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April 10, 2006 Mission Street, San Francisco indybay.org

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Table of Contents u.c. students vs. military recruiters 2 11 hunger strike against hr4437 student victory in france 3 12 thai protests kick out prime minister visual takeover: gitmo in frisco 3 13 the end of net neutrality? calculated discrimination in bayview hunters point 4 14 bioremediation in new orleans greenscare: learning from cointelpro 6 15 reflecting on the life of luis kemnitzer africa and imperial oil 8 16 arts in action reviews immigration wars 10 17 interview with jel

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G R O ------05 FAULT LINES APRIL-MAY 2006 The federal government, corpora- The SHAC 7, well 6, L to R: tions, and the media have redefined the Andy Stepanian, Lauren word “terrorist.” Last year, animal lib- Gazzola, Kevin Kjonaas, erationist Peter Young was indicted on Joshua Harper, Jacob Con- Lessons from cointelpro “Animal Enterprise Terrorism” charges roy and Darius Fullmer for liberating mink, marking the Or- (John McGee was dropped wellian nature of the current public from the case). All of these Building a Movement in the Face of Repression discourse on terrorism. By including activists face significant By Claude Marks and Kelah Bott property destruction and any interfer- time in prison after being Recent crackdowns on the animal weakening our movements. Its stated purpose was simple: to “neu- the country” in order to demonize them ence with business as usual under the convicted of conspiracy to violate the Animal Enter- rights and environmental justice move- tralize” groups that the FBI deemed a and justify assaults against their mem- ever-increasing umbrella of terrorism, Any FBI campaign against a particu- prise Protection (formerly ments have left many activists feeling threat to national security. The program bers and offices. the government has one more tool in lar group or movement is bound to ex- Terrorism) Act, for essen- that their communities are under siege. targeted groups or individuals that chal- their public relations campaign against pose certain weaknesses. After all, this is tially advocating the closure From the prosecution of the SHAC 7 to lenged the existing power structure and the intent of such government attacks. The Fate of One eco-justice. of an animal testing facility. the arrests of thirteen individuals for ar- expressed opinions opposed to the poli- We need to build a culture of resistance Generation The FBI remains skilled in psycho- For details on their case sons committed over a ten-year span, a and concrete support for people target- cies (foreign or domestic) of the govern- logical warfare. Recently, the FBI dis- and their appeal see war is being waged against these move- ed by these government attacks, and also ment of the United States. Legal attacks and extralegal force rupted a demonstration in support of www.shac7.com. ments by the U.S. government. While look seriously at the challenges revealed In his book The War at Home, Brian were used extensively during COIN- grand jury resisters in San Francisco. all of this may seem terrifying in its by this repression in order to prevent Glick details four main COINTEL- TELPRO. At least 27 Black Panthers They announced the increased reward unfamiliarity to younger activists, the self-annihilation, mass fear, and demo- PRO tactics used against groups like the were killed, including Mark Clark and for a fugitive subject of the grand jury. tactics being employed by the FBI and bilization. What we can learn from our BPP, the AIM, and the Puerto Rican In- Fred Hampton in Chicago, Bunchy An agent that had been harassing activ- off guard, and diluting their message. justice activists in Seattle, Portland, or other government agents using the Joint Terrorism Task Force are anything own weaknesses can strengthen how we dependence Movement: infiltration, psy- Carter and John Huggins in LA, and ists in their homes attempted to distrib- The grand jury itself remains one San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, fourth main tactic of COINTELPRO but new. Whisperings of ‘COINTEL- move forward and inform the move- chological warfare, legal harassment, and Bobby Hutton in Oakland. The FBI and ute “wanted” posters among the crowd, a of the government’s favorite tools of New Jersey, and Colorado. The FBI’s in their “Green Scare”—extralegal force PRO’ have appeared in various articles ment we’re building. Today, the crimi- extralegal force, including assassination. other government agencies also targeted tactic that succeeded in drawing some of harassment. In the last year alone, fed- desperation to solve ‘cold cases’ means and violence—it is not from moral aver- about the backlash against eco-activ- nalization of dissent and the labeling of Many FBI tactics served multi-lay- Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm the media attention away from the po- eral grand juries convened to investi- they have rounded up many suspects sion. The government understands that ism, but what does this generation re- acts of resistance as terrorism compel us ered purposes. Government informants X. In the 1970s, 60 AIM activists were litical witch-hunt, catching the activists gate animal rights and environmental with little or no evidence. Desperate for the general public would not support ally know about the Counter-Intelli- to look at how COINTELPRO func- infiltrated groups ranging from non- killed on the Pine Ridge reservation information, they’re coercing activists such tactics against the environmental gence Program aimed at groups such as tioned and continues under the cloak of violent anti-war activists to the Black alone. Angel Cristobal, a Puerto Rican into talking before the statute of limita- justice or animal rights movements at the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the the Patriot Act. Panthers. They were used to gather in- Independista and Vieques activist, was The right question to ask when faced tions can expire. this time. Yet they do feel unrestrained American Indian Movement (AIM)? formation, disrupt political organizing, murdered in a Florida prison, and the Since grand juries are secret proceed- in terrorizing the Arab, Palestinian, Today’s activists are heirs to a history COINTELPRO and generate an atmosphere of suspicion FBI and police agencies tortured cap- ings, activists are often unaware of them and