Kadiatou Diallo gets this issue of this 'zine dedicated 
to her. She is a fearless mother, a tireless advocate
with a heart that crosses EVERY ocean.




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                  end of may;
                  beginning june.
                  new moon, 
                  can you see it?



0306010301 hrs



PUBLISHER'S COLUMN

"I'm just as pissed off now as I was in the beginning. 
What I saw was worse than I imagined. 
  "Why the f*** can't we just give food to non-governmental 
organisations to help these people who are in desperate need? 
I'm a citizen of Europe. The EU has my money and I want the 
people in power to put my money where it is needed and stop 
these tragic events happening in Africa. These politicians 
have been warned and won't be able to make excuses in the 
coming months."

 -- Bob Geldoff in Addis Ababa.
http://www.sundayherald.com/34298

My only curiousity about this election coming up in
2004 here in the states is whether voter turnout will 
see a tiny uptic or its current usual "downtic."

Depending upon who you talk to, turnout in the 2000 
election was 51% or it was 49%. (I might as well 
borrow a little temporary credibility and formally
announce it was 47% with an error coefficient of 
4, eh?)

Let's start with both.

Will 50% or 48% turn out in 2004?

Or will 52 and 50? 

My "money" is on the "downtic."

It's been doing that on almost a straight line 
since Nixxon.

Funniest thing is MTV/GE/RadioShityMuzakHall has been 
abusing a 501c3 for their "snooze and lose" campaign 
and spending god knows how many hundreds of millions 
of US Gov't taxdollars to "attempt" at getting more 
voter turnout from the ages 18-25. Does anyone want
to take a stab at what their impact has been?

Almost 0.00 % !!!

No impact whatsoever. If anything it's been slowing 
down the 1% downtick each cycle since Nixxon. Perhaps
it would have been 2, or 3, or 23. But we can't know.
Fact of the matter is about 1/3 of people aged 18-29
voted in the last election. About 1/3 voted in the 
one before that, and about 1/3 voted in the one 
before that one. Take it all the way back to 1972
when the voting age came down to 18, and how many
voted then? You guessed it, about a third.

http://www.njpirgstudents.org/NJcampus.asp?id2=3522
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/10/06/text/p4s1.html

Face it, young people aren't saying "Carter, Clinton,
or Lieberman." They're not saying "Third Party," or
even "Bush," "Hitler," or "Sharon."

THEY'RE SAYING FUCK THEM ALL. EACH AND EVERY ONE.

They're saying this system is not useful OR helpful.
Most of them don't want anything out of it and they're
damned well not going to put something into it.

It certainly didn't turn this sinking ship around.
Twenty three frigging years, it's been a "snooze or 
lose" charade, sponsored by GE (we bring good things
to life.)

They're no better than Disney. Wait, they ARE Disney
aren't they?

Might as well be.


OK, enough rant.
marco

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Clan Dyken To Play Locally June 8

"Friday May 30 a Big Mountain Benefit at Seamans Lodge 
in Nevada City with Kimberly Bass, Bodhi Busik and Aro 
Veno. Dinner at 6:00 show starts at 7pm. There will also 
be a silent auction of great art and other locally donated 
items. 

"We are working on planting some food in a few places on 
the Reservation in Arizona for harvest this fall for the 
food run. The money raised at this show will either go 
into seed or water systems. The plan is to help area 
farmers grow enough food to sell us this fall when we 
return for Thanksgiving."

If you've never heard or seen Clandyken, that should 
give you some idea what they're about.

And here's a chance to see them free in a cozy setting.
No, it'll be MUCH cozier than the Pabst! And free, wow.

http://www.clandyken.com/Band_Over/band_over.htm

Here's a lyric:

 i am
 i am building
 building a house
 it's a house of song
 to house my children
 give them rooms to be in
 food from the kitchen
 feed my children

And from the Clandyken newsletter:

Sunday June 8 Clan Dyken will play an acoustic house concert 
at the Activist House in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The house is 
located at 1149 N 21st street (between Juneau and Highland).  

We'll get started around 7 pm

Marc Frucht, the editor and Anarchist Prime behind the ATI-ezine 
(look for the link on our web site) has arranged for us to play 
in the Brew City while we are visiting the homeland to play for 
the wedding of a cousin. Marc is a great writer and musician as 
well as a dedicated activist. Check out his stories concerning 
the recent beating he suffered at the hands (clubs) of the 
Washington DC Police for taking pictures of them in action 
at a demonstration in our Capital.


http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html

I suggest you subscribe to his e zine, it's some of my 
favorite e-mail, I look forward to reading every issue.


So get to 21st street June 8th around 7pm. 
If they play "On The Way To Big Mountain" from their 
newest CD "Love Is" your feet will just start dancing 
on their own.


"After all we're all the children of the same mother."


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RANT - by Jasmine

Rage... building! Must... post... rant!

