The Anti-Corporate Ideas Newsletter, Issue 5
THE A.C.I. NEWSLETTER
from the myspace profile ACIN
By Corey Michael-------------------------
"The 8-Hour Day"
By: The Slam
Chiming, the clock is,
Ringing out every hour and shift.
Yelling, the bosses are,
Giving orders for the huddled masses.
Grinning, the managers are,
Chatting of their profit margins.
Listen closely, and you will hear
The voices of men in desperation,
Who toil under the whip of profit,
And are drawn with a gift of salary.
Imbalance on both ends, we have,
And none of them realize
How close they are to falling apart.
This is the cycle that moves us in every way:
Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
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By: The Slam
Chiming, the clock is,
Ringing out every hour and shift.
Yelling, the bosses are,
Giving orders for the huddled masses.
Grinning, the managers are,
Chatting of their profit margins.
Listen closely, and you will hear
The voices of men in desperation,
Who toil under the whip of profit,
And are drawn with a gift of salary.
Imbalance on both ends, we have,
And none of them realize
How close they are to falling apart.
This is the cycle that moves us in every way:
Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
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- Zeo
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(Untitled)
By Spencer
Drugging and Drinking and
I start to understand,
Understand the execution - ha
The bottles in our hands
Is a piece of pollution
Dead soldiers in a plastic crate
And I can't accept the hate
Expanding limp in my stomach
Goods bought cheap from plunders
And we still consume them
Waving flags made in China
And we still salute them
An opiate abundance
From the war to abuse and
A heavy-weight champion
Makes front-cover in the news again
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Journalistic Abuse
By John Henry
By Spencer
Drugging and Drinking and
I start to understand,
Understand the execution - ha
The bottles in our hands
Is a piece of pollution
Dead soldiers in a plastic crate
And I can't accept the hate
Expanding limp in my stomach
Goods bought cheap from plunders
And we still consume them
Waving flags made in China
And we still salute them
An opiate abundance
From the war to abuse and
A heavy-weight champion
Makes front-cover in the news again
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Journalistic Abuse
By John Henry
This week I would like to comment on another type of corporation. This is one that uses self promotion as a means of manipulating the public for nothing other than the greedy pursuit of personal wealth and glorification.
If we are to have honesty and truth in journalism, then we need to have overweight, loudmouth, biased, commentators in order to weigh the truth and value of other reporters writings. But when they use out and out lies and negative innuendo to further their own agenda, then I must question as to whether such individuals are reporting or promoting their personal commerce.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Article I United States Constitution
The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government. The Supreme Court requires the government to provide substantial justification for the interference with the right of free speech where it attempts to regulate the content of the speech. A less stringent test is applied for content-neutral legislation. The Supreme Court has also recognized that the government may prohibit some speech that may cause a breach of the peace or cause violence. The right to free speech includes other mediums of expression that communicates a message. One of these is the use of airwaves and the personalities who use them.
I will be the first to defend freedom of speech, whether I agree with the point of view or not, however when one is using the media to sway public opinion in their favor for personal gain through the use of half-truths and lies, then that individual has no longer become a journalist. That individual has become another greedy, money grubbing, egocentric, machine, possibly a machine of a greater force of suppression.
What does this have to do with corporations? I shall elaborate, Dear Watson.
TRADEMARKS. The Rush Limbaugh Show - RUSH 24/7, Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Limbaugh Letter, The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and EIB: Excellence in Broadcasting Network are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. or its affiliated companies.
[ I will never be able to hear the name Rush Limbaugh, and not conjure up an image of Jabba The Hut.]
Note the above mentioned Logo. Rush Limbaugh - Excellence In Broadcasting. The only thing missing is the words; Has Nothing To Do With. Note also the statement of trademarks. It seems the parent company is Premiere Networks, Inc. who is owned by Clear Channel Communications, Lowery, Mark, and Randall Mays Presiding. These are Texas boys with Ivy League backgrounds, based in San Antonio.