Islamic populations, and imprison- of social and political battles from wars and fear. Infiltration, in combination tured activists. Many social justice or- with government pressure is not until someone in their community is ing innocent people of color without The FBI’s secret Counter-Intelli- that are not yet over. Without seeing to- with their campaign of psychological ganizations were disrupted or destroyed subpoenaed. Grand juries try to push charges. They justify the torture at Abu gence Program (COINTELPRO) was day’s struggles for animal rights and en- warfare, was used to “neutralize” dis- completely by these government attacks, activists who resist FBI and police visits Ghraib and Guantanamo but they real- initiated in 1956 under the leadership of “How can I make this easiest on my- vironmental justice in a broader histori- sent. In addition, the FBI attacked from and the groups were forced to divert to risk imprisonment for maintaining ize that such tactics used against largely J. Edgar Hoover and “officially” ended in cal and social context, we run the risk the outside, like in 1968 when J. Edgar their resources to defending activists their non-cooperation. This coercion white, middle-class activists would be 1971 when details of the program were not only of repeating painful lessons of Hoover labeled the Black Panthers “the who were arrested, harassed, and called self?” but “What will be best for my can keep activists occupied with court bad PR. widely aired in the mainstream press. the past, but of isolating ourselves and greatest threat to the internal security of before grand juries. Over 100 political battles that divert them and their move- prisoners, victims of COINTELPRO community, the movement we are ments from their main political work. Building the Movement attacks and frame-ups, remain behind The shroud of secrecy and the fear of Former Black Panthers, bars, many now in their second and So what do we do about the chal- pulled back into the fight imprisonment succeed when people co- third decades of imprisonment. lenges ahead? What does a community against government harass- trying to build, and for the fight for operate and implicate more activists or do when the fear of imprisonment is a ment, L to R: Hank Jones, John furnish information that reinforces the stronger motivating factor than com- Bowman, Ray Boudreaux, Eco-Defenders as government’s offensive. social justice?” mitment to principles? Now we have an Harold Taylor, and Richard Eventually grand juries result in in- Terrorists? opportunity to learn from history. For Brown. Decades after their dictments. The Eugene indictments of The similarities between COINTEL- many the instinct is to withdraw and involvement with the Black several people on conspiracy charges PRO and present government repres- From that perspective, the choices avoid talking about issues of substance, Panther Party, these men alleging their connections to the Earth sion are remarkable. Much like Hoover’s strategy, and increased resistance. Some were subpoenaed to appear Liberation Front (ELF) illustrate this comment about the threat of the Pan- people may even avoid talking to cer- before a state grand jury last are clearer, and do not include coop- point. With these indictments, we are thers, John E. Lewis, Deputy Assistant tain activists for fear of being seen by year. They remain commit- also learning there are informants in our ted to resisting grand juries FBI Director, stated in 2004 that “in- the government as guilty by association. midst. Though most activists are aware and, for the first time in years, vestigating and preventing animal rights erating with government agencies, Yet now, more than ever, is when we of the theoretical existence of infiltra- are sharing their stories of extremism and eco-terrorism is one of must fight those urges and do the exact tors, it is a different matter to learn of harassment and torture at the the FBI’s highest domestic terrorism pri- opposite: communicate, find common betraying friends and compromising an actual act of betrayal and to witness hands of the police. orities.” What better way to discredit a ground, and come together. Photo: Scott Braley the subsequent fallout. movement in the post-9/11 climate than continued on page 18 to label its proponents terrorists? our vision and future Though we have yet to see the FBI

TELPRO as to forgive its perpetrators. We noted how the Church Committee “It is my considered opinion, knowing of the car bomb explosion which injured Behind the Lies:the true legacy of cointelpro had discovered that a COINTELPRO technique had been to use the courts to Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney in 1990, and knowing of their speedy subsequent “neutralize” selected activists by obtaining false convictions against them, that arrest on sensational criminal charges, that the apparent ‘frame-up’ of the two as a secret, nationwide campaign conducted by the Bureau from 1956-1971 for the FBI typically involved local police in such endeavors, and that of all the supposed bombers is consistent with the history of the Federal Bureau of Investi- “COINTELPRO targeted American citizens for opposing the Vietnam War, purposes of destroying “politically objectionable” organizations and individuals for advocating changes in Central American policies such as supporting brutal groups targeted in this manner, the Black Panther Party (BPP) had been hit gation. That history, for many years before 1990, and continuing after that, shows through any and every means available to it. In 1975, an investigating commit- hardest and most extensively. that the FBI has repeatedly attempted to harass, injure, even cause the death of dictators, for supporting Civil Rights, Black Liberation, Women’s Rights, or so- tee headed by Senator Frank Church found that the operation had, from start to No action was taken by the Reagan administration in this connection, individuals in order to disrupt the activities of organizations critical of govern- cialism. [The FBI] spied on law-abiding Americans, broke into homes, ripped finish, be “fraught with illegality.” open and read mail, tapped phones, harassed, isolated, threatened, and destroyed however, and former Panthers continued to serve time, many of them in cases ment and the Establishment. APRIL-MAY 2006 Neither Grey nor Miller ever spent a day in jail as a result of their convic- APRIL-MAY 2006 the lives of thousands of Americans, who merely opposed the