28th May 2003

I am getting a bit fed up of my opinion counting for nothing. 
Nobody is listening to me when I say that I don't want the 
'great reforms' they're forcing on me; I want entirely different 
ones. I understand that the job the politicos are doing is difficult 
and involves a complex balancing act, but they're really balancing 
the 'snide' force against the 'pocketlining instinct' and not 
leaving anything for me and mine.

I can't be the only one who feels this way- hell, I look at any 
editorial, whether it be New Scientist or Private Eye, the Sun 
or the Guardian, the South Wales Evening Post or the Daily Mail, 
and I see unhappy people saying that they don't like what Blair, 
Bush's fat controllers, Sharon, Arafat, and all those other over
privileged children are doing to us.

All we want is a fair try, but can we get represented? No. 
I'm beginning to worry that nine tenths of the people on 
this planet are in fact cleverly constructed robots or golems 
or the fusion of human and sheep DNA. I talk to people and they 
don't seem to have ever worried about it, they've never thought 
that the government was ripping them off, and they never thought
about how much better it could be, if only there existed a policy 
of responsibility.

This is what comes of basing a system of government on a 
popularity contest. And, no, I don't have any much better 
ideas- well, I have a couple, but they're not that much 
better. I don't have any idea how to eliminate the problems 
caused by people who just don't care. I read an article a 
few days ago about the theory that psychopathy isn't a 
disorder at all, in an evolutionary sense, because 
psychopaths are supremely functional at the expense 
of others- they get to spread their genes quite 
successfully thank you.

This is the class of people we have allowed into our 
government, simply because without a cult of personality, 
and without magnetic leadership it's impossible to become 
a winner in the election popularity contest.

http://www.linuxgrrls.org/~jasmine/trike/rants.html	



YOU'RE KIDDING ME,
IS THIS REALLY TRUE?

CODE ORANGE includes a ban on
walking along the sidewalks on either
side of the White House, no walkup tours
of the Capitol and no scheduled White
House tours.

Yikes.





There are cracks in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers
But there are no cracks in the secrets as to why
this nation IS SO FRIGGIN' BELIGERANT ALL OVER THE
PLANET.



& SOMETHING TO THIMK ABOUT

In Business News:

Corporate personell depts are required by federal
law to carefully file and preserve floods of e-mail
resumes no matter if the applicant misspells the
company's name, applies for a job not listed or is
simply not qualified.

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MADE UP COMPANY BRAND WITH TRIPLE EXTRA MEANINGS TUCKED IN:

GlaxoSolomonSmithRubbleKlineBarney

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"I'll never forget during the Vietnam War as a poetry
student of James Merrill when he guest-taught in 
Madison in early '67 [1967] how he put down Ginsberg's
"Who Be Kind To" as inferior to Edith Sitwell's 'Facade.'"

 -- Antler. Letter to the Editor in Vital Source Magazine


"The example of Christ is clear: We cannot love neighbor 
or enemy without disarming ourselves. We cannot serve the 
poor without defending them against the violence of the 
state. We cannot affirm life without standing directly, 
nonviolently in confrontation with all that deals death. 
War is the worship of death. Preparation for war is the 
denial of God. Therefore I join the Riverside Ploughshares 
in an act of faith, offered to God as a plea for the lives 
of my children, and all children. Disarm. Choose Life. AMEN." 

 -- Mark Colville. Amistad Catholic Worker 


"Supporters of making dividends tax-free like to paint 
critics as promoters of class warfare. The fact is, 
however, that their proposal promotes class welfare. 
For my class."

  -- Warren Buffett

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FOUND POEM (I Didn't Change A Thing)
(Well, save for capitalizing...)

...if you can't afford college... 

You too can be a 'martyr'!
And if you come back with some kinda sickness, 
Fuck it, 
You've served the government well, 
They aint gonna help you no more. 
Well, im gonna end this now 
So i can give that homeless vet down the street some money. 
Since the government hasnt done shit about it.

http://stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=9622




RIDING BY BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ON A HOT SUNNY DAY 

a poem

When you see that much 
Tyvek
All over -- clearly marked
Tyvek

You know
You really should
Breath in through your nose
And out your mouth

Til you're well past
Like they taught you 
In the military
For when you're 

Tackling toxic traumas.



(PAWN)-4Ccom Issues Warning

Shares of the 4Com corporation fell about 89 percent
yesterday, to 1/10 of a penny, after the company, which
makes network equipment, warned that sales in the current 
quarter would suffer because years of paying people in 
"stock options" on an IPO that never came can no longer
be called business expenses.
  Moneys such as that must now be declared straight loss
which can only be declared in four equal pieces over the
next fiscal year.
  4Com expects revenue for all 4 quarters but it won't 
be impressively huge. Biggest income will come from its 
WeWorks unit. Analysts surveyed by Thomas First Call 
expect the company to report revenue of $410.

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Valrhona, Guanaja.

Natif, d'Amerique du Sud, Guanaja
est un Grand Cru de Chocolat noir amer
riche de 70% de cacaos fins.

70% cocoa: Grand Cru bittersweet chocolate
South American cocoa beans. Rich and intense.

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