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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Today's Quote...
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:01:58 GMT
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


  "It's not what will happen to us if we do protest, it's what
   will happen to them if we don't"  -- Martin Luther King Jr., 1968

[Thanks to  Peter Shell <pshell@WIENER.PRODIGY.CS.CMU.EDU>]


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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: ANNOUNCING: "Alternative Radio Presents"
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:20:02 GMT

[Another tad-late Announcement due to my accidentally "testing" twice
the version that I *thought* only emailed to me!  =)   ]
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In any event, we're adding, in addition to every Friday's "Friday
Night Videos", 



	"ALTERNATIVE RADIO PRESENTS"


every Tuesday.

(Starting regularly next Tuesday if all goes well)

Additions (submissions) welcome if they are a useful resource for
progressive activists and if there is an address to write to for
ordering.

We hope to add (eventually) from the AFSC and Amnesty catalogs on
Mondays and on (Thursdays? Saturdays?) from the South End Press
catalog once we have a volunteer(s) to scan that in early next fall

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Stay tuned to another "Special Announcement" later this summer: A
Survey for our readers -- what you like, what you'd like more/less of
(or additions) in topics (Economic Justice ; Women's Rights; Latin
America; etc) and file types (articles ; analysis ; resource files;
data/stats), how you're using the resources (tapes, videos, magazines)
and how you can (gasp!) volunteer.

Peace & Justice,

Harel
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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, 29 Jul 1992 09:35:11 GMT


	"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
	  Two things stand like stone,
	 Kindness in another's trouble,
	  Courage in your own."

			-- Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870),
			"Ye Wearie Wayfarer," Fytte 8

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Assassinations of Gays in Mexico
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:09:28 GMT

/* Written  9:57 am  Jul 21, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:carnet.mexnews */
/* ---------- "Assassinations of Gays in Mexico" ---------- */
To:    Josefina Velasquez, Peacenet    
       Fax: (415)546-1794  Phone: (415)442-0220  
From:  Russ Gage, International Gay/Lesbian Human Rights Committee  
       Fax: (415)255-2662  Phone: (415)255-8650  
Date:  July 16, 1992  

COLECTIVO SOL  
Mexico, D.F., July 15, 1992  
  
To:       EL NACIONAL  
          Cultural Section  
          Mr. Paulino Abugal & Dr. Francisco Galvan  
 
From:     Colectivo Sol  

We're sorry to send you the following news in this manner.  The enclosed  
copies attest to the assassination of Francisco Estrada,  
founding-President of AVE of Mexico, along with two other friends  
last Sunday, July 12, at dawn.  
  
Our dear friend was left dead with the usual signs of such homophobic  
homicides and we are not waiting for a response from the putrid press.  
  
We are feeling disdain, hurt and extremely indignant at these acts and we  
want you propose - to the ['unreal'] assembly of gays and lesbians - a real 
 
solution.  
  
The yellow press is quite placid:  it has enough crap to distribute at a  
barnyard.  In addition to a series of assassinations in Chiapas and the death 
of the transvestite youth of Oaxaca, the treacherous detention at sunrise of 
Mema and Josefina.  Now add to this two more assassinations.  
  
It appears as if this horror is unending.  We suspect that this is part of 
a treacherous campaign to undermine and minimize the work of gay and AIDS  
activists.  
  
IGL, we will leave to your discretion the organizing of any actions.  In 1989 
in Vienna, a demonstration was organized in front of the Argentinean embassy 
and the results were positive.  Therefore, we propose a demonstration in  
front of the Mexican embassy along with the following demands:  
  
     demand that the government follow-up with an investigation  which  
     completely encompasses all of the cases until they are resolved and    
 
     that these acts be denounced (Oaxaca, Chiapas and now in the Federal  
     District (DF)  
  
     publicly denounce the vulture-like attitude of the press which  
     has sought to assassinate the victims for a second time through 
     theirhomophobic violence  
  
     insist on the energetic intervention of CONASIDA in order to counter  
     the slanted information that is being dispersed  
  
     end to the police harassment of gays, which is evident in the press'  
     tendency to project the victims as responsible for their own murders  
     ("there were dildos, marijuana, they had 'AIDS'") and denounce the  
     promotion of death squads, whose   only function is to incite those  
     fascists who belong to one.  
  
  
by Colectivo Sol  
  
Unofficial translation by PeaceNet  
  

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From: mitja%hera.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mitja Baumhackl)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Pepsi address (re: tv in classroom/Whittle)
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:02:30 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

A few posts back was a message about the use of televisions in the classroom.
Whittle Communications has introduced "Channel One" into several classrooms
around the nation.  Now when you send your kids to school, they can watch
tv programming, complete with commercials.

