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From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear at heart)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Buchanan's speech
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:21:43 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Carlson Library, Univ of Toledo

     Folks, lets not forget the words of this orator who is "right besides 
himself":                       (courtesy NEW YORK TIMES)

          "My friends, even in tough times,
           these poeple are with us.  They don't
           read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke, but
           they came from the same schoolyards and
           playgrounds and towns as we did.  They
           share our beliefs and convictions, our
           hopes and our dreams."
           ...
          "And, we need to reconnect with them.
           We need to let them know we know they're
           hurting.  They don't expect miracles,
           but they need to know we care."

     Such a kind, caring and thoughtful soul!

     Amazing, how those sentences, when standing by themselves on the
phosphors of the screen can take on a whole new meaning.

     Don't you just want to embrace him for his concern over OUR hurt!  After
all, he did grow up with us, in the same schoolyards, playgrounds and town as
we did.  He knows us so well -- he could never turn away from a friend in need
of a bit of support!

     DOESN'T HE DESERVE AN HONORARY DEGREE in Social Work!

     We ought to find a pair of Siamese Twins who can give this man the sort of
two faced kiss-off that he truly deserves.  Where are Blaine & Antoinne when
you really need them?

	READ MY LIPS MISTER BUCHANAN	(written by Gary M. Klein, 8/20/92)
                
		We're queer,
		We're here,
	       	And we grew up playing in your schoolyard!
 
		We're queer,
		We're here,
		And we were once friends!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And we once cared about each other!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And we never hated anyone!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And you don't respect us anymore!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And we ain't gonna hide!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And we've got love on our side!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        Can you see the rising tide!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And Roy Cohn wants a bride!

		We're queer,
		We're here,
	        And God is on YOUR side?

		We're queer,
		We're here,
                And we're all gonna cheer!	        	       


P.S.  Guess who is going on a vacation in the woods?
      And coping without a newsfeed.
      But I will be spending time with an e-mail buddy!
-- 
"Read Queer Books"                                  "Librarian, Leather bound"

Gary Klein,   Business Librarian,  (Univ of Toledo)           * * * * 
PO Box 12650                  Toledo OH  43606-0250            *   *   
(w): 419-537-2629      fac2813@uoft01                            *   
(h): 419-243-2740      fac2813@uoft01.utoledo.edu         B4 t+ w- g s+ k
From: bjag@nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Human Rights Jobs
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:57:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: owl.bjag-140892130350
Followup-To: soc.rights.human
Organization: Northwestern University

Does anyone out there have information on people working at human rights
organizations?

I'm particularly interested in the types of candidates HRO's look for. Do
they want lawyers? community activists? Do people generally do a lot of
volunteer work before they move into actually working for the organization?

If anyone out there has a job with a human rights organization, or knows
people who do, I would very much appreciate receiving information about the
kind of experience that got them there and how best to prepare yourself for
working in such an organization.

Bharathi Jagadeesh                 bjag@nwu.edu
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 15 Aug 92 09:46 PDT
Subject: Lakota Need Support to Protect Woun
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700371:000:2205
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 15 09:46:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Lakota Need Support to Protect Woun

/* Written  9:29 am  Aug 11, 1992 by uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net in cdp:gen.nativenet */
Original-Sender: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net (Elizabeth B. Pollard)

On reading the urgent message from the Lakota elders yesterday, Grosvenor
called Mr. Littlemoon last night and got the bill numbers for both House
and Senate resolutions concerning Wounded Knee. They are:

        House Resolution 2032
        Senate Resolution 550

We have just sent the following letter to our Congressmen and Senators, and
we urge that you do the same.

--Liz

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The letter:

The Honorable [Senator's or Congressman's name]

I urge you to reject [Senate Resolution 550] [House Resolution 2032], which
would designate the site of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, as a national
monument. As you are undoubtedly aware, Wounded Knee is of vital importance
to the Lakota Sioux people as the location of pivotal events in their history.
It is outrageous that Congress is seriously considering removing this site
from the tribal trust of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I understand that
the land and mineral rights thereof would revert to the public domain, and
that no provision has been made for the relocation of six hundred (600)
Indians who would be displaced. If the objective is to memorialize the
massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, would not a historical marker be
appropriate? To force these Indians from their land and homes would constitute
not just one more instance in a long list of injustices, but one of the worst.

Very truly yours,

W. Grosvenor Pollard, III

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

Feel free to use our letter as a model, if you like.

