LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Clintonites, Line Up Your recent cover article concerning the evils of President Clinton and the mainstream environmental organizations ("Slime Green," May issue) was...
...I wasn't thinking that death is the ultimate experience...
...But please provide some options or at least some definition of what you consider to be "activism" when advocating these sites...
...But if it's number three, the author and your publication ought to be ashamed of themselves...
...Of course, the parents of these students say, "It's just marijuana...
...From Cock-burn to the Sanders interview with Nichols, to Edward Said, you have surely done yourself proud...
...I'm a non-religious (Atheist/Humanist) person, so I will be especially worried if the Republicans win...
...Damka Brow n (heansule, California Immaculate Conception John Nichols's recent article about Representative Bernie Sanders ("Go Knock on Some Doors...
...Now deacon Bob Dole is preaching conservative Republican dogma and attacking the poor with the aid of Gingrich and his brown shirts...
...School provides our youth with knowledge and awareness...
...Then you will see the Constitution go to pieces...
...The Progressive is far from being the first publication to leave out reference lo a profiled individual's mother...
...Males and Docuyanan may be doctoral students, they may be older, wiser even, but they aren't witnessing this...
...I was stoned every day of my freshman year...
...attitudes toward predominantly Islamic countries...
...Could your publication's financial problems be linked to its negativity...
...2. Are you making a conscious effort to drive away all but the most "devout" of your readers...
...immediately pointed my browser toward Net Chick to see the good news...
...Is this what we call "women's activism...
...Ohio Point Your Browsers Iam writing to comment on the feature by Jennifer Geigel ("The Feminist Mystique: Women On Line...
...Just imagine what the Supreme Court would be like...
...Said accuses Israel of introducing "terrorism against civilians to the Middle East...
...3. Can I get a refund for the remainder of my subscription...
...I hope The Progressive continues to feature such articles...
...The son of a paint salesman who emigrated from Poland to Flat-bush, in Brooklyn, Sanders was a leftwing activist at the University of Chicago...
...It seems to me if the liberal community would get together and become a voting bloc, it would be able to influence the Democratic agenda just as the Christian Coalition has affected the Republicans...
...I was thrilled to see a feature that addressed the internet as a place for women's activism...
...I wasn't thinking about trying acid next weekend...
...Nichols wrote...
...One further note: With depressing regularity, you send letters asking for emergency donations to help keep your magazine afloat...
...Three quick questions: 1. Do you think a Dole Presidency would be more environmental...
...The way I read that sentence, either: 1) his mother was a virgin paint salesperson: 2) one parent died or abandoned the family early on...
...May issue) either contains a major omission or leaves the more significant story unreported...
...My fellow liberals, do not bury your heads in the sand...
...The authors finished their excellent piece with a quote from Allison Smith, who wondered why the authorities, as scapegoaters, would not want to keep the teens in school...
...Don Sloan, MD New York, New York The article "Reefer Madness" was interesting, to say the least...
...Unfortunately, I was appalled when I arrived...
...What type of backlash is The Progressive directing its readers to...
...I can go watch members of my class get stoned in the darkroom...
...f option one or four is the case, this startling news is more arresting than the information in the rest of the article...
...However, just as he has accused the British of misrepresenting Indian history, he also distorts history and thus weakens his own arguments...
...In my opinion, half a martini is better than none...
...They can interview one teenage girl to share her experience of being falsely charged with drug dealing...
...And your authors are saying that there isn't a drug problem...
...I'm not going to bore you with Clinton's political score-card, but I'm sure you will agree it would have been a lot worse if George Bush had been elected...
...A sixth-grader smoking marijuana is not my idea of harmless...
...He has apparently forgotten about the British in Kenya during the Mau Mau emergency, the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the Turks against the Kurds...
...I can see the start of a theocracy...
...Wasn't it Churchill who said he would make a pact with the devil to save England when he signed the pact with Stalin...
...If number two is the case, this tragedy no doubt shaped the individual and needs lo be discussed in greater detail...
...The authors speak of "disappearing dope," i.e., the fact that numerous drug searches by police officers are pointless because there are no drugs to be found...
...Judy Trompeter Midland, Michigan The editors welcome correspondence from renders on all topics, hut prefer to publish letter^ thai comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...The ones who do dare to bring their substances into school use the bathroom, the locker room, and the photography class's darkroom...
...All letters may be edited for clarity ami conciseness...
...But t trust that in the future your editors will insist that any discussion of a person's early years will include the fact that she or he had a mother...
...I live in a small, relatively progressive college town in Appalachian America...
...We must realize a "no" vote for Clinton is a vote for Dole...
