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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: LABOR RALLIES
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:02:37 GMT
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(1)	10/17	San Francisco	Fair-Trade/Anti-NAFTA
(2)	10/20  	San Francisco	 SUPPORT IMMIGRANT GARMENT WORKERS 
(3)	10/22   (same (?))       PARC 55 WORKERS..DEMANDING UNION CONTRACT  

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Topic 95        San Francisco Labor Rally 10/17 
labornet        Labor Announcements      1:54 pm  Oct 13, 1992 
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From: <labornet> 
Subject: San Francisco Labor Rally 10/17 

TEAMSTER ECONOMIC-EARTHQUAKE EXPRESS 
on Saturday, October 17 at 10 AM 
Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco 

Send forth labor's strong message: 
NO FREE TRADE 
YES HUMAN RIGHTS 
YES ON JOBS-HEALTH CARE AND A NEW AMERICA 

You can help us SHAKE UP and SHAPE UP today's political world. Speakers 
from labor, church, community and the policital arena. We have the power, 
let's us it. If you care, you'll be there! Come listen, add your voice & 
help launch the Clinton-Gore satellite on the future--victory!  

Sponsored by: United Labor in Support of Teamsters Economic-Earthquake 
Express.  



Conf?  


Topic 96        RALLY OCT 20th  TO SUPPORT GARMENT 
holtlabor       Labor Announcements      4:06 pm  Oct 15, 1992 

        SUPPORT IMMIGRANT GARMENT WORKERS 
        DEMAND JUSTICE FROM JESSICA McCLINTOCK,INC. 

        RALLY OCT 20th 11:30 AM UNION SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO 
        For more information contact AIWA phone 510-2680192 

        The sweatsshops of the past century are alive and well in 
        Oakland and San Francisco. Garment manufacturers should  
        not shun their corporate responsibility when they contract 
        out. Its time for manufacturers to assure decent wages and  
        working conditions for the workers who sew their products. 
        Let's demand that the labels on a garment reflect not just 
        the company's prestige, design and quality, but also the  
        just treatment of workers and payment, in full, of the wages and 
        the benefits they rightfully deserve. 

Conf?  


Topic 97        RALLY AT PARC 55 OCT 22nd 
holtlabor       Labor Announcements      4:12 pm  Oct 15, 1992 

        JOIN PARC 55 WORKERS IN DEMANDING A UNION CONTRACT  
        RALLY OC22nd 4:30 pm AT PARC 55 5th &Market Streets 

        The workers at Parc 55 and the Hotel and Rest. Workers 
        Local 2 won an important ruling by the National Labor  
        Relations Board - The Parc 55 must negotiate with the 
        union. Now the Parc 55 is stalling - Join us in demanding 
        a fair contract NOW! 
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From: Steve Carr <rthr427%emx.cc.utexas.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Computer & Info Technologies Platform released (fwd)
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:12:37 GMT





---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:14:10 EDT
From: Paul Hyland <PHYLAND%GWUVM.BITNET@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CPSR <CPSR%GWUVM.BITNET@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Computer & Info Technologies Platform released

The Peace and Justice Working Group of the Berkeley Chapter of
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is pleased to
announce the release of _A Computer and Information Technologies
Platform_. The platform is the product of almost one year of
discussions, research, and meetings, and three public forums.

The platform is being sent to you as a separate piece of e-mail.
We would like to see the platform distributed as widely as
possible, so feel free to re-post and pass the document along.

Printed copies of the platform are available postpaid for $4 from
CPSR/B, P.O. Box 40361, Berkeley,CA 94704.

