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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: International Calls for Release of Greenpeace Ship
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:31:42 GMT
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Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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[Greenpeace Bulletin from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

          GREENPEACE SHIP BEING TOWED TO MURMANSK
        AMIDST INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR ITS RELEASE

Moscow,  Russia--13 October 1992, 3.30 pm BST--The Greenpeace
ship SOLO, arrested and shot at by the Russian Coastguard
yesterday, is being towed to Murmansk, in the Barents Sea,
Greenpeace said today.

Meanwhile,  the Dutch Foreign Ministry has asked Russian
authorities to release the Dutch-flagged SOLO and its crew.  It
said in a Ministry press statement that Greenpeace should have
the opportunity to gather information on the nuclear dump in the
Kara Sea.

The Dutch embassy in Moscow has asked the authorities to clarify
why it is towing a ship sailing under a Dutch flag.  It is
considering sending a representative to Murmansk to investigate.

The SOLO is expected to reach Murmansk on Friday 16 October.  The
ship is supposed to be detained, not arrested, authorities have
told Greenpeace here in Moscow. The decision about possible
charges against Greenpeace will be made in Murmansk.

The SOLO was "arrested" in the Kara Sea yesterday after the
coastguard had fired three shots across the stern of the vessel.
Twelve armed coastguard then boarded the vessel.  There has been
no communication from the boat since late yesterday. It is
understood that the radio and commnications room on the boat has
been locked.

Days before it reached the Kara Sea, Greenpeace released
information showing that the waters around the Russian Nuclear
Test Site Novaya Zemlya contained the largest nuclear waste dump
in the world.  The expedition was to document some of the
radioactivity around the site.

Greenpeace is calling on the Russian authorities to release the
SOLO, its crew, and to re-connect communications.  It is also
asking embassies of crew members to make representations to the
Russian authorities.

"Greenpeace has a legitimate right to document the dumping of the
nuclear waste around Novaya Zemlya.  What we were doing in the
Kara sea is in the interest of both the Russian and world public.
The Russian military is withholding information from its own
people," said Gerd Leipold of Greenpeace.

Dr Leipold said that according to the London Dumping Convention
of 1972, of which Russia is a party, the dumping of high-level
nuclear waste has always been forbidden, and the dumping of low-
level waste forbidden after 1983.

In both cases the country dumping waste had to inform the LDC of
dumping operations.

"The former Soviet Government and now the Russian Government has
not fulfilled its obligation under the LDC.  The Soviet
delegation at last year's LDC meeting acknowledged that if
dumping had taken place it would have been illegal under both
international and Soviet law," he said.
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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: AI UA313/92 GUATEMALA Intimidation
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:42:09 GMT

/* Written 11:02 am  Oct  9, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:carnet.alerts */
/* ---------- "AI UA313/92 GUATEMALA Intimidation" ---------- */
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: AI UA313/92 GUATEMALA Intimidation

/* Written 12:16 pm  Oct  9, 1992 by rmitchellai@gn.apc.org in igc:ai.uan */
The address of the diplomatic representative in the UK
is as follows:

His Excellency Senor Edmundo Nanne
Embassy of Guatemala
13 Fawcett St
London SW10 9HN. Fax: 071 376 5708

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

If you have any queries about this Urgent Action or about
the UA scheme in general, please contact:

Ray Mitchell
Amnesty International British Section
99 - 119 Rosebery Avenue
London
EC1R 4RE

email: gn:rmitchellai

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: IDEAS FOR ACTION
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:15:08 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 147.0 **/
** Topic: The ACTivist 8#10, October 1992 **
** Written  9:32 pm  Sep 24, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
The ACTivist is published by ACT for Disarmament, 736 Bathurst St.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2R4, phone 416-531-6154, fax 416-
531-5850, e-mail web:act. Hard copy subscriptions are available
with a donation of $10 or more to ACT for Disarmament. The ACTivist
is published monthly.  Reprint freely, but please credit us (and
send us a copy!)  Opinions expressed in The ACTivist are not
necessarily those of ACT for Disarmament.

