Torch, 1990

Alright, so I’m never going to see most of you again,
so while we’re here tonight let’s share something. I
don’t know what that is going to be. I’m going to make
it up as I go along. I decided what I want on my
tombstone, which is a little premature, but you know
how serious funerals and cemeteries are. I’m putting
this in my will. What I want engraved on my tomb-
stone is, “Having a wonderful time, wish you were
here.”

Listen, do you ever think about thinking? I often
think about thinking because I don’t know how that
works. I mean, right now I’m talking faster than I’m
really thinking which can always be dangerous. But I
don’t know where thinking comes from.

Do you know where thoughts come from? I mean,
what do you know more intimately than your
thoughts? Right now, you are thinking, “What the
hell is he talking about?” I have absolutely no idea.
Have you ever noticed that when you say it’s Now,
it’s not Now anymore? Watch. I’m going to count to
three and at this moment of three, this is the exact
moment of Now. 1, 2, 3, this is Now! No, this is not
Now. Because Now is Now. The minute you say it’s
Now, it’s no longer Now anymore. Gertrude Stein
said, referring to Oakland, California, that when you
get there, there is no there, there. And when you say
Now, it’s not Now anymore. It’s very peculiar... I
find being alive very peculiar. I’m 58 and in about
another 25 years, I’m going to be the hell out of here. I
don’t know what any of this place is, I have no idea
who is talking. Right now my bladder is filling up...

I mean it’s all about awareness and consciousness
and I find this whole situation very, very peculiar.
When I was born it was Now and when I’m going to
die it’s Now and now that I am talking it’s Now, but
I’m not quite sure who this is. I used to work for Life
magazine and I would find myself on a subway,
knowing that I had dressed, knowing that I had peed,
knowing that I had shaved and not remembering
having done any of it. On Monday I would look
forward to Friday. At 9 o’clock I would look forward
to 5 o’clock. In June I would look forward to January.
Anyway, I find myself in a situation and I don’t know
what the situation is. Do you know there are a billion
stars in this galaxy and that there are a billion
galaxies? I find that to be quite extraordinary. What
we don’t teach our children, what we don’t teach
ourselves, or remind ourselves of, is that we are
extraordinary creatures. Buckminster Fuller said, “I
seem to be an event.” We are an event in Time—
before this moment of Now that doesn’t exist when I
say it is Now. Oh, I should warn you, for any of those
people that have a problem with this ... I am the
dreaded secular humanist you’ve heard so much
about in your churches. So, if you have a problem
with that, I think well ... at least be aware of it,
anyway. See, my value to you is not to tell you what
you already know, my value to you. is to say some-
thing you really hate. I mean, that’s the only way you
really grow, you encounter ideas you really hate and
then you learn...



Let me put it this way. Every-
thing is a matter of truth. Women
have always been defined by men
and women have been told when
to vote, how to vote, if they could
have a baby, if they couldn’t have
a baby, what kind of clothes to
wear, how to cook, and what they
were good for. And now that wo-
men are redefining themselves in
terms of their truth, men are very
nervous and women’s truth is not
men’s truth. Black people have
always been defined by White
people and they have been told
they were stupid and smelly and
only good for basketball or what-
ever. All those terrible things.
And now that Black people are
redefining themselves in terms of
their own truths, White people
are nervous and Black truth is not
White truth. Gay people have al-
ways been defined by straight
people and have always been told
they’re sick and unnatural. And
now that gay people are redefin-
ing themselves in terms of their
own truths, straight people are
very nervous. The truth of the
matter is the Universe comes not
in one color, white, in one size,
regular. The great joy of the Uni-

verse is that it comes in 7,000 -

variations. There are 7,000 kinds
of beetles, they don’t make one
kind of beetle, a “right” one and a
“wrong” one. There are 25,000
kinds of butterflies. Revelon
makes 200 kinds of pink lipsticks
and yet we think everyone
should look like us, think like us,
feel like us and act like us, and if
they don’t in the name of God,
we, are going to kill them. And
the great wonder of the Universe
is this imagination and abun-
dance and variation and joy... I
wish we taught kids that in
school. I wish we taught kids joy
and amazement. We are not
amazed. When Coctau was a
young man, he went to work with
DeAgalef to collaborate on a bal-
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want to be astounded. I only have
25 years left. I’m an astounding
creature, this energy that I am,
the energy that you are, will nev-
er be duplicated ever again in the
history of time, so in the 60 or 70
years we have here, which in

cosmic time is not even a fart, it’s
so amazing. And we don’t even
realize how amazing it is.

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amazing thing I could possibly
think of. It all depends on you.
The buck doesn’t stop with you, it
begins with you and if you don’t
believe something is true, it will
never happen. And you define
the Universe and you define your
experience totally in terms of
your own imagination ... And
don’t wait for somebody to tell
you it’s O.K. because it’s going to
be over before you can say it’s
over. So here we are on this plan-
et. Right now. Right now, there
are a million people dying, right
now, somebody just died, some-
body was born, right now, right
now! We don’t see it. We don’t see
it at all. What we do see is what
we are conditioned to see, what
we've been told it’s O.K. to see,
and we confine ourselves to those
definitions. As people, we are ei-
ther defined by the culture, or we
redefine the culture. And that is
our gift and our choice and our
opportunity. And the Universe
doesn’t care. The world does not
know we are here. Trees don’t
know we are here, the sun
doesn’t know we are here. And
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ical creatures. This is our chance
in time and space and we blow it!
We absolutely blow it! I believe in
the imagination, in the possi-
bilities... the glass is always half-
full for me, never half-empty.
And you have to love enough and
you have to give enough care
because that’s all there is and if
you want your life to be some-
thing, you have to be what you
want it to be. If you want it to be
full of love, you have to bea lover.
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forty, and maybe even before then.”
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How do I begin? First of all, let me start off by saying that I’ve been out for
about four months now, so you're going to get a “fresh” perspective. Anyway
what’s it like. “Heaven and hell” is the best description I can give you ...

How would you like to be stared at almost every passing minute of your life
when you’re out in public? At least that’s what it’s like for me. I’ve got the
stereotypical look — short hair, no makeup, comfortable clothing, and I’m an
athlete. So I get the stares, especially when I’m in a conservative area.

I don’t always get pegged. Some are curious you now. It’s the others that
annoy the hell out of me. The ignorant ones who whisper to friends and point
you out, right in front of you. I generally stare back at them, let them know I’m
aware of them and that I’m not ashamed of who! am. Curiosity is what most
gay people can deal with. It’s ignorance that kills us sometimes literally.

It’s not easy to watch or hear of people being beaten to death because of
their sexual orientation. Sometimes I’m afraid to go to secluded areas
outdoors with my girlfriend because I feel someone is watching us, someone
hates us. I don’t like to think what could possibly happen ... I’m afraid of
rejection from my mother and father, and the few friends I haven’t told yet.
I’m constantly on guard, making sure I don’t slip and inadvertently drop too
many hints in front of the wrong people, those who may act out their hatred.

Can you imagine I mean, one minute someone may thing you’re the
greatest person in the world. The next minute, they’ve got a gun to your head
when they find out you are gay. Thousands of us have died because of gay
bashing. I haven’t had any friends who were victims of this and I hope to God I
never will.

Now on the brighter side ... The unity, the bonding, especially among
women. Coming from an oppressed group, well, when you finally choose to
deal with the situation, there’s this sense of inner strength because you know
you re overcoming this great obstacle. And believe me, it’s very empowering.

I now see the reality, the absolute chaos, and hypocrisy in society and I’m
glad that my coming out to some family members and some friends has given
me that perspective. I like who I am. I’m comfortable with myself. I’m
probably getting more out of life than a lot of heterosexuals. The only ups
there are, are the ones we create for ourselves. Anyone can lead a miserable
life if that person chooses to, gay or “straight.”

Of course people still insist on straights having more ups than gay people
and these “ups” usually turn out to be “rights and privileges.” There wouldn’t
be a problem if the straight community treated us as equals.

People don’t understand. They’ve been conditioned to believe homosex-
uality is abnormal. Let me tell you something, if people didn’t know my
(sexual, emotional and psychological) orientation towards women, I would be
treated as any “normal” person would. Think of it that way. I’m kind at heart,
extremely generous, and I go out of my way to do favors for friends and
strangers. I really don’t mind saying that I’m a hell of a lot nicer than the
average American. Like I said, think of it that way. The only thing different
about me is that I’m a lesbian.

Why is anyone gay or straight? Why does it matter? If you are a decent
human being with consideration and respect for others, why should anything
matter?

There was a guy and lesbian march in Albany in April, with bisexuals, too.
It was great! Thousands of us marching in the streets of Albany. I wore my
SUNY Albany GALA T-Shirt. I felt pretty confident during the march but a
little self conscious when I got on the bus. But it was fantastic. I saw this
middle-aged women in her housedress outside her apartment, walking back
and forth in agony, hands clasped over her ears as we were shouting for
equality. If only she could deal with it.

Sometimes I get headaches just thinking about the future as a lesbian. I get
touchy, over sensitive, downright hostile at times. I try to keep a sense of
humor. It’s necessary in order to maintain sanity, you know ...

Feminism can be a very sensitive topic because so much is misunderstood
about it, the stereotype that all feminists are lesbians and vice versa and that
they are totally devoid of a sense of humor. They don’t lack a sense of humor,
they see the reality of the world and how mixed up our values in society are.
You see, being a lesbian you sometimes automatically think in a feminist
mode without realizing it. Your life centers around women’s issues. You are
more concerned about the world around you and how patriarchal and
prejudiced it is. You are simply more aware in general because you are one of
the oppressed and a member of at least two minorities you’re a woman and a
lesbian ...

As a whole we are unified, sometimes torn. People forget there are

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divisions within the gay community, as in every community — being of color,
being Jewish or Catholic, young or old, physically or mentally challenged —
the list goes on. Each group has some other discrimination to face on top of
being gay. It’s difficulty to come sometimes. It can be impossible for others, so
some choose not to come out. No wonder so many gays and lesbians seem
angry at the world. There’s a reason, you're being told constantly reminded,
that gay is ugly, abnormal freakish. So what do you do?

I think about a lot of things — whether or not I’m going to lose 15 pounds
during the summer, if I’m going to graduate on time, getting a solid GPA,
paying off bills, whether or not I'll get my driver's license so I can drive my car
that I’ve had for two years already. I don’t see myself living my life as a lesbian.
I just hope that Iam happy and healthy. Rich would be nice too. I want to be
able to be myself — sarcastic, humorous, considerate, hard working, athletic,
serious and a dyke too, can’t forget that ...

Aids is a disease that is killing everyone gay or straight. Not enough is being
done. I mean, the Reagan administration didn’t do a damn thing until the
Rock Hudson incident. Our government’s funding and views aren’t going to
change unless the people’s views change, and that’s the problem. How to
make everyone see aids for what it really is. Aids doesn’t discriminate, people
do. Most think immediately that it’s a gay-related disease, but what a sudden
change of heart there is when someone finds out their brother or sister has it.

At the rate society is moving today, the full impact of aids won’t hit
everyone until half the population dies out. And to think, if everyone helped
even a little, how many lives would be saved. What are they waiting for?
People are dying everywhere and every other person turns a cold shoulder.
Maybe we’re forgetting that people are dying, not numbers. Lets look at the
human aspect, not the statistics. Don’t think that “x” amount of people died
from aids. Think of the names and the loved ones left behind the potential of
life and living destroyed by a disease no one things twice about.

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Each year, the arrival of a new yearbook is a time of
great happiness, a time marked by an outpouring of
warmth and goodwill towards one’s fellow man, a cher-
ished moment to be shared with one’s peers and loved
ones, reflecting upon the truly momentous events of the
year past...

Last year, however, the festivities of this special occa-
sion were marred by ugly allegations that the yearbook
was one-sided and more shockingly, inadequate in its
coverage of sports and fraternities. The main thrust of
this criticism, however, was that it failed to “reflect the
experiences of the typical SUNYA student.”

Tensions ran high. President O’Leary was overheard
categorizing the yearbook “a disaster.” Editor Micheal
Ackerman took to drinking heavily, and in one partic-
ularly drastic turn of events, S.A. Vice President, Paul
Faulhaber, threatened to publicly remove his own trou-
sers in symbolic protest.

Devastated, but unwilling to further sully the Torch’s
good name in a public counter-protest, members of the
photoservice staff gathered quietly in the Torch office
where they held a private vigil, and got good and loaded.
This gathering, incidentally, is also noteworthy as being
the first, in recent SUNYA history, at which George
Roseamund, resident communist agitator, did not makea
speech.

Late into this historic evening, one photoservice mem-
ber, in a state of mind alteration, from which some
believe he has not yet recovered, was struck by a vision-
ary idea—nay, a calling—to unearth the subject of this
controversy, to seek out this unsung hero, to embark
upon a quest to find the individual embodying all the fine
qualities of which our University is proud—a figure to be
set upon a pedestal for his or her peers to admire and
emulate, a standard of excellence by which all others
would be judged. So began...

The Search for the Typical SUNYA Student!

