From tomj@wps.com Thu Aug 4 02:55:56 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id TAA04158; Wed, 3 Aug 1994 19:55:50 -0700 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <199408040255.TAA04158@wps.com> Subject: Helms Amendment passed, call your Senators and House Reps (fwd) To: w00f Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 19:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: shit-list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4185 Status: OR Forwarded message: From bt@cpac.washington.edu Wed Aug 3 15:10:43 1994 X-Sender: ottilie@mead2.u.washington.edu Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 07:52:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Christine Petersen Subject: Helms Amendment passed, call your Senators and House Reps (fwd) To: punk-list@cs.tut.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: punk-list-request@cs.tut.fi This is a forwarded message. The phone numbers are really only relevant if you live in Washington, but this is pretty significant, even if it was already voted upon ---------------------------- Critics of the Helms amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Bill are claiming that it threatens local autonomy and will increase hate and intolerance in schools and in general. Following is a large excerpt of a wire story on the vote. I called Senator Murray's office; she voted against the amendment. Please call her and let her know how important her vote was. I was unable to reach Senator Gorton's office late Tuesday. I'll call again Wednesday morning. Senator Murray's Seattle Office: 553-5545 Senator Gorton's Seattle Office: 553-0350 Sen Gorton's Opinion Hotline: 1-800-282-8095 joe -------------------------------- WASHINGTON (AP) -- School districts with programs that encourage acceptance of homosexuality would lose federal funding under a Senate proposal. Senators voted 63-36 Monday in favor of a proposal by Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Bob Smith, R-N.H., to cut federal aid to districts that ``carry out a program or activity that has either the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.'' Included were distribution of instructional materials, counseling and referral of students to gay organizations. The vote occurred as the Senate debated reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which spreads $12.5 billion in federal funds among the nation's public schools. The House included a similar amendment when it passed the bill. Differences between the two versions will have to be worked out by a conference committee before the bill can be signed into law by President Clinton. Smith had a stack of pamphlets he said were typical of those purchased by school districts that teach about homosexuality in social studies or sex education programs. He said some were ``so graphic and so disgusting that I can't display them here on the floor of the United States Senate.'' But Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., called the proposal ``very mean-spirited'' and said it would forbid counseling of gay students, who he said are two to three times as likely as other teen-agers to commit suicide. ``We simply can't do that,'' he said. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, said the proposal would inject the federal government into local decision-making and would ``remove the local discretion that is the hallmark of our educational system.'' Some school districts teach acceptance of homosexuality during social studies or sex education programs. Such a program in New York City led to the ouster of Joseph Fernandez as chancellor of the nation's largest school system last year. Publishers also are offering some books written especially for curricula that teach acceptance of gays. ``Heather Has Two Mommies'' and ``Daddy's Roommate'' depict lesbian and gay male couples in family settings with children. Other books designed for AIDS education programs are more graphic. Some describe sexual acts and advocate the use of latex condoms during intercourse. Helms denounced what he called the ``disgusting, obscene material that's laid out before school children in this country every day.'' The Elementary and Secondary Education Act also sets the distribution formula for federal dollars targeted for disadvantaged students. More than 90 percent of the nation's school districts receive funds from the so-called Chapter I program. But the money is spread so thin that many poor children are either not served or underserved. From tomj@wps.com Thu Aug 4 03:24:04 1994 Received: from localhost by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id UAA04310; Wed, 3 Aug 1994 20:24:03 -0700 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <199408040324.UAA04310@wps.com> Subject: Same as it ever was.... To: punk-list@cs.tut.fi Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 20:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: shit-list Reply-To: w00f@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: 343 Status: OR It's amazing. I pulled out this tape I made a long time ago, for something to listen to whilst doing the laundry. Two songs on it, that were written nearly ten years ago, and are still VERY timely... The Joke's On You- Christian Lunch Modern Worker- Magazine. Kind of scary. Make you think, how far HAVE we really come? Onward. From tomj@wps.com Thu Aug 4 15:36:55 1994 Received: from seraph.uunet.ca by fido.wps.com (8.6.5/wps.com-hackery) id IAA05559; Thu, 4 Aug 1994 08:36:49 -0700 Received: from xenitec.on.ca ([142.77.5.3]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <91379-1>; Thu, 4 Aug 1994 11:36:37 -0400 Received: from tdkcs by xenitec.xenitec.on.ca id aa24288; 4 Aug 94 11:34 EDT Received: by tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (smail2.5) id AA17283; 4 Aug 94 10:44:49 EDT (Thu) Received: by exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 03 Aug 94 10:41:43 EST for shit-list@wps.com To: shit-list@wps.com Subject: me too head for hoopla! From: Sylvia Maxwell Message-ID: <707gqc1w165w@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 11:38:05 -0400 Organization: Fidonews editrix Status: OR *Good press free NETSTOCK Sheila Lennon Whitehouse&Lennon, Art of the Possible (1:323/109) I had to write a Woodstock story or go sit in the mud again. This was first published in the Providence (Rhode Island, USA) Sunday Journal Magazine, Aug. 7, 1994, and is spreading via the New York Times News Service. The author grants permission, blah, blah, blah ... to free systems to post it or pass it on. Just keep it free. WOODSTOCK REMEMBERED HEADLINE: "The global village is finally wired'' By SHEILA LENNON ``I still get a chill through me. Woodstock happened because a lot of people believed in those things -- helping each other, sharing, making it better together.'' -- Al Fumognari. Providence Sunday Journal, August 13, 1989 You must know by now that Woodstock was more than the mud and the stars and the music. An experience, not an album. "To the media it was a catastrophe, but to us, it was the very best life," Carmino Scaglione of Scituate, R.I., recalled in 1989. For three days in 1969 he and I and a half-million like-minded strangers had come together and created the world we wanted to live in. There were no rules, and no violence. Woodstock was as far as we could take the '60s. Freedom could work, but we were kids. We didn't know enough, and Richard Nixon's America wasn't ready for more than our dress rehearsal. We went home, different, some too different ever to fit into anywhere. Others forgot what happened at Woodstock and got lost in the glitz. I bought the "Whole Earth Catalog," the owner's manual of the counterculture, and discovered Buckminster Fuller, cheap travel and natural childbirth. Twenty-five years later, Richard Nixon is dead, our dissatisfaction with government is widespread, and the global village is finally wired. It's time to move into it. "A million small computers, linked by ordinary telephone lines, can suddenly wield formidable computing power that is extremely hard to control in a rigidly hierarchical, centralized manner." -- Howard Rheingold, "Virtual Communities." The information highway will not be televised. Learn to navigate the computer net, or be relegated to the second tier of the future -- a shopper. ``Interactive TV'' will restrict your choices to which movies you'll watch and which ATM account to debit for those cubic zirconias. True ``interactivity'' allows you to generate content from a keyboard, to send and receive. Not only celebrities get ``microphones.'' You too have a voice. You can champion an idea, object to an outrage, question authority. Like-minded people are again coming together, but this time the "virtual world" is computer-mediated. You'll have to make friends with machines, or at least learn their language, in order to enter the future. Mastering the computer may prove a stretch, harder in its own way than the mud and thirst and heat of Woodstock. But many people will help you, and ask only that you pass on what you learn to someone a few steps behind you. I haven't felt smart since I arrived online, but I'm having a great time. Unorthodox information -- topics not seriously covered by the mainstream press -- is exchanged like contraband. Such '60s staples as herbs and alternative medicine, underground politics, altered states, organic gardening, vegetarian cooking and astrology mix with such '90s concerns as virtual reality, ACT UP, jobs wanted and health care. Politicians who venture online will find a well-informed constituency already here, and can expect to account for their actions publicly and often. ``Information wants to be free.''-- Stewart Brand, founder of the "Whole Earth Catalog" and The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, the WELL. In Woodstock's economy, your money was useless. What we had was shared, and what was ordinarily exchanged for money was given away. Many local bulletin boards offer free public access to global nets. Freelance computer programmers distribute inexpensive software through them: "shareware" that you're welcome to try before you buy. On the net, you can give away all that you have and still have it all. Electronic information is not a hard commodity. What has value here are the people who can generate information. What you know and how you'll share it is your currency. ``It was a little bit frightening to have such freedom, like another world where you could do anything, say anything, be anyone, nobody would stop you.'' Kathleen McDevitt, Providence Sunday Journal, August 13, 1989 In 1989, I went back to Bethel, New York, to what will always be called Max Yasgur's farm, to cover the 20th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock for the Journal-Bulletin, and brought along my 13-year-old daughter, Casey Dahm. I tapped on a laptop in the grass, reporting on a week of local bands lining up to play on the same spot as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and on the climactic Saturday night when 10,000 people rekindled that spirit of goodness that pervades the place. Casey will always remember it as the scene of her first kiss. This year, Casey wants to be nowhere near the Catskills. The free, eight-day Rainbow Gathering and Megarave in Arizona's the Grand Canyon sounds more interesting. The Rainbow People, tie-dyed nomads, are gathering there with the Zippies. Zippies? One, a fashion failure wearing virtual-reality goggles, graced the May cover of Wired magazine, the 18-month-old guide to technohip that's the biggest marketing success since Rolling Stone, and already not as good as it used to be. Zippies are technohippies from England who deftly mix the music and multimedia of the rave club scene, Druid religious roots, psychedelics and that old hippie freedom trip. Their tour is called Pronoia -- the sneaking feeling that others are conspiring to help you -- and their goal is evolution, a revolution in consciousness. (Sound familiar?) ``When cars got stuck, people would literally lift them up. We were spontaneously working together.'' John Sousa, Providence Sunday Journal, August 13, 1989 The spirit of freakdom rides again, moving as information on a global net that links nearby to nowhere special. It thrives on diversity and disdains commercialism, a movement from the Old World to the New. The net offers another chance to get it right: We empower each other by sharing information. We can create here, together, a society in which everyone has a voice, and everybody's ideas are heard. It's a different world now, 25 years later, and it's showtime. (Sheila Lennon is a section editor in the Providence Journal- Bulletin's features department.)