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The Soska Sisters talk about their films "See No Evil 2" & "ABCs of Death 2"
The Soska Sisters cconsisting of Jen & Sylvia Soska are film directors are literally taking over the horror genre. After their short film "Dead Hooker in a Trunk", they made the fantastic and original horror film called "American Mary" then quickly following that they were brought us to work with WWE on the horror sequel "See No Evil 2". They also have a segment in the upcoming "ABCs of Death 2". Media Mikes had a chance to chat with the "Twisted Twins" to chat about "See No Evil 2" and their upcoming projects.
Mike Gencarelli: I just want to start that I loved "American Mary"; it was original, very smart, ballsy and really fucking gory. I honestly reminded me why I love horror movies. Going from that film to "See No Evil 2" with WWE's Kane; what was that like?
Sylvia Soska: That is a hell of a compliment. Thank you for saying that. That project is very much a part of who Jen and I are. After that film, we took many studio meetings to get the next film made, but all anyone wanted to see was Katharine Isabelle with us as a sexy doctor or surgeon or torturer and it was really depressing. When WWE and Lionsgate approached us to make the film, we read the script and got super excited, but didn't think there was a chance in hell that we would get hired. It was so much of a dream project, but it happened. Then we started to collaborate on the story, hire the cast, and it just kept getting better. We only make films that we, as fans, would want to see; See No Evil 2 is that kind of film.
Jen Soska: We are the fan directors. We love horror movies so much and I do hope you can tell on every frame of our movies. We want to make a horror film in each sub genre of horror. To have the opportunity to create our own masked man horror icon was incredible. I feel the first film was more of a prequel and this is Jacob's true first film. The first film had Jacob under the command of his fanatic religious mother. In this film we recreate Jacob's look, theme music, and array of weapons. It's a tremendous honor and I still can't believe we got such an incredible opportunity that so few directors ever have.
MG: What was your biggest challenging tackling that film?
SS: It should have been much more difficult but we were spoiled by our cast and crew. Let me tell you a little thing about the crew you can get in Vancouver – seasoned professionals that work year around on everything from major blockbuster productions, to some of the best genre televisions series we have ever seen, and the darling independent gems. You get this crew and you get peace of mind because they are so good. Almost the entire cast were child actors, so not only was the level of talent very high in our performers, but we had a team that could pull off this very ambitious film very masterfully.
JS: For me, the biggest challenge was making something that was true to the original and respected the fans who loved that film while building on that film's missed opportunities. It's hard to come
into an existing franchise and make changes. Every franchise has key parts to it. You don't want to come into something like, Hellraiser, and take out the lament configuration. Just like with Jacob.
There were untouchable elements, but we had a lot of room to play around with the character and story and kills and almost everything.
MG: Tell us about what it was like working on "ABCs of Death 2" and your segment "T is for Torture Porn"?
SS: It was something we've been wanting to make since the open entry contest on the first one. I watch a lot of porn, I love it. I think in horror there are interesting issues you can tackle because it's not like you're just preaching at people – you have one foot in reality and one in the fantastical. T is for Torture Porn is a commentary on unwanted sexual violence and degradation with a very angry reaction to that with how the short ends. But there's still a laugh to it all, wait til the after credits scene – it's the end of our segment.
JS: A tremendous honor! I loved the first ABCs of Death. I really wanted to be in it, but we saw T is for Toilet (the entry for the 26th slot open to all directors) and it was perfection. We wanted to make Torture Porn all the way back then but we put it on the back burner. We didn't even expect them to do a sequel. I'm so happy they did and absolutely honored that Ant invited us on.
MG: Are you ever afraid of taking it too far or offending the audience?
SS: Ha ha, from some of the not happy with it reviews, maybe I should have? Naw, art is to make people feel things. It's to spurn a reaction. Anything that one person loves, another person will hate it.
JS: In the immortal words of one of my favorite comedians ever, John Cleese, "some people deserve to be offended." It's just art and art should make you question things and leave an impression on you. It should get you thinking. I'm not a fan of senseless violence or cruelty to animals, but I think that violence and the obscene have a place in art for sure. Though somewhat controversial, MARTYRS and A SERBIAN FILM are superb films. They use their violence, gore, and more upsetting parts as a commentary.
MG: What do you love most about the horror genre?
SS: Everything. Being scared gets me excited, it makes me feel alive. It's a thrill.
JS: What's not to love? I feel horror chose us from a very young age. I can't remember a time I didn't love it. It's exciting and fun. You ever go to a Horror Convention? If you haven't, treat yourself. They are the happiest places on Earth filled with the sweetest people. Horror brings out the best in people.
MG: We ever going to see you both directing a romantic comedy?
SS: I thought American Mary was a romantic comedy. Jen and I are in love with this script written by Josh Murray, this extremely crass female-centric Christmas comedy. I bet you didn't see that coming, eh? But that's how we pick our projects – if we would want to see this movie, we would make that movie.
JS: Dammit, I thought SEE NO EVIL 2 was a romance movie! Well, to me, it totally is. I'd love to tackle any genre. I'm not into labels. Some people seem happy to categorize us as "female twin horror directors", but I just see us as directors. I love film. I love all genres of film. There is no genre we wouldn't tackle and put a Soska spin on.
MG: You also worked with WWE Studios for "Vendetta", which is an action films; what can you tell us about that experience?
SS: Vendetta stars Dean Cain, Paul 'Big Show' White, and Michael Eklund and it is the most badass film we have ever made. The pure physicality to it, the amazing stunt fights from our Stunt Coordinator, Kimani Smith, and Fight Coordinator, Dan Rizzuto, pushed everything and everyone to the max. You have never seen the cast like this before. It is such a fuck yeah movie. We got our See No Evil 2 team back to pull it off and we really kicked the shit out of ourselves making this gritty crime revenge flick.
JS: It was incredible! It was so nice to have Michael Luisi of WWE Studios be the first to give us an opportunity to do a genre that wasn't strictly horror. We have stunts and action in all of our films. It was really fun to have so much more of it. Dean Cain is outstanding, a true Hollywood icon. You've never seen him like this before, either. I love Dean good, but he's SO much better bad. And he's a total badass in Vendetta. Paul "Big Show" Wight is so evil. He plays a lot of comedic roles and the humor here comes from just how bad he is. And he loves it. Eklund is the Canadian Daniel Day Lewis. I just love him. There isn't anything he can't do. You hand me a script and I look for the top three roles I can see him in. He's so capable and versatile. The film is so sexy, and dark. It's almost a boy version of American Mary.
