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November 7, 2007
BIWEEKLY
FREE
Peace draws 100,000
In this issue:
Bloomington activists join national protests
by Lori Canada
A
Out of their league – hardly
The Isle of Man’s blues-rock trio Back Door
Slam made the Bluebird a stop on the
group’s first American tour. Alison Hamm
says their show should guarantee they will
be back.
Page 5
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Water Boarding Park
Editorial cartoon by Brian Garvey
Page 2
Bustan healing wounds of injustice
Two members of Bustan L’Shalom spoke
in Bloomington about their organization’s
pursuit of human and environmental justice
in the Israeli desert.
Page 3
Civitas
Indiana’s warehouse economy – redux
Travis is gone, but he sent along an oldie
from June 2006 that “seems a propos” for the
times.
Page 4
Conservative Jones solves more mysteries
Editorial cartoon by Tom Tomorrow
Page 4
La Bohème ‘set’ to open
The classic opera La Bohème will open at
the MAC on Nov. 9 with a set that could be
matched only at the Met.
Page 5
Around town/Venue menu
The Alternative’s biweekly calendar of events and
where to see live performances
Pages 6-7
ASTROLOGICK
Astrologer Gary Paul Glynn’s biweekly forecasts
Page 9
Rocky Horror’s ‘absolute pleasure’
Caitlin Brase gets devirginzed, finally, at the Rocky
Horror Picture Show and loves every minute of it.
Page 10
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Investigative reports
Stories & columns
Editorial cartoons
Arts & Culture
Photo albums
Blogs
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See Page 8 for the latest
busload of card-carrying peace activists, jacked up on caffeine and
shared contempt for the Bush war machine and a Democratic Congress that
needs to dial 1-800-GROW-A-SPINE,
rolled out of Bloomington early Oct. 27
to join several thousands more in Chicago for one of 11 regional anti-war demonstrations that took place that day.
Bloomington Peace Action Coalition
(BPAC) organizers Christine Glaser and
Timothy Baer led that group to the Windy
City. And several other area groups and
individuals met them there.
Other cities that participated included
Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San
Francisco, New Orleans, Orlando and
Seattle.
United for Peace and Justice, “a coalition of more than 1,400 local and national groups throughout the U.S. who have
joined to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War,” according to its Web
site, initiated the coast-to-coast protests.
The organization estimates that at least
100,000 folks took to the streets to voice
opposition to what they say has been the
illegal occupation of Iraq since the U.S.led invasion of that sovereign nation in
2003.
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Photograph by Andre Munro
An estimated 100,000 peace activists rallied nationwide on Oct. 27 to demand
an end to the Iraq War. Not only did protesters, like these in Chicago, call for
an end to the “immoral and disastrous” war in Iraq, they demanded that any
plans to preemptively invade Iran be abandoned.
“My father is a Sunni and my
mother is a Shi’ite. I don’t need
anyone to come from 10,000
miles away to protect me from
my cousins.”
- Raed Jarrar
Friends Service Committee
rotesters from all over the Midwest
assembled in Chicago’s Union Park
for a rally early in the day, where elect- the boisterous crowd in chant, song and
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delivered powerful speeches and led
Vendors and informational tables rep-
resenting various social justice and political entities were on full, beautiful,
kooky display, with the Ron Paul for
President headquarters a hop, skip and a
jump from where the Socialist Party was
parked, and Code Pink not far from various labor representatives, highlighting
once again just how elastic the anti-war
Big Tent really is.
The crowd, estimated by police at
around 5,000 but by organizers at 30,000
Continued on Page 11
Who owns the Square?
by Steven Higgs
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wealthy college students living
downtown is driving up the costs for
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in county property records for the Courthouse Square.
As massive student housing projects
like Smallwood and he Mercury at Regester Place have been planned and developed since the turn of the century, the
selling prices of the commercial buildings
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jumped dramatically.
has become increasingly diverse, culturally speaking.
Some politically connected names
show up repeatedly in the ownership records, as well.
The data are culled from Monroe County Parcel Reports, Sales Disclosures,
Property Assessment Detail Reports and
Warranty Deeds.
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According to the Bloomington Plan
Department, roughly 750 new apartments have been added in the downtown area since 2000. The complexes
advertise everything from studio to
four-bedroom units.
Photograph by Steven Higgs
The Talbots boutique building on the
corner of College and Kirkwood is
the most expensive building on the
Square to sell in the past five years.
WKDWVL[EXLOGLQJVKDYHVROGRQWKH&RXUWhouse Square since 2001. The last property sold in 2005 fetched more than twice
the square-footage rate of the last one sold
in 2002.
The records also show that only one
Public records in the Monroe County out-of-town company owns property on
$VVHVVRU DQG 5HFRUGHU¶V RI¿FHV VKRZ the Square and that property ownership
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those who have economic and political
control over downtown Bloomington.
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students, many from Chicago and the
East Coast.
One of the larger downtown landlords,
Olympus Properties, which owns the
Mercury, recently listed studio apartments from $810-$900, one-bedrooms
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The Bloomington Alternative
November 7, 2007
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• Who owns the Square?
Continued from Page 1
The building was constructed in 1920
and is also listed in “average” condition.
from $890 to $1,250 and two-bedrooms
Nunn sold the property to Bigo PropHUWLHV //& IRU PLOOLRQ RU D
from $1,205 to $1,800.
Smallwood on College and the Mer- square foot.
Bigo’s registered agent is Bloomington
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approval in November and October 2002, attorney Geoffrey Grodner, the former
city PCB attorney.
respectively.
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ounty property records show that the
last two downtown buildings to sell
before Smallwood and the Mercury were
approved were the Opie Taylor’s building
on Walnut Street and the Bloomington
Sandwich Shop building directly across
the Square on North College.
