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...With an eye toward offering more immediate training, Medical Students for Choice and the American Medical Women's Association will kick off pilot programs this summer to introduce students to the issues surrounding abortion and other reproductive-health concerns...

...The Uprising of '34 premieres nationally on PBS's Point of View on June 27...

...For more information, contact the Coalition for New Priorities, 202 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60604, (312)363-0500, or Chicago Jobs With Justice, do ILGWU, 910 West Van Buren...

...Thirty years later, that lesson is at the front of Rockwood's mind...

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...Local churches and businesses have refused to support the memorial project...

...At the same time, the American Medical Women's Association will inaugurate its reproductive clinical elective in July at Columbia University...

...We wanted to start some training in the short-term, but we see these as part of the long-term solution, too...

...Students participating in this program will receive training in procedures and issues related to sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion, primary-care infertility, and doctor/patient communication...

...Rockwood was deeply disturbed by what he saw as a policy of ignoring atrocities against Haitians, both in the streets and in prisons...

...The command then placed him under a gag order...

...Still, Lamb knows the story is getting out...

...When he asked the Civil-Military Operations Center for current information on Haiti's prisons, he was told that nothing was being collected since the Joint Task Force had decided that it lacked jurisdiction...

...For the Army, Rockwood's case is a simple matter of disobedience...

...Since one of his duties was to take an inventory of prison facilities, Rock-wood requested classified data on Haitian prison conditions...

...Todd Ensign (Todd Ensign is the director of Citizen Soldier, which has helped with Rockwood's case...

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...There was a note on the literature, that if you knew anything about Honea Path, to call the toll-free number," says Lamb, still sounding amazed...

...On Memorial Day, they will gather in Honea Path's town square to unveil a red granite marker that Lamb designed to memorialize the slain men...

...But the real work toward bringing reproductive-health issues into medical-school curricula is just beginning...

...Safeway's employment has dropped from 160,000 to 67,500 following a leveraged buyout in the 1980s...

...The day after Rockwood's inspection, an Army military police unit was sent to the central prison...

...An American officer arrived at the prison and ordered Rock-wood to desist...

...She has heard that pirated copies of The Uprising of '34 are circulating in Anderson, about eight miles from her home...

...His civilian lawyer, former U.S...

...A great many people were reluctant to talk," Stoney says...

...Among the groups involved are the trade-union-based Jobs With Justice, the Coalition for New Priorities, the Coalition Against the Contract, the People's Congress on Families and the Economy, and the Metro Chicago Coalition to Promote and Defend the Rights of Immigrants...

...Seven men were killed, seventeen wounded, many of them shot in the back...

...Relatives of the strikers and gunmen alike learned their families' secrets from the Uprising screenings...

...This was going to be a mass killing," says Beacham...

...David Bacon...

...Hanna now shuns the mainstream media and relies on personal contact with girls, especially after Bikini Kill concerts, to motivate them to make their voices heard...

...For many of the older attendees, this was a first introduction to the Riot Grrrl and fanzine movement among younger feminists...

...Bitterness and silence set in when the mills openly blacklisted former strikers, or coerced promises from potential rehires to never again mention the word "union...

...Nor did she know that the strike's bloodiest incident took place in her own hometown...

...Armed with strikers' names from old newspapers and copies of protest letters written to government officials, the filmmakers searched for former activists...

...The next day, he was flown back to Fort Drum and stripped of his security clearance...

...But for Captain Rock-wood and his supporters, it raises the question of a soldier's duty under international law...

...Girls who read the article wrote to Hanna to ask how they could join the non-existent groups, and then formed chapters, making her claims come true...

...And with no increase in sales over the past two years, profits have risen from $123 million in 1993 to $240 million last year...

...Hughes described to his daughter how the men and women assembled outside the mill that day had just begun to sing "We Shall Not Be Moved" when "the pop, pop, pop of guns" cut through the air...

...They let me see about 100 prisoners who were in pretty good shape," he says...

...Workers managed to preserve the guaranteed minimum hours that allow them to qualify for health benefits...

...expeditionary forces in Haiti last September...

