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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n24 (06/15/2006) » Section: The News, Briefly


Peace Has No Borders

Months ago, when Bruce Beyer first met Patrick and Jill Hart, he saw parts of himself in them. Almost 40 years after fleeing the country as a Vietnam draft resister, Beyer saw the Harts facing similar challenges as Iraq war resisters trying to claim refugee status in Canada. “They’re going through the same kind of stuff that I went through, in terms of adjustments to a new country and new friends and being completely cut off from what you knew all your life,” Beyer recalls. He wanted to support them, and the best way he could think of was to unite them with others who’d been affected by the war. To that end, he dreamed up this weekend’s Peace Has No Borders festival.



The Silence of the Politicians

According to documents obtained by casino opponents last week, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown’s office has for some time possessed Seneca Gaming Corporation studies indicating that the silos comprising the H-O Oats grain elevator were coated with a 54,000-square-foot skin that was between eight and 14 percent asbestos. Brown’s office did not include the studies in its response to a FOIA request. They came to light only because of repeated requests by plaintiff’s lawyers in one of the anti-casino court actions.





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