ON THE LINE
Swissler, Mary Ann & Lurie, Jon & Armstrong, Bob & Ervin, Mike
ON THE LINE A Memorial for Stolen Lives New York City Iris Baez was at home in Or-fendo, Florida, just before Christmas in 1994 when she got a call telling her that her twenty-eight-year-old son,...
...with a Ku Klux Klansman, and Madonna with Mother Teresa...
...Thompson is well known for dismantling Wisconsin's welfare system before welfare reform was all the rage...
...There's the story of nineteen-year-old Richie Pack, a man with cerebral palsy who used a wheelchair...
...It's outrageous that decisions about welfare reform were made without the input of those who are most affected—the welfare recipients," said Kim Keller, area director for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME...
...The gallery painted a quote from Tenzin Gy-atso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, in large white calligraphic letters on the black field...
...Donis defended his work, saying it was an attempt to "draw connections between art and faith...
...Anthony Baez was Puerto Rican...
...The Anthony Baez Foundation is a sponsor of the Stolen Lives Project, which just published Stolen Lives, a 100-page book that lists the names of more than 300 people who have been killed in encounters with police or the border patrol since 1990...
...It's because of chemicals," Lowe said in front of Chevron's headquarters...
...San Francisco October was breast-cancer awareness month, and breast-cancer survivor Beverly Lowe celebrated it by going on The Cancer Industry Tour...
...To order copies or to submit names for consideration in future editions, contact the October 22 Coalition, c/o KHL Inc., Box 124, 160 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009...
...They also want education to count as a work activity, so welfare recipients have the opportunity to find family-supporting jobs...
...That's because the Chicago School Board required him first to undergo a medical exam and provide an extensive medical history...
...Mom was a very at-home family woman . . . who is definitely a feminist . . . who has socialist ideas," she says...
...He has constructed a series of colorful Plexiglas panels of improbable kisses...
...According to a study by the Department of Human Services, the state is creating only sixty-six new jobs...
...Norman also cited the high demand for jobs created by the 17,000 people in Baltimore on welfare who must now find work or be dropped from the rolls...
...I Baez immediately headed for pew York, unaware that Anthony was already dead...
...Alex Donis's work trounces across the barriers that divide love from hate, black from white, East from West, the sacred from the profane, and the physical from the spiritual," writes Coco Fusco, an artist and cultural theorist...
...Stolen Lives functions like a Vietnam Memorial on paper...
...In my fantasy, these figures are martyrs who do battle for my cause," he says...
...Thompson-Iglar also believes the government should decriminalize "many of the things we see as crimes . . . your first possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, anything like that...
...Wanda Hogue (bottom), mother of Eric Smith, who was killed by Chicago Police in 1996...
...She credits her mother for her notions about economic justice...
...My Cathedral received mixed reviews...
...Brady says scientists have already shown that some cancerous tissues show higher levels of pesticides than do healthy breast tissues...
...The Chicago School Board settled with Lambda...
...Minutes later, he died...
...He adds that although the attack on the gallery was appalling, "hatred is a better response than not noticing it at all...
...The applicant is infected with HIV but is in good health...
...While Tommy Thompson has proposed spending $500 million to construct a supermax prison in Wisconsin, Thompson-Iglar says, "I'd like to see the need for a supermax eliminated...
...Others say it is blasphemy, an insult to the religious and political figures who spent their lives—and some who gave their lives—in the pursuit of justice and peace...
...He exchanged words with a Chicago police officer in plainclothes who threw him out of his The Stolen Lives Project's Wall of Death (top...
...Zeneca makes tamoxifen, the largest-selling breast-cancer drug...
...The kissing couples include Pope John Paul II with Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus with Lord Rama, John F. Kennedy with Fidel Castro, Christopher Columbus with an Aztec warrior, Adolf Hitler with a skeletal man, the Dalai Lama with Mao Tse Tung, Martin Luther King Jr...
...Reforming Welfare Reform Baltimore One year after President Clinton signed the bill that eliminated welfare, more than 150 welfare recipients organized a speak-out and called upon the mayor of Baltimore, the governor of Maryland, and the state legislature to create real reform...
...The passionate young public defender is the daughter of Tommy Thompson, Republican governor of Wisconsin...
...It agreed not to screen applicants for HIV and not to require medical exams or histories from any applicant prior to a conditional offer of employment...
...For more information, contact Greenpeace San Francisco at (415) 512-9025 and ask for Toxic Links...
...Greenpeace's Bradley Angel calls Breast Cancer Awareness Month "a polluter - devised event...
...She cited figures from the state showing that it had saved $33 million last year by reducing the welfare rolls...
...It read, "Anyone who puts all their energy into destroying anger will be happy in this life and in lives to come...
...For the past four years, the Toxic Links Coalition has sponsored the Cancer Industry Tour...
...Iris Baez speaking at a national day of protest against police brutality demonstration in New York (middle left...
...To her, everyone should have housing, and everyone should have health care...
...Donis calls his exhibit My Cathedral...
...Some praise its transgressions...
...He had lified at the hands of a New York police officer who put him in a choke hold...
...Ten pages are devoted to New York City victims alone...
...We know how to do that...
...Most of the people who spoke at the meeting supported the artist and the exhibit, but a few objected to the in-your-face aspect of the show...
...The environmental links to cancer get little attention...
...That's why she moved back to the Bronx and launched the Anthony Baez Foundation to help victims of police brutality in New York...
...She is tired of the conservative dogma...
...Smith, twenty-two, was a deaf mute...
...Some of our clients are just down and out," she says...
...In conjunction with Monsanto, Zeneca also produces the pesticide acetychlor...
