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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 08:35:14 GMT


"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."
  -- Albert Eistein

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


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Intellectuals' Protest Published in Iraq
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Organization: PACH
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:56:19 GMT

/** mideast.gulf: 53.0 **/
** Topic: SF Examiner: Iraq **
** Written 11:09 pm  Sep 13, 1992 by pnmideast in cdp:mideast.gulf **
From: <pnmideast>
Subject: SF Examiner: Iraq

/* Written  2:20 pm  Sep 10, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:hr.news */
/* ---------- "Iraq" ---------- */
San Francisco Examiner
September 9, 1992

Intellectuals' Protest Published in Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq - A group of Iraqi intellectuals Tuesday called on
the government of President Saddam Hussein to reform the nation's
rigid one-party political system and pay more attention to opposition
positions.

The publication of the statement appeared to be an effort by Hussein
to show that his regime is not a repressive one as portrayed outside
Iraq, but a pragmatic system that allows its citizens to speak their
minds.

The statement - highly unusual under Iraq's tightly controlled regime -
was published in the state-run newspaper Al-Jumhouriya and carried
by the Iraqi News Agency, which is monitored in Nicosia.

The statement could also be part of the campaign to muster public
support for the ruling Baath Party regime during his latest
confrontation with the West over Iraqi attacks on Shiite Muslims in
southern Iraq.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:47:34 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 348.0 **/
** Topic: Tight control in Timor during NAM **
** Written  4:36 pm  Sep  7, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Tight Security in East Timor
 
TAPOL, the Indonesian Human Rights campaign, issued the
following press release on 7 September 1992:
 
TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE
 
Stringent security measures have been taken throughout East
Timor during the past week to prevent any outbreak of protest
during the Non-Aligned Movement conference in Jakarta. More
patrol posts were in place than usual and there was more
intensive control of identity cards. Many young people,
suspected as likely 'trouble-makers', were ordered to report
to Kodim, the Dili military command, for the night; they were
allowed to go to school or work during the day but had to
return to Kodim each evening.
 
TAPOL learned from a protected source that the Sunday Mass in
Dili yesterday, 6 September, was cancelled at the last minute
on the insistence of the army, who feared that a demonstration
had been planned after the Mass. About a thousand people had
gathered at the cathedral. Bishop Belo was to have officiated,
but the crowd was ordered to disperse before the service
began.
 
Sources in East Timor say that demonstrations were indeed
planned for the period 1 - 6 September, during the Non-Aligned
Conference, but the tight security made it impossible to do
anything.
 
The forces of occupation were on high alert, fearing that
people in East Timor would want to take advantage of the large
number of foreign statesmen and foreign journalists in Jakarta
to make their voices heard again.
 
A number of foreign journalists, in Jakarta to cover the Non-
Aligned conference, have applied to visit East Timor. Although
security has been tightened to make sure nothing happens while
they visit East Timor, it is also reported that some
journalists have not even been given clearance to go.
 
Seventy government employees have meanwhile been arrested in
the past five days. Although the exact locations of these
arrests are not known, they all occurred in the eastern part
of the country.
 
A small group of East Timorese was also arrested as they were
about to leave Dili by plane for Jakarta last Tuesday, 2
September. Others, on their way to Kupang by road, were
arrested when they reached the border with West Timor.
 
** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: ELECTION 92: Online Organizers: "Taking it out"
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:31:03 GMT


    "You would be surprised at the number of movers and shakers and
    their staff who DO NOT know the value of cutting and pasting
    information with computers."

[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's elections.usa]
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Topic 2dl48       Online Organizers Taking it Out ->      1 response 
jlohrmann       elections.usa   10:11 am  Sep 11, 1992 
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This topic is a place to post items about taking online information 
offline to assist the non-computer community to think about 
the election process.  Please feel free to post your experiences. 
Jeff Lohrmann 

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Topic 248       Online Organizers Taking it Out ->      Response  1 of  1 
jlohrmann 
elections.usa   10:19 am  Sep 11, 1992 

Local campaign offices, that is at the non state level do not  
normally have access to candidate position papers, speeches and 
statements until a day to a week after they are released by 
Headquarters.  Usually this type of material is available to us 
the DAY its release to the press and the public at HQ. 

