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BlOOMING'ION Hancock hi des enviromentalism stinks
Book Hive, 103 W, Front
Eastgate IGA, at parking lot exit discrimination The National Association of
The Joint, 415 N.Main Manufactureres (NAM) has organized
Medusa's Bookstore, 109 W, Front John Hancock Life Insurance Co. the Council on Union-Free
The Back Po~ch, 402 1/2 N. Main refuses to give personnel records Environment to advise business of
The Book Worm1 310 1/2 N. Main to the U.S. Labor Department, the latest "techniques for
which suspects the insurance giant est ablishing union-free labor
South West Corner--Front & Main of discriminating against women and relations."
minorities.
Mr Quick, Clinton at Washington NAM, one of the most powerful
Downtown Postal Substation, "Historically, insurance has been business lobbies, is trying to
a white male profession at th~ get the jump on proposed changes
Center & Monroe managerial level," said a federal in national labor law which
official, and John Hancock "fears businesspeople think would help
Bl, Post Office, E. Empire {at exit) what the records will reveal" union organizing efforts.
about its sex and race discrimina-
Devary's Market; 1402 w. Market · tion. The new Council will be funded by
membership fees ranging from
Harris' Market, 802 N. Mo=is The case will probably go to the $150 to $1,500, depending on the
Hickory Pit, 920 W. Washington courts, like many other af£irmative size of the business.
Biasi's Drug Store, 217 N. Main action investigations.
Discount Den, 207 N, Main --Boston Globe, N.Y. Times
U-I Grocery, 918 W, Market --Wall Street Journal,
Kroger's,lllO E. Oakland
Bus Depot, 523 N. East --Dollars &Sense
The Wash House, 6o9 N, Clinton
Loot..ing for
New Age Bookstore, 101 Broadway Mall a compa-nion?

Cb-op Tapes & Records, 311 S. Main CHECK OUT THE LARGE

Bowling and Billiards Center, SELECTION OF
Baker's Dozen Donuts, 6o2 Kingsley
Cage, ISU Student Union CORRESPONDENCE.AND
Mid.state Truck Pla~, Route 51 North
Upper Cut, 120~ S. Main SWINGERS' MAGAZINES

Bi-Rite, 203 E. Locust nrousoA:Ts sooK
Man-Ding-Go 1 s, 312 S. Lee WORLD
Mel-0-Cream Doughnuts, 901 N. Main 109 W. f'RON1' 77/u,-r w /9 yrs.
Record Rack, 402%- N. Main
. Mr. Donut, 1310 E. Empire BLOOMING'TON or o/Q'f!.r-
J & B Silkscreening, 622 N, Main

Doug's Motorcycle, 1105 W. Washington

K-Mart, at parking lot exit

~Small Changes Bookstore, 409A N. Maiti

Lay Z J Saloon, 1401 W. Market
Pantagraph Building (in front)
IWU, 1300 block of North East Street
Common Ground, 516 N. Main

North East Corner--Main & Washington

NORMAL
University Liquors, 706 W. Beaufort
Pat's Billiards, 1203 S. Main
Redbird IGA, )01 S. Main

Mother Murphy's,lll 1/2 North st.
Ram,lOl Broadway Mall

NCHS, 303 Kingsley
Eisner' s, E. College (near sign)

Divinyl Madness, 115 North St.

OUTTA '!OWN
GaieSburg& Under The Sm1, 437 E.
Main St.
Peoria: That Other Place, 901 NE
Adams
Springfield• Spoon River Book Co-op,
407 E. Adams
Pontiac• Semmens Drug Store, 123
Madis6n St,
Urbana1 Horizon Bookstore, 517 S.
·Goodwin

West Siders Revolt ·AQaii1St3

More Subsidized Housing

West..:s_ide residents who organized
agains_t a proposed subsidi~ed housing

proJec.t in northwest ·Bloom1ngton ~on

a victory in late April, when a-c1ty

staff report recommended giving in to

the neighborhood's fiercely expressed

opposition. ,

(By the time this paper is printed,

the city council will have already

taken action, at its April 24

meeting.) ·

The city's urban renewal department

owns the five acres of. undev_eloped

land on Bloomington's north edge, at

Division Street between the.north

ends of Sherman and'Calhoun streets

and Sugar Creek. But planners had

long thought the· former landfill .

--area unbuildable; and a _city land use

plan declared t)1e area "open space,"

When the-:city started thinking of ABOVE: 250 angry west:..f?iders crowded a public hearing at the Ameri9an
Hungarian. Club, successfully convincing the city staff to dump plans for
selling the.land so a developer could building a subsidized housing project: in northwes~ Bloomington.
b~ild government subsidized housing
for poor people, neighbors started
objecting. They c-irculated petitions,

and convinced city officials to hold
a public.hearing'on how the land

should be used. The March ·22 hearing
'was held practically riext door to the
land in question, a~ the American

'Hungarian Club on north Calhoun
Street. ·

Arriving at the packed meeting (at

least 250 people, with all chairs

taken and more folks standing in being put up against the wall· by housing projects have been built
outraged citizens; on the west side, and even federal'
the. aisles), I was excited -to see regulations for ·such housing
projects prohibit locating them
so many west-siders so determined
in a manner which would increase
to stop what they saw as city Saying that they had counted orr the "impaction"--the concentration of

officials imposing on·tneir acity's promise that the land would ... poor and minority people in one

_neighborhood. Usually, only the be a park, lot of neighborhood are;:t.•

more well-to-do east-siders suceed residents felt betrayed by the
apparent change --in plans.
in organizing to control the .
. '\ .
city's plans in their neighborhoods. Other residents objected to adding.
a dense, mul.ti-family, 50-unit
With a greater proportion, of development to the basically single- Poor people still drastically need
family area. housing in Bloomington, The Public
managerial and professional workers
Housing Authority still lists 280
(who get listened to in their _ fami_lie12... on their waiting list.

workplaces), the east-siders tend--

to develop a greater expectation

th~t the city council will listen Some residents said the iand was· Uritil residents of the northwest
to them-; sid.e organized such an .effective
not suitable for building since
Everyone attending the public h~aring the area is a former-dump and.the demonstration of opposition, the
was militantly oppose.d. to· the fill is still.sinking. · city planned to continue
proposed housing project, but co!)centrating poor· people on the·
But some of the most militant, and
expressed a lot Qf different ugliest, objections to the pro~ect west s.ide.
were objections to the. "kind of
-. ·rp~-,ns. After hearing militant exhortations
people" who would live there. to "build it on the east side," the
And most everyone speaking expressed, city staff has recommended doing·
pride in their self-identities as Some of the residents closest-to just that, According to a ~eport
west-siders. The town's socio-
political-economic division between the proposed project live in . drafted Apd,l 17, Urban Renewal's
east and west side was frequently ,brand:;:.new hom~~ they ·built themselves Director Don Tjaden suggests.looking
alluded to, _.with wes·t-s iders for a new site for subsidized· · ·
on urban'renewal lots. When they
housing,. "giving· special consideration
built the $50,000-~60,000 homes; they to an east side location,"

thought they were building next

door to a city park, not a public

housing pro.ject •.. _ · ·After-the public heari:r:tg, the city

staff recommended keeping the five

But most of the houses in the acres an open area by selling the
neighborhood are modest middle to
·lower-~iddle income ~esiderices, I t land to the Amer,ican Hungarian

bothers me that,so_many of these Club instead·of to tfle Rockford
residents were so hostile to folks developing· firm~ .
who are no~ that much poorer, ·
Such divisions <;l.lllong west-siders,
it seems to me, only help the far ---Mark Si:lverstein
more privileged, far more powerful,
expressing feelings of powerlessness- and much wealthier east-siders-- /
and_lack of insight iri the ea~t~side­ they maintain their power when
dominated city administration.- west-siders fight among themselves,

One speaker-traced the decline of A couple of speakers came very
west side representation to the close to objecting to the proposed
end of the ward system of government
i_n the 1950's. Before the present project's possible tenants on-
system of electing council members racial grounds, and these speeches
at large, the town was divide·d -into deserve criticism, Fortunately,
geographical districts, guaranteeing
representation for each neighborhood. these attitudes were not expressed
(In Normal, firefighter. strike· ' frequently,
supporters are charging that the
1ack of a similar ward system is Though I feel that the sometimes-
responsible for the city council's apparent hostility toward poor
unrespo·nsiveness to public opinion.
See stories elsewhere in th:ls ~ssue ~) people themselves was misplaced,

Both Urban Renewal Director Don -I support the group's adamant
Tjaden and potential housing project
developer Wally Koch of Rockford stand for self-determination
took-a lot of heat throughout the
entire evening. It was refreshing (r-ather than east-side determination)
to see city offic~als and their pals
of the neighborhood's future·-. ·

As speakers at the hearing-pointed ESHAC/cpf
out, all three family public _

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Will Despite: the.best,~tforts Df the . do th~ harvesting--or happen to be.
·nearby during the unannounced .
my federal dope barons; the "killer weed" sprayings--breathe paraquat and absorb
still won't kill you--at least not it through their skirt.
pot right away. But paraquat-contaminated
There is little doubt that some
marijuana could caus·e permanent lung peasants have died or will die from
this highly dangerous herbicide. No
damage. one bothers to warn the~ of the
dangers since they're engaged in the
As you no doubt know by now if you Ire criminal activity of tending marijuana

one of the 15 million regular pot- f~elds.

smokers, the U.S. government has- Poppyfields, which· produce, op~l,l.W ..a.nd
helped spray a highl~ toxic herbicide ultimiiel~ heroin, ar~ al~9 sp~ayed.
in Mexico, usually with· 2,4-D. Yet
called paraquat on Mexic-an maJ;~1j._l.!:a:na ·another herbicide, 2, 4, 5-T,. is
fields s~nce 1~75. . · probably being used also, and both
herbi-cides may have been used on
The d~pi barons-~tax-fed puritans who marijuana. Bqth 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T
make a .living hassling addicts and are linked to mutations and canc~r.
making it hard for pot-smokers and
other fun-lovers to get high--planned
to reduce- the flow of pot and her_oin.

to the U.S. by killing plants in
Mexico ..

/ Paraquat sprqyed on marlJUana plants No tests on the possibility that·
reacts with bright sunlight over the paraquat causes cancer have been
kill course of t~o days to turn leaves into
dust. This lovely process was called completed, although the herbicide was
defoliation in Viet Nam.
discovered over 20 years ago and has
been in wide use since the 1960s.

lrie? Your pot may. have paraquat in it This is not unusual, however, since
because of that two-day lag be~ween most pesticides and industrial
leaf and dust. ~orkers can harvest chemicals were put into wide use· with
a whole field before it shrivels, and ·only the-sketchiest tests on their
once the pot is out of the sun and possible effects on people.
packed in bricks it stops br"eaking
down. ·Unfortunately, the paraquat Parquai is known to be very deadly)
remains.· whether it's swallowed, breathed or
applied to skin, and there is no
-Naturally, the Mexican peasants who antidote for it. One mouthful--even

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The hopeless hope: Tes.ting your p. ot
. .

The only·way to be-sure your pot two"labs ilready mentioned. /
doesn't· contain paraquat is t"l have it·
~ested--but that ain~t gonna be easy. The only other lab the Post knows· Another rumor you may have heard is
about is at PharmChem Research that Project Oz in Bloofuington was
•, Foundation in Palo Alto, California. going to· handle samples for testing.
They've been -getting. from 500 to 1209 That's out, beca~se Oz was going to
There are only tw.o labs in Illinois samples a day and can process only 209 use the sam~ tw6 Illinois labs that
that test marijuana for paraquat, one a day. By the- second we«?k of April . aren't taking any more·· marijuana·
in Skokie and_one in Quincy; As of they we·re already three weeks ..behind; for testing.
April 18, both labs had stopped·taking i~·~_probably three months now.
any more samples for 60 dgys. :That's Nor is there 'iinich charice {n~t "a new
how far behind they are.
(continued on opposite page)

If you've heard about getting your pot However, if you want to try them,
tested at Gemini House in Champaign_ here's what you do:
or. at Alternatives In-c. in Chicago,·
you can forget it for a while .. Both Put-a sample of your pot in a plastic
send their pot samples to one of·the.
b"ag, enough for one joint (about 1
Give info.
tablespoon). Make up any 5-digit
. Project Oz in Bloomington i~ trying to collect
· information on paraquat-contaminated marijuana number and add a letter to it, like
in Bloomington-Normal.
this: 45398G. (Be imaginative.)

Write that. number on a piece of paper

along with what you think-is in your

pot. Put the paper, th~ bag and $5

in cash in an envelope and -send it to:

PharmChem, 1844 Bay Rd., Palo Alto,
CA 94303. .

If you were lucky enough to get your pot tested Wait until you think they've done
your samp'le (one· month?),· and phone
early and have result(:!_ (or get results: later), • · 415-322-9941.. Use the. 5-digit number
you made up to identify ·your sample.
Project Oz would like to_know about it. Call (You may want ~o use.~ lon~er number
or'em a. t 827-0377 .to avoid duplication, since. so many
visit at 404 E. Washington. people are sending them- samples.) · ·Marij~, pi~ts sprayed with paraquat,. on . ·
the left~ turn yellow and begin to dry out
./ ·... . .
after 24 hours, A healthy plant is· on the
lfyo~ find out. that you've gotlung damage or right, . (Photo from Science magazine)

-~ther problems caused by paraquat-tainted pot,

_oz would like to- know aboUt that, too. ·•

Pesticides / A l l the.· poisons

for breakfast!

Paraquat-is not the onli poison no·rules on what coffee can't ha~e sh~~~ ~hat th~ ~isk bf cance~
coming home, and pot-smokers are not contain. That helps .explain why 99% · · · is ·nlllch greater. for animais exposed
· the only Americans being poisoned._
~11 you gotta do is drink coffee. · o£ all Americans have BHC--which to more than. one chemical than-would
be expected fr~m merely adding th~
Th_at' s ri'ght, coffee. causes ·cancer- -·in their oodies.
risks from each of the chemicals
Last fall the Environmental Protection Am~ricans aiso farry around a lot of singly;
Agency tested coffee coming into the other pesti,cides .. and indus_ trial
U.S. and found it contained as many chemicals that lab tests indicate can Unfortunately, even the pesticides
a·s five different pesticide's, · cause cancer. Everybody has DDT and.
including three 'that are now banne.d. dieldrin, two insecticides, and.PCB, that are banned for use in the U.S.
in the U.S. an industrial chemical. Most people
~ave quit~ a few others, including · tend to come back 6n imported foods,
:Benzene hexachlori~e (BHC), banned i~ chloroform, which you drink i~ the
the U.S. in 1976, was one of the heavily chlorinated water that comes ·like BHC, comes. ·back on coffee. The·
pesticides in coffee. An insecticjde, ou~ of your kitchen faucet.
reason is that it's still legal for
- it is sprayed on· coffee. plants in v
Brazil, the main supplier of coffee to U.S. -companies to make banned
the U.S., as wel~ as in. Peru, chemicals as long as they sell .
Guatemala and the Ivory Coast. them in other c~untries.
..
It_• s per.fectly legal to sell coffee
that contains BHC because there a~e It's not that the small amounts of In 1976,· for instance, the U.S. sold

any one of these chemicals in your 576.6.million pounds of pesticides

body ~ill, for sure, give you cancer; abroad. That total included 25.4

The chances nf that are low. The million pou'rid·s ·of DDT which had been

point_ is th.at there are literally banned for all purposes.in the u:s.

dozens of such chemicals.in your since 1~74. '

body and any"one of them could cause

cancer. Worse than tha~ 1 studies These exports amount to big money,

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if it'.s spit-out immediately~-wi-11__. . '· estimates ·that people would have-to·.
kill~ the lethal dose i£ about 0.1
ounce, one-tenth of a·shot glass: lacea pot has_ .als.o turned up in eat two ounces o~ grass contaminated
Over lOD people have.died of paraquat Chamgaign.
poisoning in··the U.S. 'at 2000 ppm every d&y for two years
There·are n6 confirmed cases of
Here's how the late ·J .-M. Barnes~ ·a paraquat-tainted pot in Bloomington- to cause ·a,ctual eel~ damage. ·.
'pro-industry medical researcher in Norm,!, but that's because few (if
any) samples have been 'tested. And · ·... . \ .
England, described the effects of , there's absolutely no. way to tell if Science magazine says these estimates
paraquat: -your pot has ·paraquat ih it unless.
your pot is tested. are based on "rather arbitrary ·

statist.ical measures."

it damages the kidney, the live·r, and The only ·.information on how· much . One of the problems with believing
'it's safe to eat yourLmarijuana is
"·above all" the lungs; where it causes paraquat migh-t be in your pot'· ·is' froill .. that; you n,~.xet:__kn:gw)low much paraquat
is really there. You might have . ·
bleeding and swelling "followed by . a March .1978. report by the National · gotten an e·x'traordinarily high
concentr.ation.'
an inflammatory- infiltration leading ···· Ihstitute on Drug.Abuse (NIDA), which
ultimately to fibrosis .. ·. ~eath.from · tested samples· of marijuana . . Another probl:em is that no studies on .
these single doses may not take place ~onfisc~ted ih 63 large busts ih the the long-term effects of paraquat have
been done, and NIDA has "no plans
for up to two weeks as th~ victim, Southwest l'ast summer. whatever" to do any. It is possible
that the paraquat you ea~ today will
previously healthy and often young, .Thirteen of the samples contained from
.is gradually deprived of 3 to 2264 parts per million (ppm) give you cancer in ~0 years.

the use of his lungs_ .. "* paraquat, with an average of 452 ppm~ But what you really want to know is
"This level," NIDA says, "far exceeds what 'smoking it wil'l do to you, and
Your lid of grass- fortunately won't the 0.05 ppm level that is tolerated
have 0. 1 ounce -of paraquat in it. the rub is that no one knows for sure.

Maybe it doesn't have ~ny at all. for domestic uses"--in food, for

Reports from California this month instance.·

indicate that as much as 25% of the Furthermore, the Environmental At le~st five peopl~ in San Francisco
and Chicago cough~d up blood after
pot tested there is contaminated. In Protection Agency is .n·ow considering smoking pot th~t may have cont~ined
one batch of 40 samples from Chicago, ·reducing those standards or removing
' paraquat. In the Chicago case,· two
39 contained paraquat. Herbicide- paraquat from the agricultural friends who ~moked 3 to 4 joints a
day reported severe sore throats
market altogether because Qf studies (worse than apy cold) as well as · ·

*Paraquat is as toxic to rats as DDT or which indicate it can cause birth bloody spi't. The symptoms stopped .
heptachlor, both of which are banned in defects. when 'they quit· sm'oking but returned.
immediatelywhe~ they started again.-
the U.s. Other studies have shown that Nonetheless_, NIDA. says ·the paraquat

people are three times 'aS sensitive to .it found in marijuana "probably

creates little hazard" if eaten. NIDA
••••••••••••••••••••••••paraquat as rats are....

The· Santa Barbara News and Review
sugge~ts that anyorie who thinks they
smoked contaminated pot should see
a doctor if they have these symp~oms:

Headaches, nausea, chest pains,
difticulty in breathing~ lurig
..

lab will open~. Peter Rankaitis at Oz Of course, you can't trust yo.ur congestion, bleeding gums; cou'ghihg up·
says it would ·take at least~two months friendly pot dealers to tell you where.
and probably more like six months· 'tci thei~wares came from. They may not blood, or paranoia.
.know for one thing. Arid peoplewho
, get .licensed to. do· laboratory tests.' need to uriload pot to make a living Per~anent damage
have been 'known to lie.
The problem with testing paraquat is
Finally, the paraquat som~times turn~
thlt it takes a long time (the. stuff ordinary Mexican marijuana to -~ ' · · A doctor probably won't do you any
browni'sh' color;· so that lovely· "gold...
has to sit for 12 hours at orie point) you bought last we~k may have been the good, however, ·since there is no
bJggest ripoff-. of,. you.r dope- smoking tieat~ent.for paraquat poisoning and.
and-it's damn complicated. · · ca-reer. since any lung damage will be
' I . •~ - .r l ,: !. :' '~ ·: • permanen-t, .according to_ NIDA.
l' . :' Some of the sources I consulted for this section
,-l"
Nonethe~ess, there are p~bpl~ flpa~jng "Smqking mar·lJUana containing paraquat
on paraquat are: presents the greatest potential health
around trying to sell test-your-own hazard," says the NI.DA report. A
kits. Don't buy. They are'n' t any Science magazine; the National Institute on Drug per's on who smokes 3 to 5 joints a day
Abuse's "Contamination of Marihuana with for ~everal months could suffer
good. Paraquat--Preliminary Report"; Project Oz; · "measureable lung impairment" if the
NORML newsletters; The Lapsing star; Chicago p6t contained as_much as 450 ppm of
(If someone should come up with an TribW1e; The Daily Pantagraph; Santa Barbara paraquat.
easy, reliable test for paraquat, at News & Review; Pesticide Manual; Drug Survival
News; "Toxic Hazards in the Use of Herbicides" ·This. "impairm~nt·". is pulmonary
this point you'd almost c~rtainly hear by J. M. Barnes in Herbicides, edited by L<J. fibrosis; that gruesome descriptiori
Audus; Daily Vid~tte. you read a while back (about gradually
about it on the natipnal news media.). losing the use of your lungs) was a
· --D. Le~eure severe. case of fibrosis .. What. : .
According to PharmChem there are some fi6rosis does is to re~uce (or in
-oth~r dangerous myths floating around, ·Pesticides serious _·c·ases prevent) the passage
/ for lllnch of oxyg.en from th~ lungs to the
too. For instance, it's not true that -bloodstream. No oxygen, no life.
contaminated pot smells funny. Nor up in Antarctica, although it was
can fou tell by looking at it. never sprayed there.

