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...People on the reservation began organizing to resist what William Thompson calls the "bribe bill," and to fight any plan to bring radioactive trash to their unpolluted ancestral home...

...I'm sure that if there was not a court ruling, they would have continued stopping people from doing these things...

...This guy's bothering me," her friend had confided, "and he wants me to sleep with him...

...If we can incorporate assertiveness into our daily lives," she says, "we're less likely to be attacked...

...The friend had also told Robinson that the man "refused to give back the keys to the apartment," and had struck her on at least one occasion...

...Wayne Ducheneaux heads the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, which lies in the rolling prairie of northwestern South Dakota...

...J. Johnston is a former editorial intern at The Progressive...

...If you want to hit someone, why don't you hit her...

...I actually showed this guy that if you try to attack a woman you may get hurt...

...Negotiations for an out-of-court settlement broke down on July 6, when city attorneys refused to discuss or disclose the "security needs" the police claimed to be serving...

...But then, in a deep, strong voice Krier yelled, "No...

...Activists Take to the Airwaves ITHACA, NEW YORK Its original name said it all...

...If you begin to look beyond the walls of your house, if your vision at all goes into the future, then you have to have some commitment to that future...

...There are a lot of people out there who are committed to social change," she continues...

...Using his status as a Temple University student, he attended a meeting at which Pledge leaders asked any police officers present to identify themselves and leave...

...Chimera differs from martial-arts classes because it addresses the psychological component of violence against women...

...I really felt frustrated with the Cargill situation...

...While in his office she endured the humiliation, but in the classroom as she reen-acts the scene, she says assertively, "I want a nurse in the room...

...A recent one found them planning stories on the start of labor negotiations for the 900-member United Auto Workers local at Cornell, Ithaca's major employer...

...When Runyon, the other co-anchor, finished interviewing union spokesman Neil Watson, she ended by asking the miner what the community could do to support the strikers...

...But some observers believe that persistent resistance to a dump in the states under first-round consideration could make tribal lands an attractive option...

...We challenged the police, put them on the defense, and won," said Lenore Friedlan-der, CISPES member and a coordinator of the May 25 demonstration...

...Still, for all the long hours and headaches of working on a shoestring budget—Efroymson estimates each show costs about $15 to produce—members feel their work is important...

...He fell down and was unable to get up...

...One hour can save someFaith Russell of Chimera wants women to unlearn their lessons in not being loud and assertive...

...We like to work with peace issues, environmental issues, issues of social justice, labor issues...

...Not everyone on Cheyenne River agrees...

...While rape is a real fear for women, the belief that they are helpless to defend themselves is a myth that Chimera instructors work to dispel...

...This, however, is a distraction from our work, as these rights are already guaranteed to us by the Constitution...

...She knows self-defense...

...Four persons who wished to deliver a memorial wreath to George Bush were arrested for crossing the police barricades, through which the nondis-senting public freely passed...

...The victory on access is only partial, and neither of the two demonstrations held on July 16 got within two blocks of the Congressional dining pavilion...

...That's what got me out of this...

...John Grant, a photographer who carried no visible signs of protest but stood near a friend who did, was also refused entrance...

...I have people dying all around me," Ducheneaux declares, "and you tell me I should be concerned about people dying in twenty years...

...As she was leaving, two men assaulted her in the corridor...

...Decisions are made by consensus...

...Ithaca's activist, cable-access news show recently celebrated its first birthday and shows no signs of slowing down...

...Zayon kept quiet and stayed...

...Those women who resist are the ones who are most likely to get away and the least likely to be injured," says Russell...

...Susan Robinson (not her real name) is one such woman whose new-found confidence saved her and a friend from physical injury...

...Chimera strives to overcome the misconception that the rapist is a stranger lurking in a dark alley...

...Medical student Amy Stauffer saw her antiwar sign ripped from her hand and torn up by a park ranger...

...Cheyenne River is the largest and most isolated of South Dakota's seven Sioux reservations...

...He met with Department of Energy (DOE) officials in April to discuss the land's potential for a high-level waste site, and the tribal council voted in June to seek a feasibility study...

...One woman remembers her eye doctor touching her face in a way that made her uncomfortable...

...police wouldn't let him past the barricades because he carried a sign...

...Johnston (A...

...Karel Kilimnik (Karel Kilimnik is a free-lance writer in Philadelphia...

...I thought we had moved beyond this...

...Harris screamed, pointing to Robinson...

...DOE is not now pursuing a Cheyenne River site and has no special interest in it, according to Roger Gale, the Department's director of policy and outreach...

...policy in South Africa, artist Anita King was kept out of the public area by a police officer who said, "Reagan people only...

...Geological Survey cast doubt on the suitability of shale for a high-level dump, according to Deb Rogers of the Technical Information Project in Pierre, the state capital...

