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Give Thanks '02. Special FTA issue.
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Free Sticker inside! *
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Activist Times, Inked.
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Sunday. 2191 hrs. (basically, 1031pm)
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Oh, it's 24Nov. Thanksgiving's almost upon
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us. And did you see that moon last nite?
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Wow! So, do you know what "FTA" stands for?
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Hi, welcome to another chapter in ATI history.
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I'm prime anarchist and, well. Here we go again...
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sifodoh
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(sitting in front of dahmer's old house)
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My mom sent me news clippings from our home-town paper,
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as she often does.
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On the back of a clipping was a complete local police
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log. Let me share a snapshot without naming names or
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anything. I won't even list the violations. Just the
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ages. Ready?
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26,18,25,20,19,21,44,24,33,37,21,28,27,47,46,32,
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43,23,19,49,33,38,27,30,32,36,33,31,22,35.
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Seven women, all the rest men. (assuming that names
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will indicate gender fairly precisely)
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Now that I'm in my late 30s I OUGHT TO be able to
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say let's just criminalize the act of being male between
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25-35 years old, right?
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Oh wait. Two things occur to me.
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1) I won't believe in or stand for any kind of profiling
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2) We already do that as a nation, don't we?
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___________
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I ought to mention a thing or two about the Klan, Nazis,
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National Alliance and World Church of The Creator coming
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and going yesterday, huh?
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1) they suck.
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2) they're silly looking
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3) someone should tell them how much they suck.
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4) have I mentioned that they suck?
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-30-
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Need more #'s?
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http://www.anada.net
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http://www.mnftiu.cc
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http://www.webzine.ws
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http://liquid2k.com/srp
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http://www.complacent.org
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http://sfkids.linefeed.org
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http://www.bluesforpeace.com
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http://www.soawne.org/links.html
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http://members.chello.nl/jsteenis
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http://www.agitacionrecords.cjb.net
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http://counterpunch.org/detainee.html
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http://www.navajotimes.com/comment.html
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http://members.optushome.com.au/steak/addendum
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http://free.freespeech.org/kokopeli/grudge.html
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http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=39261
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http://atlanta.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9720
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http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20021118.html
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http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102%257E8862%257E1006965,00.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,839520,00.html
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http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/1803531/detail.html
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http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/bombproject/Index.html
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm/frantionindymedia.mp3
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http://www.lies.com/wiki/index.cgi?WinonaRyderOnTrial
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http://www.mindspring.com/~robinwwc/rk/p4p.html
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http://resistir.info/varios/liberdades_eua.html
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http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1123-01.htm
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http://www.netfeed.com/~jhill/ebc.htm
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http://kennesawsummit.kennesaw.edu
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http://www.honolulujazzscene.net
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http://www.snowshoefilms.com
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http://angstmonster.org/txt
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http://infinitematrix.net
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http://www.spysource.net
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http://www.grannyd.com
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http://nothingness.org
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$ NOW 4 MORE LETTUCE:
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to ati@etext.org
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Greetings:
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In Chicago, John Frycek is a top security consultant,
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veteran licensed private investigator and a Certified
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Protection Specialist who has over 19 years of experience.
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He has and continues to perform private sector services
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in counter-terrorism security for some of Chicago's
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largest corporations and top-level executive personnel.
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He has a "hard hitting" and focused out look on security
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in the private and public sector. His commentary is
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interesting and also alarming about how corporate America
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really cares about their bottom line more than the true
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safety of the public.
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...
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Nora V. Amerazian, PPS, CIS, LPD
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[{snip for bandwidth considerations} ed note: this is
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a fascinating read, but I'm perplexed why this zine
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was in receipt of this email. Oh well...]
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to ati@etext.org
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Are you there?
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FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE:
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Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed
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Introduction:
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Aside from tricks of the mind, Neuro Lingui...
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Debra
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[ed note: wtf??? Read on]
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to ati@etext.org
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This is a especially for you!
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FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE:
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Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed
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Introduction:
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Aside from tricks of the mind, Neu...
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Dianne
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to ati@etext.org
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Hello again.
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FREE SEDUCTION GUIDE:
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Sweep Women Off Their Feet and Into Your Bed
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Introduction:
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Aside from tricks of the...
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Desiree
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IT'S ALL ABOUT JAZZ!
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Q. What is the difference between a pizza and
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a Jazz musician?
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A. A pizza can feed a family of four!
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What is it about Jazz that makes a Jazz musician
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stick to a form of music that A&R managers have
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scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a
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musician's surest route to death by starvation?
