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During one of the evening's most tense moments,
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a line of protesters carrying a fence made of
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chicken wire and PVC pipe advanced toward police
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lines at Bancroft Place and Connecticut Avenue NW
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about 8:30 p.m. Soon, they were face-to-face with
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D.C. police in riot gear, as observers holding up
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video cameras strained to capture the confrontation
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and the crowd chanted, "The whole world is watching."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31260-2002Apr22.html
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http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/washingtondc/fenceconfrontationbancroft.ram
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*****
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***** activist
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times
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.317.
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...
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Goodbye Roberta Blackgoat.
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A memorial poem
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written by
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moon_grace
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4/24/02
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I bow my head to the woman who would not be relocated and instead of
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weaving cloth, at 84, she picked up pliers and unravelled fences.
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I bow my head to the woman who would not be relocated and instead of
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moving into town, at 84, she drove herself in an old pickup truck 33
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miles one-way on unpaved roads for water, for phones, for gas, for
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news of the world.
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I bow my head to the woman who would not be relocated and instead of
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telling stories and bemoaning what used to be, at 84, she took up pen
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and paper and drew out petitions to stop what she thought was wrong
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with the world around her.
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I bow my head to the woman whose great-grandparents
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taught her relocation of Fort Sumner, and at 84, she flung open her
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doors when history came tapping on her window and she did not hide or falter.
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She did not lock her door and pretend she was not home.
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She dug in and worked for what she believed
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And at 84,
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She kept these words...
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"The Creator is the only one that will relocate me."
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Goodnight, Roberta Blackgoat.
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Issue #317 26apr01
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GUEST COLUMNIST pAtRiCk MoOrE.
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Schools For Sale
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(Note: This originally started life as a persuasive speech in my speech
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class at Itawamba Community College. However, the time alloted for each
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student's speech made a longer, more detailed speech impossible. But at
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the same time, I feel this is a subject worth talking about, and ATI is
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the place to do it. For Deborah, Erica, Steve, Marilyn, Jimi, and
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Phyllis...this is for you: the "director's cut" of my persuasive
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speech.)
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Today<EFBFBD>s issue is NOT brought to you by Pepsi! We can say that, and make
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a joke about it, but there are schools where this is not true.
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Faced with shrinking budgets, many Public schools find they have to rely
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on corporations for needed funding and materials. But often, companies
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that partner with schools put profit over education. As a parent, I feel
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that these kinds of relationships are inappropriate in a school setting.
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Today, I<>m going to tell you about school commercialism, and why it<69>s
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bad for kids.
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Perhaps no other name is more closely associated with school
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commercialism than Channel One. Channel One loans TV sets to schools
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for an indefinite period, at least 3 years, and most of these schools
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are in low-income districts
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The show itself is approximately 14 minutes long, provided to grades
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7-12. Billed as a way to <20>teach the news", there is very little actual
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news, as much as 80% <20>fluff" (a journalistic term for stories that have
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little relevance to the audience). In fact, some stories are actually
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promotions of events. Super bowl 36 was the "lead story" in one
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installment.
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Channel One contains 2-4 minutes of commercials. Many advertisers create
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ads to be shown only on Channel One. Corporations are charged millions
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of dollars for each ad aired, and some companies create ads for the
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exclusive use of Channel One. Most, if not all, of the ads shown are for
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items that teens can live without, such as Skittles or Nike shoes.
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The reason Channel One is so appealing to advertisers is the terms of
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the contract Channel one has with participating schools. Under
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contractual agreement, the schools must show the program during class
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time. Channel One actually promotes this in its own sales literature as
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a way to reach even the "lightest" TV viewer, that is, one who doesn<73>t
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watch TV very much at home, therefore beyond an advertiser<65>s grasp.
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However, the school time lost to advertisers can be as much as $300
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million per year.
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Of course, Channel One is not the only in-school advertiser. YNN, or
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Youth News Network, is basically a Canadian version of Channel One, and
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it has been under fire from its beginning. ZapMe!, a company that loans
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computer equipment and internet access to schools, requires that
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students spend at least four hours per day in computer labs, and the
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ZapMe! operating system contain ads that cannot be turned off.