PharmChem also says th·ere won't be any In iriy case, the corporations·will Fibrosis cannot be' cured.
always try to play the laws ·to their
·obvio·us side-effects from smoking (at · advantage. .Right now if a shipment of
fish turns up with too much PCB in:it
least at first). Nothing like a for Canada's laws, then it's sent.
headache or lung pains after the ~irst south to the U.S. where the law allows
more.
·joint. By.the time you feel
something, permanent da~age will If chickens· cont<~.in too -much
in·secticide ,from contaminated grain to
likely be done to y;our lungs. pass U.S. inspettion, thei'~e sent to
Mexico. Sometimes the chickens are
mixed with un~ontaminated chickens in • The. only safe 1;h'i.ng to do· is to stop
Mexico ftnd then slipped past the
inspectors into the U.~. The same smoking marijuana·.at leas.t until NIDA
thing happens to spoiled meat.
come.hOme finishes more t~sts, perhaps within
.. It'~ all one big merry-go-round--and the next month. · ·
the poi~ons always come back home
$567 milli~ in 1974. The total world ·one way or·another. .. . .. . .'
UnfortUnately, those tests will
market-for pesticides is now ~p to·
$7 billion, and the U.S. , •.which probably tell the same story: smoking .
exports one third of its pr6duction,
has ~he lion's share of that market. pot may cause permanent lung damage.

It doesn't matter to the corporations •• J •• • • •
that they're selling toxic chemicals
that will most likely be used by So f~r, the government intends to keep:
untrained people who aren't aware of it that way; it has no intention of
the dange-rs. The reason they like to trying to stop the spraying progr,ms
sell abroad in the first place is that it.helped $tart and is helping pay
there are fewer restrictions on use. for.

·Nor do the corporations care if some The reasori is that 'the federaJ dope
of the,pesticides come back from
Mexico or Chile or Guatemala on barons are pleas·ed with the results of
lettuce, bananas, brocoli, tomatoes
and on almost all qther fresh pToduce. the spraying. The amoUnt of heroin:
The law still·allows some BHC or DDT
in food even if the chemical is entering the U.S. from Mexico has
already banned. By now ft might be been greatly reduce~.
impossible to avoid contaminated ·
food. DDT, ·for instance, has shown
Besides, most of the top dope barons
have been quoted publicly as saying

they don't give 1a damn what happens to
people who use herbicide-contaminated
drugs_.

You are a criminal anyway, say the
·dope barons, and they've got ~ore

important thing? to _worry about, like
budgets. ·

. .············-·G·o·v·er·n·m~en·t·ig·n·a·ee·d·p·ar~a·qu-ae -,. .··p..e, Po•t-Amerikan. vol. '· •• ·

- Al thoug.b the U.S. Government kne_w in · 1 dangers for 21h years
1975 that marijuana Coritiminated with-
the potentially dangerous herbicide its purpose behind the public denials:
paraquat was entering the country, it
denied its involvement in the Mexican ·it was trying .to. protect a "very
spraying program and fended o~f-a sensitive issue" in .u.s.-Mexican
Senator's requests that possible -
health dangers he stLldied.- relations.

Sen. Charles Percy began lookink into The Mexicans, an official told
the use of paraquat on·Mexican
marijbana fields l~~t May after a Science, "are spending an· inordinate
member of his staff read about it in
the alternative media. He was _ amount of their resources on a
concerned about the possible effects
on the 15 million regular marijuana project that essentially benefits the
users in·the U.S.
U.S. We don't want to disturb that.

_Moreover, anything that makes it

appear that the u.s. is in any way

,·-controlling or directing the program

is damaging-to the stability of the

The State Dep_artment told· Percy that Mexican political· env~r6nment."
paraquat "quickly" made .the marijuana
-- T_he ~!exicans who fly and maintain According to Science, however, the
"useless for smoking," thus playl.ng real importance of -the contradiction
down possible dangers, ·It also the aircraft are trained by - between the government's statements
claimed that "the_ Mexican narcotics and its activ~~ies lies in the
control effort is directed and instructors who are under contract to
controlled by -the. Mexican government." the U.S. government._

As late as March 1978, the National --~ophisticated tec6nology~ includin~ likelihood that State Dept. denials
Institute on Drug AQuse (NIDA) issued -delayed an iavestigation of the
infrared aerial photographyp ~hat was
a report.which claimed "this developed by the U.S. in the campaign possible harmful effects of the
eradication program is operated and to defoliate jungles in Viet Nam is herbicide-spraying program.

· funded by the .Mexican Government .." used in Mexico. Federal law requires environmental

--Employees of the federal Drug impact statements for "major federal

Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Science magazine, however, provided accompany Mexicans on -flights to

evidence in its Feb. 24; 1978, issue -identify the fields and to assu.re

that showed how deeply 'the U.S. has that they have been sprayed ..
- .•
been involved in both the marijuana --Four U.S. agencies ovejsee th~

and poppy~spraying programs in Mexico spray1.ng progra!ll: the DEA; the Sta.te
f!om their begi~nings:
· Dept. through its Mexican embassy and

--Since 1973, the U.S. has given its Office of International Nar·co.tics,.

Mexico- $40 million for the spraying the General Accounting Office, an~ the
programsh Much.of the money was used
to buy 76 u.s.-made helicopters ~nd Agency for International Development.
light planes.
Science obtained an October 1975
Write Jimmy- report by State Dept·. employee John

The Nationai Organization for the Ford that .contains references ·io·. -
Reform of the Marijuana Laws, which is
trying to~top·u.s~ support bf the advice he ·provided on spraying
paraquat sprayihg program in court, paraquat on marijuana fie1ds.
sugge$ts thit citizens complain to the
President. Ford also saw that some of the fields
chosen for the earliest tests .in -the
Write or telegr-am:~ herbitid~ program--in 1975--were
President Jimmy Carter harvested on·the same day they were
The White House ·
1600 Pennsylvania· Ave. , N. W. sprayed.
Washington, DC 2050~
Since paraquat requires up to two day's -~·911~~
Urge him to stop all aid to the
herbicide spraying programs. of bright .sunlight to completely actions signific.ntly affecting the
destroy marijuana plants, fast~­ quality of the'- env-ironment" in the
U.S. A-1975 cou-rt case determined
harvesting makes it possible to sell that AID had to file ·~ruch statements
wh.en it used ~p.es ti·cides in foreign
contaminated marijuana that cannot be countries beca-use of the-potential
·impact of those: pesticides on the
distinguished by sight or smell from. whole world, including the U.S.

uncontaminated marijuana. . The government, of course, argues that
the program is run by Mexico and that
The State Dept:. eventually revealed the· u.s. ·does not pay fQr the
herbicides.

T~at's why·Peter·Bourne~ director of
the White House Office of Drug Abuse
Policy, makes such a big deal of his
claim that Meiico buy~ its paraquat
in Europe;

Even that claim was .unde.rmined- by the
March. 1978 NIDA report which said that
PC1-raquat is "a -~hemical patented in
England_and manufactured in this
country (the U.S.) and in Mexico.".
Chevron Chemical bf Richmond, Calif.,
makes paraquat:

2 full·ti.me silver smiths The Natidnal Organizaticiq for. the
Cu~tom designs
Reform cif Marijuana Laws has"gorie to
in· .gold «Jild silver ~o~rt iri-an attempt to stop U.S.
support .for the spraying prog.ram

until environmental impatt
statements are fi'led.

*ALASKAN SILVER & IVORY SCRIMSHAW. *14k GOLD JEWELRY CQurt a~tion, of course, takes time,
and even :if the suft suc~edds,.
*STERLING SILVER JEWE-LRY *TURQUOISE :.~ par~quat~contaminated~marijuana ~ill
*HEISHI - be sold for sqme time. . ·

Handcrafted--wooden toys Nor i-s there any assurance that a
different herbicide, ~ike the ·2,4-D
*MACRAME SUPPLIES *TOBACtOS
*LEA'l'HER GOODS · *PIPES AND ACCESSORIES that is ~sed on poppy fields, will not

:be used ... The_ Mex_ican ·government has ..

already announced it is?considering

105, 1$·~ ·l!.lititutbrl< · l\tlrmaf such an altejnativ~. · ·

Mon~v ~. f:-r-_i4av- 1o -8:3o ··- :fSt-~:21.:12> Both ;2, 4': D. and another hethicide

·called 2;4,5-t, which.has ~ee~·seen ~

by Agric~l ture De.pt_. personneJ in the.
same Mexican stor~ge shed~ with · ·

---~atux;da!1_-- 9-.5:'-" ·- · ·.-· ..'-~··: .. . pa~aqua~.-u~~d on marljuaria fields, are
--:·susp·e.c;ttd• :of caus ing''imitations. and
~ ....., -" ?1. cance·:r .-

- --- - -- - -

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ASEVENTEEN-TJAGE
I

STJECIAL SECTION

It's appropriate that our sixth

anniversary issue features a special

section about food. The Post tries t0

cover both the ways that people are

kept down and their struggles for a

better life. In the past thirty-five

years, farming has been taken over by

big business. Food is now a power

issue, on a massive scale, as

unquestionably Amerikan as . well,

as apple pie.

Several articles in this section talk
about the power of giant corporate
"farmers" and how they use it. Since
U.S. and transnational corporations
have taken over U.S. food production,
we are getting more polluted food at
higher prices with more non-human

an~mal suffering.

And food is now an important political
weapon between nations. Poorer

countries grow crops, ofter: luxury crops,
crops, for export to richer nations,
whose payment in return ends up in

the pockets of the well-off. Since it
is more profitable for farmers in

these poorer countries to grow export
crops, a lot of people there go hungry
when a food shortage could ~ve been
avoided or lessenec.

Other articles in this section talk
about ways that we can respond to

food imperialism and food pollution.
Many people start food co-ops to com-
bat high prices, get less poisonous
food, and raise consciousness about
food issues.

Large numbers of folks also change
their diets for health reasons and

political reasons. Some people stop
eating meat and animal products. Some
give up sugar. Some free themselves
of the coffee habit.

But these kinds of diet changes don't
have to mean that health food freaks
are the new puritans, living out a
drab, joyless, deprived, and hungry

existence. Our section also includes
short reviews of four cookbooks,
exciting suggestions to satisfy the

stoned munchies, and an update on the
progress of our very own local
vegetarian restaurant.

Corporations are m~tivated by profit;
Nestle, for example, pushes infant

formulas on poor third world women who
can't use them in safe conditions .

Our eating whole wheat bread instead of
white bread certainly isn't going to

force them to stop. Millions of people
here and in other countries are takin3
militant stands and organizing around
food issues. In this section, we ~ give

•support to the Nestle boycott .

Knowledge is one of the necessary

tools of change. We hope that you

get as much out of reading these

articles as we did from writing them .

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.. .. .. . .... Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 8
~ . .. .r •••.<.~•.......' •·

..,..,.. " and if there's a large space, they build

BEEZZZZ~./ c::!~..? more comb. So a modern beehive looks
like this:

of Honey

When you see that worker bee nosing

around that flower chances are she's

not sunbathing but gathering nectar od
or pollen. Nectar':..collecting be.es
make trips from hive to flower - ana back Cho.W\be.r
again, lasting from a few minutes to
3 or 4 hours. The average trip is l (t9~sJ fo.rvo.tzJ

hour, and they sometimes make 10 trips ""pupae
in f1-o.mtts)

About the time you receive this a day.

issue of the Post Amerikan all us
beekeeper~ in Central Illinois will be
The bee collects the nectar in the
finished gritting our teeth and Biles ~o in+
honey stomach or honey sack. This is
hoping--because we'll know whether ovt ha:'<'e
our beehiv,es made it through the winter. for storage. No digestion takes place.
The bee can either regurgitate its
In fact, we've had to put that all Modern Hive
contents or let it pass into the
behind us for the moment and decide digestive system. She adds enzymes
whether we've lost hives and which
and waterlike secretions to the nectar
ones we'll restock and go about the from glands in her head. When the bee The bottom hive body is where the
returns to the colony she passes her queen lays her eggs and where the
mess of cleaning up thousands of dead
bees. load of nectar to a house bee and brood is reared. These are called

Those of us lucky enough to have our returns to the field. The house bee the broud chambers. The hive bodies
hives surviv~ this winter are feeding processes the nectar into honey. Then above this are called supers, and
our bees until the flowers are plenti- they contain 10 frames where the honey
ful and the bees can gather nectar and the honey is sealed into the comb. is stored.

make their own honey. Then there are The beekeeper stacks up supers as

all those beekeepers waiting for their The queen bee has no part in this. the bees fill them with honey.
She is the only bee in the hive
packaged bees to arrive in the mail: During the spring, summer, and fall, it

thousands of bees in a screened box). having fully developed reproductive is up to the beekeeper to manage his/
organs and the ability to lay

fertilized eggs. She is different from her hives. This includes disease

April is the month when the queen the worker because at the larval stage prevention, swarm prevention, adding

starts laying eggs abundantly and .the workers feed her a food called - more supers as they get filled with

the hive begins to grow. The beekeeper royal jelly, which causes her to mature honey and inspecting the hive to see

waits for those first flowers to bl~m differently. that the queen is laying well. This is

and hopes for a good harvest of honey only a partial list. It is a busy time

in the fall. It takes 16 days for a queen to hatch for beekeepers.

into the mature adult bee which is much

larger than the worker. All she does As a beekeeper myself I can tell you
is lay eggs - usually 1200 to 1800 a
it's fascinating to turn on to the

day. world of bees. This is just a taste.

(It's impossible to cover everything

The drone is a mal'e. He looks quite in a short space.) The fear of a few

• different than the queen and worker, stings is nothing compared to the

~Smoker having a blunt abdomen and eyes that wonder of watching the complex world

meet at the top of -the head. It takes of bees. And of course there is that
24 days for the drone to develop. His
(smoktZ. added bonus of delicious honey.
subdues main function in life is to mate with
the queen. She has only one mating All types of people are beekeepers.
b(l.fl ~) flight, ~sually within the first 10 Sure, there's the big complex bee

Beekeepers days of her life. After this, the operations but anyone with about $100
are _·spec-ial
drone is useless to the colony. As can invest in a beehive and set it up
winter approaches, the workers drive in your own back yard. By the 2nd
the drones out of the hive, where they
fall you sho~d be rewarded with honey
die from cold and starvation.
people for your own use.

When I first contemplated beekeeping

2 years ago1 I got the same advice
everywhere I turned- Read!!! Read

There's a rumor that the beekeeper is a up all you · can and see _if it still

unique animal. Read any book on intrigues you. Subscribe to a bee
beekeeping and you'll hear about it. magazine and get acquainted with the

It's not just because beekeepers ~go advertisers of bee equipment and the

on and on about bees; it's just that latest news about bees. I also suggest

you have to be a little bit unique to talking to a local beekeeper. There

work calmly in the midst of thousands are more than you think in B/N. Talk

of little creatures who at any moment with them. Watch them work their lives.

could decide to sting you. I think ol{oNe queEN After all this you can start ordering
calmness and nonchalance are the keys--
bee supplies and have them all ready
show those bees you're uptight and
they'll be apt to sense it and sting. by next spring. And if you just .
can't whiaviet 1 perhaps some local beekeeper
Altogether the number of bees in a , has a s/he would sell.
colony may vary from 15,000 to 100,000.

Enough of . the beekeeper. What about There are the queen, several hundred Here is a very partial list of books on
those bees and their organization or drones, and thousands of workers. the subje-c-tr
colony? Well, it 1s made up of 3

individuals--the worker, the queen, and All these bees hang out in a bee hive. 1. Beekeeping in the Midwest--E.R.
the drone. Through the years there's been all
types. Some were cut from a hollow Jaycox. Simple to understand, and
The worker bee is the laborer of the up to date: find it at Small Changes
colony and makes up the majority of tree, other hives were straw skeps. Bookstore, 409A N. Main, Bloomington.
its population. The' worker is a female
. bee not equipped for laying eggs; but E.R. Jaycox happens to be a big bee
person at U of I in Champaign~

they do all the other work in the • 2. The Joys of Beekeeping - very fun
colony. They gather pollen and nectar, reading and very inspiring - Withers
feed the young larvae and paupae, bring
Public Library, Bloomington·..
water to the hive, secrete beeswax,
3· Here are two classics also at
build comb and do many other tasks. Withers that have just about everything
Their lifetime is short in the summer-- in them: ABC & XYZ of Bee Culture.
sometimes no longer than 6 weeks.

The worker bee starts out as an egg /lollo4Jfl,d, out lt>j The Hive and the Honeybee.

which hatches into a larva. It grows But in 1851 L.L. Langstroth designed 4. Bee magazines: American Bee
and matures and spins a cocoon and theri a hiv~ with "bees_pace" in mind. He Journal and Gleaning 1n Bee CUlture.
changes _into a pupa and finally emer~es made a hive in which the frames hung
within a box so that they were This pretty much wraps it up, I guess.
as a full grown adult worker bee. This If anyone wants to talk about bees,
all ~akes 21 days. surrounded on all sides by a space of I'm willing. I may not be the biggest
1/4 to 3/4 inch {beespace). It was or most experienced beekeeper bu~ I am
found that bees leave this much space enthusiastic. Just call 829-6223 and
leave a message and I'll call you sack.
open. If there's a smaller space, ·they

fill it with sticky propolis (bee glue), --Ann

Post-Amerikan vol. 7 '#1 page 9

Crunch Nestle' Quick! ·aaby bottle disease br.ings_

business big-·_ bucks

Condition: baby bottle disease. One can is supposed to be a 4-day months. Impurities found. in drinking
Syroptoms: diarrhea,. maJ:nutrition. supply. water are not pas_sed 'on to "the infant
Effec'ts·: mental retardation, death. The r'esul t is an epidemic of in_fant
malnutrition.· through breast-feeding.
Victims: infants of poor mothers,
mainly third wQrld but also on U.S. Compared to breast-feeding, infant A1so, the mother's mil-k can give the '
Indian reservations and in U.S. farm formulas are not easy to-prepare. In infant immunity against some diseases.
worker camps and urban ghettos. order for the food to· be safe certain
/ things are ·necessary: pure water, the Many· third worl'd countries are trying
means to sterilize i;he bottles and
Cause: big business money greed. nipples' and (uhle,ss the formula can to slow the sales-of baby formula that

In the 1960's American~sal~s of .~' . .~. c• ". .'be prepared every few hours) a are resulting in t.he deaths of so many
refrigerator. · ·
~"]!Q) infants and severe brain damage to

infant bottle formulas went down. The ~e~'-'~ ~~~ ·\'1.§8 ,. others. In Papua,-·New Guinea, sales of

post-World war II baby boom had slowed u. ~ baby. bottles, nipples, and pacifiers

down and more mothers were breast_-· without a doctor's.prescri~tion have
been banned; -
feeding their babies. To keep sales

high and the money rolling in,· several -Howev~r, most formula companie_s are
· not easily stopped. ·
companies which produce infant -

formulas-created a market abroad, in
the third world. ·

Only· about 10%-of third world mothers Ne"stle, a Swiss transnational corpora-
actually need t·o use formulas because·
they can't breast-feed_ tneir infants. tion, controls one-third of the infant
To increase the market, formula formula sales in the world.and is the
pro-ducers set~up expensive, aggressive largest single distributor of
advertising campaigl!.s to-convince -formulas. They enjoy a 72% profit

women ~hat bottle-feeding is modern margin on the sales of formula to
third world women. ·
and scientific and therefore b~tter.
Free or low-cost samples are given to People in the U.S. joined the interna-
mothers in hospitals •._Nurses, or
'salesmen in white coats, visit homes tional boycott OL Nestle products in
to drop off "information"-.:. and free 1977. Nestle prodtict~ includ~ the
samples. ' following:.·Tas1;er's Choice coffee,·
Nestl~ Quik, Nescafe,,Nestea, becaf,
And th~ campaigns are successful.- Nestle Crunch, Souptime ,- Lactogen, --
Twenty years ago in Chile, 90% of new-
borns were breas~-fed. Today only 20% Deer Park 'Mouni;ain Spring Water, apd
are. Jarl~burg and Swiss Knight cheese.

