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Rothschild, Matthew & Nixon, Ron & Jentzsch, Babara & Johnson, Tom & Capellaro, Catherine & Mason, Todd
ON THE LINE Back Behind the Mike Austin, Texas JplHightower is back on the air. Tm Texas populist and jokester 3p hosts a daily, two-hour talk-(tt)t|f|h|r* radio program that flPy^sSi runs on...
...Literally thousands of those manuals were passed out," he says...
...Barbara JewzsgI with Tom Johnson Help for Battered Immigrant Women As new welfare and immigration laws make work authorization harder to obtain, advocates fear that battered immigrant women may end up prisoners in their violent homes...
...The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment also found that three-fourths of workers were asked medical questions prior to an offer of a job, a practice that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act...
...As a result, the Alliance filed a lawsuit with the State Department of Labor...
...This is a serious problem," said Taylor...
...The list still grows...
...For more information, call Positive Force D.C...
...Once you learn it in the school, you retain it for life," Blair says...
...A recent Time magazine article predicts that, by the year 2000, more than half the work force could be temporary employees...
...the soldiers who murdered six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador...
...The culture is always ahead of the politics," he says...
...Blair says that students who took part in massacres were allowed to come back to the school...
...He was canned six weeks ^But his new show started up last Labor Day...
...Hightower has a weakness for folk heroes, like Sylvia Stayton, the woman in Cincinnati who was arrested for plugging other people's parking meters...
...The growth of Manpower coincides with the rapid increase in temporary workers nationwide...
...He edited The Texas Observer in the 1970s, and he was elected Texas agriculture commissioner several times during the 1980s...
...The callers loved her...
...Battered women are most at risk right after they leave an abusive mate...
...The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment organized to pressure the company by working to tie the bond award to job-protection...
...During the Carter Administration, Blair says, the government made a decision to stop using those techniques...
...They can't talk to politicians...
...Isolation is one of their biggest problems...
...Then temps report back...
...There is no message from the U.S...
...So Hightower lets people talk...
...At the same time, the company applied for an $8.4 million industrial bond...
...We want to make sure we're not just talking about change," says Mark Anderson, a co-founder of Positive Force...
...They may not have a job or language skills...
...He taught at the School of the Americas and was a high-level officer in the CIA-led Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam (which resulted in the deaths of more than 40,000 Vietnamese...
...Instead of hate radio, shock radio, attack radio, I have a more laid-back notion," he says...
...One thing we need right now and have too few of are messengers who can reach a lot of people...
...churchwomen in El Salvador...
...Blair confirms that torture was taught at the School of the Americas...
...Thirty-one of the thirty-two temp agencies in the city were violating a South Carolina state law that requires new workers be notified in writing about the amount of pay they will receive...
...For the first five years you had better not want to leave your abuser," says Chung...
...foreign and military policy...
...For more information, contact Hightower Radio at (512) 477-5588...
...The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, a statewide grassroots group based in Greenville, South Carolina, is working to fill this void...
...He doesn't write people off who don't share his progressive views: "I get calls saying, 'It's those welfare mothers...
...Since many states' workfare programs will require battered women to show up at a training site or work placement to receive benefits, their abusers will know where to find them...
...These shows are noteworthy for their low ticket prices and consistent all-ages admission policy...
...Graduates include Panamanian dictator, drug dealer, and CIA asset Manuel Noriega...
...Five were violating the Americans with Disabilities Act...
...And still, the School of the Americas press office routinely makes public statements that only one-half of 1 percent of graduates have ever been involved in human-rights abuses...
...One unintended consequence [of welfare reform] is that clients who normally would come into a shelter may decide to 'hang in there' until their kids are in school, when finding child care won't be such a hassle—if they live that long," says Denton...
...And he favors musicians...
...Using this data, the Carolina Al liance for Fair Employment found widespread violations among temp agencies in Greenville...
...the perpetrators of the El Mozote massacre and the 1980 rape-murders of U.S...
...They're already vulnerable...
...We don't know if they're even going to qualify to work...
...Some Hmong women were not allowed to learn English by their abuser...
...That four hours has now been expanded to twelve where they sit in a class and discuss the My Lai Massacre, the Geneva Convention, and the Hague convention...
...or check out the group's web site at: http://www.derechos.orgi soaw...
...In 1994, the U.S...
...But to this day, three years later, the government has not released such a list...
...Blair retired in 1989...
...I blasted Disney, jpd said, T now work for a ro-cjmt.' Mickey didn't have a sense of humor at all," Hightower re-c»lls...
...We're talking about a fundamental restructuring of the economy...
...Denton also worries about her clients' ability to find and afford child care in a difficult market...
...His name even surfaced as a possible leftwing Presidential challenger back then...
...It now runs on the United Broadcasting Network, which the United Auto Workers partly owns...
...Although the group failed to stop the bond, it built a lasting organization and made some gains for workers' rights at the company...
...They may have to leave a job to avoid getting stalked...
...Colonel Julio Alpirez of Guatemala, responsible for the torture and murder of Guatemalans and U.S...
...Positive Force D.C...
...citizens...
...Currently, the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment is working on what it calls the Temp Test Project...
...The Labor Department warned three of the seven agencies," Taylor said...
...They do not present any documentation...
...Julie Denton of Regional Domestic Abuse Services in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, describes some of the problems she faces in serving Hmong clients...
...Ron Nixon...
...For more information, contact the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment at (864) 235-2926, or write 1 Chick Springs Road, Suite 110-B, Greenville, SC 29609...
...CIA asset Roberto D'Aubuisson (who ordered the murder of El Sal-vadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and was a chief Salvado-ran death-squad leader...
...These punkers, drawn by the music's angry, political energy, meet weekly to plan concerts and to decide how to distribute the money they raise...
