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From: pinky@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Burbank)
Subject: Why Jerry Brown is running
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:20:02 GMT

Why is Jerry Brown running for President?
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Does it ever seem like the answers to many of this country's problems
are well fairly clear, yet solutions do not get implemented by the
federal government?  Does it ever seem like politicians are dancing to
the desires of those who fund their campaigns instead of paying
attention to their constituents?  Have you ever wondered why there are
so few women in Congress?  Have you wondered why Charles Keating could
get away will the S&L debacle with help from senior senators?

"It's the money.  The money that's gone into this thing is comming
from a few people.  And that money from the very powerful people is
buying these campaigns, buying the incumbents, the president,
Congress, the lobbyists, even candidates who are here tonight.  And
the American people have lost control."
   
       -Jerry Brown during the NBC televised debate 12/15/92

Jerry Brown's campaign is unique among the Democratic candidates for
President.  Instead of being financed by the select rich few and the
powerful corporations and PACs, his campaign is being fully funded
by individual citizens, and no contribution over $100 is accepted.

By doing this, Brown has the freedom to fully implement what has been
on the progressive agenda for a while, yet is ignored by most
candidates after election time, for fear of economic reprisal (which
translates into political failure) against the incumbents by their
wealthy benefactors.

We know what the problems in this country are:  the economy, crime, and
a failing educational system.  We know these are all directly related
into empowerment questions.  The crime problem comes from a lack of
social and economic empowerment, and despite "tough on crime"
measures, the crime rate continues to increase.  What we need is a
holistic approach to solving these problems, through a concentration
on educational reform and spending, job training, child care, and
health care.

Why isn't this being done now by the Democratically controlled
Congress?  Clearly, both Democrat and Republican politicians are
locked into the "Incumbent Party," from where there is no escape short
of campaign finance reform, and term limits.

And more importantly, we have to bring people, everyday people, people
off of the street, into the political system.  And that is the basis
of the Brown for President campaign.  Ordinary people can come
together and form a grass-roots movement to support a candidate,
without the excessive monetary input from the political power brokers.

call 1-800-426-1112

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Top-Ten Reasons To Stop Japan-Bashing
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 13:37:41 GMT

From: PENN@MITLNS.MIT.EDU (steve penn 26-567, 253-1521 Remember Our Humanity; Science is Not Neutral; MIT War Research Kills.)

Included below is an article from the New Liberation News Service
(NLNS) Packet 2.7 -- our autoposter is posting one
article at a time from this 168K file. To receive the full file,
use the GET command (see bottom) on the file NLNS PACKET ; to 
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Top-Ten Reasons To Stop Japan-Bashing
Kenji Akaike, The Brief

10. We'll buy the Statue of Liberty and put up Yoko Ono instead.
9. Keep it up, you'll get David Duke for President.
8. Mr. Bush has agreed to play a character in a Japanese re-make of 
the Exorcist.
7. All SONY Walkmans are rigged with explosives. We're willing to 
detonate.
6. Negotiations? We'll stop speaking English and you'll have to speak 
Japanese.
5. We'll take away the picture menus at Sushi Bars.
4. We outnumber you.
3. We're still not apologizing!
2. We'll give the Russians our technology, 3rd World Countries our 
yen, and the U.S. a bill for all the money we lent it.
1. Lee Iacocca drives a Lexus.

The Brief can be reached at : CUNY Law School, 65-21 Main St., 
Flushing, NY 11367; (718) 575-4314.

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From: cyanosis@igc.org (ADAPT)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: 03/92 INCITEMENT: ARKANSAS ADAPT STRIKES A BLOW FOR FREEDOM
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:16:53 GMT
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Organization: University of Missouri
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


            ARKANSAS ADAPT STRIKES A BLOW FOR FREEDOM

     You could call it a baptism by fire.  On December 12, 1991 
the Arkansas Department of Human Services issued a memo slashing 
personal care services down to a maximum of 50 hoursa month 
(that's about one and a half hours a day max), with no extensions 
; home health care visits would be limited to 25visits per year; 
funds for medical equipment were stopped. In the face of budget 
short falls the legislature had directed, and Governor Clinton 
approved, cutting the Medicaid match funds for these programs.  
People with disabilities, left with literally no choices, were 
reserving their beds in nursing homes and kissing good-bye the 
rest of their lives.

     Ironically, early on in his presidential campaign, Clinton 
had said it is a civil right to live outside of a nursing home.  
Then he turned around and slashed the funds that allow this 
choice in his state.