Infant formulas are expensive, The boycott also includes products
from thes~ Nestle-owned companies:
although a mother may not realize this Libby, stouffer, Crosse & Blackwell's,

Kei::Uer, Maggi, McVities, Crawford,
and -James Keller & Son.

when she is given her free sample of Most third world women don't- have all
those things. The result is infant
Enfamil {Bristol-Meyers) or Lactogen diarrhea and malnutrition. -You can also write Nestle to tell .them
(Nestl~). And most third world women you are boycotting _their products
When a mother realizes how expensive
are poor. It was estimated ~hat an the formula is, or when an infant until they· stop promoting ~nfant
shows signs of malnutrition, it is formulas. to women who don't hav~ the.
average Uganda laborer would need to often too late to switch. back to - money or the facilities to-use
breast-feeding. The mother's milk has
spend JJ% of-her daily wage to buy usually dri'ed tip: formulas safely. - The u.s. address

enough formula. In some countries it's Even without the terrible effects of is: . Nestle co., 100 Bloomingdale.
bottle-feeding in these conditions,
even higher. · breast-feeding has certain advantages Road, White Plains, N.Y., 10605.
for mothers, especially poor ones, and
Many women ·cannot afford th.ese priceE!. their babies. A mother can cheaply and
safely breast-feed her tnfant for
(could you?) and so overdilute the For more information about the

formulas to stretch them. in Barbados boycotit, you can write to the Infant
Formula Action Coalition at 1499
a 1969 National.food and Nutrition Potrero Ave., San Francisco, Cai.,

survey asked mothers, "How long does _ 94110, or at 1701 University Ave. SE,

one can of baby- formula last?" 82% Minneapolis, Min., 55414.
replied that it lasted fronC 5 days. to.
3 weeks~ · ·

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4 Cookbooks .Reviewed -

I•S alWays in good taste!

Let's Cook It Right by.Adelle Davis Recipes for a· Small Planet by casseroles. It's good to have· i:f
Ellen Ewald · ·
This was my first health-nut cook- you love vegetarian food but aren't
book,-- and if I'd known ho.w much This book is basetl on Frances ·a vegetarian, because .it also. has,
I'd use it, I would've got a Moore Lappe's principle of protein
hardback. In Chapter One, Davis complementarity,. which is explai,ned meat recjpes. And it has a lot of
explains briefly-the nutritional in the introduction. In short, variety.
principles that her recipes are ithe recipes put together non-meat
.based on. At.the beginning.of ingredients which ind!vidually -I don't like the way it's organized
e~ch chapter (it's divided into. give you incomplete protein, but (sometimes just looking at the
the traditional Eggs & Cheese, in combination provide you with Table of Contents makes me decide
Salads, Bread, etc.), she writes complete protein, just as meat to use Betty Crocker), and if you
a little essay about the food and fi~h do. think. the ingredients in Small _
group and its nutritive value and ... Planet ·are, weird, you oughta check'
warns the reader abo.ut.common The recipes· are truly delicious, out the .strange •Ones in here. I · -
cooking methpds that destroy too. I particularly recommend the may just be off the wall, but it
vitamins and minerals. granola recipe and the comple~ seems that I _have to add between
mentary pie (beans, cheese,. rice, :30 minutes and 2 hours to the oven
Let's Cook It Rlght has the best tarragari-.-yum!). You do need to ti:tnes these recipes give. But
and clearest whole wheat bread shop for the ingredients at one of you know,. they do things different
recipe I've come across·. The the natural food stores. in New York. And the design and
soups are really good too. layout are beautiful; (There's
One. nice feature is that each recj,pe a wonderful bread re'cipe on page
The book's shortcomings are: tells how many grams of protein · 291: Honey Whole Wheat ·Bread.)
1). that I can't make a piece of a· serving yields. Ewald also has
fish fit to look at, let alone eat, a sense .of humor, something- that ' The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas
Adelle Davis is ~ little shor~ on.
no matter how closely r follow Every recipe from this book I've
The .New York Times Natural Foods ever eaten has been an ultimate
·the r.ecipes, 2) tha't Davis has a _cookbook by Jean Hewitt _exper.1ence. What cmore can- I say?
~ather narrow-minded insistence Oh, yes, the recipes are easy to
on meat-and-dairy protein, which This one (and Small Planet too) is follow and the print is big
results in J) that there aren't _really strong on vegetar1an enough (unlike the paperback
enough vegetarian casseroles and Adelle Davis).
stuff to suit my taste.

Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 10 Food May Be

..

WARNING:

Last year I attended a conference on nervous exhaustion, craving for swe·ets, vitamin B deficiency and some of the
feeling sleepy after meals, faintness, psychotic behaviors, it makes. sense .to
.Radical. 'Therapy which focused on

mental health from a political dizziness.· look at nutrition and its relationship

perspective. One of the workshops was to schizophrenia.

on DUtrition and mental health. What all this. means is that when the Dr. Abraham Hoffer, based on research

blood sugar level is low, a person is
Well, that seemed pretty radical to me, in a weakened physical and emotional of physiological causes for

I could-see how politics affects how state, making it more difficult' to schizophrenia, thought it possible that

we feel about ourselves, but where deal with stress than·usual. An hour ·"schizophrenics" have unusual ways in
which they metabolize proteins and
does nutrition fit in? After·attending after gulping that double fudge B & R
certain nutrients. So, he gave
that workshop and doing some reading, may not be the best time for you to
intitutionalized ·people huge· doses of
I'm learni.ng that what we eat has· a practice your assertiveness on the

lot more to do with how we feel thari .local mechanic or to try to settle a niac.in and vitamin C and noticed

I ever realized. dispute with a friend, ~orne striking improvements. Since

Throughout history, natural healerp •. \ then other psychiatrists have used
megavitamin therapy, usually along-
A lowered blood sugar level is not the with oth~r typ.es of therapy, and claim
sorcerers, and.witches.have used on~y way.that eating refined sugar

their knowledge of herbs and foods· to affects our mental health. Sucrose_ remarkable success rates, increasing
disturbs the·acid-alkaline balance in .the number of people able to be,.
treat peopie' s medical and mental

problems. But witches get burned at the the body. Sodium, potassium, magnesium,_ released from mental hospitals.•

stake and Western science scoffs at and calcium.are used to combat-this

"primitive" medicine. so;· the focus of imbalance. If your mineral intake is
American psychology has· been mainly 'on low, _and your sugar int-ake is high, .
Megavitamin Therapy
those external influences that affect then you may develop deficiencies in
these minerals.
~motions, like stresses in. our lives, J. •

family environment, 'drugs, or Megavitamin therapy has also been used

physio~ogical damage such as br~in­ ·Calcium aids the transportation of "·. with alcoholics. In research with

damage. nerve impulses· and a def.iciency of rats Dr. Williams noticed that diets

this mineral may lead to tenseness, COnSiSting mainly 0-f refine.d I

However;· our nervous sy'stem is the link restlessness' irritability·, temper carbohydrates produced more a;Lcohol

p.etween ,us and'. the world,· and ·our bra:in outbursts or insomnia. -Mild magnesium . drinking than did di.ets of refin_ed
and nerve cells'· need certaiin· nutrients d~ficiencies may leave a p~rson carbohydrates fortified with vitamins,

·to function properly. What, happens to· feeling irritable, high-strung, easily ·or vi tami'1 and mineral-rich diets
. devoid of carbohydrates. Sugar and
our emotions when our ·bodies aren't · startled, and sensitive to noise,
getting those nutrients? · Wes·tern · Severe deficiencies may cause confusion~ caffeine, added to the 'high
carbohydrate vitamir.t deficient diet,
science is beginning to catch up with clouded .thinking;- disorientation and
,further increased alcohol drinking,
.,"prim~tive" medicine,by looking at this . even hallucination.. Nervousness.).
quest1on. · _irritability, and mental disorientation It was found that giving the rats
a vitamin supplement reduced .i;heir
.can ·also be relate·d to a potassium alcohol intake. ·
In the 20th century., il we ·ar_e not ,. deficiency-~

selective, we eat processed, refined One of the more alarming effects of Alcoholics tend to. have poor di~ts ,·
eating r~fined sugar is that it can
,and milled foods that have oft:m had drain the body of the B-vitamins in fact 70 to 90% of them are .
·.important nutrients taken out and which are essential to the normal hypoglycemic, In the P-ast it has been
functioning of the brain. Depression, .
thrown away, yvhile·harmfu;L ingredients assumed tnat these bad eating habits
were added. This is a hazard'not · were due to ..too much drinking, But,

_only to our physical' health, out to recently it has been·not~d tbat the
our mental health as well. , : :~- .....· low blood sugar l~vels experienced
. 'irri tabiii ty'' .. confusl.on' memory loss ()r·
an ina.bili ty to concentrate may stem by a hypoglycemic. person created a

from ·a de1'ici'ericy in thiamin, vitamin craving for alcohol, caffeine,

Bl. Deficiencies in vitamin Bl2 may
result in difficulty.with concentration, nicotine, and of·course sugar, So,
and memory; agitation, depression, and it's possible that in some cases
hypoglycemia actually increases a
hallucination.
person's alcohol consumption.

·The first signs of a niacin (vitamin

BJ') deficiency are psychological. One Based on this finjing alcoholics have

of the.earliest of these is a loss of oeen given huge doses of vitamins,

one's.sense of humor. Other signs are especially 'niacin (BJ). Refined sugar

confusion, worry, suspicion and and carbohydrates were removed from

depression. "If the deficiency is /• their diets as were caffeine and

severe a person may become very nico.tine. Some' of these megavi tam in

hostile, and noticeably suspicious. therapies claim a much higner ·

This list of signs of yi tariiin B. success rate than does Alcoholics
deficiency could almost have been
~ifted from a psychology text giving Anonymous ..

;-Take for example :¢efined sugar. It'.s . ,,...' Diet and its influence on emotional
.~,in restaurant sugar bowls, in ice
behavi6r has been looked at. with
·cream, catsup, canned soups, alcohol,
,' and even .tobacco. What does sucrose two other gpoups of peop;Le--the young
~(refined sugar) have to do with how we
; feel em()tionally?_' ·sucrose is., abs,orbed and the old. As mentioned before,
. 'directly into the blood stream through
deficiencie~ in the B~vitamins
. ·the .inte-stines. So wh.en you eat that
affect the brain cells and may lower
Baskin Robbins double scooper, there a child's ability to·learn, and so
'is a suddenrise: in·your blo'od sugar
level, g{~ing yo~ a bu~st of energy. children with learning disabilities

have been given niacin and vitamin
Bl5. . .

But qucrose .di'sturbs the glucose . Biraicpf .. .
oxygen. balance in the blood and to · Today a large category of "problem" .
.handle tf].is yo'ur .adrenal glands pump the symptoms of various mental
~ emergency ration~ of insuYin int? illnesses and especially' of children have been labelled hyperactive.
"schizophrenia." Schizophrenia is a They'· tend to b'e irritable, aggressive ·
your blood str~am. When this emergency popular l~bel used to describe a .
_rati()n: stops, the blood sugar level · wide variety of behaviors which are disruptive in class, and have a short
considered abnormal by psychiatrists attention· span. Certainly it.shourd
drops lower than_it was before you ate and psychologists. not seem unusual for any young person
to react with.these behaviors when
the Baskin·& Robbins. Even though_ nobody really knows forced to sit for six hours in a ·
what schizophrenia is, what causes it, ·,boring class with thirty other bored
•Low blood sugar levels d~plete the ~ody or what to do about it, various people• However-, it's possible that
"cures'" have been tried. People who extremes of these· behaviors aren't
of energy.' At that point a person 1s have been labeled schizophrenics have caused merely by an inhumane school
been studied, locked up, drugged, system, but are aggravated by poor
more susceptible to being irritable, shocked, lobotomiz~d, and . diet,
psychotherapized.'_ Given the
tired, listless. With contil"'lled 'suerar similarities between the effects of . ' ....

. intake a person may. develop . Some nutritionalists believe that
hyperactivity is related to the eating
hypoglycemia, a conditio.n where the of sugar,and salicylates, those
chemicals used in flavorir.tg-and
bodyhas a lowered tolerence for sugar coloring of .foods. It is suggested

and even small doses of sucrose lead that young people eat no sugar,
to significantly ·low blood s'ugar coffee, colas, or teas; eat small
amounts of refined carbohydrates,
levels, . Hypoglycemia may al.so be . and take vitamin and mineral
supplements, especially lots of
triggered:- by chronic malnutrition, vi tam ins B and C. · ·

a lack of chromium and manganese,

~deficiencies in some of the adrenal

.hormones, or abnormal liver and
kidney.functioning, '
.I .

Some of the. warning signs of
hypoglycemia are: fatigue, chronic

Post-Amerikan vol. T #1 page·n

Harmful To Your Mental Health
- .. - . --- .. . .

More than any ·other group, the elderly An optimal diet in terms of good mental there's little financial gain in
suffer from malnutrit·ion. / Frequently health seems to Qe: avoiding foods promoting good nutrition. Compared to_·
that are refined, processed and have cobalt treatments, giving up sugar js
they are ill, taking medications . additives, especially refined sugar cheap, you can do it yourself and you
which deplete the body's vitamin and and refined carbohydrates; to limit don't need an expensive medical
alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine; to consultation.
mineral reserve; they have no money eat plenty of proteins, essential fats,
or are unable to get out and buy and to take a vitamin and mineral So the next time you are feeling cranky
;nut-ritious foods. Often· when an supplement daily, especially niacin. and blue for no apparent reason, you
elderly pers-ons shows fatigue, might want to think about what. you've
irritability, depression, or insomnia' Good nutrition can protect mental been eating lately. Changing your diet
health; yet it is not highly talked could eventually save you the $40 an
s/he is labeled "senile" and put in about by most physicians, psychiatrists, hour you might otherwi~e spend on
a nursing home. Yet megadoses of or by the Health, Educatio_n and psychotherapy.
vitamins and-minerals and a balanced Welfare Department. or the Arileric·an
Medical Association. For these people --Riverfinger
diet may· reduce mental confusion
and disorientation. Also, some
mental deterioration is caused by a
loss of working brain cells and
cxygen stirvation of other Oells.

Antioxidant vitamins such as C,E,A,

and BJ can help slow down the
deterioration of the brain.

Here briefly, are some _comments an ·
other foods, nutrients,.and products
and how they may influence how we

feel about ourselves:

--Nicotine impairs vitamin C absorption

and constricts the blood vessels, thus

reducing the supply of nutrients to

the brain. Also, heavy cigarette·

smoking tends to create cravings for

alcohol and s.ugar. .

--Taking birth control pills lowers a N. ATUR- AL. FOOD. S
woman's supply of vitamin B12 and C and · 516 N. ·Main. St.
is often accompanied· by depression,'_ Bloo111ingt~n,.Ill.. 61701
fatigue, or insomnia._
A natural fOod store
--Skipp£ng breakfast, or eating sugar
and carbohydrates in the morning, was featuring:
correlated with apathetic ~nd ·
disruptive school phildren. This habit nuts- nut butters
also triggers the low blood .sugar
l~vel cycles of hypoglycemia. herbs' fruit juices

--Niacin tends to eas'e witn_drawal from books J cookware
heroin. grat•ns ...
cheeses
--R~searehers are wondering if various_.
men~al illnesses might be due in part icereals flours
to allergic reactions to various · q~dried fruits
natural ·and synthetic substances· in teas
foods, air,··· wa_ter.
L an9 much ~ore:Jt~'.
--Infrasourids, those "silent" sounds
which we don't realize we're hearing We -h-ave 10-0 products·
_tend.to increase .irritability.
ava-ilable in scoop~your·oVV'n
--Fluorescent lights may increase
irritability and might also be a bins~
factor in hyperactivity.

--Darkness might be related to
increased alcohol consumption.

So, what kind of conclusion can be
drawn from all this talk about diet
and nutrition? Is it- possible that
if you eat a balanced diet and take
a good supply of vitamins and minerals
that you'll have few or no. ~motional
problems? Some of the 9-uthors ·
writing on diet and mental heal-th
(Adelle Davis: Let's Eat Right to
Keep Fit; ·william Duffy: Sugar Blues;
Drs. ·Charaskin and Ringsdorf and
Arlene Brecher: Psychodietics)
certainly imply that at times.

But, they- are medical doctors or
nutritionists who show little awareness
of how poverty,· powerlessness,
sexual and racial oppression can ~rap
people with probl-ems to which they ·
will have emotional reactions. It
seems more realistic to suggest that
diet is only one of the many factors'
which affec~ the way we feel
emotionally.

Post:-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 12

Why, Take Vitamins?

There's a popular line that goes, "I have a well- You can reduce or increase the amount of vitamins On pages 24 and 25 is a handy vitamin chart
balanced diet, so I don't need to take vitamins." that y~m can hang on your wall. It is ·a good refer-
At one time in history, this might have been true. you take according to how much you weigh. Other ence chart, one of the most complete I've seen, .,.
Butin·our fast-food era, this argument no longer and also can incite many exciting conversations
holds any water. things that affect the amount of vitamins ·you need with friends._ The chart is basically a reprint of
a Puritan's Pride vitamin and mineral chart,
Today's food has beeri torn apart, over:-heated, are cigarettes and coffee. lf you smoke cigarettes
kept too 'long in cold storage, dyed, preserved, 'changed alittle to fit our centerspread. •
artificially colored, emuls_ified, alkalized, w~ed, you should take more C's; if you_ drink coffee you
etc, etc. What little vitamins we do get frgm our
food are zapped out of our system as·,our bodies · need more B's. ·
t:y to cope with the heavy water and' air pollu~ion.
I think it's exciting to experiment and find which Here are definitions of some.terms used on the
We also live in a stress-filled era: we worry, we amount of each vitamin you need. You begin to chart:
hurry, we are constantly under pressu_re. Roger .feel much lllore in touch with your body.
J. Williams; Ph.D, found in animal studies at "Augmenting nutrients'' are vitamins and i:nine~als
the University of Texas that stress,es and annoy- i took the vitamin chart from The Book <E Vitamin
ances can contribute to overeating arid can also , that you should take at the same time as the first ·
increas~ the nE:ed for nutrients, or vitamins: - Therapy by Harold Rosenburg. You may want
to read it for more information. Another book 1· nutrient-listed. They help your body use the first
Even if you pride yourself on only eating healthy ·
. food, you still need to take vitamins unless you that I fou~d extremely helpful about vitamins is nutrient most completely. ·

grow all your food organically, live in an unpol- Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit by Adelle Davis.
luted ar~a (where's that'?), and have a blissful
life. It's just an impossibl~dream. . The last thing I want to talk about is what kind of ·"Anti-vitamins" and anti-minerals are things that
either drain your body of the nutrients listed or
Vitamin supplements are food, so there is vitamins you ghould use: ·I hate to say it, but prevent your body in some other way from using
nothing "unnatural"'about taking them. I do . them. ,
sugge-st taking natural vitamins rather than
synthetic (manufactured) vitamins. Synthetic it'-s-very true for vitamins that you: get what you· "Water soluble" means that· if you take more of the
vitamins only contain the known vitamins, and I nutrient than your body can use right away, it will ·
believe there. are many unknown but necessary · pay for. Beware of mail order vitamin places. be washed away by the water iri your body and not
elements in vitamins as they occur in'hature. ~ build up. "Fat soluble" means that if you take
They have cheap vitamins, but often their . extr;a of the nutrient, it will stay in your body and
be stored in the fatty tissue.
advertisements don't list everything that's in the

vitamins and don't tell you whether they are

synthetic or r;~atural. ·

I have tried many vitamin ·brands and talked to Also, when we list sugar as an anti-vitamin.or
anti-mineral, what's meant is excessive sugar (we
many people about _them, ·and both Solgar a...TJ.d had to squeeze in places).

