Recently I have made a concerted effort to make this software easier to install. Starting with release 0.15 you can run it simply as standalone CGI scripts, eliminating the need for mod_perl. I really recommend mod_perl however, because the software was designed to take full advantage of it and FoodClub will be much less demanding on the server you choose to run it on. But since mod_perl installation is difficult, you can start by using the slower mod_cgi setup and then upgrade to mod_perl later on when you have more time.
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November 30th, 99: History walkin' on a tightrope line, Big money pullin' on invisible strings, gettin into everything, so deep. It's hard to believe it's in the food and the water and the air you breath, and the chemistry, the biotech, the banker with the bottomless check, the corporations and the CEOs, and the bottom line as the profit grows. The money talks - you don't talk back, they don't like it when you act like that. But didn't we... Shut it down. Didn't we. November 30th, 99: It was a Tuesday morning when we drew the line, It was the WTO comin' to town, and we swore we gonna shut it down. And they stood there with their big police, they had the national guard out to keep the peace with the guns and the clubs and the chemical gas, but still we would not let them pass, and they raged and roared, and their tempers flared and there were bombs bursting in the daylight air and they'd run us off, do us in, but we came right back again, yeah didn't we. Shut it down, didn't we. November 30th, 99: Millennium passing as the numbers climb, and the people came from everywhere. There must have been 50,000 out there. There were farmers, unions, rank and file, every grassroots has its own style. There were great big puppets two stories tall, there were drummers drummin' in the shoppin malls. There were so many people that you couldn't see how that many people got into the city, and the WTO delegates, too. But we were locked down, so they couldn't get through. Yeah didn't we, Shut it down, didn't we. November 30th, 99: Lock down at the police line, and they're hittin' you with everything they got. But you ain't movin' like it or not, and they're tyin your wrists with plastic cuffs, and they're loadin you up on a great big bus, and they're takin' you down to the navy base, pepper sprayin' you right in the face. Try to break you down, try to get you to kneel, but you got the unity and this is for real, and they can't break a spirit that's comin' alive, that's the kind of spirit that's bound to survive, yeah didn't we. Shut it down, didn't we. Now the media loves all the glitter and flash, you know the newspapers talkin' out a whole lot of trash, about the violence of the people in black, and how the cops were so tired they just had to attack, and the secret sittin' in that deep dark hole, of what they call city hall may never be told. The mayor's out doin' the spin. The police chief quit so you can't ask him. Well they can swear to god and all human law, but I was there and I know what I saw. The invisible stains'll wash away in the rains, but this old town'll never be the same. Cause didn't we, Shut it down. Didn't we. Now it's the greatest story ever told, David and Goliath how you be so bold, standin' up to the giant when the goin' gets hot, and all you got is a slingshot. Well they tell me the world turned upside down, you gotta pick it up and shake it, gotta turn it around, you gotta take it apart to rearrange it. I don't want to see the world I want to change it. Don't let 'em tell you that it can't be done, because they're gonna be the first ones to run. Just take a little lesson from Seattle town, WTO and how we shut it down. Yeah didn't we. Shut it down, didn't we. November 30th, 99. -- Jim Page |