The Digger Archives Guestbook 2001

These are the Guestbook Entries from 2001. Please visit the current Guestbook if you would like to leave your own comments. We also have a Discussion Forum where there are threaded topics.

The most recent entries are at the top of this listing.

NOTE: see Guestbook entry dated August 12, 2001 for explanation of the encoding of email addresses.

Name: Ingrid Landis
E-mail Address: bams@cwo.com
Date: 31 Dec 2001

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If anyone lives in western Trinity County, CA let me know.

Name: Linda
E-mail Address: Newmoney2001@aol.com
Date: 31 Dec 2001

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Peace, love and happiness to all!!

Name: Tomas
E-mail Address: tomas@apex.net
Date: 30 Dec 2001

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Life is indeed far out and nice in this new century. Ya'all have a good day and peace forever shine in your eyes. badaba, Tomas

Name: Eric
E-mail Address: eric@diggers.org
Date: 29 Dec 2001

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Chalk this one up to the persistence of the counterculture. I was driving back from the Shields Library at UC Davis after having spent three days researching the SF Mime Troupe Archive collection (more on that later). Lo, there were two young hitchhikers waiting by the freeway onramp with a sign "Pick Us Up, San Francisco". So of course I picked them up. We exchanged stories about hitchhiking, with their tales several months old, and mine from decades past.

These two, perhaps at most twenty-years old, referred to themselves as Rainbow kids, although the woman had not been to a Gathering. The boy apparently had been to one. Nevertheless, they obviously were part of a subculture that has indentifiable Digger elements. The girl at one point suggested that the boy could look for a surfer's wetsuit in the Free Box when they get to the nearest University town. They talked about Rainbow Gatherings as places where money is forbidden -- and their love of barter blankets. The boy also referred several times to the Elders of the Rainbow Family.

It was definitely one of those karmic experiences, especially after spending time reading the Mime Troupe archives researching the evolution of Free.

Name: Nicole
E-mail Address: willinics@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Dec 2001

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Hello everyone, wishing all an insightful, peaceful and enlightened new year! Nicole

Name: Robert Pike
E-mail Address: bobpike@techie.com
Date: 24 Dec 2001

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I ived at the Sutter Street Commune for a while it the early seventies. I would like to get in touch with Dennis Rubenstein and/or Irving Rosenthal. I knew Irving at the commune and Dennis both at the commune and previously in the Draft Resistance. Peace and Love ~ Bob Pike

[Bob: I let Dennis know you're looking for him. He should be contacting you soon. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. If you have any remembrances of the Sutter Street Commune that you'd like to share, I would love to post them here. --Eric]

Name: Robert Pike
E-mail Address: bobpike@techie.com
Date: 24 Dec 2001

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Name: Peter Coyote
E-mail Address: wdprod@earthlink.net
Date: 22 Dec 2001

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Happy Mid-winter Solstice Eric. Thanks for keeping the site in good working order and so thorough.

Name: Mark
E-mail Address: bard382@aol.com
Date: 18 Dec 2001

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Peace and energy to all past, hidden, present and future Diggers in the new year.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 17 Dec 2001

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Best of the season to you Eric - and a great new year for Digger families.

Name:
E-mail Address:
Date: 16 Dec 2001

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"ask and you shall receive" well ive been asking for years now, waiting, checking, waiting.still nothing. No supplies, no extras, no building materials,no fire tools.no extra 4x4s. plenty of Love and tons and tons of advice sooooo.....Kick DOWN! 1% free thats Not too much or is it? are you an old digger? or know someone who is?? do you live in C A or south O R?? or all of the above? Black Bear Ranch is looking for you extra's. tools,building supplies,money,trucks,fire tools, 1st born. well maybe not 1st born but you get the big pic. So E-mail me. ill even arange pick ups. skylarohare@hotmail.com or po box 3 forks of Salmon CA 96031 talk to ya soon. Dont forget the magic..

Name: Eric
E-mail Address: eric@diggers.org
Date: 15 Dec 2001

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I accidentally deleted a message from someone who wrote about the 60s in Indiana and the influence even there of the Diggers via returnees from the Haight who brought the idea of Free back to the budding counterculture in the form of free food and free boxes, etc.

Please write me again. I hope you can fill in the details. I would love to add your comments here.

Eric

Name: WILDFLOWER
E-mail Address:
Date: 15 Dec 2001

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GOOD SITE, MOST INTERRESTING HISTORY, SEE YA SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE, AHO!

Name: Pat Mckinnon
E-mail Address: mckinnonpat@msn.com
Date: 13 Dec 2001

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Hello, It was in 1967 that A carload of us left NYC to get to Morningstar Ranch. I came down from there to SF and hung out at the free store where I was so surprised that people were actually altruistic and giving. thanks. Anyway, I am now 63 years old and Lou is gone as are most of the others that lived there. Ramon and I still E-mail ocassionally and I think Coyote is around there somewhere. Love and thanks Pat

Name: Karen
E-mail Address: Bluefawn@Rockisland.com
Date: 12 Dec 2001

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ahh brraahh kosko we-onnatta' ameeato howinay-yoo. Kohway-see pa, vro ma neesh dta from a rock in the wander---may LOVE be in you

Name: Arthur
E-mail Address: winstanley1648@yahoo.com
Date: 11 Dec 2001

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Yes, Richard Mann!!!! Contact me. Arthur

Name: Hammond Guthrie
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 11 Dec 2001

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Hi all - Does anyone have a photo of either : The 5th Estate Coffeehouse once in Hollywood - or - The (original) Golden Bear in Huntington Beach? If you do please contact me by e-mail - Thanks very much. Hammond

Name: Michael Brown
E-mail Address: michaeldbrown@hotmail.com
Date: 11 Dec 2001

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Also would anyone have knowledge of Aborigines involved in the Black Panthers? Any stories, pictures or names would be appreciated. Mahalo

Name: Richard Mann
E-mail Address: gsplfnk@aol.com
Date: 10 Dec 2001

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Isn't it about time for the Diggers to shake off their sleep, rise from their laurels, and get back to business of launching a revolution?

The US Constitution is under attack, and we are being led incrementally toward a totalitarian government.

The Diggers are needed again to serve as a lightening rod for social action.

Name: Michael Brown
E-mail Address: michaeldbrown@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Dec 2001

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Anyone have stories to share about Aborigines you knew or heard about in the San Francisco area during the 60/70's? Photo's would be nice too! Mahalo!

Name: delightful birth
E-mail Address: anywhere
Date: 06 Dec 2001

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A great service profession to look into is a birth assistant. Learning techniques for easing labor for birthing women is seriosuly needed. Hospitals are understaffed and many nurses only offer the mothers painkillers instead of helping her through naturally. Learning to be a birth assistant can bring the joy back to childbirth. There are natural easy ways to deal with pain and surgical or vacuum on the head interventions can be avoided. Often mom is left alone in the labor room with nothing but a video display of her fetal monitor. Touch, movement, chanting... changing position and breathing deeply are some proven techniques. Helping the mother to feel safe and Relaxed; keeping her partner and other observers (children, relatives, friends) calm...

Honor your mother. Honor the mother of your children. Honor your daughters giving birth.

Check out your local doula school. Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators are Needed Now.

With Aloha, from delightful birth

Name: nicole
E-mail Address:
Date: 04 Dec 2001

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Happy Birthday Stew Alpert!!! Hello to Judy

Name: Jinpa
E-mail Address: Heavan.com
Date: 01 Dec 2001

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For George Harrison - "Passion mourns the quiet heart of sunshine" - Another passing in the night [r.i.p.]

Name: purpleodogstarnumber9b6
E-mail Address:
Date: 30 Nov 2001

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walkin down haight past the drifters, grifters, runaways, hodads,road agents ,boohoos,suburbanites, it looked to my uneducated eyes like india, george the beatle had walked amongst us,and we followed to the park , and it was a good day sunshine good day sunshine,

Name: barbie
E-mail Address:
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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HOW OLD ARE YOU MARK JHON?

Name: barbie
E-mail Address: katie.me@talk21e.com
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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I think this web is psychedelic. i am a pagan hippy who is into celtic wicca . i think the music is groovey. e_mail me. as the druid moon has past a black cat upoun you lap will bring good luck upon your travels as a hippyprinses who's love for you unravels

Name:
E-mail Address:
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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Name: curious is as curious does
E-mail Address: no thank you
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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An opium pipe for Achilles Snipes--his slippers not withstanding, were breakfast and brunch, siesta and lunch, and tea in the afternoons; but not tea on the landing, in fashion upstanding, not liquid, but vaporous blue; that stank of reposes, sweeter than roses, and raptures of marvelous hues; which soon gave way, to dinner they say; and anticipations to sup, followed there soon, by the rising moon, and libations in need of no cups. For a midnight snack, 'twas pulled from the rack, with needs and motives enduring; as the dawn greets the sky, laid it down for awhile; as abstinence catnapped resounding. Written by my hand and as a gift for the greater community.....R.B.

