(A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) 12,000 people from all over the world converged on Fort Benning's Columbus, GA gate protesting what they say is tax-supported training of central american death squads using techniques they do not approve of. Over 4,400 people risked arrest crossing onto the base marching to the SOA where latin american "students" were barricaded in lock-down by the base commander hoping to inhibit their awareness. Rather than print 5 full stories in this zine, the #'s run will feature extra places you can read about it. [ed note: if anyone getting this doesn't have websurfing ability and wants to read a few of these stories, email ati@etext.org and you'll get two or three tucked in your inbox as a gift.] ]]]]]]] ]]]]]]]]]] ]]]]]]]]]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] I S ]]S U E ]] 1 9 9 ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]]]]]]]]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]] ]]]]]]]]]] hAckington, esTado's unItos. 9911272242 NOT VERY CLOSE TO GROUNDHOG DAY Did you see that full moon? Wow. Too bad it didn't "fall" on ati day, eh? I'm prime anarchist and here's my short little column before a big old fat turkey of a 'zine. Ack Tiv Imes. Issue 199. Brought to you by Dr. Du-More's toothbrushes. New! Reduces the danger of gingivitis, reduces plaque build-up. Du-More, Inc. Rogers, Ark. 72757. We're not just for fornicating governors anymore. I just watched a DTV ad telling me I can pay with VISA, MC OR Western Union. A 4-inch High- Def TV screaming at me while I pump gas at a Shell station. How stupid! Dear Hotel Guest, Can you imagine how many tons of towels are unnecessarily washed every day in all the hotels all over the world and the monstrous amount of washing powder needed which thereby pollutes our water? PLEASE DECIDE: Towels thrown into the bath or shower means: PLEASE EXCHANGE. Towels replaced on the towel rail means: I'LL USE IT AGAIN. Thnx, the Management. #'s http://gatt.org http://www.gwbush.com http://www.tribes.org http://www.frucht.org http://www.igc.org/csn http://www.billboard.com http://www.fanseverywhere.org http://www.netvideo.com/nobody http://www.mantra.com/newsplus http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli http://www.orn.net/~axels/nomas.htm http://agitprop.org/artandrevolution http://www.thereducers.com/boosters.html http://www.igc.org/csn/199911/afp1118.html http://www.killerbutterfly.com/index_1.htm http://www.soaw.org/Articles/99Nov21pr.html http://members.xoom.com/lucidanne/index1.html http://www.igc.org/csn/199911/reuters1122.html http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/soaati.html http://www.solcities.com/www/lb0/lemonbasket28.htm http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/edits/seang.htm http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/godot.html http://www.michaeldale.org/pshare/resources/SOA98.htm http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/underground.html http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/8311/index2.html http://members.tripod.com/~cannabishempsativa/etclinxpg.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/1086/School/barcodes.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/www.thirdworldtraveler.com/SOA/Mexico_SOA.html (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) ati. busting through news blackouts since 1988! LETTUCE FOR YOUR HEAD I recently received an e-mail regarding my review at amazon.com from someone who said we seemed to think alike. The e-mail recommended a book packed with some of the most thought provoking concepts I have ever come across. I'm passing on the information with the hope that you receive some of the same enjoyment the book brought me. The book is entitled An Encounter with a Prophet and is located at: [http://www.attemptatafreead.com?] Enjoy, Mike ---===--- marco, H2SO4 is not good for us. uwo (Villahermosa, Tabasco) ---===--- "Will somebody please tell me why Eric Burns, a 19-year-old "hacker," is being given fifteen months in prison for "hacking" the sacred White House website?" [this Pat Buchanan quote was forwarded to us by that "anon." guy again...] ---===--- Good story re School of the Americas. Could you please send your messages to us at a different e-mail address? Kindly take off [...], and put in its place, [...]. Thanks! DGC Editorial Director Clarity Press, Inc. PS Ever think of putting together a collection of stories like this, under title such as UNREPORTED PROTEST, 1999...? ---===--- thanks for the info i haven't checked my new e-mail adress lately cause i haven't had time to yet. anyways i need to tell you about my new poems sometime. amy [ed: please do...] ---===--- Awesome web-site Marco! Is it possible for us to put up an electronic Social Prizm? Matt ---===--- Dear ATI, Love the misprint on Bush. Something very funny(Ha-ha) about that. Do you REALLY THINK they are going to close the SOA? Yeah, like they shut off the contaminated wells outside Clark Air Force base in the Phillipines after they found out they were malforming the kids... and then turned them back on the day after some Phillipine senator came by to inspect. Watch out. The CIA slush fund will keep that school going for years either under this name or another. Your sceptical pal in Boston. ---===--- to ati@etext.org This is hilarious....and true at that! John (860) From a talk by R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence, given at a conference on global organized crime. [ed note: glad to see we're globalizing something else besides fecal choliform...] "Just in case you think the