WARNING: Today's Issue is Dedicated to Czechoslovakian bluegrass music. _____ ( _ ) ( )_ _ | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ 2| |1| |1| | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_) Shortly before midnight, the Karmapa apparently jumped from his bedroom window and was whisked away in a car, along with his 24-year-old sister, who is a Buddhist nun, two aides and three monks. The group of seven drove non-stop for some 36 hours, following almost the same escape route that the Dalai Lama had traversed on horseback 40 years before. The car stopped ahead of security checkpoints, where the Karmapa alighted, circled around the barriers and rejoined his comrades on the other side. When the road came to an end near unmotorable mountains bordering Nepal, the party began a trek. --acquired by email from credible sources. "This is from you to my heart. I'm sorry I didn't prepare the thank you. I thought I was bested in every category. But lovingly so, we don't say thank you once a day. We say thank you in Indian Country every moment of our lives. Thank you." --Wayquay receiving a NAMMY award for her work as a recording artist. Greetings, fellow earthlings. & Welcome, bienvenidos, good-comings to ATI, Activist Time to Illuminate. Issue 211. The special one. All new, with tartar, jarjar and barbar fighting scrubbing bubble agents. _____ ( _ ) ( )_ _ | (_) | | ,_) (_) | _ | | | | | | | | | | |_ | | (_) (_) `\__) (_) 0002130000 & The Moon, like You R half full of it. Hi there, I'm prime anarchist and I'm your toast for tonite, the half moon frenzy upon us. I got a spam report from Sisyphus, our resident Linux guru deep within serverland. I'll quote him here... "I'd just delete anything that looks in the least bit wierd. (I know that'll cut down on your Letters to the Editor for ATI, but it's better than getting Windo$e hang-ups.)" We took his advice to heart which might have saved us some serious hackerhassles, as the last two weeks have seen lots of weirdness. So if any of you sent in a letter to the editor or a submission that doesn't make it into this zine or the very next one, please resubmit. I'm not thumbing my clothes at you, I just chose to ignore some. Better safe than story sometimes, eh? Dance! Do the #'s rumba. http://protest.net http://www.grannyd.com http://www.shmaltz.com http://www.larouchepub.com http://www.natalieportman.com http://www.natalieportman.net http://www.tacohell.org/linux http://www.celebritylocators.com http://wang.pimpin.net/share.html http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati17.html http://www.greatdreams.com/native.htm http://www.bushforprez.com/Austin2.htm http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati172.html http://www.stealthismovie.com/main.html http://www.bobmarleymovement.com/marley http://www.eaglewatch.com/liveeaglecam.htm http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/soa.html http://shopping.yahoo.com/musicshopping/nama.html http://www.cultdeadcow.com/oldskool/NewHackCity.html http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/views/hogan10.txt http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/BastardOperator/bofh08 http://merrill.wwh.net/family/cousin/george_w_bush.html http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/archive/guccione.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000201/aponline012247_000.htm LET THERE BE LETTUCE Execellent coverage of the Stupor Bowl in last issue P. A. You did however miss three important things. The guy that tackled head first (haven't we learned by now that that's a no-no) showed us all what football is all about, again. The second thing was the only positive moment of the night (I didn't see the apple commercial). Yes I'm talking about the Oxygen comercial. Just something very cool about baby girls throwing away their pink caps in defiance. The third is by no means as important as the other two, but it need to be said: "Tony Braxton, I'm sorry but African-Amerikan womyn should not where tight white dresses when they are cold at Nationally Televised Events like the Stupor Bowl. --Akira [!--ed note: great analysis, Adam. And your tone which was neither sexist nor "feminist" is to be admired--] Prime, I hate your magazine. Your paragraphs are always screwed up! Hunter [Dear Hunter, get a life.] Why don't you include the following link on your site?: http://www.dickshovel.com/mccain.html Thanks for another clear and informative letter. You seem to really have your facts together. Keep up the good work Zion awaits. Thanks and Praise- Kristin from Philly P.s. I've been working on getting bigmtn. info. to actors, mucicians etc. over the internet. If any contacts or links come to your attention let me know. [ed note: this was actually a letter to my friend Beth rather than to ATI. I asked her to ask Kristen if I could reprint this for any artists reading here, and the permission was got right away. Thanks Beth, thanks Kristin. Go ahead and contact Kristen, Beth OR me.] Marco, Good to see you're still around. Any plans