Mesdames et messieurs, se lèvent si vous plait, pour national l'anthem de la Russie dans les haut-parleurs droits et du Canada dans les haut-parleurs gauches. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please stand for the national anthem of Russia in the right speakers, and Canada in the left ones. _ _ _ (3) (0) _ _____ ____ _| |_ _ _ _ _ ___ _| |_ (____ | / ___)(_ _)| || | | || | /___)(_ _) / ___ |( (___ | |_ | | \ V / | ||___ | | |_ \_____| \____) \__)|_| \_/ |_|(___/ \__) "The Americans knew that I often spoke to Fidel and that any subject at hand would be dealt with seriously and securely. For instance, when they wanted to send a secret envoy, as they once did in the person of former Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters, I would tell Fidel outright: "The Americans want such and such" or "The CIA says such and such." -- Manuel Noriega also: "There also had been a visit by American General Vernon Walters. Walters had served as deputy director when George Bush was chief of the intelligence agency." --ibid _ _ (9) _| |_ _ ____ _____ ___ ... (_ _)| || \ | ___ | /___) . . | |_ | || | | || ____||___ | .309. \__)|_||_|_|_||_____)(___/ ... POEM TO BE DEVELOPED: The Nurse In The Birka Evans Army Hospital She taught me the differences between Shiite, Sunni, Sikh and even Bahai and American Islamist. She monitored my morphine. She told me about her army husband stationed in Kuwait. I don't remember her name; should have written it down. You might say she saved my life; But I'll definitively say she saved my soul. The Nurse in the Birka Nurtured my soul. Thank you! =================== Hello, and welcome to activist times, the zine with the attitude of a thousand something-or-others. I'm prime anarchist, and this is the zine for Monday, February 18th, 2002. It's 17 hundred hours my time. That's like midnite Greenwich Mean Time or something. Hmmm. I wonder what it is Greenwich Nice Time? So enjoy this 'zine. You only get one a week or so. marco =================== We start with an open letter as a column. I'll be snailmailing and emailing this to her as well, just as soon as I find a stamp. And as soon as this zine has run its course. OPEN LETTER TO DOTTIE LAMB: Dear Dottie, May I call you Dottie? I remember knowing of you when I was awaiting my medical discharge from the US Army Signal Corps in Colo Sprgs and you were the former first lady. You and your letters. During my military years the Rocky Flats site was beginning to show itself on its way out, despite Pat Schroeder's years of denial there. I read Workers World pretty regularly, and the Rocky Mountain News more often than the other Denver Daily or my local even. Bikes Not Bombs, Peace In Space and the local soup kitchens are really what radicalized me my last year-and-a-half of service, you know. You're going to laugh, my last 6 or 7 months was spent working at Fort Cartoon during the day and changing into civilian clothes every night at 4:30pm and riding bike to route 115 as fast as I could to join in the 24/7 protests against Iraq war by sleeping on the median between Acacia Park and the USO building. Some days there were 30 of us sleeping on that little median, other days 300. It seemed like the colder it was, the more of us would be there. The physical warmth of the men and women sleeping next to you went along with the emotional warmth as well. It really made for such a stark contrast that I can only articulate so well on paper. 30 inches away form four men and women all day 9-5ish for the army with distinct cold, fear, anger, rage, resentment and all else that goes along with marching in formation. 3 inches away from two or three people from dark to sunrise with peace, love, hopes, fears, anger, rage and hostility being processed with as much peace and love as it could be surrounded with. Every morning a Baby Ben clock would go off about 5 sleeping bags away from me and John, a Sergent in a neighboring unit would wake up, hop on his motorcycle and head back to about the same place I was biking back to each morning. Yes, what a half a year that was. I miss enough of that with such passion that I almost forget all the horror we dealt with too. threat of nuclear bombs, paramilitary death squads, repression all around us, the works. Now we're going back into Iraq hot and heavy and even good ol' boy, Al Gore is saying he hopes "Junior" can accomplish what his dad couldn't. The destruction of Saddam Hussein? Boogeymen around every corner, alligators under every bunkbed. I hear the word "Axis" out of Bush's crooked mouth and I tremble with the fear of knowing history, guessing the future. Dottie, I so want to feel patriotic like you, nationalistic maybe, proud of my homeland, the place I was born. But frankly I feel like I'm sitting in some salon in 1930's Germany wondering if I'm the only one who can't hate jews, gypsies, artists and gays. After hearing Bush's word-choices such as "crusade" "evil doers" "axis of evil" I wonder if I'll be surprised when he announces a new salute to signify that we're the "new americans" or something. September should be a wakeup call, but one pointing out something far beyond Bush's axis of evil. The true "axis of evil" if there even is such a thing is likely to look more like England, Italy and the Untied States, give or take Japan. Anyhow, main theme of this entire email should have been my thanking you for