Issue # People Have Told Us They Like To Stand Up When Using The Typewriter
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Issue # Love And Equality Discussion
Hello again. I honestly thought that "The Untitled (because Love is forgiving, and I, T.v.L.i.m.i.t. only want the reputation of this place to be positive) Independent Place" (T.U.L.I.P.) , would honor their word to me about having just two reams of paper by Tuesday or at least try to show some sign (like putting down the second table and keeping it down) that they are addressing the many discrimination issues that I mentioned in the prior zine. As you can see on the T.U.L.I.P. donations page on their website, the T.U.L.I.P. has 130 members... ...and they are victims of the luxuries-instead-of-accessibility priorities of T.U.L.I.P. administration. T.U.L.I.P. gets 80% of their money from these members but T.U.L.I.P. ignores them and has drastically reduced workshop space, even though they gained an extra room, and now there is only one table (that tightly fits three people) for 130 members to be crammed at like Government ghettos. But their brand new art gallery has a newly painted room of its own. Pro-Peace activists who use the workshop, now more than ever, need workshop space restored immediately.
But please allow me to show you a calendar of what has led up to me submitting these zines and what has occurred after I submitted the zine, "We Came To Protest On Behalf Of (The Untitled) issue # "Love And Equality Discussion".
NOTE: Before i show you the calendar please let me reprint the goal of this zine as quoted from the " Love And Equality Discussion" zine: "This is an informal request by T.v.L.i.m.i.t. BNB that a discussion of some sort be engaged in regarding these issues.
"The Untitled (because Love Is forgiving, and I, T.v.L.i.m.i.t. only want the reputation of this place to be positive) Independent Place" (T.U.L.I.P.) is an non-profit organization that allows people to come to their office and use the supplies that they have to make an independent publication. T.U.L.I.P. has everything from computers, a scanner, a printer, photocopier, print press, cutting tools, a recently expanded zine library and much, much more.
People can either pay $5.00 per hour to use these services or a yearly sliding scale membership fee of $40.00 to $100.00. Many people use T.U.L.I.P. to make their "independent
made magazine", which is also known as a "zine". What you are reading now is a zine, part of which i, a
member of the T.U.L.I.P., typed up on the T.U.L.I.P. computers. A primary goal of this zine is to promote the discussion of these issues , on a worldwide basis, so that resource centers such
as the T.U.L.I.P. can thrive throughout the world by uniting the community and promote love, unity, peace, independent press and freedom worldwide,
instead of going bankrupt because they failed to LISTEN & BE CONSIDERATE to its limited-income social class patrons and because they failed to reach out to ALL members of the
community. I love the services offered by places such as T.U.L.I.P. and I want to see places like T.U.L.I.P. be created, GROW & PROSPER all over the country and the world so that
people can create independent press and unite the community with freedom. with peace and with love. "
Now, onto the calendar.
Month 1 - Day 1- "T.U.L.I.P. Renovations and "Changes" - T.U.L.I.P. makes some drastic changes which result in workshop room space reductions and results in there being only ONE table in the workshop so that another room can have comparatively luxurious amounts of space. I stay quiet.
Month 1 - 15 days later -
Month 1 -Day 15 - I stay quiet. All the elements that I see which create a racist, ageist, ableist and lack of accessibilty environment in a business are in T.U.L.I.P.. Optimistically, I keep up hope that the IPRC is not a racist, ageist, ableist organization which doesn't care about the lack of accessibility to the blind, to the deaf and to non-English speaking in T.U.L.I.P.. Everyone has always been polite to me and I have never seen anyone be anything but polite to others in T.U.L.I.P.. I stay quiet. I selfishly figure "it hasn’t gotten to the point where it directly affects me in an EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE way so I stay quiet. I notice more and more often people, mostly the underclass, who use the workshop are crammed at that one table. I decide not to complain about it, but instead to put all my stuff on chairs and let everyone else use the tables. i stay quiet.
