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>                     First Hopi Violation of Accommodation Agreement
>
>One of the central provisions of the "Accommodation Agreement" is that the
>Dine' will be allowed to practice
>their traditional religion without interference. What the people were told
>is that they would have to get a permit
>for construction or use of the HPL, but that it would be a formality, that
>the permits would be granted as a matter
>of course. The Hopi Tribe told this not only to the Dine' but to Congress
>and the Courts. I heard these
>assurances myself, more than once, from the mouths of the Hopi Tutsqua
>Team members and their attorney.
>
>Frances Bahe and her grandson stopped by my house yesterday, with their
>Princeton intern, Ben Bishop.
>Fortunately it was lunch time, so we ate everything in the refrigerator.
>They had all been at a ceremony the last
>night, and there were problems.
>
>The ceremony in question was the N'daa, otherwise known as Enemy Way or
>vulgarly as "Squaw Dance". It is a
>four-day ceremony, very expensive, and is done most commonly for veterans
>who suffer from the effects of war,
>but sometime for people whose illnesses are caused by contact with
>non-Dine'. It takes place in two different
>locations, each one has a hogan and a big fire, and usually a big brush
>shelter. Certain objects have to be carried
>by men on horseback from one location to the other, and there are a number
>of conditions regarding the route
>that has to be taken. The riders have to stop at the midway point and stay
>overnight, with a fire.  The "Squaw
>Dance" part refers to the night time two step dance around the fire in a
>big circle, where the women pick men to
>dance with them and then the men have to give the women something valuable
>after the song is over.
>
>According to Mrs. Bahe, this particular ceremony was held for one of
>Albert and Rose Francis' sons. One side of
>it was near Ganado and the other side was on HPL in the Teesto area. The
>family asked the Hopi Tribe for a
>permit for the ceremony. They were given permission to build the hogan and
>shelters at the Teesto end, but
>were refused permission to "carry the stick" across HPL or to have the
>midway ceremony. As a result they had
>to use an alternate route. The riders had to travel along the highway,
>which is wrong for this reason: ambulances
>carrying sick or bleeding people travel on the highway, and there are
>places along the highway where people
>have been killed. This is not a good thing.
>
>It is less than 3 months since the deadline passed for signing the
>"Accommodation Agreement." The families
>who signed did so in large part because they were assured by the Navajo
>Nation, Congress, and the Hopi Tribe
>that they would be able to practice their religion without interference.
>So soon, and already the agreement is
>being violated.
>
>Three months ago the HPL was crawling with attorneys, Navajo Tribal
>officials and "support group" type
>people. Now, when the families encounter a serious problem, they have to
>face it alone.  This is evidence to me
>that the "Accommodation Agreement" will not work if it depends on the Hopi
>Tribe's good faith. The families
>need full-time, on-site legal assistance, and there must be some avenue of
>appeal.
>
>                                  More rain!
>
>The summer rains have come early and everything is green. You see flowers
>all over the place, some of them I've
>never seen before.  Usually when you drive through Crystal, over Narbona
>Pass, when  the view opens up onto
>Eastern navajo you see an endless expanse of gray and brown, any time of
>year. This year what you see is
>green. It really looks weird! Last week I left the lid off my garbage can
>three days and collected 2 inches of water.
>A lot of people are saying the rain is the result of the ceremonies which
>were held at Sarah Begay's place this
>winter and spring.
>
>jn


PRIME ANARCHIST here. This is ATI issue #
It's Sunday, July 20, it's 7:20 p.m. 

I have a one line pap #'s run. But first this.
About the article you just read, keep in mind that it is NOT the Hopi PEOPLE
that are against the Navajo resisters living on their lands but the 
tribal government that CLAIMS to represent. That is key.
I know. I've lived there many months, many times. That was the only 
misleading part of the "B-fore mentioned" article, so I figured rather 
than change a single paragraph, line or bit-abyte I'd give you the whole
shabang. Uncensored, unedited, un-gate-keepered. Dig? OK. 
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Oh, by the way. ATI now has the usenet noozgroop active again.
Or at least useable.
Check it out if you dare.
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CALENDULA SECTION. READY?
July 28, 1968. African-Americans gain citizenship.
August 16, 1862. Santee Sioux open war against trading posts.
Aug. 17, 1896. First auto-induced fatality.
Aug. 18, 1994. Miracle the white buffalo calf born in Janesville, WI.
September 5, 1887. Crazy Horse assassinated.
October 1, 1976. World Vegetarian Day.
Oct. 9, 1967. Che Guevera executed, Bolivia.
Oct 12, 1492 Natives discover Columbus.
November 2, 1812. Lord Byron speaks in favor of Luddites in Parliament.
Nov. 12, 1974. Karen Silkwood murdered.

