BAPTISED BY THE BLUE LIGHT State of ne day in my ill-begotten youth, I altered my consciousness, then went out for Oa stroll in my neighborhood. It was on an otherwise darkened street that I first Disunion noticed a peculiar phenomenon. Up and down WE ARE WINNING each and every block, people were bathing AVERAGEAVERAGE NUMBER in blue light in their living rooms. People OF MINUTES were literally awash in the glow of television, the TV is on per day in NUMBER OF APRIL 2007 VOL. 5 NO. 6 and from the darkened streets, they looked American homes: PEOPLE mesmerized. They looked like they were 460 killed in Hitler’s caught in an extraterrestrial tracto beam! holocaust: The television and accompanying AVERAGE NUMBER 11,000,000 DAHLIADAHLIA WASFIWASFI M.D.M.D. SPEAKSSPEAKS ININ GJGJ entertainment center is one of the most expensive OF HOURS of peoples’ possessions, often second only to American children spend ESTIMATED fi lling a formerly empty space with art and their car. Many rooms in homes are oriented so in school per year: NUMBER OF NAZI sorrow. that all the furniture points directly towards a 900 SCIENTISTS This was also the date and place that T.V. set. After working and sleeping, watching covertly brought to speaker, Dahlia Wasfi , M.D. was to address TV is the most time consuming activity of AVERAGE NUMBER the US after WWII: the public and tell her stories about the Iraq the average American. Twenty-five percent OF HOURS 700 War and how it has affected her and family. of our waking hours are spent watching T.V. American children spend Dahlia was born and partially raised in Most of us have seen some of the basic watching TV per year: NUMBER Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Her family left Iraq data that is disconcerting about television. 1023 OF IRANIAN in 1977. Eventually, working her way through A child will witness 16,000 murders by DIPLOMATS school, Dahlia graduated as an M.D. from the the age of 18, and will watch upwards of NUMBER OF US detained by US forces University of Pennsylvania. She went back to 50,000 commercials. Corporations pay SOLDIERS in Iraq: Basra, Iraq for a visit in March 2006, spending huge fees for thirty seconds of prime time killed in the war in Iraq: 5 three months in the war ravaged country. airplay, and they damn well expect results. 3270 Dahlia’s father, a Moslem, met and There is also the alienation that results ISSUE NUMBER married a refugee European Jew. They traveled from the very activity, or rather inactivity, NUMBER OF US of this Red Pill: greatly before settling back in Iraq. Dahlia said of watching television. Even for groups SOLDIERS 44 n Saturday, March 31, the Mesa State jokingly, “This insured someone would be angry watching it together, it is by nature an isolating killed in the war in Campus received a much needed jolt of about something somewhere at sometime.” experience. We as a people need less of that. O energy. The display of over 3,200 crosses, When Dahlia returned to the states in 2003, Afghanistan: ESTIMATED We need more face-to-face community-building 376 NUMBER OF one for each and every American casualty, was America was gearing up for war. “it frightened me time. Television watching is counterproductive DOLLARS installed on the lawn in front of the new dorms, “DAHLIA” ON PAGE THREE and puts us smack in bed with some of the illegal immigrants globe’s wealthiest and most vile players. contribute to the US Take the money you spend on cable T.V. economy: (about $30/month) and invest it in something 800,000,000,000 that makes 10% interest for ten years and THE XEROXED REVOLUTION you have roughly ten thousand dollars in ndependent publishers came together for the your pocket. If we instead look at this as a second annual Denver Zinefest on March 24th. fee for services, we sure look like sellouts, CALL TO ACTION I The event brought together over 60 vendors and to the likes of Rupert Murdoch, General The Red Pill is looking for volunteers: graphic designers, zine publishers, and “well over a thousand [people] Electric, et al. we sure look like sellouts writers, poets, cartoonists, artists, and photographers are attended,” said organizer Stevyn Prothero, owner of In the struggle to samsh the state, we Boulder’s Iron Feather bookstore. The number of both likely have to make some sort of “deal with needed. Get your work published now. Help distribute vendors/publishers and attendees doubled over last the devil.” We must find ways to turn T.V. The Red Pill in your community, church, and school: years zinefest. against itself. Perhaps by becoming the media contact us at [email protected]. You can also do A zine (pronounced like magazine with out the ourselves, we can limit ourselves to one hour your part to keep us in print by donating time, paper, maga) is a “homemade publication,” said Prothero. of viewing for every hour of T.V. we produce! Zines are usually xeroxed labors of love; some are In the meantime, National Turn Off Your fi lm, copies, and of course money (it doesn’t print itself). radically political, some are zany underground T.V. Week is April 24-30. If we have been comics, some are DIY (Do It Yourself) guides, and watching commercial television, this is a good others are ‘perzines, a published journal