-Schiff vitamins seem to work the best for me and SL

are usually recommended to me as the best. But
please don't t~e me as an e~pert. ··

. I do think taking any kind of-vitamins is better than Age late teeris to 21 22 to 35 36 and up Units
taking no :vitamins at all. Male Male - Female
Female·
Male Female

At the end of'this article is a chart on vitamin Vitamin A 20-30,000 15-25, 000 20,000 20,000 - 20,000 20, 00,0 IV
amounts needed daily. The.. chart is only a guide. 20' 0-840000 800 800 IU
People need to experiment ·~o find the vitamin Vitamin D 800::;-1, 200 800-1, 2.00 . 800 IV
program that's right for thein. I am going to list 1-5, 000 400-1,200 . 400-1, 200 mg
vitamin requirements for in~dium weight people. Vitamin E 200-800 200-6 00 200-600 1-5, 000 . 1-5, 000
_1-5, 000
. ' ·..... Vitamin c, 1:--5, 000 1-5, 000

THE B VITAMINS 150-300 100-200 . 150-300 150-300 mg
-50-_100 50-.:.100 mg
Vitamin Bl .100-200 ·100-200 -. 200-(, 000 mg
100-'400 200-1, 000 mg
Vitamin- B2 100-300 100-300 12-50 200-600 .. 50~100 50-100 meg
0.3-0.6- 25-75 mg
Vitamin B3 200-2,000 200-2,000 250-1, 000 0. 3-0\6 200-1, 000 200-1,000 mg . ·~··
Vitamin B6 100-800 200-800 250-1, 000 mg.
Fun Fundraisers 2-5_ 100-400 200-600 mg ..:. ('.
for -500· 2-5 mg (•
.100 .
Just ·Your, Basic· Vitamin':B12 50-75 50-75 5.00 ' 12-50 50-75.
100
Biotin 0.3-0.6 0.3-0.6 0.3-0.6 0.3-0.6'
Choline
.250-1, ooo 250-1,000 250-1, 000 250-1, 000

Folic acid 2-5 2-5 2-5 2-5

Inositol 500 500 500 500

PABA 100 100 100 100

Just Your Basic Veget'arian Restaurant Panothenic

Collective has planned two'fund- · Acid 100-200, 100-200. 100-200 100-200 100-200 100-200 gm

.rai~ing_events for May. We'll be

selling natural foods and drinks ~~··-''·''. '~"''1'"'''. '.''.,':'.'.'''"'"''"'"'''''''".'"'"""'''"."''""''"'"'''. "',f-~~~·

at the Positive Energy Conv~ntion­

on the weekend of. May 6 and 7.

-And we '.re having a be.nefi t rummage ~ . 1 . -. ~4

sale on Saturday May 20. •. .

!~~~:~~~:m:;~;o~hk~:~~~:~~£od ·~· Slllt/!Mer .SItop / ~-··
~.~..: . .· nat uraI f00ds. ~~~f~;
Positive Energy Convention.· 'We'll
be serving herbal sun tea, fruit ~- E--nJ·oy na·tu··re's foods ·w·athou·t .i~.

~ju~~ic~ei~s~, yhb!a~k~edd:~gco~o~d!i·eTsi, ~~f:rur~i~t~~aen~dtion ,~~.. -harmfu·l p~· r• e· servativ· es or additives ~~~·~~
Recreation Area in Goodfield,.
Illinois. See The Sun Spot for r

more info on the_ Sun Week-festivities. ~~ a· n_d sp_··end._. 1e"ss· money. · ~~irC;

On May 2_0, at 306 W. Mill ·st. in ~II':- . "..".~:,._:

Bloomington, we'll be having a huge ~~ -Clip and. com__ pa_re our price_ s .~2.-~~.:
.f a.n t as t.1c ruml)lage s.a 1 e. I t w1. 11 . .~.. with. 'y·our supermarket p-rices ,~..~,
run from 8:30a.m. to 6 p.m. We'll ~ ~.-.·
~: .~ I~l~tl
be happy to take your rummage off ~ -----~~~~~~~-----------------------~ I
your hands and recycle it for_you. ' .. . .. ' ~
·I .• !I 1~~ ~~~--
Just call 828-6935 and ask for Organic Soybeaps 39¢/lb. Sunflower Seeds 1.09/lb. 1
Chri~ or Jack. They'.ll arrange Barley 39¢/lb. Brown Rice 57¢/lb. ~~
for someone to pick up your Pintos 37¢/lb. "'{heat Gerin 39¢/lb'.
donation. And come do a little ~ 1 ILentils
. 59¢/ lh. Bran .39 ¢/lb.
recycling yourse,lf!
Split Yellow Peas 47¢/lb..
We still have a few of our. I I,~.;
highly attractive· screen-print#d Turbinado Sugar '63¢/lb.·
T-shirts. They'll be available at
both of. our_ May events, or you Ch:lck Peas 1.19/lb. Dannon Yogurt 39¢/lb.
can get them at. Small Changes ·
Bookstore and the Lay-Z-J Saloon.

They only cost $5. And remember: ,~~.; N e· w. ·- Sprouters- - - - - - - - -I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~Ill
the $1 profit fro111 each shirt ~~
goes toward the opening_ of a ~ ~
collectively .run ~egetarian health
. food restaurant in Bloomington- · ~::.~ - ' Nature~s Way of all kinds.·· ...:

Normal. So, wear those shirts Herb Center SPROUTING SEEDS AT ECONOMICAL PRICES ,.

~
with pride! · ,~.;
'.
iR~~f~~ia~~u~o~~!~~i~:-getarian ·learner ·at College & Linden in Normal 454--2611
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F e e d y o u r f a c e in= :post.-:-All}erika.J:?..>:Ol. 7_ *.1. page 1;3

the Cheapest pl.ace.

I've always wondered which super- .3. Eisn'er' s, Four Seasons, 504 Four By shopping at Eagle instead of
Seasons Rd., Bloomington.· .Landmark Plaza Krogers, the sec:orid
market in town really is the
cheapest since each one leads you 4. Eisner's, South Main, 1107 S. most reasonable store; you would ,
to believe it has the.best bargains. Mai~, Bloomington. · save $1.74 for the surveyed items.
If you bought these items once a
Well, since I '.ve been unemployed 5. IGA Eastiate Foodliner, 2200
E. Oakland Ave., Bloomington~ i week for a year you would save
for a while, I had time to run a $90.48. No~, if you shop at.
price survey. I went to each-of 6.- IGA Red Bird Foodliner, 301 Eagle instead of Washington Square
~the 10 rnaj or food stores in S.·Main, Normal~ IGA. you'd save '$ 3. 79 per week and,
Bloomington-Normal-once a month $197.08 each year. That's quite
for three months. I recorded the 7. IGA Washington Square Foodliner,
prices for 25 items, then aver~ged 509 W. Washington, Bloorningt6n. .a differenc~!
the price per item and tot~led ·
the arnoun t. I came up with a

£inal figure I could use in ~
comparison.

In ill cases I look~d ··--. 8. Kroger, East Oakland;··
1110 E. Oafland Ave., Bloomington.
for the
..
least expensive type of food. Take

instant coffee, for example, At · 9. Kroger, N~ Main, 1~00 N. Mii~,
Landmark Pl~za Kroger's; I not{ced
'Bloomington .
that Nescafe costs $5.59 for 10 oz.
10. Kroger, Landmark Plaza,
and that Kroger has its own cheap-6 155.0 E. College Ave., Normal.

. brand costing $3.99 for 10 oz. I

_used the $3.99 price.for my survey.

Table J is a-li~t of the foods. I I made some interesting ob$ervations
not based on statistical data about
used. Since I'm ~ vegetarian I - e·ach store. I felt the produce was
the worst at the Red BirO' IGA near
was heavy on-fresh produce, and 1SU on Main while the Kroger in
priced brown rice, whole· wheat Landmark Plaza seemed the best.
Each store was trying._to sell during
bread and whole wheat flour instead
of the less nutritious white the course Df the survey, at )east
styles. I .diu-include a little one item of produce I felt was
meat ~uch as hot ~ogs, ~anned tuna unfit to eat', such. as moldy'
and chicken in the chicken noodle wrinkled, split green peppers. ·The
soup, and also looked at the Washirigton Square IGA seemed to be
the dirtiest with sugar and stuff
price. on junk food items strch as all over the floor! It also was
the· only _store wJthout a scale in
coffee' potato chips: canned pears the produce department for easy
and white sugar. If any store was-·. customer use.- However, aft_~r the-ir
recent conviction of short-weighing
out of a particular item, such. as - foods_ (see Post-Arnerikan, Vol. V-I;
green peppers, I usred ·an average No.ll, p. 26), their scales may be

_.price obtained·· from my- two other useless-anyway.
trips to. that store.

/

TAB~E I: FOODS SURVEYED

zE-<

-~

0
-~

Canned tomato juice 46 fl. oz. .55 to see·that Eagle
-. 63
Canned pears 29 oz. . 21
. 39
Chicken noodle soup 1 can 4.38
.53
Frozen corn 10 oz. .65

Instant coffee _ . 10 Oozz. .
Potato chips 7

Toilet paper (white only) 4 rolls

-Canned tuna fish chunk light 6. 5' oz .

.in oil llb ... •6 3

Hot dogs 1. 0_5

Whole milk J.,. gal. .80 .poc;>r.
.69
Eggs, grade A large ldoz.

Sharp cheddar cheese -1 lb. 2.0.7

100% whole wheat bread I lb. .58

Brown rice 1 lb. ' • 88

Dried navy pea -beans 2 lb. ..99

Whole wheat .flour 5 lb. 11-..:0o2s· ,• Vitamin E for healing
White sugar 5. lb.
. 38 · The three Eisner' s- stores have I
Apples,·usually Jonathan 1 lb.
.29 started a plain label brand of iternsl
Bananas '1 lb. A.midweste~nphysi9ian, Dr. Harvey
1.42. . whi_ch:are usually near· the entrancesl
Oranges, Calif. navel 10 ' 1 rWevaolk~eurtioofniCzelady,tohni,s Missouri has
Green peppers · . 70 , and not 'on' ·th'e she 1ve s with the practice' by · ·
3.

Celery 1 bunch .6 5 other colored labeled· goods. Yol}_ ·. 1 rely1ng more on nutrition and
vit8J!li~/mineral therapies than on
Carrots 2 lb. .64 .jil~t ha:ye to get us~d to buying :/1
2. Z:8 .L. to !let paper and ch1cken noodle · · r. 1
Russett potatoes 20. lb. ___:li_ soup as soon as you walk i~ the_ trad~tJ.onal drug therapies. One
I
Baking potatoes 1 lb. of h1s success.ful. practices, which
$Z 3 .8 3 door ra-ther than later on 1f you
want these cheaper brands. Kroger : you cart do yourself if yo'u ever.

si~teorrnes s, on the other hand , have have.to haye su~?ery, is building
c omparable with the plain
TABLE II I up hJ.s patJ.ents J.ntake of vitamins

_lahe 1· Eisnels b-rands, but with I A ~nd E and the mineral zinc

The ten stores I priced are listed - regular labels-,_ usually price<f the I before surgery. His patients
in table ·II
. · ::; arne, and intermixed with the rnor.e I also get vitami~ E during and after.
TABLE II: STORES SURVEYED
1. Eagle Dfscount Supermarket, expe. nsive brands. . . II surgery. Walker says, "Almost
every surgeon consultant L have,
1211 Towanda, Avenue, Bloomington.
Now comes the excitin~ part: which 1 com~ents to me on how rapidly my
store is the cheapest. pat1ents get well and get out-.of
1 the hospital, and how few
-SEE TABLE THREE ..
2. Eisner's, College Hills Plaza, I complications they have .compared
College and Towanda Ave. , Normal~ - I to other patients."

•TABLE III: FOOD PRICES II--------~--P~r-ev-en-ti-on-;-F~eb-. -1~97·8.

EAGLE ' KROGER KROGER IGA KROGER IGA- EISNER'-S EISNER'S EISNER'S IGA
$21.52 LANDMARK NO,RTH RED EAST· EAST- COLLEGE FOUR SOUTH WASHr'NGTON
PLAZA MAIN ST. BIRD OAKLAND GATE HILLS SEASONS MAIN SQUARE

$23;29 $2.3. 40.. $23.59 $23.87 $23.96 $24.02 $24.35 $24.69 $2.5.31

Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 14.

Anima·l. r.ights: ___Why __no-t .eq_ual consid.eratjon?

WRITER'S NOTE: The two articles humans and othEr animals• Some- we give equal consideration to
that f'ollow,on animal liberation times the diff'erence that. peopl·e their rights, or. at least pretend
and f'actory farming, are largely talk about is the obvious fact
lifted f'rom philosopher Peter to, merely bec.ause they are human.
Singer's book Animal Liberation. that·humans and other animals
The book takes some determined belong to different anima;i. gro-ups, (Notice that equal consideration
ploughing through and a lot of or species. Somet~mes t~e'dif­
stopping&. thinking, but it's ference is that other an~mals of rights doesn't neces,sarily
well worth it, and I strongly ar.e not intelligent in the way
encourage .people to read_ it. mean equal trea~ment. A man ,
that humans can be • · can't have an abortion; it would
*********************************
be stupid to argue f'or his right
· Women have begun to demand to be
treated with the same-attention · to one: Dogs can't vote; it would
to their vights that men as a
sex expect. People have called B'-\t why do'es- that difference mean be stupid to argue for their right
sexism ·the l_ast f'orm of. dis-. that we shouldn't consider'equally
crimination to be widety acc- to.) ·
epted and practiced without . the rights of anim_als? .·
secrecy or deception. But one In the- 1850's black f~minist
th~ng we should have learned / SJjourner Truth made· this point:
from the liberation movements. of
women, blacks, and other groups, The argument that diff'erence all
is how hard.it is to be aware of'
our socially accepted prejudice~ by itself means that we can treat "They talk about this thing in the
toward other groups. This is head; what do/they call it?
expecially true when we·believe another group without consider- .('Intellect,' whispered someone
we gain from things remaif.iing near by.) That's i-t;_;___ Wflat' s that
as they are. ation.. doesn't hold up. .Men· and

If' we believe that it's important ·women, .though different,· deserve
· fo.r us not to oppress other groups, ·equal consideration of their ~ights ..
we must be ready, to question any
,of the attitudes we hold, inclu- Blacks and whites, tho di ·
ding the most basic. We need to
consid~r our attitudes f'rom the ·-',
point of view of' those who suf'fe~
by -them, and by the real.-life.. .J
results that follow· f'rom our
attitudes. ..,..

In the erid, I agree with Peter ' -,
Singer that there is no logical
reason, except to protect our ferent, deserve equal considerati~rt got· to do with women's rights or ·'
own privilege, to ref'use to give of their.rights. Negroes' rights? If my cup won't
equal consideration to the ri~hts
of non-human animals. Many people, however, argue that . hold but a· pint and yours holds a·
the d-ifference between human and
All the arguments I've heard for other animals is so big, or is in quart, would~'t you be mean not
why animal liberation is silly have such important. areas (like in- . - to let me hav.e rriy little half-
to do with the diff'erence between telligence), that animal liberation measure full?" ·
makes no sense ..... ---··
' The writer-Jeremy Bentham proposes
But we don't require_that humans this way of determining when a .
be exactly-equal to have the righ~
of· being treated with equal con- · group deserves to have its rights
sideration·. Although there _are
millions of humans whos~ intel- taken into consideratiGn:
ligen9e is-lower than the average
(children, brain-damaged people), "The question is not, Can they -'--

0• reason? nor Can they talk? but

Can they suffer?" - - -I
·---Alice Wonder

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P~e@··. .·... ,,
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Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #l"·p-age 15
•
.

Down the Factory Farm

The popular Hallmark children '-s ·book De-beaking is severely painful,. Without any solid ground to wear
Farm Animals has pic.tures of hens, , since between the horn and the bone down the birds' toenails, the claws
turkeys, cows,· and pigs, all sur-
of a chick's beak is a thin layer of grow very long and can get permanently

rounded by their young, Not a single highly sensitive soft tissue, like · atangled up in the wire. An ex-presi~
_cage, shed, or stall is in sight. the "quick" of the human nail.
dent of national poultry organization
reported the following in an industry
The words tb Farm Animals tell us'that De~beaking is routinely performed , magazine:_
pigs "enjoy a-good meai, then roll
on chicks by most u.s. poultry owners.
(De-beaking is also the-general rule "We have discovered chickens literally
.in the mud and let out a squeal!" for turkeys, who are usually raised
And "Cows don't_have a thing to do, like broiler chickens are.) grown fast t.o the cages. ~t seems .
that the chickens' toes got caught in
but switch their tails, eat grass
·and moo." the wire mesh in some manner and would

Chickens on factory farms are fed not loosen. So, .in time, the flesh of

The re.ali ty of modern farming is as food and w~ter automaticallyfrom the toes grew completely aroUnd the

different from the Hallmark version as hoppers .hung from the roof. _ When -wire.'-"

a Mop 'N Glo commerciai is from a the birds are ready to be killed,

hous.ewife' s real life. their ~ood is cut off--there's no At Egg City five hens live in a 16-

profit for their·owners in undigested by-18_-inch cage. On Frenc}ttown

Inthe last J5 years·large corpora- food. Poultry Farm in New Jersey, nine hens

tions and assembly line production· are janimed into each· 18-·by-24-inch

have taken over U.S, :farming·, turning Some hours .later, maybe 12, the birds cage; leaving them barely enough room

it into what we call agribusiness. will be_grabbed by the· legs and_carried to turn around. While poultry birds

have no less neeq,to move around and

Twenty large corporations now.control WE Do ALL Tlif WDilk stretch their wings than other bircts,
U.S. paultry production. · A single · AAo eu,aN£!SM£N en
the possibility for a bird to stretch
factory farm often contains a million ALL lHE. PROFI'tS. AlL
or more egg-laying hens. Greyhound WE (;I!.T IS CHlC~EW out even one wing in these cages is a

Corp. kills turkeys, IT&T produces FE£,... BfS,PES_,THR'S joke. Each bird weighs about four
pigs, and John Hancock Mutual Life
. ·Insurance raises cows that ·turn up· TCDMUCH FOI\ rfQPLI&' pounds. '

1b f'"'i FOa EG&S... • After a few month~ in the cages the

as roast beef in the supermarkets. hens start losing their feath~rs,

possibly because ~f rubbing against

(You can read more about agribusiness the wire, feather-pecking each other,
on page 18.) or the sunless cdnditioris. Their
skin then begins to rub against the

Chickens' wire, and often gets rubbed bright

red and raw! expecially around the
tail. 1 · •
•

The first animal-that began to be
raised on factory farms instead of
Laying hens live for 18 months to
traditional farms· in large numbers-
two years until their productivity
was the chicken_. _Currently, large .. ___,goe·s down and they are killed for
corporations own or control 98% of outside upsid·e d.~wn for their first chicken pies and soups. Even though

the u.~. production ~f c~ickens and only exposure·to sunlight, after a chicken would normally }ive far

killed to be eaten. being used to near-darkness. They longer than two years, it is common

are then stuffed into crates piled for 1Q-15 percent of a factory

A dozen of these corporations rais€ • on_the back of a truck. farm's hens to die in one year.·

-·about LW%- of. the ne<;~.rly J .billion .
.birds slaughtered each year. · That
means that possibly 10,000 birds, ' Next. 'the birds are Clriveri to the Ac'"Co):'dTrig-:-·to the manager of a
mostly chickens,·will be killed processing plant, where they are taken
while you read this page. .50,000-hen farm iri California, five
off the truck and stacked up, still to ten of his bens die daily bepause
in crates, .to·wait. They may wait'

'!'he main thing· that enables chickens se-veral hours, still without food or
water, before they are· killed. When
to be manufactured rather than farmed each bird's·turn comes it is taken
is keeping them inside, When.broiler out of ,.its crate and hung upside
producers get day-old chicks from the down on the conveyer belt that leads -
hatcheries (in loads of 10,000 to·
to the knife that kills it.
50,000 or more), they put.the chicks
into a l?ng, windowless shed, usually (

on the floor. (Some producers use .. Laying Hens
levels of cages instead,··. to get ·more
birds in-each shed,) ·
Laying hens raised for. th'eir eggs

The chickens live in these sheds their are treated a lot like· broiler
entire lives--eight or ~ine ·weeks., As chickens, but·there are differences.
they grow, they get more. crowded.
By the last'weeks, there-may be as Like broilers, layers are-de-beaked
little as half a square· foot of space t.o preverit cannibalism. However,
layers live much longer and.often
.for· a. three-and-one-:-half po.und chicken .. are de-beaked·twice,