With a glad cry, and impaired judgment and motor
coordination, the photoservice staff took up this noble
quest and set out to take the message to the streets. . . And
when the people heard of this, they too were joyous, and
the cries, “Ooh, Ooh, Pick me!” resounded. Many vied for
this illustrious position, yet few were possessed of the
calibre of mediocrity we sought...

ce Dios ty UN ae Here are but a few of the courageous souls we encoun-
“ae bay 5 “m . cee oe ry tered unique-individuals, outstanding in their bravery to
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cal’:

Look on, if you dare...

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Yeah, well we tried

... but there’s 16,000 of you out there and if there’s such a
thing as a “typical student,” finding one is a lot to ask... and
within this tiny sphere we live in, there are many worlds...
... but yeah, we tried, and after conducting extensive
research and demographic surveys, we found our elusive
prey, quite by chance, as he wandered aimlessly about the
S.U.N.Y. campus, drunk as usual, annoying people with his
camera. Our subject turned out to be a 22 year old caucasian
male, approximately 5’9, 150 lbs... he is not believed to be
dangerous, so if you see him, buy him a drink, and tell him
you liked his year book...

The University at Albany

State University of New York

20 photographers
113 rolls of film
32 cups of coffee
4 packs of camel lights
24 hours
History in the making?
No, just another day in the life at Sunya.

At approximately 10:00 PM April 18, 1990.
15 photo service photographers crawled into
the stagnant pit we call our office and pre-
pared ourselves to confront our most grueling
assignment ever — the first annual “day in
the life at SUNYA.” Joined by a crack team of 5
local professionals, we would face a 24 hour
photo marathon, an experiment in sleep de-
privation and journalistic endurance that
would ultimately claim the sanity of more
than one photographer...

From the beginning it was a madhouse —
Jeremy was asleep first, but Jeff snored louder;
Armando sat in a corner, with a bottle of
Thunderbird, while in another Teru sat with
Susan earnestly trying to explain to her why a
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and scarfing heavily on bagels and cream
cheese (we still don’t know where they came
from). We were tired and miserable, but grate-
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In communities all over the country now, people are
up against proposals to build incinerators, they are up
against land fills that are contaminating the drinking
water, they are up against tobacco companies that have
to replace 5,000 customers a day, 4,000 of which stop
smoking everyday, 1,000 of which die from smoking
everyday in the United States. They are up against a
very, very artful, if calous, psychological program to
hook young people, even at age 12 into the smoking
addiction. What do people do about that? What do
people do about corporations who threaten to close
down, lay off workers and go to Singapore, Mexico, or
Taiwan, if the state local institutions don’t give them
the right tax subsidies, in environmental enforcement,
so forth. Of course there are even more infringed
problems to deal with, school systems that don’t teach,
that crush the imagination of young children at the age
in life when they are most curious and most inquisi-
tive. Health care, where people now are increasingly
paying more for health insurance and food. Over 5
million people in this country now are paying more for
health insurance than they are for food, and those
numbers are growing. Increasingly we are seeing a
deterioration in the quality of the economy as the
economists tell us that the gross national product is
growing. Where is it growing, for whom is it growing, to
whom is it growing? Its growing more for the rich and
the powerful and declining in terms of the critical
measurements of economic well being. For instance,
fewer people your age will be able to afford a house,
than the age group represented by your parents.

So we are facing an intense cultural crisis whereas
the legacy of the Reagan/Bush years have been to go
for the gold, to pile up material individual acquisitions,
at the same time the social interest structure is crum-
bling. Across the board, our country has been weak-
ened economically. It is now right for foreign financial
determination over our economic future, it is now right
for selling it via a cheap dollar to foreign investment, in
other words it.is now right to convert the greatest
economy in the world in terms of GNP into an absentee
owned economic system. Exactly what we warned
other countries not to allow, when we spoke in other
lands, telling them to watch out for absentee owner-
ship of your economic status by U.S. and European
multinationals. That is now happening to us via Japa-
nese and Western European multinationals. The reason
why that is not good, is because it further distances the
economic self determination of people from their com-
munity to the region, to the country, and now to
London, Tokyo, Brussels and Munich, etc. It is just the
opposite of local economic self reliance and self deter-
mination. Foreign absentee ownership is not good for
the third world and its not good for the United States.
But it reflects the weakening structure of the Reagan /
Bush policies ... Problems are coming up which de-
mand that we constitute ourselves as a new and bold
culture of civic leadership for the country and for the

world. The history of people throughout the world has
had one consistent theme that in every society prior to
its decline, there were many people who believed it
couldn’t happen there. It couldn’t happen in Rome, it
couldn’t happen in the British Empire, it couldn’t
happen in any of these societies. That’s the precondi-
tion for assuring the society would decline even fur-
ther. When we were lead by Reagan and Bush, two
entrepreneurs in politics who sweep problems under
the rug, who wave the flag and who sing songs of glory,
as they allow further concentration of poverty, further
concentration of power, further concentration of greed

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and speculation in an economy, that has no excuses for
homelessness, for impoverishment, for malnutrition,
for rotting schools, for corruption in governmental
institution, and for the decline of democratic vision,
that we would like to see lead the world. We are not
well lead.

You should never think there is anything but an
endless demand for leadership. We need your talent
and your value systems in all corners of social life,
political economics, education, civic, and other insti-
tutions. The first threshold of awareness is your own
self perception of your own role. You’ve already said to
yourself, yes you count. You’re going to make a differ-
ence, you're not going to go through life saying you
can’t fight city hall or what difference does it make ‘I’m
only one person.’ You are not going to be part of any
group that answers the question ‘what’s the difference
between ignorance and apathy?’ With the roar “we


don’t know and we don’t care.” You have already made
that decision. The next decision is one of perceptual
independence. People grow up at the youngest age
absorbing corporate values. They look at television 25
hours a week and not once do they say the airwaves
belong to the people. The federal communication board
license them to broadcast companies in radio and T.V.
And we are the landlords, the T.V. and radio stations are
the tenants. They pay us no rent, they tell us who can
say what on T.V. and radio 24 hrs. a day and they laugh
all the way to the bank.

The same with food. If you have your own perceptual
independence you go for food that is nutritious, sani-
tary, devoid of harmful additives, and comparatively
priced. That’s the difference between perceptual inde-
pendence on one hand or being indentured to general
foods and crafts, Phillip Mois, R.J. Nabisco, and other
brand name manipulation that goes on in supermarkets
today. Addiction is a big business in this country. Its not
just the drug dealers and the street drugs. The biggest
addictions in this country are tobacco and alcohol. 64
billion dollars spent a year on alcohol, 42 billion dollars
on tobacco and 409,000 lives lost. 309,000 to tobacco
according to the sergeant general, 100,000 to alcohol-
ism. It’s promoted with all kinds of psychological
pleasurable associations, celebrities, former football
stars, in order to make these corporations richer and
their executives even more than that. But it isn’t just
traditional addiction. Look for a moment how corpora-
tions impact children, starting with war toys and war
mentalities, moving on to violent programs. Look at the
T.V. programs that are on Saturday and Sunday morn-
ing and you'll see who is raising the children in this
county. They sell them junk food through the ads in
order for them to nag their parents. The very ads on T.V.
that get the highest encomium on Madison Avenue are
ads that are viewed by the advertising specialists as
having a high nag factor. That is they get their parents
to buy them junk food which predisposes them to
obesity. Never has obesity been greater among young
children as it has in our present generation. Never has
the predisposition to cancer and high blood pressure
been more closely related with a bad diet. Moving into
the teen years you have one after the other, exposure to
tobacco, alcohol, corporate fraud and crime. And so it
goes, the raising of children, McDonalds is feeding the
children, Kindercare is raising the children. What’s left
for the parents, what’s left for the community, what’s
left for civic institutions with this over merchantalized
corporate culture whose only measure of success is the
all mighty profitable dollar no matter what wreckage is
left in the trail. Now we see the agenda for civic
concern and action is full. We have to approach it on
many levels. The first level to approach it is solving
problems in our communities, region, nation, worldisa
central source of human happiness. As you remember,
the phrase ‘the pursuit of happiness.’ That was not a
trivial phrase. That was not an indentation defined

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modernly as watching MTV hour after hour.

There is a concept of time, the world is spinning ata
faster and faster velocity in and off its track, and what
you have got to bring to the adult society from your
fresh view points is a more urgent sense of time.

Too many student activists tend to segregate them-
selves in their own circle. That is, they don’t look at
what they perceive to be their more apathetic or
vocationally minded friends on campus and say we are
going to try to discuss and persuade them that there isa
more important role for them to play in life after they
graduate. We are going to try to raise the estimate of
their significance. We are not simply going to look the
other way while they turn themselves into tiny cogs in
some multinational corporate wheel whose direction is
run by a few managers that they have no access to. And
that’s important for you to do, is to get out there and
bring those who you think are less socially concerned
or socially informed and bring them into a wider frame
of reference so they can see their potential. They can
really see how they can make a difference. There are
students now in 12 countries as we speak who are on
the ramparts risking their lives to over throw tyrants so
they can get a fraction of the freedom that we have in
this country. If we don’t use these freedoms they are
going to disappear as they have. That’s kind of a
political science axiom. If you don’t use your liberties
and freedoms they will slowly loose the historic con-
sciousness and commitment to them by people who no
longer use them, creating a vacuum and you know
power abhors a vacuum as the saying goes and concen-
trated power moves in to take up the place. And we do
have alot of concentrated power in this country. What
is important to focus on is this paradox of democracy
where when you have more freedom and liberty than
you are using you choose not to use either. When you
have an opportunity to take responsibility for the
future of the country as citizens in a democracy you
choose to be otherwise occupied. And those students in
Chile or Albania or the Soviet Union or Bangladesh
who don’t have these freedoms, opportunity, and re-
sponsibilities are begging for them. And while 23% of
college students voted for presidential election in the
U.S. 1988. How many do you think would have voted if
they were allowed free elections in Chile or the Soviet
Union or Paraguay or any of the other countries that
don’t allow it? The paradox of democracy is when you
don’t have these freedoms and responsible people are
willing to die for them and when you have them you
are otherwise too busy to deal with them.

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The year of 1989, to the Chinese students in SUNY Albany, was a soul-stirring year, a year
that had seen our elation, thrill, pain and fury. Stranded half the world away from home
as we were, our heartstrings were touched by every single domestic occurrence. We had
taken pride in the student-led democratic movements in China; we had exploded with
anger at the atrocities committed by the autocrats; we had cried our hearts out for our
brethren killed in cold blood; and we had fretted and fumed over the destiny of our
motherland.

June 4th, 1989, is a day that has been etched in our memory. Guns fired on that day at the
Beijing citizens had not only destroyed many lives, but also stigmatized our beloved
China and traumatized us abroad, leaving in our hearts wounds that would never heal.
We had had a dream, a dream of a free and democratic, a progressive and prosperous,
China, a dream on which we had staked our futures. But the firing of guns had also
shattered this dream. For all we have done — mourning the young dead, demonstrating
against the decrepit living — the open wounds in our hearts had remained agape and our
conscience had not ceased for one moment to groan with pain. Overnight, we had felt
homeless, having been stripped of our past values and future destinations.

We love freedom and democracy. Although their definitions differ and vary, no one with
a conscience could fail to appreciate the values of human progress embedded therein. In
our days of mourning, the people of the whole world, the American people among whom
we had been living in particular, had bestowed on us support, both material and moral.
We were deeply moved and greatly inspired by their sympathy with the Chinese
democratic movements, their respect for the values of freedom, and their condemnation
of violence against human rights. We have come to realize that, in our protracted
struggled for democracy, the whole world will be on our side. Freedom and democracy
alone, the embodiment of human progress regardless of national boundaries, language
barriers, and skin colors, will eventually revive our shattered dream.

We will never forget 1989 and its sanguinary June 4th because no one emerging from it
has remained the same. It has subjected us to the most agonizing pains and has recharted
the future course for most of us.


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I decided to get involved, to learn more about the lives
of these people and about the problem of homelessness.
Throughout my involvement with Albany’s Homeless
Action Committee (HAC) I have met first-hand some of
the people in Albany who live on the streets. For me, their
faces now have personalities and histories. Their lives are
complex, usually sad, and frequently filled with painful
experiences. The segment I have had the most contact
with is that of the homeless alcoholics. Ironically, while
they may be the most visible homeless people, they are
ony a small minority of the homeless population.

I have met Floyd. Floyd is homeless in the true sense of
the word. Because he is an alcoholic and usually drink-
ing, he is not allowed into the shelters. And because he is
strong spirited and occasionally unruly he is banned from
the Alcohol Crisis Center. Floyd is 58 years old. He was
married 30 years and raised two daughters to adulthood.
His marriage failed after his wife could no longer tolerate
Floyd’s drinking. He worked as a cook and fought with
the U.S. Navy in Korea. When he talks to me, he stands
very close and usually holds my hand or shoulder.
Sometimes he stands a little closer than is personally
comfortable for me. Sometimes he gets Excited . and diffi-
cult to deal with. He is very passionate when he speaks.
Tears well in his eyes easily and he pounds his hands
against his chest. As a youth he was a boxer. Sometimes
he will shadow box towards me in jest. But he sadly
admits “my body’s no good anymore.”

In Floyd I have seen a passionate man with pain and
misgivings, a spirit like a mule and a warm heart that
appreciates a kind gesture. I also see a man dying from
alcoholism.

