Emerald Triangle: FREE USA: $1 Everywhere else: It's up to your local capitalist newsdealer Big Important Stuff in this Issue: LAYTONVILLE IN THE YEAR 2000, PERESTROIKA IN THE USA,EMERALDTRIANGLEANDSANFRANCISCOUPDATES,MEXICO,NICARAGUA, THE DEATH OF GILMAN STREET, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP, AND A WHOLEBUNCH OF SIMILARLY CRUCIAL INFORMATION ! "The Solar Powered Zine" t Fall 1988 Number 32 ( I �. ,! r • t Sweaty World Issue: Surviving The Greenhouse Effect (Or Should We Bother?) EBP-DA | www.eastbaypunkda.com -2- New York ... The new logoCBS is using for its coverage of the parks. Yuppiesand other real estate speculators are now discussing other 1988 campaign may have startedout as a good old fashioned American possibilities; a popular idea involves setting up snipers on neighboring eagle, butit appears tohave metamorphized intoan ugly, angularstyliza­ rooftops to pick off obnoxious park denizens. Koch has not yet said tionthat bears an uncarmyresemblance to theBig Birdthat along with the whetherhe will allow city police to participate inthis new program. swastika graced everything German during the years of theThird Reich. Anotherversion of how theRiot of TompkinsSquare came about Coincidence? Very little happens by accident in our state-controlled is offered by Mykel Board in his MaximwnRoe/enroll col umn; he claims media. Anyway, it's widely knownthat the C inCBS standsfor CIA. You that thewhole thing wasstarted by Hanis, theChrist-cu m-Manson-like can probably figure out yourselfwhat theother two letters standfor. singerof the wildly unpopular Letch Patrol in order to gain publicity for his band. New York... Tompkins Square Park is not exactly a prime piece ofreal estate. Oh sure,it's got a great location, smack in themiddle of the SantJago_. Democracyin action, US style... Fifteenyears after he rapidly gentrifyingLower East Side, andthe landscaping, though a littleon was installed in power by the CIA, Chile's military dictator Augusto theshabby side, provides a pleasmtrespite from the relentless brick and Pinochetgot aroundto calling an elec tion ofsorts, asking Chile ansif they asphaltthat surround it. wanted him to continue as president What's remarkable is not that the But oh, those tenants! Loud, shabbily dressed, making theworst electorategave backa resounding "No "vote,but that theelection was held sortof impression on potentialbu yersin the neighborhood. Some of the at all. undesirablesmerely hangout inthe park on hot summernights because it's Chile'slast legitimatelyelected president, SalvadorAllende, was one of theonly placesin thecity toget somefresh air. Othershave moved murdered inthe CIA-Pinochet coup,and thousands of Chileanswere im­ right in, becausethe y canno longer afford to live anywhereelse in New prisoned,tortured, or executedin the reign ofterror th atfollowed. US mili­ York. tary and economicaid toChile, cut offduring theAllende years forpur­ Manhattanproperty values have beensoaring, but there's always posesof undermining hismildly socialistpolicies, wasrestored following room forimprovement. Enterthe administration of MayorEd Koch. Now thecoup, andby proppingup theChilean econom y helpedPinochet hold Mayor Koch is anold time New Yorker, andas such he has learnedto put on to powerdespite w idespreadopposition (Chile previously had a tradi­ up withlots oflitde unpleasantri es thatcome withli fein thebig city. Lousy tion of beingamong the most democraticcountri� inSouth America). subways, garbagein the streets, rats doing tap dance revues downlower But don't look forPinochet to beleavin g mytimesoon. His "term" Broadway,md thelarges t homelesspopulation of any cityin the industri­ doesn't expire till 1990, by his own decree, and that leaves him plentyof alizedworld, well, he can live withthat. After all, thisis NewYork. If you timeto cookup some sortof crisis thatwill justify a returnto martiallaw can'ttake the heat, skedaddle on back to Omaha. andthe cancellation of elections. Andjust remember,your taxdollars help But there are some things up withwhich the l ong-suffering mayor makeit allpossible. isnot going to put And rightnear the top of that list is the failure of real estate prices to escalateat theabso lutemaximum possible rate. So when La Paz ... US Secretaryof State George Shultz.,in Bolivia to inspect yuppienewcomers tothe Lower East Side started griping that their n ewly CIA efforts to solidify its hold on the Latin American cocaine trade, convertedcondos in theTompkins Square vicinity were not movingas fast narrowly escapeddeath at thehands of rival narcotics traffickers whena asthey could because of thoseunsightly people who refused to go away, bomb they had planted went off seconds before Shultz's motorcade themayor was quick to lenda hand,ordering that city p arksbe closed