March 24- Walk out has been pushed back a day for a variety of reasons, majorly becouse no one knew this shit was going down. I think some of us were going to be hippies and march to the courthouse. Were meeting at the flag poll if you want to be a hippie and join us. Ill have fliers tomorrow.
-CJ

March 20- OK heres the plan. During 3rd hour on Tuesday walk out of your class room and meet at the flag poll, go home, anything. On your way out drop off one of the fliers that we'll have on your teahchers desk, or at the office. Im making the fleirs now. Ill be back in town on Friday if you want to help hand out fliers, call me or email me or drop by my house or something. The more people that walk out the stronger the message.
Peace and Love
-CJ

March 17- I got some pictures from the show last Friday up.  Go look at them, or else....Dun, dun, dun!
-Jeffrey

March 14- Go to the show or we'll kill you. Were opening so if you really want to see us you should go right at 7 then leave cause all the other bands suck compared to us. Actually I think that this is a problem that our scene has, leaving to early and missing some badass bands. Well fuck it I dont want to preach or tell people what to do. Go to the show.
Thanks fuckers
-CJ

March 13- One day away from the show and we havent played together since Febuary 14th. Were fucked. But we have Billys number now so maybe well pull this shit off. And fuck it we'll play that day no mater what. You now why? Cause were hardcore to the core.
Sorry Jess doesnt let me sleep anymore.
-CJ

March 10- Hey fuckers. Thanks goes out to everyone that email General Sukenik on Susans behalf. Mad props to you fucks.
Were playing this weekend at the good old Memorial building, and could use help handing out flyers. If your intrested give me a howler at dypunkguitar@msn.com and Ill give you some flyers as soon as we make some. Metal bands kicked ass last night.
Keep up the fight for peace
-CJ

March-4

Dear friends,
I apologize to the lists for which this is not directly relevant to your focus BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. Please pass this word like wildfire.Susan Barclay, age 26, 1999 graduate of Notre Dame University, of Seattle, Washington was detained by the Israeli military during its incursion into Nablus early last Thursday morning. She had been working with the International Solidarity Movement and was busy helping escort Palestinian families from homes that had been demolished to try to prevent the soldiers from opening fire. She has been in solitary confinement in a military police station in Hadera, Palestine since then with no criminal charges filed against her whatsoever and no ability to speak to a lawyer who has agreed to represent her.

The Israeli military has appealed a ruling by a judge who said Monday that Susan should be released in 48 hours. She is therefore in administrative detention indefinitely!!! Can you imagine if you were accused of a crime and at your arraignment the judge decided to dismiss the case but the prosecution had the right to appeal his decision AND KEEP YOU IN JAIL IN THE MEANTIME! This cannot go unprotested, people. We need for the national media to pick this up. If she were being held by Iraqi military, we would be in a full-scale war right now.

Now before going any further, it's important to recognize that THIS EXACT SITUATION is faced by thousands of Palestinians as a normal fact of life. The fact that she's an "all-American girl" does not make her a bit more important than all the Palestinians in administrative detention but it does mean this: we can get the injustice being waged against Palestinians on the radar screen of both activists and the general public in the US if we mobilize in protest.

If/when a war against Iraq hits, many of us fear that Palestine will be forgotten. We're also worried that if nothing happens in protest of Susan's detention, they will keep escalating their aggression little by little until they're shooting international peacekeepers in cold blood. We fear that Israeli military plan to use the war as cover to carry out its policy of "transfer." You can take a share of the responsibility for not allowing this to happen by taking a stand for Susan.

Here are some action suggestions:

1) Continue to call the State Department's Israel desk at 202-647-3930 and/or the US Consulate in Tel Aviv at +972 3 519 7575 and demand that they stop sitting on their hands and help Susan get out of jail (the state department's doing a better job than the consulate so don't be as angry with them).
2) Call your congressperson and tell him/her that a US citizen is being held by Israeli military in Palestine and you want the congressperson's office to call either the state department or consulate number above and request information on what's being done to support her.
3) Look up the phone numbers of all media in your area, call these numbers to get their fax numbers, email that information to you and/or find a fax machine that you can use to send out a press statement from the International Solidarity Movement, then FOLLOW UP WITH A PHONE CALL!
4) Get your local/regional/national antiwar organization to put together a statement in solidarity with Susan (I will send you a draft solidarity statement as well as fax numbers for the Israeli Embassy and other relevant places if you email me).
5) Post this information to your local indymedia site. Email me if you would like a more article-looking post to use.
6) Take direct action at the nearest Israeli Consulate or at the Embassy itself if you live in DC. If you're interested in locating consulates, do the research yourself or email me as I plan to research tonight.

Blessings of peace be with you. Pray/meditate/take action for the heroes that work tirelessly to make sure that the Palestinian people are afforded the same basic human dignity that we would expect for all citizens of the world.

In Solidarity,

Morgan Guyton
Tri-City Action for Peace
tcap.mahost.org
tcap@mutualaid.org
989-758-0096

Defiant Youth encourages evervyone to email the Isreali General responsible for Susans inhuman treatment at the following addresses and demand action be taken to end this violation of human rights. Send emails to: ask@israelemb.org and mod@israelemb.org. If you need more info than just ask us at school ar email us at dypunkguitar@msn.com or portales_punk@yahoo.com. Heres a sample email if you need on. Just copy and paste this and put your name on the end.
Peace, Love, and all that other hippie shit,
CJ

Dear General Sukenik:

I write concerning your country’s planned deportation this afternoon of US citizen Susan Barclay who had been working as an international peacekeeper in Nablus, Palestine when your military forces detained her last Thursday. Since Susan has been in custody, her human rights have been violated. She has still not had the ability to speak to an attorney and she has been held for an extended period of time without criminal charges filed.

