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One Of The Best Things That's Come Out Of The Seattle Protests Is The Birth Of The Independent Media Center. It's Not As Though The Independent Media Movement Wasn't Already There, But It's Given It Another Jump-start. There's The Feeling That Not Only Should We Report On Our Underground Culture And Our Own Situation, But Now We Have To Start Telling People What's Really Going On At A Time When Everything From Cnn To Usa Today Is As Tightly Controlled As Tass Or Pravda.

I Got Out Of That Immediately Was That Now, All Of A Sudden, Rock Music Had Become A Spectator Sport, That Corporate Labels And Their Bands Were The New Establishment, And Punk Was There To Fight Them The Way The Activist Hippies Must Have Fought What The Establishment Must Have Been Ten Years Before. And It Was Interesting To See The Reactions In Different Parts Of The Country.

Respecting Other People's Cultures Is Well And Good, But I Draw The Line At Where Some Branches Of Islam, What They Do To Women. It's Indefensible.

I Think One Of The Beauties So Far Of The So-called Spirit Of Seattle Is There Aren't Any Leaders, Pop Stars, Or Guru Figures That Everyone Else Is Falling In Line With And Following. No [nelson] Mandela, Havel, Or Subcomandante Ski Mask Riding In On A White Horse And Everybody Else Just Wanting To Follow Them To The Promised Land. We're Stitching It Together And Doing It Ourselves.

I'm Totally Down With Insurrection In The Street. I've Had A Great Time With That Over The Years. Insurrection In The Voting Booth Is The Other Part Of The Equation.