Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:48:51 -0400
From: Dana Beal
Subject: MMM 2004 #50: Marc's Out!; Buenos Aires, London, Potsdam,
Rosario Make 80 Cities on the Global Marijuana March May 7, 2005!

Important: get your city on the list for the Global Marijuana March, May 7, 2005!

So far we have confirmed 80 cities:

Albany

Albuquerque

Athens

Asheville

Auckland

Bergen

Berlin

Boone

Boulder

Buenos Aires

Burlington

Capetown

Chico

Christchurch

Cincinnati

Colorado Springs

Columbia

Darwin

Des Moines

Detroit

Dover

Dublin

Dunedin

East Lansing

Eugene

Fayetteville

Frankfurt

Ft. Smith

Hartford

Hatchita

Houston

Kansas City

Kristiansand

Lethbridge

Lexington

London

Los Angeles

Mexico City

Missoula

Montreal

Moscow

Nashville

Newark

New Paltz

New York

Nimbin

Ogden

Oslo

Paris

Peoria

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Portland

Potsdam

Prague

Raleigh

Rapid City

Reno

Richmond

Roanoke

Rosario

Rostock

San Francisco

Sarasota

Savannah

Spokane

Stavanger

St. Louis

Stockholm

Tampa

Thunder Bay

Toronto

Traverse City

Tromsoe

Trondheim

Tucson

Upper Lake

Vancouver

Washington, D.C.

Wilmington

There is also some international MMM networking going on at
this CannabisCulture.com message forum:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current

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*****!!!Global Marijuana March--May 7, 2004:  Updates,  Reports!!!*****

From: shane@...

Hi Dana,

Sorry to miss your call last night.  Hope thing are good with you.

We had a London march/festi meeting this evening.

Main issues,
staying solvent, (we are still £1,200 down on this year),
trying to get a community rate for the festival (50% discount) for use of
the park, - costs £7k, 
weather problems in May (we have had to change dates 2 years in 6, only one
year - 2000 -  was sunny).

So we are proposing to change the london date for the march and festival to

Saturday 11th June.

On the worldwide day in May we shall do a symbolic action to mark the day
but our organising group cannot commit to a march/festi.  We will be able
to help/advise any other group in UK wanting to put on a march in their
town/city.

best  hopes for an honest election

Shane

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From: ghurtado@...

Para el 2005, se mantiene el mismo organizador de la Million Marijuana Marcha en Buenos Aires 2002, 2003 y 2004, será un Festival contra la Intolerancia bajo el nombre de "Cura, No Guerra".
 
Contacto:

Lic. Gustavo Hurtado
Asociación de Reducción de Daños de la Argentina
arda@...

www.infoarda.org.ar

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From: sinchaur@...

Dear Dana
Please do not forget to add Rosario, Argentina
Contact: ARDA, arda@...,

gustavolafarge@...

Regards

Silvia

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From: tents444@...

Hello Luiz,
 

I have been very busy and apologize for taking so long.
 
I finally downloaded QuickTime,
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
 
and the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil MMM 2004 video.
http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue//2004/05/279929.shtml and
http://brasil.indymedia.org/media/2004/06/281879.mov
 
It is great. Love all the music on it. I only understood around 6 words though, since they were the only words in English. :)
 
Million Marijuana March
Cures not Wars.
 
But it is a fun video to watch even without understanding Portuguese!
 
Please send more video links!
 
And more MMM photos, MMM links, etc. for any MMM year, and for the Rio MMM 2004 photo gallery:
http://www.vienna2004.org/mmm/forth_stage_album.php?albid=MzU0
 
74 cities signed up already for MMM 2005! See the city list here:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005.htm
 
Thanks again,
 
eco man
 

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From: ptpeet@...

As my friend and former High Times Editor in Chief Steven Wishnia put it
when forwarding this article to me and others:


>>Not exactly accurate, but interesting.

I wonder if the source is in management--people have been
getting high on the job at HT since the era of typewriters
and rubber cement, and it didn't hurt sales.<

I'm very curious as to who it was who told the Daily News that "They [HT]
haven't filed for bankruptcy yet, but they're in dire straits because the
staff spends the day smoking pot on the back patio...Morale is low. They're
thinking it could fold any day now," because it's complete and utter
bullshit. Morale isn't "low" at the magazine. If anything, it's a lot higher

than it's been for months and months as near as I can tell. And if this
paper think the staff is doing a lot of smoking nowadays, they're completely
deluded and stupid, not to mention misinformed. There used to be a lot of
smoking ongoing around the place, but that hasn't been the case for quite
some time now, since they moved to new offices actually. And even if it were
the case, that would be about the very last reason there might be any stress
around the office. Pot smoking has never ever meant that things went
downhill at the magazine- some ill-thought-out decisions pertaining to
magazine direction and content, as well as the federal raids on glass pipe
manufacturers noted in the article (one thing they got right, and it's a
direct quote) have contributed to somewhat leaner days at the mag, but it's
going strong, as far as I know from my own connection to the magazine. Of
course, I'll be eating crow if they fold at some point in the near future,
but I've heard exactly nothing even close to that being mentioned as a
possible event by those who would know these things.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/239046p-205142c.html

Is mag high and dry?

Is "High Times" magazine going up in smoke? According to a Lowdown spy close
to the venerable stoner monthly, the mag is so broke that editors have
started looking for jobs elsewhere.
"They haven't filed for bankruptcy yet, but they're in dire straits because
the staff spends the day smoking pot on the back patio," said the spy.
"Morale is low. They're thinking it could fold any day now."
High Times publisher Richard Stratton conceded that some of the 20 staffers
at the mag's headquarters at Park Ave. and 28th St. sample their stash
during business hours, but insisted that profits were not just a
hallucination.
"We're fiscally healthy and profitable," Stratton said. "The pot-smoking on
the back fire escape has been going on, but the magazine is not broke. A lot
of people make money out of the magazine."
But Stratton added: "With the latest government assault on paraphernalia,
Operation Pipe Dreams, we lost a third of our advertisers. And that hurts.
But we're beginning to get them back now, and others. The brand is 30 years
old and world-renowned."

Co-editor in chief Steve Bloom also insisted that somebody was trying to
sell Lowdown some bunk stuff: "We've had some changes, some ups and downs
with our sales figures, but it hasn't put us to the point where we're going
out of business."
High Times, which has a monthly circulation of about 130,000, made news last
year when it hired Norman Mailer's son John Buffalo Mailer as executive
editor. Mailer has since relocated to the magazine's entertainment division
as veep of development, and did not respond to Lowdown's E-mail yesterday.
snip-



Peace and love,
Preston Peet

"Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often
mistaken for madness"
Richard Davenport-Hines

ptpeet@...
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor "Under the Influence- the Disinformation Guide to Drugs" (Out Oct.
2004)
Cont. High Times mag/.com
Cont. Editor http://www.disinfo.com
Columnist New York Waste
Etc.

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From: cochie31@...

Name:Jeremy M. Cochie
Organizing City: Potsdam, New York
Address:61 Elm Street, Potsdam, New York
Event will take place starting in Ives Park and marching through downtown
and ending in Lehman Park.
This event will take place May 7,2005.
It will begin at 1:00 PM and end around 4:00

Number to Contact is 315-265-1670 ask for Jeremy
This march will be advertised as the Global 2005 Marijuna March and is
sponsored by the local Marijuana Freedom fraternal organization Pi Omicron
Theta.


Jeremy M. Cochie

Potsdam Good

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From: mmackenzie2@...

Hi dana
hope things are going better for you and wanted you to know that our
march this year will be from the campus of the University of Arizona
where a NORML chapter has begun--exciting times for us here in the old
pueblo!!!!!!!
love hugs and kisses

Mary Mackenzie, BFA, Director, AZ4NORML
3400 East Speedway Blvd, Suite 118, Tucson, AZ 85716

520.323.2947 www.NORML.org  www.wonpr.org   www.azhemp.org

Mary Mackenzie, BFA, Director, AZ4NORML
3400 East Speedway Blvd, Suite 118, Tucson, AZ 85716
520.323.2947 www.NORML.org 

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

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http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm

Goss Chevron/Texaco Appointee Accused of Shoplifting

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100404X.shtml

Sinclair Fires Bureau Chief after Public Criticism

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004Z.shtml

Robert Scheer | CIA Report on 9/11 Suppressed Until After Election

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004V.shtml

Members of Congress Ask CIA to Turn Over 9/11 Report

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102104Y.shtml

Click here: Bush Coked Up For Second Debate? http://rense.com/general58/coked.htm

---------------------------------
Why Bush Left Texas
by RUSS BAKER

[posted online on September 14, 2004]

Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas
Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to
his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet.

A months-long investigation, which includes examination of hundreds of
government-released documents, interviews with former Guard members and
officials, military experts and Bush associates, points toward the conclusion
that Bush's personal behavior was causing alarm among his superior officers
and would ultimately lead to his fleeing the state to avoid a physical
exam he might have had difficulty passing. His failure to complete a
physical exam became the official reason for his subsequent suspension

from flying status.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040927&s=baker

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From: straats@...

President Bush has tried to avoid any responsibility for the flu vaccine shortage by making
misleading statements. During the presidential debate last Wednesday, President Bush said the
problem was that "we relied upon a company out of England."[1] That isn't true. Chiron Corp.,
the company whose vaccine plant was contaminated, is a California company - subject to
regulation by the U.S. government - that operates a factory in England.[2]

During the debate, President Bush also said, "we took the right action and didn't allow
contaminated medicine into our country."[3] That isn't true either. It was the British
authorities who, after inspecting the plant, revoked the factory's license on October 5th.[4]

In June 2003, the United States Food and Drug Administration inspected the Chiron plant.[5]
Initially, the FDA found that the plant was contaminated with bacteria but later announced, "the
problems were corrected to their satisfaction," and allowed the plant to continue to operate.[6]

Sources:

1. "Transcript of Debate Between Bush and Kerry, With Domestic Policy the Topic," New York
Times, 10/13/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63315.
2. "Both candidates stretched facts on key issues," Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/14/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63316.
3. "Transcript of Debate Between Bush and Kerry, With Domestic Policy the Topic," New York
Times, 10/13/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63315.
4. "With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making," New York Times, 10/17/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63317.
5. Ibid., http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63317 .
6. Ibid., http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3200301&l=63317 .

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 Today, 05:27 AM

Ganjawarnews: 10-19-4 http://tinyurl.com/5k9zu
Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x74950.shtml

CN SN: 'Prince Of Pot' Gets Out Of Jail
SASKATOON - Released on Monday after 61 days behind bars, marijuana activist and entrepreneur Marc Emery knelt in the Saskatoon snow and kissed the cannabis-leaf flag his supporters have flown across from the courthouse since Day 1.

 He then launched into a contemptuous diatribe against Saskatchewan's "intolerable" attitude and promised to try changing it from the inside. He plans to establish a chapter of the Marijuana Party within three months and offer a full slate of candidates in the next provincial election. continued...

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1476/a10.html?999

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From: slowone@...

Hey Mark,

Hang in there - sounds like that same-sex parent thing.. are you in
therapy or other aftercare?

You might want to try checking out a few churches, see if the image of

god-the-father gives some sort of comfort or useful concept for dealing
with your need. My idea is that the big collective of a church conjures
the size of our parents when we are young, with the intention of putting
the image of the perfect parent in place of the imperfect one from real
life. I found that you don't have to believe literally in the doctrinal
aspects to get this effect. Maybe a huge cathedral, or the friendliness
of a small community church would feed your soul. Just a thought.

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:01:32 -0700 mark connors <darkmattersfo@...>
wrote:

>>Hi everyone. Just wanted to put out there that Im hitting it pretty
>>hard
>>this weekend. I got drunk, scored, and have been sexual roller coster
>>around
>>town. Im feeling sad about it, quite hopeless. I don't want to keep
>>on
>>living this way. I am worth more than I treat myself. But over and
>>over I
>>amp up and go looking for my father in a number of casual encounters.

>>Yuch

>>

From: UUSEAN@...

Hey,

Glad you took a minute to post.  Remember that in addition to the guilt, shame, etc., that many of us feel because of our use, there is real chemical crash from drugs like meth and coke.  So some of what you are feeling is a "natural" result of the drug use itself.

As for looking for your father, this may be a real insight.  I have found though therapy that as a gay man I have been looking to be what I imagine my father would have wanted in a son: straight, middle class, did I say straight?

But I am not.  My real life father would like to see me alive and happy, preferably with a lover.  I am trying to please a father form twenty years ago, not the living one now.

Anyway, I am taking my next ibogaine treatment tomorrow.  I am drinking a hell of a lot of water, staying close to home, and spending time thinking about my life in preparation for my treatment.

I have been a twenty year survivor of crack.  I have averaged $500-$1000 dollars on a typical run.  The longest I was clean in the last 10 years is six months, some of that spent in a hospital for AIDS related pneumonia (PCP).  For about a year now I have also been using heroin to come down form the crack. I did twice actually end up with a dope habit as a result twice. Last spring I also found crystal in SanFran, and really ran with that(IV).  Not really being in the gay party scene in NY (preferring to use with straight street hustler types) I have reverted back to crack and dope.

I am going into my ibogaine experience two days clean form everything.  I did not readdict myself to dope, so I am not sick.  I look forward to journey within myself. I hope to make this part of process where I mature out in a sense form hard drug use. After treatment I hope to become involved in helping other addicts (especially gay ones) about ibogaine. I also hope to become a more giving person. A deeper person.
I guess I really want to be alive again. Away form the self centered, narrow life which crack and dope have offered.

So again, tomorrow is my next journey.  I will post as soon as I can afterwards about my trip.

One final thing.  Thank you all so much for your support and virtual love. I have met so many fine people as a result of this list, some of whom I have met in the flesh. I hope to meet more of you offline in the coming months. You have been true lifesavers in terms of caring, loving support.  With a real no saccharine sometimes in your face way that I appreciate as well.

See you after my trip!!

With great respect,
sean

From: tomo7@...

Hi Preston, Jim, Julie, Randy, and folks reading,

GABA is a neurotransmitter chemical in the brain that we all want to be
friends with. Too much or too little and serious problemos with what we
call a mind. Taking it as nutrient into the GI tract involves some little

bits of it sliding into a nervous system(Central Nervous System=CNS,
sorry)
where it can help if levels are low there. Too much,too often and high
command shuts down the cells that are in charge of absorbing it. Luckily
for that mind.

GHB, the "date rape drug" has lots of sensational press(that's what they

DO after all) and it is a strong precursor molecule that slides past these
biological gatekeepers and can straight across wink out the lights of
whoever it get into in a large dose. As for date rape credentials, it has
light years to go to catch up with Budweiser longnecks in this culture. In
my parents era and before, they had Micky Finns of chloral hydrate, or
chloraform, or ether on gauze masks to do the deed. The implement or
chemical isn't the cause of the violence and abuse, it's some sick fuck
that thinks they can get away with it.

Be free, strong, healthy, and help this life be kinder and more caring.
That will contrast with the world of terrified and injured people who know
violence, abuse and illness as their only model. Be the changes you want
to see in the world. These molecules, drugs, and nutrients can be great
tools, but you are the artisan as to what you make with them.

Great images, Randy. What a show!

Dr. Tom

From: jfreed1@...

This may have already been answered, so sorry if i'm repeating what
someone else's said...

GHB affects a number of neurotranmitter systems, but it's main effects
seem to be a result of GABA agonism, that is, it increases the
transmission of GABA. GABA is a neurotransmitter, like serotonin,

norepinephrine, etc. Recent reserach has found that GHB itself appears to
be a neurotransmitter as well, as a GHB receptor has been identified. Both
GHB and GABA occur natually in the body.

GABA's main purpose is thought to be inhibition of neuronal activity;
basically, the idea is that GABA acts sort of as a brake on the brain.
Most anti-anxiety drugs work by interacting with the GABA system and
increasing GABAergic activity, including GHB, benzodiazepines (valium,
xanax, klonopin, etc), and kava.

You can still buy GABA at health stores, but as far as i know, it doesn't
pass through the blood brain barrier very well, so it's questionable
whether taking it would have any real effect. Though, I have used Source
Natural's sublingual GABA tablets, and they do seem to work somewhat. It
could be a placebo effect, though I'm somewhat skeptical of that.

In any case, one of the main reasons for  GHB's development as a
supplement was that it crosses the blood brain barrier much more
efficiently.

Bodybuilders use it because it stimulates release of growth hormone from
the pituitary gland; but actual physical results of this haven't been too
promising in research that's been done.

From: BiscuitBoy714@...

I'm supposed to pick up my provider today and I'm so high on Methadone that I'm afraid I can't make it down there without nodding out at the wheel. Its wed September the 30th. I think. Well, that doesn't happen, so I don't have to worry about that anymore, I have to go to Harlem a little dope sick cause there aint no more. After much ado we meet up and this guy is sitting next to me going back to the Catskills. Immediately I know this guy is wise as hell, he oozed an all is well feeling from his aura somehow. When we get back up here I took a 3 mg. per kg. test dose and laid down. In about 30 minutes it hit me right between the eyes. It was the hardest I hallucinated the whole time. I opened my eyes and looked at trails off of my hands. Wow, never seen'em like that before and everything was covered in shimmering liquid metal or plasma or what ever. I closed my eyes and laid back and concentrated on my trip. This si when I was wondering what it would look like in space and bam I'm floating about 50 feet off the ground looking down at a big log in a field. I shoot up incredibly fast but keep my eye on the same spot on the ground and its getting smaller real fast. When we break the atmosphere we hesitate just a second and then, blast off we are going in warp drive away from earth and it gets smaller and smaller as I watch out the porthole. Now I say we because it felt like I was with somebody and he or she was driving. That was the most vivid trip I ever experienced. I mean I was there. After about 12 hours and what seemed like 4 or 5 hours of sleep in that time, I took another 3mg. dose. I'm getting used to the feeling now and I get cocky and move around too much and yak out my toenails about this time. I kept every pill down the whole time though. After about 8 hours the withdrawals came back. Another 3mg. dose. About 4 hours later same thing until about half of the meth was out of me. At this time I took the 16mg. per kg. dose and went in hard. All in all I laid down for about 36 hours I guess. I was never bored or scared. Trippin' for 36 hours aint my cup of tea but this was the most magical thing I ever witnessed. I saw pygmies floating by and they would look me right in the eye. I saw pretty African women dancing in unison wearing yellow dresses with red and orange flowers on them. There was a feeling of love or something in it. My shaman told me to ask it stuff and I did, it worked. At one point I conjured up a real cool  design kinda like the Mind Vox symbol. I just decided I wanted to see it and it appeared. This step method of Methadone de-tox is the only way to go I would think. I feel a few little twinges but almost non existent withdrawals every once in a while but it isn't anything to worry about. I'll stay occupied. I've got a lot of stuff to do and a 1001 moves I can make. I've never felt a freedom like this before.             Randy

From: UUSEAN@...