U.S. government’s showing clear signs of COINTELPRO manipulation. It would be another That history indicates that in the pursuit of this disruption, the FBI has again tions. In April 1981, President Ronald Reagan interrupted their appeals to an- policies. “ decade before the first such prisoner, a once prominent New York BPP leader and again violated the constitutional rights of Americans, including their right nounce that he was bestowing pardons on both men. The reason stated was that - Mumia Abu Jamal named Dhoruba bin Wahad (Richard Moore), was finally released after spend- to freedom of speech and freedom of association. It indicates that the FBI would their misdeeds had occurred during an especially turbulent and divisive period ing 21 years behind bars on a wrongful conviction. “ have been ready, willing and able to pervert the Constitution, and their own law in American history. It was time to “put all this behind us,” Reagan said, and “to enforcement responsibility under it, in the attempt to discredit and “neutralize” a “In 1980, former FBI Director L. Patrick Grey and Edward S. Miller, one- forgive those who engaged in excesses” during the political conflicts of the era. movement like Earth First! and other allied forces working to preserve and protect FAULT FAULT LINES time head of Squad 47, the domestic counterintelligence unit in the FBI’s New At the time, it was pointed out that if this were to be Reagan’s policy, it would - Ward Churchill, 1999 the environment. “ FAULT LINES York Field Office, were convicted of having “conspired to injure and oppress the be at least as appropriate for him to pardon the numerous victims of COIN- 06 citizens of the United States.” The context of their crimes was COINTELPRO, - Howard Zinn, 2001 07 08 FAULT LINES APRIL-MAY 2006 outside of Northern America. A new new A America. Northern of outside discovered oil new of barrels four ery ev in one contributed has years,Africa five last the Over 2010. by production hydrocarbon liquid world of percent 30 over contribute and investment” ration so-called (the Gulf of Guinea), to attract “huge explo margins Atlantic the along especially oil, African expects – companies consulting major industry’s oil the of one – Energy IHS panies.” com by energy competition fierce of the said is, nevertheless Africa Arabia, Saudi as settobalancepower.”tinent all isthe clear: Africa “conagenda crystal Times cial Union. A recent headline in the the of State the before long pendency de oil MidEast about point 2001 the made in Report absent). 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Will terror. on war the and militarism American to coupled accumulation tive primi new: the and old the of hybrid terrifying a is security energy that out turns It Islam.) revolutionary against fight the in frontier’ ‘new the munity, com intelligence the to according is, ness – and Islamic terror at bay. (Africa busi oil African the in actors new tant impor – Chinese the keeping also but This means policy.cheap and stable oil imports U.S. for importance” strategic Africa’son focuses (2005) ism “growing in its report “More than Humanitarian Africa to approach new a for call tions’ Rela Foreign of Council The game. sweet lightoil.” its and gas natural of reserves “copious the what of looting the – oilfields continent’s the is ground scramble for Africa is afoot. 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In April 2005, media from around exploitation and abuse, and prevent the and their offshoots are funded by and the bill will make anyone in the United the globe flocked to Cochise County, development of unity among the mil- used as a wedge by extreme right-wing States without documentation an au- Arizona to cover the dramatic image of lions of immigrants within our borders. think tanks like NumbersUSA, the tomatic felon. This includes workers, hundreds of armed, white men patrol- The most onerous of these bills, HR Federation of Americans for Immigra- families, and even the unborn—HR ling the border. The Minuteman Project 4437, has provoked an unprecedented tion Reform (FAIR), and the Center for 4437 will deny citizenship to the chil- BY INEZ SUNWOO AND PUCK LO (MMP) played to white Americans’ ra- outcry as millions across the nation have Immigration Studies to develop mo- dren of undocumented immigrants. Canto, No Llores cial and cultural anxieties in the context taken to the streets to demonstrate their mentum behind their agenda and inject HR 4437 also contains provisions that of a globalizing world, and politicians opposition. it into mainstream discourse. will criminalize the assistance of un- THE SAN FRANCISCO HUNGER STRIKE AND A GROWING MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE seized on the momentum by using at- To understand how such extreme Following the April 2005 launch documented immigrants, which, in ad- tacks on immigrants and their commu- dition to service providers, will likely be legislation came to pass, it is impor- of the MMP, copycat organizations Nighttime, Friday March 24: The nities to galvanize support. Since then, applied more broadly in order to crimi- The Giant Awakens From Non-Compliance tant to examine the context from which sprung up across the country, expand- rain pelted the near-empty streets of dozens of bills and ballot initiatives have nalize documented immigrants and cit- to Active Resistance it emerged. While opponents of the ing their operations to target day labor- San Francisco in torrents. Outside the During the weeks of actions against emerged around the country designed izens who live in communities with the MMP have given much attention to ers and other immigrant workers and federal building some twenty people HR 4437, we have seen the largest dem- Professionals, students, and city of- to disenfranchise and criminalize im- undocumented, including both family the potential for violence and abuse, the even going so far as to begin patrols on huddled in a circle beneath umbrellas onstrations for immigrant justice in the ficials are now among the ranks of those migrant communities, reinforce their and business relations. Finally, the bill primary objectives of the group are in the Canadian border. Borrowing their and a makeshift tent created by a tarp history of this country, not to mention who are forced to organize non-compli- position as a domestic class subject to threatens to complete the militarization the arena of public relations. The MMP arguments and ideology from the right- and poles. the