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One good reason would be the fact that Jazz allows
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me to be myself as opposed to Pop that wants me to
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be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage
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wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop
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album released by some genius A&R manager, titled
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'mai bhi Madonna' (i'm Madonna too). Jazz as you
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will see, and if you've heard about 'mai bhi Madonna',
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helps me retain my individuality and what's left of my
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sanity in this big mad world of music marketing. Jazz,
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the most open, alive and evolving form of music, is
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the medium i choose to communicate and express myself
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musically. I know a lot of people in the audience may
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not understand my intense shoobee-doo-wop, shoobee-
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doobee-doo-wop and emotive twidlee-didlee, didlee-doo-
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dah along with some sensitive chaka-chaka, shaka-dish-
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boom-thaak. But there's always the few who can 'feel'
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what they can't figure. Most of the time the message i
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communicate may read 'hey brother, how about a loan..
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i'm broke again' but when i have someone in the
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audience enjoying my music, i become a millionaire.
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Colin D'Cruz
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http://www.hullocheck.com
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to ATI
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If you check out some websites monitoring hate groups--
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the Anti-defamation League, Klanwatch, etc.--I think that
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you will find that a member of the World Church of the
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creator was involved in a fatal shooting spree several
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years back in Illinois and Indiana, directed against
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African-Americans, Jews, and Asians.
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WINTERBYBEE
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TOPIC 4 WIDE CONSUMPTION:
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KU KLUX KLAN: Paramilitary,
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or secret leadership of a nation?
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1ST & 4TH: Some Close The SOA Journal Notes.
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All the hotels are full.
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I just watched our night auditor turn away
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a local couple. It's surely going to be the
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largest gathering at this gate ever.
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Lede story: Thousands Of Tens Storm SOA.
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Karl Meyer
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Gary Asbeck onstage saying, "Oh, and I'm
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an anarchist." [Applause!!!]
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Fortune Cookie: For a good cause, wrongdoing
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may be virtuous.
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ATI- Billings Denmark Anarchy Symbols
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GRAFFITI ON BOWLING GREEN TRUCKSTOP BATHROOM WALL:
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No Christian Democrats
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Democrats are
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Baby Killers, liars and
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Cheats too.
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And
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Communist whoremongering
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Clintonite Sons of bitches.
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[] Song idea -- parody of "Some Gave All"
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about going to jail for justice.
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Counter protest played "Ballad of the Green
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Berets" after a Dylan song. Also Lennon's "Revolution"
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at some point. They just don't get it, do they?
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Book Review: Brett Axel's "Disaster Relief Poems."
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Brett in this book is like Anais Nin on acid.
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"Disaster" should be required reading to any
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expository lit class where anyone has the nerve
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to say they're "with-it" enough to teach.
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5pm Wednesday. I had my first BK Veggie at the
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Union of the local landgrant college just now.
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I Was depositing my paycheck from tomorrow afternoon's
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gig so I said what the heck.
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Not bad. Good enough that if their place is my only
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choice, on any given hunger-moment, (tienes hambre?) I
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now have the option of that, fries and a tea or coffee.
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Yay.
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After the sacred marriage of Shannon Kiel and Michael
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Grass, the entire wedding party's head table walked up
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the street to the local Klan rally dressed to the 9s
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with their two piece plastic champaign glasses in one
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hand and signs saying things like "NO HATE," and "KLAN
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= TERRORISM" in the other.
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Y2KM1LK
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Pain
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Is a constant
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Companion
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Wow, what song is this? It's like Jane's Addiction
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meets the Stray Cats!!!
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SEGUE
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AIRPLAY 101
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By Bryan Farrish
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http://www.radio-media.com
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Why Clear Channel is Irrelevant for Indies
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After endless concerns in the indie community about radio
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consolidation and Clear Channel, I'm here to tell you
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that it should be of no concern to you. Regular rotation
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on large stations (Clear Channel or otherwise) in major
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or medium markets is not available now... nor has it ever
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been... (for over 30 years) to small indie releases and
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artists any more than McDonalds is available to you to
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market your indie toys.
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Remember McDonalds' 10-year marketing agreement with
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Disney? Before it happened, do you think you had any
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chance at all of getting your indie toy into McDonalds?
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That situation is the equivalent of you trying to get
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your indie release into regular rotation on medium and
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major stations. Consolidation or no consolidation,
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trying to get a product with entry-level marketing onto
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the largest media outlets in the world is a terribly
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misplanned idea. (This applies, of course, to new
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acts/labels releasing their first or second record
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on their own.)
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So why all the hoopla? Because news outlets know that
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you'll read it. And when you read it, they get paid.
