Give Thanks '02. Special FTA issue. ___ - -_, , ( ~/|| || ' ( / || =||= \\ \/==|| || || /_ _|| || || ( - \\, \\, \\ Free Sticker inside! * Activist Times, Inked. Sunday. 2191 hrs. (basically, 1031pm) Oh, it's 24Nov. Thanksgiving's almost upon us. And did you see that moon last nite? Wow! So, do you know what "FTA" stands for? Hi, welcome to another chapter in ATI history. I'm prime anarchist and, well. Here we go again... sifodoh (sitting in front of dahmer's old house) My mom sent me news clippings from our home-town paper, as she often does. On the back of a clipping was a complete local police log. Let me share a snapshot without naming names or anything. I won't even list the violations. Just the ages. Ready? 26,18,25,20,19,21,44,24,33,37,21,28,27,47,46,32, 43,23,19,49,33,38,27,30,32,36,33,31,22,35. Seven women, all the rest men. (assuming that names will indicate gender fairly precisely) Now that I'm in my late 30s I OUGHT TO be able to say let's just criminalize the act of being male between 25-35 years old, right? Oh wait. Two things occur to me. 1) I won't believe in or stand for any kind of profiling 2) We already do that as a nation, don't we? ___________ I ought to mention a thing or two about the Klan, Nazis, National Alliance and World Church of The Creator coming and going yesterday, huh? 1) they suck. 2) they're silly looking 3) someone should tell them how much they suck. 4) have I mentioned that they suck? -30- Need more #'s? http://www.anada.net http://www.mnftiu.cc http://www.webzine.ws http://liquid2k.com/srp http://www.complacent.org http://sfkids.linefeed.org http://www.bluesforpeace.com http://www.soawne.org/links.html http://members.chello.nl/jsteenis http://www.agitacionrecords.cjb.net http://counterpunch.org/detainee.html http://www.navajotimes.com/comment.html http://members.optushome.com.au/steak/addendum http://free.freespeech.org/kokopeli/grudge.html http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=39261 http://atlanta.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9720 http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20021118.html http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102%257E8862%257E1006965,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,839520,00.html http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/1803531/detail.html http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/bombproject/Index.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm/frantionindymedia.mp3 http://www.lies.com/wiki/index.cgi?WinonaRyderOnTrial http://www.mindspring.com/~robinwwc/rk/p4p.html http://resistir.info/varios/liberdades_eua.html http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1123-01.htm http://www.netfeed.com/~jhill/ebc.htm http://kennesawsummit.kennesaw.edu http://www.honolulujazzscene.net http://www.snowshoefilms.com http://angstmonster.org/txt http://infinitematrix.net http://www.spysource.net http://www.grannyd.com http://nothingness.org $ NOW 4 MORE LETTUCE: to ati@etext.org Greetings: In Chicago, John Frycek is a top security consultant, veteran licensed private investigator and a Certified Protection Specialist who has over 19 years of experience. He has and continues to perform private sector services in counter-terrorism security for some of Chicago's largest corporations and top-level executive personnel. He has a "hard hitting" and focused out look on security in the private and public sector. His commentary is interesting and also alarming about how corporate America really cares about their bottom line more than the true safety of the public. ... Nora V. Amerazian, PPS, CIS, LPD [{snip for bandwidth considerations} ed note: this is a fascinating read, but I'm perplexed why this zine was in receipt of this email. Oh well...] to ati@etext.org Are you there? FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE: Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed Introduction: Aside from tricks of the mind, Neuro Lingui... Debra [ed note: wtf??? Read on] to ati@etext.org This is a especially for you! FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE: Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed Introduction: Aside from tricks of the mind, Neu... Dianne to ati@etext.org Hello again. FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE: Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed Introduction: Aside from tricks of the... Desiree IT'S ALL ABOUT JAZZ! Q. What is the difference between a pizza and a Jazz musician? A. A pizza can feed a family of four! What is it about Jazz that makes a Jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musician's surest route to death by starvation? One good reason would be the fact that Jazz allows me to be myself