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Let a hundred and seventy six
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trombones sound so low, so loud
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and so lively that our cry for
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non-violent overthrow of all
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evil, violent, ill-gotten lands:
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that they will forever know:
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we are ati!
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Activist Times, Indestructible.
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Welcome to issue 176 of ati.
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April 24th 1999.
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1999 hrs. (or 8:39pm for you weirdos)
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Happy Birthday to Mumia Abu Jamal,
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Paul Ryder and David J -
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and a belated birthday to Abbie
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Hoffman, Alabama Sturgeon and
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Adolf Hitler. May none of you
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ever be forgotten. Even the yucky
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ones.
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Hard going down isn't it?
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Hi, I'm prime anarchist and
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this is my column for saturday,
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the almostfullmoon of april.
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The numbers run is short, we have
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a few short letters, and we've
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pushed back some of the others
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until next week, so that we can
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have room for the entire birthday
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present that Marcos sent to Mumia
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Abu-Jamal this afternoon.
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I publish the English version
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only for two reasons.
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1) None of us are good enough
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at "traducciones" yet.
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Give is time! We're working
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treadmills on it - swear.
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2) Too much more would make our
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weekly zine much fatter
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than we promised.
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OK there's a 3:
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There is a dream and a vision of
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this 'zine growing organically into
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a 100% bona-fide bilingual publication.
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No lip-service paragraph or two at the
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back "en espanol," no one or two best
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picture captions hoping that "THEY'LL
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get at LEAST THAT little BIT out of
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us..." The vision is that the tongue
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of this 'zine would once a week be
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translated evenly into two languages:
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ingles, y espanol; english and
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spanish. Until then, I (the zine)
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remain "anglo."
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For all who are "with this vision"
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I ask one thing.
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KEEP HELPING ME LEARN THE
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SPANISH IN THE OFF TIME!!!
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Domo Arigato, Muchas Gracias, Graci,
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Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo, Thank you,
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thank you, thank you,
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-+=(prime)=+-
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ATI. for people who are.
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1st numbahs, 2nd the lettuce...
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http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati
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http://www.indiancountrynews.com
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http://www.adbusters.org
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http://www.upcomingmovies.com
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http://www.dogeatdogfilms.com
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Lettuce. People Send
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Us Lotsa Lettuce.
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just did some quick research...
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Hiroshima was Aug 6th 1945
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at 8:15 Nagasaki was Aug 9th
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at 11:02 SO I don't know where
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the 4:20 rumor came from.
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Sorry for the wrong info b4.
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Hawker (cygnus.com)
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I'm personally doing OK, but its
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a sad day in Denver. As I'm sure
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you heard 15 kids were shot at
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a high school yesterday.
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I went to that high school.
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Its right up the street.
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My dad's apartment building was
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evacuated because they found
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several bombs in cars.
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It's nice and sunny here.
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Where do you live?
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-Jess (303)
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Dear Marc,
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thank you for putting two and two
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together. This is an immense
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tragedy primarily for Serbian
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people, Kosovar refugees, but
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then also for the whole Europe
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and the world. KLA is a renown
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terrorist organization that
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primarily deals with trafficking
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narcotics into Europe, many European
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countries that accepted the Albanian
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minorities into their territory will
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soon become aware of this!
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THanks for all of your interest
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and concern
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[a woman who asked to remain
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unnamed and unplaced.]
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AND IN THE Chips On Shoulders Dep't:
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From: Chip Hosken <hosken@uiuc.edu>
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do you realize it is illegal to
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email mass mailings to people
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who don't want to recieve
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your SHIT!
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thank you.
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if you ever email me again
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I will press charges.
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even in response to this letter.
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take me off of your list.
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bitch.
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To: ati@etext.org
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From: JewelJK@aol.com
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UNSUBSCRIBE
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Marco!
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in a word - failed.
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the food directors misinformed us
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about some of the details of the
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proposal, and ended up playing it
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against us as a wildcard.
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these are the same guys who
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originally helped us out by finding
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the prices and allegedly investigating
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the legitimacy of the eggs as
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"free range".
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simply, he (mike james) decieved us
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and as a result, we lost. thanks for
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your support and concern. this was a
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learning experience. next semester we
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will not make the same mistakes and
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will definitely not trust anything they
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tell us unless it is in writing.