THIS FROM LYN & SHAWN:
>The recent disclosures of CIA involvment in importing cocaine, drugs 
>and guns to L.A. are not new. Since its days as the OSS, even before 
>its official founding in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency -- 
>CIA -- has been involved in  drug dealing, overthrowing legally 
>elected, democratic governments, torture, and other human abuses.
>
>The Agency re-installed the Mafia in postwar Italy and the Corsican 
>mob in France; they brought Nazi scientists and intelligence officers 
>to the US; they subverted democracies and installed brutal 
>dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala, Congo, and Chile.
>
>The CIA Shipped heroin out of Southeast Asia and cocaine out of Latin 
>America, to support its counter-insurgecy wars. In Burma, the CIA has 
>been accused of wiretapping the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) to 
>protect drug-dealers close to the ruling military. In Mexico, "drug 
>war" money goes to the generals involved in drug-running to fight 
>popular resistance.
>
>The time is now to say:
>"TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH! CRACK THE CIA!"

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This is from natty reb:
>BELGIUM:
>
>Phony electric chairs which imitate high-voltage shocks and offer
>volunteers a certificate of grit have become an instant success on
>Belgium's coast.
>
>The handful of machines, placed mainly in the coastal town of
>Blankenberge, produce no real electric shocks but strong vibrations giving
>a similar sensation.  After the ordeal, which starts when the equivalent
>of just over a dollar is inserted, survivors receive written proof of how
>much "voltage" they could cope with.  Smoke billows from the chair when
>someone takes the highest dose.
>
>Pregnant women and people with weak hearts are advised against trying out
>the  machine, said the manager of an amusement arcade operating one of
>them.  "It is quite a sucess; a lot of people are seeking the unusual and
>they hear about all these executions in the USA."
>
>Belgium, which used to execute criminals by guillotine, has not done so
>since 1950.  It finally eliminated the death penalty last year.

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                           Exxon is real outsider

An Editorial
The Capital Times
July 10, 1997

     How intriguing that the critics of a recent protest against the
     proposed Exxon mine would choose to dismiss the protesters as
     ``outsiders,'' while missing the fact that the real outsiders in
     Wisconsin's mining debate are multinational corporations such as,
     well, Exxon.

     The Earth First! environmental group has launched a series of
     protests against the mine, which would be located near Crandon,
     and this development seems to have unsettled apologists for
     out-of-state mining interests. This is understandable, because
     opposition to the proposed mine is so widespread in Wisconsin 
     that mine supporters have to be feeling a tad beleaguered by the
     prospect of national environmental groups adding their voices to
     the chorus.

     Rather than attempt to argue the merits of the Exxon mine,
     however, critics of Earth First!, including our friends at the
     Wisconsin State Journal, have begun to portray protesters as
     ``mining outsiders.'' ``Self-serving noise like that generated
     Monday by Earth First! is not welcome,'' snarled the WSJ in
     response to a nonviolent protest outside the Crandon Mining Co.
     office that saw 29 arrests.

     What the mining apologists miss is that much of the Earth First!
     activism surrounding the Crandon mine issue has been organized by
     Earth First! activists from, you guessed it, Wisconsin. And even
     if there are Wisconsinites who may object to the civil
     disobedience component of the Earth First! protests, it is
     impossible to argue with the fact that opposition to the mining
     project is widespread among residents of the Crandon area -- as
     evidenced by township elections last spring, which were swept by
     mining foes.

     One of the reasons the opposition to the mining project is so
     widespread is because of concerns about Exxon, a corporation with
     a dubious environmental record, which Wisconsinites simply do not
     trust to protect the state's natural resources.

