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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
Organization: ?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:35:15 GMT


    "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,
    are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.  They want
    the ocean without the roar of its many waters."	

		-- Frederick Douglass

[From .signature of dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU]

a variant (expanded, but w/out "ocean roar") submitted by
From: labach@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terence Michael Labach)

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  Those who profess to
 favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops
 without plowing up the ground.  They want rain without thunder and
 lightning.  That struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical
 one; it might be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
 Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did and never will.
 People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they
 must certainly work for all they get." 

 - Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist


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Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:8299 alt.activism:18607 soc.culture.latin-america:4256
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (II)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 10:59:45 GMT

The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (II)

"Tables 1 and 2 summarize the sources used by the New York Times in
its news articles s on the two elections. It can be seen tha for the
Salvadoran election there was overwhelming reliance on U.S. and
Salvadoran officials, amounting to 80% of the source total. In 20 of
the 28 articles official sources were not only dominant, they were
uncontested by the use of any other cited source. Although majority
of Salvadorean are peasants, only two of 263 identifiable sources
used by the Times --under 1% of the total--were peasants. The
Salvadoran rebels wer cited..approximately 10% of the source total.
But this modest fraction grossly exaggerates the importance of the
rebels as a source. In the great majority of cases the rebels were
asked about and quoted only on their disupriton plans. ... the
rebels were not asked about or quoted on more substantive questions,
such as the reasons why free elections were unfeasible in El Savlaror.
They were several times quoted as describing the election as an
"electoral farce," but they were never allowed to expand on the
details. This makde their words mere denunciations by the enemy,
without force."

"In _demonstration Elections_ we showed that the U.S. mass media
cooperated fully in portraying the 1982 Salvadoran election in
accordance with the government's agenda. Rebel disruption and
"turnout" reigned supreme. Almost no mention was made ofa legal
obligation to vote, and the background facts of a state of siege and
over 700 civilians murder *per month* for the prior 30 months were
deemed not relevant to evaluating electoral conditions or turnout.
The media's feat in transforming the Salvadoran "security forces,"
aptly described as "a deranged killing machine," into
"protectors of an incipient democracy" is, I believe, a propaganda
achievement that totalitarian states might conceivably approach, but
never surpass."

Covert Action Information Bulletin, number 21, spring 1984.

[Note: See _El Salvador 1989: Elections Under State Terror_ by Terry
Allen and Edward S. Herman, Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter
1990]

Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:8331 alt.activism:18680 talk.environment:4567
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: More Arrests in Cherbourg (7-Nov)
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:13:20 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

"It is clear that plutonium and democracy do not mix."

  MORE ARRESTS IN CHERBOURG FOLLOWING DARING INFLATABLE ACTION

CHERBOURG, France November 7, 1992 (GP) Another fourteen
Greenpeace activists were arrested today following a daring
action in which seven inflatables entered Cherbourg port while
the Japanese plutonium freighter was being loaded with its
deadly cargo.  The inflatables converged on the entrance of the
port at around 10:30 (local time) defying the huge military and
police presence there. Climbers scaled a crane close to the
military arsenal and hung a banner which read: "STOP PLUTONIUM".

Each of the inflatables carried a flag bearing an anti-radiation
symbol.  The boats were pursued by French commandos for 20
minutes inside the port.

A military helicopter and two naval patrol boats chased a large
Greenpeace rigid-hulled inflatable out of the port, flying very
low over the heads of the crew.

"If the Akatsuki Maru leaves Cherbourg today, it will trigger
a global trade in weapons-usable plutonium," said Greenpeace's
Damon Moglen in Cherbourg.

"Nearly every large nuclear state has its hands dirty with this
shipment -- the US and Canada had to give their approval for the
transport as they supplied the original uranium to Japan; the
UK is using the shipment as a test-run for its own plutonium
factory at Sellafield; and Japan and France are ensuring
plutonium's continued supply and demand."

"What we are seeing in Cherbourg today is just the beginning
of a whole era of lethal shipments of this utterly redundant,
deadly material from the UK and France to Japan."

