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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: SENDING COLUMBUS HOME
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:15:10 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 158.9 **/
** Written 11:14 pm  Oct 26, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
SENDING COLUMBUS HOME

'Columbus Day' 1992 saw protests throughout the Americas against the 
500 years of colonization, and in celebration of native survival and
 resistance.

In Toronto, some 500 people attended a rally at Queen's Park, organized 
by a broad coalition of groups, then marched to the Bickford Centre for 
an indoor rally and feast. Similar events took place across Canada.

In the United States, the most dramatic protest took place in San 
Francisco, where a march of over 7,000 people prevented Columbus 
from landing. Originally, the city had planned to welcome the 'Columbus
 ships', the replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, which have been
 receiving less than enthusiastic welcomes on their year-long tour; but 
the ships cut short their journey, afraid of further protests and bad 
publicity. They were replaced by a costumed man on a smaller boat. 
But he was turned back by a flotilla of sailboats calling themselves the 
'Peace Navy,' and no landing finally took place.

Denver, Colorado, cancelled their annual Columbus Day parade; 
instead, there was a march and rally in honour of the native peoples 
of America.

In New York, 3,000 people marched on the United Nations building,
 demanding that indigenous nations be given seats at the United 
Nations. This was not only a Columbus Day protest, but also part of 
the build-up for 1993, the United Nations 'Year of Indigenous People'.

Protests also took place in Central and South America. In San 
Salvador, El Salvador, alongside an official government ceremony 
in which Columbus' arrival was referred to as "a transcendental 
occasionS, there was a people's march of some 15,000, marking 
Columbus Day with less fervent admiration and also drawing 
attention to government failings in the peace process. There was 
no confrontation between the two groups.

Six "marches for dignityS arrived in Teotihuacan, Mexico, 
commemorating the survival and traditions of the native peoples 
of the Americas.

Events took place even as far away as Australia, where, in 
Melbourne, Australian indigenous people, from the Yarra Yarra tribe 
of the Koori, welcomed a representative from the Mapuche people 
of Chile.

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

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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Japanese Plutonium Escort Rams Greenpeace Ship on High Seas
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:15:58 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

"It is clear that plutonium and democracy do not mix."
  
JAPANESE PLUTONIUM ESCORT RAMS GREENPEACE SHIP ON HIGH SEAS 
  
FRENCH ATLANTIC COAST November 8, 1992 (GP) The Japanese
plutonium ship's military escort vessel, Shikishima, rammed
the Greenpeace ship SOLO at 06:45 hrs GMT today following a
night of extreme intimidation from the Japanese ship.
  
According to the SOLO's captain, Albert Kuiken, the Shikishima
crashed into the port side of SOLO while the two ships were
running at a cruising speed of around 14 knots in shipping lanes
off the French Brittany coast island of Ouessant.  This followed
a night of intimidation during which the Japanese vessel came
dangerously close to SOLO, beaming huge searchlights into the
bridge, and threatening to board the Greenpeace ship.  Soldiers
in riot gear lined the Shikishima's decks.
  
Mid morning, a French warship, tug and naval plane also started
following the SOLO.
  
The SOLO has been following the Japanese plutonium freighter
Akatsuki Maru since it left the French port of Cherbourg at
20:00 GMT, bound for Japan carrying the world's largest cargo
of radioactive plutonium (1.7 tonnes).
  
"This is an outrageous attack on a peaceful mission," said
Greenpeace's Eloi Glorieux from the SOLO. "If these are the
sorts of lengths the Japanese are prepared to take to protect
the secrecy around this deadly cargo, then the world has much
to fear."
  
Captain Albert Kuiken said the Shikishima had constantly broken
several maritime laws. The SOLO had, at all times, maintained a
safe distance of at least three miles from the Akatsuki Maru and
was adhering to all maritime laws. Last night, Kuiken contacted
the English coastguard to report the Shikishima's dangerous
manoevers.
  