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News outlets (like the LA Times and salon.com) need to
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print things that you are worried about, so you will
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log on and/or purchase copies, or else they will close
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down. Since the worst fear of all musicians is not
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having their music heard, if the publications tell you
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how the biggest radio stations are not going to play you,
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they know you will pay attention and read.
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But just because you are just now learning how difficult
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the large stations are, does not mean that it used to be
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any easier. Fact is, if you were trying to release your
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own record (even on AM radio) in the 60's and 70's, you
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would have been going directly up against Capitol, RCA,
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ABC, Atlantic, CBS, and the other major labels at the
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time. So even then (with no Clear Channel), you would
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have had to start off with the smaller stations, just
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like you have to today. And also back then (20 years
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before the McDonalds-Disney agreement,) you would never
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have been ableto get McDonalds to carry/market your indie
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toy; but you can bet that the toy industry publications
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back then did their best to paint a depressing picture
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for the small toy manufacturers, despite the fact that
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the best way for an indie toy maker to market its toys
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(both then and now) is to work with the mom and pop toy
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stores throughout the country.
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What does this mean for your airplay? The same thing
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we've been trying to get across for years: Start with
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small market commercial stations (or college stations
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in any market,) and use the results to book more and
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bigger gigs, all the while selling your CDs and merch
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for full price at those gigs. You'll never have to
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deal with getting distribution (or getting paid from
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distribution), much less have to worry that you won't
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be getting any regular rotation on a Clear Channel
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station. If you absolutely won't rest until you get
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some Clear Channel spins, however, then consider
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commercial specialty/mix shows... These shows are
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available on Clear Channel stations from New York
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on down, and with good music and a good push, you
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can get a spin or two for a few weeks.
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((0))
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- - - - - - - - - - - - -
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BUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA
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2 NAMMYS NOTES:
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November 5, 2002 - Wisconsin Public Television and their 16
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stations in the Great Lakes Region agree to broadcast a one
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hour performance-only version of the Fifth Annual Native American
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Music Awards this coming December with a repeat broadcast scheduled
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for the Spring of 2003. Featured performers on the program include:
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Crystal Gayle, Buddy Big Mountain, Call for Peace Dance & Drum Company,
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Cherokee National Children's Choir, Felipe Rose, Gary Small, Howard
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Lyons, Jana, Martha Redbone, Micki Free, Lorrie Church and the Wolf
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River Band.
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November 20, 2002 - The Native American Music Awards and
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Association begins production for the long-awaited, "Best
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of the Nammys" compilation video and CD commemorating five
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years of honoring the outstanding achievements of Native
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American musicians.
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AND MORE SOA MISC STUFF
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Fortune Cookie
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On the bus going home from SOA this year
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we stopped by a Piggly Wiggly for dinner.
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There appeared to be only enough time to
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get stuff and eat on the bus, so some of
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us got take-out chinese. My friend Michele
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offered me the last half of her rice, and
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she also said I could have her fortune
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cookie.
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I said sure but we should share the cookie
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because I feel it's going to be an important
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one. That's just how these things go. She
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said I could eat it all because she didn't
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want any. I said ok, but it still has to be
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our fortune, not just mine. She obliged.
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I opened it.
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You're not going to believe what it said.
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Ready?
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"For a good cause, wrongdoing may be virtuous."
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AHIMSA: A Glimpse Of Saturday's Peacekeeper Training
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by marco
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Amy Martin sang "I'm on my way" as a call and
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response. Wow, I've only heard it and sang it as
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straight folk-rock performance. Good work Amy! That
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was awesome.
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She rocks.
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Then she announced it was Paddy Inman's birthday. He
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looked very embarrassed. We found out rather quickly
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it was more a look of surprise than embarrassment.
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Paddy's been so busy the past couple weeks and this
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weekend, he knew his birthday was somewhere around
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here, but had totally forgotten the specifics.
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Which brought a funny vibe to the whole room.
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Paddy explained. [ in case you don't know, Paddy
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is the facilitator for all the peacekeepers each
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year. A huge job. I don't know anyone else I've
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met in my life so far who could even think about
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raising their hand to take on half of what he does!
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Paddy Inman is one of my biggest heros. ] The first
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year he got arrested at the SOA (was this 6 years
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ago? 7?) he was being processed and a woman typing
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in his drivers license turned to him and said, "Oh,
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and happy birthday."
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"What?" asked Paddy.
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"Happy Birthday."
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"Huh?"
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"Son," said the woman, "it's your birthday."
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Musta been really busy that week too.
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Wait, it gets heavier. Not only was Paddy Inman
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born onbase, he was conceived there too. Right
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there on Fort Benning. Perhaps by a tree where
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School-Of-Coups wasn't built yet? Just kidding!