on new ATI releases? Take care, -Serpent Bangor Maine - a great place. Please do not send me your material -- I merely delete it without reading. I think you have good ideas but I wont bother to try and figure out what you are trying to say. Ralph McGehee yeah, um.. the reason i checked out this ng was, I was wondering... ...are the 414's still around to some extent? ~b good message there Dee "So there I was playing Yatzee with 3 rastafari eating Manischewitz savory garlic matzos dipped in hummus." --P.A. 10mar98 Poet Ruled 'Only a Pest' In Opening WTO Protest Trial Reprinted from LISE and LISA's SEATTLE POST- INTELLIGENCER stories. Eric Larson might have been loud and obnoxious during World Trade Organization protests, but a jury yesterday decided he did not break the law. Seattle's first trial stemming from the WTO mayhem focused on the alleged assault of two police officers by Larson, 34, a coffeehouse manager and poet. [prime anarchist note: I don't know yet whether he's my old friend Eric who did one year in Leavenworth yet. I'll letcha know the minute I verify] This was the first of about 40 WTO-related cases slated for trial in Municipal Court in the next few weeks. They are all that remain of about 500 misdemeanor cases, most of which have been dismissed due to lack of evidence. In her closing argument, Assistant City Attorney Cindi Williams said Larson screamed at the officers, hoping to "spark the powder keg" and set off a riot. [maybe Eric's our man who ran into a crowded firehouse last April-1 yelling "Theatre" at the top of his lungs] Defense attorney John McGoodwin said Larson may have been rude to police but he had no intention of becoming violent and did not assault anyone during the protest. "All you can convict this man of is being a pest," McGoodwin said. He argued that the officers were too tired, hungry and thirsty to be sure of what happened, adding: "There was just too much going on." Larson was accused of pushing a King County sheriff's deputy who was part of a police line. After being pepper-sprayed, he also allegedly struck another officer who was trying to arrest him. Larson denied pushing or hitting anyone. Observers captured part of the incident on tape -- audio and video -- but that evidence proved to be inconclusive. Witnesses testified during the trial that Larson was pepper-sprayed several times at close range, grabbed by about five deputies and wrestled to the ground. Larson, who lives and works at The Pearl coffeehouse in the University District, claims he went downtown that day to take pictures of the WTO protests for the Poem Record, a literary magazine he edits. The trouble started when Larson, a former Army medic, tried to get through a police line to buy more film. Both sides agreed that Larson was pepper-sprayed at least twice... [story continues on at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/021200-01.htm ] Wu Are You: DO YOU HAVE A WU TANG CLAN NAME? prime anarchist became: Detective Ventriloquist marco capelli Flippant She-Creature marc frucht Grand Moff Puppeteer monique nixon Partially-Formed Transformah & get your'n at: http://www.recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl ps: we tried Activist Times and Infomaniack BBS and got Big Wicker Furniture & Illegitimate Muslim Fundamentalist respectively. WELL, WHICH IS IT? The last few months I've heard that UNAM is the biggest college in the world, the biggest in the contintent, the biggest in Mexico and the biggest in the hemisphere. Never mind which hemisphere (as I've heard west and I've heard south) I was wondering where truth really lies, and after 45 minutes research (way more than I wanted to put, by the way) I still don't know. "Damned big," and "almost none bigger" is about the closest I'm going to come to knowing real truth there, without going myself and walking around every campus on the planet. Believe me, I've got enough trouble getting the whole way around UConn, and University of Wisconsin. At any rate, here's some of the results of my digging. You'll see that UNAM is pretty big on understatement when it comes to self promotion and some of the other places of "higher education" veer far away from the truth to beat their chests. [ed note: I chucked out any claims with too many qualifiers like "largest college with a library open at 5am, serves cappucino and charges no late fees," or "largest college on the western half of the southern hemisphere not counting ones at higher than 6,000 feet elevation."] > UNAM is the largest university in Latin America > with 270,000 students. The police invasion > follows a tense two weeks... ...Kwantlen University College, the largest university college in Canada... ...DePaul Becomes Largest Catholic University In America... ...Welcome to the University of South Africa, the largest university in South Africa and one of the largest distance education institutions in the world... ...UNAM has a library system that includes 141 libraries containing four million books and 19 bookshops. Enrollment at UNAM is approximately 264,000... ...Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico--SGITM Technology Pervades Largest University in the Western Hemisphere... ...Valencia's largest university dates back to the 14th century...University of Oslo Scandinavia's largest university in terms of staff and students... ...Rajshahi University, the second largest University in Bangladesh and is the highest seat of learning in the Northern region of the country... ...Oxford...The world's largest university press... ...Largest University SGI / CRAY Origin 2000 Supercomputer NCSA 512-Processor Origin 10/3/97... ...University of London, the world's largest college with an accredited Bovine Food major in both undergraduate and graduate studies. OVERHEARD IN "NEWS" "As someone said so eloquently before, 'Dude... duuude.... *sigh* dude...'" & in other news briefs this week... West Texas: Larry Tannahill is refusing to allow his 12-year-old A-student son, Brady, to be tested for drugs by the Lockney Independent School District. Mandatory testing for the district's teachers and 400 students in grades 6 through 12 was completed Thursday. Brady, the only holdout, now faces the same punishment as someone who tested positive: a 21-day suspension from extracurricular activities, at least three days' in-school suspension and three sessions of substance abuse counseling. The sixth-grader also could be required to take a drug test every month for a year. Each time he refuses, he will be considered a repeat offender, and the punishment gets more strict. Tannahill plans to appeal his son's suspension. ======== South Dade: High School student journalist Leandro Leon was working on a story about random weapons searches of students Wednesday morning when school officials confiscated the film from his camera. "This experience has taught me that some things need to be exposed to the public and things need to be shown how they are and not necessarily just reflected in a good light," 17-year-old Leandro said. During first period, Leandro took one photograph of four guards from Vanguard Security getting ready to search students in Reisa Plylyer's sophomore English class. When the guards realized Leandro had a camera, they cleared classroom 512 and locked him inside. [how many human rights violations; let me count the ways...] --------- >A leader of the student strike at Mexico City’s National Autonomous >University (UNAM) will tour US-based university campuses beginning >Tuesday, February 15. Students at the University have been on strike >for 9-months in protest of an administration-proposed tuition hike. >Students are also protesting the privatization of Latin America’s >largest university and calling for a larger role in campus decision- >making. On Feb. 6, 2000 more than 2,500 Mexican federal police >raided the campus and arrested 1000 striking students. Thirty >strike leaders remain in jail. [couple quick anarchist notes: this is the same campus where the "mexican kent state" happened back in 1968; and this time around although they beat some of the students nearly to death with billy clubs, federales chose to leave their larger weapons behind. Possibly progress? We'll see] PAWN - Des Moines - Quaker Groats and Squibble are Forming A Joint by Brief Shorts. Special to Prime Anarchist Whirled Gnus. The Quaker Groats Company is entering a venture with Squibble, Novartis, Pfizer, Combover, & Gamble LLC to create food containing ingredients said to cause cures. The new company EatOurFood, will develop and market its products in Mexico and distribute to Canada and the US. Gregor Panza, president of EOF (short for EatOurFood) would not divulge much, "something tells me we're into something good," and "clearly this is an example worth everyone knowing and trying." Such products' examples include cholesterol-reducing candy, healthful hamburgers, cereal with flesh-eating-bacteria-killing soda to offset the laden bananas that might get sprinkled atop by children of unbeknownst parents and 20% embalming fluid in the morning cranberry juice so teens and adults alike will be "way ahead of the eight-ball." "Good to the last drop," said Panza, a pediatrician turned poet. "You'll love our goodcookies, Mr. and Mrs. 'Merica." "That was only the beginning of my problems with multinational record companies. By 1984 I had sued the two industry giants, CBS and Warners, and had learned a lot more about 'creative accounting practices.'" -- Frank Zappa, in an autobiography. "...and, it they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution." -- ibid. [There's dozens of reasons this ("The Real Frank Zappa Book" is a very great book, but another one is the fact that I got to page 331 before finding my first typo] Well that's about all for ATI211. Tune in next week when we: Publish a 'zine. Email it to many people. Put it on a website. send all contraband to ati@etext.org get the back issues at http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati and see some of the webpages at http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist