Meet Lola
Ah.... girlfriend. She heard me sing Tomboy/Sallygirl ("she's king and queen and everything in between") at the first performance of Rhea Valentine at a warehouse apartment fundraiser. We've been replaying that song in each other's lives for 18 years. When we met, her Guy Henry and my Hannah were still in highchairs and Kitty would follow within the year. She had much to do with my awakening into a more resplendent consciousness. This photograph was taken the morning she left Minneapolis in the late 80's to return to her childhood town of Guerneville, tucked between the Russian River and the mighty Pacific on the northern coast of California and we have done far more than survive the distance between us. We live in each others eyes. I love you, Laura.
posted by wendy lewis at 5/07/2005 03:19:00 AM
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I want everyone who reads this post to go to www.mentalcontagion.com and read the "rus" column. Then go to the link at the bottom of the essay.
Send me your comments, your outrage and/or anything you can contribute through your ideas by way of insisting on some justice for Lola, Karen and thousands of other families who have suffered theses horrendous losses at the hands of our government.
Sickening, terrifying, outrageous!
i am unable to say much right now. i feel lucky, strangely so, and like i better be ready.
thank you for taking the time to ingest this atrocity...there are so many, i know, and it is very difficult to stay open. i danced and danced last night--thank you, wen.
I have to digest this for a while. As I read your Rus essay, I kept feeling like I've read this info before. Did you share this with me before, Wendy, or did I read it on one of the many bolgs/alternative web news xources I frequent? D dreamt of it all night.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there. Hug your kids.
NS.... if you've read this info before it wasn't from me -- maybe you saw the 60 Minutes piece a few months back, which was where the transcript was culled from.
D -- say something about your dreams.
I'm going to see if the City Pages can help, since they are owned by The Village Voice, or some other powerful underground ink pool. I just want some plentiful noise on this issue... and at least I'll know I tried.
Nope, don't watch 60 Minutes.
D's dreams were not pleasant. Babies having their brains removed and such.
Along with the travesty you wrote about, hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of soldiers were marched out into the desert, way too close to the blast sites, for "observation" of nuclear tests during that time. The military was trying to find out how soldiers would react to & survive the blasts. The ones who didn't die quickly from radiation poisoning nearly all lived the remainder of their days with a whole cadre of health problems. Most died of leukemia or some other form of cancer. Not much was ever done for them.
I share your outrage.
my father was one of those men and he died of pancreatic cancer in 1971 at the age of 51. the u of m geneticist said it was most probably the cause of his cancer. you see, that was the first chapter of this family's trials with all this )*$#&%!! "...not much was ever done for them", still true.
To say I'm sorry wouldn't even begin to cover it.
Didn't Clinton formally apologize on behalf of the government for what happened to your brother & the others at the state hospitals? Or was that for the mass sterilizations? Either way, any apology isn't nearly enough. And, unfortunately, the people who planned and executed all these terrible things are likely all (or nearly all) dead by now. Not that anyone would ever be prosecuted.
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