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Activist Times Inc. Issue 316
ANSWER: Gandhiji
These demands were met, and he broke his fast. "Let this be my
last fast," he said. He was gunned down shortly afterwards. It
is 2002 and not only is Pakistan and India still an open wound,
so are Afganistan and the US and Israel and Palestine.
[see: http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati315.txt] for QUESTION
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Issue #316 12apr01
http://www.csindy.com
N http://www.farmapalooza.com
U http://www.flashbackbooks.com
M http://www.obligation.org/cnnsn.html
B http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
E http://www.thepentagon.com/schoolofamericas
R http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1
S http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=letter
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http://teleline.terra.es/personal/beoc.ebco/alertsindex.htm
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=letter
http://www.title14.com/weird/weird-body.html
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4561
http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati67.html
http://www.thepentagon.com/indymedia
http://www.everreviledrecords.com
http://blather.seekersguide.net
http://www.thepentagon.com/soa
http://www.etext.org/lawsuit
http://www.userfriendly.org
http://www.interlobate.com
http://msbc.simplenet.com
http://www.bundyology.com
http://bighassle.com
http://www.jmkac.org
http://www.soaw.org
LETTUCE:
Subject: AMISH VIRUS
AMISH VIRUS:
You have just received the Amish Virus.
Since we do not have electricity nor
computers, you are on the honor system.
Please delete all of your files.
Thank thee.
PUBLISHER'S COLUMN
Rather than a column, this week I turn this section
over to Shell Stern who wrote an article about the
SOA many years ago. It means as much this moment as
it ever did before.
SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS by Shell Stern Feb 6, 1997.
School of the Americas. When I first heard the phrase I tried
to imagine what this place could be about. Was it an institution
of higher education that initiates and encourages dialogue between
our northern and southern neighbors? Was it a non-profit organization
that taught the true history of our continents? I was pretty optimistic
with the fairly inclusive title. This did not leave me fully prepared
for the hidden truths I was soon to discover. All I had to hear was
the title of the video "School of the Assassins" and I knew I was in
for some grim news. Once again I learned how our government is undoubtedly
responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Latin America. Our
tax money is going to support torture, rape and murder.
The school of the Americas (SOA) has been in existence for about 50
years now; first in Panama to ultimately "combat" communism and today
in Fort Benning, Georgia to essentially crush socialist thought. It
wasn't some ignorant soul who one day decided that the "School of the
Assassins" was a better name for the place, but rather a passionate
reaction to the discovery that graduates from the school were committing
disgusting acts of violence on their own people. SOA students aren't
taking Non-violent Conflict Resolution Skills: 101 or even a mediocre
leadership course like I might have hoped. These people are taught
"how-can-I-get-away-with-torturing-raping-killing-entire-villages-of-
peasants-who-are-becoming-empowered-by-an-honest-liberation-theology-
driven-church-worker-and-get-away-with-it: 101." Let's face it, with
former panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega as an "honored" graduate,
what more do we need to concur that something is just a little bit
corrupt with the activities of SOA?
Oh there are many right-wingers who would want us to believe
that SOA plays a crucial role in promoting democracy and human
rights in Latin America (and under their breath mutter something
about protecting US economic interests.) Hmm, that's odd, why
then in October, 1996 would Amnesty International launch official
investigations concerning the training manuals at SOA and urge
the US government to assume responsibility for human rights
violations committed by military personell trained there? Is it
just a fluke that a United Nations Truth Commission report on
El Salvador stated that over two thirds of the officers cited
for the worst atrocities were alumni of SOA? These are only two
examples that aided in the creation of a long list of graduates
that have taken part in major human rights abuses in many Latin
American countries. With so many contradictions, can there be
any legitimate purpose for the School of the America's existance?
For me this information is completely impossible to ignore.
In the military's 260 million dollar budget there is 18.4 million
dollars for SOA. Somewhere in that big stack of 18.4 million worn,
burnt out dollar bills is at least one that has my name written all
over it. As tax paying citizens WE are the ones who need to say the
School of the Americas has to cease operation immediately! Friends,
I do not believe that five hundred people stormed in on SOA last
November because it was a great place for a picnic. I also do not
believe that grandmothers, priests and nuns were getting arrested
for civil disobedience because they had nothing better to do that
day. I met a woman who was one of the sixty arrested. Hearing her
powerful words and non-violent approach, accompanied with the
contents of the "School of the Assassins" 18 minute video, I was
determined to begin my own investigation of SOA.
Every day I discover a new article on SOA and each time I
reflect on it I realize that we are all called in some way to
work for justice. Each time I talk to someone else who has read
about this scandalous school we become even more determined and
motivated to spread the word. Won't you please join us in the
struggle to shutdown this school of assassins? This April (date
to be announced) we will try...
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I don't have diddly squat."
--Sheryl Crow
PICTURE THIS:
"Joyfully and willfully keeping ourselves as
stupid as possible about what is happening
beyond the ChemLawn in the front yard."
--Michael Moore from "Stupid White Men."
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UPDATE:
Another ATI rewrite of a rewrite.
[REF]=[http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati159.txt]
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Oh give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,
B7
Don't sell this song.
Let me ride thru the wide open country that I love,
E
Don't sell this song.
E7
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
A Am
Listen to the murmer of the cottonwood trees
E
Send me off forever
A Am
But I ask you please
E B7 E
Don't sell this song.
A
Just leave me 'lone
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let me sit in front of TV without havin' t' hear your lies.
A
On my phone or my modem let me live without
E
a jingle... teasin' my eyes.
A Am
I wanna live life without violence to art
E Dbm
Never write a song that's not truly straight from my heart
D Dbm C B7
Chargin' for a tune is puttin the horse before the cart
Don't fence me in!
Nazi Germany and USA can never be compared, only contrasted.
The Reichstad building burned to the ground 11sep33. 50 years
passed and still no one knows if President Hitler blew it up.
The USA have the WorldTrade Building burning down 27feb01 but
history just may yet give all the answers in under four years.
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