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Oblivion Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wheeler
U.S. News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jestapher
World News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jestapher
YouthSpeak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Avi Hein
Are You Any Better? . . . . . . . . . . . .
Trippy Kid
Legislative Update . . . . . . . . . . . .
Matt Walcoff
Protesting the Curfew . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
das
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
you, the reader
Blocking Software . . . . . . . . . . .
Eric P. Anderson
Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jestapher
Keep Your Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jestapher
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Oblivion Speaks
Wheeler
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Well all, it's been a while since our last update. Let me explain. No,
we weren't too busy picketing the atrocities that are happening under our
noses in South America. No, my mother didn't take the car away and refuse to
drive us to Kinkos. No... We were just kinda lazy. In a conversation between
a guy named Tommer and Jestapher, Tommer asked, "When is the next issue
coming out?"
"Spring," Jestapher replied.
Tommer looked confused. "It is Spring."
"Really?" Jestapher asked.
We are coming ever so closer to having the oblivion.net box up. One of
these days, while on the Oblivion site, you may be accessing it on its own
dedicated server. How will this affect you? Well, it won't really. But we
think it's kinda cool. Who knows? It might have a new header graphic. If
you're a writer, you'll get your own shell account though!
So, although we're a little late, we're a little bigger. This issue is
a whopping 24 pages long. We are also welcoming a new staff member aboard.
Everyone, please welcome Pueblo Orosco, our new intern. He'll be helping out
behind the scenes. So enjoy.
Here's a funny story. One day last week, Nemomancer, Jestapher and I
decided to head out to the local blueberry farm to pick berries and make
some cash for printing. Well, here we are in the middle of a blueberry field
at 10AM, picking blueberries and having the time of our life. We were
telling jokes, doing impressions, making fun of all the other blueberry
pickers, and occasionally having small blueberry fights.
After an hour and a half, Jestapher is the first to fill the giant pail
we each have. He takes it to the old man for weighing. "Twelve and a quarter
pounds."
Wait, we're making twenty cents a pound. Jestapher's hour and a half of
picking berries netted us $2.45. We suddenly knew what migrant farm workers
felt like. We decided to finish our buckets and leave. Before we were
finished, some angry kid walked up to me, from somewhere in the vast
nothingness of the berry field and said "Gimme my bucket back."
I assured him that I didn't know what he was talking about and that I
hadn't seen his bucket. He insisted that someone had stolen his bucket of
blueberries, but after a while, he left and we made fun of him. "Hey, wanna
go steal that kid's bucket?"
We took our buckets to the old man for weighing. About twelve pounds
each, wow. He wrote it down in his notebook. We stood around. "Ask him about
our money," Jestapher whispered to Nemomancer.
Nemomancer asked, and the old man said "Friday is payday." Just our
luck, we have to come back to this evil place to collect our $10. The funny
thing is, we never went back to that blueberry field, and we never collected
our money.
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U.S. News
Jestapher
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July 6, 1997
Little River, AL
Five white teenagers have been charged with setting a fire that
destroyed a black church. The FBI said some of the suspects attended a Ku
Klux Klan rally a couple of days before the fire. If convicted, the suspects
could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of
$250,000.
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June 27, 1997
Oklahoma City, OK
An Oklahoma judge has ruled that the 1979 Oscar-winning German film
"The Tin Drum" is obscene under state laws. Police have seized the film from
the local library and six video stores. They went to the homes of three
people who had rented the film and asked them to hand over the tapes. The
movie is an adaptation of a Gunter Grass novel about a young boy growing up
in Nazi Germany. It includes a scene where the boy, aged about eight,
performs oral sex on a teenage girl.
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June 26, 1997
Quincy, MA
"Jim," a 32-year-old deputy sheriff for Norfolk County, spent seven
months posing as a 19-year-old Quincy High School senior and got enough
evidence to arrest 17 teens on drug charges.
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June 26, 1997
New York, NY
A recent study shows that most adult Americans have negative views of
teenagers, as if we couldn't have told you. Only 37 percent of adults
believe today's children, once they become adults, will make the United
States a better place. Two-thirds used such adjectives as "rude,"
"irresponsible" and "wild," to describe teenagers. More than 6 in 10 believe
young people failed to learn moral values such as honesty, responsibility
and respect. To this, teens said, "Hey, screw you, pal."
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June 24, 1997
Freehold, NJ
Melissa Drexler, the girl who gave birth in the bathroom during her
prom, was charged with murder after an autopsy indicated the baby she
delivered was asphyxiated.
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June 21, 1997
Tampa, FL
A judge has sentenced three teens to 15 years each in prison on
manslaughter convictions for the theft of a stop sign that led to an
accident in which three people were killed.
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June 21, 1997
New York, NY
In the wake of the massive tobacco settlement, politicians and health
officials are trying to protect children from smoking. If smoking among 12-
to 17-year-olds isn't slashed by 60 percent over the next 10 years, the
industry will have to pay as much as $1.6 billion a year in penalties.
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June 19, 1997
Orland Park, IL
A 16-year-old cheerleader who died within 24 hours of drinking a bottle
of 107-proof schnapps on a dare had a blood-alcohol level nearly four times
the state's legal limit. The girl was with friends at a party the previous
night.
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June 18, 1997
Flint, MI
Michael Carter, 14, was shot to death after he and two friends jumped
off a freight train in a crime-ridden area of Flint. The youths had hopped
on the slow moving train in Carter's hometown and intended to ride it only
about 10 miles to a semi-rural area, but went too far. Carter, 15-year-old
Dustin Kaiser and a 14-year-old girl were looking for a pay phone after
getting off the train when they met several young men who offered to help
them. Police said the three teens were taken to an unlit park, where several
of the suspects raped the girl, then beat, robbed and shot each of the three
in the head.
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June 4, 1997
Sacramento, CA
Ruling that the Boy Scouts of America is not a business, a state
appeals court has decided the organization does not have to admit a
13-year-old girl. Attorney Gloria Allred, representing seventh-grader
Katrina Yeaw, said she will seek review of the case by the state Supreme
Court, where cases challenging the organization's bans on atheists and gays
are pending.
