WAR IS OVER! , _ || ' < \, =||= \\ /-|| || || 155 (( || || || \/\\ \\, \\ Active-east Timor, Inc. Issue 155. Sunday. November 29, 1988. Durn near the half moon to boot; tomorrow's Abbie Hoffman's birthday. We Begin With a Poem by Ginger Pence Out in sea that drowns me Blue as the core from the sky I thank myself for knowing how to swim For my unconquered life In the ocean's tide of destruction I have cried aloud for help. under the busy sea floor I try to swim My arms are tired but not unusable. Beyond the sun are the cries of my voice loomed but not afraid of the tides, And yet I wonder if I'll live Forget yourself, and forget your soul. It matters not how I swim away Hurry to the green filled land I am lost of all hope, I am no longer alive. .-.-.-.-. - - - - "when people who are starving to death come up to you, in the street and ask you for money and you're deciding whether you're going to give them a quarter of a cent or a half a cent..." --Arlo Guthrie between shows in India this year saying it's not just corporate greed, or rich fat white americans - it's "a fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to be a human being." =#= ...every government is trying to regulate it. But it will come up again in another way, like weeds growing up through cracks in cement." --A. Guthrie on a) marijuana? b) freedom? c) internet? d) all of the above? -=-=-=-=-=- oy! -=-=-=-=-=- Hello and welcome to ATI issue 155. I'm prime anarchist and I can't find my column. If I do, I'll stick it in here. Otherwise, read on with smiles... ans: (c) by the way... Yes, I was protesting war last weekend. You probably figured that out. Of all the people I saw there, I was happiest to see Anne Archy, I think. My first time seeing her in two years. A hug was almost good enough to make up for all the distance and time. I sure hope our circles cross many more times in our lives. She's got a really nice speaking voice and one of the most tonal singing voices I've ever heard out of a woman. Ever. Any human actually. Birds yes, Moose yeah, sure. But people? Go Anne; go Anne. It was wonderful to see Cal Roberts there too. He took Amtrak down from konetiuk I'll bet. What a great spirit. If you live where I come from you probably know him because he's that Stoningtonian whose temporary illness caused almost every single clergy of each denomination from three or four townships to drop whatever petty issues kept them centuries apart, and stand out there keeping his decades-running vigil for him in stodgy old New London County. They probably jumped in nice warm autos to and fro - rather than ride SEATs sucky bus system, but that gets us half way there, eh? Even my mother, who's Republican treasurer of my hometown (yes I forgive her it every day. How do I show her, she's where I get MY unchanging values???) mailed me news-clippings about "that protest guy." Cal, God Bless You. You've got the Baptists and the Catholics, the Unitarians and the Congregationals realizing even if they can't agree on lunch, they sure can get that Praxis cooking. So call that a prime anarchist column, and move on. "shoot move communicate, if you will..." I probably ought to name the other bunches of people I "hung with" who some-ways are bigger honors to know than Martin Sheen or Amy from the Indigo Girls; but suffice it to say these two well represent the others. Best durned "be in" I've been to since the last one! So where and when did it all begin? Thanks mom, thanks dad, thanks congregational church. Thanks Father Larry, and I'm not even catholic. Full circle, 1968-1998. Our movement's even bigger than the Beatles now. Prime Exhausted, and Still Landing From Such a Wonderful Weekend - Here's to many more... # "There's an old Arab saying: 'when the King puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet.' I think of that every time I get a job on TV." --Pete Seeger "I don't think we have another 2000 years to learn the Sermon on the Mount." -ibid Oh when the "aint's" go marching in; Lord exclude me from that NUMBER... http://www.orn.net/~axels/welcome.htm http://www.billybragg.co.uk http://www.coffeeshoptimes.com http://www.monitor.net/rachel http://www.rethinkingschools.org http://www.timesoft.com/hopi/fireclan.htm http://www.askjeeves.com http://www.rpi.edu/~mccabd/rpithesis.html http://wormhole.org/IOunit http://come.to/pieman http://www.oz.net/~hayduke/Abbie/Abbiehoffman.html http://www.arlo.net http://www.judycollins.com From Barking Essex to Bethlehem, PA: It's Prime Anarchist's A T I ! KEEP THOSE CARS AND LEADZEPPELINS COMING... Hey! Please check out my Fairuza Balk Page and sign the guestbook to let me know what you think!! http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3532/MsBalk.html Thanks!! ~*Crystal*~ TO ATI: I reviewed your comments about The Celestine Prophecy and, based upon those comments, I believe you would also appreciate An Encounter With A Prophet by C. A. Lewis. Check it out: The exact address is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965857409/anencountwithapr Michael kokopeli: Our Legal Counsel advised that we will accept your resignation. However, I need a signed letter from you requesting that you be allowed to resign, and that the status of your termination be changed from involuntary to voluntary. Since your employment is terminated during your probationary period, according to policy you will not be reimbursed for unused vacation leave, nor will you be reimbursed for incurred education expenses while employed by Northrop Grumman. 