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808 The Nation. June 5,1995those waiting for their tables have beentreating It as a kmd of tableau b clef, tryingto identify who, other than NicoleEisenman herself, 1s who. It is a marvelousexercise In literal deconstruction. TheBiennial will deconstruct itself piecemeal,gallery by gallery, beginning June 4. Ifyou want to see It in its entirety, you hadbetter turn up by then. 0EVENTSWHEN WORKERS DECIDE Workplace DemocracyTakes Root In North Arnerlca A dlscusslonwlth Dr Len Krlmerman, edltor of theGrassroots Economic Organizlng Letter Wednesday,May 24,7.30 PM WESPAC, 255 GroveStreet, Whte Plans $3 contnbutlon requested.For Information, call (914) 682-0488CISPES REUNION. Are you now or have youever been a member of CISPES? 15 years ofSoltdarlty y Adelante, a reunron for all achvlstsof the El Salvador movement. 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Actlvlstsfrom a cross sectlon of post-hberal Arnerlca,emerglng partles, Independent candldates andcommunlty organlzers wlll gather to develop acommon strategy for the 1996 natlonal electlonsThlrd Parties ’96 IS sponsored by numerousstate Green partles together wrth actrvlstsfrom the New Party, Oregon’s Paclflc Party. theBoulder Progresswe Coalltron, DSA, The Centerfor Votlng & Democracy, Fund for ConstltutlonalGovernment, gay rlghts and other progresslvecommuruty-based groups A new mnstreamIS emerglng In American polrtrcs, andthe 3-day conference can be the crltrcal step towardbudding a common-sense electoral alternatrveIn 1996 and beyond Dorm rooms amlablefor early reg~stmnts. For mformatlon, pleasee-mad hndamartm@gcapcorg, or phone (703)642-5710. (510) 654-5311 or (202) 232-5544The adverltsrng deadlme for Events IS everyMonday Raies $75 for up to 50 words, $100for up to 75 words To place an ad. call Tomasmaat (212) 242-8400, ext 201EXCHANGE.nificant enough force to bother with (this(Contrnued From Page 778)prior to the Oklahoma bombings, after whlchsubscrlptlons to The Natron that proclalms the mainstream media became obsessed with“Subscribing to Our Principles Isn’t Enough.” any and everythlng remotely linked to the “pa-Pnnciples? What pnnclples?triot” movement). Incidentally, Harder-whoAnd now the icing on the cake. In the same had heard that I had also spoken to his crit-Issue, it’s revealed that Marc Cooper (radlcal ICs-began to bombard the Trmes, as he laterauthor) is now going Into competltion with bombarded The Natron, wlth phone calls andme to do a weekly talk show that features wnt- faxes asking them to kill the article.ers and editors of The Natron. I have over 350 More dutortions: The comment I left Hard-broadcast afflllates and he now has only one.Correction: Since his article 1 have suddenlylost two aff~hates. Does “sabotage by slander,”as well as envy, enter Into this mlx? Isall of this simply a grab for stations?Cooper’s dlsinformation IS truly a dlsserviceto loyal readers who are supporting TheNatlon. Although we occasionally reprlnt Nationarticles, I now have a new understandingof why The Natron has such a small clrculatlon.The magazlne’s morals and ethlcseemto be confused. Ethlcs are not “sltuational”In the real world. You can’t have it all ways.After 130 years, The Natron is still ahve, butthe present stewards need to look In the mlr-ror and then honestly confront reallty. Greatersuccess may then follow. Chuck HarderCOOPER REPLIESLos AngelesHow distasteful and revoltmg even mdlrectly real best seller, as Harder told me and thento communlcate with such a vile character as confirmed by the mal-order printouts he gaveEustace Mulhns, the sort we thought we got me, is the conspiracy-ndden book and videorld of at Nuremberg. Why waste Ink rebuttmg version of the laughable Clrnton Chronicles.a creature ldentlfled by every major researcher Harder disingenuously portrays hlmself asin the fleld as one of the most prolific gener- an honest broker who, as a public sernce,ators of ant]-Semitic and phllo-Fascist propa- merely offers his mrcrophones and the scrugandain Amenca? It’s sufficlent to note that tlmvng light of day to such extremists as Mul-In his “defense” he characterizes the Holo- hns and Ken Adams of the Michigan Mllitia.caust as a “nonissue,” a flgment of the “es- But the transcnpts of those shows clearly showsentlal morbldlty of the Jewlsh psyche.” And that rn the presence of such guests, Harder isJust as the Holocaust took place despite hlsdenials, so Indeed did Mulllns pen the hatetracts he now dlsavows, along wlth other tltlessuch as Jewlsh TK SIck Slck Slck and EzraPound. Unknown Hero, all currently offeredfor sale in the catalogue of the ChristianDefense League.As to Chuck Harder’s plalntlve screed, myreactlon IS more one of amusement. One thlngIS sure, Chuck knows how to turn his weaknessinto a strength. and has concocted onemore conspiracy theory to put In hls topdrawer: A deceitful reporter wlth a hiddenagenda sets him up and lets him fall as partof a “smear” directed not only agalnst himbut also agalnst those other stalwart opponentsof antl-Semltism, Pat Buchanan andPat RobertsonAs wlth most conspiracy theories, thls onetakes a few needles of truth and hldes themIn a haystack of dlstortlon. So let’s set the rec-ord stmght. I told Harder from the beglnrungthat The New York Tlmes Magazme had comrnisslonedme to wrlte a freelance proflle onhlm and his radlo show The Trmes’s decisionto reject the plece had nothmg to do wlth itsaccuracy, as Harder insinuates. The only reasonstated to me, unfortunately for Chuck,was that it seemed that Harder was not a sig-er with, the same I have told every interviewsubject for twenty years, that I might needto get back to hlm later, has been twisted Intosomething I have never done in two decades-tell the subJect that he or would she have therlght to pre-publlcation review.Space limited me from listing all the othergarbage-apart from Mullins-that bulgesout of Harder’s bookstore: Waco: The Big Lieby Llnda Thompson (the self-appomted “ad-Junct general” of the militla movement), BlgSrster Is Watching You: Hrllary Clrnton andthe Whrre House Feminists Who Now Con-trol Amerrca and New World Order: The AnclentPlan of Secret Societies by Willlam Stlll,among others. In short, a whole library ofthe sort of paranoid materlal that underglrdsthe milltla movement. Harder now wants toclam that this sort of claptrap is auxiliaryto his “largest sellers.” But For The People’sa shamelessly fawnmg host who never challengesthem and who goes out of his way toreinforce thelr theses.Harder is correct on one polnt: When hehosted Adams of the Michigan Militla (whichHarder champloned as a “grass-roots politicalorganization with guns”) It was, In fact, foronly sixty mmutes. For the next thirty mlnutesHarder fielded phone calls and contlnued totrumpet the mllitia h e that Arnerlca wasabout to be swallowed by the New World Order(replete with stories about black helicopters,of whlch Harder told me he a had box of pictures).Harder agreed wlth a caller namedMike from Thomasville, Geoma-a professedmember of Harder’s For The People organi-zatlon, who sad, “We go to bed every night inAmerica afrad of the knock on the door. . . .If we are gomg to fire a shot let It be on ourown so11 for our own country.”The problem wlth Harder IS that thls tonedommates hls dally show. Yes, there mlghtbe the occasional rabbl or odd llberal or twollke Ralph Nader taklng advantage of Chuck’saudience to push their ideas and books. ButChuck always brlngs the talk back to the same