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April 27, 1997
Port Washington, WI
A Wisconsin teenager who admits getting his 15-year-old girlfriend
pregnant has been convicted of sexual assault and now must register as a sex
offender. He could go to prison for 40 years. Kevin Gillson is 18, and his
girlfriend said the sex was consensual. She said he had agreed to marry her
and provide for the baby. But then police found out, and he was arrested and
convicted.
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April 25, 1997
Harrisburg, PA
A report on the amount of violence and the presence of weapons in
Pennsylvania's public schools shows many students attend class in an
environment of fear. During the 95-96 school year, Pennsylvania's 3,292
schools reported 31,597 violent incidents, including 20,030 assaults on
students and 1,119 assaults on school employees, 274 firearms were found,
1,829 students were arrested and 27,957 students were suspended.
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March 21, 1997
Portland, OR
Adam McMakin, a 13-year-old boy who says he just wanted minty fresh
breath has been suspended for violating his school's alcohol policy after
being caught drinking Scope. School officials say the mouthwash violated
their zero-tolerance policy for alcohol and they're just trying to make sure
things don't get out of hand.
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March 20, 1997
Bremerton, WA
Fifteen middle-school students were suspended for passing around and
tasting Alka Seltzer tablets on campus. Luckily, the three-week suspension
can be reduced to three days if students attend drug-awareness classes and
counseling.
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February 6, 1997
Tulsa, OK
Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with three recent
attacks on a family planning clinic. He is also suspected in two other
clinic attacks last year. The Reproductive Services and Adoptions Affiliates
clinic was firebombed on New Year's Day and again January 19. On February 2,
the clinic, which performs abortions and other gynecological services, was
broken into and several gunshots were fired into medical equipment.
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World News
Jestapher
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July 28, 1997
Havana, Cuba
Over 700 people from the United States will attend the 14th World
Festival of Youth and Students in Havana, despite the fact that they have
been denied travel licenses by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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July 8, 1997
Cape Town, South Africa
Four black South Africans guilty of murdering a white U.S. student four
years ago apologized to the girl's parents during a public application for
amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to investigate
human rights violations during apartheid. After attending a meeting of the
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the four chased Amy Biehl down after her car
was stopped by a crowd of youths, tripped her, stabbed her and pelted her
body with rocks. Ironically, Biehl was in South Africa trying to help end
Apartheid.
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July 7, 1997
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A gang of Catholic youths forced a 17-year-old Protestant to parade
around playing hymns on his accordion while they stoned him. After an army
helicopter spotted the incident, the gang decided enough beating had been
inflicted on the blasphemous Protestant and stole his car, later to be
torched. This was only one of innumerable incidents that took place after a
Protestant march was routed down a Catholic street. Reports say over 80
people were injured, over 200 cars hijacked, tons of perfectly good alcohol
was molotov cocktailed, and they still don't think God is content.
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July 7, 1997
Thika, Kenya
David Mutugi, 17, was shot in the chest and killed when police and
prison guards violently dispersed people gathering for a demonstration by
groups demanding constitutional reforms from the government. Four people
were killed and at least five others were injured, most by beating, when
police broke up a crowd in Moi gardens, which also has a large secondhand
clothes market. Mutugi was at the market running a kiosk owned by his
family.
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July 6, 1997
Sydney, Australia
A 17-year-old Australian appeared in court on a charge of trying to
extort A$505,000 (US$379,000) from Qantas Airways Ltd. with a threat to
detonate a bomb on an aircraft flying from Sydney to Hong Kong on July 4.
Police found bomb-making information from the Internet at the kid's home
when he was arrested. They did not say whether a bomb was actually on the
aircraft, which carried 95 passengers plus crew, and a Qantas spokeswoman
could not comment.
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July 5, 1997
Hebron, Israel
Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers exchanged stones and rubber
bullets as Israel and the Palestinian Authority traded accusations over the
West Bank unrest. "We are Muslim youth and we defend our homeland for our
Koran and religion," said Nidal Mohammad Badawi Azhur, 18, lying in a Hebron
hospital with a rubber bullet in his chest. Fighting between Palestinians,
Israelis, and everyone else in the Middle East has been going on for
thousands of years with no end in sight.
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June 29, 1997
Tokyo, Japan
A 14-year-old boy is the main suspect in the brutal decapitation of a
schoolboy that shocked Japan. Experts put part of the blame on the strict
Japanese education system. In a letter to a local newspaper, the killer
wrote, "I am not forgetting revenge for the compulsory education that has
produced me as an invisible existence and on the society that has produced
this compulsory education."
Japanese students must carry school rule books which regulate their
lives down to the smallest detail, including length of skirts. This is
probably why their students write rambling unintelligible letters to
newspapers and decapitate their classmates.
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June 29, 1997
Berlin, Germany
Around 60 youths threw stones at police, vandalized cars and smashed
windows in the German city of Halle. Police said 15 officers were injured in
the clashes, which began at a right-wing rally on Saturday evening and
continued at a nearby rock concert afterwards. Twelve men aged between 17
and 27 were detained temporarily.
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June 27, 1997
Enschede, Netherlands
A teenager using a cell phone in class to run an escort service was
expelled for using a phone in class. The phone would ring in class and the
17-year-old, whose name was not released, would answer "Escort Service 501."
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June 27, 1997
Durban, South Africa
Four youths aged eight to fifteen were killed in their home in South
Africa's volatile KwaZulu- Natal province. Violence monitors said on Friday
they suspected it was another political attack in the bloody Zulu turf war
between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and members
of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Gunmen wielding AK-47 assault rifles attacked
the sleeping family Thursday night.
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June 24, 1997
Quebec City, Canada
Police arrested 150 people in Quebec's two main cities when youths
rioted on the day of Quebec's patron saint, St. John the Baptist, a date
Quebeckers celebrate as their "national"' holiday. One policeman and three
teenagers were injured.
