From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Peoples Fast For The Americas in DC September 1 to October 12
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:39:29 GMT

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** Topic: Peoples Fast For The Americas **
** Written  8:32 pm  Aug 13, 1992 by peoplesfast in cdp:native.1492 **
                                     August 13, 1992
Dear Friends,
 
I am placing in this conference a statement describing a 42 day 
water-only fast that I and others are undertaking on the steps of 
the Capitol in Washington, D.C. from September 1 to October 12, 
1992.  The fast is a penitential reflection on the Columbus 
Enterprise.
 
We plan to use this conference--NATIVE.1492--to establish a link 
between grass roots activists and the Capitol steps where we will 
organize presentations and dialogue about the New World Order and 
the Columbus legacy.
 
After you read the following material, please let us know what you 
think of this idea and whether you would like to be in 
communication with us.  We would also like to know if anyone in the 
Washington D.C. area would be interested in helping us to upload 
information generated through activities on the Capitol steps into 
NATIVE.1492 and to download responses.
 
                                              In Peace,
 
                                              Scott Rutherford
                                              PEOPLESFAST
 
      THE PEOPLES FAST FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN THE AMERICAS
                 Box 77235, Washington, D.C. 20013
              Tel. (202) 546-7937  FAX (202) 546-7957
                                AND
                    Box 244, Fredonia, NY 14063
                        Tel. (716) 673-1161
 
    I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of 
the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a 
radical revolution of values.  
 
                             Dr. Martin Luther King
 
It is my stubborn faith that if, as revolutionaries, we 
will wage battle without violence, we can remain very 
much in control--of our own selves, of the responses to 
us which our adversaries make, of the battle as it 
proceeds, and of the future we hope will issue from it.
     
                                 Barbara Demming
                                       
THE FAST
 
    On September 1, 1992 we, S. Brian Willson, Jack Ryan, Karen 
Fogliatti, Scott Rutherford, Teresa Fitzgibbon, Dan Cunningham,  
Marie Dennis and Dave Dellinger will begin a 42 day water-only fast 
on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C.  It will end on 
October 12, "Columbus Day".  Vic Scutari will fast the final 30 
days.  We will be monitored by a doctor and each of us is prepared 
to suspend the fast if it becomes life threatening.
 
    The fast is a penitential reflection to mark the end of the 
first 500 years of the "Columbus Enterprise"--500 years of 
domination, exploitation and genocide by the European invaders that 
continues to this day under the "New World Order".
 
    We are also fasting to honor the  500 years of transforming 
resistance by the intended victims of the Columbus Enterprise--the 
indigenous, the African Americans, the mestizos, the poor and 
oppressed who would not be broken.
 
    The fast, which will begin on the fifth anniversary of the 
assault on Brian by the U.S. Navy munitions train, will provide   
those of us who are the beneficiaries of the Conquest with an 
appropriate culminating activity for the quincentennary and an 
opportunity to prepare for the difficult task of transformation 
that lies ahead.
 
    You can participate in a number of ways:
 
    *  Fast--on water as we will, or on liquids.
 
*  Organize a relay fast or other actions which will involve 
you with us every day for the 42 days.  For example, you might 
give up a meal each day and donate the saved funds to a worthy 
cause.
 
*  Organize a reflection.  Invite people of color and others 
who have been oppressed by the Columbus Enterprise to join you.  
Hear from their lips what it has meant and what it means today 
to be a victim of the Conquest and the "New World Order."  Have 
them tell you how they have resisted.  Consider together the 
environmental devastation caused by our way of life and the 
structures we have created to sustain it.  Conceive of ways 
that you might work together in the future to create a 
different kind of world founded on equality and justice.
 
We can supply materials for study, and can involve you in our 
reflection on the steps through a conference on Peacenet, a 
computer networking program. (The conference is NATIVE.1492.)
 
      Whatever you do, it is important to let us know about 
it.  We want people everywhere to know that there are 
persons of conscience in this country who care deeply 
about the consequences of the Columbus Enterprise and 
who are struggling for a world which is just and 
humane and reflects the interconnectedness of all 
life.
    
*  Finally, you can provide us financial support. We would like 
to be able to help people from the grass roots here and in 
Latin America fly to Washington to share their stories with us.  
We will have other expenses--in getting the word out, in 
welcoming people to the steps, in communicating with the grass 
roots in all of the Americas.  (The philanthropic community is 
not supporting the fast.)
 