largest demonstrations ever on any ant civil disobedience in order to fight wing militia movement of the 1990s, of the U.S./Mexico border and build issue in some cities. According to some “Canto, no llores”, the crowd sang the passing of HR 4437. One teacher these organizations have proven fertile more than 700 miles of border fence, hunger strikers and their supporters, the Demonstrations Against HR4437 quietly, steadily. Beneath orange-glow- from East Oakland explained that he ground for a resurgent nativist populism with devastating effects on migrant strike and encampment is one way that MARCH 7 TO APRIL 10 ing streetlights, one acoustic guitarist is on strike because “this bill says that TOP: Demonstrators march complete with infiltration from and re- communities, animals, and ecosystems. those who are impacted are taking di- played while the steady pounding of rain my students are criminals. My students down Mission street on April 10 lationships with overt white supremacist All of this will combine to effec- rect action. “We fast in solidarity with on plastic accompanied the chorus. The organizations such as the National Van- tively set the stage for whole-sale eth- ABOVE: Hunger strikers camp song ended, and one woman rose from guard and American Renaissance. The nic cleansing throughout the country “They don’t actually want to kick out out in front of the Federal her plastic seat abruptly. She shouted a right-wing agenda advanced by these as entire families, neighborhoods, and Building request, and the rest of the crowd began immigrants, they just want to scapegoat groups has helped generate a political communities are rounded up and de- to sing as the woman pulled one specta- climate that allows for the widespread ported. While shrouded in the lan- immigrants and keep us vulnerable.” tor out of her seat, and the two began to escalation of abuse and harassment of guage of homeland security and law “sanctuary city” that would shield immi- dance. Soon, the cheers and handclaps are young leaders and organizers, not immigrants by law enforcement, which enforcement, this legislation represents those who hunger for justice and an end grants from having to corroborate with emanating from below the tarp rivaled criminals!” is reflected in legislation like HR 4437. a coup for the white supremacist agenda to imperialism and war all across the federal immigration investigations. the crescendo of the intensifying rain, According to Wayne Wang, another in the United States. A watered down world,” one striker declared. Striker Patricia Nunoz explained, In December 2005, HR 4437 was punctuated by the occasional splash of striker, “We are a symbol to the move- alternative to HR4437 was approved in “I’ve been seeing folks with armbands introduced by members of MMP-sup- the automobiles driving by on the oth- “We have the privilege to choose not ment to unify with one another.” This a Senate subcommittee but later stalled saying ‘No INS snitching, no INS porter Tom Tancredo’s Congressional erwise deserted streets. to eat, unlike our brothers and sisters unity was demonstrated earlier in the Immigration Reform Caucus and was on the Senate floor. This piece of pro- who die at the Mexico U.S. border ev- snitches.’ A sanctuary movement on a The hunger strike to oppose HR week when Asian immigrant janitors subsequently approved by the U.S. posed legislation differs in its treatment ery day,” said Cesar Cruz, one hunger grassroots level is possible and should 4437 was called by the Bay Area Im- with the Service Employees Interna- House of Representatives. If approved, of undocumented workers by providing striker, shaking his head and noting be the next step.” migrant Rights Coalition and Deporten tional Union moved their dispatch hir- a three-tiered path towards citizenship the contradiction. Since 1994, as mili- Another student striker put it suc- a la Migra. Starting Tuesday, March ing hall to the hunger strike site in order based on how long immigrants have tarization increased at the Mexico-US cinctly: “By using civil disobedience, we 21, between twenty and fifty people at a to demonstrate their solidarity. been in the U.S. However, it still pro- border under the Operation Gatekeeper refuse to internalize xenophobic attacks. time participated in a hunger strike and In 1989, in response to federal poli- poses strict new rules for recent immi- bill; now an average one person dies ev- We make choices to either follow laws occupation outside the federal building. cies that scapegoat immigrants, San grants and a major increase in border ery day while trying to cross the border. or to rebel against them.” militarization. Francisco officials declared the city a continued on page 19 High school walkouts in protest of measure HR 4437 have stretched from California to Virginia, with numbers CALIFORNIA STUDENTS ranging from a brave 36 in Springdale, Arkansas to 40,000 students in Los Angeles from 52 high schools and middle schools, blocking traffic and encircling city hall. Other major walkouts in California have included: Sac- ramento, Fresno, Aptos, Hollister, Salinas, San Diego, Santa Ana, Farmersville, Long Beach, Watsonville, and WALKOUT! Orange County. Some students have received police harassment and/or disciplinary action. EL GRAN PARO Students who experience harassment at any level should call the National Lawyer’s Guild for FREE legal support. San Francisco Chapter: (415) 285-5067 WHERE TO CONVERGE No Work, No School, No Selling, No Buying! APRIL-MAY 2006 Come prepared with pots and spoons to bang together, APRIL-MAY 2006 energy and creativity to drown out business in San Francisco! 