If you would like to send a letter of protest to Pepsi-Cola over their
decision to advertise in America's classrooms, write:

	Pepsi-Cola Consumer Affairs
	2600 Michelson, Suite 1700
	Irvine, California  92715

Let them know that students watch enough television at home, that
television should not be allowed to replace a real teacher, and that
you will not purchase or recommend Pepsi products as long as they
advertise on Whittle's Channel One.

mitja@hera.berkeley.edu
Not endorsed by UC Berkeley.
Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:5468 alt.activism:13723 talk.environment:3054
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Victoria Needs Jobs, Not Loy Yang B
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 30 Jul 1992 05:25:19 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]
  
VICTORIA NEEDS JOBS NOT LOY YANG B: GREENPEACE 
  
CANBERRA July 22, 1992 (GP) Victoria's job-seekers would be 
better off if Victoria shelved the Loy Yang B power station 
project, a Greenpeace energy expert said today. 
  
Greenpeace International's Director of Energy Policy and 
Research, Stewart Boyle said Victorian and international 
experience showed programmes to use energy more sensibly
create twice as many jobs as power stations, and can also
deliver  services like heating, lighting and power to
customers more cheaply. 
  
"It is economically and environmentally irresponsible to complete 
a new power station when there are cheaper and cleaner options 
that would create more jobs, particularly during such a severe 
recession," Mr Boyle said. 
  
"Victoria is fortunate in already having a small energy 
efficiency programme run by the State Electricity Commission
of Victoria. Expanding this programme so that Loy Yang B wasn't 
needed would be a better investment for Victoria's job seekers, 
Mr Boyle said. 
  
Brown coal is one of the dirtiest ways of producing electricity. 
When operating, Loy Yang B has the capacity to substantially 
increase carbon dioxide pollution from Victoria at a time when 
the State is committed to reducing this pollution by 20 percent 
by the year 2005. 
  
Mr Boyle is in Melbourne to preview the findings of a worldwide 
study, carried out by the Stockholm Environment Institute, which 
shows that a combination of energy efficiency improvements, clean 
renewable energy technologies and some fuel switching can meet 
the energy needs of all regions of the world, including 
Australia, at the same or lower cost than continued reliance on 
fossil fuels. 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE INTERNATIONAL RALLY
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:15:14 GMT

/** reg.elsalvador: 96.0 **/
** Topic: 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE **
** Written  3:32 pm  Jul 23, 1992 by gn:zenzontle in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
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                500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN
                       INTERNATIONAL RALLY
                      Liverpool, 15 August

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Speakers include:

          Pres. Bertrand Aristide (Haiti)
          Comandante Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
          Comandante Ana Guadalupe Martinez (El Salvador)
          Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)
          Gabriel Muyuy (Colombia)
          Manning Marable (USA)
          Moses Mayekiso (South Africa)
          A. Sivanandan (UK)
          Cheddi Jagan (Guyana)


     The event is timed to coincide with the visit of the "Columbus
Regatta" to the city, part of the commemorations of Columbus voyage
to the Americas, and described as a "discovery" in the assorted
Trans Atlantic ceremonies. According to the 500 Years of Resistance
Campaign it was neither a discovery or an event to be celebrated.
     The event will take the form of an all day Festival in
Liverpool University Students Union with exhibitions, stalls,
music, theatre, films, a children's festival, a series of major
discussions and an evening rally, a mass and a concert.

     Admission: 7.50 sterling pounds (waged)
                4    sterling pounds (unwaged)

     For bookings or further information please ring 

STEVE MUNBY on 051-728 7118. 
FRANK KENNEDY on 051-708 6506 
or ADAM HUSSEIN on 051- 708 5474

     You can also ring:
 
500 Years of Resistance Campaign - London - 071 372 7608
El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, 071- 272 4580
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, 071- 272 9619
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From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Call for Foreign Policy Anchored in Healthy Economy
Summary: Press release from Carnegie Endowment
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:09:12 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: Echo Beach
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


 Commission Calls for Foreign Policy Anchored in Healthy Economy
 Contact: Sharon Block of the Carnegie Endowment, 202-862-7922
          or Thomas Bruce of the Sawyer-Miller Group, 202-223-1300,

   News Adivsory:

   The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's bipartisan
"National Commission on America and the New World" will release its
final report at a press conference to be held on Wednesday,
July 22, at 10 a.m. at the National Press Club (First Amendment
Room).
   Warning against a retreat into neo-isolationism or
protectionism, the report advocates -- in a dramatic break with the
past -- an American foreign policy based on domestic renewal
and a reorientation of U.S. priorities overseas.

