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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Subject: Today's Quote...
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:35:14 GMT
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  "We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our
nation is to survive its own folly.  Every [person] of humane convictions
must decide on the protest that best suits his [or her] convictions, but [we
must all protest!]"
	--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Thanks to Peter Shell <pshell@WIENER.PRODIGY.CS.CMU.EDU>]


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Nicaraguan Elections: GENERAL CONCLUSIONS (8/9)
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 08:15:26 GMT

/** reg.nicaragua: 124.8 **/
** Written 10:17 am  Sep  5, 1992 by nyonline in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
Institute for Media Analysis Report
Reports and documents on Nica elections  6:13 pm Feb 21, 1990

V. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 

 Overall, Institute analysis of the role of the media in the 
Nicaraguan elections lets it believe that the U.S./UNO effort to 
dominate the media has not been the success that had been hoped 
for. The attempt to present the contras as brave freedom fighters, 
the guarantors of free elections, produced an overwhelmingly 
negative result in Nicaragua. With the killing of the nuns in 
January, they became an international embarrassment for the U.S. 
and UNO, as well.  

 The NED funding issue, because it required a congressional 
appropriation which, in turn, produced debate, generated more 
press discussion of the Nicaraguan election than anything else. 
Overall, here is where UNO probably came off best. The ability to 
present UNO as an underfunded underdog came off well, especially 
since it was presented as an alternative to continuing to provide 
contra aid, an issue which almost all members of Congress, as 
well as the U.S. public, wished would go away. On the other hand, 
it did not go down well in Nicaragua as a media issue. UNO was 
necessarily presented as bought and paid for by Uncle Sam. 
Additionally, the provision of the funds makes it just a little 
more difficult for a Sandinista victory to be delegitimized on 
the ground that the playing field was insufficiently level.  

 As a media topic polls were overplayed by the opposition. The 
attempt to use them to prejudge the election, should the FSLN win, 
backfired after some early success. The Sandinistas observer 
strategy, despite some negative aspects, got good press treatment, 
by and large. Overall, it served to more than offset the UNO 
campaign of accusations of fraud and abuse.

 One final note on a matter that never got press treatment. 
Whilethe Sandinistas persistently were asked by the media if they 
were prepared to accept an UNO victory should that occur, neither 
UNO nor the U.S. were seriously required to address the question 
of whether they would accept a U.N. and OAS certified FSLN 
triumph. 

ENDS PART 8 -- 9TH 7& FINAL PARETT FOLLOWS:

INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS
FINAL REPORT
US INTERVENTION IN THE NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS OF 1990

** End of text from cdp:reg.nicaragua **

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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Poverty & the Latin child
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:14:55 GMT

/* Written  4:10 pm  Sep 30, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Poverty & the Latin child" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


LATIN AMERICA
Poverty is seriously hitting children in Latin America and the
Caribbean. The results of a study conducted by UNICEF show that
half the region's 78 million children are poor and that one million
children under five die annually from preventable causes such as
poverty and malnutrition.

The study urges Latin American and Caribbean governments to design
programs to reduce infant mortality and malnutrition, improve
running water systems, and increase health care for primary school
children. (R. Havana 9/28)


====== ALSO ON THE SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY WORLDP.NEWS TODAY: ======

  Somalia, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Today's Quote...
Date: 28 Sep 92 08:35:14 GMT
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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders,
to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be
compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have
to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which
he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment
onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not
encountered in private life." --Albert Camus, writer, France.

[From "When the State Kills...The death penalty: a human rights issue"
by Amnesty International]


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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:35:13 GMT


"...the death sentence is abominable, as abominable as the crime
itself. Our state must be based on love, not hatred and victimization.
Our penal code must be based on rehabilitation rather than
annihilation." --Chenjerai Hove, poet, Zimbabwe

[From "When the State Kills...The death penalty: a human rights issue"
by Amnesty International]


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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Trade News:STUDY: NAFTA WILL DECREASE INVESTMENT IN CANADA 
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:06:01 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's trade.news]
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Topic 166       TRADE.NEWS 9-25-92 
kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations    11:12 am  Sep 25, 1992 
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TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Friday, September 25, 1992 
_________________________________________________________ 
NAFTA News Summary 
_________________________________________________________ 
STUDY: NAFTA WILL DECREASE INVESTMENT IN CANADA 

Canada will have a tougher time attracting both foreign and domestic  
investment if the North American Free Trade Agreement is  
implemented, the Conference Board of Canada concluded in a study  
published yesterday. 

