Give Thanks '98. Special FTA issue. 35 clams, cheap. free to prisoners, soldiers and sailors. ___ - -_, , ( ~/|| || ' ( / || =||= \\ \/==|| || || /_ _|| || || ( - \\, \\, \\ Activist Times, Inc. Wednesday. 1140 am. Table Of conTents: 1) a pome 2) publishers column 3) numbers run 4) letters to the editor 0) after that you're on your own. (the woods, that great nite...) You'll Be Me Soon Enough a poem by NYC poet Brett Axel. 1963 John Kennedy Toasted my birth With blood and flashbulbs. My nursery peers awoke To a generation of carrying the torch Our parents lit Through the streets of Woodstock, New Hope, Big Sur, Extinguished before the first hairs Sprouted in the cups under our joints We raged against Nixon; We raged against 'Nam; We raged against the white Bank of the river Demanding red and grey And brown and black sand; We shook our angry rattles at the system And threw off the oppression of cloth diapers forever. Rom Doss, I was there then, Allen Ginsberg, when America got naked We were naked already. We spent the summer of love Singing the alphabet with Buffy Saint Marie And whoever else stepped From our parent's bong parties Into Mister Roger's Neighborhood; Walked the Sesame Street counting winos sleeping On subway grates: One wino, Two winos, Three dirty smelly winos, I love to count winos. The first word I knew how to spell was friend: F R I E N D Special. I thought 'special' Was the last letter of the word, 'friend.' If we didn't know, At least we suspected That Ernie and Burt were lovers And it was O.K. Because they cared about each other very deeply And they weren't asking us For health coverage Or joint tax returns. There was no thank you For the 'AtomKraft, Nine Danka' bumper sticker I put on my first car, Or the 'Reagan's an asshole' songs I spit on the stages of CBGB's Max's Kansas City, The Ritz (before Joe Camel took over the place started dealing nicotine) "Hey kid, the first hit's free." We bottled out bags and bagged our bottles; Rejected extra packaging on CDs; Swung hammers for Habitat; Held hands across America... Worked, spent, yes, Bought a Saturn and installed Windows '95 on a one thirty-three Pentium processor clone with sixty-four megs, But saved a few dollars From every three or four paychecks To send a check To the World Wildlife Federation, The Elizabeth Morgan Defense Fund, Whatever the fuck ABC's cause of the week was. God Damn it! We did our marching And pissing And fighting And fucking And killing And saving And we still do, in a way, By sending a check. I don't know when I bacame another something The youth can rage against. It crept up on me like my grey hairs. One minute I was making an effort To understand Metallica, The next I'm walking through Tower Records With Nine Penny Nails or some such shit Blasting my aging eardrums out of their sockets And I hear myself asking the management To turn off the God-Awful racket. [Brett read this poem while many of us were attending CD classes the day before our big action at Fort Benning Georgia where "we won" was felt all around. I think if Ghandi came back to life with a foul mouth he IS Brett "throwing off the oppression of cloth diapers. =)] PUBLISHER'S COLUMN: We won. Again. We won. They couldn't build jails fast enough. They didn't have enough busses, and they dishonored ADA requirements and couldn't accommodate the 15-30 wheel-chair riding people who also risked arrest but were not included in the official number of 2319 peacefully "forcing" their way into the center of Fort Benning to demand a public forum discussing just how many Republicans, Democrats, Independents and assorted other human beings feel so compassionate about shutting down what has become "on our watch" a place of torture, violence, hatred and oppression. They prepared for 800-1000 of us; we were 4 times as many as them that showed last year. They were not ready for us - and they submitted. SOA will be shut down soon. We have dominated the public forum, we have spoken. Congress will be wise to take heed and reflect. They WILL represent their people. They won't really have any choice, will they? We were many! "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9....................10; "10,9,8,7..." Electric Company. 1979 And now, the numbers run: http://www.soaw.org http://theresistance.com/contents.htm http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/8965/hac5.htm http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/scholarly/cudisc.html http://vanhackez.islatortuga.com/zines.html http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/seeker1/scholarly/hackethic.html http://www.angelfire.com/bc/kutija http://www.setec-astronomy.net/text/security/hacker.txt http://www.drizzle.com/~annes/rep/castlist/shaugh.htm http://www.djurdjevic.com http://www.cyberjournal.org http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/dylan/207/unit_demo.html http://station.sonicnet.com http://www.webpost.net/tu/turtlesbook/busking.html ATI CORRECTION: In our #'s run last time we had a WWW where there wasn't s'pozed 2 B 1. http://webhome.idirect.com/~pepscot/pepmuse2.htm ======================== =letters and tomatoes = = from our readers = ======================== Dear editor: Please consider publishing the following brief article in your Ezine. Are You "Ready For Love" ? North Americans spend millions, if not billions, of dollars every year in pursuit of a satisfying, fulfilling intimate relationship. Yet many fail repeatedly in their quest because they forget the first most important step. They do not determine their own "readiness for love." Whether you are single at present and pursuing... [ed note: it went on another 10K or so. You don't HAVE to read and enjoy ATI before you submit to it, but pllllleeeeeeeez...] (the whole "article" is apparently at:) ( http://www.willingspirits.com ) to: ati@etext.org Just a quick hello! Thought I would drop by and wish you well this Holiday Season.... Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!!! J D to ati: When John Glenn returns from space, everybody dress in Ape Suits. You have 9 days in which to bury the Statue of Liberty up to her head. [we ignored the first 20 themes and variations on this. Had we received this particular one about 3 weeks ago, you might've had 5 more willing "conscripts." ps: the next levitation of the Pentagon WILL be May 2. Be there or be 5-sided] This message was originally addressed to MARCO CAPELLI and was forwarded to you by MARCO CAPELLI here's your reply. =) [hmmm. I don't remember sending OR receiving a sideways smile, but thanks, whoever U R. ] [and just when you think alls we do is anarchy?] I just visited Capelli's web-site on carulli. I also love the guitar songs of Carulli. Currently, I have music scores for only 19 of his works. I would like to know how I can get music scores for all these songs that Marco Capelli mentions on his web-site. Please let me know. My e-mail address is : -=-=-=-=-=- (squelched in compassion for spam reduction.) to: ati@etext.org This is such a great story. P.k. DC Coordinator, MSN to editor: i think it's great everybody's trying to help!!!!!! ilan the punksinger Hi, I was just at the Hopi page . . . if you need any help with web publishing, I have resources available to contribute (no charge) . . . my dream is to see the Hopi Survival Kit archived on the Web . . . am willing to take this on if you know a way this can happen . . . if it's already planned Great! . . . please let me know if you start an email newsletter or some such thing. !!! . . Keep up the Good Way of Life . . !!! Sean D Paradise Now! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ........ATI, one tagline away from peace.......... Prime Anarchist World Real Newz (PAWRN) - 11th Mesa, AZ. Yesterday i [the person who sent this in] received a phone call from Bonnie Whitesinger and her husband Bob Chaat. They told me that while Pauline was away, Navajo-Hopi relocation commission officials came to serve Pauline a 30 day eviction notice. Bob said that the families not signing the accomodation agreement were all served such notices. He said it was creepy because he had never seen these guys before and they knew both his first and last names. From my perspective as a longtime supporter of Dineh resisters, i feel it is crucial for those of us who care to be continually cultivating in ourselves and in other people of conscience the courage it will require to make stands beyond what white people have ever done in the sad history of this land to STOP THE GENOCIDE! I personally feel that the various lawsuits have been distracting from the traditional way of dealing with the evil which is the ceremonies. Traditional Hopi who came to offer their support to the resisters in March of 1997 emphasized the importance of the spiritual position. Thomas Banyacya said, "No courts, no lawyers, no white man's law. We obey the law of the creator. This is our land. This is your land." The legal system has done nothing but drain the hopes and resources of the resisters. I honor the right of those who feel that the courts are their only recourse, but i cannot emphasize enough the importance of true supporters preparing for very serious confrontations if and when these evictions are attempted. Peabody is going forward with expansion plans disregarding the rights of Maxine Kesoli who isn't even on HPL land! Support resistance. Shut down Peabody coal mine. In peaceful struggle, Swaneagle [gee, guess where prime anarchist will return to when he's done dancing on the ruins of the multinational SOA???] Open Letter to Bill Moyers, Please do a documentary about Martin Sheen before Hollywood gets ahold of him. He's closest to a living Joseph Campbell or Jesus Christ I know now. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Marco Frucht. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-ok. what follows is raw notation from my -=- -=-journals. i'll try to end with a poem -=- -=-like I usually do. if I don't find one -=- -=-I'll have to write one when I get there. -=- -=-read on, you'll probably like it. prepare-=- -=-for a weird journey though. much like the-=- -=-sportsnotes where prime anarchist left -=- -=-the underground so many issues ago =) -=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sunday 4:30 pm. Let's see. who's beating the Packers today? My new team is doing poorly. I put ATI out today. A pretty good one (imho) I put in a lot of SOA stuff, and tried to surround it with humorous things so it's easy to "digest." Thursday I perform at the sendoff, then friday I pack up and go to Georgia for 2 or 3 days. I can't wait to travel. Oh, we're winning 17-3. I'm having guacamole & chips at Taco Burrito Mexico up the street from my house. Saturday morning 4am eastern. Bowling Green Kentuck. Gas would be 87 cents here. Rembember that neat song Autumn from Tie-Dye-Sushi wrote about Bowling Green? Wake up from a dream that I'm walking around a mall pouring food coloring all over my pants from a purple squirtgun to the tune of Marylin Manson's "Dope Show" and the bus driver asks if we wanna eat at Cracker Barrel or Waffle House. You notice professor and professional student have the same prefix? Hey God, Knucklehead. What are you going to do with all the "recovering catholics," around the world? I guess I don't have to ask, do I? Barnes & Noble top of the hill (what town???) Looks like a fort with a church on the corner. Fortified with concrete and plywood! Large mall behind it. Is our new front-ear commercialism wholesale devoid of conscience or presence?? Michael Devine died with Jenifer Harbury's husband Efrain. RC. The Mad Mad Cola. (very old, whithered sign.) Dear Groton Connecticut, In June of 1988 I was on delayed entry program for the Signal Corps, US Army. Through Olsten temporary service I was given a job sweeping floors in your midway plant for $6.00 per hour. You got my drivers licence but I was still looking for my birth certificate because the last time I'd needed it was Little League all-stars. I was such a competant, hard-working "dude" that you let me take the tunnel under Groton to the other buildings where I had some interesting new tasks to enjoy and learn from. I was told to be very careful to put the brown and black garbage bags in the dipsey dumpsters for Murphy and other civilian companies to come haul away; whereas the clear bags were all the secret, top-secret and eyes-only waste going to be shredded and burned. I was to place them in clearly marked yellow squares next to the dumpsters so that the extra-competant people who AREN'T Murphy corporations can haul THEM. I believe I only screwed that up 2 or 3 times, and I don't think there was any harm, for the Murphy people probably didn't know what was what anyhow. My favorite job was wiping off all the video display terminals and emptying wastebaskets in P Takis Veliotis' old office, (oh who was his replacement I forget) and especially the Newport News Liason office rooms. Naval Investigative people eat all the wrong foods, by the way, according to the wastebaskets I saw; and if they keep all that porn on their screens every day from 4:30 til 7am there's going to be naked people burnt into the glass, you might want to write a memo about that. I turned most of them off those nites. Oh, and speaking about memos, pardon me, but I couldn't help but notice the angry letter from that guy who replaced Veliotis - what WAS his name??? - Anyhow, it looked like it was to every 3 letter agency, the president, UN Security Council and if I remember right, Henry and Nancy Kissinger too. You were mad that to make your contract deadlines you could only make washers and driers that run at 1/3 capacity and while you recognize this is perfect for peacetime, you said you felt it was unacceptable and must be corrected immediately because during war, you needed full capacity or the sailors will begin smelling like urine, bad sculptures or a Texas slaughterhouse. "Immediately." you said (which is as we know in military terms - 8 to 10 years) I couldn't help but notice because you used all-caps for the first four lines and we in the netizen community call that shouting. The letter was face up. I felt like a kid in a candystore and really wanted to turn the page and read the rest but held to my purest ethic. I'm telling you this because I believe this qualifies me to become an official civilian inspection team member to make sure we aren't making too many weapons of mass destruction so we'll have room to talk when we tell Iraq, China, India and Afghanistan they have no right. If you don't have a group like that already, can I get permission to start one? /RC COLA. BORN AND/ /RAISED IN COLUMBUS/ / GEORGIA. Next to/ / The Armory. / LIVER BOX GIZZARD BOX GAS 89c Prime Anarchist Interviews Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen has been socially just for many years now. He was key in bringing Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos and many other fence-sitters to the UFW boycotts when he "put his body where his mouth was." Cesar Chavez always used to say (including to me in 1992) "vote with your feet." Sheen, who has most recently played Peter Maurin in "Entertaining Angels," and Mitch Schneider in "Samaritan," has been walking ever since. Prime Anarchist - (shaking his hand) Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's great to meet you. I missed meeting you in 1992 when I fasted on the capitol steps and