The youths threw rocks and bottles at 500 police, who used tear gas to
disperse the crowd. It took them about five hours to clear the streets. It
was the sixth consecutive year that youths have rioted in Quebec City during
the annual celebrations.
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June 20, 1997
Bucaramanga, Colombia
A pair of teenage brothers staged a bogus kidnapping in a bid to win a
$30,000 ransom from their mother. Police, following the suspicious actions
of the 15-year-old brother, followed him to a house across town to find the
kidnapped 16-year-old playing dominos with a friend.
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YouthSpeak
Avi Hein
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No respect. No voice. No protection. Curfew laws. Drinking age. Driving
age. Internet Censorship. Blocking software. Oppression by the educational
system. Dress codes. Mandatory community service. Forced volunteerism.
Oppression. All forced on youth. Young people are an oppressed minority.
Well...
take a stand!
Join YouthSpeak!
No, this isn't an ad for some quasi-pseudo libertarian anarchist site.
We're somewhat mainstream (we're joining the system in order to change the
system).
Young people are totally oppressed and persecuted by a government that
doesn't care. Youth have no legal standing, no legal rights, and no
representation in government.
This country was founded on the idea that taxation without
representation is immoral. The Revolutionary War was fought on the ideas of
equality, justice and freedom. Unfortunately it took many years for groups
such as African-Americans, women, and other minorities to gain their rights.
But they did. After a long and hard fought battle, they have gained their
rights. Now it's time for a new revolution:
The Youth Revolution
No, that doesn't mean we're gonna go and burn down schoolhouses and use
widespread violence and mayhem. What it means is that we are going to take
to the streets and
demand our rights.
What rights? To be treated equally and have equal representation. No
special treatment. Just equal treatment. I know it sounds really boring and
mainstream but that's what works. 'Cause who's the one with the rights? The
adults! Who are the only people who can give them to us? The adults! So, we
are going to have to persuade them that we are mature and responsible enough
to handle them. Don't ask me how this will be accomplished. But I do know
where we need to start.
Join YouthSpeak
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3145/
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Are You Any Better?
Trippy Kid
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Alone. A lone. A loner. Why do you just sit there all the time?
You're so pale, go outside and play in the sun. I don't know how you
could just come home and do that for hours, you should be more sociable.
Join some clubs after school, get out of the house, make some new friends.
It's Friday night, why aren't you out? Where are your friends? Why are you
alone?
Crybaby. All you do is cry. You're such a wuss. You're too sensitive,
you let things get to you too easily. Just ignore it. Don't let them get to
you. Don't worry about other peoples' problems, leave that to them.
Ignoramus. Geez, learn about it before you start talking about
something you know nothing about. You don't know what that means? You're so
dumb. Typical of a high school kid.
Worrywart. Don't be a worrier, nothing good will come of it. Don't be
afraid to try new things. You won't get raped or killed around here. You
worry too much. It doesn't matter, stop thinking about it. You're paranoid.
You're such a baby. Don't worry about it. Relax. Calm down.
Loser. Who wrote this? You didn't do that, did you? What are you
wearing? Go away, this is private. You're not invited. Fishing for
compliments? You're not ugly and you know it. Stop saying that. Uh, shut up,
you're like ten times skinnier than me, stop fishing for compliments. Have
some backbone. You have low self-esteem. Love yourself. Guys don't go for
wimpy, helpless girls, they like girls with confidence, who like who they
are. Who cares what you think about your appearance, it's what the guys
think that matters.
Don't mope. Don't cry. Deny yourself your feelings.
Look happy, be nice. Try to be appealing to those around you.
Who cares what you think? Who really cares how you feel?
It's them that matter. Don't be yourself. Be what they want you to be.
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Legislative Update
Matt Walcoff
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AS FAR FEDERAL Update July 22, 1997
There are a million things you can do to fight anti-youth laws. The
simplest is to call your legislator and let him or her know your stand.
Remind them that the party for which someone votes first is usually the
party they associate with for life (or a long time, anyway).
A list of senators can be reached online at www.senate.gov/~_____
(senator's last name). For example, Sen. Ted Kennedy is at
www.senate.gov/~kennedy. You can find your House members at
www.house.gov/writerep/.
Federal legislation dealing with curfew laws:
Bill: S. 10
Title: Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Act of 1997
Submitted by: Sen. Hatch. Backed mainly by Republicans
In brief: Encourages trying juveniles as adults and reducing gang activity.
Objectionable portions: Amendments to the following portions of the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974:
-Title I, Sec. 101 (11). States that communities should not be
discouraged from incarcerating status offenders, especially curfew
violators.
-Sec. 204 (h)(IV)(H). Would allow federal grant money to be used for
curfew enforcement.
Chance of passage: Likely if H.R. 3 fails, but would probably also face a
presidential veto, as the president opposes some of the imprisonment
provisions.
Committee: Judiciary -- Youth Violence
Action: Subcommittee hearings held and returned to Judiciary committee.
Hearings there scheduled for July 23 and 24.
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Bill: S. 718
Title: Juvenile Crime Control and Community Protection Act of 1997
Submitted by: Sen. Dominici
In Brief: Allows for more juveniles to be tried as adults and creates grants
for juvenile crime prevention.
Objectionable portion: Title II, Part C, Sec. 242 (c)(4). Would create
incentives for communities to enact curfew laws. Under the bill,
communities would be eligible for a federal grant if they fill five of
six requirements, one of which would be to have a curfew law.
Chance of passage: Probably not likely, since S. 10 is supported by more of
the Senate leadership.
Committee: Judiciary
Status: Still in committee, no action taken.
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Bill: S. 15
Title: Youth Violence, Crime, and Drug Abuse Control Act of 1997
Submitted by: Sen. Daschle. Backed mainly by Democrats.
In Brief: Large bill dealing with many subjects, including crime, drugs, and
domestic violence.