The Opie Taylor’s property sold in
March 2001 for $350,000.
Jane W. Newby, who had owned it since
1984, sold the building and 0.079-acre lot
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The records do not list a size for the
building, so it is not possible to calculate
a square-foot price for it.
But records on the similarly sized and
priced Bloomington Sandwich Shop, sold
in August 2002, do record dimensions.
Thomas G. Gallagher purchased the
9,900-square-foot building and its 0.07acre lot from Pritchett Properties for
$370,000. Richard D. and Sylvia Pritchett
had owned the property since 1985.
The building was constructed in 1920.
Its condition is listed as “average.”
Gallagher bought it for $37 a square
foot.
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ounty records show that four other
buildings on the Square have sold
since the Smallwood and Mercury approvals, with the average sale price at $67
a square foot.
Personal injury attorney Ken Nunn’s
April 2005 sale of the Kirkwood-andCollege corner building ranks as the most
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Nunn had owned the 0.11-acre and
14,916-square-foot Talbots boutique
building since 1991.
Who Owns Downtown?
For the entire lists of
downtown building owners,
see the Alternative Online series,
“Who Owns Downtown?”
Who owns Kirkwood? – The List
Who owns the Square? – The List
Stephen Ferguson.
County records show the Samira building was built in 1900 and the property
comprises 0.067 acres and 5,840 square
feet.
Its condition is “average.” It sold for
$75 per square foot.
• The former Bloomington Paint and
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for $410,000 in January 2004. Bloomington Paint sold it to Gul M. and Zakira
Saeedi.
The 7,188-square-foot building, which
now houses Qaisar Oriental Rugs, sits on
0.10 acre.
Its condition is listed as “average.” It
sold for $57 a square foot.
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ttorney David Ferguson, another
Stephen Ferguson nephew and a forwww.BloomingtonAlternative.com
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member, is full or part owner of three
ther buildings sold between Gal- downtown properties – the Caveat Emptor
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Williams Jewelry and Vance properties.
September 2003.
Stardust’s registered agent is Karen
John E. Seeber, Thomas M. Seeber, ReJHVWHU3ODFH//&DQG.HYLQ6SLFHUVROGLW Howe Fernandez, an attorney who practices at Ferguson & Ferguson and wife of
to Sun C., Hi J. and Kyu Chong.
Thomas Seeber serves on the Bloom- former Mayor John Fernandez.
ington Plan Commission.
Ferguson, along with Seeber, is listed
John Seeber had owned the building as a previous owner of the Q Billiards
since 1994, in combination with a variety EXLOGLQJRQ6L[WK
of others. The Q building sits on a 0.10Seeber is listed as a co-owner with Staracre lot and has 7,029 square feet.
dust of the Williams Jewelry building and
It was built in 1900 and is listed as “av- as a previous owner of the Vance Music
erage” condition.
building.
The property sold for $57 a square
CFC Inc., a Cook Group company, owns
foot.
the Gallery North on the Square building
• The Samira Restaurant building on RQ6L[WKDQGWKH*RRGVIRU&RRNVEXLOGWKH FRUQHU RI :DOQXW DQG 6L[WK VROG IRU ing on College.
$438,000 in December 2003.
Bigo Properties owns the Decorative
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ing to Hussain M. and Parwin M. Farzad Talbots building.
and Anwar and Mary Naderpoor.
Ferguson is nephew to Cook Group Inc.
Steven Higgs can be reached at editor@
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Bustan healing wounds of injustice
organization that teaches peace
ing to the Bedouin today and what
through cooperative environmental
happened to Native Americans in
RUWKH¿UVW\HDUVRIKLVOLIH5D¶HG stewardship.
the 19th century and minorities in
Almickawi lived in a tent in the desHe and his predecessor, AmericanAmerica before the advent of the
ert with his parents and nine brothers and Israeli peace activist Devorah Brous,
civil rights movement.
sisters. And he was happy.
gave a presentation about Bustan’s
“[Bustan] makes a convincing
He awoke every morning to his moth- work to the Wylie Hall group.
testimony that it’s time for Israel to
er’s fresh-baked bread. He never had to
Brous, who founded Bustan in
move into the 21st century by endwash his salad greens, which came from H[SODLQHG WKDW WKH %HGRXLQ
ing its blatantly racist policies and
the organic garden that he, his father and have lived in the Negev for thoutreating all its citizens equally,”
his brothers tended.
sands of years and depend on their
said Davis.
His mother helped him with his home- close relationship to the desert to
Bloomington
resident
Sue
work between their homemade lunch sustain their health and way of life.
Swartz, a member of the Beth Shaand homemade dinner. It wasn’t always
Their connection to the desert
lom congregation and a former
comfortable sleeping in tight quarters is highly inconvenient for Israel,
synagogue board member, noted
side-by-side with his brothers, but he was which wants to develop the Nethat many Israeli citizens are comnever lonely, and he always had someone gev, but the Bedouin do not want to
mitted to peace and justice, but it
to look out for him.
leave, said Brous.
often goes unrecognized.
Fifteen years later, Almickawi recalls
The pressure to do so, however,
“It’s important for people to unwhat he lost when his family, Arab Bed- LV ¿HUFH $FFRUGLQJ WR %URXV ,Vderstand that Israel has this incredouins living in what is today the Israeli rael has persuaded about half of the
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Negev Desert, moved into a “modern” Negev’s 160,000 Bedouin to move
social justice world, where people
cement house in a government-spon- into seven “recognized” townships
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sored township.
with promises of modern services,
Photograph by Charli Wyatt whether it’s doing this kind of
“The thing that I lost,” he tells a small such as water and electricity.