...Mary Ann Swissler Governor's Daughter for the Defense Milwaukee Kelli Thompson-Iglar arrives at her downtown loft from the courthouse long after dark...
...ON THE LINE A Memorial for Stolen Lives New York City Iris Baez was at home in Or-fendo, Florida, just before Christmas in 1994 when she got a call telling her that her twenty-eight-year-old son, Anthony, was in a hospital in _ _ the Bronx...
...We keep screaming the same message, 'Just get tough on crime.' That hasn't worked...
...We need meaningful jobs, not meaningless training," said Cecilia Norman...
...Dino Piacentini, the marketing director for the gallery, also arranged a community meeting at a nearby theater to discuss the issue of homosexuality in the Latino community and the rights of artists to exhibit controversial works...
...Sometimes she takes defendants into court convinced of their innocence, only to see them convicted because, she says, a police officer didn't tell the whole story, or an all-white jury decided the case on the basis of race...
...The series, which evokes stained-glass cathedral windows, turned the storefront Galena de la Raza into a storefront church from August 19 through September 27...
...firms: Porter Novelli and Burson-Marsteller...
...Jon Lurie Discrimination Flunks Out Ch icago If you want to be a teacher in Chicago, you no longer have to be tested for AIDS...
...Now I know there is tacism, and I know how it feels...
...It was displayed in the heart of San Francisco's Latino community...
...Anthony £Dd his father and brothers were fisiting their relatives in New feork for the holidays...
...Most of our clients are dealing with alcohol and drug dependency, abuse, and long criminal histories stemming from a lack of skills more than anything...
...As an example, she holds up a 1993 article by Mary S. Wolff, M.D., published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which showed higher levels of DDE, a metabolized version of DDT, in women with breast cancer...
...Neither, it seems, do Thompson-Iglar's...
...Or call 1-888-NO-BRUTALITY...
...There's also the story of fifteen-year-old Angel Castro Jr., shot to death by a Chicago police officer in 1996...
...The damaged art was valued at about $5,000 per piece...
...People like me and you are not getting cancer because we don't eat enough broccoli or because of who our grandmothers are—that's a lie...
...Her job with the Milwaukee public-defender's office requires her to open at least forty-five new cases every month...
...The tour also stopped at Pacific Gas & Electric, the Bechtel Corporation, and two industry P.R...
...I have a mother who has definite opinions, and they don't flow with my father's...
...But that doesn't bother gay Latino artist Alex Donis...
...It also identifies their ages, ethnicities, and the circumstances of their deaths...
...The welfare recipients, along with AFSCME, are calling for the creation of more jobs that pay a living wage and offer health benefits...
...Mike Ervin Touring the Breast-Cancer Industry The 1996 Cancer Industry Tour on the march...
...Iris Baez says she also now Knows that nearly every day somewhere in America someone is killed or injured while in police custody...
...Keller applauded the welfare recipients on their organizing efforts and pledged the union's support...
...Lambda filed a complaint in federal district court in Chicago, charging that the Board of Education discriminates against job applicants in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, constitutional rights to privacy and equal protection, and a written mayoral directive against requiring city workers or applicants to divulge their HIV status...
...She knows she's fighting an uphill battle...
...For more information, contact Diane Landry King at the Solidarity Sponsoring Committee, (410) 837-3055...
...This has been documented," she said...
...Judy Brady, a coalition member who was diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago, says the message women get during Breast Cancer Awareness Month is to exercise more, improve their diets, and go in for regular mammograms...
...Thompson-Iglar's work with the poorest of the poor in Milwaukee has given her a decidedly ERIC TADSEN different view from her father's...
...And it agreed to state explicitly that students and personnel infected with HIV or diagnosed with AIDS do not pose a threat to themselves or to others in the classroom setting...
...The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund successfully sued the Chicago School Board on behalf of an anonymous applicant...
...She's exhausted...
...The victims come from twenty-four states stretching from Hawaii to Maine...
...There's nothing in the history books to prove it...
...The book proposes to "put a human face" on the epidemic of police brutality...
...When it comes to criminal justice, her ideas are anything but conservative...
...She keeps up with the demand by working nights and weekends...
...The Galena de la Raza responded by removing the display and boarding up the outside wall with black plywood...
...He was unarmed when police shot him six times...
...The corrections system, says Thompson-Iglar, should help educate criminals, not just warehouse them...
...He points out that the pharmaceutical company Zeneca created Breast Cancer Awareness Month ten years ago...
...De-, spite having a general-interest teaching certificate, two advanced degrees, and teaching experience, the applicant was never even interviewed for either permanent or substitute-teaching positions...
...But Norman said, "We don't need more training on how to clean offices...
...Bob Armstrong...
...Stolen Lives is available for $5, or $3 each for orders of ten or more...
...Most of these stolen lives belonged to black or Latino young men...
...About a hundred people showed up for the lively exchange of views...
...It brings abstract violence close to home...
...San Francisco Cesar Chavez kissed Che Guevara...
...This is not new...
...And while drug-treatment programs or job training could turn around the lives of many of her clients, she laments, "The state says, 'Too bad, we're the state and we're taking you out.'" When Thompson-Iglar says "the state," she's talking about her dad...
...COURTESY OF REVOLUTIONARY WORKER chair and against a pillar...
...The state wants to spend that money on training...
...On two occasions, vandals threw rocks through the windows, damaging the panels of Che with Chavez and Jesus embracing Lord Rama...
...I don't think it does a thing for rehabilitation...
...t "I would never think the po-§ce could kill my son," she says, fl never believed there was jracism...
Vol. 61 • December 1997 • No. 12