The study says the 1989 Canada-US trade agreement has already  
caused a shift in investment practices and the trend will only  
increase under NAFTA.  A survey of 240 companies with operations  
in Canada found that Canadian companies are concentrating on  
investment opportunities in the U.S. while U.S. subsidiaries in Canada  
are having a difficult time in the integrated market. 

"With the increased focus on the US market, a decision by Canadian  
firms to manufacture in the U.S. and now Mexico is a distinct  
possibility," the economic forecasting and lobby group declared. 

Source: Bernard Simon, "Canadians Warned on NAFTA," FINANCIAL  
TIMES, September 25, 1992, p. 6. 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America:  Apartheid in Health-Care
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:30:41 GMT

The Decline of America:  Apartheid in Health-Care


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"Should health care be a fundamental right?"

1968, 1975, 1978 polls:         over 75% yes
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In a 1988 Harris poll 90 percent of the public responded that everyone
should be entitled to care "as good as a millionaire could get."
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=============================
Study: Insurance affects cure
=============================

Uninsured patients and those on Medicaid were less likely to receive
three common treatment for heart disease than those with insurance, a
study of 37,994 people in Massachusetts has found. The e study
examined The care of heart disease patients admitted to more than 100
Massachusetts hospitals in 1985. Researchers looked at three common
but expensive treatments: angiography, use to diagnose heart disease;
and bypass grafting and angioplasty, procedures to treat blocked
arteries.

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For tons more info and documentation [ie footnotes for cited
information], use the GET command on the file named HEALTH INSURANC
[sic]

    ======================================
    To get a file named FILE NAME from the
    archiver (files are two words  separa-
    ted by a space), send the 1-line message

    GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L

    to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
    [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
    ======================================

    Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
    files available with the GET command.

e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
emailed the index of archived files.



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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Real "PC" problem...
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:14:03 GMT


*Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 09:34:33 PDT
*From: [NON-UNIVERSITY (corporate) EMAIL ADDRESS DELETED]
*To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
*Subject: Re: COLUMBUS & THE INDIANS
*
*> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 20:39:32 EDT
*> From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
*> To: [NON-UNIVERSITY (corporate) EMAIL ADDRESS DELETED]
*> Subject: COLUMBUS & THE INDIANS
*>    Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 11:31:41 PDT
*>    From: [NON-UNIVERSITY (corporate) EMAIL ADDRESS DELETED]
*> 
*>    Hey Harel,
*> 
*>    > Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,
*>    > soc.culture.latin-america,atl.native,misc.headlines
*> 
*>    Why don't you post this article in soc.culture.spain?  I think that
*>    our Spaniard friends could appreciate an alternative viewpoint of
*>    their history.
*> 
*>    Regards,
*> 
*>    [NAME]
*> 
*> 
*> You can go ahead and forward to that newsgroup...
*> 
*> Regards,
*> 
*> HB
*> 
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*> 
*
*It is probably not in my best interest to post "politically charged" articles.
*Now, if I was associated with a University...
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:35:15 GMT


	      The Free Press -- "Stenographers to Power"

Following Dan Rather's getting-out-of-line by breaking the mainstream
Free Press tradition of nodding "ok" (moving on to the next question)
when presented with clearly untrue or extremely suspicious statements
by Power [chiefly, Washington], and instead pressing with questions on
the apparent contradictions and mistruths, George Herbert Walker Bush
was most displeased...

From Holly Sklar's _Who's Who_ column:

	     ===========================================
	     " K i c k i n g   a   l i t t l e   a s s "
	     ===========================================

In her review of some off-the-record remarks made by Bush during the
1984 election season -- including:

	George Bush, Octobert 12, 1984, remarking on his debate
	with Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro:
	"We tried to kick a little ass last night."