MG: How is your adaption of "Painkiller Jane" coming along? Is this your next project?
SS: Painkiller Jane is coming along very well. We are on the epic task of finding Jane. She needs to be tough as nails, completely shredded, with a great emotional capacity, and pitch perfect comedic ability. Easy, right? There are a few projects we have in development that are racing to the finish line right now, so I can say 100% sure on anything, but we have a huge focus on making Bob, our monster movie right now. It's time, we haven't stop work on it in all this time.
JS: We are filmmaking sharks. If we stop making films, we die. We have several original scripts that we're pushing forward and have several more films in all stages of development. We're planning some TV work along with a couple graphic novels, as well, so we honestly never stop. We're so creative. I love story telling. I'm so blessed to be able to do what we do. With any luck, BOB will be our next one. It's so very special to us.
MG: Lastly, I just have to ask how does it feel to literally be taking over the horror genre? Very soon, you will be so big that I won't be able to speak with you again!
SS: Nothing feels like real life to me right now. I am getting to make films I love with my best friend and it's been years of struggling to get to a point where we feel secure in getting to keep doing this! Thank you for supporting us – otherwise we would be waiting tables still.
JS: Ha ha, OMG, you will ALWAYS be able to talk to us! We still can't believe people like our stuff. It's like some sort of weird karma from being so damn unpopular growing up. It's a profound honor to have people respond to us and our work the way they have. I grew up dressing like movie characters I love. Seeing people cosplay ours or get them tattooed on them is so unreal. Like a dream come true. And all the letters we get mean the world to us. We try to be the role models we would have liked growing up. We'll always stay the same. Grounded and uber grateful for the influence we have. And we're only just getting started.
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On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board's meeting with an invocation: "Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England, or the charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present—a Christian land governed by Christian principles."1 The board then voted nine to five, along party lines, to adopt new standards that will be used to teach the state's 4.8 million students—resisting the pleas of educators, historians, and even Rod Paige, a former U.S. secretary of education under President George W. Bush. The new standards emphasize the role of Christianity in U.S. history and promote conservative values. A New York Times editorial pointed out that the Texas board did back down on a few of its "most outrageous efforts"—such as renaming the slave trade, the "Atlantic triangular trade"—but it nevertheless managed "to justify injecting more religion into government." According to the Times, the curriculum differentiates between the Founders' protection of religious freedom and "separation of church and state,"2 which it deplores.
Other states will feel the effects of the Texas decision, since the state is the second-largest purchaser of textbooks in the United States (behind California) and, as the Chronicle of Higher Education noted, "national publishers often tailor their texts to Texas standards."3 A California state senator responded by introducing a bill that would ensure his state would not be using any of the new Texas guidelines.4
The historian Eric Foner points out that the problem with the changes in the Texas standards is not the inclusion of the role that modern conservatism has played. His own textbook, Give Me Liberty! (2004), includes a chapter titled "The Conservative Resurgence." Rather, he says, the problem is "what the new standards tell us about conservatives' overall vision of American history and society and how they hope to instill that vision in the young."5 Foner explains,
"The standards run from kindergarten through high school, and certain themes obsessively recur. Judging from the updated social studies curriculum, conservatives want students to come away from a Texas education with a favorable impression of: women who adhere to traditional gender roles, the Confederacy, some parts of the Constitution, capitalism, the military and religion. They do not think students should learn about women who demanded greater equality; other parts of the Constitution; slavery, Reconstruction and the unequal treatment of nonwhites generally; environmentalists; labor unions; federal economic regulation; or foreigners."
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"Students in several grades will be required to understand the "benefits" (but none of the drawbacks) of capitalism. The economic system, however, dares not speak its name—it is referred to throughout as "free enterprise." Labor unions are conspicuous by their absence… Clearly, the Texas Board of Education seeks to inculcate children with a history that celebrates the achievements of our past while ignoring its shortcomings, and that largely ignores those who have struggled to make this a fairer, more equal society."
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Of course, children who learn from textbooks that teach these ideas grow up to be adults who vote, hold office, and make public policy. Thus, changes to public-school curricula have a broad impact. Significant numbers of homeschooled students raised on creationism and Christian revisionist textbooks have already entered professions such as law, education, and politics. In a 2007 article in the New Yorker, Hanna Rosin described Patrick Henry College, the first college founded specifically for the advanced education of Christian homeschooled students. It "trains young Christians to be politicians," Rosin writes. During the George W. Bush administration, when the article was written,
Of the school's sixty-one graduates through the class of 2004, two have jobs in the White House; six are on the staffs of conservative members of Congress; eight are in federal agencies; and one helps Senator Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Karen, homeschool their six children. Two are at the F.B.I., and another worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Iraq.6
A recent poll indicated that, even before the adoption of the new curriculum, nearly a third of Texans believed that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time, and skepticism about evolution has become widespread and mainstream throughout the United States.7 The website of Rick Warren's Saddleback megachurch used to state unequivocally that "Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time," and that man was given dominion over dinosaurs, until the statements drew attention from the press and the site was revised.8 During the most recent presidential election, three Republican candidates—Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, and Mike Huckabee—raised their hands during the first GOP primary debate to indicate that they do not believe in biological evolution.9 Texan Ron Paul, a medical doctor, did not raise his hand, but later clarified his beliefs in a campaign appearance, stating, "It's a theory, the theory of evolution, and I don't accept it as a theory."10
"children who learn from textbooks that teach these ideas grow up to be adults who vote, hold office, and make public policy."
Creationist beliefs such as these are having a direct impact on energy and food policies. Increasingly sophisticated "young earth creationist" texts and museums,11 which claim that the earth is only a few thousand years old, insist that coal, gas, and oil were formed in the relatively recent past, not over millions of years. Social science texts written from this biblical point of view, which are widely used by Christian homeschoolers and which promote the kinds of ideas that are found in the Texas curriculum standards, teach that the availability of natural resources to a nation depends on its righteousness or lack thereof. For example, the textbook America's Providential History tells students,
"A secular society will lack faith in God's providence and consequently men will find fewer natural resources…The secular or socialist has a limited resource mentality and views the world as a pie (there is only so much) that needs to be cut up so that everyone can get a piece. In contrast, the Christian knows that the potential in God is unlimited and that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth. The resource are waiting to be tapped."12
The worldview described in America's Providential History is being expressed and acted upon in statehouses around the United States. Florida State Representative Charles Van Zant, during questioning on a bill that would allow offshore drilling as close as three miles to the Florida coast, said, of the idea that the world's petroleum supply is limited:
"Some people would like to think that. Estimates might show that. But that doesn't mean that at all. We happen to worship a God who made it all out of nothing anyway. And if we ran out, I certainly believe he could make some more."13
(Van Zant is the same legislator who proposed a sweeping anti-abortion bill in the Florida House this year, which would make any attempt to induce an abortion a first-degree felony.)14
State Senator Sylvia Allen of Arizona was captured on video by the Arizona Guardian, during a hearing about opening up uranium mining, claiming that "the earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws and somehow it hasn't been done away with."15 She argues, "It is time to focus on the technology that we have and look forward to the future." What was once considered obscure revisionism by little-known Religious Right propagandists can now be heard regularly from politicians.