Month 2 - Day 30 - Saturday - I stay quiet. I notice that T.U.L.I.P. has run out of the RESOURCE of 11 x 17 paper (which is one of 3 standard size paper in the world, and one of the common sizes to use to make a zine, as mentioned in the T.U.L.I.P. workshop booklet) and I am having to use scraps of mitch-match paper just to put together and PUBLISH my zine. The only 11 x 17 paper available is cover stock which breaks the staples when I try to staple together my zine. i don't want to beg for paper because it is degrading and humiliating so I just let the staff know that there is no paper. I no longer use the ONE table in the workshop room because, unlike when there were TWO tables before the renovations, there NOW is not enough space for everyone and the underclass users of the workshop tables, so I put all my stuff on chairs in a corner. I stay quiet.
Month 2 - Day 31 - Sunday - I stay quiet. This particular day is like no other. On this particular day, as quoted from my other zine, "This weekend I saw an Asian American using the typewriter at the table and then i looked at the racial composition of the people who were using the computers and i began to realize the racial balance of the people who use that one table. then i counted all the people who came in to use the table that same day. 1, 2, 3, 4 ... I decided to count no longer." Also, on this particular day, an elderly couple walked in. This was shocking because for the four months since I have been a member I do not recall EVER seeing anyone over the age range of 48 years old in T.U.L.I.P..
This was the day that I saw the generational differences, the strictly unintentional ageism, in the fact that the elderly couple, after politely being informed what T.U.L.I.P. was about 3 times, still "seemed to 'not understand' what T.U.L.I.P. was about." That is quoted directly from https://www.angelfire.com/poetry/love2020/1discussion.html on which you will find an elaborate description of that moment. that is unintentional ageism because we, T.U.L.I.P., must realize the generational differences, and must take the time to spend several hours, and several multicultural open house days per year, on explaining it to the elderly. We do it for the elementary school kids, and we should definitely do it for the elderly, they are truly the "many HAVE-NOTS". Not only because the elderly baby-boomer generation is the largest in history in the U.S.A. but also because, ever since the drastic social welfare budget cuts, that have occurred all over the country, the elderly "HAVE-NOT" financial situation is only going to get worse. And T.U.L.I.P. needs to advertise in several 100% free calendar sections of elderly newspapers, which are also BIG time in Portland and located on about 1 in every 10 corners in the downtown area.
On this same day, there is still no 11 x 17 paper for the photocopier. So i quietly ask the staff for paper. He gives me his word that the best he could do is provide two reams (1000 sheets of paper) by Tuesday. He cuts me off while I'm talking and departs abruptly after talking to me.
Month 2 - Day 32 - Monday
I began to think of how the staff cut me off and the way the staff has told me in the past about how things would get down but never do get down. I recall the same staff telling me my web page zine would be placed up onto T.U.L.I.P. member website "next week". that was a month ago. For some reason, i don't think that will occur.
Note: Please keep in mind, the staff I am referring to is a very polite person, actually. i am in not upset, nor disappointed by this staff person. For me to be disappointed by the way this staff person is treating me is like a grocery store customer being disappointed at the grocery store cashier for the high price of bottled water. The customer shouldn't be disappointed by the cashier. The customer shouldn't even be disappointed by the store owner. The customer shouldn't even be disappointed by the corporations who pollute our free water to the point where we buy expensive bottled water. The customer shouldn't even be disappointed by the politicians who are paid off through campaign donations to allow the corporations to continue polluting to the point where we buy expensive bottled water. The customer should be disappointed in HERSELF for not helping to unite the people of the world so that we can find ways filled with LOVE and PEACE to protest and make a difference.. to get clean water, food for the hungry, housing for the homeless and health care for the world.
i am disappointed in ONLY myself because it wasn't until 50% of the (only) TWO tables were taken away, and I was made to beg like a dog in the streets for the resource of paper, that I begin to realize that...
....if you wait to UNITE the people ONLY when you face a problem, IT WILL DEFINITELY BE TOO LATE!!!!!
