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Activist Times Inc. Issue 250
This issue dedicated to Ita.
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ATI, issue 250. Nov 2000.
You ever played a Prime Balalaika?
Solid spruce face, maple back, beech neck,
made in Russia, Afghanistan and Romania. Tuned
E, E, A.
And there we were all these years wasting our
time on M16's, AK's and HK's.
-=prime=-
LETTUCE
to ati@etext.org:
You quote me??!!!! Cancel my subscription.
I don't want to be part of any magazine that
thinks I'm worth quoting.
Ha HA HA
don
Hello I am a publicist for an independent label with national
distribution.
Anomaly Records Inc. We have several artist's on our label
ranging from blues to modern rock. Do you guys review records
and do features on innovative indie bands? Please give me your
submission guide lines, contact, address, fax, email (if
different). I look forward to sending you our latest releases.
Thank you for supporting indie music, we look forward to
establishing a relationship with you.
Kindest regards,
Fred Lazo
Anomaly Records Inc.
Sr. Publicist
new sign on my bus:
"Tire la basura por la ventanilla. No seas chancho."
"Throw your trash out the window. Don't be a pig."
keep those buses clean,
brooke
Hi,
I am looking for hospitals and physicians who are
interested in either getting listed on our MEDICAL
web portal or participating in co-op programs with
us. We are scrambling to get things going before
attacking some TV promotion.
If you have a moment,
[umm, I only wonder why you included us?!?!?! -ed]
to marco
NashvilleSongService.com is now accepting lyric submissions
for upcoming recordings. If you are a lyric writer, and need
help putting your lyrics to music, we can help. We work with
lyric writers worldwide to help them accomplish their
songwriting goals.
Thanks,
Jim
to ati
glad to hear that you folks didnt give in to their stupid
ploys. of course they want to beat your heads in and blame
it all on you! good work for taking the high road.
and AUBURN BEAT BAMA!!
daver
a lettuce from the editor:
I wonder if Bush OR Gore can locate
Chad on a map? They certainly need
attorneys, paralegals and seeing eye
dogs to find one on a ballot!
Hi all,
I'm back from the largest non-violent
protest there's ever been. At least that's
my take on it. The military and the police,
and the military police tried their damndest
to get a violent response out of us knowing
that interspersed with our group were many
members of Black Bloc (if I had to guess I'd
say 3 - 400 of us out there.) They remained
nonviolent (but NOT WIMPY by ANY stretch) the
entire time no matter what, just like most of
them had consensed.
Things were very scarey from the moment MP's
started confiscating cameras. There was a point
half way up our procession where they'd drawn
a line and said no press could pass. That was
scarey because we had perhaps 1000 people lined
up 8 or 9 by a hundred or so, past that line, and
the rest of us were behind it.
Things just got worse after that. You can read
about the police brutality and everything at:
http://atlanta.indymedia.org but I'll also point
you to one particular story that pertains more to
cyberspace human rights issues, since that's mostly
the only thing everyone in this list have in common,
eh?
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=449
to ati@etext.org
Massive election fraud is taking place.
Tom Warner
[you're big on understatement, huh? -ed]
"you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war"
#'s [we counted these #'s but came up short, so
we'll recount and get back to you on that...]
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/11/07mideastmedia
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=506
http://www.laughingsquid.org/reality_hacking.html
http://www.pcisys.net/~drmforge/poems.htm
http://www.szarka.org/music/list.html
http://artofhacking.com/Tucops/Zines
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org
http://rhizome.org/splash/olia
http://come.to/thesoaprotest
http://www.nonviolence.org
http://www.monkeyfist.com
http://www.senaawest.org
http://www.pwop.com
http://62.116.31.68
http://www.wfa.org
http://www.luver.org
http://nirvananet.org
http://www.PROCAGEM.net
http://www.mrrogers.org
http://smudgereport.com
http://www.poetsporch.com
http://www.misterrogers.org
http://www.essentialmedia.com
http://www.stealing-fire.com/bruce
http://www.walkaboutclearwater.org/folk.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/ikea
http://www.organizenow.net/techtips//rawlinks.html
http://www.circlevision.org/pages/SOA/soa_benning.html
http://www.oberlin.edu/~bcooney/cleveland%20fnb/not%20bombs.html
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You had a choice and you chose us.
