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WAR IS OVER!
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Active-east Timor, Inc. Issue 155.
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Sunday. November 29, 1988. Durn near
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the half moon to boot; tomorrow's
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Abbie Hoffman's birthday.
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We Begin With a Poem
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by Ginger Pence
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Out in sea that drowns me
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Blue as the core from the sky
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I thank myself for knowing how to swim
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For my unconquered life
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In the ocean's tide of destruction
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I have cried aloud for help.
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under the busy sea floor I try to swim
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My arms are tired but not unusable.
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Beyond the sun are the cries of my voice
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loomed but not afraid of the tides,
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And yet I wonder if I'll live
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Forget yourself, and forget your soul.
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It matters not how I swim away
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Hurry to the green filled land
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I am lost of all hope,
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I am no longer alive.
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.-.-.-.-.
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- - - -
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"when people who are starving to death come up to you, in
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the street and ask you for money and you're deciding whether
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you're going to give them a quarter of a cent or a half a
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cent..."
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--Arlo Guthrie between shows in India this year saying it's
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not just corporate greed, or rich fat white americans - it's
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"a fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to be
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a human being."
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=#=
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...every government is trying to regulate it. But it
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will come up again in another way, like weeds growing
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up through cracks in cement."
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--A. Guthrie on a) marijuana?
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b) freedom?
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c) internet?
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d) all of the above?
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-=-=-=-=-=- oy! -=-=-=-=-=-
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Hello and welcome to ATI issue 155. I'm prime anarchist
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and I can't find my column. If I do, I'll stick it in here.
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Otherwise, read on with smiles...
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ans: (c) by the way...
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Yes, I was protesting war last weekend. You probably figured
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that out. Of all the people I saw there, I was happiest
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to see Anne Archy, I think. My first time seeing her in two
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years. A hug was almost good enough to make up for all the
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distance and time. I sure hope our circles cross many
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more times in our lives. She's got a really nice speaking voice
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and one of the most tonal singing voices I've ever heard out of
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a woman. Ever. Any human actually. Birds yes, Moose yeah, sure.
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But people? Go Anne; go Anne.
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It was wonderful to see Cal Roberts there too. He took
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Amtrak down from konetiuk I'll bet. What a great spirit. If you
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live where I come from you probably know him because he's that
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Stoningtonian whose temporary illness caused almost every single
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clergy of each denomination from three or four townships
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to drop whatever petty issues kept them centuries apart, and stand
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out there keeping his decades-running vigil for him in stodgy old
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New London County. They probably jumped in nice warm autos to and
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fro - rather than ride SEATs sucky bus system, but that gets us
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half way there, eh?
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Even my mother, who's Republican treasurer of my hometown (yes I
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forgive her it every day. How do I show her, she's where I get MY
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unchanging values???) mailed me news-clippings about "that protest
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guy." Cal, God Bless You. You've got the Baptists and the Catholics,
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the Unitarians and the Congregationals realizing even if they can't
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agree on lunch, they sure can get that Praxis cooking.
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So call that a prime anarchist column, and move on. "shoot move
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communicate, if you will..." I probably ought to name the other
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bunches of people I "hung with" who some-ways are bigger honors to
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know than Martin Sheen or Amy from the Indigo Girls; but suffice it
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to say these two well represent the others. Best durned "be in" I've
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been to since the last one! So where and when did it all begin?
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Thanks mom, thanks dad, thanks congregational church. Thanks Father
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Larry, and I'm not even catholic.
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Full circle, 1968-1998. Our movement's even bigger than the
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Beatles now.
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Prime Exhausted, and Still Landing From Such a Wonderful Weekend -
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Here's to many more...
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#
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"There's an old Arab saying: 'when the King puts the poet
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on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet.' I
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think of that every time I get a job on TV."
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--Pete Seeger
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"I don't think we have another 2000 years to learn
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the Sermon on the Mount."
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-ibid
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Oh when the "aint's" go marching in;
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Lord exclude me from that NUMBER...
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http://www.orn.net/~axels/welcome.htm
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http://www.billybragg.co.uk
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http://www.coffeeshoptimes.com
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http://www.monitor.net/rachel
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http://www.rethinkingschools.org
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http://www.timesoft.com/hopi/fireclan.htm
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http://www.askjeeves.com
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http://www.rpi.edu/~mccabd/rpithesis.html
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http://wormhole.org/IOunit
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http://come.to/pieman
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http://www.oz.net/~hayduke/Abbie/Abbiehoffman.html
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http://www.arlo.net
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http://www.judycollins.com
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From Barking Essex to Bethlehem, PA: It's Prime Anarchist's
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A T I !
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KEEP THOSE CARS AND LEADZEPPELINS COMING...
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Hey! Please check out my Fairuza Balk Page and sign
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the guestbook to let me know what you think!!
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3532/MsBalk.html
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Thanks!!
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~*Crystal*~
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TO ATI:
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I reviewed your comments about The Celestine Prophecy and,
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based upon those comments, I believe you would also appreciate
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An Encounter With A Prophet by C. A. Lewis.