So, on that note, I have every reason to believe that there will not be any paper on Tuesday. I stay quiet... ..but i start to type up an informal request addressed to T.U.L.I.P. hoping that they will have a meeting or a group discussion about racism, ageism, classism and lack of accessibility in T.U.L.I.P.. I stay quiet.
Month 2 - Day 32 - Monday - I stay quiet. I do not come into T.U.L.I.P. because I was already informed that there would not be any 11 x 17 paper for the photocopier for me to PUBLISH my zine. Me, my need for the RESOURCE of paper in the photocopier, to PUBLISH my humble little INDEPENDENT zine, is not a priority to T.U.L.I.P.. I stay quiet.
Month 2 - Day 33 - Tuesday - I come in hoping that there will be 11 x 17 paper so i can spend all my time publishing my zine. There is no paper and I realize the staff has NOT honored his word. Ten minutes after I arrive looking for 11 x 17 paper, not one, but two other gentlemen arrive looking for 11 x 17 paper. I use the computers to finish typing the "love and equality discussion" zine. The staff arrives and tells me, "Sorry T, i couldn't get to it today, I'll get it tomorrow." I stay polite. I stay quiet. i quietly tell the staff, before giving him the zine, that I wrote a zine about sensitive issues and i apologize if he's offended." I say " I wrote it in a spirit of love. I love all ya'all at T.U.L.I.P. and consider you all to be my family.". I submit the zine to T.U.L.I.P..
Day 34 - Wednesday - A paid staff member of IPRC, who read the 'Love And Equality Discussion" issue zine, comments to me on the part of the zine which mentioned the typewriter. He comments because he knows that the only table set up in T.U.L.I.P.'s workshop is in the middle of the room and shelves and other items are blocking the electrical outlets so everyone puts the typewriter up on the high shelf (which is higher than the waist of the average person) and types while having to stand up. The staff member says to me, in regards to T.U.L.I.P., "We put the typewriter this way because people have told us they like to stand while using the typewriter." This particular statement actually leaves me speechless. Speechless. Those were nine-teen small words which actually took my breath away.
For up until this point I was only 90% certain that I was doing the right thing by addressing these issues. But after hearing those 19 words I became 190% certain that i am doing the right thing and that it has been long overdue.
I thought about those 19 words after I left T.U.L.I.P. a great deal. Constantly. And I finally came to realize the REAL issue at T.U.L.I.P.. And that issue is this:
In T.U.L.I.P. there is an issue. That issue exists in a great deal of our American society, and as in a great deal of the world where you will find conditions which, although perhaps UNINTENTIONALLY, UNQUESTIONABLY discriminate against the elderly, the disabled, minorities and those of an EXTREMELY limited income social class. That issue is this:
"The wants and the luxurious desires of the "few HAVES" outweigh the crucial needs and desperate necessities of the "many HAVE-NOTS", and that is because the "many HAVE-NOTS" were not invited."
Let me repeat that:
"The wants and the luxurious desires of the "few HAVES" outweigh the crucial needs and desperate necessities of the "many HAVE-NOTS", and that is because the "many HAVE-NOTS" were not invited."
Before I explain how it pertains to the typewriter I want to make an announcement to all the world:
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
The issues that are in this zine are of crucial importance to LOVE, UNITY , INDEPENDENCE and FREEDOM all around the world! For how can we ever see eye to eye on the MAJOR issues of starvation, housing, employment, and social welfare as it is affected
by RACISM, AGEISM, CLASSISM and lack of accessibility to ALL PEOPLE... ...if we can't even see eye-to-eye on something so small as to say : PLEEEEEEASE , I beg you.... IPRC, please have at least two small cases of 11 x 17 photocopy paper AT ALL TIMES so the underclass people don't have to beg for paper! We want to peacefully protest all the social injustices in the world, all the inequalities and we DESPERATELY need that 11 x 17 paper in that photocopier to get our INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER'S VOICE HEARD by the world! That is not a joke! PLEASE, PLEEEEEEASE , I beg you.... T.U.L.I.P., please have at least two LONG tables in the workshop AT ALL TIMES so that underclass people, the elderly, the disabled and the minorities who rely upon it don't have to beg you to put a second table down for them! So that the underclass people, the elderly, the disabled and the minorities who rely upon it can always look into that humble little workshop room and KNOW THAT, YES, YOU ARE WELCOME, YOU ARE INVITED, AND YES, THERE IS SPACE FOR YOU!