IDEAS FOR ACTION

ACT is distributing a petition to have the United Nations recognize 
women's rights as human rights. Contact ACT for Disarmament, 736 
Bathurst St., Toronto, M5S 2R4, for copies.

If you want to get involved with the ACT campaign for women's rights, 
and to make the links between militarism and 
violence against women, please call Mary or Maggie at 531-6154. 

Other organizations working on these issues:

The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic 
Development, 63 rue de Bresoles, Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 1V7 is working 
to support Nada, the Saudi woman now facing deportation, and in 
support of women's rights globally.

Education Wife Assault, 427 Bloor St. W., Toronto, M5S 1X7 is working 
to promote the recognition of women's rights as human rights at the 
United Nations.

The International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission, 540 
Castro St. San Francisco, California, 94114, USA, has taken up the 
case of the Burmese women. They are urging supporters to write letters 
to Thai officials, asking that representatives of the democratically 
elected Burmese government-in-exile be allowed access to the 
women. 

Sisterhood is Global , Marilyn Waring, Dept. of Politics, University of 
Waikato, Private Bag Hamilton, New Zealand, has an Urgent Action 
network to support women persecuted for seeking their rights.
** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **

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From: kkelly%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
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Subject: Agee on Courts & Union-Busting NYC 11/5
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:54:22 GMT
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                  The CIA, Courts and Police:
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From: chandy@marais.inria.fr (Chandra SHEKHAR)
Subject: Savimbi faces electoral defeat in Angola
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:50:21 GMT

Mr. Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA (the right-wing
militia financed by the US and the RSA) is almost
certain to be defeated in the Angolan elections.
He is trailing behind Mr. Dos Santos of MPLA, the
outgoing President, by a margin of about half-a-million
votes.

Predictably, Mr. Savimbi has declared the elections to have
been a complete fraud, in spite of strict electoral supervision
and presence of foreign observers. 

It is feared that the country may return to the bloody civil
war which was suspended for 18 months in the hope of a 
political settlement.

Source: Le Monde, October 8, 1992.
From: odin@world.std.com (Hank Roth)
Subject: 10 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:24:34 GMT

<<< via P_news >>>
{From Fifth Estate}

10 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON

1. He thinks Bush is too soft on Castro.
2. He thinks Bush is too hard on the Israelis.
3. He supports Bush on Iraq.
4. He wants 100,000 more cops.
5. He supports the death penalty.
6. 70% of his campaign is financed by big corporations.
7. He smoked pot, dodged the draft and isn't proud of it.
8. He is the darling of the garbage and toxic waste incineration 
   industries.
9. His running mate's wife supports rock and roll censorship.
10. He wants business as usual for the Empire.
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: S. Africa: Homeless kids abused in
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:04:35 GMT

/* Written  5:03 pm  Oct 12, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "S. Africa: Homeless kids abused in" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


SOUTH AFRICA
 The Oct 10 edition of capetown's Argus(?) newspaper reports that
thousands of children are being held in South Africa's prisons,
where they face sexual abuse.

The story charges some 2,000 youths are held in prison, awaiting
trial, with no beds, clean clothes or access to social workers.
Social worker Rosemary Shapiro says the youngsters are packed into
cells of 50 and are routinely assaulted and sodomized.

The main problem, say specialists, is that South African law
dictates that children may be kept in prison if they cannot be held
in safe places or their parents cannot be found.

The report says the "safe places" are still racially segregated and
police find it easier to dump the children in prison. (R. Havana
10/10)

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

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

Military shakeup in Sri Lanka; Palestine update; Greenpeace
activists arrested in Russia; Shevardnadze accuses Russia of
responsibility for separatist fighting.

