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"Kill the Indian"; KulturKampf, Condi, rape meds, Catholic condoms....
.... valuing bad ideas, depicting hairy bods, learning how 2 dance nude. more. Can right-wing re-colonize SF? See SF Chron, Sunday, 23 Jan.
CULTURE WARS: the Jan. 22 battle of San Francisco --
bluestaters versus redstaters
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/23/MNGVSAV32H1.DTL
............................................
Does CONDI have any sexual orientation?
Ann Rostow, of TXT Newsmagazine (former Texas Triangle??) [and SF Bay Times], speculates about
the sexual orientation of Condi Rice. [SFBT, 20 Jan, p.10.]
One biographer of Rice says that she used to "date" (?) football players;
and that she once considered marrying and having kids, but chose to pursue her foreign-policy career instead.
After she took the job of educating Bush the Lesser, she became an "office wife" to him;
once referring to him as "my husband", before correcting herself. This closeness must be entirely non-sexual,
since Laura Bush remains very close to Condi. Apparently Condi usually accompanies George & Laura to
Camp David, the weekend retreat for presidential families.
Altho Dr. Rice is a long-time hawk in foreign affairs, that's no reason to assume she's homophobic.
................................
AIDS drugs for RAPE VICTIMS:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/20/state2101EST0167.DTL&type=health
.......
Spain's Roman Catholic BISHOPS OKAY CONDOMS
for AIDS prevention?
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/404825.htm
.......
JUST HOW QUEER WAS ABE?
"How gay was Abraham Lincoln?
By asking the question that way, it's perhaps possible to avoid the historically futile,
binary question of "gay" versus "straight". [.....]
Whatever Lincoln was, he was very at ease expressing love, intimacy and affection for other men. The last thing he was was sexually prudish. His early doggerel poem about the progeny that results from anal sex with another man - he has the two men married no less! - would be regarded by today's conservatives as worthy of protest to the FCC. [.......]"
[ et cetera] [ copyright © 2005 Andrew Sullivan ] [ For full text, please read THE NEW REPUBLIC, 12 Jan. 2005;
or visit http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20050112 ]
...........
Does CLASSICAL MUSIC offend Brit thugs?
London's underground tube system was plagued by tough teen males, who bullied passengers and staff.
Now London has reduced such trouble, by one-third. How?
By playing classical music.
Most London teens don't care for such "rubbish", so now they're less likely to hang out in tube stations.
The same tactic works in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. One hotel, on a section of Market Street noted
for outdoor sales of pills, plays classical music at its doorway; which motivates most dealers to hang out elsewhere.
...........
VALUE OF FLAWED IDEAS
In brainstorming sessions,
a flawed idea often sparks a workable idea.
Thus bad ideas are better than no ideas.
The bad-sparks-good process has been called dialectical.
One could also see it as
evolution in action.
....................
FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events + news-links
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps, SFBG, et alii ):
........................
For more "queer things to do"
in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
please visit Larrybob at HTC:
[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
.........................
For news of EduKink leather/BDSM classes, please join
[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edukink ]
.........................
Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
..........................
JANUARY 2005: a time for fresh starts.
.....
Native American "Indian" discussion:
Sunday, Jan. 23, author, professor, and Native American activist Ward Churchill
discusses his forthcoming book,
KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN:
The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools.
5 p.m.,
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus, S.F.
Free.
(415) 362-8193
http://www.citylights.com
.......
CAL-SF: Friday, January 28, 6-9 PM:
opening reception for art show:
"HAIRY BODIES"
Featuring Nayland Blake, Nick Dong, Ruth Eckland, Su-Chen Hung, Chris Komater, Dean Smith, and Chris Vandemore. January 28 - February 26, 2005.
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-6 PM.
Hairy Bodies is a group exhibition inspired by the eroticisation and fetishization of large hairy men, otherwise know as bears. These artists explore and abstract this ideal of beauty, quite outside of the mainstream, through the mediums of video, photography, and installation. These sometimes playful and subversive works look at individual and group complexities, differences, and dynamics. Come for an intimate look at the strange beauty of bear hair, sexuality, and body aesthetics in all forms and possibilities. The Lab, 2948 16th Street near Mission.
http://www.thelab.org
....................
