What does CI stand for?

In some respects, the night's clearest antecedent wasn't ``Joad,'' but the pair of benefit shows Springsteen gave for the Christic Institute in 1990 at the Shrine Auditorium.

Rene Siracusa, a founder of the Big Island Rainforest Action Group, and Larry Sinkin, who during the 1980s served as a lawyer for the Christic Institute in its anticontra lawsuit, are among the local Green candidates.

The Senate and The Washington Post, egged on by the Christic Institute and assorted people with the last name of Cockburn, tried very hard to nail Don for, among other things, helping to orchestrate the famous 1980 October Surprise--traveling in secret to Paris with George Bush to persuade the Iranians not to release the American hostages until after Reagan had been elected.

Honey and Avirgan teamed up with the Christic Institute and sued many individuals in Oliver North's network--including Rob Owen, John Hull, Richard Secord, Albert Hakim, and Thomas Clines--for bearing responsibility for the La Penca bombing and other illegal acts.

Ultimately Shackley became the target of the hallucinogenic Christic Institute lawsuit, which drew considerable publicity for claiming Shackley was the evil mastermind of a globe-spanning drug and assassination conspiracy and which was taken in full seriousness by Hollywood trendy cause donors such as Jackson Browne.

Along with the Christic Institute, they brought suit against many of the Iran-contra figures (Honey here tells of her frustration with lead attorney, Daniel Sheehan).