Volume 1 Issue 9

CHOKE presents some relatively good news

About fucking time:

“St. Paul and Ramsey County officials will announce today a detailed and "do-able" plan to spend $131 million over the next five years to create 920 units of supportive housing that they hope will end chronic homelessness in the area.”

-Star Tribune

Since Minneapolis doesn’t seem to be joining the bandwagon anytime soon, and appears to be more interested in allowing high priced condos to be built everywhere, CHOKE advises all homeless folks to flee to Ramsey County, where they at least have a chance. If they prefer Hennepin County, as is their right, then CHOKE advises them to heed the words of Lucy Parsons: “I want every greasy, grimey, tramp to arm themselves with a knife or a gun, and stationing themselves at the doorways of the rich, shoot or stab them as they come out.” Is that too much for you all – then think of it as a metaphor.

Let’s get to choking. In light of the City of St. Paul and Ramsey Counties actions, and the upcoming election for the city council of Minneapolis. CHOKE is proud to announce the neck wringin’ of the whole city council. The whole group of them needs to be thrown out: gentrification, police corruption, bribes, parking meters etc, etc… Who doesn’t have a legitimate gripe against the city council. They’re running the city into the ground, and to think they make upwards of 60 grand a year doing it.
Paul Ostrow – CHOKED
Paul Zerby – CHOKED
Donald Samuels – CHOKED
Barbara Johnson – CHOKED
Natalie Johnson – CHOKED
Dean Zimmerman – CHOKED
Lisa Goodman – CHOKED
Robert Lilligren – CHOKED
Gary Schiff – I hate to do it to you, but where’s our labor museum? – CHOKED
Dan Niziolek – CHOKED
Scott Benson – CHOKED
Sandy Colvin Roy – CHOKED
Barret Lane – CHOKED

CHOKE recommends not voting for the incumbent.

Letter from the Editor

As editor and chief here at CHOKE I am proud to say that I now have a paying job (yes I was doing this for free). A job that I am beginning in a little under over nine hours, I will be dosing myself on the firm’s free coffee. Anyway, my point is not to illicit congratulations, but to tell all the ignorant ass pants out there to quit giving me career advise. CHOKE and the Surly Workers Party is not about job coaching, life affirming, positive attitude adjusting, or any other new scam to help people cope with our current shitty situation. No folks, “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” is not a career guide. God did not make some people rich and others poor. Rich people, corrupt politicians, greedy revolutionaries, robber barons, bad managers, and religious zealots did that. CHOKE advocates stopping them and through the Surly Workers Party we aim to make it happen. Let me end on a musical note by one of my favorite groups, The Coup:

A million Motherfuckers waiting on the first
anticipating the worst
shut the jobby job down at noon and don’t disperse
they wouldn’t pay your ass as far as they can throw you
they think your flunkin’ but they don’t you…