Where's George? _____ _ _ ( _ ) (2)_ _ _ (3)_ | (_) | ___ | ,_)(_) _ _ (6) ___ | ,_) | _ | /'___)| | | |( ) ( )| |/',__)| | | | | |( (___ | |_ | || \_/ || |\__, \| |_ (_) (_)`\____)`\__)(_)`\___/'(_)(____/`\__) _____ (_ _)_ | | (_) ___ ___ __ ___ | | | |/' _ ` _ `\ /'__`\/',__) | | | || ( ) ( ) |( ___/\__, \ (_) (_)(_) (_) (_)`\____)(____/ Issue 263. February fullish moonish 2001. "HACKERS LOVE NOODLES!!!! (especially ramen)" --Sign found on shell. ["if you don't know, don't ask," he snickers...] "...e-zine (small publication distributed electronically - http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati65.html) which appeared to use the word [compression] as a joke, and in an article discussing hallucinogenic drugs (http://deoxy.org/t_highx.htm) where the author told of how his friends used the word to describe the way they felt the world was heading. None of these sources matched up quite right with my interpretation of the word." -Sean K, owner. compressionism.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compressionism/message/52 The Weekly ATI #'s Run. http://dsl.org http://security.tao.ca http://bijoumatinee.com http://whosealphabet.com http://www.sonicjoyride.com http://cures-not-wars.org/mmm http://www.antiimperialista.com http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran http://echelon.skjoldhoej.dk/jens/jens http://flag.blackened.net/ati/jamesmerrill.html http://nyc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=2064 http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html http://neirp.com http://girsite.cjb.net http://www.sfbg.com/nessie http://www.tranexp.com:2000 http://www.americas.org/LASC http://www.twinkiesproject.com http://www.jerdot.homestead.com http://www.bushneverwonflorida.com http://24.29.136.113/enviro/newenv.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html http://www.cyberbeach.net/~willows/cupw/local/site/music.htm Rather than include it in the numbers run per se, we mention that the Depleted Uranium petition is at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/3d4b/petition.html for anyone who would like to sign something like that. Anyone who doesn't know all the subtle "nuancy" differences (and sometimes not so subtle) between uranium, plutonium, depleted uranium and assorted other slightly volatile substances, (none of these ought to be in your drinking water) might want to read up on it. The DU news story as a whole has been brewing since ATI zine was about 2 years old, and is sure to stay a pretty big news story for a very long time. Anyone who doesn't think this is a news story at all should have their head examined for substances far worse than 238's & 239's. Dear Marco Capelli, Please consider reprinting Mumia Abu-Jamal's columns from death row in 'Activist Times, Intentional'. Sign up to receive Mumia's regular columns by email at http://www.MumiaBook.com. These columns may be reprinted and/or distributed by electronic means, but only for non-commercial use, and only with the inclusion of the following copyright information: Text (c) copyright 2001 by Mumia Abu-Jamal. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author. The columns are also available as Adobe PDFs and Word DOCs at http://www.MumiaBook.com/mumia/column.asp on a move, Joe Hine Joe, I'll try to do even a little better, since his columns tend to be just a little long for this little 'zine. I bought "All Things Censored" on vinyl LP yesterday and I'll be happy to review it like any other record. Plus I am thinking of making one of his next few columns the top column of my zine and I'll take that week off. That'll be way cool. By the way, I had it on CD and since gave it away. When I saw it in my favorite used record store as LP I was elated. Especially because I was about to hear Noelle and Ramona's work again. Wow. What else can I say. Wow, About as "on a move" as this "blanco" can get, marco OPEN LETTER TO DOUG BAKER Your petition at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/3d4b/petition.html seems to be taking off nicely. It's up to a little more than 70 signatures, and I think that's pretty good considering how much controversy (and also hush) there is around that issue. I'll bet a lot of "coworkers" are afraid to put their real name on the petition, and are just too "uppical and eth-right" to make up a pseudonym. Nevertheless, I check the thing once a day or so, and usually I hit refresh once or twice just before leaving to see if I can happen to get next to that "moment" the way it happened so often with that weirdass Nader YellowDawgDemocrats one last October. Would you know, a couple times now I've "seen" someone sign the thing? That's neat to know you're right there and you see their addition the second it got coded in. Very cool. Oh well, this entire letter serves me as a forum to tell you about a first person account I drew up regarding depleted uranium. It's at: http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/pu.html just so you know. Or, you can get to it my favorite way and go to: http://www.frucht.org/roberta.html and click on the word: URANIUM Venceremos, marco aka the Prime Anarchist. e&p ati zine since '88 Rowan High-Jinks : An account of one person’s time at Hattiesburg High School, Rowan Campus-by Patrick Moore (special to ATI) (Dedicated to Mrs. Andrelle Nicholson, who had the unmitigated gall to reject one of my original compositions and give me an "F" because she thought it was copied, and Mr. Wally Gregg, who took it upon himself the task of suspending me from school without so much as the benefit of a hearing, or even telling me.) PROLOGUE For my part, I was one of those that scored unusually high on achievement tests, but did poorly in classes. There was just not enough in the HPSD to keep kids like me from looking outside the window, because the classwork was so goddamned boring. When I graduated in 1982, I began to discover what the HPSD failed to offer. I took my ASVAB