72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 "'George' is simply a hybrid of 'The Nation,' 'The New Republic and 'People'- which is probably what we deserve in the Post-Gary Hart era." -- Off The Rack, Pg. 70. Spring '97 Coffee Journal. FULL OF HUBRIS, or full of hummus; it's ATI. Activist Times, Inseminated; Issue 72. May, 21, (day after the great meat boycott of) 1997. 1159pm. AS ALWAYS a subscription to ATI is free. send: SUBSCRIBE ATI as the message to: listserv@brazerko.com PAP #'s run for Friday nite. Prime Anarchist Production #'s are brought to you by the letter 'p.' http://www.extremecoffee.com http://www.fair.org/fair/ http://www.geocities.com/soho/lofts/2532/links.html That's it for today. Sometimes Prime runs short #'d. LIBERATE YOUR SOCKS GET SOME COMBAT BOOTS CALENDULAR MAR 31, 1995. Selena Killed. APR 3,4. Labor Conference. Cornell Univ. APR 4,5,6. SEAC Enviro-conf. Same Univ. APR 7 50th anniversary of Henry Ford's death.(does anyone know is birthday?) APR 14-18. Journalism Conference. Havana, Cuba. APR 24-30. International TV Turnoff Week. MAY 13, 1985. MOVE Bombing. NOV 28. Buy Nothing Day. MIDWEST UNDERGROUND MEDIA SYMPOSIUM On April 26, 1997 from 11am to 4pm at UMKC Royal Hall, 800 E. 52nd St., Kansas City MO The major focus seems to be on Zines, including an exhibit titled: "ZINE: The Story Of A Four Letter Word." Guests include: V. Vale of ReSearch Pubs. Seth Friedman of Factsheet Five Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records. Table space is available $15 in advance. Call 913-649-9666 for more info. URGENT!! URGENT!! URGENT!! URGENT!! WARNING: Do Not Read "Fuck You" Email. Should you receive mail on-line with "Fuck You" as the subject header, reply immediately. Do NOT read the file. Put "Fuck You Too," in the subject box and do not (important: Do NOT) put anything in the message body. Doing so will cause the sentiment sector to reach overkill. Besides that you are in danger of being, seeming or looking redundant. Do not read the message sent to you under "Fuck You" after you have replied. Reading "Fuck You" email will cause mass negative sentiment to spread far too rapidly and the happiness conversion interface will not be able to keep up. 5 NEW COFFEEHOUSES TO TRY. (If you're near naturally) Beatniks Bagels. Boulder, COLO. Frontier Coffee. Moline, IL. Ojai Cafe Emporium. Ojai, CA Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company. Santa Cruz, CA Vermont Village Cafe. Washington, DC PAWN, (Prime Anarchist World News) National Desk: reprinted from LA Times. (one word inserted) Mattel Inc. Thursday won Federal Trade Commission approval to buy Tyco Toys Inc. in a $755 million stock deal that will place Tyco's Tickle Me Elmo and Matchbox cars under the same corporate roof as Hot Wheels, M-16's and Barbie. Seattle, WA. State Court of Appeals heard arguments for and against an ordinance that prohibits sidewalk sitting. Discussion began Feb. 27 of this year. Expect that one to go on and on like that battery bunny. AMHERST, Mass. (follow-up. Many papers never follow up on much of anything. Here's but one of our many follow-ups:) 175 students took over their comptroller's office March 3 peacefully. The list of demands included a more diverse campus, more financial aid, daycare for student parents, and diversification of the faculty and staff. Both sides agreed to a series of three discussions that were to begin by the end of March. A web page dedicated to the student takeover can be reached at http://www.vms.oit.umass.edu/~gss/takeover.html (URL has not been verified. first verification please notify ATI at marco99@juno.com FLASH.................. hot off the presses FAH-Q The Irish Road Warrior Hits the road again. It's been years since he has roamed the highways of america. When seen he was retired from the travel business. (ed note: Look for him here among other places. You may or may not see him.) HONG KONG- Wang Dan has agreed to leave the China in exchange for his release from prison. 27 year old Wang served 3 1/2 years for his involvement in the Tianamen Square demonstrations (that China still insists never happened) ((imaginese: "you can leave now. You've served all your time as punishment for all that stuff you didn't do. Thank you for not protesting all the terribly heinous things that we don't ever do.")) Last October, he was sentenced to another 11 years in prison for publishing essays critical of the Communist party and meeting with other dissidents. The government accused him of plotting subversion, and found him guilty after a four-hour trial. MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE ATI 71 was great. Did you retype the article from the Catholic Worker or do they distribute the magazine over e-mail? pete (ed: reprinted. a subscription to Catholic worker is 25c as always. you CAN however get their mailing address online. http://www.cais.com/agf/cwtoc.htm http://www.luminet.net/~jallaire) Please remove me from your mailing list. I don't enjoy getting these. anon. Thanks Marco... I wasn't sure what this "newsletter" was all about, Hey! I don't know who you are, but anyone who prints the Unabomber Manifesto can't be all bad. I've got 2 copies of it (and underlined) it several times. Plus I'd like to put parts of it in poetry and illustrate them. Plus, I have a web page with a bunch of fiction stories I wrote about the Unabomber. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2532 So you know I'm quite fascinated with this character! Thanks! -Shadow GREAT SEGUE!!! Part 2 of . - . . - . . . - . . - . . . - . - . . . - . - . MARC FRUCHT'S GUIDE TO THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO . . - . - . - . . . - . . - . . . - . . - . . - . 