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6 * The Red and Black • Tuesday. May 8. 1990
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vlronmental botany couldn’t be that much fun.
Festival a feast of political views
By MAURA CORRIGAN
Contributing Writer
College Square was alive and
busy again this weekend during
the 12th Annual Human Rights
Festival.
The festival, which helped gain
extra publicity for many local
groups, was an amalgam of polit
ical viewpoints and activist groups.
Their concerns ranged from
helping the Palestinian people gain
rights to protecting animals and
their basic rights.
Bands entertained the crowd
and speakers gave their viewpoints
while others joined in a circle for a
game of hacky-sac.
Almost every kind of activist
group imaginable was represented
Saturday and Sunday.
Aaron Two Elk is an Oglala La-
kota Indian and Southeastern Re
gional Coordinator for the
American Indians Group.
• He spoke Saturday about the In
dian mandate "to educate the non-
Indian about the uniqueness and
integrity of our native American
culture." This was his fourth year
at the festival.
Thomas Jefferson’s saying, “a
little revolution every now and
• hen is a good thing" could describe
.i display that had books and pam
phlets ranging from topics on Com
munist revolutions to assisting the
rebels in El Salvador.
Next to this display was a t-shirt
of the North American continent
with the words, “U S. out of North
America,” superimposed over it.
A rather interesting botany dis
play was set up by Paul Butchart,
who organized the festival.
Butchart wants all plants legal
ized.
“I don’t say what you should do,
but all plants are natural and it’s
only in the past 50 years that such
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Amy Ragland: An Emory student, makes a daisy necklace
a big deal has been made over
them. If you smoked a tomato it
would kill you more then if you
smoked marijuana,” he said.
One of the most current and con
troversial topics in the world —
AIDS — was addressed by the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Warren Safter, vice president of
the Athens ACLU chapter, said
“discrimination against people
with AIDS is very similar to that
against basic minorities.
“We’re trying to give them the
basic rights guaranteed to people
under the Bill of Rights.”
The ACLU says AIDS patients
are being discriminated against in
the work place and in society be
cause there is no evidence AIDS
can be transmitted through casual
contact.
Pro-choice groups, NORML, Stu
dents for Environmental Aware
ness, Habitat for Humanity,
Amnesty International and
e.a.r.t.h. were among the groups
participating in the festival.
Some of these groups are Uni
versity affiliated while‘others are
nationally affiliated.
The festival, an event devoted to
human rights issues, also provided
fun and entertainment.
Several people brought dogs
along, while two fellows with boa
constrictors wrapped around their
necks wandered up to see what all
the commotion was about.
The political atmosphere was
kept relatively calm by perfor
mances of various local bands and
the bustle of the crowd. Although
the theme of the festival was se
rious, no one held back from
having a good time.
Festival didn’t meet hopes
Human Rights Festival. It wasn’t
the same as my preconceived no
tions.
I expected a hybrid of Woods
tock and Amnesty International
I had heard that the Festival was
a party with many bands and
maybe some politics thrown in,
but what I experienced was dif
ferent.
I arrived at College Square in
the afternoon expecting to hear
various groups and activists and
to fight a crowd of thousands of
young adults for a seat.
What I found was different.
There were no crowds. There was
a group of a couple hundred
people. Many were college stu
dents, but just as many weren’t.
There were activists, but what
they had to say wasn’t exactly
open-minded.
Once the delusions of grandeur
had cleared my head, I walked
among the people and booths, ob
serving the different groups of
political causes and listening to
an auction and musicians.
There were many different
Cary
DiCristina
groups of people around, ranging
from greeks to hippies.
Most of the people appeared to
be fairly bored during tne auction
and resorted to occupying their
time skateboarding or playing
hacky-sac. They didn’t seem to
enre about the political booths
that were around. The main con
cern revolved around the arrival
of the next band. I couldn’t really
blame them.
There were groups that were
interesting and non-offensive like
Greenpeace, Amnesty Interna
tional and an anti-KKK group.
But there were those groups that
were offensive.
Many of the activists were any
where from moderate to radical.
The festival’s groups spared no
attempts at forcing their issues
into consciousness. That can be
good, but most people don’t want
to be as dramatically challenged
in one weekend. In many ways,
this approach detracts from the
intensity of what the festival is
supposed to be about.
The most symbolic example of
what I expected the festival to be
was found with a no-named
group that had an authentic
KKK burnt wooden cross. The
c r oss, which was found outside
Monroe, Ga., managed to convey
what the festival stood for. It was
about we’ve done, and how far we
still have to go. The festival may
not have had enough music, but
that’s not such a terrible thing
when you’re trying to commu
nicate with others.
Next year, I’d like to see more
appeals to mv intellect and my
expectations for a relaxing expe
rience, rather than offensive at
tempts to shock me into
awareness.
Cary DiCristina is a sophmore
advertising major.
Art auction shows diversity
By MARGARET WESTON
Entertainment Editor
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R.E.M. stood in front of Downtown
Records, waiting for a lucky
S asser-by to donate $2 to the
luman Rights Festival and re
ceive a polaroid with the band.
Along with locally and interna
tionally renowned artists, the Fifth
Annual Art Auction of the Human
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Rights Festival provided diverse
and interesting pieces that many
indulged with their senses —others
their pockets.
Paul Warhola, the older brother
of the late Andy Warhol, contrib
uted the work that received the
highest bid. His “Vegetarian
Beans” was bought for a whopping
$1500 by Marc Wallace, Athens
resident and co-owner of GO
Clothing. Wallace also purchased
Warhola’s autographed “World
Premiere Poster” for $75.
Warhola’s works were a focal
point of the auction, as were the
other Pop-arti sh works of Michenl
Stipe and Mot Wair.
These fun, colorful pieces were
contrasted by more expressionist
works by Jill Schultz and Lillian
Heard.
The intensity and diversity of
each work made the auction inter
esting to watch. It was also fun to
see who in the audience were high
bidders, wondering who would end
up taking the final plunge.
One who took the plunge was
Kyle Caldwell, an Athens resident
and co-founder (with Lan Finch) of
local channel WNGN. Caldwell
purchased Warhola’s “Chicken
Feet” for $160 and paid $200 for
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by Andrew Van Sickle, who is War
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Caldwell became interested in
art for the investment quality after
he received offers for a work by
Rev. Howard Finster. He bought
the piece for $150 at last year’s
auction and was impressed by the
$500 plus offers he received.
Caldwell isn’t strictly out for
money. He specifically pointed out
the sacrifices made by the artists
and the fact that the Human
Rights Festival is “a great venue
for the artists and for collectors.”
Van Sickle videotaped the event
and bought Micheal Stipe’s un
titled photograph for $200. Van
Sickle said the Stipe piece was
“very Pop, concentrating on num
bers and repetition."
Van Sickle has worked with
Finster and feels that Athens is
“an artistic mecca.”
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generosity seen at this year’s auc
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