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| FEBRUARY
10, 1999 11:59 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: The Committee Against Silence Leone Hankey Co-Chair (323) 935-8585 Fax: (310) 837-6554 |
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| There Will Be A Protest Demonstration Among All The Lovely Gowns And Black Ties At The Academy Award Ceremony. We Will Protest That The Blacklist Is Never Over Because Today In America... | ||||
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- February 10 - Let's skip the Impeachment. What
else goes on here? Our beleaguered President proposes billions more for "defense" but less for welfare... Our educational system, once our pride, is at the bottom of the list of major countries .... There is unlimited money for prisons, nothing to help jobless youth who end up in prison... More and more billions for "drug enforcement", none for treatment of addicts... 40,000 deaths per year from guns but no gun control... The only country in the west with capital punishment, but the highest crime rate of all. Over 500 people on death row in California, the same in Texas...and how many more thousands in the other 37 states?... An endless embargo on Cuba where people are poor but not starving or homeless, compared with conditions in our client state of Haiti. An embargo on Iraq where over half a million children have died from malnutrition and absence of medicine. And Madeleine Albright says , "it's true, but it's worth it." We could go on and on and on... What has this to do with the blacklist and Elia Kazan? The bad old days of HUAC and McCarthyism were the time when fear ruled the land, fear of dissent. Without dissent, without the freedom to express unpopular ideas or to make unpopular associations, there is no democracy and no chance to move the government to the popular will. Elia Kazan cooperated with HUAC, validating their reign of terror, blacklisting thousands of men and women, not just in Hollywood but throughout the country, destroying all progressive organizations and crippling the trade union movement. As a result our country has suffered a fearful regression. Internally, we have become a nation ridden with crime, poverty and homelessness and an atrocious increasing gap between wealth and poverty; externally, we have moved from "The Land of the Free" to become the international bully, envied, perhaps, but feared and hated. Let's not reward HUAC, McCarthy and Elia Kazan for helping to bring about this dreadful transformation. We must protest everything that Citizen Kazan has stood for. Bernard Gordon Co- chair: The Committee Against Silence Academy Member / Blacklisted Screenwriter Partial list. Abraham Polonsky Blacklisted Screenwriter Norma Barzman Blacklisted Screenwriter Robert Lees Blacklisted Screenwriter Frank Tarloff Blacklisted Screenwriter Bea Huebsch for Eddie Blacklisted Screenwriter Co-Sponsors (Partial List): Sara Amir, 1998 Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California Leone Hankey, immigration attorney, Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba, Deacon Alexander, The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, Dave Rasmussen, Board Member and former President, California Association of Professional Scientists , Don White, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Los Angeles, Jack Michon , Jack Neff, John Ulloth, Los.Angeles. Greens, Orange County Greens, Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba, Christopher Phelps, Editorial Director Monthly Review Press To add your name or organization's name to the list of sponsors, or for more information, e-mail shadowdance@mediaone.net or call 310-837-6684 ### |
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