this is ATI, activist times, inc. 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. 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. 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. -mf- -c- 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 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. 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. 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." He turns up the volume on his radio and concentrates. 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". --- 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. MEGALOMODEMANIA by Prime Anarchist - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Infomaniack BBS. (401)596-8338 If you feel you MUST DEMAND a printout of the latest activity online, send a SASE (a couple extra stamps inside might be nice) to: Marco PO Box 1211 Westerly, RI 02891 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.