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With tears and heavy heart I dedicate this
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issue to the late Pfc. Lori Piestewa of Tuba
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City.
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HOW MUCH MORE KADDISH KAN AMERIKA MAKE???
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ELIJAH, WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG?!?
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This week I give over my Publisher's Column to
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journalist Brenda Norrell. I think I've done
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this before. Enjoy this phenomenal analysis:
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BIG MOUNTAIN TO BAGHDAD: Bush's Coal and Oil
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Contributors Pave the Way
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By Brenda Norrell [ Originally pubbed in Navajo Times ]
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BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. -- The road from Big Mountain to
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Baghdad is short, it goes right through the White House.
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What makes Big Mountain and Baghdad sister cities?
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The oil and coal companies that contributed to
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President Bush's campaign.
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The proof is in the nation's energy plan, the U.S.
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Supreme Court ruling against the Navajo Nation in the
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Peabody coal royalty case and the corporate friends of
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Bush in line to profit from the rebuilding of Iraq and
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oil development after the war.
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As bombs fell on Iraq, American Indian activist Renee
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Still Day in Pueblo, Colo., pointed out that Bush has
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already lined up corporations who would benefit from
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billions of dollars in contracts. The corporations
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include Halliburton Company, where Vice President
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Dick Cheney served as CEO for five years.
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"This could have been solved diplomatically but
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that was never an option with this 'selected' leader
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of our country. The fact is he has already opened the
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door to Halliburton and other 'old buds' with contracts,"
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Still Day said.
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The five firms tentatively chosen for the rebuilding
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effort contributed $2.8 million in campaign contributions
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over the past three years, most going to Republicans.
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Those companies include Kellogg, Brown and Root, whose
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parent company is Halliburton. Bechtel, who helped
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rebuild Kuwait after the Gulf War and allegedly
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supplied weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s,
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and Flour.
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While heading Halliburton, an oil supply and development
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company, Cheney received $36 million in income in 2000.
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Those who contributed to Bush and Cheney's campaigns and
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careers are in line for contracts to rebuild roads, schools
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and hospitals and develop oil in Iraq. Iraq's oil reserve,
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estimated at 110 billion barrels, is the second largest in
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the world, exceeded only by Saudi Arabia.
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Follow the money
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From Big Mountain to Baghdad, from the Arctic National
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Wildlife Reserve to sacred sites throughout Indian country,
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the Bush-Cheney national energy plan focuses on increasing
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oil, coal and nuclear plants.
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From the beginning, Cheney's task force on energy development
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included those who contributed to his political campaign,
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including Peabody Coal. Cheney has refused to release the task
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force documents to the General Accounting Office, Time magazine
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and the Los Angeles Times report.
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Before gaining access to Cheney's energy task force, Peabody
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Coal, the largest coal company in the world, and its affiliates
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have given more than $900,000 to the Bush campaign.
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When Cheney's final energy report was released May 16, 2001,
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it called for additional coal production. Five days later
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Peabody issued a public stock offering, raising $60 million
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more than expected.
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Clean air standards for power plant emissions were rolled
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back; Bush reneged on a campaign pledge to restrict power
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plant emissions.
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Irl Engelhardt, chairman of Peabody, was a major contributor
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to the Bush-Cheney transition team, as Peabody lobbied for Bush
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to lower standards of arsenic levels in water. Peabody contributed
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$100,000 for the inauguration and $25,000 for a party honoring
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Bush May 21, 2002.
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Navajos have been resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain
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and elsewhere on Black Mesa, where Peabody uses the only source
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of drinking water to slurry coal. Meanwhile, Navajo live without
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runnning water and electricity in the area.
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"The president is friendly to energy, and so is the vice president,
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and thank God," said Fred Palmer, a vice president at Peabody Energy.
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Even before the Navajo Nation lawyers went before the U.S. Supreme
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Court to argue their case against Peabody Coal this year, the Bush
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administration took the unusual step of persuading the U.S. Supreme
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Court to rule against the Navajo Nation's $600 million case against
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Peabody.
