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Activist Times Inc. Issue 273
This issue dedicated to Jeff Moebus.
SWEDISH FINANCE MINISTER GETS JUST DESSERT!
EU Finance Ministers were meeting in the
Swedish city of Malmö for the Informal ECOFIN
Meeting April 20 - 22.
Demonstrations, actions and lectures were all
planned in a mini counter-summit. Leading up to
the Stockholm events, the Swedish Finance Minister,
Bosse Ringholm, presented the spring 2001 Swedish
state budget. Processing on his way to the presentation,
Ringholm was pied, not only once, but twice. In a press
release, Stockholms Tårtbrigade (Stockholms Pie Brigade)
took credit for providing the early dessert. An irritated
Ringholm told news reporters that "This is the kind of
thing you do when arguments no longer work!" AFA-Sweden
commented by saying, "How right you are Mr. Ringholm!"
More info about the events in Malmö can be found at:
http://come.to/oresundsaktionen2001
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o o o o We take up less space;
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o o o o And say twice as much.
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ATI!
Hi, I'm prime anarchist and this is the e-zine for
Saturday, April 28, 2001. Or was it Sunday, Ap... or
Monday the first quarter moon... yeah, whatever.
First up we got the usual numbers and letters, than
we have some news oriented treats for you. Or was that
treat oriented news? Yeah, what he said. But even before
"first up," (yeah, so early he's taking warmup swings)
I've got:
PREDICTION:
Earthquake near Quebec on or before May 20 of this year.
College-Beer-Oriented Riots in Quebec by next Mardi Gras.
Oh, and this seems like the week of the "Open Letter" format.
You'll see what I mean shortly.
And now to the rest of my column.
Wonders never cease. Guess what error message I got today
in my Windows machine? "This is not a bootable floppy. Replace
and press any key when ready." Now I wouldn't bring this up,
because it's the right error for what was wrong. I had a floppy
in the A drive (which is at the top of my set priorities before
booting from the hard-drive.) which only contained txt files.
But I bring it up because every other time I've ever powered
this machine with a floppy in the A drive that didn't have a
command.com in it, I get any of half a dozen random, arbitrary
erroneous error message and I go, "oh yeah, right. That means
I have a floppy in there that's not bootable."
You ever worry right after something works RIGHT for the
first time of it's life?
I have to ask you about P.J. Squares. (t.m.) Made with
fresh roasted peanuts and fruit juice. 10 slices (1.2 oz. ea.)
Yes, that's 12 oz of something in a shrink-wrap that makes it
look exactly like kraft sandwich slices. You know, the kind
with so much preservative added to the casseinate that you
won't have to ever refrigerate them. Only THESE slices you
have to refrigerate. Hmmm. There must be some food in here
then.
Or is there?
Let's turn over the package for our answer. "What is a
PJ Square?" it asks, or more to the point suggests.
"Fresh roasted peanuts on one side and Strawberry on
the other. It's the quickest, neatest, easiest way to
make a P-nutty an' Yummy sandwich!"
This is apparently a busy parent's dream. Just slap
a piece of wonderbread on a piece of glad-wrap, open
up one of these slices of foodstuff, slap it on the
bread, take out one more piece of bread, fold up the
plastic, stuff it in one of those brown paper bags,
add apple or pear to taste and voila! Quick, easy lunch.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
What the fuck are we doing to ourselves? This is a
perfect way to make our children ever so much MORE the
Columbine-leaning; and we don't even notice, do we???
DUMB, PEOPLE, DUMB. BAD MOVE. AN ASSEMBLY LINE FOR OUR
KID'S SCHOOL LUNCHES. YEAH, I KNOW. PERFECT. ALL THE
REASON TO HAVE 7.9 MORE CHILDREN. YES, THERE'S ALMOST
8 MORE SLICES IN THIS PACKAGE. Or wait, I'll keep the
2.1 I've got and buy one package a week. And yes, the
.1 child'll just have to feel left out once in a while.
I'll instruct that one to make a leftover turkey or
ham sandwich while I'm poppin' out these perfectly
popular PJ Squares.
But wait, there's an underlying revenge tucked in
this underdog scenario, isn't there?
"What did your mom make?"
"Boloney, see?"
"Oh, yeah, well at least she used Hellmans and
not that Miracle Whip, stuff."
"But I like Miracle Whip."
"Yeah? Then I'll trade you this Roast Beast and
Hellmans for your Baloney and Miracle... wait, what
did your little brother just..."
"I said, ALL I GOT WAS A FRIGGIN' SLICE OF PEANUT
HONKIN' APPLEJUICE THING ON TWO PIECES OF PROCESSED
FLOUR! MY MOTHER HATES ME, I'M GONNA..."
"No, put down that rocket launcher, Dylan, it's
not worth it. Don't risk detention, Dylan."
"Thad, she always loved you more. Who's gonna
trade me ANYTHING for a PJ Square friggin samwich???"
