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I think this strategy is very intentional in that the government knows a long, drawn-out and painful war against a people does not draw as much attention and is much more difficult to fight than a dramatic and sudden attack. I am sure they are waiting for people's attention to lessen before they move inand begin moving people one by one, when few are watching. Over the years the resisters have had to struggle just to survive, and the very fact that they have survived and continue their resistance is testimony to their amazing strength and belief in the Creator. The constant fear, harassment, and dangerous conditions under which they have been forced to live have not surmounted their knowledge and skills as gardeners and sheepherders and caretakers of the land. At the same time, I know how the resisters must feel. The relocation bill was passed only a short time before I was arrested, and I know it has been a very long and difficult time for all of us. And like me, I know that the resisters are likely growing tired, but like me, they do not have the capability of giving up because they know they are in the right. When I think of the elders there and all that they have been through, the pride I feel for our people swells. I am very proud of them. It is such an important time for the families to come together in unity and bring a final end to this attempt. I want to personally ask all of you on the outside to maintain and continue to build awareness around the Big Mountain situation. And, I ask you to support the people in whatever way they request. Relocation really is genocide and if the people of Big Mountain are lost, we all will lose another very special and sacred source of traditional knowledge and a way of life we can all learn from. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Leonard Peltier ATI - Not just your hackerzine of hope, it's the rag read round the rotunda. 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Just saw your new 'zine! Gud stuff! Thanks for the comment. Where can I get yer nextish. I'd like to tell people in my zine... Mike... to ati@etext.org you notice texas and extras sort of look the same? sue paradigm to ati@etext.org i love you.... candice F N O R D ! ! ! BioDevastation 2000 Organizers Fear Bawztone Police Overreaction [PAWN] BAWZTONE Mass - Published on Friday, March 24, 2000 in the Jamaica Plain Dealer by Rafael Tininjaterdle With the possibility of "Seattle-style" unrest erupting during a protest of a biotechnology conference this weekend, Mayor Thomas M. Mendocino and police officials yesterday said the city is prepared for the worst, but not expecting it. "My fondest hope is that, five, six days from now, we'll be saying, 'You paid me 24 an hour overtime just to bash a few skulls in and flirt with peacenik chicks?'" Police Commissioner Paul Evansto-Mergatroid said of preparations for BIO2000. The conference will start on Sunday and run through Thursday at Fenway Park, IHOP and Howard Johnsons. But we would be remiss if we did not prepare for other eventualities," Mergatroid added. For more than a month, police have been undergoing special training in Alexandria, VA; and Quantico, GA officials said. Organizers of a rally and counter-conference, called Biodevastation 2000, have assured police that they are nonviolent - a point they reiterated yesterday. Despite that, Mendocino and Mergatroid said they have been forwarding each other emails about violent anarchists disrupting in "new and improved ways." They even started a rumor that Ice T will be there singing with Traci Chapman. "Nonviolence is becoming more creative, more innovative," Mergatroid said during a press conference yesterday. "We're concerned about small groups of people engaging in more creative forms of nonviolence. When it endangers our ability to instill fear in our local communities, then we have to be concerned." In recent weeks, city officials have warned Bawztone shopkeepers to take "common sense" precautions. They've also requested that local newspapers remove vending boxes, which federal agitators/provocataeurs in Seattle used to smash shop windows. In addition, barricades will be in place for most of the weekend at certain key areas along Boylston St. "Basically," said Mendocino, "we're going to use broken glass and styrophoam piled nine feet high for our barricade." He mentioned that the streets surrounding Fenway Park are so riddled with litter that they can simply sweep it all to Boylston and just use some of the fresher vomit around Berklee School of music for mortar, saving enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars which can be better spent on rubber bullets, cayenne pepper and depleted urine samples. The rally's organizers stressed they know of no plans by anyone to cause trouble. "That just makes it harder," said the police chief. "Not impossible, just hard." "We are concerned about a police overreaction because they definitely overreacted in Seattle, and that led to big problems,"' said Jessica Hale, one of the organizers. Organizers have kept in close contact with Chicago's Mayor Daley to ensure that any violence can be minimized. Daley's father was an expert in the things Bawzton police are planning, so the current mayor remembers all the old stories. He agreed to help with such tactics because "my dad was such a poop. It was inexcusable." He went on to say that the government doesn't do nearly enough to make up for past human rights violations; so they should be on the lookout for how they can help now. "We call ourselves democracy," said Daley, "we should act like it." Brian Tokej, another organizer of the rally, said he expected hundreds, and possibly "thousands" of protestors from all over to attend the rally. In addition, scientists, activists, and celebrities such as Ralph Nader, Jello