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the new human be(gin)in  pp2-9

Lula: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory p.2

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT
HAFFA MILLION ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATERS
IN THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS BUSH’S WAR p.12

LondonLog 4
AN AMERICAN IN LONDON p.15

“BUSH WON HIS ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE
- BY 5 TO 4 IN THE US SUPREME COURT” SAYS CLINTON  p.20
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do u ever wonder if the world is going mad?  most of the time?  me too.
(it’s my first deadline-free day since I started planning last friday’s be-in :)

even leaving aside this mad iraq war bizness (ever noticed it’s IRA with a Q added  part of the demonisation of the man no doubt:) where the planet’s biggest industrial power feels daily threatened by one of the smallest industrial powers which couldn’t even hit israel a few years ago from a hundred yards, nor beat iran in ten years, these last couple of weeks have delivered an abundance of incipient insanities.

i don’t exempt the new human be-in from this, but more on this later :)

take the latest scientific “miracle” for example.  in the same week in which they announce a gigantic campaign to introduce a genetically modified virus into africa’s (and eventually the planet’s) mosquito population, news comes in that early gene therapy trials on very young human babies has produced leukaemia in some of them!  some ‘unpredictable complication’ for chrissake!  Operation Successful / Patient 3 heads with green slime for eyes.

does someone pull a button and put a dead stop to the mosquito tampering plans of some other department?  who would do that?  the prime minister?  too much computer-created investment in the whole genetic bubble to take the risk. 
when the hell will we start spotting bubbles before they really get growing?  never?  or are we almost there?

HERE’S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE MADNESS

Lula: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
‘Lula’ Luiz Inacio da Silva, Brazilian Worker’s Party (PT) presidential candidate, looks increasingly likely to win the Sunday 6th October presidential election BUT IT WON’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE AND HERE’S WHY:

Millions of ordinary Brazilians (just as here and in many, even most countries) have high hopes for a clear shift away from past years of ‘Washington Consensus’ market reforms designed to open up their economy to world markets. 
For Brazil, like other Latin America countries, the combined policy of market openness, attracting inward investment and export-led growth "has not brought the prosperity they had been promised: steadily growing imports have eliminated jobs, and many of its most competitive exports (steel, orange juice, shoes) continue to face significant barriers abroad." Financial Times.

SO THAT’S ALL RIGHT THEN.  THE PEOPLE WANT TO RUN THEIR COUNTRY DIFFERENTLY.  EASY ENUFF IN A DEMOCRACY, RIGHT?  WRONG!
Millions voted against in a plebiscite on Brazil’s proposed joining of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the campaign organised by the Catholic Church, labour unions and NGOs s.  So for millions of ordinary Brazilians, now it seems their time has come in the form of their saviour: Lula, who’s scoring increasingly gigantic leads in the opinion polls.  BUT IT WON’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL!

Because, unbeknown to them - and possibly even to Lula himself - the very manner in which global financial markets work ensures that the policies implemented by Lula or any other incumbent must necessarily conform to the interests of global investors and not to those of Brazilian voters.


HERE’S HOW THE SYSTEM SCREWS YOU
The left-of-centre ‘New Labourish’ policies of higher social/ environmental desired by the electorate and promised by Lula will inevitably cost business more: just that, but because we are all run by a mad cut-throat, short term, bottom-line economic system, this makes Brazil a relatively unattractive place for global investors.
And, indeed, investors have been pulling funds out of Brazil over the past weeks, ultimately forcing it to submit to the tender mercies of the IMF.  Check this Financial Times report on June 24th:

“SITUATION CRITICAL
On Friday, the Real plunged to an all-time low against the dollar... Spreads on the country's sovereign bonds have widened alarmingly. The country's stock market, Latin America's biggest, has fallen to its lowest level this year.  International investors, it seems, are bailing out in droves. ... Just weeks ago, international policy-makers were singing Brazil's praises for exhibiting few, if any, signs of contagion from Argentina, its deeply troubled neighbour. ....
At the root of market concerns is Lula... Since early May, Lula's increasing opinion poll lead over Jose Serra has raised the possibility that the former metalworker will become Brazil's next president."
The markets are already delivering their "CASTING VOTE" on who is to run Brazil - weeks before the election!

For, though the people of Brazil continue to resolutely support Lula even through the crisis that’s forced Brazil to ‘accept’ IMF assistance, the actual conditions which all four main candidates have now been forced to accept obliges them to now follow severe austerity programmes, cuts in public services and, of course, yet more privatisation.  As the Financial Times (Oct 2, 2002) explains:
"To secure its $30bn IMF funding package, Brazil agreed to increase the size of it primary budget surplus… to 3.75% of gross domestic product. All four main candidates have agreed to maintain this policy into next year."

And that’s it.  The aspirations of millions of Brazilians are doomed to be disappointed.  Lula, "in power" yet powerless to buck market / corporate demands and IMF conditionality, will end up trying to fool a disappointed electorate through the kind of limp, ‘Third Way’ spin which other countries have come to expect from the world’s ‘New Labour’ parties.


THERE ARE NO REPTILES IN CHARGE, THAT’S THE POINT
The “markets" or global investors are not some sinister ‘evil conspiracy’ bent on subverting democracy for their own benefit.  “The System made me do it”!!  Investment managers can’t afford to accept lower returns in Brazil when they could be earning greater ones elsewhere.  Who’d choose to deposit funds with an investment company not at the top of the profits-delivery league?  Far from any conspiracy, we’re talking about the blind impersonal forces of destructive competition engendered by today’s global free movement of capital; forces which affect society from top to bottom, which are beyond democratic accountability and nation states.
Not democracy, but a kind of global market dictatorship which demands business- and market-friendly policies regardless of the party in power.  No nation, institution or investor has any control over this destructively competitive vicious circle.  Even if all the G7 nations attempted to re-regulate global markets, capital and corporations would, to safeguard profits, share price and jobs, necessarily flee to the many non-G7 financial centres.  Do so they must.  Not to do so would be to lose out to other investors or corporations that do. 
The IMF , which people fondly imagine can solve such problems, has also become enslaved to the myopic ‘Washington Consensus’ mind-set which takes the global free movement of capital as its unquestioned starting point; which assumes competition to be exclusively beneficial.  And thus, by ignoring competition’s destructive side, they’re destined to exacerbate the world’s economic problems while thinking they’re solving them.