...He started coming towards Robinson, who is five feet tall and weighs 100 pounds...

...According to one tribal official, 95 per cent of reservation businesses are white-owned...

...Despite these reassuring remarks, the police proceeded to spy on the activist groups to "prevent criminal acts...

...alcoholism, liver disease, and diabetes...

...The half-hour show airs live on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m...

...Regional law-enforcement officials gathered last spring to share intelligence...

...Elected to the tribe's top post last fall, the tall, striking rancher seems genuinely devoted to addressing his people's pressing social and economic problems...

...Russell sees Chimera as a way of life...

...A month later, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on infiltration and surveillance of local activist groups (including the Pledge of Resistance and the city's Lesbian and Gay Task Force) that police officials believe might engage in "terrorist activities during the Constitutional Bicentennial celebrations...

...How much influence—if any—the upstart news show has is the bigger question...

...one's life," says Krier, who completed the full twelve-hour course after her encounter...

...Though the bill has not yet become law, one tribe already looked at the bait—only to reject it...

...Police could continue their spying, but protesters at future Bicentennial celebrations were to be allowed access to all areas where the public was permitted...

...We want to be advocates for social change," says Runyon...

...Participants in Chimera courses learn that rapists are motivated by a desire to humiliate their victims and not by a need for sexual gratification...

...Their idea was to give viewers the stories behind the headlines, from a frankly progressive angle, a here's-what-you-can-do-about-it angle...

...I felt this incredible adrenaline surge and then I snap-kicked him in the knee," recalls Robinson...

...Seventy-five people showed up recently to apply for one tribal construction job, and 1,700 are registered with the tribe as job-seekers...

...If it wasn't for Chimera, I would have just run out the door and I probably wouldn't have made it...

...One of the show's longest running stories concerned the disintegration of the union at the Cargill salt mine in nearby Lansing...

...A.J...

...Jerry W. Wilson (Jerry W. Wilson is associate professor of journalism at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota...

...Often the assailant will "test" his victim to see whether she will be an easy target, says Deborah Ptak, a Chimera instructor...

...On my better days,-" Efroymson . says, "I say yes...

...Mark Schultz (Mark Schultz is co-editor of the Ithaca Times, a weekly newspaper...

...The agricultural downslide has hit the marginal ranchers of Cheyenne River especially hard, and many have lost entire herds...

...He was abusive and smelled of alcohol," Robinson remembers...

...Zayon reported this to his superiors, who chose to take it as a serious kidnapping plot and shared the information with the FBI...

...The next test comes on September 17, when President Reagan visits to mark the signing of the document...

...It is easy to sympathize with Ducheneaux's plight...

...The Pledge of Resistance and CISPES, along with several other political and social-action groups whose members were also barred from the Mall, decided to sue...

...They demanded her money and jewelry and repeated the threat on her life...

...One of many ideas was to enter the Federal building and make a citizen's arrest of a Federal official...

...Ducheneaux, whose father chaired the Cheyenne River tribe for sixteen years before him, says plutonium is "plumb safe," and that chest x-rays and color televisions are more dangerous...

...Judge Fullam's ruling was ambivalent...

...Faith Russell, Chimera program director in Madison, says many women have been taught not to be loud and assertive...

...I'll find a different doctor," and leaves the room...

...Michael McGinnis, a university student, was refused access to the bathroom...

...The Sioux Reject Nuclear Waste EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA What do you do with thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste that nobody wants...

...policy in Central America...

...There wasn't a lot we could do, other than make the workers feel good that they were getting some publicity...

...when he asked why, a police officer replied, "Don't give me no lip...

...If you can surprise him, then you are more likely to escape, she tells her students...

...But it was the Constitution that was overwhelmed on Memorial Day, May 25, when more than 200 protesters arrived for the celebration's opening ceremonies featuring Vice President George Bush...

...A march wound its way through Philadelphia streets, much restricted by its escort of police officers, to its destination at Independence Hall, site of the public event...

...On my worse days, I say no...

...Meetings of the show's collective are intense, as members shoot ideas back and forth...

...A month before the assault, Krier had practiced yelling forcefully at a Chimera demonstration...

...For a moment, his perspective makes sense—until one remembers the legacy he was thinking of leaving his people...

...A feminist approach to self-defense, Chimera trains women in physical techniques and verbal asser-tiveness skills...

...After taking the course, women say they feel more confident...

...with a rerun later the same night to catch additional viewers...

...Rogers believes that if DOE considers a shale site, it means the Department has "given up on optimum geological suitability and is working from criteria of political acceptability...

...The making of the program is as progressive as its content...

...Since then, they've beefed up the publicity, including signs on every bus in the city...

...I've got carpenters, plumbers, welders, and electricians, all trained by Federal programs in the 1970s, and no jobs," Ducheneaux says...

...They ran out," she says, "That's what worked...

