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SOME CURES FOR THE TEXT BOOK BLUES extbooks cost a lot of money and this is State of nothing new. The textbook industry is a T racket and we, the students, are the ones getting screwed. Well, we here at The Red Pill have compiled a number of ways for you to get free Disunion or cheaper text books next semester. AGAINST PRISONS Use your contacts. Borrow textbooks PERCENT OF from friends that have already taken the class. INCREASE IN COST PERCENT OF MAY 2007 VOL. 5 NO. 10 If the book is a different edition, don’t let that of textbook production INCREASE IN dissuade you from using the book; most of the since 1998: THE PRICES OF time very little in the textbook has changed, 5.4 TEXTBOOKS they just want to increase their sales by making that publishers set old editions arbitrarily obsolete. PERCENT INCREASE since 1998: GANG VIOLENCE ROCKS If you have a class like Shakespeare, IN COLORADO 35.1 BUENA VISTA PRISON 18th Century Literature, or American History, POPULATION where most of the works are now in the public from 1980-2003: PERCENT domain, just head over to the computer lab and 59 INCREASE IN search for PDFs of the books on the web and COLORADO PRISON ne of Colorado’s largest prisons, out for chow and showers. There have been 5 then print them out on the school’s dime. www. NUMBER OF BLACK POPULATION Buena Vista Correctional Facility, or 6 other incidents. Just the other day there pdfplanet.com has thousands of public domain MALES PER 100,000 from 1980-2003: has been rocked by gang violence. was a stabbing in south unit and someone was books PDFed. Pretty much any book or play O in prison in South 528 The 1,218 bed facility has been on lock down jumped in the chow hall. Things are cool for written before 1900 is going to be available in Africa in 1993 (during since a major assault took place on April a day or two and then something goes down PDF on the web. Some file sharing networks apartied): NUMBER OF BLACK 29th in east unit. The violence, between again. The Cops went through a bunch of also have bootleg PDFs of current books, as 851 MALES PER 100,000 two hispanic street cells and found well. in Prison in the gangs, the Nortenos approximately 10 Believe it or not, most text books that POPULATION U.S. in 2004: and the Surenos, shanks [prison professors assign are already on the shelves in OF THE UNITED 4,919 resurfaced again on knives]! This is the the school library; be the first to check it out STATES: May 6th. A third worst place I’ve ever and you could save a wad of cash. 301,823,495 NUMBER OF incident, a stabbing, been. Well at least The internet is also a good source of PRISONERS IN THE may have occurred I get out soon (if I cheap books. Sites like www.textswap.com, PERCENT OF UNITED STATES: in the south unit, live that long).” www.bookins.com, www.collegesmarts.com PUBLIC 2,264,513 but Alison Morgan, Morgan said are all dedicated to trading books between that forms opinions the Colorado that the inmate students around the country. Amazon.com about crimes based on AMOUNT OF Department assaulted on the can often save you 50% off what the bookstore what they see or hear in PUBLIC DOLLARS of Corrections 29th is still in the monopolies will charge you. the news: spent on the criminal (CDOC) hospital, and that Abbie Hoffman, in his counterculture 82 justice system: spokesperson, his injuries were masterpiece, Steal This Book, suggested that: 153,000,000,000 denied that a not life threatening. “If you need books for a course, write to the stabbing or any incident had taken place in Morgan also confirmed that “non- publisher claiming you are a lecturer at some south unit. Posted on the CDOC’s website, lethal Stinger rounds,” which consist of school and are considering using their book for however, was an announcement that read, small rubberized pellets, were used to regain your course. They will always send you free CALL TO ACTION “There will be normal visiting at Buena control during the May 6th incident, which books.” The text book companies are always Vista Correction Facility except for those took place in the chow hall. Morgan added sending professors books to consider for their The Red Pill is looking for volunteers: graphic designers, Offenders housed in the South Unit.” that, “staff responded quickly, professionally, classes, because if a professor chooses their writers, poets, cartoonists, artists, and photographers are An anonymous inmate inside of Buena and decisively.” book they know all the students will have to needed. Get