   Participants in the press conference will be:
   * Ambassador Winston Lord, former U.S. Ambassador to the
People's Republic of China, chaired the 21 member bipartisan
Commission.  He will summarize the report's recommendations and a
coherent plan for a future foreign policy in a radically changed
world.
   * Ambassador Morton I. Abramowitz is the president of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the
bipartisan Commission.

   They will be joined by several other members of the Commission,
including:
   * C. Fred Bergsten, director, Institute for International
     Economics
   * Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., former chairman of the
     Joint Chiefs of Staff
   * Thomas R. Donahue, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO
   * Jessica Mathews, vice president, World Resources Institute
   * Paula Stern, president, The Stern Group

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Olive Oyl pro-choice but now her artist is jobless
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:14:21 GMT

/** gen.women: 100.0 **/
** Topic: King Features Fires Pro Choicer **
** Written  1:30 pm  Jul 22, 1992 by jillaine in cdp:gen.women **
The following appeared in:
From SF Examiner, July 22, 1992
Page A-2
(portions reprinted without permission; please contact SF Examiner
for reprint rights).

Olive Oyl pro-choice but now her artist is jobless
Examiner News Services

NEW YORK - Popeye likes to say "I am what I am," but when Olive Oyl tried
to assert her independence in a veiled reference to abortion rights
the artist who draws her got the boot.

Bobby London, who draws the daily "Popeye" comic strip for
King Features, says the company told him last week he was being fired
for submitting a sequence in which Olive asserts her right to choose.

A spokeswoman for King Features refused comment.

   ....

[In the strip,] Olive, Popeye's longtime love, is not pregnant in the
cartoons.  

Rather, she receives a baby Bluto doll unsolicited in the mail and
she and Popeye discuss returning it using phrases such as "send this baby
back to its maker."

Two priests overhear them and, believeing the subject is abortion,
try to rally people against Olive Oyl.

"She tells them sha can do what she wants to do, because it's her life,"
London said.

  ...

London said his idea for "Popeye" has been "to show these old cartoon
characters coping with the modern world."  His Olive, for example,
watches the Home Shopping Network.

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Burma Boycott Alert
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:15:44 GMT

/** reg.seasia: 200.0 **/
** Topic: Burma Boycott Alert **
** Written  4:20 pm  Jul 22, 1992 by rainforest in cdp:reg.seasia **
FOREIGN INVESTORS PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE MURDEROUS SLORC 
                                        OF BURMA
 US COMPANIES INVOLVED IN JOINT VENTURES WITH THE BURMESE 
                                        MILITARY

Please write to the executives of these corporations and tell them that 
doing business with the oppressive regime of Burma is expensive, 
umprofitable, and very bad for their corporate image!

Apache Corp. - Mr. Raymond Plank, CEO, and Mr. John A. Kocur, Vice 
                      Chairman of the Board
2000 Post Oak Rd.
Houston, TX  77056
tel. (713) 296-6000

Apache's concessions are in central Burma, east of the Irrawaddy River, 
near Prome; they are an attempt to revive old Burmese oil fields.
"An Apache International Inc. unit said it signed a production-sharing 
contract with Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise, the national oil company of 
Myanmar.  The Apache unit will be the operator and hold a 50% interest in 
two blocks comprising about one million acres." 
Wall St. Journal, June 18th, 1992.

Texaco Inc. - Mr. James L. Dunlap, Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Earl R. 
                   Johnson, CEO
2000 Westchester Ave
White Plains, NY  10604
tel. (914) 253-4000

Texaco has purchased at least a 42% share of the Croft concession in 
Burma.

Amoco Corp. - Mr. H. Laurence Fuller, CEO, and Mr. Patrick J. Early, 
                     President, Amoco Production Co.
200 East Randolph Drive
Chicago  IL  60601
tel. (312) 856-6111

Unocal Corp. - Mr. Richard J. Stegemeier, CEO, and Mr. John F. Imle, 
                     Senior VP
1201 West 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA  90061

Amoco, Unocal and Texaco have had significant drops in profitability which 
forces them to curtail unprofitable operations.  This is the best time to 
convince them that doing business in Burma is not worthwhile.