THE BIG BANG
Ironically, genuine democracy went out with a loud bang back in the 1980s: the much-vaunted ‘Big Bang’ of Reagan-Thatcher financial market de-regulation.  Out-of-control global market competition has been seen before - it led to the two World Wars. 

Unless the nations of the world learn to cooperate to re-regulate global markets, global economic and environmental problems can only get worse.  If we fail to cooperate, humanity will, once again, assuredly pay the price.
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UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.


not mad enuff 4 u yet?  try this then:

U.S. AGRICULTURE VULNERABLE TO BIOTERROR ATTACK
A new report from the National Academies' National Research Council warns that a large scale agricultural bio terrorism attack would quickly overwhelm existing laboratory and field resources because of an inability to rapidly detect and identify many pests and pathogens.
NOW ASK YOURSELF:  WOULD A WHITEY MASS SLAUGHTER OF IRAQUIS MAKE US SAFER (LIKE THE AFGHAN TURKEY SHOOT DID?)
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsredirect.html?newsid=1273&m=5435
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to.  As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.


the new human be-gin-in
and then there’s the NEW HUMAN BE-IN.  what happened? 
glorious madness is wha’appen, there were as many Be-Ins as there were people there.  which is not unusual with events on this scale.  one thing can be said for certain:  it was the be-gin-in of something!  we didn’t achieve it in one hit but a light was shed on the Path ahead, of this there is no doubt.

a little history of the NEW HUMAN BE-IN
i was asked to kick off a new one and decided it could be a great hope for a planet falling helplessly into global paranoia and eternal war.  i don’t regret, by even one iota:
it was something that HAD to be done
and now it’s done, and the Next Step is begun. 
nor do i claim (how could i!) that we did a perfect job, no way!  but many many many positive things happened and will continue to happen because of it.  it was the be-gin-in of something!
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

Dear all,
unbelievable, unique experience.  i got many pics from last friday.

i was there from 6.30pm - 8pm and from 0.00 to 9.30am...
i was lucky enough to meet as well mr. fraser clark for a while and most of you... i am excited and happy!

please, let me know when the next gather-in is.
love and respect,
jorge  / spain
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM FOUR.  When you say, "I love you", mean it.


the madness comes in as a sort of contact madness picked up from the surrounding dinosaurs.  how could it not happen?  there are the commericial pressures for one thing, the legal pressures, the pressures of people having to earn a living when they’d rather be working for the planet etc etc

and then, among all the openings and networkings and learnings there comes a tragedy.  a young guy who the papers say was 19 jumped off one of the side balconies to die 60 hours later.  who knows what was in his mind?  the war perhaps?  well, of course it was, it was on everyone’s mind at some level.  the war is just part of the technically insane world we live in.  
i learn later from the media that it was his birthday and he came to the BE-In with a dozen freinds, one the son of a Tory Member of Parliament, which seems to be the angle the press has chosen to go for.
how sad.  is such personal suffering an inevitable part of Life, or just of Modern Life?

Ho Fraser,
Thank you for all the energy you put into creating such a wondrous New Human Be-In.  You deserved better than that poor guy jumping the night into tragedy.  Now all we can do is not attach to the madness that threw him /envision all the life-affirming currents in Ocean that night / evokehis release and safe journey through the portals...
And live to dance another day.
love and healing,
John Crow
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM SEVEN.  Believe in love at first sight.

if you were driving the train that someone jumped under would u blame yourself?  in ANY way?  other than that it’s obviously the present world that drives people crazy and you’re already working full-time to change it?  that’s how i see it.  but some of the team were and still are very upset, and i understand that some of them and others want to mark it more.  out of which has come the idea of a team who go round LOOKING FOR TRUBBLE  b4 it gets to a head, which seems a correct and excellent idea.  perhaps we could call the team after the poor young guy?


HUMAN BE-IN TRIUMPH
Dear Fraser,
Don't worry, it wasn't your fault.  We all had a great time, er, except for one person.  Thanks!
If I might make a suggestion: in the future, as a consequence of what has happened, we should consciously invoke some kind of protection for the event in the opening ritual, and actually request Harmony and Concordance.
You had a Sun-conjunct Mercury happening right as the event started, which was very alchemical.
Cheers,
Nick K.
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM SIX.  Be engaged at least six months before you get married.


the club was only half full, a thousand people so varied i won’t even attempt to break it down.  from californian elders and 80 year old rosie queen of clubs to teenagers at their first club event and full-on fluroed fluffies, buddhist meditators to ex-punks. 
because it was only half full the underlying emotion (which felt very very strong and binding to me) never really reached the victorious level that only a full house can deliver, but neither did it fall into depression but kept going strongly through the night, even after the personal tragedy outlined above. 
it’s only been during this following week, as the reports have rolled in, that the overall picture has begun to form in my mind.  you could argue over where the numbers were (and we will) and you can conclude, as i have done, that the main reason was almost certainly that, with the Big Demo on the following day, it became a CHOICE of events for all but the full-on ravers who could do both and did, but it now looks to me like the idea of Uniting The Tribes with one event was very very ambitious indeed (moi?) and what it looks like is happening is a slower more organic process.  A BE-GIN-IN.
the london-san francisco leyline HAS been opened.  the californians who came over have been exploring all over london and europe’s underground, many connections have been made and many more will evolve from all this.  none of this would have happened without the BE-IN.
and the crossing of politics into clubland has begun, unquestionably. 
particularly with the sad death, underground london is talking and analysing and comparing notes on this BE-In phenomenon; its echoes, it seems to me, will only get deeper and more resonant as time passes.  at the very least the questioning has been planted.  why, even the liquid-connective event which ran against us (another reason for lower numbers) changed its package to a political benefit half way through the pre-campaign, which is the point of what we were and are attempting!  :)  and, of course, the Time Out article put the issue before tens of thousands of others who were never remotely going to attend  or not immediately, not until they hear it’s becoming hip :)
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.