Name:
E-mail Address:
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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Name: curious is as curious does
E-mail Address: no thank you
Date: 29 Nov 2001

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Name: CathodeMan
E-mail Address:
Date: 27 Nov 2001

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Hey Now Imagination - It sounds like you have a TV in your mind. Suggest you unplug it - or at least change the channel for your own sakes and get a family sized isolation tank to float around in.

Name: imagination
E-mail Address: smell sweetly
Date: 27 Nov 2001

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Read in Utne Reader that the average American spends 3 hours and 46 minutes a day watching tv. That adds up to 52 days a year (24 hour days); and a total of 9 solid years by the time one is 65 years old. That's 9 years of 24 hour days. Quite a statistic, provided by the Neilson Ratings. Are you wondering where your life has gone?

T.V. also dulls the imagination. As Timothy Leary said, "You have to imagine it in order to create it." and, as Elaine Brown of the Black Panthers said in the late 60's or early 70's, "We lost the Revolution to the tv." Instead of folks going to the streets with demands for equal rights and opportunities, they were stuck in front of the tube watching Cosby and The Jeffersons.

We have no t.v. in our home. I have homeschooled both my children. Whenever a friend approaches me with a child who cannot read I suggest they get rid of the t.v. The parents are always incredulous. You would think I suggested they get rid of the toilet.

If you have kids, get them a costume box. Experience taught me that the best costumes are colored yard square pieces of cloth. These can become capes, veils, skirts, turbans, so many costumes. Instead of tv our family has been treated to countless shows created by our children and their friends. Plays, ballets, fashion shows, news broadcasts, all provided by grinning children.

I'm not an ostrich. I get my news from NPR, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Village Voice, www.alternet.org., http://www.public-i.org/index.htm, and Ms. magazine.

Happy holidays. Hope you enjoy inspired visions. With Aloha.

Name: MARK JOHN
E-mail Address: mark@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Nov 2001

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Name: MARK JOHN
E-mail Address: mark@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Nov 2001

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Name: gladiola
E-mail Address: panhandle.com
Date: 24 Nov 2001

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Thanks to the original diggers who served up those yummmy soups and stews in the panhandle and at the Free Frame of Reference. Not only was the hot food lovingly prepared and served and appreciated, but you met really great folks there.

Thanks for opening up my mind to how things outta be. With great appreciation, flower child

Name: Eric
E-mail Address: eric@diggers.org
Date: 23 Nov 2001

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Mark, and Hammond: Thank you for the appreciative notes, but the real thanks goes to all the people who have donated materials to the Digger Archives over the years. Starting with Michael Horowitz, Chester Anderson, Ron Thelin, Phyllis Willner, Sam, Natural Suzanne, Freeman House, Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft, Ramon Sender Barayon, Peter Coyote, Michael Rossman, Chuck Gould, Michael Doyle, Celine Deransart, Alice Gaillard, and many, many others. The archives represents a collective desire to preserve our history from oblivion or worse, some sort of revisionist distortion. But, your kind notes are much appreciated. Gracias.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 22 Nov 2001

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Holiday thoughts to Diggers then and Diggers now - to the known and the ever to be unknown: - Heartfelt thanks for filling the belly of the once upon a time - and the same for now - as the way and path continue to fill our minds - as this Diggers Day is never done. - and - Eric, your service here is well appreciated but my thanks again nonetheless - Happy Thanksgiving to all at hand and to honor those no longer here to taste the succulent fare.

Name: Keltic Rasta
E-mail Address:
Date: 22 Nov 2001

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Thanks be for all the good that still remains; for family, in whatever form it manifests; for all our strengths, the kindness competence & everyday wit and sinew that turn the wheels of the world; for the poets and musicians that illuminate brighter alternate spaces; for the inquiring minds that still would like to know; for the few you maybe don't like so much but by opposition show you how to be more truly yourself...for the great gift from who knows what formative Intelligence, LIFE itself. Praises to JAH, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Meher Baba, Danu, Lugh, & whoever you revere. Praise & thanks.

Name: Mark Hebard
E-mail Address: Bard_yada_382@aol.com
Date: 21 Nov 2001

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Thanksgiving. I don't know about the PC implications of the holiday or care much, but I would like to give some thanks to Eric Noble for the work he does here and elsewhere to keep the wheel turning. This site and the links he has provided have pointed me in new directions and helped make connections that I had thought were gone. Thanks Eric.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 19 Nov 2001

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Dear All - in case any of you wondered what it was like - please visit - The Acid Test" - http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=238 and have a nice trip! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Name: old~skoolerin 64
E-mail Address: nine
Date: 19 Nov 2001

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it was 64 or 65 an the heat was after this alleged intrepid traveller, as he bombed into the campus of cal western university now a christian skool,they looked every where an this buncha merry pranksters kept prankin showin footage ? whatever but the thing is nobody got busted.. did they leave in a puff, a cloud ,or a fog , or with brass cojones inbroad daylight, i was a mere frosh prints an the grapevine delighted da night, da lights ?... dig da lights... cause the dark gets soo very deep, so they said.

Name: nicole
E-mail Address:
Date: 16 Nov 2001

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I was just walking down Spring street in Soho this afternoon and it's a beautiful 70 degree day...I suddenly had the strangest sensation that Emmett was walking with me...So I walked a little taller and felt a little safer and had a stronger stride in my walk...thanks Emmett, Nicole

Name: Anonymous
E-mail Address:
Date: 16 Nov 2001

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Hey Kim - Perhaps you are having a post-pre-natal flashback! Take the free trip and ride with it.

Name: kim kozuch
E-mail Address: ?/
Date: 15 Nov 2001

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i have a strange feeling that runs through my body as i type my comment im scared to open this can of worns.it reminds me of a past that is hauntingly familiar and peculiar because somehow i am connected. iwas born in the summer of 67 and this story takes me back to the sixties and makes me realize the danger and turbelence during this time i feel a strange feeling thru my body and i do not know why? it is almost like something wants to silence me like i cant tell what i really feel but i do know i am very grateful to the people of your generation who changed my generation thankyou and i really like the diggers song it reminds me of my grandfather who was a coalminer and he kinda sings like that too

Name: Anonymous for now
E-mail Address:
Date: 15 Nov 2001

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At Kesey's memorial in Eugene Ken's brother Chuck noted that when he told the youngest of the clan that Ken was gone - the youngster replied: "So now whose gonna teach us to hypnotize the chickens?" Ken in his psychedelic coffin was transported to his farm in Pleasant Hill from the service strapped to the back of the new Further Bus. Onward and Upward to trade 8's and magic tricks with those in attendance above the beyond.

Name: Eric
E-mail Address: eric@diggers.org
Date: 14 Nov 2001

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Just updated the "Links to this Web" page to include 100s of web sites that have links to the Digger Archives, and from which visitors came to this web during September and October of this year. Here's the page where this compilation of links is located:

http://www.diggers.org/links_to_the_digger_archives.htm

It's a great way to find co-pacetic sites, and also to see how the Digger Archives are viewed by others.

