I've never HEARD of Mafia Boy. Has anybody heard of him? What do you think? Hmmm. C G Happy Earth day to you D G 30 years late that's true C G But it's better late than never D G (*) So get out there and do. * Why I use different chords every time I sing that song? It's the most sued after song in the history of copyright law. (I DIDN'T say "sought after" I said sued after) So when mothers come up to me handing me five, asking "can you sing,,," I say sure, but you're going to get the folkafied marcoversion of that one, hope ya don't mind. They never seem to... <> AA TTTTTT IIIIII <> <> A A TT II <> <> AAAA TT II <> <> A A TT II <> <> A A TT IIIIII <> [221] 4-22-00 "Here, we've decided that as long as they don't breach our perimeter uh, we will not resort to any chemical weapons." -direct quote. who said this? Maybe we'll tell you at the end of this zine. Greetz and welcome to ATI221 - The special Enviromasmic Gore is Spastic Shrub ain't no better, issue. So happy earthday, and I sure hope you only bought merchandise from authorised vendors. I'm prime anarchist and here's the zine. #'s and Lettuce picked at the perfect time fresh 4 U! Shipped 2 U by Sysco, Cisco and Francisco. ATI. Activist Truth, Incomplete. A lot happened this week didn't it? Nevada Jan gave some speeches, Leonardo Daprichio joined the world of serious journalism, Carole King felt the earth move under her 12" monitor, and a cerberus- looking 3-headed puppet stole the show when nonviolent protestors got clubbed like baby seals in a far off land where there isn't much freedom, democracy & just ice for all. A far off land called Colombia. The district. Our nation's Crapitol. Where garbage litters the streets like lawyers, lobbyists, and lawyers who look like lobbyists sending letters to presidents of major newzpeeps saying "please turn your cameras off, we think it would be good for our country," and other such abuses. Pardon my french people, but thank farking god in some place called Heaven that doesn't resemble bipartisanland in any way shape or forking form that these network newzprezs chose to ignore those letters printing and showing the news anyhow. Where do these people get off? Is the US Constitution a guideline? Is it something to wipe my Republican fat white hairy diaperwearing Quilted-Northern-rubbing butt on? Ammendments 1-10: (and a few others too) WERE THEY WRITTEN FOR MY FOGGING HEALTH??? WAKE UP AMERIKKKA. THIS IS NOT FUNNY. IT IS N O T A DREAM, IT IS N O T SOME JULIA ROBERTS/JODI FOSTER CONSPICIONIST THEORY GEORGE ORWELL 1984 FAN- TASTICAL WAG THE DOG HOLLYWOOD CREATION. THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY. THE ONE YOU WERE PROUD TO BE BORN IN, THE ONE WE FOUGHT TO PRESERVE. THE ONE WE PLEDGE OUR LILY-WHITE APARTHEID ASSEMBLAGES TO! IT'S FADING FAST. IT'S TURNING INTO BILL AND GEORGE'S EXCELLENT ADVANTAGE. THE ONE WHERE MIAMI SECEDES, TEXAS KILLS TWO BLACK PEOPLE A WEEK AND ARKANSAS KEEPS PUMPING OUT LECHEROUS VERMIN like a rat factory. This is fear and loathing in the good-ole-boy-you-S-of-A! Things are happening faster'n you can say "how many taters can I grow in one fat head's ear." Sure as flys on tarpaper, our union's falling apart and the DOW and the NASDAQ just keep gyrating like Elvis asking Nixon and the FBI if they want him to drum up some conservatism to offset alla that N-ti-worshington protest. Please boycott the New York Times and World Bank bonds. Get your city, your YMCA, your synagogue and your local Taco Bell to boycott both too. And for God's sake if you know anyone with diabetes, tell 'em to stay the heck away from the new bread at Subway. They've doubled the amount of sugar, doubled the amount of high fructose corn syrup and added stuff I not only can't pronounce, but can't find explanations for on the entire world wide web. No lie, I asked Jeeves, Regis, Kathie Lee Gipper, and I even called in a lifeline. Nada. Zilch, squelch, belch, feck! Nothing. Things I can't pronounce. You'll please to know there's less than 2% of each of THEM though. But let me tell you, the white sugar is only third to flour and water. Flour and water, people. The new bread. I'm serious, now. Better dead, than the new bread. Tell your self that. Better d... Well, better anything than dead, I'd say. So don't go near it. Do a salad or something, or the wheatbread. Maybe put out your hand and ask for extra pickles, just