HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: "Strong Family Values" (III)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 03:59:36 GMT

The Decline of America: "Strong Family Values" (III)


=======================================================
  Percentage of preschool children with full polio, DTP
(diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis), and measles immunizations,
                       1985--87:(50)
=======================================================
COUNTRY             POLIO         DTP        MEASLES
=======================================================
Denmark             100.0        94.0(51)      82.0
Belgium              99.0        95.0          90.0
France               97.0        97.0          55.0
Germany              95.0        95.0          50.0
Netherlands          96.9        96.9          92.8
Switzerland(52)      95.0        90.0         60.0
United Kingdom(53)   87.0        87.0          76.0
Norway               80.0        80.0          87.0
Spain                80.0        88.0          83.0
*******************************************************
United States        55.3        64.9          60.8
U.S. nonwhite        40.1        48.7          48.8
*******************************************************

Sources (for chart and text): Bret C. Williams and C. Arden Miller,
Preventive Health Care for Young Childnen (Arlington, Va.: National Center
for Clinical Infant Programs, 1991), p. 76; Bret C. Williams, "Immunization
Coverage Among Preschool Childnen: The United States and Selected European
Countnes," Pediatrics (Elk Grove Village, 111.: American Academy of
Pediatrics, 1990), p. 1052: various releases and publications of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

From page 21 of:

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   

    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Venezuelans Loose Faith In Reforms,Privatization Continues 
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 05:11:11 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's aia.news]
_________________________________________ 
VENEZUELANS LOOSE FAITH IN REFORMS,  
PRIVATIZATION CONTINUES 

Since the Venezuelan Congress rejected a modification of the  
Constitution that would have allowed a popular referendum to  
oust President Carlos Andres Perez,  many Venezuelans have  
lost interest in the constitutional reform process occuring in  
their country.  Recent announcements by the government of an  
economic austerity package is causing further public unrest in  
an already  violent political and economic crisis.  The package  
calls for additional firings in the public sector,  liberalized  
taxes on public services,  increased prices on medicine and  
food,  and a new sales tax. 

The government,  having slowed its privatization program  
after a coup attempt in February,  is now expected to sell 100  
state-owned companies or holdings by the end of next year.  A  
major budget squeeze caused by lower oil prices makes  
privatizations attractive to politicians as a source of revenue,   
but public protests are a pressure in the opposite direction.   

Source:  Maria Dubayle,  "Venezuelans are Loosing Interest in  
Reforms,"  LATINAMERICA PRESS,  September 17,  1992,  p. 3;   
"Privatization Efforts Resume in Venezuela," JOURNAL OF  
COMMERCE,  September 28,  1992.  

##################################################################

HONDURANS PROTEST FOREIGN MINING OPERATIONS 

A group residents,  students and teachers in the Honduran  
community of Minas de Oro, Comayuga province,  is trying to  
block attempts by U.S. gold company Fisher Watt and  British  
subsidiary Kennecott from beginning excavation on a $6 billion  
copper and gold mine. 

The Minas de Oro community is concerned that Kennecott will  
contaminate the environment by using cyanide to exploit the  
mines. In an open forum organized by Minas de Oro authorities,   
a Kennecott representative said that his firm has long used  
cyanide in U.S. mines without a single reported human death.   
He admitted,  however,  that an environmental impact  
statement had not yet been done. 

Source:  Honduras report,  CARIBBEAN UPDATE,  September,  
1992, p. 9.  
##################################################################

_________________________________________ 
ARGENTINA-CUBA AGREEMENT 

A clearing agreement envisaging $6 million in trade has been  
signed by Argentina and Cuba.  The initial Argentine shipment  
consisted of 200,000 bags of onions. 

