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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Nicaragua: Tidal wave strikes pacific coast
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:09:36 GMT

/** reg.nicaragua: 111.1 **/
** Written  9:03 am  Sep  2, 1992 by nicanet in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
            NICARAGUA NETWORK HOTLINE ** 202-544-9360
 
                         September 2, 1992
 
You have reached the Nicaragua Network Hotline recorded 
Wednesday, September 2, 1992.   To reach our office, call: 202-
544-9355.
 
This is an update to this week's hotline about the tidal wave 
that struck Nicaragua on Tuesday Sept. 1.  It will followed by 
the hotline recorded Monday.
 
An undersea earthquake registering over 7 on the richter scale 
caused a tidal wave which struck the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua 
on Tuesday.  Early reports from Nicaragua indicate at least 40 
deaths and hundreds missing.  The earthquake's epicenter was 
located 75 miles Southwest of Managua the resulting 6 foot tidal 
wave washed away whole fishing villages from San Juan del Sur in 
the South to Poneloya near the Port of Corinto.  The Nicaraguan 
government is evacuating the entire Pacific coastline to protect 
the population from aftershocks.  If you wish to contribute to 
relief measures for this latest natural disaster you can send 
your tax-deductible contribution to the Nicaragua Network 
Education Fund at  1247 E St., SE, Washington, DC  20003. 
Designate your contribution for tidal wave relief.  Quest for 
Peace continues to ship containers to Nicaragua, so if you have 
clothing, medicine, fishing nets, housewares, or other items that 
would help the people of the coast rebuild, call Quest for Peace 
at (301) 699-0042 to find out where the nearest container is to 
your location.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:35:14 GMT



"The dominant technologies of any age shape our often unspoken
assumptions about what is possible and what is likely.
The Constitution, for example, establishes a system of checks and
balances through three branches of government, each designed
to be equal to the other two.

"However, the authors of the Constitution assumed each branch would
communicate with the people primarily through the printed page.  When,
in the middle of the twentieth century, electronic broadcasting
replaced newspapers as the dominant means of mass communication, the
relative prominence of the three branches of government changed, at
least as they are perceived by the people.

"The president, unlike Congress and the courts, spoke with one voice
on radio and, with the emergence of television, projected one face and
personality into the living room of virtually every American home.

"The members of the House and Senate and the Supreme Court were never
seen or heard all together through this medium -- except when they
applauded the president during his State of the Union address.  Thus,
since real political power in a democracy flows from the people, the
new prominence of the president compared to that of the other branches
of government soon amounted to a kind of constitutional amendment by
technology."

  -- Senator Al Gore, in his book, _Earth in the Balance_

[Submitted by: camerons@gilligan.nad.3com.com (Cameron L. Spitzer)]

[I note Gore is honest enough to refer to "real political power *in*
*a* *democracy*" (not in "our system") as "flowing from the people" --
rather than the corporations which own the media, pay for the election
campaigns of our "representatives" and otherwise exercise
far-reaching control over the social and political institutions --HB]


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: El Salvador: coming home from war
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:45:55 GMT

/** wri.news: 501.0 **/
** Topic: El Salvador: coming home from war **
** Written  8:55 pm  Sep  3, 1992 by gn:peacenews in cdp:wri.news **
El Salvador: coming home from war
 
MARGARET SUMADH
 
The peace agreements signed in January 1992 put an end to the
longstanding war in El Salvador; now Salvadoreans are trying to
put together the infrastructure for a country operating in
peacetime. For most, this is a new experience.
 
One of the most pressing questions is the future of conscripts.
Men who were forced into the government forces in their teens are
now being released into civilian lives. Many of them were
involved in atrocities during their service.
 
Most have mixed feelings about their time in the army, and some
have serious psychological problems. They are easy to spot on the
street: uncomfortable with people, unused to making decisions. In
reality their fate will probably vary, but the capacity of the
Salvadorean people to forgive, in the light of the hope that the
Peace Accords have brought, is astounding.
 
