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Activist Times Inc. Issue 074
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America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America I misplaced a 720K floppy, mine. Can't find it.
Will it turn up? Hopingly.
March 13, 1997. I definitely can't stand my own mind.
America when will we rid ourselves of all violence and
Naked agression?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I feel shitty, leave me alone.
I'm like a wound with legs.
I'll write the rest of this borrowing heavily
When I'm good and readily.
America when will we be free?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you stop eating people?
America why are your libraries full of fears?
America when will you send food unconditionally to everybody?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go somewhere and buy something with my looks?
There must be some other way to live than consumption.
You are machinery America. Nothing more.
Ginsberg is dead and I steal his posies gladly.
Ring around your holier-than thous. I spit on your Tupperware coffin.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
Well, Til Eulenspiegel doesn't like it so
Knock it off America.
When will cops smile and say "have a nice day?"
Let me make my point for peat's sake.
Hummous. Sprouts. Beans, Kurdistanis and whey.
No way.
America, you're silly. I think you're chronologically 12.
Psychosis, America you'll choke on your own Exxon mine.
America I miss Abbie Hoffman.
Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. Peter Maurin and Mitch Schneider.
America
SHUT THE SCHOOL OF THE ASSASSINS DOWN!!!
Free Leonard Peltier he keeps embarrassing me. As do Mumia Abu Jamal.
I'm proud to be America? I'm horny for justice America.
I haven't seen democracy in my lifetime.
SHUT DOWN THE CRANDON MINE AND GET YOUR PENIS OUT OF NAVAHOPI LANDS.
America I used to be an anarchist when I was young and stupid.
Now I'm balding and cynical and horny for nonviolent revolution.
If I knew how to overthrow your sorry ass conflict-oriented International
Insecurity State without tanks and squadrons I'd've done it a decade ago.
I'm proud to be an American just as I'm proud to be an anarchist.
America my mind is made up of LSD, potassium, salt, fibroptics, silocon
and seminary school.
America I'm a jew and I'm a Christian but your jews for jesus movement
Pisses me off.
America I still haven't told you what you did to me when I came back from
The Persian Gulf.
I'm sick of your dumb smartbombs and your news blackouts and your dead civilians
By the Chinook-130-load
I'm addressing you, you fagbashing homophobe.
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Turner Network Television?
Oh I see, America, your new boyfriend is Bill Gates.
I'm obsessed by Bill Gates. I want to lick his DOS.
It occurs to me that I am Bill Gates.
I am talking to myself again. I do that.
America how can I write anything but this shit when you still hold your
Itchy Finger on a Plutonium 239 trigger?
America I know the Unabomber. He used to log onto my BBS.
America Captain Crunch is a little weird but he's really a nice guy.
Leave him alone and stop eavesdropping on his emails to me.
America you are guilty of wirefraud. How do I press charges against
America? You'll just have me killed or something. Or worse, waste taxpayers
Dollars following me 3 Ford LTD's deep.
America go ahead and put Taco Bell on the Rio Grande.
America when I was 10 my mother and father brought me to hippy church
Be Ins and I had sex with teenage girls. Don't knock my mother and father
They are the best Republicans you've got.
America you don't really want any more wars.
Stop stockpiling diseases.
America we're one antibiotic away from mass oblivian.
Cut it out with the Bovine Growth Hormones and the pig enzymes in cheddar
Cheese.
America this is quite serious. There are lots of people who are way too
Fat and way too thin and they can't help themselves because they watch
Too much David Letterman and Thighmaster commercials.
America am I right?
Are we going to wipe ourselves out in 2003?
Will we take all of the beautiful innocent animals with us?
Have we lost all our topsoil like Rome?
America I await Vatican III in 3D.
This issue of ACTIVIST TIMES, #74 is dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, Thomas
Merton and some dead nuns in El Salvador.
Welcome to my neighborhood. This is ATI74 and I am prime anarchist. (no web page yet)
<picture> - Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and friends of Rocky Flats Truth
Force, meditating on R.R. Tracks outside Rockwell Corporation Nuclear
Facility's Plutonium bomb trigger factory, Colorado, halting trainload of
waste fissile materials on the day Plutonium Ode was completed, July 14, 1978
Photo by Steve Groer, Rocky Mountain News.
There were no submissions of URL's or hot phone numbers so you all must
be either enjoying quietly reading, or shy.
Please send all feedback (good OR bad) to
marco99@juno.com
A Short VH1 review:
If I have to see and/or hear Celine Dion show us all how hard it is to be
"all by myself" one more time per hour I may just Nuke viacom, corp.
ATI, one big 11K opinion page.
ATI, above ground since 1997.
74 trombones led the big parade;
And 3 little hornys blew toot, toot
Toot; all the way home.
Activist Times, Inundated. Giving K00l links since 1989.
#'s #'s #'s #'s #'s #'s #'s #'s #'s #'s.
I've only got 3. I'll give more when I get.
Hint, hint, hint. <clears throat.>
http://www.vip.fi/~lainepe/xfiles/hpa.htm
http://iceberg.anchorage.net/users/tonedef/hotlist.html
http://www.paradise.net/sergiotv/wwp.html
wait, this just in:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4933/walmart.html
(I suggest you tool around that SOHO a little I remember seeing
neat doodads around there somewhere.)
