Live from the world's own Broadway showstopping "Vagina Monologues,", ok, broadway's own ok, no really. Live, from Broad Way. No, Tinpan alley? No? OK, some wide street, yeah, Broadway St. in Wisconsin, it's no? OK, typed in, it's ATI - Actualizing TIME's Idiocy. __ ________ ______ / \ (__ __) (_ _) / \ | | | | / () \ | | | | | __ | | | | | | (__) | | | _| |_ |__ __| |__| (______) May cause stomach problems including bleeding. Ask your pharmicist if "A Pill" (TM) is right for you. "God Bless Us Everyone" This issue of ATI, #305, the special Orlando Florida area code issue, dedicated to Gerald Dickens and not Adolf Giuliani; Carlo Giuliani and not you George "W" Bush, you "Dickens," you. Hi, I'm prime anarchist and this is the Christmas Eve holdup issue. No, I'm not sticking a gun to your head and making you read it. In fact, as I'm sure you know by now, if you're not interested in reading it, I could care less. For more than 12 years now, I've been writing this zine straight out of my head with little or no audience in mind save for who MIGHT come along and read it later. I could care less that thousands read this every week. If it were hundreds, or dozens, or millions, or just 5 personal friends of mine, I'd write no differently. Yup, I can hear you saying, "and that's why it sucks so much." Well, that's true too. The point of this? Oh yes, I'm reading back and seeing that the point I was starting to make is that no one's holding you up to read it, it's called the "holdup issue" because I held up the presses hoping the people at NORAD mountain might actually catch Santa Clause this year and announce they've dropped a daisycutter right smack dab in the middle of his 8 tiny yaks killing all for a 30 mile radius so that we can all have a wonderful CHRIST-MASS once and for all. Yes, at the expense of Ramadan, at the expense of Kwanzaa, at the expense of (C)hanu(u)k(k)a, and any other holiday that just better get the HELL out of here and assimilate into tree-purchasing, menorah- purchasing, candle-purchasing, present(s)-purchasing, life-purchasing, favor-purchasing, forgiveness-purchasing, heaven-purchasing, have I forgotten anything? Oh yeah, milk/and/cookies-purchasing eve! Basically, I decided to move this issue toward "X-Mas Eve" rather than the moon or the weekend, so that you might have something just a little bit less consumeristic in your inbox to look at, or across your screen to have and to hold. You know. Call it solace in some shiny wrapping paper, or no paper. A respitous oasis out of the box. A diversion from all that other schtuff! Enjoy, -23- NUMBERS: http://waronwar.org http://www.etext.org http://www.frucht.org http://wget.sunsite.dk http://www.notowar.com http://disobey.ca/links http://home.eol.ca/~dord http://www.liladowns.com http://greenpapaya.vr9.com http://infringe.napster.com http://www.dsl.org/music http://www.text.org http://www.richiehavens.com http://www.dreamkeepers.net/3765 http://www.radiostation.com/kodis http://www.jackprises.com/bio.html http://www.threerivertechreview.com http://bluedazzle.diaryland.com/ian.html http://www.lesblank.com/more/garlic.html http://www.notowar.com/blastfurnace.html http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/jbletter.html http://www.geobop.com/Education/911/heroes http://www.hollies.co.uk/albums/confess.htm http://islamicity.com/multimedia/radio/ch100 http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=xx-hacker http://www.securityfocus.com/vulns/stats.shtml http://www.nevertrustanyonewhodoesntlikegarlic.com http://nyc.indymedia.org/local/DraftSyllabusProposal.html http://journalism.fas.nyu.edu/opensource/readme/index.php?art_id=93 http://www.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=109423 http://brasil.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13556 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=90162 INGREDIENTS - Agua, Propylene Glycol, Peg 40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate and Sodium Laureth Sulphate, Tetra Sodium Edta, Perfume 43324, Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone and Benzyl Alcohol, 2-Bromo 2-Nitropropane 1, 3 Diol. May cause stomach problems including bleeding. Ask your pharmicist if "Baby Wipes" (TM) is right for you. .-} |_| (_) | \ .