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From: decvax!r-node.gts.org!ndallen@decwrl.dec.com (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Public Health Advocates Rally at Capitol for Health Issues
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:12:12 GMT

Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association.

 Public Health Advocates Rally at Capitol for Health Issues
 To: National Desk, Health Care Writer
 Contact: American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting
          Press Office, Omni Shoreham Hotel, 202-387-3401

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 10  -- Several thousand public health 
professionals rallied today at the U.S. Capitol to tell incoming 
president Bill Clinton and the new Congress that we must
take specific steps to improve our national health.
   Participants at the rally, who are attending the 120th annual
meeting of the American Public Health Association, called for
   * a universal health program with comprehensive benefits;
   * protection of the environment for future generations;
   * adequate funding to improve the nation's health; and
   * attention to women's health issues.
   Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) spoke to a rally about a national
health program; Rep. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) made the case for aggressive
environmental protection; Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) called
for the recognition and elevation of women's health issues, which
have been ignored too long; Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) called for
funding critical public health programs; and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
looked at the future of prevention in the new Congress.
   Addressing the rally, APHA President Joyce Lashof declared that
"historic opportunities...are before us" to reform our health system
and improve our national health.
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Fujimori Wants the Death Penalty Back/ED-LP
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
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 07:46:48 GMT


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Fujimori Wants the Death Penalty Back/ED-LP

from El Diario La Prensa

edlp 11/10

FUJIMORI WANTS THE DEATH PENALTY BACK FOR GUZMAN

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori has asked that Senero Luminoso
leader Abimael Guzman be exeucted by a firing squad. Guzman is
currently serving a life sentence on a island in the Pacific.
Fujimori said in a television broadcast that Guzman should die by
firing squad "becuase we have to carry out justice." He said
Guzman and his followers were responsible for the death of 25,000
people and $22 billion dollars in damages over 12 years of
violence, and that his government would look for a mechanism by
which it may execute Guzman. According to the Peruvian
constitution the death penalty can be applied only in cases of
"betrayal of the homeland in time of war."

The maximum penalty for someone convicted of being a terrorist is
life imprisonment. Previously Fujimori had announced the
possibility of a referendum to determine whether or not the death
penalty should be imposed in cases of heads of terrorist
organizations as part of the November 22 elections for members of
Constituent Congress. However, because of pressure from opposition
critics and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA),
Fujimori announced the referendum would take place on anotehr
occasion.  No date was announced.

Fujimori said his government would do away with the MRTA by
mid-1993 and that peace would be brought to the country before his
term is over in July of 1995. (AP 11/10)

translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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From: Clinton-HQ@campaign92.org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Subject: CLINTON: We won and you were stupendous!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:58:42 GMT

Volunteers,

Thank you for all your help, work and support these past 90 days.

We have for ever changed the way campaigns are run.  We showed that BOTH
the filters and interpretations of the media AND the organizational
hierarchies of a campaign can be removed from the delivery of information
to the citizens and voters.

As you savor the victory we won, reflect that we have come full cirlce
from the victory of Richard Nixon to the defeat of his protege, George
Bush.  And all without winning Texas.

Remember, thought, that this is not a time to gloat, but  a time for
coming together.  We have not one person to waste, regardless of for whom
they voted.  All are asked to join our team for the task of changing
America.

As one of you pointed out, America ends with "I Can".  Together we will!

Finally, I thank you for all your support.  We could not have won without
it.  

Regards,
Jock Gill
Clinton/Gore Campaign
Little Rock, AR

[Note: This channel will be closed for a short vacation and relocation.
The intention is to hold this interruption to as short an interval
as possible.  Thanks for your patient understanding - J.]]






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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: CANADIAN ARMS TO BURMA
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:15:11 GMT

/** gen.newsletter: 158.13 **/
** Written 11:17 pm  Oct 26, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
CANADIAN ARMS TO BURMA

Project Ploughshares has revealed that Canadian arms components 
continue to reach the military dictatorship of Burma, supposedly a 
country to which Canadian companies may not export arms. The parts 
are reaching Burma via China, a permitted customer despite the 
numerous human rights violations of the Chinese government.

Burma has been on an arms-buying spree for several years, preparing 
for a major offensive against the Karen rebels, who control considerable
 territory in the south of the country. It is the Karen-controlled areas 
that offer refuge for student dissidents, Buddhist monks, and others
 persecuted by the ruling junta known as SLORC.

