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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Cambodia: UNTAC and sexual harassment
Date: 24 Jan 93 09:15:08 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: PACH
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

The ACTivist Volume 9 #1, January 1993.

The ACTivist is published monthly by the ACT for Disarmament
Coalition, 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.  Reprint freely, but please credit us (and send us a copy!)

/** gen.newsletter: 129.9 **/
** Written 11:46 pm  Jan  9, 1993 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
CAMBODIA: UNTAC AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Last October, more than 150 representatives of women's groups 
and NGOs in Cambodia released an open letter to Yasushi Akashi, chief 
of the United Nations peacekeeping team in Cambodia (UNTAC). The 
letter outlined "a dramatic increase in prostitution since UNTAC's 
arrival and a noticeable absence of condoms and education about their 
use ... HIV has reached an 'emergency level' of at least 75 per cent 
among blood donors", and noted that "sexual harrassment [by UNTAC
 members] occurs regularly in public restaurants, hotels and bars, 
banks, markets and shops ... women feel restricted in their movements 
in social and professional settings because of the inappropriate 
behaviours they receive from male UNTAC personnel." They cited 
cases of harrassment which included inappropriate advances towards 
a six year old Khmer-American girl. 

The immediate cause of the letter was a September meeting with 
NGOs at which Mr. Akashi had said that his peacekeeping troops, as 
"18-year-old, hot-blooded soldiers" deserved to enjoy "young, 
beautiful beings of the opposite sex."

After the letter was published in the Phnom Penh Post, Akashi 
promised to set up an education campaign about HIV and other 
sexually transmitted disease, and to hire a 'Community Relations 
Office' -- an office, however, which was to deal with all complaints 
from the community, not specifically sexual harrassment, and 
which was staffed entirely by one young woman. One United 
Nations volunteer, in a letter to the Phnom Penh Post on November 
20, dismissed these measures as "a farce" and called for Akashi's 
resignation.

** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Today's Quote...
Date: 21 Jan 93 09:35:14 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: ?
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


  "We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our
nation is to survive its own folly.  Every [person] of humane convictions
must decide on the protest that best suits his [or her] convictions, but [we
must all protest!]"
	--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Kissinger Diagnoses Aristide
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NY Transfer News Collective
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:19:25 GMT


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

From el diario/La Prensa

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Haiti/US

Kissinger Calls Someone Else a Murderer and Psychopath?

In an interview with right-wing television commentator
Charles McLaughlin, former US Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger said deposed Hatian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is
a "proven murderer and psychopath," although he acknowledged that
Haiti "is not one of my strong points." The interview took place
at the same time as the Haitian military announced that it had
accepted an international plan to have Aristide re-installed as
President of Haiti. Representatives of General Raoul Cedras' de
facto goverment had accused Aristide of having, during his brief
administration, promoted the death of many Duvalier agents in the
Ton Ton Macoutes and others. The Human Rights Commission of the
Organization of American States acknowledged in the first months
after Aristide's installation that "there had been numerous
incidents of popular justice," although they were not attributed
to the President. The organization said that, on the contrary,
Aristide created a commission of well-known people to put an end
to "the crimes and human rights violations, especially putting
automobile tires on the shoulders of victims and setting them on
fire."

Kissinger said in the interview that he did not approve of
Cedras' coup but "it is very strange, all this pressure to have a
proven murderer and psychopath returned. There should be a lot of
care taken in this area." Kissinger said Haiti's problem will not
be solved by freezing immigration but through negotiations by the
Haitians themselves. Upon being reminded that Aristide had been
elected by a broad majority of the Haitian people, Kissinger
reponded that "I understand that what is wanted to bring him in
as a symbolic figure but that the power will be in the hands of
others. In any case, it is difficult for me to shed any tears for
Aristide," concluded Kissinger. (edlp 01/20/93 from AP)



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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism
From: lang@igc.apc.org (Andrew Lang)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: FAX! Geronimo Pratt Parole Hearing
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:19:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: ?
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

/* Written  6:04 pm  Jan 26, 1993 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "FAX! Geronimo Pratt Parole Hearing" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: FAX: Geronomo Pratt Parole Hearing

>From hmuskat Thu Jan 21 13:28:09 1993
From: Hal Muskat <hmuskat>

geronimo ji Jaga (pratt) will once again, for the umpteenth time, be in front 
of the Parole Board. The date is FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1993. This time, with 
our help, he may be released.

As you may recall (an a longer item is in justice.usa), geronimo a Viet Nam 
veteran and early member & leader of the Black Panther Party, in 1968 was 
400 miles from a murder. A murder he was eventually convicted of.

