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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: URGENT ACTION for Somalia
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:34:21 GMT

/* Written  6:25 pm  Nov 19, 1992 by AFRICA-L@VTVM2.apc.org in igc:bitl.africa */
/* ---------- "URGENT ACTION for Somalia" ---------- */
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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
Subject:      URGENT ACTION for Somalia

MacNeil/Lehrer said tonight the White House will discuss serious action for
Somalia tomorrow.

Please call the White House Comment Line--202-456-1111, between 9am
and 5pm Eastern time, tomorrow.

Or fax any time (starting tonight) at 202-456-2461.

Please urge massive increases in food aid and medical supplies.  Remember,
even Mohamed Sahnoun said things were getting better since the aid increased,
despite the looting.  And, he said the amount now being delivered is
30,000 tons a month.  60,000 tons a month are needed, so there is plenty
of room for improvement there.

The main topic of discussion will be military intervention.  I plan to urge
increased UN troops, deployed swiftly.  I think that insofar as outside
military force can cause some problems, UN troops are less provocative than
US marines.

I have to say that the Somalis in the US to whom I have talked==the
Somalia Relief Association in Houston, and Save Somalia in Atlanta,
strongly support military intervention.

On the M/L News Hour, the former US Ambassador to Somalia, Crigler,
said "the American people have shown that they favor helping Somalia."
It's important that we continue to show this support.

Hope everybody will take the time to make the quick phone call or
send a one-paragraph fax.

Thanks so much.  Events seem to have shown that the online community
has made a big difference for Somalia--I hope we can act in great
numbers tomorrow and perhaps get some really helpful action out of the
White House.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Response to State Department Report on Clinton/Perot Files
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:32:29 GMT

Here is a press release from U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.)

 Berman Response to State Department Report on Clinton/Perot Files
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Graham Cannon of the Office of Rep. Howard Berman,
          202-225-4695

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 18  -- U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman
(D-Calif.), chairman of the House subcommittee with oversight
jurisdiction over the State Department made the following statement
with regard to the State Department's report on the handling of the
Clinton/Perot passport files:

   "This report is a beginning -- not an end -- to the investigation.
Many issues remain to be addressed.
   "We have learned that high officials of the State Department --
without compunction -- turned their agency into an opposition
research arm of the Republican National Committee.  This would be
wrong in any federal agency, but has special gravity with regard to
the diplomatic arm of our government.
  "By invading the privacy of Bill Clinton and his mother for the
purpose of influencing a presidential election, these officials
committed a serious abuse of governmental power.
   "Unaddressed by this report are many larger questions of privacy
rights.  This incident has taught us that individual Americans have
little protection from the prying eyes and ears of snooping
bureaucrats.
   "The revelation that personal FBI surveillance files on certain
'politically prominent' individuals were stashed away by the State
Department raises many disturbing questions: Who decided which files
to retain?  For what reasons were they kept?  How was this
iformation to be used?  There exist, apparently, few protections to
prevent renegade bureaucrats from misusing State Department files.
   "The report confirms the existence of an extensive State
Department telephone monitoring system capable of listening to calls
made from or to department officials.  Citizens of the United States
call the State Department to discuss highly private and sensitive
matters.  They have a right to know that the privacy of their calls
will be respected.
   "I am greatly disturbed by the revelations of this report: that
government officials may easily subvert the basic privacies that
Americans expect their government to protect.
   "It is clear that adequate safeguards do not yet exist to protect
American citizens from desperate individuals whose political agendas
compel them to trample on rights and to abuse their government
positions and powers.
   "Sen. Kerry, who chairs the corresponding Senate subcommittee, and
I will be asking the GAO to widen its investigation to include these
questions.  When we have learned all the facts, we will take
legislative action to safeguard against a repeat of such abuses."
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: GULF WAR RESISTER STILL NEEDS HELP
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:15:10 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 158.19 **/
** Written 11:21 pm  Oct 26, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
GULF WAR RESISTER STILL NEEDS HELP

Though Gulf War resister Yolanda Huet-Vaughn has been released 
from prison (see The ACTivist, May 1992), her struggle is not yet over.

Huet-Vaughn, a medical doctor from Kansas, refused to serve in the 
Gulf War and was sentenced to 30 months in prison -- she was released 
after eight months due to a strong international support campaign 
organized by Citizen Soldier in the United States, and led by ACT for
 Disarmament in Canada.

However, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts is now hearing a case that 
has been launched against Dr. Huet-Vaughn in an attempt to take away 
her medical license.