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i'll keep you informed.
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cheers-
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Ked (414)
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OPEN LETTER: TO MICHAEL MOORE
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Hi Michael,
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How goes it?
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Two orders of biz, I know you're busy.
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1) Ked's sending me results of the egg
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vote at oshkosh in about 6 hours.
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I'll forward them to you from a
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different address.
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2) I'll be playing my guitar on the
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capitol steps may 1 thru may 4;
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Washington DC protesting School of the
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Americas.
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You might already know labor is behind
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shutting this puppy down.
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It would be way cool if you could
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bring your guitar (and maybe the
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camcorder???) to the steps and jam
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with. (btw: what's your fave chord?)
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Oh, I better say a third thing.
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Ready?
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You'd asked for some whizzard to help
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you get messages autoforwarded to a new
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.org place.
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hmmm.
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Let's put our heads together, eh?
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ATI, not your granma's pajamas...
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-=*(PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS TONITE)*=-
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Newspapers Need to Find Uniqueness.
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by - Mark Tartar - Senior Despondent.
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<PAWN> Milanta, GA - For newspapers
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to make a profit on the Internet, they
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need to offer their readers something
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they can't get anywhere else,
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Michael Bloomcounty told attendees
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of Interactive Newspapers annual
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conference Tuesday.
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T H E T R U T H .
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...And Now, an update from Wednesday...
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<PAWN>Colorado - The Phollowing...
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----<><><><>----
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I might have just confirmed that
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some of the members of tTCM are
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also western hammerskins.
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Plus, guess what? When police
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finally did roll in, there were
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in fact 4 trenchcoats lying
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on the floor!
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----<><><><>----
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...was reported in an ATI Midweek
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Crisis this past week. Rather than
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let that lie, like so many journalists
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will do in this world, in this life; I
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Prime Anarchist, have chosen to phollow
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thru.
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Ready?
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I spoke with members of the Trenchcoat
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Mafia in more than a dozen towns in this
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country, and also Western Skins in a few.
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The Western Branch of the Hammerskins are
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definitely in Denver heavy, and there
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headquartered; however I was wrong, thank
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god. They had nothing to do with the
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killings this past week in a public school
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in Columbine, Colorado. Although three of
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the nine people who planned Tuesday's
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placing of pipebombs and murderous gunfire
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were in fact, members of tTCM; TrenchCoat
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Mafia organization itself had little or
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nothing to do with the conspiracy to
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commit chaos.
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The four empty trench-coats remain a
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partially unconfirmed story. I have
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confirmed two missing suspects with
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a handful of credible sources, but I
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was a little carried away when one
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White-Pride member I interviewed told
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me it was not two, but four empty
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trenchcoats on the floor. He seemed
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credible. He remains my only source on
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that.
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Attn: Matt Drudge, kiss my
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jolly gym-shorts.
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That's prime anarchist 3,
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the drudgeryman 1.
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Journal Note: 4:20, 4/20.
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2 dogs fat, still have their
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winter furr. Something very
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wrong on this street, in this
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neighborhood, this state or
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this nation. Very very wrong.
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I can pheel it.
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Static 'Atistics:
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1.023% of all English-speaking
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websites in the US have the words
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Pamela, Lee, and Anderson on them.
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2nd most popular topic? Fabio
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with goose-blood all over his face.
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0.88%
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3rd? Still Bill Gates getting
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pi'ed! 0.75%
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[Someone asked us to toss this
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far and wide; so rather than
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ending this 'zine with a hand-made
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poem like is the norm, we're
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pasting a prose piece from a poetical
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person, mister subcomandante Marcos.
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It's a letter to someone on his
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birthday.]
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Mister Mumia:
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I am writing to you in the name
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of the men, women, children and elderly
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of the Zapatista Army of National
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Liberation in order to congratulate you
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on April 24, which is your birthday.
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Perhaps you have heard of us.
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We are Mexican, mostly indigenous,
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and we took up arms on January 1 of 1994
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demanding a voice, face and name for the
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forgotten of the earth.
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Since then, the Mexican government has
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made war on us and pursues us and
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harasses us seeking our death, our
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disappearance and our definitive silence.
