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Activist Times Inc. Issue 154
Give Thanks '98. Special FTA issue.
35 clams, cheap.
free to prisoners,
soldiers and sailors.
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Activist Times, Inc.
Wednesday. 1140 am.
Table Of conTents:
1) a pome
2) publishers column
3) numbers run
4) letters to the editor
0) after that you're on your own. (the woods, that great nite...)
You'll Be Me Soon Enough
a poem by NYC poet Brett Axel.
1963 John Kennedy
Toasted my birth
With blood and flashbulbs.
My nursery peers awoke
To a generation of carrying the torch
Our parents lit
Through the streets of Woodstock,
New Hope, Big Sur,
Extinguished before the first hairs
Sprouted in the cups under our joints
We raged against Nixon;
We raged against 'Nam;
We raged against the white
Bank of the river
Demanding red and grey
And brown and black sand;
We shook our angry rattles at the system
And threw off the oppression of cloth diapers forever.
Rom Doss, I was there then,
Allen Ginsberg, when America got naked
We were naked already.
We spent the summer of love
Singing the alphabet with Buffy Saint Marie
And whoever else stepped
From our parent's bong parties
Into Mister Roger's Neighborhood;
Walked the Sesame Street counting winos sleeping
On subway grates:
One wino,
Two winos,
Three dirty smelly winos,
I love to count winos.
The first word I knew how to spell was friend:
F R I
E N D
Special.
I thought 'special'
Was the last letter of the word, 'friend.'
If we didn't know,
At least we suspected
That Ernie and Burt were lovers
And it was O.K.
Because they cared about each other very deeply
And they weren't asking us
For health coverage
Or joint tax returns.
There was no thank you
For the 'AtomKraft, Nine Danka' bumper sticker
I put on my first car,
Or the 'Reagan's an asshole' songs
I spit on the stages of CBGB's
Max's Kansas City, The Ritz
(before Joe Camel took over the place
started dealing nicotine)
"Hey kid,
the first hit's free."
We bottled out bags and bagged our bottles;
Rejected extra packaging on CDs;
Swung hammers for Habitat;
Held hands across America...
Worked, spent, yes,
Bought a Saturn and installed
Windows '95 on a one thirty-three
Pentium processor clone with sixty-four megs,
But saved a few dollars
From every three or four paychecks
To send a check
To the World Wildlife Federation,
The Elizabeth Morgan Defense Fund,
Whatever the fuck
ABC's cause of the week was.
God Damn it!
We did our marching
And pissing
And fighting
And fucking
And killing
And saving
And we still do, in a way,
By sending a check.
I don't know when I bacame another something
The youth can rage against.
It crept up on me like my grey hairs.
One minute I was making an effort
To understand Metallica,
The next I'm walking through Tower Records
With Nine Penny Nails or some such shit
Blasting my aging eardrums out of their sockets
And I hear myself asking the management
To turn off the God-Awful racket.
[Brett read this poem while many of us were attending
CD classes the day before our big action at Fort Benning
Georgia where "we won" was felt all around. I think if
Ghandi came back to life with a foul mouth he IS Brett
"throwing off the oppression of cloth diapers. =)]
PUBLISHER'S COLUMN:
<prime happy>
We won. Again. We won.
They couldn't build jails fast enough. They didn't have
enough busses, and they dishonored ADA requirements and
couldn't accommodate the 15-30 wheel-chair riding people
who also risked arrest but were not included in the official
number of 2319 peacefully "forcing" their way into the center
of Fort Benning to demand a public forum discussing just how
many Republicans, Democrats, Independents and assorted other
human beings feel so compassionate about shutting down what
has become "on our watch" a place of torture, violence, hatred
and oppression.
They prepared for 800-1000 of us; we were 4 times as many
as them that showed last year. They were not ready for us -
and they submitted.
SOA will be shut down soon. We have dominated the public
forum, we have spoken. Congress will be wise to take heed
and reflect. They WILL represent their people. They won't
really have any choice, will they?
We were many!
"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9....................10;
"10,9,8,7..."
Electric Company. 1979
And now, the numbers run:
http://www.soaw.org
http://theresistance.com/contents.htm
http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/8965/hac5.htm
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/scholarly/cudisc.html
http://vanhackez.islatortuga.com/zines.html
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/scholarly/hackethic.html
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/kutija
http://www.setec-astronomy.net/text/security/hacker.txt
http://www.drizzle.com/~annes/rep/castlist/shaugh.htm
http://www.djurdjevic.com
http://www.cyberjournal.org
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/dylan/207/unit_demo.html
http://station.sonicnet.com
http://www.webpost.net/tu/turtlesbook/busking.html
ATI CORRECTION:
In our #'s run last time we had a WWW where there wasn't
s'pozed 2 B 1.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~pepscot/pepmuse2.htm
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=letters and tomatoes =
= from our readers =
========================
Dear editor:
Please consider publishing the following
brief article in your Ezine.