Another diffe:r;ence is that layers. . · of confinement stress. That makes

With th~s crowding and confinement, are caged .. Fred. c. 'Haley; the presi- ·between two•and four thousand deaths

the chickens start to fight. Birds. dent of a Georgia po~ltry. firm that each year~ ,.
·peck at ·each other's feathers and ·owns..225;000 hens, at a time, describes
._:: r-"
sometimes kill and·.eat each other. the· i'ay:i,rig ·hen as ;,<;J.ri egg produd.ng
"Thes.e bir,ds_," the nianp.ger Bays,
Broiler producers have found that machine" anq adds;. "the object o:f "don'• t die of any dise~se. They ·just
very dim ,lighting keeps the fighting producing eggs .is· to make money._ .. can't take the stress of crowde.d

When we'.,forge:t 'this objective, we have living.".

forgotten what· it is alli about." .. Calves
. \. . '·1 '. .
The production of quality veal-_;
. tender calves' flesh-- is possibly·
In Julius Goldman;s Egg City, 50 ~il.es the·most repulsive "farming"
·practice; It's c•omparable tq the
northwest of Los Arigeles, two million

hens are divid-ed into block..:long

·buildings containing·90,000 hens each,

five birds to a 16-by-18-inch cage., force-feeding .of g(:lese ·through a

funnel that produces the d~formed

The cages, at Egg City and on other livers m?de into the go~rmet

factory farms, are stacked in levels, food pate de foie gr.as. .

with food and water troughs running ..
along the rows, filled automatically
. I chose the example of the poultry.

from a central1 suppl.y. The wire floors industry because of its huge size.
of the cages slop.e, which makes it The veal industry is, I think, an

even more difficult for the crowded extreme, but a logical extreme,· of

birds to stand comfortably. The business' willingness to exploit

down, so the birds are likely to live slope lets the eggs roll to the animals to any degree for profit.
their last weeks in near-darkness. front of' the cage where they can
easily be hand-collected or carried For information on the treatment of
pigs and 0attle, which is no less·

Another method commonly used to keep by conveyor belt-to a packing plant. disgusting than that of poultry, and
the transportation of factory farm
the birds from killing each other is The wire flo.or also allo'ws the hen's animals, you can read Singer's
."de- beaking," The chick's head can excrement to drop through to the lowest Animal J.iberation.
be put into a. guillotine-like machine level of cages, -where it piles up for
many months until it's all removed Veal is the flesh of a young calf,
which cuts off part of its beak, or at once.
. the beak can be cut off with a hot CoNT. Ofo.J NEtT PA6-E...11 1

knife,

Post-Amerikan vol.-.7 #1 page 16 ·

On.··.·. fhEr·,FaCtory'

Farm (cont~) ·

and the·term was first used only for flesh less_;tender,_they become bored reasons, for a slaughter.ed animal
to fall in the blood of a previously
calves killed before they had· been and restless. To-reduce their slaughtered animal, This means the
animals are killed while being hung
weaneq from their mothers. Now, restlessne.ss, many producers leave from a conveyor belt instead of
them in the dark except twice a day while lying on the floor. Most'
though, farmers have found a way to when'they are fed. The yeal sheds anim·als are stunned before slaughter
and are not suspended until they are
keep the-calf longer without the are ~sually windowless, so the lights unconscious.
are just turned: off.
flesh becoming daiker in color or Animals killed according to-these
religious_rituals, however, must
less tender. (The more pale and be both conscious and-suspended when
killed, They are shackled around ·
te_nder the flesh,. the more high- a rear leg, hoisted into the air,
quality the veal,) · and then hang, full-y conscious,
Even though the veal producer selects upside down on the conveyor belt for
two to five minutes--and sometimes
This means that the veal -calf,· when only the strongest, healthiest calves much longer if something goe~
sold, may weigh as much as 325 l bs., wrong before they are.cut and killed.
to begin with and feeds them a medi-
instead of the ninety-odd lbs. that ·F_or meat to be passed as "kosheJ'"
·newborn calves weigh, Since veal cated, high-protein diet, it is by the orthodox rabbis, it must also
have had the blood vessels cut out._
fetches a high price, b~ing able to common for one. out of ten calves to It takes a lot of 'time to cut these
sell bigger calves makes rearing_ die in-~onfinement.before slaughter.

veal calves much more profitable. The veal producer can stand this

loss because restaurants pay--such a

high price f~r veal.. ·

The way that this is done is by . Slaught_er
. restraining _the veal 'calves from .
any activity except that of eating ·slaughter laWs in the U.S. require
an unhealthy diet. that· the deaths. of animals killed ·
for food. be quick and painless. And
If th~ calf'were allowed to grow up for many animals, it is: ·They are.
outside, it would romp around the stunned by electric ·current or a ..·
fields and develop musc~es, making captive-bolt pisto.l and have their
its flesh tough. .It. w.ould, also eat throats cut while unconscious, What
grass, whjch causes calves flesh to they can feel shortly before their
lose the desired pale color. deaths, while being~goaded up the
ramp to slaughter, sme~ling-the.
So the veal producer takes the calves blood of those already killed, -is
straight from the auction to indo9rs unregulated by law,. However, the
confinement. Each calf's.stall is moment of death itself-is usually
about l foot 10 inches wide and 4 as -painless as possible, ~
feet 6 inches long. It has a slatted
wooden floor, raised above the There are exceptions·; Sometimes
concrete floor of. the shed. ·
the stunners don't-work, And in
The calves are chained around the many- countries- with slaughter laws,
neck to keep them from turning around . including the U.S. and. Britain, there
. (The chain may be removed when· the . . is an exception which allows some

calves grow too big to. turn around -in vessels out of the hindquartets of-
the narrow stalls.) The stall has an animal. So_ in the U.S., only.
no straw or other bedding, since the
cal~ might ~at_ it and spoil the the forequartE?rS of the _animals .
killed _ritually. are so_ld- as kosher'!
paleness of its flesh. · meat. The r!'lst usually ends up_. ·
on supermarket shelves with~no
The calves live· in these stalls for
indication of how the animal has
13 to 15 weeks, then they are ki~led. been killed.

The are fed_a totally liquid diet, While modern methods of slaughter'
are getting generally less painful·
based on nonfat milk powder with animals to be s-laughtered according-. -and cruel, modern farming is' getting
to .orthodox Jewish and-Moslem rituals, more so, Many of_us give in easily
added vitamins,~minerals, and growth- These rituals require the animals to· the false picture of farming
to be fully conscious when slaughter- presented' by Hallmark's book
promoting drugs. · ed, · Farm Animals because we don't want·
to know any different, And meat
However, this liquid diet is low in Also, the U.S .. Federal.Humane Slaughter is actively pushed at us by
iron, causing the veal calves to Act of ~958 applies. only to slaughter advertisers·;-- We are led to believe
houses selling meat to the u.s. that we can't be healthy.without it,
become anemic .. The pale pink flesh governm-ent or its agencies. Twenty-
called quality veal is in fact the eight states have passed_ s.imiiar· But if our ability to continue to
laws so that all slaughterhouses eat meat comfortably depends on
anemic flesh of a sick calf. This in those states must perform our not knowing and thinking about
"choice" co-lor does not even affe'ct relatively humane killings, how we get that meat, I think it's-
h'ow the calf tastes, way past time for us to reconsider
I our eating habits,
To make an animal grow quickly it .
must take in a's much food as possible So in -twenty-two states, _including The cows are not contented.
and use up as little of this food as big ones like Ne~ York, slaughterers
possible in its daily life. not-selling to the federal govern- P0st. Note: Most of this _articl.e
Veal calves are given no water so ments can kill. the ·'animals as ');hey comes f~om Peter Singer's
that_their only source of' liQuid is please. One method still used in Animal Liberation,
their food, which is basicallY some· u.s., slaughterhouses is the The farm industry Is. own magazines -and
powdered mi=!-k• ·poleax. trade journals .we,re main so_urces· for
his section· on- factory farms.
.--·;. ··- The person using the poleax,· which
is a.heavy sledgehammer, stands --Aiice Wonder
The sheds 'the· carves--ar~ .confined -in above the animal to be killed and
are kept warm so that 'the thirsty . tries 'to knock it unconscious with
calves drink more food than they one blow. If the swing xs a fraction
would if they. could drink water;- . astray-the hammer can crash through
The calvef> tl').en often start sweating the animal's eye ·or nose, Several
after overeating. In sweating the more blows may be needed to knock
animals -lose moisture, which makes· the animal unconscious as/ it thrashes -
them thirsty, so that they overeat around, A skilled poleax user may
. aga~n :the· next time they. are fi:ld. have to kill 80 or more animals an
hour, And to make a skilled poleax
Since the cal..;es'are unable to do user it is necessfl,ry for an unskille:;d
anything· because movement would woiker to get a lot of ~~actice.
dev~lop their muscles and make th'eir
The ritual killing of a food animal
according to orthodox Jewish and_
Moslem die.tary laws is done with a
-·sharp knife, It is__ supposed to b.e

carried out.with a single blow to
the jugular vein and windpipe. The
animals_ kick __and thrash arqund for
-som_e tirrie. after 'the cut is made.

.·J. ...._ .. '

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
makes it illegal, for sanitary

AMERI-CA'S RADICAL

FOOD NETWORK

Out of the explosive high-energy period the many who shop at the store and the
that marked the 60's emerged two pro-
few who work at. the store.
found movements: the feminist move-
ment and the radical food (or coop) -. . .,
movement. Within a peyiod of three
years, between 1967 and· 1970 amid the ORIGINo .. • · GORLo Many coops that have been exceptionally
crumbling ruins of heavy radical
\ divided over these issues have c61- .
politics and the male-dominated bu~n
out of the counter. culture, hundreds People's _cooperative~ ~ave their lapsed. Any future effort at a coop
origins in the_working class struggle
of small Jfood co?peratives formed. of the 19th century. ~he first store locally will have to face these
coops represented a peaceful attempt que~tions and others:
to burld an alternative, people-
Jhis cooperative food movemen~, . controlled system of goods distri- Ever since the collapse of the People's
bution, an attempt which often look- Food Coop three years ago, scores of
radical in its origin and intentions, ed'beyond that to an entirely people people have suggested trying to
centered economy. Most of the , organize another COQP here. My own
continues to grow. At this moment it present coops see themselves that view is that there are certainly ·
way, too: not only providing· a little enough people here to support <jt/food
Stands 'aS a massive radical alte.rnative·· ·help in individual survival, but coop.
actively working for an end to
to the corporate food system of ' exploitation, profiteering, and bad
.vibes our present system is based on.
straight society.

I ofteh think it's. tragic that so many I think a beginning store front coop
people have never experienced the
would need at least_S to 10 thousand
positiveness and wholeness that. dollars. And I expect that a core
typically marks a· new wave food coop. group of people-would have to do the
Many people who read the Post probably laborious initial organizing effort .
remember the food coop that existed A£~ the crucial questions would have
in Bloomington-Normal from 1972 to to be tackl~d: food line, size,
19 75. People Is food Coop was. a II food location, organizational structure,
etc-. ·
conspiracy" coop: That is, peo-ple
would place their orders:once a week. More importnat than size, though, is But the rewards of having a well/
Workers combined these orders and one quality. Almost all coops emerging stocked cooperative food st6re would
out of the 60's era emphasize whole be well worth it: good community
food-buying run was.made to Chicago. fodd. ·Good quality food at reason- energy, good food and good prices. .
People then picked up their orders at able costs is the basic goal of most After all; if Bloomington-Normal can
the Newman Center near ISU. . coops.. Within coops, policy is ,set support one of the best radical news-
by members who try ~ard to avoid papers in the country, can't that .
I reme~be~ the high feeling of seeing bureaucracy. same spirit be harnessed for an
the coop's 58 Chevy truck pull into alternative food store.? Let's real-
The new wave food coop-stores almost ize our po~ential and create our
the back of the Newman Center. Every- all look si~ilar, Food is usually future.
kept in. bulk containe-rs with customers
one would gather around to unload the bagging their own. The decor is --chuck eastwind
what you could call basic natural,
cases .·of superb ora'nges, apples, veg- emphasizing wood and 'simplicity: ' .-./

. etables ·tha'endwoa:trh; earndf_' otohde. For a moment, . ,· FOOD COOP
: lhx'on' whole stinking
Anyone who has been 1n a coop food DU~~CTORV
society.were forgotten amongst the store would .have to say it just has
a friendly and watm feel. This fs Did~y;u know that over 2500 new wave
warmth and sharing of dozens of _people. such a contra,st to your supermarket, food coops are catalogued by the
with its bigness and sterility. Food Coop Director~? The Directory
A real sense of community existed among has found coops spread over the
In recent years the radical food entire U.S. and Canada.
the regular members of People's Food. movement hai been coping ~ith ~
series of divisive issues. In San
_Pebp~e's Food Coop, like the.fo6d Francisco and M~nneapoli~ intense I
coop movement in general, faced the clashes have developed between dis-
same problems an.d evolved very much agreeing factions. The issues seem
to fall into three major categories.
like ·other coops. A transition from

food conspiraty coop to. a fixed store-
frofit coop was ~ttempted, The open-
ing of a food store proved to be
People's Food financial undoing. To

understand the'contemporary coop
movement, however, it's crucial to
understand the shift from conspiracy

toops to store-front coops.

Coop members began living in central ··The major issues I see is what kind of "It feels good to know· that I could"
city neighborhoods andhaving~age work foods to stock or not ,stock.·· Battle travel across the country and never
lifestyles~ rather than living near:
a Un1vers1ty ifud having student life- lines develop between those who have to sho~ in a supermarket. My
styles. When this is so, it's more believe processed foods should be spirit feels happy when I see how
desirable to have convenient store- included with the traditional ~hole large the movement is," Annette·,/
front coops using a lot of capitali foods and those'who believe that
rather than relying on voluntary processed foods have no place in an Orlan, People's ·Grains & Greens
labor in low- cap·i tal cons pi racy coops: alt~rnative food store. Co-op; Resed~y, Ca., recently told
With the development of store fronts the Directory.
comes the ability to move greater
Cl 0sely·related to tne food line With the h' elp. of many· cooperators,
quanti tfes. o1 fo-od·, carry more · iss~e is the issue of what role the Food Coop-»irectory has tried to
poriray the depth of the food coop
variety, and pay full time workers to coop should play as an agent of
take care of the day-to-day operations social change-within the community. movement. It's available from Food
of the.store. In many cities, for /.Co-op. Directory, 106 Girard· S.E.,
Thirdly, as the coop stores succeed
example Madison &Minneapolis, a and grow alienation develops between Al~uguerque, New Mexico, 87106.

coop food store is a regular feature
o_f many central city neighborhoods.

Today there exists a tremendously FO-OD COOPS:
sophisticated radical food system in
america. My own estimate is that C. reatin.g - ·future
over 500 -s·t·ore operations and .several
'thousand food conspiracy coops exist. the
Over a dozen regional warehouses
exist fo service local coops. '-·

In addition to the warehouses there
are scores of secondary operations
servicing the food· coop network.
Whole food bakeries, milling opera-
tions, o~ganic truck farms, and
trucking operations have sprung up
to service the need for good whole
food. I would conservatively
. estimate the annual dollar sales· o£
the new wave coops at over two
hundred million a year.

I

Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 18 _.,._ Bread Almost

White

In 1840, almost all bread was made of bakery chain owners were responsible "Enrichment" profited the drug and
"natural" whole wheat flour, ground •chemical corpora·<.ions, as well as the
by small local mills. Only when for pellagra, beri-beri, and other milling-baking giants. ·
miliing became a big industry did
the change_ to white flour happen·, vitamin deficiency diseases·, wide- In 1925, Dr. Arthur J, Cramp,-·
and it wasn't because American_ people director oT the American Medical
preferred the taste of white bread, spread among the poor, and especially Association'~ Bureau of Investigation,
or preferred bread with more than 20 among Black people. _· wrote a ~etter to General ·Mills.
vitamins and minerals removed in the The letter offered to place all
mass-milling process. The industry responded. Pillsbury the AMA's publications at the disposal
of the baking. industry, to defend
In a n·uge roller mill, like those at made a big donation to the Mayo the food value o;f white bread, and
Pillsbury or General,Mills,•rollers to attack critics as quacks and fo'od
break down the cell structure of - Clinic. Mayo's Dr. Lockhead issueel .faddists, ·using "the best scientific
wheat, releasing a powder that is rese·a-rch that r_eputable scientists
near~y-pure starch~ This is sieved this inspirati'onal promo rap: "The have done"·to back up·the campaign.
_away from the outer bran (containing
most of the minerals) and.the inner most progressive races, thos·e most ~-
wheat germ (containing most of the
vitamins). Then it's chemically ·sound. in_ mind and body, have · This offer looks strange unless you
-bleached. look at the s.everal million dollars
voluntarily selected white bread worth of adver:tising that Pillsbury,
Why does the. industry like flo):_lr this General Mills, Washburn-Crosby Milling
way? r-f.doesn't spoil easily. as their main diet, by the exercise Co., and· the American Institute of
Insects, vermin,,and molds don't care Baking placed in the years 1926~1940
much for it. Whole wheat flou~ is. of natural biological laws--the laws in the Journal of the American Medical
much more perishable. ·-Association (which goes to doctors)
of evolutioD and survival of the · and Hygeia ( which goes to other
This means that non-perishable flour health professionals and the general
arid bread can be held off the markei;)- - f i t t e s t ..."_ public). Many of these ads were
when prices drop, until scarcity ·cartoons showing people who advocate
forces a rise. Whole wheat flour The companies, their trade natural grain bread q.s lunatics or
would have to be sold before it frauds, and they carried the seal
spoiled, no matter.what the price. associations, arid their lobbyists of acce~tance of the AMA's Cou~cll
applied direct pressures against _ on ;Foods. -

the Public Health Service to "correct." The government got in on the action
thei-r 1916 bulletin. Six months later too. The U.S. De'pt. o_f Agriculture
later, the. PHS issued a "correction" ' is.sued a press release which- is
essentially propaganda for the food
saying white bread was ·all· right if val_ue of white bread. It was-widely
dist~ibuted to homes and schools by
balanced by an "adequate diet"--foods the National -Food Bureau, a
containing the nutrients that the promotional outfit funded by
Pillsbury,_General Mills, and bakery
·• milling- industry had removed from. chains.
the bread.
Meanwhile, Dr. R.R. Williams of Mayo
Also, the corporations want to ship Clinic (a milling industry sweetheart,
bread 'long distanc.es for "consignment remember?) de~eloped a process to
selling." Thi-s means that the outlets _synthesize huge quantities of thiamin·
can return ·leftovers' to the dealer (vitamin B1).- He got a patent and ·
licensed- it to Merch and Co., a
for a refund if they buy too-much. pharma-chemicals giant, who would
The dealer sells the-returns t~ produce it·and pay Williams and Mayo
schools, hospitals, jails·, orphanages, royal ties. But there were no.t many
and the military. This process. all marke:ts for huge amounts of
vitamin B..
takes time, and whole wheat flour
would spoil long before the dealing Dr. Williams and Merck ar.d Co. started
was complete. __ taking an interest in the nutritional
value of white bread.
Corporate millers mo~ted promotional
In 1939, the AMA's Council of Food
campaigns, pushing the virtues and The flour industries enjoyed huge voted in favor o·f adding synthetic
vitamins to whi-te flour. The U.S.
status value of white bread. Farmers military orders·, with the ·special Public Health Service scientists at_
first thought nobody knew enough abo_ut
suffered because soon they had only profits any industry aiways. makes what·should be added, or how much,
or what the long-;e~m effects of
a few gian~ corporations as their from military sales. The trad~ several synthetic vitamins might be.
jourria~Baker's Weekly cheerfully But ·the milltng-baking indu~try _was
customers, and these customers began tooling up ad campaigns for "vitamin-
forcing grain price -c·uts~ . The declared in 1943: "The first conflict packed bread," and Merek was_tooling
(World War I) made baking in this up to produce a lot of vitamin B.
railroads kept raising shipping
prices too, prices that farmers country a billion dollar industry,

didn't have to pay in the days of and the present glo'bal disturbance

small local mills. · (World War II) has caused it to pass

The greatest sufferers were the the two-billion mark."

urban 'poor and working people, since Pillsbury and 'General Mills came

bread, one of the cheapest ·foods,, . ·under fire from nutrition experts •in

was a large part of their diet. In the 1930'-s. With millions actually

1916, the U.S. Public Health Service starving during the Depression,

issued ·a warning, summarizing many these experts thought that bread;
the cheapest form of food, ought
diet studies. They reported that ,
animals fed only on white·flour to ·have more.food value in it. But

died in a month or two; they didn't get_any:.where until:World
War II, when a lot of draftees had
those .fed on unmilled wheat thrived. to be rejected as cannon-fodder
_They pointed out that the mill and

~,. .)lt. -"~'"'"j! .\ because they weren,'t healthy enough.
Then the Great Bread Enrichment
Hype was begun.

