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'''''ATWA''''' is an [[environmental organization]] founded by [[Charles Manson]] and is also a song performed by [[System of a Down]]. The name is said to be an [[acronym]] of '''Air, Trees, Water, Animals''', and to a lesser extent '''All The Way Alive'''. Its core beliefs are the preservation of [[Earth]] by eliminating [[pollution]], making the planet able to keep sustaining life. Core members are named in code by colour, sometimes reffered to as [[The Order of the Rainbow]] with no affiliation to the same named all girls christian support group.
{{For-text|the [[System of a Down]] song|[[Toxicity (album)]]|the political party|[[Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party]]}}
'''ATWA''' (an [[acronym]] for '''Air, Trees, Water, Animals''' and '''All The Way Alive''') is the ecological belief system propounded by [[Charles Manson]], who was later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder as the leader of the communal [[Manson Family]]. ATWA names the interrelated life-support systems of the [[Earth]]. Manson and his associates, most notably [[Lynette Fromme]] and [[Sandra Good]], use the term to name the forces of life which they believe hold the balance of the Earth.<ref>''The Manson File'' by Nikolas Schreck (Amok Press, 1988, {{ISBN|094169304X}})</ref>


==Origins==
==Members past and Present==
{{unreferenced section|date=March 2017}}
Members of [[The Family]] associated with ATWA/Order of the Rainbow are as follows:
Manson was paroled in 1967 and found a welcoming environment in the burgeoning counterculture. Together with a small retinue of disaffected young people, he took flight from what he characterized as the "madness of the cities" and established a communal colony at the [[Spahn Ranch]] in the Santa Susana mountains outside of Los Angeles, California. The group began to make survivalist forays into Death Valley in order to scout out more remote areas of the desert. In September 1969 some members attempted to thwart nearby road developments by deliberately setting an expensive piece of earth-moving equipment on fire. This early act of [[eco-terrorism]] occurred a number of years before the concept was popularized by [[Edward Abbey]], [[Dave Foreman]], and other environmentalists.


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==Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good==
SUSAN DENISE ATKINS: Violet
In the years following Manson's conviction and imprisonment for conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people, Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good became increasingly active in their efforts to raise awareness of the present system's failure to properly steward the Earth.<ref name=Bravin>{{cite book |first=Jess |last=Bravin |authorlink=Jess Bravin |title=Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RHhAQAAQBAJ |publisher=Macmillan |date=15 May 1997 |isbn=9780312156633 |accessdate=16 March 2019}}</ref>


In 1975, [[Lynette Fromme]] was found guilty of the [[Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento|attempted assassination of then-president Gerald Ford]]. While questioned in custody she was asked why she had pointed the gun; she stated, "I stood up and waved a gun (at Ford) for a reason, I was so relieved not to have to shoot it, but, in truth, I came to get life. Not just my life but clean air, healthy water and '''respect''' for creatures and creation."<ref name=Bravin/> In August 2009, Fromme was released from federal prison after serving 34 years.
LYNETTE ALICE FROMME: Red


[[Sandra Good]] was imprisoned for 10 years for conspiracy to send threatening letters to corporate executives unless their corporations ceased polluting the environment.<ref name=Bravin/> After her release in 1985, Good led a campaign against [[International Paper Co.]], which she said was harming [[Lake Champlain]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bridport Journal; A Ghost Of Manson Reappears In the East |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/05/us/bridport-journal-a-ghost-of-manson-reappears-in-the-east.html |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1989-12-05 |access-date=2020-05-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
SANDRA COLLINS GOOD: Blue


==In popular culture==
CHARLES MILLES MANSON: Black
In the movie ''[[Manson Family Vacation]]'' (2015), the character Conrad wants to be a member of an environmental organization based on the ATWA philosophy.


Metal band [[System of a Down]] has a song named "ATWA" on their 2001 album ''[[Toxicity (album)|Toxicity]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Vanhorn |first=Teri |title=System of a Down Measure Growth with Toxicity |publisher=MTV |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1444825/system-of-a-down-measure-growth-with-toxicity/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224093528/http://www.mtv.com/news/1444825/system-of-a-down-measure-growth-with-toxicity/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |date=27 June 2001 |accessdate=15 October 2019}}</ref>
PATRICIA DIANNE KRENWINKEL: yellow

NANCY LAURA PITMAN: Gold

LESLIE LOUISE VAN HOUTEN: Green

It is believed, especially by members themselves, that their [[philosophy]] was the starting point for world-recognized
[[Charitable organization|charities]], such as [[Green Peace]].

[[Sandra Good]] was imprisoned for 10 years for conspiracy to send threatening letters to corporate executives unless their corporations ceased polluting the environment.

==In the media==
[[System of a Down]] wrote a song on the album ''[[Toxicity (album)|Toxicity]]'' about Charles Manson called ATWA.

==Quotes from Manson concerning ATWA==
ATWA -- Air, Trees, Water, Animals. ATWA is your survival on earth. It's a revolution against pollution. ATWA is ATWAR with pollution -- a holy war. You are either working for ATWA -- life -- or you're working for death. Fix it and live or run from it and die. [[Charles Manson]] on ATWA Philosophy.

"The ones who won't let me live live in & for my death which is their own - the ones who let me live live in my life which is their life for there is only one life one god one world one all is one all rain is one river all rivers are one lake all lakes are one sea all seas are water man in ATWA - got nothing to do with me - I'm a made up me by the judgements of money people."
...Charles Manson excerpt from letter April 2003

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==Interview with Sandra Good==
Excerpt from an interview with Sandra Good on ATWA's Purpose:
*SG: The movements of the late 60's/early 70's were in a large part people selling "revolution", "peace", and "love". The for real people were what the media tagged as "The Manson Family". That's why the people who fake for money have for 27 years been covering us up with lies and distortions. A lot of people sell anything they can, including concern for life on earth. Part of my 15 year sentence was for telling all the environmental groups "Quit faking!". We gave our lives for brother and for ATWA and after all these years none of those groups saw or responded. They can't see our real because they are fakes. They play all that, "It's wrong to kill or go to war to save your own life on earth." I'd say: This is a war on pollution, on the problems, a war for life.
People can say that the "enemy" is all that is in the human psyche that sets it against itself -- self destructiveness: that which moves one to defeat one's self, one's life on earth, one's peace, one's love, one's joy in the experience of living, one's soul, one's creativity, one's children, family, kin, and kind. Millions of trees are cut to print more and more books analyzing the human condition and how to deal with the worldwide breakdown of order, health and sanity. More cups, posters and shirts are sold showing what has and is becoming extinct. You can name the human condition however you will -- alienated, wrongly conditioned, inherently good or evil, in need of... etc. There are countless people to tell us what is wrong and to sell us their physical, metaphysical, or spiritual cures. You can attempt to stave off the creeping poisoning of one's own body. Air and water are life. If your air and water are full of the emissions of millions of cars and factories, your life is poisoned. So you can try all kinds of things to stave off the nightmare that each knows in his soul is growing worse each day -- a world with no order, no leadership, no trees, 100's of millions of cars, brown, smelly skies, and frenzied two-legged creatures mindlessly ravaging the earth till there's nothing left.
Only the walking dead can be blindly accepting of what's happening in the world today. Starving Third Worlders who move to First World countries aren't apathetic of the fact that the quality of life where they came from has been rendered no good. The impact of immigration, added to the damage already ongoing, will mean a growing man-made hell. And the end of life on earth.


