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MARCO THE WALKER
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an Interview with the Prime Anarchist
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by David Fischer. May 1993
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from Infinite Onion magazine.
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Issue 8
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Today Marco the walker is in Washington DC doing some advance activism
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for the walk which is right now in Columbus, OH. They expect to arrive
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in DC October 7th. There is a homeless occupation from October 3rd to
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November 3rd (election day) and also Veterans for Peace are on a 42 day
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hunger strike on the capitol steps. Another walk that's meeting Marco's
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walk started in Panama. Also there are many caravans, runs and walks
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throughout Turtle Island. Most are expected to converge on the Nevada
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Test Site... which rightfully belongs to the western Shoshone people.
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AIM is calling for October 13th to be "unplug America" day. Marco
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is hoping that everyone will spend the whole day riding a horse, reading
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a book, walking around or just relaxing. No appliances please, and
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hopefully at least no television.
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HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WALKING?
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I joined up on February 28 in Black Mesa, AZ.
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DO I NEED TO ASK WHAT COMPELLED YOU? YOU'RE GRINNING.
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I was in a sweatlodge ceremony and Husky Tso came in for the 3rd
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round sharing info about the walk. He spoke to me in prayer and I
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found myself dropping everything else in my life to begin my walk
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from Arizona to DC.
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WHAT IS THE WALK ABOUT?
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We are people from all the 4 colors from all the four directions
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gathering to speak out against the last 500 years of genocide,
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repression, racism and continued injustice toward my native American
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brothers and sisters. Being a black Russian Jew, a white Russian Jew
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and a Swedish Christian, I have nothing but compassion for the
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victims of the last 500 years of American holocaust. There is nothing
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I can do about the past except smile warmly and say sorry; but for
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the future I will not tolerate another 500 years of this shit. Not
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while I'm around anyways.
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WHAT'S A TYPICAL RESPONSE WHEN YOU DRIFT INTO TOWN?
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Wow. A typical response. I hate picking on rednecks, but there's been
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a few in every town we went to through OK, KS, NB, SD, IA and IN.
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"Where are you walking to?" they say as we hand them a flyer that
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says we're walking to DC.
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"What are you walking for?" they say as they read the only 2
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paragraphs that describe why we walk. After we tell them about it,
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they usually just say "Wow, that's a long way." We ARE seeing a lot
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of people waking up everywhere though. Today Elad and I had an Amway
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looking guy tell us our presence took him back to his younger days
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when he drove around in a VW bus during college. We figured that was
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before he met Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin and found he could get himself
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lost in network multilevels and stuff. Our convoy made him late for
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his appointment. Who knows maybe he'll tell his boss where to stick
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it and we'll see him in short little dreadlocks throwing his shampoo
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bottle from the world trade center or something.
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IS THERE A CONNECTION TO BIG MOUNTAIN? WHAT IS IT?
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CRAZIEST STORY?
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WHAT CONVINCED YOU TO JOIN THE aRMY AND WHAT CONVINCED YOU TO GET OUT?
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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE RIOTS STARTED?
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WHAT IS THE FUEL OF THE REVOLUTION, IS IT RICE?
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(CON'T NEXT ISSUE...)
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[ed note: there seems to be no issue 112 on the etext server.
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and this story doesn't continue on to issue 113. We'll try
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to find this some other way. (May take a while!)] |