The Battle for the Social Sciences
Chris Rodda, a senior researcher at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has collected hundreds of examples of "faux history" quotes that have been used on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Like creationism, the Right's revisionist history is a not only a religious phenomenon but also an effort to control public policy. Evangelical and fundamentalist children are indoctrinated into what is sometimes referred to as "biblical capitalism," 16 the teaching that an unregulated market system is mandated by God and dictated in the Bible. Textbooks that preach biblical capitalism blend free-market and religious fundamentalism and promote political activism. As Frederick Clarkson points out in his article "History is Powerful," in the Spring 2007 issue of The Public Eye,17 "the contest for control of the narrative of American history is well underway."
Clarkson explains that the Reconstructionist theology of the late Rousas J. Rushdoony and his son-in-law, Gary North, provides the foundation for merging the "free market gospel" with biblical law to create biblical capitalism. Rushdoony, Clarkson says, believed that "God actively intervenes in and guides history, and that God's role can be retroactively discerned, from creation to the predestined Kingdom of God on Earth." In Rushdoony's 1965 book, The Nature of the American System, he claims that the Founding Fathers were not men of the secular Enlightenment but rather were planning a "Christian nation."
Considered the father of modern Christian homeschooling, Rushdoony believed that children should be removed from public schools and raised in pure environments, where they could be trained for a holy war against liberalism and secularism. North explains the strategy's ultimate goal:
"So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God. Murder, abortion, and pornography will be illegal. God's law will be enforced. It will take time. A minority religion cannot do this. Theocracy must flow from the hearts of a majority of citizens, just as compulsory education came only after most people had their children in schools of some sort." 18
Undermining Public Education
Although parents may decide to homeschool their children for any number of reasons, the proportion of parents who homeschool in order to "provide religious or moral instruction increased from 72 percent to 83 percent" between 2003 and 2007, says the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).19 Such homeschooling has begun to take a bite out of the budgets of state education systems, because state support is based on the number of enrolled students. As reported in Time, "The state of Florida has 41,128 children (1.7 percent) learning at home this year, up from 10,039 in the 1991 – 92 school year; those kids represent a loss of nearly $130 million from school budgets in that state."20 And the percentage of students being homeschooled in Florida is actually well-below the national average: NCES estimates that the number of homeschooled students in the United States has increased from approximately 850,000 in 1999 (or 1.75 percent of the school-age population) to 1,508,000 in 2007 (or 2.9 percent).
The Alliance for the Separation of School and State,21 whose stated goal is the elimination of public education, claims that the numbers are even higher, with almost two million students being homeschooled. Signatories of the alliance's proclamation, "I publicly proclaim that I favor ending government involvement in public education," include such conservative notables as Rep. Ron Paul; Don Hodel, the energy secretary under Ronald Reagan; Dinesh D'Souza, a policy analyst under Reagan; Tim LaHaye, minister and the author of the apocalyptic Left Behind novels; Howard Phillips, the founder of the U.S. Taxpayer's Party (now the Constitution Party); Joseph Farah, the editor of the conservative website Worldnet Daily; and John Rosemond, a syndicated columnist on child rearing.
The effect of all this? The Time article quotes Ray Simon, the director of the Arkansas Department of Education, who says,
"A third of our support for schools comes from property taxes. If a large number of a community's parents do not fully believe in the school system, it gets more difficult to pass those property taxes. And that directly impacts the schools' ability to operate."
Looking at the Textbooks
In 2003, Frances Paterson, an associate professor at Valdosta State College in Georgia and an expert on religion and education, conducted a study of the texts published by A Beka Press, Bob Jones University Press, and the School of Tomorrow/Accelerated Christian Education,22 which are used by Christian homeschoolers, in adult education programs, and in "as many as 10,000 evangelical and fundamentalist Christian schools." (And you may be paying for them with your taxes. Paterson found that vouchers were being used to subsidize private schools in Milwaukee and Cleveland that used the texts she studied).23
Paterson describes the message of the texts: "Democrats are deluded, liberals are villains, and conservatives are heroes. This is part of a pattern where descriptions used for people, groups, and movements clearly imply that some are unacceptable."24 Another theme she identifies is that "the lack of material progress in various Third World countries and among indigenous peoples can be attributed to their religious beliefs… All the texts are imbued with an arrogance and hostility toward non-Western religions that is truly breathtaking."25 Paterson explained in recent correspondence with me that she now hears politicians repeating the fundamentalist teachings of the texts she studied. "No doubt they strike a resonant note with individuals who read the same ideas in their school books," she said.
"the attackers of public education are sophisticated, disciplined, persistent politicians, who have moved their battle from the schoolhouse to the statehouse and are continuing to expand their reach."
The A Beka texts are particularly popular. They are published by Pensacola Christian College, founded by Arlene and Beka Horton, who later added their publishing arm after becoming disgruntled with what they viewed as the secularization of teaching techniques by Bob Jones University.26 A Beka curricula are carefully written: "Entire lessons were scripted so that no open-ended discussion leading to questions that might challenge the Truth would occur," said one critic. 27 A Beka advertises that 40,000 homeschool students were registered in their A Beka Academy programs in the school year 2009 – 2010. (This number does not include the homeschoolers who use A Beka texts but not its service program, which provides a structure for grading and transcripts; nor does it include private schools that use A Beka texts.28)
Building on Paterson's research, I examined U.S. history and economics textbooks published by A Beka and others. Although most were originally published in the 1990s or earlier, they are still very much in use. My study, summarized in the accompanying chart, provides a window into the narratives of this worldview, which is also promoted by the Texas curriculum standards; the purposes that these narratives serve in determining public policy; and a warning of what we can expect in future battles over public school curricula.