Thank You.
FLASH! - AL GORE: I INVENTED THE RECOUNT.
- Film At 11
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WINNERS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL NAMMYS
Saturday, November 11, 2000
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
John Trudell
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BEST BLUES RECORDING
Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998
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BEST COMPILATION RECORDING
Wolves Original Soundtrack
Various Artists
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Indigenous
Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Mary Youngblood
Heart of the World
BEST FOLK ARTIST
Thunder Bird Sisters
Still Singin'
FLUTIST OF THE YEAR
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Heart of the World
BEST MALE ARTIST
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Porcupine, SD
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
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HALL OF FAME
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(_) (_) `\__) (_)You had a
choice and you chose us. Thanks.
Democracies elect presidents.
Dictators elect themselves.
Any Questions?
by doug reprinted from a usenet news article.
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This Is Bush's Brain ( )
This is Bush's Brain On Drugs ( )
See? Some People Don't Have Anything To Lose.
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Have A Talk With Your Children About
Democracy Before Someone Else Does.
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Commandant Glenn Weidner said the military has "lost the
information war, which is discouraging, but just when I
tired of dealing with the protests, something here would
lift me up. This is the best assignment in the U.S. Army."
TIMELINE OF A SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS DIRECT ACTION PROTEST
| FRI | SAT | SUN | MON-THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | MON-? |
Friday Nov. 10th - A Giant skeleton puppet leads 2 dozen Atlantans
on a march from Ponce DeLeon Ave to the Georgia State Capitol,
bringing attention to the upcoming protests to close the School
of the Americas in Fort Benining.
Fri - Buddhist monks and nuns begin walk from
Atlanta to Columbus arriving about noon the 18th. Press
covers them fairly well.
11:35am Tue Nov 14 - Indymedia.org reporters Liz Guy and
Josh Raisler Cohn publish "Climber Stages Symbolic Hanging
at Fort Benning, Demanding Closure of SOA." Story gets
reprinted and/or paraphrased in news organs around the world
almost instantaneously.
Wed - Demonstrators continue constructing "parade puppets" at
Koinonia Farm in Americus.
Thu/Fri - People begin pouring more heavily into Columbus, GA
filling hotels and restaurants, campgrounds and parking garages.
Saturday - Colonel Weidner tells Columbus reporter his SOA has
lost the information war.
[http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/content/columbus/2000/11/19/news/1119weidner.htm]
Sun Morning. - US Army launches psychological warfare mission
(which was likely begun even earlier.)
Noonish - activists plant corn seeds all over military institution.
People in Chiapas plant corn there at the same time to show and
act in solidarity.
Afternoon - 2 star general spends 45 minutes arguing politely
with 70 year old protester while other direct action continues.
Monday - Columbus daily newspaper gives SOA Watch eighteen
positive reviews and only two negative ones. A small handful
are neutral including one which discusses the economic impact
the protest will have on the surrounding town. "SOA PROTEST A
BOON FOR ECONOMY: City, businesses could experience $2 million
bonanza as thousands visit," the headline reads.
Tuesday - Venceremos!
[somewhere in this timeline I should have put that Black Bloc
got almost complete consensus to show up in total solidarity
with the non-violent spirit of the event. But much like you,
gentle-reader, I don't quite know where to "place" it. When
even our most violent friends vow temporary non-violence for
one profound event you know that everybody wins. Compare this
with Bill Clinton announcing to the whole world "Well, it's
clear that the people have spoken but we just don't know what
they've said yet." -ed.]
