[LAAMN] [Fwd: Spring into Action - Directions]
Please support Bob McCloskey; an uncompromising advocate of peace with
justice, a veteran labor and human rights activist.
I hope to see you at this fundraiser!
I may even take to the mike and belt out a poem or two!
Emma
Original Message
Subject:Spring into Action - Directions
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: bob mccloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linda Tubach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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WE CAN BOMB THE WORLD TO PIECES,
BUT WE CAN'T BOMB THE WORLD TO PEACE Micahel Franti
SPRING INTO ACTION BY SUPPORTING A PEACE CANDIDATE!
R Join our Host Committee at a Fundraiser R
for BOB McCLOSKEY, Democratic Candidate, 29th District
SATURDAY MAY 13, 2006
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the home of:
Dr. Saul Niedorf Anne Marie Staas
176 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles
Host Committee
Reverend James Lawson Jr., Larry Abbott, Fransisco Alonso, Professor Bob
Benson,
Don Bustany, Judith Bustany, Professor Jose Calderon, Tom Camarella,
Charlene Chiu,
Carmella George, Professor Larry George, Jan Goodman, Marian Gordon,
Andy Griggs,
Professor Leone Hankey, James Johnson, Mimi Kennedy, Jerry Manpearl,
Anne Marie Staas Niedorf, Dr. Saul Niedorf, Kwazi Nkrumah, Danny Ramos,
Steve Rohde, Anthony Saidy, Sabina Virgo, Carol Wells, Don White,
Honorable Scott Wildman, Kent Wong
Refreshments, Entertainment, Good Conversation!
Please RSVP 323.262.2400
Bob McCloskey for Congress www.takingbackthehouse.org
http://www.takingbackthehouse.org/
871 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, Ca 91104 626.241.8848
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[LAAMN] Peters: Gonna Use My Imagination, Mothers in Prison Day
Speaking of music (the first essay,) here are a couple of songs and videos, delightful and serious infusing the airwaves, internet, ears and minds of folks, old and (more importantly) young. -Ed http://www.markfiore.com/animation/decider.html http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ http://bradblog.com/video/flvplayer/FlvPlayer.html?file=http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/misc/Neil_Young_Lets_Impeach_President_060428a_180x180.flvwidth=180height=180OrigWidth=180OrigHeight=180 Commentaries are sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org Today's commentary: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-05/06peters.cfm == ZNet Commentary Gonna Use My Imagination May 12, 2006 By Cynthia Peters Today's Boston Globe (April 22, 2006), reports that Massachusetts is giving $1 million to a faith-based organization to teach abstinence in the schools. The same school kids, meanwhile, are subjected to multi-million dollar ad campaigns that positively scream at them about sex, presenting mostly passive sex objects whose cleavages, crotches, and botox-injected lips reduce sex and sexuality to the sum total of certain consumable body parts. Alternatively, if these same kids read deep into the same newspaper, they'd see a Dear Ann column consoling a teenager that s/he shouldn't feel ashamed of masturbating. The piece reads like an excerpt from a medical text book, referring to blood rushing and muscles spasming, etc., delivering potentially useful information, but not much of an affirmation of sexuality or what a person might be feeling in the course of the blood rushing. Then there's the radio. Flip it on, and you might hear the low rumble of Bruce Springsteen's voice. I got a bad desire. I'm on fire, he sings, in a way that is tuneful, but also pretty close to a purely sexual moan. What's the fire like for him? He explains it, Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul. At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head. And he implores his lover, Cool my desire. Or check out Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders, who shares the many ways she plans to make her lover happy. Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs, gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep, gonna use my fingers, gonna use my-my-my imagination. She's not just there to please him (or her), however. She is as demanding as Bruce is, though a good bit more playful. I've got to have some of your attention. Give it to me! The radio waves are full of sexually explicit lyrics. Some are hateful, homophobic, and/or derogatory toward women But you can find many of them are positive, playful, and passionate. Marvin Gaye calls for sexual healing. Marianne Faithful reminds us, It's not the meat, it's the motion. John Prine laughs about getting rug burns on his knees. With all the negative, sexist, racist, exploitative images of sexuality in the popular media, it's pleasantly surprising sometimes to notice that some music (even popular rock and roll music) can be a place where sexuality is expressed in a more or less healthy way. (I'm not too familiar with rap, country, and other music styles, but Im sure it has a similar mix of positive and not-so-positive sex lyrics.) It's pleasantly surprising to notice halfway decent message getting airtime in the otherwise barren cultural context of a) the deafening noise of corporate-sponsored, sexist objectification of sex and sexuality harnessed for buying power competing with b) the deafening silence of abstinence-only and/or one-dimensional body-part oriented approaches that explain sex and sexuality as the functioning of genitalia. Some radio stations bill themselves as avoiding the racier lyrics so as not to embarrass you in front of your kids. But what's really embarrassing is how much we've let corporations and the right-wing dominate any public conversation about sex. We give kids (and ourselves) a few dots of information -- the medical text book excerpt, the moralistic abstinence lesson, the onslaught of objectified women in advertising -- and expect them to connect them and fill in the enormous remaining white space in the picture. This is how they're supposed to grow into a healthy sexuality? What if progressives were to renew our efforts (admirably initiated by the women's movement and the gay liberation movement) to put healthy sex and sexuality at the forefront of our movements? What would say about it? What is a healthy sexuality? Taking a hint from regular old commercial radio -- which, while dominated by corporate interests, seems to have elements of it that escape that particular stranglehold -- we could start by trying to simply and unabashedly celebrate passionate, non-oppressive, joy-inducing, healing sexuality that embraces the whole body plus the imagination. Sexuality makes up a major part of what