Clear Channel Television owns stations which broadcast Fox programming. Fox is owned by News Corporation, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Lately I have been noticing those around me who listen to Talk Radio programs, are tuning in to the likes of Mssrs. Limbaugh, John Manelli,of the New York Post, a Murdoch publication, and Bill O’Reilly, another of Rupert Murdoch’s puppets. These “Gentlemen” have gone on record attacking Danny Goldberg’s efforts with Air America Network.
I prefer Air America.
I think they, and others like them are afraid of a little healthy competition. Rupert Murdoch, I suspect, is against any media, not under his control. O’ Reilly and Limbaugh use their programs as commercials to sell their own products, and yet they take Danny to task. I read his response in The Huffington Post. I encourage you to read it. You will see what I mean.
I fully support his efforts and hope healthy competition never dies in this country. I also hope that the private enterprise of those such as Limbaugh, and O’Reilly withers on the vine from lack of support, but I don’t kid myself.
If you still have the stomach to continue; peruse Rush Limbaugh.com or one of his other web sites. See how far you get before he is asking for money for something. Bill O’Rilley.com is no better. These guys are doing nothing more than using their notoriety and our innocence to stick money in their pockets. All this is done with the blessings of The Dark One, Murdoch.
I f anyone finds I have decided to market myself someday, for nothing more than personal gain, then please hunt me down and beat the crap out of me. I will probably deserve it.
God forbid we donate any of our money to one of those liberal syndications such as Air America. Personally, I would rather listen to Al Franken. He is brilliant and informed. His shows challenge me to think. I have never felt the compulsion to take a shower after one of his broadcasts, wish I could say that for the others. Come to think of it; I have never felt like my life would be less complete without a mug from Air America.
I encourage you the reader to decide for yourself. We can choose whom we believe. I will always challenge you to look at the facts. Make your own choice. True, I hope you see things from my point of view, but it is a free country. You can choose to believe F**, ob******* , bi****, representatives of the media, ie. the News Corporation, or not. The First amendment has yet to be repealed entirely. Expand your horizions.
Step to the side. Think Laterally.
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If we are to have honesty and truth in journalism, then we need to have overweight, loudmouth, biased, commentators in order to weigh the truth and value of other reporters writings. But when they use out and out lies and negative innuendo to further their own agenda, then I must question as to whether such individuals are reporting or promoting their personal commerce.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Article I United States Constitution
The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government. The Supreme Court requires the government to provide substantial justification for the interference with the right of free speech where it attempts to regulate the content of the speech. A less stringent test is applied for content-neutral legislation. The Supreme Court has also recognized that the government may prohibit some speech that may cause a breach of the peace or cause violence. The right to free speech includes other mediums of expression that communicates a message. One of these is the use of airwaves and the personalities who use them.
I will be the first to defend freedom of speech, whether I agree with the point of view or not, however when one is using the media to sway public opinion in their favor for personal gain through the use of half-truths and lies, then that individual has no longer become a journalist. That individual has become another greedy, money grubbing, egocentric, machine, possibly a machine of a greater force of suppression.
What does this have to do with corporations? I shall elaborate, Dear Watson.
TRADEMARKS. The Rush Limbaugh Show - RUSH 24/7, Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Limbaugh Letter, The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and EIB: Excellence in Broadcasting Network are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. or its affiliated companies.
[ I will never be able to hear the name Rush Limbaugh, and not conjure up an image of Jabba The Hut.]
Note the above mentioned Logo. Rush Limbaugh - Excellence In Broadcasting. The only thing missing is the words; Has Nothing To Do With. Note also the statement of trademarks. It seems the parent company is Premiere Networks, Inc. who is owned by Clear Channel Communications, Lowery, Mark, and Randall Mays Presiding. These are Texas boys with Ivy League backgrounds, based in San Antonio.
Clear Channel Television owns stations which broadcast Fox programming. Fox is owned by News Corporation, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Lately I have been noticing those around me who listen to Talk Radio programs, are tuning in to the likes of Mssrs. Limbaugh, John Manelli,of the New York Post, a Murdoch publication, and Bill O’Reilly, another of Rupert Murdoch’s puppets. These “Gentlemen” have gone on record attacking Danny Goldberg’s efforts with Air America Network.