    In the attachment we will acquaint you with the fasters, 
provide you a bibliography and invite you to buy Brian's recently 
published autobiography--On Third World Legs," (all of the proceeds 
of which will be devoted to publishing other books about justice 
and peace).
 
 
 
WHY WE ARE FASTING
 
    We--Brian, Karen and Scott--have just returned from a three 
month visit to eight Latin American countries--Ecuador, Colombia, 
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama and Nicaragua.  (Jack, 
Teresa, Marie, Dave, Vic and Dan were not part of the visit to 
Latin American, but support fully the conclusions we reached and 
concur completely in the spirit in which they are conveyed. Their 
personal statements are attached.)
 
    We are motivated to undertake the fast by the testimony of the 
hundreds of people that we met on our journey and by our own 
observations about the devastating consequences of our 
interventionist Latin American policy. We are anguished--and 
inspired--by what we learned.
 
    We learned that the gross violations of national sovereignty 
through our direct interventions in Panama and Nicaragua and our 
participation in the coups in Brazil and in Chile--which were 
followed by terror and repression--cost the lives of thousands of 
people and affected millions more.
    
    We learned that the Andean Initiative--the extension of the war 
on drugs to Latin America--involves the U.S. in  counter-insurgency 
campaigns in Peru and Colombia  marked by widespread and egregious 
human rights violation, including extra-judicial executions, 
disappearances, torture and massacres.
 
    We learned that neoliberal or "free" market economic policies 
are the deus ex machina of the "new world order" and a new form of 
low intensity warfare.  This became apparent as we learned about 
the economic adjustment programs which the U.S., working through 
international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, is 
forcing on every Latin American country in order to collect a 
foreign debt paid many times over.
    
    While we found small islands of prosperity in every major city 
we visited, it was apparent that millions of people had been pushed 
to the margins of the society--to favelas or squatter towns, to 
lives of misery, fear and desperation which are not unlike the 
lives of the people who rose up in Los Angeles.
 
    The callous relentlessness with which the North and the ruling 
oligarchies of the South are pursuing neoliberalism  suggests 
strongly that it is a conscious attempt to eliminate the millions 
of marginalized people who are unable to participate in the modern 
sector of their economies.  They are considered expendable.
 
    But we also found hope and inspiration in the empowering, life 
risking and transformative struggle that the people everywhere in 
Latin America are waging to liberate themselves from oppression.
 
    It has many forms: nonviolent land occupations by the landless 
in Brazil and Ecuador who then farm the land cooperatively and 
collectively; the formation of soup kitchens, health clinics, and
schools by the millions of poor, especially women, living in the 
favelas and shanty towns; moves toward autonomy and self 
determination by the Indians of Ecuador.
 
    But what is perhaps most significant about the struggle is
not its product but the process--a process which is democratic and 
emphasizes cooperation and self-sacrifice. It  transforms the 
people and their relationship to one another as it transforms their 
relationship to the state and to the society.  Emerging is a new 
man and new woman--and a new beginning. At its core it is 
nonviolent and prophetic.  It creates what the people of the South 
call liberated zones--public space which is occupied by the people 
through the institutions which they have organized and control. We 
North Americans would do well to examine it carefully.
 
OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 
 
    We have the following goals:
 
*  To bring about the nonviolent, radical revolution of values 
of which Dr. King spoke and a nonviolent alternative to the new 
world order--a peoples world order.  It would be premised on  
the sacred interconnectedness of all life.  It would embody the 
principles of justice, equality and self determination.  No one 
would go hungry and an injury to one would be an injury to all.
 
*  To awaken the consciousness of the North American people to 
what is being done in their name to the poor of the Americas 
and to their earth by a wealthy, powerful largely male elite 
here and in Latin America.  We want them to understand that 
because of the systemic evil of the new world order--through 
which the Columbus Enterprise is perpetuated--millions of 
innocent people will unnecessarily die and life on this planet 
will be fundamentally altered forever.
 
*  To help our country, the seat of the empire, to heal and 
renew its deeply wounded spirit. Critically needed is a process 
of reparation and reconciliation with the poor, oppressed and 
people of color in this country and Latin America. It could 
begin with the lifting of the trade embargo with Cuba, the 
cancellation of the foreign debt and reparation payments to the 
Native Americans, African-Americans and Latinos in this 
country.
 
*  To be a part of a popular movement in the United States that 
will act to counter to the new world order.  It would support 
and draw strength from the nonviolent and transformative 
struggle of the popular movement in Latin America.
 