Supplying them with a text copy of this material is great.  If 
you can supply them with a machine compy, that is even better. 

Alot of people working inside the campaigns deal with local 
issue leaders.  These issue leaders want to get authoritive 
information from the campaign headquarters ASAP.  This creates 
a bottleneck all the way up the line because you can imagine 
how many people want information NOW.  By supplying very current 
information to the campaigners you are giving them something they 
can pass on that has the value of being very current. 

Now if you can give them a machine copy that they can pull into 
personalized letters to local issue authorities, then you are you 
helping them out.  BTW, in some cases you have to suggest this 
process to them and show them how to do it.  You would 
be surprised at the number of movers and shakers and their 
staff who DO NOT know the value of cutting and pasting  
information with computers. 
Jeff Lohrmann 

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Women's Action Coalition via Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.feminism
Subject: ACTIVISM: Protest Navy's Sexual Harassment ("Operation Tailhook")
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:49:18 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d,alt.feminism
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Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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[bayWAC Press Release]

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  Over 25 women, half of them officers, have charged that they
  were sexually assaulted at the Septmber 7th, 1991 Tailhook
  Convention of Naval Aviators in Las Vegas.

  Approximately 400 Navy personnel have been interviewed.

  Their CODE OF SILENCE has not been broken.

  NO CHARGES have been filed.

  NO JUSTICE has been served.
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OPERATION TAILHOOK:  WAC DEMANDS NAVY UNZIP ITS LIPS
INSTEAD OF ITS PANTS

The Bay Area Women's Action Coalition (bayWAC) will stage a
protest demonstration at the east gate of Alameda Naval Base,
on Saturday, September 12th, at 12 noon -- in solidary with the
women of Los Angeles WAC, who are leading the protest at the
Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego.  WACs in other cities
will join in the protest.

The protest marks the one year anniversary of the infamous
Tailhook Scandal at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel where a large
body of our country's elite aircraft pilots and "top guns"
forcibly passed 26 women through a gauntlet and assaulted
them -- half were fellow officers.

WAC is incensed that a year has passed and the code of silence
is still being honored.  The guilty have not been charged.
WAC will make the following demands to the Navy:

    o  Break the code of silence.
    o  Prosecute the guilty.
    o  Give women full equality in the military,
       including combat duty.
    o  Support the whistleblowers' protection act.

Tailhook is not an isolated incident.  Two out of every three
women surveyed in a 1990 study of sexual harassment in the
military said they had been sexually harassed.  Tailhook and
other incidents occur in an atmosphere of permission which
condones hostility toward women.

For the honor of all women, WAC wants the Navy to know:  This
Will Not Stand.

                        WAC IS WATCHING
                      WE WILL TAKE ACTION

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           Women's Action Coalition Mission Statement

The Women's Action Coalition (WAC) is an open alliance of women
committed to Direct Action on issues affecting the rights of all
women.  We are witnesses to the current economic, cultuural and
political pressures that limit women's lives and to the horrify-
ing effect of these limitations.  We will exercise our full
creative power to launch a visible and remarkable resistance.
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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Emergency Action on East Timor
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:10:40 GMT

/* Written  4:05 pm  Sep 10, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Emergency Action on East Timor" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Emergency Action on East Timor

From cscheiner Thu Sep 10 01:30:42 1992
From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>

/* Written  1:27 am  Sep 10, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor */
East Timor Action Network / U.S.
PO Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602   
(914)428-7299   fax:(914)428-7383
cscheiner@igc.apc.org

September 9, 1992

***** EMERGENCY IMMEDIATE ACTION ALERT *****

Senate to decide on military aid to Indonesia next week

The Indonesian government, corporate lobbyists, and the Bush 
administration are lobbying Congress heavily to get $2.3 million in IMET 
military training restored to the Foreign Aid appropriations bill. 
Although this money was unanimously deleted by the House of Represen- 
tatives in protest of Indonesia's massacres in East Timor, there is a 
danger that the Senate may restore it.  Letters and calls are needed 
immediately to:

Senator Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat, Vermont)
SR-433 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC  20510
202-224-7209


Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia)
SH-311 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC  20510
202-224-7200


Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat, Iowa)
SH-531 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC  20510
202-225-3254

Please communicate anything you learn to the East Timor Action Network. 
Thank you. This is the most crucial test and the most important 
opportunity we have had so far.

