Lewis LaCook
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Re: Get your "NO WAR" on


a][nti][nglo.cubic" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
At 06:20 AM 20/03/03 -0800, you wrote:
>
>" If nothing else, you can examine your own brain patterns before,
>during and after the event."
>
>i agree! really, it's the only way an artist can approach it---

+ offering a social filter aler.ting[le?]

LL: how can you NOT, mez....

>the thing about war and anti-war activitsts is, it becomes (horribly)
(thematically) more trend than content--putting up a NO WAR page is not
going to accomplish anything at all

????????
how dare u make this claim, LL?

can u d.termine the paths + passages of info-impacts?

[help.less.ness_is_KNOT_d.termined_by_flippant_egoship!!!]

bah!

[is yr writing powerless due 2 its target audience niche? is this trawling
+ dispersal "not going to accomplish anything at all"]

:|

LL: You may be right here...forgive me for a moment of disillusinment!

>(you can make the claim that it will provide information about the
situation by linking to various news sources, but don't you think anyone
really interested in this woulda sniffed that stuff out already?)--

so literal, LL.

*sighing_thru_my_lateral_mouth*

LL: but bombs are literal, mez...and sometimes i doubt that symbolic action is really the way to remedy these things...

>i agree with t.whid////i'm against this war primarily because it will
provoke more anger from an already angry (rightfully so)
population------i'm also against it because of the very dangerous ideology
george w. bush has been using---it's an ideology firmly entrenched in its
own snug corner of the world---there's an axis of evil because there are
political ideologies different from american capitalism---this is
comic-book logic---
>

& wot re: the banal logic of the assumer?
+ cloaked apathy + n.gendered blockages of [symbolic] action stances that u
c.k 2 w[ord]ash away above?

LL: The logic of the assumer is not mine...

[symptomatically + author.ity occulsions]

pfft.

>probably the most useful thing we can do is be kind to each other, and to
especially be kind to muslims here in the US (they've had a tough time
since 911!!!!)----understanding and kindness are ALWAYS more effective than
bombs----THAT'S a helluva lot more effective than a NO WAR page----
>

+ b AWARE of [y]our own baggage
+ remove_the_judgement_need[les]

LL: Good point, and well-taken...

>we can also be watchful of civil liberties in this age of heightened
security---i had a moroccan friend a while back who was a muslim----when i
brought up the ACLU, he smiled and said, yes, this is why we come to your
country----this is what we should keep in mind....america is only as great
as the manifestation of that ideal---
>

..+ the accumulation of that ideal silt in bobs + filtered patches.

*head shake.ages*
mez

LL: bless you, mez...you've helped lift some of that disillusionment!

bliss

l

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LIGHT HAS NO TONGUE:hyperpoem


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STATEMENT: LIGHT HAS NO TONGUE

Light has no tongue is a hyperpoem with recombinative music. The music for the work composes itself based on Western functional tonality. Users can read the work three ways--by listening to the randomly accessed voice, by clicking within the draggable film mask, or by reading the tickertape text scrolling by at the bottom of the piece. Via these three methods, a kind of haiku is created.

2003/03/20 10:53:00

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Re: RHIZOME_RARE: Re: Get your "NO WAR" on


If nothing else, you can examine your own brain patterns before,
during and after the event."

i agree! really, it's the only way an artist can approach it---

the thing about war and anti-war activitsts is, it becomes (horribly) (thematically) more trend than content--putting up a NO WAR page is not going to accomplish anything at all (you can make the claim that it will provide information about the situation by linking to various news sources, but don't you think anyone really interested in this woulda sniffed that stuff out already?)--

i agree with t.whid////i'm against this war primarily because it will provoke more anger from an already angry (rightfully so) population------i'm also against it because of the very dangerous ideology george w. bush has been using---it's an ideology firmly entrenched in its own snug corner of the world---there's an axis of evil because there are political ideologies different from american capitalism---this is comic-book logic---

