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Jeff J Jawk, Vegan since 1993, Straightedge since 1990.

Short version; Born in Atlanta, grew up in SF in the 1980's, skated and got into punk rock, moved back to Atlanta in 1989, got into hardcore and straightedge, met some amazing people and started booking shows in Atlanta to bring some of my favorite bands to a town that often got skipped over. Shows were small at first (paid Undertow and Sparkmarker a total of $12 for their show in 1994). Ran a label from 1996 until 2003, where I put out records by Indecision, Trial, Chokehold, Dragbody, and Downpour. Moved to Boston in 2003 to work at Bridge 9 and Deathwish, then this past summer I moved to San Francisco where I am working as a QA Engineer for a company I have loved since 1998.

Abolish "SuperNatural" rationale. The followers of the "SuperNatural" hold the world hostage. The Palestinians have no home because "god" took their land and made Israel. Non-human Animals are factory farmed, slaughtered, or kept as slaves for egg and dairy production because of some "super-natural" figure behind the scenes gave us "Dominion" over the earth. They make claims that these animals have no "souls" or worse, make the claim that we as humans do posses them. Our homosexual brothers and sisters are not afforded the same rights I am as a heterosexual based solely on super-natural religious thought. Let ration and reason be what rules us, not fear and superstition.

I think the last real time was during my move to San Francisco, I really had no idea how life was going to be out here, I have always been blessed with the greatest people in my life which makes it hard to leave. To that point I wish to thank all the amazing people in Northern California who have truly made this my new home, and all my friends in Atlanta, Boston, and New York.

Clearly, I live in California, I am wearing them even as I type this.