Objectionable portion: Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 215 (c)(1)(A). Would
create incentives for enforcement of status offense laws. Status
offenses are offenses that would not be considered criminal if
committed by someone above a certain age. Under this section,
communities would be eligible for federal grants to ensure "certain
punishment" of status offenders.
Change of passage: Possible if the Republican crime bills fail.
Committee: Judiciary -- Youth Violence
Status: Still in subcommittee.
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Bill: S. 362, H.R. 810
Title: Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Act of 1997
Submitted by: Sen. Leahy, Rep. Schumer
In brief: Targets juvenile crime, illegal gun trafficking and gang violence.
Objectionable portion: Title III, Sec. 3002. Would allow federal grant money
to be used for curfew enforcement.
Chance of passage: Not likely.
Committees: Sen: Judiciary, House: Education -- Early Childhood, Youth and
Families, AND Judiciary -- Crime
Action: Still in committees, no action taken.
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Bill: S. 3
Title: Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1997.
Submitted by: Sen. Hatch. Supported mainly by Republicans.
In brief: Combination of several crime bills.
Objectionable portions: Title IX, Subtitle C, `Title I, Sec. 101 (11) and
Sec. 204 Sec. 204 (h)(IV)(H). Identical to portions of S. 10.
Chance of passage: Same as S. 10.
Action: Still in committee, no action taken.
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Federal legislation dealing with the drinking age and driving ages:
Bill: H.R. 1268, S. 468
Title: National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997
Submitted by: Rep. Shuster, Sen. Chafee
In brief: Large bill reauthorizing transportation spending.
Objectionable portions:
-Title II, Sec. 2002 (f) (`k)(`1)(`B). Would create federal grants for
drinking age enforcement.
-Title II, Sec. 2002 (f) (`k)(`1)(`E). Would create federal grants for
"graduated license programs," with required nighttime driving curfews.
Chance of passage: Unlikely, since there is a Republican version of this
bill.
Committees: House: Transportation and Infrastructure -- Surface
Transportation AND Ways and Means. Senate: Environment and Public Works
AND Finance
Action: Still in committees, no action taken.
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Protesting the Curfew
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10:00 PM. That's the curfew for anyone 18 or younger here in San Diego.
Recently, the previous curfew law was struck down by a federal judge, ruling
it to be unconstitutional. The mayor, Susan Golding, set up an emergency law
to retain the curfew, in a politically popular move to "protect the kids".
What whores these politicians are.
Because the majority of San Diego sees people under 18 as inferior,
laws were put into effect to mandate governmental persecution of this
fearsome, unpopular, and obviously pseudo-human group of larvae. These laws
are met by cheers of victory from both the left and the right. The left-wing
nuts applaud the further degradation of our rights as American citizens, and
the triumph over the free will of youth. The right-wing fanatics glorify the
strengthening of ageist apartheid, and illusions of streets devoid of
dangerous kids. The citizens enjoy their mass hallucinations, and call for
even more bans on free will. Daytime loitering laws are now being proposed.
Handgun bans. Dusk to dawn curfews. These oppressive laws will continue to
encroach, unless they are protested.
This brings us back to San Diego.
Dave Doctor, Damien Sutherland, and many other members of the youth
community have come together in opposition to the mayors new curfew law.
It began with my receipt of a message from Dave Doctor, spammed to a
local Rave mailing list. He voiced that immediate action was needed if we
want to preserve our rights. He proposed we have rallies every night from
10PM to midnight. The timing was ingenious. This is because what we were
doing was not illegal. It was protected by our First Amendment rights. Any
kid that was out past 10PM could simply tell a cop that they were going to,
or coming from a political rally. A good way to protest a law is to legally
cripple it. We found a way to do that. We have also found that people
carrying a few flyers in their pocket can just declare to a harassing cop
that they are distributing political material. This is protected by the
First Amendment as well.
The rallies began at a great location. We were at a busy intersection,
and a very popular hangout spot. We were just a block away from the beach.
Across the street was a huge roller coaster, and the boardwalk.
The few days before the first rally were great. I stood around on
street corners handing out flyers, and getting petitions signed. I would
also give petition sheets to all of my friends, and they would get others to
sign them.
A local news station called me, and asked if they could come over to my
house and interview me. They asked things like "why are you doing this?" and
"what do you expect to accomplish?" and "are you really going to be out
there every night?". I was also constructing signs for protesters to hold
up. They got a few shots of that.
The first night was very exciting. When I arrived, a news crew was
already at the site. I met Dave Doctor in person for the first time. I was
the main sign manufacturer, and I had quite a handful. We placed all the
signs in the ground, gaining attention. At about 9:50, the first people
showed up. A group of about 10 high school girls showed up. At ten o'clock,
tons of people started pouring in. There were three local TV crews set up.
They went live numerous times, and every time they did, the people would
scream and shout, fighting for airtime. There were many magazine and
newspaper writers there, with photographer counterparts. I was interviewed
several times.
At the peak of the rally, there were probably about 100 people there.
From across the street, it looked huge.
Now, we have been going for about two weeks. On the second to last
consecutive night, No Time, a local ska band played. Although we were fully
aware that it was illegal, we decided to have them amplify their music. We
attracted about 175 people, just with the sight of a band setting up. The
band got underway about 10 minutes after 10. Everybody was skankin around,
and having a great time. A news crew showed up, and began setting up. The
crowd grew, and everyone was real happy. Then, the cops showed up. They were
pretty pissed, because they had harassed us the previous nights for making
too much noise (what a stupid thing to say... we were across the street from
a roller coaster and a busy intersection). They immediately shut the band
down, and wrote them a citation. Fortunately, no one was arrested. However,
I noticed that the number of police cars at the scene kept increasing at a
peculiarly fast rate. When I counted, there were 12 cop cars! They brought
some drug dogs, because someone was destroying the world and corrupting
youth by smoking pot. Luckily, they didn't catch anyone. Then, the police
started lining up, and they looked like they were going to unload on the
crowd, or something. That was a little too scary for me. I decided that it
would be better to avoid the weapon wielding cops, and observe from across
the street. The cops just stood there for a long time, and nothing happened.