Release of FBI records indicate an awesome conspiracy & coverup campaign 
that exist to this day & included a special "Geronimo Pratt Squad" set up 
under J. Edgar Hoover's notorious COINTELPRO. Murder & frame-ups were 
their methodology.

Amnesty International, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Rev. Jessie 
Jackson, Coretta Scott King are among thousands who support his immediate 
release and are asking all who care for human rights & social justice to write 
or fax, today, to this man:

Mr. John Gillis
Chairperson
Board of Prison Terms
545 Downtown Plaza, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95814

fax: 1916.445.5242

The International Campaign to Free geronimo ji Jaga (pratt) would appreciate copies of any communications be sent to their offices at:

PO Box 3585
Oakland, CA 94609
510.268.0979
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From: aforum@moose.uvm.edu (autonome forum)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Prison News Service #37 - index
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:30:15 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

Prison News Service
September/October 1992
Number 37


1. Resistance at FMC Lexington, August 92
2. Hungerstrike in MCC is over
3. Fundraising poster against MCC horrors
4. Sovereignty defense successful in Mohawk trial
5. Aftermath of Montana prison riot
6. Prisoner's Justice Day
7. August 10 on the outside
8. Cruelty, not kindness in Canadian prisons
9. Justice for all, but not in Indianapolis
10. Shawnee Unit, a control unit for women
11. National Incarcerated Muslim Network
12. The politics of the hypocrites (Hatari wa'Haki)
13. The prison perspective (Derrick Quintero)
14. Animal Liberation Front
15. HIV Seroprevalence Studies in Prison
16. HIV/AIDS in prison systems, a comprehensive strategy
17. Indigenous declaration (Hinton, AB)
18. My blood is Quebecois (Ray Levasseur)
19. Action committee formed to free Black prisoners (NAPAC)
20. Columbus lied (Jaan Laaman)
21. Control in Canadian prisons
22. Why administrators promote prison riots (Indiana)
23. On the legal front, guards have PNS envy
24. Fighting for access for health care for diabetics (Letter)
25. We know our own needs, re prison programs (Letter)
26. Mad Max (Bush) is a psycho, but he's running the place
27. Munich protests rock G-7 summit
28. Fight to free Peltier moves on
29. The Litton action (Vancouver Five) ten years later
30. League of Lesbian and Gay Prisoners
31. Resources #37
32. Disabled Dyke Anthology, call for submissions
From: "Steven R Winkelman-1" <wink0030%student.tc.umn.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: Today in History
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:24:20 GMT

TODAY IN HISTORY ---------- JANUARY 24

White House 'plumber' Egil Krogh sentenced for burglarizing office
	of Daniel Elsberg's psychiatrist -- 1974

(Thanks to the Progressive)

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Frank Scofi <fscofi@igc.apc.org>
Subject: CUBAN-AMERICAN MAY BE NEW UNDER-SEC OF STATE
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:37:51 GMT

MARIO BAEZA STILL IN THE RUNNING



BAEZA MET WITH CLINTON YESTERDAY (FRIDAY 1/22/93) AND HE STILL
APPEARS TO BE IN THE RUNNING. DECISION COULD BE MADE LATE MONDAY OR
TUESDAY SO WE NEED TO BE HEARD ON THIS MATTER!!!!! SUPPORT THE
NOMINATION OF MARIO BAEZA FOR UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTER-
AMERICAN AFFAIRS. CONDEMN THE UNDUE INFLUENCE OF THE CUBAN AMERICAN
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON US POLICY. CALL YOURSELF AND GET OTHERS TO
CALL. GET THOSE PHONE TREES GOING. 



TWO ADDITIONS / CORRECTIONS TO BE MADE TO IFCO ALERT:

1) TO CALL THE WHITE HOUSE:  202-456-1414
   TO FAX (ADDRESS LETTERS TO PRESIDENT CLINTON) 202-224-2237


2) SENATOR BILL BRADLEY
   CORRECT TELEPHONE 202-224-3224  OR CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD IF 
   FIRST NUMBER IS BUSY IS 202-224-3121
   TO FAX: 202-224-3224




FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL IFCO (THE INTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, INC.) AT 212-926-5757 OR 612-378-0062
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Burma: Porters and prostitutes
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:15:11 GMT

The ACTivist Volume 9 #1, January 1993.

The ACTivist is published monthly by the ACT for Disarmament
Coalition, 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.  Reprint freely, but please credit us (and send us a copy!)