probably the most useful thing we can do is be kind to each other, and to especially be kind to muslims here in the US (they've had a tough time since 911!!!!)----understanding and kindness are ALWAYS more effective than bombs----THAT'S a helluva lot more effective than a NO WAR page----

we can also be watchful of civil liberties in this age of heightened security---i had a moroccan friend a while back who was a muslim----when i brought up the ACLU, he smiled and said, yes, this is why we come to your country----this is what we should keep in mind....america is only as great as the manifestation of that ideal---

bliss

l

Ivan Pope <ivan@ivanpope.com> wrote:
To view this entire thread, click here:
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thready26&text125#16125

+ + +

on 19/3/03 7:17 pm, Eryk Salvaggio at eryk@maine.rr.com wrote:

>
> I can't say I know what the right thing to do about the war is, as an
> artist.
> This war is probably, really, not about oil or money or revenge, so much as
> ...
> The winner gets to look thier best in whatever instance the theatre is
> played out on in thier heads.
>

In light of a stream of war related postings I would like to muse a moment
on the current situation as an artist.

War is obviously bad, but it is also interesting.

War is ongoing, nothing is really about to start.

Artists can obviously make a response to war, but there is little point in
them ranting about how bad they think it all is.

Even worse is to get all introspective, 'oh god, I am so impotent in the
face of all this horribleness'. Yes we are, but so what, we always were.

If you believe in art and in your art, you need to go on doing what you have
always done and not become an activist just because there is this
overwhelming media story about.

War will provide you with a huge reservoir of material for your work if you
want it. If nothing else, you can examine your own brain patterns before,
during and after the event.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve.

Cheers,
Ivan 'Only exist' Pope

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what to do in case of biological attack


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International Solidarity Movement Activist Killed by Israeli Bulldozer


International Solidarity Movement Activist Killed by Israeli Bulldozer

Bright Blessings
Otter Coyote Moon
Starhawk
Nablus, Palestine

March 16, 2003

Today a young woman was killed in Gaza. Young women, but more often young men, get killed in Gaza and the West Bank every day, and the world pays no attention. What was different today is that Rachel Corrie was an American, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, the group that I'm here with in occupied Palestine. And her death is a particularly horrifying example of the cold-blooded dehumanization that characterizes this occupation.

Rachel was trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home. According to the other activists who were with her, she was in dialogue with the operator of the bulldozer. She was working in the spirit of nonviolence that is a guiding principle of the ISM, which pro vides support for Palestinian civilians and for nonviolent efforts to bring about justice for Palestine. Rachel climbed up on the bulldozer to talk to the soldier in the cockpit. She climbed down. She sat in front of the bulldozer. The soldier in control of the huge machine drove it deliberately over her. He then backed up, and ran over her again. Rachel was twenty-three years old.

I am trying to fathom the mind that could pull the levers and gun the motor to crush the life out of her young body. That choice, that deliberate act of murder that ended her sweet life, seems incomprehensible. But here in occupied Palestine, that murder is a logical outgrowth of the system of total dehumanization that controls every aspect of life, that cannot see the human being in the Palestinian, that claims to be fighting terror by institutionalizing it. Please register your outrage -- at Rachel's murder, at the home demolitions that she was trying to stop, at the illegal occupation that can only be defended by brutalizing a whole people.

Call the Israeli Ministry of Defense

972-3-69-55476

(011-972-3-69-55476 from the US)

and

972-3-69-75220

(011-972-3-69-75-220 from the US)

Fax the Israeli Foreign Office

972-2-53-03506

(011-972-2-53-03506 from the US)

General Director: Phone

972-2-530-7704

(011-972-2-530-7704 from the US)

Call, or demonstrate, or shut down your local Israeli Embassy or your local Consulate office.

If you are from the US, call or write your Senators and Congressional Representative.

--Starhawk

www.starhawk.org

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