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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel B. and Rich W., Co-Moderators)
Subject: SPECIAL: **READER SURVEY**
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:52:02 GMT

Dear misc.activism.progressive and ACTIV-L Readers,

Posted together with this announcement is a _Survey Form_ we ask you
to fill out.

The purpose of the survey is to get feedback from you about what you
like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see that's not there (or
not enough); to gauge how effective we are in the posting of resource
materials for activists (videos, speakers, catalogs, etc); and to
solicit some volunteer help for misc.activism.progressive itself and
for other projects.

The way to "fill out" the survey is to leave the indented text
(directions) intact and to replace the un-indented lines with your
answers.

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	Question #17

	What is your favorite color?

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in this example you'd replace said line with "orange" or "purple" or
whatever.


Then please email your completed _Survey Form_ to:
survey@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

PLEASE keep to the format so that the survey-tabulation routines we
hope to use don't choke on it!

Please send in your Survey by the end of the month (we are thinking of
writing a survey for new users; this one is for those of you who've
been reading MAP/ACTIV-L for some time)

Thanks!

Harel Barzilai & Rich Winkel, co-moderators.

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From: Blythe Systems <nytransfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: INFO: Polls as PsyWar
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:51:07 GMT

Subject: Polls as PsyWar

Via The NY Transfer News Service ^ All the News that Doesn't Fit


                       Pollsters and Liars

The average person doesn't want to get embroiled in a war,
especially in a far-off country. This resistance to being dragged
into a military adventure is a problem on which the imperialist
rulers of the U.S. have been working for a long time. They had to
find a way to break down the resistance.

A mass media campaign portraying the target country as cruel,
brutal, uncivilized, dangerous and insanely aggressive is
indispensable -- but not enough. How can the war planners be sure
it is working? And how can they convince a big chunk of the
population -- who, it should be remembered, never thought of going
to war in the first place -- that everyone is cheering on "our
troops" so they too should get with the program, go with the
flow?

Enter the public opinion poll.

Ever since the shamelessly racist and lopsided U.S. outrage
against the little island of Grenada, the public opinion poll has
played a key role in mobilizing pro-war sentiment. Every evening
for weeks, ABC-TV's "Nightline," a relatively new program at that
time, interviewed officials who argued that the U.S. should carry
out a "surgical" operation to get rid of the danger posed by
these Black revolutionaries and their Cuban backers. And then,
after the audience was sufficiently softened up, came the public
opinion polls. Not enough support for invasion? Give them another
week of lies, turned up full blast.

Since then, the technique has been used for the invasion of
Panama, the war in Iraq, and now the threatened intervention in
Yugoslavia. Batter down popular resistance to war with massive
propaganda barrages. Then measure how successful it's been with
"public opinion polls." So when the bombs start to fall, it's not
the cabal of military men, politicos and the super-rich ruling
class that is responsible. No, the "public" was clamoring for
war, and the Pentagon just had to go along.

No one should be discouraged or fooled by these polls. They do
not register the true sentiment of the masses but only their
level of resistance -- or lack of it -- to a propaganda onslaught. If
those who know the score, who understand the cynical nature of
what is going on, refuse to be swept along and exercise political
courage, if they concentrate their energies on exposing the lies
and the propaganda -- then the anti-war movement can again take to
the streets and prove by its very existence and audacity that the
polls lie just as the mass media do.

                               -30-

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)


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From: Blythe Systems <nytransfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: NEWS:Anti-War Forces Respond to Bush Threat
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:49:15 GMT


Via The NY Transfer News Service ^ All the News that Doesn't Fit


            ANTIWAR MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST BUSH THREATS

The war threat sparked immediate protests in several cities, and
antiwar coalitions across the country are on emergency alert. In
Boston the New England Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the
Middle East, together with the Movement for a Peoples Assembly,
hit the streets Monday, Aug. 17.

In New York the National Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in
the Middle East picketed in front of the Bush/Quayle Campaign
Office Aug. 19.

"From Iraq to Yugoslavia, U.S. Out Now!" chanted demonstrators in
front of the JFK Federal Building in Boston. The protest appeared
on the Channel 4 evening news and was covered in the Boston
Globe.