Thanks to Penny, Fraser and everyone involved in putting on such a memorable event.  There are some nights that blend into each other, then there are the ones that stand out.  The Be-In was definitely of the latter variety!

It was a unique opportunity to meet and listen to many interesting people in person and learn from some of their knowledge and understanding of the world that we live in.

We had an excellent time and would be happy to be-in-volved in any future Be-In's!

I appreciate that there were some hardships in getting the numbers and making ends meet.  Considering that there were other large events occurring the same night, notably the Liquid Connective party, I would say the Be-In still did very well in attracting people.  Putting on an event with a “new" name and concept is always harder than organising an event when a name and "following" have already been established.

Ocean was a very good venue for this event when having so many interesting visitors doing the speeches and forums.  Compared, however, to the old Drome, some people in the "alternative culture" think it’s a bit fancy and pricey, both of which might dissuade them from participating.
- me, i think it’s time we moved up to take control.  we never went ‘underground’ to stay there but to gather our forces, learn our lessons and then re-emerge to change the culture we live in.

In either case the clubbing community and culture is much richer as a result of the event!  I am also sure that the event helped in generating the huge turnout for the anti-war demonstration, thus making a real contribution to world peace!

Thank you again.
Johan / Access All Areas / London
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM EIGHT.  Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

i reckon johan is getting close with that comment on generating the demo turnout; the news was rippling round alternative/dance culture through the summer and perhaps even more now!  the issue has been planted in the culture. 

for the record, i/we had 2 primary aims with the NEW HUMAN BE-IN. 
1.        the PRIMARY AIM was to DO EXACTLY WHAT THE ORIGINAL BE- IN AIMED TO DO  namely to re-unite the peace&lovers with the politically engaged.  that was its true value.  and that is how the NEW HUMAN BE-IN should and will be judged.  i think we succeeded in this aim and that this event will come to be seen as the be-gin-ing of the re-birth of a new movement (a movement being defined as a cultural phenomenon which can bind a large number of disparate movements into One which then has the chance to succeed.  for do not fool yourself that anything less than millions of people in the streets (and around the globe) will ever stop the powers that be from what they’re planning.



I had a great time... my talk went down well I tink... some laughter, some whoops of yeah and that generalised sense of doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
I then spent the rest o the night with niall and john in the shamanic poetry corner going crazy... then out into the dawn for chai on the war memorial.

Great, just great...thank you.
Hope the finances are not too apocalyptic!
piers gibbon / london
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM THIRTEEN.  When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
2.        the second aim of the NEW HUMAN BE-IN was to celebrate the spirit of the original Be-In and it’s instigators and survivors.  ‘a score or more of the ‘ard core’ came over at their own expense, but, by the time they’d found the money or will to come over, we didn’t have a proper space in which to present them.  perhaps i should have cancelled the shamanic poets corner as some have suggested, but the poets had been confined to a freezing back hall last year at the Den of Enlightenment and were surely due a proper site this time.   oh, the trials and tribulations of the shaman promoter!  handing them the front restaurant after 2am seemed a brilliant idea at the time but the death and subsequent disorder made it far less than it should have been.  sorry guys and thanks for coming, it was an honour to have you there, for myself and everyone and the culture in general and the alternative fyouture in particular!! :)
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM NINE.  Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.


Hey Fraser,
Just wanted to congratulate you on a successful nite I really enjoyed it (although I rather naively expected to see lots of Pranksteresque stuff like Dungarees made out of Stars n Stripes, and freaks bopping on LSD etc.)
But it was great to meet some of the people you had over, are you running it again?  How can I help?
Eamonn Costello
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM TEN.  In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.

yes, there was a fair amount of chaos and disorganisation.  no surprise there then.  personally, i know i put together the best team I ever had, but it’s not complete yet, lacking mainly an overall manager  a task i am no longer completely able to perform, nor do i wish to.  any good managers out there who haven’t bdeen driven to madness, power, greed or cocaine?
UP!

In our own diverse ways, we are all artists who are living on the edge, trying to bring more humanity into the lives of humans. Even though we give it our best, we sometimes fail to bring to life our grand visions. Most of us have been on both sides of these events. We have been promoters and we have been performers, and each carries with it different challenges.
         As a speaker at some events, I have felt abused, misunderstood, neglected, and taken for granted ... and this has been particularly hurtful at times when considerable personal sacrifice in time and resources was required.
         As a producer of large events like the BE-IN, however, I have also experienced the panic and chaos that unanticipated, last minute problems can create. So I can understand if frustration was experienced by the production team in not being able to provide the complete experience they’d worked so long and hard to produce.
         In the end, all we can do is to reaffirm our love for one another, attempt to better understand the problems we have created for ourselves, and find ways to move forward. There is nothing to be gained in recriminations, for I firmly believe that the intentions of everyone involved, including myself, are pure.  Hopefully we’ve discovered some clues we can follow to do a better job in the future of helping one another move the world a step closer to peace.
Peace, love, and light,
lorenzo / new york
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM TWENTY ONE.  Spend some time alone


and then, of course, we must remember the many many individuals going through their own inner transformations, most of them unnoticed and indeed unnoticeable from an organiser’s point of view, though he knows they’re happening which is why he’s doing it :)

UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM ELEVEN.  Don't judge people by their relatives.


