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From: "RHODNEY WARD, (812) 855-4334W/336-4829H" <ROWARD%IUBACS.bitnet@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Subject:      UAW New Directions Movement, Part 2 of 3
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:23:29 GMT

This is part 2 of a three part series on the New Directions
Movement in the UAW
------------------------------------------------------------
(2 of 3)

                 CAMPAIGN TO ELECT JERRY TUCKER
        P.O Box 23358; St. Louis, MO 63156; (314)531-8549

Dear Friend,

     I'm writing you on behalf of an old friend who needs your
help: *union democracy*.

     For the past three years, rank-and-file sisters and brothers
in the United Auto Workers have been building the New Directions
Movement (NDM).  We want a UAW that fights plant closings and
takebacks of wages and benefits, and uses every resource to help
build a stronger, more democratic labor movement.

     *I'm asking you to assist us in the most important union
election fight since Ron Carey and the TDU won the Teamsters back
from the mob.*

     The Bieber administration has retreated in the face of
sophisticated corporate aggression, while using our union's
resources to attack New Directions and try to stamp out democratic
dissent.

     In 1989, when I ran for re-election for Region 5 Director, the
UAW assessed *each union staff member in the country $500*,
accumulating over $350,000 to stop me.  Since then, the UAW has
consistently targeted local union activists who have spoken out in
favor of New Directions.  The $500 staff `contribution' is back in
'92.

     But the can't stop our growing movement.  NDM continues to win
support at the shop level.  Currently, delegates are being elected
to cast votes for UAW officers and "One-Member, One-Vote" voting
rights at the June convention.  We are winning some key early
victories despite Bieber's corporate-assisted tactics.

     Our movement and my candidacy is making a difference, but to
reach the rank and file we need money.  That's why I'm asking you
the send the *Campaign to Elect Jerry Tucker* your check today.


                                   In Solidarity,
                                   Jerry Tucker


"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  Those who profess
to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want
rain without thunder and lightening.  They want the ocean without
the roar of its many waters.  Power concedes nothing without a
demand.  It never did, and it never will."
From: christic@igc.org (Christic Institute)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Dhoruba Bin-Wahad Court Date
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:28:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: mont.1992Apr9.232844.13469
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Organization: University of Missouri
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

/* Written  4:15 pm  Apr  9, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Dhoruba Bin-Wahad Court Date" ---------- */

             **************************************
             DHORUBA NEEDS YOU TO SHOW UP IN COURT!
             **************************************

Although it has been more than 2  years since Dhoruba Bin-Wahad won
his release on March 22, 1990, his life still hangs in the balance.
This former leader of the Black Panther Party now faces re-
imprisonment. On December 19, 1991, the highest Court in NY State
reinstated Dhoruba's conviction. The Court basically condoned
political persecution and rewarded NY law enforcement agencies for
illegally withholding evidence. Dhoruba was framed by the FBI and
NYC Police Department as part of their racist Counter-Intelligence
Program  (COINTELPRO) aimed at silencing Black militant dissent. As
a result, Dhoruba spent 19 years in prison for something he did not
do. If the Manhattan District Attorney has its way, he will be
returned to prison for the rest of his life. Dhoruba's fight for
justice is our fight for justice.  Our presence in the Court lets
them know that we are watching and sends a signal that we care.
They want us to lose interest so they can do their dirty deeds out
of the public eye. But we cannot afford to get tired for we are our
own liberators.


     SHOW UP! DEMAND AN END TO HIS RACIST, POLITICAL FRAMEUP!
                 THURSDAY - APRIL 16TH AT 9:00 A.M.
              100 CENTRE STREET - 11th Floor - Part 30



For further Information contact: (718) 624-0800

CAMPAIGN TO FREE BLACK POLITICAL PRISONERS & P.O.W.s
P.O. BOX 339
BRONX, NEW YORK 10463-0339
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: PSR warns of worsening health crisis in Russia
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:47:09 GMT

/** pn.announcemen: 49.0 **/
** Topic: "RUSSIAN AID - PRESS RELEASE" **
** Written  2:40 pm  Apr  7, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: <peacenet>
Subject: "RUSSIAN AID - PRESS RELEASE"

/* ---------- "RUSSIAN AID - PRESS RELEASE" ---------- */

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                             CONTACT:  Emily
K. Green

April 2, 1992
202/785-3777

PHYSICIANS WARN OF WORSENING MEDICAL CRISIS IN FORMER SOVIET
REPUBLICS DESPITE PLAN TO PROVIDE AID

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Members of Physicians for Social Responsibility
warn that immediate and extensive humanitarian and medical
assistance is required in order to alleviate the worsening health
care crisis in the former Soviet Republics.  They applaud
President Bush's commitment, along with leaders of the seven major
industrialized nations, to provide $24 billion in aid, but add
that it may be "too little, too late."

