The Voter Registration Drive Jingle by Marc Frucht http://www.frucht.org/soa.html G C G All good citizens please take note C G D G Election year. Are you registered to vote? C G Whether it's your first time D G Or first in a long time C G It's never to late D G to registrate C G I said it's never too late, D G Butcha better not wait so G C G All good citizens please take note C G D G Make sure this year you're registered to vote. *********************** *HEY HEY HEY; IT'S ATI* *********************** ATI 152. 06NOV98 The Television will Not be ReVoLuTioNiZeD Er, uh, I mean... ATI 248 05NOV00 /DREAM/ / / Two Wisconsin electors have announced that if Wisc's popular vote carries Ralph Nader they will in fact vote for him this January. A bold move toward breaking the winner-take-all EC system once and for all. http://www.2600.com/news/2000/1102.html http://www.powellsunion.com http://devrandom.net/~dilinger http://akita.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS http://flag.blackened.net/ati/soawisc.html http://www.nanpa.com http://www.totse.com/en/index.html http://SpaceyIdeas.Com/ozzie KEEP THOSE CARDIGANS & LETTUCE COMING Call this a letter to the editor, if you like. WHAT????????????!!!!!!!!!!????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????? What kind of hairbrained, head-up-his-ass, moron came up with this one? It had to be a man, and one that had never been around a lactating woman. Any idiot with half a brain could figure out that when your breasts are engorged and swollen to nearly twice their normal size, and AIR makes them hurt, it is NOT a sexually arousing experience to have an infant with more sucking power than a heavy-duty vacuum cleaner attatched to their cracked, bleeding, inflamed nipples. I'm appalled that some ignorant fuck could take the most natural, fullfilling, miserably painful thing in the world, and make it nothing more than a bastardised perversion of itself. The person who came up with thia idea is a sick mother- fucker with way to much time on his hands, and probably a pedophile, besides, to think of feeding an infant in terms of eroticism. I'm nauseated. -Ann THE OFFICIAL PRIMANARKIST POLL In a recent poll of six people we know, 53% will vote for Nader/Laduke 51% GoreTex/LiebenShizerheinder 24% BushWhack/CheneyWeenie 1% Pat Buchanan and everyone else. [note: friction coefficient of error was 40] A LYRIC IN THE FORM OF AN ANONYMOUS POST I know who wrote it...it wasn't me...and they wouldn't want it reprinted with their name so...just do it anonymously if you like it so much...they don't read your zine... At 12:25 29.10.00 -0600, you wrote: >_______, >Who wrote that? I'd love to reprint it in my zine. >If it's yours, the question becomes, "may I?" >If you have no idea, I guess it's "should I." >marc >> >On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:59:50 >> > ____ ______ wrote: "A VISITOR FROM THE PAST" I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand. A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by the bed, He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said: "We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny, For future generations, this legacy we gave, In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave." "The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep. Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave, In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave." "You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent, Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent." "Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news, in a regulated press. You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S." "Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God in shame, You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name." "You've given government control to those who do you harm, So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm, And keep the country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail." "Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn. Your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores, And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars." "Can you regain freedom for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride. Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?" "Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand! Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land! Preserve our great republic and each God-given right, And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright!" As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from which he came. His words were true, we are not free. We have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside, in a dream while you're asleep, And wondered what remains of our rights he fought to keep, What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave? Is this still the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? PRESS RELEASE ALBUQUERQUE - On Sunday, November 12th, NAMA presents an afternoon of seminars for established and aspiring musicians as well as those just wanting to learn more about the Native American music industry. Featured panelists of these seminars will provide a unique opportunity to mix, mingle and learn about the native american music marketplace from various perspectives ranging from; professional musicians, record label representatives, A&R, to artist