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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
- Subject: Host "AMERICAN PICTURES" at your Campus (or Community)!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.194319.16837@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:43:19 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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-
- [Pamphlet transcribed by Mike Meeropol (MMEEROPO%WNEC.BITNET)
- follows this post]
-
- "THE FOLLOWING IS A MOSTLY SELF-EXPLANATORY LETTER TO READERS OF
- _American Pictures_ a book of photographs and text taken by a Danish
- traveller in the U.S. After the letter and some introductory material
- from the beginning of the book, information on how to order the book
- by mail or book and slide-show/lecture by Jacob Holdt is included.
- --Mike Meeropol"
-
-
- [Note from Harel: Mike has kindly transcribed the leaflet
- handed out at the *slide-show* (really, multi-media show) and
- it is this "show" that I am hoping to help publicize here.
-
-
- ---> It is an incredible show, very powerful, for activsits
- certainly, but also for Joe/Jane College student, and can
- really help "wake people up" to the reality in this country,
- in a way that only pictures and sound and the words of the
- person who went through it all himself can.
-
-
- ---> I strongly urge students/faculty/staff to try to schedule a
- show on your campus -- *before* the Election. As I said, it
- can really help WAKE PEOPLE UP, as it no doubt did many of the
- hundreds of Cornell freshmen I saw it with a few weeks ago
- --Harel Barzilai]
-
- [The address for holding Jacob Holdt's multimedia at your campus (or
- community group, etc), is given near the very bottom of Side One of
- the pamphlet:]
-
-
- Information on shows:
-
- DAMMAH PRODUCTIONS
- P.O. Box 254
- New London, CT 06320
- Phone: (203) 443-4278
-
-
- Please call them today !!
-
-
- ##################################################################
- Poem Included in the pamphlet handed out with the showing of
- _American Pictures_
- ##################################################################
-
- APOLITICAL INTELLECTUALS
-
- One Day
- the apolitical intellectuals
- of my country
- will be interrogated
- by the simplest of our people.
- They will be asked what they did
- when their nation died out
- slowly, like a sweet fire,
- small and alone.
- No one will ask them
- about their dress,
- their long lunch breaks,
- no one will want to know
- about their sterile combats
- with "the idea of the nothing"
- no one will care about
- their higher financial learning.
- They won't be questioned
- on Greek mythology,
- or regarding their self-disgust
- when someone within them
- begins to die
- the coward's death.
- They'll be asked nothing
- about their absurd justifications,
- born in the shadow
- of the total lie.
- On that day
- the simly men will come.
- Those who had no place
- in the books and poems
- of the apolitical intellectuals,
- but daily delivered
- their bread and milk,
- those who mended their clothes,
- those who drove their cars,
- who cared for their dogs and gardens
- and worked for them, and they'll ask:
- "What did you do when the poor
- suffered, when tenderness
- and life burned out in them?"
- Apolitical intellectuals of my sweet country,
- you will not be able to answer.
- A vulture of silence
- will eat your gut.
- Your own misery will pick at your soul.
- And you will be mute in your shame.
-
- Castillo
-