From deke Mon May 23 23:39:15 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id QAA25078; Mon, 23 May 1994 16:39:03 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199405232339.QAA25078@wps.com> Subject: new, optional feeeeeatures To: sciww@ucscb.ucsc.edu Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 16:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson), vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1473 Status: O Hi Vad, Deke here. Um, the S.C. wobs now have an e-mail account at fido.wps.com. When you telnet in, logon as "sciww". The password to use is the same one as you use on your account "vad"; neither Tom nor myself know that password. Feel free to change that password to whatever else (and I wouldn't mind knowing it, but then, that's not my decision to make, now is it?) You hold the only key to it at the moment; please feel free to get others using it, etc., blahblah. MEANwhile, GST Rush issued me keys to GHQ this morning... Not the front door to the whole bldg., but to the office itself. Looks like mornings are nice and, um, uncluttered by the vibrancy of human activities, and accessible enough for me to take care of that which I need to take care of, before going to work... evenings 'til ??? I dunno. Of course, I'd *love* to be able to hang out with FWs while we work *together* or just at the same time, but mebbe GHQ just got a little more open to a wider array of neeeedy fellow workers, near and far... Guess GST Rush trusts me, which is good, cuz I've earned that trust. I will, of course, do nothing to compromise the integrity thereof... not that I'm a chronic permission-requester... heeheehee... So, baby, tell me what kitty neeeedz, and I'll feed her as best I can. Meanwhile, take care, stay FABulous, and keep me up to speed on my f(l)avorite GMB *ever*, the S.C.GMB of the '90s... I remain Yours for the Revolution, --Deke From deke Mon May 23 17:29:00 1994 Subject: Re: i finally made it back... To: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 17:29:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9405240007.AA15983@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at May 23, 94 05:07:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2604 > hi deke, vad here; i made it back to santa cruz, finally. i missed the > 2:00 train by about 10 minutes, so i ended up hanging out on market street > for about 3 1/2 hours before catching the 6:00 train so i could get the > 8:00 connector. obviously i didn't make it to the SCGMB meeting, which is > unfortunate since i could not get funding for my mailing to branches > approved. i had other things for the agenda as well (oh yes i had an agenda!) Oh no!!! Whatta drag! Man, that's really... well, *you* know. I've done that route quite a bit lately myself, so I really can empathize... as for that funding, well... I'd hate to sound as if I'm advocating the circumvention of the democratic *process*, however... does such an expenditure not fall within your discretion as Branch Sec'y? I mean, the intent of the mailing is to build unionwide support for a branch proposal, via factual, union-produced reporting of recent events and all... can you not get two signatures on a check? Please keep me up to date on this situation... > i was logged on to wps.com today, and it just locked up in the middle of the > editor. i waited a while, and then used ^] to bail. i wonder why that > happened. so here i am back on ucscb dealing with this nasty line editor. > i wish i had sent matt a copy of my response to bap5 (who is that, BTW?); > i keep forgetting he's in town. i guess it's redundant to say i got L&R's > correct address, though i wonder sometimes if anyone there cares. Yeah, wps.com does that to me, too. We thought it was this machine I'm working on, but your experience seems to indicate it's something with the internet itself. Go figure. bap5 is Elizabeth someone-or-other; the person who wrote the note was Todd Prane. Perhaps I'll send along to you *my* response thereunto (like you can't imagine *how much* I agree with you. Boy, we think the wobs have problems with efficiency and consistency...) > well, keep up the great work; i'm glad i visited you. Likewise on all counts. Tai's gonna be here Thursday evening, and I'm just *loving* all the H*O*T visitors I'm getting, now that I'm a city gal... I was dropping copies of the GA proposal through people's doors, and invites to pay dues, and my # and shit last night. Running all over town (yea! for the fast pass), no time to stop and chat.... and got picked up by a *man* on 18th and Castro. I *really* needed the things we proceeded to do... but of course wasn't seeking them out. I was working (it) for the revolution. I love this place! (Despite itself.) I remain yours for the revolution, --Deke From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Tue May 24 00:09:34 1994 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id RAA25168; Mon, 23 May 1994 17:09:33 -0700 Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA15983; Mon, 23 May 94 17:07:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 May 94 17:07:21 -0700 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <9405240007.AA15983@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: deke@fido.wps.com Subject: i finally made it back... Status: OR hi deke, vad here; i made it back to santa cruz, finally. i missed the 2:00 train by about 10 minutes, so i ended up hanging out on market street for about 3 1/2 hours before catching the 6:00 train so i could get the 8:00 connector. obviously i didn't make it to the SCGMB meeting, which is unfortunate since i could not get funding for my mailing to branches approved. i had other things for the agenda as well (oh yes i had an agenda!) i was logged on to wps.com today, and it just locked up in the middle of the editor. i waited a while, and then used ^] to bail. i wonder why that happened. so here i am back on ucscb dealing with this nasty line editor. i wish i had sent matt a copy of my response to bap5 (who is that, BTW?); i keep forgetting he's in town. i guess it's redundant to say i got L&R's correct address, though i wonder sometimes if anyone there cares. well, keep up the great work; i'm glad i visited you. yours for the revolution, vad. From sciww Thu May 26 02:20:12 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id TAA01931; Wed, 25 May 1994 19:20:12 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199405260220.TAA01931@wps.com> Subject: maile is on line!! To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 19:20:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 174 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; i just helped maile get her modem attached & the software installed, and am typing this message on her computer. yea for our team. Hi deke! love maile From vad Sat May 28 04:18:20 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id VAA01181; Fri, 27 May 1994 21:18:20 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199405280418.VAA01181@wps.com> Subject: i just love being on line! To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 21:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1005 Status: OR hi deke; i'm on line over at maile's; for some reason wps wasn't responding this morning. she telnetted and it said it was trying, and then gave some message to the effect that some host wasn't responding. do you know why this may have happened? well, anyway, i'm going to help maile finish & send her fnb article tonight; this after a long but good legal meeting tonight. legal is so together, you wouldn't believe (i wouldn't have!). suffice it to say at this point that the courts are going to have a big problem on their hands for the next few months! i was wondering if you could send me copies of harry's GEB reports when you get the chance. no hurry, but i left them at GA. i also am missing one of fred chase's GEB reports, the one where he voted for the new IW computer. i did not see it in the file when i was making copies. it was that purchase that originally spurred tai & i to get the reports in the first place. well, maile just called me for dinner, so i gotta go... vad. From vad Mon May 30 07:10:18 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id AAA07364; Mon, 30 May 1994 00:10:18 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199405300710.AAA07364@wps.com> Subject: FW Eugene Nelson To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 00:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus), deke (Deke Motif Nihilson), vittu@ucscb.ucsc.edu, newt@armory.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 616 Status: OR hi all; vad here; i just wanted to let everyone that FW Eugene Nelson will be visiting here from oakland to speak at the lougen nelson this coming friday, june 3 at 7 p.m. ona "homes for all" rent & mortgage boycott slated for may 1, 1995. we hope to have a few copies of his book "break their haughty power" there. FW marco is coordinating this event; his phone number is 427-3016; afterwards we intend to go to coffee night at 626B Windsor St. (phone 429-6296). also, there will be a food party for food not bombs at tai's on thursday, june 2 at 5 p.m., thanks to a generous donation from tai's family. From deke Sun May 29 20:24:14 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id NAA05894; Sun, 29 May 1994 13:24:14 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199405292024.NAA05894@wps.com> Subject: whassup To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 13:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8592 Status: OR Revolutionary Greetings, Fellow Workers! Thanks for the notes on the Conflict Reconfiguration meeting. What a drag... but it sounds like y'all got a good handle on the situation. Don't let go of it! cuz it sounds like the moment you do, they'll hit you on the head with it.... (that's not to say keep participating! Au contraire. It sounds like pulling out would be a Very Strong Move, especially if coupled with a demand for Real Dialogue, like discussion of not if but *how* things Will Be Changed Around). I do not, however, envy your situation. You're head-to-head with some pretty Slimy critters, and slime is slippery indeed! I'm a faggot, and I know these things... You want I should ply GHQ with a copy??? Also-- thanks for the video! I've shown it twice already. The first time was just to see it for myself, and a couple other FWs were there too (more on that in a minute), and one of one's roommates. It produced a lively, heated, vivaciously bothered debate. No, really! But we were, well, friendly (if not quite friends-- I mean me and the roommate) at the end of it. The second time was at an ISO party last night. (More on that in a minute, too; also, xref So Many Choices!..., a recent/previous e-message.) How's Tai's, er, investigation going? I've started lining 'em back up into the OBU here in S.F. My most primary mode of outreach has very consciously been in the context of the S.C. General Assembly proposal. I've distributed 20-30 copies of the proposal, as a delegate, along with personal contact info and an invite to get into good standing. I don't wanna rush it or *bother* people about it, but people are starting to get in touch and re-initiate, mere days after receiving a copy. I'll pursue malingerers over the course of June. It's been a FABulous tool to build more general support for the resistance movement in S.C.... Lots of "I-haven't-paid-dues-in-ages, cuz *nothing's going on*" type situations. We got the cure for that. Lots of FNB FWs looking at re-upping their dues, in particular... FNB/SF is looking at trying to start weekly demonstrations at City Hall here, on Wednesdays at noontime, in support of Keith McHenry. I got a meeting to be at in a coupla hours about it. As I won't be able to be there (cuz I work at that time), and neither can at least one other interested FNB comrade, I sorta have doubts. The burnout margins are so tenuously narrow lately, too... well, no guarantees! (Like, *duh* Deke!) BUT-- if it happens, expect heavy linkage of issues with what's going down in S.C., and against laws designed to re-press the poor in general... Um. Guess you got the scoop on BACORR. HNJ is its usual self, and me & Demian will be down in SC this Tues. evening to get our possesions, with a special, secret, FABulous FW at the wheel of the truck. Tai can give you the fresh, verbal scoop on FNB particulars-- Keith's situation, of course, being the big particular deal, and 13 feeds a week, every week... So the dish. I went to the "Socialist Day School" the ISO hostessed yesterday. They