Feedback is welcome. Please send comments to:

cpsrPpeace@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu

The platform is also available on the Listserv Fileserver.  Send the command:

GET BERKELEY PLATFORM

to listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu.  Issues raised in this document will also be
discussed at the CPSR Annual Meeting, this Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18,
at Stanford University.  The program can be obtained by sending the command:

GET CPSR-92 PROGRAM

More information about this event or about CPSR can be obtained via email to:
cpsr@csli.stanford.edu.
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: The Military Industrial Research Complex 
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:59:42 GMT

The Decline of America: The Military Industrial Research Complex 


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 Percentage of government research and development funds
                    spent on the military, 1989:
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			     PERCENTAGE               
			     OF R&D                   
			     SPENT ON                 
	    COUNTRY          MILITARY(9) COUNTRY      
            -----------------------------------
	    United States      65.4     

	    United Kingdom     45.5     
	    France             37.0     

	    Sweden             24.1     
	    Spain              19.1     
	    Switzerland        17.1     

	    Germany            12.8     
	    Italy              10.3     
	    Australia           9.0 

	    Canada              7.9 
	    Norway              6.8 

	    Japan               3.5 
	    Netherands          3.2 
	    New Zealand         2.5 
	    Finland             1.6 
	    Belgium(20)         0.6 
	    Denmark             0.4 
	    Austria             0.1 
	    Ireland             0.0 

Source: World Competativeness Report 1991, published by IMD International,
Lausanne, Switzerland, and World Economic Forum, Geneva Switzerland, p. 322, 
Original: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators, 1990 (Paris: OECD, 
1990).

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: PRISONER FOR TREES
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:15:09 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 147.0 **/
** Topic: The ACTivist 8#10, October 1992 **
** Written  9:32 pm  Sep 24, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
The ACTivist is published by ACT for Disarmament, 736 Bathurst St.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2R4, phone 416-531-6154, fax 416-
531-5850, e-mail web:act. Hard copy subscriptions are available
with a donation of $10 or more to ACT for Disarmament. The ACTivist
is published monthly.  Reprint freely, but please credit us (and
send us a copy!)  Opinions expressed in The ACTivist are not
necessarily those of ACT for Disarmament.

PRISONER FOR TREES

25-year-old Christopher Parry was arrested on August 31 for blocking 
a logging road in the Walbran Valley. On September 15, he appeared 
for an initial court hearing, and when he refused to sign bail conditions, 
he was sent to jail. He will remain in jail at least until his trial, on 
December 10.

The Walbran and Carmanah Valley area is the land of the indigenous 
Qwa-ba-diwa people. With the organization Friends of 
Carmanah/Walbran, they have served injunctions on the 
Carmanah/Walbran logging operations -- conducted by Macmillan-
Bloedel and Fletcher Challenge -- asking for an end to all clear-cutting 
in the region. The Carmanah/Walbran is one of Canada's last ancient 
rainforests.

When he was arrested, Christopher Parry was hanging underneath 
a bridge along which the loggers drive. The ropes supporting him were 
tied around the bridge in such a way that, if a logging vehicle had 
driven over, he would have fallen into a steep ravine.

Parry, who has been recognized by the Qwa-ba-diwa as a 'protected 
citizen' of their nation, refused to recognize the jurisdiction of a 
non-native court system over the land. He therefore would not 
cooperate with the court, and would not sign release conditions 
which included promises to "stay at least 30 km away from active 
logging in the Walbran Valley" and to "keep the peace and be of 
good behaviour".

Parry has been charged under a civil suit by the logging company 
Fletcher Challenge, and only Fletcher Challenge has the authority to 
have him released without conditions, according to the British 
Columbia Attorney General's office. Please write letters demanding 
his release to Fletcher Challenge, 700 Georgia W. Vancouver, B.C. 
V7Y 1H6. Letters protesting against logging in the Walbran Valley 
can be sent to Fletcher Challenge or to Macmillan Bloedel, 925 W. 
Georgia, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 1P9. Donations can be sent to the Chris 
Parry Defence Fund, 322 St. James St., Victoria, B.C., V8V 1J8.


** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Cuba friendshipment seeks more support /ww
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:53:23 GMT


 Cuba Friendshipment seeks even more support
 By Sharon Ayling

One of the most significant challenges to the U.S. blockade of
Cuba is the U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment, a material aid caravan to
Cuba taking place this November.