My name is Mike and I’m getting back into the swing of life now, and getting some work done so I can go and party again.  Seeing as your party on Friday night touched just about every G spot in my body I’m very eager for more information about forthcoming events & input into ways I can help. 
My night was like a peach, a really juicy one dripping from my chin, the balcony was high up and heavenish, also the lower floors such as the smaller room where I was loving the music and people so much I forgot how to ask questions - lucky for me!  It was so nice, also the large room, I loved it, it was so upsetting to have to leave and also watch some friends I met that night leave too. The whole place erupted at a point of no return - fortunately no one wanted to, and off I sailed home from the most unique brain opening party I could have dreamed of!
Now I’m trying to hold down what I learned that night and keep it going and not stop. 
Thanks Thanks again and again and cheers; also I’m Mike Carroll and I went with Brandon and Robin and the friends I met; Habiba who is well nice, if you know her tell her Mike said hi and he wants to see her again  also Sheaf; Shanti and Lotta.
What a night, leaving me the most Desiring man in the world; +cd of the
moment Genetic Alpha State
thanks; God bless!
mike carrol / portsmouth
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM TWELVE.  Talk slowly but think quickly.


Hi Fraser,
It was a good night out - as entertainment - but not history-in-the-making. 
What went wrong? Apart from the balcony accident - which was very bad luck.

·         I saw only one person I know.  Which means that a lot of people who should have been there were absent.
- probably at the Demo.

·         The venue was too big and the various *happenings* too scattered around it
- we didn’t pull the expected number, see above.

·         The energy never escalated into magic.  The main arena was almost empty despite efforts of excellent DJs and spectacular light show.  This should have been the focus of the event - densely packed and throbbing with energy.  It was rather empty when we left around 2.30am. It was obvious by then that there was not going to be a significant explosion.

·         The speeches we heard were not good - except for Satish who is a charismatic rabble-rouser.

·         The FWBO-ers meditating was a v.nice idea, but not exactly a lightening rod for a wild party.
- heh heh.  but actually i think that worked perfectly.  you may be judging by ‘60s standards when the thing was for deeply repressed peo0ple to get off yer tits.  it’s a New Game now, involving many other things.
·         Everyone seemed rather subdued and a little too well-behaved.
- c above :)

I’m beginning to doubt that the 60s/early 70s magic can ever be resurrected.  Had high hopes for your event, and I did enjoy it enough to stay for some time.  But ground-breaking?  No.
Cheers.
Mary Finnigan / Bristol
- i reckon the cracks take a little longer to reach the surface than a single 12 hour marathon   but some of the connections I saw being forged  and forged myself  will go on building from now on, of that there is no doubt in my mind.
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM SIXTEEN.  When you lose, don't lose the lesson.


Heard it was good. 
Hope it wasn't you who jumped off the balcony when you heard how many people were on the guestlist.... ;)

Glad it went well, hope Raga's rite went well too.
- it went fantastically, she’s one of the stars of the night

Still, also glad I didn't miss the biggest ever anti war demo in Britain! I reckon even the high 400,000 estimate is low.  We were still waiting like sardines on the Embankment when the other end of the march arrived in Hyde Park!
Steve Dionysius
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM FIFTEEN.  Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.


PLANETISM?
Love your spam (with toast in the morning),
Do you think that 'Planetism' (peaceful info sharing and diverse planetary exchange) is the opposite of 'Globalism' (life threatening/ unaccountable global trade and blind profiteering)?
The reason I ask is that I think we need a new name to coin for those struggling against this Globalism, and realising that through this struggle is our honing of intent andthe forming of a nu (mass) earth based ethic/ spirituality.
Or maybe a name like the Tribe of Gaia, Gaiatribe.  Party Planet People, Cosmic Family or simply Earthlings
Manyone-Freo    W.Australia
- Earthism I reckon.  or maybe Gaiabolism tho it sounds ugly?
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM FOURTEEN.  Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.


I was disappointed with the BE-IN, it lacked the colour, energy and enthusiasm of Megatripolis.
- it lacked the numbers which explains most of the other things

Bland decor was largely to blame, the enchantment was lost.
The activists area was very small, little Megatripolis touches of love like Christians washing my feet were missed.  I know nothing stays the same but I felt the spirit was lost in a big bare building with too many stairs. I caught some of the speakers in the Youman room but it sounded like old geezers recounting their first trips.
Bar prices ok though, and best of all was seeing all my friends.
gab / musicshack
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM SEVENTEEN.  Remember the three R's:  Respect for self;  Respect for others;  Responsibility for all your actions.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT
HAFFA MILLION ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATERS
IN THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS BUSH’S WAR
Just a quickie about the anti-war demo in London last Saturday.  The media coverage has been such utter nonsense that I want to set the record straight.

Sky News Live were reporting 400,000 people, yet by the time they did their composed bulletins they'd dropped it to the police estimate of 150,000.  Even this wasn't low enough, and their headlines merely referred to 'tens of thousands'.  The rest of the media went with the coppers’ figures which, as anyone who's ever been on any march will know, can never be trusted.

The march was simply enormous.  We started from Embankment two hours after it moved off, and we were nowhere near the back.  It took us three hours to get to Hyde Park.  The figure of 400,000 seems about right.

This makes it the largest anti-war demonstration in British history.  What a brilliant thing to happen in the one country that's solidly backing the US government.