Earlier today the Greenpeace ship Moby Dick was boarded by
French commandos and towed to the military arsenal. The captain
of the Moby Dick is still being held for questioning inside the
arsenal.  Two people from a Greenpeace inflatable were injured
and hospitalised after being rammed by a French rigid-hulled
boat.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Lubicon First Nation Alert
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:54:04 GMT

/* Written  9:09 am  Nov  5, 1992 by eprobe@web.apc.org in igc:web.alerts */
/* ---------- "Lubicon First Nation Alert" ---------- */


The following was prepared by The Friends of the Lubicon on the 
request of Chief Bernard Ominayak of the Lubicon First Nation.

                    ========================


Lubicon Lake Indian Nation representatives have been meeting with 
federal government representatives sporadically over the last few 
months. While these meetings were in theory proposed by Indian 
Affairs Minister Tom Siddon to find some grounds for beginning 
negotiations on a land rights settlement, they have been going 
nowhere.

Frustrated with the lack of progress in negotiations, Albertans 
created an independent Lubicon Settlement Commission which began 
hearings June 1, 1992 in Edmonton. The Commission is made up of 
members from churches, the business and academic communities, 
organized labour, aboriginal people, and environment groups.

So far, Lubicon representatives and lawyers have testified before 
the Commission. But both the federal and provincial governments 
are refusing to send representatives. Indian Affairs Minister Tom 
Siddon says he can't appear before the Commission because he 
promised Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak that he wouldn't talk 
publicly about negotiations. Ominayak has replied publicly that 
no such agreement exists and that Siddon is free to appear at the 
Commission.


               ACTION: WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Write Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and demand that Indian 
Affairs Minister Tom Siddon be sent to testify at the Commission 
(Prime Minister Mulroney, Langevin Block, 80 Wellington Street 
2nd floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A2, Canada). If possible, please 
send a copy of your letter to Friends of the Lubicon, 485 Ridelle 
Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6B 1K6, Canada.


                    ========================


Alternatively, please download a copy of your letter to me at 
web:eprobe and I'll forward it.

Thanks! 

Margaret Barber
Probe International
web:eprobe


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,misc.education
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@CANREM.COM>
Subject: School Board Association Recommends New Partnership for Education
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:52:12 GMT

Here is a press release from the National School Boards Association.

 School Board Association Recommends New Partnership for Education
 To: National Desk, Education Writer
 Contact: Jeremiah Floyd of the National School Boards Association,
          703-838-6722

   ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 10   -- On the occasion of American 
Education Week, the National School Boards Association today 
called upon President-Elect Clinton to forge a new federal,
state and local partnership in public education.
   "We believe that such a partnership will form the foundation by
which our nation can develop the high skilled work force needed to
lead us to prosperity in the internationally competitive world of
the 21st Century," said NSBA President Dr. E. Harold Fisher of Blue
Mountain, Miss.
   To achieve this objective, NSBA urges that President-Elect
Clinton and personnel in his administration meet with key sectors of
the education, business and other public sector organizations to
develop a comprehensive national strategy for educational
excellence and equity that emphasizes the critical importance of
putting adequate resources into the local communities across our
nation.  Thomas A. Shannon, NSBA Executive Director said that,
"From these meetings, we would hope that coordinated and
collaborative nationwide effort toward educational improvement will
become a primary element in President-Elect Clinton's legislative
program for the first 100 days.  The emphasis must be on local
communities because that is where education takes place."
   The leadership of NSBA believes there is a strong connection
between education and our nation's future success.  NSBA urges
President-Elect Clinton's active leadership in bringing together
these forces which ultimately will determine whether our nation and
our people will succeed in building world-class public education
in each local community in the United States.
   NSBA is a not-for-profit federation of state associations of
local school boards, the Hawaii State Board of Education, the
boards of education of the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin
Islands and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: RANGE OF POLITICAL CHOICE: Was Nicaragua More Democratic than the U.S.?
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:59:55 GMT

RANGE OF POLITICAL CHOICE: Was Nicaragua More Democratic than the U.S.?

[From:
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       I s   N i c a r a g u a   M o r e   D e m o c r a t i c
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            T h a n   t h e   U n i t e d   S t a t e s ?
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                        By Michael Parenti (*)

[From: Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 26, Summer 1986]]



=========================
Range of Political Choice
=========================

Elections that offer little choice are said to be wanting in
democratic standards. The choice in Nicaragua was noticeably wider and
more democratic than in the United States. Seven parties ran for seats
in the national assembly and for the presidency, representing a broad
ideological range: from those on the far left (who damned the FSLN for
its moderate policies and for allegedly betraying the workers and
peasants) to those on the center and right (who accused the FSLN of
exercising a rigid control over the country, wrecking the economy and
leading Nicaragua to war). All these charges and countercharges were
reported and debated extensively in the public and private press in
Nicaragua.

In the United States the choice was limited largely to Democrats and
Republicans, who in many races are often hard to tell apart. True,
there were a variety of minor parties but these were not accorded the
same opportunity for participation as were the various opposition
parties in Nicaragua, as we shall see.

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: ecopaulz@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul Zarembka)
Subject: Research in POLITICAL ECONOMY, Volume 13, published (Contents below)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: economy, politics
Organization: University at Buffalo
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:22:17 GMT

JUST PUBLISHED--PLEASE CHECK YOUR LIBRARY FOR ORDERS:

                         RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY                        

                             Paul Zarembka, editor                            
                                 JAI Press Inc.                               

                                   Volume 13                                  
                                                                       Page

1. "Free Trade" Unions and the State: Trade Liberalization's             1
Endorsement by the AFL-CIO, 1943-1962 
     by Peter Donohue, University of California at Berkeley 

2. Economics of Shortage or Specificity of Capital Accumulation:         75
The Soviet Case--A Marxian Perspective 
     by Paresh Chattopadhyay, University of Quebec at Montreal 

3. The Development of State Capitalism in the Soviet System             123
     by Paul Zarembka, State University of New York at Buffalo 

4. Deng Xiaoping's Reform and the Chinese Workers' Participation        163
in the Protest Movement of 1989 
     by Shaoguang Wang, Yale University 

5. The State and Social Appropriation: The Case of Nicaragua,           199
1979-1989 
     by Janet M. Tanski, New Mexico State University 

6. Late Industrialization and Class Formation in East Asia              245
     by Val Burris, University of Oregon 

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject:  National Environmental Awards To Be Presented Friday
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:24:39 GMT

Here is a press release from American Forests.

 National Environmental Awards To Be Presented Friday
 To: National, Business and Assignment desks
 Contact: Dan Smith or Lori Wright, 202-667-3300, both of
          American Forests

   News Advisory:

   Event:    Press briefing and tree planting to outline the
             tremendous growth of environmental partnerships
             for trees and to introduce the winner of the
             first Geo Award for Environmental Excellence for
             the outstanding local tree organization and Global
             ReLeaf's award for individual environmental action.

   When:     Friday, Nov. 6, 12:15 p.m.
             (Luncheon to follow at the Willard Hotel,
             Pennsylvania Ave. and 14th Street, N.W.)

   Where:    South side of Ellipse (Constitution Ave. at
            16th Street, N.W., Washington)
             NOTE: CHANGE IN BRIEFING/PLANTING SITE
             A press table will also be set up outside the ballroom
             at the Willard Hotel beginning at 8:15 a.m.
             In case of heavy rain, briefing is in the Willard.

   Who:      Neil Sampson, executive vice president, American
               Forests;
             Frank Raine, director area marketing, Chevrolet;
             Jim Perkins, General Motors vice president and
               general manager, Chevrolet Motor Division;
             Michael Rains, associate deputy chief,
               U.S. Forest Service;
             Claudine Schneider, former member of Congress;
             National Award Winners (Call for details)

   Details:
   Reporters are invited to the day-long meeting with scientists,
business executives and environmentalists as they examine the crucial
role of partnerships in reconciling environmental improvement and a
healthy economy.  Paul Solman, business reporter for the
MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, will lead a roundtable discussion at
2:30 p.m.  A banquet and awards ceremony will begin at 7:30 p.m.
-- all at the Willard Hotel.  Sergei Goryachev, morning news anchor
for Moscow One Television, is the keynote speaker.
   The Geo Award for Environmental Excellence was created by the
Chevrolet Geo Division of General Motors, American Forests and the
U.S. Forest Service to annually recognize the exemplary tree group.
The Global ReLeaf Jean Giono Award for individual achievement is
sponsored for the third year by Chelsea Green Publishing of Vermont.
   American Forests is the nation's oldest citizen's conservation
organization and creator of Global ReLeaf, the international
education and action tree-planting campaign that is pioneering
public/private partnerships for the environment.
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Brazil: Natives Take Hostages/ED-LP
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:21:37 GMT


