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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: FORUM: Anti-Labor Bias in Media (Sept 9, San Francisco)
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Topic 84        Anti-Labor Bias&Media Forum9/9/92 
lvpsf   Labor Announcements      9:02 pm  Aug 30, 1992 
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                     LABOR EDUCATIONAL FORUM  
  
                   Wednesday September 9,1992 
  
  
          ANTI-LABOR BIAS, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE MEDIA  
  
                          PRESENTATIONS  
                               BY  
  
               "FAIR" NATIONAL ORGANIZING DIRECTOR  
                          KIM DETERLINE  
                                &  
                  BAY AREA FAIR REPRESENTATIVE  
                          STEVE RHODES  
  
     How does the media portray labor and how can labor develop a 
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     FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) is the largest  
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     Ms. Deterline will outline how unions and unionists can  
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (III)
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:21:16 GMT

Who Were the "Contras" ? (III)

"FDN [contra] units would arrive at an undefended village, assemble
all the residents in the town square and then proceed to kill -- in
full view of the others -- all persons suspected of working for the
Nicaraguan Government or the F.S.L.N., including police, local militia
members, party members, health workers, teachers, and farmers from
government-sponsored cooperatives.

"In this atmosphere, it was not difficult to persuade those
able-bodied men left alive to [join the contras] This was,
unfortunately, a widespread practice that accounted for many
recruits."
        --Former Contra Director Edgar Chamorro, in his Affidavit to
        the World Court.

Page 117 in:
_Washington's War on Nicaragua_, by Holly Sklar.
1988, South End Press, Boston.
[South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
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  FSLN     MISKITOS  Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
  FSLN     NICAJEWS  Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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  FSLN     ACHIEVE   Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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  NICA-84  ELECTION  Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
  FAIRNESS NICA-USA  Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
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From: nyxfer%panix.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
Subject: NEWS:Turkish Army Massacres Kurds/WW
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:39:50 GMT


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

Turkish army massacres kurds

By Ali Azad

Starting on Aug. 18, Turkish troops opened fire in the Kurdish
town of Sirnak and killed hundreds of Kurdish civilians. The
Turkish army imposed a curfew on the town and have forbidden
people to leave their houses.

According to the Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir, Turkey,
and the Kurdistan Information Center in London, the Turkish army
has also bombed the villages of Hestan, Dehla, Biye and Zoroya in
Turkish Kurdistan.

The army has refused to allow the injured to be moved to the
hospitals outside Sirnak. Many injured are dying from lack of
treatment.

To justify the attack on Sirnak, the Turkish state-controlled
media told the world that government and military buildings in
Sirnak had been raided by more than a thousand guerrillas from
the Workers Party of Kurdistan. This group, known by its Kurdish
initials PKK, has been carrying on an armed liberation struggle
against the oppressive Turkish state since 1984.

According to the Kurdistan Information Center statement, "If
there had been more than 1,000 guerrillas in Sirnak the regional
governor and minister of the interior would have had to think
twice about flying into Sirnak by helicopter."

The statement also quoted an eyewitness from the region:

"The areas of Guzelyurt, Gazi, Imetpasa, Cumhuriyet, have been
destroyed. The soldiers are pouring petrol on the houses, then
firing from five to six meters away and setting them on fire.
Special counter-insurgency teams are now taking the electrical
goods from the shops and loading them on the military vehicles.
For two days there has been no water, no electricity and no
food."

Turkey is a member of NATO and receives $1 billion a year in
direct U.S. military aid, third highest in the world after Israel
and Egypt. It is also the site of 15 U.S. military bases.

Meanwhile the big business-controlled media in the U.S. has given
no publicity whatsoever to the events in Sirnak. Media complicity
only highlights the Pentagon participation in the massacre of
Kurdish people.

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(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)

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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Pacific news
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:49:33 GMT

/* Written  4:50 pm  Aug 26, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Pacific news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


AUSTRALIA
 Hundreds of Chinese students have staged a protest over the
alleged ill-treatment of a fellow student, being held by Australian
authorities at the detention center in Sydney. They claim the
student was beaten while in detention waiting deportation.

He applied for refugee status in Australia, but was denied and
arrested in May. Earlier this month he was told he's be deported
but refused to go.

Chinese students claim authorities beat him on the head with a
torch until he was unconscious. They say the Commonwealth and
Immigration Minister must take responsibility in an appropriate
manner and guarantee nothing like it happens again. (R. Australia
8/22)


SOLOMON ISLANDS
 Reports from Solomon Islands say two Australians have been
arrested after allegedly attempting to export more than 200
protected parrots. A light aircraft, reportedly to be used to fly
the birds out of the country, is also said to have been impounded.