as opposed to Pop that wants me to be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop album released by some genius A&R manager, titled 'mai bhi Madonna' (i'm Madonna too). Jazz as you will see, and if you've heard about 'mai bhi Madonna', helps me retain my individuality and what's left of my sanity in this big mad world of music marketing. Jazz, the most open, alive and evolving form of music, is the medium i choose to communicate and express myself musically. I know a lot of people in the audience may not understand my intense shoobee-doo-wop, shoobee- doobee-doo-wop and emotive twidlee-didlee, didlee-doo- dah along with some sensitive chaka-chaka, shaka-dish- boom-thaak. But there's always the few who can 'feel' what they can't figure. Most of the time the message i communicate may read 'hey brother, how about a loan.. i'm broke again' but when i have someone in the audience enjoying my music, i become a millionaire. Colin D'Cruz http://www.hullocheck.com to ATI If you check out some websites monitoring hate groups-- the Anti-defamation League, Klanwatch, etc.--I think that you will find that a member of the World Church of the creator was involved in a fatal shooting spree several years back in Illinois and Indiana, directed against African-Americans, Jews, and Asians. WINTERBYBEE TOPIC 4 WIDE CONSUMPTION: KU KLUX KLAN: Paramilitary, or secret leadership of a nation? 1ST & 4TH: Some Close The SOA Journal Notes. All the hotels are full. I just watched our night auditor turn away a local couple. It's surely going to be the largest gathering at this gate ever. Lede story: Thousands Of Tens Storm SOA. Karl Meyer Gary Asbeck onstage saying, "Oh, and I'm an anarchist." [Applause!!!] Fortune Cookie: For a good cause, wrongdoing may be virtuous. ATI- Billings Denmark Anarchy Symbols GRAFFITI ON BOWLING GREEN TRUCKSTOP BATHROOM WALL: No Christian Democrats Democrats are Baby Killers, liars and Cheats too. And Communist whoremongering Clintonite Sons of bitches. [] Song idea -- parody of "Some Gave All" about going to jail for justice. Counter protest played "Ballad of the Green Berets" after a Dylan song. Also Lennon's "Revolution" at some point. They just don't get it, do they? Book Review: Brett Axel's "Disaster Relief Poems." Brett in this book is like Anais Nin on acid. "Disaster" should be required reading to any expository lit class where anyone has the nerve to say they're "with-it" enough to teach. 5pm Wednesday. I had my first BK Veggie at the Union of the local landgrant college just now. I Was depositing my paycheck from tomorrow afternoon's gig so I said what the heck. Not bad. Good enough that if their place is my only choice, on any given hunger-moment, (tienes hambre?) I now have the option of that, fries and a tea or coffee. Yay. After the sacred marriage of Shannon Kiel and Michael Grass, the entire wedding party's head table walked up the street to the local Klan rally dressed to the 9s with their two piece plastic champaign glasses in one hand and signs saying things like "NO HATE," and "KLAN = TERRORISM" in the other. Y2KM1LK Pain Is a constant Companion Wow, what song is this? It's like Jane's Addiction meets the Stray Cats!!! / \ SEGUE \ / AIRPLAY 101 ----------------- By Bryan Farrish http://www.radio-media.com Why Clear Channel is Irrelevant for Indies After endless concerns in the indie community about radio consolidation and Clear Channel, I'm here to tell you that it should be of no concern to you. Regular rotation on large stations (Clear Channel or otherwise) in major or medium markets is not available now... nor has it ever been... (for over 30 years) to small indie releases and artists any more than McDonalds is available to you to market your indie toys. Remember McDonalds' 10-year marketing agreement with Disney? Before it happened, do you think you had any chance at all of getting your indie toy into McDonalds? That situation is the equivalent of you trying to get your indie release into regular rotation on medium and major stations. Consolidation or no consolidation, trying to get a product with entry-level marketing onto the largest media outlets in the world is a terribly misplanned idea. (This applies, of course, to new acts/labels releasing their first or second record on their own.) So why all the hoopla? Because news outlets know that you'll read it. And when you read it, they get paid. News outlets (like the LA Times and salon.com) need to print things that you are worried about, so you will log on and/or purchase copies, or else they will close down. Since the worst fear of all musicians is not having their music heard, if the publications tell you how the biggest radio stations are not going to play you, they know you will pay