    The objectives of the fast are:
    
*  To provide information and analysis about the nature of the 
new world order and its consequences and to envision 
alternatives to it.
 
*  To provide a greater understanding of the popular or grass 
roots movements for justice and peace in all the Americas.
 
*  To help reinvigorate the nonviolent movement for peace and 
justice in this country and to create a more effective alliance 
between it and the grass roots social justice movements.
 
*  To contribute possibly to the formation of a North/South 
coalition which could help the people at the grass roots in all 
of the countries of the Americas to work more effectively and 
in greater solidarity.
 
THE NATURE OF THE FAST
 
    What is the fast about?
 
    The fast is a penitential reflection on our complicity in the 
new world order and what has issued from it.  We, as citizens of 
the empire, are acknowledging and taking responsibility for the 
oppression and injustice which are at the center of U.S. relations 
with Latin America--and the rest of the Third World as well.  In 
doing so we will have taken a necessary first step in a process of 
reconciliation with the people of the South and with the people of 
the Third World here at home that we have injured.
 
    It is a nonviolent protest of the new world order and of the 
economic and political system and way of life that underlie and 
sustain it.  We will withdraw our cooperation from our economic 
system for the duration of the fast by refusing all food.
 
    It is a way for us for a brief time to provide accompaniment 
for the poor and oppressed people of all of the Americas.  It will 
send a message to them that there are North Americans who are 
concerned about them.
 
    It is a prayer.  We are surrendering to a power greater than 
ourselves on which we will rely for strength and guidance during 
the 42 days.  We are asking for an intervention by the Great Spirit 
into the new world order's structure of oppression and injustice.
 
THE CAPITOL AS A POPULAR FORUM
 
    We are securing a permit which will enable us to be on the east 
steps of the Capitol five hours a day, six days a week--Monday 
through Saturday from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM. (The first week our 
permit is from 4:30 PM to 9:00 PM.)
 
    We see the steps not as a place where we gather to petition our 
government for reforms or changes in policies.  Instead, for the 
duration of the fast, the steps will be a popular forum where  
we-the-people of all the Americas will gather in solidarity to 
speak from our hearts about the terrible legacy of the 500 years 
and to consider what it is we might collectively do about it.
 
    In our first week we will examine broadly and radically--in the 
sense of "root"--the impact of the conquest and the New World Order 
on the people of this hemisphere as well as of other countries.  
Among the topics are:  The Columbus Enterprise; A Uni- Polar World 
and the Gulf War and Panama; Women and the New World Order; the 
fasters' experience with the New World order.
 
    In the second, third and fourth weeks we will explore specific 
manifestations of the New World Order--neo-liberalism including the 
Latin American and U.S. debt crises and their impact on the poor; 
the economic and social crisis of people of color; the structural 
violence of the New World Order and the spiritual and social 
malaise in the U.S.
 
    The first four weeks will provide a foundation for a far 
reaching discussion in the final two weeks about how we might 
transform the New World Order into a Peoples World Order.
 
One evening each week--probably at St. Aloysius Catholic Church--we 
will have a keynote address which will set the theme for the week.  
We will also have formal and informal presentations on the steps 
which will be followed by a discussion.  Each presentation is to 
provide testimony about the consequences of the New World Order, 
the resistance which is being offered to it and life-giving 
alternatives.   As part of their continuing reflection the fasters 
and those who join them will probe together the motivations, values 
and structures which allow the conquest to continue and will 
explore ways we might change them--and ourselves. This will enable 
us in the final two weeks to bring together all of the different 
themes and focus on envisioning an alternative future.
 
    Over the six weeks we will hear testimony from people of color 
and the poor and oppressed from North, South and Central America.  
We will bring them together on the steps to dialogue with one 
another and with us about their lives and the ways they are 
responding to the New World Order--with special attention to the 
role of nonviolence.  We will also hear from persons knowledgeable 
about U.S. trade and development policy, theologians, plowshare and 
other nonviolent activists--and from we-the-people.
 
    To encourage dialogue we will upload (and down load) 
information each day into a Peacenet Conference called 
"NATIVE.1492." (Our log-in is PEOPLESFAST.)  Join us.
 
    At the conclusion of the fast we will prepare a chronicle of 
the 42 days in English, Spanish and Portuguese.  It will contain 
all of the presentations which have been made, summaries of salient 
discussions, a description of key events, a list of all the 
participants and any plans we have for carrying on our work.  We 
will distribute it widely.
 