**CAL-SF: Friday, January 28
Open Play Party
(Friday Night Special)
at SF Citadel
Discount night of play
... only $10 per person!
For Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
.................
CAL, northern: Oakland anarchist event:
Friday, January 28th
WHAT KIND OF STATE ARE YOU LIVIN' IN ?
A Night of Anarchist Hip Hop Propaganda
with SF's ENTARTETE KUNST COLLECTIVE
Celebrating AK Press' 15th Anniversary
7 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Entartete Kunst will be celebrating the release of their new album,
States of Abuse, with a short live set.
EK will also be celebrating the release of Spreading Propaganda,
a new documentary on the collective, with its first East Bay screening.
http://www.entartetekunst.info/
AK Press Warehouse
674-A 23rd. St
Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo
- near 19th St. BART station
For more info contact:
AK Press at 510.208.1700,
josh [at] akpress.org
or visit
http://www.akpress.org
All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.
................
**CAL-SF: J 28-29
Friday and Saturday nights
January 28 and 29
[last weekend of this show]
8 pm:
ITALIAN.QUEER.DANGEROUS:
a one-man show featuring Tommi Avicolli Mecca.....
Through monologue and spoken word, well-known San Francisco queer activist and writer
Tommi Avicolli Mecca tells his story of growing up in South Philly's working-class Little Italy.
At 19, fired up with new pride in being gay, he came out to the world
-- and his traditional Roman Catholic southern Italian famiglia --
on a TV talk show.....
$5-10 sliding scale
(no one turned away)
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission/
between Van Ness and 11th
http://www.jonsimsctr.org
.............
*CAL-SF: Saturday, January 29, afternoon:
Light My Fire!
a fire play class by Domina
2:30pm - 5:00pm
For cost, details, Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
...............
IRAQ: 30 January 2005, Sunday:
election???
Watch turnout percentages for Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Shia Arabs.....
.........
CAL- SF: 30 JANUARY 2005, Sunday morning, circa 0945:
Sunday Forum
[secular discussion of social and political issues ]
at U-U Church:
Iraq's Election, and the U$A in the Mideast.
Free.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]
...........................................
CAL- SF: 30 JANUARY 2005,
Sunday afternoon, 2 to 4pm:
performance by SF Koto Ensemble,
Koret Auditorium,
SF Main Public Library.
Free.
..............................................
*CAL, northern: Berkeley:
UNDRESSED PROJECT classes continue...
Naked dance technique classes geared towards healing body image,
taught by Eric Kupers
and combining aspects of modern dance, improvisation, and
various somatic arts.
FOR ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Sundays, Jan. 30th and Feb. 27th,
3 - 5 pm,
Western Sky Studio,
2525 Eighth Street, Berkeley,
$15 – 30 sliding scale.
RSVP to
erickupers [at] hotmail.com
........................................................
*CALIFORNIA, northern: 2005:
Near-nudes support
needle exchange programs:
Looking for a New Year's gift for a good cause?
HOTTIES OF HARM REDUCTION,
the faithful volunteers for the needle exchange programs servicing
San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, and Salinas,
pose ALMOST-NUDE in an attractive 2005 calendar
which you can buy online for that special someone
who gets hot looking at undressed activists.
All proceeds go directly to Points of Distribution,
Berkeley Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution,
and the Montery County Needle Exchange.
[ http://www.hottiesofharmreduction.org ]
.............................................
###
bluestaters versus redstaters
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/23/MNGVSAV32H1.DTL
............................................
Does CONDI have any sexual orientation?
Ann Rostow, of TXT Newsmagazine (former Texas Triangle??) [and SF Bay Times], speculates about
the sexual orientation of Condi Rice. [SFBT, 20 Jan, p.10.]
One biographer of Rice says that she used to "date" (?) football players;
and that she once considered marrying and having kids, but chose to pursue her foreign-policy career instead.
After she took the job of educating Bush the Lesser, she became an "office wife" to him;
once referring to him as "my husband", before correcting herself. This closeness must be entirely non-sexual,
since Laura Bush remains very close to Condi. Apparently Condi usually accompanies George & Laura to
Camp David, the weekend retreat for presidential families.
Altho Dr. Rice is a long-time hawk in foreign affairs, that's no reason to assume she's homophobic.
................................
AIDS drugs for RAPE VICTIMS:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/20/state2101EST0167.DTL&type=health
.......
Spain's Roman Catholic BISHOPS OKAY CONDOMS
for AIDS prevention?
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/404825.htm
.......
JUST HOW QUEER WAS ABE?
"How gay was Abraham Lincoln?
By asking the question that way, it's perhaps possible to avoid the historically futile,
binary question of "gay" versus "straight". [.....]
Whatever Lincoln was, he was very at ease expressing love, intimacy and affection for other men. The last thing he was was sexually prudish. His early doggerel poem about the progeny that results from anal sex with another man - he has the two men married no less! - would be regarded by today's conservatives as worthy of protest to the FCC. [.......]"
[ et cetera] [ copyright © 2005 Andrew Sullivan ] [ For full text, please read THE NEW REPUBLIC, 12 Jan. 2005;
or visit http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20050112 ]
...........
Does CLASSICAL MUSIC offend Brit thugs?
London's underground tube system was plagued by tough teen males, who bullied passengers and staff.
Now London has reduced such trouble, by one-third. How?
By playing classical music.
Most London teens don't care for such "rubbish", so now they're less likely to hang out in tube stations.
The same tactic works in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. One hotel, on a section of Market Street noted
for outdoor sales of pills, plays classical music at its doorway; which motivates most dealers to hang out elsewhere.
...........
VALUE OF FLAWED IDEAS
In brainstorming sessions,
a flawed idea often sparks a workable idea.
Thus bad ideas are better than no ideas.
The bad-sparks-good process has been called dialectical.
One could also see it as
evolution in action.
....................
FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events + news-links
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps, SFBG, et alii ):
........................
For more "queer things to do"
in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
please visit Larrybob at HTC:
[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
.........................
For news of EduKink leather/BDSM classes, please join
[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edukink ]
.........................
Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
..........................
JANUARY 2005: a time for fresh starts.
.....
Native American "Indian" discussion:
Sunday, Jan. 23, author, professor, and Native American activist Ward Churchill
discusses his forthcoming book,
KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN:
The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools.
5 p.m.,
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus, S.F.
Free.
(415) 362-8193
http://www.citylights.com
.......
CAL-SF: Friday, January 28, 6-9 PM:
opening reception for art show:
"HAIRY BODIES"
Featuring Nayland Blake, Nick Dong, Ruth Eckland, Su-Chen Hung, Chris Komater, Dean Smith, and Chris Vandemore. January 28 - February 26, 2005.
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-6 PM.
Hairy Bodies is a group exhibition inspired by the eroticisation and fetishization of large hairy men, otherwise know as bears. These artists explore and abstract this ideal of beauty, quite outside of the mainstream, through the mediums of video, photography, and installation. These sometimes playful and subversive works look at individual and group complexities, differences, and dynamics. Come for an intimate look at the strange beauty of bear hair, sexuality, and body aesthetics in all forms and possibilities. The Lab, 2948 16th Street near Mission.
http://www.thelab.org
....................
**CAL-SF: Friday, January 28
Open Play Party
(Friday Night Special)
at SF Citadel
Discount night of play
... only $10 per person!
For Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
.................
CAL, northern: Oakland anarchist event:
Friday, January 28th
WHAT KIND OF STATE ARE YOU LIVIN' IN ?
A Night of Anarchist Hip Hop Propaganda
with SF's ENTARTETE KUNST COLLECTIVE
Celebrating AK Press' 15th Anniversary
7 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Entartete Kunst will be celebrating the release of their new album,
States of Abuse, with a short live set.
EK will also be celebrating the release of Spreading Propaganda,
a new documentary on the collective, with its first East Bay screening.
http://www.entartetekunst.info/
AK Press Warehouse
674-A 23rd. St
Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo
- near 19th St. BART station
For more info contact:
AK Press at 510.208.1700,
josh [at] akpress.org
or visit
http://www.akpress.org
All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.
................