The SLORC has massacred unarmed, nonviolent student protestors, 
and continues to hold thousands of 'political prisoners', including 1991 
Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

In a report on indirect Canadian weapons sales to the Third World,
 (Ploughshares Monitor, September 1992) Ploughshares states that, 
in 1991, Burma obtained, from China, Y-12 military planes. The planes 
were powered by Canadian-made Pratt & Whitney engines -- adding 
one more point to Pratt & Whitney's record-breaking achievements in 
selling arms to every military dictatorship in the world.

This is not the first time Canadian-made weapons parts have travelled 
from China to Burma -- Pratt & Whitney engines also reached Burma 
in 1990, in Swiss Pilatus combat aircraft.

1991 recipients of indirect sales of Canadian arms and arms components,
 as well as Burma, included Indonesia (waging genocide in occupied 
East Timor), and Peru (involved in a vicious war with Sendero 
Luminoso guerrillas, in which both the government and the guerrillas 
are subjecting civilians to massive violations of human rights).

Direct Canadian sales to the Third World included such favoured 
customers as south Korea, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Ploughshares
 estimates that 92% of our military exports to the Third World went 
to countries with a record of "official violence against their people."

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

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: CONFERENCE: LaborTech Communications Conference (Dec 4-6, SF)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:54:29 GMT

[Via misc.activism.progressive from LaborNet's labor.announcements]
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Topic 104       LaborTech92 Press Release 
lvpsf@igc.org   Labor Announcements     10:42 pm  Nov  4, 1992 
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                          PRESS RELEASE 
  
11/2/92 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
  
LABORTECH 92 CONFERENCE 
  
     The 3rd annual LABORTECH 92 COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE will 
be held December 4,5 & 6 in San Francisco. The conference, which 
is sponsored by the International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, The 
International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union and the Oil, 
Chemical & Atomic Workers as well as many bay area labor councils 
and unions will focus on the use by labor of communication 
technology and the media. 

     Presentations will be made on labor television, labor 
computer networks, women and technology as well as labor 
communications, labor solidarity & NAFTA. 

     The conference will kick off with an International Labor 
Film & Video Festival on December 4th at the IAM Local 1781 Hall 
at 1511 Rollins Road, Burlingame. The festival which starts at 
7:30 PM will feature the first west coast showing of "Amazon 
Sisters" about union women in the Amazon, "$4 Dollars a Day" 
about NAFTA, and a Canadian musical video called "Up To Scratch" 
on why youth should join unions. 

     The conference will be held Saturday 9:00 AM at at San 
Francisco State University's 7 Hills Convention Center, 790 Front 
St, San Francisco, and will include guests from throughout the 
world as well as labor communicators from the bay area. 
  
     For information and registration details call 
415-255-8689 or write P.O.Box 425584 San Francisco,CA 94142      . 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: ZAHNISER_S%CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: SENDING COLUMBUS HOME
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:44:08 GMT

With respect to the cancelled Columbus Day parade in Denver, one should
be clear that the parade was not sponsored by the City of Denver.  It was
sponsored by a group of Italian-Americans who for several years have been
trying to revive the Columbus Day parade.  The sponsoring group cancelled
the parade in the face of a large-scale, well-planned act of civil disobedience
that was to disrupt the parade peacefully.  The march and rally in honour
of the native peoples of America was organized by the American Indian Move-
ment (AIM) and not by "Denver, Colorado."  Indeed, the mayor of Denver,
Wellington Webb, spoke at a small rally held on the steps of the State
Capitol after the parade's cancellation by the organizers of the Columbus
Day parade and stressed that freedom of speech and assembly is a right of
all Americans, including those who wanted to hold the parade.

Steven Zahniser
zahniser_s@cubldr.colorado.edu
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From: Frank Scofi <fscofi@igc.apc.org>
Subject: UN Rally & Vigil For Cuba
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:36:34 GMT

CUBA U.N. COMMITTEE CALL FOR AN
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
WITH THE PEOPLE OF CUBA

UNITED NATIONS RALLY & VIGIL

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1992
5:00 P.M.
RALPH BUNCHE PARK
43RD STREET & FIRST AVENUE

     On Tuesday, November 24th, Cuba will be addressing the General
Assembly of the United Nations about the continued U.S. embargo
against the people of Cuba.

     The passage of the Torricelli Bill has generated an
international outcry against U.S. intervention in the internal
affairs of other nations. Here in the U.S. we need to make a clear
statement in opposition to the starvation diplomacy embodied in the
"Cuban Democracy" Act which outgoing President Bush signed into
law. We also need to let the incoming Clinton-Gore administration
know that we will continue and increase our efforts in support of
the inalienable right of the Cuban people to self-determination,
national sovereignty and to determine their own destiny.

