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- this is ATI, activist times, inc.
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- Sunday, 23feb97 11:40pm
-
- Start with the numbers run?
- Sure, this is /P/ /A/ /P/. With the pap #'s run for this week.
- www.lollapalooza.com/history/1991 has really neat things about the violent femmes.
- www.newageinfo.com/prod/20.htm will tell you whether baba Ram Dass is "here now,"
- or "somewhere else now."
- www.ratical.com
- www.adbusters.org
- www.algonet.se/~Annapa
- 1800-39guess. Tell Mr. Marciano to sew his own clothes.
- 1800-Meatout. Info about the Great American Meatout.
- 1800-anarchy is still artrock t-shirts and paraphanelia shop.
- Bucks County Pennsylvania last I knew. AH's hometown.
- 516-922-wine is still Jackie Martling's jokeline.
- 619-239-king is still mojo nixon's home phone. (Answering machine.)
- 1800-eatshit is always busy. (I didn't like their driving anyhow.)
-
- DENNIS RODMAN IN A MILK MUSTACHE: Now That's Complex.
- a poem by Marc Weisenheimer
- Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion?
- Don't wait for your mustache to remind you.
- Cravings.
- It won't leave you feeling fat.
- Moos you can use; only in the refrigerated section.
- True to the original recipe; the finest blend of Wool.
- Think about it.
- Suddenly, things are getting personal.
- Milk.
- Where's your mustache?
- Wait 'til you taste us now.
- Yum.
- Mommy, when I grow up will I get breast cancer?
- America has been asking for it for thirty years.
- All the rules have changed.
- I had no idea it would grow the way it did,
- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Milk
- Now Greatly Reduces Risks to Your Health.
- Hey, let's talk about the "F word."
- Drink 3 glasses of skim milk a day and you'll be
- Fat.
- Milk.
- Where's your mustache?
- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Milk
- Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.
- Http://www.whymilk.com
-
- THIS IS THE CALENDULAR SECTION
- February is fashion bashin' season.
- Feb 26. Welfare Walk, Boston. 1800-939-4600 for info. Ask for Grace.
- Mar 1. March Against Hunger. sananda@northcoast.com for info.
- Mar 20. Great American Meatout. 1800-meatout for info.
- Apr 24-30. International TV Turnoff week.
- Jun 21. March from Philly to NYC. Storm the UN. (Date Tentative.)
- Jul 27 to Aug 6. World Youth Festival. Havana Cuba.
- Nov 28 Buy Nothing Day.
- Oct '97. Media & Democracy Congress. common@icarus.weber.edu for info.
-
- YET ANOTHER SLAPP: A Guess Inc. Lawsuit
- Against A Literary Reading in Los Angeles
- by Julia Stein
- Guess Inc., the designer jeans company, is suing the literary reading I
- organized September 8, 1996, at Midnight Special bookstore in
- Santa Monica, CA.
- Their suit charges libel and slander, and is part of a large
- libel/slander suit against the garment workers' union UNITE and Common
- Threads, a women's group to which I belong which is trying to help improve
- working conditions for garment workers. Common Threads and the Los
- Angeles/local/National Writers Union co-sponsored the literary reading. The
- lead lawyer for Guess Inc. is Daniel Petrocelli who recently represented
- the Goldmann family in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. Petrocelli is part of
- a 100-lawyer legal firm Mitchell , Silberberg and Knupp.
- In spring, 1996, I joined Common Threads; UNITE, the Union of Needle
- trades, Industrial and Textile Employees, was starting a campaign to
- unionize Guess Inc., the largest garment manufacturer in Los Angeles. My
- grandmother was a garment worker. I've written poetry about garment workers
- publishing them in my two books of poetry as well as written a long piece
- of literary criticism about American fiction on garment work dating from
- 1810 to the present.
- On September 5, 1996, I attended a Labor Day Picnic Common Threads put on
- for Guess garment workers at Echo Park Lake. I heard at least five workers
- give testimony that they had been fired for trying to organize a union and
- one woman said she had been harassed on the job. The National Labor
- Relations Board sued Guess Inc. for illegally firing workers; in February,
- 1997, 12 workers were recently reinstated on their jobs and received
- backup.
- At the Sept. 8, 1996, "Justice for Garment Workers" literary reading at
- Midnight Special I was M.C., read my poetry. Mary Helen Ponce, a
- Mexican-American prose writer, read from her acclaimed autobiography Hoyt
- Street.. Carol Schwalberg, fiction writer and treasurer of the National
- Writers Union/Los Angeles local, talked about the N.W.U. and read her
- story. story. None of us spoke about Guess. Edna Bonacich, a full professor
- of sociology at the University of California at Riverside and co-author of
- a book in the apparel industry, spoke at the reading for Common Threads
- about the campaign against Guess. The lawyer for Common Threads, Larry
- Rosenzweig, said that he read a legal declaration from one Joe Vargas who
- spied on the literary reading on behalf of Guess.