     A new ADAPT group, Arkansas ADAPT, decided enough was 
enough, they were not going to take this lying down.  Many had 
been working long and hard, in what they had thought was a 
cooperative effort with state officials, to create cost- 
effective, quality community-based services and get people out of 
institutions.  Their reward?  This stab in the back. Letters of 
concern and protest were ignored by the Governor.

     Packing food, water, sleeping bags and other camping 
equipment, ADAPT went down to the Capitol to make sure the 
Governor heard their message.  Like all good little handicapped 
folk they went in and admired the state Christmas tree.  Then 
they went up  to the Governor's office.  One person went in to 
tell the receptionist how nice the tree was.  Another and another 
followed till all were inside.  As they wove a heavy biker's 
chain and lock through their chairs and around bodies the staff 
demanded to know what was going on.  So Dr Terry Winkler, Richard 
Petty and the others explained and gave them ADAPT's demands: 
restore services and funding and never again drop them below the 
current level, pursue further the Medicaid Personal Care Option, 
and create a state Personal Care Task Force to implement 
expansion of community-based services.

     Negotiations went on through the day and late into the 
evening.  At 6 pm staff came to say the building was shut down 
for the holidays and everyone would have to leave. ADAPT refused 
until the demands were met.  Finally at 11:45 that night, with 
the press witnessing, ADAPT took a call from Governor Clinton to 
discuss the situation.  Clinton agreed to their demands and ADAPT 
was able to ring in the new year with the peace and joy of 
knowing disaster had been averted!
From: SHLONSKY@uni2a.unige.ch
Subject: Palestine urgent call
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:37:40 GMT

Call for Action by:
Women for Women Politcal Prisoners-Jerusalem
P.O.Box 8537, Jersualem, Israel
 
8 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS SENTENCE TO CANCER-SICK RABIHA SHTAY
 
On March 22, 1992, 34 year old Rabiha Shtay was sentences to 8;8 years
imprisonment by the Jersualem District Court.  Shtay's life is in
danger because she suffers from cancer of the liver.
 
Rabiha Shatay was first charged with membership in and service on
behalf of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
in April 1988.  She was sentenced to 34 months, of which 20 suspended.
 
At the time of her release, Shtay was already ill.  She was examined
in Holland by Dr. Paul Jonas from the ONS Medies Centrum, and cancer
of liver was diagnosed.
 
On June 4, 1991, Shtay was again arrested and charged with carrying a
submachine gun in the service of a terrorist organization. She denied
the charges and refused a plea baragin.  She was nonetheless found
guilty as charged and sentenced to 7 years in prison plus 20 months
suspended.  Her attorney, Lea Tsemel, appealed the court decision,
claiming it had handed down a vindictive sentence due to Shtay's
failure to collaborate with the court.
 
In court and in prison, Shtay has refused to bring up the fact of her
illness and has refused medical examination or treatment.
 
We believe that her life is danger and demand her release on medical
grounds. The American Rapid Response Network has been informed that
the medical center in Holland is ready to give Shtay free treatment.
 
We urge that telegrams demanding her immediate release be sent to Roni
Milo, Minister of Police, PO Box 2001, Jerusalem, Isarel.
 
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: NEW "FREE EAST TIMOR" POSTER AVAILABLE
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:49:09 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 342.0 **/
** Topic: new timor poster available **
** Written  6:53 pm  Apr  8, 1992 by web:etan in cdp:reg.easttimor **
NEW "FREE EAST TIMOR" POSTER

The Asian Students Association and Canadian Youth Network for Asia
Pacific Solidarity have just produced a full-colour newsprint poster
with a picture of a blindfolded Timorese boy wrapped in barbed wire, 
various slogans, and background information. Posters can be ordered
from CYNAPS, 19876 Garden Dr., Vancouver BC, V5N 4W7, Canada. Single copies
are also availasble on request from ETAN, 104-2120 West 44th, Vancouver
BC, V6M 2G2, or PO Box 562, Station P, Toronto, M5S 2T1
(e-mail web!etan@igc.org).
** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **

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From: samsung!ulowell!willow.ulowell.edu!abreur@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: SOAPBOX Seeks Submissions...So Submit!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:30:54 GMT

        The new and much ballyhooed journal of insight, SOAPBOX, is looking for
contributors!