Are You "Ready For Love" ?
North Americans spend millions, if not billions, of dollars
every year in pursuit of a satisfying, fulfilling intimate
relationship.
Yet many fail repeatedly in their quest because they
forget the first most important step.
They do not determine their own "readiness for love."
Whether you are single at present and pursuing...
[ed note: it went on another 10K or so.
You don't HAVE to read and enjoy ATI before
you submit to it, but pllllleeeeeeeez...]
(the whole "article" is apparently at:)
( http://www.willingspirits.com )
to: ati@etext.org
Just a quick hello!
Thought I would drop by and wish you well
this Holiday Season....
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!!!
J D
to ati:
When John Glenn returns from space,
everybody dress in Ape Suits.
You have 9 days in which to bury the
Statue of Liberty up to her head.
[we ignored the first 20 themes and variations
on this. Had we received this particular one
about 3 weeks ago, you might've had 5 more
willing "conscripts." ps: the next levitation
of the Pentagon WILL be May 2. Be there or be
5-sided]
This message was originally addressed to MARCO CAPELLI
and was forwarded to you by MARCO CAPELLI
here's your reply.
=)
[hmmm. I don't remember sending OR receiving a
sideways smile, but thanks, whoever U R. ]
[and just when you think alls we do is anarchy?]
I just visited Capelli's web-site on carulli.
I also love the guitar songs of Carulli. Currently,
I have music scores for only 19 of his works.
I would like to know how I can get music scores
for all these songs that Marco Capelli mentions
on his web-site. Please let me know.
My e-mail address is : -=-=-=-=-=- (squelched in compassion
for spam reduction.)
to: ati@etext.org
This is such a great story.
P.k.
DC Coordinator, MSN
to editor:
i think it's great everybody's
trying to help!!!!!!
ilan the punksinger
Hi,
I was just at the Hopi page . . . if you need any
help with web publishing, I have resources available
to contribute (no charge) . . . my dream is to see the
Hopi Survival Kit archived on the Web . . . am willing
to take this on if you know a way this can happen . . .
if it's already planned Great! . . . please let me know
if you start an email newsletter or some such thing.
!!! . . Keep up the Good Way of Life . . !!!
Sean D
Paradise Now!
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........ATI, one tagline away from peace..........
Prime Anarchist World Real Newz
(PAWRN) - 11th Mesa, AZ.
Yesterday i [the person who sent this in] received
a phone call from Bonnie Whitesinger and her husband
Bob Chaat. They told me that while Pauline was away,
Navajo-Hopi relocation commission officials came to
serve Pauline a 30 day eviction notice.
Bob said that the families not signing
the accomodation agreement were all served such notices.
He said it was creepy because he had never seen these guys
before and they knew both his first and last names.
From my perspective as a longtime supporter of
Dineh resisters, i feel it is crucial for those of
us who care to be continually cultivating in ourselves
and in other people of conscience the courage it will require
to make stands beyond what white people have ever done
in the sad history of this land to STOP THE GENOCIDE!
I personally feel that the various lawsuits have been
distracting from the traditional way of dealing with
the evil which is the ceremonies. Traditional Hopi
who came to offer their support to the resisters in
March of 1997 emphasized the importance of the spiritual
position. Thomas Banyacya said, "No courts, no lawyers,
no white man's law. We obey the law of the creator.
This is our land. This is your land." The legal system
has done nothing but drain the hopes and resources of
the resisters. I honor the right of those who feel that
the courts are their only recourse, but i cannot emphasize
enough the importance of true supporters preparing for
very serious confrontations if and when these evictions
are attempted. Peabody is going forward with expansion
plans disregarding the rights of Maxine Kesoli who isn't
even on HPL land!
Support resistance.
Shut down Peabody coal mine.
In peaceful struggle,
Swaneagle
[gee, guess where prime anarchist will return to
when he's done dancing on the ruins of
the multinational SOA???]
Open Letter to Bill Moyers,
Please do a documentary about Martin Sheen before
Hollywood gets ahold of him. He's closest to a living
Joseph Campbell or Jesus Christ I know now.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Marco Frucht.
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-=-journals. i'll try to end with a poem -=-
-=-like I usually do. if I don't find one -=-
-=-I'll have to write one when I get there. -=-
-=-read on, you'll probably like it. prepare-=-
-=-for a weird journey though. much like the-=-
-=-sportsnotes where prime anarchist left -=-
-=-the underground so many issues ago =) -=-
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Sunday 4:30 pm. Let's see. who's beating the Packers today?
