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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HGW Findings Delivered to DOE
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:34:15 GMT

/** gen.nativenet: 360.0 **/
** Topic: Findings delivered to DOE **
** Written  9:22 pm  Oct  7, 1992 by aptvegas in cdp:gen.nativenet **
Findings of Weekend Forum Presented To DOE/
Walk to Nevada Test Site Begins

Las Vegas-- On Monday, October 5th 500 participants from the
Healing Global Wounds Indigenous Peoples Forum marched down
the Las Vegas Strip to the Department of Energy to present the
findings of the weekend long Forum. 

The findings were presented to the Department of Energy following
a rally with speeches by Senator Anjain, of the Marshall Islands,
Bayan Orumbaeva, of Kazakhstahn, Dr. E.J. Sternglass,of the Hanford
Study, and William Rosse Sr., the Environmental Protection Officer
for the Western Shoshone National Council.

The Rally opened with a song from the Peacekeeper Drum, followed
by a Prayer led by Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney.
Senator Anjain then told us and the DOE : "For Indigenous People
Our Land is Everything, It connects us to the Great Spirit, to our 
ancestors, to each other. Without our land, we are no one-- as a 
people or as individuals. Thus, the radioactive contamination of
indigenous peoples land is but the indirect killing of people."

William Rosse Sr. then told the crowd that the "Nevada Test Site
is on Shoshone Land and that all the test sites worldwide are on
indigenous peoples lands" he went on to say that "I have been reading
in the paper about how many people will lose their jobs if testing
stops, Nobody should be laid off they should be retrained to clean 
the mess up!"

The rally was followed by a mass die-in, then a slow drumbeat
resurrected the crowd for their 4 day 65 mile walk to the Nevada 
Test Site. The walk is presently 300 strong. thousands are expected 
to join them at the Test Site this weekend for rally's and mass actions
aimed at ending 500 Years of Injustice to Native Americans and Stopping
Nuclear testing on Native Lands.

For more information go to HGW.action

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: South Africa: Apartheid law can still stand
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:15:23 GMT

/** wri.news: 512.0 **/
** Topic: Apartheid law can still stand **
** Written  5:13 pm  Sep 30, 1992 by gn:peacenews in cdp:wri.news **
author = NAN CROSS

A 23 September judgement in the Pretoria Supreme Court has
apparently entrenched South Africa's whites-only conscription laws.

Justice Eloff (with the other two justices -- van der Walt and van
Dyk -- concurring) ruled against the End Conscription Campaign (ECC)
application that the whites-only call-up should be declared invalid
since the repeal of the Population Registration Act in 1991. 

Justice Eloff ruled that the definition of race in the now-repealed
Population Registration act is still a valid basis for military
conscription, since this definition was included by reference in the
Defence Act of 1957. The definition of "race" by personal physical
characteristics is one of the most repugnant and racially offensive
remnants of apartheid.

Justice Eloff referred in the judgement to numerous laws which still
retain elements of race classification, exposing as a lie F W de
Klerk's assertion that all racist legislation has been abolished. it
would appear that the repeal of the Population Registration Act was
no more than a window-dressing exercise for the international
community. While there is a demand that the African National
Congress should disband its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, the
government continues to conscript and train young white men for its
own private army, the South African Defence Force.

The ECC does not accept the Supreme Court's ruling and will be
petitioning the Chief Justice. For leave to appeal. It still
believes the call-up to be unlawful and urges conscripts who have an
objection to service not to report.

End Conscription Campaign, Box 537, Kengray 2100, South Africa (tel
+27 11 836 8423; fax 834 3189)

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: London tribunal comdemns Peruvian dictator /ww
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:45:27 GMT
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>

LONDON TRIBUNAL CONDEMNS PERUVIAN DICTATOR

A panel of international civil rights lawyers and progressive
leaders has found Peru's President Alberto Fujimori and the U.S.
and British governments guilty of war crimes against the Peruvian
people.