attention and read. But just because you are just now learning how difficult the large stations are, does not mean that it used to be any easier. Fact is, if you were trying to release your own record (even on AM radio) in the 60's and 70's, you would have been going directly up against Capitol, RCA, ABC, Atlantic, CBS, and the other major labels at the time. So even then (with no Clear Channel), you would have had to start off with the smaller stations, just like you have to today. And also back then (20 years before the McDonalds-Disney agreement,) you would never have been ableto get McDonalds to carry/market your indie toy; but you can bet that the toy industry publications back then did their best to paint a depressing picture for the small toy manufacturers, despite the fact that the best way for an indie toy maker to market its toys (both then and now) is to work with the mom and pop toy stores throughout the country. What does this mean for your airplay? The same thing we've been trying to get across for years: Start with small market commercial stations (or college stations in any market,) and use the results to book more and bigger gigs, all the while selling your CDs and merch for full price at those gigs. You'll never have to deal with getting distribution (or getting paid from distribution), much less have to worry that you won't be getting any regular rotation on a Clear Channel station. If you absolutely won't rest until you get some Clear Channel spins, however, then consider commercial specialty/mix shows... These shows are available on Clear Channel stations from New York on down, and with good music and a good push, you can get a spin or two for a few weeks. ((0)) - - - - - - - - - - - - - BUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 NAMMYS NOTES: November 5, 2002 - Wisconsin Public Television and their 16 stations in the Great Lakes Region agree to broadcast a one hour performance-only version of the Fifth Annual Native American Music Awards this coming December with a repeat broadcast scheduled for the Spring of 2003. Featured performers on the program include: Crystal Gayle, Buddy Big Mountain, Call for Peace Dance & Drum Company, Cherokee National Children's Choir, Felipe Rose, Gary Small, Howard Lyons, Jana, Martha Redbone, Micki Free, Lorrie Church and the Wolf River Band. November 20, 2002 - The Native American Music Awards and Association begins production for the long-awaited, "Best of the Nammys" compilation video and CD commemorating five years of honoring the outstanding achievements of Native American musicians. AND MORE SOA MISC STUFF \/\/\/\/ Fortune Cookie On the bus going home from SOA this year we stopped by a Piggly Wiggly for dinner. There appeared to be only enough time to get stuff and eat on the bus, so some of us got take-out chinese. My friend Michele offered me the last half of her rice, and she also said I could have her fortune cookie. I said sure but we should share the cookie because I feel it's going to be an important one. That's just how these things go. She said I could eat it all because she didn't want any. I said ok, but it still has to be our fortune, not just mine. She obliged. I opened it. You're not going to believe what it said. Ready? "For a good cause, wrongdoing may be virtuous." \/\/\/\/ AHIMSA: A Glimpse Of Saturday's Peacekeeper Training by marco Amy Martin sang "I'm on my way" as a call and response. Wow, I've only heard it and sang it as straight folk-rock performance. Good work Amy! That was awesome. She rocks. Then she announced it was Paddy Inman's birthday. He looked very embarrassed. We found out rather quickly it was more a look of surprise than embarrassment. Paddy's been so busy the past couple weeks and this weekend, he knew his birthday was somewhere around here, but had totally forgotten the specifics. Which brought a funny vibe to the whole room. Paddy explained. [ in case you don't know, Paddy is the facilitator for all the peacekeepers each year. A huge job. I don't know anyone else I've met in my life so far who could even think about raising their hand to take on half of what he does! Paddy Inman is one of my biggest heros. ] The first year he got arrested at the SOA (was this 6 years ago? 7?) he was being processed and a woman typing in his drivers license turned to him and said, "Oh, and happy birthday." "What?" asked Paddy. "Happy Birthday." "Huh?" "Son," said the woman, "it's your birthday." Musta been really busy that week too. Wait, it gets heavier. Not only was Paddy Inman born onbase, he was conceived there too. Right there on Fort Benning. Perhaps by a tree where School-Of-Coups wasn't built yet? Just kidding! But not about these connections. His dad was a warden or an