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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: BRAZIL: GOLD MINERS RE-INVADE INDIGENOUS RESERVE
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:15:09 GMT

/** reg.carib: 500.0 **/
** Topic: IPS: Brazil's gold miner invasion - **
** Written 11:37 am  Jan  1, 1993 by caribdesk in cdp:reg.carib **
From: Bob Thomson <caribdesk>
Subject: IPS: Brazil's gold miner invasion - Guyana next?

/* Written 12:13 am  Dec 31, 1992 by newsdesk@igc.apc.org in igc:ips.englibrary */
/* ---------- "BRAZIL: GOLD PROSPECTORS RE-INVADE " ---------- */
Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Reference: Commodities; Asia, southern
Title: BRAZIL: GOLD PROSPECTORS RE-INVADE INDIGENOUS RESERVE

rio de janeiro, dec 28 (ips) -- nearly 11,000 brazilian gold
prospectors or 'garimpeiros' are reported to have returned, over
the past few months, to the yanomami indian reserve in the state
of roraima, on the border between brazil and venezuela.

the latest invasion of indian territories by the 'garimpeiros'
began at the end of the rainy season, in september, when hundreds
of gold miners began returning to roraima to rebuild jungle
airstrips destroyed two years ago by the authorities, as part of
a government effort to oust them from the indian reserve.

according to the president of the national indian foundation
(funai), sidney possuelo, large numbers of 'garimpeiros' are now
scattered throughout the yanomami territories.

in 1991, the brazilian government turned over 94,000 square
kilometres of land to some 9,000 yanomami indians to create an
indigenous reserve and deployed army and police units to expel
about 30,000 gold miners from the area and destroy their
airstrips.

possuelo said the authorities had failed to take the necessary
measures to prevent the likely return of 'garimpeiros' and said
the government had not responded to funai's requests for stricter
controls.

funai's lack of resources prompted the withdrawal of police
units from the reserve as well as the withdrawal of 240 doctors
and nurses who were working to combat a variety of diseases
spread to indigenous groups by the arrival of the 'garimpeiros'.

indigenous leader david yanomami, who will represent brazil's
native groups at a un meeting in january to inaugurate the
international year of indigenous peoples, said the creation of
the reserve was merely a ''propaganda exercise'' by the brazilian
government prior to the june earth summit in rio de janeiro.
(ends/ips/trd-sp/rb/cs/cg/92)
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From: Greg Dunkel <JOSCU%CUNYVM.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      cost of death penalty
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:30:28 GMT

This information appeared in the 'Seattle Times' Dec 13, 1992.

One argument used for the death penalty in the US is cost.

The US appears to be the "only Western industrial nation
employing capital punishment. Other industrial nations, such as
South Africa and Japan, stil have laws allowing for capital
punishment, but use them rarely if at all."

"No one has attempted to calculate the costs of an execution in
Washington state (site of the hanging yesterday--gmd), but
studies elsewhere suggest it costs far more than incarceration.

California is spending more than $90 million annually on
capital cases, and until this year hadn't executed anyone since
1972.  Texas, the national leader in the number of executions,
spedns an estimated $2.3 million per execution.  That compares
to an average cost of incarceration in Washington state of $25,000
per maximum-security prisoner per year."

These are the words of the "Seattle Times."

My feeling is that it has never been cost or justice or
retribution that has driven the death penalty in the US -- it's
state terror against the poor, predominantly African American and
Latino communities whose sons and daughters are singled out.
The media  play up the horrible cases, the sadistic brutes that kill
children or multiple victims, but ignore the majority of the
capital cases.

/greg dunkel


G. Dunkel                         Bitnet:   <JOSCU@CUNYVM>
Voice: (212) 903-3678             Internet: <JOSCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

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From: jester%ccu.umanitoba.ca@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: NLNS: Politics of RU-486
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:02:52 GMT

>The Politics of RU-486
>Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, The Thistle
>
>(NLNS)--RU-486 is known to most Americans as "the abortion pill;" it is
>generally thought to provide the safest, least traumatic form of abortion
>anywhere.

This is quite misleading. RU486 has more side effects, more
contraindications,
and is "less effective" that surgical (vacuum aspiration) abortions. In
France, any history of heart disease is considered a contraindication.
Evidence is mounting that (as for hormonal birth control pills) smoking
should be considered a serious contraindication.

The RU486/Prostaglandin process takes longer than a surgical abortion,
and involves pain and bleeding for 7-12 days, longer than for a surgical
abortion. 3-4 patients per hundred experience "severe" bleeding or pain
requiring further medical treatment.

The drug has a slightly higher risk of "partial abortion" than a surgical
abortion. A "partial" abortion requires a follow up surgical abortion.
This is a very slight difference. 96% success for RU 486 v. 97% for vacuum
aspiration.