...Labor History Rocks Small Town Honea Path, South Carolina Before two documentary filmmakers traveled from New York City to Anderson County, South Carolina, and unearthed sixty years of buried labor history, former textile worker Kathy Lamb had never heard of the Great Textile Strike of 1934—the largest single-industry strike in U.S...

...Now an Army intelligence officer, he is facing disciplinary action because he chose to report human-rights violations while serving with the U.S...

...She has been told that she needs approval not only from the city council but also from the Chiquola Mill, now owned by Springs Industries...

...Nearly all were emaciated, with seven or eight lying on the stone floor...

...The thirty-six-year-old captain from Gainesville, Florida, could be imprisoned for up to ten years, stripped of all benefits, and dishonorably dismissed, despite a spotless fifteen-year military record...

...His boss, who later became one of his accusers, endorsed this request...

...Medical Students for Choice is sponsoring an internship program that pairs medical students with reproductive-health professionals and gives them a chance to observe and participate in counseling and abortion procedures...

...For more information, contact: Citizen Soldier, 175 Fifth Avenue, #808, New York, NY 10010, (212)777-3470...

...The medical coverage they get for themselves and their children is often what keeps them off welfare...

...Despairing that the command would ever take action to protect Haitian prisoners, Rockwood filed a formal complaint with his inspector general, charging that his command was "subverting" the President, and warning his commanders that they risked sanctions under international law for their inaction...

...When President Clinton announced that the first priority of our mission was to 'stop brutal atrocities,' I felt proud to be part of the team," he says...

...Beacham's grandfather, superintendent of Chiquola Mill, had ordered the gunmen to open fire on the strikers...

...It reported the horrific conditions that Rockwood had feared...

...Framed by cotton-wood blossoms, the triangular stone is etched with a statement uttered by one of the felled workers as he lay dying in his brother-in-law's front yard: "They died for the rights of the working man...

...Just eight years old at the time, Hughes had gone down to the town's Chiquola Mill, where his father worked as night watchman, and where a large crowd of strikers had gathered...

...A decade of restructuring by the region's flagship grocery stores—Safeway, Lucky's, and Save Mart—has created giant food stores where more than half the workers work part-time...

...Kristi Coale A Duty to Disobey New York City The first time Larry Rockwood thought about a soldier's duty under international law was when he visited Dachau with his father as a young boy...

...Lots of baggers are students and single parents," says Steve Stamm, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 428 in San Jose...

...Hughes, finally revealed to his daughter— and later, to the filmmakers— what he had witnessed on September 6,1934...

...In an interview with a reporter, she said, she lied about the existence of Riot Grrrl organizations all over the country so that "we would sound like a powerful source...

...A variety of artists spoke about how they've tried to improve their communities...

...It took six years to make the three-part, ninety-minute film...

...Curriculum reform "takes a long time," says Jen Schroeder, a third-year medical student at Wright State University who is taking time out from her studies to serve as a Medical Students for Choice intern at the National Abortion Federation and as the reproductive-health intern for the American Medical Women's Association...

...Feminist Activism and Art San Francisco Several hundred women and a handful of men gathered at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in April for Utopia/Dystopia, the third annual conference on feminist activism and art...

...Larry Rockwood is fond of quoting the Army judge who sentenced Lieutenant William Cal-ley for his part in the My Lai massacre: "A soldier is a reasoning agent, obliged to respond, not as a machine, but as a person...

...Writer Frank Beacham, a Honea Path native who now lives in New York City, found out about the strike when a friend called from the South to report the film's conclusion...

...Although Beacham's mother was a history teacher, she never discussed the strike...

...He remembers his father, a career Air Force officer, explaining that the Nazis were successful because ordinary people didn't stand up for things they believed in...

...By September 6, the strike was in its second week, with mill owners calling for National Guard troops and deputizing locals...

...Generations of Honea Path residents experienced a kind of forced amnesia, says Stoney, whose previous films include Images of the Great Depression and the Emmy Award-winning We Shall Overcome...

...When the young captain returned to his base, he was immediately evaluated by an Army psychiatrist, who found him sane...