I decided to take off, because I still felt that it was extremely dangerous
to have so many armed, angry, tired cops in such a concentrated area being
heckled by teenagers.
So, we have now decided that by having a rally every Saturday night,
instead of every night, we can increase attendance, and plan better events.
We have also decided to hold a concert every two weeks at Mariners Point
(It's where the X-games were held, and it's only a block away from where we
were originally protesting. We have done all the math, and figured out that
it would cost about $300 every concert. That's no big deal. We have a lot of
enthusiastic volunteers, and if everyone involved just donates a few bucks,
we can easily put on several shows.
Getting bands to play would be the easy part. San Diego is well-known
for its killer local bands. And what new band would pass up a concert geared
for teenagers against the curfew? It's free exposure!
I recommend this course of action to anyone in any city that is
afflicted by curfew laws. It's fun, easy, cheap, and may even achieve the
goal of curfew-eradication!
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Letters
you, the reader
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Hi, I'm an English teacher in Portland, Or. Saw your site: love it.
Very well done and professional. I'm using it as an example in my class
where my students will create their own pages for the first time. I'd love
to talk to you about how your work is accepted up there...how you put it
together (i.e. did you do it yourself or were the town 'elders' involved,
etc.) Who's doing the art and with what tools? POV-Ray?
Kevin
Oblivion started as a paper 'zine in December 1995. We tried to give
copies out during lunch at our school one day, which the administration
didn't take to kindly to. A friend put the first issue online and it
received great feedback. After our first issue and our expansion into the
ethereal realm of the web, we became less regional and more global. The
first issue was the product of a relatively small group of high school kids,
and with every issue, we have picked up a few more people.
We don't have any requirements as far as age, race, sex, etc., and we
don't ask, so it's not possible to know exactly who is submitting articles,
graphics, or whatever. Jestapher has done most of the graphics for the web
version, and the only program used has been Adobe Photoshop. For the paper
version, Wennis, a teenage comic book artist type guy from California has
done most the covers, and he uses the old fashion paper-and-pencil
technique.
Editor
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Very nice zine! But I'm afraid it might become the next target of my
high school's firewall. I'm not sure of all that they censor, but I know it
includes various search engines such as Webcrawler (Reason: Sex), Deja News
(Reason: Sex Lifestyle), and Excite (Reason: Sex), leaving only Yahoo and
AltaVista. The firewall also blocks any URL containing ".." (don't try to
break in), and all TCP connections other than the ones supported by Netscape
(Web browser ONLY). Sometimes, they shut down the proxy server and make all
network connections impossible, period.
Antisaedist
Depending on the extent of your school's blocking, you may be able to
get around it. Try this. Find a site that's blocked (Webcrawler you say),
then type in this URL:
http://nanjing.spc.uchicago.edu:8001/http://www.webcrawler.com/
This is a proxy server set up by Jim Xie in response to the Chinese
government's blocking of "sensitive" sites like CNN or any human rights
sites.
Editor
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I was going through a superweird phase in 7th grade and one day I
decided to wear green lipstick. (I swear I'm the one who created the
lipstick fashion trend.) Being the supercool and wonderfully popular person
I am, many people (including some guys) hopped on the funky lipstick
bandwagon.
Blue and black showed up all over our school. Funky lipstick reigned
full at my school until some wacky supervisor laid down the law, FUNKY
LIPSTICK= DETENTION. Here I remind you that I happen to be a supercool and
wonderfully popular person. I had killer parties to trash and no time for
detention in the name of fashion.
I decided to be nice about this and wrote a little essay about domestic
prejudices. Some other airheads tried to get a petition around that included
sagging and chewing gum at our school. Many people signed it, but get
real!!! There is no case to support sagging and gum chewing. Had the
airheads thought about their pitiful petition attempt, maybe some good would
have come of it. But as it was, sorry Charlie, no comparison from the school
board.
I went in a different direction with my essay. I asked teachers why we
couldn't wear black lipstick. The general answer was, "It's a distraction.
The purpose of school is to learn. You cannot learn with distractions all
around you." Well, hehehe, I says... why do girls get to wear pink and red,
then? "Those are natural shades." RED--NATURAL? Dream on! "It's traditional
for women to wear red and they've been doing it for hundreds of years."
People have also had slaves for hundreds of years and that doesn't it make
it acceptable in our schools. And for all my efforts what does this
supercool person get? A detention, the one thing I was trying to avoid in
the first place.
I was a little discouraged with my essay's progress, but in the name of
equality, I decided to go on. I made a list of all the things that
distracted me and I realized: LIPSTICK IS THE LEAST OF MY PROBLEMS!!! I have
a blind student in my second hour. Her brail writer makes loud, annoying
noises. I can't see the chalkboard because of the extremely tall kid that
sits in front of me. I can't do my algebra while I talk to Lisa. Does this
mean that my rights are violated? Not in the least.
If I want to wear funky lipstick, I should be able to. It's not a
distraction to me or my peers. It's too distracting for teachers. (If they
can deal with nose rings, blue hair, and weird clothes, they can deal with
lipstick.) It seems the only people who are distracted by lipstick are
administrators who don't deal with the kids at all. In all reality, I would
say the absence of funky lipstick has caused more of a distraction than
allowing funky lipstick. I knew I had a winning case, but the time of funky
lipstick had come and gone in my school. I gradually began to forget the
whole thing.
Stefanie D.
Uh, thanks!@#
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Hi my name is kristi and I've been looking for the Teenage Liberation
Handbook and haven't been able to find it and was just wondering if you knew
of any book chains who carried the book.
kristi
Have you looked at your local library? That's where we found it.
Libraries usually carry just about everything imaginable.
Editor
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interested in a new safe natural lotion that really does clear up acne,
boils and cold sores, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. It's called
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Signature Omitted
None of our readers have expressed interest in clearing up their acne.
They seem to be comfortable with their appearance. Sorry.