--Liz

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 Elizabeth Pollard              Bitnet: uahebp01@uahvax1
 Systems Librarian              Internet: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net
 Univ. of Ala./Huntsville       Compuserve: 72457,1560
 Huntsville, AL 35899           Phone: (205) 895-6313

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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:13 PDT
Subject: EXECUTION IMMINENT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700383:000:2683
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 18 14:13:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: EXECUTION IMMINENT

/* Written  9:32 pm  Aug 17, 1992 by ghrc in cdp:reg.guatemala */
URGENT ACTION !!!!URGENT ACTION!!! 

GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Date: August 17, 1992

According to the Guatemalan Government's confirmation a few hours
ago, tomorrow, on August 18th, Army corporal NICOLAS GUTIERREZ
CRUZ, will be executed.  Gutierrez has been condemned to the
death penalty for carrying out the massacre of four indigenous
campesinos in Solol  on January 17th of this year in the place
known as Ciudad Peronia.

The CDHG supports the abolition of IMPUNITY. We advocate an
investigation into every case of human rights violation and the
trial and punishment of those responsible for such crimes against
humanity. However, in the case of the massacre at Ciudad Peronia,
we feel that the two who have been accused, Gutierrez and Eliseo
Suchit, also a soldier and still at large - both of them
indigenous of low rank in the Army - are "scapegoats" for the
crime. Those truly responsible are the officials who gave the
order for the massacre, who have not even been investigated. With
the death by firing squad of Gutierrez Cruz, they are trying to
hide those truly responsible, eliminating one of the witnesses
given orders from above. The aim is to give an appearance that
justice is being done and that impunity is beginning to be
suppressed.

IMPUNITY in Guatemala has complex mechanisms in fact and in the
law. The death by firing squad of an Army corporal, of humble and
indigenous roots, does not do away with such mechanisms. This
procedure constitutes but one more crime of discrimination and an
injustice which leaves those really responsible untouched.

We exhort WITH EXTREME URGENCY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND
GRASSROOTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS that, given the time
pressure, you demand of the Guatemalan Government TO SUSPEND THE
EXECUTION of NICOLAS GUTIERREZ CRUZ in order to proceed with an
impartial investigation of those truly responsible for that
massacre. For the above, an APPEAL FOR CLARIFICATION AND FOR
FURTHER DETAILS should be made to the Supreme Court of Justice,
based on Articles 718-19 in the Penal Code; and a DEFENSE MOTION
before the Supreme Court of Justice on Constitutionality, based
on Articles 265 and 272 of the Guatemalan Constitution.

SEND URGENT MESSAGES TO:

Presidente de la                 Presidente de la
Corte Suprema de Justicia        Corte de Constitucionalidad 
Lic.Juan Jos Rodil Peralta      Lic.Jorge Mario Garc!a L.
Centro C!vico,21 Calle &         11 Ave. entre 9a. y 10a.calles
7a. Av., Z.1                     Guatemala, Guatemala
Guatemala, Guatemala
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:11 PDT
Subject: Indian actors in UAE face death rap
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700407:000:2192
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 22 16:11:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Indian actors in UAE face death rap

/* Written  2:48 pm  Aug 22, 1992 by myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu in cdp:misc.news.sout */

From	: Mahesh Yadav
Country	: India
Source	: Times of India, Aug,12,1992
   
		INDIAN ACTORS IN UAE FACE DEATH RAP
		===================================

 Abu Dhabi, aug,11(AFP).

	A group of 11 Indian actors could face a possible death sentence after
being arrested in United Arab Emirates(UAE) for allegedly insulting Islam, a
Muslim cleric has warned.

	The actors, some of whom live in UAE, stagged the play in the UAE 
emirate of  Sharjah in May and it triggered a public furore that the 
participants offended Jesus and Islam 's Prophet Mohammed.

	"We have received scores of calls expressing dismay at the play. The
 actors have been arrested", a police official told AFP.

	Entiled "ants feast on corpses", the play opens with three corpses
lying on the stage. A villager asks if he can eat on of the corpses, which
scholars who saw the videotape said represented Prophet Mohammed. The other
corpses were Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.

	The actors were arrested in June and had been due to go on trial last
week. However, the case has been adjourned until September.

	The UAE and other Gulf states are among the most conservative Muslim
countries but it was not clear what punishment those actors would get if they
are found guilty. A local Muslim cleric said they could face death.