I prefer Air America.
I think they, and others like them are afraid of a little healthy competition. Rupert Murdoch, I suspect, is against any media, not under his control. O’ Reilly and Limbaugh use their programs as commercials to sell their own products, and yet they take Danny to task. I read his response in The Huffington Post. I encourage you to read it. You will see what I mean.
I fully support his efforts and hope healthy competition never dies in this country. I also hope that the private enterprise of those such as Limbaugh, and O’Reilly withers on the vine from lack of support, but I don’t kid myself.
If you still have the stomach to continue; peruse Rush Limbaugh.com or one of his other web sites. See how far you get before he is asking for money for something. Bill O’Rilley.com is no better. These guys are doing nothing more than using their notoriety and our innocence to stick money in their pockets. All this is done with the blessings of The Dark One, Murdoch.
I f anyone finds I have decided to market myself someday, for nothing more than personal gain, then please hunt me down and beat the crap out of me. I will probably deserve it.
God forbid we donate any of our money to one of those liberal syndications such as Air America. Personally, I would rather listen to Al Franken. He is brilliant and informed. His shows challenge me to think. I have never felt the compulsion to take a shower after one of his broadcasts, wish I could say that for the others. Come to think of it; I have never felt like my life would be less complete without a mug from Air America.
I encourage you the reader to decide for yourself. We can choose whom we believe. I will always challenge you to look at the facts. Make your own choice. True, I hope you see things from my point of view, but it is a free country. You can choose to believe F**, ob******* , bi****, representatives of the media, ie. the News Corporation, or not. The First amendment has yet to be repealed entirely. Expand your horizions.
Step to the side. Think Laterally.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~John Berger
~John Berger
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Survive
By Rich
Struggling to find some loose change
the loan sharks suddenly can sniff blood
you see them swimming around the corner
the letter already half-way through the door
this is the cost of failing
to pay the bills on three and a half days pay
you live on borrowed time
spend borrowed money
it was you who chose to ignore
all the warning signs
there is no food in the fridge
father is turning grey
the car has broken down
soon there will be noplace to stay
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By Rich
Struggling to find some loose change
the loan sharks suddenly can sniff blood
you see them swimming around the corner
the letter already half-way through the door
this is the cost of failing
to pay the bills on three and a half days pay
you live on borrowed time
spend borrowed money
it was you who chose to ignore
all the warning signs
there is no food in the fridge
father is turning grey
the car has broken down
soon there will be noplace to stay
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Interesting websites:
The Progressive Action Center
The National Debt clock
The Alternate Economy
The Church of Stop Shopping
(eventually these and all the other ones suggested to us will make it to the myspace profile interesting websites section)
News:
At Home Being an Outsider - Sydney Morning Herald
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Notes:
1) We changed our name. Slight difference, but instead of "the ACI Profile" at the top of the myspace profile it is now titled "The ACI Newsletter". We figured it would get more people that are on the fence or bored of those other activist profiles interested in something new and fresh.
2) We don't have a PDF version this week. Well, we did, but those hours of work were wasted when the computer froze up. Maybe we'll recreate it one night this week if I can find a place to buy coffee cheap enough in bulk.
3) If you don't see your submission DON'T THINK WE'RE NEVER GOING TO USE IT! We had a massive amount of creative material sent to us and we had to pick and choose based on length and the tone that one work would give to the one before and after it. We will try to use EVERYTHING that is sent to us at some point, so keep us bookmarked!
4) Thanks to the 83 people that have subscribed to the newsletter (Right off hand I'd say that's 20 something more than we had last week)
5) If you see anything you think you can give a hand on and if you're willing please don't hesitate to send us your idea. Heck, if you've got an idea but don't know how to do it send the idea in anyway. We need the help. The items of interest suggestion sections for the myspace page is dismal (all of those suggestions we've had for books, movies, music, and such are bookmarked and have been for quite some time and probably will remain so for some time.. the couple people who work on the site do it after midnight in the couple hours before we return to work), our layout and such could use some work.. fighting with the html for hours keeps us from writing.. I personally have 3 half-finished essays that won't be up for a couple issues at least.