were particularly recruitful, and I (of course) Held the Fort of Anarchy. It was a very mutually friendly day. The ISO boys are even cuter than the RWL boys! but as straight as reds usually are. I guess their trip is that they're Bolshie Trots, grounded in the Soviets before Stalin. They talked a lot about presenting ideas in general, and selling their paper in particular. (Also, I'm no size queen, but their red cards are *tiny*!) They have branches, too, and seem to be experiencing explosive growth where their branches have plugged in to local struggles. (Sound familiar?) As a branch, they're looking for that here, and have flirted with solidarity work for FNB (in the case of Robert Norse, better known here as Robert Kahn. It was their flyers that informed me of his appeal hearing when I first got here.) A couple of their local members, however, have figured out how the world works, and they *show up* and do *shit work*. These are the ISOsters I know best, and I like them, and hang out with them in that context. I guess politically, I agree with about 90% of their analysis of what's wrong with society (i.e. capitalism), and disagree with about 90% of their proposed solutions (the "revolution from below" part I can dig. It's the heartbreak of Belief in the Neeeed for a Vanguard Party that I just can't line up and link arms around... dontcha know!) ANYway. I did a whole day with them, and I didn't join, but I did constructively engage in dialogue. The repetitive theme, in discussion after discussion with various of their members... well, we kept coming back to Kronstat. Imagine that. They defended the Bolshies, whilst I used it to illustrate the failure of the vanguard theory to (shall we say) serve and protect the interests of the working class. Same old. They thought I'd make a great socialist, *except*... I thought I could work with these people in direct action, *despite*. You know, that whole trip. Aside from me, the other friendly dissent that stuck out the whole day were the Fleece and Beat 'Em, er, Peace and Freedom Party's Frank Little Club. (Yes, as in the wobbly martyr.) The debate about whether to vote almost sounded like anarchist discussions on the same topic (except few anarchists show up at gatherings representing a Party they work in). The ISO thinks they shan't waste time electioneering. I can dig it. But they're not quite walkin'the walk... The other thing I added to the general dialogue was a recognition of the positive aspects of Identity Politics. Yeah-- they're Class Supremacists. I pointed out the gains made by I.P., and suggested that the synergy between that and Class War was worth building (as a queer anarchist, dontcha know). I also suggested they consider the oppression of the radical left in Amerika in the context of being an Oppressed Minority People, which made them really nervous, but a few bold ones talked it out with me later, and did end up getting it. I showed the video, they held a raffle (one of the prizes was a Noam Chomsky book), and I (mostly) cleared out a room with Militant Labor Songs of Yesteryear. A couple others there dug it special too, though. No one expected the Internationale outta my mouth, that's for sure! They were gonna do karaoke, but I foiled that plan with a dedicated rendition of Where the San Lorenzo Flows. Fritz (a post-punk who's way cool, even though he knows I'm madly in lust with him like, apparently, many Older Red Women) ran and got his Little Red Song Book and sang along some, too (this sorta behavior from the host!!!). That's how I found out about his self-described still-shiny Red Ducat, with 2 months paid in 1991. (Added him right to the list! Gave him some BACORR community meeting flyers too, and a copy of the Santa Cruz GA proposal...) Well *fuck*, I've just bothered to look up and realize that I've just gone *on and on*. Not To Stuff Your Mailbox, BUT... indeed! Like the cap'n said, it's not *me*, it's all them THINGS! (No, really!) Well, I wanna share whassup in my life up here, and this is the sorta situation that means I don't always write replies immediately to the mail you send me. But PLEASE, keep it coming, and rest assured that I only really have the sheer, raw time to *go off* like this on the weekends! I'll keep in touch too, sending you Notes and Things. Rest assured that S.C. is *very much* a part of what I'm doing up here, and even when it means doing kinky things like hanging out with a bunch of reds for 24 +/- hours, I do so with a view towards supporting and building not only the resistence movement locally and regionally, but also the outright, gawddam mother-father-figure-fucken REVOLUTION! Also, all my anarchist friends *here* are so jaded, tired, cynical and/or crispy-burnt, that I can't really tell them about things like my FABulous day with the reds. They can't believe it, see beyond the shell-thin exterior, or really *dig* it. That's another of the many reasons I'm secretly, madly in love with each and every one of you! It's true... Hold that Fort! comrades, as I'm up here trying to fill the van with reinforcements, that we might answer when you call for us! (In such a situation, we wouldn't really *need* anyone to guard it, now would we? There would be plenty of folks to keep an eye on it whilst we *get to work* on that new world in the shell of the old...) Stay FABulous, as I remain Yours for the Revolution, --th'Deke Motif From sciww Sun May 29 22:38:05 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id PAA06218; Sun, 29 May 1994 15:38:04 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199405292238.PAA06218@wps.com> Subject: ActionAssembly To: Deke@fido.wps.com Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 15:38:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2639 Status: OR Dearest Deke, I'm on line! Vad has been absolutely *fabulous* in helping me to get set up! I'm writing in wonderment about goings on in SF. Did you say the SF IWW branch is re-forming? What are the rumor mills saying up there about holding the assembly in Santa Cruz? Are folks in agreement with SE Michigan that the possibility of arrest during the assembly presents too much interference? I'm going to be writing in to the GOB to try to address this concern among others. When we wrote the proposal we were thinking that the first night would only be ticketing and the second night would be the arrests (after assembly meeting procedures had concluded) but as Lisa pointed out to me, we will only be ticketed the first night if we cooperate fully i.e. sign the tickets and leave the scene. So in other words if we really plan to spend the whole of the first night (Sept 3) out on the streets we may indeed be arrested. We may or may not then have the option to sign the OR form and show up at assembly the next day. This could create an unbalanced situation at assembly the next day where the actual activists in the union would be in jail and the bureaucrats (unwilling to risk arrest) would be left to make all the decisions. Of course this is a harsh and exagerated way of putting it, (not every one who choses not to risk arrest is a bureaucrat and there are many reasons someone might not be able to sleep outside/risk arrest etc.) yet nevertheless there may be a problem with our agenda as it stands in that an unequal balance of power may be created between those who really want to take part in the action and those who will make the formal assembly process their primary focus. In other words I'm worried that our proposal as it is may indeed help to further the polarization process that already seems to characterize our union by conveniently "getting rid" of a lot of the folks with the most energy for change and re-organization. On the other hand we did it that way to be consistant with the idea that action must be a part of the union's overall direction and that we must infuse all polical discussion with political action. Maybe if some folks ended up being in jail they would hold assembly proceedings in jail? I don't know, I'm just thinking here.. Should we modify our proposal? We were worried that if we put the action succinctly after the assembly the attrition rate would make an action impossible? Anyway, I'm very interested in your thoughts on this. I'm going to be writing the letter to the GOB today and tomorrow. (Sunday & Monday 5/29-30). love and revolution, maile From vad Mon May 30 06:56:45 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id XAA07326; Sun, 29 May 1994 23:56:44 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199405300656.XAA07326@wps.com> Subject: Re: Action /Assembly To: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 23:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus), deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) In-Reply-To: <199405292245.PAA06238@wps.com> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at May 29, 94 03:45:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1791 Status: OR hi maile, yeah, wow. i'm really not sure how to address this issue. lisa is probably very right about the potential for incarceration with an all-night sleep-out. and you're probably right about who would be left for the next assembly session. i think what may save this situation is one of the facts that led to our proposal: the assembly no longer has any legislative power. people can meet, talk, & argue, but anything substantial has to go to referendum. one of the problems our proposal sought to address was how to fill the void of purpose created when the assembly was stripped of its power a few years ago. i need to think about this, but my immediate reaction to these insights is to push this point: except for nominations, reports, & dialogue, there is very little "union business" at stake. what is at stake is the soul of the IWW; it's committment to be a potent direct-active force of resistance to present-day oppression. as i said, i need to think this through. should we try to have nominations the first day, or just be on top of our proxy votes, for example? i don't know the answers to these things. i feel like it just doesn't matter very much. what i valued from the last assembly most was meeting & talking to fellow workers from around the world outside of the meetings, which will surely happen again. on the other hand, i'd like to be there for the inevitable discussions on dues increases & other solutions to our fiscal crisis. it could be more powerful to engage fellow workers individually in the context of how we live here; i felt i had that with fw jeff kelly when he visited, for example. that's about all the feedback i have to offer right now. keep me posted on any new insights you may have. yours for the revolution, vad. From deke Mon May 30 16:32:33 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id JAA08675; Mon, 30 May 1994 09:32:32 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199405301632.JAA08675@wps.com> Subject: Re: The Relentless Fabulousness of FW Maile To: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) In-Reply-To: <199405292238.PAA06218@wps.com> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at May 29, 94 03:38:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4923 Status: O > > Dearest Deke, > I'm on line! Vad has been absolutely *fabulous* in helping > me to get set up! I'm writing in wonderment about goings on in SF. > Did you say the SF IWW branch is re-forming? What are the rumor > mills saying up there about holding the assembly in Santa Cruz? > Are folks in agreement with SE Michigan that the possibility of Welcome to the 21st century! I'm *delighted* that you're on-line, as it not only puts a *very* powerful tool into your immensely skilled hands, but *also* the Internet could really use some freshening up! It's starting, ever so slowly, to be less lonely out here on the screaming-electron-winds frontier... As for the recussitation of the S.F. GMB, well, not so fast. *Yes* I'm making a lot of headway, but I've only been here about a month! and it needs more help than I've been able to provide all at once. One step at a time, dontcha know... I don't know how people here are feeling about our proposal-- no one says anything directly to me about it, so I'm compelled to infer. We all know GST Rush has gotten all mushy on the SCGMB, but, he also gave me (unsolicited!) keys to GHQ. And I've been finding that a *lot* of FWs are starting to think that maybe paying dues maybe isn't so futile after all, once they get a look at our proposal. My list of the potentially re-inspired is over the 30 mark now, and I'd say about half of them have responded (all of one week later) in any