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Subject: NEWS:Ecuadoran Student Strike Continues
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:01:17 GMT
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from El Diario La Prensa 11/20/92


ECUADORAN STUDENTS CONTINUE STRIKE

Thousands of Ecuadoran high school students continued their
street demonstrations and meetings for the second consecutive day
on Thursday, November 19, blocking traffic.  The police attacked
the demonstrators with tear gas.  The Ecuadoran High School
Student Federation (FESE) had called for a strike on Wednesday,
November 18.  However, on Thursday, many students still did not
return to their classrooms, and took to the streets in various
parts of Quito and other cities. (AFP )

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: STUDENT CONFERENCE: Creating a Secure 21st Century 
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[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's  youth.activism
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Topic 68        Creating a Secure 21st Century 
uspugwash       Youth and Activism       9:50 am  Nov 16, 1992 
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An opportunity for students to get involved in critical  
global issues...... 

Student Pugwash USA's 1993 National Chapter Conference 
CREATING A SECURE 21ST CENTURY: GLOBAL SECURITY IN A  
CHANGING WORLD. 

Georgia Institute of Technology 
Atlanta, GA 
January 20-24, 1993 

Sponsored by: 
Student Pugwash USA 
1638 R Street, NW, Suite 32 
Washington, DC 20009 

Each winter students from around the nation come together 
to discuss  critical global issues at Student Pugwash USA's 
National Chapter Conference.  All students with an interest 
in Student Pugwash USA and the issues that we address are  
encouraged to attend.  This year's conference, hosted by  
Georgia Institute of Technology, will focus on new facets of  
global security: international governance, arms issues,  
environment, technology transfer, health and population! 
Students will participate in interactive sessions led by  
experts to discuss issues at the juncture of science and  
society.  In addition, students from chapters across the  
United States will have the opportunity to discuss their plans  
for the coming semester and to develop regional planning  
strategies for the chapter network. 

For more information about the National Chapter Conference,  
contact: 

        uspugwash@igc.org 

or  call 1-800-WOW-A-PUG (students) 
           1 (202) 328-6555 

         




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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Public Citizen Rates States on Energy Use
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:46:17 GMT

Here is a press release from Public Citizen.

 Public Citizen Rates States on Energy Use
 To: National Desk, Environment and Energy writers
 Contact: Jonathan Becker, 202-546-4996, or Andrew Carroll,
          202-833-3000, both of Public Citizen

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- All but three states rely on 
"dirty, dangerous and depletable" energy resources to meet a
majority of their energy needs, according to a report released by
Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, while none of the 50
states has even approached its potential in developing alternatives
to coal, nuclear and oil-generated power.
   The report, Energy Audit: A State-by-State Profile of Energy
Consumption and Conservation highlights the need for greater
funding of energy policies at the state level and describes some
policy tools states can employ to increase energy efficiency and
reliance on clean, safe and renewable energy resources.
   "Even with a new federal energy bill, much of the responsibility
for energy choices falls to the states," said Jonathan Becker,
energy-policy analyst for Public Citizen, "and it's clear that some
states are making much wiser decisions than others."
   Energy Audit contains Public Citizen's analysis of four key
idicators of energy use.  The report describes the experiences of
a number of states that have produced thorough and innovative
approaches to meeting their energy needs.
   "Federal energy policy is still controlled by the fossil-fuel
and nuclear power lobbies," continued Becker.  "It has been left up
to the states to implement a fair, safe and sensible energy plan."
Governors of all 50 states have been sent copies of Energy Audit:
A State-by-State Profile of Energy Consumption and Conservation.
   Copies of the 45-page Energy Audit are available from Public
Citizen at a cost of $40.  Discounts are available to non-profit
organizations and schools.  Members of the press may receive the
study free of charge on request.
   Public Citizen is a non-profit research and advocacy
organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.  Public Citizen has
over 130,000 members nationwide.  The Critical Mass Energy Project
is its energy-policy arm.
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Subject: Peru:Election to Go On,Despite Coup Attempt/ed-lp
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from El Diario La Prensa
11/16 Peru

PERUVIAN ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE DESPITE ATTEMPTED COUP

Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori confirmed that elections will
be held on November 22 despite all obstacles, and criticized those
who want to boycott them.  He referred to an attempted coup d'etat
and assassination on Friday, November 13, the result of which was
the arrest of 25 active and retired military leaders.  He
explained the failure of the attempt on television and gave a
broader discourse over the radio.  However, some members of the
oppostion question whether there was ever really an attempted
coup.