If you have any ideas just yell them our way.
6) We'd like to start a group but we're not sure if the newsletter is large enough to keep it afloat in the crucial first weeks. We're thinking of waiting until we have it set up in a serious offline format (the PDF) along with some feedback.
7) Under our photo on the myspace profile there is the
icon. Click on it. Spread the word (you can even click on that icon right there). Also, copy and paste the following links to your friends via e-mail, instant message, or you could just scrawl them on bathroom stall doors.
www.myspace.com/anticorporate
www.anticorporateideas.blogspot.com
8) Kinda funny.. the counter for this page is stuck at 24. We know from the massive response we've had from people reading (as well as the myspace blogs that only have a link to this in them having upwards of a hundred hits a day) that it's wrong. If anyone can tell us how to fix it please do. If it's not possible... meh.. whatever.
9) If I missed anything, and I probably did, I'll update this tomorrow (myspace blog announcing this page will have the word "REVISED" at the end).
Thanks all... I'm off to bed.
-Clay for the ACI Newsletter
The Progressive Action Center
The National Debt clock
The Alternate Economy
The Church of Stop Shopping
(eventually these and all the other ones suggested to us will make it to the myspace profile interesting websites section)
News:
At Home Being an Outsider - Sydney Morning Herald
-------------------------
Notes:
1) We changed our name. Slight difference, but instead of "the ACI Profile" at the top of the myspace profile it is now titled "The ACI Newsletter". We figured it would get more people that are on the fence or bored of those other activist profiles interested in something new and fresh.
2) We don't have a PDF version this week. Well, we did, but those hours of work were wasted when the computer froze up. Maybe we'll recreate it one night this week if I can find a place to buy coffee cheap enough in bulk.
3) If you don't see your submission DON'T THINK WE'RE NEVER GOING TO USE IT! We had a massive amount of creative material sent to us and we had to pick and choose based on length and the tone that one work would give to the one before and after it. We will try to use EVERYTHING that is sent to us at some point, so keep us bookmarked!
4) Thanks to the 83 people that have subscribed to the newsletter (Right off hand I'd say that's 20 something more than we had last week)
5) If you see anything you think you can give a hand on and if you're willing please don't hesitate to send us your idea. Heck, if you've got an idea but don't know how to do it send the idea in anyway. We need the help. The items of interest suggestion sections for the myspace page is dismal (all of those suggestions we've had for books, movies, music, and such are bookmarked and have been for quite some time and probably will remain so for some time.. the couple people who work on the site do it after midnight in the couple hours before we return to work), our layout and such could use some work.. fighting with the html for hours keeps us from writing.. I personally have 3 half-finished essays that won't be up for a couple issues at least.
If you have any ideas just yell them our way.
6) We'd like to start a group but we're not sure if the newsletter is large enough to keep it afloat in the crucial first weeks. We're thinking of waiting until we have it set up in a serious offline format (the PDF) along with some feedback.
7) Under our photo on the myspace profile there is the
icon. Click on it. Spread the word (you can even click on that icon right there). Also, copy and paste the following links to your friends via e-mail, instant message, or you could just scrawl them on bathroom stall doors.www.myspace.com/anticorporate
www.anticorporateideas.blogspot.com
8) Kinda funny.. the counter for this page is stuck at 24. We know from the massive response we've had from people reading (as well as the myspace blogs that only have a link to this in them having upwards of a hundred hits a day) that it's wrong. If anyone can tell us how to fix it please do. If it's not possible... meh.. whatever.
9) If I missed anything, and I probably did, I'll update this tomorrow (myspace blog announcing this page will have the word "REVISED" at the end).
Thanks all... I'm off to bed.
-Clay for the ACI Newsletter
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