NUMBUCE - (273)
http://gus.protest.net
http://www.hipmama.com
http://www.stallman.org
http://dru.ca/qc.gallery
http://www.rubberhose.org
http://dept.kent.edu/may4
http://www.giantheads.com
http://ckln.sac.ryerson.ca
http://www.caffeproust.com
http://free2disagree.cjb.net
http://www.thisisdemocracy.org
http://thempaasucks.tripod.com
http://www.engage.nu/index.php3
http://www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk/csgas.htm
http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/black.html
http://www.craigslist.org/aboutus.html#josh
http://www.projectcensored.org/cyearbook.htm
http://www.infoshop.org/humor/lightbulb2.html
http://www.interesting-people.org/200104/0101.html
http://www.laslocomm.net/techjournal/ltj_v1_i1.txt
http://flag.blackened.net/wwwthreads/wwwthreads.php
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43339,00.html
http://www.thecapitaltimes.com/2001/04/16/news/street_music.php
LETTUCE - 0104291458
¿Sabes?
MIENTRAS MI PC TRABAJA YO GANO DINERO!!!
¡¡¡ EN SERIO !!!
He descubierto como ganar dinero con mi
PC y mi Modem...
[No thanks. Send me a personal email though.
That'd be nice. Thanks.]
to ati@etext.org
Check out Deedee O'Malley
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/30/deedee_omalley.html -
I believe the title song from her latest CD,
BEAUTIFUL L.A., will fit your format beautifully.
The song is an upbeat walk down the cynical side
of the music scene in L.A.
Deedee is a Star 98 Lilith Fair Contest Winner,
was voted #1 Female Independent Artist by Music
Connection Magazine, and is a featured artist on
LA Women in Music CD.
Give a listen to all the tunes.
Thanks.
Annie
to ati@etext.org
Hey sister, have you heard?
Some people stand like trees, without a word
and what that means is that some people don't
talk.
-From Never Tell
-Submitted by neilg
OPEN LETTER TO http://www.freepressinternational.com
[18:02] <zapATIsta> [17:45] <zapATIsta> [13:23] <zapATIsta>
freepress: I asked you before to go somewhere else and
investigate on your own which 3 government agents
infiltrated black bloc and get to the bottom of THAT
rather than stir up shit based on flawed generalities
like "all of black block are cia."
/The following film has been/
/modified from its original/
/version. We've added a JVC/
/ commercial in between the/
/previews and the feature /
/so we can suck even MORE /
money out of you all. /
Congratulations to Phil Collins for finding someone 1/3 his
age to have a baby with. Born today, this kid will likely
inherit about 1/4 of the entire music cartel for the entire
planet.
Imagine that you get a record deal and find out that the
person who owns the person who owns the person who owns
the company who owns the person who owns the company who
owns Bertlesmann who owns Napster, AOL, Warner-Lambert
Bros, Newsweek, Chivas Regal, Chrysler, Taco Bell, Star-
Bucks, Grumman, Sikorski, Metallica, Britney Spears AND
you is still wearing diapers???
Yikes.
And the "understatement-of-the-year" award goes to a
ghost writer who said, "Talent doesn't count in today's
music business."
OPEN LETTER TO DUBYA:
There is a small island named Pine (unpopulated)
less than one mile off the coast of Connecticut.
Please, show me how patriotic you really are,
and pull completely out of vieques island.
Bomb the shit out of Pine Island, CT and risk
YOUR FATHER'S prostate and YOUR MOTHER'S breasts.
Leave the indigenous alone.
For Mother Earth,
Marco
OPEN LETTER TO THE CORPORATION WHO WROTE ME:
Thank you for contacting us about employment
opportunities at ____, inc.
We will maintain your resume in an active
status for 60 days and will contact you should
we have a position that fits your interests and
background. We appreciate your interest in ____
and wish you the best in obtaining a challenging
are rewarding position.
Sincerely,
_____
Human Resources
Thank you for informing me that yadda yadda,
yadda yadda, yadda yadda yadda and yadda yadda.
But you left out one very pertinent detail in
your very well-typed (or was that printed out?)
letter.
YOU DIDN'T MENTION I DIDN'T GET THE JOB, YOU
SPINELESS PIECE OF ANONOMOUS BUREAUCRATIC "I'M-
JUST-DOING-MY-JOB WORTHLESS DRONE.
Get out of your cubicle and beat the shit out
of yourself. And when you're done, try really
hard to wake yourself out of this funk and take
back your life, or it'll soon be too late. You'll
be herding people onto cattle-cars and chanting
"I'm-just-doing-my-job; I'm-just-doing-my-job;
I'm-just-doing-my-; I'm-just-doing-;I'm-just-"
SHARED PERSONAL LETTER TO BOB KERREY
Dear Mr Kerrey,
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for your own personal healing.
Thank you for being the next big facilitator
in this vastly ill Nation's healing, and
thank you for finally allowing the families
of some of the people you've harmed that
they may begin healing also.