pour it and moosh it in some mustard, mayo and tuna-substance or something. Jubilee, mon. Joshua fought, them bones is shakin' and them walls're come tumblin. Sunshine around for everyone soon. Revelation, revolution swift comin' to you and a dogg named Abu. Let me be completely unequivering here. I speak pure prophecy now. Prayerful words and meditations of my heart this moment. THERE IS NO STOPPING A CULTURE OF NON-VIOLENCE. You will beat us down, we will keep getting back up somehow. Stronger, more determined and more creative than you'll ever expect. To say "you ain't seen nothing yet," would be the understatement of the millenium. Prague? LA? Philly? "We'll go where you go," you're gon' have your hands full. I'll end this rant with two questions. Why has alt. section of usenet been heavily infiltrated since April 16th??? I'm not talking two at a time - good cop - bad cop - like old times. I'm talking the gang's all here! Why? Why, why why? What does it serve you? And do you even know what alt. stands for? Oh I guess that was more'n two questions, huh? Peace, love and birdhouse gourds, Oh, and happy passover shabbot, and happy easter, can you tell the difference between halloween and easter candy anymore? Me either! prime #'s 0004232300 hrs http://www.sinkers.org/a16 http://www.a16.org/a16_notebook.cfm http://scene.textfiles.com/vu-gnn.html http://www.freshwidow.com/unholy1.html http://dc2.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1463 http://www.illinimedia.com/buzz/spring_99/19990415/femme.html http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/rails/disused.underground.html http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/index.html http://matrix.crosswinds.net/~thewing http://www.zinebook.com/resour1.html http://www.freerangegraphics.com http://www.shutterbug.org http://www.mihra.org/2k http://dsl.org/copyleft/#dsl http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage http://www.burningheart.com/refused http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati220.html http://www.thekingcenter.com/FullTranscript.html http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/columns/melanie/000419.txt http://www.guestchoice.com/protestcam_highlights.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html http://www.mayday2000.org.uk http://www.gwbush.com http://www.fYuOcUk.com http://dsl.org/review/1999/05 http://www.thenation.com/thebeat http://www.totse.com/files/FA007/soakennd.htm http://www.alternet.org/PublicArchive/McConahay042100.html http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/first/toolbox/contest/05.html http://misterridiculous.com/features/evilcorporations/walmartryan.html LETTUCE : K33P T4O43 CARD2 & 73TTVC3 CVMMIN Kudos! Keep spreading the good, peaceful message. Ben Dear Prime In a recent poll one of the networks said 45% approved; and 44% disapproved. In the fine print it said +/- 4% Doesn't that mean it could go either way? Maybe if you could discuss this in your numbers run? Thanks Trish (Stat) [well, that's not exactly what #'s run is for but we could tackle that right here. Eh? Thanks for bringing this up. Consider what it means on the surface. It could be as much as 49% approve when as little as 40 will disapprove. And it can almost swing exactly as far the other way and they'd allow themselves to say the exact same chart! Do you get the same feeling I do, Trish, that this tells us almost nothing? Do you think someone's telling us what it is we're supposed to "feel" like they're telling us???] Hi. I'm not a hacker, nor a reader/contributor. I am, however, for the freedom of the individual, which I suspect is very much in line with the hacker credo. I just wanted to commend those people I saw joining the A16 protests against the IMF/World Bank today in D.C., who were wearing "2600 - Hackers for Freedom" T-shirts. Glad to see another group in the fight for freedom. Lane (202) HAPPY EASTER! I hope your doing well. I found this cool site today and just thought I'd send you a card. http://rainforest.care2.com Bye bye! -Me :) & Now, Part II of AK's Travel Saga 05.19 I slept in, took a shower, finished packing my bag. As agreed yesterday I called Wendell and he gave me a ride to the closest toll road entrance. The Bristol entrance was around 15 miles away. I arrived after 1:00pm. I had a sign that said 'WEST' made-up of a piece of paper on