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The Rev. Chumleigh
GEOFFREY SQUIER SILVER
• Bush’s gagging continues. At the Common Dreams NewsCenter, a website for
progressive news and views (www.commondreams.org), Naomi Klein reports that
non-governmental organizations are now supposed to be arms of the Bush
Administration, furthering its public relations campaigns around the world. At a May
21 gathering in Washington, DC, USAID’s Andrew Natsios was angered by the fact
that wounded children in countries attacked by the U.S. (Iraq, Afghanistan) didn’t
realize their medicine and food was coming from the U.S. Natsios told NGOs doling
out humanitarian assistance to make it clear they are an arm of the U.S. govern-
ment, and if they didn’t, he would “personally tear up their contracts and find new
partners.”
Meanwhile, American aid workers throughout the world have been warned not to
speak to any media; all requests for interviews must go through Washington.
was created by Reverend Chumleigh and
Patti Chappel, Secret House owner.
The initial blow that stunned organizers,
according to Ammon, was the permit issued
by the county commission stipulating the
event be shut down by 10 pm.
“I got blindsided,” he says, adding if he
had known the commission was going to
meet to discuss the permit, he would have at-
tended the meeting. The earlier closing time
meant the Fringe Festival organizers had to
move up the times of some of their acts,
which overlapped with Country Fair hours.
“That’s not what we intended,” says Ben
Schroeter, event publicist. “It goes against
what we were trying to accomplish.”
Even so, Ammon reworked arrangements
to keep the ball rolling, but eventually, he
says, contractual agreements with Chappel
began to unravel. Chappel says problems oc-
curred because of Ammon’s “inability to fa-
cilitate all of the production necessities.”
No word yet on whether another Fringe
Fest will be planned. — AS
CORRECTIONS/
CLARIFICATIONS
Last week’s story “Watch Your Back,”
about the USA PATRIOT Act (UPA), implied
that pharmacies allow customers to sign the
disclosure regarding release of personal in-
formation to various government agencies. In
fact, the document does not give the opportu-
nity for a signature, and says simply that in-
formation can be released at the request of
those agencies.
• John Dean, former White House counsel to Richard
Nixon, is quoted in a recent Harpers Weekly saying: “If Bush
has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus
information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse
of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be ‘a
high crime’ under the Constitution’s impeachment clause. It
would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including
the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a
felony ‘to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof
in any manner or for any purpose.’”
• GOOD news to report this week! Mercado Latino, the pleasant food and craft
fest that’s been happening Sundays under the Washington/Jefferson Bridge, has
moved to the park blocks at 8th and Oak, where Saturday Market is. NEDCO says
the event was “too invisible” at the old site, so moved it permanently to the new
location, which is NOT under a bridge. If you haven’t yet checked it out, do yourself
a favor. Take a Sunday stroll downtown and you’ll find high-quality, inexpensive
Mexican, Salvadorean and Peruvian food, free music, craft booths with a wide selec-
tion of wares from Mexico and various Central and South American countries, and a
very relaxed atmosphere.
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