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Ronald Dellums is not the sort of person the Pentagon would pick to be chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Known for his radical politics that earned him the nickname "Berkeley Berzerkly," he has maintained a steadfastly critical military posture during his 22 years as Congressman from Oakland, California. It was Dellums who consistently slashed away at Defense expenditures, voted to cut the number of B-2 bombers down to 20 when the Pentagon wanted 130, helped knock back the budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative and voted to trim U.S. military presence in Europe. His mantra: some...
...grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he dropped out of the university because he wasn't interested in being a "slave to somebody else's reading list." Eight years later he moved to Berkeley, where he has been teaching ever since, and in 1979 relocated to an Oakland neighborhood of the type his parents "spent about a third of their lives trying to escape." Reed has published poetry anthologies, plays and 10 novels, including Freelance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing. He spoke with The Crimson recently about his latest satire, Japanese by Spring, and his status...
...sets the trends for African-American culture. They're not set by Blacks because they don't have the power. They got upset with me when I walked out of the establishment and set up my own establishment. I set up institutions, I set up publishing. I founded PEN Oakland--Poets, Essayist and Novelists--an international organization because I got tired of these country club PENs in LA and New York. We are an activist PEN. We've led two media boycotts because we believe the diversity movement has to challenge the media now. There's a lot of poison...
...Oakland, Japanese by Spring casts Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt as an ambitious Black junior professor at predominately white Jack London College, where he kowtows to white colleagues and a neo-nazi student body as a means of courting a tenured appointment in the Humanities department. When the news breaks that the coveted position has been granted to radical feminist April Jokujoku, Puttbutt reconsiders his politics, digging out paraphernalia from his Blank Panther days at the Air Force Academy. Puttbutt's shift in perspective coincides with the buying out of Jack London College by Japanese investors who rewrite the cirriculum and appoint...
LIKE BROTHER, LIKE SISTER. MARGO JANUS, SISTER OF ASSISTed-suicide crusader DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, is a regular attendee at his deadly house calls. "She's been at every one," said Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian's lawyer and spokesperson. But why? According to Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutors, the 66-year-old Janus, who has worked as a secretary for Chrysler, has no medical ! background and doesn't participate in the suicides in any substantive way. "She feels the way Jack feels," explains Fieger. "Her firm conviction ((is)) that human beings who are suffering have rights over their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted...