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Activist Times Inc. Issue 072
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"'George' is simply a hybrid of 'The Nation,' 'The New Republic
and 'People'- which is probably what we deserve in the Post-Gary Hart era."
-- Off The Rack, Pg. 70. Spring '97 Coffee Journal.
FULL OF HUBRIS, or full of hummus; it's ATI. Activist Times, Inseminated;
Issue 72.
May, 21, (day after the great meat boycott of) 1997.
1159pm.
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That's it for today. Sometimes Prime runs short #'d.
LIBERATE
<Picture: red, white and blue smelly and holy sport socks>
YOUR SOCKS
GET SOME COMBAT BOOTS
CALENDULAR
MAR 31, 1995. Selena Killed.
APR 3,4. Labor Conference. Cornell Univ.
APR 4,5,6. SEAC Enviro-conf. Same Univ.
APR 7 50th anniversary of Henry Ford's death.(does anyone know is birthday?)
APR 14-18. Journalism Conference. Havana, Cuba.
APR 24-30. International TV Turnoff Week.
MAY 13, 1985. MOVE Bombing.
NOV 28. Buy Nothing Day.
MIDWEST UNDERGROUND MEDIA SYMPOSIUM
On April 26, 1997 from 11am to 4pm at UMKC Royal Hall, 800 E. 52nd St.,
Kansas City MO
The major focus seems to be on Zines, including an exhibit titled:
"ZINE: The Story Of A Four Letter Word."
Guests include:
V. Vale of ReSearch Pubs.
Seth Friedman of Factsheet Five
Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records.
Table space is available $15 in advance.
Call 913-649-9666 for more info.
URGENT!! URGENT!! URGENT!! URGENT!!
WARNING: Do Not Read "Fuck You" Email.
Should you receive mail on-line with "Fuck You" as the subject
header, reply immediately. Do NOT read the file.
Put "Fuck You Too," in the subject box and do not (important: Do
NOT) put anything in the message body. Doing so will cause the sentiment
sector to reach overkill. Besides that you are in danger of being, seeming
or looking redundant. Do not read the message sent to you under "Fuck You"
after you have replied.
Reading "Fuck You" email will cause mass negative sentiment to spread
far too rapidly and the happiness conversion interface will not be able
to keep up.
5 NEW COFFEEHOUSES TO TRY. (If you're near naturally)
Beatniks Bagels. Boulder, COLO.
Frontier Coffee. Moline, IL.
Ojai Cafe Emporium. Ojai, CA
Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company. Santa Cruz, CA
Vermont Village Cafe. Washington, DC
PAWN, (Prime Anarchist World News)
National Desk:
reprinted from LA Times. (one word inserted)
Mattel Inc. Thursday won Federal Trade Commission approval to
buy Tyco Toys Inc. in a $755 million stock deal that will place Tyco's
Tickle Me Elmo and Matchbox cars under the same corporate roof as
Hot Wheels, M-16's and Barbie.
Seattle, WA. State Court of Appeals heard arguments for and against an
ordinance that prohibits sidewalk sitting. Discussion began Feb. 27 of this
year. Expect that one to go on and on like that battery bunny.
AMHERST, Mass. (follow-up. Many papers never follow up on much of anything.
Here's but one of our many follow-ups:)
175 students took over their comptroller's office March 3 peacefully.
The list of demands included a more diverse campus, more financial
aid, daycare for student parents, and diversification of the faculty and
staff. Both sides agreed to a series of three discussions that were to begin
by the end of March.
A web page dedicated to the student takeover can be reached at
http://www.vms.oit.umass.edu/~gss/takeover.html (URL has not been verified.
first verification please notify ATI at
marco99@juno.com
FLASH..................
hot off the presses
FAH-Q The Irish Road Warrior Hits the road again. It's been years since
he has roamed the highways of america. When seen he was retired from the
travel business.
(ed note: Look for him here among other places. You may or may not
see him.)
HONG KONG- Wang Dan has agreed to leave the China in exchange for his release
from prison. 27 year old Wang served 3 1/2 years for his involvement in
the Tianamen Square demonstrations (that China still insists never happened)
((imaginese: "you can leave now. You've served all your time as punishment
for all that stuff you didn't do. Thank you for not protesting all the
terribly heinous things that we don't ever do."))
Last October, he was sentenced to another 11 years in prison for
publishing essays critical of the Communist party and meeting with other
dissidents. The government accused him of plotting subversion, and found
him guilty after a four-hour trial.
MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE
ATI 71 was great. Did you retype the article from the Catholic Worker
or do they distribute the magazine over e-mail?
pete
(ed: reprinted. a subscription to Catholic worker is 25c as always.
you CAN however get their mailing address online.
http://www.cais.com/agf/cwtoc.htm
http://www.luminet.net/~jallaire)
Please remove me from your mailing list. I don't enjoy getting these.
anon.
Thanks Marco... I wasn't sure what this "newsletter" was all about,
Hey!
I don't know who you are, but anyone who prints the Unabomber Manifesto
can't be all bad. I've got 2 copies of it (and underlined) it
several times. Plus I'd like to put parts of it in poetry and illustrate
them. Plus, I have a web page with a bunch of fiction stories I wrote about
the Unabomber.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2532
So you know I'm quite fascinated with this character!
Thanks!
-Shadow
GREAT SEGUE!!!
Part 2 of . - . . - . . . - . . - . . . - . - . . . - . - .
MARC FRUCHT'S GUIDE TO THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO
. . - . - . - . . . - . . - . . . - . . - . . - .
67...our lives depend on decisions made by other people; we have no control
over these decisions and usually we do not even know the people who make
them. "(We live in a world in which relatively few people- maybe 500 or 1000
make the important decisions"--
Phillip B. Heyman of Harvard Law school, quoted by Anthony Lewis, New York
Times, April 21, 1995.) Our lives depend on whether safety standards at a
nuclear power plant are properly maintained; on how much pesticide is allowed
to get into our food or how much pollution into our air; on how skillful (or
incompetent) our doctor is; whether we lose or get a job may depend on
decisions made by government economists or corporation execs and so forth.
Most individuals are not in a position to secure themselves against these
threats to more (than) a very limited extent. The individual's search for
security is therefore frustrated, which leads to a sense of powerlessness.
NOTE 11. ..we can't claim that today's acquisition-oriented culture is
exclusively a creation of advertising and marketing industry. But it is
clear that the advertising and marketing industry has had an important part
in creating that culture. The big corporations that spend millions on
advertising wouldn't be spending that kind of money without solid proof that
they were getting it back in increased sales. One member of FC met a sales
manager a couple of years ago who was frank enough to tell him, "our job
is to make people buy things they don't want and don't need." He then
described how an untrained novice could present people with the facts about
a product, and make no sales at all, while a trained and experienced
professional salesman would make lots of sales to the same people. This
shows that people are manipulated into buying things they don't really want.
68. ...Psychological security does not closely correspond with physical
security. What makes us FEEL secure is not so much objective security as a
sense of confidence in our ability to take care of ourselves. Primitive man
threatened by a fierce animal or by hunger, can fight in self-defense or
travel in search of food. He has no certainty of success in these efforts,
but he is by no means helpless against the things that threaten him. The
modern individual on the other hand is threatened by many things against
which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, environmental
pollution, war, increasing taxes, invasion of his privacy by large
organizations, nationwide social or economic phenomena that may disrupt his
way of life.
NOTE 12. The problem of purposeless seems to have become less serious during
the last 15 years or so, because people new feel less secure physically and
economically than they did earlier, and the need for security provides them
with a goal. But purposelessness has been replaced by frustration over the
difficulty of attaining security. We emphasize the problem of purposelessness
because the liberals and leftists would wish to solve our social problems
by having society guarantee everyone's security; but if that could be done
it would only bring back the problem of purposelessness.
75. In primitive societies life is a succession of stages. The needs and
purposes of one stage having been fulfilled, there is no particular
reluctance about passing on to the next stage... it is not the primitive
man, who has used his body daily for practical purposes, who fears the
deterioration of age, but the modern man, who has never had a practical use
for his body beyond walking from his car to his house. It is the man whose
need for the power process has been satisfied during his life who is best
prepared to accept the end of that life.
76. In response... someone will say, "Society must find a way to give people
the opportunity to go through the power process." For such people the value
of the opportunity is destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to
them. What they need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as
the system GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To
attain autonomy they must get off that leash.
80. People vary in their susceptibility to advertising and marketing
techniques. Some are so susceptible that, even if they make a great deal of
money they cannot satisfy their constant craving for the shiny new toys that
the marketing industry dangles before their eyes. So they always feel hard-
pressed financially even if their income is large, and their cravings are
frustrated.
94. ...One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large
corporation) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly
and permissively that power may be exercised. It is important not to confuse
freedom with mere permissiveness.
(CON'T NEXT ISSUE.)
A 28TH CENTURY FABLE by Shadow
This tale was reported by a tireless researcher in the Human
Archives, who noted its similarity with the earlier Robin Hood legends.
Long ago, (in the days of the humans) a tyrannical technocracy of
scientists and their machines conspired to enslave the human race. In those
days there came a brave man they called the Unabomber who fought for
humanity's future. He lived deep in the woods with his shadowy band of
co-conspirators called the Freedom Club. They say that he could be everywhere
at once, traveling all over the country to strike terror into the hearts
of the oppressors. Legends also tell of his skills as a mighty mountain man
who could hunt his own food in total darkness. They also say he may have had
a secret identity as a shy professor. The story tells that the "mystical and
awe-inspiring" Unabomber, after waging a long & lonely battle against
overwhelming odds, finally forced the Corporate Powers to publish his
written manifesto proclaiming the revolution at hand. But in the end, he was
betrayed by his own brother. They paraded him before the courts in chains
& shackles and decided his fate. But the legend of the Unabomber lives on to
this day!
We end this issue of ATI with
JOURNAL POEM 3
by prime anarchist. previously published in a 33-poem book of
poetry entitled "I Slurp My Coffee." (c)1995
Old Pomes. New Pomes.
Borrowed pomes; blue pomes.
Funny pomes, sad pomes; goofy and glad pomes.
Pomes pomes. pomes pomes, eat them up - yum.
Make alliteration instead of legislation.
Ah, all's well that "and's" well-
And all are about action.
Skip, jump, lay there, run, smile, frown.
Run around, skip the jumping;
Lay there down.
Who chewed a page outa my pomes?
You're not s'posed to chew:
Eat them delicately.
Luscious, yummy, soft delicious yellow pomes.
Moist, meaty, mysterious succulent pomes.
Pomes about poets, presidents, pests
And pomes full of juice.
I eat pomes.
Do you eat pomes?
Red pomes, yellow pomes, green poems.
Don't eat the blue ones.
This has been ATI
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