"The crisis in the medical care system is growing more and more
critical every day," stated Julia Moore, Executive Director of
Physicians for Social Responsibility.  "Approximately one-third of
all Soviet hospitals have no sterilizing equipment.  Approximately
67% of rural hospitals have no hot running water and 17% have no
running water at all," Moore added.

PSR Doctors from across the country have joined in private-sector
efforts to raise funds for humanitarian supplies intended to help
citizens survive the winter and the transition to a market
economy.  Several PSR Doctors are currently in the former Soviet
Republics delivering over $1 million worth of medical and
pharmaceutical supplies as well as several tons of food.

PSR has also launched an effort to establish long-term,
cooperative relationships between doctors, hospitals, and cities
in the U.S. and the former Soviet Republics.  The Doctors plan to
utilize these relationships to facilitate ongoing medical
exchanges of information and personnel as well as +`cooperative
programs.  "We believe that long-term, self-sustaining
relationships can facilitate more effective, sustainable solutions
to the current medical crisis," stated Moore.


PSR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JULIA MOORE AND SEVERAL PSR DOCTORS ARE
AVAILABLE FOR ADDITIONAL COMMENT ON THE MEDICAL CRISIS IN THE
FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS AND THE SOVIET AID PLAN.

Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national organization of
over 25,000 health professionals and supporters in over 120
chapters working to prevent nuclear war, protect environmental
security and re-order national spending priorities.

** End of text from cdp:pn.announcemen **

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From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick@igc.org>
Subject: Peace/Conflict Studies Research Online
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:25:55 GMT

-------------- Institute for Global Communications --------------
----------------- PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet -----------------
------------------- Howard H. Frederick, Ph.D. ------------------
------ IGC Nets:  hfrederick | Internet: hfrederick@igc.org -----

Dear Peace and Conflict Studies Colleague:

     As many of you know, we have been trying to develop the area 
of "Peacetronics," to use German disarmament researcher Burkhard 
Luber's term.  In particular, we have working with the Peace 
Studies Association (PSA) and the Consortium for Peace Research, 
Education and Development (COPRED), both U.S. organizations, and 
the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) to promote 
computer communications among peace and conflict studies programs 
around the world.  

     I am sending this message to alert you to three conferences 
on our system that specialize in Peace and Conflict Studies:  
peace.studies, peace.history and cn.research   These conferences 
are for your use to exchange research, share bibliographies and 
generally gain a sense of community in this adverse world.  
Please add your names to the "Who is Here?" topics in 
peace.studies and cn.research

     In these conferences you will see some exciting new material 
that the Conflict Resolution Consortium and Communications for a 
Sustainable Future, both of Boulder, Colorado, have generously 
shared with us as the result of the most recent PSA meeting.  
This repository was created and nurtured by Guy Burgess 
(burgess_g@cubldr.colorado.edu) and Don Roper (droper@igc.org)

     For the time being, I am happy to receive your ideas, 
emailing lists and other materials to help develop 
"Peacetronics."  However, I am hoping that some of you will step 
forward to assist.  We need to nurture these conferences, promote 
computer communications in our associations, and start a Bitnet 
mailing list, among other projects.

Sincerely,

Howard Frederick

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: UNCED & Trade Unions
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Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:48:38 GMT

/** labor.toxics: 51.0 **/
** Topic: Agenda 21 / UNCED & Trade Unions **
** Written  5:51 am  Apr  8, 1992 by ngonet in cdp:labor.toxics **
From: Jagdish Parikh <ngonet>
Subject: Agenda 21 / UNCED & Trade Unions

From: jagdish@chasque.org.uy (Jagdish Parikh )
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 19:10:29 GMT
Organization: Instituto del Tercer Mundo

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive programme of action to be adopted by 
Governments at the UNCED / Earth Summit. It provides a blueprint for 
action in all areas relating to the sustainable development of the planet, 
from now into the twenty-first century. Following  excerpts from  draft 
proposals considering Trade unions as one of the partners for Sustainable 
development was discussed during PreCom IV (NY).  Later on we will post 
the final proposal concerning role of trade unions on this subject. Hope 
you will find this useful.

" Trade unions are critical to any reorientation of development policies. 
Unions have experience in dealing with industrial change and in promoting 
environmental protection, safe workplaces and full employment. To 
ensure workers' participation, Government and employer should 
recognize employees' right to organize unions.

Other proposals call for: measures to reduce occupational accidents, 
injuries and diseases, and to increase workers' education, training and 
retraining; and the passage of right-to-know laws ensuring workers have 
the information needed to participate effectively in decision making."