FBI is not on the job, I have received a true intercept (and this is not made up...it is not Saturday Night Live) that the FBI made of itself while conducting an investigation in San Diego. It was sent to me by a friend of mine who used to be with counterintelligence in Washington. It is called "The FBI Pizza Call." FBI agents conducted a raid of a San Diego psychiatric hospital that was under investigation for medical insurance fraud. After hours of reviewing thousands of medical records, the dozens of agents worked up quite an appetite. The agent in charge of the investigation called a nearby pizza parlor to order a quick dinner for his colleagues. The following telephone conversation took place and was recorded by the FBI because they were taping the hospital." Agent: "Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda." Pizza Man: "And where would you like them delivered?" Agent: "We're over at the psychiatric hospital." Pizza Man: "To the psychiatric hospital?" Agent: "That's right. I'm an FBI agent." Pizza Man: "You're an FBI agent?" Agent: "That's correct. Just about everybody here is." Pizza Man: "And you're at the psychiatric hospital?" Agent: "That's correct. And make sure you don't go through the front doors. We have them locked. You will have to go around the back to the service entrance to deliver the pizzas." Pizza Man: "And you say you're all FBI agents?" Agent: "That's right. How soon can you have them here?" Pizza Man: "And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent?" Agent: "That's right. We've been here all day, and we're starving." Pizza Man: "How are you going to pay for all of this?" Agent: "I have my checkbook right here." Pizza Man: "And you're all FBI agents?" Agent: "That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the front doors locked." Pizza Man: "I don't think so." [Click] ___________________ ---===--- to ati@etext.org Keep on! red cloud (976) ---===--- to ati@etext.org Please send a sample Lisa ---===--- to ati@etext.org Please forward this to anyone you know who may be looking for an apartment, or may know someone looking for an apartment. Janice is a great person, and would make a wonderful rooommate. Thank you!!! [ed: do I have "try to scam me" written all over my face this week???] (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) Another PAGE (Prime Anarchist Group Effort) /-----------------------------------\ ATI Group Research Project Did ANY Gannett-owned papers cover the anti-SOA demonstration or even reprint a tiny AP non-story blurb? I found 3 for 3 Gannett papers near me who did NOT cover it at all, and none even reprinted the AP. I don't have the energy or resources to go much deeper with this on my own, so if any of our humble readers here, - or those who get this forwarded - would have a Gannett paper near them, would that they report to: ati@etext.org whether they did or didn't? We'll publish the communal rezultz here in the next 'zine. It would be 21nov or 22nov unless any of your "papes" happen to give 110% \------------------------------------/ WOULD someone please invent me a flatbed scanner or fotocopier which spits out both a .jpg and ALSO a slice of paper when it's done? . . . SAWGRASS a poem by Duane Locke I rub my fingers over the sawgrass' hips To heal the wounds on my fingertips. The sawgrass rough edges close The cuts sliced by human voices, scars become stars. . . . PINOCHET-ISH NOTES TYPED IN BY "PAP." (Prime Anarchist Productions) "...meanwhile at home the drama continued." --reprinted from "An Unfinished Song" a book by Joan Jara "CIA agents were said to be pouring into the country. [Chile] A plot to assassinate Allende was uncovered and the police seemed strangely slow to act aginst right-wing terrorists." --ibid "Now the corporations began in earnest to plan revenge and gave backing to the destabilization plan already launched by the CIA and ITT. In Oct. 1972, the Kennecott Copper..." "" "Little by little we edge forward until it is our turn to pass the long platform where Allende is sitting with all the leaders of Popular Unity...they must have been here for hours already...he looks tired... One by one we recognise and salute them, although we notice that the new Commanders-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Merino, Leigh and Pinochet, are not among them. Everyone is shouting 'Allende, Allende, el pueblo te defiende!' and 'El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!'" "" p. 229 "...military orders announcing that Allende had been given an ultimatum to surrender by the commanders of the Armed Forces led by General Augusto Pinochet... that unless he surrendered by midday the Moneda Palace would be bombed." --ibid. p. 235 [ed note: I took this book out to prepare my Victor Jara tribute song "Venceremos." I got it on interlibrary loan which took me much longer this time than the first couple times I read this book. I'm typing these notes in before returning it, fearing it's the last time I'm going to be able to get a copy of this book... Can someone scan it in quick?] (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) SIXTH WAFFLE HOUSE FROM THE SOA Gonzo Journalism From the Anarchist Memphis and Birmingham feel a million miles away. Gandhi, MLK, Jello Biafra, and Bill Hicks seem like a failure. I fear life itself at times. I fear my fellow man. I doubt my own god sometimes. I question karma. I have been over that mountain numerous times now, I have seen it all and I'm just 35 yet I feel like a tired old spirit right now. A walking dead zombie something worse than "Jacob's Ladder." My life is something X-Files is afraid to touch. I have climbed up to that beautiful top and I have to say the next road is paved with the bones of your ancestors, your children and yourselves. Death, carnage, and Amway representatives. Used car salesmen disguised as televangelists, televangelists disguised as used car salesmen - and used car televangelists disguised as themselves. The road to hell is paved with you and me, my friends. You and me. Beware false profits. We are not doomed, we are worse than doomed. We are the new dead. We have been sleeping like lying dogs for decades now. We are puppets on dental floss acting out the StarWars freakshow-"truckstop"-bar-room- forced-relaxation scene. We are the new dead and they have called us to dance. 