Which brings me to the last point -- I'm always open to hearing suggestions on improving the content, format, structure or design of this web. Please feel free to send email or use the Feedback Form:

http://www.diggers.org/feedback.htm

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 11 Nov 2001

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Another passing in the night - r.i.p

"Hail To The Chief" - http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=1426

AsEver to all, Hammond

Name: seeker
E-mail Address:
Date: 11 Nov 2001

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check out the Who if you don't know who I am. so many have passed lately it's hard to know where to stop grieving and start just remembering but who can doubt Ken Kesey was on of the giants of our time? He showed us the way when there was no way; he touched our life; he sued the giants of Hollywood (brass balls for sure); he was dis- enchanted with literachure , saying ' what a disappointment the author's first work is almost always his best.' RIP no greater man of our era. PS: I am 49 and not a grandfather yet (as far as I know) "Don't give up the Fight!" -- Peter Tosh

Name: Maxine Mitchell
E-mail Address: lmitchell1234@home.com
Date: 10 Nov 2001

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I lived in Toronto. I hung around Yorkville before it was the community of hippies, I suppose I fell in between beat and Hippies. But I know people that went back and forth. I helped here with the folks avoiding the draft, their families, getting them over the border and the like. I have been involed with grassroots politics for a long time. i also used to guard the entrance to the Northern Black Panthers, i.e., guys who were escaping the draft and were here, and part of the Black Panthers. I know this fellow here, who said he was part of the Diggers inSan Fransico in the late 60's, he is a musican and I really do not believe him. I've looked at the available pics, and don't see him at all. He tells a good taqle, but then we all cou;ld I guess. His name is James Hartley and he plays Bass Guitar, he told me he helped ditribute food to the needy. I don't know it is so unlike this guy to be generious at all. he had waste long very curly hair and looked ever so cuddly, then. Blue eyes. James Victor Hartley, if anyone remembers let me know. He works for the taxation people here now. I am very skeptical. Anyway I hope you continue to do good stuff, and know that there are others trying, elsewhere. Sincerely MAX

Name: Morningstar
E-mail Address: dolphinia
Date: 10 Nov 2001

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Aloha Ken. Gone to join Tim, Lou, Jerry and Aldous on the next assignment. Thank you for your laughter. Thank you for your light. OM

Ken Kesey (17 Sept 1935 - 10 Nov 2001)

Name: Nathan
E-mail Address: musicandmore_2000@yahoo.com
Date: 10 Nov 2001

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A wonderful site!! Very Informative. Thank you for taking the time to put it on the web!! From: “http://www.geocities.com/musicandmore_2000/producteaser.html”

Name: FrankieZ
E-mail Address:
Date: 09 Nov 2001

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Now that is the crust on the biscuit.

Name: Justin
E-mail Address:
Date: 09 Nov 2001

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PS to Herbert - Why go away mad? Words are for the masses to ponder. You don't have to agree with anyone to see the tunnel or the light.

Name: Justin Case
E-mail Address:
Date: 09 Nov 2001

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Dear Herbert - you missed my point. The "nonexistant" reference was to the "Trip Without A Ticket" - a part of Digger history ala Peter Berg that is perhaps too illusive for you to have picked up on. My suggestions were also Digger oriented and in response to your asking for things Digger to apper on the guestbook vs. random chat. Read your history Herbert - open your head to see more than negativity in certain responses and become a neo-Digger in your actions was the advise intended - not a put down - just a freely framed reference to push you Onward!

Name: Herbert Herbert
E-mail Address:
Date: 09 Nov 2001

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I lied. You will hear more from me. I just reread all my postings and I feel bad that I instigated such a negative vibe. Seriously. I don't know what "maroon" means, but I feel responsible for provoking such negativity. I want to cut it off, in the name of unity for Diggers and those just plain into the Diggers whether from the 1640s or the 1960s or 2300s.

Shalom.

Name:
E-mail Address:
Date: 08 Nov 2001

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Hello,

I clicked on the link for the North Beach Beat poetry renaissance on your history page and was sent to the following: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/

It appears to be an advertisment.

And...I like your site, having just been reminded of the Diggers when I was told of a connection to Michael McClure. Thank you.

[Levi Asher must have got his own domain. He's now located at www.litkicks.com. His site has really grown nicely. I just don't know why his link to the Diggers has disappeared. If anyone sees Levi, tell him the Digger web is still going strong! Thanks for the alert! --en] 

Name: Bugs
E-mail Address:
Date: 08 Nov 2001

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What a maroon!

Name: Herbert Herbert
E-mail Address:
Date: 08 Nov 2001

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I don't need moralistic lectures from a stranger about all the humanitarian actions I should be doing. You assume, Justin Case, that because I'm critical of this website that I'm an "impure" Digger who doesn't do anything worthwhile ("non-existant ticket" you called it). I guess you'll have to purge me from the Digger Party. So be it. I'll be doing all those things that you assume I DON'T do without your official approval. Thank you.

You won't hear any more from me.

Name: Justin Case
E-mail Address:
Date: 06 Nov 2001

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Ok Herbert: Here's a quick list of 4 things Digger for you to do instead of punching your non-existant ticket one to many times:

1. Find a hungry person and feed that person from your own refrigerator (or someone else's if yours is empty). 2. Find a homeless person and if you can't offer a shelter - give him/her the clothes off your back and all the money in your pockets. 3. Find an illiterate person and teach him/her something useful. 4.Remember that you can't beat what you don't understand - so read the words of Hitler, Saddam, and Ghengis Khan before you forget the past.

Name: Humbert Hobart Humbug!
E-mail Address:
Date: 06 Nov 2001

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Dear Herbert - If you can't feed the stomachs of the people then feed their minds. If nostalgia is your end desire then perhaps you should visit http://www.iwannabeadigger.com! Diggers here and there can not nourish you by remembering the past unless it applies to the present. Better to ask where your freely framed reference has gone. You and I and all the world are still "Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" whether you like it or not - so find your program and run with it . Complaining about what was more thant 30 years ago yesterday will only dig you deeper into the mire vs. digging you out .

Name: Herbert Herbert
E-mail Address:
Date: 05 Nov 2001

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I guess this is the amnesia site. Doesn't anyone post anything related to the actual Diggers? I've found crumbs of good information wedged into the bountiful anarcho-solipsist blather, but can't we all get to the point?!? This is a Diggers website, not a chatroom, for chrissakes! And who's this fascist posting about "USrael" and "ZOG"? That's white supremacist drivel, even if it comes from the mind of a pseudo-anarcho-Muslim lunatic. Of course, it also has nothing to do with the Diggers.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 05 Nov 2001

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"4 Haikus From Hell" http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=1166

Name: cheweycenterspunkineaters
E-mail Address:
Date: 05 Nov 2001

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streets belong to the people?....began home from those same ... holy streets...homeless laundromat invited to take a spin... smile, can't they? fit in ; feed the world.

Name: Anonymous For The Moment
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 04 Nov 2001

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And here is another view of the 60's worth checking: http://www.sixtiespop.freeserve.co.uk/books.htm

Name: Tom Diaz
E-mail Address: tomas@apex.net
Date: 03 Nov 2001

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Ther are a lot of different viewpoints of the sixties. This is my view.

http://www2.apex.net/users/laurel/MUSE.HTM

Name: Tom Diaz
E-mail Address: tomas@apex.net
Date: 03 Nov 2001

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Ther are a lot of different viewpoints of the sixties. This is my view. http://www2.apex.net/users/laurel/MUSE.HTM

Name: Cheryl Lynne
E-mail Address: info@cultivatechi.com
Date: 02 Nov 2001

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Bruce,

Try the email again, it should go through (info@cultivatechi.com). Thank you for writing, I remember you, Kay Anne and I would love to have the sayings of our father that you remember. Cheryl Lynne

Name: Bruce Martin
E-mail Address: bjmartin@zoomnet.net
Date: 02 Nov 2001

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Cheryl Lynne It was Kaye Ann that was Jed's girlfriend at Lost River Ranch with Cloe in what's now known as Whale Gulch, west of Garberville. She was sixteen. Your e-mail boomerranged so I can't talk to you directly. I collected quotes of your fathers, such as "what lies would you have my truth defend?" Over the years I've realized that it's all geographical. We want our own space, and that's extremely difficult, given the development we must sustain.

Name: farhan
E-mail Address: rikafarhan@eudoramail.com
Date: 02 Nov 2001

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hi i am male 29 years, wanna friendship with girls

Name: Bruce Martin
E-mail Address: bjmartin@zoomnet.net
Date: 31 Oct 2001

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Cheryl Lynne, remember the railroad house when we moved from Owl Street in the mission. You were maybe thirteen.

Your dad and I would truck down to see Tom Brame. I had a 47 chevy panel truck, lived in the back room and helped pay the rent. I was what you would describe as creepy. Kaye Ann would show up and so did Owl who was becoming an adept at (I can't remember it's name) a martial art. He was good. I recall the diggers meeting one night at some warehouse where owl performed, and he made a movement that wasn't so much blurred as you couldn't see it. I'll get in touch with you through your e-mail. How's mom? When I came west to see Jed, Mary Anne's old boy-friend, I got such a cold wind from Eileen that I didn't pursue Mary Ann. I figure she probably hates me for enabling JP. I don't blame her. We could talk, Mary Ann and I, into the night. Her Polish affection is what probably sent Richard Marley to Prague.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 29 Oct 2001

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Dear S - Glad that you find the site helpful, and perhaps it will add a bit of entertainment as well. - H.