THE HONEi' T1\EE

To become a Honey Tree co-op ann-ounces Bloomington- is natural food?-
branch member 'for an entire ~.-~~<( Normal's only
year, you simply pay $10 iwhole grain, fruit, vege-
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for at least 10% OFF all vitamins
and proteins and 15% OFF all- bulk are left untouched by pre-
food·and mixes.
servatives, artificial food
Featuring: books, cosmetics,
vitamins, herbs, teas, gre~t entitling you to coloring, refined sugars, 9r
assortment of bulk food in ble·ach. _ ·, ·
biris (~llows you to·buy savlngs up, .toU30%
exactly the quantity you .*You-don't have to give up
need).
ALL AT THE HONEY TREE! ~~~ ~~~~~/~ ~~~~ any of your favorite dishes.
Simply excha-nge the ingre-
'124 E Beaufort,
dients for those whole foods
No.rmal '452--9011 tha~ ar~ not ov~r-proci~seJ.
· *Y'ou get more ·out of what you
(across from Ap-ple Tree Records)
\- eat and eat less quantity

· because every mouthful is
fully satisfying!

Real Food·

In 1942, Dr. Russell M. Wilder of
th~ M~yo Clinic (receiver of research
donations from Merck & Co., General
Mills, and pillsbury), became.
chairperson of the committee on Foods
of the National Research Council, a
prestigious "independent" government
advisory group. Wilder appointed
Dr. R. R. Williams, holder--o.f.' the
patent for synthesizing Vitamin B, to
be chairperson of the Subcommitt.ee.
onFlour and Bread. Naturally, this
committee advised the government that
bread ought to have a lot of synthetic
vitamin B added to -it.

In January o·f 194J, the government
passed a law making ·"enrlichment" with
synthetic vitamins mandatory. Mayo
Clinic's Dr. Wilder and pals did a
~study of the .nutritional effects of
· enriching bread. This study proved
the need for synthetic yitamin B in
bread; according to !'llayo, Merck, and·
the bre_ad industry (which doubled its
sales and tripled its prices).

Oth~r scientists later noticed that
there were only seven subjects (rats).
in this study·. And also that Dr.
Wilder~had used bread that had 6 per
cent milk solids (lots of protein
there) addeq to it, as well as
/ synthetic vi tami.n B.

Mitchell, .Hamilton, and Shields,
scientists who weren't tied into the
chemical and bread·· interests, did ·

more- experiments and found that -

addition of milk solids does add
fooG'value to bread, but found no
nutritional· differences. between.

vitamin B enriched bread plus milk
solids and unenriched bread with milk
solids. ·

Many scientists said that the
original wheat nutrients were

probably a ·"nutritional complex,"

interacting within the body in ways

that do not happen if some of the

elements are absent, so that adding
back only. o~e element (vitamin B in
this case) does nothing.

In November of 1944, ·the National

Research Council. issued an official
document, "Enrichment 'of Flour and
Bread. " This defined th.e government's
position and that of the milling, '
baking, and chemical industries. It
has been followed ever since.
Author.s of this do-cument were Dr.
Russell, M. Wilder and Dr. R.R.
Williams (those names sound.

familiar? ) .

Now you can answer the question; .
what's'so enriched about white bread?

·pillsbury, General Mills, Merck & Co.,

the Mayo Clinic and its friends, the

American Medical Association, and

even ITT (maker of Wonder Bread and
Host~ss Twiniies) have found the ·

advent of. whi t,e bread truly an .

~nriching expe~ience.

--Thanks to Paula Giese, ARS ~ l.~ST .
North Country Anvil, No. 9. 105 Broadway NOI'mal . 452-6412

page 20 A Catsup, Potato Chip, C.h.ocolate, Avocado,

Graham Cracker Sandwich

CHOMP!

cpf

If you're in the first generation of balls, or Sara Lee banana cake,

Midwestern potheads, you probably . or ... never mind.

remember how it was the first time Stock -your kitchen with plenty of Now, the tortiila thing I described
you smoked dope. You took that munchable material beforehand, so above is ~y favorite~ b~t I'll _
you don't end up gnawing on stale
lumpy little bundle of half-damp mention a.5ew other good S.M. cures
.Illinois Green (slimy with someone saltines dipped in the thousand ·you. can stock up on•. Yogurt is
else's spitty first attempts at islan_d dressing that the tenant two awfully low on the crunchability
years before you left in the
rolling·) and suc:ked and puffed and refrigerator. (It happened to me, sc.ale; but if you get into creaminess
held it in till your eyes were
it could happen to you.) -.and tartness instead, it's good.
bulging, and kept at it until' And you don't have to do anything
fi~ally you had to chokingl~ (anq
·resentfully) admit, "I can't feel but tear the _lid off, and you don't
.§:. thing!'! ·Get some cheese and tortillas (th~ even need fingernails for that .
kind iT). ·a plastic bag by th~ English

Alld then you'd think, "Bqy, this is muffins, ·not those nasty cardboard Or if you can dig cooking and
ones in the box) and\a can of refried
nothin9! I threw in'two dollars to beans. Then when S.M. hits, you can washing dishes, you can.keep eggs
smear s·ome beans on a tort:i!l·la ,- slap and cheese around for a nice.
buy thl.s lid!· I'd rather have ·some
some cheese on it too, put i-t· in a- omelette. The basic problem here is
Fritos and French onion qip •.. mmm .•. 1 that· some people, when stoned,· have
40.0. degre.e oven (right on the oven
or maybe some guacamole •... oh, wow, rack).until the cheese is all bubbly, a tendency to put everything they
·or maybe some of those little Snickers can lay hand.s on into the omelette
and snarf it down. (Sour cream is ("Wow, some oregano! And here's ·the
bars they sell at Hallowe·en •.. OLIVES! optional, but sinfully good.)
cinnamon! How 'bout a little peanut.
I gotta have some black olives ..• "

And while trying to find the car keys butter?") and they must be kept out

so you could drive to the wnase·aornelsyt The advantages of this treat are of the kitchen.
ail -nig ht grocery (which .many: 1. It's fast:- you can get ,

five miles CJ.Way), you'd realize that your second one done by the time you. The important thing in healthful

you_ got a hard-core case of the finish the first, if. you can't admit munching is to stay on top of.· the

famous Stoned Munchies_! froni the start that you're going to- situation and be prepared. This

·eat two. 2. S~nce the ingredients will keep .you safe from the heart

·Contracting the Stoned--Munchie-s i_s are in either.the fridge or a can trouble, cancer, clotted blood,

not that different nowadays. until. you need them, .. they won't get .schizophrenia, eczema, acne, poor
Although now they've got Pringles ••. eyesight, dandruff, obesity, and who-
stale if yoti don~t get ~toned. J. You
know.s-what-else tnat comes from a ·.
ooh,. and those che.ese-flavored don't dirty .up a lot of dishes--just
diet of Cracker.Jacks, or blueberry
Doritos ..• and pistachi"o instant a spoon t.o smear the beans and maybe
muffin mix, or qherry cheesecake, or
pudding, oh yeah.;.. Stop that. a knife to slice the cheese. And if
yo'u don.' t put the. cheese too near the· hot fudge sundaes with real whipped
Back to the subject. Nowadays,
edge of the tortilla, it won't drip · crearno 0 0.
joints are"more potent and more
professional-looking, but the Stoned onto t~e bottom of the oven. 4. It's
not as full of junk-like preservati-ves Luckily, the marijuana itself has no
Munchies still come from th~m. and ill effects on your.health.
all--night grocery stores are still a and colorings and fake'flavors as,

hassle to find, and so it's a. good. say, Fiddle Faddle, or malted milk --Phoebe Caulfield

idea to be. prepared to deal with · ·

····-······· ..........................S.M. when it strikes.
.. artery walls they stick to). This to stay _as. co_nstant as possible. The
relation between-sugar and heart
For those ()f Y9'!-l who've.been wondering disease i~ controversial. Scientists hormone insulin, secreted by the-pan-
what all this white sugar brotihaha is
about, here are some of the theories · are not in agreement about exactly creas, clears excess glucose from the
blood. ·· , · ' · ..
ab.out ·sugar that cause sensible people what catises what and what to do about
to cut down on it, ·and to encourage·.. it. Evidently, though, if you overdose. on

their loved ones to do the same:

4. Maturity-onset diabetes (a form .sugar (like when you eat Twinkies, for

1. Since sugar is a very concentrated that aff.ects mostiy' middle-aged and breakfast), your pancreas flips out
and-just pum~s that -insulin like
source of calories, and the level of - older men) is common in· cultures that -crazy, blast1.ng too much glucose out

calories you need remains fairly eat a lot of sucrose,, and practically
unkn~wn in cultures,that eat hardly
stable, adding sugar to the diet can of your blood, leaving you feeling
cause you to .eat-less of.other foods~
any. Also·, tests on lab animals show kind of blah and craving something

tothat feeding an~mals a lot of sucrose ·sweet to eat, which of course starts

Sugar calories are "empty": tha_t is, can set off an iilherited tenderic'y. the pattern .over; Ugly, ugly. The
they don't-provide vitamins, minerals,
roughage, protein, things that make diabetes. · solution is ·to quit pumping huge doses
calories worthwhrle. Nutritionists ·
of sugar into your poor body. ·
--t·fear that other foods that give you
the nutrients you need will get · 6. Sugar causes cavities in some
people's teeth, especially if allowed
squeezed out of your diet. ~~A t_o sit there a while (and most people·
don't brush after every BoHo or Coke).
In one experiment twenty years ago, a ~9.~ BUT that's not all! . '

group of rats was offered an uniimited ." . When certain typ_es of bacteria
supply of Rat Chow, which contained (streptococci) come in contact with
all the nutrition a lab· rat needs,· and ,~ sugar,-~hey form Dextran. Dextran is
a water supply that had sucrose-- a · ~ a sticky substance that attaches
common form o·f sugar-- added. All the plaque to your teeth. Plaque· is. that
rats died of starvation. They enjoyed gooky whitish jurik that eventually
the sugar water so muc~ that they hardens into calculus, which eventu<U,-
wouldn't touch the Rat Chow. (Typist's ly causes really nasty gum disease and
note: For the rats,.this is an awfui even deterioration of the bones·that
costly way of finding out what we can- su~port_your'teeth. And ~laque is
learn from the food choices of human st1.cky enough already, w1.thout the
children.)
help of dextraB. --:
2. Eating a lot of sugar also
increases the need for the vitamin ~o thera you have six differe~t
thiamine, or vitami~ B1~ Thiamine's
main role·in ·the body is to help the possibilities, -none of. them cheerful.
cells break down glucose (another
sugar form) into energy. As the amount You can choose whichever one sounds
of sugar in the diet goes up, ·so does
the need for thiamine, to break-down reasonable to you. Or you can grow up
the glucose.. s-o too much sugar in your
diet can create a thiamine deficiency. to be a depressed; diabetic wreck and

3. Some resear.chers point to increases die .of a stroke at 40, proud of
of triglycerides in the blood of
experimental subjects who eat- a lot of holding on to your "healthy-" skeptic-
sucrose ..Triglycerides are fatty ·ism. ·
substance-s in the blood. When fat
deposits form on the WCJ.lls of your ~· ~ exaggerated blook glucos~/ ~~Phoebe caulfield,
arteries, blocking the flow\of blood, 1.nsul1.n cycle can be blamed for
they result in stroke, heart attack, tiredness, irritability, depression, . . with help from Cliff Sloane's .
and thrombosis (depending on which moodiness in many people, say some ·"Hooked on ·Sugar" in· the North Country
nutritionists. The level of glucose Anvil, No. 18, and a,painphlet from my
in the blood is regulated by the body dentist's office, "They're Your,
Teeth ..• You Can Keep Them."

- •I

.\

There's more information on sugar and.
mental health in this section's
article, "Warning: Food may be harmful
to your mental health."

AMERICA'-S NEW WEAPO-N_ SYST-EM:
HUNGER

Atomic warfare, mil~tary involvements Americans. And the food goes_to ~orty pe~c~nt of> aJl agricultural
the highest bidder, leaving the
and "send in the Marines" have been poor increasingly hungry. 1mports 1nto the U.S~ come from
traditional American· threats on Third World ~ountries .. 36 of the
smaller, poorer arid weaker countries To look on~ satellite ~ap of.the 40 countrie~ classified by the
to keep them part of the "Free World. •J- U.N. as hav1ng food and starvation
African Sahel, one will find la~ge pto~lem~ export agricultural
commodities _to the U.S.
But the United ~tates has another patches of green in the midst of the

~e~pons system--a quieter. killer, drought~parched brown. Those are· These countries find their.loca1
wh1ch caQ devastate an entire fertil~, i~rigated firming areas.

population-~Food. Where. does·<.t};eir food go? elites and multinational corpor-

1975 was the year of the "W_orld . In ,19 71, ;:~~~}:1~1 drought year, 32 ations exploiting prime land for
Focid Cri_sis," when starving millions ~a~h crops--coffee, tea,-iubber,
·million poun;.Q,'st'of vegetables were
looked for outside aid. In return exported t().\~:he- European marketplace. JUte, vegetables, eattle--leaving
they witnessed Earl Butz, Nixon's ' th~ population_poorer and hun- ·
According t~;the Unit~d Nations Food·
Secretary of Agriculture, §peaking grier, unable to grow food for ·
at the World Food Conference in Rome and Ag.ricul,ture Organization. (FAO), .. themselves. ·

about using f6od as a weapon. all the Sahel~an countries (with the

exception enoofugmhinge~raailn-r ich Mauretania·) ~ --Thus we have irrigated-land tn
produced duri ng the

In 19 75, the world clamored fo-r drought years to feed their Senegal 1or mangoes and egiplant

lrain. The U.S. stalled and held ·p6pul~tion~. But because this grain to be airlifted to Europe's best
tables. . . . · .·
back. Why? Because food was being ·was for sale in the global super-

used for strategic purposes. . market, it went to the highest

bidde:r (Europ_eans), leaving --Mexican farmers find they can

The American- s~pport.ed Thieu _regime ·s·ahelians hungry as outside owners make_ZO% more growing tomatoes for

never l~cked American grain, although · farmed and profited from their Amer1cans than corn for Mexicans.

throughout ptheeasVanietstNcaomn-twinaur~d· to land. '/ .
Vietnamese
--Columbian landowners shift from·

produce bou.ntiful rfce crops·. Viet w~eat to carnations that bring 80%

Nam was of strategic importance to t~mes greater return per acre.

the U.S., so the country ~as But doesn't the money ftom these

flooded with more than ample food;. cash crops allow locil populations
to buy food on the international ·
helping tie the local economy' to
marketplace, too?
the U.S. economy. Meanwhile;' in

the African Sahel, starvation was

rampant, but American food a·id was The money rarely. "filters down" int-

slow and meager, mainlY. dependent ~ocal economies; instead, it stays
1n the pockets of the local elites-
upon private donations. Why? The managers, plantation owners, etc.,
who are noted for their conspicuous
Sahel is of little strategi~ consumption, big cars, and children
in foreign board·ing schools. 'The
importance to the U.S. government~ cash. crop profits are used to
maintain the l~caf elites• so that,
Food has_ been used as a weapon. in-the midst of hunger, their
oslentatious wealth contrasts with·
Food aid is passed off to the ~he majority's poverty. ~or
American tax-paying populace as a 1nstance, foreign exchange· (won
benevolent gesture of American ~hro~gh cash crop economy) is used
good-will, However, the facts do 1n N1ger to air-freight ice cream
not bear this out. from a shop on th~- Chimp~ flys~es! ·

Public Law 480, 'under which Food A basic·hope.remains .for the w~rld~
Aid is given, specifically because most natiye populations · '
designates the -purpos·e of food ai(f do ne~t need to depend upon American
as not humanitarian, but for the .food aid .. I; the local population,
purpose of improving American rather than the elites, _farilied the
markets abroad. land to feed themselves, most
nations could produce stifficient
Tiaditionally, most Thir~ World food.
countries have had labor-intensive
farming, with small peasant land Even Bangladesh had 4.inillion tons But as long as food is tied to the
holder? producing self-sufficiency.· of unused rice during the 1974 market economy, the maintenance of
The land, cultivated with ~are over floods and famine. The reason?
centuries, produces bountiful crops. Everyone. was too poor to b_uy it, sc~rcity_(for the sake 6f high
and a th1rd of the grain was pr1ces)-1s essential.
This· land is no longer feeding eventually smuggled from the
local people, but is increasingly country"· to higher-priced· markets.- Smaller holdings can produce more
being used for cash crops to feed food than-large ones. In Thailand,
Americans, Europeans, and Some Americans complain ab~ut plots of two to four acres yield
Japane~e. Third World countries feed~ng Third World Countries.· Few almost 60% more rice th~n ~arms of
become hungrier, not because they Amer1cans realize that many of . 140 acres or more. A study of
could not be food seif-sufficient, these people are hungry because Latin American countries found _
b~t because their agricultural we are eating-the produce of their
land is now in the international land. small farms to be 3-14 times more
ma_rketpl ace. productive than large holdings.
Even in th~ U.S., the net income
Peasants from the Philippines to per acre was larger_for family
Bolivia must now compete in the fa-rms than big farm'S ·in every year
global marketplace with_Japanese and but two between 1960 and 1973.

This leaves some obviously helpful

Margie· Adam. ~elutions to world hunger. Hunger

problems will not be solved by ·

using bigger and better tractors,

With Special Guest new inorganic pesticides or more
central1zatiori. We ne~d to

return to land use for the world's

whole population: instead of for

.Del- Martin. _· a fe~people or a few countries .

Author of "Battered Wives" In Third World-countries this

/ means land reform, giving large

.j populations the opportunity for

Sundc\y April. 30th_ labor-intensive self-sufficient

farming, using their tried and.

true ancient methods, made better

b~yt selective research. · rn America
means more diverse agriculture,'

1hstead of our ~res~nt agribusiness-

The People's Church dominated mono~ culture, and more

l?eople "back to· the land," involved

941 W L.:awrence 1n food pro~uction and distribution.

I

Chicago, IL. Childcare Presently, myths ~bout unending
hunger confr.ont us. .Once we clear.
-Benefit For Abused V\bmen:S· ShelterTasl~ Force thege myths, we can pinpoint the
, actual challenge--owner~hip and
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Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 22

S_till funng and still writing

March 29th signaled the 1beginning of this year's America, since its founding, has frowned upon
art. The Puritans who settled America despised
.f and feared-the arts as sinful/as fun. Art in:
America !s perceived as a.feminine activity·;·
ISU Women's Week, sponsored by the Student Male children are raised not to be painter, actor, .
Association for Women. SAW's initial performer etc., .but tq be some powerful figure like a
is one of my favorite writers, so I hiedmyself politician, businessman, football player, etc.'
right on down to ISU's Univer:sity Union Ballroom
to hear--"ta,-da-da-dum" (trumpets blo_Fing)-- , And art is viewed as something one does in Daughters, through that sale, can afford to
·Rita' Mae Brown, speaking on one of my favorite one's spare time, not as one's lif~'s work: ·support. or give a chance to more riew women
topics: revolution (or, more specifically, "Art, writers. Now we can buy Rubyfrtiit in loc:ll
-the morning star of the revolution")! grocery stores, etc. Brown wants it as a film to
reach many more people.
Now, I attended the performance first of all ' ' At last artistic energy is beginning to surface,
because I consider Rita Mae Brown one of our Brown feels that we want to look at the screen and
.funniest and most talented new authors in the but "man vs. ·woman" exists in the arts, too. see people who are real. She's waiting ·for the time.
US of A. · Secondly, I had heard rumblings to the ·women receive an advance on a first novel of time when a book with many characters, one of
effect that Rita Mae Brown had "sold out"! approximately $7000 while ~en receive $10, 000. them· homosexual, is not described as a gay book.
'0n the other hand, women do not pay the
Thirdly, I felt that no matter what Brown had psychological price men do' in the arts; since the !
done or become, she should be heard-and so~eone
arts are "feminine. " Browri considers pornography part of the older
should try to be fair about her performance, generation. "Pornography will fade; it's part of
r'egardless of her politics. We look forward to the day women get the same sexual repression. We don't need it; we've done it
it all. ourselves." If we don't buy trashy novels,
Thus, I attended the Morning Star talk pen in money as men, andimen don't get trashed they won't print..them.
hand.
psychologically and' emotionally. - Since gays are associated with sexual. oppression,
most books ab0ut homosexuals are crotch books
Brown -is still funil.y and still writing. She is We. ne~d to bring art back to ourselvE:)s, back to
working on a new book, Six of One (as in six of I.
·Jne and half-a-:dozen of another), scheduled to the people, to sharing with people. Art. has
be published this fall. She read one chapcer from become a "4-door Chevy" to be sold. · "'-primarily about sex.. A writer can say .any-
the new material and guaranteed the sale of at thing in print if she or he can convince the big
least one copy of the new book--to nie. Brown is basically the same. person she w·as five publishers that it will sell.
years ago when she first began publishing, but
Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown's first novel, is because.she has made money and got noticed,
hilarious and honest. I believe Six of One will now she's a "real" writer (sarcasm intended!).
_follow it well, but a book cannot be fairly
judged on one chapter, so we'll have to wait to She has sold film rights to Rubyfruit Jungle to ALL MONEY IS DIRTY
read it all this fall. Iris Productions, a small outfit. Big film-
' makers are sexually repressed, and see the All money is dirty. I can see both sides of the
book as a lesbian story. Rita Mae Brown sees· capitalist/male money arguments that arise from
The reading was only one small part of Brown's it as a human story about a person who bounces Rita Mae Brown's ~ales. ·Our separatist sisters
performance. Most of her time was spent back; a story about real people in real situations. are angry and disappointed at her apparent ,
addressing th~ issues t_hat she faces daily: desertion of feminist presses for sexist, male-
sexuality, art, and politics/money. I, dominant presses. Our soCialist, non-capitalist,

· non-profit,si~ters and b;rothers a~e disappointed

with her support of capitalistenterprises.

