B U Z Z K I L L salt lake's occasional anarchist rag The most profitable business in America. No it's not big oil, it's the pharmaceutical industry at $55 billion a year. No other legal business consistently makes as large a profit. While prescription drug prices have increased five times the rate of inflation, some drug companies have received a rate of return of over 43 cents on the dollar. Americans pay more than anyone else in the world, %54 more than their European counterparts. Hardest hit are the elderly whose Medicare payments don't cover out-patient prescriptions. For a complete set of immunizations, the drug companies charge $200. One decade ago it was $23. In the Western hemisphere, only Bolivia and Haiti have lower immunization rates than the U. S. and in some inner cities only %10 of the children are vaccinated. There has been some promising research regarding drugs to treat sickle cell anemia, but the drug companies refuse to get involved unless they can make a $100 to 200 dollar billion profit. This disease affects 50,000 blacks in America. Contrary to the pharmaceutical industry's propaganda, they spend far more on sales and promotion than on research and development. What all these facts and figures amount to is that the drug companies profit, and very nicely thank you, of off people's suffering (they're not operating a charity, damnit!). On the upside, pharmaceutical stock has been showing a consistently good return, so invest now. It would be unfair to say the reason Hillary heads the committee to come up with a national health care plan is because no one else wants the job, but it's going to hell of juggling act to provide quality health care and insure the healthy profits the deeply- entrenched health care industries lobbies demand. ############################ EVOLUTIONARY LETTER #2 The value of an individual life a credo they taught us to instil fear, and inaction, 'you only live once' a fog in our eyes, we are endless as the sea, not separate, we die a million times a day, we are born a million times, each breath life and death: get up, put on your shoes, get started, someone will finish Diane Di Prima ################################## Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business, thousands of sons will see to it when you fall, you will grow a thousand times in the bellies of your sisters ################################### "Uncle Sam never gives anybody anything for nothing. He comes along with a sack stuffed with hay in one hand and whip in the other. Anybody that accepts Uncle Sam's promises at their face value will find that they must be paid for in sweat and blood. American workers are demanding an ever larger share of the product of their labor. With a view to preventing revolution at home, the American capitalists are forced to seek out colonial peoples to exploit, peoples who will furnish sufficient profits to keep the American workers in obedience and so make them participants in the exploitation." - John Reed to Armenian workers concerning promises of U. S. food aid in 1920 "You, the laborer, produce all of the "benefits of civilization" under the authority of a corporation who takes your goods and services and gives you a pittance in return. You, the consumer, then use this pittance, in the form of "money," to buy these goods and services at an inflated price. Everything in a corporate-owned store has been stolen from you through wage slave labor. Take it all back. Steal a pack of bubblegum, or baseball cards. Wreak havoc on the capitalist machine and throw sand in its gears. Never steal from small shops, only from factory chain stores. It's yours, take it. Shoplifting is practical anarchy." - -Mike Thain "Take what you want. Take what you need. There is plenty to go around. Everything is free." -George Metesky ################################## The Monroe Mountain Demolition Project The Fishlake area division of the Forest Service in collusion with the livestock industry and elk hunters are currently developing a management plan for the Monroe Mountain area in south-central Utah that would in effect turn the entire mountain and surrounding wildlife wintering areas into a feedlot for cows, sheep and "trophy class" elk. Called the Monroe Mountain Livestock/Big Game Demonstration Area, the project calls for increased road development, an increase in picnic and sanitation sites, the construction of wildlife viewing platforms, an increase in logging, massive pinion/juniper chaining, more livestock water developments, and the extermination of many beaver that are "changing riparian areas into ponds," apparently bothering livestock persons and downstream