The issues that are in this zine are important because the ONLY way that we can build LOVE, UNITY , PEACE AND STRENGTH all around the world is by starting with the small things and THEN together, everyone of all races, classes, and disabilities, hand in hand, tackling the big things!
On this same day, the United States of America, this country that I, even in a city with one of the largest Progressive populations, will admit that i love, has declared war of an unprecedented scale of bombings, some bombs of a strength that the U.S. military has admitted to the media they've never been tested before,... bombings on another country which has a population of 50% children. Before anything else, I am a Christian, and I love all human being regardless of what they've done, who they are, or where they live just as closely as I love my own immediate family. If i could share with you my pain inside about the fact that those children are dying, a death which I can feel, in my every waking hour, this, this zine, it would sound like the final song of a dying whale swimming and drowning in it's own blood. If I could share with you my pain no one would be able to concentrate on my desperate plea to organize the people in UNITY and LOVE all over the world. A DESPERATE PLEA which, rightly so, begins on an unquiet basis, in a non-profit organization that has the potential to reach out to the community and empower people to ACTUALLY (not simply promote...but to...) BECOME THE INDEPENDENT PRESS!
PLEASE FORGIVE ME, BUT I'm going to repeat those two paragraphs do to its importance.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
The issues that are in this zine are of crucial importance to LOVE, UNITY , INDEPENDENCE and FREEDOM all around the world! For how can we ever see eye to eye on the MAJOR issues of starvation, housing, employment, and social welfare as it is affected
by RACISM, AGEISM, CLASSISM and lack of accessibility to ALL PEOPLE... ...if we can't even see eye-to-eye on something so small as to say : PLEEEEEEASE , I beg you.... T.U.L.I.P., please have at least two small cases of 11 x 17 photocopy paper AT ALL TIMES so the underclass people don't have to beg for paper! We want to peacefully protest all the social injustices in the world, all the inequalities and we DESPERATELY need that 11 x 17 paper in that photocopier to get our INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER'S VOICE HEARD by the world! That is not a joke! PLEASE, PLEEEEEEASE , I beg you.... IPRC, please have at least two LONG tables in the workshop AT ALL TIMES so that underclass people, the elderly, the disabled and the minorities who rely upon it don't have to beg you to put a second table down for them! So that the underclass people, the elderly, the disabled and the minorities who rely upon it can always look into that humble little workshop room and KNOW THAT, YES, YOU ARE WELCOME, YOU ARE INVITED, AND YES, THERE IS SPACE FOR YOU!
The issues that are in this zine are important because the ONLY way that we can build LOVE, UNITY , PEACE AND STRENGTH all around the world is by starting with the small things and THEN together, everyone of all races, classes, and disabilities, hand in hand, tackling the big things!
On this same day, the United States of America, this country that I, even in a city with one of the largest Progressive populations, will admit that i love, has declared war of an unprecedented scale of bombings, some bombs of a strength that the U.S. military has admitted to the media they've never been tested before,... bombings on another country which has a population of 50% children. Before anything else, I am a Christian, and I love all human being regardless of what they've done, who they are, or where they live just as closely as I love my own immediate family. If i could share with you my pain inside about the fact that those children are dying, a death which I can feel, in my every waking hour, this, this zine, it would sound like the final song of a dying whale swimming and drowning in it's own blood. If I could share with you my pain no one would be able to concentrate on my desperate plea to organize the people in UNITY and LOVE all over the world. A DESPERATE PLEA which, rightly so, begins on an unquiet basis, in a non-profit organization that has the potential to reach out to the community and empower people to ACTUALLY (not simply promote...but to...) BECOME THE INDEPENDENT PRESS!
