Issue #114, January 11 – 31, 2008 the indypendentA FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE THIS GAME primary IS RIggED coverage begins, p6 RUSTY ZIMMERMAN Bike Stories darfur without hollywood’s p3 Celebrities new Cold War p8 Remembering Fantasy Brad Will, p6 p13 nyc.indymedia.org • indypendent.org • us.indymedia.org community calendar Please send event announcements to [email protected]. JANUARY The next editorial meeting for The Indypendent is Tuesday, Jan.15, 7 pm, at 4 West 43rd St, Suite 311. All are welcome. FRI JAN 11 screening of a short film. 12:30pm • Free Bluestockings, 172 Allen St ACTION: INTERNATIONAL DAY TO 212-777-6028 • bluestockings.com SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO. NY: Foley Sq near 26 Federal Plaza. SAT JAN 19 Sponsored by Witness Against Torture’s 6pm • Free Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo. MEETING: “PERMANENT REVOLU- DC: Actions at the Mall and Supreme TION & WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION” new york city Court sponsored by Amnesty Int’l and Discussion of Marxist Feminist manifesto the National Religious Campaign Against by Murry Weiss. Sponsored by Freedom independent Torture. nyrcat.org • witnesstorture.org Socialist Party. MEDIA center Freedom Hall, 113 W 128th St SAT JAN 12 212-222-0633 • socialism.com 8-10:30pm • $12 general/$9 members MUSIC: PEOPLE’S VOICE CAFE with MON JAN 21 Photo: Frank Reynoso E-mail Tony Bird. 11am-5pm • Free [email protected] The Workmen’s Circle, 45 E 33rd St MARCH: MLK DAY MARCH AGAINST Tue Jan 22 WEB 212-787-3903 • peoplesvoicecafe.org WAGE SLAVERY. Combination initiative 7pm • Free to urge Starbucks to give holiday pay on indypendent.org NEW York City Independent media center Open House! MLK day. Sponsored by IWW. NYC: nyc.indymedia.org SUN JAN 13 Is your New Year’s resolution to make media? Come learn more about three current 3pm • Free Meet at Wild Edibles, 2151 Borden Ave, U.S.: us.indymedia.org New York City Indymedia projects, including The Indypendent newspaper collective, SERVICE: “LET MY PEOPLE GO.” LIC Qns • Billy: 646-645-6284 the children’s newspaper IndyKids and the revived video working group. Watch The GLOBAL: indymedia.org Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Stephanie: 201-787-6035 Indypendent, a short documentary, meet volunteers and learn how to get involved! MaiL official U.S. ban on slavery, with actors, 4 West 43rd St. (btw Fifth and Sixth Aves.), Suite 311. P.O. Box 1417 dancers, musicians and a mass choir. TUE JAN 22 NY, NY 10276 Followed by multimedia display, even- 7pm • $5 suggested phone song and refreshments. SCREENING: “APAGA Y VAMONOS” On west side of Union Sq Park, 16th St & SLIDE SHOW & DISCUSSION: The 212-221-0521 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, A documentary by Manel Mayol on a Broadway • grannypeacebrigade.org human face of Iran, Part II. Refresh- 1047 Amsterdam Ave • 212-316-7490 Chilean river that was dammed to create ments. All Souls Church, Reidy Friendship [email protected] hydroelectricity, an act of genocide in an 1-3pm • Free Hall, 1157 Lexington Ave (at E 80th St) What is Indymedia? increasingly globalized world. ACTION: COUNTER RECRUITMENT allsoulsnyc.org With autonomous chapters in more than 150 THU JAN 17 Bluestockings, 172 Allen St with speakers, tabling and literature cities throughout the world, the Independent 9:30am • Free 212-777-6028 • bluestockings.com for students. U.S. Military Recruiting MON JAN 28 Media Center (IMC) is an international net- COURT SUPPORT: Trial begins for some Station, 76 W 125th ( btw Lenox & 5th 7pm • Free work of volunteer media activists. arrested at UN/Dag Hammarskjold Plaza WED JAN 23-TUE JAN 29 Ave) • [email protected] RALLY: TO SUPPORT LYNNE STEWART The IMC seeks to create a new media “Arrest Bush” protest. 1:15, 3:15, 6, 8, 10pm • $10.50 in her appeal. With Lynne Stewart, Ward ethic by providing progressive, in-depth Criminal Court building, 100 Centre St FILM: “DOC” directed by Immy Humes SAT JAN 26 Churchill and others. St Mary’s Episcopal and accurate coverage of issues. We are about Harold L. Humes (aka Doc Humes). WORLD SOCIAL FORUM DAY OF Church, 521 W 126th St a community-based organization using FRI & SAT JAN 18 & 19 Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster ACTION. Events worldwide organized [email protected] media to facilitate political and cultural 8pm • $10/$15/$25 sliding scale and others recall this brilliant man. autonomously by participants. self-representation. We seek to analyze PERFORMANCE: BENEFIT SHOWING Film Forum, 209 W Houston St wsf2008.net THU JAN 31 issues affecting individuals, communities OF HOWARD ZINN’S “MARX IN SOHO.” 212-727-8110 • filmforum.org 6:30pm • Free and ecosystems by providing media tools Brecht Forum, 451 West St 1pm-3pm TALK: “ABOLITION OF THE STATE: and space to those seeking to communicate. 212-242-4201 • brechtforum.org THU JAN 24 SKILLSHARE: IMMUNE-BOOSTING & ANARCHIST & MARXIST PERSPEC- We espouse open dialogue and placing the 12-1:30pm • Free WINTER HEALTHCARE. Sponsored by TIVES.” With Wayne Price, sponsored means of communication and creativity back FRI JAN 18 ACTION: ANTIWAR PHONE-A-THON. the Rock Dove Collective. by the NYMAA Reading Group. in the hands of the people, away from the 7pm • $5 suggested Recruit pedestrians to leave Congress RSVP: [email protected] Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow St drive of profit. DISCUSSION: “ORGANIZING WOBBLY members voicemail messages against nchomsky.meetup.com/105 The Indypendent is funded by benefits, UNIONS” with historian Peter Cole. the war using shared cell phones. SUN JAN 27 subscriptions, donations, grants and ads from Also with New York’s Wobblies and a Sponsored by Granny Peace Brigade. 1pm • Free Next Issue February 1. organizations and individuals with similar missions. WHAT can I do to get involved? reader comments The IMC has an open door. You can write and distribute for The Indypendent, videotape events and rallies, update the website, self- democratic if you are a Palestin- BEHIND THE NAME CALLING BRAVE OYLMPIANS publish articles to the web, take photos or just ian. Not very democratic if you Responses to “Bodies on the I was extremely moved by the help us run the office. As an organization re- are GLBT (see Gay Pride coun- Line: Hundreds Delay Military courage and commitment of lying on volunteer support, we encourage all ter protests in Jerusalem). This Shipments in Olympia,” Dec. 8 the demonstrators. Night after forms of participation. list continues and stops at Jew- night, the mostly young pro- The print team reserves the right to edit arti- ish Israeli citizens who do not Ever notice that whenever any- testors endured the cold and cles for length, content and clarity. We welcome oppose the Israeli government’s one protests a war they are first lack of sleep, bruises from bil- your participation in the editorial process. every move. given labels (i.e., liberal, leftist, ly clubs and burning eyes and Those who offer knee-jerk communist, anarchist, or what- skin from chemical weapons VOLUNTEER staff: excuses for the Israeli govern- ever they feel might stick in the to stand up for what they be- Sam Alcoff, Nicholas Allanach, Chris ment’s transgressions and crimes mind of an uneducated reader) lieved in. I am as well. Thanks Anderson, Steven Arnerich, Eleanor J. often do not address them in and then accused of doing some- to the brave Olympia people- Bader, Kazembe Balagun, Charlie Bass, substance. They offer emotional thing unpatriotic, typically not in of-conscious. Bennett J. Baumer, Lani Bouwer, Jed Brandt, appeals and mealy mouthed pro- evidence (e.g., “blocking life sav- —CitiZEN Mike Burke, José Carmona, Kepfram Cauley, nouncements about how Israel’s ing supplies” when it is non-fac- Matt Cavanaugh, Rahul Chadha, Susan neighbors are not democratic but tual — life saving supplies would Continued on Page 15 Chenelle, Ellen Davidson, Ryan Dunsmuir, their inch-deep analysis does not be critical items, and all critical Jeff Faerber, Renee Feltz, Leo Garcia, Anna bother to mention how many of items are airlifted, not shipped by Gold, Samantha Gorelick, Liana Grey, A.K. those regimes are propped up by sea half-way around the globe.) Gupta, Mary Heglar, Irina Ivanova, Alex Kane, Ruth Kelton, Jessica Lee, Jennifer the American government (Saudi Typically, these same people, if Lew, Samantha Lewis, Gary Martin, Ari BLOCKING PEACE Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan come not simply in knee-jerk mode born Join the dialogue! Email Response to “Israeli Democracy: to mind, not to mention Iraq). of belief in the onslaught of Me- Moore, Nik Moore, Ana Nogueira, Donald [email protected], THE INDYPENDENT Paneth, Cat Perry, Louis Peterson, Nicholas Arabs Need Not Apply,” Dec. 8 Though many of the ultra- dia-Industrial-Intelligence-Mili- Powers, Frank Reynoso, Jeremy Scahill, Ann Orthodox are certainly barri- tary Complex propaganda, are write to Indypendent Editors, I think Ellen Davidson’s critique ers to peace, I wonder what the often well-to-do folks who can af- Schneider, Andrew Stern, Caroline Sykora, P.O. Box 1417, NY, NY 10276 Gabriella Szpunt, John Tarleton, Xavier of Israel’s democracy is spot on writer Davidson feels are the ford things like stock investments Tayo, Erin Thompson, Dana Vindigni, Eric and is an issue that does not greatest barriers to any peace in oil companies, Carlyle Groups, or submit your comments Volpe, Steven Wishnia, Amy Wolf and Rusty get brought up much in discus- settlement, if that is even pos- drug companies, and other Dick online at indypendent.org. Zimmerman. sions. Just how democratic is sible at this moment. Cheney-Bush-Laden enterprises. Israel’s government? Not very —ANONYMOUS —H. MichAel SWeeNEY JANUARy 11 – 31, 2008 JANUARy 2 local A Silent Roadside Reminder tenants’ voice By Andalusia Knoll hen Kevin Kaplicki stumbled upon the crash scene of Liz Padilla, a 29- Wyear-old lawyer, who was killed while biking on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn BEAT ThE DEEp FrEEzE Park Slope, he decided that something s temperatures plunge, many New needed to be done to acknowledge New York City tenants will break out their York City cyclist fatalities.