And Ihave met Hershey. Hershey was bright, lively and
friendly. He made me and his buddies laugh. He always
seemed to want to look after things when they got out of

hand. He had two kids being cared for by his sister. He was
so thrilled when he was able to visit them. He shared with
me some of the rough times as well. He was mixed up in
drugs, alcohol, and drug-related crime. He showed me the
scars on his wrists from injections and the scars on his
abdomen from gunshot wounds. He lost a kidney from
one of them. He was proud of having completed a drug
and alcohol rehab al at being elected president of his
group. He bragged that, “Everybody knows my name. lam
Hershey like the candy, and it’s my real name too.” He
made it out of the rehab clean but something brought him
back to the familiar faces on the streets. Can you imagine
leaving for good all the friends you have ever had? To
ene your whole lifestyle? Imagine how hard it would
e.

Hershey came back to the people and the people
brought him back to the lifestyle. So here, the Nife of
alcoholism and homelessness started again. After six
months of living on the streets of Albany, Hershey
drowned in the lake at Washington Park. He was thirty
years old and homeless. He had a lifetime of struggles that
I could never begin to really understand. But I am glad
that I have gotten to know him and the others a little bit.
They have touched my life. And my small efforts to get to
know them seemed to mean a lot to them.

Sometimes as I sit in my apartment, I think of Floyd,
and Brownie, Walter, John, and Paula... Where are they
now? Are they cold, desperate, hungry? They once had
shelter just as I do now. I am graduating and moving on. I
am excited for all the promise that lies a head of me...
Yet, | wonder who among this graduating class will end up
in desperate situations someday? And will our system
have i ee enough to cushion us while we get back on

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HOMELESS FACTS

¢« Homelessness comprises people who
are at risk of losing their home, and
people who double-up with friends
and family members, and people liv-
ing in shelters and on the streets.”

¢ The major cause of homelessness in
the past 10 years is the cuts on the
Federal Housing Budget by 75%. The
result was lack of affordable hous-
ing.”

¢ At the beginning of the Reagan ad-
ministration the U.S. spent $7 on
defense for every $1 spent on hous-
ing. Today the ratio is $44 to $1.”

e Other factors that cause homeless-
ness are: Welfare benefits below the
poverty line, low minimum wage,
unemployment, and lack of afford-
able child care among others.”

¢1/3 of the homeless population is
mentally ill and 1/3 to 1/4 are veter-
ans.”

¢The Fastest growing sector of the
homeless population are women and
children. Families. Minorities are
also increasing rapidly.”

e Only a small portion of the homeless
are alcoholics.”

e There are over 3 million Homeless
people in the U.S.”

eIn Albany there are 5000 to 7000
homeless people and only 129 shelter
beds available.”

¢The Homeless Action Committee is
located in Central Ave. and we focus
on the priorities of different levels of
government. For example, spending
money on a Golf Course rather than
on housing.”

¢The majority of our volunteers are
SUNY Albany students.”

¢ There is a wide variety of problems
and solutions, but if we solve the
problem of unaffordable housing we
will take a lot of people off the
streets.”

Donna DeMaria, HAC

Human population of United States: 243,000,000.
Number of human beings who could be fed by the
grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock:
1,300,000,000. Sacred food of Native Americans:
Corn. Percentage of corn grown in United States
eaten by human beings: 20. Percentage of corn
grown in United States eaten by livestock: 80. Per-
centage of oats grown in United States eaten by
livestock: 95. Percentage of protein wasted by cyc-
ling grain through livestock: 90. Percentage of car-
bohydrate wasted by cycling grain through live-
stock: 99. Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by
cycling grain though livestock: 100. How frequently
a child dies of starvation: Every 2 seconds. Pounds of
potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000.
Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of
land: 165. Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used
to produce beef: 56. Pounds of grain and soybeans
needed to produce 1 pounds of feedlot beef: 16.
Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1
pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 pounds. Pounds
of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of protein
as hog flesh: 7.5 pounds. Number of children who
starve to death every day: 40,000. Number of pure
vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land
needed to feed 1 person consuming meat-based diet:
20. Number of people who will starve to death this
year: 60,000,000. Number of people who could be
adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans
reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60,000,000.
Historic cause of demise of many great civilizations:
Topsoil depletion. Percentage of original U.S. topsoil
lost to date: 75. Amount of U.S. cropland lost each
year to soil erosion: 4,000,000 acres, the size of
Connecticut. Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly
associated with livestock raising: 85. Number of
acres of U.S. forest which have been cleared to
create cropland to produce a meat-centered diet:
260,000,000. How often an acre of U.S. trees disap-
pear: Every 8 seconds. Amount of trees spared per
year by each individual who switches to a pure
vegetarian diet: 1 acre. A driving force behind the
destruction of the tropical rainforests: American
meat habit. Amount of meat imported annually by
U.S. from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama: 200,000,000
pounds. Amount of meat eaten by average person in
Costa Rice, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Hon-
duras and Panama: Less than the average American
housecat. Current rate of species extinction due to
destruction of tropical rainforests and related habi-
tats: 1,000/year. Length of time world’s petroleum
reserves would last if all human beings ate meat-
centered diet: 13 years. Length of time world’s
petroleum reserves would last if all human beings
ate vegetarian diet: 260 years. Principal reason for
U.S. military intervention in Persian Gulf: Depen-
dence on foreign oil. Barrels of oil imported daily by
U.S.: 6,800,000. Percentage of energy return (as food
energy per fossil energy expended) of most energy
efficient factory farming of meat: 34.5%. Percentage
of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy
expended) of least energy efficient plant food: 328%.
Pounds of soybeans produced by the amount of
fossil fuel needed to produce 1 pounds of feedlot
beef: 40. Percentage of raw materials consumed in
U.S. for all purposes presently consumed to produce
current meat-centered diet: 33. Percentage of raw
materials consumed in U.S. for all purposes needed
to produce fully vegetarian diet: 2. User of more than
half of all water used for all purposes in the United
States: Livestock production. Quantity of water used
in the production of the average cow sufficient to:

float a destroyer. Water needed to pro-
duced 1 pound of wheat: 25 gallons.
Water needed to produce 1 pound of
meat: 2,500 gallons. Cost of common

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hamburger meat if water used by meat
industry was not subsidized by U.S.
taxpayers: $35 /pound. Current cost for
pound of protein from wheat: $1.50.
Current cost for pound of protein from
beefsteak: $15.40. Cost for pound of
protein from beefsteak if U.S. tax-
payers ceased subsidizing meat indus-
try’s use of water: $89. Production of
excrement by total U.S. human popula-
tion: 12,000 pounds/second. Produc-
tion of excrement by U.S. livestock:
250,000 pounds/second. Sewage sys-
tems in U.S. cities: Common. Sewage systems in U.S.
feedlots: Nil. Amount of waste produced annually
be U.S. livestock in confinement operations which is
not recycled: 1 billion tons. Relative concentration
of feedlot wastes compared to raw domestic sewage:
Ten to several hundred times more highly concen-
trated. Where feedlot waste often ends up: In our
water. Number of U.S. medical schools: 125. Number
of U.S. medical school with a required course in
nutrition: 30. Training in nutrition received during 4
years of medical school by average U.S. physician:
2.5 hours. How frequently a heart attack strikes in
U.S.: Every 25 seconds. How frequently a heart
attack kills in U.S.: Every 45 seconds. Most common
cause of death in U.S.: Heart attack. Risk of death
from heart attack by average American man: 50%.
Risk of death from heart attack by average American
vegetarian man: 15%. Risk of death from heart attack
by average American pure vegetarian man: 4%.
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by
reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products
and eggs 10%: 9%. Amount you reduce your risk of
heart attack by reducing your consumption of meat,
dairy products and eggs 50%: 45% Amount you
reduce your risk of heart attack by reducing your
consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 100%:
90%. Rise in blood cholesterol from consuming 1 egg
per day: 15%. Rise in heart attack risk from 12% rise
in blood cholesterol: 24%. Meat, dairy and egg indus-
tries claim there is no reason to be concerned about
your blood cholesterol as long as it is: “normal.” Your
risk of dying of a disease caused by clogged arteries if
your blood cholesterol is “normal”: over 50%. Your
risk of dying of a disease caused by clogged arteries if
you do not consume saturated fat and cholesterol:
5%. Leading source of saturated fat and cholesterol
in American diets: Meat, dairy products and eggs.
Hollywood celebrity paid by Meat Board to tout beef
as “Real food for real people”: James Garner. Medical
event experienced by James Garner in April, 1988:
Quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery. World
populations with high meat intakes who do not have
correspondingly high rate of colon cancer: None.
World populations with low meat intakes who do not
have correspondingly low rates of colon cancer:
None. Increased risk of breast cancer for women
who eat meat daily compared to women who eat
meat less than once a week: 4 times higher. Egg
Board’s advertising slogan: The incredible edible
egg. Photographs often accompanying the egg
board’s slogan: Young women in bathing suits, em-
phasizing the shape of their breasts. Increased risk of
breast cancer for women who eat eggs daily com-
pared to women who eat eggs less than once a week:
3 times higher. Milk Producer’s original ad campaign
slogan: “Everybody needs milk.” What the Federal
Trade Commission called the “Ev-
erybody needs milk” slogan: “False,
misleading and deceptive.” Milk
Producer’s revised campaign slo-
gan: “Milk has something for every-
body.” Increased risk of breast can-
cer for women who eat butter and
cheese 3 or more times a week com-
pared to women who eat those foods
less than once a week: 3 times high-
er. Part of female chicken’s body
that produces eggs: Ovaries. In-
creased risk of fatal ovarian cancer
for women who eat eggs 3 or more
times a week compared to women
who eat eggs less than once a week:
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products. Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for
men who consume meats, cheese, eggs and milk
daily compared to men who eat these food sparingly
or not at all: 3.6 times higher. Recommended per-
centage of daily calories to be derived from protein
according to World Health Organization: 4.5%. Rec-
ommended percentage of daily calories to be derived
from protein according to Food and Nutrition Board
of the U.S.D.A.: 6%. Recommended percentage of
daily calories to be derived from protein according to
National Research Council: 8%. Percentage of calo-
ries as protein in wheat: 17%. Percentage of calories
as protein in broccoli: 45%. Percentage of calories as
protein in rice: 8%. Disease linked to inadequate
protein consumption: kwashiorkor. Number of cases
of kwashiorkor in United States: virtually none.
Diseases linked to excess protein consumption: Os-
teoporosis and kidney failure. Number of cases of
osteoporosis and kidney failure in the United States:
tens of millions. The average measurable bone loss
of female meat-eaters at age 65: 35%. The average
measurable bone loss of female vegetarians at age
65: 18%. Person who popularized the concept of
protein combining: Frances Moore Lappe. Frances
Moore Lappe’s updated research ona healthy, varied
vegetarian diet: Protein combining is completely
unnecessary. Health status of pure vegetarians from
many populations of the world according to the Food
and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of
Sciences: Excellent. The Meat Board tells us: To-
day’s meats are low in fat. The Meat Board shows us:
A serving of beef they claim has “only 300 calories.”
The Meat Board doesn’t tell us: The serving of beef
they show us is only 3 ounces (half the size of an
average serving of beef) and has been surgically
defatted with a scalpel. The dairy industry tells us:
Whole milk is 3.5% fat. The dairy industry doesn’t
tell us: That a 3.5% figure is based on weight, and
most of the weight in milk is water. The dairy
industry doesn’t want us to know: The amount of
calories as fat in whole milk is 50%. Oscar Mayer
tells us: It is a “myth” that hot dogs are fatty. Oscar
Mayer demonstrates this point by favorable compar-
ing the fattiness of hot dogs to such low bastions as:
Margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and cream
cheese. The Dairy Council tells us: Milk is nature’s
most perfect food. The Dairy Council doesn’t tell us:
Milk is nature’s most perfect food for a baby calf,
who has four stomachs, will double its weight in 47
days, and is destined to weigh 300 pounds within a
year. The Dairy Council tells children: To grow up
big and strong, drink lots of milk. The Dairy Council
occasionally tells children: The enzyme necessary
for digestion of milk is lactase. The Dairy Council
never tells children: 20% of Caucasian children and
80% of Black children have no lactase in their
intestines. The meat, dairy and egg industries tell us:
Animal products constitute 2 of the “Basic 4” food
groups. The meat, dairy and egg industries don’t tell
us: There were originally 12 official basic food
groups, before these industries applied enormous
political pressure on behalf of their products. Chlori-
nated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the U.S.
diet supplied by meat: 55%. Pesticide residues in the
U.S. diet supplied by Dairy products: 23%. Pesticide
residues in U.S. diet supplied by vegetables: 6%.
Pesticide residues in U.S. diet supplied by fruits: 4%.
Pesticide residues in U.S. diet supplied by grains: 1%


... Chances are your shampoo or drainer was force-
fed to, or dropped in the eyes of conscious rabbits,
guinea pigs, or dogs. In the typical blinding tests, six
to nine albino rabbits are strapped into stocks to stop
them from rubbing their eyes with their paws. Their
lower eyelids are pulled back to form small cups; the
test substance is poured in and the eye then held
closed. With caustic substances the rabbits scream in
pain. The eyes are examined over days or weeks for
bleeding, ulcerated corneas and blindness, all com-
mon results. No treatment is given. Animal tests
include anything you can imagine. For example, in
acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, skin irritation, and
inhalation tests, animals are forced to ingest or inhale
everything from mascara or ink to caustic or harmful
substances like detergents and pesticides. Vivisection

is the practice of experimenting on live animals.
Each year in the U.S., many tens of millions of
animals are killed in experiments that often do not
even purport to be linked to human health. The fact
is, results of tests on one species cannot be accurately
applied to other species. Many crude and frivolous
experiments are duplicated because there is no cen-
tral information system that lists data from previous
experiments. The difference between other species
and ours do not justify prejudicial treatment, slavery,
and slaughter. The price of changing our habits is, at
worst, inconvenience during adjustment. The bene-
fits are to the other animals, our own health and

vitality, world hunger, and the whole ecosystem.
—PETA


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People often ask, “Why do women get so angry? They’re always taking
offense at silly things.” “What’s that chick’s problem, PMS or something?” Or,
“You know, feminists are always so serious. They’ve got no sense of humor.”
“Take it easy, babe, don’t get so emotional.”