Before i made that announcement, I made this phrase:
"The wants and the luxurious desires of the "few HAVES" outweigh the crucial needs and desperate necessities of the "many HAVE-NOTS", and that is because the "many HAVE-NOTS" were not invited."
I will now explain how it pertains to the typewriter being in the stand up, hunched over, position.
T.U.L.I.P., has set the typewriter up, and has reduced the tables in the workshop by over 50% so that you must stand up while using it. (Some IPRC staff may mention that is possible to carry the heavy typewriter out of T.U.L.I.P.'s workshop into another room and plug it in. But then you would no longer have access to all the workshop materials that independent authors tend to use simultaneously whole typing, cutting & pasting, such as scissors, white-out, rulers, many other pages of reference materials that people tend to spread out for easy viewing and so on.) They created this "stand up, hunched over, while typing" position based on "the people", that is, "The People" who Have Told T.U.L.I.P. that they like to stand up when using the typewriter".
But they created that "stand up, hunched over, while typing" position without taking into consideration how it would affect the elderly, the disabled, and those of EXTREMELY limited income social class, who have minimum wage jobs of manual labor and running and being on their feet all days as cashiers, warehouse workers, waitresses, maids and janitors...who MOST CERTAINLY don't want to end their day, by standing up while using the typewriter. many of these people just mentioned are 'unknowledgeable' or uncomfortable with using a computer so they find themselves on a typewrite for very long periods of time.
You see, out of the seven days a week T.U.L.I.P. is open, it is open three weekdays a week at 4pm, the time when many people start to get off of work.
But to be honest, T.U.L.I.P. does not have a large amount of elderly people, EXTREMELY limited income people, disabled people or "minorities". [Note: Out of respect for all races, I want to say that there does not "seem" to be many 'minorities' from what i have seen in T.U.L.I.P.. From what I can visibly recognize I have seen only about 5 minorities, including myself, in T.U.L.I.P. out of the hundred or so people I've seen pass through T.U.L.I.P. in the last 4 months. Nevertheless, there seems to be a growing trend around the U.S.A. where people who look 100% like Caucasion-Americans desire to be recognized as "Native-Americans" even if they only have 2.5% Native-American blood in their background. Many people, included Many, many outspoken, famous comedians may find this amusing, but I highly respect these people, and admire them for speaking up, because I believe that such acknowledgement of racial ties can only strengthen the crucial need for racial unity and harmony throughout our city, our country and our world.)
But the fact that T.U.L.I.P. does not have a large amount of elderly people, EXTREMELY limited income people, disabled people or "minorities", all of whom are generally part of the "many HAVE-NOTS" is only because these people have NOT been PERSONALLY invited to T.U.L.I.P..
On DAY 2, the day after I gave T.U.L.I.P. the zine, I went to put my flyer up on a bulletin board area. I looked around and then noticed that there was a sign up that said there would be an "open house" at T.U.L.I.P.. I wondered why none of the minority newspapers or any of the elderly newspapers were informed of this 'open house'. Those minority newspapers and elderly newspapers all have 100% free calendar sections. I know very well that the newspapers could not have been 'missed' because in our city the minority newspaper are BIG time, they are FREE, and they have FREE newsstands located at about every 3-6 blocks, and inside many stores, throughout the entire downtown area where T.U.L.I.P. is located).
On this same paper, I noticed that the IPRC tends to have an "art gallery." T.U.L.I.P.'s resource center is not able to get 1000 sheets of the resource known as 11 x 17 paper, but they have the time, the resources, the organizational skills to have an "art gallery"?
Dear Reader, let me ask you a question. But first: Now, free your mind. Keep love in your heart. Breathe deep. *exhale*.... *inhale* ..... *exhale*.....
Ready?
Now here's the question:
EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME, EVER SINCE THE FIRST ART GALLERY WAS CREATED... ...WHAT SOCIAL CLASS DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WORDS "ART GALLERY"?
EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME, EVER SINCE THE FIRST ART GALLERY WAS CREATED... ...WHAT SOCIAL CLASS DOES AN "ART GALLERY" CATER TO? (sometimes even with ACTUAL caterers).
EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME, EVER SINCE THE FIRST ART GALLERY WAS CREATED... ...WHAT RACE DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WORDS "ART GALLERY"?
EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME, EVER SINCE THE FIRST ART GALLERY WAS CREATED... ...WHAT RACE DOES AN "ART GALLERY" CATER TO? (sometimes even with ACTUAL caterers).
The staff and I also speak about the possibility of a having three multi cultural Open house days per year. He said "we" will see what we can do. "We"? Great! I start to collect all the email addresses for every newspaper in the city that have a 100% free calendar section.
Day 35 - Thursday.
The staff told me they finally got paper! Awesome! i was thinking to myself: Wow! T.U.L.I.P. has honored their word and got two reams just like they said they would. I take a look. i don't see the second ream. i ask about it. the staff says they only got 500 sheets of 11 x 17 paper. Which means I will have to do more degrading begging for paper when this runs out. Which means it may run out half way through the job like last time because the photocopier jams on about every 4 sheets of 11 x 17 paper. So i decide not to make photocopies but to renew my efforts to get the IPRC to have a meeting about racism, ageism, classism, and lack of accessibility in T.U.L.I.P.. So far no one has made any indication that there will be such a meeting. I keep hoping they'll have it. I decide what i need to do is to get input from the other member and non-member patrons of T.U.L.I.P., and anyone on the planet who uses facilities such as the zine library at the IPRC and a zine workshop. i begin research to find zine library email addresses. I begin a small group of emails. i stay quiet.
Day 36 - Friday
Last night, the local news had live coverage of hundreds and thousands of people who were protesting the war on the radio. many people were pepper sprayed by police. Hundreds of were arrested. Once upon a time being arrested was a small thing with, at most, a couple days jail punishment. Now, ever since, post 9-11 , authorities can use any excuse to lock people away for months and sometimes years, especially if its not your first time being arrested for the unspeakable crime of "peaceful protesting". They all were there peacefully assembled. They locked arms and simply were seated on the ground... while the cops dragged them away. I must give the cops credit though. At least this time they didn't pepper spray any children and babies like they did last time when people peacefully protested because our highest elected leader was coming to deathtollraise , i mean fundraise, for the war time politics and fellow politicians, in our city.
A middle aged member of T.U.L.I.P. told me she was in a classrom somewhere when the heaviest protesting began which shut down traffic everywhere. This T.U.L.I.P. member mentioned to me that she had found out a while ago that a great deal of the people in that classroom were pro-war. Many of the protestors were bike riders. Someone in the class, knowing she was a bike rider, asked her if she would be o.k. getting home. They said to her, in regards to the peaceful protestors, "Be careful, they might think you're one of them!" She instantly replied to them, "I am one of them!" THE... ....FRIGGIN'.... BEST! Do you hear me? The BEST!
This encourages me to type. Because she is one of ONLY about FOUR middle aged people that I have ever seen in T.U.L.I.P. for over 4 months! I know there are more people willing to peacefully protest of all age groups, through all avenues including becoming an Independent Publisher. T.U.L.I.P. just has to invite them and then make this place more accessible to all people.
Today is the day the staff informed me, very politely that the object which is FAR OVER three times the size and weight of T.U.L.I.P.'s refrigerator is "very important" and won't be moved into the spacious recently expanded library, and won't be moved into the 'grand lobby' vestibule area which they will use for their 'art gallery'. He said "that’s very VERY important to us". It is flat gargantuan all-metal object with sharp-corners 'drawer' 5 ultra-wide flat drawers that holds LITERALLY, ACTUALLY scraps of paper. I offered the solution that maybe we could get 5 oversized artists carrying folders and place the paper in each one of those. He said no. I stayed quiet. I offered the resolution that perhaps they could simply move it somewhere else in the room, so we could simply have room for two tables to be down at all times. He said "we'll see". i stayed quiet. I realize now that those scraps of paper, (the first drawer actually says "PAPER SCRAPS") are more important to T.U.L.I.P. than having two tables down at ALL TIMES in T.U.L.I.P. for the elderly, for the disabled and for the under appreciated underclass.