And what of the other footsoldiers? What of the youngsters, men
and women, who were recruited to join forces of the Frente
Farabundo Marti de Liberaci"n Nacional (FMLN)? Often very young
when they volunteered, they played a different role in the
conflict, but their problems now are similar. Their skills are
also military; they know how to use arms, are accustomed to
moving from camp to camp. They have little education, know little
about the farming of their family plot.
 
They too need training. And the very land that these young people
came from is often unavailable through takeover by landowners who
are disputing peasants' rights, or may have been made unworkable
by the effects of bombing and lack of water.
 
Retraining for both these groups is dependent on funds from
internationals. The US government has sent funds for the
retraining and entry into civilian lives for both groups, but
some of these funds are being held back until the Cristiani
government, and to an extent the FMLN, comply more fully with the
terms of the Accords.
 
All demobilisation of FMLN troops is scheduled to be completed by
31 October; government troops by 1994.
 
SOURCE = The ACTivist
 
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Reprinted from _Peace News_ September 1992. Please credit if
reprinting. Peace News and War Resisters' International, 
55 Dawes St, London SE17 1EL (tel +44 71 703 7189; fax
708 2545; email peacenews@gn.apc.org)
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:21:09 GMT

Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)

"There can be no doubt, on the basis of what we head and saw, that a
PLANNED STRATEGY OF TERRORISM is being carried out by the contras
along the Honduras border"

        --Chairmen of Americas Watch and Helsinki Watch, after a
        personal visit to study the "great divergence between President
        Reagan's rhetoric and the conclusions of the [Americas Watch]
        report" on contra atrocities. Orville Schell and Robert
        Bernstein, Wall St. Journal, April 23, 1985.

[Capitalization added]


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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: brady bill
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:10:55 GMT

Here is a press release from Handgun Control Inc.

 National Campaign Launched to "Free the Brady Bill," Calls on
Senate to Break Gridlock
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Susan Whitmore of Handgun Control Inc., 202-898-0792

   WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds of concerned
Americans will begin a national drive tomorrow to "Free the Brady
Bill" from the Congressional gridlock that has outraged the nation
and obstructed passage of this vital bill.
   In a dozen major cities, business, civic, religious, police,
medical and civil rights leaders from coast to coast will join Sarah
and Jim Brady in an unprecedented kick-off of a campaign to shake the
national handgun waiting period bill free from the omnibus crime
bill, and send it directly to President Bush.
   Kick-off news conferences will be held across the country, from
Atlanta with Sarah Brady and Coretta Scott King, to New York with Jim
Brady and Mayor Dinkins, to Los Angeles with Mayor Tom Bradley.  The
Atlanta press conference will be held in the King Center's Freedom
Hall, 449 Auburn Ave., at 10 a.m.  The New York event will take,
place at 11:30 a.m. on the steps of City Hall.
   News conferences will also be held Tuesday in San Diego, Calif.;
Spokane, Wash.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Kansas City, Kan.; Chicago;
Charleston, S.C.; Boston; Lewiston, Maine; and Houston.  The campaign
will continue with events throughout September.
   "Lives are too precious to be held hostage to partisan politics.
And the Brady Bill is too important to be held hostage to
congressional gridlock.  Across America, lawmakers will hear our
call: Free the Brady Bill from the Crime Bill, and enact it now!"
   This national campaign begins on the heels of the release of FBI
crime data Saturday which revealed a 4 percent increase in homicide
between 1990 and 1991.
   The initial dozen news conferences will begin the drive to force
the Senate to act on the Brady Bill before adjournment of the 102nd
Congress.  The Brady Bill passed the House and Senate last summer,
but awaits final Senate action as part of a pending crime bill.
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: FILM: Congressional testimony re Vietnam atrocities
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:41:55 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 137.0 **/
** Topic: Press Release: WINTER SOLDIER VIDE **
** Written  6:29 pm  Aug 30, 1992 by brpress in cdp:gen.newsletter **
W I N T E R  S O L D I E R
 
In 1971, over 100 Vietnam veterans testified about their
participation in or knowledge of war crimes in Southeast
Asia. This event, known as "The Winter Soldier Investiga-
tion: An Inquiry into American War Crimes," was published
in the Congressional Record (April 5-6, 1971).  The testi-
mony was also filmed by members of the Winterfilm collec-
tive and released as a 16mm film. Called WINTER SOLDIER,
the film opened in January 1972 at the "New American Film-
maker's Series" at the Whitney Museum in New York.  Later,
the film appeared at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the
Cannes Film Festival and was shown on some public TV sta-
tions in the United States.  It was critically acclaimed,
but by 1973 the film generally disappeared.
 