--. |\_|--o ) |:| '--' |:| |:|_ ^^^^^^ A short movie review. I just watched "Sneakers" for the second time. Nice. How pertinent can a movie get?? Umm. Information. Yeah, "We are the US government, we don't do things like that." "I think I am going to be sick." Ummm. Does anyone own this movie on video? I'd love .wav's of James Earle Jones saying those two things. Don't ask me why unless you want me to tell you! :) Anyhow, that would be quite neat if you could do that. Hint, hint; wink, nudge, nudge. Say no more, say no more... AND NOW - THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR. Egg roll, please. ... Activist TIMEs' non-traditional announcement of PERSON OF THE YEAR. We always (yeah right!) do this the day following TIME INC's announcement. Why? Because we feel like giving them a really hard time. That's why. ELIAN GONZALEZ Yes, the boy who dominated 2000, captivated 2001 also, really. Do you know anyone else who you can just type their first name into any browser (try google and see) and see a page of him, him and no body else but him, boop oop a doo? Yup, Elian Gonzalez. Still talked about all over the US, and unlike with Giuliani, one can assume all over the world, the following year. Feb 2001, he was sure being talked about. Again in August and November there were places all over Florida, California, Illinois determined to think about him instead of the new resident of the united states, old fuddy duddy George "Herbert-Walker's-Kid" Bush. Must have sucked to be George really, think about it. Inauguration day, "what can we do to dominate headlines, doh," there's that Elian again. "I know, I'll drive my limo down a busy street, doh!" there he is again, Elian signs everywhere. "Remember Elian," "Here's to Elian," "Bring Back Elian." And the funniest Elian sign of all, I think, "Janet who???" Yup, that's the one. Americans are too quick to forget 300 days of a year in favor of the last warrious 50 or so, huh? So there you have it. An ACTivist TIMes INcorporated reminder that some other things happened earlier in the year that just might be more important this second than whether AirForceOne is airborne, ontop of the White House or deepinside Camp David, Fort Meade or NORAD mountain. Because Elian really IS more profound to the world than Bush, Giuliani or Bin Laden. Mark my words, 6 months from now, most people in the world are going to go, "Rudolph who?" But say "Elian?" to them and they'll know exactly what you mean. I'm certain of it. * % /)\ 7.~ /o "\ 7 & ~ /# 96 \ May cause stomach problems including bleeding. Ask your pharmicist if Advertising is right for you. IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL AGAIN, ISN'T IT??? : Native Americans Say It's Time for America to Re-Examine Itself By Brenda Norrell | Independent journalist | December, 2001 TUCSON, Ariz. -- Native American poets, filmmakers and spiritual leaders say America is being deceived by the national media about the intent behind the bombing of Afghanistan. It reflects the deception and murder of the voiceless that Indigenous peoples have long known. Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo N.M. poet and professor in Canada, said images of the bombing of Afghanistan are the nightmares Indigenous peoples have always lived with. Ortiz said it is now carried out in the conquest for oil. "When I've seen the few photos of the destruction and killings caused by U.S. bombs in Afghanistan, I immediately think of what Acoma and the other Pueblos would look like if the same hellish madness were ever visited upon them," Ortiz said. "People standing amidst the ruins and rubble of their adobe and stone homes. Children and old men and women stunned, weeping quietly. It is horrible to envision. "This is victory over the enemy? "And then I think of January 1599 when Acoma was laid to waste and hundreds of Acomas died at the hands of Spanish conquistadors under Don Juan de Onate. "That was victory over the enemy? "No, that was an obscenity of death and conquest committed so that Native land and its resources could be gained, just like what is taking place now in Afghanistan and the Mideast -- obscenity of death and conquest committed so that control over oil resources can be gained." Ortiz, internationally-known author of "Woven Stone," and dozens of other books of poetry and essays, like Navajo filmmaker Arlene Bowman, relocated to Canada because of professional opportunities for Indigenous peoples. Bowman, independent filmmaker living in Vancouver, British Columbia, said the war on Afghanistan is an energy war and at home, President Bush is rapidly undoing the preservations of sacred lands put in place by the Clinton administration. "I observe mostly the drive by the federal government to get to the energy sources in Canada and the United States fast!" "Bush is definitely a redneck of a president." Bowman, producer of "Navajo Talking Picture," shown in international film festivals and "Song Journey," shown on PBS, was born