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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
What Goes Around
1
9/11
30 years ago
Nixon and Kissinger
could murder democracy
in Chile
and
never consider
that
a sky scraper might be blown up
in Manhattan
and
a wall
knocked out of the Pentagon.
Those were
the good old days
for death squads.
2
They are naming a stadium
in Santiago
after Victor Jara.
There,
he was tortured and murdered
30 years ago
for being
a singing socialist
in a very well mannered revolution.
31 years ago
saw Victor singing with Phil Ochs
up in the Andes
half time
in a basketball game
miners vs students.
Victor translated Phil
but my long hair
was driving the miners crazy.
Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com