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The Navajo Nation alleged that a conspiracy between energy companies
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-- including Peabody and the Salt River Project -- and the Interior
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led to the Navajo Nation being denied a fair royalty rate for its
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coal.
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The Department of Justice urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule
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against the tribe, saying the U.S. government could face "adverse
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consequences."
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"The decision below will encourage the filing of damages against
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the United States for breach of trust," Solicito General Ted Olsen
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wrote March 15, 2002. "At a minimum, such a development will subject
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the United States to costly litigation."
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it was irrelevant that former
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Interior Secretary Donald Hodel met behind closed doors with officials of
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Peabody Energy as he was deciding the royalty rate issue.
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The Supreme Court ruling against the Navajo Nation and in favor of
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Peabody in March came less than three weeks before war was launched
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in oil-rich Iraq.
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American Indians point to oil, treaties and losses in trust
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On Rosebud tribal land in South Dakota, Andrew Catt-Iron Shell, Sicangu
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Lakota and Eastern Cherokee, said large numbers of American Indians fight
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wars with little recognition or honor from the United States government
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who continues to dishonor their treaties.
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"How do they thank us? By ignoring treaty obligations mandated by the
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United States Constitution and perpetuating an atmosphere of animosity
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between our two sovereign governments," Iron Shell said.
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"It is really a sad world that the white man has created."
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Iron Shell said he is in full support of the soldiers who have chosen
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to serve the United States. His own grandfather served in the Armed
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Services before he was accepted as a United States citizen.
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American Indians were among the first U.S. military to leave for
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Iraq.
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"Many of our young Native men and women were again some of the very
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first to volunteer for duty in these challenging times," Iron Shell said.
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"It's very ironic to me personally, that we have been fighting the
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terrorism that has been bestowed upon our Indigenous Tribal Nations
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since 1492 but yet we still are the first to react to threats against
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our homeland now called America.
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"When Congress and the George W. Bush look at who sends the most
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warriors to battle to protect our Nation, I hope they realize that
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Indian Country has more volunteers to the Armed Services per our
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specific population than any other race in this country."
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In Pueblo, Colo., Still Day said in this war, for the first time
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since its war of genocide against American Indians, "The United
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States is the aggressor, the bully, the warmonger.
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"No one supports Saddam Hussein, he is an abomination and a
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horrible person, but who made Bush God?
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"That we could defeat Saddam was a foregone conclusion, this
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was not even a question in anyone's mind. But we should never
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forget that the actual weapons that Bush claimed Saddam had,
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came directly from Bush the first, Donald Rumsfeld and the
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whole band of renegades that now attack him."
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Still Day said we now live in a police state where an
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attorney in New Mexico was arrested for speaking out against
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Bush and demonstrators are arrested for wearing peace shirts.
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"The government is now talking about those who placed themselves
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as human shields in Iraq to protect the civilians, suggesting that
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they be prosecuted at traitors. These were nuns, Medal of Honor
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winners, decorated war veterans and people of conscience, who
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went there unarmed to protect the innocent.
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"Now they will be labeled at traitors? What next?"
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Still Day said Bush has set a dangerous precedence.
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"If a country doesn't like another country's leader, this action
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says, "it is now acceptable to take them out."
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"With all the enemies Bush has made across the world and the danger
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that he poses to them, he has set himself up as the possible next target."
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Still Day points out that American Indians know too well what it means
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to place oil in trust.
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"The oil of Iraq will now be placed 'in trust' for the people of Iraq,
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according to Colin Powell. Anyone living in Indian Country already knows
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how that will work, it won't!
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"This war was for oil, for the Bush cronies and damned what the rest of
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this country or the rest of this world believed. Calling for impeachment,
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Still Day said, "I support the impeachment of Bush and all his cronies
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for war crimes and the rejection of our Constitution."