Bustan L’Shalom Director Ra’ed Almickawi de- work in the Negev, or women’s
crowd that gathered at IU’s Wylie Hall
Meanwhile, said Brous, the 45 scribes living in a tent during a presentation on rights, or conversations between
on Oct. 21, “is my traditions ... my con- “unrecognized” Bedouin villages
the IU campus Oct. 21. Bustan, an Arab-Israeli secular and religious Israelis,” said
nection to the land.”
DUHQ¶W RQ DQ\ RI¿FLDO ,VUDHOL PDS partnership organization, teaches peace through Swartz.
Suddenly, he began to oversleep, because They share the fragile desert ecoSwartz got to see Bustan in accooperative environmental stewardship.
he no longer
tion this summer while on sabbatisystem with 22
could hear the
cal in Israel.
chemical factories,
roosters.
He
ustan’s
goal,
however,
is
greater
than
“It
gave
me enormous hope,” she said.
“Polluted air and
the Dimona nuclear re¿QDOO\ KDG KLV
healing
the
wounds
of
environmen“I’m very committed to Israel’s future,
actor, closed military
polluted groundwater
own room, but
zones, mines, quarries tal injustice for the Bedouin, Brous said. and I think that the kinds of solutions
know no boundaries.”
he was lonely.
and other hazardous fa- Bustan wants a sustainable connection to (Bustan is) creating, building coalitions
His mother
the land for Jews as well as Arabs.
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still
baked
“Polluted
air
and
polluted
groundwater
boundaries, are totally crucial to the fuThe Israeli government
Bustan L’Shalom
bread, but now
know no boundaries,” said Brous, show- ture of the state.”
does not acknowledge
that she had
ing her audience pictures of raw sewage
the Bedouin leadership
a refrigerator
running like a river through both an Arab
rous and Almickawi visited Bloomcouncil and has been
she would make huge batches and freeze
and a Jewish settlement.
ington as part of a two-week fundknown to demolish their homes and plow
them. To enjoy “fresh” bread, her chil“This land is something that is holy,” raising and networking tour of the United
under their newly planted crops.
dren used the microwave. They no longer
said Brous. “This land is holy for the Jews, States.
waited for each other to have a meal.
the land is holy for the Arabs. The land is
Their visit was cosponsored by the
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“We’re not a family,” says Almickawi.
holy for the Israelis, the land is holy for the &HQWHU IRU 6XVWDLQDEOH /LYLQJ WKH ,8
services have contributed to wide“We’re individuals.”
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spread health problems among the Bedall these wars over a holy land, what’s hap- Student Organization, and the IU Prohen he was 17, Almickawi was ouin, particularly cancer and respiratory pening is we’re destroying that land.”
gressive Faculty Coalition.
H[FLWHGWREHPRYLQJLQWRWKLVFH- problems, said Brous.
It doesn’t have to be that way, said AlBustan recently started the Children’s mickawi.
ment house, to have access to junk food
Charli Wyatt can be reached at mcwyatt@
Power
Program to provide off-the-grid
and modern appliances. But now a new
“In the desert, we have renewable, sus- indiana.edu.
Bedouin families with solar-powered tainable resources we can use instead of
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to get out, back to my freedom, to my na- and refrigerators for cancer medicines.
another nuclear power plant,” he said.
Other projects include the preservation “There is life in the desert.”
ture, to put my hands in the earth and to
More information about
and revival of traditional Bedouin crafts,
be dirty,” he says.
Bustan L’Shalom can be found at
Today, Almickawi, a journalist and such as medicinal herb cultivation, and
loomington resident Bret Davis,
www.bustan.org
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Civitas
Indiana’s warehouse economy – redux
by Gregory Travis
I
ndiana is the trucking “Crossroads of
America,” where, apparently, an economy based on little more than storing and
forwarding stuff made elsewhere can be
a healthy and sustainable economy. At
least if you believe Morton Marcus.
A couple of weeks ago Marcus wrote of
Hendricks County, located to Indianapolis’ west, as a place booming with both
the second-highest population and the
second-highest median income growth
in the state.
How did it get that way? By being a
warehousing “Mecca,” hard against the
Indianapolis airport and ready-made to
store and forward goods produced in one
place to consumers located in another.
Diminished expectations
Marcus’ article spun me up because
I’m always on the lookout for diminLVKHG H[SHFWDWLRQV PDVTXHUDGLQJ DV
economic Pollyannaism. Whether it’s in
the form of ever-falling median personal
incomes, increased income inequality,
longer wage-hours per annum, or record
personal, state, and national levels of
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is manifest everywhere.
Diminished in the sense that we asVXDJHWKHH[LVWHQWLDOSDLQRIOLYLQJLQDQ
eroding environment through sublimation. We mollify ourselves by the use of
superlatives to describe stagnant or even
declining conditions.
The president says “our economy is
strong,” even though real wages, adjusted
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,W¶VGLI¿FXOWWRXQGHUVWDQGKRZDQHFRQRmy can be “strong” while delivering less.
As it goes nationally, so it goes statewide. Ever since the beginning of the
rust belt collapse in the 1970s, Indiana has
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can bring to the national economic table.
Ever since its industrial foundation necrotized from under-reinvestment, and then
was simply packed up
and shipped overseas,
Indiana has struggled
with what global value-add the state represents, other than being a landing pad for
chain retail pods and
soccer-mom suburbia
SRSXODWHGE\SHRSOHVHOOLQJLQÀDWHGKRXVing-bubble mortgages to one another.
debt in the form of interest-only mortgages, foreign ownership of domestic
Of course you can’t describe the eco- assets (think toll road, ports, etc.), and
nomic transformation in those kinds of a hollowed-out economy propped up by
stark terms. After all, this is the age of little more at this point than the fact that
GLPLQLVKHG H[SHFWDWLRQV <RX¶YH JRW WR oil is still priced in dollars.
