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From: fscofi@igc.apc.org (Frank Scofi)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Expose of Cuban American National Foundation
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:08:07 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Distribution: na
Organization: ?
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

The January 1993 issue of ESQUIRE MAGAZINE has a seven page article
entitled "WHO IS JORGE MAS CANOSA?" by Gaeton Fonzi that is MUST
READING!!  It goes into Cuban American National Foundation CANF
control of US policy towards Cuba, CANF and Clinton, Radio Marti
and TV Marti history, CANF and various Congressman dealings, CANF
ties to Jonas Savimbi and UNITA, National Endowment For Democracy
NED money to CANF and right back to Congress through the Free Cuba
PAC, CANF and Americas Watch, CANF ties to the Contras as well as
Felix Rodriguez, Luis Posada and Orlando Bosch (terrorists
responsible for the downing of a Cubana Airline flight in October
1976 that killed all 73 people aboard), the Orlando Letelier
killing, and Ollie North as well as other sleazy fellow travelers.
The article does a good job of exposing Jorge Mas and the
Foundation for ahead they are, a bunch of right wing reactionary
terrorists and thugs. 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: URGENT FAX SUPPORT: For Baeza
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:02:29 GMT

/* Written  3:33 pm  Jan 23, 1993 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "URGENT FAX SUPPORT: For Baeza" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: URGENT FAX SUPPORT: For Baeza

From emcelroy Fri Jan 22 19:22:24 1993
From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy>

                          ACTION ALERT
                            FROM IFCO
                           **********
     The Clinton Administration is intending to nominate MARIO
BAEZA for the position of assistant secretary of state for Inter-
American affairs (the position  currently held by Bernard
Aronson.)

     The Cuban American National Foundation in Miami has mounted
a campaign to stop this nomination. The CANF opposes Baeza
because he is not well-known in the Miami Cuban-AMerican
community and will not be susceptible to influence by the CANF.
In Miami, the Foundation attack on Baeza includes racism (Baeza
is Afro-Cuban) and red-baiting. The CANF has proposed its own
candidate from the extreme right wing, Simon Ferro.

     The nominee will most likely be named today or Monday. It is
critical to flood the State Dept. and the White House with calls
and letter of support for Baeza.

**STATE DEPT. PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIVISION
202-647-6575       202-647-0122 (FAX)

ADDRESS LETTERS TO SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER
**WHITE HOUSE 
202-224-2237 (FAX) ADDRESS LETTERS TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

SANDY BERGER (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
AFFAIRS)   202-456-2883
                           **********
Senator Bill Bradley of NJ is playing a critical role in support
of the CANF candidate and in opposition to Baeza. Calls and
letter to his office, particularly from New Jersey residents, are
especially important.

SENATOR BILL BRADLEY  202-224-3244 (TEL)  202-224-8567  (FAX)
                           **********
1) SUPPORT THE NOMINATION OF MARIO BAEZA FOR UNDERSECRETARY OF
STATE FOR INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
2)CONDEMN THE UNDUE INFLUENCE OF THE CUBAN-AMERICAN NATIONAL
FOUNDATION ON US FOREIGN POLICY.
The Congressional Black Caucus has already mobilized in support
of Baeza'a nomination. On the other hand, Congressman Robert
Torricelli strongly opposes Baeza--and Baeza lives in
Torricelli's district. This is another case of Torricelli
supporting the agenda of CANF (could it be the PAC money?) over
the interests of his own constituents.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL IFCO AT 212-926-5757 OR 612-378-0062
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca (Nigel Allen)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Transit Association Supports Lautenberg Full-Funding Plan
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:08:16 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Distribution: na
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

Here is a press release from the American Public Transit Association.