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Danny Zapata, a supporter of the struggle at Big Mountain who lives in
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Europe, said the real machinery behind the war in Iraq is oil, not human
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rights.
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"When our peoples' hear and remember these words from Bush saying we're
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there in Iraq to fight for their freedoms, their human rights to
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self-determination, sovereignty and to liberate them from oppression,
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hey great! When can we start that in America?
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"It's hard to have any remorse for bullies, whether they are Saddam
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Hussein or this sawed-off version of a trigger happy Texan cowboy."
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On the Northwest coast, Victoria Redstarr, Nez Perce and descendant
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of Chief Joseph, said the war will expose America at its root.
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"The forces that started this war are the same forces that went
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against us, as a people. In some strange sense, this war is showing
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the world how evil those forces really are.
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"The divide it is creating throughout our country and the world is
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very telling. Very essential. We mustn't back down from the challenge
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to get even stronger spiritually -- together.
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"We can't be afraid!"
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Meanwhile, on Interstate 20, driving through West Texas, the plumes
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of smoke rising over the oil and gas refineries of west Texas -- where
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the legacy of "Bush and friends oil" began mirrors the smoke rising
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from the bombing of Baghdad.
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On a lonely dirt road, a flock of large, black and shining vultures,
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one by one, picks over the corpse of a dead animal as the bombs of the
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United States and allies fall on Iraq. Crossing west Texas as the bombs
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fall on Iraq, in truck stops and on talk radio, there are racial slurs
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about Arabs and Moslems.
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One radio host, aired in Odessa, says Northern Korea should also be
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bombed because North Koreans have bad attitudes.
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But not everyone is in favor of the war, even in Bush country.
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And now, the numbers:
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http://skippy.com
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http://www.xiph.org
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http://www.tldp.org
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http://whitehouse.org
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http://www.cokewatch.org
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http://www.imnotready.com
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http://www.onlinejournal.com
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http://www.protest-records.com
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http://www.rationalanarchism.org
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http://www.justpeacecoalition.org
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http://www.thethursdayshow.com/peace
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http://www.skeptictank.org/flist018.htm
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http://electroniciraq.net/news/488.shtml
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http://members.aol.com/drovics/cokel.htm
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/recommends
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http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/aaron.htm
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http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04032003.html
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=308385
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http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=303
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http://www.petertatchell.net/international/kissinger2.htm
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http://www.quechuanetwork.org/news_template.cfm?news_id=672&lang=s
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0404missingsoldiers-ON.html
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http://www.bubblemonkey.org/cheesencrackers/txt/005-crackheadz.txt
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http://chefmoz.org/United_States/AZ/Tuba_City/Tuba_City_Truck_Stop_Cafe983937662.html
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AIRPLAY 101
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By Bryan Farrish
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Payola (part 5 of 5), What You Can Do
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1) http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati334.txt
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2) http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati341.txt
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3) http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati344.txt
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4) http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati349.txt
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A lot of what small indies can do is covered by the previous fifty
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Airplay 101 articles. These articles are, after all, designed to
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show you how you can push your own record to radio, using your
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own phone calls, for a minimal cost. At a higher level, however,
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the articles also show you how to work with a radio promoter(s)
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who will do it for you.
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Specifically, however, regarding paying money to stations, here is
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what small indies can do. Keep in mind that this is high-level stuff
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for small indies, and it is not cheap; it should be used only after
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ALL your other basic promotion, booking, and PR has been
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taking care of. This means that, only after you have set up the
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budget for standard PR for 6 months ($6000 to $20,000), along
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with standard radio promo for 3 months ($3000 to $20,000), and,
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you also have a full-time person who handles booking (in-house
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or agent,) you then can consider some of the options below.
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Retail promotion and marketing is not mentioned here, because it
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is just not a feasible area for a new label/artist who is putting out
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their very first release, with no experience; your sales should
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instead be at your gigs, only.
