ON THE LINE
Shaw, Marvin
ON THE LINE Gay Pride in High School Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Pride, proclaims a banner in the showcase at Fairfax High School. The banner and other sym-[yjuiuji ^ols of gay and les-1 ¦ A bian...
...cal 1993...
...This is the original Indian if there ever was one...
...The group will hold its international congress in Helsinki August 1-6...
...We are acting as a watchdog over Monsanto and the FDA," Kastel says...
...Activists came from as far away as California, Washington, New York, Minnesota, and Arkansas...
...Farmers like Livingston might have stopped sooner if they had known others were experiencing problems...
...One of Kastel's most dramatic calls came in March from a dairy farmer in New York...
...Although he lacks the money to widely publicize the number, (800) 272-5531, Kastel says close to 100 farmers have phoned in their private horror stories since it was established last fall...
...There is a provision in the law for filing for extensions, which most museums are likely to do, since funds are tight...
...It also makes trafficking in Native American artifacts a federal crime, punishable by up to a year in prison...
...They see the bones as having life...
...Nowadays, we're really interested in people's garbage...
...It really showed what we are dealing with," Kolaz says...
...asks Kastel...
...His herd was plagued with health problems and his milk processor was balking at buying the cows' milk...
...Robert Cruz, a member of the Tohono O'odham tribe in Arizona, has visited a number of museums...
...Will Fantle EIGHTY YEARS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM While heads of state in Europe and America are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their triumph in World War II, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is marking its eightieth anniversary of peacemaking...
...Through its role at the United Nations as a nongovernmental organization, WILPF has reported on human rights around the globe, and has participated in many social-justice causes over the years...
...The name came from the statistic 10 percent—the homosexual portion of the U.S...
...At Fairfax, he began to have the same dreary experience all over again...
...But after a few months on the drug, the herd suffered mastitis (an inflammation of the udder), severe weight loss, and foot problems...
...The second assailant's conviction, shortly after the Nebraska vigil, was regarded as a victory by activists...
...Nothing had been done in this area," says Uribe...
...Greg Cartwright, a 1988 graduate of Fairfax High, told the school in his graduation address, "Being associated with Project 10 has given me the chance to articulate the needs of a silent minority...
...A group of teachers started an effort to prevent it from happening to others...
...Both critics appear in "Who's Afraid of Project 10," a video produced by the group's supporters, Friends of Project 10, that debunks its detractors' claims...
...A week later, Teena was assaulted and raped by two men at a Christmas party...
...For more information, contact JusticeWorks Community...
...Project 10 has been invaluable," says Mitzi Henderson, president of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays...
...JusticeWorks is the community-outreach arm of the Church of Gethsemane, the only religious congregation in the country that exists by and for prisoners and their families...
...These people are assuming that religions are the same as they were thousands of years ago," Meighan says...
...I was blaming my sons, they were blaming me, and we were fighting among ourselves...
...When people think of archaeologists, they think of Indiana Jones...
...An openly gay African-American teenager named Chris came to Fairfax in the mid-1980s, after transferring from school to school because of harassment and persecution...
...The plight of one particular student prompted her to take action...
...Then there is the counseling they give each other...
...Teachers, counselors, and administrators have participated in program workshops...
...Our mission is to empower farmers with this information...
...Most parents are in denial, with the attitude that their child's gayness will go away if it is just ignored...
...Meighan thinks giving up prehistoric remains is particularly absurd...
...BGH Hotline Helps Farmers Madison, Wisconsin As soon as the U.S...
...Sheldon implies that the Project is an effort to recruit teenagers into being gay...
...The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is the first law to apply a set of national standards to new archaeological work and set up a system for return of objects...
...Uribe, who has taught life science at Fairfax for thirty years, started Project 10 a decade ago...
...Project 10's objectives are to foster self-understanding and acceptance among gay and lesbian teens, reduce verbal and physical abuse from the heterosexual majority, prevent suicide, and provide accurate information on AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...
...But Cruz says he has little confidence in the ability of anthropologists to know what is important to the O'odham...
...As part of its federal product-licensing agreement, Monsanto is required to file reports with the FDA on any side-effects occurring on the farm that may be related to BGH...
