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Survival Research Labs update
SubGenius Digest #377
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Message-ID: <19900211225400.9.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 17:54 EST
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [liz@ai.mit.edu: Black Rose Lectures]
From: Liz A. Highleyman <liz@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 14:27 EST
BLACK ROSE LECTURES
Spring 1990
Fridays*, 8:00 PM;
MIT Room 9-150*
105 Mass. Ave, Cambridge
(*Unless otherwise in lecture description)
Free. All Welcome.
For info call 524-0781
March 2: ``Prospects for Research Conversion in the 1990s''
Vera Kistiakowsky
New trends in the global political situation are leading to
reductions in military expenditures. How can we best utilize the
``peace dividend''? How will reduced military funding affect
university research? How can we insure that research is done for the
public benefit?
Vera Kistiakowsky is Professor of Physics at MIT, and is the author
of several articles on the effects of military funding on university
research. This lecture will be a benefit for Science for the People.
March 16: ``Facing the Realities of the Prison System''
Stanley Jones Ralph Pagan
1990 marks the 200th anniversary of the penitentiary -- 200 years
of repeated failures: escalating prison populations, prison brutality,
and shocking disparities effecting the poor, disadvantaged, and people
of color. The speakers will relate how the criminal ``justice''
system really functions, and suggest humane and truly just
alternatives.
Stanley Jones, a former prisoner and an activist for prison reform,
is the director of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a substance abuse
counseling program for men in Massachusetts prisons. Ralph Pagan is a
co-worker with Jones.
March 23: ``Perspectives on Tiananmen''
Yang Yi
The Chinese government's violent suppression of the pro-democracy
movement shocked the world. This talk is a first-hand account of the
June 1989 events in Tiananmen Square.
Yang Yi is a reporter and a member of the Chinese student movement.
He is currently a graduate student at Boston University.
April 6: ``Anarchism and Animal Rights''
Cynthia Newberry
An exploration of the connections between anarchism and animal
rights. The anarchist position against hierarchy and domination may
not be complete without assuring the rights of non-human species,
while the achievement of animal rights may not be possible within a
capitalistic and hierarchical political system.
Cynthia Newberry is an animal rights activist involved with several
groups such as PETA and CEASE. She is a graduate student at Boston
University and a member of the Black Rose Collective.
** NOTE: This lecture will be held in MIT Room 34-101 **
April 20: ``Land \& Liberty: The Green Political Economics of Henry George''
Mitch Chanelis and Susan Witt
Henry George argued a century ago that people should have an equal
right to the riches of the earth and that the only just tax is a tax
on the use of land. This talk will focus on how George's economics
relate to contemporary ecologically-minded political visions.
Mitch Chanelis is president of Fairness in Taxation and a member of
the Eastern Massachusetts Greens. Susan Witt is the founder of the
Community Land Trust (Berkshires) and the director of Self-Help for A
Regional Economy (SHARE).
April 27: ``Anarcho-Feminism: A Spectre Haunting Deconstructionism''
Frieda Gardner
Left-leaning deconstructionists could use the politics of
anarcho-feminism, while anarcho-feminists could use the analyses of
decon- struction -- but there are ghastly and ghostly problems.
Frieda Gardner, anarcho-feminist, teaches English at Tufts, writes
poetry, and attends meetings and demonstrations.
May 3: ``Breaking the Law to Save Lives''
John Parker
The growing magnitude of the AIDS crisis, coupled with the
government's criminal negligence in dealing with it, is causing people
to take matters into their own hands. In some cases, this includes
the use of means outside the limits of state approval, such as the
distribution of clean needles to reduce the spread of HIV among IV
drug users.
John Parker is a member of the National AIDS Brigade. He was
recently acquitted in a suit for needle distribution in Boston. This
lecture is a benefit for the AIDS Brigade.
** NOTE: This is a Thursday lecture, and will be held in MIT Room 34-101 **
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Message-ID: <19900212021647.4.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 21:16 EST
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Survival Research Labs update
Next performance is in Seattle, June 9th.
"One completed device is based on electromagnetic rail gun technology.
Rather than firing a projectile at high speeds for kinetic impact
effects or other droll, destructive military objectives this device
employs similar capacitor energy storage units to liquefy a metal bar
and magnetically eject the molten blob at about 200mph. It appears to
the eye as a comet-like beam that fragments on impact, tending to set
fire to any nearby combustibles. This machine, with its long distance,
arson-like capabilities is SRL's answer to George Bush's call for a
thousand points of light."
They are also working on a set of 30-50 autonomous flocking robots, and
a a phased-array whistle that will produce 30kW of acoustic energy at
80-90hZ. Yeesh.
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Message-ID: <9002120246.AA24247@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 21:46:22 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@MINTAKA.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: SubGenius Digest #377
You 've never seen anyone suggest heavy petting as the best pregnancy/VD
avoidance technique available to our young folk, EH?
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