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pstrongGet Your Anti-War Voices Heard!/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby PNN Staff/p pFrom: People for the American Way/p p URGE OUR LEADERS TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER RESPONSES TO TERRORISM/p pLike all Americans, we continue to struggle with the aftermathbr / of the September 11 terrorist attacks. We grieve for thebr / victims and their families and we salute the courage and heroismbr / that so many people have shown. We applaud the efforts ofbr / political leaders at all levels who have sought to bring thebr / nation together. /p pLegislation is now being drafted at the state and federalbr / levels aimed at bringing the perpetrators of these attacks tobr / justice and at preventing such acts of terror from occurring inbr / the future./p pWe, too, are committed to these goals. At the same time, webr / remain committed to protecting the fundamental civil libertiesbr / of all Americans. In order to do so, we ask that you take thebr / following action./p pACTION:/p pCall or write the president and your federal and localbr / legislators and tell them that now, more than ever, it isbr / crucial that they protect the fundamental civil liberties of allbr / Americans./p pACTION PLAN:/p pOver the past week we have become increasingly alarmed by thebr / willingness of some of our elected officials to supportbr / legislation that would erode the liberties and freedoms that arebr / at the core of American life. In many states and in Congress,br / sweeping legislation has been proposed -- and, in a fewbr / instances, already passed -- that could severely limit ourbr / liberties and freedoms. More may be on the way. Publicbr / hearings must be held to guarantee that good intentions do notbr / yield unintended consequences. Only then should votes be held./p pPassage of the federal hate crimes legislation now pending inbr / Congress is essential to prosecuting those who would perpetratebr / these crimes./p pHelp defend the civil liberties that are fundamental to ourbr / democracy. Write to President Bush, to members of Congress andbr / to your local legislators. Implore them to slow down, to fullybr / examine all legislation with public hearings, to guard yourbr / civil liberties and to pass hate crimes legislation./p pFor a list of your elected officials with complete contactbr / information, visit Project Vote Smart:br / br /a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml"http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml/a/p pPresident George W. Bushbr /br / The White Housebr /br / Washington, D.C. 20500/p p Senatorbr /br / United States Senatebr /br / Washington, D.C 20510/p pRepresentativebr /br / United States House of Representativesbr /br / Washington, D.C. 20515/p p***TALKING POINTS ***/p pInclude the following points in your letter:/p p1. All decisions should be made in a manner consistentbr / with: the Constitution and Bill of Rights; principles of abr / democratic society and an accountable government./p p2. Individuals should not be targeted solely based upon theirbr / race, religion, ethnic background or religion. We supportbr / passage of the strengthened federal hate crimes legislation nowbr / pending in Congress./p p3. Though perhaps unintended, sweeping legislation that isbr / enacted quickly often has far-reaching and damagingbr / consequences. In this case, these consequences could severelybr / damage our rights and liberties. We support full publicbr / hearings at which proposals are carefully considered./p p4. We cannot allow this terrorist attack to erode the libertiesbr / and freedoms that are at the core of the American Way of life,br / and that have been a model of democracy for the world./p pABOUT PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY / SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION/p pPeople For the American Way organizes and mobilizes Americansbr / to fight for fairness, justice, civil rights and the freedomsbr / guaranteed by the Constitution. PFAW monitors the Religiousbr / Right at the local, state and national levels, lobbies forbr / progressive legislation, and helps build communities ofbr / activists./p pPeople For the American Waybr /br / 2000 M Street, NW Suite 400 br /Washington, DC 20036br /br / a href="http://www.pfaw.org" title="http://www.pfaw.org"http://www.pfaw.org/abr /a href="mailto:pfaw@pfaw.org"pfaw@pfaw.org/a br /br / 1-800-326-PFAW br / 202/467-4999br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongWar can be a possitive good ifbr / quickened science and technologybr / helps not hinder Human evolution./strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B./p pMonday, Oct. 1, 7:30 am. should the "Mess on Market Street resume?" Like everyone else I've felt a change, differing directions, though uncertain how to proceed./p p'Select President Bush has shown in a time a crisis he can rise to the occasion and be President to All the people in the U.S., however the u"If your not with us your against us"/utalk or Att. General J. Ashcroft's Roving Wire Tapping legislations smacks of bbr / u'Thought Control'/u/b u["Watch what 'ya say,/u even if your joking someone can easily by accident earnestly doing their job take coversations out of context and build cases of anti-American activities - when it's only one or more citizen's private views.]br / "Then don't use the phone lady - fella, kid." /p pWhich slowly begins fissures of erosion our rights to speak out freely./p pIs in beginning, am I already one of the odd individuals to be under "observation" during this time of crisis?/p pIf so record this: The Taliban blew up religious statues of Buddha, because of their intolerance to other spiritual ideas, then World Trade Center's by a terrorist group. /p pLet's develope Nano/AI 'tech b[Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence]/b to not only rebuild the WTA but improve it so every meter rebuilds itself night and day, so it can never be taken out again also those statues also can be rebuilt never to be destroyed by natural erosion and if destroyed reconstiutes itself. /p pHow would Talibanian's deal with that?br / Also soldiers, citizens should benefit from the same technology in medical sciences plus theraputic cloning of exterior-interior body parts./p pIsn't time for us to really show the world that human life is worth more than b"missle fodder"/b for death dealing machines./p pWhile I'm thinking of it, let's work on quantum computers./p pHopefully, there will be no war but if their is raise the human stakes for healthier, longer lives, defences, not better ways of slaughtering more humans on the planet./p pOne more thing, if America really wants to show its worth; embark on a public and private program of b"Manhatten Project Part II and III"/b which would be Life Extension, to eventual Immortality as a global human birthrite for everyone just as the Genome Project is./p pThis would include Cryobiology, Suspended Animation, sciences, and the International Space Station plus scientist's, researcher's world wide working, solving different parts of the puzzle./p pBeyond war, the above can be an ongoing peace effort, no short term, goal oriented beat the other country - that's over: we either share in the boom times or have nothing 'comin./p pAs for religious zealots, fanatics, both here and abroad - if they chose not to join the new world to come in its mist they don't have to partake as long as their citizen's have a voice and choice in the matter./p pLogic dictates that we are near the next stage in our evolution from Homo-Longivous or longer living to Humanous-Eternus or Eternal Humanity. /p pOk, my syntax, Latin roots of the words are linguistically and scientificly suspect or wrong; folks you know what I'm saying and what I mean. /p pRemember the old Chinese probverb or curse "May You Live In Interesting Times"br / br / We're There, let's take this oportunity to warp-forward, skip generations of errors now and be a better, humane country and civilization. Bye./p pbr /Please send donations on tobr / br /POOR Magazine a href="http://www.poormaga" title="www.poormaga"www.poormaga/a zine.org or C/O br /Ask Joe at 299 9th.br / br /Street, San Francisco, Ca. 94103 USAbr / br /For Joe only snail malebr / P.O. Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St. San Francisco, Ca.94102br / br /Email:askjoe@poormagazine.br / org/p p /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongbroken arrow n bowbr /br / /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p pbreakin down crystal coated greenbr /br / turmoil of temperment cellsbr /br / evened out on vega leaf or sweet brown paperbr /br / fire burnin smokin risin tickle spotsbr /br / mind states chaos locked away in alienationbr /br / tunes spill from lady day’s gardeniabr /br / when did it beginbr /br / when did it end/p psips grape juice slowlybr /br / forever lickin salty oceans waves puritybr /br / arms spread wingsbr /br / Ho Chi Min knows strategy wellbr /br / u gotta know strategybr /br / in a socratic way 2 survive...2 manifestbr /br / wit out it’s a tragedybr /br / on da battlefield