or diary. gut-check time. Can I easily forgo a week Workshops at the Zine Fest included Bookbinding without T.V? Have I been consumerist? Am 101, Queer Zine Round-tabel, Unconventional I involved with social activities? Be careful Artistic Process, Book Your Own Zine Tour, not to underestimate the potential of T.V. The Red Pill is produced by Grand Junction Alternative Documentary Video Seminar, and Lessons Learned Next year the Denver Zinefest is planning on Why do you think they call it programming? Media, with the aim of publishing stories and ideas that Running an Underground Xeroxed Newspaper, getting bigger and better, including more workshops. Be prepared this month to unplug the drug. the mainstream media won’t cover. It is distributed free, presented by The Red Pill. Prothero, whose zine Iron Feather Journal • Though many zinesters sell zines for $1-3 just celebrated 20 years in print gave this advice to collects no advertising, and is completely staffed by dollars, most only break even or worse. Zine sub- aspiring publishers and zinesters: “It’s not as hard volunteers. All materials are copyleft, no rights are reserved. culture is not about money. The Denver Zinefest as you think. Any dream you have is possible.” be the media! PHOTOCOPY AND DISTRIBUTE AT WILL! was “free to attend and free to vend,” said Prothero. •

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peration Paperclip, or Operation Overcast or he designed the D-1 Centaur (a high energy, upper-stage ver one hundred people marched down dedicated to progressive columist Molly Ivins who, in Project Paperclip as it is also known, was the secret O US program after World War II that allowed the booster that used liquid North Ave. to demand an end to the her last column before she lost her bout with cancer, hydrogen and oxygen as fuel) O war in Iraq on March 25th. The loud said, “We need people in the streets, banging pots and extrication of Nazi scientists specializing in medicine, and, together with von Braun, and passionate march was organized by local pans and demanding, ‘Stop it, now!’” As they marched, aerodynamics and rocketry, chemical weapons and chemical reaction technology to the United States. This was the chief advisor for North peace group, A Voice of Reason, and was met people banged pots, pans, and drums in her memory. America on the Space Shuttle. with enthusisatic honks and shouts of support. Large numbers of high-school-aged activists intensive project sponsored by the War Department’s Local band Tree Climber warmed up the came out and gave the march a spirited feel. Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) that brought these Nazi scientists and their families to the US without Walter Schreiber worked gathering crowd at Lincoln Park where a display Following the march, which headed down in the Air Force School of 3226 crosses bore the names, hometowns, and North Ave to 7th St. and back to Lincoln Park, there State Department review or approval, also aimed at gathering as much Nazi equipment and technology as of Medicine until it was ages of every solider that has been killed in Iraq. was a short rally featuring local high school activist, exposed that he had assigned The protestors shouted slogans such as “hey Richard Crespin, Pitkin County Commissioner possible for study and restoration, to obtain German patents, and to keep the expertise of German scientists doctors to experiment on hey, ho ho, George Bush has got to go,” “No More Rachel Richards, and Vietnam veteran and concentration camp prisoners War” and “hey double-u what you the curator of the cross display, Skip Edwards. and their equipment from the Soviets, which often meant destroying it. Most of the scientists, nearly fi ve and had made funds available say, how many “This war is not going to end itself. We for such experimentation. kids did you need to be in the streets until the troops of the almost seven hundred imported under Operation kill today.” come home.” said Mallory Rice, one of the Paperclip, were assigned to White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Fort Bliss, Texas, and Huntsville, Hubertus Strughold, the T h e organizers of the event. • head of Nazi Germany’s Air march was Alabama, to work on guided missile and ballistic missile technology, which in turn led to the foundation Force Institute for Aviation of NASA and the US ICBM program. Some of the Medicine, was made the major contributing Nazi scientists that were allowed director of the Department to continue work in the United States for either the US of Space Medicine at the government or major aeronautical corporations are: School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base Wernher von Braun, a professed in Texas (now the School of Aerospace Medicine at Nazi and member of the SS who Brooks Air Force Base) and was eventually linked worked on the American ICBM by the Nuremburg trials to medical experiments in program before joining NASA which inmates from Dachau concentration camp where he served as Director, were tortured and killed by being immersed in water, he is generally regarded as placed in air pressure chambers, forced to drink the father of the US space program. sea water and exposed to freezing temperatures.