"In more than 20 years at sea, I have never seen behaviour like
this from another ship," he said.
  
While the SOLO, a former Dutch salvage tug, sustained only minor
damage, the Shikishima was badly dented on her starboard side,
had her helicopter hangar punctured, staircase bent and aft side
railing ripped off.
  
Greenpeace intends to follow the Akatsuki Maru on its 17,000
mile voyage to Japan to alert countries along the still secret
route.  Many countries have already banned the ship from their
territorial waters.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU (Brad Pierce)
Subject: California "Third-Party" Election Returns
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:15:59 GMT

Derived from "Final California Election Returns", Los Angeles Times,
Thursday, November 5, 1992, pp. A9-A12:

Percentages of California November votes received by
non-Democratic/Republican candidates:

U.S. Senate (Full Term)

4	American Independent
4	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
10	Total


U.S. Senate (Part Term)

3	Peace and Freedom
3	American Independent
2	Libertarian
-
8	Total

U.S. House of Representatives
(representing California)

District 1
4	Peace and Freedom
3	Libertarian
-
7	Total

District 2
7	Libertarian

District 3
9	Libertarian

District 4
5	Libertarian

District 5
2	American Independent
2	Libertarian
2	Green
-
6	Total

District 6
NA

District 7
5	Peace and Freedom

District 8
3	Peace and Freedom
3	Libertarian
-
6	Total

District 9
5	Peace and Freedom

District 10
NA

District 11
7	Libertarian

District 12
5	Peace and Freedom
3	Libertarian
-
8	Total

District 13
8	Peace and Freedom

District 14
3	Libertarian
2	Peace and Freedom
-
5	Total

District 15
5	Libertarian

District 16
6	Peace and Freedom

District 17
2	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
4	Total

District 18
16	Libertarian

District 19
6	Peace and Freedom

District 20
NA

District 21
NA

District 22
10	Green
3	Libertarian
-
13	Total

District 23
4	Libertarian

District 24
5	Peace and Freedom

District 25
7	no party affiliation
3	Green
3	Libertarian
2 	Peace and Freedom
-
15	Total

District 26
6	Peace and Freedom
3	Libertarian
-
9	Total

District 27
5	Green
4	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
11	Total

District 28
3	Green
2	Libertarian	
-
5	Total

District 29
6	no party affiliation
5	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
13	Total

District 30
8	Green
7	Peace and Freedom
3	Libertarian
-
18	Total

District 31
NA

District 32
7	Libertarian
6	Peace and Freedom
-
13	Total

District 33
4	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
6	Total

District 34
5	Libertarian

District 35
2	Peace and Freedom
1	Libertarian
-
3	Total

District 36
5	Green
2	Peace and Freedom
2	Libertarian
-
9

District 37
14	Peace and Freedom

District 38
5	Peace and Freedom
4	Libertarian
-
9	Total

District 39
5	Libertarian

District 40
6	Peace and Freedom

District 41
6	Peace and Freedom

District 42
5	Libertarian

District 43
3	American Independent
3	Libertarian
-
6	Total

District 44
6	Libertarian

District 45
7	Libertarian

District 46
9	Libertarian

District 47
5	Peace and Freedom

District 48
6	Peace and Freedom
4	Libertarian
-
10	Total

District 49
4	Libertarian
2	Peace and Freedom
-
6	Total

District 50
11	Libertarian
3	Peace and Freedom
-
14	Total

District 51
4	Peace and Freedom
4	Libertarian
2	Green
-
10	Total

District 52
3	Libertarian
3	Peace and Freedom
-
6	Total

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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism
Subject: Howard Zinn to speak in Charlottesville
From: jchapman@NRAO.EDU (John Chapman)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:12:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Distribution: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism
Organization: suomynonA scixelsyD
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

			Howard Zinn

Noted historian, professor and author of The People's History of
		the United States presents
		
              RECLAIMING 500 YEARS OF HISTORY

		   Thursday November 12

			 8:00 pm

		  Gilmer Hall Auditorium 

		  University of Virginia

Sponsored by: UVA American Studies Program, UVA Latin American 
Studies Program, UVA Department of English, UVA Department of 
Government Affairs, UVA Department of History, UVA Special 
Lectures Committee, UVA University Union Speakers Committee, 
UVA Office of Afro-American Affairs, Charlottesville Center for
Peace and Justice, Charlottesville Latin America Solidarity 
Committee.