**CAL-SF: J 28-29
Friday and Saturday nights
January 28 and 29
[last weekend of this show]
8 pm:
ITALIAN.QUEER.DANGEROUS:
a one-man show featuring Tommi Avicolli Mecca.....
Through monologue and spoken word, well-known San Francisco queer activist and writer
Tommi Avicolli Mecca tells his story of growing up in South Philly's working-class Little Italy.
At 19, fired up with new pride in being gay, he came out to the world
-- and his traditional Roman Catholic southern Italian famiglia --
on a TV talk show.....
$5-10 sliding scale
(no one turned away)
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission/
between Van Ness and 11th
http://www.jonsimsctr.org
.............
*CAL-SF: Saturday, January 29, afternoon:
Light My Fire!
a fire play class by Domina
2:30pm - 5:00pm
For cost, details, Citadel street address,
and possible last-minute changes,
please see:
[ http://www.sfcitadel.org/ ]
...............
IRAQ: 30 January 2005, Sunday:
election???
Watch turnout percentages for Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Shia Arabs.....
.........
CAL- SF: 30 JANUARY 2005, Sunday morning, circa 0945:
Sunday Forum
[secular discussion of social and political issues ]
at U-U Church:
Iraq's Election, and the U$A in the Mideast.
Free.
[ http://www.uuSF.org ]
...........................................
CAL- SF: 30 JANUARY 2005,
Sunday afternoon, 2 to 4pm:
performance by SF Koto Ensemble,
Koret Auditorium,
SF Main Public Library.
Free.
..............................................
*CAL, northern: Berkeley:
UNDRESSED PROJECT classes continue...
Naked dance technique classes geared towards healing body image,
taught by Eric Kupers
and combining aspects of modern dance, improvisation, and
various somatic arts.
FOR ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Sundays, Jan. 30th and Feb. 27th,
3 - 5 pm,
Western Sky Studio,
2525 Eighth Street, Berkeley,
$15 – 30 sliding scale.
RSVP to
erickupers [at] hotmail.com
........................................................
*CALIFORNIA, northern: 2005:
Near-nudes support
needle exchange programs:
Looking for a New Year's gift for a good cause?
HOTTIES OF HARM REDUCTION,
the faithful volunteers for the needle exchange programs servicing
San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, and Salinas,
pose ALMOST-NUDE in an attractive 2005 calendar
which you can buy online for that special someone
who gets hot looking at undressed activists.
All proceeds go directly to Points of Distribution,
Berkeley Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution,
and the Montery County Needle Exchange.
[ http://www.hottiesofharmreduction.org ]
.............................................
###
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I don't think it's any great mystery.
The Republicans would be politically bereft without the votes of fundamentalist christians, who comprise between 25-35% of Americans who bother to vote.
The ruling class on the whole doesn't care much about the so-called "social issues." For every die-hard social conservative found among the ruling elite, my guess is you'd find ten or more who're liberal or agnostic on abortion, gay marriage, prayer in school, etc, etc.
The Dems and Repubs distinguish themselves most clearly on these "social issues" because questions of ownership of the economy are already settled and the elites of both parties--capitalists themselves--have no fundamental quarrel on such matters.
Seen in this light, "social issues" are chiefly a means to keep the plebes participating in the democratic charade, in so doing giving capitalist rule an appearance of popular sanction.
(except for guns?)
seem to be sexual issues....
U.S. upper class(es) are, of course, much more fluid and varied than those of England. (Indeed, one could ask whether Marx's view of class was sharpened by the rigidity of the (white) English class system, when he lived in England.)
In terms of mere wealth, self-made millionaires belong to the economic elite, just like heirs of "old money".
But in cultural terms, I think you could define an old-money (white Gentile male) elite as men who went to elite secondary boarding schools; and whose fathers also did so. [ Elite universities may be open
to the brightest of the lower classes; while secondary schools show class boundaries more clearly, IMHO.]
Such WASP elite men often belonged to the Episcopal Church;
often quietly disbelieving in its official doctrines, and being more liberal in their minds than in their public speech; perhaps being agnostics, but never saying so...
Once freed from medieval religious doctrines, a modern mind tends to value science and reason, and thus to favor tolerance in sexual matters.
If such men go into politics, they may be required to appear more sexually uptight than they really are.....