Progressives watching Tea Party and antihealthcare-reform rallies may find it easy to poke fun at misspelled signs and racist outbursts, and to disregard the social and political potential of Christian nationalism. However, the attackers of public education are sophisticated, disciplined, persistent politicians, who have moved their battle from the schoolhouse to the statehouse and are continuing to expand their reach. They hope to transform our nation into the Christian United States, and their multiple, complementary tactics have brought them closer to their goal.
In early February, Glenn Beck announced his "American Revival," a series of all-day events to be held in stadiums around the United States, whose purpose the conservative journal Human Events described as "creating a pathway to enable Americans to walk away from the nightmare of government control and back to the freedom-loving founders of the United States and the Constitution."32 Eight-thousand people attended the first revival on March 27 in Orlando, Florida, while 7,000 showed up in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 10. Other similarly themed events this spring included April's Awakening 2010 conference at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, sponsored by the Freedom Federation, a coalition of Christian Right groups.
One thing all these events had in common was a view of U.S. history informed by Christian nationalism and free-market economics. Another was the presence of David Barton, one of the main promoters of this ideology through his books and his organization, Wallbuilders. At Beck's revival, Barton gave "a nonstop historical summary of the Christian basis of the Founding Father's faith, their merging of the Bible's teachings into the framework of the Constitution, and the clear understanding they all had that America was founded as God's chosen nation," according to Human Events. Barton is leading his own Great Awakening Tour this summer, in which participants travel for ten days to "the sites of previous awakenings as we anticipate the next one."33 His list of special guests includes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Senator Rick Santorum, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, and New Apostolic leader Lou Engle.
People for the American Way (PFAW) calls David Barton "The Right's Favorite Pseudo-Historian." 34 The Texas Freedom Network has described him as a "professional propagandist,"35 while Senator Arlen Specter, when he was still a Republican, said that Barton's "pseudo-scholarship would hardly be worth discussing, let alone disproving, were it not for the fact that it is taken so very seriously by so many people."36 Indeed, Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State described Barton's right-wing classic, The Myth of Separation (1989), as "riddled with factual errors, half truths and distortions." Along with other researchers and historians, he has debunked many of Barton's claims.37 In 1995, Barton was forced to admit that more than a dozen quotes in the book cannot be reliably confirmed.
Nevertheless, Barton and his cottage industry Wallbuilders have become increasingly powerful political forces. Wallbuilders' goals are to
exert a direct and positive influence in government, education, and the family by (1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; (2) providing information to federal, state, and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and (3) encouraging Christians to be involved in the civic arena.38
Barton served as the vice chair of the Texas Republican Party from 1998 to 2006, during which time, in 2004, the Texas GOP platform asserted that "America is a Christian Nation" and referred to the "myth of separation of church and state."39 That same year, the Texas Freedom Network reported, "Barton served as a political consultant for the Republican National Committee, traveling the country and speaking at about 300 RNC-sponsored lunches for local evangelical pastors … and encouraged pastors to endorse political candidates from the pulpit."40 Barton teamed up with Newt Gingrich in 2008 to bring together economic and social conservatives through Gingrich's organization, Renewing American Leadership, whose mission is to promote religious conservatives' political activism "to preserve America's Judeo-Christian heritage by defending and promoting the three pillars of American civilization: freedom, faith and free markets."41. Gingrich has visited economically conservative groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Tax Reform "to make the case for taking religious conservatives more seriously."42
The State of the First Amendment 2007 national survey found that "65% of Americans believe that the founders intended America to be a Christian nation and 55% believe that the Constitution establishes America as a Christian nation."43 Barton can some of the credit for this. He was one of the "experts" appointed by the Texas School Board to advise them during the current curriculum controversy and in an affidavit posted on his website from a case in Kentucky claims,
I work as a consultant to national history textbook publishers and have been appointed by the State Boards of Education in States such as California and Texas to help write the American history and government standards for students in those States. Additionally, I consult with Governors and State Boards of Education in several other States and have testified in numerous State Legislatures on American history.44
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/cynthia-dunbar
"Politicized Curriculum in Texas", New York Times, May 25, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/opinion/26wed4.html?src=mv.
Katherine Mangan, "Ignoring Pleas, Texas Board Approves Controversial Curriculum Standards, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2010, http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Board-Approves/65661/.
"California Bill Takes Aim at New Texas Standards," Washington Post Online, The Answer Sheet, May 22, 2010, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/history/california-bill-t….
Eric Foner, "Twisting History in Texas," The Nation, March 18, 2010; http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100405/foner.
Hanna Rosin, "God and Country," The New Yorker, April 21, 2010; http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627fa_fact?currentPage=2.
Ross Ramsey, "Meet the Flintstones," Texas Tribune, February 10, 2010, http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/feb/17/meet-flintstones.
The author has a copy of the original which can also be viewed at http://www.pamshouseblend.com/upload/Autumn/Saddlebackfamily.comSmallGr….
Debate in 2007; http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/05/debate.evolution/index.html and http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/12/ron_paul_rejects_evolution.p…. Note that the Libertarian journal, Reason Magazine, covered the controversy over this video at http://reason.com/blog/2007/12/28/is-ron-paul-an-evolution-denier and http://reason.com/blog/2008/01/02/ron-paul-evolution-denial-update.
http://www.nwcreation.net/museums.htm.
Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell, America's Providential History (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Foundation, 1989), 197.
Bruce Ritchie, senior writer for the Florida Tribune monitoring the house floor on the Florida Channel; http://bruceritchie.blogspot.com/2009/04/quote-of-week-god-will-make-mo…
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2010/02/fineout-sweeping…
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen filmed by the Arizona Guardian, June 2009; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzJhTfQiMA.
For a definition and short history of biblical capitalism see http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/2/10/223656/720/Front_Page/Biblic…
Frederick Clarkson, "History is Powerful," The Public Eye, Spring 2007.
North, "The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right," pp. 24 -25.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf .
John Cloud and Jodie Morse, "Seceding from School," Time, November 11, 2001; http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010827/cover.html .
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
Frances R. A. Paterson, Democracy and Intolerance: Christian School Curricula, School Choice, and Public Policy, (Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa, 2003).
Rob Boston, "Troubling Textbooks: Why Vouchers Would Force You To Subsidize Hate," The Wall of Separation, March 13, 2009; http://blog.au.org/2009/03/13/troubling-textbooks-why-vouchers-would-fo…
Frances Paterson, "With God on Their Side," Rethinking Schools Online, http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/16_02/god162.shtml
Frances Paterson, "Teaching Religious Intolerance," Rethinking Schools Online, http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/voucher_report/v_into1…
Adam Laats, "Forging a Fundamentalist 'One Best System': Struggles over Curriculum and Educational Philosophy for Christian Day Schools 1970 - 1989," History of Education Quarterly, Vol 50, Issue 1 , pp. 55 – 83
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123265723/PDFSTART.
