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- this is ATI, activist times, inc.
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- YIPPIE!!!
- It starts with advisors.
- The Central Intelligence Agency feels
- some sort of need to sell drugs, trade
- arms, assassinate communists,
- fascists, and capitalists for fun, and
- stick their noses in everybody's
- business.
- You work for them for years. They
- make you do things you'd never tell
- mom about. They start making you do
- things you can't even "tell yourself
- about".
- Somewhere along the line you realize
- that what started out travel, large
- pay, excitement, adventure, making the
- world safe for democracy; has become
- robbery, embezzlement, murder,
- wirefraud, terrorism, corruption,
- murder, piggishness, murder,
- subversion, and murder.
- NOW COMES QUITTING TIME.
- John Stockwell speaks to us from his
- experiences working as a CIA agent.
- He's speaking at URI today. He may
- have spoken at your school already;
- you may be on his "road list" for '88
- - '89.
- Listen to the horror stories. Ponder
- his analagies. Make his experiences;
- your experiences. while you do; ask
- yourself, "Do I want the CIA on my
- campus recruiting?"
- Personally, I think if CIA would
- hold a public debate allowing people
- like me and you to ask real questions,
- they'd be8;9e than welcom to use one
- of our rooms for interviews and
- answering any questions a "budding
- agent" might have.
- But if you want to drive in and park
- your tinted windows in front of the
- Union, grabbing a helicopter out back
- going to the fieldhouse and then board
- a piperplane parachuting over the
- alumni building and escorting about 75
- uniformed police officers thru the
- side door; then...
- GET THE FUCK OFF MY CAMPUS.
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- I SURVIVED RUTGERS '88.
- It was the best Be-In I've ever been
- to.
- 3 or 4 days of gathering,
- fellowship, brainstorming, ideas,
- entertainment, tabling, leafletting,
- hell. We even allowed the fascists a
- table.
- It was exciting, it was awesome, but
- nothing "solid" happened from it.
- Yet.
- I would like to cite 4 units for
- making Rutgers happen, and holding the
- thing together. If by a thin thread
- that started to look really frazzling.
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- 1 <-=-Christine 2 <-=-Edwardo 3 <
- -=-Stewart 4 <-=-The rest of the
- Rutgers hosts and assorted yellow-arm-
- banded delegates.
- I'll also share 2 schools who came
- bearing something solid they wanted to
- bring back with them. <1> MIT <2>
- Berkley. Something old, something new,
- borrowed and blue too.
- Old? Berkley. One of the oldest
- freethinkin colleges Amerika has to
- offer. Why not? It's California.
- New? MIT. They call Massachussetts
- home. Probably the first state that'll
- legallize marijuana. Amherst? Boston?
- CZ? Dukakis? Somethin brewin!!!
- Borrowed? The whole idea behind a
- constitution.
- Blue? People bummed out that nothing
- really "happened". The black caucous
- ripped us to shreds Sunday morning,
- showing us for what we really are, and
- still most overcome:
- Slightly racist, semi homophobic,
- somewhat ready to gather but not quite
- ready for a constitution.
- I say fine. Let's keep in touch,
- relax, and get ready for what's sure
- to "glue" us together really fast.
- WORLD TROUBLE!!!
-
- The 3M's of organizing -- Media,
- Music, & Modem. By Steve Van Zandt,
- Marc Graham, and Abbie Hoffman.
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- The 60's weren't the greatest of times
- or anything-- they sure were great--
- but these may be the greatest of
- times.
- The 60's were the awakening of
- revolution and this is another step in
- that revolution.
- School needs to be changed. We need
- to talk about more than the history
- they want us to believe. We need to
- get into the education process. The
- real history. The artist tries to
- stimulate thought. The media is really
- the way to get across.
- We shut down Sun City overnight.
- Once the Billionaire owner showed up
- on Phil Donahue we knew we won. And
- the fact that we wasted him on
- National TV was icing on the cake.