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...That's crazy, they've only been in the area for 300 years...
...Twin births, which are rare, have multiplied in his herd...
...They gave up a skeleton with a C-14 date of 10,000 years...
...Project 10, a group of gay and lesbian youth at Fairfax High, and the group's adviser, Virginia Uribe, are responsible for the display, and for the increased support for gay and lesbian students at the school...
...This law came up because of the way we as scientists acted for so long," Kolaz says...
...Marvin Shaw Kids at a lesbian and gay pride parade in New York City...
...Clement Meighan, president of the American Committee for the Preservation of Archaeological Collections, is critical of the Repatriation Act from the other side...
...The main thing students get out of Project 10, Uribe believes, is "their realization that they are not alone...
...The largest rallies were in New York and Sacramento, drawing more than 200 participants in each city, including former prisoners and their families, advocates, and corrections personnel...
...For more information, write to WILPF, 1213 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, or call (215)563-7110...
...Shipping is sometimes not a good idea for delicate artifacts, and the cost of sending out a group of representatives to Washington, D.C., Chicago, or New York City is a major expense...
...But the law may run into the same problems that have plagued the Bureau of Indian Affairs for years: lack of funds, lack of understanding of Native peoples, and resistance from conservatives...
...Congress only allotted $2.3 million for fisTRANSGENDER VIGIL Transsexual and transgendered activists, their friends, and supporters descended on Falls City, Nebraska, on May 15, to conduct a peaceful vigil in defiance of violence against transsexual and transgendered persons...
...Who the hell are they protecting...
...As the assistant ethnographic curator of the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Kolaz's job is to help his museum comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990...
...But for once, the staff at the school reacted with anger...
...Women are the fastest-growing population in jail and prison, according to JusticeWorks Community in New York, which is spon-Children in Crisis—Campaign '95...
...75 percent—are serving time for soring "Mothers in Prison, Most women prisoners-nonviolent offenses, thanks to mandatory drug-sentencing laws...
...Both of Teena's assailants were found guilty of first-degree murder...
...The banner and other sym-[yjuiuji ^ols of gay and les-1 ¦ A bian life went up in the high school's main hallway during gay-pride week in June 1994...
...Newton Russell, the Republican state legislator from Glendale, has also condemned Project 10...
...Livingston's problems lingered months after he quit using BGH...
...The Traditional Values Coalition, run by the Reverend Lou Sheldon, has attacked Project 10 for presenting the idea that being gay is a legitimate way of life...
...But this never really happens anymore...
...718)499-6704...
...Food and Drag Administration licensed the sale of Mon-santo's genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), Florida dairy farmer Chuck Knight began injecting his herd with the drug...
...It has raised awareness of how issues confronting gay and lesbian students lead to high risk for truancy, dropping out, substance abuse, and suicide...
...Museums are supposed to finish returning all of the art affected by the law by November 1995...
...Crying, he said, "I can hear the spirits here...
...He says he's had to battle with the FDA to get the data and that certain agency staff have been ordered not to talk to him anymore...
...Spiritually, repatriation is a tremendous lift," says Cecil Anton, a member of the local tribal council of the Gila River Indian community, an O'odham reservation just south of Phoenix...
...The weather was perfect, the speakers brilliant, the sheriff supportive, the townsfolk confused," participant Nancy Nangeroni reported...
...They are asking us to take them home...
...Under the Repatriation Act, every one of the thousands of museums in the country that receive some kind of federal funding must catalog and return human remains and sacred objects at Native American tribes' request...
...Teena, who was living as a man in preparation for surgery, was discovered to be biologically and legally female by local police when they arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of check forgery...
...I thought I was the only one in the whole United States having problems," recalls Knight...
...Jay Livingston's herd initially responded well to BGH, and experienced a big jump in milk production...
...Activists are demanding that alternatives to incarceration become a sentencing standard for mothers with dependent children...
...For the tribes, the problem is getting the collections physically home...
...When the next school year started, the banner was still on prominent display...
...The Repatriation Act says that only objects of "ongoing" cultural or ceremonial significance will be considered...
...The summaries were completed by November 1993, and since then tribes from all over the country have asked museums for information about how to get back their sacred objects...
