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NewsPoetry Journalist Reports from Inside the InfoWar

Urbana, IL [A$sociated Poets]

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upon INformation flow of the People's Republic of Urbana \ 

Many valu+d unstitutions of the People's Repu+lic,

including Artist &Act^ivist Employment Oppor%unities, Inc.,

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los# in@tern|||et con####ectivity for some hours today in

what the corporate telephone company called a "minor inter-

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  "The c+rrent crisis in 

electr*nic iN4orma^ion flow," according to local Permaculture

spoKesfarmer A*#$%& ^}Ull  "00points to the need for even further

self-sufficiency and ind*pend^nce from coRporate utilities in 

our communities and bi0Regions."

 

"Th^ sooner we get off th% grid complet*ly, the saf+r we'll be

from corporate and neo-imPPPerial hierarchiculture, endemic 

violen***C, and corp-r*ate sabotage of our SUStenanc*ng and 

su*STainaBBle un-stitutions."