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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO NEWTOPIA READERS
Newtopia is no longer publishing new material, but you can still access our archives.
For Issues 1 (July 2002) through 20 ("Law & Order" - Feb/March 2005) click "ARCHIVES" on the menu bar above.For all weekly material published between April and September of 2005, see the menu selections in the left margin. Search engines will remain active as well.
A Blog of News and Views
by Charles Shaw
by Charles Shaw
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So long Common Sense Politics Daily...
New Orleans Coroner says there is No Evidence of Evacuee Murders
Left to Die in a New Orleans Prison - 500 are still missing!
Anti-War Movement FINALLY wakes up! - Is anyone listening?
It's Better to Cry Wolf Now Than to Wait Until the Oil Has Run Out
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Newtopia R.I.P. - 2002-2005
To all the readers and supporters of Newtopia Magazine.
After much deep consideration I have decided to shut the doors on Newtopia Magazine. The three and a half years I have spent building this publication have been some of the most rewarding of my life. I have made friends and colleagues far and wide, met fascinating people, learned new things, gone to amazing places, and tried, in whatever capacity I could, to be a force for positive change in this increasingly insane world of ours. (MORE)
Northwest vs. AMFA: A Battle for American Labor
by Brian Allemana
On August 20th, machinist and custodial workers for Northwest Airlines, members of the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), walked out on strike to protest proposed cuts in pay and benefits. On September 14th, Northwest submitted their bankruptcy filing after hiring cheaper, non-unionized replacement workers. According to Northwest Airlines, the cuts are necessary for the company to stay in business. But the strikers tell a different story, one that warns of safety problems, national security concerns, and major fallout against labor unions across the nation.
Iran: Axis of Culture, History, and Geopolitics
by Natylie Baldwin
The strong independent spirit of the Iranian people stems from a long history of imperial powers exerting their hegemony directly or using the nation as a pawn in a series of rivalries, namely the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the 19th century, the Cold War in the 20th, and the newly intensified petro-politics of the 21st. Americans would be well-advised to look into the Iranian past if they think that the Neocons will be able to succeed where other imperialists have failed.
Beyond Prohibition and the War on Drugs
By Clifford Thornton
If one doesn’t understand racism, white privilege, classism, terrorism and the war on drugs—what these terms mean—how these concepts work—then everything else you do understand will only confuse you.
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Fire and Seeds
by The Dark Wraith
The town is divided into the visible, reputable, upper-middle class and the less visible, but far larger, class that isn't. The better people for the most part work in middle or upper management at one of the several huge, multi-national services companies in town. Everyone else gets by. The layoffs at the big factories on the outskirts of town have left a quiet wasteland of older people trying to find work and younger people trying to find a future.
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Defining Domestic Terrorism
by Gretchen Ross
According to CNN, top American federal law enforcement officials believe "violent animal rights extremists" and "eco-terrorists" currently pose the greatest domestic terrorist threat to the nation. Who defines domestic terrorism, and how the definitions are interpreted and presented to the public, plays a large role in how the masses will view reality.
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By Clifford Thornton
If one doesn’t understand racism, white privilege, classism, terrorism and the war on drugs—what these terms mean—how these concepts work—then everything else you do understand will only confuse you.
read more »
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Fire and Seeds
by The Dark Wraith
The town is divided into the visible, reputable, upper-middle class and the less visible, but far larger, class that isn't. The better people for the most part work in middle or upper management at one of the several huge, multi-national services companies in town. Everyone else gets by. The layoffs at the big factories on the outskirts of town have left a quiet wasteland of older people trying to find work and younger people trying to find a future.
read more »
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Defining Domestic Terrorism
by Gretchen Ross
According to CNN, top American federal law enforcement officials believe "violent animal rights extremists" and "eco-terrorists" currently pose the greatest domestic terrorist threat to the nation. Who defines domestic terrorism, and how the definitions are interpreted and presented to the public, plays a large role in how the masses will view reality.
