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...and along similar lines, I believe kraft
should be sued against using the word food.
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Dedicated to Paddy Inman, one of
the peacemakers among us. May the
rest of us but aspire to such.
Hello, I'm prime anarchist and this is my rant for
Monday, 04/09/01 - Full moon going out, eh? Ah whoooop!
Well, today was complete for me at 8am. I watched a
woodpecker working atop a telephone pole about two
blocks from my house. Now I've either "seen it all,"
or "seen all I'll ever need."
They're talking about SOA in confirmation classes
all over the country. Well, I've "confirmed" three
instances, so I'm thinking we're seeing a trend here.
My thought is:
Forget Bart Simpson man. Forget Martin Sheen. We need
the Power Puff Girlz.
Well, once again, many of us gathered on the east
coast from all over the country, from all over the world
and we attempted to speak truth to power, like fools
before us, St. Francis, Mahatma, Mumia, Martin, William
Kunstler, Dorothy Day, Angela Davis and Mother Teresa.
I live just for this.
I live justly for this.
OK, I've got a serious question here. What is the Jones
Day building and why is the "handicapped accessible"
entrance an old cut stone stairway that is most definitely
NOT handicapped accessible??
Gum-Out the ink on your typewriters, people. The First
George's famous middle initial is NOT (I repeat NOT) a
letter at all. It's a numeral. III. George III quick
becomes George W. How? \|/ Hmmm...
TAGLINES - You try whisc'ing, SOA'ing, Whisc'ing, Benning,
whisc'ing, panamania, and whisc'ing. But you still have,
ring around the collar. WHISC, you're soaking in it. Like a
bad neighbor, SOA's there. When you absolutely, positively
need a massacre overnight. You deserve a break today, so
we'll close the SOA.
I can't believe we trained the whole bunch!
Now, I'm serious here. This is no laughing matter. I have
in my hand two pamphlets I received on Friday while I was
wandering around our nation's capitol. Which pamphlet would
you find wackiest? Tell the truth. One that starts out,
"Welcome To The Pentagon, Please Come Back?" or "MUSIC:
Musicians United to Stop Involuntary Circumcision?"
The Pentagon's Metro Cafe "proudly brew[s] Starbucks
Coffee." http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/pentagram.html
http://www.stopinfantcircumsision.org had the Capitol's
East steps all weekend. I swear. They beat us to a permit
by 6 months! We had to use the lawn. Oh well.
"Read my lips, I'm George's son."
T-Shirt idea: "What Part Of 'CLOSE THE SOA' Don't You
Understand?"
Listen, I can't believe they gave us the whole National
Monument Sunday. I mean we were definitely parading without
a permit.
They wouldn't let us make a straight shot to the Mall and
then when they realized turning us would send us even closer
than they first thought, they tried to tell Paddy to turn us
around, and he told them he'd try but thought it would be
difficult, they looked for the end of our procession and
never seeing it, the police sped off away from us, with
other cars coming in from both sides to stop traffic and
direct us on past the thing. I mean you could stick out
your left hand and touch it.
If we were willing to climb on top of each other, I bet
we could have knocked it over. Just a thought...
hehehe
OK, I'll end this ranticle-infested columnizing with an
opinion. Ready?
We are to be called Generation J thru D. We are J-D because
we are the entire year. Yeah. J20, F26, M29 (yeah, pie-ing
wolfensohn!) A16 and A20 on thru N19 and D20. We are the
year that was, we are the year that will be.
Well, J-D sucks, but it's a better nick than anything
anyone else has come up with so far.
Vale,
Prime Outa Hear.