Arthur Rudolf, who was A myriad of other scientists and doctors operations director of the helped to develop and conduct research for NASA, Mittelwerk factory at the Dora- the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), other governmental Nordhausen concentration organizations, and aeronautical companies that camps where 20,000 have contributed to the American war machine workers died from beatings, and the technology that is capable of murdering hangings, and starvation, millions and ending civilization as we know it. worked for the Army and By 1955, most of these men’s fi les were “cleansed” NASA where he managed the development of Nazi references and many had been made US citizens, of several important systems including the despite their involvement with and membership to the Pershing missile and the Saturn V moon rocket. Nazi party, which automatically disqualifi es them. If the Nazis were so wicked and vile, why would our country Kurt Blome, who administered secretly and diligently employ them to develop the same experimental plague vaccines “evil” technologies that made the enemy immoral to the to concentration camp prisoners point of being criminal? And what does that make us? and upon his acquittal at (A side note: The cost of these “intellectual reparations” Nuremburg, was hired by the to Germany has been estimated around $10 billion.)• U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare (his George Washington University’s National fi le never mentions Nuremberg). Security Archive has hundreds of orginal OSS and CIA documents relating to Operation Paperclip PDFed at Krafft Arnold Ehricke, who after leaving the the web address below: US government instillation in White Sands, MN, www.gwu.edu/~NSArchive/NSAEBB/ worked at Bell Aircraft and then for Convair where NSAEBB146/Index

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here is a quite profound antiwar animation TOMORROW WE BOYCOTT called, “Don’t Go,” fl oating around the web. T Don’t Go is quite a popular and powerful any organizations gathered for the sixth have their coffees or go to the store, but harder statement urging soldiers to “don’t go” to Viet Nam, annual Cesar Chavez celebration on March still for immigrants who aren’t sending their which is when it was written. At that time, it was a M 24th, in Denver at St. Cajentan’s Center on weekly money home to support their families.” zine read over underground radio stations, with the the Auraria Campus. The celebration began with Many groups came together to Doors’ song, “The End” playing in the background. a nondenominational service. A Christian woman organize and participate in this event, It was the brainstorm of Wulf Zendik, an spoke fi rst and said that Cesar Chavez was comparable including CIRC, Cesar Chavez Peace and American visionary who lived from 1929-1979. to Jesus, she said Jesus’ last words were “follow me,” Justice Committee of Denver, Moviment He came up with such concepts as “creavolution” and we should all continue to follow Cesar Chavez. Estudiantil Chivano de Aztlan (MEChA), and ecolibrium. He founded Zendik Farm as an An Apache man spoke and attributed colonized and Coloradans of Immigrant Rights. intentional community, wherein people could thinking for the problems of today. Finally, a man The human rights of immigrants are attain their higher selves. The farm is still open and speaking Spanish with an English translator said, moving forward with the help of citizen thriving. I caught up with resident and artist, “Rev,” “We didn’t cross the borders, the borders crossed us.” activists, all help is greatly appreciated.• the man responsible for turning the zine into an Suddenly, a ceremony with drums and animation, over e-mail. Here is some of what he said. ethnic clothing broke out on stage. With Rev and Kyro collaborated on the animation lots of energy in the air the march began. during the run up to our present Iraq War. Rev People exited the church to find a few animated pictures his friend Kyro drew. He added hundred people waiting in the rain to march. the haunting live images of real war, narrated the The march, from Auraria campus to West short fi lm, and played drums on the mesmerizing High School, was in support of the passing music near the end, a song called “marching of comprehensive immigration reform. soon” by Wulf’s widow Arols’ Zendik band. This event kicked off a week-long, Over e-mail, Rev and I chatted briefl y. statewide, boycott, starting March 25th through April 1st. During the boycott, no The Red Pill (TRP): How big is this thing? one was to make any economic transactions Rev: So far, “Don’t Go” has been translated into and everyone was to take all their money out 5 languages. of the bank and only leave the minimum. Emily Parkey, spokesperson for Colorado TRP: 4 1/2 years later, what is your reaction to TRP: What is your goal with this piece? Immigration Reform Coalition (CIRC), the piece? Rev: Simply put, perhaps a bit naively, I just want told The Longmont FIY, “A majority of the Rev: It still chokes me up. I hold back tears. it so that young people don’t go to war. participants haven’t bought anything this week and haven’t wired money (to their countries TRP: How would you like your work to be used? The animated message is timeless, of origin). Our allies say it’s been hard not to Rev: I’d like recruiters and recruits to sit in a especially for young americans. It can be room together and watch it before anyone signs the seen at www.zendik.org/Don’t_Go/dontgo. dotted line. html, or just google, “Zendik Don’t Go. • “DAHLIA” FROM FIRST PAGE Her presentation style was smart and aesthetic. She sat in a chair, at a slight angle how quickly people turned into war hawks and called to the audience and showed slides behind her. The video presentation alone was “SURFING” FROM FIFTH PAGE for the destruction of an entire people; my people. “...pay with your credit card and get a free...” She got involved in some of the pre- overwhelming, showing a dignifi ed people living in horrifi c circumstances. Some of the *click* invasion marches and actions, but it was *click* after the bombs and missiles started falling footage from the Arab press, included a clip showing a decapitated infant was overwhelming. “fair and balanced coverage of this entire crisis...”