--

------------------------------------------------------------------------
| John Chapman                   | " No man stood on truth. They were  |
| jchapman@polaris.cv.nrao.edu   |   merely banded together, as usual  |
|				 |   one leaning on another, and       |
|                                |   altogether on nothing. " -Thoreau | 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:8332 alt.activism:18681 talk.environment:4568
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (III)
Date: 8 Nov 92 10:59:49 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (III)

"An ironic feature of the media treatment of Salvadoran elections and
their less favorable view of the prospective Nicaraguan election is
that both the threat to journalist safety and violations of press
freedom are vastly greater in El Salvador that in Nicaragua. Over 30
journalists have been murdered in El Salvador since 1979, and four
Dutch journalists were killed only 11 days before the March 1982
election.

The foreign press corps was trooped into a morgue by the Salvadoran
army to see the bodies, with ripped genitals exposed to media view.
This episode was suppressed in the U.S. mass media, led to no large
outcries and generalizations about the quality of the Salvadoran
government, and may have contributed to the remarkable mass media
silence on unfavorable media (as well as other) conditions in the
incipient democracy. U.S. reporters can report what they like from
Nicaragua without fear of bodily harm.

This is not so in El Salvador But the media cannot admit that in our
client state they must adjust reports and reporters because of literal
threats of death for improper thought.

[Edward S Herman, previously cited]
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (IV)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:59:50 GMT

The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (IV)

"The [Salvadoran election of 1982] was tailor-made for television ...
if the guerrillas of the FMLN-FDR chose to boycott the election, this
was because they had an innate preference for bullets rather than
ballots, not because the entire leadership of the leftist alliance
had been abducted and killed in November 1980, or because their
successor had been included on a ``traitor list'' published by the
armed forces in March  1981. If a guerrilla perspective on the
elections was lacking, the biases of t press corps were not entirely
to blame, for Salvadoran military did their part to ensure that
journalists would steer clear of such controversial topics. Ten days
before the vote, reporters were summoned to the San Salvador morgue.
Laid out in stark wooden coffins under the harsh glare of the
cameramen's klieg lights were the bodies of a four-man Dutch
television crew, shot dead as they traveled to keep an appointment in
a rebel-held area. The military announced that they had been ``killed
in crossfire,'' but the corpses had been mutilated, the pants pulled
down to expose their bloodied genitals.... this was a formal display
of the dead for demonstration purposes, and there was little room for
ambiguity about the message. The same day, an anonymous death list was
circulated with the names of thirty-five foreign journalists. In the
months leader up to the March election, major newspapers, including
the New York Times and the Washington Post, had run reports from behind
rebel lines, which the U.S. embassy accused of romanticizing the
guerrillas. These now abruptly ceased.

Instead, there was euphoria about the pageant ... Dan Rather led off
his election-night broadcast on CBS News with an exclamation of
delight: ``It was a triumph! A million people at the polls.''

``After a lifetime of journalism, I still cannot understand the media.
I cannot fathom the pool of silence into which the killing of the four
dutch journalists in El Salvador has been dropped.'' -- I. F. Stone,
1982."