For full text refer: Section III, Chapter 1-9 of Agenda 21; document  
A/Conf.151/PC/100/Add.13

[Source: Press Summary of Agenda21, Draft Proposal, By: UN, UNCED, 
Dept. of Public Information. Room S-0845, United Nations, New York, NY 
10017, USA]

** End of text from cdp:labor.toxics **
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From: grossman@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Mike Grossman)
Subject: The 90's (PBS T.V. show info wanted)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:16:02 GMT

Ya know the television show The 90's? The one on PBS that caters to
progressive issues with their compositions of film clips on various
subjects. Anyway, they always give an address and phone number at the
end of the show, but I always forget to write them down. Would anyone
happen to know the address or phone number(s) by chance. If so,
I'd appreciate a note in the mail with them...

Mike Grossman
grossman@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
grossman@ukanvax.bitnet

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From: nyxfer%panix.com@UMCVMB.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
Subject: NEWS: US Sends AWACS to Bolivia
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:58:27 GMT



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


                 SPACE-AGE PLANES SENT TO BOLIVIA

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited.)

The U.S. has sent two AWACS planes to Bolivia. The sophisticated
radar planes, which have been described as flying battlefield
command centers, went into operation April 8, supposedly to help
interdict drug trafficking. The planes were moved from Panama,
where it is now admitted that drug trafficking has increased since
the U.S. invasion in December 1989.

The AWACS, which cost about $100 million each, are undoubtedly
part of the Pentagon's counter-insurgency plans for the area. U.S.
Green Berets are already functioning in Bolivia and Peru, training
the local armies for a ruthless effort to put down a guerrilla war
that is spreading rapidly along the chain of the Andes even though
the insurgents are poor, have simple weapons and lack outside
support.

                               ***

This article originally appeared in Workers World newspaper. A
10-week trial subscription is available for $2. A year's
subscription costs $15. Makes checks payable to Workers World, and
send to 46 W. 21 St., New York, NY 10010.Phone (212) 255-0352. You
may contact Workers World editors on NY Transfer or PeaceNet at
"workers."

from the SOUTH AMERICA Newsfeed - NY Transfer News Service
Modem: 718-448-2358  nytransfer@igc.org  nyxfer@panix.com

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:35:15 GMT


			The "Communist Threat"


Signs of successful development simply magnify the dangers of 
independence and, even worse, popular organization: the "virus" 
might spread and the "rotten apple" might "infect" the barrel as 
others are tempted to pursue the same path -- the "domino theory" 
of public rhetoric.  As Washington moved to overthrow the first 
(and last) democratic government in Guatemala in 1953, State 
Department officials warned that Guatemala "has become an 
increasing threat to the stability of Honduras and El Salvador. 
Its agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon; its broad 
social program of aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious 
struggle against the upper classes and large foreign enterprises 
has a strong appeal to the populations of Central American 
neighbors where similar conditions prevail." {note: Quoted by 
Piero Gleijeses, _Shattered Hope_ (Princeton, 1991), 365.} 

[Noam Chomsky, _Aftermath: Voices from Below_, Z, October 1991]


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: French declare nuke test moratorium
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Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:49:01 GMT

/** psr.bulletins: 22.0 **/
** Topic: French Test Moratorium - Press Rel **
** Written  3:33 pm  Apr  8, 1992 by psrnatl in cdp:psr.bulletins **
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Daryl Kimball
or Emily Green
(202)785-3777

FRENCH DECLARE HALT TO NUCLEAR TESTS

Physicians Call on U.S. to Follow Suit

Washington D.C. --  French Premier Pierre Beregovoy today
announced a halt to French nuclear testing this year in the South
Pacific.  He appealed to other nations to follow suit.  The French
announcement comes less than two weeks after the most recent U.S.
test explosion at the Nevada Test Site on March 26, the 27th test
under the Bush Administration thus far.

"The French halt signals that the international community is ready
to reverse the arms race," stated Julia Moore, Executive Director
of PSR.  "The Bush Administration and Congress must demonstrate
strong leadership to move the U.S. and other nations toward a
future free of the nuclear threat," Moore added.

PSR has endorsed legislation currently under consideration in the
U.S. Congress, to establish a one-year moratorium on nuclear
weapons testing.  The House bill, H.R. 3636, was introduced by
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO) and Congressman Mike
Kopetski (D-OR) and has garnered 211 co-sponsors.  The Senate
bill, S 2064, introduced by Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR) and
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME), has 30 signers.


The Bush Administration has indicated that it has no intention of
curbing the U.S. nuclear testing program, requesting $473 million
for nuclear tests in Fiscal Year 1993.  Administration officials
recently expressed opposition to Congressional efforts to halt
testing.

With today's announcement, France joins Russia in declaring a
moratorium on nuclear testing.  Russian President Boris Yeltsin
has affirmed his commitment to the moratorium which was originally
declared by former Soviet President Gorbachev on October 5, 1991.