unions representatives as well as offering legal insight. Artist Seminar: 11am to 12 pm Radisson Conference room A panel of established artist will share their experiences in the music industry; from how they got started, putting out their first album and where they are now. This panel will provide insightful tips for new artists and those artists wanting to learn more and hear others experiences. There will be 45 minutes of discussion by the artists followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Featured panelists include: Bill Miller (musician) Joanne Shenandoah (musician) Paul Winter (Grammy Award winner and musician) Stan Farber (AFTRA union representative) Industry Seminar: 12pm-1pm Radisson conference room This panel will be an array of record label reps, legal council and publicists. The panel will present the nuts and bolts behind much of what is the driving force behind many successful artists. Again, there will be a 45 minute period of discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Featured panelists include: David Swenson, President Makoche Records Lourdes Vitor, Marketing Dir. of Four Winds trading Mitchel Markus, President, Triloka records Robert Doyle, President Canyon Records Charlie Sanders, Vice President Harry Fox Agency TO QUOTE A POEM "skulls shine in the eyes of the man with the machete, between the cross-hairs of an AK-47. Under the rubble of the ruling class, a human heart beats in the palm, the tumba of ritual mercy http://hometown.aol.com/tonytweb/coffeepoem.html DEFINE LIES : An ATI Interactive Research Proj Pleaze take a minute -n- a half or so and help your phellow publisher, wouldja? Either right now, or next time you're near TV, could you grab a piece of paper or Microsoft Notepad, or whatever's handy, and surf once around? Spend less than a few seconds on each channel, and just tally up two things. Idea? Product? With each channel jot down whether it seems more like they're showing you an idea or a product. Basically I need you all as a handy control group, or perhaps grounding for something I'm a little too emotionally close to. What I'm getting at, is I did it three times, and I have to say, it came up 53:5 Product:Idea once, and 54-4 twice. Doubling that I'd like to suggest that Gore or Bush are each going to get about 55, or 40%ish, and Nader's going to get 8-10 % based on what comes out of a TV. Because as we all know, the only thing in this world that is real is what comes out of a TV. Well, so if other data supports this (and only if it's supported) I'm going to suggest that this poll stands a chance of having an error quotient of 1 or 2 instead of the climbing 4 and 5 that is getting so much of our tolerance. Does anyone know why we even listen to those pieces of rhetorical trash anymore? I mean think about it. If a repubican leaning channel tells you Bush is ahead by 3 with Nader getting 4% of the pie; and the error is 4% that means Bush could be down by 1 and their poll is still accurate. Further, if you're watching a democrat leaning chan and they have Gore up by 4 and Nader's at 5% and the error is 4, it could very well mean that there's a dead heat tie, but the channel's trying to rape your mind. Shake your head and look just a little to the right or left of your TV. See if you can't snap out of your suspension of disbelief just long enough to realize that you're being condescended, manipulated, brainwashed and bamboozled in 30 second intervals. Oh, and looking again at that error, Nader could easily be at 8 or 9, huh? And let's take it one step further and and wonder why it's so important that these errors climb up toward 1/3 of an entire poll. If you're like me and you suffered some military time, you might take a critical look at what I call the paramilitico-PAD approach to seeing people's behaviour. (PAD being the public affairs division) When you watch that poll, (I'll hold up the first example here) Once you see who the friends and foes are, you add in how a military reports "truth." In our first example Bush is up by 3 with Nader getting 4% and "our" error is 4. Let's say Bush has 44 and Gore has 41, with Nader at 4 and 11% of our people either undecided or voting for those other four unmentionables and write-ins. Bush is our friendly force in this "war." So truth (based on the 3/2:2/3 rule of Public Affairs divisions for over 100 years now) would really have him at 29 or 30. And Gore is a "foe force" so he could really have as much as 61! And Nader? He's Neutral or Foe so, one and the same, that's 6 easily. So with that error less than 3 instead of say, more than 6, it's in danger of getting too wacky looking when you shift statistics around to support your intended lies. Define lies. This isn't a lie, is it? It's propaganda, persuasion, rhetoric. And we're really good at it. Be proud of us. Pride is what seperates us from lesser beings, huh? So what on earth does idea:product ratio have to do with this campaign? Everyone, including Nader and Buchannan, Brown and Jack Kemp are trying to sell you something. Oh I left out Michael Dukakis and his big ole' talking head. Look and see if they're selling you ideas or product. Issues? Or empty promises. Material wealth or familial, moral and/or environmental wealth. PENTAGON NOT TWO-FACED BECAUSE IT HAS 5 SIDES Maine Tuesday (last tuesday b-4 supertues) 2000 PORTLAND - [from combined wires] Prior service who were kicked out of the military for being too fat, out of shape, [or too moral?] can now sue the Pentagon for taking back their enlistment bonuses. A federal judge ruled that the three people who sued the Pentagon last week did in fact have their bonuses ripped from them illegally. The case will be expanded to class-action soon. Call your local congressperson to follow through. ELVIS WRITES NEW SITCOM FOR THE WB By Dustbunny Reprinted from her usenet post. Finally. Since I started this job, I've been waiting for Elvis Costello to do something remotely Spin-worthy so that I could write a story about my hero. And the time is now. Costello and T-Bone Burnett have teamed up to develop a comedy-drama television series for the WB. I love the WB. And I love Costello. According to Variety, the show will center on four ex-fashion models who decide to try their luck at being rock stars, spend a lot of other people's cash, and face a lot of obstacles along the way. Thank the dear sweet lord, Mr. Costello will be writing an original song to appear in each episode of the series, slated to begin airing next fall. Burnett will act as an executive producer, overseeing primarily the show's musical content. Costello will be with long-time friend, UPN producer John Mankiewicz, to write, develop, and executive produce the pilot-the idea for which came about through e-mail correspondence between the two earlier this year. After shopping their concept around a bit, Imagine Television President Tony Krantz offered to produce the show alongside 20th Century Fox Television. Costello told Variety that he imagines his rocker-girl characters doing some crazy deeds, like travelling into outer space and rescuing folks "from dastardly dictators." The show will also deal with some legitimate music industry topics, like snarky agents and label pressures, the likes of which my boy Elvis no doubt knows quite a bit about. Costello even hinted that he might crop up as a villain or "flunkie" on the series somewhere on down the line. In related news, Elvis Costello is God. Here's a poem by our friend Shayna Plaut. Old school readers will recognize that she's graced our zine with her great presence in the past. The morning rises slowly in Chicago with a cup of Chiapaneco coffee and I meditate on the many faces of Santos A little girl with two sharp braids as I walk the angles streets of South Eastern Mexico begs me to buy woven florescent bracelets I hand her pan dulce instead She hands me a smile kicking up her skirt with laughter scampering her coffee colored legs to a huddled weaving family surrounded by mountains of thread. Her words "por favor, nadie compra. yo tengo hambre una tortilla..." meld into the next Santos the old man with flies in his eyes back against sacred spaces on soiled streets eating the crumbling church walls while singing reverence to the revolution ninety years ago the same revolution that still kicks him with the taunts of promise and then passes him by with neglect This Santos does not accept bread for he can no longer recognize nourishment. After eating a full meal I walk back to the final face of Santos now couched over red leather pumps on an old wooden shoe shine box. He smiles when done, pointing his hunger at my filthy boots. And then he's scraping off caked mud (a souvenir of my time with the Zapatistas) onto the conquered Spanish tile we carelessly ignore. He likes to read or maybe he just said that because it sounds good to gringa ears either way I was on the phone to the US and he was on the floor. I hang up the phone and add to his eleven years with only 15 pesos. The vibrant young girl is still slipping under extranjeros feet for a tortilla the old man is still eating the scraps of verse to the first Zapata and the shoe shine boy with my boot in his hand is clawing the earth of Chiapas into muddy clumps, liberated dirt threatening to form a wall through our bridge of faces. /\-----/ /ending/ /----\-/ As is semi-traditional around here, we end ATI zine with a parody. THEY'RE REPUBLICRATS to the tune of the Beatles' "You Can't Do That" words by Merritt Bussiere G Elections are upon us and it's such a pain, G G7 The 2 major parties, Man, they're both the same C7 G They're gonna let you down, and leave you flat D7 C7 G - D7 Because I told you before, they're Republicrats. Seems like every four years it's just like before, I go looking for some choice, I get George W. Gore. He's gonna let me down, and leave me flat Because I told you before, they're Republicrats. BRIDGE: [that "confounded bridge"] G B7-Em I've been thinking Green C D7 G Cause we gotta start thinking long-term G B7-Em Not get caught in between Am7 D7 That same damn donkey and a pachyderm So, please listen to me and don't waste your vote, And get more bassackwards leadership shoved down your throat. They're gonna let us down, and leave us flat Because I told you before, they're Republicrats. D7 C7 G Because I told you before, they're Republicrats. G - F6 - F#6 - G6 NOTES: * Please improve these verses or add more, with Green Bonus Points (GBPs) going to anyone who can fit the phrase, "lesser of two weasels" into a verse. Please share with your lists & send ideas to the addresses below. Best not to forward message; better to copy & paste into new message so you don't pick up the the sideways hats, >>>, thus misaligning chords & lyrics. * What are other oldies we can abuse for the cause? 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