What I find profoundly moving is that it's about a war that hasn't started; thus, there's nobody being squeamish about what they've seen on telly; and even if the war does happen there's no prospect of major loss of British life.  People turned out on Saturday from selfless desire for peace and justice.  Beautiful.

Try finding that in our mass media; all I can find is a revolting dehumanised glee, as if they were gearing up for the World Cup.
merrick / oop north
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM EIGHTEEN.  Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.


Fraser -
Good weekend to you!  From sources more reliable than CNN (!) last week’s peace demo was a roaring success, my friends in the States were amazed.  Reliable sources put the figure on the demo in London at anywhere between 300 and 500,000 - with many people unable to get there due to the sheer numbers! Fan-fuckin-tastic, there will be more, we need more, we must have more! 
peacefrog
UP!  CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM NINETEEN.  When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.


enjoyed the Be-In party. diy stylee.
comments about same.
issue floor plan of venue to avoid dyslexics like me getting continuously lost!
- but getting continuously ‘lost’ has always been an aim of mine with a club.  by ‘lost’ people really mean ‘just started wandering around aimlessly’.  which is good for you in this over-achievement society
what is this life if, full of care,
we have no time to wander lost up and down the stairs? (a la wordsworth)

this to include approx times of responsible discussion and location.
ocean is in my mind not at all suitable for youni parties. london bridge was wicked, heaven also because it was intimate cosy and intimate.. also sexy.
- i loved the venue, and intend to continue there.  why didn’t u like it?  i love the feeling that we can hold our heads high, that we are coming into our own, and I love the location because we are, like, Art, when closer into town we’re, well, uno....

arrived 9pm.. unavoidable, missed san francisco discussion but am one of those with remarkable long-term memory. believe its not always a good idea to look up old friends cos uget upset by what u see/hear. would have liked to have lengthy one on one with im, but couldn’t. would have had im over for dinner/wine and that.. had i known{my fault} he looked tired and wasted. last time i saw him he was buzzy youf like me, in north beach, ’62, ‘63 and such. people must not be islands or erect fortresses...  its a killa!  short and long term.
memory of bowen (great name!} as manipulative confirmed by chet. he remembered my mucker dutch who was honest crook and lovable rogue. got me busted and slung in joint. always was a bit gullible - think gullible’s travels! it lasted for years but no regrets.
me live now and me love it! secret of life: vivid imagination heart and sense of humour. good health follow naturally.

one ting must say: dj's boring. worth looking for youf with talent. bang bang bang sucks. me like tricky disco cos i'm 'old' rock and roller! innit.

again live and willing to help if needed. work for liberation of planet and occupants.  wish there were more with YOUr heart!
brianx.
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Cheers for the new human be-in, it was most edifying. :)
robert evans
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Dear Fraser, it was good to meet u briefly @ the Be-In, and I enjoyed the event, spending most of my time in the relaxed atmosphere of the calm chill out area we created.  I got immersed in the healing area, and got high on water and the vibes & energy created there.  It was very unfortunate about the person who injured themself.
The atmosphere changed for me after that, and I had no energy left to carry on after we were allowed back into the club, so went home and slept like a baby ( I don't think I protected myself adequately against other people's energies on the night ).
I also hope that what happened won't put you or Ocean off from doing it all again, it had the right ingredients (I missed the opening ceremony, how was that? ).
kendra / oxford
- it was truly magickal.
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Did Woody Harrelson get you?  He asked me about someone 2 do with the night whose name I didn't know and said you'd know, described you, but 4got to mention the cap you were wearing.
Went on the march the next day and saw many people I'd seen the night before, which lifted my spirits, as did the sight of hundreds of thousands of people from everywhere.  I can't help but think that Georgey Boy is offering Tony a small cut of the proceeds from destabilising Iraq and taking the oil.
Haven't got this weeks UP! yet, which may be down to the fact that my Hotmail junk mail inbox was crammed with sex, baldness, money and viagra, or that you're still coming down from the event yourself.
Hope you're well.
xbx
barney green
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A service to map a person's entire genetic code is being offered by
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dozen diseases, and seems ideal for the new planetary oligarchies as they plan their empires.  But scientists are sceptical…
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//YOU FEEDBACK  LETTER OF THE WEEK
Bravo to the continuing excellence of the UP! but, in response to Paul Hithersay's letter regarding the evilness of Blair - while Blair's actions seem so blatant, is it not possible that this is all a front and that he is patiently wringing his hands, waiting for the Bush to burn?  My friends and I were discussing this the other day - how could someone like Tony Blair do such a 180 in his political stance?  Maybe because if he plays his cards right he will come out on top, relinquishing his support of Bush's gov't and becoming in effect, the hero?
Am I really far off in LaLa land on this one?  I don't know what to think anymore, I've realized that trying to rationalize my own behaviour at times is hard enough - rationalizing the insane behaviour of a world leader is pretty near impossible.....
niki  NYC
- I hope u r right, nikki, and I certainly don’t rule it out.
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I just wanted to say that I neither agree with Sharon's actions, nor think that killing Arafat is a solution. I do not, however, believe that Arafat truly wants peace. I think he wants to LOOK to the rest of the world, like he wants peace. I think he talks out of both sides of his mouth, and the fact that he keeps saying he wants peace, but his factions keep killing people, needs to be known!!
thanks,
natalie new york
- u r missing the main point.  u say “Killing Arafat is not a solution”  WHAT???!!!  listen to how their propaganda has captured the surface of our minds, my dear!  Murdering Arafat would be a monstrous CRIME FULL STOP! 
and, to drop several levels, blaming arafat for terrorism is like blaming the captain of a sinking ship for not stopping his crew jumping overboard.
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Peter Johnson / Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
- seems to work for george bush heh heh

Yes, Fraser, I laughed a little at that.  But let's not forget the following points:

1. He isn't elected by a majority vote.
2. Some of the clearest critiques of the events surrounding 9/11 are from american people. (Chomsky, Fisk etc)
- eh, Fisk is english, old chap :)

3. Americans Allen Cohen, Wavy Gravy, and Michael Gosney (presenting at the NEW HUMAN BE-IN) are.... Americans!  .... etc etc

The generalisation of a culture, arab or american,is the kind of tool one would expect a shit like Bush to utilise in order to achieve his aims.  But I can't see a justification for publishing similar attitudes here.
peter johnson / chicago
- but that’s why we invited them over!  but anyway, don’t we hold the germans at least partly responsible for hitler?
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is your shitty 40 hour a week drudgery a way
of life worth defending from fictional attack?
If your aim is to criticise the apathy of a nation while it's leaders behave like animals then do it clearly - by describing and criticizing the economics which lead to a large percentage of the population believing that the government’s on their side, that the capitalist press is rooting for them, and that their shitty 40 hour a week drudgery is a way of life worth defending from fictional attack.
Every nation has a large percentage of people who’d rather keep their heads in the sand than face the harsh realities of warfare.  A frustrating truth, yes, but those in power are the real movers and shoulder the real responsibility, and it’s critically important to keep this clear.  A broad ideological attack on "Americans" will simply cause resentment among those who ARE anti war and anti Bush.  It will also cause resentment among those americans who are unsure what all this means.
It also, I think, perpetuates a kind of anti-american racism. 
Similar attitudes were expressed about "Israelis" at last Saturday’s (huge) anti war march (largely ignored by the british media).
There’s such a huge Israeli lobby seeking Palestinian land return and a negotiated settlement based on pre '67 borders that blaming the current
situation on "Israel" effectively ignores them.
It’s the Israeli State, just as it’s the American State, and the state support of capitalist control and growth, which lies at the root of the
whole situation.

None of my american friends support this war.
None of my americans friends want Bush in charge.
peter johnson  london (just back from chicago!)
- agree with every word of that.  but I still say there’s a cut-off point where u say right that’s far enuff and beyond, and if it’s really not happening in your name then start shouting LOUDER!
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I used to get your newsletter... and then you disappeared... I thought maybe the same people that offed John Lennon got to your beacon of pure info.
I was going to go postal. Thanks for putting it on the line.
guy logan / paris
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LondonLog 4
AN AMERICAN IN LONDON

The End of Summer
Bank Holiday weekend marks the end of summer like Labor Day in America. 
Here the Notting Hill Carnival brought ¾ of a million people into a single neighborhood.  There Burning Man brought 30,000 plus of America's radical fringe to the Nevada desert.

Summer here means festival season.  I've stopped trying to keep track of them all.  Every time I turn around someone mentions another one  maybe this one's different because it's less commercial, has fewer people, a certain vibe. 

It started with Glastonbury Festival, which this year came back from the dead by virtue of the organizers agreeing to build a huge fence around the entire perimeter, stretching for miles.  The big complaint is how the character of the festival would change because previously thousands were able to gate-crash, allowing the creative poor to play a big part in the make-up of the crowd.  This year a steel monstrosity, like something out of a science fiction movie, kept the Travelers out.  Still, about 100,000 people paid to attend, and one of the organizers informed me that between staff and performers, another 40,000 people were there. 
Estimates for the previous festival two years ago seem to hover at 200,000 people.

One might get the crazy idea that the British like to gather in crowds.  And two weekends after Glastonbury an estimated 200,000 gathered on Brighton Beach for a free party put on by Fatboy Slim.  Pretty staggering, by American standards.  We're not talking one-offs like Summer of Love or Woodstock, but every year, multiple times per year.

The is almost the opposite experience, I thought it might be interesting to draw some general comparisons between Glastonbury Festival and Burning Man, though GF has a bit more in common with music festivals like Oregon Country Fair and Sierra Music Festival.

There is no doubt that BM and GF share the same festival meme.  Creative extravagance is the rule, resulting in temporary installations of every imaginable sort.  The emphasis at GM is on performance, not just art for art's sake, starting with the world-class line-up of bands on the three main stages.  Then, in areas like the Green Fields and Lost Vagueness, there are ongoing raves and performance tents, which is similar to the feel of BM.  The seriousness of the music at GF is not to be underestimated. Several acts over the years got their first break at GF before going on to world fame, and the main stages are showcases for the best of the best in modern, popular music.  This year I managed to see Orbital, Air and a tiny bit of Roger Waters while missing so many acts it boggles the mind.  Rod Stewart played as part of returning to his roots and Ozomatli from LA got a break on one of the main stages, while rumors that Pink Floyd would re-unite were only partially borne out by Roger Waters bringing the soul singer from Dark Side of the Moon into his re-cap of Floyd favorites.

Another key difference is the anti-commercial stance of BM, while GF has become such a huge institution that commercialism is part and parcel of it.  But the fact that there are numerous stalls to buy food and clothes and trinkets adds to the experience, in my opinion.  In general, the idea behind most British festivals is a return to nature, but a comfortable nature.  The landscape is verdant and idyllic, while the weather may or may not cooperate. Because GF is right at the beginning of summer, it runs the risk of rain, so it has quite a reputation as a mud-fest. 

Obviously the complaints about GF's commercialism aren't centered on the veggie food stalls or the big Greenpeace stand.  No, big corporate sponsors have put their stamp on the event, though the complaints seem to go all the way to the price of the tickets (about $150), which is most likely a lot less than it would be without the sponsors.  BM is roughly $200 to get in and most people incur vehicle rental costs on top of bringing a full supply of water and sundries.  The real cost of BM is obviously the installations, all of which are labors of love - meaning time, money and effort. Some of the installations are incredibly elaborate, and let's face it, they comprise the main entertainment. If you consider what it would cost to book a main act like any of the 30 or so at GF, one wonders how it can be so affordable.