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To Waive Any Right of Review or Appeal
by Colin Shea
The world is not as stable as we think it is. Things slide and slip past one another, more like reflections on a pane of glass than truly independent objects. Creation is like a hastily-assembled table, perched precariously on unsteady legs – touch it the wrong way and it can collapse in an instant. Matter is not solid at all, it consists merely of transient ripples across the black and silent pool of Being.
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The Traitorous Patriot, The Cosmic Bus Ride
by Jason N. Kamalie
It all begins with the execution I’m watching on a floor-model television. As a six-year-old boy living in Shiraz, Iran, I’ve never seen anything quite like the televised spectacle. When my mother, four years earlier, married an Iranian man who moved us from Akron, Ohio to ancient Persia, I don’t think she could anticipate all those small, troublesome differences in culture that might affect American children freshly transplanted to third-world countries. Differences like the execution of state prisoners on public television, for instance.
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The Downloadable Future : Australia's Culture Jamming Digizine 'Undergrowth'
by Rebecca Fitzgibbon
Hungry for change? The future is now free to download in your own home, watch world cultures jamming at the fulcrum. Culture Jam is a term given to the art of using media to comment on the media itself. Instead of opposing the media, culture jammers and activists become the media, in order to incite change. This is the underground of Australian electrofringe creativity, and it’s rife with insight into dominant cultures globally.
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by Colin Shea
The world is not as stable as we think it is. Things slide and slip past one another, more like reflections on a pane of glass than truly independent objects. Creation is like a hastily-assembled table, perched precariously on unsteady legs – touch it the wrong way and it can collapse in an instant. Matter is not solid at all, it consists merely of transient ripples across the black and silent pool of Being.
read more »
(27159 bytes more)
The Traitorous Patriot, The Cosmic Bus Ride
by Jason N. Kamalie
It all begins with the execution I’m watching on a floor-model television. As a six-year-old boy living in Shiraz, Iran, I’ve never seen anything quite like the televised spectacle. When my mother, four years earlier, married an Iranian man who moved us from Akron, Ohio to ancient Persia, I don’t think she could anticipate all those small, troublesome differences in culture that might affect American children freshly transplanted to third-world countries. Differences like the execution of state prisoners on public television, for instance.
read more »
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The Downloadable Future : Australia's Culture Jamming Digizine 'Undergrowth'
by Rebecca Fitzgibbon
Hungry for change? The future is now free to download in your own home, watch world cultures jamming at the fulcrum. Culture Jam is a term given to the art of using media to comment on the media itself. Instead of opposing the media, culture jammers and activists become the media, in order to incite change. This is the underground of Australian electrofringe creativity, and it’s rife with insight into dominant cultures globally.
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Monday
by Randy Roark
Today Dhyana told me about two books she’d like to write—the first a roman a clef about her time with a swami in India, and the second a collection of wisdom tales she’d learned from her cats. As a true son of Allen Ginsberg, I questioned her precisely as to her plans and ideas and gave what helpful suggestions I could—in this case, I recommended she read William Burroughs’ “Book of Cats,” because that’ll show her one way to go about writing about cats without becoming sentimental.
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United States of Schizophrenia
by Ronnie Pontiac, Poet-in-Residence, Newtopia
I don't know how an immigrant war survivor
and the most powerful nation on Earth
can so closely resemble one another
but I don't picture America as Uncle Sam
America is my schizophrenic mother.
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NewPoetry Collective Editor's Issue
Featuring poems by Randy Roark, Ronnie Pontiac, Tom Goforth, Tamra Spivey, Kimberly Nichols, Akin Olatidoye, and Billy Shakes.