"I don't believe there was a coup, and there is no justification
for the enormous apparatus which has been mounted to confuse
public opinion eight days before the elections," said Manuel
Moreya, head of the Solidarity and Democracy Party.

Fujimori said the process for the Democratic Constituent Congress
will not be interrupted and denied requests to postpone the
elections.

Fujimori told journalists that he has the support of the armed
forces the political parties and independent movements, some 18 in
total, who will go to the polls to elect 80 representatives to the
Constituent Congress.  He was skeptical about the boycott being
requested by some political groups and labor unions and dismissed
as "speculation" the possibility that the failed coup d'etat might
give an advantage in the elections to the coalition of Cambio-90
(Change-90) and Nueva Mayoria (New Majority).

The week before the elections a strike of 24 and 48 hours is
planned by teachers and state health workers and public university
workers to demand better salaries, among other things.

Two days after the alleged defeat of the attempted coup d'etat,
the Sendero Luminoso intensified its attacks in an effort to
terrorize Peruvians and dissuade them from going to the polls for
the constituent assembly, to take place next week.  They blew up a
car some 300 kilometers away from the police training academy in
Chorrillos.  Ten people were wonded.  A gas station was dynamited
in the poor neighborhood of San Juan de Lurigancho.  There were no
victims.  A second car bomb was deactiviated in a working class
neighborhood, San Martin de Porres, according to a police report.
(EFE, AP 11/16)

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Subject: NEWS: Latin Amer Youth Unemployment/ed-lp
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from El Diario La Prensa
11/16 Latin America


YOUNG PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY LACK OF JOBS IN LATIN AMERICA

In Latin America, for each adult there are 2.5 young people
unemployed, who are becomoing marginalized economically and
socially, according to a report by the Chilean Worlwide Employment
Program (PREALC).  Of 50 million adolescents and young people
younger than 25 years old which forms a part of Latin America's
economically active population, nearly 5 million are unemployed.
They make up 53% of the region's unemployed, and, according to the
report, by the year 2000 the percentage of unemployed in this
sector could rise to 12%.  The increasing unemployment of young
people can be directly associated with the increase in crime and
drug addiction.  Another indication of the crisis is the low
quality of jobs the young people are able to obtain, with low
salaries and no possibility of improvement.

In Honduras 12 to 14-year olds represent 26% of the work force.
In El Salvador this group represents 14%.  In Costa Rica, Ecuador
and Panama, they represent 10%.  There is no official data from
Chile, Uruguay or Venezuela, because it is illegal in those
countries for a child under 15 to work.  At the beginning og the
nineties those between 15 and 19 made up 39% of the work force in
the region.  Countries whose youth workforce falls above the
average are Paraguay, Brazil and El Salvador, with 45% or more
(sic), and below the average are Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and
Colombia. (EFE 11/16)

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Israel: Prison Hunger Strike Ends in Agreement
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:06:40 GMT

/** mideast.action: 35.0 **/
** Topic: Israel Peace News **
** Written  9:41 pm  Nov 13, 1992 by pnmideast in cdp:mideast.action **
From: <pnmideast>
Subject: Israel Peace News

/* Written  8:27 pm  Nov 10, 1992 by peacemedia@gn.apc.org in igc:gn.peacemedia */
/* ---------- "Israel Peace News" ---------- */
PRISON HUNGER STRIKE ENDS IN AGREEMENT IN ISRAEL

[Peace Media Service] A hunger-strike launched September 28 by
Palestinian prisoners ended October 15 when negotiators at Israel's
Nahfa Prison approved the principles of an accord accepted a week
earlier at four other prisons. The Israeli Prison Service
Authorities promised major improvements in living conditions in all
prisons and accepted the principle of unified treatment. A final
agreement is still being drafted. One participant in the fast,
Hussain Nimeer A'beedat, died October 14.

The Mandela Institute in Ramallah said that ``the Israeli
authorities seem to be sincere in addressing and implementing [the
agreed on changes].'' The Institute welcomed the ``more discerning
attitude on the part of prison officials.'' [Mandela Institute,
Tennous Building, room 37, Al-Ma'rad St., Ramallah, West Bank, via
Israel; tel/fax +972.02: 955756 / Alternative Information Center,
Box 24278, Jerusalem; tel +972.02: 241159, fax 253151]


ISRAEL: RAMYA RECEIVES NEW EVICTION NOTICE

[Peace Media Service] Residents of Ramya, an unrecognized Arab
village in the Galilee and home to 20 Arab families, had been
ordered by Israeli authorities to vacate their homes and land by
November 3 but continuing appeals and protests have resulted in
suspension of the order. Another round of negotiations is planned.
Villagers may be incorporated into the nearby town of Carmiel or
give up their land and be transferred to other State-owned land in
the Galilee. The nearby Jewish town of Carmiel plans to build a
neighborhood for new immigrants on Ramya's land.