MP or something. Stationed there. So here begins Paddy Inman's path. Each year speaking truth to power must be an incredible homecoming for him. Perhaps he played youth football with some kids who grew up to be SOA instructors. Perhaps some of his onbase classmates went on to work at the Pentagon, or lead Fort Benning's jump school or something. Not Paddy. He's staring down a Mayor, a Colonel, a two-star general, and refusing to blink. Refusing to compromise. Only willing to re-state what we all can live with, and what we can't. What we will do transparently, and what we're willing to let them try to do. Paddy is definitely the one you want standing beside you at the Pearly Gates as you try to answer to all your "deeds." But I digress. Paddy Inman was leading me and a whole mess of peacekeepers. Once again. Yet another year. What beautiful energy fills up the room, thanks to Amy and Paddy, and each and every one of us too, I think. Blessed are the peacekeepers? No, blessed are the peaceMAKERS. Remember this. It will serve you well no matter what faith you walk on. Some peacekeepers will be peacemakers as well, many of us will fall short a little here and there. Many of the wider group of SOA protesters will be peacemakers, and you know what? There's a woman cop I saw cry last year. I saw her again this year. I saw emotion from some MPs too. Not tears, but a certain look in the eyes. That I never noticed any other years. That is probably the look of a peacemaker as well. Blessings toward them. It's because of all these people, we all live another day. So how it is with this upcoming day. This Sunday morning. This funeral, this litany, this ceremony, this dance. How will it be? "This changes things," says Paddy, about the injunction we lost, about the new dynamics the military and the city police have thrown into the equation about a week before the demonstrations began. I'd never known the "gub mint" to resort to monkey- wrenching, methinks they're feeling some little bit of desperation, eh? Checkpoints? Electronic wands? Barricades? Counter-demos, moving General LeMoyne's "friendly" controlled scripted and rehearsed dialogue sessions from inside the gate to the gate, and now to just outside the checkpoints??? I see where they're going with this. They haven't just lost the "InfoWar" like Colonel Weidener said a while back, they've begun losing their cool as well. Hopefully we can keep THEM from too much violence. I'm less worried about "our own people." So last year we were given the street, this year they've barricaded us in and we can't get to that street without submitting to a search. Paddy quoted AJ Muste, "there's no way to peace, peace is the way." He made a very strong point of keeping sure we're not complicit in these searches in any way. Let people be as random as they would feel comfortable. Other years some of us peacekeepers might have been into herding ourselves along rows and columns all neat and orderly, but Paddy suggested that's not a good idea this year. Funeral procession yes, checkpoints no. If people want to listen to the Police when they keep pointing and saying "get out of that line and go to this new one," that's fine, if they don't we won't do much. Perhaps a few words of "there's a third checkpoint now, move there if you want to, but only if you want to." Or some such. Gentle smiles and standing near the crowd and the police is probably best. Little more than that. This alone performs magic. (how do you think the woman cop cried? I smiled at her for a very long time when I watched her help someone instead of being so verbally abusive for the moment. She smiled, that's when a tear gushed out. Magic. I didn't perform it per se, just participated in it." "The wisdom contained in the following words," says this year's 'SOA WATCH PEACEKEEPER GUIDELINES,' "does not come from any one individual or organization but rather from a multitude of individuals whose consciences have compelled them to engage in nonviolent resistance to powerful people and institutions that have attempted to compromise the rights of others in order to promote their own selfish ends." That's what I'm talking about. Another roadblock to our goals of setting a good tone, and maintaining our "peaceful pissed off people" presence came in the form of two absolutely stupid things said out loud in the courtcase Friday morning and afternoon. An expert witness claiming to know all about riots said five different times, (count 'em, 5!) it's "bare naked, bare breasted, bare chested women" that causes a riot the most. He claimed that the four or five naked people last year made things so violent that things almost got out of hand. Apparently the 3rd or 4th time this expert recited this, Paddy yelled