PepsiCo - Mr. Wayne Calloway, Chairman of the Board, and Ms. Sharon 
               Percy Rockefeller, Member, Board of Directors
Purchase, NY 10577
tel. (914) 253-2000

Boycott Pepsi products (Pepsi Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, 
Frito-Lay, Pizza Hut, Mug Root Beer, Slice soda, Mountain Dew soda), and 
inform PepsiCo that you are boycotting them.

                                
From: Project MAJE, 14 Dartmouth Rd. Cranford NJ, 07016 USA
Entered on E-Mail by Rainforest Action Network 

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Crime summit in Kansas
Summary: Press release from U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:09:04 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: Echo Beach
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

Press release from Federal Bureau of Investigation
 Crime Summit Held in Kansas
 To: National Desk
 Contact:  Federal Bureau of Investigation Press Office,
           202-324-3000

   WASHINGTON, July 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, Attorney General
William P. Barr, FBI Director William S. Sessions, and Kansas
U.S. Attorney Lee Thompson joined U.S. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
in Topeka, Kansas, to address the Kansas enforcement, community,
and youth leaders.
   Director Sessions expressed concern over the rising levels of
crime both in Kansas and throughout the country.  "While primary
responsibility for community crime enforcement belongs with
state and local law enforcement, the FBI can and  does play a
substantial role," he said.  Violent crimes were designated as an
FBI priority program in 1989.  Recognizing that much more work
remains to be done, the FBI has made great efforts to revitalize
relationships within communities through campaigns like Operation
Safe Streets, a nationwide strategy announced by the FBI and the
Department of Justice last January.  At that time, 300 FBI Special
Agents were reassigned in selected areas of the country to address
gang and drug-related violent crime through an increased use of
combined law enforcement task forces and community outreach
efforts.  The FBI's Kansas City Field Office was one of 39 areas
selected at that time to receive enhancements.
   Commenting on the FBI's longstanding commitment to provide
investigative support services to other law enforcement agencies,
Director Sessions cited the recent consolidation of support
services into the Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
"This positive step will more efficiently serve the needs of the
law enforcement community by enhancing the coordination of data
collection and processing services, such as fingerprint
identification, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and the National Crime
Information Center (NCIC)," he said.
   "Meetings such as these present an excellent opportunity to
emphasize the contribution that federal law enforcement agencies
can make at the local level.  The FBI has long recognized that the
most effective weapon against crime is cooperation -- a combining of
the efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and
understanding of the American people.  No police agency is so big
or so small that it does not need the assistance of another,"
Director Sessions said.
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Organization: ?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:35:11 GMT


        "Efforts by El Salvador's independent and church-run human
rights organizations to investigate these killing have been hampered
by the harassment, intimidation, imprisonment, torture, mutilation,
extrajudicial execution and "disappearance" of their members..."

        "The military court system in El Salvador has routinely failed
to prosecute military personnel accused of involvement in torture,
"disappearance" and extrajudicial execution. The exclusive
jurisdiction of the military courts over members of the armed forces
provides a shield behind which armed forces personnel commit grave
crimes with impunity."

	--Amnesty International, _El Salvador: ``Death Squads'' -- A
	Government Strategy_ 
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From: bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
Subject: Free Voter information
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, University of Wisconsin
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:01:55 GMT

There is a lot for FREE PUBLIC information about elected officials and
candidates for the various fedral races.

Information on voting records, funding, etc., can be obtained from 
PROJECT VOTE SMART at 800-786-6885.

A detailed listing of contributors can be obtained from the
FEDRAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION. Call 800-424-9530, and ask for the
Public Disclosure Department.

-- 

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Bill Roth,  University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Laboratory
Internet:bill@psl.wisc.edu. NeXTMAIL blithely accepted. 608-873-6651

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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Indian terrorist was trained in US
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:23:12 GMT

/* Written  6:03 pm  Jul 21, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.news */
/* ---------- "Indian terrorist was trained in US" ---------- */
>From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704

INDIA
 Police in India say they've arrested a Sikh terrorist wanted for
a bomb attack against an Air India plane in 1985 which killed 329
people. They say the suspect, identified as Nanjef Singh(?), had
been trained in terrorist activities in Pakistan and he US.

Singh was arrested July 17 at a Bombay train station. Police say he
was forcibly prevented from swallowing a cyanide capsule at the
time of his arrest.

Indian newspaper reports say he was trained in a school for
mercenaries in the US. An inquiry into the June 1985 aircraft crash
found a bag belonging to him which was checked on board the Air
India flight in Toronto. A bomb hidden in the bag exploded when the
aircraft was over the coast of Ireland. The plane dropped into the
Atlantic and all on board died. (R. Australia 7/18)



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