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"Roger & Me" is revealing, but frustrating. mentary about the GM plant closings in Flint, depicts the new reality GM has imposed on its Unemployment, as well as crime and drug use, have shot up. A sheriff serving evictions (a former auto worker) is one of the few with plenty of work. Rows of abandoned houses-and the fact that the rat population exceeds the far harsher than conditions on the line. Dear editor, As i stood with 100 other men and women in the pouring rain at 6 a.m. one recent Saturday to protect the doors of a clinic that anti-abortionists wanted to close, I thought, "Where is Time magazine now?"
You know the publication, the one that in December published a frontcover story saying feminism-once glorious, once effective, once the greatest equal rights movement of all time—was dead. Time magazine, I concluded, ought to get out more often.
Never in my life have I seen or heard of a greater, more vibrant, more multi-issue, more multi-racial feminist movement than what is taking place today.
No wonder Time magazine came to the conclusion it did. They overwhelmingly quoted professional women, students from expensive ELIZABETH CAMPBELL A docuMich., it workers, colleges, a housewife, mainstream feminist leaders and a smattering of non-professional working women.
What is wrong with this picture Time magazine paints? Where are the views of the most oppressed?
I'll tell you where they are. They are on the streets, defending abortion clinics, marching against poverty, racism, U.S. imperialism, AIDS, discrimination, and fascism. They are in the canneries, the factories, the sweatshops—and they are on the picket lines waging courageous battles against wage exploitation. Time magazine ought to go there more often.
As the feminist movement rolls into the 1990s, I see a very different picture than Time magazine. I see a multi-issue movement with a socialist perspective that demands permanent political and economic change, not just temporary reforms so often embraced by the white, middle-class feminists Time magazine talks to.
Julie Russie, Lodi, Calif.