...If Said is indeed to promote his desire for us to speak rationally, he must first avoid the very biases that he rightly abhors in the U.S...
...When I was twelve, I was still playing with Barbie dolls...
...Preston P. Birenbaum Woodland Hills...
...Virtual Sisterhood (http.//www.igc.apc.org/vsis-ter/vsister.html), which offers a truly global approach to using technology in the women's movement...
...Suspensions, even prisons, better fit their master plan...
...As a liberal Democrat, I agree with many of the comments and some of the anti-Clinton rhetoric, but it upsets me when people lose their ability to reason and decide that they're not going to vote for Clinton in the next election...
...This statement overlooks the brutality of the Turkish occupation of Palestine and other parts of the region...
...Two-thirds of our student body participate in some form of drug abuse...
...Sarah Cumbie Athens...
...One of my friends said to me, "Photography was the best class I ever took...
...But the icing on the cake was the piece "Reefer Madness" by Mike Males and Faye Docuyanan: at last an article that adds Vietnam into the equation about street drugs in America...
...They made the same mistakes in 1994, when rightwing robots elected a goose-stepping Congress while liberal advocates and illiterate middle and lower classes stayed home and watched soap operas...
...The few of us who don't participate can only be disgusted with both our classmates and the adults who tolerate this behavior...
...John N. Ludy Fremont, Indiana Ikeep reading in The Progressive of dissatisfaction with President Bill Clinton's performance...
...The Armenian massacres were even more brutal than the current atrocities...
...One Friday night this month a ninth-grade girl overdosed because she thought drinking alcohol and then later snorting a mixture of codeine and Prozac up her nose was a good idea...
...treatment of Islam...
...I feel her pain...
...The answer is obvious...
...3) the mother's contribution to his birth, upbringing, and success is ignored: or 4) his father was the virgin paint salesperson...
...The alternative is not acceptable...
...But they aren't seeing what I am...
...I would love to vote for Ralph Nader here in California, but I see that as a wasted vote...
...The following week, while she was out of school and on surveillance, her friends dropped by and smoked some marijuana with her...
...With that come the questions that the purveyors of Vietnam can't answer...
...Net Chick's version of activism is dressing up a paper doll in a "cool" outfit ("Don't make me look like a dork") and giving you the key to her "Secret Diary" where she details her most embarrassing moment (her top falling down on a date with a boy with buck teeth—sorry to spoil the surprise), and boys she "screams" for...
...Then we got dead-head Ford, smilin' Jimmy Carter, and snake-oil salesman Reagan: a poor legacy set into motion by intelligent people who abandoned their common sense in 1968 and lost their minds in 1972 and 1980...
...colonial behavior in the postwar world is virtually unrivaled in lawlessness...
...Alcohol and cigarettes plus marijuana are a large part of our school environment...
...LETTERS To the Editor Clintonites, Line Up Your recent cover article concerning the evils of President Clinton and the mainstream environmental organizations ("Slime Green," May issue) was exceptionally absurd...
...For readers who had a similar reaction to the featured site, I might recommend they point their browsers to places such as http://www.igc...
...California Said Distorts History Edward W. Said's article "War on Islam" (May issue) made some very valid points about historical bias and U.S...
...All that did was give us Tricky Dick, who gave us bagman Agnew, 24,000-plus additional war casualties, a devastating phony oil shortage, and Watergate...
...I agree that the internet provides a powerful medium for women lo voice concerns, solve problems, and find strength...
...I'm appealing to you to do the right thing and vote for Clinton...
...Can you give these kids some credit...
...I've watched my friends drop me because I was too square, too judgmental of their drug use...
...He also states that U.S...
...I hope that the internet continues to get attention as a powerful tool for activism in a variety of arenas including minority movements, civic engagement and community renewal, and women's rights...
...And while the readers of your magazine can say, "Oh, how awful...
...Thomas E. Martin Ellsworth...
...Maine Reefer Madness Congratulations for what may be your finest issue ever—May 1996...
...which provides a starting point for using the net for women's activism, or my favorite...
...apc.org/women/feminist.html maintained by Sarah Staple-ton-Gray...
...Bernard Mesco Playa Del Rey, California In 1968, so-called purists de-I cided to sit out the election or to vote for Mickey Mouse in protest...
...It's just alcohol...
...Our drug problem is very real...
...Perhaps you could go so far as to include her name, where she came from, and a description of her contributions (paid and/or unpaid) to her family and community...
...Why bring drugs to school when you can use them in your school parking lot, or at the bus stop, or in the privacy of your own home, and not have to worry about being caught...
...In the hallway, I overhear a new supply of cocaine is being delivered this weekend...
Vol. 60 • June 1996 • No. 6