. “...Mart; low prices, always...” that she devoted herself to peace work. Dahlia remembers life under Saddam all “Remember,” she reminded the crowd, “the *click* *click* too well. “It was oppressive.” Still, even with Arab audience sees images like this nightly.” “...for only $3.99 a pound...” Saddam captured and executed, there were the Digging deep, Dr. Wasfi was able to “...need to be hung for treason...” lies about there being no WMDs. The entire explain corporate involvement and a political *click* *click* basis for the killing of her countrymen was group called the Project for a New American “...just call 1-800...” entirely based on lies. “This is a nightmare Century. Courageously, she connected the entire “...curfew at nine pm. ...” scenario I’m trying to deal with here.” evening with an overall pattern of oppression *click* *click* The prejudice reached deep into her against the Arab world by not only America, Silence. professional life, despite the fact that all but showing the Israeli infl uence as well. “...suspension of habeas corpus...” physicians take the Hippocratic Oath. “I don’t Wasfi ended the evening on an upbeat *click* “I guess there’s nothing on,” you think to yourself as you want to operate on any Middle Eastern people.” note. She answered every question the get up off the couch and head back into the kitchen. one attending physician said. “We should blow now sympathetic crowd had. “There are “...more than six hundred arrests in Seattle alone...” • up the country of each of the hijackers.” said so many things you can be doing to stop *click* another. Dahlia devoted herself to working on the war and we need to be doing them all.” bringing peace to her familiar ancestral home. •

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emember back in the fall of 2002 Hussein as an ally of terrorists. When aking up, you fi nd that your mouth is dry and *click* during the leadup to war in Iraq? With taken together with the inflammatory that you have to take a piss. You sit up in bed R Afghanistan apparently secured, approach Washington has used to hinder W and squint at the sunlight pouring into your “...all young men between the ages of 17 and 26 are hereby Bush Administration officials spent the Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology, this room from between the slats of the venetian blinds. required to report to their local Offi ce of Homeland months before the invasion professing paints a potentially dark picture of the You groan slightly as you stand up and stretch. Time Security to determine eligibility for Citizen Service...” their intimate knowledge of Iraq’s arsenal administration’s intentions. Then of to head for the bathroom. After relieving your bladder of WMDs and its location. Even when U.N. course there is the recent U.S. buildup you make your way to the kitchen. “I have a couple *click* weapons inspectors reported that their of its forces in the area, with the “troop hours before I have to be at work,” you think as you efforts in early 2003 turned up nothing, surge” Bush touted in his State of the pour yourself that fi rst cup of coffee. You take your “The Boy Scouts; America’s young defense against the it was not good enough for the President. Union, as if it was a revolutionary coffee into the living room, plop down on the couch forces of terrorism...” Having relentlessly bombarded Americans way of approaching a problem, and the and turn on the television to see if anything important with false details about the threat posed deployment of a second carrier strike or interesting is going on out in the great big world. *click* by Saddam Hussein and exploiting their group, led by the USS John Stennis, to join fear and anger by painting him as an ally the USS Dwight Eisenhower in the region. *click* “...VP Cheney said: ‘given the broad range of the of terrorists and warning of a “smoking It might be alarmist to jump to the conspiracy against the American public and its gun that could come in the form of a conclusion that the Bush Administration is “Today President Bush announced that he has infi ltrations into the highest levels of government mushroom cloud,” he ordered the U.S.’s planning a strike on Iran. After all, the used his executive powers to declare a state of the 2008 presidential elections will be delayed most ruthless military action to date. And troops are already stretched thinly by their emergency. ‘We have intelligence that a large scale indefi nitely until we can be sure that all politicians are although it is hard to guess this secretive current engagements, and any attempt to terrorist attack on America is imminent. As the innocent of the crimes that they have been accused of. administration’s plans, one has to consider invade or bomb Iran, which is nearly four President it is my duty to the American people to As soon as everything is cleared up the democratic that it could be happening again times the size of Iraq, would surely be ensure that the people remain safe from the threat process that this country knows and loves will be Recently, we an unthinkable of terrorism, by whatever means necessary’...” restored to a state of perfection heretofore unachieved’...” saw a string of addition to the very questionable military’s burden *click* *click* accusations flung and a potentially at Iran by the devastating blow “...and until the end of this period of emergency “...we go now live to the Oval Offi ce where President President and to the security all law enforcement offi cers are to be absorbed Bush is about to speak...