Dr. Donald Bletz, who initiated the case against her, says that because 
she has been convicted of a 'crime' -- specifically, desertion from the 
army -- she should have her license to practise medicine revoked.

Yet Dr. Huet-Vaughn has made it clear, in many public speeches, that 
it was precisely the obligation she felt, as a doctor, to preserve life and 
not to take life, that led her to refuse service in the Gulf.

Huet-Vaughn is currently working in a Kansas City clinic for 
low-income patients, one of the few sources of decent and inexpensive
 medical care in the city.

Support is still needed to let Yolanda Huet-Vaughn keep her license
 and continue to practise medicine. Letters can be sent to: Debra 
Billingsley, Disc. Counsel, Kansas Board of Healing Arts, 235 S. Topeka,
 Topeka, Kansas, 66603, USA.

** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
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From: EcoNet via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment,alt.save.the.earth
Subject: ACTIVISM: Rainforest Campaign Against Mitusbishi
Followup-To: talk.environment,alt.save.the.earth
Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:27:34 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[From EcoNet rainfor.general Conference]

=> Nov  6, 1992 by cdp:rainforest in web:rainfor.general

November, 1992 Mitsubishi Campaign Update Phase II!!!

The time has come for an all-out campaign against Mistsubishi!
Beginning December, 1992, Rainforest Action Network and numerous
NGOs will launch a major boycott of Mitsubishi and its
subsidiaries.  Mitsubishi has been targeted because it is one of
the world's worst destroyers of tropical and temperate forests.
Now, due to substantial private funding, RAN can afford to turn
the heat up on Mitsubishi and sustain the campaign fight.

Yoichi Kuroda, director of the Japanese Tropical Rainforest
Action Network (JATAN) recently said that a 1% reduction in
consumption of Mitsubishi products in the United States alone
would likely be sufficient to extract significant concessions
from Mitsubishi.

According to Yoichi, if Mitsubishi agrees to pursue a
sustainable timber trade, other major corporations in Japan
will follow suit.  Our goal is to reduce consumer buying of
Mitsubishi automobiles and electronics by 10% within 12 months!

The key elements for launching this campaign to boycott
Mitsubishi will be a national press conference, full-page
advertisements in national newspapers (e.g. the New York and
Los Angeles Times), and most important to the success of the
campaign, an internationally coordinated action of banner
hangings on principal commuter routes into major cities.
With the simple but direct slogan of "Mitsubishi Destroys
Rainforests" Boycott Mitsubishi," we expect to reach over
three million people in a single day.

However, this can only be accomplished with the participation of
the RAG network.

For our part, RAN will pay for, make and send out banner-making
kits (stencils, material, etc.) to all interested groups.
If you want to be a part of launching this campaign, please
contact Philip or Michael at RAN immediately (415-398-4404;
FAX 398-2732).  You will be sent a set of guidelines on how to
participate in the launching of this campaign as well as a copy
of the Mitsubishi Organizer's Manual.  You will also be added to
our campaign organizer contact list and receive regular campaign
updates.

Let's show Mitsubishi that as big as they are, they cannot
afford to ignore us.  We are confident that our boycott campaign
strategy will work: our bottom line is the welfare of the
planet, not profits. Won't you please join us?

Hope to hear from you soon,

Michael Marx,                     Philip Leeman,
Mitsubishi Campaign Coordinator   Mitsubishi Campaign Assist.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: aforum@moose.uvm.edu (Autonome Forum)
Subject: AF/ATS: workers riot in Osaka, Japan
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:34:42 GMT

posted by: AF/ATS
--

Two Days of Rioting in Kamagasaki, Osaka

     Kamagasaki is a neighborhood in Osaka, Japan, home to some
30,000 workers, mainly day-laborers, including many homeless
workers. On October 1, the local governemnt in the neighborhood
decided to stop paying out social security payments to needy
workers. 
     The approximately 80 workers who were turned out of the
social security office on October 1 and told they were not going
to receive any payments responded by smashing in the office's
windows. In the early afternoon, some 1500 police arrived in the
neighborhood to prevent the discontent from spreading. But by
early evening, at least 1000 workers had gathered, alongside many
youths and "normal citizens". Burning barricades were erected in
the streets. Throughout the evening, the rioting spread as trains
and busses were set on fire and a large supermarket was looted.
     The next day, the local government stood by its decision and
decided to once again refuse to make payments to the day-
laborers. The social security building closed its doors at
9:30am. Out came the stones and molotov cocktails once again, as
workers and police squared off in the streets for a second day.
     By late afternoon, the local government gave in and agreed
to renew its payments to the day-laborers.

--
                     Autonome Forum: aforum@moose.uvm.edu
                          "Solidarity is a Weapon!"
--


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: cd619@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Roth)
Subject: Letter to the Left: HAVE WE WON?
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:46:44 GMT

<<< via P_news/p.news >>>
 
HAVE WE WON?
An Open Letter To The Democratic Left
 
We are facing the worst economic decline since the Great 
Depression; a sense of glabal unrest not seen since the Second 
World War. Six months ago, Lost Angeles erupted in the worst 
urban violence in its history. And Americans have elected a 
conservative Democrat from a low wage, right to work state, who 
proposes halfway health care and a suicidal trade agreement.
 
Where do those of us committed to socialist democracy go from 
here?
 
A Clinton administration will open up space for the left in the 
next four years. But after a campaign targeted at "Reagan 
Democrats" and the middle class, while ignoring people of color 
and urban issues, what will happen to unions and the working poor 
in Bill Clinton's America?
 
In a year when a billionaire has bought up national television 
time in order to cast himself in the role of the "voice of 
change", where is the voice of the left, of economic democracy? 
It seems that our issues are the only ones that have not been 
heard in this election. We need to stop depending on others to 
speak for us, and begin to speak for ourselves.
 
It's time that we drop the divisions of the past, and make a 
commitment to building a party of the democratic left in this 
country. And this time we're not the only ones telling you this.
 
The call for a labor party, a party of women, working people, 
people of color, students, the unemployed, and those on the 
margins of our society has gone up loudly in this past year. We 
need a new framework upon which to build a voice for social, 
political, and economic democracy in our time.
 
New parties and exciting ideas for parties have popped up, and 
it's possible that one of these coud blossom into the big 
umbrella we've been looking for.
 
But you should know that there is a political party ready to 
address this fundamental issue of democracy, and to do so in 
coalition with others who are raising that banner; for ninety 
years we have held to the belief that socialism cannot exist 
without it, and now we're  setting our sights on furthering the 
socialist vision to meet the challenges of a new century.  WE 
NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS.
 
This is a time of crisis for the world, but a time of opportunity 
for those of us who seek to change it. The Socialist Party offers 
a voice to all of us who are looking for a change to a more 
responsible society.
 
The need has never been more urgent. We invite you to join us, 
and help build that society.
 
For more information about the Socialist Party, write Socialist 
Party, USA, 516 W 25th St. $404, NY, NY 10001.
 
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COMMENTS to: odin@world.std.com (for posting to both conferences).
E-mail your organizational information (or news & views). Summarize
and use excerpts for brevity.



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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Slain Journalist Had Goods on Mexican Gov?
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:18:11 GMT



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

Murdered Journalist had goods on governor

from El Diario La Prensa 11/18

MEXICAN GOVERNOR ACCUSED OF MISMANAGEMENT AND POSSIBLY MURDER

     Mexican journalist Ignacio Mendoza, killed by three bullets
last Saturday, November 14, had given information to the
opposition party regarding illicit acts which the governor of the
state of Quintana Roo, Miguel Borge, had committed.  The
center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) revealed that
since September 30 it has asked for an indictment against
Governor Borge for mismanagement of public funds.  They accused
him of embessling over 124 billion pesos (some US$41 million) and
of attacks against local journalists, including Mendoza. (AFP
11/18)

-- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News



 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: OSHA Statistics Show U.S. Workplace Far from Safe
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:32:38 GMT

Here is a press release from the AFL-CIO.

 OSHA Statistics Show U.S. Workplace Far from Safe, Says AFL-CIO
 To: National Desk, Labor Writer
 Contact: Rex Hardesty of the AFL-CIO, 202-637-5010

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- AFL-CIO Job Safety and Health Director 
Peg Seminario made the following comment on today's new OSHA data:

   The 1991 occupational injury and illness statistics released today
by the Department of Labor show that America's workplaces are far
from safe.
   In some of the most hazardous industries, including meatpacking
and auto production, the injury and illness rate increased
substantially.  The health services sector and hospitals also
experienced significant increases in injuries and illnesses, with
539,000 workplace injuries reported for health services, including
308,000 in hospitals.
   Cumulative trauma disorders continue to skyrocket and now account
for more than 60 percent of all reported occupational illnesses.
More than 220,000 workers were afflicted with new cases of carpal
tunnel syndrome and other cumulative trauma disorders in 1991.
   While an overall decrease in the rate of reported injuries and
illnesses is good news, the fact is such injury and illness rates
historically have fallen during recessions.  We saw a similar drop in
the injury and illness rate during the recessions of 1974-75 and
1981-82.  The fact remains that more than 6 million workers were
injured or made ill by hazardous working conditions in 1991.
   Today's statistics demonstrate that the Clinton Administration
faces a mighty task in putting the nation's job safety program back
on track.  The AFL-CIO stands ready to work with the new
Administration on legislation, regulations, and other measures to
help fulfill the law's promise of a safe job for every American
worker.
 -30-
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Peter Shell <pshell%NL.CS.CMU.EDU%CARNEGIE.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: NEWS, ANNC: Cuba Caravan Threatened!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:39:07 GMT



  I just got off the phone with somebody on the Pastors for Peace
FriendShipment to Cuba, which is attempting to deliver medical supplies,
bicycles and bibles to that country, in defiance of the U.S. blockade
against Cuba.  The U.S. government has threatened to arrest the people
on the caravan.  The caravan will be heading into Texas tomorrow
(Monday), and intends to cross the border into Mexico later this week.
But the Foreign Assets Control Office has recently stated that they
won't let them cross into Mexico, and if they attempt to, they will
likely confiscate the trucks containing the humanitarian aid and bibles.
I also heard that the Federal government notified the local and state
police in Texas, because they want to arrest them in a place where the
media won't be able to cover it.

  So, PLEASE CALL THE FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL OFFICE:

        >>>    Richard Newcome at 202-622-2510    <<<

        Tell him to allow the FriendShipment caravan with the medical
        supplies through to Cuba.

  Also, call your Senators and sympathetic Representatives and ask them
to put pressure on Costums and Immigration to let the carvan through!


[How ironic that our government, which accuses the Cuban government of
 not allowing the freedom of religion, won't allow the Pastors for Peace
 deliver bibles!]

--Pete Shell, Pittsburgh CISPES    pshell@cmu.edu on the internet
        412-521-7383
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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: NEWS: Deadly Russian Submarine Legacy
Followup-To: talk.environment,talk.politics.soviet
Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:08:05 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]

RAINBOW WARRIOR CONFRONTS DEADLY RUSSIAN SUBMARINE LEGACY     
  
VANINO, Russian Far East October 27, 1992 (GP) In a protest at
the presence of ageing decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines
in this Far East Russian city, Greenpeace activists from the
Rainbow Warrior hung a banner today next to a huge mural of
V.I. Lenin which declared: "Nuclear Subs. Nyet."
  
Four decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines containing eight
nuclear reactors loaded with nuclear fuel have been sitting idle
at the nearby Zavety Ilyicha naval base for the past two years.
Residents fear that if they are not removed soon, they may sink
at dockside and leak deadly radiation.
  
Some of the submarines are located just 300 meters from
apartment buildings in Zavety Ilyicha.
  
The naval base sits on Postovaya Bay between the towns of Vanino
and Sovetskaya Gavan.  Four first generation nuclear-powered
submarines arrived at the base in 1980 and were retired in 1990.
  
In the first ever confrontation with the Soviet Pacific Fleet,
thousands of residents from surrounding towns took to the
streets in the summer of 1990 to protest Soviet Navy plans to
offload nuclear fuel and scrap the submarines in Postovaya Bay.
  
Following the protest, the Navy abandoned plans to offload
the fuel, and the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral
Gennadi Khvatov, promised to begin removing one submarine
a year starting in 1991.
  
But by October 1992, Admiral Khvatov had failed to deliver.
The submarines still sit at Zavety Ilyicha, and now there are
reports that more submarines may be moved there.
  
As the Greenpeace flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, arrived
in Vanino last Friday, the Russian Navy announced that the
submarines would finally be removed, one this month and three in
1993. But local residents feel the announcement may be another
empty promise from the Navy timed to coincide with the Rainbow
Warrior's arrival.
  
"The people of this area fought the law and won," said Faith
Doherty, Rainbow Warrior co-ordinator. "But Russian nuclear
submarines still threaten Russia more than any other country."
  
Greenpeace's Nuclear Free Seas campaigner Josh Handler said:
"Russians are confronting the deadly legacy of nuclear-powered
submarines all along this coast. The Russian and the U.S. navies
can no longer roam the sea endangering the oceans and people
with floating Chernobyls and deadly naval nuclear waste."
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