The Winterfilm collective, in association with Vietnam Vet-
erans Against the War, has transferred the film to VHS cas-
sette and released it for distribution.  WINTER SOLDIER is
one of the most powerful documentaries made about the Viet-
nam war.  Its power goes beyond documenting what war can do
to ordinary men, but also in the questions it raises about
the deeper consequences war has on our entire society. A
must video for libraries, educators, veterans and peace
activists.
 
"YOU WILL REMEMBER IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE." Jeffrey
Lyons, WPIX-TV
 
The 110 minute video is available from the Broken Rifle
Press at $22.50 plus $2.50 shipping.
 
Check or Money Order to: BROKEN RIFLE PRESS, PO BOX 749,
TRENTON, NJ 08607
 
For more information contact Broken Rifle E-mail at Peace-
net/brpress.

** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: TRADE Resources (1)
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:06:25 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's trade.news]
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Topic 152       TRADE.NEWS 8-27-92 
kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations     1:53 pm  Aug 27, 1992 
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TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Thursday, August 27, 1992 
"Hills Gives EC Stark Warning Over Oilseeds Row," REUTER, August 26, 1992. 
_________________________________________________________ 
Resources: 

1.  The Texas Center for Policy Studies has produced a report
examining the options available to Congress "regarding protection of
the environment in the U.S./Mexico border in the context of the
proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)."

For a copy of NAFTA AND THE U.S/MEXICO BORDER ENVIRONMENT: OPTIONS FOR
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION, send $5 to the Texas Center for Policy Studies,
PO Box 2618, Austin, Texas 78768.  Tel: (512)474-0811.  Fax:
(512)478-8140.

_________________________________________________________ 
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: INDONESIA: INTIMIDATION STEPPED UP DURING SUMMIT
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:41:46 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 350.0 **/
** Topic: ETAN/Can release on NAM summit **
** Written  1:15 pm  Aug 30, 1992 by web:etantor in cdp:reg.easttimor **
East Timor Alert Network/Canada

For immediate release                           31 August 1992


INTIMIDATION STEPPED UP AS NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT OPENS IN 
INDONESIA
Human rights groups face increased repression on eve of international 
summit

        The government of Indonesia is stepping up repression directed at 
human rights organizations as it prepares for tomorrow's opening of the 
Non-Aligned Movement of states (NAM) summit. Observers believe that the 
government is trying to prevent protests during the triennial gathering of 
Third World leaders. 

        More than 1,500 soldiers have been moved to Jakarta, the capital of 
Indonesia and site of the summit. Soldiers have surrounded the offices of 
INFIGHT (Indonesian Front for the Defence of Human Rights) and SKEPHI 
(Indonesian NGO Network for Forestry Conservation) and cut phone and fax 
lines into the offices. General Kentot Harsono, military commander in Jakarta, 
has ordered soldiers to shoot without hesitation anyone who joins "protests 
or any other trouble that can send the city into chaos."

        A protest by pro-independence youths in Indonesian-occupied East 
Timor last November 12 ended in bloodshed when Indonesian soldiers 
opened fire without provocation on an unarmed crowd, killing over 100 
people. 

        Military operations have also been stepped up in East Timor, a country 
invaded by Indonesia in 1975. Indonesia has ignored resolutions at the 
United Nations and previous NAM summits calling for it to withdraw its 
troops from East Timor and allow the East Timorese their right to self-
determination. Indonesia's colonial rule in East Timor has claimed the lives 
of more than one third of the indigenous population, according to Amnesty 
International and other sources.

        The East Timor Alert Network calls on the world community, 
particularly leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement states, to ensure that 
human rights (including the right to peaceful protest) are respected during 
the NAM summit and thereafter in Indonesia. ETAN further calls on the 
NAM, which has a proud tradition of anti-colonialism going back to 1955, to 
urge Indonesia to withdraw from East Timor. 