Editor
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hi i sent like a dollar and a little note to you guys asking for a copy
of oblivion. how long should i wait til it comes? and when are you guys
gonna update the page? um, i guess that's it.
~barbiekiller~
We've been so lazy, we skipped the Spring issue (we also had a lack of
quality submissions, but hey). We will be putting out a Summer issue
relatively soon. Stay tuned, and sorry for the delay.
Editor
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I just saw your magazine on-line and have been wondering if it is
only an on-line thing or you have a magazine on the newstand. I have never
seen it if is on the newstand and am interested in subscribing if so. Thank
you.
Unsigned
There is a paper version, but you probably won't find it on any
newstands. As with most 'zines, we are self-published, do-it-yourself people
with limited funds. Getting the distribution and circulation needed to be
somewhere like Barnes and Noble or the neighborhood newstand is quite a
feat.
We don't do subscriptions yet because we are still small-scale and kind
of unpredictable. However, if you'd like the next issue mailed to you, send
3 stamps or $1 to:
Oblivion
120 State Ave. NE #76
Olympia, WA 98501-8212
Oh, you can subscribe to the Oblivion mailing list and receive the
ascii version in your email box whenever it comes out, just send mail to
jestapher@oblivion.net.
Editor
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Thank you for finally expressing some of the thoughts and ideas of
today's oppressed youth... I, too, am oppressed. I have started a local
chapter of the SNC (society of non conformists) and we are accepting new
members all the time. Do not let the AOL email address fool you... this is
just a hacked account (sorta) but it is not, REPEAT NOT, mine. I wouldn't be
caught dead on AOL, except that it's the only internet access I have for
now. I am thinking of starting my own school newspaper, any tips or
pointers? It will be called, well, I don't know yet, but it will kick ass. I
have a copy of my rules of the society of non conformists, I will email you
a copy later. In case you are wondering, I made up the SNC, it is my own
creation, and (in the infamous words of GOD) it is good. uh, l8r, if the
cops don't catch me first!
Unsigned
Starting your own zine isn't that hard. I think we elaborated on this
in an earlier letter, so backtrack. To take a direct quote from Nemomancer,
"Cops... heh..."
Editor
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I will try to make the following as short as possible for Oblivion
magazine. I picked up your issue at a bookstore in downtown Olympia. The
following, I believe, is the only solution to the injustice of mankind:
There are many injustices in this country and the world cause by the
capitalist class. We are very slowly on a course to a dictatorship. Little
by little, piece by piece is broken off the monument of freedom.
Luckily there is a beacon of light in the darkness which is the
Socialist Labor Party of America, that follows the teaching of Karl Marx.
The former Soviet Union was not Socialist. Anyone advocating socialism and
Karl Marx would most likely be arrested as a troublemaker in the former
Soviet Union.
Find out what socialism is from Socialists. Socialist Labor Party, P.O.
Box 70617 Sunnyvale California 94086-0517, founded 1891 and The People,
organ of S.L.G. email thepeople@igc.apc.org.
Milton A. Poulos
You're pretty dedicated .
Editor
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Blocking Software
Eric P. Anderson
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Those of us under the age of 18 are the last truly unrepresented and
powerless group in American society. Those under 18 cannot vote and they
cannot hold any political office. Politicians listen only to votes. If a
group of people have no votes, they are not represented in American
government.
If an unconstitutional curfew is passed against teenagers, the
legislators don't have to worry about the reprisal of young voters. People
under 18 pay taxes, are American citizens, and they can be drafted to fight
in a war, but they cannot vote or do anything which the government decides
they cannot do.
The free speech groups took the easy way out during the battle over the
Communications Decency Act. They proposed to censor the most disenfranchised
group of people in this country in order to protect their own freedoms.
This easy way out was the support of blocking software. Like the
V-Chip, blocking software is simply another way for parents to pass the buck
onto the government.
Unfortunately, this is all too easy for parents to do in our society.
Parents now insist that values are taught to children in public schools as
well as mathematics and reading. Now these same people want the government
to enter the home and raise children there.
Parents who want this are not only deceiving themselves, but they are
losing their right to raise their own children. Instead of using blocking
software, parents should be discussing the Internet with their children.
They should be discussing and debating these issues with their children
instead of taking the easy and dangerous way out. Blocking software not only
blocks things nearly everyone agrees should not be blocked, but it is also
unconstitutional in public schools and libraries.
One excellent danger of blocking software can be seen in America
Online's Parental Controls. These controls block Amazon.com, an Internet
bookstore, because Barnes and Noble is a content partner of America Online.
This is a primary example of blocking software at its worst.
In addition, any site which presents an ideology differing with those
held by mainstream society or even just the company that produces the
software is blocked. This is all done under the thin guise of "protecting"
children.
It is apparent to me that the only thing that those under the age of 18
need to be protected from is the protectors. Parents should be debating and
discussing controversial issues with their children rather than simply
isolating them from differing viewpoints.
Otherwise, how will these children react to these issues when they
become adults? If the use of blocking software becomes widespread, they will
be unable to react and make decisions responsibly because they were never
allowed to think and make decisions for themselves by their parents or the
government.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, "To protect the rights of good men, we
must protect the rights of all men."
Young people in this country must stand up make their government
listen. They must do this before it is too late to turn back.
Young people have the right to see differing ideologies and decide
which ideology should be theirs without the interference of the government
or irresponsible parents.
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Jestapher
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A Kind and Just Parent
by William Ayers
William Ayers introduces us to those involved with the juvenile justice
system, the juveniles in particular. Rather than reading a headline about
gang violence or young "superpredators," we see behind the headlines and
learn about the actual children who, despite the tough-guy facades, are
quite scared and vulnerable.
The setting is Audy Home, a juvenile detention center in Chicago,
overcrowded and racially disproportionate. Ayers observes the classes of Mr.
B and Tobs, two amazingly dedicated teachers who truly try to make a
difference. We meet about a dozen kids, and see that they are no different
from any other children their age, notwithstanding the harsher situations,
dimmer future outlooks and lack of freedom. They're smart and philosophical,
reflective and sad, serious and funny.