RU486 also has a higher (but still low) rate of fatal complications:

1:100,000 for RU486/Prostaglandin abortion
1:250,000 for vacuum aspiration abortion
1:14,300 normal childbirth
1:3,000 illegal abortion

Some of these fatalities can be blamed on the type of prostaglandin used,
rather than the RU486 itself.

RU 486 is a very useful new drug, and promises to make safe abortions
more accessible than ever before. The drug is not perfect, but it
stands on its own merits, and does not need misleading endorsements.

--------------------------------------------
jester@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jonathan Esterhazy)

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: RESOURCE: Key Washington Fax Numbers (autopost)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:30:04 GMT

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** Topic: FAX NUMBERS FOR CONGRESS, ADMIN **
** Written  6:55 pm  Jan  7, 1991 by sfreedkin in cdp:mideast.actions **
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In addition to writing, calling, and telegramming federal
officials to express our views, we can send them faxes.

The following are key facsimile (fax) numbers listed in the
National Fax Directory 1990.  We plan to post fax numbers
from all of Congress in this conference within a few days.

President George Bush, The White House
Comment line   (202) 456-1111            fax (202) 456-2883

Secretary of State James A. Baker
                                         fax (202) 647-4000

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney
                                         fax (202) 647-9080

National Security Council: Brent Scowcroft, Nat Sec Advisor
                                         fax (202) 395-5221

Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff
                                         fax (202) 697-9758

Rep. Thomas Foley, Speaker of the House  fax unlisted

Rep. Richard Gephardt, House Majority Leader
phone (202) 225-0100, 225-2671           fax (202) 225-7452

Sen. George Mitchell, Senate Majority Leader
phone (202) 224-5344                     fax (202) 224-6853

Sen. Robert Dole, Senate Minority Leader
phone (202) 224-6521                     fax unlisted

Sen. Robert Byrd, President Pro Tempore of the Senate
                                         fax (202) 224-8070

Sen. Sam Nunn, Chair, Senate Armed Services Committee
                                         fax (202) 224-0072

If you have any corrections to this list, please post in a
response (at the next Conf? prompt type ",wrc").  If there
are any responses to this posting please read them before
sending faxes to ensure that there have been no corrections
to this list.

-- Steve Freedkin  (sfreedkin)     tel. (805) 965-8583
   Executive Director
   Peace Resource Center           Tue.-Fri. 10-3, Sat. 11-2
     of Santa Barbara                 Pacific time
   331 N. Milpas St., Suite F
   Santa Barbara, CA 93103-3203
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From: Jean Dickson <LOLJEAN%UBVM.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      Roe v. Wade anniv., Buffalo
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:12:54 GMT

Dear Friends,
  Please pass on the following information to your friends in Western New York:

ROE v. WADE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY

Join Buffalo United for Choice for an evening of speakers and video
    Tuesday, January 19, 1993 at 7:00 PM
HallWalls Contemporary Arts Center, 700 Main St., 2nd floor

Speakers:  Marlene Gerber Fried,  author/editor of From Abortion to
                Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement; professor of
                philosophy at Hampshire College; long-time activist in
                Boston's Reproductive Rights Network.  Marlene Gerber Fried
                will speak about "Reproductive Rights in the 1990s."

           Sharon Fawley, president of NOW New York State and a leader of
                clinic defense in Buffalo last spring.  Sharon Fawley will
                discuss "The Politics of Abortion Rights."

           Jane Clarke, nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood.  Jane
                Clarke will talk about "Before and After Choice."

    Also: the videotape "Abortion for Survival" will be shown.

Evening co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Buffalo and Erie County.
Buffalo United for Choice will stage a pro-choice demonstration Saturday,
January 23, starting at 1:00 PM at Lafayette Square in Buffalo.  Call the
BUC Hotline (716-855-4033) for more information.

 posted by Jean Dickson, loljean@ubvm.bitnet
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From: CATHYF%EARLHAM.BITNET@UICVM.UIC.EDU
Subject: INFO:Peace work in Belgrade
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:50:40 GMT