That’s because real trade occurs when
wrap the turd in some bacon to jazz it up.
We can’t describe Indiana’s economy you have something of tangible value
as a forklift economy – i.e. little more that I want, and I likewise have someWKDQ VKXIÀLQJ ODXQGU\ EDVNHWV IURP thing you want. I give you a hammer, you
Taiyuan factories onto pallets bound for JLYHPHDSDLQWEUXVKLQH[FKDQJH
But buying things with cash, as we’re
Wal-Marts in Des Moines.
We describe Indiana’s economy as doing with virtually all of our goods (and
D ORJLVWLFV HFRQRP\ *HW LW" /RJLVWLFV increasingly services), from overseas
which kind of sounds like “logical.” A isn’t trade. That’s just shopping. And to
make it worse, we’re shopping on credit.
great superlative.
Those Hendricks County warehouses,
and the economy on which they’re based,
aren’t storing and forwarding goods in
Gregory Travis is off
That’s not an economy.
celebrating his 10th wedding two directions. For every pallet of Chinese hair dryers moving through Avon to
anniversary and chose to
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It’s not a storage shed, it’s “logistics”
rerun
this
column
from
pallet of alternators moving from BloomAs Indiana searched for what it was
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March 12, 2006. “... seems
that it could do, now that what it had
goods is unidirectional.
been doing was gone, it naturally turned
a propos in light of the
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to its geography. We’re kinda, sorta, in
housing meltdown,” he said.
them. Goods in, money out. That’s our
the middle of the country so maybe there
new national economic model. Don’t beis something that’s intrinsically valuable
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about being kinda, sorta, in the middle.
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It’s obvious that, if you’re in the mid- When trade, isn’t
We’re building a state economy dedle, anyone or thing moving from one
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There’s always a lot of talk about “free
end to the other will travel through you.
accelerating and unsustainable premise
6RWKDW¶VJRRGQRZ\RXMXVWKDYHWR¿J- trade” and how, if only given enough
– that we can continue to buy on credit,
ure out how to make money off of the time, it’s going to make everything just
freaking great for everyone, always. The collateralized by sawdust, what we used
fact.
to make ourselves.
And the “Crossroads of America” president says it’s the way, the governor
And we tell ourselves that’s a good
meme was born. Indiana’s economic fu- says its our future. Heck even I love it.
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But we’re not engaging in free trade.
ture rests not on actually making things
been
suitably
diminished.
of value, not of creating things, but of We’re engaging in a race to the bottom in
H[WUDFWLQJ D OLWWOH YLJJRULVK HYHU\ WLPH which, for literally decades now, investGregory Travis can be reached at
something transits the state from some- ment has been streaming out of our state
greg@littlebear.com.
and
our
nation,
and
it’s
being
replaced
by
where to somewhere else.
Forklift Nation
Editorial Cartoons
Online at
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with the equipment at the start of the show and a broken guitar string didn’t hinder his performance.
The set mostly consisted of tracks off Roll Away.
Songs like “Stay” and the single “Come Home” were
incredible to hear live.
The emotional “Stay,” a tribute to the band members’
close friends who died in a car accident in 2004, showcases Knowles’ songwriting abilities and is obviously
meaningful to all the members of the band.
“It’s one of those songs I’ll never get tired of playing,” Knowles said.
by Alison Hamm
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lead singer and guitarist of British blues-rock trio
Back Door Slam has been playing since age 11, and his
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before the band’s Nov. 1 show at the Bluebird, “but
embarrassing at the same time. Those people really set
milestones. I would never put us in the same league.”
Reviews of the band consistently do just that, though,
albeit with shock that Knowles, at age 20, could sing
the blues with such conviction and soul. George Varga’s review of the band in The San Diego Union-Tribune describes Knowles as “the precocious nephew of
the late Stevie Ray Vaughn and Rory Gallagher,” while
others repeatedly describe his talent and vocals as “beyond his years.”
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British accent that’s nearly hidden when he’s singing.
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nowles, along with the other two members of
the trio, bassist Adam Jones and drummer Ross
Doyle, hails from the Isle of Man, a small island off the
coast of England.
The trio has been touring in the states since March.
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all these venues and getting new fans.”
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watched Knowles appreciatively as he went to work on
the guitar.
Jones and Doyle add the perfect complements to
informed that he was scheduled to be in Bloomington
Knowles’ impressive guitar playing, even though Jones
on Nov. 1, he was equally enthusiastic.
looked bored throughout the set. But Doyle’s enthu“If you told me I’d be in America right now, I’d have
siastic drumming and Knowles’ sincere and slightly
said you were crazy,” he said. “Not a lot of people
embarrassed “thank you’s” after each song made this
[from the Isle of Man] get to tour around America. It’s
forgivable.
been great.”
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Back Door Slam, a trio from the Isle of Man, played
the Bluebird Nov. 1 as part of their first American
tour. Guitarist-singer Davy Knowles, center, has
been described as talented beyond his years.
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nowles was without a doubt the star of the show as
he played covers of Muddy Waters and Jimi Hen-
Alison Hamm can be reached at arhamm@indiana.
edu.
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November 7, 2007
Around town
Wed - Nov 7
Civic
Monroe County Courthouse:
Bloomington Peace Action Coalition Antiwar Peace Vigil, 5-6 p.m.,
free
Dance
Music
Bluebird: Ari Hest & Straight No
Chaser, 9 p.m.
Café Django: Ric Heeter, 7-9 p.m.
Kilroy’s Sports: Dueling Pianos &
DJ Unique, 10 p.m., $3
Players Pub: Open mic, 7:30 p.m.