The panel at a Sept. 27 public hearing of the British Commission
for the International War Crimes Tribunal included councillor
Mustaq Lashanie, former Spanish MP Dr. Jaime Ballesteros, Belgian
Party of Labor spokesperson Paul Lever, and Theo Tibesand,
co-chair of the Afro-Asian-Latin American Solidarity
Organization.

The commission condemned the "shameful spectacle inflicted upon"
Communist Party leader Abimael Guzman, and demanded that he be
granted a public trial. An audience of over 500 people heard the
testimony and decision at London's Halkevi Hall, a Turkish and
Kurdish immigrant community center. Many wore prison-style garb
in solidarity with Guzman and other political prisoners.

According to a statement by Hugh Stephens, commission
coordinator, the panel "unanimously condemned the Peruvian
dictator for crimes against humanity in the treatment of
prisoners of war--including the massacre at Canto Grande jail."
Fujimori was condemned for crimes of genocide against civilian
populations, tortures, "disappearances" and destruction of the
environment.

--GREG BUTTERFIELD

(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:
"workers@mcimail.com".

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Nagara Dam Hunger Strike - Urgent
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:05:56 GMT

/* Written  4:34 pm  Oct 12, 1992 by gn:support in cdp:en.alerts */
/* ---------- "Nagara Dam Hunger Strike - Urgent" ---------- */

This fax came into GreenNet on Sunday 11th October. I have put the outline
here, and faxed the full version to FoE. Please contact them for further
details (foe@gn.apc.org).




Following the beginning of the final phase of construction of the estuary dam
on the Nagara, Japan's last free-flowing river, contrary to promises made by
the Japanese Construction Industry, a hunger strike has been started by
protestors. The completion of the dam will increase the threat of flooding
to low-lying areas around the estuary and spell disaster for the Shimiji
clam fishery and migrating fish, like the Satsuki (May) salmon.

The hunger strike was begun on Oct 1. One of the men has now developed
pneumonia with a fever of 39 degrees. His health, together with that of the
other hunger strikers, is becoming an urgent concern.


Please fax the Right Honourable Taku Yamasaki, Minister of Construction,
and Mr Kuniomi Iwai, Chief, River Bureau, Ministry of Construction at
2-3-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 100, Japan.

Fax: 81 3 5251 1945   or 81 3 3502 3955   with a copy to The Society Against
the Nagara River Estuary Dam Construction (fax: 81 45 811 0878) for use in
a press conference and future negotiations with the Ministry of Construction.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Christmas Cards Benefit Displaced in El Salvador
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:36:26 GMT

/** reg.elsalvador: 124.0 **/
** Topic: Christmas Cards For Peace **
** Written  7:35 pm  Oct 11, 1992 by cispesfresno in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
October 11, 1992
For immediate release
For more information: (209) 226-0477

                          Press Release

Christmas Cards for Peace are available again this holiday season. 
These cards, which depict scenes of Peace and Justice, will benefit
the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador.  Last year this project,
sponsored by the Latin American Support Committee in Fresno, raised
$2,500.00 for The Christian Committee for Displaced of El Salvador
(CRIPDES), a human rights group in El Salvador.

The project has three new cards this year, all printed on 100%
recycled paper using soy based inks.  "Purchasing cards from us
will not only support Peace and Justice in Central America but will
be good for the environment as well" said Mike Rhodes, coordinator
of this years project.  

"This is a unique opportunity for everyone to support Peace and
Justice in Central America while sending beautiful holiday cards to
friends", Rhodes said.  "Almost everyone sends cards at this time
of the year... why not send cards that support Peace and Justice."

This year, the money raised will be divided between three groups. 
Two groups are local (Fresno) Sister City Projects -one in El
Salvador and the other in Nicaragua.  Proceeds will benefit a
cultural exchange program with Nicaragua and a material aid project
in El Salvador.  The Vision Endures Project of the national
Nicaragua Network will receive a share of the money raised this
year.  The Vision Endures supports four model projects in
Nicaragua. 

To get a free catalog of this years cards write to: Christmas Cards
for Peace, P.O. Box 4496, Fresno, Ca. 93744.