>/* Written  9:19 pm  Dec 26, 1992 by jlynch@igc.apc.org in igc:yugo.antiwar */
>/* ---------- "Volunteer to Belgrade" ---------- */
>        * Forwarded from the COBWEB (Church of the Brethren) network on
>        the ECUNET system.
>
>COB COMMUNICATIONS Dec. 22, 1992 at 16:46 Eastern  (1906 characters)
>
>Brethren volunteer begins work in Belgrade, Serbia
>
>A Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) worker has begun service at a peace
>center in Belgrade, Serbia.
>
>   Patrick Morgan, of Akron, Ind., is working at the Center for Anti-war
>Action. In his third year of BVS, Morgan entered Serbia in November last
>year, after taking mediation training in Germany.
>
>   The war between Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia, is not taking place in the
>Belgrade area. Morgan's responsibility is to assist with the center's
>communications to the outside world, especially with other peace
>organizations. Part of the job consists of setting up electronic mail and a
>computer network.
>
>   ``People in the west need to be aware that the Serbians are human beings
>and are not the devils they are made out to be,'' said Morgan. ``It is
>difficult because no one knows what to do. Sanctions seem like the best
>thing, but they are a form of violence and are tearing the country apart,''
>he said.
>
>   Morgan, a Catholic, is a 1990 graduate of Manchester College, North
>Manchester, Ind., with a bachelors degree in communications. He worked for
>two years at the Interfaith Peace Center in Rome, Italy, prior to his
>assignment in Serbia.
>
>   The length of his stay depended on the outcome of the presidential
>elections, held December 20, and any additional sanctions placed on the
>country.
>
>   ``It is a time of anxiety and I'm getting mixed messages,'' said Morgan
>prior to the elections. ``For a foreigner it is very difficult because a
>lot of the propaganda from the president (Slobodan Milosevic) says that
>`foreigners are a big influence on the problems.' ''
>
>   The Center for Anti-war Action, a coalition of peace organizations and
>anti-war groups, was formed in July 1991 with the intention of being a
>peace presence in the former Yugoslavia.  --MESSENGER February 1993
>
>--Communication Team, Church of the Brethren General Board, Elgin, IL, USA
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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: GUATEMALA: thousands of refugees
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Resent-From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:36:00 GMT

/* Written  4:35 pm  Jan  8, 1993 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "GUATEMALA: thousands of refugees" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom

DATE: 6 JANUARY 1993

GUATEMALA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FOR SAFETY OF THOUSANDS OF
RETURNING REFUGEES

Amnesty International is concerned for the security of over 5,000 refugees who
are scheduled to return to Guatemala from Mexico on 13 January 1993, in what
will be the first phase in the negotiated return of over 40,000
refugees.

Since 1989, refugees living in Mexico, who fled the Guatemalan army's
counter-insurgency campaigns of the early 1980s, have been seeking a
negotiated return to Guatemala.  On 8 October 1992, the Guatemalan
government and the refugees in Mexico signed an Accord in Guatemala City,
which sets out the conditions for the return of the refugees and states that
the return will be voluntary.  It recognizes the rights of free
association, organization and movement of returnees and in particular, the
Accord guarantees a return in conditions of security and dignity, and the
right to life and personal and community integrity of the returnees.

Amnesty International is concerned, however, that recent military
operations in Guatemala may put some of the returning refugees in danger. The
first 5,000 refugees are due to return to areas of the departments of El Quich
and Huehuetenango.  Amnesty International is particularly concerned for the
safety of over 2,700 refugees due to return to the area of Pol!gono 14, Ixc n,
department of El Quich.

On the last days of November and the first of December 1992, army units
launched an aerial and land operation in the nearby area of Cuarto Pueblo,
Ixcn, during which it was reported that the communities of Cuarto Pueblo and
Los Angeles came under serious attack.  According to information
received by Amnesty International, some 70 families resident in the two
communities mentioned fled to Mexican territory as a result of this attack.
The area in which the military operation took place is adjacent to the area of
Pol!gono 14, on the other side of the Xalbal River.

Amnesty International fears that, because of the proximity of the areas under
attack to the area marked for the return of the refugees, these
incidents put in grave risk the security of the returning refugees.  For this
reason, Amnesty International is urging the Guatemalan government to ensure
the full respect and continuing protection to the right to life and physical
security of all returning refugees, as outlined in the Accord.
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From: Hank Roth <odin@world.std.com>
Subject: Marxism
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:31:19 GMT

<<< via P_news/p.news >>>
{From NEW LEFT REVIEW, 195/1992}
[Excerpt from BRINGING MARX TO JUSTICE:
AN ADDENDUM AND REJOINDER]
by Norman Geras
 
"....From the beginning Marxism was a moral doctrine embodying a 
passionate condemnation of the evils of capitalism, in the name 
of more humane values and of the commitment to fighting for a 
society that would realize them.....If there is no moral case for 
socialism, there is no case for it. If it cannot be justified in the 
light of a clearly articulated set of ethical principles, it 
cannot be justified. Socialists do not have some special, 
different---dialectical or whatever--way of reasoning about these 
things. We have to reason about what is wrong with capitalism and 
what might be better about socialism in just the same way as 
anyone else would reason about political or social alternatives: 
appealing to, explicating, defending or amending, normative 
priciples and values.
 