Charles Scheiner, Coordinator, ETAN
For full text please see <reg.easttimor>.
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: LABOR: Small Unions' Reporting Burden Eased/Simplified
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:44:32 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from LaborNet's labor.newsline]
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Topic 239       U.S. Department of Labor stories        Response  7 of  8 
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OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT STANDARDS 

CONTACT:KAY OSHEL                   FOR RELEASE:  IMMEDIATE 
OFFICE:(202) 523-7373               Wed., Sept. 9, 1992 

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PROPOSED RULE WOULD EASE REPORTING BURDEN ON SMALL UNIONS 
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     Unions with less than $10,000 in annual receipts would be able to
file a simplified annual financial report under a rule proposed today
by the Labor Department.

     "The change we are proposing would significantly ease the
reporting burden on small unions while continuing to give union
members access to adequate information on the finances of their
organizations," Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin said.  "Many officers
of small unions are rank and file members who work at regular jobs and
conduct union business on their own time.  Under the new rule, small
unions won't have to spend an inordinate proportion of their income on
bookkeeping and reporting and will have more funds available for
appropriate membership activities."

     All unions covered by the Labor-Management Reporting and
Disclosure Act (also known as the Landrum-Griffin Act) are required to
file annual financial reports with the Department of Labor.  Unions
with total annual receipts of $100,000 or more must file the detailed
four-page Form LM-2.  Labor organizations with receipts of less than
$100,000 may file the shorter Form LM-3.

     The proposed Form LM-4 that would be used by unions with less
than $10,000 in receipts is considerably less detailed than the Form
LM-3.

     The proposed Form LM-4 requires unions to report summary
financial information in five categories--receipts, payments to
officers and employees, other disbursements, assets, and liabilities.
It also requires unions to report changes to their constitution and
bylaws, changes in union dues or fees and losses or shortages of union
funds or property.

     The notice of proposed rule making is scheduled to be published
in the Federal Register on Thursday, September 10.  The public will
have 30 days to submit written comments on the proposal.

     Copies of the proposed rule including the proposed Form LM-4 and
instructions may be obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office
of Labor-Management Standards, Room N-5605, 200 Constitution Avenue,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210; telephone (202) 523-7373.


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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: South America news
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:33:17 GMT

/* Written  6:34 pm  Sep 10, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "South America news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


BOLIVIA
 A 128-strong US military contingent has begun to pull out of
Bolivia, where they arrived last June under the pretext of carrying
out civil missions. Their presence in northern Bolivia, allegedly
to build schools and latrines, came under heavy fire from
opposition and the ruling party.

The US soldiers never finished their tasks, prompting opposition
and union leaders to believe that they were in Bolivia to conduct
a secret military operation.

The Bolivian government was highly criticized from all quarters for
not asking Congress for permission to let the contingent into the
country. After a heated debate, the Bolivian Congress gave the
authorization just hours before the US soldiers began to leave the
South American nation.

Their withdrawal will be completed Sept. 20. (R. Havana 9/6)


COLOMBIA
 The whereabouts of six Colombian officials from the Attorney
General office in Barranca Bermeja are still unknown. Unidentified
individuals kidnapped them Sept 6 when they were on their way back
from exhuming and identifying bodies in Santander Department.

Eleven more personnel were killed by death squads in that
department in 1989. (R. Havana 9/7)


PERU
 A car bomb explosion outside a police post in Lima, the Peruvian
capital, left one policeman dead and several other people wounded.
Seven people were also killed Sept 5 when a van packed with
dynamite and chemicals blew off in the capital.

Police blame Shining Path guerrillas for the blast, which followed
attacks on buses and cars in the southeast of the country, which
claimed ten lives. (R. Havana 9/7)


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

News covering: Australia, Malaysia & the US, poverty in Latin
America, Iraq, Germany.

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From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr%rpi.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: *YOU* Can Call Pete Wilson to get a GAY RIGHTS LAW in California!
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:01:10 GMT

With regard to the California Civil Rights Bills
AB-2601 and AB-3825.  Pete Wilson's office
is not taking names, so anyone can call and urge
him to sign these two bills.  The last time
the Orange County legions swamped his office
with negative calls.  Everyone reading this
should call to urge him to sign.