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But not about these connections. His dad was a
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warden or an MP or something. Stationed there.
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So here begins Paddy Inman's path. Each year
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speaking truth to power must be an incredible
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homecoming for him. Perhaps he played youth
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football with some kids who grew up to be SOA
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instructors. Perhaps some of his onbase classmates
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went on to work at the Pentagon, or lead Fort
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Benning's jump school or something. Not Paddy.
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He's staring down a Mayor, a Colonel, a two-star
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general, and refusing to blink. Refusing to
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compromise. Only willing to re-state what we all
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can live with, and what we can't. What we will
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do transparently, and what we're willing to let
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them try to do. Paddy is definitely the one you
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want standing beside you at the Pearly Gates as
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you try to answer to all your "deeds."
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But I digress. Paddy Inman was leading me and
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a whole mess of peacekeepers. Once again. Yet
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another year. What beautiful energy fills up
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the room, thanks to Amy and Paddy, and each and
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every one of us too, I think.
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Blessed are the peacekeepers? No, blessed are the
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peaceMAKERS. Remember this. It will serve you well
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no matter what faith you walk on. Some peacekeepers
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will be peacemakers as well, many of us will fall
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short a little here and there. Many of the wider
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group of SOA protesters will be peacemakers, and
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you know what? There's a woman cop I saw cry last
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year. I saw her again this year. I saw emotion from
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some MPs too. Not tears, but a certain look in the
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eyes. That I never noticed any other years. That is
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probably the look of a peacemaker as well. Blessings
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toward them. It's because of all these people, we
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all live another day.
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So how it is with this upcoming day. This Sunday
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morning. This funeral, this litany, this ceremony,
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this dance. How will it be?
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"This changes things," says Paddy, about the
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injunction we lost, about the new dynamics the
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military and the city police have thrown into the
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equation about a week before the demonstrations began.
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I'd never known the "gub mint" to resort to monkey-
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wrenching, methinks they're feeling some little bit of
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desperation, eh? Checkpoints? Electronic wands?
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Barricades? Counter-demos, moving General LeMoyne's
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"friendly" controlled scripted and rehearsed dialogue
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sessions from inside the gate to the gate, and now to
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just outside the checkpoints??? I see where they're
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going with this. They haven't just lost the "InfoWar"
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like Colonel Weidener said a while back, they've begun
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losing their cool as well. Hopefully we can keep THEM
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from too much violence. I'm less worried about "our own
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people."
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So last year we were given the street, this year
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they've barricaded us in and we can't get to that
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street without submitting to a search.
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Paddy quoted AJ Muste, "there's no way to peace,
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peace is the way."
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He made a very strong point of keeping sure we're
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not complicit in these searches in any way. Let people
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be as random as they would feel comfortable. Other
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years some of us peacekeepers might have been into
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herding ourselves along rows and columns all neat
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and orderly, but Paddy suggested that's not a good
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idea this year. Funeral procession yes, checkpoints
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no.
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If people want to listen to the Police when they keep
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pointing and saying "get out of that line and go to
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this new one," that's fine, if they don't we won't do
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much. Perhaps a few words of "there's a third checkpoint
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now, move there if you want to, but only if you want to."
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Or some such. Gentle smiles and standing near the crowd
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and the police is probably best. Little more than that.
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This alone performs magic. (how do you think the woman
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cop cried? I smiled at her for a very long time when I
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watched her help someone instead of being so verbally
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abusive for the moment. She smiled, that's when a tear
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gushed out. Magic. I didn't perform it per se, just
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participated in it."
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"The wisdom contained in the following words," says
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this year's 'SOA WATCH PEACEKEEPER GUIDELINES,' "does
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not come from any one individual or organization but
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rather from a multitude of individuals whose consciences
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have compelled them to engage in nonviolent resistance
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to powerful people and institutions that have attempted
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to compromise the rights of others in order to promote
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their own selfish ends."
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That's what I'm talking about.
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Another roadblock to our goals of setting a good tone,
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and maintaining our "peaceful pissed off people"
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presence came in the form of two absolutely stupid
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things said out loud in the courtcase Friday morning
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and afternoon.
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An expert witness claiming to know all about
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riots said five different times, (count 'em, 5!)
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it's "bare naked, bare breasted, bare chested
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women" that causes a riot the most. He claimed
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that the four or five naked people last year made
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things so violent that things almost got out of
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hand. Apparently the 3rd or 4th time this expert
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recited this, Paddy yelled out (probably risking
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contempt) "enough already, we've heard you," or
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some words like that. Hmmm. I wonder what this has
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to do with why they must wand us with metal detectors?
