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Where's George?
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Issue 263. February fullish moonish 2001.
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"HACKERS LOVE NOODLES!!!! (especially ramen)"
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--Sign found on shell.
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["if you don't know, don't ask," he snickers...]
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"...e-zine (small publication distributed electronically -
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http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati65.html) which appeared to
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use the word [compression] as a joke, and in an article
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discussing hallucinogenic drugs
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(http://deoxy.org/t_highx.htm)
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where the author told of
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how his friends used the word to describe the way they
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felt the world was heading. None of these sources matched
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up quite right with my interpretation of the word."
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-Sean K, owner. compressionism.com
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compressionism/message/52
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The Weekly ATI #'s Run.
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http://dsl.org
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http://security.tao.ca
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http://bijoumatinee.com
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http://whosealphabet.com
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http://www.sonicjoyride.com
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http://cures-not-wars.org/mmm
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http://www.antiimperialista.com
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http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran
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http://echelon.skjoldhoej.dk/jens/jens
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/jamesmerrill.html
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http://nyc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=2064
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http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
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http://neirp.com
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http://girsite.cjb.net
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http://www.sfbg.com/nessie
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http://www.tranexp.com:2000
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http://www.americas.org/LASC
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http://www.twinkiesproject.com
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http://www.jerdot.homestead.com
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http://www.bushneverwonflorida.com
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http://24.29.136.113/enviro/newenv.html
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html
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http://www.cyberbeach.net/~willows/cupw/local/site/music.htm
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Rather than include it in the numbers run per se,
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we mention that the Depleted Uranium petition is at:
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http://www.PetitionOnline.com/3d4b/petition.html
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for anyone who would like to sign something like
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that.
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Anyone who doesn't know all the subtle "nuancy"
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differences (and sometimes not so subtle) between
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uranium, plutonium, depleted uranium and assorted
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other slightly volatile substances, (none of these
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ought to be in your drinking water) might want to
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read up on it.
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The DU news story as a whole has been brewing
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since ATI zine was about 2 years old, and is sure
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to stay a pretty big news story for a very long
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time.
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Anyone who doesn't think this is a news story at
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all should have their head examined for substances
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far worse than 238's & 239's.
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Dear Marco Capelli,
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Please consider reprinting Mumia Abu-Jamal's
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columns from death row in 'Activist Times, Intentional'.
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Sign up to receive Mumia's regular columns by email at
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http://www.MumiaBook.com.
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These columns may be reprinted and/or distributed by
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electronic means, but only for non-commercial use, and
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only with the inclusion of the following copyright
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information:
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Text (c) copyright 2001 by Mumia Abu-Jamal. All rights
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reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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The columns are also available as Adobe PDFs and Word
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DOCs at http://www.MumiaBook.com/mumia/column.asp
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on a move,
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Joe Hine
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Joe,
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I'll try to do even a little better, since his columns tend
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to be just a little long for this little 'zine. I bought
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"All Things Censored" on vinyl LP yesterday and I'll be
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happy to review it like any other record. Plus I am thinking
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of making one of his next few columns the top column of
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my zine and I'll take that week off. That'll be way cool.
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By the way, I had it on CD and since gave it away. When
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I saw it in my favorite used record store as LP I was
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elated. Especially because I was about to hear Noelle and
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Ramona's work again. Wow. What else can I say.
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Wow,
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About as "on a move" as
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this "blanco" can get,
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marco
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OPEN LETTER TO DOUG BAKER
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Your petition at:
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http://www.PetitionOnline.com/3d4b/petition.html
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seems to be taking off nicely.
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It's up to a little more than 70 signatures, and
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I think that's pretty good considering how much
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controversy (and also hush) there is around that
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issue. I'll bet a lot of "coworkers" are afraid
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to put their real name on the petition, and are
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just too "uppical and eth-right" to make up a
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pseudonym.
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Nevertheless, I check the thing once a day or
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so, and usually I hit refresh once or twice just
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before leaving to see if I can happen to get next
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to that "moment" the way it happened so often with
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that weirdass Nader YellowDawgDemocrats one last
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October. Would you know, a couple times now I've
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"seen" someone sign the thing? That's neat to know
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you're right there and you see their addition the
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second it got coded in. Very cool.
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Oh well, this entire letter serves me as a forum
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to tell you about a first person account I drew up
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regarding depleted uranium. It's at:
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http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/pu.html
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just so you
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know. Or, you can get to it my favorite way and go
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to:
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http://www.frucht.org/roberta.html and click on
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the word:
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URANIUM
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Venceremos,
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marco
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aka the Prime Anarchist.
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e&p ati zine since '88
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Rowan High-Jinks : An account of one person<6F>s time at Hattiesburg High
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School, Rowan Campus-by Patrick Moore (special to ATI)
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(Dedicated to Mrs. Andrelle Nicholson, who had the unmitigated gall to
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reject one of my original compositions and give me an "F" because she
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thought it was copied, and Mr. Wally Gregg, who took it upon himself the
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task of suspending me from school without so much as the benefit of a
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hearing, or even telling me.)
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PROLOGUE
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For my part, I was one of those that scored unusually high on
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achievement tests, but did poorly in classes. There was just not enough
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in the HPSD to keep kids like me from looking outside the window,
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because the classwork was so goddamned boring.
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When I graduated in 1982, I began to discover what the HPSD failed to
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offer. I took my ASVAB in 1984, and scored high enough to have my pick
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of any job in the military I wanted. I chose communications. In 1987, I
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began working as a direct support technician on FM tactical radio
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equipment, which was a prize job. I was only one of 5 in the entire
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battalion qualified for such work.