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The reason? These lands are rich with oil,
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uranium and precious lumber. The government
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wants them for the great transnational
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companies. We want them for all the Mexicans.
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The government sees our lands as a business.
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We see our history written in these lands.
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In oder to defend our right (and that of all
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Mexicans) to live with liberty, democracy,
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justice and dignity we became an army and
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undertook a name, voice and face that way.
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Perhaps you wonder how we know of you,
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about your birthday, and why it is that
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we extend this long bridge which goes
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from the mountains of the Mexican
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southeast to the prison of Pennsylvania
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which has imprisoned you unjustly.
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Many good people from many parts
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of the world have spoken of you,
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through them we have learned how you
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were ambushed by the North American
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police in December of 1981, of the
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lies which they constructed in the
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procedures against you, and of the
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death sentence in 1982.
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We learned about your birthday through
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the international mobilizations which,
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under the name of "Millions for Mumia",
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are being prepared this April 24th.
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It is harder to explain this bridge
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which this letter extends, it is more
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complicated. I could tell you that,
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for the powerful of Mexico and the
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government, to be indigenous, or
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to look indigenous, is reason for
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disdain, abhorrence, distrust and
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hatred. The racism which now floods
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the palaces of Power in Mexico goes
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to the extreme of carrying out a war
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of extermination, genocide, against
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millions of indigenous. I am sure
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that you will find similarities
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with what the Power in the United States
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does with the so-called "people of color"
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(African-American, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans,
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Asians, Northamerican Indians and any
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other peoples who do not have the insipid
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color of money.)
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We are also "people of color" (the same
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color of our brothers who have Mexican
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blood and live and struggle in the American
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Union). We are of the color "brown",
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the color of the earth, the color
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from which we take our history, our
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strength, our wisdom and our hope.
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But in order to struggle we add another
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color to the brown: black.
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We use black ski-masks to show our faces.
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Only in this way can we be seen and heard.
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We chose this color as a result of the
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counsel of an indigenous Mayan elder who
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explained to us what the color black meant.
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The name of this wise elder was Old Man
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Antonio. He died in these rebel Zapatista
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lands in March of 1994, victim of
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tuberculosis which ate his lungs and his
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breath. Old Man Antonio used to tell us
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that from black came the light and
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from there came the stars which light
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up the sky around the world. He told
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us a story which said that a long time
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ago (in those times when no one measured
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it), the first gods were given the task
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of giving birth to the world. In one of
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their meetings they saw it was necessary
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that the world have life and movement,
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and for this light was necessary.
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Then they thought of making the sun
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in order that the days move and so
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there would be day and night and
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time for struggling and time for making
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love, walking with the days and nights
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the world would go.
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The gods had their meeting and made this
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agreement in front of a large fire,
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and they knew it was necessary that
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one of them be sacrificed by throwing
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himself into the fire in order to become
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fire himself and fly into the sky.
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The gods thought that the work of
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the sun was the most important,
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so they chose the most beautiful
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god so that he would fly into the fire
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and become the sun. But he was afraid.
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Then the smallest god, the one who was
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black, said he was not afraid and
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he threw himself into the fire and
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became sun.
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Then the world had light and movement,
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and there was time for struggle and
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time for love, and in the day the bodies
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worked to make the world and in the night
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the bodies made love and sparkles filled
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the darkness.
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This is what Old Man Antonio told us and
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that is why we use a black ski mask.
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So we are of the color brown and of
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the color black. But we are also of the
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color yellow, because the first people
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who walked these lands were made of
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corn so they would be true. And we are
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also red because this is the call of blood
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which has dignity and we are also blue
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because we are the sky in which we fly,
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and green for the mountain which is our
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house and our strength. And we are white
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because we are paper so that tomorrow
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can write its story.
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So we are 7 colors because there were
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7 first gods who birthed the world.
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This is what Old Man Antonio said
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long ago and now I tell you this
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story so that you may understand
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the reason for this bridge of paper
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and ink which I send to you all the
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way from the mountains of the
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Mexican Southeast. And also so that
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you may understand that with this
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bridge goes pieces of salutes and
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hugs for Leonard Peltier (who is in
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the prison at Leavenworth, Kansas),
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and for the more than 100 political
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prisoners in the USA who are the
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victims of injustice, stupidity and
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authoritarianism.