COME AND JOIN YOUR VOICE TO THOSE OF THE GROWING MOVEMENT IN
SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE OF CUBA!

Leaflets will be available at:
Casa De Las Americas 
104 West 14th Street
Corner of 6th Avenue,
Manhattan (212) 675-2584 as of Wednesday, November 11, 1992


PARTIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS
U.S. Cuba Friendshipment * IFCO - Pastors for Peace * US Hands Off
Cuba Coalition-NY * U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee - New Jersey *
National Network on Cuba * National Venceremos Brigade * Casa de
las Americas * MADRE * Brigada Antonio Maceo * Women's Workshop in
the Americas * International Peace for Cuba Appeal * U.S. Cuba
Friendshipment\Greater New York Area Organizing Committee * The
International Action Center * U.S./Puerto Rico Solidarity Network
* Comite de Afirmacion Puertorriquena * Rosemari Mealy, National
Alliance of Third World Journalists * Caribbean Action Movement *
Committee in Solidarity with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos * Network
of Black Organizers * Deborah Jackson, American Association of
Jurists * Cuba In Focus, WBAI Radio * Cuba Information Project *
National Committees of Correspondence * Workers World Party *
Committees of Correspondence - New York * U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
* Committee in Solidarity with the Dominican People * Union
Revolucionaria Caamanista.

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Nicaragua Aid Hold-up Action Alert
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 01:04:59 GMT

/** reg.nicaragua: 98.0 **/
** Topic: Nicaragua Aid Hold-up Action Alert **
** Written 11:24 am  Nov  6, 1992 by nicanet in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
                       NICARAGUA AID ALERT
 
Now that Bush has lost the election, the prospect of securing the 
release of US aid to Nicaragua may be good.  $104 million in FY92 
aid to Nicaragua continues to be held up at the request of Sen. 
Jesse Helms.  FY92 ended October 31, 1992.  Helms has routinely 
blackmailed Republican administrations with threats of holding up 
ambassadorial nominations.  He no longer has that leverage 
because Bush will be making no more nominations. 
 
The Nicaragua Network recommends that activists call the State 
Department at (202) 647-4000 and the White House Comment Line at 
(202) 456-1111 with the message that the aid should be released.  
Explain that continuing to hold up the aid only further weakens 
Violeta Chamorro's already shaky government.  Note also that 
Chamorro has been forced to increase the value added tax (a form 
of sales tax) from 10% to 15% and to apply it to many areas of 
the economy to which it did not previously apply.  It is to go 
into effect January 1, 1993.  Unless negotiations with the 
government are successful, the tax will also apply to 
humanitarian aid from non-governmental organizations (NGO's), 
Sister Cities, etc.  This will result in less aid reaching the 
intended recipients and probably make it more difficult for 
organizations to raise humanitarian aid gifts from their 
supporters.  The tax would apply not just to money gifts, but to 
medicine, clothing, and other material aid making it necessary 
for groups to also raise money to pay the taxes on their material 
donations.  If the US aid is released, it is unlikely that 
Chamorro will find it necessary to tax these gifts, so include 
that argument in your message.
** End of text from cdp:reg.nicaragua **
From: PRHHC%CUNYVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: History of Sci. Conf. in CUBA
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:22:23 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

Dear Colleague,
We have like to invite you to attend a conference on the History and
Philosophy of science.  The conference will take place in La Habana,
Cuba form the 4th to the 14th of January, 1993.  The conference is
sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Sciology and History at
the University of La Habana.
The U.S. delegation will be of about 35 people.
There will be four panels:
a. Science, the environment, and appropriate technology.
b. Capitalism, technology, and the First/Third world relations.
c. Philosophy and politics of science.
d. Contemporary issues in philosophy and history of science.
we expect that the cost will be $1100, for airfare between Miami and
La Habana, lodging, a basic meal plan, programming, and trasportation
in Cuba.  This does not include the cost of airfare from your home to
Miami.
The conference will constitute "professional reserach" for those within
the fields or in related fields.  This is one of the few exception to the
U.S. restriction on travel to CUBA.
If you are interested and require more information, please forward a
message to my EMail and I will sent the required information.

