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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timorese Church Under Suspicion
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:05:51 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 347.0 **/
** Topic: Timorese Church Under Suspicion **
** Written  6:39 pm  Nov 14, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Timorese Church Under Suspicion

/* Written  2:56 pm  Nov 13, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "Timorese Church Under Suspicion" ---------- */

    According to a November 13 Reuter story by Moses Manoharan datelined
Dili, the Roman Catholic Church in East Timor is trying to avoid clashing 
with Indonesia's military amid deep government suspicion of the church's 
role in unrest in the territory.
    The church is the most powerful institution in the territory after
the Indonesian army, which invaded in 1975.
    "We want the church to be neutral but it is not," Tito Baptista, a
senior aide to the East Timor governor, told Reuters.
    He acknowledged the danger of not recognizing church influence in
territory, which Indonesia annexed the year after it invaded in a move
still not internationally recognized. Anti-Jakarta sentiment remains
strong in the area.
    Priests had agreed not to say a special mass for the dead on the
anniversary of the November 12, 1991 Dili massacre. "We are not for 
confrontation," said one.
    Some mourners say they understand their position.
    "We would have liked a memorial service, but we understand that we
have to be careful," said one woman at a Dili church.
    Observers say the church appears to be trying to appease the
government.
    One of Dili's most prominent priests, Father Ricardo, has been sent
to Rome. It was from his church last November that the mourning
procession set off for the Dili cemetery where it met army fire.
    The government considered the church a gathering point for
anti-Indonesian youths, but now few young people are seen near the
building.
    Ximenes Belo, the territory's first East Timorese bishop, has kept a
discreet profile and his house looks deserted.
    "We know he (Belo) has been controversial but the church has given
us our identity," said one East Timorese in the government.
    Military and government officials admit that youths especially have
turned to the church as a way of maintaining their identity against an
onslaught of Indonesian culture.
    Military spokesman Nurhadi Purwosaputro said: "It is good for us to
work together then we can find a path to a solution."
    But local military commander Theo Syafei was firmer. "We have told
the bishop 'You are here to practice religion. Don't interfere in
politics'," he said.

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From: Hank Roth <odin@world.std.com>
Subject: What is Solidarity? (fwd)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:47:10 GMT

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:49:18 EST
From: "RHODNEY WARD, (812) 855-4334W/336-4829H" <ROWARD@ucs.indiana.edu>
To: odin@world.std.com
Subject: What is Solidarity?

                  WHAT IS SOLIDARITY?

      Solidarity is an independent socialist organization dedicated to
forming a broad regrouping of the U.S. left.  We include activists from
many long-standing socialist traditions, as well as younger members from
newer movements.  We do not attempt to put forward a monolithic
platform which we all have adapted to; rather we rely on the richness of
our traditions and the creativity and newer experiences of our younger
members to foster and develop a forward-looking socialist thought.

      Solidarity was founded in 1986 by revolutionary socialists who
stand for "socialism from below," the self-organization of the working
class and oppressed peoples.  We are feminist, anti-racist, and democratic. 
Within our group, we are trying to foster cultural diversity, flexible
practice, and straight-forward socialist politics.

      We are activists in many grassroots movements.  We are members
of unions, where we oppose corporations as well as bureaucratic "business
unionism."  We are involved in solidarity with the people of Central
America, South Africa and Palestine, and many other countries, where we
fight against U.S. aggression and imperialism.  We work for reproductive
rights and other feminist demands.  We fight for an ecological society. 
We are gay, lesbian, or bisexual activists.  We are activists of color or
work in solidarity with people of color fighting for dignity and power.

      In these movements, we try to build broad coalitions, organize the
unorganized, activate the apathetic, develop ties between movements, and
strengthen rank-and-file democracy.  We argue against participation in the
Democratic Party, which has been the graveyard of radical movements, and
promote the idea of a new independent political party.

      We see Solidarity as a contribution to a new U.S. left, one neither
sectarian nor reformist.  We advocate a new, creative politics with an
attitude of openness and collaboration.

      Obviously, we can't create a new society by ourselves.  If you or
your group are interested in working with or joining Solidarity, or if you
would simply like more information about us, please contact us.  Let's get
together - for a change.