/** gen.newsletter: 129.8 **/
** Written 11:45 pm  Jan  9, 1993 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
BURMA -- PORTERS AND PROSTITUTES

Village women and children are taken to sweep roads for mines 
whenever SLORC military convoys are due to pass ... Women are often 
forced to march into battle in a line in front of SLORC troops ...

Men and women are constantly taken as munitions porters to 
carry all the SLORC army's equipment, supplies and ammunition 
through the mountains ... During rests the women are routinely 
gang-raped by the troops, even those who are already in an advanced 
state of pregnancy or carrying infants along with their loads ...

Upon entering villages in ethnic areas, SLORC troops routinely rape 
the women ...

-- Democratic Alliance of Burma, for Amnesty International Burma Group 
Meeting


On 9th June 1992, approximately 45 Burmese women were seized 
at their brothels in Ranong province (south of Thailand) and then 
they were taken to Bangkok.

About 10 Burmese young women, aged between 14 to 21, were 
sent to the Centre for the Protection of Children's Rights (CPCR).  
And the others Burmese women were sent to the Women Detention 
Centre(WDC) in Bangkok.

According to our sources, they were persuaded to leave their homes 
in order to find jobs somewhere else.  Some were very young when 
they left their homes.  These young Burmese women, eventually, 
became prostitutes against their will.

After they became prostitutes in Ranong, they faced many forms 
of human rights violations such as beating, raping and not being 
given any food for one or two weeks.  Throughout this time, they 
were completely imprisoned by procurers and owners.

Right now, the women in CPRC are willing to return to Burma but 
only in safety.  Three Burmese women were discovered to have AIDS.  
They fear cyanide injection by the Burmese authorities.  Because 
recently one repulsive episode occurred in Burma;  Burmese 
prostitute women who were deported to Burma were injected 
with cyanide by Burmese military in order to kill them.

-- Burma Information Group

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

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: aforum@moose.uvm.edu (autonome forum)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: PROPOSAL to create alt.politics.radical-left
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:37:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

posted by: autonome forum
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Proposal to Create alt.politics.radical-left

We would like to see the creation of alt.politics.radical-left,
an unmoderated newsgroup whose function would be to act as a
forum for news items and theoretical discussions dealing with
leftist politics, national liberation struggles, militant
resistance movements, etc. This newsgroup would, in some ways, be
a more radical-left version of groups such as
misc.activism.progressive, and would have a definite left-wing
political focus, unlike other alt-realm groups like alt.activism.

Again, there are, at present, no newsgroups in the alt-realm
which have, as their aim, the exchange of news items with a
radical-left focus. What's more, such news items are often hard
to come by. Therefore, the creation of alt.politics.radical-left
would fill a definite void and would be of great use to dozens of
progressive groups currently operating in Cyberspace. Also, as an
open group, it would allow other users with Usenet access to
become exposed to left-radical politics.

Discussion on the creation of this newsgroup is now beginning in
alt.config. We strongly encourage users to post messages of
support in alt.config so that alt.politics.radical-left can be
created as soon as possible!
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                          "solidarity is a weapon!"
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (EcoNet via Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: ACTIVISM: Call to Advise Appointments to Agriculture & Energy Depts.
Keywords: environment
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:27:04 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d,talk.environment
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[From EcoNet en.alerts Conference]
[Also Posted to ACTIV-L and Student EnviroLink]

================================================================
=> econet	en.alerts	12:37 am  Jan 28, 1993
=> Subject: Ariculture And Energy Appointment
 
Sierra Club Needs Your Help:  
Appointments to Agriculture, Energy Departments 
----------------------------------------------- 
 
Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and Agriculture Secretary Mike
Espy are about to make decisions on key sub-Cabinet positions
that will profoundly affect environmental policy for the next
four years and beyond.  We need your urgent, immediate action
to generate pressure on them to appoint people with strong
environmental credentials to these posts.  The Wise Use Movement
and the oil, coal, and nuclear industries are mounting campaigns
to get their cronies placed in key positions.
 
Today, please make two phone calls or send two faxes to help
make sure that critical issues at Agriculture and Energy are
in good hands.
 
1) Contact Mike Espy, Dept. of Agriculture -- Office of the
Secretary:
 
    Tel: 202/720-3631 
    Fax: 202/720-5437 
 
Urge him to appoint a person with strong conservation
credentials to be Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources
and the Environment.  This person should be an advocate for
protecting wilderness and ancient forests, and for managing
the nation's forests for heathy ecosystems and for long term
sustainability.
 