	Bush was telling that to a New Jersey longshoreman when he
	realized a WNEW-TV microphone was picking up his words:
	"Whoops! Oh God, he heard me!" exclaimed brave Bush. "Turn that
	thing off!"

What about "Stenographers to Power"?

		 ===================================
		 " M r .   I n s i d e   S t u f f "
		 ===================================

	George Bush, January 26, 1987, following the Rather interview
	on CBS News: "The bastard didn't lay a glove on me...That guy
	makes Lesley Stahl look like a pussy." Stahl is the host of
	"Face the Nation," and by the servile standards of broadcast
	news, is known as a tough interviewer.

	Once again, a microphone had picked up Bush's off-air words
	as he fumed at CBS News Officials: "I'm very upset about it.
	Tell your goddamned network that if they want to talk to me to
	raise their hands at a press conference. No more Mr. Inside
	Stuff after that."

--Holly Sklar's _Who's Who ... and What's What_ column in Z magazine,
March 1988, page 32.


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Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:6995 alt.activism:16925 talk.environment:3976 ca.environment:939
From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (via Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment,ca.environment
Subject: NEWS: Murrelet Suit Filed -- Egg Piece Found
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:20:22 GMT
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Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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[From EcoNet ecotopia.news Conference]
 
                     Murrelet Suit Filed...
 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) was sued last month
because it wants to extend for another half-year its decision
on protecting the elusive marbled murrelet.
 
The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund took action because the FWS
first published a notice of intention to protect the sea bird
more than two years ago.  California listed the bird as
endangered in August, 1991.
 
The bird, which nests in old-growth trees, has seen its breeding
habitat go down over the century on the West Coast, particularly
during the past 40 years.  Drift nets and oil spills also
threaten the species.
 
Murrelet surveys have begun in earnest in old-growth timber
stands within 50 miles of the coast.
 
Pacific Lumber is under close scrutiny for murrelet protection
in its Owl Creek timber harvest plan, and Oregon halted two
timber sales on state timber land in Tillamook and Clatsop
counties after finding nests.
 
Those sales, scheduled for September 22, were the first in the
Northwest to be cancelled because of the tiny penguin-like
species.
 
Adam Berger, a lawyer for SCLDF, said the official delay is due
to political pressure, and that his group has had to go to court
repeatedly to force the agency to meet deadlines.
 
                       ...Egg Piece Found
 
Pacific Lumber last month reported that it found a fragment of a
marbled murrelet egg on its Humboldt County property.
 
Radar and audio equipment helped company researchers find the
fragment below a large redwood tree about 16 miles southeast
of Humboldt Bay, company spokesperson Mary Bullwinkel said.
It was the first known find of a marbled murrelet eggshell
in the county.
 
PL is keeping the exact location a secret to prevent harm to any
of the rare seabirds that may be in the area. But Bullwinkel
said the find was not in the Headwaters Forest or in Owl Creek,
areas that are the focus of preservation efforts and lawsuits.
 
PL has conducted surveys for murrelet activity on more than 200
sites over the past several years, Bullwinkel said. The shell
fragment's veracity was confirmed by the Western Foundation of
Vertebrate Zoology.
 
(From ECONEWS, Newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental
Center, September 1992. Write 879 9th St., Arcata, CA 95521,
or e-mail nec@igc.apc.org, for a free copy.)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: UNION VICTORY in Guatemala
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 05:02:20 GMT


    "This major victory is due in large part to US grassroots efforts
    to support the basic rights of workers in Guatemala."

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's apc.labor]
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Topic 211       UNION Victory in Guatemala 
usglep  apc.labour       7:28 pm  Oct  3, 1992 
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PVH Union Recognized! 
  
The Guatemalan government has granted legal recognition to 
the union at Phillips-Van Heusen.  The PVH union is the first 
new union established in Guatemala's maquiladora sector in 
over three years, and is only the second union in the sector. 
  
This major victory is due in large part to US grassroots efforts 
to support the basic rights of workers in Guatemala.  Union 
recognition came in response to a petition filed by the 
U.S./Guatemala Labor Education Project and nine other U.S. 
religious, human rights and trade union organizations asking the 
U.S. government to investigate worker rights abuses in 
Guatemala to determine whether trade benefits should be 
suspended.  At stake are over $200 million worth of exports. 
  
