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2001 any replies , questions or comments to babadiga@hotmail.com WHERE: the stunning surroundings of Camp Miramonte, a beautiful garden campsite set in one of the most spectacular regions of the city. www.tangerweb.com and select camping to find out more about camping at Miramonte. INFO babadiga@hotmail.com cc planetalmaghreb@hotmail.com YOU 2556 London FRI AUG 31
"Their so-called 'anti-drugs' campaign is a medically unproven policy which I am advised could be dangerous" said Ken. "The square will be held for many political demonstrations which I disagree with whilst I am mayor, however it would not be responsible for me to allow it to be used to advertise a spurious medical programme which many drug professionals are concerned about." The Church of Scientology must be the most money-grubbing brain-washer of all the cults. "I would urge people not to be duped by their expensive campaigning" said Ken. WE AGREE WITH YOU, KEN! YOU 2557 California SAT SEPT 8 Preview of Melinda Corazon Foley's rhythmic verse poetic play written in a language influenced by spoken word, hip-hop, alternative rock, folk, pop, adult alternative, and children’s tales (5 years in development). Scheduled for full SF production, early 2002 "Whirlwind images of a haunted family past descend upon Maya Collins' brain. Driven by profound longing, and the encouragement of a wild ghostly elder, Maya revisits her childhood roots where something went bitter." FREE @ the 10th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture, Point Fermin Park, 807 West Paseo del Mar, San Pedro. 12:45 pm - 30-minute preview, flowing into a blend of Melinda’s lyrics and the original compositions of LA-based singer/songwriter, Maya Marin. The festival is 10am-6:30 pm - complimentary parking/shuttle service @ 22nd Street and Miner. http://www.filamarts.org http://www.sanpedrochamber.com/champint/ptfmlths.htm http://www.mayamarin.com YOU 2558 australia hi fraser & crew! keep up the good work & thoughts & don't let the bastards get you down! and thanks - from one of the 'older lot' you refer to who don't go out so much any more but still love the culture... hate the chemicals... love the 'erbs & wish that shamanic dancing was enough to get people high (it is for me). I had to get out because witnessing the drug/alchohol abuse was doing my head in. I reckon chemical drugs and alcohol are as rancid as processed food, but I s'pose it's not surprising that people seem to need them since food and western "medicine" have pumped us full of chemicals & preservatives for generations now. It'll probably take another generation or two of dedication to non-processed substances of all kinds b4 us humans regain the ability to access the incredible drugs our amazing bodies are so very capable of producing naturally, thru trance dancing & yogic techniques. There is no hideous come down from this. The drug-induced highs that give people a mere glimpse of the possibilities of our own psyches' don't look so beautiful on a wednesday when otherwise lovely people become demons due to nothing else but the come down. I feel the real scale & gravity of our potential as a world-changing and cosmic force is so untapped because of this. So, when you look at what's already being achieved on & by the raving scene and the pronoiac* movement, the possibilities are mind-blowingly exciting. *the sneaking suspicion that others are conspiring behind your back to help you. Forget the drugs & the booze...Let the music take your body...and the mind will follow... yours in solidarity djbc / Sydney YOU 2559 DRUGS AND THEIR EFFECTS 1. ALCOHOL How you think you behave: Like the life of the party. You are sexy, funny and everybody likes you. How you actually behave: Like the death of the party. Your behavior gets progressively worse as you tell more and more crass jokes, insult the bartender, spill your drink and make a pass at your best friend's date. Likelihood of getting laid: 90%...Your sexual standards drop dramatically with each consecutive drink. If surrounded by others whose standards are also lowered, then your chances are pretty good. How you feel in the morning: Who did I insult? Where is my car? Why did I sleep with someone from the office? I've never felt this bad before. This is absolutely the last time. Embarrassment rating: 11/10...Not only are you stupid, you are sloppy. Everyone recognises this, except you. YOU 2560 London THURS SEPT 6 Grand Bazaar of clubbing!: Hubble Bubble's heavily scented Turkish and North African mix comes to the ICA for the first time in association with Ark 21 Records. A live set by the stunning Zohar heads the