LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTERS to the Editor Anyone Can Do It As a long-time reader of The Progressive, I believe I should be able to criticize your occasional onesidedness without your taking offense. In your rush to...
...I participated in three train blockades in Portland, Oregon, in 1984-1985...
...Franklin Roosevelt proved that being disabled does not have any bearing on one's ability to function effectively...
...Your item about the panhandler who asks Chica-goans for movie money (No Comment, March issue) deserves comment...
...it made the women prisoners appear to be victims...
...My suggestion now is that you write another article about the male side of the prison parenting situation...
...We will always have scapegoats and hate so long as our social and economic institutions are a free-for-all based on cutthroat competition...
...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness...
...In the February issue, however, one problem arises that is easily dealt with: The Eastern Massachusetts town of Framingham can be reached in considerably less than an hour by driving west from Boston, not east for an hour as Loren Stein and Veronique Mistiaen wrote...
...I would have preferred an article without the feminist overtones about the stress to which children are subjected when they lose either parent to imprisonment...
...Leon Lukaszewski Walnut Creek, California Author's Query For a book on the White Train carrying nuclear armaments, I seek press clippings, anecdotes, personal reflections, etc...
...Though I haven't checked out the all-night movie theaters lately, they're probably still a good place for the homeless to get some sleep...
...Men do care...
...I recently taught a parenting class at Monroe Reformatory after a quarter of the inmates signed a petition asking for such a course...
...Their business books and magazines are full of war terminology...
...The fare isn't conducive to slumber—usually a triple bill of gunfire and martial arts— but it beats sheltering under the freeways or the Elevated...
...Yet, if he lived in Cleveland or almost any other American city today, he would not be able to get across town by himself...
...Andy Robinson 1225 East Lester Tucson, Arizona 85719 The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...Paul L. Shaner Seattle, Washington Every month The Progressive presents me with thorny questions difficult of resolution...
...I have never read anything on the tragedy of separating male prisoners from their children...
...But if it is assumed that women are not responsible for their own actions, they will be considered irresponsible...
...There is a tendency in feminist theory to depict all women as victims...
...In your rush to find fault with our President, you completely ignore what I consider to be his greatest legacy to the American people...
...The mad scramble for resources and energy, the exploitation and plunder of the Earth and the Third World, and the never-ending quest for still greater convenience, extravagance, and ease— that's the sort of system under which we live...
...Women cannot have it both ways...
...It really hit home, since my wife is Japanese and I am living in Japan, where news of "Japan bashing" in the United States occasionally appears in the newspapers...
...Rick Davis Kofu, Japan Buddy, Can You Spare Six Bucks...
...Behind all this friction and animosity is a world economic order predicated upon crushing your rivals...
...The cost is low, too—not the five or six bucks charged for current features...
...It is thanks to Ronald Reagan that we now know that the age-old dream of every American schoolboy is something more than just another dream: After the elections of 1980 and 1984, it can truly be said that anyone, absolutely anyone, can become President of the United States...
...Feature articles about famous military strategists are standard fare for the executive busy clawing his way to the top...
...As your article stated, there are eighteen times more male prisoners than female...
...John G. McDonald Amherst, Massachusetts A Ticket to Ride As a member of the Transportation Coalition for Disabled Riders and a longtime reader of The Progressive, I was glad to see Timothy M. Cook's article, "A Ticket to Ride" (May issue), about the struggle to make public transportation accessible...
...Ray Brown Retranchement, the Netherlands Pregnant in Prison Pregnant in Prison," by Loren Stein and Vero-nique Mistiaen (February issue), was written with the tone one employs when writing about refugees...
...I like your magazine but would like to see something positive said about men by the American Left...
...The Japanese, at least, are very honest about it...
...As the article indicates, the transit companies vastly inflate the costs of installing and operating lifts on buses...
...It is time to let all members of the public use public transportation...
...Stephen P. Hansler Cleveland, Ohio Scapegoats Again Ienjoyed—in a way—reading Michael Moore's "Scapegoats Again" (February issue...
...I hope the authors' other facts are correctly situated...
Vol. 52 • June 1988 • No. 6
