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Activist Times Inc. Issue 309
Mesdames et messieurs,
se lèvent si vous plait, pour national l'anthem
de la Russie dans les haut-parleurs droits
et du Canada dans les haut-parleurs gauches.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please stand for the national anthem of Russia in the
right speakers, and Canada in the left ones.
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"The Americans knew that I often spoke to Fidel and that
any subject at hand would be dealt with seriously and securely.
For instance, when they wanted to send a secret envoy, as they
once did in the person of former Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters,
I would tell Fidel outright:
"The Americans want such and such" or "The CIA says such and such."
-- Manuel Noriega
also:
"There also had been a visit by American General Vernon Walters.
Walters had served as deputy director when George Bush was chief
of the intelligence agency."
--ibid
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POEM TO BE DEVELOPED: The Nurse In The Birka
Evans Army Hospital
She taught me the differences between Shiite,
Sunni, Sikh and even Bahai and American Islamist.
She monitored my morphine.
She told me about her army husband stationed in Kuwait.
I don't remember her name; should have written it down.
You might say she saved my life;
But I'll definitively say she saved my soul.
The Nurse in the Birka
Nurtured my soul.
Thank you!
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Hello, and welcome to activist times, the zine with
the attitude of a thousand something-or-others.
I'm prime anarchist, and this is the zine for Monday,
February 18th, 2002. It's 17 hundred hours my time.
That's like midnite Greenwich Mean Time or something.
Hmmm. I wonder what it is Greenwich Nice Time?
So enjoy this 'zine. You only get one a week or so.
marco
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We start with an open letter as a column. I'll be
snailmailing and emailing this to her as well, just
as soon as I find a stamp. And as soon as this zine
has run its course.
OPEN LETTER TO DOTTIE LAMB:
Dear Dottie,
May I call you Dottie? I remember knowing of you when
I was awaiting my medical discharge from the US Army
Signal Corps in Colo Sprgs and you were the former first
lady. You and your letters.
During my military years the Rocky Flats site was
beginning to show itself on its way out, despite Pat
Schroeder's years of denial there.
I read Workers World pretty regularly, and the Rocky
Mountain News more often than the other Denver Daily or my
local even.
Bikes Not Bombs, Peace In Space and the local soup kitchens
are really what radicalized me my last year-and-a-half of
service, you know.
You're going to laugh, my last 6 or 7 months was spent
working at Fort Cartoon during the day and changing into
civilian clothes every night at 4:30pm and riding bike to
route 115 as fast as I could to join in the 24/7 protests
against Iraq war by sleeping on the median between Acacia
Park and the USO building. Some days there were 30 of us
sleeping on that little median, other days 300. It seemed
like the colder it was, the more of us would be there.
The physical warmth of the men and women sleeping next
to you went along with the emotional warmth as well. It
really made for such a stark contrast that I can only
articulate so well on paper.
30 inches away form four men and women all day 9-5ish
for the army with distinct cold, fear, anger, rage,
resentment and all else that goes along with marching in
formation.
3 inches away from two or three people from dark to
sunrise with peace, love, hopes, fears, anger, rage and
hostility being processed with as much peace and love as
it could be surrounded with.
Every morning a Baby Ben clock would go off about 5
sleeping bags away from me and John, a Sergent in a
neighboring unit would wake up, hop on his motorcycle
and head back to about the same place I was biking back
to each morning.
Yes, what a half a year that was. I miss enough of that
with such passion that I almost forget all the horror we
dealt with too. threat of nuclear bombs, paramilitary
death squads, repression all around us, the works.
Now we're going back into Iraq hot and heavy and even
good ol' boy, Al Gore is saying he hopes "Junior" can
accomplish what his dad couldn't. The destruction of
Saddam Hussein? Boogeymen around every corner, alligators
under every bunkbed.
I hear the word "Axis" out of Bush's crooked mouth
and I tremble with the fear of knowing history, guessing
the future.
Dottie, I so want to feel patriotic like you,
nationalistic maybe, proud of my homeland, the place
I was born. But frankly I feel like I'm sitting in
some salon in 1930's Germany wondering if I'm the only
one who can't hate jews, gypsies, artists and gays.