Deporting her without a fair trial shows that you do not have the same standards for your judicial system that citizens of the United States are accustomed to. It also shows that your government is worried about US citizens visiting the occupied territories and reporting to the general public what they see there. According to the UN Convention on Human Rights, international peacekeepers have every right to enter a country and monitor the fair treatment of its civilian population. The fact that Susan was present as a human rights observer in occupied Palestine is not sufficient grounds for her deportation.

We understand that your country was recently denied its request for $4 billion in military aid and that you will be renegotiating in Washington soon. Peace activists across the United States are mobilizing as we speak to make sure their congressional representatives know about how you choose to treat a US citizen so that it may be a factor in their decision-making.

Please intervene before your country makes a grave mistake. We support unequivocally the work of international peacekeepers in occupied Palestine as an essential element of the complicated task of making the region safe for Israelis and Palestinians to live as neighbors.

Sincerely,

Your name

March 3-When America defeats its enemies, George W Bush said in his speech on Iraq this week, it leaves not occupying armies but democracy and liberty. "There was a time," he went on, "when many said that the cultures of Japan and Germany were incapable of sustaining democratic values. Well, they were wrong." In fact, it is Mr Bush who is wrong. Japanese men got the vote in 1925, not in 1945, as the president implied. And German men won the vote as far back as 1849, albeit subject to a property qualification, at a time when Mr Bush's country practised legalised slavery. Bearing in mind that America only became a full democracy in 1965, and Germany in 1946, there is a case for saying that Germans have at least as strong a democratic tradition as Americans. What's more, there is no dispute about who actually won the last German election, which is more than can be said about the means by which Mr Bush came to office. A little historical humility would do the president no harm. Iraq also has universal adult sufferage.

February 26-I dont want to know your name, all I want is bang bang bang. Were playing on March 14th, and hopefully Prariedogpalooza . Jessica shut up I updated this.
-CJ

February 24- I swear to god channel one's only purpose is army recruiting. Every other commercial is some kind of go army crap. Drama fest was fun. Id like to thank Jess for keeping me company, and tell your theater class to bring it.
Well not much going on band wise. We’ve tried several times to get a hold of Billy, but they have all been in vain. I think were actually going to try to practice this Saturday, which should be fun. We haven’t done that in a while. Pictures of the 14th will be up soon.
-CJ
watch out for (((-_-))) pronounced jesue

Febuary 18- Was up playas. Roswell was fuckin fun. The ride up would have been fun enough (god damn hippies and their god damn pot!)Roswell has the coolest place to play in the world. They have lights and shit all over the place. I think Heather took pictures so we can get those up soon I hope. Well I thought I would have had more to say, but alas Im out. Ill let Michael and Brandon put shit on here too. Thanks to Banjo Pussey Whistle and ERSD. Both bands were cool as hell and diserve my mad props. Oh ya mad props goes out to Heather, Jessica, Beca, Ana, and Josh for going to the show.
Hillary is looking at porn next to me
-CJ

Febuary 14- Happy Love day you fuckers. Today is the day we go to Roswell to play. Im excited. The day after that I get to see the Vodoo Glow Skulls and Roger Miret and the Disasters. This weekend is going to kick ass. Jessica is cool cause she reads our news page.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
-CJ

Febuary 12-If you dont go to the show on Friday your going to miss out on hearing 2 or 3 new songs. Were also playing a new cover for this show. Youll have to go to the concert to here it.
Im not totaly shure if the concert is at the Civic Youth Center cause I cant go to geocities sites at school, but for those of you lucky enough to have the internet at home go to Banjo Pussy Willow's site and see were its at(theirs a link on our guestbook cause on of the guys signed our guestbook).
Word to your mother
-CJ

Febuary 10- Michael showed up on Saturday so we were able to play on Sunday. Sorry we didnt get to tell anyone, but we decided to play that show an hour and a half before we went on. Thanks to the crowd, that was seriously one of the best crowd that ever seen a concert here in good old P-vill. Thanks to Murder by Death and 10 Grand, those bands kick ass. Go out and buy a Flanagan Rules cd they kick ass. Pictures of the show are coming real soon. Fire makes every thing cooler.
-CJ

Febuary 5- Josh kicked Danavon Clark's ass today. That dumb jock got what he diserved. Hurray for dickface, fat titts, or Harry from dumb and dumber (pick which ever nickname you perfer).
On to band news, were playing in Roswell on the 14th. Thats fuckin cool. I always wanted to play some were other than Portales. Peace and thanks to my new friends in the "saftey pin crew" for their company.
-CJ

Febuary 3- Yo yo yo gangstaz. Sorry I havent updated this thing in a while, I had to take the New Mexico compensy exam so I wasnt able to get to a computer. Well we werent able to record this weekend because Michaels great aunt died and he had to go to California for her funeral. We'll also not be playing the 9th show cause of that. Fuckin sucks ass. Oh ya I found Billy, or should I say he found me.
-CJ

January 22- Jeffrey you bastard quite saving over my news page you peice of monkey ass!!! So I guess I have to update everyone now on whats going on. Were recording our first cd, but we have now clue when. The origonal date was supposed to be this weekend or something, but judging by this email I just got from Terry, it looks like thats not going to happen. But fuck it we'll work shit out. Thanks to Third Degree for the email, that was fuckin cool. Everyone check them out when we put their link up and download some of their mp3s while your their.
I need to learn how to spell, but FUCK YOU anyway,
Carlos Jesus Quinones

December 31- The news page looked lonely because it hadn't been updated in a while so I decided to pay it a visit.  I got the last post in for this year.  Yay!!!
-Jeffrey