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We pretty much all agreed if there was any nudity we
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would just do what we always do -- ask for calm,
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suggest everyone be mindful of nonviolence, and
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keep maintaining a strong gentle presence.
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Second absolutely stupid statement?
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They trust every single one of our protesters
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and peacekeepers. It's those outside radicals
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they need to search and protect us from. You
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know, the ones who wear red and black and
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carry symbols like A's inside circles, and
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such. Yeah, the anarchists.
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How did we resolve this? We'll stop profiling
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of anarchists by passing out red armbands to
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anyone who wants one, and they can sharpie an
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anarchy symbol on it or any other symbol they
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feel like. Wear it on your arm, your leg or
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whereever you want. A friend of mine wore one
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around her forehead. She rocks too.
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So I'll end this glimpse by lifting a couple
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more quotes from the guidelines that struck
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me as appropriate to the wider peacemaking
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that so many of us would like to move our
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entire lives toward.
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-- Peacekeepers are responsible for maintaining
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the "nonviolent" self-discipline of the action
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and act as mediators in confrontations between
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authorities and demonstrators. Peacekeepers
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have primary responsibility for participants
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in the action, but they should be fully
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prepared to protect legal authorities and
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other non-participants from demonstrators if
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necessary."
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-- Try to engage hecklers in polite conversation
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as an intervention technique, but understand
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that you are not going to convince or convert
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them. If you talk, discuss but do not argue.
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Be polite. Smile. Nothing is more disarming.
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-- Stay between conflicts or confrontations and
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the marchers. Keep the march moving. Your back
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should generally be toward the conflict while
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quietly urging others to keep moving and not
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join the conflict. Let the conflict fizzle out.
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You do not need to be a hero and interpose your-
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self... Stay calm. It's only a conflict.
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-- Urge people to stay back from an arrest. Do
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not try to block civil authorities and urge others
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not to also.
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-- Maintain contact between yourself and the police
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whenever possible by introducing yourself, making
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eye contact, smiling, engaging them in conversation
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to establish the "human" connection. Inform police
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of your intentions in a non-threatening manner. Be
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open to their legitimate concerns, such as traffic
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flow or any other safety issues.
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-- Talk with disrupters if possible. If they are
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demonstrators, they may be open to good arguments
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and reminders to adhere to our "nonviolence pledge."
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Sometimes it's better to distract other demonstrators
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from the disrupters. Focus or refocus peoples'
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attention on the vigil and the action itself by
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encouraging them to keep on moving, singing,
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chanting, or whatever is appropriate to the
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situation.
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Happy Birthday, Paddy Inman.
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Just as Adam Shapiro said about International Solidarity
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Movement that there is no one Gandhi in the Palestinian
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struggle, rather there are hundreds; there is no one
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Gandhi in the SOAW movement either, hundreds are here
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too. And Paddy is surely a great one of them.
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BIRTHDAY WISHES ALSO GO OUT TO THE INDYMEDIA
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MOVEMENT. THE "IMCISTA" TURNS THREE TODAY.
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[independent media center(s); woo hoo! Yippie!!]
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AND THE GAS FACE GOES TO -- IT'S A TIE.
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CNN AND CITIBANK
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Anyone got a clue who's worse lately??
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JOURNO-RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE MONTH
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Who is Rockwell
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What is Allen-Bradley about
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Why are they directly connected to the Klan
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When did the Klan actually decide to come to Milwaukee
|
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Where besides Peoria are they centering themselves
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Preliminary thesis:
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The Klan came to Milwaukee because despite five Bush
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trips to Wisconsin, and countless millions pumped
|
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into the campaign, McCallum lost to a democrat.
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Not since McCarthy has national socialism lost
|
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this much foothold in Wisconsin this fast. Brownshirts
|
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everywhere are quivering nervously that their Queen
|
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Bee, their HQ, their braintrust, their "raisin debtor"
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is fast dying off.
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Well, this has been ATI
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Activist Times, zine
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Another week behind us. Have a good one
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and catch you on the flipside.
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feedback? ati@etext.org
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history? http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI
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fooling with web ideas all the time?
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http://flag.blackened.net/ati
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http://bancs.lod.com/~ati
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_________________
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* well, virtually.
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:)
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I think you can print 'em out from adbusters.org
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[hint, thin white sticker paper's 50c a sheet at
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the Kink]
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This issue of this zine dedicated to Paddy Inman.
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Blessed are the gentle and strong ones. May (Some
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Day) the lion and the lamb truly sit down to lunch
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with each other, and may they soon. |