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Dear Diggers All and Everyone of you - Dialogue is one of our most important products these days so I encourage you all to Speak! - Write! and Think! your minds here, there and everywhere. I come to this site more these days because post-Digger philosophy and action is needed now more that ever before. As the Defense Department has called for suggestions from the general public on how best to eliminate the terrorist phantom - I call upon Diggers old and new - Digger friends then and now - to fill the virtual air with suggested actions on how best to dissolve the fear - and feed the mind for Freedom's sake! Stay in touch - Cheers to all at hand, Hammond (a traveler and friend of Diggers then and now)

And if you want yet another example of my recent thought - please visit "More Than Twice Upon A Time" with my appreciation at: http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=1292

Name: seeker
E-mail Address:
Date: 28 Oct 2001

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Hey, Hammond -- Thanks & a tip of the hat. Your website is great...Peace and Power...over and out -- S~

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 28 Oct 2001

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Good Morning Seeker - Anxiety angst and unknown disorientation can be overwhelming to be sure. To counter it I suggest internal meditations (I for one follow the inspirational guidance of Tibetan thought and spiritual exploration - but choose your own medicine. Writing and knowledge of the day as best as I can find it are my other avenues of balance. I tend to stay away from the stateside press - and view the headlines and Op-Ed articles from a diverse array of news-sourse from around the world by using a site I have created to assist myself - and others in understanding and comprehending the Bush/Islamic jihad and the struggles the lay ahead. You can visit my Serial Red Monkey at: http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/serialreal4.html

Or you might take some solace in the words of my wife Margaret , who said to me just the other day: "Yes my dearest one I know it's the end of the world - now if you will excuse me I have some laundry to do."

Namaste - Hammond -

Name: seeker
E-mail Address:
Date: 28 Oct 2001

Comments

Listen to The Doors' "The End" if you care for a poetic version of the soundtrack to the movie that's most in focus around here right now. If any of you deep thinkers has some pragmatic advice how to cope with the current apocalyptic scene, please leave a clue here. I don't believe ANYTHING mainstream, just tryin like hell to keep well and sane. Seriously could use a little wisdom or even good advice. still in sorrow -- yr faithful correspondent

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 27 Oct 2001

Comments

Hey there anonymous (revisited) - Again from Bill B's collective: "Words falling - photos falling - breakthough in gray room - Towers Open Fire!" - (The Naked Lunch) - And here is another gray day effort : http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=1290 Keeping the faith based lamps trimmed and burning - Cheers, Hammond

Name: anonymous again
E-mail Address:
Date: 26 Oct 2001

Comments

hey hammond. remember burroughsian image? middle eastern head of state, talking head, on tv stating "if i go, the whole shithouse goes." welcome to the 21st century! "A" type personalities losing control -- where is the prosac? chinese curse "may you live in interesting times."

Name: Irwin and Patricia Levy
E-mail Address: hionca2@yahoo.com
Date: 25 Oct 2001

Comments

We were among the fortunate guests to attend your lecture at Santa Rosa Junior College on Oct 22, 2001. Please advise when you are going to put on your web site the article you read by Lt Col Dave Bowman. That was a beautiful letter. Thank you Mr Coyote for bringing a clearer insight to our government.

Name:
E-mail Address:
Date: 25 Oct 2001

Comments

To SWAMI SALAMI: RIGHT ON!!!!!

Name: nicole
E-mail Address:
Date: 24 Oct 2001

Comments

Eric...call me when you get in to NYC if you have a minute...I live in the west village and well...I think we saw eachother at Bergs 60th b-day...already 4/5 yrs ago. I'll e my phone number to you.

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 24 Oct 2001

Comments

Well now that didn't work well - sorry. Here is a link to a correctly formatted version of "Powdered Triplets." - Hammond - http://www.itsonlywords.com/view.cfm?id=1259

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 24 Oct 2001

Comments

To AnAnonymous Digger - Ask and ye shall receive - and with my thanks for your appreciation. - - Cheers to all - Hammond - - - - "Powdered Triplets" . As dried rhizomes of hellebore tainted the water of Kirrhan’s pastense so does this noxiouos anthrax bloom. . Talcum powders and pudding mix white powdered airplane coffe cups stray styrofoam flotsam doom.

Cornstarch and powdered doorknobs precede sticky letters foreboding fear amid the transparent scent of toxicity. . The highly unusual suspect themselves huddling in gas mask basements cracking in the post-genomic now.

Shouting complex slogans storm the sanctum sanctorum’s weapons-grade directive update blather.

Oh Life! - Dear - Dear Life! . Where has that light - with its tunnel and end through which it sheds now gone?

(C) 2001 - Hammond Guthrie

An Archival Link : http://www.howtospeakhip.com

Name: SWAMI SALAMI
E-mail Address:
Date: 24 Oct 2001

Comments

swami g said if a mans' house is on fire he should not play cards, should he be engaged in commerce?..should he be demanding top dollar for his medicine..?i mean if his house is already ablaze...?

Name: Eric
E-mail Address: eric@diggers.org
Date: 23 Oct 2001

Comments

Will be trekking to New York City in the coming days, so will be out of touch with the 'Net for awhile. Hold down the fort, keep those spirits high.

Name: nicole
E-mail Address: willinics@yahoo.com
Date: 23 Oct 2001

Comments

Susan, try this e-mail e-dress. Did I tell you I met your daughter at Bergs? She told me about the retracing of the southwest trip the two of you took...It seems sometimes like only yesterday we were in Farasita or up above Boulder there in Gold Hill and Ward...The other day I was thinking about Coso Street, that was a million years ago! I'd love to hear from you, warm regards, Nicole

Name: susan k
E-mail Address: skeese@sover.net
Date: 23 Oct 2001

Comments

Hey Marcelo, there is also a novel by a woman named Starhawk, called 'The Fifth Sacred Thing' i believe, that fits that description. Nicole, I have emailed you several times and keep getting it sent back.... Lets remember to celebrate this beautiful world every possible minute... we need to figure out a way to make it good for everyone, not just us. Don't give up. Every cataclysm or disaster opens up opportunities for transformation. LIsten for instructions...

Name: whatelseisnew
E-mail Address: watchful eye
Date: 23 Oct 2001

Comments

In an article titled, "Bush Sr. Could Profit From War," by Geoffrey Gray, Gray states, "President Bush has a post as a paid senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, a private Washington equity firm that according to The New York Times has essentially become the nation's 11th largest defense contractor."

"Carlyle's investors include the Bin Laden family, which has disowned its terrorist son Osama; Bush Sr.; and former Bush inner guard members Nick Carlucci and James Baker. Judicial Watch says all involved stand to benefit from any increase in U.S. defense spending. "

check it out at http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0141/gray.php

Name: Mark
E-mail Address:
Date: 22 Oct 2001

Comments

Two for One

You sit beside the branches stretched shadow Touching the streams cool clear flow, I lean at the clock listening for the last tenth Remembering Monday Night Football might help me sleep.

Name: anonymous
E-mail Address:
Date: 22 Oct 2001

Comments

hey hammond, thanks. got any more of that stuff?

Name: Hammond
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 22 Oct 2001

Comments

Gah Day Diggers: They say a poem a day keeps the anthrax away - so here it is; - cheers, Hammond

"Strands of Red Hair"

Oh I have lived within a red hair of terrorist death -

The day before Carlos the Jackal threw his hand grenade into Le Drugstore in Paris I was standing in the doorway

Three hours before an IRA bomb destroyed a London tube station I was standing six feet from ground zero

One hour before a San Francisco manic killed a corner grocery patron with a rusty hacksaw blade I had purchased an orange at the store

Red hairs come in the most natural and un-natural flavors

While crossing the Atlantic on a prop-jet in late 1950's air I encountered Hurricane Donna's turbulent rage, and outside my window seat an engine caught flame

Or at the age of 5 while observing the silver threads of Nevada’s atomic atmosphere - from my front porch in California

Red hairs at hand sleeping in the body of mankind undetected virus' as simple as pneumonia awaiting a temperate clime

OH CRIES THIS TIME OUT LOUD!