“It is with a heavy heart that others. “There is of the whole into the Department of Homeland Security. I take this responsibility unto myself. I am a lover solid evidence,” a region. But it’s National Guardsmen and Reservists are hereby of democracy and freedom, but in order to remain State Department difficult to say activated and to report immediately to their free we must purge the cancer of terrorist ideals official told us on whether or not local police stations for further instructions...” from America. I only accept this responsibility out January 24, “that they are capable of love for my country and its people. As a people Iranian agents of such a move, *click* we must be steadfast and remain courageous in the are involved with in light of their face of our enemies here at home who have been groups in Iraq past behavior. “The President has suspended the House of co-opted and have long emboldened our enemies.” and are being R e c e n t l y Representatives and Senate for the duration of the sent there by the Iranian government.” representatives from the U.S., Iran, Syria, emergency. Senators and Congressmen will be held *click* Bush tried to elaborate for reporters and other Middle Eastern countries met in an undisclosed location for a short period for on February 15: “What we do know is at a conference in Baghdad to discuss debriefi ng. ‘The conspiracy against the American “...it has been discovered that the conspiracy that the Quds force was instrumental in security in the country. However, the U.S. people has penetrated the highest levels of the goes all the way to the top of the leadership of the providing these deadly IEDs to networks and Iran’s participation involved mostly American government. During this emergency Democratic party, who have been working with the inside of Iraq. We know that. And we finger-pointing, with each blaming the the American people will have to expect a small governments of North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba, also know that the Quds force is a part of other for the current unrest and Iran’s envoy level of inconvenience until everything gets sorted among others, to stage a political coup in America that the Iranian government. That’s a known.” describing U.S. accusations as a cover out, which we assure you will be relatively soon’...” aims to drastically alter our very way of life. These traitors He admitted he didn’t “know” whether top for their own failures. Another meeting to the American people and their foreign co-conspirators Iranian leadership was ordering this, but was proposed for April, but it remains *click* will be punished. We must feel pity for our fellow went on to say, “Either they knew or didn’t to be seen whether this new diplomatic Americans who were duped into this scheme against know, and what matters is, is that they’re contact will have any meaningful effect. “...last night the President signed into legislation their fellow countrymen, but justice must prevail...” there. What’s worse, that the government Whatever the administration’s real the National Identifi cation Act, which goes into knew or that the government didn’t know?” intentions, its accusatory language and effect immediately. All citizens have until April 30th *click* This doesn’t sound like convincing parading of military force on Iran’s doorstep to report to their local Department of Motor Vehicles material, but he throws the blame anyway. promotes the possibility of armed conflict, locations to be fi tted with an RFID. ‘It’s really a quick and “...including Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Barack These vague accusations are whether initiated by a premeditated painless procedure. It’s a non-intrusive procedure which Obama, and Al Gore to name just a few among the disturbingly similar to the constant strike or an accidental skirmish. Clearly, consists of nothing more than a quick shot to the arm. In foreign- infl uenced Americans who have been arrested. fearmongering that went on before the this standoff is something Congress effect the whole thing takes less than a second. After a They all have freely confessed to their crimes and invasion of Iraq, when we were bombarded and the American people must watch minute or two you won’t even know that you had it’...” volunteered information pointing to a vaster conspiracy...” with claims of satellite imagery showing closely, as a U.S.-Iran confrontation is prohibited biological weapons labs, and something the world could not afford. • “SURFING” ON PAGE SIX statements attempting to paint Saddam

Thursday, April 26th • 7:30PM April 24th-30th • All Day Monday, April 30th • 5:30PM Monday, April 30th • 7:00PM Grand Junction Alternative Media will be National Turn of Your TV Week. Grand Junction Alternative Media is hosting a round- A Voice of Reason is proud to present Dr. Bob screening Sir, No Sir, a documenary about the G.I table discussion “Beyond Tampons: Alternatives to Bowman’s Patriot Tour which seeks to take back resistance that ended the war in Vietnam. Unplug the Drug! Corporate Feminine Hygiene.” this country from those who’ve hijacked it. Saccomanno Lecture Hall @ MSC Sience Krey-Ziegal Room in the MSC Student Center Moss Performing Arts Recital Hall Building. @ MSC Campus