Toward the end of my military career,
I was home in Connecticut visiting my mom,
and sister, my girlfriend, etc. I happened
on a man on Route 1 in Mystic with a plate
in his head who was 100% disabled because
of shrapnel he'd taken during Nam. He
apparently has been holding two signs up
in Mystic and also in New London almost
every day since the late 70's without fail.
One sign says "No More Vietnams," and the
other, Mr. Kerrey, says "What About The
Children?"
I talked with him a little and found out
what made him tick, and asked him why he
was doing this. Mr. Kerrey, he handed me
a George Mizo poem.
This poem changed me so much I've done
two things since.
1) carried the poem he gave me in my
wallet for the rest of my life.
2) scanned it's tattered remains in as
a .jpg so I have it on the net.
It's at: http://flag.blackened.net/ati/mizo.jpg
in case you'd like to look at it, and I'll type
it in here in case you'd rather just see the
text.
Sincerely,
marco
====
and Kerrey replies:
And my thanks right back to you.
Bob
====
Don't blame ME for this one. I'm just passing it
along, since the concepts are interesting.
Cheshire
-- end comment
To be a good "Liberal":
1.. You have to believe the AIDS virus is
not spread by personal behavior choices
but by a lack of federal funding.
2.. You have to believe that the same teacher
who can't teach 4th graders how to read is
somehow qualified to teach those same kids
about sex.
3.. You have to believe that guns in the hands
of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat
than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the
hands of Chinese communists.
4.. You have to believe that there was no art
before Federal funding.
5.. You have to believe that global temperatures
are less affected by cyclical, documented changes
in the earth's climate, and more affected by
yuppies driving SUVs.
6.. You have to believe that gender roles are
artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7.. You have to be against capital punishment,
but support abortion on demand.
8.. You have to believe that businesses create
oppression, and governments create prosperity.
9.. You have to believe that hunters don't care
about nature, but activists who've never been
outside of Seattle do.
10.. You have to believe that self-esteem is more
important than actually doing something to earn it.
11.. You have to believe the military, not corrupt
politicians, starts wars.
12.. You have to believe the NRA is bad, because it
supports certain parts of the Constitution, while
the ACLU is good, because it supports certain
parts of the Constitution.
13.. You have to believe that taxes are too low,
but ATM fees are too high.
14.. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and
Gloria Steinem are more important to American history
than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, or
Thomas Edison.
15.. You have to believe that standardized tests are
racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
16.. You have to believe that the only reason
socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried,
is because the right people haven't been in charge.
17.. You have to believe conservatives telling the
truth belong in jail, but liars and sex offenders
belong in the White House.
18.. You have to believe that homosexual parades
displaying drag queens, transvestites and bestiality
should be constitutionally protected and manger
scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
19.. You have to believe that illegal Democratic
party funding by the Chinese is somehow in the best
interest of the United States.
20.. You have to believe that a crucifix submerged
in urine is art, while a crucifix in a classroom is
a threat to our constitutional freedom.
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MY ART IS WORTH
TOO MUCH TO TURN
DOWN THE FREE GIGS
=000=
I'd like to say something about Human Resources
There. I've said all I need to, huh?
= # =
LINER NOTES
"Most creepy about the Monday hearing [Jaggi Singh]
was the description of the infiltration of this political
collective. Police testified they had been surveilling
the group for several months. Aware that one guy was
looking for a job, they created a fake company and
advertised for a delivery person. He was hired and
found himself driving food between Montreal and Quebec
City -- with a cop in the same car! The two ended up
being "friends" and in this way the cop got access to
the whole group of anarchist militants, and participated
in the strategizing for the upcoming Summit.
[ref]=[http://www.cmaq.net/viewarticle.ch2?articleid=1503&language=english]
THINK ABOUT IT
"Human" and "resources."
Two words which should NEVER sit
next to each other in a sentence.
\\(o0o)//
STRAY #'S
http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/latuff/violence.html
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/pulitzer.html
And in keeping with tradition: we end with a "poetry."
You are watching ATI, activist times, dIgesting.
A cyber-love-note, to brighten your day in case
all you get anymore in your inbox is yucky stuff.
A breadth of fresh hair.
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You, my church, told me it was wrong to kill... except in war.
You, my teachers, told me it was wrong to kill... except in war.
You, my father & mother, told me it was wrong to kill... except in war.
you, my friends, told me it was wrong to kill... except in war.
You my country, told me it was wrong to kill... except in war.
You sent me to war to kill...
And when I had no choice...
You told me I was wrong.
But now I know, you were wrong...
And now I will tell you...
My church,
My teachers,
My father and mother,
My friends,
My country...
It is not wrong to kill in war...
It is wrong to kill... Period.
And this you have to learn...
Just as I did.
George Mizo
A Vietnam Veteran For Peace
[Again: this issue dedicated to Jeff Moebus.]