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Check it out: The exact address is:
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965857409/anencountwithapr
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Michael
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kokopeli: Our Legal Counsel advised that we will accept your
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resignation.
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However, I need a signed letter from you requesting that you
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be allowed to resign, and that the status of your termination
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be changed from involuntary to voluntary. Since your
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employment is terminated during your probationary period,
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according to policy you will not be reimbursed for unused
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vacation leave, nor will you be reimbursed for incurred
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education expenses while employed by Northrop Grumman.
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1. As stated in the Benefits Summary "Any employee who
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terminates voluntarily or is terminated by Northrop Grumman
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prior to completion of his/her 90-working day probationary
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period will lose any vacation time accrued and will not be
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paid for any vacation time accrued."
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2. As stated in the Data System and Services Division Procedure
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DV H603 "Education Reimbursement Plan", Reimbursement Eligibility
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Requirements "Northrop Grumman employees applying for reimbursement
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of education costs must meet the following eligibility requirements:
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satisfactorily complete the 90 working-day probation period..."
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Your Probationary Period was extended for 60 days on June 26,
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1998 according to a memo I have in your Personnel File.
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Please mail your request for resignation to:
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Robert A. Layton
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Logicon, Inc. - A Norhtrop Grumman Company
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2411 Dulles Corner Park - Suite 800
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Herndon, VA 20171
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If you have questions concerning the above,
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call me at 703-713-4477.
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[er, um... Bob, only one problem. I don't
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work for you. hmmm. in that case, take
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this job and...]
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marco,
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A number of my critics, frothing at the mouth, remind me:
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"This is a free country. We have a free press....so how can
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you write the things you do?"
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Well, they are right this is a free country (relatively
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speaking). And with that freedom comes a corresponding
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responsibility. I have a responsibility as a "journalist"
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to speak the truth (as best I can tell it) about these
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matters.
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Thank you and keep up the good fight.
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-SG-
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A T I : Lacking Bravado For Almost Eleven Years =)
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(((((questions comments and concerns: ati@etext.org)))))
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"If ever anyone put his money where his mouth was, it was
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Harry; half of what he earned his last five years he donated
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directly to hunger organizations."
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Tom Chapin about his songwriter brother.
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"It takes a micro-brewery to buy a poet."
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-Lisa Martinovic
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-=-=-=-=-=- OP-ED -=-=-=-=-=-
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Ad in paper: $7 per hour plus travel expenses handling
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autistic children.
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Must have 1 year of college and a lot of patience.
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All well and good, but a couple years ago weren't you
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paying about 50K for that job??? Career? Benefits??
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Attention all corporations "handling autistic people:"
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E-mail me and show me what you used to pay and what you
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dole out now. Surprise me! I really want to know.
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Oh, and I speak for most average americans responding
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to an ad thusly.
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Don't even THINK of requiring a resume for a 5, 6 or 7 "per"
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job. I'll fill out an application, thank you very much. For me
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to boot up old WP and convert my resume to Word and print it on
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thesis paper, you'd better be offering me Congressperson's wages
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or you're just not getting me or ANY of my peers.
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Feck!
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The nerve of some people...
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-30-
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...Your business is important to us.
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That's why we're finally willing to
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Hire a bunch more 8/hr human beings
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To answer the phone physically so
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You don't have to hear a message like
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This which so conflicts our professed
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Philosophy...
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FLASH -=- MARC FRUCHT WITNESSES ABUSE OF HANDICAPPED PEOPLE AT
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MILITARY BASE. News From the School Of The Americas Protests.
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(SEMINOLE, Georgia) - "You're a liar," --Archbishop Romero
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recognizing someone in a Salvadoran Army General.
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This happened last Sunday. It is the truth as I saw it.
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Half our procession was on busses to the park for what we
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believed was to be our arrest. The other half, we had marched
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past "the line" where we were detained 2 hours awaiting the
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maxed-out busses. We were about 500 yards ahead of the people
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in wheelchairs who also wished to cross the line and risk
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arrest. We watched a left-tenant colonel verbally assault the
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humans in wheelchairs telling them they could not cross a new
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line he'd invented and that if they joined us over THAT line
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there'd be a worse penalty for them. They were afraid to move.
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We decided thru consensus that his saying they couldn't
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join us, did not cover us joining them. We stretched our line
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wide until the last four people, including me, stood right
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next to the people with wheelchairs. Somewhere between 15 and
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thirty of them.
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Two were crying, and they all agreed verbally they were
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quite relieved that we re-included them; for they felt isolated,
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in danger, and scared.
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The left-tenant returned. He began telling them that the
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busses had already taken the first wave of "criminals" to a
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park two miles away, that this second wave (us) would
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not be processed and we'd be taken by bus right off the base
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where the gate is, so we can wait for our "buddies."
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He told the people in wheelchairs they could save him the
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time, money and gas if they would just wheel themselves back
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off the base to where the other 5 to 7 thousand were singing,
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drumming and cheering us all on.
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I sensed a very dangerous lie had been paid out and the
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people were about to get hurt. It's a burden giving a shit,
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but I pressed forward with a skill that if I can say without
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bragging, I acquired in greater volume than this "colonel."
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"Sir!" I shouted from next to the people in wheelchairs.
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"Were the people on the first busses processed or NOT??"
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"Son!" he shouted as if I was some dumb GI under his
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command.
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"Are you in a wheelchair?" he barked turning toward me with
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the look of venom in his eyes.
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"No sir!" I parried his thrust as fast as I could. I suddenly
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realized I'd broken him and he was about to single me out for
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abuse. From my basic training skills and times where I'd lived
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through going beyond broken, I realized that if I said anything
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to his screams besides a barrage of "yes sir's" and "no sir's"
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he was going to spend 15 entire minutes hollaring at me while
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he built up his "plan b," in his pea-sized mollasses-in-january
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brain. My life was possibly in danger and hinged on my attention
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to that detail. My silence may have been just as dangerous,
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if not more.
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So I replied "yes sir; no sir," very rapidly to his launch of
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5 or 6 verbal assaults including something about my ass, and
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suggesting I get it away from the wheelchairs.
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"You do what you have to," he screamed angrily at the people
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in the wheelchairs, wheeled around and left walking tall with
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the self-assuredness of a pompous fool who deserves absolutely
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no one's respect outside of his small part of the United States
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Army.
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[nice of him to quote Martin Sheen at the end there.
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Emulation is the best form...]
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We all continued on rather than get tricked by the left
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tenant's attempt at damage reduction. We were bussed
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to the park where we too were processed and the people in
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wheelchairs were escorted off-base by other military people
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who treated them nicely I'm told.
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This good cop/bad cop junk is rapidly getting old.
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#
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(((((questions comments and concerns: ati@etext.org)))))
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Wail Activist Times... Full of Bravura, Full Of Grace...
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PAWN (Prime Anarchist World News) GREEN DAY PACKAGERS Defensive
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Rear End Reginald "Denny's" Wite will autograph his newly
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released book, "Black, Gay and Female People Suck," from 5:30
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to 5:45 pm Monday at Revolutionary Christian Right bookstore.
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Drawing on experiences both on and off the field, Wite uses
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his book to illustrate you really *can* win someone to Christ
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by beating them to a submissive pulp.
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<INLINE> -=-World News Photo-=-
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VICE PRINCIPAL AL GOORE, right, wears a tibetan-skin-skirt,
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posing for papparazzi Wednesday with Thai-dye Primal Minister
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Chuan Leekpipe at an OPEC retreat, held about 30 miles south
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of Foxwoods Casino in Malaysia.
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-=-=-=-=-=-
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the QUOTES AND MISQUOTES DEPARTMENT:
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compiled by the Republicrat.
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"Truman hadn't de-segregated the armed forces yet."
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[who said that, is he right???]
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"The revulsion against war not too long hence will be an almost
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insupportable obstacle for us to overcome. For that reason I
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am convinced that we must begin now to set the machinery in
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motion for a permanent war economy."
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General Electric. 1944. [I leave him nameless - faceless,
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like so many 12 million others...]
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"When I take bread and give it to the poor they call me a saint.
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But when I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
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Helder Camera. Brasil.
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"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils
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of militarism and the evils of racism."
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--The Martin Luther King Jr. Quote you
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ALL keep refusing to reprint...
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|CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: \
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|HACKER Poetry Wanted \
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|If you're a hacker, call \
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|yourself a hacker, or know\
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|one - send ATI a poem. Any\
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|topic, any style. Poems will\
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|be published in the order \
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|they are received. \
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|Send poetry to \
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| ati@etext.org \
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USA - Making the world safe for Paper Products.
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Hey WalMart. Buy THIS grocery store...
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A MATTER OF TIME
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very short poem by Marco Frucht
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US Economy.
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US Environ.
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US Elders.
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US Elite.
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Sustainable?
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How Much Longer.
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============================================================
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= ATI RESEARCH Project of the Week. =
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= Find out what Splenda (tm) is made up of besides =
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= calorie-free sugar. Some kind of new sweetener. =
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= It might even be good. =
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= RC Cola is using it instead of the dreaded aspertame. =
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= 1954 Royal Crown was the first in their field =
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= marketing soft drinks in cans. =
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= By 1958 they were first to introduce the 16-oz =
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= returnable bottle. =
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= 1964 - first to use aluminum cans. (ah, what a great =
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= time to be born...) =
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============================================================
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HURRY!
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a short poem by Steve Holst
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We must compose poetry quickly!
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Because it decomposes so fast.
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As usual, we end with poetry.
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This one doesn't have a title yet...
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I'm not seeing there's an Arrow for me.
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Everybody started honking honkingly at me.
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Now it's all green, green. And I'm going too slowly
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For everyone else I guess.
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Sorry-
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Go 'round. Have your correction
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Somewhere else.
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send all contributions, shouts, greets to ati@etext.org
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get back-issues at
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http://www.etext.org/Zines
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or http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/cygnus.html
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go to our ftp site at
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ftp://ftp.downcity.net/pub/ati
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alt.society.ati
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keeps getting active and then dying.
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Somebody help please.
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