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And with this letter-bridge walks
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as well a salute to the Dine (the Navajo),
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who, in Big Mountain, Arizona, fight
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against the violations of their traditional
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Dine religious practices. They struggle
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against those who prefer the large
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businesses instead of respect for
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the religious freedom of Indian
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peoples, and those who want to
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destroy sacred grounds and
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ceremonial sites (as is the case
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of Peabody Western Coal Company
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which wants to take lands without
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reason, history or rights-lands
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which belong to the Dine and their
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future generations.)
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But there are not only stories of
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resistance against North American
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injustice in this letter-bridge.
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There are the indigenous, from
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the extreme south of our continent,
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in Chile, the Mapuche women in the
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Pewenche Center of Alto Bio-Bio
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who resist against stupidity.
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Two indigenous women, Bertha
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and Nicolasa Quintreman are accused
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of "mistreating" members of the
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armed forces of the Chilean
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government. So there it is.
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An armed military unit with
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rifles, sticks, and tear-gas,
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protected by bulletproof vests,
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helmets and shields, accuse two
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indigenous women of "mistreatment".
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But Bertha is 74 years old and
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Nicolasa is 60. How is it possible
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that two elderly people confronted
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a "heroic" group of heavily-armed
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military?
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Because they are Mapuche. The story
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is the same as that of the brothers
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and sisters Dine of Arizona, and
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the same which repeats itself in
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all America: a company (ENDESA)
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wants the lands of the Mapuches,
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and in spite of the law which
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protects the indigenous, the
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government is on the side of
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the companies. The Mapuche students
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have pointed out that the government
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and the company made a "study" of
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military intelligence about the
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indigenous Mapuche communities
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and they came to the conclusion
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that the Mapuche could not think,
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defend themselves, resist, or
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construct a better future. The
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study was wrong apparently.
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Now it occurs to me that, perhaps
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the powerful in North America carried
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out a "military intelligence" study
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(this is frankly a contradiction,
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because those of us who are military
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are not intelligent, if we were we
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would not be military) about the case
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of the Dine in Arizona, about Leonard
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Peltier, about other political
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prisoners, about yourself, mister
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Mumia. Perhaps they made this study
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and came to the conclusion that they
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might be able to violate justice and
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reason, to assault history and lose
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the truth. They thought they could
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do this and no one would say anything.
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The Dine Indians would stand by and
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watch the destruction of the most
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sacred of their history,
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Leonard Peltier would be alone, and you,
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Mister Mumia, would be silenced (and I
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remember your own words "They not only
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want my death, they want my silence").
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But the studies were wrong. Happy mistake?
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The Dine resist against those who would
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kill their memory, Leonard Peltier is
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accompanied by all those who demand
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his liberty, and you sir, speak and
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yell today with all the voices which
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celebrate your birthday as all birthdays
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should be celebrated, by struggling.
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Mister Mumia:
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We have nothing big to give you as a
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gift for your birthday, it is poor and
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little, but all of us send you an embrace.
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We hope that when you gain your freedom
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you will come to visit us.
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Then we will give you a birthday party,
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even if it isn't April 24th,
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it will be an unbirthday party.
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There will be musicians, dancing and
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speaking, which are the means by which
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men and women of all colors understand
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and know one another, and build bridges
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over which they walk together, towards
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history, towards tomorrow.
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Happy Birthday!
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Vale. We salute you and may justice
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and truth find their place.
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>From the mountains of the
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Mexican Southeast,
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Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
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Mexico, April of 1999
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P.S. I read somewhere that you are
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a father and a grandfather.
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So I am sending you a gift for your
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children and grandchildren. It is a
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little wooden car with Zapatistas
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dressed in black ski-masks. Tell your
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children and grandchildren that it is
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a gift that we send you, the Zapatistas.
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Explain to them places that there are
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people of all colors everywhere, just
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like you, who want justice, liberty
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and democracy for people of all colors.
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-+=(!)=+-
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ATI says goodbye,
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ati@cosmos.lod.com
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----<><><><>----
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this edition of ATI dedicated
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2 Gestetner copiers all
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around the world!
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