Antiquitous anthrax fifth and sixth plagues of Exodus "Black Bane" chthonian-spore

Koch’s postulate the first bacterial sleaze to be immunized against

Yet within this melting democratic pot there roils a chimeric melange awaiting the vengeant tide of mankind’s folly

A fossil’s creed the black diaspora’s post cellular migration to a homeland where essentially nothing thrives

"Ring around the rosies a pocket full of posies a tishoo, a tishoo we all fall down"

Infectious buboes disfiguration horror hacking, bloodstained coughs and charnel pits quickened with lime house a dismissed plague’s delusion past

Alone together along the horizon waits a momentense down beat from time’s unfathomable reverberating now - alone together along this horizon awaits

Those who remain standing here and everywhere longing for the smell of London’s Tube the Metro’s electric tang, or the stank of an Amsterdam canal

Standing here in America come out come out wherever you are oh where is the common woman-man longing - oh dearly longing for a day of infinite charm

“Alone alost along the riverrun” of or “over the hills and through the dales" of as does this momentense in time so sorely upon my shore

(C) 2001 - Hammond Guthrie

Name: marcelo
E-mail Address: mbarbao@yahoo.com
Date: 21 Oct 2001

Comments

Hey, That's the book. Thank you really, very much. Now I will have to find it. It was never published down here, so I'll have to buy from Amazon and wait 1 or 2 months. But that's OK. Thank you anyway Michael.

Marcelo

Name: marcelo
E-mail Address: mbarbao@yahoo.com
Date: 18 Oct 2001

Comments

Hi Michael I really don´t know if that´s the book I am searching. I was really looking for a hint. Now I will try to find it and see if that´s what I am looking for. Thanks a lot

Marcelo

Name: Mark
E-mail Address: Bard_yada_382@aol.com
Date: 18 Oct 2001

Comments

Nicole, Your spirit is a bit of fresh air. Out here on the West Coast, far from ManhattAn, the tragedy is distant and still dream-like. I have been going to San Francisco a day or two each week since the event and the weather has been warm and beautiful, the city has a relaxed feeling and it seems if you don't make an effort to think of the conflict it's easy to let it go. I sat on Church St. at a grocery drinking a cold ice tea last Friday and it was hard to sit there so angry trying to define what has and is going on. Your comment on staying in Manhattan bringing you definition hit home. I was struck today by Yoko Ono's comments in Rolling Stone Mag particularly the part about the polls showing support of the war machine winding up to speed. Nobody asked me either. Peace.

Name: Michael Black
E-mail Address: blackm00@cam.org
Date: 18 Oct 2001

Comments

It's a shame that discussion ends up in the guestbook.

Are you thinking of "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach? It came out in 1975, and while it is labelled a "novel" it could very easily fit into the science fiction section. He came out with a sequel some years later, though I can't remember the title. He had already written a book "Living Poor with Style", which was a practical book; I remember Ecotopia seemed to be an extension of it. Eventually, he came out with a new edition of "Living Poor" and title it the "Ecotopian Encyclopedia".

I don't know how much of it set the bioregional movement and how much it reflected it. In the early eighties, there was a non-fiction book, "The Nine Nations of North America", about how the continent could easily split into natural segments based on region, and the Pacific Northwest was titled "Ecotopia", I always assumed from the book. And in the late seventies, there was a magazine, titled something like "Seratum", with the Ecotopia in the subtitle.

It's been years since I read the book. I don't remember much about it, and I think while one could say it was based on "hippie values", it could just as easily be based on values of ecology, etc. I've seen the same concept in other books, that were written later, so perhaps you are thinking of something else.

Michael

Name: marcelo
E-mail Address: mbarbao@yahoo.com
Date: 18 Oct 2001

Comments

Hi, I´ve been studying everything about the 60´s and the hippies. Sometime ago I heard about a book that is like a sci-fi that told the story of Northern California that split from USA and created a country based on the hippies philosophy. I don´t know nothing else. Does anybody know the name and/or the author of this book? Thanks.

Name: David Savage
E-mail Address: david@savageheart.com
Date: 18 Oct 2001

Comments

My new CD "Songs of War" at <a href="www.mp3.com/DavidSavage/">www.mp3.com/DavidSavage/</a>

Name: nicole
E-mail Address:
Date: 17 Oct 2001

Comments

Hi Mark, Well it's interesting...it seems to me there's a clear distiction between those who simply are not afraid even though...and those that are petrified. There is definately a commaradere in the air that wasn't here before. People concerned about the man or woman you happen to pass in the street...people I passed every day on the way to my subway stop each morning, ask "by the way, what's your name, I mean we pass eachother every day?''that sort of thing. The air still smells really bad in my neighborhood...our dog sleeps in the bathroom, in the bath tub...the only room in the apartment w/o a window...the only time in 13 years he's ever done that before is severe thunder storms...I think he smells death...and twisted metal...burning electrical wires...bad stuff. But even with the anthrax scare, the subway is it's usual can of sardines at rush hour...although there's national guard and police highly visable at most stations. I am glad to be here at this point for some reason...I don't know, it gives me some definition I think...I can't quite explain it. and now autumn is here and as I walk down Hudson Street towards home I can smell woodsmoke from those lucky enough to have working fire places in their apts...leaves beginning to turn...that slight chill from the northeast in the air. And a very clear Blue sky. regards, Nicole

Name: Mark
E-mail Address: Bard_yada_382@aol.com
Date: 17 Oct 2001

Comments

Hey Nicole, how do things seem in Manhatten now?

Name: nicole
E-mail Address:
Date: 15 Oct 2001

Comments

whodunnit...I was in Maui when they filmed that...we were all at Bruce Baxters...loose bruce for those of you who remember him...I had a close encounter of the third kind during the filming of that...myself and everyone there. Quicksilver Messenger Service were there at that time too on Oahu and they saw it also. I've never seen the movie and always wanted to. Thanks for the info...Nicole

Name: Victor Onyeaka Achukka
E-mail Address: onyechukas@yahoo.com
Date: 15 Oct 2001

Comments

I am a christian .Because of difficulties I left my country (Nigeria) now staying Ivory coast in search of job but yet have no job as even the Ivorians are even searching for job .Please Ineed help as I am finding life a hell here , even to eat for day is my greatest problem.I you can help me to your country and help me to obtain a kind of job so that I can be able to help myself to God shall be the glory . I am even promising to pay back any money spend for the help as soon as I start working.

Please,dear do not forsake me, I am pleading you for Gods sake through Jesus christ who died for our sins

May God bless you.

Name: Victor Onyeaka Achukka
E-mail Address: onyechukas@yahoo.com
Date: 15 Oct 2001

Comments

I am a christian .Because of difficulties I left my country (Nigeria) now staying Ivory coast in search of job but yet have no job as even the Ivorians are even searching for job .Please Ineed help as I am finding life a hell here , even to eat for day is my greatest problem.I you can help me to your country and help me to obtain a kind of job so that I can be able to help myself to God shall be the glory . I am even promising to pay back any money spend for the help as soon as I start working.

Please,dear do not forsake me, I am pleading you for Gods sake through Jesus christ who died for our sins

May God bless you.

Name: Whodunnit
E-mail Address: euphoria
Date: 15 Oct 2001

Comments

Rainbow Bridge with Jimi Hendrix is available in VHS from amazon.com. Filmed in July, 1970 on Maui, it has some pearls as well as some grand music. A flash to the past.

Name: Joe
E-mail Address: HEYJ0E222
Date: 14 Oct 2001

Comments

We stay in New York because that is our home...if you havent lived it you may never understand...We are much closer to each other than before..... New Yorkers are a resilient, determined bunch

Name: Hammond Guthrie
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 13 Oct 2001

Comments

Dear Diggers - On 2nd Note:

My co-editor and I have prepared the following pages to assist othersin understanding and comprehending the Bush/Islamic jihad.

http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/serialreal4.html

We would appreciate dissemination of the URL to the widest possible audience.

Sincerely,

Hammond Guthrie - Portland, Oregon Gavin Keeney - NYC, NY

The Red Monkey Serial Editors

******

Name: Hammond Guthrie
E-mail Address: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 13 Oct 2001

Comments

Dear Digger - and friends of Diggers, Another day passes and so does an old friend of some - to those of you who don't already know - Milan passed away in Mexico - and I send this memoric to those who cared - to those lucky one's who shared the moment with this epic man - namaste - Hammond : ------

"Memo To Milan" -

For Goodness Sake's Old Man - You've Gone and Done It Now - Or Its Been Done To You -

Gone Down To Mexico - and - For Goodness Sake’s Say Hello - Hello To God and Janis, Mimi, Del, and John -

Say Hello To Everyone Who's Gone On Done - This Memory's Then and Now - So Long Old Boy - So Long Old Friend - and So This Last Shall Go - . [r.i.p.]

Name: north coast  specials
E-mail Address: bignugsforyou@patch
Date: 12 Oct 2001

Comments

HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR !!!

Name: incredulous
E-mail Address:
Date: 12 Oct 2001

Comments

Why do they stay in NY? I have family in NYC and they are lock solid determined to stay in NYC. My daughter in law works 5 blocks from gound zero, a niece attends colllege near ground zero. They insist the air is fine but i read reports of how toxic it is and smells.