Sincerely yours,

Rafael Hernandez
Sociology Department         Medical Sociology
Hunter College, CUNYCornell Univ. Medical Center

The General Coordinators:
Joy Gordon,  Philosophy Dept.  Yale University
Adolfo Olea-Franco  History Dept.  Harvard University
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Marathon Oil to Drill in Timor Gap
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:49:25 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 349.0 **/
** Topic: Marathon Poised For Gap **
** Written  7:37 am  Nov 10, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Marathon Poised For Gap

/* Written  2:28 pm  Nov  9, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "Marathon Poised For Gap" ---------- */

Forwarded from Indoz-net:

               Marathon poised for Timor OK
                    ------------------
                     by Gordon Feeney
                          in Darwin
                     -----------------
     OIL giant Marathon Petroleum is expected within days to get the go-
ahead to begin the first exploration drilling in the joint Australian-
Indonesia Timor Gap oil-fields. The jointly managed area in the Timor Sea
between north Australia and Timor was the subject of a special agreement
between the two governments in December 1989. Initial seismic testing has
indicated large reserves of oil may exist, but considerable doubt surrounds
the size of the reserve.
     Executive director of the Australia-Indonesia Joint Authority for  the
Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation, Stuart Cave said he expected to advise Mara-
thon of its decision on a proposed drilling contract this week. "They've
come to us  to approve a contract, and we're in the process of reviewing it",
Mr Cave said. "We've asked them for some additional information... and if it   
is as they say it is, we just need the piece of paper to prove it, then we 
won't have any problems," Mr Cave said.
     A report in the Sunday Territorian newspaper said Marathon intended to
use Attwood Oceanics (Australia) Pty Ltd to carry out the drilling. The like-
ly rig was the Falcon, presently in Bass Strait, and due to be moved to Fre-
mantle. Marathon's exploration manager Greg Meldrum said he could not confirm
either that Attwood would do the drilling, or the Falcon rig would be used
(The Daily Telegraph Mirror, Tuesday, November 3, 1992, p. 25). In addition 
to this, British Petroleum Asia Pacific and Japan's C. Itoh & Co. Ltd  have
been given approval to build a $US600 million oil refinery project on Bintan 
island in Indonesia (The Australian, Monday, November 9, 1992, p. 24).

E-mailer:
Yusuf L. Henuk

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

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From: kkelly%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: FILM:Panama Deception Plays to Large Audience
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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: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:19:45 GMT


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

FILMGOERS SEEK TRUTH ON PANAMA

By Kristanna Thomas

New York

Audiences have been raving about the film "The Panama Deception,"
which began showing at the Village East Theater on the Lower West
Side of Manhattan in New York City Oct. 22. The response has been
so overwhelming that the original one week showing has been
extended to Nov. 12.

The film has had an impact on people's consciousness about the
nature of the war. The film lays bare the lie that the war was
fought to get rid of a dictator and stop the flow of drugs.

Outside the theater, the International Action Center, one of the
organizations sponsoring the film, has a literature table. At the
table, Rubin, one of the center's volunteers, told Workers World,
"I have sold a lot of literature at the film showing. It has
really had an impact on everyone who's seen it. No one will
believe the government's lies after they've seen this."

Other co-sponsors of the showing are former Panamanian diplomat
Humberto Brown, Pacifica radio station WBAI-FM, and former
Attorney General Ramsey Clark. It was produced by the Empowerment
Project.

One viewer who came out of the theater said, "I never knew that
my country did all of this."

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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" on PeaceNet; on Internet:
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From: decvax!r-node.gts.org!ndallen@decwrl.dec.com (Nigel Allen)
Subject: High Court Refuses to Review Health Insurance Denial Case
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:12:03 GMT

Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association.

 APHA Denounces High Court's Refusal to Review Health Insurance
Denial Case
 To: National Desk, Health Care Writer
 Contact: American Public Health Association 120th Annual Meeting
          Press Office, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, 202-387-3401

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 10   -- The American Public Health Association 
(APHA) today denounced the Supreme Court's refusal to review a 
lower court allowing H & H Music to cut off health insurance
benefits to an employee with AIDS.
   Calling the lower court ruling blatant discrimination against one
kind of disease, APHA urged the court to hear another case and
reverse these benefit denial decisions.
   "The court's decision demonstrates the failure of the private
insurance system," said APHA President Joyce Lashof, addressing a
Capitol Hill rally.  "In light of these benefit denial decisions, no
American can feel secure that private insurance will be there to
protect against a catastrophic illness.  This decision shows why we
need a comprehensive national health system."
   Pointing out that H & H Music decision is based on a particular
type of disability, the association urged that the issue be
reexamined in light of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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