Hola queridos mios: At the beginning I did this translation thinking of
my close friends and family. Reading it again, however, I decided to
send it to other friends too. This to suggest that you also share it
with your own friends. It is as the elections in Florida are seen South
of the border. Muchisimas gracias! Pio
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Poetic Justice (or how the empire adopted
the political system of the "banana republics".)
by Carlos Rafael Soto
It is usually called, "Poetic justice". In Spanish, "Justicia
Divina", divine justice. I am watching the perplexed faces of the
English speaking CNN analysts and I ask myself: ¿how could John Kennedy
imagine that, when applying the most inhumane blockade that no Nation in
the world has ever endured, the only thing he was going to accomplish was
to strengthened the spirit of Cuba and cause the emigration of all those
who for many years had lived thanks to corruption and to political fraud?
John Kennedy opened the doors of his country to the followers of
Batista, and what he planted, now the United States is harvesting. The
greatest show on earth, designed to elect "the leader of the free world"
has ended up in a shameful and ludicrous fiasco. As in any banana
republic, now in the United States people talk of fraud in some Florida
counties, of electronic manipulation to cheat thousands of retirees that,
everyone knew, were going to vote for Gore, and of the need for a vote
recount to determine the winner of the Presidency. And in the heat of
the discussions numbers are brought up that one is used to hearing in the
Guatemala of the military rulers, in El Salvador, or, more recently, in
Peru of Fujimori and Montesinos. In Miami (It had to be there!) in
elections previous to the one of the Tuesday recently past 17 thousand
deceased persons and more than 50 thousand convicts that, of course, do
not have the right to vote, took part.
The millions of dollars that Gore and Bush spent were not enough.
Neither the respect for the unwritten rule according to which, to
seriously seek the Presidency of the greatest democracy (?) in the world,
three unavoidable requirements must be met: to be white, to be
Anglo-Saxon and to be protestant (Kennedy was the only catholic who won
the Presidency and everybody knows what happened to him.)
The spectacle, frankly, makes you laugh. Not because of the
Northamerican people , who are angry and in disbelief, but at their
leaders. It is like that story in which no one dared to say that the
king was naked. The situation can not be more scandalous; however, the
illustrious and outstanding men of the OAS remain silent with the
greatest prudence. No one has dared to suggest sending a mission of
observers to the United States, to investigate if there was fraud. No
one has spoken of a mediation to see if Gore and Bush could accept that
the elections in Florida be repeated or, in the best Peruvian style,
adopt the idea of calling for new elections within six months in which
neither Bush nor Gore could participate (even though, according to what
is being said, the dirty business was done by Bush's people, in a state
politically dominated by Cuban exiles and governed, this is funny, by his
youngest brother Jeb). Why Gaviria does not talk? Why the OAS has not
been called to an emergency meeting to study the political and electoral
situation of one of its member countries, in this case the United States?
Poetic Justice. Divine Justice, without a doubt. Forty years of
blockade to an heroic people and, as a result, to suffer the cancer of
the corruption that Cuba used to suffer before her Revolution. Divine
Justice. Poetic Justice. Indeed!
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"Why are people still fighting and killing each other?
We are almost in the 21st century. We are a tiny small
planet. Why keep fighting? Each nation has a beautiful
culture and dancing and music to share. Why fight? Each
religion has its own faith and compassion to teach. Why
don't we use faith and not weapons?"
Rev. Jun Yasuda
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Perhaps (talvez) we'll end with a parody.
To the tune of "She's Not There."
Made famous by almost everyone.
Well no one told me elections
Were rigged like this
My poli sci professor warned me
Now I'm really pissed
Well it's too late to ask for justice
How did I vote
Why should I care
Well please don't bother trying for fairness
She's not there.
Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
Our Lady Justice
The statue with her hair
I saw a scale there
We asked for balance
But she's not there
OPINION - "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath
was the best heavy metal album ever made.
No one has come close, many have blatantly
tried.
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