12,000 of us took over a city last weekend. Many people thanked us. Some are wearing wanted posters on their T-Shirts with our pictures on them. Who will tell the people? There are no Dostoyevskys, no George Orwells, just people telling each other something's horribly foul but we just don't know exactly what. West Wing Every Wednesday? We know what, per se, but we just can't quite assemble it into reason, analysis, news or disseminatable truth. There appears to be no balance, just emotion, gut feeling -- like the Woodstein and Bernward days. There are no Orwells, no Hemmingways, just you and me discussing trauma, tragedy, truth-in- advertising and the multi-level network marketing of Jesus. ===================\ pomes, pomes, pomes. songs and parodies too...=============/ ======/ Come they told me, Buy nothing today. The Lion and Lamb lie down Buy nothing today. I made a homemade gift Buy nothing today. Adbusters is way cool Buy nothing today Nothing to day Nothing to day. Come they told me, Buy nothing today. Nothing today. ... Presente! My taxes Make(s) for refugees. My taxes Cause(s) hunger. My taxes Purchase(s) war. I pay(s) My taxes Presente! ... GreedTaxHaiku Pentagon doesn't Have five faces: it's really More like having two ... Just A Thought The story of Andy Kaufman Will come to movie form Dec 22, 1999. Anniversary of my own father's Death? Any who know me or knew my dad will understand How truly poetical that is. Murray A. Frucht 15Feb38--22Dec84 ... And now for our climactic ending. A poem. Poem For Ingrid by Marco Capelli Frucht I'm gonna get faceless for a second I didn't know someone named Ingrid I knew who she was I didn't know I had Hundreds of friends who all knew her She died last February sometime She was killed in Columbia She's an American She's a Menominee And she's from Northern Wisconsin And she grew up in New York She died with two other people In Columbia They dragged her body to Venezuela And tried to show that it must be Some leftist guerrillas that killed these Three outside agitators Who carried no weapons And bring milk to little children Once a day Ingrid was killed and that is Falling apart now as it's being Proven That paramilitaries killed her And now I feel very faceless Because I knew lots of people who knew her On my way to Washington DC yesterday I was greeted by her first cousin Who made this art As her grieving process the last two months Because she lost a woman that she loved very much Who was killed in Columbia and I am guilty BECAUSE I PAID MY TAXES HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND WE SUPPORT THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAS And they like to train death squads And they're going to kill all of you And they're going to kill me for saying it Unless we do something about it. ----====---- This is a poem I wrote and read in DC last may during anti SOA demonstrations. It was in a Unitarian Church and the crowd was huge because we were basically putting on this show for people who couldn't afford the 35$ to see Pete Seeger, Odetta and Amy Ray that nite. Their show was a good cause, as half the money went to the SOA protest and half went to Nevada Desert Experience but we were aware that many of us wouldn't be able to afford that. I'd raised the 35 dollars and kept it seperate when I went to that, so that I could go, but when I was asked to be one of the performers at the other event, I'm sure you know how easy it was for me to decide where to go... At any rate, I had Ingrid's cousin's artwork in front of me, taller than me, and between me and the microphone. (I was a little worried I might muffle words but learned later it was fine) I read that way up to the point of "I am guilty" where I put the allcaps. What I did was drop the banner to my feet. And point with my whole hand rather than a finger when I said they're "going to kill you." Many people said afterwards that I scared the hell out of them. And one person told me he thought I was pointing directly at him. He wasn't in the middle either. What I did was move my open hand just a little bit in a big circle so it included everyone, and my eyes scanned the whole room a couple times in those seconds. I remember praying afterwards that creator never let me use that power for hitleresque things because I felt that rush, and shook literally for minutes afterwards. I wonder how many people catch that power in their life and DON'T pray or find some other way to process it? Just knowing how many must be out there scares the hell out of ME. I know exactly what Jim Morrison of the Doors was talking about, and I thank god at least a couple times a day I'm not an alcoholic over just that one issue! Love, marco a quick ps: I typed this in from a VHS my friend Adam took. I gave this to one other list I'm on, and now I end this week's ATI with it. 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