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the
current
Monday
Report
below!
This week's report by Steve Kostecke, ULA Editor in Chief
SLUSH PILE 5:
The PROTEST Issue!
What follows is the Editor’s Rant from the freshly minted SP5. To
order your copy, send $5 well-concealed cash to the ULA,
P.O. Box 42077, Philadelphia PA 19101, or email
pat@literaryrevolution.com for other options.
The following sheets contain a basic abc of one of the most
effective weapons of the Underground Literary Alliance: its
Literary Activism. The ULA is notorious for its constant attacks
on the current realm of Lit & Letters and the Literary-Industrial
Complex which fosters and supports it. We have tirelessly
challenged this complex, have protested against it, and
throughout the whole process have held a megaphone to the
mouths of against-the-mainstream literary voices and viewpoints
which need to be heard for a democratic society’s self-expression
and media to be authentic, legitimate, and complete.
In this issue of our communal lit-zine – the fifth now of the series
– I’ve assembled depictions of all of the essential ULA action to
date: from our initial protest against an already-wealthy author
being handed a $35,000 Guggenheim grant, to our latest protest
of a fiftieth year anniversary celebration of a classic
underground poem in an Ivy League theater sponsored by men in
tuxedos whom the poem was meant to rage against. All of the
insult and injury and mayhem that the ULA has stirred up is
historically described here – as well our progress and successes.
While reading our antics in these pages and observing our non-
stop battles with Corporate Publishing and its makings, you
might find yourself asking: How can the ULA engage in such
Quixotic battles against these Behemoths of Industry? Answer is:
because we know how reality-deficient they are, how little they
comprehend and commiserate with the vast majority of
humankind. Their art is money, not soul. They can’t ever possibly
“get it,” no matter how hard their PR campaigns strive to make
their latest Literary-Fiction Genre Producers (“writers”) and
Productions (“books”) appear significant and genuine to the
reading public.
We know as well that a touch of consciousness-raising and
grassroots mobilization can have the effect of keeping in check
the Powers-That-Be and eventually actuating cultural change –
however screen-mesmerized, overly-stimulated-thus-ultimately-
numb, dazed-n-confused, and irrationally terrified the
Machinery of Media Mind Control may crave we unpeople to be.
So you can count on us to continue the fight against the odds –
against our lack of connections to the Insiders of Lit, against our
lack of financial backing, and against the power of the corporate
publishing houses – as well as their conglomerate parents –
which keep a vise-like grip on the throats of writers who would
dare stray from the officially-stamped script. Even with all that
we have achieved over the past several years (which this Protest
Issue presents), the ULA is still only in its earliest phases.
Keep up on literary history and watch our growth at
literaryrevolution.com.
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The ULA's infamous zeen SP5 is here!!
To order your copy, send $5 well-concealed cash to the ULA,
P.O. Box 42077, Philadelphia PA 19101, or email
pat@literaryrevolution.com for other options.
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