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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Saturday, May 29, 2004 ::
SF gallery owner targeted for painting of Iraqi prisoner abuse LISA LEFF, AP, San Francisco Chronicle
The irony of the attacks hasn't been lost on Haigh. Among the expressions of support she's received since shuttering the gallery, her favorite is an e-mail whose writer said, 'I'm sure that a few and dangerous minds don't understand that they have only mimicked the same perversity this painting had expressed.'
The abuse also has soured her on North Beach, the Italian-American neighborhood that spawned the Beat Generation. Long considered a bastion of free speech, it is also home to many old-time San Franciscans. Haigh believes 'it is the locals' who first took aim at her gallery since it's on a mostly residential street and she hadn't advertised Cowell's show when the threats started.
But others in the neighborhood have gone out of their way to offer encouragement and sympathy, among them poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the famed City Lights bookstore. Outside the gallery on Friday, someone had left a bouquet of flowers along with a note reading, 'The woman who ran this gallery is a brave and honorable woman. ... She is a true American and a real patriot.'------------------------------------------- posted 7:23 PM :: reference link ::
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