Trojan Horse: Acoustic guitar, 6-8
p.m.
Spoken word
Harmony School: Wednesday
Night Contra Dance, 8 p.m., $3-5
Borders: Science Café: “Artificial
Life as an Approach to Artificial
Intelligence” discussion, 7-8:30
p.m., free
Theater
Bloomington Playwrights Project: “Fatal Attraction: A Greek
Tragedy,” 2 p.m., $15
Music
Mon - Nov 12
Bluebird: Shaggy Wanda, 10 p.m.
Buskirk-Chumley: “A Potpourri
of Arts in the African American
Tradition,” 8 p.m., price varies
Four Winds Resort & Marina:
All-request DJ dance party, 9 p.m.,
free
Jake’s: DJ Action Jackson, 9 p.m.
Kilroy’s Sports: Kenny Kixx & DJ
Unique, 11 p.m.-3 a.m., $3
Players Pub: Bill Lupkin & Barrel
House Chuck, 8 p.m., $5
Regazzi Arte Café: Southern Italian accordion music, 6-9 p.m.
Rhino’s: Metal in the Microwave,
Secrets Between Sailors, Xenosound, 8 p.m., $5
Civic
Boxcar Books: The Midwest
Pages to Prisoners Project, 7 p.m.
Comedy
Bear’s Place/ Comedy Caravan:
Steve Hofstetter & Denis Donohue
Dance
IU Indiana Memorial Union: IU
Swing Dance Club six-week session, 8 p.m., $40-50
Fri - Nov 9
Music
Bluebird: Karaoke, 9 p.m., $1
Player’s Pub: Songwriter’s Show-
Music
case, 8 p.m., free
Bluebird: 40% Steve, 10 p.m.
Luis Alberto Urrea, Buskirk-Chumley, Nov. 16
Misc.
Kirkwood Observatory: Night
viewing of sky & Saturn, 9-11
p.m., free
Music
IU Auer Hall: Chamber Orchestra,
8 p.m., free
Bluebird: Afroman, 10 p.m.
Max’s Place: Open mic, 7:30 p.m.
Runcible Spoon: Open mic night,
7 p.m.
Spoken word
Woodburn Hall: Novelist Russell
Banks, 5 p.m., free
IU Memorial Hall: Ken Paulson, 7
p.m., free
Thur - Nov 8
All-request DJ dance party, 9
p.m., free
Kilroy’s Sports: Josh Holmes, 10
p.m.
IU Auditorium: Umphrey’s McGee, 8 p.m., $25.50
Max’s Place: Payton Brothers
Band, 9 p.m.
Players Pub: The Hot Carls, 8
p.m., $4
Regazzi Art Café: Live jazz, 7-9
p.m.
Rhino’s: Yells Fire in a Crowded
Theater, Chief Thief, Pessoa, Cerulean Sky, 8 p.m., $5
Runcible Spoon: Traditional Irish
Music Session, 5:30- 8:30 p.m.
Theater
John Waldron Arts Center:
“Over the River and Through the
Woods”, 8 p.m., $12 general/ $9
students
Musical Arts Center: “La Bohème”, 8 p.m., $25
Sat - Nov 10
Comedy
Civic
Boxcar Books: The Midwest Pages
to Prisoners Project, 7 p.m.
Full Frontal Comedy
IU Indiana Memorial Union:
Awkward Silence Comedy, 9 p.m.,
free
Dance
Windfall Dancers Studio: Latin
Dance Party, 9 p.m., $5
the
Arthur Murray Dance Studio:
Ballroom dance party, 7:30 p.m., $7
Film
Miss Gay Bloomington, Buskirk_Chumley, Nov. 11
Theater
Collins: Nell Weatherwax, And I am
not making this up, 7 p.m., free
Buskirk-Chumley: Golden Age of
Hollywood Movie Series presents
“Double Indemnity”, 1:30 p.m.,
free
Monroe County Public Library:
“Inlaws & Outlaws”, 7 p.m., free
Music
John Waldron Arts Center:
“Over the River and Through the
Woods”, 8 p.m., $12 general/ $9
students
Sun - Nov 11
Bluebird: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., no
cover
People’s Park: Tuesday lunch concert, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., free
Runcible Spoon: Irish music session with Grey Larson, 7 p.m.
Theater
Civic
Misc.
IU Auditorium: “Rent”, 8 p.m.,
price varies
Wed - Nov 14
Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling
Monastery: Introductory course
of meditation, free
Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Miss
Gay Bloomington, 7 p.m., $10
general/$6 students
Dance
Comedy
Tue - Nov 13
Civic
Monroe County Courthouse:
Bloomington Peace Action Coalition Antiwar Peace Vigil, 5-6 p.m.,
free
Music
Players Pub: Sunday Brunch with
Aaron Persinger, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.,
no cover
Snuffy’s Place: Bob Jones Band,
7-11 p.m.
Dance
Misc.
Kirkwood Observatory: Night
viewing of sky & Saturn, 9-11
p.m., free
7
Music
Fri - Nov 16
Bluebird: Ghostface Killah, Rakim,
Brother Ali, 9 p.m.
Max’s Place: Open mic night,
7:30 p.m.
Players Pub: Stardusters Swing
Band, 7:30 p.m., $5
Runcible Spoon: Open mic night,
7 p.m.
Theater
Music
Bluebird: Splendid Chaos, 10 p.m.
all-request DJ dance party, 9 p.m.,
free
Players Pub: Lotta Bluesah, 7:30
p.m., $5
Regazzi Art Café: Live jazz, 7-9
p.m.
Thur - Nov 15
Nell Weatherwax, “And I Am Not Making This Up,” IU,
Collins, Nov. 10
Dance
Misc.
Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling
Monastery: Introductory course
IU Swing Dance Club six-week
session, 8 p.m., $40-50
of meditation, free
Mon - Nov 19
Rhino’s: DJ Toe-Toe Hip Hop
Dance Party, 8 p.m.
Spoken Word
Civic
Buskirk-Chumley Theater:
Dance
Comedians Mark Klein & Tim
Northern
Aaron Persinger, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., no
cover
Snuffy’s Place: Bob Jones Band,
7-11 p.m.
Awkward Silence Comedy, 9 p.m.,
free
Bluebird: Hairbangers Ball, 9 p.m.
Players Pub: Sunday Brunch with
Civic
Comedy
Comedy
Civic
Music
price varies
Breadfest 2007, 6 p.m., $10
Sun - Nov 18
Music
IU Auditorium: “Rent”, 8 p.m.,
Fountain Square Ballroom:
November 7, 2007
Bluebird: Karaoke, 9 p.m., $1
Players Pub: Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m., free
Tue - Nov 20
Music
People’s Park: Tuesday Lunch
Concert series, 11:30 a.m.-1
p.m., free
Players Pub: Blues Jam, 8 p.m.,
no cover
Runcible Spoon: Irish music
session with Grey Larson, 7 p.m.
Novelist, poet, storyteller Luis
Alberto Urrea, 7 p.m.
the
Theater
Sat - Nov 17
Comedy
Steve Hofstetter, Comedy Caravan, Bear’s Place, Nov. 12
Music
Bluebird: 7th Heaven, 10 p.m.
Café Django: Ric Heeter, 7-9 p.m.
The Cinemat: The Rivulets &
Remora, 8 p.m., , $4
Kilroy’s Sports: Dueling Pianos &
DJ Unique, 10 p.m., $3
Players Pub: Open mic, 8 p.m.,
free
Trojan Horse: Acoustic guitar,
6-8 p.m.
Theater
Comedians Jeff Jena & Ray Price
Music
Bluebird: Dave Mathews cover
band, 9 p.m.
all-request DJ dance party, 9 p.m.,
free
Kilroy’s Sports: Kenny Kixx & DJ
Unique, 11 p.m.-3 a.m., $3
Players Pub: Stella & Jane, 8
p.m., $4
Regazzi Arte Café: Southern Italian accordion music, 6-9 p.m.
Rhino’s: Elephant Quiz, David
Campbell, Other Wholesome
Ingredients, 8 p.m., $5
Runcible Spoon: Traditional Irish
Music Session, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Theater
the
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Art Hospital: 1021 S. Walnut St.
Bear’s Place: 1316 E. Third St., 339-3460
Blue Room: 732 Whitehorn Place
Bloomington Playwrights Project: 107 W. Ninth St., 334-1188
Bluebird: 216 N. Walnut St., 336-2473
Boxcar Books: 310 S. Washington, 339-8710
Brown County Playhouse: 70 Van Buren Street, Nashville, 988-2123
Buskirk-Chumley Theater: 114 E. Kirkwood, 323-3020
Cinemat: 123 S. Walnut, 333-4700
Crazy Horse: 214 W. Kirkwood, 336-8877
Encore Café: 316 W. Sixth, 333-7312
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Kilroys: 319 N. Walnut St., 333-6006
Malibu Grill: 106 N. Walnut St., 332-4334
Max’s Place: 109 W. Seventh St., 336-5169
Monroe Co. Public Library: 303 E. Kirkwood Ave., 349-3050
Players Pub: 424 S. Walnut St., 334-2080
Rhinos All Ages Club: 325 1/2 S. Walnut St., 333-3430
Second Story: 201 S. College Ave.
Soma Coffee House: 322 E. Kirkwood Ave., 331-2770
Tutto Bene: 213 S. Rogers St., 330-1060
Uncle Fester’s: 430 E. Kirkwood Ave., 323-1159
Unitarian Universalist Church: 2120 N. Fee Lane, 332-3695
Upland Brewery: 350 W. 11th St., 336-2337
Waldron Arts Center: 122 S. Walnut St., 334-3100
Walnut Street Tap: 419 N. Walnut St., 331-2947
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short time, serious problems have cropped up all
across the Bloomington campus due to this outsourcing, problems IU was warned about.
The biggest problem is that bursar billing of textbooks is no more. This was a vitally important benefit for low-income students. A third of IU Bloomington students and a higher percentage on other
campuses were eligible for it. Barnes and Noble,
which took over the bookstore operation on July
1, was not prepared to do bursar billing. As a result,
many students were surprised to find they had to
choose between paying for books and paying for
the necessities of life.
Another problem: departments all across campus have discovered they no longer have the internal billing options for ordering textbooks they
used to have. As a result, more time and energy are
being devoted to ordering, which has left less time
for departments to pursue more important parts of
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ASTROLOGICK
Biweekly forecast for all signs by Gary Paul Glynn
T
he biggest geocosmic news marking
our two-week forecast lies with Mars
as it stations retrograde on November
15, remaining retrograde until January
30. Mars’ infrequent retrograde often coincides with a general slowing down of
outwardly directed initiatives as energy
symbolically turns inward. In many ways,
this is a signal to regroup and reflect
on how we direct our energy, express
our anger and pick our fights. Projects
begun over the next 75 days should be
seen as a work-in-progress that will take
longer to complete than we would normally expect.
Wednesday, November 7
Breakthroughs and breakouts are possible today as a new dynamic takes hold
in some quarters; a dynamic that may
be seen by some people as radical or
disruptive. Scientific discoveries as well
as quirky, unilateral movements are indicated as well.