way. Also, people keep telling me they took out a Red Card at some point, when I haven't even asked, presumed, or otherwise had *any* clue. So, in that sense, I think it's already doing one of its jobs very well-- that of re-engaging FWs who for whatever reasons had come to feel that their union was no longer theirs, let alone of relevance to their lives... I guess I'll find out more as June rolls along, and I start pestering those who don't just come right on over to my convenient, central location in S.F. and throw dues money excitedly at me! :) > arrest during the assembly presents too much interference? I'm > going to be writing in to the GOB... GOOD!!! (to the GOB part). Our branch has spent $85 on GOB costs to a GA that has *taken away* money it had *previously* granted us, in ways we *could* have taken personally, but didn't, cuz we're too FABulous for that! Also, if we put all that work into a Branchwide proposal, and can't even generate a coupla letters urging FWs to vote for Change and shit, well, that's really *weak*. Makes it look like the ideas of two or three people with the rubber stamp of a Branch on it (literally!). Which it isn't. We should illustrate that... to try to address this concern > among others. When we wrote the proposal we were thinking that the > first night would only be ticketing and the second night would be > the arrests (after assembly meeting procedures had concluded) but ... > On the other hand we did it that way to be > consistant with the idea that action must be a part of the union's > overall direction and that we must infuse all polical discussion > with political action. Maybe if some folks ended up being in jail > they would hold assembly proceedings in jail? I don't know, I'm > just thinking here.. Should we modify our proposal? We were > worried that if we put the action succinctly after the assembly > the attrition rate would make an action impossible? And thought about it I've been doing, FW, and continue to do so. It's a good one, quite a faux-classic connundrum (sp?). So far, my reaction is one of agreement with what Vad said, about us wanting to give the GenAsmb not only a well-deserved and much-needed *kick in the ass* and away from sororicidal bloodfesting, but also to reshape the role of a GenAsmb stripped of its historical legislative/judicial powers (and rightly so!), and in the process redefine the roles and scope of the union by going a sort of Back To The Future (the free speech fight elements and the unemployed/homeless/shitwage worker organizing). But yeah, it means trusting the, um, fuddy-duddies not to ditch us in jail and proceed with the kind of shit we were force-fed last year, which just might happen to *feel* like a knife in *our* backs (that's you and me, hon, and the SCGMB, and those I'm trying to re-convince up in SF right now...) > Anyway, I'm very interested in your thoughts on this. I'm > going to be writing the letter to the GOB today and tomorrow. > (Sunday & Monday 5/29-30). > love and revolution, > maile > Anyhow, I'm still thinking on all this (and I know how time is flying, yes!) but those are my thoughts thus far, in a +/- nutshell... (you know how I can get!) I miss you all madly! (Also, the video is turning out to be a big hit! I'll send someone's money, mine if no others', as soon in the future as I can). Hold that Fort! as I remain Yours for the revolution, --Deke From vad Thu May 26 22:07:37 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id PAA03988; Thu, 26 May 1994 15:07:36 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199405262207.PAA03988@wps.com> Subject: more news To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 15:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus), sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1489 Status: OR hi deke, i got bob's pamphlet mailed today, as well as getting that video off to you. i sent it to you c/o the little garden. linda lemaster owes paul brindell $5 for the tape, which she can pay later; postage was $2.90. perhaps the SFGMB would be willing to pick up this tab; your treasury seems a bit more able to kick down than ours is. just a hope. i'll reimburse linda out of my delegate kit for this month so there won't be any hurry. i ran into marco on the way back from the post office, and he fed me lunch & we talked about L&R. he considers himself part of CWSC too, so there are actually three of us. he spoke with eugene nelson on the phone while i was there after getting his pager number form GA, and fw nelson will be in town 6/3. fw nelson has already been in contact with anders, so marco & anders will likely be coordinating a speaking engagement. i also got marco all stamped up & in good standing, as well as selling him a convention stamp. we'll be getting together this saturday to do some music together, to party, & to watch the final episode of star trek: the next generation. we may have a going away party for matt m as well. we got the new IW today, and it looks better than ever, though i haven't actually read any of it yet. we are getting only 100 of them, which is good. i still think they should cut its size, but that would be contrary to the will of the majority, i guess. well, i gotta go, so soli, yours for the revolution, vad. From sciww Tue Jun 7 01:54:13 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id SAA01607; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 18:54:12 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199406070154.SAA01607@wps.com> Subject: notes fr maile To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 18:54:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1444 Status: OR Deke the Motif- Yes the sciww is indeed receiving those little mail group "testing" things many different times. Three of the same one-sentence messages and once with your paragraph of explanation. What newsgroup are you talking about? I want to be on a newsgroup! Is it like a bullitein board for wob conversations or something? Please send more info. Also on a piece of mail from you titled "June GOB" there was no message at all when i opened it! Were you trying to put the whole frickin thing on line or something? THat would be a neat trick. Okay that's about all the businessy stuff now how about some real gems from this morning's Sentinel: "We get kids who want to hurry through high school so they can get out when they are 16, and then hurry through college so they are out when they're 20, so they can work for the next 45 years instead of 43." --Harbor High School principal Ken Thomas, quoted in a generally congradulatory story titled "Determined students crowd four years of school into three. "...people just don't seem to think it matters who is elected or how a ballot measure might impact their lives. They just don't feel it makes a difference who governs or who votes." --Secretary of State Tony Miller, regarding predictions that tomorrow's primary will be the lowest voter turnout in California's entire history. Indeed. But is it apathy or a growing tendency towards CLASS WAR...hmmm. From deke Sun May 29 20:24:14 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id NAA05894; Sun, 29 May 1994 13:24:14 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199405292024.NAA05894@wps.com> Subject: whassup To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 13:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8592 Status: OR Revolutionary Greetings, Fellow Workers! Thanks for the notes on the Conflict Reconfiguration meeting. What a drag... but it sounds like y'all got a good handle on the situation. Don't let go of it! cuz it sounds like the moment you do, they'll hit you on the head with it.... (that's not to say keep participating! Au contraire. It sounds like pulling out would be a Very Strong Move, especially if coupled with a demand for Real Dialogue, like discussion of not if but *how* things Will Be Changed Around). I do not, however, envy your situation. You're head-to-head with some pretty Slimy critters, and slime is slippery indeed! I'm a faggot, and I know these things... You want I should ply GHQ with a copy??? Also-- thanks for the video! I've shown it twice already. The first time was just to see it for myself, and a couple other FWs were there too (more on that in a minute), and one of one's roommates. It produced a lively, heated, vivaciously bothered debate. No, really! But we were, well, friendly (if not quite friends-- I mean me and the roommate) at the end of it. The second time was at an ISO party last night. (More on that in a minute, too; also, xref So Many Choices!..., a recent/previous e-message.) How's Tai's, er, investigation going? I've started lining 'em back up into the OBU here in S.F. My most primary mode of outreach has very consciously been in the context of the S.C. General Assembly proposal. I've distributed 20-30 copies of the proposal, as a delegate, along with personal contact info and an invite to get into good standing. I don't wanna rush it or *bother* people about it, but people are starting to get in touch and re-initiate, mere days after receiving a copy. I'll pursue malingerers over the course of June. It's been a FABulous tool to build more general support for the resistance movement in S.C.... Lots of "I-haven't-paid-dues-in-ages, cuz *nothing's going on*" type situations. We got the cure for that. Lots of FNB FWs looking at re-upping their dues, in particular... FNB/SF is looking at trying to start weekly demonstrations at City Hall here, on Wednesdays at noontime, in support of Keith McHenry. I got a meeting to be at in a coupla hours about it. As I won't be able to be there (cuz I work at that time), and neither can at least one other interested FNB comrade, I sorta have doubts. The burnout margins are so tenuously narrow lately, too... well, no guarantees! (Like, *duh* Deke!) BUT-- if it happens, expect heavy linkage of issues with what's going down in S.C., and against laws designed to re-press the poor in general... Um. Guess you got the scoop on BACORR. HNJ is its usual self, and me & Demian will be down in SC this Tues. evening to get our possesions, with a special, secret, FABulous FW at the wheel of the truck. Tai can give you the fresh, verbal scoop on FNB particulars-- Keith's situation, of course, being the big particular deal, and 13 feeds a week, every week... So the dish. I went to the "Socialist Day School" the ISO hostessed yesterday. They were particularly recruitful, and I (of course) Held the Fort of Anarchy. It was a very mutually friendly day. The ISO boys are even cuter than the RWL boys! but as straight as reds usually are. I guess their trip is that they're Bolshie Trots, grounded in the Soviets before Stalin. They talked a lot about presenting ideas in general, and selling their paper in particular. (Also, I'm no size queen, but their red cards are *tiny*!) They have branches, too, and seem to be experiencing explosive growth where their branches have plugged in to local struggles. (Sound familiar?) As a branch, they're looking for that here, and have flirted with solidarity work for FNB (in the case of Robert Norse, better known here as Robert Kahn. It was their flyers that informed me of his appeal hearing when I first got here.) A couple of their local members, however, have figured out how the world works, and they *show up* and do *shit work*. These are the ISOsters I know best, and I like them, and hang out with them in that context. I guess politically, I agree with about 90% of their analysis of what's wrong with society (i.e. capitalism), and disagree with about 90% of their proposed solutions (the "revolution from below" part I can dig. It's the heartbreak of Belief in the Neeeed for a Vanguard Party that I just can't line up and link arms around... dontcha know!) ANYway. I did a whole day with them, and I didn't join, but I did constructively engage in dialogue. The repetitive theme, in discussion after discussion with various of their members... well, we kept coming back to Kronstat. Imagine that. They defended the Bolshies, whilst I used it to illustrate the failure of the vanguard theory to (shall we say) serve and protect the interests of the working class. Same old. They thought I'd make a great socialist, *except*... I thought I could work with these people in direct action, *despite*. You know, that whole trip. Aside from me, the other friendly dissent that stuck out the whole day were the Fleece and Beat 'Em, er, Peace and Freedom Party's Frank Little Club. (Yes, as in the wobbly martyr.) The debate about whether to vote almost sounded like anarchist discussions on the same