Fwd: Coca-colonization

1998-03-27 Thread Michael Pearlman






 AREA STUDENTS KOWTOW TO CORPORATE AMERICA

 Evans, Georgia(AP) -- If your high school guidance counselor was right and
 there is such a thing as "your permanent record", this is going on Mike
 Cameron's: In 1998, he was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.

 School officials say the shirt was an insult to visiting Coca-Cola executives
 and ruined a school picture in which students spelled out "Coke."

 Cameron says it was just a joke.

 "In my eyes, I didn't do anything wrong, " the 19-year-old senior said
 Wednesday while serving his one-day suspension.

 "I know it sounds bad -- 'Child suspended for wearing Pepsi shirt on Coke
 Day,'" said Gloria Hamilton, principal of Greenbrier High School in Evans,
 about 130 miles east of Atlanta, the world headquarters of Coca-Cola.

 "It really would have been acceptable if it had just been in-house, but we had
 the regional president here and people flew in from Atlanta to do us the honor
 of being resource speakers. These students knew we had guests."

 The Coke in Education Day was part of Greenbrier's effort to win a $500 local
 contest run by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Augusta and a national contest
 with a $10,000 prize.

 Cameron wore a blue-and-white-striped shirt with a small Pepsi logo underneath
 another shirt. He waited until just before the picture was taken to remove his
 outer shirt, Hamilton said.

 After getting caught, Cameron was sent to the principal's office where he said
 Hamilton "talked about how important that day was to the school and that I
 might have cost the school 10 grand."

 The Coke contest offers $500 to the Columbia County school that comes up with
 the most creative method of distributing promotional discount cards to
 students.

 In addition to the school picture, Greenbrier officials invited a Coke
 marketing executive to address economics students, had chemistry students
 analyze the sugar content of Coke and used a Coca-Cola cake recipe in home
 economics.

 "In the past, when kids have decided to ruin a school picture -- occasionally
 we have some who decide that's the time to do an obscene gesture -- they've
 been given six days of suspension, " the principal said. "So it's not a new
 situation."

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 http://cnn.com/US/9803/25/pepsi.suspension.ap/index.ht ml


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Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-03-08 Thread Michael Pearlman
t it all out at once.

Fallen right down on the wheelhouse floor he's out cold Lord this brings
us
up to what's happenin' again folks. The Titanic she's sailin' around in
between the icebergs. Every body else is havin parties the Jewish people

they jumpin' up n' down they tradin' wives n' Cadillacs n' diamonds n'
drinkin' booze. Everybody else is hoistin' up land lubbers, battenin'
down
hatches n' doin' sail things. The First Mate's hangin' over there on the

rail havin' himself a little smoke n' diggin' icebergs. And the
Captain's
out cold on the wheelhouse floor.

It was midnight on the sea, the band was playin' "Nearer my God to Thee"

Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

Now he wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board they said this ship don't haul
no
coal Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

All of a sudden the Captain's eyes popped wide open and stood right
up
straight. Grabs a hold o' de wheel Looks on out at the bow o'
dat
boat n' he say I'M GONNA MOVE YOU BABY!

And he did right on into an iceberg n' she went right on down.

It was midnight on the sea, the band was playin' "Nearer my God to Thee"

Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

Now he wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board they said this ship don't haul
no
coal Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

That's the true story of the Titanic, folks. She went right to the
bottom
she took with her all the Jewish people all the first mates. She took
with
him the Captain she took with him the land lubbers. She took with him
the
masked marvel comic books, the tennis racquet and four hundred n'
ninety-seven n' a half feet o' rope.

Meanwhile back on the stateside ol' Jack Johnson why he's standin' up on
the
pier he's fishin' away he's got himself a little stick n' a line n' he
gets
a tug he pulls it on up n' it's a big wet blue soggy mess n' on the
inside
on the lining written in big gold letters it says "USS Titanic" and
stuck
right above it was a wet roach.

That boy was so happy. He started doin' the eagle rock up n' down that
pier
like it's goin' outta style he go... He gonna do the eagle rock now
everybody in for the eagle rock. Oh rock!

It was midnight on the sea, the band was playin' "Nearer my God to Thee"

Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

Now he wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board they said this ship don't haul
no
coal Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.

   Fare thee well Titanic goin down!

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Re: the Titanic

1998-02-23 Thread Michael Pearlman

Here's Phil Ochs' definition of liberalism, from back in the day:

As for a short aphorism about the future of capitalism (rather than a
metaphor),  how about "Socialism or Barbarism."  I think that's usually
credited to Rosa Luxemburg.

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs

Love Me, I'm a Liberal

By Phil Ochs

C
I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
  Am
Tears ran down my spine
  C
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
D  G
As though I'd lost a father of mine
C
But Malcolm X got what was coming
   F
He got what he asked for this time
   C FC  G  C F  C
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad the commies were thrown out
of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I read New republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democtratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Notes:

Lerner  Golden were both columnists with left-leaning tendencies. Harry

Golden, a humorist, wrote some marvelous books and short stories. One I
recall is his plan for integration in schools in the south (this was
back
when). Since the Southerners didn't mind blacks standing next to whites
when
making purchases in stores, he proposed that they take out all the
chairs in
the schools and let the students stand to learn. He called this
"vertical
integration".

Les Crane had a talk show in the south. (Nothing virulent like the
current
ones!)

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Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon did a cover of this song with some updated
lyrics. Mojo Nixon sang this updated version solo on Comedy Central
during
their 1996 State of the Union show.

Chords supplied by Guy Matz
6 Jul 97 trent

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Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-18 Thread Michael Pearlman

One important aspect of the Titanic disaster not mentioned in the film
or on the list:

The White Star Line made a particular point of not hiring any Black
workers, even porters or coal stokers, who were common on other
steamships.  The sinking was celebrated in African-American communities
as an act of  retribution, probably one of the first examples of what
now might been called the "O.J. Simpson phenomenon."



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Question on Indonesia/Currency Board

1998-02-18 Thread Michael Pearlman
confidence in it.”

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A question on US-Iraq

1998-02-16 Thread Michael Pearlman

I would be interested if members of the list might give their opinion on
the following:

Are the most powerful sectors of capital in the US as sympathetic to
attacking Iraq as it seems? Why?

Or is there some alternative explanation, in the realm of the political
superstructure for all of this:  Israeli lobby control of Clinton,
right-wing maneuvering, "wag the dog," whatever.
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Emergency Help for Antiwar Action Needed

1998-02-11 Thread Michael Pearlman

Bill Clinton will be speaking this Friday (in less than 48 hours) at the
convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
Philadelphia.  Antiwar activists are organizing a
picket/vigil/demonstration at 11:30 AM at 12th and Market Sts.

If anyone is attending this convention or knows someone who is that
would be willing to attend a press conference there and speak out
against war preparations, please contact Berta Joubert at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or (215) 727-1618.

Please forward this to other lists with members who might be interested.


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