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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - new zine

2009-12-01T15:36:19Z

QZQZ:

ART MEETS ACTIVISM IN FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS FROM THE MEDIA'S BLINDSPOTS

announcing the launch of a new no-budget, copyleft magazine specializing in first-hand accounts of what mainstream media doesn´t cover

the magazine will be downloadable online in color and a version for photocopying

WHAT WE CELEBRATE:

culture jamming. poetic terrorism. citizen journalism. autonomous direct action. reclaiming the streets. free spaces. transculturalism. psychogeographic and nomadic exploration. indigenous, minority, & underground culture. surrealism. reality hacking. spontaneous & free living. deconstructionist theory. situationist practice. DIY education. holistic health. mental freedom. radical subjectivity. freeganism. outsider art. transgressive literature. language experimentation. fluid consciousness. odes to beauty and redefinitions thereof.

WHAT WE RESIST:

media monopoly. gentrification. information copyright. capitalism, consumerism, & conformism. police & border control. fascism & human rights abuses. slavery & repression. fashion & tourism industries. franchises. shopping malls. hierarchy & authority. expensive education. commodification of art. empty culture. staidness.

upcoming issue themes include:

gentrification of subculture

society of the spectacle 2.0

direct action

spaces/ places

dirty words

consciousness

SEND US YOUR:

manifestos. gonzo journalism. transgressive fiction. cultural & media critiques. poetic terror. reports of direct action. witnessings of political events. psycho- & socio- logical experiments. ideas for changing the established order. blueprints for free spaces. travelogues. mash-ups, cut-ups, culture-jams. recipes for non-consumables. diy inventions. photojournalism & visual fiction. photocopied souvenirs. subversive posters. inserructionary surrealism. deconstructionist & situationist theory. semiotic analysis of everyday life. primary-source research. transcultural artifacts. psychogeographical explorations. propaganda detournement. obscure histories. new mythologies. phenomenologies of the opressed. advice learned the hard way. replacements for fashion. omni-erotic adventures. psychotic visions. wildest hopes. outsider art. language play. LOVE AND RAGE.

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Voice For Decency: Ms.King Speaks the Truth

2009-10-16T02:20:05Z

Sluts in the City
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor

March 18, 2004

"The Heretical Housewife"

Jennifer looks back on the run of HBO's "Sex in the City" and comes to the conclusion that its departure could have happened none too soon. WARNING: Contains mature themes. May offend some and is not suitable for all readers.

I did not have to view even one episode of HBO’s vaunted series, “Sex in the City” in order to understand what the concept was about. “Sex in the City” revolved around somewhat dimwitted career women let loose in the big city - free to indulge their baser animal instincts with a series of interchangeable men.

The scripts read as though they were written by immature testosterone laden sixteen-year-olds . The crass and juvenile titles serve as an example:

"Bay of Married Pigs"
"Old Dogs, New Dicks"
"The F***ing Buddy"
"Politically Erect"
"Belles of the Balls"
"Just Say Yes"
"Great Sexpectations", just to name a few.

And a special recap of Season One, Episode Four where “Charlotte’s current boyfriend wants to have anal sex with her, and she doesn’t know what to do. After conferring with her friends she decides against it because she doesn’t want to be known as the 'up the butt' girl."

It is truly amazing that so called adults would bother wasting their time watching this puerile crap, but then again, even Maureen Dowd has fans.

“Sex in the City” provides more proof if any is needed - that feminism is truly dead. Today’s enlightened career women - as portrayed by HBO - dress like whores and act like sluts. They apparently see nothing moral abhorrent about affairs with married men - “Bay of Married Pigs” - or endlessly meaningless strings of one night stands.

Feminism has “come a long way, baby” indeed. Equal pay for equal work and the right of women to pursue a career has devolved rapidly. In the 1970’s, women’s magazines crowed about the coming obsolescence of men. By the turn of the century, women’s magazines were breathlessly explaining how to perform gratifying sex acts on them. One doesn’t have to read too far to find articles explaining how 12 and 13 year old middle school girls, desperate for the attention of boys, are performing fellatio on them - sometimes in the company of their friends. Where will such a girl be, when she is 21?

Perhaps she’ll be on a college campus, where she can join in the burgeoning campus “sex-positive” movement. As chronicled by Jean Pearce in The Washington Times, the “sex positive” movement “promotes deviant sex as normal and healthy”. Pearce details how “sex festivals”, “on-campus sex workshops” and women’s studies departments have joined to “promote promiscuity and glorify prostitution and pornography under the guise of sex education.”

This feminist led movement seeks to embrace “all bacchanalia as positive, no matter how promiscuous or personally degrading”. “Prostitutes, porn stars, sex shop owners, transvestites and lesbian cross dressers called drag queens” are paid to come onto campus in order to give lectures and host workshops. Pearce describes how porn star and self-described former prostitute Annie Sprinkle hosts workshops for students which include having sex on stage. San Francisco sex shop owner, sex worker and sex party hostess Carol Queen brings her sex toys on campus, where they are used to teach students important academic subjects like anal sex, S&M and bondage. Meet the new feminism - prostitution as empowerment.

In previous days, feminine chastity, modesty and reticence were applauded. In the real world they still are. Few female executives would get by wearing slutty clothing and coming onto their male co-workers. They would be viewed as an unprofessional liability. Few women who indulged in a daily diet of rotating men would feel good - much less empowered - by it. Instead of glamorous dates and romance, they end up with unwanted pregnancies, scars from abortions and a variety of STDs. Women used to be wooed by men, now they are expected to perform for them and perform like a porn star to boot.

One clueless man, writing in the New York Times, admits that he has been letting his daughter watch “Sex in the City” since she was nine. Wonderful. Instead of Pooh Bear and Disney Princesses, his little third/fourth grader has been treated to a constant diet of immoral women having coarse sex with anonymous men. And she’s growing up thinking that this is how mature, sophisticated women act.

Given this diet of depravity, she’ll be a natural for the “sex positive” movement once she gets to college. ***

© 2004 Jennifer King

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Anon vs. Scientology

2009-09-15T07:29:20Z

March 15th, I'm going to be there. Anyone else?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dcig_road-to-february-10-2008-final-vers_politics

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Legalize Hemp and Cannabis in California

2009-09-14T02:45:19Z

Hi Family,

Right now there are two competing signature drives to put Cannabis legalization initiatives on the ballot in California in

November 2010.

One is found at www.taxcannabis2010.org

The other is found at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org

Please look carefully at the text of both laws (the text of each is finalized) and make up your own mind which one you support.

I am supporting www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org because our law will protect Cannabis users from discrimination in

healthcare, employment, and housing. It is a full legalization measure for industrial hemp and recreational cannabis which will restore full human rights to Hemp farmers and Cannabis users all across California. Of course supplying Cannabis to children will remain illegal just as it is today. Driving vehicles under the influence will remain illegal just as it is today. Cannabis users will still be fired from their jobs if they show up to work impaired.

There are two parts to our plan. The first part is to publicly post and personally distribute our "Freedom Lover's Call to Arms" in order to recruit volunteers. This document is available here-

www.imgur.com/dbU83

The second part of our plan is to ask everyone who volunteers to make a pledge for how many signatures they can collect in

the next 30 days or so. 15-30 signatures is a good number. If enough volunteers show this level of commitment we can succeed. You can probably get that number from your family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors without having to solicit in public too much. This is an "out of the closet" movement. We will have to proudly advocate human rights for responsible, honest, hard-working Cannabis smokers in order to convince legitimate people to support us. I can supply stickers equivalent to each persons pledge number. These stickers can be used to generate interest and be given to voters who sign the petition. Here is the sticker design-

www.imgur.com/2cjvb

Feel free to distribute and use these images. Just don't copyright them.

We have 145 days in order to get the number of signatures that we need. Our petition is hot off the press on 9/11 and we

have started collecting the first signatures yesterday 9/12.

We are polling 56% public support for Cannabis legalization in California which menas that this is an initiative which is not doomed. Its time has finally arrived; we are at the tipping point right now. Now is the time to do this and to do it right. We may only get one chance. If a law which is not exactly what we want is implemented then we may lose our critical mass and our ability to set it right.

I believe that less adults will smoke cannabis after it is legal. This is the case in the Netherlands where it has been

available over-the-counter for 30 years yet only half as many citizens (percentage-wise) smoke as do citizens here. My economics professor has taught for years that prohibition has not succeeded in decreasing usage by increasing penalties. Instead it has destroyed lives and families without substantial benefit to society. After legalization hard-drug usage will decrease due to a "separation of the markets," a decline in the price of Cannabis relative to hard-drugs, and the restoration of honesty and common sense in drug education. Violence, thievery, and the incarceration of honest people will decrease as well. I also believe that a well regulated market will decrease the availability and appeal of cannabis to children. In fact teenage Cannabis use in California has fallen steadily since the passage of Proposition 215. Furthermore the adults who smoke Cannabis after legalization will be better able appreciate the majesty of nature in peace and unity without learning to fear and disrespect authority figures. This will be better for their spirits and better for society. Finally the human rights of legitimate medical Cannabis patients will be better protected than they are today. Legalizing Cannabis will create a safer, healthier, and more humane California for us all to live in.

If you want to help me in any way please contact the CCI campaign at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org or write me at
deep_space_underground@yahoo.com I give you my encouragement to modify this message if necessary and distribute it to anyone who might help on any forum or by any mechanism.

Love,
-Fully Committed

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WANTED now: Offsite AND Onsite Rainbow Press Crew SALARY: Good Karma

2009-06-23T05:46:13Z

The officers involved in last year's Kid Village Incident probably wouldn't have opened fire if television news cameras were pointed at them first. Our own cameras certainly didn't stop them. This year, kind folks like yourself can help ensure that future gatherings will exist for our children to enjoy when they're grown and that gatherings will once again be safe.

The Rainbow press crew seeks volunteers to help achieve these goals. Last year we sent out a request for off site volunteers. http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.gathering.rainbow/2008-07/msg00005.html This year we sent out a request for on site volunteers. http://groups.google.com.ag/group/alt.gathering.rainbow/browse_thread/thread/37380484d41625d6# The press crew needs you; the press crew IS you.

At this point we're in need of both on site and off site helpers, but firstly we're seeking off site volunteers to lend a hand as soon as possible to help get the ball rolling for this year. If you're interested in helping and can commit, please contact rpcrew09 at gmail.com . We have tasks that need to be done in the next week and on through mid July. Any contribution is a big help.

Last but not least our new site is up. http://rpcnews.us/ It's mostly for the press to view our old press releases. Have a look if you like, and hear one of our favorite songs there!

Thanks in advance for anything you can do. To the woods!

Please forward

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BURNING MAN CRIMETHINC free-association convergence

2009-06-02T06:05:28Z

8 & C vicinity (follow the "signs"), Monday, Wednesday, Friday @ 6PM
bring your minds, bodies and whatever else. (reading material, vegetables, spray cans)

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WANTED now: Onsite AND Offsite Rainbow Press Crew SALARY: Good Karma

2009-05-26T06:56:12Z

The officers involved in last year's Kid Village Incident probably wouldn't have opened fire if television news cameras were pointed at them first. Our own cameras certainly didn't stop them. This year, kind folks like yourself can help ensure that future gatherings will exist for our children to enjoy when they're grown and that gatherings will once again be safe.

The Rainbow press crew seeks volunteers to help achieve these goals. Last year we sent out a request for off site volunteers. http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.gathering.rainbow/2008-07/msg00005.html
This year we sent out a request for on site volunteers. http://groups.google.com.ag/group/alt.gathering.rainbow/browse_thread/thread/37380484d41625d6# The press crew needs you; the press crew IS you.

At this point we're in need of both on site and off site helpers, but firstly we're seeking off site volunteers to lend a hand as soon as possible to help get the ball rolling for this year. If you're interested in helping and can commit, please contact rpcrew09 at gmail.com . We have tasks that need to be done in the next week and on through mid July. Any contribution is a big help.

Last but not least our new site is up. http://rpcnews.us/ It's mostly for the press to view our old press releases. Have a look if you like, and hear one of our favorite songs there!

Thanks in advance for anything you can do. To the woods!

Please forward

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Dreaming the NEW American Dream

2009-04-04T17:15:48Z

California poets Ava Bird & Rex Butters, and....

Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche - Karen Kwiatkowski of Virginia

Protests to stop immigration raids ... and more.
____________________

http://www.newamericandream.net

The New American Dream

What's New?

* Karen Kwiatkowski column
* Ava Bird poetry
* Rex Butters poetry
* Gary Mennie poetry

Columns:
Sherwood Ross — why not shut down a few prisons in the United States as well?
Mickey Z — Americans are cowards, too comfortable, will never-ever-not-in-one-million-years revolt-or-even-bother-to-stand-up — no matter what the rich folks do to them.
Lydia Sems — It's The American Dream that is the problem.

and more from Jack Saunders ...

Resistance:
* Planned civil disobedience in Minnesota to stop raids against immigrants
* Protests at Creech AFB against U.S. drone terroristic activity
*100 days of protest against Guantanamo to culminate

All this, Northern Exposure, The Big Lebowski, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights ... a certificate for free toast ... and more.

Join us.

The New American Dream
Dude.
... because ... Sister Mary Anne told us, "There are no wrong questions, if you don't know the answers."

... from the Dream Team

http://www.newamericandream.net

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Anarchist carnations?

2009-02-08T04:24:33Z

I just read in a National Geographic that carnations on a gravestone used to be a symbol that the deceaced was an anarchist. Unfortunetly the article didn't say much else. I'm curious about the origin of this symbol. I did a quick google and wiki search but couldn't turn up much of anything useful. Does anyone know anything about this? Please teach me the history behind this anarchy/carnation association. My search also turned up something about black roses as an anarchist symbol. I'd like to learn about that to. Thanks

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go to church or .. nothing will happen if you ... don't

2009-02-02T07:25:00Z

The power of the Christian Church as a ... political institution has declined ... to near irrelevance ... in most of the developed world.

Contrast to a time when the church ... was the dominant power.

The church can no longer make ... law. Even if it makes law, it has no ... police ... to enforce its law.

Submission to the church is ... voluntary. Submission to the state is ... mandatory.

If you break the State's laws ... the State can punish you ... even put you to ...death.

If you break church law the most the church can ... do is ... kick you out of the church. If they kick you out, you no longer ... contribute any money to them. LOL!

Without the power of ... violence ... to enforce its way, the church sinks into ... irrelevance.

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Kick Ass Signs!

2008-12-16T19:55:59Z

I found this site. Has some really good ideas on how to put up signs, BIG SIGNS!!!

Happy Culture Jammin!

http://www.freewayblogger.com/howto.htm

fighting till my last breath (in action and words),
jax

(jaxfitzgibbon@yahoo.ca)

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Local MSM coverage of the CrimethInc. convergence

2008-07-18T15:36:18Z

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=773869

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Addis for Mayor of BRC

2008-07-13T09:41:14Z

Q&A With Paul Addis, the Prankster Accused of Burning the Man
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3544780&page=1

BRC needs injection of Prankster
http://tribes.tribe.net/pauladdisformayor

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Walmart (IWW News)

2008-05-14T00:08:30Z

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Be careful where you post your vacation photos. They might end up in
Wal-Mart's hands.

Last year I took a vacation from my job at Wal-Mart Watch, and when I
got home, I privately posted my photos online for family members to
see. Later, a Wal-Mart technician collected my personal vacation
photos in an effort to identify me during a trip to Bentonville, Arkansas.

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A recent series of stories in the Wall Street Journal uncovered a
covert security division within Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters
called "Threat Research." This team, which works out of a secret
"dimly lit area," conducts surveillance on Wal-Mart employees,
consultants, reporters and critics. People like you and me.

This isn't the plot of a spy movie -- this is real life. And while
many large companies have internal security operations designed to
root out fraud and theft, security experts agree that Wal-Mart's
"Threat Research" goes well beyond the scope of typical security. One
expert even called it "Orwellian."

Why is Wal-Mart, which faces grave reputational problems, hiring
former CIA and FBI agents to deal with these issues? We're offering
legitimate, substantive feedback on how to make Wal-Mart a better
corporate citizen, and they respond by spying on us?

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The fact is, former CIA and FBI agents are not going to fix
Wal-Mart's public relations problems. Neither will the millions of
dollars that Wal-Mart spends each month on fancy PR consultants.

If Wal-Mart wants to protect its image, it should spend its money on
higher wages and affordable health care for its employees -- not on
elaborate acts of espionage. That's what Wal-Mart Watch is fighting
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I don't know what my vacation photos have to do with Wal-Mart's
security, but the fact that they snatched them shows just how far
they'll go to silence their critics.

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if any of you are into music, check this

2008-04-19T21:17:15Z

my blog

www.directhitzine.blogspot.com

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Make My People Live ~ Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

2008-04-05T21:51:30Z

If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
A plain text version for copying and pasting into emails is here:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Make My People Live ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

Black Elk ~ I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from the high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. ~ Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live! ~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE

~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

2008: The new race of humans will begin to design
their new reality of life on this planet as they intended
it to be when they first came here from the Stars.

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This vision of hope inspired millions of people in the 1980s and 1990s, but since then, something has gone wrong, or has it? The start is correct, 'keys and wheels' were often seen in Crop Patterns in the early 1990s, before the patterns were fully taken over by NWO technology. But since the year 2001 (the year when the NWO carried out 9-11, launched their deceitful 'War On Terror' and 'Chemtrail' spraying became severe), some of the events and changes described in the Rainbow Dream Vision as quite possible for humanity, have not yet happened. What went wrong or right? Who held up our Vision? Is now the time to take our vision back and make a quantum leap forwards?
The Rainbow dream was delayed until enough people are awake: See 2008 onwards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Black Elk: ~ I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from the high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. ... Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live! ~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran ~~
Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.
Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light.
We are dreamers and we create physical reality through the thoughtforms we hold.
As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell. But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth.
Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love?
It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation.
This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
'Prophecies of The Native Americans'

1993: The year of the creation of the teachings of the Eight Great Powers and the introduction and the giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count. The Starmaiden Circle and the Flowering Tree teachings which began the evolution of the distribution of the wheels and keys of the esoteric teachings of the North American Indians of Turtle Island. It was the year that the major beginning keys and wheels were given away.

1994: The year of the planting of the light seeds of the Hokseda, the higher self. Many teachers of the Eight Great Powers began to plant their seeds of light about the development of the higher self and began to open the teachings of the rainbow people, also known as the Meti, mixed blood, the Rainbow People.

1995: The year of fertilisation, the year of planting, the year of going within these seeds of light in order to see the potentiality, the road map that a person can use. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the year of finding one’s path with heart.

1996: The year of fruition, the year of seeking perfection, growth and development. Most importantly this is the year of trust and innocence as being totally open, when people are listening and teachers are talking to teachers. When mythologies of the world and all eight Great Powers are finally revealing secrets and the teachings within the mythologies are brought out into the open.

1997: The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the Dark Force. The reason for this is that for three years seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones inside each of the Eight Great Powers who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, who have used their power to gain followers, to gain disciples, to gain devotees, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow People because the Rainbow People exist in every country, in every nation, in every land.

The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see some of the most strong technological advances known to humanity occurring at this time and these very technological advances are going to be a tremendous threat as well as a blessing to the survival of humanity.

We must exert our influence, the sun dancers, the rainbow people, by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

1998: The time of human to human communication. The time the human family finally starts to become human, if we get through 1997. Then there will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet in the first fifty thousand years. Because soon we will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars. So mark that down because it will happen. The first wave will come from the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second wave will come from Sirius.

1999: When tagashala and the enlightened teachers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles. All kivas and sacred power spots will come alive in 1999 and be totally awakened. The inner room of the great pyramid will be opened. Many of the teachers, leaders and ceremonialists that are so-called traditional, but are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall. Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened.

2000: People will begin to open their eyes. In 2000, 144,000 enlightened souls will sit down in Gathering Together Circles. Many of these will be the so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now. On August 17, 2000, the various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity.

~~ On August 17, 2000, 'The Start of The World Gathering For Truth' was held, and some great things happened:
http://www.worldgathering.net/world/gathering1.html
http://www.worldgathering.net/world/gathering2.html

~~ Our Vision was delayed until the time was right: 2008 onwards

Editor: Some of the following changes have been held up by the plans of those who are behind the global Chemtrail spraying; the 9-11 fake attack and false War On Terror; the large-scale weather and mind manipulations of technologies such as HAARP, etc. 1997 states: 'The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology'. 1997 also states: 'If we put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of energy with what we are for, we CAN change it.' ~ See year 2008 onwards

~~ Events for 2001 to 2007 have been held up until enough people are awake ....

2001: We will sit in a new circle of law. Civil and social law will tumble. All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws. Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

2002: We will once again see the way to continue a new dream. We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form. And so you will soon meet some really great people.

2003: A powerful year and its really hard for me to talk about it. I am a great dreamer but I don’t know if I dream that large. We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to die away.

2004: We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel. There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in The Great Gathering Together Circle. In 2004 all the seeds will be planted.

2005: The Earth will have its true reality formed. It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything.

2006: We will see a whole new way of perfection. There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen. Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone.

2007: There will be total balance and harmony. All humans will be balanced fives, or enlightened fives, a six. And they will still be in their physical bodies.

2008: THE NEW RACE OF HUMANS WILL BEGIN TO DESIGN THEIR NEW REALITY OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET AS THEY INTENDED IT TO BE WHEN THEY FIRST CAME HERE FROM THE STARS.

2009: We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.

2010: The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets.

2011: There will be a moment in 2011 when the population will be 'The Population', and something big will happen.

2012: This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here.

2013: In the year 2013 the Great Spirit will have left its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

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Put a double amount of energy with what we are for.
We can change it.
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"MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE"

This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

Please network the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

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If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
A plain text version for copying and pasting into emails is here:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

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Yes, think Big ~ The Big World Gathering

2008-03-14T02:39:15Z

THE BIG WORLD GATHERING
http://www.worldgathering.net

What is The Big World Gathering?
The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.

"Awake, awake, the world is young,
For all its weary years of thought.
The starkest fights must still be fought,
The most surprising songs be sung."
~ James E Flecker

Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ...
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3
Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3
World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3

Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html

Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

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'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull

It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed.

This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide.

State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul.

The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key.

May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started.

The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead.

It is time for the gathering.

Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull
(This message is through a clairvoyant in Holland, Europe, in recent years)

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Special Words for The Big World Gathering:
~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~
~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~
~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~
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'The Gathering' by Matthew

Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends
I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been
He just laughed and smiled,
Spoke of what he'd seen

He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow"
He said "I've seen supernovae burst"
But before I could ask a question,
He said "Let me finish first"

He said "I have something to tell you",
This really is the MASTER KEY
ONLY! ONLY LOVE!
Will set this planet free

He then spoke ok Atlantis,
And what has come to pass
In an alien war of genocide,
He and his friends escaped the blast

* * *
Now these ones are returning,
They see our hearts are burning
The Universe is yearning,
For us to break on through

Well now you see here is my request,
The letter to your heart
Will you join us now,
Let the healing start

First there came THE question,
Then I found THE door
Now I have come through it,
A stronger man for sure

I will ask you the same question,
I can lead you to this door
If you will walk through it,
You will be Wiser than before

Yes now I have this question to put to you
Are you going to resist,
Will you break on through?
Will you break on through?

I am waiting for you...

The Gathering

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Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
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Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
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The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
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Free Energy Celebration!

2008-03-14T02:35:05Z

We are organizing a free energy celebration and are looking for any participants or ideas for orchestrating such an event. The idea is to inform the masses about the benefits of free energy for communities and our environment and the repression of free energy by certain governments/corporations. We plan on using pamphlets, movies, music, public speakers, dvds, floats, and food to create an effective celebration and appeal to a diverse group of people. It's time to take matters into our own hands and defend the defenseless!

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08'

2008-03-06T23:43:58Z

convergence happening
no?
yes?

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Cheveron and anti war actions…

2008-03-04T12:26:10Z

…will be held in March. The 15th for Chevron at the Richmond, CA refinery, and anti war actions on the 19th in SF. This is not a whimpy ANSWER demo, this is Direct Action Against the War. http://actagainstwar.net/

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Business networking and Events

2008-02-17T12:57:19Z

i would like to invite my Tribe network to join me on www.connectture.com - its a social business network based in Europe with a growing base of users from all over the world. Easy way of keeping track of your Business Network.

Cheers

Sarah

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Destroy the Great Pyramid before 2012!!!

2008-01-04T02:09:01Z

You and me are living in a peculiar time wouldn't you agree? Many people feel they might actually become witness to the End of the World (or, as we know it). If you have pondered this also, you might want to keep reading. I'll try to break down, in common language, why I think we live in 'special' times, what I think will happen, and what I think we should do.

Mayan Prophecy:

For as long as humans existed, they have at certain points in time believed the End of the World had arrived, when nothing actually happened. This is for some proof enough that the whole end-of-the-world thing is nonsense, and needs no further investigation.
How can anyone look into the future anyway? Not so difficult actually, we do it all the time. The only things you need in order to look into the future is knowledge of cycles, and experience with the cycle. You know the cycle of your washing machine, the processes it goes through, and how long it takes. You can look into the future and estimate if the sun will still be up to dry the laundry, since you know about that cycle as well. People look into the future all the time, and plan their actions according to knowledge of cycles like pregnancy, menstruation or the seasons. If a cycle is longer that the general life span of a human being, the information about the cycle is recorded on a medium, to pass on to future generations, which is exactly what the ancient civilizations did.
Those tablets, documents and artworks become like a road map of time, especially if positioning of stars and planets have an affect on our human experience, which a lot of scientific evidence suggests, and 'spiritual' people firmly believe. The Mayans were such believers, and speak of a cycle 25,800 years long with a certain point within that cycle where our Sun will line up directly with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to their calculations, this event, which they call the "Sacred Tree", will occur on December 21, 2012.
Is it the 2nd coming of the sun? Is the "New World Order" the antichrist? There is a heap of different perspectives on this 2012 subject online, and I leave it up to you to make your own conclusions. I'm not even sure if this has been backed up by science and astronomy,
but we only need to learn here that if at least the Mayans seemed to believe this to be true, and recorded it, perhaps others do too.

One Truth:

This demands that they believed there was ultimately One Order and One Truth to the way of the Everything, Universe, or whatever you wish to name it, much like every religion does, even science. I believe so too, and I assume that many different cultures and religions contain fragments of knowledge of it. Many 'different' cultures and religions have shared such truths and recycled them, or purposefully changed them to fit an oppressive agenda. Is it a coincidence that even Iran's leader Ahmadinejad firmly believes the awaited Mahdi is near, and many christians are preparing for Jesus' 2nd coming? Also we now have a prophet in the form of Al Gore, with his doomsday scenario's, as our global corrupted and dysfunctional leadership is preparing for world war 3. The internet has blasted open total access of information, and it seems as if we are living in the times of revelation. The worlds religions grow stronger, with more fanaticism than ever, inspired by each other's hatred, violence and repression, back in full force since September 11th. The U.S. Government is becoming increasingly more violent and oppressive towards the American people, and other nations, with permission of governments worldwide.
Many people strongly believe 911 was like Nero's Rome, and Hitler's Reichstag, an attack on us, from our leaders. An attack on our civil liberties, gathering momentum, but from who and why?

Rotten Apples:

Unfortunately, our planet seems te be controlled by a small group of people, which has passed that control down for generations. They controlled the land and orchards as royal families in Medieval times, and now they control it through finance, business and government.
The knights who collected the physical taxes with their swords are now outfitted with handcuffs, guns and computers. You see, all these hundreds of apples they claimed ownership of, start to rot in a couple days, and they can't eat them all themselves. So those who claim to own land and the fruits it bears, need an exchange medium that doesn't rot, like metal coins or paper bills. The concept of exchange is based on the presumption that a human can own land, fruit or even other life like cattle. A sad delusion; the only thing we own on this planet is our body. And we really don't even seem to own that, as it is required to report in the factory for 'employment', or on the battlefield for 'deployment'. How is it possible that humanity allows this?

The Pyramid:

In order for a few to control so many, they use hierarchical structures of authority, creating pyramids of possession and power, and reflect that in every aspect of society. In the military, in schools, homes, sports, companies, etc. you are positioned somewhere on the pyramid; most people start at the bottom, a few people are born at the top. It is evident that our planet's abundance is greedily controlled with these pyramids and it is evident to me that together with the "property-illusion" this is the only real problem this planet faces. All other problems are mere symptoms. war, starvation, poverty, crime, and even many seemingly 'natural' problems like disasters, diseases and extinction of species. All these are after effects of the growth of these pyramids, as people desperately try to climb them, trampling those below them, including Mother Earth. The bigger the Pyramid, the more possession and power for those at the top, and the more degrading and miserable the situation at the bottom is. People that rise to higher levels on the pyramid, or are born there, are not likely to give up their position as they know what awaits them below. People like you and me, with generally 'normal' lives, but not so much compared to the lives of people in Somalia for one. With a system like this, the most uncompassionate, unemphathetic people around rise to the top, or are born there and raised by these intelligent psychopaths. Of course the ramification of the pyramid shape is that most people are at the bottom, carrying the heaviest weight, putting the ones on top in a fragile position. They need to keep those at the bottom distracted from looking up, so they create distractions.

"We versus Them"

One of these is fascism, the highly delusional, contagious and effective -"we" versus "them"- syndrome. Some examples are Christian vs. Muslim (marketed heavily since 9-11), Nazis vs. Jews, Humans vs. Animals, or "consciousness vs. matter". In reality All is ultimately One, and variety in this Universe is created through subdivisions of polar opposites. For example, the subdivision of a human being is Male/Female, opposites indeed, yet when you zoom out one level, you will conclude they are both the same thing. The strength of the pyramid relies on the belief of those below in the illusion of separation. All violence, murder and massacre is the result from this concept of we vs. them, or even "we vs. everyone else", and these ideas are propagated through scriptures, religions and media.
Not only does it serve the divide & conquer technique, but it also gives people enemies to fear, and leaders to run to for security. Another scheme they use to distract us from looking at the top of the pyramid, is by giving mindless & destructive entertainment, elevating the artists involved to 'star' heights, and giving them a great abundance of wealth. Millions of dollars for something as fun as acting in a movie, or recording and performing music, while those behind the conveyer belts get minimum wage.
This way, us below might consider a higher position on the pyramid something that people deserve in relation to their talent and great work. As young children we always look at other people for inspiration and guidance, and most of us have had their idols.
Some of these 'celebrities' are so special that they have many talents, and appear in music, movie, tv and videogames. This leads a child to believe that there's a range of specialness to humans, and their success in live will depend on how special they are. They give us rags-to-riches stories so we think the ones at the top deserve to be there, while in actuality they are there because of their lack of emotional sensitivity, and their successful efforts of keeping the pyramid's base distracted from looking up.
Because the answer to all our problems is up there, out in the open, at the top of the Pyramid.

The Elite:

Those who do look up, speak of an Elite, that is secretly planning global control; a story so cliché you might chuckle here, perhaps the reason why it is so cliché. There are all kinds of stories out there as to the origins of these families, including alien DNA bloodlines and such, and again I leave it up to you to make your own conclusions. It is however worth mentioning here that many people believe that those at the top of the pyramid have always generated the major wars from both sides, and that World War III will not be any different.
Is it possible that a multi-generational elite is working towards a global empire? Is this something you witness around you? You might live in Europe, and have witnessed the change of currency there. All money was collected, and exchanged for the Euro. Who collected the money, who printed the new money, and for who? How do they know how much to print? Who decides the value of an apple? It was them, at the top of the pyramid, and it shows how big the pyramid already is. Now they are working on the "Amero" in the US, and I'm sure we'll get universal medical care soon, with required microchip implant mind you. Yes, it is possible, if not likely, that this 'obscured' elite exists, and there is a lot of valuable information on this subject online. Wasn't it Bush Senior himself who in September 11th 1990 coined the term "New World Order"? What? 11 years before 11-11-2001 when the big 11 in new york was attacked? The same 11 as in the $ symbol, or the two pillars of Solomon? What's up with these 11's?

The Rabbit Hole:

For as long as man existed, it has discovered truths about the world he lived in, truths about reality. Truths such as the inevitability of death, or that fire is warm, truths which he can use to plan his activities. With these pyramid structures it becomes possible to keep knowledge at the top hidden from those below. People are "initiated" to this knowledge when they are considered 'ready' by those above them, who know they need successors. The elite certainly uses knowledge of reality for their agenda on a material level, with advanced weaponry, telecommunications and machines to name but a few, but they also seem to believe in a non material level - the paranormal, witchcraft and magic stuff. Even though Bush Junior pleads us to not allow ridiculous conspiracy theories, he himself is part of the Skull and Bones society. I'm sorry, but having a secret club with skeletons and secret meetings is more ridiculous than the people wondering about them, unless you guys have some really cool secret knowledge - which makes conspiracy theories all but ridiculous.
There is reason to believe that the elite at the top of the pyramid uses occult knowledge on numerology, astrology, symbolism, ritual and even sacrifice, besides modern technology, to increase their chances of success. One look on your dollar bill will tell you.
Actually, many people worldwide firmly believe in this spiritual world, and even though always opposed by science,
string theory and quantum physics seem to move into the spiritual domain. It is as if science deals with the separateness of everything, and spirituality focusses on the interconnectedness of everything, yet upon further investigation this is just a spectrum of polar opposites meeting in the middle. I think the popularity of the 'scientific' atheist perspective is a result of the military campaigns against the Gnostics, Cathars, and of course the burning of "witches" on the stake, which pushed personal spiritual experience into the dungeons of the pyramid. It seems as if those above us at the top of the pyramid don't want us to find out the Truth. If that's the case, perhaps that explains why the world is being so radically changed by them, perhaps because the Mayans were right about 2012,
and they want to have their global Pyramid ready for this mysterious date.

Religion:

If you are a devout Christian or Muslim, or any other organized religion, you will probably feel that you already know the Truth, since it is written in your holy scriptures. But do you really feel with your whole being that it is the Truth that the Almighty Creator has written those books for us? There are a lot of very disturbing, conflicting and violent passages in those books, as well as some beautiful teachings.
Can you find it in your heart to give the Almighty the respect He/She is due, by believing he gave us free will, imagination, a conscious and intelligence, among all the other things we need to try to make the right decisions in our unique situations? I personally believe that the All is so glorious and perfect, that creation is perfect, has been, and always will be, and doesn't need an instruction manual. It doesn't need a Great Flood for Plan B. And yet, with all these 'blasphemous' thoughts, I still feel a strong connection with the All. Is it possible the All will create this connection with anyone seeking it, regardless of religion, culture, ritual or intention? I believe so, and I suggest to the devout among you to consider an even closer relationship with the All, where you truly believe in the perfection and glory of the almighty.
Where you don't have to invent strange excuses for the derogatory, hypocritical, and violent characteristics attributed to your god through the scriptures. Where you don't have to be afraid of laws written on paper, but gratefully use your free will to make the decisions you feel are in correspondence to the way of the All. And where you respect God's decision to give each individual a spark of life and free will, confident that all roads lead back to him, live and let live. "Your freedom to punch ends where my nose begins."
Perhaps not for you, but for millions of people around you, these scriptures have done more wrong than good, and need to be taken less seriously. I'm suggesting that your connection with the All will increase if you have faith in yourself, and start filtering the scriptures for what they are worth. Have faith and trust that the All has made you in his/her image. That you are a tiny holographic cell of the All, and as such have all the answers safely stored within. Findings of modern technology support the idea of a holographic, fractalized universe, with "Sacred Geometry" woven throughout it.

Atheism:

On the other side of the spectrum we find the atheists. They wonder why scriptures and religion have such a strong hold on so many people? I think that is because they feel a connection, a connection with the All. Some atheists argue none of it is real, but these people feel the connection is real, and don't want to let go of this feeling. We are all connected, regardless of what vile and disgusting scripture, behaviour or worship people surround it with. Instead of denying this connection, we should argue that people can let go of the scriptures without losing this sacred connection. We all are perfectly capable of living together harmoniously if we live in accordance to the logic and flow of the All. We need to use a balance of logical intelligence and emotional intuition, to filter the crap of the scriptures of all traditions,
and the Truth and Order of the universe will emerge, and set us free.

The Solution:

The only things we need to do is to stop supporting the Pyramid, and realize that property is theft, as Proudhon noted,
that the fruits of Mother Earth belong to all of her inhabitants equally. Bloody revolutions don't work. Revolutions have to come from within, for people just need to drop their destructive habits. We need to realize we are all connected, and that separation is an illusion.
I believe, and many others with me, that the All is the ultimate Parent, and has ensured we all can always "call back home", from wherever we are in the universe. The phone will always be answered. There are telephone booths all around us, all we gotta do is pick up the phone, and the All will comfort us, guide us, teach us, and make us laugh, or it will help us through the darkness back into the light. The call might not always be pleasurable, there might be tears, letting go, fear, self-reflection, and such. But if you prepare for the call, and surround yourself with your loved ones in a comfortable and familiar environment, I believe your phone-call with the All will be productive and helpful. I don't suggest a prank-call. The telephone booths I am talking about here are Entheogens.

The Light:

Did you know that the only organism that can break down nuclear waste is a Fungi? A mushroom basically? Did you know you have a neurological landscape that looks like mycelium? That your brain neurons and astrocytes are similarly arranged to the mycelia network? A.k.a the mushroom's underground web below the forest floor? These patterns are even discovered in outer space, between solar systems. Quantum 'String' theory speaks of a similar web. Or how about this one - that all humans, and probably loads of animals, produce DMT naturally in their physical body? And scientific study suggests this DMT is responsible for spiritual experiences and the alien-abduction phenomena humans experience? With meditation techniques, you can probably trigger the secretion of DMT, and feel drastic emotional or mental changes. DMT is also the active ingredient of Ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew people have consumed for years.
There are those that suggest the small photonic light your DNA transmits is the light people see inside, while under the influence of DMT. Will the coming photon-belt launch a psychedelic DMT trip, as part of the DNA-upgrade, wheter you like it or not? And did you know a full grown amanita muscaria might resemble a cup, and hold some psychedelic rainwater? You could walk through the forest, pick it up and drink from it, leaving some people to suggest this magic mushroom might be the fabled 'Holy Grail'. In the past, the US Military tried LSD on soldiers to see if it could be useful for mind control, but they discovered instead that LSD made people 'enlightened', more aware of the interconnectivity of everything, aware of the Truth. Soldiers dropped their guns, and picked up flowers in awe of the beauty and glory of God. Psychedelics like MDMA continuously proof very beneficial in trauma therapy and humans with terminal diseases. The psychedelic African root Iboga is extremely powerful against addiction, curing some heroin addicts instantly. The benefits of the Marihuana plant are seemingly boundless.

The Darkness:

Why is it the liquor stores, pharmacies, and streets are flooded with all kinds of drugs, except for Iboga, Peyote, Amanita Muscaria, Psylocibin, Ayahuasca, LSD, Salvia Divinorum, etc. etc. Except for the "psyche-delics", the "mind clarifying" plants? Because the international "War on Drugs" is a war on psychedelics, and has resulted in the world we see today. In light of the hypocrisy of this war, I dare to state we need to re-connect with these psychedelics. I believe it is the most basic of solutions, and they are way more safe than cigarette's, pharmaceuticals, crack and alcohol. I think it is especially important for our younger generations, as it is the ultimate right of passage, if done with the proper respect, education, care, timing and love. We all long back to our 'childhood happy carelessness',
and I suggest the only reason we've lost it is because we were not given our rites of passage, our psychedelics. Instead we get schools with pyramid structures, where some teenagers feel so disconnected that we see more suicidal massacres nowadays.
Most of these kids were on anti-depressants, not MDMA or Ayahuasca. At home a perpetual horse-and-pony show is blasted onto billions of retina's worldwide through television, internet and handhelds, solely for the purpose of misdirection and distraction. Will Brad Pitt ever marry Christina Aguilera? I believe a good psychedelic trip will benefit people and families, and the internet provides sufficient information for all to do it safe and wisely. Perhaps instead of prozac, try and and visit the forest's pharmacy. Mother Nature's pharmacy.
You go to her for your food, so what's wrong with her medicine? Who tell us they are wrong? Right, those above you...
Believe in your own judgement, not in the judgement of those above you. It's your choice.
Even though I believe people need to "call back home" more often, I strongly discourage the macho "getting F'd up!" approach. "How many do you dare to eat?" is the same as "How fast do you dare to drive this car?", and will get you in trouble. It is this sort of reckless carelessness that results in a "bad trip", and if you aren't like this, the chances of having one of the most wonderful times of your life are huge. A great mindset, a comfortable familiar setting, the right dose, the right choice of psychedelic, proper preparedness, a company of people that you completely love and trust, and an experienced "trip-sitter". These are the ingredients that will almost certainly guarantee a good time, and inspire you for a lifetime. If we want, we can drop the pyramid, and pick up the pieces. Drop our money, and share the abundance. Us below will have to welcome those that fall down from the top with open arms, if we ever want to make something really beautiful on this planet. Entire industries and avenues of 'employment and deployment' will evaporate, and we need to welcome back everybody that drops their weapons, or had a part in such destructive or meaningless industries. The wealthy need to give up their wealth, and the poor need to forgive them, a tough process with which the clarifying and connecting properties of psychedelics can help. With voluntary mutual cooperation we can turn this planet around.

2012:

If nothing happens, we might by then have established paradise on earth, and happily look forward to the year 27,812. If something great happens, we will be ready to integrate it into our sustainable earthly paradise, and take it to the next level. If the earth explodes, we'll meet again. Either way, there should not be a Great Pyramid of Tyranny in place, I assume, and we should all dedicate the next years of our lives to the destruction of the Pyramid, the New World Order, to the best of our individual capacity. This is the moment billions of humans have talked about for millennia... now what are you going to do? If something as huge as the realignment of our planet with the center of our galaxy can't make us all synchronize a global effort, then what will? We need to have a good look at the Pyramid, not at global warming. Distraction, remember?

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I dedicate this Tribe to the creation of a mycelium-like network of humans that are ready and willing to climb down the Pyramid together, and build a paradise on the ground as equals. I have faith that we have all the knowledge and infrastructure we need to solve all the problems that emerge from this drastic change. Maybe 10 years from now Buckingham Palace will host art galleries, live music, restaurants, libraries? Do you dare to dream of a Global Paradise?
Share your dreams here with us, and let's make it happen!!!
http://tribes.tribe.net/destroy-the-pyramid

Love,

Ramon

PS: The Great Pyramid in Egypt doesn't need to be destroyed imho :)

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Your Politics are Boring as Fuck

2008-01-01T17:57:32Z

by Nadia C.
http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/selected/asfuck.php

<<Perhaps it is time for a new word for "politics," since you have made such a swear word out of the old one. For no one should be put off when we talk about acting together to improve our lives. And so we present to you our demands, which are non-negotiable, and must be met as soon as possible—because we're not going to live forever, are we?>>

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git down on it

2007-12-19T01:23:23Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw&eurl=http://www.stopbigmedia.com/
time is of the essence
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter

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NCEF! Media sabotaged! Hijacked by lone wingnut! Accused of fraud and embezzlement!

2007-11-07T22:27:16Z

NCEF! Media in Humboldt County, Ca. is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Other legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group. Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitamate environmental nonprofit:

Dog Days
From: http://northcoastjournal.com/100407/cover1004.html
October 4, 2007
Money On Trees

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: http://northcoastjournal.com/101107/news1011.html

Trees Foundation Wins

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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NYMAA General Assembly 9, NYC, Oct 28. Dont miss it!

2007-10-21T18:54:25Z

Mark your calendars! NYMAA General Assembly #9, Sunday, October 28th, 2007.

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Calling all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, horizontalists, and grassroots activists! Come join us as we plant the seeds of the anarchist century!

Mark your calendars: You are cordially invited to the Ninth General Assembly of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists / Alianza de anarquistas del área metropolitana de Nueva York (NYMAA).

Date: Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Place: The Red Root Community Space, 2407 3rd Avenue, Suite 3R, Bronx, NY (see directions below)

On March 4, 2006, 65 radicals, revolutionists, and anarchists came together in an historic gathering and founded an explicitly anarchist organization--the first of its kind in NYC in nearly 100 years! Since then, much has been accomplished, yet much more must be done in order to forge a lasting anti-authoritarian presence on the streets of New York.

In order for the ideas of horizontalism and revolution to firmly take root among broad swaths of people, anarchists need to band together for the purpose of initiating and nurturing a wide range of projects. NYMAA's aim is to help build momentum and contribute to a genuine movement of resistance and liberation that can ultimately uproot the brutality of authoritarianism, capitalism, and oppression.

Along those lines, NYMAA has arguably initiated the largest upswing in anarchist organizing that this city has seen in a very long time, marking as its accomplishments a number of ongoing projects, groups, and campaigns. This is truly a historic time, as we continue to build anarchist communities and projects while connecting and facilitating communication with other radical and revolutionary groups and organizations.

You can read more about NYMAA and familiarize yourself with its basic organizational structure (we strongly encourage this) by visiting: http://www.nymaa.org

Proposals and other agenda items for the General Assembly are welcomed. Please e-mail them along with any RSVPs (especially if you're bringing
kids!) to: nymaa-comms [at] riseup [dot] net

Food and beverages, as well as childcare, will also be provided.

History / Herstory in the making! Don't miss it! See you there!

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Directions to the Red Root Community Space: Take the 4/5/6 to 138th Street in the Bronx. Walk to 3rd Avenue. If you took the 4/5, turn right onto 3rd Avenue from 138th Street. Coming from the 6, turn left onto 3rd Avenue. Walk four blocks until you get to Dimitri's Garden Center, on the right-hand side of the street.

Google maps position: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=2407+3rd+Avenue&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.956293,57.480469&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1

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OT: New Freegan Tribe forming

2007-09-24T20:26:59Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/ef0f2448-2f81-4704-a66a-fda79c08384f?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bef0f2448-2f81-4704-a66a-fda79c08384f%5D

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OT: New Freegan Tribe forming

2007-09-02T14:09:27Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/ef0f2448-2f81-4704-a66a-fda79c08384f?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bef0f2448-2f81-4704-a66a-fda79c08384f%5D

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join DemocracyNow!

2007-08-24T10:11:46Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/4democracynow

if you like Noam, you'll love DN! I'm trying to turn people on to a major independent corporate free news source

http://democracynow.org/

in solidarity,
~Marcus~

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Wow! We've got our work cut out for us...

2007-08-15T01:18:50Z

http://www.pollingreport.com/religion.htm

75% believe in angels?

ANGELS???

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General Strike On 9/11

2007-08-14T18:32:14Z

spread the word, people!

http://www.strike911.org/

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g8 summit

2007-06-12T07:07:40Z

any of you anarkids made it to the g8 summit？what to be people reckon of police tactics and such? its mental out here in germany, theres fuck all cctv but your watched constantly. there are undercover pigs everywhere, the road outside the squat where im stayin is loaded with them, some even dressed up black bloc style, and you get tailed all the time. its also blatantly bugged, so planning actions is difficult. from what ive seen, the police have beeen learning from each other, the english met are borrowing tactics from the germans who are more experienced with riots, and the germans are borrowing surveillence techniques from the english, who are pretty damn good at creating a prison society. give it a few years and we ll have a global police force, ive noticed there uniforms and cars are even becoming more and more similar........all hail fortress planet earth. insurrection is the only prevention!

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The Twilight Zone

2007-06-09T01:48:37Z

Submitted for your approval: u4prez- dot- com:

http://www.u4prez.com/

…where the parody and pastiche of politics becomes personal for those who believe the mediated mendacity of mediocrity still counts… still matters… that the levers are connected and they still are represented.

Wander among the misbegotten misfits who paraphrase the Paris-Hilton perusal of “reality,” so steeped in the simulacrum of stimulation they fight for their fifteen minutes of fame.

Participate at your peril… for the bloviations of the blogosphere differ only in their degree of separation from real corporate connections, where paper printouts represent sweat and blood, mining and minerals, labor and loss of life.

That’s your signpost up ahead, where memes meet meat of muscle and bone. Step in, step out… take the red pill of doubt…

…in the Twilight Zone.

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Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

2007-06-07T21:18:09Z

[b]The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. [/b]

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

[b]Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment. [/b]

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.

Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.

When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.

A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.

[b]Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.

Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.

A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.

A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself. [/b]

I am trying to get the following experiment conducted in a psychophysiology/ bio-chemistry laboratory.

There is a link between visual / verbal speed ( in perception, memory,
imagery ) and the bio-chemical state of the brain and the body.

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual and verbal processing
associated with the emotion slows down ( stops / freezes ).

The degree of difficulty of an emotion depends upon the degree of
freezing (of visuals and words ) required to intensify and sustain that
particular emotion.

Experiment:

Subjects (preferably actors specialising in tragedy / tragic roles )
will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the
following:-

(1) Human suffering.
(2) Animal suffering.
(3) Suffering ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.

Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling of pain/ grief for the sufferer.

The chemical changes associated with the emotion in the body(blood) would be measured by appropriate methods.

The silent video film will be shown at different speeds :
(1) 125% of actual speed.
(2) Actual/real speed.
(3) 75% of actual speed.
(4) 50% of actual speed.
(5) 25% of actual speed.

Results :

(1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in visual speed.
(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when visual speed is minimum (25%
of actual speed)
(3) The amount of chemical change associated with the emotion in the
body(blood) will be found to increase with the decrease in visual speed.
(4) The chemical change is maximum when visual speed is minimum.
(5) The amount of chemical change will increase with the decrease in
breathing rate. Breathing becomes so slow and non-rhythmic that it stops
for some time at the inhalation/ exhalation stages.

The above co-relations will be valid for all subjects -even for those who cannot feel pain/ grief. Such subjects will experience emotion associated with boredom/ discomfort/ restlessness/ irritability/ uneasiness. The chemicals released will be different but the co-relation between visual speed and amount of chemical will be same( the breathing rates will be different/ fast). All subjects will experience some kind of emotion.

[If scientists can discover 4000 different chemicals in cigarette-smoke then they can certainly detect the few chemicals released in blood when weexperience higher-level emotions like pain, empathy, compassion, remorse etc… ]

In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film with a Narrator ( Audio only ) and repeat the procedure thereby establishing the link between intensity of emotion and verbal speed. The narrator will slow down verbal speed by-- speaking slowly, stretching words, repetition of words/ sentences & making use of
pause/ silence between words.

Please note:
(1) A thinking mind cannot intensify / sustain any emotion.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is particularly true for all painful emotions.

(2) Pain / remorse / empathy cannot be experienced in a society in which visual (verbal) speed and breathing- rates are fast . It is impossible.

PROOF.
Proof of the link between pain and slow visuals / words :-

In the last century man has made thousands of movies / films on various
themes / subjects. Whenever pain / tragedy is shown in any film the
visuals ( scenes ) and words ( dialogues ) are always slowed down. In
many films tragedy is shown in slow motion. At the most intense moment
of pain the films almost become static / stationary.

Tragedy-films provide direct proof / evidence of the link between pain
and slowness.

Pain can intensify / sustain only when visual ( and verbal ) speed slows
down( stops/ freezes).

[b]Change in visual speed over the years. [/b]

One thousand years ago visuals would change only when man physically
moved himself to a new place or when other people ( animals / birds )
and objects ( clouds / water ) physically moved themselves before him.

Today man sits in front of TV / Computer and watches the rapidly
changing visuals / audio.

He sits in a vehicle ( car / train / bus ) and as it moves he watches
the rapidly changing visuals.

He turns the pages of a book / newspaper / magazine and sees many
visuals / text in a short span.

[b]Change in verbal speed over the years. [/b]

In ancient times verbal processing was “live” in nature—ie it happened when people actually spoke.
Today there is non-stop verbal processing inside the mind through print and electronic media ( newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, computer etc…) as a result of which the verbal content & speed has increased thousands of times.

The speed of visuals ( and words ) has increased so much during the last
one hundred years that today the human brain has become incapable of
focussing on slow visuals /words through perception, memory, imagery.

If we cannot focus on slow visuals / words we cannot experience emotions associated with slow visuals /words.

Before the advent of Industrial Revolution Man's thinking was primarily
limited to :

(a) visual processing ( slow visuals )
(b) verbal / language processing ( slow words )

Today there are many kinds of fast thinking :

(1) visual processing ( fast visuals )
(2) verbal / language processing ( fast words )
(3) Scientific / Technical thinking ( fast )
(4) Industrial thinking ( fast )
(5) Business thinking ( fast )

(3), (4) & (5) are associated with Numbers / Symbols / Equations /
Graphs /Circuits / Diagrams / Money / Accounting etc…

As long as the mind is doing this kind of thinking it cannot feel any
emotion - not an iota of emotion.

In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
In a thinking ( scientific / industrial ) society emotion itself becomes extinct.

Emotion is what remains in the mind when visual/ verbal processing slows down (stops/ freezes)

There are certain categories of people who feel more emotion (subjective experience ) than others.

If we attempt to understand why (and how ) they feel more emotion we can learn a lot about emotion.

Writers, poets, actors, painters ( and other artists )

[b]Writers [/b]
Writers do verbal ( and associated visual) processing whole day- every day.
They do slow verbal ( and associated visual) processing every day.
(A novel that we read in 2 hours might have taken 2 years to write. This is also the reason why the reader can never feel the intensity & duration of emotion experienced by the writer )

[b]Poets [/b]
Poets do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every day. There is more emotion in poetry than in prose. This happens because there are very few words ( and associated visuals ) in poetry than in any other kind of writing. There is a very high degree of freezing / slowing down of visuals & words in poetry.

[b]Actors [/b]
Actors do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every day. During shooting / rehearsal they repeat the dialogues ( words ) again and again ( the associated visuals / scenes also get repeated along with the dialogues )

[b]Painters [/b]
Painters do visual ( and associated verbal ) processing whole day- every day. They do extremely slow visual processing - The visual on the canvas changes only when the painter adds to what already exists on the canvas.

There are some important points to be noted :

All these people do visual & verbal processing - whole day - every day.
They do slow visual & verbal processing.
They do not do scientific / industrial / business processing whole day - every day.

Most of the city people doing mental work either do this kind of mental processing which is associated with Numbers / Symbols/ Equations / Graphs / Circuits / Diagrams / Money / Accounting etc… or they do fast visual ( verbal ) processing whole day - every day.

This kind of thinking ( processing ) has come into existence only during the last 200 years and has destroyed our emotional ability ( circuits ).

Once we speed up our minds we become incapable of slowing down [it would take years of effort to slow down]. One can understand it this way - A supercomputer cannot process at the rate of an ordinary computer. Once we speed up [and we have been speeding up for several generations now] we cannot slow down because the neural circuits get altered - the bio-chemistry of the brain and its anatomy changes.

[b]Self-Assessment of ( subjective ) intensity of emotion is almost always wrong. [/b]

Suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of a particular emotion that
can be experienced by any human being is 100 units.

Let us suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of that particular emotion ever
experienced by two people A & B in their entire life is :
A - 100units
B - 20 units

Now suppose A & B are made subjects on a particular day and are asked
to feel that particular emotion under experimental conditions ( or
outside the laboratory ) and the intensity &duration they actually experience is :

A - 90 units
B - 18 units

If A & B are then asked to indicate the intensity &duration of emotion on a scale
of 0 -10 their response is likely to be ;

A - 9
B - 9

Who is right and who is wrong ?
A is right.
B is wrong - B is wrong by a wide margin - B has experienced an
intensity(and duration) of 18 units out of a maximum of 100 units and his correct / actual score should be 1.8

Self- assessment ( self rating ) can be accurate only if people have
the capacity to experience the highest intensity &duration ( units ) of the
particular emotion under study.

In small(slow)agriculture-based societies the mind used to experience a state of emotion all the time because of physical work and slow visual/verbal processing . People who do physical work experience the same good subjective-feeling which is experienced by people who do physical excercise. [People who do physical work also sleep much better than people who do mental work - the quality of sleep is much better]. If we read one thousand-year-old literature we will not come across the term "boredom" - the concept of boredom did not exist in slow societies. There were long gaps between different visuals and between words/ sentences - and people had the ability to experience/ tolerate the gaps - it was normal for them.

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual / verbal processing slows down ( stops / freezes ). In an Industrial (thinking) society people experience very little emotion because of fast ( visual / verbal / scientific / industrial / business ) thinking.

Suppose the maximum intensity and duration of a particular emotion ( for most people ) in a fast society has reduced to 5 units ( from 100 units that people used to experience in earlier /slower societies ).

If such people experience 4 units of emotion they will give themselves a
rating /score of 8 on a scale of 0-10 whereas their actual score should
be 0.4

[Please note :
Fast emotions =emotions associated with fast visuals/fast words/fast breathing/fast heart-rate.
Slow emotions=emotions associated with slow visuals/slow words/slow breathing/slow heart-rate.
Rate of thinking=number of visuals/words processed per minute.
Gaps between thinking =gaps between visuals/ words/ sentences.]

Thoughts and Emotions are interlinked - but different things - totally/ completly different.

Words can be spoken - words can be read - words can be heard.

Emotion is a subjective-experience. Other examples of subjective experience are taste, smell, touch, headache, stomach pain.

One can understand the difference this way :

When we eat an apple we can feel the taste of apple. Apple can give us the taste of apple - but apple is not taste.

If we pour apple juice into a glass - the glass will not feel the taste - it does not have the ability to feel taste.

If a person eats an apple he will feel the taste - because he has the ability to generate taste from apple.

Words/ Visuals can evoke, intensify and sustain emotions - but words/ visuals are not emotions.

In every field there is easy work/activity and difficult work/activity.

In mathematics there is easy mathematics and difficult mathematics. Everyone can add 2+4 within microseconds. A PhD level problem of mathematics would take hours [or more] to solve - and that too only by someone who has spent 20 - 25 years learning mathematics upto PhD level.

Same way in the field of emotions there are easy emotions and difficult emotions. Easy emotions are evoked within nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds - anger, lust, fear, pleasure, entertainment and excitement are some examples. These emotions are associated with fast breathing and heart-rate. These emotions don"t require gaps between thinking to evoke, intensify and sustain. These are the emotions that can be found everywhere in today's fast society.

Then there are difficult emotions - which require ability and years of effort to develop - emotions associated with pain, compassion and peaceful states of mind are some examples. These emotions are associated with slow breathing and heart-rate. These emotions require freezing of thought - freezing of visuals and words - huge amounts of gaps between thinking - to evoke, intensify and sustain.

The experiments I have proposed are primarily meant for those people who understand only the language of science. We don't need experiments to understand that our present lifestyle is destroying our Minds and Environment - the evidence is everywhere - left, right and center. The craze and fetish for science and scientific proof has mainly existed for the last 50 - 100 years. People have lived on this planet for thousands of years without needing scientific proof to understand something. It is Science and Technology that created the consumerist Industrial Society which has led to the destruction of Mind and Nature/ Environment. Who needs more science or more scientific proof. [b]Science is not the solution - Science is the problem.[/b]

[b]IQ Vs EQ [/b]

IQ always has an element of change in it – IQ is about trying to make/ discover/ invent something new all the time.
Change is an inherent feature of IQ.
IQ is also about thinking more in less time—it involves speeding up of mind. Someone who does more mathematics in less time is considered more intelligent in mathematics. IQ is about change and speed.

EQ is about sustainment of the same feeling/experience over a period of time. When we experience any higher-level emotion for 10 minutes we experience the same feeling( subjective experience) over and over again for 10 minutes.
The( same) feeling can sustain only if there is Repetition.
EQ involves Repetition—Constancy—Sameness.

IQ and EQ are contradictory.
IQ and EQ are opposites.
IQ and EQ are inversely proportional.

(1) A thinking species destroys the planet.
(2) Animals lived on earth for billions of years (in very large numbers)
without destroying nature.
(3) They did not destroy nature because their thinking / activity was
limited to searching for food for one time only.
(4) Man has existed on earth in large numbers for only a few thousand
years / a few hundred years.
(5) Within this short period Man has destroyed the environment.
(6) This destruction took place because of Man's thinking.
(7) When man thinks he makes things.
(8) When he makes things he kills animals / trees / air / water / land.
( Nothing can be made without killing these five elements of nature ).

(9) A thinking species destroys the planet.

[b]Intelligence Is A Curse. [/b]

This planet is on the verge of total destruction.

The cause of destruction is – overactivity.
[Out of millions of species in this world the human-species is the only one that has indulged in overactivity]

The cause of overactivity is – Intelligence.
[The environment would never have got destroyed if Man had been only as intelligent as animals]

Intelligence is a curse - a disease - a disability - an abnormality.

Intelligence is the biggest cause/ source of destruction in this world.

[In fact Intelligence is the only cause of destruction in this world other than natural causes]

[b]Mental work is injurious to the mind and planet. [/b]

Life was never good in the past.

Life will never be good in future.

Life can never be good.

Suffering is a part of life - an inherent feature of life. Suffering can never be eliminated.

There is Physical suffering - There is Mental suffering.

In pre-industrial society there were physical diseases caused by virus and bacteria.
In modern society there are hundreds of lifestyle related physical diseases - Cancer, Stroke, Diabetes, Obesity, Multiple Organ Failures.

Mental suffering will always exist. It exists in agrarian society. It exists in industrial society. As soon as we stop working we experience mental suffering.

We avoid mental suffering by working ceaselessly.

There is no higher purpose behind work.

People do not work because they want to work.
People work because they cannot stop working.

The energy generated by the food we eat forces us to work ceaselessly.

Energy = Energy[Physical Work] + Energy[Mental Work] + Energy[Suffering/ Subjective Experience]

All three energies on the right side are inversely proportional to one another.

When we do hard physical work or hard mental work or a combination of physical work and mental work almost all energy is used up in doing work.

When we stop physical work and mental work the unused energy is experienced as suffering/ anxiety/ restlessness/ discomfort. This suffering is so intense - so unbearable - that most people cannot stop physical activity and mental activity simultaneously for even 2 minutes.

People do not work because they want to work.
People do not work for their family.
People do not work for their nation.
People do not work for any reason.

People work because they cannot stop working.

It does not matter what kind of work we do - whether it is physical work or any kind of mental work. As soon as we stop working we suffer from restlessness, anxiety, uneasiness and discomfort.

[ In Yoga and Meditation the goal is to stop Physical Activity and Mental Activity simultaneously - and then transform the subjective-experience of restlessness/ anxiety/ suffering into peace. This requires ability and years of effort ]

For most people it is a choice between physical and mental work.
The switch-over from physical work to mental work is disastrous for the planet.

Man can do the same physical work every day.
Man cannot do the same mental work every day.

When man used to do physical work ( farming and related activities ) he could do the same repetitive work day after day- generation after generation.

After the Industrial Revolution when man switched-over to mental work he began a never ending process of making new machines / things / products-- a process which can only end with the complete destruction of environment ( planet ).

When society switches over from physical work to mental work it starts making thousands of consumer goods. People start calling them necessities. They are not necessities at all - 90% of consumer goods that we see today did not exist 50 years ago.

Food, Water, Air, Little clothing, Little Shelter - these are necessities.

Close your nose and stop breathing for a few minutes - you will then know what necessity is.

Stop drinking water for a few days - you will then know what necessity is.

Stop eating food for a few days - you will then know what necessity is.

Today people are making thousands of consumer goods - not because they are necessities - but because they cannot stop making them. People cannot stop doing work - After switching over to mental work they will keep on making thousands of unnecessary consumer goods. Industrial Society is destroying necessary things[b][Animals,Trees,Air,Water and Land][/b] for makng unnecessary things[b][Consumer Goods][/b]. This is the reason why the switch-over from physical work to mental work is so destructive. This is the point of no-return - once this is crossed the destruction of Environment/ Nature is inevitable.

[b]If we live a simple life there is individual suffering - but no largescale destruction of Environment.

If we live a consumerist life there is individual suffering - plus largescale destruction of Environment.[/b]

The nature of mental work is such that man has to do new mental work every day- in fact he has to do new mental work every moment- Man cannot repeat in the next moment the mental work that he has already done in the previous moment.

A mathematician cannot solve the same problem of mathematics every day- once he has solved it he will be forced to take up a new( unsolved) problem. Even when he is solving one particular problem he has to move from one step to another - there is a continuous change involved -- there is no constancy at any stage.

An engineer cannot design the same machine again and again –once he has made a machine he will try to make changes/ design a new one.

A writer cannot write the same article every day- he will be forced to write something new every day/ every moment (This is also the reason behind endless discussions/ debates/ arguments).

[b]Discussions, Debates and Arguments. [/b]

Let us examine how much discussion we are collectively having in Industrial Society every day.

Millions of pages in print – newspapers / books / magazines.
Millions of web-pages on internet every day.

Now add to this all the conversation (discussion) we are having through radio / television / telephone and several other media every day.

And add to this all the discussion we are having through face-to-face interaction.

The volume of discussion per individual in one week is greater than the total discussion someone living in pre-industrial society would have in his entire life.

There is too much discussion in modern society.
Discussion is not solving our problems – discussion itself has become a problem – a gigantic problem.

A society that does mental work will discuss itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will argue itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will debate itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work can never stop discussions / debates / arguments – it is impossible. It will discuss / debate / argue till the last moment of it’s existence.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are creations of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are diseases of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.

Discussions / debates / arguments can end only in agriculture-based societies that do physical work.

We cannot do physical-work and mental-work simultaneously.

There is an inverse relationship between physical-work and mental-work.
If one is high [more] the other has got to be low [less]

If we want to do physical work we have to reduce mental activity by the same proportion.
If we want to do mental work we have to reduce physical activity by the same proportion.

There is very little discussion / debate / argument in societies that do physical work - ie, agriculture-based societies - And this is the reason why they are millions of times saner than industrial societies.

Change is an inherent feature of mental work.

Since change is an inherent feature of mental work - a society that does mental work can never be at peace with itself – it is impossible.

A society that does mental work will always be restless.

Only those societies that do physical work [agriculture and related activities] can find contentment and peace.

[b]As long as cities exist we can neither save the environment nor the mind.[/b]

To save the [ remaining ] environment from destruction man will have to
return back to physical work [ smaller communities ].

To save the mind from mental diseases man will have to return back to physical work [ smaller communities ].

[b]Criminality and Abnormality. [/b]

Industrial Society has collectively killed billions of Animals and Trees [ Remember - plant and animal species developed over a period of millions ofyears]

It has also killed most of Water and Air [ Please note - polluting Water and Air is equivalent to killing Water and Air ]

The soil was not fertile when the earth was created. It became fertile - very slowly - over a period of millions of years. And look what man has done - He has covered millions and millions of hectares of land with cement and concrete. All the land that has been covered with cement and concrete has been killed.

Man has stockpiled thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear material and nuclear waste which is going to remain highly radioactive and carcinogenic for the next thousands of years - and which has already leaked into the environment hundreds of times.

There is an arsenal of 50,000 nuclear missiles that can destroy the planet several times over.

What could be more criminal than this.
What could be more abnormal than this.

Lawyers and Judges are trying to catch a few criminals.
They don’t realize the entire Industrial Society is criminal.

Psychologists and Psychiatrists are trying to classify a few people as abnormal.
They don’t realize the entire Industrial Society is abnormal.

Industrial Society is collectively making millions of tonnes of weapons and explosives [of all kinds] every year – and then it wonders why there is so much violence in this world.

Big Mystery.

If you make millions of tonnes of weapons and explosives on earth they are going to be used on earth – they are not going to be used on Mars.

The entire Industrial Society is a terrorist.
The Military-Industrial-Complex is the real terrorist.
Science and Technology is the terrorist.

Make things
Buy things
Sell things

This is not the purpose of life.

Destroy Shopping Culture.

No one deserves more.
Everyone deserves less.
Life can sustain on earth only when everyone has less.

There was a time when Man knew nothing about the number of species and millions of species existed.
Today Man knows the names of millions of species and nothing is left of the species.

It took millions of years for millions of species to slowly come into existence on earth - and man has decimated all other species.

After destroying millions of highly-developed species on earth Man is today searching for a few molecules of life in outer-space.

If a few microbes, a few molecules of methane / water are found on Mars - it becomes the newspaper headline.

They call it progress.

The following is about to come true.

Nature can exist

(1) before man.
(2) after man.
(3) not with man.

Destruction of environment can be divided into two parts - destruction of environment for producing food - and destruction of environment for making thousands of consumer goods. In pre-Industrial Society people destroyed environment primarily for [b]food.[/b] In Industrial Society people are destroying environment for [b]food and consumer goods.[/b] If we want to save environment we will have to bring down the second to the minimum level by not making all unnecessary consumer goods.

Environment can be saved only if we stop production of most [ more than
99% ] of the consumer goods we are making today.

[b]Environment cannot be saved by recycling.

The attempt of an industrial society to save the environment by recycling is like shooting someone 10,000 times and then trying to save him by taking out one bullet. [/b]

Time is running out for this planet.

Regarding Industrialization there is an important point to be noted. Modern Industrial Society has existed for 100 years - 200 years - 300 years. When we compare this period with the total duration for which human society has existed on earth this period is so short - so small that it almost does'nt exist. It is almost zero.

Material things don't bring peace and happiness. Today billions of people have got things which even Kings did not have in the past. Car, computer, television, fridge, telephone - no King ever had these things. But people are still restless and unhappy.

Industrial Society is consuming psychiatric drugs/ sleeping pills by tonnes and tonnes.

A very large percentage of the population is surviving on precription drugs, illegal drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.

One-third of the population has become fat like elephants.

People talk about increase in lifespan. What is the use of increased lifespan if people have to resort to Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes to pull through life. And just wait a few more years - the average lifespan will soon become zero - human life will cease to exist on earth.

Consumerist-Lifestyle is just not sustainable. If we do not immediately return to living a very simple and frugal life then very soon there will be no human life on earth. We would need several planets[earths] to sustain the present lifestyle.

The human race has been destroying/ killing animals, trees, air, water, land and people from the very beginning of civilization. [b]Science and Technology has increased this destructive capacity millions of times. [/b]

Every man is a serial-killer. The per-capita destruction of Environment - per-capita destruction of Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land is thousands of times greater than what it was 1000 years ago - 500 years ago - 200 years ago.

The [b]Military-Industrial Complex[/b] is all set to destroy whatever life and environment that remains on earth.

There is a reason why the two World Wars happened in the recent past and not 1000 years ago?

It was not possible to have world wars 1000 years ago. World Wars became possible only when Science and Technology developed aeroplanes, ships and other carriers which could transport millions of troops and millions of tonnes of weapons[once again a creation of science and technology] from one corner of the globe to another.

And today one does'nt even need all these to fight a war. One just needs to move finger-tips to launch missiles that can destroy the planet several times over.

Right at this moment there are several countries fighting wars with one another. There is internal war going on in almost half of the the countries of the world. All these wars are being fuelled and sustained by billions of tonnes of weapons produced by the Military-Industrial Complex every year.

And it is going to get worse and worse every day.

If you kill one person they call it murder.
If you kill a few hundred they call it terrorism.
If you kill a few million they call it war.

Science and Technology has made this world [millions of times] more violent and unsafe than before.

Science and Technology has produced billions of tonnes of weapons and explosives - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons - millions of tonnes of Radioactive material [ which will soon be used to make dirty bombs - which are going to contaminate the environment for hundreds and thousands of years]. [b]Science and Technology is the real terrorist.[/b]

[b]Think Positive. [/b]

Psychologists say -- Think Positive.
Politicians say – Think Positive.
Economists say – Think Positive.
Scientists say – Think Positive.
Everyone says – Think Positive.

Arctic ice is melting – Glaciers are melting – Rivers are drying up.
Think Positive.

Fish population in Oceans is down to 1/3 of what it was 100 years ago.
Think Positive.

Pollution levels are going sky-high and valley-deep.
Think Positive.

There used to be millions of members in most species of Animals and Birds. Now they are down to thousands and hundreds.
Think Positive.

Weather is getting more and more irregular and unpredictable.
Think Positive.

Metal everywhere - Concrete everywhere - Plastic everywhere.
Think Positive.

Thinking positive is the height of insanity.
Thinking positive is the height of abnormality.

This is a world that has become completely incapable of feeling Pain, Compassion, Remorse and Guilt.
The planet is getting destroyed moment by moment – and people are thinking positive.

Very soon there will be 1 Animal and 1 Tree left in this world – and people will still be thinking positive.

They will be holding Seminars, Conferences and Global-Summits to save the Environment.

There is an important point which the human-species needs to understand. People think they can save the Environment by doing something.

We can never save the environment by doing something.

It is overactivity that has destroyed environment in the first place.

Human-species is the only one out of millions of species that has indulged in overactivity on this planet [ And for this very reason the human speciesis going to exist on earth for the least amount of time]

And it is not Mild Overactivity – It is Excessive Overactivity – Exponential Overactivity.

We cannot save the environment by doing something.

We can only save it by doing less of what we have been doing - much less of what we have been doing.

If we want to save environment we will have to reduce human activity [overactivity] by 99%.

[b]The Illogical Logic of Man. [/b]

A few birds have got infected with bird-flu and Man has started killing millions of birds.
They say birds are a threat to humans.

Sometime ago there was Mad Cow disease and Man started killing hundreds of thousands of cows.
They said cows are a threat to humans.

Ever since Man came into existence - millions of humans with infectious diseases have transferred such diseases to millions of other people - and will continue to infect millions more in future.
Such people are a threat to rest of the people.
Man should follow the same logic here and kill all infected people.

It is Man who has killed millions of people in Wars and other forms of Violence – and can kill millions more any time in future.
Man should follow the same logic here and kill all people.

It is the human species which is the greatest threat to humans and all other life on this planet - In fact the human species is the only species which is a threat to all life on Earth.

Man has decimated all Animal and Plant species – polluted the Sky and Oceans - and poisioned every square inch of earth.

In a mere 200 - 300 years Industrial Society has destroyed all that Nature laboriously created over a period of millions of years.

Humans pose the greatest threat to other humans.
Humans pose the greatest threat to all other life on earth.

The so-called Rational and Civilized Man should follow the same logic here - and destroy the entire human race.

Please note :

If you indulge in Factory Farming – If you torture the birds – confine millions of them in prison like conditions – depriving them of Sunlight and the freedom to walk and fly – you are creating an environment for the spread of virus and disease.

[b]Lifestyle of Mass Destruction. [/b]

Destruction is an inherent feature of Development.

Progress = Destruction of Nature.
Development = Destruction of Nature.

We can have Sustainable Lifestyle.
We cannot have Sustainable Development.

Development can never be sustainable.
Sustainability and Development cannot exist together.

Development and Sustainability are opposites.
Development and Sustainability are contradictory.

Sustainable Living is associated with consuming less – being satisfied with a simple and frugal life.
Development is associated with never ending desires – always wanting more.

Sustainable lifestyle requires Constancy.
Sustainable lifestyle requires Sameness.
Sustainable lifestyle requires Repetition.

Development is associated with Change.
Development is associated with New.
Development is associated with Transience.

Industrial Societies can never be sustainable – When you make thousands of consumer goods you kill Nature - you kill Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land.

A Society that does mental work [city based] can never be sustainable - it will keep on making consumer goods - destroying the environment moment by moment.

Only agriculture-based societies that do physical work can be sustainable.

The term Sustainable Development is like the terms

Stationary Walk.
Silent Talk.
Wakeful Sleep.
Dark Sun
Gentle Torture.
Dry Rain.
Peaceful War.

There was a time when Man used to say –

I work in order to feed my family.
I work in order to put Food on the Table.

Today man is putting a lot more than Food on the Table.

Cars, Computers, ipods, Aeroplanes, 200 TV Channels, Luxury Yatchs, Caribbean Vacations, Palatial Homes, Video Phones, Designer Clothes, Designer Drugs, Cosmetic Surgery …………… The list is endless.

Man is putting thousands of consumer goods and services on the Table.
There is too much weight on the Table.
[b]And the Table has begun to creak. [/b]

The more you put on your table the more you take out from the mouths of Animals and Birds.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Animals and Trees.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Water, Air and Land.

The more you put on your table the more you kill Mountains and Valleys.

The more you put on your table the more you kill the Sky and Oceans - the Rivers and Lakes.

There are so many things on the Table that one can barely see the Food.

We need just a few things to live.
And we are making thousands of things.

Billions of people are engaged in making, buying and selling of thousands of consumer goods.

Destroy Shopping Culture.

Go back to Simple Living.
Go back to putting just Food on the Table.

sushil_yadav

[b][I am seeking help from volunteers in spreading this message far and wide][/b]

http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,75/func,view/id,68/catid,6/
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=3649
http://www.ephilosopher.com/bb-topic-244.html
http://www.corrupt.org/transcendence/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167537083

[I want to inform the Moderator that I have also posted this article on boards of other tribes related to keywords in my article]

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ANTIBOTHIS - Occultural Book, vol.1

2007-05-31T20:41:47Z

Soon will be available our first book, an occultural anthology called ANTIBOTHIS with contributors such as : Ionna Miller, Adel Souto, Pennti Linkola, Center of Tactical Magic, Wulf Zendik, Corrupt, Denny Sargent, Technoccult, Kenji Siratori, Jorge Mantas, Socialfiction, Jon Swabey among many others.
Along with this book a cd compilation will be released with artists Like : Jarboe, Kenji Siratori, Phil Von, Christophe Demarthe, Rasal.asad, Euthymia, Wildshores among others.

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Transmitting on police channels

2007-05-15T03:22:12Z

I read about this guy that the police finally caught somewhere who was doing strange transmissions on police frequencies. He wasn't only doing that, he was doing bogus transmissions in the name of unit this or that using racist language. Scanners hear it and the police had to deny it was them. They finally located him because he was transmitting from a fixed location in a city somewhere. I'm sure the FCC and everyone else nailed his balls to the wall.

I was just wondering if anyone else had ever heard of something like this? You can buy used motorola equipment on Ebay for pretty cheap. I'm just surprised there aren't more dumbasses doing it.

Swaz

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Need ideas...

2007-04-27T18:34:54Z

Hi all!!!

My good friend Sp@ce Turtle is stranded in LA.
I am wondering if any of you know a place or more where he could crash/ do worktrade/ make $? I know it is a lot to ask but any ideas are welcome.
He is handy and is a computer savvy... And a dj...
Please let me know...

Thanks

Sapphirah

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EMERGENCY ALERT: F.C.C MEETING ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION 4/29/07 TAMPA FLORIDA

2007-04-06T18:42:18Z

EMERGENCY ALERT: F.C.C MEETING ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION 4/29/07 TAMPA FLORIDA
Category: News and Politics

Official FCC Hearing on
Media Ownership
Monday, Apr. 30, Tampa, Fla.

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=tampa

Tampa Speaks Out
OWNERSHIP HEARING 101:

Learn the FCC Basics
The FCC's rulemaking process and how you can make a difference.

What Should I Say?
Tips for testifying before the commissioners.

Four Points to Remember
Some important points to take to the hearings.

Read About the FCC's 'National Disgrace'
The FCC has abandoned its mandate to ensure diversity in U.S. media.

Recursos en Espanol

The FCC is holding its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa, Fla.:

Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007
Time: TBD (likely late afternoon)
Location: TBD

The hearing will feature panel presentations by local broadcasters and community leaders with opportunities for public comment after.

This public hearing is one of the public's few chances to speak out against Big Media before FCC Chairman Kevin Martin moves to lift the last significant limits to runaway media consolidation.

Martin has promised to "hold public hearings in diverse locations around the country to fully involve the American people" in the FCC's review of media ownership rules. The Tampa event will be the fourth of "half a dozen" proposed hearings.

At the first official hearing, held in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 members of the public attended and overwhelming expressed their opposition to any rule changes that would let Big Media companies swallow up more local outlets. Similar sentiments were expressed in Nashville and Harrisburg, Pa..

..

The F.C.C. wants to change the rules to let multibillion dollar media companies like News Corp, Viacom, Disney and Time Warner get even bigger. They're preparing to let giant media corporations buy up more local TV channels, radio stations and newspapers across America.

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=fcc
Learn about the FCC's rules
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The largest media conglomerates rake in billions by owning TV stations, cable channels, newspapers, radio stations, publishing houses and more.
Check out our interactive ownership chart
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/chart.php
What's at Stake
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=learn

The Federal Communications Commission is once again taking up the issue of media ownership and deciding how media ownership rules should be changed. As FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has warned: "They screwed it up once. Believe me, they're 100 percent capable of screwing it up again."

That's why it's crucial for the public to weigh in now. Here's what's at stake:

* Big Media stifle viewpoints: If a corporation like News Corp. can buy multiple media outlets in a single city or town, it gains immense influence over what information is available. Consolidated corporations strip local newsrooms of staff, while pushing aside competing points of view. That means less diversity of voices and a narrower range of debate.

* Big Media don't serve local communities: In exchange for their free and exclusive use of the public airwaves, broadcasters such as Sinclair are supposed to serve the public interest. Yet they frequently ignore important local issues, pander to sensationalism, provide biased coverage of elections, and stifle diverse viewpoints.

* Big Media ignore diversity: Corporate media conglomerates like Tribune Company are more concerned with profits than responsible programming. Coverage of issues important to people of color, the working class and rural citizens are squelched or ignored because these people aren't advertisers' target audiences.

Without ownership limits, giant national corporations can buy up local stations and newspapers, eliminate diverse, local and independent programming. If the FCC is serious about fostering localism and diversity, it must enact protections against consolidated corporate ownership.

For decades, the biggest media companies have had the ear of the FCC and Congress, while the public has been ignored. As the FCC rewrites is ownership rules and Congress debates legislation that will shape the entire media system for years to come, it's time our policymakers listened to the public, not just the corporate lobbyists.
Costs of Consolidation
In 2003, the Federal Communications Commission attempted to loosen media ownership rules that would have unleashed a massive wave of corporate consolidation of radio, television and newspapers entities across the country.

The courts sent these rules back to the FCC for a rewrite. Now, as the FCC embarks upon writing new rules, the stakes are even higher:

* A handful of media companies dominate what you watch on television. As their influence spreads to other outlets, the diversity of what you see diminishes.

Five media conglomerates — Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE — control the big four networks, 80 percent of the primetime television market share, most cable channels, as well as vast holdings in radio, publishing, movie studios, music, Internet and other sectors. (To learn more, visit StopBigMedia.com's ownership charts)

Minority ownership — a crucial source of diverse and varied viewpoints -- has declined significantly over the past decade. Today, only 3.3% of television stations are minority-owned.

* Media conglomerates now stand to make incredible new profits from the public airwaves with no accountability to the public interest.

Over the next few years, television conglomerates will begin broadcasting digitally. This means that in the space it used to take to broadcast the local affiliate of ABC, NBC or CBS, these corporations will now be able to fit six or more stations — ABC-1, ABC-2, and so on. This opens up countless new revenue streams, and indeed, plans are already in the works to have infomercial-driven new channels pump up corporate profits.

The total worth of the publicly owned airwaves that U.S. broadcasters utilize has been valued at $367 billion -- more than the GDP of many nations — but the public has never been paid a dime in return. Now, these conglomerates claim they can't afford to be accountable to the public interest.

* Media consolidation has stifled independent voices and threatened public access to information.

Consolidation is killing local media choices. Since 1975, two-thirds of newspaper owners have disappeared, and one-third of television owners have vanished. There are less than 300 unique owners of the nation's 1,500 daily newspapers, and more than half of all U.S. markets are dominated by one paper.

Moreover, the number of radio station owners has plummeted by 35 percent since 1996, when ownership rules were gutted. That year, the largest radio owners controlled fewer than 65 stations; today, radio giant Clear Channel alone owns over 1,100.

* If the current ownership rules are eliminated, local communites will be turned into "company towns," where one media conglomerate dominates the public discourse.

Big Media wants the FCC to lift the restrictions on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership and allow one company to own two or more television stations in a single market. If the rules are changed, the largest conglomerates will immediately begin swapping newspaper and television properties. Then the radio giants like Clear Channel will begin selling off their already consolidated radio holdings for billions to the other dominant companies, creating local and regional media fiefdoms.

If FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tries to push through changes similar to those rejected in 2003, one company could potentially own the major daily newspaper, eight radio stations and three television stations in the same town. Once the digital television transition is completed in 2009 – allowing stations to broadcast multiple signals – one company could control 12 or even 18 television channels in a single city.

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One Person's Dumpster Is Another's Diner

2007-03-21T15:05:24Z

http://www.alternet.org/story/49547/

When I started this experiment I had little interest in the politics of waste. I simply wanted to see whether a person could actually eat for free in a city where a sandwich costs $7. How freeing that would be, in a way. How strange an inversion of everything that drives us to go to work every day. We have to earn, we think, because we have to eat.

But after awhile, my exuberance at opening a bag to find it full of still-warm chocolate munchkins, or a hundred fat New York-quality bagels, or fifty plastic containers of organic lettuce from Mexico, or ten wrapped and ready-to-eat sandwiches, or two dozen firm, colorful peppers, was nudged out by dismay.

Dismay is the point. It's why the freegans are here, and not on some commune upstate.

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Free food is now illegal!

2007-02-20T19:20:12Z

This is a repost from the Politics tribe.
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In Orlando, a law against feeding homeless — and debate over Samaritans' rights
The Associated Press
Published: February 3, 2007
This story mentions other cities that are doing the same.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/...-Homeless.php

The above story is now linked in at

The Criminalization of Homelessness
A Problem Becoming A Solution
www.angelfire.com/hi/sobers...parkh.html

How about "Homicide Charges For Corporations"
Ten convictions
www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
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uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/...f28f494b
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Metric's response:

A second Food Not Bombs group started in 1988 in San Francisco. It was the perfect city for Food Not Bombs with good weather and history of radical activism. Keith McHenry, along with two San Francisco activists, realizing there was no free lunch service for the homeless on Mondays, set up a food table at the entrance to the Golden Gate Park at the foot of Haight Street. There was always a nice little crowd of people sitting on the lawn and they welcomed the free lunch and message of peace. On August 15, 1988, this small group of dedicated Food Not Bombs activists was surprised when 45 riot police marched out of the woods and arrested 9 volunteers who were sharing food. Undaunted, they returned the next Monday and so did the riot police. By Labor Day, over 100 volunteers were arrested. News of these arrests made CNN, the London Times and many other media outlets. Facing a crisis, Mayor Art Agnos held two afternoons of meetings with members of Food Not Bombs, the ACLU, city officials and neighborhood activists. Under pressure, he issued a permit and Food Not Bombs returned to the park to share their ideas and food without police interference.

www.foodnotbombs.net/z_25th_...y_2.html
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sanfransicko.tribe.net/thread...143b5e6

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Stop renting movies

2007-02-18T03:17:59Z

Ok anti-consumers, try this site out for free flics, some stuff out in theatres now, a lot of new releases, you might get hooked.
I watched the new 24 episodes before they even aired. Fuck TV, blockbuster and commercials.
http://movies.peekvid.com/

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Last Night DIY New Year's Parade Returns in Full Force

2006-12-26T08:30:27Z

Following police spying, decentralized celebration refuses permission to bring spontaneous parade to Santa Cruz streets

Santa Cruz, CA, December 31st, 2006: Undaunted by civil rights violations last year by the Santa Cruz Police Department, this year's Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration returns in full force to take over the streets.

In your near future: a New Year’s eve parade crammed with jugglers, clowns, samba drums, pirates, bikes, and marching bands. The usual Santa Cruz city-sponsored New Year’s eve event? Hardly. This is Last Night Santa Cruz, a people’s parade, a do-it-yourself celebration that goes beyond the now-defunct First Night event, canceled two years ago due to money problems.

Last year, the celebration erupted into the national headlines when it was discovered that Santa Cruz Police had violated the civil liberties of organizers by spying on their meetings for three months and gathering information about the group and other unrelated activities.

This year, the celebration returns with an unabashedly defiant point-of-view. A manifesto published on the Last Night DIY website states, "Last Night is a decentralized, collective, spontaneous, open, public New Year's Eve celebration, a completely organic event, organized and put on at a grassroots-level." DIY stands for do-it-yourself and the parade boasts no city-sponsorship and no corporate donors.

The Last Night website states, "The parade is not merely a celebration, but a celebration of the power that we all have when we gather together to make something happen. Not just a street party, but a party to reclaim our streets."

This year on New Year's Eve, the celebration will meet at sunset near the Saturn Cafe parking lot on Pacific Ave.

A Brief History of Last Night

Last Night started in 2005 as a response to the implosion of the city-sponsored First Night celebration. Elsewhere that year, the government abandoned millions of poor people in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, and so Last Night was also a commemoration of the do-it-yourself spirit of those surviving communities.

That year, thousands of people came out to participate in the people’s parade that marched raucously up Pacific Avenue. The parade included the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, martial arts displays, firedancers, the Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, Indonesian music, drum circles, floats, and the Opera Lady. The parade was high-energy and peaceful. There were no conflicts with police who’s light presence remained far on the periphery. The parade and it’s organizers represented a broad cross-section of the community.

In a typical overreaction of authority to the threat of people taking responsibility in their own lives, the Santa Cruz Police Department deployed undercover officers to infiltrate parade planning meetings for three months. Records released after the spying scandal came to light, revealed a pattern of abuses, including monitoring unrelated groups and other first amendment activities and compiling police dossiers of organizers. The city's own police auditor determined that police had violated the civil rights of parade organizers. After six months of effort, community, activist, and ACLU involvement, the city put in place a weak policy to curb some of the abuses of police power.

A Decentralized Community Event

Organizers, or "un-organizers" as they prefer to be called, issued a manifesto to make clear the intentions of the Last Night parade, online at the Last Night DIY website at www.lastnightdiy.org. The site also offers history, news, discussion, and press info about the Last Night DIY Celebration.

It is a people's parade and everyone is invited: parents with kids, wayward youth, the homeless, Mexican workers, students, retired people. Get your friends together and bring your creativity to the parade. Build a float or puppets. Bring your friends dressed as clowns. Make music and performance art. Show off your art car. Form a bike gang. Bring your political message because unlike First Night, free speech is encouraged.

The celebration is decentralized -- no one person or group is making it happen. No one is in charge, but those involved in the parade claim they are all leaders. Decisions about tactical matters are made collectively by those willing to step up and make it happen. The paraders are not asking for permits and permission, nor are there any limits on participation. No one is in a position to restrict who can participate or in what way. People simply show up prepared to take part in a city-wide celebration.

Not Seeking Permits

Beyond the impossible barrier of the city's arduous and prohibitively expensive special event permit, the permit process itself is a racket. It is the process through which the city seeks to charge us for the privilege of exercising our rights to free speech and free assembly. Accepting a permit puts someone in the position of having to take responsibility and liability for the actions of others. Parade organizers reject that way of thinking.

The focus is on self-reliance. One of the most important aspects of the Last Night celebration is that people take responsibility for themselves and for their community. As such, parade "un-organizers" take pains to address issues such as security, traffic control, sanitation, clean-up, and police liaison.

The Last Night DIY Parade is not seeking permits from the city. Last Night organizers reason, "When we ask permission to live our lives, to celebrate, to come together, to express dissent, we legitimate the power of institutions over us. We give up our power to make our own choices. We refuse to ask permission to be free."

The Last Night manifesto states, "We want to live in a world full of play and celebration, where self-expression is a matter of course. A world full of surprises, in which relationships are authentic and open-ended. A world in which we share a direct connection to the world around us. Where one does not have to ask permission of authorities to realize one’s dreams of adventure and possibility."

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SUPPORT NEEDED: Dine' Natives Establish Blockade Near Proposed Power Plant Site

2006-12-18T19:36:11Z

Burnham, Sanostee & Nenanezah Elders and citizens are braving the cold to protect the land from the encroaching Diné Power Authority (DPA) and Sithe Global LLC at the proposed Desert Rock site. Navajo residents confronted the Diné Power Authority/Sithe Global on Tuesday afternoon after learning of water drilling that had been occurring without the knowledge and notification of local residents.

Burnham, Sanostee & Nenanezah Elders and citizens are braving the cold to protect the land from the encroaching Diné Power Authority (DPA) and Sithe Global LLC at the proposed Desert Rock site. Navajo residents confronted the Diné Power Authority/Sithe Global on Tuesday afternoon after learning of water drilling that had been occurring without the knowledge and notification of local residents.

SUPPORT NEEDED: Dine' Establish Blockade Near Proposed Power Plant Site

Please send far and wide!!!!

URGENT Support is requested from Dine Elders and Youth!

Sithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation. This is an area already polluted by 2 other major coal power plants. Local Navajo residence and community members oppose this project for many harmful reasons!! This Desert Rock power plant is still in the environmental review process and has NOT yet been permitted.

However, Desert Rock company trucks have began moving onto the backyard of Alice Gilmore, an elderly navajo woman, and her family on wednesday to begin drilling efforts. Desert Rock officials and police have not shown any documents or permits to the local residents stating their purpose or permission to be there. Dine supporters and community members have joined Alice and her family to blockade the road. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since Tuesday! Desert Rock trucks have repeatedly rushed them and have almost run-over people a number of times as they attempt to get by. Desert Rock power company is violating the lease rights of the local Navajo residences and is harassing elderly Navajo women and youth! This is an urgent time and support is needed!!!

Please read on to find out how you can help! and Please pass this onto others! (press release and additional article)

What they need:
- More People Support
- Fire wood
- $$
- Attention!

how You can Help!

- More People! More people are needed to sit in support! All are welcome!

directions to the area are below:
The site is between Gallup, NM and Shiprock, NM (northeastern, NM). Take the road between Gallup and Shiprock, the 491. at the Mustang Service Station (one of the only service stations between the two), turn East on road #5 towards Burnham Chapter. From Burnham Chapter turn North onto gravel road #5082. About 10-12 miles up the road turn West until you see the encampment. There will be markers (balloons) out on the roads. (if you begin to see a dragline, you've gone too far)

- Fire wood! it is cold outside and many of the resisters are elderly women. if you can get firewood to the site it is very very much needed! the directions to the site are above.

- $ Money! Resisters are in need of money for gas and food, and also for bail money if necessary. Please send donations to local resident and supporter:
Elouise Brown
1015 Glade Lane 34
Farmington, NM 87401
Elouise can also be reached at: thebrownmachine@hotmail.com

- ATTENTION! the more media and observers are present the least likely Desert Rock is likely to run people over or harass them. contact the media, tell them what is going on. Contact Navajo Authorities, tell them you are extremely concerned. Be a legal observer. Spread this Alert!

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Contact the Following Authorities! Tell them you have heard about Desert Rock's harassment of Navajo elders and youth. Tell them you are extremely concerned! If enough people contact these offices they will know that the world is watching.

Shiprock Police Department
phone: (505) 368-1350
fax: (505) 368-1293

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley's Office
P.O. Box 9000 Window Rock, Arizona, 86515
phone #: (928) 871- 6352

also: George Hardeen, Navajo Nation Communications Director Office of the President
Office #: 928-871-7000
Cell #: 928-380-7688
e-mail: georgehardeen@opvp.org

Bureau of Indian Affairs (Gallup Office) they are conducting the Environmental Impact Statement.
Harrilene Yazzi, NEPA Coordinator Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Regional Office
P.0. Box 1060 Gallup, New Mexico 87305
Phone: 505-863-8314
Fax: 505-863-8324

Be a Legal Observer - get to the site and help record/witness what is happening

Send this Action Alert Far and Wide!

Thank you for your support!!!

Enei Begaye
Executive Director
Black Mesa Water Coalition
408 E. Route 66, Suite #1
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Office #: (928) 213-9760
PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Contacts:
Sarah Jane White, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 860-6166
Dailan J. Long , Diné CARE, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 801-0713
Elouise Brown, Doodá Desert Rock Committee (505) 974-6159
Lori Goodman, Diné CARE (970) 759-1908

BURNHAM, SANOSTEE & NENANEZAH RESIDENTS BLOCKADE DESERT ROCK PROJECT

Burnham, NM --Burnham, Sanostee & Nenanezah Elders and citizens are braving the cold to protect the land from the encroaching Diné Power Authority (DPA) and Sithe Global LLC at the proposed Desert Rock site. Navajo residents confronted the Diné Power Authority/Sithe Global on Tuesday afternoon after learning of water drilling that had been occurring without the knowledge and notification of local residents.

“I have said ‘No’ over and over again and you keep coming over!” Nenanezah elder Alice Gilmore exclaimed to Sithe/DPA employees at the confrontation. For Gilmore, the issue is despicable and uncalled for since she gave no consent to allow DPA/Sithe into her grazing area. Members of the Doodá Desert Rock committee gathered to support her opposition and asked Sithe/DPA to disclose Drilling permits that allowed drilling activity to occur, to no avail. The residents refused to leave after the Navajo Nation Police attempted to give access to DPA/Sithe Global, claiming that permits for the Desert Rock project are not for public disclosure. The Burnham residents barricaded the roads to disallow traffic into the Desert Rock site and have remained in place since the Tuesday incident occurred.

Members of Diné CARE/Doodá Desert Rock Committee met this morning at the Shiprock Courthouse to get answers about drilling permits yet the Lieutenant Dempsey denied access to Gilmore and other concerned residents to view the permits.

Residents are asking for: 1.) A copy of the categorical exclusion that is allowing the drilling activities to commence. 2.) Copies of the Clean Water Act Sections 401, 402 and 404, that would prove compliance with regulatory requirements have been met. There are major disturbance taking place and according to the Clean Air Act, these permits are a pre-requisite for drilling activity.

The proposed area is home to extended families, but arbitrarily drawn political boundaries by the Navajo Nation and company representatives have the families separated into the three chapters: Burnham, Sanostee, and Nenahnezad. The boundary defining Burnham and Nenahnezad has been moved south for benefit of DPA/Sithe as recently as two years ago.

“The local residents are not protesters but are resisters. Who would be happy if a well is being dug in their backyard especially when it is done in secrecy? So, how can those residents be considered protesters when they are simply standing up for their rights to have clean air, water, and environment.” Stated, Elouise Brown of Sanostee.

Burnham, Sanostee and Nenanezah residents are not waiting for remedy; many have set up camp at the proposed site and are refusing to move until they get the needed documents. “We’re fed up with them,” states Sarah J. White, President of the Doodá Desert Rock Committee, “the grandmas and the grandpas are being walked over by these monsters and they’re being denied information. We’re standing our ground now.” This incident follows accusations made against Sithe/DPA about environmental injustices, EPA’s proposed issuance of prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) permit Air Quality Permit for Desert Rock Energy Facility and the creation of Navajo Nation Energy Policies without public input.

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Lori Goodman
Dine' CARE
10 A Town Plaza, PMB 138
Durango, CO 81301
PH: (970) 259-0199
FAX: (970) 259-2300
Cell: (970) 759-1908
kiyaani@frontier.net
dinecare.org

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Navajo traditional elders blockade power plant site

By Brenda Norrell
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report

BURNHAM, NEW MEXICO, USA – Elderly Navajo women and their children formed a blockade, built a fire and camped at the site of a proposed power plant on tribal land in northwest New Mexico. The blockade of
traditional Navajos halted site work in a region that is already toxic with air and water pollution from power plants, oil and gas wells and scattered radioactive tailings from the Cold War.

Facing the threat of arrest by tribal police at the blockade, Navajo elderly, including one medicine man, said they are willing to go to
jail to protect their land and way of life.

Most of the elderly are already ill from living in an area where power plants have released 100 tons of coal combustion waste that is blowing in the wind. One of the Navajo elderly resisters is in a wheelchair and another has severe asthma.

For the second night on Wednesday night, Dec. 13, Navajo resisters camped in the cold at the site.

“I have said ‘No’ over and over again and you keep coming over!” said Nenanezah elder Alice Gilmore, who holds the grazing permit for the area of the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant. The Navajo Nation and
Sithe Global LLC plan to build the power plant, which would be the third power plant in the Farmington/Bloomfield area.

Confronting Sithe and Navajo DPA employees, Gilmore was adamant that she has not given permission for the power plant on her land. Navajo elders from Burnham, Sanostee and Nenanezah chapter, all taking a bold action to fight the tribal government and corporate aggression, joined Gilmore at the blockade.

“We’re fed up with them,” said Sarah J. White, president of the Doodá Desert Rock Committee. “The grandmas and the grandpas are being walked over by these monsters and they’re being denied information. We’re standing our ground now.”

White said Navajos at the barricade need everything in the way of food, firewood and supplies.

“We need everything from A to Z,” White said.

The blockade was formed just 10 days after Navajo Nation elected leaders gathered with representatives from 14 countries and formulated a global ban on uranium mining on Native lands. The power plant blockade also comes as Navajo Nation leaders are fighting in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to protect San Francisco Peaks
near Flagstaff, Ariz., from the desecration of snowmaking from recycled wastewater for tourism. The mountain is sacred to 13 area Indian tribes.

However, both Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., and the Navajo Nation Council support the construction of the Desert Rock Power Plant and accompanying coalmine, which Navajos say would add more pollution to the air, land and water, already saturated with disease-causing toxins.

The Navajo Nation tribal government has attempted to censor the voices of Navajos speaking out against the Desert Rock power plant in New Mexico and the use of aquifer water for coal mining by Peabody Coal on the western side of the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

The proposed site of the new Desert Rock power plant is in the Four Corners Region, targeted since the 1970s as a national sacrifice area for energy production.

It is also the sacred region of Dinetah, the place of origin of Navajos. However, the air is so polluted in the region of Dinetah near
Bloomfield that persons with asthma and respiratory diseases find it difficult to breathe.

Further, Navajos say while they struggle with respiratory diseases, cancer and the death of their loved ones in this region, many Navajos must also haul water and live without electricity, since the power plants on Navajo land primarily provide electricity for non-Indians.

The Navajo blockade comes as O’odham in Sonora, Mexico, challenge a secret plan by the government of Mexico, with the knowledge of the US EPA, to create a hazardous waste dump near the sacred site of Quitovac where O’odham hold ceremonies. The Navajo blockade coincides with an action by Pima on Gila River tribal land in Arizona to halt expansion of a hazardous dumpsite.

At the same time, Yaqui in Sonora, Mexico, gathered to prohibit the use of banned pesticides in agricultural fields, now resulting in cancer and deaths.

At the proposed new Desert Rock power plant site in New Mexico, Navajo residents confronted the Diné Power Authority/Sithe Global on Dec. 12, after discovering that water drilling was carried out without the
knowledge and notification of local Navajo residents.

Members of the Doodá Desert Rock committee gathered to support Gilmore’s opposition and asked Sithe/DPA to disclose drilling permits that allowed drilling activity to occur. However, no permits were
provided.

The residents refused to leave after the Navajo Nation Police attempted to give access to DPA/Sithe Global, claiming that permits for the Desert Rock project are not for public disclosure. The Burnham residents barricaded the roads to disallow traffic into the Desert Rock site and Navajos remained at the blockade.

Members of Diné CARE/Doodá Desert Rock Committee met Dec. 13, at the Shiprock tribal courthouse to get answers about drilling permits. Navajo residents said a tribal police lieutenant denied Gilmore and
other residents access to view the permits.

Navajo residents are asking for a copy of the categorical exclusion, which would allow the drilling activities to commence, and copies of the Clean Water Act Sections 401, 402 and 404, that would prove compliance with regulatory requirements have been met.

“There are major disturbance taking place and according to the Clean Air Act, these permits are a pre-requisite for drilling activity,” Navajo residents said in a public statement.

Further, Navajos say tribal boundary lines were redrawn to accommodate
the power plant corporation.

The proposed area is home to extended families, but arbitrarily drawn political boundaries by the Navajo Nation and company representatives have the families separated into the three chapters: Burnham, Sanostee, and Nenahnezad.

Navajo residents said the boundary defining Burnham and Nenahnezad was moved to the south for the benefit of DPA/Sithe within the past two
years.

Elouise Brown of Sanostee said, “The local residents are not protesters but are resisters. Who would be happy if a well is being dug in their backyard especially when it is done in secrecy? So, how can those residents be considered protesters when they are simply standing up for their rights to have clean air, water, and environment.”

Burnham, Sanostee and Nenanezah residents are not waiting for remedy;
many have set up camp at the proposed site and are refusing to move
until they get the needed documents.

Navajos said this incident follows accusations made against Sithe/DPA
about environmental injustices, EPA’s proposed issuance of prevention
of significant deterioration (PSD) permit Air Quality Permit for Desert
Rock Energy Facility and the creation of Navajo Nation Energy Policies
without public input.

For more information on the Navajo blockade:
Lori Goodman
Dine' CARE
PH: (970) 259-0199
FAX: (970) 259-2300
kiyaani@frontier.net
dinecare.org

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CALL FOR HELP

2006-11-25T08:23:23Z

CALL FOR HELP (circulate widely):

This is a call for help to defend a squatted social centre in Copenhagen
which has been running for a long time. There is more about its long
history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset

The original call (here in an edited/spelling checked version) can be
found here: http://www.ungdomshuset.info/spip.php?article48

=================================================
Troublemakers of the world - We bid you welcome
=================================================

We invite everybody who supports Ungdomshuset to come to Copenhagen in
December. From the 13th through the 17th there will be actions,
workshops, concerts and at least one demonstration.

For seven years we have struggled for a political solution that could
remove the eviction threat against Ungdomshuset. These efforts have been
in vain.

We are still trying to find a peaceful way to save the house, but there
is not much to hope for. Though the politicians have spoken a lot they
have not done anything. The right-wing Christian sect whom the
politicians gave our house to is refusing to sell, despire generous
offers from an independent fund. Instead they have asked for permission
to tear it down.

>From just about everywhere there has been statements of support. From
local citizens to revolutionary political groups abroad. Danish labour
unions, artists, mucisians and many more have spoken in our favour. We
are very greatfull for this support. But so far it has not had an effect
on the leadership of the Church that is crusading against us. They still
push for war.

We are still hoping and working for a political solution but from
December 14th onwards the question is no longer *if* we are going to be
attacked by the police in an eviction attempt. From that day on it will
be a question of *when* we are attacked.

That is why we are calling upon all the friends of Ungdomshuset in
particular and supporters of squatting and social change in general to
come to Copenhagen from the 13th of December. Activities are planned
until December 17th, but you are welcome to stay longer. We need you.

Hope to see you here!
======================

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America Freedom to Fascism

2006-11-16T20:48:00Z

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&q=

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H. R. 4239/S. 3880

2006-11-12T22:16:23Z

The war on terror is making it's march on animal liberationist as I type this; with the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act". The goverment is hard at work turning everyone into "terrorist". I hope the detention camps will be pleasant. Here is a URL about the act(s):

www.stopaeta.org/index.html

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free liveing/traveling for newbies:

2006-11-12T08:27:41Z

I do not suggest that you break any laws or tell lies to Government employees. Laws are good and so are governments. I tell you the following just for laughs. GODDAMN I LOVE LAWS!!!

You don't have to work. Getting up to go to work is basicly choice that you personaly make. If you hate your job, have passions you'd rather be persuing, or you feel bad for paying taxes to the machine: then perhaps not working is for you.

FOOD:
You can find books on wild food in you area from any library.

Dumpsters are fucking great. Most food throw away by grocery stores is tossed out the day of its expiration, however its still VERY edible, and generaly sealed in plastic. The expiration dates are inaccurate to protect the manufacturers from being sued. This is bad for the enviroment, but good for you. Animal products go bad quickly, particularly in the warmth of a dumpster. Some places have locks or compactors. Local health food places are almost always dumpster-able. Look them up in the yellow pages if you roll into a new place.

Don't ignore experimentation, but very generally speaking:
Bagel and Donut places (not so much w/ chain ones) are ALWAYS putting out.
Produce distributers are good.
Trader Joe's is a really good one.
Whole Foods often has locks/compactors.
Safe Ways (W. Coast) have pillars of expired produce in cardboard boxes behindn them.
Food Lions (E Coast) have lots of dumpster-able dumpsters.
Pizza places are good. Particularly if your not vegan.

IMPORTANT: leave all dumpsters cleaner than you found them so the bosses will be less inclined to be fuckers. Also, wash and smell food before you eat it.

FOOD STAMPS.
Why its ethical to use food stamps, even as a middle-class (born), white person in the US: The United States of America has been at one state or another of WAR constantly since about 1950. Among other things, the undisputed acts of the US include: Fire-bombing Tokyo, using nuclear weapon against two Japanese cities, use of agent orange in Viet Nam, deforestation of 95% of its original forests, selling weapons to both sides of the Iran/Iraq war, killing a minimun of tens of thousands of civilians in Nicaragua with School of the America's trained soldiers, use of uranium bullets with 4.5 billion year half lifes (ei: Iraq, and the whole world eventualy, will have ultra-high rates of child leukemia FOREVER), employing sactions that resulted in the death of over 500,000 Iraqi chidren and invading Cuba, Granada, Iraq (twice), Afganistan, Viet Nam, Hawai, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatamala, Panama, Cambodia and Loas. In short, US is one of the most anti-life institutions the world has even known, don't feel bad about using food stamps because it makes for less money available to kill brown-people around the world.

To get them, tell them your homeless and that you eat trash and its an emergency that you need to get mad loads of food stamps ASAP. Tell them you have a friend who lets you get mail at her place and give them that address. HOWEVER, do let them go on thinking there is any chance you friend would let you sleep at her house. You sleep under death infested bridges. Also remember that you don't have a job, money or anyone who will give you money.

They will end up giving or mailing you around 150 a month in food stamps that will last for 6-12 months, maybe. You can use the card in any state. You cant buy hot food with them.

TRAINS:
As for hopping trains: DONT
(UNTILL you can get someone to show you how to do it, IN PERSON. A few things to remember in case they don't tell you:
1. don't ever go under a train
2. don't go under or over a cupeling [the thing in between trains]
3. carry about a gallon of water per person. please carry at LEAST a half-gallon.
4. don't drink a whole lot around trains. dead people make for higher security cause of insurance costs. and that is bad.)
5. ask around till you find someone with a copy of the crew change guide and make copy of it for yourself.
6. when you make you copy of the crew change guide please make a non-shitty-ass, non-words-going-off-the-side-of-the-pages, non-can't-read-it-cause-its-so-light copy. That way when I make a copy of yours, I will be able to read it.)

HITCHING:
Hitch hiking is pretty easy if your a cracker. Its really fucking easy if your a womyn. Its a little easier up and down the west coast than other places in the states. Stand on the onramps to freeways/intestates. Try not to go past that stupid sign that say "Pedestrians, Farm Equip., Scooters are not allowed past this point." The slower the cars are going the better. The people that pick you up love hearing stories and smoking w33d. Mostly you'll get picked up by people who have hitch hiked before. Try not to get dropped off at 1. the intersections of interstatesdifferent (when they are going a different way than you) 2. the side of the interstate 3. small ass places where you wont get a ride.

I have never got a ride by asking truckers, they are mostly working for companies that disallow picking up hitch hikers.

If your a womyn hitching by yourself, I would recommend carrying a flip-open knife OR a can of effective pepper-spray OR practice your aim with eye pokes (Extending your three longest fingers, arch your middle one so it is flush with you other two. To practice: pick something eye-sized to poke, and very quickly shoot out your hand and then extend your poking fingers right before impact, then fluidly withdraw your hand and arm just as fast. Its faster and more damaging that a punch to the face) cause lone womyn hitch hikers get picked up by fucking perverts sometimes.

Minors will get stopped by the cops to have their parents called, to see if they are runaways. Unless they make themself not look like a minor.

OIL:
Diesel cars can run on strained veggie oil if it is heated up to 180F. You can get used veggie oil for free from restaurants everywhere. "From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank" is a book that talks about that.

Don't support "Bio"-Diesil if its made from new oil, cause cutting down the rain-forest to plant oil palm plantations is no better than using gas.

BOOZE:
You don't have to spange for money to buy booze. You can make you own for free, and it'll usually tastes better than King Cobra or Ol'E.

First I'll tell you the basics, then the other stuff. All you REALLY need is bakers yeast and suger and water. You take a gallon of water, put in 2-4 cups of sugar and a little bit of bakers yeast. Then stir till it desolves, (a TINY bit of heat will help this) then put a condom over the top of the jug you got (yes you can use 40-oz. bottels). Let in sit in a warmish area for a week or a month (taste it) and let out the air that will fill up the condom all the time.

The yeast is eating the sugar and shitting alcohol. The condom is keeping vinegar particles from coming into the shit (alcohol) and turing it into vinegar.

If you use brewing yeast (brewing supply store: 50-cent for a pack that will say to use it for 5 gallon but you can use it for 15) instead you will get better tasting stuff with higher alc %. If you use juice instead of water it will taste better. If you use an airlock (brewing supply store: 1 buck) instead of a condom it will be more secure against vinegar, and you wont have to empty the condom twice a day during the peak. You can use juicy, mashed-up (by you, not the dumpster), dumpstered fruit instead of juice.

You can use wild yeast in the air too, just let you sugary liquid sit in the open air for a few days and stir it every day. Then cap it (with some type of air releasing thing) before any nasty vinegars can come across alcohol to eat.

I think that the easiest way in the world to make alcohol (which I haven't tried) would be with dumpstered donuts, cause its free sugar. Let me know how that turns out.

INFO:
Use libraries. Use them a lot.

SHELTER:
You can live the woods with a tent or a tarp or a natural structure. There is lots of info on those types of things libraries. I have found that living in and around nature is often a lot more fun than in the cities, even though it usually don't end up having friends around. If you can get your friends to live with you in the woods, you could have the best of both worlds. Cities are not eye pleasing everywhere you look, and all the squareness sorta gets in the way of adventures and passion that I find very present in the woods. I really like the black cut outs of trees up against the starry sky. It makes life good.

Back to shelter. Squatting is very present option on almost all cities. A few that suck for squatting are: all higher end suburbs, San Fran and NYC. In NYC and San Fran you generally need to not let the public know your squat is there cause the cops will bust'em it as they find'em. Most post industrial places like philly, detroit, Saint Louis etc. are really great for squatting. There are lots of abandoned places all over them and the cops don;t really give a damn about you. People get arrested for squatting, but not very often. I have, but it was after we warned to leave a few times.

If you always leave when the land lord or pigs tell you to, you are pretty much safe in that sense.

Its really late and there is more that should be said of squatting. but I'll leave you with a few books that are good.

BOOKS:
"Days of war, Nights of Love" is a good book if you want to be inspired to life a jobless life

"Evasion" is good if you want to hear about a very vegan straight edge kid getting away with LOTS of stuff in very clever ways.

"Hobo" is good if you want to be inspired to hop trains

"Off the Map" is about two grrls traveling Europe for free. Its good if you like the general idea of magical events.

books 1,2, and 4 are available from www.crimethinc.com

Survival Manuals are pretty good. Definitely find a person to copy the Crew Change Guide from. You cant buy it and its not on the internet. ;) You can only get it from another train-hopper. Its a guide to every about every place in the N America that the train crews will change at and much more.

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The Meatrix 2!

2006-10-23T23:17:02Z

http://www.themeatrix2.com/

and if you haven't seen it,

The Meatrix
http://www.themeatrix.com/

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READ MY BLOG!

2006-10-19T01:07:40Z

Anarchy thought crime for you!

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This will creep into the mainstream?

2006-10-12T05:56:08Z

http://wewillnotbesilenced.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Does it deserve to? Does it help? Resonate? Is it true?

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they

2006-09-30T17:38:49Z

with hyperlinks: http://flux64.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/they-thought-they-were-free/

{Editor’s Note: It’s remarkable how closely America’s current decent into a police state parallels that of Germany in the 1930s. The Illuminati is following the German Nazification model here in America down to the smallest detail. It’s important to note that the fascists manipulating Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship in the 1930’s did so by constantly bombarding their population with a fast moving stream of “crisis’” news items and staged ‘crisis’ events to keep the German populace bewildered and in a state of anxiety so they would not have a chance to think about and react to the unfolding political realities and collectively act to resist the fascist agenda. The same psychological manipulations are taking place in America today and producing the same results.

If you are a regular reader of this web site, you already know that “the news” we get from mainstream media outlets is scripted, edited, and tailored to function as propaganda under the auspices of the Tavistock Institute in London who are in turn directed by the Committee of 300. You already know that the major ‘crisis’ news items are themselves staged events: 911, the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Bali bombing, the embassy bombings in Africa, the Madrid train bombing, the ‘anthrax letters’ (October 2001, as an excuse for stampeding through the unconstitutional Traitor’s Act {Orwellian title: “The Patriot Act”}, and similar ‘crisis’ news events were carried out by operatives and agents of the CIA, Mossad, military special forces, civilian ‘black ops’ contractors, etc.

I hope you also realize by now that most radio talk shows are intended to function as either propaganda outlets to promote the Illuminati’s ‘illusion masquerading as reality’ agenda or to produce alarm and anxiety in their listeners in order to serve the ‘fear production/inability to think’ manipulation mentioned above. All of those fascinating interviews we hear on the radio about the impending oil shortage from the likes of Michael Ruppert (CIA family) or the calamitous predictions we get from Father Andrew Wingate (military background) or the Nostradamus predictions, or the Ed Dames crap or the coming ‘plagues’ of Bird Flu, West Nile, etc., or the fearsome ‘coronal mass ejections’ from the sun or the ‘inevitable’ asteroid collisions with Earth and similar ’science news’ we get from Tavistock directed propagandist Michio Kaku, etc., are ALL intended to produce fear and anxiety, although those voices of doom and gloom would vigorously deny that was their intention. I still listen to many such radio interviews, of course, but they no longer cause me anxiety or alarm. Rather, they provide me with intelligence information about the person promoting the propaganda, or the direction of the disinformation/misinformation, or the intended plans of the treasonous manipulators and it gives me an opportunity to plan ahead or to think about a solution or countermeasure to thwart the staged disasters being ‘predicted’, etc.

You should also keep in mind that there are hundreds of web sites which are under covert control and intentionally promote fear or anxiety (while pretending to ‘enlighten’) while many other web sites act as unwitting pawns for the dark side and parrot the doom and gloom hysteria of the above ilk. Note well that the author of the article below mentions that the German people of the 1930s were kept ‘busy’ and ‘fascinated’ with continuous changes, with ‘crisis’ news and with tales of national enemies. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated this way into passivity and inaction. Take a stand and get involved with the task of defeating the satanic minions who are attempting to destroy America and its people. Anyone can simply apply their will, their mind, their intentions, and their prayers ( a prayer is a petition for help and assistance) to defeating the destructive agenda. Read the fascinating e-mails I’ve posted recently from ordinary people who find that they can effect remarkable changes using only their minds and their intentions! The possibilities offered by Philip Ledoux’s recent dowsing session concerning sylphs and chemtrails presents even greater encouragement for ‘mind action’. Read what Don Croft and associates are accomplishing at http://www.ethericwarriors.com if you want to see how really effective this mind ‘work’ can be.

Today (Sunday, April 25, 2005), I enjoyed yet another gorgeous day in southern California of dark blue skies filled with real, bright white puffy clouds without a chemtrail line to be seen anywhere. It was the fourth or fifth consecutive day we’ve had of beautify skies, free of chemtrails. Prior to that, we had chemtrails being laid down recently, but we also had Sylphs flooding in immediately to destroy those chemtrails and prevent the chemtrail overcast and haze out that we were so accustomed to prior to Don & Carol Croft’s wonderful observations about orgone generators and their effects on the atmosphere, on bodies of water, on microwave ‘cell phone’ towers, on nuclear power plants, on building structures which house dark activities, on negative aliens, on demonic influences, and on people’s emotional outlook and sense of optimism. Think about how you can assist in the upsetting the apple cart of the New World Order and defeating the game plan of our domestic traitors. Become determined. Become dedicated. Become involved. Become alive! ..Ken]

By Milton Mayer
http://educate-yourself.org/
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/thoughttheywerefree20apr05.shtml
April 20, 2005

from: http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html
But Then It Was Too Late

“What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever widening gap, after1933,between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing to do with knowing one is governing.

What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

“You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the universe was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was “expected to” participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time.”

“Those,” I said, “are the words of my friend the baker. “One had no time to think. There was so much going on.” “Your friend the baker was right,” said my colleague. “The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your “little men”, your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about - we were decent people - and kept us so busy with continuous changes and “crises” and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the “national enemies”, without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, “regretted,” that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these “little measures” that no “patriotic German” could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice - “Resist the beginnings” and “consider the end.” But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have changed here before they went as far as they did; they didn’t, but they might have. And everyone counts on that might.

“Your “little men,” your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing: and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something - but then it was too late.”

“Yes,” I said.

“You see,” my colleague went on, “one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even to talk, alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not? - Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

“Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there will be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to you colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”

“And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

“But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to � to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and the smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked � if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in “43″ had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in “33″. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jew swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in � your nation, your people � is not the world you were in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

“You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

“Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done ( for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

“What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did. Or “adjust” your principles. Many tried, and some, I suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know.”

I said nothing. I thought of nothing to say.

“I can tell you,” my colleague went on, “of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn’t an anti-Nazi. He was just � a judge. In “42″ or “43″, early “43″, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an “Aryan” woman. This was “race injury”, something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case a bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a “nonracial” offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party “processing” which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the “nonracial” charge, in the judge’s opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom.
”
“And the judge?”

“Yes, the judge. He could not get the case off his conscience � a case, mind you, in which he had acquitted an innocent man. He thought that he should have convicted him and saved him from the Party, but how could he have convicted an innocent man? The thing preyed on him more and more, and he had to talk about it, first to his family, then to his friends, and then to acquaintances. (That’s how I heard about it.) After the “44″ Putsch they arrested him. After that, I don’t know.”

I said nothing.

“Once the war began,” my colleague continued, “resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was “defeatism.” You assumed that there were lists of those who would be “dealt with” later, after the victory. Goebbels was very clever here, too. He continually promised a “victory orgy” to “take care of” those who thought that their “treasonable attitude” had escaped notice. And he meant it; that was not just propaganda. And that was enough to put an end to all uncertainty.

“Once the war began, the government could do anything “necessary” to win it; so it was with the “final solution” of the Jewish problem, which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its “necessities” gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany’s losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it.”

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Free Alex Jones films on Google!

2006-09-18T18:58:34Z

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Alex+jones&hl=en

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Welcome to the Republic of New Hampshire!

2006-09-18T18:47:39Z

We thus hereby request that the legislature of New Hampshire make the following resolution: That the State of New Hampshire is, and of right ought to be, a free and independent state; that she is absolved from all allegiance to the Federal Union, and that all political connection between us and the United States of America, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a free and independent state, we have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

- From the text of our Declaration of Independence, written by Caleb Johnson, inspired by Thomas Jefferson

It is with a deep sense of regret, and a profound feeling of loss, that we must reluctantly recommend to the citizens of New Hampshire that our state declare its independence from the Federal Union. As concerned citizens, we do not take such a drastic recommendation lightly. This group has been created for the purpose of explaining the reasons which compel us to advise such a drastic step. It is hoped that you will consider the evidence in the same spirit of reflection with which it has been presented.

republicofnh.org/
groups.yahoo.com/group/rep...hampshire/
tribes.tribe.net/republicofnewhampshire
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/republicofnewhampshire/?yguid=193981468

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a question

2006-09-18T18:42:21Z

What is the Primary purpose of govornment?

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Documents: Feds, City Knew Of Ground Zero Toxins

2006-09-08T17:20:00Z

Source: http://wcbstv.com/911/local_story_249164937.html

Marcia Kramer
Reporting

(CBS) NEW YORK CBS 2 Exclusive: Stunning proof has been uncovered that the government knowingly put New Yorkers in harm's way after 9/11.

CBS 2 News has obtained documents revealing that Lower Manhattan was reopened a few weeks following the attack even though the air was not safe.

The two devastating memos, written by the U.S. and local governments, show they knew. They knew the toxic soup created at Ground Zero was a deadly health hazard. Yet they sent workers into the pit and people back into their homes.

One of the memos, from the New York City health department, dated Oct. 6, 2001, noted: "The mayor's office is under pressure from building owners ... in the Red Zone to open more of the city." The memo said the Department of Environmental Protection was "uncomfortable" with opening the areas but, "The mayor's office was directing the Office of Emergency Management to open the target areas next week."

"Not only did they know it was unsafe, they didn't heed the words of more experienced people that worked for the city and E.P.A.," said Joel Kupferman, with the group Environmental Justice Project.

Another part of the memo noted: "The E.P.A. has been very slow to make data results available and to date has not sufficiently informed the public of air quality issues arising from this disaster."

"Unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me," said health protestor Yuichi Tamamo. "For the last five years we've been saying air quality here has been horrible."

It also doesn't suprise Carmen Flores, who lives in an apartment in the Baruch Houses that was engulfed in the 9/11 toxic plume. Her health has deteriorated and she has multiple medicines.

"I feel forgotten," she said.

Bruce Sprague, an E.P.A. official in the New York and New Jersey region during 9/11 admited to CBS 2 News the agency was finding alarming air quality readings at Ground Zero and in the surrounding areas.

Sprague said the E.P.A. had written much more conservative health assessments, but the memos had to go to Washington. And when the White House got its hands on them, they -- according to Sprague -- softened them.

The city health department refused to comment on the memo, but inside sources told CBS 2 News the memo is real. And its veracity is not questioned by the Environmental Justice Project's Kupferman.

He calls it "a smoking gun."

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I'm not sure if this is possible...

2006-08-07T03:46:24Z

I was talking to my father and we came up with an interesting idea. . .Imagine 50,000 elvis impersonators marching to area 51. I wonder how possible it would be. I mean if you can get X amount(I'm not sure how many) of people to go to burning man, why not a bunch of people dressed as elvis!

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Save South Central Farm!

2006-07-06T18:03:07Z

A vision for a sustainable world... a successful model of an urban community garden center. A huge safe green zone in a city trying to become the "Greenest City in the Nation." South Central Farm, LA- Feeding Families-the largest urban farm in the nation. This amazing farm is in serious danger of being destroyed. July 5 the bulldozers moved in. July 12 is the Court Case to contest the legality of the sale of the farm by the City to developer Ralph Horowitz.
Join us for our International Days of Solidarity, July 7-10! Help save the farm! For the campesinos who depend on their land for sustenence, and for the future of small farms everywhere!

CALL TO ACTION

Support the South Central Farmers!

Save the South Central Farm & Support Small Farms Worldwide!

South Central Farm International Solidarity Days

July 7-10

“You are never strong enough that you don't need help.”

- Cesar Chavez

Call to Action:

Join the South Central Farm International Solidarity Days to defend the rights of small farmers so they may continue to live and farm with dignity while producing a healthier, safer community for all! We will be raising awareness for the small farming movement and its critical place in the green/environmental landscape with special attention paid to urban farms, family farms, global environmental justice, food security, and green development.

The Struggle Continues!

Although 350 family farmers were evicted from the 14 acre South Central Farm on June 13 the movement to protect this community grows each day. We are now gearing up for a July 12 court date that will set the wheels of justice in motion and challenge the legality of the sale of the farm. We are raising global awareness for our cause – and for the cause of social justice worldwide. Join the international social network committed to justice for people and the planet.

Host a Solidarity Event in Your Community!

Join in solidarity with L.A.’s South Central Farmers and their supporters from Friday July 7 to Monday July 10. We are asking you, our global allies, to host an event in your community on one of these four days. The city hubs will be Los Angeles and Oakland, CA.

Solidarity Events are a way for YOU to make a difference now!

Host an event in your community and raise awareness about the South Central Farmers and the ‘Little Farm that Could.’ Together we are activating the global movement for food security, urban and small family farms, and environmental justice.

What to do:

1. If you do only one act of solidarity, then call or e-mail L.A. City Council Woman Jan Perry. Ask Ms. Perry to work with the people of Los Angeles and broker a win-win deal for the farmers, the land developer and the city. Implore her to help negotiate the sale the land to the farmers. Councilwoman.Perry@lacity.org, or jan.perry@lacity.org and telephone here (213)-473-7009.

2. Organize a local rally, prayer vigil or parade.

3. Print flyers from our Web site and distribute at supermarkets, farmers markets, Church or temple

4. Protest in front of your local City Hall or Supreme Court to let authorities know that feeding families with fresh, organic, affordable produce is a basic human right

5. Wear a green ribbon or green t-shirt

We encourage local creativity that is respectful and nonviolent.

Register your local event with us! Please, it will help us track our support worldwide.

For more information, go to Southcentralfarmers.com, and southcentralfarmers.org

The Struggle Continues! La Lucha Sigue!

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Fourth of July Flag Burn

2006-07-04T00:09:46Z

Hello East Bay Comrades! This fourth of july, instead of celebrating a holiday that is loaded with American nationalism, let's take the opportunity to organize locally to have a celebration of our own. This is a chance to unite and show our "representatives" that they do not speak for us and we won't celebrate our countries freedom when it takes so much freedom from us and others. I'm going to need help organizing (finding a good spot that will get attention, making posters, flyers, getting the word out all that good stuff) Remember, this is not JUST a flag burning it's a chance for us to meet up, have some fun and let people know we're out there and we're active. Email me at ClassWarMolotov@gmail.com. Let's get the media's attention on this and get it as big as we can.

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Action of the Day

2006-06-11T22:52:36Z

Post your own and let's create a list of creativity

ACTION 30: Bring Your Own Security

WHENEVER MAJOR politicians come to town, they bring their own security, which makes it difficult for activists to get close enough to ask questions, engage them in a conversation (with a puppet?), or offer them a big cheque for services (not) rendered. So the trick is to bring along your own security personnel.
We did this in 2001 when the federal Liberal Party held a convention in Edmonton. The main item on the agenda was planning for the following year’s G8 summit, to be held in Kananaskis, Alberta. The delegates included the prime minister. Three of us drove to the Mayfield Convention Centre in a 1980 Toyota Corolla hatchback. When we emerged from the car we were in complete security apparel: a suit, dark sunglasses, shiny shoes, and a fake earpiece. We had also brought along a safety vest, which we left in the car for the second half of the action.
Leaving one person outside, two of us walked into the centre and positioned ourselves on either side of the main door. For some reason—perhaps due to the large security presence, bad communication, simple ineptitude, or because we really played our roles well—we didn’t arouse suspicion, at least at first.
We started by nodding at the delegates as they passed, periodically fingering our fake earpieces. As we began to feel comfortable we were able to stop delegates, pull them aside—we even frisked one—and give them information on the G8. After what seemed a long while we noticed a bit of a buzz going around about our legitimacy, and we knew it was only a matter of time before our cover would be blown and we would be removed. We escalated our action, asking delegates to declare any weapons of mass destruction and leave their terrorist legislation at the door. We did this only after we knew the media was watching; otherwise it could have been dangerous to our safety. As delegates passed we said, “Please proceed in, the other terrorists are already inside.”
The scene lasted only a few minutes longer before we were escorted out. Before we left, we made a final statement about the so-called “anti-terrorism” legislation that had been passed in the wake of 9/11.
Once outside, we went back to the car, put on our safety vests, and proceeded onto the street to guide traffic, at first diverting vehicles around the building and then simply getting them to slow down so we could give them information. We were able to do this throughout the day and eventually gave out over a hundred pamphlets about the G8.

A variation: big brother. For your own public forums, events, and rallies, bring your own security. In Edmonton, for instance, at public debates, rallies, and events protesting legislation that would pave the way for private, for-profit health care in the province, two activists dressed up as security personnel with the words “Big Brother” printed on the backs of their jackets, and then wandered around amongst the crowd. This small action effectively pointed out an emerging security culture.

Why bring your own security?
People have a strange attachment to listening to security guards or anyone with the veil of authority. Depending on the degree of your acceptance, pretending to be a security guard can allow you to gain ground on the establishment. If you are accepted by security authorities, what you can do is pretty wide open: you can stop delegates, enter the meeting, frisk people, stop vehicles.
The problem is that when you are discovered—and you will be discovered unless you get in and out very quickly—security personnel don’t take kindly to people impersonating them, and they may treat you rudely (to say the least) if you don’t have protection; and by protection, I don’t mean Mace or a Taser stun gun, I mean the media. For this action you need to know where the cameras are and position yourself accordingly. Then you can get your message out when the time comes, and you will also ensure that you are not manhandled in the process.
It is also important that you leave the premises as soon as you are asked—but not before you get your message out to the media. You don’t want to get charged for an offence, and if you leave as soon as you are asked, that is less likely to happen.
If you are not accepted as legitimate security guards, your focus can shift to making fun of the police state surrounding political officials. Make your actions larger than life—just making it known that the prime minister has to be protected by an army of police officers should, in itself, raise alarm bells.

What you need
All you need for this action is some moxie and a security outfit. You need to act like you belong. The more you sweat, fidget, or feel like you are out of place the greater the risk that you will be caught. We are constantly being surprised about how far a little confidence will take us. Be friendly but stern. Try to act like the security guards you see protecting the president in movies, or mimic real-life examples.
For your outfit, a suit and tie from your local thrift shop can do the trick. Don’t go with a plaid or anything too strange—a nice solid black or dark blue is perfect. A big walkie-talkie can help give the illusion of legitimacy, especially if that is what the other security guards are carrying. An earpiece is a must—mostly just for the humour of it all. You can get one by buying the “undercover officer” kit at your local toy store. The kit will give you most of the gadgets you need for the operation.
You should also plan the message you want to deliver after you are discovered, and have some information ready to give to the press or any other individuals about what you are doing and why you are there. Solid, critical information is always key to a good action.

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Oly Port: 3 long days of Iraq war blockades, lots of arrests.

2006-05-26T03:43:17Z

Oly Port: 3 long days of Iraq war blockades, lots of arrests.

The military is shipping weaponry to Iraq through the Olympia port and for 3 days in a row the road to

the port has been periodically shut down by multiple direct actions from nearly 20 who have been arrested.

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Please spread the word!

--------> Do solidarity actions!

A link to a "photo gallery" on the Olympian website has some pretty dramatic

documentation of the rough treatment some protesters experienced at the

port today.

http://community.theolympian.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album430
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More photos and updates from today:

All nine people who were arrested for blocking the Stryker convoy have now been released from the city jail. There's a good set of photos from the action here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/94127337@N00/sets/72157594144335213/.

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Also an account of an activist who shut the port down on the first day!

I got a call from a comrade to go down to the Port of Olympia yesterday because Stryker convoys were making their way into our city. I sent out a call to action on a few list serves, made a sign, and grabbed my anarcho-syndicalist flag and headed down to the Port.

I walked around for quite some time between the observation tower and the Port entrance but couldn't find anyone aside from one protester who was just as lost as I was. I climbed on some higher ground and saw some military vehicles already driving in the inside of the Port. I jogged over to the entrance and stood there for only a few minutes. A few undercover police cars and regular police cars drove by and then a convoy came out of nowhere, speeding around the corner of Marine Drive. I let a few vehicles pass and an image of the lone rebel standing in front of the row of tanks at Tiananmen Square popped in my head. I felt that the only thing I could do at the time was the same as him.

The convoy of 10 or so vehicles came to a halt. I stared down the soldiers in the Stryker vehicle in front of me, saying nothing. I tried to imagine what would happen if we were in Baghdad and I was an Iraqi. I imagined what they would do then. I zigzagged around other vehicles in the convoy, looking at the other vehicles and the soldiers. Most of the soldiers I saw were faces of the modern military in the USA - Latinos, poor whites - victims of the poverty draft no doubt.

A cop car pulled up and two police grabbed me, brought me to the sidewalk and put me in cuffs. The convoy continued on its way and most of the soldiers just stared at me. The cops brought me to the city jail and booked me. One officer told me I had a right to protest, etc. but can't interfere in the way that I did. (Just a note to people: if you ever find yourself in a position like this, NEVER EVER GIVE INFORMATION TO POLICE. The more you say, the more they know. Even if it's just "friendly chat", it's really meant to extract information out of you. Of course, if you don't give them your name or give them a false name you could find yourself in more trouble.)

I was sent through pretty quick and was released. My arraignment is set for next week. I made my way back to the Port and ran into several people at the corner of Plum/East Bay Drive and Olympia Ave. Some folks from OMJP, CISPES, IWW, Olympia SDS and others were present. I ran into four people from Tacoma SDS too who came down to help. They all took part in blocking of vehicles too but weren't arrested because they were crossing crosswalks.

Police cars and undercover cars drove around the Port all day. Security officials at the Port were filming the protesters. A few convoys made their way through Olympia to the Port during the day and a number of trucks with military supplies. By the evening I counted a total of at least 50 shipping containers in the port and a few dozen vehicles. The Port is expecting a total of 300 vehicles this week to be put on the ship which will most likely arrive later this week. Some of the soldiers made belligerent and chauvinistic remarks and expressions, especially to the female protesters. Contrary to what The Olympian says, a total of 30 people or so throughout the day protested.

As dusk came, I realized the potential we as a community have to block these convoys and disrupt the war machine. I knew that my actions only slowed down the convoys momentarily but with enough people and enough will, we can send them packing. I kept on thinking back to the community's response to the Nazis coming to town in light of the community's response to the military coming through our port. As individuals, Nazis can be a threat but they pose no threat collectively to the balance of power in this country. As bad as they are, they are not sending weapons and armaments through our port to Iraq. They are not building detention centers, prisons and internment camps across the USA. They are not invading other countries, killing 100,000s in the process and destroying their culture. As a community, we need to reevaluate our focus in the social justice movement.

People will be down at the Port all day today, Tuesday, trying to throw a wrench in the gears of the war machine. People's lives are on the line in Iraq and we need to save them. An injury to one is an injury to all.

hope to see you at the port. folks will either be at the observation tower, the entrance to the port or the corner of Plum/East Bay and Olympia. Struggle on and listen to FRO 98.5 for updates.

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LOWER GAS PRICES - PUMP JACK

2006-05-01T23:15:15Z

PUMP JACK

YOU HAVE HEARD ALL THE REASONS OIL COMPANIES OFFER TO EXPLAIN THEIR HIGH PRICES.
YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THEIR RECORD PROFITS IN RECENT QUARTERLY REPORTS.

YOU HAVE BEEN JACKED LONG ENOUGH.

THERE IS A SIMPLE EFFORTLESS SOLUTION TO SOLVE THIS DISTURBING PROBLEM.

BY NOT PURCHASEING GAS FROM A FEW MAJOR COMPANIES FOR 10 SCHEDULED DAYS EACH MONTH AND BUYING GAS AS YOU USUALLY WOULD FROM OTHER COMPANIES WILL CUT THOSE COMPANIES PROFITS BY ONE THIRD. THIS SUBSTANTICAL LOSS IN THEIR PROFITS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE REFUSE TO PAY THEIR GROSSLY UNFAIR PRICES WILL MAKE CERTAIN THAT THESE OIL COMPANIES UNDERSTAND THAT THE PEOPLE ARE NOT POWERLESS. THE SUCCESS OF THIS SIMPLE SOLUTION DEPENDS ON YOU JOINING THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS FED UP WITH BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AND HAVE NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES TO STOP THE GREED THAT IS CRIPPLEING THEIR FREEDOM.

YOUR CARING IS THE SOLUTION.

>>>IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO MORE, HERE ARE A FEW IDEAS/SUGGESTIONS<<<
>CALL, EMAIL, WRITE, AND/OR VISIT RADIO STATIONS, NEWSPAPERS, ANY AND ALL PUBLICATIONS OR
COMMUNICATIONS AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS SOLUTION.
>REPRODUCE THIS AS A FLYER AND CIRCULATE IT. PLEASE BE SURE TO ENCLUDE ALL OF ITS
CONTENTS EXACTLY AS IS INCLUDEING THE TITLE 'PUMP JACK' AND LOGO.
>EMAIL THE ADDRESSES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS FLYER WITH THE SUBJECT TITLED "EMAIL REQUEST"
AND AN EMAIL VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU, YOU CAN THEN FORWARD THAT EMAIL TO
FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND POST IT ON WEBSITES TO SPREAD THE WORD.
>EMAIL THE ADDRESSES LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST WITH THE SUBJECT TITLED "SIGNS"
AND SIGNS YOU CAN PRINT OUT FOR YOUR CAR WINDOWS/ HOME/ DOOR WAY/ ETC WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU TO PRINT OUT AND POST.
>PROTEST OUTSIDE OF THE GAS STATIONS BEING BOYCOTTED DURING THAT TIME IN ORDER TO INFORM OTHERS.
HAND OUT COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE TO PEOPLE ENTERING THE GAS STATION.
EMAIL - PUMPJACKMAIL@AOL.COM, PUMPJACKMAIL@MAIL.COM, WRITEPUMPJACK@HOTMAIL.COM

COPY / CUT OUT THIS PORTION OF THIS MESSAGE AND TAPE IT UP IN YOUR CAR
PURCHASE GAS ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY TIME FRAMES

1st - 10th OF EACH MONTH---DO NOT PURCHASE GAS FROM
EXXON, MOBIL, VALERO, MARATHON, DIAMOND SHAMROCK, ULTRAMAR, SHAMROCK, BEACON, PILOT, SUPER AMERICA, OR SPEEDWAY

11th - 20TH OF EACH MONTH---DO NOT PURCHASE GAS FROM
SHELL, CHEVRON, TEXACO, CALTEX, UNION, UNOCAL

21st - LAST DAY OF EACH MONTH---DO NOT PURCHASE GAS FROM
BP, CONOCO, PHILLIPS 66, 76, HESS, SOHIO, ARCO, AM PM, CIRCLE K, ALCO, TOSCO

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Fight HB213! Fight the Green Scare!!

2006-05-01T19:17:33Z

Fight HB213! Fight the Green Scare!!

More on HB213, and the Green Scare
Gov. Rendell Meets With Anarchist Black Cross about HB213
***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY***

Gov. Rendell Meets With Anarchist Black Cross

On Friday April 7th, about 25 people joined with organizers of the
Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross in front of Governor Ed Rendell's
office to voice their opposition to HB213. This bill will label anyone a
"terrorist" who engages in civil disobedience against institutions that harm the earth or animals, and carry with it a 40 year jail sentence and/or $100,000 fine. It is designed to crush the environmental and animal rights movements, as similar tactics would not receive the same charge if waged against an abortion clinic.

After an hour of handbilling the Broad Street rush-hour traffic, two
spokespeople were invited to Governor Rendell's office to speak with him personally about the law. At the meeting, the Governor said that he had not heard of or read the bill he is scheduled to sign. When our people read it to him, he said he had strong reservations about it. He also said that if the Anarchist Black Cross drafted an analysis of HB213, he would consider it while making his decision on whether or not to sign the bill.

We are in the process of writing this analysis with lawyers, and will fax it to the Governor promptly.

We feel that this meeting is a very positive step in bringing down HB213, but we cannot ease up until the law has been totally defeated.

We are calling on all concerned citizens to CALL GOVERNOR RENDELL several times per day within the next week. Remind him that he hates this criminal move by the PA House and Senate as much as we do!

Here are the phone numbers for all of his offices:

Philadelphia: 215-560-2640
Scranton: 570-614-2090
Erie: 814-878-5719
Pittsburgh: 412-565-5700

The text of the bill is available online at:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2005/0/HB0213P3115.HTM

This law is part of a campaign being waged by all levels of government against the environmental and animal rights movements. The FBI has named this campaign Operation Backfire; those of us who know better are calling it the Green Scare, like the Red Scare which once targeted communists. To read more about the Green Scare, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

If you would like to receive updates on or help organize resistance to the Green Scare, please send an email to philly_abc@riseup.net. Be in Philly on June 9-11 for a whole Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare.

NO MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS!! FREE EM ALL!!

Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross

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George Bush in Sacramento on Saturday

2006-04-19T17:59:31Z

Saturday, April 22, 2 PM
Tell George Bush to End Our Addiction to Oil
Sacramento on Earth Day!
CA Fuel Cell Partnership
3300 Industrial Blvd, West Sacramento

George Bush is making this special visit to Sacramento on Earth Day to pretend that he supports alternatives to the US addiction to oil. Meanwhile, the Bush administration is waging a war for oil in Iraq, has blocked the Kyoto Protocol, and continues to push for oil drilling in the Arctic, among other affronts to the planet.

Let's show up to tell him in person that we need REAL alternatives on Earth Day – an end to resource wars, higher government fuel-efficiency standards, an end to corporate subsidies for oil and gas companies that are making record profits, and real incentives for clean car technologies like plug-in hybrids, biodiesel and electric cars that are available today.

Sponsored by CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Global Exchange and others.

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USA: becoming a fascist Country!!!

2006-04-15T06:52:12Z

Canada sounds pretty safe right about now.

Dang, what a mess. The Big Bankers are doing their job huh, to rule the world?

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root has been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security for construction of detention and processing facilities to be made ready in the event of a national emergency. Brown and Root has been part of the Skull and Bones nexus since its inception at the turn of last century. Like Halliburton, it has grown fat on blood-money gleaned through decades of perpetual war, including the present conflagration in the Middle East.

If the fascists batten down totalitarian power domestically, Kellogg, Brown and Root will likely profit immensely from the erection and maintenance of such prison camps expected to dot the land of the free if the fascists launch a military takeover.

Homeland Security camps could be bulging at the seams overnight when the U.S. falls under "emergency" military rule. Indeed, the foregoing shows the Bush administration is preparing for this eventuality. The U.S. already has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. During martial law, when no one is free to move around at will, just about EVERYONE is under a form of "house" arrest. Americans got a taste of this grim future when, during the 2004 Republican National Convention protests when 1,806 demonstrators were rounded up, imprisoned without charges and kept in filthy conditions for 24 hours or more.