                               ###
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From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Greenpeace via Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: BULLETIN: Russian Coastguard Fires on Greenpeace Ship
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:27:32 GMT
Followup-To: talk.environment,talk.politics.soviet
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Bulletin from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

        RUSSIAN COASTGUARD FIRES ON GREENPEACE SHIP

Kara Sea--12 October 1992--A Russian coastguard ship fired
three shots across the stern of a Greenpeace vessel, the MV
Solo, here in the Russian Arctic this morning.

The shots, from a 30mm cannon, were fired across the stern
of the Solo while it was in international waters, in the
Kara Sea.

The Solo had been pursued by the Russian Coastguard vessel
URAL since early Saturday morning on its mission to
document nuclear submarine reactor dumps off the Russian
nuclear test site, Novaya Zemlya.

The URAL also threatened the SOLO with gunfire as it went
through the Kara Straits yesterday morning, but the
Greenpeace vessel entered international waters.

However, early this morning more threats came from the URAL
after the SOLO launched an inflatable in an attempt at the
first independent documentation of radioactivity in the
waters surrounding the Russian Nuclear Test Site.

As the six-member team sped towards the site of a nuclear
attack submarine, dumped in shallow waters in 1982 (1), the
URAL began a 40-minute stream of threats that it would fire
on the SOLO, while another coastguard vessel began pursuing
the inflatable.

The first shot was fired as the SOLO caught up with its
inflatable, at 11.02 am.  It was followed in quick
succession by two more shots, despite protests from the
SOLO's captain, ALbert Kuiken, that the vessel was in
international waters.

At 11.30 am the SOLO was boarded by two officers and 10
enlisted men from the URAL.

Greenpeace campaigner John Sprange said it was the first
time that Greenpeace had ever been fired upon.

"All Greenpeace is trying to do is gather information about
the nuclear reactors and submarines which have been dumped
into the ocean around Novaya Zemlya.  We have five Russians
on board -a scientist, a human rights person and three
journalists - all of whom are deeply concerned about the
radioactive nightmare on their doorstep.

"It is simply outrageous that a Russian vessel should fire
on a vessel which is clearly unarmed, and in international
waters.

"It makes us wonder just what the Coastguard and the Military are
trying to defend with their secrecy.  Perhaps they are protecting
their total irresponsibility in dealing with, or at least being
honest about, the submarines such as the one we were trying to
reach this morning," said Sprange.

Greenpeace Executive Director Steve Sawyer said from Amsterdam
today: "Greenpeace ships have been bombed and rammed in the past.
Now we have been fired on. What sort of information could be so
secret that requires the use of military force against unarmed
environmentalists?"
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From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Apartment owners sued for discriminating against American Indians
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:50:14 GMT

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

 Justice Department Sues Apartment Owners for Discriminating
Against American Indians
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Amy Casner of the U.S. Department of Justice,
          202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice filed 
a civil rights lawsuit against the owners of a Billings, Mont., 
apartment complex today, alleging they engaged in a pattern
and practice of discrimination against American Indians trying 
to rent apartments at the property.
   The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Billings, alleges
that Donald R. Lee Sr. and Richard E. Lee violated the Federal Fair
Housing Act when they discriminated against prospective American
Indian tenants because of their race, color or national origin.
   They allegedly made apartments unavailable to American Indians;
imposed different rental terms and conditions upon American
Indians; offered American Indians different privileges while living
at the property; and told American Indian apartment seekers that no
apartments were available for inspection when in fact apartments
were available.
   John R. Dunne, assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil
Rights Division, said, "Because of a long, sad history of
discriminatory treatment of Native-Americans in many areas of this
country, the Civil Rights Division has made a special effort
to combat such discrimination.  This lawsuit is a result of those
efforts and with this case, the department reaffirms its commitment
to ensure that all Americans have equal opportunity to secure fair
housing."
   The government's complaint seeks monetary damages for any
individuals who may have been the victim of the defendants' alleged
unlawful practices as well as a civil penalty in accordance with
the Federal Fair Housing Act.
   The complaint also seeks injunctive relief that would prohibit
the defendants from discriminating in the future on the basis of
race, color and national origin.  The complaint also asks that the
apartment owners be required to notify the public that its
apartments are available on an equal opportunity basis.
   The lawsuit is based partially on evidence provided by a private
fair housing organization, the Concerned Citizens Coalition of
Great Falls, Mont., and its affiliate in Billings.  Testers used by
the coalition uncovered the pattern and practice of discrimination
at Lee Apartments.  The testers, individuals with matching
characteristics and credentials other than race, inquired about the
availability and rental terms of apartments.  The evidence
indicated that the defendants treated American Indian testers less
favorably than white testers.
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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Central America news
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:40:26 GMT