 APTA Supports Lautenberg Full-Funding Plan
 To: National Desk, Transportation Writer
 Contact: Chip Bishop of the American Public Transit Association,
          202-898-4114

   WASHINGTON, Jan. 26  -- The following is a statement by 
Jack R. Gilstrap, executive vice president, American Public Transit 
Association:

   The American Public Transit Association strongly supports Sen.
Frank Lautenberg's Start Up plan to fully fund ISTEA, the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
   Chairman Lautenberg's planned $6.7 billion supplemental
appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 1993 would make an additional
$1.4 billion in federal aid available this year -- in addition to
the $3.8 billion already approved -- to upgrade and expand public
transit services across the nation.  If enacted, it would achieve
the full promise of ISTEA which authorized $5.2 billion for transit
improvements this year.
   Chairman Lautenberg's full-funding initiative is consistent with a
commitment made by President Clinton during the campaign and the
position taken by the nation's mayors and other public interest
groups.
   Full funding would go a long way toward revitalizing the economy
and putting people back to work.  APTA estimates that the incremental
$1.4 billion for transit would mean support for 93,000 full-time
jobs and more than $4 billion worth of new revenue for business.
   Our transit-system members have told us they are able and ready to
spend up to $7 billion in additional funding this year on a backlog
of projects.  Chairman Lautenberg's proposal is a necessary and
appropriate first step toward that goal.
   Full funding of ISTEA has been APTA's No. 1 legislative
priority.  We look forward to working with the chairman and his
colleagues to help turn it into law.
    ------
   APTA is the international association of operating transit
authorities, their suppliers and other advocates of improved transit
service.
 -30-
-- 
Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario    ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca
From: odin@halcyon.halcyon.com (Hank Roth)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Western Meddling in Somalia
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:35:33 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

<< via P_news/p.news >>
{From SOCIALIST WORKER, (January 1993) a publication of the 
International Socialist Organization, P.O. Box 16085, Chicago, Il 
60616}
 
WESTERN MEDDLING TO BLAME FOR DIVISIONS BETWEEN CLANS
 
SOMALI CLAN divisions are not "natural." Somalis share a common 
language and religion.
 
But the European powers sliced Somalia into artificial states as 
part of their division of the world among themselves in the 19th 
century.
 
Tens of thousands of people were parcelled up and handed from one 
power to another. 
 
Somalis were split between British Somaliland, Italian Somalia, 
French Djibouti and Ethiopian Ogaden. Another group was 
incorporated into Kenya.
 
To break any resistance, the Western powers played on divisions 
between people and created new ones.
 
Loyalties to a local leader were built up by favoring one gorup 
at the expense of others.
 
"They may be made to hate each other and thereby good governance 
is ensured," a British colonial administrator wrote.
 
After independence in 1960, the British and Italians left behind 
a system of government which further deepened clan rivalries.
 
Every grouping that claimed a distinct identity could secure the 
right to its own party and seats in parliament. 
 
The recent dictator Siad Barre rewarded clans which backed him 
with jobs and contracts while others faced virtual genocide. 
 
Somalia's disunity comes form the manuevers of the Westgern 
powers and the ruthless local ruling class which they backed.
--------------------
From: p.news/P_news 
<Hank Roth> odin@world.std.com
pnews@igc.apc.org
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: RESOURCE: Paper Tiger Videos & "Deep-Dish" Satellite Network (autopost)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:30:04 GMT

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

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mainstream media and analyze its impact on
social and political life.

Over 200 titles available for sale or rental for
classroom, public or community screenings.

			paper tiger television
		   is a mostly live public access show
	     it looks at the communications industry via the
		   media in all its various forms

		       the power of mass culture
		    rests on the trust of the public

		  this legitimacy is a paper tiger

	investigation into the corporate structures of the
	media and a critical analysis of their contents is one
	way to demystify the information industry

	developing a critical consciousness about the
	communications industry is a necessary first step towards
	democratic control of information resources

()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()

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independent videomakers, activists and people who support the idea and
reality of a progressive television network"
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People around the country make shows
          |
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We take 'em to an "uplink" which beams
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The satellite beams the program back to
earth in a pattern called a "footprint"
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Anyone wiht a satellite dish can
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Public Access Cable Ssytems send it
out to all the subscribers in town --
which is how Deep Dish gets to your home

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2:00-3:00 PM with a repeat Thursday from 6:00-7:00 PM.  Contact the
Deep Dish office for more information at 212-473-8933.