after arrived. The CIA, concerned over plummeting cocaine prices and the 1 a.m. and directing police to enforce the curfew. widespread entry into the drug market of independent, thirdworld-based Whatensued was one of the most vicious riotsNew York hasseen entrepeneurs, is attempting to get US troops involved in eliminating the since the 1960s, withhundreds of policeofficers fightinga pitchedbattle cocafields of theircompetitors, usin g, amongother tactics, Vietnam-style for most of the night, and clubbing or otherwise brutalizing dozens of chemical warfare. A similarattempt to controlthe herointrade of the 1950s innocent passersby ( alsoa popular 60stactic). Thepolice ultimatelysuc­ and 60s, was of coursea major cause of the VietnamWar. ceeded inclearing the park. but thelow -lifes anddegenerates who congre­ gate there won the more important victory, at least fornow, withpublic Washington... The pious blatheremanating fromthese quarters opinion forcingMayor Koch to temporarily suspendhis order closingthe abouta cessationof hostilities inthe Iran-Iraq war blithely ignores the fact thatthe United States bears a major responsibility for the 1 milliondead, LOOKOUT: PO Box 1000 1. 7 million wounded, and 1.5 million refugeesproduced by thispointless eight-yearholocaust Laytonville CA 95454 It was US meddling in Irani affairs, dating back to the 1954CIA The LOOKOUT ls publishedperiodica lly (your guess Is as good coup that unseated democratically elected President Mossadegh, that produced the barbaric regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and the instability as mine how often that will be). If you want to receive future Issues, thatled Iraq's equally demented Saddam Hussein to launchhis ill-fated price\are asfollows: invasion. Oncethe warwas underway,the United States,alon g withmost USA: $I/Issue of the major industrialized countries, supplied both sides with enough CANADA, MEXICO: $1.50/issue weapons to insure that neither side could win a clear-cut victory, thus EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA: $2.50/lssue leaving an openingfor the US toestablish a major militarypresence in the region. Isit tooc ynicalto suppose that c ertainpolicymakers saw the death AUSTRALASIA: $3/lssue andmaiming ofnearly 3 million Middle Easterners as a worthwhileprice I know it's expensive; don't blame me, tell the post officeabout it. topay forkeeping US gasolineprices low and providing photo opportuni­ Press run forthis issue:4000 tiesfor American-flagged warships? Not hardly. Deadline fornext Issue: ? Articles, except as noted, are by me, Lawrence Livermore, who Tel A vlv... Israeli troops have begun using plastic bullets, the niust alsotake the blame forediting and publishing this thing. Art Is beloved and sometimes deadly tools of British occupation forces in Northern Ireland, against the Palestinian resistance. TheIsraeli govern­ J110!itly handled by the brilliant Marty Maceda. ment, despite growing opposition from its own citizenry, continues to Wholesalers: For bulk orderscontact MORD AM PO Box 988 move toward a South Africa-style solution to the unrest, with the West San Francisco CA 94101 BankArabs steadily beingstripped of thefew civil rights they still enjoy. (415) 243-8230 Meanwhile, thePalestine Liberation Or ganization, in the wakeof Electricity used In computer typesetttlng and layout Is furnished Jordan'sabdication of all responsibi lityfor the West Bank.h asdeclared an MMr.Sun. continuedon page 6... EBP-DA | www.eastbaypunkda.com BattUng Bruce Anderson,the Boonville publisher, was sen- As it turns out, theHuwoods were in big ttouble, and are now tencedto serve60 days inthe county jail forfighting with C0tmty Schools being forced to sell almost all of theirland topay off their debts (i.e., to Superintendent Jim Spence after a rip-roaring trial that made up in avoid foreclosure). The Harwoods had a long-standing reputation as entertainmentwhat it lackedinjustice. Anderson wasfound illllilocent or being among lhe moreresponsible loggersher eabout.&, thoughin recent assault and battery after a number of witnessescontradi cted Spence's years they've been adopting some of the tactics or the major corporate accowu of the incident, and severaljurors indicated afterward that the loggers (forced by market conditions, their defenders contend). In any SchoolsSupe had beennot at all believableon thewi1n ess stand. event, it's unlikelythat whoever talces o ver theirland w ill be animpro ve- Anderson wasconvicted of fighting in puba lic place, anddefens e ment. We'll probably see Maxxam-stylebu youts where absenteeowners attorneyKarll.eipnik then asked �------,.,.,.,. make their payments by prosecuting attorney C. David clean:uttingeverylhinginsight. Eyster if he was now going IO As evidence of what we can file charges against the