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ON THE LINE Scotland's Political Bard New York City "Anybody who's working-class who's not a socialist shouldn't be allowed out of the house with money in their pockets," Scottish gui-\ >7 tarist...
...Partner riders" from Bolivia, Burundi, Cameroon, Colombia, Thailand, and other countries have participated since 1991...
...The company's gold and copper operations in Indonesia have also been responsible for the forcible relocation of the indigenous population of the Irian Jaya region...
...Berg and her organization hope to replenish the network of clergy from different faiths through training seminars much like this one...
...He attacks his guitars—electric and acoustic—with a flatpick, producing a sound that is percussive, syncopated, and melodic all at once...
...The film seeks to create a forum for debate and shows how psychiatric survivors "define and resolve their own problems, on their own terms," according to Jones and Weinberg...
...The club is the New York City stop on Gaughan's thirty-city U.S...
...Salguero received numerous threatening phone calls during the campaign against Bang's factory, and human-rights workers persuaded the Organization of American States to send a letter of concern about her to the Guatemalan government shortly before her abduction...
...But Moffett is a man who believes money can buy anything, and in December 1994 he made a $2 million donation to U.T...
...The interfaith gathering is a training seminar in all-options reproductive counseling, a program that gives women with unwanted pregnancies information to decide among parenting, adoption, and abortion...
...telephone: (312) 262-6502...
...Everyone's pro-life until they're faced with the decision," she says...
...One of these former patients is David Oaks, a Harvard graduate and editor of the quarterly Den-dron News, a grassroots broadsheet published in Eugene, Oregon...
...In Scots Gaelic we don't have any possessive pronouns," he says, "which is how they got the land off us in the first place...
...Chris Seymour A Film From Inside the Ward Los Angeles Last June, filmmakers Beverly Jones and Michael Weinberg showed up at the Emmy Awards dressed in formalwear and strait-jackets...
...History, Oaks says, "will probably show that the most enormous destruction was done by the so-called 'normal, non-defective' person who followed horrendous orders from other 'normals.' " In The Committed, former patients advocate a return to humanitarian treatment of mental illnesses by way of "talk therapy," also known as "the search for meaning...
...At least that's what the University of Texas Board of Regents decided to do...
...Sponsored by the Overseas Development Network, Bike-Aid raises funds for environmentally sustainable self-help projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States...
...For the women, "it's an incredible relief to know they won't be ostracized by their own faith," says Jean Stewart Berg, leader of this morning's session...
...Jones had been nominated for an award, and the couple came determined to promote their documentary-in-progress, The Committed, a one-hour film they hope will help publicize the psychiatric-survivors'/mental-health-consumer movement...
...The fact that they've been unable to raise the money to complete their project may have something to do with mainstream resistance to the idea that mental patients have a right to question the wisdom of certified shrinks...
...He sings Brian McNeil's bitter lyrics, "There's no gods, and there's precious few heroes, but there's plenty on the dole" in a Scotland where mining and industrial jobs are—unlike Brave-heart—history...
...She's helped other young women who didn't believe in abortion, couldn't support the baby themselves, and didn't want to give up the baby to a complete stranger, find a relative or close friend willing to take care of the child...
...Moffett's plans didn't sit well with the citizens of Austin, especially after they learned that annual Environmental Protection Agency statistics have consistently ranked Freeport's fertilizer-production operation on the Mississippi River as the nation's number-one water polluter...
...She's seen the daughters of members of the religious right come for help in obtaining an abortion, and women pressured by boyfriends or husbands to get an abortion who come for spiritual support in making their own decision to keep the baby...
...Despite hard times, Scots are rediscovering their culture and identity, which the English tried to wipe out by banning the language and the bagpipes in what Gaughan calls an attempted genocide...
...We're not advocating one particular therapy," Oaks explains...
...The men forced her to drink a liquid that made her groggy, beat her, and repeatedly raped her...
...Berg, herself an adopted child, and a lay member of the United Church of Christ, is disturbed by the dominant role in the abortion debate of the religious right, a group she believes does not speak to the mainstream religious views in this country...
...would honor someone responsible for such atrocities...
...It's the first trip over here in twelve years for Gaughan, who is that 1990s rarity, an unreconstructed, optimistic radical...
...Two students were arrested during June protests at the construction site...
...He picked up the guitar when he was seven, partly inspired by seeing Pete Seeger get a bunch of stoney-faced Brits singing along in their evening attire on the BBC's "Live at the Palladium...
