"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."
Naomi writes: "Throwing activists into unmarked cars and nabbing them off streets is not supposed to happen in Canada."--it's not supposed to happen in America, either, but it did--in Seattle during the 1999 WTO-protests.
"The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) is a public foundation which was established to provide for the educational and emotional needs of targeted activist youth and children whose parents have been harassed, injured, lost jobs, or died in the course of their progressive activities and who, therefore, are no longer able to fully provide for their children. Professionals and institutions will be awarded grants to provide the children or activist youth with services at no or reduced cost.
"The Fund bears the name of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. On June 19, 1953, the Rosenbergs were executed because they refused to implicate others by falsely confessing to giving the 'secret' of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.They wrote their sons, Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol (the Fund's founder) just before they were killed that they died secure in the knowledge that others would carry on after them. The Fund carries that trust forward and will ensure that future generations will do so as well.
"The New York Time's chief legal correspondent said of Robert Meeropol that 'after having been an orphan at 6, adrift at 33, and a frustrated lawyer at 40, he has fashioned a fitting monument to his parents, one meant to spare other children from what he had to endure.' Since its founding in 1990, the RFC has gathered 8,000 supporters, and provided over $650,000 for the children of targeted activists. In the spring, the Fund awarded $109,000 for over 130 children and activist youth."
Among other projects, Syd worked on Blade Runner and Alien.
I recently learned about Syd thru a tree-copy of Juxtapoz, which unfortunately doesn't update their website anymore. Juxtapoz still remains my favorite art mag. Btw, you can purchase yourself a copy of Juxtapoz @ Seattle's own Roq la Rue--currently featuring the artwork of Anthony Ausgang & Blair Wilson:
"THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS for hogs. We had concentration camps in Poland before. We will not allow them again." --Andrzej Lepper, president of the Polish Farmer's Union, after visiting American hog farms, The Animal's Agenda (Sept./Oct. 2000) . . . via current issue of Utne.
"In all, some 200,000 Floridians were either not permitted to vote in the November 7 election on questionable or possibly illegal grounds, or saw their ballots discarded and not counted. A large and disproportionate number were black."
"Because of the city's large Tibetan community, the country's second largest, interest in the Dalai Lama's teachings is high."
Number 3: San Francisco
"It had the most yoga studios and acupuncturists per capita, and scored extra points for not having a lot of fast-food restaurants per capita."
On Seattle:
"Seattle came in a hair behind San Francisco in amenities, with top scores awarded for its abundance of acupuncturists, yoga studios, and farmers' markets per capita. Despite all Seattle has to offer, it earned only an average physical health grade because it had high rates of breast cancer and obesity."
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