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
*''[[The Manson File]]'' by [[Nikolas Schreck]] ([[Amok Press]], 1988, ISBN 0-941693-04-X)
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*''[[Charles Manson Superstar]]'' documentary directed by [[Nikolas Schreck]] (Music Video Distribu, DVD Release Date: 2002)


==See also==
==External links==
*[http://www.atwaearth.com/ Official website]
*[[Charles Manson]]
*[https://atwaatwar.blog/ Official blog]
*[[Universal Order]]
*''Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature'' edited by Bron R. Taylor (Continuum, 2005, {{ISBN|9781843711384}})
*''Charles Manson - Love Letters to a Secret Disciple'' by Sy Wyzinski (Moonmad Press, 1976, {{ISBN|0917918010}})
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*''[[Charles Manson Superstar]]'' documentary directed by Nikolas Schreck (Music Video Distribu, DVD Release Date: 2002)
*''Desert Shadows: A True Story of the Charles Manson Family in Death Valley'' by Bob Murphy (Sagebrush Press, 1999, {{ISBN|0930704290}})


{{Manson Family}}
==External links==
*[http://www.atwa.info ATWA Website](graphic image)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20010514150113/http://www.atwa.com/ ATWA Website (archived)]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20010603182156/www.atwa.com/atwa.htm ATWA related quotes (archived)]
*[http://www.mansondirect.com New ATWA site (updated)]


[[Category:Environmental organizations]]
[[Category:Charles Manson]]
[[Category:Manson Family]]
[[Category:Environmental philosophy]]

Latest revision as of 19:33, 27 June 2024

For the System of a Down song, see Toxicity (album). For the political party, see Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party.

ATWA (an acronym for Air, Trees, Water, Animals and All The Way Alive) is the ecological belief system propounded by Charles Manson, who was later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder as the leader of the communal Manson Family. ATWA names the interrelated life-support systems of the Earth. Manson and his associates, most notably Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good, use the term to name the forces of life which they believe hold the balance of the Earth.[1]

Origins

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Manson was paroled in 1967 and found a welcoming environment in the burgeoning counterculture. Together with a small retinue of disaffected young people, he took flight from what he characterized as the "madness of the cities" and established a communal colony at the Spahn Ranch in the Santa Susana mountains outside of Los Angeles, California. The group began to make survivalist forays into Death Valley in order to scout out more remote areas of the desert. In September 1969 some members attempted to thwart nearby road developments by deliberately setting an expensive piece of earth-moving equipment on fire. This early act of eco-terrorism occurred a number of years before the concept was popularized by Edward Abbey, Dave Foreman, and other environmentalists.

Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good

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In the years following Manson's conviction and imprisonment for conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people, Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good became increasingly active in their efforts to raise awareness of the present system's failure to properly steward the Earth.[2]

In 1975, Lynette Fromme was found guilty of the attempted assassination of then-president Gerald Ford. While questioned in custody she was asked why she had pointed the gun; she stated, "I stood up and waved a gun (at Ford) for a reason, I was so relieved not to have to shoot it, but, in truth, I came to get life. Not just my life but clean air, healthy water and respect for creatures and creation."[2] In August 2009, Fromme was released from federal prison after serving 34 years.

Sandra Good was imprisoned for 10 years for conspiracy to send threatening letters to corporate executives unless their corporations ceased polluting the environment.[2] After her release in 1985, Good led a campaign against International Paper Co., which she said was harming Lake Champlain.[3]

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In the movie Manson Family Vacation (2015), the character Conrad wants to be a member of an environmental organization based on the ATWA philosophy.

Metal band System of a Down has a song named "ATWA" on their 2001 album Toxicity.[4]

References

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  1. ^ The Manson File by Nikolas Schreck (Amok Press, 1988, ISBN 094169304X)
  2. ^ a b c Bravin, Jess (15 May 1997). Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312156633. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Bridport Journal; A Ghost Of Manson Reappears In the East". The New York Times. 1989-12-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  4. ^ Vanhorn, Teri (27 June 2001). "System of a Down Measure Growth with Toxicity". MTV. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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