"At a time when unemployment in the U.S. is rising and plants are
closing, we need jobs and education, not more racist
attacks -- whether by the police in Los Angeles or the U.S.
military against the people of Iraq," declared Phebe Eckfeldt,
spokesperson for the Boston coalition.

"Already responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of
Iraqis -- hundreds of whom still die every day due to murderous
sanctions imposed by the U.S.-controlled UN -- George Bush
threatens further death to the people of Iraq on behalf of big
oil and his re-election campaign," said Sara Flounders of the New
York coalition.

                               -30-

Across the country, anti-war activists are poised to pour into
the streets en masse in the event of further U.S. military
escalation. All are urged to call their local organizing center,
or the INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER of the National Coalition to
Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East: (212) 633-6646.


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:35:13 GMT


"Why of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country.

						Hermann Goering
From: <MORRISR@ucs.indiana.edu>


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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:58:26 GMT

/* Written  9:57 am  Aug 15, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!" ---------- */
The State Dept. no. we have been faxing is "out of service."  Here are
new numbers to try, for free faxing through SUNET (this has been arranged
by Bernhard Helander of the University of Uppsala):

HJ_Cohen@f00912026476301.fax.sunet.se

   (this is to the Bureau of African Affairs of the State dept.)

Mark_Johnson@f00912026470810.fax.sunet.se

   (this is to the Bureau of East African Affairs of the State Dept.)

Herman Jay Cohen of the first no. is Assistant Secretary for African Affairs

Mark Johnson is Director of Bureau of East African Affairs

Other numbers still appearing to work are to the Secretary General of the UN
Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

Boutros_Ghali@f00912129634879.fax.sunet.se


To the Clinton Campaign HQ:  Bill_Clinton@f00915013722292.fax.sunet.se

GOOD NEWS is:  indications are that the State Dept. fax went "offline" because
of the great number of faxes concerned about Somalia.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS "THREAD":  The numbers above offer FREE FAXING via
SUNET to all users of Internet and Bitnet, about the Somalia crisis--the
worst disaster in the world, where as many as 5000 people are dying each day,
and where aid has been slow in coming.

Our messages now need to emphasize, among other things, quick action in
moving food, etc., and *sustained* action (i.e., it should not slack off
if public attention moves to other things).  For example,

"We urge massive delivery of food and supplies to Somalia by all means
possible, to all ports and airports in the country (not just to the capital
Mogadishu). Millions of people are in immediate danger of starvation and
there must be no delay.

"Such massive aid must continue without interruption or lessening until
the Somalian population is out of danger."

There are many other posts on this somalian topic, of course, from which you
may get information.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Please remember that AN EFFECTIVE FAX IS POLITE!!
Amnesty International, through years of experience, has found that a serious
polite tone will be heeded.  Threats or rudeness can damage the cause;
please avoid them.
Please see next response for additional suggestion.  Thanks to all who help on 
this.

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Somalia: EC Fax Numbers
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:05:57 GMT

/* Written 10:45 pm  Aug 20, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Somalia: EC Fax Numbers" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Somalia: EC Fax Numbers

From dmorse Thu Aug 20 07:52:58 1992
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>

/* Written  7:52 am  Aug 20, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "EC fax nos. for Somalia" ---------- */
Messages to ECHO, the department of humanitarian aid to the "third world" of
the EC can now be faxed via SUNET.

The fax numbers are:

Mr_Molinier@f0093222992876.fax.sunet.se

Mr_Molinier@f0093222992877.fax.sunet.se

Development_Section@f0093222992872.fax.sunet.se
Development_Section@f0093222992875.fax.sunet.se
Development_Section@f0093222992894.fax.sunet.se

Please hasten to fax, if you will be so kind.  Please let me know if anything
goes wrong with the faxing.