1. As stated in the Benefits Summary "Any employee who terminates voluntarily or is terminated by Northrop Grumman prior to completion of his/her 90-working day probationary period will lose any vacation time accrued and will not be paid for any vacation time accrued." 2. As stated in the Data System and Services Division Procedure DV H603 "Education Reimbursement Plan", Reimbursement Eligibility Requirements "Northrop Grumman employees applying for reimbursement of education costs must meet the following eligibility requirements: satisfactorily complete the 90 working-day probation period..." Your Probationary Period was extended for 60 days on June 26, 1998 according to a memo I have in your Personnel File. Please mail your request for resignation to: Robert A. Layton Logicon, Inc. - A Norhtrop Grumman Company 2411 Dulles Corner Park - Suite 800 Herndon, VA 20171 If you have questions concerning the above, call me at 703-713-4477. [er, um... Bob, only one problem. I don't work for you. hmmm. in that case, take this job and...] marco, A number of my critics, frothing at the mouth, remind me: "This is a free country. We have a free press....so how can you write the things you do?" Well, they are right this is a free country (relatively speaking). And with that freedom comes a corresponding responsibility. I have a responsibility as a "journalist" to speak the truth (as best I can tell it) about these matters. Thank you and keep up the good fight. -SG- A T I : Lacking Bravado For Almost Eleven Years =) (((((questions comments and concerns: ati@etext.org))))) "If ever anyone put his money where his mouth was, it was Harry; half of what he earned his last five years he donated directly to hunger organizations." Tom Chapin about his songwriter brother. "It takes a micro-brewery to buy a poet." -Lisa Martinovic -=-=-=-=-=- OP-ED -=-=-=-=-=- Ad in paper: $7 per hour plus travel expenses handling autistic children. Must have 1 year of college and a lot of patience. All well and good, but a couple years ago weren't you paying about 50K for that job??? Career? Benefits?? Attention all corporations "handling autistic people:" E-mail me and show me what you used to pay and what you dole out now. Surprise me! I really want to know. Oh, and I speak for most average americans responding to an ad thusly. Don't even THINK of requiring a resume for a 5, 6 or 7 "per" job. I'll fill out an application, thank you very much. For me to boot up old WP and convert my resume to Word and print it on thesis paper, you'd better be offering me Congressperson's wages or you're just not getting me or ANY of my peers. Feck! The nerve of some people... -30- ...Your business is important to us. That's why we're finally willing to Hire a bunch more 8/hr human beings To answer the phone physically so You don't have to hear a message like This which so conflicts our professed Philosophy... FLASH -=- MARC FRUCHT WITNESSES ABUSE OF HANDICAPPED PEOPLE AT MILITARY BASE. News From the School Of The Americas Protests. (SEMINOLE, Georgia) - "You're a liar," --Archbishop Romero recognizing someone in a Salvadoran Army General. This happened last Sunday. It is the truth as I saw it. Half our procession was on busses to the park for what we believed was to be our arrest. The other half, we had marched past "the line" where we were detained 2 hours awaiting the maxed-out busses. We were about 500 yards ahead of the people in wheelchairs who also wished to cross the line and risk arrest. We watched a left-tenant colonel verbally assault the humans in wheelchairs telling them they could not cross a new line he'd invented and that if they joined us over THAT line there'd be a worse penalty for them. They were afraid to move. We decided thru consensus that his saying they couldn't join us, did not cover us joining them. We stretched our line wide until the last four people, including me, stood right next to the people with wheelchairs. Somewhere between 15 and thirty of them. Two were crying, and they all agreed verbally they were quite relieved that we re-included them; for they felt isolated, in danger, and scared. The left-tenant returned. He began telling them that the busses had already taken the first wave of "criminals" to a park two miles away, that this second wave (us) would not be processed and we'd be taken by bus right off the base where the gate is, so we can wait for our "buddies." He told the people in wheelchairs they could save him the time, money and gas if they would just wheel themselves