[Transcribed from the back of Left Turn, a publication of Solidarity]

For more information, contact our national office at:
Solidarity, 7012 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48210, (313)841-0160
or send email to:
ROWARD@UCS.INDIANA.EDU or ROWARD@IUBACS.BITNET



Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Ramsey Clark Speaks on Gulf War/ww
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:55:48 GMT



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

RAMSEY CLARK SPEAKS ON WEST COAST ON U.S. GULF WAR

By Brenda Sandburg
San Francisco

Ramsey Clark spoke before a meeting of 450 people in San
Francisco Nov. 14. On tour to promote his new book, "The Fire
This Time," Clark gave an overview of U.S. war crimes in the Gulf
war. He traveled through Iraq during the U.S. bombardment in
February 1991, and saw firsthand how the U.S. deliberately
targeted the civilian population.

The U.S. dropped more than 88,500 tons of explosives, knocking
out water distribution, purification and sewage facilities--so by
Feb. 9, 1991, more than 6,000 people had died just from drinking
bad water. Electrical power plants; oil refineries; fertilizer;
pesticide, and feed plants; and a baby milk formula plant were
destroyed. Clark cited a report in the Sept. 24 New England
Journal of Medicine that calculates 46,900 children died in the
first eight months after the war.

Based on data collected by the Commission of Inquiry for the
International War Crimes Tribunal, Clark estimates that the war
killed over 150,000 Iraqi civilians, including at least 100,000
post-war deaths. The figure continues to mount, as people die
daily from diseases caused by contaminated water, malnutrition
and lack of medical services and medicines.

Clark said that when Gen. Colin Powell, head of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, was asked how many Iraqi civilians had been killed he
responded, "That's not a figure I'm interested in."

War crimes were also committed against Iraqi soldiers. Clark said
thousands of soldiers were buried alive when the U.S. bulldozed
over their trenches. He also cited the Highway of Death, where
thousands of retreating Iraqi soldiers were slaughtered in what
U.S. pilots called a "turkey shoot."

Between 125,000 and 150,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed in the
war.

Also speaking at the meeting were Elias Rashmawi of the Palestine
Arab Center, who gave an update on the 12,000 Palestinian
prisoners on hunger strike, Rhonda Collins of the U.S.-Cuba
Friendshipment Caravan, and Pierre Labosier of the Bay Area
Haitian American Council.


(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" on PeaceNet; on Internet:
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: NEWS:NY City Council Passes PR POW Amnesty Resoln
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:55:45 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>


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

 NY City Council Passes PR Amnesty Resolution

from El Diario La Prensa 11/20


NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL VOTES IN FAVOR OF AMNESTY RESOLUTION

byline Carmen S. Nieves

In a 36-9 vote, with two abstentions, the New York City Council
voted in favor of a resolution to ask the United Nations to press
the US government to give amnesty to all Puerto Rican political
prisoners in US jails. The Resolution, number 617-A, says in part
that the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has listened
to testimony regarding the persecution, harrassment and
imprisonment of Puerto Ricans who have supported Puerto Rican
independence from the United States.

The resolution was sponosred by Council member Jose Rivera. Mr.
Rivera said the next step must be taken by the Puerto Rican
representatives in the US congress to demand that the political
prisoners be released.

Carlos Pineiro, a Puerto Rican political activist, initiated the
resolution. He was unable to attend the session in which the vote
was taken, due to illness. However, his efforts were acknowledged
by Franklyn Flores.

--translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Response to NHTSA Seatbelt Petition Denial
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:32:50 GMT

Here is a press release from the Institute for Injury Reduction.

 IIR Response to NHTSA Petition Denial: Seat Belts Releasing in
Crashes
 
 Contact: Cindy Raffles of the Institute for Injury Reduction,
         301-249-0090

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- The following statement was issued 
today by the Institute for Injury Reduction:

   We have learned from media inquiries that NHTSA, the agency
which is supposed to protect the public from unsafe motor vehicles,
tomorrow is holding a press conference to announce rejection of our
petition for a recall investigation of seat belts which are opening
in crashes and thereby allowing their users to be ejected or
otherwise injured. (NHTSA so far has not informed us of this.)
   NHTSA thus is labelling as liars the many motorists and loved
ones who know from personal experience that some belt designs are
permitting safety belt buckle release in crashes, and is turning a
scornful eye upon their injuries, their pain, their grief and their
knowledge.
   This is entirely consistent with NHTSA's shirking of its safety
duties under the Reagan-Bush Administration's anti-regulation
policies in the past NHTSA has declared as safe the following, to
name just a few examples;
   Cars without air bags, cars without rear shoulder belts, roll-
over prone utility vehicles, rupture-prone fuel tanks, child
restraints without side impact protection, door-mounted seat belts
that open in crashes, non-adjustable shoulder belt anchorages,
lacerating windshields, collapsing seat backs, slack-inducing belts
and antilock brakes.
   So it is not surprising that now NHTSA would find that belts
that open in crashes are safe.  They are as safe as these other,
outrageous defects that NHTSA has -- to the misplaced delight of
the auto companies - found acceptable.
   NHTSA has tried hard to withdraw from the vehicle safety
business, but safety advocacy organizations, the civil justice
system and Congress have made its attempted escape exit a difficult
one.  Thus today, despite NHTSA's resistance air bags and rear
lap-shoulder belts are a growing commonplace, and pressure
continues for correction of the backlog of additional vehicle
safety measures which NHTSA has chosen to ignore or delay.
   Pressure will continue for action to find and eliminate the
defect or defects which are causing belts to open in crashes and
allowing their users to be killed or seriously injured.  We believe
that, inertial actuation, is one -- perhaps the only one...of those
causes.  But whatever causes there are, NHTSA's job under the law
and the rules of common decency is to find and fix them; whether in
a dozen or 100 million cars.  We will not let NHTSA forget it.
 -30-
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Update on Amilcar Mendez Alert
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:51:00 GMT

/* Written  1:45 pm  Nov 23, 1992 by nisgua@igc.apc.org in igc:carnet.alerts */
/* ---------- "Update on Amilcar Mendez Alert" ---------- */




NOVEMBER 23, 1992
NISGUA
The National Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
1314 14th St., NW
Washington, DC  20005
202-483-0050

AMILCAR MENDEZ RETURNS TO GUATEMALA -- UPDATE ON RAPID RESPONSE
ALERT, NOVEMBER 12, 1992

     Background:  On November 11 the Guatemalan Defense Minister,
Jos Garc!a Samayoa, accused several human rights monitors of
"responding to the proposals of the URNG [the Guatemalan National
Revolutionary Unity]."  He named three individuals as guilty of
trying to damage the image of Guatemala abroad:  RONALTH OCHAETA,
the Director of the Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of
Guatemala, AMILCAR MENDEZ, founder of the indigenous human rights
organization, CERJ (Council of Ethnic Communities -- All Are
Equal), and FACTOR MENDEZ, Director of CIEPRODH (Center for the
Investigation, Study, and Promotion of Human Rights).  These
statements were subsequently supported by the President.

     Guatemalan court authorities in San Marcos issued a warrant
for the arrest of Amilcar Mendez one day after he left to
participate in the conference in Washington.  He was accused of
providing explosives to a CERJ member to plant a pamphlet bomb in
Santa Cruz del Quiche.  This accusation was initially made in the
testimony of a CERJ member, Alberto Calvo Gonzalez, after his
arrest on October 23 for carrying explosives.  Gonzalez was
reported to have made the statement to a judge in Santa Cruz del
Quiche in Spanish, though he does not in fact speak Spanish. 
CERJ has stated that he and another man suffered psychological
torture following their arrest.    

     Amilcar Mendez returned to Guatemala on Sunday, November 22,
accompanied by a delegation of North Americans organized by the
Kennedy Center for Human Rights.  He went to the court in Santa
Cruz del Quiche where he delivered a statement.  He was then
released on his own recognizance pending a court date.  One of
the conditions of his release, however, is that he may not leave
the country.  This provision restricting Mendez's movements makes
it impossible for him to travel abroad to help educate the
international community about continuing human rights abuses in
Guatemala and makes it impossible for him to leave the country
for safety reasons.   

Additional Case:  

The Guatemalan newspaper, El Grafico, reported on November 23
that unidentified men had entered the offices of CONAVIGUA (the
National Committee of Guatemalan Widows) in Guatemala City while
staff members were in Pacho Lemoa in order to have 26 bodies
found in clandestine cemeteries properly reburied.  The newspaper
stated that the men went through the documents in the office.   
CONAVIGUA members stated that the police arrived on the scene,
and "saw what taken place, but did not file a report."


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: HUMAN NEEDS: 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: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:59:52 GMT

HUMAN NEEDS: Was Nicaragua More Democratic than the U.S.?

