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Subject: 3RD WORLD RESOURCES VOL 8 NO 3 (ORGANIZATIONS)
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:50:19 GMT

        The following is from the quarterly magazine, THIRD WORLD
        RESOURCES: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF RESOURCES FROM AND ABOUT THE THIRD
        WORLD; subscriptions to the 24-page hardcopy edition are $35/year
        (organizations) and $35/two years (individuals). For rates outside
        North America, write to: Third World Resources, 464 19th Street,
        Oakland, CA 94612-2297 USA. See also their conference `twr.nl' on
        PeaceNet, or email to tfenton@igc.org (Tom Fenton)
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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       8 responses 
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.1  Association of African Studies Programs 
.2  East Timor Action Network/U.S. 
.3  Ecumenical Center for Systematic Documentation on Latin  
    America 
.4  Federation of Independent Associations and Unions of  
    El Salvador, U.S. Office 
.5  International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet 
.6  Pacific-Rim Publishers 
.7  Palestine Human Rights Information Center,  
    International Office 
.8  Veterans Education Project 
  


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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  1 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***ASSOCIATION OF AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAMS, 236 Grange  
Bldg., Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802.  
Tel: (814) 238-0997. 
This association represents more than 40 centers of African  
studies at colleges and universities across the United  
States. Aims of the association are to improve the teaching  
of African studies at U.S. institutions of higher learning,  
to publicize information to association members about  
funding, grant, and scholarship opportunities in the African  
studies field, and to use the concerted influence of  
association members to increase the levels of public and  
private funds for the development of African studies. 
The association publishes a semi-annual newsletter. 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  2 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/U.S., P.O. Box 1182, White  
Plains, NY 10602. Tel: (914) 428-7299. Fax: (914) 428-7383.  
Electronic mail: cschreiner@igc.com. 
ETAN/US was launched in January 1992 as a U.S.-based  
grassroots network of people and organizations working on  
East Timor. Organizers hope to complement work already being  
done in other communities (in Washington, D.C., and in  
Catholic, academic, and media circles) "with an additional  
movement of activists who can educate and organize other  
constituencies." Several target constituencies have been  
identified: peace and justice groups, international  
organizations, the Portuguese-American community,  
Indonesians living in the United States, Catholic and other  
Christian communities, environmental and labor groups, and  
human rights activists. 
ETAN/US sponsors educational forums and meetings, organizes  
pickets and demonstrations, produces radio programs,  
publishes articles and editorials, distributes books,  
pamphlets, videos, and educational packets, and pressures  
both the U.S. and Indonesian governments to allow East Timor  
to determine its own political status. 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  3 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***ECUMENICAL CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC DOCUMENTATION ON LATIN  
AMERICA, Yosemite No. 45, Colonia Napoles, 03810 Mexico  
D.F., Mexico. Tel: 536-9321. 
The Ecumenical Center for Systematic Documentation on Latin  
America is a documentation center designed to meet the need  
for information, analysis, and reflection by groups in Latin  
America committed to the popular struggle. 
The Center's tasks include maintenance of a large collection  
of human rights materials, publication of a monthly maga- 
zine, <Boletin Bibliografico Documental CEDOLASI,>  
broadening channels of communication within the human rights  
community, and networking with documentation centers  
elsewhere. 
Education, alternative communications, the relationship of  
Christianity and society, and popular struggles in Latin  
America are among the Center's issue concerns. 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  4 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS AND UNIONS OF EL  
SALVADOR, U.S. OFFICE, 1377 K St., NW, Rm. 114, Washington,  
DC 20005. Tel: (202) 232-8539. Fax: (202) 265-7843. 
FEASIES (Federacion de Ascociaciones y Sindicatos  
Independientes de El Salvador) is the newest of El  
Salvador's trade union federations, founded in late 1983 as  
workers began regrouping after the severe government  
repression of the early 1980s. Thirteen member unions of  
FEASIES represent nearly 30,000 public service and factory  
workers. 
The work of FEASIES involves: 
-- providing training and education to Salvadoran trade  
unionists; 
-- giving legal assistance to Salvadoran workers and  
their families who have been victims of violations of labor  
and human rights; 
-- supporting the production of union materials for use  
in organizing, publicity, and denunciation of contract  
violations and repression; and 
-- organizing activities to press for labor's just  
demands. 
The U.S. office of FEASIES publishes a 6-page newsletter,  
<El Salvador Labor Report> ("every two to three months"),  
organizes tours in the United States of Salvadoran trade  
unionists and in El Salvador by U.S. trade unionists, and  
calls for responses from U.S. citizens to violations of  
labor and human rights in El Salvador. 
Other international support organizations are located in  
Canada, Mexico, and Europe. 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  5 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF LAWYERS FOR TIBET, 347 Dolores  
St., Rm. 206, San Francisco, CA 94110. Tel: (415) 252-5967.  
Fax: (415) 626-0865. Electronic mail: iclt (PeaceNet). 
ICLT's mission is to work "in solidarity with the Tibetan  
people in their struggle to achieve self-determination  
through peaceful, non-violent action." As the only legal  
organization devoted exclusively to Tibetan issues ICLT  
provides legal expertise and resources for Tibetans, Tibet  
support groups, and non-governmental organizations in an  
effort to abolish human rights abuses and effect positive  
change in Tibet. ICLT moves beyond the scope of traditional  
human rights organizations by emphasizing the Tibetan  
people's <group right> to self-determination. 
ICLT projects include a United Nations initiative, pro bono  
legal work, a speakers bureau, an electronic support network  
on PeaceNet and other computerized information systems, a  
liaison outreach effort to the Chinese Democracy Movement,  
and an urgent action network. 
ICLT publishes a quarterly 16-page newsletter, <Tibet  
Brief.> 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  6 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***PACIFIC-RIM PUBLISHERS, 130 E. 15th Ave., No. 302,  
Vancouver, BC V5T 4L3, Canada. Tel: (604) 872-7373. 
Pacific-Rim Publishers design, produce, and distribute print  
and audiovisual materials on countries and peoples of the  
Pacific Rim, including Latin America (Peru especially),  
Japan, China, Korea, India, and Malaysia. The resource  
materials are aimed at teachers and range in student  
appropriateness from primary through high school levels. 
The group's 1991-92 catalog contains annotated listings of  
more than one hundred books, slideshows, and educational  
kits. Typical entries are: <Christopher Who?> (a series of  
"searching discussion points each built around some aspect  
of the conquistadors' treatment of the indigenous people"),  
<Peru Slide-Set> (100 slides accompanied by a 40-page  
teacher's book and a separate narration book), <So Far from  
the Bamboo Grove> (a book about a Japanese family living in  
post-World War II Korea), and <Cultural Journeys> (84 art  
and social science activities from around the world). 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  7 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***PALESTINE HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER, INTERNATIONAL  
OFFICE, 4753 N. Broadway, Rm. 930, Chicago, IL 60640. Tel:  
(312) 271-4492. Fax: (312) 271-3377. 
The international office functions as a distribution point  
for the statistical data and in-depth research on human  
rights violations compiled and analyzed by the field workers  
and research staff of the PHRIC in Jerusalem (c/o Arab  
Studies Society, P.O. Box 20479, Jerusalem).  
Distribution is through four channels: (1) two monthly  
publications entitled <Human Rights Updates> and <From the  
Field,> (2) a series of special reports and human rights  
papers, (3) year-end human rights summary reports (the <Cost  
of Freedom> series), and (4) responses to specific  
information requests. 
PHRIC publications--known for their accuracy and  
comprehensiveness--are used by print and television media,  
U.S. congresspersons, international human rights and non- 
governmental organizations, government ministries, libraries  
around the world, and individual writers, journalists, and  
researchers. 
  

