----Forwarded email begins----

From: Dana Beal <dana@...>

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:43:47 -0400

Subject: GMfCL 2003 #37: Christchurch, Dayton, Ft. Lauderdale, Halifax, Helsinki, Prague, Rapid City, S.F. Make 53 Cities on the MMM Poster for 2004!

So far, 53 Cities Have Signed up for 2004 .

MAYDAY IS JAY-DAY!

(Next year, the first Saturday of May falls on May 1)

albany
albuquerque
ashland
bratislava
buenos aires
capetown
christchurch
cincinnati
cleveland
dallas
darwin
dayton
des moines
detroit
dover
dublin
eugene
flint
frankfurt
ft. lauderdale
halifax
helsinki
houston
kansas city
las vegas
lansing
mexico city
minneapolis
montpelier
nashville
new orleans
new york
nimbin
ogden
orlando
paducah
parkersburg
prague
raleigh-durham
rapid city
richmond
rosario
salt lake city
san francisco
san juan
san marcos
tampa
toronto
traverse city
tucson
tupelo
vancouver
wichita
wilmington

 

 

 

*****!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates, Reports!!!*****

 

From:
Chris Kenoyer Florida Director <floridaaamc@y...>

Date:
2003/08/24 Sun PM 05:12:08 CDT

To:
dana@c...

Subject:
add me to MMJ march

 

name Chris Kenoyer Florida Director

Florida Chapter AAMC
America Alliance For Medical Cannabis
http://www.onlinepot.org
The Complete Guide To Medical Marijuana
Fort Laudedale/broward county
email floridaaamc@y...

 

=====

Florida Director AAMC Chris Kenoyer

Donations needed 2 help fund our work
More Secure Emails at onlinepot2@z... - Or Normal Emails
onlinepot2@y... or floridaaamc@y... -http://www.onlinepot.org

 

Ft. Lauderdale: Chris Kenoyer <floridaaamc@y...> 954-938-7231.

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From:
Michael Polak <xchaos@a...> Block Sender | Block Domain

Date:
2003/08/26 Tue AM 03:55:55 CDT

To:
Dana Beal <dana@c...>

Subject:
Re: MMM 2004

Prague is still missing in your list ...

Dana Beal wrote:

> To get on the poster for 2004--"Mayday is Jay Day"--check yr contact
> info and email me back telling me to add yr city to the List at the top
> of this email. Right now you are listed as follows:
>
> Prague: Michael "xChaos" Polak < xchaos@a... > Tel: +420 603 872631
> / +420 2 33358050 http://www.legalizace.cz

Exactly. I am now kind of "global contact" for our local "Civil
association for legalization of cannabis" (OSLiK), which formed
meanwhile. Which basicaly means I am writing those e-mails to you ;-)

You can list " mmmteam@l... ", a group e-mail, instead of my address.

MMM 2003 was the smoothest and most "mainstream" legalization event we
ever had in Prague. 2000 people, as ussualy. Not a single arrest, and
almost zero interest from police, because this year we managed to get
all necessary permits even to build music stage and sound system and
refreshment ... MMM looks more and more like regular festival, rather
than political rally. However media coverage was good/neutral, and as
ussual, one member of parliament suggest cannabis legalization - it
seems that politicans are more likely to talk about legalization after
MMM attracts attention of media (positively, because we have no major
conflicts with police - compared eg. to anti-globalization protests...
although it almost seems that the radical left was recently trying to
make their protests more party-like and less militant, maybe to attract
as many participants as MMM ... ;-)

Anything of interest ? MMM budget ran into dramaticaly red numbers
(debt) this year - it's ironic, that it was the first year we were
acutally allowed to *sell* anything on the event. But once again it
proved right, that cannabis smoking dramaticaly decreases one's business
skills... ;-)

But still, it was about canabis politics. We publicly anounced (short)
list of people who are improsoned for cannabis-only drug offences. I
believe there are 8 such victims in our country (10 millions
population). Well, we are actually confirmed members of EU since 2004:
and EU cannabis policy is believed to be more and more relaxed in years
to come. Our momevement event wanted to support "yes" answer in
EU-referendum this year, promoting is as "yes" with logo of cannabis
leaf, but finaly we gave up. Few people would understand the whole point
of this, that Yes to EU means virtually Yes to legal cannabis smoking.

I have found a nice place deep in forests to grow my own marijuana next
year, once again. Most people now grow indoor, under artifical light,
which results in heavy *hole in your head* skunk models. The problem
with growing outdoor is not so much police, but rather thiefs: if you
have your own small field somewhere in your garden or backyard, you are
much more likely to be raided by cannabis thiefes, rather than police
(well, except if you would be growing in the middle of some small
conservative village, which may end up rather funny anyway...)

But Vaclav Havel is no longer president, and new president stricly
declared, that there won't be any more "full range" amnesties - Vaclav
Havel used right to give amnesty to prisoners to virtually veto some
laws, including the one prohibitting cannabis posession. We can't rely
on this fact any more.

M.P.
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From:
Blair Anderson <blair@m...> Block Sender | Block Domain

Date:
2003/08/26 Tue PM 07:38:31 CDT

To:
Dana Beal <dana@c...>

Subject:
Re: MillionMarijuanaMarch 2004

 

Dana Beal wrote:

> So far, 50 Cities Have Signed up for 2004 .
>

inc Christchurch.

pls ammend record as follows

> Christchurch: Blair Anderson < blair@m... > Mild Green
> Media Centre ph: ++64 3 389-4065 Website http://mildgreens.com
> [50 Wainoni Road, WAINONI Christchurch, NZ 8006]
>
> By the way, I lost about three weeks email not long after this year's
> event.

> How did it go in Christchurch? Numbers? Arrests? Media?
> Anything of interest happen, etc?

see http://mildgreens.com/mmm2003.htm

no arrests. police present but ignored. event held right outside police kiosk
(you can see police cars in the background of some photos)
Lots of "lawbreaking".. 100's of joints thrown to the crowd. 100's of
Cannabiscuits distributed. The bongs and chillums and hot knives were
visible.. (see photo's) about 300 people over about 4 hours. Street march was
held. "prohibition free zone declared"

Mainstream media largely ignored it... briefly mentioned on local news. But NZ
School of Television Broadcasting Unit filmed extensively inc. interviews and
public response with a view to a documentary. As yet. this is still a work in
progress.

As usual, Posters were excellent.

Can i suggest that the "2000" A5 cardboard'ish mini-posters were our most
successful as they can be delivered so easily and seem to be valued by the
public at large. (i.e. don't get scrunched!).

My earlier correspondences regarding getting some national unity on this...is
really necessary to facilitate and coordinate 'the event'. This has merit on a
global scale as we "kick off" the event first.. and we can do this "over the
net". Give the global thing a kick in the guts... (regrettably the NZ NORML
crowd are using this event poorly in this regard.. CHCH has always been the
biggest and most international - Christchurch is known world wide as PEACE
CITY... it was the citizens of CHCH that took the nuclear arms issue to the
world court and had WMD made illegal. )

Blair Anderson
50 Wainoni Road, WAINONI
Christchurch, NZ 8006
phone ++64 3 389-4065 025 2657219

Mild Green Initiatives, for your liberty, pleasure, health and safety.

http://mildgreens.com
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From:
risto mikkonen <risto.mikkonen@a...> Block Sender | Block Domain

Date:
2003/08/27 Wed AM 09:08:57 CDT

To:
Dana Beal <dana@c...>, sky@s...

Subject:
Re: MillionMarijuanaMarch 2004

 

Dana Beal wrote:

First : the 1st of May is physically impossible at least here in Finland to
organize any extra festival. Both in Helsinki and Turku those places where we
have arranged our demos will be crowded with thousands of more or less drunken
people. We have been discussing about some alternatives either to have the demo
one week later or even one month later in June when it's definitely warm also
here in north. These plans are still open but there will be demos next year and
we hope that still more cities would participate

 

To get on the poster for 2004--"Mayday is Jay Day"--check yr contact
info and email me back telling me to add yr city to the List at the
top of this email. Right now you are listed as follows:

Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org
sky@s... Finnish Cannabis Association,
Sorvaajankatu 9 A, 00810 Helsinki, Finland

By the way, I lost about three weeks email not long after this year's
event. How did it go in Helsinki? Numbers? Arrests? Media? Anything
of interest happen, etc? Do you have a contact phone number?

Dana/cnw
Hi!

In Helsinki there were between 600 - 1000 people depending on the source. At
least in the park there were lots of people. In the evening happening there
were lots of program and bands but only some 300 people because there happened
to be another happening for younger audience that had similar themes.

Because this year there were demonstrations in 4 cities (Helsinki, Tampere,
Turku, Oulu) in Finland so the news coverage was good. Even the main TV channel
(TV 1) showed Helsinki demonstration in the main news cast 8.30 PM.

 

Help us reach our goal of 300 cities worldwide!
To get on the poster for 2004--"Mayday is Jay Day"--check yr contact info and
email me back telling me to add yr city to the List at
the top of this email. (Funny, I thought you were in Helsinki.) Right now the
last listing we have for Oulu is:

Oulu: c/o risto mikkonen <risto.mikkonen@a...>

Do you happen to have a contact phone number for Oulu?
By the way, I lost about three weeks email not long after this year's event.
How did it go in Oulu? Numbers? Arrests? Media?
Anything of interest happen, etc?

Dana/cnw

In Oulu local activists arranged their demo ex tempore with short notice but
anyhow they gathered some 150 people on a rainy and chilly day. The police had
taken a sniffer dog and demanded that everybody must be sniffed before the demo
- but they took it so slowly that nobody was arrested. The constitutionality of
this is questionable because police has no right to stop legal demonstration -
but then again there's nobody doing anything about it.

I've been in contact with those arrangers but they haven't really organized
into something more coherent yet.

In Turku and Tampere there were also some 150 people in both, ask more if
there's nobody answering from these cities.

Yours
Risto Mikkonen

Ps. Greetings to Elvy !
-------

 

 

From:
mick lambe PARIAH <pariahnt@y...>

Date:
2003/08/27 Wed AM 01:50:57 CDT

To:
Dana Beal <dana@c...>, napp biggpond <napnt@b...>

Subject:
Re: MillionMarijuanaMarch 2004

 

Dana

We are continually harassed by Police -- I'll forward this on to NAP as PARIAH
are concentrating on other issues right now.

NAP will fill you in.

regards

ps

You can put Darwin up.

Solidarity
---------------

 

From:
M Patriquen <mpat@a...>

Date:
2003/08/26 Tue PM 04:50:21 CDT

To:
Dana Beal <dana@c...>

Subject:
Re: MillionMarijuanaMarch 2004

 

Greetings Dana,

Kindly add Halifax,Nova Scotia to the list of participates.

Cheers,

Melanie Patriquen

 

********************
*****BUSHWHACKED!!*****
************************

CIA / DIA Accused Of Bank Heist of Iraqi Money
Wednesday August 20, 2003

CIA Accused Of Bank Heist

Shortly before U.S. forces began streaming across the Iraqi border, commencing
Persian Gulf War II, the CIA and the Department of Defense, with a little help
from Israel and some Europeans, pulled off a massive bank heist in Iraq to the
tune of several billion dollars.

Exclusive to American Free Press
By Gordon Thomas

The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International
Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret
operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi
Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of
the money is not known.

"We believe it is in a secret CIA fund which will be used to mount further
special services operations, such as tracking down Saddam Hussein," said the
Review's publisher, Christopher Story.

Story is a former financial advisor to Lady Thatcher when she was Britain's
prime minister. In the past 10 years, he has testified before several
congressional committees dealing with financial scandals.

DIA coordinates all intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is
headquartered in the Pentagon.

The report is titled "The Great Robbery of the Central Bank of Iraq." It has
been sent to finance ministers of leading nations, the World Bank, the Bank of
England and heads of all other major banks.

The report is bound to cause huge embarrassment to President Bush after he
signed an executive order on March 23, ordering a worldwide hunt for the
hidden assets of Saddam Hussein and his family.

The Review claims that using skilled hackers recruited by the DIA and key
Iraqi bank officials who had been bribed to provide secret access codes to the
Central Bank's accounts for Saddam Hussein and his family, the money was
transferred out of the bank in a high-tech operation.

According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative agency of
Congress, Saddam was estimated to have accumulated "$6.6 billion between 1997
and 2000 from illegal oil smuggling and from illicit deals connected with the
United Nations oil for food program."

But a substantial portion of that money may have been lifted by the secret
CIA/DIA operation.

The operation, claims the Review, was masterminded by the CIA/DIA out of a
military facility, Redstone Arsenal, in Alabama. It is the base for U.S.
Special Ser vices.

"The money was laundered through a number of CIA controlled accounts,
including some held in the Discount Bank of Israel, Credit Suisse in
Switzerland and the Dresdner Bank in Germany," said Story.

He confirmed that Germany's secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is
checking with the major German banks on electronic transfers, which could
match the $10 billion.

The Review states in its 25-page report that it had questioned a key member of
the operation. She is identified as "Nelda Rogers, a debriefing officer with
the Defense Intelligence Agency."

"She was in Germany last year when American intelligence officials were
devising covert operations ahead of the long-planned conflict. She has
revealed that a covert operation targeting the Central Bank of Iraq took place
prior to and during the war. The operatives involved were military 'black
operations' personnel brought into service for this purpose," said Story.

The Review claims that Rogers and a team of ten DIA operatives were financed
through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They were supported by CIA agents
in Iraq.

"In all, 100 people were involved in the operation," says the report. "The
Department of Agriculture has been consistently used to hide payments for U.S.
covert operations," claimed Story, whose headquarters are close to Whitehall.

The Review states: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture is used as a paymaster
for certain DIA 'black operations' because it has traditionally remained
unscrutinized."

"Like the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury's secret Exchange
Stabilization Fund, the Department of Agriculture is yet another federal
agency which benefits from a special exemption from rigorous auditing by the
General Accounting Office."

The Review also states it has testimony from Rogers that the operation was
designed to "purloin the Iraq Central Bank's assets ahead of the arrival of
U.S. troops in Baghdad. This suggests that the operation was designed for a
nefarious purpose, rather than to help use it for the rebuilding of Iraq."

After interviewing Rogers and "a number of U.S. intelligence operatives,"
Story confirmed he received three warnings to stop his investigation.

"I was told that 19 people are very dead as a result of trying to cover what
you are exposing," Story wrote in an editorial in the Review.

The Review costs $475 a copy and is one of a small group of titles that Story
publishes on financial intelligence for the world banking community.

International Currency Review
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/marshlib/journals/listings/i/i60.html

International Currency Review
Journal of the World Financial Community.
ISSN Reference: 0020-6490 The world currency intelligence magazine with
independent country-currency reports, which enjoys a global reputation for
calling world currency, economic and related global developments. MORE...
First Published: 1969
Price US$: 475.00
Issues per series: 4

An independent expert source used for over 30 years by international
institutions, banks, investors, corporations and official agencies.
http://www.worldreports.org/index.htm

www.americanfreepress.net/Bank_Heist.html
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From:
Michael Novick <antiracistaction_la@y...> Block Sender | Block Domain

Date:
2003/08/24 Sun AM 10:11:51 CDT

To:
antiracistaction_la@y...

Subject:
Regarding 'bank heist" story

 

I got a query regarding the CIA bank heist story I sent out.
In checking the provenance of the story, I realized it was
from a highly doubtful source. Here's more info:

Re: "The American Free Press " and Gordon Thomas.
As one who has a sick hobby of reading the far-
rightwingnut media , "The New American, " of the
John Birch Society, and conspiracy theorists like
Gordon Thomas, I am more than familiar w/ The
American Free Press, published by the Liberty Lobby
of Willis Carto. Carto is an acolyte of the late
neo-fascist intellectual, Francis Parker Yockey (see
this review of Kevin Coogan's biography of Yockey,
by libertarian communist Loren Goldner
http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/yockey.html )
and was a founder of the Holocaust Denialialist,
"Institute for Historical Review, " (on the IHR see,
"Denying History Who Says the Holocaust Never
Happened and Why Do They Say It?, " by Michael
Shermer and Alex Grobman, University of California
Press, and the documentary by Errol Morris, "Mr.
Death,
http://www.errolmorris.com/films.php?film_id=
1&info_id=6
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8295/8295.ch01.ht
ml ) Gordon Thomas, is quite prolific. His latest to
hit the bookstores, "Seeds of Fire, " attempts to
show that the People's Republic China is going to
take over the world by military aggression and
cyberwarfare, (ad for his book on the hard right-
wing website, NewsMax,
http://www.newsmax.com/seedsoffire.shtml ,"Was China
Involved in 9-11?...Is China Planning a Nuclear War
with the U.S.?" notice on Thomas, on E. Zundel
website
http://zgrams.zundelsite.org/pipermail/zgrams/2003-
April/000441.html [Zundel is a Canadian neo-nazi
profiled in the Morris documentary] .
-- Michael Pugliese

 

T r u t h o u t | 08.24
Report: Musharraf, Bush Deal Spared Bin Ladin
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/082403A.shtml
White House Lied to New Yorkers about 9/11 Health Risks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/082403B.shtml

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'Lootocracy'
Date: Friday, August 22
Topic: The Bush Administration

Bush tries to exempt powerful from all limits on taking what they want

By Paul Rogat Loeb, Working For Change

If you run a lootocracy, you have no conception of sufficiency. You set up the
rules to grab as much money as you can, as if you've won a supermarket
shopping spree. You also concentrate power, the better to arrange the world
for your benefit. Unchecked by modesty, satiety, or shame, you take all you
can get away with. You loot until someone stops you.

The word lootocracy was originally coined to describe the corrupt cartels that
have ruled and plundered countries like Nigeria, Kenya, and some of the former
Soviet Republics. But with an amazingly small amount of national debate,
George Bush is installing a more global and sophisticated version -- one where
those on top can do whatever they choose without the slightest constraints.
Bush began his presidency by giving the wealthiest five percent of all
Americans massive tax breaks of $75 billion a year. He paid for them in part
by cutting child abuse prevention, community policing, Americorps, low-income
childcare, health care, housing, and even support for military families. This
spring he passed another round of cuts, $35 billion a year targeted
overwhelmingly to the same lucky lootocrats.

 

You'd think these victories would leave the Bush administration and its core
supporters satisfied that they'd transferred more than enough wealth to the
very richest Americans. You'd also think they might have noticed that the
first tax cut neither created new jobs or stemmed the continuing loss of
existing jobs. But no. House Republicans have now just voted to end the Estate
Tax permanently. If the Senate goes along, this will transfer a trillion
dollars more, over the coming two decades, to an even tinier group of
individuals. And key Republican strategist Grover Norquist promises more cuts
down the line, explaining, "My goal is to cut government... down to the size
where we can drown it in the bathtub." Conservatives once preached fiscal
restraint. Now strategists like Norquist view massive deficits as a tool to
strip away government's ability to affect public life. And the administration
neglects practically every real need so they can shift as much money as
possible
away from communities that could use it the most to those who already have
more than they know what to do with.

As 2001 Nobel economics laureate George Akerlof said recently, in calling the
administration "the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200
years of history, "This is not normal government policy. What we have here is
a form of looting."

It's not just taxes. Previous administrations have certainly been corrupted by
a coziness with the wealthy and powerful. That's why we need to follow the
path of public election financing that's been pioneered by states like Arizona
and Maine. But Bush's regime descends to new depths in institutionalizing an
America (and indeed a world) that is there for the taking. Private HMOs craft
health bills. Oil, coal, and nuclear industries create energy policy in secret
meetings. Chemical companies write environmental regulations. Timber companies
promote a "Healthy Forests Initiative" letting them cut just about at will.
Credit card companies rewrite bankruptcy laws. Fresh from cozying up to Saddam
Hussein, Halliburton and Bechtel get offered instant contracts for the new
Iraqi occupation. Bush appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
let Enron manipulate West Coast energy prices, then stick California
ratepayers with $12 billion of onerous long-term contracts
after the company collapses. The administration is now pushing to cut back 70
years of extra pay for overtime and to sharply restrict ordinary citizens'
ability to challenge gross abuses of corporate power through class action
lawsuits.

Appropriately, one of the new key coordinators of these efforts is Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist, whose family controls the largest private health
care company in the country, HCA Columbia. HCA profits bankrolled Frist's
initial Senate run, and the company just paid the largest fine in American
corporate history -- $1.7 billion -- for defrauding Medicaid, Medicare, and
the health program that serves the military services. You'd think Frist would
be shy about eroding further public checks on corporate malfeasance. But in a
lootocracy, Frist's background and approach are business as usual.

A lootocracy embodies power as its own end, overriding any challenges,
criticisms, or constraints. Open markets and deregulation have long been core
conservative principles, but this administration pushes them farther than
ever. They treat environmental laws, even ones enacted by Republicans, as
obstacles to be evaded or demolished, opening up every possible domain to be
auctioned off to the highest (or best-connected) bidder. They also treat the
government's own workforce as expendable, eroding longstanding union and civil
service protections, outsourcing key tasks, and doing their best to muzzle
employees who challenge the administration's priorities, whether staffers of
the Environmental Protection Agency or generals opposing the Iraq war.

The notion that the world should be run at the discretion of the powerful also
underpins Bush's foreign policy. We see the same lust for control, the same
assumption that those in charge can do whatever they can get away with, the
same sense that disagreement is forbidden. We see the same denial of long-term
costs and consequences.

Not all empires become lootocracies, but the more unaccountable power is, the
greater the temptation to plunder. With a weapons budget greater than every
other nation combined, our massive technological might threatens to flatten
any nation that challenges us. If the UN supports our actions, we hail this as
a mandate. If the UN doesn't, we act anyway, ignoring all international rules,
and assemble a "coalition of the willing" reminiscent of children parading
their imaginary friends. Given that the real threats of terrorism fly no
national flags, the administration can always manufacture some excuse for
intervention, as some of its key officials did in overthrowing democracies and
supporting dictatorships during the Cold War. Instead of acknowledging the
prime lesson of Sept 11, the profound interconnectedness of our world, this
administration asserts the raw rule of power, confident that it will always
prevail.

Think about Bush's rejection of international treaties, whether on war crimes,
land mines, child labor, women's rights, tobacco control, nuclear testing,
small arms regulation, or biological weapons. To take the example of global
warming, an international consensus of scientists agrees that it's a real and
critical issue. If we fear Islamic terrorism, the desperation that feeds it
will hardly be reduced by predicted outcomes like the flooding of Egypt's
prime agricultural land, the Nile Valley. But Bush refuses to be bound by
either the international scientific consensus or the most modest attempts,
like the Kyoto protocol, to enact it into policy. His most recent EPA report
on the state of the environment edited out real discussion of the issue
entirely. To Bush, the powerful are exempt from any limits on their right to
take what they want.

Having already enacted far too much of its agenda, this administration
relentlessly pursues the rest. Now that they control the Senate and House, and
have a largely sympathetic Supreme Court, those who embrace an ethic of
unlimited greed seem to have more power than ever.

But this power is still subject to check by real-world consequences and by the
activism through which we make the issues real to our fellow citizens. The
Iraq occupation becomes more of a quagmire each day. Terrorist bombs explode
in Morocco, Algeria, and a once seemingly pacified Afghanistan. In the wake of
the Iraq war, the Pew Foundation's Global Attitudes Project finds majorities in
Islamic countries like Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, and Pakistan saying they
have "confidence in Bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs." That's
a staggeringly troubling response, all the more since after 911 many of these
same people were mourning in commiseration with our loss. Meanwhile, every
community in this country has seen services for the poor and vulnerable -- and
much of the middle class -- decimated by national budget cuts. We need to tell
the buried stories that highlight the costs.

This administration's arrogance has begun to produce a major citizen Response
-- potentially as broad as any since the height of the 1960s. We saw this most
visibly before the Iraq War. Many who spoke out then are beginning to work
toward the 2004 election. Those of us who marched and spoke out now need to
reach out to friends, neighbors, and communities about the staggeringly
destructive implications of a world where the powerful do whatever they choose.

There's a widespread temptation to identify with the winners. But in a
lootocracy we all lose out. We lose our voice, our democracy, our confidence
that we won't be bankrupted by medical bills or thrown into the street, our
certainty that our air and drinking water are safe, our security against the
bitter anger of new generations of terrorists. Ultimately, we lose our
democracy. Those are the stakes, at home and abroad. We need to be clear about
them. If we can give our fellow citizens sufficient context to reflect, most
Americans will recognize that they don't want a world run by the Enrons and
WorldComs. And that the administration's actions do not serve their interest,
but only the interests of the small group that's on top. They don't want their
communities plundered or abandoned. They don't want to cannibalize the earth.
They want a relationship with the world that makes us more safe, not less.

Whatever particular issues we care about and take on, we also need to focus on
the larger pattern -- the destructiveness of a regime based on pillage. The
very outrageousness of this administration's reach must inspire us to act for
a vision based on connection, respect, and learning to live within our limits.
For only by rejecting the ethic of relentless taking do we honor the common
ties that bind us all.

Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in
a Cynical Time. See www.soulofacitizen.org for more information.

Reprinted from Working For Change:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15481

 

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From:
HSLotsof@a...
Date:
2003/08/24 Sun PM 07:28:06 CDT

To:
ibogaine@m...

Subject:
[ibogaine] Music in the Iboga initiation ceremony in Gabon:

 

Music in the Iboga initiation ceremony in Gabon: Polyrhythms supporting a
pharmacotherapy

Uwe Maas and Süster Strubelt

Abstract
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Music is used by traditional cultures worldwide to create and
accompany trance states. However, the influence of sophisticated
compositions and the choice of instruments on patients' recovery has
been hardly examined. Rouget (1990), in his comprehensive overview,
assumes that the choice of instruments and music is insignificant. We
had the opportunity to assist several Iboga initiation ceremonies in
1999, 2001 and 2003 in Gabon (Central Africa). We recorded the music
and finally decided to become initiated ourselves. The Iboga healing
ceremony induces a near-death experience and is performed to cure
serious mental or psychosomatic diseases, but people also undergo
initiation rites for reasons of spiritual or personal development.

After an analysis of the compositions and their function in the
ceremonies we come to the conclusion that neither the musical
structures nor the choice of instruments should be seen as cultural
and incidental qualities: There are indications of direct somatic
influences apart from the psychological ones. Not only the absolutely
consistant basic metre and the incessant use of polyrhythms, but also
the harmonic organization and the choice of instruments in all
probability serve to activate the cerebellum and generate theta-
frequencies in the EEG. These methods seem to be used consciously to
induce particular reactions, e.g. possessional trances and visions. We
suppose that the music increases the effect of the drug Ibogaine which
is used during the initiation ritual so that patients may need smaller
amounts only of this potentially harmful drug.

http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/mmmagazine/showarticle.php?articletoshow=63&language=en

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From:
Tbgelfling@a...

Date:
2003/08/22 Fri PM 07:19:18 CDT

To:
ibogaine@m...

Subject:
Re: [ibogaine] junk dependent cells

 

haven't you read william burroughs? his theory was something like this: doing
opiates, being a junky, was actually kind of good for you, and if it could be
done in a situation where there was no contamination or chance of getting
something too strong, it wouldn't hurt you as long as you didn't run out. the
point is that burroughs thought of kicking as a type of constant rebirth where
the "junk dependant cells" (he calls them that exactly) are replaced by new
ones. he thinks that this is why he lived to be as old as he did, in part. I
have no idea if there is ANY true science behind it--it may be as hokey as
Kieth Richards getting his blood changed like the fluids in a car--but that is
definitely, without a doubt, where the idea of junk dependant cells and their
replacement during kicking comes from. Question to the original poster, not the
one who hadn't heard of this: are you still sick and needing opiates? If you
aren't I was just wondering why you'd take more ibogaine. I really want off of
methadone, but the thought of kicking and tripping at the same time: i can't
think of many things that could drive me to mental and physical meltdown...but
i have hope and an open mind!
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From:
deartheo@z...

Date:
2003/08/22 Fri PM 07:52:43 CDT

To:
ibogaine@m...