Angry women. In this society, that’s a contradiction in terms. How does a
woman respond to the above questions? She has not been given anger as an
option. That, coupled with the ingrained notions that her concerns are “silly”
and “emotional” robs her of a voice. It also leaves her wondering about her own
anger. Where does that come from?

Well, Iam an angry woman. | am angry at a society that condones rape. I am
angry at the blatant ignorance and apathy. I am angry at a university president
who can say there were no reported rapes on campus, therefore there were
none and he doesn’t see a problem. I would like to share with you an incident

that occurred in December of ’88.

It was a Saturday morning, 10 am. A woman was jogging
along, finishing her usual 10 mile run. The street was busy
and there was traffic. Suddenly, a man stepped out in front
of her waving his arms. “Stop, stop!” She took off her
earphones and stopped.

“What’s the matter?”

“There is an emergency inside and I need your help!”

“O.K. ...” She took a few steps towards him.

He grabbed her by her hair and windbreaker and
dragged her up to the second floor into a storage room
about the size of a bathroom. He threw her around like a
rag doll and finally knocked her to the floor. He ripped her
running tights off and tried to enter her from the back.
Couldn’t do it. Flipped her over and grounded himself into
her, pounding violently.

“You're hurting me, you’re hurting me!”

“Feels good to me.” He finished cumming in her, like
spitting phlegm into a toilet.

“Stay here”, and he left, locking the door behind him.
She tried to get herself together, working instinctually,
gathering her ripped clothing. Survival. Reality. Had to get
back some kind of
reality. “This isn’t
happening.”

He returned and
she looked up.

“Where are you
going?” he asked.

“I have to see a
doctor, you’ve hurt
me.”

“I can’t let you
“What? What do
you mean?”

“What I’ve just
done is called rape. I
can’t let you go,
you'll go to the po-
lice.” Innocent eyes
looked at her. In his
hand he held a five
inch utility razor.
She got a disgusting,
sinking feeling in
her stomach.

“Please, all I want
to do is see my baby
girl again and gotoa
doctor. I’m not going
to the police.” He
grabbed her hair
and pulled her head back exposing her throat.

And he cut.

She put her hand up and he sliced through her finger.

He tried from the back, pulling her head down intending
to cut through her jugular and spinal cord.

At that moment she knew she was a dead woman. She
was sad that her daughter would be in so much pain. That
she would never see her again, not even to say goodbye.
She would never finish the doctorate she had worked on
for so many years. And looking down at the blood on her
and the floor, the thought occurred to her that she couldn’t
believe God would let her die in such a dirty little room.

So accepting death, she began to pray and departed from
her body, floating above the horror scene.

“Hail Mary, full of Grace .. .”

“SHUT UP!” he screamed and threw her against the
opposite wall. She lay quietly in the boxes where she had
been thrown and “played dead”, not moving, thinking
furiously. He paced the small room.

“What am I going to do? What am I doing?” He mumbled
to himself and wrung his hands. Pacing, pacing. She
watched and waited. He would not kill her. She began to

go

talk.

“Do you have a family? What’s your name?” She
grabbed at strings, anything to push the bottom that would
get her out.

“I’m not going to the police. I promise, please ... You
know, this has been a very upsetting experience for me.
You should take me out for a cup of coffee. And put some
brandy in it too.”

He stopped. “You want a cup of coffee?”

“Yeah.”

“Alright, c’mon.” And that sound ... the lock being
turned back.

Freedom? Maybe.

They went back downstairs, He watched at the door for
passersby.

“My truck’s over there.”

She stepped out from behind him. “I’m sorry, I can’t stay
with you. I have to go. I have to see my doctor. I have to tell
my daughter I’m O.K.”

My mother had to wait 3 days to tell me her painful
story.

It’s hard to understand the amount of pain that comes
from almost having
one of your parents
taken away from
you by a violent
crime.

Violence. In it’s
purest, most hate-
ful, most destruc-
tive form.

Could you imag-
ine someone you
don’t know or do
now, on top of you,
forcing himself into
you and inside you,
and leaving a tang-
ible part of his hate
and self-loathing in-
side of you as a
sticky slime?

Why? Because
you are the gender
deemed appropriate
to be used like a so-
cietal spittoon.

If you could smell
him and feel his
breath. Feel him
holding you down
and taking away all
of your power and
identity, stripping it away from you like a sandblaster,
until you don’t even exist.

And you are numb and faceless and devoid of person-
hood. Wouldn’t that make you angry?

That is a constant threat to women. Constantly, living in
fear, looking over your shoulder, having to consider
whether you should take a taxi because the driver might
attack you.

You’re in our house alone, will the UPS man try to attack
you?

Will your physician try to fondle you in any way while
examining you? Will somebody follow you into the LC’s?
The bathroom?; when it’s late and you’re studying. Should
you make eye contact with that person as you walk past?
He might think that’s an invitation. Constantly, constantly.

I went home, and was there for my mother’s grand jury
examination.

That night, I laid in bed and thought, what would have
happened if she had been murdered?

I would have had to go and identify her body, when we
found it, three or four days decayed. I had a whole
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and papers. Her clothes, her knicknacks, her jewelry. Pictures and
paintings, what would I do? There would be funeral arrangements and
contacting family. Where would I go? Live with my Dad I suppose. She
had always put so much trust in me that I would know what to do. I was
lost and numb.

Then I have to come back to a university where University Cinemas
decides they want to show a pornography film because it will make
money. Where the administration doesn’t think there is enough money in
the school budget to take precautions for my safety. And I have to deal
with the attitude that I take offense to “silly” things like rape references
in soap operas and jokes (i.e. Double Dragon in which the men War with
each other for the prize of the woman’s attention. A “great example” of
how a woman responds sexually to violence.), in the campus center and
remarks that refer to me, as chick or babe or something equally effective
in trivializing my adult concerns and experiences, as those belonging to
an emotional child. In fact, negating that rape could be a part of my
experience or even something that I should worry my little self over.
And, of course, that I have no sense of humor.

Consider that my mother was “lucky” this was a violent crime and that
she had blood to show for it, because at lest people believed it was rape
and we got it to court. She didn’t have to deal with defending what she
was wearing or whether her actions had brought it upon herself, on top of
coping with rape and attempted homicide.

Consider further that she was “lucky” her rapist was a black man,
because in this culture, a jury will convict much easier if they think the
incident was racially motivated. What does this say about our society?

AIG HAE
Fil

What kind of message are we sending to women and men? That there is
such a thing as “real” rape and “real” rapists? That certainly lets the man
who gives that sorority women another beer, and then, avails himself of
her without consent, off the hook. It also in the same act doesn’t give her
or me a right to our anger and “loss of humor”.

I don’t need to be further eroded, erased and invalidated, like a usable
natural resource. I don’t need constant reminders that at any time, I could
be a victim and reduced to cunt status.

And so no, I don’t have sense of humor about being called babe, and I
don’t have tolerance for an institute of higher education showing a porn
film for entertainment. And I will fight anti-choice legislation that forces
women to bear the seeds of hate and disgust to birth and beyond.

The next time you hear about a woman who’s been raped, think about
what it was like for her to be pinned down and forced into like some
nameless, faceless fuckdoll. Like everything she’s worked for, her
education, her dreams that she holds so dear, all gone to nothing because
she’s still a woman. And women can be shown no matter how much
education, no matter what their dreams are, they can still be dominated
and they can still be fucked.

Think about it. Maybe it won't be so easy next time to separate yourself
from your own vulnerability and blame the victim.

Maybe you'll get angry at being called, “baby” or “a piece of ass”, etc.
and subsequently having your anger invalidated. Your sense of humor
might fray at the edges, too.

My mother says to me, “It’s my birthday this December. I’m one year
old.” And I wonder, will my sense of reality ever be the same?


Although there is a pervasive fear among most
women of being raped, at that same time, many wo-
men feel that it cannot really happen to them. Yet
one out of three women will be sexually assaulted
in her lifetime, and one out of four girls will be
raped before she reaches the age of eighteen. Despite
these startling statistics, there is only a 4 percent
conviction rate of rapists — and these convictions
reflect only the minute percentage of rapes that are
actually reported.

Rapes happen anytime, anywhere, to females of all
ages. Infants of four months have been raped, and
women over ninety years old have been raped, al-
though the single largest group of rape survivors is
composed of adolescent girls between the ages of
sixteen and eighteen. Rape happens to women of all
classes and all races, regardless of their sexual orien-
tation.

Although most of us tend to visualize rape epi-
sodes as sudden unanticipated attacks by perverse
strangers, most victims actually know their rapists
and, in fact, more than half of all rapes occur in the
home of either the survivor or the offender. Further-
more, it is often assumed that rape is an act of lust
and sexual passion. Instead, men’s motives for rape
often arise from their socially imposed need to exer-
cise power and control over women through the use
of violence. Most rapists are not psychopaths, as we
are led to believe by typical media portrayals of men
who commit crimes of sexual violence. On the con-
trary, the overwhelming majority would be consid-
ered “normal” according to prevailing social stan-
dards of male normality.

—Angela Davis

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Take One
(woman walking down the street, a man’s voice says) “She came to me
with eyes so blue, blue, blue, Blue as Papa Smurf!”

Take Two

(woman goes back, comes again with brown eyes) “She came to me
with eyes so brown, brown as the sweet caramel candy my momma use
to make for us kids. Ooh baby! Umm, umm, umm!”

—Robert Williams

Black Men’s Week

Extend your heart for the black woman,
Who cries out in the night,
Not from a nightmare, but from her daily realities,
Who weeps for freedom from the stereotypes placed upon her
by society,
Who does not wish for blond hair and baby blue eyes,
Who loves her charcoal black man as she loves herself, and
Who wishes only to be what Nature made her to be — a strong,
intelligent, resourceful, and beautiful, beautiful,
Black Woman.
—Vanessa Tucker

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Everybody jokes about themselves
and other people.

Favorite ethnic jokes are those that,
as the brothers put it, “get over” on
somebody.

Blacks tell jokes about whites.
Whites jest about blacks. Jews tell
jokes about the goyim. And Native
Americans tell them about Custer.

They only get nasty when jokes
turn into hoaxes, innocent people are
victimized, and the hoaxes become
racial. But hoaxes are an integral part
of our history.

We got conned by the phony How-
ard Hughes autobiography, the world
got conned by the Hitler Diaries
(which Newsweek featured as a cover
story), and blacks got conned by Taw-
ana Brawley.

People have pulled off hoaxes by
faking disappearances, drownings,
suicides, kidnappings, holdups, jewel
robberies, fur thefts, rapes, bomb
scares, stock deals and arson.

Most hoaxes are one-dimensional.

But in the last few days, there two
dimensionality has gotten dangerous.

A reckless stream of “the black guys
did it” has flooded the public.

The first thing that came to mind
when Charles Stuart committed sui-
cide last week in Boston was Tanya
Dacri.

Almost one year ago to the date, the
Northeast woman claimed that two
black men had abducted her baby.

It later turned out she had drowned
her child.

When Stuart’s pregnant wife was
murdered and he was wounded, he
described a sadistic black man. The
crime further polarized an already
racially divided Boston.

Boston police, reprising the Phila-
delphia police procedure for blacks
and Puerto Ricans, set off Operation
Sweep by rounding up “the usual
suspects.”

Bear in mind that such massive
police concern is never accorded
black women murdered in the black
community.

Last week, when authorities re-
vealed that Stuart had been involved
in his wife’s murder, black Bostonians
demanded an apology.

How fatuous.

George Bush and Lee Atwater
didn’t apologize for Willie Horton.

How does one say, “Oh, dear me.
I’m sorry I lynched you?”

How do Gov. Michael Dukakis and
Mayor Raymond Flynn, who at-
tended Carol Stuart’s funeral, apolo-
gize for debauching a whole race’s
humanity?

Apologizes can’t rectify decades of

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institutional racism.

Nor can apologizes change the sub-
liminal stereotypes that nestle in the
deepest recesses of people’s minds
about black criminality.

Sam Asbell counted on racism’s de-
mographics when he described his as-
sailants.

Two black men.

Go, Tanya Dacri. Right on, Charles
Stuart.

The media bought his prima facie
fantasy as lovingly as they had bought
the fake Hitler Diaries.