My new team is doing poorly. I put ATI out today. A pretty
good one (imho) I put in a lot of SOA stuff, and tried to
surround it with humorous things so it's easy to "digest."
Thursday I perform at the sendoff, then friday I pack up
and go to Georgia for 2 or 3 days. I can't wait to travel.
Oh, we're winning 17-3. I'm having guacamole & chips at Taco
Burrito Mexico up the street from my house.
Saturday morning 4am eastern. Bowling Green Kentuck.
Gas would be 87 cents here. Rembember that neat song
Autumn from Tie-Dye-Sushi wrote about Bowling Green?
Wake up from a dream that I'm walking around a mall pouring
food coloring all over my pants from a purple squirtgun
to the tune of Marylin Manson's "Dope Show" and the bus
driver asks if we wanna eat at Cracker Barrel or Waffle
House.
You notice professor and professional student have the same
prefix?
Hey God, Knucklehead.
What are you going to do with all the "recovering
catholics," around the world? I guess I don't have
to ask, do I?
Barnes & Noble top of the hill (what town???) Looks like
a fort with a church on the corner. Fortified with concrete
and plywood! Large mall behind it.
Is our new front-ear commercialism wholesale devoid of
conscience or presence??
Michael Devine died with Jenifer Harbury's husband Efrain.
RC. The Mad Mad Cola. (very old, whithered sign.)
Dear Groton Connecticut,
In June of 1988 I was on delayed entry program for the
Signal Corps, US Army.
Through Olsten temporary service I was given a job sweeping
floors in your midway plant for $6.00 per hour. You got my
drivers licence but I was still looking for my birth certificate
because the last time I'd needed it was Little League all-stars.
I was such a competant, hard-working "dude" that you let me
take the tunnel under Groton to the other buildings where I had
some interesting new tasks to enjoy and learn from. I was told
to be very careful to put the brown and black garbage bags in the
dipsey dumpsters for Murphy and other civilian companies to come
haul away; whereas the clear bags were all the secret, top-secret
and eyes-only waste going to be shredded and burned. I was to place
them in clearly marked yellow squares next to the dumpsters so that
the extra-competant people who AREN'T Murphy corporations can haul
THEM.
I believe I only screwed that up 2 or 3 times, and I don't think
there was any harm, for the Murphy people probably didn't know what
was what anyhow.
My favorite job was wiping off all the video display terminals
and emptying wastebaskets in P Takis Veliotis' old office, (oh who
was his replacement I forget) and especially the Newport News Liason
office rooms.
Naval Investigative people eat all the wrong foods, by the way,
according to the wastebaskets I saw; and if they keep all that porn
on their screens every day from 4:30 til 7am there's going to be
naked people burnt into the glass, you might want to write a memo
about that. I turned most of them off those nites.
Oh, and speaking about memos, pardon me, but I couldn't help
but notice the angry letter from that guy who replaced Veliotis -
what WAS his name??? - Anyhow, it looked like it was to every
3 letter agency, the president, UN Security Council and if I remember
right, Henry and Nancy Kissinger too. You were mad that to make your
contract deadlines you could only make washers and driers that run
at 1/3 capacity and while you recognize this is perfect for peacetime,
you said you felt it was unacceptable and must be corrected immediately
because during war, you needed full capacity or the sailors will begin
smelling like urine, bad sculptures or a Texas slaughterhouse.
"Immediately." you said (which is as we know in military terms -
8 to 10 years)
I couldn't help but notice because you used all-caps for the first
four lines and we in the netizen community call that shouting. The
letter was face up. I felt like a kid in a candystore and really
wanted to turn the page and read the rest but held to my purest
ethic.
I'm telling you this because I believe this qualifies me to
become an official civilian inspection team member to make sure
we aren't making too many weapons of mass destruction so we'll have
room to talk when we tell Iraq, China, India and Afghanistan they
have no right.
If you don't have a group like that already, can I get
permission to start one?
/RC COLA. BORN AND/
/RAISED IN COLUMBUS/
/ GEORGIA. Next to/
/ The Armory. /
LIVER BOX
GIZZARD BOX
GAS 89c
Prime Anarchist Interviews Martin Sheen.
Martin Sheen has been socially just for many years now.
He was key in bringing Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James
Olmos and many other fence-sitters to the UFW boycotts
when he "put his body where his mouth was." Cesar Chavez
always used to say (including to me in 1992) "vote with
your feet." Sheen, who has most recently played Peter Maurin
in "Entertaining Angels," and Mitch Schneider in "Samaritan,"
has been walking ever since.
Prime Anarchist - (shaking his hand) Thank you, thank you, thank
you. It's great to meet you. I missed meeting you in 1992 when I
fasted on the capitol steps and I was sweating with Chief Billy
Tayac and you were addressing us with your presence, Susan Shown Harjo's
and I don't remember who ever else.