Source:  Cuba report,  CARIBBEAN UPDATE,  September 1992,  p.  
6. 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,misc.headlines,soc.culture.african.american
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: "Strong Family Values" (II) continued
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:59:31 GMT

The Decline of America: "Strong Family Values" (II) continued


  Percentage of infants born at low birth weight, 1980-88:

                LOW BIRTH                  LOW BIRTH
COUNTRY            WEIGHT(46)   COUNTRY        WEIGHT

United States         7         Egypt             5
United Kingdom        7         France            5
Australia             6         Hong Kong         5
Austna                6         Iran              5
Bulgaria              6         Japan             5
Canada                6         Jordan            5
Czechoslovakia        6         New Zealand       5
Denmark               6         Portugal          5
Germany (unified)     6         Switzerland       5
Greece                6         Finland           4
Romania               6         Ireland           4
Saudi Arabia          6         Norway            4
USSR                  6         Sweden            4
Belgium               5         Spain

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Source: UNICEF, The State of the World's Children 1991 (New York Oxford
University Press 1991). p. 104,
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

From pp 18-19 of: 

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   

    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   




Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Handgun Control Reaction to Senate Failure on Crime, Brady Bill
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:55:50 GMT

Here is a press release from Handgun Control Inc.

 Handgun Control Reaction to Senate Failure on Crime, Brady Bill
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Susan Whitmore of Handgun Control Inc., 202-898-0792

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 2  -- As the Senate failed today
for the third time to capture the 60 votes necessary to cut off
debate and vote on the conference omnibus crime bill, Sarah Brady
renewed her call for a separate vote on the Brady Bill, which was
included in the crime measure.
   Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell
reintroduced the Brady language as a separate measure, S.3282.
   "It would be unconscionable for the 102nd Congress to adjourn
without passing the Brady Bill, and sending it to the president,"
said Sarah Brady, chair of Handgun Control Inc.  "We have been
working with America's men and women in blue for passage of this
life-saving bill for six years now.  The Senate should be ashamed to
leave this public-safety bill in the unfinished business column.
  And I cannot believe that our senators really want to go home to
face the voters without having sent this crucial bill to the White
House.
   "On behalf of the 95 percent of Americans who support the Brady
Bill, I call again for a vote on this measure before Congress
adjourns.  President Bush spent most of last week talking about crime
issues.  I urge the president to indicate once again his
'flexibility' on the Brady Bill and work with Congress to address the
gun violence epidemic.  What can possibly be more important than
taking action to save some of the 24,000 lives that we lose each year
to handgun fire?"
   The Brady Bill passed both houses of Congress in the summer of
1991 with wide bipartisan support, but has been crippled by
Congressional gridlock over the crime bill since last November.
 -30-


Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:6966 alt.activism:16871 talk.environment:3954
From: Greenpeace (via Jym Dyer) <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: EC Over-Fishing Expands Towards the South and High Seas
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 29 Sep 1992 06:01:53 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]

                   HOW NOT TO MANAGE FISHERIES 
                               AND 
 HOW EC OVER-FISHING EXPANDS TOWARDS THE SOUTH AND THE HIGH SEAS 
  
BRUSSELS September 16, 1992 (GP) Today Greenpeace denounced
the failures of the current EC Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
and the damages it causes to the marine environment and the
people dependent on it. In its first submission to the
European Commission on the review of the CFP, Greenpeace
proposed indispensable steps to address these serious
environmental and socio-economic problems.
  
EC fisheries are in a state of disarray with overexploited fish
stocks, an unstable ecosystem, a very uncertain future and no
comprehensive programme to improve the situation.
  
"If the EC wants to solve problems caused by their current
fisheries management regime, they have to reconsider the very
foundation of that regime and define management objectives based
on environmental considerations rather than purely economic
ones" said Helene Bours. "Only then will the EC be able to
determine which specific conservation measures are necessary"
Ms. Bours added.
  
Greenpeace is also extremely concerned by the spreading of
EC over-fishing throughout the world, particularly to less
developed countries and the high seas. This displacement of
fishing activities is dictated by the increasing demands of the
EC market, the largest in the world. It is also a convenient way
to get rid of the excessive numbers of boats that have already
over-fished EC waters.
  
"Through international and bilateral fishing agreements,
fishing joint ventures, and even aid programmes, the EC
fishing industry is plundering the oceans" Bours said.
"When the price of bilateral agreements increase or when
the EC conservation regulations become more effective,
joint ventures are established to get inexpensive access
to resources and avoid EC control".
  
Africa, the Indian Ocean, Latin America, and the South Pacific
are exploited by the EC, regardless of the irreparable
consequences for the environment and the local communities.
  