Quote by Milton Gaither, author of Homeschool, An American History, at http://gaither.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/laats-on-a-beka-bob-jones-and-a….
http://www.abekaacademy.org/AcademicPrograms/Overview.html.
Russell Kirk, Economics, Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective, Second Edition (Pensacola, FL: A Beka Books, 1999). Note that this edition was printed several years after Kirk's death.
United States History, 592.
Maybury, 44.
Terry Easton, "Can America Be Revived?" Human Events, April 13, 2010, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36482.
http://www.skylinechurch.org/images/NGAtourBrochure.pdf.
Report for People for the American Way, http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/david-barton-propaganda-m…
http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=religious_right_watch_david…
"David Barton, Propaganda Masquerading as History," Special Report of People for the American Way, 2006; http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/davidbarton.pdf. PFAW quotes Specter from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=report_david_barton
http://www.wallbuilders.com/ABTOverview.asp
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/RelChStSep_90/4519_90.htm
http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=rrreportarchive#SORR2006
http://www.torenewamerica.com/who-we-are
Dan Gilgoff, "Newt Gingrich Steps Up Efforts to Mobilize Religious Conservatives," U.S. News & World Report blog, March 20, 2009; http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/religion/2009/03/20/newt-gingrich-s…
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19031.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=87
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Leicester not seeking revenge on Man City over Riyad Mahrez saga – Puel
Leicester manager Claude Puel holds no hard feelings towards Manchester City over the Riyad Mahrez saga.
As the two teams prepare to play each other at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, City boss Pep Guardiola says his club are not responsible for the Algeria international's absence.
Mahrez ended his self-imposed exile on Friday morning by returning to train alongside his teammates for the first time since City's failed bid to sign him at the end of the January transfer window.
Leicester blocked what would have been a dream move to the Premier League leaders for Mahrez, and he has subsequently missed the games against Everton and Swansea.
With the two clubs set to meet for the first time since Mahrez became unsettled, Puel insists he bears no grudge towards Guardiola's team.
'There's no revenge about Manchester City, or the club,'' said the Frenchman. 'We are professionals without feelings like that. I think it is important to keep it clear and always have a good focus about our play.
'All the bad feelings about revenge or other things, there's none.
'My squad has a fantastic attitude, they have strength together. It is a good quality, the spirit of the team.
'We can play against Manchester City with a fantastic spirit and collective play and make a difference and I hope we will see this on Saturday.''
For his part, Mahrez released a statement on Friday in which he said he said 'presumptions'' about his absence were 'totally without foundation''.
He travelled with the team when they set off for Manchester on Friday and Guardiola insists that he would like to play against a Leicester side which included the former PFA Player of the Year, although it is highly unlikely Puel will bring Mahrez back for this match.
It means Mahrez will miss a third Premier League game. Asked if he felt City were partly to blame for the situation, Guardiola replied: 'I don't think so.
'Leicester came to pick up Kelechi [Iheanacho], we did it. In all transfers, the clubs call the clubs, it's simple like that.
'After that we are not involved in absolutely anything. It's a decision for the player and the club, not Manchester City.''
The only change to the Leicester squad is likely to see Shinji Okazaki miss out with a knee injury. The striker could be sidelined for up to two weeks with the problem.
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9 Expo Line Hacks That Will Make You Love L.A.'s New Train
We've worked out the quirks so you don't have to
Neal Broverman
We're in the heat of beach season, which means Santa Monica and Venice are calling. With traffic and parking, driving to the Pacific is a non-starter, especially on weekends. Thankfully, for the first time in decades, we have a new option—the Expo Line. Are you making the most of L.A.'s first Expo Line (to the beach) summer? Here are some fool-proof tips to make the train experience as pleasant as possible.
• Head to the front. Many have complained of sardine-like conditions on Expo, but we've found the less-jammed train cars tend to be the ones in the front. When arriving at the platform, head as far to the front as possible; you're more likely to find a seat.
"What is today, a national holiday?"
"You could say that."
"It's like Christmas!"
On packed #ExpoLine #Rams pic.twitter.com/J3sZYsv4Ln
— Laurie Ochoa (@Laurie_Ochoa) August 14, 2016
• Get in the shiny, gray train cars. Often, Expo trains consist of two or three separate train cars joined together, often with older (white train cars) linked with newer (gray). If possible, hop on the gray, they're cleaner and shinier.
• Don't ever pay attention to the station announcements. If you're relying on the automated voices to tell you what station you're at, you could be screwed. The train was off a station during one of our rides this week. If you don't want to miss your stop, just look out the window (at the signage) and pay no credence to the robot voice.
• Be wary of biking between the Sepulveda and Bundy stations. The bike lane between these two West L.A. stations is seriously wonky and forces cyclists to cross and re-cross several streets. If you have the benefit of sunlight, you may be better off riding on Pico Boulevard.
• Secret parking in Culver City. Surface lot in Culver City all full? Head over to the Platform shopping mall across the street; there's plenty of parking there. Be nice and buy a Blue Bottle coffee while you're there.
• Traveling west from DTLA? Head to Pico. If we're heading to the beach from downtown, we always prefer the above-ground Pico station to the 7th/Metro subway station. No going underground at Pico, and it's typically less frenetic since it doesn't service the Red and Purple lines. And if you have a bike with you, Pico is always more pleasant.
• Headphones are a must. Since Expo is almost completely above-ground, phone service is part of the deal. You'll want to catch up on podcasts or Pandora, or just avoid the loud-talkers sitting in the seat ahead of you.
• Nix the open-toed shoes. Yes, it's the beach train but throw a pair of flip-flops in your bag—you never know what you're going to step in. We're not necessarily talking about human waste, but we did touch down on an upturned ice cream cone the other day.
• There are outlets on the train!?
Apparently there are outlets on the #ExpoLine #SheNeedsAMophie #DTLA #TooMuchBeerAtRamsGame #LA pic.twitter.com/B3n5C36LUA
— mdmurphyla (@mdmurphyla) August 14, 2016
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Congratulations to the 2019 Finalists in the Professional Artist and Emerging Artist categories of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. The winners of both categories will be announced at the Opening Night on 31 May 2019 at Ravenswood, Henry Street, Gordon. Thank you to all artists for entering the Art Prize this year and for helping to raise the profile of female artists in Australia.
