ture had voted unanimously to condemn the nuclear arms race. — Delegates from the Hiroshima Association against Nuclear Arms were introduced. They were among the 318 pacifists attempting to attend the NYC rally who had their visas denied under the McCarran-Walter Act. The entire crowd rose in a standing ovation to welcome the Japanese men in orange T-shirts who linked arms and saluted their North Ameri-1 can friends. — at 2:00, a procession of 50 people, led by the Masters Kung Fu Club and a dancer in a huge colorful dragon mask, arrived through the columns of the Peace Arch. They had left Vancouver the day before to walk the 32 miles to the rally. — Dr. Christine Cassell, from Portland, Oregon, spoke. Her organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has played a noble role in the peace effort: they have been outspoken in their prognosis of the devastating physical effects which will attend a nuclear blast; they have elbowed the conservative American Medical Association into making a statement about the inability of the medical profession to heal the effects of a nuclear holocaust; and in many areas of the country, as individual physicians, they have helped bankroll the entire anti-nuclear movement. Dr. Cassell began her talk with PSR’s now-notorious disclaimer: “We doctors will be impotent to help anyone after a nuclear attack,” she said in her quiet and dignified voice. “But we are not impotent now.” A subdued crowd listened as she described a post-holocaust scenario which includes cholera, typhoid, and starvation — for those not immediately incinerated or irradiated. After her talk, a line formed at the bronze drinking fountain where — miraculously — the water still bubbled up clear and cold. The grass, too, was none the worse for the visit of 15,000 people, and the flowers thrived intact. Frank Kennedy asked that there be two minutes of silence. “Ask yourself why you came here today,” he suggested. Photograph by Robert Bogue ^unday, June 13, 1982. The city’s kJ major daily, The Seattle Times, carried a terse account of the rally on page four. The photo they ran is of two young girls dancing, spaced out and ecstatic; no adults are distinguishable in the photo; the scene could be a rock concert. The headline is set in modest 42-point type. In the same edition, same section, The Times devoted a full page to the first of four excerpts from a book about the possibility of “meaningful life after nuclear war." Set in banner 60-point type, the headline, “How to Survive a Nuclear War," gives the appearance of a major news item. While protestors may be dismayed by the newspaper’s apparent attempt to degrade and belittle the local peace movement, they may take consolation from the fact that although the same newspaper never carried a word of the 40,000 who gathered to hear Robeson, the paper’s silence did not succeed in rendering him invisible; even on the ILWU bus, 30 years later, there were people who remembered his songs that day and remembered his words: “I stand here today under great stress because I dared, as do all of you, to fight for peace and a decent life for all men, women and children wherever they may be.... You have known me through the years. I am the same Paul, fighting a little harder because the times call for harder struggle.” H presents Theaterscene: a weekly review of community theatrical productions featuring HOMEMADE PASTRIES LIGHT DINNERS OMELETTES GYRO SANDWICHES QUICHE CREPES BEER & WINE BREAKFAST SAT. & SUN. 3 3 5 4 SE Hawthorne 232-4982 closed Monday Host Glennis Forster Tuesday mornings at 11 90.7 FM COMMUNITY RADIO For weekly listings see the KBOO Program Guide Sponsored by KBOO & The Metropolitan Arts Commission Downey Insurance Agency Commercial & Personal Unes Bonding, Ufe and Health Insurance ★ 520 SW Sixth Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 228-8327 If you enjoyed this issue, isn’t a subscription in order? Send $5 to CSO, 2522 SE Clinton, Portland, OR 97202. Traditional & Provocative Cards at »--- * furniture and architectural pieces in wood and glass. 8239 S.W. 13th 239-0608 John McNaughton Del Marshall Clinton St. Quarterly 29
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