And last but not least:
http://www.win.net/~cjc/fear/fear.html
(thanks, Carl. Thanks, Pamela.)
Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked,
The way she acted, the color of her hair...
APRIL 27, mark your calendularia.
March on PHILLY.
JOBS NOT JAILS. (212)633-6646 if you can make it at 1pm
(215)724-1618 if you need a note from your mom or will be late.
PRESS RELEASE - PROTEST at Clinton's Summit Meeting.
End workfare; restore the right to welfare; real jobs at a living wage.
Hands off Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security
Stop cuts in education; no tuition increases
Housing for people, not profit.
CIA drugs out of the community
(editor's note. Sign atop microbus, 1990: CIA OUT OF USA)
End the death penalty. (did you know there's a moratorium pending as we
chat?)
Money for AIDS not the Pentagon
Defend affirmative action
Full rights for immigrants
End corporate pollution
Reproductive rights now; end clinic bombings.
Lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights
Stop the US war against Cuba.
Free Mumia, Leonard, Geronimo and the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners.
-#-
CHILDREN OF WOOD AND METAL
by Shadow. (ed note: this is a very long piece. It will show in
the next 5-20 issues as a saga. Consider it a good
alternative to the Starwars mega-ilogy)
He had never had any children, and he probably never would,
this ragged man named Ted Kaczmaryk who rode a junkyard bicycle.
Nevertheless, he was intimately acquainted with the immensity of life and
death on this planet. He was a very creative man.
His mind was in a ferment today as he peddled up the hill toward his
cabin. He'd spent all day at the town library, catching up on the world's
news. One article in particular haunted him. He could not get it out of
his mind as he labored up Stemple Pass Road.
A yellow school bus was stopped by the cluster of mailboxes, disgorging
a horde of children. One of them waved to Ted, who recognized the boy as
Dan, the librarian's son. Ted lifted a finger in return, but did not
speak (ed note: that is "way" montana/colorado/arizona) Two other boys
turned to stare at him. There goes that weirdo, said one to the other,
and they both laughed.
TO BE CONTINUED IN ATI 75 NEXT WEEK.
"TECHNOLOGY causes our lives to no longer be our own." Thomas Merton,
1955. (right about the same time MacDonalds sold their first thousand.)
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DISCLAIMER all the views you see before you are not necessarily those
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of Prime Anarchist Productions members at large or small. But they
probably ought to be.
PART IV OF MARC FRUCHT'S GUIDE TO THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO.
Previously Published in paper form December 1995. Timed but oh so timely.
95. It is said that we live in a free society because we have a certain
number of constitutionally guaranteed rights. But these are not as
important as they seem. The degree of personal freedom that exists in a
society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of
the society then by its laws or its form of government.
NOTE 16. When the American colonies were under British rule there were
fewer and less effective guarantees of freedom than there were after the
American Constitution went into effect, yet there was more personal freedom
in pre-industrial America, both before and after the War of Independence
than there was after the Industrial Revolution took hold in this country...
95. (con't) Most of the Indian nations of New England were monarchies, and
many of the cities of the Italian Renaissance were controlled by dictators.
But in reading about these societies one gets the impression that they
allowed far more personal freedom than our society does...
97. Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve
to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception
of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception a "free" man is
essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of
prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the
needs of the social machine more than those of the individual... But what
kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only as someone else
prescribes? FC's conception of freedom is not that of ... bourgeois
theorists. (I almost spelled that terrorist, had to do a doubletake)
The trouble with such Theorists is that they have made the development and
application of social theories their surrogate activity. Consequently the
theories are designed to serve the needs of the theorists more than the needs
of any people who may be unlucky enough to live in a society on which the
theories are imposed.
(CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE)(For those just joining in, and others keep in mind:
this is just a primer. I've picked the ones that I think we need to know of.
I've left out the ones the Washington Post and New York Times picked that
didn't seem to make sense, kept in the most important 4500 words. T'least
that's MY opinion. Read the whole thing please and make up your own mind.
I urge you NOT TO BELIEVE ME BLINDLY OR THE OTHER PRESSES.)
JOURNAL POEM 5 previously published in a UCONN quarterly under a true name.
fall '95.
Woman wearing topaz bolo tie
Dismantles her "NO TRESPASSING"
Unfurls her new "NO SKATEBOARDING."
Cooling off by a fake waterfall
I watch lead, rhythm and bass
Zylophonists play "Not what it used
To Be," their final cut-
Slices thru my heart like Swiss Army
Sawblade thru sun-melted butter.
Hold the Coke and smile, I want
RC Cola and a wince.
Slept thru half an Eagles song-
Woke up; clock saying 1189 p.m.-
2 many people w/ fake black hair-
1st Ronald McDonald was vegetarian-
Guess I woke up on the wrong side of-
The driver's seat: damn those digitals.
Dale Carnegie once said, "Plan for
The worst -- and hope for the best."
"This isn't a bagel," he said once
Too, "It's white bread with a hole."
Inchworms are the same, the world over:
Just a little different in size.
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