There are also purely creative installations, like the whole of Lost Vagueness, stuff all over the Green Fields, Miniscule of Sound (the smallest nightclub in the world) and the Groovy Movie House, which showed an endless selection of provocative clips and films, including the Coldcut Timber video, Human Traffic, and footage of anti-capitalist protests in London. But even the so-called mainstream areas had cabarets of comedy, mini-theatre and offbeat musicians. Radio 1 (Britain's primary modern music station) had an excellent dance camp right in the heart of things.

With the Wall of China this year a lot of the creative types couldn't get in and contribute.  Knowing this would leave thousands of people stranded, some locals decided to throw a free party nearby, which sadly got shut down.  The result is the local town of Pilton got vandalized, but I guess the theory is that next year most of these Travelers, who are not especially tuned into radio or TV let alone Internet, will know better.

Perhaps this is a sad thing, but also inevitable in the evolution of an alternative gathering into an institution.  I suppose I feel like Burning Man is heading there any year now, as blasphemous as that sounds.  The anti-commercial nature of BM is particularly suited for America, where commercialism is the primary culture.  But anything that gathers steam and persists year to year starts to become an institution.  Still, the appeal of BM lies in its radical stance and the unifying quality of that otherworldliness, which creates a true community feeling for a brief week or so.  The crowds in GF are diverse, with a flavor of the mainstream. Though that in itself was impressive, as the overall vibe was mellow, laid back and peaceful, not drunken and raucous.  You could walk up to some folks who had built a little bonfire and feel comfortable, just being part of the happening.

Whose Culture is This, Anyway?
America and Britain have an interesting relationship.  While these Logs have attempted to capture some of the qualities of that relationship in anecdotal fashion, I think it's time to make some direct observations.

While it's true that most of the world is resentful of America's wealth, there is a surprising love of America in Britain.  Perhaps this is a recent phenomenon, as I'm told that London has become a lot more international and open in recent years.  I expected to find a lot more classism, snobbery and superior attitudes here, which I found in abundance growing up on the East Coast (and which, logic says, must have come from Britain).  Instead, I found a fierce and widespread belief in personal freedom, highly integrated minorities, an intellectual open-mindedness, fundamental support for creativity, and, of course, politeness.  But the most surprising aspect of culture here is a near-obsessive identification with American culture.

Here are a few examples. American TV and film are so prevalent that you almost wonder if the British think of them as foreign.  The equivalent of the TV guide gives the breakdown of every episode of every American sitcom, with elaborate attention to detail.  Apparently there was a British film industry at one point, but all the talent got sucked off to Hollywood.  The gossip magazines are all about American celebs.  Despite all this, I am impressed by the quality of British commercials, documentaries, nature and science shows, and some of the TV comedy, drama and local films. Generally there is a strong human element and high levels of creativity and polish.

Another example: American music.  There is a high level of expertise about Detroit house, the NY scene, hip hop, garage, techno, trance, what have you, as if the American variants are just part of the overall family.  They take their music here quite seriously.  I have never seen as many culture magazines in the average corner store.  The music media take all kinds of positions on very particular sub-varieties of music and music scenes, which certainly go beyond London to places like Manchester, Liverpool, and Bristol. Remember, we're talking about a country that's maybe half the size of California.

So how important is American music to the music scene here?  Very. American musicians are idolized, just like American film celebrities.  There is a kind of reverence for the innovative character of creativity in America. People over there are so free and wild.  They come up with the most amazing stuff, which then is imported straight away.  Now mind you, there is plenty of American music that doesn't carry over, as tastes here can be quite discriminating and judgmental. But when there's wild originality, the Brits are generally all over it.

This is perhaps why every foreigner I meet in London thinks this city is the most international place on the planet.  The roots of this openness go back to the Commonwealth, with many colonized cultures taking root in the heart of the empire.  Some parts of England are still quite backward and provincial, but in London you see and hear every sort of foreigner.  The Indians and blacks are really British, while a popular TV show makes fun of an Indian family “blending" into mainstream culture with obvious differences.

The point is, the British culture is used to absorbing other cultures.  It sees value in doing that. The phrase "melting pot" actually applies here.  My experience in America is one of multiple nationalities struggling for position, colliding with each other or remaining separatist, being "unified" by laws, taxes and McDonalds - and oh yes, the never-ending quest for me-first prosperity, if that could be said to confer any unifying tendency.

So back to American culture in Britain.  I see a sort of informal colonization going on, or let's say a culling action.  It's as if in the process of idolizing American originality, the Brits absorb the best of what America produces and cultivate it.  A clear example is health food and alternative healing. I have been amazed by the popularity and prevalence of health foods and every sort of alternative healing I have ever run across in California, and let's face it, northern California is one place where this stuff thrives. So one theory goes like this: the Bay Area is the breeding ground, and then it gets picked up in NY and then London, to the point where now you have organic foods in every supermarket, quaint little health food stores in many neighborhoods, and all kinds of holistic healing workshops and seminars and conferences.

Let's not forget that osteopathy is an old, established tradition in Europe, which is quite similar to chiropractic, and herbal medicine (of the European variety) comes from ancient Europe. Ayurvedic is Indian, as is yoga, and obviously there's plenty of Indian cultural influence here.  And it remains true that health food has been a popular movement in Germany for a number of years, while Europeans have been particularly vocal against genetically modified foods.  But the modern health and healing craze is obviously influenced by California.  Another more realistic theory is that northern California attracts the alternative mindset from other parts of the world and incubates it, allowing it to become viral, and then receptive places like Britain get infected.