...After its month-long run at Columbia, the elective course will have a second trial in the fall at the University of Iowa, and the Association will work to get other schools around the nation to offer it...

...Now Beacham, Lamb, the filmmakers, and the strikers' families in Honea Path want to ensure that the town's labor history does not get buried again...

...He traveled into downtown Port au Prince, walked into the central prison, and announced he was there to conduct an inspection...

...Protesting meager wages, increased workloads, and a nearly medieval way of life—the mill owners also owned all the town's housing and stores, and controlled its police— the Honea Path mill hands had joined with 400,000 fellow textile workers in a nationwide walkout...

...My dad was born and raised in Honea Path, so I came home and asked him about the strike, and he said, ? was there when it happened.' " Nearly sixty years after the strike, Lamb's father, J.P...

...Wage restraint and automation helped fuel the rise in profits...

...To urge leniency for Larry Rockwood, write: Major General David C. Meade, HQ, Tenth Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, NY 13602...

...Then I spotted about twenty-five prisoners who were jammed into a so-called infirmary...

...After a militant rally outside Safeway's corporate headquarters in Oakland, negotiations began again, and a settlement emerged two days later...

...Rockwood faced a court-martial in May at Fort Drum in upstate New York on five charges based on alleged disobedience for exposing abuses against Haitian prisoners under nominal U.S...

...Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and one of the founders of Riot Grrrl Press, a nonprofit distribution and printing service for underground female writers, sparked the most excitement...

...In 1992, a fellow unionist at a textile-workers' convention handed Lamb a flyer about a documentary called The Uprising of '34, which New York University film professor George Stoney and his former student Judith Helfand were making...

...He made several efforts to persuade his command to change its policies despite repeated rebuffs...

...Attorney General Ramsey Clark, argues that Rockwood had a duty under international law to investigate and expose prison conditions in Haiti...

...Hanna told the story of how she used the press to propagate the Riot Grrrl movement...

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...After Rockwood arrived in Port au Prince, his superiors made it clear that their chief concern was "force protection"— keeping American troops safe from harm...

...Textbooks on South Carolina history make no mention of the strike, says Lamb, and long-time Honea Path residents have kept mysteriously silent...

...I never knew that my family name had evoked fear in a lot of people in this town," he says...

...Finally, he decided that he had to do something to protect prisoners, even if it meant acting alone...

...Margaret Lee Workers Win at Safeway Oakland More than 32,000 workers went on strike or were locked out for nine days in northern California in early April, as they successfully held the line against the "supermarket of the future...

...Rockwood was enthusiastic when he learned last summer that his unit would lead the multinational force in Haiti...

...People would say, 'How'd you get my name?' Very often it was a matter of courting them over years...

...The strike nearly emptied the supermarkets of shoppers, and the union estimates that Safeway lost $10 million during the nine days...

...Workers finally decided they had enough when management proposed drastic reductions in health-care coverage and withdrawing guaranteed hours...

...Worse yet, he had upheld the installation of a machine gun, which fortunately malfunctioned at the last moment, forestalling the certain murder of hundreds more...

...ON THE LINE Bringing Choice to Med School New York City The recent decision by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education requiring all Ob/Gyn residency programs to offer abortion training is a major victory for pro-choice advocates...

...Lamb has been battling with the town over her proposal to show the film at the local middle school before the unveiling...

...Holly Metz MARCH FOR JUSTICE On June 17, a coalition of labor, human-service, and other activist groups from around the Chicago area will hold a rally to protest the Contract with America and to demand social justice and a positive role for government in society...

...They included Susan Cervantes, who spearheaded a mural movement that has changed the face of San Francisco's Mission District, and Jocelyn Taylor, co-producer of Dyke TV, the ground-breaking lesbian cable television program in New York City...

...Younger conference participants, sporting punk haircuts and pierced body parts, mixed with older feminists to share ideas about art, social consciousness, and interactive technology...

...The story of the 1934 uprising remains controversial in Honea Path...

...Brigadier General James Hill, who took charge after Rockwood was gone, intervened at the prison and initiated a number of reforms...

...No one was ever convicted of the shootings...

...Hanna gives me hope for the future of feminism," said one forty-ish participant...