From: Blythe Systems <nytransfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Intl.Action Ctr Launches Campus OutReach
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:34:22 GMT


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


INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER LAUNCHES CAMPUS OUTREACH PROGRAM


Hello, my name is Paul Ahuja. I am a student at New Paltz
University and with the schools outreach program of the The
International Action Center. We are a highly active coalition of
many progressive groups. Our coalition's goal is to end U.S.
intervention abroad and to preserve the rights of other countries
to self-determination.

We have been involved in many struggles in the past years. These
include, but are not limited to; The Independent Commission of
Inquiry into the U.S. Invasion of Panama. This effort, like many
of the struggles we've taken on, was Chaired by Ramsey Clark the
former U.S. Attorney General. The commission undertook an
independent investigation into the invasion of Panama by the U.S.
in 1989. The Commission brought back to the people in this country
and the world, the murderous truth about the U.S. governent's
prosecution of that war.

Another event was The Peace for Cuba Appeal, an event designed to
bring worldwide attention to the U.S. embargo, travel restrictions
and general hostility on the part of the U.S. government towards
Cuba. This project was headlined by a mass rally of 5,000 in N.Y.
on Jan 25, 1992, and in San Francisco on February 2nd.
Simultaneous events took place in a dozen cities around the world.

Another ongoing effort is The Haiti Commission. This is an
intensive investigation into the September 30th coup that deposed
the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand
Aristide and the violent repression left in its wake. The
Commission has held teach-ins at several U.S. universities.

Our latest major effort was The Commission of Inquiry for The
International War Crimes Tribunal. The Commission held
investigatory hearings in over 20 countries in order to obtain
eyewitness and expert testimony on the true nature of U.S.
involvement in the Gulf War. On the basis of this evidence Ramsey
Clark and others drew up 19 separate charges of war crimes based
on the Geneva Convention, Hague Convention, U.N. Charter and the
U.S. Constitution. An international panel of 22 judges was
convened on Feb 27-29, 1992. The judges returned a verdict of
guilty on all 19 charges.

Our work on these efforts and investigation into other areas of
U.S. intervention is ongoing and will remain so until the U.S.
government changes its policy of aggression to its neighbors.

Although all of our events have been attended by students, in fact
many have been held on campuses, we felt it was time for a greater
outreach effort. We need your help!  We need people to arrange
speaking engagements, video showings, teach-ins and workshops at
their schools. Use your connections at school to insure this
important work gets the widespread audience it so richly deserves!

IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF THIS WORK AT YOUR CAMPUS,
Call: (212) 633-6646

Or write to:

INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
39 West 14th Street, Suite 206
New York, N.Y. 10011


                            RESOURCES:
Videos:

NOWHERE TO HIDE-(1991) Ramsey Clark's trip to Iraq during the
second week of U.S. and allied bombing

HAITI UNDER THE GUN-(1991) Filmed during two fact-finding
trips by the Haiti Commission following the Sept. 30th coup.

AMERICA RESISTING-(1991) Highlights from the struggle to
resist the gulf war. Footage from rallys and interviews with
leading activsts.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE FOR CUBA APPEAL-(1992) Highlights
from the N.Y. and S.F. Peace for Cuba rallies.

INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL-(1992) Shows the overwhelming
evidence presented in the final hearing. This video tells the
truth about the gulf war.

Books:

THE U.S. INVASION OF PANAMA: THE TRUTH BEHIND "OPERATION JUST
CAUSE." Contains the results of fact-finding missions to Panama
just after the U.S. invasion.

WAR CRIMES: A REPORT ON U.S. WAR CRIMES AGAINST IRAQ - by Ramsey
Clark and others. Presents evidence and eyewitness testimony from
over 20 countries and graphic photos from Iraq.

Papers:

WORKING PAPER FOR PEACE, by Ramsey Clark. Recommendations on the
findings of the International War Crimes Tribunal.

LAVALLAS VS. DUVALIERISM - A report from the Haiti Commission's
fact-finding trip to Haiti.

ALL AVAILABLE ON REQUEST, TO BE USED SINGLY OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH
A SPEAKER FROM OUR COALITION. OUR SPEAKERS HAVE TRAVELED TO IRAQ,
PANAMA, HAITI, CUBA, SOUTH AFRICA, KOREA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
TRANSPORTATION COSTS MUST BE COVERED AND AN HONORARIUM IS
REQUESTED.

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