After hearing Bush's word-choices such as "crusade"
"evil doers" "axis of evil" I wonder if I'll be surprised
when he announces a new salute to signify that we're the
"new americans" or something.
September should be a wakeup call, but one pointing out
something far beyond Bush's axis of evil.
The true "axis of evil" if there even is such a thing
is likely to look more like England, Italy and the Untied
States, give or take Japan.
Anyhow, main theme of this entire email should have
been my thanking you for showing yourself a thinking
person in this month's MonteLibre newspaper. Your dynamic
mind is what appeals to me most. Were it not for people
like you, the final extension of my anti-globalism beliefs
and philosophies would be the automatic hatred of all rich
people wholesale.
Not just the "evil" ones.
marco
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http://neirp.com
http://www.tenc.net
http://softskull.com
http://www.mezine.net
http://www.notowar.com
http://www.fnbnews.org
http://www.stallman.org
http://www.soulsista.net
http://mke.indymedia.org
http://www.freewaves.org
http://www.cluebyfour.com
http://www.poetsporch.com
http://www.poets4peace.com
http://www.nomoreaolcds.com
http://www.subliminalsex.com
http://www.rejectionline.com
http://www.jesusradicals.com
http://www.zmag.org/znet.htm
http://www.enronownsthegop.com
http://www.mp3.com/marcocapelli
http://www.poetix.net/autry.htm
http://www.infoshop.org/kidz.html
http://fnbmilwaukee.homestead.com
http://www.microcosmpublishing.com
http://www.netfeed.com/~jhill/ebb.htm
http://www.revbilly.com/prison%20skit.html
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/kids.html
http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/attachment
http://www.fire.or.cr/oct01/VIIpeacecast.htm
http://www.yomgaille.com/bordel/un_lapin.html
http://www.geocities.com/bikeadvoc/urban.html
http://www.cinerhama.com/jewish/history01.html
http://www.zippythepinhead.com/media/june7.gif
http://www.electricant.com/anarchismandradio.htm
http://www.neo-comintern.com/archives/ncom189.txt
http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3017
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/AEF/raps/tentcity.html
http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/mediafile_popup.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7741-2002Feb13.html
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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely
uttered to please, or what is worse, to
avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
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for ati:
FACT OF THE WEEK
In a country the size of the US, 500
reservists refusing to serve would be
the equivalent to 54,000
from website:
http://www.palestinemonitor.org
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To ATI
Kenneth Lay is small peanuts.
George W Bush will go down with
the sinking ship that is Enron.
Mort D
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Marco:
Choice Hotels. A merger of 6?
Enit.
[hmmm. can't keep track of them all!]
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to ati@etext.org
Are we still in Cuba for coal and refueling
after all these years?
McKinley Platt.
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to ati@etext.org
A mumia abu jamal quote for you:
"War is more than the instrument of big
business; it is big business."
31jan02
Just call me esther
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Hello,
Please pardon the intrusion, but I saw that your
email address ati@etext.org is in plain text on
the site http://flag.blackened.net/ati/ati228.html
making it vulnerable to be harvested by SPAM robots.
There's a neat way to hide your email from robots,
but have human users use it just like normal.
http://63.241.136.161/ec10067
Sincerely,
Jeff Graysmith
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Hey there,
This is just a quick introduction of the small record label
that I run out of my bedroom in Toronto, Ontario. The label
is called AntiAntenna Recordings, and you are getting this
message because I've done some research and found that the
publication you're working with would be interested in
getting press releases from the genres of music that I'm
working with.
So, I'll keep this short. Add "info@antiantenna.com" to
any mailing lists you might have for people like me. If
your publication has a section for an indie label showcase
or spotlight, please feel free to contact me for an interview.
If your site has a links section, I would gladly trade links
with you. I've already seen your site, and I think we're both
on the same track.
contact info for my label is:
AntiAntenna Recordings
4-1528 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada. M6R 1A4
url: http://www.antiantenna.com
Thanks very much,
Ryan Mills
Founder
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to ati@etext.org
Good day
I'm starting a newsletter about poetry and was wondering
if you or anyone you know would be interested in joining?