[Pages 151-152, George Black, _The Good Neighbor_, Pantheon Books
(Random House), New York, 1988] " ]

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From: <pnmideast@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Pal-Net:Wash Post: Leader Pro-Israel Lobby quits
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:33:58 GMT

Date:    Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:41:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Pro-Israel lobby
To: Palestine-Net@mcs.kent.edu

November 5,1992
The Washington Post

Leader of pro-Israel lobby in U.S. quits

Boasted of negotiating with Clinton camp, 'cutting deal' for aid

The president of American Israel Public Affairs committee, the  nation's
largest pro-Israel lobby, has resigned after being secretly taperecorded
boasting that the group was "negotiating" with the Clinton campaign about
key appointments, and claiming he "cut a deal" with then-Secretary of 
State James A. Baker III to get Israel extra aid.

David Steiner, a New Jersey real estate developer who has been an active
political donor, said in a statement Friday that he was resigning because
some statements he made in a phone call two weeks ago "went beyond overz-
ealousness and exaggeration and were simply and totally untrue." Steiner 
did not return a call to his office yesterday.

Steiner was taped by New York businessman Harry Katz, who called Steiner
Oct. 22, posing as someone who was considering donating $100,000, to pro-
Israel congressional candidates. Steiner recommended helping Sen. Robert
Kasten, R-Wis., and cited personal help he had given Sen. Rep., Les Aspin,
D-Wis.

Katz sent the tape to The Washington Times, which published a story on it
yesterday.

Kats, 42, a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a 
financial consultant, said in a interview that he tricked Steiner because
"I don't think the Jewish lobby should have disproportionate political 
power. I wanted him to admit to me the incredible infiltration of Israel 
lobby into the campaign."
He said he was been in legal fights with other Jewish organizations.

A transcript of the interview shows that Steiner told Katz: "We have a 
dozen people in his (Clinton's) headquarters... and they're all going to 
get big jobs." He also said, " we're negotiating" with the Clinton camp
on who might be secretary of state. Asked who he was hoping for, Steiner
replied: "I've got a list. But I can't really go through it. I'm not 
allowed to talk about it."

An committee official, who asked not to be identified, said there was no
such list and the group had no discussion with the Clinton campaign about
possible appointments.

Avis Lavelle, a spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign, said there were
"several people prominent in the Jewish community in this campaign"
but "we are not negotiating with anybody about any job."

Steiner also said in his talk with Katz that he had met with Baker and 
"cut a deal with him." Besides Israel's $3 billion a year in U.S. 
foreign aid, "I got almost a billion dollars in other goodies that people
don't even know about."




Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: "RHODNEY WARD, (812) 855-4334W/336-4829H" <ROWARD%ucs.indiana.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: The REAL Baby-Killers
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:23:29 GMT

From:	PRISM::JKYLES       "girl trouble" 12-NOV-1992 15:15:08.11
To:	@WOMEN
CC:
Subj:	big business can make anyone sick

From:	PRISM::ANNLANE      11-NOV-1992 19:10:50.24
To:	JKYLES,DELFOSTE
CC:
Subj:	"boycott the REAL baby-killers"

Please Post:

Nestle and American Home Products (AHP) are directly responsible for the deaths
of 975,000 babies and indirectly for nearly half a million more each year
primarily in third world countries.
They die because they are fed a product that is not safe to use in conditions of
poverty.  This product is baby formula that has been pushed on them by a
 market-ing ploy.  Nestles and AHP give out free samples of formula to women at
 health
care facilities (they even dress their salespeople in nurses' uniforms).  Once
their breast milk dries up the women are dependent on formula which costs an
average of $550 per infant per year.  The women often dilute the formula to
make it last longer.  And because they don't get their mothers' antibodies they
from their mother's breastmilk they die of disease and of malnutrition.  Many
more die from the use of unsterilized bottles and/or unsafe water when using
the formula.
Nestles had promised to stop but broke their vow and, since 1988, have resumed.

The Action for Corporate Accountability (ACA) has called for a nationwide boy-
cott of both companies.  They have urged an active boycott with participants
which means to tell the stores in which they shop that these companies kill
babies.  ACA says the word will get back to the companies.
Nestle's brand names include Carnation, Contadina, Libby, Nestea, and
 Stouffer'sAHP makes Anacin, Jiffy Pop, and Today contraceptives.