        Essays, poetry, artwork, short fiction, and avant-garde material of
most
 any nature will be considered. Length of submissions should be dictated by the
subject matter. If you have something exceptional to say, we'll find the space 
for you to say it. On the other hand, exceptionally short pieces are easier to 
work with, and are thus greatly appreciated.
        Soapbox's "slant" is largely dependent on the submissions we receive 
from people like you. We're committed to a "fast and loose" editorial policy 
here at Soapbox HQ, so _please_ feel free to experiment.
        You can e-mail submissions to me (abreur@woods.ulowell.edu), or you can
use snail mail:

        Soapbox
        124 Walker St.
        Lowell, Ma 01854

        Please don't send originals, as the brains behind this publication are
prone to spilling coffee on anything clean. If you desperately need a
submission returned, send along a SASE.
        We want voices from every niche of society included in Soapbox, so we
look forward to hearing from you. Thanks!
							-Richard AJ Abreu

P.S. Be sure to give us your snail mail address, so we can send you a
contributor's copy for your efforts!


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: US prisoners brutalised
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:48:53 GMT

/** justice.usa: 146.0 **/
** Topic: Montana Prisoners Brutalized **
** Written 11:41 am  Apr  7, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:justice.usa **
From: News Desk <newsdesk>
Subject: Montana Prisoners Brutalized

/* Written  7:51 pm  Apr  7, 1992 by peg:greenleft in cdp:greenleft.news */
/* ---------- "Issue 51. April 8, 1992" ---------- */
US prisoners brutalised

By Steve Painter

Prisoners in the US state of Montana were stripped naked for four 
days after an alleged riot at the state prison last September, 
says the American Civil Liberties Union. Authorities sent in a 
SWAT squad after an incident described as a riot, but which 
involved only a few inmates.

An ACLU lawyer has established that the SWAT squad forced the 
prisoners to lie face down on the floor, amid water and broken 
glass, and remove all their clothing. Their hands were cuffed 
behind their backs and they were tear-gassed.

After about 30 minutes, most of the prisoners suffered cut feet 
when they were forced to run barefoot and still naked down a 
hallway littered with broken glass. Later, they were forced to 
run a gauntlet of up to 100 officers armed with clubs and chains. 
Still handcuffed, the prisoners were slammed to the ground.

The prisoners were then forced to lie in a field while guards 
continued to brutalise them. Guards broke prisoners' spectacles 
and kicked and taunted them. Most suffered sunburn, and they were 
told to urinate and defecate where they lay.

Towards evening, the prisoners were given a blanket each and 
ordered to the reception unit, where they were held for 23 days. 
For the first four days they were naked except for their 
blankets, and for 12 days they were not provided with soap, 
toothpaste or towels. They were not permitted to shower and were 
given two sheets of paper towel daily for toilet paper.

In the unit, prisoners were fed two meals daily, consisting of 
two sandwiches and a biscuit. They had to drink from a tap with 
their hands. Many developed scurvy.

When the investigation into the riot began, prisoners who refused 
to talk were beaten and tortured with mace. Several who became 
rebellious as a result of this treatment were hogtied, hands 
cuffed behind their backs and ankle cuffs attached to the 
handcuffs.

The prisoners were isolated from the outside world for four days, 
until an ACLU-assisted lawyer obtained a court order directing 
the Department of Corrections to allow contact. The ACLU's 
National Prison Project says such ``extremely brutal maximum 
security conditions ... breed the exact response they are meant 
to prevent, that is, they contribute to the problem and invite a 
future riot''.
** End of text from cdp:justice.usa **
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From: Loren Ryter <ST701831%BROWNVM.bitnet@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Subject:      Harvard East Timor Forum April 21
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: mathrich@UMCVMB
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:48:13 GMT

                    Harvard University's
            John F. Kennedy School of Government
                          present
                    an ARGO Forum event:

   ______________________________________________________________
 /                                                                \
|                   MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR:                        |
|                                                                  |
|           CASE STUDY IN UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY             |
 \.______________________________________________________________./

                         - with -

                        Larry Dinger
          US State Department Indonesia Desk Officer

                     Benedict Anderson
Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

                        Allan Nairn
            New Yorker Magazine/ Massacre survivor

                        Amy Goodman
          Pacifica Radio news editor/ Massacre survivor


                       Noam Chomsky
                  Institute Professor, MIT

                     - moderated by -

                       Henry Steiner
          Director of Human Rights Program, Harvard Law


      smuggled video tape of the massacre will be shown


            :       Tuesday, April 21, 1992         :
            :              8:15 pm                  :
            :        Institute of Politics          :
            :           79 JFK Street               :
            :        Cambridge MA 02138             :
            :           (617) 495-1360              :
            :                                       :
            :     free and open to the public       :


                      co-sponsored by:

Harvard Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, Asian American Association,
Harvard College Democrats, Radcliffe Union of Students, Democratic
Socialists of America, Harvard Filipino Forum, Anthropology Club,
Harvard Chapter of Amnesty International, East Timor Action Network/
Rhode Island, Portuguese American, Portuguese Continental Union,
Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

   Portuguese Embassy Officials will be in attendence
   Indonesian Embassy Officials have been invited
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timor: Nairn/Goodman available to speak
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:19:16 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 347.0 **/
** Topic: Nairn/Goodman Available to Speak **
** Written  9:29 am  Apr 12, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.easttimor **

Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting April 2-5, 1992 
flyer:

SPEAKERS AVAILABLE

The two American journalists who witnessed the massacre are 
available to speak at your campus.