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  Deep Dish
  339 Lafayette Street 
  New York NY USA 10012 
  (212) 473-8933 
  (Deep Dish Television) 
  Keys: alternative, media, information 

PeaceNet address (from Internet accounts):

	deepdish@igc.org
From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
Subject: fallout from nuclear tests PERMEATES our world
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: radioactive waste from wood ash.
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:55:49 GMT



from sci.energy

>From: henkel@nepjt.ncsu.edu (Chuck Henkel)
>Newsgroups: sci.energy
>Subject: Radwaste from wood ash
>Date: 12 Dec 91 17:46:05 GMT
>Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
>Lines: 38

      Consider the following, from the "Notes and Quotes" section
      of this month's "ANS (American Nuclear Society) News:"
      
      "While cleaning ashes from his fireplace two years ago,
      Stewart A. Farber mused that if trees filter and store
      airborne pollutants, they might also harbor fallout from the
      nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s.  On a whim, he
      brought some of his fireplace ash to Yankee Atomic Electric
      Company's environmental lab . . . where he manages
      environmental monitoring.  Farber says he was amazed to
      discover that his sample showed the distinctive cesium and
      strontium 'signatures' of nuclear fallout. . . .
      
      "[Further testing of wood ash across the U.S. suggests] that
      fallout in wood ash `is a major source of radioactivity
      released into the environment,' Farber says. . . . [Almost]
      all measurements of ash with fallout-cesium exceeded--some
      by 100 times or more--the levels of radioactive cesium
      that may be released from nuclear plants. . . .
      
      "Industrial wood burning in the United States generates an
      estimated 900,000 tons of ash each year;  residential and
      utility wood burning generates another 543,000 tons.
      Already, many companies are recycling this unregulated ash
      in fertilizers.  The irony, Farber says, is that federal
      regulations require releases from nuclear plants to be
      disposed of as radioactive wastes if they contain even one
      percent of the cesium and strontium levels detected in the
      ash samples from New England.  If ash were subject to the
      same regulations, he says, its disposal would cost U.S. wood
      burners more than $30 billion annually."  (From "Wood Ash:
      The Unregulated Radwaste," "Science News," August 10, 1991)
      
      --
  | Chuck Henkel                      | There are currently 111 operating   |
  | Department of Nuclear Engineering | nuclear power plants in the US,     |
  | N.C. State University             | generating nearly 100,000 Megawatts |
  | henkel@nepjt.ncsu.edu             | of electricity.                     |
      
--
                                             daveus rattus   

                                   yer friendly neighborhood ratman

                               KOYAANISQATSI

   ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language)  n.  1. crazy life.  2. life
       in turmoil.  3. life out of balance.  4. life disintegrating.  
         5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.



Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: jack@dcs.gla.ac.uk (jack)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Anarchist Summer School, Glasgow, May 1993
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:30:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: ?
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

ANARCHIST SUMMER SCHOOL 93
==========================

Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre, southside of Glasgow, Scotland

Saturday May 29th / Sunday 30th 1993

A weekend of discussion, debate and workshops rounded off by Glasgow
hospitality - socials and socialising.  Celebrate 100 years of anarchist
agitation in Glasgow by joining in the fun.

Themes include:

	Popular Culture
	Working Class Resistance
	Scotland and Nationhood
	Stirner and Anarchist Philosophy
	Women and Revolution
	Barbarism: a 'New World Order'?
	Crime and the Law
	Resurrecting a History of Anarchism
	Video events/films
	Housing and Direct Action

Reply to Robert Lynn, 151 Gallowgate, Glasgow G1 5AX, tel. 041 552 0622.
Telephone enquiries to 0389 76086 or 041 427 6398.

160 places each day.  Friday night rendezvous in central location, Saturday
night social with live music, Sunday night social, walks and other means of
escape.  Final Whitsun Monday 31st morning session.

Event organised by Summer School group drawn from Glasgow Class War,
Counter Information, Free University Network, Libertarian Social Committee
and individual anarchists and libertarian socialists.

There's an application form which asks:

- name?
- address?
- telephone?
- do you require the organisers to arrange accommodation for you?
- do you require a creche/special childcare arrangements?
- do you have any specific dietary requirements?
- do you require or can you offer a lift?
- do you want to be picked up if arriving by public transport?
- which workshops would you like to attend?
- can you offer to lead a workshop and if so on what and with what space
  or resource requirements?
- and a donation would be appreciated, make any cheques payable to
  "1993 Anarchist Summer School"

--  Jack Campin    room G092, Computing Science Department, Glasgow University,
17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland   TEL: 041 339 8855 x6854 (work)
INTERNET: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk or via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk    FAX: 041 330 4913
BANG!net: via mcsun and uknet     BITNET: via UKACRL    UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
From: eastexit@twics.co.jp (Jens Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Japanese Protest Bombing of Iraq
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:30:23 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: ?
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

A rally was held at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on January
20 to protest the allied bombing of Iraq. About 50 people
gathered in front of the gate, read out a statement
condemning the attacks, and then tried to give the 
statement to the guard, who told the demonstrators to
call the embassy staff. They called, and were told by
the Political Section that they needed to make an appoint-
ment three days in advance. 