~

Brown pointed out that. she is seen as a lesbian . I say Rita Mae Brown has not changed; we have!
regardless of any other aspects of her
personality, talent, or life. She also pornted out Five years ago we he·ard her as a re~olutionary;
that the audience had been labeled as gay just by .
attending, but she was glad we came out to see now we hear her as herself. She has been poor;
her!
she does not want to be poor any' longer. She has

been oppressed; she does not want to be ,

opp:r;-~ssed any longer.

Brown is bored with the topic of homosexuality She continues' to support won~en and ..yomenIs
and feels she is seen only as a member of a
group, not as an individual. ·This is true. We' are enterprises but not· at the expense of her work/
living iri an oppressive society. An oppressed art. She wants to reach as many people with her
group is associated with their oppression, so "message" as _-she can so she uses the only means
homosexuals are associated with their sexuality available to do so. Men are still where the money
or their sexual chqice. is and where the power is--. today. She hopes to
use them to spread her message to all; she -
To quote Brown, "The outside world is carrying intends to use whatever means are present now.
on. like trash- over this issue." Gayness is an
issue which she feels has ~othing to do with sex This does not mean she has deserted us for them.
and everything to d~ with freed;m_, with the right Brown is more humanist than feminist; She wants
to live in peace. change not just for women, but for all people. She
wants the morning star for all of us.
What was radical in one time is not radical later.
What we consider radical today may be Now, finally, to the rumor t'hat Rita Mae Brown --Tad--
commonplace tomorrow. At least we now have has ,·sold out." A starting writer's chances for.
options to pass on to future generations. Some successful publication are 1 in 3000 with a big .
progress has been made in our fight for company. Alternative.presses or small
recognition as people. publishing compan.ie·s are easier for.beginn~1_rs._

Brown next addressed "the incredible bulls--t A writer can reach five million people through a · PostNote: Rita Mae Brown's lecture was part of an
about how demented we are" humorously and big compariy and only a few thousand through a ambitious wo~en's week sponsored by ISU's
forthrightly, by replying to infamous myths from, small company. If a writer really wants to Student Association for )Vom•~.n. Women's week.
the· audience. Once she had settled all the. myths, reach more people with his or her message, a als~ featured the talents of feminist folksinger ·
or as she put it, "got being gay out of the way, " big company is preferable.
she moved on to the topic of art. Ginni Clemmens, comediennes .Robin Tyler and
Rita Mae Brown DID NOT SELL Rubyfruit Jungle
To.make money as an ar_tist in the United States , to Bantam; her alternative press publishers; Patty Harrison, local musicians Kristin Lems
is really difficult. Artists . must find o~er ways Daughters; did .. When a wri~er signs over rights
to survive. B:r;own personally fam rs manual to a publisher, the publisher has power over the and Tim Vear, and an ISU theatre group who
labor as an alternate ·money-maker, since '-- book frQm then on. The sale of Rubyfruit Jungle
manuai labor, ·working with the hands, leaves the was not an easy decision; Brown and Daughters presented the play Women 'at Work,directed
head clear to concentrate on one's art. · spent four months on that decision.
by qolleen Sessa.

·ISU's student newspaper, the Vidette, covered

absolutely none of the weeks activities. and

performances. ·-

' Post-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 23

. Bryant· Chills Decatur~ LeT's
!!.BeRaTe

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By the Christian calendar it was There was also a counter-demonstration Ku"Anita, Nazis, Klux Klan, work
Palm Sunday and Anita Bryant was in to the pro~gay rally. I counted about
Decatur to thump her bible and sing together hand in hand; We won't wait
· in MacArthur High School gymnasium. forty to fifty people holding signs, for later--.we '11 sto-(m)p her in Decatur;
The scene was an anti-gay, anti-· \ and of course there were ali those Anita and the klan~-scum of the land;
people going t~ the reviVal meeting. Gay, straight, black, wh1te--same
people, anti- joy revival. It was hard to guess who was part of struggle, same fight."

Bryant says that she makes public the counter-demonstration and who was There were the old- stangbys: ·
appearances to sing, not to preach. going inside because everyone looked "J-5-7-9, Lesbians_ are mighty fine·;
However, she always has ~press so similar. (I am .trying to be ca_reful Gay rights, right now."
conference at these things where not to saythat all non-gay people
· she usually goes on and on about look alike.) Their side mostly just
gay people. At this one she said held up their signs and .jeered.

that gays have ruined her singing Our side appe"'ared to be having more
caree"r. Comedienne Robin Tyl,er · · fun. We started our rally at one
says that her statement about the lack entrance to the buildingby singing
and chanting. When peopl·e stopped
of a singing career co~es about 25 coming in through that door, we

years ·too.lat~. ·

There was a pro-gay rally staged at blatantly marched around to· the other A few of the signs were very ·
door where the reactionaries Were
the same time at the Decatur high int·eresting: ~'Gay by choice, not

school. There were- close to two holding .up their signs. we continue'd chance"; "Hitler, M' cCarthy, KKK, Anita."

singing and chanting., Some of the· .

hundred gay people and their supporters chants I esp~cially liked were: We were being somewhat joyful in our
carrying banners and picket signs, struggle but the threat of violence
was everpresent. There were taunts
·chanting and singi,ng.. and jeers from several individuals and
small groups. Police w~re everywhere.
I wondered what it would be like to
attend a. revival or any kind of public

gathering with all those cops around,
but then maybe straight people don't
worry about police riots.

The gay people usually had it together
enough to answer the heckling with
songs and chants. The rally went-on
until the end of the revival when the

Christians poured out ~f the gym and

started harassing the gay people'\
The police intervened and had to
escort some gays to their cars. So
much ror Christian love.

And as long as I am talking about

Christianity and people who believe in

it and other superstitions, it should

be noted that it was after Ms. Bryant

sta_rted this Inquisition in Dade County

that Southern Florida got its first

snowstorm. ,The Friday following'the

gymnasiUm revival __was Good Friday, an

important Christian holiday. It was

also the day that Decatur was paralyzed

by an ice storm. And she tries to

blame the California drought on gay
people •. ~eall~. .
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I Gay!! and the famil_y workshop

I On Saturday,'May 6, ISU's Gay People's
I Alliance is sponsoring a workshop
(_ called "Gays and the· Family." Main
I speakers are Chicagoan Rusty Man, a

1. lesbian mother of five children, and

I Phil Marty from ~he Parents of
I Gays organization in Chicago.

In the center of this photo is the infamous I The workshop is from lO·a.m.-4p.m. in

Anita B.. shot through a MacArthur High · I the ISU University Union's 2nd floor
School window. Also pictured are the profile I West sl.de Lounge;· It's free ·to the
of a pro-gay demonstrator and a banner I public .. For more info, call GPA at

carried by folks at the March 19 rally in •I 4)8-)411 .

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Taking care of gou~self when things are. ha~ I

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In the last relationships article, we talked about I If during your time to yourself you have to
stay home (for example·, if it's during the
some of the problems of being in a terrible ·who may help teach them about numbers, the kids' naps), consider taking the phone off the '
relationship with .sever~ly limited alternatives. alphabet, sharing, colors, etc. And it's good, hook and not answering the door so that you
we- think, for kids to be around adults other won't be interrrupt,ed.
We stressed how important we think i! is to set than their parents. They learn that people have
different beliefs, ways of doil!g things, etc,_ A lot of these suggestions center on- the idea
priorities, to decide what's bearable and what's
not. This time we're going to ta~ about,what .. They'-re exposed to a wider range of experience. that you are important and what you -want is i
you can do· to take of yourself if you end up It's good for· women to get out of the house, important. It's hard to believe it when it Ii
and it's good for kids to get out of the house. seems like you're in the rillnority of people
in an awful situation that you're stuck in for .a who do, but it's worth working on.
lf you do _manage -to set· ~_side some time every
while. ' pne last thing' to consider is getting a job (if
week for yourself, do som·ething with it that· you
We talked in the last article about some of the really want to do-'-something selfish. It mig!Jt you can). Working• definitely has its own set of 0~·
reasons that women esp'ecially find it hard or be going to- the library, walking to the park, oppressions and problems, but it can be better
impossible .to leave a relationship that's .gone -~ drawing, writing; or just sitting and relaxing
bad. This article too talks a lot about the / ~d maybe .thinking about something other than~ Ithan feeling really trapped and unhappy staying
specific problems .of women, particularly women c-le.aning and shopping and _cooking.
with children and not very much money. at home. Also, it can be a way to meet.

********************************************** people and get to know them a little, and

What can you do to make your life more bear- there' aren't a lot of other comfortable, :
able when you're stugk: in a relationship_ or
marriage that's dull, miserable, 0!" emr)ty? · automatic ways for most people to meet each :
other.
One thing that's historically proven to be sound I•:I••••••••
is complaining. (thes'e days it's called venting)~ Next time we're going to talk about fighting
For years women have gathered at the kitchen depression· and guilt. The article will be
table or the ba:ck fence to share their. anger, both ·a continuation of ideas on how to take
their disappointment; their frustration. And care of yourself when trapped- in a sorry
relationship, and also ideas that apply ·to any
athat support may be the only reason lot of old depressing situation:

women caught for y~ars between a rock and Alice Wonder & \
L. Knight
- .a hard place have' been able to get up out
.I
.of bed in the morning and get dressed.
NEWSPAPERS
Don't hold it all in. ; Talking to other people, t
expecially about. the __'problem, can break down
feelings of isolation ·and powerlessness even if ·MAGA' ZINES
' it doesn't produce solutions. I don't think we
realize how much our culture encourages
our aloneness and oui- feelings of alienation
until we take steps. in the other direction.
Most of us live in nuclear families or couples;
that's the pattern that we've seen and that's .
what houses and apartments and neighborhoods
are designed for. · If we. have enough· money,
we each drive around in private cars; hitching-
hiking means taking your life in your hands and
public transportation, in most"'cities, is·,
dismally inadequ-ate. Many of "our jobs· throw
us together primarily with people that w_e have
little else in conini~n with and .would be in the
same room with for no other reason.

So breaking out of -these patterns by trying to
make other close relationships, beliides ·the

one with your partner' can often be an amazing-
( Jy renewing and heartening. pr. oeess. ' \·

Another thing that the two of us have learned is

that it doesn't make any sense to burn out

being the only one putting emotional effort into

the relationship. If your partner won't

cooperate in changing the relationship and you COIN { ·

decide to or have to stay in it .anyway, don't STAMP
SUPPLIES
bang your head against a wall. Work on getting

what you need somewhere else./ .

A rap 'group is one· of the ways that many
peopie, including more. and more· men, start
to identify what they really want and work on
getting it. · If the idea of a rap group is too
formal or too scary, maybe you could just
make it a point to see a couple of your friends
on a regular weekly basis, giving it a higher
priority in your life.

Something ·else that's important to do when
you're struggling to be OK in the middle of
an unrewarding relationship •is to make time
and space for yourself. This is perhaps
hardest to do if you have children.

If so, find or start. a babysitting cooperative. SAM,. to PM
Check out the day care centers. See if a
'neighbor would be willing to have a children MON-SAT
exchange so that you could each have one day
or one . afternoo.n free to do what you want to do.. 5AM-12~30PM.'

Don't feel guilty about 'aumping"your- children SVN.
somewhere. Kids c~ learn a lot of positive
things at day care· centers' from their exposure
to other children and from b,eing with ..adults





























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Legal Aid ·moves

Yup; Legal Aid is finally getting security, unemployment compensation, Men get together
bigger, and moving into new o~fices. hospitals; civil rights problems like
On May 1st, they will move to the discrimination because you are poor, Sangamon State University is the
fifth floor of the Greshiem Building, old, a woman, handicapped, or a
219 N. Main, ac~oss from the old minority; problems with your setting for the Springfield Conference
courthouse on the south-east corner landlord; consumer problems. on Men and Masculinity. The
of Main and Jefferson. Legal Aid can represent whole groups conference will be April 28-30, 1978·;
of people who have legal problems
Most people think Legal Aid just does in common. The keynote address will be at 8:30 pm
divorces and bankruptcies. But it on Friday the 28th in the Sanganon
does a lot more. They can offer If you have a problem you would like State cafeteria. The speaker will be
free legal services in civil law to discuss, call 827-5021 for an Sam Julty, of the New York City"Men's
matters to any eligible client. appointment, or come by on Monday _Center, on "Why a Men's Movement?"
That "includes things like1 hassles or "ednesday afternoons.
with agencies like welfare, soci~

On Saturday, from 9 to 5, there .will
be workshops. Here are some of the
tentative titles:

Yah-Ta- Hey Social and Political Issues: Men and
Rape, Politics of Men's Liberation,
11.4 N. Main 6t. Downtown r>loomlnqton Men and the ERA, Changing Work Roles,
Building a Movement.
828-11.42
OP~N 10:30 to 5:30 About Ourselves: Men and Aging, Men's
CL061;;0 6undoy G. Monday
Groups, Men's Studies, Men and Their
Bodies, Male Scripting and Radical
Therapy.

. Welcome spring, Relationships: Men and the Liberated
into your home.. .. Woman, Men and Children, Men and
Divorce, Masculinity:Cooperation vs.
with a new ·
wrought-iron plant stand Competition, Gay Men and Non-gay Men;
a Dialogue, Men and Families in
from Yah·Ta·Hey • • Therapy.
various styles and designs
hold up to 8 potted plants Sexualityi BisexulityjAndrogynyjOpent

Relationships, Gay Sex, Getting Down

About Getting It Up, Males, Females,
and Sexism. ·

The coordinators welcome any
additional suggestions for workshop
to pics.

The conference will wrap up with a
plenary session on Sunday morning.

We also have a great selection of To register, write to Len Adams,
hand-painted c·eramic and clay pots BRK-491, Sangamon State University,
of all sizes, shapes and c~_lors to suit Springfield, IL 62708. Include
your name : address, workshop
any decor ... from $1.25- $13.88. preference, and indicate whether or
not you will need housing. The
conference is free. Women are
welcome to attend, and day care will

be provided. Bring your own food
to eat.

Beautiful gift items imported from Mexico,

*WALL DECORATIONS many under $10.00

*PRE-COLUMBIAN SCULPTURES

*ONYX CHESS SETS *ONYX BACKGAMMON Humane Society

*WOOD CHESS SETS *WOOD BACKGAMMON to .help -pets'

*MALI CITE BACKGAMMON GAMES . The McLean County Humane Society has
started one of the few low income
*CARVED ONYX BOXES neuter/spay subsidy programs in the
*HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC FIGURINES state. A member of the Humane society
will be in the new Bloomington Public
*ONYX FIGURINES *ONYX BOOKENDS Library every Thursday from 1 to 2:30
*MEXICAN TAPESTRIES 2:30 p.m. to take applications.
*MEXICAN BASKETS
*WOODEN SPANISH FURNITURE AND ·LAMPS Applicants must bring proof of their
*VARIOUS STYLES OF WROUGHT IBON PLANT financial status such as Supplemental
Security Income checks or Medicaid
STANDS AND FURNITURE cards and proof of identification.
People receiving only food stamps will
r--------------~------------, not be eligible for the program at
this time due to limited funds.
WE STILL HAVE AN EXCELLENT
SELECTION OF HANDCRAFTED SILVER In conjunction with the Humane
AND TURQUOISE JEWELRY -- DIRECT Society program the County Board
FROM RESERVATIONS IN NEW MEXICO ... has agreed to defer all reg-istration
fees for pets neutered or spayed
ALL SOLD 1/3 OFF through June. The county will also
support the program with $150 from
SOUTHWEST RETAIL the Animal Control Budget for
publicity.
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lunaway battles Juvenile Court System '

I am the 1~ year-old who got the shaft to turn myself in first so we could go appointed to represem; my best •
from Cheryl Bills (a probation in front of the judge. Now I hear interests when he doesn't even listen
officer from the McLean County through the grapevine that when they to what I have to say? I talked to an
Juvenile Court Services.) My mother get me this time, I am going to be attorney and you know what he told me?
wrote an article that was in the March sent to Mary Davis Detention Home in "Your mother isn't the most popular
issue of the POST-AMERIKAN. She was Galesburg. person since she wrote the POST that
sure right about one thing--she knew article." So I know the probation
I'd run away again. I stayed in my My mother has been harassed by the office will do the worst they can do
foster home 6 weeks, then I ran. police and threatened with an to me just to get back at mom.
obstruction of justice charge. If
My foster parents were nice people we weren't poor I know they wouldn't I keep in touch with my family so they
an~hey were good to me. It was try to intimidate her and me the way won't worry about me. The cops may
the probation office that was they do. get me, and the probation office may
creating problems for me. It took see I'm sent as far away from my mom
my mother nearly 2 weeks of calling I know eventually I will get arrested as they can get me, but eventually I'll
Juvenile Court Services before she but I will never again believe
could get permission for me to spend anything the authorities tell me. get to go where I want to go, Home.
the day at home. Cheryl Bills What is the sense of having an attorney
wouldn't talk to her so she had t9 go Brenda Fleming
through the director, Ken Simons.
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Mom asked for' me to come on a Satur-
day that she didn't have to work. I I
wasn't allowed to come home the day
~· equested because I had a date for I A Labor Department . regulation Simpson wa~ fired for leaving.
that evening. What that had to do I that allowed workers to leave
I their jobs if work condit~ons The judges claim the ironworkers
with me going home 8 to 5, I don't I threatened death or serious should have filed an emergency
request for a federal inspection,
know,but I was told I already had I injury has been voided by a three- while continuing to work atop the
planned for the date and I wasn't steel beams. Inspectors would have
allowed to have two important events I judge U.S. Court of Appeals. reviewed the situation and filed for
in one day. Juvenile Court Services a federal court injunction to allow
did their best to insure that I I The judges claim New York iron- the · ironworkers to leave if they
would be kept away from my mother thought winds were too strong.
but Judge Knecht said in court that I worker Jimmy Simpson should have
I could visit at home. I followed regular complaint
I
I ran away Feb. 18 and it isn't easy I procedures instead of walking off

being 15 years old and a runaway. My I the job with his crew when windy The appeals court hearing was not
I conditions ~aused them to feel they held on steel beams 150 feet o~
only crime is wanting to live with my I were in danger of falling from a the ground on a windy day.
mother and my sister. I wouldn't I 150-foot-high steel structure.
have turned myself in the last time --Dollars &Sense
w~n I was gone nearly five months, I
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by B.C.
P.O. Box46J
·Blo·o·mington, Ill. 61701

On Saturday, April 1, at about 2 in
the afternoon, around 900 bright~y
colored hel-ium balloons soared into
the clear spring sky above the Clinton
nuclear power plant~site and headed

south-east. Some sped rapidly
skyward, bound for the East coast.

Others bounced and bobbled along the
broken fields that lay warming in the
sun. Each balloon carried a message.