showing yourself a thinking person in this month's MonteLibre newspaper. Your dynamic mind is what appeals to me most. Were it not for people like you, the final extension of my anti-globalism beliefs and philosophies would be the automatic hatred of all rich people wholesale. Not just the "evil" ones. marco __________ #'s http://neirp.com http://www.tenc.net http://softskull.com http://www.mezine.net http://www.notowar.com http://www.fnbnews.org http://www.stallman.org http://www.soulsista.net http://mke.indymedia.org http://www.freewaves.org http://www.cluebyfour.com http://www.poetsporch.com http://www.poets4peace.com http://www.nomoreaolcds.com http://www.subliminalsex.com http://www.rejectionline.com http://www.jesusradicals.com http://www.zmag.org/znet.htm http://www.enronownsthegop.com http://www.mp3.com/marcocapelli http://www.poetix.net/autry.htm http://www.infoshop.org/kidz.html http://fnbmilwaukee.homestead.com http://www.microcosmpublishing.com http://www.netfeed.com/~jhill/ebb.htm http://www.revbilly.com/prison%20skit.html http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/kids.html http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/attachment http://www.fire.or.cr/oct01/VIIpeacecast.htm http://www.yomgaille.com/bordel/un_lapin.html http://www.geocities.com/bikeadvoc/urban.html http://www.cinerhama.com/jewish/history01.html http://www.zippythepinhead.com/media/june7.gif http://www.electricant.com/anarchismandradio.htm http://www.neo-comintern.com/archives/ncom189.txt http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3017 http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/AEF/raps/tentcity.html http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/mediafile_popup.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7741-2002Feb13.html __________ A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi __________ L E T T U C E `. for ati: FACT OF THE WEEK In a country the size of the US, 500 reservists refusing to serve would be the equivalent to 54,000 from website: http://www.palestinemonitor.org `. To ATI Kenneth Lay is small peanuts. George W Bush will go down with the sinking ship that is Enron. Mort D `. Marco: Choice Hotels. A merger of 6? Enit. [hmmm. can't keep track of them all!] `. to ati@etext.org Are we still in Cuba for coal and refueling after all these years? McKinley Platt. `. to ati@etext.org A mumia abu jamal quote for you: "War is more than the instrument of big business; it is big business." 31jan02 Just call me esther `. Hello, Please pardon the intrusion, but I saw that your email address ati@etext.org is in plain text on the site http://flag.blackened.net/ati/ati228.html making it vulnerable to be harvested by SPAM robots. There's a neat way to hide your email from robots, but have human users use it just like normal. http://63.241.136.161/ec10067 Sincerely, Jeff Graysmith `. Hey there, This is just a quick introduction of the small record label that I run out of my bedroom in Toronto, Ontario. The label is called AntiAntenna Recordings, and you are getting this message because I've done some research and found that the publication you're working with would be interested in getting press releases from the genres of music that I'm working with. So, I'll keep this short. Add "info@antiantenna.com" to any mailing lists you might have for people like me. If your publication has a section for an indie label showcase or spotlight, please feel free to contact me for an interview. If your site has a links section, I would gladly trade links with you. I've already seen your site, and I think we're both on the same track. contact info for my label is: AntiAntenna Recordings 4-1528 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario Canada. M6R 1A4 url: http://www.antiantenna.com Thanks very much, Ryan Mills Founder `. to ati@etext.org Good day I'm starting a newsletter about poetry and was wondering if you or anyone you know would be interested in joining? If so please e-mail me at poetrylist@aol.com. Thanks for your time Bobby P.S If you'd consider placing a line or two about my up and coming newsletter I'll return the favor when I can. `. __________ OFFICIAL NOTICE: Change Of Voting Location Your polling location for all future elections is: __ _____ _______ ____ ___ ____________ __ The City Of ______ has completed the redistricting efforts that are required after each census and this time we tried to make things as difficult as possible. All borders of aldermanic/supervisor districts have been redrawn resulting in a shift of some voters into new wards. The redistricting has also made it necessary to change 12 polling places, so even those voters who remain in the same ward may now vote at a new location. Thank you. Office of the Clerk/Treasurer -------------------------- /"\ \ / X ASCII ribbon campaign / \ against formatted mail -------------------------- IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION Side effects with Allegra for seasonal allergies (TM) are low and may include headache, cold, back pain, flu, nausea, menstrual pain, drowsiness, back pain, sinusitis, dizziness, back pain, coughing, accidental injury, back pain, or back pain. Guy walks into his doctor and says, "I have this horrible back pain." "Didn't we give you pills to clear that up last month?" The doctor asks. "Yeah, I took them and would you know, those painkillers gave me