Martin Sheen - (smiles) Nice to meet you. Is Charlie Liteky here?
PA - I'm not sure. Chance Brian Willson or Scott Rutherford are
here? Maybe Dave Dellinger?
MS - Haven't seen them yet. You know, it's hard for Brian to
get around these days on his "third world legs."
PA - Yeah. I know. Do you think doing today will effect your career?
MS - I hope so.
PA - Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[the career question was asked by a man off to the side, and
Sheen mistakenly attributed it to the woman next to him. After
discussion with the man after the event Prime Anarchist decided
to borrow that question with all due humility.]
Chitlin House, Sticky Fingers Donut shop and a McDonalds
on the Martin Luther King Highway. Is this Alabama or GA?
When you finally get to 80 gimme a call
when you finally get to 80 (I-80) wake me up.
Hank Williams Memorial.
Clanton, Alabama has a water tower shaped and colored
like a peach.
Conflict Resolution 101 21 credits. 1 hour. w.
Signal Phrase - "we don't agree."
Man under the umbrella. Time to remove yourself
a la Gandhi.
We don't arrest you anymore.
We won't take you in through that prison door.
WE don't beat you lock you up.
But maybe just as bad.
Now I wonder (the rest of my life maybe)
What's gonna be the next subtlety.
We are the journal writers.
We write it in our notes.
Reflection.
Discernment.
Years from now the microfilms will say one thing.
The history books will say another.
A gazillion journals around the world
In attics and basements and hopechests
Will make yet another point.
Brightly shine.
Where is truth.
Go to your heart.
!Presente! a poem by Theodore Liberaci
I took crossroads to SOA
And I watched it work
Magic.
I took community to community
And I'm watching the web.
"How many spiders can
Tie down a lion?"
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2 hawks. redtail? golden eagle? or what?
A rainbow, and now a pasture full of beefalo.
Take note I guess.
rainbow, 2hawks, buffalo.
welp. minnesota beat us twice yesterday.
football AND activism.
they sent 3-400 people to Georgia.
we sent 130 or so. as if that matters.
monday nite. 530 eastern. kollekt kall from marko
in kentuk.
somewhere before a humongous strip mine.
Rhetorical question as metaphor.
BUTTON - Shut Down SOA,
With No Money
Down. Ask Me
How.
BOOK - 101 Free Things You Can Do
To Shut Down the SOA.
COURSE - Conflict Resolution 201. 3 credits. 24 hours. mtwtfss.
IF - "you're missing a key point here...<pause>..."
THEN - back away, say good bye, be polite. you are
NOT going to hear each other.
745 eastern monday. somewhere over indiana bones.
Dear Diary - watched 2 SOA movies in a row. Paid for by our tax
dollars, created by perhaps the largest propaganda machine the
world has seen since Hitler's moviefactories.
I don't focus on their propagandic nature as we are each
guilty of that. Having worked really hard to get the log out
of my own eye, I believe with all my heart that these two
movies, (and especially the second one) are deliberate acts
of terrorism.
Prime Anarchist Division's offical head count of the SOA action
Sunday, November 22, 1998.
3478.5 ready, willing, able and acting for arrest.
10,500 supporting at the gate.
These figures were adjusted from truth the same way the US
DOD has been tallying people since 1861. 2319 crossed the line, so
we multiplied by 3 and divided by 2. Same for the 7,000 responsible
estimate of the total crowd.
<PAPAD> <small> Prime Anarchist Public Affairs Division cites the
following standard for these figures, in context of other misinformation
campaigns. </small>
Conflict time official figure of US dead in Iraq excluding Gulf
War Illness Victims - 197
Official figure 8 years later (assumed to be closer to truth which
will likely get declassified officially on the 10 year anniversary
of the actual deaths - 295.5 [prime anarchist bets it climbs just over
300 less than a year from now]
While awaiting medical discharge from the United States Harmy, Prime
Anarchist often worked with these kinds of figures for the Public
Affairs Department. Anarchist coined the nickname to that job
"padding." It is finally time for common people to begin using the
2/3-3/2 "rule of thumb" for peace instead of war.
METAPHOR - Nuclear-tipped 101mm howitzer round as anthropine injection.
Archbishop Romero and Jesus - My only war heros.
"I beg you,
I implore you,
I order you
Stop the repression!"
Romero.
"To change all the kings of all the lands."
Christ.
as usual we end with poetry.
this one's called Kalamazoo '64
by Marco Frucht
epiphone conversion
peace justice
epiphone conversion
justice peace
conversion epiphany
peace justice
conversion epiphone
justice peace
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