The petition was accepted by the US government.  Hearings 
will be held in Washington, DC on Oct. 15.  Guatemalan trade 
unionists, business and government representatives will testify, 
as well as U.S. petitioners.  The approval of the union at PVH 
is interpreted as an effort by the government to demonstrate at 
the hearings that is moving forward in respecting basic worker 
rights. 
  
The announcement of legal recognition of the PVH union has 
not been made in Guatemala, pending publication of the 
decision in the official daily bulletin.  However, US embassy 
officials indicate that President Serrano signed the papers a 
week ago granting the union legal status. 
  
The PVH campaign will now focus on the company, and urge it 
to negotiate with the union.  Congratulations to all who helped 
make this victory possible. 

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: FCLN Action Alert/Relig.Fr Freedom
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:58:58 GMT

/* Written 10:49 pm  Oct  1, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "FCLN Action Alert/Relig.Fr Freedom" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: FCLN Action Alert/Relig.Fr Freedom

From jsax Thu Oct  1 09:30:27 1992
From: Joel Sax <jsax>

/* Written  8:14 am  Oct  1, 1992 by fcnl in cdp:fcnl.updates */
/* ---------- "FCNL ACTION ALERT/RELIG.FR FREEDOM" ---------- */

                A C T I O N    A L E R T 

Date: October 1, 1992
From: Friends Committee on National Legislation
      245 Second Street NE
      Washington, D.C.   200002
      202/547-6000

            Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Background:    
Legislation has been working its way through both houses
of Congress to restore the legal protection for
religious practice which was abandoned by the Supreme
Court in its 1990 Employment Division of Oregon v.
Smith.  In June 1991, Representative Steven Solarz NY
introduced H.R. 2797, the Religious Freedom Restoration
Act.  In July  1992, Senators Kennedy MA and Hatch UT
introduced S. 2969, identical companion legislation to
the House bill.  Both bills would restore the
"compelling interest standard" used by courts in free
exercise of religion cases.  Courts would once again be
required to "balance" the interests of government
against the constitutional rights of any person whose
right to practice their religion is in conflict with a
government action or law.  

Current Status:
H.R. 2797 was passed by the full House Judiciary
Committee this morning, Thursday, October 1.  Both H.R.
2797 and S. 2969 will come to the floors of their
respective houses for a vote by the end of this week!

Action:
Time is running out!
  
1)   Please phone, FAX, or telegraph your representative
and urge him or her to vote in favor of H.R. 2797, the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act, when it comes to the
House floor.  

2)   Please phone, FAX, or telegraph  your senators and
urge them to vote in favor of S. 2969, the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act when, it comes to the Senate
floor.

You may contact your representative and senators by
calling the Capitol Switchboard:  202/224-2131.

3)   Please call the White House comment desk, 202/456-
1111, and leave a message urging President Bush to sign
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Action Needed By:        Friday October 2nd, 1992.
                       THANK YOU!
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: The Police State, footnote
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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:02:40 GMT

The Decline of America: The Police State, footnote

Matt Wuerker Cartoon:

[Old lady, man in suit, and man with baseball cap and beer-mug T shirt
stand together listening to the radio she's holding next to her ear]

RADIO: "4 teenagers were shot by a semi-automatic assault weapon in
drive by..."

MAN(1): "It's drugs -- we need a war on drugs!"

RADIO: "School kids shot by high po9wered rifle..."

MAN(2): [Making fist with one hand, with smile and evil gleam in his
eye]: "We need the death penlaty for pushers and kingpins!"

RADIO: "Family taken hostake by mad man with a .33, a .22, and a .45"

MAN(1): "Call in the army! Militarize the borders!"

MAN(2): [Putting fist into palm of other hand] "Martial law in the
cities!!"

Old Lady: "And institute some kind of gun control!"

BOTH MEN: [Both outraged and dismayed:} WHAT? HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR
FREEDOM AND CIVIL RIGHTS !!" -- "(she must be on drugs!)"



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