The Real ID Act passed by Congress in December 2005 completely solidified Ellison’s ID plan. This new law establishes a massive, centrally-coordinated federal ID database. It forces all 50 states to spend millions of dollars to update their equipment so that by 2008, all holders of U.S. drivers licenses and state licensed ID cards will have their biometric data and other personal information fed directly into the national data base. Congressman Paul says the new ID cards will likely contain radio frequency identification tracking technology that can be read by scanners at a distance, allowing the governments of U.S., Canada and Mexico to quickly locate any card-bearing American.

National ID cards are only the beginning. America’s fascist police state is demonstrably anxious to ensure that each citizen have his identification number permanently attached to his body. For many years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been working with private corporations and covens of scientists from Princeton University and other enclaves to develop subdermal radio frequency devices that can be injected under the skin of humans for identification purposes. Syringe implantable ID transponders were readied years ago, as illustrated by the prototype fully developed in 1995 by CIA-connected Hughes Aircraft Company.

While many European nations are also setting up electronic identity systems as a foundation for future ID chip implants, it is especially pertinent that ADS has been given a prestigious award for its sinister implant technology by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

WEF is a clique of wealthy corporate and political elitists who dictate global agendas. One of its most famous members is Bill Gates of Microsoft. Gates travels the world spending millions to promote injections for people of Third World nations. ID microchip implants are the mother of all injections. Microsoft recently patented a way to use human skin as a power conduit for electronic devices.

Another is the VeriPay device which carries financial information and is scanned like a debit card. People in Europe are now being implanted with VeriPay chips in order to enter bars and nightclubs.

So far, these kinds of chips are passive. That is, they don’t beam information continuously. Their transponders have to be awakened by a reader. These chips and their scanners pass kilohertz radio-frequency signals back and forth through the skin. The first step to inducing public acceptance of these ID chips, said San Francisco Gate columnist Mark Morford, is getting the public to accept chip implants as beneficial for health. The next step is to make it all fun and commercial and convenient. The third step is "whatever the hell they want."

As injectable ID chips come on line, Homeland Security is paying numerous corporations to develop a national network of object-mounted wireless sensors that will be able to read implanted human chips.

In the Homeland Security state, microchip implants of various kinds will likely become as common as cell phones. Eventually, citizens who refuse to accept identification chips may be denied access to services and benefits by heel-clickers supervising the national ID system. And thus we see how cleverly Americans are being manipulated into this crucible by killers in the White House, and by the most corrupt Congress in history and by the amoral, money-grubbing corporate megalith they all rode in on. In the name of national security and public health—millions of non-discerning citizens will allow themselves to be micro-chipped like dogs, tracked by satellite and stripped of all privacy as they become the virtual slaves of a techno-tyrannical surveillance state.

If we want to know what USA will be like in the near future, we need only look at Tony Blair’s Great Britain—surely the most advanced police state in Europe:

• ID cards with facial scans will soon be compulsory throughout U.K.

• There are over 4 million closed circuit cameras monitoring every move the British people make and all faces caught on camera can be matched with a national data bank.

• British police are carrying hand held DNA kits linked to national data bases for when they test saliva.

• People are being pulled off London trains at random and forced to submit to a full body backscatter X-ray to reveal what they have under their clothes.

• Swipe cards used for transportation and building entry allow police to plot a citizen’s every move on a dot map.

• All moving vehicles in Britain are camera-recorded so that police can analyze, by license number, every journey, and every gas purchase made.

• People and vehicles are being tracked from cell towers with a new technology called "Celldar" (as in radar).

• The British people are reporting grave illnesses from their exposure to thousands of microwave transmitters which make this metastasizing surveillance nightmare possible.

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20060201.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12121.htm

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A call for all Guerilla Artists

2006-04-11T22:36:55Z

Please pass on and spread the following information:

Graf writers, Taggers, and all Street Artists,

As you may have all seen, on TV or in person, a Movement against Anti-Immigration has been sweeping the USA. Around the world a new Workers Movement has sprung up. In Mexico, Farmers are fighting Government developers. Thousands of Workers in Spain demonstrated against proposed Labour Laws. A Million in the UK protest against new laws affecting workers Pensions. For several weeks, and to this day, Millions of young people in France are fighting in the streets for their Worker's Rights. Thousands in Nepal are fighting and dying for theirs. But in the US it is considered an Immigration issue. But in reality, it is more than that. The Immigration issue is also a Worker's Movement. People Immigrate to the US to make a better life for themselves, to feed their families, and to live in Dignity. People of Immigrant heritage make up the majority of the Workers in America.

May 1st is MAY DAY. The International Day of the Worker. All over the world, work stops for Workers to celebrate. But here in the US it is not recognized. But May Day was originally created from a Workers Movement here in the US. Unlike the previous demonstrations and protests, this time the American Media is not allowing it any attention. In the US, several groups are pushing for a General Strike, a Day Without Immigrants. But we still need to get the word out.

As a son of an Immigrant and as one that enjoys Art of all types - Especially Street Art, I would like to make a proposal. I'm asking all Graffiti Artists, Taggers and Writers, to show their solidarity with the Immigration and Workers Movement by adding Unete/Join Us, 1 de Mayo, May 1st, or anything similar, to all their pieces in the up-coming weeks leading up to May Day. We need your help getting the message out to the masses. We're all aware of the impact seeing Graffiti, Paste-ups, etc. in the oddest & dangerous locations throughout the city. If every wall or every pillar in every city had an image and the words, MAY DAY, or MAY 1st, it would inspire every Worker in the Country. It would let them know they aren't alone. It would ease some of the fear of reprecussions of walking off their jobs on May 1st.

If every worker, in the country, whether they are truck drivers, bell boys, exotic dancers, waiters, tellers, teachers, clerks, roofers, plumbers, etc., walked off their jobs on May 1st, it would remind their bosses, their city, their state and their country that they MOVE THE WORLD.

We RUN the machines. We can SHUT them DOWN.

Unete! 1ro de Mayo!
Join Us! May 1st!

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the world as ONE organism

2006-04-11T18:01:17Z

There is a tribe called Superorganism, basicaly, a bunch of philosophers and aspiring world dictators are getting together and organizing the way the world will be run. I wanted to come by and invite all of you to Join the tribe and join in the co-creation, I think exactly what the discussion needs is a good shaking up by some crimethincers.

so here it is, Superorganism http://tribes.tribe.net/superorganism

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Please help

2006-04-08T02:27:22Z

please go to this website to send a fax to the related US
congress and senate members to Request a Congressional Hearing on the
Sujiatun case. it's a very easy to Fill out form, With just a click, the fax will be sent.
thank you,
joshua

here is the link:
http://publicpetition.unvcc.com/UN/index.php

there is more information about Sujiatun on the website:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/211,111,,1.html

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Astrological forecast for the new age...

2006-04-07T07:31:50Z

www.astrology.chaosmagic.com

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fwd> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Detourned menu !

2006-04-07T03:04:19Z

heya jammers ,

looks like a killer show coming to the lab gallery in SF next fall,
and you can still submit yur Troublemakin' .
read below.

rumor has it Nato Thompson will be coming out for it...
curator of The Interventionist show at Boston MoCa awhile back.
and contributor to :
www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/

read his kick ass articles posted there
from journal 3 and #4 ( current) !!
btw : hardcopy available at Modern Times Books in la Mission
... cheap + worth every penny !

jam On,
podp

fwd>>

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Détourned Menu: Food in the Form of Activism

Détourned Menu presents a collection of artists who perceive their work as tactical treats, ones that are used to infiltrate contemporary visual culture.

By providing food for thought, as well as something to fill one’s belly, these artists produce work that disrupts the visual and spatial codes of everyday life. The subversive concoctions created for Détourned Menu will demonstrate how food consumption is saturated with additional dimensions of meaning that can be understood as stemming variously from economic, social, ethical, ceremonial, fetishistic or gluttonous concerns ... ideas that move beyond the notion of eating just for survival.

These complex relationships infuse what we choose to eat with political connotations, and the edible provocations thus presented can be understood as being prepared in the spirit of the Situationist term “détournement”, which in translation simply means a “diversion,” hijack - or quite simply to turn a pre-existing meaning on it’s head.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 10th, 2006

ALL genres and media accepted.

– If you plan on submitting a performance there must be visual documentation that can be shown within the gallery space
– In need of more 2D work

Exhibition scheduled for October 20th 2006 at The LAB in San Francisco.

Send:
– 35mm slides (no more than 10), DVD, audio CD, or CDROM
(max file size 1MB. Jpg, gif or png accepted– no more than 10 images per artist)
– Related info (artist bio, statement, CV and contact info)
– Self-addressed stamped envelope (optional for return of materials) to:

ATTN: Brianna Toth
The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA

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fiction recommendations

2006-04-05T00:36:42Z

can anyone recommend some good fiction anarchist literature (non-zine please.. i'm zined out) maybe something that has stood the test of time a little.

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Wayward Eco Prisoner Bennefit Dinner This Monday April 4

2006-03-30T16:41:43Z

Please join us for a full five course , Mexican themed meal. This monday April 3rd. We will be serving soup, salad, an appetizer, entree', dessert and refreshments. All proceeds from this meal will be donated to aid in the legal defense and jail support of those detained as a result of the recnt wave of arrests centering around environmental activism.
$20-$30 sliding scale. Seatings Available at 6pm or 8pm.

Limited Seating AVailable, reservations suggested.
For more information or to RSVP please call the Wayward at 524-0204
WAYWARD CAFE'- 901 NE 55TH- UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SEATTLE

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hmmmnn... Bush feels really sneaky as he purports to support: Its a revolution, get on board!

2006-03-26T03:40:58Z

Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060326/ap_on_re_us/immigration_rallies

This article is making it seem like Bush is on the side of the protesters. There is this "Its a revolution, get on board" advertizing that is being seen everywhere in Yahoo and on the News right now....curious enough... the revolution is being supported by media???? I wonder how much this is Bush trying to get more POLLS support now.... I mean on every News item there is this advertizing (Video short) saying that "Its a revolution, get on board!" Coincidently after ALL the major protests against the War in Iraq....?????

hmmmnnn.....

What do you all think?

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New Witness Confirms Existence of Chinese Concentration Camp, Says Organs Removed from Live Prisoners

2006-03-18T04:49:15Z

Please help to end this horrible persectuion. knowledge is our greatest weapon, so please share this information. together in peace we can make a difference.

Falun Dafa is a peaceful meditation practice that teaches putting others before yourself, kindness, always telling the truth and being tolerant of others. We are literally being killed for being good people. The national media has done very little to help us because of trade issues with China. It is up to us to let the world know. Please help us.

By Ji Da
The Epoch Times Mar 17, 2006
www.theepochtimes.com

The witness, a former employee at the Liaoning Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and says the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners are cremated immediately after the organs are removed. (The Epoch Times)
[High-resolution image ] A former employee of Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine told The Epoch Times during a recent interview that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in China was actually a part of a hospital. The concentration camp has engaged in taking organs from Falun Gong practitioners when they were still alive and selling the organs. Since 2001, the concentration camp has secretly detained approximately 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners, none of whom have been able to leave the camp alive. The hospital removed many kidneys, livers, and corneas from the practitioners. After the organ removal, the practitioners were thrown into an incinerator, which was converted from a boiler. Their ashes were dumped together with burned charcoal.

Organs from Three Quarters of the 6,000 People Were Removed
Those whose organs were removed were in various states of health. Because many of the victims were illegally detained, there was neither an arrest warrant nor identification as to who these people actually were. Often after their organs were removed, nobody claimed the bodies. Sometimes their bodies were picked up by crooks who pretended to be their family members.

About three-quarters of the 6,000 people died after their hearts, kidneys, corneas, or skin was removed; their bodies were then burned. This witness, whose family member participated in the removal of Falun Gong practitioners' organs, said that approximately 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners remain in the hospital. She was afraid that the authorities would kill all of them to destroy evidence.

The Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine is located at 49 Xuesong Road, Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China. It was the first hospital in China to specialize in the heart, the brain, and surrounding blood vessels. The hospital is composed of several organizations, including the Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine College Teaching Hospital and the Shenyang Thrombosis Treatment Center.

Concentration Camp Details
The hospital site is 21,087 square meters, with 17,564 square meters of building area. It employs 460 people in 24 departments and 20 specialized offices. Information from the Chinese government shows that the hospital was established in December 1988, and was formerly named the Shenyang Research Institute of Thrombosis and Liaoning Province Thrombosis Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. In June 1998, it was renamed China Traditional Medicine Thrombosis Treatment Center.

The Chinese Business Morning View said in a story on July 4, 2004, that a farm worker died of abnormal causes in Sujiatun, Shenyang and was later cremated. The death certificate was provided by the Chinese Medicine Thrombosis Treatment Center in Sujiatun. The news caused a stir in China.

Epoch Times: Did the hospital's medical staff inside the concentration camp know about this?

Answer: This hospital has a small number of officials and some doctors involved secretively in the operation of organ harvesting. Some other staff in the hospital knew about this, but this is absolutely a taboo [to talk about]. They all are afraid of being killed or courting trouble, so they all avoid the issue. Only those highly trusted doctors could be chosen to be the surgeons for organ harvesting operations.

ET: Were Falun Gong practitioners alive when their organs were harvested? Did their families know about this?

Answer: Falun Gong practitioners who were imprisoned there came mostly from Dabei Prison, Masanjia Labor Camp, and other prisons in Shenyang, or they were Falun Gong practitioners arrested in parks or residential homes. Because they refused to denounce Falun Gong, they were arrested without formal warrants, and their families did not know their situation. Many did not even have their names [recorded]. In addition, since the Chinese authority exercises a policy of "not being responsible" for killing Falun Gong practitioners, the death of Falun Gong practitioners is not a very big issue for prisons. The Chinese Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong, [but] these medical personnel were told Falun Gong practitioners were facing death because they killed people, or they were sentenced to death because of crimes, or they had become insane from practicing Falun Gong.

Those Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were harvested came from several types.

Organs harvested from live bodies are worth far more than organs taken from dead bodies. Many Falun Gong practitioners were still alive when their organs were taken. After their organs were cut out, some of these people were thrown directly into the crematorium to be burnt, thus leaving no evidence. For some others, after their organs were stolen, the doctor sewed up the wound and asked the family or family representative to give a signature for cremation. Family members did not know at all that the dead had their organs taken out.

Furthermore, there were some healthy Falun Gong practitioners in prisons in other areas who were injected—without their knowledge—with psychoactive drugs that made their minds confused. They then were transferred to Sujiantun concentration camp to suffer further torture, till in the end their organs were harvested and their bodies were cremated in secret.

Among the Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were harvested, some were weak and some were healthy. Since most of them were illegally arrested, there were no arrest warrants or identification cards. After their organs were taken out while they were still alive, no one came to claim their bodies; or [sometimes] people using fake identities claimed their bodies.

None of these people have come out [of the concentration camp] alive; three-quarters of these 6,000 people have died, having their hearts, kidneys, retinas, and skins harvested and their bodies disposed of. I think now about 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners are still in this hospital, and I am afraid now that the authority will destroy all evidence and kill them.

Question: How did you know these things? Were you yourself a doctor involved in organ harvesting?

Answer: I worked at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenyang. This is exactly where this concentration camp is located. One of my family members was involved in the operation to harvest Falun Gong practitioners' organs. This has brought great pain to our family.

Question: Please tell us what you knew about.

Answer: From 2001, our hospital started to detain Falun Gong practitioners. At the beginning, these people were detained in the single-storey houses in the back yard of the hospital. Later, the hospital authorities demolished the single-storey houses, and it was unknown where in the hospital the Falun Gong practitioners were transferred. Many staff of the hospital discussed in private that these Falun Gong practitioners had been secretly transferred to the underground chambers of the hospital. According to some people working inside the hospital, the hospital has a huge system of secret underground chambers.

At the time when we went to work there, the person in charge of logistics and purchasing in the hospital said that the quantity of disposable sterile gloves used for operations and daily supplies that the hospital authorities asked to be purchased had increased dramatically. The logistics people estimated based on the scale of purchases at that time that there were at least 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners detained in this hospital.

These Falun Gong practitioners were not detained in the 4-story building under the in-patient department and administration at the front of the hospital, in order to keep the hospital staff from seeing them at all. We only occasionally saw Falun Gong practitioners being sent on a mobile intensive care bed to the first floor for physical examinations. These people were very weak. For the majority of the Falun Gong practitioners, nobody knew where they were being secretly kept. While they still did not know where these people were kept, some staff inquired to the hospital authorities about why so much food and so many sterile gloves and daily supplies were purchased. The hospital authorities said, "You only need to do your job well. There is no need for you to ask any other questions."

Starting in 2001, a family member of mine participated in organ-harvesting operations. My family member tried to keep me from knowing about this at the beginning. The hospital authorities selected doctors they trust in different aspects to perform the secretive operations. After a period of time, I found that my family member was in a lot pain, often had nightmares, and appeared panic-stricken. After repeated inquiries, this family member told me the truth. The leader of the hospital had asked my family member to participate in the organ harvesting operations on Falun Gong practitioners as early as 2001. It was 2003 when my family member confessed. A few years after, my family member felt so much pain from participating in this incident that it was impossible to continue with the evildoing. My family member decided to go abroad to get away from this matter.

My family member also told me: "you don't understand my suffering; those Falun Gong practitioners were alive. It might be easier for me if they were dead, but they were alive."

Question: Were there any other doctors from the hospital taking part in the operations of cutting out Falun Gong practitioners' organs?

Answer: I know there were some. All these things have been carried out secretly. Many doctors at our hospital involved were practicum doctors transferred from other hospitals. Because the government does not want to be responsible for Falun Gong practitioners' bodies and lives, their lives are treated as garbage by the regime, and their bodies were used in experiments by new doctors doing their practitcums.

Many doctors came and left the hospital because they suffered a lot after having been involved in these kinds of things. They either requested to be transferred to other places, or changed their names. Some might have been killed to eliminate the evidence, their identity files were taken out from the hospital's filing system, or their names were changed. Nobody knows where the doctors have gone.

The hospital staff all know that the rear part of the hospital is forbidden. It is always watched. The staff avoids talking about the place.

Question: It is said the hospital is equipped with an incinerator. The person whose organs were removed will be burned when he or she is still alive. Is that true?

Answer: The employees in our hospital call this place "the incinerator." Actually, it is a boiler room. Some poor farmers from nearby places were hired to work in the boiler room. They were penniless when they first came here. But they could scrape up some watches, finger rings, necklaces, and so on. The amount is not small. It is said by the employees in the hospital these jewelry and watches were collected from the Falun Gong practitioners whose organs had been removed when they were about to be thrown in the boiler to be burned. It is also said by the employees in the hospital, some were still alive when being thrown into the boiler.

Question: Do they get injection of anesthetic when in surgery?

Answer: Yes. There is a cap to the anesthetic quantity used in mainland China's hospitals. Generally, the supply of anesthetic was determined according to the accommodation of the hospital. To the public, the number of patients in our care appears to be very small, and publicly reported number of surgical procedures performed is quite low. But the equipment and articles used in surgery are abundant. Because the amount of anesthetic is limited, these secret surgeries could not use the normal anesthetic doses. In order to save anesthetic, they economized on the anesthetic used in surgeries on these Falun Gong practitioners. The amount of anesthetic used was very small. However, many whose organs were removed were still alive. You can imagine the pain suffered by the Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were removed.

Question: Are there any survivors among the 6,000 people detained since 2001?

Answer: Nobody has come out alive. The number of them gets smaller and smaller. The Falun Gong practitioners detained at Sujiatun are fewer now than before. But I believe that the sin of removing the organs of the Falun Gong practitioners is still continuing.

Question: Where are these organs usually sold to? Do the higher authorities in the government know about this?

Answer: They are mainly sold to Thailand, but I believe they are also sold to other regions of the world. Nowadays, there are many patients in China who need human skin, corneas, and kidneys for organ transplant surgeries. Many patients have to wait in line to purchase organs. Currently, a kidney can be sold up to the price of 30,000 to 100,000 U.S. dollars. The profit from selling organs is simply too great. The people who benefit from this are not only the top leaders of hospital and the officials of the Chinese Communist Party's Heath Department. This is a crime present across the entire nation. People ranging from government officials to doctors to organ sellers are all involved in this and are profiting greatly.

Question: Why did they target Falun Gong practitioners as the source of organs?

Answer: Because relatives of many Falun Gong practitioners don't even know that their family members were arrested. So if the Falun Gong practitioners are killed, there will be no one to come and claim their dead bodies.

Question: Why did you want to expose this? This may bring great danger to you.

Answer: I know that there are many Falun Gong practitioners who are currently detained at the hospital. I would like to expose this to the international community, so those who are not yet killed can be saved. Also, I would like to expose this as an atonement for my family.

I am not a Falun Gong practitioner. But as a former staff member of the hospital, I have the responsibility to expose the truth, and let the world to save those Falun Gong practitioners who are still alive. Organs of some Falun Gong practitioners are still living on patients' bodies. I would like to call on all society to pay attention to this issue and stop this shocking crime.

you can find out how you can help at www.fofg.org

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FOSSIL FOOLS DAY

2006-03-10T18:34:07Z

IT'S COMING!!!

April 1st is the Third Annual Fossil Fools Day.

Register at:
http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Admitting you have a problem is always the first step in breaking an addiction. Luckily, Mr. Bush has taken that first step by admitting that America is addicted to oil. Unfortunately, Bush, Harper and scores of other politicians and corporate CEOs have stopped right there and are exhibiting the classic signs of an addict: denial, aggression, avoidance, and shifting the blame.

In fact, the very next day after Bush's State of the Union Address, in which he admitted our oil addiction, his energy secretary explained that when Mr. Bush pledged to reduce [oil] imports from the Middle East, "he didn't mean it literally."

It's time to STOP THE ADDICTION and on Saturday April 1st we hope you will join with thousands of activists around the world in the 3rd Annual Fossil Fools Day to do just that. Register at: http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Fossil Fools Day is a day where citizens unite to say no to the oil pushers and demand a break from our addiction to - an addiction that threatens our environment, our economy, our health, our sports, our workforce, and leads us into war and conflict around the world.

Global Exchange, Energy Action, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society and others are jumpstarting North America's to take action to push to real solutions that will kick our dirty habit and put us on a path to a clean energy future. And, concerned peaceful citizens are going to lead that charge!

Sign up today at http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Help us break our oil addiction on April 1st by making this year¹s Fossil Fools Day the largest and most successful international day of action against dirty energy so far. There are dozens of creative, fun, educational, and attention-getting ways you can get involved. See the list below and our website for ideas:

Contact Mike at 415 558 9490 or mike@globalexchange.org for more info.

What You Can Do:
Adopt a Ford Dealer Near You!
1 in 7 barrels of oil is consumed on America's highways alone. Oil consumption in the United States and Canada equals almost 3 gallons per day per capita--6 times the global average--and Ford Motor Company has the worst fuel economy in the auto industry. By enlisting local Ford dealers as allies, we can convince corporate decision makers that there is a demand for fuel-efficient and zero-emission vehicles putting a HUGE dent in our addiction to fossil fuels.
http://www.jumpstartford.com

Host an Intervention for a Fossil Fool/Oil Addict
Have a mock intervention for a regional, national or international Fossil Fool, or have an intervention for a local Fossil Fool--could be a person or an institution that needs to kick their fossil fuel addiction. Be creative & have fun! Find out if your representatives are receiving oil money and then confront them to break the addiction! Register your event, download an intervention guide & read about other creative events:
http://www.energyaction.net

Fight for Efficiency & Renewables on Your Campus or in Your Community!
You can launch a campaign in your community to green the vehicle fleets of your college, university, city or state. Pass a resolution and get your government –at any level- to replace those gas-guzzlers with cleaner, more efficient vehicles. You can also get your campus or community to place soft orders for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Plugging our cars into a grid powered by dirty energies like coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear is not a solution to our addiction, so we've got to clean up the grid, too. Push for efficiency and clean, renewable energy on your campus or in your community today! Find resources & register your action:
http://www.energyaction.net

Pass a Green Fleet Resolution On Your Campus or Community!
You can launch a campaign in your community to green the vehicle fleets of your university, city or state. Pass a resolution and get your government –at any level- to replace those gas-guzzlers with hybrid, electric, and bio-diesel vehicles. You can also get your campus or community to place soft orders for PHEV's which, is one of the best ways to show your commitment to fighting oil addiction. Download a Green Fleets action kit at http://jumpstartford.com/action/greenfleets_resolution/

Tell Ford to Stop Biggering
This year instead of building a fleet of PHEV's, or increasing its commitment to hybrids beyond 4%, Ford decided to increase the size of two of its already GARGANTUAN SUV's. The Expedition alone is increasing to a MONSTOROUS 19 ½ feet in length. Ford's willingness to BIGGER its' vehicles reminded us of the very telling story of the Onceler in Dr. Suess' "The Lorax". This Fossil Fools Day why not remind Ford what being addicted to "Thneads" - products we don't need like SUV's - means by holding a screening of the Lorax movie at your local dealer. If you don't have a projector stage a story time reading or dress up as your favorite character and deliver a copy to your local dealer. Remember "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lots, nothings going to change its just not." g

We need to stand up and show that we will be safer, healthier and wealthier with energy innovation! It's time to end our addiction to oil and push for a fossil fool free future.