Allan Nairn, the New Yorker.  Phone/fax: 212/662-3649

Amy Goodman, WBAI Radio, New York, and Pacifica Radio.
0: 212/594-3246  H: 212/242-0180


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

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 09:35:14 GMT


                           ==============
                            W A R N I N G
                           ==============
Beware of weird cult which:

<*> Uses promises of money, a job, and other favors to recruit people;
<*> Indoctrinates beginners in an armed camp until they're thoroughly
    brainwashed;
<*) Employs terror, assassination, murder, and threat<s thereof;
<*> Is particularly interested in the young, and those who follow
    orders without question;
<*> Holds against their will members who wish to leave;
<*> Goes by many names, e.g., The Service, military, Armed Forces,
    ROTC, JROTC, recruiters, Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,
    National Guard, Green Berets.

[Bumpersticker from Donnelly/Colt catalogue (Box 188, Hampton, CT
06247) by War Resisters League (339 Lafayette St., NY 10012)]


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Brazil Oxfam alert
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 03:32:28 GMT

/** reg.samerica: 199.0 **/
** Topic: Itaparica Dam, Brazil, Urgent Acti **
** Written  5:45 pm  Apr  3, 1992 by gn:oxladesk in cdp:reg.samerica **
           OXFAM: PROBLEM PROJECT ALERT
 
                                      03 April 1992
             ITAPARICA: URGENT UPDATE
 
In February representatives of the Polo Sindical,
who work with people displaced by the Itaparica dam
in the state of Pernambuco, visited Washington to
lobby the World Bank about the failure to implement
the irrigation programmes for the people affected
by the construction of the dam.
 
The Polo Sindical are continuing to press CHESF,
the regional power company to fulfil its
obligations to the people affected.
 
The Polo Sindical have asked us to pass on this
message asking people and organisations to support
them by sending a fax or telex to CHESF to arrive
on 07 April 1992. they specifically request that
you make every effort to ensure that faxes/telexes
are timed to arrive on 07 April. A suggested form
for the message is:
 
We, .....(name/organisation)...., are worried about
the situation that the rural workers affected by
the construction of the Itaparica hydroelectric dam
are in, after 4 years of not being able to grow
produce.
 
We would like to show our support for those
affected and ask that CHESF fulfil their
responsibility for concluding this project that is
being carried out, as we understand that funds are
available for this.
 
Yours faithfully
 
 
Fax:        010 55 81 227 2071
Telex:      812685 CESF
Address:    CHESF
            Edificio Andre Falcao
            Rua Elphego Jorge da Souza, 333
            Bongi
            50761 Recife
            PE  Brazil
 
                                        Brazil Desk
                                         OXFAM UK/I
** End of text from cdp:reg.samerica **

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From: Frank Scofi <fscofi@igc.org>
Subject: CUBA DEMOCRACY ACT: URGENT ACTION
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:11:59 GMT

URGENT ACTION!

UPDATE ON CUBA DEMOCRACY ACT

     Since the first set of hearings have ended on Congressman
Robert Torricelli's Cuba Democracy Act HR 4168, the bill now goes
to House Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by John Dingell and
the House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Dan Rostenkowski. If
there are no hearings held in these two committees the bill would
then go to the House floor for a possible vote where it could pass.
It is of utmost importance that Dingell and Rostenkowski hear from
us that we:

       1. Feel there should be hearings held in regard to the Cuba 
          Democracy Act since there has been so much debate and   
          opposition to this bill from so many sectors. (Church   
          organizations, Cuban Dissidents, American Public Health 
          Association, Law Professors, etc.)

                      AND

       2. Let them know the reasons why you oppose the Cuba       
          Democracy Act.


John Dingell    (202) 225-4071
            Fax (202) 225-7426
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairperson




Dan Rostenkowski  (202) 225-4061
Chair House Ways and Means Committee



For more information Contact the National Network on Cuba
                                 Legislative Working Group
                                 (202) 986-1561         

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