I took my tester at 2:00 PM with an anti nausea.  By 3:45 I began my flood.  I laid in a totally dark hotel room and waited.

At first I began to streaks of liquid light. I knew the trip was about to begin.  I closed my eyes and the movie began.

I saw a baby coming down a long dark tunnel, moving toward a distant pinpoint of light. The baby just kept traveling down the dark tunnel...suddenly the scene changed and there was a woman holding a baby adoringly.  Looking at the baby with son much joy and love.  The I saw more people and more people doing the same thing. Holding their babies, loving them, adoring them,,,,until there were hundreds of men and women holding their babies. Soon they all started to spin with their babies in lovely green field.

I focused in on one person in the field, and suddenly the baby was gone. It was a lovely woman in her late twenties. Slowly she aged, thirties, forties, sixties, until she looked to be 100, very old and gnarled and withering. Then she turned to dust and was gone. A thought passed my mind, quietly. "Everything passes, everything passes.

Around this time I opened my eyes in the pitch black room. I looked up at the ceiling and saw a man I recognized floating across the ceiling. I said, I know who that is, it's Dana Beale!  Then he slid down the wall and disappeared.

Next I saw panoramic vistas..clear blue water, amazing mountain ranges..the colors were crisp and vibrant. An awesome summer day in the mountains. I swam in a pool of water fed by the mountains. I was so peaceful and joyous.

then I saw my parents. I thought how they are getting old and will pass one day. I became very sad at this thought. Again the message in my head..everything passes, everything passes.

I saw my using buddies next.  I was the street hustlers of Christopher park one by one.  I became very sick to stomach watching them. I mean really ill. I thought I would vomit if I kept looking at them, then they were gone.

A bear came next. First he was looking really menacing and ferocious, ready to pounce. But as I looked at him, he relaxed and became calm.

The babies returned at various intervals. The sunfilled panoramic vistas returned. My parents returned.....

Then I remember just lying still.  And calm. I talked to the addict madman within myself and said, "We are done with it now. It's time to move on. It's time to move on.

It was about 14-15 hours later.  Around four AM Tuesday.  The liquid flashes returned, but the visuals ended.

By 10:00 the next morning I was sitting in a whirl pool bathroom. Shortly later I puked up my first my meal, a fruit salad. I spent the next three days in a hotel suite with my provider.  MarcC stopped by and spent Tuesday night with us. I have head no cravings since. My mind is crisp and calm. It's Friday morning now and back home.

All day today, the colors of the world were so incredibly bright and beautiful. It's like looking at the world for the first time again. I have deep sense of peace, and none of the addict chatter that has plagued me for years. I feel free.

Sean

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From: tents444@...

http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmmall.htm This page just created! Please forward and distribute widely.

348 MMM cities worldwide since 1999!
 

MMM. All cities 1999 to date. Million Marijuana March. Global Cannabis Liberation in May. Worldwide since 1999. Cannabis events on the first Saturday in May, or that weekend, or thereabouts. Marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, etc..

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To get on the poster for 2005--update your contact details & add yr city to this New List:

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Million Marijuana March. MMM. Cannabis Liberation Day!
The detailed MMM 2005 city list at the end of the above
forwarded email has been deleted since it has some private
postal info, etc. in [brackets]. Go to cures-not-wars.org
(eventually) for a detailed MMM 2005 city list for
May 7, 2005! http://www.cures-not-wars.org

A basic MMM 2005 city list with email addresses and
webpage links is here:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005.htm ~
MMM webform for adding or updating MMM cities worldwide:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/webform.htm

Dana Beal's MMM email compilations are archived here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmworld ~
To subscribe to the email list send a blank email to:
mmmworld-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

The MMM city list alone can be subscribed to from here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmnet ~
Or you can subscribe by sending a blank email to:
mmmnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com