	"The court is looking into their case and its complications", Sheikh
Mohammed Abdul Razzak told the UAE magzine Al-Islah. "The sentence could be 
death if they were found to have insulted the Prophet on purpose".

	"It is another Satanic verses",Al-Islah said, in a reference to the 
British author Salman Rusdie's book that led to the late Iranian spritual
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordering the Indian born writer's death.

	Court sources said the actors had denied permission by Sarjah
authorities to stage the play, which was also rejected by Kerala. But they
went ahead with their plans and staged it on May,28 before a large audience
of Indians, including Muslims and Christians, they added.

			 * E N D *
From: farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Editorial in N.Y. Times (8/18/92)
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:41:02 GMT
Followup-To: soc.rights.human
Organization: none

In article <TOWFIQ.92Aug19101000@nighthawk.clearpoint.com> towfiq@Microdyne.COM writes:

 @  The following editorial appeared in Tuesday's New York Times:
 @
 @			     A Death in Iran
 @
 @Despite recurrent reports that Iran has become "moderate," persecution
 @of members of the Bahai faith has intensified.  On March 17, a
 @businessman named Bahman Samandari was summoned to the notorious Evin
 @prison in Teheran, where he was secretly executed the next day.

1. what is the source for this? Supposedly 'secretly' means that the
   Iranian gov. has not admitted the alleged axecution.
    
2. Let's *assume* that the execution took place. What was he accused of?
   If the execution was simply for being Baha'i, then the gov. should be
   executing every Baha'i living in Iran! Was he perhaps a Baha'i AND a
   criminal?
   
 Farzin Mokhtarian
 farzin@apollo3.ntt.jp
                          
From: -Unknown-@iphase.UUCP (-Unknown-)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:40 PDT
Subject: A call from Bosnia's Children
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700357:000:1062
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 14 08:40:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: A call from Bosnia's Children

/* Written 12:48 pm  Aug 12, 1992 by jisrawi@physics.rutgers.edu in cdp:soc.religion.i */

        *********************************************************
        *                                                       *
        * Prophet Muhamad, peace and prayers be upon him have   *
        * said: "Me and the sponsor of an orphan are like those *
        * two" and he (PBUH) joined two of his fingers.         *
        *                                                       *
        *********************************************************

The American Muslim Council is coordinating a relief effort for the
infants in Bosnia. It is calling upon people whose conscious is still
intact to sponsor infants for a period of time (one or two years or
whatever it takes) to be later returned to their parents when the
situation settles down in Bosnia. For those willing to join this effort
please call AMC at the number: (202)-789-2262 or FAX the number:
(202)-789-2550.



From: -Unknown-@iphase.UUCP (-Unknown-)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Lakota Need Support to Protect Woun
Date: 16 Aug 92  12:19:44 EST




/* Written  9:29 am  Aug 11, 1992 by uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net in cdp:gen.nativenet */
Original-Sender: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net (Elizabeth B. Pollard)

On reading the urgent message from the Lakota elders yesterday, Grosvenor
called Mr. Littlemoon last night and got the bill numbers for both House
and Senate resolutions concerning Wounded Knee. They are:

        House Resolution 2032
        Senate Resolution 550

We have just sent the following letter to our Congressmen and Senators, and
we urge that you do the same.

--Liz

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The letter:

The Honorable [Senator's or Congressman's name]

I urge you to reject [Senate Resolution 550] [House Resolution 2032], which
would designate the site of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, as a national
monument. As you are undoubtedly aware, Wounded Knee is of vital importance
to the Lakota Sioux people as the location of pivotal events in their history.
It is outrageous that Congress is seriously considering removing this site
from the tribal trust of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I understand that
the land and mineral rights thereof would revert to the public domain, and
that no provision has been made for the relocation of six hundred (600)
Indians who would be displaced. If the objective is to memorialize the
massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, would not a historical marker be
appropriate? To force these Indians from their land and homes would constitute
not just one more instance in a long list of injustices, but one of the worst.

Very truly yours,

W. Grosvenor Pollard, III

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

Feel free to use our letter as a model, if you like.