- A new way of organization; a
- computer networking system.
- Communicate, share, co-ordinate,
- collaborate, update, type, edit,
- store, fast. Online worldwide.
- Peacenet.
- Amnesty International can type an
- Action Alert and get it to Greenpeace,
- WRL, and SANE faster than you can hit
- your <enter> key. Since the users
- govern what information is sent, it is
- unfiltered. Most of the news we get
- each day has been edited out and
- watered down. Not so as much with
- networking.
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- Bitnet is a global network that
- makes the host system local to every
- college campus in the World.
- More than 650 are registered
- delegates as of this moment,
- representing over 130 schools. You've
- come despite freezing weather and hard
- economic times to do something I'm not
- sure anyone here is yet ready to
- comprehend. But, I'm absolutely
- convinced that you are making history.
-
- No one has done anything this bold,
- imaginative, creative, and daring. To
- bring this many strains of people
- together who all believe in the same
- kind of change... Radical change is needed in our
- society. It's just an amazing feat;
- and I wish you the best of luck today
- and especially tomorrow as you make
- the decision whether to go backward or
- forward.
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- RAMBLINGS by the Third Shifter
-
- 1 am Sunday morning (saturday nite) A
- local cop comes in and buys a
- crossword puzzle book and a jumbo pack
- of gum.
- "Long nite, eh?" I suggest.
- "Hmm."
- <car 3, respond to X st. broken down
- vehicle> He turns up the volume on his
- radio and concentrates. <check and see
- if it's safety prob or not. Two black
- youths>
- He gives me the money and turns to
- leave.
- "Gotta roll," he says.
- "Hey," I tell him, "If it's a black
- kid and a Puerto Rican kid, take good
- care of 'em. They're pretty cool. From
- my hometown. They just bought 2 quarts
- of oil off of me."
- He grunted maybe; and left.
- I hope my THOUGHT stuck with him. He
- looked like your typical "Jewbeater".
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- ---
- NO!
- --- by Refuse-Nick
-
- *Aint gonna send no money down
- when there aint no money to spend
- aint gonna station no troops down
- there
- to kill someone else's best friend.
- Aint gonna fight no foreign wars
- dont even know what we're fighting
- for
- aint gonna fight no wars no more
- we shoulda learned that in the 60's
- *Cant justify no homemade fight
- or jammin our philosophys down their
- throats
- cant rationalize no secret wars
- we shoulda learned that in the 60's
- *why cant we spend our money on things
-
- that dont have to do with bombs n guns
-
- why cant we send our food down there
- instead we gotta act like the 60's
-
- *in our efforts to show the world
- how democracy and freedom can work
- we find ourselves bossin people around
-
- n advocating military states of war
- *we find ourselves tied economically
- down
- we oughta get our noses outa the fire
- so we dont get our fat nostrils burnt
- we never ever learned from the 60's.
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- MEGALOMODEMANIA by Prime Anarchist
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- This is ATI's first hardcopy issue.
- ATI was born on an Atari personal
- computer February 9th when I returned
- from a New Jersey-Albany-NYC-
- Providence stint which was a direct
- result of the Rutgers Convention.
- Other issues will come out as
- needed. (you'll probably see us at a
- few Dead shows, Terence D'Arby
- concerts, and maybe a Celtics game
- here and there)
- But for the most part, you can only
- get ATI online, using your modem at
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- USA
- After interacting with so many
- hundreds of freethinking fellow
- humanoids I decided it's my obligation
- to use everything I do in life to
- positive ends.
- Which means my guitar, my personal
- computer, and my journalism skills had
- to be sold back to Free America. No
- more National Party Line letters to
- the editors, groovy love songs, or
- compuserve sex chats. It's time to
- live an active life. With trouble
- brewing in every single speck of our
- Earth, these are the times for
- activism.
- It is time for ATI.
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