/* Written  4:39 pm  Oct 15, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Central America news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074,Madison, WI 53704


EL SALVADOR
 A group of 27 Salvadoran and foreign experts are busy recovering
and unearthing the bodies of 1,017 civilians, killed in Guillermo
Sote(?) township in Dec 1981.

Preliminary results of the investigation are to be released by the
end of this month.

Survivors of that massacre have blamed the army's elite Atlacatl
battalion for killing women, children and elderly people in that
township under the pretext that they were guerrillas or their
collaborators. (R. Havana 10/14)


GUATEMALA
 Over 5,000 Guatemalan refugees, settled in southern Mexican
states, are due to begin their trip back home in mid-Dec. A
commission in charge of over-seeing their return is now arranging
the details for their repatriation. 

On Oct 8, Guatemalan government officials and representatives of
the refugees reached an accord for a safe return home and further
re-incorporation into the country's civilian and political life.
(R. Havana 10/24)


COSTA RICA
 Costa Rican university authorities are planning to raise
registration fees by 25% despite students' opposition. If they do
that, say students, "we will take stronger action. We will not pay
anything and we'll even file suit."

They point out that raising the registration fees at the university
would seriously harm students from low-income families. (R. Havana
10/14)

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

    OTHER NEWS TODAY ON THE SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY WORLDP.NEWS:

Khmer Rouge sabotaging bridges & peace agreement; On Colombia's
Patriotic Union's murdered supporters; Fraud allegations in
Cameroon elections; Ceasefire in Mozambique; Malawi court clears
pro-democracy activist.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:35:14 GMT


       "Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and
       took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their
       testicles cut off, and their eyes poked out. They where killed
       by slitting their throats, and pulling the tongue out through
       the slit."

>From a survivors account of a contra attack. Jonathan Steele and Tony
Jenkins, Manchester Guardian Weekly, Nov. 25, 1984.

[Cited in _Turning the Tide_, by Noam Chomsky]

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:35:18 GMT


  "A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland,
Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman
in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should
help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and
cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon
which its power is founded.  Therefore, if we really wish to be what
we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the
growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening,
and help this forward with all our might."

   Leo Tolstoy, from  "Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence,"
written in 1986.  (As quoted in "Fellowship" magazine, July/August 1991.)

[From: John.W.Lamperti@Dartmouth.EDU]


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From: jdav%well.sf.ca.us@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (James I. Davis)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: E-mail address correction for Berkeley Tech Platform
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:31:54 GMT
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Organization: ?
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>


The correct e-mail address for the Peace & Justice Working Group
of the Berkeley Chapter of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility is:

    cpsr-peace@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu

(They're the group that produced the _COmputer & Information
Technologies Platform_)

JD
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
Subject: The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Elderly in Poverty
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:59:44 GMT
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Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Elderly in Poverty

Percentage  elderly living in poverty 1984-1987:(3)

               ------------------------------
				     ELDERLY
	       COUNTRY              IN POVERTY
               ------------------------------

	       United States          10.9

[More than twice of 2nd worst:]

	       United Kingdom          5.2

	       France                  4.5
	       Sweden                  4.3
	       Australia               4.0

	       Netherands              3.4
	       Germany                 2.8
	       Canada                  2.2

Source: Timothy M. Smeeding, "U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy in a
Cross National Perspective, October 1991, Luxembourg, October, 1991,
Luxembourg Income Study, working paper 70.

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From page 74 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  
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    "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   
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