night, to coincide with the launch of their new album onethreeseven. The carnival atmosphere is completed with belly dancers and a live set by the band Oojami, celebrating their up coming album Bellydancing Breakbeats. ICA, The Mall, SW1 £10. YOU 2561 THE WAY OUT & HOW TO GET THERE Kirkpatrick Sale (an article submitted as a discussion paper for The Academic Inn/London on September 12) Our work towards a way out of the present technological mess is inspired chiefly by the knowledge that people everywhere are dissatisfied, to one degree or another, with the technocratic life that is increasingly thrust upon them. Letters to the editor, talk shows, surveys and back-fence complaints all suggest that the computer-generated technomania is, as Newsweek has said, ‘outstripping our capacity to cope, transforming our mores, shuffling our economy, reordering our priorities … and shifting our concept of reality’, leading to profound disquiet and malaise. Furthermore, all the indications of what people really do want, including a Harwood Group survey recently published in YES magazine, point to a world without the pressures and constraints of high technology and instead embracing - more time with family and friends - more development of neighbourhood and community - more connections with nature - more honest work with simpler tools. There already exists a widespread, if not completely coherent, movement towards low-tech/alternative-tech future. Its main features are - on the one hand, a move towards abstinence, resistance and refusal, as in the sort of simple-living choices offered by Plain magazine, and the Amish and back-to-nature examples, including the specific organisations opposing cars, televisions, pesticides, biotechnology, incineration, animal testing, food irradiation and world trade - and, on the other, a move towards radically new relationships with nature at a non-technological level, starting with organic gardening, whole-food diets, vegetarianism, backpacking and natural healing, and leading on to forms of human-nature harmonising inspired by deep ecology, American Indian shamanism, modern witch practices, and ancient and Eastern religions. This, in toto, represents a considerable constituency to build on. STEPS TO THE SANE FUTURE Steps to the sane future ultimately must be fashioned locally, responding to local conditions and needs that is, at a communitarian and bioregional level and therefore are likely to be different in different places, even leading to different arrangements in different places. Therefore a self-conscious continental or international movement, though it can certainly offer necessary precepts and philosophies, inherent policies and prescriptions, cannot determine all the steps, or stones, or paths, or highways, than any locality should adopt to solve its own problems and advance its own causes. There is, in short, not one way out, but many. However, for communities and bioregions to be able to determine their own courses and to exercise a true democracy that starts from face-to-face direct participation, the national and international arrangements that now stand in their way will have to be dismantled. That's a tall order, and steps in that direction are by no means easy to contrive; but there is really no other way. There cannot be local power of the necessary kind as long as there are political and economic strangleholds on power exercised by large corporate and national organisations. Of the first order of priority, therefore, must be ways to confront those large organisations, to de-mystify and de-legitimise them, to gradually rescind and reverse their monopolies on power, using all the means of scholarship, persuasion, intervention, activism, and deliberation at our disposal. It's a long-haul task, and victories will not come easily, yet logic dictates no other course. Aand it suggests active steps on three levels: - first, in support of the resistance/simple-living forces - second, in support of the withdrawal/nature-harmonising forces - third, in support of the decentralised anti-corporate/anti-nationalist forces. It also suggests that none of these should have priority and all should be pursued as actively as our time and resources permit. SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL CHANGE MOVEMENTS Though the forms of such support are varied and will shift in scope and emphasis according to our abilities, there are certain known processes for successful social-change movements. - we must continue to reseaarch and then communicate to others the evils of the present technological system and the corporate/political forces behind it, always with the understanding that high