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Other ways that companies pretend to help schools are what I like to
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call Direct and Indirect sponsorships. Indirect sponsorships, for
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example, are when companies have gimmick promotions to get people to buy
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a company<6E>s product in hopes they<65>ll help the schools (i.e. "box tops
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for education"), as opposed to outright donations. In fact, some
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companies use this to obtain demographic profiles of consumers in a
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given area. What is not revealed, is that the cost of the prizes is
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small in contrast to what is spent. For instance, under Campbell<6C>s
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Soup<EFBFBD>s "Box Tops For Education" program, a school must save almost
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100,000 Campbell<6C>s soup labels in order to receive one iMac computer.
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You don<6F>t have to be a mathematical genius to see who<68>s the real winner
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here, considering that a fully loaded iMac costs around $750. Other
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incentives offered to winning schools include breakfast with the Trix
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Bunny, for example.
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Direct sponsorship is where companies like McDonalds and Pepsi pay
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millions for the right to advertise on school grounds and equipment. In
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some instances, companies like Pizza Hut serve their food in the
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cafeteria on selected days. One school district in Colorado Springs
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allows Coca-Cola to advertise and set up drink machines in the hallways
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and even allow students to bring drinks to class. However, it can be
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carried too far, as proposals in Mississippi and Colorado to paint
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school buses with sponsors<72> logo in return for donations fail on safety
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issues.
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Yet, for all this <20>help<6C>, there is a price to be paid, as the students
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at the University of Oregon found out. Nike withdrew tens of millions of
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dollars in contributions after the student body decided to support an
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organization that held overseas garment factories accountable for worker
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safety. What<61>s even more surprising is that Nike CEO Phil Knight is a
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graduate of the University of Oregon, and co-founder Bill Bowerman is a
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former UO coach. In Evans, Georgia, a student in Georgia got suspended
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for wearing a Pepsi shirt on a day honoring school partner Coca- Cola.
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other part to follow...had 2 finals last week, in Govt. and Visual
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Basic: A's on both!
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[ ed note: other part will go in 318 ]
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#'s
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http://www.cyberista.com/cyberistacolumnsdefault.asp?ID=1719017376
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http://www.senaawest.org/RobertaMemorial/RobertaMemorial.htm
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http://www.angelfire.com/art/hoganview/RBPage/roberta1.html
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http://www.antiglobalizacion.org/Germinal/arte/ap00019.htm
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http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/washingtondc/aliastory.ram
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0427BLACK27.html
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=175904
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http://www.sortakinda.com/look/withyoualways.shtml
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http://mke.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=245
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http://www.oberlin.edu/~jdowning/flash/Default.swf
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http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc042702.html
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http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000009.html
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http://www.thehill.com/042402/protest.shtm
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http://www.ambiguous.org/robin/commentary
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http://www.pbgadget.com/posters.html
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http://66.56.40.6:7777/activism
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http://www.fatherjohndear.org
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http://www.snowshoefilms.com
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http://www.fastforpeace.net
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http://freespeech.org
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http://www.span.org
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http://bernie.house.gov
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http://prorev.com/apr22.htm
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http://www.studentsfororwell.org
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http://www.corporations.org/media
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http://www.burning-wheel.org/nofly.htm
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http://cfl.indymedia.org/media/00/00/00/1B
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http://www.sondra.net/al/vol6/62Frucht.htm
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http://www.splungecomm.com/h3c/release.htm
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http://www.agrnews.org/issues/171/index.html
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http://www.comrade.org.uk/Press/availableindex.htm
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http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21891
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0428-03.htm
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http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/html/voices.html
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.22E.Gore.Vidal.htm
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http://bari.iww.org/~iww-nyc/CUNY/chomsky-interview.html
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http://www.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=177100
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http://endthiswar.org/~toups/a20/tn/corporatemedia.jpg.html
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http://media.maineindymedia.org/content/DavidRovics/StLaw-16apr02/audio/ogg
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===================--------------
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Remembering A20s past.