The eviction notice was delivered one week prior to the resumption
of the Middle East peace talks. According to the Ramya Resident's
Committee, ``The government must make it crystal clear whether its
goal is apartheid or equality, in deeds and not only words.''

The village of Ramya has attracted attention in Israel and abroad
for over a year after being slated for demolition in September
1991.

The Ramya villagers are farmers who have held legal title to their
land since British Mandate times. Ramya is one of more than 100
Palestinian unrecognized villages in Israel. The villages do not
receive any government services.

``The policy of building housing for one class of citizens (Russian
Jewish immigrants) by dispossessing a second class of citizens
(Israeli Arabs),'' said Seth Grimes of the Jewish Committee for
Israeli-Palestinian Peace in Washington D.C., ``is neither morally
nor politically wise.''


** End of text from cdp:mideast.action **

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From: EcoNet via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Update from Wild Rockies Earth First! -- Nonviolent Actions
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Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:36:12 GMT
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[From EcoNet wri.news Conference]

Subj: UPDATE FROM WILD ROCKIES EARTH FIRST!
=> igc:wrl in wri.news Nov  2, 1992

NONVIOLENCE IN NATIONAL FOREST

  Wild Rockies Earth First! has been actively opposing two
massive timber sales in Idaho's Nez Perce National Forest.
EF! targeted these sales as examples of what is happening to
the virgin forests of the Wild Rockies. The affected areas are
an important wildlife habitat and migration corridor and are
part of the largest roadless wilderness complex in the lower
48 states.

  The goal of EF! organizing is to block construction of roads
into these forests. Activists arrived in July and established
a base camp.  They held meetings with the Red River District
Forest Service and hiked into the forest to look for signs of
surveying and road building.  Finding what they were looking for
activists have since engaged in various direct actions including
tree sitting, building platforms in roads to block further
construction, chaining themselves to bulldozers, demonstrating
at the Forest Service office, etc. Some activists have been
arrested and many have been harassed by Forest Service special
agents.

  Help is needed by those who can join folks in Idaho or through
fundraising, food donations, publicity and education.  Contact:
Wild Rockies Earth First!, PO Box 9286, Missoula, MT 59806,
(405) 721-4255, or Phil Knight, PO Box 6151, Bozeman, MT 59715,
(406) 585-9211.

******** From November/December 1992 (Vol.9 #6) issue of the
Nonviolent Activist, publication of the War Resisters League,
339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012. e-mail: wrl@igc.org.
Subscriptions: $15/year.
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Subject: Nica:Govt Claims Inflation Controlled/ed-lp
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from El Diario La Prensa
11/16 Nicaragua

INFLATION UNDER CONTROL IN NICARAGUA

The Nicaraguan government has been able to control inflation this
year which in October rose only to 1.3%, according to Miniser of
the Economy Julio Cardenas.  The government estimates that the
economy will grow by 4% or 5% in 1993.  Cardenas made his
statements to journalists after the end of the first round of
talks between the government's economic advisors and private
business people, as well as political parties and labor unions.
He added that the round of talks will continue with different
political parties and with the Catholic church during the next
week, as a step prior to a meting with delegates from non-
governmental organizations and countries which are in cooperation
with Nicaragua.  That meeting is scheduled to take place in
Nicaragua on December 3.  Despite the economic crisis, Cardenas
stated that the country had a noticable increase in the production
of basic grains (rice, beans and corn) and industrial production.

Regarding the high level of unemployment, estimated to be 60%,
Cardenas confrmed that the situation can be resolved "with the
creation of new businesses based on increased domestic and
international investment." (AP 11/16)

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timor: Canadian Aid Policy for Indonesia Under Fire
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:43:03 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 356.0 **/
** Topic: Nov 12 in Ottawa, Canada **
** Written 12:20 am  Nov 19, 1992 by web:etantor in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Toronto Star, 13 November 1992. Story with Reuter photo of East 
Timorese praying in Dili.