Solomon Islands radio says authorities confiscated the birds, which
were packed in more than 20 cartons, because the consignment lacked
the correct documentation. Of the five species of parrots involved,
the radio said, three have been classified as endangered species
while the other two are prohibited exports under Solomon Islands'
law.

The government's chief conservation officer is quoted as saying the
birds would have fetched about $180,000 in overseas markets. Police
say the two Australians have been remanded in custody while further
investigations continue. (R. Australia 8/24)

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From: dmorse@igc.apc.org (Dorothy Morse)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Somalia food news
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:40:08 GMT
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/* Written  5:39 am  Aug 28, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:reg.africa */
/* ---------- "Somalia food news" ---------- */
Morning Edition, National Public Radio, reports this morning that the
145,000 tons of food ordered by President Bush to go to Somalia will
not reach that country until December.

Thus this food cannot count as part of that needed to keep millions of
Somalians from starving by Christmas.

Some additional food is being flown in by the World Food Program.  I
believe the amount is 5000 tons.

I spoke yesterday with a representative of the International Committee
for the Red Cross, Ann Stingle.  She said the need now is 60,000 tons of food
a month.  The current supply is 20,000 tons a month, and US additional
aid is expected to add something to that, but how much is not sure.

I also am uncertain as to the source and amount of food that starts to
go into Somalia today on US planes--four flights will carry 9 1/2 tons of
beans, rice, and cooking oil.  whether this is additional food or exiting
existing supplies that can be moved into Somalia on Pentagon planes is
unclear.

In addition, the commander of the US military personnel there says that in view
of the fact that his soldiers are to be unarmed at Somali request, he will
pull out if a single soldier is killed.  This seems totally reasonable to
me, but it opens up another pitfall for somalian aid.

I think we need to keep trying to find out the real facts, so that if
the whole thing rolls back down hill (for example, if public attentio
turns away, and governments just stop shipping additional food) we
can publicize these facts.  The old hamburger commercial used to ask
"Where's the beef?"  I think that in the case of somalia, we should
keep asking, "Where's the food?'

It seems to me that we can consider this problem solved not when governments
announce what they are going to do, but when relief agencies in Somalia say,
"We are finally getting an adequate flow of food and we are confident it
will continue."

There are high hopes for the present initiative, but concerns remain.
Dorothy
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:32:11 GMT

Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)

"There can be no doubt, on the basis of what we head and saw, that a
PLANNED STRATEGY OF TERRORISM is being carried out by the contras
along the Honduras border"

        --Chairmen of Americas Watch and Helsinki Watch, after a
        personal visit to study the "great divergence between President
        Reagan's rhetoric and the conclusions of the [Americas Watch]
        report" on contra atrocities. Orville Schell and Robert
        Bernstein, Wall St. Journal, April 23, 1985.

[Capitalization added]


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  FSLN     MISKITOS  Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
  FSLN     NICAJEWS  Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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  OXFAM84  NICARAG   Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
  FSLN     ACHIEVE   Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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  NICA-84  ELECTION  Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
  FAIRNESS NICA-USA  Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
  NICRAGUA ELECTION  Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election

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From: "David G. Horvath" <DGHORV01%ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      REQUEST: Info on Communities of Population in Resistance
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:34:49 GMT

       Head, Media and Current Periodicals
Phone: (502) 588-8756
Local Guatemalan solidarity workers are trying to assemble information and
history on the Communities of Population in Resistance (CPR's) in Guatemala.
Any published or unpublished source citations and addresses would be
appreciated. Thanks.
                           -- David Horvath
                              BITNET::DHORVATH @ ULKYVM

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:35:14 GMT


        "Amnesty International has concluded that the Salvadoran
`death squads' are simply used to shield the government from
accountability for the torture, `disappearance' and extrajudicial
executions committed in their name. The squads are made up of *regular
army and police agents*, acting in uniform or plain clothes, *under
the orders of superior officers*."  [emphasis added]
[Who Runs the ``Death Squads''", pp. 8-9]

	--Amnesty International, _El Salvador: ``Death Squads'' -- A
	Government Strategy_ 
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From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RESOURCE: Our Times, Canadian pro-union magazine
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:13:40 GMT

I thought this message from Our Times magazine might be of interest to
people reading this newsgroup.
 
(begin forwarded message)

Interested in reading about life from a pro-union perspective? Then you
should SUBSCRIBE to Canada's independent labour magazine, OUR TIMES. Since
we're independent of any one union, OUR TIMES can criticize both what
unions and big business are doing when it affects the lives of workers.
 