Elisa Jane Carmichael Do we see our swamp reeds move with the wind the same way?
Michelle Hamer Are You Having a Good Night?
Cathy Yarwood-Mahy "The Light Returns"
Open to female artists resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries and over 18 years as at 1 February 2019 who identify as professional artists.
This is an acquisitive prize, requiring the winner to donate the artwork to Ravenswood School for Girls.
The recipient will also be awarded the opportunity to hold a joint exhibition at Ravenswood School for Girls with the recipient of the Emerging Artist Prize. This exhibition will coincide with the annual welcome drinks event of the School in February of the following year.
Artworks must be for sale.
Open to female artists resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries and over 18 years as at 1 February 2019.
The recipient will be invited to participate in a joint exhibition with the recipient of the Professional Artist Prize. This exhibition will coincide with the annual welcome drinks event of the School in February of the following year.
Do I need to be an Australian to enter the Art Prize?
The Art Prize is open to all females who are Australian Citizens, Permanent Residents or who have resided in Australia during the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries.
What if my artwork is outside the dimensions stated in the Terms and Conditions?
Artworks should not exceed 20kgs in weight or 2 x 2metres excluding frame.
All entrants must be 18 years or over as at 1 February 2019.
Which category should I apply for, Emerging or Professional Artist?
An Emerging Artist is in the process of establishing a professional practice to this end and has exhibited artwork. An Emerging Artist may have had artwork accepted into competitions and has been establishing an art practice for five years or more. An Emerging Artist may have specialist credentials from Visual Art and Design courses like university or college. These details will be evident in your CV.
have significant bodies of work that are known to and in the art world.
These details will be evident in your CV.
You will receive a confirmation email once your submission has been placed.
How do I make a payment for my entry?
Payment is made during the application process.
I am an emerging artist, in regional Australia and I cannot afford the $30 application fee. Is there any support available?
Yes, we understand that it can be expensive to enter prizes. Ravenswood is happy for you to submit an email outlining your hardship with a copy of your artwork and CV. Special consideration will be given to waive the entry fee.
If you require access to a computer, internet, email or photography for your artwork to enable you to complete your entry, please make contact with your nearest Stockland Shopping Centre Management. They will be able to assist you in completing your application.
I have more than 3 images, is there a way I can submit these?
Yes, you should choose the best 3 images to show different angles of your artwork if required to submit online with your application.
Can I enter both categories?
No, you can only enter one category.
Can I enter more than once in a particular category?
A limit of two works (or entries) per artist may be submitted. Each artwork requires a separate entry and fee.
Does my artwork need to be available for purchase?
Yes, all works must be for sale.
Is photography permitted as a medium?
Yes, all mediums including photography are welcome.
Can my agent enter on my behalf?
Yes, if an artist is contracted to a gallery, the commission will be 40% and split 50-50 ( 20% to Ravenswood and 20% to the Gallery) should you artwork be sold.
If I am selected as a finalist, how do I get my artwork to the exhibition?
Congratulations for making the final selection! It is your responsibility to ensure that you work is delivered to Ravenswood by the dates specified and any costs associated with this are payable by the artists.
The address for deliveries in person is Ravenswood School for Girls, Gate 3, Henry Street, Gordon NSW 2072. Please note that due to school traffic and playground security deliveries in person outside these times will not be permitted.
You will be notified by email on 17 April 2019 and a list of finalists will be published on the website.
I would like to come to the Opening Night, how do I arrange a ticket?
All finalists will be given one complimentary ticket for the Opening Night. You may also purchase additional tickets online from April 2019 http://www.ravenswoodartprize.com.au Ticket numbers for Opening Night will be limited so please purchase your tickets early and join us for the celebration.
At the conclusion of the exhibition an email will be sent to you if your work has been sold.
What arrangements do I need to make for collecting my unsold artwork after the exhibition?
All artwork must have a return address label (A4) in an envelope attached to the back of the artwork.


HOME TO THE Guilmant Organ School, the first institution devoted to the teaching of church music in America, The First Presbyterian Church continues its distinguished tradition of choral music, preaching, and concerts as it begins its fourth century as part of this nation's history.
OUR TONAL DIRECTOR was given the freedom to realize an instrument capable of performing the full body of the organ repertoire, in addition to providing a pipe organ to support the soloists, choirs, and orchestra of the church for concerts and liturgy. Amongst the more unusual ideas is the Werck, a "hyper-Great" inspired by the 17th-century Hamburg school. The organ's flexibility reveals its many capabilities as one reviews the stoplist.
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On 19 January 2001 ROK/US Marine Corps Friendship Association had a gala event to Honor the Top 100 Former Marines assisting ROK Marines." Jim Lint, a civilian currently working in Korea is a US Director of the ROK/US Marine Corps Friendship Association. Jim was happy to be included in this event that show cases the top 100 people who helped the welfare of Marines in Korea.
Jim Lint was one of the presenters at the event. He enjoyed the fine hospitality of the Korea Marines with various famous Marines who had made it big in the civilian world. Jim, a former Marine and member of the MCCIA, Am Legion China Post #1 and 2d Mar Div Asso, also presented a plaque to both Mr. Kang, K. S. and the senior ROK Marine officer, General Yi, Haw Chul attending the event, as is Korean custom.
A surprise in the evening was that Miss Han, presented a plaque for Jim's service to the organization. Miss Han, is a reporter for the National Rescue Association in Korea. This Rescue Asso is also supported by former Marines on a volunteer basis.
Many senior ROK Marine officers and civilian celebrities attended this special event. Retired Maj Gen Pak, Hwan In, former Commander of the ROK 1st Marine Division, he is presently also a vice president in the ROK Marine Veteran Asso. Also in attendance was BGen Yi Haw Chul, who commanded the 6th Marine Brigade during Korean War and the Blue Dragon Brigade in Vietnam. Noted civilians included TV talent, Mr. Rim Chae Moo and Comedian, MC and President of ROK Scuba Association, Mr. Chong Dong Nam. The Commandant of the ROK Marine Corps sent a special message to the Annual Event. The Political Opposition Yi, Hae Chang sent a 8 foot flower decoration. What a charming lady. Mr. Kang Kyung Seo, Director ROK/US Marine Corps Friendship Association was Master of Ceremony for this event.
Also in attendance Celebration, was the famous entertainer Mr. Kim, Hung Kuk. Jim Lint presented him an award for service to Marines everywhere. He is also the Chairman of the Korean National Sponsorship for World Cup 2002. (Rough Translation!) This former ROKMC member is very well known and a hard charger. He is also the dream model of every Marine... Mr. Kim Hung Kuk married the former Miss Korea, and I got to meet her too at a previous World Cup 2002 Dinner! What a charming lady.