???????????????

My brother treats me like chicken little. of course, i've always been outside the ranks since i moved to some of those hippie communes in the 60's. Glad i did!

Name: Mark
E-mail Address: Bard_yada_382@aol.com
Date: 11 Oct 2001

Comments

That would GBush doing the shooting and the Afghans with whoever is next being the turkeys. Just wanted to make that clear. For all that didn't know Bush announced we have air superiority of the sorry-ass Afhani defenses. Remember the American triumph at Grenada! Where the hell did I put my flag?

Name: Mark
E-mail Address: Bard_yada_382@aol.com
Date: 10 Oct 2001

Comments

Lie in wait for what? This is a fucking turkey shoot.

Name: usman
E-mail Address:
Date: 10 Oct 2001

Comments

Name: GREASY POLLUTZKY
E-mail Address: bonedigger9 @yahoo
Date: 10 Oct 2001

Comments

"FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS POWER TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS":ending exploitation and greed, corporate style greed a daunting task to be sure , an actor out on loan a dog without a bone,i had to work for fascists , corporatists and assorted halfassed halfbaked geeks most of my life iam illin to be sure,iam presently lookin for work, a pair of dice eyes ,tossin an tumblin freeform.whole cloth amorphous and vague intentionally dont wanna sell cars mama i dont wanna die i dont wanna be a lawyer mama i dont wanna lie: to be free is to be free to penetrate,infiltrate and lie in wait, lets try a little cunning first..save the bombast...streets belong to the people...on gdubs watch whattya spect ...

Name: Char ~*
E-mail Address: embersglo@earthlink.net
Date: 09 Oct 2001

Comments

To think that killing, shedding blood and violence could ever end killing, shedding blood and violence is the craziest thinking in the world

And in our hearts we KNOW THAT. And it doesn't matter who did what to who when where how why killing, shedding blood and violence will only get killing, shedding blood and violence revenge is no more noble than attack It's time to STOP the MADDNESS!!! To KNOW there is ANOTHER WAY!

Its time to Stand Up for Peace. Talk it. Spread it.

Spread the idea of Peace with Heart and Soul 'til it engulfs the Earth And Heals our Planet. If we Dream it It will Be

We need to quit listening to the Media and Listen to Our Hearts Stop the War Seek Justice instead of Revenge and Pray for Peace on Earth.

Char~*

Name: Mark Hebard
E-mail Address: Bard-yada-382@aol.com
Date: 09 Oct 2001

Comments

I don't get it either. I swear I sensed him choking on his words the first time I saw it. Coyote obviously has his own reasons and we are not privy to them but for me the door is opened to a larger question. What are the limits or definitions of the left now? It is certainly time to redefine ourselves and focus on the world in the now. Questions like where do we want the American society to go after September 11th? Do we accept that violence is the payback in order to remain a governed culture so the work of the left to influence the morality of it can continue? Are we standing in the shadow of a new militarist paranoid regime? Nixon/Reagan/Bush Jr., the lineage isn't good. Is killing back the only real way to deal with the attacks? Will Bill Maher be the first before the new House of Un-American Activities? Are we as a country to decide whether the violence cycle is wrong for other peoples? Is the current version of democracy dying in the White House tonight and the 1950's version back on the charts with a bullet? The pendulum is swinging wide and heavy. Coyote's effort may seem misguided and it probably is but it sure stirs the shit. Speak up!

Name: outraged
E-mail Address:
Date: 09 Oct 2001

Comments

the ultimate insult to the memory of emmet grogan and the digger free ideal is the television ad that peter coyote made for general motors in the week after september 11:

KEEP AMERICA ROLLING

this from the same actor who so righteoiusly denounces the US for bombing iraq. for shame for shame, coyote!

Name: H
E-mail Address: aumah@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Oct 2001

Comments

I am trying to teach kids about Protest Art, as a way for them to address social and political issues and to contemplate notions of identity, and also make great Art, of course.

Have been having trouble finding good examples of work to show them and would like to get my hands on old Digger Art work, such as the Free City poster etc.

I would greatly appreciate your help.

Take care, H.

Name: H
E-mail Address: aumah@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Oct 2001

Comments

It's been great to find you down in there amoungst the garbage. It gives me peace of mind to know that there are Diggers still out there The oldest Anachist publishers in London 'Freedom Press' is just down the road Am interested in Protest Art, would like examples of Digger Art work for school Art project, can anyone help. Keep in touch H.

Name: huck jordan
E-mail Address: huckphotovi@lycos.com
Date: 05 Oct 2001

Comments

hello from the virgin islands
went looking for the oracle site
i think you had links
i been building a photo history of sf and big sur during the sixties
went many digger shows
see some picks at
http://huckphotovi.tripod.com/galley.html
or main page
http://huckphotovi.tripod.com
i have documented almost every thing along
some i cant publish yet
keep me posted
a old hippie
huck

Name: old curmudgeon
E-mail Address:
Date: 05 Oct 2001

Comments

just what we need -- another ad.

UGLY people in Ohio

Name: Cheryl Lynne Pickens Rubbo
E-mail Address: info@cultivatechi.com
Date: 04 Oct 2001

Comments

Please join in a prayer for President Bush

Imagine what the effect would be if every single American held President George Bush in their hearts and minds for a few moments, praying or visualizing (knowing beyond certainty) that he is making decisions that benefit positively all the citizens of America and all the citizens of the world.

If we as Americans could set aside whatever political ideologies we may have, whatever differences of opinion we may have with President Bush, and whatever differences of opinion we may have with each other, uniting completely as a country for just a few minutes, we can be a part of making the world a better place for all of us.

We would like to ask all Americans to join in on Thursday, October 11, 3:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm PST, to say a five minute prayer for President George Bush. Thank you.

Please pass this along.

Donald & Cheryl Lynne Rubbo

Name: Big C Lawn & Landscape Co.
E-mail Address: Charlton@mybigc.com
Date: 03 Oct 2001

Comments

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Name: ROBERT FREE
E-mail Address: robtfree@earthlink.net
Date: 02 Oct 2001

Comments

hey old diggers...i finally visited this site. hey billy merdock.. email me! where's your brother.never saw so much chit chat as these webbies. look..me too now... p.coyote and chuck said there was this site. still took me three years to visit. well hello to any that remember me from back then.... here in seattle..getting ready to do the peace arch border thing for native sovereignty 10/07/01.....business as usaual in america stopped 9/11/01. i actually got to hear the earth for a change.. without traffic and planes..sad for the lost ones..especially the children.....now america feels what others feel!

Name: ROBERT FREE
E-mail Address: robtfree@earthlink.net
Date: 02 Oct 2001

Comments

i finally visited this site. hey billy merdock.. email me! where's your brother.never saw so much chit chat as these webbies. look..me too now... p.coyote and chuck said there was this site. still took me three years to visit. well hello to any that remember me from back then.... here in seattle..getting ready to do the peace arch border thing for native sovereignty 10/07/01.....business as usaual in america stopped 9/11/01. i actually got to hear the earth for a change.. without traffic and planes..sad for the lost ones..especially the children.....now america feels what others have feel!

Name: Cheryl Lynne Pickens Rubbo
E-mail Address: info@Cultivatechi.com
Date: 01 Oct 2001

Comments

My sister, KayAnne, and I recently completed a tribute book to our father, J.P. Pickens, that includes photos and remembrances of the whole man from his friends. He was an incredibly gifted musician/artist, and we are interested in collecting more stories about him, if anyone out there would like to contact me. From his early days playing music at the Coffee Gallery in North Beach up to his tragic death at 36. PLEASE, we know the horror stories, we are looking for who he was as a loving friend and creative soul. Thank you very much.

Cheryl Lynne Pickens Rubbo

My husband Donald and I founded a nonprofit healing arts organization, named in honor of my brother, Paul D. Pickens II Research Foundation (Owl passed away in 1995). You can visit our website at www.cultivatechi.com (the website is in Flash, to view it you can download Flash at http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)

Name: aamir
E-mail Address: mraamirabbas@hotmail.com
Date: 01 Oct 2001

Comments

hi, i love friendship with my age boys and girls.i want to love with everyone.i love nature and peapole.

Name: Eric
E-mail Address:
Date: 30 Sep 2001

Comments

The Guestbook entries for 2001 (up to the last day of September) have been moved to the new "Guestbook 2001" page due to the huge number of entries which made loading the page extremely slow. After we finish the next three months, I will move any new entries to this page into this new GB 2001 page.

