An alternative still open as the police/war state moves into predictable gear is that we can still use this (the Net) and other tools to get out the word of Resistance Consciousness.
A resistance where we stop reacting without understanding to the ways of coercive institutions and their formal leaderships. A resistance where we wake up to the meta game of everyday life: Perpetual war on all fronts against all who refuse to submit.
A resistance where we make use of all the openings we can decipher--not "speaking Truth" to so-called "power" but speaking our truths to people. People (not formalized implementers of policy) are the real power, as anyone who has read serious accounts of history knows! (Read Howard Zinn, Bud and Ruth Schultz; even John Toland has lots to expose in his book on Hitler)
In this consciousness we learn that hype and propaganda don't speak nearly the depth of our own personal experiences and anecdotes. People respond beautifully when we dare to share the truths of our lives, without all the fancy-buttoned words and mystifications that have a way of tripping us all up!
We must escape the corralls of identity and dogmatic belief in which all vanguards keep us in, because such corralls only keep us all divided (without dialogue)--and conquered.
Information is key. Deep, broadly-relavant information about how broadly we, collectively, are being manipulated by the system.
I have made a flyer which I have been passing out around the country (but am way too weakly funded and can only make small numbers) in which I hope you will read (below). Do please print it out and copy it and pass it around, or add your own excellent info and add to it!
In case you didn't know…
"When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the White People, they do not feel oppressed—they feel powerless…We see the physical genocide that they are attempting to inflict upon [American Indians], and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people…"—John Trudell, Santee-Sioux spokenword artist who lost his
entire family, including 3 young daughters, to a very suspicious fire at the height of
the 'cointelpro' era (an FBI program which
illegally attacked a huge variety of legal dissent).
Note: All info herein has been compiled, over years, by an anonymous independent getting no payment except the joy of helping his fellow people. Get online, free, at your local public university or suburban municipal library! (best
outfitted)
General Topics
Find a possibly trustworthy auto mechanic: //cartalk.cars.com/About/Garage/mechan-x/find.html How
to be your own lawyer (pro se): www.pro-selaw.org www.ncsconline.org
www.raggededgemagazine.com/archive/pro-se.htm self-helplaw.com (see also: "coaching") Groups for
the Chemically Injured (while working): www.rtk.net/ncci www.ncchem.com Two possible cures for
cancer: Hoxsey Treatment: www.ripsawnews.com/2001.07.18/feature.html and Essiac: essiac-info.org General
alternative medical remedies: members.tripod.com/~AspenIsle/kitchen1.html Fraudulent 'diagnoses':
ADHD/ADD: www.adhdfraud.org and www.thomasarmstrong.com/myth_add_adhd.htm Psychiatric fraud:
www.szasz.com Antipsychiatric Reading Room: www.stopshrinks.org/reading_room/frame_docs/1st_idx_4th.html
Non-industry peer/survivor crisis line (Mental Patient's Liberation Alliance): 1-800-654-7227 Gifted Kids
Foundation: www.nfgcc.org Fraud in juvenile 'justice': www.szasz.com/boostrom.html and
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/13390/index.php (on politics of child 'protection') Youth Liberation info:
www.oblivion.net/youthspeak and www.geocities.com/artme4phun/fpsbak.html (a history) (see also book about
escaping dumbing-down process in school: www.lawryhousepublishers.com/TeenageLiberationHandbook.htm )
Student Press Law Center (defending youth since 1975): www.splc.org Know your 'rights': You have the right to
say NO to a search by police: www.aclu.org/issues/criminal/bustcardtext.html Juries have the right to judge laws: 1-
800-TEL-JURY (Fully Informed Jury Assoc.) US Supreme Court says: Artists have 1st Amendment 'right' to
SELL their art in public without a permit: www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyrej.html (background:
sacredlight.to/pages/decision.htm) Musicians: defend yourself from industry exploitation:
www.thebaffler.com/albiniexcerpt.html and www.recordingartistscoalition.com/suggested_reading.html Genetically-
altered food warnings: www.truefoodnow.org A cure for eczema that worked for me: Vitamin B-Complex Cheap
adventuring: www.airhitch.org Third world traveler info: www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Travel/Travel_Info.html Find
a map: www.mapquest.com Translate text: babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn
Meta Issues (which effect people more subtly)
Propaganda: "Propaganda is perhaps the most serious threat in the modern world."—Jacques Ellul (see excerpts from
his book at www.intheheart.net/propag.html ) and www.buildfreedom.com/ft/propaganda.htm and 'psy war' studies:
www.Africa2000.com/PNDX/pndx.htm General: The National Security Archive (bringing FOIA documents like
"The Pentagon Papers" to the Net): www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ Noam Chomsky on 'crisis of democracy' and
Trilateralists, menace of liberal scholarship, Watergate as 'small potatoes':
www.monkeyfist.com/Chomsky/Archive/essays (excellent) See also: www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni How elites deal
with idealists: www.radio4all.org/anarchy/sabot.html
"[The public asks] 'how is this possible?'—I get that all the time. [They ask] 'Are you telling us that the people in
Washington are evil?'…[Stockwell responds:] And I kind of flared up; Americans are decent people; they are nice
people, and they're insulated in the world that we live in, and we don't read our history…"—John Stockwell, 13-year
Top Level CIA official, Vietnam vet (as CO), West Point Graduate with honors, awarded Medal of Merit (very
charismatic) www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/John_Stockwell.html
General critical thinking and info:
The Price of Dissent by Bud and Ruth Schultz, 2001 Love Canal: The Story Continues by Lois M. Gibbs, 1998
Public Secrets by Ken Knabb (www.bopsecrets.org ) War At Home by Brian Glick, 1990 Rare or not-well-known
dissent, with possible solutions: www.intheheart.net (i.e. John Trudell, Aldous Huxley, Lev Chernyi) A 'totality' of
critique: www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/vb/wd4-2go.html Get together with other critical thinkers: www.infoshop.org
(see "interactive") Rainbow Gathering: www.welcomehome.org
Media alternatives:
www.cbc.ca/radioguide/ and Indy Media Centers (self-publish your news and images worldwide!!!): la.indymedia.org
boston.indymedia.org www.indymedia.org chicago.indymedia.org (and so on; see left margin or bottom of pages for
links); www.gnn.org emperors_clothes.com
Original: Resistance of Consciousness--an Alternative to Increasing Police State (with flyer)