...Students Revile Corporate Donor Austin, Texas What do you do when a man with ties to some of the world's worst human-rights abusers and a record as one of the nation's worst water polluters comes to town and threatens to bankrupt your city with lawsuits if you don't grant him unlimited development in environmentally sensitive areas...
...He has influenced and recorded with punk/folk-rocker Billy Bragg and played with several bands, most recently co-founding "super group" Clan Alba with other leading Scottish folk musicians...
...he asks in his song, "No Cause for Alarm," and then belts out his answer: "Hell, it hasn't even started...
...I run sessions at seminaries for young clergy—there's very little interest, particularly among men," she says, noting all the current legislative and lobbying efforts to overturn Roe...
...Oaks also heads the Support Coalition International, an alliance of about thirty groups...
...She was the first woman union member at the Coca-Cola plant in Guatemala City, and at the time of her abduction she was representing twenty-seven young women workers at the Juana Modas garment factory, which produces dresses for Leslie Fay...
...Kristi Coale BIKE-AID The summer of 1995 marked the tenth annual Bike-Aid cross-country trek...
...Berg begins the training session with a lesson in calculating trimesters and discussing what they mean to a woman's choices...
...We've tried to show them that there's enough concern over this among students that it must be changed...
...U.T...
...The workers had accused the owner, Grek Sung Bang, a U.S...
...According to :e Oaks, the FVI promotes "an ideology that blames social discord on dysfunctional individuals and families instead of racism, unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and the lack of medical care, education, and prospects for a real life...
...for the last nearly 300 years, and it hasn't done us any favors...
...For more than a decade, Salguero has fought for the rights of women workers, and has become an international voice for maquiladora workers throughout Latin America...
...Our issue is about choice, freedom, and empowerment...
...The American Psychiatric Association (APA) continues to promote electroshock therapy and drugs such as Haldol, Thorazine, Lithium, and Prozac as essentially safe methods of treatment for depression and schizophrenia, even as more and more mental-health professionals are going on record to challenge these methods...
...He compares Scottish and Native American cultures: more egalitarian and family-centered than most European cultures...
...Austinites have waged a difficult battle against Moffett for years...
...to complete the construction of a project that will be called the Louise and James R. Moffett Molecular Biology Building...
...There is an unstoppable will at the moment in Scotland for some form of independence and control over our own destiny again," he says...
...Paul, participants identified nearly 3,000 consumer-run projects around the country—drop-in centers, support groups, and advocacy projects—that are challenging the APA, the Alliance for the Mentally 111 (AMI), and the Federal Violence Initiative (FVI), a government project that studies the "biological and genetic factors" of violent crime...
...For information, contact the Overseas Development Network, 333 Valencia Street, Suite 330, San Francisco, CA 94103...
...Why, you name a building after him...
...students alike were outraged, but the board of regents—headed by chancellor William Cunningham, who sits on Freeport's board of directors—has thumbed its nose at demands to rename the building...
...He started playing in pubs during the folk revival of the sixties, and, when he realized he was playing gigs more than fixing pipes, he decided to perform full-time...
...There isn't an urgency" among younger church people, she says...
...Just as the ranks of abortion providers are thinning because of death threats, retirement, and a lack of younger doctors trained in the procedure, so, too, are the ranks of clergy experienced in dealing with abortion...
...The forty-seven-year-old former plumber sings a mix of contemporary and traditional songs with power and passion...
...Since 1990, James Robert (Jim Bob) Moffett, CEO of New Orleans's Freeport MacMoRan corporation, has been seeking to build an enormous residential and commercial development along the banks of Barton Creek, Austin's only unpolluted urban creek, home to the threatened Barton Creek Salamander, and source of the city's magnificent and beloved natural swimming hole, Barton Springs...
...Many say they prefer to remain anonymous, out of fear of harassment...
...The student government has drafted a petition to have the name changed, and have said they'll take it as far as they can...
...Riders also stop to do volunteer work along their route...
...He has no time for the romantic images of Scotland Hollywood peddles in the movie Braveheart...
...But as Berg's large blue eyes study the room, they take in a disturbing scene: everyone here is middle-aged or older...
...Beverly Jones and Michael Weinberg at the Emmy Awards dressed appropriately to represent their film, 'The Committed.' Intended to challenge the mainstream psychiatric establishment, particularly the use of elec-troshock therapy and psychotropic drugs, the film represents the point of view of former patients...