...Try Manpower Services, a temporary-employment agency...
...at (703) 276-9768, or write 3510 N. 8th Street, Arlington, VA 22201...
...Blair scoffs at the claim that the School of the Americas is teaching human rights...
...Army that's going to say: 'What we told you was a good technique ten years ago is no longer a good technique...
...That year, a company relocating to Greenville laid off 100 permanent workers and hired temps to replace them...
...They can't talk to the media...
...Catherine Capellaro PUNKER ACTIVISTS Snce 1985, Positive Force has been at the heart of the punk subculture of Washington, D.C...
...N.W., Washington, DC 20010-2612, (202) 234-3440...
...Joseph Kennedy, Democratic Representative from Massachusetts, has introduced a bill, co-sponsored by thirty-eight other House members, to shut down the School of the Americas...
...He had Stayton on for an entire show...
...You should stop doing it.'" Blair cites the torture manuals the U.S...
...But he says he no longer has any interest in electoral politics...
...Tm Texas populist and jokester 3p hosts a daily, two-hour talk-(tt)t|f|h|r* radio program that flPy^sSi runs on more than wAfti I100 stations "from MjZCS Maine to Maui," he ;:(Hightower used to have a s&Ow on ABC Radio, until Dis-¦jjj bought it...
...Most immigrants entering the country after August 22, 1996, will not be eligible for federal assistance for five years, according to Minty Siu Chung, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who works with the National Network for Battered Immigrant Women...
...I sat next to Major Victor Thiess who created and taught the entire course, which included seven torture manuals and 382 hours of instruction," Blair recalls...
...The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment began working on temp employment in 1984, says lead organizer Charles Taylor...
...The officers who ran the intelligence courses used lesson plans that included the worst materials contained in the seven manuals...
...Yet major unions have not made organizing temps a priority— even though companies increasingly turn to temporary workers to avoid paying full-time wages and benefits...
...puts on Punk Percussion Protests ("bring something to make noise with") at the Capitol...
...Ted Koppel has town meetings with no town and no meeting...
...It was a joke for fifty or sixty Latin American officers to sit in a class and have someone from Chile preach to them about how they should be concerned about human rights in their own country...
...The Network trains service providers to help battered immigrant women and identifies pro-bono lawyers who can help them gain legal status in the United States...
...Since 1946, the School of the Americas has instructed Latin American military officers in the art of counter-insurgency warfare...
...For more information on the National Network for Battered Immigrant Women, contact Gail Pendleton at the National Immigration Project, (617) 227-9727...
...Each concert is also a benefit for organizations ranging from the Free Tibet movement to domestic-violence : shelters...
...He says they agree on a lot of economic issues, and he wants to offer "a progressive alternative that is not only speaking to people's economic radicalism, but also to the great American value of tolerance...
...Some members also work the overnight desk at the Community for Creative Nonviolence's shelter for the homeless, assist Emmaus food-distribution services to elderly clients, and do outreach for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive...
...The lawsuit is still pending...
...Since then, he has been a vocal opponent of the School of the Americas and of U.S...
...But the School of the Americas kept on supplying Latin Americans with "recommendations to use techniques and follow procedures that are clear violations of human rights...
...State Department issued a directive that no Latin American military member could attend the School of the Americas if they had a history of known human-rights abuses," he says...
...When I was there, a general who was an officer in the dictatorship of General Pinochet of Chile taught about four hours of human rights," he says...
...Matthew Rothschild 0N THE LIN E School of the Americas Critic Washington, D.C...
...And I say, T think it's the welfare kings we've got to be worried about.'" The United Broadcasting Network also carries shows by rightwing populists like Bay Buchanan, but this doesn't bother Hightower...
...The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment conducted the test with seven other temp agencies in four other cities...
...And the group is planning to file additional lawsuits with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
...They are props, photo-ops at best...
...TODD MASON Organizing Temps Greenville, South Carolina What's the largest employer in the United States...
...For Hightower, radio seems to be a natural career, though it's not his first...
...Army major...
...Among the guests: Michelle Shocked, Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson, the Foremen, Iris DeMent, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and James McMurtry...
...He taught primarily using manuals which we used during the Vietnam War in our intelligence-gathering techniques...
...For more information, contact the School of the Americas Watch at 1719 Irving St...
...But he also invites progressive stalwarts, like Ralph Nader, Howard Zinn, Jesse Jackson, and Molly Ivins...
...The shows themselves have been adventurously political, Occasionally mixing punk /With rap and the city's indigenous go-go music...
...Literature tables at each event 'offer suggestions for activism...
...None of the agencies were providing wage information...
...Btar ate> reflect punk's internationalism with the likes of Britain's Citizen Fish, Holland's the Ex, and the Basque nationalist bard Negu Gorriak...
...The school's torture lessons live on...
...The state doesn't consider learning English part of the employment plan," she says...
...The project sends workers to agencies for assignments...
...People want to talk...
...In fact, those same passages were at the heart of the intelligence instruction...
...Battered women face a lack of economic resources...
...The organization has sponsored more than 100 shows...
...In 1993, he publicly criticized the school and called for its closure...
...government produced and then decades later ordered retrieved and destroyed...
...Taking advantage of his Austin location, he brings on musical guests every Friday...
...I've been cured," he says...
...The techniques included murder, assassination, torture, extortion, false imprisonment...
...Positive Force has also thrown 'Concerts to pay for the city permits necessary for an annual series of free summer festivals on and around Dupont Circle in 'vVashingtcm, D.C...
...Now they say that there were only eighteen to twenty passages in those manuals in clear violation of U.S...
...Joseph A. Blair is a retired U.S...
Vol. 61 • July 1997 • No. 7