...Although it looks like mainstream news, even a glance tells the viewer this is different...

...Co-anchor Mary Jo Dudley sets the tone in the first minute, looking straight into the camera and telling the audience that More Than the News doesn't aim for objectivity, that it takes a stand and urges viewers to do the same...

...We do not have any intelligence that this city is in any danger...

...One afternoon, Robinson was visiting her friend Emily Harris (not her real name), who had recently broken up with a man in his thirties...

...If the harassment continues, she says, "I want to stop this exam...

...We're not doing this because we have identified terrorists," said Captain Frank J. Friel, head of the police intelligence unit...

...Unemployment among the 5,000 Indian residents is about 80 per cent...

...Studies by the U.S...

...The attitude of the police was noticeably different on July 16, when 200 members of Congress traveled to Independence Hall to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Compromise of 1787...

...We felt that was kind of low," he says...

...And then he ticks off the effects of perpetual unemployment and poverty on his people: suicide and infant-mortality rates among the highest in the country...

...Sixty to 80 per cent of all sexual assaults are committed by a casual friend, co-worker, or family member...

...A July 8 court hearing before Federal District Judge John P. Fullam produced much testimony on abuse of the First Amendment...

...During class the instructor has the students imagine a variety of threatening scenarios...

...In March, Senators J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and James McClure of Idaho introduced a bill to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to provide "incentives" of $ 100 million down and $ 100 million a year to a state or Indian tribe willing to>take, permanently, the world's most dangerous garbage...

...At first, Krier was paralyzed with fear...

...People circulated freely on the Mall, but anyone with visible signs of protest—buttons, T-shirts, placards—was refused admission...

...food, fuel, and other basic commodities cost considerably more on the reservation than off it...

...Per-capita income is less than $3,000 a year...

...Wooden barricades lined with police, park rangers, and mounted officers cordoned off the demonstrators...

...Too frequently "we have learned to be polite and trusting," says Russell...

...Discussion of a nuclear-waste repository on Cheyenne River focuses on the southeastern quarter of the reservation, where Pierre shale is closest to the surface and the Dakota aquifer lies below...

...The workers had gone out on strike to protest management's latest contract proposal and had been replaced by scabs...

...If you're the Department of Energy and no state will take the waste off your hands, you look for a non-state so desperate its leaders will ignore the risks...

...Founded in Chicago in 1976, Chimera is now taught in eight states...

...I feel as if the people of Philadelphia have been through these issues before," says David Kairys, a veteran civil-rights attorney...

...Eventually, they opted for the more succinct but still accurate More Than the News, and their idea is a success...

...Even though we work really hard," says Runyon, "we don't get burned out because we feel this is a really exciting vehicle that we're learning and mastering, and it's exciting...

...Each week, a group of volunteers meets to critique the latest show and discuss ideas for the next one...

...Louis Zayon, an undercover policeman, testified about his infiltration of the Pledge of Resistance...

...We all have things we want to change...

...On June 29, when they filed the lawsuit, the activists included a request for an injunction barring policy spying...

...As the lawmakers sipped cocktails, demonstrators gathered...

...Women Fight Sexual Assault MADISON, WISCONSIN Last New Year's Eve, Kathy Krier, a French teacher at Sun Prairie High School near Madison, went into a friend's apartment to flip the lights while he was out of town...

...One out of three women is sexually assaulted and that doesn't include daily life experiences that have sexual undertones...

...My friend asked him to leave, but he kept saying to her, 'You don't really want me to leave.'" They continued to argue until he moved toward Harris and raised his fist to strike her...

...But opposition to a dump was intense, and on July 10 the council reversed itself, approving by an eight-to-three vote a ban on any low-or high-level nuclear dump on reservation land...

...Although they can't be sure how many people are actually watching, Efroymson says a recent study by some college students found that 5 per cent of the people surveyed had seen the show at least once...

...Organized by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and the Philadelphia Pledge of Resistance, the protest opposed U.S...

...But it didn't get their jobs back...

...If we don't feel comfortable with something," says Runyon, "it doesn't happen...

...local efforts by the Tompkins County Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and the school board's vote on renewing the superintendent's contract...

...When John Efroymson and Malinda Runyon came up with the idea of producing their own local news show, they thought they'd call it What's Left of the News...

...I've got a knife and I'm going to kill you," one of the men told Krier as he held a knife against her throat...

...The police were very conscious of the fact that they had to allow us to leaflet and that we had the right to wear buttons and display a banner," says Jerilyn Bowen, one of several Pledge of Resistance members determined to test their newly won injunction...

...During the meeting, the group held a brainstorming session on what to do if the United States were to invade Nicaragua...

...Suddenly, the former lover burst into the apartment...

...The name refers to a female mythical monster associated with illusory fear...

...Toting an armful of leaflets and wearing a button protesting U.S...

...I would never have done that without Chimera," says Robinson...