pizza box, a little string, in black felt. I started off trying to get a ride from the cars coming from the South, before the actual entrance to the toll road (and safely out of sight of the toll road employee(s) - N 41 '44.267 W 85 '47.804 taken at 1:30pm). My visibility and traffic was good and there was a nice shoulder for cars (or trucks) to pull off, before they made the turn into the toll road entrance. The disadvantages of the location were that most of the traffic (75%+) wasn't going on the toll road, so I was thumbing a lot of vehicles who wouldn't even consider picking me up. Also I was missing all the vehicles (perhaps 1/3 of the total) who were coming from the North. Regardless of those factors I was offered a ride within four minutes of starting!!! That was extremely encouraging. However since the person was going on Michigan 12 (an East-West two laner) I turned them down and changed my sign to "WEST TOLLROAD". Later on I was offered two other rides by people going north, who must have not read my sign (?) so I refused them. After over an hour and a half of no luck, I wandered over to the turnpike, but was told by an employee to stay off it. So I took up my courage and hitched a couple hundred feet in front of the entrance (N 41 '44.329 W 85 '47.693 3:33pm). Visibility was decent (not the best since drivers were driving at a 90 degree angle), the shoulder was fair (traffic had to slow anyways for the toll booth), and I'd maximised the number of drivers that saw me. After not too long (half an hour or so), a trucker pulled over. To my great joy he was going to Wisconsin (!!!), and since he looked 'ok' I hopped in. I'd waited about 2 hours and a quarter. We took the long route (an extra 30 miles or so) to avoid the Chicago rush hour. We went West until 39 and then North to Rockford to rejoin 90. By 8pm we were at N 41 '43.424 W 89 '00.424, stopped at a random truck stop in nowhere particular. We stopped once since their was a scales ahead for the trucker to update his logbook (there's a big fine if they check and you aren't current), and another time to find something related to paying gas. The trucker was probably in his early 30s. He had been driving since Long Island and was going to near the Twin Cities, right on the Wisconsin / Minnesota border. His truck was a bit smaller than the typical semi, and he said there was more money in driving smaller trucks. There were six packs of Marlboros on the dash. Tapes and papers and pop bottles and more strewn around. He said the last trucker had left it a mess. Self-described as crazy. He listened to heavy metal and comedy tapes (some Eddie Murphy and other material that was generally crude with lots of swearing). Though interestingly one of the tapes we listened to was by an alternative Christian band, which he had a friend in who was dying (and in a wheel chair). He enjoyed making snide crude remarks on the CB. Had a small pin-up calendar (naked women) by the dash. He was from LA and half-Mexican (on his mom's side), had been stabbed six times - probably because as he related, he would go on drinking binges and spend all his money and get too violent for his friends when he went home. His main goal was to drive trucks until he was rich. He claimed girlfriends in every state he frequently drove to and used his cellular phone to talk to two friends and to get a date from a sister of one of his best friend (an African American - more proof that he was willing to transcend racial barriers). He wasn't allowed to drive in California due to a prior accident and mentioned that some drivers deserved to get hit for their poor driving (we did have one or two vehicles pull in front of us rather dangerously). He'd been driving a couple years and didn't own the rig. He had hitch-hiked before and that, combined with a general fearlessness, must have been why he picked me up. He offered me what he called a 'speed pill', from a small container of them. While cleaning up the truck he got me to throw out the window some used drug paraphenalia which he said his brother, a pot-head, had used last week in the truck. He was generous and offered me a meal, though I said I wasn't that hungry and had some food (as I did). He also tried to get me (and a person he was calling on his cellular) to take a trucking job, as he or his company had a rig that needed a driver and he was moderately