ON THE LINE
Schubert, Charlotte & Strubbe, Bill & SHERMAN, SCOTT
on the line Campuses Get Greener Madison, Wisconsin In 1988, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed an advertisement in Greenpeace asking environmental activists around...
...A computer and fax machine contributed by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in San Francisco gave the paper a boost...
...To rally opposition to the dump, MINE started a newsletter, held public meetings, and made a videotape, which it lent to the local hardware store for regular showings...
...As visitors enter the dark, cluttered vestibule, they are overwhelmed by a flood of African-American history: large photographs of Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey, Carter G. Woodson, and others decorate the walls, alongside such framed documents as the Declaration of Independence, King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and the ten-point program of the Black Panther Party...
...He even ran a half-serious campaign for president of the Russian Republic, which gave him a public forum to speak about safe sex, condoms, gay and lesbian issues, and the repeal of article 121, the antisodomy law...
...Miriam Midlarsky, a senior at the University of Wisconsin who attended the conference in Boulder, agrees...
...More than 750 high schools nationwide are involved in SEAC...
...We're organizing on a local level with a collective vision behind it, and I think that's extremely powerful...
...We'll completely fail in any effort to save the trees or save the people, unless we address the fact that there's a crisis in democracy, in economics," says Hayes...
...Despite the newspaper's success, with cir-culation reaching 30,000, TEMA's printer in Estonia stopped producing the paper because of harassment...
...In Arizona and Ohio, SEAC groups are working to stop the Mount Graham telescope complex sponsored by the University of Arizona...
...Preserving Black History Milwaukee James Cameron refuses to forget...
...Cardboard boxes overflowing with books lie everywhere...
...The entire area would be changed...
...It really made people think," says Chris Regan, one of the people who brought in the truck...
...We made a mistake...
...Regan is a member of MINE (Money Is Not Everything), a group in Hinsdale which actively opposes an enormous landfill DeLillo wants to build...
...An impressive collection of documents relating to slavery and Reconstruction includes the 1853 freedom papers for a slave named Sarah Moore, donated to the museum by her grandson, and numerous letters and diaries written by slaves...
...You see this thing parked right downtown and it's overwhelming...
...The museum's centerpiece is a gallery filled with documents and photographs of lynchings...
...He has three years to file an acceptable environmental-impact report...
...He met with editors of gay and lesbian newspapers, leaders of ACT UP, and the mayors of New York and San Francisco...
...An article in the SEAC newsletter, Threshold, claims that "the 1990s are indeed going to 'make the 1960s look like the 1950s.' " Jeremy Hayes, a SEAC representative based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, says that SEAC tapped into a burgeoning student movement, "I've seen growing activity on campuses for the last three years, and SEAC coordinated all that-provided a structure...
...A visit to the Jewish Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem inspired Cameron to create an American equivalent...
...In October, more than 2,000 students converged on Boulder, Colorado, for the annual SEAC conference...
...Cameron was severely beaten, but escaped with the help of a sheriff...
...Then Pravda, the Communist Party daily, printed an article charging TEMA and the gay and lesbian union with promoting pedophilia, necrophilia, and immorality, and chastised the anti-communist Moscow City Council for registering the organization...
...Kalinin founded the Moscow Union of Gays and Lesbians and edits the Soviet Union's first gay newspaper, TEMA—slang for gay...
...Like many black Milwaukeeans, he is an outspoken supporter of Michael McGee, the controversial alderman who announced he will recruit and train a Black Panther militia for violent reprisals, starting in 1995, unless the plight of the black community is improved...
...In 1988, he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, which uses documents and photographs to reconstruct the long history of white racism, from the African slave trade to the present...
...Cameron sees himself as much more than a curator...
...On August 8, 1930, he and two friends sat in the Grant County Jail in Marion, Indiana, on charges of rape and murder...
...But the lease expires in July 1992, and Cameron will be forced to move his collection...