TV talent Ms. Kim, Uih Dong, grand daughter of a Gen Uil, Chwa Jin, "Packdoo Mountain Tiger," who was the first commander of Independence Freedom Fighters against the Japanese colonialist from 1930-45 working from the Exile Government in China. Ms. Kim has kept the family tradition of assisting Marines!
COL Retired Yi, Kyong Suk, former Director of ROK Marine Boot Camp.
An interesting drink was had by all. Soju in bamboo stalks. It was very tasty, unique and interesting.
Mr. Kang Kyung Seo, Director ROK/US Marine Corps Friendship Association was Master of Ceremony for this event. This same ROK/US Marine Corps Friendship Association visited the USA during July 2000, to include visits at HQMC and Camp Lejeune, NC.
With out a doubt, this was a very interesting event!
For release to 2d Marine Div Asso Magazine, American Legion China Post #1 and MCCIA.
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I wanted to let you know that last week, the Distinguished Alumni committee selected John Barr '61 as its first Distinguished Alumni Award winner. On May 25th, we will have a reception in our library, similar to the Hall of Fame one, for Mr. Barr. We will recognize his accomplishments in the library and present him with a plaque. He will then participate in the commencement ceremony that evening, where he will address the class of 2018.
I thought the Nalley Foundation would want to know and be a part of this evening. I will get you more specific times as it gets closer.
"John Barr is a true leader in the worlds of business and the arts and a friend. The committee could not have made a better choice. We are proud that he is a partner of the Carlin Nalley Foundation," John Bartels, Lisle Class of 1985, CNF Board President.
I'm a graduate of the Main Street Elementary School in Lisle, now long gone. Miss Schiesher, the Principal, carried a giant ring of metal keys. One day during recess, she saw something she didn't like, and rapped those keys so loudly on the school windows that everyone on the entire playground froze. I thought the window would shatter. She is probably watching us now. I'm also a graduate of Schiesher Junior High and, of course, this High School.
From first grade through high school my home was at the top of the hill where Warrenville Road runs up from Route 53. I remember two things from 8th grade. With my best friend Wayne I learned how to make black powder––gunpowder––in our basement. We didn't burn down the house, but a basement flooding with choking yellow smoke got my mother's attention. And I was, like many a young person, smitten by Thoreau and his famous book about going to live in the woods at Walden Pond. I announced to my parents that I would move out of the house, build a log cabin down by the little pond near our house, and live like him. I spent the afternoon looking for timber, found none, and moved back into my bedroom that night. I'm still smitten with Thoreau.
For summer jobs I worked at a truck farm, now long gone, and at the Morton Arboretum. Penny, my wife and high school classmate, worked summers de-tasseling corn. When I was a senior I again marched into the living room and informed my long-suffering parents that I was going to be a poet. My father, who was a good man but a practical one, said, "At least go to college. Then if you become a poet, people will think you're an eccentric and not just a beach bum." Good advice.
At one of our reunions years ago I asked a classmate, who is a psychologist, why the memories and moods of adolescence remain so vivid as we grow older––they really do stay with you for life. She gave a one-word answer: "Hormones." But I think it's more than that. Recently someone wrote, "All of us are our first zip codes." What the writer meant is that the place where we grow up shapes and determines the basic person we will be for the rest of our lives. Over the course of a long life that basic person will be tested and refined. Your life will include things not now foreseeable. For us there was a war in a place we never heard of called Vietnam. For you the higher education, business and government of today are in such convulsion that no one can know what awaits you. But how you deal with those things, foreseen or not, will come out of the values and character of the person you are today.
Our high school class, the Class of 1961, was only 52––less than half the size of yours. It was made up of wonderful, memorable individuals. There were several marriages in our class and within the school. Penny and I were one of those, but I had to wait. She was the Homecoming Queen and I was the class nerd. She dated the football captains––and I couldn't get any dates. Several years later, when we were in college, we reconnected. After a three-year, long-distance courtship, I proposed to Penny from a Navy destroyer floating around in Tonkin Gulf. In a few months we'll celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary––but that puts us well down the longevity list of schoolmates whose marriages from that time have lasted.
My business career took us East to New York for many years. Here is what is strange about New York City: It's mostly made up of people who moved there from someplace else. And when they come they often change identities. Three weeks after their arrival, they self-identify as "New Yorkers" or "Easterners" and don't really want to talk about where they came from. Not so for us. We lived and worked there for 30 years, and raised our children there, but when we met fellow Midwesterners the first subject was always where we came from. We've made wonderful friends wherever we have lived, thanks especially to Penny. But the friendships that hold a special place for us are the first ones, the ones from Lisle.
And that is why the email from Principal Howard about this historic alumni honor is so deeply meaningful to me. It was a call from home. I wish each of you all the glory you desire, and all the joy you deserve.
John Barr at the Benefit for Literacy Gala was honored as 2013 Individual Leader in Literacy for his contributions with the Poetry Foundation. — at Oheka Castle.
Barr grew up in Lisle, Illinois and earned a BA in English from Harvard University on an ROTC scholarship. After serving in the Navy for five years during the Vietnam War, he returned to Harvard Business School to earn an MBA. Barr's poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, and his books of poetry include The Hundred Fathom Curve (1997)—expanded and updated as The Hundred Fathom Curve: New & Collected Poems (2011)—and the mock-epic Grace: Book One of the Adventures of Ibn Opcit (1999, 2013) and Opcit at Large: Book Two of The Adventures of Ibn Opcit (2013). He lives in New York and Chicago.
John Barr served as the first president of the Poetry Foundation from 2004 to 2013, where he worked with the board to develop the Foundation's strategic plan and to build a permanent home for Poetry magazine, the first in its 100-year history. He has taught in the graduate writing program of Sarah Lawrence College and has served on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, Yaddo, and Bennington College.
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Moderated by John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, this distinguished panel featured three American veterans who were prisoners of war in different conflicts. They discussed their experiences as POWs and how they endured their time in captivity.


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Boa Kwon (born 5 November 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a South Korean singer. She is commonly known by her stage name BoA. She has been active in both South Korea and Japan. Aside from Korean, BoA also speaks Japanese and English and has released songs in those languages. She also released some Chinese songs, but she does not know Chinese. BoA succeeded not only in Korea, but in all of East Asia as well.
