote with have no health insurance and our infrastructure is crumbling . We should be investing in North Star, these lessons – and the larger Trump? Find out here . This excellent work is useful for all our people, not spending more money on the military industrial complex . Black radical tradition from which they the new, rightfully pissed off citizen activists . – From U .S . Senator Bernie Sanders's Facebook page are culled – suggest that the fight against https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/ Trumpism has to be a fight for Black D No Time to Despair by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor WE’VE MOVED! futures. 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But they were widely separated all the brothers and so forth, I knew about discovering who we are. by three or four yards between each one. Frederick Douglass. Lawrence Goodwyn [G], eyewitness on. I spent three or four days with Bevel supremacist state policy that rivaled O: Was the rebel yell about white author of “Anarchy in St . Augustine” who had his own active movement in Mississippi and Alabama in terms of sheer In between these uniformed officers there I'd always wondered about the authenticity supremacy? in Harper’s Magazine (1965), was himself; he was so creative. tenacity and ruthlessness. St. Augustine came non-uniformed members of the of these accounts about the rebel yell. Most G: Not consciously, but the energy behind it interviewed by Dr . Paul Ortiz [O] in 2011 . was right in the center of all of that. Ancient City Gun Club. And it was obvious accounts were written by Southerners, but was white supremacist in its manifestation. Then on to St. Augustine, and by that Hayling knew it and he was determined that they had been doing some planning, Northern historians would also mention This is the 38th in a series of transcript time it had really heated up. The national It's a white man's country and we are prov- excerpts from the Samuel Proctor Oral that America would know it. neither was surprised by the presence of the high pitched rebel yell. ing that to the world as we charge across press corps was there, it was also in the other. It was almost a positioning of History Program collection at the Mississippi. There was a Danish television They set in motion a series of events It would be many years before we this field. It's a speculation on my part. that succeeded in bringing Florida to troops. The Klan was located between the University of Florida . correspondent with a cameraman who mainstream American people—that My father told me something when I the attention of the world—with the officers, it would be: officer, two or three Transcript edited by Pierce Butler . waded into the Atlantic where they had is, not historians, just readers—could was fourteen years old and he caught me cooperation of the Klan, which had a Klansmen, officer, two or three Klansmen, learn one of every eight soldiers on the activities, integrating the beaches and so reading a book by a famous Southern O: I wouldn't expect you to completely formal presence in the city with a name: all the way down the block. Richmond-Petersburg line in 1864 and forth. Much hilarity about integrating the historian named Douglas Southall separate your life as a historian from the Ancient City Gun Club. Most of them And here they came, they had banners. the spring of 1865 when the Confederate Atlantic Ocean, and whether is was big Freeman. He said, let me tell you your experiences in St. Augustine. But were deputized as deputy sheriffs of that These were, now, in the summer of 1964, line finally broke —that one out of every enough to take two races at the same time something, boy. Southerners do the things those experiences are really critical, county. Everywhere the Klan went, the veteran civil rights organizers. They have eight persons in the Union army was without crumbling into anarchy and chaos. they do because they don't know any because in Florida today, what people cameras went. Everywhere the movement been there before, they have an entirely black. At the time of the war itself, the better. You understand that? know about the Civil Rights Movement went, the cameras went. These were internalized non-violent philosophy, learned South recruited in the name of states’ is almost nothing. And what the city of willing warriors on both sides. from Dr. King. He is not there that day; this rights, although every now and then it And the only answer to that question in St. Augustine has done to the history Now, this takes place fifteen years before march is led by Abernathy—I believe it was was in the name of preserving slavery. my father's presence was yes, sir. I had no of the Civil Rights Movement is to idea what he was talking about. He knew I get a Ph.D. in history. This is Lawrence Abernathy, it could've been C.T. Vivian. So, I cannot testify that I ever had any completely suppress it. You were there I had no idea and he wanted to fix me in Goodwyn, investigative journalist, civil It was palpably evident that all hell was particular interest in the rebel yell until I in [19]64. Can you talk about that? error, so that when I grew up a little bit rights activist. This is not Lawrence gonna break loose sometime. About the thought I just might have heard it myself. and knew more than I knew at the age of G: I made a tour through the South in Goodwyn, gatherer of historical evidence. time they got in front of me, it became And then wondered, what does it mean fourteen, I might remember. ’64 and the first stop was Mississippi I'm more skeptical of certain kinds apparently evident to the Klansmen that that I don't know and that I'm asking these Delta, which was undergoing Mississippi of sources than of other kinds. I have if they didn't move now, these people questions of it later? See http://oral.history.ufl.edu/files/Nov- Freedom Summer. 