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by marco
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http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn990421.html
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http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22634
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http://surfin.spies.com/~gus/trenchcoat
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A Flat
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(To Langston Hughes)
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By Jarrett Fulton
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I hear evil whisper,
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Memories lost, memories broken
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Cover in beautiful women and big city slickers
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Footsteps, echo with the streetlights that flicker
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Wind blowing against my back
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As car horns honk, A Flat
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The ground that bleeds the loss of innocence
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Life, rushes through the streets with Adrenaline
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An old man asks me about living, and how I feel about that
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I struggle with my answer while an insecure infant cries, A flat
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I<EFBFBD>m new to this game
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Causing me to be offbeat
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As an adolescent, and there<72>s something that I lack
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The movement and the sounds of A flat
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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The Punk Rock Band Name
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Suggestion Of The Month:
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The Tyson Bites
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Sympathy
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a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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I know what the caged bird feels.
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Ah me, when the sun is bright on the upland slopes,
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when the wind blows soft through the springing grass
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and the river floats like a sheet of glass,
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when the first bird sings and the first bud ops,
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and the faint perfume from its chalice steals.
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I know what the caged bird feels.
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I know why the caged bird beats his wing
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till its blood is red on the cruel bars,
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for he must fly back to his perch and cling
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when he fain would be on the bow aswing.
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And the blood still throbs in the old, old scars
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and they pulse again with a keener sting.
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I know why he beats his wing.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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Ah, me, when its wings are bruised and its bosom sore.
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It beats its bars and would be free.
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It's not a carol of joy or glee,
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but a prayer that it sends from its heart's deep core,
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a plea that upward to heaven it flings.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/CagedBirdDunbarPoem.html
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A BREATHING CARCASS
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poetry by Jarrett Fulton
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Have you ever felt that you were at the bottom of the food chain?
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Why did God give us nerves to feel so much pain?
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Feeling those rigid jaws chewing,
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Nibbling my precious, unstylish body
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With claws that slash through my flesh
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The only sound is my screaming
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Becoming?
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A breathing carcass
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1/4 of myself is missing
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As the Earth lies there and watches
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The beast and I are silhouetted like two lovers in the murky shadows
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I<EFBFBD>m dying
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But the pain does not cease
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The beast devourers my body and all its wealth
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And I chant... I chant death
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Can you picture this torment?
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My body paralyzed, my mouth glutted with blood
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Only to cover my screams
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My screams...
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FATHER'S DAY
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By Jarrett Fulton
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9 Months:
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They say we don<6F>t spend time with our kids,
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(But we put clothes on their backs)
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They say we don<6F>t nurture our seed,
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(But we provide them a place to live at)
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I hear songs of a "Motherless child"
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An abandon regiment of a juvenile
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And for what does a man gets,
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For what is a Man Identity?
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To tell his daughter not to lose her virginity
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Daughters, yearning for a male<6C>s affectation, desire a broken gift
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Living out in the streets or follow into a boyfriend<6E>s mischief
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6 Months:
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Picture a woman giving her 18-year-old son discipline
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Punishing the young men with a belt or a hard-stricken instrument
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Without men, the domicile holds bars, but no fear
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Only an underrated parent can play it by ear
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Answer questions on where and how
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Where are we headed?
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But I don<6F>t understand; why do mother receive all the credit?
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3 Months:
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You ask us to be in the household
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To cover our kids when temper or cold
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Become the substitute, when a child<6C>s mind is badly influence
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Accuse us of adultery, but in the bedroom; what are you doing?
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Someone told me that, women are being independent
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But I hear songs; without men, there<72>s no reason for living
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What do you need us for? To buy or fix your vibrator
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So on June 19, we Fathers receive a hug, a card, and a
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"I<>ll see you later"
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Men are tired of these underrated antics
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See how our seeds grow, for without us, and take us for granted
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Born:
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It<EFBFBD>s a boy
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Ha, you want me now, huh
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I<EFBFBD>ll be back
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I need a cold case of the beer?!
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ATI - No longer abusing puts and calls since 1991
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`-' `
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Well, that's about it for ATI issue 317.
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Send all the stuff to
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ati@etext.org
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The Zine's semi-official website is at:
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http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist
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http://www.thepentagon.com/schoolofamericas
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or
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http://www.thepentagon.com/soa
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for all things reconsidered.
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Oh, and if you've got sense, you'll dial
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1-860-887-2600
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ext. 5293
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End with poetry
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BOLTCUTTERS
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by marco
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I dedicate the rest of my life
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to the name,
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and all that is called up
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when I say "Roberta Blackgoat."
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And that is all I can say for now.
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