The gathered citizens then chanted protests against the
attacks, against the "invasion under the name of the
United Nation," and called for the U.S. to stop its aid
to Israel. 

Another rally was held on the 14th, with about the same
number of participants.

Jens Wilkinson, Pacific Asia Resource Center, Tokyo
Fax: 81-3-3292-2437 Tel: 81-3-3291-5901 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: imprint@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (IMPRINT -- UW's Student Newspaper)
Subject: Manufacturing Consent - on videocassette
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:59:14 GMT

	"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" is available
on videocassette in Canada through the National Film Board, which 
co-produced the film.
	They ship to you for free, charge something like $3.50 a day, and
you have to pay to ship it back - about $7 for a really good film.

	The NFB, as it is funded by the government, has a toll-free
number in Canada: 1-800-267-7710.

Dave

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
Subject: alt.politics.radical-left
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:14:56 GMT

From aforum@moose.uvm.edu Thu Jan 21 18:21:11 1993
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:17:08 -0500
From: aforum@moose.uvm.edu (autonome forum)

subject: support the creation of alt.politics.radical-left!!
posted by: autonome forum
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Proposal to Create alt.politics.radical-left

We would like to see the creation of alt.politics.radical-left,
an unmoderated newsgroup whose function would be to act as a
forum for news items and theoretical discussions dealing with
leftist politics, national liberation struggles, militant
resistance movements, etc. This newsgroup would, in some ways, be
a more radical-left version of groups such as
misc.activism.progressive, and would have a definite left-wing
political focus, unlike other alt-realm groups like alt.activism.

Again, there are, at present, no newsgroups in the alt-realm
which have, as their aim, the exchange of news items with a
radical-left focus. What's more, such news items are often hard
to come by. Therefore, the creation of alt.politics.radical-left
would fill a definite void and would be of great use to dozens of
progressive groups currently operating in Cyberspace. Also, as an
open group, it would allow other users with Usenet access to
become exposed to left-radical politics.

Discussion on the creation of this newsgroup is now beginning in
alt.config. We strongly encourage users to post messages of
support in alt.config so that alt.politics.radical-left can be
created as soon as possible!
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                     autonome forum: aforum@moose.uvm.edu
                          "solidarity is a weapon!"
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From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Dear Senator, consider East Timor
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:38:03 GMT

**From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
**To: hbar@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
**Subject: Dear Senator, consider East Timor
**Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:21:22 PST

Please don't just print and mail this letter.  Please change it
around or add stuff.  Mass produced identical letters don't count
as much as original compositions.  Neat handwriting is better than
daisy wheel is better than laser print.

"every little thing that you do..."   cls
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						January 22, 1993


The Honorable Barbara Boxer
US Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Boxer,

I am glad I supported you, glad I voted for you, and absolutely
delighted that you won!  Congratulations!  I wish you stamina and
wisdom, and every possible lucky break!

Last year the Senate showed unusual courage and cut off military aid to
Indonesia, a nation which invaded its peaceful, democratic neighbor
East Timor in 1975 and continues today to illegally occupy East Timor
and torture, kidnap, rape, maim, and murder great numbers of East
Timorese.  We can say "they have human rights problems" but that
euphemism does not convey the true sense of the situation.  Human
rights observers estimate a third of the Timorese population has been
killed since 1975.  This is an intentional genocide and US taxpayers
provide the means.

The United States should cut off ALL aid to Indonesia until it
withdraws all its forces from East Timor.  We cannot afford to be
propping up Indonesia's murderous dictatorship with "development aid"
which simply frees funds for the Indonesian military.  Indonesia can
be seen as a test of whether the United States truly opposes "naked
aggression" and supports democracy and self-determination, or not.
Please tell me what you intend to do about US aid to Indonesia.
Thank you.

Sincerely,



Cameron Spitzer
San Jose, Ca.  95131

ps.  All of the fiber in this sheet is postconsumer recycled.  It was made
without any bleach and works well in office machines.  Most people don't
know this paper is available.



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