I'm going to call the Washington Post, and hope to fax them also, to say
 In a country full of guns, with not enough food, there will of course
be looting.
  To withhold food on the grounds that there is looting is a recipe for
genocide with a built-in excuse.  But the excuse will not hold up.
  I respectfully urge our State Department to act immediately on the
recommendations of many relief workers:  FLOOD THE COUNTRY WITH FOOD.
  Doctors Without Borders headlines its new report THE COUNTDOWN TO
DEATH OF A WHOLE GENERATION.
  They say:
   "Only massive food aid will allow for a reduction of tensions and lessen
the attacks on humanitarian aid convoys."

   Please remember that 500 airlifts a week are going into Yugoslavia,
and the UN envoy to Somalia, Mohamed Sahnoun, has declared Somalia
to be safer than Yugoslavia.  We do not begrudge Yugoslavians any of their
food.  But a similar resolve must be found to get food to Somalia.

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From: Blythe Systems <nytransfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: NEWS:AmerAirlines Fires Dominican Workers
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:27:54 GMT


Via The NY Transfer News Service ^ All the News that Doesn't Fit


      AMERICAN AIRLINES FIRES WORKERS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

                        By Veronica Golos

American Airlines has fired 62 workers in the Dominican Republic
for union organizing. The newly organized union, SINATRAA
(Sindicato Nacional Trabajadores-American Airlines), covers
baggage handlers.

The firing is an important test of the Dominican Republic's newly
won labor law. The new law provides for collective bargaining, the
right to organize unions, and the protection of workers' jobs when
they do organize.

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) here in
the U.S. has initiated a support campaign for the sister union.
Wilfredo Larancuent, International Representative, has gathered
signatures of trade union leaders on a protest letter to Robert
Crandall, American Airlines' president and CEO.

American has the largest share of flights to the island.

The CTU (Confederacion de Trabajadores Unitaria), one of the
largest labor federations in the Dominican Republic, has put up
picket lines in the capital, Santo Domingo, at the offices of
American Airlines, and has filed a complaint with the
International Labor Organization. The CTU is claiming collusion
between the Dominican government and American Airlines, saying the
government is not enforcing the law as it applies to airlines.

The CTU and SINATRAA are calling on unions around the world to
send messages demanding American Airlines respect workers' rights
everywhere. For more information, contact: ACTWU, Wilfredo
Larancuent, International Representative, 15 Union Square, New
York 10003, or phone (212) 674-1800.

                               -30-

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21 St.,
New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:35:14 GMT


    "I wish to invite the attention of your Excellency for strictly
   humanitarian reasons to following matter.  Two million Vietnamese
   died of starvation during winter of 1944 and spring 1945 because of
   the starvation policy of French who seized and stored until it
   rotted all available rice....Three-fourths of cultivated land was
   flooded in summer 1945, which was followed by a severe drought; of
   normal harvest five-sixths was lost....Many people are
   starving....Unless great world powers and international relief
   organizations bring us immediate assistance we face imminent
   catastrophe...."

[p.461, Ho Chi Minh, letter to the UN and President  Truman, 
who did not reply, 1945-1946]


"...Ho had built the Viet Minh  into  the  only  Vietnam-wide 
political  organization capapble of effective resistance  to 
either  the  Japanese  or  the  French.   He  was  the  only 
Vietnamese wartime leader with a national following, and  he 
assured  himself  wider fealty among the  Vietnamese  people 
when   in   August-September,   1945,   he   overthrew   the 
Japanese...established  the Democratic Republic of  Vietnam, 
and  staged  receptions  for  in-coming  allied   occupation 
forces....For a few weeks in September, 1945, Vietnam  was--
for  the first and only time in its modern history--free  of 
foreign domination, and united from north to south under  Ho 
Chi Minh.

[p.461, US Defense Department study of the Vietnam war, from 
_The Pentagon Papers_]


    The  ability  of the Viet-Cong continuously  to  rebuild 
their  units  and to make good their losses is  one  of  the 
mysteries of the guerrilla war....Not only do the  Viet-Cong 
units have the recuperative powers of the phoenix, but  they 
have  an amazing ability to maintain morale.  Only  in  rare 
cases have we found evidences of bad morale among  Viet-Cong 
prisoners or recorded in captured Viet-Cong documents.