irrigation projects. The Forest Service claims this is an opportunity to use an "ecosystem" approach to management. While the entire ecosystem will be severely affected, the goals are contrary to preserving or restoring ecosystem integrity. The FS admits the area has been overgrazed because of the failure to reduce livestock during recent drought conditions, yet the plan does not consider reducing livestock numbers. The only alternative discussed is extensive manipulation to artificially increase grazing forage. The extent of public involvement is questionable at this time as decisions will be made by "endorsees" of a "Stewardship Management Program" and all "partners and volunteers" would have to sign a "Stewardship Management Agreement." Also the FS states "the area is somewhat isolated...allowing better focus on the interests and individuals that need to be involved. Proponents of this project (ranchers and hunters) will insist that all of us will benefit from this project (nonconsumptive users can watch wildlife from the viewing platforms) but the real losers would be the non- game wildlife; the beaver, goshawk and eagle; the species dependent on pinion, juniper, oak and mountain mahogany; the watersheds and forests; even the elk who have to wander in this game park/zoo wearing radio collars. This may indeed be a new approach to ecosystem management; the degradation of the entire system instead of the usual piece by piece manipulation. The FS however seems content to evaluate the environmental impacts on a piece by piece basis, opting for Environmental Assessments on individual projects instead of an ecosystem-wide Environmental Impact Statement. ################################## Sing them hymns to praise our lord And then just fall asleep We'll seduce you and then you'll start To follow us like sheep. You'll keep making little ones And adding to the fold So they will make us tons of dough And do as they are told. We'll make you think you've got it made And you're rolling in the clover But when you think you're kneeling down You're really bending over. Take a bite of Jesus, brother Drink a cup of blood We christian zombie vampires Been doin' it since the flood. We did it to the Canaanites The Palestinians too. We did it to them redskins And we're doin' it to you. But if you pay your ten percent When you see the plate God and we will guarantee Your afterlife is great. We'll always have it better than Those disbelieving vermin And we can use our pretty bombs Whenever we determine. That they want their independence Or practice any vices Or maybe something even worse: They try to raise their prices. ################################## Wild Utah Earth First! Regional Rendezvous: Apr 16-18 at Little Wild Horse Canyon in the San Rafael Swell. take I-15 south to the first Spanish Fork exit. sign will say U.S. 6 and Price. stay on Rt. 6 through Price to Green River. at Green River take I-70 westbound to State Road 24 (8 mi.). to reach the trail head from highway 24, turn right at the Goblin Valley turnoff, then turn left at the next signed junction toward Goblin Valley. take the right fork just before the entrance to Goblin Valley and drive 5.3 miles to where the road drops into Little Wild Horse Canyon. April 21 is the sixth annual Day of Outrage against the Forest Service. Join Wild Utah Earth First! in protest, street theater and general bellyachin at the Utah State Forest Service headquarters in Ogden. meet at the Ogden Federal Building (324 East 25th St.) at 3 p.m. on April 21 for more info about either of these events, call 621- 6509 ############################### buzzkill classifieds buzzkill meetings are now and then, call 486-7657 for more information. send donations, letters, poetry, submissions etc. to: buzzkill, 360 E Edith Ave., SLC, UT 84111 Utah Activist Network meets every monday, 7 p.m. at Cafe Mediterranean (542 E 400 S). call 534-3322 Wild Utah Earth First! meets every monday, 7 p.m., at Cafe Mediterranean (542 E 400 S). 575-6331, p.o. box 510442, SLC, UT 84151 salt lake IWW meets on the third saturday of each month. call 485-1969 for more info. p.o. box 520514, SLC, UT 84152-0514 Utah Peace Test meets on the third thursday of each motnh, 7:00, at the Quaker meeting house (161 E 2nd Ave) call 596-1905 for more info, p.o. box 11416, SLC, UT 84147 for more information about Food Not Bombs call 486-7657 Leonard Peltier Support Group/SPIRIT meets on the first and third monday of each month, 7 p.m., at Cafe Mediterranean (542 E 400 S) call 272-9128 for more info, p.o. box 9401, SLC, UT 84124 Queer Nation and ACT-UP meetings are every tuesday, 7 p.m., at the Stonewall Center (450 S 900 E)