...For more information, contact the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, Craftsman Hall, 3909 Centre Street, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92103...
...citizen from Korea, of sexual harassment and of firing workers involved in union organizing...
...Berg tells her war stories...
...But Gaughan has mostly worked solo over the past thirty years, joining voice and guitar to numerous struggles, especially the 1984-1985 Scottish miners' strike...
...For Berg, Roe v. Wade is less about abortion rights than it is about religious freedom...
...There's a reality test that comes with hearing the three words: you are pregnant...
...He points out that at the annual meeting of the psychiatric-survivors' movement last Augustin St...
...We've tried the U.K...
...HELP FOR TORTURED LABOR LEADER Riding the bus to work in Guatemala City on May 17, 1995, Flor de Maria Salguero was abducted by two men and dragged through the street at gunpoint to an empty house...
...She managed to struggle back to her office and get help...
...Now he wants a building on campus named after him...
...I think some students not up on the issue have been shocked," says Rebecca Saldana of U.T.'s Student Environmental Action Coalition...
...The program also offers spiritual support...
...His voice ranges from brooding bass to resonant baritone...
...Lee Nichols Jim Bob Moffett— the nation's number-one water polluter—has made plenty of enemies in Austin...
...For her, this seminar is the start of an important new mission...
...ON THE LINE Scotland's Political Bard New York City "Anybody who's working-class who's not a socialist shouldn't be allowed out of the house with money in their pockets," Scottish gui-\ >7 tarist and singer Dick Gaughan tells the packed-in-sweat crowd overflowing lower Manhattan's Blarney Star...
...Participants collect pledges and meet with local environmental groups, YMCA youth groups, churches, hunger-relief groups, and other community-based organizations during the ride...
...telephoneffax: (619) 542-0826, or the Guatemala Labor Education Project, 333 Ashland, Chicago, IL 60607...
...Initial footage from The Committed includes testimony from psychiatric survivors based in Berkeley, Oakland, and Boston, where these former patients run controlled "drop-in centers" set up to help others deal with ongoing mental-health problems— without the use of drugs or impersonal treatment...
...After several hours, they left Salguero alone...
...The sense of urgency for Berg on this day is inspiring the clergy and lay people to become a force in their own communities by forming coalition chapters and aggressively recruiting clergy of different faiths, particularly from the Catholic Church...
...Long-time Austinites and younger U.T...
...Jones and Weinberg describe Oaks as "the soul of the movement...
...Clergy for Choice Oakland, California On an overcast summer morning in downtown Oakland, a group of fifteen people gather in a hotel conference room to talk quietly about counseling procedures for women with unwanted pregnancies...
...The morning portion of the seminar ends with attendees forming smaller groups to tackle hypothetical counseling scenarios...
...Founded by a group of Stanford students in 1985, Bike-Aid has grown to include some 700 participants and has raised more than $1 million for grassroots development and education projects...
...Gaughan grew up working-class in Leith, near Edinburgh, in a family of "troublemakers and traditional musicians," he says...
...They're shocked that U.T...
...Jones and Weinberg have shot thirty hours of film so far...
...Gaughan insists that traditional music is relevant today...
...Jordan Elgrably (For information on the Support Coalition International and the Den-dron News, e-mail David Oaks at chrp@efn.org...
...For more information, contact SEAC at 3117-B, Hemphill Park, Austin, TX 78705...
...For more on "The Committed," contact Michael Weinberg and Beverly Jones at (818) 4490104...
...The attendees, most of whom are in their fifties or sixties, could easily be mistaken for abortion providers, but in fact they are clergy and church lay people...
...tour...
...telephone: I-800-RIDE-808...
...They are also trying to raise money for Salguero's medical bills resulting from the attack...
...Our time has passed...
...The vast bulk of traditional Irish and Scottish songs have some kind of political content in them," he says...
...Last year, for the first time in decades, there were more people speaking Scots Gaelic than the year before, he reports happily...
...Weinberg, a licensed clinical social worker, has been involved with the movement since the 1970s, and he and Jones began efforts to raise money to produce The Committed in 1989...
...Activists in the United States hope that international attention will offer her some protection and create pressure for an investigation into her case...
...Berg is the Missouri director of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a national organization founded just before Roe v. Wade...
Vol. 59 • October 1995 • No. 10