[p.466, General Maxwell Taylor, 1964]


    Somehow  this madness must cease.  We must stop now.   I 
speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of 
Vietnam.  I speak for those whose land is being laid  waste, 
whose  homes  are being destroyed, whose  culture  is  being 
subverted.   I speak for the poor of America who are  paying 
the  double  price of smashed hopes at home  and  death  and 
corruption  in Vietnam.  I speak as a citizen of the  world, 
for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken.  
I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation.  The 
great  initiative  in this war is ours.  The  initiative  to 
stop it must be ours.

[p.476, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967, Riverside Church, New 
York]

[Submitted by Jamie Pehling [january@eskimo.celestial.com]]


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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Somalia: Big Fax AttacK!!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:56:58 GMT

/* Written  6:32 pm  Aug 18, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "Somalia: Big Fax AttacK!!" ---------- */
Bernhard has arranged another free fax number through SUNET.  This goes to
James Kunder, director of the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.

the number is:

    James_Kunder@009f12026475269.fax.sunet.se


It's clear that Internet people are having great success with these free faxes!
Getting those planes in the air and, let's hope, keeping them going!
A number of people on IGC --peacenet, etc.--have found that the free
fax number doesn't work for them with the ordinary faxing method. We've
talked to support about this.  They say it should work, and we hope we'll
be using the free system soon.

Peter Mwaniki asked about the Republican Convention.  The fax number for
the general manager of the convention is 713-737-1096.  A very earnest
tone is in order here, since some of the administration, I fear, will be
looking for a chance to call us "Somalia wackos," or some other term to
belittle us and our concerns.

Finally, the French minister of health and humanitarian affairs, who recently
visited Somalia and was absolutely horrorstruck, has clearly influenced the
French government.  NPR says France will deliver food (I believe the amount
was 2000 tons) from Djibouti this week.  Djibout is right next to Somalia--
food should get there fast.

Support has explained to me how you can successfully use the SUNET
numbers from email on IGC networks (peacenet, econet, etc.).

You go to email, and at the To: prompt you just fill in the number
Bernhard gave, e.g. Boutros_Ghali@f00912129634879.fax.sunet.se

What you *don't* do is precede this by "fax:" as you do in regular
peacenet faxing.

I finally got a fax through to James Kunder tonight, in rather short
order, using the SUNET number and the instructions above.

Now as to whether the fax is scotfree when going from IGC, I don't
know--there could be some IGC charges.  Haven't found that out yet.

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:58:35 GMT

/* Written 10:08 am  Aug 15, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!" ---------- */

IDEA:

When faxing to the Clinton Campaign HQ, try directing your fax to the
attention of Tipper Gore.

Implore her as a mother who has held a vigil beside her own child when
his life was in danger, to take special notice of the mothers and children
of Somalia, and not to turn her attention away from them until the danger is
over.

Whatever opinions are about Tipper Gore's anti-rock-lyrics campaign, there
is no question that she is seriously concerned for the welfare of children.

The appeal to Tipper Gore could also be made to Al Gore, who has spoken
about how his priorities changed when his 6-year-old son was hit by
a car. Both parents spent 30 days and nights by the child's bedside.
The boy has now made a good recovery.

Or you could direct the fax to Al and Tipper Gore together, as parents.


Similarly, I believe Hilary Clinton is on the Board of the Children's Defense
Fund.  Ask her to take the children of Somalia under her special notice and
again not to turn her attention away from them until the danger is over.

Thanks.
(Note: obviously, when faxing Hilary Clinton or Tipper Gore, as mothers,
a deeply serious and courteous tone is in order>)

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: antbh@strix.udac.uu.se (Bernhard Helander)
Subject: Fax questions on Somalia to Bill Clinton, FREE OF CHARGE
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:48:09 GMT

You can do that from your computer via the Swedish university network, the
service is presently free. Internet and bitnet users address the mail
in the following way:

	Bill_Clinton@f00915013722292.fax.sunet.se

Ask him if he intends to pursue the line of the current administration of
keeping an extremely low profile in the Somali crisis. If not, ask him
if he is prepared to bring up the Somali issue in any of his public
appearances.

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