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                        By Michael Parenti (*)

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

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If democracy means more than a set of procedures but implies
something, about the substantive conditions of life, then here too
poor Nicaragua looks better than rich America in the era of Ronald
Reagan. Decades of colonialism, Somocista pillaging, earthquake,
revolution and counterrevolution, have left Nicaragua with a legacy of
extreme poverty, yet the very worst is not happening to the poor
citizens of that country as it is to the poor on the streets in
Washington D.C.; no one is starving and no one has been tossed aside
like so much human refuse.

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: ACTION: LETTER WRITING: Tropical Island to be Razed
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:28:11 GMT

*  Return-Path: <truffula!cls>
* From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
* X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2)
* To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
* Subject: Tropical Island to be Razed, please write
* Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:55:27 PST

I've just posted my fifth monthly Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
bulletin to Usenet's talk.environment and alt.save.the.earth.

This month, the island of Yamdena is threatened with having 95%
of its forest removed and the culture of its indigenous people destroyed.

Letters are needed.

The island is part of Indonesia, near East Timor.  The company that's
about to destroy Yamdena's forest is owned by Liem Sioe Liong, who is
one of the world's richest men, head of Indonesia's largest
conglomerate, and President Suharto's economic advisor.

I'm pleased to have permission from RAN, Greenpeace, Sierra Club Earthcare
Appeals, Global Response, 20/20 Vision, etc. to post their letter-writing
appeals to Usenet and seac+discussion.  It enables people who can't afford
these bulletins to participate.

For those who do not have time for any of these distributions, I also
have a list of my own.  Drop me a line if you want to be on it.


Cameron Spitzer,  cls@truffula.sj.ca.us


"Every little thing that you do may seem insignificant, but it is very
important that you do it."  -  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: "Eric Rehm - DECwest Engineering" <rehm%rust.zso.dec.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Streisand urges Colorado Boycott
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:58:11 GMT

{Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Friday, November 20, 1992}

Streisand urges Colorado Boycott
--------------------------------

Barbara Streisand urged fellow entertainers to boycott Colorado
because of a new anti-homosexual rights amendment to the state's
constitution.  "There are plenty of us who love the mountains and
rivers of that truly beautiful state, but we must now say clearly that
the moral climate there is no longer acceptable...We must refuse to
play where they discriminate," she said at a gala AIDS benefit.

Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Elton John, Billy Joel and his wife,
Christie Brinkley, Hugh Hefner, Dolly Parton and Penny Marshall
attended the event.

Colorado voters have approved an amendment invalidating several city
ordinances protecting homosexual rights.  The measure also barred such
policies and laws in the future and banned recognition of homosexuals
as a minority group.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo)
Subject: Confessed CIA Assassin Tells About Gun Caravan to Shoot Kennedy
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: Confessed CIA assassin tells about gun caravan to shoot Kennedy
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:20:28 GMT

Just a few minutes ago, Mark Lane, author of RUSH TO JUDGMENT and 
PLAUSIBLE DENIAL, was interviewed on WBAI-FM (99.5) in New York City.
He briefly described the trial in Miami (covered in PLAUSIBLE DENIAL)
wherein CIA operative Marita Lorenz describes her ride in the CIA
gun caravan from a CIA safe house in Miami to a motel in Dallas.
She named brothers Guillermo & Ignacio Novo and Gerry Patrick Hemming
as co-passengers in the caravan loaded with automatic weapons and
high-powered telescopic rifles.

Mark Lane then related a little story that may not yet be published
anywhere. He said that he telephoned Gerry Patrick Hemming at his 
place in Miami, surmising that Hemming would just hang up on him,
but what the hell, what can you lose? Surprisingly, Hemming answered:
"Hi, Mark."  Mark Lane said: "Do you know who I am? Did you read my
books?"  Hemming said: "Yes, I know who you are, and I loved your
books on the Kennedy Assassination!"  Lane asked: "Were you in that
two-car gun caravan from Miami to Dallas that was attested to by 
Marita Lorenz?"  Hemming responded: "You know, it's been so many 
years that people's memories tend to fade. It was a THREE-car caravan."

Mark Lane went on to state that Hemming readily admitted that, as
a CIA agent, he had committed assassinations in Africa and elsewhere.
He told Lane that he had either led or been a member of an
assassination team designated to murder President Kennedy and 
that that murder team had been in existence for one year prior
to the killing of the president.

Hemming also told Mark Lane that if he were to be subpoenaed to
testify, he would do so.

If anyone has amplifying information on this testimony,
please post it.

      John DiNardo