Thursday, November 8
Relationship themes are likely to be emphasized this coming month as Venus
enters its ruling sign of Libra today. This
is one of the more harmonious and affectionate Venus placements which
also carries a pronounced emphasis on
personal tastes and values. This is an excellent time for focused concentration
in the way of detective work, research,
problem solving and getting your ideas
across. With the Scorpio Moon in its
darkened phase ahead of tomorrow’s
New Moon, it’s time to apply the lost art
of deep thinking.
Friday, November 9
Energy levels appear high this morning
and early afternoon, but it would be best
to wait until Monday to tackle new business. The Scorpio New Moon takes place
at 6:03 p.m. (17Sco10), opening a cycle
focusing on items hidden in plain sight,
becoming more apparent over the next
two weeks. With the New Moon in square
to Neptune, there is an element of unreality or deception to much of what we’re
seeing (or not seeing) at this time.
Saturday, November 10
Avoid carving anything in stone with the
Scorpio Moon void-of-course (VOC) until 8:00 p.m. It’s likely that something purchased today will never be used more
than once. Things lighten up tonight
under an upbeat Sagittarius Moon, making this a good night to spend with your
partner or closest friends.
Sunday, November 11
Communication and thinking may become more focused over the next three
weeks with Mercury reentering Scorpio,
but probably not today. Confusion, deception, vulnerability, paranoia or hyper-idealism is indicated (Sun-Neptune).
Nonlinear activities involving music,
movies and naps are suggested.
Monday, November 12
The Sagittarius Moon makes a string of
favorable alignments throughout the
day, leaving some people feeling more
optimistic and expansive than is usual
for a Monday. If you placed new business on hold this past Friday, today is a
good day to put it in motion. If you do,
keep in mind that Mars retrograde on
Thursday could slow new projects down
considerably.
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Tuesday, November 13
A practical and ambitious approach to
business is indicated with the Moon
now moving through Capricorn. Communication is on a more solid footing
this afternoon while tonight we may
find ourselves conflicting and/or compromising over shared activities with
partners.
Wednesday, November 14
You may become the target of someone else’s anger first thing this morning, don’t let it throw you. A number of
people may appear frustrated, angry or
anguished over something while Mars
is stationary before turning retrograde
tomorrow. With the Moon VOC for most
of the day tomorrow, it would be wise to
put important deals into motion today
instead.
Thursday, November 15
The Capricorn Moon will be VOC today
until 6:30 p.m., a hazard for important
agreements or decisions. Mars turns stationary retrograde in Cancer (12Can27),
putting a drag on outwardly directed
initiatives while forcing an examination
of motives behind actions and behaviors. Uncomfortable family dyanamics
may trouble the holidays with Mars
remaining retrograde until January 30,
2008.
Friday, November 16
A slow-motion kind of day may be irritating if things aren’t moving fast
enough for you. Avoid pushing the flow
– Mars retrograde is signaling a shift in
energy input/output that may run contrary to your accustomed pace. Mental
discipline and focus is tighter than usual today.
Saturday, November 17
Early risers may find it hard to completely surface. . . and those dreams! Once the
cobwebs clear and the boundary between dream and reality reestablishes
itself, the remainder of the day can pro-
ceed a little more normally. The Aquarius
Moon enters its First Quarter Phase late
in the day, a time to pause and consider your current trajectory before next
week’s Full Moon.
Sunday, November 18
With the Moon moving through passive
Pisces today, look to laid-back activities.
If you’re outdoors, visit a lake or river, indoor games are favored as well as musical concerts and big screen movies.
Monday, November 19
If yesterday was calm, today by contrast
appears rather stormy with both Venus
and Mercury forming alignments with
stationary Mars. Conflicts involving partners could arise, particularly over the
subject of money. This in turn could spill
over into an argument that continues
into the evening that has nothing to do
with the original issue. Consider calling a
truce, then engage in some of that hot,
steamy sex that often follows a good
fight.
Tuesday, November 20
Coming to the end of our forecast range,
the emotions may still feel inflamed, especially with the Moon now in martial
Aries. The unpredictability factor grows
in strength as we approach Uranus’ retrograde station on Nov. 24, encouraging
us to be ready for anything.
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November 7, 2007
Rocky Horror’s ‘absolute pleasure’
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decadence and the opportunity for viewor several years, I’ve wanted to at- ers to surrender all inhibitions and let
tend the famed late-night showing
loose for a couple
of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
hours.
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was always something appealing about
why I went.
dressing up like a nutcase and throwing
toast at a movie screen, with die-hard
ressed as a
fans shouting and singing along to evmash-up of
ery campy line.
Amy Winehouse
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and Dr. Frank-ncherry. Granted, it wasn’t a midnight
Furter – basically
showing, but I dressed up, I threw in a beehive hairdo, black tank top, temthings, I yelled the appropriate lines SRUDU\WDWWRRVKRWVKRUWVDQG¿VKQHWV±
during the movie – and I had one hell and accompanied by a friend dressed as
of a time. Decadent doesn’t even begin Batgirl, we trekked up Kirkwood in all
to describe it.
our high-heeled glory about 20 minutes
In case you don’t know the story, The before the show was scheduled to start.
Rocky Horror Picture Show is a twoA $9 admission charge and a few
hour long, 1975 camp-fest starring Tim goodie bags later, we found our seats
Curry as the transvestite scientist Dr. quickly before taking part in the famed
Frank-N-Furter who hosts a stranded ³GHYLUJLQL]DWLRQ´FHUHPRQ\ZKHUH¿UVW
couple in his mansion one rainy night.
time viewers (like me) take part in sugThe events that happen, like creat- gestive activities to loosen up.
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I wasn’t one of the chosen few who
and putting on a short cabaret perfor- had to fake an orgasm onstage, so my
mance in drag, can only be seen to be participation was tame in comparison.
believed.