topic (except few anarchists show up at gatherings representing a Party they work in). The ISO thinks they shan't waste time electioneering. I can dig it. But they're not quite walkin'the walk... The other thing I added to the general dialogue was a recognition of the positive aspects of Identity Politics. Yeah-- they're Class Supremacists. I pointed out the gains made by I.P., and suggested that the synergy between that and Class War was worth building (as a queer anarchist, dontcha know). I also suggested they consider the oppression of the radical left in Amerika in the context of being an Oppressed Minority People, which made them really nervous, but a few bold ones talked it out with me later, and did end up getting it. I showed the video, they held a raffle (one of the prizes was a Noam Chomsky book), and I (mostly) cleared out a room with Militant Labor Songs of Yesteryear. A couple others there dug it special too, though. No one expected the Internationale outta my mouth, that's for sure! They were gonna do karaoke, but I foiled that plan with a dedicated rendition of Where the San Lorenzo Flows. Fritz (a post-punk who's way cool, even though he knows I'm madly in lust with him like, apparently, many Older Red Women) ran and got his Little Red Song Book and sang along some, too (this sorta behavior from the host!!!). That's how I found out about his self-described still-shiny Red Ducat, with 2 months paid in 1991. (Added him right to the list! Gave him some BACORR community meeting flyers too, and a copy of the Santa Cruz GA proposal...) Well *fuck*, I've just bothered to look up and realize that I've just gone *on and on*. Not To Stuff Your Mailbox, BUT... indeed! Like the cap'n said, it's not *me*, it's all them THINGS! (No, really!) Well, I wanna share whassup in my life up here, and this is the sorta situation that means I don't always write replies immediately to the mail you send me. But PLEASE, keep it coming, and rest assured that I only really have the sheer, raw time to *go off* like this on the weekends! I'll keep in touch too, sending you Notes and Things. Rest assured that S.C. is *very much* a part of what I'm doing up here, and even when it means doing kinky things like hanging out with a bunch of reds for 24 +/- hours, I do so with a view towards supporting and building not only the resistence movement locally and regionally, but also the outright, gawddam mother-father-figure-fucken REVOLUTION! Also, all my anarchist friends *here* are so jaded, tired, cynical and/or crispy-burnt, that I can't really tell them about things like my FABulous day with the reds. They can't believe it, see beyond the shell-thin exterior, or really *dig* it. That's another of the many reasons I'm secretly, madly in love with each and every one of you! It's true... Hold that Fort! comrades, as I'm up here trying to fill the van with reinforcements, that we might answer when you call for us! (In such a situation, we wouldn't really *need* anyone to guard it, now would we? There would be plenty of folks to keep an eye on it whilst we *get to work* on that new world in the shell of the old...) Stay FABulous, as I remain Yours for the Revolution, --th'Deke Motif From sciww Tue May 31 08:48:49 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id BAA10840; Tue, 31 May 1994 01:48:49 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199405310848.BAA10840@wps.com> Subject: hi there... To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 01:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2038 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; just checking the GMB mail; it's been more active than ever! i gotta figure out how to use these elm folders! we've got 60 messages and i don't yet know the equivalent of mbox or how to get back to new mail once i've changed folders. it's amazing how much we can get done with so little knowledge! tai & i just got back from making copies of 50 enveloped fancy invitations to her food not bombs volunteer & friend banquet for june 2 at 5 (thanks to a donation from her relatives) which we produced on our computer right before. hung out with wolfe for a while... tai & i intend to put a deposit on louden nelson tomorrow, which will probably wipe the scgmb general fund out. it says something that we're putting up most of what we've raised behind our proposal. i really hope we can all pull together down here as delegates (including the non-delegate delegates) & collect the votes we need. maile commented tonight how wierd it is to be trying to *pursuade* people to do an action, but i realized later that persuading people to take direct action in their lives is what i really feel i need to be saying as a wobbly. i realized tonight while hanging with wolfe that the scgmb is so diverse that there are parts of it i have little contact with, people with very different problems in their lives from mine, people with different modes of life united only in the knowledge that we're all getting screwed by the one big company town. i'm glad i got this room here; my down payment for the assembly has only begun. amid everything else i may be doing this summer i will nurture my fellow activists as much as i can; providing a safe space to eat good food and hang out and making fancy invitations are good things for that; if you could have seen raphael's face when i gave him his invitation at kinko's tonight while *he* was there with cory doing *their* work... i just hope i can pay my bills! (and i'm *chained* to this goddamn phone... no, really!) vad, yours for the revolution. From sciww Tue May 31 16:06:20 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id JAA11512; Tue, 31 May 1994 09:06:20 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199405311606.JAA11512@wps.com> Subject: Here's that GOB letter To: Vad@fido.wps.com Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 09:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5379 Status: OR Dear Everyone, It seems to me that we are going in frenzied circles with all the concern over money. As some folks have pointed out in recent letters, money is a means not an end, and in our particular scenario I'd like to risk a conjecture that this extremely uncreative ongoing focus on finances may paradoxically be the reason we are going broke. Movements gain resources when they are moving, when something is happening, when outsiders look over and see a struggle going down. As fellow worker Kevin Bradstatter from Swindon pointed out; in 1913 the Union's most powerful period in history began with an empty treasury and it wasn't brought off with a raise in dues but an organizing drive amongst agricultural workers. If we are to re-infuse the I.W.W. with the fighting spirit and strength it once had, we are going to need to re-initiate direct action movement, and this is where the Santa Cruz GMB Action-Assembly proposal can play a major catalyzing role. The SE Michigan branch has reluctantly offered Ann Arbor as the assembly site. Their proposal voices concern about the possible hindrance that ongoing direct action will present to the ongoing Assembly. We must be under no illusion that the synthesis of direct action and direct democracy will be easy. But our proposal requires that the "action" and the "assembly" occur somewhat simultaneously (one during the day, the other after 11pm) for a reason; there are no legal places for property-less, impoverished people to sleep in Santa Cruz. Thus we will be sleeping outside due to necessity as well as solidarity. What's more, we don't need to contact the local homeless committee to "arrange a direct action" because our branch has been fundamentally involved in an ongoing local movement. The COALITION TO DECRIMINALIZE POVERTY despite its rather reformist sounding name includes FOOD NOT BOMBS, REFUSE & RESIST and the S.C. I.W.W as the three most actively represented groups. The coalition was formed in early April in direct response to a tightening of the Santa Cruz Camping Ban and the passing of six new City ordinances that criminalize the 'non-middle class use' of public space. And this is in no way just a local issue! These laws were modeled on similar ordinances recently passed in Seattle and Eugene other "liberal" cities. CNN has been dropping in on us; as well as media from all over the Bay area. We are being nationally monitored by other city councils to see if laws like this will "really work." That would mean; hold up in court, withstand an ACLU lawsuit, successfully force homeless people to leave town, and continue to be "cost-effective" despite dozens of planned and unplanned arrests for such crimes as sitting down on the sidewalk or asking for a cigarette within six feet of a building face. Furthermore these laws are a direct attack on working class and homeless forms of activism, protest and assembly. In Santa Cruz if you are unable to pay a 40$ permit fee or if you do not provide adequate "toilet and sanitary needs" for all participants ( - that is, if you do not gain the permission of some shop owner to use his/her store bathroom, for there are quite purposefully no 24-hour bathrooms available to the general public) you are subject to ticketing and arrest. Thus we are fighting a battle not only in the streets but for the streets; for our very right to meet converse, hang out, to assemble. THIS IS WHY IT IS SO FITTING AND URGENT THAT THE I.W.W SHOULD HOLD ITS ANNUAL ASSEMBLY RIGHT HERE ON THE STREETS OF SANTA CRUZ! Once again, I strongly believe that it is the combination of action and assembly that will re-catalyze our Union. An action that takes place succinctly after the official assembly is over will be poorly attended by time constrained Wobs and thus more vulnerable to police attack. Yet a mass action on the streets of Santa Cruz will be under girded by a local movement that has been building (with the in-depth involvement of our branch) for nearly a year now and has been coming to a tumultuous climax with the enforcement of these six new ordinances. It is true that circumstances in Santa Cruz are not conducive to a smooth and uneventful assembly but from what I've heard of previous assemblies "smooth and uneventful" could hardly be used to characterize them. Might an Action/Assembly be a way to rally us around some common beliefs? If we really invest ourselves in this issue, research it for ourselves, and work to further enunciate the connections between what our Union stands for and the current national trends toward gentrification and increasing class stratification/criminalization, I believe we can build a very intricate and powerful form solidarity within and beyond our union. A form of solidarity capable of addressing the postmodern, post-industrial, neo-liberal-miseducation-gentrification-incarceration wasteland we are currently facing. Thank you. Maile Pickett X342615 Santa Cruz G.M.B The above is a letter I am sending to the GOB in a few days (all letters intending to make the GOB before elections must be in by JUNE 6th) I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions and if you feel inspired to also write in support of the S.C. assembly proposal I think more letters will make our proposal even stronger. Yours for the revolution, maile. From vad Mon Jun 6 10:26:07 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id DAA00296; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 03:26:01 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199406061026.DAA00296@wps.com> Subject: something for the june GOB To: iww@igc.apc.org Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 03:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson), sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), newt@armory.com, f4713@deeptht.armory.