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  • From: Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>
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  • Subject: Stay F---! | January 12
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:24:21 -0500


NEW ON OUR WEBSITE

From issue #22: "The Great White Way: An Interview with Daniel Kevles"

Long before Adolf Hitler hit his stride, American scholars and politicians worked to breed a better, whiter race. Historian Daniel Kevles discusses the United States eugenics movement, Fitter Families, and efforts to segregate, sterilize, and castrate the "unfit."
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/eugenics-daniel-kevles.html

Intro:

Imagine yourself in the heart of Kansas, at the annual state fair, in 1928. Past the dunking booth and Ferris wheel, the stands selling corn dogs and cotton candy, farmers from around the state have gathered to show off the year's yields. Amid the horses, cattle, and hogs, a blue-eyed blonde family of four is displayed on an elevated platform. Over their heads is a large banner: fitter families contest.

Not unlike dog shows today, Fitter Family contests pitted American citizens against one another in a battle to determine whose facial characteristics, posture, health, and habits judges deemed the most fit. The winners were usually Aryans who, if not Christian themselves, could pass as models of godly living--which isn't to suggest that the contests were strictly a rural phenomenon. Fitter Family and similar contests were popular throughout the U.S., a visible face of a long-burgeoning movement that was quickly coming to a head: eugenics.

Continued at:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/eugenics-daniel-kevles.html


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

"Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a 'No Sketch' Zone"

Unbelievable. A museum guard apprehended a six-year-old from sketching the museum's paintings, telling her they were copyright-protected:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/010705_NW_sketcher.html
(via BoingBoing.net)

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"Clear Channel stations gave breast enlargement surgeries to women with best essays"

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/nation/2976208

You can't make this stuff up....

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In the early 1980s, you may or may not recall the music industry campaign to prevent people from making mixtapes. Whether you remember or not, the campaign slogan should sound familiar: "Home Taping Is Killing Music - and it's illegal."

Yes, the same crap the music industry is peddling today about file sharing, it peddled in the early 1980s, a period that saw the flowering of punk, alternative rock, and hiphop -- not to mention the enormous growth of the music industry.

Now the guys at Downhill Battle, who have down some great work fighting the copyright cartel, are selling a t-shirt poking fun at industry fear-mongering: "Home taping is killing the music industry.... and it's fun."
http://www.downhillbattle.org/postal/index.php


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New Yorkers: Don't forget!

Stay F---! presents:
JUMPIN' JIVE: MUSIC FILM SHORTS BEFORE MTV
at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tuesday, January 25, 8 pm, $6
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/jumpin-jive.pdf

Films feature: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charlie Parker & Buddy Rich, Django Reinhardt, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, George Jones, and many more. With DJ Dave the Spazz from WFMU. Proceeds benefit Stay F---!





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