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Activist Times Inc. Issue 327
Hurry, there's just 11 shopping days until
the largest attempt at a new pre-Christmas-
retail-booster-day in over 40 years.
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Will "xmas" decorations go up in stores this
Columbus Day? 911? Labor Day?
Tune in a couple weeks from now to find out.
Hi, welcome to ATI issue 327. What's new with you?
The other night I sang "Solidarity Forever" with
a couple hundred flight attendants. That was neat.
The Native American Music Awards are coming up.
That's very cool. The MTV awards were stupid this
year. Just kind of dumb.
Midwest Express stock ended the week down .04 and
Boeing was -.36 How did you do?
http://flag.blackened.net is down. Should go back
up pretty soon.
Check out this 'zine. Hope you like it.
marco
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Preaching Ignorance
a poem
by KAT
What new morals do you have
That my own mother don't?
Do you know something great
That I can't, or I won't?
Without stolen prestige
Tell me what have you earned,
Behind false integrity
It seems you have not learned.
Preached to me on my life
Yet you live without conscience
Claimed status with God
In mindless alliance
You tell me I'm godless
And therefore I'm lifeless
While your peers chase me down
With Church Souvenir Pricelists
You tell me I'm making
A dangerous dance
Yet your whole argument's founded<
On close-minded ignorance.
9 July 2002
[ed note: You can read lots more KAT poetics at:
http://www.dormant-emotions.tk
Much of her stuff is blowing me away right now.
She's an awesome writer. ]
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http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/feature.cfm?ID=163&issue=v22n7
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/music/audio.html
http://www10.brinkster.com/cafemocha/poetry.html
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=96546
http://www.newint.org/issue333/jamming.htm
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4529
http://miller.senate.gov/releases.htm
http://www.manataka.org/page112.html
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org
http://www.nammys.com
http://valganon.com
http://netwar.onlyhere.net
http://www.awakeningearth.org
http://www.neumu.net/twinklepop
http://www.aztlan.net/index.html
http://www.notbored.org/msnbc.html
http://www.notbored.org/11mar01.html
http://ailecia.tripod.com/southerngirls/home.html
http://www.weinstein.org/media/video/qt/eff02.html
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/thirdhack.html
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/09/03/3983827
REMEMBER ANYTHING YOUR ELDERS TAUGHT YOU?
Yes, we do this every year or so. New readers will
appreciate this more, but maybe people who've already
seen this idea will get something new out of it too.
GRAMPA: (mom's dad) If you want a long healthy life,
every morning the moment you wake up you should stare
up at the ceiling or sky and daydream, meditate, wander
in your thoughts for a minute or two, hour or two - as
much as you can, really. No matter how busy your day is
going to be, give yourself this.
BUBBE: (dad's mom) If you have access to soap and clean
water, wash your hands really well at least once a day.
If you only have access to water, wash them at least once
each day. If you don't even have access to water, at least
wipe them really well on something fairly clean.
POPPOP: (father's father) Gather up your first hundred
thousand dollars and then relax.
NANA: (mom's mom) Learn Spanish.
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VERY SHORT REVIEW OF NYTIMES.com
Monday 3+ good stories. I think I'll start reading
it every Monday and scrap the rest of the week.
Someone in there on Mondays is doing a splendid
job.
"Web's real money is in the gutter," gives mention
to Project Gutenberg as well as interviewing Bruce
Sterling. Hmmm.
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How to Leave the Planet
1) Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111.
Explain that it's very important that you get away
as soon as possible.
2) If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you
may have in the White House - (202) 456-1414 - to
have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA.
3) If you don't have any friends in the White House,
phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for
0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any friends
there either (at least, none to speak of), but
they do seem to have a little influence, so you
might as well try.
4) If that also fails, phone the Pope for guidance.
His telephone number is 011-39-6-6982, and I gather
his switchboard is infallible.
5) If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing
flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important
you get away before your phone bill arrives.
-Douglas Adams
http://www.douglasadams.com
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SCHOOL'S IN. DRIVE RESPONSIBLY
Have you opened your "For Him" or your "For Her" bag
at college yet?
Did it have the smelliest Sure Advantage sample in it?
Yikes! I thought I lived near Proctor & Gamble again...
WAKE ME UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!!!...
How about Davidoff's Cool Water Eau De Toilette? I'll
try that and get back to you. If it's as bad as the
Polo Sport last year, I'll go right back to the Polo
green bottle.
How about the handy (not really!) disc organizer that
was nothing more than a psychodelic-looking cardboard
book with a huge ad on each page? Tide, Old Spice,
Pantene. WHAT IS THIS, MT FUCKING V??? Olay? Sure?
Hold still, I think I'm going to vomit in your handbag.
OK. 3M's got this Command Adhesive thing going on.
I'll try these too. The claims are:
holds on strongly
comes off cleanly
no damage to walls or posters
no staining walls.
The best thing since sliced bread.
Or fun-tak
Oh wow. A $5 off coupon for Nad's For Men. Lemme guess.
The regular price is like $20 bucks, right? Stop lying
to me! Tell me it's 25% off, not some vague number!!!
I'm a human, not a lab rat! Oh I am? Hmmm. What else
you got over there you can sell me on???