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2478 Status: OR Dear Fellow Workers, I am writing in strong support of the Santa Cruz General Assembly Proposal. I believe that it provides a clear opportunity to combine the power of global & local organizing. The IWW general membership is diverse: young & old, rural & urban, laborer & professor, and international. Such a diverse crowd coming together from far-away places to embrace each other and a common idea is powerful; it is an opportunity to examine ourselves and each other in terms of a vision of what a better world could be. I believe this opportunity cannot be realized without a praxis in a concrete situation, however. An abstract vision is of no use if it does not frame the debate of present conditions. Santa Cruz Wobblies have been part of an underground activist economy at the heart of which is Food Not Bombs. This community is very political and quite on top of things. We have a legal committee that is doing legal tracking; we have CopWatch patrols on the streets that are getting used to observing police for misconduct. We have had to do this because we are being harrassed! We *are* the local homeless action committee. I believe the issue of space is key to the ruling class's hold on the majority of the working class. It is here where the interests of the unemployed & the employed converge; everyone needs a place to live. Laws like eviction & the camping ban are incentives for the unemployed to scab on their fellow workers; as long as these laws go unchallenged the working class is divided into winners & losers in a competition for space in one big company town, or just worn out. After 16 months of homelessness I'm tired. Tired of moving on & on & on. Santa Cruz has the most oppressive anti-homeless laws in the state of California & the second highest rents in the country, and we're tired of it. We're so tired of it that we're going to put our point of view right in the faces of the Labor Day weekend tourists so they can see what their patronage is supporting. We've already collected the funds to prepay rent to the community center for Labor Day, and our recent successes with fundraising & membership growth it is possible we will be able to cover the costs of the show as well as pay the musicians a union wage. If you want to see a local direct action-based movement that is self-funding & self-feeding, you will do quite well in Santa Cruz this year. Crys-Vad Hyphus, branch secretary, Santa Cruz IWW-GMB From sciww Mon Jun 6 10:43:12 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id DAA00329; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 03:43:12 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199406061043.DAA00329@wps.com> Subject: SCGMB To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 03:43:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 913 Status: OR hi deke; i got my GOB thing in; maile, p-can lee, & tai faxed theirs in. i think we gave it our best shot. we had a great GMB meeting tonight, as well as an assembly committee meeting earlier today. maile helped me work on my room all day today, & nathaniel helped me to assemble our studio. we now have a fully functional studio here, including mirium's keyboard, three guitars, & a bass. copwatch is gathering steam, too. on the darker side fw kim broke her front tooth really badly; we're working on a tooth repair fund. it's really quite bad (2/3 of the tooth & the root is exposed), & she's on codeine. in all that pain she was slaving away typing up legal notes all day yesterday. she's so amazing! she is self-conscious, though--she won't let herself smile & often blocks her mouth with her hand while she talks; it hurts to see her feel so ugly. goddess, it's late; i'm gonna go to bed. vad. From sciww Fri Jun 10 03:29:18 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id UAA12446; Thu, 9 Jun 1994 20:29:17 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199406100329.UAA12446@wps.com> Subject: missing messages To: deke@fido.wps.com Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 20:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Vad@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 498 Status: OR Oh dearest deke, goddess of anarcho-internet-communication, We humble sciww users seem to have a recurring problem - horror of vacuous horrors we have headers but no messages! Twice now once with a message from you and again now with a message from Matt Miscreant there is a subject line but no message after the display command, just a vacant space between the address info and the [END]. What to do? Please, please oh deity of networked revolution, can you help us? faithfully yours maile From vad Sat Jun 11 09:30:12 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id CAA15565; Sat, 11 Jun 1994 02:30:11 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 02:30:11 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199406110930.CAA15565@wps.com> To: deke Subject: Re: testing, 2, 3... Status: OR Josh Miller: aeon@cruzio.com From deke Wed Jun 22 05:39:22 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id WAA10814; Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:39:21 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199406220539.WAA10814@wps.com> Subject: that letter to SF FW's... To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3186 Status: OR Well, here's what it looks like I'm gonna send out tomorrow. (That first one just wasn't gonna Make Do!!!) I'll call someone there and read it, too (this being Tues. 6/21 at 10:40 p.m.) P.S.-- Have a RAD solstice!!! *****begin delegate-type letter***** 21 June 1994 e.v. Kook City, CA Dear Friends, Fellow Workers, Compan~eras and Post-Gender Comrades, My apologies for what might appear to be, at first glance, a form letter. I wish I had time to write each of you individually, BUT this situation can be rectified. If you're so moved, upon receipt of this letter, give me a call-- we can do breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, maybe a beer or even hit-and-run. But either way, please consider the following. There is, at this moment, an I.W.W. referendum in the field. It's due back in GHQ by the 9th of July. There's some hot shit on it, and some bad ideas too (imagine that!). Left to dues-firsters, some bad decisions could be made, and some good opportunities missed. Whichever gets you more bothered (if the I.W.W. is capable of getting you worked up whatsoever anymore!), I hope you'll consider re-upping your dues to have your say in this surface-calm, but really quite hot, referendum. First, the little thing. There's a couple of bad dues-increase ideas on the ballot. They would, in my ever-humble yet informed opinion, drive poor people out of the IWW and bar the way for people like you to get re-involved if ever so moved. (One would raise minimum dues to $10!) The other thing is much more special. There is the matter of this year's General Assembly site to be determined. Santa Cruz GMB has put forward a motion for a Direct Action Assembly, one that will directly challenge a series of Matrix-style anti-poor laws, the sort from which we're all under attack recently. I think you've seen this proposal (at least I've tried to get you a copy); if not, let me know and I'll get you a copy ASAP. I also happen to have copies of: a bunch of letters from the GOB in support of the direct-action assembly proposal in Santa Cruz, a series of press clippings from the initial uprising against the odious ordinances in question (May '94), and a one-hour video of the first month of resistance to S. Cruz-style Matrix. Even if the IWW no longer turns *your* crank, it's vital to resistance there. Would you lend a hand to comrades like yourself??? ANYway, I tried to write this letter before, and it went on for three pages. That won't work-- for you or for me. If you have even enough interest to want to find out more about whassup, give me a call and let's make a date! And if not, I'll just have to find another way to get you bothered into motion... not to presume you aren't already, just that, well, you know how I get! (Heeheehee!!!) Think it over, and call me or not. It will always matter, I guess, but the referendum point is moot on July 9th. In Solidarity, I remain yours for the revolution, Deke Motif Nihilson, x341697 Del. #94-33, S.F. GMB, IWW hm. (415) 282-4834 wk. (415) 487-1902 M-F 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. mlg. c/o The Little Garden 3004 16th St. #201 (at Mission) San Francisco, CA 94103 e-mail: deke@fido.wps.com From sciww Sat May 28 16:52:29 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id JAA03317; Sat, 28 May 1994 09:52:29 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199405281652.JAA03317@wps.com> Subject: conflict mediation notes To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 09:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus), sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), vittu@ucscb.ucsc.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5777 X-Status: Status: OR dear deke & matt, Here is some writing I did after a very scary conflict mediation thing organized by SCAN and designed basically to "de-escelate" read *coopt* matters downtown. That meeting was May 16 so this is kind of old news but that brings us to the other purpose of this note which is to perfect a system for importing text to e-mail functions from word functions elsewhere on the hardrive. more to come on Coaltion updating there is a meeting today and I'm hoping to try something different. Everyone is tired of the 5 hour meetings we've been having. Some notes regarding the "Conflict Mediation" meeting: As an "observer" last Monday (5/16/94) I whitnessed this interesting event. This was an invitation only meeting, all uninvited folks were allowed to stay but made to sit outside the circle of chairs and be silent. Participants included Katherine Biers (Council member), Scott Kennedy (Mayor), Paul Johnson (ACLU), Asher ? (SCAN), Jay Robbins (SCAN), John Lang (City Clerk's Office?), Kim Argula (Food Not Bombs/Coalition to Decriminalize Poverty) and Lisa Henry (Coalition ). It was mediated by Kay Boden a "professional facilitator." My thoughts on this meeting are as follows: Kim and Lisa did an excellent job trying to state revolutionary desire within what I believe ultimately served as a regulatory arm of the police/state.They were unable to get many of our most important and aritculate demands statements and "interests" heard largely because: 1. THIS IS AN INAPPROPRIATE PLACE TO WAGE A POLITICAL STRUGGLE. We will gain power through direct struggle in the streets;not in a meeting with the city in which the only real topic of in depth conversation is the question "how will we de-escalte the situation downtown?" 2. WE HAVE NO "INTEREST" IN DE-ESCALATING THE SITUATION DOWNTOWN. The rules of this meeting are that you cannot speak in terms of a position but only in terms of your "interests." Supposedly after everyone states their interest and it gets written up on the butcher paper (or gets "butchered" up on the butcher paper) common interests can be sought out. Stupid metaphors were employed to describe this:(two people in a grocery store want the last orange on the shelf they argue and argue unitl the sales clerk ascertains that one person wants to make candied orange peel and the other wants to make orange juice, so they divide up the organge in this way....What I want to know is WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER ORANGES??? Are they in a warehouse somewhere to drive up the cost of fruit? Besides we can't live on candied orange peel or a bit of orange juice...) Thus when Lisa said she was there to see the abolishment of the six new ordinances and the Camping Ban she was chided for stating a "position" rather than an interest. WHAT IF WE HAVE VERY FEW IF ANY INTERESTS IN COMMON WITH THE CITY AND THE POLICE? WHAT IF IN ACTUALITY OUR INTERSTS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY OPPOSED? WHEN WE HAVE NO POLITICAL LEVERAGE WE WILL ONLY BE COOPTED INTO AIDING THE CITY AND THE POLICE WITH REGULATION OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA.( i.e giving frantic speech after speech about nonviolence and the terrible-ness of property destruction rather than talking about the issues that are a part of this struggle and how we will acheive economic and social justice in this town. Notice the way the issues of economic and social justice were decentered at Wednesday's event.) Though I think last week's monday meeting was called because of gains we've made through escalation of the struggle downtown this was in no way a negotiating table and neither was it a dialog. Kim and Lisa were told flat out that it was highly unlikely that any changes would ever be made in the laws. Kennedy kept saying that he didn't have any power to really promise anything or change anything beacuse he isn't a representative of the police or the City Council or the people of Santa Cruz. Well at least he got one part of that right. THE TROUBLE WITH THIS WHOLE SCENARIO IS THE ASSUMPTION THAT SOMEHOW THIS IS A "PERSONAL CONFLICT" THAT CAN BE MEDIATED WITH AN ARTFUL FACILITATOR. NO WAY! THIS IS A POLITICAL STRUGGLE, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BOUGHT OFF WITH THE ILLUSION OF DIALOG; ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE BEEN TOLD FLAT OUT THAT THERE ISN'T ANY REAL BARGAINING TO BE HAD HERE. SO: %The next meeting is Monday May 23.The Coalition needs to think about how to relate to this ongoing "forum for dialog." %I think we should either send someone (or a group) to this meeting just to tell them we are withdrawing and why; i.e. explain that this is a farce, the illusion of dialog - why should we stick around and talk to them when we were already told that none of our "interests" would be met? %Or simply not show up at all and let folks think what they will. I can see one advantage to going one last time; and that's to try to "educate" the SCAN and ACLU folks (to the extent possible) about why this cannot be considered a real forum for complex dialog. Perhaps we can use this occasion to ennunciate our "interest" in to social/economic revolution rather than helping the cops to de-escalate downtown. Perhaps we can utilize the next meeting to escalate rather than "de-escalate." Lets arm our desires with some political clout Lets re-do politics in this town Lets build a west coast movement for social/economic justice Lets BREAK THEIR HAUGHTY POWER. love maile p.s this was distributed at the last coalition meeting. THe group couldn't decide whether dropping out of the meetings at this point would be a good idea. So it was tentatively decided that Maile should be the next participating member. maile agreed somewhat reluctantly. THis message care of the Vad/maile newsgroup. From notes@igc.apc.org Wed Jun 8 08:44:46 1994 Received: from mail.igc.apc.org by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id BAA05891; Wed, 8 Jun 1994 01:44:45 -0700 Received: from igc.apc.org by mail.igc.apc.org with SMTP (8.6.9/Revision: 1.27 ) id BAA22330; Wed, 8 Jun 1994 01:43:26 -0700 Received: by igc.apc.org (8.6.9/Revision: 1.161 ) id BAA17775; Wed, 8 Jun 1994 01:11:55 -0700 Path: cdp!NFMail!wps.com!fido.wps.com!sciww Reply-To: Conference "iww.news" From: sciww@fido.wps.com Newsgroups: iww.news Date: 07 Jun 94 23:46 PDT Subject: Wob Past & Present in S.C. To: Recipients of conference "iww.news" Message-ID: <199406080647.XAA05712@wps.com> Sender: Conference to Mail Gateway Errors-To: support@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 56 X-Status: Status: OR From: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Fellow Workers! Hello from Serf City Santa Cruz! Just thought you might appreciate a bit of Wob history as told by Howard Zinn in People's History of the United States, pages 324-325; They were attacked with all the weapons the system could put together: the newspapers, the courts, the police, the army, mob violence. Local authorities passed laws to stop them from speaking; the I.W.W defied these laws. In Missoula, Montana, a lumber mining area, hundreds of Wobblies arrived by boxcar after some had been prevented from speaking. They were arrested one after another until they clogged the jails and the courts, and finally forced the town to repeal its anti-speech ordinance. In Spokane, Washington, in 1909 an ordinance was passed to stop street meetings, and an I.W.W. organizer who insisted on speaking was arrested. Thousands of Wobblies marched into the center of town to speak. One by one they were arrested, until six hundred were in jail. Jail conditions were brutal, and several men died in their cells, but the IWW won the right to speak. In Fresno California, in 1911, there was another free speech fight. The San Francisco Call commented: 'It is one of those strange situations which crop up suddenly and are hard to understand. Some thousands of men, whose business it is to work with their hands, tramping and stealing rides, suffering hardships and facing dangers--to get into jail...' In jail they sang, they shouted, they made speeches through the bars to groups that gathered outside the prison....When city officials heard that thousands more were planning to come into town. they lifted the ban on street speaking and released the prisoners in small groups." HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN SANTA CRUZ? Six new city ordinances have been passed which outlaw a variety of things including; asking for spare change (considered a free speech right by the California Supreme Court), sitting down on the sidewalk, having political tables and or gatherings within certain 'forbidden zones,' sleeping anywhere in public or in a vehicle and on and on. These laws regulate "public space" by excluding everyone who is not middle -class from the definition of "public." What can the Wobblies do about this? WELL, HAVE YOU SEEN THE SANTA CRUZ ACTION ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL?! If not, check it out in the April GOB! We're facing a situation that is so similar to the above history it just might make you angry enough to consider risking arrest with us. We hope you'll really take a look at our assembly proposal/ call to action. Watch for clarifying letters from our branch in the upcoming GOB. We did it before and we can do it again. SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER! From sciww Tue Jun 14 05:56:04 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id WAA21193; Mon, 13 Jun 1994 22:56:04 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199406140556.WAA21193@wps.com> Subject: meeting minutes6/5 To: Vad@fido.wps.com Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 22:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5353 Status: OR Santa Cruz I.W.W. Branch Meeting Minutes June 5, 1994 Agenda Reports from Members/Committees Mail Report Ammendments to Constitution referendum Action/Assembly -Finances in relation to Assembly -Transporation to Santa Cruz -Letters of support to the GOB -Choosing sleep out site (tabled) Treasury Report (Tabled) Reading of meeting minutes (Tabled) Set delegates meeting Member Reports Maile reports on efforts to start a Downtown Worker Association newsletter and solicits articles graphics stories etc. Circlutlates copies of her letter to the GOB in support of the Santa Cruz assembly proposal. Matt Shika reports a record collection of dues in preparation for the upcoming assembly. P-Can Lee reports on the production of There's Somehting About a Train, a "Hobos from Hell" zine complete with graphics, stories and how-to-information on freight hopping, available for $5.00 from the following address: Hobos From Hell POB 2497 Santa Cruz, CA 95063 P-Can Lee also expresses interest in getting an add for the zine to run in the IW. Several FWs say they can help with that. Mark, new to the IWW reports that he has been busy working in the concrete industry and is interested in hearing more about upcoming Action/Assembly preparations. Tai reports on her fabulous support work for Food Not Bombs and also circulates a letter to the GOB in support of the Santa Cruz Assembly proposal. Vad reports on moving into Campbell St, cleaning, organizing and straightening his bedroom which effectively functions as the SCGMB office/clearing house. Vad also circulates a draft of suggested ammendments to the IWW Constitution to be brought to referendum in the Fall. The Ammendments, based on ideas from Tai and augmented by Vad, intend to constitutionally recognize the crucial role that the General Membership braches now play in the organizational structure of the IWW. Vad has also been highly involved with Food Not Bombs and the recent formation of a local increasingly active CopWatch group. Peter J reports on his work with Copwatch noting that most people in Copwatch are also Wobs. P. Describes the creation of regular patrols and the emphasis on ongoing street presence rather than simple documentation. Mail Report Vad reports that mail is in a state of chaos, yet order should soon emerge as the job of checking the box and responding to branch mail has recently been taken on by Marco. (Marco needs letterhead and envelopes as well as more literature for daily distribution.) Clayton will soon be sorting incoming e-mail into separate files for more organized access. Vad sent Paul Brindel's video (on the sidewalk ordinance and May 11 police brutality) to Deke and it has apparently become a big success in SF. Bob Duran a recently joined Wob has put together "One Neat City" a new zine detailing the current Santa Cruz City events in graphics, action photos and stories. This is available at the SCGMB office and was also sent thanks to Vad to all other IWW branches. Ammendments Discussion Vad circultates a draft of ammendments to the IWW Constitution to be put to referendum next fall.The purpose of the ammendments would be to maintain the autonomy and local power of general membership branches. FWs agree to read over the draft and bring suggestions and or questions to the next meeting. Action/Assembly updates Eric and Corey report on their progress with the action handbook modeled to some extent on the Diablo Canyon action handbook. They are soliciting further material from the branch to be included in this crucial update/info book detailing the local scene, possible Assembly agendas and the practical nuts and bolts of the action/potential arrests. finances Tai and Vad propose paying for the entire cost of the room rental for the Assembly as a concrete example of branch initiative and autonomy. Peter J and Maile support this proposal with arguments that this effort will/has increase(d) branch participation and will simultaneously make the Santa Cruz assembly proposal less likely to be voted down due to the money question alone.Vad argues that having the room rented will finalize branch committment to being in Santa Cruz during the Assembly dates and will demonstrate a community committment to the action and the day space for the action regardless of the IWW's final vote on the matter. Transportation Lee expresses willingness to send people information on how to get here via train hopping and possibly to go out and meet people and bring them here via freight. Assembly Show FWs agree to having a stand up show, despite the slightly higher costs for insurance. Discussion about asking the leather dyke community to perform the required "security" functions. FWs agree to a minimum of $50 payment per band. Peter J. suggests that we brainstorm on how to fund the assembly as a whole, that we look upon the event as the major organizing drive of our branch. Tai argues that we endeavor to cover costs in full as a way of demonstrating to ourselves and others in our union the potential power and autonomy that is possible with an active GMB. FWs agree to bring fundraising ideas to next meeting. Delegates Meeting Set for Saturday June 11 7:00pm Tai's House. Next Meeting: Monday June 20th, 6:00pm at Gaia House, 135 Belmont. From sciww Thu Jun 16 04:20:13 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id VAA25836; Wed, 15 Jun 1994 21:20:12 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199406160420.VAA25836@wps.com> Subject: songs for us To: Vad@fido.wps.com Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 21:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: deke@fido.wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2770 Status: OR You Can Lie In the Sky When You Die (To the tune of Pie In the Sky) words by Anarchist Anne and Emma Flynn Well the Council comes out Tuesday nights Trying to limit our constitutional rights And when asked about somewhere to sleep They will answer in voices so sweet: You will sleep, bye and bye On that glorious park bench in the sky, way up high Work and shop, (work and shop) till you drop And you can lie in the sky when you die. Well the council wants things to be nice But the poor here are paying the price And when asked about somewhere to sit Council has a hysterical fit You can sit bye and bye On that golden sidewalk in the sky (way up high) it'll be okay to sit someday You can lie in the sky when you die Well some think that just asking for bread Warrants police to beat on your head And when asked "Hey can you spare a dime...?" they will answer, "In time yes in time..." We'll spare a dime, bye and bye In that great commercial district in the sky But till that day Get out of my way You can lie in the sky when you die Well the Council they tend to forget The recession is not over yet And the merchants hold poor folk to blame To the homeless they sing this refrain: You will sleep bye and bye On that glorious park bench in the sky (way up high) Work and shop (work and shop) till you drop And you can lie in the sky when you die. The 'Flip and Arrogant ' Ballad of Mike Rotkin By Anarchist Anne and Emma Flynn (To the tune of "Mister Block" by Joe Hill) Now here's a tragic story, although it isn't new About a man elected by votes from me and you We thought he was a radical-- the liberals