the munchies? So I ate a whole bag of Baked Lays (TM) and a bunch of other stuff so I got indigestion, well I took a bunch of my leftover Purple Pills (TM), yeah, Prilosec (TM), which gave me rectal bleeding and horrible gas. I took Mylanta (TM), and had some kind of allergic reaction (TM) so I took some of those Allegras (TM) you'd given my wife. Next thing I know I have more back pain." "But didn't you come in for back pain three days ago?" "Yes, but whole different story, Doc. See, I was taking those Viagras (TM) they sent me in the mail as free samples? Well, let's just say the wife and I had a really great day." "So you threw your back out having sex?" "No! The sex gave me the munchies and shortly after that I had an allergic reaction (TM) to something I ate, so I took more of those Allegras..." "Ah, back pain side effect?" "No! The lady and I were arguing about who would get up and turn off the light for the evening. We were wrestling a bit and well. I punched myself in the head, fell out of bed, rolled on the floor, knocked over the half empty bottle of Allegras (TM) all over me and in the radiator on the floor. I was reaching for one of those falling pills and hit my head on the table which knocked over the light onto the floor. I don't know why, when I reached down to pick up the light my back went out." "Accidental injury?" "Yeah, accidental injury." "Hmmm. That's a common side effect." "Yeah, I know. You got any painkillers?" .--.--------.--. | ._. ._D90| | ((_)) ((_)) | | `_______-' | [()/o o\()] "-'--"----"--`-" hjw SOME GUY SAVED AN ENDANGERED SONG. My J20 BushHillbillys parody. He's a Cooledit whiz too. Gave me two tutorials on noise reduxx to read as well. Anyhew it's a song I wrote in notepad.exe, rehersed two or three times, and then called DC indymedia web radio and sang it to them over the phone. I literally propped the phone up on Dante's "Inferno," Gideon's "Bible," Random's "Thesaurus" and Orwells "1984." So the phone faced right between my mouth and the guitar somewhere. (note to self: next time right up to the guitar, just sing toward it) I sang my lungs out and then went about my business. At some point I closed notepad.exe without saving and poof. The song was gone for good. Right? No biggie, it was topical. Probably time-specific, like a shelf-life. Right? J20 Inauguration Bush Hillbillys. Hmm. (next note to self: songs about Prescotts, Dulles' Bushs' have no freshness stamp. They will ALWAYS carry meaning.) So I put the song behind me, spring, summer, fall. And then... "Didn't you do a J20 song live on the DC stream?" this guy asks me in an irc chat. I think so. Don't remember what I sang exactly, but "yeah. I think so." "Want an .MP3? I cleaned up the tinneyness from the phone in cooledit and it actually sounds pretty good." Wow, he sent it to me. It exists again. He saved an endangered song. Cool! http://flag.blackened.net/ati/indymedia/J20BushHillbillys.mp3 Woah, is "Mellow Yellow" about heroin? I never thought that until just now. Part of a poem about the Waldorf Astoria Oh Lawd, I done forgot Harlem! Say, you colored folks, hungry a long time in 35th Street they got swell music at the Waldorf-Astoria. It sure is a mighty nice place to shake hips in, too. There's dancing after supper in a big warm room. It's cold as hell on Lenox Avenue. All you've had all day is a cup of coffee. Your pawnshop overcoat's a ragged banner on your hungry frame. You know, downtown folks are just crazy about Paul Robeson! Maybe they'll like you, too, black mob from Harlem. Drop in the Waldorf this afternoon for tea. Stay to dinner. Give Park Avenue a lot of darkie color--free for nothing! Ask the Junior Leaguers to sing a spiritual for you. They probably know 'em better than you do--and their lips won't be chapped with cold after they step out of their closed cars in the undercover driveways. Hallelujah! under-cover driveways! Ma Soul's a witness for the Waldorf-Astoria! http://flag.blackened.net/ati/indymedia/stream-all-5.ra http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/waldorf.htm http://radio.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=970 /free/ /subscription?/ /send/ SUBSCRIBE ATI /to/ listserv@franklins.net Songs listened to while making this new and half-moon edition: "Are You Out There" - Dar Williams "Miss Misery" - Elliot Smith "sea of love" - cat power "plastic jesus" - biafra & nixon http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/attachment/border.mp3 _______ _ _ /:::::::\ (:) (:) |::/ \::| __ ___ _ _ |::| |::| /::) /:::) (:| (:| |::|___|::| (:(_ |:/ || || |:::::::::| _):) |:\_ || || |::| |::| (::/ \:::)_(::) (::) ___ _ _| |_ / _ (| '_) _/ \__,_\_| |_| http://www.euskalnet.net/puravida/index.html WELP, THAT'S ALL FOLKS... Hope you liked the 'zine! FEEDBACK? ati@etext.org http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html for back issues on a truly unmaintained (of late) page, and to order t-shirts, hats Cap'n Crunch whistles and Ugly mugs. Hurry there's only _00_ left. Call 860-887-2600 ext. 5293 to ring up the Prime Anarchist. And remember, 2morrow is international "yesterday plus two" day, so get out there and like they do at Morris Agency grease every palm you see, constantly thinking up new, cool kitchy gifts that won't smell too much like a bribe. ATi gives sad farewell to Waylon Jennings; another of the greats who dies before I get to meet. Oy!!!