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as thecauseastheseof environmental tox by theEPA.safe considered what’s than contaminants sample tested contained higher of levels herbicides. The results are grim — every organic chemicals such as pesticides and such as oil, gasoline, and diesel fuels, and such as arsenic and lead, petrochemicals metals heavy substances,like of range a for sediment floodwater deposited and undertaken the project of testing the soil has (EPA) Agency Protection mental Environ the September, last receded floodwaters the Since confirmed. been have fears these Sadly, health. public to threat great a pose now they where places other and waterways, grounds, them into neighborhoods, schools, play dustrial areas and businesses, depositing and chemicals toxic substances from in flushed Katrina and Rita of waters NewOrleans. placewecall physical air,ground, the up make that water and the — city the of systems natural of the health the of question the is there infrastructure, and social unrest. Finally, service social collapsed incompetence, bureaucratic corruption, political like ings,houses.and Thereissues aresocial and transportation infrastructure, build utility essential to damage plus levees, the of condition the issues; structural and physical are There aspects. many has inhabitants its for isn’tfit or is city intherelief effort. volved in people many of concern primary a is city the of habitability and safety the that learned I Project, Bioremediation Ground Common the with there ing the volunteer spent recently I During that month uncertainties. and of fears litany daunting a face they lowed, fol have that disasters human-made the and devastation natural Katrina’s Hurricane by inflicted wounds tional emo the heal and homes, their repair lives, their rebuild to struggle Orleans by aaron maret Since the floodwaters receded last September, the and deposited floodwater sediment for a range of EPA has undertaken the project of testing the soil Katrina may be a conveniently blamed flood the that fear residents Many the how and why Understanding New of evacuees and residents As substances. The results are grim—every sample

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subscribe to fault lines! Sir! No Sir! Displaced Films and Ali Tonak When most documentaries explore the anti-war movement of the 60s, Across 25. Livermore Berkeley Lab (3) 49. Atomic Energy Commission (3) they use images of stoned hippies and indignant students. The flower 26. Honduras (2) 51. Indian pesticide (4) power scene and the campus radicals dominate America’s collective mem- 1. Segregation (3,4) 27. The cottonwood trees (Sp)(3,6) 52. American spooks (3) 8. Kentucky franchise (3) 31. Fall guy (4) 53. “____and tuck” (3) ory, because the most dramatic aspect of this resistance has largely been 11. Institutional dress (7) 32. Internet protocol (2) 54. Italian physicist (5) ignored and forgotten. During the Vietnam years, the Pentagon reported 13. Unleaded coffee? (5) 33. Stuck in a _____ (3) 55. Russian rifle (2) more than half a million “acts of desertion” by U.S. troops, radical under- 15. Banned pesticide (3) 35. Try out (4) 56. Cigarette (3) 16. inventor of pneumatic tire (6) 36. Policeman (3) 57. Body mass index (3)

ACTION ground media and cafes flourished on and around military bases, and sol- 18. French Los Angeles (2) 38. hazardous material (abbrev)(6) 58. Discoverer of radium (5) diers blowing up their commanding officers with fragmentation grenades 19. Binary exclamation (2) 39. Stench (4) 61. Flush from behind? (5)

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If our country thinks of the 60s as a time of dreams, full of starry-eyed 21. Noise unit (7) 41. O my gawd (3) 65. Unable to phiilosophize? (4) 22. Not Mac (2) 44. Uncharged Particle (7) 66. Bush crusade (3,2,6) idealists and muddy nudists, Sir! No Sir! reveals the nightmarish flipside. 23. Account (2) 47. Beyond petroleum? (2) 67. Spanish aunt (3) This film was made by anti-war Vietnam Veterans. Through interviews and historical footage they tell their stories—angry, sad, disgusted tales of Down 14. Poisonous residue (6) 43. Radiation counter (6) 17. French article (2) 45. A French female (3) being forced to slaughter innocent women and childen, “bombing entire 1. Self defense (4) 22. Dog of the underworld? (5) 46. Sublime’s other (6) ARTS Get Fault Lines delivered to your villages back to the stone age,” refusing to march into certain death, and 2. Old motor bike (6) 23. Drinkers in recovery (2) 47. Cold War swimsuit (6) door. languishing in violent U.S. military prisons. 3. Cambridge university? (3) 24. trouser-leg confiner (4) 48. Broadcast in Pennsylvania? (2) 4. Compare (2) 26. Not cold (3) 50. Communist Party (2) The film traces this history from the first conscientious objectors who We’ll send you one year of action-packed 5. ‘The future of law enforcement’ (7) 28. Not first (6) 52. Gold measure (5) locked down in San Francisco churches to avoid Vietnam to the eventual issues for only $20 (additional donations 6. Operating room (2) 29. Associated Press (2) 54. Slaughterhouse ------(4) 7. Weapons of mass destruction (3) 30. Australia and New Zealand 56. Not many (3) totally accepted). rank-and-file revolt of the ground troops that preceded full U.S. with- drawal. The vets explain how DIY “Fuck the Army” zines flooded the 8. Legionnaire’s hat (4) briefly make a lazy girl (5) 57. Forbid (3) 9. Football Cup (2) 31. Data Set (abbrev) (2) 59. United Kingdom (2) military bases from within, and how after the burning of military prisons 10. “_____Williams” (Godwin) (5) 34. Trademark (2) 60. Basque nationalists (3) Support Indymedia by donating to your lo- and mass refusals to fight, the cogs in the war machine ground to a halt. 12. Campaign for Nuclear 37. Raw mineral (3) 52. More in the hood (2) cal IMC. Your contributions help maintain The filmmakers are now shipping DVDs of Sir! No Sir! to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hopefully our soldiers in Disarmament (3) 38. Concubines (5) 64. A hug and a kiss (2) 13. John Adams’ opera (6,6) 42. Tomorrow in Spain (6) our community media lab, website, and the Middle East will pay close attention. (Liam O’ Donoghue) projects. CRYPTO ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND ONLINE at www.indybay.org/faultlines

Name ______Buzz ‘n’ Rumble in the An interview Address ______Congotronics 2 Crammed Discs Urb’n’ jungle ______To be heard above the din of cars and battled the industrial noise with a wall Oakland Beat Down Email(optional) ______with Anticon’s Jel people in the huge city of Kinshasa, the of sound usually reserved for rock By Katrina Malachowski and industry, and the whole lie of money. In told me he found out that Wise Intel- happening/with George W. Bush and Make check payable to “SF-Bay Inde- capital of the Democratic Republic of bands. Liam O’Donoghue the media you see these big superstars, ligent was the marketing manager for his corporate American cabinet/ the pendent Media Center” and mail to 2940 Congo, local musicians were forced to Congotronics 2, the second in a se- rock and pop musicians with all of these Rap Snacks. You know Rap Snacks, it’s wage war/the sacrificing of the poor/the 16th St. Ste. 216, San Francisco, CA amplify their traditional, hand made, ries celebrating electrified