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Channel surfing some yesterday, I ended up on VH-1.
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I probably watched the last 2/3 of a show about Milli
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Vanilli getting caught lip-sinc'ing.
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"Girl, you know it's (not) true."
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I won't even go NEAR Hitler's "big lie" and any current
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parallels. But I should bring up something else about the
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music industry. When Milli Vanilli got caught there was
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outrage. Why? Because there was a belief that no one does
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that. There was a certain purity perceived. What happened
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when Britney got caught? She argued, she stood up and fought
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for herself. If she wants to do that, she can. No one's going
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to stop her, and no one's going to call her less of a rock
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star for it. She stayed ontop. There is no longer any outrage
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is there? Everyone seems to do it at some or all of their shows
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now, huh? There's no easy way to tell if someone you see on a
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television screen is lip-sinc'ing is there?
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[ http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=179567 ]
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But there's something much worse.
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Memorize the lyrics to your favorite song. Sing them into
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your computer in something -- anything that resembles the right
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rhythm and meter. Just get it close. Anunciate every word right.
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Don't worry about pitch, don't worry about much really, just get
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it onto a .wav or an .mp3 and get it to me.
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Using just cool edit and sound forge I WILL GIVE YOU A MUSIC
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MAKEOVER THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD SPIN.
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"Who is that. Is that me???"
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You betcha. Pitch, tone, volume, there's almost nothing that
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cannot be fixed now. In fact, we can build all that in a petry
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dish. You don't have to bring a single thing with you musically
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anymore.
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If you have perfect breasts, or washboard abs, no one is going
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to care. In fact, it'll serve the industry much better (how come
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whenever I see the word "industry" next to the word "music" I
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think Hormel??) if you don't bring any music with you. None at
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all. Your voice won't need to be perfect. It needs to be
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PERFECTIBLE.
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That is all. They can do the rest, and they'd prefer to.
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First look at Shakira. If you've ever heard her spanish music
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before any US corporations got ahold of her you'd know she can
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sing. She sings really well. She has a voice like no other.
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LIKE NO OTHER.
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No one sounds like her, and she sounds like no one else. And
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she used to bring that to her songs when she interpreted moods,
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and put music to melodies and rhythms in a way that made all
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your neck hair stand on end.
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Now, what. "Underneath Your Cloths."
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Who wrote it? Does it matter anymore? I don't even want to
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find out, really. The last time I went hunting for who wrote
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a song it was either a Britney song or a Christina song, and
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it was co-written with 9 middle aged white men. How do ten
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people set about co-writing a song anyhow??? Do they each
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push down one note on a piano, while the others build a chord?
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But I digress.
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Is there a sub-reason Shakira's "crossover album" is titled
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"Laundry Service?" Are there Mafiosos in Putumayo, Colombia
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and Houston, Texas laughing at all the rest of us? Especially
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when we pay $14 for it new?
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And last up, I'd better pick on Grammy-Nominated Craig David.
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Maybe he's talented maybe not. He's been "Grammy-Nominated"
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since before I'd ever heard of him. It seems he was born
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Grammy-Nominated. I doubt we'll ever know. At least with
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Shakira I knew how much talent she came up with, despite
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all that.
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What can I say? He's certainly not the first to do it,
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but he's letting them do it to his voice more than I've
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heard from anyone else so far. And you're going to laugh
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but truth be told, I've taken apart about a dozen hit
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songs this last year, and analyzed them. The ONLY (you
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heard right, the only) song that didn't have any pitch
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shifting was a Britney Spears song. She sings her own
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music??? How novel. The pitch fixer. Are you even aware
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it exists anymore? When Cher did it, did it bug you?
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At all???
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It certainly bothered me. Not because of Cher, but what
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it indicated to me for the future of the music world. I
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asked myself right then, what if people get used to this?
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If we all put up with it?
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Craig David.
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Need I say more? It seems they've fixed more than half
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his notes. Will we ever know? Will it matter? It's a small
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lie compared to the bigger ones all around him, huh? All
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around us really.
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Will we spend our entire life in denial?
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#s
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http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?020513ta_talk_mcnamer
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http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21559
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http://www.leftcurve.com/LC24WebPages/artrat.html
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http://members.ams.chello.nl/jsteenis
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http://www.wave.coop/info/links.html
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http://www.notowar.com/media.html
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http://www.holt.org/images/koko
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
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http://www.newworldpeace.com
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http://nymphs.org/~bobcat
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http://www.dyne.org
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http://www.snowshoefilms.com
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http://www.holt.org/kokopelli
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http://www.thewoodstockspirit.org
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http://www.turner.com/planet/static
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http://www.hardtimes.com/recipes.htm
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http://www.webmaster.crevier.org/beatles
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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=6375
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http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Shiitake_Mushrooms
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http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4584
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ASK A ROUGH QUESTION?
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How come when a friend of mine sent me notice about
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Patch Adams coming to lecture, I quickly received a
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spam at my ISP's email address from Patches, a colorful
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clown who's going to tell me all about quitting smoking
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if I'll only send them some nominal amount of cash?
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And how come when I wrote something unfavorable about
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Pfizer corporation including how they lobbied so hard
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for "fast-trac" which excludes product testing so now
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they can put narcotics like viagra, norvasc, zoloft, and
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zithromax right onto the market, whether they're safe or
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not. Woops - run-on sentence again - how come minutes later
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I get no less than five (count them 5) spams in my ISP's
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email inbox about how I can buy all the viagra I want
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online without even having a prescription?
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NEWSWATCH
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More Newspaper Consolidation
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a local update by Kristian Knutsen.
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(reprinted from Insurgent newspaper)
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I'm typing this in from a newspaper I just read because I
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find it very important to the grand scheme of things. I'll
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include this as a newswire article while I prepare it as
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a feature story too I think.
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-30-#marco#-30-
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In February, Lee Enterprises Inc., an Iowa-based newspaper
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chain with a 50% interest in MNI (Madison Newspapers, Inc.)
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announced a $694M deal to acquire Howard Publishing, Inc.,
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a newspaper chain with 16 dailies nationwide, from New York
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to California. MNI is publisher of The Capital Times and
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The Wisconsin State Journal.
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When the two Madions dailies formed MNI, Lee, the owner of
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State Journal, became half owner of MNI, sharing control with
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the Capital Times Company. Currently, MNI contracts with Lee
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for State Journal editorial content, while The Capitol Times
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Co. is contracted for Times editorial content.
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With this addition, Lee will have a 1.1 million and 1.2 mil
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daily and Sunday circulation, respectively, and will be the
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twelfth largest newspaper chain in the US.
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While the issue of media consolidation is usually associated
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with global behemoths like AOL Time Warner, Vivendi Universal
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or News Corp., the newspaper industry has also experienced an
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ongoing wave of acquisition, consolidation and "downsizing."
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Ranging from giants such as Gannett (owner of USA Today and
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numerous papers across Wisconsin), Knight-Ridder, Times Mirror,
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and Tribune, to smaller players like Lee, the newspaper industry
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is dominated by growing chains. Many dailies have disappeared
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because of this consolidation.
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Often when company gains ownership of more than one paper
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in a city, it wil close one. In the last decade, the Lincoln
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Journal (one of Lee's cuts), Anchorage Times, Shreveport Journal,
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Tulsa Tribune, Pittsburgh Press, El Paso Herald-Post, and
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Nashville Banner have all disappeared.
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http://www.webactive.com/webactive/cspin/cspin980703.html
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[A realaudio interview with Richard McCord, discussing
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his book, The Chain Gang: One Newspaper Vs. The Gannett
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Empire.]
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http://www.shepherd-express.com/shepherd/19/12/news_and_views/media_musings.html
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[Dave Berkman column about "anti-trust violations, breach
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of contract, extermination campaigns, deceit, bribes, lies,
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threats, under-the-table deals, circulation scams, broken
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promises--anything that would make a buck..."]
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http://www.sfaol.com/mccord/mccord.html
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[other McCord articles in Santa Fe Always Online]
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http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/history
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[historical account of a small paper refusing to become
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Gannett-victimized with the "Chain Gang" story centered
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in its context.]
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ATI - No longer abusing puts and calls since 1991
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ALIA'S STORY: DETAINED IN MILWAUKEE AND LATE TO A-20
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Most of what follows is transcript of an interview Alia Kate
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gave to my friend Brian Long and his co-producer Stokely Baksh
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near a Taco Bell in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC., after she
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and her travelling companions were detained at Milwaukee's
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Mitchell International Airport on their way to joining us for
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a weekend of protests, rallies and demonstrations.
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It was disturbing to hear that night that most of the group
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hadn't made it, wasn't allowed to leave the ground, that they
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had been put on a "no fly" list, and that there was only a
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possibility they could try again the next day. That morning
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they made it on, but that caused them to miss all the morning
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marches, and instead they would meet up with us at a rally at
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the National Mall later that day.
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I could recount the rest of this story, but Alia's video
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interview tells all this much better than I could.
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As soon as we got to the airport we all went to check in.
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As soon as they got our names they said the computer was locked.
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The sheriff came and the first thing she said was grab your bags
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and follow me, we have to do some further questioning.
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I found out I was the second person that happened to. There was
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a database of names that the FBI or Air Marshalls had compiled and
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that my name or another name had been linked to a terrorist.
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So I went to an office for about 20 minutes. Three or four Sherrifs
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asked me questions. If I was from Milwaukee, if I lived here my whole
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life, what my nationality was. It turned out that I was part Iranian.
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They asked if it was my mother or father who was Iranian, when he came
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here, if he was a citizen, if I travelled anywhere outside the United
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States before.
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I've been to a lot of places, then they just told me that there was
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this guy who had been arrested and he was Indonesian and linked with
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Al Qaeda, and he was a bomb maker or something like that, so they were
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on extra alert. They also told me that only about four people a day
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are usually procedurally stopped. So after they made phone calls and
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checked with immigration to make sure I wasn't who they suspected. I
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had to have my bag screened extra, I had to go through a hand check
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of all my bags, then a special metal detector.
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I guess that was only the start of it because when the rest of our
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group came in about 20 more were flagged, and those were people varying
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from college students, high school students, nuns and priests were
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stopped. It appeared to have no order. The first thing that went through
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my mind was maybe it was because of my nationality. Because my name sounds
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a little Arabic; I don't know. As soon as people started getting grouped
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together then there were 20 of us, we started to wonder exactly what was
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going on.
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We didn't find out until later, they said they were holding us indefinitely
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until they could process us all through immigration. Meanwhile our plane left.
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Midwest did all they could but it was someone higher up than Midwest that gave
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the order.
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HOW LONG WERE YOU AT THE AIRPORT?
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We were at the airport from around 4:45 pm til about 9:30. One
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of us called every single major network in the city. By the time our plane
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was about to leave all of us had been processed but they still said no, we
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couldn't get on.
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DO YOU HAVE ANY SORT OF A CRIMINAL RECORD THAT WOULD LEAD
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ANYONE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE A DANGEROUS TERRORIST?
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[laughs]
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No criminal record. Only thing I'm guilty of is being a peace activist.
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WHAT GROUP ARE YOU WITH?
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Peace Action Wisconsin. One of the sherrifs said early on
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that the reason we were flagged was probably because we were
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going to Washington to rally and lobby.
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WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GET BACK?
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We're going in on Monday to lobby our senators here about Plan
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Colombia and we're also going to consequently mention what
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happened at the airport. We'll go back and do followups with
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all the news stations, letters to the editors, get the word
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out as much as possible.
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WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CRIMINALISATION OF DISSENT AND
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THE INCREASING EQUATING OF ACTIVISM WITH TERRORISM IN THE WAKE
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OF SEPTEMBER 11?
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I think it's absolutely rediculous. They have us flagged out for
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being some kind of dissident terrorist organization, and in fact
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we're coming out here to protest those things. And we're coming
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out here to participate in the democratic process of lobbying our
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congress and there they are stopping our democratic rights,
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they're violating our rights.
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IS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE FLOWN SINCE SEPTEMBER 11TH?
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Yes. I was no where near expecting any of this to happen.
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SO YOU'RE THINKING OF CHANGING ANY PLANS?
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Actually I'm coming back here again soon.
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HAVE FUN
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It'll be interesting.
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[ref]=[http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc042702.html]
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[ref]=[http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21891]
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[ref]=[http://mke.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=278]
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Well, that's about it for 318, huh?
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Send good stuff to ati@etext.org
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Bad stuff to primeanarchist@thepentagon.com
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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 extention 5293 |