    We will relate our activities to events and actions which 
others will be undertaking.
 
    We plan to greet the peace walkers who will arrive in 
Washington D.C. on October 12 at the end of a ten month walk 
through Central America.  We were present when they began the walk 
on December 20, 1991 in Panama City, the second anniversary of the 
U.S. invasion.
 
BUILDING SUPPORT
 
    Endorsements include: Rev. Lucius Walker, IFCO; Miguel d'Escoto 
MM; Emory Searcy Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned; Jim Wallis, 
Sojourners; Marie Dennis, Pax Christi and the Mary Knoll Society 
Justice and Peace Office; Bill Price, World Peacemakers; Robert 
Bly; Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange; Kathy Gonzales, Nicaragua 
Network; Rita Clark, the Nicaragua/U.S. Friendship Office; Dr. 
Richard Shaull; Phil Wheaton; SERPAJ, including Nelsa Curbelo and 
Nobel Laureate Adolfo Esquivel; Andres Thomas Conteris and Phil 
McManus of the FOR Task Force for Latin America and the Carribean;  
Nobel Laureate Dr. George Wald; Dr. Staughton Lynd; David 
Dellinger; Archbishop Dom Jose Maria Pires of Brazil; The 
Development Group for Alternative Policy; Phil Berrigan & Liz 
McAlister, Jonah House; War Resisters League; Rev. Finley Schaef; 
Institute for Justice and Peace; Long Island Catholic Peace 
Fellowship; The Ecumenical Peace Institute; The Veterans Vietnam 
Restoration Project; Ron Kovics; Network in Solidarity with People 
of Guatemala; George Mizo; Cesar Chavez; Leonor Jackson, Bravo 
Fund; The Central America Caucus of Rochester, NY; The Veterans 
Peace Action Teams; Kris Kristofferson.
 
OUR COMMITMENT 
 
   All of our lives have been affected profoundly by our encounters 
with the people of North, South and Central America as well as with 
others who have carried the burden of the Columbus Enterprise.  We 
have accepted their struggle for liberation as our own and commit 
ourselves to joining in our own land with the Native Americans, 
African-Americans, Latinos, women, workers, the people of 
Appalachia--all who struggle for justice and an end, finally, to 
500 years of oppression.
 
    We invite all who mourn 500 years of injustice and oppression 
to participate in this penitential reflection on the Columbus 
Enterprise and its legacy, the New World Order whether fasting or 
not.  We invite especially our brothers and sisters who have 
suffered from and resisted the Conquest to gift us with their 
presence.  Let us share our stories and together envision a more 
just and humane world which understands and values the sacred 
interconnectedness of all life--that understands that an injury and 
injustice to anyone anywhere is an injury and injustice to all--and 
to each of us.  And let us consider how together we can achieve 
this kind of world.
 
Please join the fast.
 
   Brian Willson, Jack Ryan, Teresa Fitzgibbon, Karen Fogliatti
           Dan Cunningham, Marie Dennis, Dave Dellinger,
                   Vic Scutari, Scott Rutherford
   
Attachment:
  The Fasters
  On Third World Legs
 
THE FASTERS
   
Teresa Fitzgibbon. A 56 year old Quaker, feminist, peace activist, 
environmentalist who lives in Trenton, New Jersey.  She recently 
returned from the Global Forum on The Environment in Rio where she 
worked on an NGO treaty on militarism and the environment.  She has 
participated in many peace walks. In December she walked from 
Panama to Costa Rica with the Quincentennial Interfaith Peace 
Pilgrimage which will arrive in Washington D.C. on October 11.
   
People have always worked very hard for war and violence and 
to maintain the privilege of a few people over the many. This 
fast is for me a statement of a few people who believe there 
is a better, more powerful way to transform society from 
competitiveness to cooperation.  If the fast helps me and one 
other person to address our greed and consumption in an 
important way then I will have contributed a little toward 
the birth of a new society.
 
Dan Cunningham. A 43 year old, 100 percent disabled, Vietnam 
veteran who served in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 with 11 Bravo, a 
mechanized infantry unit.  He lives in Taos, New Mexico.  Just 43 
days short of the end of his tour, the vehicle in which he was 
riding was struck by a rocket propelled grenade.  He lost his left 
leg above the knee and the sight in his left eye.  In 1988 he 
participated in the second Veterans Peace Convoy to Nicaragua.  He 
recently returned to Vietnam with other veterans to work alongside 
the Vietnamese in building a rural heath clinic.  The group was 
sponsored by the Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project.
 
   It is really important for me to participate in the fast.  I 
have been frustrated since the Iraq war, thinking of the lies 
we were told and about the children whose lives are in 
jeopardy.  I compare what we are doing in the world with our 
consumerism and I realize that the American people have lost 
touch with what is being done in our name.  I believe that 
the fast will help to wake people up and will contribute to a 
feeling of solidarity among those of us who want a more 
peaceful and just world.  It will be a healing for me and 
others.
 
Brian Willson. A 51 year old Vietnam veteran and former lawyer
In 1986 Brian was part of the Veterans Fast For Life.  He and three 
other veterans fasted 47 days on the Capitol steps to oppose U.S. 
Contra aid. In 1987 he was assaulted by a Navy munitions train 
while participating in a peaceful protest of U.S. intervention in 
Central America at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in California.  
He lost both legs below the knee. Since 1987 he has visited many 
states and 23 countries, learning of the effects of the New (old) 
World Order. He recently has returned to his boyhood home in 
Chautauqua County, New York where he is attempting to integrate 
global realities with local grass roots life.
 
   I am fasting because I do not know any other way to express 
my self respect, my anguish--or my vision--in my own culture 
and society.  Nobel Prize Laureate George Wald has described 
the United States as an "exasperated but dead country."  This 
is a moment in  history for unprecedented  reflection on what 
500 years of the "Columbus Enterprise" has really meant, what 
it means today, and what its continuation as Bush's New (old) 
World Order bodes for the future.  It is also a time to 
appreciate 500 years of resistance by the indigenous, by the 
Black slaves and their descendants and by the many other 
aggrieved ethnic and workers' groups.  It is time for a 
nonviolent uprising of the U.S. people and the revolution of 
values which Dr. King called for 25 years ago.
    
Karen Fogliatti. A 47 year old veteran of 22 years service in the 
Detroit public schools from which she resigned in 1991 to dedicate 
her life to nonviolence. She has traveled three times to Nicaragua 
and recently returned from a three month visit to Latin America.  
This past February she received a Doctorate in Education from the 
University of Michigan. Her thesis was entitled "Commitment to 
Nonviolence in Personal Life, Social Action and Education."
 
   The fast for me is a way of saying, Let's stop; let's take a 
serious long look at ourselves within the context of the 
Columbus legacy and at what we are doing and have done both 
as a nation and as individuals. Let us begin a process of 
reconciliation and renewal.  The fast is a way for me to do 
this--to take responsibility for the suffering we have caused 
and to ask forgiveness from those we have harmed. Guided by a 
deep sense of our interconnectedness we can engage in 
dialogue and draw strength from their courageous acts of 
resistance.  Together, we can go forward with a new 
commitment to work tirelessly for a just and caring world.
 
Scott Rutherford. A 58 year old peace activist who is a military 
veteran and former employee of the Federal Government, serving at 
AID and the Department of Commerce.  He retired in 1986 to pursue a 
life of nonviolence.  He coordinated the 1986 Veterans Fast For 
Life and was a member of the first Veterans Peace Action Team. He 
recently resigned from the staff of the Veterans Vietnam 
Restoration Project to travel for three months in Latin America.
   
While I am fasting for many reasons, two stand out. First, 
it is a way of accompanying the hundreds of people who 
shared their lives with me during my two visits to Latin 
America this past year.  It will express the deep bond I 
feel with them.  Through my witness I want to make them 
present on the steps.  I would hope that my voice might be 
their voice, my hunger their hunger. Secondly, it is an act 
of atonement--a looking back and taking responsibility for 
my part in the holocaust which was the 500 years.  Touching 
those dark places in my own psyche and in the psyche of my 
culture, I am asking the people we have so egregiously 
injured to forgive me and to allow me to join them in 
creating a different kind of world--one whose fundamental 
premises are nonviolence and the sacred interconnectedness 
of all life.  Vaclav Havel reminds us that whoever fears to 
look his own past in the face must fear what is to come.
 
Jack Ryan.  A 54 year old Roman Catholic, Army veteran, former 
Barry Goldwater conservative, and former FBI agent for 21 and 1/2 
years and a convert to nonviolence as a way of life. Ten months 
before he would have been eligible for retirement, he was fired 
(September 11, 1987) for insubordination--for refusing to 
investigate two non-violent peace groups.  One of them was the 
Veterans Fast For Life whose members, including Brian Willson, were 
declared terrorists by Government.  He has traveled to Haiti, Cuba, 
Nicaragua and El Salvador. For the past two years he has been a 
community member of the Catholic Worker House in Peoria, Illinois.
 
   I am constantly asked if my refusal to investigate the 
fasters and my subsequent dismissal was really worth it.  My 
answer is "Yes"!  I know that I will never pull down the 
barriers that exclude the majority of the world from enjoying 
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But I am unable 
to stop trying.  What is more symbolic of these barriers of 
vested interest than the "discovery" of the Americas by 
Christopher Columbus 500 years ago?  Such a symbol demands a 
nonviolent and prophetic counter symbolic action. By this 
fast I hope to conscienticize those of us that are not aware 
of what is being done to the poor of the Americas by a 
wealthy, powerful and largely white male elite here and in 
Latin America.
 
Marie Dennis.  A mother of six, she is the National Council 
Chairperson of Pax Christi USA and Associate for Latin America of 
the Maryknoll Society Justice and Peace Office.  She has traveled 
extensively for her work among marginal communities in Central and 
South America.  In 1990 she served as an election observer in Haiti 
and in 1991 represented Pax Christi USA on a delegation of U.S. 
peace groups to the Middle East at the time of the cease fire in 
the Gulf War. She lives in Assisi Community, an inner city 
Washington D.C. intentional community committed to social 
transformation and simple living.
 
    Deeply rooted in the faith tradition that shapes my life, 
fasting seems an appropriate response to the tragic memory 
of these 500 years and a fitting preparation for the 
difficult task of transformation that lies ahead.  For 
people of faith 1992 must be a year of repentance and 
renewal, of reflection on our commitment to the Word of 
God.  We are called not only to resist evil, but to go 
beyond resistance into life "as if", and to believe that 
in the process we will discover who we are, who are our 
brothers and sisters, how we are to live with all of 
creation, and toward what vision we are to journey 
together.
 
Dave Dellinger.  A 77 year old author, organizer, college teacher 
and father of five children  who lives in Peacham, Vermont.  He is 
a life long pacifist who has employed nonviolence in radical and 
original ways as a leader in the disarmament, civil rights and 
anti-war movements.  He was imprisoned for his resistance to WW II 
and indicted and convicted as one of the "Chicago Eight" for his 
role in organizing demonstrations at the Democratic National 
Convention in 1968.  The conviction was overturned on appeal. He 
has edited various magazines including Liberation.  His book, Yale 
To Jail--A Memoir,  will be published in March by Pantheon Books.
 
    I am fasting to reflect on--and call attention to-- what 
500 years of the greed-oriented Columbus Enterprise have 
meant, and still mean, to the people and ecology of the 
United States and the world.  And like my fellow fasters I 
fast to remember and draw strength from those who have 
resisted injustice and tried to live in tune with Mother 
Earth and their fellows.
 
Vic Scutari. 59, married with seven children.  A former stock 
broker, he lives on Long Island, New York where he has operated a 
soup kitchen and shelter for the past nine years.  In 1989, he 
organized Project Lifeline which brought food and medical supplies 
to refugees in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.  He has traveled in 
Central America and was active in the Sanctuary Movement.
    
    I am joining the fast  because I believe it will focus on 
the true meaning of the Columbus invasion and provide a 
forum for these truths to live.
 
ON THIRD WORLD LEGS 
   
    This month the Charles H. Kerr Company--the world's oldest 
alternative publishing house--is bringing out Brian Willson's 
profusely illustrated autobiography, On Third World Legs.  Dave 
Dellinger says "This is a simple, straightforward and humble 
account of the odyssey of one person--from believing that the 
United States should bomb Vietnam into oblivion to risking his life 
(and almost losing it) in a series of efforts to stop worldwide 
U.S. terrorism.  Filled with passion, compassion, logic and common 
sense, it could inspire and empower people to create relationships, 
institutions and policies that genuinely promote `justice and 
freedom for all.'"
   
    Established in 1886, the Charles H. Kerr Company is a 
not-for-profit, worker-owned cooperative educational association, 
devoted to the publication of books to advance the cause of peace 
and justice.
   
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Brian Willson's On Third World Legs is $9.00 postpaid.  Make checks 
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