in Fort Defiance and grew up in Phoenix. She is concerned for Navajos at home and elsewhere. "Probably Bush doesn't care about Aboriginal peoples and is racist. What else is new? "He doesn't care if the Dineh people will not get enough water on their land and if digging for uranium will affect Dineh people, leaving them with cancer and radiation. "It's not his brain and body or children. Has anything really changed for us?" Bowman said Bush has become an opportunist by way of the tragedies of others, "ramming through" his energy policy while the mainstream media has acted with complicity in a crime against humanity. "The opposition voice is censored out literally. The United States is becoming a 'banana republic,' a police state." Bowman said racism towards people of color has not diminished, but major networks refuse to cover America as it is. "Just observe the major television news networks. It's all 'Rah! Rah!' for the flag and gun-ho flag waving. "The censorship bothers me a lot. Big Brother is watching and it's real." Meanwhile, at the southern border of the United States, Pascua Yaqui border rights activist Jose Matus says all of the work done in recent years to halt abuse of Indigenous at the border was lost after the attacks in New York. "We have lost whatever little ground we gained in our fight and struggle to stem the tide of law enforcement abuse of authority and violations of rights," said Matus, a Yaqui ceremonial leader. While the militarization of the United States and Mexico border intensified, Matus said the so-called war on terror has terrorized Indigenous people crossing the border with an intensified climate of "racism, hatred, xenophobia and vigilantism." Matus and other members of Derechos Humanos in Tucson have documented assaults and harassment if Indian people by border and immigration officials. The human rights organization has also pressed for the easing of visa requirements for ceremonial leaders. With more than 30,000 Yaqui living in Sonora, Mexico, the border has divided families and is a barrier to cultural and spiritual gatherings. Matus said Bush continues to press for legislation, which will endanger Indian people and result in further abuse of civil and human rights. "The September 11 attacks have taken away whatever little civil liberties we had and have given rise to hatred and xenophobia against immigrants of color more than ever before." The profiling of people of color is a violation of rights Indigenous in the borderzone have long known. "Why are people of color always profiled and not whites?" Matus asked. American Indians have long warned it is time for America to reexamine itself and its treatment of Indigenous peoples and Mother Earth. In April, a presentation to Lehman Brothers stockholders at the World Trade Center was censored by the media. Following a protest outside, a delegation of Navajo, Hopi and Lakota elders and spiritual leaders addressed a stockholders meeting of Lehman Brothers, the parent company of Peabody Coal which mines coal on Navajo and Hopi lands on Black Mesa, Arizona. Joe Chasing Horse, Lakota, told stockholders, "You have taken all of our land, now we have come to show you how to take care of it." A traditional Hopi elder told stockholders, "Lehman Brothers, even though we are just a few here, we speak for the Creator, who is the majority." In comments never publicized by the mainstream media, the Hopi elder said, "Therefore we demand you to stop the Peabody coal mining and the slurry. We demand again," said the Hopi elder who asked that his name not be published. "Traditional and priesthood people don't want this mining. The Hopi prophecies say that we have to protect land and life. If we don't protect our beautiful Earth -- our Heaven, our Mother, we will suffer with her." "Our ancestors warned that someday this would happen. White men will say that it is our own people that sold this land. I will not accept this. "Our roots are rooted in our villages and it goes up to the whole universe. If we break these roots the world will get out of balance. "I pray for you and hope that we open your eyes and you find the majority in your heart." Before their deaths, Hopi elders Thomas Banyacya and Dan Evehema warned that calamities would befall all of humanity if Navajos were forced to relocate and the Earth was desecrated with further coal and uranium mining on Black Mesa. After returning from New York to Big Mountain, Ariz., in the so-called Navajo-Hopi land dispute area, John Benally said the people have been struggling for 32 years because of the turmoil created by Hopi and Navajo tribal leaders intent on making money from the 92 billion tons of coal beneath the ground at Black Mesa. Benally said the resistance actually goes back 500 years to the Spanish invasion, followed by invasions of Europeans and Kit Carson. Benally said the Navajo, Hopi and Lakota delegation moved in solidarity with the Zapatistas whose caravan through Mexico in the spring gave them hope. "We felt the wind, it came from the South. It is telling the Indigenous people to rise up for their beliefs, their culture. These things are not being respected by anyone but the Indigenous people." _ /\\ \ \\ \__/ \__/ \ \\ (oo) (oo) \_\\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===========~-._ (___________________) \_______/jro May cause stomach problems including bleeding. Ask your pharmicist if War (TM) is right for you. \check out these pages poetically/ http://www.poetix.net http://www.tribalstew.com http://www.austinmetro.com/poetpage.html http://www.nuyorican.org I asked, "Lord, what about when there was only one set of footprints, and also a straight line with bootprints on one side and small, round circles on the other?" The Lord replied, "Those were the times that I carried you, and we were joined by a pirate pushing a wheelbarrow." _ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | |_| |_| |_| (_) (_) (_) THE PHOLLOWING HAPPENED HISTORICALLY ON THIS DAY: The War of 1812 ended today in 1816 with the Treaty of Ghent. Franz Joseph Gruber wrote "Silent Night" in 1818, and sang it for the first time tomorrow. Today's the day that the Library of Congress blew up in 1851 which destroyed 2/3 of the United States' past history. I reflect on that as George "W" signs into law the bill which includes sealing up all documents to do with his highly ethical and moral father. Somewhere in Camp David tonite there's a fireplace being stuffed by the metric ton, I'm sure. This was also the day when in 1889 the back-pedal bicycle brake was patented. The first public radio broadcast was today 1906. And John Muir died in Los Angeles today - 1914, give him some of your thoughts. The very air you breath would appreciate it, I think. Hey, chapter one of "Winnie-the-Pooh" was published in the London Evening News in 1925, the rest really IS history, huh? 1973, Doobie Brothers' Tom Johnson got busted for pot in Visalia, California. Name of the album his band was working on at the time? "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits." May cause stomach problems including bleeding. Ask your pharmicist if George Bush (TM) is right for you. ___ _ ___ |__ \ | | |__ \ / / | | / / |_| |_| |_| (_) (_) (_) We almost end this zine with reprinted song lyrics. Frightened Lady by the Hollies. Just like a top the world goes spinning round Nobody knows what's going on I've found Even from Jerusalem to old Japan Nobody seems to have a definite, definite plan Must be a peaceful way for us to go Even the simplest of man must know The situation's getting worse and worse One day the bubble's gonna burst But don't be frightened lady We will never let them take your boy to war No don't be frightened lady We will never ever go to war no more Why don't they finish it all We are only people and we're terribly small Why don't they finish it all Do they think that people don't mean nothing, nothing at all chorus Students are marching now in every land They won't be shifted just like grains of sand If we don't get together pretty soon We'll do the same thing on the moon feedback? ati@etext.org NOW WE REALLY END THE ZINE WITH THIS. Will you please give a moment of your thoughts and prayers in whatever way is your "way" for the following people who all died on the same day. Maria Capote Perez, Martha Capote Perez, Marcela Capote Ruiz, Graciela Gomez Hernandez, Guadalupe Gomez Hernandez, Roselia Gomez Hernandez, Juana Gomez Perez, Daniel Gomez Perez, Lorenzo Gomez Perez, Sebastian Gomez Perez, Maria Gomez Ruiz, Paulina Hernandez Vazquez, Susana Jimenez Perez, Maria Luna Mendez, Catarina Luna Perez, Juan Carlos Luna Perez, Marcela Luna Ruiz, Juana Luna Vazquez, Vicente Mendez Capote, Lucia Mendez Capote, Margarita Mendez Paciencia, Manuela Paciencia Moreno, Alejandro Perez Luna, Juana Perez Luna, Silvia Perez Luna, Maria Perez Oyalte, Miguel Perez Jimenez, Juana Perez Perez, Rosa Perez Perez, Ignacio Pukuj Luna, Marcela Pukuj Luna, Loida Ruiz Gomez, Manuel Santiz Culebra, Alonzo Vazquez Gomez, Victorio Vazquez Gomez, Juana Vazquez Luna, Margarita Vazquez Luna, Rosa Vazquez Luna, Antonia Vazquez Luna, Veronica Vazquez Luna, Josefa Vazquez Perez, Micaela Vazquez Perez, Antonia Vazquez Perez, Marcela Vazquez Perez.