I was sweating with Chief Billy Tayac and you were addressing us with your presence, Susan Shown Harjo's and I don't remember who ever else. Martin Sheen - (smiles) Nice to meet you. Is Charlie Liteky here? PA - I'm not sure. Chance Brian Willson or Scott Rutherford are here? Maybe Dave Dellinger? MS - Haven't seen them yet. You know, it's hard for Brian to get around these days on his "third world legs." PA - Yeah. I know. Do you think doing today will effect your career? MS - I hope so. PA - Thank you, thank you, thank you. [the career question was asked by a man off to the side, and Sheen mistakenly attributed it to the woman next to him. After discussion with the man after the event Prime Anarchist decided to borrow that question with all due humility.] Chitlin House, Sticky Fingers Donut shop and a McDonalds on the Martin Luther King Highway. Is this Alabama or GA? When you finally get to 80 gimme a call when you finally get to 80 (I-80) wake me up. Hank Williams Memorial. Clanton, Alabama has a water tower shaped and colored like a peach. Conflict Resolution 101 21 credits. 1 hour. w. Signal Phrase - "we don't agree." Man under the umbrella. Time to remove yourself a la Gandhi. We don't arrest you anymore. We won't take you in through that prison door. WE don't beat you lock you up. But maybe just as bad. Now I wonder (the rest of my life maybe) What's gonna be the next subtlety. We are the journal writers. We write it in our notes. Reflection. Discernment. Years from now the microfilms will say one thing. The history books will say another. A gazillion journals around the world In attics and basements and hopechests Will make yet another point. Brightly shine. Where is truth. Go to your heart. !Presente! a poem by Theodore Liberaci I took crossroads to SOA And I watched it work Magic. I took community to community And I'm watching the web. "How many spiders can Tie down a lion?" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 hawks. redtail? golden eagle? or what? A rainbow, and now a pasture full of beefalo. Take note I guess. rainbow, 2hawks, buffalo. welp. minnesota beat us twice yesterday. football AND activism. they sent 3-400 people to Georgia. we sent 130 or so. as if that matters. monday nite. 530 eastern. kollekt kall from marko in kentuk. somewhere before a humongous strip mine. Rhetorical question as metaphor. BUTTON - Shut Down SOA, With No Money Down. Ask Me How. BOOK - 101 Free Things You Can Do To Shut Down the SOA. COURSE - Conflict Resolution 201. 3 credits. 24 hours. mtwtfss. IF - "you're missing a key point here......" THEN - back away, say good bye, be polite. you are NOT going to hear each other. 745 eastern monday. somewhere over indiana bones. Dear Diary - watched 2 SOA movies in a row. Paid for by our tax dollars, created by perhaps the largest propaganda machine the world has seen since Hitler's moviefactories. I don't focus on their propagandic nature as we are each guilty of that. Having worked really hard to get the log out of my own eye, I believe with all my heart that these two movies, (and especially the second one) are deliberate acts of terrorism. Prime Anarchist Division's offical head count of the SOA action Sunday, November 22, 1998. 3478.5 ready, willing, able and acting for arrest. 10,500 supporting at the gate. These figures were adjusted from truth the same way the US DOD has been tallying people since 1861. 2319 crossed the line, so we multiplied by 3 and divided by 2. Same for the 7,000 responsible estimate of the total crowd. Prime Anarchist Public Affairs Division cites the following standard for these figures, in context of other misinformation campaigns. Conflict time official figure of US dead in Iraq excluding Gulf War Illness Victims - 197 Official figure 8 years later (assumed to be closer to truth which will likely get declassified officially on the 10 year anniversary of the actual deaths - 295.5 [prime anarchist bets it climbs just over 300 less than a year from now] While awaiting medical discharge from the United States Harmy, Prime Anarchist often worked with these kinds of figures for the Public Affairs Department. Anarchist coined the nickname to that job "padding." It is finally time for common people to begin using the 2/3-3/2 "rule of thumb" for peace instead of war. METAPHOR - Nuclear-tipped 101mm howitzer round as anthropine injection. Archbishop Romero and Jesus - My only war heros. "I beg you, I implore you, I order you Stop the repression!" Romero. "To change all the kings of all the lands." Christ. as usual we end with poetry. this one's called Kalamazoo '64 by Marco Frucht epiphone conversion peace justice epiphone conversion justice peace conversion epiphany peace justice conversion epiphone justice peace send all contributions, shouts, greets to ati@etext.org get backissues at http://www.etext.org/Zines or http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html go to our ftp site at ftp://ftp.downcity.net/pub/ati to join the listserv send: subscribe ATI to listserver@franklins.net unsubscribing is just as easy. alt.society.ati keeps getting active and then dying. Somebody help please.