This issue dedicated to Ita. _____ _ _ ( _ ) (2)_ _ _ (0)_ | (_) | ___ | ,_)(_) _ _ (5) ___ | ,_) | _ | /'___)| | | |( ) ( )| |/',__)| | | | | |( (___ | |_ | || \_/ || |\__, \| |_ (_) (_)`\____)`\__)(_)`\___/'(_)(____/`\__) _____ (_ _)_ | | (_) ___ ___ __ ___ | | | |/' _ ` _ `\ /'__`\/',__) | | | || ( ) ( ) |( ___/\__, \ (_) (_)(_) (_) (_)`\____)(____/ ATI, issue 250. Nov 2000. You ever played a Prime Balalaika? Solid spruce face, maple back, beech neck, made in Russia, Afghanistan and Romania. Tuned E, E, A. And there we were all these years wasting our time on M16's, AK's and HK's. -=prime=- LETTUCE to ati@etext.org: You quote me??!!!! Cancel my subscription. I don't want to be part of any magazine that thinks I'm worth quoting. Ha HA HA don Hello I am a publicist for an independent label with national distribution. Anomaly Records Inc. We have several artist's on our label ranging from blues to modern rock. Do you guys review records and do features on innovative indie bands? Please give me your submission guide lines, contact, address, fax, email (if different). I look forward to sending you our latest releases. Thank you for supporting indie music, we look forward to establishing a relationship with you. Kindest regards, Fred Lazo Anomaly Records Inc. Sr. Publicist new sign on my bus: "Tire la basura por la ventanilla. No seas chancho." "Throw your trash out the window. Don't be a pig." keep those buses clean, brooke Hi, I am looking for hospitals and physicians who are interested in either getting listed on our MEDICAL web portal or participating in co-op programs with us. We are scrambling to get things going before attacking some TV promotion. If you have a moment, [umm, I only wonder why you included us?!?!?! -ed] to marco NashvilleSongService.com is now accepting lyric submissions for upcoming recordings. If you are a lyric writer, and need help putting your lyrics to music, we can help. We work with lyric writers worldwide to help them accomplish their songwriting goals. Thanks, Jim to ati glad to hear that you folks didnt give in to their stupid ploys. of course they want to beat your heads in and blame it all on you! good work for taking the high road. and AUBURN BEAT BAMA!! daver a lettuce from the editor: I wonder if Bush OR Gore can locate Chad on a map? They certainly need attorneys, paralegals and seeing eye dogs to find one on a ballot! Hi all, I'm back from the largest non-violent protest there's ever been. At least that's my take on it. The military and the police, and the military police tried their damndest to get a violent response out of us knowing that interspersed with our group were many members of Black Bloc (if I had to guess I'd say 3 - 400 of us out there.) They remained nonviolent (but NOT WIMPY by ANY stretch) the entire time no matter what, just like most of them had consensed. Things were very scarey from the moment MP's started confiscating cameras. There was a point half way up our procession where they'd drawn a line and said no press could pass. That was scarey because we had perhaps 1000 people lined up 8 or 9 by a hundred or so, past that line, and the rest of us were behind it. Things just got worse after that. You can read about the police brutality and everything at: http://atlanta.indymedia.org but I'll also point you to one particular story that pertains more to cyberspace human rights issues, since that's mostly the only thing everyone in this list have in common, eh? http://atlanta.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=449 to ati@etext.org Massive election fraud is taking place. Tom Warner [you're big on understatement, huh? -ed] "you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war" #'s [we counted these #'s but came up short, so we'll recount and get back to you on that...] http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/11/07mideastmedia http://atlanta.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=506 http://www.laughingsquid.org/reality_hacking.html http://www.pcisys.net/~drmforge/poems.htm http://www.szarka.org/music/list.html http://artofhacking.com/Tucops/Zines http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org http://rhizome.org/splash/olia http://come.to/thesoaprotest http://www.nonviolence.org http://www.monkeyfist.com http://www.senaawest.org http://www.pwop.com http://62.116.31.68 http://www.wfa.org http://www.luver.org http://nirvananet.org http://www.PROCAGEM.net http://www.mrrogers.org http://smudgereport.com http://www.poetsporch.com http://www.misterrogers.org http://www.essentialmedia.com http://www.stealing-fire.com/bruce http://www.walkaboutclearwater.org/folk.html http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/ikea http://www.organizenow.net/techtips//rawlinks.html http://www.circlevision.org/pages/SOA/soa_benning.html http://www.oberlin.edu/~bcooney/cleveland%20fnb/not%20bombs.html MONTICELLO COFFEE BRIGHT. [sold only at a Waffle House near you] Imitation milk product ultra pasteurized non-dairy creamer. Ing: Water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, 8% vegetable oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate, mono and diglycerides, sodium citrate, salt, di - potassium phosphate, sodium silico aluminate, (of course to prevent caking) carageenan, artificial color, artificial flavor. / \ / \ / -K- \ \_____/ You had a choice and you chose us. Thank You. FLASH! - AL GORE: I INVENTED THE RECOUNT. - Film At 11 [=][=][=][=] PRESS RELEASE [=][=][=][=] WINNERS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL NAMMYS Saturday, November 11, 2000 ARTIST OF THE YEAR John Trudell Blue Indians BEST BLUES RECORDING Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998 Indigenous BEST COMPILATION RECORDING Wolves Original Soundtrack Various Artists GROUP OF THE YEAR Indigenous Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998 BEST FEMALE ARTIST Mary Youngblood Heart of the World BEST FOLK ARTIST Thunder Bird Sisters Still Singin' FLUTIST OF THE YEAR Mary Youngblood Heart of the World BEST MALE ARTIST Andrew Vasquez V3i An American Indian BEST NEW AGE RECORDING Heart of the World Mary Youngblood BEST POP/ROCK RECORDING Deeply Rooted Clan/destine BEST POW WOW RECORDING Gathering of Nations '98 Various Drum Groups BEST RAP/HIP HOP RECORDING Rez Affiliated Litefoot BEST RADIO STATION KILI Porcupine, SD SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR 'Blue Indians' John Trudell BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING The Elders Speak Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Francis Cree BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDING The First Flute Kevin Locke DEBUT GROUP OF THE YEAR Red Earth When Worlds Collide DRUM GROUP OF THE YEAR Black Lodge Singers Tribute To The Elders BEST HISTORICAL RECORDING Stick Game Songs of the Paiute Judy Trejo BEST INDEPENDENT RECORDING Fingermonkey Keith Secola & Wild Band of Indians BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING Inner Voices R. Carlos Nakai BEST LATIN RECORDING Native Flamenco Ruben Romero, Robert Tree Cody, Tony Redhouse BEST PRODUCER Jackson Browne Blue Indians RECORD OF THE YEAR Colors of My Heart Sharon Burch SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR Robert Mirabal Taos Tales BEST SHORT & LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO Joanne Shenandoah Warrior In Two Worlds BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING Native Flamenco Ruben Romero, Robert Tree Cody, Tony Redhouse NATIVE HEART Bruce Cockburn Wolves Original Soundtrack LIVING LEGEND Navajo Code Talkers THORPE SPORTS AWARD Notah Begay III LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Rita Coolidge HALL OF FAME Jim Pepper _____ _ ( _ ) ( )_ _ | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ | | | | | | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_)You had a choice and you chose us. Thanks. Democracies elect presidents. Dictators elect themselves. Any Questions? by doug reprinted from a usenet news article. ************************************** This Is Bush's Brain ( ) This is Bush's Brain On Drugs ( ) See? Some People Don't Have Anything To Lose. ************************************** Have A Talk With Your Children About Democracy Before Someone Else Does. ************************************** Commandant Glenn Weidner said the military has "lost the information war, which is discouraging, but just when I tired of dealing with the protests, something here would lift me up. This is the best assignment in the U.S. Army." TIMELINE OF A SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS DIRECT ACTION PROTEST | FRI | SAT | SUN | MON-THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | MON-? | Friday Nov. 10th - A Giant skeleton puppet leads 2 dozen Atlantans on a march from Ponce DeLeon Ave to the Georgia State Capitol, bringing attention to the upcoming protests to close the School of the Americas in Fort Benining. Fri - Buddhist monks and nuns begin walk from Atlanta to Columbus arriving about noon the 18th. Press covers them fairly well. 11:35am Tue Nov 14 - Indymedia.org reporters Liz Guy and Josh Raisler Cohn publish "Climber Stages Symbolic Hanging at Fort Benning, Demanding Closure of SOA." Story gets reprinted and/or paraphrased in news organs around the world almost instantaneously. Wed - Demonstrators continue constructing "parade puppets" at Koinonia Farm in Americus. Thu/Fri - People begin pouring more heavily into Columbus, GA filling hotels and restaurants, campgrounds and parking garages. Saturday - Colonel Weidner tells Columbus reporter his SOA has lost the information war. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/content/columbus/2000/11/19/news/1119weidner.htm] Sun Morning. - US Army launches psychological warfare mission (which was likely begun even earlier.) Noonish - activists plant corn seeds all over military institution. People in Chiapas plant corn there at the same time to show and act in solidarity. Afternoon - 2 star general spends 45 minutes arguing politely with 70 year old protester while other direct action continues. Monday - Columbus daily newspaper gives SOA Watch eighteen positive reviews and only two negative ones. A small handful are neutral including one which discusses the economic impact the protest will have on the surrounding town. "SOA PROTEST A BOON FOR ECONOMY: City, businesses could experience $2 million bonanza as thousands visit," the headline reads. Tuesday - Venceremos! [somewhere in this timeline I should have put that Black Bloc got almost complete consensus to show up in total solidarity with the non-violent spirit of the event. But much like you, gentle-reader, I don't quite know where to "place" it. When even our most violent friends vow temporary non-violence for one profound event you know that everybody wins. Compare this with Bill Clinton announcing to the whole world "Well, it's clear that the people have spoken but we just don't know what they've said yet." -ed.] Hola queridos mios: At the beginning I did this translation thinking of my close friends and family. Reading it again, however, I decided to send it to other friends too. This to suggest that you also share it with your own friends. It is as the elections in Florida are seen South of the border. Muchisimas gracias! Pio ============================================================== Poetic Justice (or how the empire adopted the political system of the "banana republics".) by Carlos Rafael Soto It is usually called, "Poetic justice". In Spanish, "Justicia Divina", divine justice. I am watching the perplexed faces of the English speaking CNN analysts and I ask myself: ¿how could John Kennedy imagine that, when applying the most inhumane blockade that no Nation in the world has ever endured, the only thing he was going to accomplish was to strengthened the spirit of Cuba and cause the emigration of all those who for many years had lived thanks to corruption and to political fraud? John Kennedy opened the doors of his country to the followers of Batista, and what he planted, now the United States is harvesting. The greatest show on earth, designed to elect "the leader of the free world" has ended up in a shameful and ludicrous fiasco. As in any banana republic, now in the United States people talk of fraud in some Florida counties, of electronic manipulation to cheat thousands of retirees that, everyone knew, were going to vote for Gore, and of the need for a vote recount to determine the winner of the Presidency. And in the heat of the discussions numbers are brought up that one is used to hearing in the Guatemala of the military rulers, in El Salvador, or, more recently, in Peru of Fujimori and Montesinos. In Miami (It had to be there!) in elections previous to the one of the Tuesday recently past 17 thousand deceased persons and more than 50 thousand convicts that, of course, do not have the right to vote, took part. The millions of dollars that Gore and Bush spent were not enough. Neither the respect for the unwritten rule according to which, to seriously seek the Presidency of the greatest democracy (?) in the world, three unavoidable requirements must be met: to be white, to be Anglo-Saxon and to be protestant (Kennedy was the only catholic who won the Presidency and everybody knows what happened to him.) The spectacle, frankly, makes you laugh. Not because of the Northamerican people , who are angry and in disbelief, but at their leaders. It is like that story in which no one dared to say that the king was naked. The situation can not be more scandalous; however, the illustrious and outstanding men of the OAS remain silent with the greatest prudence. No one has dared to suggest sending a mission of observers to the United States, to investigate if there was fraud. No one has spoken of a mediation to see if Gore and Bush could accept that the elections in Florida be repeated or, in the best Peruvian style, adopt the idea of calling for new elections within six months in which neither Bush nor Gore could participate (even though, according to what is being said, the dirty business was done by Bush's people, in a state politically dominated by Cuban exiles and governed, this is funny, by his youngest brother Jeb). Why Gaviria does not talk? Why the OAS has not been called to an emergency meeting to study the political and electoral situation of one of its member countries, in this case the United States? Poetic Justice. Divine Justice, without a doubt. Forty years of blockade to an heroic people and, as a result, to suffer the cancer of the corruption that Cuba used to suffer before her Revolution. Divine Justice. Poetic Justice. Indeed! -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "Why are people still fighting and killing each other? We are almost in the 21st century. We are a tiny small planet. Why keep fighting? Each nation has a beautiful culture and dancing and music to share. Why fight? Each religion has its own faith and compassion to teach. Why don't we use faith and not weapons?" Rev. Jun Yasuda -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Perhaps (talvez) we'll end with a parody. To the tune of "She's Not There." Made famous by almost everyone. Well no one told me elections Were rigged like this My poli sci professor warned me Now I'm really pissed Well it's too late to ask for justice How did I vote Why should I care Well please don't bother trying for fairness She's not there. Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked Our Lady Justice The statue with her hair I saw a scale there We asked for balance But she's not there OPINION - "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath was the best heavy metal album ever made. No one has come close, many have blatantly tried. -/\/\ /\ /^ < 0 /free/ /subscription?/ /send/ SUBSCRIBE ATI /to/ listserv@franklins.net Send all submissions, letters to the editor and lovenotes to: ati@etext.org or click on the homepage at: http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html for back issues and to order t-shirts, hats and FruktWitch Cookies. Hurry there's only _00_ left. Call 860-887-2600 ext. 5293 to hollar at the Prime Anarchist. And remember, 2morrow is international "DO NOTHING" day, So get out there and like they say in NIKEland, "Just do it." [this issue dedicated to Ita]