                          SUBSCRIBE!
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: PBS to air pro/anti Columbus programs
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:34:22 GMT

/** gen.nativenet: 363.0 **/
** Topic: pro/anti Columbus programs on PBS **
** Written  3:51 am  Oct  8, 1992 by gst@gnosys in cdp:gen.nativenet **
Original-Sender: gst (Gary S. Trujillo)

On Sunday evening, PBS is airing a two-hour sequel to its "Columbus
and the Age of Discovery," called "Columbus' Magnificent Voyage":
[which]
        goes aboard replicas of the voyager's ships to trace
        the lastimg impact of his discoveries

On Monday evening, there's a one hour program called "Surviving
Columbus":

        A different view of the Columbus Quincentenary
        through the stories of Pueblo Indians trying to
        hold on to their culture despite European influence.

See you next week.

Gary
--
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
** End of text from cdp:gen.nativenet **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Amnesty International Concert
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:24:21 GMT

/* Written 10:46 pm  Oct 10, 1992 by hnaylor in cdp:alt.activism */
/* ---------- "Amnesty International Concert" ---------- */
                        AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA

                         HUMAN RIGHTS IN HARMONY

          Eclectic, world-class mix of music to benefit Amnesty
                   International locally and worldwide

                        Sunday October 18 7:00 pm
      Flint Center for the Performing Arts De Anza College Cupertino

Amnesty International today announced a special benefit concert
featuring an eclectic mix of some of the Bay Area's finest
musical talent.  Appearing on behalf of the Nobel Peace Prize
winning organization will be The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir,
Kitka, and Linda Tillery and her band.

The concert will take place on Sunday, October 18 at 7:00 pm at
the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, located on the campus
of DeAnza College in Cupertino.

Under the direction of Terrence Kelly, The Oakland Interfaith
Gospel Choir is a multiracial, interdenominational group of 55
vocalists united in their love of gospel and their message of
hope, joy and justice.  The choir, which has sung with such stars
as Linda Ronstadt, was the recent recipient of a Gospel Academy
Award for its outstanding performances (described as "heavenly"
by the Oakland Tribune).

Kitka is an appealing "a capella" chorus of ten young women
specializing in the fascinating and varied music of the Balkan
region.  Their hypnotic music has been called "exotic and
exhilarating" by National Public Radio.

Linda Tillery, whose dynamic voice is equally comfortable
performing jazz, pop or soul, will be performing rhythm and blues
with her band in a style that has won praise from critics across
the nation.

Proceeds from the concert will benefit the local and global work
of Amnesty International, an independent worldwide movement
working impartially for the release of all prisoners of
conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, and
an end to torture and executions.  The human rights organization
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.

In the Bay Area, Amnesty International has a total of 89 groups
(16 local chapters, 12 university chapters and 61 high school
groups), working year-round to halt human rights abuses around
the world.

Tickets for the concert ($18 in advance, $20 at the door) can be
purchased at the Flint Center box office or through any BASS
ticket outlet.  Tickets at group rates of $15 for a group of 10-
20, and $12 for groups over 20, can be purchased only from Terry
Heinz at (408) 374-0256.
________________________________________________________________
Discount tickets will be available during the final week before
the concert.  Call Terry Heinz.

Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:7516 alt.activism:17628 sci.energy:4958 talk.environment:4268
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: "Education President:" U.S. "Leads the World"
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:59:45 GMT

The Decline of America: "Education President:" U.S. "Leads the World"


==================================================================
Percentage of four-year-olds enrolled in preprimary programs,
                        1987-90:(18)
==================================================================

                               PREPRIMARY
               COUNTRY         ENROLLMENT

               France            100.0   
               Belgium            98.1   
               Netherlands        97.9   
               Spain              90.6   

               Germany            71.6   
               New Zealand        72.8   
               United Kingdom     69.2   
               Austria            63.4

               United States      56.1   
               Japan              54.6   
               Ireland            52.1   
               Norway             44.1   
               Canada             41.4   
               Finland            19.6   
               Switzerland        18.7   