thoughtso too But he just helped push anti-homeless ordinances through Oh, they want to create A downtown police state. . . Chorus Oh, Mister Mike, what has happened to you? You make me blue Can it be true? Just take a look at the people you're trying to screw Maybe soon you'll be on the streets too! The City Council meeting took place one frigid night The walls were lined with police, the Council's hired might Two dozen business owners said that it wasn't nice To daily see the poverty our country calls a "vice" "The beggars they must go,These laws will make it so. . ." Chorus Oh Mike he cut discussion; he said he'd heard it all Though the line of speakers still extended to the hall The Council then proceeded to have its private talk About the proper place to sit and stand and lie and walk And Mike without a pause, He voted for those laws. . . Chorus Mike finally got defensive, a lecture he did spout But radical credentials weren't enough to bail him out He says if we don't like it, for office we should run But Mike got in and he sold out, he's not the only one Oh it's easy to see through this liberal fantasy! From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Thu Jun 30 19:19:41 1994 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id MAA06065; Thu, 30 Jun 1994 12:19:40 -0700 Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA28297; Thu, 30 Jun 94 12:17:53 -0700 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 12:17:53 -0700 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <9406301917.AA28297@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: resist@burn.UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: SF FNB ALERT Cc: deke@fido.wps.com Status: OR please change the Santa Cruz IWW e-mail address from sciww@ucscb.ucsc.edu to sciww@fido.wps.com From vad Thu Jun 30 19:42:07 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id MAA06097; Thu, 30 Jun 1994 12:38:04 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199406301938.MAA06097@wps.com> Subject: Re: Summer To: shadow@netcom.com Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 12:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: tburghardt@igc.apc.org, wjones@igc.apc.org, deke@fido.wps.com, virginia@ella.mills.edu In-Reply-To: <199406271948.MAA02879@netcom.netcom.com> from "Moonshadow" at Jun 27, 94 12:48:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1444 Status: OR > > Hi all ......... I'm back in the loop after being gone for 4 days > on a bicycle trip (144.5 miles) down the Calif. coast and over to > Gilroy. As soon as I read all my back mail I will respond to any > points that need answers from lil' ole me. ;) > > As for the Lesbian Avengers ... I will raise the idea of doing > freeway banners and see what they say ... another possiblity is > we ***might*** be interested in some sort of "action" or CD. Keep > me informed ... > > I won't be able to make the Weds nite meeting cuz I have an Avengers > meeting that is important. > > More later ... > > .........Cynthia/Moonshadow > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > | > "When a woman seriously asks herself what it | > means to be a woman she is pulling at a | > thread that can unravel an entire culture." | > | > Kim Chernin - "Reinventing Eve" | > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > hi all, vad here; we hope to have a clinic defense training here in santa cruz this saturday, july 2 at 10 a.m. B.D. has hopefully made some calls to set this up. i will be at the clinics doing copwatch; hopefully we will have video cameras. we are wondering how the new local ordinances regulating public sidewalks will be enforced. i'll do what little i can to keep you all informed. From vad Thu Jun 30 20:06:34 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id NAA06142; Thu, 30 Jun 1994 13:06:34 -0700 From: vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Message-Id: <199406302006.NAA06142@wps.com> Subject: cruzcorr (not!) To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 13:06:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 391 Status: OR hi deke; i finally ran into B.D. yesterday and passed him your info & some of my own; he said he'd call bacorr to set up a training on june 2 at 10 a.m. at louden nelson park. i don't know anything more. this is my 3rd attempt at e-mail to you--i got a "system error" & then someone picked up. this is a problem but i'll definitely keep you posted if o.r shows up. stay FABulous! vad. From deke Thu Jun 30 21:00:07 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id OAA06194; Thu, 30 Jun 1994 14:00:07 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199406302100.OAA06194@wps.com> Subject: Re: cruzcorr (not!) To: vad@fido.wps.com (Crys-Vad Hyphus) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199406302006.NAA06142@wps.com> from "Crys-Vad Hyphus" at Jun 30, 94 01:06:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1001 Status: OR > hi deke; i finally ran into B.D. yesterday and passed him your info & > some of my own; he said he'd call bacorr to set up a training on june 2 > at 10 a.m. at louden nelson park. i don't know anything more. Yes, he made those calls and things are in motion. I'm also doing my part to impress upon BACORRians that these new ordinances have the potential to seriously affect our work. We're all staying tuned, but it sure is nice to have SC back up and transmitting! > this is my 3rd attempt at e-mail to you--i got a "system error" & then > someone picked up. this is a problem but i'll definitely keep you posted > if o.r shows up. Well it's good to hear from ya! BTW, if you don't have a second phone line for the computer by 15 July, I will pay for its acquisition. You really just gotta get one. Also, what's yer rent situation? I can certainly still help, but things might be a little tighter than I'd figured... lemme know whassup. > stay FABulous! > vad. > Likewise! --Deke From sciww Mon Jul 4 04:42:28 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id VAA02895; Sun, 3 Jul 1994 21:42:28 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407040442.VAA02895@wps.com> Subject: is it mercury or what? To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 21:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 606 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; sooo sorry to freak out and call you in the bowels of a holiday *sic* weekend; it was all a mistake. it did kick me in the ass to deal with the larger issues involved, cuiz there's no reason i can think of why that couldn't happen in the future... stay FABulous! vad. Deke, I'm afraid I'm the culprit here. I haven't been on line in so long that I typed the wrong terminal . The message seemed so deliberate- like hey we caught you so then i called vad and he called you oh well...anyway we'ere both glad to be sqatting cyberspace just a bit longer. love and revolution, maile From deke Mon Jul 4 22:55:45 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id PAA04147; Mon, 4 Jul 1994 15:55:44 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407042255.PAA04147@wps.com> Subject: Re: is it mercury or what? To: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 15:55:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199407040442.VAA02895@wps.com> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at Jul 3, 94 09:42:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1583 Status: O Oh, yes indeed-- it's been a rough retrograde in this kinda sense. Sorry, Vad, if I came off as preachy or lecturing; that was not the point. The point is that it *could* happen anytime. I'm glad to hear it hasn't yet, and that you're gonna suss out options now, in advance of their need. This is a really important part of organizing... What else? Oh, I talked to TJ a bit ago, when I still thought that had happened, and it seems there's little we can do from this end should a thing like that happen. In fact, that's why (he said) he encouraged us to set up our active mail site on fido, so that if anything happened, at least all (y)our work & mail wasn't lost, even if it takes a while to access it again. Meanwhile, time to find another access point. Do you still have the scruznet contact info I sent along to ya? Then there's deeptht and cruzio come to mind, and... well, those would both take cash. Scruznet might take that, too-- especially if you wanted to turn around and offer yer access to others (reselling or otherwise. The real measure of value is burden on diskspace and bandwidth of phone lines used at any given time. Oh, and network equipment like routers, too, but that's infrastructure... nothing you need to worry about in the forseeable future.) Anyhow, blah x3. Good to see y'all are still up and running. Take care, keep in touch, and hope to see all youse soon! (It's munday, and I'm just "dropping by" the orifice. I'll be here, as usual, the rest of the weekdays, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.). I remain yours for the revolution, --Deke From sciww Tue Jul 5 00:28:52 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id RAA04279; Mon, 4 Jul 1994 17:28:52 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407050028.RAA04279@wps.com> Subject: Re: is it mercury or what? To: deke@fido.wps.com (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 17:28:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199407042255.PAA04147@wps.com> from "Deke Motif Nihilson" at Jul 4, 94 03:55:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 880 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; i'm on-line over at maile's right now. i must confess that i don't have the scruznet info where i can find it; if you have it in a file i'd appreciate it if you sent it again. sorry i freaked out; i was closer to the edge and getting maile's call just sent me over. i wish we here in santa cruz had our shit together a bit more, but i really can't remember ever feeling any different. i feel a nasty urge to constantly apologize, though. i was sick for most of the day: nausea, headache, chills, nasal & lung congestion, aching joints. it really sucked. mail has had me over and cooked me food and put me to bed in fluffy comfort, so i'm feeling a lot better this afternoon. needless to say i didn't make it to the flag burning, but maile & i are considering going downtown to see if the peace vigil has started yet. i'll surely keep you posted. From sciww Tue Jul 5 00:47:04 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id RAA04333; Mon, 4 Jul 1994 17:47:04 -0700 From: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <199407050047.RAA04333@wps.com> Subject: Assembly Motions To: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 17:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1516 Status: OR hi deke, vad here; we got the following from carlos, and wondered if you had seen it, and what you think. >From indwrk@web.apc.org Sat Jul 2 22:52:09 1994 Date: Sat, 2 Jul 94 18:51 EDT From: indwrk@web.apc.org ( ) To: sciww@fido.wps.com Subject: Assembly Motions Cc: cdp!iww, cdp!jbekken, cdp!jditz RESOLUTION FOR 1994 GENERAL ASSEMBLY I am requesting anyone who is attending the Assembly to bring these motions onto the agenda. Note that the motions 2-5 all follow from number 1. However, if number 1 is passed, some of the others can be rejected. If number 1 fails, then the others are scrap, except no. 5. If you like the motions, please take them forward. Thanks, enjoy the Assembly. -Carlos Murray x337405 **** 1 **** The 1995 IWW General Assembly will consist of and be replaced by a number of IWW Regional General Assemblies. **** 2 **** Any Branch wishing to host an IWW Regional General Assembly in 1995 is free to do so, provided notice is given by May 1, 1995. **** 3 **** Where 1995 IWW Regional General Assemblies vote on identical motions or resolutions affecting the entire organization, the decisions of all Assemblies will be totalled into one decision. **** 4 **** Any decision made by a 1995 IWW Regional General Assembly, and affecting the entire organization, will go to referendum as per the Constitution, provided there are at least 15 members voting in favor at the Regional Assembly. **** 5 **** The IWW general organization will provide no money for 1995 General Assemblies. From deke Tue Jul 5 16:19:52 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id JAA05319; Tue, 5 Jul 1994 09:19:52 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407051619.JAA05319@wps.com> Subject: Re: Assembly Motions and so much more... To: sciww@fido.wps.com (Santa Cruz IWW) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 