2013-AAHP-177-Lawrence-Goodwyn- profound skepticism of white America's were getting too far past them and all of I said, my god, listen to this. Is this rebel edits .pdf for the full transcript of this They'd had what they call the Freedom understanding of their own beliefs, a sudden they just rushed the movement. yell? It just hit me. Three seconds before interview . Vote in ’63, in which they were trying including their own retrospective beliefs The scene disintegrated in mayhem that happened I was watching impending to teach people who had never had the on that era and their non-beliefs. None and people began running. They were doom about to occur. The Civil Society The Samuel Proctor Oral History experience of voting how to do that. And of those things were in my mind at the chased by the Klan and I just saw fleeing in St. Augustine, Florida coming down Program believes that listening in ’64 they were going beyond that. It time. I knew Dr. King, I knew Abernathy, demonstrators and chasing Klansmen. the road; I was anxiety-ridden, worried, carefully to first-person narratives can was an active insurgency on the party of I knew field secretaries of the Southern Then I heard this eerie yell, a loud yell, intense, attentive, but not thinking I was change the way we understand history, black people in Mississippi Delta even to Christian Leadership Conference, just as this huge roar, which, it just struck me watching a Civil War. I was watching from scholarly questions to public I've written an article that was published have classes on how to vote. It drew a lot I knew SNCC field secretaries. that, my god, I think this is the rebel yell. political conflict at its most vivid that I'd policy . SPOHP needs the public’s help in Harper’s magazine in April of 1965, of attention in the nation. They recruited My father was in the United States army; ever seen. And all of a sudden the scene to sustain and build upon its research, I think it's April 30. The leader of the I was present in the organizing of nine hundred people not from Mississippi, I myself was born on a cavalry post disintegrates, people go in all directions. teaching, and service missions: even movement in St. Augustine was a man this march in the black sectors of a from college campuses, white schools, in Arizona, Fort Huachuca. So I had I hear this sound and it occurs to me, small donations can make a big named Hayling. He was a dentist and an segregated Southern city where I spent black schools, all kinds of schools. grown up as an Army brat in a military my god, is that the rebel yell? What it difference in SPOHP’s ability to gather, impressive man. He was active because the night before the march. I had touched environment. I read about the Civil War, meant to me was, I had a new way to preserve, and promote history for Now we present the North with a he was ready to be free himself and for all base with city authorities: the business I knew about the Army of Northern think about the American Civil War. One future generations . D different problem, which was that these the people of St. Augustine to be free. And community of St. Augustine was not were not faceless people who were in he persuaded Dr. King and Abernathy and monolithic in its response to the Civil jail, these were their sons and daughters. Andy Young and the brothers and sisters Rights Movement. It appeared to be people with and without health insurance. The SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating to come to St. Augustine. monolithic because those who wanted to clinic primarily serves residents of Alachua, Committee] was the pivotal civil rights do things did them and others—and that Iguana Directory Bradford and Union Counties. The Clinic fulfills They generated a movement around the was most people—didn't act. its mission with the help of a broad-based core of organization behind Freedom Summer. slave auction site, it’s now a historic site. Call 352-378-5655 or email [email protected] with updates and additions volunteer physicians, nurses, dentists, hygienists, CORE, another urban-based organization There was this National States’ Rights So on this day, toward twilight, here pharmacists and counselors. Located at 23320 N. in the North, was also a participant. Party with a man named Stoner. Anyway, comes the Civil Rights Movement. I was Readers: If there is inaccurate information in this civil rights, environmental and labor movements. State Rd 235 Brooker, Florida 32622 352-485-1133 Certain members of the NAACP also list, please let us know . 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