Triple whammy. From Greenpeace (January/February 1989): “Percentage of productive hours worked by women: 47. Percentage of world’s wages earned by women: 10. Percentage of world’s property owned by women: 1.”
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“It’s getting harder to find the ‘public’ in public TV,” writes Pat Aufderheide in Extra! (November/ December 1988). Public TV stations seem to share the wide-spread notion that labor is a special interest, while business is not. “Kartemquin Films recently completed Child Care Crisis: Union Solutions, in conjunction with [the AFL-CIO’s Labor Institute for Public Affairs]. In Chicago, public station WTTW refused to air it, saying it wasn’t objective enough. Hank Scheff of AFSCME Council 31 sharply replied to WTTW’s vice president for programming: ‘You run weekly programs produced or sponsored by business concerning business issues. Your political talk shows feature prominent spokesmen for the conservative viewpoint….The role of public television should be to showcase a spectrum of viewpoints.’ WTTW hasn’t changed its decision.”
One of the two high-quality tallgrass savannas left in the world has been discovered in Lake County, reports the Chicago office of the Nature Conservancy. The 800-acre Middle Fork Savanna–not a prairie despite some superficial similarities–contains two rare plants, the white fringed orchid and the pale vetchling, as well as a heretofore unknown species of jumping spider. “Illinois’ early settlers made their homes in the savannas,” says the Conservancy, “because of their park-like beauty, shady trees and rich soils. As a result most savannas were destroyed by the 1850’s. Until recently scientists thought that this ecosystem was ‘lost,’ that is that no good example still survived.” The other known survivor is in Canada.
BYOB–bring your own box, that is. That’s what the Open Lands Project advises gardeners to do if they’re making late stops this Saturday at designated city parks where Christmas trees are being shredded. Gardeners can use the remains for garden mulch next summer.