Name: Mark
E-mail Address:
Date: 29 Sep 2001

Comments

I agree. Get to the friggin' point, Bud. I can take a class somewhere if needed but then again I can just go on to the next post. Too many words and too many egos. I went to the anti-war rally in SF today, anyone else there? Any observations?

Name: dirtydirtyfilthyfilthyhipsterflipst
E-mail Address:
Date: 29 Sep 2001

Comments

sorry to be a nay sayer but is this place the appropriate forum for quasi historic "war an peace" type posts sic. see below."cut to the chase"...learn "netiquette?"

Name: Celik S.
E-mail Address: celik@superonline.com.tr
Date: 28 Sep 2001

Comments

Today's Horrible TERRORIST is U.S.&Zion Imperialism...This Modernized Mafia coalition systematical violate Geneva Conventions: A statement of Prof. Francis Anthony BOYLE on Palestinian Revolt and International Law -Perspectives and analysis by the Independent Jurists of U.S.A.-

"...I am not here this evening to go through the entire history of the USraeli-Palestinian conflict. That would require an entire course. But I do want to talk about the current situation with hundreds of Palestinians shot down dead like dogs in the street by the USraeli army with weapons provided by the U. S. gov. and the U. S. taxpayers -- that means you and me. It appeared this summer that, if you listened to the news media, we were on the verge of peace; and now, there is a horrible war. What happened? And why? We have to go back to the peace negotiations that were initiated by President Bush in 1991 starting in Madrid and then continuing in Washington, D.C. It was my great honor to have served as the Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Mideast Peace Negotiations. ...and in the Fall of 1992, they asked me to analyze the occupational power's Peace Proposal that was given to them in the negotiations. When negotiations started in the Fall of 1991, nothing happened. They were under fanatic-liar Shamir of the Likhud party, then Prime Minister of USrael. There were no reasonable good-faith negotiations at all. Indeed, he admitted that his whole objective was to stall for the next ten years. But Likhud lost the election in the Spring of 1992, Labor came to power under Prime Minister Rabin and they finally tendered a proposal in the Fall of 1992. I was asked to analyze it. And the precise question given to me by the Palestinian Peace Team was: "Tell us what is the closest historical analogue to what they are offering us here!" And I went back to my hotel room and spent an entire day reading through the document, came back and reported:" A bantustan, they are offering you a bantustan." Akin to the banstustans that the apartheid Afrikaaner regime had established for the Black People in the Republic of South Africa. And I proceeded to go through the entire document pointing out that basically this Peace Proposal carried out Begin's disinterpretation of the Camp David Accords, which was rejected by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, that all they called for was autonomy for the people and not for the land as well. After consultations among themselves, and under the Chairmanship of His Excellency Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi, the Palestinian Delegation rejected this Bantustan Proposal. What happened next is that the USraeli government took the Bantustan Proposal and opened up a secret channel of negotiations in Norway and presented the Bantustan Proposal in secret unknown to the Peace Delegation, unknown to almost all of the leadership of the Palestinian People, let alone the Palestinian People themselves. And this Bantustan Proposal became the Oslo Agreement that was signed on the White House steps on September 13, 1993. It was for that reason that His Excellency Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi refused as a matter of principle to attend the signing ceremony. And what happened then starting in 1993 was that the U.S. working with USrael attempted to impose a Bantustan model on the Palestinian People. Now, you might ask yourself: Why would President Yassir Arafat accept and sign a Bantustan Proposal for his People? I really don't know. He did not discuss this matter with me. He did discuss it with Dr. Abdul Shaffi. I was not privy to that conversation. But in fairness to President Arafat, I believe he felt that he would take what was offered to the Palestinian People by Jews community and the U.S. even if he knew it was a Bantustan and try to prove his good faith and the good faith of the Palestinian People, that they were willing to live in peace with USrael and the immigrated Jews -- that they would go through a trial test period of five years of this Bantustan model and at the end of the five years there would then be a legitimate Palestinian State. Unfortunately this is not what happened. The U.S. and USrael continued to impose their Bantustan Model on the Palestinian People throughout the course of the Oslo process and indeed even after the expiration of Oslo. That then brings us to this Summer -- the so-called Camp David Negotiations. This was not the idea of the Palestinian leadership; rather it was the idea of liar Barak with the support of President Clinton. Basically, Clinton pressured the leadership of the Palestinian People into accepting a permanent Bantustan arrangement for the West Bank and Gaza Strip and of course, for that reason, it failed. The negotiations at Camp David failed. Now, at that point, President Clinton proceeded to blame the leadership of the Palestinian People for rejecting a Bantustan and then proceeded to illegally threaten the movement of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Qudüs if President Arafat did not accept the Bantustan Proposal permanently, which he refused to do and to his credit. That being said, on September 28, former General Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Sabra and Shatilla, the man responsible for the massacre of 2 000 innocent Palestinians at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla, the architect of the USraeli invasion of Lebanon, that killed 20 000 people in Lebanon, a man cashiered by his own government, at that time appeared at Haram al Sharif in Qudüs -- the big plateau -- the third holiest site in Middle East -- where it's the Al Aqsa Mosque on the one hand and the Dome of the Rock on the other, where Mohammed ascended to Heaven -- surrounded by about 1 000 troops undoubtedly with the approval of Fascist liar Barak. They knew exactly what they were doing. They knew exactly what the reaction of the Palestinian People would be to this provocation and desecration. And if there was any doubt about it, the USraeli Army returned the next day and shot dead several Palestinians on Haram al Sharif, thus setting off what has come to be known as the Al Aqsa Infada, in support of the Al Aqsa Mosque. ... on 7 October 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution that is extremely important. The vote was fourteen to zero -- the U.S. gov. abstained. It did not go for; it did not go against; it abstained. The U.S. gov. could have vetoed this resolution, but it did not. And so it is a matter of binding international law. I won't go through the entire resolution, but I do want to spend a few moments commenting on its most important provisions. Paragraph 1: The Security Council "deplores the provocation carried out at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Qudüs on 28 September 2000 and the subsequent violence there...." Notice, the Security Council by a vote of 14 to 0 made it very clear that it was Human Butcher Sharon's desecration of the Haram al-Sharif with the support of bsatard Barak that is responsible for the start of the current round of bloodshed and warfare in occupied Palestinian Lands today. Nothing could be further from dispute than this point adopted 14 to 0 by the Security Council. Even the U. S. did not go against that determination. Notice in paragraph 3, again the Security Council 14 to 0, "Calls upon USrael, the occupying Power...." Occupying power has a definite meaning in international law. USrael occupies the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the entire City of Qudüs. USrael is what we lawyers call a belligerent occupant. USrael has no sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or the entire City of Qudüs. USrael is not the sovereign. It occupies these Palestinian Lands. And so what we see here is a struggle between the belligerent occupant USrael (Z.O.G.-i.n.) against the Palestinian People living on their own lands. Belligerent occupation is governed by The Hague Regulations of 1907, as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. So USrael has no sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Qudüs. This is not their land as far as the Security Council is concerned, as far as international law is concerned, as far as the entire international community is concerned, even as far as the U.S.A. is concerned. This is not USraeli land. The West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the entire City of Jerusalem -- this is occupied Land. And all of these areas are subject to The Hague Regulations of 1907, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and the Customary Laws of Belligerent Occupation. USrael is not the sovereign. And when you read in the Jews' newspapers saying, well this is our land, it isn't. Again, the Security Council determined 14 to 0, it is not their land. And that has been the case for the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the war of 1967. That has been the case for East Qudüs since the war of 1967. As for West Qudüs, the world has never recognized USrael's annexation of West Qudüs either. That is why the U.S. Embassy and the Embassies of almost every country in the world that has diplomatic relations with USrael, except for a few banana republics that have been bought and paid for, have their embassies in Tel Aviv and not Qudüs. Second, paragraph 3 "Calls upon USrael, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and its responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in a Time of War of 12 August 1949...." Again, the vote 14 to 0. The Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the entire City of Qudüs, in order to protect Palestinians. The Palestinian People living in these Lands are "protected persons" within the meaning of the Fourth Geneva Convention. All of their rights are sacred under international law. Under international law the Palestinian People have more rights than you or I or anyone else sitting in this hall today. There are over 147 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that protect the rights of every one of these Palestinians. And as we are seeing today, the USraeli power is violating and has in the past been violating, the rights of the Palestinian People under the Fourth Genève Convention. Indeed, violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention are war crimes. So this is not a symmetrical situation. The USraeli army, occupying army here; Palestinian civilians over there -- and their rights are protected by those over 147 articles. That is very clear -- nothing could be clearer. And as a matter of fact, the gross violation of Palestinian rights by the USraeli army in occupied Palestinian Lands constitutes war crimes. Indeed, it's far more serious than that. The United Nations Human Rights Commission sent a Special Rapporteur to occupied Palestinian Lands to investigate the situation that has occurred as a result of the Al Aqsa Intifada. And the U.N. Human Rights Commission then adopted a resolution condemning USrael for violating the Fourth Geneva Convention, its rights as a belligerent occupant, and stating that USraeli policies constitutes "a war crime and a crime against humanity." Let me repeat that: "a war crime and a crime against humanity." I think we all have a general idea of what a war crime is and I'm not going to lecture on that here. There are different varieties of war crimes. There are the more serious "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and we see that every day -- willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army is a grave breach mandating universal prosecution for these war crimes. But I want to focus for a moment on "a crime against humanity" -- as determined by the U.N. Human Rights Commission set up pursuant to the United Nations Charter. What is a crime against humanity?... ... This is where the concept of crime against humanity was formulated and came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission is now saying that Israel is doing to the Palestinian People. A crime against humanity.... ... codify the concept of a crime against humanity. And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention. You will note the U.N. Human Rights Commission does not go so far as to condemn Zionst Occupational Gang for committing genocide against the Palestinian People. But it has condemned them for committing a crime against humanity, which is the precursor to genocide. And I submit that if something is not done quite soon by the American People and the U.S. gov. to stop USraeli war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian People, it could very well degenerate into genocide, if it is not there already. Now, that is, I think, a fair and accurate legal characterization of the situation and you will note even the United States Government did not veto the Security Council Resolution although it did oppose the U.N. Human Rights Commission Resolution which is not unexpected. Now today we've heard a proposal from the traditionally fanatical liars of Z.O.G. to accelerate negotiations with the Palestinian People. All I've read are the press accounts and his descriptions of it. It does appear to me that he continues to intend to impose his Bantustan model upon the Palestinian People. Personally I have always been of the opinion along with my client and my friend Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi that the Bantustan model will never work. That if the U.S. and USrael attempt to continue imposing the Bantustan model, or even somehow bully, threaten, intimidate and coerce President Arafat into signing a Bantustan agreement, it will never work, and we will continue to see violence and bloodshed in these occupied Palestinian Lands. That all being said, I still believe that peace is possible. Indeed, it was my job as Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations to figure this out on paper on instructions of Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi himself. On November 15, 1988, the Palestine National Council proclaimed an Independent Palestinian State in Algiers and also in front of Al Aqsa Mosque in Qudüs. ... ... In my opinion, this is the only solution to the problem: A Palestinian State -- a genuine free, independent Palestinian State on the West Bank and Gaza... ... .... The current Bantustan Proposal offered by criminal liar Barak with the support of President Clinton would only produce more war. Indeed, it should be emphasized that USrael officially accepted the U.N. Partition Resolution in its own Declaration of Independence and as a condition for its admission to membership in the United Nations Organization. So there is no dispute here as to the legality of the two-state proposal and some type of shared arrangement for Qudüs. Moreover, as another express condition for its admission to the United Nations Organization, USrael officially endorsed and agreed to carry out U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948 which determined that the Palestinian refugees have a right to return to their homes, or that compensation should be paid to those who choose not to return. Bastard Barak has rejected Resolution 194 despite the fact that USrael accepted it as a condition for its membership in the United Nations Organization. Indeed, this same right is recognized in article 13, paragraph 2 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- and here, we are commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and we are also commemorating the anniversary of the Partition Resolution. And that article 13 (2) says quite clearly, "Everyone has the right ... to return to his country." It's a basic human right of the Palestinian People. This is customary international law. There will be no peace until the power of USrael is prepared to live up to the promise it gave to implement Resolution 194. As you know, USrael accepted one million (crimi-thieves/suspected/wanted Fascists and their relatives etc. -interpreter noticed) from the former Soviet oligarchical Union and moved many of them on to occupied Palestinian Lands in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Well they could have easily accepted a million Palestinians instead and have gone a long way towards solving this problem. But again, the potential is still there for a peace settlement if we see good faith on the part of USrael and the United States Government. I regret to report that so far we have not. I really do not know what will happen. As you know the Clinton administration will be going out of power. We don't know who the next President will be. Barak has called for new elections. There is enormous turmoil in the situation. Palestinians are being killed every day as we speak courtesy of the U.S. gov.. And I submit that it is up to you students to do something about this situation. I remember when I first came to the University of Illinois in 1978. The anti-apartheid movement that was started in this country by students and student organizations protesting, demonstrating, organizing leaflets, demanding divestment, disinvestment, organizing on a national and international basis. And eventually it culminated in the adoption of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 which was the death blow to the racist Afrikaaner Apartheid Regime in South Africa. When that was adopted and the United States was completely cut off from any cooperation with South Africa, it was very clear to the Afrikaaner Apartheid Regime that apartheid had to be dismantled. Soon thereafter, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Negotiations began. Democratic elections occurred in South Africa and now the African National Congress governs South Africa. De jure apartheid has been dismantled in South Africa. Nelson Mandela became the President of the Republic of South Africa. The same situation can happen here. You students can go out, research what the anti-apartheid movement did in this country, and your predecessors starting twenty years ago, and do the exact same thing here. You have to. If you want to see peace in the Middle East, you're going to have to go out and do something because so far the U.S. gov. is not an honest broker. They never have been. I have been at these negotiations. I can tell you that the U.S. fully supports whatever USrael wants. So I leave here with an injunction that you students go out and study the situation. Study the techniques of your predecessors in the anti-apartheid movement. Proceed to organize and try to promote peace in the Middle East. Peace between the immigrated Jew People and the Palestinian People that can last. I believe this is possible. But you cannot rely on the government, on the politicians in Washington to do it. You're going to have to do it yourselves. Thank you." Jurist Francis Anthony BOYLE (Pamphlets/speech and testimonies/ as a tribute to the Freedom Fighters&United Nations-Human Rights' Day, Dec.10/) Independent Jurist Francis Boyle is a Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois and a former legal advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations.from 1991 to 1993. The viewpoints expressed here are his own. But; you know, unfortunately there are the jurists, who corrupted or "willing whores" of the Zionist regimes... Seattle-December 10, 2000