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Methinks this'll be a wild "Xmas" shopping season, eh?
Labor Day, Columbus, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christ-
mas. All attached to shopping days of increasing
importance, revenue-wise.
I expect each to miss the mark miserably. And that's
going to make for some serious grumpiness among the
men-in-suits.
Oh, I left out the newest big shopping day. 9-11.
It's sure to fall right into line too. Not quite as
lucrative as Columbus, but a little better'n Labor.
HOLLYWOOD NEPOTISM ALERT -
(and I mean nothing racist here...)
Nastassja Kinski and Lisa Bonet look like black and
white duplicates of each other.
Frat twins mayhaps???
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If I have to hear the name Skakel OR Norwalk one
more time I think I might just seek out a midwest
Kennedy to throttle for a couple hours before going
back to my non-violence vow.
Do you not find it the least bit ironic that Jimmy
Hoffa is generally considered by most people to be
buried underneath a football stadium and the people
of Guatemala just unearthed about 800 of their friends
and relatives underneath a soccer field? They vanished
about the same years.
Victims of downright wrong US foreign and domestic
policies, perhaps?
MAKE-NO-BONEZ-ABOUT-IT
The real reason Colorado College is likely to reject
Palestinian moderate Hanan Ashrawi as a key-speaker
Sept 12th is that Dick Cheney and his eldest daughter
are both alumni of that place of "higher learning."
Have you ever watched two Wes Anderson fliks back
to back in one nite?
Wow.
AM/ERICAN/NUT/RITION/NO/TE/(OR/L/ACK/THERE/OF)
A hundred years ago you saw 90-year-old farmers
looking forward to many more seasons.
And they lived on salty, fatty, butter, big
old healthy beef cows slaughtered local, by hand,
thanksgiving eve you chopped a turkey's head off
and cooked him all night.
WHY ARE WE BUYING PACKAGED HAMBURGER FROM 1,000
MILES AWAY, AND WHY OH WHY DO WE PAY PROCTOR&GAMBLE
TO RESEARCH&DEVELOP FFF??? (fat free fat...)
TWO 'GRAFS FROM MUMIA
What phollows is from a recent column MAJ wrote. I
won't trouble you here with the entire article. If
you want it, just keyword search any three unique
words from the excerpts, you'll find it all over
the net. (at least you can as of publication here)
As for the American insistence on the establishment
of a state that doesn't have roots in terrorism,
Americans are insisting on a purity that it did not
possess at its inception. The ruthless and monstrous
genocide waged against indigenous "Indian" nations,
from Wounded Knee to Sand Creek, is a history of
terrorism that has few parallels in the world. The
same could be said for the racist exploitation of
millions of Africans for centuries.
Neither the U.S., nor Israel, wants "peace." They
want the silence and acquiescence of the oppressed
and the occupied. They want a Palestine that is but
a state in name, a client state of the Americans,
and a satrap of Israel.
WHY I HAVE LITTLE OR NO TIME FOR FIGHTING
THE UPCOMING WAR IN IRAQ
by Marc Harry Ehrenfrucht
I'm up to my neck resisting the war at home.
Please do what you can. I don't know about
others, but the Bush/Dulles/Prescott family
has left me completely overwhelmed.
A LETTER TO A G.I.
(poem from an ex-soldier)
If I were a soldier
I would complain about D.U.
I would speak out against war.
I would insist upon non-violent direct action first.
I would maintain "force last."
I would call for the recall of George "Wimp Jr" Bush.
Point out Dick Cheney's fascist roots.
I would tread lightly on Powell's MANY and varied
transgressions as he may be about the only strand
left holding this planet together.
(hate every minute of THAT)
scold the DEA for putting Americans on both
sides of the "Scar" border in harm's way.
I would dismantle NORAD AND the Pentagone with my
own bare hands.
shove an MRE up Ashcroft's nostril.
prove the FBI and CIA merged back in October, 1979.
prove Bill Clinton is just as harmful as the Bushs.
prove as quickly as I can that Lieberman is an anti-christ
remind all that Tipper is never to be tusted
Liddy Dole is much worse!
Dismantle the USA Patriot Act with my bare hands.
(or an antique fountain pen)
But I am not a soldier.
Why?
Because I quit about 23 wars ago.
So I shall have to aspire to all this and more
as a civilian.
Please help me all you can.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY ME FOR THIS LAUGH:
One of about 3 Quaker jokes in existence
(ask the Pope if you don't believe me):
Scene is a Friend's Memorial Meeting, a
Quaker funeral, which is held just like
any other Meeting for Worship. Basically
silent, with people standing and speaking
as moved by the spirit. So one elderly
Friend stands up, remains standing in
silence for several minutes, concludes,
"as our late Friend so eloquently said,"
and sits down.
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ATI - No longer abusing puts and calls since 1991
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Well, that's about it for ATI issue 327.
Send all the stuff to
ati@etext.org
Flag is back up,
feel free to wander around:
http://flag.blackened.net/ati
I recommend the http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm
(other peoples' music)
and the http://flag.blackened.net/ati/imagenes sections.
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This issue of this zine is dedicated to an artist in
Groton, Connecticut who died the other day. Peace, out.