Subject:
Re: [ibogaine] junk dependent cells

Yeah, it's hard to tell with fiction what is based on fact and what is simply
made up. I knew cells regenerated anyway, so i had no reason to think he was
wrong but didn't know and that's why i ask all of you. Doing iboga while
kicking 263 ml was MUCH MUCH better then it would have been without the iboga.
It wasn't as good as methadone with 'hallucinations' (as far as takeing away
the monster sickness) but it wasn't even near to compairable to kicking cold
turkey and taking some acid (something i've tried unsucessfully). I didn't
really halluciate but had more of a 'waking dream', althought i thought the
waking dream would be more personal in nature i (lol : ) kept thinking of the
daily activities of Puff Daddy or P diddy or whatever he's calling himself
these days and Pop singers, it made very little sense. But the way i percieve
things is much different then pre-iboga. I am much more aware of the reality
of the situation now and much more willing to face it. My perspective on the
world has been enhanced. My spritual beleifs can be best described as Buddhist
and Rasta (but i subscribe to nothing 100%) and one of the basic teachings is
(1. all life is suffering 2. the cause of suffering is dukka (loosly translated
as 'desire' 3. and the way to graduate from suffering is compassion), that was
in my heart and mind pre-iboga, it is in my heart, mind and ACTIONS post-
iboga.

As far as the second dose goes, yes i think it would be a huge opportunity lost
if i didn't do it. I'm about 90% through it (last dose of methadone was on
7/11/03. From what i have read it increases ones chances significantly, but
i'm not like craving iboga or whatever. That's the miracle, i've never heard
of any non-opioid taking away opioid sickness like iboga(ine). I just wish new
scientists would study it without trying to make and patient their own version
of ibogaine, it's like if they can't make a buck off it they don't to get too
controversial.
I have been calling the FDA, my congressman, the NIH (national institute on
health) as well as making sure that all 5 methadone clinics i attended in the
area put that i cured with iboga in my medical records. Prior to me, not one
dr., nurse, or staff employee at any of the 5 clinics had even heard of
iboga(ine). "They say jump and you say how high" i guess, their just trying to
get by like the rest of us. I don't think junk could possibly be healthy
unless a clinical CONSISTENT SUPPLY was available like methadone and even then
who knows. I'm amazed they don't publicly distribute opiate antagonists to cut
the number of street junk overdoses, but that would be encouraging heroin use
to them i guess. I have to be careful though because part of me wants to take
every single one of the Rockefeller methadone clinics customers away with
iboga, but i'd probably end up overdosing someone and doing more harm for the
iboga movement then good, regardless of how good my intentions were. But their
is a real need for this miracle. I hear the FDA or NIH is still funding
research into Methadone (the most studied anti-addiction 'medison' in history)
while not funding iboga studies, at least they approved the studies after what
30 years now? They raid military style the sick and elderly who have been
prescribed marijuana but have no problem with Methadone clinics? And if you
get accused of a crime and are on methadone, in most cases they will not give
you your prescribed medication. If that's not control beyond Hitlers wildest
dreams i don't know what is.

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From:
Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@y...> Block Sender | Block Domain

Date:
2003/08/23 Sat AM 09:44:39 CDT

To:
ibogaine@m...

Subject:
Re: [ibogaine] junk dependent cells

 

There is FAR MORE to ibogaine than just turning off a
physical addiction so someone is not "sick and needing
opiates". It removes or reduces cravings, it UNPLUGS
years and years of wiring, brightens life, gives
stamina, clarity, insight and above all PEACE! There
were many years I was sober, in the "program" or
whatever and not happy no matter how much I struggled
to "get it". Even after my first ibo treatment I was
still on this "if I do enough work I will work through
all this stuff"... So, I did all this work and all
this other stuff and again and again, having problems
so I simply re-dosed. Nothing other than ibogaine
cleared the demons flying around in my head, nothing
brought me that kind of peace and understanding. I
have had all kinds of drugs (medications), treatments,
therapy, self-help, spiritualism... and nothing broke
through the ice (think 12 foot thick artic ice) like
ibo. Ibo lets you see, or maybe makes you. WHen
getting detoxed mostly on ibo, you get detoxed, fewer
visions etc. Doing ibo clean is different, there is no
pesky physical addiction to get rid of so the ibo (in
my words) works on the head - like pass 1 it does a
physical addiction and pass 2 (dose 2) repairs the
head - there is overlap.

Again, ibogaine goes in, basically UNPLUGS all the
wiring job we did and allows us to go back (if we
choose) and plug those wires in some different places
- JUST LIKE you lived life and could go back and
change your experiences/the reaction to those
experiences. It UNDOES stuff we programmed ourselves
to do, ibogaine cannot generally take care of all of
that on 1 pass (treatment), especially when it has a
physical addiction, so there is tx 2, 3, 4...

There are also many people who never did drugs and
take ibogaine, ibogaine lets you SEE into yourself.
Some people are absolutely terrified of this, the EGO
does not want power taken from it, it wants to control
you, the demons want their "care and feeding" and
people will come up with all sorts of excuses why not
to do ibogaine (again?) when a simple "I don't want
to" is all they need.

Ibogaine does things that you have to take ibogaine,
(sometimes more than once) to understand what it is
and what it does. I never would have believed or
understood, there is no way to comprehend the way it
can change someone - and they are still the someone
they always were, maybe you could say ibo let them
come through or be who they are in spite of what they
did and who they were.