The plot leaves something to be dehere was a massive amount of enersired, but it’s visually stimulating and
gy from the minute my friend and I
has a lot of punchy one-liners and some walked into the room. People were talkpretty awesome songs (my favorite is ing, laughing, cheering and just really
“Hot Patootie”).
getting into the mood.
But that’s not why it has gained an
The evening’s emcees, of course, enoverwhelming cult following for over couraged all interactions, and there was
by Caitlin Brase
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an overlying theme of decadence and
sensuality, which comes all too cheaply
these days. Hello, Britney’s pantyless
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About 10 minutes before the show
started, we were invited to stand up and
say the Rocky Horror Pledge, with one
hand on our hearts and the other on the
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Good thing I went with someone I
was comfortable with.
“I pledge allegiance to the lips,” I said
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later, the show started. That was when
the goodie bags came in handy.
“It’s the overt
sexuality, the
decadence and the
opportunity for
viewers to surrender
all inhibitions and
let loose for a couple
hours.”
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he bags were stuffed with squirt
guns, toast, rice, toilet paper, a rubber glove and a sheet of newspaper, and
each item coincided with a scene in the
movie that we were to interact with.
The wedding scene? Throw the rice.
The rain scene? Either squirt the water
gun or cover your head with the newspaper. My friend and I got a little too
wet during this part, thanks to some
trigger-happy patrons behind us, but it’s
the nature of the beast.
And so went the showing of Rocky
Horror. There was singing, plenty of
Time Warping, and a few people who
spouted comebacks to the dialogue
like it was their destiny. The only one I
knew was to yell “Slut!” whenever the
character Janet Weiss was introduced.
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espite how little I knew of what to
do or say during the show, I had
a great time, and we left feeling energized and just plain happy to have been
a part of it all.
The overall mood of the evening was
very uniting, like we were all in it together, and we were all part of some big
inside joke that you just had to be there
to understand.
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heels and sequins, it’s easy to feel intimidated – especially when they’re
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the words of the Doctor himself, “give
yourself over to absolute pleasure.”
Now let’s do the Time Warp again!
Caitlin Brase can be reached at
cbrase@indiana.edu.
11
November 7, 2007
• Peace draws 100,000
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The call to peace attracted Americans
from across the social and political
spectrums. In addition to Chicago, rallies were held in Boston, Philadelphia,
New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Orlando and Seattle.
LWK/DNH0LFKLJDQZLQGJXVWVELWing at their faces, some speakers
countered the preemptive-attack-on-Iran
spin that has been hurling in large quantities out of the mouths of Washington’s
dutiful foot soldiers lately.
Jan Schakowsky, Illinois’s Ninth District Democratic congresswoman, spoke
energetically about the dangers of ignoring the spooky rhetoric.
“Imagine,” she said, “now they’re suggesting that the way we get out of Iraq
is to attack Iran! We are here to say, ‘No
war in Iraq and no war in Iran.’”
The congresswoman acknowledged
that there are many winners in war, including “Cheney’s Halliburton, Blackwater and big oil companies just salivating for all that oil.”
But she argued, “The people are saying, ‘Enough is enough.’ This war is
over as far as they’re concerned.”
Seventh District Illinois Democratic
Congressman Danny Davis also spoke,
with the aplomb of a true veteran of progressive politics, assuring the crowd that
the Seventh District “will not be voting
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utspoken activist and Iraqi consultant for the Friends Service Committee Raed Jarrar, who is not known for
mawkish, tip-toeing around the subject
in speeches, took the chill right out of
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“The only way to end the violence in
Iraq is to bring all the troops home now,”
he declared. “Now the administration is
telling us they have to keep troops in
Iraq to protect Iraqis from each other,
Iraq Sunnis from Iraq Shi’ites.
“My father is a Sunni and my mother
is a Shi’ite. I don’t need anyone to come
from 10,000 miles away to protect me
from my cousins. I don’t need someone
to occupy my country to protect me from
my neighbors”
Jarrar took further aim at the tired, recycled notion that to pull out of Iraq now
amid so much instability would be apocalyptic, a mantra that not only Bush and
his neocon cronies espouse, but many
2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls,
do as well.
“When Iraqis march now in the streets,
the millions of them, they demand, ‘No
to the occupation!’” he said. “They don’t
say, ‘Stay here and protect us from each
other.’ They don’t say, ‘Please stay here
and rebuild our country.’ They say, ‘Get
the hell out of our country so that we can
rebuild it!’”
“I believe that it’s most
important that we do not
turn on each other.”
- Michael McPherson
Veteran for Peace
efforts on whichever administration’s
watch they occur.
“I believe there’s one thing in particular we must pay attention to as we move
closer to the 2008 election, that has
nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans,” he said.“I believe that it’s most
important that we do not turn on each
other. We will always have varied differences, and that’s one of our strengths.
No one way is the only way, and it will
take our collective ideas, and we must
struggle with each other to develop a
common vision.”
McPherson said solidarity is more critical now than ever because, “Soon, they
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war will come after us. They will use our
disunity and egotism to stop us.
Veterans were but one of many groups
represented at the rally. United for
Peace and Justice, a coalition of more
than 1,400 local and national groups
that includes the Bloomington Peace
Action Coalition, organized the national day of protest.
“So I say to the U.S. government that
we the people will stick together and will
not be fooled and will not back down.
“Our demands are simple. End the
occupation and bring the troops home
now!”
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director of Veterans for Peace,
Lori Canada can be reached at
cautioned the diverse crowd about the locanada30@yahoo.com.
dangers of permitting their internal differences to muck up their bigger cause,
which is to end the occupation in Iraq
and to thwart future empire-spreading
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where more speakers gave participants moment of peace. We have to say, ‘No
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