music from On a recent Friday night in a West diamonds. [But] all that shit’s rented, like a potato chip, you can find them strategic position for the global chess 94103-2682 acoustic instruments and makeshift per- the Congo, comes with a 41 minute Oakland warehouse, heavy beats rever- or it is paid for but they don’t own it, at the Grocery Outlet. They’re potato war.” How do you feel about the lyrics cussion sets with equally makeshift elec- DVD with stunning footage of seven berated against brick walls and swirling the labels own them, and the money is chips with like, Master P on them and he laid down? Do you find today’s me- tronics. On Congotronics 2, we hear nine live performances. Groups like Ba- samples of sitars and haunted pianos dia and political spinning to be “weap- local groups appropriate modern distor- sokin, Kasai Allstars, and Konono no. mingled with the smoke. The sound ons of mass distraction”? tion and combine it flawlessly with tra- was BIG, but the heads in the crowd 1 play salvaged junk as instruments Jel: Oh yeah, what he’s saying ditional Bazombo trance music to cre- weren’t watching a band – all the noise and passionately perform with danc- is the truth to me. He’s stuck to his ate something that lies between techno, was coming from a single man: Jel. ers who move their hips in graceful ground; he doesn’t want anything to trance, punk, and traditional African Looking more like a red-headed Kurt isolated sways. The Belgian ex-punk- do with any commercialism. When I rhythms. Cobain in his lumberjack flannel than turned-record-producer behind this album, Vincent Kenis first talked to him, he said, “I’m the a world-renowned hip hop producer, Using salvaged car battery parts and copper wire to make ,mentioned once that these groups should sound as intense most commercial unfriendly rapper. If Anticon’s prime beatmaker worked his electric likembes (the hauntingly beautiful thumb piano) and as Motorhead. They do. So we should all send him a thank you’re trying to blow up from doing samplers and SP-1200 drum machine handcarved wooden microphones, musicians from Kinshasa you letter.(Katrina Malachowski) this shit it ain’t gonna work.” I’m like, furiously. Banging on the pads and whatever, that’s exactly why I’m ask- keys like a tribal drummer, he created a ing you to do this. I knew what he was mind-jarring pastiche of twisted beats about and respected what he did. Poor People’s Day and noises that conjured up a vision Big Juss Mush Records of Shadow getting tossed in a blender FL: You’re a busy guy who tours with several groups, which means you Don’t you hate it when you’re listening to a “conscious” hip hop record, with Company Flow and Led Zeppe- have limited free time. What kind of and you’re feelin’ it . . . and then all the sudden they say something really lin. issues would you love to donate your stupid about “fags” or “bitches”? On Poor People’s Day, Big Juss seethes with Although he’s dropped plenty of time to if you could? anger, but the ex-Company Flow MC who “feeds on pro-lifers who sup- tracks with the collectively-owned port the death penalty” doesn’t rely on bombastic slogans or cheap shots to Anticon Crew; as well as groups like Jel: It would probably be education, spread his complex frustrations. 13 & God and themselves, Jel’s latest public schools. I had a negative expe- rience. I see the public school system Unlike many lefty rappers, he mostly ignores identity politics – his tar- triumph is Soft Money, his second solo photo: David Ochs Keenan as a random weeding out process of gets are the real puppet-masters of poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and full-length. Working with a collective those who don’t have the motivation all the other corporate elites trying to “steal up our resources.” This ain’t of artists as a ‘producer’ can make it all through the labels. So I’m getting the positive messages like “Stay In School” to become a part of the “elite.” They lift party music (unless it’s a 9/11 “Truth Out” party). Poor People’s Day is the hard to stand out on your own - but Jel’s soft money end of the deal, instead of and “Don’t Do Drugs” or “Start Your up the kids that are overachievers and type of tool they should be using in high school classrooms to keep kids fully-loaded, listen-to-this-with-some- the hard, the real hard cash. And that’s Own Business.” So I looked on the back then you have the leftover kids who APRIL-MAY 2006 from cutting. Here’s some quick schoolin’, Big Juss style: killer-headphones album combines lush how it’s going to be, and I’m fine with of the bag and called the 1-800 num- APRIL-MAY 2006 don’t get a break. History: “Tomorrow’s events was manufactured yesterday.” samples, crunchy beats, and blissful pro- that. ber, and was like, “Is Wise Intelligent duction in a way that makes it all ‘Jel.’ Economics: “For every dollar it receives in aid, the Third World spends FL: On your new single “WMD,” there?” and he said, “This is Wise.” I 13 on debt repayment.” FL: What are you trying to say with Wise Intelligent from Poor Righteous told him I’m a part of this label Anticon Rap Snacks: The official snack this album? and asked if I could send him some mu- PolySci: “If you wanna end destabilization, stay the fuck up out our nation.” Teachers tackles everything from dia- of Hip Hop. www.rapsnacks.com Jel: The whole idea – “Soft Money” mond mining to foreign policy. How sic. He liked it. Physical Education: “We here to loosen the stranglehold and shut Anticon records; FAULT FAULT LINES - I wanted it to be a socially conscious did you end up working with him? FL: On that track, Wise says, “I ain’t FAULT LINES down production.” (Byrne Washington) www.anticon.com 16 album. I chose the title because of the Jel: A friend of mine, Kevin Beacham, just rappin’/ don’t be dumb to what is 17 Lessons from COINTELPRO continued from page 7 Africa continued from page 9 from $250 to $212 and income distri- the machine gun and jackboots.” It is This entire oil complex is a sort of cor- We are facing a crisis in the eco- carcerated and accused members of the hind. In order to succeed and remain a Learning from Our ANOTHER COLOMBIA bution deteriorated markedly over the no great surprise that a half century of porate enclave economy that is at once justice and animal rights movements. Earth Liberation Front and other Earth strong movement, the community must same period. Between 1970 and 2000 neglect in the shadow of black gold has violent, unstable, heavily