of life n death/p pu r @ sum kind of war everydaybr /br / emotions draw swordsbr /br / thoughts trample soulbr /br / dividin...conquerin... br /br / gainin...losin...refusinbr /br / preparin fo attacks reacts of behaviorbr /br / mapped programmed plannedbr /br / constant ambulancebr /br / policebr /br / helicoptersbr /br / shoutin addicts! br /br / illusioned... wit chemicalsbr /br / we feel ease da pain. br //p pfire trucks rush down gravelbr /br / off 2 save like Jesusbr /br / military of USAbr /br / travels wit preyed on folksbr /br / 2 suit up uni form 2 stormbr /br / tellin dem 2 defendbr /br / a legislationbr /br / a masonic demonic politicianbr /br / World Tradin Center...Pentagon...got bombedbr /br / durin a mornin of comfortin consolin/p pnewz casts u parts 2 playbr /br / panic attacksbr /br / fosterin discriminationbr /br / hate toward Arab Muslimsbr /br / its fucked up Jackbr /br / how Uncle Sam fucks ubr /br / so u know how 2 fuck us good. br //p psymbolisms of capitalism burnbr /br / in mi heart I yearn git excitedbr /br / yet hurt fo da many countless non-expendable livesbr /br / leaks blood thru steel iron pipebr /br / fuel box cutters rumorsbr /br / who did wut n how/p pNew World Order cum 2 mi lipsbr /br / when I speak on da recent explosion in Americabr /br / where da disillusioned thinkbr /br / we r free safe not @ warbr /br / how tricked dey r wit a treat of luxury @ constant Halloweenbr /br / Patriots thro da flag out n upbr /br / az if dey r XIV LNS CRIP SURTRECE BLOODSbr /br / Patriots representing a lie a holocaustbr /br / threaded in stripes stars./p pPeople war iz constant consistentbr /br / can u # WWI WWII WWIIIbr /br / question markbr /br / da world has been @ war since da beginning/p pgive me peace or I’ll git it miself wit da helpbr /br / of many birds freed from a cage of bondagebr /br / in pain madnessbr /br / who ain’t afraid 2 revolt!/p pShowdown!br /br / Wut u gonna Throwdown? /p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongDestruction and Warbr /br / /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p p/pPWar is loss how many morebr /br / The Civil War, World Wars one and twobr /br / Korean Conflict and Viet Nambr /br / How many! br /br / Will we need to see/p pU.S. Soliders swimming in their own bloodbr /br / I have seen enough killings to last for a life timebr /br / Yes, right here in the streetsbr /br / When people are murderedbr /br / by bullets that havebr /br / your name ……… /p pnever an attack on u.s. soilbr /br / human lives were lostbr /br / on domestic landbr /br / but not on our terms/p phere we hold the cause and effects/p pNow we hold the blood stained bannerbr /br / Now for miles in each directionbr /br / Bodies, bones arms, legs, heads, br /br / Hair, teeth of the persons br /br / In the rubblebr /br / Of the world trade centerbr //p pThe twin towersbr /br / Under donebr /br / Fire, fry , flamesbr //p pPeace my brotherbr /br / Rest in peacebr /br / Peace go withbr /br / You my brotherbr //p pHave not we seen enoughbr /br / War in our city streets?br /br / Mother’s has already lostbr /br / her child to the street crime br /br / And prisonbr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrong*A Peaceful Warbr /br / *Boot Camp......Melting Pot!br / /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p pbA Peaceful War/b/p pI a Sojournerbr /br / Traveling through the Sierra Mountainsbr /br / Awed by Tree filled skylinesbr /br / Pearly Cloudsbr /br / Along the Truckee River! br /br / Meanderingbr /br / Flowingbr /br / The Highway of Life!/p pThe Greyhound Bus wheels churning! br /br / Going Bumpy Bump de Bump. br /br / Silence! br /br / All the Passengers Relaxed, Peaceful! br /br / Their sounds drowned outbr /br / By the Beauty of the Scenery engulfing us!/p pNothing moving outsidebr /br / Except a Whispery Windbr /br / Flowing silently through the Treesbr /br / The Water of Life/p pSilence! br /br / The Animal Kingdom no longer roam Here! br /br / Deer, Antelope, Beaver, Bears, Wolvesbr /br / Shot downbr /br / Destroyed, by Huntersbr /br / For Profit Pleasurebr /br / The Greedy Search for gold./p pChildren have Perished Here! br /br / Consumed by Devilsbr /br / Demons with a Cannibalistic Nature! br /br / Demons with Blood-Stained Hands/p pWhich brings out the Warbr /br / From within my Nature! br /br / Battling against an Unknown Foe. br /br / My Gray Sidebr /br / My inner Shadow is my Eternal Woe!/p pI am a Warrior Woman! br /br / Running along a Treacheous Riverbr /br / Protecting my Innocence Soulbr /br / Battling against a Demonic Beast!