BoA was born and raised in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. She was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. In 2000, after two years of training, she released ID; Peace B, her debut Korean album. Two years later, she released her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart. On October 14, 2008, BoA debuted in the United States with the single "Eat You Up" and released her debut English-language album, BoA on March 17, 2009 .[1]
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A Vote for Un-Americans
Standing in line at the tiny Oronoco City Hall, many locals had stickers or buttons representing a veteran for whom they were voting. Coming on the heels of the Day of the Dead, perhaps this is fitting top honor those who have died fighting for a cause they believed to be just.
Today, however, I voted for the un-American among us. Since Michelle Bachman uttered her inflammatory statement last month, I have been fixated on her classification of Obama and others as "un-American." Smacking of McCarthyism, it is a bald assertion of nativism and xenophobia. When Bachman says she would like to form a committee to examine the un-American tendencies of elected officials, this is born of a deep-rooted belief that life is dualistic, that "they are either fer or agin' us," that people are either full-blooded "American" or outsiders merely positioned within our arbitrary geographic borders.
I voted for all those un-Americans, like my carpool mate who listens constantly to politics on the radio and knows more about the electoral college than most citizens, but is still unable to vote because the process of naturalization takes so long. I waited an hour to vote today for all those un-American high-school students of mine down in Brownsville, Texas, who are studying hard and hoping they win the lottery of the quota system before they graduate so they can attend the college they deserve. I wore my "I voted " sticker all day for those 23 un-Americans from India who were arrested this past week in North Dakota after walking off their jobs with Signal International who they claim is human trafficking (Preston, Julia). I got my free "voter appreciation" Starbucks coffee for those Americans who were made to feel un-American, to fear the ballot boxes 40 years ago in the South and 40 minutes ago when an immigrant made the decision to stay away from the booth because of nativism.
According to a recent AP article, Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango was instructed to leave the country in 2004. In response to concerns that she was living in subsidized Boston housing, Massachusetts Republican Senator Robert L. Hedlund Jr. stated that he has tried to close this "massive, absurd loophole" which enables noncitizens or "un-Americans" the right to subsidized housing. (Boston Herald). Mudslinging Republican campaigns have seized on this chance to tarnish Obama's image just before Election Day, implying that un-Americans are criminals deserving of deportation, ostracization, and that all people related to them are guilty of wrongdoing.
Un-Americans were often barred from education in Texas prior to the landmark Peter Schey case allowing all children to attend schools regardless of citizenship status. Un-Americans were brought to our country during WWII through the Bracero Program, kept un-American as they worked, and then "repatriated" willingly or not back to Mexico. Un-Americans sit in "processing centers" right now, waiting to hear the charges brought against them, wondering when they can get out and begin to earn a wage for their hungry families once more. Nearly 4 million un-Americans became Americans after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, thought it would be another 102 years before the 1965 Voting Rights Act would ensure literacy, citizenship, or poll-taxes would not keep them un-American on November 4.
A vote is never enough. If democracy is nothing more than a vote, then we are only a democratic nation but once a year. No, being a voice for the voiceless is democracy. Living and working for mutual benefits and universal principles are democracy. Opposing a wall between two neighbors, be it physical or spiritual, is democracy at its best. Realizing that there is no such thing as un-American, that all of us are only Americalmosts, that we are only as "American" as our actions towards others, that the word American surely was not meant to deny the rights and protections for some 12 million extralegal immigrants within our borders. Thinking back to this morning, as I filled in the bubbles representing people representing people, it is immediately evident that this morning's action is necessary but wildly insufficient. If all men and women are inherently good, it is not so much the people we vote into office today that matter, but the people who hold these candidates to socially uplifting principles and prohibit them from morally devastating acts that count for the next four years. That is why I voted for the un-Americans.
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When the Many Find they are One
During the WWII era of 1942-46, between 200,000 and 300,000 manual laborers or braceros worked in the United States as farmhands and railroad workers standing in for the masses of young men sent overseas. When this Bracero Program ended and many returned to their homes in Mexico, few received the 10% of their wages deducted by the Mexican government, if they even knew about the deduction at all.
While this lawsuit faltered twice, both for whether it had exceeded the statute of limitations and whether a case against Mexico could be brought in the United States, it received preliminary approval to be heard before the Federal District Court in San Francisco this past Wednesday. The proposed settlement would grant each bracer with sufficient proof a $3500 check. Fewer than 50,000 will collect those checks, due to the anonymous, undocumented nature of much of this work, but for those few braceros nearing their ends, this money is more moral victory than subsistence. The New York Times article quotes Mr. Ibarra, a bracero currently living in Chicago, saying, this was a "victory of principles that allows me to be positive about continuing to live a little longer." The United States has much cause to thank these willing workers who came and worked and went with little recognition and even less pay. Justice can be a long time coming. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/us/16settle.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
Reportedly, Tom Brockaw regretted not asking candidates John McCain and Barack Obama not what they would do for the middle class, but what they would provide for the poor. In this season of grandstanding and lampooning for votes, it is easy to forget about the voiceless among us. Sometime between the immigration legislation discussions of 2006, both McCain and Obama have forgotten the 12 million extralegal immigrants awaiting some legislative opportunity or the countless millions lost in the lottery of our antiquated quota system.
As we speak, needless hostilities are burning between new Somali immigrants and "old" Latino immigrants in meatpacking and factory towns. When our nation focuses on the issues of the middle and upper class, the poor are left to bicker over crumbs of opportunity. Due to the nine raids in as many places since 2006 which have detained and/or deported some 2,000 immigrant workers, legal Somali refugees are being recruited and relocated to fill those positions. When they band together to campaign for 15-minute lenience to observe their Muslim prayer time, the oft-slighted other immigrant groups take offense. Mayor Ms. Hornady intimates that the Muslim hijabs suggest terrorism to her and the community of Grand Island, Nebraska. The immigrant groups in this town, the Mexican and South American, the Laotian and Sudanese and original German immigrants, all live in the constant fear that December of 2006 will strike again, that ICE will raid their meatpacking plant and freeze their small town for good. http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ver=KUM7s5FPF9I&am=X_E4pcT3aCGBXoYK6A
Although the New York Times article focuses on the differences and supposed animosities between these two immigrant groups, whose arrivals are separated by but a few years, what strikes me most is how similar these workers are. If only they could join together as one, in that Poor People's March Dr. King envisioned, and say, "We will not live in fear anymore. What is good for one of us is good for us all. We are many, we are one." I wish we all could say the same, that we would recognize the simple truth of Martin Luther King's words, ""Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
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