     Exxon has no connection to Wisconsin, and no commitment to the
     state's environmental or conservation traditions. In contrast,
     the opposition to the Exxon mine is home-grown and rooted in the
     grass-roots environmental tradition of Wisconsin.

     If the mining apologists want to push ``outsiders'' out of the
     debate, we are quite certain that the opponents of the mine --
     including the people from Earth First! -- would be more than
     happy to oblige. So long as we start with the biggest outsider of
     all: Exxon.
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                          Lifted With Pride From
                         TheCapital Times Homepage
                     By PAP. Prime Acquisitions Presents.
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This is from my friend Laurie. Those of you following back from the late
80's ATI days might remember her...
(you'll notice that this issue is mostly a "forwarded-letters-to-the- 
editor" format. Hope this doesn't get too boring too fast. Next weekish
we should be settled into our new headquarters and ready for the weekly
ATI's you've all come to know and love. (or at least tolerate.))

>>               WASHINGTON COMPUTER USER SHOOTS PC IN FRUSTRATION
>>   
>>   
>>   ISSAQUAH, Wash. (July 11, 1997 8:45 p.m. EDT) -- A man was coaxed out
>>   of his home by police after he pulled a gun and shot his personal
>>   computer, apparently in frustration.
>>   
>>   "We don't know if it wouldn't boot up or what," Sgt. Keith Moon said
>>   Thursday.
>>   
>>   The computer, in a home office on the second floor of the townhouse,
>>   had four bullet holes in the hard drive and one in the monitor.
>>   
>>   One bullet struck a filing cabinet, while another made it through a
>>   wall and into a neighboring unit. No one was hurt.
>>   
>>   Police evacuated the complex, contacted the 43-year-old man by
>>   telephone and got him to come out. He was taken to a hospital for a
>>   mental evaluation.


(notas primeras, you'll also notice there is no correspondence report
from ground zero, and no journal poem to end the issue out. I'll have to 
compose one on the spot perhaps. And next week will be a new journal poem
and perhaps a ground zero column. <clears throat> perhaps a ground zero
column? hint hint.)


Hi,

My name is Kevin Brownlow and I am a journalism major at Michigan State
University.  Currently, we have one large campus daily, which has become
grossly outdated with what the students want to read.  I would love to get
some kind of input, if you would, to give me some ideas to
start an alternative weekly.  I would really like to get information on
organization, finances, recruitment, along with any other important
information.

Thank you,

Kevin Brownlow
Michigan State University

 M U S I C   R E V I E W
      by marco capelli

      Lilith Fair. Hartford. July '97.
      Wow.
      Great.

 C U L I N A R Y   R E V I E W
      by marco capelli

      Veggie Max Sandwich.
      Blimpies. Anytown. USA.
      Kinda sux.
      But
      It'll do
      For now.

OK. This is about all for ATI87. I'll leave you with this poem dedicated to
the revolution in the Congo. Is it any wonder there's some oil down there?

               THE OIL MYTH.
               (c) 1998. Prime H. Anarchist

               Wars and rumors of war
               Oil and rumors of oil
               
               I've got a girl for you tonite,
               I tell Dennis Rodman;
               After the game,
               You know
               You and her...
               "Is she UGGGGGLY?" is his
               Only question -
               For beauty, is an asset.
               Can be measured, manipulated manhandled
               & capitalized upon.

               Mr. Speaker, I say, Mr. Prez, Mrs. Prez:
               I yield my thyme and beg to reserve
               It back just long enough to 
               Tell you about a 
               New small country.
               Looking for democracy, freedom,
               Help from US, advisors, politicians,
               Maybe help to someday grow big and
               S T R O N G
               Through open, American monitored
               Elections.

               Are they oil-less, you ask me.
               They ask me, she asks me.
               Mrs. Speaker, for oil is an asset.
               Can be sized, sounded for, measured,
               Sucked, raped and capitalized upon.

               'Cause if she ugggggly---
               Won' give her my time no how.

               For if they LACK oil,
               We're JUS' nah INTRIST'D.

               Oil
               And rumors
               Of oil.