/p pReady to bring out the Blood-Lust in mebr /br / To Protect my Child, Like a Lioness protects her Cubbr /br / Then a Magical shield surrounds me. br /br / Wonder Woman, br /br / All the forces of good evil comes to my Rescue!/p pRescuing me against my invisible Foe! br /br / Truth with my Golden Lasso./p pTraders and or World Traitors and or Investorsbr /br / World Bossesbr /br / Speak out on World Issues! br /br / The Truth is being forced down the World’s Throat! br /br / The Gold Standard!/p pThe People are Dying and Starving World-Widebr /br / For Profit! Stock dividend!/p pRiches Pleasures over Pain, Suffering Sorrowsbr /br / Staying Power in a War Zonebr /br / Biological war-farebr /br / Forced Child Laborbr /br / Argricutural Slavery! br /br / Diamond Fields Wars. br /br / Human Lives mean nothing/p pNo Peacebr /br / For the Animal Kingdombr /br / On land or sea. br /br / No Peacebr /br / For humankindbr /br / Eitherbr /br / On land , air, or sea!/p p***************/p pbBoot Camp......Melting Pot!/b/p pWe all the same color now! Ya hear! br /br / The Political Bosses shout at the Top of their voices. br /br / Radio Americabr /br / Put off your homeless ragsbr /br / Put on the uniforms of your Country. Dog-tag-boys. br /br / Tear down your cardboard houses. br /br / Get an Army tent and Marines Rations./p pRally around the Flag Boysbr /br / Where we can all be Men! br /br / Let's win against our Mutual Enemies, br /br / Who are trying to take away our Freedom. br /br / Your Blood has seeped in all Wars. br //p pFrom the Revolutionary war, Civil war, Viet nam, br /br / To the fight for freedom, liberty and justice for all. br /br / Jews, Negroes, Latinos, Whitemen all. br /br / Let freedom ring. Blink, Blink! br /br / What's the Slogan! br /br / We'll hunt 'em down in all their burrows holesbr /br / Smoke 'em out and send them running!/p pYou know your President has spoken, Boy. br /br / You know the one you didn't vote for! br /br / Or at least tried not to vote for. br /br / Rally around the Flag Boys. br /br / Oh, girls too. You know you got Liberated. br /br / You can grab a gun also. br /br / Equal Rights for allbr /br / Stars and stripes forever. br //p pStars on your Backs! br /br / Stripes on your Backs!!br /br / Buy your War Bonds! br /br / Out your Homeless Checks! br /br / We need everybody's support. br /br / We all the same color now./p pOne Nation under One God, br /br / Freedom and equality and injustice for all. br /br / Keep that Liberty Ball ringing. br /br / The pentagon has been Breached! br /br / Get your Homeless Ass down here and Register. br /br / Like you registered to Vote. br //p pWe will give you a good address. br /br / A burial plot wrapped in the Stars Stripes forever. br /br / With a medal! br /br / A fork-tongued metal, that is./p pBoot Camp America,/p pHey Dude, why do you get to ride in the Cherokee Jeep. br /br / I am closer to an Injun than you ever been, br /br / In facto we are Blood brothers. br //p pHey Sarge, you know I need my Lap Top. br /br / I want my designer "Back Pack," this thing weighs a ton./p pHey Bitch you make my bedroll neat! You were my Whore out there, br /br / You still mine in here. I don't care how high they promote you, br /br / Give me a back rub too and make my money./p pLt, sarge, man! My Cell phone is not working right here in Arab Country, call ATT./p pWhat's wrong with you, You nuts, talking about riding a Camelbr /br / I'll smoke one first, I need my Limo! /p pHey SARGE, I need a little Puff (Pfuff) br /br / This sand is "F"ing with my Hooter, br /br / Hey this Dust is Fuckin with my Syringe. br /br / What about my rubbers. br /br / Hey Sarge! Where is my Woman?/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongPeace inside the warbr / /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p pBoom! Boom! Boom! Ahhhh! pop,pop,pop. HELP! HELP! br /br / Mad terror, all over the world. br /br / FEAR in our cities, br /br / Kaos in our homes, br /br / Buildings that once stood tall, br /br / are now just rubble. br //p pPeople dying, People crying. br /br / Gunshots, Bombing, screaming, fighting, wanting this nightmare to be over! br /br / Digging through the rubble to find my sisters and brothers! br /br / Feeling the dusty, polluted, grimy air go through my body. br /br / No more tastes of happiness, I can just taste sadness. br /br / Praying that this terror will end soon, before I am the next victim under the rubble waitng to found./p pwarm ivory marble walls, br /br / yellow rose curtains, br /br / clear splashing water, br /br / the smell of strawberry fields, br /br / sounds of waves moving back and forth, br /br / cool relaxing water running through my hands, br /br / breathing in, breathing out, br /br / an end to my sorrows.