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

BRAZIL: HOSTAGES OF THE INDIGENOUS

from El Diario La Prensa

edlp nov 7 Brazil

Ninety-six people continue to be held by Guajajara indians
of Brazil since November 2, when the indigenous people blocked
the highway which cuts through their reservation, located some
400 kilometers south of Sao Luiz, the capital of the state of
Marahnao, in northeastern Brazil.  The 95 men and one woman were
taken hsotage after the killing of a 21-year-old warrior, Augusto
Pereira, the son of the chief of the Canabrava village, by gunmen
who live in Sao Pedro dos Cacetes, located inside an area which
was reserved in 1989 for the indigenous people.

In return for releasing the hostages the Guajajaras are
demanding that the people of Sao Pedro dos Cacetes be removed
from that village, something they have been asking for for fifty
years.  They are asking that the minister of justice, Mauricio
Correa and the governor of Maranhao, Edson Lobao, meet with them
to resolve the situation.  Correa said that if the situation is
aggravated he will displace the indian reserve.  He has set up a
rigorous investigation of the murder of Pereira and has
constituted a commission, presided over by the president of the
National Indian Foundation (Funai), a state agency, to process
the removal of the 2,400 inhabitatnts of Sao Pedro dos Cacets.
(AFP 11/7)

translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Two Deputy U.S. Marshals Indicted for Civil Rights Abuses
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 09:56:15 GMT

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

 Two Deputy U.S. Marshals Indicted for Civil Rights Abuses
 To: National Desk, Legal Writers
 Contact: Amy Casner of the U.S. Department of Justice,
          202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 5  -- The U.S. Department of Justice
announced today that a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
returned a seven-count indictment against two deputy U.S. marshals
charged with violating the civil rights of Jude Hardesty, a federal
inmate, by allegedly assaulting Hardesty as he was being
transported on a U.S. Marshals Service plane.
   At the same time, three individuals pleaded guilty in federal
court to civil rights charges in connection with their roles in the
assault.
   The indictment charged Anton Anderson with one violation of
18 USC, Sec. 371, conspiracy to commit an offense, and 18 USC, Sec.
100, making false statements, and three counts of 18 USC, Sec.
1512, obstruction of justice.  E. Wayne Waldron, a supervisory
deputy U.S. Marshal also on the plane, was indicted for willfully
permitting the assault to occur.
   The indictment, announced by John R. Dunne, Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Civil Rights Division, alleged that on
May 25, 1990, Anderson and other persons assaulted Hardesty
by kicking and striking him while he was restrained with leg
restraints, waist chains and handcuffs and in the defendants'
custody.  The indictment said Hardesty suffered bodily injury
as a result of the assault.
   The indictment also said that Anderson and other persons agreed
to conceal the assault by lying to federal investigators, including
officials of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.  In addition, the indictment alleged that Anderson
obstructed justice in several other instances by persuading and
intimidating other individuals in order to prevent information of
possible federal crimes from being communicated to federal
officials.
   Dunne said Larry G. Casey, Thomas Reed Hanna and Charles L. West
pleaded guilty today to violations of 18 USC, Sec. 242, deprivation
of rights under color of law.  Casey and Hanna pleaded guilty to
felony violations and west pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
violation.  At the time of Hardesty's assault, Casey and Hanna were
special Deputy U.S. Marshals and West was a legal technician with
the federal Bureau of Prisons.  They are awaiting sentencing.
   Casey and Hanna could be sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
and/or fined $250,000.  West could be sentenced to one year
imprisonment and/or fined $100,000.
   This case is a result of an extensive investigation by the
Department's Civil Rights Division, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Investigations Division of the U.S. Marshals
Service.
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