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Subject: Dworkin & MacKinnon Rumors
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 16:45:00 EDT
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The following is a copy of some mail I received after mentioning
Dworkin and MacKinnon (staunch opponents of pornography) in a
reply to some other note.  I thought it would be of interest
-- i.e. stir up some controversy  :->

Seriously, can anyone back up or refute these rumors?  I'm not
including the orinators name because the mail was intended to
be personal.

I sincerely apologize in advance if they are simply rumors!!
The intention of this note is to find out the truth.

-- Rich Wagner

>>> That's Catherine MacKinnon you heard on WBCN radio last Sunday
>>> morning.  She was supposed to be on for a half hour, to be followed
>>> by a half hour of Rebecca Shipman of the Cambridge Feminist Anti-
>>> Censorship Taskforce (FACT).  When Shipman got to the station,
>>> MacKinnon announced that she had not agreed to the format and would
>>> not appear on the same program as any member of FACT.  This seems
>>> to be a consistent policy of the supporters of the Dworkin/MacKinnon
>>> ordinance:  not to debate anyone who claims to be a feminist and an
>>> opponent of the ordinance.  WBCN has rescheduled Shipman for an
>>> hour of the Boston Sunday Review of October 27th.
>>> 
>>> MacKinnon and Dworkin have taken to calling FACT members "pimps",
>>> and "fronts for the ACLU, which fronts for the pornography
>>> industry".  These tactics are not likely to go over well with 
>>> Cambridge voters, and I expect the ordinance to be soundly
>>> defeated next month.
>>> 
>>> See this week's issue (Oct. 10) of the Cambridge Chronicle for 
>>> more on all this.
>>> 

Anyone know where one can get a copy of "the Cambridge Chronicle"?