--Liz

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 Elizabeth Pollard              Bitnet: uahebp01@uahvax1
 Systems Librarian              Internet: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net
 Univ. of Ala./Huntsville       Compuserve: 72457,1560
 Huntsville, AL 35899           Phone: (205) 895-6313

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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:43 PDT
Subject: DISPLACEMENTS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PER
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700386:000:1995
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 18 14:43:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: DISPLACEMENTS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PER

/* Written 11:12 am  Aug 17, 1992 by gn:geonet in cdp:geo2.philippin */
Subject: DISPLACEMENTS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PERSIST IN RP

Philippine News and Features
International Dispatch No. 17
August 17, 1992
----------------------------------------
<<1.3 Million Displaced in Anti-Red Drive
The 23-year old war between government and the guerilla New
People's Army has caused the displacement of 229,068 families or
1,374,408 individuals, says the Citizens Disaster Response
Center.
Displacement in the Philippines comes in two forms: forced
evacuation to flee military operations, and strategic hamletting.
The military also reported that the war has killed 10,789
rebels and 11,000 military, police and militiamen.#
<<Rights Violations Persist
An association of more than 100 human rights watch groups
has drafted a list of demands to be presented to President Fidel
Ramos. The demands include the release of all political
prisoners, the resumption of peace talks, the reinstatement of
dismissed teachers, and an end to massive military operations.
Among those who earlier called for the resumption of peace
talks is the United Church of Christ in the Philippines of which
Ramos is a member.
There have been improvements in the legal system and
relatively fewer human rights violations recorded in 1991
compared to the average between 1987 and September 1991.  In
1991, the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates reported
there were 1,053 arbitrary arrests and detentions, 135 were
tortured, 49 summarily executed and 36 killed in massacres.
A recent survey shows that Filipinos generally believe that
military and police personnel are responsible for most of the
human rights violations in the country.#
-----------------------------
MORE ON August 22, 1992.
The above material may be reprinted, but please credit to PNF.
For full-length features, we may be reached via phone or fax
number +63 5217442.

From: -Unknown-@iphase.UUCP (-Unknown-)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:35 PDT
Subject: A Kindler Afghanistan
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700394:000:2851
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 20 16:35:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: A Kindler Afghanistan

/* Written 12:15 pm  Aug 16, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:hr.news */

/* Written  2:59 pm  Aug 15, 1992 by nytransfer in cdp:mideast.genera */

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


                  A Kinder, Gentler Afghanistan

U.S. rockets are raining again on Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. A
seven-year-old child, dead from untreated bullet wounds, was one
of the 1,000 casualties. You saw no gripping headlines, no
televised features on this; the war news has been shunted to the
back pages of the newspapers.

Who is responsible? The imperialists can hardly blame communism.
The counter-revolutionary armies, beneficiaries of billions of
U.S. dollars in arms and money over the years, forced the
surrender of the progressive government last spring. Now the
different rebel groups are tearing the city apart in their
jockeying for wealth and power.

It is really easy to find the criminals responsible for the Afghan
slaughter. Carter and Brzezinski, Reagan and Bush, the Congress
that allocated billions for arms. The blood spilled in Afghanistan
goes on their account.

The April 1978 pro-socialist revolution opened a new era of hope
for Afghanistan. Poor peasants hoped to take the land they worked
from feudal landlords, women to cast aside their veils to study,
teach and fight. But they couldn't make any social progress while
under the thumb of the imperialists, so they looked to the Soviet
Union and the socialist camp for help.

Washington and its reactionary allies in the region built up
counter-revolutionary gangs under the command of exiled feudal
landlords. It sent them sophisticated weapons galore. Now those
same weapons are being used by all sides in the battle for Kabul.
The most weapons went to the most reactionary outlaws--the ones
who murdered liberated Afghan women and terrorized peasants.

Washington beat down the Afghan revolutionaries and bled the
Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The State Department now glibly
replies to questions about current fruits of this policy,
"Afghanistan is free now."

What can be learned from this dismal tragedy? Most important is
that the bankers and billionaires who rule the U.S. can play no
progressive role anymore, not even in the most underdeveloped
areas of the world. Their money and guns don't bring progress of
any kind, just chaos and intense cruelty. They will bankroll the
slaughter of children before they'll let poor people take control
of their land and destiny.

                               -30-

(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@igc.apc.org".)

-----
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From: -Unknown-@iphase.UUCP (-Unknown-)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: East Timor resources
Date: 16 Aug 92 19:51:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700378:000:1311
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 16 12:51:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: East Timor resources

/* Written  3:21 pm  Aug 15, 1992 by web:etantor in cdp:reg.easttimor */
EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK OF TORONTO
PO Box 562, Station P, Toronto, Canada, M5S 2T1
______________________________________


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