Nearly every day, the boys filter in Mr. B's classroom. They love and
respect Mr. B, and he returns that love and respect. They read Afro-American
authors, and discuss news stories, politics, their situations, their dreams,
and occasionally the reasons they're in Audy. Alex, an old student of Tobs,
comes into class to talk about life after Audy, which for most of these kids
means adult prison, Joliet. A comparison of bullet wounds turns into a
debate about death, fear and apathy. A number of chapters focus on
individual inmates.
Ito hates it when visitors walk through and gawk at them like monkeys
in a zoo. His assertion that the visitors think they're all the same,
gang-bangers and killers, is frightfully contested by Jeff. "Ito, you are a
killer and a gang-banger." We learn that he's a poet, longing for his love,
whom he credits with "drawing out into the light my beauty."
Jesus wants to learn to read and write, believing that's his ticket to
life. His room is filling up with unanswered letters, he gets a friend to
read them to him. Ayers transcribes a letter for Jesus to copy later. He's
in for a crime he says he didn't commit, a driveby in front of a school. He
has in-depth discussions with Ayers on gangs, guns, protecting their
neighborhood, loss of freedom, and about his daughter, who he's never seen,
and doesn't want to while locked up.
Andrew keeps a journal. He's one of five student playwrights working on
a story about Audy Home called "Temporary Lockdown." He explains how Mr. B
and Tobs are both like "popses" to him.
Freddie has a long rap list, from drug dealing to possession of a
firearm to assault. He's sure he'll beat his current case as he beat his
cases for shooting a girl with a BB gun and hitting a rival gang member in
the head with a hammer. He's taking Bible studies and wants to get any
legitimate job he can find after getting out. Then, the world will notice
him, the next Dennis Rodman.
A few chapters focus on the history of juvenile courts, the history of
punishment, and things of the like. While not as interesting or
pity-invoking as the pictures of each individual kid, they are good
background and probably necessary for the purpose of the book. It has
reform-evoking undertones, but the vast majority of people already believe
the juvenile justice system needs major reformation.
Despite a few slow points mentioned in the above paragraph, overall,
the book is awesome. No more "killer kids" headlines molding our opinions on
juveniles and juvenile crime, we get a true-color image of the children of
the juvenile justice system that defies the uninformed opinions we've
already concocted.
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Teen Legal Rights:
A Guide for the '90s
by Kathleen A. Hempelman
This is like a big question and answer book for whatever you need to
know about teens and the law. How many times have you asked yourself "If
teens who are too young marry in their home state are married in a state
where they are old enough to marry without parental consent, is the marriage
legal?" or "If a young person lends the family car to a friend or lets
someone else do the driving, can the minor's parents be held responsible for
injuries or property damage caused by the other driver?"
The book is broken into eighteen chapters on certain topics, then
broken into more specific topics, then broken into specific questions. The
main chapters are: Behind the Wheel, At School, At Home, On the Job, On Your
Own, Your Personal Appearance, If Your Parents Divorce, Your Sexual Life,
Marrying and Having Children, Your Right to Be Healthy and Safe from Abuse,
Alcohol and Drugs, Teens and Crime, Age, Race, and Sex Discrimination, Gay
and Lesbian Teens, Property Rights and Crimes Against Property, Entering
Into Contracts, Taking Matters to Court, and How to Find the Law. It's a
great reference if you have a specific question, and it's great if you
simply want to become more proficient on all aspects of teen rights and laws
affecting youth.
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Puberty Strike
I'd be able to give a much better review of this zine, if it wasn't
"lost" in Nemomancer's house. He'd better find it soon, I payed $1 for this
at a local zine festival.
It covers the important aspects of being a teen, such as sneaking into
theaters, eating those lick-a-stick candies, throwing cans of creamed corn
under cars, old school rap and attire, the Goonies and other fine films,
etc., etc. It also contains interviews and stories from a bunch of
teen-band members which are pretty phat. This zine would definately be worth
my dollar if Nemomancer would give it back. Send $1 and two stamps to Seth,
2007E. 3rd St., Tucson, AZ 85719.
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Jestapher
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Yesterday was the final day of my high school career. It was nice, the
sun shone much of the day. Mr. Letourneau gave us an Economics test and Mr.
Bassett gave us ice cream.
Last night, I ended up at Andy's party, what must have been forty or
fifty seniors happy never to be attending another high school class. All
night they drank, talked, sang, danced, smoked, reminisced, and drank. Sasha
puked in Andy's backyard and I lost a game of ping pong twenty-one to three.
Around 3AM, most everyone headed on home, or to someone else's home to pass
out. I stayed at Andy's overnight, not wanting to catch a ride with a
half-sober peer. In the morning, Andy graciously provided me with a glass of
freshly mixed orange juice for breakfast and we chatted for a bit. At 10:45,
I embarked on a forty-five minute walk to my house.
Nobody was home when I arrived. I walked in my room and found a piece
of college ruled notebook paper slipped under my door, a note from my dad,
who probably didn't know I never came home the previous night.
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BEN,
GRADUATION IS AN IMPORTANT FAMILY EVENT, ALSO YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO YOUR
CLASS OF '97 GRADUATION--I UNDERSTAND YOU WERE SELECTED AS SPEAKER AT YOUR
SENIOR DINNER?
THIS EVENT IS IMPORTANT TO:
A) YOUR SIBLINGS
B) YOUR PARENTS
C) YOUR GRANDPARENTS
D) YOUR AUNTS AND UNCLES
E) YOUR COUSINS
F) YOUR CLASSMATES
G) YOUR TEACHERS
H) SID THE CAT
PLEASE CHOOSE TO NOT DIMINISH THIS EVENT FOR OTHERS AND DO WHAT IT
TAKES TO WALK WITH YOUR CLASS,
DAD.
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It was a heartfelt request and I understood where he was coming from.
Nevertheless, it strengthened my feeling that attending graduation
ceremonies would be not for myself, but for the benefit of others. After
all, I don't want to go, isn't that justification enough for not going to my
graduation?
