Dessert? Well, since we’re moving to Detroit next week, I’ll have the triple hot fudge sundae. Attorney Sharlene McEvoy, in the Chicago-based Human Rights (Summer), laments the lack of laws against fat bias: “Congress could amend the ADA [Americans With Disabilities Act] to specifically include obesity as a disability. This would set an example for states to follow. Currently, only Michigan has a law affording civil rights protection to people of size.”
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“Bosnia has been among the most covered foreign news stories even though its meaning has somehow eluded the public and many in the press,” writes Danny Schechter in the Chicago-based Video (July/August, reprinted from Neiman Reports). “It’s almost as if the more we watch the less we know. The news frame remains a confusing ethnic and/or religious war, a land dispute between Serbs, Croats and Muslims. The fact that a multicultural society is under assault by racist rightwing nationalist forces is rarely explained….’I used to think that if we had television during the Second World War, the world would never have permitted the extermination camps,’ a Bosnian filmmaker told me. ‘Now I no longer believe that.’”
Not so good news, from New Priorities Voice (Summer), published by the Coalition for New Priorities on South State: “The Clinton administration requested $180 million for nuclear testing next year. The House Armed Services Committee cut $30 million from that request, leaving $150 million for us to spend on nuclear testing in a year when we won’t be doing any tests.”