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Frank Zappa once said, "If you want to get an education, go to the
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library." I learned more in the Hattiesburg Public Library than I did in
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the classroom. I spent so much time there that the staff allowed me
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access to areas normally off limits to normal patrons. I knew the Dewey
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Decimal System by heart, and the staff allowed me the unusual privilege
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of setting up and running microfiche machines. On more than one
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occasion, I corrected new staff members on the proper way to thread a
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microfiche. (I bet I can still thread and run an old microfiche
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machine!)
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Yet, in the classroom, I felt trapped.
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Trapped because I wanted to take a different direction than what the
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school board prescribed. The system didn<64>t take into account wildcards
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like me, or offer anything besides the daily drudgery of classwork.
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TIMELINES
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DATELINE 1970: Hattiesburg High recieves a desegregation order.
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Beginning at the start of the 1970-71 school year, Blair High
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(Hattiesburg<72>s white high school) and Rowan High (the Black school) were
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ordered to admit students of all races. However, many parents find ways
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to skirt the order.
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1972: The Justice department looks at the Hattiesburg school system, and
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declares that the HPSD hasn<73>t taken effective steps to enforce the
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desegregation order. As a result, Rowan becomes the city<74>s 10th grade
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school, Blair the 11th and 12th.
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1979: I begin my 10th grade year at HHS-Rowan, and learn about
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schoolhouse politics. I thought the REACH program was off-kilter, giving
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preference to children of well-to-do parents. By now it was full-blown
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favoritism.
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1980: I am given an assignment to write a report. I turn it in, within a
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few minutes I get it back with an "F" and the word "COPIED" at the
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bottom.
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Two months later, I find myself on suspension. Why? I had a habit of
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arriving to school early, and decided to grab a smoke before school. How
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did I find out? One of my teachers told me, after he saw my name on the
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daily absentee report. It seemed that Mr. Wally Gregg had decided to
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suspend me for 1 day because I was smoking, and didn<64>t bother telling
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me. (Can you say violation of the 4th amendment?) So, I took a day<61>s
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vacation.
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Then, in May 1980, I get news that somebody had torched Rowan School.
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Not that it was any big surprise. Tensions had built up over the past
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few years over the treatment of students by the faculty. I can only
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wonder what pushed someone over the edge to actually do it. It didn<64>t
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take police long to find a suspect. It turned out the person that did it
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had flunked several grades, and was thoroughly fed up with his treatment
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by Rowan officials.
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The next year, I went to Blair. Things went far better there than at
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Rowan. I began getting A<>s and B<>s, and had teachers who were genuinely
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interested in my achievement.
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So, if there is to be something taken from this, it is this: just because
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you have a few setbacks in High School does not mean you will do badly
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once you leave.
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[In 1982, the editor of ATI zine attended a race riot in the
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cafeteria of his high school. He will write it up as a feature
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story in next week's zine as a response to Patrick's great
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story here. -ed]
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"It is not a sign of good health to be
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well adjusted to a sick society."
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-J. Krishnamurti
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A holiday donation in honor of our President
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Submitted by The Cheshire Catalyst
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Pat Morrison of the Times has a fabulous idea. Presidents
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Day is coming up on February 19. Make a donation, however
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small (or large), to a pro-choice organization and have a
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card sent to Bush basically saying:
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"President Bush, a donation has been made in your name
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to [e.g., Planned Parenthood, NARAL]."
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The following was added by Sandy Weil...or send a donation
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in his "honor" to an environmental org. or civil rights org.
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or handgun control... your choice, just do it for George!
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Here are some contact numbers to make this quick and easy.
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Or choose your own...
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1) Planned Parenthood # 1/800-829-7732 or
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http://www.plannedparenthood.org
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2 National Abortion Rights Action League (202) 973-3028
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http://www.naral.org
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3) Handgun Control
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http://handguncontrol.org #202-898-0792
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4) Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
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http://www.au.org/default.htm (202) 466-3234
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5) Greenpeace
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http://www.greenpeace.org/information.shtml
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1 202 462 1177
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6) Global Exchange (415) 255-7296
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http://www.globalexchange.org
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THA THA THA THA'S ALL FOLKS...
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Hope you liked the 'zine!
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html
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for back issues and to order t-shirts, hats Cap'n
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Crunch whistles and Ugly mugs.
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Hurry there's only _00_ left.
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Call 860-887-2600 ext. 5293 to ring up the Prime Anarchist.
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And remember, 2morrow is international "george bush really
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sucks" day, so get out there and like they say in
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EMITIMEWARNERland, "Throw a Dilbert Doll at Someone Near
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the Water Bubbler."
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Almost finally, a question:
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WHY IS NOT SONIC JOY RIDE FAMOUS BEYOND
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OUR WILDEST DREAMS? THEY TRULY DESERVE
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IT. (OK, Ya, a question AND a comment
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then...)
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We end this issue with a poem by
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Lloyd Marbet
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called : A Poet of the Environment
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for William Stafford on his 80th birthday
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A poet of the environment rhymes forests into trees
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whose very health roots soil within your heart.
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A poet of the environment knows naked truth
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will never be clothed in robes of a dominant species.
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A poet of the environment echoes words
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upon each child of your own becoming.
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A poet of the environment records this sense of place,
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in familiar traces, on a timeworn path into yearning.
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A poet of the environment reaches inside the very marrow
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of an immune system's poem of great healing.
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A poet of the environment breaths soul's aspirations
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like ancient wisdom's awakening acceptance of no substitutes.
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A poet of the environment writes light upon shadows
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embracing love to say farewell to these words.
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1-12-01
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the poem never read at the party. |