Register at: http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

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YOUR IDEAS PLEASE

2006-03-03T20:14:12Z

I MET THIS GUY, 26, GAY, DRIVES A WHITE 96 DODGE DAKOTA, THE PASSENGER SIDE IS ALL FUCKED UP/BEAT IN

HE IS GOING TO HAVE ME PAINT THINGS ALL OVER IT, HE DOESNT HAVE MANY IDEAS, I TALKED ABOUT PAINTING "ROAD RAGE RASCAL" ON IT THE SIDE, WRITING 'MOVE IT MOTHER' BACKWARDS ON THE FRONT EDGE OF THE HOOD, THERE REALLY ISNT ANYTHING HE IS SHYING AWAY FROM OR SEEMS TO CONSIDER TOO MUCH, ANYTHING GOES, HE WANT PICTURES AND THINGS MOSTLY, YOUR IDEAS PLEASE......

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Some tribes against censorship

2006-01-25T21:59:32Z

tribes.tribe.net/purebeauty

http://tribes.tribe.net/nastyasspublictribe/

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Illegal BILLS = Fines.

2006-01-25T21:52:39Z

Stupid law, easily abused. So I say we use it to our favor and post bills all over our city on the behalf of our local Corporate establishments. Wouldn't it be great to see Starbucks or Nike ads all over constuction sites & telephone poles. It's not that we don't already see enough of it. THEN we call 311 (our non-emergency hot-line in LA, maybe your city too) and complain about them.

Of course these laws target street artists and garage bands. It's OK that corporations can plaster the side of a whole building with thier iPod ad. But have a poor street artist decorate the side of a building. oh no!

hypocracy at it's finest.

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Obscenity Prosecutions

2006-01-20T21:55:23Z

And this is why TRIBE is now censoring your civil rights....

Wave of Obscenity Prosecutions Leads to Closure and Self-Censorship of Websites

Contact:
Susan Wright, NCSF Spokesperson
(917) 848-6544

October 20, 2005
October 20, 2005 - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced that his office will specifically target "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions. The Department of Justice began recruiting in late July for a new anti-obscenity squad to pursue obscenity prosecutions, and the FBI announced in September that it was forming an anti-obscenity task force to crack down on pornography.

Any website that has content containing "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" should be forewarned that prosecution is possible. Additionally, Federal sentencing guidelines state that any obscenity- related punishment should be "enhanced for sadomasochistic material."

Forty people and businesses have been convicted of obscenity since 2001, and 20 additional indictments are pending according to Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. There were only four obscenity prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration.

Though adult content is, in theory, protected by the First Amendment, only a jury can determine if a work is obscene or not under the subjective set of standards that vary from one community to the next established in the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Miller v. California.

Text is not inherently more protected than images when it comes to obscenity charges. The erotic fiction website Red Rose Stories is facing obscenity charges after federal agents raided the owner's home on October 3rd, taking computer equipment and diskettes that contained all of their files and site information.

The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution. The owner of three SM websites, known as GrandPa DeSade, removed his websites from the Internet. SuicideGirls.com also announced they are self-censoring their materials over concerns about a possible obscenity crackdown.

Recent prosecutions of obscenity on websites include: A former police officer in Lakeland, Florida, was arrested on October 7th on over 300 obscenity-related charges for the sexual content posted on his website. The same day, webmaster Chris Wilson, owner of amateur website NowThatsFuckedUp.com, was raided on charges of obscenity by a local Sheriff s office.

"I think it's crucial for us to stand up for consensual sadomasochism and other alternative sexual practices," says Barbara Nitke, fetish photographer. "This is a battle worth fighting, and I hope everyone who can will just censor out the most provocative material from their websites, but keep them up. I also appeal to the lawyers in our community to help us find ways to keep people's websites up."

Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) have proactively challenged federal obscenity laws as applied to the Internet, arguing that obscenity laws based on "local community standards" are too vague and their existence burdens protected speech, resulting in self-censorship due to the fear of prosecution. A district court three-judge panel in New York ruled that while Nitke and the NCSF members were at risk, more proof was needed that obscenity laws cause otherwise protected speech to be restrained through acts of self-censorship. The case is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

"The effect of silencing alternative lifestyle speech was exactly why we brought the lawsuit," says attorney John Wirenius, lead counsel for NCSF. "The self- censorship we are seeing underscores the importance of supporting our ongoing obscenity challenge."

To contribute to the appeal of the CDA lawsuit, go to: www.ncsfreedom.org/donations.htm

Barbara Nitke - www.barbaranitke.com

###

A project of NCSF and the NCSF Foundation

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
410-539-4824
media@ncsfreedom.org
www.ncsfreedom.org

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ReclaimTheCommons.Net

2006-01-04T02:08:18Z

ReclaimTheCommons.Net
http://www.reclaimthecommons.net

New Sections:

Reclaim New Orleans!
GMOpposition 2006 Day of Action
"Energy Dissent" and the 2006 G8 Summit in Russia
a call to resistance from the tropics of south florida

Initially formed to oppose Bio 2004 (the world's largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical conference held at San Francisco CA in 2004), RECLAIM THE COMMONS has quickly grown from a single mobilization into an ongoing commitment to teach and demonstrate sustainable, life-affirming alternatives to biotechnology and corporate power in general: organic food, community gardens, water reclamation, urban transformation, a gift economy, and so much more. We do this hoping to inform, enrage, and inspire, as we spread the skills and tools we need to bring our vision of ecological democracy to fruition.

Build the Movement * Rewild the World * Reclaim the Commons!

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Bernard Baran

2005-12-29T18:33:11Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/BernardBaran

"It was because he was a homosexual that he was arrested, it was because he was a homosexual that he was judged, it was as a homosexual that he was sentenced, and it was because he was a homosexual that no one can invoke on his behalf the voice of justice and truth..."

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FIGHT CENSORSHIP

2005-12-12T04:38:04Z

PLEASE JOIN, LEARN/EDUCATE/CONTRIBUTE, FIGHT

http://tribes.tribe.net/d966a8ee-e3e7-44f3-981b-304f45b89dd4

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Invitation to Create a New Civilization

2005-12-10T06:18:33Z

from Oilwatch International (a network of civil society organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America)

[Published in November/December 2005, 25th Anniversary Issue of Earth First! Journal -- The Radical Environmental Journal]

Never before have the limits of the current development model based on hydrocarbons been seen so clearly. Never have the relationships between oil and the networks of power that control the world been so clearly understood. Never have the relationships between oil and the principal causes of misery which afflict humanity been so evident.

Behind the worst wars of the last century and the current,
Behind the waste of industrial, economic and financial resources,
Behind the instability and impoverishment of many nations,
Behind innumerable state coups, dictatorships and manipulations of democracy,
Behind the age-old exploitation of workers,
Behind the most dangerous chemical industries,
Behind the systematic extinction of uncountable indigenous peoples,
Behind the contamination of the world's fresh water, the water of the seven seas and the air of our cities,
Behind the accumulation of enormous amounts of chemical and plastic wastes,
Behind climate change that includes ever more extreme cyclones, floods and hurricanes,
Behind the appearance and manifestation of numerous degenerative illnesses and,
Behind the extinction of species on planet Earth,

Is Oil.

The 20th century was the century of poisoning and mass death of people and life all over the planet. This poisoning is the product not only of the wastes caused during extraction of oil, oil spills on land and sea and acid rain; it is also the consequence of agrochemicals, persistent pollutants, fuels, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, hospital wastes and other components produced from oil. These are being accumulated and dumped on the planet…and they are killing the Land.

We have suffered severe and repeated threats to the sovereignty of our nations due to wars and intrigues caused by oil. The large empires define their economic and military power in relation to their possibilities of obtaining secure access to their coveted black gold, in farflung regions around the globe.

The 20th century created, from its industrial oil bases, a culture founded on a pattern of of addictive energy and material consumption that has poisoned, sickened, crippled and killed hundreds of millions of people, while confronting and exterminating thousands of traditional communities, separating them from their healthy and ecological customs. Only a very few have managed to survive, in a way that is ever more one of isolation, impoverishment and defenselessness.

While this occurred, we have accepted these aggressions as separate nations or communities. Or worse still, we have fought among ourselves: inhabitants of one country against another, people from the North against those from the South, the urban poor against indigenous and peasant people, those ill from consumption against pacifists, those who propose against those who criticize...

Looking at each struggle from a distance, it is difficult not to see the profound connections between them.

The struggle to stay healthy and eat well, the fight for clean sources of energy, the fight for a sustainable and sovereign agriculture, the fight for decontamination and against global warming, the fight against transnational companies that expropriate and evaporate our natural resources, the fight for peace in the world...winning these fights depends to a great extent on our ability to jointly resist the oil industry and the civilization it sustains.

The crisis of the oil civilization has reached its climax. But the way forward to free ourselves from this crisis is hardly being carried out. To the contrary, our exit is delayed while the effects of this crisis increase in a manner which is ever more lethal. It seems evident that the transition into a new civilization requires the diffusion of alternative scientific and environmental technologies for sustainable energy systems -- as well as new economic, political, and cultural mechanisms that will allow the reconstruction of peace and equality among peoples, recover our health, restore our environment, absolve international debt, compensate for the pillaging of the countries of the South, and assure justice and true democracy everywhere.

For us, a clear path is shown by the fight of the peasant, fishing and indigenous communities that face a frontline battle against globalization and neoliberalism--defending their right to live on their lands with autonomy and without physical, cultural or environmental aggressions, even those that are considered "symbols of progress." But we need to listen to each other, so that we may imagine solutions that take into account, in a global form, the problems of us all.

Which are the organizations and networks that could start a positive collaboration in the fight against the oil civilization? Which are the most important local and global movements that we cannot ignore in our efforts? Which are the new initiatives that we could and should invent?

(To answer these and other questions, Oilwatch International is inviting sympathetic networks to participate in a joint dialogue of our struggles and launch a global Campaign against the civilization based on oil. We invite you to send your opinions, considerations and ideas that may help consolidate this concept, so that we can create a way forward together. Please send your comments to the International Secretariat of Oilwatch at tegantai@oilwatch.org.ec)

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anyone else have a crush on onyx?

2005-11-24T21:09:45Z

The most adorabal of the oly distro crew.

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Liberate Not Exterminate

2005-11-16T14:08:34Z

check this out:
http://dominantfiction.com/@city/@city.htm

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VIDEO: US used chemical weapons in Falluja

2005-11-14T06:39:49Z

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm

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Animal Extremists Face Travelling Ban

2005-11-03T02:30:01Z

Animal Extremists Face Travelling Ban

November 02, 2005 — By The Business, London

The UK is considering the use of restraining orders to stop the animal rights extremists who have been creating havoc for the pharmaceutical industry from travelling abroad.

The powers, to stop the UK "exporting" the problem, would be similar to those that are used to stop football hooligans and may take the form of anti-social behaviour orders.

Britain recently introduced tough new UK legislation that allows animal rights extremists to be prosecuted and jailed for causing economic damage. It was brought in as part of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act to crack down on animal rights extremists who have been terrorising scientists and other workers connected to animal experiments.

Huntingdon Life Sciences, the British-based company which conducts animal testing for pharmaceutical companies, was planning to list on the New York Stock exchange last September but the listing was pulled with no explanation just 45 minutes before its shares were due to begin trading. It is believed that extremists threatened some exchange staff. Last week the events surrounding Huntingdon in New York were the subject of a US senate committee hearing into "eco-terrorism".

The new legislation protects the suppliers and contractors of pharmaceutical companies as well as the companies themselves. The climate of fear created by extremists could be costing the UK £1bn (E1.47bn, $1.8bn), a year in lost investment while companies are having to pay tens of millions of pounds to guard buildings and staff.

The laws were enacted on 1 July this year. Since then, there have been several arrests and one charge for economic damage. If found guilty, those prosecuted under the act face up to five years in jail.

The success of the legislation has encouraged the government to look at using restraining orders to increase its ability to stamp out extremism.

BioIndustry Association (BIA) chief executive Aisling Burnand told The Business: "We can see the benefit of seeing some form of restraining order to stop these extremists travelling abroad."

Burnand believes the government is starting to win the fight against extremism and that the next year could be a turning point. She says the litmus test will be whether Huntingdon Life Sciences is able to resume functioning as a normal company, with its own banker and market maker.

Huntingdon's general counsel Mark Bibi told last week's Senate hearing it was clear the decision to pull the listing had been influenced by fear of protests by the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the animal extremist group. "It was patently clear to me that the only reason the stock exchange postponed our listing was because of concerns about the campaign," he told senators. He said the decision to postpone the company's listing at the last minute had badly affected its stock price.

* The biotech industry and the DTI have joined forces to examine how to improve funding for the sector over fears that UK companies could flee to America, taking the much-vaunted knowledge-based economy with them.

A policy paper setting out potential solutions is due out by Christmas, and will then be discussed by focus groups.

The BIA's Burnand told The Business: "We will be asking if the industry model is broken and whether it needs putting back together into a new model.

"The UK is world class in science. The issue is the amount of capital that the UK and European companies can raise. Companies can raise far more money in the US; we have to improve the environment in the UK," he added.

Seed funding for companies with early-stage products has been identified as one problem area. Burnand would also like to see the creation of a "Nasdaq Europe" so companies have access to the liquidity they require.

To see more of The Business, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.thebusinessonline.com.

Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

2005-11-01T23:58:16Z

People trying to escape slavery had many clues they could rely on to find out where "north" actually was. They knew moss usually grew on the north sides of trees. They also observed that migrating birds flew north in the summer.

One of the best clues they could use to find north was to locate the North Star. The North Star is also called Polaris. Unlike other stars, it never changes position. It always points to the north.

http://pathways.thinkport.org/secrets/gourd1.cfm

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View Movie Of New Tree-sit! Largest Ever! Oldgrowth Redwood Forest To Be Cut!

2005-10-19T08:29:01Z

View Movie Of New Treesit! Largest Ever! Oldgrowth Redwood Forest To Be Cut!
View Movie! www.wesavetrees.org/bonanza.htm

We Save Trees activists have risen up again! A treesit has been set up in a massive tree in the Bonanza THP near Scotia! In the middle of the night, friendly climbers scaled the Gigantic tree, and set ropes and living quarters, in order to occupy the tree so it wont be cut. This area is adjacent to an older treesit village in a virgin redwood grove, that was clearcut in late 2002. The area is inhabitted by endangered seabirds called Marbled Murrelets. The logging plan, called “Bonanza”,is 249 acres. 192 acres are occupied stands for the murrelet.The Bonanza harvest plan contains the largest unprotected, contiguous, occupied marbled murrelet stand left on Maxxam/PL's land. We Save Trees desperately needs your help to protect this ancient tree and the surrounding oldgrowth forest! Call us if you can Help! Phone Number is in the movie! And Please, Tell your friends, and/or send out an email to folks you know, with the link to the movie. Thank You! May the Forest Be With You!

Updates on www.wesavetrees.org

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2005-10-14T17:40:43Z

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following link. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."

This is a document we should all know and hold dear, in these troubling times:

http://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm

http://www.udhr.org/default.htm

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Montreal's 7th Annual ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR

2005-10-14T13:24:41Z

Announcing... please post and forward

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Montreal's 7th Annual
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Saturday, May 20, 2006, 10am-6pm
Location TBA
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
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books, pamphlets & zines ...
discussions, readings & debates ...
poetry, film & art ...
workshops, lectures & panels ...
kidz programme

--> The largest anarchist event in North America.
--> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy (May 2006).
--> Followed by a full day of Anarchist Presentations and Workshops (May 21,
2006).

The bookfair is a child-friendly event. Bring your kids!
Free childcare on-site.

Callouts for workshops, presentations, art exhibits, films, tables, and
Festival and Anarchy events will be posted soon.

If you have ideas for the bookfair or Festival of Anarchy, don't hesitate to
get in touch with a proposal!

--> To receive updates by e-mail, please send your e-mail address to:
anarchistbookfair@taktic.org

CONTACT INFO:

web: http://anarchistbookfair.taktic.org
tel: 514-859-9090 (messages only)
e-mail: anarchistbookfair@taktic.org
post: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec, H3G 1N1
CANADUH

Nous parlons francais.
Se habla espagnol.

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Pre-emptive strikes

2005-10-13T21:00:48Z

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn.....t/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001053.html

Does anyone know of any groups organizing opposition nationally or internationally against this? There's only a short time left, and given the US track record on manufacturing threats, this is kind of a scary idea.

"Well, they were making biological weapons, that's why we nuked 'em. Evidence? Well, all the evidence was vapourized..."

With Katrina taking the limelight, this could sneak by without any public attention whatsoever. What do we do?

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preemptive postapocalypticist for hire

2005-10-10T20:58:50Z

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7990920506455078892&q=urban+scout

urbanscout
blog.myspace.com/urbanscout

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Days of Work, Nights of Hustling: Anarcho-Punk Life in The Third World

2005-10-05T18:53:41Z

I've always been curious about what it is like to live working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for a few dollars a day. Even typical American jobs seem nightmarish to me but sweatshop conditions in other regions of the world sound outright cause for suicide if there can be no escape or revolution right then and there.

So many times in college I met students from some of the poorest nations on earth. I even had a couple Bolivian housemates but they and almost all the other international students were from middle and upper-middle class families. So they couldn't talk about their experiences with this level of poverty.

At my current house there is a guy from Indonesia. He actually met his American girlfriend in Indonesia. She was travelling there with some other punkish hobos and living with locals they were meeting. If they hadn't met, he could be working in a Nike factory for $1 a day + the food they provide the workers. My housemate says that even his anarcho-punk friends work in those sweatshops, cause if you don't work there, you really starve. Some kids got a hold of the Days of War book and were telling him that if he didn't dumpsterdive his food, he wasn't anarchist. :) But housemate wouldn't do it. In indonesia about the best food you can find in the garbage is some coke soaked old french fries outside a McDonalds. When he came here he couldn't believe the food he saw being thrown away and took pictures to send back home for proof.

But unlike the current loss of manufacturing industries in our own cities, and hence the lack of dumpsters with the stuff they throwaway,you can dumpster a lot of clothing material and blemished shoes that the companies don't want there, he says. Also workers steal commodities from their jobs, especially stuff that isn't good enough for sale and is marked for burning, and then sell it on the black market. People have whole product lines for sale in their houses.

To me, what has become known as the crimethinc. lifestyle of boycotting capitalism is not a constructive way to fight capitalism. It is a situational response to what we find here in North America- a plethora of hellish jobs, and a bunch of food and some night squats to help us steer clear of that nightmare of working for other people besides ourselves. For anti-capitalist people in less fortunate situations, sticking it out in these jobs, organizing collectively with other people in the same companies in multiple countries for immediate reforms, seems like a more compelling path, albeit uphill one, to take.

-M
http://livejournal.com/users/snowbunnyx

P.S. Sorry I didn't write this very well and I know I'm not saying anything theoretically new.

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November 2, 2005

2005-10-04T21:10:32Z

www.worldcantwait.org

Check it out!

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Queer

2005-10-04T06:55:13Z

Is Queer a political movement? I've been discussing this subject in a new class and was wondering what you all thought of it...

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SEWING THE SEEDS OF CONFUSION

2005-10-01T20:23:40Z

There many places that sells pens of disappearing ink. I was just thinking where I should go leave one attached to a string?

*Fed-X / kinkos
*(we hate you) National Bank
*Police Station
*State legislature
*Mayor's office

You know alot of places come to mind where ink that turns clear after a couple of days could make wikkidly good fun. If you didn't actually CREATE / DESTROY documents, just like, HELPED them to evaporate.... Well? Is that a crime?

http://www.pimall.com/nais/dispen.html

http://www.21stcenturyplaza.com/1spy/Disappearing_Ink_Pen.html

http://www.spysupplystore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=dip-101&Category_Code=lpsg-101

If you can think of another nominee for one of these pens feel free to leave it. Perhaps I'll pay them a visit.

Swaz

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Where does freedom end?

2005-09-25T15:02:49Z

here's my promised thread about heroin use. I'm sticking to one drug at a time to keep it simple, but the theory should hold for anything.
So, do you feel that heroin use is acceptable? If not how to you justify limiting someone's right to choose for themselves what they will do with their life?
Keep in mind that most of the problems associated presently with heroin use stem from the fact that it's illegal, something that I would hope most anarchists would oppose.
Well, go on. Discuss.
I'll be back later.
much love, Paindog Magoo (anarchist for life- unfortunately. lol.)

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HELLO FROM ARGENTINA ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM!

2005-09-24T15:57:49Z

I am an ecologist, naturist and raw foodist of Argentine, am trying to protect with other persons 70 hectares of subtropical jungle in the Argentine province of missions, since this(this one) everything being destroyed to plant PINES TRANSGENICOS, NOTHING WAS STAYING OF BIODIVERSITY, A DESERT WILL BE, AND BESIDES CONTAMINATED BY THE WASTEBASKETS AND THE COMPANIES OF TOBACCO, I ASK THEM PLEASE TO HELP WITH WHAT THEY COULD, FOR EXAMPLE BUYING Lands IN ORDER THAT THEY ARE PRESERVED, OR COMING TO ARGENTINE TO HELPING, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT TO DO, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRY(MEAN) IS AGRO's PROJECTS REALIZE ECOLOGY, BIO ARCHITECTURE, CAR SUFFICIENCY, ETC BONY(OSSEOUS) AN ECOLOGICAL NATURAL AND SIMPLE LIFE SOON BESIDE NOT HAVING NATURE, NEITHER WE WILL HAVE FREEDOM!!! SINCE THE NORTH AMERICAN ARMY ALREADY THIS IN THE REGION SURELY SOON INVADIRAN, PLEASE HELP US!!!!

EMBRACES
LISANDRO

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mail fun

2005-09-21T04:00:20Z

ok I was reminded by the dissapearing ink thread about an idea I had to suggest to others for input or what ever.

and of course as a precursor to this and I'm sure this whole thread of threads I must say this is just a hypothetical and for entertainment only story incase of any of its contents being illeagal.....

you know how many of you get tons of junk mail for credit cards and such?.... well did you notice the buiness reply envelopes included for you to reply?

imagine all the fun projects that could be done including putting those envelopes into mailboxes sending them back to their owners carrying one message or another.

one would of courese want to remove any code numbers or tracking bar codes that could locate you or connect you to the artistic endevors...... of course as this would spoil all the fun or anonymous performances.

It recalls hakim beys poetic terrorism or occult attack on corporations.

anyways its a fun idea to ponder......

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Student Documentary in Portland, ME

2005-09-13T19:40:31Z

CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND LIVE IN THE AREA:
Ryan of Portland, Maine
congratsyousoldout@yahoo.com
Filming will be done September/October/November

I'm doing a documentary to educate college students on the understanding of people who don't conform to social and political convention in America [(particularly in New England) Boston, Portland, Providence, etc.]. I'm trying to find people who are willing to help people, including myself, understand (on camera) what DIY is....or unfolding the truth about our gov't...or why people are vegan...or why they believe anarchism or dumpster diving is essential to their lives. Those are just examples to what i want to discuss. Most people look down upon this type of mentality/lifestyle because they don't understand or see past what the government feeds to them on a daily basis. I'm creating this documentary not only for myself, but to create an outlet for people who what to speak out and inform people about other things in life that aren't mass media driven. Hypocritical i must say...but if media is the only way to get attention...then we can use it to our advantage. Thanks for reading.

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