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Topic 122       ORGANIZATIONS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  8 of  8 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:08 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***VETERANS EDUCATION PROJECT, P.O. Box 416, Amherst, MA  
01004-0416. Tel: (413) 549-5037. 
Founded in 1982 VEP is the only veterans organization in the  
United States that exists solely to reach out to young  
people. Promoting itself as "living curricula" for the  
classroom the independent non-profit organization offers  
students an opportunity to hear veterans of the U.S. armed  
services speak about the realities of war and military  
service. Many of the men and women of VEP are Vietnam-era  
veterans. 
Though each VEP speaker's perspective is unique and personal  
the organization's overall aim is "to help students evaluate  
recruiter information, as it exposes the myths about war  
created by Rambo-style movies." Organizers explain that a  
VEP presentation will: 
-- Engage youth and push them to think more critically. 
-- Offer particularly important insights into the  
Vietnam conflict and its aftermath, topics that are often  
relegated to a few paragraphs in most history texts. 
-- Raise important issues such as patriotic duty, moral  
choices, and the long-term implications of military service. 
-- Go beyond the information military recruiters offer  
to deal with the nature of military service and combat, as  
well as the physical and psychological consequences of war. 
-- Enable students to make an informed choice about  
enlisting and pursuing a career in the military. 
VEP speakers note that their presentations "invariably lead  
to lively dialogues about important contemporary issues,  
such as the Persian Gulf conflict, the U.S. invasion of  
Panama, and the current role of the U.S. military." 
VEP resources include a quarterly 6-page newsletter,  
<Vietnam Education Project,> a 77-page spiral-bound training  
manual entitled <Facts About Military Life: A Guide for  
Speaking in the Schools >($11, plus $2.50 postage),  and a  
highly regarded 30-minute video, <Straight Talk: Vietnam-Era  
Veterans Speak Out >($20, plus $2.50 postage). Video and  
guide package: $32.50, postage included. 
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