But hoaxes are not the monopoly of
any race or ethnic group.

Shawn Farmer pulled off a hoax in
wrongfully identifying Carlos Stokes
as the man who shot him in the Abbot-
tsford Homes. Farmer claimed it was
“an honest mistake.” But an innocent
brother still got eight months in prison.

Tawana Brawley played latent black
hostilities like a violin when she ac-
cused a group of anonymous white
men of raping her.

New York City’s black community
blindly rallied around her. I wrote a
column calling her story a hoax.

Today, many blacks and Phil Dona-
hue still believe her jiveass story.

But there is one quintessential differ-
ence which every white person must
never forget when a black woman
falsely accuses a white man and a
white man or woman falsely accuses a
black man.

Blacks do not control the levers of
power in the media or in government.

Instead, their powerlessness is at the
mercy of a society that still functions
tragically under the rubric of white
supremacy.

And the media nurture that social
pathology by treating crimes commit-
tee by black men and white men as
“separate but equal.”

A white woman raped by black men
in New York City’s Central Park is
given 20 times the publicity and sym-
pathy as a black woman who is raped
by black men in Harlem in the same
week!

At the same time, we must never
believe that Tanya Dacri and Tawana
Brawley or Charles Stuart or Sam As-
bell or Shawn Farmer “is an island,
entire of itself.”

Each of them is a piece of the conti-
nent of our humanity, and for better or
worse, the godly beauty of our love is
linked inextricably to the ugliness of
their frailties.

—Philadelphia Daily News
Chuck Stone

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Well, that is the primary thing —
being myself. If I feel like having
purple hair, I’ll have purple hair. I
don’t see why I shouldn’t More than
that, it depends on the individual.
Everyone who looks the way I do,
doesn’t believe in the same things I
do. Personally, I’m tried of apathy
and I’m tired of everybody not being
themselves. I can’t imagine wanting
to blend in, wanting to be part of the
crowd. When people look at me,
they look at me. They don’t look
through me. You walk through this
campus and people walk around
like they are zombies. At least when
they look at me, they look twice and
they wake up. I want to make a
difference. Two big questions I get
are, well, “why do you cut your hair
like that?” like it really matters to
them. And “what do your parents think?” Well, what do
their parents think about them having blue eyes? That’s
the way my parents regard the way I dress. It’s just the
way I am and they know that. Which is excellent because
most parents wouldn’t react that way. They’ve learned
though time that it’s not just a phase.

The people who give me the hard-
est time are the athletic types men,
who have mohawks, which I find
hysterical. I mean, it’s so hysterical
to see a guy screaming at you that
you're a freak and that you don’t
deserve to live, but he’s got a mo-
hawk and I know why. He did it
because his teammates told him to,
because they thought it was cool.
They whipped out the razor and it
was a big party event, and that’s
O.K. But, when I feel like expressing
myself, instantly I’m the freak. And
all you can do is turn around and
laugh at them, because that’s the
reason your doing it, so that people
look at you instead of looking past
you.

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rey

“Common Security, the notion that nations need to promote, not
to threaten, each other’s security, the understanding that in a
nuclear age no one is safe until everyone is safe, peace is indivisible
— Common Security is an issue so overwhelming as to define its
own primacy. But I'll wager that before the weekend is over, we'll be
talking at least as much about global as about common security
because as Norman Cousins predicted, the big news of the day is
that the world as a whole has to be managed and not just its parts.
Fifty years ago during World War II we worried about the parts. We
worried that this part of the world wouldn't be able to defend itself
against that part. Today it’s the whole that can’t protect itself against
the parts. In World War II, nations at war targeted one another.
Today the whole world lives on the target of World War III. As there
is not a hamlet in the earth outside the orbit of conflict, the whole
world is as a prisoner in a cell condemned to death awaiting the
uncertain moment of execution — in the metaphor of the Five
Continent Peace Initiative.

And global life is threatened not by warfare alone, be it nuclear,
chemical or biological. As there is no way to nationalize or to
privatize the air we breathe, the toxic waste that rose from the
meltdown at Chernobyl know no frontier. Neither does acid rain.
Every biological species suffers from the depletion of the ozone
layer, as from the devastation of the Amazonian forests. And if third
world countries can’t somehow leap the smokestack stage of
industrialization and achieve the economic development they so
deserve without destroying the environment, then we’re all, liter-
ally, cooked. Instead of blowing ourselves into a nuclear oblivion,
we may bake slowly in a stew of industrial pollution. In short, the
planet is at risk. And in an order of magnitude not previously even
imagined. The arms race is out of control and nature, however
forgiving, cannot long accommodate the havoc we leave in our
wake. So it’s true: the big news of the day is that the world as a
whole has to be managed. The big news of the day is that the
survival unit in our time is no longer a single nation or a single
anything. It is the entire human race — plus the environment. The

big news of the day is that disarmament, ecology and economic
justice are inextricably linked, and only by serving the first can
sufficient money be saved to serve the other two. And one more
thing. At present, structures and policies are not only inadequate to
meet the needs of the world, but actually intensify them.

The future, like sand through an hourglass, is slipping through
our fingers. No longer do we have the luxury of time, the un-
challenged myth of a guaranteed tomorrow, and that means that
minimally, immediately, we must moderate national sovereignty
and increase global loyalty. We Americans have a helpful analogy in
our own history. As you all remember, after successfully declaring
our independence, we, the thirteen colonies at the time, I agreed to
live under the Articles of Confederation. But the Articles mirrored,
more than they overcame, the difficulties of the day. So in 1787 our
forbearers adopted a constitution that called on the separate states
to sacrifice a measure of their autonomy for the sake of a more
effective, stronger whole. Today, the United Nations is the Articles
of Confederation, in that it was organized for an era already over.
The UN Charter is a pre-atomic document.

Not long ago, a Latin American diplomat at the UN said, “Around
here, things tend to disappear. If it’s a conflict between a small
nation and a large nation, then the small nation disappears. If it’s a
conflict between two large
nations, then the UN dis-
appears.” And the UN dis-
appears because not one of
the nations of the world
has seen fit to surrender to
it one iota of its absolute
sovereign power. And at a
time, when absolute na-
tional sovereignty is about
as obsolete as was states’
rights when Jefferson
Davis preached it and
Stonewall Jackson fought
for it.

The UN has not failed
the world. It’s the world
that has failed the UN be-
cause the world has yet to
make what we might call
the magnum conceptual
leap forward that the
times demand. Einstein
was so right to insist that
imagination is more important than knowledge. That should be
written over the portals of every university. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. The trouble with “America today —
we're all data, no concept. Facts and figures, but no VISION — with
our which the people perish. If we don’t think about the future, we
won’t have one.”

We need to envision a world preferable to the predictable one. A
world whose citizens are as mindful of international law as they are
of domestic law and hence obey the World Court. A world policed
by a peacekeeping organization stronger than any national force. A
world whose agencies are supported by an international income tax
(based, perhaps, on energy consumption).

A world not free of conflict, for the horizons of the world will
always be darkened by dissension, but a world at least free of
violent conflict, of nuclear weapons and of toxic waste. And if all
the above, and especially the goal of a warless world, sounds
utopian, as indeed it does, even to me and I knew I was about to say
it, that may simply indicate how far behind we have slipped on a
schedule we should have kept had we been serious about saving the

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planet. It is said a vision without a task is but a dream, a task without
a vision is drudgery, a vision with a task is the hope of the world.

I’ve talked to a vision of a world beyond poverty and war, of one at
peace with its environment. Now let’s turn to some immediate
tasks. It is wrong of the United States to be a bystander, watching
from the sidelines, the tribulations, as well as the joys, of Russian
reforms. If perestroika fails, and totalitarianism returns, it’s back to
armed ideological warfare in the nuclear age. Weimar Russia is in
the agony of transition, trying to make its reforms irreversible.
Gorbachev’s enemies are ours. They are those most deeply sus-
picious of and hostile to the west. Therefore President Bush does not
have a choice whether or not to help Russia. His only choice is
which Russian is he going to help. In the nineteen twenties and
early nineteen thirties, it was by not interfering on behalf of the
faltering Weimar politicians that Europe and American did inter-
fere in favor of Hitler. The United States does not need moderniza-
tion of its nuclear missiles in Germany any more than it needs the
proposed mass transit for MX missiles in Michigan. For the United
States to continue to overarm for an enemy turned friendly,
especially when our cities already look as if invading army had
passed through, hardly represents a magnum conceptual leap
forward.

What the United States must realize is that we cannot afford the
arms race. The arms race today is already more than the total
income of the poorer half of all humanity. We cannot afford the arms
race. We cannot risk the arms race. The arms race is obsolete. What
the United States must realize is that just as once we needed Russia
to win a war, so now we need Russia, Gorbachev’s Russian, in order
to secure the peace. Therefore we must seek to conclude the
comprehensive test ban treaty for which the Russians say they are
ready “ZAVTRA” — tomorrow! With the Russians, we must press
ahead with START, the 50% reduction of nuclear weapons, reduce
concurrently in Europe conventional weapons and forces as the
Russians have proposed, and here at home keep our poisonous
nuclear weapons production plants SHUT while we week to
negotiate an end once and for all to the production of all missile
materials.

When the nuclear powers, by the grace of God, have reduced
their arsenals and accepted intrusive verification, then, and only
then, will they be in a position to stop proliferation by insisting that

the international inspections they have already accepted for them-
selves become law for all. That’s what the majority of nations are
waiting for. Then, for the recalcitrant one or two, all can say, “Either
you accept international inspection — because the world is never
going to be secure until all its labs are open for international
inspection — either you accept international inspection, or you can
anticipate stringent economic sanctions. We can’t fool around with
this business any more. It’s too dangerous.” Now if proliferation
continues, the planet will shortly become a nuclear and chemical
porcupine. But if proliferation is halted, through international
inspection, international law will be expanded, its respect en-
hanced, and we will begin to moderate national sovereignty and
increase global loyalties. In this fashion, from the bottom up as it
were rather than from the top down, the nations of the world in the
nineteen nineties will hopefully begin to form a more perfect union.

I am leaving to others a more precise description of common
security in order to return once again to the vision of a world
beyond war and poverty, a world whose citizens will no longer view
nature as an adversary to be subdued or as a slave to be dominated,
but rather will see in every leaf and creature a spiritual link to
themselves. In effect, we have been talking of an ancient religious
vision according to which we all belong one to another, every one of
us on this planet. That’s the way God made us. From a Christian
point of view, Christ died to keep us that way, which means that our
sin always and only is putting asunder what God has put together.
Human unity is less something we’re called upon to create than it is
something we’re called upon to recognize and make manifest. And
that territorial discrimination is altogether as evil as racial or
religious discrimination. This ancient religious vision is now a
pragmatic necessity. The so called ethics of
perfection have become those of survival. We
have to be merciful when we live at each other’s
mercy. We have to learn to be meek or there will
be no earth to inherit.

And finally, there is of course something in-
tensely personal in all of this. Each of us has to
become more peaceful. Finding something to
love in those we hate and finding that in our-
selves which is unacceptable to our enemies.
Each of us has to realize that compassion de-
mands conflict for its implementation, yet we
must contend against wrong without becoming
wrongly contentious; fight national self-right-
eousness without personal self-righteousness.
Each of us has to keep the faith despite the
evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the
evidence any chance of changing.

As Margaret Mead would remind us, “Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful commit-
ted citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s
the only thing that ever has.” It won’t be easy;
only necessary. But then, everything worth-
while tends to be difficult — and interesting.
Even fun! And we won’t lose heart. For as Justice
Brandeis said, “Most of the things worth doing in
the world had been declared impossible, before
they were done.” Thank you all very much.

—William Sloan Coffin

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164

“Choose life, not death.”

The life of a human being begins at conception.
The reason I say this is because at conception, which
is when the sperm and egg come together to form the
zygote, a cell that has a set of chromosomes different
from the mother’s or the father’s set of chromosomes,
is formed. Once this cell is formed, it starts to divide.
Why does it divide? Because it’s alive! And yet there
are some people that are trying to justify snuffing out
this life in the name of giving another group of people
“choice” and the “right to control ‘their own’ bodies.”
Such blindness, hypocrisy, and selfishness! These
women are so bent on having control over their own
lives that they overlook the fact they are taking away
the rights of the unborn and exposing them to being
drawn and quartered by D&C, D&E and suction

abortions without anesthetics, being burned alive
slowly by saline, or being left to die in a bucket, if
they survive the abortion.

Last week I saw a film called “Eclipse of Reason”
that showed actual footage of a pregnancy, past three
months, being terminated by a D&E abortion. Before
the abortion, I could see the baby’s fingers and face,
very nicely formed,and some pro-choicers say that a
fetus is just a mess of cells! When the baby was
aborted, it was dismembered, limbs first, and placed
upon a table. What had once been a human life was
reduced to something that resembled raw chicken
flesh. That baby didn’t commit any crime and yet,
the baby was killed in a more brutal fashion than a
criminal being executed in America. What ever
happened to the phrase, “no cruel and unusual
punishment?” Those babies have a right to live just
like the women have aright to live. How can the pro-
choicers say that they are pro-choice when the
babies being aborted aren’t ever going to get any
choice? There are many people that don’t like to be
told what to do with their lives and that’s under-
standable. They want to have the choice to do what
they want. But who gave people the right to use their
freedom as a license to hurt someone else? It seems as
if many have forgotten the saying that goes like this:
“Your rights end at the tip of my nose.” Because when
a woman has an abortion her “rights” go way beyond
the baby’s nose. Feminists have fought so hard to stop
men from oppressing them and in the process, they in
turn oppress the innocent babies. One excuse, often
used by these women, is the stage of development of
the baby. They think that if the baby isn’t developed
enough to live outside the mother then it is not a
separate human being. It seems as if the baby is being
compared to an unwanted growth that can be easily
removed without causing pain. But as most of us
know babies can feel pain. This pain is disregarded
when it comes to a mother’s decision to have an
abortion.

