VOLUME II, NUMBER 2
DETROIT’S ALTERNATIVE PUBLICATION OF NEWS AND. THE ARTS
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g n i r e d n u l P Pythons! by Michael Betzold
onty Python saved me. I was looking for salvation all last week, ever since Ronnie denied he had thought seriously about the unthinkable. If there’s going to bea limited nuclear war, I figured] needed at least a limited sort of religious faith to fall | back on. I tried to join the Jews for Jesus, who were crooning Channukah
carols across from
Hudson’s, but they wouldn’t let me because I didn’t have a blue nylon jacket. Even though I’m circumcised, apparently I don’t qualify because | _ spent four years in a Catholic seminary trying to be ~anon-Jew for Jesus. Where could | turn for some theological succor?
I had already been rejected bythe Scientologists, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Christian Scientists, the Paleontologists, the Palmer Park Citizens f Rogers Foster
Action Council, and Emily and Pooh’s Fun Run. Desperate, I went to a movie. In the dark of a | smoky screening room, sitting just behind and to the right of the Best Freelance Film Critic in Town (so help me Henry Rungewell) | I saw God. He was dressed in-a rumpled blue suit, his main
NOW
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— DMT: What strategy will NOW employ to press for : _ passage of the ERA? SMEAL: We would like to launch an effort likened
strong
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running out to win the remaining three states needed. NOW President Eleanor Smeal was in Detroit last week for a fundraiser to benefit the Michigan NOW _ Political Action Committee discussed the Times Detroit Metro and _ erganization’s, national strategy for passage with her.
__ launch a grassroots campaign, a media campaign, as well as direct mailings from computer lists. Iuse the analogy of a presidential campaign if you look at the unratified states ‘as primaries. Essentially, we have to do all the things one would do to organize the electorate,
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With the June 30, 1982 deadline looming closer and closer, pro-ERA organizations such as the National Organization for Women (NOW)
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