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BUYING ADS: Do this before you do a show in each station's
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market. You are probably trying to get to the late-night crowd, so
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ask the stations for a one-week flight with a frequency of 3 or 4 in
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7p-mid. This will run you about $300 per station in small markets,
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and $1000 to $5000 per station for medium markets. You would
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do well to leave major markets alone.
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GIVE-AWAYS: If you have cheap access to merchandise or
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trips, then give them to the station for use as on-air give-aways, in
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return for "tagging" the artist's name as the provider of the items.
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Talk to the PD about this, not the salespeople. Good merch
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would be DVD's, TV's, computers, etc., and they should be
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available in quantity for each station.
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MARKETING PIECES: If you are in any way capable of helping
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a station get it's name out to the public, you can trade this for free
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commercials or other things. Can you print 10,000 of their
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bumper stickers for them (per station)? Can you print 10,000
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flyers of one of their upcoming events, and distribute the flyers to
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200 places around town (per station)? Can you put up street
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signage at 100 places around town (per station) if the stations
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provide you with the signs? Can you get 500 to 1000 new
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people to sign up to the station's email list? Can you promote the
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station's site so that it shows up in the top 5 of whatever search
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they tell you to do? Can you call 500 people on the phone and
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invite them to come out to the station's next remote? Whatever
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you are good at, or whatever you have the time to do, talk to the
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PD and see about a trade. Don't plan on putting your artist-info
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on any of the printed marketing pieces, however.
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STREET PROMOTIONS: If you are good at organizing people
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who are spread out around the country, then set up an organized
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campaign, and convince people to contact each station's
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promotion director in order to volunteer to help with street
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promotions in their local towns. You'll probably have to run paid
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ads in the local papers to get the volunteers, and, you'll need to
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keep in contact with them in order to keep them motivated.
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VEHICLES: If you can get good deals on used vans, trucks or
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SUV's, then you can get one for each station, (again) in trade for
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commercials or some other promotion. If you can arrange for the
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vehicles to come pre-wrapped with the station's logo, all the
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better. Don't expect to be able to put your artist info on it,
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however. Vehicles are good because as long as they are
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running, the stations will remember who provided them.
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Conclusion: Paying stations is not a tool for a small indie to get
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airplay. The alternate options presented above are for individuals
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who have the money, who have already hired PR, radio, and
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booking personnel, and who are looking to build consumer
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awareness in smaller markets so they can ink a reasonable
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distribution deal and book more and bigger gigs.
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Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion is an independent radio
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airplay promotion company. http://www.radio-media.com.
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Poetry ends the week out:
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Grief: The Knife
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by BMC
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You bought me a knife for Christmas, standard Army and Navy issue. There
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was a compass in the top, but it never pointed the right direction.
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Still, it was perfect for cutting the twine on hay bales. Square bales,
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second cut, waterlogged. At minus twenty, frozen. About 40 pounds each.
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We carried one in each hand and forced our bodies forward.
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Down in the dugout we fed the cows. Fresh snow had covered the trampled
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bedding, so we grabbed new straw. Fifteen bales, thirty red strings.
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Like villains we hacked and hewed, kicking each blonde pile free of its
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binding. The knife was so sharp I could cut off the dead cow's frozen
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ears and sew them into a mitten for my sister.
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Before spreading out the straw, we flopped down in the pile and smoked a
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couple of hand-rolled cigarettes pulled from an empty pack of Acklands
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bolts. The paper cracked with fire and we thought maybe the whole
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universe was one big cigarette and we were just a shred of tobacco that
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would eventually be smoked.
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Later, when you attacked me in the tractor barn, I said I'd kill you with
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your own knife, right in that same spot where they found you five years
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later.
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PROVERBIAL PROVERB
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Pride Goeth Before The Drink
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"COCA-COLA AND THE CONTOUR BOTTLE DEVICE ARE
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REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY."
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Send lettuce to the edifice to:
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ati@etext.org
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Go to our never-official website at:
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/infomaniack.html
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or
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html
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