...Uribe, supported by other concerned faculty, came up with the idea for Project 10...
...More than 1.5 million children with an incarcerated parent are also punished, often removed from their homes, schools, and communities, and shuttled among temporary care-givers...
...Kastel disputes the accuracy of the FDA reports...
...Petersburg, and then through Eastern Europe to Beijing, stopping to hold meetings with women in each country along the way...
...I was really ashamed...
...Kastel says that Mon-santo's field representatives told farmers like Knight and Livingston the same story: they were to blame, not BGH, and no one else was having problems...
...The younger people that take part in the reburials, they have more of a sense of their culture...
...And Republican budget axes may hurt chances of further progress...
...During a two-month period, twenty cows had twins, with most of the calves dying...
...Founded in 1915, the League brought together women from the countries that were battling each other during World War I to establish international standards of justice, equality, and nonviolence...
...It gives them a sense of where they came from...
...Then Knight learned of a BGH hotline for farmers from a network TV news story and realized he wasn't alone...
...Police failed to file charges against Teena's assailants until another week had passed, and the same two men murdered Teena...
...For more information, write to Virginia Uribe, Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046...
...The sense of isolation is gone...
...We know that the number of dead cows from just two of our callers is greater than the fifty-eight cows listed in their reports," he charges...
...Thanks in part to its success and visibility, Project 10 has made some enemies in Southern California...
...population, according to the Kinsey studies of the late 1930s and 1940s...
...A bunch of Shoshone-Bannock say it's an ancestor...
...A peace train, with 200 women on board, will travel from Helsinki to St...
...Cruz also objects to loopholes in the law itself...
...The Hetrick-Martin Institute provides social services to gay youth, runs the Harvey Milk High School with the Board of Education, and works to make schools more gay-friendly...
...Mark Kastel runs the hotline for the Wisconsin Farmers Union...
...Jesse Emspak MOTHERS IN PRISON CAMPAIGN Rallies in seven cities around the country on the weekend of Mother's Day drew attention to the plight of mothers in prison and their children...
...But the Native American Rights Foundation, the National Congress of American Indians, and the Morningstar Foundation believe the Repatriation Act rightly puts the authority to decide whether someone can dig on the reservation firmly in the hands of tribes...
...1012 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn...
...The museums also had to send out summaries of the collection, explaining what they had and inviting the various tribes to come and decide what they wanted back...
...Repatriation Battles Phoenix, Arizona In 1993, Tom Kolaz took a group of Native Americans into the bowels of the Arizona State Museum, to a room full of thousands of human bones...
...In Beijing, WILPF will conduct a meeting on international women's rights...
...I thought I was a bad manager...
...Some parents also worry that homosexuality is "catching," says Uribe...
...Livingston eventually lost more than $100,000 in milk sales, and fifty of his 200 cows either died or had to be slaughtered...
...The event was held in memory of Brandon Teena, a female-to-male transsexual, who was raped and murdered in 1994 in Nebraska...
...They didn't allot hardly any money to help us rebury our ancestors," he said, "and we don't have that much to begin with...
...The project spread to thirty of the other fifty high schools in the Los Angeles Unified Schools District, and is now being replicated in districts around the country...
...Police released the information to the local newspaper...
...By March, the FDA had logged 806 reports in its database, although agency officials say there is no cause for concern...
...The law was changed before passage to shift the burden of proof to the people requesting artifacts from museums...
...For information on the congress in Helsinki, call Susan Reig at (800)822-6393...
...Usually he is there representing not only the Tohono O'odham but the San Francisco-based International Indian Treaty Council...
...It also defined right of possession as belonging first to lineal descendants—individuals—in cultures that have never recognized individual property rights...
...We were pioneers in trying to meet this tremendous need...
...Six months later, Knight's family farm teetered on the edge of ruin...
...The tribal chairman stopped, picked up a small bone, and turned to Kolaz...
...It's an anti-science law...
...I no longer consider myself stigmatized or different from other students...
...Beginning with rap sessions during lunch hour, students began to explore their identities, the dynamics of a hostile society, and prospects for improving their lives...
...Museum authorities estimate the cost of a nationwide repatriation program could be as high as $40 million...
Vol. 59 • July 1995 • No. 7