******************************************************************
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Education in
OECD Countnes 1987-88 (Paris: OECD, 1990), p. 107.
******************************************************************

From: page 59 of:

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_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
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,sci.energy,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Nuclear Waste Delivered to British Minister of Environment
Followup-To: alt.activism.d,sci.energy,talk.environment
Date: 16 Oct 1992 23:14:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

GREENPEACE DELIVERS NUCLEAR WASTE TO MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT

PARIS September 21, 1992 (GP) The Greenpeace delegate to the
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of the North East
Atlantic, which was inaugurated today at the Kleber Centre,
delivers to the British Minister of the Environment radioactive
sand from a beach contaminated by the nearby Sellafield nuclear
reprocessing plant in the UK.

At the end of his statement, Greenpeace spokesperson Remi
Parmentier declared:

" On the coasts of the North East Atlantic there are 3 spent
nuclear fuel reprocessing plants which are directly discharging
radioactive effluents into the sea. These need to be closed
immediately.

So as to express our convictions and maybe also awake your
consciences we brought radio-active sand Greenpeace sampled from
a beach near to the Sellafield plant.

We request the British Minister to accept taking it back home as
a reminder of the fact that, together with France, his country
should stop discharging radioactive wastes into the sea."

NOTE

The sand, first brought to Germany, has been classified nuclear
waste by the German authorities.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: mcgredo@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor)
Subject: Cuban Dissident arrested
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:50:35 GMT

>From the WSJ, Tuesday, Oct 13, P. A16:

Cuba arrested a human-rights activist and political dissident, another sign
that it continues to resist moves toward democracy that have swept thorugh the 
communist world, analysts said,  Elizardo Sanchez, president of the Cuban
Commision for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, was detained
Friday night.

Mr. Sanchez, a former Marxist philosophy professor, advocates peaceful 
democratization an opposes the US trade embargo of Cuba.  Since 1980, he
has been imprisoned more than eight years for political reasons.

Ramon Cernuda, who represents Mr. Sanchez's group in the US, said Cuba may 
accuse Mr. Sanchez of economic crimes, such as black-market dealing.  He
said a witness reported that police confiscated typewriters and tape
recorders, and objects donated by sympathizers.

Mr. Sanchez's detention follows the recent political disgrace of Carlos
Aldana, the Cuban Communist Party's third most powerful official.  Some
Cuba specialists believe Mr. Sanchez was allowed to operate his small
human-rights group under Mr. Aldana's protection.


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Quayle, pot, and the media /ww
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:44:08 GMT

 Quayle, pot and the media

After years of treating him as a "non-person," the news media,
Congress and the courts are suddenly paying a lot of attention to
Brett Kimberlin, a federal prisoner who claims he sold drugs to
Dan Quayle in the 1970s. This new-found show of truth, justice,
and press independence just happens to coincide with a shift by
influential representatives of the big-money power elite,
including John Sculley, CEO of Apple Computer and John Young, CEO
of Hewlett Packard, into the Clinton camp. Bush appears to be
losing ground with his usual ruling class backers. Speaking about
the economy on Oct. 4, Bush said, "Yes, things have been tough,
but they haven't been that tough." At Pamela Harriman'
fund-raiser for Clinton in Middleberg, Va., invitations went for
$10,000 a plate.

For three straight months the Democratic Party has taken in more
money than the traditionally wealthier Republicans. Through June,
Republicans had raised $95 million more than the Democrats. But
since then, the Democratic National Committee has hauled in about
$43 million, compared with $26 million for Bush and Quayle.

The big media had all this information about Quayle four years
ago. But then they just sat on it. They also knew about Bush's
connections with Contragate, but they kept that story quiet, too.
Big money, and the media it controls, was solidly behind the
Republicans. Now, it seems like every day there's a new
revelation or a new scandal.

If big money still backed Bush and Quayle, no one would be
reading about Brett Kimberlin and that day an Indiana rich kid
asked him, "Hey, do you have any of this for sale?"

(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@mcimail.com".)

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