2) Contact Hazel O'Leary, Dept. of Energy -- Office of the
Secretary:
 
    Tel: 202/586-6210 
    Fax: 202/586-7644 
 
Urge her to appoint people with proven environmental track
records to these three posts:  Deputy Secretary, Under
Secretary, and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration
and Waste Management.  These people should help keep President
Clinton's pledge to decrease U.S.  dependence on polluting
energy sources such as coal, oil, and nuclear power and increase
our reliance on efficiency and renewables.
 
Remember, the environmental grassroots efforts were credited
with ensuring that Bruce Babbitt was named Secretary Of The
Interior.  You now have another chance to make a difference.
Please call or send a fax today.  Thank you.
Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:10312 alt.activism:21299 talk.environment:5704 ca.environment:1211
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment,ca.environment
Subject: NEWS: So. California Freeways Carry Anti-Nuke Dump Messages
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:49:36 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Keywords: environment press

[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

   SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FREEWAYS CARRY ANTI-NUKE DUMP MESSAGES
Activists Hang Banners on Overpasses Throughout Southland Friday

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (GP) -- On Friday morning, Southern
California freeway overpasses will carry more than commuter
traffic: messages to Gov. Wilson protesting the state's plans
to build a radioactive waste dump in the Mojave Desert.

Activists opposed to the Ward Valley "low-level" nuclear dump
will hang banners on Friday, Jan. 22, from ten overpasses in Los
Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Bernardino, and the San
Fernando and Antelope Valleys, urging Wilson to scuttle plans
for the dump, which would deposit radioactive waste in unlined
trenches 20 miles from the Colorado River.  The banners will
read, WILSON: STOP YOUR NUCLEAR DUMP. DON'T IRRADIATE OUR
COLORADO RIVER.  (Locations follow this release.)

The dump has drawn fire from Native American nations, activist
groups, and politicians from California and Arizona who cite
potential contamination of the river and area aquifers.  The
Colorado serves as a source of drinking water for over 15
million U.S domestic and agricultural water consumers in
California and Arizona.

In Mexico, the river furnishes drinking water to the main border
towns of Baja California as well as agricultural water for the
Mexicali Valley. Last month, the Baja California Congreso de
Estado, or state legislature, formed a commission to investigate
the dump proposal, and concluded it "should not be authorized
until scientific, social and ecological groups from both
countries . . . analyze the contamination risks considered to
be dangerous to health and the environment."

"The state officials in Baja have now joined tens of thousands
of Californians who have made clear their opposition to this
threat to all our health and safety," said Sherry Meddick,
Greenpeace radioactive waste campaigner.  "It's time for Pete
Wilson to get the point:  He must stop gambling with the future
of this region and instead protect the public and the river that
runs through it."

                              ####

          LOCATIONS OF ANTI-WARD VALLEY FREEWAY BANNERS
                         FRIDAY, JAN. 22

Burbank:  5 South at Burbank Boulevard

Downtown Los Angeles: 110 South at 6th Street exit

Hollywood: 101 East at Wilton

Lancaster:  14 South at M Street

Orange County:  5 South at Lake Forest

San Bernardino:  215 at Orange Show Road

Santa Clarita:  14 West at Sand Canyon

San Diego:  8 East at Mission Center Road
            163 South at Robinson Road

Vernon:  110 North at Vernon
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: "Eric Rehm - DECwest Engineering" <rehm%rust.zso.dec.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: United Farm Workers Benefit Concert, 2/13/93, Seattle
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:25:03 GMT

From Flying Fish and Collector Records, UFW of WA presents:

	             ****  John O'Connor ****
  *** In Concert To Benefit United Farm Workers of Washington State ***

                Songs, Stories, Politics, and Humor

	        Saturday, February 13, 1993, 7:30 p.m.
             IBEW #46 Hall, 2700 First Ave., Seattle, WA
          $7 advance / $8 at door / $5 senior, low-income, student

   "...wonderful: direct, simple, singable, powerful..." [Si Kahn]

   "...This is good music, good poetry, good history..." [Utah Phillips]

    Sponsored by the Seattle Farm Work Support Task Force,
    a project of the Church Council of Greater Seattle &
    Pacific NW Labor History Association


Tickets available at Elliot Bay Books, Red and Black Books, or
call (206) 322-6933.

United Farm Workers of Washington ask you to BOYCOTT Lane-Stimson wines
(Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Crest, Farron Ridge, Conn Creek,
Villa Mt. Eden, V.M. Whitebye, Snoqualmie, and Saddle Mtn.) in support
of the UFW's efforts to gain collective bargaining rights for
farm workers in Washington.
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