The numbers again:  San Francisco (415) 703-2218
                    Sacramento (916) 445-2841
                    Los Angeles (213) 897-0322

With the doings in Oregon and Colorado, we must do everything
possible to protect our civil rights.

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RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735.  ***Clinton-Gore 92!***
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:35:33 GMT


"They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which
is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of
the sick bay or the graveyard."

        --Alexander Cockburn, at the beginning of the latter part of
        this column, concerning the Panama invasion and today's
        Panama [The Nation, Feb. 4, 1991]


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From: NLG Civil Liberties Committee <cberlet@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Bari/Cherney Suit against FBI Proce
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:58:45 GMT

The IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, get annoyed when people call
them the International Workers of the World. The IWW has been supporting
the Bari case from its inception.
-CB

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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Elf Atochem Discharge Pipe Blocked (London, Mersey Estuary)
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 9 Sep 1992 20:05:56 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

          GREENPEACE BLOCKS ELF ATOCHEM DISCHARGE PIPE
               A MAJOR POLLUTER OF MERSEY ESTUARY

LONDON, September 3, 1992 (GP) -- Greenpeace activists this
morning blocked the discharge pipe of Elf Atochem (formerly
Norsochem) which discharges dangerous chemicals into the Mersey.
Four activists wearing chemical suits and full breathing
apparatus to protect them from poisonous fumes climbed down into
a gulley to fit a blocking device to the discharge pipe.

Greenpeace blames the UK Government for giving companies such Elf
Atochem consents to legally discharge poisonous chemical wastes
into our rivers, estuaries and sea.  Greenpeace also accused the
North West National Rivers Authority of failing to stop Elf
Atochem from poisoning the Mersey.

Every year Elf Atochem is legally allowed to discharge over 5
billion litres of industrial effluent, including over 1 tonne of
cyanide, 2.6 tonnes of heavy metals, over 3,084 tonnes of
unspecified chemicals and 2 tonnes of toxic phenols as well as
toxic persistent organochlorines into a tributary of the river
Mersey.

"Elf Atochem, along with hundreds of other companies in the UK,
is legally allowed by the UK government to dump thousands of
tonnes of dangerous chemical wastes into our rivers and seas
every year" said Tim Birch, Greenpeace Toxics
campaigner."Greenpeace is demanding that the UK government
reverses this policy and commits itself to ending the legal
pollution of the water environment."

Greenpeace has targeted Elf Atochem chemical company on two other
occasions over the last four years but recent analysis of
effluent has shown little improvement. The Greenpeace analysis
found a wide variety of dangerous Black listed* chemicals such as
chlorinated benzenes not even monitored for by the North West
NRA.

Elf Atochem was given a 20 minute warning to switch off the
discharge before the pipe was blocked.
Activists were: Mark Hardingham, Fleetwood; Gillian Taylor,
Woolwich; Alan Foreman, Dublin; Gere Lob, California, Michael De
Leeuw, Hamilton, New Zealand; Helena Sieroakowska, UK.

* The Paris Convention, agreed by countries bordering the North
East Atlantic in 1974, to eliminate discharges to the marine
environment of certain dangerous chemicals on a Black List, "as a
matter of urgency"
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From: Marty Bigos <BIGOS%Beadle.Stanford.EDU@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Protest SF Health Cuts
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:51:59 GMT

When:
Friday, September 11, 1992.
1PM.

Where:
101 Grove Street, Room 300

What:
A public meeting of the San Francisco Health Department to discuss (!) what to
do with the results of Governor Wilson's slash-and-burn budget. The proposal on
the table is to close several neighborhood health centers and some of the
outpatient clinics at SF General. Although the budget IS tight, health activists
in SF believe that Mayor Jordan has more options than to decimate the Health
Deparment. If the proposal goes through, the effects on the poor, on immigrants,
on people with AIDS, and others, will be disasterous. Let's show the Mayor we
live in a city where health care is AT LEAST as important as the baseball team.


-Marty Bigos
Stanford University (and SF resident)
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