In the coming months, Greenpeace will continue to publicise
examples of the damage caused both in EC waters and outside.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Mine Workers, Coal Bargaining Alliance to Begin Negotiations Monday
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:55:34 GMT

Here is a press release from the United Mine Workers of America.

 Mine Workers, Coal Bargaining Alliance to Begin Negotiations Monday
 To: National and Assignment desks
 Contact: Jim Strickland, 205-945-6580, of the Indepdndent Bituminous
          Coal Bargaining Alliance, or
          Jim Grossfeld, 202-842-7240, of the United Mine Workers
          of America

   News Advisory:

   The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the coal industry's
newly-formed Independent Bituminous Coal Bargaining Alliance (IBCBA)
will begin contract negotiations Monday, Oct. 5, at the Capital
Hilton in Washington, D.C.  The Capital Hilton is located at the
corner of K and 16th Streets, N.W.
   At 10 a.m. both UMWA and IBCBA officials will offer brief remarks
to members of the news media and will also be available for photo
opportunities.  Additional background materials will be distributed
at that time.
 -30-


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: Greenpeace (via Jym Dyer) <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Eiffel Tower: "Non a la Pollution Legale des Mers"
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 29 Sep 1992 06:27:42 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]

GREENPEACE SAYS "NON" TO POLLUTION: BANNER ON EIFFEL TOWER 
  
PARIS September 21, 1992 (GP) On the day after the French said
OUI to Maastricht, Greenpeace hung a banner on the Eiffel Tower
declaring NON to legal pollution of the seas.
  
The banner, reading: "NON A LA POLLUTION LEGALE DES MERS" ("No
legal pollution of the seas"), was to highlight a new treaty
aimed at protecting the North East Atlantic from pollution.
Environment Ministers from the EC and 13 different European
nations begin their deliberations on the treaty today in Paris.
  
"The countries surrounding the North East Atlantic are
continuing to use the sea as a garbage bin.  The ministers
should ensure that the terms of the new treaty will bring
us clean seas.  At the moment they seem more concerned at
protecting the interests of polluting industry," said
Greenpeace France toxics campaigner Katia Kanas.
  
Greenpeace would today deliver a statement at the meeting,
reminding participants of their previous commitments to
eliminating marine pollution from hazardous substances such
as organochlorines.
  
"Greenpeace now expects a concrete timetable for the phaseout
of all inputs of these substances into the North East Atlantic,"
she said.
  
Ms Kanas criticised the role of the United Kingdom and France in
resisting a definitive ban on the dumping of radioactive waste
at sea.  Leaked reports over the weekend showed that at least
the UK delegation had instructions not to agree to a convention
which included such a ban.
  
"Everyone has agreed to ban the dumping of industrial wastes.
There should be no exceptions. Clearly there should be no
preferential treatment for the nuclear industry."

NOTES TO EDITORS: 
  
** Contracting parties to the new convention are expected to be
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium
Iceland, Ireland, UK, France, Spain, Portugal and the EEC.

** The meeting is of member countries of the Paris and Oslo
Commissions, who signed the Paris Convention 18 years ago in
an endeavour to curb land-based sources of marine pollution.
  
Officials met from the beginning of last week to renegotiate
the new treaty.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Trade News 10/5: "What's the Cost of Your Blouse?"
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:16:41 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's trade.news]
[Inquiries by email, please, to harelb@math.cornell.edu, for more
information about PeaceNet/EcoNet or about misc.activism.progressive]
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Topic 170       TRADE.NEWS 10-5-92 
kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations    12:43 pm  Oct  5, 1992 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Monday, October 5, 1992 
_________________________________________________________ 
Resources: 

1.  WHAT'S THE COST OF YOUR BLOUSE?, a video production by  
Sydney Brown and Betty McAfee, provides some "stories that deal  
with issues of economic justice in the workplace in the U.S. and  
across the border, as U.S. corporations move parts of their production  
'offshore' to cut labor costs and avoid environmental, health, and  
safety standards."  The video focuses on women garment workers in  
the California Bay Area, El Paso, Texas and workers in the  
maquiladoras along the Mexican border.   