67...our lives depend on decisions made by other people; we have no control over these decisions and usually we do not even know the people who make them. "(We live in a world in which relatively few people- maybe 500 or 1000 make the important decisions"-- Phillip B. Heyman of Harvard Law school, quoted by Anthony Lewis, New York Times, April 21, 1995.) Our lives depend on whether safety standards at a nuclear power plant are properly maintained; on how much pesticide is allowed to get into our food or how much pollution into our air; on how skillful (or incompetent) our doctor is; whether we lose or get a job may depend on decisions made by government economists or corporation execs and so forth. Most individuals are not in a position to secure themselves against these threats to more (than) a very limited extent. The individual's search for security is therefore frustrated, which leads to a sense of powerlessness. NOTE 11. ..we can't claim that today's acquisition-oriented culture is exclusively a creation of advertising and marketing industry. But it is clear that the advertising and marketing industry has had an important part in creating that culture. The big corporations that spend millions on advertising wouldn't be spending that kind of money without solid proof that they were getting it back in increased sales. One member of FC met a sales manager a couple of years ago who was frank enough to tell him, "our job is to make people buy things they don't want and don't need." He then described how an untrained novice could present people with the facts about a product, and make no sales at all, while a trained and experienced professional salesman would make lots of sales to the same people. This shows that people are manipulated into buying things they don't really want. 68. ...Psychological security does not closely correspond with physical security. What makes us FEEL secure is not so much objective security as a sense of confidence in our ability to take care of ourselves. Primitive man threatened by a fierce animal or by hunger, can fight in self-defense or travel in search of food. He has no certainty of success in these efforts, but he is by no means helpless against the things that threaten him. The modern individual on the other hand is threatened by many things against which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, environmental pollution, war, increasing taxes, invasion of his privacy by large organizations, nationwide social or economic phenomena that may disrupt his way of life. NOTE 12. The problem of purposeless seems to have become less serious during the last 15 years or so, because people new feel less secure physically and economically than they did earlier, and the need for security provides them with a goal. But purposelessness has been replaced by frustration over the difficulty of attaining security. We emphasize the problem of purposelessness because the liberals and leftists would wish to solve our social problems by having society guarantee everyone's security; but if that could be done it would only bring back the problem of purposelessness. 75. In primitive societies life is a succession of stages. The needs and purposes of one stage having been fulfilled, there is no particular reluctance about passing on to the next stage... it is not the primitive man, who has used his body daily for practical purposes, who fears the deterioration of age, but the modern man, who has never had a practical use for his body beyond walking from his car to his house. It is the man whose need for the power process has been satisfied during his life who is best prepared to accept the end of that life. 76. In response... someone will say, "Society must find a way to give people the opportunity to go through the power process." For such people the value of the opportunity is destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to them. What they need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain autonomy they must get off that leash. 80. People vary in their susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. Some are so susceptible that, even if they make a great deal of money they cannot satisfy their constant craving for the shiny new toys that the marketing industry dangles before their eyes. So they always feel hard- pressed financially even if their income is large, and their cravings are frustrated. 94. ...One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large corporation) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised. It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness. (CON'T NEXT ISSUE.) A 28TH CENTURY FABLE by Shadow This tale was reported by a tireless researcher in the Human Archives, who noted its similarity with the earlier Robin Hood legends. Long ago, (in the days of the humans) a tyrannical technocracy of scientists and their machines conspired to enslave the human race. In those days there came a brave man they called the Unabomber who fought for humanity's future. He lived deep in the woods with his shadowy band of co-conspirators called the Freedom Club. They say that he could be everywhere at once, traveling all over the country to strike terror into the hearts of the oppressors. Legends also tell of his skills as a mighty mountain man who could hunt his own food in total darkness. They also say he may have had a secret identity as a shy professor. The story tells that the "mystical and awe-inspiring" Unabomber, after waging a long & lonely battle against overwhelming odds, finally forced the Corporate Powers to publish his written manifesto proclaiming the revolution at hand. But in the end, he was betrayed by his own brother. They paraded him before the courts in chains & shackles and decided his fate. But the legend of the Unabomber lives on to this day! We end this issue of ATI with JOURNAL POEM 3 by prime anarchist. previously published in a 33-poem book of poetry entitled "I Slurp My Coffee." (c)1995 Old Pomes. New Pomes. Borrowed pomes; blue pomes. Funny pomes, sad pomes; goofy and glad pomes. Pomes pomes. pomes pomes, eat them up - yum. Make alliteration instead of legislation. Ah, all's well that "and's" well- And all are about action. Skip, jump, lay there, run, smile, frown. Run around, skip the jumping; Lay there down. Who chewed a page outa my pomes? You're not s'posed to chew: Eat them delicately. Luscious, yummy, soft delicious yellow pomes. Moist, meaty, mysterious succulent pomes. Pomes about poets, presidents, pests And pomes full of juice. I eat pomes. Do you eat pomes? Red pomes, yellow pomes, green poems. Don't eat the blue ones. This has been ATI address all corresponding thought to: ATI c/o marco99@juno.com