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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just like to point out that COCA is the first word in Coca-Cola. As in the phrase "Coca-Colonialism," in which zealous of financially sound institutions use media manipulation to do gross disservice to the world's poorer countries. As in money-backed misinformation. As in guerilla theatre." Or, more likely, as in "Lampoon pranksters with a political mask." Ah, excuse me, a politically-correct mask...
Maybe if COCA members would mention one word concerning the hypocrisy of trying to terrify Harvard students into thinking that they may have to fight in a war which, were it to actually occur, would almost certainly never involve them, I could have some respect for their strategy. Maybe if they would be as outspoken in their condemnation of human rights abuses perpetrated by the left as they are of those committed by the right, I could admire what they did last week. But they haven...
...homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets...
Football is patriotic, as well. The game and The Game stand for the American dream, for freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. Did you know that before Gorbachev and glasnost, there was no word in Russian for football? It's time to be Crimson...
There is no visible indication on the notices that COCA distributed them. The word "facsimile" is the last word in the manila-colored notices...