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Upcoming Programs on School of the Americas

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Two programs coming up about the formerly named School of the Americas (S.O.A.) in Ft. Benning, Ga., which trains mainly Latin Americans in terrorist type tactics that have been used by graduates who have tortured, raped, and killed nuns & priests, labor unionists, and other human rights activists in Central & South America for decades…

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Performance Art Exhibition Showcases Riverwest Talent

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by Jeremy Berg

Performance art differs most of all from any associated discipline in that its very nature changes with the circumstances of any given night (which is one reason that performance art frequently involves audience participation). Unlike theater, a performance art piece, while it may contain planned elements, can never be written down and done by others because “it is live, it is personal.”

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The Weather Underground 10/3

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“The Weather Underground” opens Friday, October 3rd for a one week run

at the Times Cinema, 5906 W. Vliet St., Milwaukee. Showtimes are 7:00 and

9:00 nightly; 3:30, 7 & 9:00 Saturday and Sunday.

The most radical of all the groups formed in protest of the war in Vietnam, Weather Man was also media-savvy, and its spokespeople–who were almost without exception young and photogenic–were always in search of the perfect media moment. It’s hard to believe that these college students were anything more than poster children for the Resistance, yet many in their ranks were deadly in their idealistic fervor.

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Best Push Cart Race Ever

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article and photos by Tess Reiss, Center St. Daze Director

Spectators were treated to some delightful impromptu street theatre when the Swami Dolla’ Bill belly dancers stopped their flying carpet in the midst of the race to shimmy to exotic music. This entranced their fellow “Alien” racers, who swooned and lay down in the street in submission. The crowd roared and cheered when the “Aliens” recovered from their trance (as the carpet began to take off), jumped back onto their cart, and dashed pell mell to the start line to win the race.