Which brings me to my final point.  Freedom is a western ideal.  I believe it started in ancient Greece and eventually made its way to America via Britain.  The British think America is the land of freedom. But on average, I see a lot more passionate belief in freedom among Brits.  This relates to my carefully considered dissatisfaction with California, one of the most purportedly free places on the planet.  Yes, in California there is plenty of openness and acceptance of diverse cultures, preferences and points of view.  Yes, there is an "anything goes" attitude. What I missed, though, from my painful youth on the east coast, is a sense of passionate commitment to core beliefs.  At least when you're oppressed, you have something to fight against.  Struggle builds character.

The Brits idolize American freedom because they feel so shackled by their history, institutions, and social structure.  But this also means most Brits are quite passionately clear about personal rights, boundaries, responsibility and creativity.  The monarchy makes government less political, and government has its place.  The same passion that fuels a debate in a bar also fuels the discovery of the telephone. 

As a person of Asian descent, I have huge admiration for the belief in the sovereignty of the individual.  Asian cultures lost that somewhere along the way.  Innovation and creativity are essential to a healthy human species.  But knowing what I know now, I would say America is not the most free place on the planet. It started off with some ideals, but laws and government have stepped in to replace the sovereignty of the individual. I am grateful for my 20 years on each coast, which have given me two very different pictures of freedom. The economic muscle of America is supporting an insular sense of numbness as the laws and government edge toward the totalitarian.

So wake up, America, the emperor has no clothes.  Freedom can look very different from different perspectives.  I am just lending mine as it evolves.  Special thanks to my very special Lulu for helping me hone these thoughts about freedom (and who, by the way, likes America).
phil chang (now resident in london)
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“BUSH WON HIS ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE
- BY 5 TO 4 IN THE US SUPREME COURT” SAYS CLINTON
Like a deposed leader seeking refuge in a friendly nation, Bill Clinton came to Blackpool to deliver a message that can barely be heard in today's America.

He had to be careful.  Convention dictates that a former president give respectful support to his successor, especially when speaking abroad.

But yesterday Clinton - whose dazzling, dizzying career broke every rule in the US book - broke those rules, too.  He did it artfully, sometimes in code, but the 42nd president of the United States used the floor of the Labour party conference to unleash an acid critique of the Bush administration.

He often did it by praising Tony Blair, implicitly for his efforts in restraining the current president.  Still, Clinton's meaning was clear: he regarded current US policy as badly misguided.

For one thing, Washington had got its priorities wrong.  "I still believe our most pressing security challenge is to finish the job against al-Qaeda," he said, echoing many of those, including his former vice-president, Al Gore, who fear a war on Iraq will only divert energy from the immediate battle against Osama bin Laden.  With his call for greater US troop commitment to Afghanistan and a humanitarian effort to rebuild the country, he was sending a message to Washington: first things first.

On the specifics, he raised almost every one of the core arguments that have been deployed by the anti-war camp.

He stressed that inspections should be given one last chance before the "last resort" of military action.  After all, he said, inspections had been effective, robbing Saddam of more arms than were ever destroyed in the Gulf war.

With that Clinton fondness for wonkish detail, he rattled off the full list of hardware the monitors had taken off Baghdad: "40,000 chemical weapons, 100,000 gallons of chemicals used to make weapons, 48 missiles, 30 armed warheads and a massive biological weapons facility equipped to produce anthrax and other bio-weapons".  Inspections worked, he said, even when Saddam got up to his old tricks, playing cat-and-mouse.

He made the moral argument against war, noting from his own experience that, no matter how precise or smart your bombs, "innocent people will die".   He endorsed the view that nothing was more likely to prompt Saddam to use his weapons of mass destruction than the prospect of "certain defeat" by a US-led attack.  He raised the hypocrisy charge, noting that it was (Republican-ruled) Washington in the 1980s which had helped arm Saddam.

He went further, speaking out against the very notion of pre-emptive strikes against enemy states.  Who knows what "unwelcome consequences" that might have in the future, he asked, echoing those anti-war voices who fear a war on Baghdad might set a terrible precedent.  As for "regime change", sometimes declared as an official US war aim, Clinton was clear.  That could be pursued even if the world got its way on new arms inspections - but by "non-military ways".  Political support for the Iraqi opposition was what he had in mind - not the forced removal of Saddam.

All that was missing was a call by the former president - who had introduced himself in traditional delegate style as "Clinton, Bill; Arkansas CLP" - for conference to "back Composite 4", the anti-war resolution debated on Monday.  By pointing up the value of inspections and the inevitable loss of life war would entail - in contrast with a PM who a day earlier had warned that sometimes "the only chance of peace is a readiness for war" - Clinton had placed himself on the left of Tony Blair.

Mainly, though, he lumped Bush in with the hawks, casting Blair as an essential curb on a go-it-alone US administration that did not understand the need for allies, partners or the institutions of the international community - a Washington that wanted to "dominate", rather than lead the world.

Repeatedly he stressed the centrality of the United Nations, and praised Blair - and pointedly excluded Bush - for his determination to work, "if at all possible", through the world body.  He even suggested that only the British PM, rather than the US president, could get America and the rest of the world to come together: "I doubt if anyone else could" do it, he said.

Lest there be any doubt that he was breaking ex-presidential protocol, Clinton let rip on the Republicans' domestic record. "I disagree with them on nearly everything," he said, ticking off the policies which he condemned.

The killer jibe seemed to have been ad-libbed, but was the clearest crossing of the line that usually holds back former presidents.  He reminded the hall that Bush won his election "fair and square" by five votes to four in the US supreme court.

It's a tribute to the man's phenomenal rhetorical gifts that he could
deliver such a thorough critique of his successor and come across not
as a bitter has-been, but as a warm, intimate speaker full of wisdom
and human insight.
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
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