Last May, Pastors for Peace initiated the Friendshipment project.
This group has organized ten caravans to Central America. Over
the past five months, it has garnered strong support from all of
the national Cuba solidarity groups. The project has taken on
additional importance since Congress passed the Torricelli bill,
the most reactionary legislation against the Cuban people in many
years.

Some 200 volunteers will be participating in the caravan. These
drivers will travel along eight routes through 100 cities,
holding educational programs, press conferences and material aid
collections. The caravan will meet in Laredo, Texas, and then
travel to Mexico, where they will deliver the donations to a
freighter for transport to Cuba.

Participants in the caravan will fly to Cuba to distribute the
aid to a coalition of Cuban churches and to do volunteer work in
construction. Silvio Rodriguez, perhaps the most popular Cuban
musician, will perform a free concert in Havana in celebration of
the caravan. He is sending out personal invitations to U.S.
artists to perform as well.

Organizers are asking people to volunteer to be drivers. They
also seek vehicles (which will not be donated), host-city
sponsors, endorsers, publicity and funds. The project especially
needs vehicles. While participants are encouraged to take part in
all four weeks of the caravan (Nov. 6-Dec. 6), it is possible to
volunteer for the U.S. portion (Nov. 6-16) or the Mexico-Cuba
portion (Nov. 17-Nov. 29).

Anyone interested in participating in the caravan should fill out
a driver application as soon as possible. The deadline for driver
and vehicle applications is Oct. 15.

Pastors for Peace can be reached at: 331 17th Avenue SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612) 378-0062.

(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@mcimail.com".)

     The N.Y. Transfer News Service 718-448-2358, 718-448-2683
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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Youth Encouraged to Trick or Treat for Endangered Species
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 16 Oct 1992 23:23:30 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

    YOUTH ENCOURAGED TO TRICK OR TREAT FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES
The More Action Kids Take for the Earth, the Less They're Spooked

WASHINGTON, October 6, 1992 (GP) -- This year on Halloween, when
neighbors open their doors to the calls of "trick or treat," they
may be surprised to see a gray wolf, an alligator or a whale,
instead of the usual ghosts and goblins.

Greenpeace has teamed up with award-winning kid's environmental
magazine P3 to create the Greenpeace/P3 Action Team for youths. A
series of four-page newsletters educates kids about crucial
environmental issues related to Greenpeace's campaigns, then
motivates them to take action, whether that is by writing a
letter or doing special projects for extra credit in school.

The Fall issue of Greenpeace/P3 focuses on the Endangered
Species Act (ESA), what it is, how it helps protect threatened
and endangered animals, and explains different sides of the
current debate about the ESA.

The cover is a cut-out of a gray wolf that can be worn as a
Halloween mask. The newsletter encourages kids to create a
costume of their favorite endangered species and to talk with
their neighbors about the ESA when they trick-or-treat.

"The Greenpeace/P3 Team's mission is to explain the crucial
issues and offer solutions, so rather than feeling overwhelmed or
hopeless, kids are empowered to be creative, hopeful and
involved," said Elke Martin, Greenpeace campaign manager. "The P3
newsletter is a fun way to learn about what can sometimes be
confusing issues, and it gives youngsters specific steps they can
take to make a difference."

Youth activists are already making headway. Nationwide, kids
have organized styrofoam bans in their school cafeterias,
boycotted tuna caught in ways that killed dolphins, and sent
thousands of letters and pictures to politicians that helped
strengthen global protection for endangered elephants and whales.

The Greenpeace/P3 Team newsletter is available on a subscription
basis for $12 a year. For more information about the
Greenpeace/P3 Team or to receive a free issue, call Greenpeace at
202/462-1177, or write: Greenpeace/P3 Team, 1436 U Street N.W.,
Washington, DC 20009.
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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: POINTER: White Deer on Somalia
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Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:32:19 GMT

/* Written  6:27 pm  Oct  7, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:reg.africa */
/* ---------- "POINTER: White Deer on Somalia" ---------- */
See topic 242 in soc.cult.afric for an eloquent statement by a
Native Amerian artist on the Choctaw/Irish walk for Somalian famine relief.
(Ignore response 1--it's just a mistaken duplicate of the first post--
response 2 tells you a little more about donating to the Irish/Choctaw
walk and the t-shirt situation.)
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Re: Economic Democracy
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:02:55 GMT

*Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 08:27:26 -0700
*To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
*Subject: Re: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
*Cc: dcaulkins@igc.org
*
*In article <1992Oct8.043740.9652@mont.cs.missouri.edu> you forwarded:
*>[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's ELECTIONS.USA]
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*>Topic 279       Economic Democracy 
*>dcaulkins@igc.org
*>                elections.usa    4:34 pm  Oct  7, 1992 
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*>Economic Democracy * 
*>
*>"He who pays the piper calls the tune." - proverb 
*>
*>  D. Caulkins                                       10/7/92 
*>
*>The concept is simple and compelling - US taxpayers should be 
*>given the right to 'vote' on how their tax dollars are spent. 
*>
*>Economic democracy might work like this.  With the forms mailed 
*>to each tax payer would be included a list of major US Government 
*>budget line items and the amounts spent on them in the previous 
*>year.  The tax payer would indicate on his or her yearly tax 
*>return the percentage of tax dollars to be spent on each budget 
*>line item.  
*
*DEMOCRACY ? 1 dollar = 1 vote ? Who are you kidding ?
*
*"He who pays the most shouts the loudest" - proverb post-"economic democracy"
*
*-- paul

Your point is well taken, but I think it is a point about what
inequities this proposal would *not* correct, not that having such a
plan would be a step backwards; letter people decide what happens with
their taxes is, in principle, a step in the right direction. It does
engender problems you allude to, but isn't quite "one dollar, one
vote" which is approximated much more closedly by currently existing
congressional and presidential elections, in fact.

Harel Barzilai
Co-founder, Co-moderator, misc.activism.progressive (MAP)
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
Subject: The Decline of America: Money for CIA Subversion, not Development
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:03:19 GMT
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The Decline of America: Money for CIA Subversion, not Development


==================================================================
Total official development aid as a percentage of gross national
    product, and percentage of aid going to least developed
                countries (LDCs), 1989:
==================================================================

                    DEVELOPMENT AID
COUNTRY               (% OF GNP)         PERCENT FOR LDCS

Norway                   1.04                   39
Sweden                    .97                   30
Denmark                   .94                   42
Netherlands               .94                   30
France(26)                .78                   20
Finland                   .63                   48
Belgium                   .46                   30
Canada                    .44                   37
Italy                     .42                   35
Germany                   .41                   27
Australia                 .38                   23
Japan                     .32                   18
United Kingdom            .31                   33
Switzerland               .30                   36
Austria                   .23                   22
New Zealand               .22                   12
Ireland                   .17                   38
United States             .15                   13

Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 187.

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From page 85 of:

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Nicaragua Series intermission: Quotes (II)
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:59:40 GMT

Nicaragua Series intermission: Quotes (II)

"Compared to the statements and actions that are coming out of
Washinton, it seems they must be using our reports as toilet paper...
We've pointed out the distortions time sna time again and been totally
ignored or told to shut up."

--U.S. Embassy official, Nicaragua, April 1982

[1]Kornbluh, _Prince of Intervention_, pp. 174, 259, fn. 63, citing
_Boston Globe_, April 20, 1982.

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"During a visit by a group of U.S. citizens with a U.S. Ambassador in
Central America...the Ambassador was asked to explain how such U.S.
action as the mining of Nicaragua's harbots and bombing of airports
differed from the acts of terrorism that the U.S. condemned around
the world. The reply, off the record, was, "Well, you're not going to
like this answer, but if they do it, it's terrorism, if we do it, it's
fighting for freedom."

--Patricia Hyndes, Central America Historical Institute, August 1985

[Quotes from Sklar's book]

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_Washington's War on Nicaragua_, by Holly Sklar.
1988, South End Press, Boston.
[South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
[For a free catalog: 1-800-533-8478; see AML resource files]

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