Mothers may decided to take this path because of
the pressures of dealing with the child. The pressures
that these misinformed women are running away
from include:

1. Men oppressing women.

2. Not enough support systems for unwanted preg-
nancies.

Lack of morals in society.

Deterioration of the value of human life.

Loss of sense of absolute right and wrong.
Rejection of Judeo-Christian values.

Population explosion.

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While a lot of attention has been focused on pro-
choice as being the “abortion issue,” most people are
not aware of the fact that abortion is a small, though
central, part of the broader spectrum of reproductive
freedom issues. To be familiar with this spectrum is
to understand why one can be anti-abortion and pro-
choice. That means that you personally would not
choose abortion but you support the right of others to
choose for themselves. (To be anti-abortion and anti-
choice means that you personally would not choose
abortion and you do not support the right of others to
choose for themselves). Well, what about those peo-
ple for whom choosing abortion isn’t an issue and yet
they are pro-choice? For instance, a gay male or a
differently-abled woman who cannot have children?
Why does the issue of choice broaden out to include
them? Because, they have reproductive rights. Gay

—Don’t count my eggs before they’ve
hatched

males still need affordable access to condoms with-
out discrimination based on sexual preference. A
differently-abled woman unable to conceive still
needs access to gynecological care or should be able
to adopt, without discrimination based on physical
ability. These people have the right to self-deter-
mination. They have the right to make decisions
about their bodies and their sexuality. In logical
procession, a woman who decides to be consentually,
sexually active, has the right to self-determination
and access to any facilities she needs to carry her
decisions out without discrimination based on gen-
der. That includes affordable, access to education
about her sexuality, effective birth control, accurate

—Not every ejaculation deserves a name

information about AIDS, pre-natal and post-natal
care, and childcare; and funding for any or all of the
above if she is poor. This also includes affordable
access to abortion. None of these reproductive rights
should be contingent on race, economic class, sexual
preference, physical ability or age. But if the pro-
choice issue is about self-determination, what is the
controversy?

Well, one of the interesting things about the anti-
choice movement is how they managed to whittle
down all the reproductive rights issues into the
single, segregated and controversial “abortion ques-
tion,” namely, when does life begin? I believe the real

—Keep your rosaries off my ovaries

controversy lies in the fact that the American intel-
lect allows itself to be pulled by the puppet strings of
sensationalism and shock-value. We are content not
to look behind the violent photos and emotional
rhetoric at the underlying political agenda that they
obscure.

Consider that we are living in a time when self-
determination is becoming a reality for a lot of
“minorities.” To admit that women should control
their bodies opens a lot of untidy questions, for
example, if women control their own bodies, don’t
they, then, determine their own worth to themselves


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8. Racism.

But since when is death the answer to life’s problems.
These problems are legitimate but the babies should
not suffer for them. They are really being used as
scapegoats. As history has shown us, other groups of
people have been taken advantage of and mistreated,
as a solution to escape societies troubles. The Nazis
considered Jews less than human and killed
6,000,000 of them. According to Planned Parenthood,
one of the most infamous advocates of abortion,
1,500,000 babies are killed on a yearly basis. All of
these babies are being sacrificed in order to alleviate
life’s misfortunes.

It seems as if people have placed the sacredness of
life itself with the “sacredness of quality of life.”
Minority babies take the most abuse from this way of
thinking. Pro-choicers underestimate the worth of
the minority babies by saying that none is willing to
adopt them, or that their lives will be miserable and
corrupt as a result of not having parents. First of all,
there are some people willing to adopt minority
babies. Second of all, even though there is a chance
that these babies may not be adopted, there is always
the chance of something going wrong in the upbring-
ing of the child, with our without the natural parents.
Those are facts of life. To say that it is better to abort
minority babies than to give them up for adoption is
like saying that people with problems should commit
suicide.

Abortion is also disguised as a solution for popula-
tion control. One example is China. Again, death is
being used to solve a problem. What is really sicken-
ing is that in China, if the baby isn’t legal, the woman
is forced to abort the baby against her will, even ifshe
is eight months into the pregnancy. There are other
ways to control population other than death. The
word contraception is a form of population control
that does not kill people. In fact, the word contracep-
tion literally means against conception. It stops preg-
nancy before it starts and prevents the life from
beginning. Abortion is not contraception because it
stops the life after it starts. Forms of contraception
include sterilization, condoms, and birth control pills
that block contraception. The best form of contracep-
tion is abstinence, which is not having sexual inter-
course. Personally, I, being a born-again Christian,
believe that abstinence should be practiced until
marriage.

Judeo-Christian values always treasured the sa-
credness of human life itself. Because of the recent
deterioration of such values, abortion has become
easier to justify. People don’t view things as being

right or wrong anymore. The absolutes are lost. Our
value for human life has decreased and along with
that, so have our morals. People are not taking
responsibility for their actions and are seeking the
easy way out of situations.

Unplanned pregnancy is a scary, traumatic experi-
ence to go through, especially if the pregnancy was
caused by rape and/or incest. These women should
be helped out as much as possible, but why take it out
on the unborn child? It’s not the child’s fault that it’s
conception was unplanned. It’s like giving birth to a
baby and saying, “Oops, I made a mistake.” and then
dashing the baby’s head against a stone.

Abortion isn’t the easy way out that pro-choicers
say it is. Some pro-choicers say that legal abortions
save women’s lives from death by illegal abortions.
But when a person has even a legal abortion, all kinds
of physical and psychological complications can oc-
cur. For example, in the “Eclipse of Reason” film, one
woman had to go around with a colostomy for the
rest of her life as a result of an abortion. If this woman
tries to have a baby now, it could kill her. Another
woman in the film suffered an aftermath of psycho-
logical trauma when she saw a bucket full of blood
and what was left of her baby. At times, she cried
uncontrollably like a newborn baby. Some women,
who had abortions, have been known to attempt
suicide. The solution to preventing women from
dying of illegal abortions is not legal abortions, but
not having abortions, period. May God forgive those
who are taking part in this carnage.

The End

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and not anybody else? If they are given the constitu-
tional right to personhood, doesn’t that mean we
would suddenly have to take a look at a culture that
still allows rape as an everyday occurrence, that
continues to portray a woman’s worth as how much
she means sexually to someone else? We would have
to stop relying on rape myth. We would have to
wonder why in the day and age where technology is
so exceptional as to push back the limits of our
biology, allowing us to live longer and to transplant

—not murder, outlawing abortion was and
is nazi program!

almost every organ we have, why women are still
tied to their biology because of something as simple
as childcare, or ineffective birth control? If we con-
ceded that people of color really have the right to
their own culture and self-determination, wouldn’t
that necessitate a good long look at all of our institu-
tionalized racism, at an educational system that
perpetuates our inferiority complex as a nation by
teaching fear instead of a secure curiosity about
different people? Wouldn’t that also extend to the
differently-abled and homosexuality and our ability
to learn by interaction instead of fear of things that
show us our own vulnerabilities and imperfections?

Instead of asking, when is a fetus a person, let’s ask
why is pro-choice a question at all? And to whom is it
a question? As far as I’m concerned there is no
polarity within the issue. Because your own deci-

sions on moral, religious or pragmatic beliefs are
choices and therefore included under pro (for)
-choice, there should be no reason why anyone who
is adamantly religious about life beginning at some
particular point in time can’t think that to their
hearts content. There is also nothing terrible about
them wishing everyone else would think that way
too, BUT one becomes suspicious when the same
people working for the end of abortion, work against
sex education, birth control, AIDES research, and
bomb clinics risking innocent lives (hardly a Biblical
tactic) at the same time. These same political groups
who associate themselves with institutionalized reli-
gion and “good ole’ American values,” are working:
for a move back into the home for wimmin, in favor
of English only laws which put certain peoples at the
mercy of those who can speak English, against affir-
mative action policies, on the basis of “reverse dis-

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—Another middle class, middle aged, ex-
Bush supporting, WASP for choice

crimination,” and for taking money out of education
and family supportive services to fund military
build-up.

So, perhaps we would do better, when confronted
with the focus on a particular piece of a board issue,
to ask why is that particular piece being focused on to
the exclusion of everything else, instead of allowing
ourselves to be drawn into such a tiny perspective.
The pro-choice issue for me has to do with a hell of a
lot more than the endless arguing of an unanswer-
able question, i.e. when does life begin. It has to do

LAETITIA cs

—Stop pretending laws will end abortion

with the smokescreening of a lot of social wrongs and
the unanswered questions of those groups of people
who do not fit within the “American Dream” as
defined by one particular group of people. What is
pro-choice to you?

167



FNEW YORK,

Incidently South Africa borrowed
its system of Apartheid from the
United States. Yes, in the 30’s and 40's
they sent teams over here to see how
it was that we had managed to keep
the races separate without any appar-
ent uprisings and rebellions that
shook the land. How did those Yan-
kees do it? And they sent their delega-
tion over here. They studied our sys-
tem of segregation in the Southern
United States. They went back to
South Africa and they applied it.
They gave it their own little touches
such as the pass laws and the black
African townships and they gave it an
African name, Apartheid, meaning
separateness. But it was copied from
the U.S.

Well we did wipe it out here. It was
a period of compassion and love
where people especially the young
college age, your ages, those of you
who are students, found something to
believe in whether they were black or
brown or yellow or red, something to
believe in that was outside of them-
selves, that was worth dying for in-
deed and finding that something to
believe in they were able to get out of
themselves and become larger than
self. That is what happened. We could
call those years the King/Kennedy
years of compassion and love But peo-
ple worked for others, they didn’t ask
what do they get out of it. What’s in it
for me, in contrast to the narcissistic
meism of today. When C.O.FO., the
Council of Federation Organization,
called for volunteers, student volun-
teers from all over the country to go to
Mississippi to do voter education and
voter registration volunteering, to
live without a tomorrow. They
weren’t going to be paid a dime, in
fact it would cost them money. They
would have to use their own spending
money from deep in their pockets.
They would not stay in hotels they
would stay in shacks of poor black
families in rural towns and counties
of Mississippi. No restaurants, they
would share the meager fare of that
family which meant that the mother
would add more water in the soup.
And when they went out in the morn-
ing to go about their appointed tasks
of teaching in freedom schools and
voter registration they had no assur-
ance that they would come back
home that evening alive. Living with-
out a tomorrow, and some gave up
their tomorrows permanently. Like
my three staff guys well two of them
were my staff guys, Schwerner and
Chaney, one jew and one black, the

other a white guy that was also jewish, a volunteer from New
York. Andrew Goodman hooked up with Schwerner and
Chaney and they went to look through the ruins and ashes of
the black church, in which they had been teaching voter
registration in Neshobal County and they disappeared, they
were killed. You know the story but its not the story that you
saw in Mississippi Burning. That’s not what happened at all.
Mississippi Burning showed no black heroes. There were white
heroes but there were black heroes too. All the blacks in that
film were wide eyes and seared, banyo eyes, we used to call it,
looking around. The only one who had any guts was a black FBI
agent that the film showed being flown in there to interegate
and intimidate one of the officials of Philadelphia Neshoba
County. And then they put him on a plane and flew him out.
The only thing wrong with that version of what happened is
that the FBI didn’t have any black agent at that time and if they
had, they would not have sent him to Neshoba County Missis-
sippi, they would have sent him to Alaska.

Here is what happened ...

I got a call in my apartment in N.Y.C. from Core’s staff
director in District 4. It was George Raymond, who called me,
woke me up at 2 o'clock on the 22nd of June, 1964. The F-B.I.
had not come in as a night in shining armor. NO, NO, NO, NO,
to see that justice was done, NO! We had to drag them in kicking
and screaming. They didn’t come in, HI HO Silver Away.
Nonsense, when I first called them they said how do you know
a crime has been committed you don’t have any bodies. But the
eyewitness reports showed that Price, the Deputy, tailed the
men when they entered Neshobal County. He had been tipped
off they were coming. He followed them to the black church
that had been burned to the ground, where they had been
conducting voter registration classes. When they got back in
the station wagon, Chaney driving, he closed in on them. Price


shot the tire on the wagon, he arrested the three men as he said,
took them to jail. He did take them out close to sundown but did
not take him to the Meridian side of town, he took them to what
they had called the ‘real redneck side of town,’ where there was
a mob of 20 men waiting in an open field, Price then joined the
mob. Members of the mob held Schwerner and Goodman while
the rest beat Chaney obviously to death. Schwerner tried to
help and was knocked unconscientious. Price then jumped in
his car and went someplace, we think he went to call Rainey.
‘We killed the nigger, what do we do now?’ He came back and
they picked up the inert body of Chaney and pushed Schwe-
rner and Goodman in the car and the car drove off. I turned
over the report to the F.B.I. It was then and then only that they
came in to investigate. Six weeks later they found the bodies.
Chaney had suffered the most brutal beating imaginable almost
every bone in his body was broken and the he was shot after
being killed. The other two were shot once each in the heart.
The FB.I. did arrest a bunch of men, including Price and a
southern Baptist preacher. They were convicted, served sever-
al years, and got out.