For more information:
David Webster (416) 539-9589/531-6154
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: mitja%hera.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mitja Baumhackl)
Subject: Intruder/activist at UC Berkeley killed
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:09:55 GMT

At approximately 6:00am this morning an intruder was discovered at the
Chancellor's campus residence at the University of California at Berkeley.
A silent alarm was tripped and the woman was found in a second floor
bathroom, armed with a machete.  An Oakland police officer, called in
through a mutual aid agreement, said that the intruder made a menacing
move and that he shot her.  She later died at Highland Hospital in Oakland.

The intruder was identified as Rosebud Denovo, age 18.  Denovo was known
for her involvement in the People's Park demonstrations in Berkeley in 1991.
She had been accused by the University of building an arsenal of molotov
cocktails and other explosives in the Berkeley Hills.  UC declared that
they had evidence of a plot to firebomb construction sites on the UC
campus, although the case had not yet reached trial.  UC did not elaborate
on the charges at the time.

To my knowledge, as a Berkeley activist and People's Park supporter,
Denovo acted alone. 

mitja@hera.berkeley.edu
The opinions expressed here are mine alone and are not endorsed by the
University of California or my employer.
From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Subject: US HUD INFO WANTED
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-1243v.32bis
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:40:28 GMT

The Queensbridge Tenant Council, which represents tenants in the
largest US Department of Housing and Urban Development funded public
housing project in the USA is soliciting via E-Mail complaints from
other public housing project tenants (and tenant groups) in the USA
who feel that problems with their local PHA (Public Housing Agency)
are not being properly investigated by HUD.

Thank you,
Ray Normandeau

E-Mail Internet: ray.normandeau@factory.com
Press Secretary for Queensbridge Tenant Council *
P O Box 854, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108-0854

* In Queensbridge Houses, where tenants demand an investigation of
HUD Region II
                                                                                                                          

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Greenpeace Opposes NAFTA
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 1 Sep 1992 22:22:06 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]
  
 GREENPEACE OPPOSES NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT   

TORONTO, 12 August, 1992 (GP) Greenpeace called today's
announcement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
a major step backwards for environmental protection in Canada,
the U.S., and Mexico.
  
"This draft trade deal puts corporate interests before the
interests of citizens in our three nations," said Greenpeace
spokesperson Traci Romine in Washington. "Instead, we have an
agreement that rewards polluters and cheats our children."
  
The NAFTA, a draft trade agreement, has been 18 months in the
making, constructed in a series of secret negotiations and
consultation with a narrow group of special corporate interests.
This process has taken place without the input of the citizens
and public interest groups in each nation. The draft agreement
also supports efforts to undermine environmental safeguards by
setting standards at the lowest common denominator.
  
An example of the NAFTA's framework for environmental
destruction is the chapter on energy. Polls show that citizens
want energy demands met through efficiency and conservation.
However, the proposed agreement would instead strip Canada and
Mexico of resources through extraction, in order to flood the
U.S. energy market with cheap oil and gas. Moreover, this would
result in Canada and Mexico absorbing most of the social, labour
and environmental costs associated with energy supply.
  
"If this NAFTA deal is enacted, it will set us back decades,
both in terms of energy reform and in our efforts to combat
climate change," said Kevin Jardine, Greenpeace Canada Energy
Efficiency Campaigner.
  
Research by the Greenpeace pesticide campaign has also found
that the NAFTA will lead to increased pesticide use,
environmental contamination and the poisoning of farmworkers in
Mexico. The draft proposes only "end of the pipe" approaches and
does not consider "pollution prevention" approaches, which would
reduce pesticide use and create ecological and sustainable
agriculture.
  
Greenpeace demands that any trilateral trade deal must harmonise
environmental standards upward along the lines of conservation
and not economics, ensure improved measures of trilateral
enforcement for those standards, and include increased
accountability to the public. In addition, we support the
call of Mexican environmentalists to maintain control over
such key sectors as energy and basic grain production.
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