09:19:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199407050047.RAA04333@wps.com> from "Santa Cruz IWW" at Jul 4, 94 05:47:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1996 Status: O Glad to hear you're hangin' in there. I can relate to (at least some of) what you're saying... Um, should I be doing anything with copies of the wobbly songs coming outta Santa Cruz (like GHQ?) Or is the branch, as I'd imagine, going to take matters into her own hands? Just curious; I love having copies around for my own bad self, too. Hey-- will y'all send along a copy of FW Free's asshole song? Sheer brilliance, I find myself having reason to think about that song each and every day... no, *reeeallly*! As for them motions, well... I dunno. I did happen to see them, but not because I was sent a copy direct, but because I do e-mail for GHQ (as does FW Ballard). I take this to be a *good* sign (though I'm not sure how I feel about the actual motions in question). Like so: a) Carlos is finally dissociating me from SCGMB in his mind, and he's notoriously bad at confusing groups with luminary personalities therein, b) he must think there's a good chance the SCGMB's proposal will pass, or he wouldn't have bothered sending a copy to you (look where else he sent it), and, um, c) we (SCGMB and myself as busy SFGMB delegate) sure seem to have each other's backs covered. All these are good signs. Meanwhile, as I get further in time into our union and its workings, it occurs to me that many more motions are gone through than acted upon. Like, for example: what are the three questions to ask newly-initiating members? Depends on whether you look at the Industrial Worker or look up the will of the GEB! (No, really!) Not to dismiss flippantly FW Murray's ideas, but they seem kinda secondary to what the situation really tells us, which (most primarily) is that, in this union, a lot of power comes from showing something and keeping it in people's faces (as opposed to, say, relying on motioneering...) ANYway-- Good Morning Santa Cruz! I hope to see you soon, but now I'm must off to work... In Solidarity, I remain yours for the revolution, --Deke From deke Mon Jul 11 20:47:20 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id NAA25673; Mon, 11 Jul 1994 13:47:19 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407112047.NAA25673@wps.com> Subject: For My Despondent FWs's To: sciww (Santa Cruz IWW), vad (Crys-Vad Hyphus), yummy@armory.com Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 13:47:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 377 Status: O Not to sound like li'l miss sunshine thang... in fact, the following quote is something I'm often pretty scared of, too. If there's gonna be problems, why settle for dull ones... *****here's that scary quote: "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity." -- Pogo ...told ya so!***** Meanwhile, I remain, as ever, yours for the revolutions, --Deke Motif Nihilson From newt@armory.com Tue Jul 12 06:36:06 1994 Received: from deeptht.armory.com by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id XAA29458; Mon, 11 Jul 1994 23:36:01 -0700 Received: by deeptht.armory.com id ab27205; 11 Jul 94 23:35 PDT Subject: Hail to thy Dekeness Comrade To: deke motif nilson Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 22:39:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Corin Royal Drummond X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 547 Message-ID: <9407112240.aa23025@deeptht.armory.com> Status: OR Nice to be back on the net after that DISCONCERTING experience of watching my monitor fissle, pop, and YES, even HISS! All accompanied by bright flashing. I was waiting for the beam to emerge and vaporize, or better yet, digitize and download me. But apparently said monitor has decided to work again. Must be a touchy switch somewhere. Alas, I return to a mound o mail. Not the least interesting of which are yours dear friend. Ah to hear your voice in print. (oops, logoff time, back in a miniute to continue in another letter.) From newt@armory.com Tue Jul 12 18:46:17 1994 Received: from deeptht.armory.com by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id LAA04037; Tue, 12 Jul 1994 11:46:15 -0700 Subject: As I was SAYing... To: deke motif nilson Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 11:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Corin Royal Drummond X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2150 Message-ID: <9407121145.aa23141@deeptht.armory.com> Status: OR before I got rudely logged off... talked to maile, she is concerned that no one in philli got there ballots, nor did anyone at my house. nor did shyka nor a lot of people. She was suspecting intentful overlooking of duties. If so, that suks. Suks anyway. How can we reform a Jurrasic organization if we can't even access it's mechanisms. ExCruz me. Rene Pointevin if you haven't met him is a noteworth comrade down here. He is a Puerto Rican Machetero (independence fighter who are some of the most persecuted of U.S. pol. prizoners, apparently), who is now working on developing low income hosing cooperatives for a group down here. Looking to become a PUERTO RICAN WITH A PhD. Former roots against war dude and saavy politico. He's online at cruzio.com but I cant find his netaddress, but then you probably have your WAYS to find such things. He'd love to be added to your lists im sure. Ran into Donnel who says the only communication he's had from you was an impersonal letter asking if he would join/support the wobs. He was none to pleased. Your X was last seen by me sitting on the bed in his ever darkening room (black paint does wonders for controling that pesky illumination). His room is evolving nicely and he is reading and painting and persuing a rich INTERNAL life, but few seem to share it which is to his dismay. Although I must say, that house is shaping up nicely. The backyard is cleaned up, and people there are actually NICE. As in they TALK to you. I was deeply shocked, and X was duly pleased. New siamese kittens have found their way into the house and the hearts of those therein residing, X among them. Ran into Wolf a squat punk you may know. S'cruz native, freq traveler, a-fest participant, homocore scenester, now working at kinkos. Planed a trip to pinicles monument for the full moon with him. Nice to have a similarly tweaked mind in town. Introduction available upon request. Trust all is proceeding splendidly in S.F. (Sick Festival). I trust your ever so sweet housemate has failed to avail. BTW i left my jacket there, will come. wit luv, newt. From deke Tue Jul 12 19:30:49 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id MAA04312; Tue, 12 Jul 1994 12:30:42 -0700 From: deke (Deke Motif Nihilson) Message-Id: <199407121930.MAA04312@wps.com> Subject: Re: As I was SprAYing... To: newt@deeptht.armory.com (Corin Royal Drummond) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 12:30:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9407121145.aa23141@deeptht.armory.com> from "Corin Royal Drummond" at Jul 12, 94 11:45:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5660 Status: OR > before I got rudely logged off... > > talked to maile, she is concerned that no one in philli got there > ballots, nor did anyone at my house. nor did shyka nor a lot of people. > She was suspecting intentful overlooking of duties. If so, that suks. > Suks anyway. How can we reform a Jurrasic organization if we can't even > access it's mechanisms. ExCruz me. Yeah, it sucks, but not very well, and *that*, my dear, is the rub )or lack thereof). I'm afraid this is how people get shanghaied into running for orifice, which is a great way to burn out, unless you're a fossil, in which case you're already out the exhaust pipe of life. Also, is it getting warm in here? ANYway, I prefer to stick to organizing, such as it is, tho sometimes I (like everyone else) wonders why. But then I see the SSPD spontaneously sponsoring a "Frisk Black People Day," or, there was that time when I worked in the cookie hut, and the security guards and a coupla cops were beating on a homeless guy, who was yelling "I'm being fag-bashed", and someone walked right around this scene and demanded I sell them a cookie, while this was going on, just like it wasn't... you seen the End-Up lately? They have a huge banner over the door (and yes, dude, it's *way huger than average*) reading: SHUT UP AND DANCE. No, I will not stop organizing against this shit. > Rene Pointevin if you haven't met him is a noteworth comrade down here. > He is a Puerto Rican Machetero (independence fighter who are some of the > most persecuted of U.S. pol. prizoners, apparently), who is now working > on developing low income hosing cooperatives for a group down here. > Looking to become a PUERTO RICAN WITH A PhD. Former roots against war > dude and saavy politico. He's online at cruzio.com but I cant find his > netaddress, but then you probably have your WAYS to find such things. > He'd love to be added to your lists im sure. Unfortunately, the stuff you *are* able to tell me is the stuff that can be looked up. Find out his user name... I'd love to be in touch with Rene. > Ran into Donnel who says the only communication he's had from you was an > impersonal letter asking if he would join/support the wobs. He was none > to pleased. Oh, yes, that letter. Well, had I been not returning his calls or something, he might have grounds to gripe. Why is it my job to call everyone else all the time? I gave him a wide array of options for getting in touch with me, but hey, I sent a formlike letter asking people to support friends and comrades in Santa Cruz in defending against police attack in an organized fashion. Yes, I guess framing a should-be-personal communication in community terms, and (gasp) ACTIVIST terms too, is still a social sin in many circles. Donal has yet to call me once, about anything, since I've been here. We have hung out some, and that was Fab. However, I'm a busy gal, as my letter explained and illustrated, and if he couldn't be bothered to call one of the damn numbers I sent him on that letter (for fear I'd insist on talking about whassup in Santa Cruz? That's silly-- I'm much more fluid, less didactic, than that), well, what can I say? I ain't keeping no score, I'm too busy trying to cover *your* back, dear. I've always been bad at hiding my agenda, and if that's not good enough a social form of honesty for others, there's not a lot I can do about. I'm already maxxed with my *long-stated* priorities... Mea culpa? Whatever. I'm just not that hard to find... > Your X was last seen by me sitting on the bed in his ever darkening room > (black paint does wonders for controling that pesky illumination). His > room is evolving nicely and he is reading and painting and persuing a > rich INTERNAL life, but few seem to share it which is to his dismay. > Although I must say, that house is shaping up nicely. The backyard is > cleaned up, and people there are actually NICE. As in they TALK to you. > I was deeply shocked, and X was duly pleased. New siamese kittens have > found their way into the house and the hearts of those therein residing, > X among them. Yes, the kitties are indeed endearing. I saw 120 a coupla weeks ago, and it looks to have survived yet another crash-and-burn. Hope I helped make that survival possible. I was joking whilst there that, in cases of end-of-the-line desperation, the kitties meant there was always a reserve meal on hand. People took this for the tastelessness it is, but having lived there, I know the little sweeties probably wouldn't seem so tasteless on one of those third-day-on-stale-bread-and-water-if-you-can-find-a-glass kinda nights. Sigh. Ah, the good ol'days, when I was a *professional* organizer... > Ran into Wolf a squat punk you may know. S'cruz native, freq traveler, > a-fest participant, homocore scenester, now working at kinkos. Planed a > trip to pinicles monument for the full moon with him. Nice to have a > similarly tweaked mind in town. Introduction available upon request. Yeah. Say hi to that sexy comrade for me. (Took a while for me to realize just how... not sure why. But I know Wolf. He's rad.) > Trust all is proceeding splendidly in S.F. (Sick Festival). I trust your > ever so sweet housemate has failed to avail. BTW i left my jacket > there, will come. > > wit luv, > > newt. And I didn't even hafta send you a form letter! I look forward to it... it will surely Fill Its Space and be a Righteous Time-type thang, all on its own. (But What Will The Chairman Say, If He Should Find I've Slacked Thusly? Oh, who cares...) *:), --th'Deke Motif