militarized, How we handle it will determine if we Liberation prisoners are political pris- Allies, Moving Forward come before the individual. The right Nigeria reveals all of the contradic- in Nigeria, the number of people sub- made for explosive politics. and largely unaccountable. succeed or fail as a movement. One ex- oners. Our actions that brought us to Last year, a state grand jury was con- question to ask when faced with govern- tions of the new U.S. energy policy in sisting on less than one dollar per day ample of strength in the face of daunt- prison are political in nature. Our trials vened in San Francisco to investigate ment pressure is not, “How can I make which African suppliers are expected Overlaid upon the corrupt Nigerian The struggle for resource control grew from 36 percent to more than 70 ing obstacles is the case of the SHAC 7. are about our politics. Our sentences are a 34-year-old case that involved the this easiest on myself?” but, “What will to play an expanded role. Nigeria is an petro-state, a volatile mix of forces re- has taken center stage over the last de- percent: from 19 million to a staggering Their fight with the government didn’t increased because of our political mo- death of a police officer. Several former be best for my community, the move- archetypical “oil nation.” Oil dominates veal the deadly operations of imperial cade in Nigeria as the Niger Delta has 90 million. According to the IMF, oil begin last year when they were arrested tives.” We agree, and also see that there members of the Black Panther Party ment we are trying to build, and the fight economic and political life. Crude oil oil. First, geo-strategic interests in oil become more volatile. The question is: “did not seem to add to the standard of for Animal Enterprise Terrorism. The have been campaigns to recognize and were subpoenaed to testify. Some of for social justice?” From that perspective, production runs currently at more than employ military and other security forc- what is the U.S. prepared to do to keep living” and “could have contributed to a feds had been trying to find a way to free U.S. political prisoners for decades. these men hadn’t spoken to one another the choices are clearer, and do not include 2.1 million barrels per day valued at es (including the private security forces the oil flowing to feed its addiction? decline in the standard of living.” Over shut down Stop Huntingdon Ani- Many political prisoners remain locked for at least two decades, yet when they cooperating with government agencies, more than $20 billion at 2004 prices. and local residents, contracted by the oil Nigeria is now awash with oil money the last decade GDP per capita and life mal Cruelty since the day they started up despite national and international received their subpoenas they all chose betraying friends, and compromising our Nigeria’s oil sector now represents a vast companies.) Second, the transnational as the 2007 elections approach, and if expectancy have both fallen. making a difference in the struggle to demands for their release and recogni- to resist. Men in their sixties and seven- vision and future. domestic industrial infrastructure: more oil business – the majors, the indepen- the past is any guide, much of this will than three hundred oil fields, 5,284 Essentially, petro-development has dents and the vast service industry – are be deployed to fund political thuggery, close the notorious animal-testing lab tion as victims of government repres- ties were jailed for refusing to cooperate We do not exist in a vacuum. Animal wells, 7,000 kilometers of pipelines, ten resulted in the terrifying and cata- actively involved in the process of local intimidation, and outright fraud by Huntingdon Life Sciences. They even sion and frame-ups. with the grand jury. Two of them had rights and environmental justice activ- export terminals, 275 flow stations, ten strophic failure of secular nationalist development through new oil company the ruling political classes. President tried indicting some SHAC activists Some campaigns have succeeded in been recently harassed at their homes by ists are natural allies in the struggle for gas plants, four refineries, and massive development. It is sometimes hard to interventions in which the NGO sector Obasanjo is considering a run for a under the Hobbes (extortion) Act, a winning the release of framed former the same San Francisco cops that par- a more just and healthy world. We have liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. grasp the full consequences and depth and local communities are now drawn third term – requiring a constitutional law designed to target organized crime. Panthers like Geronimo Gi Jaga and ticipated in their 1973 torture in a New a responsibility to build connections of this failure. From the vantage point into new ‘partnerships.’ Third, multi- amendment – which in turn would be Though they faced constant harassment Dhoruba Bin Wahad, both of whom Orleans jail. Some had serious health is- and networks with groups that have A multi-billion dollar oil industry of the Niger Delta—but no less from lateral development agencies (the IMF destabilizing in the Muslim north and and the threat of imprisonment for ex- were imprisoned for over 20 years. A sues, but they remained silent. The end similar goals. We can learn from their has, however, proved to be a little more the vast slum worlds of Kano or La- and the IBRD) and financial corpora- in the oil producing delta. The increas- ercising their rights to free speech, the massive campaign in Puerto Rico and result? The grand jury expired and to struggles, build alliances, and support than a nightmare. To inventory the gos—development and oil wealth is a tions like the export credit agencies ap- ing U.S. military presence in the Gulf SHAC 7 neither wavered in their polit- in the U.S. succeeded in freeing Puerto date no indictments have been issued. common objectives while strengthening ‘achievements’ of Nigerian oil develop- cruel joke. These paradoxes and con- pear as key “brokers” in the construction and its anti-terror forces in the north ical commitment nor attempted to save Rican Nationalist prisoners held in 1979 Victory was realized because these men our movements and theirs. In the long ment is a salutary exercise: 85 percent tradictions of oil are nowhere greater and expansion of the energy sectors in are naturally seen within Nigeria as the themselves by implicating others. after over 25 