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Nicole, being a painter I think intuition can be a great provider and sometimes the more you actively try to change things the less you do. I have spent much energy whupping on dead horses. Trying to define a static position in life is difficult and much like a mirage. Visualizing a "perfect world" or a solution to a problem does have it's purpose for me, helping to suggest what may be happening next. The one thing the Diggers and the Mime Troupe did ( is doing) was to cause people to question it All. Tripping the awareness up and scattering the pieces around to be reconstructed was the most valuable technique of the day. To me "tending the garden" is the bottom line but sometimes I have to get out and ask some questions and challenge the notion of mental and social arthritis. We humans have a tendency to get stuck in our ways and cling to the easy hero or old war story. Sometimes I can almost smell the brakes burning and see the turn signal left on for miles. I am not a major forgiver but I don't hold grudges over time because it causes decay. The WTC murders are crimes against humanity and should be dealt with in that context, not with more crimes but with dignity. I have never seen anything good come out the barrel of a gun. I know we can find many reasons to blame ourselves for events and attitudes that led up to this assault but the assault was wrong. The major concerns I have is the effect this will have on some sketchy regimes who seem fairly trigger happy, and then, the steps we take as a country in redefining our self-image that are crucial to the next generations and that is where the damn Diggers need come out into the light. I am headed to SF this weekend to attend the Anti-War rally in Delores Park. This could be interesting.

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Mark, I have this incredible feeling of something about to be revealed to us in sort of a collective realization or understanding of what the stance we need to take is. That somehow everything that each of us has experienced and become will be a part of this moving force that can change the way it seems to be going...The more I am in contact with my brothers and sisters of that particular family (which is stronger than my blood relatives) the more I feel it's strenghth. It feels to me like the wisdom of an old, old, woman or man. And in the end I guess it doesn't matter who does what...as long as I am correct in my own life. And the judgement of whether I am or not can only be made by me. I know that I have control over no one or no thing except how I act or react in any given situation. I can wish big...oh believe me I can visualize like a motherfucker and make this world perfect for me...but that isn't very realistic. I can do it where I stand though...That is something we all can do. I can treat my fellow man and woman with love and respect and like Voltaire said in Candide, "in the end I can simply tend my garden." I am really interested in other folks thoughts...I am a huge forgiver...I know that is not possible with the WTC situation...not yet...I live in the neighborhood,