- Enrique Flores, a garment worker who lost his job when Guess took their
- clothing away from his employer, Kelly Contractors, spoke at the reading
- about his working conditions and losing his job. The December 16 issue of
- U.S News & World Reports has a cover story titled "Sweatshop Christmas"
- which includes material on Guess, particularly Kelly Contractors. At this
- shop the owner said that "he was paying his employees the minimum wage
- (about $200 a week), but they say they often made a little as $120" per
- week. Kelly workers Cristobel Perez and Emilia Hernandez said they had
- "forced overtime with no pay" and that "to avoid falling short {in pay}
- Perez and Hernandez took work home." Industrial homework is illegal in
- California.
- The lawsuit denies that Guess does business with sweatshops saying that
- plaintiff has "been praised and recognized by the DOL (federal Department
- of Labor) for its efforts on behalf of gamrment workers. On January 31,
- 1997, the DOL announced that for the first time it was taking a company,
- Guess Inc,. off the Trendsetters List, a list of companies who monitor its
- contractors adequately to avoid sweatshops. Guess Inc. was put on
- probationary status indefinitely. In mid-January Guess Inc. announced that
- it was moving its production from Los Angeles to Mexico, Peru and Chile.
- Harry Youtt, lawyer/writer and grievance chair for the LA local/N.W.U has
- characterized this suit as a S.L.A.P.P suit (Strategic lawsuit against
- public participation), a suit corporations are frequently filing to harass
- and shut up critics. So many of these suits have been filed that the
- California state legislature has passed an anti-S.L.A.P.P. statute. Both
- the lawyer for UNITE and the lawyer for Common Threads have asked the judge
- to throw out this lawsuit, invoking the anti-S.L.A.P.P suit statute.
- The first court hearing for this Guess lawsuit occured December 23, 1996,
- at the Santa Monica courthouse. The judge postponed ruling on the motion
- from UNITE's lawyers to dismiss the case.
- If you want to help, please write or call Paul Marciano, president of
- Guess. Ask him to end the lawsuits against Common Threads and UNITE :
- 1-800-39Guess or www. Guess.com
- snail mail: Paul Marciano
- Guess? Inc.
- 1444 S. Alameda St.
- Los Angeles, Ca 90021
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- hey all kind brothers and sisters committed to ending poverty and
- homelessness:
- at one time, slavery was legal in the united states. it took the
- abolitionists 100 years, but their movement succeeded, despite the fact that
- they were fighting a capitalistic empire, racism and intolerance.
- there's a new breed of abolitionists out to conquer slavery again. this time
- people aren't chained to individual masters but to an unrealistic, corrupt
- and greedy society that keeps them imprisoned in poverty. and just like our
- predecessors, i know we're going to win.
- and, like our predecessors, we have established an underground railroad to
- support the movement. this modern day version supports the poor people's
- movement. in philly, we're most committed to the kensington welfare rights
- union, but the model supports any grassroots organization of poor and
- homeless working in the movement. the idea is that poor people are leading
- the way with members from the underground railroad as allies in every way.
- we are committed to the struggle to not only build a movement, but to making
- very real changes in the social structure. we participate in rallies, civil
- disobedience, marches, educationals, strategy sessions and procurement of the
- basic needs for members in the movement. the underground railroad meets
- every monday night at temple university, main campus, ritter annex, broad &
- cecil b moore aves, room 580 at 6:00pm. for more info call 724-1908 or email
- me...stay kind...theresa
-
- "Winning means that I've defeated all the negative bullshit in my life.
- Because it's not just winning. You can work your ass off and not win
- and still be a healthy and successful individual, as long as you gave
- everything you had to give."
- --Dennis Rodman. Interview magazine. Feb '97
-
- LIBERATION THEOLOGY CORNER:
- Or Was That Libation Theory???
- by Prime Anarchist
- Two concrete thoughts come from the metaphor of original sin.
- 1) Clothing.
- 2) Meat.
- (ed. note. The Anarchist chooses to leave it at that for now.)
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- THIS BROUGHT ON BY A RELENTLESS NEED TO KNOW:
- Does anyone remember when Reagan or Bush passed legislation allowing
- a president to TAKE OVER ANY NETWORK he so chooses in times of national emergency?
- Was that an ammendment, or an emergency order, or what? Does anyone
- remember? Let us know if you're clear on that. I just remember the event. First I
- thought about network as CBS, NBC, CNN etc. Then about 5 years ago I was
- thinking it might be ambiguous enough for someone to commandeer MCI or
- AT&T, GTE and/or SPRINT.
- Then just the other day I was taking a Prime Anarchist Moment of Thought
- and it occurred to me the letter, proclamation or edict or whatever it is might even
- be open ended enough to allow the requisitioning of say the entire infosupohiway.
- Just a prime example of thinking too much.
-
- Well this has been another issue of ATI, a prime anarchist production.
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- marco99@juno.com
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