Rejected Letters to the Editor

RLTE Issue #6: Significant Issues;
Thoughtful Writers

A lot has happened in the world and in the U.S. over this past year. In this, RLTE’s sixth publication, readers will find letters and op-ed pieces addressing a variety of important and pressing issues.

You can read a report from Reverend Yearwood, Jr., who is a minister, hip-hop organizer and antiwar activist. He has been struggling with the U.S. military over his public activities against the war in Iraq.

Cathy Breen, a social justice advocate from Mary House Catholic Worker in New York City, is active with Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Christian Peacemaker Teams. She has spent a great deal of time with refugees in Amman, Jordan, and reports on her findings there.

Zillah Eisenstein questions the basis upon which Hillary Clinton should be judged fit for office. Should it be based on certain stereotyped expectations of how women will react to her, or will it be based on her actual record?

George Jochnowitz, put on notice by our last issue, which highlighted the shrinking format of The New York Times and an apparent trend toward printing fewer letters to the editor on actual paper, writes that The New Republic appears to be dropping most letters to the editor from its paper copy.

Jenny Tango, and artist and teacher, questions the Art News for considering the work of George Condo and Thomas Kincade as anything deeper or more meaningful than a one-line joke. She concludes, “With the large amounts of money involved however, money becomes valueless, so any crap becomes as good as the next crap. It is definitely the Bush Era of Art Collectors.”

—The Editors

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