out (probably risking contempt) "enough already, we've heard you," or some words like that. Hmmm. I wonder what this has to do with why they must wand us with metal detectors? We pretty much all agreed if there was any nudity we would just do what we always do -- ask for calm, suggest everyone be mindful of nonviolence, and keep maintaining a strong gentle presence. Second absolutely stupid statement? They trust every single one of our protesters and peacekeepers. It's those outside radicals they need to search and protect us from. You know, the ones who wear red and black and carry symbols like A's inside circles, and such. Yeah, the anarchists. How did we resolve this? We'll stop profiling of anarchists by passing out red armbands to anyone who wants one, and they can sharpie an anarchy symbol on it or any other symbol they feel like. Wear it on your arm, your leg or whereever you want. A friend of mine wore one around her forehead. She rocks too. So I'll end this glimpse by lifting a couple more quotes from the guidelines that struck me as appropriate to the wider peacemaking that so many of us would like to move our entire lives toward. -- Peacekeepers are responsible for maintaining the "nonviolent" self-discipline of the action and act as mediators in confrontations between authorities and demonstrators. Peacekeepers have primary responsibility for participants in the action, but they should be fully prepared to protect legal authorities and other non-participants from demonstrators if necessary." -- Try to engage hecklers in polite conversation as an intervention technique, but understand that you are not going to convince or convert them. If you talk, discuss but do not argue. Be polite. Smile. Nothing is more disarming. -- Stay between conflicts or confrontations and the marchers. Keep the march moving. Your back should generally be toward the conflict while quietly urging others to keep moving and not join the conflict. Let the conflict fizzle out. You do not need to be a hero and interpose your- self... Stay calm. It's only a conflict. -- Urge people to stay back from an arrest. Do not try to block civil authorities and urge others not to also. -- Maintain contact between yourself and the police whenever possible by introducing yourself, making eye contact, smiling, engaging them in conversation to establish the "human" connection. Inform police of your intentions in a non-threatening manner. Be open to their legitimate concerns, such as traffic flow or any other safety issues. -- Talk with disrupters if possible. If they are demonstrators, they may be open to good arguments and reminders to adhere to our "nonviolence pledge." Sometimes it's better to distract other demonstrators from the disrupters. Focus or refocus peoples' attention on the vigil and the action itself by encouraging them to keep on moving, singing, chanting, or whatever is appropriate to the situation. Happy Birthday, Paddy Inman. Just as Adam Shapiro said about International Solidarity Movement that there is no one Gandhi in the Palestinian struggle, rather there are hundreds; there is no one Gandhi in the SOAW movement either, hundreds are here too. And Paddy is surely a great one of them. BIRTHDAY WISHES ALSO GO OUT TO THE INDYMEDIA MOVEMENT. THE "IMCISTA" TURNS THREE TODAY. [independent media center(s); woo hoo! Yippie!!] AND THE GAS FACE GOES TO -- IT'S A TIE. CNN AND CITIBANK Anyone got a clue who's worse lately?? JOURNO-RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE MONTH Who is Rockwell What is Allen-Bradley about Why are they directly connected to the Klan When did the Klan actually decide to come to Milwaukee Where besides Peoria are they centering themselves Preliminary thesis: The Klan came to Milwaukee because despite five Bush trips to Wisconsin, and countless millions pumped into the campaign, McCallum lost to a democrat. Not since McCarthy has national socialism lost this much foothold in Wisconsin this fast. Brownshirts everywhere are quivering nervously that their Queen Bee, their HQ, their braintrust, their "raisin debtor" is fast dying off. Well, this has been ATI Activist Times, zine Another week behind us. Have a good one and catch you on the flipside. feedback? ati@etext.org history? http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI fooling with web ideas all the time? http://flag.blackened.net/ati http://bancs.lod.com/~ati _________________ * well, virtually. :) I think you can print 'em out from adbusters.org [hint, thin white sticker paper's 50c a sheet at the Kink] This issue of this zine dedicated to Paddy Inman. Blessed are the gentle and strong ones. May (Some Day) the lion and the lamb truly sit down to lunch with each other, and may they soon.