back off the base to where the other 5 to 7 thousand were singing, drumming and cheering us all on. I sensed a very dangerous lie had been paid out and the people were about to get hurt. It's a burden giving a shit, but I pressed forward with a skill that if I can say without bragging, I acquired in greater volume than this "colonel." "Sir!" I shouted from next to the people in wheelchairs. "Were the people on the first busses processed or NOT??" "Son!" he shouted as if I was some dumb GI under his command. "Are you in a wheelchair?" he barked turning toward me with the look of venom in his eyes. "No sir!" I parried his thrust as fast as I could. I suddenly realized I'd broken him and he was about to single me out for abuse. From my basic training skills and times where I'd lived through going beyond broken, I realized that if I said anything to his screams besides a barrage of "yes sir's" and "no sir's" he was going to spend 15 entire minutes hollaring at me while he built up his "plan b," in his pea-sized mollasses-in-january brain. My life was possibly in danger and hinged on my attention to that detail. My silence may have been just as dangerous, if not more. So I replied "yes sir; no sir," very rapidly to his launch of 5 or 6 verbal assaults including something about my ass, and suggesting I get it away from the wheelchairs. "You do what you have to," he screamed angrily at the people in the wheelchairs, wheeled around and left walking tall with the self-assuredness of a pompous fool who deserves absolutely no one's respect outside of his small part of the United States Army. [nice of him to quote Martin Sheen at the end there. Emulation is the best form...] We all continued on rather than get tricked by the left tenant's attempt at damage reduction. We were bussed to the park where we too were processed and the people in wheelchairs were escorted off-base by other military people who treated them nicely I'm told. This good cop/bad cop junk is rapidly getting old. # (((((questions comments and concerns: ati@etext.org))))) Wail Activist Times... Full of Bravura, Full Of Grace... PAWN (Prime Anarchist World News) GREEN DAY PACKAGERS Defensive Rear End Reginald "Denny's" Wite will autograph his newly released book, "Black, Gay and Female People Suck," from 5:30 to 5:45 pm Monday at Revolutionary Christian Right bookstore. Drawing on experiences both on and off the field, Wite uses his book to illustrate you really *can* win someone to Christ by beating them to a submissive pulp. -=-World News Photo-=- VICE PRINCIPAL AL GOORE, right, wears a tibetan-skin-skirt, posing for papparazzi Wednesday with Thai-dye Primal Minister Chuan Leekpipe at an OPEC retreat, held about 30 miles south of Foxwoods Casino in Malaysia. -=-=-=-=-=- the QUOTES AND MISQUOTES DEPARTMENT: compiled by the Republicrat. "Truman hadn't de-segregated the armed forces yet." [who said that, is he right???] "The revulsion against war not too long hence will be an almost insupportable obstacle for us to overcome. For that reason I am convinced that we must begin now to set the machinery in motion for a permanent war economy." General Electric. 1944. [I leave him nameless - faceless, like so many 12 million others...] "When I take bread and give it to the poor they call me a saint. But when I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." Helder Camera. Brasil. "The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and the evils of racism." --The Martin Luther King Jr. Quote you ALL keep refusing to reprint... |CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: \ |HACKER Poetry Wanted \ |If you're a hacker, call \ |yourself a hacker, or know\ |one - send ATI a poem. Any\ |topic, any style. Poems will\ |be published in the order \ |they are received. \ |Send poetry to \ | ati@etext.org \ USA - Making the world safe for Paper Products. Hey WalMart. Buy THIS grocery store... A MATTER OF TIME very short poem by Marco Frucht US Economy. US Environ. US Elders. US Elite. Sustainable? How Much Longer. ============================================================ = ATI RESEARCH Project of the Week. = = Find out what Splenda (tm) is made up of besides = = calorie-free sugar. Some kind of new sweetener. = = It might even be good. = = RC Cola is using it instead of the dreaded aspertame. = = 1954 Royal Crown was the first in their field = = marketing soft drinks in cans. = = By 1958 they were first to introduce the 16-oz = = returnable bottle. = = 1964 - first to use aluminum cans. (ah, what a great = = time to be born...) = ============================================================ HURRY! a short poem by Steve Holst We must compose poetry quickly! Because it decomposes so fast. As usual, we end with poetry. This one doesn't have a title yet... I'm not seeing there's an Arrow for me. Everybody started honking honkingly at me. Now it's all green, green. And I'm going too slowly For everyone else I guess. Sorry- Go 'round. 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