I stay quiet. i stayed quiet. i've stayed quiet for long enough.
One of the saddest things I've ever heard in perhaps my entire life was that the General of my country's overseas war said that the intensity of the bomb dropping and the "pre-emptive non-aggressive" attack on that overseas country was harder than he had ever seen in his entire 17 year military career.
i stay quiet.
Now, I'm going to say something to the whole world with humility, and kindness out of a love for all people, out of a desire for unity that is more intense than a lot of what i have said throughout my more than 17 year life:
"please don't let petty things stop our world, our races, our age groups from being united in a common effort of love, unity and peace." Please?
I am quiet. i will remain quiet because that is my nature and it has taken me a very long time to completely like who i have come to be. But i am crying in a most unquiet way on the inside, for the loss of human life in such a violent way overseas, for the people who are starving and hungry in my country and all over the world, and for the way that it all continues and is getting worse simply because the love and peace seekers of our world are not united.
Day 37 - Saturday
I came to T.U.L.I.P.. There is about 250 sheets of the 11 x 17 sheets of paper left after I used about 250 yesterday. I’m not going to use it because that’s inconsiderate to anyone else who might need to use some to save some much needed money in this world of ever present budget cuts and lay off. People who read this may think that I'm calling the IPRC inconsiderate. But in fact, I'm calling myself inconsiderate. After reading my last issue, I realize that it is hypocritical of me, to mention things about T.U.L.I.P. that other people may feel are inconsiderate, but at the same time, I used up EACH and EVERY scrap of (non cover stock) 11 x 17 paper that i could find without being considerate to anyone else who may have needed some. What a hypocrite I am! And actually, several days after i used all that paper there were two guys who came in searching for that kind of paper and there was none.
I realize that’s just a small step in being considerate of other people needs but it is a step that we all should take.
I came in and spoke to T.U.L.I.P.'s Director. i informed him that I made a new issue of this zine and that it would be called , "People Have Told Us They Like To Stand Up When Using The Typewriter." That staff member is cool. In searching for a productive resolution to our lack of 11 x 17 paper, rather than a counterproductive description of further problems, I also asked him for permission for me to ask the whole world to please send some FREE (hopefully recycled) 11 x 17 paper to T.U.L.I.P.. He started to get a little riled up, but he was still relatively polite. He said that as long as it is free it is ok. COOL! AWESOME, HOMEY, HOMEY!
O.K., Here is my official announcement:
PLEASE...
No matter where you are in the world, please consider sending T.U.L.I.P. some 100% free 11 x 17 paper. No cover stock please. Just the regular stuff. For the sake of trees, please let it have at least a little post consumer recycled content, if you can't afford 100% post consumer recycled paper. The address for the T.U.L.I.P. is
The Director (I'll only give the words director so I don't have to put down the business name)
917 SW Oak Street #218, Portland, Oregon 97205 USA, Phone / Fax: 503.827.0249.
If you would like to speak to someone in advance about this, please call up and ask to speak to the staff member who rides the bike and buys the 11 x 17 paper. I am not printing his name so that this doesn't seem like a personal discussion. They'll know who you are talking about.
I scratch my head like a monkey... ..and say bye everyone! i love you all!
T.. yes, just like last issue , you can copy this!
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Portland Indymedia Comments (P.I.C.) from staff member Nicole J. Georges, Unedited
P.I.C. from staff member Jack, Unedited
Pro-Equality P.I.C. from former Founder Amy Joy, Unedited
P.I. article # 54504 Pro-peace minorities are ignored
Pro-Equality Portland Indymedia article #55015 , Pro-Peace Boycott
P.I.C. Comments from Dan Howland - note: I personally apologized, told Dan i don't hate him, & I love him & all.
Pro-Equality P.I.C. from Kirstin M.E. Munro
P.I. article #55839 Boycott! Myths of Diversity. The Pro-Peace Series. Part 1.