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongWe Can Destroy Ourselvesbr /br / /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p pWe can destroy ourselves......../p pI see many people hurting each otherbr /br / hurting themselves... br /br / the terrorism begins with us... good vs. evil/p pRevenge against the middle east is Patriotism. huh? br /br / Where is patriotism in our streetsbr /br / fear distrust paranoia --we are the terroristbr /br / where is patriotism in our family -- resentments revenge and jealously/p pWe are terrorizing ourselvesbr /br / United blood thirst against the Eastbr /br / AMERICAN- brown people, Indians, Middle Easterners here in our own U.S. Soil/p pFiguring us out,to seek those that may fit in America’s fight club mentalitybr /br / And yet hating us for taking patrotic measuresbr /br / questioning media coverage/p pWho let 4 planes come in; unreported and unshotbr /br / What and Who provoked terroristsbr /br / Why censor free speech opinon in major news networksbr /br / Vague evidence of Bin Laden- br / leaving out Americans who were in alliance with this set upbr /br / common sense/p pMulticultural peoples join America fight clubbr /br / forgotten that the flag they support is the same flag that supports the killingsbr /br / of our great great grandparentsbr /br / People of colorbr /br / humanity’s mentality wake up/p pWe who wave the flag in the name of revengebr /br / they are using us for their lies. br /br / Lies that continue to exploit third world countries/p pThey have forgotton that the flag they supportbr / is the same flag that kills mexicansbr / who cross broadersbr / the ones that work in the fields for low pay/p pA country that treats our children like criminalsbr /br / bringing crack to the ghettoes and inner city./p pTell KMEL, ABC, CBS, NBC br / leave our people alonebr /br / send the President’s daughters to the east to fightbr /br / but he'd rather send our people and let his dauthers get drunkbr / and brainwash them into thinking they are not part of our human family/p ptogether human beings have to unitebr / or we can destroy each other and our planet/p pOr we can heal ourselves... br /br / into cold airs where pigeons fly above blue skies/p pHeal ourselves into tree trunk rootsbr /br / surrounded like statues expressing slow movement with a focusbr /br / like the wind and stillness of the treesbr /br / winds blowing soundlessly and birds flying by br /br / make their presence known with their echoing flaps /p pWe must heal ourselves call on our ancestorsbr / with hand foot coordinations that reflect our flow of the environment br /br / sometimes nothing is tasted br / other times it taste fresh like clouds passing by br /br / strong tastes that leave your stomach warmbr / burning with fire/p pthese are only freedom tastesbr /br / our water is our fire./p pWe can heal ourselves and each otherbr /br / confronting the liesbr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrong pI'm not thinking or sayingbr / anything thatcan be misconstruedbr / as Anti-American./p pUnless I've done it alreadybr / and if that'sthe case...br / I believethe US has abr / thick skin./p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B./p pbThursday, Sept. 28, 2001 10:54 am. What a couple of weeks in the new world!/b /p pFour U.S. commercial planes hyjacked by brave, suicidal young to middle aged men. /p pBillionaire or is it mult- millionaire Osama bin Laden, is supposedly behind the New York World Trade Center bombings./p pPersonally dazed and confused wondering how this could happen I could not write "Mess on Market Street" series for a while until I let sink in what happened on Tuesday, September, 11th 2001./p pWent to bed, have a restless sleep./p p Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2001 7:30 am seven people including myself walking on Market Street. /p pGray skies meet me with a puff of a cool wind. /p pUsually a taperecorder, an aide to voice and memory, is in my hand./p pA week or two ago it is lent to someone who need was greater than mine hopefully today or in days to come it will safe in its owner's possession soon./p pPlease send donations to Poor Magazinebr / C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9th St. Street,br / San Francisco, CA. 94103 USA/p pFor Joe only my snail mail:br / PO Box 1230 #645br / Market St.San Francisco, CA 94102br / Email:askjoe@poormagazine.br / org/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrong*A Peaceful Warbr /br / *Boot Camp.....Melting Pot!