If so please e-mail me at poetrylist@aol.com.
Thanks for your time
Bobby
P.S
If you'd consider placing a line or two about my up and
coming newsletter I'll return the favor when I can.
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OFFICIAL NOTICE: Change Of Voting Location
Your polling location for all future elections is:
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The City Of ______ has completed the redistricting
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time we tried to make things as difficult as possible.
All borders of aldermanic/supervisor districts have
been redrawn resulting in a shift of some voters into
new wards. The redistricting has also made it necessary
to change 12 polling places, so even those voters who
remain in the same ward may now vote at a new location.
Thank you.
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Guy walks into his doctor and says, "I have this horrible
back pain."
"Didn't we give you pills to clear that up last month?"
The doctor asks.
"Yeah, I took them and would you know, those painkillers
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I took a bunch of my leftover Purple Pills (TM), yeah,
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"Accidental injury?"
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SOME GUY SAVED AN ENDANGERED SONG.
My J20 BushHillbillys parody. He's a Cooledit
whiz too. Gave me two tutorials on noise reduxx
to read as well.
Anyhew it's a song I wrote in notepad.exe, rehersed
two or three times, and then called DC indymedia web
radio and sang it to them over the phone. I literally
propped the phone up on Dante's "Inferno," Gideon's
"Bible," Random's "Thesaurus" and Orwells "1984."
So the phone faced right between my mouth and the
guitar somewhere. (note to self: next time right up
to the guitar, just sing toward it)
I sang my lungs out and then went about my business.
At some point I closed notepad.exe without saving and
poof. The song was gone for good. Right? No biggie, it
was topical. Probably time-specific, like a shelf-life.
Right?
J20
Inauguration
Bush Hillbillys. Hmm.
(next note to self: songs about Prescotts, Dulles'
Bushs' have no freshness stamp. They will ALWAYS carry
meaning.)
So I put the song behind me, spring, summer, fall.
And then...
"Didn't you do a J20 song live on the DC stream?"
this guy asks me in an irc chat.
I think so. Don't remember what I sang exactly, but
"yeah. I think so."
"Want an .MP3? I cleaned up the tinneyness from the
phone in cooledit and it actually sounds pretty good."
Wow, he sent it to me. It exists again.
He saved an endangered song.
Cool!
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/indymedia/J20BushHillbillys.mp3
Woah, is "Mellow Yellow" about heroin? I never thought
that until just now.
Part of a poem about the Waldorf Astoria
Oh Lawd, I done forgot Harlem!
Say, you colored folks, hungry a long time in
35th Street they got swell music at the Waldorf-Astoria. It sure
is a mighty nice place to shake hips in, too. There's dancing
after supper in a big warm room. It's cold as hell on Lenox
Avenue. All you've had all day is a cup of coffee. Your
pawnshop overcoat's a ragged banner on your hungry frame.
You know, downtown folks are just crazy about Paul Robeson!
Maybe they'll like you, too, black mob from Harlem. Drop in
the Waldorf this afternoon for tea. Stay to dinner. Give Park
Avenue a lot of darkie color--free for nothing! Ask the Junior
Leaguers to sing a spiritual for you. They probably know 'em
better than you do--and their lips won't be chapped with cold
after they step out of their closed cars in the undercover driveways.
Hallelujah! under-cover driveways!
Ma Soul's a witness for the Waldorf-Astoria!
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/indymedia/stream-all-5.ra
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/waldorf.htm
http://radio.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=970
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Songs listened to while making this new and half-moon edition:
"Are You Out There" - Dar Williams
"Miss Misery" - Elliot Smith
"sea of love" - cat power
"plastic jesus" - biafra & nixon
http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/attachment/border.mp3
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WELP, THAT'S ALL FOLKS...
Hope you liked the 'zine!
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Call 860-887-2600 ext. 5293 to ring up
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And remember, 2morrow is international
"yesterday plus two" day, so get out
there and like they do at Morris Agency
grease every palm you see, constantly
thinking up new, cool kitchy gifts that
won't smell too much like a bribe.
ATi gives sad farewell to Waylon Jennings; another
of the greats who dies before I get to meet. Oy!!!