During the 60’s we merely regulated certain behaviors with
the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights of 65, so that if
you were prejudiced and you didn’t want to serve blacks,
accommodate them in hotels, let them sit in front of the bus,
etc. You might be fined, maybe jailed. So that was what we did,
we wiped out U.S. Apartheid. But Racism is an ism, it is the
idea, the thought, a belief that some races are superior and
others inferior innately by act of God. That, we did not attack.

But we know that the hostility and hatred is great between
people and that is why its so important to have multiethnic
education on college campuses. Mandatory, not electives, man-
datory! You don’t make reading, writing and arithmetic elective
courses because you are going to need them to live in this
world. Learning how to live with other people of different
cultures who look a little different, spell their name a little
different, who dress a little different, who talk a different
language as their first language. That too is important if we are
going to live successfully and effectively in this country, in the
world to day. So that’s got to be mandatory. We have socialized
our kids and we continue to socialize our kids. What happened
in my early childhood, my best friend, a little black boy, a little
white boy or a little black girl, a little white girl we were kids
then. But when we grew up we were yanked apart by parents,
other classmates, peers, teachers, even principles. They were
socializing those kids as they approached the age of dating. Is
the question of dating or intermarriage impossible. ‘Look who’s
coming to dinner?’ That’s it that is the basis of the whole thing,
to keep the races separate, to socialize our kids into preserving
the myth of racial purity. We have got to overcome it and we
will overcome it. I believe in cultural pluralism. I’m proud of
my blackness. I’m proud to be black. But you have a right to be
proud of who you are, if not black, to be proud of your heroes
and your history too and I will join you in that pride. I was
invited to become an honorary member of the Italian American
Veterans Club in N.Y.C. and I accepted. So I’m black and proud
but that doesn’t defame me. My definition is bigger than that
I’m American and I’m human. That humanity is bigger even
than my Americanism or my color. I wrote a little poem to
express that simple thought.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall

What am I when JI stand tall

Child of this land hued black by chance

or a black here put by happen stance

Ah Mirror, Mirror on the wall

I know what I am when I stand tall

of human kind with heart so bald

I’ll never let race define my soul

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Do the Right Thing.

I was initiated from my earliest years into a quasi-
extended, intergenerational family, and what I like to
call a ‘genuinely communal, village culture.’ I had
continuous access to the instructive solitudes of a
surrounding wilderness (where I could practice the
early learnings of a concentrated listening to all the
‘others’ inhabiting those worlds). And I learned the
disciplined, attuneful, and grateful life of farmer
sand rural folk, who understood fully their depen-
dence upon the generosity of nature. They daily
accepted the challenges of becoming diligent, alert,
flexible, patient, with constant work, so that we all
might enter together a life worth living.

Later, I would learn to my sorrow the culture of
those who would endlessly re-compose life according
to abstract models, where persons and groups and
even the natural world would be understood as if all
were like round marbles in a jar, where each re-
mained allegedly the same regardless of their chang-
ing positions.

This latter view, which arose late in Western
culture, and which found powerful intellectual ex-
pressions in almost every area of cultural life, was
initially seen as only positive. But now we have the
history of it’s implementations and we see it cannot
stand alone. We have ‘abstract societies,’ economies,
business practices, depersonalized humans, psychic
fragmentation, and much more. It is largely responsi-
ble for ecological disasters, the disintegration of
families and communal culture, and the annihilation
of many non-human forms of life. And it breeds,
necessarily, intercultural violence, and the disabling
failure to nuture historical and cultural conscious-
ness, and increasing economic blunders.

This need not be, as many have long discovered.
There are very simple moves we can take to hasten
the collapse of such self-destructive modes of live,
and promote a very positive, mutually fulfilling
planetary life. The global virtue (strength) that we
each can learn (and develop it for the rest of our life)
is ‘listening,’ an active listening that disciplines itself
to enter the experiencing of fellow humans (and
others), and which attends to the ‘voice’ of even the
voiceless ones (who are many). When you stroke a
kitten (or lover, or python!), do you listen to the
‘other,’ to the kitten’s response (or a lover’s experi-
encing), or only your own? If only your own, your
entire way of life is probably flawed. Do you seek to
delight your lover, to hear the experiencing (not just
words) of your friend (and also your own)?

It is astounding what good gets born when we enter
the generous abode of mutual listening in depth, and
when we explore or re-explore life from that sacred
place. And this is as true in politics as it is in personal
life, or inter-species interactions. We can enter a
spacious ‘emptiness’ that allows ‘others’ to emerge,
and from there we can experiment with boundaries
that are appropriate to mutualities. This is a genu-
inely ‘do-able’! And everyone who does it as a path of
learning increases the quality of life upon this planet.

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Stuart Nachbar
N. Massapequa, NY

Ralph Naglieri
Elmont, NY

Scott Murray Pamela Myers
E. Meadow, NY Scotia, NY

Lee Murray
Brooklyn, NY

Jeffrey Murray
Hopewell Jct., NY

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Kathleen O’Connell
Latham, NY

Eileen O’Hea
E. Rockaway, NY

Denise O’Hanlon
Staten Island, NY

Margaret O’Shea
Albany, NY

Breda Oconnell
Hewlett, NY

Chris Oberding
Bayside, NY

Enid Odonnell
Oyster Bay, NY

Ellen Ogurek
Merrick, NY

Aki Ohseki
Old Bethpage, NY

Deborah Okun
Forest Hills, NY

Nancy Olsen
Brooklyn, NY

Alyssa Okin
Brooklyn, NY

Jill Nemeth
Scarsdale, NY

Ellyn Nayor
Westbury, NY

Lawrence Naro Amy Nash Marc Nash

Medford, NY Brooklyn, NY Oceanside, NY Holbrook, NY

Roxanne Newman Kristin Nicita

Brooklyn, NY

Douglas Newman

Mihalis Neophyton
Rochester, NY

Albany, NY

Joseph Newell
Clifton Park, NY

Jennifer Newberg
S. Fallsburg, NY

Kevin Nentwich

N. White Plains, NY

Susan Orner Steven Orton
Merrick, NY Troy, NY

Carrie Orgera
Bethpage, NY

Marla Oster
Neponsit, NY

Claire Osman
Parisippany, NJ

Damon Osgood
Brooklyn, NY

Denise Ozsvath
Islip Terr., NY

Kari Oustatcher
Bellmore, NY

Robert Oswain

Christopher Pace
Peekskill, NY

Jeffrey Pace
Wappingers Falls, NY Troy, NY

Avdra Paganelli
White Plains, NY

James Norfleet
Albany, NY

Robert Noah
Patterson, NY

Masako Nishikawa
Albany, NY

Brett Nomberg
Dix Hills, NY

Jennifer Nix
New York, NY

316

Marsha O’Brien
Laurelton, NY

Tina Palazzo
Brooklyn, NY

Michael Pandori
Baldwinsville, NY

Randi Panich
Liberty, NY

Josephine Palijaro Jill Palmer
Garnerville, NY S. Glens Falls, NY

Rhonda Panken
E. Meadow, NY

317


David Pankin Dean Panullo Dave Panyard George Papageorge Kenneth Paradiso Edward Paraiso
Brooklyn, NY Port Washington, NY Syracuse, NY Liverpool, NY New City, NY Staten Island, NY

Claudia Paratore Joseph Park Sungjoon Park Donna Parkinson Valerie Parladore Susan Parmelee
Merrick, NY Albany, NY Albany, NY Malverne, NY Richmond Hill, NY Rockville Centre, NY

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Stalo Paschali Lori Ann Passarelli Alicia Pasternack Todd Patton David Pause Kristine Peabody
Albany, NY Mamaroneck, NY Manhasset Hills, NY Oceanside, NY Ballston Lake, NY Kings Park, NY

Adam Pearl John Pecoraro, Jr. Connie Pecori Tali Peled Raymond Pellegrino Jay Peller
Chestnut Ridge, NY Staten Island, NY Liverpool, NY New York, NY N. Babylone, NY Brooklyn, NY

Gene Pellerin Daniel Peltz Cindy Penchuk Phyllis Pepper Denise Perlman James Perry
Plattsburg, NY Albany, NY Albany, NY Dewitt, NY Poughkeepsie, NY Endwell, NY

Hunter Persky
Great Neck, NY

Archiah Phillips
Troy, NY

Eric Pitagorsky
Queens Village, NY

Ann Marie Popp
Staten Island, NY

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Adam Pratomo
Jamaica, NY

Eileen Peshkin
Pt. Washington, NY

Christina Picardi
Port Washington, NY

Julie Pitman
Melville, NY

Lauren Portnow
Bayside, NY

Patti Pressburger
Wayne, NJ

Charles Petersen
Yorktown Hgts., NY

Melissa Pieniek
Syosset, NY

Christopher Pizzo
Lynbrook, NY

Gary Portnoy
Brooklyn, NY

Pamela Price
Plainview, NY

Lauren Sara Pfeifer
Great Neck, NY

Helene Pincus
Brooklyn, NY

Jeri Plotkin
Little Neck, NY

Greg Portnoy
Springvalley, NY

Cristina Prieto

New Hyde Pk., NY

Lisa Philipson
Little Neck, NY

Joanna Pincus
Millwood, NY

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George Poakeart
Valhalla, NY

Stacey Posner
Thiells, NY

Debra Pritzker
Merrick, NY

Annmarie Phillips
Highland, NY

Steven Pines
Coram, NY

Doug Poles
E. Northport, NY

Stephanie Powell
Earlton, NY


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/ a Garnerville, NY Peekskill, NY Brooklyn, NY Great Neck, NY Gloversville, NY Commack, NY

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Michelle Ratner Tracy Rattner Francine Ratzken Jeff Rauch Martin Reinstein Keri Reitman
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Kingston, NY Rockville Centre, NY toa Se ee _— Rodis : Jeanette Rodriguez Noelle Rousseau Adam Rowe Shari Roxenberg Ilene Rubin Melissa Rubin Lisa Rubinstein
obits a Woodbury, N¥ Bronx, NY Rome, NY Spring Valley, NY Huntington, NY Dix Hills, NY Ft. Lee, NJ Commack, NY

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Barton Rucker
Mahopac, NY

Marianne Ruddy
Pleasantville, NY

Steven Rudin
Syosset, NY

Lisa Ruoff
Albany, NY

Kathleen Russo
Scotia, NY

Paul Russo
Newburgh, NY

Diana Ruthen
New City, NY

Abbe Ruttenberg
New York, NY

Anne Marie Ryan
Staten Island, NY

Patrick Ryder
Newburgh, NY


Lloyd Sabatelli Yvonne Sackey Phil Sacks Grace Sagula Harvinder Sahni Jill Sahr Adam Schlessel Jill Schlifkin Paul Schneider Aliza Schoen Elisa Schwager Eric Schwartz
Woodmere, NY Bronx, NY New York, NY Nanuet, NY Kew Garden Hills, NY Binghamton, NY Oceanside, NY Spring Valley, NY Merrick, NY Pt. Washington, NY Yorktown Hts., NY Milltown, NJ

Lauren Salvatore Kevin Samborn Shelbi Samora Thomas Sangl Sheila Santini Elizabeth Santoro Gregg Schwartz Rick Schwartz Chris Scolaro Nancy Seaman Peter Seidel Evan Seiden
Monsey, NY New York, NY Lincroft, NJ Hauppauge, NY Latham, NY Massapequa, NY Bayside, NY New York, NY Orangeburg, NY Pt. Washington, NY East Chester, NY Roslyn Hts., NY

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Patricia Santosus Nicole Sarnataro Toni-Ann Sarracco Sandra Satchell Anthony Saturno Lisa Scafidi David Seligson Gail Selse Hope Sender Charles Senrick Adam Serper Gareb Shamus
Mineola, NY Bayswater, NY Brentwood, NY S. Ozone Park, NY &. Northport, NY Manlius, NY Yorktown Hts., NY Tappan, NY Old Bethpage, NY Mechanicville, NY N. Bellmore, NY Orangeburg, NY

Jennifer Scally Lisabeth Scalzi Eileen Scanian Delynn Scaringe Marc Scarpelli Mark Schaefer Edmund Shangold Cynthia Shanley Jay Shapiro Kerri Shapiro Suzanne Sharkey Barbara Shaw
Centereach, NY Albany, NY Long Beach, NY Albany, NY W. Hempstead, NY Albany, NY Bellmore, NY Florida, NY Islip Terr., NY E. Brunswick, NJ Albany, NY Commack, NY

Stuart Schaeffer Neil Schaier Keith Schare Mark Schenkman Robert Scher Phyllis Schiro Debra Shaw Jeanne Shea John Sheehan Margaret Sheftic Stacy Shein Lisa Shepard
Bellmore, NY Pt. Washington, NY Howard Beach, NY Mt. Sinai, NY Muttontown, NY Pt. Chester, NY Valley Stream, NY N. Salem, NY Staten Island, NY Clifton Park, NY Brooklyn, NY Amityville, NY