"thought of kicking
> and tripping at the same time: i can't think of many
> things that could drive me to mental and physical
> meltdown..."

Well I suggest you don't make up thoughts like that,
but addicts love to awfulize...

1, ibogaine is not like "tripping" and 2, you won't be
kicking, that is the point of taking ibogaine, so you
don't "kick". Typically people get various visions,
usually less in an active opiate addict, they are very
much like REM SLEEP DREAMS (though more
lucid/vivid...) and absolutely NOTHING LIKE TRIPPING
ON SAY ACID. To put a number on it, maybe ibogaine is
5-10% as trippy as acid, you see actual THINGS,
events, times, palaces which is nothing like tripping.
If you don't like a vision, blink and it will
disappear, or open your eyes, turn the lights on...
Almost 100% of visions are closed eye/darkened room
and un-interrupted, a PIN DROP will snap you out of a
vision. So "thought of kicking
and tripping at the same time" is some other form of
treatment, not ibogaine. Yes, you will likely feel
like crap for several days, it is long and arduous ("a
lot", not horrible), it is disgusting, nausea,
vomiting, photophobia, motion sickness... but
"tripping and kicking" is not a good description.

Brett

 

 

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From:
Jeffgd1@a...

Date:
2003/08/24 Sun PM 04:48:41 CDT

To:
ibogaine@m...

Subject:
[ibogaine] my introduction and a question

 

Hello
I have been reading this list for some time now and feel the time is right for
me to introduce myself. I hope this a first step on my journey towards freedom
from Methadone through a productive Ibogaine session.
I am currently doing 50mg's daily of methadone. I go in once week as I have
for 4 years or so now. The impact on my life is not much but I often wonder if
I just don't see the impact or impediments that Methadone and the program are
putting in my way.
I was an IV heroin addict on and off for 15 years or so before this last 6
years of pure Methadone use and being clean of opiates (save the Methadone
obviously) I use cannabis daily and psychedelics of various types at times
throughout the year usually at music events.
My wife of ten years died in 1993 of a cocaine/heroin overdose at home with
our then 6 year old son and myself present. The surreal nightmare that followed
is still mind boggling to me. Calling her parents from the hospital to tell
them that their daughter was on deaths door due to a drug habit that they were
completely unaware of was horrendous. But nothing compared to telling my son
his mother was dead the following day I will NEVER forget the sound of the moan
that escaped his small mouth......
In our/my many year odyssey through our addiction we tried many ?cures? 21 day
meth detox- then 6 month meth detox- and even an ?experimental doctor named Dr.
Revicci (sp?) here in NYC whose name escapes me-he ran a hospital for addicts
in the 50-60's and had apparent success with the use of some types of compounds
that frankly I forget. (H.Lostoft any of that ring a bell) his hospital was in
upper Manhattan. I have the literature somewhere and will try to find it if
anyone cares. By the way his cure ?worked? but we were to dumb to know it. He
got us through thefirst few days relatively painless but exhaustion and the
baby's needs took it's toll. And we picked up.
After my wife's death I went to a 21 day rehab after a hospitalized one week
detox and spent a few months in constant pain and with very very little sleep
and it wasn't long before I was a newly widowed single father with a huge
habit. After a year or so of that I went on the Methadone program that I am on
now with the attitude that it would be my insulin and take care of what I
considered a medical problem. I thought I would be on it for the rest of my
life.
Even way back before her death I had heard inklings about Ibogaine and was
always drawn to it on a subtle level I find hard to explain. The use of a
psychedelic even one as apparently unenjoyable (as opposed to LSD say) seems to
make sense to me...hmmmmmmmm But it was only available far away I thought.
Now after remarrying an amazing woman with no addiction history at all and
after being so far out of the?loop? as far as being an active heroin addict
with 'copping' and all, I feel I can be done with this but I KNOW that a meth
detox is beyond my scope I know that six months or more of sleepless exhaustion
and all the rest after the slow weaning process is more than I can deal with
and is not in my future.
BUT a session with Ibogaine seems perfect. An eye opening if scary adventure
that will help me get a clean slate is just what I need and seems the only real
hope I have of getting off this Methadone.
When reading statements like ?doing Ibogaine will reset your brain to it's pre
addicted state? well I am simply overjoyed at the thought that this is possible.
From what I have read here and elsewhere if one is not surrounded by active
addicts or in that world even one treatment can and will work to get me over
this Methadone thing.
I live in NYC and dont have much money. But I am determined that Ibogaine is
the solution to a problem I have been dealing with in overwhelming and subtle
ways for far too long now.
I have sent a similar letter to Marc Emory at his Ibogaine House but if anyone
else can steer me in the direction of a place to get Ibogaine treatment I will
be ever grateful!
I so enjoy reading most of the posts on this list and wish all here nothing
but wellness and joy in their lives.
Freak Freely!
Love,
Jeff G

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