Biafra, and Prime Anarchist will speak at various forums that will take place at the Harvard Business School's Hunting Chess and Conference Center just outside the Au Bon Pain. Approximately 8,000 hot dog and peanut venders have applied for 3-day permits and the city had a heck of a time denying all the non-whites and allowing all the whites. Their success rate this year was only 70%, according to city clerk Mia Giesen Woo. "That means we've lost the battle already," she said. "There's going to be a lower class of people making money off of this thing overall. A lower class of people." The rally and march will begin at Copley Square at noon on Sunday, police said. From there, marchers will proceed down Boylston Street to Landsdowne, with most main events inside Fenway where protesters are permitted to demonstrate until 4 p.m. POEM FOR EMILY by Marco I found all the words Except Goofy Where's Goofy??? Did you stump me on purpose? Maybe I've had too much grog. I'll look later without the Goddess in me. The goddess of grog. Caffeina. I bet less groggy, I'll find Goofy. Am I the ONLY journalist to ever publish an article about a CODETALKER on OTHER than an ELECTION YEAR? by marco an interview with Forrest Kassanavoid, Comanche Codetalker - Reprinted from Mountaineer newspaper. [ Part II of "fourish" ] Destination? Liverpool, England, to regroup and train at Tibberton in Devonshire, and then to invade Utah Beach. 4th SIG was made up of five platoons, according to Kassanavoid. HQ platoon contained the company clerks, mess cooks, drivers, supply and maintainance soldiers. The Message Center section was where the distribution came and went. There was a radio section similar to what signal battalions have today; and a "T-n-T" section. They handled all aspects of telephone and telegraph, to include the division switchboard. The wire people, Kassanavoid included, were called the... [publisher's note: rather than reprint this in its entirety, we've decided to excerpt only that which is NOT straight out of Public Affairs Department. We'll put the entire story at http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI as soon as we have time for typing in. -mf] Kassanavoid said it was easy for a Comanche Indian to adapt to military life because all of their early education was at government boarding schools. "Basically we changed barracks rooms and uniforms," Said Kassanavoid, "that's all." Army-run schools on the Indian reservations meant speaking Comanche at home, and mostly English at school. His grasp of both languages made him an easy recruit for the Code Talker mission. Comanche language was used to relay some of the Army's most important messages in WWII. The code talkers worked with regiments in the field where they coded messages back to 4th ID headquarters so another 4 SIG could receive and decode the message. Kassanavoid lives in Indiahoma, OK., with his wife Marian and three children - Larry who served in the Army infantry in Vietnam; Marlon who served in a signal outfit in Europe; and a daughter, Amaryllis. He now works for the school department in Indahoma as home- school co ordinator under the Johnson - O'Malley Program passed by Congress in 1934. His work is mostly youth-oriented, from financial assistance for young Indians, morale and attendance programs, as well as sports programs... He said the Comanche heritage is in a 124th SIG soldier's lineage and in his roots. "Be proud," he said, "Be thankful." [pub note: as a thanksoffering for his entire life - (his relations tell me he passed away a couple years ago) I type in these 5 war words Kassanavoid invented while he was a Code Talker...] TU-CHA-PA-KA-NA machine gun TA-WA-EE rifle PIA-TA-WA-EE big gun NA-WHA bayonet WA-HA-PA-AH tank -30- WAKE UP ; IT'S JUST A DREAM DREAM - Christina, my old accompanyist is in Vegas to see me sing at the Hilton. I'm playing straight man to Ted Kennedy who's a Sinatra impersonator. Over and over 'til it's stale, we're in our 3rd year. Half of it is lip synched, but no one's supposed to know. We end with a duet of "Get Off My Cloud," and "My Way," the way Mick Jagger and FS did it on SNL. The audience wants us to repeat the first song we did which I'm up for; especially since we've been lip synching the middle half for the past year; but he makes a bunch of excuses for himself. I say, I can do it, does he mind? "Sure," he says; go ahead, he tells me. He wheels around to leave the stage - piano starts, band starts, I sing the first note. "He sings four notes," I hear in my flesh-colored earphone - Sinatra's voice, not Ted's - "and he's a dead man." I stop the band with a wave of my hand, read a poem I've memorized, bow, exit to stage left, wishing I'd sung Odetta's "Another Man Done Gone" instead. "You were great," Christina says offstage hugging me. "All YOUR work those years," I tell her. "Promise me you'll NEVER lip synch, Marco," she says. "Oh, believe me." I tell her I've been fighting them for weeks on that. I'm winning but they're going to have to move me soon. I'm about to blow Ted offstage. "Not that I'm better," I try for more diplomacy; it really IS a tragedy in this dream, he's become a bad counterfeit of himself. (metaphor for the entire US?) "I mean, I'm 36 and he's 79. I've got a couple more years of this and then I'm doing just guitar," I tell her, "for sure." COMPANY STORE a prime anarchist poem When it rains I spend My whole raise At the parking garage & of course... We end with a pome... Send things to ati@etext.org Hit the http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati page bye/f FOUR an old poem reprint from "Caught In The Quiet" by Rod McKuen Out of the sad mistaken belief that as a man I must behave as all men do. I've turned my back a time too often. God, help me keep a resolution that I make today: not to walk head high even one more time past someone I can help.