The 18-minute color video costs US$29.95 plus $4.50 shipping (add  
$2.47 sales tax for consumers in the state of California.)  Make checks  
out to NCIC/Video and mail to: Northern California Interfaith Council,  
464 19th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612 USA.  Include your name,  
organization, return address and telephone number.  For further  
information, call (510) 835-9631. 

_________________________________________________________ 
GATT News Summary 
_________________________________________________________ 
JAPAN AND OTHERS WORRIED ABOUT NAFTA IMPACT ON GATT 

Japan and other countries expressed concern about the North  
American Free Trade Agreement and called for it to be checked for  
compatibility with GATT.  Japan told a GATT ruling council that  
NAFTA should not lead to a restrictive promotion of regional  
interests, that it should fully conform to GATT principles and that  
there should be no consideration of trade and investment benefits  
from non-NAFTA countries, including Japan.  GATT rules allow for  
the creation of free-trade areas as long as they do not conflict with  
GATT rules and stipulations.  GATT officials said they expect a  
working party will eventually be set up to examine whether NAFTA  
conflicts with GATT. 

Source: "Japan and Other's Concerned Over NAFTA Pact at GATT,"  
REUTER, September 30, 1992. 

_________________________________________________________ 
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Greenpeace (via Jym Dyer) <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: UK Biggest Polluter in North East Atlantic
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 29 Sep 1992 06:40:14 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
  
LATEST FIGURES SHOW UK BIGGEST POLLUTER IN NORTH EAST ATLANTIC;
LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW INDUSTRY DETERMINES GOVERNMENT LINE OVER
POLLUTION
  
LONDON September 20, 1992 (GP) Figures released today at the
Ministerial Meeting taking place in Paris show that in 1990
the UK was the worst polluter in the North East Atlantic,
discharging twice as much zinc and cadmium and four times as
much PCBs as any of the other 11 countries.  The UK discharges
more of every substance except lead.
  
"It's not surprising that the UK is the biggest polluter in our
part of the world, when industry is calling the tune over when
to bring in pollution controls."  said Tim Birch, Greenpeace
Campaigner.  "It seems the Citizens Charter means industry
is free to pollute and the rest of us are free to live in a
poisoned environment."
  
Documents leaked to Greenpeace show that at the end of July
the Department of Environment consulted industry on what the
UK position should be on pollution controls to be discussed at
the Paris meeting.
  
The UK was the only nation to oppose proposals, made in Paris on
Saturday, that environmental groups be allowed to participate in
meetings of the new Convention to protect the seas in the North
East Atlantic, due to be signed on Tuesday.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Suren Moodliar                       <IZZYIL3%UCLAMVS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: "Then they came for me"
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:49:36 GMT

Somebody on ACTIV-L requested the text of the following poem:

Then they came for me

They came for the Communists and I
did not speak up because I was not
a Communist;

Then they came for the Jews and I
did not speak up because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for the Trade Unionists
and I did not speak up because I was
not a Trade Unionist;

Then they came for the Catholics
and I did not speak up because
I was a Protestant;

Then they came for me -
and by that time there was no one
left to speak.

The poem is by Pastor Martin Niemoller (1942)

There is a biography of Martin Niemoller: Clarissa Start (195?) "God's
Man - The Story of Pastor Niemoller"
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: PRIORITIES: Human Greed over Human Need
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:59:29 GMT

The Decline of America: PRIORITIES: Human Greed over Human Need

        At the large end of the scale, Bush again proposes a capital
gains cut--a budgetary luxury that could cost up to $70 billion over
ten years in order to give those with incomes of more than $200,000 a
year an average tax cut of $15,000. And in it's budget documents OMB
estimates that we will lose another 28.6 billion in FY 1992 (and
equivalent amounts in future years) because we continue to forgive the
taxes owed on inherited capital gains. This is enough money to wipe
out poverty among children in the U.S.

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Sources for information cited here include the 1989 Report of
the Coalition of Mayors and The State of America's Children
(1991), published by the Children's Defense Fund.

From "Suffer the Little Children" by Anne Marie Palmer, Lone Star
Socialist.  The Lone Star Socialist is published by the Socialist
Party of Texas and they can be reached at P.O. Box 2640, Austin, TX
78768.