...but they're still horrible, horrible, awful!'" Kalinin is one of 200 members of the newly formed Libertarian Party who distributed condoms at this year's twenty-eighth Communist Party assembly, saying "Stop Communist Party members from procreating...
...The group also plans to send a student delegation to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil...
...I said we need something like that here to show what has happened to black people," he says...
...Petersburg, Kalinin addressed seventy American activists and several hundred Soviet homosexuals...
...Our country is slowly making its way out of the swamp of dictatorship," he said...
...It said, 'Yeah, yeah, all right...
...has snowballed, according to organizers, to about 33,000 students on 1,500 campuses...
...Tourism, a major industry in the area, would also suffer...
...Twenty-four-year-old Roman Kalinin of Moscow has this dubious distinction...
...Mount Graham is home to a number of threatened and endangered species and is also the spiritual center of the San Carlos Apache...
...After several mainstream Soviet newpapers printed TEMA's address, Kalinin was inundated with letters from gays and lesbians in villages, labor camps, and prisons across the country, expressing gratitude for Kalinin's activities and relief at knowing they are not alone...
...At a card table on the sidewalk, Cameron's assistant, Faye Jackson, sits with her teenaged daughter selling Malcolm X T-shirts...
...The court forced Pravda to print an apology...
...New York SEAC chapters are working with labor groups to resist the James Bay hydroelectric project, which threatens to flood Canadian wilderness and displace thousands of Cree and Inuit people...
...Cameron is a member of the militia...
...What we're after is local change with a national agenda," Says SEAC national coordinator Miya Yoshitani, a senior at the University of Illinois...
...Last summer, at a historic gay and lesbian conference held in SPIES AND LIES The CIA claims to have twelve officers-in-residence teaching at universities around the country, but it refuses to name the schools involved...
...Other memorabilia include an old package of Milwaukee-produced tobacco called "Niggerhair," featuring a picture of a black woman outfitted like a cannibal...
...Last winter Kalinin toured the United States to raise support and money for his efforts in Moscow...
...Environmentalists have warned that toxins from the dump could poison the town's drinking water...
...In another corner stands a mannequin wearing Ku Klux Klan regalia...
...The scandal at RIT inspired Seattle University to resist CIA infiltration...
...Koseff is trying to increase high school and community college participation in the Macalester chapter in Minnesota...
...It's our responsibility to lead the way and make sure we create conditions in which they can be happier...
...In the past year, Kalinin and other visible homosexuals have endured increasing persecution...
...SU canceled the history-department appointment of agent Tom Lauer this fall, bending to pressure from students and faculty...
...His job is to preserve the history of African-American oppression and resistance, and to pass it on to a new generation...
...Nearly an entire wall displays a photo sequence of a 1919 lynching in El-lisville, Mississippi...
...The group's efforts paid off when townspeople packed the Hinsdale elementary school gym to vote 830 to 59 against the landfill in a referendum...
...The landfill would take up eighty-five acres of pristine wetlands and would add an estimated 200 vertical feet to Warner Peak, a scenic point on the Appalachian Trail...
...It is a neighborhood of modest, well-kept homes, set in an urban gray landscape...
...A huge mahogany bar sits in the center of the room, and abandoned pool tables loom in the shadows, remnants of the beer hall that used to stand here...
...A black man who moved into a white Milwaukee neighborhood found the costume in his attic, and donated it to the museum...
...Having somebody on campus who is paid by the CIA compromised academic integrity and autonomy," says Seattle history professor Steen Hailing...
...Anti-CIA activism on campus is on the rise again," says Deborah Crawford, the director of the CIA Off Campus national clearinghouse...
...The museum's current location is subsidized by a friendly landlord who charges no rent...
...The fight of dissidents in our country has a long and distinguished history...
...The museum occupies a large brick storefront in a working-class section of Milwaukee's northwest side...
...A library contains several thousand books related to African-American history and race relations...
...Academically, there are more majors being offered and more courses being offered, and from there some students turn to activism...
...At Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, activists successfully pressured the administration to divest holdings in companies that manufacture weapons or that have poor environmental records...
