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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1987)
Ashes and Diamonds Continued from page 2 mentary that did most things right, and should be screened in every school in the country once a month. The piece was produced by Al Levin, a longtime TV documentarian. His 1970 NET Journal piece Who Invited Us? is a classic piece of progressive television, in which among other things his team landed in Chile right before the election of Allende and speculated what the U.S. response would be. In the early 1970s Levin collaborated with Moyers on a number of Bill Moyers’ Journals. Why Work? was about “economic democracy,” examined several work er-run enterprises in Italy and is distributed by the left film distribu tion company California Newsreel. So this makes up somewhat for Moyers’ antics at CBS, including the thumbs-up news analysis of the Gre nada invasion and a manic cold war display at the Geneva summit. On the topic of Grenada, I would direct anyone rashly congratulating himself on the absence of a state-con trolled press in the United States to Joseph Treaster's article in the New York Times for October 25. As we know, the economy of Grenada is in reasonable points but felt, as all lib erals do, that it was necessary to say, “I think you’ve got to look at the San dinista government in some sort of pragmatic terms. We've seen no con version on the road to Damascus. These are not people who’ve turned into Jeffersonian Democrats. They’re Marxists. They’re Leninists and we shouldn’t think otherwise about them. . . .” So how come they never talk about the Marxist-Leninist leaders of the People’s Republic of China? This gets us back to the imagination of the state. Stop me before I kill again. Bush’s Broken Date Briefly in Madison, Wisconsin, last week to give a talk and sign copies of my new book Corruptions of Em pire at Peoples’ Bookstore, I was pleased to shake hands with one of that fine cultural outlet’s moving spirits, Gilliam Kerley. Kerley had just been released from Leavenworth Federal Prison Camp, where he had enjoyed the distinction of being the only American in prison for draft resistance, having drawn a three-year Kerley... had enjoyed the distinction of being the only American in prison for draft resistance, having drawn, a three-year term for refusing to register for the draft.... tatters, as are health and education services. Herbert Blaize’s ruling party has this year introduced detention without trial and censorship of calyp so. Through Treaster’s rose-pink shades “you can almost hear the money jingling in Grenadian pockets” and “in some ways Grenada is ex periencing democracy with a ven geance.” If the imagination of the state had the power of words they would be there. Tigerish Questions But the state doesn't have things all its own way. Every now and again of ficials of the Reagan administration, mewling and puking with terror, have to submit themselves to the pitiless interrogations of McNeil and Lehrer, as in, for example, this bare-knuckle encounter between Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state, and Jim Lehrer: Lehrer: What is your reading of how the Arias peace plan is going so far? Abrams: Well, I think you’d have to give an “A” to President Cerezo and President Duarte and I think you’d have to give something pretty close to failing to President Ortega. Now any rational human would have taken the mike and whacked Abrams on the head with it, asking him not to pollute the airwaves with such filthy nonsense. If prudence withheld die mike-whack, any inter rogator capable of reading a news paper would have asked Abrams about an on-going death squad kill ing in Guatemala and El Salvador; press freedom in both countries; the murder of human rights leader Herbert Anaya; the true and actual pace of political “reconciliation” in both countries, as contrasted with Ni caragua’s concrete demonstrations of good faith. Lehrer said nothing sub stantive in a demonstration of truly spectacular timidity, climaxing with: Lehrer: Do you feel as we sit here now that the United States is giving its full support to the Arias plan? Abrams: Yes. . . Lehrer: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for being here with us to night. Then, since this is a free country, we had “balance” to Abrams, in the form of that noted columnist, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and that other representative of the far, far left, Senator Chris Dodd, who made some term for refusing to register for the draft—the harshest sentence given a non-registrant since the Vietnam war. In Kerley’s case we have the oppor tunity to consider the imagination of not one state but two. At the end of September a Polish anti-draft activist called Jacek Czaputowicz, himself imprisoned in 1986, had planned to protest Kerley’s sentence and incar ceration in Leavenworth. The oppor tunity afforded Czaputowicz came with Vice President George (“I have briefly experimented with contra drug smuggling”) Bush’s visit to Poland. Czaputowicz’s group, Freedom and Peace, has opposed Jaruzelski’s rule but has also joined Western peace groups in criticisms of U.S. foreign policy. On September 24, the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in War saw invited Czaputowicz to a dinner for Bush on the following Sunday. Czaputowicz accepted gladly, seeing a chance to assert his group’s legali ty. He was also planning to raise Kerley’s case, and ask the Vice Presi dent his views on the three-year term for Kerley, executive director of the National Committee Against Regis tration and the Draft (CARD), at whose sentencing Judge John Shabaz gave as his reason for the long term his hope that it would “thwart” Ker ley’s “illegal activities directed against the system.” Kerley and Czaputowicz had pre viously joined in signing a statement opposing U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Czaputowicz’s group—some times called “the Greens of Poland"— oppose militarism, human rights abuses and ecological destruction in both Eastern and Western blocs. Freedom and Peace has been work ing for conscientious objector status for Polish draft resisters and oppos ing a loyalty oath to the Warsaw Pact required of new conscripts. Even as Czaputowicz rehearsed his remarks to Vice President Bush, there came a knock on the door. It was an official from the U.S. embassy who urged Czaputowicz to decline the invitation. [Alexander Cockburn's column is par tially underwritten by the Committee in Solidarity with the Central Ameri can People (CISCAP). For more infor mation about CISCAP's work to bring peace with justice to the Central American region, call 485-1755 or visit the office at 372 W. 10th.] CLASSIFIEDS ARTS/CRAFTS PRINTMAKERS HOLIDAY CLOTHESLINE SALE Original, hand-pulled lithographs, etchings, silkscreens, cards, Hno and woodcuts. Many prints under $251 Free coffee and cookies. Oregon Printmakers Studio, Maude Kerns Art Center, 15th & Villard. Friday, Dec. 11,1-6 pm. Sat., Dec. 12, 10-6 pm. Sunday, Dec. 13, 1-6 pm. 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