/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/497/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby PNN Staff/p pbA Peaceful War/b/p pI a Sojournerbr /br / Traveling through the Sierra Mountainsbr /br / Awed by Tree filled skylinesbr /br / Pearly Cloudsbr /br / Along the Truckee River! br /br / Meanderingbr /br / Flowingbr /br / The Highway of Life!/p pThe Greyhound Bus wheels churning! br /br / Going Bumpy Bump de Bump. br /br / Silence! br /br / All the Passengers Relaxed, Peaceful! br /br / Their sounds drowned outbr /br / By the Beauty of the Scenery engulfing us!/p pNothing moving outsidebr /br / Except a Whispery Windbr /br / Flowing silently through the Treesbr /br / The Water of Life/p pSilence! br /br / The Animal Kingdom no longer roam Here! br /br / Deer, Antelope, Beaver, Bears, Wolvesbr /br / Shot downbr /br / Destroyed, by Huntersbr /br / For Profit Pleasurebr /br / The Greedy Search for gold./p pChildren have Perished Here! br /br / Consumed by Devilsbr /br / Demons with a Cannibalistic Nature! br /br / Demons with Blood-Stained Hands/p pWhich brings out the Warbr /br / From within my Nature! br /br / Battling against an Unknown Foe. br /br / My Gray Sidebr /br / My inner Shadow is my Eternal Woe!/p pI am a Warrior Woman! br /br / Running along a Treacheous Riverbr /br / Protecting my Innocence Soulbr /br / Battling against a Demonic Beast!/p pReady to bring out the Blood-Lust in mebr /br / To Protect my Child, Like a Lioness protects her Cubbr /br / Then a Magical shield surrounds me. br /br / Wonder Woman, br /br / All the forces of good evil comes to my Rescue!/p pRescuing me against my invisible Foe! br /br / Truth with my Golden Lasso./p pTraders and or World Traitors and or Investorsbr /br / World Bossesbr /br / Speak out on World Issues! br /br / The Truth is being forced down the World’s Throat! br /br / The Gold Standard!/p pThe People are Dying and Starving World-Widebr /br / For Profit! Stock dividend!/p pRiches Pleasures over Pain, Suffering Sorrowsbr /br / Staying Power in a War Zonebr /br / Biological war-farebr /br / Forced Child Laborbr /br / Argricutural Slavery! br /br / Diamond Fields Wars. br /br / Human Lives mean nothing/p pNo Peacebr /br / For the Animal Kingdombr /br / On land or sea. br /br / No Peacebr /br / For humankindbr /br / Eitherbr /br / On land , air, or sea!/p p************/p pbBoot Camp....... Melting Pot!/b/p pWe all the same color now! Ya hear! br /br / The Political Bosses shout at the Top of their voices. br /br / Radio Americabr /br / Put off your homeless ragsbr /br / Put on the uniforms of your Country. Dog-tag-boys. br /br / Tear down your cardboard houses. br /br / Get an Army tent and Marines Rations./p pRally around the Flag Boysbr /br / Where we can all be Men! br /br / Let's win against our Mutual Enemies, br /br / Who are trying to take away our Freedom. br /br / Your Blood has seeped in all Wars. br //p pFrom the Revolutionary war, Civil war, Viet nam, br /br / To the fight for freedom, liberty and justice for all. br /br / Jews, Negroes, Latinos, Whitemen all. br /br / Let freedom ring. Blink, Blink! br /br / What's the Slogan! br /br / We'll hunt 'em down in all their burrows holesbr /br / Smoke 'em out and send them running!/p pYou know your President has spoken, Boy. br /br / You know the one you didn't vote for! br /br / Or at least tried not to vote for. br /br / Rally around the Flag Boys. br /br / Oh, girls too. You know you got Liberated. br /br / You can grab a gun also. br /br / Equal Rights for allbr /br / Stars and stripes forever. br //p pStars on your Backs! br /br / Stripes on your Backs! br /!br / Buy your War Bonds! br /br / Out your Homeless Checks! br /br / We need everybody's support. br /br / We all the same color now./p pOne Nation under One God, br /br / Freedom and equality and injustice for all. br /br / Keep that Liberty Ball ringing. br /br / The pentagon has been Breached! br /br / Get your Homeless Ass down here and Register. br /br / Like you registered to Vote. br //p pWe will give you a good address. br /br / A burial plot wrapped in the Stars Stripes forever. br /br / With a medal! br /br / A fork-tongued metal, that is./p pBoot Camp America,/p pHey Dude, why do you get to ride in the Cherokee Jeep. br /br / I am closer to an Injun than you ever been, br /br / In facto we are Blood brothers. br //p pHey Sarge, you know I need my Lap Top. br /br / I want my designer "Back Pack," this thing weighs a ton./p pHey Bitch you make my bedroll neat! You were my Whore out there, br /br / You still mine in here. I don't care how high they promote you, br /br / Give me a back rub too and make my money./p pLt, sarge, man! My Cell phone is not working right here in Arab Country, call ATT./p pWhat's wrong with you, You nuts, talking about riding a Camelbr /br / I'll smoke one first, I need my Limo! /p pHey SARGE, I need a little Puff (Pfuff) br /br / This sand is "F"ing with my Hooter, br /br / Hey this Dust is Fuckin with my Syringe. br /br / What about my rubbers. br /br / Hey Sarge! Where is my Woman?