persuaded that trucking was a good profession (perhaps the money was the good in it). He appeared to be a little nervous agitated, like he was on some kind of substance to stay awake. But I never saw him take anything and he did a fine job driving. Except for the stops (one to fill up with gas) we kept going and did a good speed (a little over the limit). It was tempting to stay with him through Wisconsin, as we would have arrived around Eau-Claire in the wee hours of the morning, and it was great luck getting a good ride as my first one, but I decided to chance it and got let off in Rockford, Illinois to surprise visit a friend. At 9:40pm he left me off at the first exit after we rejoined 90/94 (N 42 '16.255 W88 57.829). Turns out the next exit would have been about a mile closer. I walked about 4 miles. I was in a t-shirt and long pants, but sweating because it was a lot of work carrying the backpack, especially up hills. I didn't have a map, so I used the GPS unit to figure out how far I was and relied on memory to guess where to turn. Fortunately I found the roads where I needed them. Krista's house was actually 500 feet away from the predicted geocoded location, but I was able to find it by its address (reading mailboxes in the dark with the illumination of the Garmin III unit). I arrived at her house at 10:55 (N 42 18.392 W 88 55.553). She wasn't home, but showed up later. The most funny thing was that she'd actually passed me while I was walking to her place, hadn't recognised me (it was very dark) but had joked to her friends that it might be me since I was hitching home! I decided to try the northern route through Canada, hoping to swing up to Winnipeg and see a number of large Canadian cities and provinces that I hadn't seen before. I slept on a comfortable couch and washed my hair (all of this time hitching I looked like a pretty "straight" kid - except for the beard). (CON'T Next Issue) CONCERT REVIEW: SORT OF. By Marco Indigenous played at Earthday. Great to see them again. They're doing really well for themselves lately, last year they toured with BB King. Hoo Hah! The bigtime. Now they've been jamming with Bob Dylan lately. Something tells me he needs them more than they need him, but that's fine. I like Bob, I like "the kids." I have one complaint about their earthday gig though. Guild had these acoustic guitars they must have required the band to use that sounded really crappy. My guess is the strings were too brand new, and the guitars might have been shoddy craftsmanship too. Could somebody please let them play their own instruments? I'll bet they'd like that. RIGHT OUT OF THE WORLD BANK BUILDING IT'S GATT Guitar Anarchist Technique Tip # 18 SINGALONG SONG by Marco Everybody wants you to sing along But they keep right on writing those horrible songs Everybody wants you to sing right along But they keep on co-writing the most horrid of songs G A B C B Oh happy birthday to earthday E A The best we can do G oh man, Clint D7 G Is that the best you can do. Even with the lyrics on the jumbotrons We're missin' you you're never singin' along Cause they keep right on writing those horrible songs. Oh happy birthday to earthday The best we can do Oh Mr. Rockstar, Is that the best you can do. Oh happy birthday to earthday The best we can do Oh Tin Pan Alley Is that the best you can do. HEY! THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOO. reprinted by Prime Anarchist Productions Bryan Hensley, 20, of Bowling Green, Ky., who came to Washington to take part in the protests, strummed his guitar and danced as he sang a song from the rock group Blind Melon. After he finished, five officers applauded and asked about his guitar. "We could use the entertainment," one said. ----====---- So who chose to use chemical weapons on civilians in mid April of the year 2000? A clue, his country never got a weapon it didn't soon use. Did you figure it out? OK, Another clue. Somewhere south of N 41. Quite a bit south. Still no bite? You'll be surprised. Los Estados Unidos. OK, this might GIVE it away. April 16, and 17th. WDC Police Chief Charles "manipulate that press" Ramsey. Send anything, but send something to: ati@etext.org I leave you with a question of the rhetorical kind. $1.70 a gallon for diesel?!? Holy Wah!!! Is that Bush, Gore and Kissinger stickin' it to the teamsters for participating in A-16 or what???