NUMMERS, get your nummers here...
http://www.hoe.nu
http://www.mop414.org
http://www.dispenza.com
http://www.johnpilger.com
http://www.linuxkitty.com
http://www.plumvillage.org
http://www.supersphere.com
http://scene.textfiles.com
http://www.dessertstorm.org
http://www.towardfreedom.com
http://www.screechmagazine.com
http://www.mp3.com/marcocapelli
http://www.standingdeer.f2s.com
http://www.patswayne.com/melanie
http://www.whitedog.com/soa.html
http://www.radio4all.org/crackcia
http://www.freespeech.org/yabasta
http://www.sinkers.org/SOAdemoApr0101
http://www.gmpublishing.com/links.html
http://www.djtaylor.com.ar/Noticias.htm
http://people.delphi.com/vlorbik/zine.html
http://moshkow.nino.ru/ORWELL/r1984ch1.txt
http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/soa/ernst.shtml
http://members.aol.com/apoetspen/webbibl.htm
http://www.neuroticos.com/borderhack/eng.html
http://www.laslocomm.net/techjournal/ltj_v1_i1.txt
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm
http://madison.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=370
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7996/links2.html#misc
http://members.tripod.com/cannabishempsativa/etclinxpg.html
http://members.tripod.com/gonzolinks/panic_culture/panic_culture.html
And some LETTUCE? Yeah, for your head...
Very nice, Marco.
I know what SOA did for us in Brazil.
Brazilian military dictatorship sent
many personnel for training on torture
and stuff. SOA web site seems very
interesting too, putting available some manuals.
Essential for those whom care about human rights.
Thanks for the tip!
Your brother-in-arts,
Latuff
..
I just got back from being arrested in CT
for stuff a collegue and I wrote on my webzine,
YanktheChain.com (http://www.yankthechain.com).
Just thought I'd bring it to your collective attentions;
my own privite little first amendment battle.
For more info,
http://www.yankthechain.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi?0&10
EricR
http://www.yankthechain.com
..
to ati@etext.org
it was Brett Axel who walked away with the first prize
myth
..
Sunday, May 13th -
WCNI Fundraiser and Record Convention
Ocean Beach Park, New London, CT
Also on the bill are The Lyres, The Dictators,
and The Fleshtones and more bands will be
announced later. Event will run from noon-10PM.
$10 admission.
http://www.thereducers.com/gigs/2001/0513.html
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to ati:
R. Budd Dwyer
Shot himself in the mouth with
a .357 Magnum, a.k.a "Hog Leg"
1987
uweden
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From Steve Wozniak's Joke List
Cheshire )
Message from PG&E
An announcement by PG&E:
In an effort to help out in the current
energy crisis, the light at the end of
the tunnel will be turned off until
further notice. Thank you for your
cooperation and understanding.
Sincerely,
PG&E Customer Service
..
This is the second song in the series of
New Benedict Arnold & the Traitors Material.
This song "L.A.P.D" was written in 1981. I
updated the lyrics. It's about LA finest,
the boys in blue. Check it out. It wont cost you
a penny. http://www.mp3.com/thetraitors
..
Dear Marco Capelli ,
I know this letter will come as a surprise to you.
I am a director of an N.G.O desperately needing to
transfer over $19.5 million out of my country for the
personal use of my partners and a foreign assistant.
Please reply me through e-mail if you are interested
so that I can elucidate on the details.
Dr. Wilfred Eze.
"He taught me to plant corn (3 kernels to each
mound) on a hillside so steep I could scarcely
stand."
--John Heid
PORTRAIT OF A PROVOCATEUR OR FOUR
by Marc Frucht.
Special to ACTIVIST TIMES.
OK, here is my new profile of a c0intelpr0
agitator/instigator/punker/blackbloc-wannabe
presence at a Washington DC demonstration.
Had I never seen Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool,"
I might've missed this one.
As part of my routine PeaceKeeper tasks last
weekend I snuffed out four feds on the Mall. Or
is neutralized a better word? Nah, why co-opt
violence. I helped display and make four feds
just uncomfy enough to leave as quickly as they
came, "cover blown."
We'd just marched from the Elipse past the
Washington Monument onto the Mall to stage a mock
die-in and then a couple hours of mass-leafletting.
"Kill, kill, kill!" I heard in the distance, fast
getting closer, "Rape a hippy," said one. "Napalm
sticks to little kids' bones," shouted another.
Four of them they were, marching lock-step up to
and inside our crowd. Jeans, Nikes, and brand new
blue hoodies they each wore. I mean so new, none of
them had even been washed the first time. That's
one of the biggest factors that gave them away, if
you ask me. Some of them had piercings, some didn't,
but they all had identical haircuts. Same Navy or
Army unit probably, and I was guessing they were in
their early 20's each. And they couldn't help walking
in lock-step no matter how hard they tried. That'll
usually tell you how close someone is to basic training.
Three forced their way into the very center of our
die-in pushing and shoving - the way you'd crash a stage,
or make your way into a mosh pit. The fourth fed followed
them in and stood just behind. (possibly in charge?)
I walked up and made my way just to their left, watched
a little, and listened. Looked around, found Bill just
in front of me filming the flute player with Linda,
another filmographer and still photographer.
I reached forward tapping Bill's shoulder, whispered in
his ear, "the four blue hoodies to my right are NOT with
our group, please help me keep an eye on them, ok?"
He looked them over, whispered "ok" and went back to
his work. He looked their way a couple times, back and
forth between them and me, and I kept looking between
them, Bill, and the group we protect, and soon enough
they all "about-faced" and marched off to their left.
I followed loosely behind in case they were planning
on circling. I was afraid they might plan to lose me
and Bill and then bust in and get rowdy, but I lost
them into a different crowd heading for the metro.
Another friend nearby confirmed that they did in fact
enter the subway system, and that on their way out they
were shouting more of the same right-wing paramilitary
crap they'd started in with.
I went back to my routine work thinking to myself they
might have done all this spontaneously, reactionary to
our group's presence; but then I'm trying really hard
here to give them the benefit of the doubt, right?
Reaching, you know.
They reminded me way too much of descriptions I'd heard
about Seattle's Black Bloc impersonators who tried so hard
to provoke a riot giving the Bloc a difficult reputation
to live down that they struggle against still to this day.
I heard it was later exposed that Seattle's BlackBloc
impersonators were Washington State policemen in their
early thirties and late twenties trying to seem like
angry rebellious Black Bloc teens. I wonder who was
paying these kids' bills?
Thank you Haskell Wexler,
[ ref ]=[ http://flag.blackened.net/ati/mediumcool.html ]
for keeping me knowing that
this kind of terror has been going on at US tax-payer
expense for so many decades.
Four of them!
TRUTH AROUND THE CORNER
a poem maybe
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
You've tried Panama, Georgia, SOA, Tide, Boraxo,
Shout and Whisc.
But you still have:
Ring around the collar.
"G. W. Bush would probably wear pink polka-dot suits
with no pants all day before he'd even look into the
case."
--Mali Lorenz about L. Peltier
"When they assassinated Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther
King, they hoped to reduce them into nothingness. But
these people continue to be with us, perhaps even more
than before, because they continue in other forms."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
WHAT'S NEXT?: Fantastic - by Marco
Shame on the US left. I believe the most difficult
thing the Zapata people will have to do is find it in
their heart of hearts to forgive "amerikan" leftists
for leaving them the big task.
NAFTA. Dropping the ball in THEIR tennis court. (we
could have stopped that here in the US back in '92 or
'93 - maybe earlier...)
But shame and forgiveness soon comes.
Because just as the US army rangers chose a brown
beret letting go the black, and Vicente Fox tries for
La Realidad or UNAM each letting the other go, I see
the "International Community" making the New World
Order to give up and repeal NAFTA.
JPG WANTED.
Please send an image of "W" extending his right hand's
index finger and thumb forming an "L" in front of his
forehead.
BISHOP: You Workin' For a King Or a Pawn?
I
Yes but have you been there?
Yes, for three days on a delegation and then once for
an entire week instead of Ft. Lauderdale during Spring
Break.
Fine but have you been there?
II
Yes but have you been there?
Sure, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years.
Fine but have you been there?
III
Yes, but have you been there?
I was a missionary for two years. Of course I've been
there.
Fine but have you been there?
IV
Yes, but have you been there?
Yes. I went there instead of Cancun one Spring Break.
And THEN I even went for a whole week on a delegation.
Fine but have you been there?
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Say It HERE
ati@etext.org
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"Clean Sidewalks; Dirty Wars"
--Chant, rinse, repeat
OK. I owe a poem, built on a metaphorical foundation.
A rock, a hill and a guy named sisyphus.
I.
MILPA: A Hard Wet Warm Water Rock
Columbus, GA and back is uphill both ways.
If you're asking for something someone
insists is impossible.
Close the SOA.
Never gonna get it.
Sure I am.
If I gotta die still asking, I'm gonna get it later.
Name of God,
Close the SOA.
"We can't," they say*, "you wouldn't want a world
without it, trust me."
"You can," I'll say, "you must. I've seen a world
WITH it."
And I'll try ANYTHING else.
_________
* "They" is Jimmy Carter face to face with my poet friend Brett.
II.
Retens: Just Gather Multitudes And Push On Through.
Chiapas to Mexico City and back is flat water.
Ask the impossible. And get it??
Close every big ugly base. All seven of your most
important.
No.
Yes.
No I can't. Only 3.
No, 4 more, you must.
No, I wish I could.
You can.
No, how about anything else?
No. Close them all.
No.
Yes.
No.
Please.
No.
I'm going home, I've given up. You suck. You lie.
I've got nothing to lose. You've got everything to
lose and nothing to gain. We're all going home.
Good day.
OK. I'll give you that. Let's talk.
III.
CAMBIO: Friendship Bracelet
Washington DC and back is definitely downhill.
I borrow this expression from my fargone army days,
when I fancied myself a patriot, much different kind
of patriot back then, I've developed since then.
You can NOT be a patriot blindly. Blind, you cannot -
will never be a patriot. Blind, a soldier, yes. A
murderer, yes, a floor mopper, buffer, waxer, and liar,
sure, but not a patriot. You'll see.
Washington DC is downhill all the way.
For as they said in the Signal Corps:
The shit rolls downhill.
I'm going to toilet paper Hillary Clinton's office
door Sunday night for April Fool's day.
Allouez, WI. Sunday March 25, 2001.
Here's some Parody: Sent in by Cheshire.
[where DOES he get this stuff??? {no,
I know, that was a rhetorical que...}]
To the theme music from "Rawhide"
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin,
Though the state is golden,
Keep them blackouts Rollin, statewide.
A little colder weather,
And we all freeze together,
Wishin' more plants were on the line.
All the things I'm missin',
Like lights and television,
Are waiting 'til we can pay the price.
Turn 'em on, turn 'em off,
Shut 'em down, block 'em out,
Turn 'em on, turn 'em off, statewide!
Brown 'em out, black 'em out,
Charge 'em more, give 'em less,
Let the polls fix the mess, statewide!
Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them rates a-movin', statewide.
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just raise, charge, and collect 'em.
Soon we'll be livin' high and wide.
My heart's calculatin',
Nuclear plants will be waitin',
Be waitin' at the end of my ride.
Turn 'em on, turn 'em off,
Shut 'em down, block 'em out,
Turn 'em on, turn 'em off, statewide!
Brown 'em out, black 'em out,
Charge 'em more, give 'em less,
Let the polls fix the mess, statewide!
STATEWIDE!!!
"We're Cold, We're Wet. The Pentagon Creates The Debt."
--Chant, rinse, repeat
Madison, WI - (PAWN) - Wisconsin will be able to use
federal moneys to offset some of the cost of fighting
the spread of politicians, insects that defoliate trees.
Under the plan approved by the Natural Parody Board,
about 1400 acres in Brookfield and Appleton will be
sprayed in May.
A poem to end the zine with.
Denise
by Marco
Blood all over you
Staining your shirt,
And bleach
And wet.
Woman, how can you say,
That was fun?
Wow
Beautiful.
So much fun.
Close the SOA.
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[again, this issue dedicated to paddy inman]