/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongA Low income youth of color responds to the Call For War!? /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/482/photo_1_feature.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p piPNN contributor Lawrence Ashton is an intern in the Youth in the Media Program at POOR Magazine, a media and multi-media training program for low income youth in the Bay Area/i /p pI didn’t show up for me - even though it would be me that would be affected - I didn’t wake up early on a Saturday morning for me even though it was me that was missing my extra non-school day sleep - I didn’t march for me even though it was me that had to miss my basketball practice that day... no, I was at 24th and Mission streets on a Saturday morning at 11:00 am for This is Not Our War! a Youth and Community Speakbr / Out!! March and Rally.... for my father./p pMy father left our home a long time ago with his nightmare screams, his cold sweats, his heroin addiction and.... his shopping cart. /p pBefore he completely stopped talking my father used to visit my mother and me and whisper “ ..no matter what”, and he would always stop in the middle of his sentence and look away cause he didn’t want me to see the tears puddling in his eyes and then continue, .. “please don’t ever... no matter what, don’t let another war happen without speaking up!!...” he always punctuated his comment with a short laugh as though he hadn’t really begged me to do something so huge - so impossible- so important. /p pMy father was a soldier in vietnam, involved in a war he never understood - fighting against an enemy he never knew, for a country who had already treated him with contempt because of the color of his skin. He had lived in the south and was barely out of school - and right before he was shipped off to be the human bullit in some else’s gun, he fell in love with a girl - he fathered a son, (my brother) he had a dream of going to college, or at least, of getting out of the South. Within weeks of getting drafted he was sent very faraway, to a small city in Vietnam. Sometimes he would mumble the name but most of the time he would say he couldn’t pronounce the name of the place - and he didn’t want to cause he wouldn’t be doing that beautiful language any justice- and that would be disrespectful of another person’s culture./p pMaybe some folks could have seen the killing that my father saw and still come out of it ok, maybe some folks could have felt the terror my father felt and been ok but my father was sensitive, young and already kind of unstable due to his already broken apart life - heroin easily slipped into his veins , like a warm blanket of something over his terrified soul- and for a short minute he had some peace in that strange place. /p pSo on Saturday morning I listened to speakers from Loco Bloco, Company of Profits and other community based organizations speak out about how they aren’t being represented in this onslaught of Bush-Loving media coverage that accepts everything the Bush Government says as though it is the holy sacrament. About how they are not willing to go to war and how this is NOT OUR WAR! /p pAs low income youth and youth of color we are not being represented in this country. I, for one am very sorry about what happened in New York, I am very sorry for the families and the folks who died on that day, and it must not happen again, but the answer is not to start shooting at some vague enemy and in the process take out entire cities filled with schools, filled with children and families, adults and elders. /p pAs we set out on the march I let the voices of resistance wash over my body - hoping, praying, that if my father has managed to survive the battle of homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse, he knows that I am taking his pleas seriously and that I know that this is not now, nor has ever been OUR WAR!!br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p