computer-driven technology is to be seen as the chief manifestation of the problem. (plus similar work to illuminate the beneficial and necessary aspects of the resistance /withdrawal trends which can provide both strategies and tactics for the decentralisation trend. - we must not fall into traps that bind us to public-policy, change-the-law work that inevitably legitimises the very institutions we seek to abandon this includes all kinds of state and national electorialism or that force us into broad-coalition work with elements that do not share our analyses and goals. [eco activists please note - fraser] YOU MAY SAY I'M A DREAMER The steps by which one one person, one movement gets from here to there are never clear or easy, either in imagining or in effecting. It may be that they're impossible of imagining correctly; or it may be that the impossible can become possible only if imagined while it is impossible. Perhaps it's our task to imagine the impossible and then proceed on the long, arduous, uncertain task of making it possible. YOU 2562 London ANARCHY FOR SALE? Johnny Rotten's white cotton "ANARCHY" t-shirt is expected to fetch £3000 at Sotheby's in October in a sale marking 25 years since the Sex Pistols' legendary gig at the 100 Club. YOU 2563 I agree enthusiastically with Jerry of Brescia, Italy (in YOU 2537) when he says "In this century wealth will probably no longer be the main motivating force. Many people in the developed world are already free from being a slave to money and are looking for depth to their lives, including through their jobs." So how about putting on some facilities or events specifically to empower unhappy, job-locked people to brainstorm and reflect their way out of their vocational monotony? Sort of like a spiritual holistic careers advice service. I reckon some jobs are just unquestioned, habitual, entrenched behaviour for funding dubious normal cravings like mortgages, pasteurised milk & sugared puddings. heheh) matt/wales YOU 2564 G U E R I L L A S . O F . H A R M O N Y BACK IN PRINT C o m m u n i q u e s f r o m . t h e D A N C E U n d e r g r o u n d 100 pages of essays, articles, rants, & poems by Fraser Clark, Terence McKenna, Antara, Mark Heley, Malachy O'Brien, Earthgirl Foxgluv, Brian Behlendorf, Mark Ameba, Andrew Rawnsley, Ariel Meadow Stallings, Cinnamon Twist & others. For once, NOTHING about the DJs, the vinyl, the musicians, but EVERYTHING about the EXPERIENCE: What is it? Why are we doing this? Where do we come from? Where can we take it? The best philosophical takes on raving collected over a decade from zines, party handouts, and websites, all under one cover. W/color cover plus many b&w photos from desert gatherings. Compiled and edited by Cinnamon Twist, plus Twist's 1991 manifesto "The Imaginal Rave." $20 by mail. And worth every cent of it. Send a check or money order to: Mandala Music, 30040 Rainbow Drive, Castaic, CA 91384, USA. YOU 2565 London THURS SEPT 6 Join Bernard Sumner from New Order, Mani from Primal Scream, Skitz, Craig Richards and many more for this Stop Esso event. Fabric, 77a Charterhouse St, EC1 £10. www.fabriclondon.com/esso/eflyer.htm for final line-up http://www.stopesso.com for the latest campaign information. President Bush has ditched the only international treaty to stop global warming. As far as Bush is concerned, US corporations have the right to pollute the entire planet. People and the environment don't matter. So who's paying Bush? One corporation stands out from the rest. Esso (known as Exxon (Mobil in the States) donated more dollars to get Bush into the White House than any other oil company. Esso does not want clean energy from wind, wave and solar power to replace oil, coal and gas. Fuelling America's oil addiction means big profits for Esso. Esso and Bush think they can get away with polluting our world. They think they are too big for the rest of us to stop them. They're wrong. Esso chooses to wreck the climate. You can choose not to buy Esso's products. BOYCOTT ESSO NOW. YOU 2567 Below are the lyrics to a techno/house style dance track soon to be released. After vocals have been run through vocoder effect software and have had phasing etc added, they can be a little harder to follow, and in the case of dance music lyrics are not normally printed on LP or CD covers. So here we have a rare insight into the workings of the mind of, NOT some kindin a garage, but a fairly well known DJ/Producer who had a virtually unlimited budget, unlimited access to equipment and studio time, and whose sales are expected to be very good: you still close, when somebody days and i want to you not by your way and you tell me this time nowhere