I grabbed a towel and slipped in the shower. I stood in the downpour of
warmth for a while, then sat down, thinking about everything and anything,
graduation, the party, the future. I started to cry. Often times I've seen
people cry for no apparent reason, or for reasons they couldn't or weren't
willing to express, I've seen my mother do it many times. I hate it when
people cry for no reason. If I cry, I have a reason, or I don't move until I
find it. It didn't take long to figure out why I was crying. "Everything is
fucked up," I whispered. That was it, that was my reason, extremely
ambiguous yet perfectly precise, all encompassing.
I wasn't crying because I was going to miss my friends or family or any
of the conventional reasons for crying after finishing school. I started to
break my thoughts down into smaller, more specific tracks. I couldn't
explain the reason I wanted to abstain from graduation, at least, not in a
way that satisfied my mind. I'd told myself many things. It's for the
benefit of others more than it is for me. It's just another silly modern
ritual that nobody reexamines or questions. I don't need a celebration for
finishing the rough and daunting public school system. But sitting in the
shower, I found a reason that seemed to explain it all.
Graduation is supposed to be one of the biggest rites of passage in our
modern society, a transition from youth to adult. Herein lied the reason. I
never wanted to become an adult. Adults fuck everything up. I wanted many
rights and responsibilities granted to adults, but I never wanted to be an
adult. Youth provided a safehouse, protection from the atrocities of
adulthood. Not a protection from pain, but from causing pain. It seems as
though all pain, anger and suffering can be traced to adults. Adults screw
people over. Nobody is born saying "I'm gonna fuck everything up for
everyone else who has to live in this shithole of a world."
Youth is a bastion of pain, but at least it's pain of innocence. To
realize that people try to hurt you for no reason but the love of hurting is
a great feeling. Often times, children will believe that they deserve such
suffering and it's tragic, but when you can recognize the fact that you
don't deserve any of the shit you're given, suffering is joy. Pain is truth
and anger is reality.
Everybody wants to take that from me. They want to take what little
pain I haven't numbed myself to and the happiness I derive from it. They
want me to go willfully, dawn a stupid fucking cap, take a sheet of paper
with my name on it, signed by people I've either never met or never liked,
and give up my youth. Regardless if I attend ceremonies, I'll lose that
youth, but do I have to give it up willfully, parading around like a fucking
moron, happy about my transition into the fucked up world I've hated all my
life?
Last night, I saw more alcohol than I've ever seen in a single house.
Almost everyone got tanked and acted relatively stupid. Andy told me that he
was sitting alone earlier in the day, wondering why we all get together and
do this. "I think it's to get away from pain and reality," he told me. I
didn't drink. I tell people that I don't like the taste of alcohol and I
don't want to act like every other drunk person acts. This is true, but it
might be something else also. I don't want to escape pain and reality. If
you escape it, you could forget about it forever, and never do anything to
stop it or even worse, create more. The anguish will always be around, but
you'll never understand that it's ruining you. When you stare pain down, and
take it's full brunt, all the time comprehending it, you know just what it
is. To know your misery is the first step in stopping it.
For now, I hold on to my youth, my pain, cherishing it for all the
truth it holds. It seems inevitable that I'll slowly slip away from that
truth and become just like every other adult in this cesspool, but at least
I can fight it. So fuck your trickery and intimidation. Fuck your rites of
passage. I'm standing tall. I won't go up and shake your hand, and I'm not
wearing your stupid fucking cap.
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Please distribute Oblivion everywhere you can. Do not steal little bits
and pieces without consent from the author of the bit, byte or nybble, for
they retain full copyrights to their work. If you just ask, they will
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editors
Jestapher - head editor, writing, design, graphics, art
Nemomancer - editor, writing, graphics
Wheeler - editor, writing
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writers
Amar, Antitrend, Arhat, Avi Hein, Belial, das, Eightball, Eric P.
Anderson, Jaimee, Jane Doe, Maureen Rada, Matt Walcoff, Mr. Orange,
Nina, Paulo, Trippy Kid, Tyche, Warren Apel
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art
Jess Wyer, Wennis
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graphics
Brian Kappus, Dagda, Gould, Juanune
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support
<angst>, Akai, iMAGER, The Retro Ranger
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locations
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mail: Oblivion
120 State Ave. NE #76
Olympia, WA 98501-8212
(Send two stamps for current issue.)
web: http://www.oblivion.net/
email: oblivion@oblivion.net
ftp: ftp.etext.org /pub/zines/oblivion/
ftp.olywa.net /pub/oblivion/
irc: #zines on efnet
mailing list: jestapher@oblivion.net
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review quotes
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"High school kids getting crap from the 'man' for asking questions and
honing their writing skills." - Catch of the Day
"...highly charged and varied reading." - Factsheet 5
"They're getting better, teach'. Lighten up." - Internet Underground
"It's nice to know that there are some kids who don't mind expulsion for the
sake of principle." - Kevin Donoghue (from some Boston magazine)
"Out of the angry haze of high-school turmoil and teen angst, the creators
of Oblivion have managed to create a gripping zine that does justice to the
opinions, attitudes, and realities of kids growing up in a high-tech,
low-responsibility culture." - Netguide
"Good zines, especially ones like this, are a bright spot in the gloom and
very much deserve our support." - Punk Planet
"It's a pretty good read." - Punks G Hybrid
"By far one of the best 'zines out there." - We Hate Hootie and the Blowfish
"Ax the bullshit filler, and this could be a pretty good zine." - Zine World
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inspiration
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music - Bikini Kill, Diamond Fist Werney, NOFX, Sicko, Sublime
reading - Iris, Puberty Strike, Zine World
design - 2600, Communication Arts, Punk Planet
food - just add water pancakes, ramen, toast & hot chocolate
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Amber - loaning borrowed tunage www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/1804
Olympia Networking Services - ISP extraordinaire www.olywa.net
Phorce - telecom legend, conf master www.rad.edu/phorce
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