The McGill Daily Culture Vol. 80 No. 061: January 31, 1991

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Volume 80, Number 61 Since 1911. Thursday, January.31, 1991
empower our community.
The Black Students, Network ofMcGill University
welcomes everyone to join in our celebrations this·
..B lack Month provides all with the
F~bruary ~istory
9PP,o,rtunity to learn about our diverse culture and
heritage, and thereby gain a broaderun~erstanding of
h~anity itself. By learning we atta1n knowledge:
IS POWER.
K~OWLEDGE
Audrea Golding
Cultural Issues Chairperson
Chantal Thomas
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Black Students' Network
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Thursday, January 31, 1991 THE McGILL DAILY BLACK HISTORY SUPPLEMENT 3
Alessandro di Mcdici, the duke of Florence,
Black history: ''But what Italy, was a woman of African ancestry; as
were otJ1crs such as Alexander Pushkin, the
dean of Russian poets, and Ludwig Von
Beethoven, the great composer.
have you done?"
Still other Africans were retained for their
expertise as navigators and surveyors when
the Spanish and Portuguese set sail for the
by Dave Austin been constructed hundreds of years before 'New World'. One such navigator was Alonzo
Much of what is today considered Jristory the first intruders arrived in Africa. Universi Nino, the chief navigator for Christophcr
does not include mystory. The prolific role ties were built where arts and sciences were Colomus on his expedition to India which,
that Africa and its people have played in taught and mastered; for example, in Meroe (in)famously, landed him in the Carribbcan.
world history has been systematically reduced (now Ethiopia), the process of embalming Other Africans were not so lucky: many of
to one of subscrviance and negativity, leav was mastered thousands of years ago, a the Africans who had previously lived in
ing most people with a drastic misunder practice that has only recently been mastered Spain, for example, were shipped off to the
standing of what Africa and African people in the West (dating from the preservation of Caribbean islandofHaiti, where they became
have contributed to this world. Lenin after his death in Russia). the very first Africans to be enslaved-and all
In order to bridge this gulf, a realistic Egypt and Ethiopia were the envy of the this happened in the year 1492.
representation of African history must be put world, and as a result were constantly the Hence the Spanish Inquisition of 1492
forth, so that no longer will Black people be victims of invasions and aggression, which marked the beginning of the slave trade. It
asked, "But what have you done?" eventually caused many Africans to flee to was spearheaded by the Portuguese and
In the year 711 A.D., the great African the interior or western regions of Africa. Spanish with the sanction of the Pope of
general, Gcbel Tarik (after whom the Rock of Centuries later, these Africans would develop Rome and the Catholic Church. Bartholomew
Gibraltar is named), marched across the six the magnificent empires of Mali, Songhay, de Lascas, a historian and friend ofColombus,
teen miles that separate Africa from southern and Ghana, all of which lasted hundreds of estimated that between 12 to 25 million abo
Spain and embarked on an escapade that years prior to the coming of the Spanish and riginal inhabitants of the 'New World' were
would last almost eight hundcred years. Portugese.
General Tarik and his army, known as the Thus the Moors were a highly developed
Moors,lcftnorthwcstAfricaand settled much and sophisticated people who had a profound
of the Iberian Pcnisula, including what arc influence on European development-Shake
now Spain, Portugal, and southern France. speare's Otlrello deals with a Moorish king in
The Roman Empire had long since fallen, Medieval Europe. lmhotep
and, as a result, Europe was well into its dark In the mid-fourteenth century, as the Afri Physician, Prime Minister, Architect,
ages. can Moors and the Arabs, who had arrived in and builder of the step pyramid of
The Moors introduced seventeen univer Spain after the Africans began squabbling Sakhara
sities to Europe after finding one; they in over religious rights, the Spanish and the
troduced public libraries, new techniques in Portuguese began to gain strength against the
agriculture and farming, architecture, and Moors. Thiscountcr-developmcntculminatcd
other various arts and sciences including during the Spanish Inquisition, leading to the
mathematics, which, during the "Middle expulsions of these Moors from Spain and
Ages", was dismissed throughout Europe as then Portugal in 1492. Many fled to other
name a few, experienced reductions by the
the work of the devil. parts of Europe, such as Gennany and Italy;
thousands at the hands of Europeans.
The Moor inherited their vast amount of others returned to Africa.
knowledge from their Nubian ancestors of
Death and destruction In the
East Africa. It was in East Africa, along the Africans In Europe
homeland
Nile, that the arts, sciences, and even the TI10sc Africans who stayed often occu
Many more Africans would die in the
concept of a god were developed for the first pied important positions in European history
mass colonization of Africa itself. For exam
time. and society.
plc, when the Belgian King Lcopold 11 ar
All the monumental edifices, such as the Queen Charlotte Sophia, consort to King
pynunids, the Sphinx, and the obelisks had Gcorge Ill of Britain and descendant of rived in the Congo, he found 31 million
..... Africans tJ1cre; ten years later he had man
AFRICAN l'vf.AN aged to reduce those numbers to about 13
million (a conservative estimate).
Who is this baby so tender and Black?
· The much-lauded entrepreneur and phil
Wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. anthropic founder of the Rhodc.s Scholarship
A world awaits this bastard child. fund, Cccil Rhodes, was responsible for the
deaths of millions more in central and south
Oh, who is this baby so meek and mild?
em Africa. Massive wounds were innictcd
Who is this baby that cries in hunger killed in the early years of European expan
during this period that have yet to heal.
sion. The decimation of 'Indian' populations
Stolen from the motherland to be called 'nigger'? African people, in many ways, have yet to
dramatically increased the demand for Afri
He don't need no pity for he is an African child. recover, both physically and mentally, from
cans as slaves.
the destruction of lifestyle and culture, the
Tens of millions of African people were
fragmentation of families, and the decima
Midnight skin, ivory teeth, oh you poor bastard boy. expropriated from Africa and forced to slave tion of the most able of Africa's population.
from "can't sec in the morning to can't see at
Suffer unto thee the little ones who know not what is joy. Man, woman, and child were ripped out of
night", under the most crude conditions im
A young boy struggles to become a man. Africa and scattered throughout the world;
aginable. The British, French, and Dutch
Africa itself was turned upside down and
A fight for survival in a repressive land. would parallel and then exceed the Spanish
inside out to an as yet unparalleled and incon
Sentenced to the ghetto with a gun in his hand. and Portuguese in making a richly profitable ceivable degree.
business out of slavery.
He will no doubt survive for he is an African. Both the greablcss of African history and
Well over 100 million Africans died in the
the atrocities of the slave trade have been
slave trade between the fifteenth and late
deliberately downplayed. The tens of mil
In the spirit of tnlth there lies a lie, that people dear not speak: nineteenth centuries. Many more committed
lions murdered, raped, and deprived of their
suicide in order to avoid the indignity of
An eye for an eye, a lie for a lie, as the victims silently weep. most basic rights this period have been written
becoming a slave, and still others were killed
Hidden truth from the past, that I hold dear to my heart, out of the textbooks and replaced with a
in revolts against their slave drivers in the
sanitized, patrimonial version.
A search that began in hopes of finding truth and yet again I must start. Caribbean and the Americas.
The crucial role of Africans in Europe has
Green pastures await me. Home is near. I see the promised land. It is said that sharks did not become hu also been ignored, in an attempt to justify the
man flesh caters until the slave trade, when
I left in chains, I return a stranger, but I am still an African Man. slave trade by portraying Africans as ani
they learned to follow the slave ships and
malistic and clearly inferior to Europeans. In
feast on the remains of Africans that had been
the light of Africa's illustrious past, this re
Robbed of religion, robbed of language and eventually robbed of our thrown overboard after dying in the filthy,
writing of history can only be seen as ludi
minds. sardine-packed ships of the Middle Passage, crous.
or had jumped overboard rather than face
I blame the man for he does not understand, As the late French historian Count
commodification in the slave market.
Constantine Volncy lamented in his work
He will never be a friend of mine. Africans of the South Pacific encountered
The Ruins of Empires. ". .. this race of blacks
Uncle Tom I am not and this they truly fail to understand. much of the same. Here, too, entire villages
who nowadays arc slaves and the objects of
and peoples were wiped out. Tazmania's
I hold my head up high, for my cause I am willing to die, our scorn is the very one to which we owe our
entire population was liquidated in a matter
For I am an African Man. arts, our sciences, and even the use of the
of years. The populations of New Guinea,
spoken word."
-Ray Boucand New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands, to
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THE McGILL DAILY BLACK HISTORY SUPPLEMENT ~
Brothers and sisters: out of the Gulf!
by Audrea Golding The only options left to many poor firmative action programs. people of colour the world over. find that our Muslim ancestry binds
As the United States braces itself Blacks, as well as Hispanics and The U.S. government has always For now, we must notal low our us with those Iraqis which the U.S
for a full scale war against Iraq, the Native Americans, is to join the depended on Blacks to uphold their selves to be fooled by the Anti-Iraq is now waging war against. Once
African-American community is armed services. freedom. Until the African sentiment which is being we reach this realization as a co·
once again faced with the irony of The American government has American community realizes the propagated across the U.S. Instead hcsivc community, we may sec the
fighting for a government which relied on every means to restrict deceit of the American government, we must do as author Alcx Haley need to pick up arms to figh~ but
has never found it in their interest to paths to success, from restricting our brothers and sisters will continue did, and research our roots back to notforUnclcSam'sarmy.Forifwc
fight for our rights or our humanity. federally-funded minority aid to to lose their lives in war waged by the mother continent. must die, let it be for our own lib·
Our young brothers and sisters withdrawing or discouraging af- the U.S. to continue exploitation of At that point, many of us may cration.
serving in the Persian Gulf are be
ing sacrificed for a system which War, history, and reconciliation
has made every effort to destroy us.
Historically, the number of Blacks
in the United States' armed services by Michael Paul
has been disproportionately high. War. I choose to define it, loosely, as the
During the Civil War, Blacks manipulation of large groups of individuals to
were depended upon to fight and wards some objective end. Most of us are aware
preserve the Union on behalf of that no matter how we choose to define it, war
Northern racists. By the end of the has never left us.
war, some 180 000 Black men had War calls for the setting of mandates giving
served in the Union army alone. For people the legal and moral ability to perpetrate
them it was the only route to free the vilest immoral acts. Because war is seen as
dom. They faced their own brothers only temporary, these mandated actions, sub
in battle, for Black men were also jected to ongoing 'critical justification', are ac
forced to fight on behalf of the ceptable to the majority.
South, to preserve the inhumane War demands the world to be seen in at least
institution of slavery. two camps: 'Us' and 'Them'. The vilification of
This tradition continued into the the 'Them' camp becomes an absolute necessity
twentieth century, through the First in sustained conflict. Life can be useful towards
and Second World Wars. Its most fulfilling an objective, or it can be a hinderancc.
recent and greatest manifestation In war, a life's worth is directly measured with
was in the Vietnam War. Hundreds respect to our objective end.
of our young brothers lost their lives The naked words of rhetoric arc necessary to
in a war which was not theirs. While war. Skilled word players censor, distort, and
they were being killed in Asia, repeat repeat selected information in a play to
others were being killed on the gain moral, financial and public support for their
frontlines of racial battles at home desires.
in the United States. Dissent in its truest and strongest forms is
Those young soldiers lucky always suppressed by mental persecution and/or
enough to return home had to face physical brutalization. At this point other
racism, discrimination and the de frccdoms, such as those of movement and as
nial of their basic human rights, sociation, arc retracted or subject to limitation
which they were fighting to pre under mandate.
serve. One could and should question: Did these vengeance and peoples' perspectives do not of these lands they 'discovered' pain and suffer
Similarly, young Blacks aided frcedoms exist in the first place? There is, merely change, they evolve. Just as one cannot ing which words can not adequately express.
in the invasion of Panama by the however, 'healthy' dissent, which gives the legislate freedom -freedom must be expressed Systematically, over generations, Africa was
U.S. in which hundreds of Panama 'majority' the impression that an intelligent with responsibility in order to exist-one cannot robbed of its young and healthy. Millions were
nians, who were in the Black decision is being made on our behalf. legislate a war's end. The words of legislation beaten into chains of metal and denied the sun as
Mestiso population, were killed The farcical (at least temporal) charade of arc symbolic. Our everyday interaction with the they were brought to the shores of these lands.
when the area around Manuel diplomacy is reserved for only the most skillful world, ourconsumerism, and our crusades should Upon arrival, they found the lands screaming
Noricga's party headquarters was word players. Diplomats work for and represent teach us that symbols arc quite different, if not with the carcasses of the indigenous peoples; the
bombed. governments; governmental parties seck power the exact opposite, of the realities we wish them sea they crossed was made wretched with the
In 1991, Black servicemen and over people and resources, and once in a position to symbolize. bodies of those who could not survive the tor
women, although Blacks arc only of authority, they 'dig in'. Parties seem to be Power makes allowances for challenges to its turous journey. Once here they were marked
12 per cent of the United States continually warring rather than cooperating as authority, but only in terms which favour its with fire and displayed nakedly.
population, comprise over 25 they fight for power. interests. A politician doesn't want to fight a We were treated as things -bought and sold.
per cent of the United States armed In war, because someone attacks, someone boxer in the ring. The politician debates the We were treated like animals-bred. Our mothers
forces. Once again the government else must defend. Defence is acceptable in the problem, whereas the boxer wants to solve the were RAPED, and the children they bore were
has called upon the Black popula eyes of the majority. This public acceptability problem in the ring. One shouts 'wimp'; the R A P E D. Little children were sold off to be
tion to fight against our brothers of makes the term 'defence' a necessary target of other yells 'brute' . . educated into their nigger roles. They took our
colour in Iraq. rhetoric. Governments have the option, indeed How does one maintain control of power in histories, our ways of understanding the world,
The considerable rise in the the duty to build for and engage in preemptivc this day and age? By establishing axioms. People and said we didn't have history or understand
Black population in the United attacks as part of maintaining a good defence. arc made to believe that the only legitimate ing. Where it suited them, they incorporated
States translates to the fact that a We build a good defence in order to 'deter' systems arc preexisting hierarchical systems. what they found into their own systems.
significant percentage arc 30 years Them. Deter them from what? Deter them from Furthermore, by cover-up or distorted com History is alive in the present. It is a truth
old or younger. Most Blacks arc of their position with respect to us and our objec parisons, other possibi li tics are measured against which cannot be hidden. Reconciliation requires
working age, but have no place in tive. the status quo in a manner which eliminates some form of vulnerability, so it is initially a very
the American economy. Since our being in control is naturally and alternatives. frightening thing.
Young Blacks can't afford to historically correct, any threat to our control is Keep people busy. Put them on a schedule so It is this fear that prevents people from seeking
live on minimal salaries in menial, viewed as unnatural, unprecedented, and there that any deviation from regularity is stigma out real alternatives. Fear inspires people to
dead-end jobs, and arc unable to fore dangerously chaotic. The majority views tized. construct excuses which temporarily obstruct
gain higher levels of employment 'disorder'. They believe that if they were to give Keep people stupid. If people come to depend the truth from their vision. We place expectations
without university and college up, or even share out some power the results on words too much,they won't know or believe on the truth. We expect it to taste like candy.
educations. Yet Blacks cannot af would be catastrophic. Hence the acceptability that there is a war, a recession, a problem until When we find that it is a taste we are not used to,
ford to go to school on an equal of the belief, "We arc only protecting you from they arc told so by someone whose job it is to we spit it out. Truth, like freedom, like love, is
footing with middle class whites. yourscl vcs." know. Dependent individuals become unable to only alive if it is lived.
Pen and paper may(?) start wars. They defi interpret reality. They wait for others to sec and Reconciliation is necessary for all of our
nitely spark, intensify,andgivedirection to war. to translate for them. Dependency builds on survival. We must be strong within ourselves,
Paper and pen have not and will not end wars. itself. but reconciliation requires that we work together.
People fight wars, people have to resolve con 'We', the numberless Afro-Amcricansliviing For all of us, faith which overcomes fear holds
flicts. Authority over the vehicles and means of throughout the Americas and the Caribbean, this promise: "The truth is ultimately beautiful."
mass death is often concentrated, so the intensity were brought here in the most misercable ongoing "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, WE
of fighting and deaths can be descaled in mo war which has ever existed. Europe and its SHALL OVERCOME":
ments. conspirators have reached into all the lands of You won't be fearful or hateful once you
However, feelings of hate, guilt, the thirst for the world, causing all of the indigenous peoples come to know that 'we' means all of us.
6 THE McGIU DAILY BlACK HISTORY SUPPlEMENT lhwsday, Jmlllory 31, 1991
Council and the Ku Klux Klan. His strong. However, many Blacks · to kill Evers. His fmgerprints cov- ·
We've come a
family received death threats daily were afraid to get involved, for fear ercd the weapon. Cab drivers tes
on the phone, his house was of losing their jobs, or their lives. tified he had asked for directions to
bombed, and his children had to be Evcrs organized people to boy the Evers' home. Despite all the
long way. .. maybe trained to avoid gunshots. Missis cott state fairs and other all-Black evidence against him, the charges
sippi's media pia yed a part, stirring events that gave money to the state. were dropped after two trials ended
up white hatred against Evers and He called for fair distribution of in hung juries.
the NAACP by labelling them state jobs and services. He organ
by Audrea Golding Evers went to work as the field Communists. ized sit-ins at lunch-counters and In the fall of 1990, prosecutors
In the 1950s, Mississippi was director of the National Associa- But Evers did not stop. He department stores, and coordinated reopened the Medgar Evers murder
the poorest state in the U.S. Life tion for the Advancement of Col- continuedtofightagainstthedenial massive protest demonstrations. He case after finding new evidence -
was difficult for Mississippi's oured People -in Mississippi of black civil rights. After the Su also made efforts to raise money and Black witnesses no longer·
whites, and a living hell for its (N/\ACP). Mississippi whites re- preme Coun's Brown vs. Board of for the NAACP and its cause. afraid to testify. They obtained a
Blacks. ferred to the acronym as "Niggers, Education decision, which deemed At one Lena Home benefit new indictment and on January 14,
Mississippi had the largest Black Apes, Alligators, Coons and Pos- school segregation unconstitu concen, Evers said to the crowd, 1991, a judge in Chattanooga,
population in the U.S., at 45 sums." tional, Evers worked for integra- "Freedom has never been free ... Tenncsscc ordered that Byron de la
per cent. It also had the nation's As field director, Evers was lion so Blacks could the same And I would die, and die gladly, if Beckwith be extradited to Jackson,
highest rates of beatings, lynchings committed to gaining justice and education as whites. He also fur that would make a better life for Mississippi to face his third trial.
and mysterious disappearances of protcctingthccivilrightsofBiacks. thcrcd efforts to get Blacks regis (my children)."
Blacks. He travelled to remote parts of · tercd as voters. Fivedayslater,onJune 12, 1963, Byron de la Beckwith is now 70
Mcdgar Evcrs returned from MississippifortheNAACP,inves- Evers and the NAACP chal Mcdgar Evcrs was shot as he en years old, and still denies shooting
Europe after World War 11 to face tigating the murders and disap- lcngedMississippi'sstrongholdon tered the driveway of his home. He Evers. If a guilty verdict is an
the horrors of Mississippi. ·He pcaranccs of black people. He segregation by helping Jamcs died later that evening in a hospital. nounced at the end of his new trial
graduated from Alcom Agricultural helped get Blacks out of the state Meredith to gain admission to the After Evers's huge funeral, po it will still be too little, too late.
and Mechanical College, and ap when their lives were threatened, University of Mississippi, the ' lice +Uld demonstrators clashed in
plied for admission to law school at risking his own life to find evidence school that refused Evers.Meredith the streets of Jackson, Mississippi. De la Beckwith has lived a full
the University of Mississippi in and witnesses who would testify became the first black to be regis- Blacks demanded the police find life. Medgar Evcrs was denied the
1954. Evcrs' application was re against whites. tcred at the University. the killer and bring him to justice. same. Yet in Mississippi, the trial
jected because he failed to produce As a result, Evers became tar- EversfeltMississippi was ready Police arrested a member of the will perhaps have great meaning -
recommendations for admission geted for white terrorrism from for a full-scale civil rights move Citizens' Council, Byron de la that justice can now be accorded to
from any Mississippi whites. groups like the white Citizens' ment after Georgia's became Beckwith, who owned the gun used black citizens in the Magnolia state.
At last, an I.O.U. to the Black woman
by Edsel C. Mourillon otyped as overbearing, 'bossy' example, at a lecture in Ohio, one handsofhcrown country (the U.S.) If I have a legacy to leave my
It is said, "Behind every suc women who constantly hold a of her many stops in her constant for upholding the fundamental people, it is my philosophy ofl iving
cessful man there is a successful kitchen utensil over their men to travcling as a communicator, suf- principles of the black struggle: and serving. //ere, then, is my
woman." As a modification to that demand obedience. fragist and abolitionist, she was pride, perseverance, and dignity. legacy .. J/eave you hope. Yester-
age-old maxim, I would like to repeatedly accused of being a man day, our ancestors endured the
suggest that "At the side of every In the face of such stereotypes, in disguise (it being unacceptable ... And Endless Others degradation of slavery, yet they
successful black man, there is a the black man has chosen to treat to the accusers that a woman could These women consitutc only a retained their dignity.
successful black woman." the black woman as the weak, in be powerful both physically and fraction of the great woman /leave you the challenge of de-
In the spirit of black history sufficient, dependent creature so socio-politically). achievers in black history. We as a veloping confidence in one another.
month, I suggest that we look at ciety deems women to be, in an In response, she tore open her race must look to these women, This kind ofc onfidence will aid the
herstory: the courageous acts and attempt to negate the stereotype. blouse and exposed one breast, at whoarcthebackboncofourculture, economic rise of the race by
determined stances that have come This is nothing more than the black the same time holding her biceps as with pride and admiration. So on bringing together the pennies and
to symbolize the black woman and man cracking under socictal pres evidence that women worked behalf of the entire black race, I dollars of our people and plough-
have greatly furthered the black sures. equally as hard as men but did not extend an I.O.U. to our women for i{lg them into useful channels.
struggle. As black men, we should instead receive the same benefits, and pro- the courage they have shown in The black woman has done much
We live in a society that per be proud of our women, who have claimed, "Ain't I a woman?" helping us to be what we are. more than her fair share in the ex-
petuates the myth, predominantly carried so much of the weight of the In conclusion, I would like to ecution of this legacy, so much so
originating from white culture, of black struggle on their backs. From Harriet Tubman quote a few paragraphs from Mary that mere thanks is not in onler.
women as weak, incompetent crea Mary An ne Shadd Cary to Angel a We should all remember the in- McLcod Bethunc's My Last Will Indeed, black woman, WE OWE
tures who could not survive with Davis,thesc women who have been credibly brave Harriet Ross and Testament: YOU!
out the strong arm of a man. This the epitome of self-sacrifice arc Tubman, who was the conductor of
myth has imposed societal pres truly wonh listening to. So in trib the underground train, risking her
sures that scorned the black man ute to our black women, I say let's life over and over again to guide Best Performance Ever by Michael Pintard
for allowing the black woman to be listen to herstory. black slaves to lives as free human
strongwillcd, determined and cou beings(some 300 from the deep You sang rap
rageous. Sojourner Truth south). the blues tap
Black males were stereotyped We have but to look at the in This was a woman whose skull truly blue making the best
as 'wimpy' men who got 'bossed domitable Sojoumer Truth to ad had been fractured at the age of 13 and they rocked of this
around' by their women, while mire the spirit and substance dem by her white slavcmastcr, causing white, colgate treated teeth racial
black females have been stcrc- onstrated by our black women. For rcoccurring dizziness and uncon- gaped wide. trap.
trollable sleeping spells through- You played
out her life. She was said to often jazz I say,
point a gun at escaped slaves about as they clutched Yo, you
to lose heart, saying "You'll be each other creative
free, or you will die." while your spouses rhythmic
waited up specimen
Mary Anne Shadd Cary for you of precision
WhatofMary AnneShaddCary, to finish lcmme turn you
n> " the first black newspaper woman in your never on
North America? She published ending to an old
Canada's first anti-slavery news- gigs instrument
paper The Provincial Freeman and all that that plays
I
j ;,~t which had the motto "Self-reliance jazz. melodies
is the true road to independence." You showed cm more liberating
She was appropriately nicknamed for a meagre salary than jazz.
l '~
the Rebel for her fervent dcnuncia- that though they deny The sound
tion of slavery. you, your just due goes something
you got soul like this:
~.
Angela Owens could rock'n'roll
Then there is our modem-day funk ratatatatatatat
heroine, Angela Owens. She skank powpow
unyicldingly underwent treatment groove'n'movc bambam
unfit for a common criminal at the and sure 'nuff
BOOM.
lhliSday, Joouary 31, 1991
THE M<GILL DAILY BlACK HISTORY SUPPLEMENT 7
A final point about Haiti and AIDS
by Robert LaFerte people from donating their blood already hav AIDS. While nearly blindfold. Because we represent a risk spilling my blood for Ameri
The loud message coming out based on gcogra,Phic or national everyone has heard of AIDS and small minority group with no big cans."
of the AIDS crisis is one of in- origin. knows that it kills, only about 40 representative behind us, we have Prejudice could yet be one of
creasingincidcnccandprcvalcncc. Just because I am of Haitian percent of Haitians arc thought to no recourse but to represent our AIDS's awful legacies. Instead of
But when one tries to pin down just origin, does that mean that my blood know how it is transmitted. selves. pointing a finger at one another, the
what is happening where, the is not good enough? Am I inferior In myvicw,thcAIDS issue is as Unfortunately, some arc scientists and the government
numbers are found to be soft and totheothcrhumanbeings?Dothey much political as it is racial. If we ashamed to admit their identity as should cooperate together and gi vc
the story often confused. know aboutmy past? Do they know Haitians had let the U.S. govern Haitians. Can they be blamed for some help to those who cannot af.
Information pours out of the me? Have they run any test on me ment take Haiti as they wanted, such a denial when professionals ford treatment while finding a cure
WorldHealthOrganization(WHO) proving I have AIDS? Then what they would have found some other (doctors, nurses, and so on) have for AIDS.Somepeoplcin Haiti has
and conferences in this country and gives them the right to rcf use my nation to blame this disease on, lost their jobs because they arc never heard of AZT, although it is
abroad. Seldom has so much data blood? since they don't like to be the one Haitians? Recently a young Haitian sold there for $300 for a bottle of
been presented by so many in so It will require anthropological responsible for anything that is soldier refused to be drafted because 100 pills.
qualified a manner. Even when research and insights, working in 'bad'. they would not take his blood. He Our name has been damaged •
cxactfiguresaregiven,astheyoften cooperation with cpidcmologists, Canada, a U.S. marionette since said, "If my blood is not good from Boat People to AIDS Carri
are, it is tacitly understood that veterinary scientists, parasitolo- the era of Brian Mulroney, has enough to be taken just like my ers. I wonder what will be next
what one is really hearing is at best gists, virologists, and immunolo- copied the American mass-media other fellow soldiers,then I will not
a guess. Then why arc Haitians gists, before they could asscn that
being blamed for AIDS? AIDS originated in Haiti. LitUe of
Based on an article from this research has been done.
Newswcek, the AIDS virus started Do not get me wrong. I am not
to spread in the United States in the claiming that Haiti is an AIDS-free
late 70s. But a fifteen year old country. Sexual promiscuity is
Missouri boy had problably diCd of widespread, with many men visit-
the disease as early as 1%9, before ing prostitutes in Haiti's capital,
anyone had even given AIDS its Pon-au-Princc, more than half of
-
name. whom are thought to be infected.
According to the Monthly Re- Nearly as many women as men
view, early theories tried to deter- have the disease. Withthccconomy
mine whether life styles of ccnain in a state of total collapse, many
people, gay men in panicular,led women whoarenotprostitutestake
to AIDS. This began to seem less sexual partners who can provide
likely in 1982, when the syndrome for them and their children with
began to appear among Haitians even a meagre source of income.
and among some females. Each timcthercisacoup,alarge
Hemophiliacs were next number of people leave the city
OtherreportsclaimedAIDS first temporarily, going to the country
appeared to be present in Africa side· where good health care is not
when it was diagnosed in upper- available. The use of unsterilc in
class Africans travcling to, and jcctions,acommonpracticcinsome
seeking treatment in, European African and Caribbean countries,
hospitals. The first African cases combined with already existing
were diagnosed in Europe shonhly immune system compromise re
after the first diagnosis of AIDS suiting from malnutrition, malaria,
occured in the U.S. and previous vcncral discascestab-
Thc United States has been lishes a population of both sexes
THE GOVERNMENT HAS
found to have the most people liv- particularly vulnerable to AIDS.
ing with AIDS by far. Then why is Some people are so poor that BLOOD ON ITS HANDS
it that little Haiti gets so much they cannot afford to buy a con •
blame? dom. Not to mention the now of
The Red Cross have passed tourists that runs in Haiti. Most
policies excluding all people from people (men and women) arc ready
Haiti and Africa from donating to give sexual favors for money,
blood. I feel it is outrageous to ban and in some cases the tourist might
More than head shrinking: African medicine
by Johanne Jean-Baptiste treatment is usually concommitant Psychotherapy cayed teeth, etc. poncd among the Kisii people.
Contrary to popular belief, with a dietary recommendation and The mentally disturbed patient In all these surgical interven
throughout the continent of Africa, hy drothcrapy. is treated with sedative or mind tions, no local or general anaes Urbanizing disease
medical knowledge and tradition More complicated and specific altering drugs. When a placebo is thetics arc given but rather, the Nowadays, the majority of the
was adequate enough to meet daily treatments arc done by specialists. used, the main mode of therapy is patient is put to sleep with narcot African people have inadequate
medical challenges. Traditional healers specialize in through calm conversation with the ics. The heal er prepares him/herself access to proper medical care. The
As in Ayurvcdic and traditional burn therapy, heat therapy, unbalanced soul and/or faith-heal mentally and spiritually through traditional healers arc unavailable
Chinese medicine, African healers venesection (blood-letting), and ing involving ritual dances and prayers and incantations. The for the growing numbers of city
have a holistic view of the body in dentistry, to name a few. chants. equipment is sterilized by heat and dwellers, for the majority of whom
relation to the mind, the soul and the wound is cleansed and sutured modem clinics arc too expensive.
the cosmos. Done setting Obstetrics with plant extracts.
The aetiology (the causes) of Fractures are assessed and the Childbirth is simplified for the The concentration of people in
symptomatic illnesses arc catego bone put back in place through mother by giving herbal remedies Trepanation large urban ccntcrs, povcny and its
rized as being physical, psycho manual manipulation. The broken to lessen the pain and to enhance One of the more intriguing sur burden of malnutrition and low
logical, astral, spiritual or esoteric bone is immobilized with sticks or uterine contractions. When re gical operations is trepanation (or hygiene provide ideal conditions
in nature. TI1e diagnosis of the pa a cast for several weeks. Treatment quired, in ccnain ethnic groups like trephination). When the skull is for huge epidemics from new and
tient's illness is done through divi of slipped discs and spine disloca the Banycro, a ccasarian section is suspected of being fractured due to old diseases.
nation, anamnesia (recollection of tions is made with an instrument performed. The incision is sutured head injuries, a hole is drilled
one's past lives), physical exami that can roll up and down the spine with thread from the bark of a tree through the head without making The rural population is alienated
nation and conversation. in combination with heat therapy. and plant extracts arc put on the an incision into the brain mem by a medical system that docsn 't
Treatment of the patient is aimed wound to disinfect and promote branes. correspond to its cultural under
at restoring the lost inner balance. Massage therapy healing. The surgeon then removes the standing. The model for African
Plants, animal parts and mineral Massage is often used in addi bits of broken bone. Along the health care should be cooperation
substances arc used, alone or in tion to other treatments. Alone, it Surgery fracture line the skull bone is between western and traditional
mixtures, as infusions, concoctions, serves to relieve of muscle pain, Other surgical techniques in scraped and chiselled possibly to practitioners -as is starting to hap
ointments, inhalations and injec bad circulation and nervous disor clude removal of abccsscs, tuber allow mending to occur. A 95 pen in parts of Eastern and Western
tions forthcrapeutic purposes. This ders. culous lymphadenitis, tonsils, de- per cent success rate has been re- Africa.
8 JH[ McGIU OAIL YB lACK HISJORY SUPPUM[NJ Thursday, Jonuory 31, 1991
·Youth to lead way
Ohhhh, culture writers:
Carl beckons you. Today,
Begin all things with the Illustri
ous name of Allah the Yielder the
most Merciful. tomorrow 8-03
anytime.
And when your Lord said to the
1 1
angels: Surely I am going to create
a "wrtal of the essence of Black
mud fashioned in slwpe
-AI Qu'man 15: 28.
lhcrc has been a poisoning of
minds pcrpciiatcd against our peo
ple by those who know the truth. In
the hiding and rewriting of our his 2!nMm1l!!d
tory ,there arc those who ha vc taken plc. We must make them the prime to blame but ourselves. ~I!Me(~l!Y
credit for our past objective of any movement. Discipline, tolerance and educa
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111c pymmids of Egypt provide Education should be given pri tion arc the necessary tools to pre
an example. Blacks have only been ority, but it must be useful educa pare Black youtll. They must be of OPEN EVENINGS & SATURDAYS
told of the pharaohs who were white. tion. As Black people living in healthy body and mind. All these
What they have not been told is that Quebec, french should be included elements can be found in our right • Copying • Binding • Fax·Servtce • Color Copies • Resumes
only in the 14th dynasty did the first on the Black youth's curriculum. ful rcligon, which is Islam. We must
non·African pharaoh came into For how will we be able to commu acknowledge Islam and accept it as DIAL&
power. nicate and let the masses know the a way of life (Diyn). Islam is
Ramscs 11 was the pharaoh in Black race if we do not speak the peaceful but strong. If Black youth
whose household Muwsa, or Mo language. need someone to emulate, let them SMILE._.
ses, was raised. He wa~ taken by the But we must learn more history look to Isa AI Masiyh - who you
pharaoh's daughter and raised as than the histories of Canada and know as Jesus the Messiah.
oncofthcirown. He could not have Quebec. To understand Canada's Is a came to preach a way of life HOUSE OF
passed for the pharaoh's grandson otl1cr immigrants, and so tJ1cy may to his people for which they were PROMOTION
if he was anything other than an understand Africans, the history of not ready. He was from the tribe of
Afric~m like Ramscs 11, who ruled otl1er peoples must be taught in Judah and came to bring his people Willing lo lrain newcomers
from 1298 to 1232 B.C.E. schools. We must also never forget back to Allah's prescribed way of in lelepho ne sales.
If Blacks arc LO elevate them the people of tl1c First Nations, tJ1c life. He was not sent to the world Guaranteed hourly wage
selves to their rightful position they rightful owners of this land. but to tJ1c house of Israel, tJ1c tribe
must first acknowledge their his No one race has a greater history ofJudah(Matthew 15:24).Hecamc
tory. Our people arc divided not than we Nubians. All life started in with an ideology that wa~ ahead of DON'T NIISS
because we lack the spirit of unity Africa. Black youths must learn tJ1c his time -a perfect way of life. A
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but because we have been brain truth about themselves and regain peaceful way of life which is AI
washed with u Black inferiority their pride as Blacks. For to be Islan1. If one were to give Isa a ~@~@@~,,~/~,:~~
complex making us ignorant of who Black is a blessing of Allah the religious title that title would have
we arc. My people have been con creator, the sustainer who resides in LObe Muslim, meaning one of peace.
ditioned to believe tl1at white is the galactic heavens. Black youth arc the future of me
might and Bluck is evil. There must be no barrier in the Black mce. They arc the most im [ill~~~~®~~~
ll1is shows through in thccnglish Black definition, no more portant members of any organiza
lunguagc. Bluck cat, bad luck; illc AfroAmcrican, Hatian or West In tion and must be given the
gul goods IIUtlcd on the black mar dian. One race, one people - Afri opprtunity to reach their full poten EVERY SUNDAY
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ket. Even Judas Iscariot, who sup can. Only when a people arc united tial. Anyone who speaks of Black ~-
posedly betrayed Isa, or Jesus, is can they move forward and progress power or Black nationalism must
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depicted as a ntackman. He was in their struggle. It is poinllcss to know that these goals can only be
Black, but so were Is a und his otl1er say you arc nationalistic and still achieved if we unite and invest in
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,
Lessons from 1-laitian l·listory
by Johanne Jean-Baptiste
The first inhabitants of the island of Haiti
were the Taino Arawak Indians. They seemed
to have been a peaceful and prosperous people
established for many centuries in this fertile,
mountainous island.
The written history of Haiti starts with the
landing of Chistopher Colum bus on the island
the 6 of December 1492. Whithin fifty years,
the Indians had been almost extenninated by
ruthless massacres, imported diseases and
forced slavery for the sake of Spanish eco
nomic and colonial expansion. When the 1
Indian genocide was almost complete, the
labour force was replaced by European in
dentured servants and later by African slaves.
By 1520, the island's gold stores were
exhausted and the Spaniards abandoned Haiti
for mineral-rich Mexico and Peru. Britain
and France became interested in the little
island as a plantation colony for the profit of
European metropoles. In 1697, by the treaty
of Ryswich France gained control of the
western part of Hispaniola (Haiti), and the
remaining Spanish settlers maintained con
trol of the eastern part, now Santo Domingo.
For nearly one hundred years, Haiti was
the jewel in the crown of the French empire,
indeed it was named 'The pearl of the Anti
lles'. Haiti alone exported moresugar,coffee,
indigo and cotton then all the other British
Caribbean colonies put together.
The French Revolution profoundly af
fected theinhabitantsofthecolony. The rich, Gona'ives. up with interest payments, borrowed from lion, Jcan-ClaudeDuvalier was removed from
while plantation masters saw in this revolu The French legacy of colour-based social the United States, Germany and France, power by Washington. The euphoria that
tion an opportunity to gain more autonomy classes, plantation economy and military opening the door to renewed exploitation. ensued in Haiti and abroad dissipated quickly
from France. The mulatto classes, born out of power remain in Haiti to this day. Dcssalines Puppet presidents were installed to guard when confronted with the reality: corrupt
the rape of African slaves, intended to profit planned to distribute land to the dispossessed foreign interests, the only exception is the Duvalierists were ubiquitous in the adminis
from an 'Equality Clause' to move out of black majority. His efforts were met with regime of Faustin Soulouquc (1847-1859) tration.
their 'second-class citi7.cns' status. Many were staunch resistance from mulattos who claimed who unsuccessfully tried to bring the island Dechoukage (uprooting) of macoutcs and
plantation owners. The African slaves em to be the guarantors of their white fathers' back into Haitian control. government officials took place all over the
braced the idea of 'Liberty For All' most estates. By 1915, the United States found it country. The interim regime, headed by
literally and increased pressure to abolish Civil war broke out, and Haiti was split neccessary to invade Haiti to assert their former Duvalierist Colonel Henry Namphy,
slavery. constitutionally and ethnically in two: the hegemony over Haiti's economic destiny. following the fall of Duvalicr, failed to live
In 1791, a special voodoo ceremony was southern part was a mulatto republic under But, unlike the other Caribbean, Latin and up to its promise of democratic elections.
held in the forest of Bois-Carman, which Pction and the·northern was governed by the South America the Americans were met with Instead, on November 28, 1987, the first
united the prominent slave leaders, to organ megalomanic King Christophe, successor to a fierce and organized resistance from the attempt at democracy in 30 years resulted in
ize the nation wide slave revolt. The first Emperor Dessalines who built the oversized Cacos, an underground group headed by a blood bath. Manigat, a political science
slave leader, Boukman, was soon captured fort Citadelle and the Sans-Souci palace. Charlemagne Pcralte. teacher, was named president of Haiti but
and killed by the French but the revolution King Christophc' sex travangazas came to The Cacos were brutally hunted down and was never recognised by the people. Prosper
was unstoppable. an end when his subjects rebelled against exterminated. The Americans in 1934 left Avril, another Duvalierist, replaced Manigat
Afterthcdeath ofBoukman rose Toussaint him. President Jean-Picrrc Boyer of the Haiti after they put in place a that bureautic, and promised free elections, never to be de
Louverturc, an illiterate slave with a brilliant southern republic took the opportunity to governmental and economic system they livered. Ertha P:&al-Trouillottook Avril's
political mind. He frrst scared the French into seize power over the all of Haiti. could control at a distance. place in 1990 and her government supervised
negotiations by forming a coalition with the Haiti's independence stood as an insult the elections of December 16th 1990.
Spanish of Santo Domingo to invade Haiti. and a threat to the white European empire. Duvalier elected The election of the new president of Haiti,
Slavery was abolished, then along with the Haiti was referred to as "the Black stain on In 1957,Dr.Fran~oisDuvalierwaselectcd the liberation theologist father Jcan-Bertrand
French anny, Toussaint chased out the the map of the world" by writer Charles president of Haiti by appealing to the poor, Aristide is a frrst in contemporary world
threatening British army out of Haitian ter Tcxier. Haiti was systematically ostracized dispossessed masses. His ruthless, autocratic history. His opponents, the Catholic church
ritory. The African majority still owned no and boycotted by the colonial powers. Hav regime turned against those who elected him and scheming politicians, say that as a priest
lands and remained servants. ing no trading partners, the island developed when he founded the Tonton Macoute militia he is ill-prepared to direct a country and
Duringadccade,sporadicfightstookplace a subsistancc economy. to control and exploit the people. After, the should not meddle in politics.
in the island. The mulattos were continually In 1825, France offered to recognize Haiti death of the 'president for life' his son, Jean The people of Haiti, are thirsty for the
shifting allegiance between the whites and as a sovereign country in exchange for 150 Claude, reinforced Duvalierism. Under justice the 'Lavalas Party' (tidal wave), of
the blacks depending on their current advan million francs to compensate the former ground resistance endured over 27 years of father Aristide's promises to deliver. Unfor
tage. In 1801, the African army ofToussaint French settlers. To make the frrst installmcnt, the bloody regime as thousands of opponents tunately, Lavalas will not have a majority
Louverture had a decisive victory, and France loaned 24 million francs to Haiti. And were killed or fled the country. government, which could jeopardize the tidal
Louverture became Governor General of the so started Haiti's massive debt At the beginning of 1986, when tensions wave of reform. The Reverend Father will be
island, to the furor of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Haitian government, unable to keep in the country seemed to mount into a revolu- sworn in this coming February 7th 1991.
General Lcclerc, Napoleon's brother in
law, was sent with a massive fleet to restore Le combat de la ieunesse Ha·•~ienne
slavery and French order in the island. The
mulatto and black generals were overwhelmed
and capitulated to the French. For a brief Karl-Andre St. Victor chretienne ou athee, homme ou femme veut de la nation hruticnne toute enti~rc et qui y
period, the French ruled their colony again 11 est unc jeunessc en Ha'ili, murie aux fers gagner du terrain et occuper elle aussi de croient".
and Toussaint Louverture was sent in exile to Cl la durc rcalit~ de la dictature, plein droit le dcbat national qui d~terrninera De plus, les initiatives, la prise de parole,
France where he died. continuellement agresscc, dcvalorisre, op son avcnir. La mobilisation, la parole, 1'a ction la lutte des jeuncs debout partout au pays,
a
primre, lasse de !'ignorance systcmatique et des jcunes dcrangcnt On cherche isoler ou laissent transparaitre un desir entamc de
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Slaves mobilized du m~pris par la non reconnaissance de ses discreditcr ceuc force nouvellc sous la realiser une veritable unit~ nationale. Car ces
A new slave leader emerged: Jean-Jacques droits les plus fondamentaux. Elle est le ve calomnie, ccllc du silence ou du doute. jeunes lorsqu'ils disent "le pcuple",
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Dessalines, who mobilized the dispersed ritable portc-voix de la majorit.C nationalc L'ouverture, etl'on pourrait rajouter, la contrairemcnt d'autres, ils parlent d'cux
blacks into action. By December4, 1803, the laissce pour compte, maitrisec sous le joug de modcrnitc de sa reflexion sur l'identit.C na mcmes et non d'une mcgar&llit.C situee en
French were finally driven out of Haiti. The la miscrc. tionalc est rafraichissante et m~riterait unc periphCrie de la leur, ou d'un autre mondc
official independence of Haiti was declared Exposce dans la rue au danger des repre plus vaste portce: "qu'ils soicnt n~ en Haiti auquel ils n 'appartiennent pas. Cct avenir
the first of January 1804 and the Haitian saillcs, la jeunesse haltiennc proletaire, chf>.. ou d'originc harticnne, les veri tables Ha'itiens collcctif est d 'abord leur devenir.
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constitution was signed in tl1e northern city of mcuse, ctudiantc, paysannc, vaudouisante, sont ceux et celles qui dcfendcntles intercts J'appartient cc mondc en mouvcment.
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10 THE McGILL DAILY BLACK HISTORY SUPPLEMENT Thutsdoy, January 31, 1991
EVENTS
Thursday 31 January The McGill Savoy Society Presents
It's Nutrition Day! Student Health
Services tells you what to cat and how to
eat it. FREE. Union 107/8,3480McTav
ish. 10h-15h. YEOME~
llydro·clcctric anxiety? Jnfo table
about James Bay. Lcacock lobby. 10h-
16.
of the
Shmooze about technology at the
Computer Expo. FREE. Union BaUroom,
3480 McTavish. l0h-18h30.
llillel minl·course. "The Mystical
Dimension: An Intro to Kabbalah" be
GUAIW
gins today and continues for the next six
Thursdays. $15.00/coursc. Info: 845- • •
9171. HiUel llousc,3460Stanlcy.14h30-
16h.
"The Sireniki Chronicle" is a film of
the Yupik Eskimo of Siberia. It is being
shown before a discussion with UdeM's AG ILBERT &
Asen Balikci.FREE. Lcacock 14.16h30.
Nomad Scientist Stcvcn Rosenstcin
shows "A Journey to James Bay", a slide SULLIVAN
INTERNATIONAL CRAFT SALE
show about different aspects of existing
Hydro projects oftheJames Bay region.
FREE. Lcacock 26. 17h.
OPERETTA
Friends or First Nations meet to or A market place of unique handcraftbd clothing, art
ganize next week's Native Awareness objects and jewellery from around the world.
Exotic ethnic folk music little heard In the west.
Week. Lcacock 738. 17h.
Pizza and beer for those who go to
Ebony, bronze, silver, malachite, leather, laquerware, woollens,
hear architect Morris Chamcy talk about
weavings, rugs, tapestries, paintings, carvings, ceramics, masks,
building inspection in real estate at this
kaftans, belts, bags, bangles, bonnettes, boots, batik, collectibles, At Westmount Highschool Auditorium
Real Estate Club function. Bronfman
clothing (for kids tool) accessories, home furnishings and unusual
179. ISh. musical instruments from many of the diverse nations of Africa, 4350 Ste.-Catherine W. (Metro Atwater)
"Parting Glances" is a tender film Asia and The Americas.
about gay men dealing with relation
January 24, 25,26 at 8:00pm, January 27 at 5:00pm
ships and death- but it's not a downer.
FREE. Union 310.18h. January 31 and February 1 &2 at 8:00 pm
Pakistan Students' Association has 9 om to 9 pm ('ti15 pm Fri)
dinner. $5.00 members. S7 .00 non-· TICKETS: $10.00 General, $6.00 Students & Seniors
members. Union 107/8,3480 McTavish. Mon., Feb. 4 to Fr-i., Feb. 8
18h30.
"Salaam Bombay" -a Film Society ROOMS 107-108, STUDENT UNION BUILDING INFORMATION: 398·6820
presentation. $1.00 membersand seniors. 3480 McTRUISH, Mc61LL UNIUEHSITY
$3.00 non-members. FDA Auditorium.
19h30.
"Common Threads, Stories from the
Quilt" is an Oscar-winning film about ~=========---=::;;=-----~ .. ,.. ...
tMhec TAaIvDisSh .Q 2u0ihlt.. Thomson House, 3650 MIN the lreat ~'·l-i:..I...Do.. ..U.....).....D.....I.. ....L...,
Ongoing I I I llllll
Part in~ is sud1 sweet Surcn. Today
is the last dtry of the Sorcn Kicrkcgaard JM[~(G ~
exhibit. Fare thee well, Surcn -you and
all your pseudonyms. McLennan Library
lobby. Regular hours. BAI{;SPECTACLt
The dead fish remain, if only in
Entre~reneurlill Extrava~anza
spirit, at the "Endangered Spaces: En
dangered Species" exhibit at Redpath
Museum (the beautiful building in the
middle of the lower campus). 9h-17h.
The Pillar Magazine wants your 1635 Ste. Catherine West
submissions for the semester's final is
Across from Le Faubourg Tuesday, Feb. 26th
sue. Drop them off at SSMU desk (Pillar
mailbox) or 3470 Peel, 3rd Floor. lnfo:
Guy Metro •
398-4183. Deadline 22 February.
Great place to have a university club party- free
Friday 1 February Wednesday, Feb. 27th
rental for club parties with over 50 people. Imported
Topple the snow dam and show your
opposition to Jamcs Bay 11 with the and domestic beers. Competitive prices. International •
McGill Jamcs Bay Coalition. Lower artists, pool tables, giant screen TV and video games.
campus. 13h. Open from 1:00 pm to 3:00 am, Thursday, feb. 28th Room 107/8
Marlon Bran do plays a white guy in
Dancing with live DJ 7 nights a week.
"A Dry White Season"-a Film Society
•
presentation. S1 .00 members and seniors. TERMINAL BAR-SPECTACLE SHOWCASE you are a
$3.00 non-members. FDA Auditorium. If
19h30. Union Bulldlng
McGIII Student
Saturday 2 February
Popular Education Conference (sec
the big feature story in Wednesday's and have goods
Daily). Speakers from 9h to 12h arc
FREE. Then there arc workshops for
conference participants on popular edu or as ervlce{craH or hobby I)
cation in Latin America and in Quebec.
Emphasis on community and personal that you want to sell,
empowerment, women and the univer
sity setting. Lunch and supper included.
$3.00 students. $6.00 general. SJO.OO this Is your oppof11llnltyll
organizations. Info: 398-6815. Lcacock
232. 8h30-19h.
Sec Hydro Quebec, environmental Pick up application forms• at the SSMU counter.
ist Alan Penn and a Grand Council of
Crccs rep talk about energy and Jarncs
Sat. Feb. 9 Razorbacks $7
Bay 11. FREE.Info:286-0743.0ttoMaas
*Must be submitted by February 8, 1991.
112. 13h30.
Raul Juliu ~clsshot as a Salvadorian Coming Soon: Jack de Key7.er, Three O'Clock Train, The Oyster Band * Fee of $30 to have table set-up.
archbishop in "Romcro"-a Film Society with June Taybcr plus Judybats, Attila The Stockbroker and John Otway.
presentation. FDA Auditorium. 19h30.