in 1984, and scored high enough to have my pick of any job in the military I wanted. I chose communications. In 1987, I began working as a direct support technician on FM tactical radio equipment, which was a prize job. I was only one of 5 in the entire battalion qualified for such work. Frank Zappa once said, "If you want to get an education, go to the library." I learned more in the Hattiesburg Public Library than I did in the classroom. I spent so much time there that the staff allowed me access to areas normally off limits to normal patrons. I knew the Dewey Decimal System by heart, and the staff allowed me the unusual privilege of setting up and running microfiche machines. On more than one occasion, I corrected new staff members on the proper way to thread a microfiche. (I bet I can still thread and run an old microfiche machine!) Yet, in the classroom, I felt trapped. Trapped because I wanted to take a different direction than what the school board prescribed. The system didn’t take into account wildcards like me, or offer anything besides the daily drudgery of classwork. TIMELINES DATELINE 1970: Hattiesburg High recieves a desegregation order. Beginning at the start of the 1970-71 school year, Blair High (Hattiesburg’s white high school) and Rowan High (the Black school) were ordered to admit students of all races. However, many parents find ways to skirt the order. 1972: The Justice department looks at the Hattiesburg school system, and declares that the HPSD hasn’t taken effective steps to enforce the desegregation order. As a result, Rowan becomes the city’s 10th grade school, Blair the 11th and 12th. 1979: I begin my 10th grade year at HHS-Rowan, and learn about schoolhouse politics. I thought the REACH program was off-kilter, giving preference to children of well-to-do parents. By now it was full-blown favoritism. 1980: I am given an assignment to write a report. I turn it in, within a few minutes I get it back with an "F" and the word "COPIED" at the bottom. Two months later, I find myself on suspension. Why? I had a habit of arriving to school early, and decided to grab a smoke before school. How did I find out? One of my teachers told me, after he saw my name on the daily absentee report. It seemed that Mr. Wally Gregg had decided to suspend me for 1 day because I was smoking, and didn’t bother telling me. (Can you say violation of the 4th amendment?) So, I took a day’s vacation. Then, in May 1980, I get news that somebody had torched Rowan School. Not that it was any big surprise. Tensions had built up over the past few years over the treatment of students by the faculty. I can only wonder what pushed someone over the edge to actually do it. It didn’t take police long to find a suspect. It turned out the person that did it had flunked several grades, and was thoroughly fed up with his treatment by Rowan officials. The next year, I went to Blair. Things went far better there than at Rowan. I began getting A’s and B’s, and had teachers who were genuinely interested in my achievement. So, if there is to be something taken from this, it is this: just because you have a few setbacks in High School does not mean you will do badly once you leave. [In 1982, the editor of ATI zine attended a race riot in the cafeteria of his high school. He will write it up as a feature story in next week's zine as a response to Patrick's great story here. -ed] "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society." -J. Krishnamurti A holiday donation in honor of our President Submitted by The Cheshire Catalyst Pat Morrison of the Times has a fabulous idea. Presidents Day is coming up on February 19. Make a donation, however small (or large), to a pro-choice organization and have a card sent to Bush basically saying: "President Bush, a donation has been made in your name to [e.g., Planned Parenthood, NARAL]." The following was added by Sandy Weil...or send a donation in his "honor" to an environmental org. or civil rights org. or handgun control... your choice, just do it for George! Here are some contact numbers to make this quick and easy. Or choose your own... 1) Planned Parenthood # 1/800-829-7732 or http://www.plannedparenthood.org 2 National Abortion Rights Action League (202) 973-3028 http://www.naral.org 3) Handgun Control http://handguncontrol.org #202-898-0792 4) Americans United for the Separation of Church and State http://www.au.org/default.htm (202) 466-3234 5) Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/information.shtml 1 202 462 1177 6) Global Exchange (415) 255-7296 http://www.globalexchange.org THA THA THA THA'S ALL FOLKS... Hope you liked the 'zine! http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html for back issues 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 "george bush really sucks" day, so get out there and like they say in EMITIMEWARNERland, "Throw a Dilbert Doll at Someone Near the Water Bubbler." Almost finally, a question: WHY IS NOT SONIC JOY RIDE FAMOUS BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS? THEY TRULY DESERVE IT. (OK, Ya, a question AND a comment then...) We end this issue with a poem by Lloyd Marbet called : A Poet of the Environment for William Stafford on his 80th birthday A poet of the environment rhymes forests into trees whose very health roots soil within your heart. A poet of the environment knows naked truth will never be clothed in robes of a dominant species. A poet of the environment echoes words upon each child of your own becoming. A poet of the environment records this sense of place, in familiar traces, on a timeworn path into yearning. A poet of the environment reaches inside the very marrow of an immune system's poem of great healing. A poet of the environment breaths soul's aspirations like ancient wisdom's awakening acceptance of no substitutes. A poet of the environment writes light upon shadows embracing love to say farewell to these words. 1-12-01 the poem never read at the party.