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by Randy Roark
Today Dhyana told me about two books she’d like to write—the first a roman a clef about her time with a swami in India, and the second a collection of wisdom tales she’d learned from her cats. As a true son of Allen Ginsberg, I questioned her precisely as to her plans and ideas and gave what helpful suggestions I could—in this case, I recommended she read William Burroughs’ “Book of Cats,” because that’ll show her one way to go about writing about cats without becoming sentimental.
read more »
(14182 bytes more)
United States of Schizophrenia
by Ronnie Pontiac, Poet-in-Residence, Newtopia
I don't know how an immigrant war survivor
and the most powerful nation on Earth
can so closely resemble one another
but I don't picture America as Uncle Sam
America is my schizophrenic mother.
read more »
(5318 bytes more)
NewPoetry Collective Editor's Issue
Featuring poems by Randy Roark, Ronnie Pontiac, Tom Goforth, Tamra Spivey, Kimberly Nichols, Akin Olatidoye, and Billy Shakes.
read more »
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Chopper the Roadie
by Ronnie Pontiac and Tamra Spivey
When he died in December 2003, most of his acquaintances knew Kevin Weremeychik as Chopper, Moby's roadie for five years. Chopper worked for other artists, too, of course, from Ric Ocasek to Tura Satana. They also knew that any spare moment he had, whether waiting around for something to do at Ocasek's studio, or sitting on an amp backstage at a Moby concert, was spent drawing. Chopper drew pensive gargoyles, and he created a cartoon series of dry humor and social observation called Jesus and Moses. But his magnum opus was The Essayist.
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by Ronnie Pontiac and Tamra Spivey
When he died in December 2003, most of his acquaintances knew Kevin Weremeychik as Chopper, Moby's roadie for five years. Chopper worked for other artists, too, of course, from Ric Ocasek to Tura Satana. They also knew that any spare moment he had, whether waiting around for something to do at Ocasek's studio, or sitting on an amp backstage at a Moby concert, was spent drawing. Chopper drew pensive gargoyles, and he created a cartoon series of dry humor and social observation called Jesus and Moses. But his magnum opus was The Essayist.
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Film Review: Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room
A Documentary Film Written and Directed by Alex Gibney
Film reviewed by Jane Alexander Stewart, Ph.D.
CinemaShrink Says "Enron the film is a must-see film, documenting stories of greed by Enron the firm, the likes of which you have to see to believe! And I didn't even know when I wrote this review that the Enron fiasco caused a shut off electricity in Tbilisi, Georgia/Russia—which I found out about in the documentary film, Powertrip."
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Movies as Our Cultural Dreams
by Joseph Dispenza
A few millennia hence, when archeologists dig up our present world to discover who we were, they will have more than the historical record of these times to go on. History will tell them what we were doing. But our blockbuster movies will tell them something arguably more important — what we were dreaming about.
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A Documentary Film Written and Directed by Alex Gibney
Film reviewed by Jane Alexander Stewart, Ph.D.
CinemaShrink Says "Enron the film is a must-see film, documenting stories of greed by Enron the firm, the likes of which you have to see to believe! And I didn't even know when I wrote this review that the Enron fiasco caused a shut off electricity in Tbilisi, Georgia/Russia—which I found out about in the documentary film, Powertrip."
read more »
(8320 bytes more)
Movies as Our Cultural Dreams
by Joseph Dispenza
A few millennia hence, when archeologists dig up our present world to discover who we were, they will have more than the historical record of these times to go on. History will tell them what we were doing. But our blockbuster movies will tell them something arguably more important — what we were dreaming about.
read more »
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Common Sense Politics Daily
A Blog of News and Views
by Charles Shaw
CLIMACTIX: Hot Culture On the Rocks
A Blog of Art, Culture, and Sexuality
by Kimberly Nichols
Political Imagination
A Blog of the Connections between Creativity and Social Change
by Tom Tresser
A Blog of News and Views
by Charles Shaw
CLIMACTIX: Hot Culture On the Rocks
A Blog of Art, Culture, and Sexuality
by Kimberly Nichols
Political Imagination
A Blog of the Connections between Creativity and Social Change
by Tom Tresser