"...It is clear that, from Marx and Engels on, Marxists have 
always seen the aboliton of exploitation as one of the main 
`progressive' features of the hoped-for transition from 
capitalist, and class, societies to a classless one. Exploitation 
has been seen, that is to say, as precisely an evil; a `world-
historical' evil, to be fought against and overcome. But why does 
exploitation even matter, let alone matter so much? This cannot 
be satisfactorily answered without recourse to principles of 
distributive justice. Whatever the favoured technical meaning of 
exploitation may be, Marxists have habitually also counted on the 
common, everyday meaning of it; namely that it involves `taking 
unfair advantage' of people....."
 
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:

    Public opinion is a treasured power resource in the conflict
    between capital and labor. It can make or break strikes, elect
    candidates, influence labor legislation, and affect union growth.
    Public opinion is perhaps most responsive to the real life
    experiences of people, their jobs and concerns, and what they
    witness with their own senses.  But beyond the range of personal
    experience is the larger world with which people have little
    face-to-face contact. To learn about this world, they must rely
    almost wholly on news media, which are far from being the the
    voices of impartiality they claim to be.

    "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one," Liebling
    wrote, and no group on the American labor-left now owns a
    mass-distribution daily newspaper. Socialist and labor dailies
    expired long ago, and although other leftist publication are
    extant, none remain that can present and interpret the news as it
    happens and disseminate it to a mass audience.  Some critics say
    that labor-left publications are just as partisan as conservatives
    ones, but that is just the point.  Partisanship is to be expected
    in labor-left publications, just as it is in the corporate-owned
    mass media. This apparent symmetry does not balance the scales of
    media justice, of course, since the resources and reach of the two
    are incomparably different.

    In the absence of a labor-left voice and strongly contrasting
    viewpoint on issues, the bland facade of media impartiality and
    their subtle biases are often mistaken for nopartisanship...

    "The reactionaries," John Dewey said early in the century, "are in
    possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the
    press and the school" although it may seem strange to speak of the
    press and schools as possessing force, it is undeniable that their
    ability to influence (even "brainwash") the people they inform can
    be as potent in its effect as armed force.

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From:
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_The War on Labor and the Left. 
 Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_ 
By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton 
Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford 
ISBN 0-8133-1062-8  ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk) 


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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: "MIM" ("Maoist") Posts Discontinued.
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:31:48 GMT


Re: Discontinuation of MIM on misc.activism.progressive(MAP) & ACTIV-L

After discussing the matter, we have decided to no longer forward the
"MIM" ("Maoist International Movement") posts (although continuing
some of the other New York Transfer Service ("nyxfer") posts) on the
grounds that, in any meaningful sense of the word, MIM and the Shining
Path terrorists they support are not "progressive" and hence do not
belong in misc.activism.progressive (LaRouche too claimed to be a
"progressive" at one time).

The recent 3-part "The Reactionary Shining Path" posts detailing the
murderous campaign of Peru's Maoist guerrillas against community;
labor; women's movement; and other demoratic progressive grassroots
organizations and leaders speaks loudly and clearly on this matter,
and the so-called left/progressive "credentials" of the Shining Path /
Sendero Lumenoso / Peru Co / Peru Communist Party terrorists.

We will shortly post also Radio Havana's condemnation of Sendero
alonside its deathsquad moral equivalent, the Peruvian army.

In fact, just yesterday (1/8) Americas Watch released a report on the
deliberate violence against women employed as a *strategy* by both the
Peruvian army (rape as a tactical weapon of war) and the reactionary
Sendero/Shining Path (deliberate targeting of women for murder in
order to terrorize communities and prevent struggles against the
Peruvian dictatorship independent of Sendero Maoist dogma and,
crucially, Sendero control).

While misc.activism.progressive (MAP) has tolerated and will continue
to tolerate analysis from various sources/perspective with which we do
not always agree, "MIM" is has been a steadfast apologist for the
reactionary Shinining Path thugs (with its "the SCIENCE of Maoism"
[emphasis added], "Gonzalo-thought" etc), and is about as
"progressive" as Ronald Reagan was for "freedom" and "democracy" -- or
about as much as the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
was "democratic" -- or "socialist" -- it was neither.

"MIM" can continue their posts on the unmoderated alt.activism and
other newsgroups with far larger audience, of course, just as we
support freedom of speech on the Net and elsewhere for others with
whom we passionately disagree, but we will no longer sanction its
reactionary views under the "progressive" umbrella of MAP/ACTIV-L, and
all future submissions from MIM will not be accepted.

Harel Barzilai, co-founder, MAP and ACTIV-L
Rich  Winkel    co-founder, MAP and ACTIV-L

Phillip Zerbo, NLNS ; MAP / ACTIV-L LaborNet coordinator
	Formerly with CISPES, University of Oregon El Salvador Sister
	University Project.
Jym Dyer, MAP and ACTIV-L EcoNet coordinator
		(Having also worked with human rights and solidarity
		organizations in Latin America)
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