# # #

Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national organization of
over 25,000 health professionals and supporters in over 120
chapters working to prevent nuclear war, protect the environment,
and re-order federal budget priorities.
** End of text from cdp:psr.bulletins **
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Mexico: Rape statistics
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:17:05 GMT

/** carnet.mexnews: 68.8 **/
** Written  3:44 pm  Apr 15, 1992 by sipro in cdp:carnet.mexnews **
PROFILE OF 60% OF MEXICO CITY'S MOST COMMON DELICTS: RAPE
 
According to statistical data from Mexico City's General Attorney's
Office, from the most commonly committed crimes in this megapolis,
60% is rape. Statistical profiles of both victim and rapist.
 
The Rapist:
 
98.5 % of the rapes is committed by men, 1.5 by women.
55% of the rapists is married, 45% single.
90% is employed.
25% is between the age of 19 and 25 years old.
Over 50% previously knows his victim, of whom 25% has superficial
acquaintance with the victim, the other half has very close
relationships (father, husband, boyfriend, uncle etc.)
65% of the rapists previously know the place where they are going
to commit the rape.
36.5% is done in a house, 13.5% in a public place, 12.5% in a car,
10% on open spaces, 9% in hotels, 5% at the workplace and 13.5% at
unspecified places.
20% of the aggressors is alcoholic, 7% drugaddict.
10% had a `minor' previous criminal record, 14% had delinquent's
records.
45% has a nickname, and 15% have tattoos.
 
The victims:
(Data from the Annual Report, 1991, from the Struggle Collective
Against Violence toward Women - COVAC -, published in March 1992,
which examines 218 cases of sexual delicts).
 
Of the directly attended cases, 29% was for rape.
95.31% of the victims were women, 4.69% men. 
 
11.89%  between the age of 14 - 15
38.98%  -----------------  16 - 20
25.42%  -----------------  21 - 25
 5.08%  -----------------  26 - 30
 8.47%  -----------------  31 - 35
 6.78%  -----------------  36 - 40
The remaining percentage was in the age group 40 and older.
 
60.32% was attacked by unknown, 30.16% by familiar people and 9.52%
by relatives.
55.17% was attacked without force by arms, but in 44.83 of the
cases arms were present (if not used).
56.14% of the women survived unhurt, 43.18% injured.
87.10% expereinced sexual violence for the first time, 12.9% had
had this experience before.
21.82% of the women became pregnant as a result of the rape.
64.15% received posterior support of relatives, 35.85% was rejected
by their own family.
52% made a penal denouncement, 48% did not.
62% sought emotional support, 11.29% only legal support and 25.85
did both. 
** End of text from cdp:carnet.mexnews **
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:38:10 GMT


"The contras have ROUTINELY attacked civilian populations. Their
forces kidnap, torture, and murder health workers, teachers, and other
government employees." -- Americas Watch(*)

"_Terrorism_ is premeditated, politically motivated violence
perpetrated against NONCOMBATANT TARGETS by subnational groups or
clandestine state agents" -- U.S. Department of State, _Patterns of
                             Global Terrorism: 1983_, Sept. 1984.

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(*)From the Americas Watch report _With Friends Like These_, edited by
Cynthia Brown (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985). For the contras'
history and human rights practices, see also Christopher Dickey, _With
the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua_ (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1985), and Reed Brody's _Contra Terror in Nicaragua:
Report of a Fact-Finding Mission, September 1984-January 1985 (Boston:
South End Press, 1985). A study enumerating the former Somoza
Guardsmen among contra leaders is "Who Are the Contras?" prepared by
the staff of the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus of the U.S.
Congress, _Congressional Record_, April 23, 1985, pages H2335-H2339.
[From _What Are We Afraid Of?_ by John Lamperti, South End Press 1988]


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From: worldpnews@igc.org (World Perspectives)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Leftists arrested in Peru
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:24:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: mont.1992Apr9.232418.13347
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/* Written  4:24 pm  Apr  9, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Leftists arrested in Peru" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES magazine. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


PERU
 Reports from Peru say the military is intensifying its crackdown
on opposition leaders following President Alberto Fujimori's
suspension of the constitutional process. 

Eyewitnesses say troops have arrested a considerable number of
prominent, mainly left-wing opposition politicians. 

Tanks and troops continue to surround the national parliament and
court buildings enforcing the emergency measures announced April 5.
However, correspondents say there are signs that the strict
military censorship of the media, introduced April 5, may be
relaxed.

The Organization of American States condemned Fujimori's
dissolution of Parliament as a threat to democracy and the US
announced it is suspending military and economic aid to Peru.
(Swiss Radio 4/7)

Editor's note: Has anyone noticed Bernard Aronson's arrival in Peru
just in time for Fujimori's coup?

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