years of captivity. Eleven understand that the movement is more term, building bridges is the only way to of oil revenues accrue to 1 percent of than on the oilfields of the Niger Delta. oil-producing states. Afterwards, the price the Bush regime is prepared to Part of our strength lies in the sup- other Independistas were excarcerated important than any one individual. realize our vision of a more sustainable, the population; perhaps $100 billion In the oil rich states there is one doctor multilaterals are pressured to become pay to keep American cars on the road. port of our fellow activists in prison. In in 1999. None of the people that con- A strong movement means embrac- just, and humane society. of $400 billion in revenues since 1970 for every 150,000 inhabitants. “The oil- the enforcers of transparency among An Iraq or Colombia option – civil war a recent statement, Jeff “Free” Luers, tinued to stand up for their principles, ing and living the ideals we espouse— have simply gone “missing” (The anti- based economy has wrought only pov- governments and oil companies.) And and American militarization – cannot who was sentenced to an astounding though the whole system was mobilized not just paying lip service to the fight corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu, claimed erty, state violence, and a dying ecosys- not least, there is the relationship be- be discounted. Blood and oil are never 22+ years for a $40,000 SUV arson in against them, could have maintained for a just world. Although some may not that in 2003 70 percent of the country’s tem,” said Nigerian scholar-activist Ike tween oil and the shady world of drugs, far apart. Eugene, demands “recognition of po- such strength without a strong move- want to admit it, this means leaving the oil wealth was stolen or wasted; by Okonta. The government’s presence, illicit wealth (oil theft for example), litical status for our prisoners. All in- ment behind them. “American” value of individualism be- 2005 it was “only” 40 percent). Between 1965-2004, the per capital income fell Okonta says, “is only felt in the form of mercenaries, and the black economy.

Bayview Hunters Point continued from page 5 what did they do? He settled for them door neighbor. Then she (the neighbor) velopment of the community. There is for a battle. We’re going to be fighting hiring three people. Three people out worked for a month and a half and they always an alternative, and there’s always there tooth and nail. They promised of the whole doggone community and laid her off. So the idea is—and it took a better way to do it. The problem is that they wouldn’t use eminent domain then what did he settle for? Flaggers! A a contractor to actually explain this to that it means less money to the pock- but they’ve already started the process. union flagger starts off at $21 an hour. me—if I don’t fire you I can still use your ets of the folks that are footing the bill, The people that they hired in Bayview name and when you say I didn’t hire any- and more money into the pockets of the Marie Harrison is a community orga- to be flaggers were making $8 and $9 one from BVHP I can run down the roll folks who are going to have to deal with nizer with Greenaction and will run for an hour. And they were not being in- and show you her address and that she the consequences. SF District 10 Supervisor this year. vited to join the union. One worked for was hired this day, and she’s not fired. I think really and truly, what needs a month and a half and didn’t get fired, She just ain’t workin’. to happen is that these (our) folks are she got laid off while they hired her next There is an alternative to this rede- going to have to get themselves ready

Immigration Wars continued from page 11 And by guaranteeing amnesty to only gaged in historic demonstrations across U.S. legal and economic system. mented immigrants, and thus compre- those who have been in the country for the country. Record-setting numbers The marches and demonstrations hensive immigration reform, the daily more than five years, it still denies a have marched in opposition to this law have been accompanied by student abuse of their human rights is bound to Afghanistan, Inc. huge number of immigrant workers the in the last month—as many as 40,000 walkouts, hunger strikes, and wild- continue. The documented community same basic rights as citizens and leaves Salt Lake City, 100,000 in Phoenix, cat strikes. Enormous potential exists must organize in solidarity with undoc- Tuesday, May 2, 2006 them vulnerable to further exploitation 200,000 in Washington, DC, 300,000 for this momentum to grow into even umented immigrants and their commu- 111 Minna Gallery as their work props up the U.S. econo- in Chicago, 400,000 in New York City, larger manifestations and the eventual nities, because we’re all in this together. Minna @ 2nd St 7–8:30 pm Program my. Most importantly, it does nothing 500,000 in Dallas, and a million in Los assertion of the economic power that The current anti-immigrant push is San Francisco, CA 9–11 pm Music and Dance to address the root causes of immigra- Angeles. On April 10th alone, more just the latest evidence of the rightward immigrant workers control. If the final Come help CorpWatch launch its latest investigative report, “Afghanistan, Inc.,” an expose of tion: neoliberal policies, IMF structural than two million people rallied in over bill that the House and Senate agree on drift and neo-fascist environment of the corporate profiteering and political opportunism in the war-torn nation. APRIL-MAY 2006 adjustment programs, and free trade 100 cities in a nationwide day of action. Bush administration and the post 9-11 APRIL-MAY 2006 include such egregious, oppressive, and With Fariba Nawa, Afghan-American investigative journalist and agreements that destabilize economies The organizing of these demonstrations racist regulations as HR 4437 it is likely security state. The organizing that has Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch executive director. and destroy the lives of millions of peo- has been a remarkable juncture between that actions will become more militant taken place in response to HR 4437 and Featuring Afghan musician Tameem e v i ple all over the world, leaving them with grassroots activists and the institutions other assaults on immigrant communi- t as organized resistance becomes neces- followed by DJ Maneesh the Twister, c e l l o

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