What is the sound of a guitar gently weeping? _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ | |_ (_) __ __ (_) ___ | |_ | |_ (_) _ __ ___ ___ / _` | / _| | _| | | \ V / | | (_-< | _| | _| | | | ' \ / -_) (_-< \__,_| \__| \__| |_| \_/ |_| /__/ \__| \__| |_| |_|_|_| \___| /__/ ATI, Issue 323. For the week ending shortly after Tuesday, June something, 2002 "The goal is not to bring your enemies to their knees but to their senses. -- Mahatma Gandhi" /oops, looks like this is coming out closer /to the 20th than the 11th, eh? I guess I /should explain. Last weekend was the Mayors ! /Conference in Madison. I was away for two /days, and at almost the exact same time, our /Milwaukee indymedia site went down. It's still /down until Friday or so. Heavy bummer. Hectic, /stressful stuff. So even though ATI was on my /mind each day or so, publishing it wasn't. So I /dropped a feature story or two in every once in a /while and just put it off 'til things slow down a /bit. 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The working class is a part of the means of production, and individuals within that group own nothing that can be used to acquire wealth but their own ability to work. There is a great deal of difference between the economic value of a factory with many machines in it and the value of the labour of one worker; the value of one body is practically nothing in comparison to the worth of a factory full of machines. Because of the low value placed on labourers, employers have the ability and desire to treat workers unfairly by offering them low wages and poor working conditions. The way for workers to gain control is through unity. In a factory each machine may only have marginal value, but all machines in conjunction with one another are worth a great deal. As all of the machines in a plant are owned by the same person, they can be used together to mass-produce goods of value. Human beings are much the same in that they are most valuable when used together in a workforce, but, unlike machines, employers do not own them. Since workers are human beings, they are considered by law to have a slight degree of autonomy and all of the benefits and detriments that come with it. For example, they have to supply themselves with their own food and shelter, even if they must live in substandard conditions as a result. When workers are underpaid by their employers, struggling to make ends meet, receiving less than their fair share of the profit made by producing goods, it is time to take action to improve the state of worker/employer relations. As independent agents workers have little bargaining power, but in unity with other workers it is easy to recognize them as an important part of the economic institution. Like the machines, goods could not be produced without their effort. When workers organize and form unions, they can demand better working conditions and higher wages. If employers refuse to meet the workers' needs, production stops. Through unity the working class can organize and refuse to support the capitalist system unless they receive better treatment. A problem with unions: like flawed socialist policy, union efforts are localized. There are tonnes of unions throughout North America, and also many jobs that are not unionized at all. When unions negotiate for better working conditions, they do it on behalf of the employees that work for a certain company or work at a certain trade. They do not show concern for the working conditions of people outside of their own sphere. Working within the system of capitalism, they demand higher wages in exchange for the perpetuation of capitalist production, and do not focus on the elimination of capitalism or the improvement of conditions for the working class as a whole. In this way, they are only using the rhetoric of socialism to effect capitalist growth for themselves. As an example, unions were once more male-centered than they are now. As more women joined the workforce and entered into less domestic-type jobs, there was a hesitancy to allow them to join the capitalist shelter provided by unions. Because the prospect of offering union privileges to women would reduce the number of non-unionized workers, and therefore the privileges that the union workers enjoyed at the expense of the non-unionized masses, a xenophobic response was natural. Male union members would have been likely to rely on myth and discrimination to keep privileges restricted to the already-privileged. This exclusion of women was likely because one cannot advance one's own position in a capitalist society without exploiting someone else or, more accurately in this instance, allowing someone else to be exploited. By keeping enough people out of unions, average pay rates stay low, inflation stays low, and the income earned by unionized employees remains relatively high. So these so-called socialists are using their unions to lead privileged lifestyles at the expense of others, in this case women. As more women have joined unions, they too have developed the ability to exploit a new lower class. As people in our society's lowest pay brackets get bumped up to white collar or unionized jobs, corporations do us the favour of finding new people, people in other countries, poor people in places with no labour laws, undereducated people, children, and other easily exploitable people to do all of our most tedious, most dangerous, and (most importantly) lowest paying jobs so that we can continue to improve our own standards of living while keeping the system of capitalism running smoothly. Ultimately, as the improvement of our own lives within this system comes at other people's expense, unions are just another way of passing the buck, expanding North America's middle-class and creating a new, more desperate, group of working poor. As long as we see personal financial growth as equivalent of success, we'll be staying safely away from making a real difference, namely the eradication of capitalist imperial imperialism and a bit of compassion for people other than ourselves. Try to Relax by David Soriano The more you try struggling Faster you sink It can occur almost anywhere With proper conditions It is basically just sand Saturated with water. Mushy mix of sand and water Supports no weight Those struggling sink the fastest Very rarely deep By just trying to relax Body lighter than the quicksand Escape its clutches And get on with life! Quote Of The Day "In these awful days, George W. Bush has become the American Yasir Arafat, an empty, repetitive, shifty public personality who talks out of both sides of his mouth, with little or nothing to say from either of ’em. Oh, he’s still Israel’s man: maybe not quite as much as he was on Tuesday, but more than he was on Thursday, though by Sunday, who knows, he might be back in staunch-ally mode again, or conversely he might have a few encouraging words for the Arab side. He’s as purposeful as a wind-up toy boat with a bent rudder doing circular putt-putts in the bathtub." -- Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer PAWN - Prime Anarchist World News 2nite BMG Buys Mcdonalds in $3dB Deal FRANKFURT, Germany -- Mcdonalds Music and Food Group, owners of Britney Spears, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys and the Hamburgler, is exercising an option to sell out to BMG, the music division of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG. Guetersloh-based Bertelsmann, which already holds a minority stake in Britney Spears, Mcdonalds, Napster, Vanessa Carlton, Heinekin, Pink, The Gap and Lou Reed, will buy the shares it doesn't already hold from majority owner Clive Davis, according to a joint statement released late Tuesday. A price for the purchase wasn't announced by the companies, both of which are privately held. WSJ, Financial Times and Billboard however reported it was somewhere around the $3 decibel range. This move frees up the 78 McDonald's restaurants in Hawaii to finally add the new menu item they've been working so long on perfecting - Spam. More than 3,000 portions of low- sodium Spam, scrambled egg and rice were served in a single day during a test run of the meal, according to Mandy Moore, McDonald's local marketing manager. "I'm not sure why it has taken so long," Moore said of the Spam breakfast, which she said is offered at no other McDonald's in the world. Hawaii residents consume 5.3 million cans of Hormel Foods' processed Spam luncheon meat each year, four times the national average. A favorite local variation is Spam sushi. This weekend, Hormel is holding a "Spam Jam" for the grand opening of its 16,500-square-foot Spam Museum in Austin, Minn. The celebration honoring the product introduced in 1937 as "the miracle meat" had been scheduled for September but was postponed because Bertelsmann hadn't finalized buying them out yet. "With the acquisition of Mcdonalds, Bertelsmann will strengthen its global market position for the long term," they said. BMG, smallest of the big five record companies, has tried to expand by merging with competitor EMI but was blocked by antitrust authorities. Bertelsmann bought a 25 percent stake in Mcdonald's music publishing business in 1991 and a 20 percent stake in its recording unit in 1996, the company said. The sale is subject to approval by antitrust authorities and to final review by the companies. Mcdonalds' other artists include R. Kelly, the R&B star currently under indictment on charges of child pornography, Weird Al Yankovic and Michael Bolton. Spam will be a very good thing for them too. 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