Read about corruption in the Teamsters, Women confronting RCMP
strikebreakers in the Northwest Territories, democracy (or lack of it) in
unions, and the life-threatening conditions of construction workers in the
September issue.
 
Send $3 for a sample copy to 
 OUR TIMES magazine, 
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Annual subscriptions (8 issues) are $20 for individuals, $32 for
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ?  (II)
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:32:09 GMT

Who Were the "Contras" ?  (II)

       "Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and
       took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their
       testicles cut off, and their eyes poked out. They where killed
       by slitting their throats, and pulling the tongue out through
       the slit."

Survivor's account of a contra attack. Jonathan Steele and Tony
Jenkins, Manchester Guardian Weekly, Nov. 25, 1984. [Cited in _Turning
the Tide_ (see below)]



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  FSLN     H-RIGHTS  Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
  FSLN     MISKITOS  Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
  FSLN     NICAJEWS  Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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  OXFAM84  NICARAG   Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
  FSLN     ACHIEVE   Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
*
  NICA-84  ELECTION  Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
  FAIRNESS NICA-USA  Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
  NICRAGUA ELECTION  Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Urgent Comunication Nicaragua
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:13:27 GMT

/* Written  2:16 pm  Sep  3, 1992 by codehuca in cdp:carnet.alerts */
/* ---------- "Urgent Comunication Nicaragua" ---------- */
COUNTRY:  NICARAGUA
No. 8

                      URGENT COMMUNICATION

         OCEAN EARTHQUAKE ON PACIFIC COAST OF NICARAGUA


The Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America
(CODEHUCA), addresses international solidarity groups and financial
agencies to ask for material support for the victims of the
September 1, 1992 earthquake.

Once again, Nicaragua is touched by a natural phenomenon. 
Yesterday, September 1 at 7:25 p.m., an earthquake registering 7.3
on the Richter scale shook this impoverished nation, affecting the
Pacific Coast and provoking 12 deaths and 40 missing persons until
this moment.

The quake, whose epicenter was located off the coast in front of
the principal port city of Corinto, 140 kilometers from the capital
city of Managua, affected the communities of Masachapa, La Boquita,
Pochomil, Poneloya, Jiquilillo and the port of San Juan, bordering
on Costa Rica.

The inhabitants of the affected zones are fishermen and belong to
the informal sector of the economy, and the affected communities
are located in the poorest areas of the country.

For these reasons, CODEHUCA urges your solidarity with the
Nicaraguan people and requests that all collaborations and
donations be canalized through the NICARAGUAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS (CENIDH).

CENIDH
Apartado 4402
Street Address:
Texaco Montoya 11/2 al Sur. B' ALtagracia
Managua, Nicaragua
Fax 5052 668405
Tel. 668405 / 668940 / 22563

Note:  This urgent communication is based on information from the
Costa Rican news media since we are unable to communicate with
Nicaragua.

San Jos, Costa Rica
September 2, 1992.
   
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From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: ADL Dismayed by Ohio Court Decision Striking Down Hate Crimes Law
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:59:54 GMT

Here is a press release from the Anti-Defamation League.

 ADL Dismayed by Ohio Court Decision Striking Down Hate Crimes Law
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Myrna Shinbaum, 212-490-2525, ext. 145, or
          Steve Freeman, 212-490-2525, ext. 113
          both of the Anti-Defamation League

   NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) today expressed dismay at the Ohio Supreme Court decision
striking down that state's hate crimes law as unconstitutional.  The
league had filed an amicus brief urging that the law be upheld.
   "Contrary to the reasoning of the Ohio Supreme Court, we do not
believe that Ohio's hate crimes law punishes bad ideas," said Melvin
Salberg, ADL national chairman, and Abraham H. Foxman, the league's
national director.  "The law enhances the penalty for crimes
motivated by bias, and only comes into play after a crime is
committed," they added.  "Citizens of Ohio are entitled to think and
believe as they choose without state interference, but if their
bigotry prompts them to engage in criminal conduct, the state should
be able to punish that conduct as it sees fit."
   Ohio is one of many states which have enacted penalty enhancement
hate crimes laws based on or similar to an ADL model statute.  It is
likely that the Supreme Court will agree to review this approach in
its next term, and the ADL remains confident of its constitutional
soundness.  Certainly at a time when bias-motiviated crimes are on
the rise and many communities are tinderboxes of hate waiting to
explode, the need for special laws to combat such crimes could not be
greater, said the ADL.
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