"Radioactivity will travel on the air

· like a balloon, This balloon was

released near Clinton, Illinois, at

the site where a nuclear power ulant

is now being qonstruc.ted, ··

Radioactivity from a 'major a_ccident at.

the Clinton plant could reach you."

The April Fool's Day Rad:loacti ve _ 90D. balloons demonstate nuclear drift from
Balloon Release was carried out by the Clintpn could reach 5 East Coast states.

Prairie Alliance to inform the public -

-about the hazards of nuclear uower. observers.' ~-actions for Prairie to out-distance the helium balloons
About' a hundred concerned citizens Alliance files. You should have been but now we know there's no· hope of
. there tc see the· dismayed expressions that in central Illinois, If and when
turned out to observe 9-nd particip-ate. a major accident does occur at the .
Those that participated were concerned on their faces when we told them we· Clinton plant-,_ bicycles may. still· be
about nuclear power safety, its links wanted picture.s of them 'for~ our files!-
to the proliferation of nuclear - handy for weaving ~n and out of the
stalled automobilesfleeing the s·cene.-
weapons, and the hazards of transporting· Within three ho-urs o~ the ba11. o~n -By the way, don't go- down-wind. Go
its deadly wastes through our rel~ase, a call came ~n_to Pra~r~e cross.-wind. It is. the shorte-st
All~ance.headquarters--a b~loon had · distance to uncontaminated. land. and
communities. Those that merely" arr~ved ~n ~loverdale, Ind~ana. air;;·.
observed were concerned about.the
That's 40 mJ.les east of Terra Haut.e. ___,.·
threa·t that anti-nuclear activities
pose to t~e co'rporate_profits and.

public image of the Illinois Power The balloon traveled at about_40 mp?
Com an • · to get~there. By Sunday ~~e~~ng. one
pY more washed up on the. beach J.n North -

While demonstrators mounted what Carol-ina. Within a week, 28 cards and
passes for a hill in these part.s' .·• pho~e ?alls h<;td come ?ack from .
laughed~_.,·sang"' and- had·. a ball playing.---~ Il~J,.no_:-s_,. I~dl.a,I].<;l• ~!::-o,_ Kentucky,
with -fbaaclelodocn~s eraabmoeunt a half dozen WCaersot~ivn~rag~ann~da,S VJ.rgJ.nJ.a, Nor th Rad~. Q
grim with telephoto outh. Carolina.
.. _
lenses and note pads were busily · s~at~ons, TV and newspapers have begun
recording the event from a vantage. ·· p~ck~ng up the story everywhere f:om
. here to th_~ East coast •
point west of the -main crowd •. They .

had no press credentials, nor did-they_ The balloOn release vias~ so successful,
and the balloons traveled so_ quickly
volunteer information about their
onc.e released, that the Alliance
identity, although it would not. have
decided ,to cancel the second planned
been.necessary in any case. It was. release on ApriJ. 29, which was going
to coincide with Ro0ky Flats National
clear that surveillance of the Prairie
Action Day. We were planning-to try
Alliance had begun. It was not /
unexpected. Prairie Alliance ·

cam ersons recorded their

New ·ship.Oents . of Raleighs Champaign bus expresses its ideas
just a,-rived ori nuclear power.

SUN DATES·_.

Saturday-Sunday, April 29'-JO, ·Eastland

Mall. Stin Week Information Booth-.

Volunteers are needed to hand out

literature· and gather signatures on
petitions. ·

Cycle··shop College & Linden -Wednesday, May J, ISU Uniori,. lOam to
Normal. ·Illinois ··
·4pm Sun Day· sEoxlhairbietinoenrgyan, danSdymapnosium.
'_ ..... -Exhibits on

SEKAI - educational program consisting of a
. BICYCLES
series· of speakers- on solar energy,·
Telephone ··_films and slide shows. .c •

454-1541 ,sat:u'r-day-silllday, May 6-7, Timberline

Recreation Area, Route 117, Goodfield,

Hlinois .. The First Annual Central ·

'l!llinols POSITIVE ENERGY CONVENTION!!
Solar Energy exhibits by

manufac-turers, energy conservation

devic'es-, build-it-at-home·solar

collectors, energy investment·

.analysis, energy efficient homes and
dome~, whole·foods and beverages, arts

and cr~fts, Natural Health Institute,
books, free l.iterature, bumper

stickers, buttons, posters, camping,

recreation, bonfire, pottery firing,

and lots of music of the foot-stompin'

kind •. And it's all FREE! I .

(Exhibitors' permits are $10 from Sun
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. ·P~st-Amerikan vol. 7 #1 page 44 Culture Count~r

,Jackson .Brown,e:.: . 1

' ; On th.e Road

On April 16, I.finally saw Jackson During every break between the song.s,

Browne put his "road" album into a you could_ hear people shouting . .
live perspective. · Jackson.played
before a ~arge enthusiastic crowd at "Cocaine," so ;'cocaine" was the first
the Assembly Hall in Champaign.· ~
of several. numbers Jackson did with ·

David Lind,ley. · -

Karla Barnoff op.ene·d the show with · · · David Lindley ·was a driving for9e d'\lr.:-_.

goodcountry-basedinusic. ...... , --"" ing the concert, with his excellent
Considering· the place they w~r~ .· ... steel guitar and afid-"drlaere work. He also
playing in ·(you might .as we!l play in provided u.s with vocal
appearance" on the 60's tune, "Stay ....
an echo chamber), the vocals. were-- I.

good quality; Unfortunately, she only \

played· for about 40 minutes'· which was With the rest of the band back on Ten times as effective
stage, ·Jackson continued with some
way too short. Every year there are more bl·anks in
the U.S. Department ~f Agriculture's
more great music. Jackson's statistics on pesticide production.

But tne people wanted to see Jackson repertoire included mellow music with By 1975 and 1976',. figures .for 11 of
. Browne. After .an intermission he· the.USDA's 14 categories were
a few up-tempo tunes for diversity. · missing--including those for.
came strolling onstage to·a .thunderous Looking at him performing on-stage, herQicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T and
ovation, and opened with "Take It . one could see he was really enjoying for polychlorinated hydrocarbon·
_Easy." There-was .an excellent fiddle hitnse::lf, and.the audience was caught ·insecticide~ like dieldrin,
solo by David Lindley, who a:J,.so p.;t.ayed up in his great sta~e -presence. hept~chlor and DDT.
lap steel guitar throughout the
· Each of the hlank spots in the 1977
concert. · The concert never did bog doWn except Agricultural Statistics pesticides
table leads to.the same footnote,
Jackson performe·d his other hits: when the band was. tuning, which which says simply:
happened quite ,often. Of course, · . "Withheld to avoid disclosure."
"Doctor MY Eyes," "Rock-Me- On the we must remember where they were
--Post- Arne rikan
-Water·, " and "Runnin' On Empty" from playing. A performer·never knows
his latest album. It is.intere~ting what a note is going to sound like
that all of the equipment ca9es had · when it leaves th'e .amplifier.
gas gauges printed on them, with the.
--
arrows on empty.
After ending the concert with "The

During the· first· part· of th_e. concert, Load Out, '!-a .sorig a bout roadies,

two members of.the audience unfurled audiences, and. being.on the road,
Jackson was called back for two
a banner reading, "It Takes A Clear encores and performed "Tne

Mind.'! This referred to a 'line in the Pretender," and "The:Road and the
scing"Cocaine·~ off his latest album. Sky. " · Alth.ough this concert was
·"just another town ·along the ·road,
At -the end of the song,·as some of the "
the people in -the Assembly-Hall
band members are snortirr up, someone felt it was a personal- concert
between Jackson Browne and each
·says,, "It takes a clear mind." The ~ member of the audience.
reply is, ~Does it take a clear mind

to take it or a clear mind not to take-

it?"

--Dynsdale

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Untn.May·1 Post-Amerikan vol. ·7 #1 page 45 :

Free··dough ·"-· ~ ·-.-·.?

Hf.'r-u_:.·o·. .rm-r.y·~.-..·, government!

$115,258 has been promised to the low family, or the people' you 1ive with/ Payments· can be used to pay for summer
fills if _you are running low.
in<;:onie people of McLean County to help need to have earned or--re~c'e'ived-..:less

them recover .from ~he high cost of than a certain amount of money·since
keeping warm last,.winter,~ The. program
April 1st, 1977. The income limits Priority is given to those people
is simple. .. .: ., . ~ · .. . ,·.J J • • .... -
are: who.are experiencing utility cutoffs.·
................ ··•····
The _elderly can apply'·by. call.j.ng the '
Family ·or Group Members' · Total.:~
. It is called the Emergency Energy Y.M. C.A. Senior Services ·Ceriter-·at-· "
Income 454-1451 or·the Area Agenc_y on the ...
.. Assistance program. Eligible•families ' _..
1 $3.713 Aging at 662-9393.· . Special intake .
. can receive up to $250 by applying 2 4,913
by May 1. The money carr be used to 3 6,113 centers and days will be made

pay off last winter's heating fuel and 4 7,313 available to senior citizens through
electrical bills, or it can be used 5 8, 513
to pay for other things you could not. 6 9,713 these groups. ·
~fford last winter.
.The ·money -:t;o .pay for these programs··
If you had to skip payments on medical If you earned or received less than is coming from the federal government.
or dental bills, couldn't afford and these amounts, you have to "prove"
need winter clothes and blankets, or Congress realized late last winter
it. · ~ay stubs, copies of checks, that heating costs were often more
need food, this emergency program .than low income people were receiving
social security records or letters ·each month. Rather than give low
can help .. from other agencies ~re enough to income folks a raise (or make ·the fuel
'companies lower their rates), they ·
Applying for this program is easy. prove earnings to the MCEOC people.
If you have unpaid or past due decided.to distribute $250 to each ,
You simply call the McLean County family or group of people.. · And due .to
Equal Opportunity Commission at fuel, electric, medical, or dental the enormous speed 'of the:~ bureaucracy,
bills, you·need to take those 0it~ the money became.available in April.
827-6128 or 827-6129 for ari appoint- you to your appointment. If any of But nobody let McLean County ev.en know
ment. They have established a it was going to get any money until
temporary office on the third floor the $250 is left over after paying Friday, April 15. 'That means
of the Eddy Building, 427 N. Main,
across from the•Goodwill store in th.ese bills, it -~an be applied to· the $115,258 must be dis!ributed by May 1.
downtown Bloomington. The hours are purchase of winter clothing, blankets,
from 9 AM- 3 PM Monday through · · or food.

Saturday. You need to·hurry, because This program will pay for.all·kinds of If you·want -to complain about the
the application deadline. is May 1. lack of time to apply, or ask the
fuel. If you heat with any fuel--· government to extend the time you have
wood, coal, propane, _g~s, oil, or
electricity--you ar.e eligible. · to apply, call E:rnest White,. .
Community Services-Administration in
· To qualify for assistance, you, your
Chicago., at (312) 353-7109.

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~PO-ST-NO~TE~: --- -~-~------ ·continues We had thought that to be_the
purpose of. public trials: to bring
This article reflects the opinions, conclusions, .' . qut the "true facts." _If Dozier-.
has other facts not made available
and research of the John Middleton Defense attorney? in Bloomington, who in the triJl, he pught to make
Committee, not the Post-Amerikan staff. them available to the general
weie convinced that John would public- ·unless they are the, ·
~--------~------· same old racist and anti-worker
have been convictedhad it not slanders, fit for "closed door"·
Th~ John Middleton De·f(mse Commi tee discussion but not for-the light
is still active, arid we are even · been (to quote one of them) for .of public examination. At any
expanding our work. rate~ the committee has refused to
"the big-- guns behind him." mee~ with Dozier privately.
As readers of the Post kno'w;- last·
November John Middleton was con- Even the federal court in Chicago The John Middleton Defense Com-
victed of robbery in.Judge Campbell's recognized that all inight n·ot b~ mit tee is commi.tted to continued
court. Then the John -Middleton well in Bloomington-Normal. At vigilance against racism and
Defense Committee-was created and the time of his conviction on the police harassment of workers and
went to work spreading news of th~ ro.bbery ·case, John had been on students. We are continuing to
p6lice harassment and racism ex- fed~ral probation on a credit- collect a file of such instances.
hibited in John's case. -Since then ~ard violation, and after his con- And we have -taken up a second·
victories 'nave been won, ·but j·ustice viction his probation officer ~ struggle involving the racism df ·
the courts and prisions in
for 0ohn.Middl~~on is still io be moved for a revocation of Illinois.
probation. The defens~ committee
achieved. Maxine Smith, a prisoner at Dwight,
sent a letter io the federai has been confined to solitary for
The first victory came when the - 'over a year now because of her
court (same judge) gave ~ di~ected court explaining the racist_ work in making l~gal information
verdict of acquittal, od lac~ of harassment 6f John locally. available to other prisoners.
Petitions in support of her can
evidence, in a second case in- The judge, af-ter postponing the be signed Kt the John Middleton
Defense Committee Booth in the
volving charges· of auto theft and hearini three times to investigate ISU Union from lOam to 3pm every
the charges, ruled on March 25 - Wednesday. We have also prepared
burglary. Earlier two lawyers that Middleton should be gi-ven the a support letter. t'o be sent to
benefit ~f the. doubt, for apparently John Middleton in Menard and are
had told John that the evidence Normal police and McLean County collecting signatures on it .at .
officials had not satisfied the the booth.
against him in this second case inquiries inade by the court.
If you have information on police
was much stronger than in the The victory· in March is the second practices in Normal or Bloomington,
ilohg the road towards fieedom for come see us at the booth or
first. · John Middleton, but because o~ write to the John Middl~ton Def-
Detective James Roberts' racist ense Committee c/o W.S.A.
Buf court~_~c~ dl.fferently ~hen P.o.· Box 45, Norma-l, Illinois
they are under observation. The pursuit of John in the robbery
only evidence whatsoever in _the case, he is s'till serving a seven-
auto t-heft case came from the
•. un~upported ~estimony o~ Detective year pri~on sentence. The struggle

James R~berts of the Normal Police continues, and the continuation ~f
Departmenr-~~he same officer who the struggle has caused "concern"
had been harqssing John Middle~on to our state's attorn~y, Ronald
for over a year. Dozier. · He repiied in .a fetter of
-March 17 to petitions sent him by
This sort of evidence sends men 'the committee, offering to. "discuss"
and women to the penitentiary the "true facts" with the committee·
every day all over the United and concluding:. "It is unJortunate
that so _many _people are ·gullible
s~·ates for lack of public support
_enough to accept and b~lieve one
and vigilance. The existence of side of the story,- when it's ,
the John Middleton Defense Com- obvious th·at they-do no.t have the
·t·rue facts." -
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Spontaneity barred from quad

"I thought it was a fine way to spend According to ISU's Vidette, music The question is1 Why is the admini-
an afternoon," said Paul Schrader, stration suddenly cracking down on
chairperson of the Music Department at between 8 am and 4 pm is also amplified music on the quad? I
Illinois State University, after a spent many an afternoon .on the quad
musical quartet was removed from the prohibited because it may disturb last year at this time with a battery
quad April 10 for violating the classes. operated tape player going full blast
University amplification code and for and I was never approached or asked to
allegedly disturbing classes. This regulation, which prohibits leave.
spontaneous musical events, is so
ISU security said they received obscure that nobody even remembers The answer is simple. Last year,
complaints and said the quartet was when it was passed. Assistant Dean there was . a scheduled Rites of Spring
"upsetting classes." Security also of Student Affairs Mike Schermer said on the quad, and now they're trying to
said the group was disturbing band it was passed in "1975 or '76." The springfest their way out of having
practice, but Schrader said no one in regulation was put into its present one this year.
his department had complained in any form recently.
way that he knew of. But I have a solution, On the 29:th,
On April 20, the Vidette ran a story let's show up on the quad with 500
The amplification guideline reads: that showed the administration had acoustic guitar players, 400 harp
taken this regulation one step farther. players, 250 assorted percussionists,
Amplified musical events may be held Several outdoor events were either and 600 people and other forms of life
cancelled or changed because of this yelling at the top of their lungs.
only in the amphitheatre (south- regulation. A lemonade and ice cream We will have solved the problem of
sale and a backpacking session were that obscure regulation and still
east part of the quad). However, among the ones altered because of the have great entertainment. See ya on
dangerous amplified music that would the quad.
any amplified equipment intended for be there. --Dynsdale.

use outdoors will be provided and

operated by university personnel. No

amplified music after 7 p.m.

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Radio free ISU replaces rites

The birth of Radio Free ISU on April The success of Radio Free ISU hinges WESN--broadcastin~ from Illinois
29--if successful--Hill mark the mostly on the coo~eration of those Wesleyan--will provide the music,
beginning of a fight against l~~ that wish to preserve the tradition and you provide the radio. At noon,
tyrants--the ISU administrat.ors who of Rites, to preserve the common on Saturday April 29, put your
decided to close the gates of Rites speakers in your window or out on your
of Spring. memory of music outside and being porch or roof, turn your dial to 88.1
together on a warm spring day. FM, then turn up the volume FULL BLAST.
It was the day after Rites '77 that Go to your phone and call three
Illinois State University President friends and tell them to do the same.
.set foot on campus. The "festive" The go outside and listen .
remnants of the day before convinced
him that this Rites was one party . If all goes well, Bloomington-Normal
he'd have to attend, will be ablaze with the likes of Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, special 60's
And attend he did. In fact, he soon presentations and rock concert sound-
declared himself the host. And by tracks, as well as modern jazz and
virtue of that, he invited several newer progressive rock.
of his friends to help.
The plan is legal in theory, uncon-
Well, after they'd shuffled and trollable, and fail-safe. If you live
scattered the event, then justified on the ISU campus, say in Watterson,
the changes they'd imposed on our your speakers could be a part of a
Rites of Spring, the name was changed, 27-story sound column! It is fairly
the music was to be turned down and certain you could hear that out on the
turned off earlier, and the students quad and no university employee can
were saddened by the loss of a good tell you how loud to play your stereo.
tradition. But Void Lloyd called it
new, improved, fortified, without all If you Want to prevent the end of a
the impurities--just like Wonder tradition, do it with your radio.
Bread.
--Beth Escott

--------------------------------~----------- No Lark: Company

Looking for gay closes town

male or lesbian Kennecott Copper has ordered all
the residents of Lark, Utah--591
people--to get out of town by
sundown Aug. 31, the day it plans
to begin mining operations there.

magazines? The mining monstrosity bought the
town (and the mines) from U. S.
M£DUSO:S 800K Industries in 1972, but towns~
people--all of whom live in
WOP.LO Kennecott-owned buildings or on
company-owned land--had no idea
109 W. f"RONt they were going to- be thrown out
until last December.
<3L'OOMI N(}fON
"I guess there isn't much we can
do," resident Merle Watson said.
"But they' re going to have to work
at it to mo ve me . I'll move when
I'm ready."

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Vidette sex1• sm gets forceful feedback

Post-Note: Toe 'Ihe Vidette laughing a~ someone can also be
On April 14, we found this message on
the door of the Post-Amerikan office. From: Men Against Crimes Against mean and degrading. In addition
A note attached to it said, "Last night
the enclosed message was delivered Women (MACAW) to making women the objects of
with rocks to the Vidette office. " We
hurried over to the Vidette office at Re: Sexist Outrages in the Vidette/ ridicule, you also poked "fun" at
illinois State University,_and sure
enough, ·a hole in their back window the Vendetta children, people with mental
assured us that no one was putting us
on. So did the Vidette news editor. problems, Jewish people, gay people,

We have taken action against your blacks, and other powerless groups.

publication because of the many But the one group that you did not

sexist slurs in your recent :parody really make derisive fun of is the
most powerful one and the group to
edition, the Vendetta. We felt which most ·of you probably bel~ng1

that it was necessary to demonstrate

our anger in a visible way because white male heterosexuals.

we are appaled by your blatant We feel that for too long men have
sexism, because you apparently

refuse to see how you have degraded used their power to exploit women--

women, and because you haft H"6t./"'"7/i as you did in the Vendetta--even -

even made an attempt to apologrZe/'~/1 to the point of denying them their

to those who haye been offended. right to be offended by saying

that · "everyone should come together

You said that your Vendetta was in laughter." We say this abuse of

Jdone in "good clean fun" and thatj power must stop. As a group of men,
/Ayour purpose was to "provide /. we declare our opposition to your
use of privilege to dehumanize and
everyone with a reason to laugh.'

But what you have done is to oppress women and other victimized

encourage people to laugh at . people.

women. You seem to think that as

long as you laugh at something it to you. Are

is all right, but you forget that

looks · like a sleepy, serene
community.

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