For more information or to request the boycott Newsletter please write
Action for Corporate Responsibility, 129 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut,
06510, or call (203) 787-0061.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: djesimps@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson)
Subject: Informantion needed
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: Dams in Northern Canada
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:43:08 GMT

I am posting this on behalf of my roommate who has no net-access.
She is doing a project for her Environmental Studies course on
Hydro-Electric Dams in Northern Canada (inc Ontario and Quebec), and
would like any information she can get her hands on. If anyone has such
information, would they please send it to the Email address given below.

Specifically, she is looking for environmental impacts, and benefits.
Thank-you

	Darel J. Simpson (Posting on behalf of Heather Dale)

	djesimps@descartes.uwaterloo.ca


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: decvax!r-node.gts.org!ndallen@decwrl.dec.com (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Cuba: Speech on Impact of New Embargo on Food and Medicine
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:13:49 GMT

Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association

 Cuban Vice-Minister of Public Health to Speak on Impact of New
Embargo on Food and Medicine
 To: Assignment Desk, Health Writer, Daybook Editor
 Contact: Rachel Dale of the American Public Health Association,
          202-387-3401/3403, or 202-789-5677

 News Advisory:

 What:   Press Conference

 Who:    Dr. Hector Terry-Molinert
         Vice-Minister of Health for Hygiene and Epidemiology
         Cuba

 When:   Friday, Nov. 13
         2 p.m.

 Where:  American Public Health Association
         1015 15th Street, N.W., Third Floor

   Dr. Hector Terry-Molinert, vice-minister of health for hygiene and
epidemiology of Cuba, will talk about the public health impact of the
Torricelli Bill, which places a new embargo on trade between
subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and Cuba.
   Because 70 to 80 percent of this trade is in food and medicine,
the public health impact is expected to be substantial.  Terry, the
second ranking Cuban public health officer, will outline the expected
impact and take questions from the press.  Press packets will be
available.
   The American Public Health Association, founded in 1872, is the
largest organization of public health professionals in the world, and
the foremost publisher of public health related books and
periodicals, promoting high scientific standards, action programs,
and public policy for good health.
 -30-

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Colombia-State of Emerg Declared/ED-LP
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:48:43 GMT



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

Colombia: State of Emergency Declared/ED-LP

from El Diario La Prensa

edlp 11/10

COLOMBIA: GAVIRIA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY

In Colombia, almost social, political, religious and union
sectors, and even opposition parties, applauded President
Gaviria's measures to fight the guerrilla group M-19 (Democratic
Alliance), as announced on Sunday night, November 8. He declared a
90-day state of emergency, intending to try to prevent M-19 from
receiving any funds and launching a country-wide military
offensive. The measures are meant to attack not only the guerrilla
groups but drug traffickers as well. Only the left received the
announcement with some reservation, as they see dialogue as the
solution to the conflict. Leftist spokepeople say a confrontation
will be costly, painful and could go on indefinitely.

M-19 leaders, as well as those of other smaller guerrilla groups,
believes Gavaria is giving in to the most reactionary forces of
the country, who asked weeks ago for a full frontal attack against
subversion. One of the government's new measures is to offer a
monetary reward to anyone providing information leading to the
capture of the head of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces
(FARC), the National Libveration Army (ELN) and the People's
Liberation Army (EPL). The presidnet is backing an anti-kidnapping
law currently being considered by the Colombian congress which
would increase penalties for kidnapping and demanding ransom.
Ransom payments are one of the main sources of income for the
guerrillas.

In the city of Medellin a curfew has been imposed as a compliment
to Gaviria's nationwide state of emergency. With some two million
inhabitants, Medellin and 10 usrrounding municipalities have
become one of the most dangerous areas in Colombia. The violence
has increased since the October 28 shooting of drug gunman Brance
Munoz by Colombian police. (EFE 11/10;AFP 11/10)

translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News

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