...The Black Holocaust Museum continues to operate on a shoestring budget and visitors are scarce...
...Trucks like this one will make 170 round trips daily through this community if developer Andrew DeLillo has his way...
...Since then, the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) DON'T DUMP ON US A giant garbage truck rolled into the little town of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, recently, and parked at a curb in the middle of town...
...Roman Kalinin in his Moscow apartment...
...Scott Sherman (Scott Sherman is a former editorial intern at The Progressive...
...Cameron also teaches history to prisoners at the Waupun state prison, and keeps a close eye on the political situation in troubled Milwaukee, one of the most segregated cities in the nation...
...Last summer, students at the Rochester Institute of Technology discovered a secret contract between the school's president and the U.S...
...In the next frame, the youth dangles by his neck from a tree limb...
...Adjacent to the library is a large, open space with chairs and couches where films, poetry readings, and blues concerts take place...
...A Pink Triangle in Red Square Moscow Imagine being one of the first openly gay people in the Soviet Union—a country where homosexuality is considered an illness by medical authorities, and punishable by five years' imprisonment...
...SEAC is developing an internship program, "Toxic Summer," which in 1992 will place students with diverse community groups fighting toxics in Louisiana...
...What came out of the conference was a more confirmed and more committed agenda to define trie movement in terms of issues that affect people—sexism, poverty, racism, tied in with environmentalism," says Alex Koseff, a midwest SEAC coordinator...
...Now that the Cold War is over, many institutions are less willing to be compromised...
...There are no big roads—it's all country towns...
...In the first panel, a burly white sheriff thrusts a slightly built black youth into a raucous mob...
...intelligence agency, which affected everything from curriculum and research to faculty appointments...
...Now we ask for our rights just in the same way others are asking for theirs...
...Today, Cameron is determined to remind America of its sordid past...
...I'll do it out of my basement if I have to," he says...
...Those of us here are people who have gone through coming-out processes, people who are miles ahead of most other gays and lesbians," Kalinin said at the conference...
...Charlotte Schubert (Charlotte Schubert is an editorial intern at The Progressive...
...SEAC Midwest chapters have recently protested logging of the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois...
...Macalester counts 200 local high-school students in its environmental club...
...Still, he is determined to keep the museum going at any cost...
...Produced in his apartment, the publication comes out on an irregular basis, whenever there is time, money, and paper...
...Is this the student movement of the 1990s...
...Still, DeLillo has not given up on the project...
...The police subpoenaed Kalinin for questioning...
...Moscow and St...
...This much is certain, though—Seattle University isn't one of them...
...Bill Strubbe (Bill Strubbe is a free-lance writer in Orange, Massachusetts, who recently visited the U.S.S.R...
...The Tuskegee Institute, which keeps a detailed record of Southern lynchings, sent Cameron additional materials...
...A lynch mob led by the Ku Klux Klan stormed the jail and hanged his acquaintances from a nearby tree...
...In an effort to reach corporations directly, SEAC affiliates are seeking to change the investment policies of their colleges and universities...
...I see my role as an educator who brings to light things that are hidden," he says...
...The sale of these books provides desperately needed funds for the museum, and local students use the library's resources for research projects...
...I took a course last year that doubled in size from the previous year...
...Minorities of all sorts which did not fit into rigidly set parameters designed by the Communists were persecuted...
...Kalinin laughs...
...In the last photograph, he is set on fire by the cheering crowd...
...You just have to see the beauty of this place," says Regan...
...People are calling every day...
...After retiring as an air-conditioning engineer, Cameron started the museum with $5,000, which he spent on photographs, documents, and other historical mementos...
...Kalinin brought suit against Pravda, and won...
...A thief broke into Kalinin's apartment and stole materials related to TEMA...
...on the line Campuses Get Greener Madison, Wisconsin In 1988, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed an advertisement in Greenpeace asking environmental activists around the country if they wanted to build a coalition...
Vol. 55 • December 1991 • No. 12