your work published now. Help distribute Vista wrote to The Red Pill about the Morgan also confirmed that the Buena buy it. I would go a little further than Hoffman The Red Pill in your community, church, and school: situation: Vista prison is on ‘modified lock down’ which and suggest the next time the college sends is standard procedure after a major assault. contact us at [email protected]. You can also do “It’s been real fucked up as of late you a letter, photo copy the letter with a blank around here. On “It is a challenge piece of paper over the body; the xerox should your part to keep us in print by donating time, paper, Sunday the 29th to manage leave you with a perfect copy of your college’s film, copies, and of course money (it doesn’t print itself). of April there “Just the other day there was a stabbing the inmate letterhead, which should cinch up this little was a gang war populations, and scam. in the unit I’m in south unit and someone was jumped it is a challenge If you have a trustfund, scholarship, in. I’m pretty in the chow hall.” to limit gang or rich uncle that reimburses you for your sure one guy was activity inside textbooks, buy a few extra books—copy killed! ...The Surenos and Nortenos got into the prison system.” your original receipt, and send the copy to the The Red Pill is collectively produced by Grand Junction it. There was 12 or 15 guys involved, and by The Chaffee County District Attorney appropriate party—and then return the extra told The Red Pill that he was aware of the Alternative Media, with the aim of publishing stories and the time it was over one Sureno was laid out books with the recipt for a little pocket cash. • on the floor, not breathing and blood coming incident, and that charges are expected to be ideas that the mainstream media won’t cover. It is distributed out of his mouth and ear. It has been an on filed, but was unable to comment any further. free, collects no advertising, and is completely staffed by going situation ever since. We have been on • volunteers. All materials are copyleft, no rights are reserved. lock down since that Sunday. We still come be the media! PHOTOCOPY AND DISTRIBUTE AT WILL! [email protected] [email protected] BURNING DESERT COLLECTIVE: SIT-IN AT SALAZAR’S THE FIRE IS ALIVE n April 16th, tax day, local peace group, A Voice of Reason, staged a sit-in at Senator Ken O Salazar’s (D) Grand Junction office to demand “that our tax dollars be spent only toward: withdrawl, humanitarian reconstruction of Iraqi infrastructures, reparations for the Iraqi people, and support for the troops and veterans in the form of rehabilitation and re-integration.” Salazar has stopped short of supporting a withdrawl from, or defunding of the war in Iraq. During the hour-long sit-in, 13 people sat on the floor in Salazar’s office and read the names of the U.S. troops that have died in Iraq. Thirty-five people rallied at the street level in solidarity. After the sit- in was over, a breakaway group of high school and college-aged protesters marched up and down Main St. in a small, but feisty procession.• ire is alive. It has to breathe, or it will die. It poi is a little steel basket at the end of a chain that will have to eat or it will starve. When you contains the burning wick and is spun. F follow its trail, it seems to think. And seeing The Burning Desert Fire Collective bases much it in the hands of The Burning Fire Desert Collective, of its style on the Maori of New Zealand. Therefore, it’s obvious that fire loves to dance. there is a strong spiritual bent to their actions. To the The Grand Valley is full of talented and artistic average person, the rush of the ember and the sound people, and the Burning Desert Fire Collective of the whoosh is just pretty damn cool. is rapidly searing itself into the local collective An exciting collaboration is taking place at consciousness. “We are ambassadors of the flame this time. Members of Burning Fire Collective are which burns in everyone.” says group spokesmember, working with members of the valley’s Tribal Fusion Abbie Moore. “We consider ourselves muses.” This Belly Dancers. The early results point to something DEATH BY COP: is easy to feel when you watch the collective perform, exciting coming in the not-so-distant furture. especially some place dark. You smell the flame, it Artists are reversing roles with other artists and athaniel Jones, 41, was inadvertantly the victims, often completely innocent, by accusing whirs and whooshes by the dancer, paints lines of magic is happening.