From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Host "AMERICAN PICTURES" at your Campus (or Community)!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:43:19 GMT

	[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
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