I go i'm not by your side time after time after time never you used it control by my side never you made and you tell me goodbye you are my side, you are my soul you never talk when you tell when somebody days never used to talk i feel this way, never you set my side you are my choice and we fly away somebody saw that way used to control other side by your type, never you say, but i feel is the same aaaaare you are my land and my soul nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody you still close, when somebody says and i want to you not at your way and you tell me this time nowhere I go i'm not by your side time after time after time never you use it to control by my side never you made and you tell me goodbye you are my side, you are my soul you never told nobody nobody nobody goddess help us! anybody know of even dumber words on a house track? fraser reckons it was composed by a computer and we tend to agree. if not, then computers MIGHT be more intelligent than humans after all! YOU 2568 DRUGS AND THEIR EFFECTS 2. MARIJUANA How you think you behave: You're not sure, but you think people could be laughing at you. How you actually behave: Like someone just hit you over the head with an 800KG fridge-freezer (or a 2 by 4) combination. Likelihood of getting laid: 60%....If you spend enough time on the couch, anything can happen. How you feel next morning: Like another joint. And the rest of that pizza. Embarrassment rating: 1/10... You are moving so slowly that it's almost impossible to do anything stupid. NEXT WEEK: COKE AND MUSHROOMS YOU 2569 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADVERTISINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Bristol SEPT 8 & 9 A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS & GATHERINGS EXPLORING THE MAGIC OF BEING ALIVE Limited Places. Please reserve now. +44 (0) 20 8858 4647 The Folk House, 40a Park Street, Bristol BS1 5JG. 10am to 5:30pm Accommodation not included, but B&B locally / or stay with friends or supporters. yasminsprout@hotmail.com AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADVERTISINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG YOU 2570 THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL QUESTION " The Church of the Eternal Question is the world's first virtual Church. It is to organised religion what anti-matter is to matter. "In the Church of the Eternal Question, we reckon that using the human mind as a vehicle for unquestioning belief is roughly equivalent to using an intergalactic star ship as a doorstop. We do not respect belief because we do not, ourselves, believe. We simply reckon, and we reckon on the basis of information currently available." The Church produces a number of multi-media products, including Audio and Video CDs featuring their own Very Reverend Dr Martin ("the man they couldn't corrupt"), a range of publications, and a number of bookable live acts and ceremonies. Contact them at their web site:- www.ecrp.co.uk/cofeq YOU 2571 London TUES SEPT 11 ACT NOW TO PREVENT A BREACH OF THE PEACE! Celebrate with such fierce dancing the death of their institutions - an audacious intervention against the arms trade, alongside the many other actions planned for the day. Come in costumes. Think pink & silver. Bring drums etc, food & water to share, props, puppets, banners, circus skills, your blue suede shoes and your love of life. MEET: Tidal Basin Rd, E16 at noon. (Canning Town tube, or DLR > Royal Victoria Dock) Ring for copies of a booklet on issues around the arms trade and globalisation, with maps and useful information. Use these ideas, words and images for your own local leaflets - and send us copies. Get involved now, especially in getting the word out locally and nationally, and making banners and other props. Get in touch... www.disarm-trade.org Campaign Against Arms Trade & Tower Hamlets CND 020 7281 0297 YOU 2572 Virginia, US THE SECOND ANNUAL ONE LOVE FOR AFRICA FESTIVAL A reggae-on-the-river event with four reggae bands, guest speakers, food vendors, and fun... all day long from noon until 6pm. $10 donation, kids under 10 FREE. ALL profits go to the South African AIDS Foundation in Durban, South Africa for their Orphan Programme (immediate relief through food, clothes, and shelter). Old Mill Park located on the Rappahannock River in downtown Fredericksburg. www.natural-mystics.com/oneloveforafrica YOU 2573 Fraser! I haven't received one of your news letters since Feb. Do you not do them anymore! I would love to hear from you they made my day! Christine / Vancouver, BC. YOU 2574 (Anticopyright, Matt Moose Bogus Quizzes UnLtd.)
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