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Gregory Shephard John Sherman Kelly Sherwood Jonathan Shim Paul Shotland Lisa Siegal Melissa Soto Noreen Soto Frank Spadafino Timothy Spicer Aliza Spiegel Jack Spielberg
Albany, NY Croton-On-Hudson, NY Dover Plains, NY Pt. Washington, NY Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Carmel, NY Brooklyn, NY Rye Brook, NY Canastota, NY Flushing, NY Scarsdale, NY

Leslie Siegel William Siegel Mona Silfen Jeffrey Silva Tara Silver Nancy Silverberg Debra Spinosa Robert Springer Rayna Staub Lenny Stein William Steinbach Michael Steinberg
Woodmere, NY Irvington, NY Hewlett, NY Bronx, NY Jericho, NY Flushing, NY North Babylone, NY Encino, CA New City, NY Brooklyn, NY Albany, NY Brooklyn, NY

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Abigail Silverman Jason Silverman Judith Silverstein Melissa Silverstein Melissa Simon Shari Simon Stephen Steiner Pamela Stevenson Matthew Stewart Scott Stollwerk Maryanne Stone Terri Stoughton
Kew Gardens, NY Dix Hills, NY E. Syracuse, NY New City, NY Teaneck, NJ Lake Grove, NY New City, NY Valley Cottage, NY Yorktown Heights, NY E. Northport, NY Nanuet, NY Round Lake, NY

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Randall Simor Hope Singer Susan Skipper Janice Slavik David Smith Martina Smith Lisa Straley Richard Strassler Rachael Streisand Benna Strober Neil Stuart Kathryn Sturek
Rexford, NY New City, NY Ft. Worth, TX Lake Katrine, NY Delmar, NY Poughkeepsie, NY Saugerties, NY Whitestone, NY Chappaqua, NY Woodmere, NY Narragansett, RI Deer Park, NY

Philip Smith Troy Smith Valerie Smith James Snow Scott Soifer Cindy Sommer Mitchell Sudock Tracey Suess Jonathan Suiter Cynthia Sultan Lynn Sunday Andrew Szpiro
Valley Stream, NY Rosedale, NY Brooklyn, NY Bedford, NY Bayside, NY Baldwin, NY W. Lawrence, NY N. Babylon, NY Cobleskill, NY Briarcliff, NY Brewster, NY Kendall Pk., NJ

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Mark Szuchman Amy Tabb Robert Tamburri Alicia Tamres Ben Tanzer William Taverner Cora Tweeddale Jeffrey Tyler Carol Uzzo Robert Valenti Karen Van Beek Barbara Van Brunt
Chestnut Ridge, NY Staten Island, NY Lynbrook, NY Baldwin, NY Albany, NY Staten Island, NY Hurley, NY Gansevoort, NY Dix Hills, NY Bellmore, NY N. Merrick, NY Kings Park, NY

Michelle Taylor Leisha Tedford Clifford Teller Melissa Tenner Glenn Thaler Jonathan Theodore Virpi Van Buren Vivian Vargas Jonathan Varman Louis Vetrone Vincent Vincenzo Cynthia-Lynn Vitere
Marcellus, NY Albany, NY Fresh Meadows, NY Brooklyn, NY Dix Hills, NY Hewlett, NY Scotia, NY NY, NY Hollis Hills, NY Holbrook, NY Staten Island, NY Pelham, NY

Christian Thiim Teri Thorner Laura Tice Andrew Tilem Robert Tillman Thomas Tinghitella Peter Vlogianitis Alex Vojvodich Brian Volkamn Scott Wachtel Tracey Wagman Roxanne Wagner
Mount Tremper, NY Smithown, NY Altamont, NY Brooklyn, NY Albany, NY Mineola, NY Garden City, NY Syosset, NY Ronkonkoma, NY Brooklyn, NY Wantash, NY Monsey, NY

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Dominic Tobacco Nancy Tortorello Daniel Tourtellot Joanne Traub Pauline Triano Tiffany Tringali Jonathan Waks David Waldman Julie Wallace James Walsh Michael Walters Judith Wander
Staten Island, NY E. North Port, NY Clifton Park, NY Syracuse, NY Yorktown Hts., NY Liverpool, NY Massapequa, NY Islip Terr., NY Poughkeepsie, NY Syracuse, NY Syosset, NY Albany, NY

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Christine Trowbridge Toni Tsotsos Ilyse Tublisky Adam Tuckman Derrick Turner Bari Turtel Alisa Warren Barbara Washousky James Watson Adam Wax Michael Waxman Brooke Waxweiler
Cohoes, NY Merrick, NY Kings Park, NY Philadelphia, PA Jamaica, NY Melville, NY Bellmore, NY Bronx, NY Hempstead, NY Morganville, NJ Albany, NY Woodbury, NY

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Eileen Weinberg Craig Weingrow Beth Weinrib Kerith Weintraub Lynne Weiss Hilary Weissberg Mery]! Wolfe Carrie Wortman Laura Wu Tammy Wu Elise Wulff Barbara Wurem
Dix Hills, NY Pt. Washington, NY Edison, NJ Bellmore, NY N. Bellmore, NY Oceanside, NY Dix Hills, NY E. Meadow, NY New York, NY Kingston, NY Delmar, NY Bronx, NY

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Laura-Tamara Weissman Jayson Weisz Sandie Weitzman Catherine Welsh Rori Wender Elyzabeth Wengert | Alan Yagoda Dewitt Yarnall Nalia Younatanov Meiling Yu Beth Yung Maria Zaffino
New York, NY Merrick, NY Carmel, IN Portlandvile, NY New York, NY Syracuse, NY Plainview, NY Dobbs Ferry, NY Forest Hills, NY New York, NY Brooklyn, NY New Rochelle, NY

Bryan Weslowski Patricia West Anne-Marie Wezwick Howard White Jeanmarie White David Wick Jonathan Zaleski Laura Zarco Annmarie Zavagnin Ronnie Zeidel Michael Zerbo Tali Zidon
Florida, NY Cambria Heights, NY Syosset, NY Woodmere, NY Rockville Centre, NY E. Greenbush, NY Salden, NY Bronx, NY Ft. Salonga, NY Bayside, NY Ossining, NY Yorktown Hts., NY

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Erika Widlitz Laurie Wilk Francine Williams Kimberly Williams Maureen Williams Nathan Winch Christy Zimmerman Evan Zimmermann Donna Zingaro Jill Zirlin Christoher Zogby Beth Zuckerman
Baldwin, NY Pt. Washington, NY Bronx, NY Centereach, NY Brooklyn, NY Valatie, NY Mamaroneck, NY Hartsdale, NY New City, NY Lawrence, NY Utica, NY Great Neck, NY

Heidi Wittine Haylie Wittlin Irean Wnuk Nolan Wohl Greg Wolf Keith Wolf i Denise Zuckerman Andrew Zwerin
Glendale, NY Brooklyn, NY Nanuet, NY Jericho, NY Woodmere, NY Woodmere, NY Brooklyn, NY Merrick, NY

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Editor-in-Chief Gigi Cohen

Well, the year is finally over. It has been a challenging one for me, as well as a positive experience.
Although in working with and coming in contact with many different people I have realized that
there is a general negative attitude about life. By that I mean we look at new things or at things that
are foreign to us and we tend to criticize or reject before understanding and accepting. I guess it is
somewhat justified in that it reflects the world we live in today. But I hope this attitude is not carried
over in looking through this yearbook. You will find some things that can be easily interpreted,
whether they be sad, funny, annoying, or pleasurable. But at the same time other aspects of the book
require an open mind or more importantly a positive state or mind. It can all be very rewarding, not
only this book, but our entire lives full of passion, appreciation, and learning. The sixty or so years
we have left are quickly slipping away as everyone sensed during graduation, let’s make the best of
it! Good Luck and enjoy the book.

Gold We recently spoke of a person that
you admired for being knowledgeable, down to
earth, real, and ultimately nice. I would like to
add a few more adjectives to describe why I
admire you in the same way. Your generosity
and above all patience has gotten me through
the year. Thanks for being so helpful and expect-
ing nothing in return.

Dean It has been a pleasure knowing you.
You are one of the few people I have met in
Albany that I can say is truly open-minded. I
have enjoyed our conversations about life and
love. I hope they don’t stop.

Joe D. One of the most positive things
about last year was that I could always count on
you for a smile. You seemed to make me happy

whenever we spoke on the phone. You don’t
know how much] appreciated that in the midst
of disappointment from people that said they
would help and did not. Thanks for being so
sweet and coming thru for me.

Tami First of all thanks for all the help, all
those times of getting up to look at a print. The
studio was a nice place to escape to, to relax, and
to talk. Good luck with family life and all of that
good stuff.

Photo Service You guys have been a big
part of my life this year, probably a little more
than I have been a part of yours. But I want you
to know that I do care a lot about you and respect
each of you as photographers and as friends. I
will never forget you and I really hope to keep in

touch. Thanks for all your help.

Friends from home Probably my only re-
gret this year was losing contact with you. I hope
you can understand why I needed to take on this
project. I have, NOT forgotten those “good ole
times” and I hope we share more. I know we will
share many more. I love you very much, don’t
give up on me yet.

Tia Violeta, Tio Galo, Aunt Sylvia, and fami-
ly Thanks for the support and for the confi-
dence you have in me. You are a big part of me
and I think of you even though I may not pick up
the phone very often. I truly hope to strengthen
our relationship, I have missed you. Tia thanks
for being so positive, you are a truly inspiring
person. I love you all.

Mom, Dad, and Jacob thank you for help-
ing me become the kind of person that appreci-
ates, understands, and can love all different
types of people. Your love has never let me down
and has given me strength. This strength has led
me through the year so in a way all the hard
work I put into this book is dedicated to you. You
have been incredible parents. Jacob I feel I am
the luckiest person in the whole world to have
you as my brother. I love you.

Michael It has been about five years since
we first met. Five years of getting to know you
and loving every second of it. I still remember
learning photography from you. Your energy
and enthusiasm inspired me to no end. Later
when our photo ability (ahem) came to an
equilibrium you continued to inspire me in
many other ways. You are a very special person
and I am extremely grateful to that all mighty
being (god /goddess) that our paths have crossed
(I know, I know “touch my heart with your
foot”). Anyway Michael, I love you very much
and I am looking forward to the next five years.
Oh and of course thank you for the incredible
photographs.

All photographs taken by Gigi Cohen except:

¢ photo credits are lettered (from A to Z) starting on

upper part of left page (*including pictures that cross

over to right page) moving downward, continuing on
the upper part of the right page, and ending on the
bottom right side of the right page.

Michael Ackerman 37C, 52, 72, 87D, 89F, 96, 102B,
104, 110AB, 120, 122, 124-5, 126-7AE, 137, 182B,
186-7AD, 198-203, 222AB, 244-5BED, 225, 250.

Susan Copenheaver 88B, 334D.

Brad Kolodny 86, 87E, 334H.

Teru Kuwayama 42, 63B, 80, 83E, 84, 111E, 113, 158,
182-3AC, 185B, 186BC, 188-9CF, 223D, 237, 334G.

Ho Young Lee 178, 221, 276-7BC, 335L.

Mike Lettera 88A, 112 AB.

Raquel Moller 94-5, 189G, 335], 332.

Randi Panich 335N.

Ileana Pollack 334E.

Adam Pratomo 190-1, 235K.

Jennifer Salerno 60-1, 188-9ABDEHIJ.

Tom Shaw 157, 272-5, 280-1, 283-7.

Armando Vargas 115, 136, 224, 268-9, 335M.

David Brickman 114.

John Cienki 334C.

Gary Gold 112E.

Kerry Noble 233, 112F.

Billy Howard 46-51.

¢ All concept, theme, layout and design by the
Editor-in-Chief.

¢ Torch 1990 was printed in edition of 1500 copies by
the Delmar Printing Co.

¢ All senior section portraits were taken by Dean
Gazo of Carl Wolf Studio.

Special thanks

Kim Cone writing on p.45-6

Beth Keirns writing on p.164, 166

Teru Kuwayama writing on p.81, 84, 85.

Jen Salemrno writing on p.60-62

Laura Tarantini writing on p.144-146, 165, 167
(thanks for the typing and for the energetic enthu-
siasm)

Armando and Leslie Vargas writing on p.134-6

David Brickman

Bernard

Paul Faulhaber

Prof. Garvin

Doug Manly

Carl Martin

Lori McCalaster p.238-239

Kerry Noble

President O’Leary

Chuch Pang (sorry about the photo)

Tom Shaw

Prof. Slater

Ron Simmons (Thanks for the inspiration)

Waldo

Paul Weinman — Homeless poems

Student Association

Torch — C.C. 305
1400 Washington Avenue

copyright 1990 Albany, N.Y. 12222

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Michael Ackerman
Raquel Moller
Adam Pratomo

Jeremy Armstrong

Brad Kolodny
John Cienki
Susan Copenheaver
Armando Vargas
Ileana Pollack
Jennifer Salerno’
Ho Young Lee
Jeff La Marche
Terv Kuwayama
Randi Panich
Mike Lettera


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