AID POLICY FOR INDONESIA UNDER FIRE

By Tim Harper
OTTAWA -- Opposition politicians and peace activists marked the 
first anniversary of the East Timor massacre yesterday by calling for 
an end to aid and weapons sales to Indonesia. 

Canadian policy was under fire in newspaper advertisements, 
Parliament Hill protests and statements from MPs. 

A wreath was laid at the National War memorial, commemorating 
the unarmed Timorese mourners who were gunned down by 
Indonesian soldiers a year ago. 

The Indonesian government has acknowledged that 50 in the funeral 
procession were killed, but independent witnesses have put the 
death toll at upwards of 250. 

Canada suspended a proposed $30 million aid project in the wake of 
the massacre, but continues to provide more than $40 million 
annually to the Indonesian government. 

Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 shortly after its Portuguese 
colonial rulers left. The tiny region of 750,000 has been fighting a 
guerrilla war since in a bid to win its independence. 

Most governments, including Ottawa, do not recognize the annexation 
of East Timor by Indonesia. 

NDP external affairs critic Svend Robinson said Indonesia should be 
denied aid based on Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's stated policy of 
linking aid with human rights. 

"The Canadian government is abdicating any leadership in the 
commitment to human rights," said the Vancouver MP, who 
addressed a parliament Hill rally. "For this government, it's been 
business as usual."

But Denis Boulet, a spokesperson for External Affairs Minister 
Barbara McDougall, rejected that characterization. 

"It has not been business as usual," Boulet said. "The minister has put 
pressure on the Indonesian government over human rights."

Bilateral trade between Indonesia and Canada totalled $500 million 
last year.

In Ottawa and Vancouver newspapers yesterday, an open letter called 
for a ban on weapons sales to Indonesia. Among those signing the 
letter were Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi and writer June 
Callwood and former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations 
Stephen Lewis. 

The letter was also signed by nine NDP and three Liberal MPs. 
** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:35:19 GMT


	It makes perfect sense to talk about freedom or its absence,
	equality and inequality, justice or injustice,
	authoritarianism or democracy, and the kinds of power
	relationships contained in technological instruments and
	systems.

	This is true of extremely simple as well as complex
	technologies.  For example, if one visits the agricultural
	fields of the southwestern US, one finds workers using a hoe,
	_el cortito_, a tool with a short handle.  There's nothing
	political about the length of a wooden handle, is there?
	Well, that depends on the broader social relationships and
	activities in which it plays a part.  To use el cortito you
	must bend over or get down on your knees.  A casual observer
	might say: If you're digging in the ground, isn't it sometimes
	more comfortable to stand up?

	Why then, has the handle been shortened?  The reason is, in
	large part, that the forement who manage the work can look
	across a field... and tell who is working and who is not.
	Those who are bending over are the ones working...

	--- Langdon Winner, ``Artifact/ideas and political culture'',
	_Whole Earth Review_, Winter 1991.
From: dave mankins <dm@Think.COM>


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Subject: NEWS:Guatemalan Rights Worker Threatened/wbai
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:51:52 GMT
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Guatemala News from WBAI-FM New York 11/19


GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS WORKER THREATENED

Amilcar Mendez, a Maya-Quiche indian and human rights worker
in Guatemala, has been threatened by arrest by his government if
he returns to his country after having attended a human rights
conference in Washington, DC.  In an interview with Bernard
White, and Amy Goodman, with translator Alan Nairn, on the WBAI
Morning Program, he explained that his organization was formed to
protect indigenous campesinos from being forced to do military
vigilance.  Every two weeks campesinos are forced to do
vigilance, in heat, cold, rain, without any compensation.
According to the Guatemalan constitution this service is supposed
to be voluntary.

Mr. Mendez gave a graphic example of the kind of torture his
people under go under the aegis of the Guatemalan government.  An
activist in his organization was captured by the military and
held for fifteen days.  He was left for dead at the side of a
road.  When he was found, he has lost his ability to speak and
the control of his body.  This activist is currently in a
recovery center in Chicago.  When this sort of things comes out
in the Guatemalan newspapers it has a "chilling" effect, causing
others not to participate in human rights activities, not to
speak out against the military's abuse, for fear they will suffer
the same fate.

Mendez will be returning to Guatemala on Sunday, November
22, with a delegation, partly made of up North Americans.  He is
concerned about the threats by his government against him and
others who attended the human rights conference, and is asking
that people write or fax letters to President Serrano, to the
Minister of Justice, and the Human Rights Chief in Guatemala.
Such international awareness has helped save the lives of human
rights workers in the past.

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