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Barry Thanks to thee Brian Ahlberg, Betty Benjamin, William Casper, Jennifer Gage, Jim Hare, B.J. & Paul Loeb, Judi Ray, Ellen Ruffin, Carol Salmon, Linda Schinitz, COMPAS, Mary Walstrom ON THE COVER Portrait of David Rathman by his fiancee, Mary Kramer. Dave Rathman is a Minneapolis printmaker, book artist, and painter. He is a 1989 Jerome Foundation Fellowship recipient. This is an untitled oil painting courtesy of Steve Andersen. Subscriptions $10 a year. 212 3rd Ave. N., Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55401 The Twin Cities edition is published by the Clinton St. Quarterly, 212 3rd Avenue N., Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401—(612) 338-0782. Unless otherwise noted, all contents copyright ©1989 Clinton St. Quarterly. We encourage your comments, articles and art. All material should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 6 Huxley’s Satellite Dish— Brian Fawcett The Global Village forever changes the backwoods. Teddy’s Waltz— Reva Rasmussen A tune we all will dance to. A Poverty Program You Can Bank On— David Osborn A community development bank turns around an inner city neighborhood. 15 Shorebank North? Lansing Shepard A local group tries for socially responsible lending. What the Hell! Let’s Go ToFrance— Lynda Barry The Left Bank will never be the same. 16 All the PR That’s Fit To Print—Walter Karp Our local dailies declined to comment on this article. Find out why. 18 / Used To Think Like That— Musicmaster A screed for all of us on life’s daily insanities. Swimming—Robin Raygor The trip you always knew was better imagined than taken. Brain Damaged Blues— Billy Golfus Trials and tribulations on the road to recovery. Clinton St. Gallery: Intimate Nature— Linda Gammell and ^ 1 Fred Harding W Photographs by two Twin Cities photographers. n I 34 D n Current Trends in Architecture— Jim Blashfield and Steve Winkenwerder Food for thought on American architecture. P E R S U A S IV E L A N G U A G E The evening of last summer’s Supreme Court decision on abortion found the television airwaves filled with invectives from the so-called “right to life” movement. “Murder,” “baby killing” and “genocide” were shouted over and over to counter the well thought out arguments of the choice spokeswomen. No matter what the merits, it is hard to win your case while being labeled the lowest scum on the earth. Yet it seems the anti-abortion movement is even more wide open for attacks on their own morality. If they were so concerned with life why don’t we see them protesting nuclear weapons and military expenditures— very real instruments of murder, babykilling and genocide. In fact many among the anti-abortion welcome nuclear armeggedon as a fulfillment of religious prophecies. If they cared for children we’d see them support child care, Head Start, guaranteed maternity leave and a host of other support services for children. In fact the anti-abortion movement as a whole is little concerned with life and more fixated on enforcing a return to the Victorian codes of conduct. Witness the following choice quotes from anti-abortion leaders: “Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don’t like the way we’re made you’ve got to take it up with God.” “Technical advances permit women to avoid conception or con tinuation of pregnancy. Women pay dearly for this nonfreedom. First, they become slaves of their erotic sensuality, they are manipulated more easily by the male of the species, they truly become sexual things (toys), and their denaturalization now transforms them into nothing more than large semen containers.” “Planned Parenthood is killing millions of pagan babies Whom our missionaries could otherwise convert.” There are deep and dangerous currents in the “Pro-life” movement and it needs to be called on it. No longer can we let the right control the language of our political discourse. This use of language as a tool to cloud political debate has been an historic weapon of the right. Joe McCarthy invoked the sinister image of “card-carrying communists” to great effect in the 50’s. In 1988 George Bush updated that phrase to brand Michael Dukakis a cardcarrying member of the ACLU and hence a man far out of the mainstream of American values. If Dukakis stood for anything he would have branded the religious fanatics swarming about Bush as the ones truly out of the mainstream. Unlike Dukakis we have to understand that these people are going for blood and we must fiercely defend ourselves. No longer should Victorian throwbacks and undemocratic religious zealots be dignified with the phrase “right to life.” Today Jesse Helms and Republican chairman Lee Atwater are leading a campaign to eliminate government funding of the arts. They are once again cornering the terminology by accusing their opponents of being pornographers. Jesse Helms is a major figure in the anti-abortion movement. On top of that he is the major congressional supporter of the brutal Latin American death squads. As tough as it is, we must think of images that encompass the truly despicable character of a Jesse Helms or a Lee Atwater. To rid ourselves of villains such as these we need to realize that they count on our unwillingness to leave the comfort of our privatized lives to engage in the political process. It’s up to us to prove them wrong. This issue is dedicated to the memory of I.F. Stone and Abbie Hoffman. Without their inspiration, wisdom and humor there never would have been a Clinton St. Quarterly. -Lenny Dee Clinton St. Quarterly—Fall, 1989 I 3
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